Awakened

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented progression centers on bloodline activation rather than named cultivation realms. Possessing an ancestral bloodline does not itself make someone Awakened 34 37.

Awakening and Power System

Ancestor Symbols

• Activation: Awakening the ancestor represented by a symbol allows their bloodline descendants to receive power. Recognizing an ancestor is therefore crucial to a country’s ability to produce Awakened 1 5.
• Strength of the ancestor: Older ancestors with greater historical influence generally produce stronger awakened descendants. Descendants of recent, less accomplished ancestors may become only slightly stronger than ordinary people 2 25.
• Individual differences: Awakened are not equally powerful. In Huaxia, soldiers who were already stronger than ordinary civilians become stronger Awakened after activation 39.
• Multiple bloodlines: Su Chen proposes that people descended from several ancestors might awaken each bloodline and stack their powers. This remains an unconfirmed conjecture 20 21.

Awakened and Inheritors

An inheritor’s authority over descendants is not identical in every case. John naturally suppresses Moonfall Country’s royal family, whereas Jin Dachang lacks that particular innate suppression ability despite his superior strength 1 23.

Abilities & Skills

Enhanced Physique

• Haidong’s Awakened display explosive speed and strength; Jin Junxian launches himself forward like an arrow during the assault on Huaxia’s symbol 7.
• The attackers’ bodies resist bullets, but Dayu’s power shatters their bones without difficulty 7.
• Surviving Haidong Awakened swim one or two nautical miles to shore within minutes after their fleet is destroyed 32.
• Physical resilience does not make them invulnerable: the Nine Provinces Cauldron kills more than twenty thousand during its strike on the fleet 32.

Blood-Condensing Weapons

Descendants of certain powerful ancestors can condense bloodline power into weapons; this is not established as a universal ability 7.

• Haidong’s blood clubs: Jin Junxian forms a half-meter club from red light. Such weapons are described as capable of reducing a tank to scrap with one strike 7.
• Huaxia’s golden axes: Dayu’s newly awakened descendants form axes from golden light during the coastal counterattack 35.
• Sakura’s katanas: Sakura Awakened wield blades formed from awakening power against the Qin Clan 50.
• Limit: Dayu dissolves the Haidong attackers’ clubs into blood mist while immobilizing their wielders 7.

Suppression and Revocation

• Dayu strips foreign Awakened throughout Huaxia of their power with a single glance 7 16.
• By following the bloodline connection, he also suppresses Kim Chunchu’s ancestral power, affecting that ancestor’s awakened descendants in Haidong itself 8 9.
• This suppression is an active intervention, not an automatic effect of Dayu’s appearance. It lifts after he returns to the Nine Provinces Cauldron 9 16.
• Su Chen can reclaim Dayu’s descendants’ awakening power at any time through absolute inheritance 14 39.

Known Groups

History

Emergence and Political Upheaval

Ancestor symbols overturn the existing world order by granting descendants supernatural strength. In Moonfall Country, the previously ceremonial royal family retakes political control, while John—a gardener who awakens Queen Victoria—receives her legacy and crowns himself king 1.

Awakened become decisive instruments of national power. Haidong uses its hundred-thousand-strong awakened population to threaten Huaxia and demand its dormant ancestor symbol. Elsewhere, the emergence of people vastly stronger than ordinary citizens destabilizes social order and leaves the unawakened unable to defend themselves 2 14.

Huaxia–Haidong War

Jin Junxian leads more than a hundred Haidong Awakened in an attempt to seize Huaxia’s newly activated symbol. Dayu immobilizes them, destroys their weapons, and suppresses their bloodline powers, demonstrating that even formidable Awakened are helpless before an ancestor’s direct intervention 7 8.

Jin Dachang later invades with 130,000 Awakened. After Su Chen destroys their fleet, the survivors reach shore and attack Huaxia’s defenders. Su Chen awakens the million descendants of Dayu gathered there, reversing the battle 27 31 32 34.

Huaxia’s forces fight in organized squads commanded by soldiers and veterans, while Haidong’s largely civilian Awakened descend into panic without their inheritor’s leadership. At least 100,000 Haidong Awakened die; the remainder are left with all four limbs broken. The loss of the Awakened who controlled Haidong’s institutions contributes to nationwide disorder 35 38.

Sakura Airport Confrontation

Noda Shino mobilizes Sakura’s Awakened against Su Chen during the dispute over the Imperial Seal. When Qin Clan descendants rush to protect Su Chen, Sakura’s fighters attack them with condensed katanas. Su Chen throws more than a hundred attackers backward before calling for Ying Zheng’s dragon soul to awaken 49 50.

Regulation and Civilian Roles

Huaxia’s Management System

• Screening: Descendants with criminal records or habitual bullying and fighting are excluded from awakening 39.
• Revocation: Su Chen’s ability to reclaim awakening power discourages abuses 39.
• Local oversight: Trustworthy military Awakened are stationed in neighborhood committees and local police stations to supervise awakened residents 39.
• Layered command: Reliable Awakened serve at successive administrative levels, with defined responsibilities and jurisdictions 39.
• Results: Huaxia maintains order despite expanding awakenings, and its crime rate falls considerably 39.

Disaster Relief

• Awakened volunteers carry firefighting equipment into a wildfire threatening a southwestern city 39.
• They position themselves in front of firefighters to block the flames; as hundreds and then thousands arrive, the fire is gradually extinguished 39.
• Similar relief efforts occur across Huaxia as more descendants of Dayu awaken 39.

Notable Quotes

“What you awaken today is not a superior bloodline! It is the ancestral blood passed down by Huaxia's forebears!”
— Su Chen, before awakening the coastal defenders 34