Chapter 1619 - 594: Method of Entering the Book_2

"Ugh..."

Zhou Xuan couldn’t help but complain, "What kind of sage is this? Is he nothing but a spectator? Always up there in the sky watching the drama unfold?"

Yu Ruying didn’t seem too agitated by Zhou Xuan’s defiance against the sage,

She said, "Once upon a time, I too secretly muttered about the sage like this, but in recent years, I’ve gradually come to understand that the sage’s indifference is precisely the greatest form of affection..."

"Indifferent affection, that’s a pretty niche term," Zhou Xuan was almost amused.

"You’ll understand eventually. The sage is using his own way to guide this vast, boundless, beautiful world towards true beauty."

Yu Ruying didn’t seem to want to continue dwelling on the topic of the sage with Zhou Xuan, so she promptly switched to lecture mode.

"Zhou Dangzheng, you want to gain inspiration from your own calligraphy, right?"

"Of course, otherwise, all my good calligraphy would have been a free show for you people of Bai Yujing."

Zhou Xuan originally intended to say "Yujing people are all freeloaders", but considering that Yu Ruying came down to give lessons, which offset the "viewing fee", it didn’t feel like freeloading, so he held back from saying it.

Yu Ruying shook her head and said, "I’m sorry, Zhou Dangzheng, I currently have no way to help you find the inspiration within your calligraphy."

"..." Zhou Xuan.

We agreed on a lecture down here, and you’re ending it with a single ’I’m sorry’?

Might as well not come down at all, and you could just send a secret letter from Bai Yujing, why bother coming down!

Yu Ruying was still within the "Will Heavenly Book", her heart and spirit connected with Zhou Xuan, and she could sense Zhou Xuan’s thoughts, so she said with a smile,

"I didn’t come for nothing, Zhou Dangzheng. You haven’t even lit a stick of incense to worship the ’Yujing Calligraphy’, so you can’t use the divine skills within it, and naturally, you can’t gain inspiration from the calligraphy,

but... I have a wonderful method known as the ’Book Entry Skill’, which allows you to interpret your own calligraphy with your spirit, providing significant empowerment to those around you."

Hearing this, Zhou Xuan asked, "Isn’t this still using my calligraphy at my own expense?"

"Sorry, Zhou Dangzheng, this is all I can offer."

Yu Ruying said, "Regarding your rewards for the Breaking Qiang Stele and Flower God Pill, it’s either three first-grade elixirs or the ’Book Entry Skill’."

Zhou Xuan immediately pondered over it and said, "How does the empowerment of this Book Entry Skill compare to my Nuoshen Qi Ji?"

"Whether it’s strong or weak depends on the quality of your calligraphy.

Once you enter the book, you become the highest will within it, able to bestow all the inspiration from the calligraphy to whoever you wish,

if it’s an ordinary person’s calligraphy, unworthy of prestigious halls, even if all the inspiration is bestowed, it’s merely like lighting up the glow of a firefly,

but Zhou Dangzheng, your calligraphy contains an overwhelmingly abundant energy."

Zhou Xuan immediately asked, "If I use the inspiration from the Breaking Qiang Stele to empower?"

"If you can use such a supreme calligraphy for empowerment, the empowered power far surpasses your Nuoshen Qi Ji."

"For example?"

Zhou Xuan asked.

Yu Ruying said, "For example — you can empower the New God of the Heavenly Dome, Li Changxun, to the Heavenly God level."

"Oh?!"

Zhou Xuan’s mind nearly short-circuited. He only heard Yu Ruying say the empowerment effect of the ’Book Entry Skill’ was very strong,

but he didn’t expect it to be this strong.

Able to empower a God-level entity to the Heavenly God level.

"However, the empowerment of the Book Entry Skill is time-limited; it’s effective for the time of three sticks of incense, and beyond that, the empowerment effect will disappear."

Yu Ruying added, "Moreover, one empowerment consumes one piece of calligraphy."

"What do you mean by consume?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Calligraphy is born from the inspiration of the calligrapher. The calligrapher instills inspiration and effort to create a piece,

so within the calligraphy, there’s a lot of ’inspiration’ for people to grasp,

when Zhou Dangzheng empowers with the ’Book Entry Skill’, it pours all the inspiration from the calligraphy into the person being empowered,

once all the inspiration from the calligraphy is poured in, naturally, there’s no more inspiration left in the piece,

and from then on, you won’t be able to write that piece of calligraphy again."

Zhou Xuan listened and finally understood that it’s the cost of one piece of calligraphy to empower someone.

If he used the ’Breaking Qiang Stele’ to empower Li Changxun, he would never be able to write the ’Breaking Qiang Stele’ again.

After pondering deeply for a while, he asked Yu Ruying again, "Then, Yu Xu, what if before empowerment, I first write the calligraphy on paper, then empower,

that way, even if I can’t write the calligraphy again after empowerment, I still have the existing ink treasure..."

"That’s not feasible."

Yu Ruying explained the third drawback of the ’Book Entry Skill’ — the empowerment effect is dominant only without an existing worldly version of the calligraphy; if it’s already written and known, even if the piece is excellent, the empowerment effect won’t be as good.

"Still using your Breaking Qiang Stele as an example, if it’s not in existence, then consuming this piece can empower Li Changxun to the Heavenly God level for the time of three sticks of incense."

"But your Breaking Qiang Stele is already in existence and has been observed by countless people in Yujing, so its effect for empowerment is no longer significant."

Zhou Xuan calculated and found that using the ’Book Entry Skill’ came at a high cost.

Empowering once would consume a piece of calligraphy, and though he had seen many pieces in his past life — truly high-quality ones weren’t that plentiful.

Even though the starry sky of calligraphy in his past life was brilliant, there were only a few dozen truly notable great calligraphers.