Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was behaving like nothing had happened.

Clanking sounds were ringing out from the research center nonstop. Su Yu did not say more to Great Zhou King and went into the research center instead.

At the moment, Heavenly Forge King was busy forging a whip-like weapon with the dragonbind wood as the material. His weaponsmithing style was nothing fancy.

Rather, he had a rather textbook-like style. Such a style would look rather mediocre and boring in the hands of a regular weaponsmith. But in Heavenly Forge King’s hands, this style felt like a work of art.

He was forging an earth weapon instead of a heaven weapon. He was also using a piece of dragonbind wood of inferior quality.

Su Yu frowned and said, “Heavenly Forge King, use the better dragonbind wood for your weaponsmithing. Go straight for heaven weapons. It’s pointless to forge trash earth weapons like this. There isn’t even anything useful one can learn from this. Don’t be fearful of wasting the materials. I have plenty of dragonbind wood. A little bit of waste is nothing.”

Heavenly Forge King cursed inwardly.

This bastard was showing off his wealth again!

Fine.

Was that what he wanted?

So be it.

Thus, Heavenly Forge King picked up a massive piece of dragonbind wood and smiled, “In that case, I’ll be using this piece for my weaponsmithing.”

Su Yu said indifferently, “Sure. You can even use three or five of them at once.”

Finally, Zhao Li lost his patience and scolded, “Not even a wastrel will be so wasteful!”

Su Yu laughed and said, “It’s fine. I’m rich.”

“…”

Screw him!

Zhao Li was furious. This kid had forgotten his destitute days after being wealthy for a short time. Back then, the kid had pitifully begged for even a tiny bit of merit points. But now…hmph!

Sure enough, wealth would change anyone.

Zhao Li continued cursing inwardly.

But looking at how hard Heavenly Forge King was working because of poverty, he started feeling good. So be it. Since Su Yu was sponsoring this session, why should they care?

Before long, Heavenly Forge King started working on the larger piece of dragonbind wood. Several characters appeared as several different clumps of flame appeared midair.

Extraction, refinement, forging…

It didn’t take Heavenly Forge King long to be drenched with sweat. Su Yu did not notice any obvious sign of a bloodline from him. Then again, that wasn’t something just anyone could detect.

A bloodline symbol could be hidden easily, and it could be hard to detect for even Daofuses, especially those who were ignorant about the past. After all, not every Daofuse came from the ancient past.

Su Yu sent a voice transmission, “Senior Flat, can you see anything?”

“I can’t feel anything.”

Nothing.

Su Yu frowned slightly. Was Heavenly Forge King still holding back or was Heavenly Forge King really without an ancient bloodline?

***

Su Yu did not stay inside for long. After a short while, he left and flew into the sky again.

Several Rivers of Time warped and weaved in front of him as the Invincibles worked hard on his formation.

Su Yu sent a voice transmission again, “What about now, Senior?”

“Same. I know Great Ming King, but the rest aren’t using all their strength.”

Su Yu cursed inwardly. Were all of them holding back? Fine. Clearly, this wasn’t difficult enough for them.

And thus, Su Yu tossed even more heavenly source qi out and flooded the formation with more source qi. The Invincibles working on the formation objected, “This is enough. The formation is much harder to control with too much source qi.”

Su Yu frowned and said, “It feels too weak right now. It needs more power.”

Great Ming King cursed and said, “Too weak? This is only the start! If it’s powerful right from the beginning, it won’t be a heaven formation. It will be a divine formation instead! Su Yu, don’t think that you know everything! What do you even know about formations!”

Clearly, Great Ming King was feeling insulted by Su Yu’s claim that the formation was weak.

Su Yu laughed and said, “Fine. I’ll wait and see.”

***

As Su Yu waited, more and more experts arrived.

As the conference was a day away, a lot of experts were arriving today.

Su Yu even saw Zhu Tiandao among the observing crowd. Everyone was tactful enough to stay away from the research center. Nevertheless, everyone could see how multiple top experts were helping Su Yu with his formation. They couldn’t help but be impressed by Su Yu’s networking skills and wealth.

***

Su Yu ignored all the observers.

He continued waiting in silence. It would be understandable for these people to hold back initially. But it would be suspicious if they kept holding back until the very end as that would lead to failure.

He also had the female furball pay close attention to them. These were his biggest suspects. After going through Ji Hong’s gathered information, he had also been revising his list of suspects.

Back then, Ji Hong had listed the likes of Fiery Sea King, Silk Destroying King, Heavenly Forge King, and Heavenly Seal King as the primary suspects. These were also Su Yu’s suspects.

Junior Zhou King wasn’t one of Ji Hong’s suspects as back then, everyone thought that he was dead. Thus, Ji Hong had not bothered to investigate him.

These are all the Invincibles who had stayed at the Allheaven Battlefield long enough to corrupt those military officials. Zhu Tianfang isn’t that big of a suspect. After all, he has been away for too long. It won’t be easy for an officially missing Invincible to recruit all those military officials.

That would only be possible if he had the cooperation of Great Ming King.

As for Great Ming King…Flatbun had verified his bloodline. Thus, he was unlikely to be the traitor. At that thought, Su Yu asked, “Senior Flat, which bloodline does Great Ming King have?”

“It’s most likely the bloodline of Radiant King. That was a powerful human king of the ancient past.”

Radiant(Ming) King?

Great Ming King?

Interesting.

Great Xia King had the bloodline of the Battle King, while Great Ming King had the bloodline of the Radiant King.

Su Yu asked again, “What about the bloodlines of Great Zhou King and Great Qin King?”

Back when Great Qin King used all his strength to kill Invincibles, the furball family was present. Su Yu was unsure if Flatbun had sensed anything from Great Qin King back then.

“I doubt Great Qin King has an ancient bloodline. His bloodline feels normal.”

“Hmm?” Su Yu blanked out.

Su Yu was quite surprised.

After thinking about it, he could only conclude that Great Qin King was truly talented. Then again, a lot of the current human Invincibles were those with regular bloodlines. Thus, this didn’t come as too big of a surprise for him.

“What about Great Zhou King?”

“I don’t know. I never sensed anything from him. But he has never fought with all his strength before, right?”

The female furball couldn’t be sure. A bloodline would be extremely hard to detect unless one was using their full strength. And since these Invincibles were top experts, she couldn’t even inspect them too directly.

Great Zhou King, in particular, was doubly hard to inspect since he was incredibly good at keeping a low profile.

Su Yu had nothing else to ask. Great Zhou King…wasn’t too big of a suspect either. Furthermore, he was too important a person for humanity. It would be extremely hard to handle a traitor like him.

Slowly, a large formation became visible up in the sky. Even Su Yu could see that this was a rather unique formation with the shape of a tower.

The tower was framed by numerous small doors.

Or to be precise, the tower itself was formed by countless small doors.

With Su Yu’s strength, he wasn’t completely clueless about formations. After studying it for a bit, he nodded in satisfaction. The tower had the ability to suppress, while the numerous small doors were essentially independent sealing talismans.

Each door was also imbued with some power of time. In fact, there was so much power of time gathered in the tower that dark cracks were appearing in the space around the tower. It was as though space itself was being cut apart by the power of time that the tower was emanating.

The tower was also showing the potential to cut even the River of Time.

Great Ming King said, “The crucial moment has arrived. Myriad Door Tower. A formation per door. Silk Destroying, start powering the tower! Heavenly Seal, strengthen the sealing power. Tianyuan, imbue the power of time acceleration into the tower.”

He roared, “The Myriad Door Tower is a formation formed of ten thousand formations! Strengthen each formation independently before combining them all into one to create a single, powerful formation. Any mistake when working with even one of the doors will cause the collapse of the tower. Time to go all out, everyone.”

“Sure.”

“Don’t worry.”

The others agreed readily.

Then, the countless doors scattered and spread all over the sky. The sight of so many doors floating up there in such an orderly manner was quite a spectacular one.

The various observers were dazzled by what they were seeing.

In a way, this was a demonstration of humanity’s strength. One should never underestimate humanity just because the Human Realm had been connected to the Allheaven Battlefield late this epoch. Not one of these human Invincibles could be underestimated. Each of them was an expert with their own unique tricks and skills.

With Great Ming King in charge of keeping the formation stable, the others started working on the small doors. This time, none of them was holding back. Each was dripping with sweat, and their auras surged as they worked.

Each door would shine brightly after the work on it was completed.

Suddenly, Great Ming King complained, “Su Yu, you’re not paying enough for this job! Your payment might seem generous, but it’s not even as much as my sacrifice here! This is unacceptable!”

Su Yu laughed and said, “That won’t be an issue. Work hard and I can at least take out ten carrier treasures or so out. I do need a lot of carrier treasures as well, but I’m not so poor that I can’t afford this.”

Great Ming King’s eyes lit up.

With a roar, his aura surged as well. At the same time, he further stabilized the space around them and roared, “Don’t forget your promise! I won’t ask for much. I only need you to supply the carrier treasures for anyone within the first five generations of the Zhu Family whp has reached the level to attempt dao affirmation!”

Su Yu smiled, “Sure. But I need to live long enough for that to happen. If I were to die before then…well, the deal would be off.”

“That won’t be an issue!”

Great Ming King was overjoyed. He further increased the effort he was putting into the job.

The auras of the Invincibles working on the formation continued surging as they worked. Among them, Heavenly Seal King was the weakest. Silk Destroying King was a fifth-degree Eternal while Junior Zhou King was s sixth-degree Eternal. Meanwhile, Heavenly Seal King was only a fourth-degree Eternal.

Thus, he was the first to ask for a break. While breathing heavily, he said, “Slow down! Give me some time to rest!”

He had worked hard, squeezing both his physical and willpower strength dry for the project.

Seeing how tired they were, Su Yu asked the female furball about their bloodlines again. The female furball replied, “I don’t sense the bloodlines of any human kings among them. But we don’t know if any of them are hiding their strength. I can only know with a more thorough inspection.”

That wouldn’t do.

A thorough inspection was the same as a provocation.

One ought to remember that these people were here to help him. It would be fine if the person the female furball inspected just happened to be the traitor as well. But if that wasn’t the case…well, things would be awkward. He would also ruin his reputation doing this.

No wonder Great Zhou King had said that this might not work. It was very hard to figure out if a top expert was actually holding back.

Su Yu narrowed his eyes. According to Xia Chen, the traitor was still not an Invincible before Xia Chen’s death. All newly advanced Invincibles before his death were known to him.

It had been over three hundred years since his death. In that case, the traitor would be quite young. Someone that young wouldn’t be too strong. Also, the traitor had no idea that Su Yu had a way of checking bloodlines. Thus, only a moment of carelessness was required for the traitor to expose himself.

Su Yu decided to be patient and keep waiting.

But for now, nothing much would happen. Thus, he went into the research center again. There, Heavenly Forge King was still dripping with sweat. The clanging sounds in the building thundered on as Heavenly Forge King worked. Instead of hammering away at the weapon, he was performing the forging with a unique flame this time.

Just by burning the weapon, he could achieve the effect of hammering the weapon. This was quite a powerful flame.

With a slight frown, Su Yu flickered and appeared right behind Heavenly Forge King all of a sudden. That gave Heavenly Forge King a scare, to the point he nearly failed the forging then and there. He roared in fury, “What are you doing?”

What was that? Was Su Yu trying to scare him or something? Why was this guy doing something like this all of a sudden?

Su Yu solemnly said, “Terrible work!”

“What?”

Heavenly Forge King was further infuriated. It was fine to complain about his speed. It was fine to complain about his style. But he couldn’t accept someone criticizing his work in his most familiar field!

Both Zhao Li and Zhao Tianbing frowned. Clearly, the kid had grown overconfident lately.

They felt competitive toward Heavenly Forge King, but they would never criticize Heavenly Forge King’s work. After all, that was the sole heaven weaponsmith of humanity.

However, Su Yu continued seriously, “I read about ancient weaponsmithing techniques before, I learned the Zhao Family’s weaponsmithing style before, and I had also learned your style before. I can see that you’re still holding back here.”

Su Yu snorted and continued, “I invited you here to teach my teacher. We’re not here to see you forge a random weapon without putting much effort into it.”

A hammer appeared in Su Yu’s hand.

“I will join the forging. If you’re willing to go all out, follow my tempo. Otherwise, you may leave. Do you think I’m such an easy person to fool?”

“You…” The furious Heavenly Forge King said, “Fine. Do it. Let’s see just how good you are at weaponsmithing. This is the very first time someone has insulted my weaponsmithing skills.”

They were arguing quite loudly.

Thus, Great Zhou King and Great Xia King heard them as well. However, none bothered to interfere as this was an argument between weaponsmiths.

Su Yu sneered and said, “Sure. I’ll show you what it means to forge with everything you have.”

Boom!