Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu inhaled deeply and stared at Marquis Xia.

He was further swayed.

That made so much sense.

Marquis Xia grinned and asked, “So? Do you think I make a lot of sense?”

Su Yu nodded. Prior to this, he viewed the holy land as a joke. The leadership position was nothing to him. Why would he care about something like that? What a joke. That position would not grant him any power. Instead, it would grant him a massive burden. Why should he accept it?

But Marquis Xia was telling him he only needed the legitimacy. He could even ignore everything in the Human Realm after getting the position. He could ignore all the responsibilities attached to that position.

Right now, he did not have the courage to kill a human Invincible rashly. That would only trigger a war between him and humanity. But when he became the leader, he would have the authority to do so.

Everyone might be unhappy, but they would need to first dethrone him before doing anything. They would need to get really creative to punish him.

“Marquis, I must admit that you’re really good at talking.”

Su Yu raised his thumb and said, “Impressive. Truly impressive. When Xia Huyou proposed the same thing to me, I only thought that he was crazy for proposing something so stupid to me. But coming from you…The same job became boundlessly attractive!”

Beside him, Xia Huyou sighed helplessly. Was that the case? Was his second-granduncle really that much better than him?

Marquis Xia laughed and said, “No matter what, I am a businessman of many years. Also, I’m not lying here. I’m telling you the truth. Also, some bastards among the human Invincibles have been feeling too full of themselves due to their ancient bloodlines. But so what? Who are you? You are the direct successor of the Culture King.”

“Some might not understand this, but we can always educate them. We can teach them the weight behind that title. Culture King was second after Human Emperor. The Human Emperor had left no legacies behind. That places Culture King’s successor at the very top of the hierarchy. You are the most noble of all. None of them, with their fancy bloodlines, is as noble as you. Your bloodline doesn’t even matter anymore. You are the true successor of Culture King.

“In terms of status, position, strength, background, support, and inheritance, you surpass them all. Who else can lead humanity but the most noble of all? Who can be more qualified than you? We can ignore everything else, but we will first make it an undisputed fact that you are Culture King’s successor. With this identity, even if you failed to become the leader, nobody would be able to label you or the multiple character faction as a traitor. How would the successor of Culture King be a traitor?

“Sure, you might not care about things like fame and status. But your loved ones, your teachers, these people care. Do you think Liu Wenyan cares? How about Hong Tan? Will this help Wan Tiansheng return to humanity? Yes!”

Marquis Xia grinned and said, “Wan Tiansheng’s return is possible. It depends on how we want to make it happen, but you need the legitimacy first. As for the hostility of the Invincibles, disregard them. We can start by slowly removing Wan Tiansheng’s reputation as the demonic human. So tell me. Do you think we need a new holy land now?”

Su Yu answered seriously, “Yes!”

“Do you need to be the leader?”

Su Yu nodded and said, “Yes. I can put my name there even if I’m not going to actually do my job. No matter what, I need to present myself as the most righteous and rightful ruler of humanity. All who go against me are the enemies of humanity. They are the villains.”

“Good.”

Marquis Xia laughed and said, “See, I knew you would agree. Huyou actually claimed that you disagreed, but I couldn’t believe it. Only a fool would say no to this. Why would you refuse something that would only benefit you? Burden? Pressure? No. Those do not exist. When humanity is in crisis, you will still help even if you aren’t the leader of humanity. But as the leader, you can choose not to help and call it a strategic retreat.

“Thus, this is an easy and relaxing job. You can even throw the blame on someone else whenever anything bad happens. For example, you could blame Great Yuan King’s disobedience for the defeat of humanity. You only needed to be shameless enough. Others are free to believe what they want, but you are also free to declare your version of truth.”

Su Yu raised his thumb again and said to Xia Huyou, “Huyou, your second-granduncle has the best mouth in the world. With his mouth, even the dead can be convinced to come back alive. Witnessing him at work is eye-opening.”

He was serious. How incredible. Marquis Xia’s argument was one that he couldn’t even argue against.

Xia Huyou nodded helplessly and said, “I’m truly still too inexperienced. A geezer like him is much better at this with his rich experience.”

Marquis Xia grinned and said, “Let’s not waste time with empty talk. Answer me. Do we proceed?”

“Yes!” Su Yu nodded and said, “I won’t take no as an answer anymore. The holy land must be established. I have to be the leader. I have contributed so much to humanity. It is only natural that I become the leader.”

He coughed and said, “Marquis, humanity is still unaware of all my contributions. I believe…we need to spread the stories of my deeds in the Luminous Domain Mansion. Everyone needs to know that. The immortals were harboring evil designs toward humanity. They were preparing to attack humanity. That was why I targeted them in the mansion and ruined their plan. I even killed Blood Fire, an expert stronger than Great Xia King!”

“Cough, cough, cough!”

Su Yu coughed again and continued, “Scratch that. I killed Blood Fire, an expert stronger than Great Yuan King. I also killed Wisdom King. I did everything for humanity. When Prefect Xia affirmed his dao previously, I helped greatly by keeping over a dozen enemy Invincibles occupied.

“The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion has also been trying to harm humanity. Thus, I worked hard and killed many of their Invincibles.”

Finally, Su Yu said, “Everyone needs to know this. All of humanity must know my contributions. Great Xia will help with this, but I’ll also contact Prefect Zhu and solicit his help with this. The storytellers of Great Ming can be found everywhere. I will get them to spread the stories about me everywhere within three days.”

“By the way, list the name of every single survivor from the Luminous Domain Mansion. I saved them all. They owe me one. They are the elites of the various prefectures, and some are even the successors or descendants of Invincibles. They need to know the truth.

“Would those Invincibles dare to dispute my contributions? Also, make it known that I am constantly under intense pain and suffering since I’m a pseudo death spirit. My suffering is worse than death itself. Make it known that I might smile a lot, but I am under constant torture.”

Su Yu sighed and said, “Make sure to remind everyone that I’m still twenty. Tell everyone about my tragic life. At a young age, I started wandering the world alone with no place to call home. Even so, I did not forget to research and create all those cultivation methods to benefit humanity.”

Beside him, Xia Huyou was completely dumbfounded.

Was Su Yu really under constant torture? Impossible.

Meanwhile, Marquis Xia was nodding while rubbing his chin. He said, “In truth, we have been preparing to generate support for you. But we haven’t been able to think of an efficient way to do that. All the battles you joined were too high-leveled. The masses won’t understand.”

Su Yu smiled and said, “Oh, that’s not an issue. Everyone knows the Myriad Race Cult, right? I eliminated them. Alone, I infiltrated the cult before killing all their Sunmoons. I did that as Profound Nine. Yes. This is a story you can spread as well. And it’s an actual true story.”

Marquis Xia rubbed his chin, nodded, and said, “Yes, that’s a good idea. There are some survivors from the Myriad Race Cult around. We can catch them all and broadcast the execution live. We can even get those cultists to curse at you right before dying. That will be a lot more convincing for the masses compared to mere rumors.”

“Will those cultists cooperate with us?” Xia Huyou was doubtful of this plan.

At that question, Marquis Xia and Su Yu looked at Xia Huyou like they were looking at a brainless fool. One of them said, “They are so weak and we are so strong. We only need to control their minds or bodies. It’s not difficult.”

“…”

Xia Huyou had a helpless expression. He kept feeling like he didn’t fit in here.

True. The survivors of the cult were mostly weaklings. Wouldn’t it be easy to control them and make them say those words?

Sure enough, Su Yu is a treacherous villain. Just look at how he’s colluding with the villainous second-granduncle!

Xia Huyou sneered inwardly. Previously, Su Yu had adamantly refused to become the leader of the new holy land. But now, Su Yu seemed incredibly interested in the position.

Marquis Xia and Su Yu decided to ignore Xia Huyou and started perfecting their plan instead.

Finally, Marquis Xia concluded their conversation, “This is it, then. Everyone will know you within five days. Everyone will learn of your great and glorious contributions. We will set the public conference seven days later and let the public sentiment build up. Those from the thirty-six prefectures…no, we’ll include the Allheaven Prefecture as well. All will be invited to the conference to vote for the proposal. The non-founding Invincibles will also be invited to send their successors or family over.”

Marquis Xia asked, “Do you have any other experts you’re familiar with? Get them to help gather support for you. For example, you can have someone like Zhu Tiandao sigh and mutter about how you have the bearing of a saint in public. Get him to claim that you will be the one to reclaim the ancient glory of humanity in the future. Create an impression that you have powerful supporters everywhere. We can do the same in Great Xia.”

Su Yu gasped and asked, “Is this appropriate?”

“Yes.” Marquis Xia said, “This will pressure some of the prefectures to support the proposal. Public sentiment is a powerful tool. Do you think all Invincibles are firm and unyielding? Some of them are indecisive. Some don’t care and will simply follow the crowd. When they hear enough voices supporting you around them, they will be tempted to follow the trend.”

Su Yu raised his thumb again, “True! But…I don’t know that many human experts…”

Marquis Xia smiled and said, “That’s not the case. Can you handle Great Ming?”

Su Yu nodded.

Marquis Xia continued, “Visit the old madam of Wu Family secretly tonight and Great Wu will be in your pocket as well. As for Great Tang, don’t you know Cheng Mo? Just send him a message if visiting him is inconvenient. You won’t have any issues with Great Qin.

“As for Great Zhou, don’t you remember your previous deal with Zhou Polong? Previously, you agreed to spare his student because his father died helping Ye Batian. But his father has been alive all along. He owes you one. Make him choose between killing Shan Xiong or cooperating with your plan. Try to think of more people you know in the other prefectures as well. I will handle the rest. You can even get Zhu Tiandao to mobilize his connections and help with this.”

Marquis Xia said, “Get any help you can. They don’t even need to be that high up the ladder. You only need more voices speaking for you in every prefecture. Oh, right. Liu Wenyan and the others are back as well. Back then, the Liu Family saved quite a lot of people in the Allheaven Battlefield. It’s time for these people to return this favor. Get Liu Wenyan and his uncle working. Remind these people of the favor they owe.”

Marquis Xia grinned, “With this…hehehe. At the conference, anyone going against the proposal would be viewed as a cold-blooded person. They would all be viewed as the pro-surrender faction. They would all be viewed as cowards. Yes, we will have the moral high ground.”

“…”

Su Yu inhaled deeply and asked, “Marquis, are we evil for doing this?”

“What?” Marquis Xia said with a displeased expression, “I call this a fair competition. Do you think you can garner support just by giving those Invincibles a beating? But with the public sentiment at your side, they will need to swallow any dissatisfaction they have for you. This is how a truly brilliant scheme works.”

Su Yu nodded. He felt his horizons broadened yet again.

Marquis Xia was amazing.

Marquis Xia continued, “One more thing. I almost forgot about this. We need to get the myriad races to protest about your appointment. Make them threaten to attack when you become the leader. No, wait, that’s too serious. Make them threaten to make humanity their enemy. Make them say that they would rather see Great Yuan King as the leader instead. This would work fine. Us humans have the tendency to work in contrast to what the myriad races want.”

Su Yu frowned and said, “The myriad races won’t say those things…”

“Are you dumb?” Marquis Xia said, “It doesn’t matter what they’re saying. We decide what they say. Are they going to go public and correct us? What are they supposed to say? Are they going to voice their support for you? Are they going to claim that you’re a friend even after killing so many of their Invincibles?”

Yet again, Su Yu raised his thumb. This was an excellent idea!

Marquis Xia smiled and said, “We have an agreement, then? You will be present during the conference. It’s up to you to perform during the conference. No matter what, get that new holy land approved. Don’t even bother with any proper authority. Just ask for a ceremonial position. That alone would be a massive victory for you and your supporters.”

Su Yu nodded. He could only agree. He would be stupid to still say no after hearing about the benefits.

With the discussion over, Marquis Xia stood up to leave. Just as he reached the door, Su Yu said, “By the way, when am I getting my Willpower Grotto?”

“…”

Marquis Xia felt like coughing blood.

Holy shit!

How was that not enough to distract the kid?

Su Yu said, “I need it for something. My growth depends on this. It’s much more useful in my hands.”

Marquis Xia considered the matter and nodded, “Sure. I’ll hand it over as soon as possible. We will claim that it has been shut for maintenance. In any case, nobody has the riversand to use it. Just keep a low profile about it. You don’t want to offend more people in the Human Realm.”

“That won’t be a problem.”