Just Discharged From the Military and Got Tied Down by A Cold Beauty
Chapter 317: Lu Xiao’s Mutant Ability (2)

Chapter 317: Chapter 317: Lu Xiao’s Mutant Ability (2)

Half an hour later, Lu Xiao and Chen Fei were both lost in confusion.

Lu Xiao had tested all eight major categories according to the manual, and none of them were successful.

That meant either Lu Xiao’s Mutant Ability was beyond the scope of the eight categories, or he didn’t have a Mutant Ability at all.

"Lu Xiao, maybe your Mutant Ability is really special, something no other Mutant has ever had, so it’s not in the records," said Chen Fei, looking at Lu Xiao.

Lu Xiao hung his head and shrugged, "Maybe I just don’t have a Mutant Ability at all, all that effort for nothing."

Although it’s not a must to have a Mutant Ability, it’s pretty frustrating to have gone through meridian cultivation without manifesting any ability.

What’s the difference between that and half-hearted effort!

Damn!

"Don’t get down on yourself, at least you’ve increased your meridian expansion to a terrifying level."

"Plus, you can directly absorb superpowers into your meridians."

"As long as you have enough Mutated Crystals, you can become Fourth Rank anytime," Chen Fei pointed out a few benefits.

Hearing the advantages Chen Fei mentioned made Lu Xiao feel even worse.

Though larger meridian expansion allows for more energy and stronger abilities among those of the same rank, larger meridian expansion also means it’s much harder to level up.

With his previous meridian expansion, becoming a Fourth-stage Mutant would have required absorbing the energy from just one or two Mutated Crystals.

But now, at least eight are needed.

Even if I stripped all the crystals from that thing in the basement, it wouldn’t be enough.

As for Inner Qi, that’s even more troublesome; there’s nothing that can increase it directly, it can only be cultivated little by little.

"Stop talking about it, I need a moment," Lu Xiao took a couple of deep breaths, trying to calm his sense of injustice.

Ever since he was young, he had been exceptionally talented, and his cultivation had always made rapid progress.

But when it came to superpowers, he had fallen flat on his face.

That sense of a downfall was indeed quite distressing.

So this is what it feels like to work really hard and still end up mediocre.

Now I understand the sort of feelings and impressions the old men and women from the Seventeenth Bureau had when they looked at me.

"Why not ask Kathy?" Chen Fei made a suggestion.

When it comes to superpowers, Kathy is the authoritative expert.

"Asking again might expose us, and we can’t let anyone know about this yet; otherwise, I bet every Fourth Rank would come after me," Lu Xiao shook his head. Although Kathy seemed decent enough from their interactions, you can never know what’s truly in a person’s heart.

If word got out that I can harbor superpowers, it would be seriously dangerous.

The Heavenly Men of Hua Country might not have special abilities, but they’re by no means weak in a fight.

If Hua Country people could control superpowers on top of being Heavenly Men, Mutants from other countries would definitely throw a fit.

"If I don’t have it, I don’t have it. Let’s see how many Mutated Crystals it will take to push me to Fourth Rank." Having said that, Lu Xiao took out the Mutated Crystal Victoria had given him.

Half an hour later, all the energy from the Mutated Crystal had been channeled into Lu Xiao’s meridians.

"Wow, only ten percent; that means I’ll need nine more," Lu Xiao gasped in shock.

Nine Mutated Crystals, equivalent to the death of nine Fourth-stage Mutants.

Mutants had emerged not even a few hundred years ago, where on earth am I going to find that many?

Even if I dug out the one in the basement, I’d still be short by four, terrifying.

For the time being, reaching Fourth Rank was out of the picture.

"If I had known this would happen, I should have focused on advancing my Inner Qi to Fourth Rank first," Lu Xiao lamented, realizing that with the meridian expansion several times larger, the difficulty of taking his Inner Qi to Fourth Rank had increased significantly as well.

Chen Fei didn’t know how to comfort Lu Xiao since she hadn’t been through anything similar herself.

Her Fourth Rank... was pretty easy.

She ate one Mutated Crystal and then, she made it.

"By the way, what about your ability to release superpowers?" Chen Fei changed the topic.

Lu Xiao paused for two seconds, looking perplexed.

What’s "ability release rate"?

"Um, it’s similar in concept to the release rate of Inner Qi, like the amount released in a fixed amount of time," Chen Fei roughly explained.

"I don’t know, let me try," Lu Xiao nodded, somewhat listlessly extending his hand.

The next second, with a boom, a fierce and violent power burst forth from Lu Xiao’s hand.

The entire roof of the villa was blown open, with a surge of energy shooting straight into the sky.

"Stop stop stop, Lu Xiao, stop!" After a brief moment of shock, Chen Fei immediately yelled.

Lu Xiao, confused, stopped, "I wasn’t even trying my hardest yet."

"I might... know what your Mutant Ability is," Chen Fei suddenly spoke.

"What?"

"Don’t you think, your situation is very similar to that thing in the basement? This energy burst is completely unreasonable; it’s like it’s being poured out directly."

Lu Xiao opened his mouth, pondering; when you put it that way, it did seem to match.

"But I can’t do Mimicry," Lu Xiao shook his head again.

Mimicry is a branch of the form-changing class, and he had just tested it, to no avail.

"I’m not talking about Mimicry; I’m talking about that thing as a whole. What’s in the basement can no longer be considered a Mimic Crystal; it must be the result of specially blending a total of six Mutated Crystals together, and what you’ve gained is the power from that fusion," Chen Fei lit up as he spoke.

It feels... exactly right!