Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu continued fleeing toward the higher levels with Heavendoom and the others.

Thanks to the power of laws she just absorbed, Marquis Lanshan had mostly recovered from her injuries. However, her damage from losing her dao body remained as that wasn’t something one could recover from so easily.

Even after recovering from her injuries, she was only as strong as a ninth-degree Eternal. That was basically the same level as Heavendoom and the others.

Marquis Lanshan coughed, looked at Su Yu with a complicated expression, and asked, “Human Lord, are we heading to the seventh level?”

“Yeah.”

“There’s a tunnel there…death tunnel…leading to the Death Realm. We all know that…it’s much harder to killl East Heavenly King there. He can flee…”

There was a death tunnel on the seventh level. Almost everyone of a certain status in the Death Realm knew that. After all, that tunnel had been around since Devote King’s time.

Su Yu did not say much. He knew that East Heavenly King wouldn’t be easy to kill. But he wouldn’t mind killing only the marquises under the heavenly king. He said, “He has three more marquises under him. If we can’t kill him, we’ll settle for killing his marquises. He can flee, but I’ll go after him again.”

At that point, the roles would be reversed. He would be the one doing the pursuing. Heavendoom and the other two guardians would achieve Daofuse soon. East Heavenly King might be strong enough to handle three or even four Daofuses alone. But what about five or six Daofuses?

Without any of his marquises around, more guardians could be liberated to join the attack against East Heavenly King. Su Yu was quite confident in his chances of victory. Then again, it would be much better to kill East Heavenly King here.

In the Death Realm, East Heavenly King could potentially seek the assistance of the other heavenly kings. That could grow troublesome.

There might be one or more human supporters among the four heavenly kings, but according to Su Yu’s estimation, there wouldn’t be more than one. If there were at least wo, East Heavenly King wouldn’t have so blatantly suppressed the human death spirits over the years.

Marquis Lanshan sank into silence. After a while, she asked, “Human Lord, can you let me down? I have recovered from my injuries. Without my dao body, I’m not a Daofuse anymore. But I’m still far stronger than He Tu.”

At that, He Tu glanced at her and snorted unhappily. But she wasn’t wrong. He Tu was only a seventh-degree Eternal. He was indeed weaker. Even now, she was still strong enough to give him a beating.

“Oh, I forgot.”

Su Yu smiled and let go of Marquis Lanshan. She felt much better moving herself. She did not like the feeling of being carried around like that. It felt like a form of humiliation. Naturally, she wouldn’t make that known.

At her level, a death spirit was able to maintain their clarity of mind even if they were still easily angered. As Marquis Lanshan moved with the rest of the group, she started paying more attention to Su Yu.

The current human lord…did not seem too strong. No, that wasn’t exactly accurate. But his combat strength of a Daofuse felt like borrowed power. In short, the new human lord wasn’t even a Daofuse.

This was very surprising to her. She wasn’t too well-connected, so she had assumed that as a new human lord, Su Yu should at least be a Daofuse. She had never heard of a human lord who wasn’t a Daofuse in the previous nine epochs.

Nevertheless, this new human lord was still very surprising. He wasn’t too strong himself, yet it felt as though he could accomplish anything. He was able to easily get rid of so many of those marquises that had suppressed her for so many years.

Furthermore, the guardians had actually unsealed themselves to fight for this human lord. This had never happened before. She knew Heavendoom and the others. After being a death spirit for so many years, it was only natural for her to know the guardians. Thus, it came as a big surprise to her that these arrogant guardians had actually sided with the new human lord.

And that was not all. The new human lord had also secured the support of some death spirits. She knew He Tu. That was the greatest troublemaker of the first epoch. He wasn’t the human lord of the first epoch, yet he was the child of destiny of that epoch. He was very similar to Su Yu, but unlike Su Yu, he had not gained control over humanity with an external force. After all, the human race was still quite powerful during the first epoch. Even this troublemaker was assisting Su Yu.

With all those thoughts in mind, Marquis Lanshan sent Empyrean Cloud a voice transmission, “Empyrean Cloud, how are things in the world of the living?”

She knew that humanity was in a bad spot in this epoch. But she didn’t know more. Empyrean Cloud looked at her in astonishment. Was she still clueless? Well, that wasn’t really that surprising.

She had appeared once to help the book spirit and tea plant with the two marquises previously, but that was all. She hadn’t been too active, so it wasn’t surprising that she didn’t know too much.

Empyrean Cloud replied, “Things are well. Su Yu managed to gain the support of numerous helpers. He also managed to get several Daofuses killed. Now, the immortals, devils, divines, dragons, and the others are hiding inside their realms with their realms sealed. Humanity is enjoying a short dominance.”

Marquis Lanshan shook.

Dominance?

She had not seen this happening.

Was the human race of this epoch really capable of that?

“Are there Daofuses in the human race?”

Empyrean Cloud answered, “One.”

“…”

Marquis Lanshan was surprised. She asked, “Is that Daofuse…a family member of this human lord?”

That was the only reason she could think of. Why would a non-Daofuse be picked as the human lord otherwise?

“Nope.” Seemingly knowing what she was thinking, Empyrean Cloud explained, “The new Daofuse is Great Zhou King. He doesn’t have a special relationship with Su Yu. In fact, the relationship between them was quite bad before this.

“Marquis Lanshan, don’t think too much. Su Yu isn’t as strong as Great Zhou King. But if Great Zhou King were to go against Su Yu…I believe Great Zhou King would be the one to suffer. Also, Great Zhou King and the others were the ones who had selected Su Yu as the new human lord. Even after many years of patience, they had failed to do anything to the myriad races. Meanwhile, Su Yu was able to rapidly turn the situation around…”

Just look at how many Daofuses Su Yu had recruited to his side. The two furballs, the old turtle, the iron devourer, the book spirit, the tea plant…

Without all those Daofuses, Great Zhou King wouldn’t be able to do much even if he could rope in a Daofuse or two. Without Su Yu as the node connecting everyone together, even the Primordial Giant King and Spatial Beast Pseudo Emperor, who were recruited by Great Zhou King, would have hesitated to help humanity.

They had only joined the battle after Su Yu showed the ability to cause the myriad races to tremble in fear. In Empyrean Cloud’s eyes, Su Yu was the one who had allowed everything to happen, not Great Zhou King.

That was a lot of information for Marquis Lanshan to digest. She had not expected to hear that. She had thought that humanity was in a difficult position. She had assumed that Su Yu had called for her because humanity was making its final stand.

She was even prepared to charge out of the Death Realm, braving the heavenly tribulations just to fight one last time for humanity. But Empyrean Cloud was telling her that she was wrong.

Su Yu was already dominating the world of the living. This weak human lord had done something none of the previous human lords had done.

Sure, some other human lords had suppressed the Myriad Realms temporarily. For example, Hundred Battle King had done so. But when the connection with the Upper Realm opened, all his advantages vanished.

Marquis Lanshan’s feelings turned even more complicated. If she had known this, Yusheng, Hong Yun, and the others would have survived. She had intended to kill as many marquises as she could to reduce the burden on the shoulders of humanity. Alas, she was wrong. No wonder the human lord was so furious with her earlier.

Suddenly, Su Yu shouted at them, “Move faster!”

He grabbed the two and said, “East Heavenly King is right behind me! Stop wasting time! Hold on to me!”

Was this the time to slow down and chat? He was furious. A powerful enemy was right behind them! This was not a stroll in the park!

While flying toward the next entrance, Su Yu grumbled, “Remember! Stop causing trouble for me!”

Empyrean Cloud shrugged at Marquis Lanshan, hinting at her that she was at fault for this. They had angered Su Yu. She still remembered how Su Yu would call her lord and queen all the time when he was weak. Nowadays, he was getting very cocky.

But she decided to forgive his outburst since she had indeed slowed down slightly earlier. Before long, they reached the third level.

After placing a weak formation behind, Su Yu sped off. That formation was only there to alert him when East Heavenly King was here. This would make it easier for him to determine the distance between them. Once again, he rushed toward the next entrance with the others.

While flying, Su Yu was observing Heavendoom. He saw that Heavendoom’s aura was undulating constantly, yet he was still not advancing. Noticing Su Yu’s gaze, Heavendoom said awkwardly, “Without my staff, I am slightly separated from my dao. It’s harder for someone using the Weapon Fusion Method to comprehend the dao without the weapon in hand.”

His staff was essentially the tool he had used to bear the weight of his dao. It also served as the connecting point between him and his dao. Without his staff, his rate of comprehension would drop. Otherwise, he would have advanced the moment he received the heavenly reward.

Su Yu frowned. This was something he had neglected prior to this. No wonder Heavendoom was still stuck even after absorbing the heavenly reward. His lack of weapon was the reason. In that case, Grandstar and Empyrean Cloud would most likely be in the same situation later. Or to be precise, advancement would be even harder for them since Heavendoom was the closest to a breakthrough.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t afford to take their weapons with them. The disappearance of three cities would definitely alert the myriad races that they were up to something.

Heavendoom added, “But no matter. I’m very fast!”

But his tone turned helpless again as he said, “But even as a Daofuse, I doubt I’ll be able to beat that East Heavenly King. It has been a while since I last won a fight.”

He was still feeling very sad about that.

Previously, he had defeated Bountiful Treasure once. But eventually, Bountiful Treasure became a Daofuse. Then, he fought the Dragon Pseudo Emperor and lost. Next, he fought the East Heavenly King and lost. It was likely that he would still lose his next fight against the East Heavenly King.

Thus, he was starting to lose interest in fighting. Nobody liked losing all the time. One could be battle-hungry, but even the greatest thirst for battles could be quenched by a string of defeats.

The others had the urge to laugh at him, but they held back. Grandstar said, “Heavendoom, didn’t you claim that you are number one below the Daofuse Realm?”

“Yes! Below the Daofuse Realm!”

Heavendoom raged. Without his seal, and with his staff, he would be the undisputed number one below Daofuse!

Su Yu said nothing and consumed another drop of golden peng blood essence to maintain his speed. This was the fifth drop of blood essence he had consumed in the day. Of the various Daofuse blood essence, his collection of golden peng blood essence was the highest. He had gathered nine drops of them in total.

He would run out soon, but he could still use the dragon blood essence later. Before long, they reached the fourth level.

Su Yu did not stop. He didn’t even pay his surroundings much attention.

During the period where the Luminous Domain Mansion was shut, storms would rage inside the mansion. That was most likely Old Zhou’s process of recovering his source qi. However, Su Yu did not spare the source qi storms around him much attention.

He was trying to reach the seventh level as soon as possible. If East Heavenly King decided to wait down there, it didn’t matter. With enough time, the old turtle could conquer East Heavenly King’s territory.

Then again, Su Yu believed that someone so strong wouldn’t wait around doing nothing. Someone like East Heavenly King would rather leave through the death tunnel on the seventh level than stay trapped.

Fifth level, sixth level…

And finally, they reached the seventh level.