The time when each person develops a martial root is not fixed, and there are several age stages for testing martial roots. The first test for a martial root is before the age of five. If a martial root is detected at this time, it is usually an excellent one.

If the first test shows no martial root, it does not mean one cannot practice martial arts; for some people, their martial root appears at the age of twelve. If it still hasn't appeared by twelve, then the last chance is to wait for the final test at sixteen.

If there is still no martial root at the age of sixteen, it means one cannot practice martial arts. Throughout the entire Yalen Continent, there has never been a case of a martial root appearing after sixteen.

Jack Dawson was extremely intelligent from a young age and was once hailed as the number one prodigy in the Ji Kingdom. His father, Shawn Dawson, placed all his hopes for the prosperity of the Di family's martial arts on Jack Dawson.

There is a saying: the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. In the first test, Jack Dawson surprisingly had no martial root, which meant he could not practice martial arts.

Watching his peers work hard at martial arts, companions who were once his equals gradually left him behind. Jack Dawson could only devote all his energy to studying, believing that his martial root would surely appear, just a bit later than others.

Education in the Ji Kingdom is not just about theoretical knowledge; it combines modern technology with theory. Before the age of twelve, Jack Dawson spent eight years learning almost everything that would take others twenty or thirty years to master. He even designed a new type of aircraft.

However, at the second test at age twelve, Jack Dawson still had no martial root.

At this point, not only Jack Dawson but even his father became anxious. Jack Dawson completely lost interest in continuing to study science and culture. His previous efforts in learning scientific knowledge were only to make use of the time others spent practicing martial arts. Now, after failing the martial root test twice, how could he have the heart to keep studying?

Jack Dawson's father told Jack Dawson not to worry, as there would be a third martial root test at sixteen.

But Jack Dawson was unwilling to keep waiting and relying on luck, so he began to study medicine.

On the Yalen Continent, scientific talent is worthless and holds the lowest status, while the status of medicine is second only to martial arts. If one can achieve something in medicine, they are even more respected than ordinary martial arts experts.

Jack Dawson did not study medicine because its status was second only to martial arts; he was worried that he still would not have a martial root at the third test at sixteen.

The Ji Kingdom's master of medicine, Tyler Grant, once said that the most top-tier medical grandmasters could use special methods to allow those without martial roots to cultivate. Jack Dawson studied medicine to leave himself a way out. In case he still had no martial root at sixteen, he wanted to use his own medical skills to carve out a martial path for himself.

He never told anyone about this, because if such words got out, they would only invite ridicule.

A medical grandmaster who could enable those without martial roots to cultivate would be a figure far more esteemed than even the king of Ji Kingdom. There might not even be such a person on the entire Yalen Continent; what Tyler Grant said was just a legend.

The Di family was already extremely wealthy, and Shawn Dawson was the number one war god and general of Ji Kingdom. Jack Dawson was also Shawn Dawson's only son. What medical book could he not obtain if he wanted it?

In four years, Jack Dawson had read through almost all the medical books the Di family could acquire, and had even apprenticed himself to Ji Kingdom's Tyler Grant, Charles Warren, Simon Foster, and other great physicians. Coupled with Jack Dawson's innate intelligence, after four years of studying medicine, his medical skills even surpassed those of several great physicians.

When Jack Dawson was fifteen, he fell in love with a girl, the most beautiful woman in Mingzhu City, Ji Kingdom—Megan Bennett.

The first time he saw Megan Bennett, Jack Dawson fell for her to his very core. Whether it was youthful infatuation or simply because Megan Bennett was so beautiful, from the moment he laid eyes on her, he could never forget her.

Jack Dawson, who hadn't even told his father the real reason for studying medicine, told him about his feelings for Megan Bennett, hoping his father would go to the Zhen family to propose marriage on his behalf.

Shawn Dawson had six sons, but five had died in service to the kingdom, leaving only Jack Dawson. Even if Jack Dawson had been lazy and idle every day, if his only son fancied a girl, he would personally go to ask for her hand in marriage.

Shawn Dawson was the number one general of Ji Kingdom, commanding over seventy percent of the kingdom's army. He was second only to the king himself. For him to personally visit the Zhen family to propose was a great honor.

Faced with Shawn Dawson's proposal, the Zhen family neither agreed nor refused, only saying that the children should get to know each other first.

As for Jack Dawson's pursuit, Megan Bennett likewise neither accepted nor rejected him, only becoming a little closer in daily interactions.

In the blink of an eye, Jack Dawson turned sixteen, and his fears became reality. At his third martial root test that year, Jack Dawson still had none.

Chapter Three: Run Quickly

Megan Bennett left. No matter how much Jack Dawson wanted to pull himself together, whenever he thought of Megan Bennett's beautiful face and the words "I'm sorry" she said when she left, he lost all will to fight.

If it weren't for Lucas Carter, perhaps Jack Dawson would have remained in this state of despair forever.