Invincible through Touching Corpses

"The only explanation is that he cleared his meridians ahead of schedule and cultivated the Divine Demon Body," Wen Qiuying concluded from the side after a moment of thought.

"Haha, regardless, this is wonderful news! Breaking through a few minutes early means he can absorb that much more medicinal power! He might really be able to push the Divine Demon Body’s cultivation progress to around 40%. Even an extra 5% would save him a great deal of money and time in the future," Zuo Wenyao said with a laugh.

Jian Hua, who was also standing by, couldn’t help but beam.

He was definitely hoping that Lin Xinghai’s progress with the Divine Demon Body would be as high as possible—ideally, high enough to set a record that future generations would be unable to break.

Then, whenever he taught new students in the future, he could probably brag about this for the rest of his life.

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At that moment, Lin Xinghai’s mind was also completely focused on cultivating the Thunder Divine Body.

After entering the Creation Blood Pool, his progress with the Divine Demon Body had been steadily increasing. He could clearly feel his body undergoing constant, profound changes.

Just a moment ago, when his Divine Demon Body progress reached 29.9%, it was as if he had gotten stuck. The changes began to proceed at an extremely slow pace.

It was as if an invisible shackle had materialized out of thin air.

Realizing this, Lin Xinghai knew he had reached his first bottleneck.

A bottleneck for the Divine Demon Body was no different from a regular breakthrough; he just needed to hit it with a massive amount of Energy.

The immense medicinal power within the Creation Blood Pool was the perfect tool for breaking through this bottleneck.

The only problem now was time.

Lin Xinghai made a quick estimate and deduced that at his current pace, it would take at least four to five minutes to break through this bottleneck.

And that was just for him; anyone else would probably need half an hour, or even longer.

Of course, if he weren’t in the Creation Blood Pool, it wouldn’t be a problem to spend a day or two slowly grinding it down. But right now, Lin Xinghai didn’t want to waste a single second.

However, to his dismay, he was already at his limit.

’Based on my current speed, I can probably only push my Divine Demon Body progress to around 50% at most.’ Lin Xinghai quickly made his assessment.

This progress was about what he had initially expected, so there was nothing to be particularly happy or disappointed about.

But just then, Lin Xinghai suddenly felt a strange sensation coming from his body.

He quickly discovered the source of the sensation: the Superpower within his body. After being modified by the system for so long, it seemed its transformation was finally complete.

’I’m eager to see what changes have occurred to my Superpower after four awakenings.’ Lin Xinghai was filled with anticipation.

And he had good reason to be expectant. This fourth Superpower awakening had not only taken a long time, but the amount of Blood Qi Power it consumed was also four times what it took to awaken a Special Physique.

’Something the system spent so much to create can’t be bad, right!’

"DING! Congratulations, Host, on successfully breaking through to the Blood Qi Realm."

"DING! A new system function has been unlocked. Please collect it from the main quest rewards."

Two system notifications popped up. Seeing the second one, in particular, made Lin Xinghai suddenly recall that the system had apparently issued a main quest before.

It was just that the reward was minuscule—a mere 1 point of Blood Qi Power for a breakthrough. Lin Xinghai had simply ignored it, collapsing and hiding the notification on his panel. Over time, he completely forgot that quests were even a thing.

However, compared to the quest, he was more concerned with his status after the breakthrough, so he quickly opened his system panel.

Host: Lin Xinghai

Physique: 200 points

Power: 200 points

Speed: 200 points

Blood Qi Power: 221,500 points

Realm: Blood Qi Realm Early Stage

Thunder Divine Body (Blood Qi Realm) Progress: 29.9%

Superpower: Time Acceleration (Can accelerate time by 10x)

Special Physique: Thunder Control Physique (Thunder Energy Attack +100%, Thunder Energy Control Level +100%)

Thunderbolt Step (Entry Level): Proficiency 1%

Thunder God Spear (Entry Level): Proficiency 1%

Wind and Thunder Spear Technique (Entry Level): Proficiency 50%+

Phantom Body Technique (Minor Success): Proficiency 1%

Intermediate Shooting Skill: Proficiency 1%

Opening his system panel, Lin Xinghai was quite satisfied to see that his three main Attributes had each increased by 100 points.

But as he continued reading, he was completely stunned when he saw the entry for his Superpower.

He remembered clearly that his Superpower was the Speed Superpower. How could it have completely changed to something else after four awakenings?

Of course, that wasn’t the main point. The main point was that the new Superpower was a Time-type Superpower.

He had been in this world for several months now and was no longer the clueless White Pig he once was. While he didn’t know everything about the world’s bizarre array of Superpowers, he at least had a general understanding of them.

In fact, all Superpowers could ultimately be classified into several major systems.

For example: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Light, Dark, Space, Confinement, Life, and so on.

You could say that all the myriad and bizarre Superpowers could ultimately be sorted into one of these systems.

However, this entire system of Superpowers seemed to be missing a piece of the puzzle.

Namely, Time-type Superpowers. Not a single one had ever appeared.

Some had proposed that because time is absolute, it was impossible for a Superpower that could affect it to exist.

But others objected. After all, space and time were linked. Since Space Superpowers existed, then Time Superpowers must also exist; they just might require a specific trigger to appear.

This debate had raged on since the Great Cataclysm when Superpowers first appeared, but even now, no conclusion had been reached.

Every day, thousands of people at home and abroad were lucky enough to awaken a Superpower, yet not a single one of them had ever awakened one related to time.

This forced people to wonder: was there a flaw in their theorized system of Superpowers, or was there some unknown reason preventing Time Superpowers from appearing?

Now, Lin Xinghai had a faint inkling of the answer.

When the system first awakened his Speed Superpower, he had to admit that while it was powerful, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of envy watching others with their flashy, ostentatious Superpowers. To say he wasn’t jealous would have been an outright lie.

He wouldn’t even mention someone like Liu Miaomiao, whose Superpower could directly strip away a person’s Life Force. Even Fang Tianhe’s Heaven-Splitting Superpower felt superior to his own Speed Superpower.

His Speed Superpower had only become so powerful because of the system’s help, which allowed it to undergo continuous awakenings.

In essence, the Speed Superpower was merely mediocre among the vast number of Rare Superpowers.

Logically, with the system’s omnipotence, it should have been able to give him an incomparably powerful Rare Superpower from the start.

It wasn’t until now, after his Superpower completed its theoretical limit of four awakenings and fully transformed into a Time Superpower, that he finally had a moment of epiphany.

He also had a faint guess as to why the system hadn’t given him a Time Superpower from the beginning.

’Time Superpowers probably can’t be awakened directly.’

’One must be like me, having their Superpower undergo four awakenings to reach its theoretical limit, for one to possibly appear.’

As for why the "Speed Superpower" could transform into a "Time Superpower," the only thing Lin Xinghai could think of was the theory of relativity.

’According to the principle of "time dilation," speed and time are intrinsically linked.’

’Perhaps the system exploited this link, causing the Superpower to transform directly after reaching its theoretical limit.’

In any case, this was a fantastic development. What he wanted most right now was to test the power of this Time Acceleration.

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I’ve been getting flak for so long, but I’ve finally filled in this huge plot hole. I’ll never dig a pit like this again.