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Chapter 86: Altered Perception, Time Superpower

“As long as you can let me gain more superpowers, I will be your woman from now on, and I will use the secret information I know from my previous life to help you grow stronger! “

Murong Xue spoke earnestly.

“As long as we are strong enough, Shancheng will listen to us in the future! “

“No, not just Shancheng! The entire country, even the whole world, will be ours to command! Why should the nobles and princes monopolize destiny! “

Murong Xue’s eyes blazed with heat and zeal.

Clearly, she was not a docile person, nor was she fighting merely to survive.

Her ambition surpassed even Shen Yi’s.

She wanted to reign in the apocalypse, become a regional overlord, and even seize control of the entire world!

Shen Yi finally understood why Murong Xue’s attitude had changed so abruptly.

Because what she valued was not him, but the power he had to break the superpower limit!

Murong Xue wanted power, not affection.

“Rule the world? How chuunibyou…” Shen Yi grumbled inwardly but held his tongue.

In the apocalypse, such thoughts did not seem strange.

Especially since Murong Xue was a Reincarnator who had already endured one apocalypse, ambition was only natural.

He simply had not expected her ambition to be this vast…

“So you are unwilling?”

Murong Xue looked calmly at Shen Yi.

If Shen Yi had no ambition and only wanted to muddle through like in the previous life, she would indeed look down on him.

A man without ambition could be discarded after use.

Alternatively, once her strength surpassed his, she could keep him penned up.

She would feed him every day and consider that her repayment.

Hmm, that method could work.

After all, I am not a heartless woman; I can be a bit lenient with my first man.

In just a short moment, countless ideas flashed through Murong Xue’s mind.

The aura surrounding her shifted constantly and finally settled into mainly white and gray hues.

Seeing this, Shen Yi confirmed that Murong Xue had no intention of attacking, so he slowly asked, “First tell me what your superpowers and trump cards are.”

…

Murong Xue hesitated for a moment, glanced at the white fox that was still immobilized on the sofa, and then said, “My superpower is psychokinesis, and my mental power has been enhanced so I can passively sense danger and detect the probing of perception-type superpowers.”

“I can also release telekinetic force to shield my body and block any attack.”

“If I unleash my full psychic power, bullets cannot penetrate it, and even a grenade blast would not hurt me.”

That strong?

Shen Yi raised an eyebrow, secretly astonished.

Murong Xue’s superpower could attack and defend, making it extremely versatile.

It was in no way inferior to his own Teleportation.

No wonder she dared claim she was not afraid of grenades.

But Shen Yi did not believe this was Murong Xue’s final trump card.

As a Reincarnator, she could not possibly have only one superpower.

“And what else?” Shen Yi pressed.

Murong Xue paused and said, “My second superpower is also mental; through my eyes I can alter a person’s perception and thoughts.”

?!

Shen Yi jolted in shock.

What the hell!

A cheat like that actually exists?

If he were careless enough to get hit, he might become Murong Xue’s puppet or slave without even realizing it.

And he would have no awareness of it at all!

After all, his cognition would have been rewritten!

That was far more terrifying than the hypnosis shown in movies!

In an instant, vigilance flooded Shen Yi’s gaze toward Murong Xue.

So she really did deserve the title of someone who had lived a second life.

Sensing Shen Yi’s guarded attitude, Murong Xue explained, “Don’t worry. This superpower is low-level; directly rewriting a person’s thoughts is nearly impossible unless the target offers no resistance.”

“Right now I only use it as a sensory power; for example, by focusing my great mental strength into my eyes, I can pierce the black fog and obstacles and sense the existence of objects.”

“Of course, the prerequisite is that the object emits a mental fluctuation.”

As she spoke, Murong Xue’s irises slowly turned a seductive crimson, looking eerily strange.

Shen Yi immediately averted his gaze and avoided eye contact.

He could not be sure whether Murong Xue was telling the truth, for there was no real trust between them.

One could even say there was enmity!

After all, Shen Yi had almost forced Murong Xue to her death earlier.

“So she also knows that superpowers can be upgraded… It seems that in the previous life this was no secret anymore,” he mused.

Shen Yi was instead curious about how other superpower users improved their power levels.

However, he wanted to know Murong Xue’s trump card even more.

These two superpowers were powerful, yet they definitely were not all she had.

Otherwise, what right would she have to dream of ruling the world?

“Then what is your trump card? Don’t tell me you have none.”

Shen Yi asked.

The bewitching red in Murong Xue’s pupils faded. She looked at the white fox on the sofa and said, “Little White… that is my final means of survival.”

Shen Yi also looked at the white fox.

He had already guessed that the fox was no ordinary animal, yet he had no idea what ability a fox could possess to be deemed a trump card by a Reincarnator.

“Little White’s superpower is time-based, just as yours is space-based, and it is equally rare… in some ways it is even stronger than space abilities.”

Meeting Shen Yi’s gaze, Murong Xue explained in detail, “Little White can manipulate time to a certain extent; for instance, it can accelerate the flow of time within your body and thereby drain your lifespan.”

?!

Shen Yi’s heart lurched; that ability was downright heaven-defying!

A mere fox actually possessed such a broken power… how could that be reasonable!?

It felt even stronger than his own cheat.

“And Little White’s time superpower doesn’t stop there… it can also halt a person’s time, much like the power you used a moment ago to pin down me and Little White.”

“However, when Little White stops time, the frozen target will not feel time passing, and once the halt ends he will still think he is in the moment from a few minutes earlier.”

Murong Xue paused and continued, “Of course, time abilities do not end there… once Little White mutates to a stronger stage, it will even be able to reverse the flow of a person’s time.”

“For example, if your body suffers grievous wounds or even dies… it can rewind you to the moment before death and you will live again.”

“Damn it!”

Shen Yi furrowed his brows hard.

Now this was the real cheat!

It was outrageously unfair!

It could attack, control, and even support… far too all-around…

Fortunately, there were definite constraints on that superpower.

Either that, or the white fox currently could not use it at all.

Otherwise, Shen Yi would have been caught long ago!

It was also lucky that Shen Yi had stayed on high alert and given the white fox no chance.

Fully understanding Shen Yi’s shock, Murong Xue explained, “Although time superpowers are very strong, their constraints are also significant.”

“At the very least, Little White has to touch you before it can apply its power to you.”

“Moreover, because time powers are so potent, they consume stamina and mental energy even when unused, so Little White spends almost every moment resting and recovering, or it would literally drop dead from exhaustion.”

“And this is the price while Little White’s power is still weak; if it levels up a few more times, its body simply won’t be able to withstand it.”

As expected!

He had known that the stronger a superpower was, the harsher its limits!

Teleportation, for example, drained physical energy heavily.

Even if an average person obtained Teleportation, he could never use it as frequently as Shen Yi.

Even an adult with great Constitution could teleport only 7 or 8 times a day at most… what good would that do?

It would hardly suffice even for running away!

Still, once the level rose, time- and space-type superpowers became truly formidable.

Especially a time superpower; perhaps it would no longer even require contact and could directly freeze someone’s time and erode it away.

Utterly ridiculous!

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