Tribulation of Myriad Races

The various Invincibles had tacitly agreed to allocate the slots through a competition.

A battle for those below the Invincible Realm held in an ancient city would not result in much losses. Thus, the risk was acceptable for most people involved.

Just as everyone was nearly done picking their combatants, Xuan Wuji’s voice rang out, “My lords, Xuan Wuji has something to say.”

Dao King smiled and asked, “Xuan Wuji, we’re in the middle of picking the combatants. What do you have to say? Are you uninterested in getting a slot?”

“Not at all.” Hovering in the sky, Xuan Wuji bowed and said, “My lords, please give Xuan Wuji the chance to say something.”

All the Invincibles looked at him with surprise. What was he trying to say at a time like this?

Dao King looked at the others and said, “Why not? Shall we?”

The others nodded. They did not mind. They were quite generous toward a Heaven Index genius like Xuan Wuji.

Xuan Wuji solemnly said, “I wish to say that someone is not qualified to participate in the selection. That person isn’t even qualified to enter the mansion. As of late, a large number of young cultivators have been killed. They are too weak to be noticed by my lords here, but the losses are massive. The victims hailed from numerous races…”

“The murderer had killed all these people for a terrifying reason. It will be disastrous to allow this person to enter the mansion.”

Dao King said, “Wuji, killing is normal in the Allheaven Battlefield. You worry too much. Don’t waste everyone’s time with a trivial matter like this.”

“No, Dao King. We must take this matter seriously.” Xuan Wuji took a jade talisman out, inhaled deeply, and argued, “I received this somewhere. When I checked the contents, I couldn’t help but shiver. After many days of struggle, I concluded that those who had given me this jade talisman must have done so because they were worried that nobody would seek justice for them. That was why they decided to seek the assistance of the immortals. We need to uphold justice.”

He tossed the jade talisman into the air.

Then, a scene started playing in the sky.

Splurt!

The sounds of bodies tearing apart resounded in the sky as the scene depicted the death of a flying sky tiger. With his back to the recorder, Zhan Wushuang retrieved the corpse and extracted the blood essence inside before leaving without bothering to look behind him.

With a flicker, the scene depicted yet another murder. This time, it was a mountainbreak bull.

Next, the scene of a massive scorpion’s murder was shown.

Scene after scene was played.

Someone yelled in despair, “Why? Zhan Wushuang! Why?”

They wailed miserably. They wailed indignantly.

Everyone on the island could see these scenes. Amid the crowd, Zhan Wushuang watched silently. He showed zero emotions on his face. Around him, the minor race experts hurriedly distanced themselves from him. Some were even looking at him with hatred.

Seeing all those scenes, some divines started frowning. That was a tad bit too excessive. More importantly, some of the victims were merely weaklings whom Zhan Wushuang had killed without any reason.

The victims also hailed from too many races. Instead of killing only those from a few races, Zhan Wushuang had killed the members of a far larger number of races. What was he trying to do?

As a genius from the divine race, it wouldn’t matter for him to kill a few weaklings here and there. However, Zhan Wushuang had clearly killed an excessively large number of weaklings without prejudice. To make things worse, it had been exposed openly. The divine race had always maintained the persona of a righteous race. This was putting them in a difficult spot.

What was Zhan Wushuang doing? Some divines started cursing inwardly. He had not only killed too many people indiscriminately, but he had also somehow allowed someone to record all the killings.

Of course, nobody here was a fool. The fact that all these scenes could be recorded proved that Zhan Wushuang was also the target of a scene. These scenes had been deliberately recorded. These were not accidental encounters as the sheer number of recorded murders in these scenes was too high for it to be accidental.

***

In the sky.

Xuan Wuji sighed, “My lords, I believe all of you know who this person is. A Heaven Index genius has gone mad. As an expert from the first divine race capable of contending against Sunmoons, he had decided to slaughter a bunch of weaklings from weak races instead. When I first received these recordings, I had a hard time believing them. After many verifications, I was able to verify that these scenes had indeed happened.”

“He had been gathering a large amount of blood essence. When I asked around, I learned that this was most likely for the cultivation of some forbidden art or the production of ability blood essence.”

He did not mention Su Yu’s name. There was no need for that. Zhan Wushuang had started killing and harvesting blood essence indiscriminately after surviving his encounter with Su Yu. With the existence of ability blood essence, everyone would think of Su Yu the moment they saw these scenes.

For those from the divine race, killing some weaklings from minor races was no big deal. At most, they would merely be locked up for a short time as a punishment to pacify the masses. This was how the Myriad Realms had always operated.

Nobody would take Zhan Wushuang’s life for the sake of those weaklings. Not even now. He might have suffered a defeat in Su Yu’s hands, but he was still the number two genius on the Heaven Index.

Xuan Wuji was not trying to get Zhan Wushuang killed through these recordings. He was clear that it wouldn’t happen. But he believed that the major races would take this opportunity to do something that would benefit them.

It was time to weaken the divine race slightly.

Sure enough, before any divine could say anything, Devil King Moge said, “How audacious! How could he slaughter the innocent indiscriminately? How dare he slaughter those from the races subservient to the devil race?”

Following Devil King Moge’s lead, a minor race Invincible protested, “What is this? The divine race is one of the overlords of the Myriad Realms. We have treated the divine race with utmost respect all this while. Is this how the divines are repaying our respect? By allowing a genius divine to wantonly slaughter the innocent?”

“Zhan Wushuang has fallen to depravity.”

“…”

One expert after another demonstrated their righteous fury at what Zhan Wushuang did. As for whether they were really as offended as they seemed, they were Invincibles. At their level, they would not care about such deaths unless the victims were directly related to them.

***

Nearby.

Su Yu seemed completely indifferent. He merely watched on with amusement. He looked at Xuan Wuji and smiled. Someone sent the recordings to him? Was Xuan Wuji sure those weren’t the recordings he made himself?

Then again, the origin of the recordings no longer mattered. The only thing everyone was concerned with was the fact that Zhan Wushuang had been killing those from the minor raes indiscrimately, attracting the wrath of the masses right as the slots were about to be allocated.

Both Zhan Wushuang and Xuan Wuji were eighth-stage Mountainseas. One could say that the two of them were the strongest eighth-stage Mountainseas in existence.

With Zhan Wushuang out of the way, the divine would receive far fewer slots during the competition. Thus, this was the perfect opportunity for everyone to weaken the divine race’s position.

The white-haired divine king coldly said, “These are merely recordings. There are too many ways to falsify such recordings. Don’t forget what Su Yu did. He is an expert at disguise. He is also capable of using the special racial abilities of other races through his ability blood essence. Who can be absolutely sure that these recordings are accurate? Someone is clearly trying to vilify a genius of the divine race.”

The solution was to protest and deny adamantly.

The white-haired divine king was furious. He glared at both Zhan Wushuang and the immortals before snorting inwardly.

What a great scheme. They were trying to use this chance to stop Zhan Wushuang from participating in the competition or even entering the mansion itself. This would be a massive loss to the divines. The divines had expected to get at least thirty slots from the competition between the eighth-stage Mountainseas. But because of this scandal, they might end up with nothing.

“Are you trying to say that it wasn’t Zhan Wushuang?” Moge said, “In some of the recordings, even the Divine Transformation was used. If it wasn’t Zhan Wushuang or even a divine, I suppose it must be Mayor Su. He’s the only person capable of using this ability outside the divine race.”

When Su Yu noted the gazes on him, he grinned, “Why are you looking at me?”

He glanced at Zhan Wushuang and the white-haired divine king. Just then, he received a voice transmission from the white-haired divine king, “Su Yu, Wushuang did all that for you. Take the blame for him, and the divine race will reward you generously.”

Su Yu was already someone known for his crazy feats. It wouldn’t matter for him to take on the blame for this. If they could secure his cooperation, Zhan Wushuang would be fine. This was important as it concerned dozens of slots for the divines. Nobody would even be surprised if Su Yu were to take the fall for all those murders.

However, Su Yu merely snorted with disdain. Why should he take the fall for them? Did he look that stupid?

Noticing Su Yu’s expression, the white-haired divine king frowned and sent another voice transmission, “Don’t you want heavenearth profound light? A hundred strands for your cooperation. If that’s not enough, I can offer two hundred strands.”

In this situation, even if the divines did not care about the minor races, they had to be wary of the major races. They would be forced to do something about Zhan Wushuang’s murders. They would have to either kill him or lock him up.

As Su Yu rubbed his chin, Dao King said, “Mayor Su, this is no small matter. Consider this carefully before giving your answer.”

Su Yu smiled a the white-haired divine king and sent a voice transmission, “A carrier treasure and I’ll deal with this for you.”

The expression of the divine king changed. A carrier treasure!

But if Su Yu could really take the blame for Zhan Wushuang, this would be worth it. With all the slots Zhan Wushuang could win, the benefits Zhan Wushuang could win them were definitely worth more than one carrier treasure.

The white-haired divine king was furious, but he had no choice but to agree. “Deal.”

Su Yu smiled and spoke, “Don’t look at me like that. These are only some recordings. Who can be sure if they are reliable? Is it that difficult to forge some fake recordings? Tell me, Xuan Wuji. Where did you get these recordings?”

“The recording talisman must have come from somewhere, right? You can’t accuse Zhan Wushuang of something so serious with some random recordings.”

Xuan Wuji said, “There is no need for you to know about the origin of the recording talisman. They were worried about reprisals, so they had to do this anonymously. Even now, there is a large amount of blood essence on Zhan Wushuang. We only need to search his storage ring to verify this. The blood essence of the victims would most definitely be in his storage ring.”

Rewinding time wouldn’t help here as the possibility of doing so had been dealt with. There were some other methods they could use to find out the truth, but the easiest method was to search Zhan Wushuang’s body for the blood essence. That would be irrefutable.

Xuan Wuji was not about to let Su Yu take the blame for Zhan Wushuang. He wanted to destroy the divine race’s reputation. Without their foremost genius in the mansion, and with the internal conflict currently ongoing within the devil race, the immortal race would be able to dominate the coming expedition into the Luminous Domain Mansion.

As long as they could remove Zhan Wushuang from the equation, the immortals would be able to celebrate their victory in advance. They didn’t even need to suffer any losses doing this.