Tribulation of Myriad Races

Since Great Ming King wanted to build eight sets of formations, he was essentially telling Great Qin King and Great Xia King to remove all their limbs before regrowing new ones. The new limbs would definitely be weaker for some time, but they had to do it.

If they wanted to hide in the Chaos Mountain, they needed a way to conceal their connection to the myriad daos. The heavenly kings among them needed the freedom to move around independently. It would be too dangerous for all of them to remain in one location. Thus, mobile formations were needed.

Su Yu did not say anything. This was the only thing they could do now.

He looked at the others and said, ”I can also hide some people in my Mark of Civilization, but not too many as the book might not be able to conceal the auras of so many people. Is anyone interested in hiding in my book?”

It would be fine to hide a small number of people in his book. The problem here was the fact that there were too many people here for him to hide in his book.

Wan Tiansheng smiled, ”I won’t be doing that. Senior Soy Bun and Flatbun can do it. They are sentient daos. Even when they are discovered, you can pretend they are the new daos you’re cultivating. It won’t look too suspicious.”

The soul devourers were all sentient daos. The two could be treated as two characters. Soy Bun was a tier-two Daofuse, only a step away from the level of a heavenly king. Thus, he was actually quite strong.

Soy Bun did not seem to care. He said lazily, ”I can sleep anywhere.”

For him, it didn’t matter since he would mostly be sleeping.

Su Yu smiled and said, ”We’ll see. Just get ready for now. As for your people, April, I think Great Bamboo Marquis needs to stay behind. It is too suspicious for someone at his level to go missing.”

He looked at May and Full Moon and said, ”Lan Tian and I are the only ones capable of keeping our disguise in front of those Venerables. One of you needs to stay behind.”

May said, ”I’ll stay.”

Suddenly, April said, ”I’ll stay, Human Lord. You can switch and disguise yourself as May instead. Fellow Daoist Lan Tian can continue his disguise as Full Moon. I am stronger than May so it is more helpful for me to stay behind.”

Su Yu said, ”But Fellow Daoist April, you will need to become the representative of the iron devourers.”

April smiled, ”It’s fine. May is my son. I can naturally have my son do my job for me when I’m feeling lazy.”

That was already a tradition among the iron devourers.

The son would need to step up when the father was feeling lazy. He continued, ”I can say that I’m not feeling it and send my son to represent me instead. Nobody will suspect anything.”

He much preferred to have his son hide away as it was too dangerous to stay among the myriad races.

Su Yu did not argue further. He looked at the others and said, ”In that case, let’s pay the spatial beasts a visit. They might not have all those spatial tunnels. In that case, we’ll have to pull out of the Upper Realm for now.”

If there were only one or two of them, they could still try hiding from the sweep of the Venerables. But there were too many of them. Those Venerables weren’t blind. In the past, the Venerables had to hold back for various reasons. But with everyone forced to migrate to the Human Mountain, the Venerables no longer had anything to worry about.

Brave Martial General, who had just returned, sighed and said, ”Fortunately, I went to the Line Gorge and collected all my people not long ago. They won’t be able to hide from the coming search.”

”We’re all lucky to have followed Emperor Yu at the right time or the coming search would be a disaster for us.”

The myriad races had never performed a detailed sweep through the Upper Realm. They had mostly left the danger zones alone. If the myriad races had done this earlier, these ancient humans would have died long ago.

Su Yu said, ”It’s all cause and effect. Without our interference, the myriad races would still be disunited. The three major races are only able to do this due to what Control King’s lineage and us did.”

That was true. Without what they did, the myriad races wouldn’t be able to come together so easily. What was happening now was inevitable after what happened.

Brave Martial General nodded. Her face turned solemn as she said, ”I’m worried that some of our old friends are still in the Dao Origin Land. If that’s the case...”

”We can only do what we can, but the heavens will decide their fate.”

That was the only thing Su Yu could say. For now, he had to prioritize the protection of his people. As for the potential humans in the Dao Origin Land, he would only look after them when he had the opportunity to do so.

”Senior April, please make your arrangements for the migration. There is no rush. Just complete it within ten days.”

”Okay.”

April nodded.

Su Yu looked at Great Bamboo Marquis and said, ”Senior Great Bamboo, I’ll need to trouble you for a favor. Please take all my people back.”

Xia Longwu and the others had separated from Su Yu’s main group previously. Now that the myriad races were starting to sweep through the Upper Realm, Su Yu couldn’t even collect them himself. He could only trouble Great Bamboo Marquis for this. ”You don’t need to worry too much about exposure when collecting them. Just make sure you take them all back.”

There was a lot more flexibility for Xia Longwu and the others. They were weak enough that they could easily hide in the Mark of Civilization without a risk of exposure. They weren’t even Daofuses. Their auras were far easier to hide.

Great Bamboo Marquis nodded. When Su Yu looked at Lan Tian, Lan Tian created another clone and said, ”Just follow my clone. They have all been notified of what’s happening. They are all ready to leave.”

”Sure. I’ll be taking my leave now, then.”

Great Bamboo Marquis wasted no time and set off immediately. The Venerables would still be busy with the Human Mountain for a few days. He had to take this chance to wrap things up.

***

Done with his arrangements at Bamboo Mountain, Su Yu set off for the spatial beast territory with a group of people. Meanwhile, the various races were reacting differently to the migration. Some cheered, while some mourned. Not everyone was unwilling to migrate.

That was especially true for the minor races. Some had been shaking in fear due to the recent events. Thus, they were happy for the chance to go under the protection of the major races.

Only the relatively powerful races such as the phoenix, ape, and some other races, were dissatisfied with this arrangement. This forced gathering could easily lose them the initiative since the three major races would hold most of the power.

One could say that these middle-tier races would be the ones to lose the most power from the migration. Nevertheless, the various races had no choice but to obey. They started moving in the direction of the Chaos Mountain after packing up all their things. The great migration was starting.

***

Human Mountain.

Six Venerables were gathered there.

With a roar by Venerable Desolate, the ground started shaking. However, the Human Mountain remained unmoving. Evidently, this was not a mountain one could move easily. After all, this was a mountain several Masters of Laws had joined hands to move here back then.

Nevertheless, this was not the original location of the mountain. Thus, it wasn’t fully connected to the ground below. As the six Venerables applied their strength on the mountain, it trembled slightly before floating into the sky.

As humanity hadn’t been able to complete their work on this mountain, it was not under the protection of any formation. These Venerables wouldn’t have been able to move them otherwise.

”Human Mountain...” Venerable Scrape sighed and said, ”This is merely an incomplete mountain yet it’s taking us so much effort to move. The humans of back then were indeed terrifying.”

The six were carrying the mountain from six different positions with all their strength.

Hearing Venerable Scrape’s voice, Venerable Desolate said, ”Yes, they were strong. How would they have conquered the Myriad Realms otherwise? There were so many Masters of Laws among the various races, but all were forced to submit. They claimed that they were ruling alongside the various races, but that was ultimately a lie. Humanity was the true ruler back then.”

He panted slightly and continued, ”We spent tens of thousands of years as prisoners. The so-called Luminous Domain Mansion was merely a prison for us. Generation after generation, humanity continued its assimilation. With enough time, the myriad races would cease to exist. Only humanity would remain.

”Thankfully, our predecessors had resisted. All for the continuation of our races. We only wanted to survive. How could we allow the humans to erase our roots?”

Not even Heavenly Fate Marquis and March could offer a retort to that. The myriad races weren’t exactly wrong for resisting. Humanity wanted to assimilate everyone, and the myriad races did not want to be erased. Resistance was natural. But from humanity’s perspective, it was also a matter of survival.

The myriad races were too powerful. It was only a matter of time before they set their eyes on humanity. It wasn’t like the three major races had been saints as they had assimilated numerous smaller races throughout the years as well.

”The weak are prey to the strong. This is merely nature at work.”

That was Thunderstorm. He stated the one truth that mattered.

At that, the Venerables laughed.

Exactly. That was nature at work. Times would change, but that singular truth would not change.

They started conversing among themselves while moving the mountain. This was actually a rare chance for them to catch up. In the past, they would spend the majority of their time cultivating in seclusion.

With a smile, Venerable Desolate asked, ”Friends, what do you think about the daos in the Dao Origin Land?”

Venerable Scrape said, ”The daos there are incomplete. They are essentially defective daos. Even the River of Time in the Upper Realm is incomplete. I suspect that the River of Time in the Upper Realm is not the real River of Time. Instead, it is similar to the Celestial River of Death. The daos originating from it will be incomplete, like the daos followed by the heavenly kings of the Death Realm. There is a limit to what one can achieve following these daos.”

Venerable Desolate nodded, ”I agree. The pseudo kings guarding Hundred Battle King had been suppressed and killed instantly during the previous battle. That is enough to show that something is wrong about these daos. I am worried that the chaos race is capable of replicating that feat. After all, we have quite a lot of pseudo kings and Daofuses cultivating these incomplete daos on our side. Things could get quite troublesome.”

They had produced a large amount of Daofuses and pseudo kings in recent years, thanks to the Dao Origin Land. If all these Daofuses and pseudo kings were rendered ineffective, they would be in deep trouble.

Venerable Scrape looked at Heavenly Fate Marquis and asked, ”Fellow Daoist Heavenly Fate, what are your thoughts on this matter?”

Heavenly Fate Marquis said, ”I doubt the cultivators of the new daos can be suppressed so easily. It is not something anyone can do. I believe there was something special about the group that had attacked the Dao Origin Land previously.

”Perhaps that unknown owner of the Heaven Gate had the ability to suppress one’s dao. A regular cultivator can’t even see the myriad daos clearly. How are they supposed to suppress these daos?”

The Venerables looked thoughtful as they listened. Venerable Scrape nodded, ”I did sense someone spying on me prior to the attack. And it is true that only the owner of a Heaven Gate can detect me.”

”Heaven Gate...just owning a Heaven Gate will make someone a monstrous freak.”

Someone asked, ”Is that person really dead?”

At that, everyone looked at Venerable Scrape and Venerable Moon. Venerable Moon answered, ”We can’t say for sure. Someone like that can’t die so easily. We don’t even know if they’re from the chaos race or the Torchbearers.

”But we do need to stay on alert at all times. But since the chaos race was willing to expose themselves just to attack the nether race, I believe the Torchbearers are really ou there. The ones who had attacked the Dao Origin Land might have originated from the Lower Realm.”

He continued, ”They are probably hostile toward each other. This isn’t a bad thing for us. Due to their hostility toward each other, they end up exposing themselves to us. Otherwise, we would still be completely clueless about them.”

He smiled bitterly and said, ”Humanity has endless accumulation. After killing a bunch of them, a new bunch will emerge. It’s like there is no end to them. To be honest, I’m tired. It has been too many years. But at this point, peace between us and humanity is no longer possible.

”Since the chaos lineage feels confident enough to act openly, I believe they are not weak at all. They know we’re moving against them yet they still have the courage to do something major. Their strength is clear for all to see. After a hundred thousand years of accumulation, none of us can say for sure just how strong they really are.”

Hearing that, the emotions of the Venerables turned complicated.