That Chief Physician said, “Mr. Parker, just eat it like an ordinary fruit. The spiritual fruit’s energy will gradually increase, so there’s no need to be nervous. Just follow your heart to absorb the energy. My colleagues and I will be here to support you throughout the process.”

Fatty didn’t stand on ceremony either, eating the enlightenment spiritual fruit as if it were an apple.

A cool energy began to flow through his body.

He closed his eyes to experience that energy, gradually becoming aware of it.

Currently, the known cultivators are divided into four major realms: Manifestation, Dharma Body, Elixir Domain, and Profound Connection.

The first realm, Manifestation, requires enlightenment as the first step.

Without enlightenment, one remains an ordinary person for life.

The energy of the enlightenment spiritual fruit was quite intense, a surge of energy rushing straight to his forehead.

Fatty experienced the transformation from mortal to cultivator, seeing his upper dantian.

The upper dantian has many other names: it’s also called the ancestral aperture, the third eye, or the divine court.

There’s another name for it: the mysterious gate.

The biggest difference between a cultivator and an ordinary person lies in whether they can open the mysterious gate.

The mysterious gate is known as the ancestor of all apertures and can be understood as a kind of switch.

That switch can open a mysterious door, granting access to mysterious powers.

Henry Parker had been hoping to achieve enlightenment since he was four years old, waiting twenty years to finally have his wish fulfilled.

A surge of cool energy broke open the mysterious gate.

He gained the signature ability of cultivators—inner vision—and saw a new world.

Stars filled the sky, constantly twinkling.

Unlike the stars ordinary people see at night, the stars Fatty saw—some shone with a single ray of starlight, some with two or three, and some even with seven rays.

Each ray of starlight represented a star level.

At the same time, it was also related to the grade of one’s spiritual root.

What Fatty needed to do was use his soul to take root on one of the stars.

Once he took root, he could generate magical power and officially become a cultivator.

He wandered through the void, shuttling among billions of stars.

The situation he faced was rather awkward: the higher-level stars did not welcome him.

In fact, most cultivators are unable to take root in high-level stars.

Among those lowest-level one-star stars, which shone with a single ray of starlight, a few small stars sent out a summons to Henry Parker’s soul.

Gradually, Fatty sensed a connection with those five low-level stars.

A subtle thought entered the depths of his soul, and he sensed the mysteries of the stars.

[Shrimp Soldier: One-star Water God. Soul takes root, can activate Shrimp Soldier spiritual root.]

The upper dantian is the residence of the spirit.

The so-called “spirit” refers to the primordial spirit hidden among the stars.

Legend has it that after the fall of the gods, they turned into the stars scattered across the sky.

Western cultivators have another saying: each star is a fragment of a divine spark.

After humans fuse with a fragment of the divine spark, they can officially begin cultivation.

Once the fusion succeeds, it can trigger a phenomenon similar to a “manifestation of the immortal,” drawing power from the divine spark—this is the origin of the Manifestation Realm.

A one-star Shrimp Soldier spiritual root was too low in quality, so Henry Parker switched his focus, sensing another star that was calling to him.

[Ox-Head: One-star Yin God. Soul takes root, can activate Ox-Head spiritual root.]

Henry Parker said nothing, silently switching targets.

[Horse-Face: One-star Yin God. Soul takes root, can activate Horse-Face spiritual root.]

Henry Parker tried hard to stay calm, avoiding a mental breakdown.

He continued to switch targets...

[Earth Deity: One-star Yang God. Soul takes root, can activate Earth Deity spiritual root.]

No need to say more, he switched targets again.

[Yellow Immortal: One-star Earth Immortal. Absorbs the incense and wishes of rural villagers, evolving into an Earth Immortal. Soul takes root, can distance itself from the divine path and focus solely on the immortal path.]

The fifth star was at least a little bit interesting.

The divine path and the immortal path are two different concepts.

Fatty knew quite a few cultivators and had long since sought professional advice: for truly perfect enlightenment, one must find their own natal star and achieve a strong resonance.

That kind of resonance is like finding a soulmate for your soul.

The five stars so far were simply calling to him, as if they thought he had some potential, but there was no real resonance.

Henry Parker decided to follow his feelings and search for his own natal star.

The soul world of the upper dantian operates on a different timeline from the real world; he searched in the soul world for a long time.

Fatty held firm to his heart, determined to find his natal star.

Time flew by, and there were over a thousand stars calling to him.

Among them, there were more than eight hundred Shrimp Soldier stars.

Shrimp Soldier was not unique, having shattered into countless fragments and become thousands of tiny stars.

In this era, cultivators with the Shrimp Soldier spiritual root are as numerous as fish in the river.

Not to mention distant ones, Fatty personally knew five cultivators with the Shrimp Soldier spiritual root.

Among billions of stars, not a single two-star star resonated with him.

Once upon a time, Fatty secretly thought that when his awakening day came, he would surely trigger celestial phenomena, at the very least fusing with a four-star or even five-star star—awakening at the peak, hailed as a once-in-a-century cultivation genius.

Reality and ideals are always different.

Henry Parker had no choice but to pick the tallest among the short ones.

He kept a good attitude; after all, having been a muggle for so many years, just awakening was already pretty good.