Chapter 156 – The First Rune (2/2)

Ye Wei was immediately overwhelmed by a rush of joy, feeling euphoric, certain that this rune was the first of the fabled seven, ‘This makes sense right?’ He began to feel tired. Even though his investigation was almost automated, his lack of sleep did not make his over-worked brain any more relaxed.

There were so many runes in the volume, making a huge amount of knowledge and persistence necessary if he wished to find the single right rune. Nonetheless he was able to find the first. To find the second, third and proceeding further would become increasingly difficult if he was to employ the same method, as the pool of runes he had to process would just keep increasing.

‘I will send this in for now, and maybe revisit the question when I have time in the future!’ Thought Ye Wei, while writing down in details how the rune he found was an intrinsic ingredient to many powerful stances.

The jade walls of questions had always been the focus of Runemasters across all dynasties, most of them would find themselves using it either to solve the problems they face while cultivating or they would use the walls as the main way of earning contribution tokens.

The more difficult the questions got, the less attention they eventually receive. People who bothered to check any of the walls Ye Wei was on were mainly Grand-Runemasters.

Over at Sky Flood dynasty, a few Grand-Runemasters gathered at the union’s branch as they have been doing habitually for years, they were chatting over glasses of wine and one of then flipped over to the fifty-sixth jade wall’s content.

“Have you seen this? Someone actually answered the question!” Exclaimed one of the Grand-Runemaster, surprised to see an answer to the question for the first time in sixty years.

A lot of Runemasters tried to solve this problem as the reward for it was rather high, but for sixty years there was no one competent of doing so; nobody came remotely close to solving this question. Everyone assumed that it was put on the jade wall by someone incredibly powerful and it slowly turned to an enigma among the most powerful Grand-Runemasters.

It had been sixty years, but nobody ever found out who it was that listed such question.

“Are you kidding? How could this simple rune be one of the seven?”

“Look! There are some explanations!”

“What? Eight thousand stances? And this Runemaster arranged them into over seventy thousand stances? I mean it’s impressive that he or she went this far and found out that this one rune repeated itself in the stronger of stances… How long must it have taken? Ten years? I admire the dedication of doing such a repetitive project!”

They didn’t know that someone with a presence of Mystic Mount in his mind didn’t actually need to create his own stances but rather look through the knowledge already inside him, go through the original memories, which is much more easier than creating stances and runes from scratch.

“Haha, these seven runes… Some people think all of this is a myth, but if they do exist I guess it was worth this Runemaster’s effort and time! Just because we think it’s impossible, doesn’t mean others don’t have a way, right? I respect it if his answer proves itself to be correct!” The President of the dynasty’s union branch, Hu Yanzhuo paused to look at what Ye Wei wrote, and he began to realized the rune’s subtle but genius functions that had been ignored by the community for longer than he could care.

At the same moment another Runemaster exclaimed loudly.

“The person who answered the question already received the reward! His answer was accepted!”

“Are you certain? Well, that pretty much proves it! The person who was knowledgeable enough to post the question probably knows best, as he studied this subject thoroughly!”

“The first vermillion essence rune has been discovered! Should we try using the same system to find the other ones?”

“Forget about it! It probably took at least a decade for someone to learn eight thousand runes and go through all the Spirit stances to find the first vermillion essence rune! I am afraid that looking for the second rune will take double the time!”

Hu Yanzhuo could not check who posted the question but his clearance allowed him to check the identity of the union member who answer the questions from the jade wall.

“I am not sure I know who Master Ye is… “ murmured Hu Yanzhuo. “But if he was able to discover the first rune he must be a veteran.”

Hu Yanzhuo kept looking down to find out more about the mysterious Runemaster “He is sixteen years old and three star Runemaster?! What is this madness, is someone using him as a middleman?” He couldn’t believe that someone who just discovered the first vermillion essence rune was a young boy!

“Are you sure mister President? There must be some kind of a mistake? How could a sixteen year old…” “ The Grand-Runemasters stared at each other in awe.

At around the same time, the branch president of the Sacred Snow dynasty, Yang Shuo also learned the news.

“Ye Wei… This Ye Wei Kid again? God! He found a vermilion rune!? Who the hell is he?” Yang Shou was completely shocked by the answer he was reading: ‘How can a teenage boy managed to do something that would take a Grand-Runemaster at least a decade to achieve…’

The president quickly dismissed the possibilities of any mistakes being made regarding the authenticity of the small essay Ye Wei wrote as he saw the transaction confirmation. ‘I don’t see a problem in his proving method and he just earned five million tokens… This is unbelievable! I think we will have a very young new leader in the union soon!’ The thought sent a shiver down the president’s spine.

Everyone in the Runemaster Union across the lands were talking about this breaking news, that someone was finally able to give the correct answer to a high profile question on the jade wall.