What's it like to be stronger than Saitama?

"Then... I drank it?"

Ouyang Lang asked his cousin again, and after Ouyang Xuan nodded slightly, he drank the mixture of carrot, bitter melon and celery juice in one gulp without hesitation.

Even Yang Xi, who was just watching the show, couldn't help but secretly praise him as a true hero!

This mixed vegetable juice is so awful, he just tried it himself and it tastes no different from plastic juice!

The main flavor is that of bitter melon juice, and since carrots and celery are both umbelliferous plants, their unique taste is absolutely unforgettable.

With perfect timing and skills honed through repeated practice, Yang Xi flicked his finger, sending the A-level [Azure Dragon Envoy] ability user into Ouyang Lang's body.

Ouyang Lang drank every last drop of the vegetable juice, and to make it even better, he even stuck his tongue in and licked every part he could reach clean.

Soon, he felt the new power being born within his body.

A summoning circle appeared on the lawn. As the light faded, a cute little azure dragon appeared on the circle, flapping its wings happily and flying into Ouyang Lang's arms.

"This is a Split Dragon!"

Although he wasn't very close to his father, he still knew the physical characteristics of the Split Dragon.

With excitement, Ouyang Lang summoned other Azure Dragons. Although he could summon fewer types of Azure Dragons than his father, and their strength was not comparable, he did become an A-level ability user.

"It works so quickly?"

Ouyang Xuan watched his cousin experiment with his abilities, and his heart was filled with curiosity about the effects of the superpower potion.

From the moment Ouyang Lang took the superpower potion until he gained superpowers, Ouyang Xuan didn't notice anything unusual—he couldn't figure out at what moment Ouyang Lang was transformed from an ordinary person into a superpowered individual.

"If I could understand the essence of the superpower potion, it might greatly help me comprehend my own meditation method."

Looking at the test tube that had been carelessly tossed on the ground after being finished, Ouyang Xuan secretly kept a watchful eye on it.

I'll have the family's research department test the ingredients later. Perhaps some of the drugs in it are indirectly related to people gaining superpowers.

"The daily task of the Judgment Organization is to have its members at the Heavenly Gang level hunt down alien beasts, so the corpses of these beasts should contain the main ingredients for making superpowered drugs."

"Could it be the 'activity' mentioned in alchemy?"

When studying the literature, Ouyang Xuan also dabbled in alchemy to some extent.

"But in alchemy, vitality cannot be transferred. Could it be that the Judgment Organization already possesses some kind of technique for using vitality?"

"Could this activity be related to superpowers?"

"Could it be that my meditation method is missing a crucial element?"

Thinking of this, Ouyang Xuan could not contain his excitement and asked the still-present Vermilion Bird consciousness, "Lord Vermilion Bird, may I ask if your organization utilized the 'active' elements from the alien beast organization during the production of the superpower potion?"

At Yang Xi's instruction, Zhuque glanced at the unremarkable-looking man and said indifferently, "You call it 'Active'? Within the Judgment, it's called the Superpower Factor."

She waved the Star-Absorbing Ring that she had conjured in her hand at Ouyang Xuan, and then disappeared from the spot as if blown away by the wind.

Ouyang Xuan muttered to himself, "A special ability factor?"

At this moment, he developed an extremely strong interest in the Tribunal. Perhaps the opportunity for him to comprehend his own meditation method lay with the Tribunal.

Seeing Ouyang Xuan deep in thought, Yang Xi also became somewhat interested in him. "This kid is interesting!"

……

Using the same method, Yang Xi and Zhu Que delivered the other two Grade A superpower drugs.

He also met two other prominent figures on the Four Seas Ranking: the ruthless Chen Tianyang and the unconventional Xia Yubei. Although they also left a deep impression on Yang Xi, they couldn't arouse Yang Xi's interest in taking on followers like Ouyang Xuan.

Well, although these two are powerful, they are still just relatively strong caterpillars, while Ouyang Xuan, although not as strong as them, is already spinning a cocoon. As long as he has an epiphany one day, he may be able to completely break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly.

After finishing all that, Yang Xi finally had some free time to use his dark energy cubes.

"We've already reached the seventh island chain, but according to the Matrix Gem, the Philosopher's Stone is still in the west, probably in the occupied zone."

The Eighth and Ninth Island Chains are absolute forbidden zones for human powerhouses, but for Yang Xi, relying on his disguise ability, he might be able to disguise himself as a beast and sneak in.

However, infiltrating the occupied zone means facing endless, merciless monsters, and there is even a high chance of encountering people from another world.

Yang Xi knew very little about the methods of the otherworldly beings, so to be on the safe side, it would be best to further improve his own strength.

Currently, since SS-grade power beads cannot be decomposed, Yang Xi feels that it would be more worthwhile to concentrate a large amount of dark energy into a more powerful power bead.

Yang Xi had a vague guess in his heart that perhaps today would be the day he would witness the current limit of his [stripping away] superpowers.

Only Yang Xi and Zhu Que's consciousness could see the dark energy cubes, which were massively fed into the Gilded God and Demon Armor, a Soul Weapon-type Ability Bead.

This gray energy bead was like a black hole, relentlessly devouring thousands upon thousands of dark energy cubes.

One thousand units!

Five thousand units!

Ten thousand units!

……

Even Yang Xi, the owner, could feel the increasing pressure emanating from the gray energy bead.

Its color actually gradually faded from gray!

Finally, after consuming nearly 22,000 units of dark energy cubes, the gray-white energy bead could no longer absorb dark energy.

The dark energy cube it contains is at 43967 units. If Yang Xi throws a unit of dark energy cube, it will be bounced off the smooth surface of the energy bead.

"Nearly twice that of a new SS-rank cultivator. Could this be the amount of dark energy units contained in my own [stripped-out] ability?"

"Unless we enhance the ability to strip away supernatural powers, all the supernatural power beads in the future probably won't be able to exceed this number."

"It seems that in addition to finding the Philosopher's Stone, obtaining the meditation methods of the otherworldly beings should also be put on the agenda!"

The gilded divine and demonic armor, with its dark energy content nearly doubled, naturally became even more powerful than before.

Its top speed reached Mach 45, making it virtually immune to some pseudo-Tier 3 material and elemental attacks, and its three skills were also enhanced accordingly.

Especially the third skill, Weapon Condensation, allows Yang Xi to easily extend the Divine Demon Staff to 20,000 meters in length, even without absorbing attacks from others, thanks to his own power.

"Judging from Shenhou's current strength, entering the top ten shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Yang Xi has never fought against any of the top ten masters in the rankings, so this is just his personal guess.

"We have less than 80,000 units of dark energy cubes left. Let's upgrade the disguise ability and see if we can enhance the power of some disguise skills."

After all, Yang Xi is going to disguise himself as a beast to infiltrate the occupied zone, and this disguise skill might fail him.

The ability to disguise himself has been upgraded to S-level.

[Superpower: Disguise]

Description: Can change clothes in 0.0001 seconds, the portable dressing slot can hold clothing combinations (6/15), can greatly change body shape, appearance and voice, and can set specific personality, providing acting assistance.

Skill 1: Disguise. Can perfectly impersonate the appearance and aura of any creature; beings with mental strength 1000 Hz or greater cannot detect it. (Number of disguised individuals: 0/2)

Skill 2: Gender Change, change the target's gender for seven days.

Rating: S-level. It can be used well or poorly.

"The S-class transformation has been significantly enhanced!"

First of all, the number of costume slots has increased. Yang Xi can now play a total of fifteen roles, including the twelve zodiac animals plus the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird. Theoretically, he can play all of them himself.

However, with Yang Xi's current strength, he no longer needs to use a lot of aliases to bluff.

Before the issue of stripping away the limits of supernatural abilities is resolved, the best course of action is to recruit more obedient subordinates and let them inherit the Zodiac and Constellation positions.

For this reason, Yang Xi decided to bring Liu Yuan under his wing and train him. Although he didn't know why, this brat who hadn't become his puppet was exceptionally loyal to his Rooster disguise.

Previously, Yang Xi had taken some time to chat with Liu Yuan in the Rooster Palace of the Cloud Top Space and learn about his recent situation.

With these two B-level superpowers combined, Liu Yuan actually gained a foothold in the hero world and became a popular A-level hero.

With his current gift commission, buying himself some sports cars would be no problem at all.

However, he was not complacent about these achievements, but was wholeheartedly determined to complete the task assigned to him by Youji Majia—to take control of Kunlun Economic Company.

Moreover, he doesn't just want to be a puppet of the mechanical warrior; his goal is to seize power completely!

For the sake of the Rooster costume, Liu Yuan actually disowned his own father, which really surprised Yang Xi.

His current plan is to gather dirt on the board members of Kunlun Heroes Brokerage and several other A-level heroes, and then use both carrot and stick tactics to get them to side with him, turning the board into his personal fiefdom.

You know what, Liu Yuan is quite talented in intelligence work. Several board members have already been forced to submit to his tyranny.

They never expected that Liu Yuan, who had always been a spoiled brat, would possess such abilities!

And then there's Ye Fan. This kid has developed his superpower to the point where his physical abilities are fifty times stronger than those of an average person. Although he only possesses A-level superpowers, his actual combat strength has already surpassed that of a typical S-level enhanced superpower user.

I heard that the Inland Superpower Tournament is about to begin. Ye Fan, Maruko, and Russell, these three freshmen, together with Li Zitian and Ao Chao, who are sophomores, actually defeated the powerful senior students and won the qualification to represent the Hero Department of Peking University in the Superpower Tournament!

It has to be said that the third-year students of the heroes at Yenching University are really unlucky. They ran into this group of perverts, and they probably won't have many chances to show their faces before graduation!

Of the five, Ye Fan and Li Zitian are the strongest. The goal of the Hero Department of Peking University is very clear: in addition to the team championship, they must win at least two individual championships.

Because the teachers and leaders of the Hero Department all know that Ye Fan and Li Zitian already possess S-class combat power, and it's a foregone conclusion that they will be recruited by the Hero Association. If they don't take advantage of this opportunity to win more championships, they will definitely regret it in the future!

Li Zitian, this girl, also caught Yang Xi's attention.

If it weren't for Ye Fan, who's such a cheat code, she would probably be the most dazzling genius the Hero Association has ever encountered.

Once the spatial anchor is sent to Ye Fan, Yang Xi will need to find an opportunity to properly understand just how monstrous Li Zitian's talent truly is!

Gathering his thoughts, Yang Xi turned his attention back to upgrading his superpower.

"The remaining Serpent clone should also possess an SS-level ability. Should it choose Shadow Cloak or Plasma?"

The Shadow Cloak ability mainly relies on agility; besides the shadow tentacles, its damage comes primarily from the ultimate move, "Instant Shadow Strike."

Plasma ability is much more straightforward; the higher the ability level, the greater the power and range of the plasma. With an SS-level plasma ability, Yang Xi could destroy the entire Banana Island if he didn't care about anything.

"Let's choose plasma ability, since it's the main offensive ability for the Serpent clone!"

Yang Xi then upgraded [Plasma] to SS-level.

[Special Ability: Plasma]

Synopsis: Control plasma to attack enemies

Skill 1: Plasma Rain

Skill 2: Plasma Bugs - Creates simple-minded plasma bugs that deal massive damage with their self-destruct attacks.

Skill 3: Plasma Annihilation Cannon