Tribulation of Myriad Races

With a smile, Liu Wenyan asked, “Anyone else? There are eight of you. I won’t bother with asking about your background. Back then, hundreds of people died. With only eight of you here, you won’t be able to get too big a share…”

Wang Chong shouted, “Liu Wenyan, the eight of us are enough to represent all of them!”

Once again, the old man from before roared furiously, “Even your ancestors will be ashamed of having a descendant like you! Who do you think you are to represent everyone?”

Wang Chong ignored the old man. After all, the old man had nothing to offer him. He was only targeting Liu Wenyan.

Liu Wenyan had always been known to be reasonable and gentle. Over the years, the descendants of those who had perished following the fifth principal had all been compensated in one way or another. The huge debt of Liu Wenyan and the few treasures the fifth principal left behind had all been split among them. And now, he was using the same excuse to squeeze even more benefits from Liu Wenyan.

Liu Wenyan sighed helplessly and said, “Fine. Come here. Only the eight of you are qualified to take a look. Nobody else.”

Wang Chong hesitated and shouted, “Take it out yourself!”

With a helpless expression, Liu Wenyan manifested a character above his palm. The character appeared completely crude. It did not create a massive phenomenon. It did not release powerful undulations. It merely hovered silently. Everyone stretched their necks to get a good look at it.

As for Wang Chong and the others, they looked at each other and stopped hesitating. All of them rushed toward Liu Wenyan. They did not suspect anything. Liu Wenyan was reasonable and gentle. He was a pedantic bookworm.

Yes, that was what they believed.

Meanwhile, the eyes of some non-human experts flickered.

An expert beside Mo Duona sneered, “Mo Duona, is Liu Wenyan really giving them the character?”

Mo Duona glanced at the person beside him and asked, “What do you think?”

“What do I think? I think…this whole thing is a joke.”

Yes. A joke.

But they were unfamiliar with the customs of humanity. Was it possible that Liu Wenyan was serious?

***

Before long, all eight of them reached Liu Wenyan.

With yet another sigh, Liu Wenyan said, “Fine, fine. So be it. You can have it. Catch.”

Then, he tossed the character at Wang Chong. Overjoyed and excited, Wang Chong reached out to grab the character. However, it phased right into his sea of willpower. It appeared slow, but it was actually moving rapidly. Before anyone could react, it had entered Wang Chong’s sea of willpower.

Rumble!

Next, a sea of willpower burst apart, followed by a body. Wang Chong wasn’t even able to say anything before it happened. The last thing he could do was release a miserable wail.

Abruptly, the atmosphere turned solemn.

With the same smile on his face, Liu Wenyan said, “I’m very reasonable. Alas…you don’t have the ability to keep the character.”

Then, the character flew toward the others.

One of them exclaimed in fear, “No! We—”

Boom!

Yet another person burst apart. Still smiling, Liu Wenyan said, “You can have it. Back then, I stored all these characters in my sea of willpower. Since you want it, you may store it in your seas of willpower as well. You’re welcome.”

Boom!

In the blink of an eye, several people had burst apart. The few survivors were greatly alarmed. No! This was not Liu Wenyan! Liu Wenyan wouldn’t act like this!

Liu Wenyan was the type of person who would remain patient regardless of his displeasure and anger. During the previous incident, Liu Wenyan had the ability to kill them with his characters as well. But ultimately, he had only killed Shan Tianhao instead of the main instigators like them.

Why? Because Liu Wenyan was too honorable and loyal.

One of them wailed fearfully, “No! My second uncle fought for the fifth principal once!”

Boom!

After bursting yet another body apart, Liu Wenyan laughed, “Yeah. Your second uncle. Not you. And the fifth principal. Not me. What a pity that I’m not the fifth principal.”

And finally, the last survivor burst apart as well. The eight humans had been reduced into a cloud of blood in the sky. Everything had happened too quickly. The crowd didn’t even get a chance to react.

After a while, one of them finally recovered from his shock. He roared furiously, “Liu Wenyan! How dare you kill your fellow humans! You have gone mad! You’re betraying humanity—”

Right at that moment, Liu Wenyan’s eyes turned frosty. The character floating above his palm transformed into an axe. His aura surged as he vanished before reappearing above the shouting man. Then, he swung his axe down.

The shouting man was alarmed. He was just about to mount his defense, but the incoming attack was so powerful he couldn’t even move.

Boom!

He was cleaved into two. His sea of willpower suffered the same fate. A moon dropped from the sky.

Silence.

Shock.

Countless humans were stunned. Liu Wenyan…had gone mad! He had actually killed a human Sunmoon in public! This madman! Was he trying to turn against humanity?

Liu Wenyan returned to where he was and smiled, “Betraying humanity? Perhaps. When you killed our people, it was justice. When I kill you, I’m betraying humanity. How does this logic work? Back then, there were so many members in the multiple character faction. Today, only a few of them are still alive.”

He looked at the crowd and said, “If you think I’m betraying humanity, bring it on. That was what you did to my martial nephew, Chen Yong, right? Let me tell you clearly now that yes, he killed all those people. So what? Those people had conspired to kill those from the multiple character faction. Do you think I don’t know about that?”

Liu Wenyan raised his voice, “Ask yourself! Do you not know that? You play dumb. You pretend to be blind. Why? Because you believe our line is easy to bully. Isn’t that right? It is righteous to kill us because the myriad races believe so as well. We are not the only multiple character cultivators around. It doesn’t matter if we die.”

Liu Wenyan’s aura continued surging as he roared, “If you’re too kind, others will step all over you. You call me a traitor? The real traitor has been left alone for so many years. In that case, I shall betray humanity as well. What about it? What’s the big deal?”

“What bullshit are you trying to say?” An expert berated, “Liu Wenyan, watch your mouth! I’ll be sure to report this to the Invincibles! You can seek justice from them when the time comes. Do not make a fool of yourself in front of so many outsiders. Marquis Xia, please arrest Liu Wenyan. This is an embarrassment!”

“…”

A lot of people looked at the big guy who had just spoken. That guy…was clearly trying to help Liu Wenyan. He had killed nine human experts, including a Sunmoon. After such an offense, this big guy was telling Marquis Xia to arrest Liu Wenyan? Was this a joke?

A lot of people recognized the big guy.

Someone spoke through voice transmission, “It’s the chief commander of the Raised Blade Guard from Great Tang. He’s actually here as well. And he’s…clearly biased toward Liu Wenyan.”

“But this…is not so simple. If Liu Wenyan can really produce proof that those killed by Chen Yong and those he had killed today had conspired to kill those from the multiple character faction in the past, nothing will happen to him.”

Sounds of discussion rang out amid the crowd. Not far away, Marquis Xia smiled. Then, he assumed a stern expression and roared, “Impudent! Liu Wenyan, how dare you kill your fellow humans within Great Xia? You deserve punishment for this! Guards, arrest Liu Wenyan and drag him into the city to face justice!”

Right after that was said, General Zhao stepped forth.

But a divine Sunmoon blocked the way and asked nonchalantly, “Why the rush to take Liu Wenyan into the city? We don’t intend to interfere with the internal affairs of humanity. But I’m curious. Liu Wenyan is a cultural researcher. Shouldn’t he answer to the Knowledge Seeking Realm for his crimes? After all, the Knowledge Seeking Realm is the holy land of human cultural researchers. Am I right, Marquis Xia?”

Marquis Xia laughed, “Wow, as a divine, you know the rules of humanity better than some humans out there. Impressive.”

His eyes turned frosty even as he kept smiling, “Yes. That’s right. Is anyone from the Knowledge Seeking Realm here? Great Xia wishes to take over this case. Do you object?”

At the same time.

Numerous gazes landed on a group of more than ten Sunmoons standing somewhere within Nanyuan. That was a group from the Knowledge Seeking Realm.

Among them, Yuan Qingdong sent a voice transmission to his friends, “Pretend we hear nothing. Don’t get involved.”

It would be stupid of them to get involved. Just look at the fury the entirety of Great Xia was displaying. Just look at Marquis Xia. It would be unwise to provoke unnecessary trouble at a time like this.

But one of his friends disagreed, “All cultural researchers are supposed to fall into the jurisdiction of our Knowledge Seeking Realm. How impudent of Liu Wenyan to kill his fellow humans in front of us. Even for the sake of Su Yu’s ruin, we need to arrest Liu Wenyan. That way, they will be forced to share!”

Clearly, some of them had also been blinded by greed.

Alarmed, Yuan Qingdong sent another voice transmission, “The Xia Family is furious—”

“So what? Is Xia Xiao’er going to kill us? The ruin does not belong to them. We’re all Invincible descendants. We’re not asking for much. We only want the carrier treasures. At worst, we’ll give up on the Culture Tomb.”

Yuan Qingdong was bursting with rage. Did this fool really believe that the Xia Family wouldn’t dare to touch them?

His instincts were screaming at him that something was very wrong about how the Xia Family was behaving. To speak the truth, the Xia Family would not lay a hand on them if it wished to continue its survival. But he also had a feeling that the Xia Family was ready to throw caution to the wind.

Why must they get involved now? Was death not scary enough? The Xia Family had clearly gone mad.

Before he could even stop his friends, one of them roared, “Marquis Xia, according to our laws, Liu Wenyan deserves the death penalty for his crimes. But since he had provided new allegations to support his actions, he shall be arrested while we conduct further investigation. As he is a cultural researcher, this falls under our jurisdiction. We will be taking him in.”

“…”