Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1143: Myriad Assembly In Human Realm (2)

"Elder, what now?"

"We can't enter the Allheaven Battlefield anymore." First Yellow said, "If we go now, we have to crush our masks or they will be able to locate us. I guess we'll stay here for now. I'm only an eighth-stage Sunmoon. The Nanyuan ruin might be a very powerful ruin. Perhaps...There is still hope. The moment I reach the ninth stage, I can open the River of Time and capture my past or future body. Then, I can affirm my dao. All hope is not lost."

Yellow Nine nodded, "So we...stay?"

"We stay." First Yellow said, "This is a rare chance. Great Xia is in chaos. And the chaos is our chance. Furthermore, with these masks, a regular person won't be able to see through our disguise so easily. And Profound Nine is still here. I can see that he will create more chaos. We'll wait."

Yellow Nine nodded, but he still felt wronged. He felt greatly wronged! He did not recall betraying them! Or perhaps Earth Eighteen and the others were the traitors. They had merely died accidentally. Who could be sure of anything?

Why must there be a traitor in the event of a failure? He was tired of this. Just because a mission failed, it did not mean that there must be a traitor. Also, perhaps the enforcer was the traitor instead?

Profound Nine was such an idiot. Why must Profound Nine insist that only one of them could be the traitor? With that accepted as the conclusion, how was he supposed to explain himself? @@novelbin@@

Yellow Nine was greatly annoyed with how stubborn Profound Nine was. He sighed and left with First Yellow. He had yet to even complete a proper mission in Great Xia. And now, he no longer needed to complete any missions.

***

Su Yu was quite surprised to see the bounty issued for both Yellow Nine and First Yellow.

But soon, he tossed the matter out of his mind. With their escape, they were essentially admitting to being traitors. Even Su Yu was stunned when he heard about that. Why did they run? He was the traitor, right? They were innocent, right?

In fact, Su Yu was already prepared to deal with what would happen next. If the two of them reported themselves to the pavilion and proved that they weren't traitors, he would simply claim that perhaps Great Xia had been suspicious all along. There might not be a traitor, after all.

But why did they run like they were guilty? How kind of them to take the blame for him. Since they were the traitors, Profound Nine's name had naturally been cleaned.

When White One asked if he required help, Su Yu said, "No. But I need manpower. Great Xia is a treasure trove. There are countless experts here. The Nanyuan ruin might surface soon. According to an undisclosed source, that place has been leaking heavenly source qi every now and then. I need more experts."

White One hurriedly asked, "Are you sure? Where did you hear that from?"

"Yes. Don't ask me about my source. I naturally have my own means of obtaining information. This was the same person who had provided me with Xia Xinyi's schedule. There are plenty of people waiting to see the Xia Family's fall. Don't tell me you believe that the Xia Family has no enemies in the Human Realm?"

"I see."

It was perfectly understandable for Xia Family to have plenty of enemies. White One did not suspect anything. Everyone had their own sources of information. It was perfectly reasonable for someone to betray the Xia Family with the sheer number of enemies they had.

"Profound Nine, are you sure about Nanyuan?"

Su Yu answered confidently, "Definitely. Of course, the heavenly source qi is too small in amount. We can't be sure if that has anything to do with a ruin. I need to conduct further investigation. But I'm an ancient city resident. I'm very sensitive toward heavenly source qi. If I go there personally, I'll be able to know more."

"True."

White One was reminded of Profound Nine's background. This was his natural advantage over others. He was an ancient city resident. Of the white masks they had sent to Human Realm, Su Yu was the only ancient city resident. Others wanted to come as well, but they ultimately gave up because it was too expensive.

Su Yu continued, "After so many battles, I've used a large amount of heavenly source qi. The pavilion promised to cover seventy percent of my heavenly source qi expenditure. You also promised me ten drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid for the recent incident. It's time you guys deliver all that to me. Otherwise, I might end up dead to death qi corrosion. Dying after working so hard is totally not worth it."

"Don't worry. Someone will be there soon. In fact, I'll go there personally."

White One asked, "Do you need anything else?"

"I need at least ten white masks. Even better if some of them are Sunmoons. The Xia Family commands too many experts. I intend to keep them so busy they can't spare a hand to interfere with our activities anymore. If I can drag other forces into this mess, even better. The Myriad Race Cult will be perfect for this. I need some information about their experts. By working together with their experts, we can throw Great Xia into complete chaos."

"That...is acceptable. We do have some information about their experts. You will receive that information."

Su Yu was overjoyed. Perhaps before long, he could infiltrate even the Myriad Race Cult as well.

Sigh.

Yet again, Su Yu was impressed with himself. Instead of joining the cult and working his way up from the bottom, he could simply infiltrate them as an expert from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

If he had to work with the cult, he would naturally aim to deal directly with the higher-ups. Why should he waste his time with the small fries in the cult?

White One said, "We'll try to contact them as soon as possible. Profound Nine, are you sure you can escape Great Xia City safely?"

"Of course. But I suggest you try to give them some pressure. I'm worried that if they keep the city sealed for too long, they might find me. My current identity is still safe, but I'm maintaining it through a secret technique. I can't keep it up for too long. Everything will be over for me the moment my disguise is broken."

"Sure. We'll pressure them."

"..."

After the conversation ended, Su Yu sank into thought, wondering if he should get White One and Gray One killed as well.

Of the four enforcers, two had died. Only these two remained. Wouldn't it be too lonely for them to stay alive without the other two? No, he would think about this again in the future.

Su Yu also remembered that he had forgotten to ask Wan Tiansheng about Ji Hong. Had Ji Hong really discovered clues of the traitor?

In fact, Su Yu himself had some clues as well. Back when he extracted the Divine Skywing Sect master's blood essence, he had discovered something.

Inside the sect master's memories, he saw someone. That someone seemed to be a human expert, and that expert seemed to be an Invincible. Su Yu saw the scene of that expert conversing with the sect master. He also noted that there was a unique symbol on that expert's left arm. He wondered if this information was related to the traitor.

At that, Su Yu also recalled something else. A case appeared in his hand. It was a case forged from the horn of a Sunmoon dragon. The sect master placed a lot of importance on this case. Su Yu was unsure if this was something the sect master had received from the human Invincible or if this was something from the divine skywing race. In any case, the sect master, who was a seventh-stage Sunmoon, treated this case like the most valued treasure in his possession.

When Su Yu first obtained this case, he would frequently study it, preparing to eventually open it. At the time, he was still too weak to actually open it. He had subsequently gotten too busy and so rich that he had completely neglected this case.

"Just what can I find inside this case?"

Once again, Su Yu regained his curiosity toward this case. Not even Zhu Tiandao, a ninth-stage Sunmoon, could see through it. Perhaps something really valuable was stored in it. Of course, it was also possible that the case was empty.

"Something a seventh-stage Sunmoon treasured...is this perhaps a carrier treasure?"

That was quite a likely possibility.

At the seventh stage, one wouldn't be that far away from the ninth stage. Sure, a Sunmoon of that level still couldn't use a carrier, but one also had to prepare a carrier in advance. And it was perfectly logical for the divine skywing race to provide the sect master with a carrier treasure. Or perhaps it was something given by the unknown expert with a symbol on his left arm.

Su Yu couldn't be sure. When he saw the case in the sect master's memories, nobody else was there. Thus, he couldn't determine the actual origin of this case.

With the case in hand, Su Yu attempted to send some of his willpower into it. He had grown much stronger. It should be possible for him to open it now, right?

After a while, he concluded that he only needed to work on the case for about three to five days to open it. This was not bad at all. Opening the case had indeed turned much easier now that he had grown stronger.

Well, since Great Xia was still in lockdown, he should first focus on completing his fifty-ninth body forging.

After several battles and several eruptions of death qi, he had utilized a large amount of heavenly source qi and heavenearth profound light. Thanks to that, his fifty-ninth forging wasn't that far from completion. He was confident he could complete the forging in a few days. By then, Great Xia would have probably ended the lockdown.

***

While Su Yu was cultivating and waiting, chaos was also unfolding in Allheaven Battlefield.

It hadn't even been that long since the stone statue incident when Xia Longwu's whereabouts were exposed.

That caught a decent amount of attention. Perhaps he was avenging his dead cousin, Xia Xinyi. Somehow, he had discovered the location of a Heavenly Hunt Pavilion elder. Somewhere in the immortal territory, he killed the faceless elder before vanishing again.

Clearly, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion wasn't having that great of a time. They were losing elders left and right. The experts of the various races did not involve themselves in this incident, allowing things to calm down again. But suddenly, a new storm started brewing near the human border.

Even more Invincibles had arrived there. The divines and devils negotiated with the humans, requesting to have more geniuses of the myriad races to enter the Human Realm. They claimed that these geniuses would only be there for further studies and tourism.

They hoped that the humans would agree. Sure, they could always smuggle more people into the Human Realm. But it was only a matter of time before these people were discovered. They might as well find a way to enter openly.

***

Near Eastrift Valley.

The Invincibles were still in the middle of negotiation.

"Great Qin King, we are all Invincibles here, so I'll be frank. The geniuses wish to try their luck in Nanyuan. Of course, we're not asking this favor for free. The Luminous Domain Mansion will open soon. The human quota has yet to be finalized. According to past convention, humanity will only obtain around three to four hundred slots."

The Luminous Domain Mansion could be entered from four directions. There were nine levels in each direction, and each level could be entered by ninety individuals. Thus, a total of 810 individuals could enter through each direction. Additionally, there was also a special entrance, allowing 360 individuals to enter.

All in all, 3,600 individuals could enter each time the mansion was opened. Yes, the human race was also a major race. But it was weaker than the divines, devils, and immortals. Thus, the humans had been forced to settle with about three to four hundred slots per opening.

Someone laughed and said, "This time, we wish to give the youngsters more opportunities. And these opportunities can be found in both Nanyuan and the Luminous Domain Mansion. If the human race agrees to allow our geniuses entry and guarantee their safety, we will concede one of our own slots for each genius allowed to enter the Human Realm."

The divines, devils, and immortals each monopolized one direction. Thus, each of them had 810 slots. And they were also the main negotiators here.

Great Qin King coldly said, "Not interested."

Someone said, "Not interested? Even if you refuse, our people will still enter the Human Realm. They will be forced to do it secretly. There is no guarantee that you humans will be able to detect all of them. What's the point of rejecting us? You might as well accept our proposal. That way, you can at least monitor those people."

A different expert laughed and said, "They are all youngsters. You humans have a lot of youngsters as well, right? I heard that you have some multiple character cultivators coming out of your minor realms. But the Allheaven Battlefield is rather dull at the moment. Why don't you let the myriad race geniuses enter the Human Realm and allow the youngsters to temper themselves against each other instead?"

The expressions of some human Invincibles changed upon hearing that.