Resurrection of Spiritual Energy? I Have Martial Arts Editor

The heavy fog came without warning, like a sigh seeping out from deep within the earth's crust. It was gray-white, with the smell of rust and some kind of damp roots, and swallowed up all the cities overnight. At first, people just thought it was a severe smog, until someone discovered that they could bend the iron bars of security windows with their bare hands, or sprint past an electric car in a 100-meter sprint. The world completely changed within seventy-two hours, which was later called the first year of the "Aura of Resurrection" in history. Order collapsed and was quickly reestablished with another, more naked rule. The diplomas and wealth of the old era have not been completely invalidated, but they have to give way to the new "awakening talent". Strength has become the hardest currency, and the yardstick for measuring strength is the "Nine Grades of Warriors" system that the government hastily established but quickly solidified. The Martial Arts University has replaced the status of the top universities. Within the high walls, ancient books have been reinterpreted. Breathing techniques and pile skills have become new "compulsory courses." Aristocratic families and emerging awakened families have begun to occupy resources and build a new era of clans. Higher alloy walls were erected on the outskirts of the city, not because of the beasts, but because of the indescribable "things" that emerged from the cracks in the ground—officially called them "invading creatures," while the folks more bluntly called them "ghosts." Hunting them and obtaining the "spiritual cores" condensed in their bodies is the most direct way for warriors to improve their strength and for ordinary people to seek advancement.