Tribulation of Myriad Races

Did Su Yu lie to Zhou Ji?

Not exactly.

Not even Su Yu could be certain about who Martial Emperor would side with. But at the same time, nobody could be certain that he wasn’t on Su Yu’s side.

During the previous exchange, Zhou Ji was in quite a rush since he knew that Martial Emperor would be back soon. In truth, Su Yu was in a rush as well. He was indeed quite worried that Martial Emperor would throw chaos into the situation.

Thus, both Zhou Ji and Su Yu were in a rush to reach an agreement. Martial Emperor might stick to his word, or he might decide to break his promise. At that point, Su Yu was no longer willing to bet on someone else. There was no need for that.

Since victory was already practically guaranteed, why bet on the unknown? Thus, he had opted to force Zhou Ji away without waiting for Martial Emperor’s return. With Martial Emperor’s help, Su Yu could definitely kill Zhou Ji. But it was too uncertain, and Su Yu did not want to rely on something uncertain.

Now, Zhou Ji was gone.

And Martial Emperor was back.

There was finally someone for Su Yu to vent his anger on. In the entire Myriad Realms, Martial Emperor was the sole potential enemy remaining.

”Fuck him up!”

With a roar, Su Yu dragged Martial Emperor toward his world. The others charged over as well. He had a powerful force under him. At the very least, it was enough to defeat Martial Emperor.

Martial Emperor’s face fell.

”What is this? Su Yu, are you going back on your word? Su Yu! Don’t push it!”

In truth, Martial Emperor was feeling quite nervous as well. There were too many powerhouses under Su Yu.

Holy shit!

There were so many Masters of Laws. What happened? He had only been away for a short while!

Boom!

While Su Yu was dragging him in the direction of Su Yu’s world, the others joined in and blasted him in the same direction. The moment he entered Su Yu’s world, his expression changed drastically.

Good heavens!

He could clearly feel the suppression of his strength. At the same time, everyone on Su Yu’s side received a massive boost in strength. Su Yu, in particular, received a massive boost. At the moment, Su Yu was busy devouring the fortune and physical body dao left behind by Zhou Ji. He had yet to finish digesting his recent gains.

Human Emperor’s world was slowly withdrawing, yet Su Yu’s strength was not dropping by much. With the support of Human Emperor’s world, Su Yu’s strength had reached the level of a tier-two Master of Law. With the withdrawal of Human Emperor’s world, his strength was starting to drop, but the drop was surprisingly small.

In fact, he was still maintaining the strength of the second tier, even if he was slightly weaker than before. It was likely that he would regain his previous strength the moment he was done digesting all his recent gains. In short, one could say that his gains this time were comparable to an incomplete world.

This was unimaginable.

While absorbing all the powers in his world, Su Yu smiled and said jokingly, ”Try to hold back a little. Just play around a bit with Martial Emperor. After all, he’s still a human...”

The others started pulling their punches upon hearing that, but they all still looked excited at the prospect of beating up someone this strong.

Martial Emperor was relieved to hear that. He cursed, ”What did I do? Didn’t I handle Zhou Ji for you? Are you trying to throw me aside after you’re done with me?”

Su Yu merely smiled and said nothing. The new infusion of power had greatly strengthened the physical body dao in his world. After all, both Hundred Battle King and Zhou Ji were physical body powerhouses.

Both of them occupied at least one third of the physical body dao, with a majority of the rest being shared between the ancient human kings. Only a tiny bit was left for the countless other human cultivators.

And now, the cultivation of Hundred Battle King and Zhou Ji was being used to reinforce Su Yu’s physical body dao. Prior to this, many physical body cultivators had also severed their dao to fuse with Su Yu’s world. Thus, Su Yu’s physical body dao had been growing continuously.

After all, most of the human Eternals cultivated the physical body dao before Su Yu’s rise. Some had switched their daos, but a lot were still stuck at the physical body dao. The battle raged on, but nobody was trying to kill.

Su Yu continued observing the battle while absorbing the powers in his world. The madness flickering in his eyes faded slowly, replaced by calm. Zhou Ji believed that Su Yu was mad. But Su Yu disagreed. Then again, no true madman would admit to being mad.

As far as Su Yu was concerned, he was a refined scholar. How could a scholar be a madman? Even madness was merely a mask he presented to the outside world. Su Yu had never viewed himself as a madman. He fully believed that he was normal.

He was so normal that everyone else believed that he was mad. But that was because everyone else was abnormal, while he was the only one who was normal. That was his belief.

Su Yu’s strength continued to grow. After a while, all the combatants grew bored of it. At this time, most of them were more interested in settling down to meditate on their recent gains. But since Su Yu had not ordered them to stop, they could only keep fighting.

Martial Emperor was still cursing repeatedly. After an indeterminate amount of time, Su Yu’s body shook. It had grown much stronger than before. More than half of the powers in his world had been digested. His world had expanded considerably.

Su Yu wasn’t that much weaker than he was when he was boosted by Human Emperor’s world anymore. He was fully showcasing just how terrifying Creators could be. It had only been two months since his creation.

In that time, he had grown into a tier-two Master of Law from a Venerable. Of course, this only referred to his strength inside his world. He was already comparable in strength to some of the ancient Pseudo Emperors. That was truly terrifying.

At the same time, he was also showcasing the difference between a creation when one was weak and a creation when one was strong. For a Creator who was already strong, such as Human Emperor, the creation wouldn’t grant them an immediate boost in strength.

But a weak Creator like Su Yu was able to grow rapidly into a tier-two Master of Law in only two months. This was a very significant boost in strength. In comparison, someone like Human Emperor wouldn’t rashly sever his previous dao right after his creation. He definitely had a powerful dao somewhere in the River of Time.

He would only sever that dao when his world reached a certain degree of maturity. Doing so was the same as limiting himself. In fact, Su Yu was currently subjected to certain limitations as well. For example, he couldn’t move his world freely, and he would weaken once he left his world.

As for Human Emperor’s world, it was slightly worse than Su Yu’s as the moment it was moved, its balance would be ruined. Meanwhile, Su Yu’s world had achieved a level of internal circulation, allowing it to be self-sufficient no matter its location. It was unlike Human Emperor’s world, which was tethered to the River of Time.

”Second tier...”

Su Yu muttered to himself. This was the strength of people like Radiant King at the end of the ancient past. Of course, they were probably at the peak of the second tier. But as a whole, this was the level they were in.

After countless years, they must have grown far stronger. Even if the flow of time might be different for them, and even if they had been busy fighting all these years, Su Yu believed that they had still grown since they could directly absorb the power from the river due to their location.

”Perhaps they have all reached the first tier. Tier-three powerhouses like Battle King must have reached the second tier...”

Su Yu was quite confident in his assessment. Outside his world, he would only be a tier-three Master of Law. With this level of strength, would he even be that helpful when he went upstream to help Human Emperor?

Furthermore, a lot of his strongest followers would only be tier-five Masters of Laws outside his world. Generally, a standard Master of law should be at the fourth tier. A tier-five Master of Law would either be a weak physical body human king or the master of a weaker dao.

People like Yue Zhan and the chaos dragon were basically at this level. This was good enough to deal with Venerables. But Masters of Laws would be very challenging for them.

Su Yu sank into thought as his aura slowly calmed. Martial Emperor was very strong. Su Yu could feel that after being sealed away for so many years, he would probably break through soon. After all, he had been alive for too long. He would have gathered sufficient energy to break through even if he had spent all those years in slumber.

It wouldn’t be long before he reached the second tier. At that level, he would be the strongest in the Myriad Realms after leaving Su Yu’s world. Thus, he wasn’t really worried even when so many people were attacking him. He cursed repeatedly, but he could see that Su Yu did not intend to truly kill him.

***

However, Su Yu’s eyes were flickering as he stared at Martial Emperor.

At this point, Martial Emperor had turned into an unstable variable.

Previously, he had only released Martial Emperor to throw more chaos into the Myriad Realms. The myriad races, sinned lineage, and Hundred Battle King would not dare to believe that Martial Emperor wasn’t on his side. And that ploy had worked.

It was quite successful, in fact. Nobody would believe that Su Yu had released Martial Emperor without some secret pact with him. After all, everyone believed that Su Yu was incredibly smart.

Su Yu was essentially gambling when he released Human Emperor. And the gamble had paid off. Even someone as smart as Zhou Ji fell for the ploy. In fact, Martial Emperor had only gone looking for Zhou Ji after an indirect instigation from Su Yu.

The moment he broke free from his seal, Su Yu warned him to not enter the chaos. The strongest person in the Myriad Realms was somewhere in there. He would die in there. For a brute like Martial Emperor, this was basically an invitation for him to enter the chaos and test Zhou Ji’s strength.

He had to see for himself if that was really someone so powerful. Meanwhile, Zhou Ji, with his intelligence, had the tendency to overthink. Thus, he had been avoiding Martial Emperor and settled for luring Martial Emperor away instead. And this was exactly what Su Yu needed. That was perfect for him.

But now, there was no longer any use for Martial Emperor. In fact, Martial Emperor would become an obstacle in his path of unifying the Myriad Realms. Next, calm returned to Su Yu’s eyes.

He required a stable Myriad Realms. He required a peaceful home base behind him. He was worried that upon his departure with his followers, some variables would arise and result in the extermination of humanity.

Even someone like Hundred Battle King had failed to cause the extinction of humanity. Su Yu definitely didn’t want to become the one to cause something like that. He would not accept being worse than Hundred Battle King.

With all that in mind, he stood up.

***

Martial Emperor was still cursing while fighting all the powerhouses around him.

”Are you trying to die, you damn bugs?”

”Enough!”

”Be thankful I’m feeling lazy or all of you are already dead by now!”

Everyone ignored him.

Right then, Su Yu walked over with a smile. ”Senior Martial Emperor.”

Martial Emperor looked at him and raged, ”Tell these bugs to piss off! They are annoying!”

”Senior, you are as proud as ever.”

Looking at Su Yu’s smile, Martial Emperor suddenly felt like something was off. Or to be precise, he was feeling a slight unease from that smile. This unease came from his crisis sense.

Su Yu said, ”I don’t have much ill will toward you, Martial Emperor. However, I’ll be leaving the Myriad Realms soon to help Human Emperor. I doubt you will leave as well, and I doubt you’re interested in helping. After all, those are your enemies.”

”It’s not enjoyable to help your enemy. I understand that. I will never do something like that either.”

Martial Emperor’s heart chilled. Around him, the expressions of the smarter individuals, such as Great Zhou King, changed as well.

”I have to thank you for keeping Zhou Ji busy. Consider that as your repayment of my debt. We don’t owe each other anything anymore.”

Martial Emperor’s expression finally changed.

Great Zhou King waved his hand and hurriedly converged behind Su Yu with the others. He looked at Su Yu solemnly, no longer relaxed.

Su Yu smiled, ”Martial Emperor, I can see that you still feel a sense of belonging toward humanity. You are unlike Hundred Battle, who had betrayed humanity completely. Thus, I have some respect for you.

”As a show of respect for a senior like you, I will do my very best in this battle. I will ensure you die with your dignity intact.”