r18novel 478. The Source of Genius
478. The Source of Genius
Upon hearing Wei Jiangyuan's words, the room fell into a brief silence.
"Something's not right. What do you mean?" Dan Ren suddenly asked in a deep voice.
Wei Jiangyuan glanced around, shook his head and chuckled, "The moment my power touched her, I felt a pulling force of soul power. Of course, it wasn't very strong and wouldn't cause me any trouble right now, but it's really strange that it can absorb a person's soul power."
"My cultivation technique has some peculiar abilities. As I delve deeper into it, I've discovered that the vitality that everyone is born with within Dan Chen's body is somewhat shaken."
"This is not normal, this is very abnormal," Wei Jiangyuan affirmed.
As he spoke, both Xuan Kongzi and Dan Ren fell silent, clearly knowing why Wei Jiangyuan described this abnormal situation.
"Considering that genius from the Cao family, I heard that she apparently killed her mother with her soul power at birth. And the Dan family has such a genius, yet they are so secretive about it. Could it be that her mother also met with an accident?"
Upon hearing this, Dan Xuan's expression immediately changed, and Dan Ren and Xuan Kongzi's expressions also became increasingly solemn.
"Both of them are geniuses in alchemy, and both of them were born into such extraordinary circumstances, yet they both happened to be from affiliated families of the Pill Tower. Even their birth times are so close, it's truly a coincidence," Wei Jiangyuan said jokingly at the end.
Xiao Yan's expression was also solemn. The more he listened, the more he realized the extraordinary nature of this matter. However, he knew too little, so he chose to observe from the sidelines for now.
"President Xuan Kongzi, did you really bring people to see Xiao Chen about his condition today?" At this moment, Dan Ren's eyes also reddened instantly, and he asked Xuan Kongzi through gritted teeth.
"It was my oversight that I didn't explain it clearly to them beforehand."
Dan Ren's eyes were filled with tears: "Little one, you're very perceptive! My daughter is indeed different from ordinary people, because she was destined from birth to become a genius in alchemy!"
Wei Jiangyuan's eyes narrowed slightly; clearly, Dan Ren's words had surprised him, and Xiao Yan beside him felt the same disbelief. It's well known that alchemists are favored by heaven, with virtually no way to influence their fate. Even if both parents are alchemists, it only slightly increases the chances of their children becoming alchemists. Whether a child will actually possess alchemist talent remains uncertain. Even Yao Lao himself couldn't be certain whether Xiao Yan had the talent to become an alchemist; he was simply taking a gamble.
Dan Ren's claim that his daughter is destined to be an alchemist is absolutely contrary to the common sense of alchemists.
Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan exchanged a glance instinctively, clearly neither of their masters had mentioned this topic.
At this moment, Xuan Kongzi began to explain leisurely: "More than twenty years ago, the Pill Tower accidentally obtained a top-secret scroll containing information on human body modification. This kind of content should have been destroyed immediately, but the contents were so tempting that the Pill Tower contacted its two affiliated families."
"And the content above is about artificial alchemists!"
Upon hearing this, both Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan instinctively gasped; the content was simply too explosive!
"By exerting a sustained influence on pregnant women in advance, it is possible to artificially create alchemists, which is extremely important to the Pill Tower. It will even have an unprecedented impact on the alchemist profession, so the Pill Tower couldn't resist starting the experiment. The final result is the Pill Tower's two current geniuses, Cao Ying and Dan Chen."
"Then why didn't it continue?" Wei Jiangyuan asked relentlessly. The only geniuses from beginning to end were Dan Chen and Cao Ying, indicating that the human experiment hadn't continued. And judging from Dan Chen and Cao Ying's results, it shouldn't have just faded away like that; after all, these were artificially created eighth-grade alchemists! Even with countless experts in the Pill Tower, there was absolutely no reason for them not to be envious!
The fact that a master alchemist could be trained in twenty years is unprecedented and shocking news for any major power.
"Continue? Who knows how many people will die if this continues!" Dan Ren said angrily, "My wife died from excessive blood loss after giving birth to Chen'er."
"And Cao Ying's mother from the Cao family was killed on the spot by the shockwave from Cao Ying's soul; both of them were sixth-grade alchemists!"
Xuan Kongzi looked at Dan Ren, who was now emotionally distraught, with a hint of apology in his eyes: "This is a responsibility that the Pill Tower cannot escape. The method clearly states that both parents must be alchemists of the sixth rank or above, but there is no record of the consequences..."
"What a ruthless method, what an insidious plan," Xiao Yan remarked.
Nothing in this world is powerful without a reason. Clearly, the emergence of alchemy geniuses like Dan Chen and Cao Ying was achieved at the cost of their mothers' lives. Naturally, no one would truly be willing to try such a method, and the person behind it is obviously deliberately concealing the consequences, thus prompting the Pill Tower, the benchmark force for alchemists, to attempt it.
"So the Spirit Clan is behind all of this?" Xiao Yan added.
"That's right. The Spirit Clan can put Cao Ying and Dan Chen into this coma and also lift it out. But no one in the Pill Tower can see through the methods used. For Cao Ying's life and future, the Cao family chose to submit to the Spirit Clan."
"Can Cao Ying alone achieve this?" Wei Jiangyuan asked.
"It seems the Spirit Clan has a new method. Yi Xu of the Underworld Sect had never demonstrated his alchemy skills before, so he couldn't possibly be an alchemist. But now he's a genuine eighth-grade alchemist, which means he's also been modified. And it doesn't seem to require the same trouble as training Cao Ying and Dan Chen; he can be changed later in life."
"What a clever combination of coercion and enticement! No wonder..." Wei Jiangyuan remarked.
"If such a method were possible, wouldn't the Spirit Race become invincible?"
Xuan Kongzi shook his head: "We firmly believe that only Heaven can determine a person's innate qualities. The Spirit Clan's current methods seem to have no future problems, but there must still be shortcomings, which they have just temporarily hidden."
"Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to go to such lengths to attend the Pill Gathering," Wei Jiangyuan murmured to himself.
"That's true, but the temptation to become an eighth-grade alchemist is just too great. Not to mention others, even many elders of the Pill Tower who have been stuck at the seventh-grade alchemist level for many years are tempted. So the real crisis of the Pill Tower lies here. The Pill Tower is now really being led by the nose by this Spirit Race."