Chapter 1828: Old Wan's Dao Pioneering (2)

Inside the River of Time, Wan Tiansheng smiled helplessly and asked, "Were you not afraid that those fellows would make things ugly?"

Su Yu said nonchalantly, "What is there to fear? Let me put it this way. They should not push me too far. If they push me too far, I will clean every last one of them. I now have a force containing dozens of Daofuses. I don't mind losing a few Eternals or one Daofuse."

"What?"

Wan Tiansheng was surprised to hear that. Su Yu laughed and explained, "Including Grand Dream, the guardians now have eleven Daofuses among them. Great Qin King and Great Xia King have reached Daofuse as well. I also have dozens of Daofuse death spirits in the Death Realm. Principal, is there a need for me to hold back against some people with such forces under my command?"

Wan Tiansheng gasped.

After a long while, he gave a short reply, "Holy shit!"

No wonder the kid was so domineering earlier. He did not know whether to laugh or cry. He asked, "How...did you do that?"

"Through my genius. This is the path of a genius."

Wan Tiansheng said, "Nonsense!"

"You doubt me?" Su Yu chuckled and said, "Forget about that for now. Principal, listen to me as I explain the nature of the various daos to you. It's very simple. Fools won't understand even if I do explain, but I believe you can understand what I'm about to say."

Wan Tiansheng's expression turned solemn as he nodded. And thus, Su Yu proceeded to tell him about the River of Time, the tributaries, the various daos, the physical body dao, the Three Body Method, the laws, the Weapon Fusion Method, and everything he knew.

Wan Tiansheng was completely engrossed in his explanation. This was the very first time someone had explained the various daos to him in such a straightforward way. Back then, Liu Hong had proposed that characters might be the basic forms of laws. Even that alone had granted Wan Tiansheng numerous comprehensions. And now, he finally understood the truth behind the myriad daos.

"I see now." Wan Tiansheng said, "In other words, I might have opened a tributary unknowingly. Perhaps I did sense the existence of other daos, but I did not know how to initiate fusion with those daos. Thus, I had yet to initiate my dao fusion. In truth, I am out of the physical body dao. Thus, the dao affirmation as known to everyone else is no longer useful for me."

Su Yu nodded.

He thought about it and said, "Principal, I can grant you the vision of the Heaven Gate, but it will only show you the vague outlines of the various daos. It won't be too useful. If you're feeling brave enough, you can send your sea of willpower into my Heaven Gate and fuse with it temporarily. I will grant you the full vision and allow you to witness the true myriad daos."

Wan Tiansheng gasped, "Are you mad?"

He asked, "Are you not afraid that I might be bearing ill will toward you?"

Su Yu rolled his eyes and said, "What do I have to fear? Do you think I'm still clueless? Back then, you planted your willpower clone in my heart. You know most of my secrets. No, I believe you probably know everything apart from the Book of Time. Wait, you probably know about the Book of Time as well."

Wan Tiansheng expression changed slightly. He hurriedly coughed and said, "Nope. No way. How could I do something like that? Never! I am not Lan Tian. I do not have the fetish of spying on others."

Su Yu sneered and said, "Grandstar, Heavendoom, and Senior Grand Dream all claimed to have seen you. I asked them about it. They all saw you during my visit to their cities. Why are you still acting?"

"They must have gotten the wrong person."

Wan Tiansheng denied vehemently. He had never done so! He insisted!

Su Yu sneered again and said, "Principal, who else could it be but you? Myself. Alright, stop pretending. You're lucky I am not interested in women so I have nothing to hide."

Once again, Wan Tiansheng coughed and said, "Don't worry, I'm not the type to spy on those affairs."

Su Yu did not say anything. He merely gave Wan Tiansheng a long stare. After a while, Wan Tiansheng said sheepishly, "Didn't I promise you previously that nobody at the Mountainsea Realm and beyond can touch you? I only did that to fulfill my promise! Subsequently, I kept that clone around since you were constantly in danger. Eventually, the clone disintegrated by itself after running out of power. I saw nothing since the clone didn't manage to return to me before then!"

He reiterated, "I'm speaking the truth! Even if you are hiding a woman out there, I won't know about it!"

Su Yu was left speechless. This guy was still acting.

Forget it.

He would not believe that.

He decided to be graceful and not bicker about it. In any case, he did not have anything to hide. His biggest secret, the Book of Time, was no longer a secret for some people.

Wan Tiansheng maintained his sheepish smile. Some matters were better left unmentioned. It wasn't like he had done that to spy on the kid. He only did it to protect the kid!

Wan Tiansheng hurriedly switched the topic and asked, "Can your Heaven Gate accept my willpower?"

"Let's try." Su Yu was unsure. He said, "With direct sight, you will be able to understand the myriad daos better. Seeing it yourself is better than listening to my explanation. You saved me several times before, so consider this a return of that favor. According to Senior Grand Drealm, he nearly slapped me to death when he first saw me. Your explanation was why he held back. He had thought that I was an escaped death spirit."

Wan Tiansheng's clone had actually helped Su Yu several times ago. Back then, Su Yu was completely unaware of it. Eventually, Grandstar and Heavendoom mentioned the matter to him.

When he first converted death qi in the Sea of Stars, the old turtle had nearly slapped him to death. For guardians, death qi was something they couldn't tolerate. Imagine his story ending there because he was slapped to death by the old turtle while converting death qi.

He couldn't help but rejoice in his luck. He had nearly died just like that. How terrifying.

After thinking about it, Wan Tiansheng said, "We can try. You won't lose your Heaven Gate because of this, right?"

"No." Su Yu said, "Don't worry. The Heaven Gate is formed by the 720 acupoints and apertures. If it does go missing, I can reconstruct it."

"In that case, let me see my dao for myself."

Everyone would be curious about this, including Wan Tiansheng and even Su Yu. Just what dao was Wan Tiansheng pursuing? Lan Tian's dao would most likely be related to clones. But Wan Tiansheng's dao was still a mystery.

What was Wan Tiansheng's specialty? His power of control.

He was able to move freely through the River of Time, moving to even the past and future of others. When Su Yu thought back to it, the so-called moving to the past and future of others was probably the act of entering the personal dao of others and cut off their power of dao.

Just what manner of dao was Old Wan pursuing? Was he a dao pioneer? Or had he fused with a unique and impressive dao? Next, Su Yu's Heaven Gate flew away from his forehead. Wan Tiansheng said nothing and slapped his forehead, sending a character flying out.

In truth, Su Yu had obtained his culture and radiance characters from Wan Tiansheng. And evidently, Wan Tiansheng's characters were quite powerful as well. Su Yu suspected that this single character was actually a fusion of multiple characters, but he wasn't fully sure. The character flew into the Heaven Gate and fused with it.

Su Yu's body shook as he suppressed the natural repelling force of his Heaven Gate.

With a roar by Wan Tiansheng, a third eye appeared on Wan Tiansheng's forehead, akin to a smaller Heaven Gate. He gasped for breath and said, "I'll try to open an imitation Heaven Gate for myself."

Su Yu gasped and asked, "What?"

"My copy character."

"Hmm?"

Wan Tiansheng explained, "I have a character capable of replicating treasures, laws, daos, and everything. I'll try to replicate a Heaven Gate as well."

"Is this...even possible?"

Su Yu was stunned. Would this really work?

Wan Tiansheng smiled and said, "It's a minor trick. It's not that useful, honestly. I can only replicate some weaker things. I won't be able to replicate anything at the level of a Daofuse, for instance. This is merely the basic trick a cultural researcher should know. Don't be too surprised. It's not as useful as you think."

Su Yu grimaced. How was something like this not useful?

"No! It is very useful! I believe it's very impressive. Copying daos? This is..."

Wan Tiansheng laughed and said, "Sure, you can try forming this character for yourself. You can do it. Go ahead. Don't bother me for now..."

He started looking around as things he couldn't see before started appearing in his vision. He exclaimed in shock, "So this is the myriad daos in your eyes. The tributaries. The river. The power of laws. All of them are different."

His vision was still not as clear as Su Yu's, but he could still see something. And as he continued looking around, he realized something. He said, "Let's go. I have a feeling my dao is not here. Let's go ahead."

The two started moving forward. They flew past the massive physical body dao, and Wan Tiansheng remained completely indifferent. He was already capable of traversing the River of Time long ago. He had even taken Su Yu on a trip to the river once. But in the past, they couldn't see all these tributaries.

This time, Su Yu was able to notice something different. He saw that unlike the others, Wan Tiansheng would produce a unique power when traversing the river, a power he used to resist the pressure of the river. This was the reason for his ability to traverse the river better than others.

Wan Tiansheng noticed the same thing. When he saw Su Yu looking at him, he explained, "I believe this is related to one of my characters. Unload. The ability to unload power. I never paid much attention to it before, but it is clearly quite useful. According to what we know, this character is probably the representation of a powerful dao as well."

Su Yu nodded.

Wan Tiansheng said, "This isn't my main dao. Let's go. I can feel it. It's ahead of us."

The two continued moving forward, passing one dao after another. Finally, Su Yu started growing doubtful. They had traveled far enough that he suspected they would reach his pen dao soon.

Was Old Wan's dao really further ahead?

While moving forward, Wan Tiansheng said, "In the past, I was able to sense it vaguely. According to your theory, I had a chance at fusing with an existing dao or pioneering my own dao. But I never succeeded. This doesn't make sense, right?"

Su Yu asked, "Doesn't make sense?"

Wan Tiansheng explained, "Yes. If I couldn't feel anything back then, it wouldn't be surprising. I actually comprehended a lot from Liu Hong's theory that characters were the representations for the various laws. I believe I was already capable of pioneering a dao at that time. You need to know that my characters are now far stronger than regular sixth-degree Eternals. But I still can't pioneer a new dao. I refuse to believe that the ancient humans wouldn't even have a weak dao pioneered after reaching the sixth degree.

"I visited the Spirit Realm previously and stole their treasure, the Hundred Spirit Fruit. That was a fruit meant for Daofuses, and it was rich with power of laws. After consuming it, my characters grew even stronger, but I was still stuck. I still couldn't pioneer a new dao or fuse with an existing dao."

Wan Tiansheng said, "Right ahead. Each time I traversed the river, I would be stuck at a certain point. At the time, I believed that there was an end to the River of Time. I believed that I had reached the end."