Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside the research center.

The entire research center had been covered by the grotto. Su Yu was very shocked. Old Zhao sure was incredible. He had directly moved the grotto over and covered the research center with it.

And the earth weapon gave him an even bigger shock. Zhao Li was lifting the seal on the cultural weapon. The weapon hovered in the air and started warping repeatedly before taking the form of a massive hammer.

Looking at the floating hammer, Su Yu sank into contemplation. This hammer felt powerful, but he felt like it lacked something compared to the Hundred Dao Pagoda. Sure, the two were different types of weapons. But he couldn’t help feeling like this hammer lacked something.

When Zhao Li saw Su Yu staring at the hammer, he said, “Stop looking. It has been unsealed. I will be completing the weapon with you as my assistant. I will be making my preparations. You continue. When you manage to forge a high profound cultural weapon, we will start.”

“Teacher, isn’t this too rash?”

That was what Su Yu felt. Why did Zhao Li unseal the weapon?

“Rash?” Zhao Li glanced at him and said, “Weren’t you the one who had promised to help me with it?”

“…”

Holy shit!

He had not said anything about doing it immediately. And he didn’t know that it would be this hard. This earth weapon was stronger and more complicated than the earth weapons he had seen in the hands of some Sunmoons before.

More importantly, failure would result in the destruction of Old Zhao’s main character. That would be very troublesome.

Suddenly, the little furball flew out. He looked at the weapon and said, “Smells nice!”

He wanted to eat. There was a main character in that hammer. A character that had been nourished for decades.

Su Yu berated, “Come back here!”

The little furball appeared reluctant, but he obeyed.

Zhao Li did not react to that. He said, “Continue with your forging. I will proceed with my preparations. We’re inside a grotto formed by a peak Sunmoon character. Invincibles can still pry upon us, but the grotto will react. It might even result in the explosion of my grotto. I will make that Invincible pay.”

How was he going to make an Invincible pay? Easy. He would kill himself in front of the Invincible’s home. Even an Invincible would be annoyed to death by that.

“Teacher, do you need any materials?”

“No. I already have enough materials from what you delivered to me previously. I only lack some minor materials, but those do not matte—”

Before he could finish, Su Yu took out another pile of materials, “Teacher, I don’t have too many materials. I only bought around a hundred thousand merit points worth of materials. Is there anything you need here?”

“…”

Zhao Li glanced at Su Yu and snorted. Who was this kid showing off to? Did he lack money? Fine. He was indeed lacking in money.

Holy shit!

This damn bastard had earned a lot of money in Great Ming. A hundred thousand merit points? Back when the kid first joined the academy, the damn kid had pestered him for only a few dozen merit points.

“Cut the crap!”

Zhao Li berated, “Start working. You have enough source qi here. With the grotto, both your source qi and willpower will recover rapidly. Breaking through is also much easier inside the grotto. Both body forging and willpower growth will be much simpler here.”

“Also, you need to improve your switching process between the two forms of energy. This forging process might last several days. Can you last that long with your current level?”

Su Yu was left speechless. Nope. Unless he could smoothly switch between the two forms of energy. This was so stressful.

He gloomily said, “Teacher, you should have lifted the seal after I’m done.”

“How will there be progress without some pressure?” Zhao Li indifferently said, “You lack nothing but pressure. I shall be the one to give you this pressure. I probably won’t die upon failure. I will only suffer the destruction of my main character and the backlash from it. I will only drop to the early Cloudbreach Realm. It’s no big deal. I won’t die.”

Su Yu was very speechless. Was this really the case? Was this really no big deal? Zhao Li sure wasn’t holding back when delivering this so-called pressure. Su Yu had the urge to just let the little furball eat the old man’s character.

Fine, fine. Forget it. In truth, Zhao Li’s main character had already advanced to the fourth tier. But his main character was stuck inside the weapon. It couldn’t return. Or to be precise, the weapon itself had become the character. And if he couldn’t take the weapon into himself, he wouldn’t be able to take the character into himself as well.

Zhao Li ignored Su Yu and started processing the materials required for his forging. Su Yu did not waste any time and continued with his work.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hammering sounds rang out repeatedly. Instead of exhausting one energy before switching like Zhao Li had advised, he started switching when he was halfway through that energy. Zhao Li frowned when he noticed that and said, “Switching too often will affect the quality. It won’t be good even if you manage to complete it.”

Su Yu didn’t even look up as he said, “I’ll melt it down after I’m done with it. This weapon is not forged to be used. I’m only using it as a test. If I switch my energy after fully draining one, it will take too long and the margin of error will be too small.”

Zhao Li blanked out slightly when he heard that. That was true.

He would always initiate the switch after exhausting one type of energy. Perhaps he had been too inflexible in that regard. He had always been stubborn about that as switching too frequently might result in a drop of quality of the weapon forged. And he had always been a perfectionist.

As for Su Yu, he cared more about the process than the end result. There were still some differences between the two of them.

While Su Yu was hard at work.

He became even more famous than before. Or to be precise, Cui Lang became even more famous. Zhao Li had created quite a ruckus. He had moved the Source Qi Secret Grotto and manifested a hanging earth weapon in the sky. The weaponsmiths of the other prefectures had heard of this and all of them were rushing over, including Zhao Tianbing of Great Zhou.

According to the rumors, Zhao Li had decided to make this attempt because he saw hope after receiving the offer to help from Cui Lang. He was going to make the attempt with Cui Lang as his assistant.

Because of this, Cui Lang’s name spread far and wide. Niu Baidao’s unofficial student, ninth-stage Skysoar, and an early profound weaponsmith who might have advanced into the middle stage.

He had caught Zhao Li with his unique weaponsmithing skills. At thirty-five years old, he was quite young.

Of course, Cui Lang was still more widely known as someone who had seduced the granddaughter of a Sunmoon from Great Tang, Cheng Mo. As a ninth-stage Sunmoon, he was one of the pillars of Great Tang. He was an existence near the Invincible Realm. He was already as strong as the prefects of the various prefectures.

After leaving Great Ming, Cui Lang had actually offered to help Zhao Li complete his weapon. News of this spread everywhere. Some people said that upon success, both Zhao Li and his assistant would benefit greatly.

It wasn’t like nobody had ever forged an earth weapon before. Earth weapons weren’t too rare as each prefecture would have some in their possession. But Zhao Li’s earth weapon was different. Strictly speaking, he wasn’t forging an earth weapon. Rather, he was forging an embryonic heaven weapon. There was a difference between the two.

Every single heaven weapon was an incredible existence. Great Ming’s Hundred Dao Pagoda was a heaven weapon. The Super Sensory Jade was a pseudo heaven weapon. A supportive weapon like this was actually much more valuable. Thus, it had the value of a proper heaven weapon even though it was only a pseudo heaven weapon.

Great Xia had the heaven weapon as well. It wasn’t exactly a weapon. Rather, it was a tool that could steal a glimpse of the future, the Heaven Connecting Mirror. Strictly speaking, the mirror itself wasn’t a heaven weapon. Numerous powerful characters had been installed inside the mirror to forcefully elevate it into a heaven weapon. And now, two profound weaponsmiths were going to make an attempt at forging an embryonic heaven weapon.

This attracted the attention of all weaponsmiths in the Human Realm. Naturally, this was also applicable to those in Great Ming. Thus, the experts and weaponsmiths of Great Ming were also rushing over to Great Xia. After all, one of the two main characters of this event was someone from Great Ming.

Great Ming.

Hu Qi was personally leading the Great Ming entourage. Worried about her safety, Vice Principal Wang followed her as well. Yes. There were two Sunmoons in this group. They brought with them a group of genius weaponsmiths comprised of both students and teachers.

Bai Jungsheng was one of them.

With a look of shock, Bai Junsheng said, “When did Senior Brother Cui Lang become a profound weaponsmith? He’s going to complete a weapon alongside Master Zhao Li? And it’s not even going to be a regular earth weapon? Is he really so good?”

Hu Qi said nothing.

A teacher sighed with admiration, “Cui Lang is truly a genius. He has actually reached the profound grade out of nowhere. He’s not just a normal profound weaponsmith, but he’s a middle profound weaponsmith. Regardless of the result of this project, he will benefit greatly. And the moment the embryonic heaven weapon is completed, he might be able to take this chance to reach the high or even peak profound grade.”

Hu Qi maintained her silence. Inwardly, she was shocked. She knew that Su Yu was quite talented, but that fellow didn’t seem to have dedicated much of his time to weaponsmithing. Even so, he had reached the profound grade.

She didn’t know what Su Yu did in the pagoda. When Su Yu challenged the pagoda, she was in the middle of seclusion. Even if she hadn’t been in seclusion, she might still be unaware of that.