Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1149: I’m Actually An Expert Counterfeiter (2)

At the same moment, a group of white masks were gathering dozens of kilometers away from Nanyuan under White One’s lead.

Sensing the numerous auras rising from Nanyuan, a white mask laughed, “Profound Nine has totally offended the Xia Family. They don’t care about the presence of all the other outsiders in the city except us.”

“Profound Nine is too brazen.”

“Enforcer White One, does the pavilion have any source of information inside the city?”

White One nodded but did not elaborate. They naturally had a source of information in the city. Yes, the four departments had just entered the Human Realm not long ago. But the two chambers had been in the Human Realm for much longer. And some of their people had also been deployed to Nanyuan.

***

Everyone was waiting and guessing if Profound Nine would really appear in Nanyuan. Naturally, Su Yu wouldn’t enter Nanyuan. Was he so free? How could he not know the truth? In that case, why bother?

At the moment, he was busy talking to Xia Huyou, “So is your family done setting up the ruin? How is it?”

“We installed a secret grotto there and stuffed some heavenly source qi inside it. We’re preparing to slowly leak the heavenly source qi. But no matter what, that is still a grotto. We’re worried that others might see through it…”

Xia Huyou was still quite worried, “You have a lot of ideas. What do you think we should do to make it more believable? Our current setup might work against Sunmoons, but Invincibles might be able to see through it easily.”

Su Yu complained, “After so many years of preparation, how are there still so many loopholes?”

“What a dumb question. This wasn’t even our initial plan. We’re only following the trend. We didn’t even get that much time to prepare.”

A regular person wouldn’t know an ancient ruin too well, but that did not apply to Invincibles. This plan was only still in play because no Invincible had visited Nanyuan yet. Otherwise, the plan would have been exposed long ago.

After thinking about it, Su Yu asked, “Don’t you have any real ruins to spare? I’m talking about the ruins your great-grandpa and the others used back then. Have all those ruins been destroyed?”

“No.” Xia Huyou explained, “But those ruins are mostly empty. And a ruin can’t be moved. A real ruin will be fixed in a specific spatial pocket.”

“If that’s the case, this fake ruin will be too easy to see through. What is your second granduncle’s plan?”

“He said that we won’t allow any Invincibles to come for now. By the time the first Invincible arrives, the battle would have started. Thus, the ruin doesn’t need to be too believable.”

“Ridiculous!”

Su Yu felt ashamed of their negligence. What if an Invincible were to sneak into Nanyuan? What, then? What if that Invincible wasn’t even the traitor? Seriously!

Su Yu frowned. This was troublesome. The ruin was fake. There was no helping that. Were they supposed to actually create a real ruin there?

As Su Yu sank into thought, Xia Huyou said, “Weren’t you good at counterfeiting? You scammed so many people in the Allheaven Battlefield!”

“Yeah, but this is different. I’ve never scammed an Invincible before.”

What a headache.

Xia Huyou said, “I guess we’ll have to settle with this. In truth, that secret grotto is quite a powerful one. The Xia Family has paid a large price for this plan. The grotto is massive. We even built some buildings with ancient architecture in it. The style looks identical to a real ruin.”

“In that case, what’s the difference between this grotto and a real ruin?”

“It is not capable of sustaining the presence of an Invincible.” Xia Huyou explained, “A grotto is built from a character. Thus, the space inside is quite fragile. You know this. In the academy, just bringing some items related to Invincibles into a grotto can destabilize the grotto. The moment an Invincible arrives, they will be able to see that the grotto does not possess the stability of a real ruin. They might not suspect that it’s fake, but they will definitely suspect that it might only be a minor ruin instead of an Invincible ruin…”

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. So the Xia Family was quite good at counterfeiting as well. The only issue was the stability of the grotto. It was not strong enough to support something like dao affirmation. How could a ruin like this be an Invincible ruin or even a Pseudo Emperor ruin?

Xia Huyou added, “We also hope that we can somehow link this ruin with the multiple character faction. We can send some multiple character cultivators in there. We also hope that Faculty Head Hong Tan can enter that place and instantly breakthrough into the second or third stage of the Sunmoon Realm in it. This will definitely catch the traitor’s attention.”

Naturally, Hong Tan’s instant advancement would be sponsored by Su Yu. Five hundred drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. That was a terrifying amount of resources. Not even Great Xia could provide such an amount of resources.

Su Yu finally understood what they were planning. He said, “Instant advancement is possible. We might even be able to think something about moving the ruin. But can you guarantee that no Invincible will sneak over and examine the ruin?”

“No.”

“What’s the point, then?”

Xia Huyou was quite optimistic as he said, “We can plan all we want, everything else is up to fate. If we’re so unlucky, so be it. We can only accept that fate does not intend to stand on our side.”

“You—”

Su Yu was left speechless. Holy shit! These people could be quite irresponsible at times. Why were they so bad at something as simple as counterfeiting? A random Invincible could easily ruin this plan, even if that Invincible wasn’t the traitor they were targetting. That was not acceptable!

At that thought, Su Yu said, “The space inside the grotto isn’t durable enough. Is the space inside the Human Realm durable?”

“Of course. The Human Realm is a major realm. It is durable enough to bear even an advancement into the Invincible Realm.”

“In that case, can’t we slice some space from the Human Realm and use it to produce a fake ruin?”

“That won’t work. When we do that, space will shatter and collapse. It will attract a lot of attention.”

“…”

They seemed to be stuck. When Su Yu suggested that, he was thinking about his research center in Great Ming. Inside there, Hu Xiansheng had left a Spatial Cutting Room in it. But that did not seem like a good idea. To cut enough space to produce a fake grotto, they would need to cut quite a chunk of space. And that could be easily detected.

Why was the Xia Family so unreliable? After starting the plan, they were telling him that there were still so many loopholes.

Holy shit! Those unreliable brutes were actually placing their hope on luck? Su Yu didn’t even know what to say anymore.

“What treasures are you storing in the fake ruin?”

“Oh, we have a decent amount of heavenly source qi in it.”

“Screw you!” Su Yu scolded, “You guys are too irresponsible! At the very least, you need to plant a few heavenly source fruit trees, make a few sunmoon profound yellow liquid ponds, and place some ancient corpses in there…”

“You don’t have to worry about that. Ancient corpses are rarely found in these ruins.”

Su Yu couldn’t even be bothered to say anything about that. He clenched his teeth and said, “Fine. I’ll supply the treasures. I still have some sunmoon profound yellow liquid on me. I can make a fake sunmoon profound yellow liquid pond. As for the heavenly source fruit trees…give me a fake tree. I’ll be in charge of hanging the fruits on it.”

Xia Huyou hesitated slightly and asked, “Don’t you…know what a ruin looks like?”

“…”

Su Yu rolled his eyes. How was he supposed to know?

“Not all ruins have heavenly source fruit trees in it. Also, is your ruin really not in Nanyuan?”

Nanyuan his ass! Su Yu rolled his eyes again. Fine, fine. It was true that his existence was the main reason everyone believed there was a ruin in Nanyuan. This was his birthplace. That was the source of everyone’s confidence.

At that thought, Su Yu rubbed his chin and said, “You also need to forge some ancient books and ancient cultivation methods. Since I have released so many cultivation methods, it doesn’t make sense for the ruin to not have any cultivation methods. Even better if those cultivation methods are incredibly powerful ones…”

Both Su Yu and Xia Family were capable of providing those things. But the Xia Family wouldn’t care about the authenticity of those books. They only needed those books to look somewhat real. As for Su Yu, he was more picky in this aspect. The Xia Family’s standards were simply too low when it came to counterfeiting. This was not acceptable for Su Yu. It was too risky.

And it was not Su Yu’s style to take unnecessary risks. They had to do things properly. They had to be ready for the inspections of even Invincibles.

“Stop wasting time. Fatty, your family will produce some fake heavenly source fruit trees. I will produce the fruits.”

Heavenly source fruits and sunmoon profound yellow liquid pond were things Su Yu himself could produce. Even the so-called ancient cultivation methods were things he could produce without much issue. And Great Xia might also have some ancient books in their storage. They had to stop being stingy and take those books out as well.

With that, the only loophole left was the durability of the grotto. It was too weak, to the point an Invincible could easily see that it was by no means something capable of supporting dao affirmation.

“By the way, when a ruin resurfaces, will it create a massive phenomenon?”

“Some will and some won’t. Some will create massive spatial undulations when appearing, but some will appear silently.”

“In that case, our ruin will appear with a massive phenomenon. Even better if we could have some of the items inside displayed through a projection for a short moment. That way, everyone will become even more confident that it is a real ruin. And it will be able to attract even more experts.”

“Can you…provide what we need, then? My family is quite poor nowadays.”

Stingy bastards! Su Yu cursed inwardly. So be it. If they succeeded, he could always retrieve all those things. In any case, he might end up losing even his life if they failed. Thus, there was no point in worrying too much about the cost.

The durability of the grotto was the only issue left. Who could help with this? Before long, Su Yu sent Zhu Tiandao a message. Great Ming might be able to help with this. After all, they were very proficient in all sorts of skills, including counterfeiting.

Just look at the fake phenomenon they had produced for him during his fake breakthrough previously. Great Xia had been too focused on combat, neglecting all the other skills one could master as a cultivator.

***

Great Ming.

When Zhu Tiandao saw the message, his expression turned odd. He had thought that they would use a real ruin. So it would be a fake one? Did Su Yu not offer to use his own ruin? Yes. Even Zhu Tiandao believed that Su Yu had a secret ruin.

“The space inside is not durable enough…”

Zhu Tiandao did not mind that the Xia Family wasn’t telling him anything. In fact, they would tell him even less if it wasn’t for Su Yu. Perhaps even Great Ming King was a possible traitor in their eyes.

Thus, Zhu Tiandao felt quite gratified that Su Yu trusted him enough to tell him about this. But…the difficulty of this task was quite high. Counterfeiting wasn’t a simple job.

After thinking about it, Zhu Tiandao replied, “Increasing the durability of space is possible, but it won’t be cheap. I have several options. Firstly, you can fuse a large amount of heavenearth profound light into the space. That thing is capable of strengthening the bodies of cultivators, but since it is a natural treasure, it is also capable of enhancing the durability of space.

“Secondly, you can crush a large number of characters in there. The destruction of characters can also strengthen the space around them. Thirdly, you need to fuse one or multiple heaven weapons with the grotto. That way, the space inside will also increase in durability. Fourthly, carrier treasures. These treasures are capable of providing a massive boost in durability and stability, but they are also extremely valuable and rare. If these treasures can also withstand the corrosion of the River of Time, they can definitely greatly strengthen something like a grotto. You know what carrier treasures are, right? Fifthly, heavenly source qi. Use countless heavenly source qi. This can also strengthen the space inside. Sixthly, formations. Powerful formations.”

“…”

Zhu Tiandao provided a long list of options. Su Yu asked, “Prefect, so carrier treasures can actually strengthen space?”