Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was alarmed. Old Zhou’s saliva was way too effective. His body was comparable to the body of a Sunmoon yet it was able to heal most of his injuries instantly. This thing was definitely better than even the celestial devil fruit. More importantly, he had collected an entire pond of this thing. He probably had thousands of drops of this saliva, right? How terrifying.

Then, Su Yu returned his focus to the acupoint he had activated wrongly before. After some adjustments, he continued his attempt to derive the correct route. He had to test with his own body as he did not have the time to look for a test subject. In any case, he didn’t know anyone who had opened 360 acupoints. Thus, he could only serve as the test subject himself.

After his revision, he was able to smoothly link the acupoints up to the eyebrow acupoint. There, he exhaled in relief. More and more of his acupoints lit up. Eventually, it reached his spine acupoint. With a rumble, his spine acupoint burst apart and he coughed another mouthful of blood.

He hurriedly spread the saliva over his back. This time, he did not continue after healing himself.

This couldn’t do.

He couldn’t link his spine acupoint smoothly. However, the spine acupoint was too sensitive for him to experiment with. Any mistake might blow his entire body up. When he shut one of his acupoints, Old Zhou stopped raging.

Then, he removed the misty space around Xia Huyou and the others with a wave of his hand. All of them looked at him.

Su Yu was still in his wolf form, but he looked clearly weakened and pale. Furthermore, traces of blood could be seen on his forehead, as though something had pierced through his forehead not long ago.

Xia Huyou knew that Su Yu was attempting something before. Thus, he did not bother to ask about their short imprisonment. He asked, “Are you fine?”

“Don’t worry about it.”

Peace had returned to the first level.

Looking at the whirlpool, Su Yu inhaled deeply and said, “Let’s go.”

He was done here. He had learned the correct operational method of the forehead acupoint. He had been able to smoothly link over three hundred acupoints earlier. He only needed to find the correct route and operational method for a few more key acupoints and he would be able to derive a working grand cycle cultivation method.

With a proper grand cycle cultivation method, he could probably complete his nine transformations in the Luminous Domain Mansion. After the nine transformations, he would enter the Mountainsea Realm and start the acupoint fusion process. He suspected that he would complete this process instantly.

Of course, it was merely a suspicion. He was still unsure. In any case, if everything were to proceed smoothly, he would probably be a Mountainsea or even a peak Mountainsea soon.

“Are we going up now?”

Xia Huyou looked around with mixed feelings and said, “It has only been two days, but you have emptied the first level of people. During the previous openings, the first level had always been the most happening level.”

Sure, there might still be some people on the first level, but there wouldn’t be too many of them. Here, any carelessness would result in death.

Su Yu had essentially ruined everyone’s plan on the first level.

Su Yu had claimed that he wasn’t the one who had caused the mansion to rage. But Xia Huyou would not believe that.

“Fine, let’s go.”

He did not mind. For now, he would stick to Su Yu and enjoy the benefits. It wasn’t like he would continue following Su Yu to the higher levels.

Su Yu said nothing and flew into the whirlpool. Xia Huyou and the others followed behind him.

After they left, a certain opening appeared on the distant barrier. From the opening, He Tu and Dummy stepped out. He Tu merely gave the whirlpool an indifferent glance before setting the matter aside. He was more curious about the reason for all these changes. Why was the mansion raging repeatedly this time?

“Dummy, do you know why?”

Dummy said nothing. He continued staring into the first level blankly. Many of his memories were still missing.

He Tu sighed helplessly. What a dumb death spirit. On the bright side, a smarter death spirit wouldn’t be fooled into becoming his subordinate so easily.

“Why does the first level feel so empty?”

He Tu smiled with satisfaction. This would give him a better opportunity to explore the place. Both he and Dummy were incredibly powerful. Thus, they started walking on thin air while exploring the place leisurely. Before long, they arrived at the Blood Plain. There, He Tu sighed. He remembered that back when he was still alive, he had been here as well. Back then, he had even collected some spring water here.

And now, he was back. Alas, he was no longer a living person.

“My ancestor…was one of the existences residing in the Eighth Heaven back then.”

He sighed. When he noticed the lack of reaction from Dummy, he said, “Are you confused? The Luminous Domain Mansion is split into nine levels. The Human Emperor resided on the ninth level. As for the eighth level, the residences of the various supreme experts were there. My ancestor was an ancient human king. Do you even understand what a human king signifies?”

Dummy stared at him blankly. After a long while, he spoke with his hoarse voice, “Human king…Daofuse…peak…”

He Tu wasn’t surprised to hear that. No matter what, Dummy should have recovered a tiny bit of his memories. With a smile, He Tu said, “Exactly. A peak Daofuse. That is an existence standing at the peak of what the people nowadays call Pseudo Emperors. What a pity. My ancestor had ultimately died. I don’t know if he’s in the Death Realm. Those ancient monsters won’t be able to awaken so easily even after dying.

“Thus, you can say that this Luminous Domain Mansion is tied to me in some way. Alas, when I entered back then, I wasn’t able to gain too much benefits here. I didn’t even reach the eighth level. That damn guard refused to let me through…”

He sneered and added, “That fellow from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion sure is good at surviving. I heard that he has a residence on the eighth level as well. However, he can’t return anymore. He can only drift about outside, living the life of a homeless.”

He continued introducing the mansion to Dummy, as though this was his mansion, “Do you know the master of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion? That’s the Heaven Overseer Marquis. His status was lower than my ancestor’s. After all, my ancestor was a human king. He was one of the most important existences in the Myriad Realms. The Heaven Overseer Marquis ranked below him. However, the old turtle was ranked even lower as the Spirit Suppression General. The old turtle was strong, but he had been too lazy. Otherwise, he could have climbed into the rank of a marquis as well.”

Dummy remained silent.

He Tu continued his explanation, “Are you confused about the ancient ranks? Aren’t you an ancient death spirit? You’re quite strong. If you’re not an ancient death spirit, you are probably someone from my generation. During the ancient past, the Human Emperor reigned supreme, followed by the Pseudo Emperors of the various races. In terms of status, the human kings were equal to the Pseudo Emperors of the myriad races.

“The marquises ranked below that. The Heavenly Overseer Marquis was probably the highest-ranked survivor of the ancient past. Then again, he would be the first to die if the ancient past were to return. As the Heavenly Overseer Marquis, he had failed in his duties. When running from the disaster back then, he had even allowed the Heavenly Hunt Index to be damaged. Heh…in the ancient past, this was punishable with death.”

Before long, He Tu reached the Double Dragon Gorge. There, he turned a divine who was hiding in the area into a death spirit with a casual wave of his hand. The divine, who had survived the previous disasters with great difficulty, met his end before he could even resist. After transforming into a death spirit, he started following behind He Tu obediently.

“The Double Dragon Gorge…is the nose. If this is really a human face…what a terrifying idea to even entertain.”

He Tu rubbed his chin and muttered, “I have not heard of any ancient expert being forged into a mansion. Is this merely an imitation?”

He was unsure as well.

Suddenly, his expression turned odd as he asked, “Why do I feel like someone is speaking to me? Are you hearing this?”

Dummy answered hoarsely, “No…”

“No?”

He Tu frowned, “Really? Sigh. Maybe this is what will happen when you die. Not even your senses are sharp anymore.”

Back when he was still alive, he was also someone who had opened 360 acupoints. Su Yu did not know this for sure, but he did suspect this. According to what he knew, He Tu was also capable of reversing death qi. That must be the same reversal art, and that must also be how he had been able to release all those death spirits from the Death Realm.

However, that was all in the past. Death had erased all of He Tu’s past. After rising again as a death spirit, the past no longer concerned him. These acupoints no longer mattered to him. He Tu could hear some faint whispers, but the voice was too unclear for him to be sure of anything. As a result, his curiosity toward the first level grew.

Shortly after, he stepped into the Double Dragon Gorge with Dummy and his new subordinate. Countless dragonbind trees attacked him, but compared to the gigantic pillars he had encountered back on the head, these nasal hairs were nothing.

***

At the same time, Su Yu appeared on the second level.

Right after he stepped through the portal, a surprised voice rang out beside him, “There are still survivors on the first level? Is this someone from the demon wolf race?”

“For him to survive all those disasters, he must have collected quite a lot of treasures on the first level…”

Su Yu couldn’t even be bothered to open his eyes. He casually tossed his book out. By the time his eyes were open, the six Cloudbreaches and one Mountainsea had entered his book. These were clearly the people waiting here to rob the newcomers from the first level. People like them were quite common in the Luminous Domain Mansion.

Sure, the first level had turned incredibly dangerous this opening, but that signified that one could potentially gain even more from the first level this time. Most of the people there had fled to the second level, but there might still be some survivors down there. Thus, some people had decided to wait here and rob any newcomers from the first level.

Su Yu would not hold back against people like them. It mattered not if there was a human in the group. Since they had dared to attempt a robbery against him, he would kill them all. Then again, he did not see any humans among them. Perhaps even here, the humans were being targeted by the various races.

By the time Xia Huyou and the others opened their eyes, their surroundings had been completely cleaned by Su Yu.

They did hear the voices when exiting the portal, but speakers were nowhere to be seen when they opened their eyes. For a moment, they even doubted their ears. But when they saw the book returning to Su Yu’s hand, their hearts thumped.

Nope. They did hear those voices. The speakers had merely died.

Su Yu had killed them in an instant.

***

Outside, some people started frowning again. Seven people had died at the same time.

Which level was that?

With the cultivation level of the new victims, it must have happened on either the second or third level.

However, the number of deaths this time was low enough not to alarm anyone. Perhaps they had encountered a powerful Mountainsea before dying together. This was different from the deaths on the first level. There, hundreds of people had died at once.

In truth, the seven were not the sole people dying. More people were dying on the first level.

The few survivors would all be converted into death spirits upon encountering He Tu. He Tu had discovered that the heavenly laws were doing nothing to restrict him in the Luminous Domain Mansion.

If he had left through a regular death tunnel, he would still need to abide by the heavenly laws. He would not be allowed to convert just anyone. If it wasn’t for these restrictions, Xing Yue would have forcefully converted Su Yu long ago.

“Twenty more deaths.”

The Invincibles sighed. With this, only three thousand people were left in the mansion. A sixth of the people inside had died.

Someone laughed and said, “These changes have only eliminated the weaklings. Most of the experts are still alive. Don’t be so pessimistic. It’s normal for the weak to die.”

To some, the deaths thus far were no big deal. Only a few of them were Sunmoons. The rest were Skysoars and Cloudbreaches.