Bai Wuchen: Could the Inscription I Comprehended Have Been a Fake?!
Chen Du was well aware of just how terrifying his comprehension was.
[Divine Revelation Reading] is the foundation, the source of all enlightenment.
This talent allows him to see any cultivation method, any law, any Dao Resonance as if he were looking at a disassembled book, instantly finding the underlying structure, breaking down the organization, and reconstructing the logic.
What others take ten years to understand, he might only need the time it takes to burn an incense stick.
And on top of this foundation, there are other talents that provide support.
[Achieving the Dao Through Anger] He uses emotions as fuel; the stronger the emotion, the more it stimulates his understanding.
Anger, sadness, longing, and obsession—these are inner demons that hinder breakthroughs in others, but in him they become the fuel that drives enlightenment.
The [Stunning Everyone with a Single Cry] ability allows him to accumulate power while Lie Dormant; the longer Lie Dormant, the stronger his comprehension will be when he unleashes his full potential.
The power that Lie Dormant before has now been transformed into the foundation for what lies ahead.
[Become a Saint on the Spot] allows him to draw upon the Dao Resonance from any place where power is stored, transforming it into the purest raw materials for him to deduce, disassemble, and reassemble.
[The World as a Book] further processes these raw materials, transforming them into fragments of secret manuals and laws that can be directly absorbed.
Five talents, layered upon each other, resonate with one another.
Adding to this the hundreds of years of cultivation experience brought by [Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation], and the faint but significant luck boost from [Child of Fortune], Chen Du's comprehension has now increased to a terrifying level that even he himself cannot accurately calculate.
Hundreds of times! Or even more.
Those contestants— Bai Wuchen, the woman in red, and the boy in black—were all super geniuses, each possessing extraordinary comprehension.
However, Chen Du possesses five talents operating simultaneously, mutually stimulating and amplifying each other.
In this state, his comprehension is absolutely top-notch.
Those super geniuses are defying the heavens.
He is the most defying of all.
He no longer hesitated.
He hadn't used the twenty-fold increase in comprehension reward from [The System Is King], waiting for the most crucial opportunity.
And now is the time.
He gently tapped the depths of his consciousness, and the amplification power that had been sealed by the system instantly exploded, surging into his sea of consciousness like a torrent.
Twenty times, multiplying the original hundred times by another twenty times.
He felt his thoughts were more than ten times faster, and those fragments of laws swirled before his eyes, like a painting sped up countless times, each piece clear and detailed.
The fusion speed of the seven petals suddenly increased dramatically.
Forty-five pictures,
Fifty pictures
Sixty pictures
Eighty pictures...
The numbers jumped wildly, and the graphics surged out from the depths of the monument like a tide. The phantom of a seven-colored flower behind him became more and more solid, and the halo brought by the swirling petals illuminated the entire corner.
His name soared to the top of the list.
Outside the Spirit Realm, the entire star field exploded.
"Look at the rankings! That Lin Du, he's rising! He keeps rising!"
"How many? How many? Wasn't it over 1300 just now?"
"He's already in the top 100! And he's still climbing!"
"What's going on? He only drew about forty pictures a month ago, how come suddenly..."
"He's figured it out! Few people even considered the Seven-Colored Stele, yet he actually grasped some of its meaning!"
Even just a few are already quite astonishing.
In the observation rooms of the various factions, everyone stood up.
The elder of the Azure Firmament Sacred Land stared at the light screen, crushing the jade cup in his hand to pieces.
The Palace Master of the Vermilion Phoenix Palace's expression changed drastically, and he grabbed the armrest.
The president of the Heavenly Pivot Merchant Guild narrowed his eyes.
Bai Wuchen, the white-robed youth who had just comprehended 198 diagrams and ranked fifth, was currently sitting at the edge of the world, meditating.
He heard a sudden commotion around him, opened his eyes, and saw the name on the list that was rising rapidly.
His pupils contracted slightly.
He spent a whole month creating 198 images.
That person spent a month working on over forty images, and then suddenly exploded on the last day, breaking into the top 100 in just half an hour.
He was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Interesting."
The mysterious youth ranked seventh, the gray-clad man for whom no information could be found, also opened his eyes and glanced at the list.
He didn't speak, his face remaining expressionless.
Bai Wuchen and the others were not worried.
They watched the name on the leaderboard rise rapidly, and although they were slightly shaken, they remained calm on the surface.
Because there's a fact out there: time.
Only half a day left.
Chen Du had only managed to comprehend over forty diagrams in the previous month. Even if he suddenly had an epiphany and his comprehension speed skyrocketed, how much could it increase? Moreover, comprehending inscriptions is never a constant process.
The difficulty of the first 150 images increases gradually, with each image being slightly more difficult than the last, but overall it remains within a manageable range.
However, once the number exceeds 150, the difficulty level increases dramatically.
Bai Wuchen remembered clearly that he was stuck on the 151st picture for three whole days, which were the most agonizing three days of his entire comprehension process.
The time required to analyze each subsequent diagram was almost twice that of the previous ones.
He studied 198 diagrams, spending about a third of his time on the first 150 and two-thirds on the last 48.
The further you go, the slower, more difficult, and more mentally taxing it becomes.
This is the ironclad rule of all inscriptions.
"Even if he starts speeding up now, it's too late," Bai Wuchen said in a low voice, as if speaking to himself, but also to the other contestants on the leaderboard beside him. "One hundred and fifty is a hurdle. Once you get past that hurdle, every step will be incredibly difficult. In a day, he can only manage to get a maximum of one hundred and fifty or sixty. With one hundred and fifty or sixty, his ranking will barely crack the top thirty, not even the top ten."
Several other contestants nearby nodded in agreement.
Some breathed a sigh of relief, while others secretly agreed.
Hiding one's strength was a huge disadvantage; it was a complete miscalculation.
The biggest problem with this assessment was that the time allotted was too short.
For truly powerful beings, a single moment of enlightenment could mean the passing of countless years—the entire lifespan of a civilization from its birth to its destruction.
But they only have one month, and a month is not even a blink of an eye when it comes to comprehending the laws.
However, Chen Du quickly proved them wrong.
Chen Du's name is still rising on the list.
And the speed at which he conjured the images did not decrease in the slightest.
One hundred pictures
One hundred and twenty pictures,
One hundred and thirty pictures...
His speed didn't slow down; on the contrary, it increased.
Bai Wuchen's pupils contracted slightly at this.
With 150 pictures, he overcame that hurdle.
Following that were 160 pictures.
170 pictures
One hundred and eighty pictures.
Bai Wuchen was completely stunned by this.
He knew all too well the difficulty after the 150th image. Each image required several or even dozens of deductions to solidify the graphic, and each barrier was much thicker than the previous one.
But that person's speed was actually faster than before.
That doesn't make sense!
Then, in a very short time, the number of patterns that Chen Du conjured directly exceeded 200!
Chen Du's name jumped directly to third place on the list.
Bai Wuchen suddenly stood up.
He stared at the name, his face revealing undisguised shock for the first time.
He opened his mouth, and after a long while, he managed to squeeze out a sentence: "How is this possible... Could it be that I'm deciphering a fake inscription? How is this possible... How could it be getting faster and faster?"
His voice trembled slightly, and his fingers twitched uncontrollably.
He spent a whole month studying it, spending the first third of his time stacking 150 sheets and the next two-thirds stacking 48 sheets.
But that person only studied more than forty pages in the first month, but in the last half day, he managed to study two hundred pages in one go.
Two hundred! Two more than him!
Bai Wuchen then realized that this kid couldn't possibly be reasoned by common sense.
His slow pace over the past month was probably due to dismantling the underlying structure of the inscription and digging out the root of the laws.
Once he's dug through the roots, all that's left is to extract the shapes.
What you put in a month, I can surpass in a minute!
Bai Wuchen slowly sat back down, closed his eyes, and gave a bitter smile.
He suddenly felt that his 198 pictures weren't so worthy of pride after all.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the star field, the star field lord who had previously communicated with Chen Du was sitting in his quiet room, looking at the points leaderboard on the light screen.
When Chen Du's name jumped to third place, he was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
Laughter echoed in the quiet room, causing the wall decorations to sway gently.
He laughed for a while before stopping, stroking his beard, his eyes full of regret, "I misjudged him, I misjudged him."
The Star Domain Lord muttered to himself, "When I first saw him fall to over a thousandth place, I thought he had lost his talent, but I didn't expect this kid to have absolute confidence."
He only focuses on understanding what interests him, only delves into the details, and doesn't care about rankings at all, because what he puts in a month, others can surpass in a minute.
The Star Domain Lord picked up his teacup, took a sip, and his smile lingered. "0771 Star Domain has finally produced an interesting genius."