Tribulation of Myriad Races

As they continued the search, they stopped talking about Great Xia King’s past. After a while, Great Xia King solemnly asked, ”Your Majesty, is resurrection really possible?”

Xia Chen was a death spirit as well.

Su Yu smiled. ”I am somewhat confident, but I can’t promise anything. It’s not an easy task. Firstly, the death spirit dao must be suppressed. In a way, all of them are prisoners to the death spirit dao. Secondly, they need life force. Where can we get enough life force for them? Is the life dao enough?

”Thirdly, they need to reconnect to the River of Time and regain their original daos. This is very difficult. Culture King planned to get them connected to a random dao to get over this step. The paper dao was meant to help with this part of the process.

”Fourthly, I doubt the heavens will tolerate the resurrection of the dead.”

Su Yu’s voice turned solemn. ”Perhaps, the attempt will result in a rejection from both the time dao and death spirit dao. They will be rejected by both the Myriad Realms and the Death Realm.”

After a short silence, Great Qin King asked, ”What is your plan?”

”Two options.

”Firstly, they can go to the Upper Realm and connect to Human Emperor’s dao. Or secondly, they can cultivate my dao.”

The two were shocked.

Cultivating his dao?

What would happen?

Su Yu continued, ”Connecting to Human Emperor’s dao will make them fake dao cultivators. Cultivating my dao will make them bigger fake dao cultivators. Because my dao is too weak. To put things in perspective, I now have the strength of a peak Venerable. These people will not go beyond the level of heavenly kings before I grow further. They will forever be stuck below me.”

Su Yu sighed and said, ”I still hope that the dao of time can accept them. The two options are both bad options. From what I can see, both my dao and Human Emperor’s dao are not good enough.”

Their daos were far weaker compared to the dao of time. Great Xia King and Great Qin King looked at each other with a frown. This wouldn’t be an easy choice.

Great Qin King said, ”If there is no choice, I believe it’s better for them to pick your dao. But will this affect you negatively?”

Su Yu shook his head. ”No. They will be essentially helping me with the cultivation of my dao. Their comprehension will help perfect the dao.”

”That’s a good thing.” Great Qin King said, ”If you can quickly become a Master of Law, everyone will benefit alongside you. I don’t think this is a bad choice. At worst, the two of us can try it out first. Why don’t you let us cultivate the spear and saber daos in your dao instead?”

When Su Yu blanked out, Great Xia King said, ”The daos of the Myriad Realms are too scattered. There are probably hundreds of saber daos out there. But there are only one saber dao in your dao. The moment you grow strong enough, we will be practically guaranteed a smooth path into becoming Masters of Laws.

”Even now, we’re not heavenly kings. But holding a dao all by ourselves will probably make us fake dao heavenly kings. But even a fake dao heavenly king is still a heavenly king. At most, we’ll be weak at prolonged battles like you, but battles between experts don’t usually last long.”

Su Yu looked at the two and frowned. ”Why am I feeling like the two of you have been thinking about this since the beginning?”

That was what he felt.

They had asked about the resurrection suddenly before talking about the daos. Sure, he was the one who had mentioned the daos first, but he felt as though the two had carefully guided the conversation in that direction.

Great Qin King coughed and said, ”Nope. Not at all.”

He sighed and continued, ”In truth, we know ourselves too well. Our accumulation is insufficient. Our ability is also insufficient. Can we really become heavenly kings after switching daos? Think about it, Your Majesty. Apart from you, can you think of anyone from this epoch who has reached that level?”

”Even Lan Tian and Wan Tiansheng are dao pioneers. They don’t walk the daos of others. They are different. The two of us are still lacking. Are we supposed to pioneer our own saber and spear daos? We might actually end up weaker after doing that.

”Thus, we have decided to cultivate your dao instead. It might not be strong yet, but we can help grow it. The dao of time has only grown so strong due to the efforts of the numerous cultivators cultivating it. At worst, we can steal some saber and spear powers from the River of Time to feed into your saber and spear daos. You don’t need to cultivate everything yourself.”

Great Xia King nodded, ”Even Royal Consort Qi said that fake and real daos can reinforce each other. We plan to first fuse with your saber and spear daos. Then, we can insert some real dao powers into your dao. All of us will benefit from this. And if you can have more people cultivating your dao, your dao can probably mature in no time.”

Su Yu looked at the two and asked, ”This doesn’t seem like something you’ll decide yourselves. Who instigated you to do this?”

Was that feasible? Yes.

But Su Yu’s voice was cold as he asked, ”I believe someone instigated you to do this. Understand that my death will turn you into a cripple if you cultivate my dao. When I die, my dao might collapse. The two of you might be implicated as well.”

Great Xia King laughed, ”Are our fates not bound already?”

Yes. Their fates were already bound.

Great Qin King said, ”Old Xia is right. Our fates are already bound. Didn’t you use the human lord’s token as the foundation of your dao? You will probably suffer massively from the collapse of the token. According to Old Zhou, the ones incapable of reaching the level of heavenly kings through the River of Time should all cultivate your dao.

”So what if we’re fake dao heavenly kings? Even if we are weaker than proper heavenly kings, we can outnumber them, right? And the moment your dao matures, all of us will soar alongside you. That will make us all dao pioneers of sorts.”

Great Qin King said, ”Our fates are already inseparable. That has been the case since the day Old Xia and I support your ascension into the new human lord. Give each of us a monopoly on a dao and we will nurture your dao for you. If we die, we die together. After all, your dao will also suffer from the backlash of our deaths if we end up cultivating it.”

”Great Zhou King...” Su Yu chuckled. ”Has that old fart been running around instigating people to do this?”

”Not really.” Great Qin King said, ”This time, he’s actually speaking the truth. How long do you think the two of us will need to become heavenly kings?”

Su Yu gave it some thought and said, ”If everything goes smoothly...maybe three to five years?”

Probably.

Great Qin King said, ”Sure. But do we have that much time? How long will we need to become fake dao heavenly kings after cultivating your spear and saber daos?”

Su Yu thought about it and said, ”I can help with your control over the two daos. It won’t take long. But the gap between you and proper heavenly kings will be quite big. You will be weaker than even the fake heavenly kings cultivating Human Emperor’s dao. You will probably be stuck with the combat strength of tier-two Daofuses even after becoming heavenly kings.”

It would be fair to assume that one’s combat strength would be a tier lower after cultivating his dao. Even a Venerable cultivating his dao would only be as strong as a proper heavenly king.

Even Human Emperor’s dao was better than that.

Great Qin King asked again, ”But when you become as strong as a proper Master of Law, will all of us grow together?”

In short, they were proposing to invest during the early days.

Su Yu smiled. ”Yes. All of you will grow stronger alongside me.”

There was no longer any need for Su Yu to tell them more. He only had one thing left to say. ”Think this through before making your choice. Don’t do it just because Great Zhou King suggested it.”

The two nodded. They were not children. They knew what they were doing.

Su Yu continued searching the river while deep in thought. Suddenly, his eyes flickered. At the same time, a certain figure far away stopped moving as well. Next, a Heaven Gate appeared on Su Yu’s forehead. The distant figure did the same. Just like that, the two gazed at each other from afar.

After a short moment, Su Yu said, ”Let’s turn around and search the other direction instead. I suspect the daos we seek aren’t here.”

Great Xia King and Great Qin King suspected nothing. They nodded readily. And thus, Su Yu turned around and went the other way. Far away, Hundred Battle King did the same after a short pause. But after a few steps, the two turned around at the same time.

After a slight hesitation, a wave of unique fluctuation spread over. ”If you wish to return, you can have the Human Realm. I can move to the Giant Realm instead.”

”Not for now.” Su Yu replied through a unique undulation as well. ”The stronger one shall rule. Of course, this is only applicable as long as the Human Realm remains fine. Both of us are human lords. This should be the bottom line for both of us.”

”True.” Hundred Battle King smiled. ”I understand that you might be unhappy with Cloud Water and the others for what they did, but they were merely doing their duty toward the one they were loyal to. Just direct your grudge toward me, not them.”

”We’ll see.”

With that, the two continued moving until they could no longer communicate with each other. Both agreed tacitly that it would be for the best for them to not actually meet. It wasn’t like they had anything productive to talk about upon seeing each other.

Great Xia King and Great Qin King were completely oblivious to that exchange. They could sense some dao fluctuations, but they didn’t suspect anything.

Meanwhile, Su Yu had a solemn expression. From that short encounter, he could feel that Hundred Battle King was extremely strong. Even stronger than the current him. Sure enough, Hundred Battle King had not spent six thousand years doing nothing.

Even someone like that felt hopeless against the myriad races and Control King’s lineage. Were their trump cards far more powerful than imagined?

While Su Yu was deep in thought, Great Qin King finally found a spear dao nearby. He started fusing with the dao happily. He intended to fuse with this dao before stealing its power to infuse into Su Yu’s dao.

At the same time, Hundred Battle King fished someone out of a certain tributary. It was Shadow Marquis.

The two human lords were hard at work, strengthening their forces in preparation for the battle in the Upper Realm.

Yes.

The battle in the Upper Realm.

Neither of them was the type to sit aside and do nothing while a battle raged on. They would take part at the right moment.

Both sides maintained a certain tacit understanding. Or it would be more accurate to say that both leaders maintained a tacit understanding. They had to first grow. As for who would be the one to rule the Human Realm in the end, that was something to be considered after winning the war.

In fact, Su Yu was already thinking of a way to bring the fight to the Masters of Laws. It would be even better if he could do it before the opening of the Hell Gate and the Heaven Gate. It was never a good idea to stay passive. By the time Human Emperor and the others were back, the Heaven Gate and Hell Gate might both open. At that time, humanity would be faced with an even greater struggle.

Before long, Great Xia King found a saber dao as well. Like Great Qin King, he started fusing with the dao. Both of them had abandoned the heavenly desolate beast dao. It had been temporarily sealed by Su Yu. It would soon be drained to help the others regrow their bodies.