Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 2008: Isn’t Cooperation Better? (1)

Three beams of light were shooting through the sky rapidly.

At the very front was Six-Winged. With each flap of his six wings, he was able to shoot far forward.

Behind, Venerable Moon was giving chase while roaring furiously, ”Why? Six-Winged, why?”

He couldn’t understand it. After so many years of slumber, it was unlikely that he had killed those people due to personal grievances. In that case, why had he killed those people?

Fake dao!

Venerable Moon had a nagging feeling that this was related to the fake dao Six-Winged was cultivating. Something was wrong with that dao. As of late, odd things had been happening with fake dao cultivators repeatedly. Venerable Moon was starting to feel uneasy about this.

That was why he was so determined to capture Six-Winged. He wanted to figure out the truth through Six-Winged. This was too big a risk to be left unattended. After all, almost one-third of the myriad race experts were fake dao cultivators. What exactly was happening to Six-Winged?

Bonewing Marquis had detonated himself, so there was no investigating him. Meanwhile, Six-Winged was still around. His body might hold the answer to this puzzle.

Venerable Moon roared, ”Stop, Six-Winged! I won’t kill you! I understand why you did that! Something is wrong with the dao you cultivate. As long as you’re willing to cooperate, we will help you!”

Inwardly, he was cursing.

Six-Winged was simply too fast.

After all, Six-Winged was a pseudo king. Strictly speaking, both of them had the same cultivation realm. Coupled with the advantage Six-Winged enjoyed as a member of the six-winged divine race, he was slowly pulling away from his pursuers.

Far ahead, Six-Winged sneered. Thanks to the little bit of clarity remaining in his mind, he was still capable of speech. ”Sparing me? Who are you to spare me? Eclipse Moon, back then, you were nothing but a dog in front of me. Even your elder brother was unworthy of ordering me around. After my numerous sacrifices for the divine race, you’re promising to spare me? Who are you to say that to me?”

Venerable Moon was further infuriated by those words. He couldn’t understand it. Just what was wrong with this fellow?

Behind him, Venerable Scrape was rushing over rapidly. His voice rang out from afar, ”Venerable Moon, capture him first! Something might be wrong with his dao! No, something is probably wrong with all the daos in the Dao Origin Land!”

This was a grave issue.

If they couldn’t solve it, numerous myriad race experts would start living in constant fear. Even if they couldn’t solve this issue, they had to keep it secret to prevent a major disturbance among the various experts.

Venerable Scrape’s biggest worry was having all the fake dao cultivators turn on them during a critical moment. That would be a lot more destructive than losing a few Daofuses. Thus, this was an issue that could cause disturbance among everyone, not only the fake dao cultivators.

No matter what, they had to first capture Six-Winged. They were even wondering if the fake daos were under someone’s control. If that was the case, could they attempt to do the same? If they could...

At that thought, Venerable Scrape desperately increased his speed.

He had sustained some light injuries from Bonewing Marquis’ self-detonation, but he was ignoring his injuries and pushing his body to its limit. He had to capture Six-Winged and figure out what was happening. This was too important.

***

Somewhere far away.

Su Yu was sighing. They were too fast. All three of them were far faster than him. That fellow from the six-winged divine race was surprisingly fast. This would be quite a difficult opponent to deal with.

After all, it was widely acknowledged that speed was the hardest trait to overcome. Speed alone was enough to grant one a significant advantage in a confrontation.

”Two Venerables...I don’t think I can do anything to them.”

If there were only one, Six-Winged’s self-detonation might be enough to heavily injury the Venerable. Then, Su Yu could join hands with Lan Tian to defeat the Venerable. But when there were two, it wouldn’t work. Not even Six-Winged self-detonation would do much to the two of them.

Nevertheless, Su Yu did not stop following them.

Right at that moment, they encountered a group of people in the process of migrating to the Myriad Race Mountain. The group was only led by a weak Daofuse. The Daofuse was greatly alarmed to sense the powerful auras. Just as he was about to retreat with his people, the mad Six-Winged flashed past him, sending a head flying into the sky.

The Daofuse had been beheaded before he could react.

”Six-Winged!” Venerable Moon roared, ”Six-Winged has defected! Everyone, be careful of him!”

At this point, he had to say something. Otherwise, the divine race would be blamed for Six-Winged’s madness. In the blink of an eye, the three experts disappeared far away. Behind them, over ten thousand migrating experts were left trembling in fear.

As for the beheaded Daofuse, he returned to life. He cultivated the Three Life Method. He might be weak, but his cultivation method had also allowed him to survive this encounter. He had three lives to lose. He was greatly alarmed. That attack from Six-Winged had arrived too quickly. He had no way of avoiding it.

After dying once, his strength had dropped significantly. However, it was better than dying. Just as that thought crossed his mind, his expression changed drastically as the world before him darkened.

Next, a large token descended upon him. His second body was smashed into mincemeat. Then, the Mark of Civilization appeared and swallowed the entire group of migrating experts. The Mark of Civilization had grown to a terrifying level, with a tier-three Daofuse projection of the devil race in it. Thus, these migrating experts were completely helpless against it.

Those below the Eternal Realm died the moment they were taken into the book. As for the Daofuse, he was blasted apart by a single jab of Su Yu’s pen right after he returned in his third body. After losing two bodies, he was only as strong as a peak Eternal. He was no match for a heavenly king like Su Yu. His remains were devoured by the Mark of Civilization, including his sea of willpower.

With a wave of his hand, Su Yu erased all traces of his presence before vanishing with a smile. A decent harvest.

While the three were rushing far ahead, he could take advantage of the chaos they created and throw some blame their way. As for whether the myriad races would really fall for this trick, he did not care. It wasn’t like Venerable Moon could prove that it wasn’t him.

***

The pursuit continued.

Su Yu was left further and further behind. From afar, he could sense that they were already starting to fight while moving rapidly.

Suddenly, someone emerged below Su Yu before turning into a vine. After wrapping itself around Su Yu’s wrist, the vine spoke, ”I can sense their auras. They’re not far away from the phoenix territory now.”

Lan Tian asked, ”Is that the first divine we found?”

”Yes.”

Lan Tian said, ”He’s quite impressive. I thought he would self-detonate immediately. But no, he’s actually fleeing. What’s going on? Did you fail to drive him mad?”

”His willpower is too powerful. I was only able to mess with his train of thought, but he still maintained a sliver of clarity.”

”Are we killing these Venerables?” Lan Tian said, ”It’s too hard. I can sense two Venerables there. This will be too difficult unless we gather all our people and do it together.”

It was almost impossible with just the two of them.

”We’ll see.”

Su Yu was in no rush. He would wait and observe. He wouldn’t wait until the right opportunity presented itself.

***

Boom!

Near a large mountain, Venerable Moon finally caught up to Six-Winged.

With a look of madness in his eyes, Six-Winged flapped his six wings and charged toward Venerable Moon with all his strength. In response, Venerable Moon sent a palm attack toward the six wings, creating numerous sparks as the palm met the wings.

In mere moments, Venerable Scrape reached them as well. Then, he reached out toward Six-Winged with an enlarged palm. How could Six-Winged be a match for two Venerables?

In his desperation, Six-Winged’s eyes turned redder, as if he were on the verge of self-detonation. Noticing that, the two Venerables hurriedly pulled back. With a friendly smile on his face, Venerable Moon released a saintly aura and said, ”Six-Winged, do not self-detonate. I am here to save you, not kill you.”

Venerable Scrape’s expression changed slightly as he looked at Venerable Moon. Both reached a unanimous decision without talking about it. Both wanted to capture Six-Winged alive.

They wanted to study him and figure out the reason for his madness. What was the origin of this madness? A madness capable of making him neglect even his own life? In Six-Winged’s eyes, Venerable Moon became incomparably friendly. But immediately after, madness returned to his eyes.

The more dao power he absorbed, the crazier he became.

”Die!”

Instantly, he broke free from Venerable Moon’s influence and charged forth again. But before Venerable Moon could do anything, he turned around and vanished into the distance with a flicker.

Venerable Moon cursed inwardly and sent a voice transmission, ”Venerable Scrape, this is an internal affair of the divine race. Do not interfere. I’ll handle this myself.”

”How can I do that?”

Venerable Scrape would naturally not agree. Six-Winged was no longer a regular hostile pseudo king. He hid the secret behind the fake daos of the Dao Origin Land. Hearing his response, Venerable Moon cursed inwardly again.

Bastard!

They wasted no time and resumed the pursuit.

***

Not long after their departure, Su Yu reached their previous location. With a frown, he said, ”They managed to intercept Six-Winged, but instead of fighting to the death or self-detonation, Six-Winged managed to flee again?”

What were the two Venerables doing? How incompetent could they be? Was a heavenly king so hard to kill? Sure, maybe it would be slightly difficult for one of them to kill Six-Winged. But there were two of them. Why was it so difficult?

Lan Tian was feeling quite doubtful as well. ”It doesn’t look like they’re trying to kill that guy.”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Not trying to kill...

His eyes flickered as he said, ”That seems to be the case. Why, then?”

After thinking about it, he said, ”We’ll keep observing. If they spare him a second time, we’ll be sure that they are really trying to capture him alive. In that case...are they trying to learn if that guy is under someone’s influence? Are they perhaps trying to find a way to influence all fake dao cultivators?”

Su Yu had no proof that his guess was right, but he was confident his guess wouldn’t be too far off from the truth. That might really be the case. Two fake dao cultivators had gone mad in a row. It wouldn’t be surprising for the two Venerables to suspect that the fake dao cultivators were under someone else’s control.

How interesting.

Once again, numerous ideas emerged in Su Yu’s mind. Then, his eyes gleamed ruthlessly as he settled on one of these ideas.

***

Rumble!

Once again, the two Venerables caught up with Six-Winged. They did not bother to hold back too much when attacking. As a result, one of Six-Winged’s wings had already been broken from a single clash.

But seeing that Six-Winged was on the verge of self-detonation yet again, Venerable Moon grited his teeth in frustration. He forced himself to smile again as he said, ”Six-Winged, come back with me. We’re not going to harm you...”

”Piss off!”

Six-Winged roared and broke free once again.

Venerable Scrape frowned and said, ”This can’t continue. He will attempt to self-detonate the moment he encounters a crisis. His intent to die is too strong. It’s too hard to capture him alive, but we can kill him easily. But he will probably self-detonate the moment his life is threatened. This is too frustrating.”

Venerable Scrape was greatly annoyed as well. The two were more than enough to defeat Six-Winged. In fact, just one of them was already enough for that. But Six-Winged’s self-detonation was not something they could stop easily.

Unfortunately, Six-Winged was far more valuable alive.

As the two resumed their pursuit, Venerable Scrape said, ”Is someone controlling him? This is a pseudo king. The thought of someone doing this to a pseudo king is too terrifying. Even as a puppet, he still maintains his rationality and combat strength. Can you imagine how terrifying this is?”

Venerable Moon inhaled deeply and proposed, ”We can’t let the immortals know about this.”

He could no longer hide this from the devils. But they could definitely hide it from the immortals. After all, the immortals were already very good at mental manipulation. If they were to somehow capture Six-Winged, they could very well figure out the secret behind Six-Winged’s loss of mind.

Venerable Scrape nodded. He asked, ”What now? We can kill him, but we need him alive...”

”When we catch up to him again, destroy his body. While you’re doing that, I’ll suppress his sea of willpower and try to capture him before he can do anything.”

”Okay.”

With that, a decision was reached.