Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside the city.

Su Yu could feel the massive pressure coming from outside the city. The death qi in the city started surging, as though an even more powerful death spirit was about to show up. But at the same time, that death spirit was still nowhere to be seen. Evidently, even the death spirits were feeling some pressure from the Invincibles outside the city.

At the moment, Su Yu had just completed his thirty-eighth body forging. His body had grown even stronger than before. Normally, he would feel both joy and excitement from this. But today, he felt none of those emotions. After all, he had seen way too many experts as of late.

High-stage Sunmoons were everywhere, and even Invincibles were starting to show up. He felt incredibly useless. Naturally, he had completely ignored the fact that only a year had passed since he was still a Source Opening cultivator.

So what if he hadn’t cultivated for long? Were those Invincibles supposed to give him a hundred or a thousand years to cultivate before going after him?

He could only blame himself for being born too late. If he had been born earlier, he would have gotten a lot more time to cultivate. Thus, he rarely used his age as an excuse when facing any setbacks. For him, youth was no advantage. Why? Because the Invincibles would not allow that to be his advantage.

“I never imagined that I would start provoking Invincibles so soon after entering the Allheaven Battlefield.”

Su Yu shook his head while sighing. It was his fault for being too outstanding. He was so outstanding not even the Invincibles could overlook him. Even if he were to drop dead right now, his name would still remain in the history books for ages to come. Su Yu. A human who has fallen only after multiple Invincibles joined hands against him.

There would be a special remark noting that he was only a Cloudbreach when he perished. How amazing. A single Cloudbreach required multiple Invincibles to kill. Could anyone from the future generations surpass such a feat?

Su Yu started comforting himself with such dark jokes. Naturally, he had his worries and fears as well. But at this point, he had instead calmed significantly. He did not regret any of his actions.

He only felt indignant as there were still some things he couldn’t complete. But it didn’t matter. Even without him, the Myriad Realms would still be the Myriad Realms. Since the Invincibles had yet to discover him, he decided to keep working on his body forging.

At 38 body forgings, his physical strength had surpassed 67,000 acupoints. The more he forged his body, the greater the increase would be. At this point, he would receive an increase of seven thousand acupoints per body forging. That was a terrifying level of growth. But it was also terrifyingly expensive. However, he did not care about the expenses.

Resources were things he could always rob, scam, or find if he needed more. Strength was the only thing that would be truly his. His current strength had neared the level of a seventh-stage Mountainsea.

At this point, it felt a lot harder to further forge his body. His body was simply too strong to be forged further. With his body’s current strength, he could probably stand still and allow a Cloudbreach to attack him yet not suffer even a single scratch. His thirty-eight forgings were much more powerful than even the thirty-eight forgings of an actual iron devourer.

And the iron devourers were strong enough to ignore the attacks of Sunmoons at the Mountainsea Realm. When Su Yu reached the peak Mountainsea Realm, he reckoned even peak Sunmoons would no longer be able to get through his defenses.

Su Yu also noted that Long Wuyou had been allowed to take shelter in the mayor’s residence.

While he was thinking about that, the voice of an Invincible rang out, “Mayor, what do you think about offering shelter to the experts of the various races? I believe we will all remember this favor if you’re willing to help with this.”

Someone else spoke out, “What are you trying to do? Are you thinking of stuffing everyone into the mayor’s residence before luring powerful death spirits out to break into all the buildings in the city?”

Was that a human Invincible? Su Yu wasn’t too familiar with all the Invincibles. Apart from the three he had seen before, he didn’t know the voice of the other Invincibles. Who was this? Was that person speaking out to remind him about what the other Invincibles were planning?

There was no doubt that if a death spirit was powerful enough, it would be able to open the door of any building in the city.

The same human Invincible added, “At the Pseudo Invincible or Invincible Realms, death spirits won’t be as stupid anymore. They won’t remember their past, but they have the intelligence of a normal person.”

“Great Ming King, what’s the point of this?”

Someone sneered. They were aware that Great Ming King was speaking out to remind Su Yu. Yes. Su Yu seemed to have the ability to hide among death spirits. But that did not matter. That was simply because the death spirits were still too stupid. Even Sunmoon death spirits wouldn’t be too smart.

But at the Pseudo Invincible and Invincible Realms, the death spirits would regain their original intellect. As long as such a death spirit was spawned, Su Yu would no longer be able to hide among death spirits.

Could he appear and disappear out of thin air like actual death spirits? They reckoned he couldn’t. Death spirits at that level could also freely spawn or despawn other death spirits. They could also communicate with the weaker death spirits.

Su Yu was someone who had killed a large number of death spirits. He would probably be fine if the death spirit experts were unaware of that. But the moment they learned of that, there would be no escape for him. That was a simple yet effective plan.

Of course, the premise for all that was the ability for all their people to seek shelter in the mayor’s residence. Back during the Heavendoom City incident, the mayor had maintained complete neutrality. Not a single person had been allowed to take shelter in the mayor’s residence.

But the mayor of Grandstar City was different. He would agree to help as long as a sufficient price was offered.

With that, the Invincibles would be able to proceed with their plan without worrying about losing a large number of Sunmoons. Late-stage Sunmoons were valuable regardless of which race it was. All these were essentially reserve Invincibles. Losing one or two of them might still be somewhat acceptable, but no race was willing to lose a large number of them.

***

Inside an ancient building.

Su Yu finally realized that Great Ming King had arrived. Great Ming King was essentially trying to remind him that he shouldn’t treat all death spirits as fools. But Su Yu was already aware of that. Previously, the early Sunmoon death spirits he encountered had already shown signs of intelligence.

They all looked puzzled when they saw him. Clearly, his disguise might no longer hold if he encountered stronger death spirits. During the Heavendoom City incident, he had avoided those death spirits by teleporting out of the city. But that was not an option here.

“Dark devil dragon!”

Su Yu vowed to never forget this mayor.

At that time, the mayor spoke.

“The mayor’s residence is incapable of taking in so many experts.”

“In that case, just exclude the humans…”

Someone suggested with an amused laugh. But right after, a gigantic saber appeared in the sky, threatening to drop down and cut the city into two. Great Xia King’s voice rang out, “In that case, all of them should die together. Dark devil dragon, remember to never take a single step out of the city in your life. No…even if you stay in the city for the rest of your life, you will still die. I promise you that.”

“…”

Silence descended.

Abruptly, about eight Sunmoon death spirits spawned in the city. They had all been spawned by the heavy threat the saber was emanating. Inside the mayor’s residence, the expression of a middle-aged man changed. That was the humanoid form of the dark devil dragon.

Great Xia King’s voice rang out yet again, “Dark devil dragon, be very careful when you decide what to do next. As a puny ninth-stage Sunmoon, do you think you are qualified to provoke me just because you have the protection of the ancient city? If I am determined to kill you, who in this world can protect you?”

The mayor’s face fell further. He had underestimated the overbearingness of this human. Great Xia King stepped forward and walked on the barrier surrounding the ancient city before stopping right above the mayor’s residence. His gaze penetrated the dense death qi and landed right on the mayor in the residence.

“So are you going to exclude the humans?”

Even knowing that there was a barrier between them, the mayor still trembled with fear.

“G-Great Xia King…you must have misunderstood me…”

The mayor was breaking out in cold sweat. Great Xia King continued silently staring at the mayor, as though his gaze could penetrate time and space itself to land on him. After a while, Great Xia King snorted and vanished.

“Don’t think that humans don’t have the courage to kill. If you anger me too much, I’ll simply charge into random realms and start slaughtering all lives. So what if you have a lot of Invincibles? Can your race continue its legacy without any fresh blood?

“Don’t try to push us humans too much. I won’t interfere with the things inside the city, but as for you guys out here, you better watch your mouth.”

“Great Xia King…”

Once again, the massive blade appeared in the sky and illuminated the earth below.

The sky split into two as Great Xia King said, “My grandson is on the verge of dao affirmation. It doesn’t matter if you’re going to interfere in that attempt. I only hope that my blade can stay bloodless until that day. Do not force me to feed my blade with the blood of Eternals today.”

He was very strong. At the very least, none of the Invincibles present was his match. And none of them were really ready to fight the human race to the death yet. Great Xia King’s domineering words caused the world to sink into silence.

Nevertheless, Great Xia King had still conceded. He had stated that he wouldn’t interfere with the matters in the city. But he also warned that the Invincibles outside wouldn’t interfere either. This was probably the best he could do to help Su Yu.

Sure, he could fight to his heart’s content and awe everyone with his sheer strength. But…he couldn’t die yet. He had waited too long. His grandson had yet to break through. He still had tasks to complete. Even if Su Yu was boundlessly talented, he couldn’t afford to fight all these Invincibles to death.