"Xu Nan, do you see anything different about me today?"
Hearing Captain Jiang's words, Xu Nan, though puzzled, looked him up and down carefully.
He then shook his head, "There's nothing different. In my opinion, Captain Jiang, you're just like always."
"Your cultivation has only become more refined."
"Is that so? That's good then."
Jiang Lin responded and then went straight into the resting room within the Eighteenth Hall.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he fell into thought.
On the surface, there was nothing amiss with his eyes.
How had the King of the Southern Hall seen it?
Was it intuition?
Jiang Lin didn't know.
He closed his eyes, then opened them again, looking at his hands.
They were a pair of pitch-black hands.
Inside the black hands, various meridians were like illuminated signs within the darkness, very conspicuous.
This sight was not unfamiliar to Jiang Lin.
In Number One's eyes, he could always see such scenes.
Humans, monsters, their internal meridians, acupoints, and the flow and changes of energy.
All were clearly visible.
For Number One, switching between normal and X-ray vision was as simple as eating.
But Jiang Lin's current situation was slightly different.
In his eyes, the surrounding buildings and decorative vegetation were normal.
However, the ghosts and monsters like himself were all pitch-black.
Some were as black as if they had substance, while others were merely a faint black mist.
And within them, various meridians, acupoints, and dantian.
All were presented in Jiang Lin's eyes.
Just as he saw in Number One's eyes, by observing the energy flow within these black mists and meridians, Jiang Lin could predict their next moves.
This was why Jiang Lin had been stunned when he saw the receptionist and the King of the Southern Hall after leaving the advanced training room.
Because at first glance, they were like two black humanoid lumps of coal.
Those black substances were likely ghost energy.
And the density of the ghost energy depended on the opponent's strength.
Besides that, on Jiang Lin's way back.
He had also seen some things with sentience, within which there were also relatively conspicuous energy flow lines.
"Did I synchronize Number One's abilities?"
Jiang Lin looked at his hands and murmured.
The biggest difference from Number One was that Jiang Lin currently couldn't switch perspectives at will.
When he saw the receptionist at the training room and the King of the Southern Hall, after a brief pause, he thought of Number One's abilities.
He then tried to switch perspectives.
The result was naturally a failure.
"How can I switch back to normal vision?"
When observing Number One's perspective, the other party could switch views with just a thought.
Was it because he was still too weak?
Jiang Lin tried switching again for a while, but still to no avail.
Fortunately, even though he couldn't see others' appearances clearly from this perspective.
For ghost envoys, identifying someone wasn't just about 'seeing'.
There was also aura and perception.
So, for now, the impact on Jiang Lin was not significant.
When he fused ghost energy and divine power again, he might find a solution.
With this thought, Jiang Lin temporarily put the matter aside.
And then thought of another matter.
"The last time I fused divine power and ghost energy, I saw the process of the King of the Northern Hall reviving someone with paper effigy techniques... and gained some knowledge about paper effigy techniques in my mind."
"This time I saw Number One's scenes and synchronized Number One's perspective..."
If one instance was a coincidence, what about two?
Were the abilities synchronized onto him because of that gray gas?
Did the fusion of divine power and ghost energy, besides its inherent power, bring about such changes?
The more Jiang Lin thought about it, the more incredible it felt.
If all these changes were brought about by that gray gas, it was too terrifying.
It even... exceeded common sense.
That feeling was as if he had crossed time and space, and Number One's abilities had been synchronized to him.
"It seems it's time to pay a visit to that senior Hei Yuan."
Jiang Lin was shocked in his heart, and he got up and walked out of the resting room.
Back then, if it weren't for that senior.
Jiang Lin wouldn't have known that ghost energy and divine power could be fused.
Outside the Eighteenth Hall.
A robotic ball dressed in a blue and white maid outfit zipped back from outside.
"Xu Nan, Xu Nan, has Master returned?"
The little winged ball it left outside the advanced training room seemed to have seen its master come out.
"Where's Master? Where's Master?"
The robotic ball looked around the hall.
Xu Nan replied, "Captain Jiang went into the resting room..."
And he seemed a bit strange.
"Resting room? I'll go take a look!"
The robotic ball's eyes lit up, and it was about to run towards the resting room.
"Wait..."
Just as Xu Nan's attempt to stop it came out, a figure appeared before the ghost and the ball.
Jiang Lin came out of the resting room, his gaze falling on the robotic ball.
The robotic ball was made entirely of machinery, so its normal appearance could be seen.
However, Jiang Lin could still clearly see the energy within it.
This little fellow had quite a lot of energy stored within.
"What is it you need?" Jiang Lin asked.
He had heard the robotic ball's voice when he was in the resting room.
This guy's voice always arrived first.
As if afraid no one would hear it had returned.
"Master!"
Upon seeing Jiang Lin, the robotic ball excitedly lunged towards him.
"Hug me!"
Before it rushed over, the energy within it had already changed.
Driving its body to move.
Jiang Lin reached out and blocked, directly stopping the robotic ball's head.
"Speak properly."
"Wuwuwu, hug me..."
The robotic ball pouted, looking dejected.
However...
"Master, your movements seem to be faster than before!"
Every time it lunged at its master, it failed.
It had already developed experience in lunging.
Jiang Lin: "Really?"
Xu Nan also didn't see any difference.
After all, the robotic ball always failed to lunge.
The robotic ball's forehead pressed against its master's palm, and it simply didn't move.
"Yes, I just went out to change parts."
"My speed is faster than before! But Master's movements are also faster!"
It was a mechanical body, it would never misjudge.
It was precise down to the second!
"Before, I would lunge out, and then Master would block me. But this time, it was as if I was running into Master's hand myself!"
Xu Nan: "What's strange about that? Don't you lunge every time? Captain Jiang probably has a conditioned reflex."
The robotic ball puffed out its cheeks, stood up straight, and looked at Xu Nan:
"I just feel it's different!"
That feeling was as if it was being predicted, it was strange.
Then, the robotic ball quickly looked at Jiang Lin again, clenched its fists, and said excitedly:
"Master, Master, I heard you fought with the King of the Southern Hall and exchanged many moves!"
"Master is so amazing!"
Hearing this, Xu Nan also couldn't help but look over, "Captain Jiang, I also want to hear you talk about the King of the Southern Hall."
When the arena matches began, they were out on a mission.
By the time they returned, everything was already over.