Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 2332: I’m Back (3)

At the same time.

Heavenbridge couldn’t resist his curiosity. ”Your Majesty, where are we going?”

”Myriad Realms.” Su Yu said, ”But I’m worried that excessive movement might influence the flow of the currents and bring everyone back sooner. Cover my movement for me and help teleport me forward speedily. We can’t afford to waste any time.”

”...Fine.”

Heavenbridge had an odd expression. Returning to the Myriad Realms? But they had just arrived! Also, Human Emperor was in seclusion. With both leaders gone, what were the others supposed to do in the event of an attack from the myriad races? Was he not worried that something bad would happen in his absence?

Knowing what Heavenbridge was thinking, Su Yu said, ”Don’t worry. Things will be fine since Human Emperor isn’t dead. I wouldn’t have dared to leave if he were dead.”

Even crippled, Human Emperor would remain Human Emperor. Even with Su Yu absent, Human Emperor could somewhat command his people around so long as he wasn’t sending them to their deaths.

With that, Heavenbridge stopped talking and started focusing on teleporting both of them forward repeatedly. Only a gate like him could do this. Not even the spatial beast race could do this.

In fact, the spatial dao was more useful as an offensive dao instead of a movement dao.

***

There was a need for Su Yu to take a trip back.

Firstly, he had to handle Great Zhou King’s affair. That fellow had fused with his world. He wanted to see if that fellow was still a tier-two after that. The answer was likely yes. That fellow had a lot of daos mastered.

Secondly, there was the matter of Culture King’s world. He had to look around for Culture King’s world. If he could find it, he might be able to really contact Culture King. That would be very useful.

Thirdly, time flowed faster in the Myriad Realms. He could spend a month or so there to fully digest his recent gains before returning. Only a day or two would have passed upstream. In short, he was doing this to save time.

He needed to take the chance to grow even more during this temporary lull in battle. His growth would also give his subordinates a sudden boost. It was far too time-consuming for them to grow naturally.

With Heavenbridge’s help, Su Yu sensed that he was near the Myriad Realms before long. But this time, he discovered something different.

In fact, when they phased over to the segment of the river belonging to the Myriad Realms, he blanked out as a powerful killing intent surged toward him. But immediately after, the killing intent faded, as though it had sensed something.

”King Yue?”

Su Yu was quite surprised. He had not expected that King Yue was still guarding that point of return even after he was dead for so many years.

Su Yu had not thought much about this before, but after this experience, he couldn’t resist stopping here. He knew that King Yue had devoured his own dao prior to his death to contain a final strike inside him.

King Yue was not weak. Back then, Su Yu couldn’t see through King Yue’s actual strength. But now, he could see that King Yue was a tier-three back then. But at the time, even Battle King was only a tier-three. Thus, that wasn’t too weak a strength during that time.

”Leaving a final strike here...and a tiny bit of willpower remnant...”

Su Yu muttered to himself. In that case, was there a way for King Yue to be resurrected? He wouldn’t be able to return through the death spirit dao. He was too strong for the death spirit dao to collect. But could he be resurrected through his willpower remnant?

This was someone who had persisted in his duty even upon death. Even if this wasn’t his subordinate, Su Yu wished to save someone like that.

He had not entertained this thought previously since he believed that there was no hope. But now, he found that King Yue’s willpower remnant was here to determine whether the person passing through was a human or not. That changed things.

Perhaps King Yue wasn’t fully dead yet. Initially, Su Yu planned to go straight to his world. But now, he changed his mind. He tore a rift in the air before emerging from the entrance near King Yue.

***

Ninth level of the Luminous Domain Mansion.

A level filled with crumbling ruins.

A lone corpse floated proudly in the air. That was King Yue, also the first human king Su Yu knew for certain was dead. Back then, Su Yu felt an intense threat to his life just by being near this corpse. He was no longer feeling that way. When he looked at King Yue’s corpse, his eyes flickered.

”Swallowing the dao.”

A truly crazy guy.

From Su Yu’s observation, he noted that King Yue had swallowed an entire dao into his sea of willpower. His sea of willpower had gone completely dormant, but it would activate to launch the final strike the moment the conditions for its activation appeared.”

”The final strike of his life? It’s enough to kill a tier-three, but a tier-two...might survive.”

Heavenbridge was looking at King Yue’s corpse as well. He sighed and said, ”This fellow was quite an overbearing one back then. Who would have expected that this would be his fate? I wasn’t able to come up in the past. I would have given him a proper burial otherwise.”

Su Yu laughed, ”Sure. And you would have died the moment you touched him. Not even being a gate would help you survive that strike.”

Su Yu raised his brow and added, ”There might be a way for him to survive.”

”He should be fully dead, right?” Heavenbridge was left quite speechless. How could someone return from this?

Su Yu’s eyes gleamed as he said, ”Nearly fully dead, but a tiny bit of his willpower remains. He might be able to survive if I can stuff him into my world. I only need to connect him to a dao...He walks the spear dao, but Great Qin King is cultivating that dao. I’m not certain someone like this is willing to accept a different dao...”

At that, Su Yu chuckled. ”Let’s focus on Culture King’s world for now. If I can find it, maybe I can stuff him into Culture King’s world. Who knows? Maybe Culture King has a spear dao in his world as well. Wait, his world might not be ready for the fusion of outsiders. Also, there is no guarantee that his world is complete enough to form a closed loop.”

Su Yu added thoughtfully, ”Interesting. Culture King’s pen dao...is actually very fitting for him.”

Pen dao?

Heavenbridge blanked out. A pen was very different from a spear, right?

Su Yu disagreed. How different was a ↑ from a spear?

Was there a difference?

Su Yu did not spare more attention to King Yue. There was no way for him to stuff King Yue into his world anyway. For King Yue, he was a stranger. That final bit of willpower might ignore him.

But Culture King was a familiar person to King Yue. It might work with Culture King;s world.

”The entire spear dao has been devoured by him. No wonder Great Qin King and the others weren’t able to complete their dao affirmation through the spear dao. It wasn’t that the spear dao couldn’t be mastered. Rather, the spear dao was swallowed by someone. What if King Yue fuses with the pen dao? The pen dao is currently under Nan Wujiang’s control. If they can cooperate, we might be able to produce yet another top powerhouse.”

A dao spirit could control the dao well, but cooperation with someone else might produce an even higher level of strength. Of course, this was only speculation for now. King Yue wouldn’t be someone so easy to resurrect.

***

After a short while, Su Yu left the ninth level.

Before long, Su Yu was back in the Upper Realm after a series of teleportations by Heavenbridge. The moment he arrived, Great Zhou King sensed him. And in mere moments, Great Zhou King appeared before him.

When Great Zhou King laid eyes on Su Yu, he blanked out. Was he back...so soon? Was this guy so fast in everything? It hadn’t even been that long since Su Yu’s departure. Not even a month had passed.

Taking into consideration the time taken to make the trip and the difference in the flow of time, for Su Yu to return so soon...did he leave right after finishing the battle there? Or did they not end up fighting? No way, right?

He could sense the expansion of Su Yu’s world. That could only mean that the battle did happen.

”Your Majesty...is back?”

Su Yu beamed, ”I’m back to take a look. After killing thirty Masters of Laws, the situation there is much better for us. I now have the flexibility to visit home.”

”Thirty?”

Great Zhou King grimaced. Sure enough, slaughter would follow this madman everywhere.

Su Yu grinned, ”Not bad. You did not drop out of the second tier even after fusing your daos away.”

”Your Majesty’s world has grown stronger.”

Great Zhou King explained, ”That allowed me to maintain my level.”

”Good.” Su Yu nodded. ”Come with me. Let’s take a trip to Human Emperor’s world and see if we can help you extract some dao power from his world. Even with his crippling injuries, Human Emperor’s world is still very powerful. We’re helping him by extracting some power from his world.”

Human Emperor’s current sea of willpower was too weak to fuse into his world at its current strength.

In fact, this was one of the reasons for Su Yu’s return. Of course, this was only a secondary reason. After all, not even Su Yu himself could guarantee that it would work. He could only hope for the best.

Great Zhou King hurriedly asked, ”His Imperial Majesty...”

”He’s not dead. His body is broken and his sea of willpower is falling apart, but he is still hanging on. He can still live on for a few days. It’s no big deal. Don’t worry.”

”...”

Was he listening to himself?

Broken body and collapsing sea of willpower. Could still live on for a few days. How was this not a big deal? Great Zhou King felt like crying. How pitiful. He knew it. He knew that nothing good would happen when Human Emperor’s body departed. Sure enough, it suffered a miserable fate.

The body had been nurtured for so many years, but it was gone the moment it went out of hiding. Sure enough, when Su Yu went mad, he would grow strong. But others would suffer. While Great Zhou King was busy entertaining all those thoughts, Su Yu grabbed him and vanished into thin air.