New Ability

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Excitement surged, and his heart pounded.

Lin Li first wiped his hands on his clothes, then reached out and grabbed the egg-sized Azure Fruit. With a slight pull, he plucked it from the Small Tree.

When this Azure Fruit was only the size of a grain of rice, Lin Li had thought that blue was the color of the fruit before it ripened.

After the fruit matured, it should have turned red, just like the first one he ate.

At that time, he had another guess: if the Azure Fruit remained blue after ripening, eating it might awaken a different ability.

Two guesses. After days of arduous struggle, half the answer had been revealed. Now, all he needed to do was eat it to get the final result.

Just like the first red fruit Lin Li ate, after the Azure Fruit was picked, it immediately emitted an alluring fragrance, constantly tempting anyone who smelled it to eat it quickly.

With his first experience, Lin Li didn't hesitate this time. After smelling the alluring fragrance of the Azure Fruit, he immediately opened his mouth and swallowed the egg-sized fruit in one gulp.

"Crunch, crunch..."

His teeth met, and the Azure Fruit in his mouth was instantly crushed into pieces.

Sweet juice flowed between his lips and teeth. The delicious taste made Lin Li lose himself in it.

"The fruits from this magical Small Tree are indeed the most delicious fruits I've ever eaten," Lin Li exclaimed after eating the Azure Fruit. "It's a shame it's so difficult to get one of these fruits..."

After a moment of wandering thoughts, Lin Li immediately focused his mind and began to sense the changes in the psionic energy within him.

Just like when he ate the red fruit for the first time, about three seconds after eating the Azure Fruit, a massive warm current surged through his body.

This suddenly surging warm current was the psionic energy. A vast amount of psionic energy erupted within him, rapidly filling Lin Li's entire body.

"Damn it, this surge of psionic energy is exactly the same as the first time, still so powerful... But I'm not the same person I was before. This level, I... slow down, slow down, don't rush so hard! I can barely take it."

Lin Li's face turned red. He had thought that after eating the Azure Fruit this time, with his current First-Order Peak cultivation, he wouldn't face the same predicament as the first time when he wasn't even a cultivator.

But he never expected that the aftereffects of this massive psionic energy would be significantly greater than the psionic energy generated from eating the red fruit the first time.

As a result, Lin Li fainted again. Before he passed out, he had only one thought: "Damn it, I will absolutely not faint next time."

"Bang."

Unlike the first time he fainted, this time Lin Li fell face down.

Fortunately, the grass on the island was lush. Lin Li fell face down, but he wasn't injured, though it still hurt a bit.

Lin Li, lying face down on the grass, fell into a coma, emitting a faint golden spiritual light from his body.

As time passed, the psionic energy in his body rapidly increased, and the psionic energy fluctuations on his body also gradually strengthened.

"Pop."

As if something had been pierced, a barely audible sound echoed within Lin Li's body.

After this barely audible sound, the psionic energy fluctuations on Lin Li's body suddenly increased significantly.

It had been five minutes since he ate the Azure Fruit and fainted.

"Ugh..."

Lin Li, still lying face down on the grass, slowly opened his eyes. He pushed himself up with his hands and got off the ground.

"That hurts!" Lin Li rubbed his face, then took out his phone from his pocket to check the time. After putting his phone away, he muttered, "I was unconscious for a shorter time this time compared to last time."

"Hoo..."

Taking a deep breath, Lin Li began to sense the changes in himself.

If the psionic energy in Lin Li's body was like a bucket of water before he ate the Azure Fruit, then his current psionic energy had increased several times, roughly equivalent to five buckets of water.

Feeling the abundant psionic energy within him, Lin Li knew he had broken through to the Second-Order Early Stage, becoming a Second-Order Early Stage cultivator.

After a cultivator breaks through and becomes a Second-Order cultivator, compared to a First-Order cultivator, in addition to their psionic energy increasing several times, their mental power undergoes a qualitative change, allowing them to perceive the strength of other cultivators' psionic energy fluctuations.

Lin Li mobilized the psionic energy within his body with all his might. Instantly, he sensed his body emitting something invisible and intangible.

But he could clearly perceive the existence of this thing. He figured this must be the so-called psionic energy fluctuation!

"This is great. From now on, when I encounter 异兽, I can use my mental perception to judge their strength?" Lin Li chuckled as he sensed the psionic energy fluctuations emanating from himself.

However, he soon felt that judging others' strength solely by perception might not be absolutely accurate.

He used himself as an experiment. If he only mobilized a portion of the psionic energy within him, roughly the amount of a First-Order Peak cultivator, the intensity of the psionic energy fluctuations emanating from him immediately weakened.

"I can't completely trust this mental perception ability! I need to be wary of enemies pretending to be weak."

After sensing the strength changes of his entry into the Second-Order, Lin Li began to experiment with the new ability he gained from eating the Azure Fruit.

Yes, just as Lin Li had predicted, eating the Azure Fruit grown by the magical Small Tree indeed granted him a second ability.

This newly acquired ability felt as if it were innate. Lin Li raised his right hand, aiming his palm at the water surface outside the island.

A faint golden spiritual light flashed on his hand, and then, a semi-arc-shaped wind blade, about fourteen to fifteen centimeters in diameter, appeared out of thin air in front of his palm.

With a thought from Lin Li, this blue, semi-arc-shaped wind blade shot out.

"Whoosh."

With a piercing sound that cut through the air, in the blink of an eye, the semi-circular azure wind blade shot into the distant, vast white mist, disappearing without a trace.

What speed, it's so much faster than the small fireball.

The semi-circular azure wind blade wasn't large, so its surface area in contact with the air was small. In contrast, the spherical shape of the small fireball created more air resistance, which was why it couldn't match the speed of the azure wind blade.

Lin Li tried out his newly acquired ability. He let his thoughts wander, and then he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Hahaha... Now I'm also a dual-ability cultivator who has awakened two abilities... No, it's more than that. As long as I continue to hunt exotic beasts diligently, I will awaken even more abilities.