"Huh? Dad, why do I feel like my innate soul power suddenly jumped up?" A boy who had just awakened his martial soul sensed the martial soul within him and spoke to the man beside him in delighted surprise.
"Hmm? Has the soul power level in the air recovered?" the middle-aged man murmured.
His once-depleted, sluggish soul power suddenly began flowing smoothly. Wisps of gentle soul power from heaven and earth seeped slowly into every limb and bone like spring rain.
He abruptly raised his head and stared blankly at the entirely new sky overhead.
The changes in the sky quickly spread to every city and stretch of countryside in the Sun Moon Federation.
The soul power that had long lain dormant in the air was recovering little by little. No longer carrying the deathly stillness of depletion and decay, it was gentle and abundant, flowing slowly between heaven and earth.
People walking the streets stopped in their tracks; craftsmen debugging soul tools discovered in astonishment that their Soul Tool Cores were absorbing external energy more easily; Soul Masters who had cultivated bitterly for years without progress closed their eyes, clearly sensing the soul power of heaven and earth pouring endlessly into their bodies. Bottlenecks that had blocked them for years actually showed faint signs of loosening as the soul power level fell and then rose.
Withered yellow weeds in the fields sprouted tender shoots again, and small animals that had lain dormant in the woods began calling softly once more. Everyone could feel firsthand that the world's march toward decay had stopped.
"It was Father!"
"It must have been Father!"
In the squares, countless courier workers and ordinary citizens of the Sun Moon Federation bowed of their own accord, paying homage to the heavens again and again.
"It