Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chaotic space.

Su Yu was unsure if Xing Yue had reached Human Emperor, but he knew that she was fine.

She had his life and death daos, so he could sense her status. He was in the middle of the chaotic space. There was no time, no directions, and no rules in the chaotic space. Boundless darkness and nothingness stretched as far as the eye could see.

Sure, the chaotic space wasn’t completely empty. There were some dangers, some floating lands, some floating mountains, and so on in there. But these were exceptionally rare. In fact, many of these lands were chunks of created worlds.

Thus, these lands weren’t a true part of chaos. True chaos was what Su Yu was looking at right now. Boundless darkness and deathly stillness. One could traverse the space for years without encountering anything.

***

Deep in the chaotic space.

They were exploring the chaotic space for a path to the Upper Realm.

South Heavenly King and the others were opening the way ahead, so most dangers had been resolved by them.

Thus, Su Yu was able to move quickly.

Since the tiger and dragon could move from the Death Realm to the Upper Realm, there definitely was a way there. They only needed to secure a safe path.

And the distance shouldn’t be too far either. Su Yu remembered that it hadn’t even been that long since he started his Creation when the bird from the Upper Realm arrived. If he could move in a straight line, he could probably reach quickly.

As Su Yu moved, he encountered some chaos beasts every now and then. They were quite weak, so each was killed by him with a casual slap. He also discovered traces of battle in his path. And from the leftover energy fluctuations, it was clear that South Heavenly King’s group was among the combatants.

He continued following the trail.

After about half a day, he caught up to them.

***

A floating broken mountain in the chaotic space.

South Heavenly King’s group was resting there. South Heavenly King, Lan Tian, Heavenly Fire, Fat Ball, and Marquis Lanshan were all present. They had stopped moving for now.

South Heavenly King was the first to sense Su Yu’s approach. When she looked over, she saw him coming over from afar. Noticing that all of them were there, Su Yu’s expression turned curious.

Why were they stopping here? But when he followed their gaze and stared ahead, he saw a flicker of light far away.

The moment Su Yu arrived, South Heavenly King sent him a voice transmission, ”There seems to be a piece of land ahead. We’re unsure if that’s the Chaos Mountain, and we don’t know the situation there. We noticed some chaos beasts flying by, so we stopped since we didn’t want to alarm anyone of our arrival.”

”Chaos beasts? Are there a lot of them?”

”Quite. We saw about five or six of them.”

That was quite a large number to encounter in the chaotic space. In that case, the land ahead could very well be the Chaos Mountain.

Then, Su Yu’s gaze landed on the broken mountain they were waiting on. The mountain was small, but it looked incomparably sturdy. In the past, such a mountain would be considered a precious treasure by Su Yu as well. But he had grown so much that it no longer held any interest to him.

”No worries.” Su Yu said, ”Wait here. I’ll take a look.”

He transformed into a tiger while chaos aura started rippling out of his body. With a roar, he flew forward. He only needed a proper disguise.

As someone who had created a world of myriad daos and studied the chaos dao repeatedly, such a disguise was child’s play for him. Chaos power was essentially the myriad powers in disorder. It was hard to introduce order to disorder, but doing it the other way around was much easier.

Behind him, Lan Tian transformed into an eagle before flying forward while emanating chaos power. The rest of them could only watch helplessly as the two set off. Imitating the chaos power was something very few of them could do.

***

”Why are you here as well?” Su Yu asked.

Lan Tian replied through voice transmission, ”In case of danger.”

Su Yu chuckled. Lan Tian was underestimating him.

But it didn’t matter.

”How goes your comprehension of the myriad daos?”

”Decent.” Lan Tian said, ”But don’t worry. It’s not hard to reach the level of a Venerable. I only need to comprehend a little to reach that level.”

That wasn’t hard. It was a small problem.

Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to say more since Lan Tian was so confident. Of the subordinates under him, some required his guidance. However, some could grow well even when left alone.

The two continued moving toward the light in the distance. Before long, a new sight unveiled before their eyes.

A gigantic piece of land presented itself before them.

Chaos Mountain.

They were now certain.

They could even hear some people speaking in human language as they pulled closer.

”Here it goes again.”

”So many chaos beasts are coming from the chaotic space recently. Are the tailless dragon and eight-winged tiger trying to gather these beasts and establish their own territories here?”

”How curious. Why are those two refusing to leave? With their strength, they can survive even deep inside the chaotic space. These chaos beasts love drifting about in the chaotic space. Why are they staying here now? These two newcomers are not weak either. Both are Daofuses. Well, let’s record it down.”

Su Yu and Lan Tian looked over and noted two individuals not far away. They weren’t weak. One was a tier-three Daofuse while the other was a tier-two Daofuse.

Su Yu might have a lot of powerhouses among his subordinates, but a tier-two Daofuses was basically someone at the level of Tiangu and the old turtle not long ago. This was by no means weak. Such a person was still relevant even with the increasing number of active heavenly kings on the field.

The two were openly staring at them atop a small mountain. That was quite brazen of them.

Noticing the gaze of the two beasts, one of the two men released a powerful burst of chaos power alongside a unique willpower fluctuation: ”My territory.”

Chaos power.

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. They were pretending to be chaos beasts. They were humanoids, but chaos beasts did not care about shapes. For them, anyone with chaos power was a chaos beast.

And there was an unspoken rule among chaos beasts that the territory of the strong couldn’t be infringed upon.

”People from Control King’s lineage?” Su Yu muttered.

Lan Tian said, ”Who else could they be?”

That was the only possibility. They were definitely from Control King’s lineage. It was quite impressive of them to set down their roots so deep in the Chaos Mountain. Clearly, they were also very familiar with the chaos beasts and chaotic space. But more importantly, did they have the habit of exploring the chaotic space?

If that was the case, they should be aware that one could reach the Lower Realm and Death Realm through the chaotic space, right? Perhaps they were aware, but they couldn’t be bothered to go? No, that did not make sense.

Perhaps they were scared of traversing the chaotic space? No, that didn’t make sense either. Previously, the tailless dragon and eight-winged tiger were out there. Perhaps they were wary of the two beasts? That was a more realistic guess.

The eight-winged tiger must have resided somewhere near the Death Realm. After all, he was the first to arrive during Su Yu’s Creation. With such a terrifying Venerable out there, it was understandable that Control King’s lineage wouldn’t dare to go too deep into the chaotic space.

Su Yu proceeded while ignoring the two. For now, these people weren’t his targets. He had to first find the tiger. According to the conversation of the two, most of the newly arrived chaos beasts were here to join the tiger and dragon. Had the two decided to establish themselves here?

Was that really the case?

But why?

Su Yu was quite curious. Knowing that things were dangerous at the Chaos Mountain, why were the two staying here instead of the chaotic space? The dragon might be dumb, but the tiger was clearly quite smart.

That self-proclaimed cultured tiger was smart enough to know that this place would grow increasingly dangerous. Yet he had decided to settle down here. That was quite a puzzling choice.

March knew where the tiger was, and Su Yu had learned about the location from March. Thus, he was able to head straight to the tiger’s territory.

Behind them, the two from Control King’s lineage continued their conversation, ”Are these the subordinates summoned by that tiger? There are more and more chaos beasts here these days.”

”Yeah. The Chaos Mountain is getting more and more dangerous. Just what are they here for?”

”Hell Gate. What else?”

They weren’t speaking loudly, but with Su Yu’s strength, he could easily listen in to their conversation. His heart thumped as he listened.

Hell Gate.

Were the tiger and dragon here for the Hell Gate? Were they trying to enter the gate? Or was it something else?

Lan Tian was also listening. He said through voice transmission, ”Your Majesty, what can they get from the Hell Gate? Those two were residing in the chaotic space before. They were already aware of that gate long ago. Why did they wait until now to come when there is an imminent battle? This is too odd.”

That was true.

Even if they wanted to fish in troubled waters, they were still better off waiting in the chaotic space. There was no need for them to reveal themselves. Were they learning from Su Yu? Did they have spies within the Chaos Mountain?

The more Su Yu thought about it, the more confused he was. So be it. Since he couldn’t understand it, he would forget about it for now. He would think more after his meeting with the tiger. Even if he couldn’t secure an alliance, he could still take this chance to gather more information.

***

Near the edge of the Chaos Mountain.

A large mountain stood alone.

At present, this mountain had turned into the territory of the eight-winged tiger.

Numerous chaos beasts could be seen on the mountain.

The tiger was new here, but he had subdued the ancient beasts here easily with his strength. Together with the tailless dragon, they respectively occupied the north and the south of the Chaos Mountain. With thirty to forty subordinates each, both could be considered local tyrants.

There were four dominant parties in the Chaos Mountain, and each occupied a different direction. The myriad races occupied the east since it was connected to the outside world.

Control King’s lineage controlled the west.

The tiger occupied the south, while the dragon occupied the north.

Despite their common origin, the tiger and dragon did not join hands. It was common knowledge that dragons and tigers did not get along well. Since neither could defeat the other, they would rather operate independently.

The two were also the main reason for the peace between the myriad races and Control King’s lineage.

Basically, the two were acting as a sort of shit-stirrer, one that had stirred the battle into peace. And with how the two were accumulating their forces in the Chaos Mountain, it was looking more and more likely that they intended to stay.