Tribulation of Myriad Races

It had been decided that a competition would be held for the slots.

The various races were gathering their experts to get as many slots as possible from the competition. The humans were doing the same. Su Yu even saw Huang Teng, Qin Fang, Wu Qi, and the others in the palace of the human race.

The competition was a sudden decision. Fortunately, most geniuses picked to enter the Luminous Domain Mansion were already here on the island. Even those who were not on the island were already somewhere in the Allheaven Battlefield. With a night to prepare, the Invincibles had enough time to bring the rest of them to the island.

***

Inside the ancient city.

Su Yu landed from the sky.

Mayor’s residence.

Liu Hong had been listening to the discussion without showing his face. When Su Yu landed, he smiled and said, “Today, you demonstrated your strength to the masses and showcased the strength of our city. Well done, Mayor! However, do we have twenty combatants to participate in the competition? I can’t think of a suitable combatant apart from you!”

Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to answer. Instead, he sent a voice transmission to someone.

A short while later, Liu Hong vanished with a flicker as several demonic beasts entered the room under Senior Wang’s lead.

Su Yu looked at them and said, “All of you were in the city during the meeting. You heard my words. Are you interested in the Luminous Domain Mansion? If you don’t, it doesn’t matter. If you want, enter the competition and fight for your slots.”

They were surprised to hear his offer. Bloodmoon said, “Lord, can we really enter?”

“Why not?” Su Yu said, “Of course, it will be extremely dangerous. The various races are participating, including your blood devourer race. I saw an Invincible from your race earlier.”

Bloodmoon was not worried about that. The blood devourer race wasn’t a major race. It was a race with only one Invincible. Or perhaps two. He was unsure. In fact, there was no guarantee that the blood devourer race would be able to get even one slot from the competition.

He was more surprised by the fact that he was allowed to use the slot if he could win a slot through the competition. One ought to know that such slots were extremely valuable. Everyone wanted these slots. Some minor races weren’t even qualified to participate in the competition.

Many minor race experts knew that carrier treasures were mandatory for dao affirmation. But could they learn from the humans and earn their carrier treasures through killing tri-life bodies? That would be nothing but a dream.

Their best option was the Luminous Domain Mansion. However, very few of these slots would end up in the hands of these minor races. Even with a slot, there was no guarantee that one would be able to get a carrier treasure in the Luminous Domain Mansion.

Bloodmoon hurriedly said, “If you don’t mind our weak strength, we are willing to participate and win the slots for the holy city!”

There were five of them, and their strength varied. One-eye was the strongest among them. He was already a peak sixth-stage Mountainsea when he was captured by Hong Tan. At present, he had barely returned to his previous strength.

The second strongest of them was Great Mountain at the sixth-stage Mountainsea Realm, followed by Bloodmoon, who was a fifth-stage Mountainsea.

One-eye and Great Mountain would have to fight in the same stage, but it wouldn’t be that big of an issue. There might be some adjustments to the matchups depending on the final number of the combatants.

The water elemental was an eighth-stage Cloudbreach while the shadow was a fourth-stage Cloudbreach.

Su Yu smiled and said, “All of you have converted into residents. You will have some advantages since the competition will be held in the ancient city. Of course, the geniuses sent by the myriad races won’t be weak either. You might not be a match for them. However, I believe in my grandteacher. As his prisoners, you were definitely not weak among your peers. It is up to you how hard you want to fight. It doesn’t matter even if you lose. Since you will be fighting in the ancient city, they won’t dare to kill wantonly. You can even summon a death spirit to help if things get desperate.”

Su Yu tossed a few ancient city medallions over and said, “With these medallions, you won’t be helpless as long as you’re in the city.”

“Thank you, Lord!”

They were overjoyed. This was an important opportunity for them. Of the prisoners in Wentan Research Center, the suanni was the only one to have entered the mansion before.

The suanni was no longer with them. They knew that plenty of opportunities could be found in the Luminous Domain Mansion, but they had never entered. It was understandable why they were so tempted.

Even if they were now pseudo death spirits, it did not matter. If they could get their hands on some suitable treasures, they could still increase their cultivation. As regular residents, the amount of death qi they had to bear was very low. Su Yu alone had taken on most of the burden.

“That’s all. You may start preparing now.”

“Yes!”

They left joyously. A short while later, Old Man Bai entered the room and said, “Should I join the battle of the peak Mountainseas? With the yang acupoint, I doubt many peak Mountainseas can be my match.”

The old man was speaking the truth. None of the top geniuses like Zhan Wushuang was a peak Mountainsea. Thus, Old Man Bai would enjoy quite a lot of advantage in his stage with his yang acupoint.

Su Yu thought about it before saying, “Forget it. I don’t want anyone to notice anything. You should just focus on recuperation in the city. I will pick more combatants from the other cities.”

“Fine.”

In truth, Old Man Bai was quite tempted as well. After all, the Luminous Domain Mansion slots were already very rare in the past. This round, they had become even rarer than before.

“I wonder if Little Feng will participate…”

He was uncertain.

Su Yu shook his head, “I’m not sure as well. My teacher is rather strong among first-stage Cloudbreaches. Perhaps the humans will pick him as a combatant.”

Just because Bai Feng was no longer as popular did not mean that he was weak. Among first-stage Cloudbreaches, very few people could defeat him.

Su Yu wasn’t too concerned about this issue. But it was likely that Bai Feng would be picked. After all, the members of the multiple character faction were all quite strong. It was likely that even Hong Tan would be picked for combat. And since they wanted to enter the mansion as well, they might reach an agreement with the humans to enable their participation.

***

When Old Man Bai left, Su Yu sank into thought again. Before long, he started sending messages to the other mayors.

Apart from the demonic beasts and himself, he would pick the rest of the combatants from the other ancient cities. After all, there were so many of them. They should be able to pick enough suitable combatants among themselves, right?

The ancient cities shouldn’t be so weak that they couldn’t even pick enough combatants out of thirty-five cities.

***

Done with the matter concerning the combatants, Su Yu started studying the blood essence he received from Zhan Wushuang. He wasn’t worried that there would be poison in the blood essence. His physical cultivation and death qi were enough to render that almost impossible.

Furthermore, he also had the tribulation character to warn him. He had requested that Zhan Wushuang gather the blood essence of cultural researchers for him. He wondered if the blood essence he received really came from cultural researchers.

He picked a random drop of blood essence from the collection. A tiny silhouette of a tiger could be seen in the droplet. This was most likely the blood essence of a flying sky tiger. That was a weak race.

After thinking about it, Su Yu consumed the blood.

Flying sky tiger (Seventh-stage Cloudbreach)

Racial Abilities: Tiger’s Roar, Flying Sky, Rip (activation with blood essence, applicable below as well)

Foundation Source Art: Tiger’s Roar Art

Foundation Cultural Art: Sky Tiger Soul Opening Art

Foundation Body Forging Art: Twenty-seven Forged Skytiger

Foundation Nine Transformation Art: Nine Transformed Skytiger

Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he noted that this was the blood essence of a cultural researcher. A complete page had been activated. A complete page came with both source and cultural arts. Even the body forging and nine transformation arts would be included.

The flying sky tiger race was rather decent in strength as the thirty-second race among the top hundred races. It even had several Invincibles in the race. Furthermore, Qin Fang’s mount was a flying sky tiger. It was unlikely that he would pick a weakling as his mount.

“Sky Tiger Soul Opening Art…”

Previously, Su Yu had learned the Heavenly Immortal Aperture Net Art. It required 108 apertures, but most of the apertures overlapped with what he already knew. He had only discovered thirty-six new apertures from that art.

He wondered if he would find new apertures from this art. Before long, he took out a second drop of flying sky tiger’s blood essence. Generally, one could obtain ten drops of blood essence from a single kill. Thus, he would have enough blood essence to activate the art he wanted to test.

He wasted no time and consumed the second drop as well. As the art activated, one aperture after another lit up in his sea of willpower. Shortly after, all 89 of them were activated. He frowned. Eighty of them overlapped with what he already knew.

“This is not too bad. There are nine new apertures.”

He exhaled in relief. This was acceptable for him.

Nevertheless, it was still a lower number than he had expected. The flying sky tiger was a decently strong race. However, even the blood essence of such a race couldn’t show him too many new apertures.

Then again, nine was actually a decently high number, considering the number of apertures he had opened. Prior to this, he had learned the locations of 216 apertures. With the new additions, he now knew the locations of 225 apertures. To open these new apertures, a large amount of willpower would be required.

Su Yu was in no rush to open these new apertures. With his current cultivation, it would take a lot more effort to open new apertures. However, it was still possible so long as he had sufficient willpower.

“I still lack 135 apertures. The more apertures I know, the harder it will be to find new apertures.”

Su Yu exhaled deeply. The more apertures he knew, the more likely it would be for him to discover zero new apertures after opening a new page. After all, the more apertures he knew, the more likely it would be for the apertures of his newly learned arts to overlap with what he already knew.

“What a pity that there’s no blood essence from the divine and immortal races available…”

Su Yu shook his head with disappointment after checking the collection of blood essence he had. That was understandable since Zhan Wushuang wouldn’t be able to openly kill those from the divine race. As for the immortals, Zhan Wushuang was no fool. If he attempted to harvest the blood essence of their cultural researchers, they would retaliate. If he wanted to do so, he had to find a suitable place to do it in secret.

Su Yu started checking and consuming his newly received blood essence.

Zhan Wushuang was quite reliable. The majority of the blood essence came from cultural researchers. However, some of the blood essence did not provide any foundation cultural arts even after consumption. Su Yu was unsure if there was some other reason for that or Zhan Wushuang was simply trying to fool him with some fake cultural researcher blood essence mixed within. After all, cultural researchers were too rare.

This time, Zhan Wushuang had provided Su Yu with the blood essence of seventy-nine races. As Su Yu consumed the blood essence without stopping, new pages were activated while some previously activated pages were further perfected.

And finally, he was done consuming all the new blood essence.

Only sixty-two new pages were activated. Most of the apertures he found through these pages overlapped with what he already knew. In the end, he noted that he had discovered a total of seventy-four new apertures. At this point, the number of apertures known to him had reached 290.