Tribulation of Myriad Races

For Su Yu, this painting was merely convenient to have around. After all, he had the Heaven Gate to show him the true nature of the myriad daos. But the painting was invaluable for everyone else. In fact, it was valuable enough to drive even Masters of Laws crazy. It contained Human Emperor’s understanding of the myriad daos.

That was perhaps the third person to have ever created a world. The insight of such a person was invaluable. But just as Su Yu was about to take the painting down, he blanked out. His outstretched hand stopped moving.

An odd expression appeared on his face. Suddenly, he drew the little stone out. The stone was glowing faintly.

With a chuckle, Su Yu said, “I thought this painting here could be freely taken away since it was left on the wall, but no. There is a test.”

“…”

Everyone was rendered speechless. It could be freely taken away just because it was left on the wall? What logic was that? In fact, they had been thinking of warning Su Yu about the danger of reaching out for it. However, it seemed as though Su Yu had discovered something without their warning.

Su Yu laughed and said, “How interesting.”

The little stone in his hand continued glowing.

Slowly, it increased in intensity.

And after some time, cracks appeared on the surface of the stone.

Su Yu had been using this stone repeatedly as of late. It had always presented itself as a regular stone. But now, Su Yu found that this was not its real form. It had merely turned into a stone after years of inactivity.

Crack!

Finally, the crack enlarged, releasing a ray of golden radiance. Right at that moment, everyone felt an urge to prostrate themselves on the ground.

Crack!

The stone continued breaking apart.

And finally, the surface of the stone fully fell off. A wave of golden light swept out and flooded the room. A small, square token appeared before their eyes.

“Xing Yu.” (Luminous Domain)

Two characters were written on the token: Xing Yu.

It shared the name with the Luminous Domain Mansion.

This could very well be Human Emperor’s name.

Great Zhou King blanked out slightly before dropping down on one knee. With a complicated expression, he said, “Your servant, Zhou Tian, greets Your Imperial Majesty.”

Su Yu looked back at Great Zhou King.

With a smile, he asked, “What’s that?”

With an awkward expression, Great Zhou King answered while keeping his head lowered, “Zhou Tian. That was my original name. Zhou Tianfu, Zhou Tianhuo, Zhou Tiandao, Zhou Tianming, Zhou Tianwen, Zhou Tianwu, Zhou Tiansheng, and Zhou Tianqi are all my aliases.”

That caught everyone’s attention.

Their jaws dropped.

After a long while, Cloud Fire Marquis muttered, “I think I knew someone called Zhou Tianwen…”

Great Zhou King said, “That was me.”

Cloud Fire Marquis’s jaw dropped even lower. Holy shit!

“Just…how many identities have you stolen?”

Great Zhou King answered, “I have never stolen anyone’s identity. All those people are me are all me. I am different from Lan Tian. He loves pretending to be others. I don’t. I merely have multiple identities to avoid drawing too much attention on myself.”

He had never stolen any identity.

He was not Lan Tian.

Lan Tian, in the form of a little girl, was eating a lollipop while staring at Great Zhou King curiously. After a while, she asked, “Why are you kneeling down?”

“To see the token is to see the emperor.” Looking at the seal in Su Yu’s hand, Great Zhou King said, “I did suspect this previously, but I couldn’t be sure until now. That was the human lord’s token of his imperial majesty.”

He looked up at Su Yu and explained, “I saw the Human Emperor’s Seal before. It looked different. However, that was something his imperial majesty had forged through the power of the various races after the conquest. He must have brought it with him. After all, that was something he could use to suppress the myriad races. This must be the human lord’s token he left behind back then. This was the token he forged after the unification of humanity.”

Great Zhou King said, “I heard of this token before, but it was rumored to have gone missing long ago. Some also speculated that it had been fused into the Human Emperor’s Seal. But clearly, that’s not the case.

“Congratulations on obtaining this token, Emperor Yu. With this token in hand, you now have full legitimacy over humanity.

“Over the past hundred thousand years, Culture King’s legacy had appeared. Martial King’s descendants had appeared. Radiant King’s descendants had appeared as well. Control King had betrayed humanity. Human Emperor was the only one whose inheritance had never emerged.

“The previous human lords were all elected by humanity of the time, but they had never obtained the acknowledgment of Human Emperor. Emperor Yu is the only one with this acknowledgment. With this token in hand, who dares to claim legitimacy over you?

“Now, you are the most qualified person to lead humanity. You can opt to inherit the ancient past. You can opt to start anew. Nobody is qualified to protest.”

Hearing that, the expressions of Stable Army Marquis and the others changed.

A token of Human Emperor.

This was…unbelievable.

The long-missing token had actually appeared.

It had been so many years. Nobody had obtained it before. And now, it had appeared in Su Yu’s hand. Prior to this, they had been curious about the little stone’s ability to suppress the Dao Origin Land.

But now, they understood why.

Stable Army Marquis’ eyes flickered as he knelt down and said, “Your loyal official, Stable Army, greets Your Imperial Majesty.”

Cloud Water, Cloud Fire, Brave Martial, Shadow…

All the ancient humans looked at each other in silence.

Their emotions turned complicated. After a short moment, they all knelt down as well. Was Great Zhou King doing this deliberately? They did not have an answer. But they knew that doing this…would be the same as pledging themselves to Su Yu.

However, Su Yu merely looked at them indifferently before saying, “Rise, all of you. There is no need for this. I am not the ancient Human Emperor. I don’t care about legitimacy that much either.”

“Your Majesty…”

Before Great Zhou King could say more, Su Yu turned around and stamped the seal down on the painting.

Boom!

With a rumble, the resistance of the painting calmed down.

Su Yu grinned.

“Would I fail to take this thing without this token?”

This was a token he had found in Culture King’s Residence. He wouldn’t have discovered it without Xing Yue. This was truly a result of a massive series of coincidences. He even started wondering if anyone was supposed to be able to take this painting down in the first place.

The token, Culture King’s Residence, the white dog, Xing Yue, ninth-level of the Luminous Domain Mansion…

Numerous requirements must be fulfilled before one could retrieve this painting. The level of difficulty was too high. Su Yu shook his head and tossed the matter aside. Well, it wasn’t a bad thing that this painting was so hard to retrieve. Otherwise, someone else would have taken it away long ago. After all, it had been hanging there for a hundred thousand years.

So be it.

The moment he touched the dao painting, it vanished and reappeared beside the Book of Time in his sea of willpower.

“Amazing!”

Then, Su Yu looked around the room. A grin formed on his face.

“Let’s provide the ancient Human Emperor with new furniture.”

“…”

Everyone blanked out. What?

Su Yu explained, “Humanity is currently very poor. We can only replace the old furniture here with new furniture and do some cleaning for the Human Emperor. This way, we can keep things fresh until Human Emperor’s return. Great Zhou King, take charge of this. Remember, do not damage anything. Make sure the place looks completely the same after the cleanup.”

“…”

Great Zhou King had a look of resignation.

He nodded, “I believe His Majesty would not protest.”

Great Zhou King told himself that Su Yu was doing this for humanity, not greed. Human Emperor would probably be happy to let the furniture here turn into something useful for humanity. After all, Human Emperor was someone with a strong sense of responsibility.

He would definitely agree to this.

Su Yu proceeded to ignore them. With his subordinates around, he naturally had to make them do this instead of doing it personally. He had an image to protect, right? His gaze landed on the door. He was curious about how it looked outside. What else could he find on the ninth level?

Apparently, Human Emperor had convened a meeting here before vanishing with everyone back then. Su Yu once speculated that Human Emperor had created an opening to the River of Time here. Was that the same opening he had exited from earlier?

Unlikely.

After all, that opening was also connected to Human Emperor’s dao. He wouldn’t take all those experts to his own dao, right?

Su Yu stopped guessing and started approaching the door. He would naturally have more answers after taking a look around.