Although the spiritual cultivation era is 500 years later on Earth, mobile phones and schools still exist.
However, what schools teach is different. Schools now teach spiritual cultivation, supernatural powers, alchemy, forging, formation carving, technology, architecture, and more.
Of course, things like social media and friend circles definitely still exist.
"Taylor won't let me go?"
Ethan clenched his fist. Now that he had the system, he would not let Taylor go.
Although he might not be able to defeat Taylor, who had reached the second level of spiritual energy, he believed that with the help of the system, he could soon surpass him.
In this spiritual energy era, cultivation is divided into nine realms:
Supernatural, Awakener, Second Awakener, Great Awakener, Ultimate Awakener—these are the first five realms.
Each realm is divided into nine levels.
The first stage of cultivation is to perceive spiritual energy, similar to children who just enter school at this level.
When the spiritual energy reaches level 9, you can enter the realm of a superpower. Once in this realm, you can comprehend the superpowers of heaven and earth through cultivation and use them for yourself after conquering them.
Of course, some people are born with superpowers; these people are called geniuses.
"The system said there is a chance to obtain superpowers by extracting biological genes. I wonder if this really works!"
Even though Ethan had previously gained great strength with the system, he was still uneasy about the system's promise of obtaining superpowers. After all, superpowers are something everyone desires in this era.
For example, the fire superpower is extraordinary and can burn people to ashes.
Another example: the ice superpower can freeze everything instantly!
"Look, the school's guardian beast 'Scarlet Phoenix' is out again."
"It's really a Scarlet Phoenix. The Phoenix is so powerful. It helped a lot when zombies attacked the academy yesterday."
"Dealing with those zombies is no easy task. The Scarlet Phoenix is a second-level mutant beast. Once it releases its Red Lightning ability, it can easily blow down a skyscraper."
"If only I had a Scarlet Phoenix!"
Listening to the exclamations around him, Ethan looked up and saw a red bird about one meter long with a dragon horn on its head flying overhead.
It is rumored that the Scarlet Phoenix has traces of mutant real dragon blood in its body, hence the dragon horn on its head, making it very powerful.
Almost every day, the Scarlet Phoenix flies over the academy.
"This is..."
Looking up at the Scarlet Phoenix, Ethan noticed a red feather fall lightly on his head.
Ethan caught it; it seemed this feather had fallen from the Phoenix's body.
"Ding! The system detects a living thing on the host's hand. Do you want to extract the gene?"
What?
Could this feather also be classified as a living thing?
Ethan was stunned but also delighted.
This is a feather from the Scarlet Phoenix. If he extracted its genes, he wondered how many attribute points he could get.
"Extract!"
"Ding! Extraction successful. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 2 points of agility attribute and 1 point of wisdom attribute. Obtained superpower – Red Lightning!"
"Superpower!!!"
Ethan's heartbeat quickened, and his breathing became faster. Could this be true?
At the same time, Ethan felt a fullness in his abdomen, as if something had entered his body. That was the superpower existing within him.
Ethan excitedly moved behind a pile of rocks where trees provided cover; other students generally didn't notice this place.
"Puff! Puff!"
Ethan focused, and a current appeared in his abdomen, flowing to his right hand along his right arm.
The red color of the current was different from ordinary lightning.
Ethan pressed his hand, charged with the current, against a basin-sized stone in front of him.
With a "puff" sound, the stone immediately turned into powder.
"What a powerful attack!"
If this hit a person's body, it would leave a hole instantly.
"I have superpowers now; Taylor is nothing!"
Ethan stepped out from behind the rocks and headed toward the academy's practice field. Today's afternoon class was physical training.
You should know, there are no more than ten students with superpowers in the whole academy, and each of them ranks high in the school.
They are the focus of the academy's training, and even the teachers treat them courteously because of their potential.
Maybe one day they will become important figures in the United Nations, surpassing even their teachers.
The academy's training ground is a large building the size of a football field with a transparent glass roof.
Pushing open the glass door, there were many rooms and corridors. Ethan walked along a corridor and came to the training room of Class 101.
As soon as he pushed open the door, many people inside looked over.
One looked very unhappy—Yang Harris, the training instructor.
"Don't you know the class time?"
"Do you have any sense of time?"
"You are such a loser!"
Faced with Yang Harris' three consecutive scoldings, Ethan was secretly unhappy and said, "It's just a few minutes late!"