Chapter 490: Source Soul Acupoint (2)
As for Su Yu, he moved with great efficiency.
He aimed to complete the application within a single day. He needed the names of five students and one Skysoar. It wouldn't be hard for him to find enough students. With his senior sister, Hu Qiusheng, and himself, he only needed two more people.
As for the Skysoar...
He could forget about Liu Hong. With that person around, he would need to be constantly on guard against any attempt to swallow his entire research center. Shortly after, he arrived at the House of Hundred.
Zhao Ming!
Yes. This referee was his target. That was someone from the neutral faction.
He had asked Zhao Li, Old Huang, and Old Nie. All three of them had advised him to look for a neutral researcher. He needed someone who would not be biased against anyone. That person would only need to lend him their name and receive some monetary compensation in return.
Zhao Ming would be the perfect person for this since he would be punished by the neutral faction if he stopped being neutral. Today, nobody was challenging the ranking. Thus, Zhao Ming was resting in his office while happily chatting with the young ladies employed at the House of Hundred.
Su Yu had never entered the House of Hundred. He had always left after finishing his matches. Thus, this was his first time actually stepping into the building.
Before long, Zhao Ming sensed his arrival. He looked at Su Yu and called out in astonishment, "Su Yu?"
This fellow was missing yesterday when the cloud tigress was fighting under his name. Instead, he appeared today.
"Are you challenging the ranking?"
"Nope." Su Yu smiled, "I'm here to have a chat with you, Teacher."
"What is it?"
"I need your name. You will be paid 30 merit points per year."
Su Yu went straight to the point.
Zhao Ming was able to immediately understand what Su Yu wanted. At that time, a few students happened to be passing by. When they heard that, they looked over curiously.
Su Yu completely ignored them. Zhao Ming was similarly unbothered. With an amused expression, he asked, "For your research center?"
"Yes."
"Since you are here, you must have realized how important I am." Zhao Ming grinned, "I am someone who loves following rules. And I will always stick to my words after coming to an agreement instead of trying to pull something dirty. Your price is too low. It isn't easy to find someone that can fulfill this role. And it's even harder to find someone you can trust..."
Su Yu smiled and said, "Senior Brother Liu Chuan would probably be suitable as well."
"Pfft!"
Zhao Ming knew who Liu Chuan was. He was also a student of Liu Wenyan. He was not young, but he was still stuck at the Skysoar Realm.
Zhao Ming curled his lips and asked, "So are you planning to drag him into your mess? Those big shots have forgotten about his involvement during the previous conflict because he's not important enough. But by using his name for your application, you will bring him into the limelight again. Won't you feel bad?"
Su Yu said, "That's why I'm here. But I'm not lying when I say that I have other options. You must be aware of that as well."
"100 merit points." Zhao Ming couldn't be bothered to say anything else. He directly quoted a price.
"50 merit points. Yearly. And you won't need to do anything. If you can't agree to this, forget it."
"Deal." Zhao Ming agreed without hesitation. He smiled, "Money is but a trivial matter. We shouldn't place that much importance on money and let it harm our relationship. By the way, what's your research project? Do you want me to make a fake proposal for you? Basically, I can write you a proposal that can get approved easily. Don't worry. The academy does not mind. And I won't charge you too much for this service."
Su Yu smiled, "At present, I intend to research the source soul acupoint."
"What?"
"Source soul acupoint." Su Yu smiled, "According to my own theory, there exists a special acupoint in the human body. This acupoint is the link between acupoints and apertures. If I can locate it, I will be able to help the entire human race skip through the Source Opening Realm. Instead of passive cultivation in the beginning, they can directly cultivate the Source soul acupoint.
"With the source soul acupoint, all beginners can cultivate both source qi and willpower at the same time. Perhaps in the future, the Source Opening Realm might even cease to exist."
Zhao Ming was stunned. He stared at Su Yu for a very long time.
He had thought that this was going to be the game of a child. But this kid was actually tackling an incredibly massive project.
Source soul acupoint.
Su Yu had even named the theoretical acupoint. And if this acupoint was really discovered, the entire human race would enter a new era. And Su Yu...would be the person responsible for starting a new page of history, leaving his mark in the history of humanity.
Zhao Ming's face turned solemn as he said, "Source soul acupoint...the link between source acupoints and soul apertures?"
"Yeah."
"Does it exist?"
"I don't know."
"Why are you researching it, then?"
"How can I know the answer before researching it?" Su Yu smiled, "Every discovery starts from the exploration of the unknown. I have noticed that the cultural researchers of humanity have been stagnant. They are exploring less and less. We have a Knowledge Seeking Realm, signifying the true purpose of cultural researchers. Yet the cultural researchers we have today..."
Su Yu smiled and stopped. He did not wish to place a label on every single cultural researcher in existence so easily. But he really couldn't help but notice that in recent years, there hadn't been much innovation among human cultural researchers.
Zhao Ming stared at Su Yu for a long while and asked, "There must be a reason for you to even come up with this idea, right? How did you get this theory?"
"I got this feeling after opening 300 acupoints."
Su Yu spoke indifferently, but like Hu Qiusheng, Zhao Ming was left completely speechless.
Fuck! Was this kid showing off?
Zhao Ming spoke in a somewhat sour tone, "What's the point of opening so many acupoints? It's not like you can link all of them."
Su Yu smiled, "That will change if I can discover the source soul acupoint. In the future, we might even be able to link acupoints with apertures. I am even suspecting that this source soul acupoint might be the crux for a human to advance into the Invincible Realm through willpower cultivation."
"..."
As of that moment, Zhao Ming was completely stunned.
Meanwhile, Su Yu blinked.
Fuck!
What the fuck did he just say?
No way...right?
He was honestly only bragging earlier. But at this moment, his eyes flickered as he sank into thought. If the character techniques of the multiple character faction was the crux for a cultural researcher's advancement into the Invincible Realm, why couldn't this source soul acupoint be another crux?
Did this acupoint not exist? But he had a feeling that something like this truly existed. After opening more acupoints, he was starting to get a sensation that there was an important undiscovered human acupoint in the human body. The more acupoints he opened, the stronger this feeling became.
Numerous thoughts appeared in the minds of Su Yu and Zhao Ming.
Suddenly, Zhao Ming said, "You can have my name for free. But I wish to participate in your research."
Suddenly, someone else said, "Su Yu, can I join your research center?"
Jiang Mu!
Su Yu was aware that Jiang Mu was there. He smiled and said, "I was merely rambling randomly. Don't take my words seriously."
"Of course not. I doubt your theory about the Invincible Realm is correct. But as for the source soul acupoint..." Jiang Mu solemnly said, "I believe this acupoint might really exist for real. I once read a travelog with a story about an expert during the early Anping Calendar. That expert had unleashed an astonishing level of strength to kill a seventh-stage Mountainsea as a ninth-stage Cloudbreach with one hit..."
Zhao Ming asked in astonishment, "You're talking about Bai Tianhao?"
"Yeah."
Jiang Mu nodded. Meanwhile, Su Yu had a blank look. He had never heard of that name before.
Zhao Ming explained, "Bai Tianhao is someone who was active during the early Anping Calender. He is actually...related to you. Your teacher, Bai Feng, is a descendant of Bai Tianhao. It is said that this person had killed a Mountainsea as a Cloudbreach. But that person had died not long after. It has been too long so nobody knows if something like that had really happened. This story can be commonly found in travelogs or similar compilations of memoirs."
"Bai Tianhao?"
Bai Feng's ancestor?
Su Yu was very surprised. He said, "You mean that he had opened this source soul acupoint and linked his acupoints and apertures to gain the strength to kill a Mountainsea?"
"Yeah." Jiang Mu seriously said, "You said that you came up with this theory due to the feeling you got after opening 300 acupoints. I believe that you might be right. In fact, during the early Anping Calender, quite a lot of people had opened hundreds of acupoints due to a lack of proper cultivation system. Of course, most of these people are already dead. Some were dead from old age while the others were dead while fighting in the battlefield. It is rumored that Bai Tianhao had also opened a lot of acupoints. Perhaps this source soul acupoint really exists!
"Of course, he was probably not aware of this acupoint's existence. He had probably unleashed it by accident in a fight to the death, unleashing an unprecedented level of strength."
Su Yu didn't know what to say. That was merely a random guess of his. But hearing Jiang Mu's words, the possibility of this acupoint existing was actually quite high? He didn't mind letting others know about his theory.
Nobody would steal this research of his. Who would be crazy enough to open hundreds of acupoints just for research? In fact, only the humans during the early Anping Calendar had opened that many acupoints. Subsequently, human cultivators had stopped opening so many acupoints.
"So both of you are interested to join?"
Both of them nodded.
Zhao Ming smiled, "This is a very interesting subject. If this source soul acupoint really exists, perhaps it is something that can only be discovered after opening hundreds of acupoints. But after determining the position of this acupoint, we might be able to find a way to directly open this acupoint and skip the process of opening hundreds of acupoints."
Jiang Mu nodded, "Yes. This is a very meaningful subject. Apart from you, I doubt we can find anyone alive who can perform this research. Su Yu, if you can really locate this acupoint, you will change the path humanity walks in the future."