prynovel Chapter 49 : Chapter 49
Chapter 49 : Chapter 49
Chapter 49 Martial Saint-Level Xiao Xuan! Where Was His Cheat? Where Had His Cheat Gone?
They still strengthened his power, but not by much.
Likewise, the stacking effect of his Silver Traits had also dropped drastically.
As a result, Xiao Xuan's combat power at the same realm fell by several times.
Although he was still somewhat stronger than an ordinary Peak Silver Talent, that was only in comparison to lower-tier Silver Traits.
During that Hundred-Province Genius Tournament, Xiao Xuan had achieved a fairly impressive result.
But even among that year's college entrance exam candidates, he had not been the strongest.
That was because someone with High Silver Talent had appeared that same year. On the surface, he only seemed to possess High Silver Talent, yet his talent far surpassed Xiao Xuan's.
That was because his High Silver Talent consisted of one top-tier upper-grade Silver Trait and two Gold Traits.
The increase in combat power that gave him was so terrifying that Xiao Xuan, whose talent had been severely weakened, simply could not defeat him.
That genius, as a mere twelfth-year student, fought his way into the top three of the final round of the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament, suppressing nearly all the university students from the hundred provinces.
As for Xiao Xuan, he stopped at the top hundred.
Of course, the most terrifying person of that year was naturally Mu Xiying!
Not only did she possess the same Peak Silver Talent, she was also already a Martial King-level powerhouse.
By her own strength alone, she suppressed everyone at the same level.
That genius, Tian Ji, had not even managed to endure a single move from her before being killed in an instant.
Of course, although he could no longer see other people's Traits after losing the Scavenger Trait, the Xiao Xuan of later years guessed that Mu Xiying must have been hiding something.
Because from that day onward, Mu Xiying's strength grew at a mad pace, as though she had gained a cheat of her own, and her talent rose just as frantically.
Before she had even graduated from university, she had already become a Martial Venerable-level super powerhouse and entered the Battlefield of the Myriad Races to begin fighting countless other races.
For some reason, however, from that very day on, Mu Xiying became very cold toward Xiao Xuan. It felt as though she had returned to how she used to be when they were younger.
Of course, Xiao Xuan did not care too much about that.
Because raising his strength was his first priority.
Over the next ten years, he cultivated desperately at Imperial Capital University.
Finally, in his fifth year, he became number one on the Heaven Ranking!
That was right, number one on the Heaven Ranking!
Although all his Peak Silver Talents were lower-grade ones, he still had the amplification of Combat Mastery, Soul Destroyer, Telekinetic Adept, and various other talents.
The reason he had lost to Tian Ji back then was that Tian Ji had awakened his talent very early.
He had awakened it before even graduating from middle school!
Relying on his high Silver cultivation talent, he had already become a late-stage Great Grandmaster long before then.
He had only barely managed to defeat Xiao Xuan by overwhelming him with a higher realm.
Yet after entering university, Xiao Xuan's cultivation speed became terrifying because of his two absorption Traits and his equally Silver cultivation talent.
By his fifth year, his realm had already reached the Martial Emperor level.
Although he was still far inferior to Mu Xiying, he had already caught up to Tian Ji.
In that battle, Tian Ji lost.
From that day onward, Tian Ji vanished, and no one knew where he had gone.
That remained true even now.
After graduating as a Tenth-Year Senior Student, Xiao Xuan returned to Nanhai City.
After all, he had promised Nan Rufeng before that he would come back after graduating.
And the return of Xiao Xuan, now number one on the Heaven Ranking, naturally delighted Nan Rufeng beyond measure.
Once Xiao Xuan expressed his desire to develop Blackwater City, Nan Rufeng gave him his full support.
Not only did he provide Xiao Xuan with the assistance of several Martial Emperor-level powerhouses, he also granted him enormous funding and all kinds of policy support.
Over the next five thousand years, Blackwater City grew under Xiao Xuan's guidance into one of the great main cities.
That was the present-day Xiao City!
Five thousand years of time allowed Xiao Xuan's realm to grow to the peak of the Martial Saint Realm.
After all, with the support of his absorption-type Traits, even though they were only lower Silver, his cultivation speed was comparable to that of top-tier Silver cultivation Traits, and even some Gold cultivation Traits.
Of course, peak Martial Saint would have counted among the most powerful experts five thousand years ago, but in this era, it could only be regarded as the third tier. Above Martial Saints were Martial Gods, and beyond them, Supremes!
And Mu Xiying was the first super powerhouse to reach the Supreme level. It was even said that she was already on the verge of surpassing the Supreme Realm!
Compared to her, the current Xiao Xuan looked pitifully weak.
At the same time, absorption-type talents only increased the speed of energy refinement, but did nothing to improve comprehension.
As a result, once Xiao Xuan reached the peak of the Martial Saint Realm, he became completely stuck there.
There was not the slightest sign of a breakthrough.
"Wonderful. Being thrown into the future was one thing, but now even my cheat has been sealed. Damn it!"
Xiao Xuan was so angry that he nearly started cursing aloud.
If he still had his cheat, then let alone five thousand years—even five years might have been enough for him to reach his current level.
"Forget it. Since I am here, I might as well accept it. Who knows when I'll suddenly transmigrate to some other point in time again?"
Because he had already experienced one jump through time, Xiao Xuan quickly accepted the fact that he had transmigrated again.
Since he had transmigrated, then he ought to find something worthwhile to do.
Xiao Xuan looked at his status panel.
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Name: Xiao Xuan
Race: Human
Dragon Blood: 999 (Peak Martial Saint)
Dragon Soul: 0.999 (Peak Martial Thearch!)
Cultivation Arts: Bloodthirsty Demonic Art (Peak Sixth-Tier! Combat power ×680%) Nine Heavens Thunderflame Tribulation (Peak Tenth-Tier! Proficient, 1800%) Grand Derivation Soul Art (Peak Tenth-Tier! Proficient, 1800%)
Martial Techniques: …………
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Traits:
【Telekinetic Force! Silver】 (Telekinesis enhanced by 4300%)
【Soul Destroyer! Silver】 (Soul enhanced by 3000%)
【Soul Blade Mastery! Silver】 (Soul blades enhanced by 3000%)
【Decent Talent! Silver】 (Talent ×100,000)
【Lightning Control! Silver】 (Lightning-element attack ×3000%)
【Flame Control! Silver】 (Flame-element attack ×3000%)
【Strength Enhancement! Silver】 (Strength enhanced by 3000%)
【Speed Enhancement! Silver】 (Speed enhanced by 1500%)
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Defense enhanced by 3000%)
【Super Gigantification! Silver】 (Gigantifies to 150 meters. Physical combat power ×3000%)
【Blade Mastery! Silver】 (Blade technique power ×3000%)
【True Eye! Silver】 (Can see through enemies within 100 times his own strength)
【Combat Mastery! Silver】 (Possesses powerful combat talent and can unleash his strength with extraordinary effectiveness in battle!)
【Limb Regeneration! Silver】 (Rapidly repairs damaged parts of the body.)
【Flame Absorption! Purple】 (Fire-element energy absorption speed ×30)
【Lightning Absorption! Purple】 (Lightning-element energy absorption speed ×30)
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The moment Xiao Xuan saw his status panel, he froze.
Dragon Blood and Dragon Soul? Had Vitality and Soul power actually evolved as well?
But he quickly found the reason in his memories for why they were called Dragon Blood and Dragon Soul.
It turned out that once one's realm reached the Martial King level, every further breakthrough increased one's Vitality by a thousandfold.
That caused Vitality and similar values in the later stages to become unimaginably enormous.
By the peak of the Martial Thearch Realm, Vitality had already reached the level of hundreds of quadrillions.
To make those values easier to calculate, all powerhouses above the Martial Saint level used Dragon Blood and Dragon Soul as the standard.
This so-called dragon race referred to the giant dragons of Western legend.
They were powerful beings who cultivated both magic and the physical body.
An adult pureblood dragon was a Tenth-Tier Ferocious Beast at the Martial Saint level or above.
Moreover, both its Vitality and Soul were considered the standard for the First Heaven of the Martial Saint Realm.
Only a very small number of dragons deviated from that benchmark.
Thus, among human powerhouses, 1 Dragon Blood represented the 1,000 quintillion points of Vitality belonging to a First Heaven Martial Saint.
And 1 Dragon Soul represented 1,000 quintillion points of Soul Value.
That meant Xiao Xuan's Soul Value should theoretically now be 999 quintillion points!
His Vitality Value was even more terrifying, standing at 99,999 quintillion points!
"No wonder even with my talent, it still took me five thousand years to barely reach the Martial Saint level. These numbers are downright terrifying."
Even Xiao Xuan could not help clicking his tongue in amazement.
And this was only the Martial Saint Realm. The later Martial God Realm, and even the Supreme Realm, would be even more terrifying.
Had he not transmigrated, then even the Xiao Xuan of the past, relying on the Scavenger Trait, would probably still have needed an absurd amount of time to reach the so-called Supreme level.
Or perhaps, given Earth's population and Ferocious Beast population from five thousand years ago, becoming a Supreme just by scavenging Traits would have been virtually impossible.
After that, Xiao Xuan took a look at his other Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques.
Good heavens, they were all Peak Tenth-Tier.
But most of his progress in them was only at the Proficient stage. Even reaching Mastery was difficult.
His comprehension was still too low. Theoretically speaking, with his talent, reaching the Martial Thearch Realm would already have been extremely impressive.
Let alone the Martial Saint Realm.
"Still, high-level Cultivation Arts really are extraordinary. Even at the Proficient stage, they can already grant an eighteenfold increase in combat power. If I could cultivate them to Great Perfection, that bonus would rise to a terrifying thirtyfold!"
Xiao Xuan could not help sighing in admiration. But he soon fell silent again.
Among peak Martial Saints, his talent would now count as the lowest of the low.
He had reached this level entirely by relying on his powerful absorption Traits. If he actually fought seriously, it would be easy for someone above him to crush him across realms.
But there was nothing he could do about it. He was already here. What else could he do?
He had already become a peak Martial Saint and now ruled over a population of tens of trillions. There was no reason not to be satisfied.
"Still, when all is said and done, I knew Mu Xiying had to be the grand heroine of some female-protagonist novel!”
Good grief. She unified the entire Earth and became the Empress who ruled it for several thousand years.
“Was I really just a supporting character after all?"
Even so, Xiao Xuan was still deeply shocked.
After all, no matter what, Mu Xiying was still half like an elder sister to him.
His sister had suddenly become the equivalent of a president—no, far more formidable than any president could ever be. No matter how one looked at it, that was still astonishing.
Of course, the most pressing matter right now was to gain control over the power that had surged within him.
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For a while afterward, Xiao Xuan began familiarizing himself with his greatly increased strength. Those memories were far too fragmented.
It would take quite some time to sort them out.
But since there was no way for him to raise his strength any further at the moment, Xiao Xuan had plenty of time.
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Meanwhile, on the other side, Mu Xiying had returned once again.
She checked the time and found that it was still the year 8025.
The difference from last time was that this version of herself was now several times stronger than before.
Even the amplification from her Traits had grown somewhat stronger.
"It seems the things I left behind allowed my past self to awaken her talents earlier. With several thousand extra years, it is only natural that my strength would increase."
Mu Xiying nodded in satisfaction. If she truly could be reborn without limit, then the future might still hold hope.
Then Mu Xiying hurriedly checked the new memories that had appeared in her mind.
Before long, she saw memories of herself participating in the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament. In those memories, she had taken first place with ease, exactly as she had expected.
Yet there was one variable that left Mu Xiying stunned.
"Xiao Xuan also participated in the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament? And he even became second in his cohort, while also reaching the top hundred overall?"
Mu Xiying cried out in disbelief.
After seeing the scenes in those memories, she even briefly suspected that her memories had to be wrong.
She clearly remembered that when she had left home and parted from Xiao Xuan the last time around, he had only been at the Vitality Realm!
How had someone at the mere Vitality Realm become not only a Great Grandmaster-level powerhouse, but also awakened Peak Silver Talent, all within just a few days?
Moreover, from the later records, she discovered that Xiao Xuan seemed to possess rather a lot of Silver Talents.
There were at least ten of them.
Previously, it had been at least ten Blue Traits. Now it was at least ten Silver Traits.
That was no minor improvement.
"Could it be that he had been hiding his strength all along?”
But if he had really possessed that kind of power back then, how could he possibly have died in that mere Fifth-Tier Beast Tide in the original timeline?
Wait. Could it be because the Cultivation Art I gave him caused his talent to awaken?
“And then his realm rose explosively at the same time that his talent awakened?"
For a time, Mu Xiying's mind raced wildly.
In her view, the only variable surrounding Xiao Xuan was probably the fact that she had given him a Seventh-Tier Cultivation Art.
Some people only needed a single opportunity to awaken their talents, and after their talents awakened, some of them would also experience a sudden surge in strength.
Su Qingwu was one example. After being stimulated by Xiao Xuan, her talent had risen to High Purple Talent.
Although her realm had not risen too much in one go, over the past few days she had still advanced by two or three minor realms.
And if Xiao Xuan had awakened that many Silver Traits all at once, the resulting increase in power would not have been so inconceivable after all.
After all, in the six thousand years since Traits first appeared, countless researchers and scientists had concluded through their studies
that these so-called Traits were actually condensations of a certain kind of higher-dimensional energy.
They inherently contained terrifying power, and when some people awakened them, they would absorb part of the power contained in the Trait itself, causing their strength to surge explosively.
Of course, that was not necessarily a good thing.
If the power of a Trait was converted into pure Vitality and Soul power, then that meant the Trait itself had to consume part of its own strength. In theory, that would cause the Trait's grade to drop.
This was only a hypothesis, however, because no one knew what grade of Trait a person would originally have awakened if their strength had not increased during the process.
Very soon, Mu Xiying found confirmation of this hypothesis in her new memories.
Back then, she had left behind a great many powerful Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques.
Once the Mu Xiying of the past had grown stronger, she gradually brought those Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques out into the open.
Later, after becoming humanity's strongest expert, she made all of those Cultivation Arts public.
As long as someone reached a certain realm, they could receive a Peak-grade Cultivation Art of the same level for free.
Some geniuses could even receive Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques above their current realm.
That was also why all of Xiao Xuan's Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques were Peak Tenth-Tier.
He was actually qualified to cultivate Eleventh-Tier Cultivation Arts and Martial Techniques, but he knew his own talent. Peak Tenth-Tier was already his limit.
And because of that, a great many people whose talents had been mediocre in previous cycles awakened much stronger talents this time around.
There were even people whose cases were more outrageous than Xiao Xuan's!
And Xiao Xuan knew that person as well.
It was Gu Xuan, who was now a Martial God-level powerhouse of the human race.