Tribulation of Myriad Races

Dao Cheng said, "My grandfather, Dao King, will make a move."

Long Zhan thought about it and said, "A dragon king from the celestial dragon race will make a move."

The little dragon spoke weakly, "My grandpa will help."

His grandfather was the grand elder of the golden dragon race.

With that, they had at least three Invincibles helping.

After a slight hesitation, Tianduo said, "I can't promise that my ancestor will make a move for me..."

Mo Duona was unbothered. He said, "It's fine. A devil king from the original devil race will make a move. With Invincibles from the immortal, devil, and dragon races making a move..."

Mo Duona paused and gazed at Lei Huo, the sole divine in the building. He asked, "True Lord Lei Huo, what about the divine race?"

Lei Huo frowned and scanned the crowd. All the divine geniuses had died. Even An Mintian had died. The top genius of the divine race, Zhan Wushuang, wasn't here. It was unlikely for any Invincible to make a move just for Lei Huo himself. Of course, the great patriarch of the lightning divine race might be willing to make a move.

But he couldn't guarantee that. As for those from the other races who were still trapped in the city, they could only rely on their luck. It was possible that the Invincibles might save them in passing. It was also possible that the Invincibles would completely ignore them and only save those from the races of the Invincibles.

Right at that moment, several Mountainseas in the building wailed miserably before dying. Death qi erosion had killed them.

Meanwhile, the young geniuses were still alive thanks to the heavenly source qi they had been using to withstand the death qi. This was the power of background and family. Without a good background, death could come at any moment and one would not be able to do anything about it despite one's strength.

Mo Duona thought about it and said, "In that case, I'll try to seek help from two devil kings. The Invincibles will crack the gate open and take us out."

He looked at the others and said, "As for the rest of you, I suppose you can start praying for good luck now. If you're lucky, you might survive this. If not, there's nothing you can do."

After saying that, he produced a drop of blood from within his body, driving the death spirits outside even crazier.

Ignoring the commotion he caused among the death spirits, Mo Duona nonchalantly said, "Everyone, start calling upon your Invincibles. If you fail to get help...accept your fate."

Then, he ignited that drop of blood. An incorporeal power from a different world started descending upon them. That further incited the death spirits in the city. But that incorporeal power did not actually enter the city. Thus, it did not attract the attention of the death spirit who had destroyed Dao King's eye previously.

Mo Duona's lips started moving noiselessly, as though he was speaking to someone. But that was precisely what he was doing. The others did the same, igniting their blood essence to call upon their Invincibles.

While that was going on, more and more people died.

This applied to even some of the young geniuses. Not everyone would walk around with extra heavenly source qi on them. Thus, even the young geniuses were starting to die from death qi erosion.

Only the top young geniuses from the major races were able to continue surviving with their heavenly source qi. Before long, only eleven survivors remained in the building. Six of them were Sunmoons. The other five were respectively Mo Duona, Tianduo, the two dagons, and Dao Cheng.

Suddenly, Na Dazhi stomped on the ground.

Boom!

A figure was blasted out of the corner of the room and crashed into the wall.

Slowly, he slid down the wall.

He turned into a humanoid form and hurriedly said, "Stop, stop! I'll call for help as well! I'll call for the Earth Ancestor to help!"

Na Dazhi looked over with surprise and said, "Topsoil Spirit of the five elemental race?"

Long Dou was surprised as well, "You're not dead?"

How weird.

How was this fellow still alive? He wasn't even protected by a five elemental expert. And it didn't seem like this fellow was protecting himself with heavenly source qi either. How did he survive? Also, his concealment ability was quite impressive.

The high-stage Sunmoons did notice him earlier, but they had ignored him since he had not created any trouble for them.

They couldn't help but be surprised at how healthy this fellow looked. How did he even survive unscathed?

Even Mo Duona was intrigued. He smiled and said, "Topsoil Spirit, your earth movement skill is quite unique. The ground of ancient cities can't be phased into. How did you manage to phase into the wall?"

Topsoil Spirit laughed awkwardly and said, "Luck. I totally got lucky. I am nothing compared to you, Mo Duona. Oh, right, I also can't compare with people like Tianduo and the others..."

Mo Duona's face turned pensive as he asked, "Did you kill some five elementals for their five elemental hearts? Are you trying to fuse the five elements? Looks like you have accomplished part of that goal. Did you fuse the origins of some of the elements?"

"..."

That attracted everyone's gaze.

Topsoil Spirit adamantly denied, "Nope! Not at all! I have never killed anyone from my race! I swear on my identity as an earth elemental! Yes, I did fuse with some of the five elemental origins, but those were the gifts I received from the other elementals. Trust me!"

Mo Duona said nothing. The others said nothing as well. It certainly wouldn't concern them if those origins had been obtained through killing. But if those were gifts...what was the five elemental race trying to do?

Were they trying to reunite the five elements?

The five elemental race was a top 100 race, but due to the separation of elements, they weren't ranked that highly. However, that would change the moment they produce a master of five elements and reunite the elements. That would most definitely push them into the top 10, making them a top 10 race.

And the five elemental race had a decent number of Invincibles. Their rank was only low because each element would operate independently from the other elements. If the elements were reunited, they would become a singular race with no less than ten Invincibles.

Including Topsoil Spirit, there were twelve survivors in the building. It was very likely that they were the only living beings remaining in the entire city excluding the residents. In fact, the death qi was so dense that even some residents had perished. After all, high death qi density would accelerate the speed of their death qi accumulation and fully exhaust their life force in advance.

Topsoil Spirit said nothing else. He formed a five elemental formation and started muttering into it, asking for help. Inwardly, he felt extremely miserable. This was terrible.

Not only had he failed to obtain any benefits from this trip, he was even forced to seek help from his ancestor.

Everyone started looking for a way to save themselves.

As the young geniuses continued their attempt to summon their Invincibles, the door was blasted open yet again by the Sunmoon death spirits. The Sunmoons hurriedly fought back and pushed the death spirits out. The death qi on their bodies was growing thicker and thicker.

It was becoming increasingly clear that even these Sunmoons were starting to reach their limits. At this rate, none of them would survive.

***

Away from Heavendoom City.

Su Yu was traveling through the Skyrend Valley when a massive cloud appeared above him. He was completely stupefied.

Just what was going on?

Why were the heavens rewarding him out of nowhere?

Weird.

After thinking about it, he exclaimed in surprise, "Is Ming He dead?"

It wasn't surprising that she would die. After all, that was precisely why Su Yu had dealt her such a heavy injury before fleeing. What was surprising was the heavenly reward even when he wasn't the one to deal the final blow. He still didn't understand how the heavenly laws worked.

Sure, he did dream of getting benefits by just injuring these Sunmoons. But he did not expect it to actually happen.

This time, he did not receive any heavenearth profound light or heavenly source qi. Rather, he received a clump of golden liquid. The liquid entered his body and hesitated slightly before stopping somewhere inside his sea of willpower.

"What's this?" Su Yu looked at the golden clump and muttered, "Sunmoon profound yellow liquid?"

Holy shit! For real?

But...he couldn't make use of it yet. This was something Sunmoons used to strengthen their apertures. It wouldn't benefit those below the Sunmoon Realm. Sure, one could use it. But that would result in the creation of excessively strong apertures that couldn't be fused.

This was a resource only suitable for Sunmoons. Why the fuck were the heavens giving him something like this?

From Su Yu's estimation, the portion was quite big. He was given about ten drops of them. This was most definitely a large amount. According to the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, each drop of sunmoon profound yellow liquid could be purchased with three drops of Sunmoon blood essence.

As for heavenearth profound light, one strand could be purchased with one drop of Sunmoon blood essence. He had received about twenty strands of heavenearth profound light for killing the fourth-stage Sunmoon previously.

But for his assistance in Ming He's death, he had actually received a reward equivalent to thirty drops of Sunmoon blood essence. This was even more profitable than killing a fourth-stage Sunmoon.

"It was totally worth destroying the two Sunmoon characters."

Su Yu was very pleased. The sunmoon profound yellow liquid and heavenearth profound light he had received were worth about fifty drops of Sunmoon blood essence. One needed to kill five early Sunmoons for that much blood essence. And Sunmoon blood essence was a resource one might not be able to buy even if one could afford it.

The saying that crime pays was indeed true.

After calming down from his excitement, Su Yu hurriedly moved from the area. This was no longer a suitable place to stay. The heavenly reward might have caught someone's attention. It would be troublesome if anyone noticed him.

Fortunately, he was still within the Plain of Desires. Here, it would be very hard for those experts far above his level to actually encounter him. In a way, this was an excellent place of refuge.

"Ming He is dead. Good. I wonder if she was killed by a death spirit. Or perhaps she was simply killed by her anger toward me."

Suddenly, his sea of willpower shook. He scolded, "Stop! Furball, if you keep stealing food, I'll pinch you to death to make your dada descend and kill all my enemies!"

"..."

Inside the sea of willpower, the little furball was licking his lips with satisfaction when he heard those words. He hurriedly hid behind the Soul Expanding Hammer. He was caught! But he really wanted to eat more! That smelled so nice!

Yummy's sea of willpower was filled with good stuff. Sunmoon profound yellow liquid, heavenearth profound light, willpower from the crushed Sunmoon characters, character intent from the crushed natural character rewarded previously...Basically, it was an open buffet for the little furball.

After the meal, the little furball was starting to feel sleepy again. This was so comfortable.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still grumbling.

That damn furball spent all his time slacking and eating. How lazy. Also, even after eating so much good stuff, why was the furball still stuck at the Cloudbreach Realm? How long had it been since his last breakthrough? How useless!

"..."

The little furball heard those grumbles and sank into thought.

Yeah. It had been quite a while.

He remembered that he had advanced during his first visit to the Hundred Dao Pagoda with Yummy. At the time, Yummy wasn't even a Skysoar yet. It was...the 14th of February. And it was already the 15th of July.

About five months had passed. In those five months, Yummy had reached the Cloudbreach Realm. Meanwhile, he was still a Cloudbreach. Yes, this was too slow. Dismayed by his slow cultivation speed, the little furball started sulking behind the Soul Expanding Hammer.

But that only lasted a moment. He decided to sleep and forget about his sadness. Advancement could wait until he was done sleeping and eating. He told himself that he was still young. He was still a baby. What was there to rush?

After comforting himself that way, the little furball fell asleep.