After the Red Lotus Lord's sermon, Ma Ran obtained Ye Fengqing's Time-Stop Domain Medal.
The power to stop time was indeed formidable, but it also had a problem.
Its performances were monotonous and lacked entertainment value. Although it could produce immediate improvements in combat power, it offered little additional benefit for future development.
After one or two instant kills, the audience could still enjoy themselves and think, Ah, the Red Lotus Lord/Prophet is amazing.
But after seeing it too often, people would find it dull. They might even become blindly confident, believing that Ye Fengqing was invincible throughout the universe and Ma Ran unmatched in combat—that whoever came would be killed. Lowered attention was only one issue; more importantly, this was even less conducive to receiving feedback for his role-playing ability.
So...
After a period of research, Ma Ran developed a new application for the medal's derivative ability!
He used the Time-Stop Domain to cover and envelop an area, peeling out a "secret realm" and adjusting its flow of time!
Because the Prophet Medal existed, this move was basically unnecessary when dealing with powerful enemies.
But...
When used in performances, it not only saved energy, but also produced better results and was more conducive to feedback for his role-playing ability!
Testing, applying, mastering, contemplating, understanding, comprehending, improving.
For any supernatural power, Ma Ran not only had to know what it was, but also why it worked.
Even if he obtained a supernatural manual or inheritance that perfectly suited Earthlings and could be cultivated directly, Ma Ran would still thoroughly digest it from beginning to end. He would try to incorporate his own understanding and insights, bring forth the new from the old, and see whether he could derive abilities that surpassed the inheritance's limits and break through the so-called "Great