Published at 16th of October 2026 6:21 am

Chapter 2329: Worldseeking (3)

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After some hesitation, Human Emperor continued, "That might be a feasible method to survive. But the difficulty is quite great. My world and my dao are too powerful for me to complete the transformation properly. It's too risky. I might die in the process. Rather than attempting something so risky, I might as well focus on leaving things that can benefit the future generations behind.

"For example, my human emperor dao can be left behind for a future inheritor. The inheritor might be weaker than me, but this dao is still good enough to produce a tier-one. Someone else can separately inherit my world. That might produce another tier-one."

His thoughts were simple. His dao and world might collapse upon a failed transformation into a dao spirit. In that case, he might as well focus on creating two future tier-ones. He was the master of a dao he named the human emperor dao.

He also had his pioneered world, one that could be inherited by someone else even if Su Yu rejected it. His world couldn't be moved easily, so the resulting tier-one wouldn't be too mobile. Nevertheless, that tier-one could still move around in the Myriad Realms.

"I am the type to only believe in myself." Su Yu looked into Human Emperor's eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, are you different? Do you enjoy placing your hope on others instead?"

Human Emperor sank into silence. This was a hard choice.

He knew that Su Yu wanted him to live on. He said, "Are you sure? I can make my arrangements before dying to ensure that Radiant King and the others will be willing to follow you after I'm gone. With me out of the way, you won't even have a competitor anymore. I doubt you're the type to serve under someone. But with me around, Radiant King and the others will never follow you."

Su Yu sneered and said with complete disdain, "It doesn't matter."

"..."

How arrogant.

Human Emperor was left quite speechless. He had three tier-ones under him. Meanwhile, Su Yu didn't even have a tier-two under him. What was he being so proud about?

"Talk again after dealing with the myriad races." Su Yu couldn't be bothered to keep arguing about the same topic. He said, "The myriad races have suffered considerable losses in the previous battle, but their tier-ones have escaped almost unscathed. They are still very difficult to defeat."

Human Emperor nodded, "Yes. That is even more so with my current condition. Even if you can reach the first tier, we'll only have four on our side. Four against seven...assuming that the other tier-ones are similar in strength, we'll be about equal with them. In such a situation, a victory will only come at a high cost. It is not a good idea to start a battle with such odds. Maybe…

"We really need to keep waiting. Or we can return to the Myriad Realms right away and prepare for the opening of the three gates. For now, we can coexist with the myriad races peacefully.

"Even back then, the myriad races were willing to wait. Now that we have shown an increase in overall strength, it is unlikely that they will want to fight to the death. We can even consider forming a temporary alliance with them."

Su Yu shook his head, "There are too many disadvantages to an alliance with them. We also need to be constantly wary of a potential betrayal. Even if we must form an alliance, we should only do it after dealing them major damage. For example, we can eliminate half and keep the other half as our dogs. Forming an alliance with them in our current situation is the same as raising a tiger. That would be unwise."

Once again, Human Emperor stared at Su Yu. This was quite a crazy kid.

"Are you sure? It will be very hard for us to deal any considerable damage to them in our current state."

Human Emperor understood what Su Yu was saying. But what could they do about it? Even if Su Yu was a tier-one, so what? Their opponents were too strong.

If it weren't for the lack of unity among the myriad races, they wouldn't even need to fear humanity. In fact, after learning about Human Emperor's condition, they should have launched an attack so long as they could unite properly.

Su Yu sank into thought. He had benefited considerably from the previous battle. It had allowed him to reach the first tier. Outside his world, he could reach the strength of fifteen daos even without borrowing Return's power. When he was borrowing Return's power, he could easily reach sixteen daos.

Inside his world, he could reach seventeen or even eighteen daos. But that strength was only enough to face a tier-one. Human Emperor was right. With such strength, the myriad races were too difficult to deal with. Any battle could potentially devolve into a fight to the death for both sides.

Their previous scheme wouldn't work a second time.

After a while, Su Yu said, "No matter what, you should focus on recovery. Even if you have to drop in strength after recovery, it's fine so long as you're strong enough to face one or two tier-ones. As for me...my main goal for now is to further expand my world."

And how should he go about doing that?

After a short pause, Su Yu said, "Your Majesty, you're somewhat familiar with the Heaven Gate. Do you think it's possible for me to first grow inside the Heaven Gate before returning to kill the myriad races and grow more? And finally, I can use my newfound strength against the three gates."

"Inside the Heaven Gate..."

Human Emperor considered it. His eyes flickered as he suddenly said, "Perhaps there's a way to do that, but it's probably not feasible yet. You're still not strong enough."

After a short pause, he laughed, "Try to find Wen Number Two's world. Let's see if there is a way to open his Heaven Gate's projection and get him involved. He knows the Heaven Gate best so he might have a better idea."

Su Yu's heart thumped. "His world? Did Culture King not take his world with him?"

"What do you think?" Human Emperor shook his head, "His world is also one that can't be moved easily. This is the case for your world as well. Otherwise, you would have moved it here long ago."

At that, Su Yu merely flashed Human Emperor a wide smile as he said, "Your Majesty, do you really think that I have no way of moving my world? I am simply unwilling to do so."

"Hmm?" Su Yu continued, "I can actually move it if I really want to. I used my human lord's token as the foundation for the start point of my world, but I have yet to set the end point of my world. I can find another treasure to serve as the end point, or I can try to complete the loop and use the token as both the start and end. At the time, I only need to recall my token to call my world over.

"I can even fuse my token with my Mark of Civilization, which is my dao weapon. And with that, my world will be one with me."

It wasn't impossible to move his world forcefully. It would merely damage his foundation. Thus, he wasn't quite willing to do so. But from Human Emperor's words, that wasn't the case with their worlds.

Su Yu asked curiously, "The completion rate of your worlds are too low. Why?"

"..."

Human Emperor didn't know what to say. "It's not that our completion rate is low. Rather, we don't have as many daos inside. Thus, our worlds lack stability. But stuffing too many daos inside has its disadvantages as well. Growth will be too difficult."

Su Yu laughed and teased, "Wait, it can't be that you guys can't include some specific daos, such as the life and death daos, right? Otherwise, you would have done so long ago."

Once again, Human Emperor sank into silence. After a long time, he said curiously, or perhaps he was asking doubtfully. "The life and death daos are actually very hard to pioneer. How did you do it, kid?"

"Just die a few times."

Human Emperor blanked out. After a long silence, he said, "I think I understand. But...this isn't a choice Wen Number Two or I can make. If we die by accident, things will be very troublesome for the others. But with this, I think I understand you better. You're someone willing to die if reborn into a better life is the result. You have the courage and determination to do so. We have the same determination as well, but we can't."

Su Yu shrugged. He did not say much about that. He was more interested in something else. He asked, "Your Majesty, are you telling me to find Culture King's world and contact him through it? Don't you know the location of his world?"

"I don't." Human Emperor shook his head. "That bastard was terrified that I would fuse my world with his world. Therefore, he was never willing to tell me the location of his world."

"..."

Su Yu blinked before roaring with laughter. That single remark was enough for him to understand Culture King's thoughts.

Culture King was worried as well. He was worried that Human Emperor would fuse the responsibility dao into his world one day. That would transform Culture King the carefree powerhouse into Culture King the pitiful and responsible powerhouse.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Su Yu was laughing so hard that he started choking.

Human Emperor was left speechless. He asked, "What's so funny? If you ask me, you lot are very irresponsible. Humanity nurtures us. When you grow strong, isn't it normal for you to do something for your people and your home?"

What was so funny about that?

Su Yu forced himself to stop laughing and said, "I'm laughing at Culture King, not you..."

So Culture King had hidden his world away just to escape Human Emperor's responsibility. How was that not funny?

"In short, he pioneered his dao stealthily somewhere unknown to you. Is that so?"

"Maybe. I don't know."

Su Yu was quite impressed.

"But that won't be so easy for me to find. Where should I even start?"

Human Emperor sneered and said, "All scholars are shrewd. I suspect that he's world is somewhere inside the Myriad Realms. It's not impossible to find it. I simply didn't care enough to look for it before. You can try looking around."

Nobody could say for sure.

Human Emperor continued, "Also, even if you can move your world around, it's a bad idea to take it into the gate. It will be rejected. Our world belongs here. Don't move it easily. There is a major opportunity in the Myriad Realms.

"That opportunity is related to the River of Time and the three gates. I have been investigating this for many years, but I still don't know much about it. But I am sure there is such an opportunity here. That's why the ones behind all three gates are trying to return."

Su Yu nodded. He had the same guess.

Su Yu was in quite a good mood after this conversation with Human Emperor. Human Emperor had been quite forthright with him.

"Find Culture King's world, contact him, and look for opportunities inside the Heaven Gate..."

Su Yu muttered to himself. This would most likely be his path forward. Otherwise, they would have no way of defeating the myriad races. Another ambush would not work. Return might be able to help in his coming plan as well.

Wouldn't it be troublesome for him to look for Culture King himself? He could get Return to look for Culture King instead. Of course, he still needed to find a way to get Return to do his bidding.

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