Su Xin contemplated for a long time.

He couldn’t resist asking the system in his mind if it was possible to spend more causality points to select an additional trait, or to forget a previous trait and replace it with the two current ones.

But the system remained unresponsive.

In the end, he could only suppress his frustration and make a difficult decision.

“I choose… Space-Time Mark!”

The upgrade of the superpower was completed instantly.

The Space-Time Mark trait was also successfully solidified.

After receiving the relevant information about this trait in his mind, Su Xin began to experiment.

He clasped his hands together.

At the same time, with a thought, a Space-Time Mark quietly appeared in his mind, but he didn’t instantly teleport out of the office.

Su Xin knew there were definitely surveillance cameras in this office, so he had no intention to continue storing Space-Time Marks, and instead separated his hands.

With another thought.

The Space-Time Mark in his mind dissipated, and only then did Su Xin instantly teleport out of the office, appearing in a clean toilet cubicle.

Su Xin pulled the cubicle door shut and locked it.

Standing there, he repeatedly clasped his hands, feeling the Space-Time Marks in his mind increase continuously, and he grew increasingly excited.

The conflict and frustration he had when making the decision earlier now dissipated completely.

Wasn’t the Space-Time Mark trait what he desired the most? How could he be troubled and pained just because a seemingly more promising option appeared?

There is no absolute perfection in this world.

To possess such a powerful superpower and trait, along with such a magical system, was already an incredible fortune. What more could he ask for?

After storing directly a few hundred Space-Time Marks, Su Xin teleported back to the top-floor office of Yonghui Building, leaned back in the boss chair, and began to study the information related to the system upgrade.

The system upgrade only had three benefits in total.

The first one, it raised the upper limit of superpower levels, allowing all superpowers to be upgraded indefinitely.

However, according to the system’s prompt, after level five, further upgrades wouldn’t yield new traits, only enhancing current attributes, making the upgrades seem not particularly significant.

So it could only barely be considered a minor advantage.

The second benefit is that the available trait options during upgrades can be refreshed by spending causality points.

To Su Xin, this wasn’t very significant either, as each trait available during upgrades was quite practical, and swapping them didn’t hold much meaning.

Thus, this too could only be considered a minor advantage.

The third, the requirement for causality points during upgrades changed, which could barely be seen as an advantage since upgrading from LV1 to LV5 originally required 111,100 causality points while now it only requires fifty thousand.

The causality point consumption has been directly halved.

Overall, the benefits of the system upgrade could only be considered moderate, but the drawbacks were quite substantial.

Firstly, the upgrade added a new superpower slot limitation, capping the number of superpowers. No longer could he casually lie around and awaken a new superpower every few days.

If the highest level of any superpower wasn’t high enough, he might never awaken a new superpower.

This was forcing him to upgrade his superpowers.

Secondly, the ability to forget superpowers voluntarily.

This was obviously in line with the superpower slot settings.

If the number of superpowers exceeded the slot capacity, he could use this feature to forget a superpower, ensuring he need not worry about a powerful superpower being randomly forgotten during the system upgrade.

Moreover, if upgrading superpower levels becomes truly difficult in the future, this feature allows him to forget relatively weaker or somewhat redundant superpowers, freeing up slots and creating opportunities to trigger new missions and awaken new superpowers.

Overall, the biggest disadvantage post system upgrade is the limit set on superpower slots.

If he could choose, Su Xin would rather the system never upgrade.

But the system prompt indicated that he was previously in a newbie protection phase, which allowed him to awaken various superpowers almost without limits.

Whether he accepted or not, whether he wished to or not, he had to proceed with the system upgrade.

Now, since the system provided a final seventy-two-hour deadline, he must resolve any outstanding issues before the upgrade.

According to the instructions, the number of superpower slots equals the level of the highest superpower, with any exceeding the highest level being randomly forgotten.

Currently, his highest superpower level is LV5.

He has six superpowers.

Either wait for the system to upgrade and randomly forget one of the current superpowers.

Or, save enough causality points in advance, so that after the system upgrade, within an hour, he could upgrade his highest superpower, the Stealth Prayer Superpower, to LV6, thus having six superpower slots.

According to the system prompt, after LV5, the causality points needed for upgrading will increase incrementally rather than tenfold like before.

This could barely be considered good news.

So upgrading from LV5 to LV6 requires… two hundred thousand causality points.

He’s still short by one hundred and fifty thousand.

This gave Su Xin a sense of urgency.

He spent a morning, donating a billion to earn fifteen thousand causality points, and if nothing unexpected occurs, he will need the same amount of money and time to gather the rest.

If any issue arises causing him to be unable to gather enough causality points within seventy-two hours and leading to the necessity of forgetting a superpower, it would be troublesome.

There are several superpowers he cannot give up.

Especially Concealment Prayer.

If the system randomly forgets this superpower in the end, its highest Superpower Level would drop to LV3, and the system might randomly forget a few more superpowers.

Then he’d be completely wasted.

At this moment, Su Xin really didn’t have the mindset to deal with anything else, including the attack he suffered in the morning, which he had completely put aside.

As for the other superpowers, he couldn’t spare the energy to upgrade them now, fearing that consuming too much might result in being short by just ten or twenty thousand karma points, causing him to forget a superpower, which would be a huge loss.

Su Xin called the female secretary back in again, and with a solemn face, inquired:

“How’s the list? How many are there now?”

“There are now over five thousand, and the people I arranged are still screening.”

“Okay, you can go on with your work, remember to supervise.”

“Okay, Mr. Su.”

The female secretary smiled as she turned to leave.

Su Xin suddenly called her again:

“Wait, call Deng Zhongquan over.”

“Alright.”

The female secretary nodded, opened the office door and went out, carefully closing the door behind her.

Soon, she arrived at Deng Zhongquan’s office and conveyed Su Xin’s request for him to come over.

“Did Mr. Su say what it’s about?”

The female secretary whispered, “No, but he seemed kind of serious.”

This made Deng Zhongquan tense, knowing that Su Xin looking for him surely wasn’t good news, maybe he’d make another difficult request.

Soon, he arrived at the door to Su Xin’s office, raised his hand, and gently knocked.

“Come in.”

Deng Zhongquan pushed the door open, wearing a spring breeze-like smile, gently closed the door behind him, and walked to Su Xin’s desk, respectfully saying:

“I heard from Secretary Lin that Mr. Su is looking for me.”

Su Xin was blunt, asking, “How’s the money preparation going? There’s still nine billion left.”

“Oh?”

Deng Zhongquan was stunned, completely surprised that Su Xin was concerned about this issue, given that it was previously agreed it would arrive within three days, but he quickly collected himself and explained:

“Mr. Su, recently due to some operational issues in the company, stock prices of some important subsidiaries have fluctuated, and many parent company suppliers are pushing for payments, we’re currently arranging people to deal with these issues, and can’t draw out much funds for now.”

“But I can guarantee, at the latest by the day after tomorrow, the remaining nine billion will be fully transferred to Mr. Su’s account.”

Su Xin tapped his index finger on the table, creating a crisp sound, interrupting the other party, with an undeniable tone, said:

“Transfer another three billion before the end of the day.”

Deng Zhongquan’s face stiffened, then he decisively agreed, “Okay, I’ll arrange it.”

“But the remaining six billion, I’m afraid, will have to wait until the day after tomorrow, Mr. Su, what do you think…”

Su Xin didn’t want to push too hard at this point, so his expression softened a bit, nodding, “That’s fine.”

After Deng Zhongquan took his leave, Su Xin suddenly remembered that Zhan Shijie had called him that morning, saying he had sent an email containing intelligence about the Nirvana Association.

He wasn’t in the mood to pay attention before; now with the money not yet in, it was time to take a look.

Su Xin logged into his email and found the document sent by Zhan Shijie, reading it carefully.

In Zhan Shijie’s intelligence, there was financial assessment about the Nirvana Association, focal power ranges, and information on core superpower user members, etc.

For example, regarding financial assessment, since the Nirvana Association operates in the shadows and has no companies or assets on the surface, this financial assessment is not based on actual assets owned by the Nirvana Association, but based on the confrontation between both sides in the capital market, estimating the funds the other party could mobilize.

As much as twenty trillion yuan.

Of course, it includes direct control, leverage, hidden means, media guidance, interest lure, and other methods, estimating the total funds that could be mobilized, rather than the other party truly being able to bring out that much money.

For instance, if a member of the Nirvana Association owns a small share in a large company, or is an executive in the company, they have the opportunity to use their power to drive the company to mobilize funds, indirectly facilitating the Nirvana Association’s capital operations. This method can mobilize large amounts of funds while being very covert, unlikely to be easily uncovered as having ties to the Nirvana Association.

In short, regardless of the method, the fact that the Nirvana Association can mobilize such huge funds speaks to the magnitude of its power.

And the Nirvana Association’s key power ranges are mostly in those relatively chaotic small countries.

Because those places are in such disarray, no matter how strong the conglomerates are, they can’t infiltrate seamlessly like the Celestial Kingdom.

Even if they want to utilize networks and surveillance, the surveillance in those small countries is minimal, and their network environment is extremely chaotic, making it hard for conglomerate forces to control.

Then there’s information on core superpower users.

1. Codename Thousand Faces: Superpower is the ability to make various realistic human-skin masks, which automatically fit anyone who wears them, resembling real appearances. Including iris detection, no technological means can detect anomalies.

Drawback: Mask can only change facial features, other physical data remain unchanged, and once removed, the mask melts automatically.

2. Codename Scholar: Superpower is an intelligent brain, possessing extraordinary scientific research capabilities.

Drawback: Unknown.

3. Hei Tian: Superpower is illusion, able to implant images into the minds within a certain range, commonly used technique is range blinding, making everyone see only pure to extreme darkness.

Drawback: Images implanted in others’ minds are simple, cannot precisely change in real-time with the target’s line of sight, and are prone to exposure.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep