After some more time, only then would the governments of the world finally reach a tacit understanding and make the matter of the world's transformation public, and that would mark the true beginning of the era of cultivation.

Right now, this is merely the prelude to the great tide of the future!

Ethan Carter had just returned home not long ago when he felt a wave of hunger surging in his stomach, and in just a short moment, he felt unbearably famished.

Ethan Carter knew the reason why. In one night, he had achieved results in cultivation that would take others years, or even longer, consuming an enormous amount of energy. The further he progressed, the hungrier he became.

He could only hurriedly shut down his computer and head to a beef noodle shop outside his neighborhood, where he ordered twenty bowls of noodles and ate them all in one go, finally easing the burning hunger in his stomach.

Ethan Carter's actions nearly scared the staff at the beef noodle shop out of their wits. One person eating twenty bowls of noodles— even the legendary big eaters weren't this outrageous.

Besides the noodles, he also devoured a large amount of various meat products, only then finally replenishing enough energy for himself.

With Ethan Carter's current cultivation, he was still far from being able to live on wind and dew alone; the energy required during cultivation was still immense.

In fact, if he hadn't absorbed all the spiritual energy from a spiritual node in one go last night, eating just twenty bowls of noodles wouldn't have been enough for Ethan Carter now.

After successive breakthroughs, every cell in his body was sending out signals of hunger. If he hadn't had so much spiritual energy to replenish his consumption, breaking through to the fifth level or even half a step into the sixth in one go could have literally starved him to death.

Although there was now spiritual energy in the world, it was still very thin, worlds apart from the state of cultivation holy lands in the future, far from enough for him to sustain himself just by absorbing spiritual energy.

"If I want my cultivation to advance rapidly in a short time, relying solely on normal cultivation is too slow. Looks like I need to find some heavenly treasures!" Ethan Carter thought to himself. The revival of heaven and earth didn't just benefit humans.

Many plants and minerals, nourished by spiritual energy, had undergone earth-shaking changes, transforming from ordinary mundane things into all sorts of heavenly treasures.

Those awakened ones in the videos who could breathe fire, spit water, or fly had all evolved after eating some mutated plant fruits.

Those awakened ones were originally just ordinary people, but after eating these mutated fruits, they rose to the top in one leap and gained extraordinary powers.

After solving his hunger, Ethan Carter felt much more comfortable. He returned home and arranged a spirit-gathering array using the positions of his furniture to gather the nearby spiritual energy.

At present, Ethan Carter didn't have any other magical items on hand, so the effect of the spirit-gathering array he set up was limited and couldn't compare to its peak state, but for now, it was enough.

The spiritual energy inside this apartment was at least several times denser than outside. If ordinary people lived in such an environment, they would never get sick and could live a long life.

In fact, there were already signs of this. Ever since the world began to change and spiritual energy started to revive, many people, even without cultivating, had become stronger thanks to the nourishment of spiritual energy.

Minor illnesses like colds and fevers gradually disappeared, and many chronic ailments also improved. For a while, the crowds at hospitals greatly diminished.

Ethan Carter went into seclusion. Time passed; the sun set and the moon rose. In the blink of an eye, it was late at night.

At Xingchen Bay Community, the faint moonlight seemed to drape the ground in a layer of silver. A figure, spreading a pair of huge bat wings, arrived outside Ethan Carter's window and easily flipped inside.

Chapter 7: Casually Dealt With

"Hmm? Why is the spiritual energy here so dense?" In the darkness, the figure spoke in a low voice, tinged with doubt.

In the moonlight, it could be seen that he was a man with a deathly pale face and a pair of bat wings on his back, looking just like a legendary vampire.

He was puzzled because he sensed that the density of spiritual energy here was unusual.

He was an awakened one, and his sensitivity to spiritual energy far surpassed that of ordinary people. At most, ordinary people would only feel comfortable living in such an environment, but he could actually sense the unusual density of spiritual energy.

"Could it be that the terrain here is special?" the man wondered. Ever since becoming an awakened one, he had been instilled with knowledge he never dared imagine before. Among them was the fact that certain special terrains on the land could naturally gather spiritual energy, but such places were extremely rare— true paradises— and currently impossible for anyone to occupy.

"Perfect. Once I deal with this person, this place can become my lair. Then my cultivation will definitely progress much faster, and it won't be long before I become a fourth-level awakened one. This place is just too comfortable!" the man murmured softly. He felt that in such an environment, every pore of his body was opening up to absorb spiritual energy.

He knew that the current situation was still unclear, and the country had not yet announced the existence of awakened ones, but this was the trend of the times. Whoever could get ahead now would be far ahead of others in the future.

In fact, in the distant future, becoming a god or an immortal might not be impossible.

To restore the glory of the mythological era!