Chapter 98: 【the Path Of The Pure One】
As they neared their destination, Bu Siqi asked, “Junior Brother, is there anything else you need my help with?”
“Hmm…” Su Chen pondered for a moment. “I’m running out of potions for my training. I have about twenty thousand gold I can use. Could you help me purchase some?”
Bu Siqi’s expression remained unchanged upon hearing the first half of Su Chen’s sentence. It was only when Su Chen mentioned paying that he asked with a smile, “What kind of potions are you using?”
“Currently, Second Order Mist Fiend Potions and Second Order Illusion Essence.” As Su Chen spoke, he took out a black dagger, also a spoil of war from Pan Yu, which Nan Feng couldn’t easily handle. “Add this too.”
“Hmm… this weapon is probably worth sixty to seventy thousand. It can probably exchange for seven or eight tubes of each…” Bu Siqi took it, weighed it, and pondered, “It’s probably not enough for you. I’ll try my best to get some for you. If there’s not enough, don’t blame your Senior Brother.”
They were Senior and Junior Brothers, of course. If Su Chen wanted to get something for free, he would politely refuse. But Su Chen seemed to be “emptying his coffers,” so he would help with what he could.
“Not at all,” Su Chen said repeatedly. “Thank you for your trouble, Senior Brother. Could you also find me an E-grade Meditation Method?”
“That’s easy,” Bu Siqi nodded, then asked, “Anything else?”
Su Chen looked at him carefully for a few moments, estimating that he was serious. “Also,” he added, “could you keep an eye out for news about Mist Nightmare Pearls?”
“Mist Nightmare Pearls?” Bu Siqi was surprised. He nodded. “Potions, Meditation Methods, Mist Nightmare Pearls. Alright, I’ve got it.”
After watching Bu Siqi leave, Su Chen returned to the hotel and took the elevator. “Once I enter the Court of Justice, I should be allocated resources.”
“Ordinary members, Inner Court Seeds. The higher the status, the more resources one is likely to be allocated, and the treatment will differ. It will also be more hopeful to find clues about the ‘Crimson Flame Thunder Great Venerable’.”
“Ink Jade…” Su Chen couldn’t help but think. “I still need to focus on the 【 Saint 】. If I can successfully undergo job appointment, my Mental Talent should break through Crimson Gold and reach Ink Jade Level.”
“An impossible request. Elder Sang said it so mysteriously, just how difficult is it?”
After a night of simple training, Su Chen went to the Translation Department again early the next morning.
“You’re here?” Sang Hanhai saw Su Chen and wasn’t surprised, as if he had expected him.
He immediately called him over to the workbench. On the instrument screen next to him, a large amount of symbols flickered continuously.
“…Based on the information you provided, I’ve deciphered some more details.” Sang Hanhai pointed to the text on the screen that Su Chen couldn’t understand. “I infer that one of the complete job appointment requirements should be a Second Order Top-tier Mental-side Profession.”
“Top Tier?” Su Chen feigned surprise, while in his heart he was thinking, this Elder Sang truly has some skill. He managed to figure it out overnight after getting the keywords.
“That’s right…” Sang Hanhai nodded, excitement in his eyes. “Moreover, I have a general idea of this profession. It’s highly likely to be the creation of a Dimensional Space, using a mental imprint as a key to achieve the ability to retrieve items at will.”
“A personal space!?” Su Chen was even more astonished. “There’s such a profession?”
“Professions are myriad and bizarre; you’ll be surprised by more in the future.” Sang Hanhai said proudly, but added, “However, the progress has been so fast partly thanks to the auxiliary information you provided.”
“Currently, two job appointment requirements have been confirmed: Space Crystal and a Second Order Top-tier Mental-side Profession.”
Speaking of which, Sang Hanhai frowned again. “According to past situations, we can already recruit volunteers from various institutions to attempt forced job appointment.”
“Once the job appointment is successful, other job appointment requirements can be deduced more easily.”
“However…” he said with some helplessness, “this profession not only requires Space Crystals but also a Second Order Top-tier Profession. Those who meet this condition are precious. Forced job appointment is risky, and they wouldn’t let me have them.”
Saying this, his gaze fell on Su Chen.
“I can’t…” Su Chen shook his head repeatedly. “I’m only Second Order Upper Tier; I can’t reach that level.”
“Even Upper Tier, it’s not impossible to try.” Sang Hanhai tempted him. “Even if you only barely succeed in the job appointment, it will give you unparalleled convenience, like a personal carry-on bag that no one else can see, only you can access.”
“It’s exciting just to think about it.”
“Please find someone else.” Su Chen expressed his lack of interest.
If he were to agree, it would definitely be attempted under everyone’s watchful eyes, and there would likely be various observation instruments.
“Tsk…” Sang Hanhai sighed. “Then I’ll just have to decipher it bit by bit.”
Then, he smiled again. “I’m really a little impatient, after all, the versatility of this profession is too great.”
“I’ll give it a try. Maybe I’ll have a resonance again today,” Su Chen said.
“Haha…” Sang Hanhai chuckled. “You’ve already resonated twice in a row. The chance of resonating a third time is too low.”
“What if… what if I succeed, can you give me the 【 Saint 】?” Su Chen seized the opportunity.
“Saint? You’re still thinking about it…” Sang Hanhai glanced at him. “Your ambition is still alive.”
Su Chen smiled bashfully, and Sang Hanhai shook his head, but then said, “The Saint is a sealed profession. Under normal circumstances, it can no longer be displayed externally. I can indeed access it; are you sure you want it?”
“I hope you’ll grant my wish,” Su Chen said immediately.
“…Xia Hanshi, oh Xia Hanshi…” Sang Hanhai shook his head and looked at Su Chen. “Since that’s the case, let’s see if fate is on your side.”
“If you can resonate again today, I’ll show you the Saint.”
Sang Hanhai left the choice to fate.
Su Chen took a deep breath, his expression gradually calming as if adjusting his state.
Sang Hanhai shook his head inwardly. There was no pattern to resonating with the Holy Word Stone, nor was it related to one’s own state.
He watched as Su Chen slowly walked up to the Holy Word Stone and stared intently at it.
A moment later, the young man’s eyes suddenly widened, and he staggered back a few steps, breathing heavily.
Resonance can cause such a reaction? Sang Hanhai muttered to himself.
“Elder Sang…” Su Chen looked at Sang Hanhai, his chest rising and falling. He forced a smile, “It seems fate is on my side.”
“You actually resonated?” Sang Hanhai was stunned.
“Mm…” Su Chen seemed to be comprehending, and hesitated, “It seems… it seems… I need to pass through some kind of rift…”
“Rift?” Sang Hanhai immediately entered work mode, his expression becoming excited. This time, he didn’t even verify; he paced back and forth.
“Space seam? That’s it… it requires contamination with space characteristics, passing through a rift, using Space Crystals as the core to create a Dimensional Space, and then using Mental Power as the key to open it…”
“Record… record…” he said in a deep voice. “Number—2437, Space-type Support Profession, Rating—A, Name—Space…”
Sang Hanhai uttered two words and fell into thought.
“Collector?” Su Chen whispered.
“Good…” Sang Hanhai’s eyes lit up. “The name will be Space Collector. One of the job appointment requirements is… the second is… the third is…”
“Preparing to initiate the verification process…”
Establishing a profession involves many procedures. If any piece of information is incorrect, it can lead to heavy casualties.
The staff quickly got busy, while Sang Hanhai looked at Su Chen with a look of admiration. “This is the first time I’ve deciphered something this quickly. No wonder my teacher often mentioned Heaven-bestowed Translator; the help is immense.”
“Unfortunately, it’s a matter of chance, and Heaven-bestowed Translators only work for individual Holy Word Stones…”
Su Chen’s eyes flickered slightly, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Are there any Heaven-bestowed Translators who can resonate with multiple Holy Word Stones simultaneously?”
“Hmm?” Sang Hanhai’s expression was strange. “People like you are rare, even one in many years, let alone resonating with multiple Holy Word Stones simultaneously.”
“However…” he said, changing his tone halfway through, “I can’t say for sure whether they exist or not.”
“Actually…” Sang Hanhai pondered for a moment, looking at Su Chen, who had a look of yearning on his face, and couldn’t help but say, “There have been differing opinions within the Translation Department regarding Heaven-bestowed Translators in recent years.”
“In other cities, some people believe that what resonates with Heaven-bestowed Translators is not the profession itself, but the Holy Word Stone.”
“Just as the Cult of the Strange God can converse with the Strange God behind the Holy Word Stone, Heaven-bestowed Translators might also possess this trait to some extent, which is why they resonate with it.”
“Unfortunately, there are too few individual cases. There was even a large-scale screening a few years ago, which caused some trouble and was shelved.”
Su Chen pondered. In this way, he might have an opportunity.
But for now, he wasn’t going to reveal more. He only had the private identity of Xia Hanshi’s student. He hadn’t even entered the Court of Justice yet and lacked overall backing.
“We’re getting off track,” Sang Hanhai waved his hand, becoming more serious. “I’ll ask you one last time, do you really want the Saint?”
“If you don’t want it, you can save it to exchange for a Fourth Order, or even a Fifth Order profession later. Even within the Court of Justice, profession information isn’t something you can get without a reason.”
“Only the Saint,” Su Chen said without hesitation.
Sang Hanhai said no more. “Wait here for me for a moment. I’ll go and retrieve it.”
He wasn’t the one responsible for deciphering the Saint, and even to access it, he had to follow procedure.
Sang Hanhai left the laboratory. It became quiet, save for the hum of the instruments and the sounds of staff moving around. Occasionally, eyes would glance over, subtly sizing him up.
Su Chen found a seat and waited patiently.
He didn’t wait too long before Sang Hanhai returned, his expression even stranger.
He led Su Chen to a lounge area in the laboratory and, to Su Chen’s astonishment, gouged out his left eyeball and placed it in a cleaning instrument.
“I saw things I shouldn’t have seen before, and my eye was blown out,” Sang Hanhai said with a laugh as he saw Su Chen staring blankly. He then cautioned, “Information about High-tier professions is inherently dangerous. Be careful if you encounter it in the future.”
Su Chen couldn’t help but think of the ‘Crimson Flame Thunder Great Venerable,’ which was so nakedly engraved on those nine rings. Surely the Translation Department knew about it?
“The ‘Sealed Profession’ category in the Translation Department has various requirements that are so harsh they’re difficult to complete, or even extremely dangerous to others,” Sang Hanhai said, finally getting to the point, and chuckled wryly. “But I still didn’t expect that the Saint would have such job appointment requirements.”
“Listen carefully.”
Su Chen listened attentively as Sang Hanhai slowly narrated.
【 Discovered a Special Profession—Saint. Job appointment is possible after completing the job appointment requirements. 】
【 Job Appointment Requirement One: Possess a Mental-side Crimson Gold Talent. 】
【 Job Appointment Requirement Two: Personally save a thousand people. 】
【 Job Appointment Requirement Three: Never kill any living beings in one’s lifetime. 】
This… Su Chen’s eyes glazed over. The first requirement, Crimson Gold Talent, was somewhat reasonable.
The second one, however, was quite difficult. “Saving” sounded very broad; was it psychological or physiological?
Saving even one person was troublesome, let alone a thousand.
Even with external help to accumulate achievements, it would take a long time and resources.
This third requirement was even more outrageous, directly forbidding him from killing people?
“This requirement is not difficult to say it’s not difficult, but it’s not easy either, especially the last one.” Sang Hanhai said with a wry smile. “I carefully asked Elder Hai, who was responsible for deciphering it, and this one requirement is the most troublesome.”
“Sentient life forms, likely including humans and all mutants.”
“He speculates that even if the other two conditions are met, if one commits murder, the profession will collapse. Not only will the professional abilities disappear, but one’s own body will also suffer great damage.”
Sang Hanhai said helplessly, “It’s also possible that our deciphering is incomplete, but this profession is indeed impossible to appoint, befitting the name ‘Saint’.”
Su Chen wasn’t disappointed because he still had his Panel. As expected, the moment the profession was discovered, there was a reaction.
【 Scholar, Sage discovered a long-lost old friend, quite excited, conversing intimately with Saint, reminiscing about when they were one… 】
Was one?
Su Chen quickly captured a keyword. “Does it mean they were once the same profession? Perhaps not a prerequisite for another profession, but a fusion?”
He thought of many things, even speculating if it was a job appointment requirement for the ‘Crimson Flame Thunder Great Venerable.’
The three parties’ conversation did not yield immediate results.
Seeing Su Chen’s changing expression, Sang Hanhai teased, “Kid, no regrets. Retrieving information for this kind of profession also comes at a cost for me.”
“Even if I can’t get the job appointment, it’s my choice,” Su Chen said calmly.
Sang Hanhai nodded inwardly seeing Su Chen adjust his mindset so quickly. Wasting a profession exchange opportunity so easily, yet Su Chen remained so composed, showed his strong disposition.
“However…” Su Chen changed the subject and added somewhat bashfully, “Working with you these past two days has made me quite curious about deciphering Holy Word Stones. Can I come and learn from you in the future?”
“Learn?” Sang Hanhai was surprised. “You have Double Crimson Gold; your place is in the Court of Justice.”
If it were someone else, there might be a possibility of climbing the social ladder. But Su Chen’s chances were slim. He had Xia Hanshi as his backer and possessed Double Crimson Gold himself, so there was no great need for him to be involved with the Translation Department.
Does he want to leave Xia Hanshi? He speculated subconsciously, but then dismissed it. He had only known Su Chen for three days. If Su Chen wasn’t foolish, he wouldn’t expect him to go against Xia Hanshi.
“Nan Feng is a small place, and I haven’t been exposed to this kind of thing before. It feels quite interesting now,” Su Chen said, scratching the back of his head.
“Alright…” Sang Hanhai pondered for a moment. “Then I’ll keep your temporary pass. You can come and chat with me when you have time.”
He agreed. Regardless of anything else, Su Chen acted with propriety and knew his limits. He had also helped wholeheartedly this time, so Sang Hanhai had a good impression of him.
“Thank you, Elder Sang, for giving me this opportunity,” Su Chen said with a smile.
Sang Hanhai retrieved his eyeball from the cleaning instrument, put it back into his eye socket, and prepared to leave the lounge.
Su Chen followed behind him and took the opportunity to ask, “You mentioned earlier that you needed to verify. Does our Translation Department have Space Rifts?”
His Space Collector still had one last job appointment requirement to fulfill; Su Chen hadn’t forgotten.
“Our?” Sang Hanhai chuckled. “Our Translation Department does not have Space Rifts. Creating a Space Rift is not simple. Only a few people in Yuan Du have that ability.”
Su Chen frowned slightly, then asked, “I heard from my teacher that there aren’t many professions that can enhance talent later in life. Scholar, Sage, and this Saint are all like that.”
“Why do I feel like their naming conventions are so similar? Are they related?”
“…You’re quite curious,” Sang Hanhai chuckled. “According to our speculation, they should be related, but where exactly, it’s hard to say.”
“I remember there’s a similar profession in Yuan Du called 【 Spirit User 】.”
“Spirit User?” Su Chen was taken aback. The Panel in front of him gradually materialized.
【 The Scholar and Sage, hearing the familiar name, were prompted to recall memories, as if remembering something… 】
【 Path of the Immaculate: Collect all professions required for sublimation to achieve sublimation into the Immaculate. 】
Immaculate? Sublimation?
Is this the higher-tier profession for Scholar and Sage?
A multi-in-one super-powered version? It probably also increases talent, right?
He thought of the ‘Profound Violet’ talent level required for the ‘Crimson Flame Thunder Great Venerable.’
“Spirit User…” His thoughts wandered. He didn’t know if the Immaculate was still one Spirit User short, or if it required more.
He looked up and realized Sang Hanhai had already reached the laboratory door. Just as Su Chen was about to catch up, he stopped.
The metal doors opened to the sides, and someone entered.
“Old Yuan…” Sang Hanhai greeted familiarly. “You haven’t been here in a while.”
“Haha…” The other person’s hair and beard were all white, appearing quite old, but his build was still robust, and his square face was imposing.
“Professor Sang, I wouldn’t dare disturb you without a reason,” he joked, striding into the laboratory with a naturally majestic aura.
His gaze immediately locked onto Su Chen, the only one not wearing a lab coat, and his expression changed slightly.
“Su Chen?” he said.
Well… he recognized me again.
