Tribulation of Myriad Races

Nobody could say for sure if an opportunity would arrive. But the myriad races still prepared anyway. Perhaps it would really arrive, right?

As usual, Divine Pseudo Emperor moved forth to face Su Yu while Immortal Pseudo Emperor stayed behind. Devil Pseudo Emperor was moving to face Su Yu as well since he needed to handle the tier-twos around Su Yu.

This time, Radiant King was not faced with two tier-ones. The myriad races had changed their strategy as well. Spirit Pseudo Emperor, who was proficient in many unique abilities, was the one facing Radiant King this time.

Dragon Pseudo Emperor and Phoenix Pseudo Emperor faced Martial Suppression King and Radiant Consort. Nether Pseudo Emperor was still suffering from his heavy injuries, so he only needed to face a few tier-twos. Meanwhile, Immortal Pseudo Emperor stayed back to continue healing the others.

For many, this was just another battle without much difference from the previous battles. Su Yu would probably retreat again after getting a bunch of people injured.

***

”Su Yu!”

Divine Pseudo Emperor punched coldly, releasing his divine power everywhere. They had been fighting repeatedly without much to show for it. Even the tier-ones were tired of this.

”You’re too crazy.”

Divine Pseudo Emperor looked around. At this point, most of the remaining combatants were Su Yu’s subordinates. The moment Su Yu was dead, humanity would collapse. Su Yu’s subordinates wouldn’t be the only ones to suffer. Without Su Yu and his people around, the remaining humans would suffer as well.

Divine Pseudo Emperor had never expected that after so many years of war, Su Yu would suddenly become the key figure of this war. Most of Human Emperor’s people had been heavily injured. Most of the active combatants remaining were Su Yu’s people. The more Divine Pseudo Emperor noticed this, the more tempted he was to do something about it.

Not far away, Devil Pseudo Emperor was showcasing an impressive level of strength. He fought multiple tier-twos alone. King Yue, the book spirit, Great Zhou King, and Martial Emperor had to join hands to match him.

The moment Su Yu noticed what was happening, he understood what the myriad races were planning. It was too obvious with Spirit Pseudo Emperor being the one arranged to face Radiant King. Something was different about this.

Previously, they would send two tier-ones to face Radiant King. Dragon Pseudo Emperor and Phoenix Pseudo Emperor were his constant opponents. Their tier-twos would join hands with the injured Nether Pseudo Emperor to face Martial Suppression King or Radiant Consort.

This was the safest arrangement for the myriad races as they could block humanity’s advance and even maintain a small upper hand. They also had the option of pushing their advantage with Immortal Pseudo Emperor, who had been staying behind. But now, they were starting to take risks.

Spirit Pseudo Emperor had to face Radiant King alone even when Spirit Pseudo Emperor was clearly weaker. However, Spirit Pseudo Emperor wouldn’t be defeated so easily either.

Thus, Su Yu understood that the myriad races had truly bitten the bait. They were thinking of killing him. Immortal Pseudo Emperor, Divine Pseudo Emperor, and Devil Pseudo Emperor would join hands to kill him.

Was it an honor to have the three strongest targeting him together? Of the three, Devil Pseudo Emperor remained nearby while Immortal Pseudo Emperor had yet to make a move. However, both were likely on standby to make a move against him.

How exciting, Su Yu mused to himself. He said nothing and continued fighting Divine Pseudo Emperor coldly. Powerful shockwaves rippled everywhere. How would these people react when Human Emperor severed his dao?

In truth, the best option was to sever Su Yu’s connection with his world at that exact moment. With the connection severed, those on Su Yu’s side would drop significantly in strength, making the fight much easier for the myriad races.

Fighting.

Endless fighting.

Both sides were already greatly exhausted, but this time, Su Yu was in no rush to retreat. The myriad races were also being surprisingly patient this time. Both sides were constantly waiting for an opening to appear.

***

Further behind.

While Immortal Pseudo Emperor was spreading his life power over to cover the bodies of the injured combatants, his eyes flickered. He was preparing himself. As long as they could kill Su Yu, the myriad races would be able to score a massive victory. They might need to sacrifice a lot of people to achieve that victory, but the survivors wouldn’t care. As long as they could defeat humanity, who would care about some dead people?

Of course, if they couldn’t kill Su Yu even after losing so many people...Immortal Pseudo Emperor would probably be the one to take the blame for all those deaths. But at this point, Immortal Pseudo Emperor no longer cared about that.

If they ended up losing even after taking such a risk, it could only mean that they would still lose even without taking the risk. It was only a matter of time. And upon defeat, why would he care about what the others would think about him?

As he contemplated, he continued sending his power into the bodies of the injured combatants.

Some were feeling quite uncomfortable with this invasive procedure. Thus, someone who was almost fully healed said, ”Immortal Pseudo Emperor, you can stop healing me. Don’t waste your strength. A short rest will be enough for him...”

Also, was he supposed to rejoin the battle after making a full recovery? That would be quite unfortunate.

Immortal Pseudo Emperor said, ”It’s fine. If everyone here can recover fully, we can gain a bigger advantage and give the humans a heavy blow.”

He knew what they were thinking. He continued, ”This can’t continue. We need to do something. Even injured, that madman Su Yu will continue bothering us. Killing him is the best way to end this.”

That was an interesting proposal, but they all knew that the difficulty would be great.

Immortal Pseudo Emperor added, ”I will pay the price to help everyone here recover quickly. We can catch Su Yu by surprise and kill him before he can react. Is everyone willing to join me? The moment he dies, the victory of this endless war will be ours.”

Everyone was tempted. One of them asked, ”Can we really make a full recovery instantly?”

”Yes.” Immortal Pseudo Emperor said, ”I only need to pay a price for it. At worst, I’ll imitate Nether Pseudo Emperor and push my dao to the brink of destruction to heal everyone.”

This was indeed something he could do. And it was true that this would require a high price. But if he could fully heal all these people, he might not even need to force them to their deaths to kill Su Yu. Using these people as bombs should remain the final, desperate trump card.

Everyone looked at each other. The temptation was growing.

”Are there any side effects to the instant recovery?”

Would they need to pay a price as well?

”On you guys? There is no cost. But you need to leave an opening for my dao power to permeate into your daos. This is the only way I can ensure rapid recovery.”

Everyone considered the suggestion. This wasn’t too surprising, as most of their heavy injuries came from the damage on their daos. Pure physical wounds were much easier to heal in comparison.

They started looking at each other in silence. None of them suspected anything. Sure, the myriad races had always been wary of each other, but Immortal Pseudo Emperor was one of the leaders of this alliance. They couldn’t think of a reason for him to harm them. After thinking about it, all of them agreed.

”If we can kill Su Yu, that will naturally be the best thing to do. After arriving, he has killed many of our old friends. And he’s truly too frustrating an opponent.”

At this point, all of them were already greatly annoyed by Su Yu. Things had been calm with Human Emperor for many years. Meanwhile, Su Yu had been triggering battle after battle after arriving. They were sick of this.

And thus, they started leaving an opening for Immortal Pseudo Emperor’s dao power. Like a gigantic tree, numerous branches sprouted out of his dao into these daos, sending his life power inside.

He said, ”Be on standby, everyone. Keep pretending to be injured. We will make a move when the moment arrives.”

They followed the suggestion and kept their auras withdrawn to look injured.

***

All the schemes were in place. And now, only a trigger to act was required. Seeing that everything was finally in place, Su Yu rippled his world power slightly.

It was time.

It was Human Emperor’s turn to do something.

The bigger the disturbance Human Emperor caused, the more tempted the myriad races would be. Opportunities were great, but for the most part, they would only bless the prepared.

***

Myriad Realms.

Lan Tian’s eyes flickered as he said, ”Human Emperor, it’s time.”

Human Emperor’s eyes flickered as well.

Was it time? Su Yu sure was efficient. After taking a deep breath, the silhouette dissipated, revealing the original form of Human Emperor’s sea of willpower. At the sight of the sea of willpower, everyone trembled with shock. The ball of light was already badly damaged.

The entire sea of willpower was trembling intensely, with willpower constantly leaking out of it.

”Your Majesty...”

Their expressions changed drastically. Was Human Emperor really so heavily injured? Had he been facing their enemies for so long in such a condition? They could now see just how badly damaged that sea of willpower was. Even in such a condition, he had faced the three strongest of the myriad races with only his sea of willpower.

Ignoring the reaction of the others, Human Emperor started calling upon his dao. If one had the Heaven Gate, one would be able to see a golden dao slowly manifesting in the air. It looked incredibly powerful, comparable to even humanity’s physical body dao. That was his dao. The human emperor dao.

As for the actual concept this dao embodied, it might be responsibility, or protection, or enlightenment. These were the duties of the emperor of humanity. To take responsibility over humanity, to protect humanity, and to enlighten humanity.

The dao shone brightly. If one looked at it with the Heaven Gate, one would find it blinding.

As Human Emperor exercised his control over the dao, his aura started stirring madly while his sea of willpower suffered even more damage. He had to sever his connection to this dao prior to his fusion with his world. The power he extracted from this dao would be infused into his world to strengthen it. He couldn’t fuse the entire dao with his world as his sea of willpower was too damaged to withstand the pressure of that.

Human Emperor looked up at his dao with a complicated gaze.

Severing his dao.

He had created his world at his peak. At the time, his world was weaker than his dao. Thus, he had not opted to fuse with his world at the time. The disturbance would be too great. But he had no choice but to do so now.

His aura continued growing. As his sea of willpower stirred, sounds of crashing waves spread throughout the Myriad Realms as his powerful willpower swept through the world.

Step after step, Human Emperor walked toward his world. The tiny world was shaking as well, as though it was welcoming the return of its master.

Severing his dao.

Human Emperor was suddenly finding it hard to actually do it. He knew that the moment he severed his dao, he would trigger a decisive battle on Su Yu’s side.

He hesitated.

He couldn’t do it.

If he didn’t do this, the myriad races would remain wary of him. Regardless of what they wanted, they wouldn’t dare to actually do anything to Su Yu. Regardless of their preparations, the moment his fake clone showed itself, the myriad races would probably cower and cancel all their plans.

He hesitated.

This was the first time he had hesitated in so many years.

Su Yu’s death would be disastrous. Over thirty Masters of Laws there...no, that was not all. There were also twenty-something subordinates of Human Emperor. Over fifty Masters of Laws might die.

Should he risk it?

Should he risk the lives of over fifty Masters of Laws?

Lan Tian seemed to have noticed the hesitation as he said, ”Human Emperor, Emperor Yu asks that you sever your dao and complete your world.”

Human Emperor looked at Lan Tian and said, ”You understand.”

Lan Tian said, ”I understand. But I also believe. We have survived numerous crises. We have danced with death countless times. For His Majesty, this is merely a small challenge. He will win.”

Human Emperor inhaled deeply and said, ”Fine. I’ll trust him.”

Ultimately, he opted to trust.