Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside the Human Realm, the myriad races were routing.

The four Invincibles were leading the escape. After the bitter battle, the myriad races had nothing but numerous lost lives to show for their efforts. Everyone was fleeing, including the young geniuses and Pseudo Invincibles.

Outside the Human Realm, the battle raged. At this point, all parties had suffered disastrous losses. This included humanity as it had lost a considerable number of Sunmoons during the conflict. This was especially true for Great Xia.

Dozens of Sunmoons had been deployed and half of them were lost. The Martial Dragon Guard had nearly been exterminated. A large number of academy elders had died as well. The survivors were hot in pursuit of the fleeing myriad races.

***

Nanyuan.

Everyone was ignoring the ruin. The truly valuable treasures were no more, and the remaining treasures were not worth their attention. The myriad races had to flee while the humans were giving chase in fury.

They were determined to not allow the myriad races to escape. With Zhu Tiandao, the slayer of Invincibles around, they had nothing to fear. At this point, Nanyuan had practically been leveled.

Not far away, the four Invincibles were moving in the direction of an unknown portal with a group of people. That was the same portal the Myriad Race Cult used in the past, also the safest exit for the myriad races.

This expedition to the Human Realm had been a disaster. None of them were feeling very good.

***

Nanyuan.

The city had turned into a crater that was slowly being filled with water. Only the ruin was left hovering above the crater by its lonesome.

Suddenly, the ruin shook, as though something had been triggered.

Rumble!

Then, a River of Time appeared, spreading far and wide. All the experts in the middle of fleeing and pursuing couldn’t help but take a look at it.

Everyone was stunned.

The River of Time was playing a scene. In the scene, the masked First Yellow flickered as he moved at an incomparably fast speed. Thanks to the spatial undulations, everyone was able to see it in the scene being played. They watched with their own eyes how the white stele in the ruin vanished for a split second before reappearing.

The Culture Tomb was the centerpoint of the scene. Even First Yellow was only a side character in the story being played. But since everyone was paying close attention to the Culture Tomb, they couldn’t help but notice First Yellow as well.

The disappearance of the true Culture Tomb seemed to have interupted the flow of the River of Time. As the white stele flickered, something was projected on the body of the stele. It was a semi-translucent beast.

The beast had a ferocious appearance, but it also looked both shrewd and smug at the same time.

Even the Invincibles, who were busy, noticed that. Great Han King roared furiously, “Bastard!”

He had thought that the Culture Tomb was already on Su Yu. But that wasn’t the case at all. The Culture Tomb had been switched long before Su Yu took it.

“That’s Hollow!”

Divine King Tian Dang looked at Zhu Tiandao and gnashed his teeth, “Hollow! It’s him! Third on Dao Affirmation Ranking. We’re here fighting like clowns even when the biggest benefit has already been reaped by him.”

While humanity and the myriad races were fighting bitterly, Hollow had swept in and taken the biggest prize. This was infuriating. Even losing the prize to Su Yu felt better than this. At the very least, they had seen him snatching it with their own eyes. But instead, Hollow was the biggest winner. None of them would have realized anything if it wasn’t for the River of Time.

Nobody doubted a projection from the River of Time. Something like that couldn’t be faked. Even if an Invincible were to return to the ruin and check the place, they would be able to verify that the projection was indeed accurate.

The Culture Tomb had been stolen by Hollow.

Everyone was furious.

They had not fought so hard just to benefit Hollow!

Damn it!

They had lost so many Invincibles, including the three who had gone after Su Yu. In fact, two of them were there for the Culture Tomb while one was there for the carrier treasures. Were their deaths meaningless?

Everyone started seething, including the humans. Meanwhile, Zhu Tianfang was frowning. He said nothing. He knew that this ruin was actually a fake ruin and Su Yu was involved in its creation. Thus, it was clear the projection had appeared for the sake of removing attention from Su Yu.

He understood what was happening, but he said nothing. This was acceptable to him. Hollow could take the blame. In any case, he had already offended the Immortal Pseudo Emperor. He might as well offend more people while he was at it.

Since he had been able to survive the Immortal Pseudo Emperor’s wrath, he would be able to survive the wrath of even more people.

***

At the same time.

Somewhere in the Human Realm.

First Yellow’s jaw dropped as he saw the scene shown by the River of Time. He looked at Yellow Nine and said, “Granddaughter, I think your grandpa is finished.”

Holy shit!

Was this a real River of Time projection or was this a deliberate act by someone?

Holy shit!

Why did the projection pick the exact moment when he swapped the Culture Tomb to show? And even his real appearance was shown. He wouldn’t be able to explain himself even after giving the Culture Tomb to Zhu Tianfang.

He could see his life falling apart any moment now.

After a long while, he gnashed his teeth and said, “Let’s go. We’ll leave through the pavilion’s portal. We can’t stay here anymore. Even the Allheaven Battlefield isn’t a good place for me anymore. I need a real identity…”

“Elder, what about the Culture Tomb?”

First Yellow said, “I’m not giving it anymore. I was planning to hand it over obediently, but not anymore. I’m not taking the blame for nothing. Let’s go. I keep feeling like I have been tricked.”

He couldn’t stop cursing. Had he been tricked? He took the Culture Tomb out and studied it carefully. After a while, he frowned. He was certain this was the same thing he had stolen from the ruin.

He had stolen it right after the ruin emerged. Nobody apart from him had touched it since then. Then again, he wasn’t able to see through it either. It looked like a completely normal stele.

But he wasn’t surprised. If he could see through this thing so easily, the Pseudo Emperors wouldn’t have been stumped by how this thing was supposed to be used. He put it away, grabbed Yellow Nine, and fled. With a flicker, he vanished.

Moments later, Wan Tiansheng appeared with a frown. He believed that killing First Yellow would be the best course of action. With First Yellow’s disappearance, all clues pointing toward the real Culture Tomb would vanish.

Alas, First Yellow was both strong and proficient at spatial manipulation. This was not someone he could kill easily. He sighed. He felt quite regretful. If he could kill First Yellow, nobody else but him and Su Yu would know the truth.

“Consider yourself lucky.”

Wan Tiansheng wouldn’t have given up so easily if it wasn’t for his heavy injuries. With Hollow around, the matter could come back to bite Su Yu in the future. Whatever. It wasn’t like Su Yu was a helpless lamb.

Wan Tiansheng looked in Nanyuan’s direction as his eyes turned cold.

***

A short moment later, Wan Tiansheng reappeared above Nanyuan.

A battle was still raging between the myriad race experts who had fled hastily and the pursuing humans. However, Nanyuan was still filled wth heavenly source qi and sunmoon yellow profound liquid. Most of the experts had departed in a hurry so they hadn’t been able to gather any of these treasures.

But the ruin was not empty. In fact, there were quite a lot of people. These people were searching the ruin for whatever they could get, such as the cultivation methods Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng had placed in the ruin previously.

This was a very believable fake ruin. There were simply too many treasures in it. Wan Tiansheng had even washed some earth weapons with the River of Time to make them look aged before tossing them into the ruin. One could say that both Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng had spent a lot of resources on this ruin.

For example, Wan Tiansheng had exhausted his years of savings building this ruin. Su Yu had also contributed almost half of the treasures he had earned during his time in the Allheaven Battlefield. Fortunately, he had retrieved most of the more valuable treasures before leaving. But he had not been able to retrieve the sunmoon profound yellow liquid and heavenly source qi in the ruin.

All in all, this wasn’t too big of a loss for him. Thanks to his newly looted carrier treasures, he had actually made a profit. Nevertheless, every single treasure in Su Yu’s possession was something he had risked his life to get.

When Wan Tiansheng scanned the area, he shut his eyes and sighed. There were nineteen Sunmoons present.

Nineteen of them.

Under the lead of these Sunmoons, some young geniuses were busy searching the place for treasures. Even as the battle was still raging. From the very beginning, they had never intended to fight. They merely watched as the warriors of Great Xia died one after another.

Nineteen Sunmoons.

Wan Tiansheng had an unsightly expression on his face. Over the past fifty years, humanity had not even produced that many Sunmoons if only cultural researchers were counted. Some human prefectures didn’t even have that many Sunmoons. If all of them were to work together, they could even keep a Pseudo Invincible occupied.

With such a number, this was a task they could do even if they were only comprised of early and middle Sunmoons. And that wasn’t even the case as there were actually some late-stage Sunmoons among them.

Yet such a powerful group of people had not bothered to help when their fellow humans were dying right in front of them. Instead, they were more concerned with the treasures in the ruin.

Wan Tiansheng sighed.