The knowledge scroll of Word Spirits was not some sprawling tome, no longer than a Fengming Worldline undergraduate thesis. But the value of knowledge did not lie in the number of words. Its twelve thousand words had clearly come from a master of Rhetoric—plain in diction, yet profound in meaning.
Five and three-quarters Shi Tiexins studied it carefully, greatly inspired and deeply moved. The Main Worldline truly brimmed with talent; it had even developed such an ingenious ability.
Ordinary Second Heavenly Layer cultivators had no way to cast techniques remotely.
Mathematics did not manifest externally at all. Biology needed physical contact to take effect. Chemistry could at most set a fire, spit acid, or throw a Bomb Ball. Physics' Psychic Power had a slightly wider range, but most only extended a dozen meters or so around the user. Being able to move things from a hundred meters away already made one a genius among geniuses.
Only one branch of abilities possessed an exceedingly long range: the Rhetoric System.
Great Detective Shi's Order Statute could strike foul evils from two thousand meters away precisely because he had integrated the traits of the Rhetoric System into the core mechanism of the Order Statute.
And Word Spirits, as the crown jewel of the Rhetoric System's skill tree, carried that trait to even greater heights.
A Word Spirit was a kind of "spirit" exhaled by a cultivator, somewhat like the nascent soul leaving the body, a second Primordial Spirit, or an external Avatar in Dispersed Literature. Its greatest advantage was that it allowed Second Heavenly Layer Thought Energy cultivators to gain methods of casting across empty space, remote detection, and mental techniques ahead of time.
A highly condensed Word Spirit was the cultivator's mana-release terminal. Other than being unable to stack Word Spirits within