Tribulation of Myriad Races

About an hour later.

Su Yu was grimacing while grinning.

“I must have gathered about thirty thousand catties of riversand by now, right?”

He was in a great mood. Everyone else would only count their harvest here in the number of grains. Meanwhile, he was measuring his harvest in weight.

“Heh…”

Su Yu laughed in joy. He would feel exceptionally good whenever he looked at the gigantic boulder stored in his book. If anyone dared to lecture him about how rare riversand was in the future, he would smash them down with his boulder.

He still remembered how mad Bai Feng had grown back when he had stealthily absorbed a tiny bit of willpower in the laboratory previously. The thought of wasting riversand almost caused Bai Feng to cry.

Su Yu wondered if Bai Feng would start frothing from sheer excitement after seeing the giant riversand.

“I can’t call it riversand anymore. I should call it riverstone instead.”

After storing all the riversand he had gathered, he started rushing toward the back of the waterfall. While gathering the riversand in the river, he had noticed something behind the waterfall. Perhaps that was the smiling mouth lotus he had been looking for.

***

A short while later, he emerged from the other side of the waterfall. His entire body was red from resisting the corrosive power of the water.

A quiet peace and calm enveloped the area behind the waterfall.

A small pond could be found there.

Beside the pond was a stone table. Looking at the table, Su Yu felt like he could see someone sitting here, playing a game of chess while sipping tea many years ago.

Blooming lotuses filled the pond.

It was a beautiful sight.

Su Yu blanked out as he stood there appreciating the sight. Eventually, he felt as though the lotuses were smiling at him.

“Smiling mouth lotus!”

Su Yu was pleasantly surprised. The lotus was really here!

This was most certainly a place one could reach easily.

He was in no rush to start his harvest. Rather, his gaze settled on the stone table again. Two stone stools rested by its side. Countless years ago, this might have been the spot for incomparably powerful experts to sit in leisure while admiring the waterfall and the lotuses.

Then again, this was only the third level. The so-called experts wouldn’t be comparable to the ones on the higher levels. Perhaps this was merely a place of leisure for some Sunmoons or Invincibles, not Pseudo Emperors.

Su Yu approached the table and focused his senses on it. After a while, he shook his head, “This table must have belonged to a broke guy. The table isn’t even at the level of a carrier treasure. It’s only good enough to serve as material for heaven weapon forging. But it is large enough to be forged into a heaven weapon good enough to serve as a carrier treasure.”

It wasn’t like Su Yu had no heaven weapons in his possession. He had two heaven weapons suppressed in his book. He had obtained them from his victims earlier. The two weapons were also of decent quality.

A weapon would only be considered a heaven weapon with at least 109 golden stripes. But such a weapon would only be an early heaven weapon. Generally, such weapons wouldn’t be strong enough to serve as carrier treasures. At 118 golden stripes, a heaven weapon would reach the middle tier. That would be strong enough to serve as a carrier treasure.

Of the two heaven weapons in Su Yu’s possession, one came with 120 golden stripes while the other came with 109 golden stripes. In other words, one of them could serve as a carrier treasure.

“I’ll be sure to dismantle them later. Both seem to come from Invincibles. There might be traps in them. I’m better off melting them down before forging them into my book.”

Done with his musings, Su Yu collected the table and the stools and stored them away. He did not feel much from this as he had collected way too many treasures as of late. Then, he looked at the pond beside him.

Numerous bright lotuses bloomed on the pond.

What a beautiful sight.

It felt as though countless beauties were smiling at him from the pond.

After only a short moment of staring at them, Su Yu hurriedly shook his head.

What treasures.

These were incredible treasures.

“According to the old turtle, the lotus seeds are highly toxic, the lotus roots are great healing treasures, while the flowers themselves are good for nothing except being pretty. However…the flowers themselves are the real treasures here!”

If people would confuse the smiling mouth lotus with the nine-leaf skylotus even during the ancient past, what about the current era? How many people could still differentiate the two? He had to sell these lotuses at the price of nine-leaf skylotuses.

Of course, he had to keep a low profile while selling them. That way, he could sell the same product to multiple buyers, convincing each of them that they were the sole buyer. In any case, this wasn’t something one would show off after buying.

Tsk tsk. It would be reasonable to sell each for a carrier treasure, right?

He looked at the pond again and inhaled in shock. “There are…188 of them here! Holy shit! How am I supposed to find 188 buyers? That is the biggest challenge here. But this isn’t something any Invincible can resist. It won’t be hard to find 188 Invincibles across the Myriad Realms, but it will be quite hard to find one that won’t think of killing and robbing me.”

Su Yu was certain that even at a price of one carrier treasure, everyone would fight to buy the lotus from him. More importantly, how should he fool his customers into believing that he had obtained the real nine-leaf skylotus? Otherwise, it wouldn’t be easy to carry out this scam.

Only with the real deal in hand would he be able to convince everyone that he wasn’t selling a fake product.

“Well, let’s harvest them first before thinking more.”

He took out numerous jade cases and started gathering the lotuses. He was quite surprised at how tough these lotuses were. They were already comparable to profound weapons in toughness. Of course, for the old turtle, they were still useless. After all, not even earth weapons could impress someone like the old turtle.

Su Yu started studying one of the lotuses. It had nine beautiful blades of leaf on it, with beautiful golden veins on each blade of leaf. As said by the old turtle, the veins were rather chaotic.

Meanwhile, the veins on a true nine-leaf skylotus would be arranged in an orderly manner. Of course, not all nine-leaf skylotuses would be so beautiful. Some of the uglier ones would probably come with some disorderly veins as well.

“Amazing!”

Su Yu did not leave any of the lotuses behind. When he was done with the lotuses, he dove into the pond and harvested their roots. The roots were small, but they were sparkling and translucent, akin to crystals.

“Amazing!”

Su Yu exclaimed in admiration. He wondered if these were natural plants or yet another part of Old Zhou’s body.

“They are probably natural plants, right?”

He couldn’t think of a body part resembling these lotuses.

Perhaps someone had planted them here after the mansion was built. That was the only thing Su Yu could tell himself. After all, these roots were things he needed to consume. Convincing himself that they were natural plants would make it far easier for him to actually shove them down his throat.

After cleaning one of the roots, he bit down on it. Instantly, he inhaled in shock.

Holy shit! It tasted wonderful!

It was sweet, cool, and refreshing. When he swallowed it, the refreshing sensation spread throughout his body. All his injuries started healing. At the same time, his aura started growing at a rapid pace.

“Good heavens…these roots can basically serve as divine pills. Each lotus is probably comparable to a legendary heaven pill.”

Su Yu swallowed and took a second bite. This felt great. It could even help with his recovery. By the time he was done with the root, he had nearly fully recovered from his previous injuries.

“How terrifying. With this thing around, I don’t even need to worry about losing my body in the future. I can always eat it to regrow my flesh.”

He had harvested hundreds of them. His mood improved even more. The third level was truly a treasure trove.

He had gathered a decent number of treasures at the level of carrier treasures on the first level. He had collected the ancient dragonblood tree on the second level. And on the third level, he had gathered a large amount of riversand and lotuses. The Luminous Domain Mansion was truly filled with treasures. NovelFire

He had a sparkling and translucent lotus seed in hand. It looked exceptionally beautiful, but it was highly toxic. It was perhaps strong enough to kill even Sunmoons. Su Yu was not interested in testing it on his own body. He could save it for some myriad race Sunmoons instead. He wondered if he could fool someone into eating it.

“What a big harvest.”

After gathering even more riversand, he started flying upward. He wanted to see if he could get a gallstone as well. But halfway up, his eyes started twitching. He instantly changed his plan and fled without any hesitation.

He decided to forget about the gallstone. As for the liver itself, he did not dare to harvest it. More importantly, he could sense the approach of an intense danger.

He Tu was coming.

“Thank you, He Tu. Thank you for coming so late.”

Su Yu felt greatly thankful toward He Tu. Not only had He Tu given him sufficient time to harvest the treasures here, He Tu had even kindly shouldered the blame for him.

He reminded himself to be more polite the next time he met He Tu. For now, he had to leave. With a flicker, he vanished.

***

Some time after Su Yu vanished into the entrance to the next level, He Tu arrived.

By this point, he had gathered over three hundred death spirit subordinates. The moment he arrived, he frowned. The third level…was quite empty.

But that did not matter. The people here were probably dead or gone to the higher levels. There was nothing surprising about that.

But why did he feel a vague sense of discomfort when he arrived? It felt as though someone was plotting against him. And he felt as though more than one person was plotting against him.

He stared at Dummy suspiciously. Had this guy been pretending to be dumb all along? Was this guy plotting against him after recovering more memories? Was that the case?

As he stared at Dummy, Dummy stared back at him blankly. He Tu snorted. Dummy could stop dreaming about scheming against him. It wouldn’t succeed. He would be keeping a close eye on Dummy!

For now, it was time for him to sweep through the third level.

At that thought, his mood switched completely. He even started roaring with laughter as he said, “Dummy, go guard the entrance. I’ll sweep the third level clean!”

Before long, He Tu’s death qi swept through the entire third level. He was in no rush. He wanted to first torment the people here with fear before killing them.

“The fellows outside must be losing their minds by now. Do they enjoy losing so many people? I bet none of them have seen this coming!”

He Tu was feeling very smug. Nobody would expect this. And nobody would know it was him. Why? Because not even he himself had seen this happening. In that case, how would anyone else know it? Those outside must be so confused. After all, he had killed hundreds of people. Were their hearts aching from all the deaths? Hahahaha!

Of the 3,600 people that had entered the mansion, he had killed over 300 of them! He was completely unaware that Su Yu had killed nearly 600 of them. Nor was he aware that the blame had all been thrown his way.

Outside, the various Invincibles and Pseudo Emperors were dying to kill him. He was too hateful. How could he kill so many people?

Even now, the tunnels were still collapsing nonstop. Alas, they had not been able to receive any reply from those inside. That was understandable. The Heavenly Hunt Index was still damaged. Even with the return of its missing pieces, it was no longer whole.

***

“Damn you, He Tu!”

A furious roar rang out.

Even after dying, He Tu was still bringing them so much trouble. As of this moment, the myriad races found He Tu even more hateful than Su Yu.