Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu kept trying. After a while, he frowned. A lot of new acupoints were required. The Life Trigger could be considered a unique technique requiring 108 acupoints. And the Heaven Connecting Acupoint was one of them. If one didn't already have these acupoints opened, at the Cloudbreach and Mountainsea Realms, it would be very hard to open these acupoints.

"Those with a low number of overlap acupoints will need to open as many as fifty or sixty new acupoints..."

In that case, Sunmoons like Hu Qi would be in great trouble. It was too difficult for Sunmoons to open new acupoints.

"Heavenly source qi is actually very good for acupoint opening."

That was one of the functions of heavenly source fruits. But a Sunmoon would require a large amount of heavenly source qi to open new acupoints.

"Furthermore, this Life Trigger is mostly helpful with one's physical body. Does it help with withering seas of willpower?"

After using the ability, his body felt much younger than before, but nothing seemed to have changed about his sea of willpower. This ability would be helpful to those who were experiencing a decline in their physical bodies.

"I still need a soul technique to solve this issue. I need something utilizing apertures instead of acupoints to help with seas of willpower. Do I need to capture some cultural researchers for their blood essence?"

Su Yu suspected that the cultural researchers of the immortals would have different foundation arts and racial abilities than their warriors. No matter what, he had discovered something new. People like Hu Qi were mainly suffering from physical injuries. Elderly warriors were the ones who would be suffering from more willpower injuries due to their weaker willpower.

While testing this ability, Su Yu did not forget to use this ability to increase his heavenly source qi absorption speed and forge his body. His current willpower cultivation speed was quite slow.

That was mainly due to a lack of willpower for him to absorb. That wasn't the case for his physical cultivation. He could grow rapidly and forge his body several times for a massive increase in strength.

A large amount of heavenly source qi was absorbed by him. Heavenly source qi was required for his body forging and the activation of Life Trigger. Strand after strand of golden heavenly source qi entered his body. His body continued growing stronger, but the occasional release of impurities from his lower body was making him rather uncomfortable.

This was most certainly not an ability he could use in public. It would totally destroy his image. It didn't matter how useful this ability was. It would still be embarrassing. After all, not even the immortals had used this ability in public before.

Nevertheless, Su Yu was still in a good mood after discovering something that could repair physical bodies. After a while, he tried the Flesh Regrow ability. It consumed a large amount of source qi to regrow one's body. It was a pretty decent ability.

Flesh regrow and flesh rebuild were very different from each other. Flesh regrow was a healing process, regrowing one's body to the previous state. Meanwhile, flesh rebuild was the process of starting from scratch after destruction. The new body would have to start at the Source Opening Realm.

That was what Hu Hao, the person who had helped Su Yu during the Starfall Mountain incident, was experiencing. If he had a flesh regrow technique instead, he would have been able to regrow his body and rapidly return to the Mountainsea Realm.

Instead, he was forced to restart his physical cultivation from scratch after the destruction of his body.

***

The public perception of Su Yu's research center was that it had been producing result after result.

While Su Yu was working on his newly discovered Life Trigger, the Source Soul Acupoint Opening Art, which was essentially the renamed version of the Body Strengthening Art, started dissemination on a small scale. It would first be spread inside Great Ming. The war academies of Great Ming had all replaced the War God Art with the Source Soul Acupoint Opening Art.

With that, Great Ming had completely changed their basic cultivation method. As for the cultural academies, they had all started cultivating the Source Soul Cultural Art. These academies were essentially a gathering place of geniuses.

For these students, changing their cultivation methods would only increase their cultivation speed. Nobody would say no to that. Dissemination was slower in the army. These new cultivation methods required a decent number of new acupoints, so talent and time were still required to cultivate them.

At this time, the Source Soul Research Center released a new art, the Source Soul Foundation Building Art. It required only fifty-four acupoints and was considered a middle-tier profound-grade art. It was a complementary art to the Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art.

Out of the fifty-four acupoints it required, thirty-six overlapped with the Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art. In other words, after opening the acupoints of this new art, one would be able to rapidly enter the Infinite Strength Realm.

This art was more suitable for the common people and regular soldiers. It was much stronger than the Great Strength Art and it only required eighteen additional acupoints. As for the geniuses of the army, they were starting to cultivate the Source Soul Acupoint Opening Art.

Great Ming was rapidly replacing all their basic cultivation methods.

Basic version of the Source Soul Foundation Building Art, genius version of the Source Soul Acupoint Opening Art, and the Source Soul Cultural Art that all cultural researchers required. One cultivation method after another appeared, spreading Source Soul Research Center's name far and wide in a short time.

The switch of all basic cultivation methods in an entire prefecture signified the trust the prefecture on the Source Soul Research Center. This also signified their trust in Su Yu and their satisfaction with the cultivation methods.

Great Qin was also doing the same, albeit at a slower pace. They first tried switching the cultivation methods of their academies in the Human Realm. Only then would the switch progress in their military by stages.

Once again, Su Yu's name was spoken all over the Human Realm. The education and military sectors were starting to switch to his cultivation methods. Sales of his cultivation method had also started in the market, allowing the common populace to purchase them as well.

At this point, the previously released Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art had performed exceedingly well. According to the statistics, in the past three months, Great Xia, the first prefecture to use this cultivation method, had gained over ten thousand new Infinite Strength cultivators.

Most of these newly advanced warriors were members of the military and the war academies. However, the number of new Skysoar cultural researchers had dropped. There was no helping that as all the Mental Tempering Stage students were busy opening apertures. Even if they couldn't open seventy-two apertures, they still aimed to open as many as they could. They would be able to rapidly reach the ninth-stage Skysoar Realm even if they could only open thirty-six apertures.

Thus, all these people were holding back on advancements. Only those failing to suppress their willpower from breaking through would advance to the next realm. One could say that all the Mental Tempering Stage students were currently busy suppressing their willpower from breaking through.

In short, the warriors were rapidly gaining strength while the cultural researchers were busy accumulating potential.

This new development also encouraged many cultural researchers to place more focus on their physical cultivation. Since they couldn't advance rapidly in willpower cultivation, they decided to advance their physical cultivation in the meantime. This had changed from the past when everyone was trying to rapidly advance their willpower cultivation.

Nowadays, those failing to suppress their willpower to advance into the Skysoar Realm would be laughed at by everyone. For example, there were frequent rumors of this and that fellow who had helplessly advanced into the Skysoar Realm after opening nine apertures and failing to suppress the breakthrough. Yes, helplessly advanced. That was the term used.

The general atmosphere among the cultural researchers had changed greatly. In this new atmosphere, forming more characters at the Mental Tempering Stage seemed to have turned into a trend as that was the best method of suppressing one's breakthrough. And thus, the multiple character faction started gaining momentum.

It didn't even need the disassembly method to start gaining momentum. Rather, it only required the Source Soul Cultural Art.

Not even Su Yu had expected that. He had overestimated the talent of all other cultivators. He had assumed that everyone had the ability to suppress their willpower until opening 180 apertures like him. But he couldn't be more wrong.

After all, the opening of more apertures would only increase one's willpower absorption speed and hasten growth. But if one advanced too fast, one's subsequent progress would slow down. This was completely unlike how things were in the past. Previously, nobody wanted to stay in the Mental Tempering Stage for long. Now, everyone wanted to stay there as long as possible.

It would be even better if they could stay until they were done opening seventy-two apertures.

Everyone was busy using their extra willpower to nurture their characters. If one character wasn't enough, they would form two, three, or even ten characters. It no longer mattered. So what if they were forced to stay in the Mental Tempering Stage for seven or eight years?

After getting through this phase, they would be able to rapidly enter the Skysoar and Cloudbreach Realms. In the past, they wouldn't be able to enter the Cloudbreach Realm even after thirty years of hard work.

Previously, being stuck in the Mental Tempering Stage for seven, eight, or ten years was something nobody could accept. But everyone was starting to find that acceptable. With more apertures, they would still be stronger even if they remained at the Mental Tempering Stage. They might even put up a fight against some of the weaker Skysoars.

Thus, strictly speaking, their combat strength wouldn't be lowered too much with this delay yet they could greatly enhance their future potential. And if they could form a character technique on top of that, they would definitely be as strong as Skysoars. Because of that, a lot of people started picking the multiple character faction.

Just like that, the multiple character faction started recovering from the brink of destruction. This caught many people by surprise, including Su Yu himself.