Tribulation of Myriad Races

When Su Yu opened his Heaven Gate again, he started bleeding from his eyes. The air was filled with broken daos.

Su Yu did not tell the others about this. More than two Masters of Laws had died here. He was certain about that. That was clear from the strength of the broken daos in the air.

Suddenly, Su Yu asked, “Were there more than one Masters of Laws in the devil race?”

Great Zhou King answered, “Yes. There were forty-one Masters of Laws among humanity. It was natural for the devils to have more than one as well. In fact, even the iron devourers had more than one. Both January and February were Masters of Laws.”

Su Yu nodded.

“So there were more than ninety-nine Masters of Laws among the myriad races?”

Great Zhou King nodded, “Yes. Some of the myriad race marquises were Masters of Laws as well. However, none were appointed kings. That was reserved for humans. However, humanity had its allies as well. Thus, there were also more than forty-one Masters of Laws on humanity’s side.”

Su Yu nodded. He looked around, taking in the destruction of the ninth level. Only a single building remained standing. The same building they had arrived from. It had not survived the intense battle here through coincidence. At that thought, Su Yu took the dao painting out.

He gave the surviving building another glance before saying, “This is the building with the thickest dao intent of Human Emperor. It is also a host to an entrance to the Upper Realm. Thus, it had powerful defenses, powerful enough to survive even so many dao explosions.”

It was almost miraculous that the building had survived the battle of so many super experts.

Su Yu left King Yue’s corpse alone. He was content to leave this heroic figure continue his wait for the return of his comrades.

Instead, Su Yu focused on the corpse nailed to the wall. After a while, he said, “A Master of Law as well, but weaker than a human king.”

Cloud Fire Marquis glared at the corpse and said, “Emperor Yu, I wish to crush the corpse, drain its blood, and peel off its skin!”

This person was the main culprit for King Yue’s demise.

Su Yu said, “That’s doable, but we shouldn’t waste the corpse. I have only seen one Master of Law’s corpse before. The corpse of the heavenly desolate beast was able to rapidly push Great Qin King and Great Xia King to a respectable level of strength.”

When everyone stared at Su Yu, Great Zhou King asked with some hesitation, “Emperor Yu, do you intend to have someone switch to the dao of this person?”

“No, his dao has fallen apart. It can’t be cultivated anymore.” Su Yu shook his head and said, “But a Master of Law is still very useful. I suppose I can complete the devil page of my Mark of Civilization with this.”

Su Yu smiled and said, “I suppose my work with the devil page will be done soon.”

With something so powerful serving as the nutrient for his fake devil dao, the fake dao would reach completion before long. Then, Su Yu stepped forth to take a closer look at the corpse. It was nailed onto the wall by a spear. The spear was likely King Yue’s weapon.

Su Yu opened his Heaven Gate, frowned slightly, and released a small ripple of dao fluctuation. Instantly, the spear turned into fine powder.

Just as Cloud Fire Marquis was about to start shouting, Su Yu said, “Don’t look at me like that. The spear has long been squeezed dry of its power and potential. It has remained an empty shell for quite some time. Since I’m going to remove this corpse, the spear will naturally not remain.”

Su Yu did not have much to say about the dead devil. He was aware that the ancient humans were by no means the good guys. At the very least, that was the case from the perspective of the myriad races. For Su Yu, there were no good or bad guys. It was merely a matter of perspective.

From humanity’s perspective, the myriad races were vile. From the myriad races’ perspective, humanity was vile.

The spear of King Yue was produced from the spine of a dragon. Could King Yue be considered a good guy?

Nope.

But King Yue had also fought loyally until his last breath. Even in death, he continued carrying out his duty for a hundred thousand years. Was he a hero? For humanity, he was.

A villain for one, a hero for another.

Even without the spear, the corpse remained nailed to the wall. The power of the final attack against this corpse had also withdrawn into the corpse itself. A large amount of power. The act of moving this corpse would be extremely dangerous for many people.

But Su Yu did not fear it. In fact, he could move even King Yue’s body if he wanted. He had merely opted to respect King Yue’s wish to remain there. As for this devil, there was no need for Su Yu to show the devil much respect.

Xing Yu’s token appeared in Su Yu’s hand. He stamped the seal down. Instantly, the violent aura around the corpse calmed. As Su Yu’s eyes gleamed, the damaged Mark of Civilization appeared. It flipped open, revealing the relatively powerful devil page.

With a wave of Su Yu’s arm, the projection of a second-degree Eternal emerged from the page and shot toward the corpse. However, the corpse was too powerful. The projection appeared fearful of it, and the attempt to devour the corpse did not seem to be going too smoothly.

Everyone watched in silence.

As for Su Yu, he frowned. Then, he took out the dao painting. Black and white continued swirling on the painting.

“The cover of my Mark of Civilization has been damaged. This is my dao weapon. No regular material can replace the lost cover.”

Su Yu looked at Xing Yu’s token and said, “Today, I shall make the dao painting my new cover. My apologies, Human Emperor.”

Everyone’s heart shuddered. Using the dao painting as the cover of his book.

How…luxurious.

“Human Emperor produced the dao painting through his understanding of the great dao. As for me, I follow the dao of creation. The convergence of myriad daos. I shall be the fourth creator. This painting is the perfect cover for my dao weapon.”

Su Yu spoke solemnly, as though he was making a vow to himself, to the others, and to Human Emperor. He pursued the path of creation. He aimed to become the fourth.

The Mark of Civilization was already powerful enough to suppress heavenly kings. But that was not enough. Su Yu needed it to be stronger. His opponents would continue to grow in strength.

Even now, he was starting to face Venerables. Perhaps he would need to face actual Masters of Laws before long. His Mark of Civilization was not enough for such opponents. Take his current devil page as an example. It was already powerful, but it could only produce Eternal projections.

But Su Yu himself was already strong enough to kill such opponents with a slap. When the book was first completed, Su Yu had been quite impressed with its ability to manifest three hundred Sunmoon projections. Now that his book had grown to over two thousand pages, with none of them weaker than the Sunmoon Realm, it felt weak.

It was incapable of contending against the type of opponents he was facing nowadays. The Mark of Civilization was a weapon he had spent countless resources on. It was a weapon he would use to attempt creation. He naturally couldn’t skimp on it.

As Su Yu spoke, he formed a hammer with his dao power. The dao painting rested atop the Mark of Civilization. One character after another appeared around Su Yu.

Cosmos Civilization. (domain, eternity, culture, radiance)

Four characters imprinted themselves onto the dao painting.

Su Yu brought the hammer down, filling the ninth level with booming sounds. In Su Yu’s opinion, the dao painting was the perfect material to serve as the cover of his book. Furthermore, he enjoyed its aesthetic.

The interweaving black and white was akin to the interweaving of day and night. It contained Human Emperor’s understanding of the great dao. People like Human Emperor, Time Sage, and Su Yu all walked the path of myriad daos.

This would push Su Yu further ahead on his path. It could also nurture the four characters for him. After seeing King Yue’s death, Su Yu had a feeling that things might not be going that well on Human Emperor’s side.

He wouldn’t have allowed King Yue to die alone here otherwise. He had departed with so many Masters of Laws. How many of these people were still alive?

Boom!

The booming resounded throughout the ninth level. He aimed to reforge his cover and devour the corpse before him. When he was done, his devil page would reach completion, allowing him to perhaps summon Daofuse projections from the devil page.

In short, he would be able to fight or even kill a Daofuse just with his book. That would not be all. He had killed a lot of experts and collected numerous corpses and blood essence as of late. By the time he was done reforging his book, he could start absorbing all those things with his book.

***

Boom!

Eighth level.

Heavenbridge Marquis was looking around anxiously. Was that noise coming from the ninth level?

How was that possible?

Wasn’t the ninth level empty?

Why was there noise coming from an empty level?

He appeared out of thin air and stared at a spot above the assembly. That was the location of the entrance to the next level. Due to the chaotic storm of laws around it, he did not dare to approach.

After a slight hesitation, he vanished with a flicker.

***

Seventh level.

Heavenbridge Marquis roared, “Martial Emperor! Show yourself! Are you hearing that?”

The air warped, and Martial Emperor appeared. Unlike the past, he had somehow gained the ability to materialize his body. He stared at Heavenbridge Marquis coldly, with a prideful and unrestrained aura around him.

Heavenbridge Marquis was too worried to care about Martial Emperor’s coldness. He hurriedly asked, “I’m hearing some noise in the eighth level. Are you hearing the same here? Martial Emperor, we are supposed to be the only ones in here. How can there be noise? Are Human Emperor and the others returning?”

Boom!

“Yes! That!” Heavenbridge Marquis exclaimed, “That was the same noise I heard up there! Are you hearing this?”

Martial Emperor frowned. Yes. He heard the noise as well. Initially, he thought that the dumb gate was being stupid again. But now, he had to take this seriously. Were Human Emperor and the others returning?

What would happen to him with them back? According to Heavenbridge Marquis, that noise was coming from the ninth level. The first through the seventh levels were all forged out of Martial Emperor’s body. The eighth and ninth levels were not. Those were the additional levels built atop his body.

Martial Emperor was powerful, but not powerful enough to house hundreds of Masters of Laws in his body. The same boom rang out repeatedly, and there seemed to be a certain pattern to it.

Martial Emperor looked up as his face slowly turned solemn. Were Human Emperor and the others really back? That wasn’t possible!

Heavenbridge Marquis asked nervously, “Martial Emperor, are Human Emperor and the others back? Am I a traitor for submitting to Emperor Yu? No, right? Oh, right! You’re in deep shit as well!”

Martial Emperor gave him a cold stare.

Alas, Heavenbridge Marquis did not get the message. He continued, “Right, you’re fucked! I’m being honest here! You have been shouting about how you’re going to kill the current humanity and sever Human Emperor’s legacy. You will die! Definitely!”

Martial Emperor said furiously, “So what if they’re back?”

“If they’re back, you’re dead!” Heavenbridge Marquis asked, “Are you not scared?”

Martial Emperor had an intense desire to kill the damn gate.

He threw a palm strike over, but Heavenbridge Marquis merely vanished before reappearing. “Stop! Stop! No fighting! We can always talk this out! I’m merely a gate! If you kill me, the eighth and ninth levels will collapse! You will merely be hastening your own death!”

After giving Heavenbridge Marquis another cold stare, Martial Emperor looked away and focused on the noise instead. A long time passed. Finally, he spoke again, “This feels like a weaponsmithing in progress.”

“Weaponsmithing?” Heavenbridge Marquis asked, “Do you have any proof for that claim? If you ask me, that’s the sound of someone hitting the gong, or maybe someone knocking on a door, or maybe someone clinking their glasses while drinking, or someone kowtowing to beg for mercy…”

He spoke on and on and on. Finally, Martial Emperor’s aura surged as he said, “Heavenbridge, you speak too much. Do you want to die today?”

Why was the damn gate so talkative? He had yet to regain his freedom fully, but he was constantly regaining his strength. The seal on his dao was also loosening gradually. Thus, if he really tried, he could really kill Heavenbridge Marquis.

At the threat, Heavenbridge Marquis was forced to shut his mouth. However, he had a helpless expression as he continued grumbling inwardly. He was being serious there! All those were decent possibilities. He concluded that Martial Emperor was being a sore loser and threatening him with force after losing an argument.

Martial Emperor ignored Heavenbridge Marquis and returned his focus to the noise.