Tribulation of Myriad Races

Great Han King shook his head. It was too regretful. Too many people were keeping a close watch on Great Xia's multiple character faction, making it impossible for them to develop and grow.

An Invincible asked, "Great Xia King, is the multiple character faction's character stele with Su Yu or Chen Yong? Without it, we lack decent character techniques..."

Great Xia King gave an indifferent reply, "Go ask yourself. I don't know. I stopped caring after Ye Batian's death."

Some frowned upon hearing that, but it was inappropriate for them to say more.

But nobody could deny the importance of that character technique stele. The steles of the other prefectures were too lacking in comparison. If the future cultivators failed to engrave character techniques back into those steles, they would eventually run out of character techniques.

Since Great Xia King himself was not concerned about Great Xia's character technique stele, there wasn't anything they could say about it.

Great Qin King did not seem concerned about the topic as well. He said, "Then w're agreed. I won't say more. Everyone, you may cultivate near Eastrift Valley for now. We don't want to give the divines and devils any opening to attack."

"How about the immortals?"

"Ignore them for now."

"Great Ming King is still in Human Realm. Do we summon him here?"

"No. It is not a bad thing to have one of our own Invincibles watching over things inside the Human Realm. That way, we can prevent the chaos from getting out of hand."

"Xia Longwu is still in the Allheaven Battlefield. Great Xia King, is he preparing for dao affirmation?"

"..."

Great Xia King didn't even deign to entertain the question. He stood up and said, "That is up to fate. You can decide for yourself if you want to act as his dao protector during his attempt. If he ends up failing...so be it."

Leaving those words behind, he vanished into thin air.

Someone laughed, "Old Xia's temper is still the same. Did anyone say that we're not helping?"

Great Qin King said nothing and vanished as well.

With Great Qin King's departure, someone looked at Great Zhou King and said, "Old Zhou, what are Polong and Potian planning?"

Great Zhou King looked up, revealing an incomparably deep gaze. He smiled gently and said, "It is up to them. Dao affirmation is not something anyone can force. Polong has captured his tri-life bodies, but Potian has not. He might not make it in time."

They moved on from the topic. Someone else laughed, "Great Ming King's son is unreliable, but Great Ming has somehow produced someone like Niu Baidao. Perhaps he can join the others and make his attempt at the same time."

"That's not something for us to worry about."

"..."

One Invincible after another left. With a smile, Great Zhou King vanished as well.

***

Time continued passing.

Peace had returned to the Allheaven Battlefield.

Everything seemed calm in the Myriad Realms.

But everyone knew that violent undercurrents were stirring.

Silkwyrm King's death had encouraged some minor race Invincibles to join up in secret. As for the weaker races, such as those in the Thousand Region Alliance, were without any Invincible. Their Sunmoons started discussing the possibility of dao affirmation.

How should they attempt it? Their best option was to make their attempts when the major races were busy fighting each other.

For example, during Xia Longwu's dao affirmation.

At that time, the human, divine, devil, immortal, and other major races would be too busy fighting each other. That would give the minor races the opportunity to make their attempts.

It wasn't that these minor races did not have anyone capable of dao affirmation. They simply didn't have the courage to do so.

All the major races had an unspoken agreement to keep the minor races suppressed. These minor races would not be given the chance to attempt dao affirmation easily. In the past, many minor race Sunmoons had attempted dao affirmation, but a majority of them had failed. More importantly, nobody seemed to know why they had failed.

Even when they made their attempts in their own realms, they would somehow fail. The more ambitious ones would attempt dao affirmation in the Allheaven Battlefield, but very few of them could even survive the attempt.

Over the years, very few people had succeeded. It wasn't that they were biting more than they could chew. Rather, they had all been stabbed in the back.

The entire Myriad Realms was under the influence of the major races. Nobody wanted to see a new overlord emerge from an area under their influence. And everyone knew that the coming chaos would be their best opportunity.

***

Inside the ancient city.

On the fifth day, Su Yu completed his fifty-fourth forging.

On the twelfth day, he completed his fifty-fifth forging.

On the twentieth day, he completed his fifty-sixth forging.

At that point, rumors of his survival started spreading. How was everyone sure of his survival? It was easy. The nether and ape Sunmoons were still trapped in the sealed city. The two were so miserable that they felt like crying.

Finally, they were forced to start their conversion as well. They should give up on all hope. After so many Invincibles lost their tri-life bodies here, nobody would be willing to help them anymore.

One of them was an eighth-stage Sunmoon while the other was a seventh-stage Sunmoon. On the seventh day, they had opted to convert into residents.

On the tenth day, when they finally completed their conversion, Su Yu unsealed the city.

All in all, he had kept the city sealed for almost one month. But this time, nobody dared to enter the city anymore.

Even with the many treasures that were starting to appear around the Luminous Domain Mansion, everyone only stayed near Red Clouds Island. Nobody had the courage to even approach the terrifying ancient city.

With that, the city gained twelve new Sunmoons. There were already some Sunmoon residents in the city previously, but the number was quite low. With the addition of twelve Sunmoons, including two late-stage Sunmoons, the number of Sunmoons in the city had reached as high as fifteen.

This was probably the ancient city with the highest number of Sunmoon residents. When the other mayors heard of this, they were greatly tempted to imitate Su Yu. They all knew that with more Sunmoon residents, the burden of death qi on them would be lighter. But Sunmoons would never convert into residents unless they had absolutely no choice.

And now, Su Yu had given them a very good method of actually gaining Sunmoon residents. But this was a deadly method to use.

Firstly, they would need to suffer the backlash of sealing their cities.

Secondly, they would need to face the risk of attacks by Invincibles after sealing their cities.

Sure, the Invincibles had been properly taught a lesson in Grandstar City, but that did not mean that the lesson extended to all other ancient cities.

***

Eventually, the end of September arrived.

Su Yu finally left seclusion.

He was stuck at the fifty-seventh forging, a tiny bit away from reaching his goal of fifty-eight forgings. He had to exit seclusion to meet up with the other Heavenly Hunt Pavilion candidates.

As for his strength...it had reached a level that scared even himself. His physical strength had surpassed 400,000 acupoints.

That might still be weaker than the Sunmoons of major races, but that was definitely stronger than some first-stage Sunmoons of minor races. Su Yu even started considering if his body was strong enough to withstand the consumption of fourth-stage Sunmoon blood essence.

Perhaps he really had the ability to unleash the prowess of middle-stage Sunmoons. To put his insane growth into perspective, one ought to remember that it had only been about four months since he left Great Ming.

He intended to stay low profile for a period of time after returning to the Human Realm. He needed to further strengthen his foundation. Perhaps that would make him even stronger. What next? Naturally, it was time for him to settle the score with his enemies.

On the 28th of September, Su Yu floated out of the city under the dark like with his white mask like a ghost.

The moment Su Yu left, the stone statue opened his eyes and sighed.

Wasn't it good to stay in the city as the mayor? Why must that brat leave? Could the brat even return alive? If the brat ended up dying, it would be too hard to find another mayor this good.

That brat was already a living dead. Why in the world was he still so active? Could he not calm down?

***

Naturally, that was not something Su Yu could consider.

It was time for him to go back.

When he left the Human Realm, he could hardly contend against a Mountainsea. And now, he was returning as someone who could kill even Sunmoons. This time, if those assholes dared to continue provoking him, he would beat them all to death.

Speaking of...he was probably strong enough to kill his grandteacher now, right?

Wow. How weak.

Su Yu's heart was filled with sympathy. He finally understood why Hong Tan's life was so hard. His grandteacher was simply too weak. That was why. How pitiful.

***

At the same time.

Human Realm.

Great Xia City.

Hong Tan rubbed his nose. Why did he feel like someone was talking badly about him? Whatever. As of late, way too many people had been talking badly about him. He was already used to this.