The next morning.
The blazing sun hung high in the sky. Summer mornings always came early; some night owls had not even had the chance to sleep before dawn had already broken.
As usual, Fang Yi practiced his breathing toward the Golden Sun.
But while he practiced today, Lin Yiyi approached him and complained indignantly.
"Cousin, those people overseas have gone too far!"
"What happened?" Fang Yi asked.
His cousin usually did not seem like the type to follow gossip news. Could it be some fandom dispute?
Only after asking did he learn that she was talking about the Pioneers.
Lin Yiyi had somehow found a screenshot displaying a passage of Japanese translated into Chinese.
"Some Great Prophet suddenly popped up over in Sakura Country. He said he set up some Ancient Prophecy Card Array and calculated that our Xia Kingdom will not survive the first year of Spirit Qi Recovery! The internet is in an uproar right now!"
"Oh? A prophet?" Fang Yi was somewhat surprised.
This news sounded about as absurd as the president of Beautiful Country going out today and shitting his pants. At first glance, it was utterly ridiculous. Yet just as something as ridiculous as the president of Beautiful Country shitting his pants could be real, this news was actually true—and it had come from Sakura Country's Pioneer Forum.
Sakura Country's Pioneer Forum had been established slightly earlier than Xia Kingdom's. It was not because they were stronger than Xia Kingdom or anything like that, but because Sakura Country itself had always believed deeply in supernatural phenomena. Back when Aberrants first began appearing, Sakura Country had already set up countless forums of all sizes to discuss the matter. In the end, the authorities stepped in and merged all those forums into one, which eventually became