Tribulation of Myriad Races

Somewhere in the death spirit dao.

With the giant gone, Su Yu started resurrecting the others. Lightning and thunder roared. He extracted a large amount of life and death powers, causing the entire world to shake violently.

South Heavenly King was the second to be resurrected. Her resurrection generated powerful lightning tribulations as lightning bolts rained down on Su Yu’s world, to the point it felt as though his world was about to shatter.

Ultimately, South Heavenly King survived. She was scorched by the lightning bolts, but she had returned. Like Marquis Lanshan, she looked different after returning to life. Her expression was as cold as ever, or to be precise, she looked even colder than before. Her attire was quite different as well. Unlike the others, she was not clad in anything eyecatching or luxurious. She only wore a simple, black dress.

She did not seem to be a human. Su Yu did not know her race. She had never mentioned it either. But after her resurrection, he could sense clearly that she was indeed not a human. However, she also wasn’t a divine, devil, or immortal. It was likely that she belonged to an extinct humanoid race. She was either a member of the extinct soul race or the celestial human race.

These races used to dominate the primordial and ancient eras, but they had long vanished in the annals of history. It was no wonder that South Heavenly King had never mentioned her race. It wasn’t that she had forgotten, but her race no longer existed.

After picking a random dao from Su Yu’s world, she linked herself to it. Instantly, she reached the level of a Venerable. It felt as though this was the same dao she had cultivated before her death.

She had been a heavenly king for a long time. It was likely that she was already a heavenly king prior to her death, or she might even be a Venerable or a Master of Law back then. However, Su Yu was unsure since he had never heard of a Master of Death returning as a death spirit. Perhaps only South Heavenly King herself knew the answer to that question.

She had picked a dao without any input from Su Yu. It was the whip dao, a relatively rare dao.

When Su Yu noted that, an odd gaze appeared on his face. Did she have a unique hobby or something? Was she a whip-user? No. He had never seen her use a whip before.

But at the moment, Su Yu was too busy to care too much about that. He did not dare to drag things out as the giant might return. He did not have a second Dragonblood Marquis he could sacrifice to send the giant away.

Finally, it was He Tu’s turn to be resurrected.

He Tu grew incomparably excited. Finally, it was his turn! Unfortunately, the difficulty of his resurrection was greater. It wasn’t due to a lack of life power or something like that. Rather, it was the lightning tribulations. They might have seemed easy to handle for Marquis Lanshan and South Heavenly King.

The lightning tribulations that had appeared for He Tu were very powerful as well. Even after absorbing his essence, He Tu was only a tier-two Daofuse. But the lightning tribulations awaiting him were at the level of a heavenly king.

Marquis Lanshan and South Heavenly King were subjected to powerful tribulations as well, but their tribulations did not exceed the level of a Venerable. Thus, they survived. As for He Tu, his resurrection was even faster since he already had his body. Su Yu didn’t even need to use much life power on him.

However, he had nearly died from his lightning tribulations. Ultimately, he survived. But unlike South Heavenly King and Marquis Lanshan, who both looked incredibly carefree and heroic upon their resurrection, He Tu looked rather sorry with his numerous wounds. It would take him some time to recover from these heavy injuries.

At that moment, Su Yu roared, ”As for the others, think it through before attempting your resurrection. These lightning tribulations are out of my control. This is your final trial before your resurrection. Sure, I can stop them for you. But if I do that, you will most likely fail to fully resurrect due to a lack of life. And having fully left the death spirit dao, this will be the end for you.”

With his keen eyes, he could see that even the lightning tribulations were granting the death spirits the final bit of life they needed to resurrect. Stopping the tribulations for them might result in the failure of the entire attempt. Thus, that wouldn’t be advisable.

Nobody gave up even after hearing his warning. Their hope was right before them. Nobody would be willing to give up after going this far. They would rather risk true death.

About thirty of them had retrieved their essence from the river. The others were too late to the bandwagon as Su Yu would not allow anyone else to take from the river for fear of awakening the giant yet again.

***

Resurrection. Repeated resurrections.

Su Yu was extracting the power of life from both his own dao and the intersection of life and death. The resurrection of all these experts required a large amount of power. By the time Heavenly Fire was resurrected, Su Yu had nearly emptied the life power in his dao and the intersection.

Heavenly Fire was too strong, resulting in a drain so large that the process had nearly failed. Heavenly Fire had clearly sensed the close call as he had obediently fused with Su Yu’s fire dao after his resurrection without saying anything.

There was only one fire dao in Su Yu’s world. It was supposed to be given to Cloud Fire Marquis or a fire elemental. However, Cloud Fire Marquis was a heavenly king, and he had not opted to fuse with Su Yu’s fire dao. As for the fire elementals, they had all opted to fuse with the fused five elemental dao.

They all made the same choice as Topsoil Spirit. According to them, it was very unlikely that they could actually produce a Master of Law. But all of them could cultivate and strengthen a single dao together to push Topsoil Spirit into that realm.

As long as Topsoil Spirit could grow strong enough, they would all benefit from it, just like how numerous human cultivators had benefited from a single physical body dao. That, too, was a valid path to take.

In fact, it was quite a wise path. Perhaps none of them had the comprehension of a Master of Law, but they could all cultivate the same dao together to accelerate their growth. Thanks to their choice, Su Yu’s five elemental dao had grown significantly. He could feel that Topsoil Spirit wasn’t that far away from a heavenly king.

Thirty-two death spirits had attempted resurrection. Six had been killed by their lightning tribulations.

In truth, Su Yu had attempted to save the first to die, but without the lightning bolts, the resurrecting death spirit had actually scattered into nothingness. Evidently, the tribulation was both a trial and a gift.

Then again, Su Yu wasn’t too bothered about the six dead death spirits.

Of the six, three were unfamiliar faces. These were probably the unaffiliated death spirits who had joined when he opened the door to those not from his side. As for the other three, two were the Daofuses under South Heavenly King while one was a death spirit who had recently joined Su Yu’s camp.

Su Yu wasn’t close to any of them. He was not hypocritical to feign sadness when people he didn’t know died. There was nothing he could do if they couldn’t survive their tribulations.

***

Done with resurrecting all those death spirits, Su Yu’s gaze landed on Xing Yue, who was still busy absorbing her essence. After so many years, her aura was finally growing again. She had entered the Daofuse Realm.

And in the blink of an eye, she climbed from the fourth tier to the third tier, followed by the second tier. Then, she grew to a heavenly king before growing straight into a Venerable. Everything had happened smoothly.

Even at that point, Su Yu could sense that she could still grow more. However, the restriction of the myriad daos was prohibiting her from further growth. It was very likely that she was a Master of Law prior to her death.

Unfortunately, Human Emperor’s restriction was still working on her, preventing her from returning to her previous level.

For some reason, her aura was still growing even though she couldn’t grow beyond the level of a Venerable. Black and white powers swirled around her. As Su Yu observed, understanding dawned on him. He finally understood how she should be resurrected.

Moments later, two daos streamed out of the ink dao.

Life and death.

At that moment, their gazes met. With a complicated look in her eyes, Xing Yue asked, ”Are you certain...you want to resurrect?”

Only Xing Yue and Su Yu were left in the death spirit dao.

Su Yu chuckled. ”We’re already here. Of course we need to complete the job.”

Xing Yue gazed at him in silence. After a long while, she said, ”I have been a death spirit for over a hundred thousand years. I have never regained my true nature. Apart from calm and peace, I can’t feel anything. No sorrow. No joy. Nothing.”

Due to the limitation of her strength, she hadn’t been able to regain her human nature. She had been constantly cold, detached, and furious. Those were the only constants for her for many, many years.

Most death spirits would regain their nature and memories after reaching the Daofuse Realm, but that was not the case for Xing Yue.

Su Yu nodded.

Xing Yue said, ”But you, you broke my peace. Because of you, I have been feeling a lot of anger. You bully me all the time.”

Su Yu laughed, ”You jest, Lord. I am not such a person. When have I ever bullied you?”

Xing Yue ignored him and continued muttering, ”Therefore, I wish to resurrect. I wish to become human again. I wish to feel something different. I wish to feel more...”

Su Yu nodded, ”You deserve it.”

”Su Yu!” Xing Yue asked, ”After my resurrection, we will be strangers. Is that right?”

Su Yu nodded, ”It’s not a bad thing.”

Xing Yue gazed at Su Yu. Noticing the indifference and calm in Su Yu’s eyes, she finally nodded, ”So be it. Let’s do it.”

Su Yu said nothing and directed the two daos toward Xing Yue. One came from the hole of the River of Time, and the other came from the death spirit dao.

Su Yu took a pill out and tossed it over, ”Long Life Pill. Take it. You were likely a Master of Law prior to your death. But you have never been fully dead, so your lifespan has been burning away with the passage of time. But right now, you’re still a Venerable. You might die of old age right after resurrecting.”

Xing Yue didn’t know the pill, but she accepted it without any hesitation.

”Start devouring the powers of life and death.” Su Yu said, ”Even after doing that, life and death will still maintain a balance within you. You will remain in the same state.”

Su Yu manifested his Heaven Gate and continued, ”When you’re done consuming the life and death powers, start attacking my Heaven Gate with death qi and have my Heaven Gate forcefully convert your death qi into life force.”

Xing Yue clarified, ”I’m attacking you?”

”Yes!”

Xing Yue said nothing.