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At that moment, King Tianzhu was still collaborating with Zhao Tianbing to forge weapons. As for King Daxia, Su Yu paid him no further attention. That man knew nothing, meddled blindly, and understood none of it. Talking to him was pointless. As the realm's number-one handsome man, he was better off quietly playing the cool, stern older gentleman. When he acted aloof and cold, he was still domineering and dashing; the moment he opened his mouth and kept talking, though, that charm vanished and his persona fell apart. Su Yu turned his gaze to the others present. King Miecan and King Jintian. These two were the most suspicious. King Miecan... Su Yu considered the spacetime technique. Furthermore, King Miecan was rumored to possess a Human King bloodline, though no one knew exactly which Human King's bloodline it was. "Lord Chui, has King Miecan displayed the aura of a Human King bloodline yet?" "No!" the mother ball replied. Su Yu understood. So King Miecan had not gone all out yet. Evidently, it wasn't yet time for him to exert full strength? As for the grand formation with over ten thousand portals, only several hundred had been charged so far. Finishing the entire array would clearly take quite some time. "Could it be King Miecan?" Pondering this, Su Yu spoke up, "Senior King Miecan, I know spacetime techniques too. If you're tired, I can take over for a while!" "Tired?" King Miecan laughed. "I'm fine. I haven't reached my limit yet. This is just the beginning!" Su Yu smiled. "That's good. I thought you were getting tired, Senior. The formation is charging quite slowly!" "Slow?" King Miecan was speechless. What business of yours is how fast or slow it goes! Forging a grand formation didn't have to be completed in a single day. Had this brat Su Yu suffered a setback with King Tianzhu, refused to accept it, and now wanted to seek attention here? What did a brute with nothing but brawn know? You just happen to have a bit of strength! Do you even understand what rule power is? King Miecan couldn't even be bothered to reply, continuing to coordinate with the others in forging the array. One portal after another was swiftly charged and sealed. King Daming presided over the formation, quickly gathering all the charged portals to assemble the base of the tower. Su Yu kept watching. Before long, someone flew over—it was Qin Zhen. Upon arriving, Qin Zhen offered Su Yu a smile. It was meant to be genial, yet looked rather awkward. Just like his father, he was unsuited to smiling; when he forced it, it looked somewhat unsightly. Without wasting words, he turned to King Daxia and King Dazhou and asked, "Uncle Xia, Uncle Zhou, the various prefectures sent me to ask whether tomorrow's meeting will proceed as scheduled." By now, night had fallen. Dawn was not far off! Was this meeting still happening? "Proceed as scheduled," King Dazhou said with a faint smile. "It won't interfere. Let them forge their formation and weapons; you discuss your matters. In the first place, this affair shouldn't be led by us elders, so there's no conflict!" Hearing this, Qin Zhen nodded. "Alright, got it. I'll let everyone know! Will it still be held at the Castellan Manor?" "No, let's hold it at the Civilization Academy," King Dazhou said with a smile. "It's closer, making it simpler for us if we wish to listen in." Qin Zhen had no objections; anywhere was fine. Offering Su Yu another smile, Qin Zhen quickly departed to inform the other prefectures that tomorrow's conference would proceed as planned. King Dazhou thought for a moment, then looked at Su Yu. "The conference between the various prefectures won't be settled in a day or two. Don't rush into decisions, and don't be reckless. Win them over step by step, and strive to persuade each prefecture. Some opposition isn't necessarily a bad thing; they merely hope for a better outcome." Win them over step by step? Su Yu felt puzzled. Win them over step by step... What did that mean? Stalling for time? Could holding a meeting really drag on for eight or ten days? Seeing that Su Yu didn't grasp his meaning, King Dazhou hesitated. He was actually a bit worried that Su Yu might ruin their plans. Originally, he had intended to say nothing, keeping Su Yu completely in the dark. However... if he stayed silent, this brat Su Yu might truly bathe the Human Realm in blood! What a troublesome kid! After a brief pause, King Dazhou smiled. "Enough of that. Didn't you mention last time that you wanted to see King Dazhou's artificial divine characters? While they're busy forging the formation, how about I take you to see them?" "Now?" Su Yu was taken aback. Go right now? Did King Dazhou have something he wanted to say in private? About the traitor? "To the Great Zhou Prefecture?" "Yes!" Su Yu knitted his brows. Beside them, King Daxia cleared his throat. "I'll go with you." For this trip, the Human Realm had assigned him and King Daming to protect Su Yu. Now that King Daming was refining the formation, only he could go. As for Old Zhou, he wasn't particularly worried about him, but... he still needed to put Su Yu's mind at ease. Since King Daxia wanted to come along, Su Yu thought it over and said, "Your Majesty King Daxia doesn't need to accompany us. This is the Human Realm. I don't believe any Dao Integration expert among the myriad races would dare sneak in to assassinate me! Even if one did... in the Human Realm, King Dazhou would hold them off for a moment, and I could open a dead spirit passage to leave." King Daxia hesitated. King Dazhou smiled. "Let's leave it at that, Old Xia. It's fine! With me here, Su Yu is in no real danger." King Daxia pondered for a moment, then transmitted his voice to Su Yu: "Be careful then. If something feels off, there's no need to see it right now. Once the formation is finished, Old Zhu and I can accompany you." "Understood." Su Yu gave a slight nod, then looked at King Dazhou with a smile. "Your Majesty King Dazhou, no day like today. Shall we go see those artificial divine characters right now?" "Very well!" King Dazhou chuckled. "Once you see it, I'm afraid you might be disappointed..." "Hopefully not!" King Dazhou said no more. Su Yu assessed the situation: King Miecan and the others wouldn't exhaust their full strength anytime soon, so standing around staring was pointless. Leaving now might even lower the traitor's guard. As for King Dazhou plotting against him... If this fellow truly turned out to be wicked, Su Yu would make him suffer consequences he couldn't bear. Conveniently, the mother ball was right here! …… Soon, Su Yu followed King Dazhou, stepping into the air and flying toward the Great Zhou Prefecture. Seeing this, King Daming, who was busy forging the formation, shouted, "Where are you going?" Beside him, King Daxia spoke up, "Old Zhou is taking him to see the place where he crafts divine characters!" "Follow them!" King Daming barked. Old Qin had specifically instructed him and King Daxia to protect Su Yu together. If anything happened to Su Yu in the Human Realm, the trouble would be astronomical. King Daxia said nothing out loud, but transmitted his voice: "It looks to me like Old Zhou has something to discuss with the kid. Besides, all of you are refining formations and forging weapons. If I leave too and someone wipes out the elites of the thirty-six prefectures gathered here... that would be an even bigger catastrophe! Let's trust Old Zhou this once. I don't believe there's any problem with him." "..." King Daming was speechless. I trust him too! The issue is, what if? Never mind. Su Yu wasn't an idiot. If he suspected King Dazhou, he wouldn't dare leave alone with him unless he possessed complete confidence or trusted that King Dazhou wouldn't harm him. …… The two of them walked through the air. Their pace seemed unhurried, yet each step spanned dozens of li. Unlike King Daxia's habitual silence, King Dazhou wore an easy smile, introducing the cities below, their histories, local anecdotes, and lore... Allusions and tales rolled off his tongue effortlessly. He knew every detail, including various bits of gossip and street rumors. Su Yu listened in silence. After a while, he remarked slowly, "Your Majesty's grasp over the Human Realm is certainly thorough." King Dazhou chuckled softly. "That is only natural! Civilization Masters are all prone to overthinking things to some degree. The same goes for King Daming. Otherwise, where would all the storytellers across the realm come from?" Su Yu had no rebuttal. That was true enough; the storytellers of the Great Ming Prefecture were scattered across the world, forming a formidable front for shaping public opinion! Now that they had left the Great Xia Prefecture, King Dazhou finally spoke up. "Finding the second one... is actually exceedingly difficult." "Exceedingly difficult?" Su Yu frowned. "I've already narrowed it down to a few people! Unless Your Majesty is stirring up trouble." "I wouldn't stir up trouble; it serves no purpose," King Dazhou said with a chuckle. "In truth, I want to expose him as well. However... put yourself in his shoes. If you were a traitor, would you easily reveal yourself? I don't know what method you're using to search or judge—perhaps through bloodline, aura, or divine characters. But can all of that truly be taken at face value?" "What do you mean?" Su Yu looked puzzled. King Dazhou pondered for a moment before saying, "That fellow is meticulous, far from ordinary! Otherwise, I would have discovered him long ago! He rarely makes a move—or rather, up until now, he has only made a move once... inciting Fenhai to kill Ye Batian! Even during Ye Batian's death, he might not have intervened personally. Take the destruction of the Liu family: Fenhai's original plan was merely to coerce the Lius into forcing Liu Wenyan's return. As for why it ended in their annihilation, do you think that fellow would take control of people himself? I suspect he may have merely provided a subtle nudge, without ever showing his face." "Even the intelligence Ji Hong uncovered might only have been planted to mislead you... Would he not know what Ji Hong was investigating before?" Su Yu frowned. "Your Majesty means this person might know that we know of his existence, so he conceals himself so deeply that no one—save for himself—knows his true identity?" "Precisely!" King Dazhou laughed. "If it were me, if I were that traitor, only I myself would be trustworthy. I wouldn't tell a second soul that I was the traitor! Therefore, what you uncover might not be the truth." Su Yu frowned again. What was this? Making excuses for the traitor, or did he genuinely believe this? "Then does Your Majesty have any suspects?" "Of course," King Dazhou replied with a smile. "After all these years, naturally I have suspects. My thoughts are probably similar to yours: Tianzhu, Miecan, and Jintian are all possibilities. Have you ruled out Tianzhu?" Su Yu nodded slightly. "Broadly speaking, he can be ruled out, unless he's hiding something exceptionally deep and has a living Invincible accomplice backing him. I drew a tiny trace of his bloodline aura; that was the aura of a living Invincible. Unless he prepared beforehand with the blood and qi power of a second Invincible—a living human, and one I don't know and have never met—I would have identified it." King Dazhou nodded. "It's best that it isn't him." He continued, "Set the matter of the traitor aside for now. During tomorrow's meeting, stall for a bit of time. I imagine you have other motives as well, but none of that matters. That includes your father's longevity banquet—hold it on the third day of the conference!" "Why?" "We need a bit of time." King Dazhou smiled. "Keep all eyes focused on the Great Xia Prefecture. Ensure everyone is watching Great Xia. Can you manage that?" Su Yu frowned. King Dazhou chuckled. "It won't harm you!" "I want to know the reason!" "The reason?" King Dazhou laughed. "No particular reason, other than Old Qin and I—along with a few others—are going to carry out an operation to resolve some trouble. But our departure must go unnoticed, and we need time!" Su Yu's mind worked rapidly. An operation? Both King Daqin and King Dazhou were going... The scale of this operation had to be immense, and others were likely involved as well. Those two were currently the strongest experts among humanity. Were they moving against a Dao Integration expert? Otherwise, an ordinary ninth-stage Eternal wouldn't warrant them sneaking around in secret. Dao Integration? Which Dao Integration expert was worth targeting right now? Names rapidly surfaced in Su Yu's mind, and he soon asked, "The Dragon race or the Tianyuan race?" As for the three major races, they wouldn't be the target. They were too powerful! Even if an allied strike slew one of their Dao Integration experts, the humans would gain no advantage and would instead face encirclement. "What do you think?" Su Yu considered it and said, "The Tianyuan race is more suitable, yet they are extremely secretive and might even have ties to the Dead Spirit Realm! In my view, the Tianyuan race poses a greater danger than the Dragon race!" King Dazhou gave a slight nod. "Then is the Dragon race more suitable?" "No, still the Tianyuan race!" Su Yu thought for a moment before continuing, "Precisely because they are secretive, we should catch them unprepared, strike straight into their heartland, and eliminate them in an instant! Otherwise, once an all-out war breaks out later, if their curse arts are unleashed, Invincibles might not fear them, but anyone below Invincible could be cursed to death! They might have fewer experts, but their destructive power and deterrent capability are greater than the Dragons'!" "Not because of Ye Batian?" King Dazhou asked with a chuckle. Su Yu laughed. "To be blunt, do I even know Ye Batian? It has nothing to do with him. That race truly poses an enormous threat; they can even strike deals with dead spirit monarchs!" He genuinely wasn't seeking to wipe out the Tianyuan race over Ye Batian. Their threat was unequivocally greater than the Dragons'. No matter how strong the Dragons were, they were neither secretive nor unfathomable. The Tianyuan race, however, was shrouded in mystery and could threaten everyone at a critical moment. "Mm!" King Dazhou nodded slightly, smiling. "Your assessment is correct." Su Yu drew a slight breath. So it really was them! King Dazhou and the others were genuinely planning to strike the Tianyuan race? What boldness, what sheer audacity! If they were cut off and trapped inside the Tianyuan Realm, the fallout would be catastrophic. Furthermore, the enemy possessed at least one Dao Integration expert. Even if their Invincibles were fewer in number, a Dao Integration powerhouse was formidable, and what ancient race didn't have hidden trump cards up their sleeve? "If you fail, the fallout will be disastrous!" Su Yu said. King Dazhou laughed. "We'll have to face it sooner or later, won't we?" "True enough! Strike first to seize the initiative! Right now, everyone assumes humanity wouldn't dare break the balance first. If the humans really shatter the balance first..." Su Yu shook his head; the subsequent troubles would be endless! War might erupt once again! And this time, the target would be humanity, not him alone. King Dazhou chuckled. "If it's broken, so be it. Outbreak of war is also a good thing! At least those fence-sitters will no longer have time to weigh their options." "Is Your Majesty referring to yourself?" Su Yu quipped with a smile. "Didn't Your Majesty oppose foreign wars?" King Dazhou smiled. "Perhaps! Perhaps this is also my way of forcing my own resolve!" Su Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Then Your Majesty's intention in having me stay in the Human Realm is..." "First, draw attention! Second, coordinate with us: when we depart, your guardians might encounter illusions of us... Given their immense power, they might see through them. Third, if we end up trapped in the Tianyuan Realm, the Human Realm might face a surprise attack!" King Dazhou said softly, "We will leave behind some defensive force in the Human Realm, but if the major races mount a combined siege, the Human Realm could be breached. I hope you can lend a hand, offer some support, and save the Human Realm!" "Me?" Su Yu chuckled. "I'm not up to that task!" "You are capable of it!" Su Yu smiled and said nothing further. King Dazhou dropped the subject and led him forward. Before long, a modest city appeared before Su Yu's eyes. Su Yu glanced down, knitting his brows slightly. "Beiyuan?" "Yes, Beiyuan City!" King Dazhou said with an easy smile. "There is a ruin here, inherited by Tianyuan. That is how he attained the Dao! The method for crafting artificial divine characters is conducted inside this ruin—safe, confidential, and shielded from prying eyes." A ruin! The ruin of Beiyuan City! Su Yu nodded slightly. He had heard that of the four Yuan in the cardinal directions—East, South, West, and North—the other three all held ruins, with Nanyuan being the sole exception. Nanyuan... perhaps it had one, or perhaps someone had already taken it, or perhaps... Starfall Mountain? Did that count as Nanyuan? Modern Nanyuan was small, far too small! If it had been as large as the other grand cities, Starfall Mountain might very well have been part of Nanyuan's territory. King Dazhou added, "The four Yuan of east, south, west, and north were originally the territories of ancient powerhouses! The four poles of the Human Realm! In ancient times, they were the domains of four Human Kings—their fiefdoms! Beiyuan was actually the fiefdom of the ancient King Wu, while Nanyuan was the fiefdom of King Wen!" Su Yu started slightly. "King Wen?" "Indeed!" King Dazhou smiled. "Surprised? There is no reason to be surprised. They were both humans, and their foundations lay within the Human Realm! The Star Residence Mansion was merely a new estate constructed later on!" Su Yu frowned. Nanyuan was King Wen's territory? Beiyuan was King Wu's? "Then what about Dongyuan and Xiyuan?" Su Yu asked curiously. "Usually, of east, south, west, and north, east holds the place of honor..." "You are mistaken!" King Dazhou laughed. "In ancient times, south was the place of honor! The vanquished resided in the north—hence the idiom 'retreating north in defeat'! In ancient times, King Wu and King Wen reportedly sparred often. King Wu suffered defeat and retreated north; thus, King Wu resided in the north and King Wen in the south!" Was that so? Su Yu didn't dwell on it. Customs were fickle; after a hundred thousand years, who could say how ancient times truly were? "The east was the territory of King Ming, and the west was the domain of the Prison King. The Prison King dwelt in the west." Su Yu's heart stirred. The four powerful Human Kings—he knew of all of them! Was King Ming strong? The Prison King was undoubtedly formidable; otherwise, how would he have dared oppose King Wen? Even if that was only after King Wen vanished! The Prison King dwelling in the west was not surprising, but King Ming dwelling in the east... that was intriguing! "Was King Ming very powerful?" "Mm," King Dazhou smiled. "Fragments of lore have survived from ancient times. The meaning behind 'King Ming' conveys the sense of 'the sun and moon alone belong to me.' In heaven and on earth, the sun and moon yield to me alone—even the celestial bodies bowed their heads before him. And that did not refer to the Sun Moon Realm!" He continued, "However, the ruins of the four Yuan might not have been their residences. Even if they were, they were destroyed long ago and likely rebuilt by later generations. Thus, the ruins we inherit are not those of true ancient figures, but perhaps remnants from the previous tide, or the tide before that..." As they spoke, King Dazhou tore open the void. A unique spatial pocket! Su Yu stepped in after him, feeling a fairly dense concentration of Heaven Yuan Qi, though not so dense that it astonished him. The so-called ruin entered his field of vision... There was little worth looking at. Just some ancient structures. At a glance, Su Yu found them less impressive than the fake ruins constructed in Nanyuan. However... Su Yu spotted something unexpected. Within this ruin stood an elevated platform. Su Yu paid no mind to what rested on top of the platform; instead, his gaze fixed on its perimeter... countless skeletons! Su Yu's expression changed! Piles of corpses—no, skeletons. Pure bone, stripped of flesh and blood. He snapped his head toward King Dazhou! King Dazhou said calmly, "They were research materials. Most were Civilization Masters, some from the myriad races, some from humanity." "Humans?" Su Yu was shaken. King Dazhou remained composed. "They were all criminals—either from the All-Races Sect or heinous scoundrels." "Humans must not use humans for research!" Su Yu said in a low, heavy voice. King Dazhou nodded slightly. "There is such a rule, which is why we stopped doing so later. That was all from the early days." Su Yu frowned and said nothing. King Dazhou looked toward the high platform and said softly, "When it comes to crafting divine characters, our research did not run particularly deep, yet we produced several powerful divine characters. Do you know why?" "Why?" "The answer lies upon that platform!" Frowning, Su Yu stepped into the air and flew directly toward the raised platform. King Dazhou followed alongside him. As Su Yu neared the platform, his heart stirred slightly. There seemed to be a resonance! He quickly stepped forward, looked down, and his heart gave a jolt! "Myriad Laws!" It was a fragment inscribed with two characters: "Myriad Laws"! Yes, Myriad Laws! Su Yu swiftly retrieved his own "Record" character fragment. His eyes flashed, and he snapped his gaze toward King Dazhou. King Dazhou said calmly, "I did not know before. But when Marquis Jiantian produced the Heaven Hunting Ranking and the characters 'Illustrated Record' appeared, I realized this might be a piece of the Heaven Hunting Ranking! The original name of the Heaven Hunting Ranking was likely the Myriad Laws Illustrated Record!" Su Yu was stunned! He recalled Marquis Jiantian's words: there were three fragments in total, and the final piece was crucial; combined into one, they might even seize control of the Heaven Hunting Ranking! And as for the third piece, Marquis Jiantian likely knew where it was. Yet he had no way to retrieve it! If this was it... indeed, he had no way to take it, because it was in King Dazhou's hands! "The Myriad Laws Illustrated Record!" Su Yu recalled what Doubao had said: King Wen had forged it as an imitation of the Spacetime Book, and the Spacetime Book was also known as the Book of Myriad Laws... Thus, the two characters "Illustrated Record" were not the complete title. The full name was the Myriad Laws Illustrated Record! King Dazhou explained, "Myriad Laws... carries the effect of all laws converging into one! How were artificial divine characters produced? In the beginning, we didn't understand. Later, quite by chance, after slaying a Civilization Master of the myriad races, a shattered divine character fragment fell into the 'Myriad Laws' fragment. To our astonishment, it reassembled into a complete divine character! From then on, we began researching it deeply. The further our research went, the more astounded we became! These two characters, 'Myriad Laws,' possess unfathomable power!" Su Yu said in a low voice, "All laws converging into one... reassembling divine characters... artificial cultivation... No, this is rule power! A special method that wields rule power to shatter divine characters and subsequently reorganize the rules!" Su Yu seemed to understand! He thought of the Spacetime Book—the one in his own head. Now, he understood why it could convert everything into human cultivation techniques: it was a distortion of rules! Distorting the rules of the myriad races until they became suitable for humans to cultivate! And the imitation forged by King Wen must have borrowed this exact mechanism, taking in the divine characters of the myriad races or humans, distorting their rules, and recreating divine characters! At this moment, profound realization dawned on him. This truly was a part of the Heaven Hunting manual! And a critically important part at that! The Heaven Hunting manual ought originally to have been called the Myriad Laws manual. It absorbed the auras of experts from the myriad races and even possessed the power to slay them, devouring everything about them and twisting it to give birth to rule power! It was an ominous weapon akin to his civilization chronicle! Su Yu realized that whether it was the civilization chronicle or the Heaven Hunting manual, both were modeled after the Spacetime Book! However, the Heaven Hunting manual had been forged by King Wen, making it unimaginably mighty. The civilization chronicle had been forged by Su Yu himself, so it was far weaker. While Su Yu was lost in thought, the "Record" character in his hand began to resonate with the "Myriad Laws" fragment atop the platform! King Dazhou acted as though he hadn't noticed and continued, "This fragment is remarkably potent. So long as there is sufficient willpower and divine character fragments, once absorbed by the fragment, a powerful divine character will be born, blending multiple traits! What you said back then was actually correct: Shan Xiong's divine character is indeed a blended character!" Su Yu furrowed his brow. "That's a blending of rules. I'm beginning to understand your goal. Shan Xiong... was a test subject! If I'm not mistaken, Your Majesty King Dazhou must know what divine characters represent. Did you wish to complete a rule, attempting to blend divine characters and merge rules to step beyond Dao Integration?" King Dazhou replied placidly, "That cannot be done. I merely wanted to test whether blending divine characters could allow someone to step into the Eternal Realm—not Dao Integration, much less beyond it! I wanted to see if I could use this to mass-produce powerful Eternal Civilization Masters! Reality proved it... impossible! Once reassembled, divine characters lose much of their spirituality. Shan Xiong's was actually an accidental byproduct, one of a kind, possessing room for self-growth, which makes Shan Xiong unreproducible!" "Right now, this thing... is somewhat of a white elephant. It isn't completely useless, but it can only produce pseudo-divine characters stripped of spirituality... It functions similarly to the Sea of Consciousness Secret Realm. To put it simply, it purifies messy divine characters... As a result, the difficulty of cultivation for Civilization Masters is greatly reduced, making cultivating broken divine characters no longer a dream, but achieving anything more is exceedingly difficult!" Artificial divine characters! They were manufactured through this! Inside Su Yu's mind, the mother ball sounded intrigued: "It looks quite fun. But... blended rules taste pretty much the same when eaten... Wait, no, this is good stuff too! It can gather tiny rules bit by bit into big rules to munch on!" Growing slightly excited, the mother ball transmitted its voice, "Su Yu, can we snatch it?" This was really quite good! Su Yu, however, promptly replied, "No rush!" He was pondering the situation. In his hand, the "Record" character trembled continuously, as if yearning to merge with the other piece. Su Yu's brows knitted tight. My luck... is a bit too good! Su Yu looked at King Dazhou and asked, "Your Majesty, may I take this?" "You may." King Dazhou raised no objection, chuckling. "In truth, while this item is precious, it holds little significance once one reaches the Eternal Realm." "Perhaps once merged, its significance will be greater!" Su Yu furrowed his brows. "Your Majesty, if you conquer the Tianyuan race this time and slay the Tianyuan Half-Emperor, could his 'Illustrated' fragment be given to me?" "Of course!" Su Yu chuckled. "My luck... is truly second to none!" His luck was simply too good! King Dazhou had gifted him the "Myriad Laws" fragment just like that... Part of it was that it held little use for King Dazhou, part was that Su Yu was worth investing in, and another part was that Su Yu already possessed the "Record" fragment. If he hadn't, Su Yu wouldn't have asked for it—what would he need it for? And if Su Yu hadn't possessed it, King Dazhou wouldn't have offered it—what would Su Yu do with it? Precisely because he had it, King Dazhou had smoothly done him a favor and handed it over! And where did Su Yu's piece come from? Tianmie had given it to him! Tianmie had snatched it from Duobao! All of it was luck. Luck had caused Duobao to toss the item to Tianmie; luck had allowed Su Yu to obtain it; luck had let Su Yu learn that another piece was with King Dazhou; luck had King Dazhou giving it to him as a gift; and luck had King Dazhou and the others preparing to attack the Tianyuan race soon... which would soon grant Su Yu's wish of combining all three into one! Such good luck! Marquis Jiantian had spent countless years dreaming and plotting, yet had never managed to unite the three or seize these fragments. Now, sheer luck was handing them to Su Yu. "Fortune Spirit..." When luck was too good and coincidences aligned too perfectly, it might not be luck at all! Su Yu looked at King Dazhou. "Your Majesty, did you bring me here because you knew I had the 'Record' fragment?" King Dazhou thought about it and nodded slightly. "In a sense, yes! I guessed they were part of the same whole, so I brought you to take a look." "If I didn't have this 'Record' fragment, would you still have brought me?" King Dazhou laughed. "Hard to say." "Then where did Your Majesty acquire this?" "Right here in this ruin. Perhaps someone left it behind during the previous tide, or the tide before that—or perhaps the Hundred Battles King left it behind in the previous tide. I heard that toward the end, the Hundred Battles King resided nearby..." The Hundred Battles King! A powerhouse nearing or even reaching the level of a Human King. Could Marquis Jiantian have snatched it from his hands? Impossible! "Marquis Jiantian..." Su Yu narrowed his eyes. At this moment, profound suspicion finally took root in his heart! That bastard might truly have played me! He was borrowing fortune! Using my hands, he wanted to reassemble the three fragments! Duobao was his man. It was deliberate—he intentionally tossed the object to someone with immense fortune like me, knowing that perhaps only I could gather all three fragments. This wasn't mysticism; this was fortune! He was a Fortune Spirit! I might truly have fallen into his trap! That old fossil had never been able to gather them himself, so he wanted to use my hands. Once the three were reunited—and having heard Marquis Jiantian claim that uniting the three might allow one to wrest control of the Heaven Hunting Ranking—I would naturally strive with all my might to gather them! And when the three truly combined... at the crucial moment, the instant I brought it out, that old fossil might seize it directly, fulfilling his long-standing ambition of refining the Heaven Hunting Ranking! "Having luck that's too good... is hardly a good thing!" Su Yu suddenly gripped the "Record" character. If his luck was suspiciously good, who was to say this thing hadn't played a role! With that thought, Su Yu abruptly said, "If Your Majesty attacks the Tianyuan race, someone might be watching! It might not be a bad thing—that old bastard might even lend a hand to finish off the Tianyuan Half-Emperor!" King Dazhou raised an eyebrow slightly. After a pause, he asked, "You mean... him?" "Yes!" Su Yu nodded, gritting his teeth. "I may have been played. I kept feeling something was off. The road to success is meant to be paved with trials, yet I met no trials at all and succeeded with effortless ease! Nine times out of ten, that old fossil is plotting against me!" King Dazhou sank into thought. After a moment, he asked, "Are you certain he won't be an obstacle?" "Most likely not. I don't know the exact details, but I wager he desperately wants the three fragments reunited. With two pieces now in my possession, their unification might trigger an unforeseen shift!" That shift might lie within the "Record" fragment itself! It could very well have been tampered with. King Dazhou contemplated this for a while, then smiled. "If that's your judgment, this becomes rather interesting! That fellow is extraordinarily formidable; across the myriad realms, those stronger than him... are exceedingly rare. So according to your suspicion... there's a problem with the West Pavilion as well?" "Hard to say!" King Dazhou nodded, deep in thought. After a moment, he said, "If that is truly the case, that person might not appear in person, but our expedition might encounter the West Pavilion—they might even lend a hand at a critical moment!" King Dazhou chuckled. "Provided your reasoning is correct, Su Yu. If your assumption is flawed and we make our judgments based on your speculation, things could go awry." Su Yu shrugged. "That's your business, nothing to do with me! I'm merely sharing my deductions!" King Dazhou let out a soft breath and nodded. "Understood. We'll see." With that, he asked, "Do you mind letting me take a look at it?" Su Yu tossed the "Record" fragment over. King Dazhou held it and inspected it. After a long while, he shook his head. "I don't see anything wrong with it. Then again, if even I could spot it, his methods would be far too crude. You kid certainly have a heavy dose of paranoia!" If it were himself, would he have been suspicious? Not necessarily! Yet Su Yu seemed not to trust anyone from the very beginning. Su Yu sneered. "Paranoid? No, I simply have very few friends and very few relatives. Aside from them, I trust no one! That includes Your Majesty, and it includes King Daqin... Even if King Daqin is the backbone of humanity, asking me to trust him completely right now... is impossible!" "Alas!" King Dazhou sighed, but soon smiled. "It's a good thing, nonetheless. One must always be on guard against harm." Su Yu nodded. Naturally, especially against you—I'm keeping my eye on you! If you dare lay a finger on me, I'll have the mother ball devour you! Now that the secret of artificial divine characters was unveiled, Su Yu felt somewhat disappointed. "Myriad Laws" was indeed a fine treasure, but... he had originally assumed it was an actual technique, and he had rather admired the research prowess of the Great Zhou Prefecture's Civilization Masters. Only now did he learn it wasn't a technique at all... To think I held you all in such high regard! Relying on the Myriad Laws manual was just like Su Yu relying on the Spacetime Book to deduce cultivation techniques: although there was some individual insight involved, the heavy lifting came from the manual itself! In the end, the research capability of these fellows from the Great Zhou Prefecture might not even match his own! In all likelihood, they couldn't even compare to Bai Feng! As expected, my teacher remains the true genius of research; these people have to step aside! Bai Feng possessed genuine ability. Su Yu and the Great Zhou Prefecture scholars merely borrowed external power, falling short of true peerless geniuses. And at this moment, Su Yu had also learned the goal of King Dazhou and the others: charging into the Tianyuan Realm! It sounded rather thrilling! King Dazhou spoke again: "If you truly discover that fellow, let me know. I will find a way to have him perish in the Tianyuan race without stirring up too large a tempest. Otherwise, everyone will feel endangered. If a second traitor emerges, what about a third? That is no good thing!" Su Yu pondered for a moment and nodded. "I will do my best to find him. Once I do, I will tell you! However... if you fail to kill him, I will step in and finish him off myself! Not only will I kill him, but I will track down his handler, even if they aren't currently in the myriad realms!" "Of course!" King Dazhou nodded. Su Yu added, "If you truly kill him, I want his intact corpse!" "That..." The difficulty was tremendous! King Dazhou knitted his brows. "To slay an Eternal while preserving an intact corpse..." "I have great use for it. I believe Your Majesty King Dazhou is capable of pulling it off!" King Dazhou laughed. "You seem quite confident in me!" Su Yu said with deep meaning, "Naturally. Perhaps Your Majesty King Dazhou has long since touched that net. Tearing through that net, you might... take that final step forward!" "A net?" Su Yu grinned. "Just speaking offhand. Among the Invincibles of the Human Realm, perhaps only Your Majesty King Dazhou gives me this sensation. Even with cards up my sleeve, standing before Your Majesty right now, I still feel a slight prickle of unease!" King Dazhou laughed. "How could that be?" "Of course it could!" Su Yu chuckled. "Your Majesty shouldn't belittle yourself. Ever since comprehending Your Majesty's divine character, I knew that in these myriad realms, Your Majesty deserves a seat of distinction!" King Dazhou smiled warmly. "You're overestimating me! Enough, enough. Let's go—back to the Great Xia Prefecture!" Su Yu said no more. Truly, even with the mother ball by his side, standing next to King Dazhou filled him with unease. This certainly wasn't an illusion; it was genuine trepidation. This man... might truly be terrifying! One didn't fear an enemy for being strong, but for being both sinister and strong. This man possessed both traits—and might well be an enemy. Truly terrifying!