Tribulation of Myriad Races

“How may I assist?”

June was being very courteous. This human lord was simply too impressive. In a short time, he had grown enough to dominate the Myriad Realms. More importantly, he had achieved such a feat with minimal losses. All his allies had reaped the various benefits without any losses. This was a great feeling.

Su Yu smiled and said, “I need you to watch over some people for me. Since you’re abdicating, you will have some free time. Perhaps you can help me with this.”

“Watch over?” June asked curiously, “Who am I watching over?”

Su Yu was personally delivering the prisoner here. Who was important enough for such a treatment?

Su Yu said nothing. Instead, he waved his hand and produced more than ten Eternals and one Daofuse. They had regrown their bodies, but their auras were clearly weak. The Eternals only had the auras of Sunmoons while the Daofuse only had the aura of an Eternal.

The jaws of June and September dropped while their eyes widened.

Holy shit!

Who was that?

Was that the Phoenix Pseudo Emperor?

Weren’t they hiding in their sealed realm? How did all of them get captured? The iron devourers weren’t even aware an attack had happened.

After a long while, June stammered, “P-P-Pho-Phoenix Pseudo Emperor?”

The Phoenix Pseudo Emperor appeared much calmer than before. With a sigh, he said bitterly, “Greetings, Brother June. I will be relying on your care moving forward, Brother.”

Su Yu said, “I need you to watch over them. I have taken over the Phoenix Realm. But I don’t wish to conduct more slaughter. Thus, I gave them a new chance. They will be imprisoned here. Senior June, I’ll be troubling you.”

June blanked out. After a long while, he nodded, “No problem. The suppressive force works against them here. Watching over them won’t be an issue. Should I seal their seas of willpower directly?”

“That won’t be necessary.” Su Yu laughed and said, “Just spend some time and sip some tea with the Phoenix Pseudo Emperor when you have the time. You are all friends. There is no need to treat them that way. But if they do try something funny, kill.”

Su Yu grinned and said, “I have something else to handle so I’ll be taking my leave first…”

After a slight hesitation, Su Yu said, “You should have some assembly tokens, right? I am in need of them. I am willing to trade for them with some treasures…”

Before he could finish, June took two tokens out and said, “Are you talking about them? They are useless with me. Since you need them, take them. There is no need for treasures. September’s advancement is the biggest gift for us.”

Su Yu said, “Thank you, Senior.”

He accepted the tokens without any hesitation. With this, his collection had grown yet again.

Su Yu looked at September and said, “There won’t be any battles in the near future, but you can’t slack. I believe you stand a chance to become a Master of Law.”

Then, Su Yu vanished. With Su Yu gone, the two iron devourers stared at the phoenixes blankly.

After a long while, September flashed an honest smile and said, “Ancestor, looks like the phoenix race has been defeated.”

June nodded, “Looks like apart from the divines, devils, and immortals, the other races will suffer the same fate as well. Emperor Yu is indeed an enlightened and great ruler. He was able to conquer the Fate Realm without much effort.”

He looked at the phoenixes and said, “Everyone, I suppose you will be staying and cultivating at my place for now. Please don’t run around. We are quite barbaric. We don’t want to kill anyone accidentally.”

They wouldn’t be able to do much in the Iron Devourer Realm. The Phoenix Pseudo Emperor only sighed inwardly without saying anything. So be it. She reckoned she wouldn’t be alone. The apes and the others would soon suffer the same fate.

***

Before long, Su Yu was back in the Death Realm.

The Ape Realm was his next target.

***

Ape Realm.

The Ape Pseudo Emperor had yet to recover from his previous injuries. Unlike the Phoenix Pseudo Emperor, he did not gather all the experts of his race for a meeting. However, he had been feeling uneasy lately.

As of this moment, that sense of uneasiness had grown so much that he couldn’t even focus on his recuperation anymore. He was filled with regret. He shouldn’t have picked a side and fight the humans. Not only had he suffered heavy injuries, he had also been forced to seal his realm.

With a sigh, the Ape Pseudo Emperor walked out of his cultivation room. He was unable to stay calm.

An Eternal outside asked, “Ancestor, have you recovered from your injuries.”

“No. How can it be so fast?”

The Ape Pseudo Emperor had fought twice, and he had sustained injuries in both battles. The accumulated injuries couldn’t be healed so easily. He sighed and said, “I’m grateful just being alive. In the two battles, eleven Daofuses died. Just surviving the two battles is already a sign of great luck.”

With yet another sigh, the Ape Pseudo Emperor looked around and asked, “How is everyone doing after the realm is sealed?”

“Things are stable. After all, you’re still around. But a lot of people are worried that the humans will attack the realm.”

The Ape Pseudo Emperor nodded helplessly.

Suddenly, he looked in a certain direction and frowned, “What’s going on over there? I’m sensing some fluctuations. Is someone fighting?”

The Eternal looked in the same direction. It was happening outside the palace. The Eternal shook his head and said, “I’m not sure. Maybe a quarrel erupted because the tense atmosphere is getting to everyone. I’ll take a look.”

The Ape Pseudo Emperor did not say much. He sent his willpower over, curious at what was happening. But before his willpower was even there, his expression changed. Death qi? How could there be death qi in here?

“Ape Pseudo Emperor, don’t speak. Patience is the sole path of salvation.”

The Ape Pseudo Emperor blanked out. Next, Su Yu’s voice rang out, “Trust us. We are here to save the ape race.”

His expression changed rapidly.

“No!”

Just as he shouted that, Su Yu’s stern voice came, “He’s being disobedient. Blast all their bodies apart. Spare no one.”

Boom!

With a rumble, numerous experts emerged. The Ape Pseudo Emperor was similar in strength with the Phoenix Pseudo Emperor. More importantly, he was still suffering from heavy injuries. This time, Su Yu’s group had not emerged right before him. But they weren’t that far away.

With Great Zhou King, someone with impressive control abilities around, this battle went the same as the battle with the Phoenix Pseudo Emperor. Apart from shouting that one “no”, the Ape Pseudo Emperor was completely helpless.

“Patience. Calm. Stay still.”

Great Zhou King shouted again. What was this ape doing? Was the ape insulting him? How did the ape manage to get that one shout out?

Battles erupted all over the Ape Realm, and furious roars filled the air. However, all the battles ended in mere moments. As for Su Yu, he did the same thing. Four powerful experts acted together, instantly taking down the Ape Pseudo Emperor.

***

And next, he repeated what he did.

An Ape Eternal was left behind to supervise the realm. One difference was that some apes were killed during the attack. Fortunately, they were all Sunmoons so it wasn’t a big deal. Earthshaker and Desolate Silence were the guardians stationed here. From the human race, Great Shang King and two others were picked.

As usual, Su Yu split his ape page into countless pieces before fusing them into the daos of the ape race.

***

The experts of the ape race were imprisoned in the Hou Realm.

The Hou Pseudo Emperor was good enough to watch over these apes. Su Yu was only worried that the hous would eat the apes when they were hungry or something. Thus, he kept reminding the hous to not eat them. Toward the end, the Hou Pseudo Emperor was forced to promise he wouldn’t eat them, even though he was crying while making the promise.

He was feeling wronged. The apes were not delicious at all. Only their brains tasted decent, but the Hou Pseudo Emperor wouldn’t dare to do it.

According to Su Yu, the phoenix race was imprisoned in the Iron Devourer Realm while the ape race was imprisoned in the Hou Realm. The kunpeng and dragon races would be defeated soon as well. This was so terrifying that the Hou Pseudo Emperor no longer dared to go against Su Yu’s orders.

***

Third stop, Kunpeng Realm.

This was a race with a smaller number of Eternals. Thus, the battle here felt much easier than the ones at the previous two realms. It ended without much suspense. The Kunpeng Pseudo Emperor was sent to the Spatial Beast Realm for his imprisonment.

With this, Su Yu had conquered three of his four targets. Things had proceeded smoothly. The Dragon Realm remained, and he was a lot more cautious with it.

The Celestial Dragon Marquis was stronger than the three Pseudo Emperors he had captured. Worried that something unexpected would happen, Su Yu took a trip back to the Human Realm and took Wan Tiansheng with him. That was not all. He also gave the old turtle a reminder. He would push the Celestial Dragon Marquis down the death tunnel if they couldn’t defeat him smoothly.

And with all these preparations done, there was nothing else Su Yu could do if he still couldn’t succeed. He could only pray that Great Ming King could cover all the disturbances happening inside the realm.

***

Dragon Realm.

At present, there were only a small number of Eternals left among the dragons. They had lost a lot from the previous battles, including their Pseudo Emperor. And they had also been forced to seal their realm twice.

Excluding the Celestial Dragon Marquis, they were left with about seven or eight Eternals. Celestial Dragon Marquis had sustained a heavy injury from Great Zhou King previously. And like the three Pseudo Emperors, his sense of uneasiness was rising massively today.

At the same time, a young dragon outside the Dragon Palace was also feeling extremely uneasy. He felt as though something was about to go wrong. The young dragon was Lan Tian. He felt like something was going wrong. Why? Because the seal he buried near the Dragon Palace seemed to have been detected.

How troublesome. Would things go wrong? Next, he saw the Celestial Dragon Marquis flying in the direction of the buried seal. Lan Tian gnashed his teeth. He couldn’t allow this to happen!

Su Yu and the others had yet to activate the seal!\ Suddenly, a draconic roar rang out near the Dragon Palace.

“Damn you! Why can’t we ally with the humans?”

Lan Tian roared in fury and sent a Mountainsea dragon flying with a sweep of his tail. He roared again, “I demand a meeting with Celestial Dragon Marquis! Us dragons can cooperate with the humans!

“There are dragons in Great Xia Cultural Research Academy and Great Ming! I volunteer as an envoy to the humans! How many of our people have died? I don’t want to see the destruction of our race! I demand a meeting with the Celestial Dragon Marquis! I wish to negotiate with the humans!”

The Celestial Dragon Marquis frowned. Negotiate? A mere Sunmoon dragon was demanding that they submit to the humans and open negotiations? Several dragon Eternals appeared. All of them looked at the troublemaker, a Sunmoon dragon.

The Sunmoon was actually demanding that they negotiate with the humans. All of them had odd expressions. Negotiations? Surrendering to the humans?

Many of them looked at the Celestial Dragon Marquis, who coldly said, “Negotiations? Nonsense. The dragon race is all-powerful in the Upper Realm. As a mere Sunmoon, you are unqualified to determine the direction of our race.”

Since such a matter had emerged, he was forced to handle it. This might only be one Sunmoon, but there was a danger of such sentiment spreading among the other dragons. In fact, he suspected that some of the Eternals were already wavering.

But killing the Sunmoon wouldn’t solve the problem. This distraction was too much for the Celestial Dragon Marquis to ignore. He had to deal with it immediately to prevent internal disorder from happening.

Lan Tian was relieved to see that the marquis was flying toward him now. He shouted, “Lord Celestial Dragon, every dragon is responsible for the survival of the dragon race! This race does not belong to you alone! Since you’re unwilling to talk about this, I shall awaken the dragon race with my own blood!”

With that, he ignited his body and roared with grief and indignation, “With my blood and body, I awaken my people!”

Noticing that, an Eternal shouted, “Stop this immediately! What nonsense is this? Lord Celestial Dragon will discuss this with everyone! Do not do anything stupid!”

Lan Tian had attracted everyone’s attention. Some were filled with admiration toward his courage. He had burned himself before even being rejected by the Celestial Dragon Marquis. Even the Celestial Dragon Marquis was feeling helpless.

Holy shit!

What was this?

Burning himself just like that?

If this dragon were allowed to die, the other dragons would definitely stir. He did not fear such trouble, but he did not want to see an internal disorder either. Thus, he hurriedly shouted, “Stop it! I am only—”

Boom!

Just then, Su Yu finally activated the seal. The Celestial Dragon Marquis looked over upon sensing something, but Lan Tian shouted again, covering everything with his voice, “You’re lying! I will die! The dragon race loves peace!”

Boom!

And then, he exploded, covering all other sounds in the Dragon Realm. Just as many dragons were still recovering from their shock, several hands emerged and attacked the Celestial Dragon Marquis.

***

The Celestial Dragon Marquis instantly lost his body. Then, his sea of willpower was kicked into the Death Realm before being suppressed by the old turtle. Even then, the other dragons were still in confusion.

They only knew that a Sunmoon had self-detonated.

Having realized what had happened, Su Yu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Lan Tian…how fortunate.

The plan had nearly failed. Lan Tian was truly impressive. He would definitely be able to do even more when he grew stronger. Fortunately, the little disturbance he caused had bought them enough time to arrive.

With this, their conquest of the four realms was over. Everything had proceeded smoothly. Something unexpected happened in the Dragon Realm, but they only lost a clone of Lan Tian. That was all.

Thus, the only casualty Su Yu’s side had suffered for the conquest of four realms was one clone of Lan Tian. With this, one could say that the Lower Realm was almost theirs.

The divines, devils, and immortals were left with no other allies.

And upon handling Heavenly Overseer Marquis and Bountiful Treasure, Su Yu would be able to move on from the Lower Realm temporarily.