Tribulation of Myriad Races

“He Tu!”

On the other side of the entrance to the third level, Su Yu was panting heavily with lingering fear in his heart. How did that guy enter the first level? This wasn’t right.

Su Yu was sure he had swept through the first level. He had not encountered any powerful death spirit. He Tu would have gone after him long ago if He Tu had been there since the beginning. Sure, He Tu might not know his appearance. But at the very least, He Tu knew his voice. In any case, a death spirit would not need an excuse to kill a living being.

“It’s over for the second level.”

Su Yu might have killed some people there, but he had never planned to search the place in detail to hunt everyone down. That was a waste of time. He would only kill those he happened to encounter. That was different from He Tu, who was intentionally searching the place to kill everyone.

“He had probably reached the first level after my departure.”

With that thought in mind, he vanished with a flicker.

“He’s a death spirit. How did he enter the first level without a death tunnel? The tunnel is on the seventh level. Did he come down from the seventh level? No…even death spirits need to follow the laws. In that case, he must have entered through a unique method…Soul apertures?”

Suddenly, a certain thought came to Su Yu. This was not something anyone else could have thought of. Su Yu was different. After all, he was already wondering about how the White Jade Gate worked earlier. With the appearance of He Tu, he was able to guess even more.

“Death Realm!”

Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he realized something. Yes! It must be the Death Realm!

There were probably more entrances in the Death Realm. The entrances there would correspond to the soul apertures. Thus, He Tu must have entered through these entrances. Before this, he was probably in the basement.

Su Yu’s eyes flickered again. Was it the hair? Was there another level beneath the first level? Or were there multiple levels down there? That must be the case! He was greatly alarmed by the implication of this possibility. This was big.

“The circulation route of the soul apertures is there!”

Su Yu inhaled deeply. What he needed could be found in the Death Realm! This was an extremely important piece of information. This was important for the advancement of his willpower cultivation and his opening of the yin aperture followed by the heaven acupoint!

The unity of yin and yang, the unity of source and soul!

“Death Realm!”

He Tu’s appearance had given him an extremely important clue. Up until now, Su Yu had only discovered 290 apertures. He was still far from opening all 360 of the apertures. It was worth noting that unknown soul apertures were a lot harder to discover than unknown source acupoints.

Unlike the source acupoints, the soul apertures were scattered throughout the sea of willpower, akin to the stars in the sky. Numerous thoughts emerged in Su Yu’s mind. Then, he started rushing in the little furball;s direction.

He had to find them and leave immediately. He was unsure how long He Tu would take to reach this level. Things were getting too dangerous here.

Flying in the sky, a vast and mountainous landscape stretched as far as the eye could see. Su Yu suspected that this was Old Zhou’s chest.

Where was the riversand?

Su Yu had never been here before, but he had read about this place before. However, there was no guarantee that what he read would be accurate.

“Riversand….chest…Celestial River…”

While flying, Su Yu sank into thought. After some time, he grimaced and muttered, “Don’t tell me the so-called Celestial River here is filled with…milk?”

Old Zhou was probably a man, right? That was what his instincts were telling him. Was a man capable of lactation as well? Old Zhou clearly sounded like a man. Was he supposed to be a woman?

Or was it a disguise? Unlikely. Why would someone dead bother to disguise their voice?

“Or perhaps the riversand is merely a product of his intestines? Purification…right, the riversand is capable of purification…”

A new idea came to Su Yu. Certain internal organs were capable of purification. He was still unsure which part of the human body the third level was supposed to correspond to. The place was too big. He had to look around before forming a conclusion.

Originally, Su Yu had been quite leisurely and relaxed in his exploration of the mansion. But due to the sudden change, he was running out of time. There was no saying when He Tu would arrive. He had to leave with his people as soon as possible.

***

At the same time.

Hundreds of people were gathered in front of a massive waterfall.

The riversand was an important resource regardless of race. Surprisingly, the human race was the first race to discover the usage of the riversand. However, it didn’t take long for the myriad races to learn of it.

Its ability to purify willpower made riversand a valuable resource for both cultural researchers and warriors. After all, warriors needed to cultivate their willpower as well. At the very least, they needed to cultivate their willpower enough not to have their seas of willpower easily destroyed by cultural researchers.

Thus, the riversand was the resource everyone on the third level would fight over.

The waterfall falling from the sky itself was the famous Celestial River. Upon collision with the ground, it would form a sort of sparkling and translucent crumbs on the ground. And that was the so-called riversand.

At the moment, the experts of the various races had gathered there. The riversand was a treasure everyone could easily see. It did not require a long time to accumulate either. Every ten years, a decent amount of riversand would be available for harvest.

“Humans, stop dreaming about the riversand.”

A devil Mountainsea warned the humans in the area. Around him, the dragons, immortals, divines, and nethers were looking at the humans with hostility. A decent number of humans were here as well.

Over three hundred people had gathered there, and nearly a hundred of them were humans. The leading figures of the humans were Qin Fang, a Heaven Index genius, and some other human geniuses such as Wu Qi and Bai Feng.

There were also several human Mountainseas among them, but all of them had solemn expressions.

After Ye Batian’s death during the battle over fifty years ago, humanity had stagnated somewhat. Far fewer experts had been produced since then, as though an entire generation of humanity had been lost. Or to be precise, the generation that should have reached the Mountainsea Realm by now had been lost. Thus, humanity did not enjoy any advantage over the myriad races in terms of Mountainseas.

With a tight grip on his spear, Qin Fang coldly said, “He’ertai, don’t push your luck. This place is big enough. We’re only asking for a tenth of the place. What else do you want? Must you turn this into a bloody battle? Are the devils so interested in serving as the vanguard of the myriad races?”

He was not afraid of them, but they enjoyed a numerical superiority with over twenty Mountainseas among them. Meanwhile, the humans had fewer than ten Mountainseas here. This wouldn’t be an easy battle to win.

The devil called He’ertai said, “Piss off if you don’t want to die.”

“Bullshit!”

Qin Fang retorted furiously, “If you dare to attack, we will target nobody but the devils. We will both lose together. Try us! I dare you!”

That was precisely what He’ertai feared. That was why he had restrained himself from attacking. With a frown, he looked at the other races. None of the top geniuses were here. People like Mo Duona, Zhan Wushuang, Ming Yue, and Xuan Wuji were nowhere to be seen.

Not one of these superstars was present. Some were still exploring the second level, while some were long gone from the third level. For these super geniuses, the third level was nothing. The riversand might be valuable, but not valuable enough to be worth their time.

However, the riversand was incredibly important for the human race.

He’ertai ignored Qin Fang and sent a voice transmission to the strongest among them, an expert from the dragon race. He said, “Long Ji, you’re the strongest among us. You will deal with Qin Fang while I handle Wu Qi and the rest. What do you think?”

More than ten dragons were hovering in the sky in their original forms. Long Ji was about to reply when a burst of laughter rang out not far away.

“Oh? Everyone’s here!”

Someone was leisurely walking toward them in the sky.

With a smile, Huang Teng revealed himself to the group. For Su Yu, he was nothing. But for the myriad races, he was a lunatic nobody wanted to provoke. As a sixth-stage Cloudbreach, he was capable of killing even a sixth-stage Mountainsea.

He merely had a lower cultivation level compared to Qin Fang. With the same cultivation level, nobody could be sure who among them would be the stronger one.

In truth, Huang Teng was on the verge of reaching the seventh stage, the same cultivation level as Qin Fang. He was only a step away.

He grinned at Qin Fang and said, “Old Qin, why are you so useless? How can you let these people scare you?”

Qin Fang snorted. When was he ever scared? He was merely worried about the other humans. Many of the humans here were Skysoars. Meanwhile, the majority of their opponents were Cloudbreaches.

More importantly, there were some important humans among them. He had to ensure their safety. Alone, he would never fear these people.

“Huang Teng!”

He’ertai said, “Are you here to court death?”

Huang Teng’s arrival caused some excitement among the humans. They were overjoyed to see the arrival of a strong helper. Just then, two more individuals arrived.

Many looked over. Nobody was surprised to see Xia Huyou. It was normal for Huang Teng to be with Xia Huyou. But there was a woman beside Xia Huyou. That was an unfamiliar face to everyone.

Nevertheless, the sight of her still caused the expressions of some myriad race Mountainseas to grow solemn. She was a seventh-stage Mountainsea! When did the human race produce such a young seventh-stage Mountainsea? Was this someone from the Xia Family? But they had never seen her among the Xia Family. Had she remained in disguise before this?

The seventh-stage Mountainsea was none other than Yellow Nine.

Xia Huyou grinned and said, “Everyone, we’re all here to treasure hunt, not kill each other. The Luminous Domain Mansion is filled with treasures. What’s the point of shedding blood for some riversand? Why don’t we all take a step back? We won’t gather too much. You guys can have the majority—”

Noticing that someone was about to argue, Xia Huyou added, “By the way, something dangerous is coming up from the second level. I suggest you stop causing trouble and wasting your time on pointless fights.”

At that, more than ten humans appeared behind him. These were all the humans who had followed him from the second level. For the humans here, this was a sizeable reinforcement.

He’ertai and the others frowned. Long Ji asked, “Crown Prince Xia, you don’t make the call here. As for the danger you’re talking about, are you referring to the tremors? If you’re talking about that, forget about scaring us off with mere tremors. It’s pointless.”

Seeing that more and more humans were arriving, Long Ji continued, “What about this? The humans can go elsewhere. We won’t trouble you. However, you can’t stay here.”

This was the most important place on the third level. This was clearly an offer made in bad faith.

At the same time, an immortal fairy said, “Hand over Bai Feng and the others. If my memories serve, the various prefectures of humanity do not have that much of a relationship with Bai Feng’s line. We’re only here for Bai Feng. Do you want to anger us for Bai Feng?”

The immortal fairy looked at those from the other major races and asked, “You must have received similar orders as well, right? We need to remove Bai Feng’s line from the mansion.”

“Yes!”

A handsome divine smiled and said, “Bai Feng’s line is the public enemy of the myriad races. All the other humans can leave, but not them.”

Among the humans, Bai Feng maintained a calm and indifferent expression. Before Su Yu, he would always smile and act sloppily.

But before everyone else, he would always be as calm as a grandmaster. Hearing those words, he said, “True. Everyone else can leave. Let me see if these garbage really have the courage to kill me. I believe not a single one of you can live after that. That student of mine can’t do much to your ancestors. But you…well, I doubt you’ll pose him much challenge.”

He only needed to use his student’s name. What was there to fear? Since Xia Huyou and the others were already here, he was confident Su Yu himself wouldn’t be that far away.

With Su Yu around, what was there for him to fear?

At that, the expressions of some myriad race experts changed. They looked at the humans thoughtfully. Unless they could kill everyone here, Su Yu would definitely learn of what they did to Bai Feng.

At this time, Xia Huyou sent Bai Feng a voice transmission, “It’s fine. There is no need to throw your life away, Teacher Bai. A solution will present itself soon. Just drag this out for a bit.”

He did not mention Su Yu. He wasn’t sure if Bai Feng was aware of that. Then again, his reminder was pointless as Bai Feng already knew it. However, it did give Bai Feng even more confidence. Sure enough, his walking disaster of a student was here.