123: Chapter 123 Witness

The outskirts of C City.

Twenty-nine minutes had already passed.

Chen Moxuan's tightly closed eyes slowly opened, and a faint crimson flame tail flickered at the corners of his eyes.

He raised his hand, and specks of flowing fire surged and gathered in his palm.

The next instant, a tongue of fire, as thick as two basketballs, erupted with a roar, shooting toward the rock wall a hundred meters away.

The air twisted and deformed under the high temperature, emitting a sharp, explosive sound.

With a deafening roar, the hard rock wall instantly shattered under the impact of the exploding flames, turning into dust that filled the sky and dissipated into the scorching airflow.

"So that's what a Special Ability is..."

Chen Moxuan looked at the lingering heat in his palm, lost in thought.

Deducting the essential Law of the [Formless Tribulation Flame] completely had not only allowed him to master the usage of this Special Ability but also helped him understand what a Special Ability truly was.

Just like on Blue Star in his previous life, there were still many natural Laws that humanity had yet to discover.

And this vast world, formed by the Fusion of various different worlds, possessed near-infinite Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Once these Laws of Heaven and Earth were perceived and understood, one could influence the material world through Mental Energy originating from the Soul.

If a Martial Artist's Divine Ability was to create a unique Law belonging solely to oneself based on one's own understanding of the martial path,

then a Special Ability was the manifestation of Mental Energy utilizing existing Laws of Heaven and Earth.

These Laws of Heaven and Earth, carried by vast and pure spiritual power of heaven and earth, were infused into the bodies of newborn members of the Human Race.

The spiritual power of heaven and earth subtly transformed their bodies, causing their Souls to undergo adaptive mutations in line with the internal Laws of Heaven and Earth, turning them into carriers of those Laws.

Therefore, a Transcendent did not need to understand the Laws of Heaven and Earth to master extraordinary abilities, becoming stronger as their bodies matured.

What was certain was that these clusters of spiritual power containing the Laws of Heaven and Earth were definitely not born naturally.

Otherwise, the Martial Arts World, which was extremely similar to the Superpower World, would also have Transcendents.

Someone... or perhaps something with subjective consciousness, had used some incomprehensible means to materialize these Laws of Heaven and Earth and scatter them into the spiritual power of this world.

If Transcendents were created by the subtle transformation of these spiritual power clusters containing Laws of Heaven and Earth,

then the birth of an Awakener was likely due to the Soul, under extreme conditions, happening to undergo a mutation that corresponded to a certain Law of Heaven and Earth.

This mutation actively attracted the Laws scattered within the spiritual power of heaven and earth, causing the Awakener to develop a Special Ability.

This was perhaps the reason why Awakeners appeared at a much lower rate than naturally born Transcendents.

However, this was still just his deduction based on existing knowledge, not necessarily the absolute truth.

Existence is reasonable; sometimes there is simply no logic to be found behind the birth of certain things.

"Regardless... my means of combat have increased once again."

In this Superpower World where the spiritual power of heaven and earth was thin, sources of True Qi were scarce, and recovery rates were significantly reduced,

having an additional combat method that consumed Mental Energy undoubtedly increased Chen Moxuan's combat power once more.

One had to know that a Transcendent's Mental Energy basically stopped growing after the age of sixteen.

Yet Chen Moxuan's Mental Energy still had the potential for infinite growth.

The same Special Ability could unleash greater power in his hands than in the hands of its original owner.

Moreover, unlike Transcendents who mastered Special Abilities through Soul mutations,

Chen Moxuan's Soul itself had not changed at all.

At this moment, in his spiritual platform—that pure white space—a constantly restless flame appeared.

It had emerged naturally within his spiritual platform world after he finished analyzing and deducing the essential rules of the [Formless Tribulation Flame].

He only needed to inject Mental Energy into this flame to unleash the Special Ability [Formless Tribulation Flame].

This feeling was somewhat similar to exotic beasts that unleashed special abilities through dense patterns on their bodies.

However, unlike the patterns engraved on the body, the Special Ability was engraved on Chen Moxuan's spiritual platform.

And perhaps due to the uniqueness of the Heart-Phase Dao Seed, Chen Moxuan faintly felt that he could engrave even more Special Abilities.

As long as new Special Ability Laws were provided for him to analyze, he could master a new Special Ability.

From then on, to him, Transcendents were like mobile Special Ability reference books.

"It's about time to go back."

Chen Moxuan looked at the darkening twilight sky and put his shoes into his storage space.

Song Xin had previously suggested using the fengxi app to keep in touch, but his phone was still lying in his school locker.

He still needed to retrieve it first.

While restraining his breath and focusing his mind, an explosive flame suddenly erupted from the soles of his feet, launching him directly into mid-air like a rocket thruster.

Now that he couldn't use Spiritual Sense to gather enough spiritual power of heaven and earth to form an escape light, he could still manage to fly through the [Formless Tribulation Flame].

Although the "introduction to cultivation comprehensive guide" also recorded levitation techniques that consumed mana, the speed was too slow, not even comparable to the speed of him running on air.

Right now, flying using the propulsion generated by the [Formless Tribulation Flame] was even faster than his flight via escape light.

The only downside was that the commotion caused by this flame propulsion was simply too great.

Chen Moxuan first rose to an altitude of ten thousand meters, then transformed into a red-hot meteor streaking across the sky, speeding toward Third Hope Middle School.

...

"I've already recorded the footage and sent it to you; go and hand it over to the Hero Association."

Rewinder was currently wearing a pair of sunglasses, talking to his assistant.

When his Special Ability [Reverse Orbit Shadow Trace] was used for area control, it could only affect non-living things.

But if it was in direct contact or used on himself, it could affect living beings.

Right now, he was streaming the images captured by his retinas, combined with the sunglasses specially made for him by the Hero Association, to his assistant in real-time.

However, just at this moment, his intuition as an A-Rank Transcendent made him suddenly sense a trace of abnormality above.

He took off his sunglasses and looked up.

A crimson meteor tore through the clouds, dragging a long tail of flames as it flashed by and disappeared.

That trajectory hung high in the airspace beyond the reach of normal human vision, impossible for ordinary people to capture with the naked eye.

But as an A-Rank Transcendent, Rewinder's body had been strengthened in all aspects, which naturally included his eyesight.

"What the hell?!"

Rewinder couldn't help but exclaim out loud, quickly shouting to his assistant,

"Wait, don't send it yet!"

"There's something I need to confirm first."

Rewinder hurriedly hung up the call.

"That shouldn't be right. I saw it clearly with my Special Ability; he had blown the guy's head off..."

Rewinder felt extremely puzzled.

But the red-hot meteor that had just flashed by was clearly a unique display of the [Formless Tribulation Flame].

At the very least, he had never heard of any other Transcendent in District G having a similar Special Ability.

A faint blue halo rippled around Rewinder, and as he pressed his palms downward, the gravitational field beneath his feet reversed with a roar.

Soon, he rose to a high altitude, feeling the heat remaining in the air.

He reversed the light again, and the images of this area just moments ago played in reverse before his eyes.

"It's actually that culprit who didn't trigger the tracking mark..."

"Copy? Or a looting-type Special Ability?"

The look of shock was instantly replaced by a sinister expression, and the corners of Rewinder's lips curled into a dangerous arc.

"Interesting. I'll go test this guy out first."

"If he can be recruited, good; if not, I'll capture him and use him as a lab rat..."

Rewinder accelerated the reversal of the wind's trajectory around him, sonic boom clouds exploded behind him, and his speed increased to the limit.

He was not worried that the guy who killed Explosive Flame King and obtained his Special Ability could pose a threat to him.

For him, killing Explosive Flame King instantly would only be easier than it was for that person.

Rewinder had full confidence in his own ability, [Reverse Orbit Shadow Trace].

If it weren't for his negligence in executing missions and showing his strength, he felt that he would definitely have a place in the top ten of the A-Rank Transcendents.

Rewinder accelerated again, instantly turning into an afterimage, following the heat remaining in the air.