Chapter 657: Iron Devourer, Hundred Dao Pagoda (1)

After formulating a new plan on how to preserve heavenly source qi, Su Yu started reading willpower texts in his attempt to form some characters suitable for storage. He was also trying to get some spatial characters. In fact, he had been trying to do that for a while. Recently, he had been reading some related willpower texts.

The Time technique, in particular, was probably the willpower text with the highest probability of giving him a spatial character. After all, that was the martial technique of an Invincible.

He had also talked to Director Hou about Feng Ji's matter. Director Hou had agreed to help, but since he was unsure about Feng Ji's actual location, he could only promise that he would try his best.

Su Yu did not ask for the help for free. He gave Director Hou a cultivation method for the trouble. It wasn't a particularly powerful cultivation method, but it was a healing cultivation method. Director Hou could choose to cultivate it himself or give it away as a gift. Su Yu did not mind.

12th of February.

Almost a month had passed since Su Yu entered the Great Ming Cultural Research Academy. He had been busy for the entire month. Today, he finally had some free time. After walking out of his research center, he noted that spring had arrived.

Beside him was Wu Lan, who had been dragged out by him. She was even more of a hermit than him. He would still go out occasionally, but she had been staying cooped up in the research center almost all the time. And it wasn't like he had assigned her any tasks. He had no idea what she was so busy with.

"Where are you going?"

Wu Lan glanced left and right as she asked. At first, she was unhappy about being forced to leave. But when she saw all the blooming flowers all over the academy, her mood improved.

Su Yu smiled, "I have some matters to take care of. First, let's visit the ninth prince. Then, we'll pay the Hundred Dao Pagoda a visit."

"Ninth prince? Zhu Hongliang? Why are you looking for him? He's weaker than Fatty Xia."

Wu Lan did not have a high opinion of Zhu Hongliang.

"Fatty Xia..." Su Yu laughed and said, "Well...Huyou is not as fat as him, right?"

Wu Lan laughed in amusement.

Su Yu said, "I heard he has a Mountainsea beast with incredible defensive prowess. Not even Sunmoons can kill that beast. I wish to take a look."Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

He was very interested in that beast. He had experienced the cultivation methods of the divines and devils. The 36-forge arts of the divines and devils were very impressive. But Su Yu had a feeling this iron devourer's forging art was probably even better.

After all, the iron devourer had survived the attack of someone a realm higher unscathed. He was even able to resume his meal like nothing had happened after the attack. That was quite impressive.

Everyone specialized in something. Perhaps in the aspect of body forging, the iron devourers were better. Since he had the book in his head, he should properly make use of it, right? He would not let go of the chance to gather the specialties of the myriad races for himself.

Su Yu intended to pursue the pinnacle of every single path. Even if that would take some time, he would also benefit greatly in the future.

Walking through the academy, Su Yu felt slightly envious seeing the carefree students of the academy.

What a bunch of slackers. These people would spend more time sunbathing than cultivating. What a good life.

After asking a few individuals for directions, Su Yu finally found the Beast Taming Faculty. He felt quite helpless during the process as everyone would look at him like an exotic animal whenever they saw him.

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The moment Su Yu stepped into the Beast Taming Faculty, he was reintroduced to what the word "bustling" meant.

"Mess him up!"

"Kick his ass!"

"Pee on him!"

"..."

This was probably a dao protector Zhu Tiandao had assigned to Zhu Hongliang, like how Xia Huyou had Xia Wen and Xia Wu serving as his dao protectors. In terms of strength, this beast devourer might even be stronger than Xia Huyou's dao protectors.

Noticing Su Yu's gaze, the iron devourer glanced at him before returning to his bamboo meal.

Zhu Hongliang finally noticed Su Yu as well. He smiled and said, "Su Yu, why are you here? Are you visiting me?"

Bai Junsheng noticed Su Yu as well. He opened his mouth to speak, but he stopped himself before he could say anything. He wanted to call Su Yu his nephew, but he was afraid of being beaten up.

Su Yu seemed to dislike this form of address. But Bai Junsheng strongly believed that Su Yu was deceiving himself.

The other students also turned to look at Su Yu upon hearing his name. When their gazes landed on him, they all started studying him like an exotic animal.

Su Yu smiled nonchalantly and said, "Prince, can we talk somewhere private?"

"Sure. Dumbo, let's go."

The iron devourer stood up and followed the two away while still chewing on his bamboo sticks. Bai Junsheng wanted to follow as well, but he was chased away by Zhu Hongliang.

A short while later, Su Yu and Zhu Hongliang walked into a small pavilion. There were a lot of such recreational pavilions in the academy. Meanwhile, the iron devourer sat down and continued chomping on his food.

The fearless Wu Lan walked up to the beast devourer and started teasing him. When Zhu Hongliang saw Su Yu looking over, he smiled and said, "It's fine. Dumbo is very gentle. He never harms anyone. But nobody can harm him as well."

Su Yu nodded. He looked at the iron devourer and asked, "Senior, can you speak the common language?"

"Nope." Zhu Hongliang replied helplessly, "Dumbo is very silly. I tried teaching him, but he never succeeded in learning it. But he understands us. He's simply too lazy to speak. I honestly don't know if he really doesn't know the language or if he simply can't be bothered to speak."

Su Yu thought to himself that it was more likely that the iron devourer simply didn't want to talk to Zhu Hongliang.

He was certain that this iron devourer was tamed by the Zhu Family instead of Zhu Hongliang. He was carrying out his duty as a dao protector, but that did not entail conversing with Zhu Hongliang.

Zhu Hongliang asked, "So Su Yu, why are you looking for me?"

Su Yu took a moment to arrange his thoughts and said, "The iron devourer race has an unrivaled defense. My physical cultivation is near the Skysoar Realm so I'm trying to understand how their body forging works."

"It's pointless. Even if you have their forging art, you won't be able to use it. This thing relies on acupoints, but human acupoints are different."

"It's fine. I only want something as a reference."

Looking at the iron devourer who was still eating, Su Yu asked, "Senior, are you a Mountainsea?"

The iron devourer glanced at him before ignoring him again. This kid was harboring bad intentions. He decided to ignore the kid.

Su Yu was speechless. Was he such an unpleasant person? He personally believed that he was a very lovable man.

Thus, he changed the smile on his face into one of gentle sincerity and said, "Senior, do you have any juniors in Great Ming? Is it possible for me to obtain a drop of blood essence from them for my research? Don't worry, I won't be taking it for free. I can trade for it with first divine or original devil blood essence. What do you think?"

Zhu Hongliang swallowed. The offer was so attractive that even he was tempted. Alas, he did not have the blood essence Su Yu wanted.

"If that doesn't work, we can continue talking about the terms..."

At this point, Zhu Hongliang was forced to say something, "No. He's the only one of his race here. We don't have other iron devourers in Great Ming."

Su Yu was greatly disappointed. He still couldn't withstand the blood essence of a Mountainsea. It would seem like he could only give up.