Tribulation of Myriad Races

Lei Jue was not the only person suspicious of Cui Lang.

He knew Sky Sundering Saber. He was very strong. And his killing intent was very dense. Nobody would relate such a person to a weaponsmith or a member of Great Ming. Meanwhile, Huang Teng's claim that he was from the Xia Family was much more believable.

Sky Sundering Saber, Soul Expanding Art, multiple characters...

If it wasn't for the fact that these people didn't know Su Yu too well, they would have guessed his real identity long ago. Both Cui Lang and Su Yu were newcomers at the Allheaven Battlefield.

He was not a regular there like Huang Teng and the others. Thus, the myriad races knew too little about him. But as time passed, Su Yu himself knew that it was only a matter of time before his identity was exposed.

Underground.

Even the soil beneath the Skyrend Valley was filled with saber qi. There were also some life forms operating underground, such as Topsoil Spirit. He loved hiding underground. And that was what Su Yu was doing as well.

The natural character he received as the heavenly reward was crushed. He had even snatched the little furball's heavenly reward. Everything was fed to the lightning character. Lei Jue was still looking for him everywhere. He could only take some time to cultivate before leaving. That fellow was too damn annoying.

As an offensive character, the lightning character was extremely hard to advance. Suddenly, Su Yu's body shook slightly. He had finally completed his fourteenth body forging. To speak the truth, that was an astonishing speed. He had only reached the Skysoar Realm through physical cultivation at the end of February. In less than five months, he had completed fourteen body forgings. But for him, this was not fast enough.

Before this, his physical body felt very strong. In fact, it felt even stronger than his willpower. Whenever he fought someone, he would crush them with his physical strength. But that had changed.

With enough apertures and powerful characters, his willpower cultivation was quite strong as well. His only weakness was the lower tier of his willpower. Even so, he wouldn't have much problem reaching the ninth-stage Cloudbreach Realm with his willpower cultivation. Perhaps he could reach that level soon.

Meanwhile, it was getting harder and harder to strengthen his body. He had completed three body forgings the day his body advanced to the Skysoar Realm. In short, he had only completed eleven body forgings after over a hundred days. On average, he was taking half a month per body forging even with unlimited heavenly source qi.

For anyone else, this would be a crazy speed. A lot of people would stop at nine body forgings. With Su Yu's speed, he could complete that in about three to four months and move on from the Skysoar Realm. But that was not what he wanted.

He needed to complete seventy-two body forgings. With fourteen body forgings, he could muster the strength of nearly seven thousand acupoints. With his semi-opened acupoint and the strength character, he could perhaps surpass eight thousand acupoints.

That was a level of strength many Cloudbreaches couldn't reach. In fact, some of the weaker Mountainseas would only have the strength of about ten thousand acupoints.

Alas, Su Yu's opponents weren't those minor races. Rather, he had to face the divine and devil races, including the first divine and original devil races. For those people, someone with the strength of less than ten thousand acupoints at the Cloudbreach Realm was merely a piece of trash. The best among them could reach that level during the Skysoar Realm.

"Fourteen body forgings."

This was still too weak. Su Yu shook his head. It would be too difficult for him to defeat Lei Jue with only his physical strength. He needed his characters and willpower to do so. Furthermore, he did not have any advantage over Lei Jue in terms of speed.

That fellow was capable of transforming into lightning. In fact, during his short battle with Lei Jue previously, it had been a one-sided beating for him.

"I can't even kill a mere Lei Jue."

Su Yu sighed, disappointed in himself. He had completely neglected the fact that Lei Jue was a super genius who had once killed a Mountainsea. Once again, thunder rumbled as Lei Jue started scanning the area with his detection technique again. Concealment would be extremely difficult as long as that fellow was still around.

Su Yu continued running while waiting for his lightning character to advance. After advancing into the fourth tier, the lightning character would be able to weaken Lei Jue's lightning attacks by about seventy percent. That would greatly reduce the difficulty of fighting Lei Jue.

Little did Su Yu know, he wasn't the only person fleeing for his life.

A lot of people were doing the same.

Huang Teng and Wu QI were fleeing. Qin Fang was fleeing. Some other human geniuses in the Plain of Desires were fleeing as well. Even Liu Hong, who had just entered the Plain of Desires, was fleeing gloomily. For some reason, everyone in the Plain of Desires started looking for human geniuses to kill not long after he entered.

In the past, even Skysoars could easily survive the Plain of Desires. But for some reason, a large number of Heavenly Hunt Index geniuses had appeared here. This had almost never happened before.

The Allheaven Battlefield was incredibly massive while there were only so many people in the Heavenly Hunt Index. The people in the index would rarely gather in one place. Normally, even seeing twenty of them in the same region was a rare occurrence. But at this moment, there were more than a hundred of them in the Plain of Desires.

One could say that this was an accidental snowball effect. Since the likes of Huang Teng, Qin Fang, and Tianduo were there, a large number of geniuses had also traveled over. Some were there to join in the fun. Some were there to fish in troubled waters. And as news spread, more and more geniuses arrived.

Because of that, the possibility of encountering and killing a genius that could grant one a heavenly reward grew, attracting even more geniuses over.

***

Su Yu was cursing at his rotten luck while fleeing.

Even when traveling underground, he had still encountered massive trouble. That trouble came in the form of a massive stone golem. The golem attacked without even talking, sending a punch that was powerful enough to throw him out of his earth transformation.

"Earth movement technique? I hate this technique the most!"

This was the same stone golem Topsoil Spirit had been running away from. He seemed to harbor some sort of hatred toward the earth movement technique. Thus, right after sensing Su Yu, he threw a punch and forced Su Yu out of concealment.

This was not the only person Su Yu had encountered while he was fleeing. Some were completely incapable of detecting him while some would move away after detecting him. This stone golem was the only person who had actually attacked.

Su Yu was furious. Activating his strength character, he clashed against the stone golem. It wasn't that he didn't want to use his characters or willpower, but he discovered that this stone golem had a unique build. His sea of willpower seemed completely solid. Even after several hammer strikes, his sea of willpower remained unaffected.

Rumble!

But after a short exchange, Su Yu found himself weaker than his opponent. Even with his yang acupoint semi-opened, he was still forced to constantly retreat from the stone golem's punches.

This stone golem felt like a seventh-stage Cloudbreach, but his physical strength was absolutely beyond the strength of ten thousand acupoints. The only thing Su Yu gained from the short exchange was a sore body. When he sensed Lei Jue pulling near again, he cursed inwardly.

Just as he was about to use his character technique, the stone golem noticed Lei Jue as well. Then, he completely forgot about Su Yu and jumped into the sky before roaring furiously, "Lei Jue, I finally found you!"

After that roar, he threw a punch at Lei Jue.

Lei Jue's expression changed as he exclaimed, "Stone Statue, it's you!"

"You're dead!" The stone golem was only a seventh-stage Cloudbreach, but he was incomparably overbearing even when he was facing a ninth-stage Cloudbreach. He had zero fear due to a special characteristic of his. The power of lightning could harm him, but he was also naturally resistant to lightning.

Thus, he could counter Lei Jue's abilities so long as the difference in cultivation level between the two wasn't too big. The stone golem attacked Lei Jue without bothering to say anything else.

Rumble!

The powers of lightning and stone clashed in the sky as a violent battle erupted between the two. There seemed to be bad blood between the two. Below them, Su Yu blanked out. What was happening?

He was just about to join the stone golem and kill Lei Jue when an earthen head popped out of the ground beside him. The head sent him a voice transmission, "Brother from the human race, why are you not running?"

"..."

Su Yu looked at Topsoil Spirit speechlessly. Why was this fellow here as well?

"Don't even dream of helping that big lump of stone.

Topsoil Spirit seemed to have guessed Su Yu's plan. He explained helplessly, "That lump of stone is damaged in the head. He seems to find everyone annoying. If you join the fight, he will conclude that you're interrupting and switch his target to you right away."

"..."

Su Yu was speechless. Such a person existed? Or to be precise, such a stone existed? Forget it. That lump of stone was quite strong. Despite not being a cultural researcher, he seemed to be somewhat of a counter toward cultural researchers due to his sturdy sea of willpower. And he was also stronger physically. Su Yu concluded that he was most likely not the match of that stone person.

He felt quite gloomy. He had been encountering people he couldn't defeat repeatedly. None of these people was a Mountainsea. All of them had relatively low cultivation levels. But he was not their match. He felt very dispirited.

Topsoil Spirit asked, "Fellow Daoist, do you know the earth movement technique as well?"

That was what Topsoil Spirit was most curious about. He noticed that this human was terrifyingly fast when using the earth movement technique. In fact, this human was almost as fast as him.

Su Yu nonchalantly replied, "Yeah. Do you have an issue with that?"

"Not at all!" Topsoil Spirit laughed, "Fellow Daoist, this is not a good place to talk. That lump of stone will only go crazy for a short moment when fighting. Before long, he will retreat after running out of source qi. Should we talk somewhere else?"

Su Yu blanked out. In that case, that lump of stone wasn't really that dumb, after all. He was still smart enough to run after exhausting himself too much. He looked up and noticed that Lei Jue merely fought silently, not bothering to say anything to the stone golem. He knew that any attempt to communicate would be pointless.

This Stone Statue would not stop pestering him unless they actually fought. Since Stone Statue was resistant to his lightning attacks, he was actually slightly disadvantaged in the fight. But in terms of endurance, Stone Golem would not be his match.

After taking a look at the two, Su Yu dove underground and left with Topsoil Spirit. While moving underground, he spoke through voice transmission, "Brother from the earth elemental race, what do you wish to talk about?"

"It's nothing much. I just want to ask about your earth movement technique. Why does it resemble the movement techniques of the five elemental race so much? Have you studied our movement techniques before?"

Su Yu did not deny that. He answered, "Yes. I took a lot of inspiration from the five elemental race. After years of research and forming numerous characters, including an earth character, I finally did it. You're not thinking of stealing my earth character, right?"

"Don't misunderstand!" Topsoil Spirit said, "Fellow Daoist, do you know the water movement technique as well?"

Su Yu replied nonchalantly, "Yes. What about that?"

"..."