Chapter 2385: Upgrade, Depart (2)

After some time, Su Yu received five maps.

And sure enough, there were differences. Annoyingly, these maps seemed too crude. Each map was basically a blank page with dots here and there.

After going through the maps, Su Yu said pensively, "I have a question. How does the River of Time inside the gate look?"

Just as Tomb was about to answer, Su Yu pointed at a tier-two fire cultivator and said, "You. Answer."

The red-haired man appeared rather uncomfortable. He said, "So-somewhat similar to the river in the Myriad Realms. But the water is turbid. Cultivation is easier, but also unstable."

Su Yu nodded, "Anything else?"

The fire cultivator thought for a bit and said, "Yes. The river inside isn't split into different stretches based on race or realm. All daos are mixed together. Does this count?"

As a tier-two, he still knew quite a lot about the river.

Su Yu nodded.

He asked, "Do you know the location of the real Heaven Gate? I'm not seeing it in any of your maps."

The fire cultivator shook his head. "We have no way of knowing that. This information is only known to some forbidden zone powerhouses. We know the area the gate is supposed to be at, but not the exact spot."

Su Yu nodded.

"Are these forbidden zone masters the ones who had created the different realms out here back then?"

"Some of them are."

Su Yu asked again, "What about the Eternal Life Mountain? Is this place related to the immortals? The immortals love bragging about their eternal life. Is their ancestor there?"

"Not really." Return couldn't resist interjecting, "I know a bit about this. The master of the Eternal Life Mountain is known as Art. That's his name. As for the Immortal Ancestor, his name is Immortal. Just like how Devil Ancestor's name is Devil. As the founders of their respective branches, those of their branches took their names as the name of their races."

Su Yu raised his brow and said, "Are you saying that Human Ancestor's name is Human?"

Return had no answer.

He said, "I don't know about that. For the most part, when people talk about the Human Ancestor, they refer to the leader of humanity during a period in time. Human Ancestor, Zhou. As for the immortal, devil, and divine races, they were new. Thus, they were named after their founders."

Understanding dawned on Su Yu.

"Where are these ancestors? Inside the Heaven Gate?"

"Probably."

Return thought about it and said, "But the world inside the Heaven Gate is massive. Big enough that some people can spend a lifetime without traversing the entirety of it. People like us are mostly active in a small region. Even if we know they're in there, we don't know the exact location. These supreme beings belong to a different circle than us."

Return explained, "They have their own circle. For example, the forbidden zones will interact with each other, but they will rarely interact with unaffiliated cultivators."

Su Yu thought about it and asked, "Apart from having the ability to suppress others and boost their allies, what can these forbidden zones do?"

"That..."

Return shook his head.

Tomb laughed and said, "I happen to know a bit about that. I once met a powerhouse from a forbidden zone. He accidentally leaked that the forbidden zones are known as forbidden zones for one specific reason. Their ability to cross the Heaven Gate. All the other abilities are mere supplementary abilities."

Su Yu raised his brow, "What do you mean by that?"

Tomb said, "He didn't explain much, so I don't know much either. The Heaven Gate has never opened before, so nobody knows if we can really leave the gate. But according to that person, these forbidden zones have the ability to cross the gate when it opens. Those without a forbidden zone might remain stuck even with the gate open. Of course, I don't know for sure if this is the case."

He speculated, "Or perhaps the forbidden zones have the ability to weaken the influence of the gate. For example, they can cross over through a gate projection?"

He glanced at Su Yu and added carefully, "Holders of Heaven Gate projections have the ability to enter, but there is no guarantee that they can leave after entering. Therefore, I suspect that the forbidden zones have the ability to leave through the gate projections."

Su Yu's eyes flickered as he said, "You mean that we can enter, conquer a forbidden zone, and return out here through the gate projection?"

"Possibly." Tomb said, "But this is only a guess. I'm not a member of a forbidden zone, so I can't know for sure."

Su Yu laughed, "I feel like you're trying to instigate me into entering and attacking the forbidden zones. Is that the case?"

Instantly, Tomb paled. He hurriedly explained, "You misunderstand, Human Lord! I'm definitely not trying to do that!"

Su Yu sneered, "Forget it. I'm very forgiving, so I will be letting this slide. This is all for now. I will ask you more when I have more questions. For now, pick some random daos and fuse with them to stay alive. Just look at you. Look at the dense aura of yin around all of you.

"I wonder if you guys are the actual death spirits here. You're different from the traditional death spirits, but you are indeed the people of the past. All of you should have died long ago. In fact, you belong to the afterlife, not the world of the living."

They sank into silence. Perhaps. They knew that. Those inside the gates knew that as well. Therefore, they all longed to return. To fuse with the daos out here. To become a part of the present once again.

***

Done with the questioning session, Su Yu locked the five inside the human lord's token.

He continued ignoring the competition outside. However, he could still sense the distribution of the five daos. Of the five, two were tier-ones.

Many pursued the spear dao, but King Yue should be the strongest of them all. However, he wasn't around. Ultimately, Battle King won it. At the moment, he was cultivating the battle intent dao in Su Yu's world. This was a dao related to morale, something incredibly important in battles.

In truth, he might not even be the most suitable person to wield the spear dao. However, he had still defeated Great Qin King, who was a strong competitor. Since he had joined Su Yu's world, his top priority was regaining his previous strength. He did not care what dao he was cultivating.

Human Emperor had persuaded him against it, telling him to let Great Qin King had the spear dao. After all, that was a dao Su Yu had worked hard to get. But Battle King was unwilling to relent. As such, there was nothing Human Emperor could do about it.

The dao did not push Battle King into the first tier, but he was able to regain his previous strength as a peak tier two. Unlike Martial Emperor, who was a tier-two when receiving the new dao, Battle King had dropped to tier three.

Thus, returning to peak tier two was already a good result for him. The other tier-one dao was Tomb's coffin dao. It was won by Radiant King. He had already recovered to tier two before this. The coffin dao could be considered a sealing dao, and sealing daos were very similar to formation daos. Thus, it was quite compatible with Radiant King.

As a veteran tier-one, Radiant King had utilized the coffin dao to upgrade Su Yu's formation dao into the first tier, giving rise to the second tier-one dao in Su Yu's world.

The first tier-one dao was the physical body dao. Great Zhou King was a tier-one, but he accomplished that through the combination of numerous daos instead of a singular tier-one dao.

The two tier-one daos were won by ancient powerhouses. The others were not their match. That was especially so for Radiant King, who had instantly defeated all competition for the coffin dao. As a former tier-one and one of the Four Cardinal Kings, he was simply too far beyond everyone else, even when he had dropped to the second tier.

This was essentially an easy win for him.

Surprisingly, the tier-two fire dao was won by Topsoil Spirit. Even Heavenly Fire and Cloud Fire lost to him. Nobody had expected this. Eventually, the dao was forcefully fused with the five elemental dao.

Topsoil Spirit, who had been maintaining a low profile for quite a while, instantly climbed into the second tier, shocking countless people. The destruction dao was won by Soy Bun. Instead of using it himself, he gave the dao to Flatbun. It was somewhat similar to Flatbun's devour dao.

Su Yu was quite surprised to see that. Soy Bun had somehow prevailed over the stiff competition with his transformation dao. Flatbun took this opportunity to devour the tier-two dao, becoming a tier-two herself. In fact, she had surpassed even Soy Bun. The competition for the staff dao was extremely intense.

Heavendoom, March, September, Great Bamboo, Extreme Martial, and even the newly defeated Great Qin King competed for it. Heavendoom had been running his mouth the entire day, but ultimately, he lost. Great Qin King won the dao after fighting like he was going to die for it. Heavendoom was so furious he nearly exploded on the spot from sheer anger.

Just like that, the five daos were snatched by the various powerhouses instead of being distributed accordingly. Otherwise, Great Qin King would have received the spear dao, not the staff dao. In short, this wasn't the most efficient distribution of these daos.

But Su Yu no longer cared. This was what he wanted. Competition. It worked out quite decently as well. Each of the winners was someone in Su Yu's world. Even Radiant King and Battle King, who were subordinates of Human Emperor, were in Su Yu's world as well.

As for the other subordinates of Human Emperor, most had not bothered to compete for reasons unknown. Perhaps Human Emperor had persuaded them against it. Or perhaps they were not interested. The end result was the inclusion of all five daos into Su Yu's world.

Radiant King had returned to a tier-one, Battle King had returned to a peak tier-two, and three had stepped into the second tier as well.

***

As a result, Su Yu's world stabilized at a rapid pace.

At the same time, the world started expanding.

With this, Su Yu had three tier-ones in his world. They were Radiant King, Martial Emperor, and Great Zhou King. As for the peak tier-twos, they were Xing Yue and Battle King. Great Qin King, Flatbun, and Topsoil Spirit were the early tier-twos.

As for Lan Tian, he had advanced into the first tier silently. Nobody was too bothered with his sudden disappearance. He had always been a mysterious figure who was everywhere and nowhere.

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