And he had observed all of those on the Rock-Piercing Ancestral God's body that day. Of the thirty-odd other Innate Scattered Characters, three had come from the Merit-Bestowing Azure Lotus, and eight from the so-called Dragon-script Tortoise Shell.
Only sixteen had been bought from the Treasure-Gathering Tower...
In other words, of the sixty-four Scattered Characters Tang Changsheng had bought last time at the staggering price of one Spirit-Nourishing Pill apiece, only sixteen were Innate Scattered Characters. The rest were merely Acquired Scattered Characters.
Just thinking about it made Tang Changsheng want to cough blood... But he had only himself to blame for knowing so little about Heavenly Book Characters back then.
Shopkeeper Old Wu had actually hinted at it clearly enough. Sixty-four genuine Innate Scattered Characters could be combined into one Desolate Book Character, the lowest of the eight grades of Heavenly Book Characters: Heaven and Earth, Mysterious and Yellow, Cosmos and Primordial.
If all sixty-four had been Innate Scattered Characters, how could a mere sixty-four Spirit-Nourishing Pills have bought them?
As for Acquired Jade Characters, they were not necessarily inferior to Innate Jade Characters. Many were magnificent works written by mighty predecessors after deciphering the innate characters—Modern Script Worldbooks.
It was just that a single Acquired Jade Character was often useless. They had to form a coherent system to be of any use...
If one came across something an immortal or god had written in Acquired Jade Characters, it might surpass not only Innate Jade Characters, but even all eight grades of Heavenly Book Characters—Heaven and Earth, Mysterious and Yellow, Cosmos and Primordial...
Of course, the chances of coming across such a thing were slim...
*I've collected fifty-three Innate Scattered Characters now. Once I collect eleven more, I can combine them into a Desolate Character. I wonder how much