In the afternoon, Yu Xian sat in the garden, basking in the sun.
From time to time, he trapped Little Dumb inside a spatial bubble, letting it out whenever it became frantic.
At first, Little Dumb would ram frantically against the spatial bubble in distress. But after enough repetitions, it gave up entirely and went limp.
This proved that Little Dumb was indeed a living creature, not an inanimate object. It had its own thoughts, a temper of its own, and could be trained.
Yet Little Dumb certainly lived up to the name Yu Xian had given it. Even though Yu Xian repeatedly used the spatial bubble to place it on his shoulder or tried coaxing it into flying toward designated targets, every attempt failed without exception.
Aside from fluttering above his head, all the creature did was lie flat and do nothing inside the spatial bubble.
Just as he decided to give up on training it, the heart bearing the perfect creature's skill tree gave a violent thud. In an instant, he selected Super Smell, and countless warm currents immediately surged from his heart to his nose.
He felt a sudden heat in his nose. When he touched it, blood came away on his fingers.
The next second, as he drew a breath, every kind of scent flooded his mind all at once. His eyes instantly rolled back, and his entire body went into violent convulsions on the lounge chair.
In the midst of his struggling, a spatial bubble expanded rapidly from his fingertips, enveloping his whole body and sealing out all scents. Only after a good while did he finally recover.
"Super Smell is way too absurd..."
Yu Xian pulled a tissue from his storage ring to wipe away the nosebleed, sitting inside the bubble with lingering dread.
Just moments ago, it felt as though his single breath had absorbed all the scents accumulated over thousands of years in Silver City, even tracing their origins right back to the root.
He could tell who had left behind a single pile of dung.
Taking it a step further, he could analyze precisely how that dung had changed in their intestines, what occurred in their stomach, and what food it had originally been—all derived crystal-clear through scent alone.
A small amount of scent would have been fine, but the scents of the entire Silver City were simply too overwhelming.
It was so complicated that his brain couldn't shoulder the load.
Yu Xian had originally planned to activate Super Smell and then keep hoarding energy to grind for the Pangu Immortality Divine Ability, but now he was forced to activate "Super Brain" first.
A Super Brain wouldn't make an idiot clever. At most, it improved memory and boosted processing speed—the equivalent of swapping in a more powerful CPU without altering any of the software.
For instance, the perfect creature naturally possessed a Super Brain, yet it remained far from clever; it merely processed information faster.
Right now, Yu Xian desperately needed a Super Brain to handle the massive data brought on by Super Smell. If he couldn't solve this problem, having Super Smell would become a burden instead of a boon.
For now, he could only use spatial bubbles to block out the scents. Otherwise, with scent data continuously occupying his mind, he wasn't sure he could hold out until the day Super Brain was activated.
Or rather, even if it could be activated, would he still retain enough conscious awareness to pick a talent when his mind was clogged with garbage data?
Still, it wasn't as if Super Smell was completely unusable in the meantime...
Yu Xian manipulated the spatial bubble, attempting to let in only the scents within a one-meter radius. Instantly, his mind registered the fresh fragrance of leaves and the earthy aroma of grass.
Probing deeper, there were earthworms beneath the soil, along with various bugs he couldn't name.
Although his brain wasn't a Super Brain, as a Transcendent, his faculties were already quite sharp. At the very least, his ability to process information far exceeded that of an ordinary person.
One meter posed no issue.
Next, Yu Xian tried admitting scents within a ten-meter radius. He smelled rusted nails buried underground, and a worn-out shoe left behind by construction workers who had built the house...
Yu Xian frowned, discovering quite a bit of construction debris buried beneath his own home.
He even discovered food bones left by the workers. For some reason, he knew precisely that those bones had been discarded on a specific day five years ago, and from the faintest lingering aroma, he could even tell how they had been cooked.
Super Smell truly was incredible. It had completely surpassed the realm of normal olfactory perception and become a full-fledged superpower.
Afterward, Yu Xian gradually widened the admitted range—from ten meters to fifty meters, then from one hundred to one thousand. Ultimately, he determined that the maximum volume of information he could currently endure was capped at a thousand meters. Beyond a kilometer, his brain began to lag under the strain.
One kilometer was already quite impressive.
Floating out of the villa while sitting inside his bubble, Yu Xian perceived everything around him through scent: a snake hiding by the riverbank, people driving cars, a passenger secretly passing gas, and listless, worn-out pedestrians.
He drifted slowly toward more crowded areas. As the scent data grew dense, he had no choice but to narrow the circle, reducing it from a thousand meters down to five hundred.
"Huh, Nora's scent!"
On one street, Yu Xian suddenly caught a familiar, delightfully sweet scent.
Then he detected another scent somewhat similar to Nora's. Compared to Nora's, however, this one was far more intricate. That woman had been with... at least two men.
"Is it Nora's mother?"
Stirred, Yu Xian used Silver Blood to enhance his brain and took another deep breath of the surrounding air.
In an instant, an enormous amount of scent data was sorted and categorized by his brain, which even reconstructed visual images from the molecular structures of the odors. Just as smelling a rose naturally brought an image of a rose to mind, or smelling roast chicken conjured the sight of roast chicken, Super Smell easily converted vast amounts of data into such mental pictures, allowing its host to "see" the origins of those scents.
Naturally, this required a sharp mind. An ordinary brain would crash under the sudden influx of data.
For now, Yu Xian could only use this ability while his brain was amplified by Silver Blood. It seemed this technique would only become a normal, effortlessly usable ability once he activated Super Brain.
At this moment, Yu Xian could practically "see" Nora walking through the crowd a few hundred meters away in a white dress, accompanied by a middle-aged woman who shared a thirty percent facial resemblance with her.
Numerous bodyguards surrounded the pair, all carrying firearms.
"It really is Nora's mother."
Yu Xian opened his eyes and looked down, locking onto Nora and her mother in an instant.
He had assumed Nora's mother was bound to be a Transcendent. To his surprise, she was just an ordinary person, though she possessed an extraordinary aura—an air of someone of high standing.
Then again, someone capable of being involved with a Blood Clan duke could never be ordinary. Even if she wasn't a Transcendent, she belonged to an elite echelon of regular humans.
Besides, becoming a Transcendent wouldn't have been difficult for Nora's mother, yet she hadn't done so. That was certainly food for thought.
Either she possessed an exceptionally open-minded outlook, or she harbored far grander ambitions, pursuing a much greater future.
Whichever it was, Yu Xian felt Nora's mother was anything but simple.
Chapter 95