All My Superpowers Come from the Law of Causality-Chapter 227 - 206: There’s Still a Shortcut (2)

Once everyone had left, Su Xin said:

"After I return, I'll probably keep my phone with me. If there's any action, remember to notify me immediately, got it?"

"Got it."

Zuo Shuanghui nodded.

...

After returning to the secret base, Su Xin took out his phone, and Instant Teleported back to the surface. As soon as he connected to the network, he saw a message from Zuo Shuanghui.

"It's indeed more convenient to carry the phone with you, or else you might miss some important information."

"Speaking of which, it'd be great if I could awaken some space storage ability someday."

Thinking of this, Su Xin checked his personal panel again. He had less than forty thousand cause points, and to awaken a new ability, he needed to upgrade Exercise Maniac to LV9, which required three hundred sixty thousand more cause points.

"With such a huge gap in cause points, considering the current donation rate, it would require around five billion in cash..."

"The Dawn Association's businesses are being suppressed, and the available funds are too limited, it's impossible to come up with so much money..."

"Saving people is the best for long-term development, but right now it seems too slow, thirty-six thousand cause points, would take at least a month to accumulate."

"Or... should I resort to stealing?"

Su Xin silently calculated in his mind for a while.

Originally, he hadn't planned to steal money, after all, the amount needed for his donations was too large, and this method wasn't sustainable. Every time he stole tens of billions, even the wealthiest tycoon couldn't withstand such cash flow pressure.

But now, having just awakened the Life and Death Balance Superpower, he was eager to upgrade this ability and was looking forward to new powers.

He really didn't want to wait that long.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xin suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a better method.

"Ah yes, the Life Talisman!"

"The Life Talisman can bring people back to life, and resurrecting people can earn me cause points... as long as I'm not the one who killed them or directly caused their death."

Su Xin's eyes lit up, pleased with his sudden idea, and he was also somewhat regretful that he hadn't thought of it earlier.

He had already figured out most of the system's mechanics for gaining cause points. A crucial point being — difficulties inflicted directly by himself or by ordering and other methods leading someone into a dangerous situation, saving them wouldn't yield him cause points from the system.

The same goes for killing.

If he kills someone and then resurrects them, the system can't grant cause points for that, or otherwise, he could infinitely repeat kill and resurrection on a randomly captured person to farm cause points.

Since the system only rewards cause points and doesn't deduct them for any of Su Xin's actions, there's no way it would leave such a loophole.

When he first awakened the Life and Death Balance Superpower, he hadn't thought of this workaround because of the system's mechanism. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But now, he realized there was a loophole to exploit... or maybe it's just a more convenient method.

Su Xin began to think carefully:

"So… I can acquire some Life Talismans, plant them on soldiers in those war-torn countries, and when they die in battle, resurrect them, I can quickly gain a large number of cause points."

"This would be much faster than donations."

"The only trouble is, to acquire enough Life Talismans, I would have to kill a lot of people."

"And once they all died in battle, while I'm gaining cause points, the redemption value would also increase, leading to a constant reduction in the number of Life Talismans, until they might even reach zero and switch to Death Talismans, perhaps even a substantial number."

"At that point, I'd have to kill even more people, first to offset these Death Talismans, and also to gain more Life Talismans by killing more..."

"Does that mean I'd have to keep killing more and more people?"

Su Xin frowned, calculating seriously:

"Let's suppose, I initially kill one hundred people to gain one hundred Life Talismans. Once these Life Talismans are used up, the balance is zero."

"At this point, when those one hundred people are resurrected using the Life Talismans, while I'm gaining cause points, my balance also becomes one hundred Death Talismans."

"I'd need to kill one hundred people to offset these one hundred Death Talismans, or I could use Death Talismans to kill, exhausting these one hundred Death Talismans, resetting the balance to zero, and in turn, killing one hundred people with the Death Talismans converts the balance back to one hundred Life Talismans."

"So, the number of people I actually need to kill isn't as much as I thought, as long as I use Death Talismans to kill, then however many cause points I need, I just kill that many people."

"Hundreds of thousands of cause points..."

"I'd have to kill tens of thousands of people..."

Realizing this, Su Xin fell silent.

No matter how cold-blooded and ruthless he was, he couldn't bring himself to kill so many people just for cause points.

Since awakening his abilities, there was a period where he acted quite harshly, especially during those days in the Celestial Kingdom, frequently killing, but even so, he had only killed just over four hundred people.

The vast majority of whom were his enemies.

Tens of thousands of people, if gathered in one square, the blood flowing could truly form a river.

Thinking of such a bloody scene, Su Xin, who was previously excited about his idea, suddenly felt heavy and had to think of another way.

A moment later, his eyes flickered again.

"Hmm?"

"That's it! I can use the Death Talisman on myself! My body is too strong now, even suicide is quite troublesome, I can just use the Death Talisman on myself to consume them..."

"However, this only consumes the Death Talismans, and means I don't have to exclusively use Death Talismans to kill, nor need to offset them through killing."

"To gain Life Talismans, I still need to kill, and killing myself won't yield Life Talismans."

Though Su Xin thought this, he still prepared to try using the Death Talismans on himself.

What if suicide also grants Life Talismans?

Then farming cause points would be unbeatable.

Determined to act, Su Xin decisively Instant Teleported to the battlefield he previously used for missions.

With his enhanced five senses, he quickly followed the sounds to a skirmish point, planting all the remaining ten-plus Life Talismans on several soldiers engaged in battle, embedding three on each person.

He specifically chose the side that was conspicuously at a disadvantage, as their death rate would be higher and gave a better hope for Su Xin to earn cause points.

Then, Su Xin found a few corpses, transformed back into Zhai Shiquan, donned his mask, and resurrected them one by one.

"Ding! You have gained 66 cause points."

"Ding! You have gained 49 cause points."…

The system notifications chimed one after another.

Meanwhile, Su Xin finally obtained five Death Talismans, which he unhesitatingly used on himself.

With the Life and Death Delay feature, Su Xin didn't die on the spot, but silently passed away after issuing the command.

In the blink of an eye, he came back to life.

The first thing he did was check the system notification, then his personal panel. To his shock and delight — a Life Talisman was indeed generated.

"Fantastic!"

Su Xin couldn't help but grin.

He never expected the system would actually count his suicide towards the kill value.

"Does that mean reviving myself should count as redemption value? But why was there only three redemption points at that time?"

Curiously pondering this question, Su Xin quickly dismissed it and started contemplating the grand scheme of earning cause points with Life and Death Talismans.

Initially, his biggest hurdle was acquiring Life Talismans since it required killing too many people. Now he found out that killing himself could also gain Life Talismans, and given his ability to resurrect indefinitely, the question now was, how to kill himself enough times?

For ordinary people, this question is simple, and for the former Su Xin, it was simple too, just taking a knife and slashing across the neck would do.

But not anymore.

Since his body strength had been crazily enhanced, even suicide was now impossible, because no blade could pierce his skin.