Chapter 43: Innate Awakening, Heavenly Radiance
Lin Feng was having a very long dream. In the dream, his soul drifted away from his body, wandering in the darkness. No matter how he drifted, his soul could never escape that boundless darkness.
This was a world of darkness, a world devoid of any life.
Lin Feng did not know how long his soul had been drifting when a single point of light suddenly appeared before him. This only light in the darkness carried a myriad of colors, spiraling upward, brilliant and dazzling.
"So dreamlike."
Lin Feng moved closer to that point of light. The radiance grew stronger and stronger. He discovered that this spiraling light extended far into the distance, unreachable. Above the dazzling, spiraling light, a resplendent Heavenly Book seemed to float silently, carrying an ancient aura, as if it had existed there since time immemorial.
As Lin Feng looked at this brilliant Heavenly Book above, a dazzling radiance burst forth once more. The Heavenly Book slowly opened, and then, countless characters surged toward Lin Feng!
"Boom!"
His mind exploded instantly. Lin Feng sat up abruptly from the ground. The drizzling night rain continued to fall, the world dark and gloomy. Where was the dazzling brilliance, let alone the resplendent Heavenly Book?
"Huff, huff..." Lin Feng let out heavy breaths, his body still trembling slightly. Fortunately, he was still alive.
Under that tearing pain just now, Lin Feng had almost thought he was going to die. That pain was simply not something a human could endure.
"Did others also have to endure this kind of pain when their martial souls awakened?" Lin Feng's deep pupils stared into the pitch-black night, a hint of doubt appearing on his face. Although he did not consider his talent to be exceptionally strong, he at least had some confidence in his willpower. If others could endure the pain of martial soul awakening, he could too.
But during his own martial soul awakening, the endless pain had struck him three times in succession, each time more intense than the last. By the final time, it was simply trying to kill him. That kind of pain could not be endured by willpower alone. His will was strong, which was why he did not collapse outright, but instead bled from his seven orifices.
Perhaps everyone's martial soul awakening is different. I wonder if my martial soul managed to get through this hurdle.
Lin Feng murmured to himself. With a thought, he released his martial soul. The next moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sensation—a feeling of being immersed in darkness. Everything around him changed. Darkness, endless darkness. He was no longer in the night, but in a dark world.
His senses seemed sharper than ever. For miles around, even the slightest rustle of wind or grass could not escape him. His mind became incredibly calm and kept racing, far more acute than usual, as if he could see through everything in an instant.
Even more terrifying were Lin Feng's eyes—eyes he could not see himself. Dark pupils, devoid of human emotion. What a terrifying calmness and indifference this was.
"Darkness... martial soul."
Lin Feng realized that his mind was clearer than ever before. Even he himself could sense how terrifying this martial soul was.
And it seemed there was more to it than that...
With another thought, behind Lin Feng, a vast, massive black shadow spiraled upward. At the top of this dark shadow, a resplendent book floated silently. This resplendent book had one page open, as if it had always been that way.
"Is this one martial soul?" Lin Feng stared blankly. When a martial artist releases their martial soul behind them, they can clearly perceive everything about it. The scene now unfolding was just like in his dream—an endless dark world, with a single point of light flickering, a suspended Heavenly Book floating silently.
In Lin Feng's memory, there had never been a martial soul that could be released in two stages. It was as if this martial soul inherently had a dual nature. The first stage had no dark shadow, but it merged the surrounding world into darkness. The second stage revealed the Heavenly Book martial soul. Lin Feng had thought his martial soul's awakening had failed, but now it seemed he had not only succeeded, but far exceeded his expectations.
"Heavenly Book, Book martial soul..." Lin Feng did not even know how to name his martial soul anymore.
In the Nine Heavens Continent, there were countless martial artists and too many types of martial souls. The innate awakening itself was a transformation of the martial soul. No one could claim to know all martial souls; they only knew of many common types and rare variants.
The Book martial soul was one such peculiar rare variant. This type of martial soul was not an attack-type martial soul, nor could it defend or assist in battle. However, the owners of Book martial souls might have extraordinary things recorded in their martial soul books, things that could potentially change a martial artist's fate.
"Heavenly Radiance." Lin Feng murmured softly. Instantly, in those dark, cold pupils, a brilliant silver-white light appeared, as dazzling as the sun, striking and eye-catching.
This brilliant light flashed and was gone, but Lin Feng fell into deep thought. This Heavenly Radiance was the divine ability granted to him when the Book martial soul opened its first page. Heavenly Radiance, seeing through everything.
"From now on, I shall call you the Heavenly Radiance Martial Soul." Lin Feng muttered to himself. The martial soul's shadow dissipated, and his eyes gradually returned to normal, no longer cold and emotionless. His eyes remained as clear as ever, but behind that clarity, a hint of depth had been added.
He spread his palm, and a white qi barrier pulsed unsteadily. The world's origin energy could now be freely transformed into a qi barrier. Lin Feng had now stepped into the Spirit Martial Realm.
The Dark martial soul had undergone its innate awakening, giving birth to the dual-stage Heavenly Radiance Martial Soul. His strength had reached the Spirit Martial Realm. Although the little snake martial soul had not awakened, Lin Feng was already quite satisfied.
His Heavenly Radiance Martial Soul should only need to unlock the first stage to grant him even greater combat power. The second stage, the Book martial soul, was likely a support type, allowing him to obtain divine abilities without needing to release it in normal times.
"At the First Layer of Spirit Martial Realm, I am now unmatched." Lin Feng smiled confidently. He could feel how terrifying the transformed Dark martial soul was. Just the first stage of Heavenly Radiance was equivalent to an evolution of the Dark martial soul. If he were to encounter Lin Qian again now, Lin Feng was absolutely certain he could defeat her, even though she was a proud daughter of heaven with both ice and fire martial souls.
The rain continued to fall in a drizzle. A sliver of light had already appeared in the dark sky. Dawn was about to break.
Lin Feng stood up and looked at his rain-soaked clothes, letting out a bitter laugh. He hadn't expected to sit here all night, ending up this disheveled.
Raising his head to look into the distance, a cold glint flashed in Lin Feng's clear eyes. Last night, the City Lord's Mansion had sent so many martial artists at the Eighth and Ninth Layers of Spirit Martial Realm to assassinate him. If his strength had been even slightly weaker, he would have surely died without a burial place.
"City Lord's Mansion, Nalan Feng. Sooner or later, you will regret today's actions."
Lin Feng lifted his foot and walked off into the distance.
PS: An extra chapter added. My heart is cold. Isn't the apocalypse over? Where are the readers? Not even a cup of hot coffee or a recommendation!!!
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