What's it like to be stronger than Saitama?

"It's so much more enjoyable to spend money inland; the service is just as bad everywhere."

Yang Xi took a hot shower to relieve her fatigue and then took a nap for an hour and a half.

Human sleep cycles are calculated in 90-minute intervals.

An average human being can get sufficient rest by sleeping seven or eight hours a day, through several sleep cycles.

At Yang Xi's level, one sleep cycle is enough for him to adjust to his optimal state.

Although it wouldn't matter if he didn't sleep, since he had third-level mental strength to support him.

But this is an experiment with the Demon Hunting Meditation Method, so Yang Xi felt he needed to adjust his mental state to its best so as not to waste the opportunity presented by this meditation method.

Among human superhumans, there are countless people who want this item, so Yang Xi definitely made a profit by getting it at such a bargain.

No one would have thought that such a meditation method could emerge from a female student in the hero school. Although it is still a bit rough, the path is correct.

"First, activate the Demon Hunter Bow ability within your body."

Yang Xi materialized this soul weapon, a level-one demon hunter bow, which looked like a child's toy, not much bigger than Yang Xi's palm.

This level of Demon Hunter Bow has no skills whatsoever; it can only materialize soul artifacts. According to the information Yang Xi sensed, the power of this level Demon Hunter Bow is roughly equivalent to that of a slingshot.

Only after a long period of energy accumulation can one fire an arrow that is within the scope of a superhuman, making them incredibly weak!

The "meditation" skill that Li Zitian mentioned will probably only appear when you reach a certain level.

"It's alright, the lower your level, the better the effect of cultivating this Demon Hunting Meditation Technique!"

Yang Xi retrieved the Soul Weapon and, following the instructions of the Demon Hunter Meditation Method, assumed the posture of five hearts facing the sky, his breathing also following the pattern of three long and one short breaths, while simultaneously visualizing the image of the Shooting Crow in his mind.

Gradually, Yang Xi's mental energy sank into the visualization, and he seemed to have entered a primordial world.

Here stand towering gods and demons, and bizarre beasts that blot out the sky. The earth groans beneath their feet, and the sky cannot suppress their power!

In the desolate battlefield, a three-eyed demon carrying a simple longbow drew back the bowstring, muttered incantations, and a bright light appeared on the longbow.

Boom!

The heavens and earth seemed to be torn in two by this light, and countless strange beasts were reduced to dust by this arrow!

At the chaotic juncture of heaven and earth, a three-legged crow engulfed in golden flames suddenly opened its eyes, flapped its wings, and met the arrow head-on!

All the images abruptly stop at this moment.

Yang Xi's spirit dropped from this level to the level of the visualized image. He saw that although the gods and demons and golden crows in the Shooting Crows picture were lifelike, they were no longer as mysterious and unpredictable as before.

The surrounding dark energy was being drawn into his body like a tide. Yang Xi, who was used to digesting large amounts of dark energy, felt that the efficiency of this meditation method in absorbing dark energy was simply too low!

Compared to the almost tangible dark energy cube, the density of this free-floating dark energy is insignificant!

After the dark energy entered his body, it flowed into his limbs and bones under Yang Xi's control. At that moment, Yang Xi sensed that the Demon Hunter Bow's special energy bead had undergone a change!

The word "unfold" is a more appropriate way to describe this change.

It's as if it's expanded from three dimensions to two dimensions. Of course, in reality, it's definitely tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of times smaller!

The contents of the special energy bead formed something similar to a soul circuit, which was reflected on the human body.

Although this circuit differs slightly from the flow path in meditation, it is still quite compatible.

Ultimately, most of the dark energy dissipated back into the air, leaving only a small amount on the unfolded soul circuit.

The soul circuit collapsed back into the energy bead, and the dark energy inside had clearly increased!

Of course, this process was only within Yang Xi's perception.

Those who have not been stripped of their superpowers do not have superpower beads in their bodies, and therefore do not experience the process of these superpower beads unfolding and collapsing.

Furthermore, apart from Yang Xi, no one else has been able to observe the process in this dimension.

During her meditation, Li Zitian was completely unaware of this final scene; in her perception, everything was no different from usual.

Yang Xi sensed the intensity of the dark energy on the special energy bead at that moment.

"He's almost at the next level!"

"The route of operation probably needs to overlap with the soul circuit in order to leave dark energy in the body."

"Even if a human without the Demon Hunter Bow ability absorbs dark energy through visualization and circulates it through the circuit, it probably wouldn't be able to retain it in their body."

"Is this the limitation of the Demon Hunter Meditation Method?"

Yang Xi pondered these things secretly; they were all his guesses, but they were pretty close to the truth.

"Where did the otherworldly people's meditation methods come from? Could it be that, like Li Zitian's, their meditation methods all originated from the meditation skills inherent in their superpowers?"

After studying the Demon-Hunting Meditation Method, Yang Xi discovered that the most important elements were the visualization diagrams and the circulation routes of dark energy.

These two points were beyond Li Zitian's comprehension; she was essentially cheating, possessing superpowers by default.

"We have to come back to some ultimate questions again."

"How did the first generation of superpowers on Azure Star come about?"

What is the essence of superpowers?

Countless ideas popped into Yang Xi's mind, only to burst like bubbles.

"It seems that I need to study the meditation methods of otherworldly beings, or even better, directly understand the origins of various meditation methods in the Odyssey plane, before my doubts can be resolved."

Thinking of Yang Xi, I couldn't help but feel a little smug. "It's not over yet; we still need to work hard!"

Transforming into a beast to explore the Ninth Island Chain or the Southern Continent is imperative!

290 The Masked Werewolf Retires!

After summarizing his experience, Yang Xi combined his own insights and conducted a new experiment on the Demon Hunting Meditation Method.

Previously, he cultivated with the ability of the Demon Hunter Bow. This time, Yang Xi took the power bead of the Demon Hunter Bow out of his body.

He wanted to conduct a simulation experiment to see if an ordinary person could cultivate superpowers through the Demon Hunting Meditation Method!

Sit in meditation, adjust your breathing rhythm, visualize Shravasti, and absorb free dark energy into your body.

Without the corresponding soul circuit as an attraction, Yang Xi's mental strength would need to expend some effort to restrain the foreign dark energy. However, since his mental strength was exceptionally strong, he managed to force the dark energy that had entered his body to circulate for a week according to the predetermined route.

This time, even more dark energy dissipated, and the amount of dark energy that remained in the body and was refined was negligible.

According to Yang Xi's estimate, to accumulate dark energy in the body in this way and eventually form a fixed soul circuit, it would take at least several thousand cycles.

With the physical constitution of an ordinary human, after eating, drinking, defecating, and sleeping, one can only complete about twenty cycles a day. If one does more, the body will be heated by the flow of dark energy, leading to a situation of "going into a state of demonic possession".

Moreover, for an ordinary person with limited mental strength, accurately controlling the dark energy entering the body and making it run along a predetermined route is an extremely difficult task, which tests one's talent.

Perhaps, for geniuses, they can easily and accurately run more than a dozen cycles every day.

Then, in a year or two, they will be able to solidify their soul circuits and cultivate superpowers from scratch!

However, some mediocre people may try more than ten times and still not be able to accurately complete one cycle of the Qi. In that case, it will be a long time before they develop supernatural abilities.

"Therefore, it is extremely difficult to cultivate superpowers solely through meditation."

"The value of meditation lies more in transforming the slow growth of superpowers into purposeful cultivation, allowing superpowered individuals to rapidly improve their strength."

"The colonists of the Osider plane are afraid that the meditation method will be leaked, most likely because they fear that strong humans will create their own meditation method based on it?"

"It seems that even with the same meditation method, due to individual differences in sitting posture, breathing frequency, visualization content, and energy flow, different people can develop slightly different supernatural abilities!"

"Of course, it cannot be ruled out that their meditation method is completely different from the demon-hunting meditation method created by Li Zitian."

"Anyway, manufacturing a Demon Hunter Bow power bead is not a difficult task for me. If I start planning now, I will be able to have a group of subordinates with Demon Hunter Bow series powers in a few years."

"Hmm, the faction built on the same meditation method seems to be similar to the families in the Osider plane that Master Damon mentioned."

"Wait a minute," Yang Xi suddenly thought, "Could it be that the descendants of superhumans might have miraculous effects from practicing meditation?"

"Could something like a soul circuit be passed down through bloodlines?"

"But judging from the current situation of humanity, for example, the three mechanical warriors, father and sons, have awakened three different first-generation superpowers."

These are all speculations, and Yang Xi needs to verify them.

But right now, he only has the Demon Hunting Meditation Method. He can't very well ask Li Zitian, that little girl, to have offspring so he can use them as test subjects, can he?

"Furthermore, is there a difference in the time it takes for those who automatically awaken their first-generation superpowers and those who were given superpower beads by me? Are the inheritance of superpowers different between the former and the latter in terms of their offspring?"

Before Yang Xi knew it, as he continued to verify and ponder, the sky began to lighten.

"It's already early morning. Let's go have breakfast first."

Yang Xi's series of experiments on meditation were mostly for his own purpose in creating a method to break through the 43967-unit barrier to stripping away superpowers, but there were other reasons as well.

For example, establishing a team centered around meditation, or providing meditation methods for humans.

After all, the current situation of humanity's war against invaders is somewhat unfavorable. Although the development of meditation methods may not have a significant impact in the short term, it can be considered a shot in the arm for the future of all humanity.

At 10:00 AM, the Superpower Tournament officially began at the sports center in Lukang City.

Yang Xi mingled into the crowd to attend the opening ceremony. Watching the young men and women representing each district enter the venue one by one and feeling their youthful energy made him feel much better.

"Anyway, my clone is on standby at the 05 defense line. If there is a battle, I can go back at any time through the space anchor point. The Vermilion Bird is watching over the Cloud Top Space. I just dealt with a batch of alien beast corpses at the secret base. I still have to wait for Liu Yuan to finish dealing with things in Lukang. I should take a few days off for myself recently."

The only downside is that my younger sister wasn't around to play with me.

She's been hanging out with Blanche and the others lately, I wonder what they're up to.

“Practice without meditation guidance is just busywork.”

In the crowd, the doll-shaped curse mark in Ye Fan's brow space flashed, and he immediately turned his gaze to Yang Xi, who had changed his appearance.

Yang Xi nodded to him, her eyes full of encouragement.

Ye Fan knew that this stranger was his leader, and after feeling encouraged by his leader, his desire to win the championship became even stronger.

"I've never been able to help the leader much, but this time I'm determined to win the championship and then gradually rise to the top of the Hero Association!"

Yang Xi only glanced at Ye Fan; his attention was more focused on Li Zitian, who was standing next to Ye Fan.

The girl remained as aloof as before; what happened last night seemed to have had no effect on her.

Yang Xi could sense that Li Zitian was still practicing the Demon Hunting Meditation Technique at this time.

"Talent is one aspect, but this girl's ability to break through to the next level at such a young age is also inseparable from her hard work."

Kunlun Economic Company, conference room on the 55th floor.

Only Mechanical Warrior and Liu Yuan and his son remained.