Tribulation of Myriad Races

“Not them. The celestial chasms.” Great Zhou King said, “The Dragon Realm isn’t easy to invade. If we’re doing this, we might as well target the celestial chasms. Firstly, they don’t have that many Eternals. Secondly, their realm is near the Death Realm, providing the myriad races with a way of contacting the Death Realm. Thirdly, that is the enemy of the multiple character faction. Su Yu and his people would be happy to see this. Fourthly, their Pseudo Emperor attacked Su Yu not long ago. We could use vengeance as the excuse for our attack. Fifthly, he has the visual character in his possession. That is a very important item.

“This would be the best target for us. Heavens above, death below. The Celestial Chasm Realm is located at a good location. The myriad races all fear damaging their realm too much and releasing the death spirits into the world of the living. Thus, we could battle without worry inside the Celestial Chasm Realm. Even upon defeat, we could escape into the Death Realm. The same couldn’t be said for the Dragon Realm.”

“Through this, we could take some of the pressure off Su Yu. He would be grateful. We could even gain control over the Celestial Chasm Realm, making it one of the cards in our hand.”

Any other realm wouldn’t be as suitable for this purpose. The Celestial Chasm Realm was different. In fact, it almost shared the same realm barrier as the Death Realm. Everyone would be very cautious when fighting inside this realm to avoid puncturing the realm barrier of the Death Realm.

“Also, if we were to fall into a hard situation during the attack, humanity as a whole would be in a major crisis as well. At that time, Su Yu could step forth and save humanity. That would make it much easier for him to ascend the throne you prepared for him. Nobody would object to that. Also, the Celestial Chasm Realm is very far from the ancient city. Even if Su Yu did nothing, we could still find excuses for that. But the same couldn’t be said for the Dragon Realm. Also, even after saving us, some might still be dissatisfied, claiming that he should have helped earlier.”

Great Qin King looked up with realization and said, “Right! Old Zhou, you are indeed as cunning as ever! The Celestial Chasm Realm is the better option. But it’s too far away. Are you sure you can teleport us there? That is the only way for us to start our attack undetected.”

The Celestial Chasm Realm was located at the western region while the Human Realm was located at the eastern region. One could say that the Celestial Chasm Realm was actually located at the very end of the Allheaven Battlefield.

That was a large journey to cover.

“I can’t do it all at once.” Great Zhou King shook his head and said, “But it’s possible in perhaps two or three stages.”

“Then…”

“If you really want to do this, I can still support you.” Great Zhou King asked, “I only want to know one thing. Are you certain? You lost two of your bodies. The Celestial Chasm Pseudo Emperor is very strong, and he will only be stronger in his own realm. The two of us coupled with Old Xia and Old Zhu might still not be enough to defeat him. I’m not even sure if I would have any energy left to fight after teleporting so many people over.”

Great Qin King exhaled deeply and said, “We’ll do it. We’re out of options. Do you really think humanity can survive the tenth epoch in our current condition? We should do something drastic when the Daofuses are still wary of making any rash moves. Thanks to the Daofuses Su Yu managed to seduce, the enemy Daofuses have become much warier of leaving their realms alone.”

In the past, they weren’t so fearful of leaving alone. The Devil Pseudo Emperor wouldn’t have left his realm during the previous battle otherwise. Unfortunately for him, he encountered the two furballs right after leaving. Since then, the other Daofuses had been a lot more careful about leaving their realms.

Great Zhou King chuckled.

True. This was the perfect opportunity.

However, this was no minor matter. It could develop into something truly big.

“The timing would be very important for this.” Great Zhou King said, “We need to pick a time when the myriad races were most wary of attacking the Human Realm. For example, we could invite Su Yu back to the Human Realm for a short time. Su Yu himself wouldn’t know that he would be protecting the Human Realm in our absence. At the time, the myriad races would be fully focused on Su Yu and the Human Realm, granting us the opportunity to slip off.”

After all, it was darkest under the lamp.

This was a reckless plan.

Making Su Yu the spotlight before slipping off and attacking the Celestial Chasm Realm.

Great Qin King laughed and said, “I don’t even know how to evaluate you anymore. It isn’t wrong to say that you’re the most cowardly of us all, but you are also incredibly reckless at times. None of us could have thought of an idea like this.”

The mere thought of that plan was enough to cause Great Qin King’s blood to boil with excitement.

“But wouldn’t Su Yu be in deep trouble if the myriad races were to really attack during that time?”

Great Zhou King laughed in amusement and said, “Well, that would be the perfect excuse for him to not help us. We don’t need to worry about anything else. Su Yu can’t die so easily. The region of the Death Realm that is connected to the Human Realm isn’t a region the other races can influence so easily. After all, nobody wants to encounter the death spirits of some human kings or even the Human Emperor down there. At worst, he could open a tunnel in the Human Realm.”

This time, even Great Qin King was alarmed. Sure enough, Old Zhou was still as mad as ever. Or to be precise, he was the calm version of a madman. He could be terrifyingly calm. But he could also be crazier than anyone else.

After thinking about it, Great Qin King nodded, “Sure. I’ll invite him to the Human Realm. I already made the preparations for this earlier. We will announce that the invitation is for the purpose of discussing an alliance between the human race and the ancient cities. At the same time, release some news about the establishment of a new holy land. That way, our invitation wouldn’t appear too suspicious.”

Great Zhou King nodded. He laughed and said, “We can add another excuse on top of that. Just say that Su Yu is coming back to celebrate his father’s birthday of longevity according to human customs. His father is fifty this year. That is a good number to celebrate his longevity.”

After stopping to laugh in amusement, Great Zhou King continued, “He could say no to any other reasons, but not this. Would he dare to refuse an invitation to his father’s birthday celebration?”

Great Qin King laughed as well and said, “But do we actually celebrate the longevity of someone who is merely fifty?”

Fine. Fine.

It would barely serve as a reason.

He wondered if the others would also find this funny upon the announcement. Su Yu’s old man was fifty. They had to hold a celebration of his longevity per human customs. Would this change the existing human customs? Perhaps they had to hold the same celebration for Su Yu’s twentieth birthday as well.

After all, he was a twenty-year-old capable of killing old fossils who had lived for tens of thousands of years. They probably wouldn’t find it funny anymore after thinking of that.

“A new storm would rise in the Human Realm with Su Yu’s arrival.” Great Qin King exhaled and said, “We still need to be cautious. Maybe we can consider leaving Old Xia behind.”

“Let’s worry about this later.”

And thus, the two reached a decision. Both agreed that nobody else would know of this plan for now. After all, this was too crazy a plan.

***

Before long, the recently returned Xia Huyou left again. He was heading toward the ancient city bearing the official invitation letter and card. An invitation to Su Yu for the celebration of his father’s longevity during his father’s fiftieth birthday.

Before Xia Huyou was even out of the Eastrift Valley, news of that celebration spread far and wide. With that, countless gazes focused on the Human Realm, on Su Yu, on the Eastrift Valley, and on Su Long, the one celebrating his longevity at fifty years old.

For many, the celebration of such an age was almost a joke. For the old fossils who had lived tens of thousands of years, fifty years were nothing. Was that even worthy of a celebration? They could have waited until he was a hundred years old, right?

However, that was Su Yu’s father. Su Yu’s sole family in the Human Realm. It was very likely that Su Yu would return. Everyone knew this, including the myriad races.

A new storm started brewing.

What manner of chaos would Su Yu cause this time?

Were the humans merely trying to form an alliance with Su Yu? Or were they scheming something else? Or perhaps this was an excuse for Su Yu to return to the human race.

The immortals, devils, divines, dragons, and the other races started focusing on Great Xia, the venue of celebration.

Yet again, all eyes were on Great Xia.