Published at 5th of November 2025 6:31 am

Chapter 1640: I Love Topsoil (1)

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Su Yu was still deep in thought about the Book of Time and Culture Tomb, but Wu Lan and the others were already losing patience.

Wu Lan said, "That's not the point here. The point here is, show us your source soul acupoint!"

He should focus on the main point here!

Was he trying to change the topic or something?

Su Yu blanked out.

Holy shit!

They had changed!

A great dao was before them, yet they were completely uninterested!

A weapon that could be considered a heaven or even a divine weapon was before them, yet they were completely uninterested as well!

Had they fully given up on everything related to strength after realizing how weak they were?

"Have you given up on yourself in despair?"

"What nonsense is that?" Wu Lan shot back unhappily, "What do you even know? If we could find a way to freely convert source qi to willpower and vice versa, we would gain the ability to nurture our characters with source qi! We could totally abandon our physical cultivation, even if we are currently doing quite well in physical cultivation!"

Bai Feng nodded and said, "Student, you don't understand how research works. Research is the essence of strength. We are living in a world where source qi is the most abundant resource you can get. The moment we find a way to nurture characters with source qi...heh. You might seem impressive now, but you might not be so impressive anymore in the future!"

Bai Feng declared proudly, "At that time, we would be able to give up on physical cultivation and focus on building incredibly powerful willpower and characters. We could even reach an entirely different level, becoming one with our characters. I am my characters, and my characters are me. Together, we transcend the mundane!"

Su Yu was stunned.

Yes. He was completely stunned.

"What did you just say?"

Su Yu's burning gaze caused Bai Feng to feel slightly uncomfortable. He glared at Su Yu and said, "What? I am your teacher! What is wrong with what I said? Can't I teach you a lesson as your teacher?"

"No, Teacher. Can you repeat what you said?"

Bai Feng answered uncomfortably, "What else? I said that I could become my characters, and my characters could become me. I would transcend the mundane by becoming my characters. What is wrong with that?"

"No." Su Yu asked, "What I want to know is...how do you intend to preserve your personality after the fusion with your characters?"

Bai Feng laughed and answered, "That's easy. Just treat your newly fused body as regular human flesh and cultivate as usual."

Su Yu sent a voice transmission, "Senior Flat..."

The female furball heard the conversation as well. She said blankly, "Lad...he said...characters...laws...soul devourers...is he saying that we...sentient characters like us, might originally be living beings as well?"

Su Yu was just as surprised. In fact, Bai Feng's theory had instantly reminded him of the soul devourers. The soul devourers were essentially sentient characters. Soy Bun had previously said that they were born from the natural laws.

But Bai Feng was saying that he and Wu Lan were planning to walk another path. The path of achieving Daofuse through their characters, becoming one with their characters. In the future, they would focus on only their characters. Perhaps they might even do something as drastic as only focusing on one character.

Wasn't that the same as changing themselves into soul devourers? In that case, were Soy Bun and the others really born naturally or created artificially? This madness of Bai Feng was enough to shock even Su Yu.

What was this?

Could this be considered yet another path?

Was there nobody normal in the multiple character faction?

Wan Tiansheng walked the path of he alone was dao. Lan Tian walked the path of all daos were him. And now, the weak Bai Feng wanted to walk the path of becoming one with dao.

Would this be an easy path to walk?

No. Definitely not.

Su Yu was left with one question. Was Soy Bun really just a character?

He might...have been a living being as well!

A multiple character faction member!

Subsequently, he had encountered an issue while walking the path of character fusion. As a result, Culture King, the progenitor of the multiple character faction, preserved him in his current form. Unfortunately, Soy Bun had lost all his past memories.

Was such a possibility feasible?

Soy Bun might even be something born from a corpse, with the corpse being Soy Bun's original body.

Soul devourer race!

Bai Feng had no idea that his words would change how Su Yu look at the soul devourers forever.

The soul devourers might be...humans...

Su Yu's heart thumped violently. Both his teacher and Wu Lan had been focusing on research as of late. Su Yu never minded them too much, but he found that their path of research had strayed to an extremely abnormal path.

"Su Yu?"

Bai Feng had an odd expression. Did his idea shock his student that much?

Why wasn't his student supporting his genius idea?

Su Yu woke up from his reverie. He looked at his teacher and solemnly said, "Teacher, characters are laws. And laws are emotionless. When you fuse your being into a character, the merciless great dao might erase your personality and your memories. You would cease being yourself."

Bai Feng nodded, "That is only natural. The great dao is still the great dao. It might not accept my memories, my body, and everything about me. It might view my attempt as an invasion. I might die upon failing. But the resulting character would be one with a rather high level of spirituality. It would be a character I could pass down to the future generation."

Spirituality!

Bai Feng had reached the same conclusion!

That was essentially what Soy Bun and the others were!

So...were the three born naturally? Or were they artificially formed?

Su Yu did not have the answer to that question.

Bai Feng said, "This is a shortcut. Do you understand? Upon completing my fusion, realms such as Mountainsea, Sunmoon, or Eternal no longer mattered. I would only need to consume the power of laws and perfect my character to keep growing. I would only need to worry about my character instead of things like my sea of willpower and body. Because at that point, I would become one with my character. My sea of willpower would be redundant."

"Teacher...you...might be mad."

Su Yu said sorrowfully. His teacher might have gone mad from too much research.

Bai Feng rolled his eyes and said, "You're the mad one here. You have gone mad long ago. I'm doing research here. Do you understand research? I might have found a new path. A path truly suited for us."

Bai Feng said in excitement, "That was what Lan Tian did. Through endless modifications on his own body, he discovered his own path. And thus, he grew strong rapidly. I'm confident my path isn't any weaker than his!

"But I also know that it is still imperfect. I feel like my theory still lacks something. Should I use one character as the foundation? Or should I use the character technique as the foundation? The character technique will be stronger, but the difficulty will also be much higher!"

Su Yu said nothing.

Wu Lan nodded before shaking her head again as she said, "Teacher Bai, you are seeing this wrongly. What do we use as the foundation? Let me put it this way. Each natural character might represent a full law in itself. Meanwhile, the characters you form through studying willpower texts are different. You might need a large number of them to represent a full law. If you don't have any natural characters, just use your character technique as the foundation and meld it with the dao you follow. If you have a natural character, that character alone is sufficient."

Bai Feng nodded, "Yes, that is reasonable."

He rubbed his chin and said, "I think I understand what these natural characters are. They are essentially the law fragments scattered all over nature. When you comprehend something at the right time, you might resonate with this fragment and form a natural character.

"As for the characters you get from reading, you are merely learning what someone else has already comprehended. As such, the two of you will eventually clash when pursuing that dao."

"..."

Su Yu was completely dumbstruck.

A certain understanding was dawning on him as well.

So this was the difference between natural and learned characters!

Natural characters were the fragments of natural laws. They might still be masterless. Comprehending these fragments was much harder, but growing through these fragments was also much easier due to a lack of competition.

Learning from willpower texts was easier, but one would eventually clash against those one learned for. Of course, this was something that would only bother someone upon reaching the Daofuse Realm.

Prior to that, one's realm would be too low to feel anything.

Su Yu's tribulation character was a good example. Since it was a natural character, there might not be a competitor walking the same law it represented. But the calm character would definitely come with a competitor: Great Zhou King.

Su Yu might be able to achieve Daofuse through the calm character, but when Great Zhou King achieved Great Dao, Su Yu would be stuck below Great Dao forever.

Bai Feng's words had given Su Yu a lot of enlightenment.

Bai Feng continued, "I understand now..."

What did he understand this time?

In the past, Su Yu would be the one saying he understood. But their roles had been reversed today. Bai Feng was the one understanding things again and again. So what was it this time?

Bai Feng said, "It's quite simple. There is nothing wrong with cultivating both natural and learned characters together. For example, Su Yu can cultivate both. Upon achieving Great Dao with his natural character, he can simply shatter the learned characters and feed his natural character with the learned characters if he doesn't want to compete for control over the laws the learned characters represent. This will both weaken the daos of others and strengthen his own dao. It's not a bad thing."

His excitement grew as he said, "Wait, was this what the ancient past experts would do in battle? The victors would shatter the daos of the losers bit by bit to strengthen their own daos. Eventually, their daos would grow much stronger than before while their enemies would no longer have any daos to walk. That would spell the end of their enemies."

Su Yu didn't know what to say anymore. He strongly suspected that his teacher was right. Was this how ancient battles were fought?

Time Sage...just why had the Time Sage made the Book of Time and killed so many people?

To preserve civilization?

What nonsense.

The Time Sage had most certainly been plundering the daos of others to strengthen her own dao.

Yes.

That was definitely the case. Sure enough, the Book of Time was a vicious weapon. It was meant to slowly devour the daos of others. First, the Time Sage could start with the weaklings walking these daos. Slowly, the daos would weaken enough for the Time Sage to kill the masters of these daos before devouring the daos entirely.

What a vicious person.

Su Yu finally understood why everyone hated the Time Sage. That was essentially a fiend. Her so-called corpse collection was an act of weakening others, strengthening herself, before killing the Great Dao experts whose daos she had weakened.

Some of these Great Dao experts might have died without even knowing how she had weakened them.

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