Tribulation of Myriad Races

As the heroes throughout the lands gathered in Great Ming, Su Yu remained in seclusion and ignored them all. He was busy forging his body. At the same time, he was also reading. As of late, he had the habit of reading all sorts of books. He was not only reading to form characters. Thus, he would alternate between willpower texts and regular books.

Language books, travel diaries, smithing books, and all sorts of books were read.

Su Yu was still an inexperienced young man, so he was truthfully still clueless about a lot of topics. It was also hard for him to gain a deeper understanding of many topics due to his lack of knowledge.

But to fully utilize his fire of inheritance, he needed to have a sufficient amount of knowledge. Only then would he be able to gain more understanding of whatever he was doing. The fire of inheritance wouldn’t generate knowledge out of nothing. Only with enough reserve of information in his brain would the fire be able to supply him with relevant enlightenment when required.

To gain a deeper comprehension of something, he needed to first have the relevant knowledge and experience in place.

At the moment, Su Yu’s fire of inheritance was active as he read the book he received from the Bai Family. In recent days, he had spent most of his time reading this book and the notes for the Time technique.

This was the notebook he had received from Silk Destroying King. It contained his experience and understanding of the technique he created many years after he first created the technique.

During the past few days of reading, Su Yu realized that in the past, his understanding had not been deep enough for many topics. Thus, he had also been reading the jade talisman Liu Wenyan had given him previously. That talisman contained the accumulation of Liu Wenyan’s learnings and experience.

Liu Wenyan was not strong. He was still a Skysoar. Even Su Yu himself was on the verge of overtaking Liu Wenyan. But he was once a super genius capable of killing Skysoars as a Mental Tempering Stage cultivator. Thus, some of Liu Wenyan’s experiences was worth learning from.

For example, Liu Wenyan’s method of nurturing characters was very valuable. This was someone who had formed numerous characters at the Mental Tempering Stage. Initially, he nurtured his characters with willpower. But as he formed more and more characters, he did not have enough willpower to nurture them all. Thus, he took the route of nurturing those characters with the power within the fifth principal’s characters.

That was an interesting discovery. The fifth principal’s characters were still in the Sunmoon Realm. But due to the high level of compatibility, Liu Wenyan was able to take these characters into his sea of willpower before ultimately nurturing his own characters with them.

Could Su Yu do the same? After all, he had some Sunmoon characters as well. After killing the five enemy Sunmoons previously, Zhu Tiandao had promised him some of the characters. Those characters had been handed over. There were three of them, but Su Yu had been storing them in the laboratory without doing anything to them. He intended to turn them into grottos.

But according to Liu Wenyan’s notes, if one found a character compatible enough to be absorbed, one could also make use of that character to nurture one’s own characters.

“If I can absorb those characters, will I be able to use them to nurture my characters?”

Sure, he could also crush those characters and absorb the leaked power. But the leaked power would not linger in the area for long. Meanwhile, keeping the character in his sea of willpower while slowly absorbing its power was much more efficient.

“I can give this a try when I have the chance.”

He shifted his focus back to the book he received from the Bai Family. First, he had to crush his acupoints. Only then would he be able to locate the acupoint he had named the yang acupoint.

“Crush…that might not be the sole option, right? I need to crush the acupoints to lure the yang acupoint out. In that case, the yang acupoint might be hidden deep inside the body. It will only appear with a sufficient amount of energy.

“By crushing my acupoints, I will be able to muster enough energy to lure the yang acupoint out. If even a ninth-stage Cloudbreach has to do something like that, the energy must be at the level of a Mountainsea at the weakest.”

Numerous ideas appeared in Su Yu’s mind. Even while thinking about all that, he was actively forging his body. He would take some time to complete his fifth forging. But he was in no rush.

He didn’t care about Shan Xiong. If he happened to comprehend something new right when Shan Xiong arrived, he would happily ignore Shan Xiong to focus on his comprehension. Shan Xiong could wait. After all, Shan Xiong was now the challenger, not him. Why should he be in a rush? There was no need for him to jump forth right after the challenger arrived.

In Su Yu’s opinion, he was now a person of status. As an honorary elder, he had to appear elusive and play hard to get, especially when it concerned a mere teaching assistant like Shan Xiong.

“The power from destroying acupoints…what a pity. If a Cloudbreach with 360 acupoints was the one destroying their own acupoints, that would definitely generate the power at the level of a Mountainsea. That might be able to fully reveal the yang acupoint.”

Su Yu reached a conclusion. At the Cloudbreach Realm or even the ninth-stage Skysoar Realm, he might gain the ability to reveal the yang acupoint. In that case, could he do the same to locate the yin acupoint?

By combining the yin and the yang, would a stable source soul acupoint appear? Separate, the yang or the yin acupoints might not be able to exist for long since they were essentially incomplete.

“Yang acupoint…”

Suddenly, Su Yu stood up and left the room.

Outside, Wu Lan was busy reading while waiting for him. The moment she saw him, she said, “Shan Xiong is here. He has issued a challenge letter to you. Are you accepting the challenge?”

“I’ll see. For now, I’m still busy.”

Wu Lan appeared somewhat displeased, but it was for an entirely different reason. She said, “They arrived yesterday. The moment they arrived, they started claiming that you’re only lucky because you have a ruin. Without a ruin, you are nothing.”

Deep inside, that was what she had been telling herself as well. But that did not mean that she was happy to hear others saying the same thing.

Su Yu nodded, “That makes a lot of sense. What can I do if I’m really so lucky?”

“…”

Wu Lan asked, “Are you not angry?”

“What is there to be angry about?” Su Yu said, “People will only be jealous about what they don’t have. They will think that in my position, they will be able to do just as well. But the thing is…what can I do if they don’t have what I have?

“Was Shan Xiong the one spreading those rumors? In that case, he is not someone to be feared. Defeating an opponent after belittling that opponent will only showcase his incompetence. I don’t like people like him. I prefer to have powerful enemies. Even if my opponent is weak, I’ll prefer someone who appears strong. Di Feng is one such person. Everyone thought that he was amazing as he occupied first place in the Top 100 Ranking. By defeating such an opponent, I would look even stronger.”

He shook his head. In his opinion, belittling his own opponent was a stupid thing to do. Even after victory, the others would only view it as a victory over a weakling. That wouldn’t convince others that he was strong.

Thus, if Shan Xiong was the one spreading those rumors, then he was truly not someone to be worried about.

Wu Lan thought about it and nodded, “That makes sense. So should we be spreading rumors of how strong Shan Xiong is? And then, you can beat him to death to showcase your strength?”

Su Yu laughed, “Exactly. It’s even better if we can make everyone believe that he is capable of killing Mountainseas. After defeating him, I will inherit all his fame. I call this borrowing the momentum of others. The others are unsure of my strength. But everyone knows how Shan Xiong has defeated all the other multiple character faction experts in the same cultivation level. By defeating him, I can directly inherit all the fame and reputation he has built for himself instead of going through a painstaking process of building my own reputation.

“My victory over Shan Xiong will be meaningless if I do it after belittling him. It is much better to make him seem like the only hope of the single character faction. Make him the number one guy of the single character faction. Even his teacher is nothing before him. With that, I can even step on Zhou Polong by defeating him even if Zhou Polong is countless times stronger than me.”

Wu Lan blanked out. That made sense…somewhat. But that also sounded rather profound. So was this how one should borrow the fame of others? By making your opponent seem more formidable, you would seem a lot more formidable after defeating that opponent.

True.

“Where are you going?” Wu Lan had been following Su Yu as he walked. Finally, she asked, “What are you doing now?”

“I’m going to the basement. You don’t need to follow me.” Su Yu smiled, “You won’t be able to get used to what you can see there.”

“Oh.” Wu Lan asked, “Are you talking about the bad guys locked down there? Are you conducting experiments on them? That won’t do. Why don’t you kill them? Human experiments are against the law…”

She was not as soft as Su Yu had imagined. After all, she was also one of the kids who had grown up watching Xia Longwu’s live executions on television. In fact, since she was residing in the capital itself, she had sneaked off to one of these execution grounds before. The sight there nearly scared her to death, but she eventually got used to it.

“No. I’m just doing some tests related to acupoints. It’s not cruel or evil. I’m giving them the chance to atone for their crimes. It’s fine.” Su Yu said, “These are all death row inmates. This is their way out of that fate. If they can survive the tests, they will be pardoned.”

Wu Lan nodded and stopped asking. Whatever. Since those were bad guys, she didn’t care about their fate. After Su Yu left, she sank into thought before snorting and running out of the research center.

Su Yu was right. The stronger Shan Xiong looked, the more famous Su Yu would be after defeating him. That was also a good way for Su Yu to vent his anger toward Zhou Polong. Before long, Wu Lan found a group of ardent gossipers. That group was led by Zhu Hongliang and Bai Junsheng.