Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu concluded that Zhan Wushuang and Yu Sheng were most likely aware of the exit. As for the exit in the sky, it looked too real to be real. It was most likely a decoy. An indistinct whirlpool could be seen spinning in the sky. It looked like the exit, but Su Yu was confident it was fake. Perhaps it was meant as bait for him.

Only someone harboring bad intentions would try to escape alone. Otherwise, they would all focus on obeying the divine king and Yun Sheng.

“They are clearly targeting me. The divines might not necessarily know that I’m among them yet they are still so careful. They are even willing to kill so many of their own just to be safe. How ruthless.”

This was a level of decisiveness befitting of an Invincible. However, it still wasn’t enough for Su Yu. As far as he was concerned, they should be decisive enough to kill everyone except the Invincibles. That would be enough to ensure that he could no longer keep hiding among them.

“You’re still not decisive enough.”

At this point, Su Yu already understood what these Invincibles were thinking. He couldn’t help but feel proud about the weight he held in the minds of these Invincibles. Those who had stayed behind in the safe house had essentially died for nothing.

Now that he had entered the heaven weapon of a divine king, it wouldn’t be easy for him to free himself. But he was a weaponsmith as well. Weaponsmiths had the habit of leaving a backdoor in each weapon they forged. Su Yu was certain that the Frost Divine King did not forge this weapon himself.

In that case, there might be a backdoor somewhere in this weapon. No matter what, Su Yu was someone who had forged an embryonic divine weapon. Such a backdoor would not be able to evade his attention forever.

“You have forgotten that I am incredibly multi-talented.”

Su Yu shook his head disapprovingly. He was an earth weaponsmith. He was also someone who had forged an embryonic divine weapon. Sure, heaven weaponsmiths were still better than him. But he was also good enough to discover their backdoors. If he couldn’t do even this, he should quit weaponsmithing.

“I’m too much of a legend. I’m so legendary that they have all forgotten that my official profession is a weaponsmith.”

Yes. That was his official profession. He himself had nearly forgotten about that as well. However, there was no denying that he was officially registered as a weaponsmith, not a character master or a warrior.

Su Yu started observing both Zhan Wushuang and Yu Sheng stealthily. If they knew the location of the exit, they might accidentally expose it. Meanwhile, the scene outside kept changing.

They were viewing the outside world through Frost Divine King’s perspective. After a while, Su Yu noted that they had reached the entrance of the seventh level. They could hear all the noise outside.

The moment Frost King arrived, a divine king asked, “Done?”

“Yes. Done.”

“Good.”

The second divine king looked at the mirror and asked, “How many?”

“180.”

“Sigh. I guess this is acceptable.”

That was the number of survivors. Including the Invincibles and Pseudo Invincibles outside the weapon, there were only 190 survivors. Around 500 had perished.

Frost Divine King asked, “How are the other races dealing with this?”

“The immortals and devils did something similar. I’m unsure about the humans, but they did remove all their people as well. Very few humans are left in the wild.”

“So the seventh level is essentially empty now?”

“Yeah.”

The two divine kings did not bother to hide their conversation from those in the mirror. Those in the mirror only knew that the other races were doing the same. The survivors had mostly taken shelter in heaven weapons or secret realms. One could say that almost everyone on the seventh level had gathered in one place.

***

Little did they know, about sixty tunnels had collapsed outside.

Some of the Invincibles outside frowned upon seeing that.

At this point, only about 1,200 survivors remained. Two-thirds of the people inside the mansion had died. There were around six hundred survivors among the immortals, devils, and divines. The humans and dragons had roughly four hundred survivors. The rest of the survivors were the members of the ancient and minor races. Many of the ancient and minor races had lost everyone they sent into the mansion.

“Is the nine-leaf skylotus not mature yet?”

“Probably not.”

“Sigh. Two-thirds have died.”

Many sighed regretfully. This was truly a disaster. They didn’t even feel anything from the recently collapsed tunnels anymore. They were already numb to this. After all, people had been dying in swathes since the very beginning.

***

In the human encampment outside the mansion.

Great Zhou King and Great Xia King observed silently as those from the other races died out of nowhere. The humans were the exception. Noticing that, Great Zhou King frowned.

Great Xia King asked, “What is it?”

“The people of the various races should all be hiding in the various safe houses at the moment. If someone managed to break into one of these safe houses, everyone inside would die. It’s too weird for only a part of the people from the three major races to die at the same time. What’s the point of sparing some and killing the rest after breaking into these safe houses?”

Great Xia King hesitated slightly and said, “Maybe there were three attackers…”

“Yes, but all those people have died instantly. The killers were probably Invincibles. This would only happen if the killers were three human Invincibles attacking in a coordinated manner.”

Great Xia King thought about it and said, “Are you saying that their Invincibles did it themselves?”

“Yes.” Great Zhou King said, “That is the only answer for the orderly manner in which all those people have died. The Invincibles must have withdrawn everyone else from the safe houses and killed the ones refusing to leave.”

Great Xia King nodded. That was a reasonable deduction.

“Are they…doing this because of Lan Tian?”

“Not necessarily.”

At that, Great Xia King’s expression changed drastically. He looked at the ancient city behind him and asked, “Did he really enter?”

“What do you think?”

“…”

Great Xia King was rendered speechless. After a long silence, he said, “It’s easy to enter, but it won’t be so easy to leave. I suspect something big will happen when he leaves.”

“Definitely.” Great Zhou King said, “I’m curious. How does he intend to return to the ancient city after leaving? Some people must have guessed that he’s inside. Those inside must have killed in such an orderly fashion to send a message to those outside as well. Apart from Lan Tian, who else is capable of making them do this?”

“Su Yu!”

Great Xia King calmed down again. Yes. Su Yu was the only person who could force those Invincibles to do something like this. Because of him, they were killing their own people just to send a message outside.

Su Yu was inside.

They had noticed that. And they were currently looking for Su Yu. They were killing so many people to make it harder for Su Yu to hide among them.

Great Xia King asked, “When did you learn about this?”

“This is merely a random guess.”

“No. You must have learned of it long ago.”

Great Xia King snorted coldly and looked at the ancient city again. He frowned and asked, “Who’s the kid in there, then?”

“Can’t you guess?”

Great Xia King thought for a bit and said, “It’s too hard to guess. Maybe Liu Hong?”

“Probably.”

Great Xia King nodded and said nothing else. He looked around and noted that all the Invincibles were hiding in the void, making it hard for him to see their reaction. But he knew that Su Yu’s whereabouts had been exposed.

At this point, those inside and outside the mansion were already aware that he was inside. Of course, nobody was absolutely certain yet since Su Yu was still nowhere to be found.

***

“Su Yu is here.”

Hidden somewhere underground, Lan Tian was smiling to himself. So the kid was here. How interesting.

Hopefully, the kid would bring him more surprises.

***

At the same time.

Topsoil Spirit sighed and said, “Don’t go against the humans. That guy is too loved by fortune. I’m not worried about anyone else except him. Just look at all the Heaven Index fellows who have died because of him. I don’t want to be one of them.”

Beside him, a five elemental Invincible frowned and said, “Are you certain he’s here?”

“A hundred percent. He’s hiding somewhere. I doubt he’s among us. Our race is too weak. He will probably pick a stronger race.”

The Invincible said, “In that case, the Invincibles of the major races might give up on the nine-leaf skylotus and focus on killing him instead.”

He wasn’t sure if this was a good or bad thing.

***

Elsewhere.

The Heaven Department head studied the pavilion members in front of him. There were about ten of them, and these were the only survivors remaining.

He inspected them one by one as suns and moons spun in his eyes. After a long while, a portal appeared in front of him as he said, “Enter.”

The pavilion members looked at each other with hesitation before entering. After taking them all into his secret realm, the Heaven Department head sank into thought. Where was Su Yu hiding right now?

That kid was getting better and better at hiding.

***

Su Yu was nowhere to be seen yet everyone was certain that Su Yu was on the seventh level. Some of the Invincibles were even starting to think of ways to lure him out. This would keep the major race Invincibles busy and distract them from the nine-leaf skylotus.

Yes. As of this moment, Su Yu had become a bigger prize than the nine-leaf skylotus. They could always harvest the nine-leaf skylotus next time. But if they failed to kill Su Yu this time, would they still be the ones doing the killing during their next encounter with him?

And thus, someone who had yet to reveal himself occupied the attention of all the Invincibles.

Not even He Tu had enjoyed so much attention from the Invincibles.

Poor He Tu.