Tribulation of Myriad Races

The lazy Soy Bun yawned again and said, “Don’t worry. Flatbun won’t kill rashly. For example, would you run around killing ants for no reason?”

The little furball answered for Su Yu, “Yes!”

Su Yu rolled his eyes. When had he ever done something like that? The little furball was spouting nonsense!

Soy Bun patted the little furball and asked, “Is this why you’re here?”

“Yeah.”

“Have Flatbun go with you.”

Su Yu nodded. With a slight hesitation, he added, “Senior, can I ask you one question?”

“Yes.”

“The little fur—cough, cough. The prince has been with me for quite some time. And you have been aware of this all along. Why didn’t you take him away?”

He had been curious about this. Why did the big furball leave the little furball with him?

Soy Bun asked nonchalantly, “Why should I? It’s very hard for him to grow here. My race needs to adhere to others for growth. Getting a willpower cultivator to grow together would be ideal. Back then, I grew together with Culture King.”

Su Yu asked doubtfully, “Senior, are you really a character of Culture King?”

Ads by PubRev When Soy Bun looked at him again, Su Yu’s heart thumped. Was this a forbidden question?

After some hesitation, Soy Bun answered, “Yes and no. Hmmm, this might be confusing to you. I am…a type of law. Do you know what laws are? Culture King developed sentience in a law he found.”

Understanding dawned on Su Yu.

He nodded, “A natural character represents a law. Each character is essentially a law. You are a law with sentience. But based on my previous theory, you should have been a Great Dao, someone at the level of a human king as a sentient law. Why are you only a Daofuse?”

Soy Bun looked at Su Yu curiously. Wow, he sure knew a lot!

“You’re quite smart. Yes, that should have been the case. I am a natural character, something born of a law. When Culture King found me, he nurtured me for a long time before I gained sentience. Instead of removing my sentience, he removed my being from the law and made me an independent being. And thus, the world welcomed Soy Bun!”

“As for why I’m a Daofuse…”

Soy Bun answered, “Because I’m incomplete. I’m only a part of a law.”

Su Yu thought of something else and glanced at the little furball and Flatbun.

Having guessed Su Yu’s thoughts, Soy Bun explained, “Both my wife and my lad were also nurtured by me from the laws. They come from different laws than mine. They are independent laws. Do you understand?”

Soy Bun said with a sentimental voice, “After Culture King’s disappearance, I was too lonely. Therefore, I nurtured my own wife. Then, my wife left. I was too lazy to find her. So I nurtured the lad to accompany me instead.”

“…”

Full understanding dawned on Su Yu.

Essentially, the three furballs were the manifestations of three laws.

He understood now!

The three could be considered family, but strictly speaking, they were three different laws.

Su Yu said, “Is this why you love eating characters and willpower? To replenish and complete your law? The little furball loves licking characters. Is that due to the power of laws in these characters? Is that the reason for this obsession?”

Soy Bun nodded, “You’re very smart. Speaking with someone like you is not tiring at all. Others will find it much harder to understand this. They are too stupid. They keep saying that we love eating and killing, but that’s wrong. We only eat things that can complete us, such as the power of laws you can find in characters.”

Su Yu felt himself enlightened. They required the power of laws, not characters, source qi, or anything else. Only the laws mattered to them.

“So the little furball has been drawing from my characters during his time with me?”

The big furball nodded, “Yes. This won’t harm your characters as each character will automatically leak some unwanted power of laws at all times. This is the same as breathing. And the little fellow can consume the unwanted power to strengthen himself. The purer a character is, the more attractive it would be.”

Su Yu nodded. No wonder the little furball preferred the natural characters over the other characters. Because those characters were purer in terms of their power of laws.

Suddenly, the teary-eyed little furball said, “Dada, am I not born from you?”

Soy Bun laughed, “It’s the same thing. You used to be a mindless law. I gave you sentience. That’s the same as giving birth.”

Su Yu asked, “Senior, is further advancement impossible for you?”

“Not really. But the power of laws I need for advancement is too powerful. The best option would be a pure and powerful law without sentience to fully supply myself with strength. If Culture King hadn’t disappeared back then, I could have advanced under his nurture. But he vanished. Nobody else can produce characters strong enough to nurture me.”

Just from that alone, one could imagine how powerful the Culture King was. He was strong enough to nurture Soy Bun to the level of an ancient human king. Alas, he had vanished. And without him, it became incomparably hard for Soy Bun to find someone as strong to nurture him. It also seemed impossible for him to better his own power of law by himself.

Only now did Su Yu truly understand what the so-called soul devourer race was. This was a race of beings manifested from the very laws of nature. Achieving Daofuse would probably be quite easy for them, but further advancement required the improvement of their laws. And the difficulty of that was much higher. The little furball would probably be stuck as a Daofuse one day.

Su Yu felt that his horizons had greatly broadened. The Myriad Realms were truly magical, capable of producing all sorts of beings, including beings manifested from the heavenly laws. What a terrifying race. However, this seemed to be a tiny race as the three were the sole members of their race.

The Culture King was also impressively generous. After nurturing sentience in a heavenly law he was studying, he had allowed this accidental being to keep existing as an independent living being instead of removing the sentience and keeping the power of the law for himself. Not everyone would be willing to do this.

One should not underestimate the power of a complete law. Soy Bun appeared quite honest, but perhaps he simply didn’t mind Su Yu knowing about this. He would naturally say it once asked, but he also wouldn’t go out of his way to tell Su Yu without being asked.

“Senior, I heard the Heavenly Overseer Marquis had achieved his dao as a luck spirit. Is he the same type as an existence as you?”

Was the marquis a sentient law as well?

“Him?” Soy Bun shook his head, “We’re not the same. A luck spirit…is born from nature. He grows through absorbing the power of luck. Luck is too abstract for people like us to detect. We can only feel it through those who are blessed by luck. However, a luck spirit has the ability to see luck with their eyes. Thus, the Heavenly Hunt Index is very important for the Heavenly Overseer Marquis. This was also why the Culture King had assigned the index to him back then. The luck of all the geniuses whose aura had been gathered by index would enter the index upon their deaths. This is the best way for the Heavenly Overseer Marquis to grow.”

Soy Bun seemed to know a lot about the Heavenly Overseer Marquis. He continued, “Therefore, he has been wanting to make the index his after the Culture King disappeared. But he was also terrified of the Culture King, so he had not dared to actually do it. Instead, he sowed chaos from the shadows and made the geniuses kill each other to replenish him with luck. All the chaos the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had sown all these years was for the sake of strengthening him and helping him make the index his.”

Further understanding dawned on Su Yu. So that was how it was. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had been known as the spreader of chaos in the Myriad Realms. They seemed to enjoy making the geniuses on the Heavenly Hunt Index kill each other.

So all that was for the sake of strengthening the Heavenly Overseer Marquis. In the ancient past, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was known as the Heavenly Overseer Pavilion, tasked with the supervision of the Myriad Realms. But the Heavenly Overseer Marquis had changed it into the hunter of the myriad geniuses.

A luck spirit.

Su Yu said, “The Heavenly Overseer Marquis is a very difficult opponent. As one who consumes luck, he is blessed by luck as well. Someone with an abundance of luck is extremely hard to kill. How has he survived for so long even after being one of the more active ancient past survivors around? Because he has both strength and luck. Everyone else who was as active in the Allheaven Battlefield had died over the years. He alone survived.”

Most of the ancient past survivors would only act during select epochs or periods. Unlike them, the Heavenly Overseer Marquis had been constantly active since the ancient past. He was the one constant of the Allheaven Battlefield. And he had survived until now.

“Luck?” Su Yu muttered, “I’m very lucky as well.”

Soy Bun said, “Yes. That’s why he views you as his prey.”

Su Yu nodded and asked, “Are you his match, Senior?”

Soy Bun thought about it and shook his head, “I don’t think so. At present, only the old turtle can defeat him. The old turtle is the current strongest being, followed by the Heavenly Overseer Marquis. Tiangu probably comes third.”

Su Yu asked in confusion, “Isn’t Tiangu much younger than you? He was still quite weak during the late ancient past.”

“Yeah, but he’s very talented.” Soy Bun explained, “He might not have been strong during the ancient past, but he was very well-known. He used to spar against the students of both Culture King and Martial King. And he won all the spars. That was how he grew his fame.”

That explained why everyone knew Tiangu even if he wasn’t even an Invincible back then.

Clearly, that was due to his genius.

As for the old turtle…sure enough, he was the current number one. He was impressive enough to even handle the current number two and three alone.

Su Yu had previously misunderstood that Tiangu wasn’t too strong. Or at the very least, he would be weaker than Soy Bun. But that wasn’t the case.

“Are you number four, Senior?”

“Number four?”

Soy Bun shook his body and said, “I don’t know. There are some super experts out there as well, such as that old man from the fate race. He’s very strong. I visited his grandpa for a fortune telling before this. His grandpa promised that I would get to eat Tiangu, but that didn’t happen…”

Soy Bun said with a voice of regret, “Tiangu would be so yummy.”

Evidently, at their level, it was hard to determine how one would fare against the others without actually fighting it out. The female furball was likely slightly weaker than Soy Bun. Could she handle a powerful Daofuse alone?

At this point, Su Yu had nothing else to ask. Getting the female furball to travel with him was good enough.

Just as he was thinking about leaving, Soy Bun said, “If you want to leave, don’t waste any time. I’m feeling sleepy. And I love dreaming while sleeping. And while dreaming, I love eating. You smell so nice. I might accidentally eat you in my sleep.”

Su Yu was rendered speechless. Wow. He didn’t even need to find an excuse to leave early anymore.

So be it.

Su Yu looked at the female furball and said, “Senior Flat, how are you going to move around? I don’t think my sea of willpower is strong enough to carry you…”

The female furball yawned lazily before vanishing with a flicker. Su Yu felt a sudden weight landing on his head. Then, a book appeared in his hand. In between the culture and radiance characters on the cover, a large ball could be seen.

The female furball had somehow entered his Mark of Civilization. The little furball vanished with a flicker as well. Inside his sea of willpower, a ball appeared atop the tribulation character.

This family…was quite good at picking their beds.

Fortunately, Soy Bun did not intend to do something similar. He glanced at Su Yu’s book and asked lazily, “Are you forging your own Book of Time as well? This is a very powerful weapon. The Culture King once said that the Time Sage aimed to create a book of myriad arts, but that would spill too much blood and incur too much bad karma. Sure enough, something bad happened to her.”

A book of myriad arts.

Su Yu’s heart thumped at the mention of that. What was the meaning of that? But before he could ask, his vision swam as he was tossed out of the realm.

After throwing Su Yu out, the big furball exhaled in relief and muttered, “Finally, I can get a good sleep!”

His wife had been shouting about eating Tiangu every single day since her return. He had been longing for some peace. Finally, she was gone. Su Yu was such a nice guy for taking his wife away from him.

The big furball was feeling very grateful. Su Yu had taken his noisy wife and naughty son away from him. He swore he would never invite them back on his own initiative.

Why should he?

How was he supposed to enjoy a good sleep with them around? He didn’t mind having them around when he was bored, but it was too noisy to have them around all the time. After sending the two furballs off, the big furball started sleeping with a satisfied smile on his face.