22 Sacred Awakening, Scion of Light (II)
"Persevere! For our beliefs, for protecting everyone we care about!" Long Xingyu's voice clearly resounded in Long Haochen's mind, making his pain gradually reduce and his spirit rise.
The Awakening Stone in Long Xingyu's hand was being dissolved, continuously being refined in his hand, before finally taking the form of a drop of pure golden liquid that floated and headed towards the pit in the middle of Long Haochen's stomach. Unlike the ordinary awakening of knights, with Xingyu's refining process, that drop of Light Liquid didn't have any traces of impurities. It became a pure golden color as it merged with Long Haochen's body.
Puff!
The instant after the drop of Light Liquid merged with Long Haochen's body, an intense golden light shined on his forehead.
The golden light reacted with Bright Blessing as it slowly headed towards the top of Long Haochen's head, then it started to grow into a golden pillar, little by little.
Long Xingyu nervously looked at that golden pillar. It would determine Long Haochen's future potential regarding the use of the Light attribute.
During the Sacred Awakening, knights would acquire the Light attribute in their internal spiritual energy and, during that process, their innate quantity of internal spiritual energy, one of the most important standards for determining the potential of a knight, would be determined. Generally speaking, if one's innate internal spiritual energy level couldn't even exceed 10, then that knight would have no way to break through to the 3rd step.
From the top of Long Haochen's head, a golden thread suddenly grew before falling backwards. It had quickly already reached the length corresponding to the 10th spiritual energy level. His body was suffering and shaking as violently as before, but the growth speed of the golden thread was really astonishing.
10… 20… 30… 40…
The moment the spiritual energy level reached 40, Long Xingyu couldn't help clenching his fists. When one's innate internal spiritual energy reached 40, he was already a rare genius in the Knight Temple. But the golden column was still growing at a constant speed.
Long Xingyu couldn't help but secretly sigh, Such a formidable innate mental capacity.
He had suspected beforehand that Long Haochen's mental capacity was abnormal, but he had no way to be sure until he performed the Sacred Awakening. At that moment, he would be able to see how formidable Long Haochen's mental capacity really was.
50… It exceeded 50!
55… 58… 60… It surprisingly even exceeded 60!
Long Xingyu remembered that he was known as the greatest genius of the century in the Knight Temple, and during his Sacred Awakening, his internal spiritual energy peaked at the 77th level. Although he took care of Long Haochen during the past year, building his foundation by making him sit during meditation, the fact that his spiritual energy exceeded 60 meant a lot of things, and that golden pillar of light was still continuing to grow.
65… 67… Already 67!
Long Xingyu's pupils violently shrank. For innate internal spiritual energy, every 10 levels corresponded to a step, and if Long Haochen's internal spiritual energy exceeded 70, his capacity for using Light magic would not be inferior to any mage of the Light element.
70… It really was 70!
At that instant, Long Xingyu couldn't help holding his breath; when Long Haochen's innate internal spiritual energy broke through the 70th level, he stopped shaking.
With another Puff! sound, numerous golden threads of light burst out of Long Haochen's body, disintegrating his clothing. The pain was, at that moment, all gone.
His fair white skin was shining like a crystal as the thin golden threads wandered about, piling up on his whole body and covering it with a golden color. The golden ring of light was gradually drawn into the middle of Long Haochen's chest before finally taking the form of a little soybean.
Long Haochen had a very strange feeling when his innate internal spiritual energy reached 70, he felt as if the pain within his body had disappeared, and was replaced by a heavenly sensation.
Everything became clear and transparent, including his heart and his soul. That rich divine atmosphere was improving his body. The internal spiritual energy was still growing, though, and Long Haochen seemed to have somewhat changed, influenced by the laws of light.
80… Heavens! His innate spiritual energy actually even exceeded 80!
Long Xingyu's body shivered once more. That frightening innate spiritual force actually didn't make Long Haochen formidable immediately, but it would definitely have a great influence on his potential.
81… 83… 85…
The golden light was still rising, even after having surpassed the 70th internal spiritual energy level. In the history of the Knight Temple, there were seventeen records of that accomplishment. Among those seventeen people, except for six of them, all of the others became the most formidable Divine Knights of history.
However, his inborn spiritual energy outstripped 80. That had happened only three times in history. Among those three knights, two did not manage to rise up, only one succeeded. On the year of his thirty-sixth birthday, that one person broke through the threshold of the 9th step of the vocation, the 100,000th spiritual energy level, the Divine Achievement.
90... Heavens! Really, 90‽ He's the only person in the Knight Temple's History to have ever reached the 90th innate spiritual energy level!
Long Xingyu was struck dumb with amazement. A pure heart, a mental capacity different from an ordinary person's, a good grasp on the Ten Rules of a Knight, and such a terrifying innate internal spiritual energy level.
The golden pillar seemed to have reached its bottleneck, its growth clearly reduced by a great amount. Now, it was rising slowly.
An innate internal spiritual energy of 70 was known as giving the physique of an angel, one of 80 was known as having a physique blessed by Gods, and above the 90th spiritual energy level, even though that case had never appeared in the Knight Temple nor in the original Knight Temple's records written by their ancestors, the physique associated with that was known as the physique of the Scion of Light, the purest Light attribute body that could exist. With it, he would innately be able to use any Light weapon and be friendly with any magical beast of the Light attribute.
In the end, the golden pillar wasn't able to keep rising and stopped at the position of the 97th level.
Innate spiritual energy level: 97
The golden light became gradually weaker, revealing the silhouette of both father and son.
"It feels so good!" Long Haochen was coming back to his senses as he was released from this special holy atmosphere.
Opening his eyes, Long Haochen discovered, to his surprise, that the father in front of him showed a shocked expression on his dull face.
"Father, what's wrong?" Long Haochen made haste to ask.
Long Xingyu's body shook, and, coming back to his senses, he looked Long Haochen in the eyes.
Long Haochen's originally dark blue eyes had changed into a peculiar gold color. Light golden eyes were not something completely unusual, but it was the first time Long Xingyu had seen that kind of transparent gold-colored eyes.
"The Scion of Light, he really is the Scion of Light! God is blessing humanity, God is blessing the Knight Temple!" Long Xingyu couldn't control his slightly trembling voice. As he spoke, he cancelled his Bright Blessing.
"Father, what is the 'Scion of Light'? Ah, and what about my clothes‽" When the wind blew from the mountain, making Long Haochen feel a chill, he discovered that he was, unexpectedly, naked. He immediately cried out in alarm.
Long Xingyu reacted at that moment, his right hand trembled and, from it, a long gown appeared, covering Long Haochen's body
Carefully looking at his son, Long Xingyu discovered that Long Haochen's skin now had a golden luster that could only be noticed because of the sunlight. But the strange fact was that there wasn't as much Light atmosphere left on his body as the other knights would have after their Sacred Awakening; all of the Light energy was in his body; not the slightest amount was spilled out. However, only Long Xingyu's eyes could notice such a special phenomenon.
