6: Chapter 6 The Balance of Equivalence

Superpower users and Spirit Beasts use spiritual power to activate their Superpowers and talents, with Ranks ranging from one to ten from lowest to highest...

Demons, on the other hand, use Demonic Power to utilize their innate talents, also divided into ten Ranks...

The Security Bureau, the Kingdom of Myriad Demons, the Alliance Parliament, the Starry Sky Exploration Team, the National Superpower Awakening Ceremony...

...

Xing Yaoyan closed her eyes, organizing the information she had just learned about this world.

"So that man from before who could teleport was a Superpower user, and while I haven't seen that feminine man fight, based on the pressure he emitted, his Rank should be even higher..."

"Spiritual power is something everyone is born with, but Awakening a Superpower requires an activation quota from a specialized academy. Generally speaking, the higher the spiritual power value, the greater the probability of Superpower Awakening..."

Suddenly!

*Click, click!*

The sound of a doorknob turning came from outside the room.

"No way? Is that guy back so soon? Hasn't it only been an hour?"

Xing Yaoyan lightly jumped off the computer desk and leaned against the door, cautiously peeking out.

She saw a person wearing an electronic mask tiptoeing in, gently closing the front door behind them.

A thief?

The strange person looked left and right, seemingly searching for something.

Xing Yaoyan retreated quietly; her inner sea remained dim, likely a side effect of her previous transformation.

She was now just a Spirit Beast that could speak and understand human speech but possessed no power.

A great person must know when to yield; if it's time to be cowardly, be cowardly. As for the losses... that's Qian Mo's bad luck. What does it have to do with me, a common puppy—bah, little wolf?

But just as she was about to hide deep within the room, she suddenly froze.

"Found you!"

The masked person stared fixedly at the somewhat bewildered wolf cub, a raspy voice emerging from behind the mask.

From Xing Yaoyan's perspective, the masked person's entire body instantly turned a reddish-black. That was... an extremely deep malice.

At the same time, an aura of power she had never seen before instantly radiated from the masked person's body.

No... it can't be...

He wants to kill me!

Xing Yaoyan suddenly kicked off the ground, lunging toward the back.

*Crack!*

A deep claw mark was left where she had just been standing.

Xing Yaoyan swallowed hard. If she hadn't reacted quickly just now, she'd be cosplaying as Teacher Gojo Satoru by now.

Without giving her any time to adjust, the masked person quickly closed in again, sending invisible claw winds toward the still-weakened Xing Yaoyan.

Relying on a wolf's reflexes and speed, she barely dodged most of the claw winds, finally lunging miserably under the bed at the cost of taking a hit to her hind leg.

Only then did she have a slight chance to catch her breath.

Glancing at the wound on her right leg that was deep enough to see bone, Xing Yaoyan bared her teeth and quickly thought of a way to break the situation.

"No choice, I have to try this move..."

Xing Yaoyan extended a claw toward her heart and whispered in her mind: Swallow!

*Crack!*

Qian Mo's bed was split vertically, but the white figure beneath the bed was already gone.

The terrifying aura around the masked person faltered slightly.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and turned his head toward the room's door. A youth in a white school uniform was standing straight right there.

This wasn't much; if you hit the dog, you deal with the owner—he'd just kill them both together.

He had done the same thing many times; he was used to it.

But then, something happened that made his scalp tingle: the figure looked up slightly, revealing a young, expressionless face behind long bangs.

A black spiritual power gradually spread around his body. Faintly, a blood-red Killing Intent swirled around the youth's skin.

This combination of red and black exuded an eerie and terrifying vibe.

Behind the mask, a drop of cold sweat fell.

He actually felt fear toward the youth.

"Where is my family?" the youth asked, his voice chillingly indifferent.

"Family? You mean that little white wolf?" The masked man suppressed the discomfort in his heart.

As a third-Rank Minor Demon, he actually felt fear today in front of a brat with spiritual power fluctuations of only the first Rank; it was truly a disgrace to the Demon Emperor.

"Yes."

"To actually consider a Spirit Beast as family, it seems your parents died quite early..."

"Where is it?!"

Deep black spiritual power surged outward from Qian Mo as the center, quickly surrounding the two and instantly forming a black Domain.

He looked up slightly, revealing blood-red eyes beneath his bangs.

From those eyes, the masked man seemed to see mountains of blades and seas of blood.

"Dead. I personally ripped out its heart," he said, refusing to be intimidated.

As he spoke, the masked man raised his right hand.

Bright red blood slowly dripped from his glove.

The black spiritual power suddenly stalled, but it soon fluctuated violently.

Faintly, the masked man seemed to see a black balance scale floating behind the youth.

"Superpower manifestation... it's a legendary grade!"

"No way, I just came here on an itch to kill some Spirit Beasts, how did I run into a Superpower user with a legendary grade ability!

It looks like he just Awakened. Could this be some young master from a great family coming to this slum for ascetic training... No, I have to run fast; if his backers arrive, I'm dead!"

The masked man retreated slightly.

On Qian Mo's side.

[Ding! No life signs of the Spirit Pet Xing Yaoyan detected in this area... however, it still has faint signs of life.]

Qian Mo, who was about to go berserk upon hearing the first half, froze for a moment.

"System, don't pause like that when you speak in the future..." Qian Mo's words were filled with Killing Intent.

No time to bicker with the System. Seeing the masked man's movement to escape, Qian Mo slowly raised his hand.

"Balance of Equivalence, activate!"

An invisible power of rules diffused through the black spiritual power Domain.

Both people in the Domain heard a cold voice:

"The world requires fairness... Ranks must be fair, numbers must be fair, the environment must be fair..."

As the voice fell, Qian Mo felt the pressure from the masked man gradually decrease, and the surrounding scene slowly transformed into a white, boundless platform.

Forced same-Rank duel!!!

Qian Mo's heart jolted.

At that moment, a cold notification sounded in his mind:

[You can choose whether to disable spiritual power or Demonic Power; the cost is an increased consumption rate of spiritual power to maintain the Domain.]

*Boom!*

A massive surprise exploded in Qian Mo's mind.

"System, if I disable them, how long can I maintain the Domain?"

"Ten seconds."

"That short?"

[Ding! The opponent is a third-Rank after all...]

"...Regardless, for me, the time is enough!"

Opposite him.

The masked man looked at the changing space around him in a daze, feeling the power within his body gradually vanishing.

"Is this a human Prodigy who has Awakened a legendary grade Superpower..."

A drop of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something, and his tense heart finally relaxed a little.

Fortunately, with this kid's Rank, he can only maintain this Domain for about ten seconds. Once the time is up, I'll have a chance to escape...

*Bang!*

The youth before him closed the distance with an incredibly strange footwork, opening with a step-in side kick.

The masked man subconsciously crossed his arms to block, but to his total surprise, this seemingly powerful kick was a feint.

The youth's high-raised leg suddenly changed trajectory and dropped quickly to become a support leg. His body spun into the air, hooking the other foot around the masked man's neck and pulling down fiercely.

Simultaneously, his upper body completed a high-difficulty rotation in mid-air, driving his elbow hard against the masked man's heart, using gravitational potential energy and his original momentum to smash downward.

*Squelch!*

Qian Mo slowly stood up, glancing briefly at the masked man lying on the ground with a red hollow in his chest.

Suddenly, he felt a wave of dizziness, and the surrounding environment reverted back to his home.

"This feeling of spiritual power exhaustion is truly damn uncomfortable."

Qian Mo sat down on the sofa, holding his head.

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed the masked man's "corpse" on the floor seemed to twitch slightly.

No way, he can still live even after his heart exploded?

The masked man's mask suddenly shattered, and a face covered in green scales appeared before Qian Mo's eyes.

Seeing this, he could only give a bitter smile in his heart.

"To think it was actually a demon. This is going to be troublesome..."