"Don't worry, Little Tu. You can think of martial artist opening acupoints as travelers exploring mountains. Once you reach a mountain, you conquer it. In theory, it's like..."
Li Hu earnestly explained to Su Tu and even used human sciences to explain the principles of martial artist opening acupoints from the root.
Su Tu gained a new understanding of martial artist's Qi Flow and opening acupoints.
The flow of Qi within the body enhances the body's strength. As the body grows stronger, the acupoints naturally expand and open, thus leading to opening acupoints.
Simply put, the stronger the Qi Flow, the stronger the body; the stronger the body, the faster the acupoints open; the faster the acupoints open, the stronger the Qi Flow.
It's essentially a closed cycle.
And yesterday, whether it was cultivating Immortal Burial or learning Prajna Seven Kills, both significantly increased the skill level of the Strengthen Body skill.
With the additional skill level gains from the battle in Kashashitsu, Su Tu's physical strength soared, leading to the phenomenon of opening eleven acupoints in a row.
"Looking at it this way, Martial Arts Dao and Strengthen Body are indeed a perfect match."
Martial Arts Cultivation can increase the skill level of Strengthen Body, thereby enhancing the body's strength. And the enhanced body strength allows him to open acupoints quickly.
You could say, the more effort Su Tu puts in, the higher his talent becomes. The higher his talent, the less time it takes for him to break through, enabling him to slack off more.
The more effort Su Tu puts in equals the more he slacks off. What kind of Su Family inequality is this?
Quickly, Su Tu shook off his inexplicable train of thought.
"Brother Hu, what was that creature claiming to be from the Xie Race about yesterday?" The sudden event left him with a belly full of questions.
With Li Hu coming to him, Su Tu naturally wouldn't let him off the hook.
"Ah, you're talking about that 'beast'?" Li Hu scratched his head.
"Beast?"
Upon hearing this word, Su Tu felt a bit puzzled. On Blue Star, the definition of beasts or animals is beings without communication abilities or advanced intelligence.
But the Kashashitsu clearly demonstrated intelligence and had the so-called Divine Favor, which seemed more like an alien species than a beast.
"Under the protection of the Martial God, the Federation has gained many allies. Some powerful civilizations, while reluctant to establish diplomatic relations with the Federation, won't easily provoke it either. Everyone is in a state of mutual deterrence, avoiding conflicts to maintain peace whenever possible.
After all, if civilizational races engage in battles and wars, it can easily create opportunities for other civilizations to exploit.
One must remember that in interstellar wars, lifetimes and deaths in the trillions are at stake,
so when a civilization reaches a certain status, it receives a default respect, and problems are resolved through peaceful means." Li Hu said, sitting on the sofa.
His point is easily understandable; just like in the past on Earth, if countries had comparable strength, they wouldn't easily start wars even if they disliked each other, instead maintaining a certain balance.
Su Tu understood this but didn't know why Li Hu suddenly mentioned this; what did interstellar geopolitics have to do with beasts?
Seeing Su Tu's confusion, Li Hu didn't keep him in suspense. With a faint smirk, he continued.
"This is the typical way civilized races handle interactions with other civilizations."
"But some races are exceptions; they seem to have inherent malice and hatred towards human civilization. Since humanity entered the Star River Era, they continuously attacked the Federation, attempting to destroy human civilization."
"Hatred is reciprocal. When humans see these races, they instinctively feel an unprecedented sense of disgust, a feeling that seems rooted in our lineage."
"It's like the instinctive disgust people feel when they see cockroaches, like a mark inscribed on our DNA for countless ages. We and these races are natural enemies, with them relentlessly trying to annihilate human civilization, and we starting to hunt them in the starry sky.
Those hunted naturally have no right to be named, so to humanity, regardless of how advanced these races are, how sophisticated their technology is, they have only one designation,
Beasts! The beasts hunted by humans!"
Li Hu's voice was filled with murderous intent, the hostility towards those beasts practically tangible, almost pouring out.
This clearly shows that these 'beasts' must have inflicted significant harm on the Federation, on humanity.
Su Tu also realized, although it was his first encounter with the Kashashitsu yesterday, he instinctively harbored a sense of loathing at heart, akin to the revulsion of biting into a sour, moldy rag. Only after killing the opponent did this nauseating feeling barely dissipate.
He recalled that unknown creature from that night, its malice deep and cold, and shared this matter with Li Hu.
Li Hu speculated that he might have encountered a beast at that time, but it hesitated and did not attack.
The dislike for the Xie Race was just as Li Hu described, engraved in human DNA just like the primal fear of hunger and the yearning for light, a fundamental instinct left by an ancient past.
Instilling an emotion-like instinct into DNA requires countless eons.
Yet, according to Li Hu's account, these beasts are all alien races, and humans have only been in the interstellar era for less than a millennium. If these beasts can trigger human instinctual aversion, it implies that long before humanity exited Blue Star, in ages far bygone, encounters with these races must have occurred.
But is this... truly possible?
In those ancient times, when humans might have still been living primitive lives, they faced off against these star-faring races with terrifying capabilities, and perhaps even fought them to a standstill.
Because the emotion ingrained in human instincts is disgust, not fear. If ancient humans were helpless against these cosmic creatures, the immense disparity would have imbued their fear into the DNA.
Just as newly born antelopes tremble in submission at the roar of a tiger.
Su Tu was all too familiar with how disgusting and difficult the abilities of the Kashashitsu were, and yet humanity from ages long past managed somehow to oppose such creatures.
Moreover, the manifestation of such emotions also indicates numerous implications.
"Could it be that these beasts once were creatures of Earth?" Su Tu asked, as this was the only plausible explanation for humanity's instinctual revulsion towards these beasts.
Perhaps a long time ago, Blue Star experienced a racial conflict, the beasts lost, and for unknown reasons appeared in the cosmos.
Li Hu shook his head and said, "At first, many in the Federation's higher echelons thought the same as you. Federation scientists dissected and studied these beasts, trying to see if they contained any samples from Blue Star. After all, should something once have existed, even evolving millions of times, the original traces would remain.
But within these beasts, there are no traces of Blue Star. They are inherently star races, of that there is no doubt."
Hearing Li Hu's words, Su Tu frowned. If these races never surfaced on the Ancestor Star, why do humans have intrinsic aversion towards them rooted in their origin? Could it be that.... at the dawn of human origins, long before, humans had already ventured beyond Blue Star into the cosmos?
"No, that's impossible..." Su Tu lowered his eyes, dismissing his own thought.
The time it took for humans to cross Blue Star spanned countless ages, undergoing generations of technological advancements to barely reach outer space, further requiring centuries to develop wormhole transit, enabling free traversal across the boundless universe.
Back in those backward times, how could people have ventured beyond Blue Star, into the cosmos, perhaps even hunting those races? Were they supposed to throw old shoes to the heavens and ride them into flight? Flip a cartwheel and flip into space?
Noticing his junior's expression, Li Hu guessed Su Tu's deliberations, then smiled slightly and spoke: "Since you have thought of it, why not voice it out?"
"Before humanity's technology developed, in those ancient rites and traditional regimes, there were Immortals who ascended to the heavens, freely wandering beyond the Star River!"