Chapter 473: A Learned Scholar (1/2)

Chapter 473: A Learned Scholar

Hua Mu took Nie Tian to a main road that led to Desolate City, gave him a Sound Stone, and left.

Hua Mu told him that the Sound Stone he gave him was very advanced and special. It was a Sound Stone forged by Zhen Huilan, which would allow them to communicate from any location in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation.

The conversation between Nie Tian, Hua Mu, and Wu Ji actually didn’t last very long. If he wanted to catch up to Dong Li or Pei Qiqi, he might be able to.

However, he didn’t.

Where he was standing was surrounded by numerous volcanoes, and about five days’ walk from Desolate City.

He could see many Qi warriors who were hastening toward the mountain valley where the battle between Qi Bailu and Zhao Shanling had taken place, as well as equipment forgers who were heading back toward Desolate City.

He took his time as he marched towards Desolate City. Every once in a while, he would take out the book Wu Ji had given him and read a few pages.

It wasn’t a thick book, but it carried Wu Ji’s whole life’s understanding of ancient Qi warriors, outsiders, and modern Qi warriors, as well as soul power, bloodline power, and spiritual power.

After arriving at the foot of a volcano, Nie Tian saw that there wasn’t anyone around, and thus started reading that book again.

According to Wu Ji, humans were the weakest among all the intelligent races.

Humans would have to pass their various incantations and magics to their disciples or children through dictation or written form.

A number of extremely powerful experts had died before they had a chance to record or impart their lifetime of wisdom and knowledge to their disciples. Many exquisite magics and incantations had been lost like this.

However, outsiders that carried powerful bloodlines wouldn’t need to worry about that.

Outsiders could imprint their knowledge and wisdom on their bloodlines so their descendants would naturally inherit them.

The younger generations of powerful bloodlines would be able to receive their ancestors’ profound knowledge and understanding of their bloodline power through the transcendence or enhancement of their own bloodlines.

This was only Wu Ji’s theory, which he had derived from a lifetime of learning. However, as a person who actually possessed such a special bloodline, Nie Tian’s personal experience had proven his theory correct.

In fact, Nie Tian didn’t know much about his mysterious bloodline. He had only awakened his three bloodline talents and imprinted them in the depths of his soul through achieving a natural transcendence of his bloodline.

He believed that as his bloodline continued to transcend, he would get to learn more and more about the profound truths of life power from his unique bloodline.

This method of inheritance, which was through no language or symbols, but rather the passing on of bloodlines, was indeed unfathomable.

He also learned from the book Wu Ji had given him that humans had only developed the whole cultivation system of absorbing and drawing power from the spiritual Qi with their spiritual seas because humans were born with feeble bodies and bloodlines.

Humans’ spiritual seas were their source of power. They would need spiritual power to activate all sorts of incantations or arts.

As for outsiders, their hearts were their source of power. They could use their hearts to summon strength and disperse it into their flesh and blood.

Their hearts served similar functions as humans’ spiritual seas.

Their blood carried copious amount of blood Qi, which was similar to the spiritual power that circulated in humans through their meridians. Therefore, it was just the energy of heaven and earth in another form.

In the book, Wu Ji had specifically noted that, in light of Nie Tian’s uniqueness, he needed to refine his body as well as his blood.

The book also contained Wu Ji’s numerous conjectures, which he could not be completely sure of. Therefore, he had urged Nie Tian to make his own judgment according to his personal experiences.

Normally, it would only take him five days to walk back to Desolate City, yet it took him eight days.

During that time, he read the book Wu Ji had given him three times and then burned it to ashes.

Thanks to that book, many cultivation matters he hadn’t grasped or understood before gradually became clearer.

He found the part about outsiders and their bloodlines especially helpful. Wu Ji’s thorough explanation had confirmed many of his own speculations, as well as given him new ideas.

Looking down at the ashes on the ground, Nie Tian recalled some of the profound contents of the book, and inwardly marveled at Wu Ji’s wisdom.

Instead of a Qi warrior, perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to his master as a scholar of the studies of outsiders, humans, bloodlines, spiritual power, and souls.

He couldn’t understand how his master had come to know so much. After all, the outsiders had left the Domain of the Falling Stars thousands of years ago. Where could he have obtained all this knowledge?

He had mastered all of the outsiders’ languages, had a deep understandings of outsiders’ bloodlines, and came to unique perceptions of humans’ and outsiders’ cultivation systems.

Furthermore, that book was just the tip of the iceberg. There must be much more valuable knowledge in Wu Jing’s mind that he hadn’t put in that book.

Nie Tian even had a feeling that the only reason why his master had been afflicted with his insufficient lifespan problem and failed to advance to the Soul realm was because he had poured too much time and energy into the studies of those fields, instead of his own cultivation.

Hua Mu’s cultivation base was clearly much higher than his, yet deep respect could be sensed from Hua Mu’s expressions and language when facing him.