Chapter 1879: Scholars Are Growers (1)

"Done!"

Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng were both alarmed and overjoyed. Both were incredibly excited from tasting success after a deep despair. Of course, they would feel even better if only Lan Tian would shut his mouth. That sharp laughter of his felt way too deafening to their ears.

Slowly, Lan Tian approached them before flashing them an enchanting smile. He said, "My darlings, come give me a kiss."

Boom!

Su Yu threw a punch. Wan Tiansheng threw a palm strike. They could no longer stand this lunatic.

Boom!

Both were pushed back by one step. Lan Tian took a step forward and laughed, "My darlings, you are quite weak. Tsk tsk tsk."

Su Yu snorted. Wan Tiansheng rolled his eyes. The two could feel that Lan Tian was at the level of a weaker peak tier-two expert. Or to be precise, he was at the level of a heavenly king.

Both Wan Tiansheng and Su Yu were experts at the very peak of tier three. And they had actually failed to push Lan Tian back even when they were attacking together.

"Fuck off!"

After throwing Lan Tian a curse, Wan Tiansheng looked at the death spirit dao that was covered by the river again. He said, "This place...death spirit dao..."

Since Lan Tian had succeeded, they finally had the luxury to focus on something else. They were quite surprised at the fact that the death spirit dao was hidden at the bottom of the river. What did that signify?

Su Yu's eyes flickered as he said, "There is a connection between the death spirit dao and the River of Time. Even now, it is still stealing from the River of Time. The creator of this dao was truly brazen. Was he not worried that he would receive a backlash from the river?"

He continued muttering to himself, "Connection of life and death. Life, death. I think...I have discovered something new here."

Su Yu inhaled deeply and gasped, "Resurrection!"

Resurrection.

At that, Wan Tiansheng's heart thumped. Su Yu's eyes lit up as he repeated himself, "Yes! Resurrection! The hardest part of resurrecting a death spirit is the fact that the dao of a death spirit is a part of the death spirit dao. It is too hard to free a death spirit from the death spirit dao. Any attempt might result in a backlash from the dao. But what if we slowly shift the death spirit's dao to the River of Time?"

Su Yu laughed, "In short, this is a method we can try. Sure enough, the worlds of the living and dead are connected."

The death spirit dao was still not fully separate from the River of Time. It was unknown if separation was simply impossible or if this was merely for the sake of stealing from the River of Time.

Su Yu did not waste more time contemplating on this matter. He had drained too much of his energy helping Lan Tian. He said, "Let's enter the death spirit dao and take a look. Can we really enter the Death Realm through here? And where will we reach if that's the case?"

At that, he scattered the water with a punch before throwing his stone down to stabilize the water. Without the stone, it would be impossible for one to reach the bottom of the river as one would die before going that far. But with the stone, it would be much safer for them to attempt this.

All three of them were the peak experts of this era. Thus, even Lan Tian was behaving himself at this moment. After all, they were attempting something where even a tiny bit of carelessness could kill them.

Furthermore, the sight of Su Yu's white hair gave both Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian a sense of urgency. They did not dare to waste even a tiny bit of his time.

In moments, the three vanished into the dark tunnel at the bottom of the river.

***

Boom!

They were greeted by a thick wave of death qi.

Su Yu and Lan Tian weren't that badly affected, but Wan Tiansheng was pushed back by the eruption. Hissing sounds rang out from his body due to the corrosion of the death qi.

However, he seemed unbothered. His eyes shone brightly as he said, "Life and death. Union and separation. These are all important factors of human life as well. One can even view them as human emotions as well. I had neglected this previously."

He had learned a lot from this. He was certain he could progress even further in his human dao after taking some time to digest all he had learned here.

Hope, despair, coming back from death, opening a dao for a fellow daoist, cycle of life and death. All these were the valuable experiences he had harvested from this trip. An ordinary person would never have the chance to experience all that.

It was likely that they were among the few who had gotten the chance to experience all that since time immemorial. One could say that all three of them had gained massively from this journey. Naturally, it was still not the time for them to pause and ponder what they had learned.

For now, they needed to focus on leaving. With his Heaven Gate open, Su Yu observed the death spirit dao. During his previous foray into this river, the resistance felt incredibly uncomfortable. But after his recent experiences in the River of Time, these little waves of the death spirit dao no longer felt too threatening.

"Sure enough, the death spirit dao is weaker than the time dao."

Su Yu could only conclude that the River of Time was the true number one dao of the Myriad Realms. Lan Tian might have opened a long dao through the River of Time, but in truth, it probably covered only a small part of the river. It was still far from comparable with the river itself. Of course, it was a dao with an extremely bright future. Then again, it was no big deal for Su Yu.

He would create his own myriad daos. He would create another River of Time. That was a lot more ambitious than Lan Tian's dao. Thus, he had been reminding himself to not be envious of Lan Tian's trash dao.

His future dao would be the actual supreme dao. Yes, yes, Lan Tian was now very strong. But he would catch up and leave Lan Tian far behind in no time.

"Go!"

With a roar, Su Yu moved forward. He did not waste any time. It wasn't like both he and Wan Tiansheng could afford to waste more time here. This time, Lan Tian was the one standing ahead of them and opening the path.

Su Yu said nothing and continued onward in such a manner. Before long, he noticed something. He looked down and saw some larger droplets of water in the river, including the images of some people in these droplets. He ignored them.

These were all super experts. Super experts of the death spirit dao, to be precise. But at the moment, he did not have the luxury of dealing with them. The three continued moving rapidly. This wasn't the place they should exit from as that might bring them right toward some super death spirits. That would be an extremely unwise thing to do.

Su Yu intended to leave only upon reaching a stretch of river he was familiar with. Before long, he sensed a familiar aura, the aura of his death spirit seed. He opened his Heaven Gate and focused. Down in the river, a drop of water entered his gaze. It had grown considerably since he last saw it.

At the moment, it was busy devouring some of the nearby droplets.

Dragonblood Marquis.

After focusing on it for a bit, Su Yu nodded. Not bad at all. That fellow had probably reached the level of a tier-two Daofuse. At this rate, he would probably reach the level of a heavenly king before long.

"The Myriad Realms are filled with thieves. Let's see who will be the biggest thief of all."

That was a sudden thought of Su Yu. The death spirit dao was stealing from the River of Time. Dragonblood Marquis and the others were stealing from the death spirit dao. And Su Yu was stealing from them.

Indeed, everyone was a thief. With a smile, Su Yu continued onward. Shortly after, his eyes flickered as his gaze landed on the sole tributary of the death spirit dao, the ink dao.

He laughed and said, "We'll exit here. Lan Tian, catch Liu Hong for me if you see him."

"Is Little Liu Hong in there?"

Lan Tian grinned and said, "It has been a while since I last saw that little darling of mine! I'm starting to miss him!"

Why? Why was everyone his little darling? Su Yu was left speechless. He was finding it harder and harder to predict Lan Tian's madness. For now, they needed to focus on leaving. He was nearly at his limit.

"Settle down!"

After suppressing the river with the stone, the three joined hands to tear a rift in space near the tributary. Then, Su Yu opened his Heaven Gate again and flew straight toward a certain direction while paying close attention to the tributary in the sky.

Both Su Yu and Lan Tian were unaffected even after entering the Death Realm. However, Wan Tiansheng was someone without any connection to the death spirit dao. Thus, he was finding it hard to conceal his life force in the Death Realm. This was especially true in his injured state. Thus, the Celestial River of Death started roiling right after his appearance.

And some death spirits started awakening from the river. But the three merely ignored the river. Far ahead, a figure entered their vision.

The moment that person saw them, he turned to flee. But before he could leave, countless figures appeared all around him. Countless voices laughed in unison, "Little Darling, stop running! Let's have some fun together!"

His voices were akin to demonic music.

Liu Hong's expression changed. Just as he was about to transform into a death spirit to flee, all his hair stood on end. A gigantic Lan Tian appeared behind him before clutching his neck like he was a kitten. The gigantic Lan Tian said, "Stop moving, Boy."

Liu Hong was greatly alarmed. Was that Lan Tian?

Too strong!

No matter what, he was already an expert among Eternals. How was he captured so easily? Next, his expression changed even more. He was finally able to get a clearer look of Su Yu. Looking at the white hair, white brows, and white robes, he couldn't resist asking, "Did you dye your hair?"

But he knew that wasn't the case right after asking. Thus, he exclaimed in alarm right after, "Have you gone mad? What did you do?"

Su Yu had exhausted too much of his lifespan to the point that all his hair had turned white. One ought to remember that he was still in his early twenties! With his current strength, he could have easily lived for a hundred thousand years. He was supposed to only start gaining white hair after living for about seventy to eighty thousand years.

Su Yu frowned and said, "Why did you run? Is it so hard for us to catch you? With your conspicuous ink dao, how are you supposed to hide from me?"

With a snort, Su Yu asked, "Why did you defy the dao? Have you forgotten that the dao had ordered you to address me as your granddaddy?"

"..."

Liu Hong opened his mouth, but he couldn't find his words.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Fuck that!

"For disrespecting the dao, the heavens shall punish you."

Boom!

A bolt of lightning dropped down.

With his hair standing and his skin torched, Liu Hong looked like the complete opposite of Su Yu, who was wrapped in white.

"Please stop messing with me!"

Liu Hong felt like crying. Why was he so unlucky? Why did he encounter them here? Every single one of them was emitting an unimaginably powerful aura. He felt greatly pressured in their presence.

Su Yu chuckled, but his face turned cold again as he said, "You have the ink dao all for yourself, yet your comprehension is so shallow. Trash. How is a piece of trash worthy of that dao? You will have a hard time even reaching the Daofuse Realm, much less mastering this dao."

Su Yu stopped to look at the ink dao for a while before continuing to speak, "As a living being who has transformed into a pseudo death spirit, you are a being existing between life and death. You won't be able to fully experience the intertwining of life and death here. Are you interested in fully turning into a death spirit?"

"No!"

Liu Hong quickly refused. He did not want to die fully.

"In that case, go to the spot where life and death are intertwined." Su Yu said, "Master the ink dao as soon as possible. There are many sealed experts in the Origin Land. Use your ink dao to encroach upon their daos and get rid of them for me. My focus will be on the Upper Realm, the ancient past, and the deepest reaches of the River of Time. You will handle the Death Realm for me."

At that, he grabbed Liu Hong, tore a rift in space, and stepped through it.

Lan Tian and Wan Tiansheng followed behind them. With another giggle, Lan Tian asked cheerfully, "Will this kill that guy? He's so weak. Are you really taking him there?"

Wan Tiansheng was doubtful as well. "Can he do it?"