Tribulation of Myriad Races

Some people would die after several internal explosions. Some people would get numbed after several explosions. Pain was eternal. One only needed to get used to it.

As Su Yu attempted to perfect the cultivation method, he came to realize one thing. The Grand Cycle Method was not something to be taught lightly.

Yes. He had finally understood it. Luck played no role here. The Grand Cycle Method itself refused to be imparted. This was an extremely terrifying cultivation method. Or one could say that it was a perfect cultivation method. A method to unify the acupoints and apertures.

However, everyone was born imperfect. Even when one opened acupoints and apertures, completion was hard to grasp. After opening all of them to reach completion, the difficulty of fusing the completed acupoints and apertures into one would be unimaginably high. Thus, the Grand Cycle Acupoint Method was hard to obtain. The Grand Cycle Method was also hard to obtain.

Su Yu couldn’t help but suspect one thing. Was the Grand Cycle Method really allowed to exist?

Back then, he wrote a cultivation method of 360 acupoints for Bai Feng. Ultimately, the heavens had rejected it as the written cultivation method had eventually been destroyed by a lightning tribulation.

What about a cultivation method for 720 acupoints and apertures? Perhaps this was something that could only be passed down verbally by a living person. Passing it down in written form was impossible.

Even the Grand Cycle Aperture Method was something Su Yu had learned from the book spirit. He had never seen the written form of that method.

“I can put this theory to the test after deriving the full method. The heavens do not allow this cultivation method to exist. Thus, each time my guts told me I made the right choice, it was actually the wrong choice.”

The heavens would not allow him to learn the full method easily. That was a guess, but Su Yu believed that his guess was right. In that case, should he pick the option his guts were telling him was wrong?

And when he did that, another explosion erupted.

Su Yu laughed.

Understood.

The laws would constantly mess with him regardless of his line of thought. That was reverse psychology. The laws had messed with his judgment yet again. How interesting. So be it. In that case, he would try them all.

Su Yu braced himself to succeed only at the maximum number of attempts. This was a trial for him by the laws. As for the origin of these annoying laws…nobody knew. But every law was there because someone had placed it there. This was Su Yu’s belief.

Therefore, this must be a law placed by a bastard who had suffered during the cultivation of this method. After all, this was exactly what Su Yu would do after mastering this method in such a painful manner. After detonating himself numerous times in the mastery of this method, he naturally wouldn’t make it easier for others to cultivate this method.

As they walked, Su Yu exploded again and again. He was injured. But what did it matter? In life, injuries were unavoidable. A cultivator who had never been injured was not a good cultivator.

Suddenly, Heavenbridge Marquis spoke with a solemn tone, “We will reach the human king area soon. Human Lord, the rest of us might need to stop here. The laws might allow us to pass through, but that place is currently uninhabited. There are only laws here. If anything happens, there won’t be anyone around to save us.”

Even a marquis feared the laws there.

No matter what, a marquis had a level-four authority. Someone like that was qualified to enter even the assembly hall, yet Heavenbridge Marquis did not dare to keep going ahead. It was simply too risky.

Instead of arguing pointlessly, Heavenbridge Marquis was giving solemn advice, “Human Lord, if you must go, try to stop in the area with level-three authority. Try not to enter the area with level-two authority. There are only four residences there. The residences of the Four Cardinal Human Kings. The Culture King’s Residence is the southern residence, the Martial King’s Residence is the northern residence, the Radiant King’s Residence is the eastern residence, and the Control King’s Residence is the western residence.”

He added, “We are heading in from the south. The assembly hall is located to the north, facing south. Its entrance directly faces the Culture King’s Residence.”

Such an arrangement was truly interesting.

Placing Culture King’s Residence at the entrance of the assembly hall.

In short, they could never escape his gaze. Was this also a way for humanity to suppress the assembly? One man against an entire assembly? The assembly hall would find itself facing Culture King to the front and Martial King to the back. Was this an encirclement?

Sure, there were ninety-nine doors to the assembly hall. But it had a front entrance and a back entrance as well. These were most likely the main entrances.

Su Yu chuckled and asked, “So Culture King’s Residence is right in front of the assembly?”

“Yes.” Heavenbridge Marquis nodded and said with a sigh, “You don’t know this, but during the ancient past, whenever the assembly members finished their meeting, they would be met with the sight of Culture King reading in front of his residence right after leaving the hall. The mere sight of him would cause anyone’s heart to flutter in fear. That was why they eventually erected ninety-nine side doors, one door for each race. After the side doors were erected, the assembly members rarely used the main entrance.”

That was quite a scene to imagine.

Right after finishing their meeting where they schemed against humanity, they would be met with the sight of Culture King, a book, and his smile. That was too chilling.

Su Yu laughed and said, “Yes. This is indeed something a scholar might do.”

Su Yu couldn’t help but agree that he indeed resembled Culture King greatly. After all, that was likely something he would do in the same position as well. He would wait outside their hall while they discussed ways to handle humanity. When they were leaving the meeting, he would read to them. What would he be reading?

Books on moral values and righteousness.

Books on loyalty to their rulers.

Books regarding the miserable endings of all traitors.

Books regarding the cruelest tortures awaiting all traitors.

That would be quite a fun thing to do. As he thought of all that, he even started feeling regretful that he wasn’t born in that era. Otherwise, he would have done the same to these assembly members. He would read to them, telling them to give up all resistance.

They should obediently wait for their deaths. He would sit there and terrorize them with his presence.

Heavenbridge Marquis asked, “Human Lord, will you do something like this in the future?”

“No.”

Hearing that, Heavenbridge Marquis exhaled in relief. Good. He was worried that Su Yu’s court would act similarly.

But right after, Su Yu grinned and said, “If there were such a day for me, I would simply kill all disobedient fools. Why bother keeping them around? Culture King and the others were unable to kill all the opposition. In that case, why did they bother to conquer the Myriad Realms in the first place? Just continue the war until all their enemies are wiped out. If they couldn’t, just obediently return to the Human Realm. Why did they insist on unifying the Myriad Realms and subject themselves to so many restrictions?”

Su Yu continued, “I’ve read a lot of history books. Such a situation is extremely problematic. Many empires had collapsed not to external enemies, but to internal conflicts.”

“The difficulty of ruling everyone is too great. I don’t think that Culture King and the others made the wrong choice. In fact, they had a nice plan. They also did well. They only needed time for their plan to come into fruition. Those from the early period of the era would eventually die off, while those from the later period would grow up receiving the brainwashing and benevolence of humanity.

“However, such a method requires too much time and effort. If you’re strong enough, you’re better off wiping out the older generation and preserving only those from the younger generation. The young will slowly forget their past. After three to five generations, complete unification will be within reach.”

Su Yu expounded upon his idea confidently. He did not claim that Culture King and the others were wrong. They had merely picked a different path, but that did not signify that they were wrong.

Su Yu’s proposed path wasn’t an easy one either. If they were strong enough to eliminate the ninety-nine assembly members, they would have done so long ago. Unfortunately, they couldn’t. Thus, they had to resort to a long-term plan. They aimed to slowly split the myriad races apart, to rope in some and remove some. Unfortunately, that worked too slowly, to the point that it hadn’t even succeeded until the end of the era.

After all, the ancient humans were not trying to outlive a bunch of regular individuals. Rather, they were trying to outlive a bunch of Masters of Laws. The mere thought of that caused Su Yu to grimace. How long would that take? Resistance would not end as long as these Masters of Laws remained.

Heavenbridge Marquis decided to shut his mouth. He didn’t feel like talking anymore. For some reason, talking to this human lord was quite a terrifying experience. He might be old and powerful, but he was also scared. This human lord was arrogant, domineering, and bloodthirsty. Furthermore, he was calm, a cool-headed madman.

This was the scariest opponent to have. In any case, this was the type of people Heavenbridge Marquis feared most. Powerful lunatics were not scary. But a powerful lunatic with a brain was terrifying.

Su Yu smiled and said, “You guys stay here. You can try to gather some treasures as well, but be careful. I think General Grand Dream’s Residence is nearby as well. You can pay his old residence a visit. Perhaps you can find something good there. I’ll continue ahead.”

“Human Lord…” Marquis Lanshan asked with some hesitation, “Shall I escort you over?”

“That won’t be necessary.” Su Yu said, “None of you has sufficient authority to go with me. Marquis Lanshan, do you have a residence here?”

“No.” Marquis Lanshan shook her head and said, “This place was established after the conquest. I was already dead…”

But Heavenbridge Marquis interupted her and said, “There is a residence for you here. You might have died back then, but you’re a posthumous marquis. Every human marquis was allocated a residence here. Some were merely left empty. Back then, a few veterans from the Lanshan Army were in charge of maintaining and keeping watch over your residence. Eventually, they all died.”

Marquis Lanshan was both surprised and touched to hear that. She said, “So the lords did not forget me…”

The gate couldn’t resist revealing his true nature as he went into his argumentative mode and said, “No, they must have forgotten about you. That’s what I believe. None of you was given compensation after your death. You would have been compensated if they hadn’t forgotten about you.”

“…”

What a killjoy! Marquis Lanshan glared at him coldly. What an annoying guy.

Su Yu ignored the conversation and said, “That’s it, then. Explore this place yourselves, but be careful with these residences. Don’t enter these residences rashly. Without the suppression of my human lord’s token, the laws here will only grow stronger.”

Then, he walked away, leaving them with the sight of his imposing back. But that imposing back collapsed moments later as yet another explosion erupted inside Su Yu’s body, causing him to stagger. Naturally, they hurriedly looked away and acted as though they had noticed nothing. This guy was too petty. Thus, this was the right thing to do.

Only when Su Yu was far away from them did Heavendoom laugh. He said, “I had to resist laughing earlier, but finally, I can laugh now. Did you see those explosions? How miserable. By the way, he’s starting to feel more and more like a proper human lord. When he stood there with a solemn face, I couldn’t help but feel nervous.”

Grandstar laughed and said, “Nervous? You? Are you capable of that? But yes, he has indeed matured.”

Grandstar said, “Upon completing his cultivation method, he will probably start fusing with a dao properly. I wonder what his chosen dao will be. He seems confident. Perhaps soon, his strength will experience another massive growth. He will become a true top expert soon.”

The current Su Yu was already quite strong, but not strong enough. But things would change when he became a proper Daofuse.

Grand cycle acupoints and apertures.

That granted him a far stronger foundation than anyone else. Someone with such a powerful foundation would definitely grow into the next human king. As for a higher level, none of them had considered that yet. For now, Su Yu had yet to display the potential to surpass the likes of Culture King.

Heavendoom grinned and said, “This isn’t a bad thing. It’s truly exciting to follow this guy. He will receive a beating every other day, but he simply won’t lose.”

Each battle would be desperate, but they had never lost. It felt as though they would win against anyone.

He added, “Since we have all advanced, will he really conquer the Myriad Realms before attacking the Upper Realm after leaving?”

“That won’t be easy.” Grandstar sighed and said, “Su Yu lacks experience, so he does not understand just how difficult this can be. We all know just how many experts there are up there. Of the 720 myriad race marquises, many died or vanished. But over the past nine epochs, ten or twenty would descend each epoch. I remember seeing more than thirty different Daofuses over the nine epochs. There are also the new Daofuses to include as well.”

At that, everyone’s mood turned heavy. The Upper Realm was truly not weak.