Chapter 1267: The Whole and the Individual

Qu Jianlei’s technique of divine sense differentiation has actually been perfected to a considerable extent.

However, he has two concerns, one is Granny Jia, and the other is his teammates below the Supreme level.

Practicing this magic door causes great pain to the mind, and spiritual power will be damaged.

Granny Jia’s body and mind are already adjusted to a very perfect state, not suitable for any further disturbances.

And for those companions whose cultivation level has not reached the Supreme level, some may find using this magic door somewhat difficult.

Technically speaking, A-level is equivalent to Foundation Establishment in the cultivation system, or as Golden Crow Bing said, Out of Dust, already able to use divine sense.

But the Awakened system is ultimately a monkey version and cannot be considered a legitimate cultivator.

At the same time, Qu Jianlei is well aware that all of his members are individually proud, and none would yield to others.

Even the only two B-levels, Celestial Sound and Claire, have very high spirits.

Therefore, he always wanted to perfect the magic door before teaching it to everyone.

Now Granny Jia has secluded herself, and coincidentally finished the latest version of the divine sense differentiation improvement, the idea of appropriately promoting it could be considered.

After two days, Qu Jianlei began teaching everyone the application of divine sense, even Mu Guang listened to his teachings.

In Qu Jianlei’s view, this magic door is an upgrade in the use of spiritual power, developing new application methods.

It is certainly valuable, but not enough to cause too much covetousness — among the Awakened, who doesn’t have their own treasures?

So he felt there was no need to discriminate against Mu Guang. After all, Mu Guang is going to act as a Dharma Protector here for a while.

Speaking of compensation, he has already given a reward—the magic door for wood attribute usage in the Five Elements Battle Array.

This is just a single position, but if Mu Guang is willing to delve into it, his understanding of the Five Elements Battle Array will greatly improve.

Given time, calculating a monkey version of the Five Elements Battle Array isn’t impossible—after all, Earth Scholar has always been researching battle arrays.

However, no matter what, merely giving one-fifth of the battle array magic door as compensation feels a bit insufficient.

This is Mu Guang’s personal contribution, so it’s best to provide suitable single-use magic doors, and the application of divine sense is quite appropriate.

Qu Jianlei shared his thoughts with everyone, and others agreed.

When informing Mu Guang, he specifically reminded, “This magic door is only taught to you.”

Mu Guang certainly understood what it meant and agreed without hesitation.

He even very frankly stated, “This can become my trump card; how could I use it to strengthen others?”

Mu Guang is not an unreasonable person; since he obtained the magic door without any cost, he also pondered how to reciprocate.

Without returning the favor is naturally fine, but truly thinking that way narrows the path—relationships grow closer over time.

Mu Guang knows his daughter has a good relationship with the other party, but he wouldn’t rely solely on his daughter to maintain this relationship.

Therefore, he expressed that he cannot learn the magic door for free, and if your side has any research needs, feel free to let me know.

The Archaeology Enthusiast Association has a collection of many precious materials, some parts of which are available for external borrowing.

Available borrowing materials… probably wouldn’t be of much use, right? Qu Jianlei’s perspective now is indeed quite high.

However, he hasn’t reached the level of arrogance to disregard everything—knowledge is never enough.

Nutrient Injection also thought this way, as he boldly stated, “Could you list the materials available for borrowing in detail?”

Mu Guang looked at him, half-laughing, half-crying, “Why do I always feel you’re targeting me? Listing details… do you think it’s appropriate?”

Displaying the organization’s foundation to others, isn’t this putting me in a tough spot?

However, Nutrient Injection, in a righteously justified manner, retorted, “Is it inconvenient for you to list details, or is our topic suitable to tell you?”

For various forces, self-research projects in secrecy are certainly not convenient to disclose.

Mu Guang was rendered speechless, ultimately sighing, “Well, I’ll accept this sentiment for now.”

But he secretly resolved that if he gained anything more, he could consider the other party’s needs.

After Mu Guang left, Nutrient Injection explained to Qu Jianlei, “I wasn’t targeting him, mainly this person… has his own career.”

Qu Jianlei smiled, “You’re considering the team, I didn’t say anything.”

Nutrient Injection hesitated before speaking, “Boss, the one behind me actually has something on hand that you’d like to borrow and see?”

The one above the Supreme? Qu Jianlei was slightly tempted; whatever could catch a Fake Nascent Soul’s eye should be stronger than Earth Scholar’s findings, right?

“I feel you estimate you might face some difficulty, right? Moreover, I’m not sure what kind of price to pay.”

Nutrient Injection thought for a moment and nodded, “As long as you’re interested, boss, I am not too troubled. These things… depend on opportunity.”

Merciful Heaven, no one knows how long he has been waiting for this topic, finally he waited for it.

Thus, he truly feels a bit grateful to Mu Guang; thanks to this guy for picking up the thread, he was able to carry on the conversation.

He actually has no gripe with Mu Guang; as to why his attitude is this way… well, perhaps only Qinghu can guess.

In the following time, everyone is cultivating the divine sense technique taught by the boss.

Just as Qu Jianlei anticipated, except for the Supreme level, other A-level members refused to give up practicing.

Qu Jianlei couldn’t forcefully stop everyone, he could only remind them not to push themselves, or they might suffer severe brain damage.

However, this advice… it seemed like Mu Yu took it more seriously, as she indeed suffered quite a loss.

On the contrary, Mu Guang had an idea of jumping ahead because he felt a blatant discrimination, and he wanted to prove himself.

— So, you all think you’re not to be messed with, right? Well, we’ll see after we compare!

Physical competition was obviously inappropriate, but the emergence of the new Magic Door offered him a fair chance to compete.

But unfortunately, just on the third day after obtaining the Divine Sense Technique, someone successfully cultivated it.

It was none other than the one always rivaling Mu Guang with his Nutrient Injection, his face was slightly pale, indicating he suffered quite a bit during cultivation.

Yet, he didn’t care at all, instead enthusiastically pulled others to do experiments.

However, the others were also cultivating this technique, and their mental state was not good, so he regrettably found that: the experimental results might not be accurate.

Three more days passed before the second person successfully cultivated it—unsurprisingly, it was the Paranoid.

Another four days passed, that was a full ten days in total, before the third person succeeded.

To Mu Guang’s surprise, it was Bentley.

Mu Guang knew this person was not to be underestimated; anywhere the Electromagnetic Supreme goes, it holds superior presence over ordinary Supremes.

But he was still puzzled, he didn’t need his daughter to tell him, he could feel that: this person’s advancement to the Supreme realm was not long ago!

The time since reaching Supreme definitely wouldn’t exceed three years—how could someone like this have such robust and pure Spiritual Power?

Xiang Xue was initially surprised too, but she soon figured it out.

She didn’t know that Bentley encountered a Thunder Tribulation when advancing to Supreme, but she was aware of one thing.

“Dad, don’t be discouraged, Old Ben progressed so quickly because… his cultivation was guided by the boss’s custom training.”

Mu Guang wasn’t discouraged, he was more astonished, “The boss customized a Cultivation Technique for him?”

“Yeah,” Xiang Xue nodded, she worked with Bentley in the inn for quite a while, “I don’t know the specific details.”

Mu Guang blinked and raised his evaluation of the boss again.

The benefits of customizing cultivation techniques, maybe other Supremes wouldn’t understand, but as an archaeological enthusiast, he knew quite a bit about it.

In the Awakened System, there seemed to be subtle rankings among cultivation methods.

Higher-ranked techniques generally lead to quicker cultivation, but the resource consumption increases significantly.

Nevertheless, Mu Guang knew well, higher-ranked techniques may not necessarily be the best, the suitable ones are the best!

Unfortunately, although he understood this principle, specially designing a technique for someone… he hadn’t considered it before.

In the end, it all came down to lack of strength.

Mu Guang always speculated, the boss knew so much, aside from having mastered many Divine Texts, must have acquired sufficient heritage.

However, heritage can help one comprehend the Divine Text System, but cannot assist in designing cultivation techniques.

To what extent must one understand the Divine Text System to achieve this?

The key point was, the technique he designed had no issues and succeeded,

Yet immediately, Mu Guang felt a contradiction.

“If it’s really customized, Bentley must be quite old, why has he only just advanced to Supreme?”

Could it be that the boss’s level in customizing techniques… is not that high?

Of course, even if the level isn’t high, within the Empire, it should be unparalleled, unrivaled.

Xiang Xue knew much about this, Old Ben even mentioned—I’m truly not of poor aptitude, I was framed.

“When he met the boss, he was around eighty, only knew he had Awakened, but had never cultivated…”

Upon hearing his daughter’s words, Mu Guang wasn’t surprised by Bentley’s ordeal, nor did he find it unusual for it to happen on a backward planet.

He roamed the grey zones for years, occurrences like these were far too common, he even witnessed far worse situations.

He drew a cold breath, “I dare say, does customizing techniques have such good effects?”

Xiang Xue recalled Old Ben’s expression of wanting to say something but hesitated, “Old Ben said, at first, it didn’t seem to go smoothly.”

“Certainly wouldn’t be that smooth,” Mu Guang firmly declared, he understood very well the difficulties involved.

“This is customization; each individual’s physical condition differs, not to mention the high difficulty of the Electromagnetic Attribute!”

He then fell into deep thought, after quite a while, he spoke, “Did he customize anything for you? If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to say.”

“No,” Xiang Xue shook her head, “when I got to know him, I was already at B-level.”

“The boss said my Foundation was set, but changed some aspects of my subsequent cultivation techniques.”

Mu Guang pondered again: the boss’s intervention, could it be just because Bentley’s physique was special, merely a coincidence?

Sadly, this question truly had no way to ask the boss, “Has he customized anything for anyone else?”