Tribulation of Myriad Races

After a short silence, Su Yu said, “Sure. Whatever makes you happy.”

After a short pause, he continued, “I’ll stop calling you senior. You are unworthy. I am the human lord. This is merely a deal between us. I will address you as Martial Emperor. You’d better watch your manners and address me as the human lord. Emperor Yu is acceptable as well.”

“Emperor Yu?” Martial Emperor laughed and said, “How ambitious. How arrogant. During my era, nobody could call themselves an Emperor without becoming a Master of Law. Why is a mere Sunmoon like you calling yourself an Emperor?”

Su Yu replied nonchalantly, “You’re getting old, Martial Emperor. I am what I call myself. Why should I care about the views of others? I can even call myself the overlord of the Myriad Realms. The number one in existence, or even the Emperor killer. What about it? It’s merely a title. I can’t control what others say, but I can certainly control what I say.”

Martial Emperor blanked out upon hearing that.

Su Yu grinned and continued, “Looks like you’re not strong enough, Martial Emperor. If you’re strong enough, why care about all these things? Martial King wrongly accusing you of slaughtering the masses? What nonsense. You’re missing the point. The point here is that you were weaker than Martial King. If you were stronger than him, you could simply kill him for accusing you before killing his family, killing Culture King, and killing Human Emperor. Who would dare to keep accusing you of slaughtering the masses then?

“I have killed a lot of humans in my rise. But why has nobody accused me of slaughtering the masses? A senior of mine killed a bunch of Eternal descendants. At the time, the strongest humans were all Eternals. And he slaughtered their descendants without a care. Previously, everyone called him the demonic human. But nobody is calling him that anymore.

“Why? Because I’m strong. Those opposed to me are too dead to continue opposing me. Meanwhile, you are still shouting about how Martial King had wrongly accused you. How laughable. Is that the point here? No. The point is that you were weaker than him.”

“…”

Martial Emperor sank into silence. Were Su Yu’s words logical? Yes. The logic was too strong to be argued against. Why was he wrongly accused by Martial King? Because he was too weak to right the wrong. Thus, he could only cry about it. Slaughtering the masses? What a joke.

He was weaker. That was why he could only be guilty of whatever they said. If he were strong enough, he could simply kill Martial King to end the accusation. Who could continue accusing him then?

Martial Emperor sighed and said, “You…perhaps you’re right. You might be weak, but your mind is clear. You are correct. I was weaker. What he accused me of did not matter here.”

The grudge in Martial Emperor’s voice had faded considerably, replaced by melancholy.

Strength.

He might be strong enough to dominate countless people, but he wasn’t the strongest. That was how he had ended up in his current state.

He couldn’t help but imagine what would happen if he were stronger back then. If he was strong enough to defeat Tai Shan before throwing the accusation back at Martial King, what could the others say?

Who could say that he was wrong? Even at his age, it had still taken him so long to understand this point.

“Call me whatever you want, Little Bug.” Martial Emperor said, “I can teach you the circulation route for 715 of the acupoints and apertures. I can also teach you the method to circulate the Heaven Gate. It’s not complicated. Fuse all your acupoints and apertures and take them into the Heaven Gate. When all becomes one, the Grand Cycle Method will thus be completed.

“You were right. With the circulation method of 715 acupoints and apertures, you only require time to get the complete method. The full method was something created after countless sacrifices. Countless experts had died perfecting this method.”

Su Yu laughed and asked, “Are you not going to teach me about the final five acupoints and apertures if I do survive this? If I survive, there won’t be a need for me to derive the full method myself.”

“True.” Martial Emperor said, “I have indeed grown old. But it’s pointless to say all this now. First, you need to survive this.”

Next, a clump of willpower rippled over. Countless scenes appeared in Su Yu’s mind. That was the circulation method of acupoints and apertures.

Su Yu raised his brow and said, “This only works after fusing all apertures into one. I still have nine apertures. I need the method to fuse the apertures as well.”

Martial Emperor said, “Fool. Just gain more strength and your apertures will fuse automatically. After fusing them all, take your one acupoint and aperture into the Heaven Gate. With the Heaven Gate as the foundation, the aperture and acupoint will become one. Of course, you need to know the correct circulation route for the 720 acupoints and apertures for this to work. You can also try using a different route. I am quite curious about how a blown-up Heaven Gate looks like as well.”

Su Yu had a thoughtful look. Before long, he was done memorizing the circulation method of 715 acupoints and apertures. Martial Emperor was indeed a man of his word as he had imparted no more and no less than that. Su Yu had to first fuse all his apertures before bringing both his aperture and acupoint into the Heaven Gate. Only then would he be able to figure out the circulation method of the five remaining acupoints and apertures.

Su Yu had once derived a proper circulation route himself. Just the Heaven Connecting Acupoint alone had caused over a hundred internal explosions within his body. He had a feeling that deriving the proper route for 720 acupoints and apertures would be even more “fun” to do.

He smiled. He had successfully obtained the Grand Cycle Method. It might be incomplete, but it didn’t matter. At worst, he would need to suffer a hundred or so internal explosions. According to his calculation, he wouldn’t require more than 120 attemps.

No, 119 attempts. The final attempt would always be correct, after all. Thus, he would only suffer 119 explosions even if his luck was at its worst. But he doubted that he would be so unlucky again. Perhaps he could discover the proper route after thirty attempts. Or maybe he would be lucky enough to get it right in one attempt.

It wouldn’t matter even if Martial Emperor refused to teach him the complete method after the battle. One of his main goals here had finally been completed. And completion was much easier than expected.

Of course, he had to first survive this battle to enjoy this harvest. Nothing would matter anymore after he was dead.

Meanwhile, the ongoing battle had reached a new level of intensity. With a rumble, a gate was sent flying. Some cracks could already be seen on the surface of that gate. With a helpless expression, Heavenbridge Marquis sighed and said, “Perhaps…that was a wrong choice. East Heavenly King, can I still withdraw now?”

“Of course.”

East Heavenly King smiled. He would be more than happy to see that happen.

However, Heavenbridge Marquis’s voice turned even more helpless as he said, “Sure enough, you are lying. When one agrees too easily, one is lying. Sure enough, you still want to kill me.”

“…”

East Heavenly King’s eyes turned frosty. This gate was an idiot. His words did not matter here. He had given up on making these people retreat. He decided to just kill them all. That would be the simplest method of dealing with them. He vowed to kill them even at the risk of greatly injuring himself.

Boom!

Up in the sky, various daos clashed against each other. Even when he was facing five experts alone, East Heavenly King was enjoying the upper hand. Without the dao of the white dog, these people were not his match.

Su Yu watched in silence. After a while, he gnashed his teeth and said, “Fuck! Ignore everything and mess him up! Even if we die, make sure to deal him a heavy injury! I will attack his dao relentlessly. I refuse to believe that the three heavenly kings will let the opportunity slide after discovering that he has been weakened. Make sure that even after killing all of us, he won’t have the courage to meet the other heavenly kings! The other heavenly kings will naturally be happy to see one less competitor on their dao.”

At that, East Heavenly King’s expression changed slightly. He snorted coldly, but he offered no retort. Su Yu was right. He would never meet the other heavenly kings if he was too heavily injured. That would be the same as serving himself to them on a silver platter.

As for his opponents, they gnashed their teeth and started attacking his dao madly. Up in the sky, the daos continued clashing, sending shockwaves all over the seventh level.

The seventh level was already quite flat after Martial Emperor’s previous rampage. Now, it was further flattened, revealing only an oddly shaped protusion on the ground. Su Yu suspected that it was Martial Emperor’s buttocks, but he hurriedly erased the thought from his mind. It was pointless to speculate about something like this.

Perhaps that was his pelvis, right?

Boom!

Empyrean Cloud was the first to be blasted away in this clash of daos. At this point, she was already deathly pale while her dao was shaking endlessly. Her personal dao that was connected to the dao she was fusing with was even more damaged, looking like it was going to break apart soon. Cracks could be seen all over her body as her blood splattered everywhere.

Su Yu crawled over and stopped her from charging forth again. After stopping to gasp for breath, he said, “Stop. Your dao is getting unstable. Take this opportunity to stabilize your dao and try to achieve Daofuse while he is still occupied.”

The pale Empyrean Cloud gritted her teeth indignantly and said, “If I had my weapon, he wouldn’t have been able to injure me so easily!”

She furiously withdrew from the battlefield and started healing herself. But perhaps the battle would be over by the time she was done. Why did that thought cross her mind? Because she had barely started healing when Grandstar was blasted out of his humanoid form by East Heavenly King. He looked to be in an even worse state than Empyrean Cloud. As for his original form, it was a fish-like beast, or to be precise, he had the body of a fish and the head of a toad. In short, he had a rather grotesque appearance.

While he was flying away with numerous cracks on his body, he noted the odd gaze Su Yu was throwing him. He asked helplessly, “What are you looking at? We’re all the same. You’re not much better than me.”

Su Yu wanted to say that he wasn’t looking at Grandstar’s injuries. Rather, he was looking at Grandstar’s real body. The old turtle had never told him about their original forms. He knew that Heavendoom was a gigantic ape while Grandstar was a sort of aquatic beast. What about Empyrean Cloud?

He had never seen Empyrean Cloud’s real body. Even in such a heavily injured state, Empyrean Cloud had yet to reveal her true form.

Considering the situation they were in, Su Yu was oddly cheerful. He laughed and said, “Go join Empyrean Cloud. This way, we might die and awaken together in the Death Realm. In the future, we can keep fighting together!”

Grandstar didn’t know what to say. This guy was way too positive. Excessively so. With their injuries, both Grandstar and Empyrean Cloud could no longer keep fighting. Also on their side was the heavily injured Marquis Lanshan who was as good as a cripple.

As for the three Daofuses still fighting East Heavenly King, they were filled with injuries as well. Naturally, East Heavenly King was no longer unscathed after such a long battle. Even his personal dao, the dao connected to the dao of death spirit, had suffered slight damage. However, he was still doing much better than the rest of them.

His aura was growing unstable, with death qi leaking out of his body uncontrollably. However, he was still able to laugh and say, “This…battle is far easier than expected. Looks like my victory is near.”

Of the three Daofuses still fighting, Heavendoom was still grumpy, with blood soaking his entire body. Tian Yue looked helpless and distressed.

As for Heavenbridge Marquis, his expression couldn’t be seen as he had assumed his original form, a gate. He said, “I’m serious. East Heavenly King, can I leave now? Will you go after me if I leave now?”

East Heavenly King’s eyes turned frosty. Fuck that damn gate! What he said wouldn’t matter as the stupid gate would always interpret his words in a completely unpredictable manner.

Heavenbridge Marquis continued, “If you promise you won’t enter the eighth level, I will leave. I know I’m not your match…”

“Shut up!”

Heavenbridge Marquis asked seriously, “Can you take this seriously? Please give me a proper answer.”

“You…”

East Heavenly King was infuriated. Was this stupid gate trying to enrage him on purpose? In his fury, he decided to make the damn gate his priority target.

There was no reasoning with this stupid gate. He could already see the potential responses of the damn gate. If he answered no, the gate would take the opposite as the answer. If he answered yes, well, that would be the end of the story.

The battle raged on.

At this point, only the four of them were still fighting. Each of them was a Daofuse. Heavendoom had just achieved Daofuse, but he lacked his weapon. Once again, he was sent flying. Above him, the gigantic staff representing his dao was starting to grow unstable.

He was starting to feel helpless as he grumbled, “I haven’t even told those outside about my advancement! Can one of you escape alive and tell everyone that I’m already a Daofuse?”

He was finally a Daofuse! Unfortunately, only the people here were aware of that. If East Heavenly King won and kept silent, nobody would know about this grand accomplishment of his. This was the worst feeling. He had fought numerous times in this epoch, but not one of the fights was enjoyable.