The growth of human strength follows the same principle: once one's ability values reach a certain bottleneck, advancement becomes impossible through ordinary means. For Xiao, that bottleneck happened to fall at the number ten. Once any physical attribute reached 10 points, level-1 conceptual crops would completely lose their effect.
No matter how many low-level concept crops he consumed, they could no longer raise the upper limit of an attribute—at most, they could restore the energy he'd already spent.
In other words, if Sebastian wanted to continue increasing his ability values beyond that threshold, he would have to rely on more advanced conceptual crops.
Level-2 concept crops granted two points of growth, but their upper limit was still ten points—meaning they could not be stacked with level-1 fruits. A level-2 fruit could raise an attribute from 0 to 20 points, but even if that attribute had already reached 10 through level-1 crops, the final cap remained 20.
With this, Sebastian finally had concrete data that allowed him to classify power levels with precision.
One basic attribute point defined a level-1 crop; two points, a level-2 crop, and so on, all the way up to level-10. A concept crop capable of increasing an attribute by ten points, Sebastian Xiao named a first-order crop.
Beyond that, the pattern continued—each tier multiplying numbers by ten.
Level 1 of the first order: 10 pointsLevel 2: 20 pointsMax level: 10
Once the fruit reached 100 points, it became second-order, and the levels repeated again:
Level 1: 100 pointsLevel 2: 200 points
Each advancement in tier required a ten-fold increase.
First tier: 10–99 pointsSecond tier: 100–999 pointsThird tier: 1000–9999 points…
Crude, perhaps—but simple, intuitive, and extremely clear.
This system allowed Sebastian to precisely categorize every conceptual crop, and, more importantly, calculate how much energy was required to condense seeds for each type. All of this served one purpose: to create a more efficient, accurate method of advancing power while eliminating all possible waste.
After all, every bit of fertility within the small world was precious—far too precious to squander as carelessly as he had before.
Every reduction in waste was another stone laid at the foundation of his eventual Daluo Dao Fruit.
Now that the Small World possessed the ability to scale concept power accurately, Sebastian could easily construct a system-like status layout based on the data he'd determined.
Status Layout
Name: Sebastian Xiao
Body: 34 — (Strength, power, and speed combined)
Endurance: 67 — (Recovery, stamina, durability combined)
Spirit: 75 — (Soul, mental acuity, intelligence combined)
Abilities:
Energy Absorption — Level 4, Stage 1Dimension Farm — Level: ???
(Dimension Farm was Sebastian Xiao's own name for his Small World, a name carrying all the expectations he held for its future.)
With his current physical fitness—without activating any superpowers—none of his physical indicators had yet exceeded 100. This was still the physique of "Xiao from the Siheyuan."
Of course, these numbers were largely superficial. His true combat strength came from his fourth-level superpower.
Once activated, Xiao's base attributes would explode exponentially. Based on past tests—such as that brief moment when he walked through the courtyard—one punch could easily reach five-digit power.
But superpowers were, in essence, amplifiers. No matter how overwhelming they seemed, they merely magnified the underlying physical attributes.
Especially Xiao's superpower: the stronger the base, the more energy he could absorb, and the more destructive the amplified output.
If he could kill Siheyuan Xiao with a full-powered punch at a mere 1-point attribute, then with a base of 100 points, becoming hundreds of times stronger was only natural.
This was precisely why Xiao chose not to integrate superpower-amplified values into the status layout.
Those increases couldn't be extracted or stored. Extracting them would only yield a superpower with no meaningful base value.
Even when Sebastian poured all absorbed energy into the Small World, his physical body would revert to its normal state afterward.
This made one thing clear: all the enhancements granted by Compound V–grade superpowers were temporary illusions. They only existed as long as the power remained active; the true basic attributes never changed.
Superpowers in the world of The Boys were like game skills—buffs that amplified the underlying stats.
Which was why, no matter how terrifying a superhuman seemed, losing their power reduced them instantly to ordinary humans—weak, fragile, and lacking even standard physical conditioning.
The effects of Compound V were simply monstrous.
After finalizing the basic attribute layout, Sebastian Xiao began testing the capabilities of the Small World.
First, he extracted his personal abilities and converted them into conceptual seeds.
Then, after planting them until they sprouted, he destroyed them midway.
He wanted to test whether the energy spent could be recovered—and if so, how quickly.
If destroying crops caused the invested power to dissipate, Xiao would need to plant extremely conservatively. Otherwise, should an emergency arise—and he couldn't retrieve his abilities—he could die for something as ridiculous as over-investing in his own farm.
After all, the timing of a Daluo Arena match was never fixed. It could trigger at any moment—even while he slept—and transport him instantly.
If he had stored too many attribute values in crops when the Arena opened again, and had no time to retrieve them, he would be finished.
Fortunately, the results greatly exceeded his expectations.
Power stored in the Dimension Farm could be retrieved instantly, with a 100% return rate, and without any waste whatsoever.
The only price was that the unused crop's growth progress would reset to zero—any future planting would have to start over.
It was merely a time cost.
Under ordinary circumstances, Xiao might not care about such things.
But with the Daluo Duel chasing him like a savage beast, time was life itself.
With this reassurance, Sebastian Xiao prepared to plant all of his superpowers and awakened physical attributes as seeds.
Of course, he had no intention of merging everything into a single seed.
The more concepts a seed contained—and the greater its value—the more energy and time it required to grow.
Take the legendary Peaches of Immortality as an example. If he wanted his own version to reach mythical levels, it truly might take:
three thousand years to bloom,three thousand years to bear fruit,and another three thousand years to ripen.
And that was only assuming an environment overflowing with energy.
If energy was insufficient…
it might not grow at all—not even after tens of thousands of years.