[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-ability-pool-is-superior":3,"chapter-my-ability-pool-is-superior-my-ability-pool-is-superior-chapter-72":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Ability Pool is Superior",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},883065,1154,"Chapter 72: Second Round Deathmatch Duel","my-ability-pool-is-superior-chapter-72",72,"\u003Cp>Multi-purpose Venue interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The students about to participate in the Deathmatch Duel have all arrived at their designated positions, quietly waiting for the arrival of the second round Deathmatch Duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please everyone relax and stay calm.” Chen Li sat on the rostrum, casually saying some formal words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Fuzhong and the counseling teachers from other classes finished counting the numbers and returned to the rostrum one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many students shifted their gaze upward to the huge clock at the top of the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The longest second hand on the dial was approaching the scheduled time step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one needed to stand out to maintain order; the students in the venue naturally quieted down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over hundreds of years, everyone knew the Deathmatch System was extremely punctual and had never been late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Students and faculty alike all gazed at the clock above, silently counting in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Two.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the precise moment, a mechanical prompt devoid of any emotion simultaneously appeared in the mind of every student in the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Second round Deathmatch Duel opened.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Teleportation beginning!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deathmatch Arena Number: 87****1062]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Username: Rename26LB (temporarily cannot modify)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Main Title equipped: Pure Smile]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Secondary Titles equipped: Head Chopper Butcher, Ultimate Murderer]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Talent: 18.2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current Points: 0]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current Rank: 500\u002F500]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ability: Flash Time]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Note! First round Ability Pool opened, selection available]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Bai quickly recovered from the dizziness of teleportation and immediately noticed the emerald green light constantly flashing above his head, emanating a vibrant and lively aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up, and the four large characters “Pure Smile” were abruptly hovering above his head, while above this green title, there were prominently two rows of red-black artistic font.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Head Chopper Butcher” and “Ultimate Murderer,” these two titles were ferociously styled in cursive script both horizontally and vertically, their blood-dripping color inspiring fear at first sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyelids twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, what the Death Fighter Forum said was true: equipped titles would display in the Deathmatch Arena, with an art style similar to some trashy mobile game that boasts one slash 9999 damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, once equipped, titles couldn’t be unequipped, only hidden or replaced, and the main title didn’t even have a hide option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily only Death Fighters could see them; otherwise, he’d probably be beaten to death as a monster by the natives right upon entering the Deathmatch Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Bai silently hid the two secondary titles, forcing himself to accept this reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, better to check this round’s Ability Pool first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to open the ability selection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A semi-transparent data panel appeared before his retinas, blocked by three segmented screens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Quick Thinking (Silver): Increases own thinking speed, very likely to cause brain damage.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Armory II (Silver): Opens II-level Armory and randomly obtains one special weapon from it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You Are Called Li Si (Silver): Forces target to rename to Li Si.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a Silver Level Ability Pool?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant other Death Fighters’ first round Ability Pools were only White.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Bai frowned slightly; he didn’t think like most Death Fighters that lower level Ability Pools were better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, the higher the Ability Pool level, the greater his advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least not as flashy as the titles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wang Ting, you are the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, there are stars in your eyes…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Lu Bai was hesitating whether to gamble like a gambler, a man’s deep affectionate confession suddenly drifted to his ears on the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Temporarily exiting the Personal Interface, Lu Bai thought to observe his current situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder he occasionally felt gusts of wind; turns out, he was currently at an altitude of a thousand meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More precisely, in a flying manned hot air balloon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the basket below the hot air balloon, including him, there were three people total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, that man and woman were probably either husband and wife or lovers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his identity seemed to be the pilot of this hot air balloon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How do you drive this thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at the three instruments to his right: altimeter, ascent\u002Fdescent speedometer, and thermometer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Easy enough to identify, but how to operate them specifically would still require some luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the other end of the basket, the man wore a neat suit, tall and handsome in figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke sweet words, he took out a diamond ring from his bosom, knelt on one knee, and said affectionately: “Will you marry me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Ting expressionless: “No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoa… this is awkward.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Bai’s hands, prepared to clap, froze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally planned to share some bad news after the atmosphere turned warm to liven things up, but unexpectedly the woman rejected him on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Telling them now that he didn’t know how to fly the hot air balloon seemed a bit tactless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scratched the back of his head guilelessly: “Landing this thing should take half… maybe a whole hour. What should we chat about next?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one paid him any attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man looked dejected, just standing up when he staggered again, clearly not yet recovered from the blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But strangely, Wang Ting didn’t speak either, giving off a very anomalous feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something’s off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this thought, Lu Bai narrowed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully recalled: when this woman spoke, though only one word, her tone felt subtly off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like someone who had just learned to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, it’s not like that, you’re joking, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coming back to his senses, the man placed both hands on the woman’s shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing an ugly smile: “You told me you wanted me to propose to you in the sky, you said you thought it was romantic, you must be joking with me, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man rambled on, like he’d lost his mind, like a drowning man grasping for that last lifeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Ting remained expressionless, letting the man shake her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps from being shaken too much, Wang Ting’s face cracked open on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her entire head unfolded rapidly like a crumpled ball of string.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ends of these extending flesh strips even formed bone spikes and bone blades glistening with cold light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the man felt his own head about to split open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scared shitless, he collapsed to the ground: “I must be dreaming.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His two legs flailed nonstop, trying to put distance between him and Wang Ting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoa! Alien!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Bai unconsciously smiled: “No, this thing looks more like a Parasite Beast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Ting’s figure from the neck down was still so alluring, but her head had turned into a ferocious monster; compared to the Parasite Beast in Lu Bai’s memory, it just lacked those metallic blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that eerie white bone blade didn’t look low in sharpness either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Ting stood still, controlling one flesh strip to whistle through the air, creating a sharp whooshing sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man sat paralyzed on the ground, eyes wide staring at the approaching flesh strip, completely unable to make any counteraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Lu Bai suddenly activated [Flash Time], and during the time stop, he reached out to grab the man’s collar at the back of his neck, yanking him backward a bit, thus avoiding the scene of the man’s head being severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This action of his naturally drew Wang Ting’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster, like a cold killer, attacked again without a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It swung its upper body, sweeping a flesh strip tipped with a bone blade toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>",1243,"2026-06-03T05:31:12.661Z","2026-06-03T05:31:16.880Z",1,"novelbin.me","10b3c302979079c216e6d465d50ae97a3991b2c9ab0be0749ebb93e1cc6b00a7","my-ability-pool-is-superior-chapter-73","my-ability-pool-is-superior-chapter-71",479,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-ability-pool-is-superior-cover.jpg"]