Tribulation of Myriad Races

”Yes.” Stable Army Marquis hurriedly nodded. He said helplessly, ”But Your Majesty...there is no suitable dao for me.”

He wanted a shot at becoming a Master of Law as well. Thus, he did not want to fuse into a dao someone else had taken.

”There are suitable daos for you.” Su Yu teased, ”When I invited you earlier, you refused. See, you have to rely on me now. Consider yourself lucky since I have some free time to do this for you. The lance and pike daos are still available. Pick one.

”The lance dao is harder to master, but the pike dao is quite similar to the spear dao. Just consider it a longer spear. You only need to lengthen your spear after this. I left this dao empty just for you.”

Stable Army Marquis was embarrassed to hear that. Was that really the case?

What...honor!

Of course, Su Yu was only saying that because nobody had picked those daos. He said, ”I suggest all warriors interested in my daos make their pick as soon as possible. Unlike cultural researchers, your choices are actually quite limited. There is a lot more flexibility to what a cultural researcher can choose.”

That was the truth. After all, there were a lot of overlaps among those cultivating the more warlike daos.

After manifesting a dao with a wave of his hand, Su Yu proceeded to ignore Stable Army Marquis. This wasn’t the first time this had happened, and Stable Army Marquis had seen how the others had done it. There wasn’t a need for close supervision.

Su Yu looked at the others and said, ”We’re almost done with our rapid growth. The next opportunity will probably be the last massive growth for some time. I’ll break and drain the heavenly desolate beast dao to help everyone recover their bodies. This will be your final major opportunity for now.”

Everyone was overjoyed to hear that. They had to admit that they were all living and eating well following Su Yu.

Leaving his world behind, Su Yu flew away with everyone else. Seeing that everyone was leaving, Stable Army Marquis started fusing with his new dao urgently. While doing so, he shouted, ”Your Majesty, can you take it slow and wait for me?”

Heavendoom laughed, ”Nope. We won’t leave anything for you.”

Stable Army Marquis cursed and increased his speed of fusion.

Damn it!

He was starting to regret making his choice so late. Naturally, Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to wait as he continued flying away. Of the fifteen pillars in the Sealed Region, only one remained.

When Su Yu arrived with his people, Death Imperator opened his eyes and looked at Su Yu.

Su Yu smiled and said, ”Previously, Director Wan made a promise for me that we will free you.”

The Imperator said nothing.

Su Yu continued, ”Give me some time. When I’m done with my urgent matters, I’ll help you. Don’t worry. It won’t take too long. At the very least, you will regain your freedom before Martial Emperor. This isn’t a bad thing as it will maintain the peace between us.”

”There is no rush, Your Majesty.” Death Imperator was in no rush. ”It’s the same. It’s not like I’ll benefit much from regaining my freedom immediately. I can take this chance to comprehend the death spirit dao in peace.”

”You’re very easygoing, Imperator.”

With a smile, Su Yu left with his people. They started heading toward the Celestial Chasm Realm.

Far away, Martial Emperor was spying on them again. Su Yu could sense it, but he wasn’t bothered to do anything. Noticing how Su Yu was completely ignoring him, Martial Emperor felt like cursing. He was feeling terrible.

What was happening? As of late, his danger sense had been triggered repeatedly. Someone had been cursing him to die again and again.

It wasn’t Su Yu. So who was it?

Who could it be?

He was still alive and well!

In fact, he was starting to lose faith in his danger sense. Was he really still alive?

When he saw Su Yu moving with so many powerhouses, he grimaced. Su Yu’s force was growing stronger and stronger. The day he broke free was coming close, but why...did things feel more and more dangerous for him?

He had promised to kill that bastard after breaking free. But how was he supposed to do that now?

Su Yu himself was already terrifyingly strong. And he had such a large number of powerhouses under him.

”No, there is nothing to fear. After regaining my freedom, I’m stronger than ordinary Masters of Laws.”

Masters of Laws differed in strength, and he was not someone on the weaker side. What was there for him to fear? So what if Su Yu had a lot of people under him? Fine, fine, that would indeed be annoying to handle.

Martial Emperor continued grumbling to himself.

***

Celestial Chasm Realm.

When March and Giant Axe Marquis arrived, both were stunned.

Was this really the Celestial Chasm Realm?

More like a holy land of cultivation!

Sure enough, all their previous assumptions should be thrown away. March could see it. A large mountain filled with bamboo. A large number of eating, drinking, and sleeping iron devourers could be seen on that mountain.

Clearly, they were living much better down here. The entire realm was filled with source qi and beautiful scenery. It was also filled with power of laws. He had thought that they were all living like beggars, but no. They were basically living in a paradise. This was such a comfortable place.

Gian Axe Marquis was looking around while curling his lips. Damn it. These people were living so well. In fact, this place was better than even the Human Realm. Who? Who told him that Su Yu was living the life of a beggar?

What nonsense was that?

Suddenly, March recalled something and said, ”Your Majesty, I just remembered this. We are actually sent by the myriad races. They only gave us this chance to come down here because they want us to take Tiangu and the others to the Upper Realm.”

”Are Great Bamboo Marquis and the others acting as hostages?”

March nodded, ”Yes. All our people in the Upper Realm are serving as hostages.”

Su Yu said, ”Sure. Send them all up. It’s not like you can disagree since Thunderstorm will do it anyway. Hundred Battle is waiting for those up there to start fighting, but the myriad races are worried about their people down here. We can send all these people up to give them that little push forward.”

March nodded. ”By the way, something changed in the Upper Realm as well. Two super experts appeared in the Chaos Mountain not long ago. An eight-winged tiger and a tailless dragon.”

At that, everyone’s expression turned odd.

Fat Ball muttered, ”That tiger ran up there? Is he going to sell us out? Even that dragon is up there. Will he be holding a grudge after we cut his tail off?”

March and Giant Axe Marquis were stunned. Holy shit! Was that their handiwork as well?

Su Yu said, ”The tiger probably won’t do anything, but it’s hard to say with the dragon. But he might be too scared to try anything since he apparently heard Culture King’s voice as well. Then again, what can he really do to us? Will the myriad races trust him? With no trust between them, it doesn’t matter. The myriad races saw with their own eyes how I suffered a major loss back then. They wouldn’t dare to take the words of a chaos beast seriously.”

For them, the chaos race was a much bigger threat than Su Yu.

March nodded. He recalled something else and took out a large chunk of ice. ”This is Snow Orchid General. What should we do about her?”

Su Yu was surprised. ”Why is she here?”

Su Yu remembered that Snow Orchid General had lost her body before. She did not self-detonate, but her opponent had done so, destroying her body and forcing her to seal herself in ice.

With a simple scan, Su Yu saw that the seal around her was quite powerful. Even Venerables would find it hard to break through this seal.

Why was she with March? Su Yu had assumed that she had been collected by the chaos race.

March gave a simple explanation, and Giant Axe Marquis added after a slight hesitation, ”Snow Orchid is a descendant of Snow King. Or to be precise, she’s the first child of Snow King. Snow King might not be dead. Snow Orchid might be useful in the future...Also, Snow Orchid isn’t a bad person.”

Previously, Giant Axe Marquis had been captured alongside a few human experts.

Southbrook Marquis and the others had left with Hundred Battle King. Meanwhile, Giant Axe Marquis was now with Su Yu while Snow Orchid was still sealed.

Su Yu said, ”She won’t listen to me.”

Giant Axe Marquis said awkwardly, ”She didn’t know you that well. Self-detonation will normally kill someone. I believe...she only disobeyed you because she was unfamiliar with you. Things will be fine when she knows you better.”

Su Yu nodded, ”True. But let me ask you one question. During the ancient past, assume you were a subordinate of Martial King assigned to Culture King for a battle. Would you dare to disobey a military command during a battle?

”Our familiarity with each other does not matter here. I was the chief commander of that battle and they were all soldiers. At the time, I was the only active human lord, and they also owed me their lives. It is natural for them to obey me in battle. I gave them a military order. I wasn’t asking for a favor as a friend. Do you understand what I’m saying, Senior Giant Axe?”

Su Yu swept his gaze through the crowd, stopping at Heavenly Fire’s group and said, ”You are free to joke around at any other time. I don’t really care. But on the battlefield, you are all soldiers. I am the chief commander. Only my order goes. When I tell you to self-detonate, do it if you trust me. If you don’t trust me enough to do so...do it anyway. Otherwise, you will be punished for disobeying a direct military command.”

Everyone shivered.

Great Qin King said, ”That is only natural. Regardless of which era you’re from, obeying military commands in the battlefield is a given. A battlefield is a battlefield. There are no emotions there. Your personal desire does not matter there. And we’re still in wartime. Discipline is important. Your strength does not change anything.”

Giant Axe Marquis looked quite awkward.

Su Yu looked at Giant Axe Marquis and said, ”Senior Great Axe, this is our first meeting. You came all the way here even when you believed that I have been greatly weakened. This is a favor I am willing to grant you.”

Su Yu smiled, ”As for Snow King’s gratitude, I don’t need it. I don’t care about all that. Senior Giant Axe, Snow Orchid will owe you for this, not me.”

Giant Axe Marquis looked even more awkward as he hesitated, ”This...”

Su Yu said, ”Don’t worry about it. Just tell me. Do you want her free? If not, we can let her be for now and throw her away later. It’s a waste of space to keep her frozen body here. Or perhaps you can keep her as part of your collection or something?”

Giant Axe Marquis had a resigned expression. But...he wasn’t even that familiar with Snow Orchid. Also, wouldn’t this mean that he would owe Su Yu one more favor?

How annoying!

When he looked at Snow Orchid again, Su Yu spoke, ”This is actually a good opportunity for everyone to recover. I will be draining the heavenly desolate beast dao soon. The power of this dao will be used to help everyone recover. If she were to miss out on this opportunity, I doubt anyone else could help her recover apart from Hundred Battle.”

Right! That reminded Giant Axe Marquis of something else. Snow Orchid had lost her body as well. This would be her chance to recover.

At that thought, Giant Axe Marquis gnashed his teeth and said, ”In that case, please do help her. I don’t know her well, but Snow King...is very pretty.”

”...”

That random statement stunned everyone. What was this? They had thought that he was interested in Snow Orchid, but no. He was actually interested in Snow Orchid’s mother.

To the side, Cloud Fire Marquis couldn’t resist asking, ”Giant Axe, are you really...aiming for Snow King?”

He grimaced and continued, ”Don’t you remember the scandal between Snow King and Martial King?”

At that, Giant Axe Marquis raged, ”Bullshit! Snow King won’t be interested even if Martial King has such intentions. Snow King is a good woman who is as pure as ice and as clean as jade!”

Fuck!

Everyone else started cursing inwardly.

What scandal was this? Why was Martial King involved?