Roland and her comrade's awakenings went remarkably smoothly. With so many Heavenly Zither powerhouses at their side, it would have been difficult for them to fail even if they wanted to.
Those few were also observing the pair's awakenings. The awakening materials came from this world, so the entire process proceeded naturally. Aside from being rather painful, there were virtually no side effects.
This was also the principle Feng Jun and the others upheld. A little pain during awakening did not matter; it was even useful for tempering one's will. What truly mattered was ensuring future development and minimizing side effects as much as possible.
Many years later, the Federation also produced countless brilliant talents who sought to explore and understand the mechanisms of cultivation. They achieved considerable results, even genuinely developing "lightning-element" abilities.
Yet even so, they had no choice but to acknowledge the strength of Cultivator Civilization. After all kinds of experiments, they discovered that the pain of awakening could indeed be reduced to some extent, but the price was a dramatic increase in side effects.
As for methods of reducing those side effects, they designed countless plans. In the end, however, they had to admit that the cultivation methods provided by Cultivator Civilization were the optimal choice—without question.
Even a hundred thousand years later, people would still sigh. "I really want to know what sort of beings those cultivators who first designed these cultivation techniques were. Even after analyzing them so carefully now, we still occasionally discover marvelous subtleties!"
That was all in the future and could be left aside for now. After receiving the cultivation techniques and learning that Roland and the other had awakened, the Federation sent people to inspect their condition while also arranging for five hundred volunteers to begin cultivation trials.
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