CHAPTER 388: CHAPTER 94: YOU CAN’T IGNORE FATE (PART 2)

"Also from Sacred Heart Middle School?" Zhou Ziang couldn’t help but raise his voice. He had chosen Sacred Heart Middle School for some personal reasons, but he didn’t expect that this choice would also encompass the maker of the hangover medicine.

This well-known middle school in Beijing seems to indeed be a place where heroes converge in secrecy.

Zhou Ziang’s decision to choose Sacred Heart Middle School was indeed partly because of Xiao Xian. The incident during the basketball game that day, after much pondering, he couldn’t figure out the reason, until the conflict in the Biological Garden, he then realized that the chaos of the Spiritual Power in his body was not due to the control instability of Mutated Spiritual Power, but due to the collision and conflict between the same kinds of Spiritual Power.

Xiao Xian is a Cultivator, or at least she is the same kind of Superpower User as Locke and the others.

But compared to Locke and the others, the Spiritual Power in Xiao Xian is purer, and it makes him feel more comfortable, comfortable enough to make one want to get close.

"Ziang?" Xi Lijuan waved her hand in front of his eyes, seeing her son holding the box of hangover medicine and spacing out, with his ears oddly turning red and then pale, as if he had taken hangover medicine but instead became like a drunk person.

"Cough, Mom, I am fine. Find a chance to meet up with Aunt Zeng, I also want to get to know the little genius you mentioned." Zhou Ziang took another glance at the sweet potato leaves in the kitchen. His trip back to China this time really brought about quite the harvest.

Natural Cultivators? If I’m not wrong, Zeng Xuerou who made the pills and the young couple I met at Yanqing Farm today could very likely be the Natural Cultivators that Locke mentioned.

I wonder what his reaction would be if I tell Locke the news.

Before leaving the United States, Locke’s words still echo in my ears: "Based on different origins, we can divide those with superpowers into two types. One is Natural Cultivators, who strengthen themselves by using hereditary factors and natural cultivation. The other is Scientific Superpower Users who rely on modern scientific technology, like cellular regeneration and acquired enhancement."

That was the first time Locke seriously mentioned the world behind the scenes to Zhou Ziang. There are always some things in the world that cannot be explained by human effort alone; all the legends and ghost stories are based on some factual basis.

Natural Cultivators have existed from ancient times to the present. Taking ancient China as an example, from the historically recorded Qin Dynasty, there are records of Emperor Qin Shi Huang seeking the secret of eternal life by sending Xu Fu to search for Penglai Fairy Island.

Natural Cultivators mostly value the unity of heaven and humanity, relying on the accumulation and sediment of family lineage, accumulating from generation to generation, using bloodlines and ancient traditions to continue, and their method of cultivation also adheres to the principle that haste makes waste.

The numbers of this school are decreasing continuously. However, although their numbers are decreasing, their tradition is very ancient; some of them have even peered into the mysteries of life, aging, illness, and death, achieving a state where their physical body ages more slowly, living ten times or even a hundred times longer than normal people.

The other type is what Locke and his faction belong to. Their ancestors had no Cultivation lineage; it was only in their generation that due to gene mutations or sudden environmental changes, that superpowers occurred.

From a scientific standpoint, it’s explained as changes in the combination of human chromosomes or cell division, and these people can use modern scientific methods to enhance or slow down this trend. The naming of Scientific Superpower Users originated in the late 19th century, but they really flourished with the advent of biogenetic technology and computer science.

Due to adherence to different principles, Natural Law Cultivators and Scientific Superpower Users are incompatible, and their conflicts are quite fierce, even leading to casualties.

When Zhou Ziang was being considered for recruitment into the ranks of senior researchers at Mengshan Company, Locke had already investigated everything from Zhou Ziang’s birth to his study overseas, confirming that he experienced some form of mutation or awakening around the age of sixteen, and his ancestors had not been Natural Cultivators before him.

Therefore, he was defined as a Superpower Enhancer and was formally absorbed into the core high level of Locke Meng Mountain Company, becoming one of the four Senior Researchers.

One of the benefits of becoming a Senior Researcher, in addition to having a credit line of one hundred million dollars in Federation Bank, was another more tempting condition, which ultimately led Zhou Ziang to stop the destruction he was conducting at the last moment and agree to Locke’s request.

"With your age and status as a Senior Researcher, we guarantee to offer you a chance to participate in the selection for Cangqiong Palace, to pursue the opportunity to enter Cangqiong Palace that all Cultivators and Superpower Users seek, to find the mystery of human life."

The mystery of life? Whether it is Natural Cultivation or Scientific Superpower Users, all are pursuing this answer with their respective methods; either slowing down aging or conducting various experiments on animals and plants to accelerate or resist aging.

At that moment, Zhou Ziang felt that he had touched upon something, something that might enable him to make a breakthrough or return to Yunteng. He has always been good at seizing opportunities, so in that moment, after brief consideration, he agreed.

Even though he agreed to Locke’s invitation and continued to stay in Mengshan Company, Celeste and Quinn expressed their views, Zhou Ziang at least needs to complete the task given by Mengshan Company within one year, finding at least three Cultivators or Superpower Users in China and then report their names. Otherwise, he will not be able to qualify as a Senior Researcher.

After all, in the entire United States, the number of people with the status of Senior Researcher can be counted on two hands.

What follows is Zhou Ziang’s trip to China. These are all the events that happened to Zhou Ziang in less than a month.

He hasn’t mentioned these matters to anyone.

There was a sound of a spatula stirring in the kitchen, and Zhou Ziang’s thoughts also returned, "It’s about time to start the search. Sacred Heart Middle School, I can’t wait to unveil your mystery." (To be continued. If you like this novel, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)