Tribulation of Myriad Races

Mayor’s residence.

The heavenly source qi within the building was terrifyingly thick.

Su Yu did not lack heavenly source qi. He would extract some anytime he had the time. He was already capable of extracting heavenly source qi at an incredibly fast speed. With heavenly source qi and death qi exhausting each other in the mayor’s residence, the leftover source qi was quite suitable for cultivation.

Of the five weaponsmiths, Zhao Li, Zhao Tianbing, and Hu Qi were no strangers to Su Yu. He wasn’t as familiar with the other two, but they weren’t complete strangers either. He had seen them during his time in Great Ming.

At the moment, they were blanking out.

What a thick heavenly source qi!

Su Yu had once taught them the Long Life Art, which was essentially a rebranded version of the immortal race’s Life Trigger.

The two old men from Great Ming could sense some of their old injuries fading away from the heavenly source qi seeping into their bodies. They were quite shocked and embarrassed at the same time. The heavenly source qi had probably been prepared by Su Yu for his weaponsmithing, right? Would it be rude of them to absorb his heavenly source qi?

But such a concern was not present in Su Yu’s mind. Apart from the five weaponsmiths, there was also a sixth helper with them. This was also someone Su Yu was quite familiar with. When he noted the sixth helper looking around everywhere, he asked, “Faculty Head, what are you looking at?”

Hu Xiansheng said, “Nothing. You told me to bring my spatial cutting machine with me. Are you planning to cut the space here? I’m looking for a suitable chunk of space to cut. The process of space splitting can easily cause a spatial collapse. Each ancient city is supposed to be connected to the Death Realm, right? Is it possible to do the cutting in the Death Realm? That way, we won’t need to worry about a spatial collapse anymore.”

“Hmph!”

A cold snort resounded in the room.

Hu Xiansheng was alarmed. “Who was that?”

Su Yu answered calmly, “It’s fine, Faculty Head. There’s a death sovereign here with the habit of eavesdropping when others are talking. Don’t worry about it.”

“…”

Everyone was stunned. Even Zhao Li was stunned. Holy shit! So this was a place a death sovereign could eavesdrop on easily?

Su Yu shrugged. When he saw that everyone was looking at him, he said, “She’s different from other death spirits. The others will leave when they have nothing else to do in the city. But she loves staying in the tunnel all day long. Thus, she will be able to hear us sometimes.”

Su Yu wanted to tell them that he was feeling quite helpless as well. He knew for a fact that some death sovereigns wouldn’t be free enough to stay in the tunnel all the time. For the most part, each death sovereign was the ruler of a death kingdom. Xing Yue had one as well. But she had seemingly abandoned her kingdom to stay in the tunnel as of late.

In the past, she would still return to cultivate. But that had changed. What could Su Yu do about it?

All of them looked at Su Yu with odd expressions. How was he staying so calm? He truly was different.

Hu Xiansheng had an awkward expression as he wondered if he had somehow caught the death sovereign’s attention with his words.

He said, “Then…we shouldn’t consider cutting the space in the Death Realm anymore.”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes. We can only do it in the Allheaven Battlefield. It’s fine. It’s not like we’re damaging our own stuff. Spatial collapses are very common when Invincibles fight each other. What’s the big deal with a little bit of collapse here and there?”

Hu Xiansheng nodded.

Su Yu went straight to the point and said, “I have invited everyone here to help with a cultural weapon. The workload will be quite high. It can’t be completed by one or two people.”

Su Yu already had a rough plan of what to do.

He looked at Hu Xiansheng and said, “Faculty Head Hu, you have an easy job. Please cut three hundred chunks of space for me. Each chunk only needs to be about ten cubic meters in size. That’s enough–”

Zhao Li interrupted, “No. That won’t do. It’s too small.”

The kid did not understand how big some people would be upon reverting to their true forms.

Zhao Li said, “Each chunk needs to be at least a thousand cubic meters in size. Also, try to compress the chunk with the expansion technique to enable each chunk to store far larger items. Additionally, a second compression is also needed to compress each chunk to the size of a piece of paper externally.”

Hu Xiansheng stared blankly and said, “Zhao Li, are you kidding? This…is too difficult.”

Zhao Li shook his head, “No, I’m not kidding. Stop wasting my time. We’ll pay more. Su Yu, pay him.”

“…”

Su Yu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at Hu Xiansheng and said, “Don’t worry, Faculty Head. I’ll pay for all your research after this. I will support all your research as long as I’m alive.”

“Promise?”

“Yes.”

“No problem.”

Hu Xiansheng was overjoyed, “Three hundred chunks? A thousand cubic meters? Not a problem. In that case, a chunk of space three hundred thousand square meters in size will be gone.”

That was far too massive.

Hu Xiansheng inhaled in shock as he continued, “It’s better we do it separately. If we do it all at the same spot, we will have a city-sized black hole floating around. Su Yu, I’ll need to warn you in advance. Cutting a chunk of space this big will attract the attention of Invincibles. You need to handle that.”

Su Yu nodded, “No problem.”

Everyone turned solemn. Just from the amount of space they were cutting, they could see that this wouldn’t be a simple project. Even something as simple as a storage ring would reach the earth grade with so much space.

Three hundred chunks of space.

Just what was Su Yu trying to forge? Not even storage rings would require so much space. Furthermore, they needed to split the space into three hundred chunks. Was Su Yu forging three hundred storage rings?

Zhao Tianbing asked solemnly, “What do I need to do?”

Su Yu answered, “You have a simple task, Martial Uncle Zhao. Forge 302 pages that can store Faculty Head Hu’s compressed space inside. Three hundred of them will be the pages of a book, while the extra two will serve as the covers of the book.”

“Storage pages?”

Zhao Tianbing was alarmed. Holy shit. This kid was trying to kill him!

“A lot of energy is required to compress a space so big. And you want me to forge pages capable of storing these compressed chunks of space? The difficulty will be extremely high. And you need three hundred of them?”

Zhao Li rolled his eyes and said, “If you can, do it. If you can’t, scram. I’ll get someone else to do it.”

Zhao Tianbing could only agree, “Fine, I’ll do it. But know this in advance. To complete the task in a month, I’ll need to forge more than ten pages per day. I will need assistants or it won’t be possible. Each individual page is already comparable to a profound weapon…”

Zhao Li frowned and said, “That’s not good enough. Each page needs to be comparable to an earth weapon.”

“…”

Zhao Tianbing furrowed his brows and said, “Firstly, I won’t be able to forge even ten pages per day if that’s what you need. Secondly, do you even have enough materials? Thirdly, After completion, the assembly of three hundred earth weapons will result in something beyond a heaven weapon. Can Su Yu even control a weapon like that?”

Zhao Li nodded in agreement. He considered it and said, “It’s fine. You can make them all embryonic earth weapons. You need seventy-three stripes to reach the earth grade. Just leave the stripes at seventy-two and half with some additional embryonic golden stripes on top. That way, Su Yu will be able to advance each page to the earth grade at need in the future.”

Su Yu swallowed nervously. Why did it feel like Old Zhao was…even crazier than him?

Su Yu’s plan was very simple. He only wanted a powerful earth weapon that was also an embryonic heaven weapon. That was why he had only requested small chunks of space from Hu Xiansheng. What was Zhao Li doing here?

Zhao Li looked at Su Yu and said, “Your growth is too fast. A regular earth weapon won’t be enough for you. Furthermore, you’re forging your dao weapon this time. We can’t settle for an inferior product. If you lack the materials, I can provide you with some…”

Zhao Tianbing hurriedly offered, “I have some as well!”

Su Yu frowned and shook his head. “No, I can’t accept your materials. You’re both here to help me. I’m not so useless that I need your materials as well. Don’t worry. I’ll handle the matter of materials.”

That was nothing. Wasn’t the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion still around? It wasn’t like he had no money. He could always sell heavenly source qi for whatever he wanted. And that was something he had plenty of.

If he was desperate enough, he could even sell his carrier treasures. The divines had surprisingly delivered him the carrier treasure promised to him previously. Thus, he now had eight carrier treasures in possession.

He had merely been surprised by the scale of what he was forging. It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford it.

Hu Qi and the two earth weaponsmiths from Great Ming were completely dumbfounded.

Hu Qi asked, “Three hundred pages with each page comparable to an earth weapon? Su Yu, are you forging a book-like weapon and fuse chunks of space into it, creating a world in each page?”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes, Teacher Hu. That’s my plan. Or initial plan, to be exact. Of course, there is no guarantee that we will be able to really finish all three hundred pages.”

Hu Qi inhaled deeply and said, “This will be no simple project. What are our tasks?”

Su Yu paused to think before answering, “Firstly, processing the materials. Secondly, help Martial Uncle Zhao with the insertion of the spatial pockets into the pages. This isn’t a task a regular person can do. Only earth weaponsmiths can help with this.”

The three earth weaponsmiths nodded solemnly. This would be an extremely difficult job.

Hu Qi said, “Space fusion is a risky task. It can easily cause explosions. Each damaged page will be a massive loss.”

For this project, losing a page would be the same as losing an earth weapon.

Su Yu smiled, “So be it. Just make sure you remain unharmed. It doesn’t matter if we lose some pages here and there. This will be your respective tasks for now. As for you, Teacher, you will be in charge of managing the project as a whole.”

Su Yu continued, “As for me, I’ll do the final forging with my teacher to finalize the weapon. I’ll also be in charge of supplying the materials, helping with your rest and recuperation, and other menial tasks you need help with.”

He was an earth weaponsmith as well, but he needed to spare most of his strength for the final forging. That would involve a reforging of the entire weapon, and the difficulty would be extremely high.

Zhao Tianbing asked doubtfully, “Can you do it? I’m not underestimating you, but this is too difficult. Are you sure you can persist until the end? This involves hundreds of earth weapons.”

Su Yu inhaled deeply and nodded, “I’ll try my best. If I really can’t, I can reduce the pages. It’s fine. I can add them in the future.”

Zhao Tianbing nodded, “You’re very ambitious, Kid. This weapon will be a peak earth weapon if not a heaven weapon upon completion. It will definitely attract a heavenly reward or tribulation. You will have to deal with that as well. If your weapon aligns with the will of the heavens, you will receive a reward. If your weapon is unwanted by the heavens, you will receive a tribulation.”

Su Yu nodded. He wasn’t sure what he would receive as well.