Chapter 768: Departure (2)

Chapter 768: Departure (2)

Su Yu blanked out. Crops? What was this little fellow talking about?

Wu Lan snorted with an unsightly expression and said, "This fellow has gone mad. He has been claiming that all our characters are his crops. Do you understand now?"

Su Yu frowned and looked at the little furball. Noticing what was happening, the little furball hurriedly hid behind Wu Lan's head in fear while stealthily looking at Su Yu through the gap between her hair. He had not included Su Yu in his list of farms!

Su Yu expressionlessly said, "Furball, remember this. Only the crop I give you belongs to you. Otherwise, none of them belong to you. Do you understand me?"

This little fellow was still too young. Wu Lan thought that the little furball was joking, but that wasn't the case. The little furball truly viewed their characters as food. And if one day he believed that these crops were ready for harvest, he would not hesitate.

Su Yu had to train the little furball well and make it very clear that there were things where the furball had to absolutely obey him. The little furball looked at Su Yu, not daring to make any noise.

Su Yu said, "Remember this. This applies to characters, willpower, and seas of willpower. You can only eat what I allow you to eat. You can only enter the seas of willpower I allow you to enter. If you dare to enter seas of willpower without permission in the future...well, let's just say that I believe a destroyed furball can be quite yummy as well."

"Yi yi ya ya..."

The little furball suddenly started speaking in his native tongue. From the tone of his voice, he sounded rather wronged. He knew that very well. He could sense that although he could eat Su Yu's characters, Su Yu was also capable of eating him. Yes. That was what his instincts were telling him.

Su Yu was capable of directly absorbing a destroyed character. He had personally witnessed that. Others could only use the willpower and character intent of a destroyed character to nourish their characters. But Su Yu could directly absorb the willpower and character intent. There was a difference between the two.

The little furball was quite afraid. In his mind, Yummy was capable of eating him as well.

"Okay. I understand."

The little furball answered obediently. The others smiled, but none of them said anything. This was Su Yu's pet. No, this was no pet. This fellow was actually very scary. And he would be even scarier if Su Yu couldn't keep him under control. This fellow would absolutely create a disaster if left unchecked.

Without experts capable of suppressing this fellow, he would be able to consume the characters of every single cultural researcher below the Mountainsea Realm of a city within a single day. That was a terrifying prospect.

Without their characters, cultural researchers would lose their combat strength, their character abilities, and their abilities to refine pills, forge weapons, craft talismans, and tame beasts. That would create a massive chaos. They had not mentioned it before, but they were actually somewhat scared of this little fellow.

When Wen Zhong said that they had played with him, that wasn't exactly accurate. To be precise, they were studying him for a way to counter this race. If this was a big race, it would be an extremely terrifying race. Thus, it would be better for them to learn more about this race in advance.

Su Yu said, "Eat a few of Senior Brother Jin's human characters. You're not allowed to eat more. Do you understand?"

"Ok!"

The moment the little furball heard that, he grew excited. His previous pitiful appearance vanished, replaced by an eager expression. He had almost fully digested the Sunmoon character intent he had eaten not long ago. It had been some time since he last ate something and he was starting to get hungry. He personally believed that he was living a pitiful life of starvation.

Jin Sheng had a look of melancholy as he said, "I really can't bear to part with them. Sigh. I spent so many years forming them. On average, I need ten years to form one. And it also isn't easy to grow them to the second tier..."

Wen Zhong sighed, "As humans, we have to avoid cultivating human characters. Is this really a good thing for us?"

It was quite sad. Why could humans not cultivate human characters?

Jin Sheng said, "Unless they focus exclusively on human characters. Perhaps this is an entirely different path..."

Wen Zhong said, "Over three hundred years ago, humanity did the same. Nobody cultivated human characters. As a result, we still don't have even one cultural researcher Invincible today. I suspect that only human characters can help a human cultural researcher become an Invincible. If that's the case, can Zhou Polong even succeed?"

This was Wen Zhong's conclusion from this little test and all his gathered information. Perhaps advancement was only possible for those exclusively cultivating human characters.

Jin Sheng helplessly said, "I don't know. It's not like everyone has the talent to become an Invincible. For most people, they are happy with the Sunmoon Realm. Who will worry about what comes next?"

"True." Wen Zhong nodded. That was right.

Even if cultivating non-human characters might completely block one's advancement, that would only be applicable to Invincibles. But one would have a higher chance of becoming a Sunmoon if one cultivated only non-human characters.

"Senior Sister Kong, do you want to give this a try as well?"

Su Yu smiled and asked the others. Were they interested in trying? From that little test, he could confirm one thing: Jin Sheng was not Lan Tian. He still wasn't too sure about the others.

Should he take this chance to verify all their identities? Deep inside, he was still quite worried. Was Lan Tian hiding near him? Previously, it was Zhao Ming. Could it be one of these old-timers this time? The closest people to Su Yu in Great Ming were the people here.

Wu Lan was cleared because the little furball could freely enter her sea of willpower like his personal farm. But that wasn't the case for the others.

Cao Hui said, "Forget about me. I'm only a seventh-stage Skysoar. I'll consider it again after opening a few apertures and reaching the ninth stage. I still can't bear to part with my characters for now."

"Same here." Wei Qi said, "I'm also a seventh-stage Skysoar. Yuxian is already at the eighth stage, though. Do you want to try, Yuxian?"

Kong Yuxian said, "No thanks. I still need my human characters for my willpower extraction projects. How am I supposed to proceed without those characters? Junior Brother Su, just help us when we're really about to die. Since we know you can help, we don't have to be so afraid anymore."

"..."

Jin Sheng looked at the speechlessly. "Am I the only one to do this? You guys are being too excessive!"

"Don't complain when you've benefited so much. You're now a Cloudbreach. And you still have so many characters left. Why do you even care about those characters?"

Su Yu had nothing to say. What could he do if they were unwilling? Was he supposed to force them?

Su Yu did not order the furball to forcefully enter their seas of willpower. Even if one of them was Lan Tian, the rest were innocent. There was no need to do something so drastic. Furthermore, it wasn't like they could do anything to Lan Tian if he really did show himself.

They couldn't even defeat him. Doing that would only create more unnecessary troubles. With Jin Sheng's successful advancement, they were all in a great mood. The dinner lasted until late at night.