Transcendent Dawn

Xue Xue dressed up, packed her briefcase, and prepared to catch the bus to work.

Even in a non-first-tier city like East City, the pressure of employment and office work was enormous every year.

Especially in recent times with the economy languishing. There have been rumours of layoffs at her company, making Xue Xue even more unwilling to fall short now.

Finding a job was tough indeed!

She used to live near Bai Jing restaurant and her workplace, but after breaking up with Bai Jing, she had to move out. Now, she has to wake up 20 minutes earlier every day to make the longer commute, but she believed it was worth it!

Bai Jing was useless!

Even though they broke up, it wasn’t because she cheated; they just weren’t a good match.

In her eyes, her prince charming doesn’t have to own a castle, at least he should own a house! And he should treat her like his little princess.

Like most young people, she had those fantasies.

But seeing all of Bai Jing’s failures, she finally understood that some people can strive their whole lives and still not reach the starting line of others at birth!

Xue Xue, even if not wanting her offspring to win at the starting line, hoped they could at least move forward in life, not be held back.

“Strange… Why am I thinking about Bai Jing again?”

Xue Xue touched her forehead while munching on a pancake as she walked through a park.

The park was small. A few hundred meters straight ahead and she could reach the bus stop.

Walking this way every day felt like she was getting some exercise, especially with the refreshing air of the park. It was a rare tranquility amidst the bustling city.

Xue Xue’s mood inexplicably lifted.

What she didn’t notice was that, not far behind her, two members of the Sky Network were carefully surveilling her.

“Surveillance log: 7:01 AM, target leaves home; 7:15 AM, arrives at the park…”

One member casually voiced his report while complaining to his partner: “Is there any value in us surveilling an ordinary person like this?”

“Who knows? Just do what we’re told is enough.”

The other member shrugged: “It shouldn’t last long. Huh? The target has stopped moving.”

They quickly looked, and saw Xue Xue stopping before a grass lawn.

At the edge of the lawn sat an old man reading a newspaper. He had scattered some bird feed by his feet, attracting pigeons and sparrows to the lawn.

Everything seemed normal, except for Xue Xue suddenly stopping.

“Hello, beautiful lady, may I have the pleasure of asking you for a favor?”

The old man put down his newspaper, revealing a Western face. His nose bridge was high and his features were deep-set, but the most memorable thing about him was his eyes—each of his pupils had a different color!

“This… the… the Eye of God!”

“Impossible, how did he appear here?”

The two members of the Sky Network were about to go crazy: “Warning! Warning! The Eye of God spotted! Highest alert!”

But no matter how hard they tapped their earpieces, all they heard was static.

“Need help with what?”

Xue Xue stared at the old man, her expression bewildered.

“Something simple… Greet a friend on my behalf. It’s the least you can do, isn’t it?”

The old man smiled and rolled up his newspaper. He then strolled off, his figure gradually disappearing.

All of a sudden, the pigeons and sparrows began to flutter their wings, flying up one by one and entering Xue Xue’s mouth.

Any normal person who saw this would probably scare their pants off!

But passers-by didn’t seem to notice, and everything returned to normal after the last pigeon entered Xue Xue’s stomach. Only the two scouts from Sky Network were nowhere to be seen.

Despite having eaten a large number of pigeons and sparrows, her stomach showed no signs of swelling.

She smoothed her hair and then turned around.

She decided not to go to her company anymore, instead opting to visit her ex-boyfriend on behalf of the old man.

…

“Hmm? Interesting!”

Inside the restaurant, Su Lu, who was teaching Little Dang how to chop vegetables, suddenly looked up in a certain direction.

It was the first time someone had detected and cleared the surveillance spirit thread he had placed.

It clearly let him know that a fairly strong prey had entered East City, but according to subsequent investigations by the spirits, it left almost immediately.

“Teacher?”

With a sharp knife in hand, Little Dang easily separated the beef from the bones, staring at him blankly, “Then what?”

“Then, we cook the soup…”

Su Lu had a slight smile on his face, waiting for the foe’s next move.

Knock! Knock!

As expected, it didn’t take long for someone to knock on the door.

Little Dang glanced at Su Lu, then jogged off to open it: “Sorry…we don’t open during the day…”

The person standing at the door was none other than Xue Xue!

She stood there, staring at Su Lu, taking a step forward, her lips moving as if she wanted to say something.

‘Oh? It’s the ex-girlfriend, trying to mess with my mind? No creativity at all.’

Su Lu scoffed internally.

Maybe the real Bai Jing would have felt a tumult of emotions facing his ex.

But to him, Bai Jing’s ex-girlfriend was nothing more than a stranger.

“Bai… Jing… I…”

Xue Xue snapped back to reality, feeling awful: “Why am I here? Ugh…”

She opened her mouth wide and out flew the pigeons and sparrows as if they were being launched from a cannon, all aiming straight at Su Lu!

Bang! Bang!

Su Lu’s figure turned into a shadow, allowing the birds to pass through him and splatter against the wall behind him.

But the strange occurrences with Xue Xue didn’t stop there.

Her face was full of panic even as she said completely different words: “Mr. Bai Jing. We owe you for the last encounter, which cost my organization half of the God’s Hands and the God’s Ears…You are an extraordinary talent. I, Su Weite Berg, hereby invite you to join the Ancient God’s Eye!”

These words, in an old voice, came out of Xue Xue’s mouth, eerie and terrifying.

Tears uncontrollably slipped down Xue Xue’s face.

She was like Su Weite’s puppet, completely out of control.

“When extending an invitation, should one not do it personally to be sincere…”

Su Lu was silent for a while, then suddenly said.

“I apologize…I have already left this beautiful city because it was too dangerous. Your skills in the spirit world truly amaze me.”

Complimentary words came out of Xue Xue’s mouth. Ignoring her incessant head-shaking and pleading expression, it could be acceptable.

“I refuse.”

Su Lu firmly answered.

“That’s a shame…You made the wrong decision, forcing us to become enemies.”

Xue Xue’s eyes were filled with fear as she watched her stomach grow larger and larger.

Eventually…Bang!

Countless paper-made pigeons flew out, flooding the entire room with them!