Chapter 1516 Good Enough

Chapter 1516 Good Enough

Ryu left the old man's information shack moments later, not asking about the Battle of Faith. He had a keen understanding of which questions he could get an answer to, versus which ones he very much could not ask without raising suspicion. The question of Battles of Faith was most definitely one of the latter. This was the reality, and he had to be cognizant of that.

But it wasn't as though this was the end of the world, after all, he still had the little woman, and not long after he left, he asked her the burning question.

In Sacrum, Faith was crucial as well, but it was more illusory. However, he remembered long ago that he had learned from Sarriel, that in the True Martial World, Faith took physical shape in the form of a well spring of sorts. In order to truly destroy a Sect or Clan, this well spring had to be destroyed first, and if this wasn't done thoroughly enough, there would always be a chance for a comeback.

Although Ryu knew this, Faith still felt more illusory to him than not, more like something that could cause the sky to rumble for an instant than anything else. But even when you spoke someone's name and the Heavens reacted, it would usually be up to the person themselves if they wanted to smite you, not the Heavens.

Essentially, there was probably no one in existence who you could just die from the mere mention of, and he felt that it was likely the same for Sects and Clans as well.

For example, he mentioned the Martial Gods all the time. He even cursed them, swearing to destroy them on top of that. But wasn't he still standing here just fine?

He imagined that with the ways and methods of the Martial Gods, there were countless individuals who were cursing them every second on the second.

Maybe it was because he was a native of Sacrum, a "country bumpkin," so to speak, but he really found it hard to wrap his head around these matters.

"A Battle of Faith is exactly what it sounds like, but on a deeper level, it's similar to two powers changing the states of their Wells of Faith and using them as a grinding edge against one another.

"This will have obvious, cascading effects and there will be little anyone can do to stop their enemies from crushing them at that point."

Ryu's gaze sharpened. For all of their core techniques to suddenly lose strength?

But then what about the Taboo Powers? Why did their techniques still work? Or could it be that...

The Taboo Techniques he was using now were far weaker than they had once been in the past?

It was a shuddering thought, because it revealed one very crucial thing.

The Taboo Techniques had lost their Well of Faith to support them, but the techniques of the Nine Powers definitely did not and they should be no less powerful if not more powerful than the Taboo Techniques had been at their peak.

Just what level were the geniuses of the Ninth Heaven on, then?

"Well, then. That's quite the problem, now isn't it?" Ryu chuckled and strolled right out of the city.

The old man hadn't given him a map, but it told him enough.

So, the Radiant Star Sect was somewhere between the inferno Sect and this lightning Sect...

Good enough.