Tribulation of Myriad Races

Behind Tian Yue, Su Yu panted heavily. Looking at East Heavenly King, he grinned.

“Looks like the living are more loved by luck than the dead. Well, I guess this is understandable. How can someone dead be luckier than the human lord?”

Su Yu looked around him and said, “Looks like my defeat isn’t certain yet.”

East Heavenly King coldly said, “Do you think your victory is already certain?”

Three Daofuses and two pseudo Daofuses. This wasn’t a weak group to face. But of the three Daofuses, Heavendoom and Tian Yue were new Daofuses. Heavenbridge Marquis was the only veteran Daofuse among them, but as a gate, what he could do was quite limited.

As for Empyrean Cloud and Grandstar, they were nothing for East Heavenly King. They were weaker than the combination of Mo Ji, Mo Yue, and Nether Pseudo Emperor. And the old turtle could suppress all three of them alone. However, even the old turtle was weaker than East Heavenly King.

The four heavenly kings of the Death Realm were incredibly powerful. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that at the moment, only one person in the Myriad Realms was a match for them. Or one dog, to be precise. No, perhaps the insane Martial Emperor could be counted as well.

It was likely that each of the four heavenly kings was similar in strength. Unfortunately, only Martial Emperor was here. None of the others were present.

After taking a short moment to recover some of his death qi, East Heavenly King said, “Su Yu, I’ll find this interesting if you attack me personally. But these people…are unworthy of my time.”

At that, the entire world shook. A gigantic dao manifested in the sky.

East Heavenly King said, “Your power of blood essence has dried up. These people aren’t even comparable to you with that blood essence power.”

Boom!

The dao of death spirit swept out, forcing the surrounding experts to hurriedly move aside before charging in again.

Rumble!

Numerous daos manifested in the sky to contend against the gigantic dao of death spirit, but none was comparable to the dao Su Yu used earlier. After all, that was the white dog’s dao.

With the arrival of his helpers, Su Yu finally had the luxury to talk. While gasping for breath, he said, “Senior Martial Emperor, are you unwilling to fight one more time for humanity?”

Martial Emperor’s sneering voice rang out, “And why should I fight for you idiots?”

His voice turned cold as he continued, “Do you think you can order me around just because you’re the human lord? How foolish. All of you are throwing your lives away for those hypocrites because of your so-called glory. How laughable. How idiotic.”

“Hypocrites?”

“Is that not the case?” Martial Emperor said, “All of them are hypocrites. That’s even more so for the so-called Culture King and Human Emperor. I remember them. Not even Tai Shan was as big of a hypocrite as those two. Back then, those fellows wanted to conquer the Myriad Realms. I merely had a different opinion, yet they targeted me because of that. They started instigating Tai Shan to kill me. Heh. Hypocrites. They resorted to making up facts just to justify what they wanted to do to me.”

Martial Emperor grew more and more emotional as he continued, “Because of them, Tai Shan accused me of slaughtering the masses! Slaughter his ass! At the time, humanity was not united. I was one of the regional overlords in the Human Realm, and humanity was still warring against each other. In wars, how can people not die? What stupid excuse was that?

“That was merely an excuse for them to kill me! A few experts died then, but that wasn’t me! I was home when they died! That bastard Tai Shan accused me of killing them! Damn him! Damn that bastard!”

He was furious. He also felt greatly wronged. Tai Shan was a bastard. Those instigating him were bastards as well. Culture King? Bastard!

Naturally, Culture King and Martial King were titles that had only appeared after Martial Emperor’s fall. But after waking up, Martial Emperor had regained the memories of his body during his slumber, learning about the identities of the people who had stayed in his body for a period of time.

He remembered hearing those hypocrites muttering by his ears. Those bastards! Su Yu and these people were all brainwashed idiots who had fallen for the lies of those hypocrites. Glory of the ancient past? Absolute nonsense!

Martial Emperor sounded like he had waited very long to let this off his chest. Since Su Yuw as the only person here capable of hearing his voice, he continued, “Little Bug, don’t get too excited. This death spirit is nothing for me, but…hehe, your group is far weaker than him. You will all die here.”

Su Yu asked weakly, “Can’t you help your fellow humans once? It has been a hundred thousand years since Culture King’s era. We’re not really related to them…”

“A hundred thousand years?” Martial Emperor said, “But over the past hundred thousand years, only their so-called glory was passed down among humanity. You are all the inheritors of those hypocrites. Are you trying to instigate me into fighting for this so-called humanity because it’s the right thing to do? What a joke!”

Su Yu sighed helplessly and said, “It’s fine if you don’t fight, but can you teach me the grand cycle cultivation method? I’ll fight this person again after clearing the passage in my Heaven Gate.”

“Hehe. Dream on!” Martial Emperor sneered and said, “Keep dreaming! I won’t do anything! I will watch as you die!”

Su Yu sighed again and said, “We might not necessarily lose. We have three Daofuses, and even our two non-Daofuses are near Daofuse. Upon their advancement, we will have five Daofuses against him. How will we lose?”

“Fool.” Martial Emperor said, “You are too stupid. Too idiotic. Numbers mean nothing. Are you thinking that you can kill even me by gathering three, five, or even ten Daofuses? If numbers are so useful, what’s the point of pursuing a higher cultivation level?”

Three, five, or ten…

Su Yu didn’t even know how to argue against that.

Su Yu frowned and said, “Don’t be too sure about that. I believe we stand a chance against him.”

“What a joke.” Martial Emperor sneered and said, “Are you actually doubting me? You are too arrogant. What an arrogant clown. You will lose. All of you will die. He will be heavily injured, but he will survive.”

As a top expert, Martial Emperor was confident in his prediction. The three Daofuses could fight to the death. Even if Empyrean Cloud and Grandstar managed to achieve their Daofuse during the fight, creating a situation where five Daofuses were fighting the East Heavenly King, the five might still be the ones to die. East Heavenly King would survive with heavy injuries.

Su Yu gnashed his teeth and argued, “He was already slightly tired from the fight with me. He is already injured. I refuse to believe that—”

“Hahaha! You are simply stupid yet arrogant.”

Martial Emperor laughed. This was so ridiculous that he found it funny. Previously, he had a decent impression of Su Yu after witnessing Su Yu’s fight with East Heavenly King. This human lord might be weak and too confident, but he wasn’t that bad. But now, Martial Emperor had changed his mind. Confidence was the only thing this human lord had. Blind confidence. Instead of trusting the judgment of an expert, he was choosing to believe his delusions.

Martial Emperor roared with laughter and said, “Little Bug, you are too laughable.”

Su Yu solemnly said, “How about a bet? I bet that he will lose. We will win.”

“A bet?” Martial Emperor recalled something and coldly asked, “What do you want to bet on? The grand cycle cultivation method? I understand what you’re doing. How laughable. Are you trying to scheme against me? You are truly overconfident. Or is this your final madness before your death?”

Martial Emperor finally knew what Su Yu wanted to do. The blind confidence was a performance to lure him into a bet.

Su Yu did not bother to explain himself. He asked, “Senior Martial Emperor, do you have the courage to make this bet with me?”

“What a ridiculous bug. What do you have to bet with me?” Martial Emperor laughed and said, “You will die if you lose. You won’t even be around to pay your debt anymore. Do you think I’m stupid?”

This was a bet where Su Yu would get the cultivation method upon winning yet he wouldn’t need to pay anything upon losing. What a beautiful dream. Sure enough, this was the inheritor of those hypocrites.

Su Yu said, “There are things I can give you before dying.”

Su Yu continued, “Senior, your current clarity of mind is probably related to me. Or should I say it’s greatly related to me? I believe you understand what this means—”

Martial Emperor cut him off and said, “Who do you think you are? Releasing me? Someone like you? What a joke. Since you want to bet, sure. You can get the cultivation method if you win. But I want something if you lose.”

“What is it?”

Martial Emperor said, “You can’t give me anything worthwhile, but prior to your death, crush the human lord’s token and free the luck on it. I will absorb the luck of humanity. As the human lord, you should understand what this means. After having its luck devoured by me, the environment of the Human Realm will change. Humanity will find cultivation harder and harder. They will encounter bad luck at every turn. The threat of extinction will become very real. The future of humanity. This is what you’re betting with. As the human lord, this is possible for you.”

Su Yu sank into silence.

“Are you scared?” Martial Emperor said, “If you have the courage to do this, I won’t mind betting with you. Don’t you want a bet? Sure enough, the inheritors of hypocrites are all hypocrites as well.”

His voice was filled with disdain and contempt. Su Yu was trying to instigate him into agreeing to that bet. As a response, he increased the stake massively. Would Su Yu dare to accept this bet?

As the human lord, after his death, most of the luck on the human lord’s token would return to humanity, even if a decent chunk would be lost. But if Su Yu gave up the luck to Martial Emperor voluntarily, the loss would be much lower.

Luck as a concept was very enigmatic, but it wasn’t all that unfathomable. One could view it as a sort of dao. A sort of law. The more luck one had, the luckier one would be. That was all one needed to know. With bad luck, one would suffer. This was the only law one needed to understand.

Having lost its luck, humanity would welcome countless disasters.

After a long hesitation, Su Yu said, “If you are willing to give me the cultivation method first, I can transfer you the luck after losing…”

“Hehe. Fuck off!” Martial Emperor was too smart to fall for that. He said, “Little Bug, stop playing these games with me. I will naturally give you the cultivation method when you win. I won’t lower myself to deceive a bug.”

Su Yu frowned and said, “Who can say for sure? Your clarity of mind is unstable. How about this? Tell me the circulation route of the 720 acupoints and apertures first…no, just tell me the route for 715 of them. With that, I will still be very far away from getting the full cultivation method. With only five acupoints or apertures left, I still have hundreds of possibilities to go through.”

“Each mistake will seriously injure me. I won’t be able to perfect the cultivation method in time for this battle. If I die after that, you won’t have to teach me anything anymore. If I win and you renege on your debt, I can still slowly deduce the proper cultivation method out of what I already know.”

Martial Emperor sank into thought. After a short moment, he said, “How interesting. True. That is fair. With this, you will have insurance even if I renege on my debt. But what about my insurance? How can you guarantee that you will transfer me the luck before dying?”

Su Yu smiled and said, “I believe this is what you require to break free. And if I’m really going to die, I most certainly want you free. With your strength, you can slaughter all the experts in the Myriad Realms. With me dead, humanity will be in trouble. Great Zhou King and the others are not capable of protecting humanity. In that case, I might as well release you and drag everyone down to the afterlife with me. As long as you promise to kill everyone, I will naturally transfer the luck of humanity to you before I die.”

Just then, a rumble rang out.

Heavendoom was sent flying with numerous cracks on his body and blood splattering everywhere. He complained grumpily, “I never win!”

He was starting to dislike fighting. Where was the fun in never winning a fight?

Su Yu’s expression changed, while Martial Emperor laughed. He asked, “Are you still so certain that they can win?”

Su Yu answered indifferently, “It no longer matters. This is merely a bet. If I win the bet, I’ll get the cultivation method. If I lose…death is death. Nothing matters anymore.”

“True.” Martial Emperor said, “Looks like you’re not overconfident. Rather, you have given up. You are simply making a bet where you won’t lose out either way. Am I right?”

“You are wise, Senior.”

Martial Emperor said, “But since you will be happy to see me free if you have to lose, why can’t I wait instead? I only need to wait for your defeat to get what I want.”

Su Yu answered, “That’s a different story. Without the cultivation method from you, I will refuse to transfer you the luck of humanity even if I have to die. I care about respect a lot. I care about respect a lot. If you refuse to give me even a tiny bit of respect, I would rather waste all that luck than share it with you. I will detonate my luck before I die.”

“Respect?” Martial Emperor sneered and said, “Little Bug, only hypocrites care so much about respect. If you don’t give me the luck before you die, humanity will be the first race I eliminate after breaking free.”

“Do you know what I hate most? The legacies of those hypocrites. I can simply destroy humanity before rebuilding my version of humanity.” Martial Emperor said, “Do you think what you consider humanity is the same as what I consider humanity? Wrong. Do you think I’ll spare humanity in my rampage? Wrong. I dislike the hypocritical teachings of those bastards. But if you do the smart thing and transfer your luck to me before dying, I can spare humanity after breaking free.”