This Kid Has Quite a Few Ideas

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, a month had gone by.

"Junior Disciple, congratulations! To achieve Unity of Heaven and Man at the age of ten is something rarely seen in a thousand years. Your future is limitless!"

Inside the Soul Fighting Arena, Long Aotian stopped moving and offered his heartfelt congratulations.

"In the end, I only achieved it through my martial soul ability. I can't compare to Senior Brother," Minghui said modestly.

After three months, he had finally fully grasped his newly acquired martial soul ability. With the boost from activating his martial soul, he had entered the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man. He had completely relied on cheats and taken a shortcut. Unlike Long Aotian, that freak had directly attained enlightenment on his own after his martial soul's Second Awakening.

A pay-to-win player had truly lost to a talent-based competitor.

According to his teacher Du Busi, Unity of Heaven and Man began with perfectly controlling one's body, unifying Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and physical strength. This was human unity. The second step was using one's will together with Spiritual Power to comprehend one's own momentum—the Human Momentum—and then using the Human Momentum to draw upon the Heavenly Momentum. Simply put, the Heavenly Momentum was the Qi of Heaven and Earth. This was heavenly unity.

This qi did not necessarily refer to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It could also be something else, such as killing intent, rage, baleful aura, and so on. It depended on the individual.

In short, it was profoundly mysterious. Even Du Busi himself admitted that he could not explain it clearly.

Comprehending it was not as simple as having strong Spiritual Power. The most important thing was finding a certain feeling, grandly termed being in harmony with the Heavenly Momentum. Forcibly drawing upon the Qi of Heaven and Earth through powerful Spiritual Power was a counterfeit method. It would only worsen one's mental exhaustion and prove counterproductive.

In summary, if one could easily draw upon the Qi of Heaven and Earth through personal will and maintain that state, one had achieved Unity of Heaven and Man.

Combined with martial soul abilities, it could make every strike land a critical hit.

Take the Wind Attribute, for example. When an ordinary person swung a palm, it merely created wind from the motion. But an expert who had comprehended Unity of Heaven and Man could, even without directly using Soul Power, stir the wind elements within a certain area around them with a single palm strike, raising fierce winds that could send people flying.

When I went berserk, the wind elements between heaven and earth went berserk with me. So tell me, would you submit or not?

Of course, he had only just entered this realm and could not yet achieve such a level. He was not an expert yet, merely a rookie who had just gotten started.

Honestly, he felt that this so-called Unity of Heaven and Man could be described in more straightforward terms.

Taking the elements of heaven and earth as an example, it meant building a good relationship with them and increasing one's affinity.

As long as your affinity was high enough, Elemental Affinity would directly upgrade into Elemental Control. You would be the father of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth—call for whatever you wanted, and it would come!

Of course, even if one directly possessed a Divine Skill like Elemental Control, without sufficient accumulation, it would still be difficult to fully wield its power. It was like an ordinary person who had never practiced martial arts suddenly obtaining immense inner strength. They definitely would not be able to unleash its true might.

Take Tang San, for example. He had the Asura Godhood, Divine Skills, Divine Artifacts—everything he should have had. Yet despite being a God King as well, he received this evaluation from the Golden Dragon King:

Far inferior to the previous holder!

"Junior Disciple, there is no need to belittle yourself. A martial soul is itself part of one's strength," Long Aotian's voice came.

Minghui did not intend to dwell on the subject. Glancing at Princess Vina, who was walking over from not far away, he changed the topic. "Senior Brother, you've also comprehended Unity of Heaven and Man. Next, you'll need to comprehend your own Combat Technique. Do you have any plans?"

A Combat Technique was a personal ultimate technique comprehended while in the state of Unity of Heaven and Man. It could also be simply understood as comprehending a Self-Created Soul Skill.

Long Aotian puffed out his chest slightly. "I'm planning to form a team with the other senior brothers and sisters and go out for some proper training!"

"Junior Disciple, what about you?"

"Senior Brother has far more courage than I do." Minghui sighed. "I still lack both strength and experience, and I don't have the courage to face the dangers of the outside world. So I plan to go to Shrek Academy first and spar more with other young soul masters."

He had not told either of them about this yet.

"Junior Disciple, you're going to enroll in Shrek Academy?" Vina asked in surprise.

Before Minghui could reply, Long Aotian had already nodded. "Shrek Academy is said to gather the continent's finest young talents. There are soul masters there with every kind of martial soul. Junior Disciple is still young, so going there first to familiarize yourself with all kinds of martial soul abilities is indeed the most suitable path for now, and it's safer too."

"That's true." Princess Vina nodded.

The students of Heaven Soul Royal Academy were indeed far inferior to Shrek Academy in both quantity and quality.

Thinking of this, she stopped dwelling on it and smiled. "Then I wish Junior Disciple great gains at Shrek Academy!"

"Senior Sister Vina, then I'll borrow your good words." Minghui smiled as well.

"Come to think of it, my luck is pretty good. I actually managed to comprehend Unity of Heaven and Man the day before the Sacrificial Ceremony."

"That's what they call good fortune favoring the virtuous." Princess Vina chuckled.

"Junior Disciple, will you leave once the ceremony is over?"

"Mm. I'll go home first to spend the New Year with my parents, then enroll at Shrek after the new year." Minghui nodded.

The next morning, the Central Plaza of the Body Sect was packed with people.

Those from the mountain, those from below it, and those who had previously gone out had all returned to take part in this annual grand occasion.

Once everything had been prepared, the ceremony officially began under the personal direction of Sect Leader Du Busi.

First came a passionate speech briefly introducing the Sect's achievements over the past year, stirring everyone's hearts. Then he took the lead in kneeling to pray, thanking the Twin Gods for their protection.

At the same time, they prayed for blessings in the coming year.

Before long, the entire plaza was filled with kneeling figures.

Minghui knelt with Long Aotian and Vina behind the elders at the offering table. He closed his eyes and prayed along with them, his heart entirely calm.

As long as I'm not kneeling to Tang San!

As a Transmigrator, he did not really have much feeling toward faith. In his previous life, his countrymen had a simple attitude: they believed in whatever could grant what they wanted. There was no fixed faith. Those seeking wealth knelt before the God of Wealth, those seeking marriage knelt before the Old Man Under the Moon, and those seeking children worshipped Guanyin.

If possible, he wanted to be bathed in the Light of Life once more. He wanted his future cultivation to proceed smoothly, his cultivation to advance, to comprehend his own Combat Technique, to receive the Sacrifice of a Fierce Beast, and to meet a few beautiful girls he liked so he could hold one on each arm. That would count as making a wish.

Of course, he definitely could not simply make all those wishes at once. What if the Goddess of Life really heard them? That would seriously damage his image as a comrade-in-arms in her eyes!

Let's make a few simple wishes first!

In the God Realm, the Goddess of Life received it immediately and smiled as she gently shook her head. The God of Destruction, meanwhile, twitched a brow.

"This kid has quite a few ideas."

"He's still just a child, after all." The Goddess of Life smiled.

But moments later, another wave of faith power carrying information came from Minghui. It was not a wish, but more like a statement.

"Respected Goddess of Life, respected God of Destruction, three months ago, I underwent a Second Awakening of my martial soul. Honestly, if Soul Beasts continue to be hunted like this, I feel they'll go extinct sooner or later."

"The profession of soul master will also disappear because there will be no Soul Rings left to use."

"Do you think there might be a way for Soul Beasts nearing the end of their natural lives to use their souls as cores, condensing their cultivation and Life Force into something like Beast Spirits, then form some kind of contract with soul masters to replace Soul Rings? They could fight alongside soul masters and grow together with them."

"That way, the contradictions and conflicts between humans and Soul Beasts should also be eased."

The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction exchanged glances, both falling into thought.

As God Realm Enforcers overseeing multiple lower planes, it was not as though they had never seen cultivation systems in lower planes that fought through contracted magical beasts.

The method Minghui spoke of was absolutely feasible.

Moreover, it would not pose any threat to the God Realm. On the contrary, it would be beneficial. After all, such contracts would be led by humans.

"This may become his path to godhood in this life," the God of Destruction said. "However, if this method is to fully replace the Douluo Plane's current cultivation system, it still needs further refinement. In addition, he must obtain the agreement of the high-ranking Soul Beasts of the Douluo Plane."

As he spoke, he looked up at the Goddess of Life. "If he truly walks this path in the future, he will need to accomplish all of this himself. It is also something he must experience."

"It would not be appropriate for us to interfere. Let him explore it on his own for now."

"If he truly succeeds, it will be a great blessing for the living beings of the Douluo Plane as well." The Goddess of Life sighed softly and nodded.

Shortly afterward, seeing that the people of the Body Sect had nearly finished praying, the Goddess of Life waved her hand and sent down a strand of Divine Sense.