Tribulation of Myriad Races

As the various dao powers poured into Su Yu’s world, the River of Time shook.

Dao conflict.

When enough power entered his world, Su Yu had an instinctive feeling that this had turned into a dao conflict.

How troublesome.

A conflict of daos.

He had a sudden premonition that he was in trouble. However, the problem shouldn’t be too big. This was happening because he was stealing from the River of Time.

”Dao conflict...Celestial River of Death...”

Suddenly, Su Yu wondered if the disappearance of the Master of Death was related to the Master of Time. After all, the Master of Death had stolen death from the Master of Time.

”A conflict of time? What is this so-called dao conflict? A conflict between Creators? A conflict between laws? Or a conflict between eras?”

Looking at his expanding world, a certain premonition hit him. Perhaps...a day would come when he would encounter the Master of Time. And perhaps trouble would follow that meeting. After all, they were all stealing from the Master of Time.

They had created a proper world. The Myriad Realms were all well before all these thieves came along. Human Emperor and Master of Death had both stolen from Master of Time in search of a shortcut for their Creation. The most proper method of Creation was to source one’s energy from chaos.

However, that was too slow.

Thus, the Master of Time would probably not be happy with them.

For some reason, Su Yu started feeling bashful.

He...hadn’t done so!

Human Emperor and Master of Death were the thieves. Su Yu himself had pioneered a separate dao from the River of Time. Lan Tian and the others were the ones who had forced him onto this path of theft. He was feeling very helpless about this as well.

Su Yu sighed hypocritically. Yeap. He had not stolen from the River of Time. Sure, he had thought of it. But he had not proceeded because he was worried about having his dao assimilated by the River of Time.

Lan Tian and the others were the thieves here! That was definitely it! They were all River of Time cultivators, and they had all switched to his dao. In a way, they could be considered traitors of a sect.

Not only had they defected, but they had even brought the dao power from the River of Time over. As a result, Su Yu’s dao was growing rapidly while the River of Time was weakening. Of course, the river had not weakened by much.

After all, these were a bunch of people who were not even Masters of Laws. They were incapable of stealing enough to harm the River of Time.

***

While Su Yu was thinking about all that.

River of Time.

The river continued shaking.

This time, the shaking lasted much longer, creating numerous waves throughout the river.

Human Emperor and the others had naturally sensed the disturbance as well.

At the same time.

Inside humanity’s physical body dao.

A certain someone sensed the disturbance as well.

Hundred Battle King, who was seated cross-legged in the tributary, opened his eyes suddenly. The shaking wasn’t too intense, but his senses were sharp enough to detect it. A group of people was standing around him.

Yes. He was not here alone. There were dozens of them. He was suppressing the tributary and allowing them to recover their bodies using the power of the tributary.

The recent rapid decline the human kings had sensed was not caused by Hundred Battle King’s absorption. Rather, it was because Hundred Battle King’s subordinates had been regrowing their bodies through the physical body dao.

Some of them sensed the shaking as well.

One of them said, ”Your Majesty, there is a disturbance with the river. Did something happen?”

Hundred Battle King stared at the main river for a long while before saying, ”It’s fine.”

He looked at the others and said, ”Pick up the pace. If I suppress this tributary for too long, the human kings far upstream might end up killed. We don’t want to form additional grudges for no reason.”

At that, his subordinates were alarmed. All of them picked up the pace.

Someone asked, ”Your Majesty, will the human kings upstream really weaken if we draw too much from this tributary?”

”Yes.” Hundred Battle King said, ”That’s why you need to pick up the pace. I will replenish this tributary by draining some other physical body daos in the river.”

They stopped talking and focused fully on their absorption.

Over the past six thousand years, many of his subordinates had remained in willpower forms instead of recovering their bodies. Without the distraction of their bodies, they could comprehend their daos at a much faster speed. But after such a long delay, they required a lot more power to regrow their bodies.

A short while later, someone roared.

A body emerged from the tributary. This person had an incomparably powerful body with an ethereal aura. His aura was near the level of a Master of Law. Instead of the physical body dao, he cultivated a different dao.

Landing beside Hundred Battle King, he smiled. ”Your Majesty.”

Hundred Battle King smiled as well. ”Congratulations, Evergreen Marquis.”

Back then, he was a top advisor of Hundred Battle King, also a top-level combatant. The moment he regained his physical body, he revealed the strength of a Venerable. Someone whose comprehension had reached the level of Masters of Laws.

”I have you to thank for this, Your Majesty.”

Standing behind Hundred Battle King with his hair whipping around him, Evergreen Marquis said, ”We will definitely grow stronger than we were. I am confident we don’t need to hide for another six thousand years.”

Hundred Battle King nodded. ”I hope so as well.”

Just then, a roar rang out. A gigantic figure emerged from the tributary.

With a saber as big as a door in his hand, the figure flew over while roaring with laughter. ”Your Majesty!”

”Extreme Martial”

Hundred Battle King smiled. With this, his top advisor and general had both returned.

Wu Ji was emanating an extremely powerful aura as well. In fact, he felt even stronger than Evergreen Marquis.”

Extreme Martial asked, ”I still remember the events from six thousand years ago like yesterday. How have you been, Your Majesty?”

”Decent.”

Evergreen Marquis smiled and said, ”Looks like you have improved in your saber dao again. This time, you can finally fight to your heart’s content. Those naggy fellows are no longer around to bother us.”

”What are you talking about?” The burly Extreme Martial said, ”I don’t recall complaining about them before. Never!”

He looked at Hundred Battle King and grinned, ”Your Majesty, when are we starting our counterattack? When are we wiping out the myriad races and Control King’s lineage?”

”What’s the hurry?”

As Hundred Battle King chuckled, Evergreen Marquis said, ”There is no rush.”

He continued, ”Your Majesty, we heard about the issue with this epoch’s humanity. Su Yu left with a bunch of people. In that case, shall we first pacify our home or do we gather everyone’s strength to deal with our external enemies first? How well do you know Su Yu?”

He only voiced the two alternatives, but Hundred Battle King would be the one to make the decision.

To the side, the burly Extremely Martial suggested, ”Your Majesty, we should first take Su Yu down. He thinks we can’t reach him after shutting the Death Realm off from the outside world. That’s too naive. We can’t risk having that kid stirring trouble behind us while we’re fighting the Upper Realm.”

His way of thinking was quite straightforward.

Su Yu and his people were hiding right below them. It was way too risky to leave Su Yu unattended.

Hundred Battle King said, ”There is no need for that. We’ll first focus on the myriad races and Control King’s lineage.”

He glanced at the others who were still recovering their bodies and said, ”All of you must be listening to this as well. I believe some of you don’t want to see an internal strife between Su Yu and me. I won’t start a conflict against him for no reason. Don’t worry.”

A gentle voice rang out, ”Your Majesty, we heard about Su Yu. He didn’t do anything wrong. We don’t have a valid reason to act against him. He also has the popular support of humanity. It won’t be wise of us to act against him right now. Extreme Martial, since you don’t like using your brain, you should refrain from voicing your suggestions.”

At that, someone emerged from the tributary. When Extreme Martial looked over, he curled his lips and shit his mouth.

The newcomer was a woman. A heroic woman with her long hair cascading down her shoulders. Her colorful and loose-fitting robes did nothing to hide her bountiful figure.

The woman continued speaking softly, yet her words were sharp. ”If you can conquer the Lower Realm, defeat the myriad races and the Control King’s lineage, the followers of Su Yu will naturally come to learn of your greatness. At that point, a single defeat will be enough for Su Yu to lose a large number of his followers. After all, everyone is fighting for humanity.

”But by keeping Su Yu around, humanity will still have another spark of hope even upon your defeat. I heard about Su Yu. He is young and rash, yet he is young and vigorous. He has a unique spark that only the youth have. We are old. We tend to plan more before doing anything, but I can also see the benefits of how the young do things.”

Next, the woman looked at Evergreen Marquis and said, ”Evergreen, stop instigating His Majesty. The sole conflict between His Majesty and Su Yu is the leadership of the Human Realm. Since Su Yu has abandoned that position, why keep pushing him?”

She looked at Hundred Battle King before looking at Extreme Martial. ”Don’t forget that we are all ancient fossils from six thousand years ago. A single generation lasts a hundred years. It has been sixty generations since our time. Su Yu and his people are the true elites and heroes of this era, not us. Killing Su Yu will only further enlarge the wedge between us and humanity.”

Slowly, her voice rose as she addressed the others, ”We all need something to believe in while we fight. This belief will forever remain in our hearts. Humanity. That is our faith. Human Ancestor’s humanity? Or Human Emperor’s humanity? It doesn’t matter. In the end, humanity is humanity.

”Control King can’t be spared for colluding with chaos. But Su Yu has never colluded with chaos.”

Before she was done speaking, a gloomy voice rang out, ”But he’s colluding with the myriad races. Just look at his subordinates. What manner of people does he have under him?”

An elderly man emerged from the river and looked at the woman. ”Redmoon, a large majority of Su Yu’s force is comprised of the myriad races, not humans. What do you think about that?”

Redmoon stared at him and said nothing.

Next, a youthful man emerged from the river. Clad in black and emanating a cold aura, the man said, ”Enough, Longbrow Marquis. What’s the point of harping on this? We all know the reason for Su Yu to be so reliant on the iron devourers and other races. Acknowledge reality instead of avoiding the truth. We gave up on humanity six thousand years ago. That’s the truth. But since we have given up on them, are they not allowed to do something for self-preservation?”

He glanced at the others coldly and said, ”Redmoon is right. Your Majesty, Su Yu has the popular support. We are newly returned. The masses are still nervous and uncertain. Must we do something that will push them all away? Are we not humans?”

He looked at everyone and declared, ”We, too, are humans! Even if the current humans do not acknowledge us, we are still humans! Evergreen and Longbrow are saying all that to push the responsibility they should be shouldering away. Colluding with the myriad races? Why don’t we call Human Emperor and the other ancient kings traitors as well?”

He continued with an unfriendly tone, ”Your Majesty, do not listen to these nonsensical words. Six thousand years ago, you were unwilling to fight a hopeless battle. We understand that. We are fellow deserters.

”But since we had the courage to desert, we should face reality. There is no need to sugarcoat what we did and slander others. Evergreen only made a proposal without calling them names, but you, Longbrow, are directly saying that they are colluding with the myriad races. Your words can no longer be trusted.”