Earth, Emberlight Empire.

  Ashara, Ninth Princess Mansion.

  "The Beaconreach cargo ship encountered a sea monster in the Pacific..."

  "The Sahara Desert repeatedly manifests mirages..."

  "Traces of monstrous beasts appear in the Siberian snowfields..."

  Bang!

  The large screen TV hanging on the wall shut off, and the remote control floating in mid-air slowly descended.

  Not far away.

  Within the vast, luxurious room, a beautiful young girl sat cross-legged, suspended in the air. Her deep eyes spoke serenely:

  "Creatures are mutating, natural anomalies are repeatedly occurring. It seems the first wave of the great Ether tide is about to descend!"

  The young girl is named Seraphine. She was originally just an ordinary corporate slave on Earth.

  A simple traffic accident transported her to this world, also named Earth.

  It's unclear whether it was soul transmigration or reincarnation.

  In any case, Seraphine perfectly retained her own thoughts and memories, and also received the past memories of this body.

  This portion of memory was both vague and distinct.

  Half a month has passed since then.

  During this time, she stayed behind closed doors.

  Through the internet, she frantically collected all information.

  Solely to understand the similarities and differences between this place and her original Earth.

  After a detailed comparison, Seraphine discovered that this world's terrain, language, writing, and races did not differ significantly from Earth.

  This perfectly aligned with the background setting of a popular work, 《Dragonblood》, which Seraphine had read before transmigrating.

  And Seraphine's current identity is the Ninth Princess of the Emberlight Empire in the original work, sharing the same name.

  Theoretically, she had transmigrated into the world of a fantasy work.

  "According to the plot of the work, the frequent occurrence of natural anomalies on Earth signifies the impending recovery of Ether, marking the official start of the main storyline.

  Many martial artists will gather in Cloud City to hold a Martial Arts Convention, dividing benefits, and moreover, competing for the title of 'Number One Under Heaven,' as well as exploring the path forward in martial arts.

  After the Martial Arts Convention concludes, the first wave of the great Ether tide will descend. At that time, the entirety of Earth will enter a new era where experts emerge in droves."

  Lost in thought, Seraphine's five senses and even her Mental Power rumbled into operation.

  Buzz ~

  She slightly narrowed her eyes.

  At extreme speed, her senses simultaneously detected and captured the incredibly faint, surging high-energy substance in the air, similar to an ocean tide, and drew it into her body, slowly absorbing and integrating it.

  This high-energy substance was incredibly minute, even far fainter than tiny dust particles.

  But the density of its contained active energy was truly astonishing.

  Based on the settings in her memory of 《Dragonblood》.

  All natural species, after continuously absorbing this high-energy substance named Ether, would undergo mutation and even evolution.

  And humans, as the spirits of all things, after prolonged absorption of Ether, would similarly see an increase in Physical Strength and soul attributes.

  An extremely small number of individuals would even awaken powerful superpowers.

  In the future, Earth would become incredibly vibrant.

  A great era had quietly arrived.

  In the new era, there was no place for the weak.

  "Fortunately, my System is completely effective!"

  Seraphine gently smiled.

  Indeed, just like many transmigrators.

  She too, at the very first moment of transmigrating to Earth, activated her own golden finger — the System.

  The System's name is: 【Infinite Attributes】.

  As the name suggests.

  This is a System purely for increasing the host's attributes.

  There are no messy and complicated mission lists, nor flashy lottery wheels for drawing prizes.

  There is only a simple attribute interface.

  Seemingly ordinary.

  But as long as Seraphine exists in the world.

  Every day that passes, the strength of her Physical Strength and soul attributes would double.

  To put it more specifically.

  Attributes such as Seraphine's brain's computational capabilities, Mental Power, defense capability, vitality, Physical Strength, power, nervous system reaction speed, etc.

  Every day, they would double based on the current fundamental values.

  That is, ×2×2×2×2×2×2......

  This kind of continuous, never-ending increase.

  Although this type of exponential growth would be quite slow at the beginning.

  But as time passed, it would gradually become extremely astonishing, even terrifying!

  To explain clearly.

  If a certain thing grows by doubling repeatedly.

  Then it is increasing in an exponential form.

  This rate of increase looks as terrifying as an 'explosion'.

  Which is what is called, exponential explosion.

  To give an example.

  A piece of paper folded in half once, its thickness will become 2 times the original.

  Folded a second time, it becomes 2 to the power of 2 times what it was before, meaning 4 times.

  And so on.

  Assuming the paper's thickness is 0.1 mm.

  Then after folding it 24 times, the thickness will exceed 1 km.

  After folding it 39 times, the thickness will reach 55,000 km.

  Exceeding the Earth's equatorial circumference.

  After folding it 42 times, it will reach 440,000 km.

  Exceeding the Earth-Moon distance.

  After folding it 51 times, it reaches 2.2 billion km.

  Exceeding the Earth and Sun distance.

  After folding it 82 times, it will terrifyingly reach 51,113 light-years.

  Exceeding the radius of the entire Milky Way.

  Attributes are combat power.

  Endlessly expanding attributes are bound to bring about endlessly soaring combat power.

  Furthermore, the 【Infinite Attributes】 System hidden deep within Seraphine's soul will endlessly provide energy like a perpetual motion engine.

  Perfectly supporting her increasingly powerful body and soul day by day.

  Currently, Seraphine's attribute doubling growth has undergone a full 15 days.

  Her current attributes are:

  【Host: Seraphine】

  【Physical Strength: 3276】

  【Soul: 3276】

  Soul attributes cannot be specifically quantified.

  However, each point of Physical Strength attribute is roughly equivalent to 1 ton of power.

  In other words.

  Seraphine's Physical Strength, compared to just over 100 kg when she first transmigrated, has now increased more than 30,000 times.

  Her total body strength has reached a terrifying peak of over 3000 tons.

  While her speed hasn't been officially tested yet, surpassing the sonic barrier is a certainty. It's just a question of how many times the speed of sound she can actually reach.

  At the same time, Seraphine's soul attribute leans heavily toward the ethereal and spiritual spectrum. Therefore, during this explosion of combat power, although the quality and quantity of her soul were continuously rising, the telekinetic force that should have appeared early on only barely emerged after her soul attribute value cleared ten thousand.

  Furthermore, its magnitude is not impressive. Despite her immense physical might, she can still only lift objects weighing ten tons with her mind. The ratio between the two is undeniably disproportionate.

  However, that's fine.

  Even though Seraphine's soul strength is slightly weaker at affecting matter, a value as high as 3000 still grants her the ability to easily shake, or even destroy, an ordinary person's consciousness and thinking.

  Regarding this gap, Seraphine had some inklings. She furrowed her brow in thought:

  "Could the reason be that the current ether concentration on Earth is not yet sufficient to support the emergence of overly powerful superpowers?"

  With that theory, Seraphine's brain—comparable to a supercomputer—rapidly began scanning her memories. Flipping through the seemingly tangible pages of 《Dragonblood》 in her mind, she quickly found the answer.

  "That's right, the main theme of 《Dragonblood》 is martial arts plus superpowers. The early story’s style leans toward urban settings. Human society is split into two sides. The surface is a normal modern city. The hidden side, however, is composed of many martial artists and sects."

  "Their cultivation system belongs to vitality martial arts, and the main storyline is a constant stream of battles. The ceiling for combat power in the early to mid-stages is not high. Before the recovery of ether, only a few scattered superpower users would appear. Only after the global baptism of the great ether tide would a larger number of stronger superpower users appear on a large scale."

  Seraphine recalled the plot and murmured: "Commanding lightning, freezing rivers, twisting space, petrifying all things... At that time, this group of martial artists would also rise with the wind, and many existences at the military level or even city-destroying level would appear. So, from the current perspective, the world version hasn't finished its update yet."

  Seraphine's calm expression turned to deep thought.

  "Vitality martial arts, huh..."

  She raised her hand and lightly flicked her finger.

  Bang!!

  Within the empty room spanning several hundred square meters, a visible air wave suddenly exploded. The invisible air was actually caused to burst by Seraphine's single finger. Simply terrifying! This scene alone shows just how dreadful her physical strength is.

  Seraphine could clearly feel it. Every single muscle in her body was filled with immense power. Every drop of blood contained surging energy. Every tendon and bone was incredibly solid and incredibly flexible.

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  However, out of cautious consideration, she has never revealed her true strength to the outside world.

  Therefore, in the eyes of the world, Seraphine, as the Ninth Princess, still remained that person whose mother died early, who fell out of favor in the royal family, and who loved martial arts but had poor talent. A useless wastrel, neither skilled in academics nor martial arts.

  In the eyes of outsiders, apart from her princess identity and her beautiful appearance, Seraphine possessed almost no merits. She was so ordinary that she didn't even have the status of a real noble.

  However, Seraphine knew that this was not the truth.

  In fact, Seraphine, who had read the entirety of 《Dragonblood》, knew very clearly: natural superpower users have existed on Earth since ancient times, but their numbers were simply too sparse. And the original Seraphine, coincidentally, was one of them.

  The original's superpower is named 【Eye of True Revelation】.

  Ability effect: To shatter one's own ignorance and arrogance, activate the intelligent and insightful spirit, and see the true nature of all things.

  Specifically speaking, those who possess this ability will have unparalleled learning ability, comprehension ability, and deduction ability. Whether it is martial arts, spells, or science and technology, all can be learned in a single morning. Furthermore, given a significant amount of relevant information, one can easily infer other things, and even continuously deduce until the end.

  Seraphine remembered that after the original Seraphine awakened the 【Eye of True Revelation】 as a child, external information continuously flooded into her mind, making it unbearable and causing her spirit to become increasingly depressed and withdrawn. This led outsiders to mistakenly believe she was quiet and cold, weak and incapable.

  But in the original plot, the original, after experiencing the first great ether tide, quickly stepped into the ranks of Earth's strongest experts. She could even match the protagonist in a fight. The key was the 【Eye of True Revelation】.

  "Just like before on Earth, between people, mountains named 'prejudice' forever stand tall. However..."

  Seraphine's calm expression suddenly shifted, revealing a proud and wild, twisted smile.

  "What does the view of a bunch of weak insects have to do with me?"

  "What I want to do, I will do."

  "What is strength??"

  After muttering the sentence, Seraphine burst into laughter.

  "My will is unimpeded, reaching all directions! When no one can stop my will, that is true strength!!"

  While her emotions surged, a knocking sound came from outside her door.

  Seraphine knew. This was the Imperial Guard knocking.

  "Your Highness, Prince Cedric’s envoy has arrived."

  "Ah~"

  Seraphine turned her head toward the door, a cold light flashing in her eyes.

  "Just like the plot, the old emperor is critically ill and considering establishing an heir. And this Fifth Prince, Cedric, must have heard the rumors, so he wants to enlist my aid."

  Seraphine’s voice carried a chill: "Or... does he want to persuade me to withdraw from the competition? Truly ridiculous."

  ...

  In the hallway of the ancient, somewhat dilapidated Imperial Gardens, a group of four individuals was slowly advancing.

  The bearded middle-aged man leading the way slightly tilted his head and whispered: "Remember, when you see the Ninth Princess later, everyone's etiquette must be impeccable. Even though, she is just a waste."

  Adrian, whose face bore the color of brass, chuckled quietly from behind: "Speaking of this Ninth Princess, she is indeed a strange one. Aside from her beautiful appearance, she actually has no talent in any other aspect. Her personality is both weak and withdrawn; her only hobby is practicing martial arts. Yet, after practicing for so many years, she hasn't even entered the first level of martial arts, 【Force Unity】. Ah, truly without prospect."

  "Heh heh~"

  A burly young man beside them, radiating a fierce, wild aura, chuckled softly: "So, why did His Highness want us to find this fellow? Ah, a waste of firewood with the identity of a princess!"

  The young man's tone carried a hint of mockery, and a trace of almost undetectable envy. Clearly, he harbored some resentment toward Seraphine.

  The bearded Elias in front glanced at the young man and said in a deep voice: "Victor, you are still young, with only martial arts in your eyes. You do not realize that even if the Ninth Princess is incompetent, she is still a member of the royal family. Furthermore, her mother comes from the Bellamy family, which is a major financial magnate. If we can persuade the Bellamy family through this Ninth Princess to join His Highness's faction and contribute money and effort, then..."

  The burly young man, Victor, instantly understood: "Ah, so that's how it is. If there were a few more aids like the Bellamy magnates, then even without being declared Crown Prince, His Highness could contend..."

  "Silence!"

  The thin and elegant middle-aged man walking at the very back narrowed his eyes and coldly shouted: "That is not something we should consider!"

  Upon hearing this, Victor immediately fell silent. At this moment, Elias stroked his beard, looked at the thin middle-aged man, and asked: "Chester, you should have obtained the invitation for this Martial Arts Convention, right? After all, you are one of the few martial artists in His Highness's mansion who has cultivated to the 【Roaring Vitalis】 realm."

  Chester nodded calmly and said: "Yes, I have obtained it. The Martial Arts Convention will open tomorrow. After visiting the Ninth Highness, I will take a plane this afternoon and am expected to arrive by midnight."

  Adrian, with his brass-colored face, sighed and said: "Ah, the strongest group of people in the martial arts world, a nobody like me is probably destined not to see them."

  Elias shook his head, stroking his beard and sighing: "The path of martial arts, each realm is more difficult than the last. I have lived foolishly for over forty years, and am only circling the doorstep of the 【Roaring Vitalis】. Now that I am aging, my Vitality is also weakening day by day; I estimate this life will be just like this."

  "Who isn't?" Adrian on the side, with a face full of bitterness, said, "If a martial artist doesn't enter 【Roaring Vitalis】 before the age of thirty-five, there is no hope in this life."

  Speaking of this, he tilted his head and glanced at Victor, unable to resist saying with envy: "On the contrary, Victor, you have reached the realm of 【Fluid Force】 at such a young age, standing alongside us, truly future promising."

  Victor, who had been pouting in silence, upon hearing these words, immediately turned his head and winked at Chester, saying proudly: "Uncle, you just keep discouraging me every day, see how pleasant Uncle Adrian's words are."

  "Sigh, you just need a couple of praises to soar to the heavens." Chester helplessly shook his head, "With such a fickle mentality, if you annoy Grandmaster, how will he possibly teach you the Primordial Ether Unification Art that you yearn for day and night?"

  "Ah, this!" Victor immediately shut his mouth and dared not speak further upon hearing this.

  "Primordial Ether Unification Art, huh..." Elias, who was walking slowly ahead, endlessly clucked in admiration: "It's that rumored peerless art passed down from ancient times, which, when cultivated to the most profound level, can ascend and enter the highest martial realm, 【Evershield Body】. I truly don't know how miraculous this technique is."

  Adrian also sighed with a look of longing: "【Evershield Body】, only a handful exist in the entire world."

  Victor scratched his head and asked: "Uncle, will Grandmaster be going this time too?"

  Chester nodded: "Yes, Grandmaster has exclusively held the title of 'Number One Under Heaven' for as long as twenty years. It relies on being able to defeat all other 【Evershield Body】 martial artists at every Martial Arts Convention. Furthermore, he has been at the 【Evershield Body】 realm for many years. To seek the path forward in martial arts, he will definitely participate in this grand event of the martial arts world."

  The few of them talked and talked, walking and pausing.

  After another few hundred meters, they finally saw the main hall door ahead.

  There, a young girl was standing with her back to them, her hands clasped behind her back.

  "Hmm?"

  Elias's expression changed; he quickly stepped forward and bowed slightly, his face respectfully saying:

  "Ninth Highness, we are..."

  "Hmm."

  The young girl with clasped hands slowly turned around.

  A face of exquisite beauty, a noble demeanor.

  It was Seraphine.

  Her gaze, like lightning, looked towards the few people.

  Boom!!

  The four people immediately froze.

  Accompanying the gaze of Seraphine's pair of cold eyes.

  They felt an boundless, chillingly fearful aura, overwhelming and covering them.

  In an instant, it felt as if they had fallen naked into a freezing hell of extreme cold.

  Waves of bone-chilling coldness surged to their heads.

  Even their bones felt so cold they trembled with white hair.

  No, they were trembling from fear.

  Despite a large sun hanging in the sky, the four people's entire bodies were covered in dense goosebumps.

  They felt their hearts boiling and leaping.

  Almost wanting to burst through their chests in a terrified cry to escape.

  The Ninth Princess Seraphine, in their eyes.

  Suddenly transformed into a terrifying demon, or even a magnificent deity.

  "This! This! This!"

  Elias's pupils trembled violently, his face pale, his body swaying precariously.

  This scene clearly indicated...

  The Ninth Princess she... was not a waste at all!

  But a terrifying, peerless expert who could completely suppress them with just a glance!

  "How is this possible?!"

  Adrian's facial skin twitched non-stop.

  His years of practicing the hard qigong, Bellforge Body, were autonomously activated by the extremely dense sense of danger.

  "Hoo ~ Hoo ~"

  The weakest Victor was sweating profusely, his head drenched.

  His chest felt like it was going to explode from the pressure of the aura.

  He couldn't even speak, only gasp continuously.

  But even so, his eyes remained like a wolf's, fiercely glaring at Seraphine.

  His expression was ferocious, as if he wanted to charge forward and bite.

  "Ah!"

  Chester's face became heavy as he shouted, his entire body's Vitality surged non-stop.

  Until dots of blood oozed from his exposed skin.

  Only then did he manage to break free from Seraphine's oppressive aura.

  He immediately disregarded the pain throughout his body, quickly bowed and cupped his hands, saying urgently with his head lowered:

  "We don't know where we have offended Your Highness, we beg Your Highness to be merciful..."

  "Don't know where you offended me..."

  Seraphine's expression was contemplative as she stared directly at Victor, who was glaring at her like a wolf cub, and chuckled chillingly:

  "You, just now, said I was firewood?"

  Bang! Bang!

  The fierce young man was instantly fiercely suppressed by an invisible telekinetic force, his knees slamming onto the ground.

  The force was so brutal.

  It suddenly shattered his kneecaps on the spot!

  "Ah ah ah!!"

  Victor screamed and howled madly, his eyes fiercely glaring at Seraphine, but for a moment, he was in too much pain to speak.

  "This this this..."

  Chester's face was shaken, his heart filled with shock.

  What kind of power is this?

  Projecting force from a distance?

  Or some mystical technique?

  Why had he never seen or heard of it before?!

  And!

  The Ninth Princess could even hear a few people whispering softly several hundred meters away?!

  What realm is this?!

  "You, said I was a waste."

  Seraphine gave a sidelong glance at the horrified Elias.

  Telekinetic force activated!

  Bang! Bang!

  The bearded man was also pressed down to his knees, howling as both his kneecaps shattered, following in Victor's footsteps.

  "And you, said I was a strange one."

  Bang! Bang!

  Adrian gritted his teeth and resisted for less than a second, but was still pressed to the ground by telekinetic force, his kneecaps shattering as he knelt.

  His years of practicing hard qigong had not yielded even half an ounce of effect.

  In a short span of time.

  Three people were ruthlessly crippled by Seraphine.

  For a moment, the scene was utterly tragic.

  In fact, those few people did not know.

  Currently, Seraphine's physique has already surpassed ordinary people by tens of thousands of times.

  And her sensory abilities were not much inferior compared to her even more terrifying physique.

  Whether it was the various Hertz frequency sound waves in Earth's atmosphere; or the electromagnetic waves constantly filling the surroundings; or the extremely faint, barely perceptible water droplets in the air.

  Even the extremely weak stress caused by the slow deformation of the rock and soil layers dozens or even hundreds of meters beneath Seraphine's feet, due to the continuous action of Earth's rotational centrifugal force.

  All of this was clearly visible to Seraphine.

  Every sound passed through her ears.

  Everything was clearly before her eyes.

  The terrifying ability of her senses to perceive external matters.

  It was like a full-band, all-directional cutting-edge signal receiver.

  Constantly capturing and interpreting all external information.

  Not to mention just a few people speaking softly several hundred meters away.

  Even if they ran several kilometers away, Seraphine could still hear and see them.

  "Hoo... Hoo..."

  Chester trembled all over, pleading with his head bowed.

  "Your Highness, they are ignorant and fearless, not knowing the vastness of heaven and earth. You... You spare their lives."

  Seraphine smiled gently: "Of course, you can. However, you should know I am very skilled in martial arts. Let's have a spar.

  As long as you can defeat me with one move, their dog lives can be preserved, and of course, that includes your own life."