After Bai Xiaowen officially named his Awakening Skill, three tiny diagonal marks appeared between his brows, like claw marks left by a beast.
The marks gradually faded and disappeared.
But Bai Xiaowen could clearly sense a register stored in his Sea of Consciousness. For now, it held only one name: Bai Xiaowen.
"It's a bit like the Summoning Jutsu scroll in Naruto!"
Bai Xiaowen tapped the spot between his brows and tried to summon the register.
With a rustle, a slightly translucent scroll as thick as an arm appeared and unfurled.
"What's that?" Li Shuyi saw the scroll too and jumped.
"I suppose you'd call it... a contract scroll?" Bai Xiaowen explained. "Other awakened ones can sign contracts with the wolves of Wolf Valley too. As for why it looks like a scroll, that probably has something to do with how I imagined it."
"And then... can they summon giant wolves too?" Li Shuyi's eyes lit up.
"Of course." Bai Xiaowen smiled. "Everyone on the White Phoenix Team can sign. You go first."
The Spirit Realm Rules' notification also described how other awakened ones could sign: they had to use their own blood.
Following Bai Xiaowen's instructions, Li Shuyi bit her fingertip.
Bai Xiaowen received a prompt: "Your teammate, awakened one Li Shuyi, requests to sign a Spirit Summoning Contract with Wolf Valley. Do you agree?"
When Bai Xiaowen agreed, a thin thread of blood extended from Li Shuyi's fingertip and wrote her name in the second column of the translucent scroll, right beside his.
The instant her name appeared in blood, Li Shuyi felt something strange. She had formed a mental connection with a mysterious, unknown place.
"There. The contract's signed."
Bai Xiaowen put away the scroll, and the three tiny claw marks between his brows vanished again.
"Try