Tribulation of Myriad Races

On the evening of the 25th, Zhu Tiandao sent a large amount of blood essence and weaponsmithing materials over to Su Yu. He entered seclusion to extract more heavenly source qi from his newly received blood essence.

Zhu Tiandao had given him a lot of blood essence at around the same price Xia Huyou had charged him. Like Xia Huyou, Zhu Tiandao was not trying to make a profit from Su Yu through blood essence sales.

Su Yu spent three days to fully turn all the blood essence into heavenly source qi. Including the leftover middle and late-stage Cloudbreach mountainbreak bull blood essence, he had extracted around three hundred portions of heavenly source qi. That was enough for around fifteen body forgings.

***

On the night of the 28th, Su Yu walked out of the cultivation room after he was done with the extraction. He went straight to the fourth floor. One of the laboratories there had been modified into a weaponsmithing room. There, he started practicing weaponsmithing for real.

All the knowledge and experience he obtained from the Hundred Dao Pagoda was finally put into use. Weaponsmithing in reality was more difficult than the pagoda as all the materials in the pagoda were given in standardized shapes and portions. But in reality, he had to first process the materials before he could use them.

After spending two whole days, he only managed to complete a low-tier profound-grade cultural weapon even though he was capable of making a middle-tier profound-grade cultural weapon in the pagoda.

***

Su Yu only walked out of the room on the 1st of May.

The fourth floor was not empty. Wen Zhong was surprised to see Su Yu. He smiled and asked, “How are you feeling? Why are you in the weaponsmithing room instead of healing up?”

Su Yu smiled, “I felt stuffy staying in seclusion for so long so I came out to relax and forge some weapons. Senior Brother Wen, how’s the progress on the aperture fusion method?”

Wen Zhong’s tone turned helpless as he said, “The difficulty is too high. We tried to derive it from your Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art, but we’re too lacking in relevant materials and data. Acupoints are easier to simulate, but it is too hard to do the same with apertures. Also, there aren’t a lot of people with many opened apertures around. At present, those with about a hundred apertures opened are already at the very top.”

The Myriad Text Sutra allowed one to open 72 apertures. Some Invincibles had their own foundation cultural arts that wouldn’t open more than 36 apertures. Thus, the highest number of apertures a human could open right now was 108 apertures.

Of course, Su Yu had also taught his cultural arts to many people. Both Chen Yong and Wu Jia knew four of the elemental cultural arts. Xia Huyou, Zhang Hao, and the others knew three. But these people had just started their aperture opening so they wouldn’t be able to open too many so soon.

Su Yu nodded. That was indeed a tricky issue. They did not have enough data to work with. To be perfectly blunt, warriors weren’t rare at all. Thus, it was much easier to research topics related to acupoints. Just look at the death row inmates. Most of them were warriors. If needed, one could always get some of them to perform some tests in exchange for the pardon of their crimes. Meanwhile, cultural researchers were a lot rarer. It was very hard to find a cultural researcher who could act as a test subject.

There was nothing Su Yu could do about that. He said, “Senior Brother, just keep working on it. I will be busy for a bit. When I’m done recovering, I’ll try to extract some abilities from blood essence and see if I can find anything helpful for this research.”

“Sure. Just focus on your recovery for now.”

That might be what Wen Zhong was saying, but he was inwardly quite speechless. For some reason, this kid felt even stronger than before he was injured. Was the kid sure that he was still in the process of recovery? Over a month had passed since the match.

As far as he could remember, that was the longest period of time Su Yu had ever stayed in seclusion. After a short chat, Su Yu asked, “Senior Brother Wen, has Senior Hu Qi left seclusion?”

“There is no news yet.”

Su Yu nodded. Hu Qi was only entering seclusion to open her acupoints. And Su Yu had provided her with a decent amount of heavenly source qi. Was she not done yet? Whatever. He was not in a rush.

He was done with his heavenly source qi extraction and weaponsmithing practice. As for his characters, he had been constantly nurturing them when challenging the pagoda and extracting heavenly source qi.

He had also read some of the Invincible notes. From Great Han King’s notes, he had formed the strength character. From Great Yuan King’s notes, he had formed the fight character. Clearly, this character might be related to Great Yuan King’s core strength.

He had also formed the calm character from Great Zhou King’s notes. That was a character capable of calming both himself and his opponents. After experiencing the calm character, Su Yu concluded that it was actually quite terrifying.

With its ability, it could calm his enemy even during a crisis, causing them to neglect the danger. This would be an excellent character to use when ambushing someone. When ambushing an opponent, the opponent could easily sense something and turn wary. But with the calm character, that sense of crisis would be greatly weakened. Those with dull senses might neglect the danger altogether.

Since these characters were all formed through Invincible notes, they reached the second tier right after formation. Additionally, Su Yu had also formed the change character through the willpower texts introduced by Xu Bin. In truth, Xu Bin’s character was a devil character instead of a human character. Meanwhile, Su Yu had formed a human character through a translated willpower text.

Human characters were still weaker than divine and devil characters, but the process of translation was also quite simple. He had only formed three new characters over the past month. With that, he had a total of twenty-one characters.

But the change character was still too weak as it was only a first-tier character. It would still take some time to reach the second tier. Meanwhile, Su Yu had failed yet again at forming a spatial character that he had been dreaming of having. He felt quite regretful about that.

Nothing was better at life preservation than such a character. Unfortunately, he had failed even after targeting specific willpower texts. That was mainly because the human race was still not very familiar with spatial concepts and techniques. Even Hu Xiansheng’s spatial character had been formed through a non-human willpower text.

***

Since Hu Qi was still in seclusion, Su Yu decided to stay around longer. He could take the time to grow his change character as it was still too weak. And the best way of growing a character was to destroy a Sunmoon and absorb some character intent. But that was too wasteful.

Almost all Sunmoon characters could be transformed into a grotto. Only a fool would destroy an ownerless Sunmoon character just to absorb its intent. One ought to remember that the Sunmoon Realm was the highest realm a human cultural researcher could reach presently.

Previously, five Sunmoons had been killed and three Sunmoon characters had been successfully separated from the dead Sunmoons. All of them were preserved in his research center.

The three were respectively the qi character of the divine race. It was capable of observing qi and aura, generally used for scouting and spying. With this character, one could observe an opponent without being detected since one wouldn’t be scanning with willpower.

With this ability, it wasn’t suited to be turned into a grotto. It would simply be a waste of resources to convert something with this ability into a grotto. Of the other two characters, one was the sword character of the divine race while the other was the break character of the devil race.

After his conversation with Wen Zhong, Su Yu entered the Character Room. He gazed at the three characters and sank into thought. After a long time, he retrieved the qi character. He was out of patience. He didn’t want to slowly grow his character.

It was better to break this qi character to grow his change character. It would be for the best if it could advance to the third tier directly. Even the second tier was acceptable for him. At that time, he might be able to hide from even Sunmoons when using the character alongside his deceit character and the concealment technique of the looping turtle race.

After all, a third-tier deceit character alone was enough to hide him from the senses of a Cloudbreach. With the change character and the concealment technique, he could absolutely hide from Mountainseas as well. As for Sunmoon, he still wasn’t sure even if he was quite confident it would work as well.

If anyone else knew that Su Yu was destroying a Sunmoon character just to grow a first-tier character, they would probably curse at him for being too wasteful. Then again, it wasn’t like he had never done so before.

Sure, those Sunmoons weren’t killed by him, but he had indeed cultivated where Sunmoons had perished before. And the effect was very good. This time, he was planning to enjoy the same thing alone. His character could probably grow a lot by this. Since the master of the character was dead and the character was a fresh Sunmoon character, it wasn’t too hard to destroy.

After making up his mind, Su Yu stopped hesitating. He directly crushed the qi character. A powerful burst of character intent spread out in the room. Due to the special walls of the room, the intent did not leak out of the room. Su Yu definitely didn’t want anyone to know that he was doing something so crazy.

***

Heart Paradise Island.

The instant Su Yu destroyed the Sunmoon character, Niu Baidao turned to look at the Source Soul Research Center. After a long while, he muttered, “Don’t tell me the kid has destroyed a Sunmoon character…”

That sensation had only appeared for a split second and it was extremely vague, but he had still sensed something. He found that hard to believe. That couldn’t be true, right? Or had the kid accidentally destroyed a Sunmoon character during an experiment?

He shook his head and concluded that it must have been an accident. It was either that or Su Yu had gone mad. What could he be other than a madman to destroy a Sunmoon character out of nowhere?

Then again, Sunmoon characters were very durable even if the master was dead. Just what experiment was Su Yu conducting for it to destroy even a Sunmoon character? Was the kid trying to manufacture a grotto? That was very likely.