Strong-Rule Abilities

An invisible pressure made Lu Lixin's breath catch.

She had never seen anyone evade Strong Seize so effortlessly.

For a moment, Lu Lixin thought he was about to attack. Instead, he passed swiftly by her, keeping three or four meters between them the entire time.

"Don't tell me... you want to join the Ability Showdown too?" she asked, feigning delight as she prepared to surround herself with nerve gas.

Chen Xuan ignored her.

Strong Seize required physical contact. It worked well for ambushing inexperienced ability users, but after a few encounters, it became much harder to pull off.

As for her ability to alter gases... that part was true; the Scanner Gun had confirmed it. What Chen Xuan did not know was whether she needed to see a gas or touch it to change it. He had never intended to get close. He had gone onstage and moved behind Lu Lixin because that angle gave him a view of the entire studio.

Now the guards at the doors, the crew members helping her control the audience, and Lu Lixin herself were all in his line of sight.

He had counted nine in all.

He could see every one of them.

Chen Xuan activated the Divine Eye Method again, bringing everything around him to a near standstill. Then he selected all nine as targets for Fusion. That way, he could avoid alerting them before the ability took effect, in case her accomplices could also detonate the balloons.

Before going onstage, he had equipped the Heavenly Cloud Skill, the Divine Eye Method, Fission and Fusion, and Flesh Seed.

With Flesh Seed at LV9, he could activate Fission and Fusion without paying any price at all!

The instant he locked on to them, the required cost appeared in his mind.

Roughly two and