"What did you see?"
Although Wen Li had confirmed what she'd gained, her expression was clearly a little strange. Fu Qian asked curiously.
"Create an emotional ripple and make it successfully reverberate multiple times between two Divine creatures."
Wen Li furrowed her brow, clearly hesitant as she explained the ritual.
Fu Qian could understand why she'd hesitated over that.
"Does it have to be a particular emotion?"
"No."
Wen Li shook her head.
So this ritual was about connections, then?
Fu Qian rubbed his chin, deep in thought.
The requirements were odd, but it wasn't all that difficult.
Divine creatures? Easy enough—demigods would do.
Besides, all she had to do was influence them with an emotional ripple, not kill them.
In fact, Wen Li's kaleidoscope of beauties had already proved that she could influence her own emotions.
The difficulty seemed to lie in the number of people involved. She'd need to find two demigods willing to cooperate.
For someone with poor connections, that could indeed be a little difficult.
"Anything else?"
Fu Qian thought for a moment, then continued.
"Did it mention eating any rare treasures or special materials?"
"...That's all."
As he'd expected, Wen Li's process of advancing to the fourth tier was clearly similar to Jiang En's. She didn't need to eat anything; she only needed to complete a ritual.
His own Outlaw had been the same.
Of course, from what he'd learned so far, that wasn't universal. Many people needed materials to assist them, as did those who hit bottlenecks early.
Wen Li had made it this far because she'd more or less "digested" Eve, a being that was difficult to define completely as human...
Faced with all these differing cases, Fu Qian felt he was beginning to grasp something about the chaotic path of transcendental advancement.