Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu continued, ”I’ll be taking a trip to the Luminous Domain Mansion. After that, I’ll start resurrecting the death spirits. By the time I’m done with all that, I hope to see that Flatbun, September, and Brave Martial have all reached the level of heavenly kings.

”Lanshan, take the time to recover. You guys will enter the new world and comprehend the daos of life and death. This is especially important for you, He Tu. You might be the first I choose to resurrect when I’m ready.”

He Tu inhaled deeply and said, ”Thank you, Your Majesty.”

”Don’t thank me yet.” Su Yu said, ”In truth, the first attempt will also be the riskiest. You understand this. You’re essentially a test subject. Try to comprehend as much of the life and death daos as you can.”

Next, Su Yu’s gaze landed on someone among the crowd. ”Zhou Hao.”

”Here!”

The still weak Zhou Hao stepped forth.

He was still a Sunmoon.

But this was a place with nearly a hundred Daofuses. Thus, he was actually standing to the back of the crowd. After receiving the 72-Forged Iron Devourer and the opening method of the 360 acupoints from Su Yu, he had been mostly left alone by Su Yu.

One could claim that he was Su Yu’s student, but Su Yu had never formally accepted him as a student. He was a descendant of Martial King. Su Yu suspected that one of the people he saw beyond the gate was Martial King. Even though he didn’t get a proper look, he was now certain that Martial King was still alive.

It was likely that Zhou Hao was the sole descendant of Martial King remaining. Su Yu gazed at Zhou Hao in silence. Zhou Hao was as taciturn as usual, with an aura of wildness around him. It was quite impressive of him to reach the Sunmoon Realm in only a few years.

After a short observation, Su Yu nodded, ”Decent growth. You’re done with your seventy forgings. You have also opened the 360 acupoints. Your body is far stronger than your peers. In fact, your body has probably surpassed even some Eternals. At present, you’re similar to how I was not long ago. You’re lacking in dao manipulation.”

Su Yu had experienced this stage as well. After returning from his first visit to the Luminous Domain Mansion, he had grown strong enough to kill Eternals. However, he only had brute strength. Thus, he required the help of Wan Tiansheng to actually kill Eternals.

Su Yu said, ”I believe I saw your ancestor not long ago. He was doing decently. In fact, he was still quite healthy. From his voice, he was quite cheerful and lighthearted. It’s rare to see this from someone who has been gone for so many years. He asked about his descendant before my departure. I told him that they are all dead. He must have felt quite saddened after hearing that.”

Everyone’s hearts thumped. Great Zhou King couldn’t resist asking, ”Did you really see Culture King and Martial King, Your Majesty?”

Su Yu laughed. ”Why do you ask? Do you think I was lying to Fat Ball previously?”

”No.”

Great Zhou King denied that, but inwardly, that was indeed what he thought.

Su Yu said, ”I saw them, but we were separated by a layer of timespace. Or to be precise, we existed in different dimensions when we met. I cheated my way into a unique state of nothingness and entered that place. I’m still not strong enough to enter through the regular method. Even if I could somehow enter through the proper method, I would end up stuck in there.”

The greatly weakened Marquis Lanshan asked, ”Your Majesty, did you really meet Martial King? What did you talk about?”

Su Yu smiled. ”We talked shortly, but I was running out of time so I told him to shut his mouth. He seemed quite talkative. Was he so talkative back then?”

”...”

Marquis Lanshan’s jaw dropped. The others had odd expressions. Was that true? He told that fellow to shut up? That was a Four Cardinal King.

How...brave.

Su Yu did not seem to mind. He moved on. ”Zhou Hao, come with me to the eighth level. Great Ming King managed to gain some benefits from Radiant King’s Residence. I hope you can get something from Martial King’s Residence as well.

”Surprise your ancestor. He believes that all his descendants are dead. Imagine his reaction when a descendant appears out of nowhere.”

Truly an odd hobby to have. Was that really so fun? Everyone was rendered speechless. Zhou Hao was left speechless as well. Thus, he decided to say nothing.

”Cultivate well, everyone. Treasure this reprieve. It might not last long. We might have remained here for much longer if I hadn’t succeeded in my dao pioneering. But since I succeeded, this break won’t last too long.”

Everyone’s eyes flickered. So...how long would it be? Fine, it probably wouldn’t be that long. It hadn’t even been that long, and they had grown massively. This was truly a terrifying pace of growth.

At this rate, they would probably gain a few Venerables among them before long. And then, Su Yu would probably lead them out again. What was the point of remaining in hiding after gathering enough strength?

”Time to go, Heavenbridge Marquis.”

It was easy to reach the eighth level from the Death Realm through Heavenbridge Marquis. Before long, Heavenbridge Marquis turned into a gate.

Only Liu Hong and Zhou Hao were going with Su Yu this time. Liu Hong looked rather excited. In fact, he looked even more excited than Zhou Hao, who was supposed to be the excited one. Su Yu noted his Teacher Liu’s excitement and decided that...his Teacher Liu was scheming something again.

Then again, Liu Hong had been a schemer since their very first encounter. Perhaps there was something in the Luminous Domain Mansion waiting for him as well. That wasn’t surprising as like Great Zhou King, Liu Hong enjoyed hiding something away as a trump card.

He would never be totally honest with someone, but this was understandable. Everyone had their own secrets. Since Liu Hong had been rather helpful recently, Su Yu decided to let Liu Hong be.

***

The eighth level.

Once again, Su Yu was back.

Fortunately, the eighth level was no longer a part of Martial Emperor’s body. Otherwise, Su Yu’s mere presence would probably be enough to anger him to death. Then again, Martial Emperor was also aware of Su Yu’s arrival. After all, the teleportation would first go through his body before reaching the eighth level.

However, he had decided to ignore Su Yu and sulk alone after the recent loss of his clone. He didn’t even bother to stop them. Was he supposed to stop Su Yu and fight Su Yu for three days and three nights again?

He would be stupid to do that.

***

”Come on, let’s go to Culture King’s Residence.”

The eighth level was no longer capable of endangering Su Yu. The tiny bit of laws left in the place was nothing for him. In any case, he had sixty assembly tokens in his possession. With the tokens, the laws wouldn’t do anything to him. These tokens were quite useful. He was confident he would find more uses for them in the future.

He already had a rough plan where he could scheme a bunch of people to death with these tokens. But he wouldn’t be doing that anytime soon.

Culture King’s Residence.

Once again, Su Yu was back outside the rear court of the residence.

Taking some time to observe the sky and gaze characters above the entrance, Su Yu smiled and said, ”Gazing upon the sky, comprehending the dao. Culture King is quite an impressive person. Time and location won’t change that.”

Culture King had secretly completed his dao pioneering with none the wiser. Nobody knew what his dao was, and nobody knew where he pioneered it.

Liu Hong nodded as well. But beside them, Heavenbridge Marquis grumbled, ”Yes, he’s impressive. But he’s also unreliable.”

Culture King had promised that he would be the gate to seal an era. But that had clearly not happened.

Su Yu glanced at Heavenbridge Marquis. How brave of him to say this. Was he not afraid that Culture King would install a lock on him after returning?

Su Yu decided to ignore the gate and push the entrance open.

This was a familiar place for him.

However, it was a new place for Heavenbridge Marquis. The moment he entered, he looked around curiously. But slowly, his expression turned odd. Meanwhile, Zhou Hao’s reaction was a lot more straightforward. After looking around for a bit, he asked with genuine curiosity, ”Culture King is truly impressive. All these flowers and plants are still around and well even after so many years.”

Yes. All the flowers were still blooming.

Su Yu remained silent.

Liu Hong remained silent with a flat face.

It would be rude of him to speak the truth, right?

He wanted to say that the truly impressive person was right by their side, not Culture King. Liu Hong would be willing to bet everything that these flowers were planted by Su Yu, not Culture King.

He greatly suspected that Culture King’s Residence had long been robbed clean by Su Yu. Everything they were seeing now was merely things Su Yu planted to look pretty. The true treasures were long gone.

Before long, they reached the area with the four rooms. The pen and inkstone rooms were already empty.

Standing before a coffin-like room, Su Yu looked at Liu Hong and asked, ”What’s the inheritance item of the ink dao? Use it to open this door.”

Liu Hong laughed awkwardly before taking an item out.

A piece of charcoal.

Su Yu glanced at it and nodded. ”Yes. A suitable inheritance for you. It’s as dark as your heart.”

”...”

Liu Hong was left speechless. How was his heart dark? Just what had he done to this guy? It was merely a tiny bit of merit points. Why was this guy still keeping a grudge about that? He said nothing and stuffed the piece of charcoal into the hole on the door. Then, the door swung open.

Liu Hong smoothly swiped the padlock into his storage ring, and his action was the perfect copy of what Su Yu did before. No, he seemed even more well-practiced at this than Su Yu. Naturally, Heavenbridge Marquis and Zhou Hao did not react to it.

But when Su Yu glanced at Liu Hong, his face turned stiff. He asked a question through his eyes, asking if Su Yu wanted it. But why? Had Su Yu forgotten about his current cultivation level? Why would he still care about something like this?

But if Su Yu really wanted it, Liu Hong wouldn’t mind handing it over. Su Yu replied with his eyes as well, seemingly telling Liu Hong to piss off. Liu Hong merely smiled and looked away. Looked like Su Yu was uninterested in the padlock. He was happy about that. The padlock could be considered a treasure as well.

Like the other two rooms, there was only a table and a case in the room. Heavenbridge Marquis asked expectantly, ”What manner of treasure did Culture King leave behind?”

Both the Token of Sanctification and heavenly desolate beast corpse came from Culture King. What would they find here?

Su Yu looked at Liu Hong. ”Open it.”

Liu Hong stepped forward without hesitation and opened the case. Like the previous cases, there was a piece of paper and an item in it.

Su Yu looked at the paper. According to the contents written on it, the ink dao was the weakest of the four inheritances, but it was special. It was a tributary forcefully opened in the death spirit dao.

This wasn’t a dao everyone could cultivate. One needed to be in a special state to cultivate it, such as being a pseudo death spirit. Back then, Culture King had forcefully created this dao to resurrect the dead.

”Ink dao, a dao taking from the death spirit dao. Harmful to living beings. A Long Life Pill is provided for the successor of this dao.”

Su Yu blanked out.

Liu Hong blanked out as well. ”This is the pill! I was confused about it, but it’s actually the Long Life Pill. It’s the best treasure to replenish life force and lifespan.”

His head snapped toward Su Yu. ”You seem to be lacking in lifespan, Your Majesty. This is the perfect treasure for you. With this thing, you can recover or gain even more lifespan than before. Just look at Great Zhou King. His lifespan was still abundant until recently after consuming one of these pills so long ago.”

A Long Life Pill was indeed a precious treasure.

This was something produced through killing a Master of Law from the immortal race. The dao power and blood essence of that Master of Law were used as the materials for this pill. It was said that only three were refined, so was this one of the three or an additional pill?

It was left here to help with the life force of ink dao’s successor. But Liu Hong had no need for it. That was mainly because he had been to the intersection of life and death to comprehend both life and death before. When redirecting the powers of life and death to Su Yu before, he had kept some power of life for himself as well. This, his life force was still abundant.