[Urban High Martial Arts] [Rule-Based Superpowers] [Ability Development] [Defeating Stronger Opponents] [Academy Growth] [Single Female Lead]
The spirit tide descends, and high martial arts go global.
At the awakening ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the top genius of Hailin No. 1 High School awakens the S-rank "Inch Flash," while Jiang Xu receives only an F-rank support ability: increasing the windup time.
The school's top student activates Inch Flash, ready to take him down in one move.
Jiang Xu raises a finger. "Three-second windup for teleportation."
Three seconds later, the school's top student is sprawled on the ground.
But this isn't stopping time. He gets only twelve seconds a day; he can interfere with only one real process that has already begun at a time; and once the delay ends, the outcome that was meant to happen will still arrive.
Until one day, a "starting line" lasting a full seventy-two hours envelops Hailin City. All the instruments show normal readings. Only Jiang Xu can see that the disaster has already begun.
He must learn not only how to slow everything down, but also when he must never let it slow down.
