Seeing that the beast seemed unhappy, Su Yu added, "Give me a little bit of time and I'll agree to not have my people face you with our superior numbers. I doubt you will enjoy fighting so many of us at once."

He looked around and said, "I have quite a lot of people here. Are you sure you can handle all of them? Just wait. When I'm done, I'll face you alone. What do you think?"

The beast looked around. There were indeed a lot of people here. He could probably kill a lot of them in battle, but it definitely wouldn't be an enjoyable experience.

After a short silence, the beast said, "I can allow you to withdraw."

"No. That's the same as cancelling my dao pioneering. I won't agree to that." Su Yu smiled. "So? Do you agree? If not, we can start the fight right away."

After another pause, the beast asked, "Will your people end up joining hands with you later after I give you the time you need?"

Su Yu answered, "They won't. To pioneer the daos of life and death, I need to stake everything on one attempt. The moment the others help me in my battle against you, my dao might collapse. At that time, I'll have to withdraw anyway. In that case, you will still be a winner."

The daos of life and death.

Staking everything in one attempt.

The beast observed, but they weren't able to determine if Su Yu was speaking the truth. Then again, they were confident they could obstruct Su Yu from completing the pioneering. What should be the choice?

The beast thought about it and said, "You probably don't want to see so many of your people die as well. If you're willing to face me alone, I can wait. If you try to use your numbers against me, I will leave before returning to take my revenge in the future."

Su Yu chuckled. "Is that a threat?"

"Why do you care? Do you intend to make a fake promise?"

Su Yu laughed. "No. How about this? Tell those chaos beasts to stay away as well. Give me some time. About half a day will suffice. I'll fight you when I'm done fusing these daos."

The draconic beast said nothing. Su Yu did not bother to wait for an answer. Instead, he resumed his fusion, sending page after page out of his book. Thanks to the tests Lan Tian did for him, his progress was relatively smooth.

2,100 daos. 2,100 daos.

Dao after dao were woven together into a constantly growing dao.

Every single one of these daos was connected to Su Yu.

His aura continued growing.

However, there was a sense of imbalance.

At this time, Wan Tiansheng flew over and asked through voice transmission, "Are you really fighting him alone?"

"Yes." Su Yu replied, "I need to comprehend life and death. Actual life and death. I need to seek life amidst death. Don't worry, I won't die for real so easily. I'm still in the middle of dao pioneering. Even after dying, I can return after laying down my life dao."

After a short silence, Wan Tiansheng said, "If you find yourself not his match, we can join hands!"

"No." Su Yu chuckled and said, "I scammed a lot of people before, but I'm serious this time. There is no need to sacrifice our people for no reason. If I lose and fail to lay down my life and death daos, this dao of mine will be as good as crippled. Of course, we can consider teaching this fellow a lesson if they decide to stick around and cause trouble even after I'm successful with the two daos.

"This dragon is essentially a trial for me. The entire process has been too smooth. When something is too smooth, it signifies that something is lacking. Some challenge is needed. Principal, pull back with the others for now."

Wan Tiansheng frowned.

Su Yu proceeded to speak out loud, "Everyone, return to the Origin Land. I will have a friendly spar with this dragon later. This is a good opportunity for me to familiarize myself with my new dao. Observe well. This dao is too unfamiliar for me. Perhaps you will notice something I missed."

Everyone looked at each other with dismay.

At that, Su Yu's face turned cold as he asked, "Should I assume that my orders no longer count?"

Left with no choice, Wan Tiansheng could only sigh and leave. Seeing that, the rest left as well. That dragon was no pushover. That was someone as powerful as Hundred Battle King from six thousand years ago. One could also say that they were as powerful as that Ancestor from Control King's lineage or Venerable Corona from the divine race.

These were the figures of different eras, but they were similar in strength. They stood at the very top of the Venerable stage, and only a step away from the Master of Law stage. They could even be considered pseudo Masters of Laws.

Of course, the current Hundred Battle King might be stronger. After all, he could have continued his cultivation during the six thousand years he was sealed.

"If I can match you, it will signify that I have caught up with Hundred Battle from six thousand years ago. I refuse to believe that he has been stagnant for six thousand years."

As a fellow leader of people, Su Yu did not care too much about things like grace and bearing. He was not lacking in wits. He only lacked strength. He was already relatively strong even without life and death daos. He wanted to see the result after laying down the two daos.

2,300 daos. 2,400 daos.

More and more daos were woven into the framework.

His aura continued growing.

But at the same time, it felt illusory.

The various daos had yet to be fully woven into a singular rope.

Not far away, the draconic beast watched in silence. Creators were legends even in the chaotic space. Thus, they were looking forward to their coming fight against this weak Creator.

Just what was so special about this human that he could attempt Creation as well? Time continued passing. Eventually, five hours passed. The entire area was enveloped in a suffocating silence.

Boom!

Suddenly, the various daos tightened up. The resulting dao took the form of a tube, but it was a tube split in two. Two daos were needed to connect the two parts.

Su Yu spread his senses over his dao and nodded with satisfaction. Things had been quite smooth. Lan Tian had played a massive role in his progress thus far, but unfortunately, Lan Tian had also suffered heavy injuries in the process of helping.

A Creation phenomenon had yet to appear.

Because the Creation was still incomplete.

The draconic beast had been waiting in silence. Knowing that the time for their fight had arrived, their voice boomed out, "Are you ready?"

"Yes. Thank you for your patience, Fellow Daoist."

With a smile, Su Yu started stepping forward. "Fellow Daoist, please hold back when we're fighting. I'm not very familiar with this dao of mine."

Boom!

A tail whipped over, shattering reality itself as it swept toward Su Yu.

Su Yu vanished with a flicker. When he reappeared, he was already above the dragon. After a slight contemplation, he said, "There are countless daos in existence. The myriad daos are wondrous and magical. Fellow Daoist, I doubt you can kill me."

"Only strength matters."

The draconic beast was not worried. It wasn't like they had never witnessed the myriad daos in action before. Chaos power surged before swirling around Su Yu. Then, a massive explosion erupted.

Once again, Su Yu vanished with a flicker. But this time, his crisis sense was starting to warn him. The draconic beast was too fast. They were able to stick close to him despite his attempt at evasion.

Su Yu drained his surroundings of chaos power, but the draconic beast seemed unaffected.

"Pure strength is always undefeatable. Strength does not come from chaos alone. Strength can come from ourselves as well. Fellow Daoist, it's not wise to underestimate me."

Boom!

Once again, the tail swept over and once again, Su Yu vanished with a flicker. But before he could teleport away, his spatial power was suppressed as a deafening draconic roar rang out.

"Roar!"

Boom!

Su Yu's eardrums burst, and blood started flowing out from his seven orifices. With a single roar, he had been forced out of his teleportation.

Boom!

Blood dripped down his mouth.

"Tricks do not matter as with sufficient strength, every trick will break. Chaos is the origin of everything. Remember that."

With a casual swipe, the draconic beast clawed at Su Yu, tearing him apart. The distant observers grew agitated. However, a new Su Yu appeared right after he was torn apart.

A cloning technique.

The dragon's eyes gleamed coldly as he said, "Clones? This won't work."

"Break!"

With a roar, the dragon grew even larger than before, as though they were filling every inch of space in the area.

One Su Yu after another collapsed. The dragon was doing what they preached: breaking everything with strength alone.

Su Yu's voice rang out in the air, "I have been reading since I was a child. The main characters would always be the ones to defeat the villains with brute strength before saying that tricks are useless. Are you the actual hero here while I'm the villain? How surprising."

Su Yu sneered and said, "But this so-called breaking everything with strength is merely a stupid claim brutes make to feel good. Why don't you try facing these tricks from those at the same cultivation level? What do you think, Fellow Daoist?"

Su Yu transformed into a sea of flames and burned the gigantic dragon.

"Weak. Mere weak tricks."

Boom!

With a sweep of their tail, the dragon extinguished all the flames. Then, their claws shot out, tearing all of Su Yu's clones apart. The battle continued, with Su Yu focusing on evasion and all sorts of techniques.

Concealment, five elements, clones, curses, explosions...

It was as though he had a bag of unending tricks.

However, his tricks weren't able to do more than leave some minor wounds on the dragon. The dragon was able to easily heal from these minor wounds before dealing more damage to Su Yu.

The dragon said, "Your dao is too weak. Your defeat is inevitable."

Once again, Su Yu reappeared from thin air. He was already slightly pale, but he still had a smile on his face. "True. Sure enough, people at your level can't be handled so easily."

"Battle!"

Su Yu transformed into a saber. A Sky Sundering Saber. The saber shone brightly, while reality itself faded around the blade.

"Not enough."

The dragon roared, sending a bombardment of soundwaves in all directions. Far away, the expressions of Wan Tiansheng and the others changed as they hurriedly set up barriers before them. However, those barriers shattered almost immediately. Caught in the sound waves, many of them started coughing blood.

As for Su Yu, the saber he had transformed into had dimmed considerably by the time he managed to drop down upon the dragon. The saber struck the dragon's horn, creating a tiny wound and releasing a tiny bit of golden blood. Immediately after, Su Yu transformed back into his original form before pulling back far away. Both his hands were already mangled.

The dragon shook their head and smiled. "Was that your strongest attack?"

Still too weak.

Su Yu sighed. Was he weak? Nope. Definitely not. Having gathered thousands of daos together, he had a feeling he was already comparable to Venerables like Yue Qin. But all his tricks were incapable of penetrating the defenses of this dragon. What could he do now?

"You're lacking in offense." The dragon said, "Take a look at my attack."

The dragon coiled.

"Break!"

With a roar, the dragon uncoiled their body, shattering reality itself.

Even chaos started collapsing. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Boom!