Tribulation of Myriad Races

Death Realm.

Su Yu did not stay long after taking the guardians to Grand Dream City. As for Marquis Minshan’s death, he was still unaware of it. Even if he did find out, he wouldn’t be too bothered.

At most, he would lament that humanity had lost another expert. It wasn’t like he actually knew that person.

Since that person was dead, so be it. It wasn’t that he was cold, but he did not have too good an opinion about those in the Upper Realm. The composition of humans up there was too complicated. There were traitors, fools, disobedient elders, and conceited elders among them.

He was of the opinion that they would drag him down instead of being a help. Reality had proved that he was right. Hundred Battle King was the best example of this. He didn’t even care about the humans in the Upper Realm anymore. With their help, even someone like Hundred Battle King had lost. What hope could he hold for them?

He would rather walk a different path. He only needed them not to bother him. It was fine if they couldn’t help him.

***

At the moment, Su Yu was at the East Heavenly Palace.

Inside, he found the Heavenly Mirror. It was quite similar to Great Ming’s Super Sensory Jade, but it was of a higher tier. Its sole usage was to supervise the nearby death spirits. It even had a detailed record of the number of death sovereigns in the Spirit Suppression Domain.

A useful treasure.

“Why didn’t anyone mention this treasure to me earlier?”

When Su Yu looked at He Tu, he coughed and said sheepishly, “We forgot.”

Su Yu said, “This is a very useful item. It can supervise the newly awakened death spirits. The ancient past had done its best to stabilize its grip over the Death Realm. Anyone at the Eternal Realm and beyond will be shown on this mirror.”

“In war, information is very important.” Su Yu smiled and said, “As long as we have enough information and act on it, we can even achieve the feat of defeating the strong as the weak. This thing is very useful.”

Su Yu turned slightly solemn as he continued, “Many marquises and death sovereigns had died recently. Some marquises are still hiding in the river. More will awaken before long. North Heavenly King and his people have escaped into the Origin Land. Is that the name of that place?”

South Heavenly King, who had just entered the room, said, “The Origin Land is very dangerous. Some super experts are probably sealed there. I heard that back then, there were too many death spirits to be killed. There was no end to them. Ultimately, Martial King and the others sealed the strongest of them in the Origin Land, preventing the river from producing more experts. Only the four heavenly kings were left.”

Su Yu nodded, “I see. I finally understand why you guys have been stuck for so many years. Those in the Origin Land shouldn’t be provoked either. If a few managed to break their seals, things could get very troublesome.”

“But North Heavenly King is there with his people now.” South Heavenly King solemnly said, “This is quite troublesome. If he were to free the sealed experts…”

“It won’t be so easy.” Su Yu smiled and said, “And if it were to happen, we would have to give up on the Death Realm. You guys could hide in the world of the living temporarily. Things would be fine so long as you avoided releasing a large amount of death qi or conducting a massive slaughter. We only needed to block the death tunnels. It wouldn’t be easy for them to charge out either.”

After a short pause, Su Yu said, “Deploy some death sovereigns to the Origin Land as scouts. Deploy some people to watch over the river as well.”

Su Yu continued, “The barrier between the Death Realm and Celestial Chasm Realm is quite thin. Some of the weaker beings might be able to pass through it. Send some people there as well. Have a marquis lead the team there. Kill anyone entering through the Celestial Chasm Realm.

“Patrol the four heavenly domains as a precaution against any new death tunnels the myriad races might open. We can’t let them know about everything that has happened here.”

The death spirits noted his orders and left to carry them out.

Su Yu said, “Next, I have several tasks to carry out. I will pinpoint the spots under the various major realms and kill them through ambush.”

He looked at South Heavenly King and Marquis Lanshan before saying, “I aim to complete these battles as rapidly as possible. South Heavenly King and Marquis Lanshan, will you be subjected to the suppressive force when you enter a minor realm?”

“No.”

The dao of the death spirits was too powerful for the daos of these realms to suppress.

Su Yu nodded, “Good. We will try to capture our targets alive, but the difficulty will also be higher. Killing them will trigger heavenly phenomena that will instantly expose what we’re doing.

“We also need to seal the minor realms and prevent our targets from self-detonation. This is very difficult. Any carelessness might expose our entire plan.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t already have the strength to defeat the myriad races in the Myriad Realms. But he did not want to deal with the trouble of facing the desperation of the myriad races. Thus, he aimed to destroy them in secret. It would be perfect if he could achieve victory while hiding it from the Upper Realm.

Su Yu much preferred to attack the Upper Realm instead of waiting for them to come.

After a short silence, South Heavenly King said, “There is a small suppression on us whenever we enter the world of the living. Living beings are also more flexible than us in combat. The suppression on us isn’t big, but your requirements are too hard to fulfil even when we’re targeting weaker opponents.”

Su Yu nodded and asked, “What is your suggestion, South Heavenly King?”

“Creating a death tunnel into a realm will take some time. This is enough for a Daofuse to flee or send a message out.”

South Heavenly King said, “Also, our death spirit dao is entirely different from the daos of the River of Time. We can suppress their daos by being stronger, but sealing their daos will be too hard due to the difference in our daos. We need a living being to do that instead.”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded in agreement. When the very essence of their daos differ, sealing would be too hard. He couldn’t rely only on death spirits. He needed at least one living expert. He could do it as well, but it was too risky to do it alone. He needed help.

At that thought, he said, “General Grand Dream?”

“A human will be much better. General Grand Dream is not immune to the suppressive force of the various realms.”

This was headache-inducing. Great Zhou King was a good candidate with his numerous abilities. But he also needed someone to stay outside these realms and keep the realms sealed.

Great Ming King?

Could Great Ming King do it?

The current humanity was still lacking. Not lacking in experts, but lacking in a crafty and devious individual who was also multi-talented.

Great Zhou King was one such person.

“Principal Wan…”

Suddenly, a different name came to Su Yu. Principal Wan was also a great schemer, even if some of his schemes hadn’t worked out well in the past. Ultimately, he was someone who had gone against the flow and succeeded.

Very few had achieved the same over the years.

Wan Tiansheng…

Even now, Su Yu had no idea what dao Old Wan was pursuing. But he knew that Old Wan would either open a new dao or fuse with an existing dao. One needed to consider the fact that, unlike Su Yu, Old Wan did not have the ability to see the various daos with his eyes. Thus, his achievements were quite impressive.

There was no need to consider Lan Tian for this task as he was more suited for stealth operations instead of hard battles.

“Perhaps Old Wan has already opened a dao or initiated his dao fusion. And his dao won’t be weak. He won’t be capable of matching sixth-degree Eternals back then otherwise. Perhaps he can gain a lot from a trip to the River of Time.”

As far as Su Yu was concerned, Wan Tiansheng was the actual freak. He was even more freakish than the famed Ye Batian.

Back during Su Yu’s first visit to an ancient city, the commander guarding the gates had informed him that Ye Batian wasn’t the most impressive. Rather, Wan Tiansheng was the most talented.

Young and talented. After failing to affirm his dao through the Three Body Method, he had abandoned the method and walked a unique path. He was also decisive enough to kill so many descendants of Invincibles with no hesitation.

Su Yu had completely forgotten about Old Wan. But getting Old Wan’s help was indeed better than trying alone. With Old Wan around, he no longer needed to rely on Great Zhou King for everything.

At that thought, Su Yu said, “I will think of a way to solve these issues. In that case, I’ll need to take a trip to the world of the living. I can also take this chance to lure those people out and test the reaction of the myriad races. I can also work on sending the markers into these realms.

“I’ll be troubling all of you to watch over the Death Realm. We might have the four heavenly domains, but we know how things actually are. The Origin Land is filled with dangers, and the Celestial River of Time is filled with trouble.”

Su Yu inhaled deeply and said, “He Tu, you will look for Xia Chen. Call Liu Hong back as well. Get him to stay in the East Heavenly Domain and keep an eye on things. He is treacherous and sly enough for the job. After initiating his fusion with the ink dao, it’s time he does some work.”

Then, he took an item out. The Culture Tomb.

The Culture Tomb without the ↑ character. Su Yu said, “Use this and sense the awakened death spirits with it. Use it on the older death spirits as well. Note down every single one with a reaction to this thing.”

He Tu accepted the Culture Tomb and looked at Su Yu doubtfully.

“This was made by Culture King’s students.”

That instantly caught South Heavenly King’s attention. Su Yu said, “Back then, Culture King accepted some students. Unfortunately, they were unable to inherit the pen dao. Thus, they made this and inserted their character techniques into it. A pity. Some of them weren’t too strong, but they were very good at researching characters and daos.”

Su Yu decided to give them his praise. They were quite impressive indeed. What they did with their character techniques was the same as splitting daos into smaller parts.

Su Yu did not know how strong they were, but he knew that their research was similar in nature with Bai Feng’s disassembly method. They had split the ninety-nine characters of Culture King’s character technique, allowing the future generation to slowly learn it.

If they could do so with such a difficult dao like the pen dao, what about the other daos? Could they split the other daos and pass them on in the form of characters? If they could, it would be an impressive achievement.

Su Yu had a feeling they could do it. If they could do it with even the pen dao, they should be able to do it with different daos. These students might not be good at combat, but they were excellent researchers.

Su Yu was planning to resurrect all of them and have them help him when he worked on recreating the myriad daos in the future. Yes. That was his ambition. He did not have too many researchers to use.

In fact, he had not bothered to help increase the strength of Bai Feng and the others because he wanted to have them focus on research. Smart people were still needed.

Fools were unworthy of running the world.

He needed both the smart and the stupid.

Without the research of so many people, he wouldn’t have been able to reach his current height. His 720 acupoints and apertures, and his Heaven Gate, all originated from the research of countless people.

The study of cultivation methods, the search for acupoints and apertures, and the analysis of combat techniques. All these had helped him massively in the beginning.

South Heavenly King said nothing. Marquis Lanshan recalled something and said, “Culture King’s students…I know a bit about them. Are you talking about those old, rigid, and pedantic scholars? They were very annoying. Some were even older than Culture King yet they were so weak. Could they even awaken as death spirits after dying?”

Su Yu chuckled. Annoying? Well, he supposed a dim person would naturally find a researcher annoying. The researcher would probably view her with annoyance and disdain as well.

Suddenly, he recalled that Heavendoom was quite close to them. How did he enter their circle?

He asked, “Were there a lot of them back then?”

“Not really. About seventy or eighty.”

Su Yu frowned. “Only seventy or eighty? But there are so many character techniques in the Culture Tomb. Each of them must have contributed over a hundred character techniques.”