National Fate: Eight Yin Generals Guard China from Their Sleeping Coffins

[Rewards have been distributed.]

The sound faded.

The giant golden eye in the sky slowly closed.

The next second, within the space of China's national destiny, a golden line simultaneously lit up beneath the feet of the eight gatekeepers.

The gold thread did not enter their bodies.

It spread backward along the sandy land, passed through the blue brick city gate, broke through the spatial barrier, and reached the real world.

Yanjing.

The vast desert of Northwest China.

The East China Sea Islands.

Southern rainforest.

The entire country, spanning 9.6 million square kilometers, was illuminated at the same moment.

From a satellite viewpoint, the map of China appears as a single, golden continent.

Mountains and rivers are the veins, and the eight array points are like eight stars nailed into the earth.

The mechanical voice sounded again.

[Huaxia has achieved the unique achievement of clearing the first round.]

[Previously accumulated national fortune rewards are now stacking.]

[The essence of national destiny: 170%.]

[Unique completion bonus: 30%]

[The current source of the nation's destiny: 200%.]

Congratulations to China for triggering a civilizational leap.

The underground command center in Yanjing.

There was no cheering in the hall.

Hundreds of officers stared at the "200%" on the screen, even holding their breath.

The first reward: Huaxia cures diseases.

The second reward is a significant improvement in the overall physical fitness of the population.

Subsequently, spiritual energy revived, awakened beings were born, and the protective barrier of the nation took shape.

Now, that number has surpassed two hundred.

Nobody knows what will happen next.

"Report!"

The researcher at the data panel suddenly stood up.

"All spiritual energy monitoring devices nationwide are simultaneously overloaded!"

"It's not a malfunction."

Another researcher, watching the rapidly fluctuating curve, began to tremble, "The concentration of spiritual energy per unit space is increasing, three times, five times, seven times..."

The numbers on the screen paused for a moment.

Then, it surged again.

"ten times!"

The entire hall was deathly silent.

Zhou Yaoguo walked to the control panel.

Is it harmful to the human body?

"Not at the moment."

The researchers quickly retrieved the medical monitoring charts.

"After Reiki enters the human body, it will actively repair aging cells. Telomere loss in the nationwide sample is reversing, and the heart, lungs, bones, and nervous system are all entering a youthful state."

"What about life expectancy?"

The researcher glanced at the latest model and swallowed hard.

"An average increase of more than fifty years."

An elderly general with gray hair looked down at his hands.

The age spots on my skin are fading.

He stretched his shoulders.

The shrapnel wound from ten years ago doesn't hurt anymore.

The veteran paused for a moment, then looked up at the eight figures in the live stream.

"These fifty years were given to us by them."

No one responded.

Everyone understands how weighty those words are.

Golden light has fallen on every household across China.

Inside the hospital.

A 96-year-old man lay in a hospital bed, his heart rate on the monitor steadily declining.

A golden light swept across.

The old man's withered chest began to rise and fall again.

He opened his eyes and reached out to pull out the oxygen tube.

The doctor next to him quickly held him down.

"Grandpa, don't move!"

"I didn't move."

The old man threw off the blanket and stepped on the ground.

"I'm just a little hungry."

The doctor paused for two seconds.

"What would you like to eat?"

The old man thought for a moment.

"Braised pork belly, and three bowls of rice."

The ward was silent for a moment, then bursts of crying and laughter rang out at the same time.

On the school playground.

Thousands of students stopped in their tracks at the same time.

They can hear the rustling of leaves a hundred meters away and see the feathers of birds flying high in the sky.

A boy wearing glasses takes off his lenses.

There was no blurriness in my vision.

With a casual clench of his hand, the metal frame of the glasses bent into a ball on the spot.

My deskmate glanced at the lump of scrap metal.

"Does your family know you've taken off your glasses?"

The boy's excitement froze instantly.

"Oh no, my mom will definitely beat me up first, then celebrate my awakening."

A burst of laughter erupted on the playground.

Just then, a physical education teacher looked up.

A stone slab that had fallen from the exterior wall of the teaching building was hurtling down on the students’ heads.

He stomped his foot.

A thin crack appeared around the cement floor.

The PE teacher instantly leaped over twenty meters, supporting the heavy stone slab weighing over a hundred pounds with one hand, and landed steadily.

Faint golden lines appeared on his palm.

The surrounding spiritual energy actively converged towards him.

In the distance, the staff member responsible for recording the awakening data changed his expression.

"Spiritual energy enters the body autonomously!"

"Not an ordinary awakened one!"

"Report! The first case of a Primordial Awakened Being has been discovered!"

This initial report quickly escalated into thousands upon thousands of reports.

Western Theater Command.

A young soldier stands in the center of the testing field.

He was not wearing an exoskeleton and was not carrying any weapons.

Ahead, ten heavy target drones simulating a monster charge were activated simultaneously.

Each target drone weighs ten tons, enough to overturn a main battle tank.

The soldier lowered his back.

The surrounding spiritual energy flowed into his arms.

Ten target drones crashed into it.

He threw a punch forward.

boom!

The air exploded.

The target drone at the front was instantly dented, and the nine behind it were overturned by the shock wave and slid hundreds of meters along the ground.

The tester looked at the instrument, which had already reset to zero, and his lips twitched twice.

"Is the equipment broken again?"

The engineer next to him shook his head.

"It's not broken."

"It just felt that there was no need to attend this class anymore."

The new assessment results were quickly delivered to Yanjing.

[Innate-level Awakened: Can autonomously absorb spiritual energy, undergoing a second transformation in physical body, perception, and abilities.]

[Initial combat capability: Capable of single-handedly fighting groups of low-level monsters.]

[Number of confirmed cases nationwide: 4,762.]

The numbers are still increasing.

After reading the report, Zhou Yaoguo immediately gave the order.

"Those with innate-level awakenings will be registered uniformly, but enlistment will not be mandatory."

"The military has established a natural talent training camp."

"No awakened being may be harmed in the name of research."

"They are Chinese citizens, not experimental subjects."

The order was given, and the security department carried it out simultaneously.

At this moment, China not only possessed extraordinary individuals.

It also established the first rule of the new era.

The live stream was completely flooded with comments.

My grandpa just got out of bed and insisted on going downstairs to practice Tai Chi!

I'm 43 years old and just had my bone age checked. The doctor said my body feels like I'm 25!

Our company produced three Innate-level experts, and one of them overturned an armored vehicle!

[The person upstairs should right the armored vehicle first; public property shouldn't be overturned!]

My mom awakened her fire abilities, and the first thing she asked was if she could save on gas bills when cooking.

Is this the awakened mindset of the Chinese people? Prioritizing daily life!

[Fifty years of lifespan! These eight predecessors extended the lifespan of everyone in the country by half a lifetime!]

Don't forget Senior Su Chen in the coffin; without him, we wouldn't be where we are today!

[Our national fortune has surpassed 200%, we have entered a new era!]

Before, I just wanted to survive; now I want to see how far China can go!

【............】

The changes are far from over.

Yanjing Lingqi Science Research Institute.

Inside a closed laboratory, dozens of researchers surrounded a three-meter-high circular device.

The equipment center has no fuel and no batteries.

There was only one spirit crystal, about the size of a fist.

The spirit crystals are taken from the Kunlun mine after its spiritual energy was restored.

Previously, research institutes could extract the energy, but they were unable to output it stably.

When the golden light swept across the laboratory, all the patterns inside the spirit crystal were illuminated.

The ring-shaped device starts automatically.

The blue arc of light travels at high speed along the track.

"Power is stable!"

"Energy conversion rate of 97%!"

"The gravity parameters are decreasing!"

A researcher suddenly looked up.

The metal model on the experimental table slowly floated up.

There are no slings.

There are no thrusters.

It remained suspended in the air.

The chief engineer stared at the model, his eyes reddening.

For decades, they have been constrained by energy, materials, and propulsion efficiency.

Now, spiritual energy has filled the missing piece of the puzzle.

"Initiate Experiment Two."

A silver-white rifle was sent into the testing area.

The researcher pushed the crystal magazine into the gun.

The gun was aimed at the composite armor 500 meters away.

Pull the trigger.

There was no gunpowder roar.

A streak of blue light pierced through the test field.

A smooth hole appeared in the half-meter-thick composite armor, and the three layers of blast walls behind it were simultaneously penetrated.

No one spoke in the control room.

The chief engineer took off his goggles.

"The old-fashioned weapon standards are obsolete."

At the same time, the Reiki Medical Pod completed its first human body repair.

The aura-powered flying vehicle model broke the sound barrier, but did not produce a sonic boom.

The new material, after being tempered by spiritual energy, has a strength that is thirty times that of the original alloy.

Reports were sent to the highest command center.

[Reiki energy core successfully verified.]

[Psionic weapon successfully verified.]

[Reiki healing technique successfully verified.]

The anti-gravity flight platform has been successfully verified.

The first-generation spirit-energy spaceship project has been officially approved.

After finishing reviewing the report, Zhou Yaoguo remained silent for a long time.

Minister Chen stood beside him.

"From today onwards, the old era has ended."