Chapter 285: Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint: The Human Seed Sect

"We have only met once; it would be abrupt to speak of marriage, let alone bearing offspring."

Zhou You said earnestly to Bao Shuixian, "I will not spread word of today's events, and I ask that you, for the sake of your own reputation, never mention it again."

He was not interested in so-called secrets.

Speaking of secrets, was there little he already knew?

The Nine Tripods of Heaven and Man, the Gods and Immortals Conflict, the Sealed Noble Families, and the reason for the building of cities across the world... the general outline of the world's context was already presented before him; the remaining minor details were not so urgent.

The secret in Bao Shuixian's mouth, regarding the noble families, was likely just those same things! Besides...

Zhou You thought to himself, Bao Shuixian came seeking a child, who knew if it might be a conspiracy by Bao Tiefeng?

He had already spoken tactfully enough, but Bao Shuixian still persisted in the purpose of her visit.

"Zhou You, if I said this secret concerns a Martial Saint, would you want to know?"

A Martial Saint?

Zhou You's heart thumped; a Martial Saint, the ultimate goal of countless martial artists in the world, a true god-like existence among men? Bao Shuixian actually knew the secret of a Martial Saint; what was her background? "As everyone knows, the first Martial Saint in the world was the Original Martial Saint, the sage who opened the path of Martial Dao for countless of us who came after; the title of Martial Saint also comes from him."

To be called a saint because of martial arts is to be a Martial Saint! The Original Martial Saint, to be precise, only has one name... Martial Saint.

At that time, demons danced wildly between heaven and earth, ghosts and gods held sway, and the waves stirred up after the Heaven and Man descended reached the four poles and all directions.

The man who ended this chaotic era achieved sainthood through fist and martial arts, and also created the title of Martial Saint.

When he was alive, there was only one Martial Saint in the world, so there was no distinguishing title before it.

It was not until later, when other Martial Saints appeared one after another, that the two characters 'Original' were added to distinguish him, indicating that he was the primitive, first-generation Martial Saint, as well as the ancestor of Martial Dao and the first sage.

Zhou You nodded; true, the Original Martial Saint is the ancestor of all martial artists.

"But, after the Original Martial Saint, do you know who the second Martial Saint was?"

After Bao Shuixian introduced the great achievements of the Original Martial Saint, her tone shifted, mentioning the second Martial Saint.

Zhou You opened his mouth; this was embarrassing, he didn't know! "The second Martial Saint was also a brilliant and talented person who stood out from hundreds of millions of martial artists to achieve the status of supreme Martial Saint, but because the light of the Original Martial Saint was too dazzling, it obscured his existence."

"This Martial Saint was named the Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint, taken from the meaning of 'the beginning of one yuan, the renewal of all phenomena'."

"During the lifetime of the Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint, he subdued the constantly turbulent tribes of the ancestors; the prototypes of organizations like noble families and sects were all sorted out by his hand, and he further established the rules for the inheritance of fist techniques on the foundation of the Original Martial Saint."

"We martial artists are still benefiting from the legacy he left behind to this day."

Zhou You understood; the first generation builds the empire, the second generation sits on the empire; the difficulty of each has its own merits, yet the great achievements of the first generation in clearing thorns and thistles to create a brand-new world were even more dazzling! Hmm, after laying the groundwork for so much, what Bao Shuixian wanted to say must be about this Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint.

Sure enough... "The Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint once had a hypothesis: humans are the spiritual leaders of all things, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, possessing infinite potential."

"Martial Dao fist techniques, practiced and improved step by step, have the ultimate goal of unlocking all potential; theoretically, everyone can become a Martial Saint, yet there are a hundred kinds of people, and differences in talent and intelligence obscure that potential."

Zhou You wanted to laugh; this theory of the Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint... was quite Buddhistic; everyone has the root of wisdom, everyone can become a Buddha.

However, immediately after, he could no longer laugh.

"... If there were a person who, from the moment of birth in the mother's womb, through breathing, eating, walking, and sleeping, all had the effect of hard-practicing fist techniques, then upon growing into an adult, success would come naturally, and they could ascend to become a Martial Saint..."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Zhou You immediately rejected it; would that even be considered human?

Bao Shuixian smiled, smiling very beautifully, her radiance emitting a soul-stirring, aggressive beauty. Since Zhou You had known her, this was the first time he had seen her smile, and he couldn't help but look a few more times.

"The Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint proposed this hypothesis and called such people 'Perfected Humans'; they are the future direction of the human race."

"The Perfected Human does not exist in the past, nor in the present, but only in the future; it requires continuous evolution and reproduction to be born."

"Thus, there arose the 'Human Seed Sect' lineage, inheriting the will of the Myriad Phenomena Martial Saint, vowing to create the bloodline of the Perfected Human."

When Bao Shuixian said this, she suddenly raised her hand to make a gesture, "What I have inherited is the philosophy of the Human Seed Sect."

"We choose the best to reproduce generation after generation, just to gather all the excellent martial artist bloodlines and eventually breed a Perfected Human."

"Zhou You, you are the most excellent bloodline I have selected."

Zhou You blurted out, "Impossible, my family has been Commoners for three generations; you have misjudged."

"From the night you saved me, I have been secretly observing you; although you are of Commoner origin, your Martial Dao talent is terrifyingly strong; given time, breaking through to become a Strong Martial artist is even possible."

Bao Shuixian said calmly, "To tell you the truth, by the time it reached my generation, the bloodline of my branch had been purified to the potential of a Strong Martial artist; I have an older brother, over thirty years old, who is already at the peak of Martial Master and has hopes of sprinting toward the Strong Martial realm."

"I carry a recessive bloodline, destined to be passed on to the next generation; what is missing is the other half of high quality."

"As long as you agree to have a child with me, the benefits I give you will be unimaginably generous."

The amount of information was too great.

Zhou You finally understood why Bao Tiefeng could still level up after losing an arm and delve into the mysteries of the Heaven-Reaching Yuan-Nurturing Art; was he a premium human seed from the Human Seed Sect's selective breeding? Bao Shuixian's leveling speed was also very fast; silently, she was already at the mid-stage of Qi and Blood.

In his heart, he already believed it seven or eight parts.

However, he couldn't accept it!

This method of selective breeding and pairing for reproduction looked like livestock breeding, not treating people as people.

"Bao Shuixian, humans are not animals; I cannot accept doing this."

Zhou You looked into her eyes and said earnestly, "Bearing offspring without affection, only with purpose, is simply murder."

The air was very quiet...

After a long time, Bao Shuixian spoke, "Three years ago, I had the same thoughts as you."

"Until that night when Su Cheng was destroyed..."

What exactly happened on the night Su Cheng was destroyed to make Bao Shuixian's thinking change so drastically, from loathing the Human Seed Sect to accepting it?

Zhou You saw the sorrow in her heart and did not press her, but listened as she slowly spoke it out.

"Do you know at whose hands Su Cheng was destroyed?"

Wasn't it natural disasters, the Plague, demonic creatures, and wild beasts? "Two Grandmasters fought, and the power they emitted shook down half the city wall of Su Cheng; the defense was destroyed as a result, and countless disasters swept through the entire city; of the residents in the city who could escape, not one in a hundred survived."

"And my mother also died in the earthquake that night."

Bao Shuixian wiped the tears from her face, "My aptitude is limited; in this life, I have no hope of taking revenge on the two Grandmasters, but I have the bloodline of the Human Seed Sect; I can give birth to a son, and the son will have a grandson, optimizing generation after generation; one day, among my descendants, a Grandmaster or even a Martial Saint will be born to take revenge on them."

"I want to tell them that we are not ants!"

(End of chapter)