Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was quite surprised to hear that. This guy...was impressive indeed. He had schemed against all three gates before leaving. Nobody was allowed to leave in advance. Sure enough, there was a hidden conspiracy back then. Human Emperor had not dragged the myriad races off because of them. Rather, his sight had never left the three gates. This was a factor Su Yu had never considered before.

”In other words, I have to reach the first tier or beyond to help with your injuries?”

”Yes. There is hope. But that is all. A hope.” Human Emperor sighed, ”It is too difficult. Your rise...came too late. According to my previous expectations, humanity should have produced sufficient powerhouses to help earlier. I left numerous obstructions against the myriad races before leaving. I also left numerous trump cards for humanity...”

How sad. This guy had only appeared at the very end. If he had appeared a few hundred years earlier, things would be very different.

Noticing Su Yu’s indifference, Human Emperor chuckled and said, ”Yes, you have been growing very rapidly. But don’t you think that you’re already at a bottleneck?”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded in agreement.

True.

At this point, further growth would be extremely difficult.

However, he wasn’t too bothered about it. He said, ”It’s pointless to say all that now. The trump cards you left behind...were all ruined by the incompetence of Great Zhou King, or Zhou Tian, to be precise. I’m not taking the blame for that. I didn’t even get much from the previous generations. In fact, Zhou Tian has been hiding many things from me. Ultimately, you can only blame yourself for picking the wrong guy for this job.”

”...”

Human Emperor was left speechless. Was this guy...telling on Zhou Tian?

In a way.

He laughed, ”Zhou Tian is actually quite capable. I only asked him to produce a powerful human lord, but I guess something did go wrong there.”

Su Yu said, ”He claimed to be a Fifteenth Dao powerhouse. But why didn’t he wipe out the myriad races early on instead of dragging things out for so many years?”

”Fifteenth Dao?”

Human Emperor blinked. ”Did he reach fifteen daos? He was only a Seventh Dao when I left. Did he grow so much? But with a part of the river sealed by me back then, he should have been stuck as well. In order to restrict the myriad races, I opted to restrict everyone to prevent any slip-ups.”

Oh.

So Great Zhou King was really a Seventh Dao. But he had gained two new daos recently. More importantly, that fellow had maintained his seven daos all along. In short, Great Zhou King was cultivating two daos from Su Yu’s world and seven daos from the River of Time. He was benefiting from both sides.

How impressive.

Sure enough, Human Emperor was a nice guy. He had given the answer so easily.

Su Yu asked again, ”Was he sealed previously?”

”In a way. But he has the ability to lift the restriction in an emergency. But that will lift the restriction for everyone.”

Su Yu was left speechless. Basically, Great Zhou King was the key to removing the restriction when it mattered. That guy was so patient; it was impressive. He had refused to lift the restriction until the very end.

Human Emperor was uninterested in talking too much about Great Zhou King. He said, ”I need to tell you more about the strength of the myriad races here.”

Su Yu focused. Xing Yue had only told him about the rough number of the myriad races here, but she had said nothing about their strength.

”Even back then, they were much more powerful than today. At the moment, they have 125 Masters of Laws.”

Noticing Su Yu’s lack of reaction, Human Emperor cursed inwardly. Clearly, his little sister had told this guy about this in advance. He wouldn’t be so calm otherwise.

”A few of them were near the first tier back then. But now, they are already first-tiers. Immortal Pseudo Emperor, Devil Pseudo Emperor, and Divine Pseudo Emperor have definitely reached that level. As for the Dragon Pseudo Emperor and Nether Pseudo Emperor, they are either there or near there.”

Su Yu raised his brow, ”What about those on our side?”

Was Radiant King the only tier-one on their side? Even Battle King, the so-called number six in the imperial court, was not there yet.

”We naturally have our tier-ones as well. Radiant King is not only a tier-one, but he is among the strongest within that tier. The three tier-ones of the myriad races are scared of me. In fact, I could keep them suppressed all by myself...if I were uninjured.”

Human Emperor laughed in a self-mocking manner as he said, ”Radiant King is not the only tier-one on our side. Martial King’s first dao companion is one as well...”

First dao companion?

Su Yu was stunned.

What weird title was that?

Noticing Su Yu’s reaction, Human Emperor explained, ”His first dao companion. Martial King was a great flirt. He has eighteen dao companions in total.”

”...”

So...all his dao companions were here? Well, that was it for Martial Emperor. Fighting Martial King? That wouldn’t happen. Martial King’s wife was here. And the wife was a tier-one. Martial Emperor was doomed.

Taking his revenge against Martial King?

Heh.

Human Emperor continued, ”Radiant King’s dao companion is a tier-one as well.”

Once again, Su Yu blanked out. What?

As he stared at Human Emperor blankly, Human Emperor coughed and explained, ”Back when I appointed the Four Cardinal Kings and thirty-six human kings, those weren’t all the human powerhouses we had. There was also a group of powerful women. It would be fair that they propped half the sky up alongside the men. However, most of them disliked public life. Thus, they didn’t receive conferments. In fact, Battle King’s dao companion might actually be stronger than him...”

Su Yu was stunned. Good heavens! How pitiful...They were essentially a bunch of henpecked guys. Wait, but Martial King was somehow able to get himself so many wives even with such a powerful first wife.

Human Emperor said, ”Therefore, humanity was powerful. We wouldn’t have lasted so long otherwise. Even in his absence, Martial King’s merit has been accumulating. Of his eighteen dao companions, only nine survived. Of the nine, one is tier-one and one is tier-two. The remaining seven are all tier-threes.”

Su Yu gasped, ”So of the forty-two Masters of Laws among humanity, nine are from Martial King’s family?”

Good heavens! That was quite terrifying. Some families would be very impressive with only one or two Masters of Laws. But there were nine in Martial King’s family even when Martial King himself was excluded.

”Forty-two?”

Human Emperor blinked before saying with a laugh, ”That’s not correct. We have fifty-two now. A few of them have been out on patrol for some time, so Xing Yue must have forgotten about them.”

Fine.

With this, Human Emperor became certain that his little sister was the one leaking information to Su Yu. However, she was a shut-in. After arriving here, she had not bothered running about. Thus, she was unaware of the powerhouses who were on active patrol.

Human Emperor said, ”We have fifty-two. Including those from your group, we will have eighty-eight. The myriad races still have more, but our number is quite considerable as well.”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded in agreement. He couldn’t resist the urge to gossip. He asked, ”Do the nine wives of Martial King fight among themselves?”

”...”

Human Emperor was left speechless. Why was this guy asking him that?

This was inappropriate! Why was the kid such a busybody? How was he supposed to answer that?

After some thought, Human Emperor coughed, took out a booklet, and tossed it over. ”Take a look yourself. I’m not too interested in these gossips, but some people love sending me their recordings. This is a copy of those recordings. Keep it to yourself. Don’t leak it.”

Human Emperor added, ”Those nine dao companions of his...are very fierce. Do not provoke them!”

Human Emperor coughed and emphasized, ”They are very fierce.”

”...”

Su Yu was left speechless.

So the Human Emperor was a gossiper as well?

Well well.

Sure enough, every ruler enjoyed collecting information, inevitably turning into busybodies.

Su Yu naturally did not believe a word about how these were the recordings collected by others. One of Martial King’s wives was a tier-one. Who was capable of collecting information about them? Human Emperor must be the one who had collected these gossip materials himself.

Nine wives...holy shit! Martial Emperor was as good as dead. If he dared to pursue his revenge...Su Yu shivered at the thought of nine Masters of Laws. He looked backward with pity. Right at that moment, Martial Emperor met his gaze. And then...he blanked out. What was that look?

Human Emperor noticed it and chuckled, ”Martial Emperor isn’t dead...It must have been hard for him to survive this long.”

He was naturally aware of Martial Emperor’s grudge against Martial King. He said, ”The two of us should stay out of their grudge. Back then, Martial King had his reasons for making a move against Martial Emperor.”

Su Yu asked with a laugh, ”Because Martial Emperor slept with his childhood lover, right?”

Human Emperor laughed, ”You know that as well?”

”...”

Then, the two smiled knowingly at each other.

Human Emperor added, ”That was not all. Martial Emperor was brash and stupid. The heavens must be blind to allow someone like that to open the Heaven Gate.

”Even with his Heaven Gate open, he did not do anything proper with it. Rather, he had all his gaze on that tiny territory of his, ignoring all the other major affairs of humanity. That was still acceptable, but he somehow developed an interest in the Heaven Gate. He nearly opened the Heaven Gate in advance. Thus, Martial King was forced to seal him away.”

Su Yu was surprised to hear that. ”You mean...he was mainly sealed because he nearly opened the Heaven Gate?”

Human Emperor nodded, ”Yes. We wouldn’t have bothered to seal him off otherwise. We could have killed him long ago if we really wanted him dead. But since the entire incident was an accident, we spared him. We didn’t even tell him about it since he was stupid enough to deliberately open the Heaven Gate after learning about it.

”He was too arrogant, believing that he was unequalled. If someone told him that it was dangerous to open the Heaven Gate, he would probably try opening it. He was arrogant enough that even the Master of Time was not worthy of his respect.”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded in agreement. Back when Su Yu asked Martial Emperor about Master of Death, the arrogant Martial Emperor remarked that Master of Death was merely an idiot who had not completed his creation.

Martial Emperor was lucky Master of Death wasn’t around anymore. Otherwise, he would probably die to a random breath from Master of Death.

Su Yu laughed with amusement. So that was the main reason for Martial Emperor to be sealed away. No wonder.

He had been curious about the point of sealing him away. They were better off killing him if they wanted him removed. The truth was that they didn’t want him dead. They were only preventing him from opening the Heaven Gate. Martial King’s grudge against Martial Emperor wasn’t the only reason they made a move against him. If that grudge was enough for them to act against him, they would have killed him.

A fool who had nearly opened the Heaven Gate accidentally. Su Yu noted that down. That could prove useful further down the road. This was the first conversation between Su Yu and Human Emperor. The conversation was going smoothly.

They even found a common hobby: gossip gathering.

Very good.

Human Emperor, who had just finished his initial observation of Su Yu, smiled. This little shit...did not seem that hard to get along with.

Very good.

A troublesome human lord would be annoying, but this one did not seem too troublesome. Good. A troublemaker was the last thing he needed here.