Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 951: All Characters Need A Beating (1)

Su Yu was happy.

Liu Wenyan said, "Don't be happy yet. As I said, compatibility is very important. Not all characters can be absorbed. If it's that simple, we wouldn't have lost so many lives back then when we tried transplanting characters."

He sighed inwardly. Back then, a lot of people were chosen to receive the inherited characters, but very few of them survived.

Xia Yunji, Hu Ping, Zhao Mingyue...

Those were the ones who were still around. Thus, compatibility was very important. Most of the deaths back then were caused by incompatibility.

Su Yu's face stiffened slightly. He thought about it and carefully said, "If even Teacher succeeded...I should be able to do it, right?"

What? Liu Wenyan stared at his student silently. What interesting words. What was the meaning behind those words? He, Liu Wenyan, used to kill Skysoars as a Mental Tempering student. Then, he also became a Skysoar who had killed Sunmoons. Sure, he relied on his Sunmoon character for that, but he was still the killer. How dare the brat compare the two of them?

"I killed Sunmoons before."

Liu Wenyan gave a simple reply. Why was the brat getting so cocky? The brat was merely enjoying what he had enjoyed before. Had the brat killed any Sunmoons before? If not, the brat should shut his mouth.

Su Yu shut his mouth. He couldn't even argue that Liu Wenyan had relied on external power to accomplish that feat since he himself had relied on external power frequently as well.

He was a Cloudbreach yet he had only killed a peak Mountainsea. Meanwhile, Liu Wenyan was very impressive. He had even killed the character clone of an Invincible.

Su Yu asked curiously, "Teacher, have you been on the Heavenly Hunt Index before?"

"..."

Liu Wenyan ignored the question. That was not important. He would naturally be on it if he wanted to, and if he didn't feel like it, he would naturally not be on it. Screw that!

Then again, he had really been on the index in the past. Alas, it was only the Yellow Index. He had been in the Allheaven Battlefield before. Or to be precise, the Allheaven Battlefield was his home. He was a genius as well. He wouldn't have caught Ye Batian's eyes otherwise.

Since he resided in the Allheaven Battlefield, he had naturally been on the index. But it didn't last long. Eventually, he entered the Human Realm and encountered the biggest tragedy of his life. His teacher died.

He inherited his teacher's character and started living a silent life. Just like that, five decades passed. He had turned into an old man. Even though he was still strong enough to punch above his level, he held no advantage over the young geniuses. Thus, he would not be able to get on the index anymore.

But there was no doubting that his name was once on the Yellow Index. He once ranked in the 300s. But it was pointless to say that to someone ranked third on the Heaven Index. He decided to forget the fact that he was once on the index.

Liu Wenyan said, "I made my name in the Human Realm. I was only at the Mental Tempering Stage then. I've never fought the myriad races before, so the index was nonexistent for me. Also, the Heavenly Hunt Index is basically the same as the Prey Index. Historically, very few names on the index have met a good end."

For example, people like Ye Batian, and even Xia Longwu. So what if one dominated the index? One would still be forced to bow to reality. What was there to be proud about?

Liu Wenyan snorted disdainfully and said, "Stop wasting time. Find a quiet place and test your compatibility with the character. Or perhaps I can split the fused character into its original characters and transfer those original characters one at a time. I'm afraid that if you receive too many of them, your sea of willpower will burst apart."

Su Yu nodded, "The Skyrend Valley is very safe."

"..."

Liu Wenyan was left completely speechless. Holy shit. Everyone viewed the Skyrend Valley as a forbidden zone, but this kid was treating that place as a safe zone.

Sure, that place was no longer as dangerous after Su Yu greatly exhausted the saber qi and holy power in it, but it still wasn't a place any random person could hope to enter and survive.

"Fine."

Liu Wenyan couldn't be bothered to argue. So be it.

Thus, the two started moving toward the Skyrend Valley. While flying, Su Yu said, "Teacher, just how many Sunmoon characters do you have?"

He was very curious. He knew that Ye Batian had a character technique with twenty-two characters. But back then, Liu Wenyan seemed to have detonated some of the non-human characters. How many characters did he have left now?

Liu Wenyan said, "I still have fourteen of them. I was supposed to have fifteen, but I gave Wu Jia one."

Su Yu was aware of that. Prior to leaving, Liu Wenyan had given Wu Jia a necklace. At the time, Bai Feng had told him through voice transmission that there was a Sunmoon character in the necklace.

Su Yu thought about it and asked, "Teacher, why did you refuse to give the characters away when those people asked for them?"

Back then, people like Jin Yuhui and the Zhou Family had demanded the characters from Liu Wenyan, but he had refused all of them. He claimed that he was unable to manifest those characters. Was that a lie?

Liu Wenyan rolled his eyes and said, "At that time, I still couldn't split the fused characters. But eventually, the disassembly method was discovered. Coupled with the detonation of some non-human characters, I was finally able to take the character technique apart. But at that point, the fall out had happened."

Since there was a fallout, what was the point of giving them the characters? And eventually, Zhou Polong himself had agreed to erase the past grudge in an exchange with Su Yu. With that, Liu Wenyan no longer owed the Zhou Family anything.

That seemed like such a big coincidence. Su Yu looked at Liu Wenyan suspiciously. So he found a way to manifest his characters right after the fall out with them?

Tsk tsk.

Whatever. It didn't matter. Furthermore, these were the fifth principal's characters. Teacher Liu had inherited them from his own teacher. So what if he wanted to hog them all for himself? As for the Zhou Family, the debt had been erased with Shan Xiong's life.

They no longer owe each other anything. Liu Wenyan was rendered speechless by Su Yu's expression. He was telling the truth. Whatever. The kid would never stop doubting him. In fact, he would be doubtful of such a coincidence as well.

He couldn't manifest the characters when they demanded it. After the fight was over, he finally found a way to manifest the character. Nobody would believe that. Not even Liu Wenyan himself could believe that.

As the two chatted, the Skyrend Valley finally appeared on the horizon. The place was still filled with saber qi, but the saber qi was slightly weaker than in the past.

After looking at the valley, Liu Wenyan sighed, "Skyrend Valley...Great Xia King...he's very strong. Even among all Invincibles in existence, he is one of the best. What a pity."

"Pity?"

Su Yu was doubtful. What?

Liu Wenyan explained, "What a pity that he was burdened by the Xia Family. Strictly speaking, even the multiple character faction can be considered a legacy of the Xia Family. The first principal, Xia Chen, was a member of the Xia Family. He was a brother of Great Xia King. With the establishment of the Xia Family, Great Xia King's blade is no longer as fast."

The Xia Family was actually quite impressive. The multiple character faction originated from them. Their cultivation in the warrior path was incredible as well. They were worthy of their pride. Great Xia King deserved to be proud.

Alas, his first son had perished while attempting a dao affirmation. His second son was still too young. His first grandson, Xia Longwu, was on the verge of dao affirmation while being the common enemy of the myriad races. All those incidents had caused Great Xia King's blade to stop being as murderous and sharp.

Great Xia was the source of all troubles. Both Xia Longwu and multiple character faction came from Great Xia.

Liu Wenyan said, "Great Xia King once stayed in Nanyuan for a period of time. You might even know him."

"Do I?"

Su Yu was reminded of that. He wondered if he actually knew Great Xia King. He had no idea.

"Who was it?"

"Do you remember the old man watching over the gate of Nanyuan Secondary School back then?"

"..."

Su Yu gave it some thought and nodded, "Yeah, I think I remember him. He left not long after I entered the school. Was that Great Xia King?"

He entered the school when he was thirteen. He remembered a healthy-looking old man who was slightly chubby. But the old man had left about half a year after he entered school. He heard that the old man had retired and he hadn't thought too much about it.

He said, "I'm not too familiar with him so I can't remember him well. But Hao is quite familiar with him. Back then, he stole his father's liquor only to find he didn't like it. Thus, he gave the entire bottle to the old man. Great Xia King sure was stingy. He didn't give Hao anything good for the liquor."

"..."

Liu Wenyan said, "You should not repeat these words anywhere else...no, don't even say it here. This place is related to him so he might be able to sense your words when you talk about him here."

It would be fine if they were anywhere else, but this place was related to Great Xia King. It was very likely that Great Xia King would sense it if someone badmouthed him here. This kid should learn to shut his mouth.

Why was he even complaining about Great Xia King? Was the kid not embarrassed when talking about that bottle of liquor? Liu Wenyan remembered that incident as well. Back then, Chen Hao got drunk from the liquor he stole. In his drunk state, he forced Great Xia King to join him. He should rejoice that Great Xia King had not slapped him to death from annoyance.

At that thought, he smiled, "Did you instigate him to steal that bottle of liquor?"

"..."

Su Yu had an innocent expression as he said, "Nope. Why would I tell him to do something like that?"

He added, "So Great Xia King was really at the Nanyuan Secondary School for a period of time? That makes us his students as well, right?"

"..."

What manner of logic was that? How did that make him Great Xia King's student? How did the kid somehow twist Great Xia King's role as a security guard into a teacher? Liu Wenyan couldn't be bothered to say more and entered the Skyrend Valley with Su Yu. After the previous incident here, the valley was currently quite empty. Then again, it had always been rather empty most of the time. Nobody would come here for no reason.

For the most part, only saber cultivators would visit this place to comprehend Great Xia King's saber. After all, Great Xia King's saber was known throughout the Myriad Realms. Sky Sundering Countless Saber. Yes. That was its official name. Apart from Great Xia King himself, nobody knew how many sabers he had reached.