Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu blanked out. United human youth army? He couldn’t help but recall what Wan Mingze had told him back then. Wan Mingze had preached about letting go of internal grudges and uniting against external forces. To do so, they had to form a third party that could crush the walls between the various prefectures and factions. Was Wan Mingze starting to do this? But he was only a Skysoar.

Su Yu did not think that Wan Mingze would succeed. He asked, “So how’s the result?”

“They’re too silly.” Wu Lan curled her lips and said, “He’s still traveling the Human Realm. I heard he has managed to persuade about seven or eight individuals. All of them are idealists, and most of them are of the common birth. Some of them are speculators that are investing in him since he’s the nephew of Principal Wan.”

Wu Lan also didn’t think that Wan Mingze would succeed. A mere Skysoar wanted to start an united youth army? Who did he think he was? Even Su Yu and Shan Xiong might get ignored if they tried to set up something like this. Meanwhile, Wan Mingze was only well-known in Great Xia. Most people only knew him as Wan Tiansheng’s nephew.

“United youth army…”

Su Yu muttered to himself. Uniting the various prefectures through the younger generation? Wan Mingze was too idealistic. He would only stand a chance if all the youths in his group were super geniuses with powerful backers.

At present, the armies of the various prefectures were still operating independently. Only during emergencies would they all unite under Great Qin King’s banner. What could a mere Skysoar accomplish? Just the two holy lands alone had hundreds of thousands of Skysoars in their Strength Guard. What could Wan Mingze do?

Su Yu wasn’t too optimistic about Wan Mingze’s chances. Nevertheless, he still wished Wan Mingze the best. Xia Huyou once said that Wan Mingze was either a saint or a super hypocrite. Regardless of what type of person he was, he had still taken the first step to achieve unity. Thus, Su Yu would give Wan Mingze his blessings.

Even if Wan Mingze was ultimately doing this for a selfish reason like uniting humanity under him, Su Yu would still wish him luck. After all, humanity was in a state of disunity. If he could really unite humanity to face the myriad races, Su Yu would think highly of him even if he turned into a dictator in the future.

In fact, he was quite impressed with what Wan Mingze was doing. As a mere Skysoar, he was traversing the Human Realm for his aspirations. Hopefully, things would go well for him.

“Did he visit Great Ming?”

“Nope. He is traveling north instead of south.” Wu Lan said, “It’s not like he has zero support. I don’t know how he did it, but he managed to gain the support of Jiang Mu and Hu Wensheng’s first student, Guo Shengquan. The other two have also entered the Skysoar Realm.”

“Senior Brother Jiang Mu is with him?”

“Yeah.” Wu Lan laughed, “He probably admires the life of a wandering hero. Senior Brother Jiang has always loved reading the travel records of others. You know that.”

Su Yu nodded. That was true.

When Jiang Mu joined the Source Soul Research Center, he had made it clear that this was his specialty. He had read thousands of travel records, and he was also the first person to mention Bai Tianhao when talking about to source soul acupoint.

“By the way…” Wu Lan said, “Do you remember Zhan Hai, the previous number one student? He followed Wan Mingze as well. That Wan Mingze sure is good at brainwashing. He even managed to brainwash someone like Zhan Hai.”

Zhan Hai! Su Yu laughed in amusement. In that case, Wan Mingze was actually quite capable. But when Su Yu recalled how Wu Lan had also followed him to Great Ming, he stared at her speechlessly. Why was she laughing at Zhan Hai when she was doing the same?

“Are there any news about my martial uncle?”

“Nope.” Wu Lan doubtfully said, “The two Sunmoons of the Six-Winged Divine Sect have been brought away by the cult. All their Mountainseas were killed. But Head Manager Chen is still missing. Is it possible that…”

She did not finish her sentence. She was wondering if he was already dead. Why would he still be missing otherwise? It was already safe for him to show himself.

Su Yu laughed, “Nonsense. He must have hidden somewhere and is still unaware of the news…”

Despite saying that, he was still somewhat worried.

“How about my martial sister?”

“She’s still in seclusion.” Wu Lan scratched her head, “I don’t know more, but she’s probably fine with Elder Hong around. It has been a while since I last heard anything about her.”

“Alright. Noted.”

A lot of things had happened during the past month. In short, chaos was approaching. The cult had joined hands, the myriad race experts had entered the Human Realm, and chaos was erupting in Great Zhou. Peace was ending.

“I will still be focusing on my recovery. You need to work hard and try to grow your strength. If you can’t open seventy-two apertures, it doesn’t matter. Just enter the Skysoar Realm straight away…”

“No!” Wu Lan refused, “I need to finish forming my characters first. I will then be able to extract willpower for my own growth.”

Sure. Keep waiting, then.

Su Yu could not be bothered to say more. Previously, Wu Lan was dying to enter the Skysoar Realm. But she had suddenly changed her mind. He truly couldn’t understand how her brain worked.

Wu Lan was naturally unaware of what Su Yu was thinking about. She asked, “When will you finish recovering?”

“I’ll probably take two or three months.”

“That long?”

“Yeah.”

“Fine. Continue your seclusion. We’re all working hard even without you around. Don’t worry. I’ve been keeping an eye on them.”

“…”

Su Yu laughed in amusement. Sure. As long as she was happy.

After a short chat, Su Yu left the research center again. He was going to ask for money from Zhu Tiandao. He also needed to buy some weaponsmithing materials. He did have a lot of materials previously, but all those materials had been delivered to Zhao Li through Xia Huyou.

***

Great Ming. Prefect’s residence.

Su Yu was allowed to enter the prefect’s residence freely. None of the guards bothered him. Near the entrance, he saw Zhu Qingyan.

Nowadays, Zhu Qingyan would have a complicated look in her eyes whenever she saw Su Yu. Su Yu’s image had changed tremendously after he defeated Shan Xiong. After all, Shan Xiong was a genius everyone acknowledged, but even someone like that had been defeated by Su Yu.

At times, Zhu Qingyan couldn’t help but imagine finding herself a man like Su Yu. How would it feel like?

Shang Tianjiao of Great Shang was willing to throw away everything for the sake of Shan Xiong. Zhu Qingyan was someone who had never left Great Ming, but she was very well-read in romance stories. She couldn’t help but long for the life of a beauty and a hero, traveling the world together. Then again, Su Yu was currently not living the life of a traveling hero.

She was still deep in her imagination when Su Yu hurriedly ran away from her. Previously, Zhu Tiandao had said that Zhu Qingyan was trying to seduce him. Su Yu still remembered that clearly. He would not allow this obstacle to stand in his path of cultivation.

He could get along well with Wu Lan because romance was never something in her mind. As for Zhu Qingyan, he decided to stay far away from her. He had seen with his own eyes what happened to Shan Xiong after meeting Shang Tianjiao. He had concluded that Shan Xiong was weaker than expected because of an obstacle by the name of Shang Tianjiao. Otherwise, Shan Xiong would have been much stronger.

Seeing how Su Yu was fleeing her, Zhu Qingyan cursed inwardly. Was this fellow sick in the head? Why was he running at the sight of her? When had she provoked him?

Su Yu did not care about what she thought. Before long, he met Zhu Tiandao in the rear garden.

Old Zhu was happily fishing by a pond. When he saw Su Yu, he asked, “How are you feeling?”

“I’m alright. I’ll probably recover in a few months.”

“…”

Zhu Tiandao couldn’t help cursing inwardly. Screw this damn kid!

A few months? He could clearly sense that the kid had recovered more than half of the acupoints he lost. And his recovery would only be faster the more acupoints he recovered. He wouldn’t take longer than a month to make a full recovery.

What a fast recovery. Even Zhu Tiandao was starting to feel some envy. Even the physical body of the kid seemed to have grown stronger. Additionally, the kid’s willpower had grown as well.

Others would really focus on recovery when they went into seclusion for healing. But things were entirely different for Su Yu. After a month of seclusion, not only had he recovered considerably, he had even grown in strength.

Su Yu went straight to the point, “Prefect, I’m using a lot of resources for my recovery. I have given most of the merit points I got from Great Xia to Faculty Head Hu. Can you give me my share of the cultivation methods sold?”

“Why bother talking about share? Just tell me what you need and I’ll give you all you need. This is no big deal…”

Zhu Tiandao was very generous as money wasn’t something he lacked.

Su Yu smiled, “Blood essence. A lot of blood essence. I’m running out of heavenly source qi and blood essence. I prefer divine and devil blood essence. I’ll take as much as you can provide.”

“A lot…”

Zhu Tiandao stared at Su Yu as he made a calculation. A regular person might need ten drops of blood essence for a single body forging. For Su Yu, one probably had to double that amount…

Was killing a first divine or original devil even enough for this kid to finish a single body forging? In that case, they would need to kill about thirty or forty of them to provide Su Yu with enough blood essence to complete thirty-six forgings.

Thirty or forty…forget it. If they did something like that, Sunmoons or even Invincibles would get involved. After all, the first divines and original devils were quite small in number, so they treasured their members a lot.

Ultimately, Zhu Tiandao concluded that it was better to just provide this kid with money. The kid could decide what to do with the money himself.

“If you want your share, the final calculation has not been completed. But we have still completed the calculation for some of the prefectures has been completed. Each prefecture will take thirty percent of the earnings, each academy will take ten percent of the earnings…

“All in all, a profit of 6 million merit points has been generated in these prefectures. But you will only receive 40 percent of the profit. Thus, you can get 2.4 million merit points. Due to the discounts given to those in Great Ming, there is only a profit of 1.4 million merit points locally. You’re entitled to 40 percent of the profit so you’ll get 560,000 merit points from these sales. All in all, you can get 2.96 million merit points.”

That was almost 3 million merit points. And it hadn’t even been that long. This was too terrifying. And that was not all the profit Su Yu had earned as some prefectures had yet to complete their calculation. It was clear just how large of a profit these cultivation methods would earn Su Yu.

But Su Yu was clear about one thing. He said, “Out of the forty percent we receive from the other prefectures, according to the rules, I can only get half of them. The other half will go to the prefecture I belong to as the prefecture will be the one to enforce the copyright of my cultivation methods.”

In other words, Great Ming would ensure that his cultivation methods would keep selling without being stolen. This wasn’t something Su Yu could do himself. Thus, he would need to share half of the proceeds. But Zhu Tiandao had not mentioned that at all.

Without the support of a prefecture, he would be completely helpless if the other prefectures decided to ignore the pirated copies of his cultivation methods. That was also why generally, most people with a common background would choose to sell the full rights of their creations to those with the strength to enforce the copyright of the creations.

For example, Su Yu had sold the full rights of the two initial versions of the acupoint fusion art to Great Xia. As for what they did with the two versions, that was no longer under his control. Of course, he had still obtained the right to receive one merit point for each copy sold.

Because of that, Great Xia would be the one to enforce the copyright of the two versions. Similarly, Great Ming would get involved if his new creations were pirated in the other prefectures.