Chapter 809 - 804: Choosing Civil Service Is the Right Path!
"The Extraordinary Seed? Is it the Prince of the Sea from the Sea God Hall, or the Dragon Guard from the Platinum Court, such prodigies?"
Bai Pu recalled that Master Bo Xuan also mentioned that the top core members of the Gaia Group are cultivated as Extraordinary Seeds.
"Not entirely. Only the top three Princes of the Sea from the Sea God Hall and the top four Purple Dragon Guards from the Platinum Court can receive the treatment of Extraordinary Seeds."
Rein said, "Above Evolvers are the Extraordinaries... also known as Demigods! This is the goal of all Awakeners and Evolvers in the Silver Heart Great World. Reaching the level of an Extraordinary, even Divines will look at you differently."
Leia said, "Gangxin, the Gaia Group also has an Extraordinary Seed selection tournament, and calculating the time, there should be over half a month left. The Gaia Group has as many as ten Extraordinary Seed quotas, a path that many medium and small forces’ prodigious Awakeners aspire to."
Leia then pointed at Salacia: "For example, the Silver Wind Clan, with all its might, can barely gather the resources for an Extraordinary Seed. Hence, the clan will fully support the direct-lineage Awakeners’ talent in advancing to Gaia Major General to qualify for the Extraordinary Seed selection tournament."
"I mean no offense... But with Miss Salacia’s strength, even if she ascends to Second Refinement Major General, it would be tough to win the top ten in the Extraordinary Seed selection tournament," Bai Pu said honestly.
Salacia hung her head.
I’m so weak, and I truly apologize...
Beside, Heig proactively said:
"The rules of the Extraordinary Seed selection tournament change every year, and it’s not just a ring match... Personal combat strength is indeed the most important aspect, but wisdom, charm, eloquence, background, fortune, and some indescribable factors also impact the tournament’s results. In history, there are often cases where Gaia Major Generals with late starts and weaker strengths emerge from the selection tournament as Extraordinary Seeds."
Leia said, "It’s precisely because of this that many medium and small families are willing to send their talents to the Gaia Group. If it were just ring fights focusing solely on combat strength, probably 80% fewer would be willing to advance to Major General and join the Gaia Group."
Bai Pu knew that becoming a Gaia Major General comes at a price.
The cost is: Not becoming a Divine Chosen!
Back then, Bai Pu encountered the image of the Prismatic Saint Dragon King, receiving a "Seed of Blessing" with an opportunity to become a voter for the Giant Dragon Master, but Gaia’s Will immediately warned that such operation would cost the golden military rank and the chance to advance to proper Major General.
Through this "meeting" for the shield upgrade, Bai Pu gained a clear understanding of the Gaia Group, various Divine camps, and the numerous forces on the Silver Heart Continent.
As the "external skeleton" of Gaia’s Will, Gaia Group is uniquely favored, standing as a singular superpower in the Human Race Cosmic Territory, with branches spanning many great worlds.
For example, the Gaia Group division in the Silver Heart Great World can allocate 10 Extraordinary Seed quotas, proving their strength.
Understandably, indigenous forces on the Silver Heart Continent, like the Silver Wind Clan of the Green Alliance, can barely gather a resource for a single Extraordinary Seed.
Each Divine camp has bases to train prodigious Awakeners. For example, the Dragon Guard from the Platinum Court of the Giant Dragon Master, Princes of the Sea from the Sea God Hall of the Master of the Abyss, etc. The top-tier Awakener prodigies are nurtured as Extraordinary Seeds within the Divine camp.
This shows that each Divine camp can generally produce several resources for Extraordinary Seeds, also counting as cross-border significant forces.
However, compared to the "official" Gaia Group, they can’t compete. Just in the Silver Heart Great World, Gaia Group has 10 Extraordinary Seed quotas, and adding the other great worlds, they might produce hundreds or thousands of Extraordinary Seed resources!
From this perspective, Gaia Group’s strength might be hundreds or thousands of times that of a single Divine camp.
Of course, Bai Pu also understood that this single comparison might be due to Gaia Group’s unique advantage in terms of Extraordinary Seed resources.
Yet, as the saying goes, one can catch a glimpse from a corner.
The formidable strength of the Gaia Group as an official superpower certainly brings a sense of... reassurance!
Bai Pu felt his choice to "enter civil service" was right.
"Gangxin, have you gleaned any True Intent Prototypes from studying Dongbo Chengzhi’s Swordsmanship Manual over the past two days?" Rein asked again.
Bai Pu shook his head.
He only used the first two parts of the Swordsmanship Manual as suggested by Dongbo Chengzhi.
It must be said, this Swordsmanship Manual indeed deserves the SS evaluation reward from the Golden Side Task; the opening efforts by Spirit Realm Will are astounding.
Even the first two parts brought Bai Pu significant benefits!
The creation process of the first part, Dancing Wind Secret Sword Technique, allowed Bai Pu to intuitively understand Dongbo Chengzhi’s process of creating each move and skill of the Secret Sword Technique based on Mystical Arts.
Bai Pu has mastered the Dancing Wind Mystical Arts, Red Lotus Mystical Arts, and the Composite Mystical Arts, "Sea Heart Flame," based on his comprehension and successful analogy. He has reached a Master Level of understanding with all of them so far.
However, the time is relatively short, and he hasn’t yet created the related Mystical Arts skills.
This is due to Bai Pu’s short Awakening time and lack of accumulation in creating Mystical Arts skills.
After reading the first part of Dongbo Chengzhi’s Swordsmanship Manual, Bai Pu gained more inspiration for his Mystical Arts, each with considerable feasibility.
During the limited time for enlightenment, Bai Pu only managed to capture three inspirations.
The first is the combination of the martial skill "Three Kingdoms" and the magic "Meteor Technique," creating the Mystical Arts magic-martial skill "Three-Pointed Star Fall" that adds a meteor flame special effect to throw damage, forming mixed damage.
The second utilizes Sea Heart Flame Composite Mystical Arts to activate Fighting Qi, forming a large-scale "Sea Heart Flame Mist" with the effect of detecting opponent energy frequency and disorienting enemy minds.
The third combines "Gang Step" and Dancing Wind Mystical Arts to create the flexible and firm footwork "Illusionary Steps" that is more efficient in dodging enemy attacks with less consumption.
Such inspirations are all quite good.
If the enlightenment duration were unlimited, Bai Pu could quickly create a large number of new Mystical Arts skills, forming his own Mystical Arts skill system.
Unfortunately, Dongbo Chengzhi’s Swordsmanship Manual can only be enlightened three times (once per part), each enlightenment session lasting only six hours.
Once enlightenment ends, the Swordsmanship Manual reverts to an ordinary item, no longer bearing the insight-enhanced blessing of Spirit Realm Will.
The second part of the Swordsmanship Manual is Dongbo Chengzhi’s realization of the "Space Cutting" Mystical Arts based on the White Dragon Fang ancestor’s memory.
This Mystical Arts is also mastered by Blood Spider Wu Qingyun, and he has trained it to a Master Level.
Reading the Swordsmanship Manual for Bai Pu is like stepping into Dongbo Chengzhi’s shoes and retracing the enlightenment process for Space Cutting Mystical Arts!
This drastically reduces the difficulty compared to learning Space Cutting Mystical Arts from scratch.
Nevertheless, the difficulty of mastering multiple system Mystical Arts increases exponentially, which is really unreasonable.
With Bai Pu already possessing Four Elemental Mystical Arts, gaining Space Cutting Mystical Arts presents a difficulty tens of times greater than that faced by Blood Spider Wu Qingyun!
Plus, he previously had no insight into Space Cutting, so even with the Swordsmanship Manual’s bonuses and various means of enhancing comprehension, he still felt a vague barrier toward space-related Mystical Arts.
This sensation was akin to facing Lushan in the morning mist, knowing the mountain was there, even faintly seeing its outline, yet unable to truly glimpse Lushan’s true face for the moment.