Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu said, “Sure. Remember your words. I’ll give you enough heavenly source fruits. Don’t get stuck at like three hundred acupoints or something like that. Prove yourself useful.”

Su Yu was speaking like only trash would stop at opening three hundred acupoints.

However, Zhou Hao nodded solemnly and said, “I’ll complete the task in no time!”

“Don’t make promises before actually doing it.”

Su Yu tossed a large heavenly source fruit out and said, “This one fruit is comparable to a hundred fruits. You can use the rest to forge your body. In body forging, you only need heavenly source qi. Of course, heavenearth profound light is quite useful as well. But the best option would be the power of laws. However, you’re still too weak with only over twenty forgings. It’s a waste to give you anything better than heavenly source qi.”

Only over twenty forgings.

In Su Yu’s eyes, that was nothing.

For most people, nine forgings were decent. Eighteen forgings were quite normal yet slightly rare. Twenty-seven forgings were rarer. Thirty-six forgings were incredibly rare, mostly limited to those capable of entering the Heavenly Hunt Index.

In truth, Zhou Hao’s growth had been rapid. He had not been a Skysoar for long. He had most likely spent less than a year forging his body.

He had been doing it with mostly no resources. The Xia Family might have supported him slightly, but the Xia Family was probably lacking in heavenly source qi as well. As for heavenearth profound light, it was also an incredibly rare resource for the Xia Family. Thus, it was quite impressive for Zhou Hao to improve at such a speed in such conditions.

Su Yu asked, “Have you been using only what you have from before? Have you not been doing missions to earn more resources?”

Zhou Hao said, “I went to the Allheaven Battlefield a few times to kill some enemies, but the returns aren’t great.”

Su Yu rubbed his chin and said, “I’ll give you a simple mission. Don’t look for me after opening your acupoints. Go to the Allheaven Battlefield and kill an index genius. Those on the Yellow Index are quite useless. You can easily kill them. Get on the index and I’ll allow you to have some fun with me.”

Zhou Hao replied, “I’m already on the index.”

“Hmm?” Su Yu blanked out.

“You killed too many people. I entered the index automatically.”

“…”

Su Yu blanked out. Was that the case? Did he kill that many people? Well, yes. That seemed to be the case.

“Yellow Index?”

“Yes. 320th on the Yellow Index.”

“Oh.”

Su Yu nodded. This wasn’t too surprising. After all, Zhou Hao was decently strong with the strength of roughly seven to eight thousand acupoints. In fact, his strength was already comparable to that of the weakest of Mountainseas. Thus, he was definitely capable of killing a Cloudbreach or two.

Su Yu had nearly forgotten how weak Mountainseas were. It was indeed easy for someone like Zhou Hao to enter the index.

Su Yu said, “Fine. Get into the top ten of the Yellow Index or climb directly into the Profound Index. It won’t be hard. Just kill a seventh-degree Cloudbreach and that will happen.”

“Sure.”

Zhou Hao nodded, as though it was perfectly normal for a Skysoar like him to do that.

“You may leave now.”

Zhou Hao cupped his fists again before turning to leave.

When Zhou Hao left, the female furball asked doubtfully, “He might be a descendant of Martial King. Why didn’t you kill him?”

Su Yu asked in confusion, “Why should I kill him?”

The female furball said, “Back then, Culture King and Martial King fought each other a lot. A descendant of Martial King might grow very strong in the future. What would you do if he decided to beat you up after growing strong?”

Su Yu laughed and said, “I’m not worried about that. He is still a Skysoar. If I allow him to catch up with me in strength, it merely signifies that I am useless. Since I’m so useless, I naturally deserve a beating.”

“Fine.”

The female furball lost interest and went back to sleep.

She did not intend to eat Zhou Hao. Sure, there was that powerful bloodline in Zhou Hao’s veins, but at his generation, his bloodline had weakened significantly. Furthermore, the female furball knew about the ancient past as well. It would be too rude to eat an ancient human king descendant like Zhou Hao. She wasn’t as old as Soy Bun as she was produced by Soy Bun toward the end of the ancient past. However, she still knew something about the ancient past.

She was aware of Soy Bun’s close relationship with some ancient human kings. That was why she had not eaten Great Ming King when she encountered him in the past.

When the female furball went back to sleep, the little furball complained sullenly, “Yummy, do you not want me anymore after getting my mama? When are you kicking my mama away?”

“…”

Su Yu blanked out. What was that? Was that something a son should say?

“Don’t you want to chat and spend some time with your mama?”

“No. Mama sleeps. I sleep as well. I also want to lick characters…”

What an unfilial scumbag. Yes, yes, he wasn’t actually birthed by the female furball, but they were still family. How could he say that about his mother?

The little furball kept sulking unhappily. Mama had monopolized two of his favourite characters. Thus, he had been waiting for Yummy to kick his mama off.

Su Yu grinned and said, “There is no rush. We’ll wait until you’re strong enough to handle Daofuses for me and I’ll send your mama away.”

“…”

The little furball’s emotions became a complicated mix of sorrow, fury, and determination. He vowed to eat hard and lick hard. He must lick more characters! Sure, he used to not care about the less yummy characters, but he couldn’t be so picky anymore.

And thus, he left his favourite character, the tribulation character, with the expression of a valiant soldier charging to his death, and headed toward the other characters. He had decided to lick the trash characters as well.

***

Su Yu chuckled and tossed the matter aside.

At this point, he had handled most of the minor tasks he needed to handle. During the subsequent two days, he spent his time helping with Su Long’s cultivation and visiting Zhao Li every now and then.

Those from the other prefectures were starting to arrive at Great Xia.

Su Yu did not bother to see any of them. He was waiting. He was waiting for the likes of Heavenly Forge King to arrive. He was waiting for those who had promised to help with his weapon.

Five days.

Su Yu had arrived for five days. Rumors about him and the new holy land continued spreading everywhere.

***

On the sixth day, Su Yu sensed the arrival of a powerful aura.

Great Zhou King had arrived. He was not alone. Junior Zhou King had arrived as well. Su Yu smiled. Very good. Those who should be here had all arrived. The conference was a day away so they should get started on their work.

Not long after, Su Yu sensed several familiar auras as well. These auras were slowly approaching his residence. Liu Wenyan and the others were back. Previously, they had gone to Great Ming for a reason unknown to Su Yu. Perhaps they were there to visit the Bai Family.

Su Yu did not bother to ask. He only needed to know that they were safe.

Hopefully, they could capture the real traitor this time. He might even gain some unexpected benefits from capturing this traitor. For example, the traitor might know more about the ancient fossils.

A senior of this traitor had been killed by Xia Chen. Their line was essentially a line of spies planted in the Human Realm. In that case, who were they serving?

Control King?

Or the other half of their mixed bloodline?

A bloodline capable of co-existing with Control King’s bloodline was most certainly not weak.

***

Prefect’s manor.

Numerous experts were inside the manor.

Great Zhou King said, “Old Xia, how is Su Yu? Is everything fine?”

Great Xia King said, “Everything is fine.”

“Good. I was worried that the myriad races might sneak in and try something with him here.”

“With me here, that won’t happen.” Great Xia King said, “But some of the guests have already arrived for a few days. Surprisingly, Su Yu did not bother to meet any of them. For example, Topsoil Spirit of the five elemental race, Endless Passage of the fate race, and September of the iron devourer race. These are all super experts.”

Great Zhou King laughed, “Just let him be. Those are all his guests. He can decide how he wants to welcome. You only need to keep an eye and prevent any trouble from arising.”

Just then, a voice rang out in the air, “Seniors, let’s stop wasting time since you’re all here. Heavenly Forge King will help with the forging while the others can help with the formation. Come on, let’s do it at the cultural research academy. We can let Teacher Zhao observe the process as well.”

The Invincibles looked at each other. Great Xia King nodded and said, “Go, then. The conference is tomorrow, right? Try to save time and complete it within one day.”

Great Ming King frowned and said, “One day? That won’t be likely. Su Yu’s requirements are too high.”

Great Zhou King laughed and said, “It doesn’t matter. Let the conference happen without us. It’s mainly being held for those of the younger generation. We only need to know the result of their discussion. They can do the rest while we work on Su Yu’s weapon.”

Nobody disagreed.

***

A short while later.

Source Soul Research Center.

Formerly Lan Tian’s research center, the current Source Soul Research Center.

Su Yu was waiting inside.

Liu Wenyan and the others were there as well. When the Invincibles appeared with a flicker, Liu Wenyan and the others bowed slightly and saluted them.

Su Yu did not bother to bow. He smiled and said, “Seniors, are we still proceeding with the plan?”

Silk Destroying King said, “Of course. It’s quite rare to see you so generous. How can I say no to your offer?”

Su Yu smiled, “That’s good to hear. But let me be upfront about things.”

Su Yu’s face turned solemn as he said, “Since you have agreed to help, please put your soul into it. That is especially true for the formation. I will be relying on it to kill Invincibles. This is no joke. My very life might depend on it. This is no laughing matter.”

Heavenly Seal King said, “Since we’ve promised to do this, we naturally won’t skimp on our skills.”

“I hope so.” Su Yu said, “I am a very serious man. If you wish to reject me now, it’s fine. But since you have agreed, do it seriously. I will inspect your work strictly. After all, I love being alive.”

“That is only natural.”

None of them protested. Su Yu wasted no time and took a bunch of heavenly source qi, dragonblood fruits, solidwater pearls, Emperor’s Saliva, and other treasures out.

“You may use these freely to replenish your energy.”

Next, Su Yu took out a pile of dragonbind wood and said, “Seniors, you may obscure your work somewhat if you don’t want anyone to see you at work. But I will be observing everything. Please don’t mind me. Additionally, Teacher Zhao wishes to invite Senior Zhao Tianbing to observe this process as well. Is that…”

Heavenly Forge King laughed and said, “Sure. Since I’m allowing one person to observe me at work, I might as well be generous and allow more. Also, Zhao Tianbing is on the cusp of becoming a heaven weaponsmith. He benefited a lot from the previous weaponsmithing.”

Su Yu smiled, “I do hope so. With that, humanity would have two heaven weaponsmiths to rely upon. If even Teacher Zhao managed to become a heaven weaponsmith from this, it would be even better. That would probably be even more worthy of celebration than gaining two new Invincibles.”

“Of course.”

Before long, Great Ming King and the others left, leaving the research center for Heavenly Forge King and his work. As for Great Ming King and the ones working on the formation, they required a larger space.

Su Yu left as well.

Invincibles did not have the habit of procrastination. In the blink of an eye, multiple Rivers of Time appeared in the sky. The surrounding area had long been cleared of people.