Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu asked with a surprising calm, “How many do I need to kill to remove the suppression on your dao?”

Martial Emperor was being subjected to several layers of suppression. Clearly, the seals were incredibly powerful or they wouldn’t have been able to keep him in slumber for so many years.

Martial Emperor answered, “I’m still far from that. You might be able to get some Daofuses before that happens.”

Martial Emperor sounded incredibly cheerful due to his great mood. He asked, “Did you initiate fusion with the pen dao?”

“Yeah.”

“Not bad.” Martial Emperor asked, “By the way, is this pen dao a counter for me?”

“You overthink, Martial Emperor.”

“I overthink?” Martial Emperor laughed and said, “It’s fine. I’ll wait for you. It won’t be easy for you to do anything to me before mastering the pen dao. With the mastery of the powerful pen dao, I will no longer be a match to you. Thus, there is no need for you to worry about me. Am I right?”

Su Yu frowned. There was some logic in that. Then again, he also had the Token of Sanctification. The pen dao was not his sole trump card. Perhaps he would be able to handle Martial Emperor after pushing his fusion to a higher rate.

Suddenly, Su Yu asked, “Why did they spare your life back then? Martial King and the others must be aware of your hatred toward them. And you are too strong. Your release might be disastrous for humanity.”

Martial Emperor said, “Su Yu, why are you so stupid at times? When will I be released? When humanity is in crisis. When humanity has declined terribly. Too weak to suppress me. That will only happen when there isn’t even a Master of Law among humanity anymore. In that case, they might as well release me. With me around, there is hope that humanity might not go completely extinct.

“No matter what, I am a human. I might kill ninety percent of humanity to cleanse this version of humanity that has been polluted by Tai Shan and the others. But I still need some humans around to rebuild a new humanity in my image. This is a form of continuation as well. Am I right?

“You don’t understand, but Tai Shan and the others understand. I am not here to help people like you. They know I hate the likes of you. But they also know that I won’t exterminate humanity. Continuation will be ensured. Is that not the case?”

After thinking about it, Su Yu nodded in agreement.

Perhaps.

This might be the case.

Martial Emperor would only regain his freedom when humanity was so weakened that extinction was a very real threat. In that situation, Martial Emperor could wipe out all legacies of Human Emperor’s court, but he was still a human. He would preserve the species to rebuild a new humanity in his image.

Was that another form of continuation?

Maybe.

Martial King and the others cared more about the continuation of the race instead of the legacies of individuals. Their form of continuation might not be the same as Su Yu’s.

With a higher level of clarity, Martial Emperor was able to think about a lot more thinks. He was able to easily see through the intent of Tai Shan and the others. He laughed and said, “Su Yu, why don’t you give up. When I’m free, I’ll kill only those related to Tai Shan and the others. I will spare half of humanity. I will handle the myriad races. What do you think?”

Su Yu asked indifferently, “Are you sure you’re a match for them? Hundred Battle King of the previous epoch was very powerful as well. He was nearly a Master a Law. Even someone like him suffered defeat. Are you sure you can handle a hundred Daofuses alone? Yes. You are a proper Master of Law. Are you going to suppress over a hundred Daofuses alone?”

Martial Emperor replied, “That will be quite difficult. Masters of Laws are powerful, but they won’t be easy to handle when there are so many of them working together. However, you need to understand one thing. They can’t stay together forever. As long as they separate, I am strong enough to kill three or five of them at once. I only need to do this ten or so times and they will fall apart.”

He was naturally no match for over a hundred Daofuses. He could kill a lot of them in the process, but he wouldn’t win. More importantly, there wasn’t a need for him to face them at once.

Would those Daofuses stay together forever? They would eventually separate. And Martial Emperor was strong enough to pick them off separately.

Su Yu nodded and smiled, “Are you saying that I don’t need to work so hard. I can sit back and relax. You will handle everything once you’re free.”

“Yes.”

Martial Emperor smiled as well.

With the same smile on his face, Su Yu asked, “And then, I die in your hands as well. All the experts of this era will also die. After all, they have inherited bits and parts of the ancient legacies. Am I right?”

Martial Emperor kept smiling, but he said nothing.

Su Yu laughed and said, “Forget that. I prefer to do this myself. Don’t feel too confident. You are strong. Yes. But you are not undefeatable. You wouldn’t be here otherwise. Have you forgotten about what Martial King did to you?”

Slowly, Martial Emperor’s expression turned unsightly.

Su Yu laughed again and continued, “Furthermore, I am in the process of conquering the Death Realm. There are plenty of heavenly kings there. You can handle Daofuses. What about five or six heavenly kings? Ah, yes, you saw a heavenly king here before. That was East Heavenly King. They are not weak.”

Martial Emperor coldly said, “A bunch of shrimps. They aren’t weak, but you need at least ten of them to put up a fight against me. Otherwise, they will all die to me.”

Ten heavenly kings.

With no guarantee of victory. This allowed Su Yu to get a rough grasp at the level of Martial Emperor’s strength. He sighed inwardly. Too strong. One ought to remember that he had been sealed for countless years. It was impressive that he was still so strong. Then again, he might not be entirely honest here.

Su Yu said nothing else. Martial Emperor sank into silence as well. In the meantime, his body was slowly turning clearer and clearer than before. At the same time, the guardians were increasing in strength. After some time, they were finally done killing the captured death sovereigns.

Of the twenty-seven guardians, six were already at the ninth degree prior to this. Fourteen were at the eighth degree and seven were at the seventh degree. Only the first guardian to kill the death sovereigns was a seventh-degree Eternal. Subsequently, only those at the eighth degree did the killings.

Through the process, nine of them managed to reach the ninth degree. With that, the number of ninth-degree Eternals had increased to fifteen. They would need at least forty to fifty death sovereigns to bring everyone to the ninth degree.

It wouldn’t be so easy to capture more death sovereigns. It seemed impossible for them to reach the Daofuse Realm anytime soon. Each of them would need to kill a marquis to reach the level of a Daofuse.

Su Yu sighed.

How troublesome. He had quite a lot of death sovereigns under his command. Some had also followed him into the mansion. However, he had left them alone. After all, they were his subordinates.

Sure, their loyalty might be questionable, but still, Su Yu did not want to kill someone under his command.

“Go and capture more.” Su Yu said, “Try to catch forty or fifty more sovereigns.”

After a pause, Su Yu added, “I will release my life force and attract some death sovereigns over.”

For now, he had to first focus on pushing all the guardians to the ninth degree. He couldn’t be bothered to waste too much time on Martial Emperor.

***

Before long, Su Yu left the mansion.

He traveled along the Celestial River of Death with He Tu and the others while releasing his life force. And sure enough, a bunch of powerful death spirits were lured over. Marquises weren’t stupid, but that wasn’t the case for death sovereigns.

***

At the same time.

Deep inside the Celestial River of Death.

Multiple powerful existences were carefully moving deep inside the river. Eventually, they reached a palace of bones. Inside the palace, an extremely powerful aura could be felt. More and more experts were arriving. These were all intelligent death spirits.

Generally, a death spirit needed to be at least a Daofuse to awaken with their intelligence.

One of them spoke in the hoarse voice of someone who had not spoken for years, “Who is here? Why are you gathering us here?”

“I am Cangshan Nether. Does anyone still remember me?”

The surrounding death spirits sank into thought. After a while, someone spoke, “Cangshan Nether. The lord of Cangshan from the Nether Realm. The one killed by Battle King?”

Cangshan Nether replied from inside the bone palace, “Yes.”

“You’re awake?”

The other death spirit sounded surprised. “Prior to your death, you were nearly a Master of Law. With your awakening, how much of your strength do you still have?”

“Do you want to test me?”

“Heh. As if I’m scared of you.”

He sounded tough, but he was still wary of the person inside the bone palace. Then again, he was only wary, not fearful. As a newly awakened death spirit, fear was not an emotion he could feel so easily.

“Canshang Nether, why did you gather us here?”

“Can you feel the things happening outside the river? A large number of our people are being killed…”

“That is none of our business.”

“Do you want to stay in this river forever?”

“What’s the issue? It’s calm and peaceful here.”

“…”

The death spirits started conversing with each other. Yes. Powerful death spirits were starting to awaken in the river. Some had awakened long ago, but they had never bothered to leave. Some had only awakened recently.

***

Su Yu’s people were still in the middle of capturing death sovereigns.

Suddenly, Su Yu’s tribulation character pulsed slightly. Instantly, he withdrew his life force and looked at the river with a frown. He had caused too much chaos in the Death Realm recently. Would the river react intensely?

There were simply too many experts in that river. And the existence of living beings had the effect of provoking these death spirits into awakening. Looking at the group of death sovereigns behind him, he inhaled and decided to stop for now. This should be enough, anyway.

“Let’s go. We’ll continue in the mansion.”

Su Yu decided to just focus on the North Heavenly King and ignore everything else for now. The existence of the Celestial River of Death might not be a bad thing for him. As long as there were no new heavenly kings, even new marquises would be akin to food for him. In fact, he would be more than happy to see some new marquises around.

After all, he was in need of death spirits to feed the guardians. Even the marquises under North Heavenly King wouldn’t be enough. To make matters worse, they needed to be captured instead of killed. And capturing an expert was much harder than killing. Su Yu believed that they wouldn’t be able to capture more than five or six even if they got lucky.

And if one marquis could push one guardian into the Daofuse Realm, he would only gain five or six Daofuses out of them.

“I greatly lack marquises, but I also need to avoid awakening a bunch of them at once.”

Shortly after, they were back in the Luminous Domain Mansion. Once again, Martial Emperor appeared. This time, Su Yu completely ignored him. There was no point since Martial Emperor would not interrupt what he was doing.

In fact, Martial Emperor would encourage him.

***

Death spirits died one after another.

Guardians advanced one after another. By the time Martial Emperor was only missing his legs, all the guardians were finally at the ninth degree. Martial Emperor was all smiles. He was only here in the form of his projection, but the completion of his projection was also indicative of his status.

He loved this. He loved to see Su Yu angry yet helpless. He was looking forward to seeing more death spirits killed.

With all the death spirits killed, the time for Su Yu to leave had arrived. Before leaving, he asked curiously, “Martial Emperor, you have flowers growing on your ass. You even have a death tunnel there. I’m curious about your gender. If you’re a male…did they forge your little birdie into the assembly building? Or the imperial palace? Tsk tsk. How impressive.”

Instantly, Su Yu vanished with his people.

As for Martial Emperor, he blanked out for a split second before roaring in fury, “Su Yu! You will be the first I kill after leaving!”

Damn it!

This was intolerable.

“Tai Shan! I won’t spare you!”

Martial Emperor was starting to lose his reason again.

He was simply too furious.

As for Heavenbridge Marquis, he was long gone upon noticing the Martial Emperor had gone mad again.

Su Yu had been silent all along, waiting for the final moment to deliver that one blow to Martial Emperor. Who could tolerate such an insult?

Heavenbridge Marquis hurriedly fled to the eighth level in fear. He couldn’t stay down there anymore. In truth, he had descended to give Su Yu the answer. He wanted to tell Su Yu that Su Yu was mistaken about Martial Emperor’s little birdie. But eventually, he decided to give up as Su Yu was too petty to be corrected.