Faith?
Su Ming fell into deep thought.
He had vaguely guessed this answer.
He was just a mere Spirit Elder; wanting to block the prying eyes of a God King wasn't that easy. Among the powers he could access, only faith could indeed affect divine power.
"Actually, this kind of shielding is unnecessary. You yourself are already shielded. If he wants to spy on you, he needs to use others as a medium and analyze their movements, which will consume a great deal of energy."
A single day is fine, but if this goes on for a year or two, anyone would get tired of it.
Su Ming pondered.
He realized he was indeed stuck in a fixed mindset.
Normally, being noticed by Tang San and having him spy on you would make one worry about one's abilities, techniques, and secrets being discovered.
But now, he himself was shielded. Tang San couldn't spy on his core secrets at all. The key was that he himself knew he could block Tang San's perception; he didn't need to be paranoid.
In this situation, he didn't need to continue defending along the same old lines of thought.
"My suggestion is to interfere from time to time," Electrolux said. "When he really spies on you, I can sense it and will block it for you. Besides that, I will irregularly consume some power to help you release a large-scale divine sense interference, increasing the cost for him to spy on you."
'If you eat someone's food, your mouth is soft; if you take someone's gifts, your hand is short.' (Idiom: meaning one feels obligated after receiving favors)
He resided in Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness and had taken root in his Blade of Life. It was only by relying on the Blade of Life that he stabilized this nearly dissipated fragment of divine sense and was gradually recovering. Subconsciously, he was already putting in effort to prove his worth.
Su Ming gave Elder Yi a mental thumbs-up.
He really delivers after taking payment!
Electrolux paused for a moment before adding.
"Of course, to achieve large-scale interference with divine sense without being detected by normal spirit masters, we currently can only rely on the power of faith. I haven't been in contact with this before, and you don't have much faith. I need to research for a while to see how to utilize faith more effectively."
"Let's do it as you suggest, Elder Yi."
Su Ming felt it was truly wise to snatch Elder Yi from Huo Yuhao.
Look, he had never encountered faith before, yet immediately after entering his Sea of Consciousness, he could use the power of faith to repel Tang San's divine sense probes twice. And he humbly said his efficiency in using faith wasn't high enough, that he would research further to save faith for Su Ming.
"Elder Yi, you actually don't need to worry about the amount of faith. I can actually mobilize some of the Body Sect's faith as well. My idea is that we don't necessarily have to use my faith; we could try to utilize the faith accumulated by the Body Sect over ten thousand years, or the faith accumulated by Mingde Hall."
Electrolux indicated he understood.
Using a tiny bit of his own power to leverage those vast, ownerless reserves of faith.
A good idea.
"I will focus my research on this point."
Sky Dou City.
City Lord's Manor.
Du Busi landed in the manor's main courtyard.
The spirit power fluctuations he released spilled out, a terrifying pressure that made people tremble involuntarily.
Many ordinary spirit masters in the manor lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at where Du Busi stood.
Shi Yang, the City Lord, rushed into the courtyard the moment he sensed Du Busi's spirit power fluctuations, looking up at Du Busi in mid-air, his scalp tingling with fear.
"May I ask which senior this is? Shi Yang failed to welcome you properly."
"Titled Douluo: Body."
Du Busi spoke coldly.
His voice was like a sinister, cold poison thorn, deeply piercing Shi Yang's heart.
The moment Shi Yang heard the title 'Body', his brain short-circuited, and he felt an immense crisis.
He guessed the reason for Du Busi's arrival, but he had no chance to react. His vision blurred as Du Busi, from a distance, flashed and appeared right in front of him, smashing him flying backwards.
Shi Yang channeled his spirit power with all his might. His entire body transformed into a turtle, encased head to toe by a tortoise shell.
Even so, after crashing through over a dozen walls in a row, he felt his body was about to fall apart.
Du Busi gripped him by the neck, pinning him against a wall.
"Aside from Susu and the others, how many other body Martial Soul possessors have you persuaded to go to Shrek Academy?"
Du Busi's voice was icy.
Shi Yang coughed, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
Fear showed in his eyes.
Helplessness.
Even with the top-tier defensive Martial Soul, the Black Tortoise, he was unable to withstand a single blow before Du Busi, severely injured before he could even react.
"Including the Lan sisters, five in total."
"Five?" Killing intent erupted in Du Busi's eyes.
That meant besides Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, there were three other body Martial Soul spirit masters who had gone to Shrek Academy.
"Senior, we were also forced into this," Shi Yang said painfully, explaining. "The City Lord's mansions of every city on the continent, along with some nobles, possess recommendation privileges for Shrek enrollment. But in return, we must also work for Shrek, searching for different Martial Souls to facilitate Shrek's cultivation and research on spirit masters with various Martial Souls."
"The Body Sect has few members, but each is incredibly powerful. Body Martial Souls are naturally included in Shrek's research. This project started twenty years ago; Shrek wanted to try cultivating body Martial Soul spirit masters."
"Although it was just a policy, with a whiff of news leaking out, we city lords couldn't just not do our jobs. We could only try to find body Martial Soul spirit masters as best we could."
Du Busi stared at Shi Yang, signaling him to continue.
"Ahem." Shi Yang coughed and continued, "If we truly encountered a body Martial Soul genius, we would definitely recommend the Body Sect. Under normal circumstances, we would never recommend them to Shrek, to avoid stirring up trouble."
"Over these twenty years, the number of body Martial Soul spirit masters we actually recommended to Shrek Academy is almost none. Probably not even five in total. After all, body Martial Souls are rare to begin with, and finding ones that meet Shrek's basic enrollment requirements is even harder."
"And you alone sent five." Du Busi gnashed his teeth.
These were all children with limitless potential.
Shrek could cultivate powerful experts, but they wouldn't cultivate body Martial Souls.
Handing body Martial Soul spirit masters over to Shrek meant the potential of those first few used for research would absolutely never be unearthed.
Not just unearthed; Du Busi felt these children probably wouldn't even be valued.
"Who is in charge of this project?"
"Elder Xuan."
"Heh."
As expected.
Du Busi had already guessed the experiences of those body Martial Soul spirit masters. Probably, they weren't even cultivated, abandoned by the arrogant Xuan Zi.
Shi Yang felt the hand gripping his neck begin to tighten. His face turned red, and he hurriedly spoke.
"This junior also had his difficulties."
"That Tang Sect was originally in the suburbs of Sky Dou City, but it was inexplicably wiped out. I was implicated as well."
"The five body Martial Soul spirit masters I mentioned were all found and sent to Shrek Academy after that incident."
As he said this, his tone was genuinely wronged, carrying a sense of grief and indignation.
During that period, he was truly an innocent bystander hit by a stray bullet.
The prestigious Tang Sect somehow offended enemies, and the key point was they were too proud to ask Shrek for help, leading directly to their annihilation.
The crucial point was that he, as City Lord, truly didn't react in time back then; it was simply too late to stop it.
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