Chapter 1409: Better Sword Extraction.

Then the Dao Lord of the Myriad Phenomenon Sect chuckled as he said confidently, "Now for your more ambitious objective."

"I have to ask you? How can you upgrade a Supreme Metac when you’ve already built its structure and only need to solidify it?"

"It is like saying you want to expand the size of a jar, but all you’re doing is pouring water into it. How can you think it is a good idea?" he finished with a teasing smile.

Before Sword Maestro could defend himself, Tepid Scholar said, "Don’t bother to explain. It was a rhetorical question anyway."

"Obviously, filling a jar with water won’t upgrade it. The extra water will overflow and flood the area. It won’t do anything to make the jar bigger. Even a child knows that."

"It doesn’t matter what you fill the jar with; its size is fixed, and its content won’t change that. What you need to do is to make a bigger jar right from the start."

"If you attempt to upgrade the Supreme Metac right from the start by using 19 units of commonality for the Grand Dao instead of 15 units and you use a different set of rules, you might succeed. But you can’t expect something you built with 15 units of commonality to suddenly become as big as another built with 19 units just because you fill it with the lives of other people."

"Is that all?" Sword Maestro asked, fuming.

"For now," Tepid Scholar said with contentment. "But if you say more stupid things, I might have more opinions."

Sword Maestro really wanted to insult him and say, "You senile old man, who wants any more of your opinion?"

And when Tepid Scholar tried to answer, he would say, "Don’t bother to explain. It was a rhetorical question anyway."

But instead of turning combative, he said, "What if I add my life experiences and talent into the Supreme Metac while adding the lifespan of the mortals?"

In response, Tepid Scholar rolled his eyes and said, "With what?"

"What do you intend to use to infuse your memories and talents into the Supreme Metac? You know your lifespan is the channel and medium for your memories and talents, right? Without it, your memories won’t suddenly enter the Supreme Metac."

Upon hearing this criticism of his idea, Sword Maestro frowned. He was furious that Tepid Scholar was talking down to him and criticizing him in front of everyone, but he also wanted to learn.

He wanted to absorb some of the older Dao Lord’s wisdom, so he bore the condescension and tried to remain calm as he said, "What if I add my memories and talent into the Supreme Metac with a little lifespan and fill up the required lifespan by sacrificing the mortal?"

Hearing this, Tepid Scholar had to sneer and say disdainfully, "And where do you think all the rubbish life experience and talents that came from the mortals will go? Or do you think the sacrifice will add lifespan and nothing else?"

"Like I said earlier, either the sacrifice will do nothing because it doesn’t contain useful memories and talents, or it will do something along the line of filling up the Supreme Metac with useless things and destroying it. Just accept it. Your plan can’t work."

Sword Maestro was slowly reaching his limit, but he refused to give up. He knew he should accept defeat now and keep whatever dignity he had left, but he still wanted to defeat Tepid Scholar intellectually, so he continued.

He asked, "What if I pick mortals talented in forging and train them all of their lives as forgers?"

"They should have the talent and memories I need. So it should work, right?"

This time, Tepid Scholar didn’t reply. He frowned, furrowing his brows in deep thought.

The Dao Lord of the Myriad Phenomenon Sect was still thinking about it when Black Chain said, "That might actually work."

Sword Maestro turned immediately and asked, surprised, "It could really work?"

"I would like to say I was joking to mess with you, but I’m not. That idea might work," Black Chain replied, nodding his head.

Then Black Chain said to Wandering Thief, "You’re right after all."

"Every Dao Lord is a culmination of talent and experiences that makes them unique. They might not be strong, but the fact that we are different means we can have unique perspectives on things that could be more useful than raw strength."

"I guess I was being harsh earlier when I expected you lot to be strong. But now I know not to saddle you with too much responsibility."

Wandering Thief’s face was dark as he said sarcastically, "Gee, thanks."

"You’re welcome," Black Chain said magnanimously. "I will take on what all of you can’t do. I will be the core brain and brawn. You can be my accessory brain or my accessory brawn.c

"Don’t be shy. Take your pick confidently. I won’t shame you for whatever potentially redundant or useless position you pick."

Hearing this, Sword Maestro shook his head and said, "I don’t know who is more condescending between you and Tepid Scholar."

"Tepid Scholar isn’t bad. But even he wishes he were as condescending as I am," Black Chain proclaimed proudly.

Just then, Tepid Scholar passed judgment, saying, "You’re on to something."

If you train talented mortals into Rank 5 cultivators with identical Mental Worlds that match the structure of the Supreme Metac, their compatibility with it will be very high, and they will supply useful experience and talent."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. Soon, he became so excited that his eyes shone brightly.

As his eyes shone like stars, he raised his voice to say, "I think it is a big breakthrough. With this, we might be able to mass-produce Supreme Metacs."

"After all, if we don’t need to sacrifice our life experiences and talents, we will still have what we need to make another incomplete Supreme Metac. So we can make as many incomplete Supreme Metacs as we want and fill them with the lives of others."