Published at 13th of September 2026 6:06 am

Chapter 2264: Name List (1)

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Five chaos beasts dead. This had been a productive fishing session.

With the Hell Gate sealed and the chaos will broken down, they wouldn't be able to keep doing this. Then again, Su Yu was also worried that more enemies than he could handle would emerge or the gate would open in advance. That would be disastrous.

With the inclusion of five dead Masters of Laws, Su Yu's world started growing again. The tea plant started consuming the chaos will she received.

The chaos dragon and eight-winged dragon had received half the chaos will while the tea plant had received half all by herself. However, the three differed in strength. In fact, the chaos dragon was already strong enough to be considered a tier-five Master of Law. He only lacked an opportunity to take a step forward.

He needed something like the removal of the restriction for Venerables. Just as Su Yu was done digesting his recent gains, the aura of the chaos dragon changed drastically.

Boom!

A large amount of chaos power converged around the chaos dragon.

Su Yu looked over.

The chaos dragon was a part of the so-called ancient chaos race. Breakthrough was seemingly impossible for them outside the gate. In that case, what did he require for a breakthrough?

Curious, Su Yu observed with his Heaven Gate. He wanted to take a good look at the breakthrough process. Just why was the chaos will so important?

With the Heaven Gate open, Su Yu saw something unusual. The moment the chaos dragon broke through, some power started drifting over from the River of Time, but it wasn't too obvious. The reaction of the Hell Gate was a lot more obvious.

An indistinct chain had appeared on the still gate. The gate emerged before flying toward the chaos dragon. It was an incorporeal chain, and it silently flew toward the chaos dragon's dao.

"Chain?"

A chain had actually emerged from the Hell Gate. Was the gate trying to prevent them from breaking through outside?

Just as the chain was about to lock the chaos dragon's dao down, numerous figures manifested from the chaos dragon's body. These seems to be the projections of numerous powerful chaos beasts. Or to be precise, these were the willpower manifestations stored inside the chaos will.

Detecting the approach of the chain, all these manifestations had appeared. There were about seven or eight of them. As they emerged, they clashed against the approaching chain. The chain smashed through them one after another.

Meanwhile, the dao of the chaos dragon started growing rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the dao finished its growth before vanishing into the chaos.

By that time, the chain had successfully defeated all the manifestations. However, the chaos dragon had completed his advancement and his dao was nowhere to be seen. With a lack of target, the chain hesitated slightly before returning behind the Hell Gate.

This was a scene only Su Yu saw.

"Hell Gate..."

Su Yu muttered to himself. So that was why.

Those attempting to break through outside would be stopped by the Hell Gate. The chain of the gate was incorporeal and undetectable. Yet it was also incomparably powerful. Without an outside assistance, breakthrough would be nearly impossible.

The chaos will was formed from the willpower of strong powerhouses from the ancient chaos race. Thus, they were useful in distracting the chain. That bought the chaos dragon enough time to complete the breakthrough. The chain would not do anything once the breakthrough was completed.

Su Yu had a pensive look as he muttered, "I wonder if the chaos will is replaced with the willpower of other powerhouses."

It would probably not work. The chain might not be interested in non-chaos powerhouses. After all, the chain was only there to seal the ancient chaos race.

"Therefore, the gate is the seal."

Or to be precise, the person who had sealed the era away had left something behind to prevent those of the sealed era from producing new powerhouses and interfering with the new era. It had been working nicely.

The Chaos Era was gone. Even if a large number of chaos beasts were still around, they couldn't disrupt the operation of the Myriad Realms. Even the strongest among them, someone like the chaos dragon, could barely do anything to the Myriad Realms.

"So is an era sealed away when it loses the ability to interfere with the next era?"

More ideas emerged in Su Yu's mind. Those of the Creation Era couldn't interfere with the current affairs. Thus, the Creation Era was sealed. What about the primordial past? Was it sealed away?

Probably not.

In actuality, people like Martial Emperor could be considered the powerhouses of the primordial past. Yet they were still active in this era. In that case, would a day arrive when these people lost the ability to interfere, signifying that yet another era had been sealed away? What about the Human Gate? What was sealed behind it?

Numerous thoughts emerged in Su Yu's mind. Suddenly, the chaos dragon roared in excitement. Just as suddenly, Su Yu's calm voice rang out, "Silence."

The chaos dragon, who was in a state of ecstasy from his recent breakthrough, nearly gave Su Yu a whip with his tail before regaining his clarity of mind. Wait, that was Su Yu. Five of his seniors had died here not long ago. It would be wise of him to shut his mouth here. Not far away, the eight-winged tiger was on the verge of a breakthrough.

Su Yu could sense that the chaos dragon had grown stronger after the breakthrough. Initially, he had the combat strength of a weaker tier five, but now, he had reached the ranks of middle tier four. In fact, he wasn't that far from the peak of tier four.

The more one's accumulation was, the stronger one would be after breaking through. The chaos dragon was already a tier five even before his breakthrough. That was actually quite terrifying.

Thus, Su Yu wouldn't be surprised even if the chaos dragon could jump straight to the third tier. However, the chaos dragon was only stuck at the fourth tier. Clearly, his accumulation was insufficient to go that far.

For the most part, most people would reach the fourth tier right after breaking through into a Master of Law. Therefore, the chaos dragon's growth really wasn't that impressive. As the eight-winged tiger's breakthrough neared, the look in Su Yu's eyes turned odd. Plotting too much might backfire. The eight-winged tiger was serving as an example of that.

As a peak Venerable, the eight-winged tiger was on the same level of cultivation as the chaos dragon. He should be capable of breaking through instantly. But instead of doing so, he had been holding back to observe the chaos dragon before making the attempt himself.

Only after the chaos dragon was successful did the eight-winged tiger begin his attempt. That was truly sly of him.

However...

The chain had previously appeared only when the chaos dragon was on the verge of completing the breakthrough. It had taken the gate a little bit of time to react. But the moment the eight-winged tiger began his attempt, the chain returned.

Beside Su Yu, Martial Emperor's eyes widened as he muttered, "How pitiful. All scholars are villains. This applies to scholarly tigers as well. Hah, serves him right!"

It was rare to see these scholars suffer like this, so he felt great. In fact, he was deliberately saying those words near Su Yu. His person could submit, but his mouth would never submit to Su Yu.

He was essentially telling Su Yu that things would end badly when one schemed excessively. The others couldn't see the chain. Not even the eight-winged tiger could see it. But Su Yu and Martial Emperor could, thanks to their Heaven Gates.

Several willpower manifestations appeared above the eight-winged tiger as well, but they were being defeated at a far faster speed than the ones during the chaos dragon's breakthrough. At this rate, the eight-winged tiger's dao would be locked before he could complete the breakthrough.

And when that happened, it was very likely that he would remain stuck until the Hell Gate was open.

"The chaos dragon made the attempt first. It took the Hell Gate some time to activate the chain. But before the chain could go dormant, the eight-winged tiger made his attempt, allowing the chain to emerge immediately. He should have waited for the gate to calm down. He would have succeeded."

Su Yu was able to easily deduce the truth. In short, the Hell Gate was akin to an engine. Previously, it needed a bit of time to start the engine. But with the engine already running, it could move immediately.

It would only take the gate a few seconds to start the engine, but those few precious seconds were exactly why the eight-winged tiger had failed his breakthrough. Sure enough, he was suffering from the backlash of being too sly.

Su Yu didn't deign to give Martial Emperor's remark a reply. As far as he was concerned, the main reason for the eight-winged tiger's failure was the tiger's inability to see these incorporeal powers in action. Nobody would do something so stupid if they could actually see these powers.

At the moment, the eight-winged tiger sensed something wrong. He could feel the chaos will he had devoured crumbling apart out of nowhere. Then, he saw an indistinct chain attempting to wrap around his dao. Or rather, he sensed it happening.

He could feel that he was about to fail his breakthrough. He roared with disbelief. How was this happening? Didn't the chaos dragon succeed earlier? Why would it fail when it was his turn?

"Roar!"

The eight-winged tiger roared and flapped his wings madly to flee the chain he was sensing. Alas, escape was impossible. Despair sank in. No! This was his sole chance to break through! Was he supposed to wait until the Hell Gate was open before breaking through?

What a joke.

Both the chaos dragon and he had offended the various chaos beasts in their attempt to break through. The moment the Hell Gate swung open, he would die. To survive, he had to break through now and try to grow even stronger before the opening of the gate.

He could perhaps try to reach the third tier. That would be enough to make him a respectable powerhouses in any era. And that would be enough for those chaos beasts to leave him alone. But failure was approaching.

In his desperation, he thought of something and howled mournfully, "Your Majesty, please save me!"

Su Yu's soft voice reached his ears, "You won't die from this. You'll only be stuck, but your strength might still grow somewhat from the attempt. You don't need any saving from this."

In any case, Su Yu did not owe him anything. He had done his part of the deal and handed the chaos will over.

"Your Majesty! I submit fully! I will become your mount! You still lack a mount, Your Majesty!"

The eight-winged tiger's crisis sense was screaming at him, telling him that this was his final chance. Failing this breakthrough would be the same as forfeiting his life. He would need to seek new opportunities if he wished to break through before the opening of the Hell Gate.

But would such opportunities keep appearing?

***

Su Yu stared in silence.

Abruptly, the world trembled as the power of chaos stirred before transforming into a sword. The sword shot toward the chain.

Chaos will.

A Creator could also convert the myriad daos into chaos. After all, the myriad daos were converted from chaos in the first place. Su Yu was testing to see if this could work.

Next, the chain proved that it was merely executing a set of commands without the ability to make adjustments. Then again, Su Yu's chaos will was also chaos will, so it fell completely within the scope of what the chain was supposed to deal with. The chain hesitated slightly before wrapping itself around the chaos sword instead.

Su Yu did not bother to resist. He had the sword return into the myriad daos. With its target gone, the chain started shooting toward the eight-winged tiger again.

"Interesting."

Su Yu grinned. Martial Emperor was watching as well, but he didn't find this interesting.

Su Yu said, "Is this not interesting? When the myriad daos are converted into chaos, the chain will target it. But when the chaos is changed into the myriad daos, the chain won't react."

Martial Emperor didn't know what to say. So? What about it?

Once again, Su Yu converted the myriad daos into chaos and lured the chain over. He said, "Is this not obvious? If I can capture the chain and study its composition, I might be able to find a perfect counter for the ancient chaos race. I can simply seal them away with my seal instead of wasting my effort fighting them.

"It is formless. Apart from people like us, most people have no way of seeing it. It won't even leave any fluctuation as it moves. When I fill my world with such chains, all my people will be perfectly fine while those of the chaos will be instantly sealed upon stepping inside my world. My world will essentially turn into the ultimate trap for them. At that time, I'll be able to easily hunt these chaos beasts down."

Was that the case? Martial Emperor gave it some thought before shaking his head. He couldn't be bothered to use his brain for this. What about the chaos beasts? Even chaos beasts could be beaten to death. Why bother going through the trouble of sealing them away?

Su Yu ignored Martial Emperor. It was pointless to explain his thoughts to a brainless brute like this. Su Yu could feel that the chain wasn't particularly powerful, but it specialized in countering the chaos dao. Thus, he was quite interested in catching at least one of them.

Just what was this chain made of? What dao did it correlate with? It was too powerful against chaos. Perhaps he could really find a counter for the chaos beasts behind the Hell Gate through this chain.

Just then, the eight-winged tiger roared. With a rumble, his dao swelled before vanishing into chaos. Almost immediately after, the chain vanished as well.

Before the eight-winged tiger could even feel the joy of breakthrough, Su Yu's frosty voice reached his ears: "You're dead."

Damn it!

This fellow had picked the wrong time to break through! He was just about to capture the chain, yet that fellow had ended the process by breaking through. The chain was gone.

Su Yu cursed. The chain could be very helpful for him. Now, he could only place his hope on the tea plant. She was still absorbing her share of the chaos will, but her aura had only reached the level of a heavenly king. It would probably take her quite some time to reach the level of a Venerable.

Then again, she could also break through around that level. Venerable wasn't a proper cultivation level. It was merely a temporary title created for those who were stuck when they had cultivated enough to become Masters of Laws.

For example, some of the heavenly kings under Su Yu had the potential to become Masters of Laws directly. With the restriction gone, the need for Venerable as a title was gone. In the ancient past, those known as heavenly kings by Su Yu were all called pseudo kings. These so-called pseudo kings were essentially potential human kings.

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