Inside the Heavenly Gate.
Within a forbidden land.
While Su Yu and the others were making preparations and arrangements, an expert who had been meditating with closed eyes suddenly opened them.
"My lord!"
Outside the doors, someone called softly.
The expert's brow furrowed slightly. Without any wind, the hall doors swung open on their own.
Outside, a dark figure knelt on one knee and said hastily, "My lord, Mount Yongsheng made a major move earlier, summoning several experts to assist in battle. In the end... Fist Saint and the others seem to have fallen!"
The expert remained impassive. Only after a long silence did he speak: "How did they fall?"
"It is currently unknown. Heiyue has sent no word back, and Mount Yongsheng is sealing off its mountain. It is said that Fa may have been injured in an earlier clash with King Wen... But right now no one can enter or leave, and news can hardly get out."
Below, the dark figure lowered his voice: "My lord, should we conduct a strict investigation?"
"Withdraw."
"Understood!"
The dark figure vanished swiftly, not daring to linger.
Once the subordinate left, the old man opened his eyes. His gaze was icy and sharp, laced with hesitation. He suddenly muttered, "Dead... Fa summoned helpers, likely intending to first kill King Wen and devour Wen Yu. Did he succeed, or did he fail?"
And how did Fist Saint and the others die?
What was Heiyue doing?
Fist Saint was a top powerhouse of thirty-one daos after all, and the master of a forbidden land. Yet the commotion had seemed minimal. No one even knew whether Fist Domain was shattered; without paying close attention, one wouldn't even know Fist Saint was dead.
Just then, a chuckle echoed through the seemingly empty hall: "Whatever the outcome, Mount Yongsheng must be visited to see how things stand! Furthermore, if possible, it would be best to meet Su Yu... Let me see whether this Su Yu is that Su Yu."
"Su Yu..."
The old man said impassively, "The one from Dead Spirit Hell?"
"Yes!"
The old man spoke to the empty air, and within the air, an extremely faint phantom gradually took shape.
The old man remained silent for a moment. "The Su Yu you speak of is the one from the Myriad Realms?"
"Indeed!"
The phantom nodded. "I strongly suspect that the Su Yu here is that very one, but... I cannot be certain! Because the Su Yu here has already entered thirty-two daos, a supreme-tier Union expert... whereas according to the last intelligence, the Su Yu in the Myriad Realms hadn't even stepped into sixteen daos..."
"How much time passed?"
The old man asked.
The phantom pondered for a moment. "How much time... According to time here, barely half a year."
"Half a year?"
The old man was instantly rendered speechless. "Heh!"
Half a year?
You mean to tell me that a cultivator who wasn't even at sixteen daos in the Myriad Realms half a year ago came here and broke into thirty-two daos in less than half a year?
Are you joking!
Yet the phantom chuckled, "Su Yu must not be underestimated. This person is likely the Child of Fortune of the Myriad Realms, a savior born from an era's self-preservation! Such an existence grows stronger through battle and will not fall easily! I originally thought the savior of the Myriad Realms would be the Human Sovereign or King Wen... yet in the end, this person rose at the very last moment, in the twilight years of the era... at speed beyond imagination!"
The old man said calmly, "So you suspect it's him? But if it really were him, would he easily expose his real name?"
"When truth is false, falsehood becomes truth! Truth and lies mixed together to keep you guessing... perhaps that is precisely his purpose!"
The phantom seemed to understand Su Yu quite well, adding, "If it is Su Yu... he likely has plans. Could the fall of Fist Saint and the others be related to him? He seems to have inherited some of Wen Yu's legacy previously... Now that he's here, would he take the initiative to rescue Wen Yu?"
The old man frowned slightly. "A cultivator who was under sixteen daos half a year ago..."
The phantom said indifferently, "Even under the blockade of the Myriad Realms, he managed to surpass everyone in a short span of time... What's more, he opened a world. With enough time, he could naturally grow powerful quickly... And the Su Yu here has also opened a world..."
"The worlds of the Myriad Realms and the worlds here are not the same!"
The old man remarked, then added, "Of course, I won't argue with you! Since you suspect it, you surely have your reasons. In a few days, the Forbidden Land Conference will convene at Mount Yongsheng... I will be going as well, and Su Yu may attend then too! This time, Fa's goal is to kill King Wen and devour Wen Yu... whereas our objective is to deal with the Lord of Dead Spirits and this Su Yu. Whether he is the Su Yu of the Myriad Realms makes no difference!"
The phantom nodded slightly, but added, "Still, we must remain cautious. Fist Saint and the others meeting their end might especially be linked to him. On Fa's side... we should also be wary to prevent any surprises."
The old man laughed. "Say what you will, Fa is a Union Realm expert and that person's prized disciple! As for Fist Saint, perhaps Fa turned on him, or perhaps their people turned on each other... Does it really have anything to do with Su Yu?"
The old man felt that paying attention to Su Yu was fine, but frightening oneself and relentlessly elevating the opponent was absurd!
Elevating a cultivator who wasn't even at sixteen daos half a year ago to such heights... were you trying to scare people on purpose?
Trying to make me think the Myriad Realms are difficult to deal with, so I must follow your lead completely?
"Just be mindful, that is all!"
The phantom said no more. He knew that sometimes, saying too much was pointless.
Saying too much only invited irritation and skepticism.
Everyone was like that!
And indeed, praising a cultivator who hadn't reached sixteen daos half a year ago to the heavens wasn't worth taking seriously to experts who had stepped beyond thirty-two daos.
Yet the phantom still vaguely sensed... it might truly have something to do with Su Yu!
He didn't bring it up again. Seeing him in person would make it clear.
...
Meanwhile, Su Yu naturally had no knowledge of this, but he knew that at this juncture, undercurrents were surging everywhere!
The Three Gates were about to open, and every powerhouse had their own calculations.
As for himself, he had stepped into thirty-two daos. Uniting his two worlds—though not a complete fusion—only brought him to thirty-four daos of power. There was still a way to go before true invincibility.
Strength was the foundation!
Of course, having a brain was also good. Pure strength without brains accomplished nothing; both were essential.
Yet for now, it was difficult for Su Yu to raise his strength in the short term.
Even if he integrated all six lineage masters of Mount Yongsheng into his world, he probably could hardly add a single dao of power. The higher one went, the harder it became!
Otherwise, the Lord of Dead Spirits, who had stepped into the supreme tier many years ago, wouldn't still be at only thirty-five daos here.
Some of those who had become forbidden land masters in earlier years never improved again after reaching thirty-two daos.
Beyond thirty-two daos, drawing daos into the body caused the difficulty of advancement to soar.
Just as Su Yu and King Wen were drinking together, a voice drifted over: "I'm about to integrate worlds. Want to come watch?"
It was the Time Master's voice!
She had fully recovered, having taken three days.
Right now, only four days remained until the Forbidden Land Conference.
And today, the Time Master was going to integrate worlds. After fighting Fa for so many years, she was the one who had won in the end.
King Wen looked at Su Yu and smiled. "Go take a look?"
Although it wasn't world-opening, observing the Time Master integrating an entire world might yield some insights.
Su Yu thought about it and nodded. "Let's go take a look then!"
Su Yu chuckled, "I'd also like to see what level of strength she can reach after integrating the entire world. If she can reach thirty-six daos, we've struck gold. If not, and she's only at thirty-five daos... she probably won't be a match for certain experts."
Such as Kong, Shi, Qiong...
Qiong had been at thirty-five daos in the past, but that was over a hundred thousand years ago in the Myriad Realms; his current strength was unknown.
As for Kong, he had suppressed the Lord of Dead Spirits, and the Lord of Dead Spirits had only defeated him by uniting two worlds, meaning Kong was stronger than thirty-five daos.
Fa had previously wanted to devour the Time Master precisely to take that further step and reach the tier of those few beings.
However, whether the Time Master could assimilate everything was one question, and another was that Fa had consumed far too much world power; how strong the Time Master could become remained an unknown.
...
Carrying that curiosity, Su Yu, King Wen, and King Wu walked downward underground, stepping into what felt like another world. Outside was the forbidden land, while underground was the world that had been opened!
It was like another space altogether!
Boundless and vast, it currently showed hints of spring, with flowers and grass, and most noticeably, large numbers of animals. It appeared the Time Master had released her breeding grounds.
At the center of this world, the Time Master wore a white robe, her long hair simply tied back, a bright smile on her face.
Lively!
The immediate impression was one of liveliness, of radiant cheerfulness.
The Time Master possessed a restless, active temperament.
Roaming the Myriad Realms, drifting across the River of Time in a solitary boat, collecting corpses whenever she saw someone about to die... She was also a terrifying existence, feared by top powerhouses in the Myriad Realms for countless years.
Many people had genuinely dreaded her.
Su Yu, however, felt none of that dread; he had no need to fear her.
Moreover, Su Yu knew that on many occasions, the murders might not have been committed by the Time Master at all, but by the Prison King impersonating her.
Seeing Su Yu and the others arrive, the Time Master's smile grew bright. "Brother, Brother Taishan... little friend Su Yu..."
Su Yu chuckled, unoffended. Clasping his hands behind his back, he said placidly, "Burning bridges already? That wasn't your attitude earlier."
The Time Master laughed cheerfully. "You're so stiff and boring!"
Stiff?
Was Su Yu stiff?
Not really, but whenever he saw the Time Master, he couldn't help recalling both a weeping Time Master and a Time Master eating lamb chops, which annoyed him!
No need to give her a warm look!
The Time Master said playfully, "You feel even stiffer than my brother. Can't you smile more?"
Su Yu smiled!
Radiantly!
He gazed at her, his smile widening. The Time Master fell instantly silent. After a pause, she said dejectedly, "Never mind. Your smile is so wicked—just like when my brother and the others are up to no good!"
King Wen chuckled as well. "Nonsense! That is a smile of goodwill. How could a scholar do anything unbecoming of cultured manners?"
Su Yu nodded silently. Exactly.
Ignoring them, the Time Master soon brought forth two books: one was the Book of Myriad Daos, and the other was her Time Record.
"Fa's world doesn't have many Great Daos, but they are very strong!"
Looking at Su Yu, the Time Master explained, "If Fa's world is like my brother's or Big Brother Xingyu's, then our worlds are vast and varied, but lacking mastery!"
"Therefore, we need others to fill in dao power, whereas my brother and Big Brother Xingyu don't really need that, because their own daos are not weak to begin with."
She added, "Strictly speaking, myriad daos of time have greater potential! But they aren't necessarily stronger in immediate combat power!"
Su Yu nodded in agreement.
His dao was indeed similar to the Time Master's.
Of course, their core daos might differ somewhat.
Su Yu teased, "Could the core of your dao be eating?"
"..."
The Time Master pouted, displeased. "We're discussing the Dao! Stop thinking about food!"
Su Yu was speechless.
The Time Master continued, "When Fa opened his world, he didn't open many daos. His persistent desire to devour me was actually to obtain certain dao seeds and dao foundations from the Time Record!"
"And the dao power within the primary edition of the Time Record possesses what they call yang power! That way, by devouring and fusing, yin and yang unite, making the dao even stronger!"
Su Yu nodded, this time offering no rebuttal.
King Wen also nodded. "So your fusion of worlds now is also a union of two worlds..."
Just as he said this, the Time Master shook her head. "Not quite. Actually, I don't really like this kind of fusion—integrating Fa's daos directly. So I have a few ideas. On one hand, I don't want to disrupt the balance of daos in my Time Record; on the other hand, I want to perform some divisions..."
At that moment, both Su Yu and King Wen frowned slightly, looking at her.
The Time Master smiled. "My idea is this: mutual complementation and mutual dismantling!"
Su Yu grew intrigued. "What do you mean?"
"Fa has over a hundred daos, and every single one is powerful..."
She looked at Su Yu. "I also examined your world's power. The disparity in balance among your daos is huge, yet our dao powers are very similar. I have an idea... Aren't you opening 720 yin daos? Then let's try to assemble 720 yin daos of comparable strength for you. Some of Fa's daos that don't overlap with what you have, you can draw away!"
She added, "And the daos you swap out happen to be what I need, so they can be incorporated into my dao system!"
Then she looked at King Wen: "And my brother... can serve as the junk collector!"
The corners of King Wen's mouth twitched.
Ignoring his reaction, the Time Master went on, "Su Yu, the Great Dao is not about sheer quantity, nor is it about having one overwhelmingly powerful dao. It lies in balance and avoiding loss of control! It's the barrel theory: some of your daos are too weak, dragging down the whole, while some are too strong for you to unleash their full power."
Su Yu nodded slightly.
Yet he still frowned: "Even so, achieving complete balance is impossible!"
The Time Master sighed. "Of course it is, obviously! Have you cultivated so many daos that you've forgotten about cultivation arts?"
Su Yu froze.
The Time Master said, "I watched you open a world—opening it with your physical body, with 360 yuan apertures and 360 divine apertures! Su Yu, one dao per aperture isn't meant to be used like that!"
She looked at Su Yu: "Have you ever studied cultivation arts?"
Nonsense! Of course I have!
As Su Yu thought this, his eyes suddenly flickered. The Time Master smiled. "Understand now?"
Realization struck Su Yu with tremendous shock. After a long pause, he finally nodded: "You think... that works too?"
"Of course!"
The Time Master smiled. "Have you studied the Five Elements Divine Art?"
Su Yu nodded.
"You know the Five Elements Divine Art, so naturally you know that thirty-six divine apertures form one art, which can be separated or united. Uniting the five elements makes a complete Five Elements Divine Art! Now let me ask you: is a team of five cultivators with thirty-six divine apertures each stronger, or is one expert with 180 divine apertures wielding the Five Elements Divine Art stronger... all else being equal?"
"Naturally, the one with 180 divine apertures is stronger!"
Su Yu answered without hesitation. The Time Master smiled again. "Then let me ask you: since these divine apertures all contain equal energy, why is splitting them into five weaker than keeping them as one?"
Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "Because five separate systems are naturally less cohesive and complete than a single unified system!"
"Then let me ask you further: since that is the case, why have you split your 720 daos into 720 separate systems, and even when integrating them, you only fuse them haphazardly?"
The Time Master looked exasperated. "Since you understand the principle, why did you perform so poorly in practice?"
Su Yu opened his mouth, but hesitated...
King Wen also raised an eyebrow slightly: "Wen Yu, do you mean that because Su Yu's method of world-opening was different, he can reweave the daos of his world?"
The Time Master looked exasperated: "Brother, have you gone stupid too? Why couldn't he?"
King Wen smiled bitterly. "No, it's just that none of us have experience in that area. Our methods of opening worlds and integrating worlds were just like Su Yu's—all chaotic mixing and merging. But according to you... it shouldn't be like that."
The Time Master grew even more exasperated: "I suspect Su Yu never read the complete version of my Time Record replica!"
Su Yu blinked. What did she mean?
The Time Master looked at him: "Because I noticed that when you wove your daos, your sequence of integration was different from mine. In truth, I arranged them in order. In other words, if you had followed the sequence from the very first page to the last... it would have naturally formed a self-contained system!"
Wen Yu explained, "To deduce that sequence, I spent many years carefully calculating and refining it step by step!"
Su Yu was stunned, then felt utterly helpless and frantic. He gave a bitter laugh. "You mean the page order of your Time Record was deliberate, not randomly placed?"
The Time Master rolled her eyes in blatant disdain... then, seeing Su Yu's expression darken, she quickly reined it in and nodded. "Of course! As a great chef... ahem, a great scholar, when you read and number your pages, wouldn't you follow an order? Would you just toss pages together at random?"
Su Yu felt embarrassed. That was indeed how he had made his civilization chronicle!
Back when he wove the daos to open his world, Su Yu had nearly failed. In the end, Lan Tian had stepped forward, testing repeatedly with his clones and detonating many of them, leaving Lan Tian grievously wounded.
At the time, Su Yu genuinely hadn't realized that the Time Record was sequenced!
He had assumed it was random, just like his own!
Seeing this, Wen Yu looked even more disdainful. "And you have the nerve to call yourself a scholar?"
"..."
Su Yu's face darkened. "I still succeeded, didn't I!"
"And so it's a chaotic mess, just like Fa's, and roughly like my brother's..."
King Wen shrugged. "Leave me out of this. Mine is decent enough, and I opened my world early on without any prior experience to draw from."
Toward this younger sister of his... he was equally helpless. He sent a voice transmission to Su Yu: "My sister... might have read slightly more books than I have. Almost all the books from the Myriad Realms that we plun—borrowed back then, she read through... She's a cultured chef!"
"..."
Su Yu was speechless. Was your sister's primary profession a chef?
At that moment, King Wu nearby grumbled impatiently, "Ah Yu, speak plainly!"
"..."
Wen Yu felt aggrieved, but Brother Taishan had sacrificed a great deal to save her. Even though she felt she had explained it crystal-clear, she still broke it down piece by piece: "What I mean is that cultivation arts are countless, and the simplest art links nine apertures! Right now, Su Yu has opened 720 Great Daos, but whenever he strikes, his efficiency is actually very low. Under normal circumstances, erupting with 720 daos at once... not only does he waste more than half his power, but the daos also exhaust each other through internal conflict!"
"Now, if I have him link nine apertures to form a single dao art, those nine apertures will unleash far greater power than nine isolated apertures ever could!"
Everyone understood this principle.
A structured system was stronger than an unstructured one!
Wen Yu continued, "Not just him—any world-opener could do this! When you cannot instantly master all dao powers to erupt simultaneously with absolute efficiency, you split them up and master them! My brother ought to be very good at this. Back when he mastered the Brush Dao, he studied division methods... I don't know why he stopped researching it after reaching the world level..."
King Wen hesitated to speak. Nonsense, there are differences, and besides, where would I find the time? Haven't I been busy trying to save you all these years? Do you think I was as idle as you!
Su Yu's eyes, however, shone brightly: "So what you mean is that I can first assemble the daos for one cultivation art—say, a thirty-six-aperture art with thirty-six daos—and reweave them so that these thirty-six daos erupt with far greater power than before? Then, gradually strengthening it, expanding to seventy-two apertures, 108 apertures... until I can execute a Great Heavenly Circuit Art where all 720 aperture daos erupt together... allowing me to unleash several times more power than I currently can?"
"Exactly!"
The Time Master nodded, sighing. "Yet I found you're all savages. Why do you always think of erupting everything all at once? Over the years, how do you think I resisted Fa—using thirty percent of the world's power to hold off seventy percent of his? Precisely because of this! Because I can bring out the function and effect of world power far better than he can. Otherwise, wouldn't I have been devoured long ago?"
Savages?
This was the first time Su Yu and King Wen had ever been called savages!
Despised!
Su Yu parted his lips, completely at a loss for words.
I'm always calling others savages, yet today I was called a savage by the Time Master...
And damn it, I can't even refute her!
After a long silence, Su Yu finally said, "I still feel that dao power and aperture power are fundamentally different..."
"Of course they are different!"
The Time Master interrupted, "Which is why the arrangement of daos in some of your apertures is completely wrong! You're just a savage, letting daos grow wild and untamed! Earlier you said that when your world's daos combine, they form a gate... Then let me ask you: have you brought out the function of that gate?"
Su Yu blinked.
The Time Master continued, "According to my deductions, when you truly combine the daos of 720 apertures into a single gate, that gate... will be terrifyingly formidable! Like the Three Gates, sealing an era and omnipotent! Right now, could you match any of those gates, even in their dormant state?"
No!
"So, you're a savage. Any objections?"
"..."
Su Yu felt utterly helpless and dejected. Damn it!
I've been dealt a heavy blow!
Yet he had nothing to say in return.
The Time Master continued, "Among your 720 Great Daos, some are actually unnecessary. Or rather, you shouldn't be so indiscriminate, absorbing whatever dao comes your way! You should choose based on need!"
Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "But the daos of my Myriad Realms aren't just 720..."
The Time Master felt exhausted and said helplessly, "Why do you have such a wooden head? When fully gathered, the daos of the Myriad Realms should number 3,600, not a literal ten thousand! 'Ten thousand daos' is just a figure of speech! And 3,600... do you still not understand?"
Su Yu's expression shifted slightly: "You mean... five daos per aperture? So once in the Myriad Realms, I can compress the daos, fusing five daos into one?"
"Of course!"
The Time Master nodded. "The so-called 3,600 daos can be compressed down to 720 daos, and then 720 daos compressed to 360 daos... just like opening the Heavenly Gate back then!"
She looked at Su Yu: "Daos can be fused too, just like fusing apertures! When your daos become one, Su Yu, that is the River of Time!"
She pointed toward the sky: "That is why the river waters of the River of Time unite all daos into one, do you understand?"
Su Yu's mind shook violently!
In an instant, countless thoughts surged. The River of Time... daos uniting as one... myriad daos intermingling...
Back then, he had wondered why his world kept all daos strictly distinct, while the waters of the River of Time intermingled the power of myriad daos so chaotically yet maintained such harmony!
Su Yu hadn't pondered deeply on it then.
Now... he suddenly understood!
Just like fusing apertures in the past to unite them into one, daos also underwent Dao Integration until, at the very end, they transformed into the River of Time—a true long river.
In terms of theory, the Time Master had already reached the level of the Lord of Time.
Whereas Su Yu was a step behind!
Looking at the Time Master, Su Yu felt emotions so complex words could hardly describe them.
The Time Master hadn't spoken at great length, and her words were straightforward, yet they outlined an entire Great Dao framework for Su Yu.
The Time Master continued, "I曾 studied the Lord of Dead Spirits' dead spirit world. In truth, he is also undergoing a process of fusing daos. All daos related to death, destruction, and ruin are being unified by him... But he might lack the formal concept and hasn't systematized it. Yet he knows how to cultivate and which path to take, which makes the Lord of Dead Spirits exceptionally talented and wise..."
The Lord of Dead Spirits' Great Dao had previously seemed rather crude and incomplete to Su Yu... But looking back now...
That the Lord of Dead Spirits could become the second greatest existence across the heavens was not luck.
He knew his direction, but lacked the ability to organize the framework into a comprehensive theory. He was a practitioner, whereas the Time Master was a theorist!
At this moment, King Wen's eyes stirred as well: "Ah Yu, have you already completed the Dao framework?"
Wen Yu shook her head. "Not yet. I'm still deducing, calculating, and compressing! I haven't been completely idle all these years; whenever I had free time, I would compress and match daos. But right now, I can only expand the daos... For example, I can manage 360 daos erupting simultaneously, but I cannot yet compress those 360 daos into thirty-six... I am currently building toward addition, but next I need to do subtraction... Subtraction is actually harder! Simplifying the complex is far harder in cultivation than creating something anew!"
Right now Wen Yu was still doing addition, yet even so, she was ahead of Su Yu.
At this point, Su Yu no longer bickered with Wen Yu. He asked with genuine solemnity, "How far have you gotten with your addition?"
Wen Yu smiled. "1,200 daos!"
Su Yu drew a sharp breath. "That many already?"
Wen Yu shook her head. "Not many at all—in fact, it's quite few. Next, I need to work toward 3,600 daos, and then begin subtracting... The Lord of Time was the truly incredible genius, an unmatched supreme powerhouse!"
She said with genuine admiration, "He was the true supreme existence, having already simplified down to a single dao! As for the Lord of Dead Spirits, while his Death Dao might not contain many daos and he hasn't done as much addition as I have, he is already doing subtraction... He is also a genius, but his theory falls short. From what I see, his world isn't very complete, and he has reduced things to the extreme. Because his daos are incomplete, it's very difficult for him to subtract any further!"
Su Yu nodded. "Yes, which is why he now wants to do addition again, incorporating all daos related to life! Only then will he do subtraction!"
King Wen chimed in, "That will actually be exceedingly difficult, because introducing new daos midway might require tearing down his previous daos..."
The three of them chatted animatedly, completely forgetting for the moment that Wen Yu was supposed to integrate worlds.
Su Yu didn't care about that either!
Wen Yu's words had instantly opened up an entirely new horizon for him. Ever since reaching the Ruler of Rules realm, Su Yu hadn't really known how to cultivate; he had crossed the river by feeling for stones, primarily growing stronger by stripping others of their daos.
Cultivating on his own... Su Yu could only perform rudimentary dao fusions without any overarching system.
Yet today, Wen Yu was explaining the systemic framework of a world-opener!
A complete framework!
The grand blueprint was already established; all that remained was filling in the details.
A genius!
Yes, at this moment Su Yu genuinely felt Wen Yu was a true genius. He had always thought the Time Master was formidable... yes, indeed, he had always thought so, and this merely proved his discerning eye.
When it came to cultivation, the Time Master was truly a genius!
This discussion lasted an entire day.
Su Yu actually wanted to continue, but King Wu couldn't hold back any longer. He coughed to remind them: "Everyone, we're running out of time!"
At such a critical juncture, these three had talked themselves into complete oblivion!
Of course, the key issue was that he felt entirely out of place!
Just like last time!
Last time Su Yu and the others had talked themselves into oblivion and forgotten about him, and now here they went again!
Do you look down on martialists that much?
This is bullying!
Naturally, King Wu had been listening all along, memorizing every word. He was an expert; even if he didn't grasp everything, remembering it was no problem.
Not only that, but he was secretly compiling his autobiography—or rather, a diary.
It recorded far too many things!
It included discussions on the Dao by many supreme geniuses and powerhouses, expoundings and insights on the Great Dao from King Wen and the Human Sovereign, as well as the recent words from Su Yu and Wen Yu.
I might not make it... but my descendants, or whoever gets their hands on my diary countless years from now, will possess a supreme treasure surpassing all cultivation arts!
Because it recorded the moments shared between him and these peerless geniuses. If he didn't understand, that was fine—as long as future generations did!
An entire complete theory, the entire process of debating the Dao...
King Wu recorded it all!
Of course, he didn't tell a soul; he had to record it in secret. After all, it also contained some people's embarrassing secrets, and he couldn't beat them in a fight.
In this diary, sparks of wisdom from many great minds collided.
It brought together the Great Dao theories of geniuses from multiple eras!
King Wen, Su Yu, the Time Master, the Human Sovereign, the Prison King, the Lord of Dead Spirits...
Peerless prodigies, one after another, left brilliant strokes in his book.
At this moment, King Wu rapidly etched this scene into his mind. He had understood what they discussed today, even if he couldn't experience it firsthand, but he believed that if any peerless prodigy heard this, it would exert a monumental influence upon them.
Three geniuses, three world-openers gathered and spoke openly, far more candidly and directly than the previous debate with the Lord of Dead Spirits, because none of them held anything back.
Last time, the three of them had maintained barriers and concealed a great deal of crucial information.
Right now, Su Yu truly felt unsatisfied, but hearing King Wu's reminder, he was forced to suppress his eager yearning and said with some reluctance, "Then let's stop here for now. Wen Yu, integrate the worlds first. I will sort through my daos. You are right—my dao power is too scattered... I will first pioneer the path of fusing nine daos. That won't be too difficult... Once a start is made, the rest will follow easily!"
King Wen also said briskly, "Ah Yu, you and Su Yu work on that first. But for the remaining chaotic daos, you can strip out their dao power and give it to me... Now that I have time, I can attempt to open a world, opening a yin world!"
He had made up his mind to be the junk collector first!
However, opening a world would certainly cause a massive stir. Thinking of this, he added, "I can prepare first. I don't necessarily have to open it immediately, but at the critical moment, I can open it directly. That way, if the yin world is successfully opened, I will have more confidence in what follows!"
This didn't require help from Su Yu or anyone else; he could handle it entirely on his own.
King Wen was no crude martialist.
Wen Yu, looking thoroughly triumphant and rather cocky, nodded. "Alright, you two work hard! Su Yu, you should be a bit more humble. You've only learned thirty percent of my skills, so don't get ahead of yourself, understand? Stay modest!"
"..."
Su Yu's lips twitched, but he couldn't refute her!
At that moment, he suddenly realized that as a scholar... much of what he built had been founded upon the Time Record, and the Time Record belonged to the Time Master!
He hadn't truly surpassed his teacher!
If the Time Master hadn't been trapped, she probably would have perfected her framework long ago and opened a terrifyingly powerful world in the Myriad Realms!
Seeing his deflated look, the Time Master beamed!
Acting arrogant, were you?
Let's see you act arrogant now!
A large chicken leg appeared in her hand, which she stuffed into Su Yu's mouth, giggling, "Eat up, food feeds the brain! It's okay if your brain isn't enough right now; sooner or later, you'll be as smart as me!"
Su Yu was speechless. Ignoring her, he turned and headed for the periphery to refine his Great Dao framework!
Meanwhile, the Time Master laughed with brazen delight!
She suddenly felt as if she had suppressed the entire world!
And King Wen... was equally helpless. He said nothing; fine, let her revel in it.
At that moment, King Wu penned a line in his diary:
The Time Master, Wen Yu, won a crushing victory in debating the Dao. Su Yu wept dejectedly, while King Wen wailed bitterly, behaving like a madman...
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