Chapter 147: You're In Big Trouble! (2)
Bai Feng looked at Su Yu like he was looking at a monster. He suddenly had the urge to dissect and study Su Yu. This kid seemed to be an even more interesting test subject than the beasts imprisoned downstairs.
"Did...you exhaust your willpower?"
"I did. But I only need to wait a bit in the filter room to fully recover."
Bai Feng sank into thought.
After a while, he asked, "You have two Divine Characters?"
"Yeah."
"What are their abilities?"
"Blood absorption, illusion, and lightning strike...that can probably induce paralysis."
Su Yu did not hide anything. This person would be his teacher from now on. Only by being honest would this teacher be able to teach him better.
"No other abilities?"
"No, I guess?"
Su Yu was unsure. He didn't know if his Divine Characters still had some other abilities that he had yet to discover.
"Would your blood character change after absorbing blood?"
"I don't think so..."
Su Yu sounded uncertain.
"Would it send some energy to you after absorbing blood?"
Bai Feng suspected that the character could convert blood into willpower. That was the only explanation for why Su Yu could enter the fragment room six times per day. If that was the case, then that would be a terrifying Divine Character. This was the kind of Divine Character all character masters would dream to have.
In fact, a character like this was almost equal in value to those powerful characters that could stay materialized for eternity. Bai Feng's lips turned dry. Was that really the case?
Su Yu's blood character came from the willpower text he had written during his visit to Nanyuan. If that was true, should he write a few hundred willpower texts for himself and try to get a blood character as well?
Sure, the Divine Character of each person might have different abilities even if it was the same character, but even if there was a small chance it would work, it was still worth trying.
"Sending energy to me?"
Su Yu thought for a bit and answered hesitantly, "I don't know. I never noticed."
"Does your willpower recover quickly?"
Su Yu nodded, "Yeah, it's quite fast."
Bai Feng did not say anything else. He sat down on the couch and sank into contemplation. Half an hour, six times per day, rapid willpower recovery...
Holy shit!
He exclaimed inwardly.
Why did all good things end up falling into the hands of this kid? Was the Divine Character the reason for all that or was there a different reason? Impossible! He only had 30 percent willpower—no, wait, it was now 35 percent willpower.
That was also why Bai Feng was so stunned earlier. When he checked Su Yu yesterday, the kid only had 30 percent willpower. One day later, the kid's willpower reached 35 percent. Bai Feng was already handling it very well to be able to still speak coherently after seeing something like that. A growth of 5 percent per day. That was a terrifying speed.
Even if the speed would eventually drop, that was still a shocking speed. How did Su Yu accomplish that? Even disregarding his recovery speed, the time he could spend in the room each session was also abnormally long. Even someone at the Mental Tempering Stage could hardly last half an hour in the room.
"The blood character might be able to recover his willpower, but the duration he can stay in the room is a representation of his sea of willpower's strength. Is his sea of willpower stronger than the average person? That might be the case. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to nurture two Divine Characters without feeling any stress. He was born with a powerful sea of willpower!"
Bai Feng recalled his first meeting with Su Yu. At that time, Su Yu only had 10 percent willpower. And on that day itself, Su Yu formed his first Divine Character. That wasn't supposed to be possible.
Bai Feng had not thought too much about that. He only assumed that Su Yu had great talent in Divine Characters. But when he thought about it again, perhaps Su Yu's sea of willpower was innately stronger than the others. That was why he had been able to form a Divine Character so early.
After some thinking, Bai Feng's expression returned to normal. He looked at Su Yu and sternly asked, "Do you have any ancestors that were powerful cultural researchers?"
Su Yu shook his head blankly and said, "I never heard of anything like that."
"No?" Bai Feng muttered to himself before asking again, "I know about your father's side of the family. How about your mother's side?"
Su Yu scratched his head and said, "My mother passed away when giving birth to me. I don't know any relatives from her side so I'm not sure."
"Is that so?" Bai Feng asked in hesitation, "Were there any powerful cultural researchers among your mother's ancestors?"
It was possible that one might have a powerful willpower if one had a powerful cultural researcher ancestor. That was a type of inheritance. Of course, that cultural research had to be at the Mountainsea Realm or beyond for that to happen. At that level, a cultural researcher could materialize their Divine Characters for eternity and pass on their willpower to their descendents.
"I don't know about that."
Su Yu shook his head. He really had no idea.
When Bai Feng saw that he couldn't learn anything from asking Su Yu, he gave up. Looking at Su Yu, he coughed and said, "Keep eating. I'll go upstairs for a bit. I need you to go out with me later."
"Alright."
Su Yu did not ask anything and returned to his meal. He was really very hungry.
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Third floor.
Data room.
After shutting the door, Bai Feng roared at the air.
"Damn it! Holy shit! Is that Divine Character the reason? That makes no sense! Are the willpower texts written by me so incredible? That's not possible! What a pity that he still can't materialize his Divine Characters yet. I want to research his Divine Character! I want to research it! I need to write more Source Opening Codex willpower texts for myself! I'll write 100 of them, 10,000 of them! I want that character for myself as well!"
Bai Feng roared madly as he punched the floor. His fists were starting to swell. Nothing about this made sense. How could that kid recover in only two hours? How could he last 30 minutes in the room at this stage of cultivation? Back when Bai Feng first joined the academy, he had only been able to last 10 minutes in the room. And that was as a Mental Tempering Stage cultivator.
"Perhaps...part of the willpower in the fragment room had dissipated so it's much weaker now?"
Still in disbelief, Bai Feng rushed to the second floor. He ran straight into the fragment room.
And a short moment later, he walked out with a dazed expression while muttering, "The room has not gone weaker. It has even grown stronger as there are more fragments in it now..."
After thinking about it, he took out his communicator and dialed a number.
"Senior Brother."
"What is it?"
"Senior Brother, if I tell you that I can grow my willpower by five percent in one day, would you believe it?"
...
Bai Feng's senior brother worriedly asked, "Are you on drugs? Or are you hallucinating due to exhaustion? Maybe...you should...uhm...take a short break. Don't visit the prison anymore. Did you get charmed by a demonic being?"
"Senior Brother, you don't believe it?"
"Bai Feng..."
"I don't believe it either!" Bai Feng felt like crying. He muttered in a crazed manner, "I don't believe it either! But...I have no choice but to believe it!"
He rubbed his face, inhaled deeply, and said, "Senior Brother, I discovered a secret Divine Character! It's very powerful! It's very special! I need to form it! I must form it! It has the potential to grow into an Eternal Divine Character! Senior Brother, I'm too broke to form new Divine Characters. Can you lend me 5,000 merit points?"
...
The senior brother paused for a bit before roaring, "Scram!"
So this fellow was saying all that to ask for money? He was still worried that something bad had happened to his junior brother earlier!
"I'm being serious, Senior Brother. I really discovered--"
"Du...du...du..."
...
.
His senior brother had hung up on him. With a pained expression, Bai Feng said, "Why won't you trust me? I might have created a Divine Character that can shake the world! That Divine Character might even be as powerful as grandteacher's Divine Character! Grandteacher?"
The next moment, Bai Feng blanked out.
"Did...did Martial Uncle...give that Divine Character to Su Yu?"
Bai Feng suddenly had a feeling that he had to calm down. Was it a special Divine Character obtained from his willpower text or was it his grandteacher's Divine Character? Did his martial uncle give that Divine Character to Su Yu?
His expression changed repeatedly as he started taking the matter even more seriously than before. He clenched his teeth and called another number.
A short while later, an indistinct voice rang out, "Who is this?"
"It's me, Martial Uncle..."
"Hmm?"
Liu Wenyan's voice wasn't too clear as the connection was poor. He asked doubtfully, "Why are you calling me?"
"Martial Uncle...Su Yu is here. By the way...about grandteacher's Divine Character..."
"Scram!" Liu Wenyan roared furiously. "You're trying to snatch my stuff as well? Is this something you can take? Do you want your teacher to teach you a lesson? Kid, it has been so many years. There are even Mountainsea cultivators with their eyes on my stuff. Are you thinking of taking part as well?
"I understand now. I did feel that something was off about you during your previous visit. Sure enough, you're trying to take my stuff as well! Dream on! Just you wait! Do you think I can't do anything to you? I heard you incited your teacher to leave. So this was your plan? Very good. You're dead. From today onward, Mountainsea experts will start targeting you. Just you wait!"
"Du...du...du..."
Bai Feng was stunned.? What just happened? He was just asking a question! He was just curious! Was his martial uncle crazy? Was his martial uncle going to teach him a lesson? Mountainsea cultivators were going to start targeting him? Bai Feng shivered at that thought. Did he just land himself in deep shit? He called the number again, but this time, it wasn't connecting.
"Holy shit!"
Bai Feng cursed. The connection was so poor that the call wasn't getting through. What did he do? He was only curious about Su Yu! Was there a need for that reaction?
"I...didn't incite Teacher to leave because of that..."
Bai Feng was going crazy. That was really not the case! Why wouldn't his martial uncle listen to him?
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
Bai Feng screamed. Just what was going on today? Why was everyone misinterpreting his words? His senior brother thought that he wanted to borrow some money while his martial uncle thought that he wanted to take the Divine Character for himself. But neither of that was true!
...
Downstairs.
When Su Yu heard the screaming coming from the second floor, he stopped chewing. He anxiously muttered to himself, "Is...Bai Feng angry because I exhausted too much of the two rooms' energy?"
After all, he had entered the rooms six times yesterday. Did he anger Bai Feng because of that? Otherwise, why would Bai Feng scream for no reason. Su Yu was very worried. Would he get kicked out of the research center because of that? He no longer wanted to leave the research center. Instead, he wanted to stay. For him, this was a land of treasure. He couldn't bear to leave.
"Don't chase me away! I can accept entering the rooms less if that's what it takes!"
Su Yu was deeply worried. He felt like he was going to get kicked out soon.