Chapter 219: The [Lamp] Attribute Extraordinary Circuit!
Xu Zhi’s right hand gripping the doorknob suddenly tightened, but she restrained the urge to shut the door immediately through sheer reason.
The moment she opened it, her heart had already been in her throat. She knew all too well what state she was in now—on the surface, things seemed barely stable, but in truth, she was standing on the edge of a dead end. As long as she failed to recover her extraordinary abilities, the slightest accident would leave her utterly defenseless.
Living at the mercy of others was absolutely unacceptable. Xu Zhi never wanted to go back to that kind of life.
So even as the white fog continued to pour into her body, she still didn’t choose to close the door.
She focused carefully on the changes after the fog entered her. At first, she only felt cold—starting from her skin, then spreading to her muscles and bones, seeping into her organs. Most striking of all, even her brain, which had been burning with a persistent high fever, actually cooled down.
Somewhat incredulous, Xu Zhi peeled off the fever patch on her forehead and touched it with her hand.
The fever was really gone.
Not only that—the more fog that flooded into her body, the colder she became, and at the same time, the pain was fading as well.
She didn’t know the principle behind it, but once she clearly felt the pain lessen, Xu Zhi made another bold move: she tried once again to absorb the extraordinary energy in the air.
When she attempted to draw in that energy, the fog surging into her body grew even thicker. At the same time, she no longer felt the sharp, almost mind-splitting pain she had experienced before. But once the pain receded and she could carefully observe the extraordinary energy entering her body, Xu Zhi realized—Zhuang Xu had been right.
She used to be able to see, through the [Eye of Secret Peeking], the routes along which extraordinary energy lit up inside others’ bodies when they used their powers. Presumably, that was what people called an “extraordinary circuit.”
Now, that circuit no longer existed in her body. After entering her, the extraordinary energy darted around chaotically for a while, then left her body without the slightest hesitation.
She couldn’t retain it.
Xu Zhi realized that if she wanted to keep this energy, she would have to reconstruct a brand-new extraordinary circuit within herself.
But how was she supposed to do that?
She had no knowledge or experience in this area whatsoever.
At a moment like this, she found herself missing the narrator again. Even if that presence didn’t have a precise solution, it would surely be able to offer her some advice.
Wait.
Thinking of the narrator made her recall the fragment she had absorbed into her body—the one that later melted together with authority and the [Lamp] attribute—as well as the [Rules] fragments that had rained down from the sky when the Federation world shattered.
Those fragments were all composed of countless intricate, magnificent “lines.”
She didn’t know what her original circuit had looked like, and had no clue how to recreate it. But she still remembered the images she had “seen” when she fused those fragments using [Authority]—could those also be a kind of circuit?
She didn’t know how extraordinary circuits were born, nor how they were destroyed, but no matter what, they had to be inseparable from extraordinary energy, right?
With no one to guide her, she could only grope forward blindly according to her own thoughts. So Xu Zhi decided to go all in—she continued absorbing extraordinary energy, and before it could drift out of her body, she carefully tried to guide it, slowly sketching out a delicate pattern.
That pattern was precisely one she had seen among the vast, incomprehensible knowledge and images when she made contact with the fragments through [Authority].
She didn’t know what it did, nor whether this would actually work—but she had to try. If this one failed, she’d move on to the next.
But Xu Zhi’s luck was, as always, exceptional.
Almost the instant she repeatedly absorbed extraordinary energy and guided that “ownerless” power to trace out the pattern inside her body, a faint, pale golden glow surfaced from the energy. Like an engraved seal, the pattern took shape in that very moment, and then a thunderous sound resounded in Xu Zhi’s mind.
It was like thunder, like howling wind, or like the sound of the earth splitting apart.
The seal was broken. In her once-empty body, an exquisitely formed pattern appeared. Born from Xu Zhi’s own hand, it nevertheless seemed to share some vague connection with a distant, vast existence—but at this moment, it was undoubtedly a “circuit” that belonged solely to Xu Zhi.
Huge amounts of [Lamp]-attribute extraordinary energy surged toward this circuit. Almost instantly, Xu Zhi felt a sense of being “stuffed.” The tiny circuit—not even as large as her thumb—clearly couldn’t withstand such a flood of energy. She hurriedly stopped absorbing more.
But at that very moment, she discovered something astonishing—the extraordinary energy she had already absorbed was being “digested.”
That tiny circuit seemed like nothing more than a seed, while the swarming extraordinary energy was the nourishment driving its growth. Countless tendrils extended outward from it. Just judging by their number, it was obvious that once they finished growing, this would become a massive, incredibly dense circuit.
Xu Zhi didn’t know what that meant exactly, but she was thrilled by one thing—at this moment, she had finally regained extraordinary power.
She didn’t know what role the white fog had played in all of this, but judging by the outcome, it was a good one.
She could feel her body temperature continuing to drop as the fog kept pouring in. If this went on, she might freeze stiff—and that was definitely not good news. So after succeeding, Xu Zhi decisively closed the door, no longer indulging in greedily drawing in more fog.
As the door shut tight, the white mist entering her body gradually dissipated, and her temperature stopped falling. Now, she could feel that the already limited reserve of [Lamp]-attribute extraordinary energy inside her was being rapidly consumed, yet she didn’t experience any of the “hallucinations” she had back when she first awakened, nor the obvious “bottleneck” sensation she’d felt during past level-ups.
She realized that it was probably because she had already broken through those stages long ago—there was no need to repeat them. She simply needed to slowly absorb energy, wait for the circuit to finish growing, and she would be able to return to her previous level.
Only this time, she had truly changed from [Moth] to [Lamp].
So where had her [Moth] gone?
A bold idea suddenly formed in Xu Zhi’s mind.
The [Lamp] circuit had been constructed by her own hands. Did that mean that once she recovered some strength and things stabilized a bit, she could try to rebuild her [Moth]-attribute circuit as well?
It was dangerous—so dangerous that it might trigger another attribute conflict—but Xu Zhi intended to try.
She didn’t want to give up her [Moth] attribute just like that. And she didn’t believe she was purely a [Lamp]-attribute extraordinary either. She was still intimately connected to [Moth].
As long as she was careful during reconstruction, and tried her best to keep the [Moth] circuit separate from the [Lamp] circuit…
No matter what, she had to try.
