Chapter 22: The Advantages of the Reborn

For ordinary people, eating a piece of fourth-grade spirit beast meat or refining any fourth-grade material is highly likely to awaken supernatural abilities.

For those strengthened by spiritual veins, anything below earth-grade is merely nourishment for the mark on their foreheads. No matter what kind of spiritual energy it contains, as long as it hasn’t reached earth-grade, any trace of spiritual essence within is converted by the forehead mark into an equal amount of attribute-less spiritual energy.

This energy is then refined into their own attribute, elevating both the mark and the host’s grade.

Therefore, for a spiritual vein enhancer to possess supernatural powers, they must refine earth-grade or higher materials.

But how easy is it to obtain earth-grade spirit materials?

In her previous life, Yu Yan had rarely seen any spiritual vein enhancers who possessed supernatural abilities.

Of course, she herself was just an ordinary enhancer who hadn’t even touched the threshold of spiritual veins, so she hadn’t met many such people anyway. These were the elite after the arrival of the replica world—stars among men, coveted by all, and not someone a lone struggler like herself could easily encounter.

They usually braved B-grade or higher replicas.

As for Yu Yan, even entering a C-grade replica made her anxious, fearing for her life with every step.

As for why, on the eve of her rebirth, she ended up in the obviously out-of-her-league A-grade replica “Golden Stream Forest”—well… there’s no need to elaborate; the story is drenched in tears. It was purely an accident, and Yu Yan still feels a pang of sorrow whenever she recalls it.

Luckily, she has a second chance, and the past is behind her now.

Enough with idle chatter.

The Vermilion Bird meat she and her daughter ate merely nourished the mark on their foreheads, boosting their spiritual energy by a touch. But for Tang Yan, it would be different—he would gain fire-based supernatural abilities.

Not only that, but with the high-grade, fifth-tier Vermilion Bird meat,

Tang Yan could become a first-grade fire enhancer capable of launching small fireballs, granting him long-range attack power.

In contrast, those awakened by fourth-grade materials are unranked enhancers, able only to perform elemental attacks using their body parts—a far inferior prospect.

And most importantly, from then on, when Tang Yan cooked for her and her daughter, they wouldn’t need a lighter anymore.

He could simply toss a little fireball and get things going!

Unfortunately, Tang Yan had his pride and refused to eat this “beggar’s meal.”

“Eh~”

Yu Yan sighed and stored the leftover Vermilion Bird meat in her Lotus Mirage space. The space preserves freshness and quality; even with a chef now, there’s no telling when they might be separated. It never hurts to prepare some good food in advance.

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“Tang Dad, sorry, I forgot to tell you—eating this meat would make you a fire-type enhancer.”

“Though you wouldn’t be as strong as me, you’d have more than enough power to deal with the scorpion swarm outside.”

When the three-day replica adaptation period ended, a three-month replica seal period began.

During these three months, a first-grade enhancer could easily crush the blue-tailed giant scorpions outside, whose power was limited to thirty percent. Of course, once the three months were up and the replica’s full power was unleashed, if a first-grade enhancer foolishly attempted to challenge a fully-powered scorpion swarm—

Yu Yan could only wish him luck.

The individuals might not be formidable, but when the swarm appears, there are dozens at least.

Even one bite from each would be more than anyone could handle!

Tang Yan: “…” Lady, why did you hold back such crucial information?

Did you say you’d lead me to victory just so I’d willingly roast birds for you? Even if you hadn’t painted such a rosy picture, I would have still roasted them! After all, you’re my savior, and I’m more than happy to help.

Tang Yan silently grumbled, feeling aggrieved.

“By the way, haven’t you tried killing a few scorpions these days?” Yu Yan asked curiously.

In replicas below A-grade, killing a yellow-rank creature should allow you to leave.

For Tang Yan, an ordinary person, the scorpions during the seal period are hard to kill. But during the adaptation period, and even the welfare period before that, his intelligence and resourcefulness should have let him kill a few scorpions for fun—he and his daughter should have been able to leave by now.

“I did kill a few at fi