Tribulation of Myriad Races

Half a day later.

Upper Realm.

Inside Su Yu’s world.

King Yue stepped forth with wide strides and his head raised high. He was wrapped in his armor yet again. With a detached expression, he cupped his hands and said, ”Yue Chuan thanks Emperor Yu for his rescue.”

After a bow, he raised his head with the same pride and said, ”May I ask if you’ll be heading upstream for the war against the enemies?”

”...”

Su Yu laughed and asked, ”King Yue, are you not taking a short rest after so long?”

King Yue replied coldly, ”How can I rest before the myriad races are pacified? For many years, Human Emperor fought without me by his side. Now that I have returned, I shall naturally join the battle against our enemies!”

Su Yu merely stared at King Yue with a smile. King Yue maintained his cold expression, but he was starting to feel uncomfortable. For some reason, Su Yu reminded him a lot of Culture King. Or to be precise, this was akin to a Culture King that was also a stranger to him.

According to Cloud Fire Marquis, Su Yu was overbearing, petty, savage, and sinister. Of course, he had a lot of strong points as well. However, there was no doubt that despite how refined and gentle he looked with his white hair and white robes, he was a ruthless overlord of the Myriad Realms.

According to Cloud Fire Marquis, Su Yu was incredibly murderous. In fact, he was even more murderous than King Yue. More importantly, a scholar like Su Yu always had a way to be extremely sinister when killing people. He had slaughtered his way from the Myriad Realms to the upstream of the river. Not long ago, he had killed dozens of Masters of Laws from the myriad races.

King Yue had never seen someone this ruthless before. Yes, never.

Culture King was ruthless as well, but in truth, he had not committed too much slaughter in comparison. Back when they first pacified the myriad races, Culture King had killed quite a lot of Masters of Laws. But that was nothing compared to Su Yu who had killed dozens in a single battle.

If they had killed like that back then, the myriad races would have risen in revolt much earlier. In fact, Human Emperor and his people might not have killed more Masters of Laws during the entirety of their conquest than the number Su Yu had killed. Apart from the previous battle, Su Yu had also killed a bunch during the battle with Hundred Battle King. He had also killed a bunch of chaos beasts from the Earth Gate.

All in all, Su Yu had probably killed more than forty Masters of Laws by now. King Yue couldn’t remember the exact number of people they killed during their conquest, but they had definitely killed fewer than forty Masters of Laws.

Su Yu was ruthless enough that King Yue wouldn’t underestimate him despite his youth. Meanwhile, Su Yu was smiling at King Yue. He was quite happy with King Yue. This was someone who had stuck to his duty even in death. Someone like this was worthy of his respect.

”King Yue, can you stay a tier-one outside this world?”

King Yue answered, ”No. But I can barely reach peak tier-two outside.”

Su Yu sighed and said, ”It’s the same with the book spirit. None of you can remain tier-one outside. This is expected, but it’s still disappointing.”

But next, he smiled, ”So you’re tier-one inside the world.”

”Yes.”

Su Yu nodded, ”Not bad.”

This was proof of Culture King’s strength. His world was powerful enough to support a tier-one. This was something Su Yu’s world was still incapable of doing.

As Su Yu sank into thought, King Yue frowned slightly and asked, ”Do you have other things to do here, Emperor Yu? I can head upstream first...”

”What’s the rush?” Su Yu’s voice turned stern as he said, ”Patience.”

He frowned slightly and continued, ”As a brute, you only need to listen. If you’re not a brute, you should be smart enough to wait until I’m done talking. Why are you so impatient? It’s fine for there to be a few brutes like Martial King and Martial Emperor around. But I don’t have the time to look over all of you if everyone is a brute.”

”...”

King Yue was left speechless. He had only asked a simple question. What was this intense reaction? Sure enough, Cloud Fire was right. Su Yu was incredibly overbearing. He did not need to hold back against anyone since he considered himself the greatest.

What arrogance.

King Yue was a prideful person as well, but that also made it far harder for him to neglect his life debt toward Su Yu. Thus, despite his unhappiness, he kept his mouth shut and waited for Su Yu to finish. He was in a rush, but since Su Yu was taking it slow, he had no choice but to wait.

Su Yu continued in an unhurried manner, ”You’re a tier-two. The book spirit is a tier-two. Great Zhou King is a tier-two as well. Book Spirit, do you have a way of spreading the influence of Culture King’s world upstream?”

The book spirit shook his head before nodding, ”I can’t, but Master can. Didn’t Your Majesty form a connection with Master through the Heaven Gate? If possible, you can act as the intermediary and have Master transmit the power of his world further.”

Su Yu nodded before shaking his head, ”We should avoid doing this if possible. We don’t know Culture King’s current situation. Making him exert the power of his world too much might expose both him and myself. At the moment, I still wish to remain hidden from those supreme powerhouses.”

Su Yu did not fear the tier-one clones they could send into the Myriad Realms, but it was pointless to provoke these beings so soon. That might force Su Yu to end his connection to Culture King prematurely, depriving Culture King of the power from his world.

Their connection should remain as a trump card. Basically, all these people would remain tier-twos.

Su Yu sighed. The myriad races might not have as many Masters of Laws as humanity’s side, but they definitely have more tier-ones. To be precise, there were seven tier-ones on their side.

Meanwhile, Radiant King, Radiant Consort, Martial Suppression King, and Su Yu were the only tier-ones on their side. They were outnumbered by three, and that was enough to cause unwanted mishaps during their clash.

If the book spirit and King Yue could remain tier-ones outside, and if Human Emperor could return to tier-one as well, that would even the numbers. And so long as their numbers were even, Su Yu would have the confidence to launch a major battle. Otherwise, the potential losses would be too high for his liking. That was not the result he wanted.

Su Yu started tapping on the desk before him as he sank into thought.

Return!

Yes. He had his sights on Return yet again. That was a tier-one. Unfortunately, that wasn’t someone he could control easily. If Return was willing to listen, and if Su Yu could kill part of the help Return was gathering before subduing the rest, it would be perfect.

Return could even stay behind and send some cannon fodder over to feed Su Yu’s world. That would be fine as well. As long as Su Yu himself was strong enough, would there still be a need for him to worry about the number of tier-ones among their enemies? Numerous ideas emerged in his mind.

The book spirit and King Yue could be treated as tier-ones in absolute emergencies.

”Your Majesty?”

Great Zhou King interrupted Su Yu’s contemplation and said, ”King Yue has something to say.”

After seeing how Su Yu was ignoring King Yue, he instantly understood that Su Yu was in deep thought. Thus, he hurriedly interrupted Su Yu to prevent King Yue from feeling slighted.

Only then did Su Yu look at King Yue. With Su Yu’s attention finally on him, King Yue said, ”Emperor Yu, are you worried that we’re still weaker than our opponents? I might only be a tier-two outside, but I can keep a tier-one occupied. If necessary, I can devour my dao again to kill them. I’m already experienced in this. At worst, I’ll sacrifice myself to take one of them down with me.”

”...”

At that, Su Yu snapped, ”Shut your mouth. I paid such a high price to fuse you with Culture King’s world. Did I do that just so you can sacrifice yourself again?”

Su Yu seemed furious as he raged, ”Why? Why can’t any of you be less bothersome? If I were willing to win through sacrifices, I would have won long ago.

”In fact, Culture King and Human Emperor could have won through sacrifices long ago as well. But after defeating the myriad races, there are still the three gates to handle. With everyone dead, who will deal with the three gates? It’s fine to have a few brutes, but it’s annoying to have too many brutes. Don’t you know that?”

That left King Yue completely speechless. He had nothing to say.

Su Yu snorted and continued, ”I’ll set a new rule. The number of brutes in our ranks must not exceed a certain ratio. All excess brutes will be sent to Human Emperor’s world to be brainwashed—cough, educated.”

”...”

This time, everyone was left speechless.

After having his suggestions rejected several times, King Yue was feeling quite gloomy. He asked, ”What are we supposed to do then? What are we waiting for?”

He was growing very impatient. He longed to join the battle, and he also longed to see his old friends.

Su Yu said, ”What’s the rush? In any case, a battle won’t start without me around.”

It was that simple. Human Emperor would not do anything rash without him around. The myriad races would also be too scared to try anything. Thus, Su Yu was the only variable that could trigger another battle.

Thus, it was pointless for King Yue to be in such a rush.

Su Yu rubbed his chin and said, ”The best scenario is to have the myriad races wait while Human Emperor severs his dao and fuses with his world. The battle can start after Human Emperor returns. Of course, this is the ideal scenario for us, but the myriad races aren’t stupid. They might not stay idle as we make our moves.

”The second best scenario is to have Human Emperor rush into the tier-one before returning to join the battle. As long as he can display the strength of a tier-one, the myriad races will grow wary again.”

And the third best scenario was to summon Return over. But Return might not be willing to cooperate. Also, could Battle King reach the first tier? As for those under Su Yu, none of them was anywhere near the first tier. That was especially true for those cultivating his daos. He had to first worry about his own strength.

To win without much loss. How difficult.

Great Zhou King understood what Su Yu was worried about. After some thought, he said, ”Your Majesty, maybe I can try?”

”You?” Su Yu asked doubtfully, ”Can you break through to the first tier? It’s possible if your do it through the daos of the river, but these are either daos monopolized by others or daos you lack mastery over.”

Great Zhou King nodded, ”I mean that Human Emperor can return with some weak Masters of Laws and those with similar daos as mine. They can sever their daos and join Human Emperor’s world, vacating their daos for me. I can take this chance to try reaching the first tier. It’s an acceptable trade to lose a few tier-threes and tier-fours in exchange for a tier-one.”

Su Yu instantly understood his proposal.

Great Zhou King had fifteen or so daos under his control. He was actually quite terrifying. But only his ten strongest had been severed to join Su Yu’s world. The rest remained connected to the river. Some of those daos were already mastered by someone else.

Even if he severed these daos to infuse the power under his control into Su Yu’s world, it wouldn’t be enough to push him into the first tier. Thus, he was better off staying connected to them.

And now, he was proposing to have Human Emperor return with these people and sever their connections with these daos, allowing him to push forward into the first tier. This wasn’t a plan just anyone could use. After all, none of them had as many daos cultivated as Great Zhou King.

Nobody was as long-lived. Great Zhou King had been around for too long, and as a leader of Human Emperor’s secret guard, he certainly had the talent and resources to do so.

Su Yu considered the matter and asked, ”You are cultivating both the daos in my world and the daos connected to the river. Are the daos not rejecting each other?”

”Slightly.”

Great Zhou King said, ”But the rejection from the River of Time isn’t really that intense. This would never be possible with the Death Realm. But the River of Time is somehow not too sensitive about this. Or perhaps it is strong enough to simply not care.”

Su Yu nodded. True. The River of Time was quite a unique existence. This was a feasible method.

But next, he smiled and said, ”A beautiful idea. You’re waiting for Human Emperor to remove all your competitors. Is this why you have been keeping all these daos unsevered?”

Great Zhou King answered awkwardly, ”Not at all!”