Awakening was not a good word, at least not in Yun Huanling's eyes.
He had experienced chest pain when he was young, but the healing cultivators had never found out what was wrong.
Hongguang and those old men had even thought he was making excuses to avoid cultivating.
In the end, the matter had simply been dropped.
Fortunately, the pain had not lasted very long back then. It had disappeared after only a few breaths, as though the agony he had felt before had been nothing but an illusion.
As time passed, the pain had struck a few more times. Aside from lasting a few breaths longer, little had changed. Naturally, the healing cultivators had still found nothing wrong.
Only after he met Su Jiu had the change suddenly become pronounced. On those two occasions, the pain had nearly made him pass out.
Afterward, fragments resembling memories had begun surfacing in his mind. Yet they had come out of nowhere, and even Yun Huanling himself had no idea what they were.
Then he had successfully reached Spirit Transformation. As A Jiu's petal fused with him and his soul gathered anew, it was as though a key had unlocked his memories, sending them pouring out like water through an opened floodgate.
The moment he learned that he was the Heaven-Connecting Tower, it would have been a lie to say he was not shocked, or that he felt nothing.
As a cultivator of the Azure Realm, he naturally knew just what the name Heaven-Connecting Tower meant to that realm.
At the same time, he learned that he was someone who should never have existed in this world.
And for his existence as he was now, he had his own ancestor, Yun Chong, to thank.
He was already a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator.