The Third Child of Light in Human History

Spiritual power was divided into external and internal. Before the Third Tier, what cultivators trained was actually only Outer Spiritual Power.

So-called Outer Spiritual Power was the strength of the physical body. As Outer Spiritual Power increased, the cultivator's physical strength would also change and improve accordingly.

Before the Third Tier, the upper limit of Outer Spiritual Power was two hundred. Only after breaking through to the Third Tier could Outer Spiritual Power continue to rise.

For any profession, the transition from the Second Tier to the Third Tier was a watershed. The vast majority of people on the Holy Demon Continent could never break through from the Second Tier to the Third Tier in their entire lives.

To break through to the Third Tier, one had to undergo Sacred Awakening and awaken Innate Internal Spiritual Energy. Those whose Innate Internal Spiritual Energy was zero would never be able to break through the Third Tier for the rest of their lives.

Innate Internal Spiritual Energy determined a person's cultivation limit. Those with low Innate Internal Spiritual Energy could never become true experts, while true experts always possessed Innate Internal Spiritual Energy far beyond ordinary people.

The sole criterion for judging a true expert was total spiritual power—the combined total of Inner Spiritual Power and Outer Spiritual Power, without counting any enhancement from skills.

"Did you bring the Awakening Stone?" Long Xingyu extended his hand toward Long Haochen.

Long Haochen took out the Awakening Stone he had brought from the Hao Yue Sub-Temple from the Forget-Me-Not Ring and handed it to Long Xingyu.

"Good. After undergoing Sacred Awakening, I will teach you how to cultivate Inner Spiritual Power over the next two years. Now, let's go to the open ground outside."

Long Xingyu led Long Haochen to an open space, while Bai Yue sat quietly in the distance, watching the father and son.

With a sweep of his hand, a layer of clear golden light spread from Long Xingyu's body. In the blink of an eye, it formed a golden dome fifteen meters high and thirty meters in diameter, enclosing the father and son within.

"This is Light's Blessing, an advanced defensive skill of Knights. Haochen, I am about to begin. No matter what you feel next, you must remain calm, focus your mind, and quietly sense the changes occurring within you during the Sacred Awakening process. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Long Xingyu took a deep breath, raised the Awakening Stone in his hand high, and began the Sacred Awakening ritual.

Dazzling golden light lit up from Long Xingyu's hand and instantly enveloped Long Haochen. Long Haochen suddenly felt the air around his body grow scorching hot. At the same time, a warm current rose within him, as though a sun had suddenly appeared inside his body. That current flowed throughout his entire body, seemingly opening countless pathways within him, each one an extension of the sun's radiance inside him.

A faint layer of gray gas was expelled from the pores all over Long Haochen's body. These were the impurities Sacred Awakening was helping him expel.

Sacred Awakening could not only awaken a Knight's Innate Internal Spiritual Energy, but also cleanse and purify the Knight's mind and body. Most importantly, it granted Knights the ability to convert spiritual power into holy light energy to cast magic, allowing them to become true cultivators proficient in both magic and martial arts.

The purification process of Sacred Awakening caused Long Haochen some pain, but such minor pain was well within his endurance.

Long Haochen had begun training at the age of three. His physical condition already far exceeded that of ordinary children, and his Outer Spiritual Power was nearly two hundred. Therefore, the purification process of Sacred Awakening was not especially painful for him.

As the ritual continued, a ring of golden light slowly appeared at the center of Long Haochen's chest, then gradually grew brighter and brighter.

The Awakening Stone in Long Xingyu's hand melted in the golden light, turning into a drop of pure golden liquid that floated toward the golden ring at the center of Long Haochen's chest. With a flash of golden light, it entered Long Haochen's body.

The instant the golden liquid entered Long Haochen's body, surging golden light burst from the top of his head. It struck Light's Blessing, then slowly fell back toward Long Haochen's head before inching upward again.

Long Xingyu stared fixedly at the golden pillar of light. It represented Long Haochen's potential.

Each time the golden light fell back, it represented ten spiritual power. Now that it had fallen once and was rising again, it proved that Long Haochen's Innate Internal Spiritual Energy had exceeded ten.

The golden light traveled back and forth between Long Haochen's head and Light's Blessing again and again. When it fell for the fourth time, Long Xingyu unconsciously clenched his fists. Innate Internal Spiritual Energy exceeding forty already counted as genius-level talent in the Knight Temple. Barring any accidents, reaching the Sixth Tier would not be a problem.

Yet the golden light showed no sign of fatigue. It did not stop there and continued its repetitions.

Long Xingyu's eyes widened as he secretly sighed, What powerful mental strength. As expected of my son.

Fifty, sixty, seventy. The golden light completed three more cycles, and Long Haochen's Innate Internal Spiritual Energy had already surpassed seventy.

Long Xingyu stared at the golden light in disbelief. His own Innate Internal Spiritual Energy was seventy-seven, and it was precisely because of those seventy-seven points that he had successfully become a Divine Knight.

In other words, Long Haochen possessed the potential of a Divine Knight.

Yet Sacred Awakening had still not ended. Under Long Xingyu's astonished gaze, the golden light continued rising and falling.

Countless rays of golden light erupted from Long Haochen's body. His clothes had already vanished, exposing skin even fairer than a woman's. The golden ring on his chest gradually contracted inward, eventually becoming a golden orb the size of a soybean.

Eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three...

Long Xingyu was too numb with shock to react. He only wanted to know the final result now.

Innate Internal Spiritual Energy of seventy was the threshold for becoming a Ninth Tier expert. Innate Internal Spiritual Energy exceeding eighty had only been recorded three times in the Knight Temple's three-thousand-year history. One of those Knights successfully broke through to the Ninth Tier at the age of thirty-six and gained the recognition of a Throne of Seal. To this day, no one had been able to break that record.

Ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two...

Innate Internal Spiritual Energy of seventy was called the Light Angel Constitution. Innate Internal Spiritual Energy of eighty was called the Holy Blessing Constitution. As for Innate Internal Spiritual Energy of ninety, although it had never appeared in the Knight Temple, the Knight who had set that record had called it the Son of Light Constitution.

Before the Knight Temple had been established, Children of Light had already appeared twice in human history. Both stood at the pinnacle of their respective eras.

In other words, Long Haochen was not only the first Child of Light of the Knight Temple, but also the third Child of Light in human history. He was destined to become a peak expert who would dominate an entire era.

The golden pillar of light finally neared its limit. Its rate of ascent slowed noticeably as it crept upward.

Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven.

When the golden light reached ninety-seven, it seemed unable to rise any further. Just as Long Xingyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, a sudden change occurred.