Tribulation of Myriad Races
Chapter 1428: Massive Harvests (2)

Chapter 1428: Massive Harvests (2)

The chubby Bountiful Treasure General was not offended by those words. He said, "Brother Heavendoom, I spent a majority of my time recovering from my injuries, so it's not like I'm that much better than you. During the first epoch, He Tu targeted me for my wealth. After spending multiple epochs in recovery, I'm finally out of seclusion. Why is he the first person I encounter right after leaving seclusion?"

He sighed helplessly.

During the first epoch, countless super experts were active. He Tu was not the strongest human during that era, but he was most certainly the most ruthless human of the era. In face of a losing battle, he had transformed into an ancient city mayor in desperation and started conquering the Myriad Realms with an army of death spirits behind him.

What Su Yu saw was merely the fragments of He Tu's past. During that era, He Tu had performed admirably. With his army of death sovereigns, he had killed quite a number of ancient fossils. Even Bountiful Treasure had nearly died in his hands.

Someone said, "It's no longer the first epoch. He Tu is dead. How much of his past can he still remember? As a death spirit, how capable is he compared to the previous him? Now, he is probably weaker than even Dao King."

Dao King frowned.

Why was he being used as an example?

No matter what, he was a seventh-degree Eternal. He had merely been unlucky to lose a tri-life body to the old turtle. He wouldn't have been so wary of these fossils otherwise. Yes, they were strong. But not all of them were Daofuses. A lot of them were still Eternals.

A devil king frowned and said, "Enough about that. You are free to talk about your glorious past at a different time. Now, we can finally establish contact with those inside the mansion. However, we still don't know if this He Tu is the same He Tu from the Death Realm. How should we deal with this crisis? All of us have some people in there, including the humans. Humans, do you think He Tu will spare the humans in there just because he used to be a human?"

Great Zhou King replied, "We don't know that. But it's clear that the human race has suffered a much lower number of casualties. Perhaps that's due to the little affection He Tu still holds toward the human race. This isn't our problem. You are free to deal with it as you see fit, but we won't be involved in it."

He did not care whether He Tu was the culprit behind all these deaths. However, he could see that the human race had suffered the fewest casualties. Thus, even if He Tu was really the culprit, he could only assume that He Tu had shown mercy to the humans. In that case, why should he care about the fate of the others in the mansion?

***

Outside the mansion, everyone was busy discussing ways to solve the crisis and send more messages inside. Alas...Su Yu had not bothered to reopen the connection. The various index copies in the mansion were still shaking, attracting the attention of the survivors in the mansion. However, no messages were coming through.

"Heh."

Su Yu sneered with satisfaction. The connection was fully in his control. Without his permission, they could dream of sending anything in and out of the mansion. After confirming that those outside could only send messages into the mansion while Old Zhou was raging, Su Yu tossed the matter to the back of his mind.

He still had more things to do on the third level.

Treasure collection.

The smiling mouth lotus and riversand.

After killing a new batch of people, the Mark of Civilization had grown even stronger than before. In fact, the 146th golden stripe was slowly taking form. According to the old turtle, the smiling mouth lotus was a type of natural treasure greatly attracted to beautiful scenery.

And what was the spot with the best view on the third level? Su Yu looked around and concluded that it might be the waterfall in front of him. It was a waterfall falling from the sky. This was most definitely a scenic spot.

Of course, the sight would seem even prettier if he could ignore some facts. After going through Wu Lan's notes, the look in his eyes turned odd. Bile?

"How creative."

Su Yu mumbled to himself. How did she reach this conclusion? Not even Su Yu himself had reached such a conclusion. Did Wu Lan dissect someone for her research before?

"You never know."

Su Yu was very suspicious that Wu Lan had indeed done that before. This wasn't a conclusion a normal person would draw easily. After all, this was a waterfall that had existed since the ancient past. And she was calling it bile. Tsk tsk. She might be ridiculed for this even in the ancient past.

"According to Wu Lan's hypothesis, the liver might be up there. Is this supposed to be a joke?"

Su Yu grimaced. If he dared to harvest the liver...wouldn't Old Zhou go crazy? Old Zhou would try even harder to kill him. Harvesting this treasure would be a bad idea.

"This is a hard decision. I wonder if there's a gallstone there. If there's one, I can consider harvesting it instead. After staying inside the liver for so many years, it can be considered a treasure as well, right?"

Su Yu was not inclined to harvest the liver. But the gallstone would be an entirely different story. And he might be able to find it at the origin of the waterfall.

"Riversand...it can probably be considered a type of calculus, right?"

When he saw Wu Lan's note, he found that she referred to the riversand as the bile salt. Su Yu searched his brain for a very long time before remembering the function of the bile salt. Fortunately, he was quite a well-read person. He wouldn't have known otherwise.

"What a terrifying woman. She must have dissected someone for her research in the past."

Wu Lan had a surprisingly wide base of knowledge. For example, he had discovered the treasure vault in Starfall Mountain previously thanks to her. She seemed to know a little bit of everything. Through some plants, she had deduced the location of the treasure vault for him.

Having reached a decision, Su Yu inhaled deeply and prepared to act. He had to complete his harvest before He Tu was here.

***

Boom!

When Su Yu stepped under the waterfall, he finally understood why everyone would avoid going into the water directly. It was incomparably painful.

The water had the ability to dissolve one's body. Even after completing his seventy-two body forgings and a layer of barrier around his skin, he still felt a sharp pain upon stepping under the waterfall.

"Holy shit!"

Su Yu started cursing. Anyone under the seventh-stage Sunmoon Realm could forget about doing this. More importantly, no seventh-stage Sunmoon would be transferred into the first three levels.

And descending the levels was almost impossible. As he waded through the knee-deep water, he felt as though both his legs were going to be corroded into nothingness. If people like Wu Lan attempted this, they would probably be reduced to nothing immediately. No wonder so many people were content with gathering the riversand around the waterfall.

"How terrifying."

As he took another step forward, allowing the waterfall to smash down upon him, his bones started creaking.

Spluuurt!

He coughed a mouthful of blood and cursed again. But then, he had to admit that this water was actually a treasure as well. When it flowed backward, it would start being corrosive. And this was precisely what was happening.

Normally, bile was meant to balance out the gastric acid in one's body. Thus, it was normally alkaline yet not corrosive in nature.

This corrosive nature must have emerged due to the reverse flow. In other words, Old Zhou had indeed been stabbed upside down into the ground, with his head puncturing through the Death Realm.

How terrible.

How cruel of Tai Shan. How cruel of the Human Emperor. How cruel of the person who had built the Luminous Domain Mansion. Then again, all three of them might be the same person. In any case, they had treated Old Zhou cruelly.

Su Yu thought that he was a lot kinder. He would keep all his victims inside his Mark of Civilization. In such a manner, Su Yu joked with himself while approaching the cliff behind the waterfall. Was the cliff a part of Old Zhou's body as well?

Su Yu couldn't be bothered to contemplate this matter. He continued walking while gathering the riversand in the water. The amount here was quite big. Perhaps that was because it had been allowed to gather here for a long time.

Su Yu had a very strong impression of the riversand. Back then, this was the treasure needed to activate the Secret Character Grotto. Those from the single character faction had exhausted all the riversand in their possession to open the grotto only once. Generally, the Secret Character Grotto would remain quite useless.

But the moment it was fed with sufficient riversand, it would transform into a holy land. At the very least, it would be a holy land for cultural researchers. Even now, Su Yu couldn't forget the pure willpower he had absorbed during his time in there.

"Is a sack of riversand enough?"

Su Yu had gathered quite a lot of riversand. However, the water was torturing him too much. As he resisted the pain, he continued looking around in search for the smiling mouth lotus. He was unsure if it was here. He could only keep searching.

That wasn't something he wanted to miss out on. If he really couldn't find it, he would have no choice but to settle with only some riversand. After some time, his legs were starting to feel weak. He hurriedly climbed onto a nearby boulder to take a short break.

Just as he was about to leave, he blanked out.

Boulder?

Why would there be a boulder here?

He stared down for a long time before blanking out again. Holy shit!

Riversand?

"A...giant grain of riversand?"

Had anyone seen something like this before? Each grain of riversand was supposed to be tiny. Even one the size of a broad bean was already considered big. But this boulder...what was this?

"Holy shit! Why is it so big?"

Su Yu was dumbfounded. How many openings of the grotto could this thing support?

"Probably a thousand times?"

In his opinion, the single character faction had probably gathered only about a catty or two of riversand before. Meanwhile, this riversand here was probably about a thousand or two thousand catties in weight. He hurriedly reached out and lifted it only to inhale in shock. The lower half of the boulder was even larger. It was probably over ten thousand catties in weight.

"What...is this? If I only need a catty to open the grotto for a day, this boulder here will be enough to keep the grotto open for ten thousand days!"

Su Yu was greatly shocked. He hurriedly looked around for similar boulders. And sure enough, he found some. He gnashed his teeth and dove into the water. He suspected that at the bottom of the river, endless riversand could be found. Would the water corrode the riversand away?

After a short moment, he emerged from the water. His entire body was smoking and emitting hissing sounds. He was holding onto a large amount of riversand.

"Holy shit! There's so much!"

He exclaimed in astonishment. However, he had also ascertained that the bottom of the river was not purely riversand. Rather, he saw something similar to flesh.

"If there is so much here, what's the point of looking for the source?"

Su Yu dove into the water again. With the riversand collected here, if he could borrow the grotto from Great Xia, it would be immensely helpful. He could even produce an instrument of similar effect to make use of the riversand. This would supply him with an endless supply of pure willpower.

Pure willpower was something him, Zhao Li, and Liu Wenyan lacked greatly. Or to be precise, pure willpower was something every cultural researcher lacked. A cultural researcher who did not lack pure willpower did not exist.

Su Yu was no longer calling riversand garbage. He started collecting as much riversand as possible. As of this moment, he found the riversand even more attractive than carrier treasures. What could he even do with carrier treasures? He did not lack carrier treasures. No, no, he corrected himself. He wouldn't mind gathering more carrier treasures, but he wouldn't be able to do much with them.

Meanwhile, the riversand was different. With enough riversand, he would be able to gather pure willpower from blood essence, willpower texts, and many other things. Willpower was extremely important for cultural researchers.

Su Yu might be stronger in his physical cultivation, but it did not signify that cultural researchers were weak.

For example, the various abilities of his characters were extremely helpful. Without those characters, he would only be the same as a regular Sunmoon. Without his characters, he wouldn't have the powerful Mark of Civilization as his weapon. Without his characters, he wouldn't have been able to put up a disguise that could fool even Invincibles.

Without his characters, who would remind him of all incoming danger? Without his characters...he wouldn't have survived until today.

His physical cultivation had outpaced his willpower cultivation, but he had never given up on his willpower character. After all, his characters were why he had been able to survive so well in the Allheaven Battlefield.

That was why he had grown all his characters to the fourth tier. Two of them had even reached the fifth tier.

That was how he gained the ability to defeat those with similar combat strength. If he had only his physical cultivation to rely on, victory against these opponents would have been much harder.

Su Yu continued gathering the riversand in the river. He did not intend to leave before He Tu was here. He would stay here until the very last moment.