I Can See Your Combat Power
Chapter 1687 - 126: Dead End

Chapter 1687: Chapter 126: Dead End

Returning from patrolling the mountain, no one noticed that the dean had been replaced, and Unparalleled Academy continued to operate as usual.

Perhaps because the hardest times had already passed, good news came one after another.

Many reclusive hermits, who originally had no interest in the recruitment notice of Unparalleled Academy, somehow let down their pride and sent letters of interest, saying they wanted to visit Unparalleled City.

The two Marshals who were recruiting talents for the academy abroad also felt that the attitudes of the talents in the wild had become much more amiable.

In hindsight, the reputation of Unparalleled Academy on Red Cloud Mountain truly began to ferment within the middle and upper echelons of the martial arts world in Xiehe.

The doubts, scrutiny, and those who were waiting for a better offer, were completely dismissed as needless worries once the disciples from the Xu Clan of Yuanzhou joined the academy.

Many talented individuals, possessing various skills, laid aside their concerns and brought their families to pledge loyalty to the academy.

And now, the wealthy and influential Unparalleled Academy did not disappoint these people, accepting all those whose cultivation met the standards, without exception.

Even so, the operations department only gained a little over ten instructors, and all of them needed further training before they could start teaching.

It’s not that these individuals were as good only in name, but as independent martial art researchers limited by resources and heritage, their research scope was usually confined to the application of Spiritual Energy and Spirit Arts.

Designing amplifications for Spirit Arts, a genuine capability, was something they lacked.

The only one among them who had this ability was a spy from the Mu Family, implanted among them, who unfortunately defected completely under the spell of Yun Xiu’s Charming Eyes.

Not only did he divulge the Mu Family’s plan to steal scriptures, but he also thoroughly betrayed the leaders of the plan.

Yun Xiu noted down the names of these individuals in her notebook and then arranged for this Mu Family spy, named Liu Zhifeng, to join the operations department as the second-ranked lecturer.

The interview process for the dean, possessing Earth Level second-grade bloodline with Charming Eyes, was just that simple, and dull.

Elsewhere, Tang Luo, in seclusion, began to comb through various ancient manuscripts for methods regarding the proof of kingship.

The most helpful concept he found was the idea that a king uses his divine soul to command heaven and earth.

Almost every Earth Level or higher cultivation technique contained similar sayings by past Human Kings, such as the body being the hilt and the divine soul the blade, or the body as a boat crossing the sea and the soul as the paddle;

This repeated emphasis on the importance of the divine soul was something Tang Luo couldn’t understand, as many Human King heritages claimed that the step to reach the other shore involved the fusion of soul and body.

Not by scattering the divine soul back into Three Souls and Seven Spirits, but by merging the complete divine soul with the spirit-qualified flesh.

Though every king stated it with certainty, through careful analysis, Tang Luo discovered such a feat was fundamentally impossible to achieve.

Not just his own black sphere divine soul was unable to do it, but no one else’s divine soul could achieve it either.

Because it’s a simple truth: though the divine soul is the embodiment of the spirits and the essence of one’s nature, in plain terms, it is but an ethereal shell at the spiritual level.

This ethereal shell itself resides within the God’s Residence; how, then, could an organ already within the body merge again with the body as one?

The logic is full of contradictions. If not for numerous successful precedents, Tang Luo would definitively declare it a dead end.

Yet, oddly enough, many kings have emerged and recognized this concept in their legacies, which profoundly challenges Tang Luo’s understanding of martial arts.

After all, in passing on their legacy, they never expected to be scrutinized like this, dealing only with their direct descendants, for whom there was no need to lie.

But if so many Human Kings are all pointing to a dead end as the way, it means either that all these people are afflicted with the same delusion, or that Tang Luo’s perception of the way differs from theirs.

So much so that what they can see, Tang Luo cannot.

"But where exactly is the difference?"

Tang Luo tore off the page about the path to kingship, the fusion of body and soul, from the Earth Level cultivation technique in his hand, stood up, and pasted the sheet of paper onto the wall in front of his desk.

The originally smooth and flat walls of the seclusion chamber were neatly covered with pages torn from various cultivation techniques.

Getting up, the Void Grandmaster retreated more than ten feet, crossed his arms, and observed contemplatively.

...

Longzhou, Lin Chuan Plain

Ever since the Starry Sky Great Array was inverted over Lin Chuan, the destiny of this land has been dictated by the Tamers of the Wang Family.

Blood Beasts were skinned and boned for further study, and twelve Heavenly Demons were captured and released, again and again, over a dozen times.

One would think that after such a display of power, it would be enough to convince the master of the Blood God World to recognize the consequences of rebellion, but this demon saint was just like a stone in a latrine pit, both smelly and hard.

The persuasion plan of Pavilion Master Yan Fu from the Yin-Yang Pavilion in the city utterly failed because rhetoric, the tool of persuasion, only works on rational humans, not on crazed demons.

For the Blood God master, there were only two attitudes towards the Human Race: to kill or to devour.

Although Wang You was very strong, and that Human King overlooking the Blood River from outside this world was even more powerful, this did not make It retreat. Organizing the Blood Rakshasas to launch surprise attacks on the Wang Clan’s camp was the best proof.

But expecting a dozen pseudo Grandmasters to penetrate the elite forces of the Wang Family’s Yin-Yang Imperial Palace in the south and achieve victory would indeed be strange.

Yet the Blood God master’s stubbornness was such that if one attempt failed, it would try twice, and if two attempts failed, then three times. As long as Wang You dared to release his forces, It would dare to send another twelve Rakshasas to their deaths.

It must be said that in most businesses in the world, the last thing anyone wants to deal with is such a brute.

The Yin-Yang Imperial Palace sought the method of integration of life and death from the Blood God master, but now the one who held the method was an irrational demon, leaving the Pavilion Masters quite disheartened.

After once more staining his life with blood, Wang You emerged from the underground river with a dark face and ascended directly to the dome.

"I have long told you, dealing with such a demon, it would be best to simply kill them first. Trying to apply the ways of merchants is hopeless," Wang Fuling, who was managing the array with closed eyes, sneered. "The more fearful it becomes, the more ferocious and atrocious its behavior, losing rationality. But it wouldn’t be quite right to think of it as stupid because according to the array’s feedback, the Blood God World is continually absorbing the Evil Qi from the Blood River and Yin Qi from the earth’s ley lines. It seems to be gathering strength, preparing to stake its life against us."

"These days’ achievements are enough to be accountable to the clan!"

Wang You shed the bloodstains on his body and said indifferently, "We’ll keep it trapped for another year. If there’s still no way to make it cooperate by then, we’ll do as you suggest."