Su Yu had no objection to the spread of the Rune Method.
After all, some cultivation methods were created for people to cultivate.
But before that, it was still necessary for the creator himself to establish an absolute advantage first.
Su Yu was no Great Sage.
It was fine for the Rune Method to spread on a large scale, but he himself had to establish an absolute position.
Now was clearly not the time to truly spread it.
Moreover, once the Rune Method spread widely, it would inevitably become impossible to keep secret.
Once there was a method for cultivating Mental Power, Shrek's side might benefit the most.
If Mental Power cultivation methods became popular across the entire Douluo Continent, that would be a major variable.
The Sun Moon Empire's unification was already the general trend. At a time like this, the emergence of a variable would instead be bad.
Besides, he had no obligation to popularize a cultivation method he had created himself. On this Douluo Continent, were there not plenty of inheritances hoarded away as private treasures?
In truth, Jing Hongchen had no intention of having Su Yu spread it either.
Why rush to spread something this good?
Cultivating it themselves first and widening the gap between themselves and others was what mattered most.
Jing Hongchen felt that for the time being, it was already enough for this Rune Method to be cultivated by Su Yu, Kong Deming, himself, and his Grandchildren.
In fact, if he had not known of the Rune Method's existence, the most normal development would have been for only Su Yu and Kong Deming to cultivate it.
What Su Yu had said was also that it was not suitable for large-scale dissemination.
Jing Hongchen understood the implication as well.
It was exactly what he wanted.
"Meng, after this Soul Fighting Tournament, you and Xiao will take the Soul Awakening Pill and strive to open your Sea of Consciousness, then cultivate the Rune Method."
The Soul Awakening Pill was a pill unique to the Hongchen Family, capable of assisting soul masters in opening their Sea of Consciousness.
However, this pill only had a stimulating effect. It could open the Sea of Consciousness ahead of time, but its effect on improving Mental Power was not obvious. The medicinal ingredients required were also incomparably precious, so apart from special circumstances, the Soul Awakening Pill was rarely used.
Now it was different. The Soul Awakening Pill's cost-effectiveness had increased, and Jing Hongchen also intended to refine two pills for the siblings.
"Mm." Meng Hongchen nodded with a soft hum.
Next, during the breaks from searching for soul beasts and resting, while Su Yu and Jing Hongchen discussed the Rune Method, Meng Hongchen also began practicing the Void Engraving Method.
This could be considered a prerequisite skill for the Rune Method.
With Jing Hongchen's explanation, she did not take long to get started.
The danger of the Far North Land surpassed that of any Soul Beast Forest. They could not be careless.
It was said that there were even more Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts here than in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Jing Hongchen's expression was grave as he reminded Su Yu and the other.
"Trouble."
To make Jing Hongchen so cautious, it had to be at least a hundred-thousand-year-level soul beast appearing.
In fact, an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would not be enough to make him this serious.
"Damn it, this is only the outskirts of the Far North Land. Why would the Titan Snow Demon King come over here?"
Hearing Jing Hongchen's words, Su Yu was inwardly shocked.
He knew very well what level of existence the Titan Snow Demon King was.
One of the Far North Three Great Heavenly Kings. Although he was merely the one at the bottom, with only Two Hundred Thousand Years of cultivation, his strength was genuinely terrifying.
The Titan Snow Demon possessed the Ice God Bloodline within his body. Combined with the racial talent of his own Titan Giant lineage, he not only possessed a quasi-Ultimate Ice attribute, but his body was also incomparably massive, with nearly ultimate strength.
The Titan Snow Demon King's Ice Attribute had even broken through the limits of his race and reached the ultimate level.
In the environment of the Far North Land, his combat strength received another layer of enhancement.
Even Jing Hongchen could not defeat this Titan Snow Demon King one-on-one.
The Titan Snow Demon King also possessed the Spirit Attribute!
At the same time Jing Hongchen discovered him, he discovered the three of them.
"Honored Heavenly King of the Far North Land, we entered the Far North Land by mistake and bear no ill will. We will leave at once."
"Human, trespass in the Far North Land, die!"
The Titan Snow Demon King's voice contained fury. The Soul Power pressure that was already suffocating was mixed with this wrathful Mental Shock, and Su Yu's face turned pale.
What Su Yu could not understand was why the Titan Snow Demon King had run all the way to such an outer region.
Even if he was going to die, he at least wanted to die knowing why, right?
Of course, Su Yu was actually confident he could survive.
With the Divine Light Cover Kong Deming had given him and Old Yi's Undead Demiplane, preserving his life would not be a problem.
Strictly speaking, he was more curious than anything.
"Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad!"
Jing Hongchen pushed his Mental Power to its limit. Its detection range was not small, and he noticed the other soul beasts in the distance.
Sensing their restless auras and looking at the chaotic scene, he understood something.
"Human, die!" Terrifying Ice Attribute Soul Power had already condensed over the Titan Snow Demon King's enormous hands.
"If you make a move, I guarantee not a single one of those Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads will live!"
Jing Hongchen instantly entered Martial Soul Possession and activated his Martial Soul Avatar. His first seven soul rings all blazed with dazzling light.
His eighth and ninth soul rings seemed ready to erupt at any moment.
The Titan Snow Demon King did not unleash his attack for a long time.
Even he felt a trace of threat from Jing Hongchen at that moment.
"Is that a combined Soul Guidance Cannon?"
Su Yu looked at the arrangement of Soul Guidance Cannons on Jing Hongchen's body, which was completely different from when he had hunted soul beasts in the Sunny River Mountain Range before, and guessed inwardly.
From the looks of it, the limit of the fixed Soul Guidance Cannons Jing Hongchen could instantly deploy was Tier 6.
But he could rely on sixteen Tier 6 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons combining with one another to unleash the power of an Eighth Level Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon.
Clearly, this also required the cooperation of his eighth and ninth soul skills.
It might only have the power for a single strike.
But its deterrent force was more than enough.
In terms of numbers, a ninth-level fixed soul guidance shell possessed the might of a full-powered strike from a Limit Douluo.
As for an eighth-level fixed soul guidance shell, if its damage were taken head-on in full, even the Titan Snow Demon King would be heavily injured.
That was not the most important part.
What the Titan Snow Demon King faced was not a fatal threat.
What truly made him wary was the power Jing Hongchen could unleash, as well as the words he had spoken.
If even he would be heavily injured, then the Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads behind him absolutely would not survive.
There were as many as thirteen Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads behind the Titan Snow Demon King. The strongest among them had a cultivation of a full Fifty Thousand Years, but it clearly would not be able to withstand it either.
It could not even withstand a Seventh Level Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shell.
The Titan Snow Demon King was furious.
He had come out to vent, and being interrupted halfway had already made him impatient. Now he was even being threatened.
Who in the Far North Land did not know that the Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads here were under his, the Titan Snow Demon King's, protection?
If the Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads here vanished overnight, where would his dignity be?
The Titan Snow Demon King was wary.
But he had not the slightest intention of letting Jing Hongchen and the others go.
His attitude remained the same.
Those who entered the Far North Land died!
As one of the Far North Three Great Heavenly Kings, he also had the duty to protect the Far North Land.
Between dignity and responsibility, he had to choose one.
One look at the three of them told him that Jing Hongchen's group had entered the Far North Land to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings.
They had to be killed!
The Far North Land was cut off from the world.
The outside world knew very little about the Far North Land.
Likewise, the Far North Land did not know much about the outside world either.
The Titan Snow Demon King's wariness and hesitation gave Jing Hongchen a greater bargaining chip.
Terrifying Metal Energy gathered toward him, and outside Jing Hongchen's enormous Toad True Body, metal rapidly grew.
Before long, a fortress had condensed into existence.
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