"Big Brother, Big Brother, how do the Power Born fight?" Han Li was tying Ruo's hair in braids, getting her ready for training when she asked.
He paused for a moment. Then asked with a tinge of embarrassment, "How am I supposed to know how the Power Born fight? I am just an Evolution Stage cultivator..."
Looking at the mirror, he felt even more embarrassed when Ruo sighed exaggeratedly.
"You are an ignoramus. Right, Mom?" she teased and then asked Yue Li, who was busy looking at Han Li and herself. Already, Yue Li had started building some wrinkles around the edges of her face while, her hair had started to whiten too.
"Oh, Xiao Li is not an ignoramus, dear." Yue Li chuckled. "He is just young. And aren't you asking a question way above his fighting range? That's your fault, not my son's."
Ruo spat. "There you go again, standing on your son's side like always and singling me out. Tch, tch—What was it called again? Simp?"
Yue Li blushed.
From the side, Han Li looked into the mirror and couldn't help but clench his hands. Eyes as dark as the abyss looked back at him. Immaturity coated his face while confidence alluded his grasp.
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Can I protect those dear to me the way I currently am?
How can I? I am so weak. Ruo, are you telling me to be more mature and learn things a step ahead of me? Or is it just an innocent question?
"I will go check how the Power Born fight. I'll be back quick," saying that, his face blushing slightly, Han Li left the room and closed the door behind him.
Whatever it was, looking into it and answering her question sounded like the right thing to do.
For a second, the room was silent, and then the mother-daughter duo burst into laughter.
***
Han Li floated above a silent ocean, waveless and soundless—alone. His eyes were closed, his mind unconscious. A pearl necklace hung around his neck while his robes had vanished at some point, leaving him naked.
Suddenly, the necklace around his neck lit up, and a person materialized in thin air around him. She first looked around. Ocean blue was the expanse she saw, and so was the sky the same blue.
White clouds, barely one single mass of it, floated above them slowly. While below them, as she looked, the seawater reflected her face. Crystalline green eyes, green hair, a green robe that she had grown used to wearing for the last couple of years which accentuated her beauty.
She then breathed gently and looked back at Han Li. She had seen him the first thing after she appeared in this place from the necklace. He was floating above the ocean, and even though he was unconscious, the ocean here was not normal.
Landing slowly from her levitating form, the woman frowned as her legs touched the water. Something pushed her away from the world underwater. Frowning, she muttered, "Strange."
Her hand went for Han Li, ready to wake him up. He must know in what kind of place they were. Yes, the place looked truly beautiful, but such beauty often hid the danger. He must know.
She just had to wake him up.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Hua Yu."
Hua Yu froze.
Where did that come from?
Her slender fingers quivered slightly.
"Don't search for me. You can't see me unless I wish to be seen, yes, not even if I wish—I am currently residing in his necklace."
"N—necklace?"
"Munyu, people call me. Spirit is my other name. But whatever it is, one thing is that you shouldn't wake him up."
Hua Yu used multiple Magical Powers on herself to boost her senses. Having the Moss Dao Soul didn't help her—it was restricting her in many ways, and senses were not its best forte.
She could find no one around even after she spread unseeable, dust-like moss around for a long distance.
"Why shouldn't I wake him up?" Hua Yu warily asked.
"Look, woman. I don't have time to spend talking about bullshit and proving my identity. Go in and bring out that lass Liyue from the necklace world, and she will tell you I am no enemy."
Then, there was Ruo. Who had a White Sparrow Spark—she could even take flight when she transformed, which the Raven Clan cultivators couldn't due to the metallic nature of their wings.
Han Li himself was an Ethereal Type. His Spark was Lust, and he had already Evolved, which made his Spark into a Minor Dao Soul of Lust. He excelled in Magical Powers. But with the Demonic Transformations, he was not weak in close combat either.
He continued reading again.
A Power Born is even stronger than an Evolved.
Before them, Evolved men are nothing. A Power Born, for one, can have a much stronger physical body. But that is not what makes them fearful against their inferiors.
A Power Born can have a Soul Sense that is much, much deadlier than an Evolved. Their Soul Sense can physically crush an Evolved with a thought. It is impossible to resist!
Even the strongest Evolution Stage physique will be like crumpling paper.
That Soul Sense is called Psychokinesis.
This alone put the Power Born at a different level.
But there is more to a Power Born fight than just that.
Majorly speaking, the Transformation Type still relies on their body, and the Ethereal Type on their Magic Powers.
But the differences are massive.
Transformation Type cultivators now would have a body that is extremely potent against Ethereal, to the point that a win was most of the time certain as long as the Ethereal enemy let a Transformation enemy closer to them.
But so does Ethereals have their deadly advantage, too.
Han Li's heart tightened as he read on. There it was—no wonder the Power Born were just so disastrously mighty.
Evolution Stage cultivators can use Magic Powers, too. But the way they use it is different from a Power Born.
If they have two Magic Powers, for example, Fire Ball and Fire Explosion, those are two different powers.
If the Evolution Stage tried to combine those powers, they would fail miserably.
"Yep, that's impossible... I've tried it many times. It just doesn't work that way." Even if two powers were used simultaneously, they would just act as separate attacks.
Two different powers fired at the same time.
But a Power Born could use two powers and fuse them into a single type of attack. For example, they can fuse a Fire Ball and Fire Explosion to get a Fireball Explosion. The weirder the abilities and the better they fuse it, the better powers they can get.
This literally sent a chill down Han Li's back.
He had the Seduction Magic Power and also Telepathy. Can he fuse it to literally whisper thoughts into others that could seduce them to do what they wouldn't? Wasn't that nearly mind control?
"Damn, that could be used in disgusting ways if it ended up in the hands of a Demon," Han Li could also see why Evolution Stage cultivators would so utterly fear the Power Born.
They were not using simple Magic Powers any longer but complex Magic Powers. The Power Born also had quick casting speeds, so that was one.
Han Li closed the book and sighed.
"So that's how Power Born fight..." he shook his head. "Using complex Magic Powers that are a mix of many. I wonder if someone can use so many Magic Powers at once..."
What if someone could use three magic powers at once?
What if someone could do that with... 10?
Damn.
What if some ridiculous monster could use all 300 of the Magic Powers at once?
No way.
The highest recorded had apparently been 20 or so, and that Complex Magic Power decimated an entire city with one ability—Killing tens of Power Borns single-handedly. What would happen if someone had the power to mix 300 was a wonder.
But for now, he had what it took to make Ruo bend her knees in defeat. Han Li chuckled as he ran away—back to his place.