Tribulation of Myriad Races

In the Upper Realm, Giant Axe Marquis took the initiative to attack.

As a Venerable with nothing to drag him down and nobody to protect, he was the most troublesome of opponents.

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Lower Realm.

Su Yu was gathering researchers with Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian.

The multiple character faction had always been good at research.

As the multiple character faction had always been a faction cultivating numerous characters for the sake of cultivating the pen dao, all their members were quite talented in dao comprehension.

These days, the multiple character faction had a decent number of experts in it.

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Death Realm.

Spirit Suppression Domain, inside He Tu’s territory.

Bai Feng and the others were gathered there.

Before Su Yu went to the Upper Realm previously, he had sent them all to Grand Dream City. And before the old turtle set off to the Celestial Chasm Realm, he had sent them all underneath the city.

Bai Feng, Wu Lan, and the others were still quite weak. Their life force was insufficient to trigger a reaction from the Celestial River of Death. With the old turtle’s help, they were immune to the erosion of death qi.

Source Soul Research Center.

They could no longer remember how many research centers they had built. Each time they relocated themselves, they would switch the main focus of their research.

Inside the research center.

He Tu was there alongside a few unfamiliar death spirits.

These were all students of Culture King.

Some had awakened recently, and some had awakened long ago. After they were discovered by He Tu, they were provided with death imprints, allowing them to recover much of their memories.

There were only four of them.

Culture King had a far higher number of students back then. That much was obvious from the number of character techniques implanted in the Culture Tomb. Back then, everyone cultivating character techniques was considered a student of Culture King. There were at least hundreds of them back then.

Only four had been found, and these were the stronger ones among them. The weaker ones might not have awakened, or they might not have been brought to the Death Realm in the first place.

When Su Yu arrived, they were deep in discussion. Everyone looked at Su Yu when he arrived. But apart from He Tu, the rest proceeded to ignore Su Yu. When He Tu arrived before Su Yu, he greeted He Tu with a wave of his hand without saying anything. Instead, he listened to the discussion of the people inside the building.

”Bai Feng, you’re too young. You haven’t even comprehended any dao yet. Do you even know what dao fusion is?”

”You are too naive. Spatial dao is all-encompassing, but it is not everything. Your idea of using the spatial dao as the core to envelop the myriad daos won’t work.”

”...”

The death spirits were berating Bai Feng’s idea like he was some clueless junior. As the multiple character faction could be considered Culture King’s faction, Bai Feng could also be considered a student or a successor of Culture King.

The death spirits had regained much of their memories, so they weren’t holding back in their criticisms. What did this kid know? As someone who had yet to fuse with a dao, he dared to talk nonsense here?

Bai Feng, who was red-faced from agitation, shouted back at them, ”You are all rotten, outdated people. Do you need to personally get in contact with the myriad daos before you can conduct a research on the myriad daos? Yes, some of my theories are speculations, but I have many characters formed as well. My theories aren’t pure speculations!

”In my opinion, the spatial dao encompasses many factors. Is speed related to space? Yes. Spatial jumping is definitely related to speed. Movement, compression, speed, cutting...various daos are involved with spatial dao. All these daos are related to space itself. Even the world we live in is a sort of space. The place where the myriad daos manifest themselves is also a sort of space.

”Even the River of Time itself exists in space. Cosmos, spacetime, living and dead, everything exists within space. Even vague concepts like willpower, dao power, also known as power of law, all exist within what you call space.

”Now tell me again! Can spatial dao act as the core for the fusion of myriad daos? You think you’re so great. If you’re really so great, propose an alternative! Propose something that can also work alongside the myriad daos. I am merely proposing a theory, but Su Yu, Lan Tian, and the others will be the ones testing my theory!”

Outside.

Su Yu listened in silence. This teacher of his was indeed not very strong. Bai Feng had just reached the Mountainsea Realm not long ago. It felt like it had been forever since Su Yu last cared about this cultivation realm.

But Bai Feng’s words made a lot of sense. Theoretically, the spatial dao was indeed all-encompassing. What if he uses the spatial dao as the core of his dao? With the spatial dao as the foundation, he can bring the myriad daos together and form a complete system.

Just then, a female death spirit spoke with disdain, ”All of you are talking nonsense. Yes, the spatial dao is all-encompassing. But that does not mean that it is suitable to act as the foundation of a complete system. You must be thinking of stuffing everything together with this dao as the foundation. If things were so simple, any spatial dao cultivator would be able to fuse the myriad daos.

”Your theory is unrealistic. The spatial dao itself is also one of the myriad daos. It can serve as a core, but not the only core. The fusion of myriad daos requires many tests. Every single dao must be connected to a different dao slowly. You are trying to take a shortcut. And shortcuts do not work in research!”

They were very unhappy with Bai Feng.

Bai Feng’s core theory was the utilization of space as the carrier for the myriad daos, without any concern for the actual order of the other daos. That would only return the myriad daos into primal chaos.

It made no sense.

His theory could only fool the ignorant or even those who were slightly proficient in this topic. For example, Su Yu was finding himself agreeing with Bai Feng’s theory.

The female death spirit was filled with disdain toward that theory. She said, ”This is no laughing matter. Any mistake during the fusion can cause a dao collapse. And the collapse of a single dao can cause the collapse of the entire thing.

”Even the 360 acupoints must be ordered correctly to form a proper, working system. The acupoints must be connected in the correct order. But what is this theory of yours? You are suggesting to randomly connect all 360 acupoints. You are suggesting that you can get the Grand Cycle Acupoint Method just by randomly connecting all the acupoints together. That won’t work. You can try, but you will merely detonate yourself and die.

”Indeed. The young are always so impatient, thinking of shortcuts all the time. After getting a little result in some minor research, they grow overconfident...”

They continued arguing in anger. Beside Su Yu, He Tu sent a voice transmission, ”Emperor Yu, they have been arguing for several days here. Their core theories have been clashing since their first meeting.

”Bai Feng is looking for a simplification of the process. Orderly research is too time-consuming. But Fellow Daoist Li believes that Bai Feng is trying to run before he can walk. His theory is too simple and incomplete. He’s viewing the spatial dao as a net he can use to encompass all other daos. A single mistake will destroy everything. With his approach, no mistake is allowed.”

Su Yu listened in silence. He knew what Bai Feng was thinking. Bai Feng understood the risk of what he was proposing. It was naturally better for them to take their time and do things step by step. He was aware of that.

But Bai Feng also knew the situation Su Yu was in. Su Yu did not have the luxury of time. Slowly weaving and ordering the myriad daos together was too time-consuming. Thus, Bai Feng intended to get a working prototype of the fused daos before slowly perfecting everything.

The other approach would take too much time. Nobody could say how long it would take.

With that in mind, Su Yu stepped into the building.

”Piss off!”

Just as a death spirit shouted, He Tu shouted back, ”Shut up! This is Emperor Yu!”

Su Yu waved his hand, indicating that it was fine. All the death spirits focused on Su Yu. They had never seen Su Yu before. He Tu had been the one communicating with them on his behalf.

They looked at each other awkwardly, not knowing what to do.

Su Yu went straight to the point. ”Seniors, I am Su Yu, a student of Teacher Bai Feng. I have a question. If we take our time fusing the myriad daos step by step, how long would we take to form a complete system? In theory, I mean.”

Seeing that Su Yu was going straight to the point, the female death spirit said, ”From what we can see, the primal chaos contains countless daos. We have yet to figure out the proper composition, so we aren’t even sure if the primal chaos encompasses all daos in existence. At the moment, we can conclude that there are no fewer than three thousand daos in the primal chaos.

”There is no need to try connecting every single one of these daos with all the other daos. There is a certain logic we can follow when fusing daos. Back then, we split the pen dao into ninety-nine daos. That is actually similar in concept to what we’re trying to do here, but the scale is smaller. Does this make sense to you?”

She was worried that Su Yu wouldn’t understand what she was talking about.

Su Yu nodded and said, ”I understand. Any cultivation method and dao has its own unique logic. For example, the symmetry of acupoints, the correct order of acupoints, and all that. According to your theory, how long would we need to complete a fusion?”

”Around three days for one dao. If we work on three thousand daos without rest, we require nine thousand days. Basically, we need around thirty years to go through everything. And that’s only if you can continue supplying the various dao powers for our tests. I have the report on the composition and previous research done on primal chaos.

”This is very helpful for us. We would have needed three hundred or even three thousand years otherwise. Only a true expert and genius can come out with such a report. Can you introduce this great researcher who had completed the analysis on the composition of primal chaos to us? I wish to communicate with them personally.”

At least thirty years to complete everything.

And that was built on top of the foundation Su Yu and the others had built through heir analysis on primal chaos.