Tribulation of Myriad Races

Autumn had arrived in the Human Realm.

The autumn wind blew gently.

This might be the final tranquility before the war. The entire Human Realm knew that a war against the Myriad Realms was coming. Then again, the skirmishes had never stopped. Countless human soldiers had attacked the minor realms in the eastern sector. Those refusing to submit would all be exterminated.

Under the lead of Xia Longwu and a few other military leaders, the armies of humanity swept through the eastern sector like a disaster. No mercy was shown to those refusing to submit. Those who had submitted were required to pay tribute. With the countless resources of the myriad races, humanity would be nurtured.

This was war. There was no right or wrong in war. For the minor races, the humans were villains. For the humans, the myriad races were the villains. This was an unending cycle.

Su Yu did not participate in these skirmishes. All the battles involved only those below the Eternal Realm. He heard that in only two months, humanity had produced more than ten Sunmoons and nearly a thousand Mountainseas. This was a result of nurturing them with countless resources and heavenly rewards. Such an offensive by humanity had only happened once around four hundred years ago. This was the second time.

***

After returning to the Human Realm, Su Yu waited ten days.

Heavenly Forge King, who had received numerous messages urging him to work faster, felt like dying. As a result, he constantly urged the weaponsmiths under his command, passing on the stress to them. And finally, they completed the weapons for the new guardians within the time limit given by Su Yu.

All in all, it had taken nearly three months.

***

Inside the holy palace.

When Su Yu laid eyes on Heavenly Forge King again, he felt as though he was looking at someone who had stayed awake for hundreds of years. Heavenly Forge King was pale, with murky eyes, and he couldn’t even stand straight anymore.

An Eternal had actually been pushed to such a level of exhaustion. It was likely that he was even regretting the fact that he was a weaponsmith now.

“Heavenly Forge King, well done with the weaponsmithing…”

Heavenly Forge King retched the moment he heard the term weaponsmithing. He hurriedly said, “Thank you for the praise, Emperor Yu. Please don’t talk about weaponsmithing anymore. I feel like vomiting the moment I hear this term nowadays. I don’t want to be a weaponsmith anymore.”

He had forged over thirty heaven weapons in three months. It was a nightmare. On average, he had to complete one every three days. Fortunately, Zhao Li had recently advanced to a heaven weaponsmith. Zhao Tianbing had advanced as well. As they were already near that level, they were able to break through during the three months. Without their help, the weapons wouldn’t have been completed on time.

Su Yu laughed and said, “What are you saying? Humanity can give up on any other paths, but not the path of weaponsmithing. I believe you didn’t mean that. By the way, the weapons of the guardians are done, but the other Eternals are still waiting for their weapons. You can’t stop now, Heavenly Forge King…”

Heavenly Forge King paled even further. No! He did not want to do it! He did not want to forge weapons anymore!

Su Yu was right. Through immense hard work, they had completed the weapons for the guardians within three months. But quite a lot of human Eternals were still waiting for their weapons.

Even those with their own weapons were waiting to have their weapons reforged for the purpose of switching their cultivation method. At the thought of that, Heavenly Forge King felt like dying.

Su Yu said, “That is not all. There have been a lot of battles lately. It is the easiest for one to achieve dao affirmation through battles. You need to be ready to forge the weapons for these people as well, Heavenly Forge King.”

Heavenly Forge King felt like crying.

He said, “Emperor Yu, I can’t do this anymore!”

“You can.” Su Yu beamed and said, “Hang in there. By forging all these weapons, your comprehension of the dao is deepening rapidly. Trust me. After some time, I’ll take you on a trip to the weaponsmith dao. Perhaps you will instantly become a high-degree Eternal or beyond. You might be the next Daofuse of humanity. I have high expectations of you.”

“Daofuse?”

Heavenly Forge King blanked out. Him? Daofuse?

Su Yu nodded and said, “Allow me to be frank. You are only enjoying this benefit right now because humanity lacks heaven weaponsmiths. In any other era, no heaven weaponsmith will get the chance to forge so many heaven weapons. You are provided with unlimited supplies, and you won’t even need to worry about compensation upon failing. In an era with plenty of heaven weaponsmiths, such an opportunity would not appear.

“In only three months, you have forged as many heaven weapons as what other heaven weaponsmiths will take ten thousand years to forge. Generally, it won’t be surprising for one to forge a heaven weapon every thirty years. To reach thirty heaven weapons, they will need ten thousand years. Am I right?”

Heavenly Forge King couldn’t help but nod in agreement. True. At the moment, humanity lacked heaven weaponsmith. That was why he had been given such an opportunity.

Su Yu continued, “I took you to multiple weaponsmith daos previously, but you couldn’t decide on the exact weaponsmith dao you want. What about now? Do you have an idea? You are the most likely human to achieve Daofuse through weaponsmithing. Great Ming King will walk the formation dao. Time King will walk the acceleration dao…”

“To be honest, I like experts with unique specializations like you guys.” Su Yu praised, “You are different from those warriors. They are all brutes. Apart from training their physical body, they know nothing.”

Not all Eternals in the Human Realm were suitable for dao switching. There wasn’t anything they could do about it. Some of the warriors had focused solely on the physical body dao. They had zero comprehension of the other daos. How were these people supposed to switch their dao?

As for the cultural researchers who had switched to physical body dao for the sake of dao affirmation, they were far more suitable for dao switching. And upon switching, they could continue growing rapidly.

Sure enough, cultural researchers were better. With the damage the physical body dao had sustained, the future of the pure warriors was bleak. This wouldn’t change before the physical body dao was repaired.

Just as Heavenly Forge King was about to say something, more than ten Eternals arrived. These were all the Eternals picked to replace the guardians. They were led by the Zhou brothers.

They were Zhou Potian and Zhou Polong. But strictly speaking, Zhou Potian’s seniority was far higher due to Great Zhou King’s seniority. But most people had tactfully ignored that.

“Greetings, Emperor Yu.”

All fourteen of them were extremely courteous toward Su Yu. All their previous dissatisfaction toward Su Yu had vanished. After shooting them a glance, Su Yu nodded and smiled. They were a lot more polite to him now. Even the smiles on their faces looked much better than before.

But facing his smile, they felt rather uneasy. His smile seemed genial, but in truth, they far preferred his overbearing side. At the very least, he was easier to understand when he was being overbearing.

But when he was smiling, nobody could guess what he was thinking. After all, he was someone who would smile at someone right before killing that someone.

Ignoring their discomfort, Su Yu spoke with the same smile on his face, “I can see that you have started pursuing the various weapon daos. One can say that you are a step away from these daos.”

“It has been nearly three months since the previous battle. It’s about time we return to business. Everyone, enter.”

With a wave of Su Yu’s hand, the Mark of Civilization appeared. A door opened on the cover of the book. The Eternals looked at the book with discomfort. In truth, entering the weapon of others was an extremely dangerous thing to do.

They knew that this was the famous Mark of Civilization. But they had no choice. This was the only way for so many Eternals to leave the Human Realm without alerting the myriad races.

Zhou Polong took the lead and stepped toward the door. Su Yu said, “After entering, withdraw your auras. Do not move too much. We can’t let anyone notice anything.”

They all agreed and entered the book one after another. With everyone inside, Su Yu shut the door and placed a few more layers of seals atop the book. At this point, traces of their auras could still be felt, but they weren’t as obvious anymore. They would remain undetected so long as they refrained from fighting inside.

After putting the book away, Su Yu returned his attention to Heavenly Forge King and said, “Senior Heavenly Forge, I have another mission for you.”

“Please give the order, Emperor Yu.”

Heavenly Forge King was already aware that he would receive a new mission. Su Yu wouldn’t have called him over otherwise. But he was already very busy. Was Su Yu really assigning more jobs to him?

Su Yu said, “It’s an easy job. Can you work with my teachers and forge 9,699 pages for my Mark of Civilization? I only need each page to reach the level of an earth weapon. I also need Faculty Head Hu’s help to cut more chunks of space to be installed inside these pages. Let him cut our recently conquered minor realms. Don’t worry about destroying those realms.”

“…”

Easy job?

9,700 earth weapons!

Easy job?

Heavenly Forge King’s face had turned purple. Was this a joke?

This would really kill him!

Just then, Zhao Li and Zhao Tianbing walked into the hall. Zhao Li said, “We will do this ourselves. We can’t trust outsiders with something so important.”

“…”

Heavenly Forge King had the urge to shout at them. He had worked so hard for them. Why was he still an outsider? But he couldn’t deny that or he would be volunteering for the job. Not 97 weapons. Instead, it was 9,700 weapons!

Madness. Absolute madness.

Were there even so many earth weapons in the Human Realm currently?

Heavenly Forge King said, “It’s not that I don’t want to do this, but we lack materials…”

Su Yu did not say anything. He merely waved his hand and produced a mountain of materials. Or to be precise, all sorts of furniture had appeared before him. Yes. The furniture he had gathered from the eighth level. Not all of them were good enough to serve as carrier treasures. But they were still good enough to serve as the materials for earth weapons. There were a lot of them.

With a smile, Su Yu said, “Don’t worry. I lack a lot of things, but not materials. You will also have access to the countless subsidiary materials we recently plundered from the minor realms.”

Su Yu added, “I only need 9,699 pages, not 9,700.”

Was there a difference?

Heavenly Forge King roared inwardly.

Was there a difference?

He said, “But according to your requirements, we will need three months just to finish the remaining weapons. And with 9,700 earth weapons on top, we will take at least three years at a rate of ten per day. And we can only achieve that with all of us working together.”

He looked at Su Yu, wondering if Su Yu was serious about having them work exclusively for him for three whole years.

Su Yu laughed and said, “You are exaggerating. It won’t take that long. You can have the earth weaponsmiths and profound weaponsmiths work on the components and other menial tasks. Through the process of forging the weapons of the other Eternals, humanity will probably welcome a bunch of newly advanced weaponsmiths. We might even get some heaven weaponsmiths. They will help with the job as well.”

Su Yu grinned and continued, “Therefore, I believe you can finish it in one day. Or maybe half a year. How about this? I’ll extend the period and give you one full year for this task. I believe I will receive my 9,699 pages in one year.”

“…”

Heavenly Forge King felt like crying again. This was crazy. Including the 301 Su Yu had forged previously, his weapon would be a combination of ten thousand earth weapons. No, many of Su Yu’s existing pages had grown to heaven weapons, such as the pages for the spirits, golden pengs, immortals, devils, and divines.

As for the Mark of Civilization itself, it could now be classified as a peak heaven weapon, a weapon in the process of becoming a divine weapon.