The sinking of the Atlantis Continent.
For all Human civilization, it not only caused an enormous disaster, triggering a great regression of knowledge and a massive decline in population...
It also symbolized humanity leaving behind its ultra-ancient history and ushering in the chapter of ancient history—the 1st Epoch.
Furthermore, the effects caused by the Awakened continued throughout the entire process.
Throughout the many epochs that followed.
Of the forty-five epochs in total, approximately thirty-eight saw history turned to a completely new page by upheavals caused by various Awakened.
In other words, the Awakened had caused at least thirty-eight upheavals on the level of a World War...
As an aside.
Even the remaining seven could ultimately be traced back to connections with the Awakened...
Even today.
Even setting aside matters that had yet to be fully verified, such as the Atlantis Continent being sunk into the sea.
The clearly recorded achievements of the Awakened included piercing through continental shelves, creating super-tsunamis, establishing globally unified empires, flying beyond planetary boundaries with their bare bodies to explore the stars, massacring hundreds of billions of Ancient Humans, destroying old civilizations, and causing a massive regression in technology...
Throughout the various eras, they had served as nobles, leaders, heavenly gods, Rulers, and Destroyers...
Therefore.
Precisely because of this.
Their power and dominance were things that could not be concealed at all.
Even ordinary people, simply by raising their heads at night and looking at the moon more than five million kilometers away, could vaguely see one scratch after another across its surface.
Those scratches—or rather, the great rifts—were among the traces left behind by certain Awakened when history turned to a completely new page.
Throughout the one hundred thousand years of recorded human history in this world.
The Awakened had always stood at the very top of the human hierarchy!
Even in modern times, that remained the case.
It was just that, due to various changes in ideology, the gap in status was no longer as worlds apart or as blatant as it had been in the past.
All the more because of this.
When Xi Shenlian gradually awakened his own power half a month ago.
His desire for a rich older woman instantly underwent a sublimation!
It became a desire for a beautiful rich older woman—and many very beautiful rich older women.
These two psychological processes represented, respectively, his uncertainty over whether he was an Awakened and his complete certainty that he was one.
He understood that once the matter was confirmed.
Even if he was merely an Awakened with the lowest level of potential, that would still be enough for him to realize his wishes.
Aside from that.
During this half month.
As his traits slowly awakened, the memories of this life and his previous life continued to complete each other, and today he finally fully awakened his past-life wisdom.
Before this.
Because the memories of his previous life had appeared in a chaotic fashion within the mind of this life.
He would occasionally feel as though scenes he had seen in his previous life were appearing before his eyes.
Or he would unconsciously utter a couple of Chinese or English sentences from his previous life.
In the environment of this life, those languages from his previous life were unmistakably out of place.
Take English, for example.
The English of his previous life differed greatly from the English of this life.
The letters were more or less similar, but once they were formed into sentences, they had absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Thus, whenever Xi Shenlian blurted out a few phrases in the language of his previous life, it easily made people think he was spouting nonsense—nonsense whose meaning ordinary people could not understand at all.
On top of that, he would sometimes inexplicably see and hear all kinds of hallucinations.
He would be walking on level ground, yet see himself descending a staircase.
He would be walking down the street, yet hear the BGM from the animal world...
All these abnormal circumstances made him the sort of person in many people's eyes who, despite looking quite handsome, had something wrong with his brain.
Even the dean who had picked him up and adopted him at the Orphanage could only shake his head and sigh.
She often said that if Xi Shenlian had not occasionally been mentally abnormal, someone would have adopted him long ago.
As an aside.
The origin of his name, Xi Shenlian, was actually quite simple. The dean of the Orphanage had found him near a temple west of her home. Furthermore, although he had looked like a perfect, delicate doll with nothing wrong with him, he had inexplicably been abandoned, which was truly pitiful. Thus, the dean had simply given him the name Xi Shenlian—a name that sounded somewhat feminine but could also be used by a man, and whose meaning was extremely concise.
Of course...
Later, as Xi Shenlian gradually grew up and displayed his seemingly abnormal words and actions from time to time, the dean immediately felt that she understood why he had been abandoned back then.
She supposed that his parents had discovered that something was wrong with his brain immediately after he was born...
Even Xi Shenlian himself had once thought the same.
It had made him somewhat inferior in one way or another, and he had consistently refused to be adopted.
As for this matter.
All Xi Shenlian could say now, apart from, "Fuck!" was nothing at all.
At this moment.
After sorting through his thoughts.
Xi Shenlian closed his diary.
Then he casually tore it.
The several-dozen-page diary was ripped apart, folded up again, and torn repeatedly...
Before long, he had forcibly torn it into tiny scraps, then casually tossed them into the trash can beside him.
After all, what respectable person would keep a diary?
No one would.
After doing this.
He clenched his fist.
Then, unable to stop himself, he sighed:
"Come to think of it... I should have a few tons of strength now, right..."
An ordinary person from his previous life could actually tear a diary several dozen pages thick by hand.
But tearing it in half, then into quarters, eighths, sixteenths... folding all the pieces together, and still tearing them apart as effortlessly as a single sheet of paper—that was completely beyond the abilities of an ordinary person.
Having said that.
He looked at the table in front of him.
It was an old, solid-wood table approximately five centimeters thick.
It was one of the furnishings included with the cheap apartment he rented.
He placed his left hand on the surface of the table and applied a little force with his five fingers.
Amid a faint cracking sound.
His five slender fingers left clear marks on the tabletop.
It looked as though someone had hacked or smashed it with a tool.
And as Xi Shenlian continued to increase his strength, his fingers kept sinking deeper, causing the tabletop to break apart further.
In the end.
Xi Shenlian had dug a chunk out of the solid-wood table with his bare hand without exerting much force, then held it in his palm.
The entire table now had a hole straight through it.
Moreover, he had a feeling.
If he wanted to, he could punch straight through the wall of the room he lived in...
Thinking of this.
He brought his other hand over and clasped it together with the hand holding the table fragment, trapping the wood chips and sawdust between his palms.
Then his hands began rubbing rapidly.
Two seconds later.
Under the rapid friction.
Smoke began to rise from the sawdust being repeatedly rubbed between his palms.
When Xi Shenlian spread his hands open.
Before long.
Flames began to slowly rise from the sawdust.
Right in his hands.
Yet he did not feel the slightest heat.
His skin did not even bear a single injury.
Witnessing this scene.
A smile immediately appeared on Xi Shenlian's face, illuminated by the faint glow of the flames.
I only just awakened, yet my strength, speed, and defense are already all far beyond ordinary people...?
This is pretty great...
Having been alone in his previous life as well.
Xi Shenlian now had very high expectations for his future life in this one.
P.S.:
I'm still writing and posting one chapter at a time, with no backlog and no outline.
Damn it.
I played games for several days.
Yet I still feel like I haven't done anything...
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