Tribulation of Myriad Races

“Wow. He’s very cocky.”

Su Yu grinned. At the moment, he was playing with the mayor’s medallion in a building far away from the Sunmoons. How arrogant. Then again, if they became residents without holding any special medallions, there really wasn’t much he could do to them.

Sealing the city would no longer do anything to them. Even death spirits would leave them alone as long as they hid indoors. Thus, there was a good reason for that Sunmoon to be so arrogant.

If they really reached a point where they had to give up everything and convert into residents, why should they still fear Su Yu? Su Yu was not like the other mayors who were strong enough to contend against Invincibles while inside their cities. Meanwhile, Su Yu was probably only strong enough to deal with early Sunmoons inside his city.

“They’re not strong enough and they’re going to die soon yet they’re still so arrogant.”

Su Yu sighed. He was not far away from completing his fifty-third body forging.

Upon completion, he could surpass the strength of 280,000 acupoints. But that was only comparable to trash early Sunmoons like the red toad. He would still be quite far away from fourth-stage Sunmoons.

Su Yu wasn’t very sure about the amount of strength one could gain through each stage advancement during the Sunmoon Realm. He only knew that late-stage Sunmoons were unreasonably strong.

After thinking about it, Su Yu shook his head. Fine, fine, he would allow those people to stay arrogant for now. He would forge his body a few more times before trying to consume middle-stage Sunmoon blood essence. Only then would he consider dealing with these arrogant bastards.

***

The fourth-stage Sunmoon was pleased to see that Su Yu was left speechless.

He was right! If he had to convert into a resident, was there still a need for him to fear Su Yu? He did not recall any special authority the ancient city mayors held over the residents. Sure, they knew that the mayors could unlock the ancient buildings, but so what?

He would be more than happy to see Su Yu doing that to him. Was a mere Cloudbreach going to kill a middle-stage Sunmoon like him? At that thought, he reached a decision. He was going to convert. There was no need to fear Su Yu!

***

Su Yu did consider pretending to be a death spirit and collect their bloodstained talismans.

But after thinking about it, he decided to not do it. He would allow them to convert. He couldn’t risk revealing that he was actually outside the mayor’s residence. Furthermore, they could share more of the burden with him after becoming residents. He would make good use of them and only deal with them when he felt like doing so. At that time, he could even farm some heavenly rewards off them.

***

And thus, some of the Sunmoons started converting.

There were six middle-stage and four early-stage Sunmoons left in the city. Among them, the two sixth-stage Sunmoons did not choose to convert. The remaining four middle-stage Sunmoons and the four early-stage Sunmoons started converting.

They were left with no choice. If they waited three more days, they would be in a terrible condition. Attempting to escape in such a situation was the same as throwing their lives away. The major race Sunmoons noticed that, but they said nothing.

So be it. They did not care. Converting would turn those people into the living dead. This was good as well. That way, those people wouldn’t place all the blame on them even if some of them were already blaming these major race Sunmoons.

***

At the same time.

The stone statue and Death Sovereign Xing Yue saw each other yet again. As the Sunmoons started converting, several Sunmoon death spirits appeared in the city. Naturally, they weren’t there to kill. They were only there to handle the conversions.

Death Sovereign Xing Yue smiled, “Looks like my death army will welcome a few more Sunmoons in the future.”

The stone statue did not answer. Prior to death, these people would be his good citizens in charge of suppressing the death qi under the city.

Just by being in the city, these Sunmoon residents could curb the death qi emitted by the Sunmoon death spirits. Additionally, they could help wear down the death qi in the city through cultivation.

During cultivation, the source qi a resident produced would wear down a corresponding amount of death qi in their body. The only reason they didn’t feel their death qi dropping was because new death qi was constantly entering their body. Just by cultivating, they would lighten the burden on the city.

Thus, having more Sunmoon residents was a good thing for the stone statue. At the very least, that was the case while they were alive. After dying, they would increase the strength of the Death Realm. But that was inevitable. This was how things worked. Both the dead and the living were given ample opportunity for growth. Hope was not fully severed for either side.

In fact, the stone statue wasn’t even worried about the strength of the Death Realm anymore. Hadn’t Su Yu been killing a lot of death spirits? Why did he need to worry about the potential new death spirits the Death Realm might gain in the future?

Su Yu should keep killing. Wasn’t Xing Yue looking forward to having Su Yu as a death spirit? Even if Su Yu started killing Sunmoon death spirits, Xing Yue wouldn’t bear to kill Su Yu in advance.

It had been so many years. The Death Realm had never stopped growing strong. Suddenly, the stone statue felt that Su Yu’s addition into this ecosystem was a very good thing. Thanks to Su Yu, the Death Realm’s trajectory of constant growth might finally change for a period of time.

As far as he knew, Su Yu had also killed a decent number of Sunmoon death spirits in Heavendoom City.

***

On the thirteenth day of lockdown, Su Yu completed his fifty-third body forging.

He was left with only 1,100 strands of heavenearth profound light.

Nineteen body forgings to go.

Meanwhile, more and more people were paying attention on the city. According to the rumors, an Invincible would arrive to attack the city on the fifteenth day. Would Su Yu die before that? Or would the Invincible be forced to interfere, resulting in the appearance of death sovereigns or even the stone statue?

Which Invincible would be the one to arrive? Or perhaps multiple Invincibles would arrive? It was unlikely that the same Invincibles from before would come. They were all busy dealing with all sorts of troubles.

For example, the nether Invincible from before was still hidden somewhere unknown. Even if his son was in the city, he wouldn’t show up. Yes. The nether Sunmoon in the city was the first son of that nether Invincible.

***

Outside the ancient city.

Invincibles had indeed arrived.

Yes. There were several of them. An Invincible had arrived from each of the immortal, devil, dragon, and divine races. Nobody from the nether and ape races was present. This was also the case for the silkwyrm race.

The four Invincibles were overlooking the city from above. Nobody knew they were here. Nobody could even sense their arrival. The massive city stood silently below them. Even with twelve Invincibles, the city had remained unshaken during the previous incident.

After a long while, the devil king spoke, “We can’t attack together. One of us will blast the gate open. One will grab the ones inside. One will send a slap to the mayor’s residence from afar…”

“Hmm?” The dragon Invincible frowned, “Are we attacking the mayor’s residence? Lade, are you trying to lure that ancient statue out?”

The dragon Invincible clearly disagreed with that. The devil king was Lade, the ancestor of Tianduo, and a devil king from the original devil race. He was incredibly powerful. The divine and immortal Invincibles also frowned slightly.

The devil king calmly said, “Su Yu is an uncontrollable variable. He is the source of trouble. He can last thirteen days without dying. This is not in line with our previous prediction. How bad is his death qi erosion? Can he recover from the backlash? He’s already so strong as a Cloudbreach. He’s already capable of creating massive chaos involving the Myriad Realms. What if he manages to free himself from the dead? What are we supposed to do then?”

He volunteered, “I’ll do it myself. I’ll attack the mayor’s residence. I’ll destroy the entire building with one hit. Even the stone statue might not be able to do something in time.”

He was determined to kill Su Yu. He wasn’t doing this just to avenge Tianduo. That was pointless. He wanted to eliminate Su Yu. He could feel that Su Yu was extraordinary. He was confident in his instincts. He was willing to risk himself and eliminate this potential threat in advance. With him volunteering, the others had nothing to say.

Lade said, “The divine will break the gate, the dragon will help them leave, the immortal will withstand the death sovereign, while I’ll attack the mayor’s residence. We will retreat after a single move.”

They only had the chance to make one move. If they stayed longer, more death sovereigns would appear. The stone statue or more stone statues would take action as well. That would be truly troublesome.

The other Invincibles nodded. That was acceptable. With the Life Trigger ability, the immortal could handle death qi very well. The tasks had been allocated fittingly. Of course, Lade would take the biggest risk in the operation.

Nobody was worried about that. He was not a regular devil king. He was one of the strongest devil kings. He would be able to take care of himself well.

The dragon Invincible reminded, “Even if you fail to destroy the mayor’s residence in one hit, we need to retreat. I’m not interested in losing a tri-life body in this shitty place.”

They still remembered well what happened not long ago.

“Of course.”

Lade agreed readily. He wasn’t that interested in dying either. Were they supposed to destroy the ancient city with only four Invincibles?

“Do we move the day after tomorrow?”

“No. We move tomorrow.” Lade said, “They all think we’ll move the day after tomorrow. Must we follow their expectations? Perhaps even that stone statue is thinking that as well. We’ll act tomorrow and catch them all by surprise.”

“We need to get them to gather near the gate…”

“It’s fine. It doesn’t matter. They should start gathering near the gate about now anyway.”

“What if Su Yu leaves the mayor’s resident after they leave the vicinity?”

“Just have the silkwyrm stay behind and keep watch.”

“Will he agree?”

“Just tell him we’re doing it the day after tomorrow. He only needs to keep watch for one day. If he disagrees, we can make them do it in shifts. The nether, silkwyrm, and ape will take the first shift.”

The Invincibles were completely indifferent to the three Sunmoons. Since their Invincibles weren’t around, why should the other Invincibles care about them? If they were to die, they could only blame their luck. None of the Invincibles objected.

This was acceptable. With those three, they could even slow the death sovereign down slightly. The three could only blame themselves for not being important enough to have their own Invincibles sent over.

After reaching an agreement, the four Invincibles sank into silence again. There was nothing else to say. For now, they only had to wait. Early tomorrow, at the moment when the death qi of the city was at its weakest, they would make their move.