Tribulation of Myriad Races

“What do you think?” Su Yu thought about it and said, “Forget it. For now, I need to learn more about our neighbors. When I’m doing scouting, we can proceed with our research. I’ll try to add a fake chaos dao to my Mark of Civilization and see if it works.”

He could forge a new page and use it to bear the chaos dao temporarily. It would be even better if he could use a weaker beast for research. Or perhaps he could even devour a weak beast with his Mark of Civilization and learn directly from the memories of the beast.

Killing a stronger beast such as a Daofuse would create too many fluctuations. But a mere Sunmoon beast wouldn’t pose such an issue, right? With Su Yu’s strength, he wouldn’t even need to utilize his dao to kill a regular ninth-degree Eternal.

At the moment, Su Yu was feeling quite regretful. He was regretful that his teachers, such as Bai Feng and the others, were too weak. Their comprehension of the dao was too weak as well. Otherwise, they would be the best for conducting such research. It wouldn’t even take them long to figure out the composition of the chaos dao.

Everyone specialized in something. Su Yu was strong. He was also good at a lot of things. But he didn’t know everything. He could do the composition analysis as well, but it would take him longer.

***

Before long, Su Yu started scouting the area again.

He focused on the area a kilometer around the Dao Origin Hill. He discovered seventy-seven hills, three chaos rivers, and one primordial forest. Of the seventy-seven hills, twenty-two were occupied by Daofuse beasts.

This number was lower than expected, but the beasts here were also more powerful than he had imagined. Twenty-two Daofuses were an absolutely terrifying number. It was no wonder that the myriad races were so fearful of this place.

He could also sense some beasts within the three chaos rivers. He did not dare to get too near to investigate further. As for the primordial forest, there were probably some powerful beasts inside as well. That would signify that there were at least twenty-six Daofuses in this area alone.

What a terrifying number.

Of course, things might be different deeper into the mountain range. But Su Yu did not dare to penetrate too deeply. He used the forest and one of the rivers as the border of his activity range.

He did not discover any traces of Control King’s lineage during his search. Either they weren’t in this mountain range or they were residing far deeper inside. If they were really deep inside, their courage would be really admirable. That was a place where the slightest carelessness could be disastrous.

“Over twenty Daofuses…”

Su Yu was greatly impressed with the result of his search. The Chaos Mountain was indeed a danger zone. One could even say that this was the most dangerous region in the Upper Realm.

This was a place the myriad races didn’t dare to enter even after dominating the Upper Realm for so long.

“But the beasts here don’t have the courage to leave rashly either.”

Yes, these beasts enjoyed an advantage here. But through his observations, Su Yu noted that these beasts might be suppressed in strength after leaving the Chaos Mountain.

And if they were to enter the Lower Realm, where the River of Time’s influence was at its strongest, things would grow even worse for them. There, their chaos power would be greatly suppressed.

“Sure enough, there is a reason for there to be no such beasts in the Lower Realm. The environment there is simply unsuitable for their survival. They can only survive there if they do what the heavenly desolate beast did and cultivate a tributary on the River of Time.”

Su Yu’s understanding of these beasts had deepened considerably after his search. The heavenly desolate beast’s dao was connected to the River of Time, signifying that it wasn’t a mindless beast. It knew that it would be suppressed if it didn’t open its own physical body dao in the River of Time.

When living in the Myriad Realms, one naturally needed to adapt to the rules of the Myriad Realms. The River of Time was in charge of the Myriad Realms.

“If the River of Time is really a dao, the master of this dao is essentially the master of the Myriad Realms. After introducing order there, any chaotic being will be forced to adapt to the order after entering his personal territory.”

This proved just how terrifying the River of Time was.

***

Su Yu had taken three days to complete his search.

He suffered several injuries as well, but nothing too dangerous. There were quite a lot of Daofuses in the area, but most of them varied between tier three and tier four in strength. Tier-two beasts were quite rare.

At this point, it had only been five days since he arrived in the Upper Realm. To do anything, preparation was necessary. Su Yu did not feel like the three days he spent studying was a waste of time.

***

Dao Origin Hill.

Su Yu was back.

Stable Army Marquis was looking quite anxious. The moment Su Yu returned, he said, “Emperor Yu, it has been three days. Do we contact Shadow Marquis? He sent another invitation to me…”

“What’s the hurry?”

Stable Army Marquis was feeling quite helpless. Why was this guy so relaxed? Just what was he thinking?

Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to say more about the meeting. Instead, he said, “Great Zhou King and Lan Tian. Call Great Ming King over. Let’s perform a little research together. We need to perform a composition analysis on the chaos power here.”

September, Grandstar, and Stable Army Marquis were also Daofuses.

But Su Yu did not bother to include them as they were clearly not researchers. Under the stupefied gazes of the three non-researcher Daofuses, Great Ming King returned. The three sounded excited upon hearing Su Yu’s proposal.

They were all cultural researchers. And as cultural researchers, they couldn’t resist such research.

Researching the chaos power. This was an interesting and meaningful research.

Inside the cave.

September and the others could only watch blankly while Su Yu and the researchers worked hard on studying the composition of the chaos power.

***

The research was so interesting that even the Great Deceit King stopped hiding his ability.

He manifested one character after another, such as tear, divide, leave, melt, meld, and so on to help with the research.

While reducing the chaos power to its basic elements, he said, “Back during the ancient past, some experts studied the chaos power as well. If my memory serves right, Human Emperor, Culture King, Control King, and Radiant King all studied the same thing before.”

Grandstar, who was idling to the side, asked, “What about Martial King?”

“This isn’t something brutes can understand—”

Suddenly, Great Zhou King realized what he was saying and added, “Cough, cough. I mean…Martial King was uninterested.”

He was able to keep staying respectful toward Martial King.

The many Lan Tians who were also studying the different compositions of powers, laughed together and said, “Why bother? Martial King was a brute. What’s wrong about that? Without his friends, he would have ended up as Martial Emperor the second. I’m sure he received much help from Human Emperor and Culture King back then to reach that level.”

Great Zhou King remained silent, but he had a sheepish expression. Meanwhile, Stable Army Marquis was gnashing his teeth. These people were insulting Martial King. But he personally liked Martial King more. That was a loyal and straightforward man.

People like Culture King might be strong, but they were also too scary. Even when they were smiling at you, you would never know if they were in the process of killing you.

He sighed inwardly.

When he looked at Su Yu and his companions, he felt as though he was looking back at the ancient Human Emperor and his companions. Inwardly, Stable Army Marquis preferred Hundred Battle King more since Hundred Battle King resembled Martial King.

Someone like that was very easy to get along with.

But deep inside, even Stable Army Marquis himself knew that during the ancient past, Martial King was merely a general in charge of violence. Human Emperor and Culture King were the ones making all the strategic decisions. Even in the absence of the two, Control King and Radiant would be the one to make the decisions. Martial King would not get to make any strategic decisions unless absolutely necessary.

But for those on the side of people like Su Yu, these were incredible and people to work with. After all, they would do all the thinking and planning. One only needed to follow the plan without using one’s brain. And one wouldn’t even be sent to handle a task one couldn’t complete. The success rate of such missions would be quite high.

“Sigh.”

Stable Army Marquis sighed. This was a good thing for humanity, but he felt greatly pressured in the presence of such people.

Suddenly, the countless Lan Tians spoke, “After separating a portion of chaos power into ten thousand parts, nine parts are comprised of fire, with nine different types of fire…”

“Raging inferno, corrosive fire, burning fire, five elemental fire…”

As he listed his discovery, Su Yu noted them all down.

Lan Tian was actually very suitable for such a task. With his many clones, each clone could reach a different conclusion from the same research.

Shortly after, Great Ming King said, “Twenty-seven powers of formation have been found. They are hard to describe with words. I can demonstrate them instead. I will split this portion into ten thousand parts and rearrange them…”

Great Ming King started his demonstration.

Lan Tian wasn’t even done stating his discoveries. And while both Lan Tian and Great Ming King were stating their discoveries, Great Zhou King started speaking as well, “Space, seal, silence, and numerous other powers are present, with different weights in the same portion of chaos power…”

“…”

At that point, Stable Army Marquis sent September and Grandstar a voice transmission, “Do you even understand all that?”

Both Grandstar and September nodded. Stable Army Marquis was greatly shocked. How was one supposed to answer all that, especially when all of them were speaking together?

That was especially true for the numerous Lan Tians around them who were speaking at the same time, each reporting something different about the same thing. This was so confusing. Take the five elements as an example. Metal, wood, water, fire, and wood. These were the five elements. That should be the end of it.

But Lan Tian had somehow split the five elements into fifty different types of powers. Stable Army Marquis didn’t even know what to say anymore. Were those two really getting all that?

September flashed him an honest smile and sent a voice transmission, “I understand the words they’re saying. Just listen.”

In short, he understood each individual word those people were saying. How hard was that? As for their theories about the chaos power and its power composition, that was not something he needed to understand. Some of the powers they were talking about were things he hadn’t even heard of before.

Grandstar nodded in agreement. Exactly. At times like this, just listen silently. That would be enough.

With a resigned expression, Stable Army Marquis asked, “Are they always like this?”

“Rarely.” Grandstar said, “They rarely research together unless it’s something one of them can’t solve. Back then, Emperor Yu specialized in research as well. But he stopped researching some time ago.”

“But he’s only twenty-two.”

“Yes.”

Grandstar couldn’t be bothered to explain more. In truth, many of the things Su Yu knew were what he had deduced himself.

There was a reason for Su Yu to be the sole person capable of opening the Heaven Gate in this era. He did not rely purely on luck. Even if someone else were to receive his luck, they might not be able to replicate his feats.