The roar nearly ruptured Xu Zhi's eardrums. In the moment her mind went blank, she seemed to unconsciously see strange patterns rising within her body. They appeared to have formed after the fragments that entered her melted away. Lightning struck her body, was absorbed by those wondrous patterns, and was ultimately guided toward her talent circuits.
The instant the silvery-white lightning, carrying a powerful aura of secrecy and rules, struck the circuits, the golden and gray circuits flashed as they met the bolt and rapidly devoured all the energy contained within, expanding at great speed.
Her mind was blank, her consciousness hazy, and there was only endless thunder in her ears. In her daze, Xu Zhi seemed to hear the voice of an invisible will. It was a whisper from [Radiance], an unrecognizable "language," a sound even more deafening than thunder, one that pierced directly through her mind.
That voice existed for only an instant, and afterward, Xu Zhi could not recall even the slightest trace of it.
Endless exhaustion washed over her. Xu Zhi could no longer remain awake and sank completely into a boundless dream.
When Xu Zhi woke again, it was already the following evening.
She had slept for nearly a full day and night for the first time in ages. When she woke, her head was still a little muddled—truly muddled, the sort where her brain buzzed incessantly.
Her usually smooth hair had fluffed up for the first time in ages. Xu Zhi sat up and spent around ten minutes recovering before the buzzing in her head gradually faded. Then she suddenly realized that she had become a [Named One].
A vast amount of information suddenly flooded into her mind. The hazy sensation she had felt upon waking seemed to have merely been a buffering period,