Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu’s advancement continued. Both his body and characters were growing rapidly. At his current level, reaching the Mountainsea Realm in physical cultivation would not bring him that much of a boost. But even a small boost was still a boost.

The growth was small, but Su Yu could sense something else going on with his body. It felt as though his body was in the process of turning that which was external into something truly his. In fact, when his nine acupoints became eight, he sensed something entirely different.

His instincts were telling him that when all his acupoints became one, and all his apertures became one…he might be able to fuse the two with his Heaven Gate, fusing everything into one. At that point, the Heaven Gate would be truly his. He would no longer need to feed the Heaven Gate with death qi to utilize its prowess.

In other words, his physical strength would surpass a hundred million at that point. Furthermore, the fusion of everything into one might also result in some other unexpected changes. He would be able to overlap the strength of his willpower and body.

“The Eternal Realm…likely doesn’t exist for the path of willpower. This is a path leading directly to the Daofuse Realm.”

As he absorbed more and more power from the heavenly laws, new comprehensions were dawning on him as well. To reach the Sunmoon Realm in physical cultivation, one needed to fuse all of one’s acupoints into one.

As for willpower cultivation, one would still have nine apertures at the peak Mountainsea Realm. The nine apertures would only become one at the peak Sunmoon Realm. Unlike physical cultivation, the Sunmoon Realm was not a phase for one’s apertures to further strengthen. Rather, it was a phase for the apertures to fuse into one.

Inside Su Yu’s head, the book spirit’s lesson continued. The more it went on, the clearer Su Yu’s mind felt.

His body continued growing.

Gradually, the eight acupoints became seven.

Suddenly, the space above him rippled as a dark River of Time appeared. A sword stabbed out of the river toward his forehead.

An assassin.

The attacker was a devil from the shadow devil race, a sub-race of the greater devil race. He was exceptionally powerful, and a stench of rot accompanied him, suggesting that he might be an old fossil that had survived from one of the past epochs.

They had opted to assassinate Su Yu.

Su Yu stirred his source qi and opened his Heaven Gate. The moment he did that, his disposition changed, giving him the look of a radiant saint. The mark of Heaven Gate appeared on his forehead. The Mark of Civilization materialized before his head to act as a shield. At the same time, he stabbed forth with a pen.

Instead of stabbing at the incoming sword, Su Yu targeted the dark River of Time. The sword of his opponent continued forth, stabbing through the Mark of Civilization and breaking through the many layers of defenses erected by the beastly projections in the book before hitting the Heaven Gate.

The Heaven Gate shook.

Right at that moment, a powerful defensive barrier appeared atop Su Yu’s skin. That was the defensive barrier his body had produced naturally after seventy-two forgings.

Crack!

Even the defensive barrier was broken through by the sword. However, Su Yu remained calm. Just then, his pen struck his opponent’s River of Time. With a rumble, the entire river roiled, looking like it was about to break apart.

At the same time, the appearance of the shadow devil was finally revealed before Su Yu. This was a dark-skinned devil with a single horn on his forehead. He had a surprised look on his face.

Su Yu’s defense was way too powerful than he had imagined. Clearly, Su Yu had been growing rapidly.

“Are you thinking of killing me? Unfortunately, you’re not good enough.”

Su Yu’s voice was frosty. An eighth-degree Eternal was actually assassinating a Mountainsea during the Mountainsea’s breakthrough. But having advanced into a dual Mountainsea, Su Yu was no longer so easy to assassinate.

Typical of an assassin, the shadow devil attempted to flee after failing to kill in one hit. If he had failed to kill Su Yu even through a surprise attack, it would be pointless for him to continue fighting Su Yu head-on. But he had barely moved when the Mark of Civilization descended upon him.

As a weapon on the verge of becoming a divine weapon, the Mark of Civilization was incredibly powerful. Some of the pages, such as the immortal page, were already capable of producing projections at the ninth-stage Sunmoon Realm. Hundreds of such projections emerged. At the same time, the Myriad Door Formation unfurled around the book.

The shadow devil had just reassembled his broken River of Time. However, the river was instantly frozen by the Mark of Civilization. His expression changed slightly, but he still wasn’t too worried.

Sure, he had failed to kill Su Yu. But he couldn’t be killed so easily either. At worst, his retreat would be delayed. It was no big deal.

Su Yu said nothing and continued attacking. An intense battle erupted between the two. Nobody noticed they were slowly moving toward the Dragon Pseudo Emperor and the female furball as they fought.

***

Outside the Celestial Chasm Realm.

The gathered Daofuses were observing the battle outside the Human Realm from the other side of the Allheaven Battlefield.

When Su Yu survived the lightning tribulation to advance into a dual Mountainsea, Heavenly Overseer Marquis’ expression changed slightly.

Su Yu.

He was resembling the Culture King more and more!

That sensation grew stronger when Su Yu took a pen out and broke a River of Time with a jab. It felt as though Su Yu was the second coming of Culture King, even if the gap between the two was still massive.

“Su Yu…”

Heavenly Overseer Marquis muttered to himself. Su Yu had grown stronger, and his luck had grown even denser as well.

Someone with his level of luck tended to turn misfortune into a blessing. Whenever he encountered trouble, he would stumble upon a reliable benefactor. If one had been paying attention, one would have noted that Su Yu had gathered quite a lot of benefactors.

Su Yu had played a massive role in humanity’s ability to contend against the myriad races. Just the ancient cities were terrifying enough. And now, even the iron devourers were fighting for him. He also had the support of the two soul devourers.

It would be fair to say that without Su Yu, humanity would still be keeping a low profile. They wouldn’t have dared to trigger a war.

Great Zhou King must have held his advancement back for quite a while. He must not have dared to proceed as he did not want the myriad races to perceive humanity as too big a threat.

But now, he was starting to shed his past worries.

***

Boom!

Deafening explosions erupted everywhere.

Of the many ongoing battles, the battle involving the female furball and the Dragon Pseudo Emperor was the most intense. The female furball was in a bad mood. The same could be said for the Dragon Pseudo Emperor.

The female furball was still sulking over the fact that she had failed to eat Jade King. As for the Dragon Pseudo Emperor, he was still angry over the fact that as a Daofuse, he had failed to kill any of his previous opponents even after a long battle. It was only natural that when two furious individuals clashed, the battle became incredibly intense.

Meanwhile, the least intense battle involved the old turtle. The Devil Pseudo Emperor and Nether Pseudo Emperor had been more focused on keeping him busy instead of killing him. Thus, they had been holding back.

As for the ancient cities, Grandstar City was the only city not suffering from any death spirit disturbance. After all, death spirits were no pets of Su Yu. The death spirits might have killed some of his enemies before, but that was mainly due to the fact that those enemies were living beings. If Su Yu had appeared before them as a living being, they would attack him all the same.

The death sovereigns under the various ancient cities seemed to be viewing this as an opportunity. All of them were wreaking havoc in the death tunnels, intensifying the burden on the various ancient guardians. They couldn’t leave without a proper reason as that would result in a punishment by the heavenly laws. Thus, this was their way of protesting without going against the heavenly laws.

If they could somehow break the death tunnels doing this and remove the barrier between the Death Realm and the Allheaven Battlefield, the fault would be placed on the ancient guardians, not them.

The laws would always provide one with a way out, including the death spirits. Thus, all the ancient guardians were forced to suppress the death qi in their death tunnels while fighting their opponents.

Before long, about thirty more Invincibles arrived. They had the numbers to completely ruin the current balance between the two sides. With the addition of the newcomers, over 130 Invincibles from the myriad races had gathered outside the Human Realm. There were also about forty Invincibles gathered outside the Celestial Chasm Realm to prevent the human Invincibles trapped there from returning.

Including the dead Invincibles, the myriad races had deployed over two hundred Invincibles and nine Daofuses for this battle. There were also over a hundred Invincibles fighting on humanity’s side. In short, this was a conflict involving more than ten Daofuses and over three hundred Invincibles. A majority of the famous Invincibles were involved in this conflict, including some old fossils who had been in deep slumber before this.

Noticing the addition of thirty new enemies, Great Xia King roared, “Su Yu, do you have any other trump cards?”

Again!

More and more powerful enemies were arriving. At this rate, humanity would lose the ability to keep fighting.

Even the Death Realm was causing trouble for them.

Could Su Yu do anything about this?

Yes.

The book spirit and tea plant could probably make up for the imbalance caused by the thirty newcomers, but Su Yu was here to kill Daofuses and end the battle. He wasn’t here to kill some Invincibles. That wouldn’t be enough to end this battle. Humanity would be the one at the losing end if this battle dragged on.

Su Yu’s mind spun rapidly. Eventually, he concluded that it would be more helpful to first calm the Death Realm. That would allow the old turtle to focus more on the battle up here. Currently, the old turtle was busy fighting to protect He Tu, who was being hunted by two marquises. Something must be done to fully unleash the old turtle’s combat prowess up here.

“Shall I release He Tu?”

But He Tu might not be able to leave. Unlike Xing Yue, he had two marquises tying him down. He would have left long ago if that were an option. Therefore, the two marquises must first be dealt with.

At that thought, Su Yu sent a voice transmission even as he fought the shadow devil, “Senior Book Spirit, can the two of you enter the Death Realm?”

“Death Realm?” The book spirit answered, “Yes, we can. But I doubt we can do much in the inner territories of the Death Realm. It is said that there are countless experts there, including some extremely powerful individuals…”

“Are the two of you capable of defeating or killing two death spirit marquises?”

Perhaps he could get these two to kill the two marquises first. That would calm the chaos in the Death Realm for now. This would allow the ancient guardians, including the old turtle, to fully unleash their strength up here.

He Tu and Xing Yue wouldn’t be too useful out here. Thus, he could instead have them deal with the death spirits under the other ancient cities and prevent them from causing trouble for the ancient guardians.

“What about the battle here? More experts might come after you. All your allies are too busy to protect you.”

“It’s fine.” Su Yu said, “I won’t do anything rash.”