Chapter 121 | New Power!
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Breathing stopped.

Most of the time, this signals death.

Every cell in the human body requires oxygen for aerobic respiration. This process involves the oxidation of organic substances like glucose, producing energy stored as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to fuel the body.

But now, Zoe realized she no longer needed to breathe, and a doubt arose within her.

She had stopped needing food and external energy since her first evolution.

Putting aside the exaggeration of becoming an ultimate being not requiring external energy, she should have stopped needing to breathe after her first evolution.

Without any external supplements, where would oxygen still be needed for reactions?

Yet, it was only after her sixth evolutionary sleep that she stopped needing to breathe.

She thought to herself.

Perhaps her evolutionary mechanism had only just realized she no longer required oxygen? Maybe it simply shut down the breathing process, which had previously only been a facade?

If that were the case, she could have checked the changes in the oxygen levels she inhaled and exhaled to verify whether it was just a show.

If the oxygen levels didn't change, it would mean her previous breathing had indeed been a mere pretense, perhaps even bypassing the lungs.

Unfortunately...

She no longer had the opportunity to verify whether her past breathing had been just for show.

After all, she truly no longer needed to breathe.

Even if she forced herself to breathe manually, the oxygen levels she inhaled and exhaled would remain unchanged.

After thinking in silence for a long time, Zoe suddenly realized that her previous cautious and meticulous studies might have still lacked professionalism, with many details overlooked.

She would need to be more careful in the future.

With this in mind, Zoe began her usual procedure, observing and experimenting with the changes from her latest slumber evolution.

First, she scanned her body with her mental power, instantly obtaining the precise data on her physique.

As always, her size and shape hadn’t changed. She was still close to 175 cm in height, with a standard athletic build, and her weight remained around 100 kg. There was no doubt about it—her overall body data seemed to have been temporarily locked by some mechanism as if optimized to its possible limit.

Next.

Zoe began her muscle tremor training.

This exercise, which involved both mental and physical exertion, quickly caused her physical strength to deplete.

She reached the same 19-second mark as her previous record and kept going.

She lasted until 24 seconds before exhaustion set in.

Feeling the emptiness in both her body and mind, Zoe formed an assessment of her current physical strength.

If her normal strength had been around 3.5 tons before, now it seemed to have nearly doubled to 6 tons.

This made Zoe feel a surge of joy.

She had always believed that physical strength was the most important aspect.

While she didn't expect to reach a level where "all methods can be shattered by a single punch," she at least aimed to achieve something like being able to change the weather with a punch.

During her fifth evolutionary sleep by the seaside, she had made the mistake of being greedy and selecting two directions, which caused her to halt her physical evolution. This had worried her for quite some time.

Now, with her physical evolution restored, she couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

Indeed, being greedy and selecting multiple directions had caused her evolution process to be incomplete, neglecting improvements in physical strength.

Choosing only one direction this time had kept everything on track.

With this thought in mind, Zoe reached for a glass bottle containing snake soup, prepared the previous evening.

Her eyes glowed with a faint red light.

She aimed her heat vision at the snake soup.

Using her heat vision felt no different than before—it still felt natural and easy to control, and the intensity seemed unchanged.

However...

Eight seconds passed, and the heat vision had not stopped.

Ten seconds later, the heat vision continued.

Twelve seconds in, the soup in the glass bottle began to boil.

At fifteen seconds, the bottle, made of heat-resistant glass, began to emit steam, and Zoe’s heat vision finally faded.

Feeling the surrounding air grow hot and sensing the soreness in her eyes, Zoe understood that the duration of her heat vision had almost reached its limit.

Fifteen seconds was a significant improvement compared to her previous eight-second limit.

What had once been an impossible improvement through daily training was now enhanced by the evolutionary sleep.

While she still had a long way to go to reach her short-term goal of one minute, progress was progress. There was still potential for further growth.

Zoe nodded in satisfaction, opened the glass bottle, and poured the scalding snake soup into her mouth, steam rising from the bottle's mouth.

A temperature of 100°C felt like lukewarm water to her—not because she could no longer perceive small differences in temperature, but because even at 100°C, it didn't hurt or break her defenses.

A temperature of 1500 degrees wouldn’t even faze her, let alone something as mild as 100 degrees. Even if the tolerance of the mouth and tongue might not be as high as the hands, 100 degrees was still more than manageable.

She took a sip of the fragrant, piping hot snake soup.

As she savored the taste, she reflected on how her cooking skills had grown, now nearing a limit where further improvement seemed unlikely.

Zoe then began testing other aspects of her abilities.

Her vision, hearing, and sense of smell had all improved to some degree, with noticeable changes in intensity, though they were not radical.

Mental strength, however, was different.

The coverage range of her mental power, which was once 100 meters, had now expanded to 200 meters.

It had doubled.

Although, calling it a simple doubling might not be entirely accurate.

If you considered the volume of space, her original mental range was a spherical area with a 100-meter radius centered around her.

Expanding that radius to 200 meters meant the volume of the covered space didn’t just double—it had increased much more significantly by a factor of 8!

This was a far more dramatic increase than anything she had experienced, almost like a complete transformation.

Except for the first evolution during sleep, Zoe had never encountered such an explosive enhancement.

She had never fought such a rich battle in her life!

She had a faint sense that the new ability she gained after choosing the dark purple light spot had something to do with this transformation.

Though she couldn’t say for sure, she guessed it might be a special ability related to mental power.

Perhaps her mental strength had gained a new trait?

She pondered this and carefully experimented with all the characteristics her mental power now possessed.

Real-time information transmission, 3D spatial modeling, x-ray vision (unable to penetrate living tissue), emotion sensing, telekinesis, and basic electromagnetic wave sensing...

None of these seemed to have changed much.

The real-time transmission of information within her 200-meter range was as instant as before—everything was delivered to her mind without delay.

The 3D modeling of the surrounding area was still sharp, allowing her to have a complete understanding of everything in the 200-meter radius.

X-ray vision still couldn’t penetrate biological matter, for unknown reason with unknown protective barrier of sorts, so she couldn’t perform internal attacks.

The basic electromagnetic wave sensing hadn’t changed.

Her telekinesis, however, had reached a strength of around 50N, which was quite usable.

But every time her mental power evolved during sleep, the strength of her telekinesis would improve to some degree, so this wasn’t considered a completely new change.

As for the emotion sensing ability...

Zoe could feel the excited emotions of the dog, Platinum, who was running around joyfully, and didn’t sense any difference in this ability.

Until...

Wait?

Zoe’s eyes suddenly widened as she realized something was different.

Her mental power...

Seemed to be able to reach into Platinum’s emotions on some unknown level!

It was as if Platinum’s emotions now had a tangible presence that could be touched by her mental power.

This was the new ability gained from touching the dark purple light spot! Or rather, it was a new feature added to her mental strength.

When she focused her mental power on Platinum’s excitement, she could clearly feel an effect on the dog.

Platinum, who had been running around wildly, immediately froze, as if something had impacted it.

Zoe became concerned, wondering if Platinum had been harmed in some way.

But she was also filled with curiosity.

For Zoe, being able to touch a living creature’s emotions with her mental power was an entirely new frontier.

Before her mental power could penetrate physical bodies, it seemed to have already advanced to a point where it could touch the emotional field of living beings.

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