Mu Chen opened his eyes, delight flashing across his face. Di Er Meng had granted him an innate divine ability called "Time Zero."
Its effect was to accelerate his own flow of time, making others appear almost motionless in comparison.
Although the consumption was immense, and he could only barely sustain it for an extremely short time, that was enough. When experts clashed, the difference was often a mere instant. Even being slightly faster could mean the difference between life and death.
Aside from its immense consumption, it had another limitation. It only accelerated his own time. Many offensive spiritual arts required drawing upon the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to display their effects.
"Time Zero" could help him activate spiritual arts more quickly, but it would not affect the speed at which worldly spiritual energy gathered. Thus, the effects of spiritual arts used while in the "Time Zero" state would often be greatly diminished.
However, that did not detract from the terror of this divine ability, because some spiritual arts did not rely on worldly spiritual energy—for instance, body-refining spiritual arts.
Moreover, Mu Chen was a Spirit Array Master! What Spirit Array Masters lacked most in actual combat was time to set up their arrays, and the flaws of "Time Zero" did not affect his array formations at all!
"How is it? What kind of divine ability did you obtain?" Nine Nether asked curiously.
It was also her first time seeing someone refine the essence soul of a spirit beast of this rank, and the first time she had encountered a divine ability of this caliber.
Mu Chen did not hide it from her and explained the effects of Time Zero. Nine Nether could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
"How can such a divine ability exist?