Tribulation of Myriad Races

Only Great Zhou King was left by Su Yu’s side.

Great Zhou King looked at Su Yu and asked, “What about us?”

Su Yu smiled, “We’ll be meeting some people.”

“Meeting some people?”

“Yes. The human powerhouses up here.” Su Yu said, “I hope I can persuade them. If not, we’ll have to capture all of them. If not even capturing them is possible, we will force them to expose themselves and distract the myriad races from us.”

Great Zhou King gasped and said, “Isn’t that…too ruthless?”

Su Yu shook his head, “Not at all. I will naturally be kind to those willing to communicate with me. Those who are too stubborn won’t be spared lest they start ruining my plans. This is why I sent Stable Army Marquis out on a different mission. I believe you’re smart enough to see the need for this, Great Zhou King.”

Su Yu sighed and continued, “I’m not interested in wiping out all the Upper Realm humans. I’m also not interested in recruiting all of them. But they are too meddlesome. They keep trying to save Hundred Battle King. They believe this isn’t a bad thing to do, but that will mess with my arrangement.

“After our attack against the dragons, they seemed to have grown even more enthusiastic about this. All of them are dreaming of rushing into the Dao Origin Land to free Hundred Battle King. I don’t want to have these idiots running around attracting the myriad race experts to the Dao Origin Land before I can even do anything there.”

Su Yu sighed again.

Great Zhou King had a look of resignation as he said, “They don’t know about us. It’s not like they’re deliberately making things difficult for us.”

“I know.” Su Yu nodded, “Their cluelessness is what’s troublesome to handle. Therefore, we need to handle this. Otherwise, the same trouble will keep bothering us.”

“But they aren’t weak.” Great Zhou King said, “The two of us aren’t enough. They are all hiding in the various danger zones. Even the myriad races can’t take them down easily. I doubt we can accomplish that easily either.”

“Excluding Shadow Marquis, we have South Suppression Marquis, Cloud Water Marquis, Cloud Fire Marquis, and Brave Martial General out there.” Su Yu said, “Let’s meet this Brave Martial General first. This should be the weakest among them, right? We need to deal with all of them within seven days. After that, we’ll need to focus on the myriad races.”

Great Zhou King sank into thought. It was very likely that Su Yu would attack the Dao Origin Land. That was extremely risky. The moment they made a mistake…

Just then, Su Yu said, “Don’t worry. Don’t you remember that I still have an expert from Control King’s lineage in my hand? We can put her to use when it matters. We can use her to frame them or we can even use her as a human bomb. She is very useful.”

Great Zhou King’s heart thumped. He said, “But the moment you kill her, Control King lineage’s will know that someone from the Lower Realm has entered the Upper Realm.”

Su Yu nodded, “So what?”

He continued, “Does that change the fact that she is one of them?”

While playing with a dark jade in his hand, Su Yu said, “If they find out, so be it. I wonder if I can lure any experts over by crushing this jade. If I can, I’ll be able to further convince the myriad races that they are the culprits for everything.”

With a toying tone, Su Yu said, “What do you think the myriad races will believe when they see an unknown heavenly king? Do you think they will forget about it? No, they will try even harder to investigate her origin. Sure, Control King’s lineage can come out to claim that she came from the Lower Realm. But so what?”

That was a heavenly king. Not an insignificant weakling. The death of such an expert would definitely alarm the myriad races. Of course, Su Yu had yet to come up with a proper plan.

As he walked, he said, “We will definitely make good use of her. Her identity is simply too useful.”

Great Zhou King nodded.

That was true. West Royal Consort was indeed very useful. She was a real member of Control King’s lineage, and she was an expert at the level of a heavenly king.

“How can she not participate in an attempt to free Hundred Battle King?”

Su Yu laughed and said, “We can take this chance to investigate both Hundred Battle King and the Dao Origin Land. Also…”

Su Yu’s voice turned solemn as he added, “There might be a path to the Lower Realm in the Dao Origin Land.”

“Another entrance?”

“No. The River of Time.” Su Yu explained, “I suspect there is an opening to the River of Time there. But that opening is definitely very far away from the Lower Realm. I’m still unsure about its exact location. I doubt someone at the level of a heavenly king can return to the Lower Realm. Someone would have tried long ago otherwise. But I have the Heaven Gate. Perhaps I can seek a path back to the Lower Realm by first looking for my pen dao from the stretch of the River of Time connected to the Upper Realm. If that’s possible, we will gain the ability to freely enter and leave the Dao Origin Land. That will be a massive advantage for us.”

“Unfortunately, I have burned too much of my lifespan. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind exploring the river for a bit. I can find my way through the pen dao. My comprehension of the dao has also grown recently. Even if I can’t find a way back to the Lower Realm, I can also take this chance to further grow in strength.”

“Congratulations, Emperor Yu.”

Great Zhou King had complicated feelings. This fellow was going to grow even more. This was a true monster.

Su Yu waved his hand and said, “Let’s go and try to meet Brave Martial General. I heard this is a woman. Women are very hard to deal with, especially one that is over a hundred thousand years old.”

Great Zhou King was left speechless.

“Do you know her?”

Great Zhou King nodded, “Yes. I met her several times in the past.”

“Do you know if she likes anything in particular?”

“The things she likes?”

Great Zhou King shook his head. He had no idea.

Su Yu asked again, “Who did she serve under previously?”

“Radiant King.”

“Did she admire Culture King?”

“I…don’t know. But a majority of the women back then were admirers of Culture King.”

Su Yu sank into thought. Recalling something, Great Zhou King said with an odd expression, “Cough, cough. Are you thinking of…uhm…that’s not appropriate, right?”

Su Yu smiled and asked, “What do you think I’m trying to do?”

“Seduction?”

Even if that was an admirer of Culture King, it wouldn’t be proper to do this, right? That wasn’t nice.

Su Yu sneered and said, “Do I look like someone who will stoop that low?”

“Uhm…are you going to call her your martial mother?”

Great Zhou King gasped and said, “That’s really inappropriate. It’s fine for you to do it with South Heavenly King alone. But if you keep doing this…when Culture King returns..uhm…you might…”

That wouldn’t be wise even if Culture King was currently missing. How could he find Culture King a bunch of dao companions while Culture King was away?

“No, I won’t do that. Brave Martial General is not worth such a price.” Su Yu said, “Anything is doable as long as it’s worth it. South Heavenly King is strong enough. She is also important enough in the Death Realm. She is worth that trick. As for Brave Martial General, she’s not valuable enough.”

He was being brutally honest.

Su Yu said, “Why would I get myself so many martial mothers for no reason?”

“South Heavenly King can’t enter the world of the living. I don’t mind granting someone like that some additional honors. But strictly speaking, Brave Martial General is someone from Hundred Battle King’s faction. When I honor her too much, others might take it seriously and start seeing her as Culture King’s dao companion. At that time, can I still act against her and Hundred Battle King without being viewed as ungrateful? After all, I am the successor of Culture King.”

Great Zhou King sank into silence.

Su Yu was incredibly meticulous in everything he planned. Even a mere title like martial mother would only be used after countless considerations. It would seem like he had worried over nothing.

The two continued flying toward the Line Gorge, which was Brave Martial General’s hiding place. That was also a danger zone in the south. In fact, Cloud Water Marquis was the sole human expert not based in the south.

Heavenly Hole Range, Divine Fire Mountain, and Line Gorge were all located in the south.

***

Line Gorge.

Surrounded by two towering cliffs, this place was easily guarded and hard to attack. The two cliffs were actually protruding out of the sea. And the sea was inhabited by some demonic beasts.

The only entrance to this gorge was a massive waterfall falling from the sky itself. It was said that back when humanity created the Upper Realm, the sky was pierced through accidentally, resulting in a waterfall of chaos water from the boundless chaos.

The water had been falling for countless years, to the point a sea was created around the two mountains. There was only one entrance into the gorge, but inside the gorge, there were countless passages. The inside of the gorge was akin to a labyrinth. Taking the wrong passage could be fatal.

Brave Martial General had been here for three thousand years. The myriad races knew that, and they had attacked this place several times. However, they had suffered numerous casualties without any success.

Two thousand years ago, a heavenly king personally led an army in an invasion. But before they could even find Brave Martial General, they provoked some of the demonic beasts living inside the gorge and lost several Daofuses.

Since then, the myriad races had stopped attacking the Line Gorge. As for Brave Martial General, she had also barely left the gorge since then. In fact, she had been so inactive for so long that one would think that she was already dead.

***

Before long, Su Yu and Great Zhou King reached the gorge.

The massive waterfall was visible from afar. Upon seeing the waterfall, Great Zhou King looked at Su Yu with an odd expression. Su Yu nodded and said, “Yes, it resembles the time waterfall of Starfall Mountain. But this is not a time waterfall. Rather, it is a chaos waterfall.”

Su Yu laughed and said, “Interesting. Is this place connected to chaos itself?”

He stared at the sky. After a while, he said, “In that case, can we assume that there is another sky beyond the Upper Realm? Chaos?”

Su Yu laughed, “How interesting. We are indeed staying in a layered world. Death Realm. Myriad Realms. Upper Realm. And there might be a realm of chaos beyond the Upper Realm. If we assume that chaos is the original form of all existence, the master of River of Time must have been the one who had created the Myriad Realms.

“After many years, the master of the Celestial River of Death created the Death Realm. And after even more time, humanity created the Upper Realm. When that is done, perhaps another sky can be opened above the Upper Realm. The world is indeed massive and wondrous. The more I look at the world, the smaller I feel.”

Great Zhou King said, “Are you saying that we exist amid chaos? We are only here because an unknown expert had created a world amid the boundless chaos some time in the past. In that case, where did those experts come from?”

Su Yu smiled and said, “Who knows. Perhaps they are the natural life forms of the boundless chaos.”

With a smile, he plucked a drop of water from the waterfall and said, “Are you sure that there is no life in here? For the living beings in this drop of water, this single drop is an entire world. And when the beings inside grow strong enough, they can create a new world. And eventually, they will expand beyond this drop of water, only to realize that the world is far bigger than they can imagine.”

Su Yu said, “Where did the chaos beasts come from? They are essentially the natural life forms of the boundless chaos, right?”

Su Yu sighed and continued, “If Culture King and the others have been facing some unknown enemies all these years, it is likely that these enemies are chaos life forms.”

As he said that, he looked up at the sky again. The more he knew about the world, the smaller he felt. It was as though there would forever be a new sky for him to gaze upon.

With the same mixed feelings, Great Zhou King looked up at the sky as well. Looking at the water falling from the sky, he sighed and said, “Our sky is too low. Too small. Too narrow.”

The sky of people like Culture King was far higher.

Looking at how Su Yu was gazing upon the sky, he couldn’t help but be reminded of people like Human Emperor and Culture King.

Back then, they would gaze upon the sky frequently as well.

The taller one stood, the further one could see.

Su Yu was still weaker than Culture King and the others, but his perspective was constantly growing.

“Emperor Yu, this won’t be an easy place to enter.”

He interrupted Su Yu’s contemplation. This was a very dangerous place for the myriad races. It would also be a dangerous place for them.

Su Yu nodded, “I know. I don’t plan to enter.”