Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu moved rapidly.

Before long, he emerged from a spatial tear in the middle of a military camp. Immediately after, a wary Xia Longwu stepped out of the commander’s camp. He only relaxed after seeing that it was Su Yu.

“Greetings, Holy Lord.”

Xia Longwu greeted formally.

“You are too polite, Prefect.” Su Yu wasted no time and said, “Let’s talk inside.”

“Okay.”

When the two were inside the commander’s camp, Xia Longwu wanted to give Su Yu an update about the military. However, Su Yu was uninterested. Instead, he said, “Prefect, I have a question. You descended Heavendoom City’s death tunnel before, right?”

Xia Longwu was surprised. Why was Su Yu asking these questions so suddenly?

He nodded and said, “Yes, I did it once. But a death sovereign appeared before I could kill too many death spirits. The death sovereign injured me heavily, forcing me to withdraw.”

“Why did you make that attempt back then?”

There must be a reason for it.

Xia Longwu explained, “I only wanted to check our options. Humanity was in a bad state. I once saw some records in Xia Family’s storeroom about the death spirits. Back when I was a student in the cultural research academy, my teacher, Principal Wan, used to talk a lot about death spirits with Martial Uncle Ye as well.

“I remembered hearing Martial Uncle Ye mentioning the severed character cultivation inheritance of humanity. He wanted to visit the Death Realm and bring back a human expert familiar with this path of cultivation.”

“Bringing someone back?” Su Yu frowned and asked, “How did he plan to do that? Did he plan to bring someone dead or alive back?”

Xia Longwu answered in confusion, “He was naturally talking about bringing a death spirit back.”

Su Yu frowned and said, “No, this isn’t right. Firstly, how would he know the location of such a death spirit? Secondly, death spirits have incomplete memories. They don’t care about anything, including their loved ones. It won’t be easy to secure the cooperation of one. Thirdly…”

Xia Longwu listened in silence. After a while, he said, “I don’t know. I never thought that deeply about it. That was only a blind attempt by me. I don’t know much about death spirits. Do death sovereigns not care about those from their own races?”

He was speaking the truth. He had never interacted much with death spirits.

Su Yu nodded and said, “Yes, they don’t care. He Tu and the other human death spirits wouldn’t have ignored humanity for so long otherwise. Even now, He Tu is only helping me because we have reached an agreement.”

“Is that so?” Xia Longwu thought about it and said, “Back then, I wanted to try my luck and see if I could stumble upon some human death spirits there and solicit their help. But I gave up after that one attempt. I don’t know too much about death spirits. My teacher might know more. I still remember hearing from Martial Uncle Ye back then that things would improve a lot for humanity if we could bring a human death spirit back.”

Su Yu frowned. Wan Tiansheng had not mentioned this to him. Did he not consider this important enough to be worth mentioning? Or was there a different reason?

Su Yu decided to ask Wan Tiansheng about this instead. Wan Tiansheng might be missing now, but Su Yu had learned that finding someone was never a hard task. He had learned from the best.

Thus, he shouted, “Principal Wan! Let’s meet! I have something important to discuss! This concerns the elimination of the myriad races, including the divines, devils, and immortals!”

“…”

Xia Longwu was stunned. Was this how…one looked for others nowadays?

What…how should he react?

How brazen…wait, Su Yu had always been brazen. It would be more accurate to say that he had grown even crazier than before.

After killing a few Daofuses yesterday, when the myriad races were still licking their wounds, he made such a statement so openly. How would the myriad races react?

This guy was truly fearless.

***

Su Yu’s voice spread everywhere.

Numerous projections emerged from the various major realms.

Immortal Realm.

Inside an ancient palace.

Seated in the middle of the palace was Tiangu. He was speaking with Talisman King and a few other individuals. Suddenly, someone entered the hall in panic and said, “Reporting!”

“Speak.” Tiangu frowned at the interruption.

The newcomer said anxiously, “Emperor, Su Yu is back in the Allheaven Battlefield with countless human soldiers. He shouted for Wan Tiansheng, claiming that he wished to discuss the elimination of the various realms!”

At that, Tiangu sent his willpower toward the realm entrance. The moment his willpower went through the entrance, he heard Su Yu’s voice.

Tiangu’s expression turned frosty. Opposite him, the pale Talisman King coughed weakly and said, “The current human lord is too arrogant. Lord, do we seal the realm off?”

Even someone from the Upper Realm like him was addressing Tiangu as his superior. After all, Tiangu had been running the immortal race since the first epoch. Thus, he was senior to even Upper Realm experts like them, even if they were fellow Daofuses as well.

Tiangu said, “Among the humans, Great Zhou King is the sole Daofuse. Their Daofuse allies will be suppressed upon entering the Immortal Realm. I doubt they have the courage to invade.”

Would Su Yu really dare to invade?

Great Zhou King was the sole person capable of remaining Daofuse after entering the Immortal Realm. If they dared to invade the various realms with their current strength, even a victory would end up crippling their ability to fight further.

Invading a realm was different from fighting in the Allheaven Battlefield. Just look at the heavy damage humanity had suffered from invading the Celestial Chasm Realm.

Did Su Yu say that to scare everyone?

Talisman King nodded and said, “So is this a bluff?”

“Most likely.” Tiangu said, “He’s probably trying to force the various races to start a war below the Eternal Realm. He’s treating this as a chance to train the armies of humanity.”

Tiangu sneered and continued, “In that case, let’s satisfy him. They have tens of millions of soldiers, but is that a big number? How many Sunmoons can he produce from them? How many of them can reach the Eternal Realm?”

Talisman King nodded. Also present were Jade King, Immortal King Han Xiang, Wind King, and Lightning King.

Han Xiang asked, “Emperor, is defending the only thing the myriad races can do now?”

She found the prospect of being forced to stay on the defensive hard to swallow.

The immortal race had suffered massively from the recent conflicts. And now, they were all forced to stay in their realm. This wasn’t a result they were willing to accept, especially since two helpers had descended from the Upper Realm to assist them.

Tiangu stayed silent.

Talisman King was the one to answer, “We’ll let him be for now. When the power of laws separating the Upper Realm from the Myriad Realms fades away, humanity will meet its end. This is merely their final struggle.”

Han Xiang nodded and asked, “Senior Talisman King, are all the Upper Realm humans dead?”

“Almost.” Talisman King said, “During the previous epoch, almost all the old humans died alongside Hundred Battle King. They emptied all their accumulation. After being hunted down for so many years, very few of them are left. Most of the survivors are trapped in some dangerous zones.”

Han Xiang nodded, happy to hear that. However, she was regretful that not all of them were dead.

Tiangu frowned and said, “So there are still some survivors? They were almost fully wiped out during the previous epoch. Why are there still survivors around?”

Talisman King sighed and said, “There are too few of them left to be effectively hunted down. They kept hiding everywhere like rats. It’s not easy to find them. The survivors are mostly split into several groups, scattered everywhere. Even so, we have managed to wipe out a majority of them. Only a small number are left. But you should understand that at this point, the various races are starting to feel comfortable enough to start bickering among themselves again. With the remaining humans hiding in dangerous zones, no race is willing to bear the cost of hunting them down.”

Tiangu snorted and said, “The divines and devils…hmph!”

“They are not the only ones to blame.” Talisman King shook his head and said, “No matter what, humanity once ruled the Myriad Realms. Some of the old fellows around are likely still supportive of them. Some must have been helping them in secret. It’s hard for us to determine who these people are, but it’s fine. Humanity and its allies will not survive this epoch. Even prior to this, I was already suspicious of the iron devourers. Some of the old fellows in the Upper Realm have been in denial about this, or perhaps they are simply wary of these ancient races. The humans would have been fully wiped out long ago otherwise.”

Tiangu said, “I forgot to ask this earlier. It has been so many years. Have those masterless daos been captured yet?”

“No.” Talisman King shook his head and said, “But Immortal Battle Marquis managed to detect these daos. He has been fighting over them against the Bloodbreak Marquis of the devils.”

Tiangu frowned and said, “Immortal Battle Marquis walks a unique dao instead of a common immortal dao. Why is he wasting his time on this instead of learning more about his own dao? What a waste of time.” “What about the Sacred Source Marquis? Why isn’t he fighting for these daos? In the past, I warned him about the saturation of the immortal emperor dao. There are too many Daofuses on this dao. I told him to make way and look for a different dao. But I can still sense him on this dao. What has he been doing?”

Talisman King answered awkwardly, “He’s in seclusion.”

“Seclusion?” Tiangu sneered, “What is he trying to do? Compete against me over the immortal emperor dao? He sure is ambitious. But he should try looking himself in the mirror. After the connection with the Upper Realm is restored, he shall serve as the vanguard against humanity. Perhaps he would die and save me the trouble of dealing with him. If not, that should teach him enough to withdraw obediently.”

Talisman King said nothing. It would be too awkward for him to get involved in this quarrel. Tiangu was quite domineering. He wanted the marquis to withdraw from the dao they were both occupying. But how could that happen so easily? Then again, it was true that it wasn’t wise to have too many people share the same dao.

It wasn’t surprising that the Sacred Source Marquis was ignoring Tiangu’s order since the two had been separated from each other. And the immortal emperor dao was too tempting for one to give up easily.

After spending some time grumbling about Sacred Source Marquis, Tiangu said, “We can’t give Su Yu the time to keep growing. We are about ten years from the thousand-year limit.”

He followed with a series of orders, “Han Xiang, take a secret trip to the Fate Realm. Tell Fateless to help grind down the power of laws blocking the connection slowly. Jade King, contact the various ancient races secretly and gather some assembly tokens. Use these tokens to grind down the power of laws blocking the connection as well.”

Jade King nodded. Tiangu continued, “How is the condition of the assembly token I gave you? If it is too badly damaged, spend some time nurturing it before doing anything.”

With an awkward expression, Jade King said softly, “Emperor, I lost that token.”

“Hmm?” Tiangu’s gaze turned cold as he asked, “What did you say?”

“I lost it.” Jade King lowered his head and said, “At the time, that soul devourer tried to kill me. I was forced to detonate two of my bodies to escape. I lost the token alongside my bodies.”

Tiangu stared at him coldly. After a long while, he said, “Trash! Are you incapable of doing anything right? Did it fall in Su Yu’s hands? Or did that dumb soul devourer take hold of it?”

“I’m not sure…but I remember seeing that soul devourer swallowing it.”