Tribulation of Myriad Races

While Su Yu was in the Luminous Domain Mansion.

Upper Realm.

Dao Origin Land.

After waiting for a day, Venerable Scrape and Venerable Moon could not stay there any longer. Even with their strength, it was draining to stay in the river for so long. They were forced to leave.

Naturally, they weren’t able to confirm Su Yu’s death. After all, the deaths of experts in the Upper Realm would not create any obvious phenomenon. The only sign would appear at the moment of death, when one’s dao collapsed and dao power rippled out.

Only those from the same race might be able to sense the death of that expert. For them, Su Yu was an expert of the chaos race. Thus, only the chaos race would know his status for sure. After all, they cultivated the same dao. It would be easier for them to determine his status through their dao.

***

Venerable Scrape and Venerable Moon left the river.

They were unsure if Su Yu was dead or alive. Any other person would not survive this situation, but he was a super genius who had opened the Heaven Gate. A genius like this was much harder to kill.

However, they had no choice. They had to leave the river. The moment they left, several figures appeared around them.

Venerable Nether, the expert atop a river, Venerable Desolate, the expert buried in the soil, and Celestial Devil Marquis, a slumbering expert, were all here. Including the two of them, five super experts were gathered in the same place.

Venerable Scrape looked around and frowned as he asked, “Did he escape?”

Venerable Desolate, the buried exert with a solemn aura around him, nodded and said, “Yes. After all, that’s Hundred Battle King. He has reached the very limit of growth below the Master of Law. Even with a final layer of seal on him, he’s not someone easily killed.”

“But the cost of his escape isn’t low. He won’t be able to do much in the short term. He can only focus on removing that final seal on him.”

“That’s not a simple seal. Is the so-called chaos race those from Control King’s lineage?”

He looked at the others uncertainly and said, “Back when that woman sealed Hundred Battle King, the sealing method reminded me of Control King. It was able to keep Hundred Battle King sealed for so many years, and a chaos race has appeared out of nowhere. Is there a relationship between the two?”

The chaos race reminded him of Control King. Their sealing methods of Control King were incredible. That was evident from how even February’s dao was sealed, making it impossible for anyone to cultivate that dao.

Venerable Nether frowned and said, “Even if they’re not from Control King’s lineage, they are still incredibly dangerous. Since Hundred Battle King has escaped…”

He sneered, “So be it. Hundred Battle King is brash. He might go looking for the chaos race to get his revenge. If not, he would probably try to gather all human forces together. That would make it easier for us to eliminate them all in one fell swoop. This way, we can avoid making the same mistake we made six thousand years ago.”

Hundred Battle King’s escape was no big deal. They wouldn’t mind having him clash against those at the Chaos Mountain first. However, it was also likely that Hundred Battle King would try to gather more power first. Unfortunately for him, his former subordinates had all joined the Chaos Mountain. And it was likely that they had all died.

Thus, Hundred Battle King would probably wait until the connection to the Lower Realm was restored before gathering the Lower Realm humans under his banner. Humanity was very weak this epoch.

But they also knew that Grand Dream had somehow gotten involved with the Lower Realm humans. Then again, it wouldn’t be a bad thing for Hundred Battle King to dig out every last bit of trump card humanity had. This would make it easier for the myriad races to deliver humanity a more thorough defeat.

Venerable Moon said, “Hundred Battle King is still strong. We shouldn’t be too careless either.”

Venerable Nether said, “He was scary six thousand years ago, but Bing Ku and the others are all dead. What can Hundred Battle King do alone?”

Venerable Scrape said, “What if he allies himself with those at the Chaos Mountain?”

The others looked at each other before laughing together.

“Please let that happen.” Venerable Moon said, “That would be very good for us. With Hundred Battle King in their ranks, those in the Chaos Mountain can no longer keep hiding in the dark. Hundred Battle King is brash and used to being a leader. Who will lead this alliance? If he manages to snatch the leadership of the alliance, we don’t even need to fear the chaos race anymore. If he fails to snatch the leadership, do you think he’s the type to serve someone?”

They laughed again.

They might be laughing, but they weren’t taking this lightly. Soon after, their expressions turned solemn again as Venerable Scrape said, “Chaos Mountain…this lineage might be even scarier than our estimation. Back then, we guessed that there was a small group of unknown individuals out there. But you saw what happened.”

Eight heavenly kings had died. They had only lost one heavenly king for such a result. Of course, the other two had probably died somewhere in the river as well. Even so, it was still a massive defeat for them.

But if one of them was really someone with a Heaven Gate, perhaps this wouldn’t be that much of a defeat, after all. Someone with a Heaven Gate was worth far more than a few heavenly kings.

Venerable Nether asked, “What’s the update on the attackers?”

Venerable Scrape said, “They rushed into the very end of the river where the currents are the most violent. Venerable Moon and I waited there for a day, but we had to leave due to the increasing pressure. They did not return during our wait.”

“In that case, they must be dead.”

Venerable Nether sounded confident, but Venerable Moon did not promise anything. He said, “We can never be sure. Nobody knows what you can find at the very end of the river. I suspect that you might find something related to the actual River of Time there, or the River of Time itself. Or perhaps you can reach the River of Time in the Lower Realm through that place? In any case, we can’t be sure of anything before seeing their corpses.”

The others nodded pensively.

Venerable Desolate exhaled deeply, creating dao fluctuations with that action alone, and said, “Since they have been forced to the end of the river, we can forget about them for now.

“After investigating the Sealed Mountain, I can confirm that they lost one pseudo king during the battle. The pseudo king was named Zi Yan. We are still unsure about the actual strength of this lineage, but I believe they are still weaker than our overall strength. They would have emerged from their mountain long ago otherwise.

“However, there is no denying that they aren’t weak. We need to push the assembly forward and reach an agreement about Chaos Mountain. The losses this time are too heavy. We need to do something and prevent panic from spreading among the smaller races.

“This time, we lost eight pseudo kings while they lost three. A considerable number of Daofuses were lost as well. This is definitely a heavy blow for them.”

After producing a sort of statement to conclude the recent incident, Venerable Desolate continued, “Additionally, we need to start paying attention to something else. These new daos might be problematic.”

The others frowned upon hearing that.

Venerable Desolate said, “All of you must have felt it as well. Hong Ding and the others were greatly weakened toward the end of the battle. At that point, they barely had any of their dao power left.

“We did investigate these new daos in the past. They were rather loose, but we concluded that it was no big deal. However, it is clear that we have been underestimating the danger of this issue. The chaos race might have a way to make use of this weakness. And that makes it far more important for us to eliminate them. Don’t forget that quite a lot of our people have switched to the new daos.”

Everyone looked solemn. Yes. This was something they couldn’t ignore. And they had indeed sensed the weakening of the pseudo kings at the end of the previous battle. If the chaos race really had a way of targeting the new dao cultivators, it would be disastrous. They couldn’t allow the chaos race to continue existing.

There were simply too many new dao cultivators among the myriad races, including some powerful pseudo kings. If this issue wasn’t dealt with, at least a third of their Daofuses would be rendered ineffective in combat.

Venerable Scrape nodded, “Yes. This is indeed important. Also, keep an eye on March and Heavenly Fate Marquis. I guess we don’t need to worry about Heavenly Fate Marquis too much since he has never been allied to Hundred Battle King. But we need to be careful about March. He was here during the battle earlier. He must have thought of helping them.”

At that, they all stared toward a distant mountain. That was the mountain March resided on.

Celestial Devil Marquis laughed and said, “Since Hundred Battle King is gone, why don’t we join hands and remove March in advance? This is a good chance for us to remove a future threat.”

Venerable Scrape said, “March looks simple, but he’s incredibly shrewd. He won’t be so easy to kill. Sure, it’s still possible, but don’t forget our coming war against the chaos race. Some of us might die in our attempt to kill March. The chaos race will be more than happy to see that happen.

“March is friendly toward the humans, but he’s not necessarily friendly toward the chaos race. After all, this lineage was the main reason for Hundred Battle King’s defeat back then. They were also the reason for humanity to lose all its accumulation during the previous epoch.”

With a smile, Venerable Scrape said, “Let’s release the truth behind humanity’s previous defeat and the story between Hundred Battle King and Yue Luo. Back then, we sealed the news to protect the prestige of the various races. But since Hundred Battle King has escaped, we might as well let the truth out.” “Let’s see if Hundred Battle King is shameless enough to join hands with them when the truth is out. If he proceeds, I refuse to believe that the entire humanity is filled with spineless fools who will continue following him. Wouldn’t it be great if this resulted in some sort of internal conflict among them?

“Hundred Battle King, a plaything of a human traitor, the same traitor who had caused a massive defeat for humanity during the previous epoch. Let’s see if the current humanity are still willing to follow him after learning about that.

“Would the human allies, including March, still dare to put their trust on Hundred Battle King? He lost once, losing humanity’s accumulation over nine epochs. Could humanity afford another defeat under his leadership?”

Hearing that, the others smiled. This was mental warfare. When the truth was spread to the extent that everyone in the Upper and Lower Realms knew it, would humanity welcome Hundred Battle King’s return? Were all of them so spineless?

As long as there were such people among humanity, an alliance between humanity and the chaos humans would never happen. Sure, humanity was much weaker than before. But nobody could be sure about whether they still had some trump cards remaining, right?

Just take the Dao Origin Land as an example. Could anyone say for sure that there were no slumbering ancient humans somewhere in here?

Since the Lower Realm humans had managed to kill Fallen Star Marquis and the others not long ago, it was clear that they had at least some Daofuses among their ranks. People like Soy Bun and Grand Dream were also on their side. Would these people dare to trust Hundred Battle King with their fate?

“That is acceptable.”

They all nodded in agreement. Since Hundred Battle King had escaped, they would release the truth and sow chaos among humanity. There wouldn’t be a need to do this if Hundred Battle King was still sealed.

That would encourage humanity to unite and produce a new leader, which was not something the myriad races wanted to see.