New Supernatural Ability

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Excitement surged through him, and his heartbeat quickened.

Lin Li first wiped his hand on his clothes, then reached out and grasped the Azure Fruit, which was about the size of an egg. With a slight exertion of force, he plucked it off.

Back when the Azure Fruit had been only the size of a grain of rice, Lin Li had thought that azure was simply its unripe color.

Once the fruit ripened, it should have turned red, just like the first fruit he had eaten.

At the time, he had also entertained another possibility: if the Azure Fruit remained azure after ripening, then eating it might awaken another supernatural ability.

After so many days of arduous effort, the two possibilities had yielded half an answer. All he had to do now was eat it to learn the true result.

Just like the Red Fruit Lin Li had eaten the first time, the moment the Azure Fruit was plucked, it immediately gave off an enticing fragrance, constantly tempting anyone who smelled it to hurry up and eat it.

Having had the experience once before, Lin Li did not hesitate this time. The moment he smelled the enticing fragrance wafting from the Azure Fruit, he opened his mouth and swallowed the egg-sized fruit whole.

"Crunch, crunch..."

His teeth clashed together, instantly crushing the Azure Fruit in his mouth.

Sweet juice flowed between his lips and teeth, and the delicious taste left Lin Li intoxicated.

"The fruit grown by the Miracle Small Tree really is the best fruit I've ever eaten." After swallowing the Azure Fruit, Lin Li sighed. "What a pity it's so hard to eat one of these..."

After letting his thoughts wander for a moment, Lin Li immediately gathered his mind and sensed the changes in the Spiritual Energy within his body.

Just like when he had eaten the Red Fruit for the first time, about three seconds after swallowing the Azure Fruit, a massive wave of warmth suddenly surged through his body.

That sudden wave of warmth was Spiritual Energy. The huge amount of Spiritual Energy abruptly gushed through his body, rapidly filling every part of Lin Li.

"Damn, this sudden surge of Spiritual Energy is exactly the same as the first time. It's still so turbulent and overwhelming... But I'm not what I used to be. With my current level, this degree should... Wait, slow down, slow down! Don't charge in so fiercely! I can't take it!"

Lin Li's face flushed bright red. He had thought that after eating the Azure Fruit this time, relying on his current First-Order Peak cultivation, he would no longer suffer the predicament he had experienced the first time, when he had not even been a Cultivator.

But who could have expected that the force of this massive surge of Spiritual Energy would be far greater than the energy produced by eating the Red Fruit the first time?

Thus, Lin Li fainted once more. Before losing consciousness, only one thought remained in his mind: Damn it, I absolutely won't faint again next time.

"Bang."

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

Fortunately, the grass on Small Island grew thick and lush. Lin Li did not injure himself when he fell face-first, though it still hurt a little.

Lying face-down on the grass, Lin Li fell into unconsciousness, a pale golden Spiritual Light blooming from his body.

As time passed, the amount of Spiritual Energy within him rapidly increased, and the Spiritual Energy fluctuations around his body gradually grew stronger.

"Pop."

As if something had been pierced, an almost inaudible sound rang out from within Lin Li's body.

After that nearly imperceptible sound appeared, the Spiritual Energy fluctuations around Lin Li suddenly surged by a large margin.

Five minutes had passed since Lin Li ate the Azure Fruit and fainted.

"Ugh..."

Lin Li, who had been lying face-down on the grass, slowly opened his eyes. Bracing both hands against the ground, he climbed to his feet.

"It hurts!" Lin Li rubbed his face, then took his phone from his pocket and checked the time. After putting it away, he muttered, "I was unconscious for a little less time this time than last time."

"Whew..."

After taking a deep breath, Lin Li began sensing the changes in his body.

If the amount of Spiritual Energy within Lin Li before eating the Azure Fruit had been a single bucket of water, then the amount within him now had multiplied several times, reaching roughly the equivalent of five buckets.

Feeling the abundant Spiritual Energy within him, Lin Li knew that he had broken through to the Second-Order Early Stage and become a Second-Order Early Stage Cultivator.

When a Cultivator broke through and became a Second-Order Cultivator, aside from the amount of Spiritual Energy within their body expanding several times over compared to a First-Order Cultivator, their mental power also underwent a qualitative transformation, allowing them to sense the strength of other Cultivators' Spiritual Energy fluctuations.

Lin Li fully mobilized the Spiritual Energy within his body. Instantly, he sensed something invisible and intangible radiating from his body.

Yet he could clearly sense its existence. This must be what was known as Spiritual Energy fluctuation.

"This is great. From now on, whenever I encounter an alien beast, I can use my mental power to sense how strong it is." Lin Li smiled as he sensed the Spiritual Energy fluctuations radiating from his body.

However, he soon felt that relying solely on perception to judge another person's strength probably could not be absolutely accurate.

He used himself as an experiment. When he mobilized only part of the Spiritual Energy within his body, roughly the amount possessed by someone at the First-Order Peak, the strength of the Spiritual Energy fluctuations radiating from him immediately weakened.

"So this mental-power perception ability can't be trusted completely. I have to guard against enemies pretending to be weak while hiding their true strength."

After sensing the changes brought by entering the Second Order, Lin Li began experimenting with the new supernatural ability he had gained from eating the Azure Fruit.

Indeed, just as Lin Li had predicted, eating the Azure Fruit grown by the Miracle Small Tree had truly granted him a second supernatural ability.

This newly acquired supernatural ability felt as though it were innate. Lin Li raised his right hand and aimed his palm at the water outside Small Island.

A pale golden Spiritual Light flashed across his hand. Then, a semicircular Azure Wind Blade roughly fourteen or fifteen centimeters in diameter appeared out of thin air before his palm.

With a thought from Lin Li, the semicircular Azure Wind Blade shot out.

"Whoosh."

Accompanied by a sharp sound tearing through the air, the semicircular Azure Wind Blade entered the distant white fog in the blink of an eye and vanished without a trace.

What incredible speed! It was more than a little faster than the Small Fireball.

The semicircular Azure Wind Blade was not large, and the area it exposed to the air was small. The spherical Small Fireball, on the other hand, encountered greater air resistance, so its speed could not match that of the Azure Wind Blade.

After testing his newly acquired supernatural ability, Lin Li let his thoughts run wild for a while, then could not help laughing aloud.

"Hahahaha... Now I'm a dual-ability Cultivator who has awakened two supernatural abilities... No, that's not all. As long as I keep working hard to hunt alien beasts, I'll awaken even more supernatural abilities."