Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu would naturally follow Old Zhao’s suggestion. He said nothing and hammered the book repeatedly, scattering one projection after another as the book trembled violently in resistance.

He was striking the book so hard that it even felt like space itself was about to be smashed apart.

Any other person would switch to a different forging technique at a time like this. Su Yu knew the Five Elemental Forge Technique as well, but he did not use it. He agreed with Old Zhao. He had to beat his own weapon into obedience. He had no need for a disobedient weapon.

Boom!

Finally, the eighty-second golden stripe took form. Instantly, the air warped as three crimson beings appeared and dove down at Su Yu. Each was as strong as a seventh-stage Mountainsea.

With a roar, Su Yu sent a kick at them. His arms continued working steadily on the book. With one kick, the three crimson beings scattered. Once again, the blood character absorbed the remnant energy in the air.

With this, the book had reached the middle earth grade.

By this point, Su Yu was already gasping heavily. Over fifty pages had been added to the book.

The difficulty would only continue to increase.

Each page represented an independent spatial pocket, and each would resist the others.

At this moment, Zhao Li looked at the others and said, “I suggest you leave now.”

They frowned, but Hu Xiansheng said, “Let’s leave. I’ll stay here. If the weapon does explode during the forging, hundreds of spatial pockets will explode at the same time. Even Sunmoons will die. With me around, I can try to escape the kid before the spatial explosions kill him.”

Su Yu laughed and said, “Faculty Head, you should have more confidence in me.”

“Holy shit!” Hu Xiansheng exclaimed with fright, “Don’t speak! Don’t listen to us! Focus on your weapon!”

What was this guy doing?

Why was the madman not fully focused on the weapon he was forging? The weapon was essentially a bomb. Any carelessness might result in an explosion. Hundreds of spatial pockets will explode. It would be disastrous.

Suddenly, Grandstar’s voice rang out, “Don’t worry. If an explosion does occur, I will act.”

They were all relieved to hear that. That was good to hear.

At that moment, Su Yu swallowed the final celestial devil fruit in his possession. He had provided four for this project. Three had been consumed for the others and he was consuming the final fruit himself.

The moment he swallowed the fruit, his stamina, source qi, and willpower started recovering rapidly. The tiny injuries left in his body from the recoils earlier started healing as well.

The fruit had instantly pushed him back to his peak condition. With a roar, he resumed his forging with a renewed vigor. With a rumble, the eighty-third golden stripe took form.

The powerful recoil nearly knocked his hammer out of his hand. There was still a gap between his proficiency in combat and weaponsmithing. Thus, he wasn’t able to control his strength as well while weaponsmithing.

Just as he lost balance, a larger hammer dropped down.

With one strike, Zhao Li suppressed the book and roared, “Readjust and continue!”

Readjust?

Yes. Su Yu soared into the sky, howled, and punched a crimson cloud apart. The impact of the punch caused even the surroundings to shake. This was his way of readjustment: by venting the excessive strength in his body.

Done with venting his strength, he dropped down and resumed his forging right after Zhao Li finished another hammer strike. He said, “Teacher, withdraw for now. Just be on standby to help during crucial moments.”

Zhao Li must preserve more of his strength for now. If a similar situation happened while he was too exhausted to help, things might get disastrous. Since Su Yu had yet to reach his limit, he could continue. He said, “I can still handle this. Don’t worry. It’s still early.”

He hadn’t even gone through with the advancement of his physical cultivation. This was nothing.

He would not resume the forging of his body before the appearance of the 91st golden stripe. In fact, he was planning to push it further and start only at the 108th golden stripe. He believed that the advancement of his physical cultivation could probably trigger a heavenly reward. He could use the heavenly reward to add a few extra golden stripes to his weapon.

Zhao Li said nothing. He retreated just as Su Yu returned. He was still not strong enough. In fact, the recoils from the few hammer strikes he landed earlier had nearly shaken his bones apart.

He had a solemn expression as he retreated. If it wasn’t for Su Yu’s impressive physical strength, just the recoil of the eighty-third golden stripe would be enough to kill him. Generally, one wouldn’t be able to forge a weapon to such a level without being a Sunmoon. Even if one were skilled enough, one wouldn’t have the strength to do so.

In fact, Zhao Li was skilled and experienced enough to forge a weapon like this. However, he did not have the strength to do it unless he received the assistance of others. If he tried working on such a weapon alone with his current strength, the recoil might kill him before he could finish.

The forging continued.

***

Outside the city.

Heavenly Forge King sighed and said nothing else. From Su Yu’s actions, he understood what Su Yu wanted.

An obedient weapon.

He would rather fail than accept a disobedient weapon.

Heavenly Forge King had a bitter smile on his face. For most people, this wasn’t an issue of choice. Rather, this was an issue of wealth.

He didn’t know how much Su Yu had invested in this weapon. But he knew that Su Yu had definitely invested a lot. In any case, Heavenly Forge King himself would most definitely not be willing to risk failure after investing so much.

Even if that would result in a disobedient weapon, he could always adjust the weapon accordingly after completion. But first, he would prioritize completing the weapon. A loss like this would take one hundreds of years to recover from.

However, Su Yu was still too young. He had obtained his wealth too easily. Thus, he did not know how to appreciate his wealth.

Heavenly Forge King grumbled inwardly.

When the kid became a heaven weaponsmith like him and ended up not forging anything for many years due to a lack of material, the kid would come to realize how much of a waste this was. One should always prioritize completion, not the obedience of the weapon.

But beside Heavenly Forge King, Yun Chen said, “Perhaps…he’s right. Weaponsmithing and cultivating alike, compromise might not be the right choice. One should have the courage to charge forward relentlessly.”

After saying that, he shut his eyes.

Charging ahead relentlessly…

It was easy to speak. But how many people could actually do it?

At the very least, Yun Chen himself had failed to do it.

That year, he had opted to fake his death and run from all his troubles to affirm his dao. Charging forward relentlessly? That was too hard. Perhaps that was the moment his dao had been broken.

His subsequent attempt at dao affirmation had failed. Now, he was only a Pseudo Invincible. Perhaps that was because deep inside, he had never approved of the choice he made back then.

***

While Heavenly Forge King and the others were thinking about all that, another trouble was brewing for Su Yu.

Crimson clouds were converging in the sky.

Surprisingly, nothing happened when the eighty-fourth golden stripe took form.

At that, Zhao Li’s expression changed drastically. Zhao Li also had a troubled expression as he said, “The laws are changing how they act. They are accumulating force to deal with you.”

“Accumulating force?”

Su Yu was surprised. Were the laws capable of something like this as well?

If he were to stop or fail right now, would the heavens stop and allow him to skip this tribulation altogether?

So the heavenly laws were capable of adapting as well? How surprising.

“What if I fly up and defeat this tribulation before the laws can accumulate more strength?”

Zhao Tianbing hesitated slightly before answering, “It might reform immediately. Since it is still in an unreleased state, it can reform endlessly.”

Su Yu was left speechless.

What was this?

Were the laws waiting for the ninety-first stripe before punishing him?

Was that the case?

Zhao Tianbing was quite unfamiliar with such a situation. He had been a weaponsmith for many years, but he hadn’t encountered too many of these tribulations.

Eventually, Su Yu decided to stop worrying and pushed on with his forging. He was ready for further trouble. If things became too troublesome to handle, he could instantly finish his seventy-second body forging. That might help for a bit.

Time continued passing.

Su Yu continued consuming heavenly source qi and hallow source qi fruits to replenish his energy. In the sky, more and more crimson clouds converged.

Su Yu continued forging, ignoring the crimson clouds above.

Eighty-fifth stripe, eighty-sixth stripe, eighty-seventh stripe…

More and more pages were added to the book.

By the time the 88th golden stripe took form, a total of 130 pages had been added to the book.

At this point, the sky was already fully covered by crimson clouds.

***

“Is he crazy?”

Someone exclaimed in shock, “If he continues, the tribulation will reach the level of a Sunmoon. Is he really trying to forge a heaven weapon?”

There were already eighty-eight golden stripes.

Meanwhile, the tribulation was growing more and more terrifying. If Su Yu persisted until the ninety-first golden stripe, the tribulation might really grow to the level of a fourth or fifth-stage Sunmoon.

“He’s strong enough. What is there to fear?”

“What do you know? If the tribulation descends when he’s forging the weapon, the weapon will be ruined even if he can survive the tribulation. It is clear he has invested heavily into this weapon. The loss of such a weapon will be massive.”