Chapter 1908: Chaos Power (3)

Su Yu and the researchers ignored the brutes and continued their research.

This wasn't a type of research any regular person could perform. Very few people had the ability to differentiate the differences between similar powers. For many, fire was simply fire. These were mostly people with a low level of dao comprehension.

Fortunately, Su Yu had gathered several individuals who were good at this around him.

Su Yu was also working on the chaos power endlessly, and he had discovered that the chaos power was mainly composed of several major powers.

Five elements, yin and yang, life and death. All were powers Su Yu had comprehended before. These concepts were the foundation for his domain character. Thus, he was able to sense these powers much more clearly than the others.

Of course, there were also many other minor powers mixed within the chaos power.

Fortunately, Su Yu had also experienced all sorts of powers while stealing from the many daos of the River of Time. That experience proved helpful now when he needed to identify all the powers in the chaos power.

Lan Tian was the biggest help to him in this research. After all, that was also someone who had experienced numerous different powers. This was such a complicated work that they didn't even realize the passage of time anymore. Gradually, they even forgot their main purpose here in the Upper Realm.

***

At the same time.

Upper Realm.

Inside a small city.

Shadow Marquis was frowning. Seven days had passed since his first message to Stable Army Marquis. He had yet to receive a reply. Just where was Stable Army Marquis? Did Stable Army Marquis want to meet? Or was a meeting impossible?

"Sigh."

Shadow Marquis was feeling more and more anxious.

Just what did Stable Army Marquis encounter?

Just then, his expression changed slightly as his ears twitched. Two powerful devils were passing by the city. Before Shadow Marquis could do anything, one of them shouted, "We are the envoys of the devil race, here for an audience with the Holy Nether Dao Master."

Shortly after, a newly advanced Daofuse flew out of the city and said, "How may I help you, envoys from the devil race?"

"We are here under the order of the Devil Assembly to invite the experts of the myriad races on a hunt for Cloud Fire Marquis of humanity."

The devil envoy said loudly, "The remnants of humanity refuse to submit, constantly ambushing the various races and bringing harm to the myriad races. The whereabouts of Cloud Fire Marquis have finally been ascertained. The devil race is hereby inviting the myriad races to partake in this hunt. The Divine Fire Mountain has been surrounded by the devil race."

When the dao master heard that, he frowned. After a long while, he said, "Noted. I will be there in ten days."

The devil envoy smiled and said, "You are indeed an admirable and righteous individual, Holy Nether Dao Master. This is a battle to warn the remaining humans. It will be an easy battle with the participation of the various races. We shall flatten the Divine Fire Mountain without much effort. We still need to pass the message to the other dao centers so we won't be staying. Farewell."

"Farewell."

After that polite exchange, the two devil envoys left.

Down in the city, Shadow Marquis' expression changed.

Cloud Fire Marquis had been discovered!

All along, the myriad races knew the general locations of the various human marquises, but some of these locations were big enough that these humans could continue hiding there. The Divine Fire Mountain was even more dangerous than the Brightmoon Flower Valley. The flowers of the Brightmoon Flower Valley had the strength of Daofuses, but that required the cooperation of those flowers.

Meanwhile, the Divine Fire Mountain was a land of fire. The flames rising from the ground there could threaten even heavenly kings. It wasn't even hard to guess that the Cloud Fire Marquis would be hiding there since such an environment was the best hiding place for someone like that.

In the past, the myriad races had never bothered to attack despite knowing that location. But now, they had decided to attack. And they were even inviting everyone to participate.

"Cloud Fire Marquis..."

Shadow Marquis was alarmed. With so many participants, it was unlikely that Cloud Fire Marquis would be able to escape. More importantly, the devils had deliberately spread this instead of keeping the operation a secret. Perhaps this was exactly what they wanted.

"Stable Army Marquis!"

It did not take Shadow Marquis long to conclude that this might be related to Stable Army Marquis. Just who were the ones who had taken Stable Army Marquis away?

Were they humans?

Were they friends?

Or were they enemies?

But from how the devils were acting, they were probably humans or allies. Were the devils trying to lure them out? After some struggle, Shadow Marquis sent his third message to Stable Army Marquis.

Cloud Fire Marquis was the strongest among the six surviving human Daofuses in the Upper Realm. His death would be disastrous for humanity. Minshan was dead. Stable Army was missing. In such a situation, the death of Cloud Fire would be a disaster.

At that point, humanity would be left with only three Daofuses in the Upper Realm: him, Brave Martial General, and Cloud Water Marquis. What could three Daofuses even do?

"Has Stable Army betrayed us? Is there a mastermind behind his disappearance?"

Shadow Marquis waited in confusion and anxiousness. With the news spreading everywhere, he was worried that Cloud Water Marquis and Brave Martial General would act rashly and go to the Divine Fire Mountain to help. When that happened, humanity of the Upper Realm might suffer complete elimination.

Then again, they had previously agreed that in such situations, the others should try not to help the party in trouble. However, that was an agreement made during Marquis Minshan's time. Marquis Minshan's authority was enough to keep everyone in line, but Shadow Marquis couldn't.

Thus, Shadow Marquis was feeling extremely anxious.

Ten days.

After ten days, the myriad races would gather around the Divine Fire Mountain.

"Five days. I can only wait that much. If no reply comes from Stable Army Marquis within that time, I'll need to head near Divine Fire Mountain in advance and scout the area out. Hopefully, the others won't be there."

Shadow Marquis was greatly anxious.

***

Meanwhile, Stable Army Marquis was frowning deeply.

This was the third signal from Shadow Marquis.

This time, it was an emergency signal, indicating that the situation was dire.

Unable to hold himself back, Stable Army Marquis stood up and looked at the experts who were still fully engrossed in their research. He said solemnly, "Emperor Yu, Shadow Marquis has sent his third signal to me. This time, he used the emergency signal."

Su Yu, who was busy summarizing the information about the chaos power, glanced at Stable Army Marquis blankly and muttered, "Stable Army Marquis?"

"..."

Fuck!

Stable Army Marquis was left completely speechless. Had these people forgotten that they were still in the Upper Realm? Had they also forgotten that he had waited for their response for many days?

Even that iron devourer called September had fallen asleep from boredom. These guys had most likely forgotten about all of them. With a look of resignation, Stable Army Marquis repeated himself.

Only then did a look of realization appear on Su Yu's face. He nodded and said, "Understood. How long has it been?"

"Eight days since the first signal."

They had been researching without rest for the past eight days. The various Lan Tians had never stopped reporting his findings since the first day. In fact, his many voices were annoying Stable Army Marquis so much that he felt like dying. He couldn't help but admire September for being able to sleep in such an environment.

How impressive.

But for now, it was not the time for him to care about any of that. He was worried about Shadow Marquis as well. That was especially true after he received the emergency signal. Was Su Yu done with his research or not? It had been so many days.

After taking another look at his collected data, Su Yu exhaled and said, "So it has only been eight days. I thought it had been much longer than that."

He was in no rush to give an answer. Instead, he spent a short time going through his recorded data before saying with a smile, "We're nearly done. There is room for improvement, but I reckon this is the best we can do for now. At this point, only endless repetition is left to perfect our data."

At that, the numerous Lan Tians merged with each other before forming a young, handsome Lan Tian. Even so, nobody knew if this was his actual appearance.

The slightly pale Lan Tian said, "Even if we can identify every single power in the chaos power, it won't be simple to know the exact composition to return order to chaos."

Su Yu nodded, "I understand that. There's no rush. We can take our time. If we succeed with this, both of us will be able to utilize the power of chaos and traverse the Chaos Mountain freely. We can even disguise ourselves as ancient beasts local to this area."

"Emperor Yu..."

When Stable Army Marquis called out anxiously, Su Yu looked over and said, "What's the rush? Shadow Marquis isn't dead. If he's really in big trouble, he won't even have the time to meet you anymore."

Su Yu added, "We'll meet him tomorrow. I'll spend tonight attempting to create my very own chaos power."

He appeared completely relaxed. Then again, that was mainly because Shadow Marquis was a complete stranger to him. How could a complete stranger be more important than his study of the chaos power? Also, he still needed to be careful lest this be a trap.

That seemed like such a big coincidence. Things were fine before this, but an emergency appeared right after their arrival. Su Yu was suspicious that this was a trap. Or perhaps this was related to what they did previously.

They had survived for over six thousand years. Could they not survive a few more days without him? Stable Army Marquis couldn't stay calm because he knew these people personally. But as a calm outsider, Su Yu could see that this emergency was most likely related to their arrival.

If he could create his own chaos power...

As that thought crossed his mind, Su Yu smiled.

Did those from Control King's lineage know the way to control the chaos power?

Definitely.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Rather than deriving the chaos power through the myriad daos, these people had most likely cultivated only the chaos power, like the beasts here. With the chaos power, he would be able to make the myriad races suspect the Chaos Mountain.

He didn't even need to do much. He only needed to display his chaos power to attract the myriad races here. Then, the myriad races would stir chaos on his behalf.

"I'm at the final step. Tomorrow, I can meet Shadow Marquis. If it's really a trap, I can simply run back to the Chaos Mountain."

With that in mind, Su Yu started his tests. Strand after strand of power started appearing before him, only to collapse one after another. Great Zhou King and the others watched in silence.

None of them looked anxious.

They all understood that there was nothing to be accomplished by being too hasty. At Stable Army Marquis' age, he should understand this as well.

***

That night, Su Yu made countless attempts.

When the next day arrived, Su Yu was already starting to pale. The group of Daofuses started flying out of Chaos Mountain.

Halfway, Lan Tian vanished.

Not long after, Great Zhou King and the others vanished as well.

Toward the end, only Su Yu and Stable Army Marquis were left. Together, they landed somewhere outside the Chaos Mountain. There, Stable Army Marquis hurriedly crushed his jade pendant, summoning Shadow Marquis over.