"Cause and effect came full circle; yin and yang remained in balance. What was lost would ultimately be compensated for in one way or another."
Chen Fu had no choice but to explain the blunt truth in his heart.
Otherwise, he would have to face the fury of a whole group of Fierce Beasts.
"How could you put it like that? Couldn't you be a little more tactful?"
On the way back, Old Dragon's tense heart finally relaxed somewhat.
Leading Golden Scale and Ma Xiaotao, Chen Fu said without looking back:
"I was only telling the truth. Would Golden Scale mind?"
"Not at all, sir."
Golden Scale shook her head. After spending this time together, she had more or less figured out Chen Fu's personality. He was someone who spoke plainly. If you wanted something, you only needed to ask directly, and there was a very good chance he would satisfy you.
In his words: "If you gain something, you will lose something else."
You got what you wanted, while he got what he needed from his own perspective.
Chen Fu suddenly turned to look into the distance, stopped walking, and fell into thought. After pondering for a moment, he led the others away again.
So it had finally shown itself? Chen Fu promptly cast the matter aside and did not dwell on it.
"Your Excellency, what are you looking at?"
The man in a black dragon-patterned robe bowed slightly and called out to the relatively petite silver-haired woman beside him.
"That human... he found his own Divine Path..." The silver-haired woman withdrew her gaze, her tone filled with disbelief. His terrifying Spiritual Perception had already allowed him to see divinity, while immense faith power filled his entire body.
Over millions upon millions of years, only two people on this continent had ascended their own Divine Paths. One wielded the Authority of the High Heavens, while the other bore the Vastness of the Raging Waves.
With the same setup, the creator of a divine position could hammer every later god who began at the rank of an inheritor into the ground.
"..."
"Does this mean Planetary Luck has already begun tilting toward him?"
Unable to think of anything else to say, Di Tian suddenly remembered something important and asked.
Anything related to luck was something he took extremely seriously.
The silver-haired woman shook her head without answering. Turning around, she waved a hand and said:
"Contact the Soul Beasts in the other regions. That human will be making a major move soon. Heh, perhaps we can discuss the future of the Soul Beast race."
She gave a self-mocking laugh, her voice full of loneliness. That human was so weak that she could kill him with a single spit, yet she had no choice but to admit that the world's development could not be reversed. The man she considered weak was now using one hand to force the great wheel of the era onward.
[Ark] technology and the [Awakening Soul Array Diagram] had already paved a sunlit road for the new era. The dazzling, almost blinding radiance of luck left the silver-haired woman feeling powerless.
Compared to him, the Imperial Auspicious Beast of their Soul Beast race was not even worthy of being called a firefly.
After returning to Shrek City, Chen Fu first checked the state of the Mental Network. Then, taking Golden Scale with him, he bid farewell to Ma Xiaotao and headed for his own Lin Pavilion.
As [Youlan] continued to update alongside the development of Chen Fu's Mental Network transmission technology, it could now use network nodes to spread the Mental Network across an area spanning one hundred kilometers around Shrek City.
"Display the preparations progress for the Ascension Plan."
[Plan list loaded]
A massive blue screen appeared before Chen Fu.
After quickly reviewing the overall progress chart, Chen Fu could not help nodding. Not bad. The pace was quite satisfactory. Resources and consumables in all areas had basically been prepared, and the Soul Tool Students on the academy side had largely met the standards as well.
When he opened the map in the proposal, a large circle had been drawn around the outer perimeter of Sea God Lake in the inner academy. Those were all the planned locations for laying the ring lines.
"If it's laid underground, that will work."
[Proposal approved]
"Pack up. Time to go pick up the little brat." Chen Fu rubbed his eyes, then began his routine data organization.
Knock, knock, knock!
"Come in."
"Young Master, a woman named Zhang Lexuan is here to see you. She said Mu En recommended her."
"Mm, got it. Bring her in."
Mu En had mentioned this matter to Chen Fu when they went to the Star Dou Great Forest. He wanted Chen Fu to purify the Soul Rings of the chief disciple of the inner academy and guide her through the key techniques of Energy Storage Rings.
Chen Fu had always been willing to help with things that would not greatly affect his research time.
"It's been quite a while, Senior Sister."
Chen Fu greeted Zhang Lexuan as Uncle Fu led her inside. The last time he had seen this senior sister of the inner academy was the last time they had met—that is, when Ma Xiaotao entered the inner academy.
"Indeed. You've changed so much."
When they had first met, this junior brother had possessed the refined and gentle air of a scholar. Now, beneath a mysterious aura, he gave off a peculiar sense of rational ease.
"Heh, I suppose so."
After exchanging a few pleasantries with Zhang Lexuan, Chen Fu directly took her to the adjoining room and activated the Generation 1.23 [Divine Ring].
The Spiritual Will of a Soul Douluo was actually rather strained for the [Divine Ring]. Its intended standard was Soul Saints and below, so Zhang Lexuan was entirely outside its service range.
However, Chen Fu had never liked doing work for nothing.
[Banished Immortal has entered Control Authority]
[Surface logic activated]
Holding [Banished Immortal], Chen Fu lightly swept it through the air toward Zhang Lexuan. As Ark hummed from the center of the blade, the silver-blue inscriptions on its surface emitted a faint glow, and eight dim, newly formed Soul Rings silently appeared before Chen Fu.
Drawing a circle in the air with his fingers, [Banished Immortal] transformed into a streak of silver-blue light. After darting through the air several times, it quietly vanished amid spatial ripples.
"The effect is pretty good."
Chen Fu silently evaluated it. In the original projections, one of the most important non-combat applications of [Banished Immortal] was to work with the [Divine Ring] to clean up remnant souls. In theory, it could have varying degrees of effect on all Soul Masters below Peerless Douluo.
This had been a speculative experiment recorded in the [Youlan] database, then deleted after he suddenly comprehended the method of using Soul Rings. Now, he had restarted it.
Chen Fu then activated the [Divine Ring] Soul Tool and cleansed the souls within Zhang Lexuan's eight Soul Rings, gradually breaking through the Soul Ring limit valves and allowing them to freely store and release Soul Power.
The mental resistance of an eight-ring Soul Douluo was far beyond what Ma Xiaotao had possessed back then. In less than a day, all eight Soul Rings had been fully expanded.
The reason Ma Xiaotao had been so slow back then was mainly because their research into the mind and soul had not been deep enough at the time. They could only slowly grind through it by "using quality to overcome quantity."
Besides discovering the unknown, another notable charm of technology was "using the minute to control the massive"—forging the "minute" one could control into a sharp blade, then turning the "massive," whose quality far exceeded one's own, into a fat pig ready for slaughter.
Of the technical modules Chen Fu had expected to master, only one remained: the essential nature of Soul Power.
Once he grasped the essence of Soul Power and its properties, Chen Fu would have ideas and direction for solving the principles behind Soul Power cultivation, thereby achieving Soul Power Normalization.
Though it sounded difficult, Chen Fu knew he seemed to be on the verge of catching Soul Power by the tail.
"So, can we talk now?"
After seeing off Zhang Lexuan, who was in an immensely grateful state, Chen Fu set the laboratory to closed-door mode once more. Dense inscriptions across the metal walls each gave off silver streams of light.
"Oh? I'm currently solving the issue of total volume. Once Soul Power is resolved, energy technology can basically advance to the 3rd Generation."
Chen Fu spoke to the empty air.
"If so, I hope these contingencies will never need to be used."
And he hoped that chess player would not be too arrogant and ignorant.
The Ascension Plan officially began.
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