15: Chapter 15 Death Rewind

Lin Wan first set the target of killing the black-robed man, and the result showed that the target's difficulty was 9 stars.

Seeing this, Lin Wan could no longer suppress his smile.

He immediately manifested bottle after bottle of potions and chugged them.

This chase lasted for a full ten minutes.

While using the taie sword to harass Fang Xiu, he used advanced mental enhancement potions to undergo a transformation.

As his mental power increased, Lin Wan's sword-controlling speed became faster and faster. From being busy fleeing at the beginning, he was now at ease, even deliberately slowing down to keep a certain distance from Fang Xiu, playing along with him.

Once he finished his transformation, he would make him suffer greatly.

Finally, as the last enhancement potion went down his throat.

His mental power underwent another terrifying leap.

Mental Power: 90

It wasn't just a simple numerical change.

After his state stabilized, Lin Wan silently sensed the changes around him.

First was the image seen by his eyes.

Clear, incomparably clear.

If the resolution of the world he saw with 30 mental power was 4k.

And the resolution of the world seen with 60 mental power was 12k.

Then now, it was 72k.

The gap from 12k pixels was as high as 36 times.

Even the coverage area of his mental power reached 6 times what it was before.

Things within a 6-kilometer radius could not escape his sight.

This also meant that the number of taie swords he could control surged from 60 to 360.

Combined with Unlimited Blade Works, it was a true leap in combat power.

He looked up at the panel data again.

Comprehensive Combat Power: 756

OK, he could already instantly kill the black-robed man.

There was no need to play along with him anymore.

Thinking of this, with a single thought, Lin Wan stopped controlling the swords. The flying swords, moving at a thousand meters per second, stopped in mid-air in an instant, without generating any inertia.

Instead, Fang Xiu, who was trailing behind, was caught off guard. The insects supporting him couldn't react in time after receiving the command, and they flew directly past Lin Wan, ending up in front of him.

"Do you know you can't dodge it, so you've stopped running?"

Fang Xiu felt puzzled, turned around, and fixed his gaze on the main target.

However, when his gaze landed on Lin Wan's eyes, his pupils shrank violently.

An incomparable sense of oppression suddenly swept across the surroundings.

Impossible...

It's this look. Having died seventeen times, he would never forget this look.

It was that condescending look, like looking down at an ant.

And this pressure...

It was that method Lin Wan used to deal with the weak.

What's going on? Wasn't it only those weaker than Lin Wan who were affected?

How come he was also...

"Could it be..."

Fang Xiu didn't dare to think any further.

If Lin Wan was truly stronger than him, based on his understanding of Lin Wan, then everything was over.

His Death Reload could backtrack to one day before each death, but there was a 12-hour cooldown after each use.

And right now, he still needed one hour for the cooldown to reset.

For the previous seventeen times, he had been cautious, surviving until the second or even third day before being killed by Lin Wan.

This eighteenth time, he chose to take a risk, predicting Lin Wan's path in advance and intercepting him, wanting to kill him before he could grow up.

The risk of doing this was also huge. He had abandoned more than ten hours of development progress and couldn't be certain of Lin Wan's current combat power level, placing himself in a precarious position.

"Impossible. Just a moment ago he was so weak, and his swords were only ordinary items. No matter how strong his talent is, it's impossible for him to become so strong in such a short time."

"It must be his trump card. This trump card must have a time limit. As long as I can hold out until that time passes, I will..."

However, before this thought could even fully form in Fang Xiu's mind, he felt the world spinning.

He saw it,

He saw a headless body falling from the sky, along with his life-bound insect...

"Heh, is this it? Dead already?"

"You really are... so weak!"

"I, Fang Xiu... am not reconciled!!"

His consciousness plunged into darkness, and Fang Xiu died with his eyes wide open in resentment.

With the surge in mental power, Lin Wan no longer needed to fly by controlling swords.

He snapped his fingers, and the taie sword beneath his feet dissipated.

He leaped down from the sky,

The King descends from the heavens!

In the blink of an eye, he appeared beside Fang Xiu's corpse.

Lin Wan touched Fang Xiu's corpse.

[Decryptable target: Life-bound insect: Rank 3 Eagle Wing Gu (dead), Rank 2 Moon Mark Gu (dead), Rank 1 Wine Gu (dead), Rank 3 Peak Cultivation, Talent: Death Reload, one black robe]

Lin Wan: So?

He locked his eyes onto the talent among them, not blinking once.

Shocked. He had thought it was just a small mob, but he didn't expect such a terrifying harvest.

"Death Reload, does such a heaven-defying ability really exist?"

"Looking at it this way, it makes sense. I thought I had run into some brain-damaged person, being chased and bitten like a mad dog, but it turns out he was really here for revenge..."

"So that's what he meant by the seventeen times he mentioned earlier!"

Lin Wan understood.

That's right, anyone who had been killed seventeen times would be this crazy.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have already broken down.

Yet Fang Xiu could still affectionately chase him relentlessly.

Lin Wan didn't even think about it before responding to his "affection," immediately decrypting it.

[Decrypting target: Death Reload]

[Required decryption points: 1,000,000]

[Decrypt?]

"Yes"

[Ding! This talent does not belong to you. Current decryption requires 100 days. You cannot leave the target during the decryption process. Decrypting...]

Lin Wan silently recited "accelerate" in his mind...

Five minutes passed...

[Ding! S-Rank Death Reload decryption complete]

[Successfully obtained its source code]

[Removed its cooldown time after use. This talent now has no cooldown after death and resurrection.]

[Congratulations Host for obtaining: Death Reload (SSS)]

Upon obtaining Death Reload, Lin Wan had a thought.

He wanted to go back to one day ago, before he had sold the jade pendant.

But for a moment, he hesitated.

If he really used Death Reload to return to one day ago, he didn't know what would happen to the decryption system, but all his other methods would disappear, and even Death Reload would be sealed.

He would become a proper ordinary person.

And the owner who bought his jade pendant, that rich girl, he didn't know her background.

"What if she couldn't buy it by force and tried to force herself on me?"

"If she really is a reincarnator, there's no telling what else she might do."

Lin Wan had read many web novels and knew very well the nature of some reincarnators—they couldn't wait to claim all early-stage resources and opportunities for themselves.

"I can't take the risk. If she really kills me and steals the jade pendant, I won't even have a place to cry when I'm a ghost!!"

"At worst, after I become stronger, I'll just take it back!!"

Lin Wan withdrew his thoughts and refocused his gaze on the decryptable target.

He directly skipped the decryptable life-bound insects.

Insects that were already dead had no decryption value.

The decryption system couldn't decrypt life, so the Gu Master system wasn't of much help to him.

"As for this Rank 3 Peak cultivation..."

"Without the Gu insects, the combat power would be greatly discounted!!"

"And if I decrypt him, will I be able to decrypt other cultivation systems in the future and integrate them into myself?"

[Yes, yes, yes, Host, this is possible. You can just decrypt his cultivation insights, and then use the myriad cultivation insights as a foundation to create your own system.]

Suddenly, a young imperial voice entered Lin Wan's mind.

Lin Wan's eyes lit up.

If it was really as the decryption system said, then couldn't his "great strength" philosophy be carried forward?

Wait, when did she pop up?

"System, you... finished mining?"

Judging by the tone, it seemed to have returned to normal. What a surprise!

[Host, what kind of expression is that? I feel like you are thinking about some naughty things. Let me tell you, I was just temporarily short-circuited because I couldn't withstand the impact during dimension elevation.]

[You are now facing the upgraded version of me. I will no longer make that kind of sound.]

Lin Wan sighed: "What a pity!!"

System: ...