Tribulation of Myriad Races

Like a rampaging ancient devil, Tianduo bombarded the cage with his fists. Meanwhile, Su Yu was still dragging Tianduo deeper under the sea while releasing the powers of five elements to strengthen the cage.

Strictly speaking, Su Yu wouldn’t be Tianduo’s match if he relied only on his willpower cultivation. The cage wouldn’t be able to remain forever. Then again, that might not be the case. After all, Su Yu had yet to utilize all his trump cards.

For example, he had the Soul Expanding Hammer and his character technique. He had only been using the Five Elemental Art against Tianduo. At 29 body forgings, his body had surpassed 28,000 acupoints in strength. That was excluding factors such as his strength character, yang acupoint, and blood essence. And including his semi-transformed 144 acupoints, he could exert the strength of 30,000 acupoints.

As for Tianduo, his physical strength had probably surpassed 30,000 acupoints while the Devil’s Descend was active. Each punch of his was able to send tremors through Su Yu’s sea of willpower. But that was not enough.

Was this really the best Tianduo could do? Were there any other trump cards?

During this fight, Su Yu had witnessed the Devil’s Descend and some other techniques of the original devils. But was that all? He already knew all those tricks himself. He wanted to see something new.

Since he was going to disguise himself as Tianduo, he had to learn the signature techniques of Tianduo, right? He also needed to learn Tianduo’s combat habits. That was why he had been dragging this fight out.

Otherwise, he could have used all his strength at the very beginning. He was certain that would be enough to instantly defeat Tianduo. The two continued sinking deeper underwater. A constant stream of water arrows and golden beams was sent by Su Yu into the cage to assault Tianduo.

But Tianduo seemed to have boundless energy. And punching was his way of dealing with everything. From the start of the fight until now, he had only been using his fists.

Su Yu started grumbling inwardly. Was Tianduo’s combat style really so simple? Did this fellow not have any other trump cards?

Fine, fine. Some people prefer to specialize in only one thing. That was not surprising. If this was all Tianduo knew, there was no need for him to learn more. This would only make things easier.

Punching? He knew how to throw a punch as well.

When they were nearly ten thousand meters below the surface, Su Yu said, “Tianduo, why are you doing this? I can summon the ancestors of the five elemental race. I even have the talismans of the five ancestors with me. Must you force me to kill you?”

The look in Tianduo’s eyes changed slightly. But he continued speaking coldly, “Topsoil Spirit, are these external tricks all you’re capable of?”

How shameless.

Su Yu snorted and said, “You’re the one trying to kill me. Tianduo, if you leave now, I’ll let this slide. Otherwise, you will have to summon your ancestor as well to deal with my ancestors and talismans. I don’t want to kill you, but don’t force my hand.”

Su Yu was essentially trying to see if Tianduo had access to similar trump cards as well. If he didn’t, things would be very simple. But if he had similar trump cards as well, it was necessary to test the strength of those trump cards.

One could never be too careful when dealing with these index geniuses. With the same cold expression, Tianduo continued punching the cage.

“Topsoil Spirit, you have to defeat me first before you talk about killing me.”

Summoning Invincibles? Travel time applied to Invincible as well. As for the talismans…since this fellow was dumb enough to mention it, would he still give this fellow the chance to use those talismans?

His aura surged as he continued bombarding the cage with his fists. The moment Topsoil Spirit was dead, the five elemental ancestors wouldn’t even dare to offend the original devils anymore. What was the point of doing so for a dead genius? It simply wasn’t worth it.

Did this fellow think that those words were enough to stop him? Thus, his current priority was killing this fellow. Finally, the cage was punched apart. Next, a punch was thrown toward Su Yu.

As for Su Yu, after concluding that Tianduo did not have any similar trump cards, he cursed inwardly. Why was this fellow so cocky if he didn’t have any other trump cards? When he recalled how he had never used Devil’s Descend before, he started wondering if he should give it a try. He had to take Tianduo down instantly, not giving Tianduo the chance to even activate a talisman.

He silently consumed a drop of sixth-stage Mountainsea blood essence. At the same time, his yang acupoint started opening. Even the acupoints to activate Devil’s Descend were slowly activating.

Suddenly, a new worry appeared in Su Yu’s mind. Would he accidentally kill Tianduo with only one punch? The combined power of sixth-stage Mountainsea blood essence, half-opened yang acupoint, strength character, and Divine Character…seemed a tad bit too strong. It would be troublesome if he accidentally killed this guy.

“One question, Tianduo.”

Tianduo frowned and threw another punch at Su Yu. This was pointless. Did this fellow think he could be distracted by mere words?

“Wait, I’m being serious here. Can a seventh-stage Mountainsea kill you with one punch?”

Tianduo snorted, “You can give it a try. Even Aoyun, the genius ranked twelfth on Heaven Index, couldn’t kill me with one punch.”

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. Amazing. He recalled what he heard previously. This fellow was struck by someone ranked twelfth on the Heaven Index, but apart from some broken bones, this fellow had survived just fine.

In that case, it was unlikely that he would accidentally kill this fellow. This fellow sure was durable. Aoyun was not a seventh-stage Mountainsea yet, but his combat strength was already at that level. And in Su Yu’s current state, he had also reached a similar level of strength. If Aoyun couldn’t kill Tianduo with one punch, he wouldn’t be able to do so either.

Sure, he might accidentally destroy Tianduo’s body. But that didn’t matter. It would be even better if he was able to seriously injure Tianduo.

With a roar, he completed the consumption of the blood essence, finished opening the yang acupoint halfway, fully activated the strength character, utilized his unique vibration technique, and activated the Devil’s Descend. A vague silhouette descended out of nowhere and entered his body. Instantly, he received a large boost in strength.

Tianduo’s eyes widened with shock.

What?

Ancient devil projection?

Devil’s Descend…

How?

Next, an incredibly powerful aura erupted as a punch was thrown forward. At the same time, a rapidly vibrating hammer appeared above him and descended upon him.

Boom!

Both the punch and the hammer were arriving at the same time. But Tianduo couldn’t spare any attention to the hammer. His aura surged and his devilish qi roiled as he roared, bracing himself for the incoming punch. That was an incomparably powerful punch.

Boom!

The hammer landed, sending tremors all over Tianduo’s sea of willpower. Blood spurted out of his mouth as his aura started weakening. Then, the punch landed, punching straight through his chest.

A series of shockwaves spread out of the vibrating fist, breaking every single bone in his body. In the blink of an eye, Tianduo had been completely disabled. His entire body went limp, as though he was a boneless person.

Su Yu was greatly alarmed.

“Don’t die!”

Tianduo stared at Su Yu blankly. What…happened? This was not Topsoil Spirit!

That was the last thought he managed to produce before Su Yu hammered him yet again. “You only need to faint, but don’t die.”

“Time to work, Little Furball. Hurry up and seal his sea of willpower. Don’t give him the chance to send any message out.”

The furball shot out and squeezed himself into the heavily damaged sea of willpower.

The first thing he saw in the sea of willpower was a floating drop of blood. He hurriedly swallowed the blood and sent Su Yu a voice transmission, “He has a drop of blood essence in his sea of willpower. He wanted to ignite the blood and call his daddy.”

The little furball’s voice was laced with absolute disdain. That fellow was actually trying to call his daddy or whoever the senior was in his family. How shameless. As for Tianduo, his consciousness was rapidly fading away. He stared at Su Yu as the light in his eyes slowly dimmed. Blood continued spilling out of his mouth.

“Su…Yu!”

Finally, he realized something. This was not Topsoil Spirit. This was Su Yu. That hammer was too obvious. Everything had happened so fast that he couldn’t even think of that possibility when the hammer first appeared.

After thinking about it, Su Yu said, “How about this? Don’t worry. And don’t die. I’ll only destroy your body. Your body is too big to hide. I’ll seal your sea of willpower and preserve it. You won’t die. And if my mood remains well, I won’t kill you. Relax. Don’t resist…”

Before Tianduo could even think with his sluggish mind, his body was completely destroyed. A shining ball of light appeared. That was Tianduo’s sea of willpower. And inside the ball of light was an even smaller ball. That was the little furball.

Su Yu said, “Furball, swallow this thing but don’t digest it. Just keep it sealed inside. After that, you can return to my sea of willpower.”

With this, even when Invincibles tried to track Tianduo while he was pretending to be Tianduo, they would only find that both he and Tianduo were located at the exact same place.

He started gathering Tianduo’s flesh and blood before burning all traces of his presence. At the same time, he constantly released bursts of devilish qi and five elemental qi in the area, generating numerous explosions underwater. That way, others would believe that the battle was still ongoing.

Meanwhile, the little furball did as told and swallowed the ball of light. He was very tempted to eat it, but he resisted. He knew that Yummy was going to carry out a scam and earn a lot more yummy stuff. Thus, he would generously spare that Tianduo fellow for now.

Only when Yummy was done scamming and gathering more yummy stuff would he eat this sea of willpower. The underwater explosions slowly grew in intensity. After Su Yu was done clearing the battlefield, he started transforming into Tianduo’s appearance. He was also extracting some blood essence from Tianduo’s destroyed body.

He wanted to read some of Tianduo’s memories. That would allow him to further perfect his disguise. But he had to be very careful when dealing with memories with Invincibles in them. That could very easily be detected by the Invincibles in question even though he was only seeing them through memories.

Before long, devilish qi surged out of Su Yu’s body. He activated the Original Devil Art. With that, a flame symbol appeared on his forehead. That symbol was extremely difficult to imitate. It was something that would only appear after opening the acupoint on the forehead. His original aura and his willpower were withdrawn deep inside his body.

He wasn’t too worried about his body. Tianduo was a seventh-stage Cloudbreach while he was unable to project an aura of that level since he wasn’t at the same level of cultivation. But his physical strength had surpassed that level. Thus, after some consideration, he decided to pretend to be a weakened Tianduo.

Due to the intense battle with Topsoil Spirit, Tianduo had sustained some injuries, resulting in unstable aura. That would be an acceptable excuse.

“I can’t let any Invincibles lay an eye on me. They will be able to notice that I’m fake with one look. I also can’t let the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion gather my aura while I’m in this disguise or they might be able to determine that I’m an imitation…”

Of course, there wasn’t really a reason for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion to go around gathering the auras from people they had already gathered from before. That was a waste of time and effort.

The people of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion wouldn’t be able to easily differentiate the difference between auras, but the Heavenly Hunt Index would be able to do so easily. Thus, Su Yu was only worried about the Heavenly Hunt Index.

He continued creating explosions around him to make it seem like the battle was still ongoing. At that point, the little furball was done swallowing the ball of light. With this extra layer of security, Tianduo wouldn’t be able to create trouble in his sea of willpower or get in touch with an Invincible.

“Little Furball, if he wakes up, shake his sea of willpower and make him faint again. Just make sure he stays alife.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

The little furball then returned to Su Yu’s sea of willpower. With this, anyone trying to track Tianduo’s location would only find that Tianduo was exactly where Su Yu was. Done with all that, Su Yu started moving deeper underwater.

It was time to proceed with the next step of his plan. The appearance of an ancient spatial pocket. While fighting Topsoil Spirit, Tianduo blasted through an ancient spatial pocket by accident and found an ancient pseudo Invincible corpse in it.

It was perfectly reasonable for something like that to happen. The people observing the battle would not dare to send their willpower over to avoid interfering with the fight. Thus, as long as he acted well enough, nobody would suspect anything.

He had to let those people witness the sight of space shattering apart. It would be even better if he took only the key items with him, leaving some useless ancient objects behind. Since he had been making his preparations for some time, he had purchased quite a number of ancient objects.

Naturally, he had also processed and transformed those objects somewhat to prevent anyone from recognizing them. The most important part of the plan was the spatial undulations that would spread after space was shattered. That was the hardest thing to fake.