Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu nodded, ”I’ll do that. Nobody is willing to give up before giving their best. I understand.”

He was speaking the truth. He truly understood this feeling.

Would someone at Topsoil Spirit’s level be willing to remain an Eternal forever?

No.

That was even more so when he was living in an era of strife. This was an era where numerous monsters would emerge. Would he be willing to remain an Eternal when he was supposed to be the master of the five elemental race?

”Thank you.”

Topsoil Spirit did not say more and started working on the five elemental daos. The moment he started, a rumble rang out as intense flames erupted around his body. He tried controlling the power of fire in his body, but it was different from the usual power of fire he was used to.

In comparison, the power of fire he used was docile while he was currently faced with a wild version of the same power.

Previously, he was only exposed to the dao power that had gone through the filtration of Su Yu and Lan Tian. Thus, the power was much calmer in comparison. But now, he finally understood what Su Yu had experienced.

He tried to stay calm, but he couldn’t.

Moments later, he started wailing.

”This hurts!”

”No! Stop burning! Ahhhh!”

He roared madly. It was torturous.

His pain was further amplified when the wildfire stirred the existing fire in his body, subjecting him to an even worse torture than what Su Yu had experienced. After some time, Topsoil Spirit started roaring and rolling in pain even as he worked on the dao.

”Stop burning! Ahhhh! Help me! This hurts so much!”

He felt as though his very soul was being burned.

And next, an incomparably sharp power streamed into his body, instantly cutting his body apart, followed by a wave of wood power, restoring his body. He was subjected to both restoration and destruction at the same time.

”Ahhhhhhh!”

”The fuck?”

”Help me! Wuwuwuwu....”

Unsurprisingly, the sight of that was fully projected to the Celestial Chasm Realm.

***

Everyone’s expression turned solemn.

Was it really so painful?

Previously, Su Yu had done it alone, and he had done it for a long time. Meanwhile, Topsoil Spirit had only been up there for a short time. And unlike Su Yu, he only needed to work on the five elements.

Was Topsoil Spirit a weakling?

No.

He, too, was a monster of his generation. He was the young master of the five elemental race. How could a weakling gain the support of the five elemental race? Yet someone like that was rolling around while wailing in pain.

Some of the experts had thought that the pain wouldn’t be too much. But they all changed their minds upon seeing what Topsoil Spirit was experiencing. Were the dao powers really so difficult to tame in the River of Time?

Suddenly, someone soared into the sky and roared, ”Emperor Yu, I wish to join and work on the saber dao!”

Xia Longwu!

Having just broken through into the Daofuse Realm, he spoke calmly, ”I wish to tame the severed saber dao. I wish to comprehend the wild saber dao. I don’t need anyone to tame it for me. I wish to experience the very essence of the saber dao.”

That was right. Most daos were already tamed. Or to be precise, every dao existing in the form of a tributary was essentially a tamed dao. Only the daos in the chaos or the daos flowing in the River of Time were wild.

Su Yu remained silent.

Xia Longwu spoke again, ”I wish to comprehend the purest form of the saber dao. Please allow this, Emperor Yu?”

Down below, Great Xia King’s expression changed. His grandson was asking to comprehend the purest form of saber dao. What about him?

Just then, a laughter rang out as someone else spoke, ”Your Majesty, I wish to experience a pure dao as well.”

Great Han King.

He was still a ninth-degree Eternal, but he was also offering to enter the River of Time. It was fine for him to lag behind Great Xia King and the others, but he couldn’t accept being surpassed by even the grandson of Great Xia King. He had his pride as a senior.

”Your Majesty, I wish to go as well.”

”Your Majesty...”

One expert after another offered to join.

And finally, Su Yu laughed and said, ”Since you’re all feeling so brave, so be it. You shall experience the purest form of the myriad daos.”

Boom!

With that, everyone shot through the hole in the sky.

Su Yu granted each of them a miniature Heaven Gate before pointing out the daos they needed.

A minute later.

”Ahhhhhhh!”

”Mom! Mom! Save me!”

”Ahhh! This hurts so much!”

”Wuwuwuwuwu! Your Majesty, send me back! I give up!”

A bunch of experts started wailing.

This wasn’t a simple pain in their bodies. Rather, their souls and their willpower were being tortured as well.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was recording everything as he narrated, ”This is a valuable record of our first attempt at taming the pure daos. Juniors of the future generation, remember this. The pure daos are incomparably violent, and they will target your soul, your willpower, and your body. Physical pain is something you can easily endure, but the pain of your soul and willpower is much harder to endure.”

He pointed at Heavendoom, generating a spotlight on Heavendoom and said, ”Behold, this is Heavendoom, a heavenly destruction ape. He is taming a wild dao of staff. Look at how he’s rolling and weeping on the ground. Look at how he’s begging for mercy. Remember him, juniors of the future generation. He is a heavenly destruction ape, the strongest of his race. This is him taming a wild dao for the future generation.

”And here, we have someone crying for his mother. This is none other than Great Ming King of the human race, a descendant of the legendary Radiant King. He is taming the wild formation dao. He is crying. Earlier, he even cried for his ancestor, Radiant King.

”This is Stable Army Marquis, an ancient human marquis who is over a hundred thousand years old. He is currently taming the spear dao. Multiple people are challenging the same dao. Great Qin King is doing it, Qin Zhen is doing it as well. Look! Qin Zhen is crying for his father, Great Qin King. Persevere, Great Qin King! Don’t cry! Your son can cry for you, but you have nobody to cry for! Oh wow! Stable Army Marquis is actually crying for his daughter! Good heavens! His daughter is only a Sunmoon!”

Wan Tiansheng and the others who were staying below started shivering.

Su Yu’s revenge was here. It hadn’t even been that long.

They had only seen him crying. They hadn’t even recorded the sight of him crying. Why was he recording all of them?

Wasn’t that too petty?

Great Zhou King was still down below as well. When he looked around, he sent the others a voice transmission, ”I suspect some are exaggerating. With this, they won’t be subjected to any further revenge. If we stay down here, we might be the ones to suffer in the future.”

He was sure that some of those people were acting to placate Su Yu. He was certain.

After all, not all daos were that torturous to face. Take Great Ming King’s formation dao as an example. That dao was much milder than the other daos, yet he was crying the loudest among all the people up there.

Tsk.

Those from the Zhu Family were indeed all shameless.

With a look of resignation, Wan Tiansheng said, ”Let’s go.”

He solemnly said, ”Su Yu has created the perfect environment to comprehend the pure daos for us. These are pure daos. And he’s offering everyone a miniature Heaven Gate. This is a very rare opportunity. He’s taking on all the pressure for us.”

One could say that there was a mountain bearing down upon Su Yu’s shoulders.

A mountain of water.

He was resisting the currents of the river alone. The others only needed to resist the daos they were working on. The Xing Yu’s token was being pushed so much it felt like it was about to burst apart. The Mark of Civilization also looked like it was on the verge of bursting apart. Over a thousand projections from the Mark of Civilization were blocking the flow of water from the ones helping him repair the threads.

As all of that was happening, Su Yu was merely recording everyone while smiling. At times, cultivation did not need to be so painful. Everyone should laugh and cheer. But they also knew that Su Yu was resisting a massive pressure. The moment Xing Yu’s token or the Mark of Civilization collapsed, Su Yu would suffer the backlash.

Great Zhou King nodded and sighed. ”Damn this fellow. He has been complaining and shouting that he’s not doing this anymore. But ultimately, he still can’t resist becoming the pillar of support. I believe a day will come when he finally becomes the new Human Emperor. Even if he can’t become the second Human Emperor, he will become a respected Emperor.”

As of that moment, he was certain that Su Yu would become a proper Emperor in the future. Strength alone was not sufficient for one to be a true Emperor. A certain charm was required as well.

Since time immemorial, humanity had only produced one Emperor. The others, such as Martial Emperor, were never considered true Emperors. And Su Yu would be the second true Emperor.

He was a youngster, but he was also slowly growing. Despite his ever-changing emotions, he was still willingly shouldering his responsibility. That seemed laughable, but nobody could bring themself to laugh at him.

Next, the smiling Great Zhou King soared into the sky. And moments later, his painful wail rang out alongside the rest. Even Su Yu was looking at him with disdain.

Su Yu narrated, ”Here, we have Great Zhou King, an old scammer. He cultivates the dao of patience, and the pure version of this dao should be giving him more patience. He should remain indifferent even when all his loved ones are killed in front of him. But look at how he’s crying in pain here. This is clearly a performance. I suspect he cultivates the dao of scam instead.”

What was that?

It was too obvious that Great Zhou King was putting up an act. To the point Su Yu was starting to feel offended.

Even when acting, one needed to be serious!

Some of the experts who were wailing in pain around them were also sneaking glances at Great Zhou King. They started cursing inwardly. Damn him. Why was he wailing so mournfully when he cultivated the patience dao?

Sure enough, he was an old scammer.

Great Zhou King’s face stiffened.

But after a slight pause, he continued wailing. As long as he insisted that he was in pain, nobody could prove that he wasn’t in pain. Just like that, a dangerous and painful experience had been reduced to something akin to a game.

Everyone could see the smile in the eyes of others. To cultivate the dao, joy was important. To strive for domination, it was important to follow the heart. Loneliness was the scariest in the path of cultivation. It was a joy to have a bunch of fellow daoists to traverse this path together.

Boom!

Powerful auras started surging in the sky.

Affected by the mood, Topsoil Spirit felt like he was no longer in that much of a pain.

And suddenly, the five elements came together.

Boom!

A burst of powerful aura roared out of his body. He had finally attained Daofuse.

”The five elemental race thanks Emperor Yu!”

Topsoil Spirit’s voice spread everywhere as he roared with laughter. Down below, the auras of the five elemental ancestors stirred as all of them roared at the sky with tears in their eyes.

Their race had finally produced a Daofuse!

At the exact moment Topsoil Spirit attained Daofuse, the split five elemental daos had also been forcefully rejoined. Instantly, the five elemental ancestors reached the Daofuse Realm as well. And just like that, the initially weak five elemental race had transformed into a race with six Daofuses.

”Hahaha!”

Laughter and cheers rang out in the air.

This was a feast. A celebration. Everyone roared in excitement.

Suddenly, the human lord’s token Su Yu had left in Culture King’s Residence shone, projecting numerous images into the sky. It was evolving. Evolving into something more. It was no longer a mere human lord’s token.

The maps of the Spatial Beast Realm, Five Elemental Realm, Fate Realm, and Iron Devourer Realm imprinted themselves onto the token. An intense power of fortune surged into the sky.

The token was initially only able to barely stabilize Culture King’s Residence. But now, it had become incomparably stable. As the token shone, numerous additional golden stripes formed on it.

As of this moment, it could perhaps be called Emperor Yu’s token.

It had transcended humanity.

***

Somewhere in the boundless darkness.

A pair of eyes fluttered open.

Heavenly Overseer Marquis.

His aura stirred, and in the blink of an eye, the power of fortune around him surged. His strength started growing madly. With a frown, he looked in the direction of the sunken Celestial Chasm Realm. Doubt covered his eyes.

What did Su Yu do this time? A disastrous defeat in the Upper Realm? What a joke. From the surging fortune of humanity, it was more like Su Yu had achieved an unprecedented victory.

An inconceivable victory.

”Bountiful Treasure is a fool. He will never understand that these people will always be capable of turning a pile of trash into the brightest of legends.”

Heavenly Overseer Marquis was filled with disbelief.

Su Yu had created yet another miracle.

It wasn’t like he had done anything special. He had merely withdrawn with his people. How did a withdrawal turn into an unprecedented victory? Heavenly Overseer Marquis felt as though he could no longer understand the flow of fortune.

”Su Yu. A fine Su Yu.”

As he muttered, he shut his eyes and cleared his mind again.