Chapter 736: Character Technique Stele, Three Inheritances (2)

Chapter 736: Character Technique Stele, Three Inheritances (2)

Su Yu gave it some thought and laughed awkwardly. Fortunately, Wu Lan was arrogant enough to refuse to join through connections. Otherwise, there was no way Hong Tan would refuse Wu Yuehua.

Holy shit! How terrifying. How embarrassing would it be if he had a martial aunt like this?

Su Yu said, "I need to thank you for the choice."

Wu Lan said, "I don't really care what I learn as long as it's interesting. In the past, I idolized my elder sister. I thought that strength was everything. But after the release of the Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art, I realized that being strong alone is not better than letting everyone grow strong.

"No matter how strong you are, even if you're an Invincible, you're still one person. But if your creation is capable of creating ten or even a hundred Invincibles, you will be the savior of humanity. Of course, it would be even better if I could do both well."

At that, she paused and gazed at Su Yu enviously. He was one such person. She wanted to be like that as well. Her mouth might be saying that strength was not important, but inwardly, she was envious of Su Yu's strength. Back then, she had done a lot better than him in language tests. How annoying! Because Su Yu was too strong, she no longer dared to talk about strength in front of him. It was too embarrassing for her.

Su Yu resisted the urge to laugh.

Before long, they reached a small study in the second floor. A large stele stood in the room. Su Yu gave her a reminder, "When forming your character technique, take note of one thing. Some of them are very misleading. They might look powerful, but these are actually fake character techniques. I nearly fell for one when I was picking mine previously."

Wu Lan nodded, "So I'll be following you inside? Can you still enter after forming a character technique?"

"Yeah."

If one couldn't enter after forming a character technique, how had the past experts left the templates of their techniques in the stele? Of course, Su Yu could very easily disturb her process of picking her own character technique inside. Thus, people would generally enter this stele alone.

Someone stronger could very easily attract too many character techniques or destroy the techniques inside, ruining things for the person trying to pick a character technique. That might even cause the person picking a character technique to be lost in the stele.

"You don't need to go with me. I'll enter first and attract some powerful techniques toward the entrance. You can enter after that and make your choice. I'll try my best to attract the first principal's technique."

After saying that, Su Yu sent his willpower into the Character Technique Stele.

***

It was a familiar experience, yet something felt different. He was greeted by the same boundless cosmos with countless stars. Each star represented a character technique. Some were bright, some were dark.

That was where the similarities ended. This time, Su Yu was able to see further than during his previous visit. Deep in the boundless cosmos, countless twinkling stars could be seen. The number of stars was a lot bigger than what he saw during his first visit.

He could also feel a small sense of rejection from the stele itself. He understood why that was happening. As someone who had formed a character technique, the stele was starting to reject him. Thus, he wouldn't be able to stay in here for too long.

"So many stars. Does the multiple character faction have so many predecessors?"

Su Yu was very surprised. He did not feel anything when he was first here. This time, he realized something. A multiple character faction cultivator was only able to leave a single template in the stele. Meanwhile, there seemed to be countless stars in this space. Were there so many multiple character faction members in the past?

If his memories served right, only over three hundred years had passed since the first principal's time. Even at its peak, the multiple character faction would only recruit ten new students per year. And during the recent decades, it had nearly stopped recruiting. Of the few new students it did recruit, some were without character techniques.

Su Yu was stunned. This was clearly a frying pan, right? Was this meant to serve as a weapon or a shield? Or perhaps it was meant to refine pills?

"Pill refinement..."

At that thought, Su Yu blanked out slightly. Right. Why couldn't they form a character technique that could help with other professions?

"Is there anything for weaponsmiths? A furnace would be nice. Or a hammer..."

This single line of thought gave Su Yu numerous new ideas. If he could create a hammer template and include his Soul Expanding Hammer into it, just how powerful would the result be?

In the past, his hammer could only attack by itself without any amplifications. What if he could form a hammer character technique? Combining a hammer character technique and his hammer...something like that could probably smash the head of a Cloudbreach apart with one hit, right?

Damn it!

Why hadn't he thought of this earlier? His character technique required ninety-nine characters. With the disassembly method, wouldn't he be able to take the form any other character techniques?

"Hammer...furnace! A lid would help! No, a shield would be better! No, no, no, an armor would be even better!"

"..."

Su Yu felt as though a door to a brand new world had been opened.

Why was his mindset so stiff before this? Why only use the form of a saber? Just because he knew a saber technique and his cultural weapon was a saber, his character technique must be a saber as well? He could totally assume unlimited forms with his character technique. Wouldn't a hammer be great?

With that new line of thought, he was no longer in any hurry to leave. He continued roaming the space while memorizing all the templates he saw. The deeper he went, the more characters the templates had. Eighteen characters, nineteen characters...the number kept increasing.

Eventually, even Su Yu himself was alarmed. These...were definitely not left by the first principal and those from that generation. The deeper he went, the bigger the stars were. He was even starting to see stars with over twenty characters. Were these...perhaps left by the ancient cultural researchers instead?

"This stele is not made by the first principal. It was most likely something he found in a ruin!"

Su Yu was greatly alarmed by this realization. This stele might be the legacy of an ancient sect or academy of cultural researchers. The first principal was not capable of creating all these templates. It wasn't that he was too weak. But each person could only imprint a single template in a lifetime.

Abruptly, one of the stars transformed into a sword and shot toward Su Yu. Next, a different star turned into a saber and swung at him. His character technique instantly took the form of a saber and engaged the incoming sword and saber.

Holy shit!

Was this a trial?

Would he be allowed to pick these templates after defeating them?

No, that wasn't right. He was someone with a character technique. But this would definitely be a trial for any other person. In that case, would Wu Lan be forced to defeat these templates as well?

Could she even win? Perhaps he could defeat these templates and leave them for Wu Lan to inherit? Before long, the sword and saber were defeated. The two transformed into a tiny sword and a tiny saber that obediently orbited him, looking as though they had submitted to him.