Tribulation of Myriad Races

After Xu Bin left, Zhu Tiandao said, “We caught him in the academy. Amazing, right? He’s pretty good at hiding himself. He nearly fooled us. We wanted to capture Lan Tian, but we caught this guy instead. Lan Tian is probably not in Great Ming.”

The upper echelons of the human race were all aware of Lan Tian. After all, he was the master of the Original Devil Sect. Great Xia would not be stingy in sharing the information about him. Su Yu nodded and said nothing.

Zhu Tiandao said, “We had him test you to see your ability. Looks like you’re quite strong, kid.”

“Let’s get to the point. Recently, we managed to partially complete one of our projects. The two of us are too busy to play hide-and-seek with all those enemies of yours. What do you think about finding a chance to deal with all of them in one fell swoop?”

“One fell swoop?”

Su Yu was not optimistic about that plan. “After the Starfall Mountain incident, they won’t try anything unless they’re 100 percent sure they can succeed.”

Zhu Tiandao explained, “We’re not going to make them take any risks. All living beings are curious by nature. They will definitely try to gather information and participate in large events…”

Su Yu looked at Zhu Tiandao blankly.

Zhu Tiandao said, “Aren’t you going to start forging your body soon? I hope you can make a public announcement about this. The people of Great Ming love major events like this. We will satisfy their curiosity and let them bear witness to the body forging and Skysoar advancement of a genius. You will be breaking through in public.”

Niu Baidao said, “Some people in Great Ming love making a scene during breakthroughs. But most of these people aren’t really that impressive. But you’re a super genius. Everyone will be interested in your breakthrough.

“You can even use this as the chance to promote your cultivation method. For example, your body forging art or something else. Just claim that you are releasing a new cultivation method soon and you’re inviting everyone to witness its effect. That will attract a lot of attention.”

Zhu Tiandao nodded, “At that time, those who are aiming to do something against you or only gather information about you will all be there. After all, the risk of exposure is low with the large number of people that will be present.”

Su Yu was not inclined to do something like this.

“Prefect, isn’t that too dangerous? Some cultists are very good at hiding. You won’t be able to scan every single person in the crowd as it is frowned upon to openly scan people like that…”

Zhu Tiandao said, “We naturally have our own ways to investigate those people. Even those hiding their strength won’t be able to avoid detection. Things will only get difficult when it comes to those with a suitable identity that can be used in public.”

Some cultists had secondary identities they could use in public.

Su Yu’s interest was piqued, “So you have a way of determining their strength?”

How were they going to do that?

Zhu Tiandao said, “That was how we caught Xu Bin. Normally, it won’t be that easy to detect a Mountainsea in hiding. And he is an expert at concealment. Even so, we managed to detect him. Of course, if you think this is too dangerous, forget it. We can think of something else.”

At worst, they only needed to spare more effort and slowly scan the city. For now, it was still quite hard for the Super Sensory Jade to cover the entire city. They were still working on that. But it could cover a small area just fine.

After some hesitation, Su Yu asked, “Prefect, is this detection method reliable? We don’t want to end up clueless even when the enemy is right beside us…”

“Yes, it is.” Zhu Tiandao was giddy as he said, “It is definitely reliable. Not even Sunmoons can hide from it. And even those with combat strength surpassing their cultivation level will be detected as well. For example, a certain Mental Tempering Stage cultivator with the combat strength of a Cloudbreach. Someone like that can’t hide from our detection.”

Su Yu stared at the prefect. Why did he feel like the prefect was talking about him? Was he scanned by the prefect before this?

Suddenly, he asked, “When did you catch this Xu Bin person?”

“Yesterday.”

With a pensive look, Su Yu said, “I see. About two in the afternoon, right? You must have scanned me at around the same time.”

He finally knew why his tribulation character had been so active. It had suddenly throbbed at that time. Zhu Tiandao narrowed his eyes and looked at Niu Baidao. Was the jade not working as intended? How did Su Yu notice it?

Niu Baidao asked in surprise, “You noticed the scan?”

Su Yu calmly said, “Yes, but the sensation was very vague. I nearly ignored it.”

He pretended to be calm, but he was actually quite surprised. In truth, he did not discover anything when it happened. Not even his Perception Jade had reacted.

Thus, he was sure that nobody was scanning him themselves at the time. Of course, Invincibles would be the exception. But clearly, this wasn’t the work of an Invincible. In that case, what method did Zhu Tiandao employ for the scan? Also, not even the three layers of formations around the research center were able to block the scan. This was quite scary.

Zhu Tiandao was quite surprised at how sensitive Su Yu was. The kid probably possessed a unique detection method or he wouldn’t have noticed anything.

He said, “Don’t worry. Both Old Niu and I will be right by your side during your public breakthrough. That won’t be surprising as it will be too suspicious for us to not be there. We need to let everyone see how determined we are to protect you. That way, we will be able to lure even more of your enemies out.”

Since two of the strongest existences in Great Ming were personally protecting Su Yu, that whole thing would no longer look like a ploy. After all, it didn’t make any sense to reveal one’s trump card right at the start of a ploy.

Zhu Tiandao said, “We won’t attack directly either. Our main goal is to get an eye on all those people. But we also hope that you can lure some true experts out. Generally, only weaklings will be sent for information gathering. But if it is important enough, those experts will move out personally.”

He looked at Su Yu and asked, “What do you think about this plan? Are you willing to give it a try? Of course, we need to try really hard to lure some experts out. It’s pointless to catch only some small fries.

“At the very least, we need to get some Cloudbreaches or even Mountainseas to show up. These people will then return and report to someone stronger. Thus, we might even catch a few Sunmoons that way.”

As for those who were weaker, it was unlikely that they would be able to come in contact with Sunmoons.

Seeing that Su Yu was still silent, Zhu Tiandao said, “How about this? After capturing these experts, including the Sunmoons, you are entitled to 30 percent of the proceeds. The characters, corpses, and cultural weapons of Sunmoons are all incredibly valuable. If we can turn some of these characters into grottos, we’ll earn even more. Additionally, you can get the main credit for the capture of these people.”

Su Yu raised his brow and said, “Breaking through in public is a lot of work. Why don’t we do an auction or something like that?”

Zhu Tiandao shook his head, “That won’t work. Anything you sell will eventually be leaked. The cultists do not care about the cultivation methods you’re going to sell. They’re more interested in you as a person. Only the Invincible ruin you might or might not have can win their favor.”

Su Yu was somewhat speechless. The way Zhu Tiandao put it, he almost felt like he was an absolute beauty that these cultists were coveting. More importantly, he needed a large amount of heavenly source qi for his breakthrough. That was something he didn’t want to expose. He wouldn’t be so hesitant otherwise.

Zhu Tiandao seemed to know what he was thinking. “Is there something different about your advancement?”

“Maybe.”

“That’s even better.” Zhu Tiandao grinned, “The more unique your breakthrough is, the better it is. Only then would we be able to attract more people. It will be even better if you can create a heavenly phenomenon like what happened previously. I guarantee that even the Sunmoons won’t be able to resist making a move personally. If a mere Skysoar can create a heavenly phenomenon during advancement, you will instantly become their number one assassination target.”

Su Yu was left somewhat speechless. He said, “Prefect, won’t that make things harder for me? Everyone will be trying to kill me in the future.”

“You’re already in a similar situation.”

“But…what if I attract the attention of Invincibles this time?”

Zhu Tiandao said, “It won’t be that bad. We will create a fake heavenly phenomenon. After killing all those people, we’ll make a public explanation. It’s no big deal. No Invincible will waste their time on something this trivial. Furthermore, there are no Invincibles in the cult. As for the myriad race Invincibles, you’re already someone they will kill on sight. Don’t worry too much.”

Fake heavenly phenomenon?

Soon, Su Yu understood what the prefect was getting at. “Prefect, will this work?”

“Yes. We can do enough to fool even Sunmoons.”

Su Yu asked curiously, “Is it possible for someone to generate a heavenly phenomenon when advancing into the Skysoar Realm?”

“Nope.” Zhu Tiandao explained, “There is no such time. If you’re super talented, you might generate one when breaking through into the Mountainsea Realm. This was what happened during Xia Longwu’s breakthrough. At the time, golden rain fell from the sky, covering an area several hundred meters wide. We will try to make a fake golden rain covering about thirty to fifty meters wide. We already did this once. We can simply create another source qi rain when the time comes.”

They did it once during the little furball’s breakthrough.