Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu’s feelings were complicated.

“In that case…how about you?”

“Me?” Hong Tan smiled, “I have a simple role. I’ll be promoting the disassembly method. I’ll even prove that it works by using it on myself. I’ll let everyone know that the multiple character faction might have discovered a way for human cultural researchers to achieve dao affirmation. Both me and your Teacher Liu are mere baits. If Invincibles start appearing, none of us can participate in the fight. But we can attract even more attention.”

This was an extremely dangerous task. If Invincibles started appearing, the two of them would be the priority targets for elimination.

“What about Martial Uncle?”

“Your martial uncle has guessed some of what we’re planning. Thus, he has been killing to attract the attention of the traitor. He’s telling the traitor that we’re close to finding him. Most of the people your martial uncle killed were probably related to the traitor.”

Su Yu was hit by a realization! So the plan had started then. Or perhaps even earlier than that.

Liu Wenyan’s return was probably part of the plan.

And the core of all this was Xia Longwu’s coming dao affirmation. At that thought, Su Yu said, “Prefect Xia has caused so much bloodshed in the Allheaven Battlefield that he’s called the Carnage King. Numerous experts want to see him dead. Is that…”

Had the plan started such a long time ago? Did Xia Longwu cause all the bloodshed to build himself a bloodthirsty image? All that for the sake of making everyone believe that he was a ruthless murderer?

As a prefect, Xia Longwu had indeed been too murderous at times. In the past, Su Yu knew nothing. He once heard that back then, Xia Longwu exterminated several minor races Wan Tiansheng had been trying to befriend.

But thinking back, the prefect had been too reckless. What even was the point of exterminating these weak races? That would only attract more hatred among the myriad races and increase the difficulty of his future dao affirmation. Was Xia Longwu really a brainless brute? That might not be the case.

Why were people like Qin Zhen and the others not making as many waves as Xia Longwu? Xia Longwu was not the only human waiting to affirm his dao. The myriad races were aware of this. But Xia Longwu was the only one among them the myriad races couldn’t tolerate existing.

Su Yu finally understood why. Xia Longwu had deliberately generated all the hostility toward himself. Why? For the sake of the coming plan? Only about fifty years had passed since the Ye Batian incident. Xia Longwu wasn’t that old.

Who was the person who had led Xia Longwu down this path and maintained this persona for fifty years? Could his dao affirmation really catch the attention of everyone?

At this moment, Su Yu thought of Wan Tiansheng.

He couldn’t resist asking, “Grandteacher, is Prefect Xia related to Principal Wan?”

“Don’t you know this?” Hong Tan said, “I guess that’s understandable. Very few people who are aware of this are still around. Principal Wan…is Prefect Xia’s teacher.”

Su Yu’s eyes flickered.

Sure enough!

In that case, this was a plan many years in the making. It made a lot of sense. Wan Tiansheng was the person who was aware that there was a traitor since the very beginning. Thus, he had been planning for a very long time.

And the Xia Family had been playing along. It was likely that Great Xia King and some other people were aware of Wan Tiansheng’s actual strength. With deeper understanding, it was easy for one to see through many things. And Su Yu had finally reached this level. He finally understood what the Xia Family and Wan Tiansheng were planning. His feelings were complicated.

Xia Longwu himself was used as the stake. Great Xia itself was used as the stake as well. The Xia Family and Wan Tiansheng were truly crazy.

“Grandteacher…can they…win?”

“I don’t know.” Hong Tan smiled, “Who knows? Nothing is absolute. We can only try our best. The Xia Family and Principal Wan might have planned more as well, but that’s unrelated to me. We have a very simple task. Lure that traitor out. Then, we can finally settle our scores with the people that have been stepping all over us. We will kill them all.”

“I’m telling you all this because you’re now strong enough. I’m worried that you might take the wrong step and attract a bigger trouble than you can handle.”

Hong Tan’s tone turned helpless as he said, “In truth, this plan has been in the making for many years. I was supposed to shock the myriad races by opening the Multiple Character Faculty. But what were you doing during that time? I reckon Principal Wan and the Xia Family had probably cursed you endlessly at the time. You’re too good at stirring trouble.”

Su Yu thought about it and suddenly giggled smugly. That seemed to be the case. Previously, he had thought that he needed to stir some trouble to take some pressure off his grandteacher. But…his actions had probably caused them to lose their minds.

He said, “In that case, when I claimed that those from Zhou Family are multiple character cultivators previously, did that drive everyone crazy as well?”

He had made that claim without thinking too much about it, turning Great Zhou into a center of attention. But it turned out that Great Xia needed the attention more? He had thought that Great Xia needed to thank him for shifting some of the attention to Great Zhou, but he had merely been messing with their plan.

Hong Tan also found it amusing. He laughed and said, “It’s good that you understand now. I reckon Principal Wan and Prefect Xia can finally rest easy after things calmed down in Grandstar City.”

It had been too hard for them.

They had been gathering attention for decades. Finally, when they were about to launch their plan, a super shit-stirrer had appeared and monopolized all the attention. Anyone would be driven mad by that.

Su Yu laughed awkwardly.

He knew what to do now.

In short, he should start stirring trouble in Great Xia. The bigger the trouble, the better it was. At that thought, he hesitated slightly and said, “I can very easily attract the attention of Invincibles when stirring trouble. Will that be fine?”

Hong Tan laughed and dismissed the concern, “This is the Human Realm. Invincibles won’t be able to appear so easily here.”

Su Yu disagreed. Who could say what would happen?

There were way too many methods to cause Invincibles to appear. For example, he could reveal his identity. For example, he could reveal his ability to reverse death qi. For example, he could reveal his ability to learn the cultivation methods of the myriad races. For example, he could reveal his golden book. For example, he could kill the little furball…

How hard would it be to cause Invincibles to appear?

Even if he refrained from doing all that, he only needed to scheme all the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion members in the Human Realm to death. That might cause the appearance of Invincibles as well.

“But what if Invincibles really end up appearing because of me?”

“What else?”

Hong Tan said, “If they come, they come. That will only reduce the number of Invincibles that might potentially try to stop Prefect Xia’s dao affirmation. Out of the two operations, at least one will succeed. And succeeding in any of them is already enough for us.”

Prior to this, they had considered all possibilities.

If their operation in the Human Realm failed, they would place their hope on Xia Longwu. After becoming an Invincible, the Xia Family could do a lot more with two Invincibles.

Su Yu nodded. In that case, there was no need for him to worry too much anymore. At this point, he already knew what he needed to know.

The conversation ended there. Shortly after, Bai Feng and Wu Jia returned. Neither of them asked about the secret conversation.

Su Yu said, “I can’t stay here for long. My identity as Profound Nine is still useful. I might need you to cover for me, Teacher. Bai Junsheng’s identity is still useful for me as well, but I might need to travel around a lot…”

At first, Bai Feng nodded. But soon, he cursed, “Kid, Junsheng will end up like Cui Lang. They won’t have the courage to take even one step out of hiding anymore.”

At that, he couldn’t resist laughing in amusement.

That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Without the ability to run around, his cousin would have plenty of time to cultivate. That would be good for his future!

Su Yu laughed as well. He said, “Anyway, Grandteacher, you’re already a Sunmoon so you need a lot of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. I have some with me…”

He had a rather healthy amount of sunmoon profound yellow liquid in possession. He had gathered around 1,100 drops in total during his time in Grandstar City.

However, he didn’t need to use that much of the sunmoon profound yellow liquid for his own cultivation. So far, he had only used the ten drops he received from his heavenly reward to strengthen his apertures.

Su Yu was not stingy when it came to his own people.

“Grandteacher, I have five hundred drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid here. You’ll need this…”

Hong Tan had a complicated look in his eyes. He was being repaid with way more than he had given.

Strictly speaking, Su Yu had not obtained much from him. Naturally, the little furball did not count.

But Su Yu had given him a large amount of heavenly source qi, merit points, and sunmoon profound yellow liquid without any hesitation.

“You will need it when you become a Sunmoon as well. Sure, you’re currently plagued with death qi, but it’s only a matter of time before you break free. I have faith–”

Su Yu cut him off indifferently, “Grandteacher, I have plenty of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. In fact, I have 1,100 drops in total. I’m only giving you guys 500 drops. You’re not the only person who will be using the 500 drops. I feel like Senior Xia Yunji and the others might reach the Sunmoon Realm soon as well.”

“Hmm?” Hong Tan looked at Su Yu questioningly.

Su Yu nonchalantly continued, “That’s definitely going to happen. I can guess what’s going on with their seas of willpower. At this time, the multiple character faction naturally needs to grab as much attention as possible. Thus, they will definitely receive help to step into the Sunmoon Realm.”

Su Yu was not stupid. He could guess what these people would do.

“You guys can all use the liquid to grow stronger. With more strength, you’ll be able to kill more of your enemies. Don’t let your weakness hold you back even during the final battle. That would feel terrible.”

Su Yu was too blunt so Bai Feng gave him a kick.

What did the kid just say?

But Hong Tan laughed, “True. I won’t be refusing your gift, then. I will kill as many people as I can and create a better future for all of you.”

He stopped hesitating and accepted Su Yu’s gift. Next, Su Yu took some heavenly source qi out.

He looked at Bai Feng and said, “Teacher, I guess you’ll have to settle with using this for now.”

“It’s fine. I have yet to finish what you gave me previously.”

During Su Yu’s previous visit as Cui Lang, he had handed Bai Feng a lot of good stuff through Xia Huyou.

“Just take it anyway. I have more.”