After arranging the matters concerning Su Yu and Huo Yuhao, Mirror Hongchen began to urge his grandchildren to cultivate again.
Originally, he had no worries about their cultivation, but the appearance of Su Yu and Huo Yuhao forced him to pay more attention.
"Xiao, Meng, you two also need to quickly sketch your runes."
After returning from the Soul Fighting Competition, the two were trying to sketch runes. However, the time the Purple Qi at the Horizon lasted each day was too short, greatly limiting rune cultivation.
In fact, the siblings had long since sketched the framework.
Though the Purple Qi was insufficient, with the refinement of theory, the framework became more reasonable. They could sketch runes with their mental power.
As long as they didn't exhaust their spiritual power, they could sketch runes.
In just five days, they reached the level of "sketch perfection" that Su Yu had achieved before.
But due to the lack of Purple Qi infusion, the effects of the initial runes were not obvious.
They could only continue to perfect the rune structure, enhance the effects, and absorb Purple Qi to improve the quality of the runes.
Contrarily, Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed was faster than the siblings.
During the Soul Fighting Competition, under the guidance of Mirror Hongchen, he began to learn the Rune Technique and sketched a Gathering Rune in the Sea of Spirit.
With the experience of cultivating with the Purple Extreme Demon Eye, his efficiency in absorbing Purple Qi was higher.
With the help of the Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm, constructing the runes and sketching them posed no difficulty.
Under these advantageous conditions, his runes had already shown significant effects.
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In Mirror Hongchen's view, the dissemination of the Rune Technique concept was enough; the specific condensation and structuring of runes would become very personal legacies in the future. Similar to soul-guiding technology, while exchange and learning are possible, there's also an obligation to keep technology confidential.
After initially obtaining the two rune structures condensed by Su Yu when he learned of Su Yu's Rune Technique, he began constructing his own rune system.
This time Huo Yuhao needed the Condensing Rune perfected by Su Yu, so Mirror Hongchen let Huo Yuhao learn from Su Yu, refraining from intervening.
For Huo Yuhao to learn from Su Yu was part of Huo Yuhao's own destiny.
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"Brother Su, I will be relying on you from now on." Huo Yuhao said to Su Yu.
The Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm had frequently spoken in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit of Su Yu's uniqueness.
Having evolved the ultimate Life Martial Soul and developed cultivation techniques for the Extreme Martial Soul, even creating the Rune Technique—these accomplishments left the million-year-old Big Worm feeling inferior.
Huo Yuhao also deeply recognized Su Yu's strength.
In his perception, Su Yu's strength wasn't about the absolute power possessed by the teachers at Shrek but about a strength of ideology.
The strength of talent.
...
In learning the Condensing Rune, Huo Yuhao was very earnest.
Su Yu taught earnestly as well.
He found that while explaining runes to Huo Yuhao, he gained a lot himself.
Though Huo Yuhao's soul-guiding theory was not as advanced as Su Yu's, and he couldn't propose more refined ideas regarding the rune structure.
However, in his Sea of Spirit resided a million-year-old spirit system Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm.
Even though it reached a million years by lying down, its competence was still evident, and lack of refinement was only relevant among its own rank.
The spiritual power of the Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm was definitely not lacking, having undergone numerous transformations.
Thus, there was an innate understanding of rune structures.
Perhaps he didn't know why, but he could tell you that modifying a stroke would improve the effect of spiritual power condensation.
This was the main source of Su Yu's gains.
Through teaching Huo Yuhao, Su Yu indirectly received assistance from the Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm, strengthening the Condensing Rune's effect.
"Apart from runes, there's also cultivation techniques."
Huo Yuhao was also cultivating Su Yu's techniques, but those techniques didn't significantly condense Soul Power.
This was because Su Yu hadn't had the chance to refine them yet.
"I suspect that the reason Shrek can cultivate Soul Masters with Extreme Martial Souls is closely related to the Tang Sect's Profound Celestial Skill. The Profound Celestial Skill should have the effects of condensing Soul Power and strengthening the foundation and nourishing the essence, right?"
Huo Yuhao nodded.
"That's right, continue to cultivate the Profound Celestial Skill for now. When my cultivation technique is further refined, you can transition later."
"This..." Huo Yuhao hesitated.
After joining the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy, he deliberately stopped cultivating the Tang Sect's techniques.
Especially after apprenticing under Mirror Hongchen, he completely ceased cultivating the Profound Celestial Skill.
He felt an immense guilt towards Tang Ya, who bore the hope of the entire Tang Sect alone.
"Why, do you feel guilty?"
Su Yu noticed Huo Yuhao's struggle.
"What's there to struggle with? You've learned it, and it's your encounter. As for reclaiming everything and abolishing cultivation, that's nonsense.
Did Tang San, the ancestor of the Tang Sect, not learn secret techniques from other sects?
There weren't any problems then.
If he could learn others' things, why can't others learn his?"
"Whatever debt there is, repay it when you grow stronger. No need to agonize over it."
After all, it's just a transitional period. Once Su Yu's cultivation technique is further refined, cultivating the Profound Celestial Skill will no longer be necessary, and the debt won't be substantial.
In fact, once Huo Yuhao understands everything, he probably won't even consider repaying any favors...
Su Yu's guidance made Huo Yuhao feel much better.
"Indeed, Yuhao, let's cultivate first. If you feel you owe the Tang Sect, repay that favor in the future."
The Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm also agreed with Su Yu's perspective, fervently advising in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit.
Huo Yuhao finally overcame his inner barrier and planned to continue cultivating the Profound Celestial Skill and Purple Extreme Demon Pupil.
"By the way, Brother Su, I remember you saying that the Essence Sect is the most suitable for me."
Su Yu coughed a few times.
Just having guided Huo Yuhao to dismiss sectarian views, hearing Huo Yuhao's question left Su Yu speechless.
So, you want to have another alliance?
You're quite adept at applying what you've learned, aren't you?
Under Su Yu's gaze, Huo Yuhao felt a bit shy and scratched his head in embarrassment.
"The Essence Sect's exploration of the Body Martial Soul is the deepest, and their application of the Body Martial Soul is the strongest.
In today's world, no matter how talented a genius from Shrek Academy is, they wouldn't dare claim to suppress the Essence Sect among same-level rivals.
The second awakening method of the Body Martial Soul they possess is crucial for you."
After setting aside sectarian views, the more Huo Yuhao listened, the more appealing the Essence Sect seemed.
"You don't need to worry about the second awakening of the Spiritual Eyes; the Essence Sect's Dharma Gate isn't that difficult. It's about challenging one's physical limits and awakening through willpower."
Su Yu had considered this profoundly before speaking.
He didn't disclose the source of this information.
At the same time, he could prompt a certain insider within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit to further explain the second awakening of the Body Martial Soul to him.