Tribulation of Myriad Races

As for Su Yu, he was still taking his battle slowly. Or to be precise, he needed more time. He needed to extract a second drop of blood essence. Why was Zhankui bleeding so slowly?

At that point, Zhankui seemed to have noticed something wrong as well. He could feel himself weakening during the course of the battle, but it wasn’t a big deal. However, there was no blood around them despite how much he had bled.

He had neglected that earlier due to the intensity of the battle. Now that he had realized it, he started feeling uneasy.

“Su Yu, are you absorbing my blood?”

He demanded an answer. Su Yu did not bother to say anything. Instead, he increased the intensity of his blood character and started absorbing blood from Zhankui’s wounds directly. Noticing that, Zhankui roared and threw a fist at Su Yu’s head.

Boom!

Finally, they were facing each other head-on. Instantly, they exchanged over a thousand moves. Su Yu fought with only one goal: to absorb as much blood as possible.

Rumble!

After being sent flying by Zhankui with a punch, Su Yu stuffed another lotus root down his throat while coughing blood. Once again, Mo Duona shouted, “Borrow me some!”

“Are you dumb? What if your opponent snatched it from you?”

That left Mo Duona speechless. That was true.

Even so, Su Yu still tossed about a hundred sparkling lotus seeds over and shouted, “Try to grab some and recover.”

Mo Duona was overjoyed. He hurriedly started snatching the seeds in the air. Yang Hu merely snorted. Were they looking down on him? Even Zhankui reacted as well. His eyes lit up at the sight of the sparkling seeds.

These things were clearly treasures. They must have originated from the same source as the lotus roots Su Yu had been eating. As Pseudo Invincibles, they could sense that much. They had also witnessed with their own eyes how good the lotus roots were at healing physical wounds.

After all, Su Yu had been able to instantly regrow his badly damaged body by eating only a single piece of the lotus root. In fact, they found his usage of such treasures a big waste. Zhankui did not hesitate to reach out for the seeds.

Mo Duona managed to catch a few of the seeds as well. But he still shouted in alarm, “Why didn’t you aim properly when throwing?”

Su Yu cursed, “Fuck! Didn’t you ask for them? If you couldn’t even catch them, why the fuck did you ask for them?”

Su Yu looked flustered and exasperated. Over a hundred lotus seeds were thrown out, yet Mo Duona had only caught about four or five of them. With his River of Time, Yang Hu caught over half of them before keeping Mo Duona busy again. Su Yu was forced to grab the remaining lotus seeds himself.

He only managed to grab about ten of them. The rest were grabbed by Zhankui. At that point, Su Yu looked so furious that it felt like he was smoking from his head.

“Mo Duona! You trash! Damn you!”

Su Yu shouted furiously.

Meanwhile, Zhankui was overjoyed. He had lost a lot of blood. This was just what he needed. With a hearty laugh, he swallowed all the seeds and said, “Thank you, Su Yu. You sure are dumb.”

At the same time, Yang Hu swallowed most of his seeds with joy. These seeds were clearly treasures. From the aura of these seeds, it was clear they came from the same source as the lotus roots Su Yu had been eating. Thus, Yang Hu didn’t even feel the need to check the seeds before consuming them.

As for Su Yu, he continued snorting furiously.

Inwardly, he was wondering if they had forgotten that he, Su Yu, was the number one scammer of the Myriad Realms.

How infuriating.

How annoying.

Had he not scammed them enough in the past?

Even Mo Duona had swallowed the little seeds he managed to grab. Su Yu couldn’t even be bothered to say anything anymore. Four or five seeds would probably not be enough to kill Mo Duona, right?

It was good that Mo Duona had eaten those seeds as well. That would further reinforce the idea that these seeds were valuable treasures.

As for whether Mo Duona was aware that these seeds were poisonous…that was none of Su Yu’s business. If Mo Duona ended up poisoning himself to death, he could only blame his luck. In that scenario, Su Yu wouldn’t mind collecting Mo Duona’s corpse alongside the corpses of Yang Hu and Zhankui.

None of the three considered the possibility that Su Yu was trying to poison them. After all, Mo Duona was an ally of Su Yu for now. Since even Mo Duona had eaten the seeds, it would naturally be fine for them to eat the seeds as well.

After eating the seeds, Zhankui roared with laughter as he sensed the surging power inside his body. He waited for the healing effect to come. But suddenly, his expression changed.

Boom!

A fountain of blood sprayed out of his mouth. Next, dark qi started leaking out of his body.

“Po-poison…”

Zhankui couldn’t believe it. Why did Su Yu give Mo Duona something poisonous? Dark qi was leaking out of Mo Duona’s body as well. While coughing blood, he stared at Su Yu blankly. Why did Su Yu poison him?

As for Yang Hu, his aura grew unstable as he coughed blood. Eventually, even his River of Time snapped.

Su Yu merely shouted at Mo Duona, “What are you staring at? You’re not dead, right? Come on. Kill that guy. He is in a worse state than you.”

Mo Duona was left with no choice but to engage Yang Hu in combat again. Inwardly, he was cursing himself. He had chosen an extremely dangerous person to cooperate with. Someone like Su Yu wouldn’t care one bit if he accidentally killed someone other than his target. He was truly ruthless.

Zhankui was greatly tortured by the poison. However, the seeds did not seem too impressive. Even after swallowing so many of them, he was merely suffering from the bleeding of his seven orifices, the collapse of his aura, and the rotting of his flesh.

Su Yu wasn’t too satisfied with the effects of the seeds. He concluded that each seed would only be good enough to poison a first-stage Sunmoon to death. Even after consuming so many of them, Zhankui was only weakened by about thirty percent.

Zhankui, who was greatly weakened, found himself struggling more and more against Su Yu. He also bled more and more. At this moment, Su Yu started having a feeling that he didn’t even need the strength of a Pseudo Invincible to deal with an idiot like this.

Even in his current state, he could kill Zhankui.

As Zhankui bled more and more, the blood character gathered more and more blood. Eventually, the second drop of blood essence started taking form.

Zhankui continued roaring furiously as he fought.

Inside the book, the ninth-stage Sunmoons were starting to feel anxious as well. They blamed Zhankui for being a fool. But they also couldn’t deny that none of them had suspected anything earlier.

Who would have guessed that something emanating such a pure aura was actually poisonous? Just like Su Yu, the seeds looked reliable yet poisonous. Just look at Su Yu. He looked like a reliable partner, but he didn’t even care about Mo Duona’s life during their cooperation.

Just moments ago, they had all believed that Su Yu was a loyal friend of Mo Duona. Just look at how generously he had tossed so many seeds at Mo Duona. But that was merely a trap. Wouldn’t Mo Duona have killed himself if he had somehow caught all the seeds? Then again, they couldn’t help but agree that it was unlikely for that to happen.

How was he still scheming against everyone even when he was in such an intense battle? Were all cultural researchers so treacherous?

Meanwhile, Mo Duona was too busy to think about Su Yu’s actions. While coughing blood, he continued attacking Yang Hu. He had eaten some of the seeds, but Yang Hu had eaten a lot more than him.

Yang Hu’s aura was no longer stable. As his condition deteriorated, he lost the ability to reopen his River of Time. As he coughed blood nonstop, he roared furiously, “Faster!”

He was on the verge of losing one of his bodies. When that happened, he might no longer be a match for Mo Duona. Why were Xuan Wuji and the others so slow? There were so many of them. How could a single book trap them for so long?

He also blamed himself for being stupid enough to eat something offered by Su Yu. Because of his greed, he couldn’t even stabilize his aura anymore. Even as he faced Mo Duona’s attacks, the poison kept attacking him from inside his body. He was bursting with rage.

***

Boom!

A blinding saber struck Zhankui, sending him flying onto the wall while coughing blood. The resulting rumble reverberated throughout the hall.

Su Yu took the opportunity to consume a drop of Zhankui’s blood essence.

First, he had to activate the page.

As he gasped for breath, he focused on his body. He was surprised to find that his body could now withstand the blood essence of a Pseudo Invincible without much pressure. Then again, he was already strong enough to fight such a person. That shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The golden book in his sea of willpower shook.

Race: Original devil (Half-step Eternal)

Sure enough, the page had been refreshed.

Su Yu looked up at the others and grinned.

It was time to end this.

He had another drop of blood essence. After killing Zhankui, he could extract even more drops.

He suddenly withdrew his book.

Xuan Wuji and the others blanked out in surprise. Su Yu had withdrawn the book just as they were about to finish killing all the beasts in it.

Su Yu was rubbing his book with a look of heartache.

“109 stripes…”

With the book in his left hand, he pointed at them with his trembling right hand. With an unsightly expression, he scolded, “You nearly caused my dao weapon to drop in level!”

He was furious. He had only pushed his book to 110 golden stripes after killing so many people. And now, one of the stripes had faded. Meanwhile, Zhankui and the others were overjoyed.

Zhankui, five ninth-stage Sunmoons, and the eight young geniuses instantly surrounded Su Yu.

Up in the air, Mo Duona’s expression changed.

Was Su Yu losing?

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still immersed in his heartache as he sighed and said, “Looks like I can only recoup my losses by storing all of you into my book.”

After another sigh, Su Yu said, “Have a great journey, friends.”

At that, he swallowed another drop of blood essence.

Su Yu felt something completely different. He saw things he had never seen before. He saw time flowing. He had known that time would flow, but he only knew that conceptually in the past.

But now, he was seeing it with his own eyes. He saw a massive river. It wasn’t his. It was eternal. It was simply there, a part of the natural world.

Pseudo Invincible.

This was a realm where one could start touching upon the power of time.

Borrowing the power of the blood essence, Su Yu had entered this realm temporarily. His yang acupoint started taking in death qi at a much faster speed. He ignored it. Or to be precise, he couldn’t do anything about it.

He could only pray that Xing Yue would be fine.

***

At the same time, Xing Yue’s expression changed massively.

She roared loudly, “More! Faster! He’s resisting! He’s resisting violently! I need more death qi to suppress him!”

The death sovereigns were alarmed to hear that. What a powerful absorption force. Just who in the world was Xing Yue converting? What an incredible person. As a temporary Pseudo Invincible, Su Yu was absorbing death qi at a far faster pace than even a regular Pseudo Invincible.

Alone, Xing Yue might really go limp from trying to satisfy his increased demand. Fortunately, she had the support of eight death sovereigns. Thus, she was feeling quite smug about this.

Come on! Keep doing it! Do it! Kill yourself doing it!

That bastard was so strong that she was starting to fear him. She was even starting to regret coming here. In such a state, she wouldn’t be able to kill him even if she could leave the tunnel.

How terrifying.

Xing Yue started wondering if she should just leave. She didn’t want to stay here anymore. Su Yu’s absorption was so fast that he was starting to feel anxious. The moment the other death sovereigns saw through her weakness, they might end up consuming her. A weakened death sovereign was nothing but a piece of delicious flesh.

“Just what are you doing?”

Xing Yue started praying that Su Yu would stop soon. She couldn’t endure this anymore. If he continued, everyone would start suspecting her condition.