Long Xingyu said, “Spiritual power is divided into external and internal. External spiritual power refers to the changes and improvements in your own body. Simply put, it’s about training your body, allowing your physical strength, flexibility, and overall abilities to reach a certain level. However, merely increasing physical strength has its limits. That limit is two hundred spiritual power.”

“I’ve told you before that moving from the second rank to the third rank is a watershed moment for any profession. The vast majority of people never break through the second rank and enter the third rank in their lifetime. From the perspective of us knights, it means being unable to cultivate internal spiritual power, and from the perspective of mages, it means being unable to guide the elements of heaven and earth for one’s own use.”

“Although your external spiritual power still has room for improvement, if you wait until it’s close to two hundred before starting to cultivate internal spiritual power, it will be a waste of effort. The reason I had you meditate for a year was to prepare you for internal spiritual power. And as internal spiritual power increases, a person’s physical strength will also increase accordingly. Assessing a truly strong person’s total spiritual power is done by measuring the combined increase in internal and external spiritual power, without considering skill enhancements.”

“Give me the Awakening Stone you brought back from the Haoyue branch hall.” Long Xingyu reached out to Long Haochen.

Long Haochen quickly handed the yellow stone to his father.

Long Xingyu said, “For the next two years, I will teach you how to cultivate internal spiritual power and bring your external spiritual power to its peak. You will also learn about the mysteries of Spiritual Furnaces. But before that, I need to perform the most solemn ritual for us knights: Holy Awakening.”

Long Haochen listened carefully. He had woken up very early that morning, and he had secretly vowed that he would not let his father’s worries come true. He would cultivate with even greater effort than before, and he wouldn’t let his father’s hard work go to waste.

Long Xingyu continued, “From a certain point of view, we knights are both martial and magical cultivators. Martial arts are the various techniques I’ve taught you and how to use spiritual power, including internal spiritual power later on. And our magic attribute is only one: Holy Light.”

“The Awakening Stone I had you bring back can change anyone’s attribute to Light. The stronger your innate spiritual power and the more your constitution leans towards Light, the better the effect will be during awakening. But our knight’s Holy Light magic is different from a mage’s magic. Mages use their understanding of magical elements to manipulate them, while we rely on our own spiritual power to trigger and stimulate the power of Light. Our Knight Temple publicly calls this method of application the Power of Faith. In reality, the more deeply a knight understands the Ten Laws, the stronger their Holy Light magic will be. Do you understand?”

After thinking for a moment, Long Haochen said, “Dad, does that mean that as long as we knights work hard to cultivate internal spiritual power, we can express it in two different forms: martial arts and Holy Light magic?”

Hearing his words, Long Xingyu was greatly surprised. He never expected that Long Haochen could grasp this so quickly.

“That’s right, you can understand it that way. Our knight’s spiritual power is both the source of martial arts and the source of magic. This is completely different from those unorthodox warrior-mages who can’t amount to anything. Alright, I’m going to start awakening you now. Come outside with me.”

As he spoke, Long Xingyu led Long Haochen out of the wooden house and onto the mountaintop.

With a simple wave of his left hand, a layer of bright golden light spread out from Long Xingyu, instantly transforming into a golden shield that was five zhang high and ten zhang in diameter, enveloping him and his son within it.

The dense aura of Light seemed to cleanse Long Haochen’s soul in an instant. Bathed in this golden glow, he felt as if his whole being was sublimating. Compared to this layer of golden shield released casually by Long Xingyu, the sacred aura released by Li Xin when using the Ascension Formation was like a firefly compared to the bright moon.

“This is Light Protection, an advanced defensive skill for knights. Haochen, close your eyes and focus your mind. No matter what you feel next, you must remain calm and quietly experience the changes within yourself. Especially your understanding of Light, understand?”

“Yes.”

Long Xingyu looked at his son in front of him, took a deep breath, and slowly raised the Awakening Stone in his right hand. He didn’t tell Long Haochen that the pain he would endure during the Holy Awakening would be much greater than that experienced by ordinary knights. Because his spiritual power was not yet at one hundred and ten. Compared to those who could only undergo Knight Awakening when they reached the peak of quasi-knighthood, the burden on his body was conceivable. Of course, this would also maximize the development of Long Haochen’s Light potential.

According to the laws of the Knight Temple, prematurely initiating the Holy Awakening was strictly forbidden, because it was feared that it would cause aftereffects in the knight. Failure could even be life-threatening.

Of course, Long Xingyu wasn’t gambling with Long Haochen’s life. No one knew the secrets of the Holy Awakening process better than him. The rules of the Knight Temple were meaningless to Long Xingyu. Long Haochen had spiritual power far beyond that of ordinary people, and he also had a pure, kind, and flawless heart. Coupled with the fact that he had already achieved most of the Knight’s Ten Laws, with Long Xingyu’s precise control, success was almost certain, but Long Haochen would inevitably endure considerable pain.

Brilliant golden light shone in Long Xingyu’s hand, its dazzling brilliance almost instantly surpassing the light of the morning sun in the sky. However, this light did not leak out, and was completely blocked by Light Protection within the shield. At this moment, the figures of Long Xingyu and his son could no longer be seen inside the shield.

Long Haochen suddenly felt that his body was becoming hot, and at the same time, a stream of heat rose within him, as if there was suddenly an extra sun in his internal organs. The crystal clear feeling made him instantly realize that there seemed to be countless channels added to his body, and each channel was an extension of the light from the sun within him.

With his eyes closed, he saw bright gold, the gold within his body. Intense pain appeared instantly at this moment.

A faint gray gas suddenly spewed out from Long Haochen’s pores, disappearing with a “poof” into the golden light. It was the impurities in his body. It was also the purification effect during the Holy Awakening.

At the moment of purification, Long Haochen felt as if his body was pierced by thousands of sharp arrows, and at the same time, the scorching sensation became even more intense.

The Holy Awakening is not just the process of allowing knights to convert spiritual power into Holy Light energy to cast magic. It is also the process of cleansing the knight’s heart and body. Few knights who have undergone the Holy Awakening process betray their beliefs, and this is the reason.

Long Haochen’s body was trembling violently. If someone could see the situation inside Light Protection, they would find that at this moment, blood was seeping out from every pore on Long Haochen’s body. But it was precisely in this process that a golden halo gradually appeared in the center of his chest, and was becoming more and more intense.

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