Tribulation of Myriad Races

The city was filled with soldiers.

A detailed search was ongoing.

Everyone in the city was being investigated. Their residence permit, background, and strength would all be investigated. And that was only the first round of investigation. After going through the first round, the second round would come, followed by the third round.

Inside a large building.

About a dozen Martial Dragon Guard experts were searching the place. Soon, one of them reported something to their leader. The leader, a Cloudbreach, ordered, “Seize them.”

Boom!

Instantly, a fight broke out.

Shortly after, three cultists were killed. They died with great indignation. Damn it! They had hidden here for so many years. But instead of being exposed by their own actions, they had been exposed due to that Profound Nine, someone they didn’t even know!

They felt greatly wronged.

It had been years since the Xia Family performed such a search on the city. Because of that Profound Nine, the entire city was placed under investigation. Everything had happened too quickly. None of them could react.

Such battles were erupting all over the city.

Even if one could get through the first round of investigation, that might not be the case for the second or the third round. The first round would be carried out by Cloudbreaches. The second round would be carried out by Mountainseas. And the third round would be carried out by Sunmoons. Secret after secret was unveiled.

This was too hateful!

The people of Great Xia were still raging. How could they swallow such humiliation? Thus, the locals cooperated with the investigation, determined to hunt Profound Nine down. Their anger could only be quelled with Profound Nine’s death.

***

At the same time.

Somewhere inside the prefect’s residence.

Administrator Hu had a helpless and nervous expression. His head was lowered with guilt. It had been years since he last felt so helpless.

“Marquis…”

He carefully handed the tiny ball of light to Marquis Xia and said, “I already repaired the sea of willpower. But Xinyi no longer has his body. I’m afraid…he has to cultivate from scratch.” Even saying those words filled him with disgrace.

“I…have disappointed your trust.”

Beside him, General Zhao dropped on one knee and said, “Marquis, this general is incompetent. If I fail to kill Profound Nine, I will take my own life to atone for this mistake. Great Xia has never suffered such humiliation before. I have disgraced the Martial Dragon Guard and the people of Great Xia. I do not deserve your trust!”

The two experts respectively represented the administrative and military branches of Great Xia. And they both felt incomparably furious. They had failed their lord!

Yes, Xia Xinyi was still alive. But…he was still in a terrible situation. Cultivating from scratch was not an easy thing to do. With trembling hands, Marquis Xia took the shining ball.

Clenching his teeth, he ordered, “Search! Search personally! I want to see Profound Nine dead!”

“Yes!”

With boundless fury, the two experts left to join the search as well. They would not rest before their job was done.

After the two left, Marquis Xia cursed helplessly, “Fuck!”

Clenching his teeth, he looked in a certain direction and spat, “Bastard! Look what you did to my son! Don’t you know how to hold your punch? Damn it! Why must you blast his body apart? This…this…is too harsh! Where is your conscience?”

Marquis Xia scolded again and again. That was too harsh. Also, even his son’s sea of willpower was damaged. How expensive would this be to fix? Furthermore, why did that bastard blast his son apart with only one punch? Wouldn’t that be too embarrassing for the Xia Family?

How harsh.

Marquis Xia even started cursing Old Wan’s ancestors inwardly. As a father, he felt deeply hurt. In fact, he felt so hurt that he nearly decided to not pay for the treatment anymore.

Before long, a sorrowful voice rang out from outside the room, “Second Granduncle, I’m back.”

“Come in.”

“Grandpa…”

A sobbing Xia Chan also walked in alongside Xia Huyou.

With her eyes red, Xia Chan said, “Grandpa, you must avenge my father! Find Profound Nine! I will cut him into pieces myself! I heard he’s from the fiery eye race. Grandpa, I want to lead an army and exterminate this race as an offering to my father’s soul!”

Her every word was filled with intense killing intent. Xia Chan was filled with grief and indignation. Her father had been killed. This was a grudge she would never forgive. Naturally, she was not aware that her father’s sea of willpower had survived. Everything had happened too fast so Administrator Hu didn’t have the chance to tell her yet.

Beside her, Xia Huyou nodded solemnly.

After shooting Xia Huyou a glance, Marquis Xia looked at Xia Chan and said, “Chan, enter seclusion. Now. Do not leave before entering the Skysoar Realm. You can’t wait anymore. The Xia Family will not let this slide. When you become a Skysoar, we can start taking our revenge.”

Marquis Xia gnashed his teeth and said, “Turn your fury into your strength. As a child of Xia, we don’t rely on words to establish ourselves in the Myriad Realms. Rather, we rely on our strength. Without strength, your father can only die helplessly in broad daylight. Without strength, he died without the ability to hit back. The Xia Family has never produced a female Invincible before. Remember everything that has happened today. Remember your vengeance. Cry if you must, but don’t forget to grow stronger!”

With her eyes red, Xia Chan nodded with great determination.

As a child of Xia, she would not forgive this. She would become an Invincible! She would avenge her father with her own hands! The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was too strong. The Xia Family might not be its match yet.

She said nothing else and walked away with boundless fury and grief. She would enter seclusion. She would break through into the Skysoar Realm!

***

With Xia Chan’s departure, only two people were left in the room.

Marquis Xia looked at his seemingly sad grandnephew for a while before cursing, “Damn it! That’s your uncle! Don’t you know how to hold back a little?”

Xia Huyou looked up and replied helplessly, “But not my direct uncle.”

Yes. Xia Xinyi was Xia Longwu’s cousin, not brother. So he was not considered Xia Huyou’s direct uncle.

Marquis Xia rolled his eyes and said, “Why were you so harsh? Just injure him a bit. This is too harsh. As a father, I’m so saddened I feel like crying.”

“Without a body, he can simply cultivate from scratch.”

Xia Huyou said with the same helpless tone, “Also, it wasn’t me. It was that fellow. I didn’t expect him to be so cold, blasting the entire body apart with only one punch.”

Marquis Xia glared at Xia Huyou and said, “Why bother trying to remove your uncle from this entire affair? With his talent, strength, and intelligence, he would be useless even if he survived without us. He might as well stand with us until the end.”

After giving it some thought, Xia Huyou replied, “Too weak. Uncle is too weak to help. No matter what, he is still good for giving birth, right? He should survive and produce more children to boost our numbers.”

Marquis Xia thought about it and nodded. Yes. That made a lot of sense.

He ignored his son who was now a ball of light and said, “That fellow was too harsh. He has a lot of sunmoon profound yellow liquid and heavenearth profound light, right? Did he offer some to my son? Look at how pitiful he is…”

Xia Huyou had a strong urge to roll his eyes as he replied, “Nope. In fact, he’s even thinking of asking to be paid for the job.”

“Damn him!” Marquis Xia scolded and said, “If we don’t kill Profound Nine, the Xia Family will lose all face. Kill more cultists in the city. We can even send the Martial Dragon Guard out and wipe out a few cult strongholds. Flood the Myriad Race Pit. Also, take this chance to investigate all those myriad race experts hiding in the academy. If they resist, kill them!”

“Sure.”

“Also…” Marquis Xia paused slightly and continued, “Contact him and get some heavenly source qi from him. I need as much as he can provide. That guy has a terrifyingly large amount of heavenly source qi. Someone sold a large amount of heavenly source qi when Grandstar City was sealed. That guy must be the seller. Get as much as you can from him.”

“He definitely won’t provide anything for free. Second Granduncle, we’re running out of funds.”

“What nonsense.” Marquis Xia rolled his eyes and said, “How are we running out of funds? Great Xia has plenty of property. The Xia Trade Company is worth billions of merit points. Sell him thirty percent of our shares and we can get hundreds of millions. We will have plenty of money to spend.”

“…”

Clearly, Marquis Xia was trying to get some money for free.

Xia Huyou was left speechless.

Noticing Xia Huyou’s gaze, Marquis Xia coughed awkwardly and said, “It’s fine. Just do it. If that doesn’t work, we have other stuff to sell. We can even sell him our grottos. Issue him a receipt. He can claim it in a few months. We can even stamp the seal of Great Xia King on the receipt.”

“…”

Xia Huyou decided to ignore Marquis Xia. He looked at the ball of light, coughed, and asked, “Uhm…Uncle…”

“We won’t rebuild his body anytime soon. It’s much easier to take a ball of light away than to take a grown adult away.”

Marquis Xia paused slightly and asked, “Where do you think we should send your uncle?”

Xia Huyou thought about it and answered with some hesitation, “A minor realm?”

“That’s not safe enough.”

Marquis Xia shook his head. After a short silence, he said, “If we have no choice, just send him to an ancient city. He can become a resident.”

“This…” Xia Huyou said, “No, I don’t think this is a good idea. Not everyone is like that guy. Not everyone can be fine after becoming a resident. This definitely won’t work. Why don’t…we send him to Great Ming? It’s more peaceful over there.”

“True.” Marquis Xia nodded, “We’ll do this for now, then. Sigh.”

After a sigh, he continued, “This time, we will pull back all our people. But Profound Nine can’t die so fast. After his death, we won’t have a good excuse to keep our people in Great Xia anymore. It doesn’t matter if this is embarassing. We’ll drag this out for a few months. Get that guy to provide us with the information of some pavilion members. Even better if he can point us to some members with reasonably high status. Even if we don’t kill him, we need to kill some other members to establish our dominance, right?”

“He might charge us for this service…”

Marquis Xia scolded, “Money? Again? That guy is already so rich! Why is he still thinking about money all the time? Does he want me to sell his information and reveal to the world that he’s Profound Nine instead?”

“…”

Once again, Xia Huyou was rendered speechless. His second granduncle sure was shameless.

“Fine. I’ll talk to him about this.”

After a slight hesitation, he asked, “Second Granduncle, how…is that guy growing so fast? He punched Uncle to death with only one hit…cough, I mean he injured Uncle with one hit. Does he really have a ruin?”

“Ask him yourself. How am I supposed to know?”

“Fine.” Xia Huyou nodded. His tone turned helpless as he said, “That guy sure is good at stirring shit. I only told him to attempt an assassination. But he actually did it in broad daylight. That was too excessive! My pitiful uncle!”

Marquis Xia glared at Xia Huyou. So this little shit knew how pitiful his uncle was, after all?

Marquis Xia rubbed the ball of light and lamented the fate of his pitiful son. Sigh. What did his son do to deserve the fate of being punched into a ball? His son should remember this well and cultivate well in the future. One should not be complacent just because one had a strong family.