As only five days remain to New Year, the atmosphere of celebration was all over the town.

It seemed the even the frequent unruly rains agreed to halt for the time being and weather was particularly pleasant for going shopping.

Zi Yang was already waiting at home for Zi Ming to come so that they could go shopping. He had a few designs in mind he wanted Zi Ming to try.

Getting custom made clothes do not take as long as they would in a technological world. Specialized beasts could like skilled silkworms or spirit butterflies can whip up clothes using spiritual energy and different silk threads in minutes.

For more details though, you would need human intervention. Even then, he was ready to splurge this New Year.

His baby brother looks like a jade doll said in classic mythological dramas so he wanted to wear a traditional dress for this New Year with Zi Ming.

He borrowed inspiration from the countless novels he had read online in the previous life.

He was also quite excited about this year.

This year would be quite special as this would mark as the start of his career!

Yes. He had already felt spirit qi.

That is why he had no crease of tension on his face.

Not on its own though.

He had to improvise. He thought and thought hard.

Finally, when he practiced getting beat up and recovering with Miss Ling, he could finally mobilize some of his blood energy.

Subsequently, he mobilized his blood energy for years every night to try to combine absorb spiritual qi in the air.

Though that failed, he was able to come into contact with his own mental energy or divine sense as said in many novels.

He thought to try combining them to form a chakra type energy, which failed as well.

It was only recently that his blood energy seemed to have reached a certain threshold and started absorbing some spiritual qi in the air.

The spiritual qi is less than one-hundredth of what he tried to absorb.

Even if Zi Yang is exaggerating, he can only say he only felt flight twinges on one of his fingers when he started absorbing with all his strength.

He thinks his body filtered a lot and only absorbed a very tiny part of spiritual air in his body.

But the good news is that his blood qi and that tiny spiritual qi seem to have produced a new kind of spiritual energy that is more condensed and purer than the spiritual energy in the air.

He could feel that his desire to absorb spiritual energy from the air is waning. Only one spiritual energy stones that contains the densest energy has some appeal to him.

He called this qi – Yuan qi…

As the protagonist of any time travel novel would.

He thought, a little narcissistically.

While Zi Yang here was waiting for Zi Ming to come home and go clothes designing, stitching and fitting.

Void Empress was filled with a kind of unease all over.

She didn’t understand why she felt like she was about to lose something.

She felt that she had to hurry up or else the train would pass.

But the thing is the she didn’t have to go anywhere. Even if she had to, she could reach there in a second through void space magic.

Why would she feel that the need for a common vehicle of transportation?

Thinking over and over, she could only try to focus on the little purple light in her heart.

She had found this light quite a while later after inspecting her body after the last sudden strengthening of her viewpoint.

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She guessed what it might be, but she never used it.

She could sense that purple light is a one-time consumable. It would disappear after use.

Now she felt that only by using it could her uneasiness settle down.

She probed her mind into it and thought hard about this sense of uneasiness and her thoughts flew to all possible problems through various angles and even the smallest of clues she could have otherwise missed.

But no matter how well she tried – no solution emerged.

Until she coincidentally thought of Zi Yang and the purple light heated up and started disappearing at a faster rate.

Halfway through thinking, she seemed to be able to see a tiny speck of spiritual energy enter his body and then, there was no more.

The purple spiritual light was completely dim and seemed to be disappearing.

But likewise, her uneasiness also subsided a little.

It was replaced by perplexion now.

She couldn’t think of any reason whatsoever.

She did what she always did when she couldn’t figure out things.

She spread her spiritual thoughts and convened a meeting a Mystic Void and Dark Void.

Dark Void was tending to her duties on Void net – remotely managing the plateau of emptiness and the Void palace.

Baize was tending to his duties as the manager of the daycare center and seeing off the last working day this year.

Receiving the void empress’ order, they dropped their work and gather in her study at once.

At this time of the day, the Empress has already lit a jade cedar in the incense burner. Coupled with the slightly rich smell of the mahogany furniture, the two smells mixed together with the spiritual energy to create an illusion of peace found deep in the woods.

Both Dark Void and Mystic Void waited for their empress to express that agenda of this meeting.

Sure enough, they were not kept waiting for long.

“I want to conclude the apprenticeship ceremony before the awakening day ceremony begins.”

Void Empress was succinct as always.

Dark Void was not fazed. The empress can do whatever she wants and it does not matter whether it is before or after the awakening day.

Mystic Void sensed a kind of urgency in her tone, but he did not ask the reason. He also held the opinion that the void empress could proceed as she wanted.

Their duty as the attendant was to act not to question, unless necessary.

Dark Void said, “I will start preparing for it now. Void Empress, what are the details on how to conduct it?”

Everyone knew what she meant.

This was the Void Empress’ sole disciple.

Any amount of pomp would be insufficient. Considering less than a month that is left to prepared – whom should they send invitations – should the other two emperors also be invited?

Donghuang Emperor is always busy running for the nation, so he might not be able to make on such a short notice.

But if he does not show, that would be considered rude on his part and sending such a short notice is rude on theirs.

There’s also an issue of venue. Would they return to the plateau of emptiness or should be hold it in this town?

Mystic Void was considering different things altogether.

He was considering how to inform Zi Yang about this and why the Empress was in such a hurry.

While the two were thinking, the Void Empress had already put the stop to their imaginations.

She said, “Baize, just inform Zi Yang that I am the Void Empress and wish to accept his as my disciple.”

Baize hesitated. Is that a little too straight for a kid?

Dark Void reprimanded immediately, “Mystic Void, why don’t to reply to the Empress?”

Baize finally couldn’t help but ask, “Empress, would it be too sudden to spring it up on him?”

Void Empress understood that Zi Yang would probably be scared and feel cheated when the revelation came out. Afterall, who would want to have a neighbor who monitored someone for 16 years!

But Dark Void did not have such concern.

If Mystic Void was thoughtful and dared to question and proceed with caution.

Dark Void’s life creed was to follow orders in strictest sense as an attendant. She was an executor.

She was often annoyed by how Mystic Void would contradict the empress and the empress would also not reprimand him.

Just like she was now.

The Void Empress said, “I know. Just tell him and say, I want to see him and talk about it.”

In fact, she also knew that haste makes waste and it might be detrimental to spring it up all of a sudden without minimal time to react.

But she could not tell Baize and Dark Void that she had a feeling that if she did not accept his as a disciple now – she might not have the qualifications to do so after he awakened his talent.

Where in the world has anyone seen an emperor level powerhouse unqualified to accept an apprentice?

She still could not put down her face and state this fact to them both.

To Dark Void’s question on arrangement, she said lightly – now is not the time to make it public.

Dark Void understood that it would be a private ceremony.

As both of them went out for their own businesses, the gears of fate started moving in an unfamiliar direction.

Whether the results are good or not, time will tell.

Soon.