Tribulation of Myriad Races

Tiangu frowned. In that case, the token was most likely in Su Yu’s hands.

After a long silence, he said, “A lot of people must have lost their assembly tokens this time. The spirits, the golden pengs, the dragons, and the celestial chasms have probably lost theirs. And you lost yours too. That’s five gone.”

He had to try very hard not to start shouting.

After another long pause, he said, “In that case, it will be much harder for us to gather more than fifty tokens.”

Finally, he lost his temper and cursed, “Some dumb fools even took their tokens to the Upper Realm. Because of them, nobody can assemble enough tokens to control the laws. Otherwise, humanity wouldn’t have stood a chance against us.”

With enough tokens, they would be able to utilize some of the laws left behind by the assembly members back then. Even if they couldn’t make these laws theirs, they could still control some of the tribulations.

For example, they could have punished the ancient guardians for their participation in the recent battle.

They only needed to tighten the laws regarding the ancient guardians, subjecting them to heavenly tribulations the moment they participated in anything unrelated to their task in suppressing the Death Realm.

Alas, it was no longer possible to gather all ninety-nine tokens. Even gathering half of them was already an extremely difficult task. The situation would have been much better for them even with only more than half the tokens. That would enable them to adjust the tribulations even if that wasn’t enough to set new laws.

That would also allow them to weaken the punishment for those attempting to descend from the Upper Realm. It would be hard to completely remove the punishment, but weakening it was possible since the thousand-year limit was almost up.

With that in mind, Tiangu glared at Jade King furiously.

One token was lost.

He had not given the token to Jade King expecting it to be lost. He had thought that the token would return with Jade King. Jade King did not dare to say anything. Tiangu’s anger was understandable, even if the immortals had more than one token in their possession. They had gathered more over the years from the ancient races they had eliminated. However, it was still a grave mistake to lose one.

Finally, Tiangu inhaled deeply and said, “So be it. Try to gather as many as you can and weaken the power of laws as best as you can. Su Yu’s growth is too fast. We can’t give him more time. Talisman King, take a trip to the Death Realm personally. Pay the East Heavenly King a visit. Something must have happened there. Marquis Qishan and the others might have died. Contact the East Heavenly King and have him deal with Grand Dream.”

Talisman King nodded and asked, “Should we contact Mo Ji? He entered the Death Realm once. Perhaps he is in contact with some of the old fellows down there.”

After thinking about it, Tiangu nodded and said, “Yes. See Mo Ji before going. I hope he’s not stupid enough to still hold back now. Humanity will be enjoying dominance until the thousand-year limit is up.” “Heavenly Overseer Marquis is too scared of Culture King. That fool. I noticed that he hadn’t been able to pay attention during the previous battle. Things would get worse for us if he were to fall or switch his allegiance yet again.”

“I understand.” Talisman King nodded and said, “I doubt Heavenly Overseer Marquis will really side with the humans again, right?”

“The likelihood isn’t high, but we can’t completely discount that possibility. The two Daofuses Su Yu found this time might be related to Culture King. Heavenly Overseer Marquis was greatly alarmed when he saw them. Su Yu might have discovered Culture King’s ruin and brought two Daofuses out of it. He might have gained some other benefits from that ruin as well. We can’t afford to give him more time!”

Tiangu sighed. Su Yu’s growth was simply too fast.

The immortals had sent their Sunmoons to kill him not long after he stepped onto the Allheaven Battlefield. At the time, he was only a Skysoar. Dao King’s disciple and more than ten Sunmoons joined the operation to kill him. In the end, all of them died while he survived.

During his time in Grandstar City, he was first faced with Sunmoons. Eventually, it escalated enough that Invincibles started appearing. The humans were completely incapable of helping him. Even in such a situation, he was somehow able to secure a victory.

And finally, the myriad races acted against him again outside the Luminous Domain Mansion. That was their third attempt to kill him. At that time, even Daofuses were involved in the operation.

That time, a bunch of Invincibles died, and the operation ended in failure. With the Death Realm and the unknown being in the Luminous Domain Mansion, he was able to force the myriad races to withdraw.

As for their fourth attempt to kill him…Tiangu didn’t even want to think about it anymore. Even Daofuses were starting to die.

Tiangu was starting to feel helpless. Given more time, Su Yu would grow to a level where he was unstoppable.

Talisman King was not as worried. He consoled Tiangu, “Lord, even someone as strong as Hundred Battle King ended up dying. What is Su Yu compared to Hundred Battle King? Even at his strongest, when he was using borrowed power in the previous battle, he was still weaker than the Hundred Battle King.”

Hundred Battle King was monstrously strong. But even someone like him failed. What was there to worry about?

Tiangu said nothing. Hundred Battle King? He was nowhere as crafty as Su Yu. He was also not as treacherous and ruthless. Yes. Su Yu was more ruthless than him.

Hundred Battle King had killed a lot of people, but he had been kind toward humanity. Tiangu knew a lot more than the average person. He knew that humanity also played a role in Hundred Battle King’s eventual defeat.

Meanwhile, Su Yu would show nobody mercy, including his fellow humans.

One shouldn’t underestimate him because of his youth. He had first risen in power by killing his fellow humans. He had caused the deaths of a bunch of Mountainseas and Sunmoons before he was even a Skysoar.

Furthermore, Su Yu was extremely careful. Apart from those he was truly close with, he would remain wary toward everyone else. According to what Tiangu knew about Su Yu, this was someone extremely paranoid.

Just look at Grandstar City. A city that large would have some humans inside, and Su Yu could have recruited them under his wing after taking control of the city. But he had not recruited any of them.

Hundred Battle King had failed, but not because he wasn’t strong enough. Rather, it was because he wasn’t paranoid enough. One could say that he deserved to be schemed to death.

As for Su Yu, one should be wary of being schemed to death by him instead. Then again, it was normal for a human to not be as paranoid during Hundred Battle King’s era. At the time, the internal conflict within the human race wasn’t as intense.

During the ninth epoch, Hundred Battle King received the support of all the ancient humans the moment the thousand-year limit was up. Even Daofuses had willingly thrown their lives away for him.

Thus, his growth had been incredibly smooth. A powerhouse like him was terrifying, but someone like Su Yu, who had grown through all sorts of schemes from a very low level, was much scarier.

Su Yu was someone who had nobody to rely on. He had climbed up from the very bottom. When he first stepped into the Allheaven Battlefield, he didn’t have the support of even one Invincible. Ultimately, he unified the Human Realm and ancient cities.

One could say that his luck had played a big role in his success, but his character had played a big role as well.

Su Yu was the type of enemy Tiangu feared most. He was loved by luck. Because of that, he was extremely hard to kill. Each danger he survived would give him massive gains.

Talisman King had just descended from the Upper Realm, so he didn’t know too much about Su Yu. However, Tiangu had been paying close attention to Su Yu.

Numerous thoughts surfaced in Tiangu’s mind. Finally, he said, “We’re done here. Go and handle your tasks. We can’t stay on the defensive forever. If possible, we need to find a chance to attack and kill Su Yu.”

“Yes!”

Nobody disagreed. Killing Su Yu was something they all wanted to do.

***

At the same time.

Finally, Su Yu saw Wan Tiansheng. But alongside Wan Tiansheng, there was an headache-inducing individual. Lan Tian.

Why was Lan Tian here as well?

Would Lan Tian never part with Wan Tiansheng?

Su Yu did not give Lan Tian the chance to speak. The moment he saw them, he said, “Principal, do you know about fifth principal’s plan to bring a death spirit back?”

“Hmm?”

Wan Tiansheng said, “A bit. Why?”

“Why didn’t you tell me about this before?”

Wan Tiansheng chuckled and said, “I thought you were looking for me for something major. He only mentioned this in passing.”

“You never know what could be important. Just who did he want to bring back? How did the plan to do it?”

Seeing that Su Yu was taking the matter so seriously, Wan Tiansheng thought about it. After a long while, he answered, “He wanted to bring a student of Culture King back…no, that wasn’t his exact words. He didn’t know much about Culture King before. He was only looking for someone who had left a character technique in the Culture Tomb.

“He entered the Death Realm with the Culture Tomb and seemingly sensed something. Perhaps something had resonated with the Culture Tomb down there. According to him, a group of people had inserted their character techniques into the Culture Tomb long ago. If he could find them, he could try to extract the character techniques and fuse the techniques into these death spirits, awakening their past memories…”

Wan Tiansheng continued, “But he died before he could do it. Eventually, we wanted to do the same as well, but we couldn’t even enter the Death Realm. Thus, we gave up.”

“Why didn’t you tell me about it previously?”

Wan Tiansheng had entered the Death Realm with him before.

Wan Tiansheng said helplessly, “So many death sovereigns were present yet there was no reaction from you. I concluded that the Culture Tomb had probably not reacted to any of them. In that situation, it would be pointless to tell you. You might even risk going much deeper into the Death Realm after learning about this. That would be suicidal.

“Also, that was merely a plan of Ye Batian, but there is no guarantee that it would work. Just look at He Tu. Does he still view himself as a human? If reviving is possible, Guardian Grand Dream would have done so long ago.”

Su Yu nodded, “So be it. I’ll think of a way myself. Culture Tomb…fine. I’ll try to search around if possible.”

With nothing else to say, and noticing that Lan Tian was just about to speak, he hurriedly said, “I’m going to visit the various Daofuses. Principal, tell the prefect if you need anything. Senior Lan, Silk Destroying King is looking for you everywhere. Be careful. Bye.”

After Su Yu left, Lan Tian said gloomily, “I don’t think Little Su Yu likes me anymore.”

He wasn’t even given a chance to say anything! Wan Tiansheng rolled his eyes. Wasn’t that perfectly normal?

Lan Tian continued grumbling, “Why did he even mention about Silk Destroying King? It has been so many years. Has Wang Hu not forgotten the past?”

Nearby, Xia Longwu asked curiously, “What are you talking about?”

Why were they speaking about Silk Destroying King?

Lan Tian said, “It’s nothing. Someone is looking at me. Let’s go, Tiansheng!”

Then, he vanished with a flicker.

Right at that moment, Silk Destroying King stepped out of thin air and glared at the direction Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian had vanished. Xia Longwu looked up at him and asked doubtfully, “Senior, what is it? Do you have a grudge against Lan Tian? All human Eternals are currently injured. By stealing three thousand phoenix eggs, Lan Tian has contributed massively to humanity. Just forgive him…”

Xia Longwu was trying to play peacemaker. What happened between the two?

Silk Destroying King glared at Xia Longwu for a long while. Seeing that Xia Longwu did not seem aware of the truth, he snorted and left. He had rushed over in a worry after sensing both Su Yu and Lan Tian at the same place. Fortunately, he had arrived in time.

Meanwhile, Xia Longwu was left confused. What happened? How was Su Yu aware of it but not him? Why couldn’t he remember any quarrel between the two? Was it due to something Lan Tian did during his time as the Original Devil Sect master?

Xia Longwu wondered if he should organize a meeting between the two and help resolve the grievances between them. This wasn’t the time for there to be quarrels between fellow human experts.