Tribulation of Myriad Races

Spluuurt!

Right after leaving the Celestial River of Death, Su Yu coughed a mouthful of blood.

Marquis Lanshan and the others were alarmed to see his heavy injuries. They were glad that he was back, but they couldn’t help but worry about his injuries.

Su Yu merely flashed them a wide smile. This trip had not been in vain. However, he also knew that he hadn’t gone far enough. The river still hid numerous secrets. For example, where was the beginning of the dao? And where was the end?

But that was not that important anymore. His key takeaway was the discovery of a potential new method to grow himself: theft.

“The Time Sage has been a source of the initial framework, while the Culture King has been the source of my inspiration. This pair of siblings is truly remarkable.”

Culture King was a lot more well-known than Time Sage, but for Su Yu, Time Sage was the true genius of the two. Her Book of Time alone had given him countless gains in his path of cultivation.

Her train of thought and her ideas in regard to cultivation, such as creating a new river, a fake river, were truly revolutionary. Su Yu couldn’t even begin to imagine how someone could grow into such an amazing individual. And that was the conclusion he had reached from a single book.

He had never even met her. He had only seen her back, at a time when she was weeping like a child. At the time, he had thought that Time Sage was soft. But now, he realized that he had underestimated her.

She was truly amazing. Her ideas and her book were incredible. Unfortunately, she had been born in the wrong era. At the time, there were too many supreme beings among the myriad races. Thus, she couldn’t openly plunder the myriad daos like Su Yu could. Otherwise, she would have achieved even more.

“Your Majesty!”

When Marquis Lanshan called out nervously, Su Yu waved his hand, indicating that he was fine. Even with black blood dripping out of his mouth, he smiled and said, “I’m fine. I’m doing very well, to be precise.”

Then, he looked to the side with surprise, “Great Zhou King?”

Great Zhou King said, “Emperor Yu, I have been here for three days.”

Had it been three days?

Su Yu blanked out. One would not notice the passage of time while traversing the river. In his mind, he had merely spent some time with a marquis. But outside, several days had passed.

After all, it would also take Great Zhou King a little bit of time to come here. Great Zhou King was not the only person who had arrived. Quite a lot of experts had gathered here. The ten marquises under South Heavenly King, the three under Marquis Lanshan, the two newly recruited death spirit Daofuses, He Tu, and Xia Chen.

Nineteen death spirits, Great Zhou King, and Su Yu. This was a group of twenty-one top experts. And dozens of death sovereigns were also gathered around them.

Great Zhou King was relieved to see Su Yu out of the river. He did not ask too much about the river. Rather, he asked, “Emperor Yu, do we attack now? Why don’t we wait for you to recover from your injuries? We can also spend some time gathering information. Old Zhu is also near Daofuse. If we wait until his advancement, he can help us hide our attack more easily.”

“Great Ming King is near Daofuse?” Su Yu laughed and said, “Looks like that descendant of Control King is quite helpful, after all. I know nothing about formations. This is a good thing. With Great Ming King’s advancement, humanity will gain another Daofuse.”

Back then, Great Ming King, Great Xia King, Great Zhou King, and Great Qin King were the four pillars of humanity. Three had since achieved Daofuse. Even Wan Tiansheng had caught up to them. Great Ming King would probably feel terrible if he remained stuck for any longer.

With a smile, Great Zhou King said, “Yes, it’s a good thing. Thus, I suggest that we wait a day or two while you’re injured and wait for Old Zhu to complete his advancement. A day or two of waiting won’t change much.”

Su Yu nodded. He agreed. He could also take this opportunity to observe his new dao friend. Would that new dao friend bring him a new surprise? Death spirits were flawed beings. And with him directly brainwashing that fellow through the dao, that fellow would be influenced easily. This might be enough to push that fellow into assassinating the other death spirits or even killing them openly for more power.

At that thought, Su Yu looked at Great Zhou King and asked, “Have the myriad races produced a new Master of Law in the past hundred thousand years?”

“No.” Great Zhou King said, “I’m certain. Otherwise, the war would have ended long ago. Over the years, Hundred Battle King was the closest to that level in strength.”

“Not a single one in a hundred thousand years, but over a hundred of them prior to that.”

Su Yu muttered to himself. Was this because those before them were that much more talented? What nonsense. The difference between the two eras was too big. From over a hundred to nothing. It was likely that there was an unknown issue with the daos everyone had been fusing with. Or perhaps the masters of these daos were all still alive.

Su Yu did not spend too much time speculating about this matter. He said, “I’ll be focusing on my recovery. Get ready for the attack. We will target to defeat not only the Daofuses, but also the Eternals before they can react. As for those below the Eternal Realm, they have no way of leaving their realms. When they die, only a small local phenomenon will appear. We don’t need to worry too much about them.”

Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to spare too much effort on those below the Eternal Realm.

He said, “Try to capture as many of them alive as possible. Each of the four realms won’t have more than twenty Eternals. We have enough marquises to handle each Eternal alone. Capture them alive. Each marquis will also be assigned three death sovereigns. If they don’t have enough Eternals, we can even handle one of their Eternals with two of our Daofuses. Ignore those below the Eternal Realm. If anyone makes a mistake in even such a situation, punishment awaits.”

Toward the end, Su Yu’s voice had turned cold. As Daofuses, if they couldn’t even handle some Eternals, they should reconsider their lives. Everyone turned solemn. Nobody dared to take this lightly.

Su Yu said, “Discuss among yourselves and make the assignment independently. Don’t make the mistake of handling one Eternal with multiple Daofuses while leaving some Eternals unattended. A self-detonation will create a bigger phenomenon. Our plan will fail when the divines, devils, and immortals discover it. Great Zhou King, South Heavenly King, Marquis Lanshan, and I will be handling the Daofuses.”

Of the four, one was a heavenly king, Great Zhou King was a tier two expert, while Marquis Lanshan was near the tier two as well. Su Yu was the weakest among them. If the four of them couldn’t even capture a Daofuse, they might as well kill themselves in embarrassment.

“Avoid killing if possible.” Su Yu added, “When death spirits unleash slaughter in the world of the living, the laws might react and the connection with the Upper Realm might be affected. Remember. Capture as many as possible.”

“Got it.”

Everyone answered.

Having said all that, Su Yu smiled before vanishing. He would recuperate in seclusion while observing his little friend. He also wanted to take this chance to figure out the identity of his little friend.

With him out here, even if Dragonblood Marquis couldn’t do enough to grow his death spirit page, Dragonblood Marquis could still be used as a location marker.

Su Yu could constantly sense the location of his page. With this, he would be constantly aware of any movement on North Heavenly King’s side.

***

Time passed.

During the first day, nothing happened.

Dragonblood Marquis had remained at the same place, as though everything was normal. On the second day, Dragonblood Marquis was still at the same location. But Su Yu could sense something different.

***

North Heavenly King’s new territory.

Back when North Heavenly King left, he had taken a large number of elites with him. Thus, he still had a large number of death sovereigns and Sunmoons in his new territory. Naturally, his new territory was much smaller as he was trying to keep a low profile in the Origin Land.

The new palace also looked rougher than his previous palace. All the marquises were residing near him, but they were still keeping a distance from each other. After all, any death spirit with intelligence would have their own secrets. They did not enjoy sticking together all the time.

Inside the crude Dragonblood Palace.

Dragonblood Marquis had remained patient for an entire day, but he was starting to feel twitchy. A golden opportunity was right before him. He wanted to do something about it, but he was also afraid of attracting North Heavenly King’s attention.

And finally, he ran out of patience. Coincidentally, a good opportunity for him to act had appeared.

At the moment, several death sovereigns were kneeling before him while reporting to him. One of them said nervously, “Lord, the Origin Land is too complicated. The number of death spirits here is smaller, but a lot of them are very powerful. Some even feel as strong as marquises. The Dragonblood Army has encountered many obstacles while expanding our territory. We lost quite a lot of people…”

“Trash.” Dragonblood Marquis raged, “I have a large army under me. Are we supposed to settle with such a small territory? You are too useless to be kept around!”

Originally, he only intended to give them a scolding. But suddenly, a voice rang out in his mind, “Destiny awaits. Time is of the essence here. Devour everything.”

Slowly, excitement and nervousness flickered in Dragonblood Marquis’ furious eyes. Looking at his kneeling subordinates, his gaze firmed as he said, “You are useless! Your uselessness is embarrassing!”

And then, he sent a palm strike toward the death sovereign who had been speaking earlier.

Boom!

Under the terrified gazes of the death sovereigns, that death sovereign was torn apart by Dragonblood Marquis. Instantly, the dao of that death sovereign scattered. Crimson light flickered in Dragonblood Marquis’ eyes as his dao came alive, devouring the scattered dao.

This was usually not something that would happen when an opponent was defeated. But Su Yu’s Mark of Civilization had been forged to devour and grow. Thus, the dao of the death sovereign was instantly devoured by the page.

Naturally, in Dragonblood Marquis’ eyes, the page was actually a dao seed. He was overjoyed. It was really working! Prior to this, an expert like him would not grow much even after devouring the death imprint of a death sovereign. But now, he could clearly feel the growth of his dao seed. That was perfectly normal.

After all, that was Su Yu’s fake dao. It wasn’t really that strong. One could say that it was weak. How could it not grow after devouring a death sovereign? For Su Yu, this was a tiny growth.

But for a powerful marquis who had been stagnant for ages, that tiny bit of growth was massive. Done with digesting the power he absorbed, a look of greed appeared in his eyes.

Not enough.

He needed more!

That was not enough for him!

And thus, he started stirring. He had the urge to kill the rest of the death sovereigns in the room and devour them all. Just as that thought surfaced, several strands of willpower arrived.

Shocked, Dragonblood Marquis finally regained his calm. He coldly said, “Trash. You deserve death. The rest of you, go back out there and continue your work. We need to expand our territory. There are too many death spirits here. The ambient death qi in the air isn’t enough for all of us in such a small territory.”

With a furious tone, he roared, “Now!”

With that, the trembling death sovereigns left in fear.

Next, North Heavenly King and a few marquises appeared near the Dragonblood Palace. With a frown, North Heavenly King said, “Dragonblood, we don’t have too many death sovereigns with us. Without the North Heavenly Domain, it is also much harder for us to replenish our numbers. Do not kill sovereigns wantonly for no good reason.”

He was clearly displeased. They still had millions of death spirits under their command, but this wasn’t a number they could replenish. They had about fifty to sixty sovereigns under them. Each marquis had three to five under them.

If these marquises were allowed to kill these sovereigns wantonly, they would run out of sovereigns in no time.

North Heavenly King understood that each expert was someone who had grown from a weakling. Without a good balance between the strong and the weak, his force would cease to exist before long. It would be fine in the short term, but this definitely wasn’t sustainable in the long term.

Dragonblood Marquis frowned and said, “North Heavenly King, that was my personal subordinate…”

North Heavenly King said, “And that was why I only gave you advice, not an order.”

Dragonblood Marquis said, “That was a piece of trash. I ordered them to expand our territory, but they returned with terrible results and countless excuses for their cowardly behavior.”

The more he spoke, the angrier he seemed as he continued, “Since they are so useless, I wish to do it myself. Please grant me permission to personally expand our territory. I want to see if the Origin Land is really that terrifying. Allow me the opportunity to experience the strength of the marquises here.”