Chapter 1857: Destiny Child Emerges (3)

At that moment.

Near the end of the Celestial River of Death, Liu Hong was busy hunting a death sovereign. Suddenly, his vision blurred. A sentence appeared in his mind: "Liu Hong, address Su Yu as your granddaddy or the heavens shall punish you."

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Liu Hong coughed violently as his eyes widened. What was that? He had always been good at controlling his emotions, but this was too shocking. What even was this? Why would such a thought appear in his mind? No, that was not his thought. That was the influence of the dao. The dao was telling him to...call Su Yu granddaddy?

Holy shit!

How was that possible?

That was a dao left behind by Culture King. And Culture King had vanished for over a hundred thousand years. It was impossible for this to be something left behind by Culture King.

Alarmed, Liu Hong looked around nervously. Was Su Yu nearby? Was that Su Yu's influence? Further away, a death sovereign was staring at Liu Hong blankly. Then, the death sovereign dove into the river and vanished.

Liu Hong wanted to give chase, but he gave up since he was no longer in the mood. Just what was going on?

Suddenly, another sentence appeared in his mind: "Do it now or a tribulation will arrive."

Do his ass!

Liu Hong cursed inwardly. This must be Su Yu! Was Su Yu nearby? That fellow seemed to have grown even scarier than before. Was that fellow really capable of influencing his dao?

Liu Hong decided that since this wasn't someone he could contend against, he should continue fleeing.

Run!

But just as he was about to flee, thunderclaps erupted in his mind as an apocalyptic scene appeared.

Liu Hong paled in fright. He hurriedly shouted, "Big Brother, I'll call you Big Brother! Please stop messing with me!"

The scene ended.

***

Somewhere in the death spirit dao.

After throwing a few sentences and an illusion into the tributary, Su Yu grinned. He wondered if Liu Hong had received his message. This was quite fun. But he was done here. This was actually quite tiring. The sight of the tributary had given him some new ideas. Could he do the same and open a tributary here as well?

"No, I am not strong enough. However..."

With the death spirit page in hand, his eyes flickered as he muttered to himself, "I can submerge this page into the dao and use it to steal from the dao. This dao is big enough that it won't feel anything from a tiny parasite like this. It will be fine as long as the page can avoid notice.

"Stealing from the death spirit dao with a fake dao before replacing it. Culture King followed the path of creating a new dao to steal from the dao. I can use a fake dao to steal from the real dao. As long as I steal enough, my fake dao will become the real dao. No, the better choice is to latch onto the dao of a powerful expert pursuing the death spirit dao."

Su Yu's eyes flickered as a new idea emerged in his mind. To become a parasite.

Yes. He could find the dao of a powerful expert in the river and latch onto it with his page. He could even fool that expert into treating his fake dao as the real dao, cultivating the death dao on his behalf. Through the fake dao, the expert would be under the illusion that they had grown incredibly powerful. And when the time was right, he could withdraw the fake dao alongside the power of that expert.

"With this, I can have someone else grow the death spirit page for me."

Even more ideas appeared in Su Yu's mind. He continued forward, attempting to learn more about the death spirit dao. This was an incredibly powerful dao. This was a chance for him to learn from it, gaining inspiration on the method to create a dao independent of the River of Time.

"A large amount of power is required. But how is the river not running out of power? What did Culture King mean when he said that all daos are the same and they share the same essence?"

With numerous questions in his mind, Su Yu continued forward. As he advanced, he could see more and more figures imprinted into the water beneath him. Some looked incomparably powerful, some looked inactive, and some were active.

"After countless years of accumulation, the Death Realm is filled with powerful experts."

Su Yu sighed with admiration. The master of this dao was no longer around. If the master were around to fully unify the Death Realm and awaken all the death spirits, an extremely terrifying force would be created.

"In the end, my own strength matters the most."

Su Yu did not care about how strong the master of the death spirit dao was. He only cared about his personal strength. Finding a suitable person to nurture his death spirit page for him was a very good idea. But it wouldn't be easy to do it without being detected by his target.

"Perhaps I can do the same with the other daos as well."

Su Yu's eyes flickered as he thought. He could consider splitting his many pages among the various daos, stealing from them and having someone else nurture them for him.

"There are no Masters of Laws around. Nobody can move freely through the River of Time. How can they notice anything?"

This was a big opportunity for him. At present, there were no Masters of Laws in the Myriad Realms. He was also the sole person who had opened the Heaven Gate around. It would be extremely hard for anyone to notice his pages.

"I can even replace the real daos with my fake daos, fooling the myriad races into fusion with my fake daos."

Yes, he could have the myriad races fuse with his fake daos. At that thought, Su Yu gasped at how evil he was. How many cultivators would he ruin with this scheme? This trip to the death spirit dao had brought him countless new ideas.

After a while, Su Yu noticed a relatively powerful drop of water with a figure imprinted on it. This was the dao of a marquis. Su Yu's eyes flickered. A marquis. This did not seem like a subordinate of his. Was this North Heavenly King's subordinate?

He focused further. All death spirits looked similar, but he could still differentiate them from each other. This might really be a marquis under North Heavenly King.

"Let's give it a try."

Su Yu reached out and grabbed that drop of water. It resisted violently, releasing a large amount of death qi, forcing Su Yu to step back repeatedly.

***

While Su Yu was capturing that drop of water.

Origin Land.

North Heavenly King had erected a new palace there. Somewhere in the palace, a marquis opened his eyes abruptly. His power of dao erupted.

Instantly, several marquises rushed over warily. North Heavenly King arrived as well. He roared, "Dragonblood Marquis, what is it?"

Dragonblood Marquis sat cross-legged with a frown. As his power of dao rippled out, he said solemnly, "There seems to be a crisis. I can feel my dao clashing against the dao of some other expert."

North Heavenly King blanked out slightly before asking, "Is someone trying to kill you from afar through the dao alone?"

He hurriedly sent his power of dao sweeping out, but he wasn't able to discover anything. With a frown, he said, "Is this happening at the source of your dao?"

"Maybe."

Dragonblood Marquis focused and noted that it might really be the source.

North Heavenly King sank into thought. After a while, he said, "This might be a collision between daos. Someone is trying to squeeze into your territory on the river. Resist with all your strength. As of late, many marquises and heavenly kings have died. Some fellows are trying to snatch more power during this time. The power of the dead can be snatched, but it won't be so easy to snatch the power of those who are still around. Resist with all your strength and the opponent will naturally give up after some time."

Dragonblood Marquis nodded and said, "But who could this be? This is someone capable of invading the dao of others in the death spirit dao. Is this a heavenly king? The South Heavenly King?"

"Perhaps."

North Heavenly King thought about it and glanced in the direction of the Sealed Region. South Heavenly King was not the only person capable of this. Those sealed fellows were not to be underestimated either.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

He said, "Be careful. So long as you are still around, it is almost impossible for someone to steal your dao. After all, you're a Daofuse. To become a Daofuse, you must first make a certain amount of space in the death spirit dao of yours. You can even take this chance to deliver your opponent a backlash and steal their dao instead. Stop talking and focus on resisting. Even a heavenly king can suffer a backlash from attempting something like this."

Dragonblood Marquis was tempted. So he could take this chance to steal from the thief instead? And thus, he sank into focus.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was beaten back again and again in the death spirit dao. He gnashed his teeth and said, "Sure enough, killing a marquis through this method won't be easy. I'm better off attacking them head-on. This stretch of the river is their own territory while I'm merely an outsider here."

Su Yu withdrew. This wasn't an easy opponent. He might as well pick a different target if this was too difficult. Just then, the illusory death spirit imprinted in the river emerged and charged toward him, seemingly in an attempt to devour him instead.

"What madness is this? A counterattack?"

Just as Su Yu was about to withdraw, his eyes flickered. A figure had emerged from his death spirit page. That was the same figure created by his blood essence. The figure was holding a miniature Celestial River of Death in its hands.

Under Su Yu's control, the figure charged toward the marquis with the miniature river. The marquis attacked valiantly, opening its mouth to devour the figure. Instead of resisting, Su Yu allowed it to happen. Bit by bit, his page, the figure, and the miniature river was consumed.

Slowly, the marquis grew stronger. After a long while, the entire death spirit page vanished with a rumble. When Su Yu focused, he could see a page wrapped around the marquis' image in the river.

Su Yu's fake dao had been devoured by the marquis.

While pulling away, Su Yu smiled, "He took the initiative to devour my dao? Well, I guess he doesn't know that you shouldn't eat everything."

The figure of the marquis remained in the area for a while. After noticing that there were no other enemies around, it transformed back into a drop of water in the river. Its aura had grown much stronger than before.

***

Origin Land.

After a period of power fluctuations, Dragonblood Marquis's aura suddenly surged. Then, calm returned. Inwardly, Dragonblood Marquis was greatly shocked. His counterattack was a success!

That was not all! He had even devoured the power of the attacker! He could feel that he had...touched upon something amazing! A miniature river had appeared in his mind.

"What is this?"

Dragonblood Marquis's heart thumped. Had he stumbled upon a fortuitous encounter? When he focused, he received numerous information from the miniature river. After a long while, understanding dawned on him.

"Inconceivable. This...is the seed of the death spirit dao!"

Dragonblood Marquis was greatly shocked. He had stumbled upon such a massive fortuitous encounter from that one encounter. He had successfully touched upon the very essence of the death spirit dao.

From what he understood, the miniature river in his mind was the seed of a dao. Or to be precise, it was essentially a child of the death spirit dao. It was a junior death spirit dao. As long as he continued growing with this dao, he could eventually grow into a Master of Death!

He would become the master of the Death Realm! Dragonblood Marquis couldn't recover from his shock. Just what had he devoured in that clash? The attacker had either been killed or pushed back, losing even something so valuable in the process. This was inconceivable.

Noticing that things had calmed down, North Heavenly King asked, "How is it?"

Dragonblood Marquis calmed himself and hurriedly answered, "I managed to push the attacker back. I believe the attacker is either dead or heavily injured. I even managed to devour some of their power, growing a little myself."

North Heavenly King smiled and said, "That's normal. Battles of daos are extremely dangerous. But unless the opponent is a Master of Law, one can't escape unscathed from suich an attempt. Thus, it is never a good idea to initiate such a battle in the Death Realm. Everyone shares the same dao so dao suppression does not exist."

Dragonblood Marquis nodded and smiled, "Perhaps it was a newly awakened expert who was still confused."

The others agreed with that.

Someone laughed and said, "Dragonblood Marquis is quite lucky. He even managed to benefit from this. I look forward to having a newly awakened fool try the same on me as well. Perhaps I can devour some power of dao from the fool as well."

The others laughed at that.

Dragonblood Marquis was laughing as well, but inwardly, he had yet to recover from his shock. He seemed to have...become the child of destiny. He had actually inherited the seed of the death spirit dao. With something like that, what could he be except the child of destiny?

"I need to keep consuming the power of others."

Suddenly, Dragonblood Marquis had the urge to kill all the death spirits around him to grow his miniature death spirit dao. Perhaps he could rapidly become a heavenly king, a pseudo king, or even a Master of Law.

"The will of heavens...no, I understand now!"

Dragonblood Marquis' heart thumped as he reached a certain conclusion. Due to humanity's second invasion, the death spirit dao was counterattacking. Thus, a child of destiny was born.

"This is the will of the dao. The great dao is trying to produce a being capable of contending against Su Yu. That must be so!"

Numerous thoughts emerged in Dragonblood Marquis' mind. The more he thought, the more excited he became. A realization dawned on him. He had been chosen by the dao! He was the chosen one!

Heavenly kings? Masters of Laws? His ambitions surged as he glanced at the others. Noting that none of them were wary of him, new ideas emerged. He decided to find a chance to kill and devour some of them.

Perhaps this would be a path of rapid growth for him.

"There's also the Sealed Region. There are so many experts there. If I can devour them all and gather their power..."

His ambition surged to an unprecedented level. Somewhere he couldn't see, a certain indistinct figure was seated cross-legged atop the death spirit dao.

The figure chanted, "Devour everything. I am the child of destiny. Unify the Myriad Realms. Dominate the myriad races."

As the figure chanted, Dragonblood Marquis' ambitions grew even more. This was an experiment by Su Yu. He wanted to know if this would work. He aimed to use the death spirit who had devoured his death spirit page to kill and devour others, growing his death spirit page for him.

If it worked, he could do the same with his other pages as well. This was much easier compared to strengthening these pages himself.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still in the death spirit dao. His injuries were quite severe. Thus, he decided to withdraw after some thought. He was also curious about what would happen to the death spirit who had devoured his death spirit page.

Through this experiment, he thought of many new possibilities. And some of these possibilities were so terrifying that he didn't even dare to think about them twice.