Three days later.
Su Xi had originally thought that the next to awaken would be either Aunt Wang or Jamie, but she never expected that she would be the first to receive a confirmation visit from the academy.
“You’re Su Xi, right?” A woman dressed in red stood at the door, giving her a probing glance.
“Teacher Lin?” Isn’t this the meditation class teacher?
“Mm.” The other party nodded, wearing an all-business expression as she said, “The school already knows about your ability to help others awaken. I’m here to conduct a test for you.”
“Huh?!” Su Xi was taken aback for a moment. Thinking about how Niuniu had received a notification right after awakening, it made sense that the academy would know about her ability to help others awaken. Instantly, she felt a bit worried—would she be exposed? Nevertheless, she stepped aside and let the person in.
“There’s no need to be nervous,” Teacher Lin reassured her. “There are countless Transcendent Abilities, and many of them aren’t immediately obvious. That’s why further testing is needed. Your Transcendent Ability is likely one of these.”
With that, she directly pulled out a palm-sized device from her Intellect-Brain space and placed it on the table, explaining as she did so, “We suspect your Transcendent Ability might be a highly unique Psychic-type ability, so we need to test your mental fluctuations.”
As she spoke, she pointed to the device on the table, signaling Su Xi to place her hand on it. “Channel all your ability into the detector.”
Su Xi was also curious to know what category her power fell under in the interstellar context, so she cooperatively placed her hand on the device, circulating the Divine Power within her body. The sphere in her Consciousness Sea also began to spin rapidly.
Unsurprisingly, the device showed no reaction at all.
“Not a Psychic-type? Sigh, looks like it’s another Conceptual Transcendent,” Teacher Lin said, clearly somewhat disappointed. She sighed and added, “Well, at least you’ve awakened. Report to the inner academy tomorrow.” After saying this, she promptly put away the device and tapped a few times on her Intellect-Brain.
The next moment, Su Xi received a notification about her transfer to another department.
Teacher Lin didn’t linger long. After explaining some matters regarding the inner academy, she left directly.
Su Xi never expected that she would be the second one to enter the inner academy. So, not only could the academy not discern her identity as a deity, but they also mistook her ability to help others awaken as a Transcendent Ability?
That’s fine.
It saves me the trouble of coming up with an excuse. In fact, over the past few days, she had looked through some materials and figured out why she could help Niuniu and the others awaken. Since she was originally a deity of Blue Star, Transcendent Abilities originated from deities, so it was only natural that she could help others awaken. As for whether she could help others awaken, she hadn’t tried, but perhaps it was possible.
Now that she had joined the inner academy, all the academy’s facilities were open to her, making it convenient for her to research information about deities.
Without hesitation, Su Xi immediately used her Intellect-Brain to access the long-awaited academy information database. Sure enough, the previously classified information about deities was now freely accessible.
She spent several consecutive days immersed in the information database, only then gaining a preliminary understanding of some information about deities.
There were indeed many deities in the interstellar realm. As for exactly how many, there was no complete count, and not every civilization was blessed with a deity’s protection. However, it was clear that civilizations with deities were more prosperous.
Therefore, in the cosmos, it is common for several civilizations to worship the same deity. Most gods do not easily manifest in the world, and each deity possesses their own Authority and abilities, as well as preferences and taboos.
There are also wars in the cosmos, but civilizations under the protection of gods generally do not easily engage in conflict, as no one can withstand the wrath of a deity. As for the power of gods, it is described in a single phrase: unknowable, unsearchable, and unseeable.
The relationships among gods are not entirely harmonious either. There are those whose Authorities oppose one another, which naturally leads to the civilizations they protect becoming enemies.
What surprised her even more was that gods are also divided into hierarchical ranks.
The most common are True Gods, who are widely worshipped by various civilizations. Then there are Ancient Gods, who are older and more mysterious than True Gods, possessing greater power. Most of them are in deep slumber and rarely manifest. Finally, there are the World-Palm Gods, who are said to be Chief God-level beings among deities. Many True Gods are even subordinates of World-Palm Gods. They possess terrifying Divine Power capable of annihilating entire realms with a wave of their hand, hence the name “World-Palm.”
As for whether there exist even more terrifying beings beyond the World-Palm Gods, no one knows.
Su Xi thought of the old man. He had hidden the solar system for many years, and it had only recently appeared in the cosmos. Thus, the Star Alliance directly classified the deity of Blue Star as one of those long-slumbering Ancient Gods. This was clearly a misunderstanding, but she wasn’t sure what rank the old man actually belonged to.
As for her, the successor, it went without saying. Su Xi didn’t even feel like a god. Although she had sensed some so-called Divine Power within her body these past few days, aside from making the sphere in her Consciousness Sea spin faster, she hadn’t discovered any other uses. Let alone the world-destroying abilities described in the materials.
Su Xi even began to wonder whether the Divine Seat had been incompletely passed down to her.
As for the friend god the old man had asked her to find, Su Xi had searched for a long time but hadn’t found a deity named Yuan Chen. There was, however, a True God named Source, also known as the God of Abundance, who was said to preside over harvest and prosperity.
But his domain was in the distant Dengqing Star Sector, countless sectors away from the Academy of Divinity. Getting there required traversing several Star Gates, and even a round trip by Starship would take over ten days. More importantly, the ticket cost tens of thousands of Star Credits.
Su Xi glanced at her empty account and decided to postpone the trip for now.
“Are you the newly awakened Transcendent?” an unfriendly voice sounded beside her.
Su Xi was startled and turned to find three female classmates standing beside her, forming a semi-circle around her and glaring at her with hostility. Since transferring to the inner academy, classes were no longer held online but in the traditional classroom format. Today was her first day attending.
Su Xi eyed the three unfriendly newcomers. Was she being targeted on her very first day of transfer? Was she really that much of a magnet for trouble?
Was she about to experience the classic “show off and get humbled” trope from novels?
Sure enough, seeing her remain silent, the three grew even more displeased. One of them reached out to grab her arm. “Do you even know this seat isn’t for you? Get up now.”
“Why?” Here it comes—the classic mocking opening.
“Hah, obviously, this is…” The girl chuckled, speaking with an air of certainty, “This chair is broken!”
“Huh? What?” The sudden twist caught Su Xi off guard.
“Can’t you see?” The girl standing behind her, one hand on the backrest and the other pointing beneath the chair, said, “This chair was reported for repair a while ago—the leg is cracked. If I hadn’t been holding it from behind just now, you’d already be on the floor.”
“Oh… oh.” Su Xi finally understood and quickly stood up. “Th-thank you!”
Seriously? I had my sword ready, and it’s just this?