Awakened: The Spirit King!

"Now that I've dealt with my wife's matters, I can finally focus on myself."

There weren't many petals left. Although Xie Yang needed most of them to prepare the medicinal bath for Lin Hua, the remaining amount was just enough for him to open the entrances of all nine of his spiritual meridians.

He didn't think twice before using the spirit-gathering needles to poke open them. Humans have spiritual Meridians in the same spot of their bodies. Unless someone cultivates a special method that changes the configuration of their mortal body or the shape of their souls or wasn't only a human, the location of their spiritual meridians shouldn't differ much from others.

Xie Yang had studied human bodies so much in his past life that he had etched the location of their spiritual Meridians in his bones.

Even if he were subconsciously or half-heartedly doing it, he would still poke his spiritual meridians and not his internal organs!

Thus, he didn't find it hard to poke his spiritual meridians accurately.

He didn't have any cultivation resources to nourish them, so they could only store 30 units of spiritual energy each.

Still, Xie Yang was satisfied as it was not only better than nothing but also because he had achieved the peak of the Martial Warrior Realm after opening his spiritual meridians.

His spiritual energy capacity was a terrifying 1370 units, equal to a cultivator in the third level of the second realm. He could now use the second sword realm without killing himself! Now, he had gained a deadly weapon than peak-level sword intent! Xie Yang had comprehended all there was to about swords.

So in this life, he didn't need to train with a sword to acquire the sword way, sword heart, or sword realm. He had them but lacked the necessary cultivation, more specifically, enormous amounts of spiritual energy to use them.

"I am now a spiritual cultivator but also a martial warrior, just like in my past life. This calls for a celebration."

"It made me remember that except for spiritual meridians, there's a chance I must have other types of meridians as well."

"It all depends on what kind of fate heaven has destined for me to have."

"My father is the Lord of Cloud, and I am not only his son but also the reincarnation of the ancient king of the spirit world, so my fate should be spectacular, right?"

Martial Warrior was a term that he came across in his past life.

There was a huge story behind it.

In his past life, Xie Yang snatched Feng Jiang from the mouth of death.

The reason Xie Yang helped Feng Hian was to repay his debt to Feng Mian, the leader of the Wind Spirit Clan and also Feng Jiang's father.

As a consequence of Xie Yang's actions, Feng Mian of the spirit realm invited him to stay in his clam for the annual banquet. Of course, Xie Yang accepted his invitation. Feng Main was his good friend, and he didn't have any other plans.

Although Xie Yang was friends with Feng Mian, it was his and his first seven wives' first and second last time going to the secret realm of the wind spirit clan. They were good friends, true, but only because they saved each other's backs from getting stabbed by demons in one of the ancient wars before parting on good terms and going their ways. So their relationship wasn't too deep.

When Xie Yang went there, he was surprised to find that every member of the Wind clan was born with the ability to conjure wings on their back, including newborns. With a little bit of practice, they were capable of flying, an act only performable by Spiritual Lords.

Xie Yang also found out that Feng Jiang lacked this ability, and thus, people taunted him by calling him the most useless young master of the spirit realm.

Feng Mian named his son as the sharpest sword of his clan, but the reality was that Feng Jiang couldn't even match a dull blade in terms of capabilities!

Feng Jiang was the young master of the Wind Spirit Clan and the only son of Feng Mian, but no one respected him.

Xie Yang felt bad for Feng Mian, and he was also secretly jealous of Feng Jiang!

Feng Jiang was a useless waste, and most clan leaders would disown such children.

But Feng Mian was different.

Feng Mian treated Feng Jiang in the same way Xie Yang treated Xie Yang.

In those days, the good relationship between the father and son soured his mouth and stung his eyes many times. After all, his father was a piece of garbage, and Xie Yang had caused his downfall. In those times, he would use wine to suppress his envy. If that proved not to be enough, he would look at the crystal skies and hurl curses at the ruler of fate for giving him a bastard-like father.

The spiritual healers that came before Xie Yang to diagnose Feng Jiang all said the same thing. Because he was a crossbreed between a Wind Spirit and a Human, he was born with many defects. Unless he consumes heavenly treasures, the chances of him learning Wind Spirit Arts were meager, and the possibility of him growing wings was nonexistent.

Xie Yang wasn't one to agree with others without seeing proof and evidence. Except for some ancient theories and outdated medical truths verified by lazy elders of ancient clans that most definitely didn't read a word on the paper and put their stamp on it, there was nothing else backing their claim.

Thus, Xie Yang set out to search for the truth behind Feng Jiang's disability. He hoped to return before the banquet, so he left five of his wives behind and took two to have fun in the wild.

Xie Yang was extremely curious about the cause behind Feng Jiang's disability. He didn't believe that heaven fated Feng Jiang to be less than all the members of his clan just because he was the fruit of love between a human and a spirit.

He went through ancient records for a few weeks, but after finding nothing too useful, he set on a three-month journey around the spirit realm with his wives.

He looked for cases similar to Feng Jiang.

Surprisingly, there were many, more than what a person could count in a hundred hands.

Reading a thousand books didn't prove as helpful as walking ten thousand miles to Xie Yang.

The Eastern Flood Dragon disowned its seventy-seventh because he was born with no scales.

The Phoenix Queen mated with a sword immortal and gave birth to a cute baby girl. However, she tried to execute her the name day. As a result, not only did the sword immortal save the child, but he also gave her a blade and broke up all relations with her. The cause was unknown.

After Xie Yang inquired and met the baby girl who had grown up to become a beautiful lady under the care of her father, he found out that it was because she lacked control over her flames and was bound to annihilate every soul around her ten years later. Whether she liked it or not, it was going to happen.

Even if she went to a faraway place and locked herself in a dungeon, her immortal flames would still spread to 1/100th of the spirit realm and burn to ashes many souls, immortals, celestials, and spirits. To stop her from committing a heinous crime and save the souls of the spirit realm from this cruel fate, the queen decided to kill her.

But the legendary sword immortal who had fought against heaven to ascend to the spirit realm from the mortal realm wasn't willing to send his daughter to reincarnate. As a result, he took his daughter away.

In the Divine Eye Clan, the child of the third mistress was born with a defect. She lacked the third eye. As a result, she couldn't use divine sense like other holy children. As a result, the clan members divined that she was the harbinger of misfortune, and if she were to reproduce, disaster would befall the clan. So, they destroyed her wombs.

There were many people like them.

Xie Yang inquired about all of them.

The experts of the spirit realm found out that he was finding a cure to the problem of many crossbreeds but lacked test subjects.

As his reputation as a spiritual healer and an alchemist was terrific, they invited him to check on their crossbreed children and also gave him the corpses of their fallen clan members to him.

It was only after a month of extensive research that he found out that spirits and divines were born with one or two elemental or divine meridians. In contrast, humans were born with nine closed spiritual meridians, and crossbreeds had the same number of closed spiritual Meridians. On top of that, they could possess one or two closed elemental or divine meridians.

Unless they open them, they wouldn't be able to access their innate ability.

He found out the truth and also created a way to open spiritual meridians by using a few beast kings as test subjects but not being too harsh on them before the annual spirit realm banquet.

He went back to the Wind Spirit Clan and secretly helped Feng Jiang open all his spiritual meridians.

Feng Jiang had nine spiritual Meridian, two wind wings meridians on his back, one fire meridian on his tongue and one on his throat, and a divine sense Meridian in the center of his forehead, and Xie Yang opened them all.

What did that mean?

Xie Yang had reversed his fate.

From a useless waste, he became a talented youth with no rivals.

In the traditional dance competition that the Wind Spirit Clan at the annual festival, Feng Jiang exposed his wings to the public. They were so magnificent and made him look so handsome that the ladies chopping onions cut their fingers, and even men started salivating!

That day, many spirits cried tears of envy, and some questioned their sexuality.

Following that, Feng Jiang won the competition.

Several hundred years later, he became the patriarch of the wind clan and swore his loyalty to Xie Yang, binding the life and death of his entire clan to his will.

It was in that very year that the fateful war which threatened to destroy the entire spirit world happened.

Xie Yang fell, taking down the rulers and the supreme one of the invaders.

As for Feng Jiang and Feng Mian, if they were still alive, they must be in the spirit realm, and he won't be meeting them anytime soon.

Some mortals were born with elemental and divine meridians.

However, they were crossbreeds between humans and spirits or humans and divines, or heaven had blessed them with a grand fate.

Xie Yang didn't know what he was, but after poking different spots of his body, he opened a Divine Meridian and gained divine sense!

"How is it possible for a mortal like me to have such a good fate?! It's either that the spirit realm's Continental Soul prepared this gift for me, knowing that the shard of my soul that It sent to the cycle of reincarnation to reincarnate in the mortal world will meet with another part of my soul, leading to my true awakening, or my mother isn't a simple person!

If it's the first, what does it wants from me? If the second possibility is true, just who is my mother?" Xie Yang shouted in his mind.

Xie Yang was shocked out of his wits. After all, the divine sense was like the greatest weapon a mortal could ask for in the mortal realm!

Because he had opened his divine Meridian and, as a result, released his divine sense into the surrounding, he was able to clearly see the insects in the back garden in his mind even with his eyes closed. The picture was clear, and he could zoom in and zoom out.

When he zoomed in, he could even feel their movement and count the number of their limbs, and he could also hear the sound of the wind and the rustling of the tree and leaves. When he zoomed out, they only appeared as signs of life, and the world was as silent and calm as a still lake.

Xie Yang chuckled as he remembered the second name of Divine Sense.

The bane of Assassins!

"With it, there's no assassin in the mortal realm that can silently close up on me without me knowing. There's only one thing awaiting the assassins who targets me, and it's a world of pain and shock!" Xie Yang laughed in a low voice, his eyes gleaming in a cold glint.