Tribulation of Myriad Races

Grand Dream smiled and said, ”Soy Bun, give it a try. At times, we can easily confuse our own daos. Previously, I believed that my dao is defensive. Clearly, I was wrong.”

It turned out that his dao companion was an aggressive female turtle. Thus, the dao he inherited from her was actually an offensive dao.

Soy Bun was still confused, but he didn’t mind giving it a try. Instantly, his dao power erupted. Grand Dream did not resist, allowing the dao power to envelop him. At a speed visible to the naked eye, Grand Dream started turning younger.

Su Yu paid close attention to everything that was happening. He noticed that Grand Dream was indeed looking younger, but his strength remained the same. And after some time, Grand Dream actually dropped from a heavenly king to a tier-two Daofuse.

At that point, Soy Bun was already gasping in exhaustion. He said, ”See! I told you I can reverse time! Look! The old turtle is dropping in strength!”

He withdrew his dao power. After a while, the effect on Grand Dream faded, returning him to his peak strength.

Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng looked at each other silently.

Suddenly, Su Yu took Xing Yu’s token out and said, ”Try doing it to this thing.”

”What?”

”Do it on Xing Yu’s token.”

Soy Bun said, ”My power only works on living beings, not lifeless objects. Xing Yu’s token is merely a piece of rock. How am I supposed to reverse it?”

Su Yu smiled and said, ”Just try. Even a piece of rock has history.”

Soy Bun was speechless, but he still tried. And nothing happened to Xing Yu’s token.

Su Yu sank into thought and said, ”Try it on me. Just use a tiny bit of your power.”

”Fine.”

Soy Bun tossed a tiny bit of dao power Su Yu’s way.

With the power wrapped around his body, Su Yu focused. Shortly after, his body dropped in size, followed by his strength. At that, everyone was alarmed. They were worried that he would turn into a baby or something.

Fortunately, Soy Bun was able to withdraw his power the moment that happened. In moments, Su Yu returned to how he was.

Soy Bun muttered, ”See! I can turn you back!”

Su Yu remained in silent contemplation. After a while, he laughed and said, ”Give it another try.”

”Again?”

”Again.”

Fine. Fine.

Once again, Soy Bun tossed a tiny bit of dao power at Su Yu. But this time, Su Yu remained unaffected, as though he had turned into stone. Soy Bun blanked out slightly before increasing the amount of dao power he was using. But Su Yu remained the same.

After a while, Soy Bun increased his dao power in irritation. It was then that Su Yu said, ”Stop.”

Soy Bun, who was panting from exhaustion, asked, ”How did you do that?”

How was he completely unaffected? He did not resist the power with a different dao power. Furthermore, he was only a Sunmoon now so he shouldn’t even be able to do that.

Su Yu laughed.

”I think I understand slightly.”

He looked at Wan Tiansheng. In truth, he had discussed this topic with Wan Tiansheng before.

Wan Tiansheng nodded at Su Yu and said, ”Willpower disruption.”

Su Yu nodded and said, ”Yes. Willpower disruption, or you can call it an illusion.”

Wan Tiansheng nodded again, ”Yes. That’s my guess as well. His time manipulation is unrelated to speed, so it’s probably related to illusion. Something similar to self-hypnosis.”

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he explained, ”Back then, I talked about this with Emperor Yu. The so-called time travel is actually a sort of willpower disruption.

”For example, when Soy Bun borrowed power from Culture King previously, his call penetrated the timespace barrier and left an intense willpower mark somewhere. One day in the past, Culture King’s instincts told him to do something with the mark.

”He left his power there, allowing Soy Bun to use his power many years in the future. Soy Bun’s time reversal is also a sort of illusion or willpower disruption, making you believe that you have been reversed into the past by suggesting that it is truly happening.”

Soy Bun was stunned. Not far away, Heavendoom laughed and said, ”So you’re saying that Soy Bun is merely a master hypnosis? He doesn’t have the ability to reverse time?”

Soy Bun had a gloomy expression. Was that really the case?

Wan Tiansheng laughed and said, ”Pretty much. But an expert will still be an expert. An expert specializing in hypnosis will still be an expert. His specialty lies in making people believe things by affecting their willpower. That was why Soy Bun’s power worked on even Fellow Daoist Grand Dream.”

Su Yu concluded, ”In short, you can view it as an illusory power. A power to generate illusions for your opponents, making them believe they have been reversed to the past. Soy Bun’s dao power is very suggestive in nature. The moment his dao power touched me, I started believing that I would return to the past, and I would drop in strength.”

As for why Soy Bun’s second attempt on him had failed, that was because he had resisted that belief with his powerful willpower.

Soy Bun asked dispiritedly, ”Am I only a hypnotist and an illusion maker?”

He had always believed that he was an expert capable of reversing time!

Su Yu smiled and said, ”This isn’t a weak dao. In fact, I believe it’s a powerful dao. Any dao can be very powerful. Regardless of whether it is time reversal or illusory hypnotism, both are actually similar in nature.

”Senior Soy Bun, you can try pondering your dao in this direction. The essence between the two is the same. Is time reversal really stronger than your actual dao? Not necessarily.”

”...”

Soy Bun still looked dispirited.

Su Yu laughed and said, ”Senior Soy Bun, contemplate on it. If you ask me, this dao is actually stronger than time reversal. My first character has a similar ability, and the illusions have been very helpful for me. Also, your dao isn’t pure illusion creation. It is mixed with the power of hypnotism. This is an extremely powerful combination.

”If you doubt me, you can try changing your way of thinking and stop making others believe that they can return to the past. Instead, think really hard that Heavendoom is a dog. When you exert your dao power on him, he might really believe he’s a dog even if he knows what you’re doing.”

”Are you sure?” Soy Bun looked surprised. Was that really possible?

Heavendoom hurriedly fled.

But Soy Bun was faster. He was caught in the blink of an eye. Then, a wave of dao power swept over him as Soy Bun chanted, ”You are a dog! You are a dog!”

Heavendoom struggled intensely. But it was useless. After a while, Heavendoom’s projection in the ball of light started changing shape. Slowly, the projection became a dog with a blank look in its eyes. Heavendoom shook his head, but he still had a look of confusion on his face.

”What are you, Heavendoom?” Su Yu asked.

Heavendoom looked over, struggled, but still answered, ”A dog. Why do you ask? Have you forgotten?”

”...”

The surrounding people were all shocked.

Fuck!

What the hell was this?

Facing the numerous gazes, Heavendoom wagged his tail with discomfort. But soon, he looked at Soy Bun and asked, ”Soy Bun, what are you doing?”

”...”

Even Soy Bun was blanking out. He withdrew his dao power.

Shortly after, the effect on Heavendoom faded. And next, he wailed, ”Fuck! I’m not a dog! I’m not!”

Everyone’s heart thumped. All of them stared at Soy Bun with shock. Meanwhile, Soy Bun looked lost. This was his first time trying something like this. He had always believed that he was a time manipulator.

Why...wasn’t that the case?

Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng were not surprised. They had long known that time reversal was not possible. Back when Wan Tiansheng taught Su Yu in the ancient city, he had mentioned that time was constant. Any time-related ability was essentially something related to willpower disruption or speed.

Su Yu smiled and said, ”Moving on, try to work hard in this direction, Senior Soy Bun. Heavendoom is in a weakened state due to his injuries, so you can do this easily to him. But it won’t be as easy with heavenly kings. But if you do this to only a Sunmoon, you can even suggest that they are your grandson and they will nod in agreement.”

In short, disrupting the willpower of someone at the same level would be much harder than disrupting someone weaker.

Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he continued, ”Senior Soy Bun, this is an amazing dao.”

Still dispirited, Soy Bun asked, ”Is it really good? It feels useless.”

Su Yu chuckled. These old fellows were too used to their original way of thinking. He said, ”You’re wrong, Senior Soy Bun. In my view, your dao is an extreme one. It is incomparably powerful. Imagine yourself in a battle. You can convince the weaker Daofuses that they are all your clones or that they are all your spies. You can convince them that it is time for them to return to your fold. And just like that, you can trigger a mass betrayal on your opponent’s side.

”This is a sort of control dao. It is very powerful. Of course, it might be lacking against those at the same level. But it is overpowered against weaker opponents. It is far better than the likes of physical body dao.

”At the level of a heavenly king, you can probably control everyone below the heavenly king level. This is actually stronger than even the patience dao. The patience dao only induces patience, but your dao can induce betrayal.”

As Su Yu spoke, his eyes lit up. ”Senior Soy Bun, try to explore this dao. Open your mind. Right now, you only think of returning your targets to the past. But that’s not the best way to utilize your dao.

”Instead, you should make them think of betrayal. Of course, resistance will be stronger for something like this. Therefore, you can be more creative, such as convincing Heavendoom that he is a tree and he can’t move.”

At that, Soy Bun sent his dao power toward Heavendoom again.

Heavendoom flew away while roaring with desperation, ”Don’t experiment on me! Do it against Grandstar!”

But in his weakened state, he had no way of avoiding Soy Bun.

And next, Heavendoom turned into a tree with Heavendoom’s face on it. With a blank expression, the face said, ”I am a tree. I can’t move.”

”...”

Everyone shivered. How did that happen?

Even Soy Bun blanked out in shock. But soon, his eyes lit up. Shortly after, Heavendoom turned into a fish as he muttered, ”I am a fish. Everyone can eat me.”

Next, he turned into a furball. ”I am a soul devourer. I can devour everything. Soy Bun is my grandpa.”

”...”

While everyone was staring at Soy Bun, Soy Bun started playing with his new ability in excitement.

How...fun!

This felt a lot more amusing than time reversal!

Someone weaker than him was completely helpless against this ability.