Published at 18th of May 2026 6:24 am

Chapter 2027: Su Yu's Plan (2)

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Su Yu inhaled deeply and continued, "And today, when Riversea said that he was a subordinate of Conflict King, a new question appeared in my mind..."

"What is it?"

Su Yu said, "How would He Tu react when I talked badly about Devote King before him?"

"Angry. Furious. He might even fight you."

"How would Marquis Lanshan react when I talked badly about Martial King?"

"Awkward. Furious. Displeased."

"What if I talked badly about King Yue before Cloud Fire Marquis?"

"You saw how he reacted when you stopped him from approaching King Yue's corpse. He was on the verge of fighting you to the death."

Wan Tiansheng's eyes flickered as he said, "Are you saying that Riversea was too calm?"

Su Yu nodded, "Yes. When we talked about Hundred Battle, even when we were talking badly about him, Riversea, as a marquis under Conflict King, showed no reaction. As though we were talking about a stranger. How would Grand Dream react if we called a descendant of Devote King trash before him?"

"He wouldn't be happy about it."

Wan Tiansheng said, "Definitely. Grand Dream would be willing to give up his alliance with you for He Tu. We both know this."

Su Yu nodded.

"As such, Riversea is either unfeeling...or he has always been aware of Hundred Battle even though he has been in seclusion for so many years."

Su Yu said, "He might know Hundred Battle. He might know everything that has happened, yet he's feigning ignorance."

Su Yu's voice turned cold as he continued, "But how? He has been in deep slumber for many years. Sure, he learned about Hundred Battle's defeat from Venerable Moon. But he should have asked more about Hundred Battle as a person. He should have asked more about the defeat. He should have tried to speak for Hundred Battle.

"Even Great Zhou King tried to explain things for Hundred Battle, but Riversea did not even bother to try. Even when I pointed out that he was a subordinate of Conflict King, he did not bother to say anything about Hundred Battle."

Wan Tiansheng hesitated slightly and said, "Perhaps he was still confused due to his long slumber? He didn't know Hundred Battle. Perhaps he didn't care about a mere descendant of Conflict King since it wasn't Conflict King himself."

"No, not at all. Answer me, Principal. If I were to produce a descendant. And if this descendant were to be insulted openly by others right in front of you. Even if you never met that descendant before, would you speak for him or even punish the others for him?"

After a short silence, he nodded, "Yes. I would rather help someone close to me than someone who is right. I can punish my kid myself. Outsiders can't do it on my behalf."

Su Yu chuckled, "You've changed, Principal. Back then, you only cared about right or wrong. Identity did not matter. Make sure nobody hears of this. We can't have those Eternals knowing that their descendants had died for nothing back then."

Wan Tiansheng shook his head, "It's not the same. When one makes a mistake, they should be punished. We shouldn't pretend everything is fine. But when protection is required, it should be provided as well. Making a conclusion without even trying to first correct someone is wrong."

Wan Tiansheng inhaled deeply and said, "You're right. Something is off about Riversea. I did not notice it, but now, I'm seeing it.

"Previously, we saw how sad Cloud Fire Marquis was when he saw King Yue's corpse. That pain, that grief, that wasn't something you can fake. We can test Southbrook Marquis by having Great Ming King reveal his identity. Let's see Southbrook Marquis reaction to a descendant of Radiant King. We can learn a lot about him from that alone."

His mood was turning heavy. He had not considered that before this. But according to Su Yu's guesses, something was off about Hundred Battle King.

Su Yu could be right.

A crushing defeat and a massive decline.

With humanity out of the picture, the chaos lineage could finally emerge and focus on dealing with the myriad races. There wouldn't be a third party complicating things for everyone. If Su Yu hadn't appeared, the two parties would most likely start their war about the same time the connection to the Lower Realm was restored.

Without the interference of a third party, and if Yue Luo was truly on Hundred Battle King's side, he could rapidly gather a powerful force behind him with the support of a few old fossils.

Was that the truth? Wan Tiansheng was unsure. Even Su Yu was unsure. All along, they had viewed Hundred Battle King as a brainless brute.

Suddenly, Wan Tiansheng thought of something. He said, "When we repeat something enough times, even something false can become real. Do you remember Zhu Tianfang?"

Su Yu's eyes flickered as he nodded.

"When everyone starts saying that Great Ming King's first son is dead, when everyone starts teasing Zhu Tiandao, telling him that Zhu Tianfang is better, everyone will take this seriously. Nobody will question it. Before Zhu Tianfang's return, nobody doubted his death. But that wasn't the truth.

"When everyone is saying that Hundred Battle is a brainless brute, when everyone is saying that he lost his head over lust, we will naturally believe so as well. We will believe that Hundred Battle is a piece of trash. Great Zhou King is the only person who has ever tried to speak for him. He explained repeatedly that Hundred Battle wasn't trash, merely unlucky at the final battle. He explained that Hundred Battle meant no harm to humanity since he was a human lord."

Yes. He was a human lord. One picked by the ancient fossils.

More and more thoughts emerged in Wan Tiansheng's mind. "Insulting Hundred Battle is the same as insulting the old fossils who had picked him. Would those old fossils insult themselves?"

He exhaled deeply and said, "I never thought of things from this perspective before. I allowed myself to be led on by what everyone was saying. Now that I'm looking at it from a fresh perspective, I can see that the same people who are talking badly about Hundred Battle now were also the ones who had raised him back then. But isn't that the same as rejecting all they did in the ninth epoch?"

Su Yu remained silent.

Wan Tiansheng's tone turned bitter as he said, "Humanity has always been known as the treacherous race among the various races. There is truth in that. Su Yu, we might be...the actual chess pieces here. The chess pieces that have accidentally jumped off the chessboard."

Su Yu nodded indifferently, "Perhaps. But I am still uncertain. Then again, it isn't that hard to verify our guesses."

He licked his lips and said, "I will have the iron devourers do something and spread some news throughout the Upper Realm. We will ask for Hundred Battle to return and help us against the chaos lineage. We can even get Venerable Moon to promise to help Hundred Battle with his revenge against the chaos lineage. If he remains missing with even such a promise, it will be clear that he is trying to stay out of this. His so-called conflict with Yue Luo will be nothing but a joke."

Su Yu sneered and said, "He is bold. If our guesses are right, then he must be sure that the myriad races won't kill him. Perhaps even the seal on him was a lie. The seal Yue Luo placed on him might be something he had always been able to remove at will.

"He was certain he wouldn't die. He might have even deliberately gotten the physical body dao sealed to keep humanity weak. That way, humanity would no longer remain a threat to the myriad races. This would ensure that upon his return, he could remove the seal and rapidly help humanity produce a bunch of new Daofuses. At that point, humanity would be immensely grateful toward him instead of blaming him for his previous defeat."

Wan Tiansheng gave it some thought and said, "A savior's return to strengthen everyone. His previous defeat is nothing but history. It is unrelated to the current epoch. Furthermore, the people of this epoch don't really care that much about the ancient past."

"Exactly." Su Yu smiled, "But we still don't know for sure. Riversea alone isn't enough to prove anything. Just keep an eye on him. Back then, Hundred Battle had over a hundred Daofuses under him. Even in such a situation, he despaired so much upon learning of the chaos lineage's strength that he decided to throw everything away and go into hiding. That can only prove that the chaos lineage is far stronger than we know."

Naturally, this was merely a speculation on his part. But if that were the truth, it would signify that Hundred Battle King was far more terrifying than he seemed.

He was unwilling to exhaust both his own strength and the myriad races' strength by clashing against each other. The chaos lineage would be the one to benefit from that. He would rather give the myriad races a fake victory, allowing them to rapidly strengthen themselves.

This would allow the myriad races to grow enough to face the chaos lineage. He had deliberately suffered a massive defeat to convince the chaos lineage and myriad races that they could freely fight each other without worrying about the existence of a third party.

But Su Yu's appearance had ruined that plan. If Hundred Battle King had fought the myriad races properly back then, he would have suffered massive casualties even if he could ultimately win. His remaining strength would be insufficient to handle the chaos lineage.

Even a defeat on his side with massive casualties on the myriad races' side as the price would also benefit the chaos lineage. Thus, he had decided to seal himself and deal humanity a crushing defeat without weakening the myriad races too much. This was the only way to keep the chaos race checked.

Even Su Yu had to agree that Hundred Battle King had picked the best option in such a situation.

Back then, nobody would believe Hundred Battle King even if he were to talk about the existence of the chaos lineage. At the time, the chaos lineage was still hidden perfectly. In fact, Yue Luo's sealing of Hundred Battle King was the main reason the myriad races had so easily believed what Su Yu told them about the chaos lineage.

That was a lineage that had defeated Hundred Battle King. They had to believe that this wasn't a lineage they could underestimate.

Over the years, the myriad races had been growing suspicious about an unknown party. From their perspective, Yue Luo was someone who had appeared out of nowhere. But someone so powerful wouldn't emerge from nothing. One could say that Yue Luo was the only reason why the myriad races were so willing to believe that there was a group of hidden experts out there.

***

Both Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng sank into silence.

Riversea's indifference was the main trigger for all their speculations. It was likely that Su Yu wouldn't have grown so suspicious if Riversea had reacted intensely toward the insults on Hundred Battle King.

Of course, Qi Rong's appearance had also helped greatly in changing his perspective on the ancient fossils. Thanks to her, he understood that the ancient fossils were no fools. All the previous human lords were puppets. Yue Gang, the third human lord, was so helpless against the ancient fossils that he was forced to personally execute his lover.

But the surviving ancient fossils seemed surprisingly useless in the tenth epoch. They were suspiciously helpless.

"Things are getting more and more interesting." Suddenly, Su Yu laughed and said, "Principal, I'm getting excited."

"What are you excited about?"

"I'm excited to know whether Hundred Battle is really so shrewd and treacherous. Only someone so smart is worthy of being the ninth human lord. Only someone like that is worthy of being known as the greatest talent in a hundred thousand years. The public image of Hundred Battle is one that of a clown.

"So many people claimed that the ninth epoch was the final proper war between humanity and the myriad races. Because the ninth human lord was the strongest in existence. By the ninth epoch, both humanity and the myriad races had reached their highest height in nine epochs. But for some reason, the final clash of the strongest humanity and myriad races in nine epochs had ended without much fanfare."

Nine was the limit.

There was a special meaning to that number. Thus, the ninth epoch was supposed to be special. And unsurprisingly, a supreme freak like Hundred Battle King had appeared in the ninth epoch.

Yet such a freak had been defeated without much fanfare after his glorious rise. His defeat had arrived too suddenly, to the point that everyone was confused. When everyone looked back, they found with surprise that Yue Luo was the sole reason for his defeat. Since then, everyone started believing in his stupidity.

Wan Tiansheng laughed and said, "Indeed. His defeat has been too boring. Nine is the limit. There must be something special about Hundred Battle, the ninth human lord. Looking back, some things are starting to make sense. Even when we were dominating the Lower Realm, the primordial giants had opted to seal their realm.

"Su Yu, you are also a supreme talent. Has any race offered to marry someone to you? Have the primordial giant race offered to marry their princess to you? Have Full Moon of the iron devourer race shown any interest to you?"

Su Yu chuckled and said, "Principal, I'm not interested in a non-human."

"That's not the point here. The point here is whether you have received such offers." Wan Tiansheng said, "And Hundred Battle has a descendant. Six thousand years after his defeat, the primordial giants are still protecting his descendant. They don't even care about you. Just what manner of person can inspire such loyalty in them?"

He laughed and continued, "Not even the iron devourers are so loyal to you. If you were to lose, the iron devourers would quickly make themselves scarce. As for the descendant you produced with them, they would either hide or hand the descendant out to protect their race."

Su Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Yes. That's very likely."

"Therefore, your guess might be right. We have gotten too confident thanks to our recent victories, to the point where we're getting careless. Thanks to our string of victories and the words of some people, we came to see ourselves as the saviors of humanity. But that might not be the truth."

The two looked at each other gloomily. Who were the chess players? Who were the chess pieces? Who could say for sure? They had believed that everything was within their control. But was that really the case?

Wan Tiansheng found himself more and more in agreement with Su Yu's guesses. He said, "We will start paying attention. If possible, we can even suffer a defeat or two and have some of our experts die to observe the reaction of others. Nobody can win forever. Since you have told Great Zhou King to prepare for something like this, we can take it a step forward. Lan Tian and I can both die.

"It's not like you can guarantee you will never suffer a defeat. We might as well take this chance to suffer a defeat while the stakes aren't that high. Let's see how everyone reacts to our defeat. At that point, we will be able to see who our true friends are."

Su Yu nodded, "Yes. My defeat, regardless of whether its real or fake, must happen when I'm at my peak strength. But before that, we need to learn more about the chaos lineage experts here. Even in defeat, we must take some of them down with us."

With a look at each other, the two laughed again. It didn't matter if they had guessed wrongly. They wouldn't lose anything through this test. As for the allies who might opt to leave or give up on them because of the defeat, well, such unreliable allies were never that valuable anyway.

***

Before long, they reached the location Wan Tiansheng found previously.

Su Yu's eyes shone as he swept his gaze over the area.

His heart thumped as he said, "There are people here. I'm not going to pay too much attention to them, but I can see extremely powerful daos here."

He did not dare to pay too much attention to the people he was seeing, even if he had grown much stronger than before.

There were a lot of experts here.

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