Tribulation of Myriad Races

“Who are you?” Marquis Qiyun roared in alarm, “Just who are you?”

Who was this?

A book?

Whose?

“Time Sage…is that it? No…impossible! Book of Time? How can the Book of Time appear here?”

Marquis Qiyun started trembling in fear.

When he saw a book, he could only think of the Book of Time. No other book should have the ability to instantly trap a marquis. He might be a death spirit, but a marquis was still a marquis.

The book spirit chuckled and said, “No. The Book of Time is much stronger than me. How dare you disrespect the imperial court and attack the Spirit Suppression General? You deserve death for this. I am here to kill the rebels on behalf of my master.”

Boom!

The net started tightening itself.

Then, the tea plant attacked through the gaps of the net in excitement.

Boom!

Countless branches swept forth. Alarmed, Marquis Qiyun roared and attacked the net. Alas, it was pointless. Meanwhile, the book continued flipping. The more pages he flipped, the more characters appeared, and the tighter the net became.

The tea plant continued attacking in excitement. This was her first time beating someone up. She wasn’t completely clueless about combat. She still had some memories of how her little master fought.

As she continued whipping Marquis Qiyun with her many branches, she recalled something and asked, “Book Spirit, how do I find his dao? How do I smash his dao apart?”

The book spirit laughed and said, “You won’t be able to smash his dao apart. He’s dead. When someone dies, they will lose their dao. All death spirits walk the dao of death. And the dao of death won’t manifest. Just break his death imprint and he will die. Since he has a dao body, you can also break his dao body to weaken him.”

The tea plant nodded in understanding, “I see. You sure know a lot, Book Spirit.”

“Reading more will always be helpful…”

“I don’t want to read!”

As they conversed, the many branches weaved together before stabbing through the dao body of Marquis Qiyun. Still trapped in the net, despair started covering Marquis Qiyun’s face.

The book spirit said, “Don’t destroy this thing completely. Leave some of it behind. It can be used to improve the intelligence and recover the memories of other death spirits. It is a treasure.”

“Oh…”

Once again, the tea plant learned a new thing. In the blink of an eye, the dao body was smashed apart, leaving only some death blood behind.

The book spirit continued his explanation, “This is a treasure as well. It can greatly grow the strength of death spirits.”

“Oh.”

The tea plant gathered everything with her branches.

As for Marquis Qishan, he stared roaring in fear and desperation.

Boom!

The entire Death Realm was trembling slightly. A marquis had been killed so easily. Yes. It was that easy. The book spirit only needed to focus on sealing while the tea plant only needed to focus on attacking. They worked well together. The tea plant was inexperienced in combat, but she was strong.

Even the old turtle gasped in surprise. The two…were quite impressive. He did not feel like he was weaker. In fact, he was confident he would be stronger at his full strength. But the two were most certainly strong enough to defeat a majority of Daofuses when working together.

More importantly, one would be completely helpless against them if one couldn’t break free from the book spirit’s net.

The old turtle might be strong, but not even he could seal Daofuses so easily. Thus, killing Daofuses was a difficult task for him. Thus, the two might be more suited for killing Daofuses even if he were stronger at peak strength.

With the same smile on his face, the book spirit sent his net flying toward Marquis Qishan. This person deserved to be killed as well. He deserved punishment.

Culture King was the core figure of the ancient imperial court. Since these people were attacking the Spirit Suppression General, they had essentially rebelled against the authority of the imperial court.

As far as the book spirit was concerned, all rebels deserved death. Even if they were already dead, he would kill them again.

Marquis Qishan was alarmed to see the approaching net. In his desperation, he ignited his death blood and resisted madly. He wanted to flee. This shouldn’t be happening.

“Heavenly King! Living beings have entered the Death Realm!”

He roared, desperate for East Heavenly King’s help. Alas, he was too far away for any help to arrive. Perhaps the East Heavenly King had sensed Marquis Qiyun’s death, but he would need some time to reach this place. And time was not something Marquis Qishan had.

Even as the net descended upon Marquis Qishan, the book was still flipping repeatedly. Eventually, the book spirit started reading from the book.

“At the start of the war, the immortals refused to obey. I killed sixteen immortal kings, erased three of their great daos, and severed their main dao. Finally, they bowed…”

As the net descended, an indistinct projection appeared beyond the net.

The projection was showing the scene of an individual slapping over ten immortal kings to death with one strike before reaching out to grab the very heavens and tearing several great daos apart. Ultimately, the Immortal Emperor was forced to bow.

A scene from the early years of the ancient past.

A scene from Culture King’s battle against the various realms.

“Culture King…”

When Marquis Qishan laid eyes on the projection, he started trembling violently.

“No…Culture King is dead…he’s dead…”

The book spirit continued reading out loud.

Meanwhile, the tea plant suddenly raged as she sent her branches sweeping over while roaring, “Master isn’t dead! He’s alive! He will be back! Fat Ball said that Master will return! How dare you say that about Master? Die!”

She was furious.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

Countless branches stabbed through Marquis Qishan’s net-covered body.

Then, his death imprint was dug out. He had yet to recover from the damage of losing three drops of death blood to the old turtle. Thus, his body was ripped apart in the blink of an eye.

Once again, the Death Realm trembled.

The phenomena of dead death sovereigns weren’t as intense as the phenomena of dead living Invincibles. However, the death of the two marquises had still caused the Celestial River of Death to shake while two dark stars fell from the sky.

Both had died at almost the same time. Thus, the phenomena had appeared together. The tea plant was not the most terrifying combatant here. Rather, it was the book spirit.

The tea plant was more similar to Su Yu. Her offensive strength was formidable, but she was too lacking in other combat methods. Meanwhile, the book spirit was capable of producing a net that could trap even Daofuses.

His combination with the tea plant was absolutely fatal. In fact, one could say that their combination was similar to the combination of Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng.

Above the Celestial River of Death, the two marquises who were fighting the human marquis started fleeing.

Holy shit!

This was too terrifying.

Two marquises had died just like that!

Who? Who were the newcomers?

They did not even dare to pry upon the two newcomers. They only wanted to flee far away. Only the East Heavenly King’s residence was safe for them.

Noticing the escaping marquises, the tea plant asked in excitement, “Book Spirit, two escaped! Do we give chase?”

The book spirit glanced in the direction of the escaping marquises and laughed, “No. That’s the territory of a heavenly king. It would be rude of us to intrude.”

“All of existence belongs to Master! Wherever Master can go, we can go as well!”

The tea plant was quite dismissive of this notion that some territory belonged to others. As far as she was concerned, her master was the best. Thus, everything was her master’s.

The old turtle approached them and greeted them with a smile, “Greetings, Friends. Forget about going there for now. East Heavenly King isn’t weak. Not even your myriad dao seal can work well against him.”

“Greetings, Spirit Suppression General!” The book spirit said, “My master once said that the Spirit Suppression General is stronger than a majority of marquises. Today, I can see that you are already one of the three strongest individuals in the world of the living.”

The book spirit could feel that the old turtle wasn’t someone he could seal when the old turtle was at full strength. While they conversed, Xia Chen and He Tu killed the rest of the attacking death sovereigns.

Done with that, He Tu spent some time swearing before looking at the two newcomers warily. Who were they? They were too strong. Why did it feel like more and more hidden experts were emerging?

As for Xia Chen, he stared at the tea plant and book spirit for a long while before asking doubtfully, “Seniors, are you from Culture King’s Residence?”

The tea plant couldn’t be bothered to reply, but the book spirit seemed surprised to see Xia Chen. He stared at Xia Chen for a while before asking, “You’re…”

“I’m a descendant of Battle King, once the gravekeeper of Culture King.”

The book spirit said, “A friend of Master? Battle King…gravekeeper…are you talking about Culture King’s cenotaph?”

“Yes!”

The book spirit said, “Master is still alive. Definitely. We’re very confident. But still, thank you for your hard work.”

The book spirit continued, “The human lord is still waiting for us. Spirit Suppression General, keep up the act for a bit. We must keep the matter here hidden for now.”

The old turtle smiled and said, “Don’t worry. I understand. Looks like someone is going to suffer soon.”

The book spirit smiled as well.

Far away, above the Celestial River of Death, Marquis Lanshan looked toward them and said, “I’ll be returning to the East Heavenly Domain. Spirit Suppression General, I will try to delay things as much as I can. However, East Heavenly King will cross the border one day. Be prepared.”

“Thank you, Marquis Lanshan.”

“No, I should be the one thanking you instead…”

Marquis Lanshan gave the old turtle a complicated look before bowing at the book spirit and tea plant. Then, she left. She was the sole human marquis left in the East Heavenly Domain. She couldn’t die yet.

Before long, she vanished into the distance.

Calm returned. The two marquises had died too easily.

The old turtle said, “He Tu, Xia Chen, I need your help with something. Take your death sovereigns with you and suppress the disturbance under all the ancient cities. We need to free all the guardians.”

He Tu asked, “Are you ordering me around?”

“…”

The old turtle was rendered speechless.

Fuck!

Did that dumbass not realize that he had just been saved? The old turtle had fought so hard for that dumbass. Was he blind?

Fortunately, Xia Chen was much easier to work with. He said, “Don’t worry, Senior. Brother He Tu, let’s go.”

With a cold snort, He Tu left as well. Even from afar, his complaints could be heard, “That old bastard killed me personally back then. That’s my enemy. Dummy, why are you listening to him? I am a descendant of Devote King. He is the subordinate of my ancestor. Killing me is the same as betraying his lord.”

Xia Chen’s voice rang out, “Be patient. You can take your revenge when you grow stronger. For now, we need to suppress the disturbance and buy more time for humanity.”

“Fine, fine. I’ll forget this matter temporarily for your sake.”

“…”

Once again, the old turtle was rendered speechless. He had the urge to give He Tu a good beating. That ungrateful idiot.