After leaving Beishui City, the group traveled on foot, following the spread of villages and cities. They rested wherever they happened to reach. Aside from cultivating Soul Power every night and practicing swordsmanship every morning without fail, they did not cultivate anything else, spending the rest of their time traveling and experiencing this world.
While passing through a certain village, they happened to encounter that year's Martial Soul Awakening ceremony. Lin Feng had never taken part in such a "group" Martial Soul Awakening, nor had he ever seen one, so he followed along to watch the spectacle.
The Martial Soul Awakening was held in the village ancestral hall. Other than the Spirit Hall deacon who had come to assist with the awakening, only the children waiting to awaken were allowed inside. All the parents waited outside the ancestral hall, as did Lin Feng and the others.
Among the parents waiting outside, some clasped their hands and prayed with their eyes closed, some knelt on the ground and kowtowed to heaven, some couples held each other's hands tightly and unconsciously squeezed harder and harder, while some entire families, young and old, waited there together. Though their gestures and postures differed, without exception, they all hoped their children would awaken powerful Martial Souls. At the very least, they needed Martial Souls that could cultivate, so their family's fate could be changed.
Lin Feng could not help thinking of the parents who waited outside college entrance examination halls in his previous life. His own parents had waited outside the examination hall as well. He had told them many times not to go, but they had insisted. Lin Feng did not know what others thought, but he truly disliked the practice. It served no purpose but to put pressure on him, though perhaps it