Tribulation of Myriad Races

19th of March.

Su Yu was still busy cultivating. Suddenly, the broadcasting device in the cultivation room rang, telling him to leave the room.

Curious, Su Yu stood up and left the room. As he walked, the golden glow around his body faded as he slowly returned to normal.

***

After reaching the living area, he noticed that Wen Zhong and the others were all there. Noticing Su Yu, Wen Zhong smiled and asked, "How's the progress?"

"It's alright." Su Yu asked, "Do you need anything from me?"

"No. But you have something to do." Wen Zhong said, "Shan Xiong has exited seclusion at Great Shang. Yesterday, he took off to Great Ming. At normal speed, he will reach around three days. Thus, he will be here around tomorrow or the day after."

"Shan Xiong..."

Su Yu had known for a long time that this was a genius of Great Zhou.

This was the strongest genius of the single character faction, someone who had defeated numerous multiple character faction cultural researchers. He was lauded as the strongest cultural researcher in the same cultivation level, a feat never accomplished by anyone from the single character faction before. Were they finally going to meet?

Wen Zhong said, "Shan Xiong is here on Zhou Polong's order to challenge you. The prefect was here earlier. He said you can ignore Shan Xiong if you don't want to fight. After all, you're a fresh Skysoar."

"It's fine." Su Yu said, "To speak the truth, I'm looking forward to this fight as well. I've fought the strong, the weak, and the talented before. But I've never fought a true freak."

Other cultivators could go to the Allheaven Battlefield and gain some combat experience fighting the divines and the devils. But that wasn't the case for Su Yu. Thus, Shan Xiong would be the first super genius he fought.

Jin Sheng said, "Be careful. Junior Brother Su, we're reminding you not because we don't believe in you. We simply don't want to see you get too careless. As someone who has defeated the multiple character faction members of over a dozen prefectures, he is definitely not weak."

Wen Zhong nodded, "We asked his previous opponents. Shan Xiong's physical cultivation isn't weak. He has 144 acupoints opened and around 15 body forgings completed. He also has peak second-tier willpower and a third-tier character. He only has a single character, but for some reason, all his previous opponents wondered if he was truly using a single character or if he was using a character that is a combination of multiple characters. There is a clear difference between the two."

"Can't they verify it?"

Su Yu was surprised. Wouldn't the nature of the character be obvious once it was used?

Wen Zhong shook his head, "That character of his is quite unique. It seems to have several abilities, but those abilities are too compatible and harmonious with each other for them to come from different characters. He also knows several soul techniques that can be used with only willpower and apertures. Those techniques are very powerful."

"He has also opened a lot of apertures. A cultivator of the Myriad Text Sutra will only open thirty-six apertures at the ninth-stage Skysoar Realm. But Shan Xiong has more than that. He is probably cultivating a foundation cultural art from Great Zhou King. A foundation art from Great Zhou King probably has over thirty apertures. In other words, he must have opened over sixty apertures by now."

Over sixty apertures, peak second-tier willpower, third-tier character, soul techniques, heaven-grade physical cultivation method, and over fifteen body forgings. This was a very formidable opponent.

He could unleash the strength of over two thousand acupoints. As for his character, that would be hard to judge as it depended on the abilities of the character. The most troublesome characters Su Yu had encountered so far belonged to Wan Mingze.

That fellow focused fully on sealing characters. An opponent like that only needed slightly stronger willpower and characters to render one completely helpless. That was an incredibly troublesome opponent.

Su Yu didn't know what Shan Xiong specialized in. But he had no fear. Since Shan Xiong was coming, so be it.

That fellow had challenged numerous multiple character faction experts, forcing them to shut their branch of multiple character faction. Su Yu did not have a good impression of that fellow. More importantly, that fellow's grandfather was Shan Tianhao, the person who kept instigating trouble during the battle in Great Xia. Ultimately, he was killed by Liu Wenyan.

Thus, strictly speaking, Su Yu and Shan Xiong were enemies.

"Alright. I'll be careful."

Wen Zhong said, "I also need to remind you about one more thing. He is coming together with a descendant of the Shang Family, Shang Tianjiao. She is the great granddaughter of Great Shang King. After staying in Great Shang for only a short period of time, he had won the heart of Shang Tianjiao. The Shang Family is intending to marry her to him. You need to take this into consideration."

"Shang Family?" Su Yu frowned, but he soon smiled again, "So be it. In the ring of a match to the death, nothing except life and death matters. It's not against any laws to kill him in a match to the death. Could the Shang Family use that as an excuse to create trouble for me? Even if they do decide to do that, I don't fear them."

Of course, this might still cause some trouble to Great Ming.

Su Yu wasn't too surprised. It was only natural for geniuses to receive the adoration of others. After all, the same was happening to him. Old Zhu had attempted to set him up with his daughter, the great granddaughter of Great Ming King. Someone like that was basically equal to Shang Tianjiao in status.

There was no doubt that Shan Xiong was incredibly talented. Even among those Invincible descendants, very few of them were this outstanding. It was not surprising that the Shang Family would invest in him. Investing in talent was something each of the prefecture would do. Huang Teng was the perfect example of a talent a prefecture had invested in. Su Yu was also one of them.

Wen Zhong said, "We're only reminding you. But there is nothing to fear even if you do fight him. Don't let anything weight you down. Even if you kill him, it's no big deal."

That was Great Ming's stance. On the other hand, if Su Yu was killed...well, Great Ming wouldn't even let that happen. That wasn't surprising.

If Su Yu was the one visiting Great Zhou to kill Shan Xiong, he would fail as well. At the final moment, the experts of Great Zhou would definitely interfere to protect Shan Xiong. Thus, one ought to admit that Shan Xiong was truly courageous to fight Su Yu in Great Ming. After all, Su Yu wasn't a newbie who had never killed anyone before.

In Great Ming, it was very unlikely that he would be able to kill Su Yu. Meanwhile, it was very likely that Su Yu would kill him upon victory.

"I'll think about it." Su Yu said, "Don't worry, Seniors. In terms of trump cards, I doubt Shan Xiong has more than me."

That was his confidence. Could Shan Xiong compare with him in terms of trump cards? Just the Flesh Regrow ability of the immortal race was thorny enough. Just imagine it. In the middle of the battle, when both of them were bloodied, he suddenly recovered fully with that ability. Just with his physical cultivation alone, he could give Shan Xiong an incredibly hard time.

Su Yu was looking forward to the fight. An opponent like that would be perfect to test his strength. Just how strong was he compared to these super geniuses? Was he capable of fighting above his level even when the opponent was a super genius?

Shan Xiong was probably as strong as the super geniuses of the divines and devils, right? As a ninth-stage Skysoar, could Shan Xiong contend against ninth-stage Skysoar divines and devils? If he could, then he would really be an incredible person.

A truly talented divine or devil at that level could muster the strength of over ten thousand acupoints with their physical cultivation alone. As for their willpower cultivation, that was much harder to judge as there were too many variables to the strength of a cultural researcher.

***

After the talk, Su Yu saw them off.

Wu Lan stood up to leave as well, but Su Yu stopped her, "Wait."

Wu Lan asked curiously, "What?"

"I've been studying the Character Technique Stele." Su Yu hesitated slightly and said, "It is very hard to specify the character technique you get from it."

He had promised Wu Qi to not drag Wu Lan into trouble. But getting a support character technique would actually be beneficial for Wu Lan. At the very least, something like that could ensure her safety in the future.

"Also, you need twenty characters..."

Wu Lan did not seem worried. She said, "That's not an issue. The Source Soul Cultural Art is very good when it comes to forming characters. If I don't form more characters, my willpower will reach the Skysoar Realm soon."

When one's willpower grew to a certain level, advancement might happen automatically. There was no helping that. This was also why the multiple character faction had become more and more popular as of late.

"Fine. We can give it a try."

Su Yu stood up and started walking away as he spoke, "Come with me. That thing is very hard to control. My only option is to go in and scout the place first. Perhaps I can attract some templates over with my character technique before letting you in. Even if you fail to form twenty characters before the Skysoar Realm, it doesn't matter. You can continue adding new characters into the technique after reaching the Skysoar Realm."

"Disassembly method?"

"Yeah."

"You know it as well?" Wu Lan was surprised.

"I know a bit about it. At the very least, I know enough to help Skysoars. I can't help those beyond that, though."

Wu Lan was overjoyed to hear that. "Since I can continue forming characters at the Skysoar Realm, I naturally need to pick the strongest character technique possible."

"The best character technique is the one that is most suitable for you." Su Yu said, "Some character techniques might be powerful but not suitable for you. Forcefully forming such a character technique might cause a conflict between your sea of willpower and the character technique. You will lose more than you gain. There is no need to be too attached to the first principal's character technique."

"I know." Wu Lan proudly said, "I'm very talented. It will definitely be fine. Back then, my family wanted me to join the multiple character faction. I was the one who had refused. My grandaunt said that I wouldn't even need to look for Bai Feng and compete against you. I could have looked for Hong Tan and be your martial aunt instead. You are lucky I refused or you will be calling me your martial aunt now."

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