Su Yu frowned and said, "That's too slow. For your information, the composition analysis was completed by Lan Tian, Principal Wan, and me. We are all walking a similar path of myriad dao fusion, allowing us to conduct such research.

"Seniors, I understand your perfectionism in research. But I don't have the time to wait. I intend to start pioneering my dao. A dao of the myriad daos. I need to complete it as soon as possible. I doubt I have more than half a month to wait."

"..."

The death spirits were stunned.

What was that again?

Half a month?

Was this a joke?

Even Bai Feng was stunned to hear that. "Don't joke around. Not even my simplified method can complete this in half a month. We need to ensure that there is no rejection between the various daos, and we need to test this method multiple times to find the correct way of doing it. Even if we don't need thirty years, we'll need at least three to five years. Are you joking?"

Half a month?

Piss off!

That was not possible.

The death spirits appeared quite annoyed as well. One of them said, "That's not possible! Half a month to fuse all the daos? How is that possible? Not even our teacher, Culture King, could do this."

Su Yu nodded, "I know. I'm not ignorant."

He explained, "Hear me out. I will go deep inside the River of Time. The River of Time is essentially the orderly myriad daos, while the primal chaos is the unordered myriad daos. I will compare the two and match the myriad daos in real time before recording my findings. For now, I will try to follow the same order as the River of Time."

"Not even that will work!" The female death spirit shook her head and said, "The myriad daos aren't things you can manipulate just because you can see them. Answer me. Have you mastered the myriad daos?"

"No." Su Yu shook his head and said, "I only have a shallow understanding of a hundred or so daos, but I don't understand enough to call myself a master of the myriad daos. I don't have enough time and energy to do that. But I have also formed thousands of fake daos, and I have derived some understanding from these fake daos."

In short, his understanding was limited to what he had stolen through his pages. He had a shallow understanding of all these daos. Even so, that was enough of an accomplishment to shock the death spirits. The female death spirit asked, her voice trembling, "Are you the successor of pen dao?"

Su Yu nodded, "Yes. I was the one who had fused with the pen dao."

"No wonder. That alone is enough to make you a supreme genius. Back then, we split the pen dao into a hundred different daos. Since you're capable of fusing with it, you must have understood at least a hundred daos. That is the only way to fuse with the pen dao."

At this point, the death spirits were no longer seeing Su Yu as an ignorant layman. To fuse with the pen dao, he needed a decent mastery over at least a hundred daos. That was something only a monstrous freak could do.

Even the female death spirit's tone turned soft as she said, "Half a month is too short. Why are you in such a rush?"

Su Yu explained, "The active situation might change at any time. Culture King's greatest enemy, Control King's lineage, has risen in power in the Upper Realm. We also have the threat of the myriad races.

"And Hundred Battle King himself is on the verge of returning to the Lower Realm. He has very different beliefs from us. He is monopolizing the physical body dao, and it is suspected that he is related to the Human Ancestor. The conflict of the Myriad Realms is not a mere conflict of conquest. Rather, it is a conflict of daos."

Yes. He considered it a conflict of daos. He had never heard this idea from Culture King, but he had reached the same conclusion.

He solemnly said, "I have not inherited the full legacy of Human Emperor and Culture King, but my core belief, my dao, originates from them. Meanwhile, Control King's lineage follows the dao of primal chaos, the era before Creation, while Hundred Battle follows the dao of the primordial past. Meanwhile, I follow the dao of the ancient past.

"Unfortunately, my side is the weakest. If I don't attempt my dao pioneering now and wait thirty years...perhaps I would die before that."

He was being honest with these death spirits. He didn't know them well, but they were Culture King's students. Thus, he didn't see an issue in telling them all this. Su Yu wasn't entirely independent from the various forces still contending over the current era.

Strictly speaking, he was the inheritor of the ancient past. Of course, people like Great Zhou King had yet to see through the essence of the current conflict. But Su Yu could see that Hundred Battle King did not represent the legacy of the ancient past. Rather, he represented the primordial past.

The various active factions could no longer be split between races. That was too simplistic. Rather, it was a conflict of daos. A conflict of legacies. A conflict of beliefs.

Control King defected, attempting to block Culture King's legacy from appearing. The main reason for that was most likely the different legacies they represented. Conrol King was most likely the representative of the primal chaos.

That was the conclusion Su Yu had reached after learning about the gates from Heavenbridge Marquis.

"Dao conflict?"

The expressions of the death spirits changed upon hearing that term. The female death spirit said, "Young Friend, are you saying that...the ideologies of the various eras have returned, and the various forces are fighting to restore their eras?"

Su Yu nodded, "That is most likely the case. This is merely a guess, but I believe that with the emergence of the Primal Chaos Era, the Creation Era, the primordial past, and the ancient past, chaos will swallow the Myriad Realms soon. A major clash is coming."

Su Yu continued, his voice overcast, "The geniuses and monsters of the various eras might emerge."

Even Wan Tiansheng's expression changed upon hearing that. What was the meaning of that?

Su Yu did not elaborate. He continued, "The missing, the dead...the experts of the various eras might return. Returning from their seals. This might be an era where the various eras converge."

He did not know if his guess was right.

But...the gates! The gates sealing the various eras had emerged!

Human Emperor would return soon. Culture King might return as well. The lost would all return. Thus, Su Yu had to pioneer his dao as soon as possible. He couldn't afford to wait. Perhaps he was the only person who was so aware of this right now.

Or maybe Hundred Battle King and those from Control King's lineage understood that as well. It was unknown if the myriad races were aware as well. The female death spirit was still confused, but she could see that Su Yu was in a rush.

However, the fusion of myriad daos wasn't something one could rush through. She frowned deeply, and the other three death spirits looked troubled as well.

It was too difficult.

They needed more time.

Su Yu continued, "Moving forward, Lan Tian, Principal Wan, and I will work with all of you. I understand this isn't easy, but I have an idea."

After grabbing everyone's focus once again, Su Yu said, "In cultivation, we can do things step by step. For example, I can open my acupoints and apertures one by one instead of opening all 720 at once.

"I am considering using one dao as the starting point. For example, the spatial dao my teacher suggested. We will perfect things as we go. We will proceed dao after dao until we have a complete system in our hands."

Hearing that, Bai Feng said, "That's too risky. The chance of things going wrong will be far higher than even my method."

Su Yu nodded, "Therefore, I'll require everyone to assist with all the calculations with every dao I fuse. What should be the next dao? And what is the dao after that? Compatibility and many other factors must be taken into consideration. The moment we make a wrong calculation, we might need to restart from scratch. We might need to do this repeatedly.

"I am ready to test this method in a live setting. We can save the experimentation stage and conduct the test directly on me."

He would bear all the risk himself. Perhaps they would go all the way to the 2999th dao before discovering that the second dao was ordered wrongly and forced to restart from scratch. That would be extremely troublesome.

Even the death spirits were shocked to hear that. This was way too risky. Something could go wrong way too easily. Any mistake might render all their previous work pointless.

"Your name is Su Yu, right?"

The female death spirit said, "This is a method to skip a lot of stages before the dao pioneering. Pick a starting dao and give us fifteen days. We can even deduce up to ten or even a few hundred of the daos you can fuse after that. But we can't guarantee anything.

"We know a lot about the myriad daos, but our understanding is very shallow as well. You will need to pick your starting dao yourself. Perhaps any dao can work as the starting dao, but the starting dao will be the one bearing a large portion of the pressure during the fusion. Your comprehension of this dao must be deep enough as it will serve as the core of your new dao."

Su Yu's requirements were too high, and he was in too much of a rush. She couldn't help but persuade him against it. "Give us thirty years...no, just twenty years will do. We can deduce a proper system for you within that time. By doing minimal tests before the attempt, we can avoid a lot of complications. Twenty years will be over before you know it. Even completing this task within that time frame can be considered a miracle. Would you consider this?"

She was willing to work hard for Su Yu. As the successor of the pen dao, Su Yu could be considered the true successor of Culture King. She couldn't bear to see someone like this ruined during dao pioneering.

This was no laughing matter. A failure might not guarantee death, but the damage could be extensive.

Su Yu laughed and said, "How many years do you think I have to live?"

At that, the death spirits focused on him. Moments later, their expressions changed drastically.

Su Yu was running out of lifespan. In fact, the death within him was already thicker than the life within him.

The female death spirit suggested, "Why don't you focus on the pen dao and strengthen it for now? Buy enough time to last twenty years. Become a Master of Law through the pen dao and extend your lifespan first."

Su Yu shook his head. "Twenty years? No, I don't have that luxury. Even if I could fully master the pen dao within twenty years, it would be too late for me to do anything else by that time. The pen dao is very powerful, but the convergence of eras is coming. The pen dao is insufficient to face an event of such scale."

The death spirits looked at each other helplessly. Su Yu was too ambitious, and his standards were also too high. He believed that not even the pen dao was enough for him to participate in what was coming.

Pioneering a dao of the myriad daos...

Just then, Bai Feng said, "Let's do what Su Yu is saying. With a starting dao, we will do our best to deduce the following daos. We will try to sort everything out within fifteen days. We will try to come up with the correct order for the following hundred or even one thousand daos. "But Su Yu, you need to give us something to work with. What is your starting point?"

He solemnly said, "This is the foundation. It may or may not be important. Think it through."