Tribulation of Myriad Races

Main hall.

Zhao Li wasted no time and asked right after taking a seat, “Do you have a blueprint of what you want?”

Su Yu shook his head, “I’m not yet certain. I only know that I want something like a book.”

“You’re not worthy.”

“…”

Su Yu blanked out. Why was his teacher being rude?

Zhao Li said, “Your dao is not a book. Remember this. You are trying to use a book as the cover for the villainous acts you’re going to do in the future. In my opinion, you should forge a saber, sword, axe, fork, or similar weapons.”

“No. That does not fit my image.”

Su Yu rejected the offer. With a flicker, white robes appeared on his body. Clasping his hands behind him, he looked up at the starry sky and said, “Teacher, is something as crude as a blade fitting for me? I need a book in hand. I am erudite and knowledgeable. In terms of cultivation methods alone, I know thousands of them.”

Zhao Li stared at Su Yu. The kid was still as pretentious as ever.

Since Su Yu was insisting, he couldn’t be bothered to argue further. He said, “The difficulty of forging a book-type weapon will be much higher. Swords, spears, sabers, and halberds are the easiest to forge, unlike the more unique weapons.”

Su Yu nodded. That was expected.

Zhao Li asked, “What requirements do you have?”

Su Yu gave it some thought and said, “Firstly, it must be stable. It will be even better if it comes with its own pocket space. A pocket space per page…”

Zhao Li cursed inwardly. Was this kid trying to tire him to death? The difficulty of what the kid wanted was too high.

“How many pages do you plan to forge?”

“Ten thousand.”

“Piss off.” This time, Zhao Li was no longer cursing inwardly. “You’re only good at making unreasonable demands. Ten thousand pages? Is that a joke? That’s the same as asking for ten thousand pocket spaces in a single weapon. And you even want the weapon to be incomparably stable. Do you have any idea how difficult this is? If something like this can really be forged, it won’t be a mere earth weapon anymore. Instead, it will be a divine weapon.”

With a frown, Zhao Li continued, “If you wish to make this weapon your dao, it’s not recommended to walk the path of character-weapon fusion. But such a weapon might also require you to fuse your character into it. Are you certain? You won’t be able to pursue your dao weapon without fusing your character into it.”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes. I’m fusing two characters into the weapon.”

Su Yu naturally had his own considerations on what to do. He planned to embed the culture and radiance characters into the book. With the book, he would collect corpses and fuse their civilizations.

Old Zhao hesitated slightly and said, “I am not capable of forging all ten thousand pages. Not even Heavenly Forge King can do so. We can try forging a hundred pages first. This will be a semi-completed weapon. An embryonic weapon. You can keep improving the book as you grow in strength. Or we can take the easier path and forge only ten pages for now. What else do you need? Tell me all your requirements.”

Su Yu considered and said, “Each page requires different levels of pocket space. The Great Strength Realm will be the basic level, before rising to the Skysoar, Cloudbreach, Mountainsea, Sunmoon, and Eternal Realms.”

A headache assaulted Zhao Li.

Holy shit!

The kid was definitely trying to kill him! This was not something he could do!

The more Su Yu spoke, the more difficult it felt. Zhao Li said, “This isn’t something the two of us can forge. We won’t be able to push further than the high-tier earth grade. Even a peak earth weapon will be extremely difficult for us. Your requirements can only be fulfilled by heaven weaponsmith or even a divine weaponsmith. Do you think I’m a divine weaponsmith?”

Su Yu laughed awkwardly. After a slight hesitation, Zhao Li continued, “If we can’t do it…I’ll get some help. We’ll get Zhao Tianbing’s help. He’s a peak earth weaponsmith. If you don’t want him to know too much about your weapon, just let him work on a part of the project, including the fusion and splitting of space. But I doubt splitting space is something he can do easily.”

Su Yu thought about it and said, “Faculty Head Hu Xiansheng of Great Ming can do it.”

“Can you get him here?”

Su Yu nodded, “It won’t be an issue. He lacks the money to forge his teleportation door while I lack everything except money. I can hire him with money.”

“That’s feasible.” Zhao Li sighed, “Kid, you’re too ambitious. This weapon you want isn’t an earth weapon. It’s not even an embryonic heaven weapon. You’re trying to forge a divine weapon. In the current Myriad Realms, the Heavenly Hunt Index is the sole divine weapon in existence. We are not sufficient to forge something like that. More importantly, I doubt you can even afford the materials required for such a project.”

Su Yu smiled, “I’m not making something like that immediately. If it can grow into a divine weapon in the future, that’s a problem for me to solve in the future. Perhaps at the time, we will leave a deep mark in the annals of history.”

Zhao Li ignored what Su Yu was saying and inhaled deeply. Despite the difficulty of the proposed project, he couldn’t help feeling some excitement from it.

Suddenly, he said, “If my father were still around, such a project would excite him greatly. What a pity. Su Yu, the two of us are far from enough. Not even the addition of my senior brother will be enough for this project. Have you…considered getting Yun Chen’s help?”

“Yun Chen?” Su Yu blanked out.

Zhao Li nodded, “There are two peak earth weaponsmiths in the human race. One of them is my senior brother. The other is Heavenly Forge King’s first student, Tie Ge. And the third is the First Divine Sect master, Yun Chen.”

Su Yu recalled hearing about this before. He said in surprise, “How is Yun Chen a peak earth weaponsmith?”

He hadn’t given it much thought previously, but this was indeed quite surprising with the knowledge that the First Divine Sect master was also Yun Chen.

Zhao Li wasn’t surprised. He said, “He’s from the same generation as my father. They were quite close. Like you, he was multi-talented. After the lost of the third principal, my father became the new principal. Meanwhile, Yun Chen became the head of the Character Faculty at the time. He must have learned some weaponsmithing skills from my father back then. Strictly speaking, you can consider him a weaponsmith of the Zhao line as well.”

Su Yu was quite speechless. Or to be precise, he was quite impressed. The Zhao line had truly produced some impressive individuals. Both Zhao Tianbing and Yun Chen were peak earth weaponsmiths. Old Zhao was probably good enough to forge middle earth weapons as well.

Of the three peak earth weaponsmiths in the human race, two had came from the Zhao line.

Heavenly Forge King might be a heaven weaponsmith, but he had only produced one peak earth weaponsmith. If the fourth principal had not died, he would have grown into the second heaven weaponsmith of humanity by now.

Zhao Li said, “I didn’t think much about it before his identity was exposed. But now, it is clear that traces of the Zhao style of forging can be seen in some of the powerful weapons used by the Myriad Race Cult. However, the influence is quite sparse. Yun Chen must have learned some weaponsmithing skills of the divine race as well. You can consider him an erudite weaponsmith.”

Su Yu nodded.

Zhao Li asked, “So? Do you want his help? We don’t know Heavenly Forge King too well. As for Yun Chen…I’m decently friendly with him. It won’t matter if you don’t know him too well. Strictly speaking, he is Liu Wenyan’s martial uncle. If he’s currently in the Allheaven Battlefield, I believe he will come after receiving an invitation.”

Su Yu hesitated.

Noting the hesitation, Zhao Li remarked, “I know what you’re thinking. But there is no need to be so harsh toward them. The First Divine Sect master has been hiding himself in the Human Realm for many years. Some secrets might have been hidden so deeply that he couldn’t react in time. This also applies to the third principal. Humanity has always been hostile toward the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. He would remain in dark about many things. Even if he knew, he wouldn’t be in the position to do anything in time.”

Su Yu said, “I don’t really mind, but I don’t think I’ll be getting his help. This doesn’t concern me alone. My teacher and the others, including Wan Tiansheng, can’t get over this.”

“Wan Tiansheng…” Zhao Li sighed, “True. Yun Chen can be considered his teacher. Wan Tiansheng had not spared Yun Chen a second look even until the very end. He did not even bother to say a word to Yun Chen. Clearly, he couldn’t forgive this senior brother of his. Forget about Yun Chen. You can borrow a few earth weaponsmiths from Great Ming.”

Zhao Li reminded him, “Kid, this won’t be an easy job. The two of us will need a lot of time just preparing for the forging. And you will need to provide excellent materials for the forging. However, the better the material is, the harder it will be to refine and extract the material. The materials you require will be so hard to work with that one needs to be at least an earth weaponsmith to even participate in the errands associated with this project.”

Su Yu was quite speechless. Was Old Zhao exaggerating things?

One needed to be an earth weaponsmith to even run errands for the project? Doubtful, he showed Zhao Li his materials. Instantly, Zhao Li was rendered speechless.

Fuck!

These were all materials meant for the forging of heaven weapons. One would not be able to do anything to these materials unless one was an earth weaponsmith.

“You are clearly trying to make a heaven weapon. The two of us are definitely not enough. If you really want to do this, start calling for help. Stop waiting.”

Su Yu had not expected this. Even two weaponsmiths wouldn’t be enough. Even three or five wouldn’t be enough. They needed more.

More importantly, Su Yu needed to complete this project in one month. That would greatly increase the difficulty. He also needed to find someone to take charge of the splitting of space. That was a job for Hu Xiansheng.

After a slight hesitation, Su Yu nodded, “Fine. I’ll listen to you and get some help. The two of us will be responsible for the main part of the project. The others can help with the errands.”

In terms of trust, he trusted Old Zhao more. Even Hu Qi of Great Ming wasn’t someone he could trust as much as Old Zhao. It wasn’t that he doubted her. Rather, this involved his characters. It was too personal to involve too many people. This was even more so for someone like Su Yu.

“The death qi here is too dense. I’m afraid the death qi will interfere with the job.”

Su Yu said indifferently, “Don’t worry about that. I will flood the mayor’s residence with heavenly source qi. The residence will have more heavenly source qi than even a ruin. This will block any death qi from entering and help with the recovery of everyone involved in the job.”

That was not a problem at all. He did not lack heavenly source qi. He also needed to supply everyone with willpower-recovery treasures. This was not an issue as well. Su Yu told himself that he was not Old Zhao. How could he start forging a weapon before preparing enough treasures to replenish his energy?

At that thought, he said, “Teacher, we can’t do things like we did previously. Our preparations back then were too lacking. We nearly failed! We lacked willpower even after crushing several Sunmoon characters. I had to form a new character mid-process to complete the job…”

Instantly, Zhao Li’s face flushed red. Why was the kid holding back? The kid should be honest and call him poor to his face.

With an awkward cough, Su Yu said, “We need to prepare thoroughly this time. We need to consider everything, including the phenomena that might appear after a successful forging.”

Something like that had appeared during Old Zhao’s previous forging. They couldn’t allow something like that to catch them by surprise this time. Sure, a phenomenon was meant as a reward instead of a disaster, but the timing of its appearance could turn a reward into something disastrous.

At the time, Zhao Li’s phenomenon had further boosted his weapon in strength and greatly elevated the difficulty of completing the forging. It had nearly killed Old Zhao. Nobody knew what would appear during this forging.