Tribulation of Myriad Races

While everyone was talking about Su Yu.

Inside the mayor’s residence, Su Yu was busy providing support for the other weaponsmiths. For now, both he and Zhao Li would be focusing on assisting anyone requiring help without focusing on any task in particular.

This was a good opportunity for Su Yu to refamiliarize himself with the process of weaponsmithing. He had gotten quite rusty since it had been a while since he last forged anything.

In any case, he needed to be very familiar with these components if he wanted the final forge to be smooth. Both he and Zhao Li would be the only ones responsible for the final forge. They both knew the Soul Expanding Art, so they should have enough endurance to finish the process.

As he assisted Zhao Tianbing, he was able to observe Zhao Tianbing’s forging style. Zhao Tianbing might have learned from the Zhao Family, but he had his own unique style as well.

While helping everyone, Su Yu also kept his fire of inheritance active at all times. As a fourth-tier character, it plunged everyone in the mayor’s residence into a constant state of enlightenment whenever it was active.

That was not enough for Su Yu. He separated the civilization character into its two original characters again. The culture character was fused with the fire character, further boosting the effects of the fire character.

With that, the others all felt their work going much smoother than before. They were also able to instantly spot any tiny imperfection in their work that they wouldn’t have noticed previously.

Zhao Tianbing said, “What an excellent character. I would have advanced into a heaven weaponsmith long ago if I had such a character as well. Kid, do try to keep the character active near me as much as possible.”

He was able to easily complete the forging of a page while talking.

There were seventy-two and a half golden stripes on it, making it a pseudo-earth weapon.

Su Yu picked the completed page up and studied it for a while. Suddenly, he frowned, “Something isn’t right. Martial Uncle, try to insert a drop of Sunmoon blood essence into the page before reforging it.”

Zhao Tianbing frowned and said, “You’re forging a book. A weapon of knowledge. The addition of blood will turn it into a weapon of carnage. Think it through.”

Su Yu nodded, “To end wars through war. That is the proper path to take. We don’t live in a peaceful era. I wish to be a peaceful scholar, but I wish even more to be a scholar capable of curbing violence through violence.”

Zhao Tianbing inhaled deeply and said, “Fine. We can add a drop of Sunmoon blood essence per page and adjust accordingly at the later stages of forging. I’ll try to make it possible to summon Sunmoons to fight for you in combat. This will make it a sort of unique summoning cultural weapon.”

Su Yu nodded, “One race per page. With three hundred drops of blood essence, I’ll have three hundred races to summon.”

“Do you have that much Sunmoon blood essence?”

Su Yu nodded, “Yes. I still have several hundred drops of first-stage Sunmoon blood essence. I also have more blood essence of higher levels, but that’s too powerful for me. I can only settle for the first stage for now. Three hundred first-stage Sunmoons will make for quite a powerful force as well.”

Yet again, he stunned all his helpers.

Fuck!

Was something as valuable as Sunmoon blood essence measured in hundreds of drops here?

Little did they know, that wasn’t enough for Su Yu. He had enough blood essence, but he didn’t have enough variation of races among his collection. He would only fuse a single race into each page. To get enough variations of blood essence for this project, he would need to purchase more from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

***

During the next few days, Hu Xiansheng started traveling everywhere to cut the chunks of space required for the forging. Su Yu had Empyrean Cloud escorting Hu Xiansheng to protect Hu Xiansheng from the myriad race Invincibles. Things were also progressing smoothly in the city.

With an unending supply of heavenly source qi and other treasures, the weaponsmiths found themselves becoming more energetic the longer they worked. At the same time, the ancient injuries accumulated in their bodies were starting to heal. Even Senior Wang had benefited greatly from the environment.

The sheer amount of heavenly source qi and treasures provided by Su Yu had essentially turned the mayor’s residence into a holy land of sorts.

***

Inner hall.

Xing Yue’s voice rang out, “Grandstar, just what manner of a weapon are they forging? They have forged over a hundred earth weapons by now.”

“No idea.”

Not even Grandstar knew what Su Yu was making. Also, why had the kid decided to forge a weapon out of nowhere? That was very surprising. Su Yu was known for his powerful physical cultivation. The addition of a weapon might not add much to his overall strength.

Was it worth exhausting all those treasures for one weapon?

Meanwhile, Su Yu was too busy to be concerned with what anyone was thinking.

The project continued progressing.

For the past few days, he had been practicing his weaponsmithing skills by helping the others with their tasks. After a few days of hard work, he was now able to easily forge a pseudo earth weapon. However, the final forge would require him to go through hundreds of pages, which were essentially hundreds of earth weapons. This wouldn’t be an easy task.

Zhao Li had also been practicing, deepening his understanding on their current project, and making adjustments as necessary.

Finally, Zhao Li went to Su Yu and said, “We still lack something.”

“What is it?”

“A binder. Without a binder, each individual page is too strong. The pages might scatter too easily even after the final forge.”

Su Yu smiled and said, “You didn’t ask before this, so I thought it was because you assumed I already prepared something suitable. Don’t worry. I have the perfect thing for this. The binder will need to handle hundreds of pages now and even more in the future. It can’t be something ordinary.”

Then, he took a piece of dried wood out and said, “We’ll be using this as the binder.”

Zhao Li was alarmed.

“Carrier treasure!”

The other weaponsmiths also looked over with alarm. Was the kid crazy?

Su Yu smiled, “Yes, we’re using this. According to what I know, this used to be a living being in the ancient past. A sentient plant-based life. This fellow in particular must have been struck dead by lightning. With this thing as the binder, the book will definitely not fall apart.”

“Screw you!” Zhao Li cursed, “There is no way to process this thing. We can’t extract what’s inside or remove what’s outside…”

“We can.” Su Yu smiled, “Lord Grandstar can help. If he can’t do it, I can get a Pseudo Emperor to help.”

Fuck!

What were they supposed to say to this? This was how a true big shot should be like. An unsolvable problem? What a joke. He could ask Invincibles for help. If Invincibles couldn’t help, he could ask Pseudo Emperors for help.

They all decided to shut their mouth and focus only on working.

Su Yu merely smiled with amusement. He had long thought of everything.

He wasn’t finished. He continued, “Also, I’m not sure if the spatial pockets will be as stable as I want. I might even crush one carrier treasure to stabilize these spatial pockets.”

He had done this once before when making the Nanyuan ruin. Very few people knew about that. In fact, only Old Wan and Su Yu were aware of that. Even now, everyone else still believed that the Nanyuan ruin was a real ruin. After all, the space within was simply too stable.

Nobody would expect Su Yu to be crazy enough to stabilize the space inside with an entire carrier treasure. That was simply not something a normal person would do. Even those from the Xia Family were more and more convinced that it was a real ruin.

Xia Longwu had visited the ruin personally, and that was what he believed as well.

As for Great Xia King, he was left quite dumbfounded after learning about the ruin. He once spent an extended period of time in Nanyuan. How had he missed out on such a ruin? This question had now become an unsolvable puzzle for him.

***

As they worked busily and spent money like water, one page after another was forged. Hu Qi and the other two Great Ming weaponsmiths constantly worked on embedding the chunks of space into the forged pages. During the process, they failed several times, wasting all the materials involved. However, they continued on relentlessly.

With so many earth weaponsmiths working so hard just to finish the preparatory works for Su Yu, even those without any knowledge about weaponsmithing could see that this would be no ordinary weapon. Su Yu was most definitely trying to make something ambitious.

As time passed, a book slowly took form.

However, the pages were still unbound.

It was an incomplete book.

Su Yu and Zhao Li would need to work on them to finish the job.

Looking at the various pages, Su Yu inhaled deeply. It wouldn’t be long now. With Zhao Tianbing and the others working so hard that they nearly died from exhaustion, the preparatory works would reach completion soon.

As of late, he had been suppressing his body from undergoing an advancement. He could feel that his advancement was near. He only lacked one final body forging to make the breakthrough.

He would attempt the breakthrough when he was performing the final forge on the book. Upon breakthrough, the boost granted by the advancement would increase his endurance, allowing him to continue working for a longer time. He might even receive some heavenly rewards that would also help strengthen the book.

Zhao Li was also preparing himself for the final forge. He had been in seclusion for several days. He had consumed a large amount of resources to grow before compressing his willpower. He was trying very hard to ensure that he wouldn’t run out of willpower during a critical moment.

This would be their second time forging a weapon together. Previously, Su Yu was still a Skysoar while he was only a Cloudbreach. The two had exceeded all expectations and forged an embryonic heaven weapon. Both of them had grown considerably since then.

However, Zhao Li still couldn’t help feeling nervous about the coming forging. The price Su Yu had paid for this forging was simply too high. A failure would not be tolerable. Zhao Li would rather die than fail.

Not even the sale of an entire human prefecture would be enough to make up for the losses Su Yu would incur upon failure.

***

Time passed. It had been one month since the allocation of the slots. Those with the allocated tokens could start approaching the Luminous Domain Mansion.

However, Su Yu had yet to go. So were many other people. A large number of people were still gathered around the ancient city.

The clanging sounds had been coming from the city for an entire month. Since the Luminous Domain Mansion had yet to open, there was no rush. Everyone was more interested in spending some time here to satisfy their curiosity instead.

Yes. The entire myriad races were incredibly curious about the weapon Su Yu was forging. He had simply caused too big a ruckus.

In fact, a battle between Invincibles had nearly been triggered over this. A certain someone had been caught cutting space somewhere he shouldn’t. Fortunately, Empyrean Cloud was around or Hu Xiansheng would be dead by now. One could say that Hu Xiansheng deserved this close brush with death. He had opted to cut some space right in front of the Mystic Armor Realm. That act of his had nearly infuriated Mystic Armor King to death.

Ultimately, Mystic Armor King was forced to retreat when Empyrean Cloud showed herself. As of late, he had been regretting his past actions. He had discovered that it was a very unlucky thing to have someone like Su Yu as an enemy.

If he had known this, he would have blasted Red Armor to death long ago. That bastard was the reason he hadn’t even dared to leave his realm recently.

***

Time continued passing as everyone waited curiously.

Year 352 of Anping Calender. March.

All the preparatory works were finally done. All that was left was the final forge. All the weaponsmiths involved in this project had benefited greatly. The large amount of treasures supplied to them, coupled with the Long Life Art, had healed nearly all their old injuries.

As for Zhao Tianbing, he had even gained some new comprehension that would help him become a heaven weaponsmith.

That wasn’t even surprising. Anyone would be able to gain as much after a month of exposure to the fire of inheritance.

Even Liu Hong, who had been kicked out of the main hall by Su Yu, had benefited greatly just by squatting outside the main hall for a month. He longed for nothing than to enter the main hall as well. Alas, Su Yu had not allowed that. Liu Hong was confident he could have grown by at least three stages if he had stayed in the main hall. Instead, he had only grown by one stage by squatting outside. It was too regrettable.

Senior Wang and the demonic beasts had also benefited as they were also staying in the mayor’s residence even if they hadn’t entered the main hall as well. That day, Su Yu and Zhao Li stepped out of the main hall. After looking at each other, they nodded. Finally, it was time for them to work together once more.

Previously, they had worked on Zhao Li’s weapon. This time, it would be Su Yu’s weapon.

After a deep inhalation, Zhao Li said, “Aim to complete it at one try. Do not rush things. Do it one page at a time. I will be your assistant this time.”

“Thank you, Teacher.”

302 pages flew out and floated around him. Far away, Liu Hong was salivating as he stared at the pages. Only now did he know what Su Yu had been doing for the past month. He couldn’t resist taking a look at his storage ring. After seeing all those pages, he couldn’t help but feel like he was as poor as a beggar.

He had thought that he was actually quite rich. But compared to Su Yu, that little bit of wealth he had was nothing.

While Liu Hong was lamenting his poverty, a fist dropped down from the sky. With a rumble, he lost consciousness. After casually tossing Liu Hong into the inner hall, Su Yu said, “Lord, please watch over him for me.”

He did not see the need to let Liu Hong observe his forging. Grandstar did not say anything. He merely kicked Liu Hong behind him to get a clear view of what Su Yu was doing. He was very curious as well.

Su Yu had been very busy for the past month. Just what was he planning to do?

At the same time, a tiny strand of death qi leaked out of the tunnel. When Xing Yue noticed that Grandstar wasn’t doing anything about it, she exhaled in relief. She wanted to see as well. Just what weapon was Su Yu trying to make? The clanking sounds had been bothering her for an entire month. She couldn’t hold her curiosity back.