This wondrous experience brought Xia Li two abilities.

  Or rather, as of now, he had only developed two kinds of abilities.

  First was self-information preservation.

  Even if someone killed him until his soul scattered and spirit vanished, he could be reborn. He just didn't know how many times this higher-dimensional authority could be used.

  Higher-dimensional power, in Xia Li's view, was equivalent to absolute divine power—an existence surpassing techniques, divine abilities, and immortal arts. It was the authority of deities.

  As for the second ability, it was significantly multiplying his consciousness strength. Strengthened consciousness bolstered the soul, the soul catalyzed psychokinetic power, which was then converted by Earth's technology into unparalleled computing power.

  Unfortunately, he couldn't retain peak-level computing power. One-tenth of the Heavenly Dao Computer's computing power—what a terrifying concept that was!

  The enemy might merely raise a finger.

  And he could already see where the opponent would be buried after death and how many people would come to pay respects.

  "Time to go..."

  Xia Li's body slowly floated upward—no wind, no spiritual energy—just pure, powerful psychokinesis directly lifting himself.

  On the way back, floating...

  Xia Li didn't even want to turn corners. A mere thought, and the half-meter-thick steel wall was directly torn open by psychokinesis.

  Returning to the corridor, Xia Li thought...

  All the room doors were simultaneously opened, then slammed shut following his will.

  Arriving at the residential area's main hall.

  Xia Li released psychokinesis...

  All windows instantly shattered.

  He could use psychokinesis to form bullets, use psychokinesis to form a sledgehammer, or create a psychokinetic bomb centered on himself.

  "What powerful strength..."

  Xia Li's psychokinesis before could at most lift some not-too-heavy objects within a three-meter range, with force barely greater than a child's strength.

  But his current psychokinesis could directly lift a person and tear them apart. A concentrated strike of psychokinetic force would be no weaker than his full-power close-range strike.

  Cultivating the soul to this level would begin to surpass both Qi Refining and Martial Dao, becoming truly terrifying.

  However...

  Xia Li quickly wilted.

  "Strong is strong... just can't use it continuously... hiss... my head is so dizzy..."

  After testing his power, Xia Li was very satisfied. But to form a strike with sufficient killing power, at his current capability he could manage at most three times.

  But three times was enough.

  After all, psychokinetic attacks were unpredictable and highly concealed. Catch the enemy off guard, invade their body, and directly crush their heart or scramble their brain—that was an instant kill.

  "When I used the psychokinetic bomb just now, I seemed to sense something interesting..."

  Xia Li walked toward a corner of the residential area's cafeteria. In the corner, he discovered a skeletal, whitened arm.

  On the arm's finger bones, a ring was still worn.

  Xia Li removed the ring and saw the text engraved on the back.

  To my beloved Evelyn.

  "The engagement ring Yagyu Munero gave his fiancée?"

  "This thing... should be worth quite a few favors."

  Xia Li knew this item might be worthless to others, but in Yagyu Munero's eyes, it would be priceless.

  He could keep it and exchange it for maximum value at the right time.

  Unfortunately, Evelyn's complete remains probably couldn't be found. Her other parts had likely been digested by demons and became dried-out lumps.

  If he actually brought that back, the other party might instead feel murderous intent.

  Before leaving the research facility...

  Xia Li specifically swept through once more with divine sense, confirming there was nothing else of value before stepping through the phase rift.

  Returning to the outside world's three-meter underground space.

  Xia Li closed the phase gate then directly stomped and shattered the pedestal.

  No one else needed to enter here anymore.

  "After returning this time, once I've prepared what Lin Ye needs, I can go back to the other side first."

  Xia Li felt it was about time to return. First, he'd obtained the crucial suppressant. Second, he felt he'd been showing off too much lately and should lie low for a while—go cause trouble on the other side instead.

  Breaking through rock to rise from underground, Xia Li followed the Heaven Chip's guidance as he continuously approached the surface.

  Another day and night later.

  Xia Li returned to the tunnels.

  But the moment he emerged, Xia Li felt a chill down his spine.

  Psychokinesis activated!

  Xia Li's body shifted in a bizarre manner, dodging a strike that could have cleaved him in two.

  "Isn't this our big star Xia Li? I knew you were probably hiding underground. The noise from you clearing the way was too obvious—did you think I was deaf?"

  Xia Li turned around and saw the Nascent Soul cultivator he'd ambushed before. The other was currently sneering, believing victory was assured.

  After all, Nascent Soul was Nascent Soul.

  The life level had already transcended. Even a top-configured Foundation Establishment might be able to fight a Golden Core at Great Completion, but absolutely couldn't challenge a Nascent Soul.

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  "You dare use the Heaven Chip to detect seismic waves?"

  "Why wouldn't I dare! Did you really think we'd be afraid of those big-headed monsters? It's just that there's no value in killing them."

  After these words, Xia Li tried connecting to the Heavenly Dao Network—and actually connected...

  This meant the Infant Cries had met their end.

  Though they were just a group of demons, in Xia Li's heart they were more human than many humans!

  "They weren't monsters. You are. Did you hear their cries before they died?"

  "You talk too much."

  The opponent attacked directly, his figure arriving in an instant. His weapon this time was a different greatsword.

  Just as the greatsword was about to smash through Xia Li's skull, it was fixed by some force right in front of Xia Li, unable to advance another inch!

  "This is..."

  "Psychokinesis?"

  The opponent's Heaven Chip immediately detected Xia Li's method—psychokinesis, which should have been extremely weak.

  Psychokinesis only showed sufficient power when paired with psychokinesis-amplifying weapons, like flying swords. Yet he'd never seen anyone directly stop a Nascent Soul-level attack with psychokinesis alone!

  "Kid... bought some flashy but impractical psychokinetic shield?"

  He looked at Xia Li—this was the only reasonable explanation he could think of.

  But psychokinetic shields were flashy and impractical, far less useful than force field shields. Almost no companies produced them.

  "Let's make this quick. I still have business to attend to when I get back."

  Xia Li's body floated upward.

  When fully activating psychokinesis, he would involuntarily float. The large amount of leaked psychokinesis would naturally lift his body.

  Though he could expend extra psychokinesis to press himself back to the ground, was that necessary?

  "Psychokinetic levitation? You're just as flashy and impractical as those Western spiritual cultivators!"

  The man suddenly threw a punch directly at Xia Li. But his fist also stopped in front of Xia Li as psychokinesis gripped his wrist.

  Then his legs and body!

  Gripped by psychokinesis, leaving him with strength he couldn't exert. Even the Spirit Core's operation was suppressed.

  At this moment, he remembered a saying.

  Never duel a spiritual cultivator one-on-one. If you must fight, you need to activate blood qi as much as possible to resist psychokinesis.

  Spiritual cultivators could concentrate psychokinesis to achieve complete suppression, but they feared group attacks!

  He'd been overconfident!

  A dignified Nascent Soul, suppressed by a Foundation Establishment cultivator until he couldn't move!

  But to possess such terrifying psychokinesis capable of suppressing a Nascent Soul—even those Western spiritual cultivators would need to cultivate to the Perfect Human stage, equivalent to Nascent Soul.

  How had Xia Li, a mere Foundation Establishment, managed this? Why was his psychokinesis so powerful?

  The intelligence was wrong!

  Xia Li was a spiritual cultivator, and moreover a Perfect Human comparable to Nascent Soul!

  He immediately tried to report this information.

  But his Heaven Chip responded...

  【No signal】

  The signal was blocked. But Xia Li didn't appear to have a jammer on him, which meant Xia Li was using psychokinesis to form a psychokinetic field, forcibly blocking the network signal.

  "How could I let you transmit information?"

  "You shoddy Nascent Soul—I suggest you properly body-cultivate in your next life. Your physical strength is really low!"

  Blood qi could no longer resist Xia Li's psychokinetic erosion. Xia Li's psychokinesis had already forcibly invaded his body.

  Suppressing blood qi circulation, suppressing Spirit Core operation, suppressing spiritual energy transmission!

  Then...

  His body suddenly convulsed. Every organ throughout his body was imploding internally. The Nascent Soul protected within the Spirit Core was directly crushed by psychokinesis.

  Xia Li didn't know how to refine and absorb a Nascent Soul—that was considered heretical practice on both Earth and the other side. Without special channels, refinement methods couldn't be found.

  So he could only destroy it.

  Losing the Nascent Soul was equivalent to losing the soul.

  Therefore...

  A Nascent Soul cultivator had been suppressed by Xia Li's psychokinesis until he died just like that.

  "My head... so dizzy..."

  "Ugh..."

  After killing the opponent, Xia Li immediately landed to rest. Psychokinetic suppression was extremely formidable in one-on-one situations, but unfortunately feared group attacks.

  After using it, his head would ache until he couldn't think.

  And once he used it, if he couldn't suppress and kill the opponent before his psychokinesis was exhausted, he would fall into weakness first, at the enemy's mercy.

  It could be said that psychokinetic suppression was a technique with extremely obvious strengths and weaknesses.

  But the most effective aspect was one point.

  Once suppressed, no matter how many divine abilities and mystic arts you had—if you couldn't break free and couldn't resist psychokinetic invasion—then death!

  This was the mechanic!

  I admit your Nascent Soul-level stats are higher than mine, but my mechanic is superior to yours. I simply won't compete with you on stats!