Tribulation of Myriad Races

Grandstar City.

When Su Yu landed in front of the stone statue, he turned his head to look in Xia Longwu’s direction again.

How foolish.

That was what Su Yu was mumbling under his breath. He and many others had fought so hard in Great Xia only to reduce the number of enemies Xia Longwu might face. Despite their efforts, Xia Longwu had chosen to delay his dao affirmation.

Like what so many were doing to buy time for him, he was doing the same, keeping as many Invincibles occupied to give the others a better chance at dao affirmation.

Xia Longwu was supposed to be cold and overbearing. However, Su Yu could see that the ruthless prefect was doing his best to buy time for others. If he had attempted to complete his dao affirmation in earnest when the battle in the Human Realm was still raging, he could have succeeded. But he waited and kept numerous Invincibles occupied. At this point, the other battles were coming to an end. He alone was left, with the promise of certain doom for himself.

The Xia Family had produced the fake ruin and started the entire plan for the sake of buying time for Xia Longwu. When Su Yu took the Culture Tomb out, Wan Tiansheng did not stop him either. Despite knowing how important the Culture Tomb was, Wan Tiansheng had allowed it. Clearly, he wanted to attract as many Invincibles as possible to reduce the pressure on Xia Longwu.

However, Xia Longwu had decided to not complete his dao affirmation when he had the opportunity. Su Yu was unaware of Xia Longwu’s hidden card. If he knew, he would feel even more strongly that Xia Longwu was a fool.

If Xia Longwu had summoned the nine ancient cities right when the battle was raging in the Human Realm, he would have had a very high chance of succeeding. But he had not done so.

Some people would always be silent about their sacrifice.

Such as Wan Tiansheng. Such as Xia Longwu.

After slaughtering so many Mountainseas and Sunmoons, Wan Tiansheng had turned himself into a demon. He did not try to explain himself. The majority of people were unaware of the truth. These people would not take kindly to his actions.

Meanwhile, Xia Longwu was striving hard to buy time for the others. He did it without telling anyone about it. Some might believe that his dao affirmation was really taking so long. But that would be wrong. He was merely buying time.

People like Xia Longwu and Wan Tiansheng cared not for the opinions of others. They did not care for the gratitude of others.

“He’s finished.” When Grandstar noticed what Su Yu was looking at, he said, “Surrounded by over a hundred Eternals. This is probably the first in many years. Even if he has more arrangements, and even if he has some agreements with a few holy city mayors, he won’t make it.”

Su Yu bowed at the stone statue and held his hands out.

Grandstar stared at Su Yu silently.

“Lord!”

Su Yu still remembered Wan Tiansheng’s words. The principal had advised him to not involve the stone statue with Xia Longwu’s affair. This would not benefit him one bit, and the favor of the stone statue was too valuable to be used on others.

Su Yu understood that. But…he was still someone from Great Xia. He was born there. He had grown up there. Xia Longwu was his childhood hero. His father was a soldier under Xia Longwu’s command.

Martial Dragon Guard, Xia Longwu, Martial Dragon War Academy…

In Great Xia, Xia Longwu was a legend. He was everything. Even when Su Yu fled Great Xia at eighteen, he never blamed the prefect for anything.

Xia Longwu, the person who had built his own legend through decades of slaughter in the Allheaven Battlefield. He was the faith of Great Xia.

He was the religion of millions upon millions of people in Great Xia. This was the first prefect to reach the same level of popularity as a founding king.

In many prefectures, the people only knew their founding king, not their prefect. In Great Xia, the people could remain confident even when the founding king was absent for a hundred years. All because of Xia Longwu.

Grandstar knew what Su Yu was pleading for. He calmly said, “The guardians of the holy cities do not involve ourselves in these conflicts. When I helped you against three Eternals previously, I was already skirting the laws. The guardians have an even more important mission. If I interfere more, I might attract the hostility of the myriad races. The holy cities are not unrivaled.”

Su Yu nodded, “I know the difficult position you’re in. I understand the risk you took for me. I am grateful. But I only have a question for you, Lord.”

“What is it?”

“Can we lure some death sovereigns out?” Su Yu asked, “For example, Death Sovereign Xing Yue. The death sovereigns are Invincibles as well. If they can help, perhaps Prefect Xia will have a higher chance of succeeding. If these death sovereigns are killed, will Pseudo Emperor death spirits appear?”

Grandstar said nothing. What a…crazy kid. Right at that moment, the tunnel beneath the city shook. Even Grandstar could feel the heavy pressure coming from the tunnel.

A death sovereign spoke from within the tunnel, “Su Yu, why don’t you give it a try?”

“…”

Well, that was awkward.

Su Yu looked at Grandstar questioningly. Why was the death sovereign here?

Grandstar remained silent. Xing Yue had never left.

In fact, Xing Yue had been waiting here for quite a while. She had been here since Su Yu started madly absorbing her death qi. And clearly, she had heard Su Yu’s words.

Xing Yue asked furiously, “Su Yu, what are you doing? Why are you absorbing so much death qi?”

Su Yu couldn’t see the death sovereign, but he could hear the voice.

Inwardly, he was cursing.

But he schooled his face into a smile as he said, “That’s my secret life-preservation method. Your death qi was too powerful so I had no choice but to think of a way to deal with your death qi.”

Nonsense!

Xing Yue was furious. Her death qi was too powerful?

He was doing this to preserve his life?

Absolute bullshit!

Su Yu wasn’t in the mood to keep arguing with the death sovereign. Instead, he asked, “Lord Grandstar, can I move the city near Xia Longwu during his dao affirmation and offer him shelter in the city when he encounters danger?”

Grandstar said, “If you wish to move the city, you can do it within the Allheaven Battlefield if you can bear the additional burden. The city will not prevent anyone from entering the city. But when affirming one’s dao, one will consume a large amount of energy from one’s environment. If he enters the city, the death qi might kill him and even turn him into a death spirit.”

Su Yu asked, “If the myriad race Invincibles attempt to attack the city after he enters the city…”

Grandstar said, “We can act as long as it’s within the bounds of our laws. Attacking the city is the same as a provocation to us. But if you’re the one to attack first, you won’t have our protection.”

A realization dawned on Su Yu. If he attacked first, he would not have any protection. But if he was attacked first, the stone statue would help. Once again, he recalled Wan Tiansheng’s words. He shouldn’t reveal all his trump cards. He shouldn’t exhaust the stone statue’s favor for the sake of others. Grandstar had voiced his unwillingness to participate in this conflict multiple times. He shouldn’t push, not when it would mostly benefit someone else and not him.

Su Yu sighed. Let him…be stubborn one more time.

Xia Longwu…

His childhood hero. He could not stay idle when his childhood hero was risking death.

“Thank you, Lord!”

After thanking the stone statue, Su Yu turned and walked away.

Grandstar watched silently.

In the tunnel, Xing Yue said, “That guy…did you feel it? He has been consuming my death qi nonstop! Until now! What is he doing?”

Grandstar replied, “Perhaps it’s the heaven acupoint.”

“Impossible!”

Xing Yue denied in shock, “Heaven acupoint…how is that possible? Isn’t that…a mere myth?”

Grandstar didn’t deign to give a reply. Was it impossible just because someone said that it was impossible? So what if it was the heaven acupoint?

Ultimately, he still added an explanation, “It might be incomplete. He can only absorb without the ability to stop the absorption. It is said that the heaven acupoint is the strongest acupoint in existence. Some had opened it during the ancient past.”

After a long silence, Xing Yue said, “There is a limit to the heaven acupoint’s capacity. I refuse to believe a mere Cloudbreach like him can drain me completely.”

What a joke.

The death qi she produced naturally was much higher in amount than what the kid could absorb from her. The kid’s absorption speed was only comparable to that of a Sunmoon while she was an Invincible! As far as she was concerned, she had merely obtained a parasite at the level of a Sunmoon.

It was quite annoying that this parasite was absorbing her death qi so hard. Any other mayor would try their best to resist the death qi, not take in more death qi. Any other death sovereign would have to forcefully send death qi to their mayors. Meanwhile, it was the other way around for her.

“Even a heaven acupoint will have a limit!”

Xing Yue declared coldly.

There was a limit to everything. Since the damn kid was trying to play this game, she would gladly fill him with enough death qi to burst him apart!

Grandstar said nothing. That was an issue between Xing Yue and Su Yu. He was quite surprised to see that Su Yu had opened the heaven acupoint, even if it was still incomplete.

Then again, Su Yu was also someone who had opened the grand cycle acupoints. He also had the ability to reverse death qi into source qi. It really shouldn’t be so surprising that he could do more.

Limit…Grandstar had never opened the heaven acupoint himself. He was unsure if there was a limit to that acupoint.