Tribulation of Myriad Races

With the success of Xia Longwu’s advancement, one could say that this conflict had ended with a total defeat for the myriad races. But in truth, apart from the slightly large loss the devils had suffered, individually, each race hadn’t really lost much. At the very least, some of the humans hiding in the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had been exposed.

People like Niu Baidao and Zhu Tiandao, who had been hiding their strength, had also been exposed. Even the devils, who were considered to have suffered the most, had only lost three Invincibles.

A total of eight Invincibles had died during the conflict, and three of them were devils. Mohe and Lade had died during their foray into the Human Realm. Xia Longwu had also killed a devil Invincible after his advancement. The divines had lost two while the immortals, humans, and nethers had lost one each.

As an Invincible, even if Xia Longwu couldn’t defeat the numerically superior enemies arrayed against him, escaping was not an issue. He could even hide inside a minor realm if he had to.

As a human, he would be able to keep fighting at full strength in the minor realm while the other Invincibles would be suppressed. Only one avenue was left for the myriad races to regain some of their lost dignity.

They could kill the multiple character faction members. The ones who had yet to affirm their dao. Wan Tiansheng who had killed two Invincibles, Liu Wenyan who had advanced into the Sunmoon Realm, and Su Yu the mayor of an ancient city.

In fact, just killing the three of them would make their losses worth it, if the losses were counted independently for each race. Even the devil race, who had suffered the most during the conflict, would consider it worthwhile to lose three Invincibles for the lives of the three humans.

With the Invincibles calling for help from the Pseudo Emperors, a sigh rang out as a River of Time appeared across the Allheaven Battlefield. A silhouette walked out of the Devil Realm. It was only a projection instead of an actual body.

Allheaven Battlefield.

The projection continued striding across the sky. His eyes concealed a tiny trace of unwillingness and helplessness, but he pushed forth.

A short while later, he appeared before the ancient city.

“Greetings, Devil Emperor.”

A distortion hid the face of the newcomer, but if one focused, one could see some similarities with Mo Duona’s appearance.

In truth, this was none other than Mo Duona.

Instead of coming in person, the Devil Pseudo Emperor had possessed Mo Duona’s body to come. Since he was doing it in the Allheaven Battlefield, he was even able to push Mo Duona’s strength to the Invincible Realm while he was in the body.

The expressionless face of Mo Duona faced the ancient city as his gaze landed on Su Yu and Grandstar.

He spoke, “Ancient Saint Grandstar, the chaos of myriad races originated from the multiple character faction. As watchers of the dead, the ancient saints are the benefactors of all living beings. The likes of Su Yu are the source of chaos. For that, they should be executed.”

The Devil Pseudo Emperor had made an appearance. This was what he had to do, even if he wasn’t doing it in his own body.

Grandstar replied nonchalantly, “This is unrelated to me. The ancient cities only recognize the laws.

The laws.

Mo Duona frowned as he said, “Laws? The ancient laws? Do the ancient laws allow the mayors to freely seal the cities? Can the ancient saints freely leave the cities? Are there provisions allowing these behaviors in the ancient laws?”

Grandstar did not deign to give a reply.

The Devil Pseudo Emperor said, “The myriad races have a lot of Eternals. The holy cities have only been built to suppress the death spirits. Ancient Saint Grandstar, do you intend to get the holy cities involved just for the sake of these troublemakers?”

Grandstar remained silent.

The Devil Pseudo Emperor said, “If you insist…I’m afraid a hundred Eternals will descend to seek some pointers from the ancient saints.”

Grandstar was still silent.

Instead, Heavendoom spoke, “Devil Pseudo Emperor, are you challenging the holy cities? Are you challenging the guardians?”

“Challenge?” The Devil Pseudo Emperor smiled, “Not at all. The devils do not intend to do that. However, Ancient Saint Grandstar has crossed a line. So be it. We will stay outside the city…”

“Devil Emperor!”

An Invincible protested. If they were not entering, why was the Pseudo Emperor even here? To enjoy the scenery?

A drop of blood appeared in Mo Duona’s hand. The blood burned as the River of Time started rippling.

Death qi started churning in Grandstar City. After a short while, a furious roar rang out in it.

“Impudent! Su Yu! Stop, damn it!”

It was Xing Yue.

Su Yu could feel the flow of death qi toward him receding rapidly. At the same time, Grandstar said, “Audacious. How dare you lure a death sovereign into someone else’s territory?”

The Devil Pseudo Emperor said nonchalantly, “Did I break any laws? Since the death sovereign of your city is incapable of punishing Su Yu for killing a resident, it is only natural for a different death sovereign to step in.”

That made everything clear for the ones who were still confused about what was happening. The devils had been trying to return a death sovereign to their race.

Evidently, the same death sovereign had arrived at Xing Yue’s territory. The laws allowed this. The newcomer could emerge from the tunnel to kill Su Yu and finish the job for Xing Yue.

Su Yu’s expression changed. He immediately stopped his absorption of death qi. In truth, he was also worried that Xing Yue would join hands with the other death sovereign to kill him. But from Xing Yue’s furious howls, it was clear she was unhappy with this intrusion.

According to the laws, only one death sovereign was required to punish Su Yu. With a second death sovereign in place, that was basically an invasion of her territory.

Xing Yue was very angry!

She was already feeling very embarrassed about what Su Yu did to her. And now, the devils had actually encouraged a death sovereign to trespass into her territory. This further stoked her anger.

A loud voice rang out, “Xing Yue, since you’re incapable, allow me to finish your job for you. The honor of death spirits must be preserved. If you’re smart, you will step aside. Of course, I won’t mind killing you as well.”

A powerful death sovereign had appeared in the tunnel under the city. And the newcomer was stronger than Xing Yue. That was an ancient devil who had recovered a tiny bit of his memories from when he was alive. This was the devil the Devil Pseudo Emperor had been trying to resurrect.

Thanks to the Pseudo Emperor, he was already aware of his task here. He was here to kill Su Yu and the other multiple character faction experts.

***

Inside the city.

The expressions of Wan Tiansheng and the others changed as well. A powerful death sovereign had left his own territory to go after them. Su Yu could handle Xing Yue, but he couldn’t do anything to any other death sovereigns. The arrival of the new death sovereign would spell their death.

The Devil Pseudo Emperor did not opt for a direct conflict against the stone statues. Rather, he had created a disaster for Su Yu and the others by working within the bounds of the laws. All he needed was a different death sovereign.

Was this a challenge Su Yu could solve?

“Yanmo, you dare intrude upon my domain?”

Xing Yue considered this a humiliation, and she was enraged.

What Su Yu did was not enough to summon the other death sovereigns. This was nothing but an invasion.

“Piss off, trash.”

Xing Yue had been suffering Su Yu’s continuous absorption for quite a while. Even though he had slowed the absorption, her strength had still dropped considerably. Her short exchange with Wan Tiansheng earlier didn’t help either. She was no match for Yanmo in her current state.

Before long, Xing Yue’s roars of indignation rang out from the tunnel.

Su Yu’s expression changed repeatedly as he cursed inwardly. He had absorbed too much of Xing Yue’s power. This was bad. Xing Yue, who was an enemy not long ago, had suddenly turned into his most valuable protector. If the other death sovereign was allowed to enter the city, all of them would die.

Not even hiding inside the ancient buildings would protect them from the death sovereign. After all, the laws allowed the death sovereigns to open the doors of these ancient buildings. As a mayor, Su Yu was well aware of that.

Liu Wenyan and Wan Tiansheng, who had thought that they were finally safe mere moments ago, looked at Su Yu again. Could he do the same thing toward the other death sovereign?

Su Yu had the urge to roll his eyes when he noted their gazes.

His expression continued changing as he started panicking. They were in trouble. Liu Wenyan, Wan Tiansheng, and even Marquis Xia, who was now a ball of light, were all in the city. They would all die the moment the new death sovereign came out of the tunnel.

That damn Pseudo Emperor didn’t even need to come in person to create such a big problem for him.

Outside the city.

The Invincibles were overjoyed. An Emperor was impressive indeed. Just look at how easily he had pushed those humans to the brink of disaster.

The Devil Pseudo Emperor’s eyes, or Mo Duona’s eyes, to be precise, were showing slight signs of struggle. The longer the Pseudo Emperor stayed in his body, the more his body would be altered. Yes, the alteration would strengthen his body.

At this rate, he could step into the Mountainsea Realm soon. But this was not what he wanted.

The more his body was altered, the more trouble he would be in. When the Pseudo Emperor decided to take over his body in the future, even his consciousness might end up sealed. This was definitely not a good thing for him. That was the main reason why he had stayed out of the battle in the Human Realm earlier.

He had thought that he could avoid this fate, but in the end, the Pseudo Emperor had still found a reason to use his body. Looking at Su Yu, Mo Duona sighed inwardly. He truly hoped that Su Yu would be able to overcome this challenge.

But he hid that thought in the depths of his consciousness, careful to not leak it to the Pseudo Emperor. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to make those ancient stone statues act against the Pseudo Emperor and snap the River of Time?

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was too busy to care about what Mo Duona was thinking. He was too busy panicking, to be precise.

What now?

A death sovereign was about to descend upon them. He looked at Wan Tiansheng expectantly, but all he received was a shake of the head.

Wan Tiansheng was too heavily injured to do anything about this. He had fought nonstop for the entire day. He could probably still put up some fight against a Pseudo Invincible, but against a death spirit who was also an Invincible…he was hopeless.

Liu Wenyan started laughing, “So be it. I guess this is as good as a way we can go. We should be happy with what we have achieved so far. I’m only unhappy that I need to die together with this damn fatty…”

He started complaining as he tossed the ball of light in the air before catching it again, “Why was the damn fatty scolding me even during his final moments? I heard everything. He was already a pain in the ass back then. I guess not even time can change him…”

Fortunately, Xia Longwu had succeeded in his dao affirmation. Liu Wenyan smiled, satisfied that he had finally cleared part of what he owed Xia Longwu over the years. Sure, the damn fatty was the one who had saved Xia Longwu if one wanted to be specific, but since he had saved the damn fatty, Xia Longwu should be thankful to him.

As for the fact that they would all die in moments…well, there was no helping that.

Su Yu complained, “Teacher, you’re too pessimistic.”

How could his teacher be so pessimistic? A true genius was someone who would seek life amid death. His teacher was not genius enough.

He was totally not living up to his reputation as the number one genius of the multiple character faction. It was time for him to give up on that fancy title.