Tribulation of Myriad Races

The book spirit considered the matter. They were here to help humanity, but protecting Su Yu was their main goal. That was the white dog’s wish. One could say that the white dog was their leader.

He wanted them to protect Su Yu, or the Book of Time to be precise. Su Yu was the successor of their little master. That was the only reason they were protecting him. His identity as the leader of humanity did not matter that much to them.

“In that case, we’ll try to end the battle as soon as possible. Death spirits aren’t too strong. Most of the time, they are weaker than living beings of the same level. We can deal with them before waiting at a predetermined location. You can open a death tunnel leading to that location, allowing us to charge out. That will be an even bigger surprise than emerging from your sea of willpower. Nobody will expect to see living beings charging out of a death tunnel.”

Su Yu’s eyes flickered. That was a good idea.

That made a lot of sense!

He could continue approaching the Dragon Pseudo Emperor stealthily, but he would most likely be detected before he could do anything. But what if he gave the others an opportunity to attack him? They would come, and he could open a death tunnel in response. They wouldn’t be surprised to see a death tunnel, but they definitely wouldn’t expect two powerful living beings charging out of the death tunnel.

He continued fighting the shadow devil while fusing his acupoints. After a while, he pulled back and flew toward the Grand Dream City. The shadow devil did not bother to give chase since he intended to leave as well.

When he noticed the Dragon Pseudo Emperor not far away, he exhaled in relief. Su Yu must have fled out of fear for the Pseudo Emperor. As for the Dragon Pseudo Emperor, he snorted coldly. A look of regret covered his face. He had sensed Su Yu’s slow approach. Thus, he had been getting ready to launch a surprise attack. He was willing to suffer even some injuries if it meant killing Su Yu.

Unfortunately, Su Yu had escaped in time. The Dragon Pseudo Emperor was completely oblivious to the fact that Su Yu had grown greedier while fighting the shadow devil. He would have unleashed the book spirit and tea plant upon the Dragon Pseudo Emperor otherwise.

The addition of the two on top of the female furball was more than enough to kill the Dragon Pseudo Emperor.

When the old turtle sensed Su Yu’s movement, he sent a voice transmission, “This won’t work. He Tu can’t leave yet. Things are very dangerous down there.”

He did not want Su Yu there to cause even more trouble. Things were already chaotic enough under the city.

He Tu was bravely resisting the two marquises with his subordinates. The old turtle was helping him as well. However, they weren’t a match for the two marquises since the old turtle couldn’t fight with his full strength. It wouldn’t be a good idea for Su Yu to go there right now.

What if his arrival caused one of the marquises to charge out of the death tunnel? Things would become even more troublesome.

Su Yu said nothing and continued moving toward the city in silence. Before long, he landed inside the city. The tunnel under the city was violently trembling with a large amount of death qi leaking out of it. Evidently, there was an intense battle down there.

Su Yu said nothing and waved his arm in the direction of the tunnel. With that, a book entered the tunnel noiselessly.

At the exact moment, the old turtle’s heart thumped.

Who…was that?

He didn’t know that person.

Since the book spirit and tea plant had never left Culture King’s Residence, the old turtle did not know them despite his age. He would have recognized the white dog, but the white dog wasn’t here.

The old turtle was greatly shocked. It felt as though Su Yu would never run out of trump cards. He had never expected help to arrive in such a manner. The book continued moving through the tunnel noiselessly.

For the most part, those in the world of the living would not know about the events in the world of the dead. Even if there was a method of communication between the two worlds, but it would be delayed. There wouldn’t have been a need for death summoning tokens to exist otherwise.

***

Death Realm.

Grand Dream’s territory.

A massive battle raged.

One of the combatants was an old turtle. Yes. There was an old turtle here as well. The old turtle was fighting here in his dao body.

Dao bodies were something unique to only Daofuses.

Or to be precise, this was the peak of the Weapon Fusion Method. Upon reaching a certain level, one could transform one’s weapon into one’s body and act through it. Even after losing the weapon, the old turtle wouldn’t die. However, he would instantly fall from the Daofuse Realm.

The old turtle was not fighting alone. He Tu, Xia Chen, and two death sovereigns were helping him with the two marquises while leading millions of weaker death spirits. Evidently, the war in the world of the living had spread to the Death Realm as well.

At the moment, He Tu was looking very furious.

“You bastards! How dare you come after me? I am a descendant of Devote King! Marquis Qishan, Marquis Qiyun, how audacious of you?”

The two marquises couldn’t be bothered to say anything. Devote King’s descendant? But was he the Devote King? Both of them were former immortals. They were here to capture both He Tu and Xia Chen. With a cold expression, Marquis Qishan focused on the old turtle’s dao body.

Hatred filled his eyes as he still remembered the three drops of blood essence the old turtle had extracted from his dao body. He said, “Spirit Suppression General, why are you protecting He Tu? That is not all. The person beside He Tu is also someone the heavenly king wants. They don’t belong to the outer region of the Death Realm. Spirit Suppression General, are you going against the laws of the assembly?”

The old turtle replied, “Laws of the assembly? I am here under Devote King’s command. And Devote King serves the Human Emperor. I serve the imperial court’s laws, not the assembly.”

Yes. The laws of the imperial court differed from the laws of the assembly. He only needed to follow the laws of the imperial court. He would not bow to the authority of the assembly.

“In that case, it’s pointless for us to say more. Qiyun, cut his dao body down.”

This time, two marquises had been deployed to handle the old turtle. They had reached an agreement with those from the world of the living to cause trouble at the perfect moment. They had been waiting for the old turtle’s aura to start stirring before showing up to arrest He Tu and Xia Chen.

Both Xia Chen and He Tu were still fighting hard. Previously, Xia Chen was the one who had pushed Marquis Qishan back. But this time, two marquises had arrived, making them much harder to deal with. As the battle progressed, even more death sovereigns were brought over by the heavenly laws.

As the battle raged on, numerous weaker death spirits died. Death qi filled the air.

While fighting, Marquis Qishan sent a voice transmission, “Marquis Qiyun, when will Darkmoon Marquis and the others arrive?”

They were not operating alone this time. The devils and divines were joining the operation as well. They were merely the vanguard.

Marquis Qiyun was finding the old turtle an extremely annoying opponent to fight. Even so, he could still reply, “I don’t know. They promised to come promptly. That was why we agreed to fight first. Those bastards! What are they doing?”

The battle had started quite a while ago. Why weren’t they here yet? Right at that moment, the distant Celestial River of Death started stirring.

A furious roar rang out, “Marquis Lanshan! Is this a revolt? This is the East Heavenly Domain. We are here on East Heavenly King’s order to arrest the rebels. You dare stop us?”

Three powerful death spirits could be seen above the Celestial River of Death. One of them was in a stand-off against the other two. The lone death spirit was none other than Marquis Lanshan, the sole human marquis in the East Heavenly Domain.

Marquis Lanshan said, “East Heavenly King’s authority does not reach the outer region. That is the territory of Spirit Suppression General. Return.”

“Return?”

The Darkmoon Marquis sneered and said, “Lanshan, you’re courting death. So be it. We will erase you completely today. Do you think this is still the era of humanity? Humanity is a matter of the past.”

Marquis Lanshan replied with a swing of her sword. Since they were unwilling to return, it was time to fight. She was the sole human marquis in the East Heavenly Domain. That wasn’t the case in the previous epochs, but the rest of them had died during the ninth epoch.

Yes. The battle of the ninth epoch had spread to the Death Realm as well. During that battle, several human marquises in the East Heavenly Domain perished while the rest vanished without a reason. Marquis Lanshan had been suspecting East Heavenly King’s involvement in their disappearance. Because he felt threatened by humanity.

Since then, Marquis Lanshan had maintained a low profile, spending her time in cultivation and nothing else. But today, she had emerged from her seclusion.

She did not know what was happening outside. But she knew that these people were joining hands against the Spirit Suppression General. Thus, she could guess that something related to the human race had happened. After all, the Spirit Suppression General was still biased toward the human race.

Grand Dream was strong enough that these marquises wouldn’t dare to provoke him at any other time. Since they were attacking him now, something must have happened outside. The main body of the Spirit Suppression General must be fighting outside as well. Thus, Marquis Lanshan had emerged from her seclusion to stop the two marquises from joining the battle.

An intense battle erupted between the three. As the river roiled, numerous corpses floated up and down the river. The Celestial River of Death was the place where the dead were gathered. Some of them were the supreme experts of the past who were still in seclusion.

The old turtle had mixed feelings about this. After pushing Marquis Qishan back once more, he sighed and said, “You’re all dead. Why bother? Isn’t it better for you to just focus on being death spirits? Why must you participate in the war of the living?”

Marquis Qishan snorted and said, “Focus on being death spirits? Back then, we were all killed by Martial King. Why must we accept our fate like this? Why should we? Why can’t we fight back against Martial King and Battle King?”

“When the heavens are overturned, when the immortals become the lords of the Myriad Realms, we will return to the world of the living! We will regain our lives!”

With a roar, Marquis Qishan attacked the old turtle again. If they could kill this dao body, the old turtle’s strength would drop massively. At that time, he would no longer be a match for the top experts out there.

They had decided that it was time for this old fellow to die.

Boom!

As the battle raged on, a book without any presence appeared noiselessly. The arrival of a living being in the Death Realm would be extremely conspicuous. But a book was no living being. Thus, the book spirit only had a tiny bit of living aura on him.

With the intense battle raging on, none of the death spirits could detect the tiny bit of living aura the book spirit was carrying.

“Death Realm…” The book spirit sighed and asked, “Tea Plant, do you know about the Death Realm?”

“Yeah. Before my sentience was complete, the little master spoke of this place to me. She came here to kill some death spirits before, but she hated this place because its color scheme was too boring…”

The book spirit laughed and said, “Master was here before as well. He, too, disliked this place. But he did spend some time living in the Death Realm. At the time, he was trying to bring someone back to life.”

“Who?”

“I don’t know. I think he ultimately failed. He didn’t say more about it. He only wrote a tiny bit about the matter in the book while lamenting his past.”

While the two were conversing with each other, the old turtle’s dao body detected them. He knew that these were the helpers brought by Su Yu. His expression remained unchanged as he helped cover even the tiny bit of auras the two were leaking. As a plant, the tea plant had a stronger living aura than the book spirit.

Inwardly, the old turtle was feeling quite doubtful. Just who were they? He could see that they were spirits. Were they from the spirit race? But he couldn’t see a reason for the spirit race to help Su Yu. Rather, these two seemed to have left the Human Realm with Su Yu.

Did Su Yu…find them in that ruin? How strong were they? Grand Dream was unsure. But he could feel that the two weren’t weak at all. Unfortunately, he couldn’t get a clearer sense of how strong they were.

Right at that moment, Marquis Qishan looked over and saw the book. Surprised, he shouted, “Qiyun, something is happening—”

The book spirit laughed, “They noticed.”

Instantly, a massive plant appeared.

The tea plant had never appeared in such a size, but she was now appearing in her real form: a massive tree. Alongside her appearance, a massive River of Time unfurled forth as she charged toward the two marquises.

The old turtle hurriedly intensified his attacks on Marquis Qishan. He could see that the tea plant was no ordinary expert.

Unfortunately, the tea plant wasn’t too experienced in combat. Her thick branches swept forth, shattering space and leaving a path of destruction only to miss.

Having missed her attack, she complained, “Book Spirit, I can’t hit them!”

The book spirit sighed and said, “You should have spent more time reading and less time washing yourself.”

Then, the book flipped open.

Countless characters shot forth before turning into a net. Every single one of the characters was incomparably powerful.

With a roar, Marquis Qiyun stabbed his spear at the net. A deafening explosion erupted. However, he only pushed the net back slightly. The net remained undamaged as it continued dropping down upon Marquis Qiyun.