Tribulation of Myriad Races

Mayor’s residence.

It was grand and massive.

The gate was tightly shut. There was no way to enter. Surprisingly, the death qi in the immediate surroundings of the mayor’s residence was quite thin. There, Su Yu even saw a living being. Yes. A living being.

On one of the walls surrounding the mayor’s residence, there was a hole. It wasn’t too big, but someone was actually hiding in it. Su Yu didn’t know what that person was doing. Perhaps this place was even safer than those ancient buildings?

Even more surprisingly, this fellow was not dead. Thus, it was probably true that the hole was safer than those ancient buildings.

Su Yu was left quite speechless. Similarly, the person hiding in the dog hole was also staring at Su Yu speechlessly. A weak death spirit was actually lingering outside the hole. Of the two, one was a human. The other was a lump of soil. They knew each other.

Yes. The person hiding in the dog hole was none other than Topsoil Spirit.

This fellow sure was brazen. Underground movement was not possible in the city, yet he had still decided to enter the city. And he had actually survived. How lucky. It was true that luck was very important at times.

Topsoil Spirit was still alive. He had just transformed into a lump of soil instead of staying in his original humanoid form. He had probably done so in panic after seeing a death spirit outside the hole. That lump…bore a great resemblance to a pile of stool.

Su Yu started approaching the hole in the wall. Whatever. He might as well cut this fellow down for the heavenly reward.

Topsoil Spirit had encountered Su Yu’s several times before yet he was still alive and well. Su Yu couldn’t help but admit that this fellow was incredibly lucky. They had even traveled together once. In terms of luck, Topsoil Spirit greatly surpassed the likes of Jiu Xuan.

Topsoil Spirit was so frightened to see the death spirit approaching him that he turned into a lump of pale soil. Just what was going on? There shouldn’t be any death spirits near the mayor’s residence.

Of course, he did not realize that the Sunmoon death spirits had actually emerged from the mayor’s residence earlier. He only knew that this hole was quite a nice hiding space. He was still alive and well while the ones who had hidden in the ancient buildings nearby had wailed miserably not long ago. He reckoned they were all dead.

But evidently, that was going to change.

Sure, he wasn’t afraid of a mere Skysoar death spirit. But there would be no end to these death spirits if he killed even one of them. Furthermore, there were still Sunmoon death spirits in the city. If he somehow lured those Sunmoon death spirits over, he would be in big trouble even if he himself was a Sunmoon.

“Don’t come! Nothing to see here! I’m just a lump of soil!”

But the death spirit did not stop. Topsoil Spirit turned more and more pale. Before Su Yu could even reach the hole, Topsoil Spirit turned into a single speck of dust and shot off. He did not even care about the death qi erosion on his body as he moved out of his shelter. This was too scary. He was very fast.

Su Yu merely gave the escaping speck of dust a glance. A smile took form on his death spirit face. He did not bother to give chase. This was their third meeting, and once again, Topsoil Spirit had survived. He sure had a keen eye for danger.

In fact, Su Yu had actually activated his calm character earlier. That should have caused Topsoil Spirit to calm down and try waiting it out in the hole. But he had still decided to flee. Clearly, not even the calm character could prevent him from sensing the danger.

Su Yu tossed the matter to the back of his mind and approached the gate. It was tightly shut.

“How should I enter? Or to be precise, how should I get a meeting with the mayor? No, the better question is, how should I make the mayor open the gates?”

Su Yu sank into thought. He was not referring to the gate in front of him. Rather, he needed the nine city gates open so he could run. There was no future for him here. But the mayor was a ninth-stage Sunmoon.

If the mayor decided to kill him instead…wouldn’t it be over for him? He did not have the confidence to face a ninth-stage Sunmoon. In fact, his act of coming to the mayor’s residence was extremely risky.

Also, it would be best for him to not let anyone find out about his death spirit disguise. Perhaps he should make use of his death spirit disguise to collect more information before coming up with a way to negotiate with the mayor.

“If I want to borrow someone’s name to force the mayor to negotiate, that person needs to be an Invincible. This mayor was cut by Xia Longwu before. Who knows if he’s hostile toward the human race? I need to use the name of an Invincible to prevent him from making a move against me. Invincible…”

Su Yu did not know too many Invincibles. But it wasn’t like he didn’t know any. At the very least, he was somewhat related to the Silk Destroying King. Since he was now a member of Great Ming, he could also be considered related to Great Ming King. Great Qin King might have discovered him when he first left the Human Realm, so that was another Invincible he was related to. Oh, there was also the Heavenly Forge King.

Right, he also met Great Han King and Great Song King before… Wow, he actually knew quite a lot of Invincibles. But he couldn’t find a single one among them who he was confident would back him up.

“In the end, nobody is more reliable than myself.”

Once again, he repeated those words to himself. He grew slightly dispirited. If he could seek help from an Invincible, he would have done so long ago. But that wasn’t an option for him. Saying that nobody was more reliable than himself was merely his way of consoling himself.

What a pity that his teacher and his grandteacher weren’t Invincibles. Otherwise, he could have asked them for help. But that did not matter right now. He only needed to borrow their names.

What should he do to prevent the mayor from killing him on sight? It wouldn’t be easy. He was currently the most delicious piece of cake in the entire Allheaven Battlefield. Apart from the human race, everyone else probably wanted to kill him. In fact, even some humans might be thinking of killing him as well.

Su Yu knew the situation he was in very well. That was why he didn’t have too many friends. In the Allheaven Battlefield, anyone he wasn’t close with was someone he could kill if required. Race did not matter here.

Why should he care if he was all alone anyway? As for the few who would actually be willing to help him, most of them weren’t even in the Allheaven Battlefield.

Even though Qin Fang, the descendant of Great Qin King, was also in the city, he had never thought of seeking Qin Fang’s help. Why? Because he was all alone. He had nobody he could truly rely on.

Silently, Su Yu circled the mayor’s residence, completely oblivious to the fact that the stone statue in the inner hall was observing every action of his.

After a while, Su Yu entered a random building nearby. Then, he ended his acupoint reversal and returned to his original appearance. Done with that, he searched his storage ring and took several items out.

One of them was a command token given to him by Zhu Tiandao. The prefect had said that he could use this token when encountering Great Ming forces outside. He also had a toy saber in hand. That was given by Xia Huyou, claiming that if he was lucky enough to meet Great Xia King, he could use the toy saber to perhaps get some benefits from the king.

“Great Ming King, Great Xia King…”

Those were the only items related to Invincibles on him.

No, wait. He also dragged the little furball out of his sea of consciousness. He had a pensive look as he stared at the little fellow. This furball was also related to an Invincible. After all, the furball’s dada was an Invincible. Sure, Su Yu only knew him as a Pseudo Emperor, but in his mind, a Pseudo Emperor was definitely an Invincible as well.

With this, he could claim to be related to three Invincibles. Of course, he definitely wasn’t planning to meet the little furball’s dada. What if father furball decided to eat his sea of willpower with a single bite?

“Three Invincibles.”

Would that be enough to awe the mayor? He glanced at the distant mayor’s residence again. His entering could very well be an act of sending a lamb into a tiger’s den.

“Sigh.”

Perhaps he should kill more people before trying his luck in the mayor’s residence?

***

Su Yu sank into hesitation.

Meanwhile, the stone statue was busy thinking about one thing. He had completely neglected a certain issue. Why…was that damn human capable of transforming into a death spirit?

Holy shit!

He had completely neglected that issue before.

How did he know that the death spirit was Su Yu? Well, the answer was simple. Regardless of what appearance Su Yu took, he was unable to escape the stone statue’s senses. Furthermore, the little soul devourer was there as well, making it even easier for the stone statue to recognize Su Yu.

At the moment, he was looking straight at the building Su Yu was in. He saw the entire transformation. After seeing that, he sank into thought. What was going on? Reversing death qi?

Was the kid doing so with a unique character or some incredible cultivation method? No wonder the kid was able to survive this long.

But the kid’s transformation was still a tad bit too lacking. He could fool regular Sunmoons, but not those who were actually strong. For this stone statue, only Sunmoons on the verge of dao affirmation could be considered strong.

“Then again, this is already very impressive.”

The stone statue continued his contemplation. He couldn’t understand. How was that brat doing this? Was it a unique cultivation method? Or had he learned the cultivation method of the death spirits? But that cultivation method could only be learned by the dead. Was the brat dead? The ancient stone statue that had seemingly existed for an eternity sank into confusion.

“Cultivation method…or something else?”

He couldn’t understand. When the stone statue saw the kid taking several items out in the building and sensed the auras of powerful individuals on those items, he couldn’t help but sigh with admiration. It would seem like this brat had gotten in contact with quite a lot of powerhouses as well.

In fact, the stone statue even felt several familiar auras from those items. Those were the auras of the top human experts. After circling the mayor’s residence, the brat had entered a building before taking those items out. Was he afraid that Tian He would kill him?

The stone statue was able to guess Su Yu’s thoughts. He had the urge to laugh in amusement, but alas, that was not quite possible with his stone skin. He was well aware of the collusion between Xia Longwu and Tian He.

Thus, Tian He would not kill that human brat. However, the brat was unaware of that. Thus, the stone statue was quite curious as to how the brat was going to ensure that Tian He wouldn’t kill him.