Tribulation of Myriad Races

Alarmed, Topsoil Spirit hurriedly said, “We are not enemies. We can always talk things out. Su Yu, there is no need for us to fight to the death. That’s pointless. The five elemental race and the human race have never been enemies…”

Su Yu said, “Be my prisoner. Throw the copy index away. If you agree, I will consider leaving you alive.”

What the fuck was that? No genius would volunteer themself as a prisoner. That would be the same as handing the entirety of their fate in the hands of others. That was something they wouldn’t do unless they had absolutely no chance left.

Topsoil Spirit said, “Don’t be too excessive! I have already established a connection with the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. Even if you can kill me, you won’t be able to do that in one strike. Countless people are looking for you. Do you think you can kill me before I expose your whereabouts? Will you have enough time to escape your pursuers by the time you finally kill me?”

The two were still moving rapidly while speaking to each other. Topsoil Spirit was moving astonishingly fast even underwater.

With an odd look in his eyes, Su Yu asked, “How did you obtain control over the five elements?”

“The five ancestors of the five elements each left a brand in my body. Su Yu, do you think you can kill me? I am the hope of the five elemental race. Killing me will incur the wrath of Invincibles. I guarantee you that.”

“You’re overestimating yourself.” Su Yu coldly said, “Once you’re dead, you’ll cease being their hope. Any genius will stop being a genius the moment they are dead. Their value will vanish completely.”

That was true as well. Topsoil Spirit cursed. But he was not dead yet, right? So at the moment, he was still the hope of the five elemental race.

He took out an item. The moment the item appeared, it started emanating tremendous pressure. It was a wooden stake.

Topsoil Spirit aimed the stake at Su Yu.

“Su Yu, you asked for this!”

The wooden stake felt extremely powerful.

Alarmed, Su Yu roared and mustered the strength of his semi-opened yang acupoint. At the same time, he consumed a drop of seventh-stage Mountainsea blood essence. His skin started tearing from the sheer power of the blood essence. Even so, he consumed a second drop of blood essence before swinging his saber.

It was as though a river of light had streamed out of the saber, collapsing upon Topsoil Spirit. That was an incomparably powerful attack. But as the price, Su Yu’s skin tore apart. His body was still incapable of withstanding such a level of power.

At the same time, Topsoil Spirit stabbed his wooden stake forward.

Boom!

Intense power of wood erupted and instantly covered the saber light. Next, the saber light exploded. Topsoil Spirit’s expression changed as he cursed inwardly.

Holy shit!

This fellow was too scary. Seventh-stage Mountainsea! That fellow had actually mustered such a level of strength. But that was still not enough to deal with his wooden stake. The wooden stake continued shooting toward Su Yu.

Even with the physical strength of a seventh-stage Mountainsea…

Su Yu’s eyes widened in focus as he stared at the incoming attack and made numerous calculations rapidly. Inside his heart, the miniature man woke up again. Holy shit! What was it this time?

But Su Yu was still unprecedentedly calm. This was still something he could deal with. In fact, he had multiple ways to deal with this.

Firstly, he could fully open his yang acupoint and consume a drop of Sunmoon blood essence to go wild against the wooden stake. That might result in the destruction of his body, but he could survive.

Secondly…using the Five Elemental Art. He could feel the dense power of life coming from the wooden stake. He was no stranger to this power. This was the power of the five elements. And similar to Jiu Xuan’s talisman, this wooden stake was most likely something created by an Invincible.

“Perhaps…the Five Elemental Art can deal with this.”

That power felt too familiar. Should he destroy his body to fight it or take a gamble? Naturally, he decided to gamble.

The Five Elemental Art originated from the five elemental race. One would always be bolder when one had the ability to back one up. Furthermore, there was also a golden book in his sea of willpower. This stake could be considered a willpower attack. But not even the peak Sunmoon characters of Ye Batian could contend against the golden book. He was confident his golden book could handle this wooden stake as well.

Having reached a decision, he activated the Five Elemental Art. All 180 of his apertures linked with each other to form a net. A burst of five elemental power surged out of his sea of willpower and wrapped itself around the wooden stake.

Whoosh!

The two willpower attacks started clashing with each other. With a roar, Su Yu wrapped his five elemental power around the stake and dragged it into his sea of willpower. Right after it entered his sea of willpower, his 180 apertures lit up intensely.

Whoosh!

The entire sea of willpower shook as Su Yu started absorbing the massive life force coming from the stake and converted it into his own. In the blink of an eye, powerful life force flooded his body and even started leaking out.

The injuries he had sustained previously healed instantly. And with a rumble, his body also completed its twenty-eighth forging.

Topsoil Spirit’s expression changed drastically. What the fuck was that? Did Su Yu eat his stake?

He was just about to resume fleeing when Su Yu appeared before him with a flicker. With a curse, Topsoil Spirit took a small sword out and said, “Why must you insist on mutual destruction? Do you really think you can take another attack of the same caliber? The Wood Ancestor will sense the activation of the wooden stake soon. Do you want to be hunted by an Invincible?”

Su Yu was quite shocked to see the sword in Topsoil Spirit’s hand. He gave Topsoil Spirit a deep gaze and said, “You sure are very loved by your race. A normal Invincible descendant will be happy to get one of these Invincible treasures, but you actually have more than one of them.”

After saying that, Su Yu abruptly released all the power he had just absorbed. Aquatic plants started growing wildly all around them. That was an extremely powerful attack. But this battle had caused too much commotion. An Invincible would be able to easily locate him through this power.

Thus, he fled immediately. At the same time, he turned into death spirit and started clashing against the life force in his body with his death qi. Through the clashes, he tempered his body.

The power he had just obtained was something that originated from an Invincible. And it was also the power of life, the perfect opposite of the power of death. Thus, the intense conflict was able to temper his body rapidly. In mere moments, a rumble rang out as Su Yu completed his twenty-ninth body forging.

With both the life force and death qi weakened, he returned to his human form. The death qi in his body vanished as he released a clump of flame to burn all traces of his presence before vanishing deep into the sea.

***

Meanwhile, Topsoil Spirit was wiping the nonexistent sweat from his forehead. He was greatly alarmed by what he witnessed. He was holding tightly onto the sword. That was a treasure he received from the Metal Ancestor, a weapon meant to protect himself during emergencies.

He was no longer confident he could deal with Su Yu. That was too terrifying. An item given by an Invincible for self-protection was naturally incapable of killing Invincibles. In fact, it would have a hard time even killing Sunmoons. But for the most part, the wooden stake was powerful enough to either kill or injure even a third-stage Sunmoon.

But that was not the case with Su Yu. How was he able to swallow the power of wood? Not daring to stay there any longer, Topsoil Spirit hurriedly tossed his index copy away before vanishing far away. That was too terrifying.

Su Yu was too scary. Topsoil Spirit felt like he could kill even seventh or eighth-stage Mountainseas with the tricks he had. But he had failed to kill Su Yu even after losing the wooden stake.

Sure enough, geniuses were the hardest of all existences to kill. Not one genius on the Heaven Index was a pushover.

While he was fleeing, a voice came from nowhere and rang out in his mind, “Topsoil, do you still need assistance?”

That was the Wood Ancestor. The Wood Ancestor had used an unknown method to bypass realms and communicate with him.

Topsoil Spirit replied, “No. The opponent fled. Ancestor, your wooden stake failed to kill my opponent.”

“It’s not that easy to kill Sunmoons. Just be careful. I can’t even track your opponent anymore since your opponent has erased the aura of wood. Try not to provoke Sunmoons. I saw from the index that you killed a fifth-stage Mountainsea. That’s fine. But don’t grow so ambitious that you’re setting your eyes on Sunmoons as well. Even if you manage to kill a Sunmoon by borrowing an external power, it won’t be that easy to get on the Heaven Index…”

Topsoil Spirit felt like crying.

Bullshit. The ancestor actually thought that he was fighting a Sunmoon. What nonsense. That was only a Cloudbreach, not Sunmoon!

“Ancestor, he’s not a Sunmoon…”

“Yeah, I know. A peak Mountaiinsea from races like divine and devil will probably be quite a tricky opponent…”

“No, it’s a Cloudbreach. First on Heaven Index, Su Yu…”

“…”

The connection was severed abruptly. Perhaps the ancestor couldn’t maintain the connection for too long. Or perhaps he was so shocked he accidentally severed the connection.

Topsoil Spirit coughed a mouthful of blood. His entire sea of willpower was roiling madly. A conversation across realms had placed massive pressure on him even though he wasn’t the person initiating it.

And Wood Ancestor would probably remain in the Five Elemental Realm. Since Topsoil Spirit was not dead, there was no reason for the ancestor to leave.

“The ancestor was probably dumbstruck as well.”

Topsoil Spirit continued grumbling. He was promised that the wooden stake could kill Sunmoons. But the damn thing had failed to kill even a Cloudbreach. Maybe the ancestor was busy doubting life itself at this moment.

Topsoil Spirit was extremely cautious. He did not stop moving. What rotten luck. Not only had he gained nothing, he had even lost the wooden stake. Each ancestor of the five elementals had given him one such treasure. When he finished all five treasures, he would be out of trump cards. It was very unlikely for Invincibles to actually interfere on his behalf unless other Invincibles were the ones trying to kill him.

For the most part, all these young geniuses would be left to their own devices unless other Invincibles were involved. After losing the wooden stake, he was left with only four ultimate trump cards.

He had roamed the Allheaven Battlefield for quite a while and encountered numerous enemies. This was actually his first time using one of the five treasures. But the result had strayed massively from his expectations.

“What shitty luck!”

Topsoil Spirit’s heart was aching intensely from the massive loss. Why must it be that fellow? He was nearly killed. That was so dangerous. He was actually forced to sacrifice one of his five treasures just to survive the encounter.

***

While Topsoil Spirit was wallowing in grief, Su Yu was frowning with displeasure. What a difficult opponent to kill.

Damn it! Every one of these Invincible descendants was filled to the brim with trump cards given by their seniors.

Naturally, he was completely neglecting the fact that he had also used the characters of Ye Batian to achieve the feat of killing Sunmoons. That could also be considered a power inherited from his seniors.

“But that has been helpful as well. That power actually helped me complete two whole body forgings.”

Su Yu comforted himself that he had not left empty-handed. At the very least, he had completed two body forgings. This was actually a decent harvest.

Thanks to the life force from the wooden stake, he had even healed all the injuries he suffered from opening his yang acupoint halfway and consuming high-stage Mountainsea blood essence.

“Unfortunately, Topsoil Spirit now knows my secret.”

Su Yu frowned. That would be troublesome. He reckoned Topsoil Spirit would have even more trump cards given by Invincibles.

“Five Elemental Art…”

Su Yu’s eyes flickered as he thought of something. It was very likely that Topsoil Spirit still had four such treasures. In that case, he would have no choice but to keep an eye out for Topsoil Spirit from now on. If one such treasure could complete two body forgings for him, he could probably complete eight more body forgings with the remaining four.

In fact, he had been in too much of a rush previously. Thus, part of the power had been wasted. Otherwise, he could have forged his body even more.

“I won’t be able to absorb more than one at the same time as that will blow me apart. But I can handle one just fine. The Five Elemental Art seems very compatible with the power of the five elemental race.”

This was Su Yu’s first time making use of the Five Elemental Art in this manner. He was quite satisfied with the result.

“Topsoil Spirit can help me complete at least eight more body forgings.”

That was basically a treasure trove. Su Yu licked his lips with anticipation. Topsoil Spirit would be his new target! Since that fellow still had so many treasures and lacked the ability to kill him, he naturally had to make that fellow his new target.