prynovel Chapter 2, let's try to fail once!
Chapter 2, let's try to fail once!
After a dozen or so breaths.
Under the unusual gaze of the spirit sprouts, Wang Yan's thin body stopped trembling violently, and his tense back visibly relaxed.
Immediately afterwards, a satisfied announcement rang out from inside the hall.
"Level Two Spirit Sprout King Flame has successfully written a second-tier divine character!"
Zhao Mingtong's long face changed slightly, and a hint of embarrassment and annoyance appeared in his eyes.
"He succeeded again!"
However, Zhao Mingtong's expression quickly softened, and he arrogantly raised his sharp chin slightly: "Hmph, he only wrote second-tier divine characters. He must know that third-tier divine characters are too difficult to write! I still win!"
The other tired teenagers couldn't help but whisper with envy or jealousy.
"He succeeded again! He's only at the Town-level Sea of Consciousness stage, how can he be so powerful now? Is the third-tier 'Endurance' spirit really that strong?"
"He and Di Nan are from the same village. Could it be that their village has recently experienced a change in fortune?"
Encouraged by the announcement, Wang Yan was currently looking inward at his brilliant sea of consciousness.
"Sorry, Erdan, all the divine characters have already been installed in my sea of consciousness, along with other cheat codes. You definitely can't catch up with me. In the future, even Di Nan and Zhao Mingtong won't be able to catch up with me."
The divine characters on the black megalith possess various special powers, but during the process of successfully writing them for the first time, people suffer immense pain, such as being stabbed, electrocuted, paralyzed, or dizzy.
However, once one endures this pain and successfully writes it down, it will reside permanently in one's consciousness, strengthen the physical body, and combine into new combat techniques to fight against the ferocious wild beasts that invade from time to time.
It can also transform external mystic energy, invisible to ordinary people, into its own mystic power, amplifying the effects of these great powers.
However, very few people can withstand the pressure and successfully write the character "神" (god) on their first try.
The Yunding Sect has been established for thousands of years, yet it has only produced two outstanding individuals.
Many more people will fail several, dozens, or even hundreds of times, thus losing confidence.
If lower-ranking disciples are afraid of these pains and fail to write enough divine characters within the stipulated time, they will be forcibly sent to the wilderness labor camp to face ferocious mystical beasts.
The vibrant energy emanating from the walls can excite people and help lower-level disciples to some extent ignore pain, which is why they come here every day and incidentally learn the divine characters recorded by the Temple of Divine Arts.
But Wang Yan is different.
Although his body was still that of an ordinary farm boy, his soul had transformed two days prior into a modern-day PhD in ancient culture from a top-tier literary institution, familiar with over 7000 seal characters, and his sea of consciousness contained all the divine characters.
The inspirational power released by these ten words, "No pain, no gain," is at least three times stronger than the words on the wall!
The eight divine characters, "Eyes that see in all directions, ears that hear in all directions," grant Wang Yan the same vision as compound eyes, allowing him to see clearly the contents of the divine characters used by everyone. His hearing is also all-encompassing, enabling him to clearly distinguish movements from all directions, making him far more perceptive than other disciples of the same cultivation level.
He also had an extra transparent holographic panel in front of him compared to others, with a framed section on which the three characters "Strong, Speed, Life" were placed side by side, releasing twice as much energy as the original combination of the character "God".
The Cloud Cauldron Sect is a second-class sect, with a territory spanning tens of thousands of miles, controlling two secular kingdoms and hundreds of millions of people. Above it are three first-class sects. Currently, there are countless people stronger than Wang Yan. If he doesn't want to be bullied by others all the time, he needs to improve his cultivation level quickly to unlock more character-related fields.
"I'm only at the mid-stage of the Profound Movement realm, and my Profound Power is too weak. I can only mobilize the power of about twenty Divine Ranks. I have to do chores for half a day each day, and I can only come here to absorb Profound Energy for the other half."
"To advance to a Level 3 Spirit Sprout without chores, I need to write 180 second-tier divine characters and 15 third-tier divine characters, which I can do right now. But the original owner only advanced to a Level 2 Spirit Sprout a month ago, and it takes others at least half a year to advance from Level 2 to Level 3... Maybe I should postpone it for another ten days!"
"Today I have pretended to have put a lot of effort into writing four second-tier divine characters. My speed ranks second among second-tier spiritual sprouts. I have also absorbed profound energy for nearly two hours. I can pause now. Why don't I write the third-tier character 'defense' and pretend to fail once?"
Wang Yan made up his mind, opened his eyes, and continued to write the wrong thing.
When he made a mistake in writing, he immediately felt waves crashing around him like an overturned tidal wave, and his whole body ached.
His right hand, which was gripping the sharp stone nail, began to bulge with veins and tremble slightly.
His jaw was clenched, and he gasped for breath from time to time.
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At the same time, in the deacon's rest room of the Xi Shen Temple, Hu Jingfa, the inner sect Dan Ding Peak deacon, pointed in surprise at Wang Yan, who was twitching on the observation water mirror, and asked Guo Rongjin, the very respectful deacon of the Xi Shen Temple beside him, with a hint of interest in his eyes.
"This is Wang Yan, who two days ago wrote the third-tier divine character 'Endurance,' surpassing his own level. And these past two mornings, he has written eight second-tier divine characters in succession?"
There are always some people in this world who like to tend to flowers and plants, and gradually they have developed elixirs that can enhance one's skills and promote rapid recovery.
Hu Jingfa was responsible for helping Dan Ding Peak recruit promising young disciples.
Guo Rongjin's narrowed eyes darted around quickly. Remembering that his grandson, who had just opened up a county-level sea of consciousness, had just used a Qi-cultivating pill given to him by Wang Yan, he immediately answered respectfully.
"It's him! He's a town-level Sea of Consciousness. His speed in writing divine characters used to be just average, but it has improved extremely quickly in the last two days, second only to Di Nan, the disciple of Uncle Zhu Ning of Fire Refining Peak, and Zhao Mingtong, the grandson of Uncle Zhao."
Hu Jingfa's thick, slightly red eyebrows furrowed in disdain: "I remember, Di Nan only wrote the character 'Nai' a month after he advanced to the third level of Spirit Sprout, right? At that time, Uncle-Master Zhu Ning even praised Di Nan for his perseverance."
Guo Rongjin felt relieved and immediately smiled in agreement: "You're right. In my opinion, Wang Yan's perseverance is not much worse than Di Nan's. He was just too weak before because his family was too poor and he couldn't eat much."
"Now that he's joined the sect, he gets meat and vegetables at every meal. His physical foundation has been repaired, and he'll most likely be able to enter the Condensation Realm. If there are other opportunities, he might even be able to enter the Solidification Realm. He's worth nurturing."
What is the Solid Foundation Realm?
Zhao Mingtong's grandfather, Zhao Mujian, was over 350 years old, a prefecture-level sea of consciousness, and in the early stage of the Solid Origin Realm. He served as the second elder of Fire Refining Peak.
The Hu Jingfa before me is a state-level expert in the Sea of Consciousness, with excellent aptitude. At around 250 years old, he has already surpassed the Profound Movement Realm and the Profound Breaking Realm, and is at the peak of the Condensing Yuan Realm. He has long made an agreement with the peak master of Dan Ding Peak to step down from his position as deacon in five years and focus on cultivation to advance to the Solidifying Yuan Realm, and then become an elder.
Therefore, those at the Solid Origin Realm are considered the backbone of the Cloud Cauldron Sect!
Hu Jingfa, who was looking at the water mirror, immediately glanced at Guo Rongjin, his eyes revealing a knowing understanding of the ways of the world.
Since they were all stewards, Guo Rongjin wasn't particularly guilty and his smile remained unchanged.
After a few breaths, Hu Jingfa lazily asked again, "So, you think Wang Yan has more potential than Zhao Mingtong?"