Only My Way

Although I don't know what happened.

But when Ling Wuyuan stood on the stage.

He still clearly realized one thing.

That is, he must have made a big profit!

'Oh yeah~'

'Awesome~'

The only minor problem was the gazes of the other children beside him and the onlookers below the stage, which made him slightly embarrassed.

'What's up with this guy?'

'Where did this beggar come from?'

'… …'

Although no one directly questioned Ling Wuyuan or shouted and screamed at him, he still felt these meanings in the many gazes.

This feeling of being disliked and despised by thousands of people…

'Fortunately, I was an orphan in my previous life and was used to being disliked. In this life, I've been a beggar for several years and have long been used to being disliked. Otherwise, I might really feel embarrassed… …'

Thinking of this.

Ling Wuyuan was also slightly complacent.

That was a complacency of having seen the storms and being able to face the current situation with peace.

As long as you've had it bad enough, then being disliked by others is really not worth mentioning.

However.

Ling Wuyuan looked at the children around him who were all dressed decently, and then recalled the holes in the upper half of his clothes and the holes in his pants on his legs, except for the relatively intact crotch, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness in his heart.

'I wonder when I'll be able to get a complete set of clothes.'

At the same time.

He saw the Pei family's servants slowly carrying a circular black stone platform about thirty centimeters high and about two and a half meters wide, with a large number of strange patterns and multiple grooves carved on the surface, to a nearby location.

Although it was the first time he had seen this thing.

Ling Wuyuan immediately understood that the thing should be the tool needed to carry out the [Spiritual Awakening Ceremony].

After looking at the thing for a while.

Ling Wuyuan withdrew his gaze.

There was no way.

Even if he knew that the patterns on the surface of the black stone platform should possess some kind of special power, he just couldn't understand it.

So, Ling Wuyuan's gaze quickly came to the other side.

That was a little girl with fair skin, black hair just reaching her shoulders, and a very cute appearance. There was no problem in saying that she was exquisitely carved like jade.

Although she was still young, only about ten years old, looking about the same age as Ling Wuyuan, the beautiful qualities she possessed were already gradually emerging.

Even if it was just a fleeting glance.

Everyone could easily judge that she would definitely be a great beauty in the future.

At this moment.

Even though there was no obvious facial expression on her face.

Ling Wuyuan could still clearly perceive that her gaze towards him was full of a sense of scrutiny, as if she was carefully examining something worthy of attention.

Facing this gaze.

Ling Wuyuan felt a little pained and a little surprised at the same time.

He could feel that she should be the main reason why he could inexplicably obtain the qualification to participate.

But he couldn't figure out what she was up to.

And.

The man beside her, one of the real big shots in Black Stone City, the man named Pei Zhizong, also silently looked at him for a while.

Facing a big shot that he had no way to resist.

Even with a very good psychological quality, Ling Wuyuan couldn't help but feel nervous.

It wasn't until he discovered that neither of them showed any intention of talking to him, at most just taking a few more glances at him, that he calmed down.

— —

After the black stone platform was completely placed.

Along with an old man with white hair and a wrinkled face embedding a few unknown objects flashing with faint light into the grooves above.

Soon.

In the rather curious gazes of all the onlookers and the extremely expectant emotions of all the selected people, the [Spiritual Awakening Ceremony] officially began.

Participants lined up and walked onto the stone platform one by one.

Just like Ling Wuyuan had previously discovered that he couldn't understand the patterns on the stone platform at all.

He also didn't understand the so-called [Spiritual Awakening Ceremony] at all.

From his perspective, whenever a child stood on the stone platform, accompanied by the old man's operation, the patterns on the surface of the stone platform would release bursts of soft light.

Then those children would show either comfortable or uncomfortable expressions.

The performances varied.

Generally speaking, the entire process from when each child stepped onto the stone platform to when they stepped off the stone platform usually took two to three minutes.

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'… …It doesn't feel like there's anything to see… …'

'There aren't even many special effects… …'

Although he was silently complaining about the situation in his heart.

At this moment, Ling Wuyuan was still quite looking forward to the [Spiritual Awakening Ceremony] reaching him sooner.

For him, this was a waiting process that was neither too long nor too short… …

— —

When Ling Wuyuan walked onto the stone platform.

As someone who had been observing him for a while, Pei Zhizong casually asked the little girl beside him:

"That little beggar looks pretty good."

"Do you want to take him in as a servant and make him your servant?"

He could see that the younger generation beside him had some curiosity about him.

And the Pei family, with its large family and business, had the habit of regularly recruiting young orphans from the outside world to cultivate into loyal servants.

So, he didn't mind taking the opportunity to satisfy the little curiosity of the younger generation.

Anyway, it was just one more mouth to feed.

Moreover, his previous sentence was not just a random remark.

Pei Zhizong really thought that this little beggar, Ling Wuyuan, was not bad.

Although his clothes were dirty and his figure was somewhat underdeveloped, making him look relatively thin overall, the face hidden under the dirt was actually quite good-looking, and more importantly… his eyes and performance were very interesting.

That was the composure of being humble but not at all inferior or timid.

Even when standing on the stage, being directly despised by the gazes and discussions of the audience below.

Even when queuing, being quite tacitly squeezed out by all the other children at the same time, being undoubtedly ranked last, with no one wanting to talk to him or make contact.

That little beggar was able to maintain his calmness and composure from beginning to end.

Even in the face of the malice of thousands of people, he never showed any wavering on his face from beginning to end…

All there was was silent scrutiny and observation.

Observing the other children on the stage.

Observing the many people under the stage.

In those extremely calm eyes.

Pei Zhizong clearly saw that the other party was [thinking].

Although he didn't know what the other party was specifically thinking about, he understood that the other party's maturity and intelligence should completely surpass the other children on the stage.

Even surpassing many adults on and off the stage.

[This is an excellent child.]

Although he had never exchanged even a single word with Ling Wuyuan.

Pei Zhizong still made this judgment very clearly.