"Founding a nation?!"
This was something the Black Dragon King had never even dared to imagine.
"Mm, I have a technique that can accelerate the awakening of Soul Beasts' intelligence." Some karmic debts had to be repaid.
The man nodded and offered another form of compensation: an insight he had gained while researching Tian Meng's spiritual soul body. Soul Beasts taking ten thousand years to reach the intelligence of a child struck Chen Fu as deeply abnormal. Calling that level of evolution idiotic would have been the highest praise it deserved.
Tian Meng's hundreds of thousands of years as a useless good-for-nothing had given Chen Fu tremendous inspiration, and that inspiration could only have come from Tian Meng.
That was because Tian Meng's advancement process had been stupid... pure like a blank sheet of paper, with almost no mutagenic influence from the outside world. Thus, Chen Fu had been able to find Tian Meng's intelligence evolution chart amid those hundreds of terabytes of garbage data.
It was an extraordinarily regular step chart: rising once, flattening once, rising once, flattening once.
But wisdom could not simply appear out of nowhere. It was the most brilliant flower blooming from the dust of countless failures, born from repeated accumulation and reflection.
For Tian Meng's pristine template, where he climbed one step and rested one step, there could only be one explanation: limiters that gradually unlocked as his cultivation rose.
As for how to remove those limits, Chen Fu had seen one possibility in Huo Yuhao, though it still required verification.
"Wisdom Awakening Technique?!"
The Black Dragon King was beginning to doubt himself. They had spent hundreds of thousands of years unable to understand something they had long grown accustomed to, and now Chen Fu was telling him it could be changed?
Chen Fu gave Di Tian a baffled look. He too was a barbarian who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years while growing muscles but not brains. Then Chen Fu nodded.
Perhaps Di Tian could speak at length about cultivating Soul Power and possessed extremely profound attainments in it. But Chen Fu had already begun moving beyond the narrow concept of Soul Power and toward energy. My Soul Power cultivation might not be as refined or flexible as yours, but my energy could give you enough to eat your fill.
He had discovered a flaw in this world: increasing one's cultivation rank could expand the breadth of intelligence, but it could not increase its height.
Put simply, they could easily calculate the infinite digits after 1, yet when faced with the space between 0 and 1, they were completely lost. For example, when Chen Fu explained the logic behind certain technical achievements to Mu En or Di Tian, they could quickly deduce whether future possibilities existed. That was why the stronger someone was, the more easily they were drawn to him.
"Really?"
Di Tian fell silent for a moment, then activated his external brain. Only after the signal had been received did he ask cautiously.
"...Really. It also happens to work with the new cultivation system."
"Your new cultivation system is still sucking blood from Soul Beasts!" Di Tian finally said what he wanted to say. Under the current circumstances, he held a little initiative and could afford to be slightly less polite.
"The spell cultivators represented by Energy Storage Rings are still needed for now, but the Body Cultivators represented by Melting Rings are no longer necessary."
Energy Storage Rings required powerful skills to show their advantages. As for Body Cultivators, they did not need skills anyway. Giving them too much Soul Power was wasteful. When strolling around, he could just grab any ten-year Soul Beast by the roadside, attach a ring with the Awakening Soul Array Diagram, and make do with it.
"...Then how are Soul Beasts supposed to found a nation?" Soul Beasts believed in the law of the jungle and were difficult to restrain.
"Let them first live beneath Youlan's radiance, then slowly awaken their intelligence."
Di Tian looked at the indescribable data life-form behind Chen Fu, parasitizing the Youlan halo. It possessed immense Spiritual Power and had been highly infectious from the moment it was born. Youlan's infectious nature had been determined by the logic of His birth and growth.
You had better mean actual radiance.
[Esteemed Lord Di Tian and unknown existence, Youlan is delighted to serve you.]
A sudden mental transmission appeared within the encrypted divine-sense communication channel shared by Di Tian and Gu Yuena.
"...My name is Gu Yuena." Her divine sense then vanished.
[Yes, Lady Gu Yuena.]
"Do you have any other questions?"
Chen Fu gestured for everyone to rest for the moment. There was no need to be restrained; there would be no danger nearby. He then turned to Di Tian again.
"You want to use Soul Beasts to withstand the pressure of all the Soul Masters in the entire world?" Although the Soul Beasts had accumulated considerable resources and were quite well-off at present, they could not endure such consumption.
"Ark, Awakening Soul Array Diagram, Pandora, Banished Immortal, and two cultivation systems. Do you think I'm preparing to play a defensive game?"
With the two continents and the Soul Beasts, there were four major factions in total. Chen Fu could join any one of them and overturn the other three.
"Soul Beasts have never founded a nation before. How can we establish such a colossal entity?" Di Tian raised an urgent issue that needed to be resolved.
"Didn't I bring you management talent?" As he spoke, Chen Fu pointed at the bewildered people from Nine Treasures City behind him.
Because of their unique martial souls, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had always possessed abundant experience and knowledge in business and management. They were a natural leadership team.
Perhaps this was karma. From the moment Ning Yi met Chen Fu, that higher-dimensional concept known as karma had already begun to turn.
"Then what are we Soul Beasts supposed to be?"
Di Tian frowned, sensing that something was off.
"The managed. Then learn more, and later manage yourselves."
Chen Fu's calm voice thundered in Di Tian's ears.
Good heavens, what a scam. Was this the newest kind of fraud? We provide people, labor, and territory, only to find ourselves a group of leaders in the end. We sell our own people to work for them, and we're even supposed to thank them for their help?
You people from the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect are something else too. What did building something from nothing mean? What did independent entrepreneurship mean? Even usurping a magpie's nest was not played like this!
"To bring disorder into Order, some things must be sacrificed. Soul Beasts lack civilization, so they must cede a certain amount of authority in order to leave themselves an opportunity to learn."
"Transforming leadership by force into leadership by wisdom inevitably requires a reform of power. You may refuse me now, reject our organization's framework of Order, but surely you do not want the Soul Beast race to be destroyed in your own hands?"
He stated plain facts in an even tone.
"Don't entertain foolish thoughts. The fact that I came to see you means I have you completely figured out, even if all your beasts are gathered here now."
The mental fluctuation frequencies deep within the forest had long since been marked one by one by Youlan, which had absorbed nine layers of Tian Meng's soul origin.
"You cannot defeat Mu En. His Demigod Body is strange."
During the journey, Chen Fu had used Youlan to inspect Mu En's physical condition. He discovered that Mu En's imperfectly evolved divine body had been contaminated by His God's Divine Power Pollution, granting him even stronger recovery abilities and pushing him toward an unknown development.
"As for Lady Gu Yuena..."
After pausing, Chen Fu stared at the ashen face of the black-robed man across from him, a faint, detached mockery curling at his lips.
"As my research into every aspect of Soul Beasts has deepened, I have discovered that if Soul Beasts wish to develop, they must rely heavily on humans. You understand what I mean, Lady Gu Yuena."
"We agree to form an empire with you humans."
A mental transmission whose Spiritual Power fluctuations were in no way inferior to Youlan's, which had already absorbed a million-year spiritual Soul Beast, sounded beside his ear, blocked by Youlan.
Heh~
Chen Fu looked up into the sky. The vast river of stars and the dense Realm Wall seemed to lose all distance, his gaze appearing to align with certain existences.
Soul Beasts had already begun to split apart. Then had that unknown God Realm also begun to divide?
The God of Craftsmanship's Divine Trial data package... another great karmic debt.
Tang San, I have already demonstrated my value.
Your turn.
"Asura, I have my eyes on you."
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Good brothers, I changed the synopsis a little and added [Beast Lives Matter], hahaha.
A million years of suppression had already been enough to make the Soul Beast race hesitate: should they adapt to life, or stubbornly resist to the end?
The protagonist's appearance gave the Soul Beasts a way out. While resolving the conflict, it could also strengthen their bonds.
The successful division of the Soul Beasts would also inspire the God Realm. This was the protagonist demonstrating his value as he began attempting to split the upper echelons of the God Realm.
There was no blindly resisting, nor was there any insistence on killing everything with one stroke. Divide the enemy and strengthen oneself, rising skyward amid motion and stillness.
Chen Fu: Just showing my value. I'm used to it.
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