Su Fan: So My Talent Was This Strong?

Su Fan listened from the side without interrupting.

These were all acceptable losses.

The spread of the Aperture Path actually had little impact on Su Fan.

He was already ahead of everyone else, so he was not afraid of being caught up to.

True strength had always depended on oneself, never on others.

Of course, he had not spread the core of the Aperture Path to the public.

In truth, he had not developed it.

His Apertures had all been reflected from his martial soul, and the expansion of the space within them was entirely the work of his martial soul.

Even if ordinary Soul Masters condensed Apertures, it would be difficult for them to inscribe overly complex Core Arrays within their internal spaces.

That was the key.

Of course, if one opened all the Heavenly Circuit Apertures, with each Aperture corresponding to several patterns, then combined three hundred and sixty patterns to form a complete Core Array, it was still feasible.

But compared to Su Fan, it was far inferior.

Su Fan could inscribe a complete Core Array within a single Aperture.

Who was stronger and who was weaker was obvious at a glance!

As for cultivating at least three people who could condense Apertures within a year, that was not difficult either.

These days, whether it was Du Busi, Elder Qilin, or the other accompanying disciples of the Body Sect, all of them had successfully condensed Apertures.

The facts proved that while condensing Apertures had a threshold, it was not especially high.

As long as one was willing to condense Apertures, one could do it.

It was merely a low floor and a high ceiling.

In fact, back at Dou Ling Royal Academy, Su Fan had already taught the Aperture Path publicly and tested the difficulty of condensing Apertures.

Getting started was not difficult.

Mastering it was difficult.

Even a Soul Saint like Director Chi began slowing down noticeably when he reached thirty-six condensed Apertures, and even encountered bottlenecks.

Because there was repulsion between Apertures.

This was something Su Fan had never experienced when condensing his own Apertures.

For him, Apertures had always been compatible with one another. There was no repulsion between them.

But when other Soul Masters condensed Apertures, the Apertures formed some kind of force field that repelled one another.

Du Busi had also begun cultivating it. His cultivation speed was extremely fast, and relying on his powerful physique, he forcibly accommodated a large number of Apertures. In less than a month, his Aperture count had already reached thirty-six.

His answer was that once Aperture condensation reached the later stages, it might even involve resonance techniques. If one could not coordinate the operation of all Apertures and unify them under one control, it would be difficult to break through the limit of eighty-one.

In other words, starting with the eighty-second Aperture, the difficulty soared in a straight line.

Du Busi even judged that coordinating all Soul Apertures and condensing Heavenly Circuit Apertures like Su Fan's was no less difficult than forming a Second Soul Core.

That evaluation left even Su Fan somewhat dazed.

So condensing Apertures had such a high threshold?

In response, Su Fan could only break down the Aperture Path and overturn the route he himself had taken.

An ordinary Soul Master could not possibly condense nine Apertures before the first ring, thirty-six before the second ring, 108 before the third ring, Heavenly Circuit Apertures before the fourth ring, and thirty-six Soul Apertures before the fifth ring.

For ordinary Soul Masters, condensing one Aperture before the first ring, nine before the second, eighteen before the third, twenty-seven before the fourth, and so on was the proper progression.

Eighty-one Apertures at the ninth ring—this was actually the path for ordinary Soul Masters.

As for Soul Apertures, perhaps they could still be introduced at the fifth ring, but the number condensed at each stage definitely could not use Su Fan as the benchmark.

The Apertures Su Fan condensed at each stage were the upper limit.

Ordinary Soul Masters naturally had to cultivate according to the lower limit.

Of course, the so-called lower limit was not a true minimum. No one would criticize you for condensing only two Apertures by the third ring.

But if Apertures were to be useful and their effects obvious, there naturally had to be some sort of threshold.

Back to the main topic.

Su Qian still agreed to Du Busi's request.

It was a group of people whose intelligence the Su Family could keep track of.

They had also promised not to cause trouble, so what was there not to agree to?

Of course, Su Qian also kept his guard up and set a limit on their numbers: no more than fifty people.

Du Busi nodded in agreement as well.

The fifty people he was arranging to enter the Sun Moon Empire truly were not for political purposes, nor did they have anything to do with the military.

They were purely there to recruit students.

The Body Sect recruited disciples with Body Martial Souls, but its scope had been limited to the Douluo Three Empires.

Now, he wanted to extend that scope to the Sun Moon Empire.

Infiltrating the Sun Moon Empire this time had also served that purpose.

Even without the unexpected factor of Su Fan, he would have ambushed the Sun Moon Royal Team after the Soul Master Tournament, then infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire to seek out Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls there.

After Su Qian left, the group from the Body Sect remained behind.

"Patriarch, are fifty people enough?"

He knew Du Busi's goal, but doubted whether fifty people could cover the entire Sun Moon Empire.

Moreover, Evil Soul Masters ran rampant in the Sun Moon Empire. Fifty people really did not seem safe.

Du Busi shook his head.

"What matters is quality, not quantity."

Su Fan said helplessly, "But the Sun Moon Empire's territory is nearly as large as the combined Douluo Three Empires. With fifty people, even assigning one person to each city would not cover the whole Sun Moon Empire."

"I know that. Each of them will be responsible for five neighboring cities."

Su Fan bared his teeth.

That was an enormous workload, wasn't it?

"Do you think I picked the people sent here to gather Body Sect disciples at random?" Du Busi curled his lip. "I had Vina train them long ago, raising them to espionage standards."

Hearing that, Su Fan stopped arguing.

If they had been trained to spy standards, then there was nothing more to say.

They had come here not to act as spies, but simply to find people.

The difficulty plummeted.

If problems still arose, sending more people would be meaningless.

"Don't worry. We won't leave the Ming Capital area for the next few years. If you truly run into danger, we can provide support."

Su Fan nodded.

After making a few arrangements, Su Fan finally left the hotel and headed for the Su Family.

After Su Fan left, Du Busi began arranging for the others to start digging tunnels.

"During these days, don't forget to condense Apertures if you should be doing so. Condense as many as you can within a short period, then pool everyone's experiences. That will also make it easier for us to explore the Aperture Path."

Du Busi reminded them.

Su Fan's cultivation circumstances were simply completely different from theirs.

He also needed to gather data on the cultivation of ordinary disciples.

"Yes."

The disciples answered one after another.

"Oh, and when condensing Apertures, try to use the regions associated with your own martial souls as the core."

"Yes."

After the disciples dispersed, Du Busi sat cross-legged and began cultivating overtime.

He was extremely diligent in his cultivation now.

In the past, Du Busi naturally would not have cultivated so diligently.

Having been stuck at level ninety-eight for half his life, he had little hope of breaking through.

Without some special opportunity, there was no way he could slowly grind his way forward on his own.

The Aperture Path was that opportunity.

Just as he had said, for ordinary Soul Masters, condensing Heavenly Circuit Apertures might be no less difficult than forming a Second Soul Core.

However, gradual cultivation was always easier to grasp than reaching the goal in one leap.

Heavenly Circuit Apertures broke the process down into three hundred and sixty steps!