Tribulation of Myriad Races

While chewing on the drumstick, Feng Ji asked, “You won’t get the wrong person killed, right?”

“Nope. I won’t kill anyone before gathering solid proof.” Chen Yong smiled, “After killing them, we can hide in the Rising Sky Sea for a bit. Let’s force that person to show up. If they remain hidden, I will continue killing. I haven’t been idle over the years. I have gathered some information. I know the names of those who are potentially under that person. Even if these names are not under them, they are still criminals who deserve death.”

Feng Ji nodded. After a short silence, he said, “The Rising Sky Sea is near Great Qi. Great Qi King perished 160 years ago. His son, Qi Xuan, is the person running Great Qi currently. Thus, this is an area without any Invincible. Who do you think the hidden Invincible is? Is it someone from Great Jin to the east of Great Qi?”

“Great Jin King?” Chen Yong smiled, “I don’t know. If I know the answer, why waste time trying to force the Invincible to show up?”

“But even if you manage to force the Invincible to show up, you won’t be able to do anything to them.”

“Just exposure alone is enough. As long as we manage to get our eyes on them, it is only a matter of time before we get them killed. Right now, we don’t even know who our enemy is. That makes things too complicated.”

“It also doesn’t matter if they don’t dare to show up. In that case, we will remove more of their lackeys. These lackeys are butchers whose hands are drenched with the blood of the multiple character faction. I can’t let Little Cap and the others die for nothing. I will avenge them.”

Feng Ji said nothing else. The two started eating in silence.

After the meal, Chen Yong cleaned up the place before saying, “Let’s go. We’ll walk the hounds behind us around. It would be even better if we could take them to the Rising Sky Sea and have the hounds bite each other. But I suspect that the Six-Winged Divine Sect serves the same master as these people. I wonder if their master told them this.”

If their master had not informed them of their respective allegiances, they would probably end up biting each other. That would be great. Even if their master had informed them, it would still be helpful in confirming Chen Yong’s guesses. Before long, Chen Yong and Feng Ji were on the move again.

Chen Yong had left the academy to kill some people. He was not completely cut off from the world. On the contrary, he had a wide network of information. He knew that a lot of people were looking for him. That martial nephew of his even sent some Sunmoons over.

He was moved, but he didn’t want to return yet. He had been staying patiently in the academy for so many years. Finally, he was free. He would not return before creating rivers of blood out of his enemies. This would be the perfect chance for him to kill the people he had always wanted to kill before this.

After leaving the cave, Chen Yong’s appearance instantly changed before he dove under the ground. Feng Ji was left alone above the ground to serve as the bait. He started moving cautiously. The only thing different about him was his shadow. His shadow seemed somewhat thicker than usual.

There was one fun fact about the Wentan Research Center. Hong Tan had captured the shadow many years ago. And the shadow once said that his racial ability had nearly devolved after having his blood essence extracted too many times.

The period of time when Hong Tan had performed the most research on the shadow coincided with the time when Chen Yong was still learning under Hong Tan. With this trick, Chen Yong and Feng Ji were able to get rid of a decent number of enemies while on the run from the cult.

Not long after the two left, several figures appeared at the cave. This was a group of Mountainseas. There was also one Sunmoon among them.

Each of them was wearing an unassuming black mask. The leader, who was wearing a black and silver mask, scanned the area for a bit and said, “They left not long ago. I can still feel some warmth here.”

He looked outside the cave and said, “If we go further east, we’ll reach the Rising Sky Sea.”

Someone behind him asked, “Sect Master, do we continue the pursuit? Many of our strongholds were wiped out by the Knowledge Seeking Realm. They sent eight Sunmoons after us. The very foundation of our sect is being threatened.”

“Only cannon fodder has died. It doesn’t matter. We can easily recruit more people like that. The world is filled with people who longed for immortality and strength.”

His voice turned cold as he said, “Chen Yong and Feng Ji must die. I can’t calm my heart before killing them.”

The Mountainseas sank into silence. During the pursuit, several Mountainseas had perished. Now that they were near the Rising Sky Sea, these Mountainseas no longer wanted to continue the pursuit. With the eight families on the hunt for them, things were getting too dangerous.

Looking at the taciturn Mountainseas, the Sunmoon knew what they were thinking. He said, “This is the order of the six-winged divine race. Chen Yong must die. We have to kill either Chen Yong, Hong Tan, or Su Yu. Which would your choice be?”

The others couldn’t find anything to say. Su Yu? Forget it. That kid was under Great Ming’s protection. Not long ago, a bunch of Sunmoons had died trying to kill him. As for Hong Tan, he was now a Sunmoon. And he was still in Great Xia. There was no way they would be able to kill him. Thus, Chen Yong was actually the easiest choice.

They said nothing, but inwardly, they felt quite gloomy. Why must the sect master insist on killing Chen Yong at this time? As for the six-winged divines, why bother? They weren’t even in the Human Realm. What was there to fear?

They had only defected to the six-winged divines for immortality. Thus, they did not intend to throw their lives away so easily.

The sect master understood this. Thus, he said, “Don’t feel like you’re being sent to your deaths. If we complete this mission successfully, you might be given the chance to use the Divine Transformation Pond in the Divine Realm. With that pond, you might be able to fuse all your acupoints in only one day and become a Sunmoon.”

“I’m only worried that we won’t be alive to enjoy that reward.”

Sure, they wanted to enter the Sunmoon Realm, but they had to be alive to do so, right?

“Enough.” The sect master said, “Stop complaining. Those Sunmoons have all been lured away by the deputy sect master. We’re currently safe. Things are even more dangerous for our deputy sect master.”

The Mountainseas did not protest despite their unwillingness to follow through. But at this point, they were left with no other choice.

“Let’s go!”

After determining the direction to go, the Sunmoon took the lead and moved away rapidly. The group had barely moved when a loud explosion erupted.

A Mountainsea was sent flying away while coughing blood. All around him, his comrades were rapidly distancing themselves from him. When the dust settled, the Sunmoon stepped forth to scan the area before sneering, “Continue the pursuit. They have used so many talismans during the pursuit. I refuse to believe they have more left.”

The Mountainsea who was coughing blood had an unsightly expression. Fortunately, he had prepared himself for something like this.

In fact, the first time their party encountered a similar situation, a Mountainsea had been directly killed. Just how many talismans had Chen Yong gathered over the years? Weren’t the multiple character faction supposed to be poor? How did he get so many talismans?

The group continued their pursuit silently. The trap was the sign that they were going in the right direction.

***

Great Ming. Weaponsmithing Faculty.

This was Su Yu’s first time learning that Bai Junsheng was actually a student of the Weaponsmithing Faculty. He had always thought that Bai Junsheng was a beast tamer.

Inside the massive forging room, Su Yu found Bai Junsheng, who was busy striking on a piece of weapon. The surrounding students and teachers were surprised to see Su Yu there. But they only gave him a glance before resuming their job. Since they didn’t know him too well, nobody bothered to say anything to him.

While hammering a curved weapon, Bai Junsheng asked, “Su Yu, are you here to see me?”

“Yeah. Are you forging a weapon?”

“Yeap. Amazing, right?” Bai Junsheng laughed heartily, “I am working on an early yellow-grade cultural weapon. It has seven golden stripes. It is definitely among the best early yellow-grade cultural weapons in existence. I’m still at the Mental Tempering Stage. After my willpower reaches the Skysoar Realm as well, I will be able to forge a middle yellow-grade cultural weapon. And at the seventh-stage Skysoar Realm, I’ll forge a top-tier yellow-grade weapon. At the Cloudbreach Realm, I’ll forge profound-grade weapons and at the Mountainsea Realm, I’ll work on earth-grade weapons. At the Sunmoon Realm, I’ll become a heaven-grade weaponsmith.”

“…”

Su Yu was left completely speechless. When Bai Junsheng saw that, he asked, “Do you doubt me? I am very talented in weaponsmithing. You can try asking around.”

A sturdy young man nearby laughed and said, “He’s decent. It’s not bad to forge yellow-grade weapons at the Mental Tempering Stage. But he’s slightly worse than me, hahaha. I am capable of forging a cultural weapon with eight golden stripes.”

Everyone here was a weaponsmith, and naturally, some were better than others. Nevertheless, anyone capable of forging cultural weapons below the Skysoar Realm could be considered a genius.

The weaponsmithing faction in Great Xia was quite small, and even fewer of them were capable of forging cultural weapons at the Mental Tempering Stage. Thus, Bai Junsheng wasn’t exactly bragging when he claimed that he was amazing.

The Eight Eminents of Tiandu were not completely useless. As a physical Skysoar and a Mental Tempering Stage weaponsmith, Bai Junsheng was indeed worthy enough to be known as one of the Eight Eminents.

Su Yu smiled, “Not bad.”

“Not bad?”

Bai Junsheng turned slightly agitated, “Su Yu, that’s not very nice of you. My weaponsmithing skills are among the best even compared to those in Great Xia. I reckon Great Xia doesn’t have any student better than me. The weaponsmith faction of Great Xia has declined long ago. They don’t have too many talented individuals left…”

Su Yu frowned and said, “There are still impressive individuals in Great Xia’s weaponsmith faction.”

He knew that Bai Junsheng was probably clueless about the actual situation in Great Xia, and he was unwilling to let someone disparage his teacher. Thus, he said, “Great Xia has a great weaponsmith as well. He’s Teacher Zhao Li.”

Bai Junsheng rolled his eyes and said, “I know Teacher Zhao Li. But he’s only a profound-grade weaponsmith. If you call that a great weaponsmith, what about earth-grade weaponsmiths?

“Great Xia has never been good at weaponsmithing. After the passing of the fourth principal, they have been declining rapidly in weaponsmithing. Most of their talented weaponsmiths have joined Great Zhou. Zhao Tianbing is one of them.”

Su Yu said nothing and started gathering the materials in the forge.

Bai Junsheng blanked out slightly and asked, “What are you doing?”

“Weaponsmithing.”

“Do you know how?”

“Nope.”

“Then why…”

Su Yu calmly replied, “I attended three of Teacher Zhao Li’s classes. I spent less than five hours learning from him. I’m only doing this to tell you that you should shut your mouth if you’re not a good weaponsmith. You are not qualified to evaluate the ability of a grandmaster weaponsmith.”

“…”

Bai Junsheng was speechless. After a while, he finally spoke, “Are you serious? Don’t waste the materials. If you think I’m wrong, I’ll apologize. Yes, yes, Grandmaster Zhao is amazing.”

“It’s pointless to say more. Even if this is my first time forging a weapon, I’m still better than you thanks to Teacher Zhao’s teachings.”

Su Yu snorted, unhappy that this fellow was underestimating his Teacher Zhao Li. In Su Yu’s eyes, Zhao Li was the best of the best. If it wasn’t for his impatience when he was younger, he would have been an earth-grade weaponsmith long ago. Perhaps not even top-tier earth-grade cultural weapons could pose him any trouble anymore at this point.

After all, the Soul Expanding Art alone granted him a massive advantage over other weaponsmiths.

After gathering the materials he needed, Su Yu melted the materials with his fire character, condensed them with his water character, quenched the flame with his wind character, and sharpened the blade of his forged weapon with the metal character.