Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday - Chapter 394: Dead End?

Chapter 394: Dead End?

Inside the spiritual sea, the research clone sat in meditation, carefully forming crystals in his hands.

He believed that creating these crystals could also serve as a form of practice. The crystals he needed were gravity, fate, order, karma, and creation. Feeding these to the void silk would boost its overall power even after it evolved to immortal grade.

In the real world, Xiang Yu also sat in deep meditation, lost in thought.

Before now, he had theorized that the lost professions weren’t actually the complete forms of the professions. More precisely, he felt that he could evolve them further. Although he didn’t know if evolutionary pathways for professions truly existed, he sensed he might strike gold if he could pioneer new paths.

The ones he felt had the most potential were the spirit farmer and appraisal professions, but he still couldn’t get that final burst of enlightenment he needed to breakthrough.

So he decided to change his strategy.

Although not as much as those two, he could feel that the researcher profession was also on the verge of turning into something huge. Another advantage of the researcher profession was that it boosted his ability to acquire new information. In fact, he predicted that it was because of this that he could sense something beyond the normal professions.

He wondered what would happen if he managed to upgrade the researcher profession. Would he finally be able to take that final step?

He focused on the researcher profession. What was research about? No, actually, what did he want from research? He thought to himself that if he tried to discover the evolutionary path, he might hit a dead end if the evolution didn’t really exist. Instead, he should focus more on shaping his own evolutionary path.

He looked at the researcher profession and wondered what an evolutionary path would be. What more would he want out of the researcher profession?

He remembered the teacher profession. After it had upgraded to the researcher profession, it had become more focused on himself rather than anything else. Although it still allowed him to pass on knowledge easily, he felt this aspect could be better.

Of course, he didn’t want to improve this while sacrificing his own knowledge acquisition. That would just lead back to the previous teacher profession.

He needed a way for these two to be the same at once. He needed to be able to acquire knowledge much more easily as well as pass it on just as easily.

He thought about the appraisal profession.

It allowed him to acquire knowledge he didn’t know about through the law of karma. The current researcher profession seemed to work just by boosting his own learning abilities, not acquiring knowledge out of nothing.

Although he didn’t want to turn it into something like the appraisal profession, he thought that basing the researcher profession off a law would boost its power significantly.

He stayed like that in concentration, simulating multiple different scenarios to see how it could work.

After some time, Xiang Yu let out a sigh.

He thought to himself that he was mistaken. The researcher profession didn’t need to be based off a law. Basing it off a law would just give it a weakness, as different laws oppose each other. It would also make the profession tied up to a single law, which would be bad for the purpose of the researcher profession, which was discovery.

He scratched his head. If it was that simple, wouldn’t the original researchers have thought of this already? He wondered if the researcher path was actually a dead path and that’s why it was abandoned. Since it wasn’t based off a higher power but was instead based off the actual person, that’s why it didn’t tell him anything and just boosted his learning abilities.

But how much more could it boost his already great abilities without relying on a higher power? Was this really the end?

…

Li Yao flew over a huge sect in the central continent. “This should be a nice starting point, no?” she wondered aloud.

“Does this thing have any weapons?” she asked.

“Of course not, this is a luxury model,” Xiang Yu replied.

She sighed. “I guess we have to do it the old fashioned way,” she said as the top of the vehicle opened up. She then jumped out. As soon as she did, the flying boat broke through space and disappeared.

“Senior brother is so stingy,” she said. “Well, it’s not really my style anyway.”

She stretched out her hand towards the sect below, and a ball of lightning began to gather before her.

“Aren’t you going to talk first?” Xiang Yu asked.

“I don’t feel like it,” she responded.

The ball of lightning continued growing larger and larger until it covered the entire sect in its shadow. Suddenly, a few people flew out.

“Fellow daoist, why go this far? If this one has wronged you, please show mercy. No need to destroy our entire sect,” the eldest-looking of the five spoke.

Li Yao looked at him. “You haven’t wronged me. I just want to ask a few questions.”

The five looked at the ball of lightning, their lips twitching. No grudge? Who would believe that? You were ready to destroy our nine generations! But it was best not to make her angry at the moment since she seemed willing to negotiate.

“Fellow daoist, please speak. This old man is willing to answer any questions you have,” he said.

“Umm… ah, that was easy. I thought I had to destroy half the sect for you to speak,” Li Yao said, causing the five elders to almost collapse on the spot. How could such a beautiful lady say such scary things so casually?

Li Yao cleared her throat, then reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.

“Ahem. Do you know where I can find the black tortoise and the black tiger?” she asked.

When the five heard this, their eyes widened in shock. They looked at Li Yao once again, wondering if she was actually a member of the beast clan. No wonder her methods were so… unique.

Only beasts could have this kind of twisted logic.

“Ah, so fellow daoist is of the beast clan,” the man began. Li Yao didn’t bother to correct him.

“If you go north, you will reach the beast forest. You will be able to find all sorts of beasts there, even the white tiger and the black tortoise,” he said.

“I see,” Li Yao said, waving her hand and dismissing the lightning ball.

As she was about to leave, the man spoke up. “Wait,” he said.

She looked back with an impatient expression. “What is it?”

The man was taken aback at first but still chose to ask. “May I ask why fellow daoist is looking for those two mythical beasts?”

Li Yao smiled. “Nothing much. Just need to capture them and give them to my husband as a wedding gift,” she said as space broke and swallowed her.

The five elders stumbled back a few meters. Nothing much, you say?

“To be able to say such a thing, and from the power she showed… on the same level as a holy land sect master… she’s probably a princess of the phoenix or dragon clan,” the man said. The others listened to him carefully.

He then turned around. “Let’s go back. Looks like something big is about to happen in the beast forest, maybe even the central continent as a whole…”

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A/N: Is it a dead end? Also, looks like things aren’t going xiang yu’s way as of late. Though I’d also capture the failures, not just the successes.