Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1909: Let’s Cut Someone Down (1)

“Emperor Yu, are you…not hiding yourself?”

Stable Army Marquis was surprised. Was Su Yu not going to hide nearby?

Su Yu glanced at him and answered with a smile, “Why should I hide? Is he not aware that someone has taken you away? The more you try to hide something, the more suspicious something might seem.”

“…”

That seemed very reasonable.

Stable Army Marquis was left with no argument. Su Yu continued, “Just keep my identity a secret.”

“I understand.”

Stable Army Marquis nodded.

With that, Su Yu continued playing with the tiny strand of grayish power at the tip of his finger. As he sank into deep thought, a slight frown formed on his pale face. He had successfully created his own chaos power.

But it was too unstable. Furthermore, it also felt weaker than the original chaos power of the Chaos Mountain. Something wasn’t right as chaos power was supposed to be more powerful than that. After all, it was something formed from the combination of a myriad daos. How could a chaos that had returned from order be weaker than the original chaos?

“We’re missing something.”

Su Yu reached a conclusion. They must have missed some of the powers in the chaos power. At the moment, Su Yu had shut himself from his dao, focusing fully on the chaos power he had converted.

Or to be precise, this was the chaos power he had converted through the Mark of Civilization. The domain character had acted as the main component in the conversion. Originally, Su Yu had the combat strength of a tier-two Daofuse. But using only his chaos power, he wouldn’t be stronger than a tier-three Daofuse.

This did not make sense. Something must be wrong with his conversion.

“I’m missing some powers so the conversion isn’t a true success. This signifies that I still don’t understand the chaos power well enough. Right now, I’m only mixing powers blindly instead of actually understanding the power of chaos.”

His lack of understanding also resulted in a lack of efficiency during conversion. The strength of a third-tier Daofuse was only decent, but not good. At the moment, he was about as strong as Stable Army Marquis.

Noticing how unbothered Su Yu was, Stable Army Marquis grew anxious. He said through voice transmission, “Emperor Yu, is it possible that Shadow Marquis does not dare to show himself because you’re here?”

Su Yu looked up and gave him a long stare before saying, “Since there is an emergency, he will be here no matter how dangerous it is. Be patient. We wait.”

Shadow Marquis was already aware that Stable Army Marquis had been taken away by someone else. Since he had sent an emergency signal while he was aware of that, why would he be too scared to attend this meeting?

With a frown, Su Yu said, “It seems as though you don’t want me here.”

Stable Army Marquis smiled helplessly. No…wait, well, that was true. Somewhat.

He had lived a long life, and he had lived good and terrible lives. He had witnessed the legendary Human Emperor in action and fought the myriad races. Someone like him shouldn’t fear a youngster like Su Yu. At worst, he would die. And he was certainly not afraid of dying.

In truth, fear wasn’t exactly the accurate description of his feelings when facing Su Yu. Rather, Su Yu’s presence gave him an odd sense of discomfort he couldn’t describe. He couldn’t be perfectly honest with Su Yu around.

He couldn’t help but think of Hundred Battle King again. Hundred Battle King was a lot more comfortable to be with. In the previous epoch, he wouldn’t have felt such discomfort when he was alone with Hundred Battle King.

Once again, Stable Army Marquis sighed. He could only acknowledge that birds of a feather would indeed flock together. After all, Great Zhou King and the others looked quite comfortable with Su Yu. Sure enough, a brute like him did not have a bright future.

Just then, Stable Army Marquis’s eyes flickered. Amid the trees in the distance, a dark silhouette slowly emerged.

Shadow Marquis.

Shadow Marquis saw Stable Army Marquis as well. Naturally, he couldn’t avoid noticing the white-haired youth beside Stable Army Marquis either.

“Is this the one who has taken Stable Army Marquis away? He seems like a human. His real age shouldn’t be too high, but he seems to have suffered some heavy injuries that have reduced his lifespan. As for his strength…Eternal? Or Daofuse?”

Shadow Marquis walked over slowly while observing the unknown individual in white. Numerous speculations about Su Yu’s identity rose in his mind. This wasn’t someone he knew.

But this was likely an important person. Just by standing beside Stable Army Marquis, he was able to make Stable Army Marquis uncomfortable. They appeared to be standing as equals, but Stable Army Marquis had been stealing glances at the youth instinctively, as though he was paying close attention to the reaction of the youth.

No matter what, Stable Army Marquis was one of the few surviving ancient human marquises. Just what manner of person could provoke such a reaction from him? As Shadow Marquis thought, his willpower explored their surroundings. He found nothing, but he knew that some experts must be hidden around them.

His intuition told him this. An intuition that had been honed by countless dangerous encounters. He knew that he was under the observation of several hidden experts. Yes. There were more than one of them.

Stable Army Marquis did not look injured. And he did not look sealed either. He must have reached an agreement with them, or he had probably joined them. Just from a short observation, Shadow Marquis was able to deduce numerous things.

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Su Yu was observing the approaching marquis as well.

After a few moments, he looked at Stable Army Marquis and asked, “Is he cultivating the shadow dao?”

“No.” Stable Army Marquis replied, “He cultivates the dao of darkness.”

Su Yu nodded pensively. There were many similar daos. Darkness, shadow, concealment, and so on. The approaching marquis could be a cultivator of any of them. It wouldn’t be easy for Su Yu to determine the exact dao this marquis cultivated before actually fighting with the marquis.

The marquis was able to walk without making any sound or leaving any sign of his presence behind. He had most likely revealed himself deliberately before approaching them. It was likely that he was extremely proficient at concealment. No wonder he could survive alone while gathering information all over the Upper Realm for so many years.

“A decent fellow. At the very least, he’s slightly more useful than you.”

Su Yu was being blunt, but that left Stable Army Marquis speechless. That was somewhat hurtful.

“His status during the ancient past must be higher than yours, am I right?”

Stable Army Marquis replied helplessly, “Yes. During the ancient past, he was in charge of intelligence. But we served different parts of the government, so there was no direct comparison.”

Su Yu nodded.

When Shadow Marquis was about a kilometer away, he stopped. His cloak was covering his appearance. His soft voice rang out, “Stable Army Marquis, are you not going to introduce us?”

As Stable Army Marquis hesitated, Su Yu replied with a smile, “Call me Nameless.”

“…”

That was clearly a random name. Shadow Marquis did not push further. He said, “Stable Army Marquis, I’m looking for you to discuss one matter that you might not be aware of. Yesterday, the envoys of the Devil Assembly visited the various dao centers and invited the various Daofuses to attack Cloud Fire Marquis at the Divine Fire Mountain.”

Alarmed, Stable Army Marquis exclaimed, “They’re going to move against Cloud Fire Marquis?”

“Yes.” Shadow Marquis was paying close attention to Su Yu as he said, “At present, the dao masters of the various dao centers have given their response. They will all gather at the Divine Fire Mountain in nine days. Cloud Fire Marquis is in danger. Stable Marquis, I’m here to seek your opinion on this matter. Do we rescue him? Or do we do something else? Cloud Fire Marquis must have been surrounded by now. I doubt he can escape.”

Stable Army Marquis said with a heavy face, “Rescuing him? Since they are spreading the news, this is probably a trap, right?”

He sighed. He was no fool. The myriad races were clearly using this as bait. In the past, they would always attack silently and suddenly to kill someone. This way, they would prevent unwanted complications from happening. The same had happened during Marquis Minshan’s death.

Initially, the other humans knew nothing. The incident was only leaked due to the intense fluctuations the intense battle had created. Otherwise, the myriad races would most likely keep the matter hidden and use it to lay down more traps for the other humans.

Shadow Marquis said, “Yes. I believe this is related to you.”

Stable Army Marquis’ expression changed as he glanced at Su Yu instinctively. He understood now. The myriad races were targeting Su Yu’s group. Since the unknown experts had rescued Stable Army Marquis, what about Cloud Fire Marquis? They could choose to help and put themselves in danger.

If not, the myriad races would simply kill Cloud Fire Marquis and learn more about the strength of the unknown experts.

Su Yu remained silent.

Stable Army Marquis gnashed his teeth and said, “We can’t help! The myriad races have laid out an inescapable net around the Divine Fire Mountain. The moment we show up, we will die. We know nothing about the forces of the myriad races gathered there. If we were to die there as well, we would also be wiping out the final hope of humanity!”

He inhaled deeply and continued, “I can’t go. You can’t go. The others can’t go as well! The myriad races are probably trying to wipe us all out with this trap. You are probably their priority target. They know of you. After all, you have been constantly active in the various dao centers.”

Shadow Marquis said softly, “In that case, we can only let Cloud Fire Marquis die.”

With a look of pain, Stable Army Marquis said, “We have no choice. You also need to remind Cloud Water and Brave Martial to not do anything rash. We are too weak. The myriad races might have deployed dozens of Daofuses for this. How are we to contend against such a force?”

Even if there were a decent number of Daofuses in Su Yu’s group, Stable Army Marquis did not dare to suggest that they help. The stakes were simply too high. If even Su Yu’s group were wiped out, humanity would truly be without hope. Personally, he wanted to help. But realistically, they couldn’t.

As someone who had survived for so long in the Upper Realm, Stable Army Marquis was capable of making the necessary sacrifices for the greater good.

Just then, Su Yu laughed and said, “Shadow Marquis, do you know the precise number of the Daofuses participating in this hunt?”

In truth, Shadow Marquis had been waiting for Su Yu to speak as well.

His eyes flickered as he said, “I don’t know the precise number. I only know that the Devil Assembly is the organizer, with Bloodbreak Marquis as the one leading the operation. Previously, there were three official speakers and eighteen official members in the Devil Assembly. Twenty-one Daofuses in total.”

Su Yu raised his brow, “Twenty-one of them?”

That was quite a large number.

According to their previous speculation, there were only about seventy to eighty Daofuses in the Upper Realm. Since twenty-one of them were devils, the divines and immortals would probably have a similar number. In that case, the three races alone would have over sixty of them. How about the other races?

Shadow Marquis said, “Yes. Twenty-one. Humanity has been declining for six thousand years, and the myriad races have grown rapidly in that time. Stable Army Marquis and the others don’t know much because they have been living in hiding. But I have been actively moving around. I know more than them.

“Devilroil Marquis of the devil race is dead. They lost two more at the Brightmoon Flower Valley not long ago. With three dead, they are left with three speakers and fifteen members.

“This time, the devils will probably deploy no fewer than five Daofuses. The other races will support them. The divines and immortals won’t deploy fewer than three each. The three races alone will deploy over ten Daofuses. Including the Daofuses of the dragons, nethers, phoenixes, and other races, over twenty Daofuses will be there.

“Bloodbreak Marquis is at the level of a pseudo king. In that case, the immortals and divines will probably deploy some at the same level each. Ultimately, the operation will probably be led by three pseudo kings and joined by roughly twenty Daofuses.”

Three pseudo kings or heavenly kings and twenty or so Daofuses.