"Wang Xian, what's going on with you...?"
Qiu Ran stared in astonishment at his old friend in the wheelchair. Just a moment ago, he seemed on the brink of death, but now a flush of red spread across his pale face.
"I don't know, don't ask me."
"Just now, a mysterious wave swept through, and I feel like I can hold on for a while longer."
Wang Xian, in the wheelchair, was just as perplexed, eyes filled with shock.
His life had been hanging by a thread, the prolonged conflict between the energy within and his pollution traits had left his body exhausted and riddled with wounds.
Once he couldn't suppress the incursion of the pollution traits, he'd cut off his own lifeline.
But who could have imagined?
With the sweep of that mysterious wave, he'd somehow regained a long-lost comfort, his withered body surging back with vitality.
The energy within his body seemed to be stimulated, once again suppressing the erosion of the pollution traits!
And it wasn't just him.
Almost all the superpower users here with declining health now felt as if they'd taken another breath of life.
"Me too, I feel better than I've ever felt now."
"That's right, my whole body feels much more at ease, as if I've inhaled an Immortal Pill."
"This is simply a miracle!"
"Damn it, that mysterious wave left too quickly. Give me another half an hour, and by tomorrow I'd be up and about, looking to brawl with Fierce Beasts again!"
...
The elderly Transcendents in the Heroes Academy were utterly excited at this moment.
People were talking over one another, voices noisy and chaotic.
It was a scene unseen for many years.
The five big figures, including Pei Jing, couldn't help but feel their eyes grow moist.
It felt like going back twenty years.
"Could it be that the Spirit Tide has erupted again?" Chen Zhen from the Security Bureau was stunned on the spot.
"No!"
"When a Spirit Tide erupts, it causes all beings to evolve brilliantly, the stronger the Transcendent, the greater the benefits."
"But this mysterious wave is quite the opposite," Xia Shengxuan confidently analyzed.
Pei Jing closed his eyes, recalling the subtle sensation when the mysterious wave swept past earlier, feeling only a hint of comfort.
After pondering for a while.
Pei Jing's eyes sparkled with astonishment, and he confidently said, "It should be a Heavenly and Earthly Treasure emerging!"
"And it's a Heavenly and Earthly Treasure that can suppress pollution traits!"
As soon as he spoke.
The other four exchanged glances, seeing extreme fervor in each other's eyes!
A Heavenly and Earthly Treasure that suppresses pollution traits!?
Doesn't that mean all these old brothers have salvation!?
A storm surged within them, their eyes turned red, and intense murderous intent surged.
If such a Heavenly and Earthly Treasure truly exists, they were determined to get it!
Anyone who dares take it would face death!
For a moment, countless orders flew out like snowflakes from this small courtyard.
Besides that.
Some major forces, upon sensing the mysterious wave, moved early, especially the old family clans of superpower users who were nearing their limits, went crazy.
Tonight, the forces across the entire Ninth District moved at that moment.
They wanted to investigate the source of the mysterious wave.
And as for Su Qi, the instigator of this event, he went straight to sleep after elevating the Holy Light Guardian ability to LV15.
The God's Favored One state was still somewhat demanding with his current Spiritual Power.
...
The next day.
As gentle sunlight poured in, Su Qi opened his eyes, feeling invigorated.
Although the God's Favored One state consumed a lot of his Spiritual Power, it subtly seemed to boost his resilience.
As a result, his Spiritual Power recovered exceptionally fast, and he felt full of vigor after a good sleep.
Just as he stepped out to wash up.
He heard his mother's exclamation: "Oh my God, what's happening to me? Was the beast meat last night too nutritious?"
Su's Mother, who had stayed up late, gazed at herself in the mirror in the washroom.
She looked at the reflection, noticing she seemed to have become much younger overnight, and the marks left by time and life had vanished without a trace.
Her complexion was excellent, almost comparable to her in her thirties.
"Let me have a look too." Hearing the commotion, Father Su rushed over, and seeing his wife's transformation, his mouth hung open as he squeezed in front of the mirror.
"It seems all my white hair has disappeared too, I feel an inexhaustible energy, brimming with spirit!"
Father Su, while sharing his feelings, pinched his wife's cheek, as if to see if this was a dream.
Su's Mother slapped his hand away, saying irritably, "Act your age, the kids are up, I need to prepare breakfast quickly."
Just then.
Su Duoduo burst out of her room, phone in hand, excitedly shouting, "A miracle! There was a miracle in the Ninth District last night! A lot of people saw it!"
"Damn it, I missed it by sleeping too early."
As she gritted her teeth in frustration, she noticed the change in her parents, and was immediately dumbfounded, her mouth hanging wide open.
Almost as if she could fit an egg in it.
Then, she indignantly shouted, "You... went for plastic surgery without me, didn't you!"
"You didn't take me along, am I not your little darling anymore!"
Seeing his sister's puffed-up appearance, Su Qi became interested, and couldn't help but tease, "Tsk tsk, looks like when a miracle descends, our family's Duoduo is the only one left out..."
"Wonder if it's because your math is too bad."
At the mention of math, and seeing Su Qi's seemingly even more elevated demeanor, Su Duoduo suddenly erupted.
"Su Qi, I'm going to fight you!"
With that, she pounced towards Su Qi like an enraged little kitten.
Fortunately, even ordinary people have come to easily accept such so-called miraculous changes in this era.
After all, since the cataclysm, with the Ten Thousand Realms invading.
Human Transcendents flying through the sky and tunneling through the ground, setting mountains ablaze and boiling seas, had long become commonplace.
Even if one day a Divine Spirit descended, they would only exclaim, "Oh, a Divine Spirit."
Following that, Su's Mother busied herself with breakfast, while Father Su grabbed his coat, hurrying off to work at the cleanup company.
Now full of energy, he could grab something from the market along the way as a casual meal.
After the cataclysm, beast corpses became a valuable resource, from secret power-containing Crystal Cores down to scales and claws from beasts' exteriors, all were excellent materials.
Additionally, most beast corpses possessed pollution traits, and if left to decay, they could become new sources of pollution, leading to further mutations in other beasts.
Over time.
This created a unique place—the cleanup company.
The cleanup company would sign profit-sharing agreements with Transcendents on one hand, and on the other, segment and classify the materials they collected, supplying them continuously to various processing factories.
Butchering beasts is arduous work.
Moreover, long-term exposure to these beast corpses, no matter how well protected, still inevitably led to some degree of pollution, causing various illnesses.
Father Su had been working in beast butchery for over ten years, feeling significant impairment in his bodily functions every night.
But thinking about how his family relied on him for support.
He had no choice but to persevere day after day.
Now.
Overnight.
With the arrival of a miracle, the various hidden ailments in his body seemed to have completely faded away.
Coupled with his son becoming a Transcendent.
He was naturally full of joy and pride.
Truly, the heavens had shown mercy.