"Deprivation."
Bai Xuan placed his hand on the Mutant Lion. An arcane force circulated through its body, and in the end, the entire corpse shriveled up like a sheet of animal hide. All its energy gathered in Bai Xuan's hand, condensing into a blood-red bead.
Within the bead, the rune of a Mutant Lion could vaguely be seen.
"This bead contains all the energy of the Mutant Lion. Absorbing it is equivalent to consuming the entire lion's corpse and digesting it perfectly. If someone with a lion Superpower absorbed it, it might allow them to develop new abilities."
This was Bai Xuan's new ability: he could deprive Mutant Creatures of their power. As for why it took the form of a bead, it was purely because he thought beads were more suitable. If he wanted to, he could just as easily condense it into a cube.
As for when this ability had awakened, perhaps it was more appropriate to say that he had possessed this ability all along; he simply had not known it before.
[Nature Authority] would not turn Bai Xuan's abilities into names and tell him about them one by one. He had to test and discover them himself.
He had realized the Deprivation ability after his Space Ring had become full in the Nature Reserve. He had said that it would be nice if he could gather their power into something convenient to carry, and then he had tried it.
He had merely felt that he could probably do it. Then he tried, and it worked.
If anyone asked him for the principle behind it, he could not explain it either.
Everything felt like instinct.
How did that saying go again?
As long as his imagination was wild enough, he could develop countless powerful methods.
Shaking his head, he put away the blood bead in his hand and looked into the distance.
"You've watched long enough. It's time you came out."
"I only wanted to see how you would deal with that Mutant Lion. I didn't expect you to possess Psychokinetic Force too. Is Psychokinetic Force also a part of nature?"
"Or perhaps your mental strength is simply too powerful. After all, Psychokinetic Force is a manifestation of strong mental power."
A tall woman with a graceful figure, dressed in a naval uniform and with long blue hair, appeared before Bai Xuan.
If Akame ga Kill did not exist in this world, he would have assumed she was imitating Esdeath. Not only was her temperament similar, but she possessed ice-based abilities as well.
Her ice was not like Su Yue's weak ice. It was true Extreme Cold Power, possessing terrifying strength from the very moment of Awakening. She was a genius on the same level as Huo Yu.
"I don't recall Huo Yu mentioning that you would be here, Chen Bing."
Bai Xuan looked at her calmly and spoke in an even tone.
"Of course she didn't know I would be here, because I didn't tell her."
Chen Bing crossed her arms, her tone relaxed.
"I only came because I heard that you had taken this mission."
"After all, I've been very curious about your strength."
"Son of Nature, possessing a nearly conceptual power to command nature. From the moment of Awakening, you stood above everyone else—a peerless monster."
"Not only me. Qin Tian, Chen Changsheng, Ye Feng, and the others have been interested in you for a long time."
"If Huo Yu hadn't repeatedly stressed that our strength was not even in the same dimension as yours, that you had crushed her so completely that she could not even fight back, plenty of people would probably have come to challenge you already."
"If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving."
Bai Xuan interrupted Chen Bing before she could continue. Having completed his mission, he had no interest in chatting with her here.
"How about a match?"
Chen Bing froze for a moment at Bai Xuan's words, then smiled and spoke bluntly.
"I want to see the gap between us."
"Save those words for when you're qualified to use your Superpower in front of me."
Bai Xuan spoke indifferently, then walked past Chen Bing.
Chen Bing frowned slightly, unable to understand what Bai Xuan meant.
Then, as if she had thought of something, she tried to use her Superpower. Yet although she could sense its existence, she could not activate it no matter what she did.
It was as though something stood between her and her Superpower.
Only after Bai Xuan's figure had completely disappeared did she reconnect with her Superpower.
"He can even control Superpowers? There really is someone in this world who can Awaken such an unreasonable ability."
"And that blood bead he condensed earlier after depriving the Mutant Lion of its energy."
"Huo Yu truly hadn't exaggerated in her assessment of him."
Even so, she could not simply give up on catching up to him. Bai Xuan's starting point was ten or even a hundred times higher than theirs, but the stronger one became, the more solid their bottlenecks became. The gap between them and Bai Xuan would gradually shrink.
Reiki Revival was a global evolution. They would not let one person remain at the forefront forever.
Chen Bing was very strong. Bai Xuan understood that clearly.
Perhaps she was far inferior to Aokiji from One Piece, who could freeze the sea, but if it was merely the forested mountain where Bai Xuan lived, Chen Bing could freeze it over completely if she went all out. And she was constantly growing stronger.
Perhaps before long, her development of Extreme Cold Power would reach Aokiji's level.
Even so, Bai Xuan had no desire to fight her.
Or rather, he had no desire to fight any living creature.
Especially humans.
The point of sparring was for two people to have roughly equal strength. Even if there was some difference, it could not be too great.
Bai Xuan was already far too far ahead of everyone else. Many people would never reach his current level of strength in their entire lives.
There was no meaning in such a battle.
Especially since this was Earth. He received enhancements in every aspect here, and all of nature was helping him.
Unless they were someone who also possessed Authority, he truly had no desire to fight.
His opponents were not here, but in other worlds.
Naruto, One Piece, Tiga... even Super Seminary, Dragon Ball, and those even more terrifying worlds, such as Shrouding the Heavens, Perfect World, and Prehistoric.
Of course, he did not possess that kind of strength yet, and no corresponding members had joined the Chat Group.
But the future was always full of uncertainty.
Perhaps one day, someone would join.
He looked forward to the arrival of the new era.
Before then, all he needed to do was cultivate continuously, allowing himself to contain more energy and grow stronger faster.
For others, cultivation was dull and tedious. But for Bai Xuan, it merely left him somewhat tired after training. The process was neither boring nor tedious.
After all, although his body was training, his consciousness was in the Chat Group.
Dongfang Bubai: "So, we have one chance at a Lucky Draw?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "It's newcomer welfare. The Chat Group gives it out for free, but your luck usually isn't good enough to draw anything valuable. Later Lucky Draws will cost one thousand Points each. If you listen to me, save up your Points and wait until there are more people and more items in the Lottery Pool before drawing."
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