Tribulation of Myriad Races

Great Zhou King frowned and said, ”Ye Batian is dead. Perhaps he has yet to appear in the Celestial River of Death. Perhaps he’s somewhere in the river. Perhaps he has awakened without his memories. He’s not strong enough before his death. Isn’t it normal for him to not have his memories after awakening?”

Wan Tiansheng nodded and asked, ”Sure. By the way, who, exactly, is Liu Hong with?”

”Hmm?”

When Great Zhou King stared at him, Wan Tiansheng continued, ”No, the correct question should be...Under whose arrangement did Liu Hong obtain the ink dao? Liu Hong knew a lot, and he might have been telling the truth. Some information might have appeared in his mind out of nowhere. He might have been shown some memories. According to him, he saw all that from the dao. But can you really see those things from the dao?

”According to Liu Hong, characters are laws. That was how His Majesty and I comprehended so many new things about the dao. That simple explanation is something many Daofuses can’t even comprehend without guidance.

”Was Liu Hong given the ink dao to prepare for the resurrection of someone?”

Wan Tiansheng asked, ”Xing Yue was resurrected because of her life dao. Perhaps a certain someone wanted to send her to the frontline. To Human Emperor’s side, perhaps?”

Great Zhou King said, ”Tiansheng, you overthink.”

Wan Tiansheng laughed, ”Not at all. By the way, do you know Xing Yue?”

”No.” Great Zhou King shook his head, ”I only started following His Imperial Majesty at the end of the Human Realm period. Xing Yue died long ago. His Imperial Majesty stopped talking about her toward the end, so I didn’t know too much about her before her resurrection.”

Wan Tiansheng chuckled, ”Is that so? Sure, sure. Whatever you say.”

Wan Tiansheng could already guess some of the truth. Perhaps Great Zhou King had been prepared to act during the ninth epoch. He wanted to help Hundred Battle King, suppress the myriad races, and welcome Human Emperor’s return with the strongest humanity possible. Perhaps he was even planning to help Human Emperor at the frontline.

But before he could do anything, he grew suspicious. People like Bing Ku and Dan Yu were clearly sent by Great Zhou King. Unfortunately, they had seemingly been schemed to death by Hundred Battle King. As a result, Great Zhou King remained in hiding, cancelling all his previous plans.

He had definitely been aware of Culture King’s legacies. He had definitely been aware that Battle King’s lineage had been guarding the Culture Tomb. But he had not released any of those legacies.

Hundred Battle King had suddenly reverted to the bloodline of Human Ancestor and switched his loyalty to Human Ancestor. And Human Ancestor might have different goals from Human Emperor. There must be a conflict between the two.

That was how the tenth epoch started. This was an epoch where Great Zhou King was the only person pulling the strings behind the scenes. He was the only puppet master all along. People like Great Qin King and Su Yu were merely the people he had guided into a position of leadership.

Ye Batian’s incident had caused massive changes with the multiple character faction. Wan Tiansheng couldn’t believe that Great Zhou King would actually ignore something like that. Anyone else might be unaware that the multiple character faction was Culture King’s legacy, but would Great Zhou King be unaware?

It was normal for the other humans to remain clueless. But even Heavendoom knew that the Culture Tomb was left behind by Culture King. How could Great Zhou King be clueless about it? That wasn’t possible!

However, the Culture Tomb had been left in the academy for fifty years. Even after Ye Batian’s death, and even after the massive decline of the multiple character faction, Great Zhou King had left the Culture Tomb alone for so many years.

Did he not care about the pen dao? Even if he didn’t know the pen dao well, he should be aware of the fact that it was Culture King’s legacy, right? But he had ignored the Culture Tomb. He could have retrieved the Culture Tomb long ago to prevent all the conflicts involving the multiple character faction from happening.

Su Yu wouldn’t have learned a character technique. He wouldn’t have gotten in contact with the pen dao. The pen dao might no longer seem that important, but in truth, the pen dao had played a key role in Su Yu’s progress. Without it, he wouldn’t have grown into a Creator.

Without the ninety-nine characters required to unlock the pen dao, he wouldn’t have built a solid foundation for his eventual Creation.

Countless thoughts emerged in Wan Tiansheng’s mind. Shortly after, he pushed these thoughts aside and said, ”No matter what, you have contributed greatly to the current state of humanity. We are only so strong now because of you.

”Since His Majesty believes that you are sufficient to handle any unexpected crisis, I hope that you will do your best moving forward. Humanity...or should I say Human Emperor, can’t afford to wait for the next human lord this excellent to appear.”

Great Zhou King said, ”That is only natural.”

Wan Tiansheng nodded and said, ”When can you grow into a Venerable, Great Zhou King?”

Great Zhou King chuckled, ”It’s hard to say. I can only depend on luck.”

Wan Tiansheng raised his brow and said, ”Make it next time. The next time someone advances into a Venerable, it might be Lan Tian or me, and you can conveniently reach that level as well.”

”...”

Great Zhou King was completely out of words.

Why was this guy talking like he could become a Venerable at any time?

Wan Tiansheng said, ”As for the matter involving young Hundred Fight, it is a speculation of His Majesty. Do you think that’s really the case, Great Zhou King?”

”There should be some truth in that.” Great Zhou King nodded, ”In truth, I don’t know too much about all that. But Hundred Battle’s son has indeed been very mysterious. I have never seen him before. He has been hidden very well.”

Great Zhou King was someone who had cooperated with the giant race before. Therefore, this was quite telling.

Wan Tiansheng nodded and took this as an indirect confirmation. He said, ”Do you think they are already aware of our presence here?” ”If that young Hundred Fight has been traversing the chaotic space, has he been observing everything that has happened, including His Majesty’s Creation?”

Great Zhou King raised his brow and said, ”That’s hard to say. Maybe. And maybe not.”

”If this is the case, some of His Majesty’s trump cards will be known to Hundred Battle.” Wan Tiansheng’s eyes turned deep as he said, ”Great Zhou King, if this son of Hundred Battle is really so strong, to the point he’s comparable to Martial Emperor, will we be their match?”

Martial Emperor was very strong.

Of course, he wasn’t much in his current sealed state.

At the mention of Martial Emperor, Wan Tiansheng continued, ”Martial Emperor has been sealed for many years. He only started awakening recently, and His Majesty just happened to be there during the awakening. What a coincidence.

”Opening 360 source acupoints to hear his voice. Am I supposed to believe that His Majesty is the sole human to open 360 source acupoints during the past hundred thousand years? If I’m right about this, Hundred Battle must have opened 360 acupoints as well. He must have entered the Luminous Domain Mansion before as well. Why did he not hear anything during his time in there?”

”That...” Great Zhou King thought about it and said, ”Perhaps Martial Emperor only started awakening recently. He might be in deep slumber prior to this.”

”Fine.”

Wan Tiansheng had the urge to tear Great Zhou King’s face to check how thick this fellow’s face was. But since even Su Yu was feigning ignorance about this, he decided to not push it as well.

They each flashed the other a genial smile, but inwardly, both were thinking that the other was a scoundrel.

***

Su Yu was unaware of that exchange.

Of course, he knew that Wan Tiansheng and the others would be watching closely even after he handed power to Great Zhou King. They wouldn’t allow Great Zhou King to do anything stupid.

At that point, morning was starting to arrive. Su Yu said nothing and soared to the sky before flying straight to the Human Mountain. It was time to rob the Dragon Venerable.

***

Human Mountain.

A bunch of powerhouses was leaving the mountain as well.

Naturally, they weren’t clad in their traditional attire as demanded by Su Yu. They did not want their people to misunderstand that the myriad races had once again bowed to humanity.

Before long, the two parties became visible to each other. They continued moving closer toward each other. The person leading the myriad races delegation was Sacred Marquis of the immortal race.

The various powerhouses were present. There was a large number of Venerables among them. Even Sacred Source Marquis, the newly advanced Venerable, was among them. The immortal race was still as powerful as ever.

Sacred Marquis, Venerable Dao, Venerable Desolate, and Sacred Source Marquis. They had four Venerables in their ranks. As for the divines, the Consort Emeritus, Venerable Corona, and Venerable Moon were present.

However, there were only two devil Venerables present. Venerable Scrape and Celestial Devil Marquis. In human language, their names sounded similar (Mo Tian), but in the devil language, there was a big difference between their names.

Just the three major races alone had assembled nine Venerables here. As for the others, Venerable Nether, Venerable Dragon, Venerable Phoenix, Thunderstorm, and Heavenly Fate Marquis were present. All in all, there were fourteen of them. The two parties were less than a thousand meters from each other.

March and those on Su Yu’s side remained on high alert, worried that they would be surrounded by the myriad races. Nobody could be sure if the myriad races wouldn’t suddenly attack them. With fourteen Venerables and a bunch of heavenly kings, this was quite a formidable force. Powerful as Su Yu’s current group was, even they would be hard-pressed to match such opponents.

***

Finally, the two parties met.

The moment they met, Su Yu showed his displeasure. ”What is this? I’m acting as your vanguard, but you can’t even fulfill a tiny request of mine?”

Venerable Moon smiled and said, ”Human Lord Su, you made your request on such short notice. We weren’t able to prepare those outfits in time. We had destroyed our previous outfits long ago. We need time to prepare, and we even need to find some of our elderly proficient in etiquette to help recreate these outfits. This is not something we can do lightly if we don’t want to turn the entire thing into a farce.”