The More You Know, the Faster You Die

Leaving the arena area behind, Su Yu paid it no further mind and hurried straight back toward the research center. Chen Yong walked alongside him in silence. After putting a fair distance between themselves and the commotion, Chen Yong said in a low voice, "Today, the gloves have officially come off!" Su Yu turned to his martial uncle and asked softly, "Martial Uncle, do you feel we still need to lie low?" "It's not about lying low... It's that our strength truly doesn't match theirs," Chen Yong sighed. Su Yu nodded, speaking as he walked. "I know. But if we never strike back, they will only push further and further. If this goes on, we're truly finished! Taking advantage of Zheng Yuming being severely wounded by the Principal, when the Single Divine Character Faction is held back by misgivings—striking back now is our best chance!" Chen Yong hesitated, opening his mouth and closing it again before finally saying, "For that, we would need your grandmaster back first." At the mention of this, Su Yu felt sullen as well. "Why isn't Grandmaster back yet?" Without a Shanhai Realm expert backing them up, he could never feel completely at ease. "Who else could it be but your teacher!" At this topic, Chen Yong was equally helpless. "A new race appeared on the All-Heavens Battlefield with unpredictable movements. Your grandmaster went to search for them, and who knows where he's wandered off to. Communications don't work out there across a world passageway. It was your teacher who egged your grandmaster into going in the first place; otherwise, your grandmaster might not have left at all." After exchanging a few words, Chen Yong asked, "This Soul Devour Art business—is it real or fake?" "Real!" Su Yu nodded. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have dared declare it in public. Now I just hope they hold back out of fear of breaking the vases. After all, the academy doesn't belong only to their Single Divine Character Faction; there are many other factions as well." With that, Su Yu added, "Martial Uncle, I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Although the Single Divine Character Faction is powerful here, the other factions aren't weak either. They can't blot out the sky with one hand." He felt there was no need to be overly anxious. It wasn't as if the Single Divine Character Faction called all the shots. Chen Yong hesitated for a moment before saying, "You're wrong! In the Great Xia Civilization Academy, the Single Divine Character Faction might not call all the shots, but in other academies, many of their experts serve as principals! "The Single Divine Character Faction doesn't just refer to our academy, but to the entire Human Realm!" Chen Yong sighed. "Likewise, the Multiple Divine Characters Faction doesn't just mean us, but all multiple divine character practitioners across the Human Realm! Looking at the entire Human Realm over the past few decades, there are probably fewer than a thousand practitioners in the Multiple Divine Characters Faction. In truth, five hundred would already be a generous estimate! Meanwhile, their Single Divine Character Faction has over ten thousand people in our academy alone, to say nothing of the entire Human Realm!" Su Yu frowned. "Other factions get along just fine. Some have so few people, even fewer than us. Why single us out?" From the sound of his martial uncle's words, this wasn't just a local issue! The entire Human Realm was ostracizing the Multiple Divine Characters Faction! Why was that? Chen Yong fell silent. Seeing this, Su Yu knit his brows. Could there be deeper secrets that couldn't be spoken aloud? After a pause, Chen Yong said, "Let's talk back at the research center. Call your teacher out, and we'll discuss it together!" "Alright!" ... A few minutes later, the two returned to the Wen Tan Research Center. When Bai Feng was dragged out of the lab, he was still in a daze. What now? "Senior Brother, what brings you here?" "..." Chen Yong looked at him with sympathy. As a teacher, this guy only ever found out after the fact. Su Yu chimed in immediately, "Teacher, I made money today! Several thousand merit points!" Bai Feng's eyes lit up! Made money again? In the next breath, his expression darkened. "How did you make it? Who did you swindle this time?" "..." Speechless, Su Yu explained, "No one. I went out for some sparring matches, lost, and made money." Bai Feng blinked in confusion, then quickly asked, "You threw matches?" Nodding, he added, "Well done! Your teacher used to throw matches back in the day, too. Back during the struggle for the Top 100 Rankings, a few guys paid me bribes to bump their ranks up. I threw a few matches for them. But they usually didn't pay that much. Who did you throw matches for that paid so well?" A dark history! Off to the side, Chen Yong's face warped. He couldn't help cursing, "You threw matches on the Top 100 Rankings years ago?!" Bai Feng took it completely in stride. "What of it? I was broke and needed resources to cultivate. What's wrong with throwing a few matches? Senior Brother, don't be so pedantic!" "..." Chen Yong was at a complete loss for words, reduced to a helpless sigh. So match-throwing wasn't something Su Yu invented—Bai Feng had set the precedent long ago. Sigh! Nothing but sighs! Su Yu cleared his throat and smiled. "Right, Teacher. I threw matches too. I lost over eight thousand times..." Bai Feng just stared at him. Kid, the moment those words left your mouth, I knew something massive had happened. Under what circumstances could someone lose over eight thousand times? Su Yu quickly gave a brief summary of the events. Bai Feng watched him for a long while before finally saying, "In other words, the gloves have come completely off, right?" "Right!" "Oh!" Bai Feng curled his lip. On second thought, he wasn't particularly surprised, merely grumbling in frustration, "You idiot, couldn't you wait until your grandmaster got back to deal with them? Couldn't you endure for just a few days? Your grandmaster isn't back yet, so this isn't an easy burden for us to shoulder, understand?" As for taking the gloves off—what of it? They had already been locked in a life-and-death struggle anyway. The main issue was that this fool hadn't waited for his grandmaster to return before making his move! Bai Feng said helplessly, "Bear with it. Don't go outside lately. Let me tell you, who knows how black-hearted those people can be! Even if their hearts aren't black enough and they don't dare take you out, someone else might. Let me tell you, don't think too highly of human nature! It's entirely normal for someone calling you brother to kill you and pin the blame on them! "And there are also All-Races Sect spies who would love nothing more than to take you out and trigger an all-out bloodbath between your grandmaster and their side..." Bai Feng spoke casually, letting out a breath. "It's fine. Just stay put in the institute for now. As long as you don't leave the academy, it shouldn't be a big problem." Su Yu nodded. That was true. Even if the Single Divine Character Faction didn't dare murder him, there was no guaranteeing some troublemakers who wished to see the world burn wouldn't harbor such intentions. "I know. That's why I brought up the Soul Devour Art so all the warriors would keep their eyes on us. That way, everyone will have some misgivings." "Have you actually figured it out?" Bai Feng eyed him suspiciously. "Don't cook up a fake like last time. Let me warn you, if you forge another one, you will die a terrible death!" Bai Feng was remarkably calm! Aside from a brief flicker of surprise at the start, he had barely reacted at all. Chen Yong watched in disbelief. Could this bastard really treat such a monumental event so lightly? He couldn't resist snapping, "Bai Feng, this is massive trouble, do you understand?" "Senior Brother, don't make a mountain out of a molehill!" Bai Feng shrugged nonchalantly. "We've been at odds for ages. It's not like this started yesterday. Bottling it up forever wasn't getting us anywhere. They picked a fight, so what's wrong with hitting back once? They brought the humiliation on themselves!" Chen Yong was speechless. He let out a breath and said, "It's not that simple! Earlier, Su Yu asked me why the Single Divine Character Faction has always targeted us..." "Resources, obviously. They're afraid we'll make a comeback and steal their status." "Nonsense!" Chen Yong barked directly. Bai Feng stared at him blankly. What? Had he said something wrong? Chen Yong took a deep breath. "You must understand that the Single Divine Character Faction and the Multiple Divine Characters Faction don't just exist in our one academy. They span academies across the entire Human Realm, and even extend into other places—the military, the holy lands! "If it were merely over resources and status, why would the entire Human Realm be ostracizing us? "Bai Feng, you need to understand that we aren't the only ones being pushed out. Across the entire Human Realm, even in Great Zhou Prefecture and Dashang Prefecture, they are being suppressed!" Chen Yong's voice dropped low. "Do you understand? The entire Human Realm!" Su Yu furrowed his brows and asked hesitantly, "Martial Uncle, could it be a clash of philosophies?" If it were ideological, that would be truly troublesome! Between scholars, even blood feuds were nothing compared to ideological conflicts, which fueled generation after generation of hatred! Unless one side was eradicated, peaceful coexistence was practically impossible. "Philosophies?" Chen Yong shook his head. "The philosophy of Civilization Masters is simply to become stronger. What philosophy? What dispute over orthodox lineage? None of that exists." "Then... why?" Now Su Yu was completely baffled! Bai Feng was also puzzled. "What, there are hidden secrets? Isn't it because we consume more resources than others? Those bastards couldn't stand the sight of it, and because they felt we were stronger than them, they targeted us?" Chen Yong said gravely, "Nonsense. Then why didn't they target us several decades ago?" "Because we were strong!" "The Single Divine Character Faction had their strong eras too. Back then, at most people looked down on each other. It never reached the point of trying to keep our heads pressed beneath the dirt or wiping out our heritage entirely!" Both Bai Feng and Su Yu grew intrigued. Was there another reason? Bai Feng pondered and said, "Speaking of which, the root of everything lies in the battle of the Fifth Generation—after our grandmaster's battle ended in failure, we began facing such suppression. If there is some secret, it must be related to the Fifth Generation, right?" Chen Yong gave a slight nod. After a moment's thought, he stopped speaking aloud and switched to voice transmission: "The reason the Multiple Divine Characters Faction is targeted like this isn't about ideology or resources. It's personal enmity!" "Personal enmity?" "Yes!" Chen Yong transmitted, "It has a great deal to do with the Fifth Generation. Su Yu, you should know that the Fifth Generation fell in battle, right?" Su Yu nodded. Chen Yong continued, "And you also know that three Invincibles died in battle back then, right?" Su Yu nodded again. "Of those three Invincibles, two were from the myriad races, and one was from the human race!" Chen Yong sighed. "The fallen human Invincible came from Great Zhou Prefecture! He was King Dazhou's younger brother, having advanced to the Invincible Realm not long before. His son... is the current principal of the Great Zhou Civilization Academy! "Back then, when the Fifth Generation sought to vindicate his Dao, he didn't invite any Invincibles to aid him. The Fifth Generation was too proud. He believed he could accomplish it on his own, only bringing along some enthusiastic Civilization Masters who came to assist. His intention was never for them to fight, but to allow them to observe the process of Dao vindication. "In the end, disaster struck. Not only did our Multiple Divine Characters Faction suffer catastrophe, but the Invincible who rushed to our aid fell on the All-Heavens Battlefield. "King Dazhou didn't say anything, but the one at the Great Zhou Civilization Academy already had friction with the Fifth Generation. His own father died on the battlefield trying to save the Fifth Generation—tell me, could he accept that?" Chen Yong sighed. "From then on, the Great Zhou Civilization Academy began ostracizing the Multiple Divine Characters Faction! King Dazhou remained silent, and Great Zhou Prefect Zhou Potian said nothing either. Great Zhou Prefecture was the first to stir up this wave of ostracism. "Afterward, the Single Divine Character Factions in the other prefectures followed suit. Some fought for power, some shared that common hatred, some sought to curry favor with King Dazhou, and some Single Divine Character experts genuinely loathed the Fifth Generation. "Coupled with the decline of the Multiple Divine Characters Faction, these numerous factors led to every major prefecture in the Human Realm ostracizing us." Chen Yong let out a heavy breath. "And that isn't even the most crucial part! There is one more key factor! The Fifth Generation once left behind some research materials regarding Civilization Masters vindicating the Eternal Dao, as well as a divine character. The position of that person at Great Zhou Civilization Academy was that his father died trying to rescue the Fifth Generation, meaning those things were bought with his father's life. He demanded that the materials be made public—or at least made available to him..." At this point, Su Yu couldn't help interjecting, "That... shouldn't we have let them see it? After all, he did fall while rescuing the Fifth Generation." He had never anticipated such twists and turns behind the history. When Bai Feng mentioned that three Invincibles had died earlier, Su Yu hadn't thought much of it. Now it seemed the matter was far more complicated. A human Invincible had fallen in that battle! Chen Yong offered a bitter, helpless smile. "We should have! But... there are none!" "None?" "None!" Chen Yong rubbed his temples. "Grandmaster Fifth Generation had two disciples: one was Martial Uncle Liu Wenyan, and the other was our teacher, your grandmaster. The divine character was passed down to Martial Uncle Liu Wenyan—everyone knows that. But the research materials, according to rumors outside, were supposedly passed down to us. Yet... there truly are none! "Teacher has searched ceaselessly, combing through every document countless times, but found nothing! Yet no one believes us. Everyone thinks Teacher pocketed them for himself and refuses to share them! You can imagine how thoroughly this offended people!" Chen Yong spoke with mounting helplessness: "From then on, a coalition dominated by the Single Divine Character Faction formed around Great Zhou Prefecture specifically to target us—to target the entire Multiple Divine Characters Faction! Because during that battle, multiple divine character experts from many academies had rushed over, both to rescue the Fifth Generation and to rescue one another... "Haven't you wondered why, when our faction still had experts left back then, they allowed us to be suppressed like this?" Chen Yong sighed. "Precisely because of this! They couldn't show their faces, couldn't step forward! Things were marginally better while they were still alive, but as those experts passed away one after another, our days became utterly miserable!" Su Yu frowned. "Martial Uncle, then why not let them come look for themselves? We really don't have them; can we conjure them out of thin air?" "It's useless!" Chen Yong lamented, "People only believe what they want to believe. If they don't want to believe it, no amount of talking will help! Besides, the Multiple Divine Characters Faction has withered, while they are at the height of their power. They're merely suppressing you without kicking down your door to pick fights; what can you do?" Bai Feng muttered glumly, "There was really all that? No wonder when I went to the All-Heavens Battlefield in the past, those Great Zhou Tengkong cultivators looked at me like sworn enemies. Senior Brother, why didn't you mention this earlier?" Chen Yong retorted crossly, "What good would telling you do? Strictly speaking, we have no ground to stand on, yet we are innocent too. If the materials existed, we would gladly provide a copy, but the key is that we don't have them!" Bai Feng suddenly asked cautiously, "Senior Brother, could Master have hidden them away?" "Get lost!" Chen Yong roared at him in exasperation, glaring furiously. "How could Master possibly hide them! They really don't exist! Before those belongings reached our hands, plenty of people inspected them, and there was nothing! Do you think other people didn't care about materials on vindicating the Invincible Realm? The Quest Realm and War God Hall cared deeply! "And in the end, none of them found anything!" Chen Yong shook his head. "However... Master said that they might truly have existed!" "What do you mean?" Chen Yong exhaled slowly. "Master said that among the belongings left behind by Grandmaster, a few things were missing! But Grandmaster lived in the Heart Cultivation Pavilion during his lifetime. When his relics were removed from the pavilion, multiple Shanhai experts were supervising. No one entered the Heart Cultivation Pavilion beforehand, and Grandmaster had laid down divine formations during his life; no one could have snuck in to steal anything... "So Master couldn't say it aloud. In any case, a few items were indeed missing. Perhaps the materials really existed, but they were lost. Whether Grandmaster took them with him or something else happened, several decades have passed, and there is no way to investigate now!" Chen Yong sighed. "Unless... someone went to Grandmaster's residence beforehand, took the items, and concealed the news. That left us to carry the blame alone!" "Someone took them in advance?" Bai Feng hesitated. "What do you mean? With Grandmaster's strength, who could break through the formations he laid down besides an Invincible?" The moment those words were spoken, Bai Feng's face changed! Su Yu's expression shifted as well. He understood! No wonder Hong Tan never brought this matter up again and forbade Chen Yong from speaking of it. Who could take the Fifth Generation's belongings beforehand? An Invincible! Back then, when the Fifth Generation fell, if the materials truly existed and went missing later, an Invincible must have arrived ahead of time and taken them away. But... how could that person have known the Fifth Generation was doomed? And arrived first! After the Fifth Generation died in battle, the King of Great Xia escorted his remains back to Great Xia Prefecture shortly afterward. That meant whoever it was knew the Fifth Generation had perished before the King of Great Xia even returned! All three fell silent! After a pause, Chen Yong continued via voice transmission: "Too much is entangled in these matters, which is why Master never speaks of them again. After all... we cannot bear the weight of any of it! That includes the death of Grandmaster Fifth Generation... If the materials truly were stolen beforehand, that means... you should understand!" Su Yu and Bai Feng paled once more! Knowing in advance that the Fifth Generation would perish? That was impossible! There was only one explanation: someone had orchestrated their downfall! A traitor! A traitor who might very well be an Invincible? Chen Yong said sorrowfully, "That's why we must keep a low profile and lie low! Act as though we know nothing! If we're suppressed, so be it. Master cannot even advance rashly, not even into the Sun-Moon Realm. The moment he breaks through... that person might grow suspicious or worry about leaving loose ends..." Su Yu couldn't help saying, "Tell the higher-ups..." Chen Yong looked at him and asked sorrowfully, "Do you know... who it is?" "..." Right, who was it? Rashly telling someone might only invite assassination to silence them... "Then blow it up!" Su Yu urged frantically. "Make an enormous scene!" "Where's the evidence?" Chen Yong had regained his composure. "Where is the evidence? Everyone will just think we are deflecting blame! That we are trying to slander an Invincible! That we are trying to sow discord among the Invincibles! You must realize the front lines rely entirely on those experts to hold the line! If infighting breaks out, can you bear the responsibility?" Chen Yong sighed. "You can't. If human Invincibles start suspecting each other and fearing for their own safety while powerful foreign races invade, what do you think will happen if the frontline experts are divided? So even if we know, even if we suspect, we have to bottle it up! Unless there is ironclad evidence proving who it is! Only under the weight of indisputable proof is there any hope of turning things around!" "Ironclad evidence..." Chen Yong shook his head. Where would they find ironclad proof? He looked at Su Yu and said, "So tearing down the facade with the Single Divine Character Faction this time might not be a good thing! In my eyes, their suppression was actually a form of protection..." Su Yu knit his brows. Bai Feng said in a stifled voice, "Senior Brother, so stepping forward means death, and not stepping forward means death too! If this continues, the Multiple Divine Characters Faction's heritage really will be wiped out!" "Indeed!" Chen Yong sighed. "That's why Master actually suspects... that person's shadow is behind this as well! Of course, it's hard to say. All arrows seem to point to King Dazhou, but... King Dazhou has no need to do this. Master suspects someone is using Great Zhou Prefecture's Zhou family as a cover, with others secretly fanning the flames, genuinely wanting to wipe us out and sever our heritage completely!" Bai Feng and Su Yu both fell silent. The meaning was clear: sticking their heads out meant dire trouble. Yet without doing so, the disaster facing the Multiple Divine Characters Faction was already plain to see—they were on the brink of extinction. Su Yu was utterly speechless! Behind this curtain were multiple Invincibles. King Dazhou was one, his fallen brother was another, and an Invincible who might or might not exist was a third. Su Yu scratched his head. "Martial Uncle, what about the King of Great Xia?" Chen Yong said calmly, "The King of Great Xia cannot favor either side! Grandmaster Fifth Generation acted willfully and died on the All-Heavens Battlefield, dragging an Invincible from Great Zhou Prefecture down with him. Tell me, what could the King of Great Xia do? In a factional struggle, your Multiple Divine Characters Faction was weaker and lost; could the King of Great Xia step in specifically to prop you up? "If you can't even stand up to them on your own, can you expect the King of Great Xia to intervene? He is Great Xia's Invincible, the entire human race's Invincible—not the Multiple Divine Characters Faction's personal Invincible. He needs to balance the interests of all sides and cannot act purely on personal whim. Otherwise, he was indeed on good terms with our faction and with the Fifth Generation." What a headache! Both Su Yu and Bai Feng looked miserable. Su Yu said, "Martial Uncle, so your point is... we should keep acting like turtles pulling our heads into our shells?" "..." Chen Yong stared at him, then scolded with a rueful chuckle, "Are you throwing shade at me?" Su Yu: "..." He felt wronged! I didn't mean it like that! I just feel incredibly stifled. Chen Yong added, "There's no need to cower completely. In truth, this doesn't have much to do with us. Even if that person truly exists, his attention isn't on us, but on my master and Martial Uncle Liu!" Chen Yong let out a breath. "Martial Uncle Liu inherited the divine character, so he is likely a target of observation as well! That's why him remaining silent all these years was actually a good thing!" At this point, Chen Yong suddenly said, "However, Martial Uncle Liu has now broken through to the Tengkong Realm!" Su Yu looked at him and asked hurriedly, "Martial Uncle, you mean...?" Chen Yong rubbed his temples and sighed. "I was actually pondering a question earlier. When Martial Uncle Liu broke through, was the All-Races Sect's attack on Nanyuan truly a coincidence or intentional? Or perhaps someone took the opportunity to test him?" Su Yu blinked. What? Did that mean the raid on Nanyuan might have had hidden motives behind it? Bai Feng asked in surprise, "Really? The moment trouble started, I rushed over immediately..." Chen Yong glared at him. "You arrived late! You only got there after Martial Uncle broke through!" "That's not fair! I rode at full tilt without stopping for a moment!" Bai Feng explained. "After Martial Uncle sent word to the academy, I rushed over right away. There wasn't any delay on the road!" Chen Yong said flatly, "Perhaps the timing of your arrival was part of the calculation, and the All-Races Sect struck right before that!" "No way?" Bai Feng said in shock. "Could it... really not be an accident?" "Accident or deliberate—who can say for sure?" Chen Yong murmured under his breath, then spoke slowly: "Setting Martial Uncle aside, even within the academy, things have felt turbulent lately! I constantly feel as if a giant hand is manipulating everything. Zheng Yuming being crippled, the Single Divine Character Faction ramping up their suppression, and even Great Zhou Prefecture's geniuses challenging everyone... They're piling pressure on us—immense pressure meant to suffocate us!" Chen Yong drew a sharp breath. "A giant hand is pushing us, trying to force us to erupt! I don't know the intent behind it, whether it's accidental or deliberate, whether it's that person who may or may not exist, or someone else. I just feel as though we're sitting right on top of a crater!" "Someone is pushing?" Su Yu frowned. Who? The Invincible who might be a traitor? Or someone else? Forcing the Multiple Divine Characters Faction to erupt? For what purpose? His own emergence was an accident; that person wouldn't be interested in scheming against him. With that in mind, Su Yu asked urgently, "Grandmaster won't be in danger, will he? And Teacher Liu—he won't run into trouble recently, will he?" If someone was truly pulling the strings, the targets wouldn't be the three of them. It would only be the other two! Chen Yong shook his head. "You don't need to worry too much about your grandmaster. The critical one is Martial Uncle Liu. But he has stayed in Nanyuan for many years and won't leave under normal circumstances. While he is in Nanyuan, someone is actually keeping an eye on him. Naturally, nobody would make a move against him under ordinary conditions..." "Then that's fine!" Su Yu felt relieved. That was good to hear. After thinking it over, he asked, "Since someone was watching Teacher Liu, why did nobody intervene when the All-Races Sect attacked Nanyuan?" Chen Yong smiled bitterly. "Keeping an eye on Martial Uncle doesn't mean they'll help him. Do you understand?" "Oh!" Su Yu understood. Rather than watching over him, it was surveillance. Whether Liu Wenyan lived or died didn't matter to them. They only needed to keep tabs on him! Su Yu had never imagined there would be so many tangled twists. Clearly, Chen Yong hadn't intended to tell them initially. Now that he had laid it bare, Su Yu roughly understood his intent. "Martial Uncle, so you're saying it's best for us to maintain our previous stance and keep a low profile?" He was beginning to suspect whether Hong Tan and Chen Yong had been deliberately playing the turtle all along, never stepping forward to do anything. Even when suppressed to the point of barely having room to breathe! Chen Yong thought for a moment and said, "You're a newcomer. If you want to stir up some waves, go ahead! It's better for the ripples to start with you than with us. But everything said today—choose to forget it! Also, unless pushed to the absolute brink, your grandmaster... won't step forward to resolve anything, even after he returns." Chen Yong took a deep breath. "Decide for yourself. Perhaps... hiding forever isn't the answer either. Sticking your head out might yield unexpected gains. But your martial uncle must remind you: be careful!" Su Yu nodded. Sure enough, the more you know, the faster you die! Next time, don't tell me everything! Wouldn't it be better to leave me in ignorance? You just had to tell me, and now I'm actually a little scared. Seriously, my teacher didn't know for all these years. Why did Martial Uncle have to tell me today?! He glanced over at Bai Feng, who was also deep in thought. Bai Feng suddenly asked, "Senior Brother, what's the deal? Why didn't you tell me back then, but the moment this kid causes trouble today, you spill it all?" Chen Yong said slowly, "Because... you're not as good at stirring up trouble as he is!" It was as simple as that! While Bai Feng was no saint, everything he did remained within manageable bounds. But this student of his... leave him unsupervised for three days, and he would poke a hole through the heavens! Just look at him! He had only been at the academy for two months, and what had he done? How badly had he pitted the Single Divine Character Faction over and over? Now he had even offended Zhou Mingren, an expert at the peak of the Shanhai Realm. Originally, Zhou Mingren had merely waved his hand and left his subordinates to deal with Su Yu. Now... Zhou Mingren likely had a deep impression of him! All in all, today's talk was partly meant to frighten Su Yu into behaving, lest none of them be able to hold out. Bai Feng had an embarrassed look on his face! Looking down on me? Think I can't stir up trouble? Just you wait! Once I produce an innate divine character, it won't just be an academy matter—the entire Human Realm and all the myriad realms will know Bai Feng's ability to stir up trouble! How could I, Bai Feng, be inferior to my own student? Of course, Bai Feng knew that if he truly produced it, it might also invite immense trouble. Could the Fifth Generation's research back then have been this very thing? After all, studying innate skill blood essence had originated from some of the Fifth Generation's remaining notes. Otherwise, Hong Tan wouldn't have spent years researching it.