Chapter 271: Fanning The Flame (1)
Regardless of Su Yu's thoughts, the deceit character was actually quite useful for him currently. He did not wish to expose his cultivation level so early. It would be much more reasonable for him to wait a little bit longer before revealing his actual cultivation level.
As for the two old men guarding the grotto, he wasn't too worried about them. Those two weren't from the single character faction. Even when he had broken through into the fifth-stage Great Strength Realm previously, those two had not leaked anything.
25th of September.
Su Yu received 100 drops of clearbright bird blood essence for a price of 800 merit points. He also received 10 drops of Great Strength soul devouring bug blood essence for 30 merit points.
As for the mountainbreak bull blood essence, he still needed to wait two more days. According to Xia Huyou, the blood essence was still being moved. As the stock in Great Xia itself was lacking due to the high volume of recent transactions, he had to transfer some stock from the Allheaven Battlefield.
Su Yu was completely speechless.
What an amazing businessman. Xia Huyou could even transfer his products straight from the Allheaven Battlefield. What else could Su Yu say? He could only wait. Perhaps this time, he would receive freshly harvested blood essence. He couldn't help but to mourn for the mountainbreak bulls that would suffer due to his purchase.
After spending 830 merit points, he had 10,870 merit points left.
Once again, Su Yu took leave from his classes. Since entering the senior class, he had been applying for leave very frequently.
As for his responsibilities as a class monitor, there really wasn't much for him to do. The senior class was much smaller than the intermediate class. Furthermore, its students were frequently absent. Thus, he couldn't care less if Liu Hong wanted to use that as an excuse to create trouble for him.
As for the negative comments Liu Hong might leave in his evaluation, Su Yu had come to understand one thing.
His main focus should be his own strength. Without enough strength, it didn't matter even if he had an excellent evaluation. With enough strength, all obstacles could be overcome.
Research center.
After consuming a drop of clearbright bird blood essence, one of the pages in his book changed.
Clearbright bird (Second-stage Infinite Strength Realm)
Racial ability: Dazzle (activation with blood essence)
Foundation source art: Pure Source Art (activation with blood essence)
After updating the level of the page, he swallowed another drop of blood essence to activate the source art.
Numerous temporary acupoints opened.
Different from other source arts he had activated before, the moment he activated the Pure Source Art, the surrounding source qi started entering his body and the source qi within his acupoints started weakening.
The newly absorbed source qi had not been absorbed by his acupoints. Rather, the new source qi was constantly cleansing his acupoints. The impurities in his existing source qi were slowly being removed. His acupoints slowly turned brighter as they were being cleansed.
"Indeed!"
Su Yu was overjoyed. It was actually working!
Although he had already guessed that the Pure Source Art could really cleanse his source qi, he still couldn't help but to be joyful when his guess was proved right. The purer his source qi was, the easier it would be to control, the stronger it would be, and the faster its circulation would be.
Su Yu also knew that the purer his source qi was, the easier acupoint fusion would be. Meanwhile, impure source qi would only cause his acupoints to repel each other.
"Clearbright bird..."
Su Yu was greatly pleased. Sure enough, there did not exist a completely worthless race and source art out there. It merely depended on how he used them. The Pure Source Art might be worthless in combat, but it was an absolute treasure in terms of purifying source qi.
He consumed one drop of blood essence after another to cleanse his source qi. He was also very interested in the clearbright bird's racial ability. Dazzle? Was that an ability that could create light?
He had some knowledge about the clearbright birds, but he knew nothing about their racial abilities. And the books he had read had not mentioned their racial abilities before.
"Or is it a healing ability?"
Su Yu was greatly looking for it. He wondered if it was a healing ability. He couldn't help but to think about Zheng Yunhui. That fellow had relied on a healing Divine Character to constantly recover during combat.
Su Yu wasted no time and used a drop of blood essence to activate the ability.
A short while later, a disappointed look covered his face.
It wasn't a healing ability.
Instead, it was an ability that could help one maintain one's consciousness. After using the ability for a bit, he guessed that it was an ability that could help him maintain his clarity of mind.
It was an ability with a niche usage.
Of course, it was also quite useful. For example, when he was badly injured to the point his consciousness was fading, he could use this ability. Although it couldn't heal him, it could help him maintain a sharp mind.
"What if I use it against illusions?"
Su Yu muttered to himself. Would this ability help him break through illusions? Unfortunately, his own illusion did not work on himself. Otherwise, he could give it a try immediately. He returned to the Pure Source Art and started cleansing his source qi again.
Bit by bit, the impure source qi was expelled from his body. After the cleansing, his acupoints looked even brighter than before. He could also feel that his source qi felt much smoother to control after the cleansing.
Previously, his source qi would feel somewhat clogged during circulation after opening too many acupoints in such a short period of time. But that feeling had vanished completely. Slowly, even his body started shining, giving him a pure and holy look.
If he stepped out of the research center right now, he would probably look like a saint. At that time, who would believe that he was a bad person? Well, it wasn't like he was one to begin with.
One day. Two days.
Since he was cultivating outside the grotto, his blood essence consumption was much lower. He spent two days using nothing but clearbright bird blood essence to cleanse his acupoints.
On the third day, on the night of the 27th, he finally used up all his clearbright bird blood essence. And almost all his opened acupoints had been cleansed.
The moment he completed the cleansing process, his body shook. A bright light erupted from his body. He looked incomparably dazzling. 118 blinding dots of light could be seen all over his body.
108 of them were the War God Art acupoints, 1 was the Lightning Source Blade acupoint, and 9 were his Source Opening acupoints. All 118 of them were shining brightly. It was as though a saint had descended from the heavens.
As Su Yu's body shook, the dust and other impurities of his body were shaken off. Not a speck of dust was left on his unsullied body. His eyes were incomparably bright. He grinned, revealing his spotlessly white teeth. His smile looked even friendlier than before.
"This is too conspicuous."
Su Yu smiled helplessly. If he walked out like this, he would basically be akin to a walking target. He had not imagined that this would be the effect of purifying his body too much. He even had a feeling that his body was going to turn translucent soon.
"Fortunately, I have a new Divine Character!"
At that moment, he felt incomparably thankful for having the deceit character. At that thought, one acupoint after another turned dim. When his body was no longer shining like a sun, he finally exhaled in relief. Finally, he was able to hide the peculiarities of his body.
"This is much better. I only need to keep these barriers active to prevent myself from shining too brightly. But I wonder how long will my body stay this bright?"
He found this to be rather troublesome. He was able to hide his acupoints well, but the moment he needed to use those acupoints, those barriers would definitely fall apart. Was he supposed to turn into a shining man every time he fought?
"It's 27th today..."
He muttered to himself. When was the last time he fed those creatures? Was it the 22nd?
"So it has only been five days?"
Su Yu mumbled. This time, he had not forgotten those creatures. He had simply not been bothered to feed them. In any case, they had survived more than 10 days of starvation. Thus, they wouldn't die so easily.
Since Bai Feng seemed so unbothered, Su Yu became bolder and bolder in his treatment of those creatures. He decided to let them suffer for a bit.
Just look at how obedient that suanni was after suffering from a bout of starvation. He had obtained a heaven-grade martial technique just like that. Perhaps he could obtain even more treasures after this. Those fellows would not be obedient if he didn't show them true suffering.
If it wasn't for the fact that he wasn't their match, he was confident he could get even more good stuff from them by beating them up three times per day.
He went downstairs. And behold, Bai Feng, who was incredibly hard to see, was actually around. He was eating in the living area.
"Teacher!"
Su Yu called out joyfully. It had been a while since he last saw his teacher. He was even starting to miss this teacher of his.
While eating instant noodles, Bai Feng looked up at Su Yu. He blinked and stroked his stubble before muttering, "Weird. Why do you look different from before?"
Elegance in simplicity.
That was the term that had emerged in Bai Feng's head the moment he laid his eyes on Su Yu. In the past, this kid would look somewhat fickle and impatient. But now, the air around the kid had changed into one that was simple yet elegant.
And that was most certainly not the Su Yu that he knew. When Su Yu flashed his smile, Bai Feng blanked out. He couldn't help but to think that this kid was truly good-looking when smiling.
Bai Feng started wondering if he had been staying indoors for too long to the point even men were starting to look attractive to him. What in the world? Should he go out and fool around with some ladies for a bit?
"Teacher!" Su Yu said, "I'm still the same. But I have been reading a lot recently. As the saying goes, a well read person is naturally graceful. Perhaps that's the case with me."
"Heh. Kid, are you getting cocky after I give you a little praise?" Bai Feng laughed. "A well read person is naturally graceful? Just how many books have you read? Are you trying to say that you have read more books than even those researchers in the academy? Stop pretending in front of me."
After saying that, Bai Feng's body shook as his white robe started fluttering and his stubble was instantly shaved clean. He stood up, flicked his sleeves, and calmly said, "That is a more fitting descriptor for me. As for you, you're still a little boy."
"..."
Su Yu was completely speechless. Why was his teacher competing against him for something like this?
"Teacher...uhm...I think it's better if you clean some of the noodles sticking out of your mouth..."
Bai Feng was speechless. His previous elegance instantly evaporated.
He sat down and returned to his food. He started complaining, "If you know your teacher has yet to eat, you should remember to put more delicious food in the fridge. Why is it that apart from instant noodles, there is no other food in the kitchen? You should show more concern to your teacher."
Su Yu sat down opposite his teacher and said, "Teacher, why don't you get me a martial mother and let her cook for us?"
"..."
Bai Feng shot his student a glare.
This kid was getting bolder and bolder nowadays.
But he suddenly laughed and said, "I said the same thing to your grandteacher back then. What a pity. He didn't take my suggestion. Otherwise, there would be someone here to look after us. Kid, why don't you get yourself a wife?"
"I can't. Teacher Liu said that all women are obstacles in cultivation." Su Yu was completely serious as he said, "Teacher Liu is single. Grandteacher is single. You are single. Even Martial Uncle is single. Thus, I believe that the multiple character faction is probably a faction for singles. If we stop being single, our cultivation might be adversely affected. Otherwise, why would everyone in our faction be single?"
"..."
Bai Feng was completely speechless. Holy shit. The kid made a lot of sense! Why had he never thought of that? Why was...everyone in their faction single?
While eating, Bai Feng started reflecting on life itself. After a while, he said, "I think I understand the reason for the multiple character faction's decline! There are too many single bastards away! We don't have any offspring! Just look at the single character faction. From grandpa to son to grandson. They only need a single bastard to give birth to a bunch of bastards. If they can give birth to 100 kids, they only need 1 of those kids to emerge as an expert. They don't even need to recruit their students externally."
The more Bai Feng spoke, the more convinced he was of that theory. No wonder their faction would decline.
There were too many single people in their faction. Otherwise, if they had a bunch of offspring, they only need one of them to emerge as a super expert to solve a lot of their issues. Su Yu gave it some thought and found that his teacher actually made some sense.
"Teacher, why don't you find me a martial mother?"
"Scram!" Bai Feng rolled his eyes, "Nobody in this academy is worthy of me."
"How about Wu Lan's elder sister?"
"Pftt." Bai Feng sneered, "That's a crazy woman. Your teacher has no interest in her."
He changed the topic, "Cut the crap. How has your cultivation been recently?"
"I'm doing ok."
"Have you formed any new characters?"
"Yes. I formed one new character."
"Really?"
Bai Feng exclaimed in shock. The kid had actually formed another character?
"Is it the strong character of the devil scorpion race?"
"No. Myriad race characters are too hard to form. It's a human character. A battle character."
Su Yu had yet to tell anyone about his battle character. Of course, he had used it before and Chen Yong was aware of it. But he remembered that Bai Feng was still unaware of that character's existence. And it wasn't like Bai Feng had asked him about it before.
Even Su Yu himself couldn't remember if he had mentioned that character to Bai Feng before. But reality proved that he had not.