Wang Linchi's hand trembled slightly, especially when he saw the glaring line on his inheritance claim notice; a knot of frustration lodged in his chest, unable to be released.
He was a transmigrator, having been born into this world into a special dynasty named Great View.
Everyone had the chance to awaken after reaching adulthood. If the awakening was successful, they could obtain a power known as Soul Resemblance. Soul Resemblance didn't have a fixed form or ability; each person's awakened Soul Resemblance was different.
Some people's Soul Resemblances were like online game professions, enabling them to hunt monsters, level up, and improve their Skills. Others were like Talent and Skills, which could be constantly developed and grown.
The only regrettable thing was that the awakening rate was extremely low, with only about one percent of people able to awaken.
Fortunately, Wang Linchi was lucky. He had successfully become one ofr the rare Awakeners during yesterday's crucial examination ceremony.
It was precisely because he had successfully awakened his Soul Resemblance that he could claim his parents' inheritance.
Wang Linchi didn't have many memories of his parents. They had died in a laboratory accident just a month after he was born, leaving him a house and some assets. Of course, these were all sealed away, to be unsealed and transferred to him when he came of age.
Compared to the house and property, which weren't of great value, these were secondary. What truly mattered was the sealed Soul Kind.
After awakening their Soul Resemblance, Awakeners would possess Potential. Each point of Potential could be transformed into an embedding slot, allowing an Awakener to embed one Soul Kind.
Soul Kinds were akin to Talent and Skills; once embedded, they provided unique powers.
For example, if one's awakened Soul Resemblance was the Fireball Technique, then adding Temperature Rise, Burst Rune, and so on, would cause the Soul Resemblance—Fireball Technique—to have its temperature greatly increased and gain explosive effects.
Just as Soul Resemblances had Potential levels, Soul Kinds also had quality divisions; the higher the quality, the more precious they were.
As far as Wang Linchi knew, Soul Kinds were divided into Ordinary, Excellent, and Good. There were higher levels, but they were beyond his reach.
This was mainly because the academy he previously attended didn't teach these things, focusing more on physical training and combat. Cultural education was practically non-existent, at most teaching literacy, and that was only to facilitate combat.
To obtain other knowledge, one had to attend university after the college entrance examinations, and even then, only in a relevant major.
Before his parents died, they had left him a set of Excellent Level Soul Kinds—five in total—which were extremely rare.
They were Rainbow Light, Rainbow Spray, Rainbow Shield, Rainbow Healing, and Rainbow Dazzling.
These five covered amplification, attack, protection, healing, and control. The first one, Rainbow Light, was especially the core of cores. It could amplify power and allow the other four Soul Kinds to gain additional effects, while also combining the four Soul Kinds to form traits and effects akin to a natural aptitude. One Rainbow Light Soul Kind was worth four others; of course, this only applied to Rainbow Light Series Soul Seeds.
Wang Linchi had inquired: if these five Soul Kinds were sold, they could fetch a price of ten million. And this was the Dajing Court's buy-back price.
Normally, Excellent Level items wouldn't fetch such a high price; a single Soul Kind would be worth one million at most, even the core Rainbow Light. However, this was a complete set, which gave it additional value.
As for why he didn't use them himself, the reason was simple: he couldn't.
His awakened Soul Resemblance was of the general category.
Soul Resemblances were divided into three types: combat, life, and general.
The combat type was the most sought after. It allowed entry into Secret Realms to fight and obtain various treasures and powers, and it was also the highest-status category within the Dajing Court. Everyone wanted to be a combat type.
The life type included professions such as tailors, blacksmiths, and the like.
The general category, however, was more peculiar: its abilities were either unusable or too bizarre.
His Soul Resemblance, for instance, was a book named the Book of Records. Its ability was simple: permanently consume Mental Power Capacity Limit to render scenes from memory as pages in the book, allowing for repeated viewing of these memories.
At first glance, how could it possibly be seen as unusable? He could directly become a record keeper. Unfortunately, the problem was that creating memory pages required a permanent consumption of Mental Power Capacity Limit, and the minimum cost was 10 points of this limit.
As a newly awakened Awakener, he only had a Mental Power Capacity Limit of 1.5 points. Where was he supposed to get the 10 points of Mental Power Capacity Limit needed? Even if he somehow had it, he couldn't possibly use it. After all, if a person's spiritual power reached zero, they would die. What was worse, the ability consumed the Mental Power Capacity Limit itself, not spiritual power.
Furthermore, his Potential also wasn't enough. His Potential was only four points, not enough to embed five Soul Kinds.
Although his Potential was only four points, this level had already caused a sensation in the county.
Generally speaking, most Awakeners had a Potential of two.
A Potential of one was considered inferior and was quite rare, even rarer than his Potential of four. Among the Awakeners this year, there had only been one unfortunate soul with a Potential of one.
A Potential of two was ordinary, and Awakeners of this tier constituted about ninety-five percent of the total number in their county this time. Those with a Potential of three, considered good, made up only about five percent.
The remaining ones with a Potential of four, like Wang Linchi, belonged to the excellent category—the genius Awakeners. There were only twelve such individuals in the entire county.
There were even higher Potentials, but those were beyond the reach of ordinary families like his. Such individuals required nurturing with various treasures and potent medicines from the womb. After birth, they consumed Elixirs, Magic Potions, and other substances to enhance their constitution. Even the awakening rituals they underwent were far superior to the common ones.
Therefore, the true prodigies were not even in the same league as them.
Only the scions of Big Aristocratic Families, the direct disciples of Prestigious Sects, and the descendants of the Nobility had the qualifications to enjoy such advantages.
Wang Linchi must have also received some such nurturing in the womb, though not a lot, which was why his Potential reached four.
However, Wang Linchi had never thought of comparing himself to them. According to his original plan, awakening a general-category Soul Resemblance was actually what he had hoped for.
Firstly, he wouldn't need to fight or seek employment. As long as he was a civilian Awakener, the Dajing Court would assign him a job—the "iron rice bowl" kind. In his situation, he would likely be assigned to clerical work.
The work would be easy, not to mention he could sell the Soul Kinds. With the money, he could marry and have children. Since the Dajing Dynasty was currently stable and prosperous, he could live a comfortable life free from worry.
As for ten million being a large sum, it certainly was in Great View's economy, but this was only relative to ordinary people. For Awakeners, ten million really wasn't much.
However, now it was all gone.
His original five Soul Kinds had been replaced by a single, Ordinary-level Flash Art Soul Kind, which would only sell for about a thousand yuan. The disparity was simply too great.
And don't ask how he knew what a Soul Kind was. When he was one month old, his parents took him along when they went to deposit the Soul Kinds. He had seen with his own eyes as those five Soul Kinds were deposited.