Tribulation of Myriad Races

Healing. Copying.

And eventually, Wan Tiansheng reached his limits again. Even more blood spurted out of his mouth. Behind him, Lan Tian continued smiling. The duration his clones could last had dropped.

“Tiansheng, the two of you should leave.”

He said, “I’m serious. Just leave. I said all I have to say. Now, I only want to try this myself. I want to see if I can really complete this. You already did your best. I believe that not a single dao pioneer has ever received the help of two powerful experts before. I am happy with this. I am happy with my life. I lived a crazy life. I lived a glorious life. I am honored to have the Human Emperor and master of human dao open my dao for me. This is enough for me.”

As of that moment, it felt as though he had turned into a normal person. His madness was nowhere to be seen.

Wan Tiansheng smiled. With his blood-soaked robes fluttering around him, he said, “You are curious. But I am curious as well. I also want to know if it is possible to see this dao to completion.”

Behind them, Su Yu soared into the sky before slamming his stone down in front of them. He said, “Enough talking. Let us continue. We are not at the end of the road.”

“I’m worried that…we will go so far that the two of you can’t return anymore.”

Lan Tian sighed. They had gone too far. To the point where the two wouldn’t be able to return without preserving some of their strength.

“I am too willful. Tiansheng, if you wish to stay, so be it. Su Yu, you should return.”

Lan Tian said bitterly, “Tiansheng’s death won’t change the big picture much. But your death…will render all our prior hard work pointless. Everything will fall apart.”

Su Yu must not die here.

Wan Tiansheng said the same thing, “Yes. You should return.”

If Su Yu continued forward, he might not have enough strength to return. And when he lost his way in the River of Time, he might end up dead or trapped in some tributary.

Su Yu snorted and said, “Are you looking down on me?”

He roared, “Manifest!”

Boom!

Inside his sea of willpower, the Book of Time shook. A wave of power erupted and swept out, calming a large stretch of the river. Just by doing so, Su Yu paled. A strand of his hair turned while.

“Time is mine. Cosmos and timespace, heaven and earth. All as one.”

One character after another appeared. Time fell under his control.

Domain and eternity, coming together as cosmos.

The four cardinal directions formed the world. All shall submit.

The Book of Time shook, and more and more of Su Yu’s hair turned while. As of that moment, he felt incomparably powerful. He coldly said, “What are you staring at? Do you think I’m like you? I have plenty of tricks up my sleeve!”

“You…”

Wan Tiansheng frowned and said, “Are you trying to die? Lan Tian is not worth this sacrifice!”

Lan Tian glared at Wan Tiansheng before looking at Su Yu bitterly. He said, “He’s right. I’m not worth this.”

“How foolish.”

Su Yu sneered and said, “Both of you are older than me, but both of you are still stupid. The Upper Realm will open in a few years. What do I need my lifespan for? If I lose, I will die. I won’t survive long enough to become an old fossil. I won’t keep on living with my spine bent. If I lose, I will die. Twenty-five years of living will be enough for me. So what if I die young? How many people have lived a life as extraordinary as mine?”

He was burning his lifespan. What was the big deal about this? He was unbothered. He was still too weak to utilize the Book of Time. Thus, he had to use his very life as the fuel for the book.

It didn’t matter. With his current strength, he could easily live for a hundred thousand years. In fact, many of the old fossils from the ancient past were still alive. He would either die at twenty-five or defeat the myriad races, dominate the Myriad Realms, and slowly regain his lifespan with his absolute power.

Future?

Nobody knew what would happen in the future.

Thus, he only cared about the present. He only lived in the moment. He only knew that Lan Tian’s success would grant humanity another peak Daofuse, or a heavenly king, or even someone stronger.

“Go!”

With a stone in his left hand and an illusory book in his right hand, he roared, “What are you waiting for?”

Wan Tiansheng’s expression changed. Lan Tian sighed. Then, he smiled and said, “Thank…you.”

And thus, he stepped forth again. Gone was the bewitching Lan Tian. Gone was the creepy Lan Tian. Only an unyielding Lan Tian was left. He was filled with nothing but determination. He couldn’t fail. An Emperor was blazing the path ahead for him. An Emperor’s lifespan was being burned as the fuel for his path.

He couldn’t fail. Even the world itself would not forgive him for failing.

With every few steps, Su Yu’s Book of Time would shake, and more white hair would appear on his head.

White robes. White hair.

In Wan Tiansheng’s eyes, Su Yu’s previous childishness was gone. He felt incomparably bitter. This man…would always surpass his expectations.

He could never guess what Su Yu would do next.

Suppression.

Again and again.

The waves of the main branch were suppressed. The fluctuations of the tributaries were suppressed. Everything was suppressed as Su Yu’s aura grew and grew. With his cold expression, he pushed onward, white hair flowing behind him. How many years of his life could this river take?

Would he still live to see his twenty-fifth year? If the answer to that was yes, he would have nothing to fear here. If the answer was no, he would figure something out later.

At that moment, they encountered yet another tributary. At first, Su Yu did not pay that tributary much attention. But suddenly, he saw an indistinct figure in it. There was actually someone so deep in the river!

The person in the tributary also looked shocked.

“No…Su Yu…this is not possible…”

Martial Emperor!

Su Yu’s heart thumped.

He focused on that dao. It was gigantic. The pen dao had a width of roughly five to six thousand meters, and the heavenly desolate beast dao had a width of roughly two to three thousand meters. This dao was larger than the heavenly desolate beast dao.

Martial Emperor was stronger than the heavenly desolate beast. It was at least four thousand meters in width. At the very least, that was how it seemed in Su Yu’s eyes.

This was the strongest dao after the death spirit dao, physical body dao, and pen dao. Not even the five elemental dao was comparable to this. As for Wan Tiansheng’s dao, it was too new to be compared.

“No, it’s not possible for you to come this far…”

Martial Emperor couldn’t believe it. This was his territory!

He roared furiously, “You wish to pass? Dream on!”

Boom!

Suddenly, a massive token appeared. With a rumble, it crushed the projection in the tributary. The Token of Sanctification had appeared. This was Su Yu’s first time using the Token of Sanctification with all his strength. With one use, a crack appeared on it.

Martial Emperor’s projection shattered.

Under Su Yu’s cold gaze, Martial Emperor disappeared.

“You’re too noisy.”

With a cold snort, he slammed his stone onto that tributary. At the same time, he released a burst of power from the Book of Time toward that tributary. The entire tributary started shaking violently as he roared, “How dare you block my path. Martial Emperor, I will kill you for daring to cross me, even if you are free! Do not provoke me!”

How dare Martial Emperor block his path! Su Yu was furious. At the moment, Su Yu was warning Martial Emperor that he was still sealed. He was still not a Master of Law. Su Yu was warning Martial Emperor that he could still damage Martial Emperor’s dao as long as he was willing to pay the price.

And thus, Martial Emperor’s voice faded away.

***

Luminous Domain Mansion.

Martial Emperor’s eyes opened suddenly as he coughed a mouthful of blood, creating a fountain of lava in the first level. He had an unsightly expression, but soon, his expression turned heavy.

What a decisive fellow.

And domineering.

He had merely shouted that threat in surprise yet that fellow had reacted so intensely. He wasn’t even given the time to react.

“Those fellows actually reached that far…”

Martial Emperor couldn’t hide his shock. He was greatly shocked. He also sensed something else. Su Yu…seemed to be burning his lifespan madly. His hair had all turned white. Was he trying to kill himself?

But he also seemed much stronger than before. It almost felt like he was already comparable to a peak Daofuse.

“Betting everything on this one attempt?”

Martial Emperor couldn’t calm himself at that realization. Su Yu was putting everything on the line.

Su Yu. A monstrous genius loved by the heavens. A tyrant of the Myriad Realms. Yet he had thrown his future away and bet everything on this one attempt. Upon defeat, he would die. Upon victory, lifespan would no longer be an issue. He did not care about trying again in the future after losing once.

“Why?”

Martial Emperor muttered to himself. Just why? With Su Yu’s talent, even a defeat wouldn’t be that big of a deal. He could follow Hundred Battle King’s footsteps and hide somewhere before returning in the future.

He only needed hundreds or thousands of years to become a Master of Law. Just what was he thinking?

Martial Emperor sank into confusion. He also found this hard to accept. Why? Because Su Yu was no bug. Su Yu was a supreme genius who had opened the Heaven Gate. These days, Martial Emperor no longer called Su Yu a bug. He would only do so when he lost control of his emotions.

As far as he was concerned, Su Yu was the only individual qualified to contend against him in this era.

“Just what is he pursuing?”

Suddenly, Martial Emperor calmed. He looked both pensive and lost. He didn’t know what Su Yu was pursuing. But…he also didn’t know what he was pursuing. Revenge? Or something else?

“There were three of them. Su Yu was acting as a dao protector for one of them. Lan Tian…the one who had resonated with me in the past. What dao…is he opening?”

Once again, Martial Emperor’s heart thumped. As for Wan Tiansheng, just the fact that he could reach that far was enough to prove that he was also a supreme genius. So many supreme geniuses had emerged in this era.

“Is this…really the era of change?”

Something similar had happened a long time ago, heralding the arrival of the ancient past. Would someone like Culture King appear again in this era? Martial Emperor had complicated feelings about this.

That token of Su Yu had made it harder for him to regain his freedom, but his shock was so great that he no longer felt any anger toward Su Yu. He did not return to the river either.

He was curious as well. He wanted to see just what they were doing.

Madness. Absolute madness.

Going too deeply into the River of Time would result in death.

Su Yu, as a supreme genius, was actually risking himself to act as someone else’s dao protector. Would he be able to face that monstrous talent he was blessed with if he were to die here?