Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was very impressed.

He said, ”Is Martial Emperor the only place we can fish more? Previously, you said that he nearly opened the Heaven Gate proper. I didn’t ask, but what happened there?”

If possible, he could maybe fish some powerhouses through Martial Emperor’s gate.

”Him?” Human Emperor sighed and said, ”Don’t be misled by that dumbass. He’s strong, he’s cowardly, he lacks creativity, and he doesn’t dare to pioneer new daos...”

Human Emperor was essentially calling Martial Emperor dogshit without saying it.

”However...” Human Emperor said helplessly, ”That dumbass...his gate projection might be somewhere near the real Heaven Gate. He had probably been researching the Heaven Gate back then. Before the unification of the Human Realm, he somehow found a way to establish a connection inside the Heaven Gate. That one time, he tested the method...and we noticed the entire River of Time stirring madly. Upon further observation, we concluded that his test had probably attracted the attention of some powerful beings.

”Some forbidden zone masters seemed to be planning to make use of the connection with his gate projection to create an opening on the real gate.”

Su Yu exclaimed with surprise, ”Is his gate really near the real gate? Near enough to affect it?”

”Yes!” Human Emperor nodded, ”Therefore, when a conflict erupted between Martial King and Martial Emperor, Wen Number Two instigated Martial King to seal Martial Emperor away.”

Su Yu had a teasing smile as he said, ”Are you sure about that? According to Culture King’s Myriad Dao Sutra, someone reported to Martial King that Martial Emperor had been slaughtering the innocent, requesting him to punish Martial Emperor. I don’t know Martial King, but I doubt he will listen to the words of just anyone.”

He would probably listen to only a handful of people. Culture King was one. Human Emperor was the other. According to the book, Culture King was not the one who had done the instigation. In short, the culprit was Human Emperor. Why was this guy pretending here?

He had even taken the precautions to ensure that Martial Emperor would remain sealed.

What was the point? Well, it would make a lot more sense if Human Emperor was also the culprit who had instigated the attack against Martial Emperor. Therefore, Human Emperor was definitely the culprit here.

This guy was basically a silent plotter. One who would hatch the most devious of schemes in secret.

Culture King was a great schemer as well, but at the very least, everyone knew that. He was upfront about it. Meanwhile, Human Emperor was a saint who was secretly a devious schemer as well.

Human Emperor didn’t know what to say, so he decided to not explain himself. It was definitely Wen Number Two. Why was this guy framing him for it?

”Are you taking Wen Number Two’s words seriously? Will you call yourself the bad guy in your writing?”

Human Emperor only offered that one argument, nothing else. Su Yu was free to believe whatever he wanted.

From this, Su Yu understood that Martial Emperor’s gate should not be messed with. It could very easily give rise to something unforeseen. No wonder nobody had bothered to fish through Martial Emperor’s gate.

As for Su Yu’s gate, there were probably no powerhouses near it. Well, Return could be considered a powerhouse, but there was no comparing him to those forbidden zone masters.

Was this a good or a bad thing? It was hard to say.

Su Yu wasted no time and said, ”If all five of them leave at once, the rest of you will handle the three tier-twos. Remember, don’t kill them. Get them to give up on their daos, but don’t kill them if they refuse. Pull your punches lest you accidentally damage our future daos.”

”Okay.”

Everyone agreed.

Su Yu looked at Return and smiled, ”Return, you will be in charge of persuasion. Tell them they will live if they surrender.”

With a helpless tone, Return said, ”I...understand.”

Sigh.

He felt as though he was a good guy being forced into a life of crime.

***

At the same time.

Su Yu’s voice rang out from the gate projection. To be precise, it was Su Yu speaking with Return’s voice. He couldn’t be bothered to use Return as the intermediary. It was far easier for him to do this personally.

Su Yu said, ”Fellow Daoists, things have calmed in the Myriad Realms. You can cross over now. We need to group up as soon as possible before Xing Yu and his people are back. That will be troublesome.”

He added, ”Come one by one, not together. I’m worried that Su Yu can’t bear the pressure of having all of you cross over at once.”

***

Inside.

The five exchanged gazes. Someone transmitted, ”Do we really go one by one?”

”That won’t do.”

”Be careful lest this is a scheme by Return. That guy must have grown a lot. If we leave one by one, we are opening ourselves wide for him to deal at us separately. Who knows what he’s thinking.”

”We need to stick together. Even if he’s already at twenty-five daos, we won’t fear him if we’re together.”

”He hasn’t been outside for too long, so it’s unlikely that he can grow further than that.”

”Yes. Either we don’t go, or we go together. Remember, our survival depends on our cooperation.”

”...”

After a while, they reached a unanimous decision to go together. As for whether Su Yu could bear the pressure, that was none of their business. He could die for all they cared for. It wasn’t like they intended to return after leaving.

As for the possibility of recruiting more helpers, it was unlikely that more could cross over since nobody else knew the location of Su Yu’s gate. Thus, they didn’t mind killing Su Yu by crossing over together.

They did not even bother telling Return about this. They had to cross together. It didn’t matter even if that wasn’t something he wanted.

***

Su Yu could sense what they were planning. He sighed, ”I knew it.”

This wasn’t surprising to him.

These so-called good friends were actually distrustful of each other.

They wouldn’t have insisted on crossing over together otherwise. They were clearly worried that this was a trap by Return.

This wasn’t bad.

After all, there was a possibility that the others would notice something after the first to cross over was taken down. That would be quite troublesome as well.

Power started converging before them. Or to be precise, the power was converging on five different spots. Three of these spots were surrounded by around twenty Masters of Laws each. Each of them was fully armed and ready for combat.

The other two were near Su Yu and Human Emperor. Beside Su Yu, the human lord’s token floated. And beside Human Emperor, the Human Emperor’s seal floated.

Su Yu was lazily laying down one formation after another. To the side, Human Emperor was completely relaxed as well. In fact, he was already quite experienced with doing something like this, so this was essentially second nature to him.

As formation after formation manifested in the area, the power of responsibility flooded the world.

While laying down all those formations, Human Emperor’s seal said, ”You don’t understand why I’m doing this, but the moment the guy is out, he’ll need to absorb the ambient energy in the air. And then, he will take in all the power of responsibility in the air. I will look a lot more amicable in his eyes. He will even start believing that he shouldn’t do anything bad to me. Just watch. You will come to understand just how powerful my dao is. Enlightenment is the true essence of the myriad daos.”

Su Yu eyes flickered as he cursed inwardly. This made so much sense. He even suspected that the other guy would surrender the moment that guy laid eyes on Human Emperor. What a powerful dao. And then, five balls of light appeared, followed by five figures.

Before they were fully out, a voice rang out, ”Brother Return, we have decided to cross over together after some discussion. This is safer since the longer we drag this out, the more likely that something unexpected will happen.”

They had to find an excuse for their choice, right?

And when the five were finally out, their eyes widened.

Boom!

Countless attacks rained down on them. Return’s helpless voice rang out, ”Hand over your daos and live. Fellow Daoists, do not struggle. There are over a hundred Masters of Laws here, and more than ten of them are tier-ones. There is no need to court death needlessly.”

Before he was even done, Su Yu was already gnashing his teeth while looking at Human Emperor.

A tier-one had appeared there. The moment the tier-one was out, he absorbed a large amount of energy before manifesting a coffin in the air. But right after, his eyes turned empty as he muttered, ”I shall not harm any human...”

Su Yu was so impressed he was completely ignoring Jade, the tier-one appearing before him.

Human Emperor, with his kindly and genial expression, said, ”Yes. You shall not harm any human. Protecting humanity is your responsibility. Be good and hand over your dao. I will grant you a suitable dao in replacement.”

The tier-one struggled as numerous expressions flashed over his face. Right then, the Human Emperor’s seal shone, sending an endless stream of responsibility power into his body.

Gradually, his face calmed as he lamented, ”I have finally found my life purpose. I exist to serve humanity. You can have my dao.”

”Yes. Humanity is lucky to have you.”

Next, Tomb resisted the pain and peeled a complete dao off himself. The sight of that caused everyone to shiver. Even Return swallowed nervously.

Good heavens!

What the fuck?

How terrifying.

Su Yu was grumbling inwardly. Responsibility? Nonsense! That was clearly the devil dao. Sacrificing everything for humanity? Good heavens. Human Emperor was actually a devil deep inside. It was true that the devil stood at the extreme end of sainthood.

Rumbles rang out all around them. There was no suspense to this fight since it was over twenty against one. In moments, the three tier-twos had their bodies blasted apart and their daos sealed off.

Opposite Su Yu, the spear-wielding Jade was deathly pale. Sensing the prowess of Su Yu’s dao, he didn’t even dare to attack. Instead, he was swallowing nervously. And when he saw what Tomb was doing, he started sweating profusely.

This...was so terrifying!

When he looked at Su Yu again, he sighed with relief. At the very least, his opponent did not seem so scary. He suspected that Tomb was already crazy. He took solace in the fact that he still had his mind.

How terrifying.

Looking at his defeated companions, Jade glared at Return before declaring, ”I surrender.”

Return! Fuck you!

How could he?

Jade was furious.

But there was nothing he could do right now.

Su Yu looked at Human Emperor and smiled, ”See, I don’t even need to do anything. I believe I have the best performance this time. What can be better than winning without lifting a finger?”

Human Emperor rolled his eyes. No shit. Without him being all scary to the side, could Su Yu secure a surrender so easily? He decided to be magnanimous and ignore the remark.

Su Yu said, ”Give up your daos, and you may stay with Return. He has been missing you guys dearly. He was the one who had insisted on inviting all of you over. Now that you’re here, spend some time together.”

The five glared at Return with fury and disgust. As for Return, he had a helpless expression. These people were absolute scoundrels. No matter what, he was a surrendered general. How could they treat him so?

Return was filled with despair. The Myriad Realms were filled with monsters. All the stories about the Myriad Realms were lies. The Myriad Realms weren’t weak. No. The Myriad Realms were terrifying. Far more terrifying than even the forbidden zones inside the gate.