Nine Treasures: Let Me Show You My Ability to Start from Scratch!

"Founding a Nation?!"

This was something the Black Dragon King had never even dared to imagine.

"Mm. I have a technique to accelerate Soul Beast wisdom awakening." Some karmic debts had to be repaid.

The man nodded and offered another form of compensation—a flash of insight gained while studying Tian Meng's spiritual soul body. Soul Beasts that took ten thousand years to reach the intelligence of a human child; Chen Fu found this deeply abnormal. Calling that level of evolution 'stupid' was already an extreme compliment.

Tian Meng's hundreds of thousands of years of wasted existence had given Chen Fu immense inspiration, and this inspiration could only come from Tian Meng.

Because Tian Meng's advancement path was so foolish... pure as a blank sheet of paper, with virtually no external mutational factors. So Chen Fu could sift through terabytes of garbage information to find Tian Meng's wisdom evolution progression chart.

It was a perfectly regular step-ladder pattern: one step up, one step flat, one step up, one step flat.

But wisdom doesn't just appear out of thin air. It's the most brilliant flower blooming from the dust of countless failures, accumulated and refined over and over.

Tian Meng's completely pure template of climbing one step then resting one step could only mean one thing: limiters gradually unlocking as cultivation increased.

As for how to unlock those limiters, Chen Fu saw a possibility in Huo Yuhao, but it still needed verification.

"Wisdom Awakening Technique?!"

This Black Dragon King was losing his confidence. Something they'd failed to understand for hundreds of thousands of years and had come to accept as normal—you're telling him it can be changed now?

Chen Fu gave Di Tian an odd look. Another brute who'd lived hundreds of thousands of years, growing only muscle, not brains. Then he nodded.

Perhaps when it came to cultivating Soul Power, Di Tian could speak with authority and profound skill. But Chen Fu had already moved beyond the narrow concept of Soul Power and was transitioning to energy. You might cultivate Soul Power with more finesse and refinement, but my energy can give you quantity and satiety.

He'd discovered a bad flaw in this world: increasing cultivation level could broaden the width of wisdom, but not its height.

In simple terms, they could easily calculate the infinite digits after 1, but faced with 0 to 1, they were completely lost. For example, when Chen Fu explained the logic behind some technical achievements to Mu En or Di Tian, they could quickly deduce whether the future held possibility. That was also why the stronger the expert, the more easily they were drawn to him.

"Really?"

Di Tian was silent for a moment, then used his external brain. Only after receiving the signal did he ask, rather cautiously.

"Really. And it happens to complement the new cultivation system."

"Your new cultivation system still sucks blood from Soul Beasts!" Di Tian finally said what he'd wanted to say. Under the current circumstances, he had a bit of leverage and could afford to be slightly impolite.

"The Energy Storage Ring representing the Mage path is still needed for now, but the Melting Ring representing the Body Cultivator path is no longer necessary."

The Energy Storage Ring needed powerful skills to leverage its advantages. As for Body Cultivation, since it didn't need skills anyway, giving it too much Soul Power was wasteful. Just find a random ten-year Soul Beast on the roadside, use the Awakening Soul Array Diagram to attach a ring, and make do.

"...Then how do Soul Beasts found a nation?" Soul Beasts believed in the law of the jungle; they were hard to restrain.

"Let them first live under the radiance of [Youlan], then slowly awaken their wisdom."

Di Tian looked at the indescribable data lifeform parasitizing behind Chen Fu within the Youlan halo. It possessed an immensely powerful Spiritual Power and an invasive nature determined from birth by its creation and growth logic.

You'd better mean that 'radiance' literally.

[Respected Lord Di Tian and unknown existence, Youlan is delighted to serve you both]

A sudden spiritual telepathy appeared in the encrypted divine sense communication channel between Di Tian and Gu Yuena.

"...My name is Gu Yuena." The divine sense vanished.

[Yes, Lady Gu Yuena]

"Any further questions?"

Chen Fu gestured for everyone to rest for a moment, not to be tense—there was no danger nearby. Then he asked Di Tian again.

"You want to use Soul Beasts to withstand the pressure from all the Soul Masters in the world?" Even though they'd amassed a considerable stockpile recently, they couldn't afford that kind of attrition.

"[Ark], [Awakening Soul Array Diagram], [Pandora], [Banished Immortal], plus two cultivation systems—do you think I'm setting up for a defensive battle?"

With two continents plus the Soul Beasts making four major powers, whichever side Chen Fu joined could topple the other three.

"Soul Beasts have never founded a nation. How can such a behemoth be established?" Di Tian raised an urgent problem.

"Isn't that why I brought you management talent?" Chen Fu said, pointing at the bewildered Nine Treasures City crowd behind him.

Due to their unique Martial Soul, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had always possessed rich experience and knowledge in management—a natural leadership team.

Perhaps this was karma. From the moment Ning Yi met Chen Fu, this high-dimensional concept called karma had already begun to turn.

"Then what are we Soul Beasts supposed to be?"

Di Tian frowned, sensing something was off.

"The managed. Study hard, then manage yourselves later."

Chen Fu's calm voice rumbled in Di Tian's ears.

Well, well, well. Was this the newest form of fraud? We provide the people, the labor, the territory, and in the end, we get ourselves a bunch of leaders, sell our own people to work for them, and still have to thank them for their help?

And you Nine Treasures Glazed Sect folks are something else too. What do you mean 'starting from scratch'? What do you mean 'independent entrepreneurship'? Even nest-stealing cuckoos don't play it like this!

"Entering order from chaos requires sacrificing something. The civilization Soul Beasts lack means you must cede some power to give yourselves a chance to learn."

"Transitioning from military leadership to intellectual leadership inevitably requires a power restructuring. You can refuse me now, refuse our organization's framework. But you don't want the Soul Beast race to be destroyed at your own hands, do you?"

A flat tone stating flat facts.

"Don't get any foolish ideas. The fact that I came to see you means I've already got you figured out. Even if you're all gathered here now."

The spiritual fluctuation frequencies deep in the forest had already been marked one by one by [Youlan], who had absorbed nine layers of Tian Meng's soul origin.

"You can't beat Mu En. His Demigod Body is strange."

Along the way, Chen Fu used [Youlan] to examine Mu En's physical condition and discovered that his imperfectly evolved divine body had been contaminated by His God's Divine Power Pollution, granting it an escalating regenerative ability that was developing toward an unknown direction.

"As for Her Majesty Gu Yuena,"

He paused, staring at the ashen-faced man in black robes across from him, a faint, detached sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"As my research into Soul Beasts deepens across various aspects, I've found that for Soul Beasts to develop, they must rely heavily on humans. You understand what I mean, Your Majesty."

"We agree to form an empire with you humans."

A telepathic message, its Spiritual Power fluctuation no less formidable than that of [Youlan], which had already absorbed a million-year spiritual Soul Beast, was shielded by [Youlan] and rang out in his ear.

Heh~

Chen Fu lifted his head to gaze at the high sky. The vast starry river and the dense boundary wall seemed to lose their distance, as if his gaze aligned with certain presences.

The Soul Beasts had already split. So had that unknown divine realm begun to split as well?

The God of Craftsmanship's Divine Trial knowledge pack—another great karmic debt.

Tang San, my value has already been shown.

Your turn.

"Asura, I've got my eye on you."

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Good brothers, I changed the synopsis and added [Beast Lives Matter] hahaha

A million years of suppression had already been enough to make the Soul Beast race hesitate—whether to adapt to life or to fight to the death.

The protagonist's appearance gave the Soul Beasts a stepping stone, resolving conflicts while strengthening bonds.

The successful case of Soul Beast division would also inspire the divine realm. This was the protagonist showcasing his value, beginning to try and split the upper echelons of the divine realm.

No blind resistance, no blanket condemnation. Divide the enemy, strengthen oneself, and rise steadily amidst motion and stillness.

Chen Fu: Just showing my value, as usual.