673 Humanity 3 (1/2)

Dyon perked up when he heard this, focusing his attention on his grand teacher's voice.

'The first is that Eli can give other portions of his Heaven's Love through his blood and soul. In fact, his wife should have received portions of it already, this will help with her cultivation greatly. It will also reduce the difficulty of her tribulations when she crosses into sainthood and beyond.

'Through this same vein, if Eli is present, he can pardon you of having to partake in a tribulation at all.'

'What?!' Dyon nearly jumped up from his position.

'You have to be very careful of using this method.' Dyon's grand teacher reminded sternly. He could already tell what Dyon wanted to do. He had refrained from absorbing the energy kernel all this time because of the issue of heavenly tribulations, so the moment he found a way out of it, he wanted to benefit from it immediately. But, as Dyon's grand teacher had said before, everything comes with a price.

'If you use Eli in this way, and if for any reason he is unable to be present during your next tribulation, the heavenly lightning will increase by at least a hundred-fold of what it was before. This becomes ten thousand fold if you use Eli twice, and he is unable to be there for the third time. Do you understand?'

When Dyon heard this, he fell into deep contemplation once again. He knew that Eli could never die, but that didn't mean he couldn't be captured. It also didn't mean that Dyon couldn't be captured too.

Dyon was already aware that sometimes, it just became impossible to suppress cultivation any longer. If he somehow spent an extended period of time away from Eli at the wrong time, things could take a turn for the worse.

'I understand.'

'Good. However, his blood is still useful. It can increase the grade of weapons, pills, even plants. Depending on the quality of the material, of course. Basically, it raises most things to its full potential.

'As you've probably gotten used to it by now, you must understand that there is a limiter on this as well. Depending on the material, the amount of blood necessary varies. If Eli wanted to improve your 33 heaven's weapons, he would need thousands of times the amount of blood in his body right now. So, it's best you stick to the simple things. I'm sure you're smart enough to find a good use that doesn't have your friend in a coma for half his life.'

'You said there were two things, but all of this has been under one big umbrella.'

'The second thing is a bit of understanding by the universe. Those who are blessed with Heaven's Love live for millions of years, but it would be depressing if they wielded no power.

'As such, heaven's children will always have one skill that they transcend others in. You could call them savants, without the mental detriment.

'I'm sure you already know what your friend Eli's ability is.'

Dyon eyes sharpened. 'His affinity for plants and gardening… It's more than a little impressive.'

'I see that you've noticed already. Although you have your array alchemy, not every plant can just be magically conjured up. Or, more accurately, they can't all be conjured up in a state where they're useful to you.

'There are pills that require plants that have been tempered with very specific things that an array alchemy creation formation can't replicate. If you continued to use such a method for your alchemy, you'd eventually reach a bottle neck.'

Dyon understood this point as well. He couldn't very well use his arrays to replicate, say, age. That was the very first thing he thought of. If a pill recipe called for a 1000-year-old plant, it was impossible to replicate such a thing.

This bottle neck also existed for plants nurtured by abyssal cores. Unless Dyon understood the will of that specific abyssal core to the extent of a peak dao, he wouldn't be able to replicate it.