Hm?
A Special Constitution?
Me?
Lin Yuan looked stunned.
Could it be that my face... really is some kind of Special Constitution?
But Lin Yuan soon calmed down and caught the implication in what the girl had said.
"Too?"
"You've awakened a Special Constitution too?"
Faced with Lin Yuan's question, Gu Yiyi made no attempt to hide it. She nodded.
"Yes. The reason I was gone for months and missed the June Joint Exam was that my constitution was awakening..."
No wonder.
Realization dawned on Lin Yuan. No wonder she had left so suddenly—her Special Constitution had happened to awaken right then.
"A Special Constitution is a unique gift possessed by only a tiny fraction of humanity."
"How long the awakening takes varies greatly depending on the constitution."
Perhaps to cover her earlier embarrassment, Gu Yiyi kept her small face solemn and explained it to him in earnest.
"The constitution I awakened is relatively powerful, so it took longer. I only completed the awakening recently and was finally able to come out of seclusion."
As she spoke, the girl gently raised a hand.
Her hand was pale and delicate, like white mutton-fat jade, with all the tenderness and fragrance of a young girl.
Crackle—
Without warning, a thread of golden lightning snapped into being.
Golden lightning appeared around her hand, coiling up and down it like a thunder dragon.
Lightning?
Lin Yuan's gaze sharpened.
So this was a Special Constitution?
The Natal Stellar Force she tempered had actually turned into a lightning attribute?
It opened his eyes.
For ordinary Starry-Sky Warriors, tempered Natal Stellar Force was its original blue, without any elemental attribute.
Only by cultivating certain special Stellar Force Arts could they change its attribute, and even then the change was temporary. Its fundamental nature remained the same.
Gu Yiyi's Natal Stellar Force, however, had changed at its very core, becoming a special lightning-attributed force!
And this lightning did not seem to be ordinary lightning.
Normal lightning should have been blue-silver. What danced above her palm was Golden Lightning!
"This is the Special Constitution I awakened. It's called the Thunder-Origin Immortal Body," Gu Yiyi said frankly, making no effort to conceal it.
"The Thunder-Origin Immortal Body?"
Lin Yuan was secretly startled.
That name... was pretty domineering.
His gaze drifted involuntarily toward the girl's petite, dainty figure, and his expression turned a little strange.
Such an adorable girl, yet she'd awakened a Thunder-Origin Immortal Body that sounded utterly domineering...
Now I kind of want to see what Gu Yiyi looks like in a real fight.
Lin Yuan quietly withdrew his gaze, feeling a little guilty.
Gu Yiyi's eyes curved like crescent moons. She did not seem to mind.
"The Thunder-Origin Immortal Body is a powerful constitution recorded in the literature. It lets me control special Golden Lightning, and my Natal Stellar Force has been tempered into gold, giving it greater destructive power..."
"It has many other wonders too. Unfortunately, I'm still too weak to use them."
She sounded a little regretful.
Only when she spoke of martial arts did her expression turn calm and serious, as though the beautiful girl who had shyly confessed earlier had vanished.
"Actually, rare as Special Constitutions are, isn't there someone else at our school who awakened one?"
The girl's meaning was clear.
"Chen Fan."
Lin Yuan blurted it out before she could say anything more.
At once, the image of a tall, thin boy with a cold expression sprang to mind.
Chen Fan went to their school too. But unlike Gu Yiyi, who had always been a favored daughter of heaven, he came from a poor family. Both his parents had died, and he lived with his uncle, leaving him rather withdrawn.
His martial talent was scarcely better than Lin Yuan's. Before the June Joint Exam, he had only just reached the peak of the Blood Tempering Stage, with a mere two thousand jin of strength.
Among the many geniuses at the June Joint Exam, that result could hardly make a splash.
But Chen Fan had been lucky enough to awaken a Special Constitution midway through the exam!
One awakening, and a broad road opened before him.
Those with Special Constitutions possessed heaven-granted aptitude, along with special abilities known as Innate Secret Arts. They needed no training to use them; the arts came as naturally as instinct and rivaled Stellar Force Arts in power.
Naturally, he had overtaken the others on the bend, cut his way through every challenge, and dazzled everyone.
In the end, he had even joined the Mountain-Suppressing Martial Hall, a renowned martial academy in Azure River Satellite City. Its master had taken notice of him, and his future was boundless.
Lin Yuan paid such close attention to Chen Fan because his story gave him an intense sense of déjà vu.
A strange feeling that... Chen Fan was the real protagonist...
How odd.
"Yes, Chen Fan."
Gu Yiyi's face showed no emotion as she said the name. Her eyes never left Lin Yuan's face.
"Tiny Azure River Ninth High School has three people who awakened Special Constitutions... That shows that while they're rare, there are still some across all of Human Civilization."
Three?
Lin Yuan paused, then immediately understood.
She's counting me too...
He did not argue. Given his situation, probably no one would believe him if he said he had not awakened a Special Constitution.
Besides, his Talent Traits did feel rather like a Special Constitution—only perhaps a tiny bit stronger...
Lin Yuan glanced at the dense list of eleven Talent Traits on his panel, including Swordsmanship Mastery, Martial Prodigy, Transcendent Comprehension, and Infinite Space.
The sight was deeply reassuring.
"You're right."
"I did awaken a Special Constitution too..."
He went along with her, spouting nonsense with a perfectly straight face.
Just as I thought!
Gu Yiyi had no doubts. Her exquisite face showed that this was exactly what she had expected, and a hint of... excitement seemed to dance in her eyes.
"That's wonderful, Lin Yuan."
The girl was happy for him.
She knew his aptitude for martial arts had always been a sore point.
He had worked so hard, yet never seen results.
She had watched him go from a spirited young man to someone increasingly dejected, increasingly doubtful of himself, until at last... he refused to bow to his fate!
She had wanted so badly to help him, but there was nothing she could do.
Now things were different. Awakening a Special Constitution was, in itself, a chance to defy the heavens and change his fate.
Just what I'd expect from the man I like. Even his luck is extraordinary...
The girl's heart leaped for no reason.
Lin Yuan smiled too.
He could tell Gu Yiyi was genuinely happy for him.
That pure feeling brought a warmth to his heart that he had not felt in a long time.
Then he casually asked how she had been lately. She answered every question without holding anything back.
The mood between them finally returned to normal, with something of the ease of old friends reunited.
"Oh, right."
"Since you've awakened a Special Constitution, there's something you have to consider."
They were deep in conversation when Gu Yiyi seemed to remember something. Her tone turned solemn.
Hm?
Lin Yuan tilted his head, puzzled.
"What?"
"The Star-Martial Prodigy Talent Development Program!"
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