Chapter 2334: Too Late (2)
Chapter 2334: Too Late (2)
At the same time.
Upstream.
Martial Emperor, who was in the middle of fusing with the physical body dao, suddenly looked at the ones chatting away behind him and said, "Enough chatting. It's time for you to return to your cultivation. Why are you so relaxed instead of focusing on growing stronger? Extreme Martial, feel free to ask me if there's anything you don't understand in your cultivation. Since you cultivate the martial dao, our paths are quite similar..."
"..."
Everyone was stunned. What madness was this? As for Extreme Martial, he stared at Martial Emperor with terror. What was wrong with Martial Emperor?
At the same time, Martial Emperor was shaking his head with confusion. A terrible premonition was rising from his heart as he cursed inwardly. Holy shit! What was wrong with him?
Why should he care about Extreme Martial?
Why should he care about these people?
Why?
Only a fool would care about them. He only needed to focus on following Su Yu until he was a tier-one. Then, he could take his revenge against Tai Shan...but wait. Tai Shan was a human as well. Must he kill a fellow human?
And next, he trembled with alarm. What? That was Tai Shan! His super nemesis! How could he spare his number one enemy?
What were these thoughts?
He was greatly alarmed. He knew exactly what he wanted to do, but a new thought would emerge, telling him that they were all fellow humans and that there was no need for that...
"What the hell?"
Martial Emperor cursed. But at the same time, he could sense that the physical body dao had somehow grown stronger. In fact, why was he feeling like this physical body dao was now stronger than his previous dao?
How odd. Had Su Yu been so powerful all along? Wait, did that guy really grow the physical body dao into a tier-one dao? In that case, wouldn't it be possible for him to become a tier-one as well?
While entertaining all those thoughts, he noticed Extreme Martial's terrified gaze. He said, "What are you staring at? Get over here, you dumb bug. I'll explain the martial dao to you."
"..."
Extreme Martial's fear intensified. He hurriedly sent those around him a silent plea for help, but the others merely looked at him encouragingly. What was there to fear? It wasn't like Martial Emperor would kill him. At most, they would talk about life or something. He shouldn't refuse and offend Martial Emperor. None of them could afford to offend that guy.
Extreme Martial felt greatly helpless. Yes, his dao was very similar to Martial Emperor's path. But he did not want to learn from Martial Emperor. Furthermore, it was unlikely that Martial Emperor was sincere in this. Did Martial Emperor look like the type to sincerely teach others?
He felt terrible.
Behind him, someone was snickering at his suffering. But next, Martial Emperor glared at that person and said, "Big Monkey, get over here as well. This emperor is proficient in all weapons. You should learn from me as well."
Heavendoom was completely stunned. No...nope!
Just as he was about to say something, Martial Emperor roared fiercely, "Try to refuse and I'll slap you to death. Do you think you're a match for this emperor, Big Monkey?"
And next, Martial Emperor cursed at himself inwardly. Why should he care about that monkey? Was he sick in the head? But for some reason, he would feel an intense sense of disappointment whenever he looked at them today. All that wasted potential. How vexing!
How could they disappoint everyone, disappoint the race, and disappoint Emperor Yu like this?
"Hmm?"
Once again, Martial Emperor shook his head as a chill crept up his spine. Holy shit! Was this the side effect of Su Yu's dao? Would one start thinking that he was the best after cultivating his dao?
No wonder something felt off! This was so scary! Not far away, Human Emperor's eyes snapped open as he looked at Martial Emperor. When he saw the tiny bit of power leaking out of Martial Emperor, his jaw dropped.
Did...that little shit leave to extract the power of his world? He had clearly sensed the power of his world from Martial Emperor.
"I suppose this isn't that bad..."
But after thinking about it, Human Emperor nodded. This wasn't a bad thing. Martial Emperor was not the type with a sense of good and evil. In fact, he had no morality, and he was extremely self-centered. It wouldn't be bad for him to develop a sense of responsibility.
Human Emperor nodded. This was acceptable. Not everyone was worthy of learning from his dao. Martial Emperor should be thankful of this great opportunity. But was Su Yu doing this just to brainwash--cough, educate Martial Emperor?
Human Emperor would never admit that his dao had a brainwashing effect. Nope. That was enlightenment, not brainwashing.
Martial Emperor was a barbarian. It wouldn't be a bad idea for him to be enlightened. Human Emperor's dao was not the type that would make someone lose their nature. They would remain who they were, but they would also develop a sense of responsibility toward humanity and those on humanity's side.
They would start feeling the need to help everyone. Yeap. That wasn't brainwashing. That was enlightenment.
"I can't believe that kid is really doing this. I can only hope that he won't take too much from my world. It needs to keep enough power to develop a tier-one."
At that thought, Human Emperor cursed inwardly. This was excessive! Why did Su Yu extract his power without bothering to ask him?
Fine, fine. Human Emperor felt like he had gotten a lot more generous in his old age. It wasn't like he could make use of the power in his world himself anymore. If Su Yu wanted to take it, so be it.
***
Su Yu was fully focused on his task.
He was quite impressed at the sheer amount of dao power that Human Emperor's world had gathered over the years. And the dao power here was incredibly pure.
Not far away, Su Yu's world was expanding yet again. He had extracted a considerable amount of power from Human Emperor's world.
As for the sense of responsibility, its influence on Su Yu was minimal due to Su Yu's current strength. At the same time, his sense of responsibility toward humanity was already quite strong, so the little influence seeping through after being diluted wasn't able to do much to him anyway.
And finally, the hole was fully plugged with a rumble. Human Emperor's world started shaking. After losing its connection to the River of Time, the world had grown unstable. From afar, one would be able to see the bridge-shaped world slowly falling apart. A large amount of dao power started leaking out.
Right at that moment, Su Yu's world shook and surrounded Human Emperor's world before forcefully compressing it.
And Su Yu did not stop there.
After losing its connection to the River of Time, Human Emperor's world became extremely unstable.
Just then, a ripple with the powers of life and death washed over, followed by Xing Yue's voice, "My big brother is asking if you have gone mad. Why are you going crazy for no reason? He's telling you to stop messing around."
"Ignore him. Go back now. Don't spread your power over and mess with the flow of time."
Fine. Having delivered her message, Xing Yue vanished again.
As for Su Yu, he continued compressing Human Emperor's world. He only stopped when it was compressed to the size of a small town and refused to be compressed any further. Before long, Su Yu walked out of the dao. He looked around and noted that due to the compression of his world, the range of Human Emperor's world had shrunk significantly.
He laughed. This wasn't bad at all. However, the power inside was still too strong. This wasn't good.
"I'll extract more."
And thus, he continued extracting the power within Human Emperor's world. As Human Emperor's world lacked a proper foundational treasure, Su Yu tossed an item out. It was the cover of Mark of Civilization, also Human Emperor's dao painting.
Su Yu exhaled. He was returning the dao painting to its rightful owner.
"Fuse!"
With a command from him, the dao painting returned to its previous form, instantly stabilizing Human Emperor's world. However, that wasn't enough.
Su Yu called out again, "Heavenly Overseer."
Heavenly Overseer Marquis appeared, revealing a considerably powerful aura. Su Yu said, "Extract a fifth of the fortune from my world and infuse it into this world."
Heavenly Overseer Marquis' expression changed. Not far away, Great Zhou King's expression changed as well. What was Su Yu doing?
Su Yu said, "Stop wasting time."
His fortune had grown incredibly prosperous.
But much of his fortune was inherited from the ancient imperial court. Coupled with Heavenly Overseer Marquis' previous fusion into his world, he had snatched quite a lot of fortune from the ancient past. Human Emperor wouldn't have been so unlucky otherwise.
Yes, Human Emperor had been quite unlucky even in the recently concluded battle. If his fortune was still thriving, his body might have survived that battle. In the past, Su Yu never cared about his act of snatching the fortune of the ancient past.
But as he learned more, he understood that he had actually received Human Emperor's tacit approval or he wouldn't have been able to snatch all that fortune so easily. However, Human Emperor was in a terrible state. At this rate, he would really die.
Su Yu wasn't even giving much of his fortune. He was only giving away a fifth of what he had. His fortune had grown extremely powerful. It was a combination of his own fortune, the giant race's fortune, the ancient court's fortune, the modern humanity's fortune, the fortune of his allied races, and even the fortune of the myriad race opponents he defeated. In fact, each of his victorious battles would plunder some of the fortune from his defeated opponents.
Thus, even a fifth of his fortune was actually a sizeable amount. At the moment, Heavenly Overseer Marquis was radiating an incredibly powerful aura. It even felt like he was near the second tier. Then again, he was now the fortune of Su Yu's world. The more the world grew, the stronger he would be.
Hearing Su Yu's order, he said, "Emperor Yu, this..."
Su Yu snapped, "Stop wasting time. I am the master of my world. Obey."
Heavenly Overseer Marquis sighed and said nothing else. He started stripping a part of the fortune from Su Yu's world. Like a golden dragon, the stripped fortune roared before shooting toward Human Emperor's world. In the blink of an eye, it fused with the world.
Next, Human Emperor's world shook as the loose and unstable power within stabilized further. A dragon of fortune roared within the world.
Su Yu watched silently. Shortly after, he raised his brow as the power of his world extended into the distance. Then, Xing Yue reappeared. With a blank expression, she asked, "What?"
She was told to leave just moments ago. Why was she being called back?
"Tell Human Emperor to hand over his Human Emperor's seal. Oh, hand over his Xing Yu's token as well. Go."
"Why?"
"Don't ask so much...Fine, fine. I'm in need of something to sit on. Is that an acceptable answer?"
Xing Yue was rendered speechless. She knew that Su Yu had a proper reason for that request, so she vanished without bothering to ask more.