Tribulation of Myriad Races

The white-haired Lan Tian exploded, sending chunks of flesh everywhere around him. Yet another clone died. Behind, Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng followed one step at a time. Both looked incomparably solemn, but neither said or did anything.

Another Lan Tian stepped out of the Heavenly Hunt Index. After taking another step forward, cracks appeared all over his body. He complained pitifully, “This hurts. This is not an easy dao to walk. To walk this path, a river of blood is required. When all life suffers, I suffer. I shall protect all life, opening the dao of all life.”

After taking another step forward, that clone exploded.

Chunks of flesh rained down.

At that moment, Su Yu noticed something. His heart thumped in alarm.

In his urgency, Wan Tiansheng forced his character into Su Yu’s Heaven Gate, inviting a glare from Su Yu.

Why?

Why was everyone so rude today?

Damn it!

Wan Tiansheng’s act of forcefully entering his Heaven Gate made him feel violated.

Moments later, Wan Tiansheng was done replicating a Heaven Gate for himself before withdrawing his character from Su Yu’s Heaven Gate. He ignored Su Yu and focused on Lan Tian. The moment his gaze landed on Lan Tian, he exclaimed, “Madness! He has gone mad!”

He roared, “Lan Tian! Don’t do anything reckless! Are you mad? Do you understand what you’re doing?”

“I understand.”

An enchanting Lan Tian walked out. With a flirtatious smile, she said, “Of course I know, Tiansheng. But…I have always been mad. As I said, the joy of enlightenment is something to die for. You dare not do this. But I dare. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s only death.”

Boom!

The enchanting Lan Tian exploded.

Chunks of flesh fell into the river, dyeing the river red. Another Lan Tian appeared. This was a timid Lan Tian. While stepping forward, the timid Lan Tian called out, “I’m scared. Tiansheng, can you comfort me?”

Wan Tiansheng frowned.

The new Lan Tian was a dainty girl. She looked almost fragile, but she continued stepping forward while saying, “I’m really scared. But when the dao is before me, I can’t give up.”

Wan Tiansheng had a heavy expression.

Boom!

Yet another Lan Tian exploded. With a solemn expression, Su Yu looked down as understanding dawned on him. He finally understood.

A path of blood had finally taken form beneath them. It flowed along the main branch of the river, resisting the incoming waves. Even as the waves attempted to wash it off, it continued to stabilize. It was as though Lan Tian was forcefully branding a crimson path onto the main branch of the river.

Even now, there were still countless Lan Tians flying into the Heavenly Hunt Index. Why were all these Lan Tians gathering inside the Heavenly Hunt Index? Because they were using the Heavenly Hunt Index to hide their intent from the heavens.

Su Yu’s heart thumped. This was indeed an era of lunatics.

Wan Tiansheng, who had opened the human dao to represent the numerous emotions of humanity, was crazy enough. However, he would still survive even if he had failed to open that dao. But Lan Tian was an absolute madman. He was walking a true path of no return.

Su Yu said, “This is too difficult. Unimaginably difficult. Do you know just how long the River of Time is? Do you need to reach the end to complete your dao? Or do you only need to cover enough distance? How is success defined? You might really die here. You are the hardest person to kill in the Myriad Realms, but you might end up killing yourself here.”

A mature female Lan Tian stepped forth and giggled, “Little Bro Su Yu, you don’t understand. I call this soul-searching. My heart is filled with love. I love all life. All life loves me.”

Su Yu was filled with resignation.

Boom!

Yet another Lan Tian exploded, and the path of blood extended further ahead. In such a manner, one Lan Tian after another stepped forth with the Heavenly Hunt Index in hand.

Su Yu followed silently. Wan Tiansheng followed silently as well.

After a while, Wan Tiansheng roared, “I’ll help you! I will open the path for you! Increase your speed. With your current speed, you won’t have enough clones to complete your dao!”

Then, he flew ahead of Lan Tian. With his very body, he braved the waves and stabilized the path ahead.

Behind him, Lan Tian laughed and said, “Tiansheng is still as cute as ever. In that case, I’ll oblige.”

With that, the speed of his progress increased. Previously, each of his clones would explode before taking more than three steps. Now, each clone could take perhaps five or even ten steps before exploding.

Behind them, Su Yu inhaled deeply before taking the stone out. This was a true treasure of suppression. But since he had used it many times before, he felt like he had drained too much of its power.

Next, a token appeared in his other hand. That was his human lord’s token. He said, “Principal Wan, use my human lord’s token. Return when you run out of energy.”

Wan Tiansheng caught the human lord’s token that was tossed his way. Instantly, his aura erupted to further stabilize the path ahead. At this point, they had advanced enough that not even the Heavenly Hunt Index could fully hide what was happening from the River of Time.

More and more massive waves crashed into them. The river was attempting to crush Lan Tian.

At the very front, Wan Tiansheng continued clearing the path for Lan Tian with great difficulty.

Step after step. Clone after clone. The crimson path grew.

***

At the same time.

Everyone looked up. A crimson path had appeared in the sky above the Human Realm. They couldn’t see the River of Time, but they could see the path of blood spreading from the Human Realm. Each time the path grew, the entire world would tremble slightly.

It was growing slowly, but for some reason, it felt fast. Looking at the sight in the sky, the various races started panicking.

Eastrift Valley.

Great Zhou King cursed. Holy shit!

It would seem that this era was not satisfied with only producing Su Yu. It had produced Wan Tiansheng and even Lan Tian as well. Was this an omen? This was similar to Human Emperor’s era, where Human Emperor alone was not enough. Instead, that era had also produced numerous other experts.

Culture King. Martial King. Control King. Radiant King.

“A new era is really coming.”

Great Zhou King muttered to himself.

First year of New Domain Calendar.

But that bloody path…it did not seem like an auspicious omen.

Was Lan Tian pioneering a dao? That path reeked of blood. It felt incredibly dangerous. Could Lan Tian succeed? Just not long ago, they were still talking about whether they should hand Lan Tian the Heavenly Hunt Index. But before they knew it, Lan Tian had snatched it for himself.

What was Su Yu?

Suddenly, Great Zhou King blanked out as he was reminded of a certain individual: Human Emperor.

Everyone said that Su Yu resembled Culture King. What nonsense. As of this moment, he resembled Human Emperor more. That was how the Human Emperor used to behave.

In that era, the likes of Culture King and Martial King terrorized the Myriad Realms. The Four Cardinal Kings were what the myriad races would talk about all the time, but that was because the Human Emperor had maintained a low profile back then. But that did not signify weakness.

How could he be the Human Emperor if he were weak? With his dependable subordinates, who would dare to defy him? He was the main reason humanity had ultimately succeeded in the conquest. He was also the main reason for the ancient court’s fortune to endure for a hundred thousand years.

After a hundred thousand years, the trump cards of the Four Cardinal Kings had rarely appeared. However, the effect of Human Emperor’s efforts could be felt throughout the various epochs.

Su Yu was behaving similarly. First, he helped Wan Tiansheng. Now, he was helping Lan Tian. Prior to that, he had helped Great Xia King and Great Qin King by giving up on the inkstone dao.

Also, the ink dao was with Liu Hong, right? Su Yu was definitely aware of that. And it wouldn’t even be that hard for him to capture Liu Hong if he really wanted to. Where could Liu Hong hide?

Su Yu had always called himself petty, but in Great Zhou King’s opinion, the current Su Yu exuded a unique charm. His breadth of mind was incomparably admirable. The pen dao did not even feel stronger than Lan Tian’s current path. The ink dao was also incredibly unique.

Even the inkstone dao was something Su Yu could have kept and cultivated at a later date. That would grant him a powerful body he could use to dominate the Myriad Realms.

“Breadth of mind, vision…”

Great Zhou King looked up at the sky and muttered to himself. Perhaps this was how Su Yu had attracted so many supporters to his side. At that moment, one human expert after another appeared.

Great Qin King, Great Xia King, Great Ming King…

All of them looked up with solemn expressions.

They didn’t know what was happening, but the crimson path in the sky was too ominous.

***

Immortal Realm.

Tiangu was also looking up from his palace. The crimson path was slightly visible even from within the Immortal Realm.

Tiangu looked incomparably solemn.

“Humans! Su Yu! What are they doing this time?”

His first suspect was Su Yu. Who would be better than him at creating trouble?

The many experts in the palace looked uneasy and nervous. Talisman King said, “Lord, what is that red path in the sky?”

He couldn’t understand.

How did it reach even the Immortal Realm? This was inconceivable.

Tiangu stared at the sky in silence. After a long while, he said, “Red path…perhaps…a dao?”

“A dao?”

Everyone grew doubtful. What manner of dao was this?

Tiangu muttered again, “The humans…is a human pioneering a dao? Is this the case?”

After a while, he sighed and said, “So be it. At present, humanity has reached a certain threshold of growth. They are starting to produce one freak after another. Remain cautious. Humanity will be undefeatable before the Upper Realm opens. Su Yu claimed that he would attack in five years…”

Tiangu laughed and said, “In that case, expect an attack in three, two, or fewer years. He will attack. He is gathering strength for the battle against the Upper Realm. In ten epochs, Su Yu is the human lord with the greatest resemblance to the Human Emperor.”

That was the highest praise Tiangu could give. The ancient Human Emperor. The first person to conquer the Myriad Realms. The one and only person to have done so in two hundred thousand years. The expressions of Talisman King and the others changed.

After a long while, Tiangu sighed again and said, “Daofuse. Talisman King, Han Xiang. Proceed with your advancement.”

Everyone was shocked to hear that.

Tiangu smiled bitterly and said, “Advance, all of you. Do not hold back. Do not worry about me. I don’t even know if I’ll survive until the Upper Realm opens. Immortal emperor dao? It is ultimately not my dao. Hahahaha! How laughable. The freak of humanity is pioneering a dao while I’m obediently following an existing dao here.”

With a self-mocking sneer, he said, “I have fallen behind the times. I have lost my courage due to my age. In my youth, I swept through all my peers. In my youth, I defeated the students of Culture King, prevailed against the descendants of Martial King, delivered a crushing defeat to Radiant King’s son, and trounced the inheritors of Control King. I broke the formation of Devil Pseudo Emperor’s descendant, fought the son of Divine Pseudo Emperor…”