Chapter 756: What Are Weapon Laws? (1/2)
Arc laughed as he smirked smugly. ”Actually, this entire thing was created by me.”
”By you?” Gravis asked. ”Does this mean that this comprehension method only exists in this world?”
”No, it exists in every world,” Arc said.
Gravis blinked a couple of times. ”Could you explain?”
”Well, it's like this,” Arc said as he leaned back with a smile. ”I hate seeing talent getting wasted. Yet, what is talent? What is the definition of talent? That's something debatable, but in my mind, talent represents the mindset of a Cultivator and their affinity towards the Laws.”
”Someone that manages to comprehend Laws faster than others is obviously more talented. However, what allows someone to comprehend Laws faster?”
”It's the mindset,” Arc said, tapping his head. ”Specifically, the enjoyment of comprehending Laws and the abilities of the mind. If comprehending Laws is a chore, it will be far harder for you to focus and force you to comprehend Laws. At some point, you will also become burned out.”
”The next thing is how you go about comprehending Laws. You, for example, are a very logical person. You analyze all the individual details and combine them into one whole concept. Like this, you comprehended a Law.”
”This was all it has been for a really, really long time. However, this meant that only the logical people that loved finding problems and solving them became really powerful.”
”So, I started comparing the Laws to people. You can analyze a person and run innumerable tests on them until you know how they will react to any given situation.”
”Yet, are there not also people that know how someone will react just based on how that person feels to them? Your friend, Ferris, is one of these beings. You have already seen that he has a great talent for finding trustworthy people. However, you also know that Ferris definitely isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.”
”So, how come that he is even better at judging others than you?”
”It's his empathy and feeling,” Gravis answered. ”Ferris trusts his feelings and somehow knows if that person is trustworthy or not.”
”Exactly,” Arc said with a smirk. ”So, why is it that the Laws can't be comprehended like this?”
”The answer is actually rather simple,” Arc said. ”Because my creator designed it in such a way.”
”Even though I dislike my creator immensely, I contacted him and told him about this change. Why not also allow a Law to be comprehended the other way around?”
”Could you elaborate?” Gravis asked.
”Simple. Every Law has its own minute and subtle feeling. If you are able to grasp the feeling of the Law, you will still know what it does in any given situation. The problem back then was that the people didn't know the specifics of the Laws, which made it impossible to be used, even though they perfectly knew the Law based on feeling.”
”Thus, my creator tweaked the comprehension of Laws a little bit. Now, as long as someone perfectly knows how a Law feels, the Law will tell them all the small details about it. Thus, they also manage to comprehend the Law.”
”So, in short, you learn all the details and combine them by analyzing, thinking, and calculating. In comparison, the Synchronization Comprehension method creates the entire concept and then delivers all the small details.”
”Both comprehension methods are equally difficult since you need to understand the entire Law regardless, but the affinity for different Cultivators changes. With this, people that have an incredible talent for empathy and feeling can also comprehend these Laws.”
Gravis remained silent for some seconds. ”That actually sounds impossible. Yet, the highest Heaven simply made the impossible possible.”
Arc nodded. ”Yes. It's his Cosmos, and he can do with it whatever he wants.”
”Anyway, that's the reason why the Unrestrained Sect comprehends the Laws differently from you. They concentrate on them and synchronize their mindsets. This takes a lot of time and concentration, but it works.”
”However, this method only works for Cultivators that would rather follow their gut than their mind. You, on the other hand, always follow your mind over your gut.”
Gravis nodded. ”Definitely. Nothing against you, but this Synchronization Comprehension method is absolutely useless to me.”
Arc laughed loudly. ”I know. Anyway, you already heard the explanation from Surem about how to comprehend Weapon Laws via the Synchronization Comprehension method. Can you find out the actual way of comprehending the Law by his words?”
Gravis frowned as he looked down. His finger went to his chin to scratch it as he began thinking.
The words Surem had said went through Gravis' mind. He said that Gravis should concentrate on the feeling of his weapon and worship it. He also said that the weapon was Gravis and that Gravis was his weapon. Without his weapon, a Cultivator would lose everything.
This sounded similar to something else.
Hadn't Gravis said that he was lightning and that lightning was him? This was basically the same thing.