Chapter 636: Public Opinion (1)
Zhu Tiandao was quite surprised to hear that Su Yu was going to place a ban on Great Xia. He had not expected that this kid would be so petty. This kid was clearly going to pester them to no end.
Zhu Tiandao disagreed, so he advised, "Su Yu, you still have some good friends there. Isn't this inappropriate?"
"I'll give them this cultivation method myself."
Zhu Tiandao nodded and asked, "So what do you want to get from this? To speak the truth, this honestly won't harm your enemies that much."
Those above the Skysoar Realm would still do well without learning this cultivation method. Only those below the Skysoar Realm would benefit greatly from it.
After a short silence, Su Yu said, "The Great Xia Cultural Research Academy has a new vice principal. Even the Nine Heavens Cultural Research Academy has received a new principal. Both are Sunmoons. The moment they arrived, they started showing hostility toward me and the multiple character faction.
"I don't know if they're acting out of their own wishes or if they are under orders of the Knowledge Seeking Realm. Or perhaps they are working for that unknown Invincible. It truly doesn't make sense for them to be so hostile toward the multiple character faction right after arriving.
"I even heard that they're going to recruit Shan Tianhao's grandson into the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy."
Su Yu's eyes turned sharp as he said, "That Shan Xiong has been challenging multiple character faction cultivators everywhere, forcing a few branches to shut down. He is basically the blade of a certain group of people. Since nobody in Great Xia is rejecting the proposal of recruiting him into the academy, there is no need for me to hold back against them."
"It's easy for them to stay uninvolved when their interests aren't affected. This is the exact opening the single character faction has been making use of. In that case, I'll have to make them understand that as people who have been turning a blind eye toward the single character faction, they are not innocent. Since they don't care about the conflict between the single and multiple character factions, they must not care about my cultivation methods, right?"
He was free to do whatever he wanted with his cultivation methods. Since they didn't care about him, why should he care about them?
Zhu Tiandao raised his brow. What an impressive kid. Even after arriving at Great Ming, the kid was still able to stay updated on Great Xia's affairs, including the things that had happened during the meeting between the academy elders. Was the kid still in contact with someone there?
Zhu Tiandao said, "Do you intend to make them compromise?"
Su Yu said, "At the very least, we need to turn everyone affected hostile toward the root cause of this policy. They only need to know that I am refusing to sell to Great Xia because I do not wish to strengthen my enemies in Great Xia. As for who my enemies are, well, they can figure it out themselves. I won't say anything.
"Nobody is stupid enough to willingly strengthen their enemy, right? If they can figure it out themselves, great. If not, so be it. If anyone dares to learn my cultivation method illegally, I'll need your help to deal with it, Prefect. I have no way of enforcing the copyright in Great Xia."
Zhu Tiandao laughed and said, "That won't be hard. Even Great Xia itself will need to deal with this. Otherwise, everyone can start doing the same to them. After all, it's not like the Xia Family isn't selling their own cultivation methods as well. What if everyone starts learning their cultivation methods illegally as well? That will only result in an age where nobody is willing to research and create new cultivation methods. Anyone with a brain will understand that this is not good for humanity."
If piracy wasn't stopped, who would be willing to put the effort into creating new things? Su Yu was able to start a research center without using his own money, but not everyone was Su Yu.
When cultivation method researchers started starving to death, nobody would be willing to create new cultivation methods anymore. This would result in stagnation. And everyone understood how serious the consequences of that would be. The only way for the free dissemination of cultivation methods to work was to have all the prefectures buy the rights to these cultivation methods before distributing them for free.
Zhu Tiandao asked, "Are you placing the ban on only the cultural research academies?"
"Yes." Su Yu nodded, "Most of the cultural researchers in the military are at the Skysoar Realm and beyond. This cultivation method won't affect them too much. But there are some cultural researchers in the war academies as well. I don't plan to impose any restrictions on them."
Zhu Tiandao laughed, "So you're targetting the three cultural research academies."
Su Yu smiled, but he said nothing. The three academies could only blame themselves for constantly producing someone hostile toward him.
"How about Great Zhou?" Zhu Tiandao had an amused expression as he asked, "Are you placing any restrictions on them?"
Su Yu said, "Not for now. We'll take it slow. It's not worth provoking a bigger enemy before dealing with those in Great Xia. I believe that Great Zhou is the source of this hostility, but it's still not the time for me to target them."
He knew Great Zhou was at fault, but he still couldn't afford to create too many enemies. He had to do things one step at a time. He would first deal with those bastards in Great Xia.
Zhu Tiandao was quite surprised to hear that. Su Yu continued, "One more thing. It doesn't matter if you want to sell this cultivation method to the other prefectures. Great Ming can get its share of the profits. But I need your protection if the Yuan and Zhou Families decide to retaliate against me."
Once again, Zhu Tiandao was surprised by Su Yu's words.
Su Yu smiled and said, "To speak the truth, opening apertures is a dangerous process. There are too many uncertainties in a new cultural art. Meanwhile, the Myriad Text Sutra has been in use for so many years. It enjoys a high level of trust. The Zhou and Yuan Families might take advantage of this to create some trouble. For example, they can get some people to detonate themselves or cripple their seas of consciousness while cultivating my cultivation method to make the public question the quality of my cultivation method. At that time, I hope that Great Ming will be able to step forth and deal with this slander."
Zhu Tiandao said, "For sure. This is a big business. We won't stand still if someone threatens our income. But are you sure this cultivation method is fine?"
He was worried that this cultivation method would be something only compatible with Su Yu.
"Don't worry. Someone already tested it."
People like Zhang Hao, Lin Yao, and even Xia Huyou had opened a lot of the apertures in the cultivation method. Perhaps Xia Huyou had even finished opening all 36 apertures of the first version. Since Xia Huyou was still fine, Su Yu believed that there wouldn't be any issues.
Zhu Tiandao nodded, "Alright. I'll test it out myself. If it's fine, we'll start selling it in Great Ming. We need to let it simmer before spreading it all over the Human Realm."
"Sure."
Su Yu nodded. He was fine with that.
Zhu Tiandao said, "We can use the time to build up interest and let Great Xia feel the pain. We also need to rapidly let the masses know the importance and benefits of using this cultivation method."
Su Yu smiled. That was precisely what he wanted.
He took out a jade talisman and handed it to Zhu Tiandao. "I'll have to trouble Great Ming for the marketing, Prefect."
No matter how good a cultivation method was, marketing was still very important. And without a strong enough support, even if one had the best cultivation method, one might still not be able to spread it. The masses wouldn't know about it while the elites would have no trust in it. In that situation, so what if the cultivation method was excellent?
That was the task Great Ming could undertake. Thus, they deserved a share of the profits. The same principle applied to the share taken by the Knowledge Seeking Realm since they would be helping with the promotion and distribution as well.
But after thinking about it, Su Yu asked, "Prefect, will the Knowledge Seeking Realm try to block our sales? That will be troublesome since that's still the holy land of cultural researchers."
After what he had experienced, Su Yu suspected that the Knowledge Seeking Realm itself was hostile toward the multiple character faction. That much was obvious from the stance of the experts they sent to Great Xia.
Zhu Tiandao indifferently said, "Don't worry. No matter what, my old man is the second in command there. A few Invincibles might try to mess with us, but we can just ignore them. A powerful enough cultivation method that can benefit the entire human race, including the descendants of Invincibles won't be fully blocked. If someone is really stupid enough to try it, even better. I can cooperate with the War Shrine instead. The warriors do not care about the spat between cultural researchers.
"At that time, those people will be slapping their own faces after the cultivation method proves its value. That way, their reputation will be ruined. When that happens, those neutral Invincibles will finally move their asses and pick fault with the ones who had stopped us. You can sit back and relax while the neutral Invincibles pester them to no end."
Understanding dawned on Su Yu. In that case, it would actually benefit him if the Knowledge Seeking Realm tried stopping the distribution of his cultivation method. Hopefully, they were stupid enough to try that.
Moving on to the next topic, Su Yu asked, "Prefect, do you know any additional acupoints?"
He showed Zhu Tiandao all 357 acupoints he knew before taking out a puppet and explaining Wu Lan's theory.
Zhu Tiandao nodded, "That's a lot of acupoints. Wu Lan's theory makes sense as well. In truth, this theory had been mentioned before, but this is a terrible spot when it comes to discovering new acupoints. Any mistake can be extremely troublesome to deal with. After all, discovering new acupoints requires a lot of tests. Back then, a lot of people perished while looking for the One Hundred Openings acupoint.
"After opening all the acupoints presently known on this central line, nobody was willing to keep exploring the central line to look for new acupoints anymore.
"How about this? Don't be in a rush to open anything. I'll get some people to try it out. Those death row inmates will be perfect for this. I'll pardon them of their crimes if they manage to discover these acupoints.
"If they end up blowing themselves to death, they can only blame their luck. Don't try this yourself. Unlike Great Xia who will immediately execute anyone subjected to capital punishment, we still have a lot of death row inmates in our prisons."
Su Yu was overjoyed to hear that.
"Thank you, Prefect." Zhu Tiandao waved his hand, "It's no big deal. We're doing this for research. If that is all, I'll start my preparations. We will probably get started within a few days. We will first distribute the cultivation method within Great Ming before spreading it to the rest of the Human Realm."
"Thank you."
With the talk over, Su Yu and Wen Zhong left.
Su Yu started his research on the remaining acupoints. At the same time, he continued activating more cultivation methods in his book, hoping to discover the remaining acupoints this way.
Su Yu was also considering purchasing some divine and devil blood essence to see if he could make a new discovery that way. After all, he had never used the blood essence of divines and devils before.
The blood essence of the original devils and the first divines, in particular, were extremely expensive. These two races were known for their incredible strength. Perhaps their cultivation methods contained some unique acupoints.
While Su Yu was busy making his preparations.
Rumors about the new foundation cultural art started spreading all over the Human Realm. What was a foundation cultural art? What was the difference between a foundation cultural art and a regular cultural art? How beneficial was a foundation cultural art?
The masses needed to be educated on this as not everyone was aware of it. One rumor, in particular, was being spread everywhere: Not even the founders of the various prefectures have a complete foundation cultural art.
That alone was enough. With that, everyone realized just how valuable something like that would be. Foundation cultural art became a hot topic everywhere. Everyone learned that this was something that could help someone reach the Cloudbreach Realm about 20 years early. At this moment, a certain name started being spread among the masses.
Su Yu!
Su Yu and his Source Soul Research Center.
That was a genius born in Great Xia. He had subsequently fled from Great Xia to join Great Ming. There, he rebuilt his Source Soul Research Center. He had offered to release the Source Soul Cultural Art to the public. It was said that this cultural art was the reason for his impressive combat strength.
A 72-aperture foundation cultural art! It was an absolute treasure. It was even more valuable than a top-tier heaven-grade cultivation method. It could alter the entire landscape in the world of human cultural researchers.
Mountainseas were mysterious and unfathomable. Rather, Skysoars and Cloudbreaches were the actual experts living among the mortals. Thus, anything that could affect them would be something that could affect the entire cultural research community.
Numerous parties were shocked. Before long, one ambassador after another set out for Great Ming.
At this juncture, the requirements for the distribution of this new cultivation method were released as well. A multiple character faction with at least ten Skysoars and Cloudbreaches must exist in any prefecture wishing to purchase it. All three cultural research academies of Great Xia were banned from learning this cultivation method.
Once again, everyone was shocked. Numerous gazes landed on Great Xia. According to what Great Ming was saying, this requirement was due to the hostility the cultural research academies in Great Xia had shown toward Su Yu even after his departure. Instead of calming down, they had increased the intensity of their suppression of the multiple character faction after he left.
The two newly arrived Sunmoons were specifically named as the main culprits for that. Yuan Qingdong of Great Xia Cultural Research Academy and Zheng Yunhe of Nine Heavens Cultural Research Academy. Everyone was told that those two were the ones insisting on eliminating the multiple character faction.
Even after losing a bunch of experts, the single character faction remained stubborn. Even a Mountainsea like Chen Yong was removed from his position as the head manager of the books depository. Hong Tan, the pillar of the multiple character faction, had been forced to stay in seclusion. The sole research center of the multiple character faction, the Wentan Research Center, had been shut down as well.
All sorts of rumors started spreading everywhere. Due to the previous scandal, Great Xia's single character faction had already offended the masses. But instead of changing after being punished by the Xia Family, they had utilized two Sunmoons to suppress Su Yu's faction.
Once again, numerous people rose in anger. Previously, the protest came from the masses. This time, it was the furious students of the three academies.