Tribulation of Myriad Races

In the blink of an eye, the match for the ninth-stage Cloudbreaches arrived. The various Invincibles started communicating through voice transmissions.

“Eliminate each other the moment you step into the city before rushing into the ancient buildings to wait it out.”

“We have reached an agreement with the divines. When you enter, approach someone from the divine race. Let them attack you and surrender immediately.”

“Get near an immortal when you enter the city. The moment an attack landed, surrender the slot to the immortal.”

The Invincibles were trying to reduce the number of slots Su Yu could win. They had decided to trade their slots among themselves before Su Yu could react. That way, the number of slots Su Yu could win even if he could defeat everyone would be limited.

Meanwhile, Su Yu looked completely indifferent. Too many voice transmissions were being sent at the same time. He would need to be blind to not notice anything. Were they trying to compete against him through speed alone?

Eighty-nine opponents.

Excluding himself, there were eighty-nine opponents to defeat. He could guess that they would eliminate each other to not give him a chance to win too many slots. Was that the case?

He smiled and said, “Guys, it’s just some slots. Just let me have them. What’s the big deal? Don’t ruin the harmony between us for only a few slots.”

He laughed and continued, “How can a bunch of Cloudbreaches play their tricks in front of me? You’re underestimating me too much.”

The white-haired divine king said, “Mayor Su, as long as no rules are broken, anything goes. Nothing else should concern you.”

Su Yu nodded with a smile and said nothing else.

With that, the white-haired divine king roared, “Enter the city!”

Instantly, eighty-nine experts shot into the city. As ninth-stage Cloudbreaches, they could already be considered experts. There were even index geniuses capable of contending against Mountainseas among them. Of course, they were certainly incapable of killing Su Yu. Their sole goal was to prevent Su Yu from winning too many slots.

Right after entering the city, they started approaching each other to start their plan of surrendering to each other.

Meanwhile, Su Yu slowly entered the city in an unhurried manner.

Just as someone was about to loudly announce his surrender, Su Yu commanded, “Calm.”

The person who was just about to shout calmed down so much he couldn’t even shout anymore. His mouth was already open wide so he nearly choked to death.

He had been silenced by Su Yu’s character.

Su Yu’s characters were quite powerful. That was especially true with his culture character boosting them. A fourth-tier character would be as strong as a peak fourth-tier character after the boost. That was more than enough to deal with these people.

Seeing that it was no longer possible to surrender verbally, the others attacked, aiming to hit just strong enough to fake a victory. But before they could attack, their visions blurred. Then, their targets vanished, replaced by death spirits.

They hurriedly withdrew their attacks. Was Su Yu using death spirits against them?

Those outside the city could see that Su Yu was merely utilizing illusions against them. Even Dao King couldn’t help but remark, “His willpower and characters are quite strong. His illusions are capable of covering a wide range.”

In fact, more than half of the city had been covered by Su Yu’s illusions. The combatants were shown all sorts of confusing scenes. Not giving anyone the chance to react, Su Yu consumed a drop of blood essence. Immediately, his aura surged to the level of a seventh-stage Sunmoon.

An Invincible couldn’t help but grumble, “He’s already so strong. Why bother consuming blood essence? Is he going to fight a bunch of ninth-stage Cloudbreaches with the strength of a seventh-stage Sunmoon?”

That was too shameless! What was this? The others might as well surrender. The gap between a seventh-stage Sunmoon and a ninth-stage Cloudbreach was simply too big.

Even without this, Su Yu was already as strong as a Sunmoon. Thus, the Invincibles found it incredibly shameless of him to further boost himself when he was already enjoying such a large advantage.

Then, eighty-nine punches dropped down from the sky, one for each combatant.

WIth a rumble, flesh and blood splashed everywhere. Some were directly killed, spawning even more death spirits in the city.

In the sky, Su Yu shrugged, “Too weak. How boring. Why don’t you let me fight the Mountainseas. Mo Duona is up next. Won’t it be fun for us to fight it out?”

Everyone was rendered speechless. As for Mo Duona, his eyes flickered. But he remained silent.

Bullshit!

Not even Mo Duona would be a match when he was using the strength of a seventh-stage Sunmoon unless Mo Duona channeled the power of a devil king.

Su Yu lamented, “These opponents are too easy. Sure enough, nothing is better than crushing your opponents with overwhelming strength. Fine, fine, I’ll accept the ninety slots. How is this so easy? I have over a hundred slots now. I wonder how much money I can earn selling them.”

He was blatantly bragging.

The match had ended before it could properly begin. But there was no helping it. He was simply too strong. Those Cloudbreaches couldn’t even say a single word in front of him. All their plans had been smashed apart by his punches.

***

Done with bragging, Su Yu flew out of the city again.

The competition continued.

This time, it was Mo Duona’s turn to fight.

Reputation was a very powerful thing. There was a reason for Mo Duona to dominate the Heavenly Hunt Index for so long. He was truly strong. The moment he entered the city, he started punching. Regardless of whether it was a death spirit or a different living being, he would defeat each opponent with only one punch.

He attacked rapidly. In less than ten minutes, not a single opponent was left. However, he was not able to stop all of them from surrendering to the others like Su Yu. He was able to earn forty slots for the devils, but the rest of the slots were lost to those who had surrendered to each other.

As the competition continued, those from Su Yu’s side continued participating.

Bloodmoon and the others fought one after another.

The matches with Heaven Index geniuses would be much higher in difficult for the other participants. This was especially true for the match involving the eighth-stage Mountainseas. That was a match with both Zhan Wushuang and Xuan Wuji. They were able to defeat anyone who was not a Heaven Index genius with only one punch.

As for the humans, their performance had been rather uninspiring. By the time the Mountainsea matches were over, the humans had only won roughly thirty additional slots. All in all, the number of slots they had won was lower than two hundred.

Meanwhile, Su Yu had won 135 slots thus far.

Next, only the Sunmoon matches were left.

Two humans would participate in the match for the first-stage Sunmoons. They were respectively Chen Yong and a general from Great Qin. Both of them were considered strong combatants.

***

Su Yu did not pay much attention to the Sunmoon matches.

Out of the twenty participants he was allowed to send, only two were left.

Tian He would be his participant for the ninth-stage Sunmoon match. As for the final participant, he would select a death spirit after the first Sunmoon death spirit was spawned in the city. That would seal the city, but he could also reopen the city.

In any case, he was not planning to send a Sunmoon resident to join the competition. In truth, he did not have a single reliable Sunmoon resident. It was quite likely that they might end up siding with the others instead of him.

He would rather send a death spirit instead. In the first-stage Sunmoon match, Chen Yong and the general were able to win about five to six slots after suffering some injuries. The match between Sunmoons was a lot more intense than the previous matches.

For the second-stage Sunmoon match, Hong Tan fought. He was near the third stage, so he was able to demonstrate his strength and defeat several Sunmoons before suffering a defeat at the hands of multiple Sunmoons.

For the third-stage Sunmoon match, Liu Wenyan fought. Quite a number of multiple character faction members were participating in the competition and they had won a decent number of slots for humanity.

***

Su Yu remained uninterested until the ninth-stage Sunmoon match when it was Lan Tian’s turn to fight. He had no idea why Wan Tiansheng was doing this. The special entrance were always available. Why bother with this competition? Was Wan Tiansheng trying to train someone up?

Lan Tian was as freakish as ever. Right after entering the city, over a thousand Lan Tian appeared everywhere. All of them laughed together, tormenting the minds of the other ninth-stage Sunmoons in the city.

The countless Lan Tians spread everywhere. Whenever a combatant encountered one Lan Tian, hundreds of Lan Tians would appear out of nowhere. All the Invincibles were paying close attention to the match.

Suddenly, Dao King sent a voice transmission, “This person must die. Otherwise, he will grow into a walking disaster. He might grow into an even more troublesome existence than Wan Tiansheng.”

Many Invincibles agreed silently.

Lan Tian was too freakish.

He walked the so-called dao of myriad races. This had worried quite a lot of people. They suspected that this was not an original dao. During the ancient past, a freak had seemingly walked this path as well. Nobody knew the ultimate fate of that ancient freak, but from the little they knew about this dao, they were aware that this was not an ordinary dao.

If Lan Tian were left alone, he might end up succeeding. And that would cause them endless troubles.

After defeating multiple ninth-stage Sunmoons, Lan Tian was finally defeated by the other combatants who had joined hands against him. With that, the competition had reached an end.

Tian He had gotten quite lucky during the match. As an ancient city mayor, he was able to hide somewhere in the city and wait until the very end to preserve his one slot. It was quite embarrassing, but that was better than losing the slot.

All in all, Su Yu had obtained 136 slots from the competition. It was a decent result. The myriad races started calculating their gains from the competition. Before long, they started looking at the humans with satisfied smiles.

The humans had won only 232 slots in total. Including the 200 slots promised to them…no, they wouldn’t even receive the full 200 slots promised to them. A few of the races that had promised them slots had failed to secure enough slots to make the payment. Ultimately, the humans received only 420 slots.

This was far lower than their expectations. Meanwhile, the divine, devil, and immortal races had each received around six hundred slots.

From this, the gap between the human race and the other races was clear for all to see. If it wasn’t for the previously promised slots, they would have ended up with only around 200 slots.

The competition for the slots reached an end.

Many people started looking at Su Yu expectantly. Since he had obtained over a hundred slots, it was time he started selling them. Some of the minor races had failed to obtain even one slot. If they could pay for some slots, they wouldn’t mind doing so.