If Characters Have Spirits, They Can All Come Alive

"Books were indeed made up of chapters and sentences, and of the individual characters that formed those sentences." With Qiu Yan's prompting and reminder, Hua She finally realized something. "And what was carved onto printing blocks was also individual characters. But how could these characters leave the blocks?"

Qiu Yan smiled. "Characters do need something to rely on, but that need not necessarily be a printing block. It is like how you and I could not do without texts when learning to read. But let me ask you: when you studied as a child, did you have to learn the characters all over again with every new book you read?"

Hua She shook his head. "How could that be? One had to recognize all the characters before reading and memorizing books. If the characters were different in every book, how long would one have to study?"

Qiu Yan smiled. "Exactly. Reading does not require one to relearn characters over and over, so why must printing rely on a separate block for every page?" The moment he spoke, his body suddenly tensed, muscles, bones, skin, and flesh drawing taut in an instant as a vast, righteous force bore down on him, leaving him unable to speak further!

This force came not from any person or Magic Treasure, but from a single Posthumous Thought accumulated over tens of millions of years across an entire continent. How could the cultivation of a Fleshly Body withstand it?

Even a Divine Spirit Body present here would have had to avoid its edge.

Yet his thoughts remained connected and vigorous, so Qiu Yan appeared perfectly normal on the surface, and none of the others noticed.

Qiu Yan's example of learning characters also made Hua She understand, though doubts still lingered in his heart.

"Without printing blocks,