Tribulation of Myriad Races

Upper Realm.

Su Yu’s group started heading toward the Chaos Mountain. Meanwhile, more and more experts had arrived at the Brightmoon Flower Valley. Bloodbreak Marquis had rushed over, and Bajue had returned as well.

Experts had arrived from the immortal, devil, dragon, nether, and other powerful races. All of them were trying to find out what exactly happened here. Two Daofuses had died, and the culprit was unknown. This was a terrifying matter. Someone capable of easily killing Daofuses would either be a peak Daofuse or even a heavenly king.

Then again, the classification in the Upper Realm was a bit different. People with the strength of pseudo kings and heavenly kings were considered to be in the same tier. These were essentially the people at the very peak of Daofuse who were qualified to start advancing toward becoming Masters of Laws.

At the moment, an illusory figure was checking the area by rewinding time.

After a long while, the illusory figure said, “There were more than one of them. First, they captured or killed Mo Shenji here. There are traces of a formation in the air. From this, we can conclude that they are proficient in formations.”

Everyone nodded. They were fairly confident in the person making that deduction.

The illusory figure continued, “Additionally, they might have the ability of concealment or sealing. Nobody noticed what was happening until Mo Shenji was dead. Prior to that, nothing was sensed.”

Everyone took note of that.

“Additionally, Stable Army Marquis might not be an ally of these people.”

The rest were surprised to hear that. At this point, Bloodbreak Marquis had calmed down significantly. He asked solemnly, “Knowledgeseeker Marquis, what do you mean?”

Knowledgeseeker Marquis did not say anything to that. Instead, he flew toward the original base of Stable Army Marquis. After sensing around for a bit, he said, “Something feels off. There is a weak aura here that all of you have missed. The aura of Stable Army Marquis’ spear. He attacked at least once.

“Mo Shenji wasn’t killed by Stable Army Marquis. He was either captured or killed outside the valley. There wouldn’t have been a need for Stable Army Marquis to attack in here. In that case, Stable Army Marquis must have attacked someone else. Who was that someone else? Who, apart from Mo Shenji, would be Stable Army Marquis’ target here?”

Everyone’s eyes flickered upon hearing that.

Stable Army Marquis was not an ally of the mysterious attackers. He might have been captured as well. This was completely different from what they had expected. They had been assuming that Mo Shenji was killed under the cooperation of Stable Army Marquis and the mysterious individuals.

Bloodbreak Marquis said, “Are you saying that Stable Army Marquis might have been captured instead of having left intentionally?”

“Yes.”

Knowledgeseeker Marquis nodded and added, “Also, the attackers are also good at spatial manipulation. They left through teleportation. There is a weakened spatial node here. That must be a result of the spatial tunnel they created for their teleportation.

“They had subsequently calmed the spatial fluctuations after leaving. The weak point is small, indicating that they left through teleportation instead of tearing a rift in space forcefully.”

Knowledgeseeker Marquis was able to pick up on one clue after another. Finally, he gave his verdict, “There were more than one of them were. I suspect that there were four to five of them, all Daofuses. Among them, at least two were peak Daofuses. Each specialized in a different dao. Stable Army Marquis isn’t dead. He must have been captured.”

Bloodbreak Marquis said gloomily, “Different daos? Space, formation, concealment, and sealing? Are you saying that all these powers came from different individuals?”

“Yes.” Knowledgeseeker Marquis nodded, “From what I can see, that’s the case.”

Bloodbreak Marquis’ voice turned frosty as he said, “In that case, these mysterious individuals might not be humans. After the ancient past, a majority of human experts only walked the physical body path. Apart from the old fellows from way back then, most new human Daofuses are following the physical body dao.”

This was common knowledge.

Since the disappearance of Culture King, the civilization of humanity had been severed. No human could pursue his dao anymore. Or to be precise, very few could. Perhaps only one such individual would appear in one or multiple epochs.

It was doubtful that humanity had produced more than a handful of such individuals even after so many years. Since these mysterious individuals were proficient in other daos and Stable Army Marquis was captured…

They could conclude that these mysterious individuals weren’t humans. Instead, these experts might be members of some other races. Everyone reached the same conclusion. It wasn’t that they couldn’t imagine these people being humans. But how was humanity supposed to find so many experts proficient in other daos?

A divine said, “Could this be some concealed old fossils of the human race? Of the known surviving ancient human experts, very few are still around. But some might have remained in hiding all along. Is it possible that these old fellows have finally emerged?”

Bloodbreak Marquis sneered and said, “Wow. That’s such a big coincidence.”

The divine argued indifferently, “It’s no coincidence. This is an era where humanity is on the verge of collapse. Perhaps those old fellows have learned of this and decided to return. It’s not impossible.”

“Sure. Answer me this. Name the ancient human experts familiar with these daos.” Bloodbreak Marquis said coldly, “As far as I know, there were human experts proficient in these daos, but they are all dead.”

That wasn’t an easy question to answer. The divine sank into silence.

Bloodbreak Marquis sneered again and continued, “Looks like there are quite a lot of secret survivors hiding in the Upper Realm. Or perhaps these people are some fools who are getting too ambitious after seeing that victory is in sight? Is that why they’re starting to scheme now?”

This was a reasonable suspicion. And Bloodbreak Marquis was not alone. Many of the experts present had the same thought. None believed that the mysterious experts were humans. That was too unlikely.

Furthermore, these people might have deliberately kidnapped Stable Army Marquis to sow confusion. If it weren’t for Knowledgeseeker Marquis, they would have all believed that the Stable Army Marquis was an ally of these mysterious experts.

Everyone started growing suspicious. Since they weren’t humans, who could they be? Four to five top experts for a single operation. Which race was powerful and daring enough to attempt such a feat? Since the devils had lost two Daofuses, it was unlikely that they were the culprits.

Sacrificing two Daofuses just to sow confusion? No, it wasn’t worth it. In that case, the immortals were the most suspicious. After all, they had the largest variety in terms of the daos they were proficient with.

There was also an immortal among the gathered experts. Noticing everyone’s silence, he could guess what they were thinking. He said, “Don’t bother suspecting my race. We have been busy handling the Lower Realm humans as of late. We don’t have the time or energy to plan something like this. With the deaths of Fallen Star Marquis and Soldier King, the Lower Realm humans are holding the upper hand. We won’t be stirring trouble at a time like this.”

He looked at Bloodbreak Marquis and said, “This might be an attempt by an unknown party to sow chaos and fish from trouble water. I suggest you to stay calm and not fall for this trick.”

Bloodbreak Marquis replied coldly, “Don’t worry. I’m not that stupid. But I do hope I won’t find any proof of your involvement in this.”

Inwardly, he was still very furious. Was it really the immortals? It was very hard to judge, but he had decided to keep an eye on the immortals.

He looked at Knowledgeseeker Marquis and said, “Knowledgeseeker Marquis, is there a way to trace the whereabouts of these people?”

“That won’t be easy.” Knowledgeseeker Marquis shook his head and said, “They were very careful. They barely left any clues behind, and they even scrubbed the place clean before leaving. That big explosion also did a good job at wiping everything out.”

Bloodbreak Marquis frowned. But before he could say anything, Knowledgeseeker Marquis smiled and said, “Of course, it’s not like there’s nothing we can do.”

“And what can we do now?”

Bloodbreak Marquis asked. The others also focused.

“These people are mysterious, but not everyone is mysterious.”

Knowledgeseeker Marquis laughed and said, “We can focus our investigation on Stable Army Marquis. We don’t know who these mysterious people are, but Stable Army Marquis is a known factor to all of us. We’re familiar with his aura, his dao, and his bloodline. It’s hard to investigate, but not impossible.”

Bloodbreak Marquis frowned and said, “Even Stable Army Marquis won’t be someone easy to track.”

Knowledgeseeker Marquis nodded in acknowledgment and said with a smile, “Yes. But at least that’s something we can work with. Also, there is one more thing to consider. What is the purpose of these people? Capturing Stable Army Marquis? Is that really it? Were they only here to kill two devil Daofuses? But they were fresh Daofuses. What’s the point?

“The humans still have some Daofuses hiding elsewhere. Stable Army Marquis is not the only human Daofuse around. We even know some of these hiding places. They are merely annoying to deal with.

“Do you think these mysterious individuals will stop here? Will they act again? Will they act against us? Or will they continue sowing confusion through the humans? They can keep capturing humans while killing those from our races, keeping our attention on the humans. There is such a possibility, right?”

Bloodbreak Marquis nodded. But soon, he sneered and said, “It’s not a good idea to say all this here. I reckon we have an informer among us.”

Everyone remained expressionless.

Informer? What could they even say to that? Nobody even knew who the mysterious attackers were. It was even possible that this entire thing was an act orchestrated by the devils.

The immortal did not bother to explain more. He said, “At the very least, we can be sure of one thing. Stable Army Marquis’ hiding place has been wiped out. The Brightmoon Flower Valley will cease being a danger zone. The number of hiding places humanity can hide in has reduced by one.”

Perhaps they could take this as the consolation prize. Humanity had lost one hiding place. At that, Bloodbreak Marquis merely sneered. Whatever.

The group continued their discussion. After a while, Bloodbreak Marquis said, “It’s pointless to waste our time talking here. Let’s accelerate our scouting of the other human hiding spots and pick one to attack. We will spread the news of the imminent attack everywhere. Let’s see if these fake allies of humanity will do something to help.”

He sneered and said, “Since these people are disguising themselves as human allies, they must help, right? After all, they are too strong to ignore such an attack. No matter what, they need to do something when such an attack is happening.”

“As far as I know, we are not that far away from finding the hiding spot of Cloud Fire Marquis in the Divine Fire Mountain.”

Bloodbreak Marquis added, “I suppose it won’t take us long to determine his exact location. When we know the exact location, we can surround the place and join hands to launch an attack. These mysterious allies of humanity might be forced to appear. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if our speculations are correct.”