Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1244: Zhu Tiandao’s Madness (1)

“You’re courting death, Su Yu!”

The divine king roared, “First Yellow, you’re a human as well?”

First Yellow answered gloomily, “No.”

“Spatial tear, traveling through space, good at space manipulation…”

The divine king muttered doubtfully. There weren’t a lot of spatial experts around, but there were some races who were proficient in spatial manipulation. For example, the spatial beast race.

This was a very rare ability among humanity. It was unlikely that First Yellow was a human. If he was a human, he would have acted much earlier. Instead, he had not done much during the battle. Was he really doing this for Yellow Nine?

“Put Su Yu down!”

The divine king demanded and released his aura, tearing more space apart. First Yellow’s body warped and vanished. He had moved through space yet again. When he reappeared further away, he gnashed his teeth and said, “Divine King, I’m only sending him somewhere near. Please don’t make things hard for me.”

“Hmph!”

When did Sunmoons gain the qualification to bargain with Eternals? This First Yellow was getting overconfident just because he was proficient at spatial manipulation. He should not underestimate Eternals.

The divine king started tearing through space with sheer brute force, moving tens of kilometers with each step he took.

Noticing that, First Yellow cursed inwardly. He kept reminding himself that he was Kong Qingzi. He was not Hollow. Kong Qingzi had only offended an immortal king by killing Immortal King Tian Xuan’s son. Meanwhile, Hollow was someone who had stolen the Immortal Pseudo Emperor’s coffin lid. That was the public enemy of the immortal race as a whole.

Kong Qingzi should only be a regular ninth-stage Sunmoon. His spatial manipulation abilities might be amazing, but he shouldn’t be comparable to Hollow. His identity as Hollow couldn’t be exposed, but his identity as Kong Qingzi could be exposed.

At that, First Yellow roared as his aura rose to the level of a ninth-stage Sunmoon. Behind him, the divine king was furious. Damn the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion! Just what manner of experts had this organization been accepting? The Profound Department had produced Zhou Tianyuan, Nan Wujiang, and Su Yu.

The Yellow Department had produced Zhu Tianfang, First Yellow, and Yellow Nine. Was the pavilion getting addicted to recruiting people of questionable identities?

Devil King Mohe appeared beside the divine king and smiled, “Is Zhan Wushuang fine?”

“…”

What a stupid question. His body had been destroyed and his sea of willpower was within Su Yu’s hands. Would he be fine? He knew why Mohe was here. This devil king was afraid that separately, they wouldn’t be Zhu Tiandao’s match.

Meanwhile, Zhu Tiandao was nonchalantly giving chase further away behind them.

***

In truth, Zhu Tiandao was feeling very helpless.

He wasn’t confident or nonchalant. He simply couldn’t keep up with their speed. First Yellow was an expert at spatial manipulation while the other two were Invincibles. How was a Pseudo Invincible like him supposed to keep up?

This was too difficult. Left with no choice, he had to act indifferent to mask his inability to keep up. He had to stay calm.

“Mohe, Huoji, you won’t be able to escape me.” Zhu Tiandao’s voice rang out, “The Culture Tomb has always belonged to humanity. Why are you pursuing Su Yu? Are you trying to turn this into a fight to the death?”

Further away behind him, Wan Tiansheng shouted, “Stop Lade!”

Devil King Lade, who was moving in the same direction, hurriedly took a detour around Zhu Tiandao. He was only here for the Culture Tomb and the carrier treasures. He did not want to fight a troublesome opponent like Zhu Tiandao.

Zhu Tiandao couldn’t help but curse. Stop? And how was he supposed to do that? Lade was only slightly faster than him. He could intercept Lade, but if he did that, wouldn’t he be revealing his real strength?

He still needed to keep his cover and deter the two Invincibles ahead of him from doing anything too stupid. But with Wan Tiansheng’s shout, it would be too suspicious for him to do nothing.

His eyeballs spun around as he thought of something and shouted, “Keep him busy for a moment. I’ll kill him!”

Right after saying that, his aura surged madly. He stirred his source qi and willpower, looking like he was preparing a powerful attack. Lade’s expression changed when he noticed that.

He instantly ignited his blood and summoned the River of Time before vanishing and reappearing ahead of Zhu Tiandao. He looked pale, but he did not care. Nothing was more important than staying far away from Zhu Tiandao.

Seeing that, Zhu Tiandao scolded the two behind him in fury, “You worthless fools!”

He appeared flustered at exasperated at the incompetence of the two. Lan Tian couldn’t even be bothered to give a response. Meanwhile, Wan Tiansheng frowned as he looked at Zhu Tiandao doubtfully. Would someone as sneaky as Zhu Tiandao be so open before releasing a major attack?

Was the immortal king supposed to stand there and wait for him when he was so obviously preparing a major attack? Something seemed off.

Wan Tiansheng said nothing. He looked ahead of them and noted that First Yellow was taking Su Yu elsewhere instead of the Allheaven Prefecture. If they kept running around randomly in the Human Realm, it was only a matter of time before the myriad race Invincibles caught up to them.

Taking Su Yu to the Allheaven Battlefield was the only correct course of action. Why was First Yellow running in a completely opposite direction? If they kept moving in the same direction, they would reach Great Song soon. Also, why was Zhu Tiandao so slow? What was up with his speed?

There were three Invincibles ahead of them. If the three worked together, Wan Tiansheng did not think he could stop anyone apart from Lade even with Lan Tian’s help. It was up to Zhu Tiandao to handle the other two.

Old Zhu had never guessed that a day would come when he became such an important person. He naturally knew what everyone was thinking. He felt like crying. When Wan Tiansheng was near, he faced them with a helpless and sorrowful expression as he mouthed a message to them soundlessly.

Return!

Kill those people left behind and run!

Stop chasing!

Keep chasing and they would die together!

They should return, kill the Pseudo Invincibles, and flee with the others.

Lan Tian ignored Zhu Tiandao as he continued giving chase cheerily. Meanwhile, Wan Tiansheng’s heart skipped a beat.

What? That expression of his. And that mouth of his. Was this…a prelude to disaster?

His expression did not change as he roared, “Lade, if you refuse to come back, we’ll return and kill all those people! Including Mo Duona!”

Lade continued ignoring him. If anyone needed to return, it should be Mohe. He would not return no matter what. If he couldn’t gain anything here, he wouldn’t be able to regain his former strength. And that would make his life hard.

For a powerful devil king like him, it was an insult to be weakened so much that even Lan Tian could put up a fight against him. Lade continued his pursuit stubbornly. He needed both carrier treasures in Su Yu’s hand. Without his present body, he needed a carrier treasure to form a new present body. Yes, after so many deaths, there were probably some carrier treasures lying around elsewhere. But all those carrier treasures were in the hands of powerful Pseudo Invincibles.

For example, Wan Tiansheng, Niu Baidao, First Divine, and First Profound. These people were going to affirm their dao with these carrier treasures. Was he supposed to risk his life and fight them for their carrier treasures?

He did try getting Lan Tian’s carrier treasure, but he had given up after failing to kill Lan Tian. It wasn’t like he hadn’t tried hard enough. He had fought a long and hard battle with Lan Tian, but that lunatic was too resilient.

Su Yu was the easiest target around. Even with First Yellow, the expert spatial manipulator around, even with First Yellow’s apparent reveal as a ninth-stage Sunmoon, this was still the easiest target nearby.

As long as Lade could kill Su Yu, he would get everything he wanted. At that realization, he became even more determined to give chase.

Mo Duona?

The Pseudo Invincibles of the devils?

Why should Lade care when he himself was at risk of dying?

Furious, Wan Tiansheng roared, “Fine. We’ll turn back.”

He dragged Lan Tian with him.

Just as Lan Tian was about to resist, Devil King Mohe said, “Make sure to keep following us or we might turn around and kill Zhu Tiandao.”

He could not allow them to return. But he also didn’t want to give up on the treasures. With those two around, they had to hold themselves back. But if they left, the three of them could join hands against Zhu Tiandao.

Wan Tiansheng grimaced.

Sigh.

Fine, leaving was not an option. Without them, Zhu Tiandao’s lie would be exposed instantly. He finally knew what was happening. He was quite speechless. Just how did Old Zhu kill the immortal king earlier?

Did the immortal king kill himself?

Did the immortal king offer his life to Zhu Tiandao out of kindness?

He couldn’t understand, so he decided to stop thinking about it.

He was unaware of plenty of things. There was no need to waste his energy thinking too much about things he couldn’t figure out. This was new to him. He had thought that everything was under his control, but today, he had learned that all those geezers were incredibly sneaky as well. He merely had an illusion of control, not real control.

***

Not far ahead.

First Yellow asked through voice transmission, “Where are you going? I know the coordinates you gave me. I was there before. There’s nothing there. Why do you want to go there?”

“This is not something for you to worry about.”

Su Yu maintained a tight grip on Yellow Nine as he said, “Elder, you better not try anything stupid. I still have the combat strength of an eighth-stage Sunmoon. I can easily kill Yellow Nine.”

He had to toss that threat out as he was worried that First Yellow would abandon him here. That would be disastrous.

First Yellow said nothing as he continued teleporting forward while reversing space to delay their pursuers. He gloomily said, “They will catch up in about three minutes. That will be enough for me to reach that place. At that time, you need to release Yellow Nine. Su Yu, you can’t kill her.”

“Sure, sure.”

Su Yu smiled. But First Yellow was still worried due to Su Yu’s reputation as a madman.

Even before the battle today, this madman had caused the deaths of numerous Sunmoons. Excluding the Sunmoons who had been killed by Zhu Tianfang earlier, the number of Sunmoons who had died because of Su Yu in the past was probably higher than even the number of Sunmoons who had died during the battle today.

After thinking about it, First Yellow sent a voice transmission, “I’m serious. She’s a human. Not only is she a human, she’s someone from the Liu Family. If you kill her, your teacher won’t forgive you.”

“…”

Su Yu rolled his eyes. Was he so stupid to fall for a stupid lie like this? Someone from the Liu Family? Only two members of the Liu Family still lived. They were Uncle Liu and Liu Wenyan. Of course, there were still some survivors among the branch families, but only two from the main family had survived.

And those from the branch families were actually considerably distant from the main family. Was this real?

Su Yu was just about to remove Yellow Nine’s mask to verify the fact before an explosion erupted not far behind him. One of the Invincibles had thrown a punch their way. The shockwaves staggered him, nearly throwing him to the ground. First Yellow hurriedly grabbed them before vanishing again.

First Yellow might not look like much, but he was actually quite strong. In fact, if he used all his strength as befitting someone ranked third on the Dao Affirmation Ranking, he would have no need to fear the likes of Lade or even Invincibles with their complete bodies.

But he couldn’t do so. He had offended someone far scarier than all these Invincibles. Revealing his identity as Kong Qingzi was his limit.

Finally, the divine king recognized who he was. The divine king roared, “Kong Qingzi?”

Divine King Huoji said, “It’s you! Let Su Yu go and I’ll plea for leniency from Immortal King Tian Xuan on your behalf. Don’t do something you will regret.”

Plea his ass!

Did this divine king think that Tian Xuan was the one he feared?

What a joke. He was Hollow. Would that geezer dare to make an enemy out of him for the sake of some junior from his family? He might not have the ability to kill Tian Xuan, but he was an ancient spatial beast. If he wanted, he could make life hell for Tian Xuan. Furthermore, the ancient spatial beast race was also an ancient race with powerful experts.

Only the likes of Tiangu could cause someone like him to feel fear. That was the leader of the immortal race. Not even the ancient spatial beast race could protect him from the wrath of someone like that.