Tribulation of Myriad Races

Suddenly, Su Yu looked into the distance and frowned as he said, “This isn’t good. The fluctuations are getting too conspicuous. Trouble might be coming.”

He glanced at the stunned Stable Army Marquis and said, “Lan Tian, take him and leave. Stable Army Marquis, just stop for now.”

With a wave of his hand, several figures appeared. When Stable Army Marquis saw those figures, he blanked out. What?

“Mo Shenji?”

He knew one of them. A devil of the previous epoch. While he was in shock, Su Yu released a palm strike. With a rumble, the devil was turned into mincemeat, followed by the three Eternals around him. Then, Su Yu consumed all four corpses with the devil page.

Boom!

Only then did some crimson clouds appear in the sky. This was no heavenly tribulation. Rather, it was the phenomena that had appeared due to the deaths of experts.

Su Yu had killed them instantly.

Three Daofuses and Eternals had been killed before being devoured. Nothing was left behind. With them devoured cleanly, there was no need to worry about anything they might have on them that could expose Su Yu’s group.

After all, he had just arrived in the Upper Realm. He had to keep a low profile. These were the experts they had encountered outside the valley earlier. There was no need to keep them as hostages. He only needed to kill them. What was the point of killing them? To keep a low profile, obviously.

Then, Su Yu stuffed all the captured humans into his book. It would be cramped with so many of them, but there was enough space.

“Burn!”

Raging flames rose and spread everywhere. The flames spread across the valley, turning some of the flowers into ashes. Great Zhou King and Lan Tian joined, burning all the surrounding flowers as well.

Then, Great Ming King appeared. While withdrawing his formation, he said, “We need to leave. Someone sensed something happening here.”

“There is no rush. Scrub this place clean and leave no aura behind.”

Su Yu did not rush as they might make mistakes when they were in too much of a rush. Before long, they were done scrubbing their traces clean. The valley of flowers had been turned into a valley of death.

That was not all. With a toying smile, Great Zhou King said, “Old Zhu, leave your formation behind. Let’s give the guests something fun to work with. Just hide the aura of your formation.”

Great Ming King grimaced and said, “Formations are expensive…”

“Cut the crap!”

“Fine.”

Helpless, Great Ming King could only do as told. Seeing that, Su Yu smiled and compressed more power inside the formation.

To the side, the grinning Lan Tian said, “I’ll leave a clone behind as well and give them a nice, beautiful explosion when possible.”

Then, he transformed into a charred and damaged flower. The flower spoke cheerfully, “They will definitely search this place. The sole flower remaining will definitely attract their attention. Hehehehe…lay down the formation around me!”

They started working in silence. Before long, the formation was compressed into a ball. The flower swallowed it before burying itself in the ground. He said, “How’s my concealment? I need to create some obstacles for them to discover me for this to look more realistic…”

Su Yu laughed and nodded. Lan Tian was quite good at this. If the flower were too conspicuous, it would look suspicious. It would look a lot less suspicious if it were harder to find.

Done with all that, Su Yu grabbed Stable Army Marquis and said, “Don’t resist. Don’t move. Or I’ll execute you as a traitor.”

Stable Army Marquis was fully sealed, but he could still sense and see what was happening around him. He was greatly shocked, but he was also observing them with an inscrutable expression.

Four powerhouses.

Attacking him right after arriving…before killing a devil Daofuse. And now, they were laying down a trap.

All four were humans.

Emperor Yu…Culture King…Lan Tian…

Stable Army Marquis didn’t know what to feel anymore. He was excited, confused, and terrified at the same time.

Could anyone give him an answer?

Were these humans?

But why would they attack him if they weren’t humans?

But they were clearly humans. He was only unsure about that weird fellow with the strength of a heavenly king.

Confusion. Unease. And a tiny bit of hope.

He did not dare to ask anything. He only waited silently. At the very least, he did not see any intention to kill him.

“Let’s go.”

With one order from Su Yu, they all gathered up again. Great Zhou King activated his character, causing the space around them to warp. At the same time, Su Yu suppressed the fluctuations around them with his stone. With a smile, all four vanished.

In the blink of an eye, they reappeared far away. The stone in Su Yu’s hand shook, erasing the spatial fluctuations that had appeared due to their teleportation. Before long, everything calmed down.

With this, nobody would be able to trace their whereabouts anymore. Then again, this was understandable. This was a group of the best humanity had to offer. They weren’t individuals one could trace easily.

***

Not long after their departure, several auras approached the valley. Before long, around eight figures appeared.

At that point, the entire valley was already scorched black.

One of them, an expert with a powerful aura, frowned and said furiously, “Damn it! Mo Shenji is dead! I ordered him to not alert the targets. He only needed to keep watch. Damn it!”

He was certain that Mo Shenji had somehow alerted Stable Army Marquis.

Damn it!

That useless bastard! Since Stable Army Marquis had successfully escaped, he wouldn’t be so easy to find again.

“Give chase!”

“He has quite a lot of people with him. Even after killing Mo Shenji, he won’t be able to go far so soon. He must have suffered some injuries from the battle as well.”

The leader of the group looked furious.

Damn it!

He tried his best to scan the area, but he couldn’t find anything. Did they escape cleanly so soon?

Were they hiding nearby?

As he continued his search, the look in his eyes changed. Something seemed to be alive underground.

With a palm strike, he parted the ground, revealing a damaged flower.

The eyes of the expert flickered. There was one flower left! Perhaps he could rewind time through this flower and determine where the humans were!

He hurriedly landed on the ground. The others followed as well. After all, they had no idea which direction Stable Army Marquis had fled to. They couldn’t even give chase if they wanted to. They had to find out more to carry out their pursuit.

“Lord, this flower is still alive. Perhaps we can figure out the direction Stable Army Marquis had fled to through it.”

“Do you think I’m too stupid to think of the same?”

What stupid nonsense was this underling saying? What was the point of saying something like this now? As he grabbed the flower, a pair of helpless and confused eyes appeared on the flower.

The leader didn’t bother to question the flower. It was a waste of time. He only needed something alive. With that, the power of laws rippled as he started rewinding time.

With a living being left, it didn’t matter even if their surroundings were scrubbed clean. It was likely that Stable Army Marquis had been fleeing in a rush. Thus, he hadn’t been able to completely remove everything.

Time started turning back.

Just then, the heart of the leader was gripped by a sense of crisis. His expression changed as he hurriedly tore space apart to flee.

Boom!

A deafening rumble rang out as an explosion engulfed the entire valley.

Apart from the leader, who was a Daofuse, there were two Daofuses and five Eternals in the group. With that explosion, all five Eternals were blasted into nothingness. Even their daos shattered.

The body of a Daofuse crumbled apart. With a roar, another body appeared. This was a cultivator of the Three Body Method. Clearly, this was an expert who had emerged after the ancient past. Thanks to that, he was able to survive the explosion.

The explosion was extremely powerful, but it didn’t last long. By the time his third body appeared due to the destruction of his second body, the explosion had ended. He stood there with a deathly pale complexion.

Boundless fear could be seen in his eyes. He was so close to death!

The other Daofuse was not as lucky. That Daofuse did not cultivate the Three Body Method. Instead, he cultivated the Weapon Fusion Method. He was much stronger, but he had died directly from the explosion.

Sure enough, luck was more important than strength at times. In such a situation, the Three Body Method was much better for survival than the Weapon Fusion Method.

When everything calmed, a rift appeared in space and the leader of the group walked out. With an unsightly expression, he roared, “Who?”

This was not the work of Stable Army Marquis.

Stable Army Marquis was incapable of producing such a powerful explosion. Furthermore, this was a trap capable of hiding from his crisis sense until the very end. It must be the work of a super powerhouse.

Someone far stronger than him.

This might look like a simple explosion, but it involved a lot of tricks. The ability of concealment. The ability to compress the power of laws. The ability to weaken one’s crisis sense. Even that flower was suspicious.

This was too intricate a setup for a brute like Stable Army Marquis.

The leader was both furious and alarmed.

He had arrived with two Daofuses and five Eternals. Including Mo Shenji’s group, they had lost two Daofuses and eight Eternals.

This was a heavy loss. Furthermore, one of their Daofuses had also lost two tri-life bodies. He was furious. But he was also fearful. He wasn’t even thinking of giving chase anymore. These opponents were far stronger than he could handle.

He might be near a tier-two Daofuse in strength, but he knew that these opponents were stronger than him. They wouldn’t have been able to conceal the trap from him otherwise. It couldn’t be Stable Army Marquis.

Instead of giving chase, he waved his hand and released a large golden fireworks in the sky. Before long, numerous powerful gusts of willpower arrived from afar. In truth, the deaths of two Daofuses and that massive explosion had attracted numerous gazes.

“Bajue, what happened?”

A willpower face appeared and looked down with surprise. This was clearly the Brightmoon Flower Valley, a possible hiding place of Stable Army Marquis. There were rumors that Bajue was preparing an attack on this place. And from how things were looking, did a mishap happen?

The face did not belong to a devil while Bajue was a devil. Thus, the newcomer did not feel much about the deaths of two devil Daofuses. In a way, they were also competitors. They were more curious about the loss Bajue had sustained.

Bajue was an ancient marquis as well. He was an extremely powerful being. Could a group comprised of Bajue himself and several other Daofuses fall to Stable Army Marquis? And they had even allowed that fellow to escape? Was that even possible?

More and more faces appeared in the sky. Bajue stared at them coldly. After a while, he gnashed his teeth and said, “Something happened. It wasn’t Stable Army Marquis. Some powerful experts are helping him in secret. Mo Shenji was killed in advance. Then, they buried a large amount of ompressed power of laws in the area before detonating it.”

Understanding dawned on the many faces in the sky. But soon, their expressions turned odd. In short, this guy had fallen for a trap. How…unlucky.

Losing two Daofuses at once was a major loss to any race. Next, a massive face appeared. The furious face asked, “Damn you, Bajue! Where is Stable Army Marquis?”

Bajue was furious at being addressed that way, but he swallowed his anger and answered, “Bloodbreak Marquis, he was gone by the time I arrived.”

“Trash.”

Bloodbreak Marquis.

The other faces in the sky hurriedly moved further away from that face.

That was a being on the same level of the Immortal Battle Marquis. The two had fought each other for many years for a masterless dao. Not long ago, Immortal Battle Marquis had won. Thus, this guy was currently in a bad mood.

And now, the devils had lost two Daofuses at once. It was likely that this guy would lose his temper.