Tribulation of Myriad Races-Chapter 1315: Liu City (3)

Liu Wenyan might be a member of the multiple character faction, but he had never paid much attention to things not directly useful to him. Bai Feng was a lot better in terms of research.

He smiled in amusement and asked, "Wu Lan, what research is the Source Soul Research Center conducting recently? Tell me about it. Don't bother telling me about small projects."

Back then, Wu Lan wanted to become his student as well. But he had accepted Su Yu instead.

Subsequently, he found that Su Yu was like a wild dog that couldn't be tamed. Instead of focusing on research, he was busy running everywhere. He was more like Liu Wenyan in that regard, only interested in researching topics that would be directly useful for him.

Most of the time, he was only pretending to be a researcher. The moment Wu Lan heard the question, she held nothing back. She was quite petty as well. She still remembered how Bai Feng had rejected her as a student back then.

She started bragging, "We are researching a lot of subjects, but we only have one major project. Willpower purification. Teacher Bai, can you purify willpower?"

Bai Feng declared proudly, "How can that be considered a big project? It's easy. Of course I can do something like that."

"Without riversand?"

"..."

Bai Feng frowned, "How can we do that without riversand? That is the essential material as it works as the filter. Without riversand, it is impossible to strip willpower apart. Purification won't be possible. At most, you can only compress willpower to increase its density."

"Teacher Bai, looks like you're not very good at research."

Wu Lan said bluntly, "Back then, the first principal was able to purify willpower without any riversand. Teacher Kong was the one who had discovered the method of using riversand to purify willpower long after that. Prior to that, nobody used riversand for purification."

"Researcher Kong Yuxian?" Bai Feng asked in surprise, "You mean that's possible without riversand? But the first principal accomplished that through his unique character technique. That was the ability of his main character, similar to the fourth principal whose main character specialized in source qi absorption. Don't tell me that you're researching a way to purify willpower without riversand."

"Exactly." Wu Lan raised her head smugly, "I've made some progress."

"Are you sure?"

Finally, the conversation attracted the attention of others. Even Liu Wenyan and Hong Tan were looking at the two. Willpower purification was a subject that had stumped the myriad races. The low amount of ambient willpower available in the air was the main culprit for the much lower number of cultural researchers compared to warriors.

Source qi was abundant regardless of race. And willpower was rare everywhere. Most cultivators would rely on an inefficient conversion of source qi to willpower for their willpower cultivation.

That was why the Willpower Grotto of Great Xia Cultural Research Academy was so valuable. With the grotto, one could produce a large amount of pure willpower as long as one had sufficient riversand.

Even Su Yu had benefited greatly from the grotto. He had opened a large number of apertures in it.

If they could keep the grotto active at all times, a large number of students would be able to easily open their apertures and enter the Skysoar or even the Cloudbreach Realm. Alas, they had only been able to open the grotto once every few decades.

This problem plagued even someone like Liu Wenyan. His sea of willpower was very powerful. It had grown even more powerful after his recent breakthrough. However, he was still stuck at the third stage. That was mostly due to a lack of willpower. Even after crushing Ye Batian's characters, he still lacked the willpower to further his willpower cultivation.

Thus, he couldn't resist asking, "Wu Lan, are you really researching this?"

"Yeah." Wu Lan smiled smugly, "At the moment, we are only performing small-scale tests. We also lack some materials. However, I'm confident I can complete my research soon."

Bai Feng snorted, "So it's not done?"

Why was the lass getting all smug here if the research was not done? Why was a little girl like her showing off in front of a genius researcher like him? The research wasn't even complete!

That greatly offended Wu Lan. Thus, she snorted before producing a character. It was time for her to widen Bai Feng's horizon. A short while later, she crushed the character, leaking some willpower into the air. Before long, she subdued the willpower and did something to it. After some time, a clump of pure willpower appeared in her hand.

Bai Feng was completely stunned while the others walked over to take a better look. With Hong Tan's attention occupied, the suanni finally exhaled in relief.

Liu Wenyan asked with an odd expression, "You have a character technique as well?"

"..."

Wu Lan blanked out for a bit before declaring, "I'm from the multiple character faction as well!"

Of course she had a character technique! Bai Feng and the others were stunned. Was she a member of the multiple character faction as well? Why were they unaware of that?

Recalling something, Wu Lan explained, "I joined in Great Ming. Did Su Yu not tell you?"

Nope.

Everyone was left speechless.

So she was now one of them as well?

Bai Feng was completely indifferent about that. Instead, he asked, "Did you do that with your character technique?"

"Yes." Wu Lan said, "But don't ask me how. I won't tell you. This is a secret."

Bai Feng felt like coughing blood.

He anxiously asked, "How...many characters does your character technique require? Are you interested in the disassembly method?"

"I know that as well."

Damn it! Bai Feng cursed inwardly. That bastard Su Yu was definitely the one who had taught her! How dare that bastard teach someone else his secret method!

He said, "I was curious how you became a multiple character cultivator. So you became one because of my disassembly method? That must be the reason you were able to advance into the Skysoar Realm so soon. In that case, you probably don't have enough characters to fill your character technique yet, right?"

"Yeah. I only have twelve characters so far. I still need eight to complete it." Wu Lan grumbled, "It's too hard to form new characters. A twenty-character technique is too annoying to complete."

"What was that again?"

Bai Feng and the others were stunned. What number did she mention again?

"Twenty." Wu Lan looked at them in surprise, "Is that a small number? I think it's decent. Don't think that I'm ignorant. Su Yu told me that a twenty-character technique is good enough to be a middle-of-the-pack technique. That's even better than your character technique, Teacher Bai. Am I right?"

She was sure her character technique was decent. How many characters did Bai Feng require for his character technique? She had heard that he needed less than twenty.

With a bizarre expression, Liu Wenyan asked, "Where did you get your character technique?"

"Su Yu's Character Technique Stele."

Understanding dawned on Liu Wenyan. No wonder. Then again, even for a character technique obtained from the stele, a twenty-character technique was good enough to be among the best one could get. That was extremely impressive.

With a slight frown, he asked, "How did you capture this technique?"

"Oh, I went in and grabbed it. Then, I succeeded."

Everyone shut their mouths. That was absolute nonsense. How could a twenty-character technique be captured so easily? Among them, Liu Wenyan had the character technique with the highest number of characters: eighteen. How was it possible that Wu Lan could capture such a character technique so easily?

Noticing all the attention on her, Wu Lan started feeling awkward. Thus, she provided more explanation, "I'm telling the truth. I just went in and grabbed it. Oh, right...Su Yu helped me as well. He went in first to lure the character technique over to the entrance. When I entered, a large number of character techniques were lining up to be grabbed. So I grabbed a random technique before leaving."

Bai Feng cursed, "How did that work? Why was I unaware of that?"

He looked at Hong Tan with the expression of a wronged child. Why did he not know about that? Hong Tan and Liu Wenyan looked at each other. Surprise could be seen all over their faces.

Su Yu...lured the character techniques to the entrance? How did he do that? If that was really possible, the multiple character faction would have been filled with people owning top-quality character techniques. That was simply not possible.

Bai Feng might not understand the stele too well, but Liu Wenyan and Hong Tan understood the stele well enough to know how impossible that sounded. They were so surprised they completely forgot about Wu Lan's ability to purify willpower.

Liu Wenyan solemnly said, "In that case, we must find Hollow and kill him to regain the Culture Tomb. Su Yu...is actually capable of controlling it. We can't lose it!"

Hong Tan turned solemn as well. They had to kill Hollow. No matter how strong Hollow was, they had to retrieve the Culture Tomb from him. None of them had imagined that Su Yu would have the ability to control the Culture Tomb.

If it wasn't for Wu Lan, they would still be in the dark about it. They couldn't resist cursing. Damn that kid! He only remembered this woman when he had something nice to offer. Why had he completely forgotten about them? Only now did they know that Wu Lan had actually formed a twenty-character technique. They had nearly embarrassed themselves before her.

They swore to give the damn kid a good beating during their next meeting.

***

Outside the city.

Su Yu shivered out of nowhere. He was surprised to note that even his tribulation character had pulsed slightly. Was someone badmouthing him? From the reaction of his character, that someone must be nearby. Did they notice his arrival?

Was that the case?

But why did the tribulation character react? How was this dangerous?