Alan was an ordinary cultivator who hailed from a barren but beautiful planet. Originally, his life had been very peaceful, but one day, a group of youths claiming to be trial takers had suddenly descended. From that moment on, his life completely changed. 

Out of the billions of people on his planet, only a meager few had emerged to follow those trial takers into the greater universe. Alan had been able to leave his planet because he had managed to awaken an innate gift… of attentive listening. That’s right, attentive listening. It was an innate gift that was either very useful or completely useless. 

Alan was able to hear the heartbeats of nearby people, and from that, determine their strength. 

When those youths had been participating in their trial, he had tried to use his innate gift to take advantage of a low-profile person who had seemed to be in dire straits. However, that person had eventually eliminated all of the other trial takers, becoming the brightest star of the trial. With him, Alan had also successfully stepped into the greater universe. 

Unfortunately, reality did not turn out to be as great as Alan had expected. The person who he followed had turned out to be someone from the Dark Phoenix family, and they did not care about Alan at all. Thus, he had been tossed aside in a random place. He had been left stranded at the border between Endless Weave and the Technocracy. 

The Technocracy would occasionally attack Endless Weave, and the people defending the border were already accustomed to such attacks. However, Alan knew a...