The Chief Secretary Knocks at Midnight

Swifts, known as footless birds, could fly continuously for ten months without resting—or at least, that was what humans had discovered.

In terms of flight capability, swifts were absolutely in the first tier.

Strong flight capability depended most importantly on the body's structure for flight.

Chu Fei had spent a long time considering a new Second Form.

Here in Red Pine City, everyone was extremely cautious about activating their Second Form. Unlike Flying Tiger City, where they acted rather recklessly.

Thinking about it now, Flying Tiger City's recklessness had been influenced by two main sources: Principal Wu Yong and Old City Lord Zhang Qiming. A crooked beam made a crooked house.

Flying Tiger City acted recklessly because the ignorant feared nothing.

Red Pine City's inheritances and other resources, on the other hand, were relatively complete, so everyone cultivated far more cautiously.

A Second Form was acceptable, but one had to remember that it was merely a byproduct of cultivation. One could not forget the core because of a byproduct.

Moreover, cultivation was always accompanied by aberration. Activating a Second Form increased the Aberration Index.

As the number of activated Second Forms increased, the rise in the Aberration Index would become increasingly steep—it was not a linear relationship.

In fact, as cultivators continuously advanced, many "passively awakened" Second Forms would naturally accompany their progress.

For example, Chu Fei had once turned black. That counted as a harmless Second Form.

Some people turned completely green, some grew tails, some had hair that became like hedgehog spines, and some even developed cancer. Those were harmful.

But there were also beneficial changes, such as sharper hearing and vision, greater strength, more agile speed, sturdier bones, and so on.

For ordinary cultivators, it was difficult to control such "mutations." As their Cultivation Level rose, and