Chapter 359: A New Supernatural Ability
Her outward appearance hadn’t changed, but internally, a tremendous transformation had taken place.
Her flesh still looked “human,” yet Xu Zhi discovered that when she held her breath, she no longer felt any sense of suffocation. Instead, her supernatural energy merely decreased slightly.
She no longer needed to breathe.
Or rather, this was true for all Named.
What a Named required to survive was only “supernatural energy.” It could replace all necessities for survival, including food and oxygen.
Flesh and body were merely vessels carrying a Named’s soul and attributes. The destruction of the vessel did not always mean death. At this stage, to truly kill a Named, one had to destroy both their body and their talent circuits.
Xu Zhi’s expression turned a little strange, because she realized that her flesh didn’t seem to be just a vessel as described in the textbooks.
She could “see” strange patterns existing across her flesh and bones—like parts of her talent circuits had spread into her physical body. Her supernatural energy no longer gathered solely in the circuits but flowed throughout her entire body.
If she wished, even slapping someone could count as a kind of “supernatural attack.”
Xu Zhi suddenly recalled the moment she was struck by lightning in the Great Dream. At that time, she had sensed a familiar aura—the fragment she had already absorbed.
The fragment had long since melted into her body. She still didn’t know exactly what it was, but after the lightning struck her, its aura had indeed guided the energy throughout her body and circuits, reshaping her.
She even faintly felt that the silver lightning hadn’t dissipated at all, but had instead been entirely absorbed into her body, hidden within her flesh and bones.
Standing before the mirror, the girl raised her left hand with a subtle expression, bringing her thumb and middle finger together, then snapping lightly.
—Snap.
Along with the sound, a faint current flickered between her fingers.
“….”
“A human-shaped lighter?”
“Or a flesh-and-blood generator?”
Would it mean that if she punched someone she disliked, she could also electrocute them?
Still, this seemed non-renewable.
That bolt of lightning had been extremely violent. Right now, her body felt charged everywhere, like a power bank—but a one-time use.
Perhaps it would be best saved for critical moments. For example… when killing someone.
Aside from that, all of her supernatural abilities had been enhanced along with her advancement. [Eye of Secret Perception] could now see more, and [Spirit Body] had become more agile. However…
[Lamp] had not gained a new ability, but the “permissions” of its [Authority] had increased.
The things she could control had grown. The things she could alter had also expanded. When she linked [Authority] with [Cursed Speech], the commands she spoke could now directly kill immortals, or allow supernatural beings who had long sought entry into the Great Dream to receive its favor.
These were things she absolutely could not have done before.
Moreover, Xu Zhi had a feeling that when she used [Authority] to enhance [Eye of Secret Perception], she could even peer through many hidden secrets without suffering any backlash—because the authority it wielded stood above such repercussions.
A thought suddenly came to her.
She tentatively used [Authority] to block the “mark” in her palm from Midnight, then tried to contact her familiars.
This time, she successfully sensed the positions and states of the remaining familiars and could even convey simple messages.
They were still within the Lost Lands, but the place was vast, and they were scattered in different areas.
Xu Zhi didn’t waste time. She immediately informed them of her imminent entry into the Lost Lands, along with her location. When she felt her palm begin to heat up, she proactively cut off the connection.
“Looks like I can only temporarily block the mark’s perception, not sever it completely…”
Digging up that grave had really offended Midnight thoroughly.
[Lamp] hadn’t gained a new ability, but [Moth] had indeed acquired one.
And it was exactly the kind she had long coveted—a domain-type ability.
[Remnant Realm]: Create a lost world. Within it, nothing exists—you are the ruler of this world, and you can establish its rules.
Xu Zhi’s brows twitched, her astonishment nearly impossible to conceal.
“Is this a joke?”
Not releasing a domain to cover an area—but creating an entire lost world?
After carefully sensing it, Xu Zhi finally understood its true nature.
She really could create a “new world.” The created world resembled the shattered Federation. Once inside, there were no inherent rules—Xu Zhi was its god. At present, she could establish one rule, and once set, it could not be changed for a period of time.
In other words, rules could be modified—but with a cooldown.
When she activated [Remnant Realm], it would manifest in reality, enveloping everything within its range and pulling them into the realm, where they would be subject to its laws.
As long as the rule was set appropriately, she would be effectively invincible within it—even able to challenge opponents far above her level.
However, the cost of manifesting the Remnant Realm was enormous. Unlike other domain abilities that could be sustained for long periods, even Xu Zhi could only maintain it for three minutes.
But in a place where she was invincible, three minutes was more than enough to kill anyone she wanted.
When Xu Zhi attempted to begin creating the [Remnant Realm], she discovered that the process was even easier than she had imagined.
Was creating a “new world” really this simple?
It felt like playing an automation game—she only needed to have the idea, and the world built itself.
When the prototype of the Remnant Realm was completed, Xu Zhi tried to activate the ability, manifesting the new world within her bedroom.
In the next instant, she arrived inside the “Remnant Realm,” and her expression turned to shock.
“…A new world??”
Wasn’t this just the old Federation?!
At the moment the Remnant Realm manifested, an invisible mark emerged on her arm—the gift left to her by that shattered world when she departed the Federation.
That gift revealed itself now, granting her this extraordinary ability far beyond ordinary domain powers.
As the mark appeared, Xu Zhi gained sudden understanding.
“…So that’s how it is.”
Creating a new world was never that easy.
Unless she had always possessed a fragment of a shattered world.
It had once been incomplete, then utterly destroyed—a world whose rules had completely dissolved. But now, Xu Zhi had become its master, gaining the authority to assign it new rules.
“Small, but not bad.”
The former Federation world had now transformed into a [Remnant Realm] of less than a thousand square meters, reborn as the girl’s supernatural ability.
