Tribulation of Myriad Races

Xia Huyou’s heart thumped. Not even Human Emperor’s return would be beneficial for humanity? That might really be the case. Su Yu had hinted at something similar before. According to Su Yu, Human Emperor would have returned long ago if he had the advantage. What was the point of dragging things out? Clearly, he wasn’t doing too well either.

Both Su Yu and Hundred Battle King agreed on this.

”Are things really so hopeless to us?”

”Of course not.” Hundred Battle King said, ”Why would I bother to return otherwise? But there is no need for me to say much. You will understand when the time is right.”

Xia Huyou nodded. He couldn’t help feeling like Hundred Battle King was actually a decent leader to follow. But he was Su Yu’s friend. And Su Yu was the human lord of this epoch. Thus, he wouldn’t change his allegiance.

Before long, they arrived at Emperor Yu’s Court.

Looking at the vast palace, Hundred Battle King smiled and said nothing. But Riversea Marquis said with a frown, ”Excessive extravagance and waste. Back when His Majesty became the human lord, he did construct something so wasteful.”

That was true. This building was a bit too wasteful.

It was built by Zhu Tiandao and Marquis Xia, and both had poured as many resources as possible into the construction to fawn on Su Yu. As far as they were concerned, they could pillage the myriad races to support the construction of this building.

And they had done just that. The various treasures and special products of the myriad races had all been dragged back to serve as the materials for the construction of this building. They had even demolished numerous palaces of the myriad races for more materials.

Xia Huyou smiled and said, ”You misunderstand, Senior. This is nothing. Under Emperor Yu’s leadership, we conquered the Lower Realm. Apart from the divines, devils, and immortals, the entire Lower Realm was free for us to plunder. A mere palace is nothing for us.”

If these people were so unhappy about that, they could always try to replicate the same feat. Nobody would stop them from constructing a palace like that if they could do the same.

Riversea Marquis was about to argue more, but Hundred Battle King stopped him. With a smile, Hundred Battle King said, ”Impressive indeed. The conquest of the Myriad Realms is a feat worthy of being remembered for generations.”

”Your Majesty!” Riversea Marquis was dissatisfied. ”If it weren’t for what you did back then, the myriad races would have more Daofuses stationed down here. They might have conquered the Lower Realm, but they only faced a small number of Daofuses in the process. This is nothing worth bragging about.”

Xia Huyou merely smiled without saying anything.

Perhaps.

As for the other prefects, some sneered while some continued looking down in silence.

Nothing worth bragging about?

They could say whatever, but the fact was that they had never achieved a similar feat before. Yes, the myriad races did not have as many Daofuses in the Lower Realm anymore. But these people should try using their brains and think about humanity’s position down here.

At the time, humanity was left without a single Daofuse. This was not the same as the ninth epoch, where humanity had about a hundred Daofuses. They should look at the relative strength of both sides before making such remarks. It was no big deal for a Master of Law to defeat an Eternal. But it was a miracle for a Sunmoon to defeat an Eternal.

Hundred Battle King did not want to bicker about the topic. After stopping Riversea Marquis from saying more, he stepped into the palace.

Inside, they conversed for a short while. Finally, Hundred Battle King said, ”I’ll try to recover Shadow and Mountain Mist. Keep everything here as before.”

He did not intend to change the current structure of humanity. It would be a waste of effort. Humanity was living well. There was no need for him to change anything.

After saying that, Hundred Battle King wasted no time and vanished into a rift he tore. Before leaving, he said, ”Southbrook and South Suppression will take charge of the Human Realm for now. Xia Huyou will assist them. Everyone else, obey them for now.”

He did not put Riversea Marquis in charge as that might make things worse.

He did not let Cloud Water Marquis help either since she was holding the majority of the hostility from the remaining experts in the Human Realm. After all, she once spent some time among Su Yu’s camp. They still remembered seeing her fighting under Su Yu not long ago.

After hearing that order, Xia Huyou smiled. Clearly, this old human lord was quite a smart one. He was also very self-aware. Putting Riversea Marquis and Cloud Water Marquis in charge would only throw the Human Realm into chaos.

The moment Hundred Battle King left, Xia Huyou flashed them a smile and said, ”Seniors, feel free to tell me about any request you have. I will try my best to fulfill them.”

Riversea Marquis glared at him coldly and said, ”Don’t get too cocky just because His Majesty is a forgiving man.”

Xia Huyou had a helpless expression. How was he being cocky? Was this guy stupid or something? Whatever. He decided to not waste his time on someone stupid.

To the side, South Suppression Marquis frowned and said, ”Enough, Riversea. You must be quite curious about the current Human Realm. Come with me. I’ll show you around.”

”What is there to be curious about?” Riversea Marquis said, ”This is no longer the same Human Realm.”

South Suppression Marquis blanked out slightly. After a while, he said, ”You can’t say that. No matter what, this is our place of origin. Our home.”

Riversea Marquis asked, ”But do you think the current human race welcomes us? South Suppression, we don’t have anything left behind. No descendants, no family, no friends. We are now complete outsiders.”

South Suppression Marquis argued, ”But this is still our place of origin!”

Riversea Marquis coldly said, ”Yes, only this place. Not those people. Wake up, South Suppression.”

South Suppression Marquis stared at Riversea Marquis before looking at Cloud Water Marquis and Southbrook Marquis. He asked, ”Do the two of you think the same?”

Southbrook Marquis sighed and said, ”Don’t listen to Riversea’s nonsense. Riversea, this place is still our home. The humans here share our origin. Stop saying these things. Perhaps we believe we did the right thing six thousand years ago, but the people here might not agree.”

Riversea Marquis snorted, ”They disagree? Should we have fought until the very end with the myriad races before allowing Control King’s lineage to wipe us all out? That would have resulted in the extermination of humanity as a whole. How did they reach the conclusion that we were wrong?

”Even back then, some disagreed. Southbrook, do you think humanity will still be around today without His Majesty’s decision back then?”

As far as he was concerned, some people were too stupid to understand the reasoning behind their choice. Humanity would have ceased to exist if it weren’t for their decision back then. Back then, they faced a hopeless situation.

Xia Huyou was not interested in staying to listen to their argument. After flashing the other prefects a smile, they left together. Hundred Battle King wasn’t even here anymore. Why were those people arguing here? How pointless.

***

At the same time.

Hundred Battle King had entered the River of Time in search of Shadow Marquis and Mountain Mist Marquis. The two had just died, so they could potentially still be recovered from the river.

***

Inside Luminous Domain Mansion.

Su Yu did not stay to wait for Liu Hong and Zhou Hao. Instead, he had Heavenbridge Marquis sent him out first. Then, he brought Great Xia King and Great Qin King to the river in search for suitable spear and saber daos.

As for the heavenly desolate beast dao, he intended to drain that dao and help others recover their bodies.

Su Yu entered the River of Time through the hole he had dug.

Both Su Yu and Hundred Battle King were in the river at the same time, but both were in different parts of the river.

Both were searching the river for something.

Su Yu was looking for saber and spear daos, while Hundred Battle King was looking for the daos of Shadow Marquis and Mountain Mist Marquis.

***

Inside the River of Time.

Great Xia King was busy looking around. Suddenly, he said, ”Your Majesty, find me a powerful saber dao. Something stronger than my grandson’s.”

His grandson. Xia Longwu.

A Daofuse.

Xia Longwu was still weaker than Great Xia King, but his saber qi was much thicker than Great Xia King’s. Great Xia King was no longer the number one saber cultivator of Xia Family. He was greatly saddened by this.

”Of course!”

Su Yu laughed. ”We definitely need to find something stronger than Xia Longwu’s for the number one—”

”Cough.”

Great Xia King hurriedly interrupted Su Yu from saying that...thing.

How annoying.

Great Qin King looked at them curiously. ”What is it?”

”None of your business.”

Great Xia King did not bother to explain.

Great Qin King flashed his trademark stiff smile and said, ”Number one pretty boy, right? Why so secretive?”

”...”

Great Xia King blanked out.

When he looked at Su Yu, Su Yu shrugged. ”Don’t look at me. It’s not me.”

Great Qin King snorted. ”What are you thinking? Senior Xia Chen was down there. Are you blind? He talked to us about the past a few days ago. He told us everything, including how you used to wet your bed as a kid.

”Oh, right, you weren’t around. At the time, you left with your grandson. I think Xia Longwu is the only one still not aware of this matter now. It’s no longer a secret.”

”...”

Su Yu shrugged again. Good heavens. That was embarrassing. At the very least, this proved that he was someone good at keeping secrets.

It wasn’t him. It was someone from the Xia Family as well. Then again, it was understandable as even Su Yu had learned this from Xia Chen. Clearly, Xia Chen did not consider this a big secret. In his eyes, Great Xia King was still the same edgy kid from all the way back then.

Great Xia King’s face was flushed red.

Everyone heard it?

He gnashed his teeth. ”Everyone?”

”Of course.” Great Qin King said, ”Everyone was there, so everyone heard it.”

”You...why didn’t anyone tell me about it?”

Seeing that Great Xia King was about to start raging, Great Qin King placated him. ”Don’t worry. It’s no big deal. We all have embarrassing pasts. Fear not. We all agreed to keep these matters to this era. Those in the future won’t know this. Of course, we will need to keep each other accountable. Gang up on the one to mention these matters to anyone else.”

He glanced at Su Yu suggestively. Did Su Yu understand what he was saying? They had included him in their agreement. It was fine for them to have all these embarrassing secrets now, but this should stay between them. These matters shouldn’t be passed to the future generation.

Su Yu nodded indifferently. Sure, sure. He was not the type to talk about such matters. In fact, he had already drawn up a plan concerning these embarrassing secrets. He intended to embed the biographies of these popular figures deep in the dao itself when he retired.

Thus, they had nothing to worry about. These secrets would remain secrets to all except the greatest geniuses of all. These embarrassing secrets would become the legends of this era. No matter what, they had to leave some legends behind for those of the future, right?

To the side, Great Xia King sighed. He suddenly had the urge to bury his head in his hands and weep. That was too embarrassing. Perhaps dying would be better than this.

That was a matter from so long ago. Why were they still talking about it? How unfortunate of him that a super ancestor of the Xia Family was still around to talk about his embarrassing past like it was nothing.

He wasn’t a kid anymore! He was the famous Great Xia King! He couldn’t even vent his anger on that ancestor of his.

Su Yu merely smiled as he listened to the conversation. His mood was great.