Chapter 1729: Murderer
Lex was ready for a curse, or some devastating attack, or maybe another attempt at enslaving him. Yet nothing happened. Though there was a possibility that not enough of the attack reached Lex to have an effect, he doubted it.
He checked his body, soul and mind time and time again, using his spirit sense, and his eyes that could see through everything, but found nothing. It was only when he exerted his tenet to his utmost that Lex felt that there seemed to be something foreign attached to his body, like some kind of causality. But he could not sense it properly.
Whatever this was, it was clearly related to a very high level Relational law, which is why Lex could not sense it properly. But how did an Earth Immortal use Relational laws? The answer eluded Lex.
In fact, while Lex did not discover what Kreel had done to Lex, he did observe something else. His long latent ability, Murderer, activated. Well, to be fair, Murderer was not Lex’s ability, but a feature of the Inn.
Murderer was a feature the Inn gained after he absorbed the Murderer system, and it allowed Lex to absorb an ability or skill of his opponent as long as he killed them outside the Inn. The ability hardly ever activated though - not that Lex went around murdering people.
It was primarily because the concept of a stronger opponent was tricky. Even if an opponent had a higher cultivation realm than Lex, they may not qualify as stronger than Lex, which is why typically, if Lex killed someone, the ability would not activate.
The fact that it was activating now made it clear that despite being in the same realm, Kreel was considered stronger than Lex.
Lex was quite curious about how Murderer worked, so he took a moment to observe how the ability was affecting him. It seemed that a number of laws were leaving some kind of an imprint on Lex’s soul. He’d never detected it before because he hadn’t been strong enough to sense it.
Now, though, as the imprint was completed, Lex felt an innate understanding of a new ability fill him. At the same time, he could see that his body was beginning to absorb the soul imprint. When the imprint was completely absorbed, the ability would become his permanently. For now, it was merely something he could activate through the imprint itself.
The ability Lex gained was not mind blowingly amazing or anything like that. It only made his spirit sense more perceptive towards the spirit senses of others.