Tribulation of Myriad Races

At the same time.

Allheaven Battlefield.

Liu Wenyan was in the middle of a chat with his uncle. When they spoke of the past, Liu Wenyan sighed and said, “Back then, Teacher’s character overwhelmed my sea of willpower, forcing me to open some apertures early…”

“How did your sea of willpower survive that?”

Uncle Liu choked with emotions when he thought of the suffering his nephew had gone through.

“It nearly burst apart. Fortunately, Great Xia King was nearby during the time. He helped me stabilize the sea of willpower.”

Naturally, he had not mentioned that Great Xia King had saved him in the notes he left Su Yu. That would be embarrassing. As for the risk that Su Yu would go down the wrong path in his cultivation, well, there was no need to worry since he had not told that kid to attempt this method.

Furthermore, the kid wouldn’t need such a method anyway. It was pointless to say more to the kid. He was reminiscing on the past since life had been pretty boring after Bai Feng left. He wondered if Su Yu had stirred up any trouble recently.

***

Inside the sea of willpower.

The battle was still ongoing. With a rumble, an aperture was forced open. Right at that moment, the entire sea of willpower shook.

Zhao Li blanked out momentarily before he started cursing, “Opening it forcefully has accelerated the collapse of the sea of willpower! Brat, are you trying to kill me so that you can inherit my weapon?”

What an unreliable bastard! Why was his sea of willpower shaking so violently? The collapse seemed to have accelerated! Su Yu also blanked out in stupefaction. This wasn’t right. Back then, this was how Teacher Liu survived after absorbing his teacher’s character. What was wrong?

Even that large hammer seemed surprised as it stopped attacking momentarily. Was this a suicide attempt? No matter what, this hammer was Zhao Li’s main character. Thus, it carried some of Zhao Li’s willpower on it. Was its master going to commit suicide? The hammer started contemplating with the tiny bit of intelligence it had.

Zhao Li was left somewhat speechless. After a short thought, he said, “It’s not going to collapse yet. It’s only one aperture. But brat, your method doesn’t work. If we open a few more apertures, the sea of willpower will definitely collapse. Are you sure this was what Liu Wenyan did?”

“That was what he told me.”

“Bullshit. How do you know that Great Xia King wasn’t there to help stabilize his sea of willpower?”

Zhao Li cursed. That was only a guess of his. Perhaps Liu Wenyan was simply that talented. But Zhao Li knew that it would be over for him if he used this method to open a few more apertures.

What was going on today? Why was he hurting himself over and over again? First, his main character gave him a beating. Next, he joined his main character and gave his sea of willpower a beating. If this continued, he would ruin himself.

Su Yu also hurriedly made a judgment of his own. At this moment, that large hammer started going crazy again.

When Su Yu saw that, he clenched his teeth and said, “Teacher, why don’t we try this? The distribution of your Myriad Text Sutra’s seventy-two characters is uneven. Try to open more apertures to reach a balance. Open the apertures from two of my Five Elemental Arts. Perhaps that will be sufficient to stabilize your sea of willpower.”

Zhao Li knew four of the elemental arts. After thinking about it, he roared, “Including the overlap apertures, I need to open at least eleven new apertures to achieve that. Are you sure I won’t die?”

“We have no choice but to try it.”

Su Yu sounded very helpless as he said that. This was their only option. If they did nothing, the large hammer would eventually smash the sea of willpower apart.

Zhao Li had eighty-one apertures for now. But only sixty-one of them overlapped with the seventy-two apertures of the two arts. He still lacked eleven of them if he wanted to link the two arts together.

But if he could link those apertures together, he would be able to form a net around the sea of willpower and stabilize it. This was the best idea Su Yu could think of right now.

Zhao Li was aware of that as well. There was no other option. He clenched his teeth and said, “Fine. Let’s see if the apertures from the two arts can cover the entire sea of willpower and repair the damage.”

“Alright.”

Su Yu hurriedly descended before looking up at the boundless sky above. The stars were spread unevenly over the sky. Perhaps if the stars could be distributed more evenly, the sea of willpower would increase in stability.

In fact, the part of the sky covered by the seventy-two apertures of the Myriad Text Sutra was actually a lot more stable than the other parts. After all, the formation of apertures also had the added benefit of increased stability. Su Yu said nothing and activated his fire of inheritance to hasten his thinking process.

After a short contemplation, he said, “Teacher, try to hang on for a bit. I’ll form a healing character, preferably something that can heal seas of willpower. That way, I can help you stabilize your sea of willpower.”

“What?”

Zhao Li couldn’t even react to his shock before Su Yu left. Yes. He left the sea of willpower. Back in his body, Su Yu took out an Invincible note and started reading it rapidly with the fire of inheritance active. He went through the note again and again in silence.

He also activated his calm character to maintain a calm state of mind. Thanks to that, he was able to ignore the suffering Zhao Li and focus fully on reading. He kept telling himself that he had to form a suitable character to help stabilize his teacher’s sea of willpower. Only then could he confidently help his teacher force open more apertures. After all, he didn’t want to risk accidentally killing his teacher.

Meanwhile, Zhao Li, who was fighting alone in his sea of willpower, was losing his mind. Holy shit! They were in the middle of a fight when the kid suddenly said that he was leaving to form a character before returning? What the fuck?

Su Yu continued reading in silence. As he tried his best to comprehend what he was reading, his fire of inheritance shone brighter and brighter. This was no big deal. He was only forming a character.

Previously, he had been neglecting this as he was uninterested in some of the characters he could already form. But now, his brain was operating at full capacity. He had to form a character capable of either suppressing or healing. Something that could provide stability would work as well.

After about three to four minutes, a character slowly took form in Su Yu’s sea of willpower.

“Meld!”

Strictly speaking, an Invincible note wasn’t a willpower text. Thus, it could be used inside a grotto. At the exact moment Su Yu formed that character, someone sensed it.

***

Inside the prefect’s residence.

Great Song King blanked out slightly. His eyes shone as time started rewinding and suns and moons revolved in them. Did someone just comprehend something belonging to him? Who?

That person seemed somewhat related to him, but also not too closely related. There also seemed to be some degree of separation between them. He even tried prying through fate, but he was unable to see anything. But he was sure that someone had comprehended a character related to him.

Beside him, Silk Destroying King asked, “Old Song, what’s up?”

“Nothing.” Great Song King smiled as he waved his folding fan around. It was no big deal. He was merely curious as he had sensed that the person who had comprehended something related to him was actually nearby.

Was that someone from Great Song? Was that someone who had read one of his notes? Over the years, he had given out a decent amount of his personal notes as rewards to his subordinates. Was one of them here? But why hadn’t he noticed them?

Soon, he tossed the matter out of his mind. It wasn’t too important. He said, “If Zhao Li ends up failing and harming his sea of willpower, I can try to help stabilize his sea of willpower.”

“Thank you, Great Song King!” Zhao Tianbing hurriedly voiced his gratitude. Great Song King nodded indifferently.

***

At this moment, Su Yu had returned to Zhao Li’s sea of willpower. When he saw the miserable medium hammer, he said, “Teacher, I’m back!”

The second-tier meld character flew out and started working immediately. The willpower in the area was gathered as it started working to stabilize the sea of willpower. While that was happening, Su Yu said, “It isn’t a healing character, but I guess we can put it to use in here. It’s only a second-tier character. Teacher, should I try to get a different character? Can you still keep going?”

“…”

Zhao Li’s medium hammer trembled in shock. Holy shit! The brat had actually formed a new character? And it was second-tier character? Was he the grandfather of characters? Why was he capable of forming a character any time he wanted?

Was that damn brat kidding? The brat must be messing with him, right? This wasn’t funny!

Zhao Li was greatly shocked. He knew that Su Yu was a monstrous genius, but the damn kid had only left for a few minutes before returning to tell him that a new second-tier character had been formed? A second-tier character?

Everyone else had to slowly form a character one stroke at a time. How were they supposed to face Su Yu? More importantly, Zhao Li was also one of those people. And the damn kid wanted to keep trying because he was unsatisfied with this character?

Screw that kid!

“No! Let’s start now!”

Old Zhao roared madly. He was worried that he would be shocked to death by the kid before his hammer could kill him.

“Fine, let’s start…”

Su Yu wasn’t too serious when he asked that question. After all, he couldn’t be sure what character he could get next.

“Teacher, I still have other trump cards. You don’t need to be scared!”

Zhao Li was already numb. More trump cards? Sure, sure, whatever. Nothing could shock him anymore. That thought had barely crossed his mind when Su Yu’s character technique transformed from a hammer into a pot.

Even the nodes within the character technique had been switched around. Zhao Li was completely dumbstruck. And what the fuck was this?

“Teacher, I’ll restrict its movement with my pot! You only need to help me identify the suitable locations. We will fight near the apertures we plan to open. We don’t want the fight to affect the other parts of the sea of willpower, right?”

“Y-you-I-I-y-you-your character technique can assume a different form?”

“Yeah.”

“…”

Zhao Li was on the verge of losing his mind. He was really going to lose his mind. Why was the damn kid’s character technique capable of switching forms?

Su Yu was too busy to care about Zhao Li’s feelings. The large hammer was resisting his pot intensely. As a response, he transformed his pot into a rope and tied it up before dragging it toward a specific location. The large hammer struggled violently while Zhao Li helped with a blank mind. He had countless questions to ask, but he couldn’t find a single word to say.

Was Su Yu still a human? No. This was a monster. Zhao Li had the urge to stab himself blind. At least he wouldn’t need to look at this monstrous brat anymore with his eyes blind.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was busy dealing with the large hammer with everything he had. Before long, the large hammer was brought near an aperture they wanted to open. There, the hammer continued its violent struggle. As for Zhao Li, he only had a simple task: fight the large hammer alongside the little furball before forcing the aperture to open.

As for Su Yu, his job was to keep the large hammer under control, preventing it from running somewhere else.

Rumble!

Yet another aperture was blasted open. The sea of willpower started shaking, but Su Yu’s meld character showcased its power and reduced the shaking slightly. Su Yu wasted no time and dragged the large hammer to a different aperture.

Zhao Li followed behind him in a dazed manner. Even after living for more than a hundred years, he had never seen someone like Su Yu. The things he had seen today were the things he wouldn’t be able to forget for the rest of his life.

Su Yu could instantly form natural characters. He was able to ignore that. He only needed to read for a few minutes to form a new character. He was still able to stay calm. His character technique was capable of countless transformations in not only shape but its abilities as well. These were true transformations as each form came with a unique ability. For example, the rope was capable of keeping the large hammer occupied with its special ability.

If it was only a transformation of shape, even when Su Yu transformed his saber into a rope, it would still be an offensive character technique incapable of keeping the large hammer occupied. Thus, the very essence of his character technique would change with each transformation.

Suddenly, Su Yu recalled something. He yelled, “Teacher, you should try to form a character technique as well. Since you’re not a Mountainsea yet, you can still give it a try! I know the structure of a character technique in the form of a hammer. Are you interested, Teacher?

“You don’t have the template, but you can still draw the basic form of the technique in your sea of willpower. After that, you can take your time and slowly improve it. With enough time, you can improve it into a true character technique. We have yet to come out with a way to make the disassembly method work for Mountainseas so you can only do it now.”

Zhao Li was still a Cloudbreach, so that was feasible. He already had a large number of characters. In fact, he already had enough to form the character technique. Of course, without a proper inherited template, he would need to slowly improve his version of character technique to perfection.

A character technique was not something one could form randomly. Fortunately, Su Yu knew how it worked, so he could put together a working version.

Zhao Li asked blankly, “Will this work?”

“I can’t see why not.”

“…”

“So…try it?”

Zhao Li was still in a daze. Should he try it? He had nearly forgotten that he was in the middle of a life and death crisis. Su Yu had shocked him so much that he had forgotten the danger he was in.

Su Yu did not waste any time. When Zhao Li and the little furball engaged the large hammer again, he transformed his character technique into a hammer with eighteen characters. He said, “Teacher, how many characters do you have?”

“Twelve…”

He didn’t have a crazily high number of characters, but he still had twelve.

“Twelve…”

That was actually a respectable number. After thinking about it, Su Yu decided to produce a version with twelve characters. If Old Zhao needed more in the future, they could think of a way then.

A short while later, a small hammer with twelve characters appeared as he said, “Teacher, look at this. Remember it. This is the structure. It will stay stable.”

Zhao Li hurriedly brought eleven of his characters together before saying with a troubled expression, “My final character is that hammer…”

He only had eleven usable characters for now.

But Su Yu actually grew excited as he said, “Teacher, trap that thing with your character technique. That way, you can both boost your character technique and keep it suppressed. We will be able to have it hit whatever spot we want!”

“…”

Zhao Li no longer felt like saying anything. He did as told, arranging and linking his characters in the exact manner Su Yu told him. This was supposed to be a crisis of life and death, but it had transformed into a “capture the hammer and smash apertures open” operation.