Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu, who had just left, was naturally unaware of all that had happened. He was also unaware that a certain someone had been paying close attention to his every move.

After returning to his residence, he took out his mask and put it on. Then, he sent a message to the white masks under him, “Approach Great Xia’s capital as soon as possible. A lot of their experts aren’t around. Xia Xiao’er has yet to return. This will be our chance to spread the index copies to some key individuals such as the Invincible descendants and students from the more powerful races.”

“Profound Nine, are you at the capital already?”

“Yes.”

“Are you fine?”

“What do you think? How will you receive my message if I’m not fine? Stop wasting time. Move faster. I want to quickly disseminate all 190 of our index copies among the key players. The motto of our pavilion has always been to create chaos if there is no chaos. Don’t forget that. Do you understand?”

The white masks were rendered quite speechless hearing that so-called motto. But they couldn’t help but agree that it was very accurate.

Yellow Nine replied, “Sure. Since you’re the leader here, we’ll follow your lead. But I’m worried about our lack of manpower. That might restrict the number of missions we can complete.”

“It’s fine. If we have to, we can transfer more white masks over. Why do they even need that many people in those weak prefectures? I’ll submit an application to the higher-ups when necessary.”

With that promise, they had no other issues. Since they were already here, they naturally wished to perform well. The other white masks were still busy hiding and running around, but the Great Xia branch was already starting active operations. This was a demonstration of their ability.

***

When he was done, Su Yu busied himself with his own matters. He started cultivating and forging his body. He estimated that he could complete the fifty-eighth forging in about a day or two. He hoped to complete seventy-two forgings before the chaos arrived.

He had already met Bai Feng and the others. To avoid unwanted attention, he had to avoid meeting them too much. If something really happened on their end, Bai Junsheng’s identity might prove useful for him to do something about it.

At the same time, the white masks under Su Yu started moving.

***

Somewhere inside Human Realm.

White One and three other enforcers were in a meeting. Apart from the four enforcers, there was also a faceless elder with them. Different from other elders, this elder had a golden mark on his mask.

That was the mask of an enforcer elder.

Most of the time, an enforcer elder would be a Pseudo Invincible or at least someone with that level of combat strength. The meeting was being held in a relatively small space underground.

In truth, apart from the four departments, some experts of the two chambers were also in the Human Realm. These people were in charge of information gathering, and they had been operating in the Human Realm even before this.

At the moment, all the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion members in the Human Realm had been assigned under the management of the enforcer elder.

Suddenly, Rainbow One reported, “Elder, Profound Nine of the Profound Department, who is in charge of Great Xia, has started accepting missions. He has also successfully established contact with Bai Junsheng and Bai Feng of the Bai Family.”

The enforcer elder checked the records and nodded, “Not bad. I’ve heard of this Profound Nine before. He completed multiple large transactions in Grandstar City previously. This is a person of considerable talent.”

He continued, “Continue your work as usual. Focus on Great Xia, Great Qin, and Great Zhou. People like Profound Nine are merely there to test the waters. It will benefit us greatly if they can really settle down in those prefectures.”

“I understand.”

Rainbow One proceeded to explain the request they had received to search for Chen Yong.

The elder nodded, “I’ll have the two chambers work on this. They have already been working on this previously.”

He added, “Profound Nine is right. Our goal here is very simple. Chaos. If there is no chaos, we will create the chaos we need. Without chaos, people will be much less inclined to purchase things like information, assassination services, security services, and valuable resources. Therefore, chaos is what we need the most.”

“Profound Nine is able to understand the truth of the pavilion. I hope that all of you will understand this as well. Also, try to establish contact with the Myriad Race Cult. This is a relatively strong force in the Human Realm.”

“Yes!”

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was going to officially start its Human Realm operations. The higher-ups had invested massively in this endeavor, hoping that they could profit massively and leave their names in the history of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion as the pioneers of the Human Realm operations.

***

Two days later.

Su Yu had finally completed his fifty-eighth forging. He estimated that he would need at least five days to complete the next forging. He was in no rush. Strength was not something one could gain instantly.

Suddenly, he received a message from Yellow Nine, “Profound Nine, I just received a request to assassinate an Invincible descendant. Do I accept it?”

“Who?”

“Assassinating Xia Huyou…”

“Idiot!” Su Yu berated, “Fool! I told you to create chaos, not court death. We’ve just entered Great Xia yet you’re deciding to kill Xia Longwu’s first son? Are you trying to die? Who issued this request?”

“A customer I found.”

“Who?”

“My customer…”

“I’m the boss here. When I ask you a question, you answer. Let me make this clear. I need the name of every single customer you manage to find here. Since I’m the boss, my words are the law. If you disagree, you’re free to leave.”

“…”

Yellow Nine was rendered speechless. The two other white masks remained completely silent.

Profound Nine seemed to be quite overbearing. The pavilion had given Profound Nine a hundred index copies while the rest of them were only given thirty each. Even with that, Profound Nine was still forcing them to reveal their customers.

Su Yu asked again, “Do you hear me? I don’t want to lose my life because of your stupidity. I am someone who has survived Grandstar City. Why? Because I’m cautious. I’m wise. I’m not stupid. If you don’t want to die, listen to me.”

After a short silence, Yellow Nine spoke, “Fine. I’ll provide you with the names of my customers. The issuer of this mission is a genius from Great Zhou who has entered Nanyuan.”

“Name.”

“Zhou Hongbo.”

Su Yu frowned. That was a name he knew. Zhou Hongbo issued a mission to kill Xia Huyou? What nonsense was that?

It wasn’t that he wouldn’t want to do so. Rather, he wasn’t so dumb that the first mission he issued after contacting the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was an assassination directed toward Xia Huyou. Without knowing more about the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, would he dare to issue such a risky mission?

Would he dare to issue such a mission using his real name?

Was he not afraid of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion selling the information away? In the end, he would end up dead in the hands of Xia Family instead.

Then again, a regular person would probably not suspect this. Great Zhou and Great Xia had never gotten along well. It was natural for someone from Great Zhou to want to kill Xia Huyou.

Nonsense!

That was not something Su Yu would believe. After thinking about it, he took a voice transmission talisman out and sent a message.

***

Not far from Su Yu.

As usual, Xia Huyou was busy fawning on the little immortal fairy. He blanked out slightly, but his expression returned to usual again as he said, “Yu Xuan, what do you want to eat? I’ll grab something for you.”

“No. It’s fine.”

Yu Xuan replied coldly. This fatty was too annoying.

But since this was the crown prince of Xia Family, she couldn’t express her rejection too clearly. Or to be precise, she was pretending to reject him to keep stringing him along. This seemed to be a unique fetish of this fatty.

Sure enough, Xia Huyou replied helplessly, “Alright. I’ll be taking my leave, then. I’ll visit you again tonight. Let’s grab dinner together.”

“Sure.”

At that reply, a smile bloomed on Xia Huyou’s face as he said, “See you later!”

He then left with an expression of great reluctance. After leaving the building, he took a voice transmission talisman out. With the talisman in hand, he hesitated.

Who could it be?

Very few people knew his contact frequency. As for the frequency of this talisman in particular, even fewer people knew it.

After thinking about it, he accepted the connection.

A message arrived.

“Is the heavenly source qi I gave you previously enough?”

“…”

Xia Huyou blanked out. He couldn’t believe this. Soon, he replied, “Where did you stay when you first entered the academy?”

“Mental Tempering Garden, room 609 of block 3.”

“What was I doing during our first meeting?”

“You asked for money for your cleaning service. I told you to fuck off. Is this enough?”

“Yes.”

Xia Huyou was greatly shocked. Holy shit!

Fuck!

That guy had really returned! These details should be known only to Su Yu. With how fast the replies were made, it was unlikely for the other person to be a different person. Very few people still remembered the place Su Yu had first stayed at when he joined the academy. That was too trivial a detail for anyone to care about.