The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 1126: True Sage

"It’s not impossible to receive my guidance. However, my teachings cost a lot," Empyrean Oshenra smiled slyly and asked, "What can you offer me?"

"The sales rights of two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques. Is that enough?" Vaan casually replied, knowing Empyrean Oshenra’s interest in these.

After all, never in the history of the Myriad Sea God Palace had a disciple ever monopolized the sales rights to a heaven-rank mana cultivation technique; these were all controlled by the twelve Empyreans to maintain the Holy Land’s stability.

If a disciple acquired such sales rights, the sheer purchasing power they would gain from the profits would negatively affect or even collapse the economy.

From the perspective of a mortal government, it wouldn’t be much different from allowing businesses to print money. Except, it wouldn’t be the value of the country’s currency collapsing, but the price of goods skyrocketing due to a lack of supply.

Of course, Vaan had neither the need nor reason to monopolize the market with such wealth. However, he also understood that Empyrean Oshenra would rather that he didn’t possess such purchasing power.

Uncontrollable factors would disrupt the Holy Land’s stability.

Naturally, the sales of the two heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation techniques were far from enough to cause significant waves in the entire Holy Land’s market.

But what if he wielded the sales rights of nine heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation techniques?

The Holy Land would still be fine, but the Mermen Domain would be severely affected.

Nevertheless, Vaan did not need so many contribution points; thus, he was willing to offer such opportunities. After all, the sheer amount of credits he could possibly receive from the Hall of Merit for the creation of heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques would already set him for life.

"It would be more than enough."

Empyrean Oshenra’s eyes flickered with imperceptible light as she nodded, inwardly shaken by Vaan’s decisiveness, intelligence, and generosity. Even she did not expect Vaan to offer up the sales rights of two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques so readily without any hinting.

This also allowed her to have more confidence in Vaan regarding the validity of his two proclaimed heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques.

If they were truly his own creation, then she also believed someone of this caliber would naturally not think much of contribution points. After all, the credits earned from the Hall of Merit were far more valuable, as they give access to rare resources and facilities that couldn’t be purchased with contribution points.

Suddenly, Empyrean Oshenra flicked her wrist, and two brilliant white scrolls flew out, then floated within reach of Vaan’s hands.

"These are Empyrean-grade Memory Scrolls made of Celestial Jades. You can record the two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques’ information into them with a thought," Empyrean Oshenra explained.

Vaan calmly nodded.

Given the value of the heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques, only Empyrean-grade Celestial Jades could protect them.

After Vaan transcribed the two heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation techniques, the [Eternal Water Genesis Sutra] and the [Endless Ocean Vortex Canon], into the two Empyrean-grade Memory Scrolls, he passed them back to Empyrean Oshenra for her inspection.

As Empyrean Oshenra perused their information, she looked surprised at times and enlightened at other times. She marveled at the ingenuity of the two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques, which weren’t inferior to her own.

Moreover, their individual concepts even provided her with new insights, which seemed quite unbelievable.

Even Empyrean Oshenra, having lived and cultivated for so long, could not believe that she would still learn something new from a new junior who was not even a thousand years old. ⱤÅƝꝊ𝐛Ê𝙎

After Empyrean Oshenra reluctantly stored away the two valuable heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques to face Vaan, a layer of respect was reflected in the surface of her starry eyes.

"I have reviewed these two heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation techniques and verified their feasibility. They are, indeed, genuine heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation mana techniques, capable of elevating Divine Beings to True Divinity," Empyrean Oshenra stated.

Although she had not practiced them, she was an Empyrean God with several chaos cycles of experience and knowledge. She only needed to review the information to know whether the techniques would work.

Of course, it only seemed simple to verify because she had reached a terrifyingly high level of Water Law, and the two heaven-rank merfolk mana cultivation techniques were both water attributes.

If they had been from a different elemental attribute, more steps would have been required for verification.

"Originally, I intended to accept you as a True Disciple, granting you the status to freely enter the Core Palace region and receive lessons from me. However, I have also benefited from your two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques."

"As such, you can also be considered half my teacher. I’ve also realized from these two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques that I am not worthy of being your teacher. At most, I can be your peer."

"There’s nothing I can teach you that you can’t learn on your own. I can only exchange my knowledge and insights with you as an equal," Empyrean Oshenra stated.

She figured Vaan might also be too proud to accept her as his teacher. Thus, there was also no need for her to embarrass herself in this matter.

However, it was also because she was too proud that she did not want to take advantage of Vaan’s youth. If not for his overly great ambition, which crippled his future, he would have been fully capable of reaching Empyrean-level True Divinity and becoming her peer.

"Alas..." Empyrean Oshenra sighed, shaking her head, before demanding, "Pass me your ID card."

Shortly after burning new information into Vaan’s ID card, she tossed it back to him. When Vaan reviewed the new information, he immediately glanced up at Empyrean Oshenra with surprise.

True Sage status!

Twenty million million credits!

Twenty million credits could be exchanged for twenty billion contribution points, but their true value was so much more than that.

’This must be the Hall of Merit’s reward for the two heaven-rank mana cultivation techniques,’ Vaan thought.

By having Empyrean Oshenra as the middle person, the process of recording his feat at the Hall of Merit and issuing his reward seemed to have been expedited.

"Normally, a Prospective Sage needs to guide a Divine Emperor to True Divinity before they are granted the status of True Sage. However, since I have benefited from your techniques, I took the liberty of expediting this process for you," Empyrean Oshenra explained.

"Now, even without becoming my disciples, you can freely enter the Core Palace region and see me anytime. I will also do my best to answer any questions you may have."

"Does that include the problem of my Six-Path Cultivation?"

"Naturally."