Innate Divine Character

Research Center. After master and disciple chatted for a while, Bai Feng suddenly remembered something and scolded, "Where's the tea?" Su Yu chuckled. He was still hung up on that. He walked over and poured him a cup. Only then was Bai Feng satisfied, his mood brightening considerably. Sipping his tea, he turned things over in his mind. After a moment, Bai Feng asked thoughtfully, "When you used Soul Devour, do you remember which apertures opened?" "I do!" "Soul-Devouring Insects... Soul Devour... Yuanqi mutation..." Bai Feng muttered, "I wonder whether it's the innate skill that mutates the Yuanqi, or the Soul-Devouring Insect's foundational Yuan art. A pity you don't know the Yuan art..." Su Yu pondered and said, "Teacher, I think the apertures opened by a Soul-Devouring Insect's Yuan art and its innate skill should be nearly the same. In fact, from an innate skill, I feel one can usually deduce the Yuan art. After all, the apertures opened by an innate skill are all apertures from the foundational Yuan art." The two typically complemented each other. For example, the War God Art and the Sky-Breaking Slash were a matched set. The War God Art opened 108 apertures, and the Sky-Breaking Slash opened 96 apertures—all of which were apertures opened by the War God Art, differing by merely twelve. "That makes sense!" Bai Feng nodded, his eyes gleaming. "If the Soul-Devouring Insect's Yuan art can mutate Yuanqi, granting it the effect of scorching and corroding willpower, that would be a monumental shift for all warriors! "When warriors want to injure a Civilization Master, they usually have to close the distance and strike down the physical body! But if they could remotely scorch a Civilization Master's willpower, the outcome would be completely different!" Bai Feng's heart stirred. "Maybe... we can use this to hook up with a few supreme warriors along the martial path! Get them to run interference and protect us!" Su Yu looked at his teacher, his expression shifting slightly. Bai Feng said nonchalantly, "Why look at me like that? We lack strength, so what could be more normal than finding someone to back us up? Still... right now, your Soul Devour skill is only at the Qianjun Realm, right? You only tested it at Qianjun?" "Yes." "No matter. Qianjun is enough. What matters most is the method of opening the apertures." Bai Feng continued sipping his tea, falling into deep thought. A cultivation art that could mutate Yuanqi and inflict damage on willpower. Did such an art exist? The world was vast and full of wonders! Setting aside the myriad races, humanity might possess one, but... even if someone had it, it would be a closely guarded secret. At least among publicly circulated cultivation arts, no such art existed. Here in the Great Xia Prefecture, aside from the Xia family, Bai Feng believed none of the experts on the martial path had access to such an art. Tapping on the table, Bai Feng suddenly chuckled. "Tell me, if we really make a trade with powerful warriors, will the Civilization Masters curse us as traitors?" Su Yu thought about it and smiled. "No. We wouldn't be traitors—the ones cursing us would be! We would be handing over the art so warriors can slay enemies on the battlefield and strike down the Civilization Masters of the myriad races. Why should our own Civilization Masters fear that? Isn't strengthening humanity a good thing? Anyone who truly thinks that way is a traitor looking to stir up internal strife!" "Easy to say!" Bai Feng sneered. "Civilization Masters... are arrogant! Every Civilization Master believes warriors are inferior to them. Once you give warriors an art that can wound Civilization Masters, they will feel their status is under threat." Civilization Masters were fewer in number than warriors, and all Invincibles had advanced through physical cultivation. Yet Civilization Masters were indeed an arrogant bunch. Even if their overall strength fell short of the other side, they still believed Civilization Masters were more sophisticated than warriors. In fact, it wasn't just humanity; the All-Heavens and Myriad Realms seemed to be like that everywhere. Su Yu shook his head. "Then we can't just research a cultivation art only to lock it away, can we? Just to prevent the status of Civilization Masters from being challenged?" "Of course not. But the prerequisite is having strength and backing!" Bai Feng chuckled. "If you were an Invincible, even if you preached your Dao across the myriad realms, no one would dare utter a word of protest!" Bai Feng exhaled. "We'll play this by ear. Brat, since you want to do research, this will be your first project! Deduce the Soul-Devouring Art from the Soul Devour innate skill!" Su Yu muttered internally: *No need to deduce anything, I already know it myself! What's there to deduce?* Of course, he couldn't say that out loud. An innate skill was one thing—people were actively researching that, after all. But if he could automatically master an alien race's foundational Yuan art too... that would be terrifying. Bai Feng's head would probably explode. Even knowing an innate skill had already pushed him to the brink of exploding. ... Bai Feng got to his feet. Seeing Su Yu still standing there dazed, he snapped, "Let's go! Didn't you say you wanted to do research?" "Uh... Teacher, right now?" "Of course!" Bai Feng frowned. "What, wait until tomorrow?" How strange! What was this brat thinking? "You brat, why don't you have any drive to work hard? Back in the day, when your grandmaster told me I could enter the lab, I was so impatient I could hardly wait to dive right in! And here you are making excuses and stalling!" Su Yu felt exhausted. *How was I making excuses and stalling? I just didn't expect you to be in such a rush!* Without another word, he silently followed Bai Feng down toward the third basement level. ... Main Research Lab. This was Su Yu's first time coming down here. A massive, extraordinarily heavy-looking gate stood before them. Bai Feng pointed at the gate. "This thing here—it's forged entirely from the primary material used to craft Earth-rank weapons..." Before he could finish, Su Yu's expression flickered. "Flame Demon steel! A specialty of the Flame Demon Realm, the main ingredient for crafting weapons! The lab uses this for a gate?" "Indeed. Good that you recognize it! If you dismantled it, it could serve as an Earth-rank weapon!" Bai Feng said proudly, "And not just any ordinary Earth-rank weapon. With a chunk of material this massive, selling it for the price of a high-grade Earth-rank martial weapon would be trivial!" High-grade Earth rank! That was more than enough for a peak Shanhai Realm expert to use. The Research Center was truly loaded. With a casual estimate, Su Yu judged that selling it for 5,000 merit points wouldn't be difficult at all. Of course, that was for crafting martial weapons; if used to forge cultural weapons, the cost would be frighteningly high. Bai Feng spoke no further. A small sword manifested before him, transforming into a key that unlocked the gateway. "Get in!" The moment the door opened, Su Yu hurried inside. Once he stepped into the laboratory and took a look, he was stunned. Countless instruments were arranged in an orderly fashion across a colossal hall. Around the hall, various individual laboratories branched off in every direction. This place was vastly larger than the secondary lab upstairs, with far more equipment. Suddenly, Su Yu's gaze flickered! He looked toward a transparent room! What was that? Inside that room, several books hovered in midair. They looked somewhat familiar to Su Yu. Seeing Su Yu staring in that direction, Bai Feng chuckled softly. "Look familiar? Civilization chronicles! Heritage books containing Shanhai Realm divine characters." "Teacher..." Su Yu said in astonishment, "There are so many!" Bai Feng nodded. "These were obtained by your grandmaster slaying enemies on the battlefield! Over the years, your grandmaster has frequented the All-Heavens Battlefield quite a bit. All told, he has killed six Shanhai Realm experts. Three of them were Civilization Masters, from whom he stripped sixteen divine characters! Three were primary divine characters, and thirteen were auxiliary divine characters. They've all been stored away." Su Yu was deeply shaken! Killed six Shanhai experts? One had to realize that Shanhai experts were hardly common fodder. Under normal circumstances, when Shanhai fought Shanhai, every encounter was a fight to the death unless there was a colossal gap in power—like Wan Tiansheng and Zheng Yuming. For his grandmaster to dare hunt Shanhai on the All-Heavens Battlefield... he was truly formidable! Bai Feng added, "Strictly speaking, these cannot be called civilization chronicles. A true civilization chronicle refers to when a human powerhouse falls and leaves behind their divine characters as a legacy, hoping that one day future generations might inherit something from them. Only those are called civilization chronicles." Su Yu grew intrigued and asked curiously, "Teacher, can divine characters within a civilization chronicle really be passed down?" "They cannot!" Bai Feng shook his head. "Once a Shanhai Realm expert falls, their divine characters dissipate. Unless special measures are taken, they can barely be preserved at all. Keeping them inside a civilization chronicle is actually just slowing down their dissipation; over time, they will completely fade away. In about a century, the civilization chronicle will be gone." He sighed. That meant the final trace left by that fallen Shanhai expert would vanish from this world. Continuing, he said, "However, there are special cases. For instance... some peak Shanhai experts possess exceptionally stable primary divine characters! At the final moment, at the cost of their lives, they can condense their primary divine character into a semi-eternal state. Divine characters like that have a chance of being passed down, similar to eternal divine characters." Su Yu nodded. Then he asked, "Teacher, doesn't our academy have some eternal divine characters? Can those divine characters actually be used as well?" Secret realms were formed from divine characters. The academy actually possessed quite a few secret realms. Over so many years, the academy had produced several Sun and Moon Realm experts as well. "Used?" Bai Feng looked at him. "Do you mean taking the divine character and using it for yourself?" Su Yu nodded. "Yes. I mean, if a divine character is eternal, can't we take it into ourselves and utilize it?" He was thinking of the book inside his own mind. That made him curious: could an eternal divine character be absorbed for one's own use? Bai Feng shook his head. "No. To put it simply, it's a matter of compatibility! For example, say you outlined a 'Blood' divine character, but I can't outline one. If you die and leave that character for me to use, I still might not be able to use it." "..." Su Yu's expression turned unnatural. *Teacher, your words... are really cutting to the bone.* *What do you mean, if I die and leave it for you to use? What a wonderful example!* "Are there cases where they are compatible?" Su Yu didn't dwell on it and simply asked another question. "Yes!" Bai Feng nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "My martial uncle could! A few others can as well! The compatibility might not be a hundred percent, but they can still integrate the divine character. Such cases are rare and usually only happen with geniuses—because that genius was already capable of outlining that very divine character themselves! "However!" Bai Feng warned, "Don't even think about it. Think about it yourself: you're just a Yangxing Realm cultivator. What kind of burden would absorbing an eternal divine character place on your willpower sea? It could blow your willpower sea to pieces! Unless you are truly exceptionally gifted with an immensely powerful willpower sea, and that eternal divine character has an extraordinarily high compatibility with you, there is only a sliver of hope!" After thinking for a moment, he added, "Furthermore, it's even harder for the Single Divine Character Faction than the Multiple Divine Characters Faction! Because the Multiple Divine Characters Faction has many divine characters that form a battle technique framework, they can barely use that battle technique framework to suppress the divine character. But for the Single Divine Character Faction... the difficulty is immense!" Su Yu nodded. In his heart, however, he was thinking of something else. His teacher said his martial uncle could... Connecting this to Bai Feng's earlier words, Su Yu suddenly asked, "Teacher, does Teacher Liu possess such an inherited divine character?" "Yes!" Bai Feng didn't bother hiding it and said, "The Fifth Head once left behind a divine character, which was later taken away by my martial uncle. He might have integrated it into his own willpower sea. As for the specifics, I'm not entirely clear either. "Back then, your Teacher Liu was a monstrous genius rarely seen in the Great Xia Civilization Academy, but he was subsequently crippled. It might very well be related to this divine character. "And I have a slight suspicion... that it might not merely be an ordinary divine character. Perhaps... it is also an innate divine character!" Su Yu blinked. An innate divine character? No way! They hadn't even researched one yet. Did that mean the Fifth Head had already condensed an innate divine character back then? Wouldn't that mean... he truly had a chance to attain the Invincible Realm, and as an Invincible Civilization Master at that? Bai Feng paid him no further mind and continued walking forward. Pointing at a large machine, he said, "This is a centrifuge, used to separate blood essence! Once blood essence solidifies, it is nearly impossible to break apart. Only this centrifuge can separate the components of blood essence. "This is a willpower testing machine..." Su Yu grew interested in the machine Bai Feng was introducing. A willpower testing machine? It looked like a little chamber. He had no idea how it performed the test. Bai Feng smiled and stepped into the small chamber. Inside the chamber, a burst of willpower suddenly erupted. On the machine connected outside the chamber, lines of text appeared: *Willpower Grade: Tier 2 Peak* *Open Divine Apertures: 30–40* *Divine Character Count: 15–25* *Overall Rating: Tengkong Realm Ninth Layer* What kind of thing was this? Su Yu looked with some astonishment at Bai Feng as he stepped out. "Teacher, this machine can even test the number of divine characters and divine apertures?" "It's just a rough estimate!" Bai Feng smiled. "It's mainly used to test captured subjects to prevent them from concealing their strength. You have to understand, some races are very peculiar. Even a Shanhai might not be able to detect anything, especially with certain concealed divine characters." Su Yu nodded, eager to give it a shot. "Teacher, can I try?" "Go ahead. You're so weak that the test results will actually be quite precise. Just unleash your willpower once you're inside. If you want it to be more accurate, unleash your divine characters too. The weaker you are, the more accurate this thing is!" Su Yu felt a thrill of excitement; it seemed quite fun. He immediately dashed into the small chamber. Willpower erupted! All around the chamber, countless divine talismans seemed to exist, rapidly absorbing his willpower. Next, Su Yu unleashed his divine characters. Meanwhile, outside, Bai Feng was watching the data. At a glance... he froze slightly. *Willpower Grade: Tier 1 Peak* *Fullness: 68%* *Divine Character Count: 5* *Divine Character Grade: Tier 2 (2 characters)* *Overall Rating: Yangxing Realm Peak* Glancing toward Su Yu, Bai Feng blinked and shouted, "Come out!" Su Yu hurried out. "Teacher, what is it?" "When did you outline a fifth divine character? Why didn't I know about this?" "..." Su Yu scratched his head. Hadn't he mentioned it? Right, he hadn't! The "Yin" divine character was too shameful and didn't fit his noble persona. Was it a crime to forget to mention it? "Uh... I outlined it a few days ago." Bai Feng rolled his eyes, then asked in bewilderment, "And your willpower grade is actually Tier 1 Peak? That's bizarre. Logically speaking, if your fullness is under ninety percent, there's no way you should count as Tier 1 Peak! This scale considers 0–30% low grade, 31–60% mid grade, 61–90% high grade, and only above 90% peak." He stared at Su Yu, puzzled. "You're only at 68% fullness. By all rights, you should be high grade—and just barely entering it at that. How did you hit peak?" He added, "I thought earlier that you had cultivated the Expanding Will Art, but it seems you haven't; otherwise, there would be some indication. You brat... how strange!" Su Yu's willpower grade was exceptionally high! This meant his willpower was not inferior to that of peak Yangxing cultivators. That was why he could clash with the likes of Zheng Yunhui without falling into a disadvantage. The machine even rated him at the peak of the Yangxing Realm! Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "I told you before, Teacher Zhao hammered me with his big hammer. Did you forget?" "I remember!" Bai Feng rolled his eyes. "The effect was that good? Hammered you from high grade straight to peak? What the devil! Why didn't that Old Ghost Zhao hammer me?" "No wonder you can trade blows with those peak Yangxing fellows. Your willpower... is on par with theirs!" Having said that, he added with surprise, "How did your progress become so fast, suddenly reaching 68% fullness?" Didn't he just reach Yangxing a few days ago? "Teacher, with that Heaven-rank cultivation art, every clash results in massive progress!" In truth, it was also related to Su Yu previously consuming blood essence from the Five Elements races and absorbing some willpower; that instance had granted him a substantial boost. "I forgot about that!" Bai Feng nodded. Looking at Su Yu, his wonder grew. "You brat, not bad! Get Old Zhao to hammer you again. Who knows, by the time you reach peak Yangxing, your willpower tenacity might even rival someone in the Tengkong Realm!" Su Yu gave a self-deprecating laugh and quickly shifted the topic. "Teacher, aren't you also at Tier 2 Peak?" "Nonsense!" Bai Feng said testily, "I'm a powerhouse of the Multiple Divine Characters Faction, after all! Naturally, I'm stronger than ordinary eighth-layer Tengkong cultivators! Normally, an eighth-layer Tengkong has a willpower grade at Tier 2 High." Su Yu nodded, not particularly surprised. Bai Feng had been able to defeat Hu Wensheng even at the seventh layer of Tengkong, to say nothing of now that he had reached the eighth layer. ... Next, Bai Feng introduced Su Yu to the other machines. Su Yu was dazzled! They had truly spared no expense! Every single piece of equipment was worth thousands of merit points, some even over ten thousand! Selling off this Research Center would truly make someone rich. Setting aside their research results, just selling these machines alone would easily fetch two to three hundred thousand merit points, wouldn't it? Truly wealthy! His grandmaster was certainly generous with spending. If it were Su Yu, he definitely couldn't bring himself to spend like that. Walking along, they arrived at a small laboratory. Bai Feng exhaled softly and pointed inside. "This place is where I usually conduct my research! Follow me in, and let me show you your teacher's latest research results!" Su Yu hurriedly followed him inside. The moment he stepped through the door, Su Yu discovered that the room seemed saturated with willpower! He was taken aback! Of course, this willpower was not violent; it was very gentle, feeling as if it could be absorbed. Naturally, since he had not yet opened his divine apertures, he couldn't absorb it. Bai Feng warned, "The willpower here has been purified countless times. You are not allowed to absorb it! This is used to nurture divine characters. Tengkong Realm divine characters can manifest, but they cannot endure for long. Once stripped away, they require this kind of willpower nourishment so they don't dissipate. Even after you enter Tengkong, you are not permitted to absorb it. Dammit, it cost a fortune! If you absorb it, I'll kill you!" Su Yu gave a dry laugh. "Teacher, I wouldn't. I'm not that kind of person!" "Get lost!" Bai Feng cursed. *If you were in Tengkong, you'd definitely suck it dry.* Bai Feng ignored him further. Walking over to a lab bench, he waved Su Yu over. Su Yu quickly stepped up, his gaze flickering. At that moment, several divine characters were actually hovering above the bench! "These are..." "Divine characters of the Fire Swine race!" Bai Feng explained, "Most Fire Swines are warriors; Civilization Masters are exceedingly rare among them! One in ten thousand. Back then, your grandmaster and I hunted countless Fire Swines before finally killing three Fire Swine Civilization Masters. "We barely managed to strip their divine characters, but they cannot endure indefinitely and can only be kept here! "Brat, watch closely!" With that, the five divine characters on the table floated upward. Bai Feng looked solemn, and Su Yu watched with undivided attention. He watched as the five divine characters gradually began to merge. A small portion fused together, slowly undergoing a transformation until, before long, they resembled a pig! Su Yu's vision blurred, as though he were truly seeing an immense swine! He had seen Fire Swine corpses before! Right now, it felt as if a real Fire Swine had manifested right before his eyes. *"Impact!"* A voice in a foreign tongue resonated in Su Yu's mind, seemingly the language of the Fire Swine race. The next instant, Su Yu scrambled backward! Ahead of him, the swine formed from the five divine characters suddenly charged straight at him! Su Yu felt a formidable aura and retreated hastily. In the next moment, his vision blurred, and everything vanished! The divine characters were still just divine characters! The five characters had dimmed considerably and separated once more. Bai Feng was dripping with sweat as he spoke rapidly, "Did you see that? By combining these five divine characters in different ways, I finally discovered that one specific combination allows the divine characters to produce an effect akin to an innate skill! "What does this mean? It means that after divine characters are combined, they can truly form an innate skill! "Of course, most Fire Swines do not possess divine characters, so why can they unleash an innate skill? "My hypothesis is that an implicit divine character like this already exists in their willpower sea; it simply hasn't been awakened! When a Civilization Master uses an innate skill, it is definitively stronger than when a non-Civilization Master uses it! "Therefore, I am certain that innate skills must be related to divine characters, and related to the willpower sea!" Su Yu nodded vigorously! He had seen it, and he hurriedly said, "Teacher, don't you think... it's very similar to..." "You noticed?" "Yes!" Su Yu nodded and said with some astonishment, "It's very similar to the pattern of divine character battle techniques! Multiple divine characters assembled together!" "Right, I noticed that long ago as well!" Bai Feng exhaled and said, "If that's the case, it means that divine character battle techniques... might actually be a method of utilizing innate divine characters discovered by our predecessors. It's just that our predecessors never linked them to innate divine characters." He turned to Su Yu. "So to speak, our innate divine characters have already broadly begun to emerge! The Multiple Divine Characters Faction has already walked ahead of everyone else. As long as we find a way to convert divine character battle techniques into innate divine characters—unifying them just like merging apertures—a true innate divine character might appear!" Bai Feng said with mounting excitement, "When that time comes, we will be able to display our true strength, our full power! No matter how many apertures or divine characters you possess, you will be able to unleash them all together, rather than merely possessing raw intensity without lethal power!" Take Su Yu, for instance. He had 153 apertures, but could he instantly unleash the power of all 153 apertures at once? He could not! Even a Heaven-rank cultivation art couldn't achieve that; it could only let Su Yu unleash the power of the apertures opened by the War God Art, plus the additional apertures opened by the Heaven-rank art. At absolute most, Su Yu could unleash the power of nearly a hundred apertures. Certain apertures opened by the War God Art simply couldn't establish a connection with the Heaven-rank cultivation art. Su Yu thought about it and said, "Teacher, do you mean that our current utilization of willpower is insufficient, as is our utilization of divine characters and apertures? But once we master innate divine characters, we might be able to unleash a hundred percent of our power?" "Correct!" Bai Feng chuckled. "Never mind a hundred percent—even unleashing eighty percent would be vastly stronger than now! Right now, our rate of developing and utilizing our own strength is pathetically low!" Su Yu took a deep breath, looking at the floating divine characters. His teacher really had uncovered something! Impressive! Bai Feng continued, "For now, I'm only experimenting on Fire Swine divine characters; I haven't moved on to human trials yet! This kind of thing is best tested on the Multiple Divine Characters Faction. Unfortunately, you haven't entered Tengkong yet. Looks like I can only be my own guinea pig for now!" "..." Su Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. *So once I enter Tengkong, I become your guinea pig?* "Teacher, you better take it easy. If something goes wrong during the fusion, disaster will strike!" Su Yu was no longer a complete novice; he could understand the risks involved. Bai Feng said casually, "No matter. It's normal for issues to crop up in research! Once I really pull this off, I'll show you what it means for a Tengkong to slay a Lingyun!" As he spoke, he worked himself up into excitement! "A Tengkong battling a Lingyun! Crossing a major realm like Tengkong to fight above one's level—hardly anyone throughout history has been able to pull that off! Your teacher... is about to become the next!" Su Yu flattered him shamelessly. "Teacher is mighty, formidable, overbearing..." "Get lost!" Bai Feng cursed, then said with some dejection, "The only problem is having no reference material. When you have the chance, you must talk to my martial uncle—I want to research him! I believe he possesses the embryonic form of an innate divine character. Otherwise, without a reference, I'm afraid I'll kill myself before I ever successfully combine them." Su Yu was at a loss for words. Teacher Liu... Truth be told, one might genuinely glean some inspiration from him. Bai Feng added, "My martial uncle has actually been troubled by this all along. If that truly is an innate divine character, his own divine characters will inevitably be repelled, unable to fuse or form an integrated whole! "Though my martial uncle is extraordinarily talented, when it comes to understanding divine characters, he might not know as much as I do! "He has quite a few divine characters of his own, and now that this foreign character has seized the dominant position, unless they merge into one, he cannot unleash his true strength, let alone take that divine character for his own use! "Only by unifying them! In my conception, perhaps a way can be found to fuse his own divine characters with this foreign divine character, uniting them into one and completely turning it into his own divine character, before it can truly be utilized!" Bai Feng shook his head as he spoke, disdain coloring his tone. "My martial uncle is stubborn as a mule! Not very flexible in the head. I suspect that for the past fifty years, he's just been forcibly trying to integrate it without any method whatsoever. Does he really think kneading it into a meatball will do the trick?" He shook his head in contempt! It was just like sculpting dough figurines: others sculpted various shapes and characters, while you just kneaded it into a lump of dough and expected to sell it as a figurine? He suspected Liu Wenyan had been doing exactly that! A brute! A fake Civilization Master! He mocked him thoroughly once more; after all, his martial uncle wouldn't know. At his side, Su Yu watched him, sighing inwardly. *Teacher, I'm standing right here. Do you really think I won't tattle on you?* "Teacher Liu... innate divine character..." At this moment, Su Yu's thoughts were churning as well. Over the years, he had actually picked up on a few things. Liu Wenyan seemed indifferent to everything on the surface, but at times, a sense of desolation would inevitably leak through. Su Yu had caught him several times staring off in a certain direction, lost in thought for long stretches. Thinking back now... wasn't he looking in the direction of the Great Xia Civilization Academy? He still couldn't let it go! "An innate divine character, left behind by the Fifth Head!" ... And at that very moment, in Nanyuan. Liu Wenyan let out a sigh. Within his willpower sea, the little sun at the center grew increasingly luminous, while the star-like divine characters surrounding it shoved and squeezed with all their might to force their way into the sun. Just as Bai Feng had said, he... was forcibly trying to integrate and nurture it! As for a method... where would Liu Wenyan find any method? Who on earth knew how to nurture such a thing? He relied entirely on his own experience and intuition! In any case, he sensed that the divine character left behind by his teacher seemed to be growing stronger, and that was enough. Perhaps when his own divine characters were completely squeezed inside, he would finally be able to use it? Liu Wenyan wasn't in a hurry. He would take it slow. If his generation couldn't manage it, then the next generation would. That brat Su Yu was doing quite well for himself now. Perhaps it was time for Liu Wenyan to look for the next candidate to observe. They had to be honest, reliable, and capable of enduring loneliness. If his generation couldn't do it, they would simply pass it down generation after generation.