Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was stunned. After a long while, he said, “In short, you used to have eighty-eight characters, with twenty-two of them being Sunmoon characters?”

“Yes.”

“Teacher, haven’t you been broke since forever? How did you afford so many so many willpower texts?”

Liu Wenyan was rendered momentarily speechless. Then, he answered, “Great Xia King used to stay near the school gate. Why do I even need money? I’ll borrow some reading materials from him every now and then. It was a pity that he eventually left or I could have gotten even more willpower texts from him. Isn’t this obvious?”

When did Su Yu become so stupid? Why was he asking such a stupid question?

Yes, Great Xia King was a warrior. But as an Invincible, his willpower wouldn’t be lower than the Mountainsea Realm even if he didn’t put any effort into it. And if he worked on it, he could easily push his willpower to the Sunmoon Realm.

In fact, most of the human Invincibles were in the same situation. Their bodies would be at the Invincible Realm while their willpower would be at the Sunmoon Realm.

Pure warriors and pure cultural researchers could be found among the myriad races, but humanity was unique in this aspect. All their Invincibles would reach the Invincible Realm through physical cultivation before pushing their willpower to the Sunmoon Realm.

Su Yu was stunned. True. With an Invincible right at the gate, there was no need for money. Teacher Liu only needed to get the Invincible to scribble down some random words on a piece of paper and it would turn into a willpower text.

Holy shit!

What a big loss. Great Xia King had left too early. He could have gotten some benefits from that big whale otherwise.

***

Near the border of the divine territory.

Great Xia King was cursing again.

Who the fuck was thinking about him again? And that bastard was not thinking nice things about him. This wasn’t the first time this had happened. And both times, it had happened somewhere related to him. Was that his second kid? Was that kid being annoying again? Great Xia King swore to give that kid a beating during his next trip back if it was really his second son.

***

Su Yu and Liu Wenyan were naturally unaware of what Great Xia King was thinking.

While flying toward the big sun in Liu Wenyan’s sea of willpower, Su Yu said, “Teacher, your sea of willpower is probably as wide as a Sunmoon’s. If you can fill it with willpower, it won’t take you long to enter the Sunmoon Realm.”

“I don’t have that much willpower.”

Liu Wenyan appeared rather nonchalant about it.

“Just crush your Sunmoon characters. Those characters are filled with willpower.”

“…”

This kid should learn to shut his damn mouth. Crush his ass. Liu Wenyan discovered that along with the growth in his strength, the damn kid had been getting more and more boastful. It almost felt like the default solution for every problem the kid encountered was crushing some Sunmoon characters. Did the kid think that Sunmoon characters could be found everywhere?

Then again, he did have a lot of them in his sea of willpower. But these characters were the belongings of his deceased teacher. If he had to crush them to save his life, sure. But crushing them to cultivate? Was the damn kid crazy?

Su Yu completely disagreed. He insisted, “Teacher, if you crush one Sunmoon character per month, I promise you that in one year, no, in a few months, you will reach the Sunmoon Realm. They have never been yours. You are greatly talented as well, Teacher. Why walk the fifth principal’s path? You can walk your own path.”

Su Yu felt like his teacher was not truly living. Yes, the fifth principal’s characters were powerful. But that was ultimately not his teacher’s characters.

Su Yu felt bad for his teacher. If it was him, he would have crushed those characters long ago. He was not interested in the characters of others. It didn’t matter how strong they were. He would only accept the characters of others if he could crush them to support his own cultivation.

Liu Wenyan asked, “What will you do with these characters if they are given to you?”

“I will keep one or two of them around for emergencies and crush the rest of them. When I grow strong enough, I’ll crush the remaining two for my cultivation as well.”

Liu Wenyan was assaulted by a feeling of heartache. He had considered passing these characters to Su Yu, but he had changed his mind.

Nope. That damn kid was actually thinking of crushing all those characters.

Not willing to give up, Liu Wenyan said, “My teacher’s characters are near the Eternal Realm. And there are fourteen of them left. They originated from the same 22-character technique. Anyone inheriting them only needs to add eight more characters to the character technique to possibly find a shortcut to the Eternal Realm.”

Su Yu gave an indifferent reply, “Wow. That’s amazing. A character technique with twenty-two characters…but they are not yours. Teacher, are you thinking of relying on the work of others to enter the Invincible Realm?”

For Su Yu, he could only accept advancing with characters he had cultivated himself. In any case, Teacher Liu’s offer wasn’t even that attractive to him. He had a 99-character technique. Why would he even care about a mere 22-character technique? Was that supposed to be a big deal?

Liu Wenyan continued persuading, “Do you know how many experts are dying to get their hands on the characters of my teacher? All of them are trying to figure out the secrets that might lead them toward the path of an Invincible cultural researcher through my teacher’s characters.”

Su Yu said, “I already have the answer. Firstly, you need a lot of characters. Secondly, you need only human characters. Thirdly, you might need to fuse them all into one. Fourthly, you might need to open the source soul acupoint, fusing the yang acupoint and the yin aperture. That might be the only way to become a true Invincible cultural researcher. Teacher, the people speculating out there don’t even know more than me. Also, the fifth principal failed. If he had actually succeeded, sure, his characters are worth learning from. But he failed.”

Yes. Su Yu himself might already know more than the people out there. The four points he raised were mostly thought by himself, with certain parts that were inspired by Bai Feng. He believed that one needed to meet all four criteria to become an Invincible cultural researcher.

Su Yu added, “If my guess is right, a human Invincible cultural researcher might need to open 360 apertures and 360 acupoints. That is probably required to activate the suppression force in the Human Realm. If you ask me, the fifth principal was nowhere near success. In fact, he had zero hope in succeeding.”

“…”

Beside him, Liu Wenyan was greatly shaken.

Four criteria.

One could only become an Invincible cultural researcher after meeting all of them? The conditions listed by Su Yu were a lot harder than expected. He said, “The source soul acupoint is a theory of yours. Are you sure it exists?”

“Yes. I already found the yang acupoint. I categorize the source soul acupoint as a combination of two different points…”

Su Yu proceeded to give Liu Wenyan a simple explanation of his discoveries. Liu Wenyan felt like his faith was collapsing. He muttered, “Impossible…my teacher…was still very far from the Invincible Realm?”

That was impossible! His teacher was someone capable of killing Invincibles! Meanwhile, Su Yu felt like his teacher was making a fuss over nothing. If it was so easy to advance into an Invincible cultural researcher, humanity would have produced one long ago.

It was very possible that the fifth principal wasn’t anywhere near that realm. With a sufficiently powerful body, willpower, characters, and character technique, it wasn’t exactly impossible for one to kill an Invincible.

But that did not signify that one would enter the Invincible Realm soon. At this point, Su Yu was already near the massive sun. Only when he approached it did he notice that the character greatly resembled an axe. This was probably the fifth principal’s character technique. However, the axe seemed incomplete.

That was because seven characters had been crushed and one had been taken out and given to Wu Jia. Only fourteen characters remained. All of them were human characters.

Since the character technique had been disassembled before, Su Yu could vaguely see the independent characters. In the past, the character technique would appear as a single character.

Su Yu continued approaching the sun. But suddenly, he was sent flying with a bang. Liu Wenyan blanked out for a bit before sighing. But he was also slightly relieved to see that. This might not be a bad thing, after all.

It was clear the compatibility wasn’t high. There was no longer any need for him to consider whether he should pass these characters on to Su Yu. The compatibility was too low. Forceful integration was not a good thing.

But Su Yu appeared completely nonchalant. What was so surprising about low compatibility? He was only here to test it out. If the compatibility was low, well, he only needed to beat them until they learned to obey.

Even if he wasn’t their match, it was fine. He had the golden book. The golden book was very good at teaching characters a lesson. In fact, even natural characters couldn’t withstand the golden book’s beating.

Since these characters were human characters, the book wouldn’t crush them, right? Yeap. He only needed to give them a beating.

At that, Su Yu withdrew from the sea of willpower. Beside Su Yu, Liu Wenyan opened his eyes and said, “I thought the compatibility would be high, but I was wrong. This won’t work. Your compatibility with my teacher is very low…”

“Teacher, take one of them out. I’ll try taking it into my sea of willpower.”

“Nonsense.” Liu Wenyan said, “That’s a peak Sunmoon character. Taking it in without a high compatibility can very easily burst your sea of willpower.”

What nonsense.

Su Yu solemnly said, “Teacher, I’m confident. My sea of willpower isn’t that weak. Before this, you weren’t even a Skysoar. If even you could withstand these characters, it would be fine for me as well! Don’t worry. I won’t insist if I really can’t. At worst, I’ll suffer some injuries. I can recover quickly.”

He wanted to try. It didn’t matter that the fifth principal’s characters were incompatible with him. Most of the characters he formed himself would start rebellious anyway. Ultimately, he had to rely on his fists.

“You—”

Liu Wenyan thought about it and clenched his teeth, “Fine. I’ll take the suppress character out. This character isn’t strong offensively, but its suppression effect is good. You can give it a try. If it doesn’t work, I’ll take it back.”

“Alright.”

Liu Wenyan said nothing else. Since Su Yu wasn’t willing to give up, they would give it a try. As he started taking the character out, his face paled and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. Shortly after, a character manifested.

Su Yu did not wait and pulled the character into his sea of willpower. It was not an easy process. Inside the sea of willpower, the little furball started sniffing madly. Something very yummy was coming in! He really wanted to eat it. Thus, he started helping as well. Together with Su Yu, he dragged the yummy character into the sea of willpower.

He had to help!

Liu Wenyan was stunned. He couldn’t see the little furball, but he did sense that at first, Su Yu was having a very hard time. But soon, he actually succeeded in pulling that character inside.

Holy shit!

What was going on?

As for the suppress character, it started shaking after entering an unfamiliar sea of willpower. Su Yu’s sea of willpower started trembling. His character technique, his hammer, himself, and even the little furball were incapable of suppressing the newly arrived character.

Su Yu was greatly shocked.

Too strong!

Previously, the character was suppressed inside Liu Wenyan’s sea of willpower. Thus, it did not feel too impressive. But now, he could finally feel how powerful that character was. He hurriedly looked at the golden book deep in his sea of willpower.

If this didn’t work, he had to remove the character as soon as possible. His sea of willpower wouldn’t be able to withstand the power of a Sunmoon character. A storm raged in the sea of willpower.

The little furball braved the storm and stubbornly leaped atop the character. Then, he started licking the character madly.

Yummy!

He would lick to his heart’s content first before thinking about anything else. This was worth dying for. What was there to fear? Even Yummy was not dead yet.

Rumble!

As the sea of willpower shook madly, Su Yu cursed. Was the book not working? Fine. He had to toss this character out. It would be a big loss if his sea of willpower ended up bursting apart from this.

Just as that thought crossed his mind, the golden book deep in his sea of willpower started accumulating power. Then, a golden beam bright enough to illuminate the entire sea of willpower shot out.

Boom!

The suppress character turned into a massive axe and attacked the golden beam. This was the first character to ever fight back against the book. But it was pointless. One golden beam after another was unleashed upon it. The axe started shaking.

The storm in the sea of willpower raged further. The resistance seemed to have angered the golden book as it released countless golden beams and delivered a beating so bad to the suppress character that it even cracked.

The beams were also growing stronger and stronger. Eventually, the suppress character learned its lesson and sprawled obediently on the surface of the sea. It seemed to have surrendered.

Then, the book that had dimmed slightly vanished into the depths of the sea of willpower. As for Su Yu, he gazed at the character and laughed. He knew this would happen. Hah! Even this big-shot character was nothing but a little brother.

The fifth principal’s character was not that strong after all. At the very least, it wasn’t as strong as the book.

***

Meanwhile, Liu Wenyan was completely stunned.

He stared at Su Yu in stupefaction. He…lost his connection with the character.

Holy shit!

How did the kid do that?

The kid had actually suppressed the character! That was…unbelievable! The compatibility was incredibly low. How did the kid accomplish that? Was the kid’s sea of willpower still fine?

Liu Wenyan was completely dumbstruck.