Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside the River of Time.

With Su Yu’s gaze on him, Great Zhou King inhaled deeply, released numerous characters, and said, “There are various patient daos in existence. I believe the fusion of multiple patient daos will be helpful for you in your future fusion of myriad daos, Emperor Yu.”

Su Yu laughed, “What are you talking about?”

Great Zhou King smiled and said, “You know what I’m talking about.”

“I don’t know.”

“You know.”

Great Zhou King was rendered quite speechless. What was this? Did Su Yu think he was blind or something? Wasn’t that what Su Yu was doing with his Mark of Civilization? Great Zhou King was confident in his keen eyesight. How could he not notice anything?

With a thoughtful expression, Su Yu asked, “So have you seen this process in action before?”

“Yes.”

Seeing that Su Yu was still staring at him, Great Zhou King could only explain, “Human Emperor once talked about this with Culture King. That conversation was also the inspiration for what I want to do here.”

“The fusion of myriad daos is probably the ultimate goal of any genius worth their salt.”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes, but not necessarily. The master of the death spirit dao specialized in a single path to the extreme. It is also smart to not bite off more than one can chew. Pursuing the path of myriad daos can easily lead to a crippling of one’s cultivation with even the tiniest mistake. The master of the death spirit dao is brave enough to push ahead with only one dao.”

One could reach an extremely terrifying level even when one was focusing on only one dao. Great Zhou King nodded. The two started moving forward under the lead of Great Zhou King’s characters.

As they moved, Great Zhou King said, “But at a longer time frame, specialization might not be better than casting a wider net. The difference between the Celestial River of Death and River of Time is there for all to see. I believe the River of Time is also the example of the path of myriad daos, right?”

Su Yu nodded, “Sure enough, an attendant of Human Emperor is not an ignorant person. Yes, that’s right.”

Great Zhou King said sheepishly, “I am merely speculating here. There is naturally no comparing me and you, Emperor Yu.”

Su Yu laughed and said, “Great Zhou King, you are too humble. Then again, this is understandable. As a close attendant of Human Emperor, you had access to numerous Masters of Laws. Someone like you will definitely not lack knowledge. However, I am quite curious about one thing.”

“What is it, Your Majesty?”

“Why did you pick the patient dao?” Su Yu asked, “You are proficient in many daos, such as silence…well, I suppose that might not be a powerful dao either. But I also know that you’re good at the dao of space. That is definitely a dao with boundless potential.” “Why didn’t you pick the space dao instead? With that dao, you can easily reach the level of a heavenly king. You are smart enough to achieve even more with that dao.”

As someone who had attended to both Human Emperor and Culture King before, Great Zhou King was naturally someone capable. He was definitely aware of which dao to pick to achieve the biggest potential.

After a long silence, Great Zhou King smiled bitterly and said, “If I say that it was a complete accident, would you believe me?”

“Accident?” Great Zhou King sighed and said, “Yes. It was an accident. In my eyes, the patient dao is actually quite good. And it is very compatible with me. Back then, I planned to first become the master of the patient dao. Then, I can proceed to fuse multiple patient daos together or pursue a different dao.”

Great Zhou King shook his head with regret and said, “But the ancient past ended, and advancement into a Master of Law became impossible. The patient dao is too small. Even with enough comprehension, it won’t be too strong. As a result, I can’t push my combat strength further.”

Su Yu said, “Are you saying that you planned to first become a Master of Law before growing your patient dao by adding other similar daos to it?”

“You can say so.” Great Zhou King nodded, “As I said previously, similar types of daos can usually be found within the same region of the river.”

He smiled and continued, “Let me make it clearer. Take the physical body dao as an example. Humanity’s physical body dao is actually an amalgamation of numerous physical body daos. A regular dao could never have grown to such a size.”

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. “In short, the physical body dao had annexed all the other daos of the same category to reach its current strength. And you plan to do something similar with your patient dao.”

Su Yu rubbed his chin and continued, “Perhaps the death spirit dao used to be a small dao as well. After consuming all the other death daos, it became a massive dao. Then, its master detached it from the River of Time itself.”

Su Yu grinned and said, “I can’t help but wonder if…humanity’s physical body dao can be combined with the physical body daos of the myriad races?”

Great Zhou King stared at Su Yu in silence.

Su Yu said, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if that’s possible? As you mentioned, all similar daos can be fused. So are all physical body daos similar even if they are native to different races? If that’s the case, can the heavenly desolate beast’s physical body dao consume humanity’s physical body dao?”

“…”

With a helpless smile, Great Zhou King said, “You have to find the answer yourself, Your Majesty. I don’t have the answer for that.”

He had only mentioned the matter casually, but Su Yu had greatly expanded upon it. He was left with nothing else to say.

Su Yu grinned and said, “We can even conclude that the myriad daos of the myriad races might all be related to each other by a single thread. Through this thread, the myriad daos can be brought together into a single entity like the River of Time.

“This is similar to a social network. I know you. You know Human Emperor. Human Emperor knows Culture King. Culture King knows Martial King. Martial King knows Marquis Lanshan. And Marquis Lanshan knows me. In this manner, a closed circle is formed.

“When attempting to bring the myriad daos together, one might need to form a similar connection between the various daos, stringing them all together into a singular dao. What is the relationship between the fire and water daos? How about the water and earth daos? The earth and water daos? One by one, they can be linked in the correct order to give birth to a new dao. Is that it?”

Great Zhou King was completely out of words.

Su Yu nodded, “I see now. Thank you for the guidance, Great Zhou King.”

Great Zhou King had a stiff expression. Just what manner of guidance had he given this guy? He had merely mentioned something minor passingly, but this guy had expanded upon it before coming up with a way to bring the myriad daos together.

This was how Su Yu had always been. Often, he only needed to learn about one minor thing to understand numerous complicated things. More importantly, the things he understood would be completely different from what was initially mentioned.

More importantly, these imaginative deductions of Su Yu would always sound extremely reasonable. This was too unfair!

Su Yu was unbothered about what Great Zhou King was thinking. As long as he understood what he was talking about, it would be enough.

Su Yu continued, “Great Zhou King, this idea of yours is very reasonable. I have been thinking about this since I started studying the chaos dao. There are so many daos out there. How does one fully bring them together into a single system? But now, I understand. Just knowing the composition of these daos won’t be enough. The compatibility and fusion of these daos are very important as well.

“A big fish can eat a smaller fish. And a smaller fish can eat a shrimp. In this manner, I will have the dao eat each other until only one core dao reigns supreme.”

As Su Yu spoke to himself, he continued with excitement, “Yes, that’s it! Take the patient dao as an example. There are many patient daos out there. Upon combining all these patient daos, will you discover some properties of the calm dao among the new patient dao? When you tell someone to be patient and not speak, isn’t that the same as telling them to be calm?

“And thus, you can perhaps try to assimilate the various calm daos into your patient dao. And when you’re done…calm…is somewhat related to sealing as well, right? In this manner, you can assimilate more and more daos. Eventually, you will be able to assimilate every single dao in existence.

“Impressive!” Su Yu praised, “Great Zhou King, you are indeed a knowledgeable person. You are capable of imparting upon me such an important concept of the myriad daos so easily.”

“…”

Great Zhou King felt like crying. He swore he had said nothing. This monster beside him was the one who had thought of all that out of a simple statement by him.

As for Su Yu, he was actually speaking earnestly. He wasn’t insulting Great Zhou King with sarcasm. Often, a spark of inspiration was all it took for one to grow massively. And Su Yu had obtained this spark of inspiration from Great Zhou King. With Great Zhou King’s idea, he had discovered a way to properly introduce order to the myriad daos.

Randomly bringing the daos together wouldn’t work. Rather, they needed to be fused in proper order. This would be very helpful for his future cultivation.

“I need to establish a research center and have people research the relationship between the myriad daos and find the proper order to string the myriad daos together.”

Suddenly, Su Yu gasped and said, “I understand! This is similar to how you can open the Heaven Gate after opening 720 acupoints and apertures! There are numerous combinations to how one can link the various acupoints and apertures together, but only the correct combination will unlock the Heaven Gate. Holy shit! What about the myriad daos? Just how many combinations are there? Shit! How long will it take me to find the correct combination? No, no, no. This is too much work for me to complete alone. I need help.”

Yes. A new research center must be established for this purpose.

A large number of researchers would be required as well. Suddenly, he felt as though cultivating the dao was akin to studying mathematics, with countless probabilities to take into consideration.

Great Zhou King was already crying inwardly.

Fine, fine.

He was sure he had only mentioned something entirely different passingly.

Not far after passing the physical body dao, Great Zhou King stopped. He looked around and said, “Your Majesty, we’re here.”

Su Yu opened his Heaven Gate and looked to the side. Several tiny tributaries appeared in his vision. There were about five or six of them.

When he looked at Great Zhou King’s characters, he noted that they were all slightly connected to these tributaries. The character with the closest connection to a tributary was also the strongest character among them.

“Patient, endure, stifle, quiet…”

Looking at the characters, Su Yu laughed and said, “You sure have a lot of similar characters. The strongest among them is the patient character. It is already a peak Daofuse character. As for the others, they are all Eternal characters. So which two tributaries are you going to link?”

“Patient and endure.” Great Zhou King did not need to explain too much as Su Yu could see these tributaries clearly. He said, “I will connect the two. Back then, I intended to first master the patient dao before growing it enough to cover the endure dao. But I can no longer reach full mastery, so that isn’t possible anymore. In that case, I wish to connect the two through a tributary between the two, using it as a sort of canal. Would this be feasible, Your Majesty?”