Chapter 1945: Gather Up, Let's Kill Some Heavenly Kings (1)

Su Yu's mastery of the pen dao had increased significantly. As he sat cross-legged, dao power poured into his body. His aura surged. This was the benefit of comprehending the dao. So long as one had enough comprehension, one could increase one's mastery and absorb more power to grow stronger.

Su Yu had seen the ancient beasts of the Chaos Mountain before. Their growth was much slower in comparison. Without order, they could only grind their way forward slowly.

"Am I at the level of a heavenly king now?"

After a long while, Su Yu opened his eyes. His eyes gleamed for a split second. Could he contend against heavenly kings now? It was hard to judge before actually fighting one.

But he could feel his grasp over his dao strengthening. The rate of his fusion hadn't increased by too much, but the nearer he was to the end, the more strength he could gain from the same rate of fusion.

He remained seated as he processed his recent gains. Done with that, he stood up and returned to the entrance to the Lower Realm.

The flow of time in the Lower and Upper Realms should be the same. However, he couldn't be certain how long had passed since he had been staying in the river. He could only hope that not much time had passed.

He had promised to return in a few hours. It would be rude to disappear for days after that, right?

***

Lower Realm.

Some time had passed. Wan Tiansheng had been waiting with a thousand pages for about three hours.

Su Yu had promised to return in one hour, but he was still nowhere to be seen. Fate Pseudo Emperor, who was growing anxious, said, "Did Emperor Yu encounter some trouble up there?"

After all, the Dao Origin Land was still the territory of the myriad races. Upon further thinking, it was quite unlikely that Su Yu had actually conquered the Dao Origin Land. Fate Pseudo Emperor did not know the exact number of the top experts in the Dao Origin Land, but he knew that there were enough heavenly kings there to be counted on two hands.

Wan Tiansheng said nonchalantly, "Stay calm."

It had only been three hours.

He would only be worried if three days passed without news from Su Yu. At the time, he would most likely go looking for Su Yu with some people. For now, he could still wait. He had encountered numerous crises in his life. This was only a few hours of waiting. It was no big deal.

Just then, the sky above them warped.

Wan Tiansheng remained silent, his expression turning solemn.

Fate Pseudo Emperor had the same reaction.

None of them took the initiative to communicate with the one behind the entrance. Someone else might be there instead of Su Yu.

After a short moment, a face appeared in the sky again. This time, it was much clearer than before. It was clear enough to show that it was Su Yu. Only a short time had passed yet Su Yu had grown significantly more powerful.

However, Wan Tiansheng and Fate Pseudo Emperor had not considered that possibility. They only knew that Su Yu had finally returned.

Unsurprisingly, Su Yu's voice rang out, "Principal Wan, are you around?"

"Yes." Wan Tiansheng answered. A bound book appeared in his hand as he asked, "Do I toss this thing up directly?"

"A moment."

Then, the tunnel in the sky started shaking violently.

Bolts of lightning flickered in it.

Right at that moment, a gigantic stone appeared and pressed down upon the tunnel.

Instantly, the lightning calmed and the fluctuations faded.

Su Yu roared, "Toss it up!"

At that, Wan Tiansheng swung his arm and threw the book up. It moved through the tunnel smoothly. Beside him, Fate Pseudo Emperor's eyes were flickering. The tunnel had been suppressed!

What was that?

He did not know what that stone seal was, but he knew that it was definitely a supreme treasure. This was a tunnel that could threaten even a heavenly king, yet the stone seal was able to calm it.

Boom!

Next, both the book and the stone seal vanished.

The lightning bolts returned.

Su Yu's face was no longer in the sky. He had withdrawn. Slowly, calm returned to the sky. Before long, the tunnel vanished as well.

Both Wan Tiansheng and Fate Pseudo Emperor exhaled in relief. Fate Pseudo Emperor asked, "Director Wan, Emperor Yu claimed that treasures could be found everywhere up there. Is that really the case?"

He did not know the situation up there well. Yes, there were treasures up there. But they shouldn't be everywhere. Even if they were everywhere, humanity was doing very badly up there. How was Su Yu supposed to gather anything?

Also, how did Su Yu even get near the entrance? In any case, Fate Pseudo Emperor was filled with surprise, doubt, and admiration.

Incredible.

It had only been half a month yet Su Yu had found even the entrance. Evidently, his exploration had brought him to the Dao Origin Land. One ought to know that the Dao Origin Land was essentially the lair of numerous old fossils from the myriad races. It was likely that the Heavenly Fate Marquis was there as well.

Wan Tiansheng smiled and said, "That might be the case for him. But for any of us, it would be danger everywhere instead of treasure."

"True." Fate Pseudo Emperor nodded and asked, "Director Wan, how are things up there? Do you have a guess?"

"I’m unsure." Wan Tiansheng said, "There is no rush. Emperor Yu is already up there. From how he was acting earlier, he was clearly not planning to return anytime soon. In that case, things must be going well. Otherwise, he would have returned down here long ago."

Since Su Yu had not given them any bad news, it could only mean that he was doing well up there.

Fate Pseudo Emperor nodded.

After taking another look at the sky, he gazed into the distance and said, "I sensed some changes with the three major realms recently. Perhaps they have produced some new experts. I wonder if they have produced new Daofuses."

The three major realms were sealed, but the Fate Pseudo Emperor was good at prying into the secrets of the heavens. Thus, he could sense that the fortune of the three major races had strengthened as of late.

It had only been half a month since Su Yu's departure yet the three major realms might have produced new Daofuses. This was no good news.

Wan Tiansheng seemed unbothered. He said, "It's not surprising. In a crisis, anything can happen. We wait for Emperor Yu's return. For now, we ignore them."

"I'll be following your lead."

Fate Pseudo Emperor did not protest. Since Su Yu was evidently doing well in the Upper Realm, there was no need for them to worry too much.

***

Human Emperor's river.

Su Yu was rapidly attaching the new pages to his Mark of Civilization. The grade of these new pages was quite low, at the earth-grade. They were much weaker than the far higher grades of weapons he had been using as of late.

Wan Tiansheng had delivered him a thousand new pages. Looking at all the new pages, Su Yu was in a good mood. Before long, he was moving downstream again. He was rather exhausted, but his good mood was doing a good job at distracting him from his exhaustion.

"Milking time!"

Su Yu moved cheerfully forward. It was time to milk the Human Emperor and gather some power of laws and masterless daos. This would be far faster than what he had been doing to the River of Time previously.

After all, he couldn't steal from the River of Time openly. But there was no such concern here.

Before long, Su Yu reached the area Hundred Battle King was sealed again. Hundred Battle King seemed to have sensed his presence as well, but before Hundred Battle King could start raging, Su Yu had vanished far away.

Annoyed, Hundred Battle King decided to calm down again. In fact, that unknown presence had disappeared so fast he was starting to suspect that he was seeing things. Soon after, Su Yu reached the severed end of the river. He leaped off it.

He couldn't climb up, but it didn't matter since he could leave by tearing his way through the net.

***

On the net, Su Yu started feeding his pages with a small trickle of power for them to grow stronger first. These pages were still too weak to receive too much power. Due to the sheer amount of power pooled in the net, the pages were able to grow rapidly.

The Mark of Civilization itself was at a higher grade, increasing the upper limit of what grade the pages could reach. As time passed, the pages started reaching the heaven grade.

While nurturing his pages, Su Yu was also looking over the weaker attributed daos to take into his pages. He was worried that the stronger ones would destroy his pages. Thus, he was only looking for the weaker ones.

One small dragon after another was brought into his pages. In fact, some were so small they resembled worms more than dragons.

Anyone stupid enough to cultivate such daos would most likely end up as the weakest Eternal in existence. And anyone mastering such daos would most likely end up as the weakest Master of Law in existence.

Such a Master of Law might even end up weaker than a proper Eternal. Then again, this wasn't an issue for Su Yu. He only needed to keep devouring anything he could find. He only needed to keep upgrading his book.

Eventually, he would be able to start pioneering his own dao. Upon pioneering his dao, these fake daos would become real daos.

He was in a great mood. Left here, these daos would eventually end up in the hands of the myriad races. They were better off in his book. It was likely that by the time Su Yu was done, the myriad races would probably be hit with a draught of new masterless daos for a few thousand years.

The Mark of Civilization grew steadily.

At present, the Culture Tomb was the weapon Su Yu used most frequently.

Occasionally, he would use his human lord's token.

But the Mark of Civilization was his actual dao weapon. Unfortunately, it was not strong enough, and what little strength it had was being used to suppress his captured experts. Thus, he hadn't been able to use it much.

This was a great opportunity to strengthen the Mark of Civilization rapidly.

***

Inside the Mark of Civilization.

West Royal Consort was frowning.

What was Su Yu doing?

She couldn't sense what was happening clearly, but she could sense that the space around her was growing more and more durable.

Prior to this, the space around her felt fragile enough that she could see a hope of breaking free. But now, the space was growing tougher, to the point she could no longer break free. Furthermore, her daos were feeling further and further away from her.

"Has Su Yu grown stronger? Or is the treasure suppressing me growing stronger?"

West Royal Consort frowned.

Also, had he delivered the dark jade to the Upper Realm?

"Well, not much time has passed so I doubt it has been done."

It hadn't been long since her last meeting with Su Yu. He couldn't establish a connection with the Upper Realm so easily.

"There's no rush. I can wait. When Su Yu was here previously, he said that Immortal Battle Marquis was stopped by an unknown expert when he attempted to descend. The unknown expert was a user of chaos power. Perhaps some experts back home discovered something off. Maybe they are going to start moving actively."

As she thought of that, she grew expectant. Before long, her people would be here to rescue her!

Who would it be?

At that thought, she recalled Su Yu's confident expression and sneered.

Su Yu was still too tender to scheme against her. The world was far more complicated than he could imagine. Her lineage was filled with countless experts. Did he think that she was the strongest expert in her lineage?

"Well, it's good that he's naive. There is still hope for me."

At that, West Royal Consort tossed the matter concerning the strengthening space around her aside. It didn't matter since she didn't intend to attempt an escape anytime soon. The difficulty was simply too high so it was pointless to try.

***

Elsewhere in the book.

Two individuals were suppressed together.

When Wen Qi was first here, he had attempted to break the space apart and flee. Upon sensing the strengthening space all around him, he said bleakly, "Marquis, there is no way to break free."

The space around them was growing stronger.

South Suppression Marquis frowned and said, "Just what do these people want?"

They had captured him without saying much.

He was quite surprised when he saw that Wen Qi was already in here when he first arrived.

Wen Qi sighed and said, "I don't know. They didn't even give me the chance to speak. I thought they wanted to interrogate me, but they have been ignoring me until now."

South Suppression Marquis' frown deepened. After a long while, he said, "One of them has the human lord's token and the pen dao. That is most likely the human lord from the Lower Realm, a successor of Culture King."

Even so, he was still furious. Not even Culture King's successor could disrespect him like this. The Lower Realm human lord had captured him without bothering to say anything. Just what was going on?

He didn't even know that guy!

The two looked at each other helplessly.

Escape was not possible.

Just what place was this?

It felt like a space inside a weapon, but it was growing way too fast.

The two could also feel that the suppression on them was growing in strength. Their connection to the world outside was weakening. When the suppression grew enough to completely sever their connection to the outside, they would drop back into the Sunmoon Realm.

***

The tiny Mark of Civilization was holding three top powerhouses in it.

Su Yu had been grumbling about how the ancient humans loved sealing people, but he loved doing the same. At times, sealing someone was far better than killing someone.

An indeterminate amount of time passed.

After absorbing a large amount of power, his pages had grown considerably. Some had even reached the heaven grade. He took out a large amount of materials and started tempering those pages.

He had not ascended to the Upper Realm with too many treasures. But he had accumulated quite a lot from killing several Daofuses and exterminating several dragon cities. He did not intend to keep these treasures around. Thus, he was using them as the materials to temper his pages.

More and more golden stripes appeared on the Mark of Civilization. Eventually, the 170th golden stripe appeared.

But even at this level, it still felt too weak offensively for his liking. One ought to note that this was already a top-tier weapon even among divine weapons. However, Su Yu was unbothered.

He knew that the time for the Mark of Civilization to make a qualitative change had yet to arrive. When that day came, he was certain his book would become terrifyingly powerful.

A world within each page.

At that time, the Mark of Civilization would be a true weapon of terror.

Only when the net was nearly empty did Su Yu stand up with a smile. It was time to leave.

He started releasing a tiny burst of devil qi from his body. After transforming his appearance slightly, he tore the net apart and slipped through the opening.