Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was quite alarmed. When the little fellow tried entering his sea of willpower in the past, he could sense it. But just now, he wasn’t able to sense anything. The furball had become scarier than before. If this was really a race with Invincibles, which cultural researcher could stand against them? Even an Invincible cultural researcher would probably have a hard time against them. Of course, Su Yu didn’t really know for sure since he still wasn’t an Invincible himself.

The 40th had been milked dry.

There was still some willpower left in the air. Su Yu absorbed them to replenish himself as he cursed, “You ate my fire character. I won’t leave before fully repairing it.”

This damn furball. Su Yu was starting to have a headache. This was only a Cloudbreach breakthrough. What would the furball need at the Mountainsea breakthrough?

Su Yu was questioning himself if he could afford to continue raising the little furball. In fact, he couldn’t even think of anyone who could afford to raise the furball. What was the type of food the furball required? Willpower, characters, and heavenly source qi. Who could freely provide all those as food?

After a short wait, Su Yu was brought to the 41st level.

As for the little furball, he had retreated into Su Yu’s sea of willpower to avoid the pagoda testing Su Yu as a beast tamer.

The climb continued.

Zhu Tiandao was gathered with a few other people. After making a lie to cover the natural phenomenon, he still couldn’t help cursing, “Where did that fellow come from? He has been with Su Yu since the Starfall Mountain.”

“I heard Hong Tan caught that thing.”

“That damn Hong Tan is an expert at wasting his time with useless stuff. What the hell did he capture? Why did he capture the descendant of an ancient race?”

Niu Baidao was feeling greatly troubled. Damn that Hong Tan! It was not a good idea to capture the members of ancient races.

The so-called ancient races were races that had persisted since ancient times with uninterrupted inheritances. The first divines and original devils were considered ancient races as well. There were also some races in the divine and devil races that were not ancient races. And almost all of these ancient races were races with ancient Invincibles.

These ancient Invincibles were known as Pseudo Emperors. A race like that was very difficult to deal with. Even if they only had a single Pseudo Emperor, they would still be unrivaled when they were within their own realm. In there, they could probably face seven or eight foreign Invincibles at the same time and still come up on top.

The only solution was to send dozens of Invincibles into the realm or outright break the realm. Some of the comparatively smaller realms could be broken apart with enough Invincibles. But that wouldn’t work for all realms.

Major realms like the Divine and Devil Realms would probably survive even against the assault of hundreds of Invincibles. Their own Invincibles would have accidentally destroyed their realms long ago otherwise.

Niu Baidao found himself quite speechless. He said, “Hong Tan…does have a habit of capturing new races.”

After thinking about it, Niu Baidao continued, “It better be the member of a race with more members. That way, nobody will notice one missing kid. They might assume that the kid is out tempering himself.”

If there were enough of them, even if the Pseudo Emperor could sense the breakthrough, they wouldn’t pay too much attention to one little breakthrough. It better not be a race with only a small number of members. That would be extremely troublesome.

If that was the case, the Pseudo Emperor was probably already aware of the little furball’s location. That would be very troublesome. The Pseudo Emperor might enter the Human Realm at any moment.

Zhu Tiandao said, “Good thing I managed to cover the phenomenon. Not many people noticed. That damn Su Yu need to relax. If this continues, he might end up catching the attention of Invincibles right after arriving at the Allheaven Battlefield.”

“Well, we can simply let him stay in the Human Realm forever…”

Zhu Tiandao said, “If he’s a pure researcher, sure. But he’s not. He’s also a powerful combatant. He is unrivaled in the same realm. Do you think someone like that will hide in a research center forever?”

What nonsense was that? It would be fine if one didn’t have the combat strength. If one was strong enough, who would be willing to stay in a research center forever?

The two were left speechless for a bit. After a moment, Zhu Tiandao grumbled, “I don’t care anymore. This isn’t the main issue here. The main issue is, where is the damn kid?”

Niu Baidao was feeling even worse than the prefect.

“How am I supposed to know? That kid is too excessive. He’s not happy with eating by himself, but he’s also sharing the meal with the little fellow. He’s going to shake the foundations of our academy!”

It would still be fine if Su Yu went in alone. There was a limit to how much he could eat.

But now, he was taking the little furball along for the ride. And the furball had eaten enough to enter the Cloudbreach Realm.

What an asshole! Why hadn’t the kid brought a few more people inside while he was at it?

Little did Niu Baidao know, that was exactly what Su Yu was thinking about. He felt like he had eaten so much he couldn’t eat anymore. If he had known this, he would have taken the water elemental and the shadow into the pagoda as well. This was free food. He couldn’t let it go to waste, right?

The Hundred Dao Pagoda was too amazing.

At the moment, Su Yu had reached the 44th level. There, his fire had fully recovered to a first-tier character. But he would probably need some time to bring it back to the second tier. He could sense that all the other characters were reaching the limits of the second tier.

The blood character was on the verge of reaching the third tier. He was contemplating whether he should let the blood character advance. But he was worried that he would lose control over the newly grown character. That might not be worth it.

“I’ll focus on repairing the fire character for now. The others can stop at the peak second tier. When I break through into the Skysoar Realm, I might be able to push all eleven of them into the third tier at the same time.”

At this level, Su Yu was facing only third-tier characters as opponents. The 44th level was meant for second or third-stage Cloudbreaches. Above the 45th level, he would face mid-stage Cloudbreaches. And at the 50th level, he would meet late-stage Cloudbreaches.

“Perhaps I can consider not using my characters all the time. This is such a good place. I can start from scratch next time and climb through weaponsmithing.”

Su Yu had been wanting to increase his proficiencies in weaponsmithing, but he had been too busy.

Now, he finally saw a shortcut. If he could take the weaponsmithing trials, he would definitely be able to grow rapidly. He had three free entries per month. This was only his first entry.

Even if he wasn’t given the special rewards every ten levels during his next visit, it wouldn’t matter. He wasn’t here for those rewards. He was here to grow himself.

He had opened 65 apertures through his first visit. He was in a great mood. Due to his good mood, he performed even better in combat.

His characters were released. All eleven of them came together to form his Sealing Saber. Facing the numerous characters, he constantly used his characters in different combinations, testing out the many abilities of his characters.

He was trying to determine his strengths and weaknesses. The break, saber, and lightning characters were essentially offensive characters. But they were still lacking something. They weren’t strong enough.

“Combination.”

Su Yu had an answer. He lacked a proper combination. As the single character faction lacked character techniques, they resorted to using their characters in different specific combinations, increasing the compatibility between the characters. As for Su Yu, he had not worried about that due to the existence of his character technique.

Thus, the combination of his characters was quite messy. He was essentially using anything he could form.

“The lightning character can be combined with the Lightning Source Blade…creating a willpower version of the martial technique. It would work even better if I could create a source character as well. I wonder if I can form a saber and directly transform a martial technique into a soul technique.”

A new idea rose in Su Yu’s mind. Could he replicate the techniques like the Time technique with his apertures? Would that work? His apertures would supply the power while the characters would serve as the nodes of these new techniques.

Before he knew it, he reached the 49th level. At that point, he was too tired to continue. This was a level filled with sixth-stage Cloudbreach characters. Even all eleven of his characters added together weren’t as strong as one of them.

He was forced into a constant retreat. Fortunately, his fire character had fully recovered. This felt great. It had taken him only nine levels to repair it.

With the character technique and his physical combat prowess, Su Yu would be able to defeat the third-stage character before him if he wanted to. But it was pointless. He did not need anything from the 50th level for now.

It would be a waste for his first visit. He would only obtain the bonus rewards during his first visit to the 50th level.

“Should I save this chance for my next visit?”

Su Yu wondered if it would be better for him to come after he was fully prepared.

For example, he could come when he wanted to advance into the Skysoar Realm. That way, he could feed his advancement with the pagoda. He had already absorbed as much as he could today. It would be a waste for him to keep going.

“Maybe I should wait until I’m a Skysoar and try pushing to the 60th level. I could then reset the level repeatedly and earn big there.”

The 60th level was the dividing line between the Mountainsea Realm and the previous realms.

Su Yu had a new idea. Maybe he should try reaching the 60th level and experience fighting a Mountainsea. But that would have to wait until he was a Skysoar.

“Mountainsea…”

Su Yu, who was still a Mental Tempering Stage cultivator, suddenly felt like the Mountainsea Realm wasn’t that far away at all. He had reached an understanding of his current level of strength.

With his characters and physical body, he was capable of facing even a sixth-stage Cloudbreach. Of course, facing a real living being was different from facing a character. Inside the pagoda, he only faced illusions. Real living beings would be trickier to handle.

As for seventh-stage Cloudbreaches, it was unlikely that he could prevail against them. He was able to kill Zhou Pingsheng previously because Zhou Pingsheng was suffering from the backlash of activating the talisman he bought.

Su Yu judged that he was probably already as strong as he was after consuming blood essence during his fight with Zhou Pingsheng. He no longer needed blood essence to exhibit that level of strength.

“Combat strength of a Cloudbreach…no, this is the combat strength of a garbage sixth-stage Cloudbreach. It is probably around the level of a genius fourth-stage Cloudbreach. So…perhaps I’m now equal to Liu Hong?”

Even Su Yu himself was dumbfounded by that realization. He judged that he was probably as strong as a freak first-stage Cloudbreach.

In other words, he was probably as strong as people like Wu Qi, Liu Hong, and Hu Wensheng who had recently advanced. It was unlikely that he was a match for Xia Yuwen. Xia Yuwen’s defeat in Bai Feng’s hands had happened under a unique series of circumstances. If they were to have a rematch, Bai Feng would probably lose. A surprise attack would only work once.

Su Yu was absent-minded for a bit before he recalled that Wu Qi had left her name on the 49th level. And this was the level he was on currently as well. Had he grown so strong unknowingly?

After paying such a high price to open 360 acupoints and 180 apertures, they had indeed not disappointed him.