33 THIS IS CHEATING!
Zhen Han was looking forward to the strongest ability in this world. He wanted to learn this great shamelessness ability as soon as possible, so he promised himself to do his best during the Awakening ceremony.
He was soon in the first level of the pagoda. The first level has a spiritual energy converging array which can gather the spiritual energy from the surrounding area in one place. The array made this place rich in spiritual energy and hence a suitable place for the formation of spiritual veins.
The first step of the Awakening realm is the formation of spiritual veins. It can be done by absorbing the spiritual energy through a specific breathing method and then converting the spiritual energy into spiritual veins.
Zhen Han sat in the middle of the floor where the spiritual energy was the richest. He freed his mind of any distractions and focused on feeling the spiritual energy of the world using the cultivation method his grandfather gave him.
Meanwhile, outside the pagoda. There was a gigantic spiritual screen projection next to the pagoda. One can see the happenings of inside from the screen. The screen has even sound array which can pass the voice from the pagoda to outside.
"How much time you think Zhen Han will take?" A great Elder asked Lin Feng.
The latent potential of the younger generation has increased due to the heavenly phenomenon five years so talent wasn't something rare. What was rare was the absolute top geniuses.
"Lin Zumo, I think he can form spiritual veins within five hours," Lin Feng answered. He was one of the few people in this world who knew about the existence of violet bead. He was there when his daughter gave birth to Zhen Han.
Lin Feng knew the entire heavenly phenomenon was created just because of Zhen Han's birth. If the phenomenon increased the talent of other people, then the talent of his grandson should be far higher.
He actually believed it would be less than five hours, but he gave a conservative estimate.
"Oh? You think he is a top genius?" Lin Zumo. He knew Lin Feng wouldn't brag now as it useless.
"Genius just denotes potential so it doesn't matter if he is a top genius or not as long as he can live long," Lin Feng said.
The path of cultivation is full of life-threatening risks. How can a parent or grandparent feel at ease seeing their descendant treading on a life-threatening path? But they also know they can't stop as in this world cultivation is most important.
Without cultivation powers, one can't live more than a hundred years. No parent wants to see their child dying out of aging before them.
"Sighs. You are right," Lin Zumo said.
"Father, don't worry about Han'er," Lin Li said. She almost blurted out "worry about the world instead!"
"Lin Li, how much time you think your son will take?" Lin Zumo asked.
"Less than an hour," Lin Li said. There was no excitement in her voice as if she was stating a fact. Instead, it sounded as if she was being modest in her claims.
The great elders and the younger generation of Lin clan were shocked by the claims. Not even the greatest talent of Lin clan can form spiritual veins in an hour but now she is saying her son will do it less than an hour?
Laughable.
Truly mothers are blind when it comes to their children.
Lin Zumo and other great elders have a mocking expression. Even the younger generation was looking at Lin Li as if she was an idiot.
"I know she is a mother but even mother shouldn't make such outrageous claims!"
"Seems like she suffered some mental injuries when she escaped from the capital two years ago."
"Yeah. Perhaps the aura of tribulation opened some screws in her brain."
"Haha, true."
"Her son is also same otherwise how could he say such things to Lady Lin Yiruo a few minutes ago."
"Both mother and son became retard."
"Truly heavens want to wipe out Zhen family. They eradicated the emperor and his court. Few survived but now they are retards."
The younger generation of Lin clan didn't even bother to talk in whispers. Their voices were loud and clear to Lin Li and others.
Zhen Ling, Zhen Ming, and Lin Feng felt humiliated, but they could do nothing. Even they felt forming spiritual veins in less than an hour is difficult.
Forming spiritual veins is a risky procedure comprising great physical and mental strain so how can it be done quickly? Not to mention the spiritual energy required for forming the spiritual veins couldn't be provided by the spirit converging array in an hour. It wasn't just economical to build a rate converging spirit array knowing even the best of genius need more than an hour.
Forget about great clans but not even the royal family has a genius who has formed spiritual veins in an hour. But now Lin Li is saying her son would do it in less than an hour?
"Lin Li, you shouldn't blind yourself in unrealistic aspirations just because... what?!" Lin Zumo has an expression of seeing a ghost.
Swooooosh!
"IMPOSSIBLE!"
The spiritual energy in the surrounding mountains was depleting at a fast rate. The entire energy was flowing towards the pagoda as if the pagoda was a primordial beast.
Lin Zumo and the audience has an expression of disbelief when they saw the images projected on the screen.
Zhen Han was in meditation but above his head, there was a vortex made of spiritual energy. The arrays inside the pagoda weren't able to handle such high spiritual energy, and they started exploding due to overload!
The most unbelievable part was that the vortex compressed itself in the shape of spiritual veins!
Usually, a cultivator would form spiritual veins inside his body by slowly accumulating spiritual energy. It was a painful process as the other veins inside body were moved from their position in order to provide space for spiritual veins.
But now within seconds, the spiritual veins were formed and that too outside the body! The spiritual veins then entered Zhen Han's body through his wrists.
Zhen Han didn't have any sweat over his body nor any sign of discomfort as the spiritual veins entered his body. The spiritual veins disappeared in Zhen Han's body in less than ten seconds without causing any pain or distress!
"You got to be kidding me!"
"Is this real?"
"FUCKING HEAVENS! TELL ME THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF JOKE!"
"I suffered so much pain when I tried to create my spiritual veins but now this kid actually formed the veins outside his body and fused with them without any pain?!"
Lin Zumo has his eyes wide open with his jaws dropped. The same could be said for the other elders including Zhen Han's grandfathers and father.
The only person who didn't seem surprised was a woman who was much weaker than the great elders! The woman was none other than Zhen Han's mother!
Earlier, when Lin Li said her son would take less than an hour, she was being very conservative as she didn't want to make unbelievable claims. She expected her son to take ten minutes at most but him taking less than a minute didn't shock her.
As far as she was concerned, her son was being modest by taking more than a second to form spiritual veins. He killed Dao Ancestor and destroyed an empire in his sleep, so how can forming spiritual veins in a minute be considered as something shocking?
"I never expected Lin clan to be filled with these many country bumpkins," Lin Li thought when she saw the shocked expressions on people nearby especially Lin Zumo's reaction.
Lin Zumo pinched himself hard just to see if it was a nightmare or some illusion. He felt pain when he pinched himself making him realize this was the reality!
"How can this be true?" Lin Zumo said in a voice filled with disbelief. He was a great elder of Lin clan but now his expression denoted as if he has seen a great devil king.
FUCK! It has been only a minute since that kid started meditation!
I could have believed even if it was less than an hour even though that should be impossible!
BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE IT HAS BEEN ONLY A MINUTE! NO! LESS THAN A MINUTE!
"Lin Feng, did your grandson formed his spiritual veins just now or am I imagining it?" Lin Zumo asked Lin Feng.
But Lin Feng was also in a state of disbelief. He knew about the violet bead but even in his best dreams, he didn't dare wish for such an unbelievable scene. Same could be said for Zhen Ling and Zhen Ming.
Is this really talent?
"How could the heavens be so unfair? They weren't this kind to me at all!" A member of the younger generation said. He has suffered extreme pain and distress during his Awakening ceremony but now a kid has achieved a much better result as if it was a ride in the park.
There was no struggle at all!
Awakening involves shattering the shackles of mortality but for this kid, there were no shackles at all!
It is said that cultivation is a journey against the will of Heavens but now the same heavens helped Zhen Han!
No! It was a free pass!
"This is cheating!"
