Testing (II)

After hearing the general information.

Xi Shenlian, who now had a rough grasp of his own strength, immediately ordered:

"Continue the test."

The next second, his figure vanished again.

Only this time, unlike the previous test, which had involved running on the ground.

This time, he was in the sky.

Although he had no real flying ability.

Once his movement speed reached a certain level, flying was not difficult.

Especially with that energy supporting him from within.

According to the information he had received from Ouin Chiyoka, the energy that had allowed Xi Shenlian to casually influence the surrounding air currents from the moment it first appeared was often called Inner Strength, Inner Force, Battle Qi, and so on in this world, depending on the region. It was something inherent to high-level martial artists and trained Awakened.

Its basic function was to increase the user's various physical attributes to a certain degree.

When combined with various techniques, it could even allow the user to perform all kinds of feats beyond ordinary people's imagination.

With the help of that power, after Xi Shenlian exerted an influence on the surrounding air.

The so-called air immediately became invisible stepping stones, gathered beneath his feet and turned into footholds.

After that.

All he needed to do was step on those footholds.

Xi Shenlian could easily dart all over the sky.

Although this technique still did not count as true flight and was essentially somewhat similar to gliding and jumping.

Its actual effect was ultimately about the same...

It only took two steps.

Using this technique of darting around on air, Xi Shenlian shot straight into the sky like a rocket, rising several thousand meters.

He clearly felt the Earth's gravity trying to drag him down.

He clearly saw the various conditions of the entire primeval forest.

Then he casually took another step.

Amid a tremendous sonic boom, he began flying at high speed, like some kind of supersonic fighter jet.

He merely swept past.

Yet the impact he brought with him instantly tore the surrounding clouds apart!

It was at this moment.

He recalled what Saigo Kadoko, the government representative responsible for contacting him, had once said.

"If you master the ability to fly in the future, please don't fly around recklessly. It's very easy to cause unnecessary trouble, such as triggering false alarms on the air-defense radars of military bases... If you really want to fly, please call us and report it in advance so that we can be prepared..."

There must have been quite a few Awakened who had pulled off similar stunts, causing no small amount of commotion...

However.

That sort of thing was clearly unnecessary for Xi Shenlian.

He could just hack the radar directly~

Several dozen seconds later.

Xi Shenlian began plummeting at high speed.

His body crashed toward a mountain peak roughly five hundred meters tall like a space-based weapon!!

"Boom!!!"

Amid the tremendous sound.

The upper half of the entire mountain peak exploded on the spot!

The enormous impact force sent thousands upon thousands of tons of soil and shattered stone surging outward!

The sensation was practically like a cake being flattened underfoot!

The countless rocks rained down like scattered flowers, directly crushing all the plants and animals around them to death.

Some of the more distant fragments even flew dozens of kilometers through the air!

When the dust cloud dispersed.

Looking out, the entire mountain peak was only about a hundred meters tall.

And the culprit—Xi Shenlian—stood there completely unharmed, standing straight in the sunken dirt crater.

The Auxiliary AI in his phone was seriously reporting the data from his performance:

"Your maximum flight speed was approximately Mach 52. In terms of agility, you were able to complete 194 ninety-degree turns in the air within one second..."

After listening for only a moment.

Xi Shenlian lost interest.

Because he had discovered something.

Although he had chosen a very spacious environment for his self-test.

There was genuinely nothing around that could serve as a target for testing his strength.

He had only tested his movement speed, and he had not even used his full speed—only about seventy percent—yet the surrounding environment had already been almost completely destroyed.

Anyone who did not know better would probably think a large-scale war had taken place here...

However.

Less than a minute had passed in total.

He could not even call it a warm-up!

At this level of intensity, Xi Shenlian felt that he could keep it up for a year or more...

Furthermore.

He had discovered another thing.

As the test continued.

Now that he was no longer suppressing his strength, his pleasant mood aside, his power was still automatically increasing...

And the increase was not small.

This meant that the results from his previous test—the results of a test in which he had not even gone all out—were practically meaningless!

They had already become obsolete without him even turning his head.

In the end.

He could only think to himself:

Looks like... I really am incredibly strong, and my talent is so damn supreme that no one under heaven or on earth can compare...

Then.

With a light leap.

He crossed several hundred meters and jumped down from the mountain peak, now reduced to less than half its original height.

When both his feet touched the ground.

He turned and looked at the mountain peak, which was still emitting wisps of dust.

He did not assume any stance. He simply threw an ordinary straight punch.

But for Xi Shenlian, whose running speed was roughly fifty times the speed of sound, it was still a blow with a fist speed approaching one hundred times the speed of sound!

The instant he threw the punch.

The surrounding air currents formed a tornado-like shape and coiled around his arm.

"Boom!!!"

After a thunderous crash.

The mountain peak was completely gone.

In its place was a gigantic crater.

Xi Shenlian withdrew his fist and stuffed it into his pocket, casually deciding to himself:

Looks like I'll have to go to the underground world or somewhere similar if I want to properly stretch my limbs...

On this planet.

There were countless special places.

Among them.

Some were naturally occurring special regions, while others were artificial areas created by Awakened, the Super Ancient Civilization, or the Ancient Civilization.

The so-called underground world was one of the most famous special regions.

It was said to have originated during the era of the Atlantis Civilization.

It had been constructed using certain long-lost super-ancient technologies.

It was generally located several thousand meters underground.

It was a special region that made use of spatial technology.

Normally, one could only enter safely through special passageways.

Its total area was approximately one-third of the planet's surface area.

Its gravity was several hundred to tens of thousands of times that of the surface.

In the past.

When he had been an ordinary person.

Xi Shenlian had only known that the place was a source of various rare materials.

Only powerful martial artists, Awakened, and all kinds of specialized machinery could enter.

But according to the information provided by Saigo Kadoko and Ouin Chiyoka.

Because the environment there was more resilient, it was often also the place where Awakened settled their conflicts.

In other words.

The surface was everyone's living area, and Awakened rarely clashed there.

Once things got out of hand.

The other Awakened would directly intervene to stop them!

The underground world, meanwhile, was the conflict zone where everyone resolved their disputes.

If people wanted to fight, they could fight.

However, it was said that Ascended Stage Awakened were forbidden from fighting even in the underground world because their destructive power was simply too great...

At this thought.

Xi Shenlian once again instinctively felt that something was wrong with this planet.

According to the middle-school knowledge of this world that he had once studied.

On this planet.

Gravity.

Was actually a very strange thing!

For example, once you dug down to a certain depth.

The deeper underground you went, the stronger gravity became!

Likewise, the denser matter became!

In ancient times, Awakened had already brought soil up from deep underground. For equal volumes, it was hundreds of thousands of times heavier than surface soil.

And according to the environmental simulation function of the Learning Space.

Xi Shenlian had once simulated the Earth environment from his previous life.

That Earth environment where the speed of sound was 340 meters per second at standard atmospheric pressure and the gravitational coefficient was g=9.8N/kg.

But the result had been very surprising.

The gravitational coefficient of the planet he was currently on.

Even in the ordinary living areas on the surface alone.

Gravity had already reached more than five hundred times that of the Earth from his previous life.

This meant that the ordinary people of this world, even the most frail and physically weak among them.

Could easily crush the armor of tanks from his previous life like kneading dough, and could achieve supersonic flight with a light leap.

Then.

What on earth was going on at the planet's core, where gravity was at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of times that of the surface?

Was there actually a neutron star buried inside?

Xi Shenlian was not certain...

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