Tribulation of Myriad Races

Royal Consort Qi frowned slightly and said, ”Convert the dao within you into pure dao power before fusing with Emperor Yu’s daos. Emperor Yu’s dao will embrace both of you. You only need to suppress the resistance of the time dao and find the common point to link the two powers together while fusing the different parts together.”

The two exchanged gazes. Great Xia King smiled and said, ”Old Qin, let’s see who can suppress this resistance first.”

”Fuse!”

With a roar, the two sabers before Great Xia King started clashing and fusing with each other. However, the two continued rejecting each other.

After spending some time forcing them together, Great Xia King frowned. But suddenly, he laughed. ”Why make it so troublesome?”

Next, he allowed the two to purely clash.

”Your Majesty, increase the power of your saber dao and devour the other saber forcefully.”

Boom!

The two sabers continued clashing.

Elsewhere, the River of Time shook slightly.

***

Inside the River of Time.

The dao saber Great Xia King had fused with not long ago started shaking. Wave after wave of dao power started seeping out of the tributary before vanishing, as though something was forcefully devouring the power here.

At the same time, Great Qin King was doing the same. The spear tributary he had fused with not long ago started leaking power as well. But as the two tributaries leaked power, the River of Time started generating more saber and spear powers to replenish the loss.

***

Upstream of the River of Time.

The illusory projection did not sense anything.

This time, someone else reacted. An expert not far away exclaimed in surprise, ”My saber dao is leaking power...”

”Isn’t it normal for power to leak every now and then?”

The others weren’t too bothered. This was no big deal. Was he so desperate for a topic of conversation?

The saber cultivator said gloomily, ”What stupid thing are you saying? If it were a normal occurrence, I naturally wouldn’t have bothered mentioning it. Not long ago, I sensed someone fusing into my dao. But not long after, they started draining my dao. The power is leaking without returning.”

Someone else asked with surprise, ”Did that person die?”

”No, I think?”

Who knew? Would a death cause the dao power to dissipate away? For the most part, it shouldn’t happen. Yes, the dao would suffer some damage, but the power would eventually return. But this time, the power was only leaving, not returning.

The illusory figure sank into thought. What did that signify? Someone new fused with the dao. Not long after, the dao started leaking power. Clearing, someone was draining the power of the dao. But where was the power going?

Only saber daos were compatible with the power from a saber dao. This would only be possible if the power was being drained to a different saber dao. Was someone trying to link two different saber daos?

Similar daos existed, and these daos were similar enough to be fused. At that thought, the illusory figure said, ”Is a saber genius extracting your dao power?”

That person might have fused with multiple saber daos, and they were stealing from one to reinforce the other. But generally, only Masters of Laws could do something like this. This also required a deep comprehension of the dao.

Everyone was feeling doubtful. More and more weird things were happening in the Myriad Realms recently.

After some thought, the illusory figure said, ”Something major must have happened in the Myriad Realms recently. Perhaps our coming return has triggered some sort of backlash from the Myriad Realms.”

After all, things had remained calm for so many years. But as of late, many things had happened in succession.

Someone joked, ”Your Majesty, did Martial Emperor come back to life to steal from the saber dao?”

”...”

The illusory figure said nothing.

Screw that!

Could they forget about Martial Emperor?

The others laughed as well. After a while, someone asked, ”Your Majesty...can your...real body recover? I can see that we’re going to overlap with Myriad Realms’ timeline soon.”

Back then, Human Emperor had led them all upstream and trapped the experts of the myriad races in the past, isolating them all from the future.

Throughout the years, the myriad races had repeatedly attacked to break through the restriction. They had not succeeded, but they managed to heavily injure the Human Emperor. With the natural flow of the river, they were slowly returning to the correct timeline.

Human Emperor’s real body had been in seclusion for many years. Nobody knew if he had recovered from his previous injuries.

The illusory figure smiled and said, ”I will naturally recover fully before our return. Don’t worry.”

Nobody said more about that.

Suddenly, someone else exclaimed, ”Huh? My spear dao...is leaking power as well. Wait, is this really Martial Emperor? This is too much of a coincidence. Someone is draining Battle King’s saber dao and my spear dao at the same time.”

Everyone grew even more doubtful.

Only Masters of Laws could do this, right?

The illusory figure sank into thought again. After a while, he asked, ”Are both happening at the same time?”

”Yes.”

The illusory figure frowned. ”Is someone...fusing real daos with fake daos?”

”What?”

Someone asked with confusion. The illusory figure wasn’t too sure either. He had many guesses, but he couldn’t be sure of anything before seeing it with his own eyes.

”Was my previous speculation that someone has attempted Creation...actually the correct speculation? That shouldn’t be the case.”

Numerous possibilities emerged in his mind.

He sank into deep contemplation.

Suddenly, someone else asked, ”Your Majesty, our physical body dao has been steadily declining over the years. Has a physical body cultivator from the human race been devouring the power of this dao over the years?”

The decline had persisted for many years. But as of late, the speed of decline had increased.

”Physical body dao...”

The illusory figure frowned again and said, ”The drain on the physical body dao started a long time ago. When you first told me about it, I guessed that a super expert cultivating the physical body dao had appeared. That expert must have been expanding their grasp over the physical body dao. But it stopped some time ago. Did it start again recently?”

”Yes.” A physical body cultivator said, ”It restarted very recently. It has never stopped completely, but it had slowed down considerably to a more regular cultivation speed for a while. But the speed has increased recently. At this rate, we will all grow considerably weaker.”

The illusory figure’s expression changed.

Someone else asked with a frown, ”Is it a human? A human expert must have appeared many years ago. After slowing down for a bit, they have been accelerating again recently. A human should be aware of our coming return. Are they strengthening themselves to fight the myriad races and clear the way for us?”

After a short silence, the illusory figure said, ”Perhaps. Peace King, keep observing. There are more than one physical body daos out there. After so many years, many of you have comprehended the other physical body daos as well. At worst, we can think of something else.”

”Your Majesty, I’m more worried that the myriad races will detect our decline. They are already very hard to handle. When they notice that we’re growing weaker, they will probably increase the rate of their attacks.”

”I’ll think of something.”

The illusory figure was placating them, but he was sighing inwardly. Since the physical body dao was being invaded, it could only signify that a super expert was probably trying to monopolize the entire dao. Was this a good thing or a bad thing for them?

For now, it did not seem beneficial to them. The physical human kings were slowly dropping in strength. They were still strong enough to fight Masters of Laws, but something bad might happen if they continued growing weaker.

”Just what is happening in the Myriad Realms?”

Things had been calm for so many years. Why were so many things happening lately?

***

At the same time.

Chaotic space.

Great Xia King and Great Qin King were still draining the saber and spear powers before channeling them into Su Yu’s dao. Their auras stirred. The saber and spear before them grew brighter and brighter. Compared with the rest of the daos in Su Yu’s world, the two had grown noticeably thicker.

Wan Tiansheng had been observing in silence beside Su Yu. After a while, he said, ”The fusion is going smoothly. Your Majesty, is this enough for them to achieve self-sufficiency?”

He was asking if their daos could replenish themselves from chaos enough to sustain the two in active battle. If that wasn’t possible, the inclusion of them into Su Yu’s world would only reduce Su Yu’s ability to fight prolonged battles.

Su Yu focused slightly before nodding. ”They can barely keep a balance. Great Xia King and Great Qin King are no weaklings. The strengthened saber and spear daos should be enough for their usage.”

Wan Tiansheng was relieved to hear that. ”That’s good to hear.”

He was only worried that the two would drain too much power from Su Yu’s dao and weaken him instead. Just then, Great Qin King roared. A gigantic spear shot into the sky while the world shook. His entire person had seemingly turned into a spear as well.

He roared, ”Old Zhou, come! Let’s have a fight!”

”...”

Great Zhou King was stunned. Not far away, Su Yu laughed. ”Come on, Great Zhou King. Test him out.”

Great Zhou King was left with nothing to say. After a short wait, he flew over unwillingly. The moment he entered the tiny world—BOOM!

A deafening rumble rang out.

Having fused with almost the entirety of the spear dao, it was as though the entire world had turned into a world of spears.

This world belonged to Su Yu. But as of this moment, it belonged to Great Qin King as well. Great Zhou King’s expression changed as he hurriedly sent a palm out to meet the spear. However, his palm strike was much weaker compared to what he could unleash elsewhere. Thus, it was easily swept off by Great Qin King’s spear.

Forced to retreat repeatedly, Great Zhou King roared and activated his patience dao. Instantly, hesitation flickered in Great Qin King’s eyes. But the hesitation vanished in a split second. A burst of spear qi erupted, blasting Great Zhou King away and causing his dao to shake.

Great Zhou King frowned. ”Not bad.”

Here, Great Qin King held an advantage over him. Suddenly, Great Zhou King’s aura surged. Since he had reached the limit of his patience, it was time to go the other way. He started flickering everywhere while bombarding Great Qin King. He moved at a rapid pace, but he was still suppressed by Great Qin King’s spear.

Slowly, Great Zhou King was pushed to the edge of the world. And the more he fought, the more alarmed he was. Great Qin King was extraordinarily powerful here. He continued fighting with his speed advantage, but Great Qin King grew more excited the longer the battle lasted. Finally, he could suppress Great Zhou King. And suddenly, Great Qin King stopped and stepped back. Great Zhou King was stunned.

With a look of disdain, Great Qin King declared, ”Enough. I’m happy with a simple victory. I don’t like bullying others.”

”...”