Tribulation of Myriad Races

Even after looking around repeatedly, all Su Yu could see were singles. They still had a considerable number of Invincibles, but the combat strength they could muster had probably dropped by half.

But for now, Su Yu had something else to focus on. After consuming so much blood and flesh, his Mark of Civilization was in a state of rapid growth. Before long, the 142nd golden stripe appeared on it.

Its rapid growth was understandable since it had consumed so many Invincibles in one day. It was now a peak heaven weapon. Even the incomplete stripes were increasing as well. Including the incomplete stripes, the total number of stripes reached 169.

This signified that with enough replenishment, the Mark of Civilization would be guaranteed to reach no less than 169 golden stripes in the future. That would make it a high divine weapon. The growth of the Mark of Civilization would naturally be helpful for Su Yu.

As his book grew, his culture and radiance characters grew as well. Inside his sea of willpower, his willpower was also increasing in quality. After the intense battle, his 360 apertures had completed their fusion into nine apertures, signifying that his willpower cultivation had reached the peak of the Mountainsea Realm. He was only a step away from the Sunmoon Realm.

Even his body felt like it was on the verge of advancing and transforming further. It was showing signs of finally stepping into the Mountainsea Realm. And the moment that breakthrough happened, he could very well reach the ninth stage directly. However, he suppressed the breakthrough for now.

An advancement might generate a heavenly reward for him. It would be better for him to delay until a heavenly tribulation was coming after him. At the time, he could summon the heavenly reward. That way, the tribulation and reward would clash, allowing him to handle the tribulation easily. This was a trick he had learned from his own experience.

For example, if he were to cause a death spirit disaster, tribulation would come. At that time, he could either reach the Mountainsea Realm in physical cultivation or the Sunmoon Realm in willpower cultivation. Either of the two would potentially summon a heavenly reward. Or he could simply kill a few Invincibles.

Since he had not received any rewards for killing so many Invincibles in the Human Realm, he suspected that the heavenly laws governing these kills had yet to cover the Human Realm. However, each kill, even in the Human Realm, would be a form of accumulation. Perhaps he only needed to kill a few more outside the Human Realm to trigger a reward.

While Su Yu was deep in thought, Zhou Tianyuan sighed and said, “Great Zheng King and Great Yuan King died.”

Su Yu said nothing. This was already a very good result for them. With the lives of two Invincibles and the tri-life bodies of more than ten top experts, they had slaughtered dozens of enemy Invincibles. This was already as good a result as they could get. Su Yu didn’t feel like saying much about the two dead Invincibles.

He didn’t want to see them dead as well. However, death was inevitable in a war. Humanity had lost five Invincibles today, but the myriad races had lost even more. They had essentially delivered ten times the damage to their enemies.

All around them, the battles between the Sunmoons ended as well. This was still the Human Realm. Without those Invincibles, it was inevitable that humanity would win. After a while, the blood-soaked experts of the various prefectures gathered around Su Yu’s group. Nobody said anything.

Those from Great Yuan and Great Zheng were grieving. However, this was still a great victory. Thus, they didn’t know what to feel about the result. Eventually, they noted that there were many missing faces among the crowd. Over a hundred myriad race Sunmoons had perished this time. As for the humans, they had lost over twenty Sunmoons and some Mountainseas as well.

After a short silence, Cheng Mo of Great Tang looked around and said, “Reporting to the holy lord, a total of 112 enemy Sunmoons and around 300 enemy Mountainseas were killed. We lost 26 Sunmoons and 162 Mountainseas. Countless below the Mountainsea Realm died as well.”

Yes. The losses below the Mountainsea Realm were too high to count. In such a war, it was impossible for the regular people to remain unharmed.

The armies of the various prefectures had also joined the fight. Just the military alone had lost over ten thousand people. The militias of the various prefectures had also lost a large number of people.

Including the ordinary people who were killed as collateral damage, over fifty thousand people below the Mountainsea Realm had perished.

After some time, even more experts arrived. Wu Ji of Allheaven Prefecture came carrying a storage ring. With blood dripping down his body, he said loudly, “Reporting to the holy lord, eighteen carrier treasures have been found on the battlefield.”

Eighteen carrier treasures and a storage ring, to be precise. Toward the end, the battle was so intense that Su Yu and the others didn’t have the opportunity to loot the battlefield. They could only focus fully on the battle.

Thus, the Allheaven Prefecture had proceeded to survey the battlefield after the battle ended.

Eighteen carrier treasures.

Previously, Su Yu had kept two for himself and gave four to Great Liang and Great Yue. Now, he had received eighteen more. However, these carrier treasures wouldn’t do much for now. Even with sufficient carrier treasures, tri-life bodies couldn’t be recovered so easily.

As for the production of new Invincibles, they did not have that many Pseudo Invincibles around anymore. Most of those capable of dao affirmation had already done so during the previous conflict.

Of the prefects, some had advanced previously, while some were still stuck at the ninth-stage Sunmoon Realm. Only two of them were Pseudo Invincibles, but having carrier treasures wouldn’t guarantee an advancement.

Thus, Su Yu felt rather helpless after looking around. This was far from enough to take the fight to the Invincibles outside the realm. He said nothing. Instead, he sent his crown flying into the sky. The power of luck started rippling out of the crown.

Boom!

A tiny crack appeared in the sky. That was the opening the myriad races had used to sneak into the Human Realm. With the power of luck, the crown started repairing the opening in the sky.

He could not leave the opening around. It would be too big a weakness to ignore. In their current weakened state, the myriad races only needed to send a large number of Sunmoons and Invincibles through that opening and they would be completely helpless.

After a while, the opening was closed. The slightly dimmed crown returned above Su Yu’s head. Both the crown and the Mark of Civilization were already peak heaven weapons, making Su Yu the owner of multiple powerful weapons.

Beside him, Zhou Tianyuan exhaled and asked, “Holy Lord, what do we do now?”

They wanted to leave and keep fighting as well. However, they had been weakened too much for that to be a wise choice.

Su Yu stared into the distance. After a long while, he said, “We’re going to the Starfall Mountain.”

Everyone was surprised to hear that. Weren’t they supposed to be helping those fighting outside now?

Su Yu did not explain.

Helping those outside?

How?

Who to help?

Those trapped in the Celestial Chasm Realm?

Or Great Xia King’s group?

They couldn’t accomplish any of that.

They weren’t strong enough. Even Su Yu himself was feeling too helpless to do anything. Were they supposed to go out for the sake of going out? It would be completely pointless.

The female furball still had some strength left, but she had also been injured. He had to let her rest for a bit, right? It wouldn’t be appropriate for him to drive her like a slave. The female furball had contributed massively to their victory here. He had to show her some appreciation.

The female furball had defeated the highest number of Invincibles today. Yes, Su Yu and the others had killed a lot. But the female furball was the one who had faced almost all the strongest Invincibles who had attacked today. Without the female furball, they would have lost the battle inside the Human Realm.

Thus, Su Yu decided to pay Starfall Mountain a visit. He wanted to verify if there was really a ruin there. What would be the advantage of a ruin there?

He could easily find a lot of new ruins if he spent some time at it. After all, the appearance of the myriad race Invincibles had also exposed a lot of these hidden ruins. Most of these ruins would be emptied by now, but one could still affirm one’s dao in them.

That was the sole advantage of these ruins. Each of these ruins could support the dao affirmation of one person. He guessed that there would be about seven or eight of them, but he wouldn’t know before checking.

With these ruins, they could produce a few new Invincibles without the knowledge of the myriad races.

Then again, the myriad races could probably guess that they would do this anyway. These were mostly empty ruins so apart from serving as a safe space for dao affirmation, they wouldn’t be too useful.

The only undiscovered ruin Su Yu knew of was the one that might be somewhere at the Starfall Mountain. But he was also unsure if there was really a ruin there. He also suspected that the ruin there would either belong to the Culture King or the Time Sage.

Thus, this ruin would be quite useful for him. It was pointless to think about it too much for now. He had to first find it.

While flying toward the Starfall Mountain, he said, “Seniors, I don’t think we have met before.”

He was talking to the two old Invincibles who had survived after Great Zheng King’s death.

“Greetings, Holy Lord.”

As the two saluted him, Su Yu gave them a slight bow. The old Invincible to the left, who was already balding, said, “I am Li Hao of Great Liang.”

“I am Yun Jie of Great Yong.”

The old Invincible to the right seemed to be blind from the empty look in his eyes. This must be the result of an old injury he had sustained in his youth. Surprisingly, both were founding kings.

Great Liang and Great Yong were considered minor prefectures. As northern prefectures, the two were quite far away from Great Xia and Great Ming. Due to their small size, they were frequently forgotten by the masses.

In fact, the two prefectures weren’t even comparable to Great Wei, a prefecture whose founding king had died, in terms of fame. But now, Su Yu understood why.

The two old Invincibles had never been too powerful in the first place. From their state, it was clear they had lost their tri-life bodies long ago. These years, they must have remained in seclusion to recover from their old injuries. Thus, they hadn’t gotten the chance to put much effort into their prefectures.

As a result, the two prefectures had maintained a low profile among the various human prefectures. For the most part, they would remain neutral whenever there was a conflict between the various prefectures.

“Sorry for your loss, Seniors. Do take care.”

Su Yu could see that the two looked quite sad.

After all, several founding kings had died together. Those were all their old comrades from hundreds of years ago. In fact, Great Zheng had emerged from hiding alongside them during the start of the battle.

Great Liang King forced himself to smile and said, “We understand. Everyone will die. We revealed ourselves expecting to die. This is already a much better result than we had imagined. He did not die a worthless death.”

Su Yu said nothing else. Before long, they reached the Starfall Mountain.

Zhu Tiandao, who had recovered rapidly from his grief, looked around and said, “Don’t tell me you’re here to look for a ruin. There is no ruin here. Isn’t this the place you used to scam some people back then? Because of your scam, we spent a long time searching this place. We found nothing…”

He was confident there was no ruin here.

Su Yu said nothing. The crown on his head turned into a golden token before dropping onto the ground. Instantly, the entire Starfall Mountain trembled before turning transparent. Everyone could see that there was nothing down there.

Su Yu looked at Hu Xiansheng. Understanding what Su Yu was thinking, Hu Xiansheng scanned the place before shaking his head, “No spatial undulations. Not even a tiny bit.” He couldn’t feel anything.

Su Yu thought about it and said, “Of the four yuans, three of them came with a ruin each. How can there be no ruin in Nanyuan?”

Great Yong King said, “We’ve never heard of a ruin here. Not even Great Xia King and Great Ming King had affirmed their dao here.”

Su Yu had forgotten to ask Xia Chen about whether there was a ruin in Nanyuan. Where did Xia Chen affirm his dao? That would most likely remain a mystery. After all, Xia Chen had affirmed his dao during the previous epoch. Did he do it in Nanyuan? Not necessarily.

The Culture Tomb was something that had been erected after Culture King’s disappearance. It wasn’t an actual tomb. Thus, if there was really a ruin in Nanyuan, it would most likely be Culture King’s residence. After all, Nanyuan used to be Culture King’s domain during the ancient past.

Why would the Book of Time appear here when returning home? There must be a mysterious relationship between Time Sage and Culture King.

“Culture King…”

Su Yu took the Culture Tomb and pointed it at thin air. Instantly, the air rippled, as though the Culture Tomb had established a connection with something. However, that was all. Nothing else changed.

Su Yu frowned. Was the Book of Time required for this? But he couldn’t move that book. Or to be precise, he had no way of taking that book out. Perhaps he could try shaking the book? He might still be incapable of taking the book out, but he had grown enough to barely shake the book. Next, the book inside his head shook slightly. A wave of incorporeal power spread out of his sea of willpower.

Just then, faint rumbling sounds rang out in the air.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

It felt as though the sounds were coming from underground, but there was clearly nothing down there.

Su Long once said that he would occasionally hear thunderclaps here even when there was no storm. And for some reason, those thunderclaps would come from the ground instead of the sky.

The same thing was happening now.