Zi Yang has never realized that the world he lived in also had such complications.
It may sound funny, but he realized that in the past few years – his vision had been complexly limited to this small town of Mawsynram.
He listened to his master speak, “So, the situation internationally is such that the beast empires outnumber the human empires.
If it were not for more human emperor level beast masters who could fight against multiple emperor level beasts and a country of moderates – the comrade.
Yes, they call themselves the Confederation of Myriad races’ descendants. We would have a war on our hand at any time.
If you were to introduce a new type of beast and attract all the highlight – there would no shortage of assassins sneaking to the country to identify and attack you.
The tree that grows the most beautifully gets cut first.
Let the old man Donghuang take up this limelight. We should sit in the back and enjoy the benefits.”
He decided to follow her advice and wait for further details after proceeding with it.
Even though it sounds logical and factually correct, why does he a slight familiarity with the last sentence?
Why did he suddenly have the feeling that his master was just like him in his bones – lazy to do anything himself and have others do it for him if possible?
Oh. Blasphemy.
How could I think like that of my own master?
Shame.
Zi Yang corrected himself twice and then listened to the rest of the teachings.
It was only around 10 in the night that he swiftly fled back home and snuck into the blanket with Zi Ming.
The next few days, Yi Feng appeared often and they exchanged the knowledge points discussed in school and citizen awareness classes.
The weird thing is that the college entrance exam is nearly six months away, but the students are getting jitters all the same.
This is because there is a widespread belief that one’s knowledge, experience, fantasies, or innate capabilities or qualities can affect the quality of a person’s talent when awakening.
Since rest of things cannot be quickly improved upon, how do students manifest their anxiety and tension?
Of course, it is by becoming studious students overnight and cramming years’ worth of knowledge into their heads.
Then going around town to other students’ home and bringing them along on this wonderful journey.
Such a sweet gesture.
They share knowledge and spread love.
The remember that they should not be alone in their anxiety.
If they are alone, they should be alone together too.
Thus, began daily marches from house to house, bungalow to bungalow and school to school.
More teenagers met these days to discuss the knowledge of beasts, science of talents, and metaphysics of awakening then they have met people in their short lives of sixteen years.
More people became friends.
More people became enemies.
A lot of couples were formed, a lot were broken.
The season that comes every year and lovingly referred to as, “hen pecks chicken” season by many a town folk came again.
In such an environment of happiness, expectation, sincerity, studiousness and heartbreak; the day of awakening finally arrived.
Every student woke up that day like a wooden puppet or an Egyptian mummy and walked listlessly to their testing center.
To schools.
To beast master associations.
To authorized local semi-government organizations.
Zi Yang, no matter if he an adult soul housed in a teen body, was still a teen body after all.
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He did not escape the mummy disease.
The only difference is he conducts his awakening in his Master’s basement.
Uncle Baize told her that, to quote, “prepared a safe and private environment to awaken talents.”
Zi Yang had breakfast listlessly and did not even reply when Zi Ming called out to him.
Finally arriving at the basement, Zi Yang looked at the formation drawn on the ground and the crystal put on top of the altar.
Technically, there is nothing special in the awakening ceremony.
It is essentially gathering spiritual energy, condensing it denser using the spirit crystal ball and passing it onto the body in a knee-jerker like a snap on the back of one’s head.
It’s essentially like using A.E.D. to bring back the heartbeat.
Sudden. Pure. And A Lot.
“Go on, Zi Yang”, the void empress urged and stood aside.
Beside her were Dark Void and Uncle Baize.
Zi Yang walked in and placed his hand on the crystal core.
Void empress also started the formation.
Within a few seconds, swarths of spiritual qi were clearly visible and gathering.
In another second, as large amounts of spiritual qi entered his body – Zi Yang felt a little cold burn and a little high when suddenly he shook and recovered.
All of this happened in a minute and Zi Yang had already awakened his talent.
He was slightly happy. Even though his talent was the most common insight – it was an improvement over having none at all.
He happily turned around and informed everyone, “Master, my talent is Insi…”
Everyone witnessed Zi Yang happily turning around and saying something when he suddenly fell over and fainted.
Void Empress quickly reached out to support but this time, an energy blocked her way.
The energy raged out of Zi Yang’s body.
It shook the air, the ground, the house and the people.
Void Empress to spend everything in her power to stabilize the house and everything around her just to be able to stand.
It was not over yet.
Instead, it was just a beginning.
After a calm of a second, the energy grew stronger and strange phenomena happened.
The ground showed cracks and lightning thundered in the sky.
The rain was too sudden even by Mawsynram’s standards and it was heavy.
Void Empress quickly directed her two attendants to go upstairs and deal with affairs there.
She was enough alone for Zi Yang’s safety.
Even with all the effort and all her beasts summoned, the energy never stopped raging.
The void fell apart, the air showed signs of cracking like tiny pieces of mirror.
After fifteen minutes, the town was flooded and innumerable losses were accounted for.
When everyone almost lost hope of recovery, three lights were seen gliding across the sky, water and the earth.
They quickly sorted out the clouds, thunder, floods and earthquakes.
The townspeople wanted to thank the three great men but they were nowhere to be found.
In the basement, the energy has calmed down and flowed smoothly in Zi Yang’s body.
Void Empress could perceive that Zi Yang’s body was constantly being torn apart and reassembled in his coma.
She saw a rubbery Zi Yang, a bloody Zi Yang, a twisted Zi Yang, a smelly Zi Yang.
She was heartbroken for her disciple.
Even in a coma, how can one bear such torture?
What was happening?
While she was thinking, the energy has properly calmed down but the barrier still existed.
A golden glow seemed to surround Zi Yang.
Slowly golden lotus petals starting appearing around his feet and he was lifted high in air. Around him suddenly emerged two strange objects – a pair of glasses and a hollow jade frog.
They seemed to be affected by the energy too, but they woke up faster than Zi Yang.
The void empress could identify that their seemed to be sentience in both these objects, i.e. they were both beasts.
The pair of glasses she was concerned about suddenly transformed into a magnifying glass and started scanning the surroundings.
Void Empress might have been in a mood to laugh if not for the worry about his disciple.
She wanted to speak when three lights suddenly streaked and headed straight for the lotus petals.
She saw the purple light sweeping like a hawk, the yellow light flew closely behind and started sweeping too.
Finally, the golden light was a little slow, but what it lacked in speed – it made up for in diligence.
She was a little out of tune now. She remembered the purple light. And if the other two lights can fight with the purple light, they should be unique too.
They were going after Zi Yang, or rather these golden flowers around Zi Yang.
Either way, she wasn’t going to stand around and wait.
Without waiting for her to start, the magnifying glasses has already transformed into a fly swatter now and started swatting the three lights away.
All the while shouting “Master’s master, fend of these three thieves. How dare they covert a resource above their stature! These low lives.”
Void empress never imagined that the newly appeared beast would have such a high nose. She called perhaps the most noble conscious in the world, low lives!
The purple light was furious and started attacking the fly swatter aggressively.
Seeing as how it couldn’t win the fly swatter, the human lady and the frog guarding in front of other petals; the yellow light also aimed at the purple light in secret and snatched away one its petals.
The golden light seemed Buddhist and did not fight after being stopped. It still got a petal after it was thrown away after a fight though. It quickly gobbled it up so it thought that no one saw it.
The fly swatter transformed back into the glasses and somehow, the Void Empress understood what it meant.
Its thoughts seemed to be saying, Et tu, brute?
What does that mean?