Testing the Abnormal Point

"I didn't awaken."

In response to A-Lang's question, Wang Zhifan leaned against the wall, took a drag on his cigarette, and exhaled a faint smoke ring toward the ceiling. His tone was utterly nonchalant.

"What? You didn't awaken?! Impossible! How could you still be alive if you didn't awaken?!"

A-Lang's face immediately showed shock and disbelief upon hearing that answer, as if it had shattered everything he knew.

"Is it strange to still be alive without awakening? I just failed to awaken either the Divine Path or Demonic Path. Believe it or not... I need to go out and get some air."

As he answered, Wang Zhifan walked gloomily out through the bronze door of the little dark room with a cigarette between his lips, leaving the young man A-Lang at the doorway moving his lips a few times without knowing how to respond.

Because in A-Lang's understanding, the situation before him was impossible. Anyone who underwent the awakening ritual either awakened successfully—no matter how badly the gods and demons had affected them, as long as they survived, it counted as a successful awakening—or became a corpse, unable to withstand the descent of divine and demonic power. There could be no third possibility unless the ritual itself was fake.

"That's right! Maybe something went wrong with our ritual just now! I'll ask someone!"

A-Lang then began calling the relevant specialists in Divine Light Tower. He quickly received a reply from the other end: "There were no obvious abnormalities in the ritual just now. Shortly after it began, our Inspiration Detector detected a standard intensity of divine and demonic power. Based on experience, as long as the participant can endure it, they will definitely awaken successfully..."

"But that guy says he didn't awaken successfully! I can't sense any divine or demonic