Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu frowned and said, ”The human lords of the previous epochs had all died, but the continuation was not severed. Many of the old fellows survived until the ninth epoch. Why didn’t Yue Gang tell them about you?”

Humanity had lost all its human lords during the previous epochs, but its legacy had never been severed. In truth, the human lords were essentially the glorified fighters of humanity. One only needed to be strong to be the human lord. Su Yu believed that these human lords were essentially the puppets of the ancient fossils.

That was evident from how so many human lords had died, yet the likes of Marquis Minshan had survived for a very long time.

At that, Qi Rong sank into silence. After a long while, she said, ”This task of mine is a top secret.”

Su Yu smiled. How mysterious.

Fine.

”Sure. Take a rest. I’ll take you to the current leader of humanity soon.”

Then, he stuffed her back into the Mark of Civilization. He would remain here for now. At the very least, he would remain long enough to see his second bomb detonate.

***

Due to Bonewing Marquis’ self-detonation, the Venerables were much warier than before.

At the same time.

Venerable Moon and Thunderstorm were continuing their search, assisted by their Myriad Power Towers.

Suddenly, one of the towers lit up. Instead of approaching the marked area, Venerable Moon scanned the place from afar before saying, ”Thunderstorm, someone seems to be down there.”

Thunderstorm did the same and scanned the spot from afar. And sure enough, he sensed some law fluctuations deep underground.

His expression turned odd as he said, ”This feels...like the aura of a divine?”

He looked at Venerable Moon. Was that someone from their race?

Venerable Moon was feeling quite doubtful as well. ”Before an expert of my race enters deep slumber, most will notify the race of the location. This way, their descendants will be able to collect their remains if they fail to emerge from the seclusion.”

Was that an expert from his race? If that was the case, this must be an ancient one. Someone from the first three epochs, to be precise.

At that point, humanity was still relatively powerful while the myriad races were weak. Thus, the myriad race experts were the ones hiding away from humanity. After the third epoch, the myriad races had grown powerful enough to not fear humanity that much anymore.

When he focused, he found the aura familiar. Which old fellow was this? This might really be an expert from the divine race.

Before long, someone went searching deep underground. After a while, that person emerged again and said, ”Lord, there is indeed someone down there. But this person is still in deep slumber. It is unknown whether he can regain his consciousness.”

Venerable Moon opted to be careful and sent a weak strand of willpower underground. He had to go really deep to find the buried expert. That was the first expert Su Yu found during his search. At the moment, the eyelids of the expert were trembling. After a short moment, he opened his eyes. Right at that moment, a familiar voice rang out.

”I am Eclipse Moon Marquis. Who is this?”

”Eclipse Moon Marquis?” The buried expert stared in confusion. Slowly, he regained his clarity of mind as he answered weakly, ”I’m Six-Winged.”

Venerable Moon exclaimed in surprise, ”Brother Six-Winged?”

This was the leader of the six-winged divine race. He had been missing for many years. Had he been slumbering here? This expert was a senior to even Venerable Moon. Surprisingly, he wasn’t dead.

This was a pleasant surprise for Venerable Moon. He knew of the hidden divine experts, but he did not know about Six-Winged. Thus, this came as a surprise to him. He hurriedly tore the ground apart, creating a large hole on the ground. Deep below, a tiny stone room could be seen. And inside that room was an indistinct figure.

Seeing that this buried expert was speaking normally, Venerable Moon was relieved. This did not look like someone who had lost his mind. Good. That was good to know. Then again, the golden crow from earlier had not gone mad as well. Just because one had been in deep seclusion in many years did not mean that one would go crazy.

Slowly, the figure in the room stood up before looking up. The figure saw Venerable Moon and Thunderstorm. He was surprised to see a primordial giant working alongside a divine.

As he soared upward, he exhaled and asked, ”How did you find me?”

He took his time reconnecting to his dao. Venerable Moon was here. Some other divine experts were here as well. Things weren’t that dangerous so there was no need for him to rush.

After giving the emerging expert a quick scan, Venerable Moon smiled and said, ”We are sweeping through the Dao Origin Land. This is a pleasant surprise, Brother Six-Winged. Didn’t your dao collapse back then? We all thought you died back then.”

”I was lucky enough to survive.” Six-Winged sighed and said, ”I was forced to survive with a random dao I captured. I had to enter deep seclusion to fuse with this new dao. Unfortunately, I lacked compatibility with this dao. In the blink of an eye, countless years have passed.”

He asked, ”Sweeping through the Dao Origin Land? Has humanity been defeated?”

”You can say so.”

Venerable Moon’s smile grew wider. Six-Winged seemed fine. This was a good thing. From the conversation, Six-Winged seemed to have suffered some dao damage, or to be precise, he had been forced to switch his dao. But it didn’t matter. He was never weak to begin with. That was enough.

Six-Winged remained calm even after arriving beside Venerable Moon. At this point, Venerable Moon had stopped worrying. The scattered experts in their group were slowly gathering behind them as well.

The divines, in particular, were the fastest. One of them exclaimed in joy, ”Brother Six-Winged, do you remember me?”

When Six-Winged looked over, he smiled, ”Divine Frost Marquis. You look good. In fact, you look much better than I.”

He greeted the rest of them with a smile as well. He was pleased to see that the high number of divine experts in the area.

To the side, Thunderstorm curled his lips with envy. The divine race had gained a pseudo king just like that. With an insincere smile, he said, ”Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Moon.”

Venerable Moon smiled. He couldn’t hide his joy as he said, ”This is a good thing for all of us. I believe we will find the slumbering experts of the primordial giant race soon as well. Too many people have entered seclusion in the Dao Origin Land over the past hundred thousand years.”

Six-Winged glanced at Thunderstorm and smiled, not bothering to say much. At the moment, he was still in a weakened state. After a short greeting with the gathered divines, they started updating him on the current situation in the Upper Realm.

He nodded as he took in the information. The more he listened, the wider his smile was. According to what they were telling him, the divine race was one of the victors and was one of the hegemons of the Myriad Realms.

No wonder they dared to do something like sweeping through the Dao Origin Land.

Noticing the unstable aura of Six-Winged, Venerable Moon offered, ”Brother Six-Winged, why don’t you take a short rest to recover first. Reconnecting to your dao right now might be harmful to your body. I can see that your body is in a bad state.”

The previous slumbering experts had to reconnect to their daos immediately for self-protection. But there was no need for Six-Winged to do so.

There were enough divine experts around to ensure his safety. Reconnecting to his dao would result in some damage to his body if done rashly. After all, his body was already in a terrible condition after his prolonged slumber.

Six-Winged smiled and said, ”In that case, I’ll be troubling you for now, Brother Eclipse Moon.”

He welcomed the opportunity to recover more. Unfortunately, he had been in deep slumber for too long. The damage to his body was rather extensive, and he didn’t have any treasures to repair his body rapidly.

Venerable Moon was naturally aware of that. He handed a storage ring over and said, ”Feel free to use the treasures in there, Brother Six-Winged. Let me know if you need more. Things have changed for the divine race. At the very least, we have enough treasures for our own usage. Back then, we had to risk our lives against humanity just to gather some resources. That is no longer the case.”

After scanning the contents of the ring, Six-Winged lamented, ”Times have truly changed. You have also grown tremendously, Brother Eclipse Moon.”

He looked around and added, ”The primordial giant race and our race are not the only ones here. Am I right?”

”Yes. The experts of a few other races are participating in this operation as well.” Venerable Moon laughed and said, ”Just earlier, Venerable Scrape suffered a slight loss. He found Bonewing Marquis during his sweep, but Bonewing Marquis was suffering from cultivation deviation. He self-detonated after waking up. The devils lost two Daofuses to that. Fortunately, I am the one to find you, Brother Six-Winged. We don’t know what they would do if it was the others to discover you.”

Six-Winged laughed as well. Yes. That was indeed quite lucky. If he had been discovered by someone else, even if they wouldn’t kill him openly, he would be forced to reconnect to his dao immediately for self-protection. That would damage his already weak body greatly.

”Cultivation deviation from seclusion...”

Six-Winged shook his head, ”That is incredibly rare.”

He concluded that Bonewing Marquis was a piece of trash.

Yes, a prolonged seclusion might cause one’s dao to stir. But cultivation deviation from something like that was too rare. One could only say that Bonewing Marquis’ grasp over his own dao was too shallow. That was the only explanation for his loss of control. Truly a piece of trash.

Six-Winged stopped talking and started focusing on recovery through the treasures in the storage ring. Slowly, his withered body started recovering. As his body recovered, his aura grew as well.

***

Outer region.

Su Yu frowned.

What was going on?

Venerable Moon had found the second bomb, but why was there no self-detonation? Wait, was the second guy refraining from reconnecting to his dao? Did he feel safe enough to postpone that since he was discovered by his fellow divines?

Su Yu was left quite speechless. In that case, would his trap still work? His trap would not activate if his target remained disconnected from the dao.

”I refuse to believe that you will remain disconnected forever!”

Su Yu cursed inwardly. He had only been waiting for so long because he wanted to witness the explosion with his own eyes. Damn that fellow for making him wait even longer.

***

Near Venerable Scrape.

Noticing what was happening with the other group, Venerable Scrape’s mood dropped further as he complained, ”Six-Winged. Looks like the divine race has gained yet another powerhouse.”

Meanwhile, he had just lost two Daofuses from his side. He couldn’t help but feel terrible from this contrast in their fates.

March was also looking at the other group. Inwardly, he was feeling quite curious. The aura of that Six-Winged felt quite unstable. That was the trademark of a fake dao cultivator.

Bonewing Marquis, who was a fake dao cultivator, had gone mad. But this guy was fine. Could it be that Bonewing Marquis had truly suffered from cultivation deviation? Was that merel a coincidence instead of Su Yu? That was the only explanation for how Six-Winged was still fine.

Despite his thoughts, he maintained his usual innocent smile and said, ”This is a good thing for all of us. The stronger we are, the better we can deal with the chaos race. Isn’t that the case?”

”Perhaps.”

Venerable Scrape smiled and said nothing else.

The addition of one pseudo king was indeed a good thing for the divines. But who was to say that they wouldn’t discover more devil experts next?