Experimental School, Integrated Research Center, outside the third-floor infirmary.

Click, click, click.

Kaiwen's long fingers typing rapidly on the keyboard suddenly paused, then withdrew.

She, wearing a white coat and with short black hair down to her shoulders, lifted her gaze from the screen and looked towards the door of the infirmary, seemingly waiting for something. Her exquisite and flawless face showed no expression, as if her emotions were equally unperturbed.

A minute later.

Footsteps sounded from outside the door.

First, there were three knocks, followed by the sound of the latch turning.

Click—

A black-haired boy pushed the door open and entered.

Unlike usual, the boy's demeanor and even his posture seemed a bit restrained, the kind that a well-behaved child should have after making a mistake.

"..."

No one noticed that when Kaiwen saw him like this, the tension at the corner of her eyes seemed to ease slightly.

"Teacher, I'm here."

Just as Lin Guang spoke, he clearly sensed something was off with the atmosphere.

He distinctly saw that his teacher was sitting at the desk, yet she wasn't handling files or data.

This was the first time Lin Guang had seen her not working.

At this moment, Kaiwen had her right hand resting on the table, supporting her forehead. Although her plain face, which would make one feel that nothing would cause a ripple, hadn't changed, the shift in her actions and the scene gave off a persistent heaviness and coldness.

Suddenly, Lin Guang had a feeling that something major was wrong.

Fortunately, Vishdair, Lily, and Chelina walked in behind him, giving him some sense of reassurance.

Lin Guang forced himself to make eye contact with her, sat down opposite her, perched on the edge of the chair, straightened his back, and rested his hands obediently on his knees.

But even so, Kaiwen didn't say anything, just stared coldly into Lin Guang's eyes and then silently glanced at the three girls who had followed him in.

Vishdair leaned over behind Lin Guang, resting her hands on the back of the chair, bending slightly so that her ample chest nearly touched his head.

Lily stood quietly to the side.

And...

Chelina, standing at the end, silent and calm.

Her emerald eyes didn't linger on Chelina but quickly returned to gaze at Lin Guang's face, without a word.

Anyone who's been a junior knows that when a senior doesn't speak, it's the most terrifying.

...However, Vishdair clearly didn't realize this.

She tilted her head and said, with a volume that seemed light, but clear enough for everyone in the room to hear: "Is Kaiwen really going through menopause?"

Although the words were spoken in Terra's standard language, how could Doctor Kaiwen not understand?

Lin Guang's eye twitched, and he discreetly reached out under the table where Kaiwen couldn't see, and caught Vishdair's wagging black and red tail, pulling it sharply.

"Oof..."

Vishdair seemed to finally grasp the severity of the situation or maybe she just wanted to give Lin Guang some face and finally quieted down.

"You and her, come in first for a check-up."

After saying this, without delay, she turned and walked into the inner room.

"..."

Vishdair pouted.

Lin Guang instinctively turned his head, giving Lisa a reassuring look, then glanced at Chelina.

The wolf-eared girl also showed no hesitation, following him into that well-sealed room that could block almost all sounds and vibrations.

In the pure white examination room.

Perhaps used to it from the lab, Chelina was equally unbothered, frankly and unashamedly facing Lin Guang.

Under the advanced equipment and Kaiwen's guidance, the examination of the two ended quickly.

By the time Lin Guang and Chelina had put on their clothes and walked out of the inner room, Kaiwen was already out.

She, standing in front of her desk and looking at Lin Guang, who had also sat back in front of her, rubbed her temples: "You're first."

"Forcibly contracting an entity whose grade and level exceed your own caused your Sea of Spirit to oscillate. Even with an equal contract, even though your spiritual power is top-notch among the same tier, even though your compatibility... is quite high, it will still last a long time."

"During this period, your level-up speed, spiritual power control, as well as thinking ability and reaction speed, will be significantly impacted."

"...That's a relief."

Lin Guang exhaled lightly.

"A relief?"

Snap!

Kaiwen's gaze turned cold, and the cap of a ballpoint pen flew from her slender fingers, hitting Lin Guang on the forehead with enough force to make him tilt back slightly and hiss with pain.

"Have you not realized that you're constantly in a state of blessing her with your talent?"

"Her body is too vast, even surpassing you. Even if she doesn't mean to, her body instinctively uses the Equal Contract to reverse the pressure on your spirit and talents to repair itself!"

"This..."

Kaiwen took out a small mirror from somewhere and held it up to Lin Guang.

In those pitch-black pupils, dark golden flames burned as if they would never extinguish.

"From today onwards, you're not allowed to use that inheritance recklessly to stimulate your talents or perform high-load operations."

"You need to stabilize your sea of spirit quickly so you can proceed to the next steps."

"If it weren't for your unstable current status, unclear if there are permanent aftereffects, I would have even considered forcing you to sever the contract with her."

"Although it hasn't been thoroughly investigated, I'm afraid the Divine Heart Association invested extremely precious, life-integrating Divine Object in her, a loss of such magnitude would greatly distress even a True Man."

"Divine Object."

Having seen the unknown in the grade section of her panel, Lin Guang already anticipated something.

But truly hearing these words made even Lin Guang, calm as ever, take a deep breath and then let it out, exclaiming:

"So, does this mean her body has formed..."

"Dao Mark?"

——Water can extinguish fire, objects fall from heights, explosions spread in circles rather than rectangles.

These are the natural laws of Blue Star, the assumed Rules.

But...

This world has too many foreign elements.

Things that are supposed to be in this world (Rules), are not seen the same way in other worlds.

Thus, as worlds interlace, as rules collide, "miracles" occur.

For example, the reverse of water and fire restriction through Burning Water Spirit Pattern.

For example, the almost unreasonable talent effects of Spirit Masters.

For example, the energy-incongruent skills exhibited by Spirit Beasts.

The so-called Dao Mark is life beginning to transcend, miraculously surpassing Blue Star's natural laws.

The more life can break free from the shackles of real-world regulations, the more extraordinary it becomes, crossing a threshold to form Dao Marks detectable by special means within the possessor.

Much like talent grade and personal level, these can be seen as manifestations of life tiers.

Even the widely known color grading and sequence order of the Spirit Master talent grades on that chart essentially derive from the height of Dao Marks and Scales.

Generally speaking, purple talent holders who rank among the top five hundred almost always possess a complete Dao Mark, top-ranking talents even have multiple Dao Marks.

Imagine this.

Below Six-Star, most Spirit Masters haven't engraved their own True Intent to inscribe Dao Marks, so the amplification level and effect of such talent holders is a dimensional attack.

This is the source of inherent strength for high-grade talent holders.

In other words, they are innate reality disturbers.

With the Power of Whole Heart and Soul and various opportunity blessings, Lin Guang's spiritual power levels now can even match a purple talent ranked around 400, yet the Heart of Terra's grade remains blue due to insufficient amplification.

Although its talent level when intact is unknown, judging from its evolution progress and amplification level now, it likely belongs to the rank with a complete Dao Mark, a high-ranking talent.

But no matter how strong it was when intact, how many Dao Marks it had, now it's not even as good as the lowest-ranked purple talents; hence it requires Holy Secret Texts: All to multiply the spiritual power to achieve what purple talents can.

In gaming terms.

It's like although the white value is up, the independent multiplier segment is too weak.

The so-called Divine Object is the material manifestation of Dao Marks and rules at a higher level.

There are many ways Divine Objects produce, mostly related to powerful life, like the fall of Beast Kings and True Men above Six-Star, purification of high-tier Demon Race bodies, or products of high-grade Secret Realm oscillation periods, or naturally formed in some peculiar terrains.

The effects of these things are varied.

Sometimes they carry most True Intent of strong ones and refined inheritance.

Sometimes they need no refining to show terrifying powers, even more exaggerated when refined.

Some come with all sorts of strange obsessions, functions bizarre, side effects odd, but they are rule-related forbidden items.

Apart from the varying number and strength of strong people and geniuses, the count of these Divine Objects symbolizes the foundation of various major forces.

However, those that life can directly refine and absorb to increase Dao Marks are rare among Divine Objects.

Hearing Lin Guang actually know about this, Kaiwen looked somewhat surprised, then slightly lifted her head to look at Chelina.

She sighed:

"The terms used in the Federation Countries, Europe, etc., are generally translated in Great Xia as Spirituality, Spiritual Rank, also known as Scale, Grid Position."

"And according to Great Xia's tradition... it's indeed called Dao Mark."

"You are right."

Kaiwen looked at Lin Guang and said word by word: "Her body has formed... three Dao Marks."

Three?!!!

Upon hearing this, Lin Guang, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but take a sharp intake of breath.

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