Tribulation of Myriad Races

Great Zhou King laughed.

He said, “Let’s take a rest today. The conference will resume tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, your father’s birthday celebration will be held and we will leave. I won’t take too many people with me. Old Zhu and the others will stay. I’ll only take Silk Destroying, Heavenly Seal, Tianyuan, Longwu, and a few others.”

He continued, “You need to cover for us. If everything proceeds smoothly tomorrow, you will attend your father’s birthday celebration as the leader of the holy land. We will all be there to congratulate you. You need to mask our departure. I will leave a few character clones behind, but these clones can’t be allowed to fight as that will expose them.”

“The time is too short.” Su Yu rubbed his chin and said, “Give me a little bit more time. I still have something to handle. I’ll try to get it done as soon as possible.”

“Smiling mouth lotus?”

Su Yu glanced at Great Zhou King and said, “Your Majesty, stop exposing yourself. I dare say that in the current Myriad Realms, less than five people have seen the smiling mouth lotus before.”

Great Zhou King laughed and said, “I’ve never seen the smiling mouth lotus. This is merely a guess. But I do admit that I have inherited some ancient legacies.”

“Sure, sure. Whatever.” Su Yu said, “One more question. Just how many years has the Allheaven Battlefield been active in this epoch?”

“Around 990 years.”

“Will the old fossils appear after a thousand years?”

Great Zhou King shook his head, “Not exactly. I don’t know much about the ancient fossils, but I know that for the most part, the old fossils of humanity will not show up when humanity is the weaker party. They will only appear when humanity has the upper hand. Also, be warned that you shouldn’t provoke the heavenly laws repeatedly.”

Su Yu asked with surprise, “Why?”

Ads by PubRev “Because the Allheaven Battlefield is under the protection of the heavenly laws. The laws…have formed a protective barrier around the Allheaven Battlefield. Triggering the laws repeatedly will also exhaust their strength. That might result in a weak point on this barrier, giving some people the opportunity to enter the Allheaven Battlefield in advance.”

He sure knew a lot.

Su Yu was surprised, but it wasn’t hard to understand. He said, “There is a saying that the fate race is connected to the heavens above. Are you saying that some people might enter through the Fate Realm when the laws are weakened enough?”

“You really do know a lot. Yes. There is such a possibility.”

Great Zhou King nodded and said, “Therefore, we will let the fate race be if they want to remain neutral. We don’t want to force them so much that they go mad and punch a hole through the laws themselves.”

This had been a rather enlightening chat.

In fact, it felt great to converse with Great Zhou King. This person seemed to know everything, and even for the things he didn’t know, only a little guidance was required for him to understand everything.

Great Deceit King indeed.

To be as deceitful as he was, he needed to know a lot of things.

Great Zhou King stood up and said, “I’ll be taking my leave as well. Take it easy and be careful. Some people might really try to assassinate you.”

“I’m not scared.”

“I know you have something you can rely on. But assassination attempts by someone like Tiangu…might not be so easy to stop.”

Having said that, Great Zhou King left.

***

With Great Zhou King gone, Su Yu sank into thought, contemplating his gains and losses that day.

Just then, someone arrived.

It was Liu Wenyan’s group.

Right after entering the room, Bai Feng asked, “Do we leave?”

“Where to?”

“The ancient cities.”

Su Yu chuckled and asked, “Why should I return now? I’m not done here.”

“Why are you still staying after suffering such a big injustice? You weren’t like this before. You used to be very impatient…”

Su Yu laughed, “Injustice? Teacher, did you not see how I gave Great Yuan King the beating of his life? Teacher, you are too narrow-minded. Let the past stay in the past. Why are you still holding onto the insignificant grudge?”

Bai Feng was rendered completely speechless.

Fuck this guy!

This little shit! He was angry on the little shit’s behalf! But was the little shit not angry at all? He had thought that Su Yu would be seething with anger right about now.

Liu Wenyan smiled nonchalantly and said, “A lot more races have arrived. After your battle with Great Yuan King, even more arrived, all claiming to be here for Su Long’s birthday.”

Su Yu laughed.

The fish had taken the bait.

After his battle with Great Yuan King, the myriad races had probably concluded that he would definitely not sell his nine-leaf skylotus to humanity.

Suddenly, a voice rang out from outside the residence, “Greetings! The five elemental race is here!”

“Fuck off!” Su Yu shouted, “Topsoil Spirit, stop playing this game with me. I know what you want. I’m not selling. Piss off.”

Outside.

Topsoil Spirit was green in the face.

Bullshit!

That scumbag was the one who had told him to come! Why was the scumbag still acting?

Beside Topsoil Spirit, the elder was hurriedly signalling him to be patient. Su Yu was probably still in a bad mood. They were only here to soothe Su Yu’s heart with some treasures.

Thus, Topsoil Spirit forced himself to smile and said, “Don’t misunderstand me, Mayor Su. I am only here to grab a drink with you. I understand how you feel after such injustice…”

“Fuck off!”

“…”

Topsoil Spirit cursed inwardly. Had that scumbag gotten addicted to acting?

Fine.

So be it.

He sent his elder a voice transmission, “Don’t bother. We should come back tomorrow. His current mood is…too bad.”

“I’m worried that he will increase the price if we wait one more day! He will definitely receive more offers the longer we wait!”

“He won’t. Don’t worry, Elder.”

Topsoil Spirit couldn’t be bothered to explain more and walked away. Behind him, the elder followed with a look of struggle. That was the nine-leaf skylotus! Something too valuable for them to miss out on!

***

Far away.

A dragon laughed and said, “They failed. How stupid of them to visit at this moment. The five elementals are getting too impatient. Then again, it’s understandable. This is a race with ninth-degree Eternals. With seven petals, they might really produce a Daofuse.”

“Unfortunately for them, Su Yu does not care about them.”

“That isn’t surprising. Su Yu is boundlessly overbearing. He only follows his desires. It’s perfectly normal for him to act like this.”

The dragons were not the only ones talking about this. A large number of races had gathered in Great Xia. All of them were seemingly here to celebrate Su Long’s birthday.

Celebrating the longevity of someone who was only fifty.

As for Su Yu’s recent battle with Great Yuan King, nobody mentioned it. No matter what, this was human territory. These visitors weren’t stupid enough to talk about such a sensitive topic here.

It was obvious that humanity was currently in a terrible mood because of that incident. Su Yu was probably in a bad mood as well. The best course of action for these visitors was to pretend nothing had happened.

***

Inside Su Residence.

Liu Wenyan frowned and said, “All these people are here for you. And they are clearly targeting the nine-leaf skylotus. Are you really selling it?”

Not even Liu Wenyan knew how many petals Su Yu had gathered.

Those present in the mansion during the distribution only knew that Su Yu had taken three for himself. Naturally, nobody knew if Su Yu had obtained more after that. Great Zhou King was probably the only one who had guessed that this whole thing was a scam. Wait, no, there was also Topsoil Spirit.

Bai Feng and the others were also present when Su Yu distributed the petals in the mansion. However, none of them had suspected that this was a scam. They had assumed that Su Yu had obtained more.

Su Yu said, “We shall see. If I do start selling, I’ll limit the sale. Each race will only be allowed to buy one petal. By itself, a petal is basically a carrier treasure. It doesn’t mean much.”

“Be careful lest they get some minor races to buy more for them.”

Liu Wenyan couldn’t resist warning Su Yu. It wouldn’t be wise to produce a powerful enemy with his own treasure and get himself killed in the future.

Su Yu nodded, “Yes. I will definitely be careful if I do decide to sell. I will definitely limit the sale. The minor races affiliated with major races will not get anything no matter the price.”

“Just be careful. You know what to do.”

Suddenly, Wu Lan said, “Enough about the skylotus, Teacher Liu. He’s selling fake petals. What’s the point of this conversation? Su Yu, I have something that is actually important to talk about.”

“…”

Su Yu blanked out. Liu Wenyan blanked out as well.

Noticing all the gazes on her, Wu Lan asked with astonishment, “What?”

Liu Wenyan asked with a frown, “What did you say just now? Fake?”

Wu Lan hesitated slightly and asked, “What about it? Is there any issue with that? A bad guy like Su Yu will definitely not sell the real product.”

Was there a problem with that?

Su Yu felt very helpless. Was that it?

In her eyes, she only needed to believe the opposite of what she saw in regards to everything he did.

He didn’t know what to say anymore.

He said, “What nonsense! I never lie to the great people of the Myriad Realms! What do you want to talk about?”

When had he ever lied?

Su Yu was feeling quite gloomy.

As far as he was concerned, those he had lied to were not people. Thus, his lies to them did not count.

Wu Lan said, “Recently, my research with Teacher Bai regarding willpower has progressed somewhat. Do you want to hear about it?”

Su Yu was actually quite interested in this topic. Everyone else was busy cultivating or fighting. Meanwhile, these two were focused only on research. Even Chen Yong had been turned into a research addict by them.

In fact, Chen Yong was very good at research as well. After all, he was the person who had developed the method to extract memories from blood essence. Even Bai Feng had only learned the method from him.

“Sure. What great discovery did you make this time?”

Wu Lan did not mind his teasing tone. She said, “Do you know where willpower comes from?”

Su Yu thought about it and said, “You can extract some from willpower texts and source qi. Seas of willpower can also produce a small amount naturally. Some treasures also come with willpower…”

Wu Lan nodded and said, “Therefore, there aren’t a lot of willpower sources out there.”

“Yes.”

Wu Lan continued, “Have you seen any blood with willpower?”

Su Yu furrowed his brows and said, “Willpower can be related to characters and seas of willpower, not blood…”

“No, you’re wrong!”

Wu Lan said in excitement, “Your answer proves your ignorance in this aspect! Do you remember the blood we gathered in the Luminous Domain Mansion? We discovered the existence of willpower in the blood we gathered!”

Su Yu’s heart thumped.

Old Zhou!

Yes, the connection between the grand cycle acupoints and grand cycle apertures! This was something Su Yu had contemplated before as well. He said, “You mean…that existence is capable of conversion between source qi and willpower?”