Tribulation of Myriad Races

With the appearance of the two Pseudo Emperors from the soul devourer race, the conflict that had arisen due to Xia Longwu’s dao affirmation, the same conflict the various races had prepared a long time for, finally came to an end.

It was a massive victory for humanity.

In the process, humanity had been forced to reveal many trump cards. Humanity had also suffered some losses. Dozens of Sunmoons had died either fighting in the conflict. Dozens more were slaughtered by Wan Tiansheng while the two holy lands were burned to the ground.

Wan Tiansheng was incredibly ruthless. He had destroyed even the two Heavenly Source Domains of the holy lands. Instead of looting the treasures stored in the warehouses of the two holy lands, they were all burned and reduced to source qi, free to spread all over the Human Realm.

All the riches the two holy lands had accumulated over hundreds of years were gone.

Due to the recent burning of so many treasures, the Dual Holy Prefecture was incredibly thick with source qi. But that wouldn’t last as the source qi would slowly spread elsewhere.

Sounds of weeping filled the Dual Holy Prefecture. The party to suffer the most from the conflict was not the myriad races or Great Xia. Rather, it was the Dual Holy Prefecture. It had lost all its Sunmoons. No, that wasn’t accurate. Some of the elderlies and a small number of Sunmoons who had actually participated in the battle against the myriad races had survived.

About seven or eight Sunmoons, a few elderlies, and a few middle-aged experts had joined the battle against the myriad races. All these people had survived Wan Tiansheng’s slaughter.

One day after the conflict, a massive screen appeared above every single prefecture. On the screen, scenes from the recent battle in Nanyuan were played.

Over a hundred Sunmoons had perished in that battle.

Dozens of them were humans.

During that battle, more than ten Sunmoons of Great Xia perished. The Martial Dragon Guard was almost entirely wiped out.

During that battle, some humans merely watched while their fellow humans fought and died.

The recordings of the entire battle were played on these screens without a single commentary.

Those responsible for this were not those from the Xia Family or the Zhu Family. Rather, it was a group of youngsters. They were led by Wan Tiansheng’s grandnephew, Wan Mingze. He had returned from the Allheaven Battlefield. After receiving the recordings from the Xia Family, he started touring the Human Realm with his youth army, playing the scenes everywhere he went.

He was redressing the injustice his granduncle faced. His granduncle was no traitor. He had killed two Invincibles during the battle. One of them was even the human traitor. Those he had killed deserved death.

Wan Mingze did not know if his efforts would pay off, but he wanted to do something. He wanted to show humanity that his granduncle was no traitor. His granduncle had also fought for humanity. His granduncle was merely a tad bit more extreme in his actions by slaughtering those from the two holy lands and associating with Lan Tian.

Even Lan Tian had fought to the death in the battle with the members of his so-called Holy Land. He had killed a Pseudo Invincible and kept an Invincible occupied during the duration of the battle.

The various prefectures maintained their silence.

Nobody did anything to Wan Mingze. They didn’t know what to feel about Wan Tiansheng.

Was he a saint?

Or was he a demon?

Many of the experts in the two holy lands were connected one way or another to the other prefectures. Some were cousins, some were brothers, some were distant relatives, and so on.

Thus, the upper echelons of humanity did not know what to feel about what Wan Tiansheng did to the two holy lands.

Wan Mingze did not care about that. He also didn’t care that some people might be tempted to act against him. Leading the like-minded youths from his youth army, he played the recording everywhere he went. No explanations were given. Everyone was presented with the scenes of what had happened and left to judge for themselves. He showed everything, including Wan Tiansheng’s slaughter of the two holy lands.

The public reacted differently. Some scolded Wan Tiansheng, while some scolded those who had shirked their duties.

Most of the voices scolding Wan Tiansheng had appeared when the scenes of him slaughtering those in the two holy lands were being played. Prior to that, nobody disagreed with the slaughter of those who had watched while their fellow humans were fighting bitterly.

Some believed that Wan Tiansheng was too excessive. How could he be sure that all those people were avoiding the battle? Perhaps some had been ordered to remain and guard the two holy lands.

However, Wan Tiansheng had killed everyone without further investigation. That was why Wan Tiansheng had proclaimed himself a demon. He did not investigate. He did not want to investigate. As far as he was concerned, the holy lands were already rotten to the core. He had to remove them entirely and send a warning through bloody slaughter to inspire change.

The longer the holy lands stood, the more the rot would spread. Thus, he had opted to kill everyone. He would not allow the two holy lands any chance to reappear. And without their Sunmoons and Mountainseas, the survivors would not be able to rebuild the two holy lands.

Some would say that they could still rebuild the two holy lands with their Invincibles. For Wan Tiansheng, that would be better. Unlike the Mountainseas and Sunmoons, the Invincibles knew very well the difficult situation humanity was in. They knew that the time for them to rest on their laurels had yet to arrive.

***

Chaos was spreading in the Human Realm.

Things weren’t any less chaotic among the myriad races.

Humanity had gained seven new Invincibles.

The minor races had also benefited, gaining six new Invincibles. In short, thirteen new Invincibles had emerged.

Furthermore, a new faction had appeared in the Allheaven Battlefield.

The Alliance of Ancient Cities.

The thirty-five ancient cities had formed an alliance. The last city was excluded because it was completely uninhabited. It had spent countless years under the sea, separated from the affairs of the world.

Su Yu had released an announcement to the various mayors, calling for an assembly in a month to discuss the new alliance and allocation of Luminous Domain Mansion slots. The various mayors had agreed unhesitatingly.

The nine mayors who had assisted Xia Longwu with his breakthrough had yet to leave their posts. They were still waiting for Xia Longwu to fulfill his promise. As for whether that would happen, it would have to wait until he was done stabilizing his cultivation.

Prior to that, it wouldn’t hurt any of them to join the alliance.

Su Yu’s might was clear for all to see. The stone statues of the various cities were clearly giving Su Yu a special treatment. To survive in the Allheaven Battlefield, the backing of Invincibles was paramount. For the most part, the various mayors had been forced to rely on the Invincibles of the myriad races to maintain their power base.

But if they could form a proper alliance with the backing of the stone statues, that would improve their station significantly. This newly formed faction would be one of considerable power.

As for the myriad races, they were too occupied to care about what the ancient cities were doing. The six new minor race Invincibles had started spreading their influence amid the Thousand Region Alliance.

The divines and immortals had started taking over the territories of the devils in the Allheaven Battlefield, including some of the minor realms under their control. A lot of things were happening.

The devils had lost four Invincibles while their Pseudo Emperor had suffered heavy injuries. Thus, the other major races had taken this opportunity to make them bleed. At the same time, the myriad races did not forget to maintain their suppression of the human race.

In fact, they had grown even more wary toward humanity. After all, humanity had gained nine new Invincibles. Excluding the one they lost, they had eight additional Invincibles they could put to use. Thus, it was imperative that the myriad races continued suppressing them lest they grew even stronger. It would be quite a while before humanity could produce any new Invincible.

Yun Chen, Zhu Tiandao, Cheng Mo, Wu Ji…these people weren’t that far from dao affirmation. But it wouldn’t be easy, especially after their recent gains. In fact, Su Yu had spoken the absolute truth when he claimed that they owed him for their new Invincibles.

Without him, a lot more people would die. Without the stone statues, the final hidden human Invincibles would have been forced to act. And that would probably spell their end since most of them were without their tri-life bodies.

Even Zhu Tiandao’s ability to keep so many Invincibles wary toward the end of the battle was all thanks to the two furballs.

***

Grandstar City.

At the moment, Su Yu was too busy to care about anything else.

He was madly reversing death qi into source qi. He had been staying in his death spirit form for too long. Because of that, he could feel that his life was dangerously close to ending. He was also facing a dilemma.

His yang acupoint was absorbing any energy he could provide at a rapid pace. It was as though the acupoint would never be satisfied. He had completed sixty-five body forgings thus far.

His willpower and characters had also grown considerably. The saber qi in his 144 acupoints had also completed their transformation. That had happened during the demonstration by Xia Longwu.

Of course, he would not be able to fight with the strength of an eighth-stage Sunmoon without consuming blood essence. And he had fully exhausted the divine skywing blood essence in his possession. In fact, he was nearly out of Sunmoon blood essence.

He was also out of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. Fortunately, he still had a decent amount of heavenearth profound light. He also had three carrier treasures left. He wondered if the human race would really deliver him the two carrier treasures he demanded.

“Three carrier treasures and around seven hundred strands of heavenearth profound light. That is more than enough to complete my final seven forgings. Hallow source qi fruits, five elemental spirit fruits, dragonblood fruits, celestial devil fruits…these can all be used for source qi transformation. I still have about four hundred drops of first-stage Sunmoon blood essence as well…”

Nowadays, Su Yu was starting to look down on first-stage Sunmoon blood essence. Nevertheless, it could still be extracted for more heavenly source qi. That was the only use he could get out of it. Blood essence of such level was no longer capable of granting him strength of any significance.

The Culture Tomb was also still in his possession.

All in all, his biggest loss was the sunmoon profound yellow liquid. And he had also gained considerably. His strength had also grown significantly. With his yang acupoint, he would be able to muster a lot more strength than before.

With sixty-five body forgings, he could muster the strength of nearly 900,000 acupoints. With the yang acupoint, that strength would double. That was a terrifying level of amplification. The yang acupoint was simply too powerful.

Alas, the cost of such a great power was just as great, if not more. It required an unending supply of power, which Su Yu had been providing with his sheer wealth and seemingly endless death qi supply.

Without his wealth or the endless supply of death qi, he would have been forced to spend all his time in seclusion like Bai Feng’s grandfather.

“With the yang acupoint, my strength approaches 1.8 million acupoints…”

Through his battles against the numerous experts during the recent conflict, he had learned some new things. Ordinarily, a third-stage Sunmoon would have the strength of roughly 800,000 acupoints.

At the sixth stage, the strength would reach two million acupoints. From his experience fighting an eighth-stage Sunmoon warrior before, he had deduced that at the seventh stage, one would be able to muster the strength of around three million acupoints.

At the eighth stage, the number would probably increase to four million acupoints. As he had consumed eighth-stage Sunmoon blood essence before, he was quite confident in his estimation.

He also guessed that at the ninth stage, a Sunmoon would probably be able to muster the strength of around five million acupoints. Of course, that was only applicable to regular Sunmoons.

The divines and devils would likely be stronger. As for the geniuses in the Heaven Index, it was pointless to measure their strength with the standards of normal people. In fact, there wasn’t even a point in measuring their strength based on their cultivation level, not when they could punch above their level like it was a perfectly normal thing to do.