Yang Chen looked at the White Tiger too, without saying a word.
They stared at each other for who knew how long before the White Tiger finally shifted and spoke. "Kid, I bet you don't know about the ancient era!"
Yang Chen thought about it and realized he really didn't know much about the past.
His knowledge of history was still limited to what he'd learned in textbooks. But those books had never mentioned that there had been a superhuman age of Spiritual Energy Recovery in ancient times!
The White Tiger seemed to see right through his thoughts and scoffed. "It's only natural that you don't know. During a great war in ancient times, the spiritual energy on Earth was drained away. It's only now, after all this time, that it's begun to recover. I reckon the only people who know about the ancient era are those from the old families that have preserved their legacies. No one else would know."
Yang Chen nodded slightly.
It was true. He really didn't know anything about the ancient era. The only thing he knew was that people like this had once existed throughout history!
But beyond that, Yang Chen really didn't have a clue.
After all, he hadn't even completed nine years of compulsory education. It was already impressive that he knew this much.
"The Spirit-Gathering Realm is when you draw the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into your dantian to strengthen your spiritual root. What you call an ability these days is what we call a spiritual root."
The White Tiger sighed, then explained it to Yang Chen.
"Take what you just said, for instance: you think that a large proportion of people on Earth don't have abilities. That's wrong. They can cultivate too, but their combat strength is much lower than that of people with abilities. Still, this is already the Age of Dharma Decline, and many legacies must have been lost. Otherwise, if everyone in Huaxia could cultivate, how could it fail to unite the entire world?"
The White Tiger's enormous eyes were filled with melancholy, as if it was lamenting Huaxia's decline—or remembering the prosperous age of old, when all nations paid tribute!
"Ordinary people can cultivate too?"
Yang Chen's pupils contracted. It seemed he'd stumbled onto something extraordinary!
If this got out, it might cause an uproar across the entire world. Countless experts might even converge here!
After all, if ordinary people could cultivate, then any nation that obtained a cultivation method would inevitably become one of the world's foremost powers!
Just imagine: if everyone in an entire country could cultivate, every single person would be a cultivator. Whether or not they had abilities or spiritual roots, they'd still be a terrifying fighting force. Who on Earth could stand against them?
Shock appeared in Yang Chen's eyes. He could already imagine what would happen if Huaxia obtained such a cultivation method. Would uniting the world really be nothing more than idle talk anymore?
The White Tiger glanced at Yang Chen, then said helplessly, "Don't get your hopes up. I forgot that low-level method a long time ago. I have high-level methods, but ordinary people can't cultivate them."
Yang Chen's hopes immediately deflated. He looked at the White Tiger with annoyance.
Damn it, if you don't have one, why say all that? You're just getting my hopes up for nothing!
Yang Chen was speechless. This White Tiger didn't seem like much of a good guy. It was useless!
"But I don't have anything useful for ordinary people. I do have something that could help you!"
The White Tiger grinned and looked at Yang Chen teasingly, as if waiting to see his reaction.
Sure enough, as soon as the White Tiger said that, Yang Chen's attitude did a complete 360.
"Hehe, senior, if you've got something good, just give it to me! Maybe one day I'll master some incredible arts and lead Huaxia to unite the world. Hehe!"
The White Tiger rolled its eyes at Yang Chen, as if asking how he could be so shameless.
Still, Yang Chen's words pleased it. The kid was only in the Spirit-Gathering Realm, but his physique had already reached the Body-Tempering Realm—in other words, the Grandmaster level. In this era, when spiritual energy had only just begun to recover, that was already impressive.
Even in its own era, plenty of prodigies wouldn't have managed that.
So, in the White Tiger's eyes, Yang Chen had pretty good talent.
He was a promising young man!
The White Tiger thought for a moment before speaking. "Your spiritual root has the Lightning Attribute, just like mine, so you can inherit my legacy. But my legacy is difficult to handle. If you're not at the Shackle Realm, trying to inherit it will have only one result—Boom! You'll explode!"
Yang Chen froze, feeling both speechless and solemn.
Just how powerful was the White Tiger? He had to reach the Shackle Realm to inherit its legacy. In this era, Heaven Gate experts were already at the very top. With no one beyond the Heaven Gate Realm, those at the Shackle Realm were among the strongest.
And inheriting the White Tiger's legacy required cultivation at the Shackle Realm!
Terrifying!
That was Yang Chen's assessment of the White Tiger's cultivation.
"But your physique is already at the Body-Tempering Realm. If you can cultivate your body to the Shackle Realm, you'll be able to handle it too. Hehe!"
The White Tiger looked at Yang Chen and grinned.
"Body-tempering?"
"That's what you call the Grandmaster Realm these days!"
"Oh, I see!"
Yang Chen understood and nodded. With the system, even though spiritual energy had only just begun to recover, reaching the Heaven Gate Realm would be easy as long as he had enough time.
After all, Yang Chen hadn't even been here for half a month, yet he'd gone from an ordinary person with no cultivation to an S-Class expert. His physique had even reached the Grandmaster Realm!
The Shackle Realm was just a matter of time!
Since he couldn't get the legacy right now, he could come back for it once he reached the Shackle Realm!
That thought made Yang Chen feel a little better.
Seeing Yang Chen's confident expression, the White Tiger nodded. Now that was how a prodigy should look! He needed to be confident!
But the White Tiger seemed to remember something. It turned to Yang Chen and said, "Although you need to reach the Shackle Realm to inherit my legacy, some of the things I've collected might make things a lot easier for you. I'll give you this Space Ring."
At the White Tiger's command, the blue ring slowly floated up, then settled into Yang Chen's hand.
Yang Chen held the ring and carefully slipped it onto his finger. Looking at it, he felt a surge of joy.
"Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Spirit Grade Space Ring!"
Yang Chen's heart stirred, and his delight grew even stronger.
He remembered clearly that the system had said the highest-grade equipment and weapons on Earth were Spirit Grade!
To be continued!
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