"Little Light, this is the acquaintance you were talking about?!"
Zhao Cheng could not help but wonder whether he had made some kind of mistake by listening to the King of Light's instigation and running out to save the world.
This person was a little too unreliable.
"Though you have forgotten as well, fate has brought us together once more."
"As for the blemish you mentioned, according to the Empire's rules, you were not qualified to know that forbidden knowledge even existed. Yet you happened to know."
"Clearly, you too are an unruly person!"
The King of Light stepped forward.
"No, it was only because I was curious."
"Those things are useless."
Half a month later, deep within a secluded gorge, a ritual said to awaken the power of slumbering old gods began.
Half a month earlier, the King of Light had ultimately persuaded Belvia. Of course, it had not been through empty rhetoric alone, but by promising to show her true forbidden knowledge rather than the scattered fragments she had once seen.
When the ritual was complete, Zhao Cheng indeed gained extraordinary power. Not only did he obtain the Buddha Dharma Image and the Rat Buddha Golden Body, he also acquired a powerful martial art called the Electric Flow Combat Method.
And this was only the first ritual.
According to the King of Light, there would be three rituals in total. After all three, he would complete three awakenings and enter the ultimate stage.
But at that point, a problem arose. With the power of the old gods on him, the King of Light's power could no longer conceal Zhao Cheng's existence.
The pursuit of the Empire's knights began as well.
They fought, fought, fought; ran, ran, ran—until at last, there was nowhere left to run.
By then,