"Captain, are you planning to challenge me in private?" Kachi asked with some concern.
Ji Yueyao nodded. She had never intended to follow the normal procedure from the beginning. "That's what I was thinking, but before that, we have to challenge the twentieth seat to determine the strength of these people."
"Captain, I'll challenge for the twentieth seat," Lin Xuan suddenly said. Ji Yueyao was taken aback, glanced at Lin Xuan, and then shook her head. "I'll take it..."
"Captain, let me do this kind of thing," Lin Xuan said firmly. "I'm already a superhuman now, and only by constantly challenging powerful people can I further improve my strength."
Only in this way can I get your attention.
Ji Yueyao looked at Lin Xuan, who was staring at her with unwavering determination, and had nothing to refute. Lin Xuan was right; people with superpowers like them had to constantly stimulate their potential to become stronger.
"Alright, Lin Xuan, I'll leave this to you this time."
"Thank you, Captain!" Lin Xuan smiled happily, then turned back to check the challenge date with great interest. "Kaki, what's the date today?"
"Twenty-nine," Kachi said calmly, as she remembered these details of her life very clearly.
Lin Xuan nodded, and said with some emotion, "In just over twenty days, it will be winter." Autumn in this world only lasts for a little over ten days. It is the coolest and most comfortable time of the year, but after those ten-odd days of autumn, the most terrifying season in this world, winter, will arrive.
However, Ji Yueyao had only read about the horrors of winter in books, and she had no idea what it was like in reality.
"Then the next challenge against Wu Yun, who is ranked 20th, will have to be in two days," Lin Xuan said with some disappointment.
Ji Yueyao frowned as she looked at the challenge instructions posted on the iron gate. She had thought she could challenge it directly. "Then let's train ourselves properly for the next few days."
"Hmm." Lin Xuan decided to find a place to test his superpower first; he absolutely couldn't afford to lose.
Ji Yueyao was the first to walk out the door, and then headed towards her residence.
"Hmm?" Xia Yaoxuan turned his head and then unconsciously took two steps forward.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Chu Sheng turned around and looked in the direction Xia Yaoxuan was looking, but he couldn't see anything except a large group of people.
"It's nothing." Xia Yaoxuan turned around. He seemed to have seen... Ji Yueyao just now. If it really was her... Xia Yaoxuan looked at the crowded people downstairs and suddenly found them extremely annoying. "Chu Sheng, let's go back first."
Chu Sheng responded in a low voice, then quickly followed behind Xia Yaoxuan. How could his mood change so suddenly? Just a moment ago he had a bright and sunny smile, but now he had a face as cold as ice.
He's someone who has to watch his boss's expression; being a subordinate is really tough.
...
Amidst a scene of utter devastation, Lin Xuan was attempting to train his supernatural abilities.
Ji Yueyao stood to the side with her arms crossed, watching Lin Xuan. She saw him try to put his hands on the ground, and then several thick, long vines suddenly sprouted from the ground.
Is this the wood-based superpower, creating plants anytime, anywhere?
Seeing Lin Xuan concentrating on controlling the vines, Ji Yueyao didn't say anything, but stepped back a few paces to give Lin Xuan more space.
They found this place by chance. There were hardly any people around. It was hard to imagine that in a post-apocalyptic world where land is so precious, there would still be such a large, desolate place.
They'd been here all day without seeing a soul. Mu Yanxuan seemed quite busy, disappearing from morning till night. Kaqi, on the other hand, had gone to the Nanxiao base to exchange for food and other necessities. Exchanging for food at the Nanxiao base wasn't difficult. You could either barter—if your items were valuable enough, you could easily exchange them for what you needed—or exchange them for alien cores. Kaqi had exchanged quite a few alien cores when she left the Xiyu base, and now they were coming in handy.
"The Nanxiao Base is really..." Ji Yueyao sighed, unsure how to describe it. Was it luxurious? Or chaotic? Ji Yueyao shook her head, dismissing these random thoughts, and then casually found a rock to sit on.
Lin Xuan was still diligently practicing, so she decided not to disturb him. As for herself... Ji Yueyao raised her hand, trying to grasp a patch of empty space in front of her. Then, the space around her palm began to distort visibly, within a range of about half a meter.
Ji Yueyao raised her other hand, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it in. She then noticed that the stone seemed to have simply fallen in without any signs of damage.
Was it because the stone was relatively hard? Ji Yueyao lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then stood up and moved the distorted space in front of her to face the stone she had just been sitting on. The large stone was immediately sucked in and then instantly shattered into a pile of small stones.
"Tsk." Ji Yueyao looked at the small stones floating around in her space, tried to use her consciousness to control one of the stones to move towards her, and in an instant the stone was in her palm.
Ji Yueyao shook her hand, retracted her distorted space, looked around, and found another rock to sit on.
She now understands her superpower in the following ways: First, her superpower is like another dimension, without gravity and without life.
Secondly, any living thing placed in the space will die, and any too large items will be crushed into pieces, just as her space is limited to things the size of small pebbles.
Third, she did not know how big her space was, but when her consciousness entered the space, it could extend infinitely, seemingly without end.
Fourthly… Ji Yueyao stretched and tried to move her wrists. Every time she used her superpower, her body would feel extremely tired. Given her physical condition, she could probably only use her superpower for about a minute each time.
It's said that the stronger one's superpower, the better their physical constitution. I wonder what her constitution is now. I remember the incredulous looks people gave her when she still had a weak constitution. Ji Yueyao gave a self-deprecating smile, then shook her head and looked at Lin Xuan.
Then she was completely stunned. What was going on?!
Inside a rather luxurious villa at the Nanxiao base, Xia Yaoxuan yawned wearily, then glanced at Yin Longyuan sitting opposite him with a smile on his face.
"I wonder what Lord Yin Longyuan, the fifth seat holder, wants to do at my humble abode?" Xia Yaoxuan yawned, seemingly lacking patience.
Yin Longyuan smiled slightly, perfectly concealing the glint in his eyes. "The leader of the Black race is indeed different from ordinary people."
"Hmm? Is that so? Two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, what's the difference?" Xia Yaoxuan sneered, "Just tell me what you're here for, okay?"
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