Tribulation of Myriad Races

At the same time, inside the mayor’s residence.

A stone statue in the inner hall awakened from slumber.

The moment that happened, a miniature man walked over with a helpless and irritated expression.

“Passing by. Not a death spirit. Special cultivation method.”

The stone statue stared at the miniature man silently for a long while before speaking, “Is this Troublemaker Su Yu from Heavendoom?”

“You know him, Senior?”

“I can hear everything in the holy city. Not long ago, some people spoke of that incident in the city.”

The stone statue expressionlessly warned, “Heavendoom has a good temper, but my temper isn’t that good. Don’t stir up trouble or I’ll punish him.”

The miniature man thought for a bit and said, “The Pseudo Emperor of the soul devourers told him to do that. The Pseudo Emperor wanted to lure some delicious cultural researchers out. He also wanted to temper his junior with some hardships.”

Hearing that, the stone statue’s gaze penetrated Su Yu’s sea of willpower and landed on the little furball who was lazily sprawled atop the Soul Expanding Hammer. This human was acting on the orders of the soul devourer Pseudo Emperor?

And the statue was able to sense a faint trace of Heavendoom’s power on the little furball. Clearly, Heavendoom had once acted to protect this little fellow. So they were doing this to lure some delicious food for the Pseudo Emperor?

After a short silence, the stone statue asked, “Who are you? I’ve never seen you before.”

“It’s normal for you to not know everyone, Senior…”

“Your willpower clone is on the verge of dissipating away. You won’t be able to stop me if I really want to do something.”

The miniature man nodded, “Yes. I won’t be able to stop you even at my peak. But I’m acting on orders of Great Qin King, Great Xia King, Great Ming King, and Great Zhou King to protect this human. He is the disciple of Silk Destroying King and Heavenly Forge King.”

After mentioning a long list of Invincibles, the miniature man paused slightly and added, “He has also inherited the teachings of Great Song King, Great Han King, and many other human kings…”

The stone statue slowly scanned Su Yu. And indeed, he was able to sense faint traces of powers originating from numerous Eternals. And among them, a certain saber qi was exceptionally powerful.

“His es from Xia Longwu?”

“Yes.”

The stone statue sank into silence. That saber came from Xia Longwu, not Xia Wushen. He had met both those people before, so he could differentiate their sabers. This was a very troublesome human. A human with the inheritances of numerous Invincibles.

The statue warned again, “Don’t create trouble for no reason.”

After saying that, the statue shut his eyes again.

Forget it.

He couldn’t be bothered to say anything else.

This would be very annoying to deal with. There was also the soul devourer Pseudo Emperor. That Pseudo Emperor was ancient. That fellow had lived for so long that…the stone statue sank into thought, wondering if the Pseudo Emperor was the same person from back then.

If that was really the case, then this Pseudo Emperor would be terrifyingly old. If even Heavendoom had to help, then this must be the same person from back then. That fellow had actually produced a descendant at old age. How surprising.

Was that fellow on the verge of dying? Was that why a little fellow had been produced? The stone statue couldn’t understand.

Meanwhile, the miniature man returned to Su Yu’s heart. Since he had been forced to appear repeatedly in such a short period of time, he was on the verge of dissipating due to a lack of energy. He felt quite helpless.

This little bastard was too good at stirring trouble. Just how many stone statues had he met recently because of that little bastard? How long had it been since the little bastard left the Human Realm? If this happened one or two more times, the miniature man would run out of energy and cease existing.

And Su Yu was no longer the same person. It would be much harder to leave another mark on him without being detected.

***

Su Yu was unaware of the conversation between the miniature man and the statue.

In any case, he had never met a statue before apart from that one time when the statue had stayed completely silent. He had thought that it was merely a fortuitous encounter. As a death spirit, Su Yu continued his search for Topsoil Spirit.

He was still searching the eighteenth ring. The residents could be ignored. But even so, there were sixty-two occupied buildings for him to go through. Clearly, there was actually a decently large number experts in the city. To reside in the eighteenth ring, one needed to at least be as strong as a Mountainsea. In short, there were no less than sixty-two experts staying here.

“For the most part, these people won’t be able to stay for more than three days. And when its daytime again, some of them will come out. I can continue narrowing the possibilities then.”

With that, he wouldn’t need more than three days to greatly narrow down the scope of his search. But that was too long for him.

“Topsoil Spirit…damn it. He’s so troublesome.”

Su Yu felt very unhappy that he had failed to kill Topsoil Spirit during their previous encounter. It would be way too risky to proceed with his plan before dealing with Topsoil Spirit.

“Maybe that fellow will stumble upon an opportunity in one of these buildings and end up spending a week or two here to digest the discovery.”

If that happened, he could happily leave without worry. A week or two would be more than enough for him to complete his scam. He was only worried that Topsoil Spirit would appear out of nowhere during the middle of his scam.

Whatever. For now, he had to continue the search. As a death spirit, he started knocking on some of the doors. Some ignored him, and some shouted at him. Some experts even opened their doors, but when they saw a death spirit outside, they hurriedly shut the door. What was this death spirit doing? Whatever.

Time passed.

When the night was about to end, Su Yu found an empty building and transformed back into Tianduo. When it was finally day, he left and continued his search, taking note of the occupied buildings that had turned unoccupied and the buildings that remained occupied.

Outside the city, everyone was still looking for Tianduo. Meanwhile, Su Yu was continuing his search in an unhurried manner. During the day, he completed his search over nineteen buildings, leaving him with only eleven buildings.

If Topsoil Spirit was really in this ring, then he would be inside one of these buildings.

***

And indeed, Topsoil Spirit was within one of these buildings.

He was feeling quite restless. For some reason, his senses were telling him that danger was approaching.

“What’s going on? Is Shi Zun here? I’m hiding inside an ancient building. Is that lump of rock smart enough to find me?”

Topsoil Spirit was feeling greatly jittery.

Annoying!

Furthermore, he had not been able to find the so-called opportunity in this building. Was he supposed to leave? But that might be even more dangerous as both Su Yu and Shi Zun were looking for him.

“Is the danger coming from Su Yu?”

Topsoil Spirit was in denial. That shouldn’t be the case, right? That fellow wouldn’t be able to find him so quickly, right? Nobody knew he was in an ancient city.

Still restless, Topsoil Spirit almost left the building several times. But each time, he dispelled that thought. No. He should keep waiting. At that moment, he heard some noises outside his building. He hurriedly ceased all movement.

Outside, Su Yu was softly clawing on the door. There was no response. But he was sure this building wasn’t empty. He had completed his search over six more buildings earlier. This was the seventh building. Of the six buildings, he had verified that Topsoil Spirit wasn’t in four of them. Like this building, he had not received any response from the other two.

He had four more buildings in the ring to go through. Thus, Topsoil Spirit was most likely hiding within one of the seven uncleared buildings. Su Yu continued clawing at the door.

Inside the building, Topsoil Spirit was greatly alarmed. What was happening? Was someone outside? Or was something outside? He was very nervous. He still remembered how he had nearly died in an ancient city not long ago.

After a while, the noise stopped. He exhaled in relief, but he still didn’t dare to open the door.

But after about half an hour, the same noise returned.

Su Yu had returned. Of the seven remaining buildings, the inhabitants inside three of them had opened their doors out of curiosity after he left. Su Yu had stayed nowhere near them. Instead, he had observed them through his Perception Jade.

The moment the doors were opened, he was able to perform a scan on them. None of the three was Topsoil Spirit. That left him with only four buildings.

He only needed to keep harassing them. Eventually, the people inside would open their doors to check. Even if they didn’t do it immediately, they would wait until they feel safe before doing so. That helped Su Yu narrow his search further.

Inside the building, Topsoil Spirit was growing irritated. What was this? Why was this happening again?

“Who is this?”

Finally, Topsoil Spirit spoke up.

Was some bastard playing a prank on him? He was the future leader of the five elemental race. He was not so easily scared! Was the prankster tired of living? A small golden sword appeared in his hand while his expression turned ferocious.

Outside, Su Yu stopped.

His mouth curved into a smile. A death spirit was smiling.

He had finally found Topsoil Spirit. That fellow was really hiding here. The voice was slightly different from what he remembered, but he could still recognize it.

Su Yu exhaled in relief. This fellow must have been hiding here all this while. Thus, his scam had yet to be exposed. In fact, this fellow was probably still unaware of the fact that he had stolen Tianduo’s identity.

“Found you, Topsoil Spirit…”

Su Yu grinned. It was time for him to deal with the final loophole.