Tribulation of Myriad Races

“How terrifying.”

Su Yu, who had just left the Human Realm, exhaled in relief. That was truly terrifying. No wonder they had insisted on his return. How cruel of those people to attempt to sever his path of cultivation like that.

After a while, Su Yu looked back at the Human Realm and chuckled. Leaving his descendant behind to fight another epoch? Forget it. His life was bitter enough. There was no point in letting his descendants enjoy the same bitterness.

He would end everything in this epoch. If he failed, there was no need for there to be another epoch.

“Time to raise some daos.”

With a flicker, Su Yu vanished.

***

Mountainbreak Bull Realm.

Su Yu was very familiar with this race. But he had never been to their realm. Their racial ability was called Mountainbreak, an ability Su Yu had used many times before. He had even formed a character from it. At the moment, he was sneaking into the realm like a thief.

This was not one of the realms humanity had conquered. But it wouldn’t be long. After the new year celebrations, humanity would restart the war. This race would not be spared. They might submit. In fact, quite a lot of races had submitted recently. A small number of races were unyielding enough to refuse surrender, but these were mostly the races that had killed too many humans.

Su Yu tore a rift in space and stepped into the void. Shortly after, the sole Eternal of the mountainbreak bull arrived. He scanned around as his heart thumped rapidly. Was humanity attacking?

As of late, humanity had attacked the various races, plundering resources everywhere and killing numerous people. A large number of human experts emerged, while many minor realms suffered.

Humanity was truly petty. And the mountainbreak bull race was a race that had once warred against humanity. Thus, this Eternal was feeling extremely helpless. But there was nothing he could do about this.

Humanity was immune to the suppressive force of the various realms. The various races were helpless against them even in an invasion.

“I can only hope that they won’t reach here so soon.”

After looking around nervously, the Eternal left. At that point, Su Yu was already in the River of Time. This was the segment of the mountainbreak bulls. Normally, no human could reach this area easily. In truth, each race would only reach a specific segment upon entering the River of Time.

But since Su Yu had the ability to see the daos and even know the racial ability of this race, he could easily reach this segment. He moved cautiously before finally stopping before a tributary. This was the dao he was stealing. Or to be precise, he would have the experts of this race grow a dao for him.

It was too troublesome to target the members of this race individually. Furthermore, this was a race with only one Eternal. Thus, Su Yu wanted to try planting his page straight in their dao. This was the only solution he could think for the races without too many experts.

“Perhaps a different approach will work here.”

The mountainbreak bull race would suffice for this test. Standing atop the river, Su Yu started demonstrating the technique he knew. Mountaindrill Technique! This was a cultivation method of the mountainbreak bull, also their racial ability. As Su Yu threw a punch, a break character appeared, shattering everything before it.

Slowly, the page appeared. The character fused with the page. Then, the image of someone practicing a technique appeared on the page.

Right at that moment, the mountainbreak dao of the mountainbreak bull race shook, as though it was calling Su Yu over to initiate fusion with it. Su Yu was overjoyed. It was working!

If this worked, he would need to practice the cultivation methods of the myriad races and form their characters before fusing these characters into his pages. Then, he could start stealing from these daos with his pages.

“But with this method, I have to rely on myself. In truth, having someone else cultivate my dao for me feels much better.”

There were pros and cons to this approach. Having someone cultivate his dao for him was easier, but it was also easily discovered and might result in a backlash. The second method required his own comprehension. It was more similar to a regular dao fusion. And the speed of theft would also be slower.

Stealing the dao.

“I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to everything. This is the only approach I can take for smaller races like this. Individually, they are probably slower than me when it comes to comprehending their own daos.”

Su Yu was feeling quite helpless. The daos of minor races were easy to fuse or steal. But a minor race also didn’t have a sufficient number of experts. Thus, it would be faster for him to comprehend the dao himself instead of letting the experts of that race comprehend the dao for him.

No matter what, he was a supreme genius. A mere Eternal leader of the mountainbreak bull race could not compare to his genius.

“May the little stone work here.”

Su Yu was only here to steal the power of this dao instead of actually fusing with it. He did not want to trigger a conflict between this dao and his pen dao. He intended to calm the dao with his little stone before slipping his page into it. At that thought, he pulled the little stone out.

Su Yu stared at the dao before him with his eyes wide open, praying that it would work. The little stone was capable of suppressing the myriad daos. After taking in a deep breath, Su Yu tossed the little stone out. Instantly, the previously turbulent river roiled and reacted intensely.

Then, a blinding radiance erupted from the stone. Instantly, the violent river calmed.

Su Yu was overjoyed. With one step, he crossed the gap and entered the tributary. Next, he found a suitable spot to hide his page. He was doing this because he was worried that a different expert would notice his book.

Sure, someone without the Heaven Gate would most likely not see anything, but he had to be cautious, right? After all, there was still the Martial Emperor out there. What was he supposed to do if that bastard decided to steal his page?

After planting his page in a suitable spot, Su Yu grabbed the stone and left. The moment the stone was taken away, the tributary shook with a rumble. It seemed to have detected the presence of an outsider.

But at the same time, everything seemed normal. Su Yu’s page was stealthily stealing the power of the dao instead of initiating a regular dao fusion.

Su Yu reckoned that he would suffer a backlash if he attempted to plant the page forcefully. Thanks to the stone, he was able to avoid the detection of the dao while planting the page. And the page had similar characteristics to someone fusing with this dao, as though it was part of the dao in the first place. Thus, the dao wasn’t able to detect it.

Su Yu exhaled in relief.

He started leaving. He wanted to see if the heavenly laws considered this a dao fusion. If that were the case, a heavenly tribulation would probably be generated.

That would signify that the heavenly laws could still detect what he was doing. And if nothing happened, it would indicate success. With one step, Su Yu moved out of the River of Time. When he focused, nothing happened.

There was no lightning tribulation.

Su Yu was overjoyed. Nothing happened! The experiment was a success. He opened his Heaven Gate and looked at the sky. There, an indistinct dao was present. The main dao of the mountainbreak bulls. He could also see some tiny daos attached to it.

Sure enough, this was a race with more than one Eternal. Perhaps there were more Eternal mountainbreak bulls in the Upper Realm.

Su Yu did not pay much attention to these Eternals. He pushed his Heaven Gate to its limits and started searching for his page instead. He had to try very hard before he notice an incredibly faint page. If he couldn’t sense his own page, he wouldn’t have been able to notice it.

“I only need to be wary of those with the Heaven Gate open. Without the Heaven Gate, nobody will be able to discover what’s happening even if they can feel that something is off.”

“Martial Emperor…”

Su Yu muttered to himself, wondering if he should kill Martial Emperor to eliminate the potential witness to this theft of his. He was worried that Martial Emperor would notice it. If he was exposed…wait, it didn’t seem like things would change much. He was already the public enemy of the myriad races.

Sigh.

Su Yu tossed the matter aside and focused on the dao in the sky again. When he focused on the page, he smirked. After stealing enough from the dao, he would retrieve his page. And this was something he could repeat on all the races out there.

He wouldn’t spare any of them! When his Mark of Civilization became complete again in the future, it would probably reach an extremely terrifying level of strength.

“When the Mark of Civilization is strong enough, I can fuse the Book of Time into it. At that time, I will have enough strength and knowledge to pioneer my own dao.”

How should he go about doing that? He already had a rough idea. Instead of doing it in the River of Time, he intended to create a completely independent dao. Of course, that was not his sole idea.

He could also pioneer his dao on the River of Time, but he would aim to create something like the ink dao where he was stealing from the River of Time itself. That would be a dao he could sever from the river at any time while ensuring that it stayed complete.

“River of Time…Celestial River of Death…all paths lead to the same destination. The Celestial River of Death gathers the dead…”

An indistinct idea took form in Su Yu’s mind. The Celestial River of Death might not be truly separate from the River of Time. Perhaps there was a tiny link between the two.

The person who had created the Celestial River of Death might have stolen from the River of Time in the beginning, before severing the connection as well.

Why was “as well” included in that sentence? Because Su Yu intended to do this too.

“If that’s the case, it will be perfectly understandable for the Celestial River of Death to be so powerful. After all, the creator of this dao has also stolen from the River of Time. Why has the death spirit dao not produced a Master of Law after so many years? Is it still growing by stealing from the River of Time? Or is the creator still alive?”

These were Su Yu’s speculations, but for now, he kept the matter aside. He still had a lot of things to do. He had to visit all these realms one after another, and he had to stay secretive while doing so.

Even if he could visit ten races per day, he would probably need a hundred days to visit a thousand races. He was in a rush.

Thus, he was uninterested in wasting his time with the experts of the minor realms. Even when he encountered a minor realm that was in active battle against humanity, he did not bother to show himself.

***

Outside.

The first year of the New Domain Calendar had arrived. Peace remained between those at the Eternal Realm and above in the Myriad Realms.

Boundless void.

A large palace floated in the middle of nothingness.

Clad in his white robes, Heavenly Overseer Marquis was sipping tea while deep in thought at the top of a tower.

This was a habit most people who had spent some time with Culture King would develop. And as the luck spirit, he had been greatly influenced by Culture King. Furthermore, he was the number one subordinate of Culture King. Or one could say that he was the sole non-human direct subordinate of Culture King.

Suddenly, a rift in space appeared before him.

A cautious Bountiful Treasure stretched his head out and asked with a smile, “Heavenly Overseer Marquis, are you enjoying your tea?”

“Rat.”

Bountiful Treasure showed no anger at that insult. He said, “I am a rat. After all, a treasureseeker mouse is also a rat. I wouldn’t have survived this long without my cowardice.”

Bountiful Treasure grinned and said, “Marquis, humanity currently dominates the Myriad Realms. Both of us are akin to rats. The humans will be here to create some trouble every few days. Even when I wish to surrender, I can’t find a way to do so safely.”

“Marquis, you were an old subordinate of Culture King. You’re even old friends with Soy Bun. The soul devourers are still close to humanity. Why don’t you make an appearance and negotiate with humanity with Soy Bun as the intermediary? Humanity will be disadvantaged the moment the Upper Realm opens. It is pointless for them to be so hostile toward us.”

Heavenly Overseer Marquis sneered with contempt.

Bountiful Treasure flashed another smile and said, “Don’t be like this, Marquis. Don’t you want to surrender as well? We can’t win. Are we supposed to throw our lives away fighting a hopeless war? Ever since Su Yu became the human lord, something would change every single day. Humanity is growing stronger and stronger. Great Zhou, Great Ming, Great Xia, and Great Qin have all attained Daofuse. At this rate, I’m worried that they will produce even more Daofuses. Su Yu himself is also not someone to be underestimated.”

Heavenly Overseer Marquis sneered with contempt yet again.