Published at 16th of September 2026 5:56 am

Chapter 2270: Surprise? (1)

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New Domain Era. A new era.

An era separate from Human Emperor's era.

If the new emperor had only the former members of Human Emperor's court serving under him, he would only be a successor. He would be someone who had brought the court to an even greater height, but not the pioneer of a new era.

In truth, Su Yu had never been too bothered about this. But upon learning that Human Emperor was dying, he understood that some preparations must be made. Since Xia Huyou and the others were willing to go completely crazy, he would naturally be willing to go crazy with them.

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While everyone else was busy cultivating.

Su Yu was in the River of Time. With a wave of his hand, he said generously, "Pick any dao you want."

It felt as though he was an emperor letting his loyal subordinates pick their respective fiefs.

And for some reason, everyone was taking this seriously, as though these daos were already his.

Xia Huyou grinned and said, "I want humanity's physical body dao."

That was a powerful dao. He didn't dare to say that he would grow into a being like Human Ancestor with this dao, but it wouldn't be an issue for him to grow into a tier-one Master of Law. Human Emperor was at that level even before his creation, but his dao was likely to be weaker than even the physical body dao.

Even now, the physical body dao was still the strongest tributary Su Yu had ever seen. The daos of Creators shouldn't be compared against tributaries.

However, Su Yu wasn't too interested in making the physical body dao one of the choices here. Who knew if Human Ancestor had really abandoned this dao? It was unlikely that anyone would be able to truly master this dao.

Ignoring Xia Huyou's request, Su Yu said, "In terms of daos, I have to say that the pen dao is quite impressive. Even Martial Emperor, with his weaker dao, can become a tier-two Master of Law. If you manage to master the pen dao, you can probably reach the first tier."

Su Yu might have thrown a lot of shade to the pen dao recently, but one should never forget that it was Culture King's chosen dao all those years ago. Almost nobody knew that he had created a dao, but everyone knew him as a tier-one Master of Law. This signified that the pen dao was entirely capable of bringing one to that level. This was a terrifying dao.

As for Human Ancestor's physical body dao, it was probably beyond the first tier in its entirety. It was unfortunate that the pen dao wasn't so easy to grasp.

Even Su Yu had worked very hard to grasp it. He had to first form ninty-nine characters and strip the different elements from the various daos before he could start fusing with the pen dao. Even so, he wasn't able to fully master it.

At the time, he had stopped at around ninety-percent mastery. That was already enough to put him on the level of Venerables.

Suddenly, Su Yu said, "Senior Wujiang, Senior Yun Chen..."

When the two looked over, he continued, "Both of you have mastered quite a lot of characters. You are both cultivators of Culture King's legacy. I believe...the two of you can try cultivating this dao together.

"The pen dao isn't weak. A single person might not be able to master it, or it might take you forever to achieve full mastery. Why don't you cultivate this dao together? Each of you can focus on a different set of characters. Of course, a high level of cooperation is required for this to work."

The pen dao was incredibly powerful. Su Yu had drained quite a lot of its power before, but it had fully recovered by now.

After a short thought, Nan Wujiang said, "Are you suggesting that Yun Chen and I transform into the spirits of pen dao together?"

Su Yu nodded, "Yes. If the two of you can achieve full mastery together, you will have the strength of a tier-one Master of Law together. Even separate, you can still maintain the strength of a tier two."

When a dao was strong enough, its cultivators could attain the combat strength of Masters of Laws even without mastering the dao. The physical body dao was one such example.

Yun Chen's eyes gleamed as he asked, "Will the two of us be able to master this dao rapidly?"

"It should be fine. Both of you cultivate the legacy of Culture King. Culture King might have some control left over the pen dao, but he won't stop your progress upon sensing your heritage."

In any case, there wasn't any guarantee that Culture King would be able to actually stop them. After all, he was still stuck behind the Heaven Gate.

Su Yu laughed and said, "Let's do this. This dao is very suitable for the two of you. Your many years of cultivation have actually been in preparation for this dao. If you don't mind it, we can even include Senior Xia Chen. With the three of you working together, I believe you will be able to master the dao at an even faster speed."

Xia Chen was the first principal of the academy. He was also the one who had brought the Culture Tomb out. He had cultivated the character techniques in the Culture Tomb. He was also among the people wishing to seek an alternate path after his resurrection.

Strictly speaking, he wasn't someone of this epoch. However, he was a member of the Xia Family.

Hearing Su Yu's words, Xia Chen said, "Your Majesty, I fused with your world after my resurrection. It might be too hard for me to separate from your world now. I might be rejected by the River of Time."

Su Yu thought about it and nodded, "Yes, that might happen. But it's still feasible. The river might reject you, but you might still succeed anyway."

"There is no need to trigger the River of Time for me." Xia Chen looked at Nan Wujiang and said, "Wujiang should be able to do it even without me."

Nan Wujiang was his student. He was the first principal, while Nan Wujiang was the third principal. The second principal was a powerhouse from the beast-taming faction.

He was quite confident in this student of his. He said, "Wujiang is actually very talented. Unfortunately, we didn't know the Culture Tomb well enough back then. We could only cultivate blindly. As a result, his progress was slow. In fact, I only accepted him as my student back then because he was talented enough to inherit Culture King's legacy..."

Unfortunately, they lacked understanding of the Culture Tomb at the time. It was a testament to Nan Wujiang's talent for him to be able to achieve his current level of cultivation through such an incomplete teaching.

Su Yu considered the matter and said, "Sure. Let's head over. Seniors, you will become spirits after this. This is the only way since rapid progress is what you're seeking. Regular dao fusing won't give you that."

Su Yu gave them a final reminder. It might sound simple, but it was something not even Su Yu was willing to do himself. It felt way too awkward to shed one's body and become one with the dao.

For Su Yu, this was quite a miserable state of being. Back then, Bai Feng and Wu Lan wanted to do the same. However, he disagreed. Now, Bai Feng, Liu Wenyan, and the others had all been hidden away by Su Yu. Thus, they weren't present.

The little furball was the keeper Su Yu had prepared for them. He wouldn't be taking the little furball upstream. That little fellow would stay behind and guard his secret lair.

Nan Wujiang smiled and said, "It's fine. A physical body can be very important, but it can also be completely unimportant. It's not something we can't abandon."

Yun Chen said, "Back then, we opted to hide in the dark instead of facing our enemies head on. We lost a lot of face doing so. In that case, we might as well go a step further and shed our bodies alongside our faces."

He had accepted Wan Tiansheng as a student on behalf of his teacher. Nominally, he was Wan Tiansheng's senior brother. But in practice, he was Wan Tiansheng's teacher. But now, Wan Tiansheng was treating them like strangers. He was always polite and cordial toward them, but the distance between them could no longer be closed.

That was understandable, as back when they feigned their deaths, Wan Tiansheng had been left completely alone.

Eventually, even Ye Batian died, leaving Wan Tiansheng as the sole person supporting the multiple character faction in the dark. That was a heavy burden for him. When Nan Wujiang and Yun Chen returned and Wan Tiansheng learned the truth, he couldn't bring himself to forgive them for their lies. That never changed, even if he had stopped talking about the past.

Su Yu, on the other hand, was relatively unbothered as he was too separated from the affairs back then. Strictly speaking, Nan Wujiang had actually given him a lot of help during his time in the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. He had merely been keeping a distance from Nan Wujiang because Old Wan still held a grudge against Nan Wujiang.

After some thought about the past, he said, "Upon becoming one with the dao, you will welcome a new start. You will essentially be dead, and death should clear all debts. I'll have a talk with Principal Wan after this. The two of you did not go into hiding for selfish reasons. I'm not in a position to say much about this, but the two of you are different from Hundred Battle."

The two said nothing. At this point, it was meaningless to talk about all that. Before long, they reached the tributary of the pen dao. The pen dao was as expansive as ever.

After focusing on the tributary for a bit, Su Yu nodded. Sure enough, the tributary had regained most of what he had drained from it. There was also a pen dao in his world, but it was much smaller in comparison to the one before him.

Everyone looked at Su Yu. How were they supposed to do this?

Su Yu said, "Seniors, release all your characters."

At that, numerous characters manifested around the two before combining into two character techniques. Altogether, the two had formed more than fifty characters.

After a quick scan, Su Yu said, "This is my first time trying something like this as well, but I know Soy Bun and the others quite well."

He looked at the two and said, "Your life force, your sea of willpower, your everything. Pour them all out and fuse with your character technique. Spread your characters throughout the dao and pick the corresponding elements of your characters to take hold of the different parts of the dao. During the process, you're at great risk of being assimilated by the dao. When that happens, you won't be a dao spirit. Rather, you will die completely.

"Only by preserving your consciousness and controlling the dao with your characters will you be able to turn into a dao spirit.

"Be sure to work with each other during the process. Good cooperation and powerful willpower are required. When the dao clashes against you, you will feel the threat of death. After all, failure will result in true death."

To the side, Xia Huyou laughed and said, "Stop scaring them, Your Majesty."

Su Yu said nothing. He wasn't trying to scare them. And everyone understood that. Rapid growth in cultivation was not something one could achieve easily.

Su Yu said, "Both Culture King and I cultivated this dao before. Thus, this dao acknowledges our lineage. That is the sole advantage you have here."

The two exchanged gazes. Nan Wujiang smiled and said, "In short, we'll be able to master the pen dao shortly if we can become luck spirits successfully?"

"Yes!"

"Is the pen dao a dao with better potential than the regular daos?"

"Of course."

Nan Wujiang smiled and said, "I suppose this is our reward for being fellow members of the multiple character faction. Even now, you're still picking a good dao for us. Some of the daos here won't push someone further than the fourth tier at maximum, right?"

"Yes."

Su Yu nodded. That was true. Of course, those weaker daos were also far easier to work with. The stronger a dao was, the higher the risk of losing themself to the dao.

Nan Wujiang inhaled deeply and said, "Good! Let us have the pen dao, Su Yu. We know what to do here."

Nan Wujiang addressed Su Yu by his name, indicating that he was speaking as a senior of the multiple character faction. Su Yu gave the two a deep gaze. After a short silence, he reached out, parted the river, and revealed an opening to the pen dao. Then, he grabbed the two and flew toward the pen dao.

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