Life in the Supreme God's Court was quieter than An Li had imagined.
Every morning, the bells rang down from the top floor of the Temple—three chimes, a pause, then three more.
She woke to the bells, washed up, ate breakfast, and then began trying to cultivate.
She practiced the mage's meditation method for a week.
Every day, she sat cross-legged before the divine statue, closed her eyes, and followed the method recorded in the Bronze Book, trying to sense the elements in the air.
On the first day, despite her anticipation, there was nothing...
On the second day, there was still nothing.
On the third day, her legs went numb.
From the fourth day to the seventh, her mind was completely blank. No element responded to her.
The path of a mage... seemed impossible.
The knight's cultivation method was simpler.
Condense a Knight Seed. Choose one of three attributes: sky, earth, or ocean.
She chose earth, because Grandpa Gregor had said her constitution leaned toward the earth element.
As long as she succeeded, she could become an Earth Knight. So long as she stood upon the earth, she would receive an endless blessing from the earth veins.
Following the steps in the Bronze Book, she adjusted her breathing to a specific rhythm and guided the energy in her body toward her dantian.
Three days passed, and there was nothing in her dantian.
She tried sky, then ocean, but neither produced any reaction.
In the end, she tried the Temple Knight system newly developed by the Goblins.
Temple Knights were a new profession developed by the Supreme God's Court, tailored specifically for the Supreme God's believers.
They had to follow the knight's code and condense a Temple Knight Heart. They were a combination of knights and Divine Arts Practitioners, and