Chapter 2269: Unwilling To Fall Off (3)

Zhu Tiandao said, "Your Majesty, you must have learned of our plan from this little fatty. Our thoughts are quite simple. We don't want to give up on this era. Thus, we intend to sacrifice everything else. Future? Lifespan? Suitable daos? None of that matters anymore. Strength will be our sole pursuit. This era will remain ours.

"Great Zhou King and the others are getting old, but they have also grown stronger. They are too strong for us to compete against for now. If there is a way for us to grow rapidly, we will take it even if we will only have three or five years of lifespan left after this."

Su Yu swept his gaze over the crowd and saw many familiar faces.

Yun Chen, Nan Wujiang, and even Qin Zhen were present.

They could no longer be considered strong. Some were Eternals, and some were barely Daofuses. Some were still Sunmoons. Even the young geniuses such as Qin Fang and Huang Teng were among them.

Surprisingly, Shan Xiong of Great Zhou was also there. Ah, there was also Liu Hong, who was smiling alone not far away.

Noticing Su Yu's gaze on him, Liu Hong said, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, you should give us a chance as well. We wish to play major roles in this era as well. With only a bunch of antiques fighting for you, is this really the New Domain Era?"

Su Yu chuckled, "Are you sure you want to join the secret guard? This doesn't seem like something a crafty fox like you will do."

Liu Hong argued, "Great Zhou King is an even bigger fox, but he's also a head secret guard. If you ask me, sly foxes are much better at keeping secret guards secret."

Su Yu laughed. That was true. Whether it was deathsworn soldiers or secret guards, strength alone was insufficient. Craftiness was required as well. In fact, one needed to be extremely crafty and treacherous to do well in this position.

If Great Zhou King weren't such a fox, the Torchbearers would have been wiped out long ago. He wouldn't have survived long enough to set up all the chess pieces at the start of the tenth epoch.

Su Yu laughed for a bit before he suddenly turned solemn. "If you're really willing to sacrifice everything, I do have a lot of methods for you to grow rapidly."

Su Yu narrowed his eyes as he continued, "First, switch your bloodline and cultivate the daos of the other races. I will kill the corresponding Masters of Laws and you can take over.

"Second, forge copies of the Book of Time for a temporary boost in combat strength when needed.

"Third, cultivate the chaos dao. Those chaos cultivators you know of seem slow, but that's because their comprehension of the chaos dao is too shallow. I am a Creator. My comprehension is much deeper.

"Fourth, occupy the various masterless daos. Fifth, I can forge some pages and infuse them into your bodies. You will walk the path of Dragonblood Marquis and cultivate a fake dao as a pure puppet as mine.

"Sixth..."

"Why are you stopping? Continue!"

Everyone was listening happily when Su Yu suddenly stopped. Thus, they urged him on with agitation. They never realized that there were actually so many paths ahead of them.

Su Yu narrowed his eyes further and said, "The sixth method is very simple. But I worry that you won't be able to accept it."

"Just tell us."

"Become soul devourers."

Everyone blanked out. Su Yu continued, "Many have forgotten about Soy Bun's existence. But Soy Bun and the furballs are dao spirits. I can kill--cough, help all of you abandon your bodies before attaching you to your daos and force a fusion. At the time, you will become the dao itself. Of course, there is a big disadvantage to this.

"Back then, my teacher, Bai Feng, proposed something similar. They wished to follow this path, but I rejected them. Will you remain human after abandoning your bodies to become dao spirits?"

"Soy Bun and the furballs were accidental creations. But you will be produced deliberately if you pick this path."

Everyone's eyes gleamed. Xia Huyou asked, "Will that help us become Masters of Laws in a short time?"

"Yes." Su Yu nodded, "Soy Bun and Flatbun had only transformed into dao spirits after dying. Their creation weren't deliberate. Thus, they had no memories of their past life. They could only cultivate blankly without even knowing what daos they followed.

"However, I can help preserve your memories before fusing everything into your daos. You will understand your daos, allowing you to master them in a short time.

"However, there are several issues with this method. First, you can be easily assimilated, fully turning into daos. Second, you might die fully without a way to return."

Everyone looked at each other in silence. Zhu Tiandao asked, "Since you have so many methods for us to grow, why have you not mentioned it before?"

"These methods can result in the elimination of your whole being and lineage." Su Yu shook his head, "I enjoy using ruthless schemes, but I'm not interested in subjecting my people to such a miserable fate. But I can see that all of you are unwilling to fall behind. You're willing to sacrifice everything for strength. In that case, why bother hiding these methods from you lot?"

Su Yu said, "If you're willing, all these paths can be pursued. I guarantee that you can gain strength rapidly through these methods. Daofuses? Heavenly kings? Masters of Laws? You will blast through these stages in no time."

Su Yu licked his lips and continued, "I suspect that Culture King once considered the final method as well, but he never did it. I suspect that he was the origin of that fellow. In fact, I have been suspecting that Soy Bun used to be a Master of Law from the immortal race.

"After dying to Culture King, he was transformed into a dao spirit in an experiment. That must have been the reason for Soy Bun to be so obsessed with Tiangu. Perhaps he used to be the master of the long life dao or the immortal emperor dao."

It didn't matter.

Su Yu was relatively unbothered about Soy Bun's origin. He was already dead. He was no longer the same person.

Since the current master of the immortal emperor dao wasn't dead, Soy Bun was likely the master of a similar dao, the long life dao. Su Yu recalled reading about Culture King killing such a powerhouse. While conquering the immortal race, he had severed several daos and even produced some long life pills from their remains.

This might be the origin of the karma between Soy Bun and Tiangu. They were connected through dao. These methods were too extreme.

Through these methods, all these people could only aim for a single blaze of glory. Retry would not be an option. The others, who had grown through regular cultivation, would have a much brighter future. They could even depart Su Yu's dao and return to the River of Time if they wanted.

That was why Su Yu had said that for those following his extreme methods, they would essentially be turned into puppets. He only needed to stop seeing them as people.

As a Creator, it was only natural that he had access to a plethora of tricks. One could say that at the moment, he was the sole Creator in the Myriad Realms. Human Emperor did not count since his world was too incomplete. Not even Human Emperor himself understood creation too much.

Marquis Xia was grinning ear-to-ear as he said, "You should have mentioned this long ago! How can we say no to such excellent methods? Yes, they are cruel. So what? I only have one question to ask. When your world reaches the level of the River of Time, can we be saved?"

"Yes."

"There you have it." Marquis Xia grinned, "We'll do it. This is much better than our expectations. According to your words, we might be able to produce a bunch of Masters of Laws when nobody is watching.

"At that time, you can even pull back even after a defeat upstream. And then, we will jump out with dozens of new Masters of Laws and give them the scare of their life."

Liu Hong was smiling as well. "Your Majesty, it will probably be hard for me to switch my dao. But my ink dao might be helpful for you."

"Yes?"

Liu Hong's expression turned shifty as he continued, "Move my ink dao slightly. Is that feasible? Move it nearer to the intersection between the two rivers. I will attach the ink dao to both rivers to benefit from the power of both rivers. It's hard for me to do this myself."

Su Yu laughed at how ridiculous the demand was. "Do you think it's easy to move a tributary?"

"You can do it." Liu Hong smiled, "Your Majesty, that Master of the Departed was quite a troublesome fellow. But he won't return so long as you refrain from resurrecting death spirits. I'm not even a death spirit. You only need to move the dao a bit. I doubt Culture King was as strong as you currently are back when he first created the ink dao."

Su Yu cursed. Screw that! This was no simple task. Sure enough, Liu Hong could never stop being a scumbag.

Zhu Tiandao said, "Just give it a try, Your Majesty. If it works, we will be able to produce a terrifying force in no time. You are much more capable than the other supreme powerhouses. I believe a Creator is capable of unimaginable feats."

Su Yu thought about it and nodded, "We can try. Since everyone else is busy cultivating, I can take this chance to take all of you to the River of Time. Feel free to pick any dao you're interested in.

"Nobody can stop me so long as the Master of Time remains absent. But I need to make it clear that when he returns...all of you are fucked. Nobody will be able to escape him."

Nobody cared about the warning. What even was the point of worrying about such a being? Someone so powerful could kill them all just by breathing. Su Yu felt quite helpless when he saw their reaction.

All of them were lunatics as well. He had thought that they would give up or cultivate in silence while waiting for an opportunity to rise again. But no. None of them was willing to fall behind just like that.

They were willing to sacrifice everything to shine once again in this era. After all, this was their era. Sure enough, the tenth epoch was an epoch of lunatics. Suddenly, Su Yu had a strong feeling that he was the only one normal here. All these people were crazy.

A normal person would be waiting silently for the top powerhouses to fight and return victorious. But instead, these people were all snickering in excitement.

Biding their time?

Waiting?

What was that?

They were the real masters of the tenth epoch. How could they allow themselves to fade into obscurity just like this?

Su Yu had been calling this the new era, but he had a bunch of antiques as his top combatants. Only Wan Tiansheng, Lan Tian, and a small number of them were those of the tenth epoch. Even so, these people were the minority. There was nothing new about this.

And thus, these lunatics arranged for a meeting with Su Yu, arranging for a way for them to make a comeback. As for Su Yu, he stopped holding back. Since these people were so willing to go crazy, he would go crazy with them.