Tribulation of Myriad Races

Allheaven Battlefield.

Su Yu was back out here.

The Allheaven Battlefield was quite calm. The armies of humanity might have set off for war, but the armies of the myriad races had all withdrawn. Thus, they were without opponents. Even the unaffiliated cultivators who could normally be seen everywhere were gone.

That was understandable. A bunch of people had died the day before. Many people were still hiding away in fear. Of course, that did not apply to everyone. Some were still brave enough to wander the Allheaven Battlefield in search of opportunities. After all, the deaths of so many Invincibles would provide the brave with quite a lot of opportunities as well.

With so many deaths, there must be some blood essence left somewhere, right? There must be some carrier treasures left somewhere, right? Heaven weapons, or even earth weapons, and the remains of these dead Invincibles would also offer massive opportunities for these people.

These treasures could no longer catch Su Yu’s attention, but they were still invaluable for Skysoars and Cloudbreaches.

Su Yu did not spare the random weaklings he saw a glance. He was moving rapidly. While moving, he was inspecting the memories in his Mark of Civilization.

Heavenly Seal King’s memories, to be precise.

He had collected many corpses this time, including the corpses of Daofuses. He was in no rush to check their memories. First, he focused on Heavenly Seal King. He was quite curious about this person. As the descendant of Control King, just what manner of enmity did he have against Culture King’s line?

Did he do all that due to his greed for Culture King’s legacies? Greed would be a very logical reason. He might know about Culture King’s four legacies, and such legacies were too tempting for anyone to reject.

As one of the four major human kings, Control King wouldn’t be weak. The descendant of someone like that might also know more than your average person.

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Su Yu focused on the memories he was reading.

He saw many scenes.

As a child, Heavenly Seal King was extremely talented. He was born in the tenth epoch, but outside the Human Realm. Su Yu was quite surprised to learn that he was actually born in the Allheaven Battlefield.

Even more surprising was the fact that he was born when the Allheaven Battlefield was still sealed from the Human Realm. He was born about twenty years before the connection between the Human Realm and the Allheaven Battlefield was established.

He was born in an unknown ruin in the Sea of Stars. Su Yu wasn’t too curious about the ruin, but he was extremely curious about Heavenly Seal King’s parents.

Very few people could survive in the Allheaven Battlefield during the period it was sealed from the various realms. During that time, the source qi in the Allheaven Battlefield would dry out. For the most part, the support of a super expert like the Heavenly Overseer Marquis was required for one to survive in the Allheaven Battlefield during that period.

There was no doubt that Heavenly Seal King’s father was an expert. That was someone who had died fighting Xia Chen. But his mother wasn’t weak either.

From Heavenly Seal King’s memories, he rarely met his parents. Like him, his father was a mixblood as well. But he knew very little about his mother. They would only meet once every few years, and each meeting was extremely short.

After spending twenty years in the ruin, he was brought to the Human Realm by his father. One could say that his father was among the earliest external experts to sneak into the Human Realm.

After bringing him into the Human Realm, his father left him to go searching for Culture King’s grave. That was his mission. To find the Culture Grave and snatch the Culture Tomb. At the same time, he also aimed to kill those from Culturekeeper Marquis’ line.

Having lost all contact with his father, Heavenly Seal King continued his growth in the Human Realm like a regular human. He roamed the Human Realm, participated in various wars, and made countless friends. But deep inside, he knew that he was no pure human.

He was a mixbreed.

His ancestor was the famed Control King, one of the four major human kings. However, his ancestor did not get along well with the Culture King, who was the true spiritual leader of humanity. He had never behaved suspiciously, fighting hard alongside the other humans against the myriad races.

One day, his father returned to him. His father visited him in a rush. According to his father, the Culturekeeper Marquis’ line was still present, and there was still an expert in that line. His father had alerted that expert and fought that expert once. His father found with surprise that he couldn’t even defeat that expert.

According to what his father knew, with the Human Realm isolated from the Myriad Realms and all its previous Eternals dead, there shouldn’t be any experts left in the Culturekeeper Marquis’ line.

However, Xia Chen was still around. Some time after that, his father found him again, telling him that he couldn’t hide from Xia Chen much longer. His father wasn’t Xia Chen’s match. However, his father couldn’t give up on the Culture Tomb. Thus, his father told him about the blood of a young genius by the name of Wang Hu. If his father went missing after that meeting, he was to remain in hiding forever.

Su Yu had guessed many of those, and the sight of these scenes verified his guesses. The subsequent affairs were straightforward. Heavenly Seal King had gone missing after that last meeting. Heavenly Seal King himself had had his blood switched by his father. Even so, he did not forget the mission of their line: to sever Culture King’s line.

Culture King’s legacy was not allowed to return. The Culture Tomb must be snatched. Why? Because of an order passed down by their ancestor, the Control King. According to that order, Culture King was not allowed to return.

That was their ancestral mission. The ancestral mission was among the strongest memories in Heavenly Seal King’s mind.

At this point, Su Yu stopped and sank into thought. Culture King was not allowed to return. Culture King’s legacy was not allowed to emerge.

Prior to this, Time Sage had said that both she and Culture King were fighting. They required saving. Of the four legacies of Culture King, the Heavenearth Inkstone was left with the white dog. As for the three other legacies, they had all remained hidden until now.

Was the world really so lacking in talent? Was that why the suitable inheritors of these legacies had yet to appear? Why was the Heavenly Hunt Index broken into pieces? Did Culture King do that? What was the point of breaking a legacy he left behind?

In that case, how was the Heavenly Hunt Index broken? Did Heavenly Overseer Marquis know the answer?

The damage to the Heavenly Hunt Index might be the reason why this legacy was still not in Heavenly Overseer Marquis’ hands. He might know more, hence why he had been trying very hard to gather the remaining fragments.

“Control King’s line has been trying to prevent the reappearance of Culture King’s line. Is this a precaution against Culture King’s backup plan?”

What role did Control King play in the disappearance of Culture King and Time Sage?

The bloodline of Control King’s descendants was mixed with the bloodline of a devil Pseudo Emperor. Did Control King collude with the devils?

Numerous questions emerged in Su Yu’s mind. Not even Heavenly Seal King had the answer to these questions. But he did know that he was not the sole survivor of his line. There were more of them, but they were all in the Upper Realm.

This line had yet to be severed. And their sole goal was to prevent the reappearance of Culture King’s legacies.

Inauspicious item.

Most people had called the Culture Tomb an inauspicious item.

Why? Because those from Battle King’s line, or to be precise, a branch of Battle King’s line, the Culturekeeper Marquis’ line, had suffered repeatedly in the hands of those from Control King’s line. The two publicly known legacies of Culture King were the Heavenly Hunt Index and Culture Tomb.

The Heavenly Hunt Index was damaged, but the Culture Tomb was still whole. Thus, those from Control King’s line had fought those from Culturekeeper Marquis’ line many times. Since nobody had been able to unveil the mystery behind the Culture Tomb, humanity started declining in power.

Eventually, Xia Chen was forced to find a way to unravel the secret of the Culture Tomb. That was why he had left the ruin with the Culture Tomb and founded the multiple character faction.

“They used to have more people in the Upper Realm. Are those people still around?”

Heavenly Seal King had been told since his childhood that if his father couldn’t complete this mission, the task would fall on his shoulders. If he couldn’t complete it as well, those from their line would continue the mission after the connection to the Upper Realm was reestablished.

“Control King.”

Su Yu muttered to himself. How interesting. Control King could very well be one of the reasons for Culture King and the others to disappear.

Su Yu was also thinking about Heavenly Seal King’s mother. From Heavenly Seal King’s memories, that mother was an enigmatic individual. Su Yu had a feeling that even Heavenly Seal King’s was terrified of her. Was she perhaps a much stronger expert? Was she a Daofuse? But almost all the Daofuses in the Myriad Realms had revealed themselves.

“Both the Spirit Pseudo Emperor and Phoenix Pseudo Emperor are female Daofuses. Is she one of them?”

Or was it someone else? Whatever. For now, it didn’t matter. If she remained missing, so be it. If she were to appear, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill her. Perhaps she was already dead.

Heavenly Seal King did not know too much. In fact, he remained almost clueless about the affairs of these ancient experts apart from what he had learned from their ancestral teachings. Over the years, he hadn’t even acted actively against humanity. He had merely pushed things in the dark, but he had never taken direct action.

From the memories, Su Yu learned that Fiery Sea had indeed lost control because of Heavenly Seal’s instigation, but the instigation had not been done directly.

As for the Sunmoons under Heavenly Seal King’s control, there weren’t too many of them, and most had died when Fiery Sea King was exposed. Only a few remained, but there was no need for Su Yu to worry about them. Great Zhou King and the others would not spare these Sunmoons.

Eliminating the multiple character faction had been Heavenly Seal King’s main goal over the years. Unfortunately for him, the multiple character faction had remained annoyingly silent after Ye Batian’s death. They had refused to leave Great Xia, robbing him of the opportunity to do more. Even with the heavy suppression on them, they had remained silent.

Liu Wenyan and the others had accepted all the suppression silently while Nan Wujiang and the others had been pretending to be dead. Things only started changing after Su Yu entered the picture. But when Heavenly Seal King finally started taking Su Yu seriously, his momentum could no longer be stopped.

“Ye Batian…”

Su Yu continued checking the memories. After a while, his heart thumped with shock.

Ye Batian.

According to the memories of Heavenly Seal King, Ye Batian wasn’t killed just because of his dao affirmation. After all, he had only attempted to advance in physical cultivation, not willpower.

The dao affirmation of willpower cultivation was so difficult that it was almost impossible. Most people believed that Ye Batian was killed because of his dao affirmation. Even upon his dao affirmation, he would remain a physical Invincible. His threat would still be rather limited.

The main reason for Ye Batian’s death was his excessively high-profile manner of doing things. He had accidentally leaked one of his plans.

“Resurrecting the dead!”

Su Yu was greatly shocked. Ye Batian was killed because that madman had been trying to find a way to resurrect the dead. Or to be precise, he was leading Xia Family’s research on this subject. They intended to bring the dead back.

There might be a connection between Ye Batian and the death spirits. He had even sneaked into the Death Realm. Not satisfied with conducting the research alone, he was also getting the Xia Family involved. He was trying to bring a specific death spirit back to life.

“How did he get involved with the death spirits?”

Su Yu was very surprised. From Heavenly Seal King’s memories, he learned that Ye Batian wanted to resurrect a student of Culture King. To prevent that from happening, Ye Batian was killed.

Su Yu frowned. Heavenly Seal King did not know too much. But he knew enough to know that Ye Batian must be stopped. Apart from that, there wasn’t that much important information in Heavenly Seal King’s memories.

Suddenly, Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he turned back.

Xia Longwu!

Xia Longwu might know something as well. Su Yu remembered hearing that Xia Longwu had once entered the Death Realm. Perhaps that was related to Ye Batian’s research. However, he might not have taken the matter as seriously as Ye Batian.

From Heavenly Seal King’s memories, he had been paying close attention to Xia Longwu as well. In fact, he nearly acted against Xia Longwu during Xia Longwu’s dao affirmation. However, no such opportunity presented itself.