254, off we go!

Awakening to Spiritual Energy, one feels clearheaded and refreshed.

In the early hours before dawn, Bai E snuck back into the dormitory tent with light and stealthy steps.

His teammates' breathing was calm and gentle, deep in sleep.

Yet the same sleep seemed, to Bai E's newly sensitive senses, to carry a slightly unusual touch—

They... were exhausted.

Perhaps it was a conclusion forged from information gathered subconsciously that even his rational mind had not detected; perhaps it was from a synesthesia of collected stray thoughts.

Bai E instinctually felt that his teammates, sleeping like logs, were worn out from body to soul.

And in this state of slumber, both body and mind were relaxing and recovering swiftly under some intricate, hardly perceptible mechanism, so that the aura of life gradually grew stronger.

Those precise sensations were as vivid as distinct strings before him, as if he could reach out and touch them.