Tribulation of Myriad Races

Two of Su Yu’s characters had advanced into Sunmoon characters while his Mark of Civilization had advanced into a heaven weapon. His sea of willpower surged and roiled as it started expanding. With the strength of his willpower, he should have entered the Mountainsea Realm in willpower cultivation long ago.

However, advancement was very difficult for him as he had used the sunmoon profound yellow liquid before. His apertures were too strong and they differed with each other in strength, resulting in an imbalance. That was why he was still stuck as a ninth-stage Cloudbreach.

In any case, he did not intend to start fusing apertures yet. Firstly, he had yet to form enough characters. Secondly, he had yet to open 360 apertures.

Fusing apertures now would not benefit him much. He should wait until he had 360 apertures opened. Based on his previous experience with his acupoints, his apertures might also rebalance themselves and fuse into nine apertures automatically, pushing him straight to the ninth-stage Mountainsea Realm at one go.

Even without stepping into the Mountainsea Realm, his sea of willpower did not stop growing. The advancement of his characters into Sunmoon characters had forced an expansion of his sea of willpower.

In a way, the Mark of Civilization could be considered a character of his. The more it grew, the more he would grow. With the transformation of the Mark of Civilization, suns and moons spun in Su Yu’s eyes before eventually combining into a book in each eye. Numerous visions entered his gaze.

When he looked at Xia Huyou, Xia Huyou, who was enjoying the process of growth, abruptly looked at Su Yu in alarm. He felt as though something was seeing through his entire being.

As for Su Yu, he was seeing a completely different Xia Huyou. For the first time in his life, time and space felt fleeting to him. When he looked at Xia Huyou, he saw a saber instead of a human. An incomparably powerful saber. To be precise, it was a saber sealed within Xia Huyou’s body. The blade of Xia. The ancestral blade of Xia. The blade of Great Xia King.

Su Yu observed in silence as understanding dawned on him. Great Xia King had stopped using his previous saber for some time. That saber had actually been sealed inside Xia Huyou’s body. It might be sealed, but it was still incomparably powerful.

Perhaps it might be even stronger if Xia Huyou had the power to control it. Nevertheless, Xia Huyou would be no pushover with such a blade around. At the very least, he was definitely stronger than his appearance suggested. At the very least, he could kill Cloudbreaches with no issue and maybe even Mountainseas.

For some reason, Xia Huyou felt naked before Su Yu’s eyes. He landed from the sky uncomfortably and asked awkwardly, “You…why are you looking at me? That’s…making me uncomfortable.”

At that moment, Su Yu’s eyes looked incomparably deep.

His eyes were already very powerful after their previous tempering. Now that his culture and radiance characters had advanced into Sunmoon characters, the resulting ability when the two combined into civilization, the ability to pry into one’s past and future, would cause one’s hair to stand on end the moment one was subjected to Su Yu’s gaze.

Su Yu said nothing. Instead, he looked at Huang Teng. Almost immediately, Huang Teng’s heart started palpitating. He hurriedly withdrew his aura and presence, but he couldn’t hide the 240 bright acupoints inside his body from Su Yu.

240 opened acupoints.

A thin layer of light could be seen atop his skin, indicating that he had completed thirty-six body forgings. At the moment, he was still a sixth-stage Cloudbreach. Two hundred and forty acupoints, thirty-six body forgings, six Cloudbreach transformations…

If he had a cultivation method capable of utilizing all 240 of his acupoints at once, with the boost of 1.5 times per Cloudbreach transformation, he should have surpassed 300,000 acupoints in strength. That was comparable to a first-stage Sunmoon.

However, he clearly didn’t have such a cultivation method. He was unable to form a proper circulation system utilizing all 240 of his acupoints at once. Rather, only 144 of them were utilized in a proper system.

Thus, he was far weaker than he could be. Through a simple calculation, Su Yu estimated Huang Teng’s strength to be between 100,000 to 150,000 acupoints. That was only comparable to a seventh-stage Mountainsea.

The gap between Huang Teng’s actual strength and his theoretical limit was quite big. An 144-acupoint cultivation method was already the best he could find. He would only have the ability to harness the strength of more acupoints with greater efficiency upon reaching the Sunmoon Realm.

Before that, additional acupoints wouldn’t grant him that much of an increase in strength. Meanwhile, Su Yu’s 360 acupoints had automatically fused into nine acupoints, granting him a powerful combat strength. In the past, he lacked the ability to see through Huang Teng. But now, he could easily see through Huang Teng.

Beads of sweat started forming on Huang Teng’s forehead as he faced Su Yu’s gaze. For some reason, this felt even more terrifying than facing a Sunmoon. He felt as though he was facing an Invincible. Before such eyes, he could hide nothing.

However, Su Yu was no Invincible. He wasn’t even a Sunmoon. Then again, with Sunmoon characters, he could perhaps be considered a sort of Sunmoon. The combination of his unique characters and eyes had granted him the ability to see things even Sunmoons would have a hard time seeing.

“Su Yu!” Huang Teng said nervously, “Don’t look at me like that. We might not be too close, but I’m very close to your teacher.”

Su Yu laughed with amusement as he withdrew his gaze. At that, Huang Teng exhaled in relief.

Su Yu was growing scarier and scarier. That was something he had to admit. When he met Su Yu previously, he had been sent flying with a punch. But at that time, he only felt as though Su Yu was merely stronger. But now, Su Yu felt incomparably enigmatic. He was no longer the same.

Xia Huyou hurriedly switched the topic, “Su Yu, why did you seal the Double Dragon Gorge? There are quite a lot of people in there. Are you planning to kill them all?”

Everyone outside the gorge had already been killed by Su Yu. Was he planning to kill everyone inside as well?

Xia Huyou continued, “Killing too much might bring you some needless troubles.”

Su Yu nodded. He started walking toward the gorge as he asked with a smile, “Are you scared?”

“No.” Xia Huyou grinned, “What is there for me to fear? But…you need to be careful when it comes to some of the top geniuses in there. The Invincible descendants and disciples might have some powerful trump cards hidden away.”

Su Yu nodded. For example, the five elemental talismans of Topsoil Spirit. All along, he was of the opinion that even Invincible talismans would be limited in strength in the hands of regular people. But the saber in Xia Huyou’s body had changed his mind.

At that thought, his face turned pensive as he said, “Only one person can enter through each tunnel. Is it possible that some people will leave their blood essence in the bodies of those entering? Such as Invincibles?” He was no Invincible. Nor had he researched too much about what Invincibles could do.

Descended from an Invincible, Xia Huyou had the answer for that. “Yes. Even so, the power of an Invincible is not something the body of a regular person can withstand. That will merely remain a final trump card to be used to perish together with a hated opponent.”

Su Yu nodded. Not even his body could withstand the power of an Invincible, much less the bodies of others. This would not change even if one’s body were as strong as a Sunmoon’s body.

“Will anyone enter the mansion bearing the weapons of Invincibles? Can they display more strength with such weapons?”

“…”

Xia Huyou stared at Su Yu with surprise. After a long pause, he answered, “Firstly, it depends on the bloodline. Secondly, it depends on whether the Invincible has relinquished their control over the weapon. If that were the case, the Invincible could help the person in question obtain control over the weapon. That would allow the person in question to harness much more strength from the weapon. At times, heaven weapons can display the strength of Sunmoons. The stronger the wielder is, the more powerful it will be.”

Su Yu nodded. He had a heaven weapon as well. And his heaven weapon was far from ordinary.

The strength of Sunmoons? That was normal. He had 301 pages in his book, and he had a Sunmoon in each page.

Xia Huyou continued, “Ordinarily, Invincibles won’t hand their weapons to their descendents or disciples. But this is different. This is a unique event. Everyone is here for the treasures in here. Some are even targeting the nineleaf skylotus. Things aren’t that competitive on the first level, but I suspect you might encounter even the tri-life bodies of Invincibles on the higher levels.”

Su Yu nodded. He stopped in front of the gorge entrance. His book was being attacked from the inside. Clearly, some people had discovered the seal.

“Did you see my teacher and the others?”

“No.” Xia Huyou shook his head, “They might have gone to the second level or somewhere else. Teacher Liu is definitely not on the first level. I’m not sure about Teacher Bai. Even if he’s here, he’ll be aiming to climb higher as soon as possible.”

Su Yu agreed. Bai Feng would most certainly not tarry around on the first level. But he would need to regroup with Wu Jia and Wu Lan first as they were all here for the riversand. That was not a resource they could find on the first level.

The book covering the gorge entrance shook repeatedly. Clearly, the attacks on it were getting more and more intense. When Su Yu pulled the book back, multiple attacks shot out of the gorge entrance. Not one of them was weak. There were even some talismans mixed among these attacks.

One of the people inside noticed Xia Huyou and roared with fury, “Xia Huyou, are you courting death?”

Right as those words were spoken, Su Yu’s eyes shone. The book flipped open and consumed everyone near the entrance. Nothing was left of them. Not even a drop of blood was left. They had vanished in an instant.

Both Huang Teng and Xia Huyou inhaled in alarm. Su Yu was getting more and more fickle nowadays, especially when it involved killing. His strength had also grown a lot scarier than before.

Su Yu ignored their reaction. Instead, he faced Yellow Nine and said, “Watch the other entrance with Xia Huyou and Huang Teng. I’ll enter through this entrance.”

The so-called Double Dragon Gorge was actually an area with two gorges, with the so-called gorges looking more like caves than actual gorges.

Su Yu intended to wipe everyone out.

Yellow Nine was not weak. Coupled with Huang Teng and Xia Huyou, they should be able to block a single entrance. Yellow Nine said nothing. Her silence was an agreement.

Su Yu did not bother to say much. With the little furball around, he did not need to worry that Yellow Nine would do anything stupid.

Before long, he stepped into the left gorge, or the left nostril, to be precise.

The moment he left, Xia Huyou grinned and said, “Sister Liu—”

“That’s not my name.” Yellow Nine said, “I’m Yellow Nine.”

Xia Huyou did not mind that. He continued, “Sister Yellow…what is your goal in the mansion? Great Xia has a decent number of people in the mansion this time. If you require anything, the Xia Family might be able to help.”

Yellow Nine ignored him.

Huang Teng smiled and said, “Yellow Nine, I guess we can be considered family. After all, we share the same surname! (Huang = Yellow) Prince Huyou does not bear you any malice. He’s only trying to be a friend. It never hurts to have more friends.”

Yellow Nine gave them a flat glance. Suddenly, she flashed them a smile and said, “You believe I’m a Liu. You’re feeling guilty. Therefore, you’re trying to do something about your guilt. Am I right?”

Xia Huyou said, “Not at all…”

Yellow Nine snorted. But soon, she smiled again, “If I’m really a Liu…we’re engaged. Did Su Yu not say that I’m unworthy of you? Perhaps he’s right. I am unworthy of the Xia Family. Nevertheless, many people are aware of the engagement. If I were to claim this marriage, would you really take me as your wife?”

Xia Huyou laughed stiffly and said, “Uhm…if you don’t mind…”

Yellow Nine snorted, “No, don’t even think of it. I’m unworthy of you. How about this? Do me a favor. If you agree, I can promise to call off the engagement if I really happen to be a Liu. That way, the Xia Family can end the engagement without any damage in their reputation. I will serve as the ignorant fool taking the blame for this.”

“What is your request?”

Xia Huyou was quite straightforward about it. After a short contemplation, Yellow Nine said, “My grandpa wishes to affirm his dao. But it will be very difficult. He might make the attempt in the mansion. Has your father entered the mansion?”

“Yes.”

“In that case, please get your father to lend my grandpa a hand. That will erase all entanglements between your family and me.”

Xia Huyou was quite surprised by her choice. He asked, “Are you referring to Hollow?”

“He is my only family.” Yellow Nine said, “You can refuse. After all, I might not be a Liu. Even if I’m that girl, I might not necessarily return to the Liu Family.”

Xia Huyou inhaled deeply and said, “Unless we can reach the seventh level…it’s pointless to say all that here. Are you trying to climb that high?”

“Yes.”

“Then…we’ll talk again when we’re there.”

Xia Huyou did not refuse. But he didn’t agree either. The circumstances were too unclear. He wasn’t even sure if they could really climb that high.