Tribulation of Myriad Races

“What the hell is this?” Zhu Tiandao cursed, “Which bastard released that thing?”

That cloud was the fake phenomenon they had prepared earlier.

Someone answered, “We didn’t release it. It was prepared and kept somewhere in advance, but the source qi in the area was too berserk. Even the hidden formation was broken apart, resulting in the release of that cloud.

That person spoke in a helpless tone. That wasn’t deliberate. To avoid attracting any attention, they had only laid down a weak obscuring formation. But the formation had been easily torn apart by the raging source qi.

Among the crowd, someone exclaimed, “That’s a phenomenon! An actual phenomenon! Holy shit, both heavenly blessing and punishment have appeared, even if the blessing ultimately ended up defeated by the punishment. Is Su Yu someone who is going to be a saint?”

“Heavens. What is that cloud? Why does it feel so amazing even from so far away?”

“Shit! That’s heavenly source qi! Each heavenly source fruit can only produce ten strands of them. I ate one of those fruits when I was a kid!”

The last speaker was someone from a large family.

Heavenly source fruit was not a term unfamiliar to the people here. As long as one read enough, one would know about this item. In the past, this was also how Su Yu had learned about this fruit.

“Holy shit! So much heavenly source qi leaked out, but why is everything gone so quickly?”

“Idiot. That’s why you should study more. The moment heavenly source qi comes in contact with source qi, it will turn into ordinary source qi as well. What a waste.”

“…”

The crowd continued swelling. More and more people were arriving. Some were happily enjoying the show, some were shocked, and some were shouting in excitement. This was their very first time witnessing such a sight.

“I heard that phenomena will appear during the breakthroughs of geniuses. Back then when Great Xia’s Xia Longwu broke through to the Mountainsea Realm, he created a phenomenon of source qi rain. But not even that was this crazy, right?”

“Su Yu…is he a future Invincible?”

“…”

More and more people were talking about the breakthrough.

Meanwhile, Su Yu had a solemn expression as he focused on forging his body. His willpower stayed defensive as his hammer fought the figures in the sky.

“No, this doesn’t feel like a heavenly punishment either…”

Su Yu couldn’t describe the sensation he was feeling, but it felt like the removal of a prohibition that had resulted in the appearance of natural laws. That was what his instinct was telling him.

The Five Elemental Arts had always been one. But it was too powerful. Hence, it was separated into five. Was it the ancestor of the five elemental race? But what authority did that ancestor have over a human?

The laws of the five elemental race should not be effective against the human race, right? It wouldn’t be too surprising if this phenomenon had appeared in the Five Elemental Realm. But it was actually appearing in the Human Realm. This was abnormal.

“Don’t tell me that this was originally a human cultivation method?”

Su Yu found that hard to believe. Was it possible that during the golden age of humanity, the human race had gifted this cultivation method to the five elemental race after splitting it into five?

He didn’t have an answer. This phenomenon was not generated by the 180 apertures. Rather, it was produced by the coming together of the five arts. Because of that, a heavenly punishment descended from the sky. After all, nothing had happened when he opened the 180 apertures. Instead, the change had happened after the combination of the five arts.

Su Yu did not have the time to think too much. He soared into the sky. The crowd saw a golden figure shooting into the sky before rapidly defeating one of the miniature figures. Then, the golden figure dove into a golden cloud.

This was something he had produced with a large amount of heavenly source qi. He was not about to let the heavenly source qi go to waste.

He opened his mouth wide and sucked the entire cloud into his body. Countless people saw that. One of them said in envy, “Damn it. This guy is using heavenly source qi to forge his body. What a lucky guy.”

“His entire body has turned gold. Just how many times is he forging his body?”

“His body has always been strong.”

“…”

The onlookers opened their eyes wide, hoping to see what Su Yu would do next. Alas, he disappointed them by returning to the ring after absorbing the golden cloud.

“Fuck!”

Someone cursed. “Come on! Stop hiding!”

Meanwhile, Zhu Tiandao was growing more and more alarmed as he said through voice transmission, “Be on alert, everyone! Damn it, three Sunmoons and six Mountainseas have appeared. Be careful! I’m worried that more will appear. We should really end this now, but Su Yu is not done yet. What should we do?”

Only a short while had passed yet three Sunmoons had appeared. If this continued, would stronger experts appear?

Zhu Tiandao was starting to grow uneasy. Right at that moment, Su Yu absorbed a large amount of heavenly source qi and roared. An eruption of golden light spread around him. He was forging his body. All around him, a large amount of source qi gathered madly. All 360 of his acupoints started madly taking in the source qi.

Su Yu unhesitatingly tossed countless drops of source qi liquid out, creating a rain of source qi. He replenished his body with the source qi. At the same time, the new characters continued their formation in his sea of willpower.

Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. This was his second fire character. Unlike the previous fire of inheritance, this was a true fire character. Prior to this, he had also formed the wind character. With that, he had formed seventeen characters in total.

As he absorbed a large amount of heavenly source qi and regular source qi, the speed of his body forging increased. His willpower churned, showing signs of materialization. However, the source soul acupoint was nowhere in sight. He could sense that somewhere within his body, a certain acupoint was trying to open up. But it was obstructed, ultimately failing to open.

Su Yu could no longer worry about that. He had to focus on his body forging. The storm around him grew more and more berserk. In the sky, the miniature figures of the five elements were all defeated. But the phenomenon did not seem like it was ending.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes…

Rumbling sounds rang out unceasingly.

***

Zhu Tiandao and the others were constantly communicating through voice transmissions. This was getting more and more troublesome.

Even more people had been attracted.

At the moment, four Sunmoons and nine Mountainseas had appeared. Some of them might not even be a part of the cult. They might be some passing experts who had been attracted by the massive ruckus. Half an hour after the breakthrough started, the first Sunmoon to not hide himself arrived.

“Prefect Zhu, what’s going on here?”

The expert asked from afar. Zhu Tiandao knew who that person was. That was an expert from the neighboring Great Song, a prefecture further south from Great Ming. Zhu Tiandao said, “It’s nothing. Su Yu is breaking through into the Skysoar Realm. It’s just a normal breakthrough.”

The other Sunmoons were left speechless. Was this normal? What manner of Skysoar breakthrough would produce something like this?

“Do you need help?”

“No. Director Song, please refrain from entering the city since we don’t want to cause any misunderstandings.” Zhu Tiandao spoke loudly, “All foreign Sunmoons and Mountainseas, please stay outside Tiandu for now. I will apologize to all of you personally after this. Please don’t make things difficult for me and Great Ming.”

Director Song really wanted to enter Tiandu and get a better look, but he forced himself to stay put. Any other prefecture would do the same thing. Thus, he could only say, “Alright, Prefect Zhu. We will remain out here.”

Once again, Zhu Tiandao’s voice rang out, “Sunmoons and Mountainseas inside the city, do not move around. Do not create chaos. Do not give anyone an opportunity to do something. Remain where you are and do what you should be doing.”

After giving these reminders, he would have a valid reason to deal with the Sunmoons and Mountainseas who were still hiding themselves as enemies. It didn’t matter if they were spies of the other prefectures or the cult. Since they were hiding their strength in the city, they were definitely harboring ulterior motives.

Meanwhile, the golden light radiating from Su Yu’s body was growing more and more intense.

Zhu Tiandao asked anxiously through voice transmission, “How much longer do you need?”

“Three hours.” Su Yu replied, “I need to first reach the Skysoar Realm through my body before achieving willpower materialization to complete the second or even the third forge.”

Willpower materialization was a chance for one to rapidly increase the strength of one’s body. Su Yu wanted to use this as an opportunity to save time and complete more forgings in a row.

Zhu Tiandao was left speechless. A few more hours? Didn’t the kid claim that he was only going to push his body to the Skysoar Realm? Why did that change?

Fuck!

Even more people would hear of what was happening if they waited a few more hours.

One hour later.

Administrator Hu appeared outside Tiandu. His voice rang out, “Prefect Zhu, the marquis is asking if you require any help from us.”

“No thanks. Stay outside the city.”

Administrator Hu said nothing and started waiting outside the city. He exchanged gazes with the expert from Great Song, but neither said anything to the other. Despite their silence, the shock in their eyes was apparent.

Su Yu? Was he sure he was breaking through into the Skysoar Realm? It should be the Mountainsea or even the Sunmoon Realm, right? Administrator Hu felt very regretful. What a pity. This used to be a genius of Great Xia. Just look at that crazy phenomenon. Was this truly a future Invincible?

In the past, the marquis and the others had said that Su Yu would have no trouble reaching the Sunmoon Realm. But from this breakthrough, he would probably have no problem reaching the Invincible Realm as well.

At this point, the crowd was starting to calm down. However, nobody was willing to leave. All of them were staring at the sky. The entire event became even more interesting in their eyes with the arrival of more and more experts.

Even though those experts were all stopped outside the city, those in the city were able to hear the conversations between those visits and Zhu Tiandao. A sense of pride rose in the hearts of the populace when they saw how obedient these foreign experts were before their prefect.

Meanwhile, the Sunmoons who had sneaked into the city didn’t know what to say. With the arrival of several Sunmoons outside the city, even leaving was no longer an option. Trying to sneak out was too risky. They could only wait and try to leave carefully after the breakthrough was over. None of them knew if Su Yu had opened the source soul acupoint.

Zhu Tiandao was not worried that they would lose the hidden Sunmoons. With the Super Sensory Jade, none of them could hope to escape him.

For now, he could only hope that everything would proceed smoothly. The moment Su Yu was done with his breakthrough, they would be able to disperse the crowd and deal with the hidden Sunmoons separately. That way, they wouldn’t end up alerting the other targets while they were dealing with one.

Su Yu was too busy to care about all of that. He continued fighting the elements thrown his way, tempering his willpower, nourishing his apertures, defeating the miniature figures, and strengthening his characters.

This phenomenon would have been able to instantly kill a regular Skysoar. But it wasn’t strong enough to deal with Su Yu. For him, this heavenly punishment was basically the same as a blessing.

Two hours passed.

His physical body had grown much stronger than before. The heavenly source qi consumption was higher than his expectation. As of this moment, his entire body had turned gold apart from his head.

The first forging was on the cusp of completion. Completing the first forging would make him a proper Skysoar. Slowly, even his head started turning gold. His eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, ears…all of them turned gold.

His blood churned.

His bones transformed.

Su Yu had a tranquil expression. He had nothing to fear. If something could happen to him even with so many Sunmoons protecting him, the result would remain if he had chosen to break through somewhere else.

After all, he even had a ninth-stage Sunmoon like Zhu Tiandao watching over him currently. What was he supposed to do if not even these experts could protect him? And finally, only a final spot on his body remained at its previous color. Completion was nigh.

At that moment, he swallowed a large ball stuffed full of heavenly source qi.

Boom!