Chapter 40: The Spiritual Awakening thod!
In the depths of the night, as dawn approached, a shadow swiftly traversed the street, skillfully avoiding several surveillance caras before successfully entering an apartnt.
Click!
The door opened and closed. Lu Yu tossed his mask and yellow trench coat onto the sofa, collapsing onto it with a sigh.
“Another persona successfully created. If I don’t pursue an acting career, it’s a real waste!”
He held three business cards in his hand: one from the Morning Star expert Li Cheng, another from the night market owner Ma Yang, and the last from the chatty young woman Xu Xiaoqing.
However, Lu Yu couldn’t contact them just yet. His public identity was still that of an ordinary person, and any premature communication could expose him. He needed to wait for the right opportunity.
Tonight’s visit to the night market had been quite rewarding. Not only had he acquired nurous books on Awakener knowledge, but he’d also obtained valuable information about a drake egg and learned much about various magical creatures.
Recalling the drake egg, he connected it to Li Cheng’s ntion of soone supplying fresh eyeballs to the Eye Thieves.
If traitors were indeed selling out their kind, they would likely operate in cities close to the Eye Thieves’ territory. The longer the transportation route, the higher the associated risks.
Based on the range where the Eye Thieves had been robbing people, the most probable targets were Hang City and a few nearby smaller cities.
With this realization, Lu Yu snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Following the sharp sound, three dark, shadowy servants erged from the shadows. Their features were indiscernible, and one held a stack of books, placing them before him.
Lu Yu nodded approvingly and commanded:
“From now on, patrol this city. If you co across any information about human trafficking or anything related to the Eye Thieves, report to imdiately!”
Without a word, the shadow servants shimred, transforming into pools of dark fluid that lded seamlessly into the surrounding darkness. They were now his ever-watchful eyes and ears.
“Truly convenient, though I could use more of them.”
Satisfied with their performance, Lu Yu noted their remarkable strength, stealth, and unwavering loyalty. They required neither rest nor sustenance—every employer’s dream workers.
“It’s ti to create the remaining seven shadow servants.” He recalled the contact information for the pet market owner and considered arranging another delivery.
With these minor tasks out of the way, Lu Yu picked up the handwritten “Awakener’s Beginner Guide” from Xu Xiaoqing and began reading.
Hours passed unnoticed until the sun slowly rose, its dazzling light dispelling the lingering shadows and casting its brilliance upon the world.
Lu Yu closed the last book, astonished.
“So, this is how the Awakener system works! By continuously refining one’s spiritual essence, one gains power… It’s similar to reality-shaping through sheer will… No, that’s not quite right. There’s also a physical cultivation branch, along with various curses, divinations, blessings, rituals, and core manuals. It’s more like simultaneous cultivation of the soul and body for unparalleled strength.”
The source of an Awakener’s power lay in sothing called spiritual essence, present throughout all existence. Every person, even the tiniest blade of grass, contained a asure of spiritual essence—though its concentration varied.
Spiritual essence represented a blend of soul, body, and mind, enabling individuals to harness the world’s power. Every human being possessed spiritual essence, but only those whose essence exceeded a specific threshold could awaken.
Thus, most schools routinely conducted spiritual essence evaluations, scanning students periodically. Anyone surpassing the threshold gained the chance to beco an Awakener.
The cultivation of spiritual essence was first proposed by the Ancestor of Humanity, who developed thods to increase spiritual essence through a foundational manual called the Spiritual Awakening thod. Using it, he ascended to even greater realms and generously shared his teachings.
With these teachings, humans produced nurous formidable warriors, turning the tide against magical creatures and monstrous anomalies. Humanity shifted from being prey to becoming hunters.
However, while the Ancestor’s thod worked universally, it didn’t allow everyone to reach their full potential. Thus, countless pioneers refined and innovated upon his teachings.
After generations of relentless progress, the Spiritual Awakening thod evolved into nurous powerful paths, such as Li Cheng’s Yin-Yang Duality, brimming with vast knowledge, rituals, techniques—and most critically, the Core Manual!
The Core Manual was the foundation of any secret art, akin to a ceremonial blueprint. It determined whether a technique could be cultivated successfully.
With the Core Manual, humans could continuously enhance their spiritual essence, ascend through the Morning Star and Radiant Moon ranks, and gain awe-inspiring powers comparable to gods and demons.
The key to cultivating the Core Manual lay in sothing reminiscent of a mystical training thod from his past life:
Visualization Diagrams!
The essence of a Core Manual involved visualizing its symbols, thereby elevating one’s spiritual essence, condensing it into a point, and reaching the Morning Star level.
By expanding this point, amplifying its light, and breaking through the threshold between the real and the ethereal, one could ascend to the Radiant Moon level.
Eventually, a practitioner would manifest their Visualization Diagram into reality, wielding its power as their own.
However, Lu Yu currently lacked such complex secret arts. All he had was the beginner’s version of the Spiritual Awakening thod, handwritten by Xu Xiaoqing.
“So, what should I do now?”
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