Tribulation of Myriad Races

The fifth level was the level where the fire heart burned.

Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to run around to search for treasures. There weren’t a lot of people left on the fourth level. He Tu would probably be done with the level before long. In fact, even the fifth level was already mostly empty by now.

Those who had been informed about the coming disaster had fled. Those who were still clueless were either those from the minor races or lone travelers. There weren’t a lot of them.

Here, Su Yu’s priority was the spine acupoint. It should be on this level as the next level would be near Old Zhou’s backside. The spine acupoint wouldn’t be there.

As Su Yu traveled through the fifth level, he found some treasures as well. These treasures were decently valuable, but he didn’t care too much about them. At this point, nothing below the value of a carrier treasure could attract his attention.

He was simply too rich. What could he do if he was rich enough not to care about these treasures?

Su Yu was in a rush. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to search the place carefully, but He Tu was too fast. He could not afford to waste his time. He could only slow down on the seventh level where there were people strong enough to handle He Tu.

“The news must have spread by now. The entrance to the seventh level is probably being watched now. I need to join the crowd and enter the seventh level together. In that case, I need to stop killing or there won’t be enough people to serve as my cover.”

Su Yu had slowed down on his killing. He was in no rush to enter the sixth level either. In any case, there were definitely high-stage Sunmoons on the sixth level. Those wouldn’t be easy opponents to kill. He could always handle them later. It wasn’t even the fifth day yet. He had an entire month in the mansion.

After a short while, he arrived at a certain location. It was the edge of the level where the barrier of the world could be found. Su Yu looked around and noted that the entrance to the next level wasn’t here. Rather, he was faced with a massive mountain. The mountain seemed to penetrate the sky itself.

“Is this the spine?”

With that question in mind, Su Yu flew into the sky and sent a palm attack at the mountain. It didn’t even budge. It was unimaginably tough. Could he…leave the mansion here if he could somehow penetrate the spine?

He didn’t entertain that thought for long. Old Zhou’s body was too strong. On top of Old Zhou’s body, the builder of the mansion had probably added some other materials as well. Thus, the resulting Luminous Domain Mansion was probably tougher than even Old Zhou’s body.

Thus, penetrating this spine was probably impossible for even a Daofuse.

“Where’s the spine acupoint?”

Su Yu started looking around, taking his own body as the reference. He had decided to stop calling Tai Shan so often. He felt like Old Zhou was on the verge of going mad. He didn’t want to provoke Old Zhou into self-detonation. That wouldn’t be fun.

Sure, someone dead might not be capable of that. But he didn’t want to take that risk. Before long, Su Yu set his sights on an empty spot in front of the mountain ridge. The moment he activated his spun acupoint, the empty spot reacted. Weak undulations rippled out, but the acupoint did not show itself.

But this was enough to confirm that the acupoint was here. However, this was the part where Old Zhou needed to be provoked yet again.

“Tai Shan!”

With a roar from Su Yu, the world raged. The entire fifth level started shaking violently while Old Zhou’s roars rumbled in Su Yu’s mind.

“I’ll kill you! Kill you!”

“I won’t spare you!”

“Who are you?”

“You’re not Tai Shan! Who are you?”

Su Yu: “…”

Su Yu’s heart chilled, and his scalp went numb. He could feel the attention of the world itself on him.

“You’re not Tai Shan…where did you hide Tai Shan? Hand Tai Shan over…”

Madness was seeping out of that voice.

Su Yu was greatly alarmed. Why was this happening? Old Zhou was dead. Why was this happening? How could Old Zhou realize that he wasn’t Tai Shan? There shouldn’t be anything of Old Zhou left apart from his stubborn resentment. But was resentment capable of thought?

Su Yu did not have the time to think too much. He had to focus on a spinning black hole that had appeared in front of him.

In his head, Old Zhou’s voice continued growing in intensity, “You’re not Tai Shan…you’re not…You hid Tai Shan…”

“Who are you?”

“Just who are you?”

“Who is Tai Shan to you?”

All of Su Yu’s hair stood on end.

Holy shit! How was Old Zhou capable of such a level of reasoning? Was this really a remnant resentment? Or was Old Zhou actually still alive? Was he simply mad instead of dead?

A mere remnant resentment shouldn’t be able to make such a level of thought?

Su Yu did not dare to say anything. Instead, he gnashed his teeth so tightly that he started bleeding from his gums and stared at the spinning black hole. He only wanted to get the grand cycle cultivation method, nothing else.

He kept in mind to avoid calling Tai Shan’s name unless absolutely necessary after this. He was worried that if this continued, it might even provoke the awakening of Old Zhou. He had noticed that after several provocations, Old Zhou seemed to have grown smarter.

So was Old Zhou dead or alive? Su Yu shivered. Could it be that…Old Zhou had been forged into the Luminous Domain Mansion alive? Was that why the Luminous Domain Mansion had been able to remain operational so many years after the great collapse?

The more Su Yu thought about it, the more alarmed he was. If Old Zhou was really alive…he would probably throw the balance of the Myriad Realms upside down after regaining his freedom. Someone like him would probably be strong enough to fight even Daofuses even in a crippled state.

How terrifying.

After a long while, the fifth level calmed down again. Su Yu had also figured out the operational method of the spine acupoint. Just as he was about to shut his acupoint, a far calmer voice rang out in his mind, “You’re not Tai Shan…you’re not…Tai Shan isn’t this weak, no, he’s not this weak…”

Su Yu hurriedly shut his acupoint to prevent himself from hearing more. Then, he collapsed to the ground with cold sweat all over him.

He had reached a terrifying conclusion: Old Zhou was not dead.

“He’s not dead. He’s mere crippled and sealed. He’s not dead.”

Su Yu was trembling. They were currently exploring the body of someone alive.

The name Tai Shan was akin to a curse.

A curse to awaken this person from his slumber and release him from his seal.

Holy shit!

A realization came to Su Yu. He seemed to have done something bad. He started swallowing nervously. But after a long while, he gnashed his teeth and said, “How is this bad? I don’t rule the current Myriad Realms. The divines, devils, and immortals rule the current Myriad Realms. With Old Zhou free…hmph!”

Su Yu’s eyes flickered. Why should he care if the world were to sink into chaos? He was now the public enemy number one. Everyone wanted him dead.

Chaos was good for him, not bad.

With that in mind, a majority of his fear evaporated. He stood up and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

A tiny bit of life might still remain in Old Zhou.

Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he sank into thought. He wasted no time and started linking his acupoints together.

He did not call Tai Shan’s name this time, but when all his acupoints were reactivated, Old Zhou’s voice returned to his mind: “Why must you kill me?”

“Why?”

This time, Old Zhou had seemingly returned to his previous confused state. In this manner, Old Zhou was quite predictable. He would go crazy the moment Tai Shan’s name was spoken.

“What a terrifying man.”

As Su Yu attempted to link and circulate his acupoints, blood started seeping out of his mouth. After some time, he ate a piece of lotus root before resuming his attempt.

One acupoint after another lit up.

330, 340…

It kept increasing. The forehead acupoint was linked successfully. The spine acupoint was also linked successfully. At the 350th acupoint, a rumble rang out. Su Yu ignored the pain and looked around before swallowing another piece of lotus root to repair a certain part of his body.

“Fuck!”

Su Yu cursed inwardly.

Fortunately, nobody was here to witness that. Then again, he was also fortunate that it was the Heaven Connecting Acupoint instead of the forehead or the spine acupoint. Those two acupoints would be far more dangerous to damage. The Heaven Connecting Acupoint wasn’t too dangerous to damage. It was simply embarrassing.

This was why he had dared to make this blind attempt. Alas, he had failed. He was left with only ten acupoints to link. He could probably succeed after a few hundred attempts.

After all, all acupoints would follow a certain set of rules. These rules worked to limit the potential orders in which these acupoints could be linked, making it easier for him to link them through trial and error.

“Perhaps…I will learn the grand cycle acupoint method by myself after blowing my ass up a few hundred times…”

Su Yu cursed inwardly and rubbed his newly regenerated backside. This was so inelegant. This did not fit his image of a cultural researcher. If someone saw this, he would probably die from sheer embarrassment. Image was very important for cultural researchers.

“Maybe I should look for Old Zhou’s Heaven Connecting Acupoint first…”

Suddenly, Su Yu felt an intense longing toward a certain someone. Zhou Hao. That was a genius as well. Unfortunately, he had yet to open 360 acupoints. And someone without 360 acupoints wouldn’t even qualify to serve as Su Yu’s test subject.

More importantly, knowing the locations of the 360 acupoints would not guarantee that one could open them. Su Yu was unsure of how many acupoints Zhou Hao had opened thus far. Perhaps he had opened over two hundred acupoints. Who knew?

“Sigh.”

He was saddened by the lack of test subjects, forcing someone like him to personally detonate his backside instead of getting someone else to do it.

“If the Heaven Connecting Acupoint is located on the seventh level, there is no guarantee that I can reach there. Even after reaching the level, there is no guarantee that I can get near the acupoint. That level is filled with Invincibles. Do I really need to test blindly?”

With that thought in mind, he started flying toward the entrance to the sixth level. Even as he was flying, he couldn’t resist testing on himself. Perhaps he could get lucky and get it right.

Boom!

Su Yu hurriedly looked around before eating another piece of lotus root. How delicious.

Yum yum!

Su Yu covered his embarrassment with the act of eating.

“I have several hundred pieces of lotus root and I can probably figure out the cultivation method with no more than a few hundred attempts…”

Suddenly, his expression changed as a certain thought surfaced in his mind. Did fate intend for him to derive this cultivation method himself? During his time in the mansion, he had provoked Old Zhou multiple times. Would Old Zhou awaken?

Conveniently, he had also harvested several hundred pieces of lotus root during his time in the mansion. And these roots were perfect for his tests.

“No, no…no…Not at all. This whole thing must be a coincidence.”

Yes. This was most definitely not the arrangement of fate. Once again, Su Yu scanned his surroundings, worried that others would see this embarrassing sight. Sure, he was currently a wolf, not Su Yu, but it would still be embarrassing.

If he could figure out the grand cycle cultivation method in advance, he would be able to complete his nine transformations in advance as well. After all, there was a risk that he might stumble upon suitable treasures for his nine transformations that couldn’t be kept for later.

“Should I…try?”