Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1040: Prelude To Chaos (1)

Su Yu's name was gone from the Heavenly Hunt Index.

Surprise. Shock. Disbelief.

A storm of emotions rippled across the Myriad Realms.

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Outside the city.

Great Xia King and Great Ming King received the latest update before long. Their expressions turned ugly, but they were also feeling doubtful. Dead?

How? Eroded to death by death spirits? Killed by one of the traps within those buildings with opportunities?

It was unlikely that the killer was a living being. Killing someone like Su Yu would result in a massive heavenly reward. As the number one genius on Heaven Index, even Sunmoons would get rewarded by killing him.

And if there was such a reward, the killer wouldn't go unnoticed by the people inside the city. Even now, nobody had reported seeing a heavenly reward in the city. Was he really dead? Everyone might dislike the Heavenly Hunt Index, but everyone also had to acknowledge its accuracy.

The white-haired divine king was also frowning. He looked at the nearby faceless elder. A faceless elder of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was present as well. He was not an Invincible, but these elders were all late-stage Sunmoons.

"Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, what's going on? Is Su Yu dead?"

After a slight hesitation, the elder replied, "There are two possibilities. Firstly, he's dead. Secondly, he has converted into an ancient city resident."

"Hmm?"

The elder said uncertainly, "It has been many years since something similar happened. I'm not too sure. But one thing is certain. It is over for Su Yu."

He sighed.

The white-haired divine king blanked out. "Converted into a resident?"

After a slight hesitation, he added, "Will he...make such a choice? With his talent, he will die even faster than the other residents..."

Yes. The more talented one was, the faster one would die after becoming a resident. This was one of the few facts people knew about the ancient cities. The Death Realm always seemed impatient to have these geniuses die. Thus, the death qi spread in the bodies of these geniuses would always be far faster than normal.

In other words, even if Su Yu was still alive, he wouldn't stay alive for long. His future had been completely severed. In order to resist the spread of death qi, further cultivation was almost impossible for a resident. Thus, most residents would remain at the same cultivation level until death.

In that case, what should they do now? If he was dead, this would end here. If he had transformed into a resident...death spirits would not lay a hand on the residents no matter how strong the death spirit was. If they still wanted him dead, they would need to send someone to do it. But there were so many residents in the city. How were they supposed to even find him?

Even an Invincible would die from the consequences of destroying all the buildings in the city. The Invincibles started hesitating. They had previously agreed to attack the city, but there was no longer any need for that. That would no longer change anything.

But while they were hesitating, a massive blade flashed forward and struck the city wall, causing a large part of the wall to crumble. But moments later, the wall repaired itself. Great Xia King merely swung his blade once more.

Boom!

A death spirit with a black cloak appeared. Its face was covered by death qi, but its eyes were shining brightly.

A powerful layer of death qi appeared and covered the entire city. Then, the death spirit gazed at the Invincibles silently.

Great Xia King coldly said, "I'm not interested in peace. Let's kill everyone in the city."

"..."

The expressions of the other Invincibles changed. Great Xia King had gone crazy!

With the death of Su Yu, or with his conversion into a resident, Great Xia King had decided to give up on Qin Hao and the others. He wanted to turn all those Sunmoons and geniuses into the offering for Su Yu's fall. The roles were reversed, with the myriad races being the ones not willing to attack the city now.

Sure, the humans would lose four late-stage Sunmoons and two geniuses, but the myriad races were most certainly not willing to pay such a huge price for their lives. That was absolutely not worth it.

Beside Great Xia King, Great Ming King cursed inwardly. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Holy shit!

He said nothing and rushed toward the city, trying to force his way in.

Right at that moment, a second powerful death spirit appeared and said with a smile,"Xing Yue, "I'm here to help you."

The first death spirit coldly said, "Stop wasting time. Just kill them all."

At that, the second death spirit flew in Great Ming King's direction. Yet another layer of death qi appeared around the city. Two death sovereigns had appeared.

While ramming into the layer of death qi, Great Ming King roared, "Qin Hao, Guangshen, come here immediately. Ignore everything and kill everyone in your way!"

He had to act fast. As for Great Xia King, he remained outside the city and struck the city repeatedly with his saber. At this point, what was there to fear?

Rumble!

The walls kept crumbling before repairing themselves while more and more death spirits appeared in the city, with Sunmoons and even Invincibles among their ranks.

Meanwhile, the first death sovereign, the one called Xing Yue, stared at Great Xia King coldly.

Finally, the other Invincibles recovered from their shock. Their expressions changed as they all rushed into the city as well. One of them roared, "Everyone in the city, come out here! Do not delay!"

Damn it!

Great Xia King had gone crazy! But were they right? Was Great Xia King truly doing the wrong thing here? Of the people trapped in the city, a vast majority of them were not humans. If everyone in the city died, the humans would not be the ones to suffer the biggest loss. Since these Invincibles were changing their mind about attacking the city, Great Xia King decided to do it for them instead.

Furthermore, Great Ming King was very strong as well. There was still hope that he would be able to get Qin Hao and the other humans out of the city in time. But that was not the case for the other Invincibles.

One death sovereign after another appeared.

As the auras of the Invincibles started spreading everywhere, the Sunmoons of the nine realms were alarmed. One of them roared in panic, "Retreat! Retreat to our own realms!"

Some of the kinder ones also warned the others, "All living beings on Ninestar Island, leave immediately!"

The ground started cracking. Even the sky above seemed to be cracking and shattering. Time and space were thrown into disorder. Even the death qi in the city was starting to spread out of the city to cover the whole island.

Meanwhile, Great Xia King was still striking the city repeatedly with a detached expression. Su Yu was dead. Or to be precise, he was as good as dead. The human race had lost an exceptional genius.

He didn't know if his previous choice was right. He didn't know what he should say and feel about this. He couldn't be bothered to talk anymore. Since the human race had lost a super genius, all those experts and geniuses shall be the offering for Su Yu's fall from grace.

Boom!

The white-haired divine king launched an attack at Great Xia King while shouting, "Stop him!"

He was asking for help to stop Great Xia King. If Great Xia King was allowed to continue, things would get very troublesome.

Meanwhile, Great Xia King merely shot him a cold glance before asking, "Are the divines trying to start a war right now? We're not doing this for Su Yu. I'm attacking an ancient city while you're attacking me, an Eternal of the human race and a leader of the War Shrine. This is an official declaration of war."

A young genius was still a youngster. And there was no comparing a young genius with an Invincible. Great Xia King was one of the three strongest experts among humanity. Attacking him was basically the same as declaring war against humanity.

At that point, it no longer mattered if the other human Invincibles were happy about war or not. They had to participate in the war as they couldn't set a precedent of abandoning their own Invincibles. Otherwise, the same might happen to them in the future and they might find themselves completely alone. Su Yu's death would not affect them personally. But if the myriad races wanted to kill Great Xia King, they had to react intensely and violently.

Hearing those words, the expression of the white-haired divine king changed repeatedly. Great Xia King continued, "I had not attacked you yet you attacked me. If war is what you want, so be it."

"Great Xia King...you..."

"Shut up!" Great Xia King said, "Even if I attack this city, so what? Do the ancient cities belong to the divine race?"

"..."

The divine king had no answer. Once again, a shining blade appeared in the sky.

Meanwhile, one Invincible death spirit after another appeared in the city. One of them roared with laughter, "Hahaha! Let's kill! Kill all these invaders! Let's party! Great Xia King of the human race...hahaha! Thank you for this!"

They were all incredibly excited at the chance to leave the Death Realm yet again. The entire city sank into chaos.

Intense shockwaves tore the sky apart. Spatial and time turbulences erupted everywhere. A chaotic battle between more than ten Invincibles broke out. Reality itself seemed to be breaking apart as these Invincibles fought.

Again and again, the ancient buildings crumbled apart before repairing themselves. As for the living beings inside these buildings, they were not as lucky as these buildings. The moment they died, they would not come back to life. It did not matter if one was a resident or a visitor. It was worth noting that the deeper inside the city, the sturdier the buildings would be.

A large number of experts started moving toward the city gates from the mayor's residence. All of them were panicking. How did things escalate to such a level out of nowhere? Not one or two Invincibles had entered the city. Rather, a much larger number of them had entered.

"Topsoil Spirit!"

The voice of the earth elemental Invincible spread everywhere. It was as though his voice was coming from the boundless void itself. As the sound waves spread throughout the city, even the ground was quaking.

That attracted the attention of an Invincible death spirit. A battle broke out between the two. They constantly flipped between reality and an unknown dimension before flipping back into reality again. All around them, the buildings that not even Sunmoons could damage crumbled apart.

Naturally, any living being caught in their crossfire would die instantly. And such a scene was unfolding all over the city. The entire city was flooded with death spirits.

Boom!

Finally, a half-moon dropped from the sky. A living Sunmoon had perished.

At the same time, Great Ming King was displaying his incredible might. The death spirit facing him was forced to retreat repeatedly. When he saw Qin Hao's group, he shouted, "Get over here! We need to leave immediately!"

That damn Xia Wushen was being so ruthless because his kids were not the ones stuck in the city! But that was not the case for Great Ming King. Zhu Guangshen was his grandson. He had to act.

The shockwaves from the various battles swept through the entire ancient city. The innermost three rings were still relatively fine, but the other buildings in the city had been damaged in one way or another. At the same time, death spirits were still constantly appearing in the city. Suddenly, yet another Invincible death spirit appeared before Great Ming King.

This death spirit was none other than the first death sovereign to appear, Xing Yue. Looking at Great Ming King, Xing Yue coldly said, "Don't even dream of saving anyone in our presence."

A wave of death qi burst out, followed by a punch. Unlike the regular death spirits who would mostly attack by corroding their opponents with death qi, the death sovereign's punch caused the entire city to shake. Numerous buildings crumbled apart before repairing themselves again. But the attack did not end with a single punch. Instead, an endless stream of punches was raining down upon Great Ming King.

With a curse, Great Ming King manifested one character after another. The characters combined into a ring before shooting toward the two Invincible death spirits.

Boom!