Tribulation of Myriad Races

After waiting at the living area for about an hour, a sloppy Bai Feng walked out. He looked exhausted, but his eyes were bright.

And when he saw Su Yu, he laughed and said, “My beloved student, have you finished your cultivation for the day?”

Su Yu was having goosebumps again. He said, “Teacher, is there a breakthrough in your research?”

“Hahaha!” Bai Feng chortled, “There is some progress. But I still lack something, such as blood essence and Divine Characters.”

Bai Feng joyfully said, “Little Yu, I have discovered that the transplantation of character abilities is a very suitable topic of research for me.”

Bai Feng’s eyes were burning as he said, “I did not understand this before, but I now know that racial abilities might really be Divine Character abilities as well. Blood essence will not be a good material to study. It would be better if I could capture some non-human cultural researchers and extract their Divine Characters…I believe that the myriad races might have some unique Divine Characters whose sole function is to carry their racial abilities…

“Maybe I don’t even need cultural researchers. Perhaps even warriors have this unique Divine Character. Perhaps nobody has ever discovered this unique Divine Character yet…”

Bai Feng started muttering to himself, “Yes. Perhaps…everyone has a unique Divine Character. That Divine Character is the vessel of racial abilities. We have simply not discovered it yet. Nobody has! Although the myriad races have yet to discover this unique Divine Character, they are instinctively using it. Perhaps that Divine Character is innately active for them.”

“Humans should have the same Divine Character!” Bai Feng muttered in a crazed manner, “Yes, humans should have it as well! There must be one! We have never considered this possibility before. Teacher suggested that blood essence is the vessel of racial abilities, but why can’t it be something in the sea of willpower instead?

“Who says that racial abilities must come from blood essence and not the sea of willpower? That is the most mysterious part of any living being. Even us cultural researchers have yet to fully explore that place.

“What we found in blood essence might only be an imprint. Due to frequent use of these racial abilities, the imprints of these abilities have been left in the blood essence. That is why we could extract these abilities from their blood. As for human blood, we had actually tried extracting some before, but no racial ability was found. What does that mean?”

Understanding after understanding dawned on Bai Feng. While speaking to himself, he was blankly rubbing Su Yu’s head. He didn’t even realize what he was doing. Su Yu struggled for a bit before giving up.

He was trembling with fear. His teacher had gone mad again! He was afraid that his teacher would accidentally kill him during this bout of madness. Cultural researchers sure were scary. Just look at Bai Feng. He was still normal a moment ago but suddenly, he had gone crazy.

Suddenly, Bai Feng recovered from his stupor. He looked at Su Yu and solemnly declared, “Su Yu, you are my lucky star. No, you are the lucky star of the multiple character faction. Your words have given me a lot of inspiration. After so many years, we might finally be able to finish our research. Since the racial ability of humans is the hardest to activate, I believe that we also have the strongest racial ability!

“Sea of willpower! It must be in the sea of willpower! There must be a unique Divine Character in everyone’s sea of willpower acting as the vessel of the racial ability. That character has remained undiscovered until now!

“If we can activate that Divine Character, that would change the entire humanity! Just think about it. It is basically a martial technique that you don’t need to practice. You don’t even need to open new acupoints for it. It could grow alongside you. Isn’t this the strongest ability ever?

“You need to waste a lot of time practicing a martial technique. What if you can get a powerful technique without practice? Not only would it be powerful, it would also be very compatible with you. For example, if you have 108 acupoints opened, this technique would be able to utilize all 108 of your acupoints. Only something like that is worthy of being called a racial ability.

“Of course, that is only an example of a better racial ability. As for the iron-winged bird racial ability you used previously, it isn’t that powerful. It only utilizes a portion of your acupoints instead of all your acupoints. A racial ability like this isn’t considered powerful among the myriad races.”

Bai Feng took a deep breath and said, “Nowadays, the strongest known racial ability is probably the first divine race’s Divine Transformation. According to the records, the first divine race can generally open around 108 to 144 acupoints during the Great Strength Realm. The Divine Transformation is capable of utilizing between 116 to 152 acupoints.

“Think about it. At ninth-stage Great Strength Realm, you can open 144 acupoints. How powerful would a racial ability with 152 acupoints be? Even a sixth-stage Infinite Strength cultivator would be killed by one move unless the cultivator also cultivates a powerful technique and method.”

Su Yu couldn’t help but to ask, “Teacher, you mean they can even use their Source Opening acupoints for their racial abilities? That’s why their racial ability utilizes more acupoints than their Great Strength acupoints?”

“Yes.” Bai Feng nodded, “Divine Transformation is known as the strongest racial ability. Generally, the One Hundred Openings acupoint is the only acupoint that wouldn’t be used by it. This racial ability can fully link all the opened acupoints so it is very powerful. More importantly, that isn’t an ability they need to practice. They innately know it.”

Bai Feng sighed, “Consider this. If this is something you actually need to cultivate, who can create a technique that can perfectly utilize all your acupoints? Secondly, a regular technique might require you to open additional acupoints. Some acupoints are very hard to open or even locate. Thirdly, you also need time.”

Bai Feng looked at Su Yu and said, “Do you understand why we have been researching this subject now?”

Su Yu nodded, “If you succeed and allow the human race to activate our racial ability, it would save a lot of time and resources. The upper limit of all human cultivators would increase. Some weaklings would turn powerful overnight.”

Bai Feng said, “Exactly. A lot of people might have decent cultivation levels, but their martial techniques are horrible. These people can be easily killed in the battlefield when encountering enemies with similar cultivation levels but superior martial techniques. But if we have a racial ability that does not require any cultivation, how much stronger would our cultivators be?”

Su Yu asked, “Has humanity not researched this before?”

“It has.” Bai Feng smiled, “That is the origin of the Wentan Research Center. In truth, there are people researching this subject in the various academies, including the war academies. Who wouldn’t want to see the human race gaining a racial ability?”

Bai Feng sighed, “Unfortunately, nobody has succeeded after all these years. But I now have a new idea. The sea of willpower. Perhaps the Knowledge Seeking Realm and War Shrine have thought of this before, but it must be a very difficult subject to research. The sea of willpower is extremely mysterious. How do we explore it? How do we search for a hidden Divine Character in it? That might be something we would spend a lifetime on!”

Su Yu was tempted. Completing this feat would be an absolutely amazing feat. But of course, that was still too far away for him.

Su Yu waited until Bai Feng looked less crazy before asking, “Teacher, I have a question. Does the War God Art have a complementary martial technique?”

“Complementary martial technique?” Bai Feng said, “There is one. But the War God Art’s complementary martial technique is very expensive. A martial technique is something that can truly increase your strength. Hmm, I think it’s even more expensive than the War God Art. It is around 200 merit points or more.”

Su Yu asked, “Is that a complete copy or is it only the Great Strength version?”

“What do you think?” Bai Feng rolled his eyes, “Of course it’s only the Great Strength version. If you’re in a war academy, you might be able to get it at a cheaper price of around 100 merit points. But since this technique was created by the War Shrine and they don’t get along well with us, the technique is much more expensive for us.”

“Can I get someone from a war academy to buy it for me?”

“Of course not.” Bai Feng explained, “Unless that person has high enough total earned merit, that person won’t have the authority to teach the technique to a third party. You need to be at least an intermediate researcher in a war academy to have that authority. And some intermediate researchers don’t even have that much authority so you might need to find a senior researcher instead. Do you know one?”

“No.”

Su Yu was dejected. How would he know someone like that?

“Think of a way to earn money and buy it. I’m broke. You can’t count on me for this.”

Bai Feng did not waste any time and destroyed any illusion Su Yu might have. “It won’t take you that long. You can earn 3 merit points per month as a high-high student. You can also earn 3 merit points per month as a class monitor. If you place in the top 10 in the exams, you’ll be rewarded too. I think you can get 10 merit points for placing first. Even if you place at the 10th place, you can still get 1 merit point. If you can place first each month, you can get 16 merit points each month.

“You can earn enough to buy that technique in one year. That’s a very short time. Many students would be happy entering the Great Strength Realm in a year. Of course, you would be much faster than the average student. But you also earn a lot more than them. In any case, you have a different martial technique, right? Just use the Lightning Source Technique for now. It’s quite good.”

Su Yu nodded. Looked like he wouldn’t be able to get the martial technique for free from his teacher.

“Teacher, about the mountainbreak bull blood essence you mentioned previously…”

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“Wait until you’re at the Great Strength Realm first.”

Su Yu coughed and said, “Teacher, I didn’t see you yesterday and couldn’t tell you about this. I made a bet with someone using the mountainbreak bull blood essence. Of course, I’ll definitely win…”

“Hu Wensheng’s student?”

“No. Teacher Liu Hong’s student. A newbie like me, Lin Yao.”

“Is he a freak?”

“No.”

“Oh…” Bai Feng lost all interest and said, “Do whatever you want. He’s not a freak or an old student. If you can’t even take care of a new student, then you’re really a piece of trash. In that case, it no longer matters if you don’t have the mountainbreak bull blood essence. A piece of trash is not qualified to use this blood essence. It would be a waste.”

Bai Feng couldn’t care less. Sure, the blood essence was prepared for Su Yu, but if he couldn’t even handle a normal new student, then it would no longer matter if they lost the blood essence.

Su Yu would have no one to blame but himself for that.

After thinking about it, Bai Feng said, “By the way, Liu Hong’s faction is rich. Remember to scam more from them when you’re betting. I know him. He only accepts rich students. That fellow is extremely stingy. He would want nothing more than to spend nothing on his students and have them offer him tributes instead…”

“Why would anyone want to be his student then?” Su Yu asked in astonishment. Just what would Lin Yao and the others get from Liu Hong?

Bai Feng answered indifferently, “Why not? Do you think that I won’t be able to get students without offering any benefits? Do you think all students are like you? The first thing you did after seeing me is asking for benefits! By going under Liu Hong, the students can get connected to his network, his backers, borrow his reputation…and perhaps even get him as a person!”

Bai Feng laughed, “That fellow is still quite good looking. And he’s still single. He might even be a Cloudbreach cultivator after a few years. He’s the kind of bachelor that would be very popular.”

Su Yu couldn’t help but to laugh as well. He then looked at Bai Feng and wondered if Bai Feng was a popular bachelor as well.

Bai Feng did not seem to mind. He said, “Don’t look at me like that. I’m quite popular too, but I can’t be bothered to waste my time on them. If you manage to get popular in the future, you will experience the same thing…”

“All women are obstacles to the path of cultivation!” Su Yu declared solemnly, “Teacher Liu said that women would stop us from growing strong. They are obstacles in cultivation. I won’t let that happen to me!”

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Bai Feng was completely dumbfounded. What had his martial uncle done? His martial uncle himself was quite popular with the ladies, but he taught Su Yu that all women were obstacles? What a bastard!

Bai Feng couldn’t be bothered to explain. He beamed and said, “Enough about that. Remember my words. Liu Hong is rich. His students are rich too. Just scam as much as you can from them. Those fellows have been harboring bad designs against us. They are not our friends. You don’t need to feel bad scamming them.”

“Alright.”

“That’s all…” Bai Feng was about to return to his laboratory when he recalled something and stopped. He said, “Reach the Mental Tempering Stage as soon as possible. At that point, I’ll allow you to enter the main lab and the prison zone. Only in those places can you grow into a true expert.”

Su Yu looked forward to that. Strength was something he had been pursuing.