Published at 24th of November 2025 7:19 am

Chapter 1677: For The Future (2)

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"Book of Time..."

Su Yu's heart thumped. The ruin was really related to the Book of Time!

Those around him could hear the thunderclaps as well. They were all surprised. Was there really a ruin here?

Marquis Xia asked with an odd expression, "Is there really a ruin in Nanyuan? Culture King's ruin?"

Great Xia and Great Ming had been here for hundreds of years. Thus, they had once searched this place for a ruin. However, they had never found anything.

The confused Qin Zhen said, "So there are two ruins in Nanyuan? Didn't the Culture Mansion appear here not long ago?"

Su Yu replied nonchalantly, "That's a fake ruin. I made it with Principal Wan."

"..."

A large number of people were stunned upon hearing that. Even when they were feeling quite nervous about the impending crisis of humanity, they couldn't stop themselves from blanking out.

A fake?

Fuck!

A fake?

Even now, many still believed that the Nanyuan ruin was a real ruin. But now, Su Yu was saying that it was fake. What...was this? They started doubting the world itself. Even the myriad races were confident that the Nanyuan ruin was a real ruin.

Qin Zhen nearly choked on himself from the shock. He asked, "Fake? How is that possible?"

Su Yu frowned and said, "What about it? Back then, I wanted to lure some people out to kill. Without a fake ruin, how could I lure so many people over? I stabilized the fake ruin by crushing a carrier treasure while Principal Wan washed over it with the River of Time to make it look old. Isn't it obvious?"

What nonsense!

Qin Zhen felt like scolding someone. Was that supposed to be obvious to him? He looked at Liu Wushen and the others questioningly. Were they aware of that?

Nobody said anything. Faced with Qin Zhen's stare, Liu Wushen sent him a voice transmission, "We all saw through it. Wait, did you not see through it as well?"

Was that so? Qin Zhen started doubting himself. He looked around and...holy shit! Just look at all those calm expressions! Did everyone see through the fake ruin? Was he the only person fooled?

Holy shit!

He couldn't believe this. Was he alone?

As he looked around, his gaze landed on Qin Fang. He asked loudly, "Son, did you see through the fake ruin as well?"

Qin Fang, who was in the middle of a discussion with Huang Teng, answered, "Yes."

"..."

Fuck!

Qin Zhen refused to believe it.

He realized what they were doing. Damn it. Even his son had learned to act. These people were definitely acting. Did they think he would fall for their lies?

Screw them!

Just look at how hard they were trying to look unsurprised! He would have believed them if his son hadn't said the same as well. But since his son was saying the same, well, it was clear that everyone was acting here.

Su Yu was too distracted to say more to them. Once again, he shook the Book of Time slightly before looking at Hu Xiansheng and saying, "Faculty Head, please check for me again. See if there's anything unusual this time."

Once again, the incorporeal power rippled out.

Hu Xiansheng focused deeply. Among all the people here, he had the highest attainment in space. Even Invincibles might not be as good as him in the domain of space unless they specialized in it as well.

Yet again, he found nothing.

But suddenly, Junior Zhou King's expression changed slightly as he exclaimed, "This...this is a ruin erected on the River of Time!"

"What?"

Junior Zhou King was greatly shocked as well. A certain understanding dawned on him as he said, "There is a River of Time here...no, that's not it. The River of Time is everywhere. Normally, each of us can only open a tiny opening connected to the river. That tiny opening is the so-called individualized River of Time of an Invincible. However, someone had cleared a space on the main branch of the River of Time here, suppressed the river, before erecting a residence on it..."

Madness!

The more he spoke, the more alarmed he was. Culture King!

Was Culture King so powerful?

Junior Zhou King found it hard to believe.

Erecting a residence on the River of Time. Was he not afraid of being swept through by the currents of the river before vanishing into somewhere unknown?

Understanding dawned on Su Yu as well. Or to be precise, understanding dawned on everyone there. Like Junior Zhou King, they were all greatly shocked. And they finally understood why the ruin here had remained hidden until now. Instead of being erected in the real world, it stood atop the River of Time.

Junior Zhou King said, "Su-Holy Lord Su, continue sending that incorporeal power out! I think...I understand something here!"

He looked at the largest valley in the region and said, "There! Yes, there! There is a ruin here. It's not there now, it's not there in the future. It was there in the past! Go there! There used to be a ruin there, but it resided in the past!"

Everyone blanked out. They looked at the flat and empty valley. According to Junior Zhou King, a ruin was there. However, nobody could see it. Because it was in the past. This was starting to seem so complicated that even Invincibles were finding it hard to comprehend.

Su Yu hurriedly moved to the valley before shaking the Book of Time again. Immediately, everyone heard the deafening thunderclaps. With a roar, Junior Zhou King released his power of time.

Slowly, a waterfall appeared in front of them.

Looking at the waterfall, Junior Zhou King was greatly shocked. Was this a river?

No, someone had created an opening here to allow the water from the River of Time to drop down and serve as a gate. A gate of a residence.

"This is a gate!"

The waterfall crashed down unceasingly, creating a deafening sound similar to thunderclaps. When one was here at the right time, one would be able to hear these so-called thunderclaps.

This was probably what Su Long had heard back then. These were no thunderclaps. These were the sounds of the waterfall crashing downward. All of them stared at the waterfall in shock. How could there be such a miraculous sight here?

Junior Zhou King explained, "A unique method is required to reveal this place. Without that incorporeal power, I wouldn't have been able to locate it either. But even now, the current of the waterfall is too fast for us to cross...Holy Lord, you might be the only one capable of going through. The ruin is most likely behind the waterfall."

At present, it looked as though a waterfall had appeared out of thin air. But all around the waterfall, nothing else was visible. The ruin was still nowhere to be seen. Thus, it was likely that one would need to step through the waterfall to enter the ruin.

As a specialist in time manipulation, Junior Zhou King only spent a short time studying the waterfall before saying, "I can keep the waterfall manifested out here, but I can't stop the current from falling. This is the power of time. Anyone stepping in might be washed away by the River of Time..."

Right at that moment, Su Yu dragged a devil Sunmoon out of his Mark of Civilization and tossed it into the waterfall. In the blink of an eye, the devil turned into bones. He couldn't even scream before it was all over.

The flow of time was too fast. In a split second, countless years had passed for the devil, instantly reducing him into bones. Even the bones didn't last long before being reduced to nothing. Enough time had passed that not even the bones could last.

Once again, everyone was stunned.

Great Liang King gasped in shock, "Millions of years in a split second. Not even an Eternal can easily survive this."

"Culture King...is this the residence of Culture King?"

How terrifying. Would such an existence even die? He was someone who had erected his residence on the River of Time. It was understandable that his residence would remain hidden for so long. Even if one knew where it was, one wouldn't be able to enter.

There was a Culture King's Residence in the Luminous Domain Mansion.

But humanity originated from the Human Realm. This could very well be the real Culture King's Residence. The residence in the Luminous Domain Mansion was merely an office or a secondary home.

Zhu Tiandao inhaled deeply and said, "Forget this. Su Yu, don't go. This damn place is too dangerous. You could kill yourself with even a tiny bit of carelessness!"

Trying to enter such a place?

What a joke.

Nobody would dare.

Even a Sunmoon had been reduced to bones in a split second.

Su Yu's eyes lit up as he said, "This is a true treasure trove! Nobody has entered before!"

River of Time.

Time Sage.

Culture King.

Book of Time.

Sure enough, there was a special relationship between the two. If Soy Bun hadn't said that the two weren't the same person, Su Yu would most certainly conclude that the two were the same person.

Culture King resided on the River of Time. As for the Time Sage, she loved moving everywhere using the River of Time as a vehicle. The coincidence was too big.

Su Yu took a storage ring out and stored all his treasures in it.

He only kept the Mark of Civilization, Culture Tomb, Book of Time, Heavenly Hunt Index fragments, and his crown on him. Everything else on him was given to Bai Feng. Under Bai Feng's dazed gaze, he smiled and said, "I'll be back shortly. If I manage to come back, return my stuff. If not...you can have them all."

"No!" Bai Feng hurriedly said, "You can't die! A battle is still raging out there! With you dead, can the ancient guardians still fight outside the cities?"

"No."

"Then..."

Su Yu laughed and said, "Don't worry. I'm quite confident. I have the correct inheritance to do this. I wouldn't have dared to even consider this otherwise."

"But..."

Su Yu said, "No buts. If I die, I die. I will never be able to resist going in. In that case, I might as well do it now. If I'm destined to die like this, this isn't a bad time to die. By dying this early, the ancient cities might still be able to cleanly withdraw from this war."

The ancient cities had yet to get too involved in the war. Thus, they could still withdraw. With the Book of Time and Culture Tomb, Su Yu was quite confident he could survive going through the waterfall.

He really wanted to see if he could find anything helpful in there. He wouldn't be able to help those outside the Human Realm without gaining even more strength. At present, he couldn't even count on his ability to open death tunnels. Things were currently too uncertain for him to risk opening any death tunnels.

Also, Su Yu believed that since Great Zhou King and the others had decided to attack, there must be a reason for their confidence. Even in the worst-case scenario where the Human Realm fell, they could still give up on the Human Realm and set up a defensive position in the Celestial Chasm Realm.

The fall of the Human Realm would weaken them, but they were strong enough to defend themselves in the Celestial Chasm Realm.

After inhaling deeply, Su Yu stepped forth. Under everyone's worried gaze, he approached the waterfall. Suddenly, the female furball and the little furball appeared. He was the one who had kicked both of them out of his sea of willpower.

The female furball was clearly still angry at failing to eat Jade King, so she merely glared at Su Yu. As for the little furball, he asked in confusion, "What is it, Yummy?"

"Stay here for now. I'll go alone. This thing...might be harmful for you as well."

At that, the female furball looked at the waterfall. The sight of the waterfall reminded her of something. After thinking about it, she hesitated slightly before saying, "I think...I heard my husband spoke of this place before. Was this...Culture King's home back then? But that was a very long time ago. After the Luminous Domain Mansion was built, they all moved out of the Human Realm. This might be his residence even earlier than the ancient past."

Earlier than the ancient past?

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