"Impossible to clean up... Professor Fu, perhaps you could be more specific?"
As Fu Qian gave his explanation, Lanaia breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, Li Weixuan narrowed his eyes and motioned for him to continue.
"Professor Ian said so himself: his discovery was not only safe and efficient, its greatest advantage was that it could make use of a resource ordinarily useless to transcendents—ordinary people."
Fu Qian was more than happy to oblige.
"Once the final step is complete, its significance will extend far beyond the creation of a single demigod."
"I can't say how the other mentors at the Spirit Ash Institute would view an issue of academic ethics like this, but I can imagine what the Night Watchers would think—and how uncertain their attitude toward the Spirit Ash Institute would become."
"So, in my judgment, as long as Ian proves his method can indeed create a demigod, then whether he lives or dies afterward, the Spirit Ash Institute will most likely cease to exist."
"Scaremongering!"
Professor Yang couldn't help commenting before Fu Qian had even finished speaking, but his words no longer carried the confidence they had before.
A repeatable, efficient demigod ritual that could be completed using a small number of ordinary people as ingredients...
For the people at the Spirit Ash Institute, who shared an interest in the realm of the mind and had found no path forward, the temptation was almost unimaginably powerful!
Just as this man had said, perhaps it no longer mattered whether those who knew the secret could resist the temptation. What mattered was how the Night Watchers would see it.
And how people like them believed the Night Watchers would see it.
This was an almost insoluble chain of suspicion. There was no point in winning an