Tribulation of Myriad Races

By the time Su Yu walked out of Heart Cultivating Pavilion, his brow was already beaded with sweat.

Everything that had happened earlier felt like a dream.

What did he see?

He saw that Wan Tiansheng was actually present during that battle back then. He saw Wan Tiansheng and Ye Batian joining hands to nearly kill two Invincibles. Finally, two different Invincibles interfered, destroying Wan Tiansheng’s tri-life body and taking Ye Batian’s life.

Were the two humans actually Invincibles?

Unlikely.

Wan Tiansheng and Ye Batian were probably only Pseudo Invincibles, but they were also much more terrifying than regular Pseudo Invincibles.

More importantly, why did Old Wan show him that? Su Yu grimaced. Was Old Wan trying to show off?

No!

Su Yu blanked out as he realized something, “I understand!”

A certain realization dawned on him.

Old Wan was…teaching him.

Yes. Teaching him.

“He was trying to teach me that I shouldn’t capture a past body first. Instead, I need to capture the future body, assimilate its strength, before capturing a past body…”

That line of thought started taking root in Su Yu’s mind. He was greatly shocked.

Right, the future body would grant one the combat strength comparable to Invincibles. If one refrained from capturing a past body first, wouldn’t one be able to capture a past body with the strength of a future body?

For example, Wan Tiansheng could capture his past from the battle fifty-one years ago. That would grant him an incomparably powerful strength.

Su Yu swallowed. In theory, everyone could do this. But one had to actually succeed in capturing the future body. He didn’t know how difficult it would be, but he had a feeling it would be extremely difficult.

“Was that what Old Wan wanted me to learn?”

Su Yu mumbled. Perhaps. He did not feel like thinking too much about it. He only knew that everyone was underestimating Wan Tiansheng too much. It was also likely that some people out there knew more than the rest. It was said that a heavily injured celestial chasm Invincible had escaped the fight back then alive. That could very well be the same Invincible who had fought Wan Tiansheng.

What a terrifying guy.

The surviving celestial chasm Invincible probably knew more but not enough to know that his opponent was actually Wan Tiansheng. The two unknown Invincibles who had interfered might also know that of their two opponents, one still lived.

Su Yu exhaled. Would they be able to guess that the surviving individual was Wan Tiansheng? He was unsure. Back then, Wan Tiansheng was supposed to only be a peak Mountainsea officially. Nobody would suspect him, right?

When seeing a tri-life body powerful enough to threaten Invincibles, most people would suspect powerful individuals like Great Xia King. Perhaps they would suspect that it was Great Xia King’s tri-life body?

Su Yu decided to stop thinking about all that. This was too complicated. With Old Wan’s strength, his goal must be massive if he had hidden his strength for so many years.

Su Yu had asked the stone statue before. He learned that one could regain one’s tri-life bodies, but a past body was the hardest to regain. After all, the past was the root for the present and future.

But it was very likely that Old Wan had only lost his future body. The difficulty shouldn’t be that high for him.

How terrifying.

Perhaps Old Wan had avoided capturing a past body because he didn’t want to become an Invincible yet? Dao affirmation would create a massive scene that could be witnessed across the entire Myriad Realms. But Su Yu didn’t know enough about that realm to make an accurate judgment.

He did not know if one would automatically fuse with the two tri-life bodies after capturing them, kickstarting the dao affirmation process or if it was something one could start manually. The difference between the two would be rather significant.

For the former, one would instantly start the process after capturing the second tri-life body.

For the latter, one would need to spend some time slowly fusing the three bodies. Like fusing acupoints, that might require a long time to complete.

“Capturing the future in the past…”

It all sounded complicated, but Su Yu had an idea of how it should work in general. First, capture the future body and fuse with it. Through that, his future would become his past.

Holy shit! Was that…really possible? This was a perspective he had never explored before. This time, Wan Tiansheng had truly expanded his horizon.

***

While Su Yu was muttering to himself, Wan Tiansheng was feeling quite grumpy in the Heart Cultivating Pavilion.

He mumbled, “No. I wasn’t trying to tell you that. I was trying to tell you that as strong as I am, I still need to hide myself. In that case, you definitely need to hide yourself as well. I was trying to tell you that something was off about Ye Batian’s dao affirmation. How are you not understanding that?”

What an idiot! Why did the damn kid have such a unique way of understanding things? He was most definitely not telling the kid to capture the future in the past. This was infuriating!

Fool!

Did the kid think that he would be able pull that off?

Nonsense!

Wan Tiansheng felt very helpless. So be it. When the kid grew stronger, he would understand just how shocking everything he had seen today. He would come to understand just how strong Principal Wan was.

Whatever. It was true that the ignorant were always the bravest.

Wan Tiansheng felt like talking to Su Yu was akin to playing the lute to a cow. How would a cow understand music?

At the very least, Su Yu had experienced the River of Time and learned about how one should go about capturing the tri-life bodies. As far as Wan Tiansheng was concerned, if Su Yu failed to learn at least that much, he would only have himself to blame for being too stupid.

With this, Su Yu would know what to do after reaching the ninth-stage Sunmoon Realm.

As someone who had experienced the River of Time before, he would understand how dangerous that place was. He would not be completely clueless about his future path after becoming a ninth-stage Sunmoon. Wan Tiansheng sighed. Perhaps that was the final gift he could leave that kid.

With a smile, Wan Tiansheng leaned back in his chair. As his rocking chair swayed back and forth, he started humming an unknown song.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still deep in thought about the past and future.

“After fusing with a past body that has fused with a future body, will my future become stronger? Can I fuse with another future body after that? A future whose past has fused with the future?”

“…”

Inside his sea of willpower, the little furball was fully confused. This was too complicated.

But for Su Yu, it wasn’t really that complicated. Even if he was limited to only one past body and one future body, it didn’t matter. At worst, he could destroy one of his weaker tri-life bodies.

That would probably allow him to keep fusing the past and future and strengthen himself endlessly, right?

Hehehe.

Another thought appeared in his mind. Wasn’t his past constantly growing stronger with each passing second? In that case, could he keep fusing with a past body before destroying it and fusing with a new past body? What if he did this repeatedly?

Had he…discovered a way to grow stronger as an Invincible? Or was this something everyone was already doing? Capture the future, strengthen the past, capture the past, strengthen the future, destroy a body, and repeat.

At one point, even Su Yu was starting to get confused. Wasn’t this a way to grow without limits? But the premise of that was surviving the destruction of so many tri-life bodies. He might end up killing himself before succeeding.

“No, wait. I’m only a Skysoar physical cultivator and Cloudbreach willpower cultivator. Why am I thinking about all that?”

Su Yu cursed at Old Wan for leading him astray.

“Two Invincibles. One might be a human. The non-human are not scary since this is an enemy we can see coming. But the human is an unknown enemy. That is much scarier.”

Su Yu frowned. This time, he was finally certain that there was at least one traitor among the humans. Of course, there was also the possibility that both of the unknown Invincibles were non-humans. But at the very least, he knew that both Ye Batian and Old Wan were caught by surprise during that battle.

Ye Batian was not as arrogant as the rumors had suggested. He knew himself well. He had his good friend acting as a dao protector. His good friend was very strong as well. The two could totally handle two Invincibles without much difficulty.

Perhaps they were even thinking of using that as a trap to lure some Invincibles out to kill. Alas, the bait was much more effective than they had imagined.

Instead of two, four Invincibles had arrived. Two fought them head-on while the other two remained in the dark. Even so, Ye Batian and Old Wan were able to gravely injure one of the Invincibles and kill the other. That was still an incredibly impressive feat.

“How amazing.”

Su Yu sighed in admiration. So Pseudo Invincibles could actually kill Invincibles. Multiple individuals had reached that level of strength.

Future body…

Numerous thoughts appeared in Su Yu’s mind. Eventually, he decided to stop thinking. The more he thought, the more terrifying the whole thing felt. Old Wan had actually been hiding his strength for so many years.

“His goal is most certainly something very big.”

After remaining in hiding for so many years, Old Wan had finally decided to step forth again. The principal had even brought him on a trip to the River of Time. Was Old Wan finally ready to go wild?

***

Su Yu did not continue roaming around after leaving Wan Tiansheng’s place.

He returned to his residence.

After the previous encounter, he felt incomparably weak. Before Wan Tiansheng, he was basically a bug. He was able to verify that Wan Tiansheng was terrifyingly strong. Even someone so strong had to keep a low profile.

Looked like he shouldn’t get too full of himself. He had only completed fifty-seven forgings. He was near the fifty-eighth forging. He had to complete all seventy-two forgings as soon as possible.

“Grandteacher is only a Sunmoon. He might very well be only a first-stage Sunmoon. That’s too weak. Perhaps the sunmoon profound yellow liquid will help. As for Teacher, he’s near the Cloudbreach Realm. I wonder if he’s cultivating the Five Elemental Art I gave him. If not, it will be hard to start at the Cloudbreach Realm. At that point, he will need to crush Sunmoon characters to supply himself with willpower if he still wants to cultivate that art.”

Numerous thoughts emerged in his mind. He had returned only for revenge. As for who he was avenging…to speak the truth, he didn’t pity Ye Batian that much. He was only back to avenge his teachers and the others. As for himself, he didn’t really have that many personal enemies. Why? Because most of the people who had harmed him were already dead.

“Time to come clean with Teacher. With Old Wan here, there is nothing to fear. He’s so strong that perhaps not even Invincibles can run wild here.”

First, he spent some time cultivating to keep the death qi in him under control. Then, he vanished with a flicker.