Breaking the Seal, Rulers of Rules

Shrouding Human Mountain with his heaven and earth had been Su Yu's primary task over the past few days. Seven days! Sending out one supreme expert each day—every time an expert appeared and their aura roiled the surroundings, Su Yu shifted his heaven and earth a bit further. As for pressuring the myriad races, forcing their hand... Who had time for such nonsense? If he charged out all at once, they would be scared out of their wits just the same. Doing it this way carried an advantage: shifting a world naturally stirred up disturbances, and fairly massive ones at that. But with a Celestial Venerable emerging each time, no matter how great the commotion was, others would fail to notice, or simply assume it was the turbulence caused by that Celestial Venerable's aura. Seven days was ample time for Su Yu to shift his heaven and earth directly above Human Mountain! This was slipping across under the cover of darkness! And now came the harvest. Human Mountain had originally been a chaos mountain, yet it was also considered a peak within the Human Sovereign's Dao Arena. Ordinary people could never encroach upon it, but Su Yu could—the principal foundation of his Great Dao was the Human Lord Seal! Thus, the Human Sovereign had yielded the territory to him... And so, today's scene unfolded. Su Yu's heaven and earth descended directly, enveloping Human Mountain. In that instant, everyone on Su Yu's side—even those who had not yet merged their Daos into his world—experienced a massive surge in power bestowed by Su Yu. Meanwhile, the myriad races saw their strength curtailed in an instant. As one side waxed, the other waned! All at once, a chasm opened between them! Su Yu's voice shook the cosmos, laden with callousness as he barked, "Kill! Slaughter them until the myriad races actively charge forth and slay the Sin race's Rulers of Rules! Massacre them! Butcher every root of the myriad races in the upper realm! Since you abandoned the lower realm, you won't get to keep the upper realm either! Annihilate the myriad races first!" Su Yu's voice shook heaven and earth, utterly pitiless. "Chaos Dragon! Eight-Winged Tiger! If you two keep dragging your feet and fishing in troubled waters... Great Zhou King, execute them!" Within heaven and earth, the faces of the Chaos Dragon and the Eight-Winged Tiger turned deathly pale! This little bastard was truly terrifying. "Kill!" The two ancient chaos beasts erupted instantly. With a deafening boom, against their opponents Heavenly Venerable Ming and Heavenly Venerable Feng, Heavenly Venerable Ming was immediately coiled by the Chaos Dragon's tail. In virtually the blink of an eye, Heavenly Venerable Ming was crushed alive! His physical body shattered to pieces! The moment his sea of will manifested, the Chaos Dragon exhaled a burst of dragonflame, incinerating it to ash! Here, all of them were suppressed! The first Celestial Venerable was slain just like that, practically in an instant. The disparity was too vast; Heavenly Venerable Ming had never been exceptionally strong to begin with, let alone facing the Chaos Dragon while having his strength suppressed! By now, no matter how foolish the Chaos Dragon was, he knew that if he did not go all out and Su Yu caught him and the Eight-Winged Tiger slacking off, it would be the death of a dragon! He would truly die! At that moment, at the rear of the crowd, Tiangu actually felt a sense of relief. He had guessed it! He hadn't guessed the exact details, but he had known Su Yu was bound to have preparations. Sure enough, Su Yu had never conceived of defeat; everything he did was calculated! Heavenly Venerable Ming was dead! Not only that, in the distance, Celestial Venerable Huang bellowed furiously, but his opponent was the Eight-Winged Tiger. By now, the Eight-Winged Tiger had gone mad as well, its eight wings flapping frantically, tearing the void open with every beat. The Eight-Winged Tiger was going all out now! That fellow Su Yu was truly sinister! He couldn't afford to provoke him! Even if he had to take wounds, he had to take down a Celestial Venerable! Further away, Heavenly Venerable Yue and the others were beaten until they vomited blood wildly, thrown flying backward again and again as large numbers of Dao Harmonizers were swiftly slain. King Daqin, ever decisive in slaughter, led Xia Longwu and their vanguard straight up Human Mountain! Killing anyone in sight! A massacre! King Daqin's spear danced. With the Celestial Venerables and Heavenly Kings intercepted, none present could match King Daqin. One strike per person—Eternals charged out in suicidal waves, only to be slain in an instant! Sorrow surfaced on Tiangu's face! Over there, the God Empress was actually being held off by the Southern King alone. Not only that, the Southern King's aura here was tremendously formidable; wielding her Great Dao as a whip, a single lash left the God Empress covered in blood! Defeated! A crushing defeat! Cries and screams erupted across the entirety of Human Mountain—despair, cries of pain, wailing... Tiangu saw it. He saw King Daxia leading his troops toward the immortal race's territory. Those in the lower realm were in Su Yu's hands. If the immortals of the upper realm were wiped out, then the immortal race... would be completely exterminated! Tiangu suddenly aged immensely, his hair turning ash-gray. For the first time, he felt the existential crisis of racial extinction right before his eyes—extermination was at hand! In his many campaigns against Su Yu, he had never once gained an advantage! Not even the slightest bit! Tiangu's back hunched noticeably. *I knew it... I should have known. Alas, I do not rule this heaven and earth, nor could I convince everyone among the myriad races.* Overcome with grief, he paid no heed to the Celestial Venerables and ignored the Heavenly Kings... He looked back and saw King Daqin and King Daxia carrying out the slaughter! These men had campaigned for five hundred years and slain countless foes; why would they care about mercy? This was a war of races! Whichever race lost would face this exact fate, and now, the human race had won! Five hundred years ago, when the myriad races invaded the Human Realm, the common folk were plunged into misery and nearly wiped out. A group of Mansion Founders had stepped forward, inherited ancient legacies, attained the Eternal realm, fought on all fronts, and preserved the Human Realm. For five hundred years, major battles never ceased and minor skirmishes were countless... Far too many had died! The Demon Suppression Army of Daxia Mansion had recalled veterans five times over because Daxia Mansion suffered heavy casualties in the myriad realms, with countless experts dying in battle. Troops were scarce! All of it was exceedingly cruel. Today marked a monumental victory! Men like King Daxia were commanding generals; without the slightest hesitation or mercy, they slaughtered until rivers of blood flowed. In the upper realm, the combined populations of the various races totaled only around fifty million. In the blink of an eye, the land was strewn with corpses from the butchery! Countless beings wailed in despair! With a tinge of sorrow, Tiangu's voice reverberated across heaven and earth: "My immortal race... surrenders! Your Majesty Emperor Yu, I implore you to grant my immortal race a path to live... Tiangu... kowtows in gratitude to Your Majesty!" His knees resisted bending. For a hundred thousand years after the ancient era, he had led the immortal race in battling the human race, yet never had he felt such despair, such agony. If the immortal race kept fighting, they would be wiped out! His knees refused to bend... but right now, they had to! With a thud, Tiangu knelt upon the ground, kowtowing toward Su Yu's direction. "The Sovereign of the Immortal Race, Tiangu, submits! I plead with my Sovereign... to grant my immortal race a path of survival!" He had surrendered! Willing or not, at this moment, he bowed to this new Human Sovereign—something that had never occurred even in the ancient era! Su Yu's callous voice rang out: "Go slay Polong, slay Yue Zhan, and slay Yuqing! Only those at or above Dao Harmonizer may go! As for the rest, keep slaughtering—butcher them until those targets are dead! If you fail to kill them, massacre every last one! Once those targets are slain, we shall slaughter the myriad races in the lower realm!" At this moment, Su Yu was incomparably ruthless! You go kill them; if you can't, I will wipe out your people. The faster you kill, the more will survive. If you are slow... we will slaughter until none remain! Slaying Rulers of Rules was no simple task. Even with many experts on Su Yu's side, killing a Ruler of Rules could result in heavy casualties! Right now, this was borrowing a blade to kill... no, seizing a blade to kill! You must go and kill! Don't kill, and your race dies! Tiangu's face was steeped in grief. The next instant, he roared shrilly, "Kill! Slay the Sin race! Anyone who doesn't want their race exterminated, follow me to kill!" Boom! His aura erupted. Tiangu unleashed a formidable aura that hovered near the Celestial Venerable realm, perhaps even reaching it. Roaring fiercely, he swiftly charged outward! "Do not obstruct them!" Su Yu's voice boomed once more. "Let them go. Even if they play tricks along the way, it matters not!" Su Yu remained cold and detached. Even if these people turned their spears around midway, so what? At this stage, even if he couldn't completely annihilate all three factions this time, he would still inflict catastrophic losses upon them, and Su Yu could pacify them thoroughly soon enough! This was the myriad races'... final chance! Su Yu also hesitated at this moment: should he completely wipe out the three races, or not? If he annihilated them entirely, he worried that the Human Sovereign and his group on the other end wouldn't be able to withstand the myriad races' madness. Yet if Tiangu and the others truly turned their spears and betrayed him once more... Su Yu would never grant them another chance at life! At this moment, Tiangu, Heavenly Venerable Dao, Rimian, Marquis Saint, the God Empress, and the others abandoned their opponents without a backward glance, charging furiously into the distance. Marquis Saint, Rimian, and several others were filled with sorrow. *Perhaps... we should have listened to Tiangu from the very beginning!* Behind them, the slaughter continued. The humans were still butchering the myriad races. Tiangu roared in agony, "Hurry!" Faster! Faster! With every passing second, vast numbers of their people were being slaughtered. They still had to kill Yue Zhan and the others. If they failed to kill them or were too slow, once those fifty million behind them were slaughtered, Su Yu would butcher the lower realm! He was capable of doing it! Su Yu was ruthless and cold-hearted; everyone knew this! ... Meanwhile, standing in the void, Su Yu looked at Hundred Battles, who had halted opposite him, and said indifferently, "Brother Hundred Battles, it seems your wits aren't quite sharp. Since you knew I opened a heaven and earth, how can someone who hasn't opened one compare with me—with your backside?" Hundred Battles' face turned frosty. Gone was Su Yu's former grinning banter; now, his expression bore only contempt, indifference, and disdain. "How many trump cards do you still have? Bring them all out for a look! Someone like you, even when cooperating with the Sin race, wouldn't lack contingencies or fail to guard against them. Aside from Zhou Ji, is there nothing else?" Hundred Battles stared back at him coldly. "You think... you've won?" Su Yu chuckled. "Many people have said that to me. And in the end... they were right. I truly did win. Thanks for that!" The next instant, Su Yu's stern shout rang out again: "Southern King, Great Zhou King... go capture Changqing and the others alive! I want them breathing, to be sliced to ribbons with a thousand cuts before the myriad realms, hacked to pieces inch by inch! I don't want traitors dying too comfortably!" "Acknowledged!" With a resounding shout, five or six supreme experts swiftly flew toward Changqing and his cohort. Changqing, Changmei, and their group had previously been flying toward the Hell Gate; now, their expressions changed drastically! The Southern King! Not just the Southern King, but also the Great Zhou King, Lan Tian, and Wan Tiansheng! When the experts of the myriad races went to fight desperately against the Prison King lineage, Su Yu's top combatants were left without opponents! The tides had completely turned! Hundred Battles took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and snapped them open, divine light shimmering within them. "You want to defeat me? Not enough!" Not enough! Those were Hundred Battles' words. "Kill you, and everything naturally ends!" Kill Su Yu, and all of this would be over. "If your heaven and earth collapses, all of them will die. Su Yu, you actually had them all merge into your world—that is the true path to your demise!" You grew strong quickly, but you will collapse even faster. The core was solely Su Yu! Kill Su Yu, and everything would conclude. He gave a low shout: "Yuqing! Polong! Disengage from your opponents and come kill Su Yu!" Kill Su Yu, and everything could end without further wasted effort. He barked once more, "Tiangu! If you all just wait a moment longer, everything will be over... Must you be Su Yu's pawns? Idiots! He doesn't dare wipe you out completely! If you are slaughtered, the Human Sovereign and the others will inevitably face a ferocious onslaught from the myriad races' Rulers of Rules!" These words caused the rushing experts of the myriad races to falter slightly. Yet in that very instant, Su Yu waved his sleeve. Over a dozen Eternal realm experts suddenly manifested and instantly exploded, vanishing without a trace! Su Yu's expression was utterly devoid of emotion, offering no further words. The myriad races were welcome to test his resolve! Those dozen or so Eternals were experts from various races who had remained in the lower realm. At this moment, they were effortlessly pulverized by Su Yu. Inhumanly cold, he reached out into the void once more, manifesting another batch of Eternals, crushing them to powder with a single squeeze! Tiangu's eyes turned bloodshot, and he roared furiously, "Emperor Yu, we did not hesitate! ...Kill! What are you standing around for? Intercept Polong and Yuqing!" Su Yu was truly ruthless! Hundred Battles spoke so lightly of waiting a moment longer, but if they waited another moment, Su Yu would butcher every single soul of the myriad races! Hundred Battles was merely talking big while standing safely on the sidelines! Su Yu gave a chilly sneer. "Hundred Battles, you are a heartless wretch, a beast devoid of racial allegiance. Do you think the experts of the myriad races are like you? Though the myriad races are enemies of our human race, both humans and the myriad races fight for their people, not simply to preserve their own lives... Hundred Battles, you don't understand the hearts of men! Asking them to wait means asking them to prepare for the extinction of their races. How can a heartless beast like you be fit to compete with me in understanding hearts?" He reached out once more, and a large number of Sun and Moon realm cultivators of the myriad races appeared. Su Yu's cold voice rang out again: "First the Eternals, then the Sun and Moons. Tiangu, opportunities don't last forever. Hurry, or else... very soon, you might see every last Sun and Moon perish!" "Kill!" Tiangu bellowed. The next moment, the group charged at full speed into the Chaos Mountains. Over there, the Chaos Dragon snapped Wuji in half with a single bite and was chewing on him. Yet now, a look of chilling solemnity appeared on his face as he looked toward Tiangu and the others rushing over. "You..." Boom! Barely had he spoken when a world-shaking blast erupted! Heavenly Venerable Dao, wielding immense power, charged straight in front of Polong in a flash and self-detonated his Great Dao, his physical body, and his everything. In his final moments, a profound sorrow tinged his thoughts: *I am sorry... Forgive me... Perhaps... I should have trusted you from the start...* Earlier, he and Celestial Venerable Huang had advocated immediately stopping Su Yu's forces. Yet that single moment of hesitation had brought the myriad races to the brink of extinction. It was his fault! All his fault! Since they had chosen Tiangu, they should have trusted him instead of doubting and questioning him. At this moment, Heavenly Venerable Dao was filled with resolute finality. He knew Polong was difficult to deal with and killing him would take a long time—and with time, the myriad races might be wiped out! Thus, the moment he charged over, the thought struck him: *Perhaps... I should atone!* "The struggle of the myriad races..." Heavenly Venerable Dao's fading phantom manifested, laden with melancholy and helplessness. "In truth... isn't it just a struggle within the human race? Be it the immortals, the gods, or the demons... we were originally one... It was merely that... like Hundred Battles... when a supreme being arose, they broke away from humanity... In the end, the human race remains the strongest..." This world was still the world of mankind. Setting aside the clash of Daos within the River of Time, in the myriad realms, the myriad races had suffered total defeat! Rumble! A thunderous blast echoed. A peak Celestial Venerable had self-detonated right from the start without an ounce of hesitation. The blast shattered a large portion of Polong's physical body. Polong had never imagined that these myriad races, who had fought so meekly and tentatively against Su Yu's forces, would be so fierce against him! He was a Ruler of Rules, and quite powerful at that—even stronger than Yuqing! Yuqing was fourth-tier, whereas strictly speaking, Polong was nearly third-tier—a peak fourth-tier powerhouse nearing third-tier, perhaps even a weaker third-tier. Even so, withstanding the self-detonation of a peak Celestial Venerable was no minor matter. In an instant, he was heavily wounded. Right at this moment, the God Empress roared frantically. Driven by sheer resolve, she pulled the hairpin from her hair, instantly transforming it into a longsword. Furthermore, an illusory projection of the River of Time manifested in the void! Bellowing shrilly, the God Empress raised the longsword toward the heavens. In an instant, an incomparably potent Great Dao power surged into her sword! Summoning the power of rules! The power of the Great Dao was forcibly drained by her, practically draining the pond to catch the fish, but why would she care about that now? She could only gamble, placing her hopes on Su Yu truly keeping his word and granting the myriad races a chance even if they fell in battle. The God Empress shrieked in fury! Celestial Venerable Rimian glanced at the God Empress with an apology and sorrow in his eyes, then turned back toward Human Mountain. "Empress... if the God Emperor returns... tell him... that I... did my best!" Rimian smiled! The next moment, a blazing sun abruptly manifested in the void! As the sun rose, Rimian's voice echoed in all directions: "Brother, lend me the power of the moon! Let the sun and moon illuminate the universe!" Far away, Heavenly Venerable Yueshi had been unable to escape Human Mountain. Since Su Yu had ordered some killed, Yueshi was among those marked for death. At this moment, Heavenly Venerable Yueshi unleashed a full-powered strike, knocking back the Eight-Winged Tiger who was trying to kill him! He gave a bitter smile. "I still don't believe it... Having dominated for a hundred thousand years... how could we be defeated so abruptly!" He didn't believe it! Yet he knew that disbelief was mere fantasy. The next instant, a bright moon emerged and merged instantly with the sun in the sky. The moment sun and moon converged, a terrifying might surged upward! At this moment, this power truly possessed the might of a Ruler of Rules! "Empress... lead our god race... to find a place of peace!" The giant sun swallowed the moon. In a flash, its aura grew incomparably violent, filled with madness and finality. Merely moments after Heavenly Venerable Dao's self-detonation, while Polong was still roaring in rage, the combined sun and moon manifested directly before him! Polong's expression warped. He wanted to flee, but it was too late—the surrounding void had completely frozen around him! Boom! A cataclysmic detonation rang out! Far stronger than Heavenly Venerable Dao's self-detonation! Blinding light blazed and radiated in all directions. Weak onlookers shut their eyes and screamed, while at the center of the light, Polong shrieked in agony! This was equivalent to the self-detonation of a Ruler of Rules! With a deafening crash, half of his body was blown to bits. At that precise moment, the God Empress's eyes were bloodshot and brimming with tears. Channeling the power of the Great Dao with utter frenzy, she brought her sword down! "Divine Sword Divides the Heavens!" Boom! The colossal sword cleaved downward with a thunderous roar. This strike illuminated the myriad realms, splitting the Chaos Mountains wide open. A momentary silence descended! The God Empress's hair, which had previously fallen out and regrown black, instantly turned snow-white. Opposite her, Polong—whose body had just been half-blown away by Rimian and Yueshi's self-detonation—now showed a streak of blood across his skull. With disbelief, bewilderment, and confusion, his massive jaws parted slightly as a dazed voice escaped: "So strong... Why didn't you dare fight Su Yu to the death?" He was bewildered! So fierce, so strong, so formidable—why hadn't they fought desperately against Su Yu? If they had truly fought to the death, even if they couldn't wipe out Su Yu's forces, killing five or six of his Celestial Venerables would have been well within their reach! You are so capable that you can even kill me, so why didn't you dare try to kill Su Yu? We could have cooperated! Celestial Venerables Rimian and Yueshi working together could actually unleash the power of a Ruler of Rules, and the God Empress was one herself. Since you weren't even afraid of dying, why did you have to obey Su Yu? This completely confounded him! Tiangu and the others remained silent. Why? Because... you never knew what hidden cards Su Yu still possessed. You never knew where Su Yu was waiting for you. But with you people, everything was laid bare on the surface! Killing you offered hope. Killing Su Yu... might only bring despair! The Polong beast gradually cracked and fractured. Filled with grievance, his expression soon turned vicious: "Killing me here... will only summon more ancient chaos clans... They... are about to emerge!" Killing him here meant all that power was being swallowed—swallowed by the Hell Gate! It was summoning the beings behind the Hell Gate! Moreover, it wasn't just him who died; Rimian and Yueshi had died, Heavenly Venerable Dao had died, along with a massive number of experts... More experts would emerge! This place wasn't far from the Hell Gate. Right then, Su Yu's chilling voice drifted over: "I certainly hope a few more come out, or else... I will be disappointed! I could clearly have shrouded this area with my heaven and earth and devoured everything of yours, yet I didn't... You fools will always be this stupid! If not enough emerge, how am I to perfect my heaven and earth? How could one or two ever suffice?" Su Yu's sinister words shook the Polong beast to its core. "You..." Su Yu possessed ambition—boundless ambition! He wanted to draw out even more ancient clans! He wanted them to serve as nourishment for his heaven and earth! He wasn't stopping the Hell Gate from absorbing these energies now because the current numbers were too few—Su Yu wanted more Rulers of Rules! "Well done!" Su Yu's laughter drifted over. The next moment, his voice rang like a grand bell: "Jiantian, it's time to show some self-awareness!" Su Yu's voice was thunderous! Within his heaven and earth, inside the Human Lord Seal, Marquis Jiantian suddenly opened his eyes. Su Yu's voice echoed in: "Commit suicide, or merge all your fortune into my heaven and earth—choose for yourself!" Whichever he chose, the ancient fortune would dissipate. And the seal would be undone with it. It was about time! Quite a few Celestial Venerables had fallen! Among the Celestial Venerables of the myriad races, Heavenly Venerable Ming, Heavenly Venerable Dao, Celestial Venerable Rimian, and Heavenly Venerable Yue were dead... Under Hundred Battles, Wuji didn't seem to be dead yet, though Su Yu didn't care. Hongyue and Xueying were swiftly dealing with Yuexiao and Yueluo. In any case, on Hundred Battles' side, aside from Changqing and Changmei, it wouldn't matter much even if the others advanced. It was about time! The moment had arrived to unseal it! As long as the enemy's numbers dwindled, even if more Rulers of Rules emerged among the myriad races, they wouldn't dare act rashly. At this moment, within Su Yu's heaven and earth. Marquis Jiantian's expression shifted repeatedly. "You won't come kill me in person?" "Are you worthy?" Su Yu's callous voice resounded. "Two choices. Make it quick. Voluntarily merge into my heaven and earth, and I will inherit your fortune and take upon myself the grievances of the ancient era! If you refuse to merge, then all I need to do is break the seal!" Marquis Jiantian let out a sigh. After a moment of silence, he rapidly dissolved himself. Vast waves of fortune power dispersed throughout Su Yu's heaven and earth. At this instant, a tremor of unease seized the ancient experts! The sky had fallen! No, it felt as though something was missing, yet also as though nothing was. In the lower realm, the River of Time vibrated faintly. In the upper realm, a formidable power suddenly erupted from the Human Sovereign's Dao, drawing out a measure of power from the River of Time—the power of the seal! The seal originating from the ancient era could now vanish! ... Within a certain stretch of the River of Time, a thin membrane had always cloaked it, unnoticed by anyone. Yet whenever any Celestial Venerable sought to break through their Dao, they would find themselves obstructed! Today, however, that thin membrane broke apart bit by bit, the sealing power rapidly siphoned away by the Human Sovereign's Dao. The originally placid waters of the great river began to surge and roar! Originally, a gap had existed between the tributaries and the main channel, but now, the tributaries and the main channel suddenly began to merge! The seal—the seal that had bound the myriad realms for a hundred thousand years—completely shattered! ... And within Su Yu's heaven and earth: Vast amounts of fortune power integrated into it! Su Yu's heaven and earth expanded and widened at tremendous speed! Among the experts still engaged in slaughter within his world, some suddenly sensed something. In the blink of an eye, several auras surged with power. And in this moment, across all directions, the auras of various experts began to fluctuate violently! Great Axe was just about to go hack at Yueluo and the others when, halfway there, his aura roiled violently. In a flash, a giant axe materialized in the void, leaving Great Axe momentarily stunned. A Celestial Venerable was, in truth, a Ruler of Rules who simply had not fully taken control of their Great Dao. Because there had been no way to do so! At this moment, Great Axe looked dazed and murmured, "The Axe Dao... wasn't it previously controlled by the Axe King?" *He's kicked the bucket!* Great Axe suddenly realized the truth, feeling a pang of sorrow. The Axe King, one of the Thirty-Six Human Kings, was dead! Otherwise, even if the seal was broken, it wouldn't have concerned him! Baring his teeth, Great Axe let out a roar the next instant. In an instant, his consciousness merged into the cosmos, powerful comprehension rapidly traveling upward along the Axe Dao until he seized complete control of the entire Axe Dao in a flash! Boom! A towering aura boiled over in the blink of an eye. Great Axe had actually become the very first to step into the Ruler of Rules realm! At this moment, the fortune upon Su Yu's Human Lord Seal surged dramatically. Within the River of Time, the waters rippled, and vast quantities of river water were devoured by Great Axe. Siphoning the power of the river water instantly boosted his strength by a huge margin! Great Axe's aura spiked dramatically, and he laughed maniacally! He had broken through! He had formally stepped into the Ruler of Rules realm. At this point, he didn't even have time to mourn the Axe King. After not seeing each other for so many years, if he was dead, so be it—if you didn't kick the bucket, how could I ever have had the chance to become a Ruler of Rules? Simultaneously, on the side of the myriad races, Celestial Venerable Huang roared, his aura transforming. Boom! An earthen giant materialized! Among the myriad races, Celestial Venerable Huang was the first to step into the Ruler of Rules realm. He was the first expert of the myriad races to break through after the unsealing, encountering practically no resistance. However, on the side of Yuansheng of the immortal race, there was no movement whatsoever. None were surprised by this, because Yuansheng... walked the Immortal Emperor's Great Dao, and the Immortal Emperor was still alive! The next moment, a colossal dragon and a phoenix both began to roar. Both seemed poised to advance as well! Yet this might not be good news. Back in the day, other experts of the dragon and phoenix races had walked the Daos they tread. For them to advance now meant that the Rulers of Rules who originally held those Daos had fallen! Otherwise, becoming a Ruler of Rules was impossible! To one side of heaven and earth, San Yue wore a look of utter sorrow: "Yi Yue isn't dead!" "..." All around him, people stared with mouths agape. *That's your grandfather!* *How can you say such a thing!* San Yue felt helpless and miserable. Er Yue—his father—was dead. However, that Dao had been inherited by Jiu Yue. As for himself, he walked Yi Yue's Dao, but Yi Yue was still alive, so... he had no reaction whatsoever! How tragic was this! He couldn't become a Ruler of Rules! Yi Yue was still alive! Even Great Axe had advanced, yet he hadn't. Wasn't that deeply depressing? Furthermore, he hadn't merged into Su Yu's heaven and earth, so while those who had merged grew stronger, he did not. The more he thought about it, the more miserable he felt! In the distance, Su Yu dodged Hundred Battles and was also surprised: "Yi Yue is still alive?" What a pity! That meant San Yue couldn't advance! That truly was a sorrowful turn of events! Over among the myriad races, Marquis Saint was on the verge of advancing as well! Once successful, the myriad races would have Marquis Saint, the Dragon, the Phoenix, Huang, and the God Empress. Aside from that unlucky fellow Yuansheng, all of them seemed to have broken through—five Rulers of Rules! Wouldn't he be getting the short end of the stick? On his side, aside from Great Axe, was nobody else able to advance? The more Su Yu thought about it, the more he felt he was losing out! Just as he was pondering this, a thunderous roar erupted from his side—Hongmeng! Indeed, Hongmeng, who had not long ago advanced to Celestial Venerable, suddenly felt his Great Dao shudder. His Dao had been opened by his Dao companion, and she had passed away long ago. A Celestial Venerable was inherently a Ruler of Rules; having just recently advanced had no bearing on it. A massive mountain hovered above Hongmeng. At this moment, a deeply emotional sigh escaped Hongmeng's lips. After countless years, he had actually stepped into the Ruler of Rules realm as well! Barely had this concluded when, further away, the Great Zhou King wore a complex expression as his aura boiled over. Two streams of Great Dao power clashed within him, and in an instant, his aura skyrocketed! The Great Zhou King had genuinely elevated his realm to Celestial Venerable, not merely his combat strength. At this moment, he advanced as well! Su Yu was surprised. So this fellow hadn't sealed his cultivation after all, but genuinely hadn't reached Ruler of Rules yet? He was only achieving it now? How bizarre! *I damn well thought you had sealed your realm like the God Empress did, but you hadn't?* The third Ruler of Rules on Su Yu's side had emerged! At this moment, the myriad races possessed four Rulers of Rules—Huang, the Dragon, the Phoenix, and Marquis Saint—while Su Yu's side had only three: the Great Zhou King, Great Axe, and Hongmeng. Meanwhile, among Hongyue's group engaged in battle, Hongyue's aura suddenly erupted, elevating her to the Ruler of Rules realm in an instant! Not just her, but Xueying as well! Hundred Battles had known some of the inside details, so he also knew which individuals could become Rulers of Rules once the seal was broken. The people he kept who became Celestial Venerables all seemed to walk Daos that had no other claimants. In the blink of an eye, over on that side, Changqing and Changmei advanced in an instant as well! Amidst the battle, Leibao flashed with lightning power and broke through! Yueluo followed suit, her Charm Dao erupting as she advanced! However, Yuexiao's expression shifted slightly—he had not advanced, because he walked what was essentially a Chaos Dao, so at this moment, he could not break through. Yueluo possessed a chaotic physical body, but primarily cultivated the Charm Dao. In the span of a breath, Changqing, Changmei, Yueluo, Leibao, Hongyue, and Xueying—a full six experts—had advanced to the Ruler of Rules realm. As for Wuji, who knew if he was dead or alive; there was no sign of him. Six were born here. Combined with the seven from Su Yu's and the myriad races' camps, a total of thirteen new Rulers of Rules had emerged across all sides in the blink of an eye! The accumulation of countless years in the myriad realms had completely erupted at this moment! Yet this was not the end. Over there, Tianming suddenly sighed with helplessness and sorrow—genuine sorrow. "Scheming and calculating, only to calculate his own end... The Destiny Emperor... has passed away!" His aura was boiling! Yet he showed little joy! The sovereign of the Destiny race was dead! He was actually dead! Tianming felt sorrow. Unlike San Yue, who should have been chuckling secretly because his grandfather was still alive, the sovereign of the Destiny race was truly gone. Tianming didn't know how the Destiny Emperor had died, but dead he was—that was a fact. Unless he had switched Daos, Tianming could never have advanced right now! Tianming couldn't bring himself to be happy! Perhaps it was a boon for him personally, but for the Destiny race... even if Su Yu went and retrieved the Human Sovereign, the Destiny race would no longer have their Destiny Emperor! This was the fourteenth Ruler of Rules! Not far away, San Yue was green with envy: "Your uncle died, lucky bastard!" *Fuck your ancestors!* Tianming glared with hostility, but San Yue shrugged it off. "He's been missing for a hundred thousand years; you should have been prepared long ago. Stop pretending!" Well, that was also the truth! After those figures vanished back then, everyone had essentially treated them as dead, so they were indeed somewhat prepared. Even when true deaths occurred and the Great Daos shuddered... they were somewhat psychologically braced for it. It was just that confirming the death still brought a twinge of sorrow. The emergence of the fourteenth Ruler of Rules seemed to mark the limit. Wan Tiansheng and Lan Tian were both Dao-openers possessing the combat strength of Celestial Venerables, but lacked the ability to directly take control of an established Great Dao; their Daos were not yet fully developed, so this unsealing provided them no benefit! Tongtian's Great Dao was unique, requiring the devouring of portals to advance, so he did not break through either. Feiqiu had also opened his own Dao and did not advance. Figures like the Southern King and Lanshan had merged their Daos into Su Yu's heaven and earth, so the unsealing had no bearing on them either. The Chaos Dragon and the Eight-Winged Tiger were in the same boat; walking the Chaos Dao, their sole hope was to break through beyond the portal, or to slay Yuqing and devour her chaotic will. On Su Yu's side, those who had merged into his heaven and earth had all grown significantly stronger. Among those who hadn't, four Celestial Venerables advanced after the unsealing. The myriad races also had four! Meanwhile, among Hundred Battles' subordinates, aside from Yuexiao being unable to break through and Wuji disappearing, the remaining six had all broken through. Clearly, Hundred Battles had planned ahead, calculating long ago which individuals to retain! He had also prepared to break the seal, but his version of unsealing was undoubtedly aimed at letting all his subordinates break through. Unlike Su Yu, who had no choice and simply accepted whoever pledged allegiance to him. With Hundred Battles, perhaps those who had no prospect of advancing had long since been purged by him! Fourteen new Rulers of Rules! Adding the God Empress, Hundred Battles, Su Yu, the Martial Emperor, Zhou Ji, Yuqing, Polong, the Dead Spirit Imperial Sovereign, and the Southern King... At this moment, the Rulers of Rules in the myriad realms instantly exceeded twenty! The accumulation of a hundred thousand years blossomed with brilliance today! Streak upon streak of incomparably formidable auras swept across heaven and earth! Yet lamentably, Polong would never see it. The instant everyone completed their advancements, Polong's remaining half-body suddenly collapsed, detonated, and perished! The Hell Gate shuddered violently! It seemed another supreme being wished to step through! Further away, the Southern King suddenly cursed, "Idiot, couldn't you wait a moment?" She was cursing Su Yu! Changqing and Changmei hadn't been killed yet, so why break the seal now? Just wait a little bit! She was just leading her people to kill them! They had only just clashed... and good grief, those two had advanced! Wasn't Su Yu screwing over his own mother? Well, the Southern King was already thinking of herself as a mother. And she was genuinely furious! Su Yu was too impulsive! Couldn't you just wait a moment? She was about to die of anger from Su Yu! The leap in combat prowess from Celestial Venerable to Ruler of Rules was substantial; a single Ruler of Rules could take on several Celestial Venerables. How was she supposed to handle this? Killing them was still possible, of course. Yet it would clearly incur far heavier losses! Su Yu schemed this and schemed that—could he have failed to calculate this? Don't get so impatient just because a bunch of Celestial Venerables of the myriad races died! ... Opposite Su Yu, Hundred Battles chuckled as well. "It seems you broke the seal a bit too early!" His side had suddenly gained multiple Rulers of Rules. Doing this would only diminish Su Yu's advantage. Moreover, five Rulers of Rules had abruptly emerged among the myriad races—aside from Yuansheng and the deceased, the rest had all advanced. Would these people continue obeying Su Yu? Five Rulers of Rules were enough to turn the tables! Wasn't Su Yu worried? "Dumbass!" Su Yu suddenly cursed. Hundred Battles blanked momentarily. In the next instant, Su Yu bellowed, "By the decree of Emperor Yu, I strip Changqing, Changmei, Leibao, and the rest of their ancient marquis titles! Weaken their fortune! Strip away their fortune! Human traitors are guilty of unforgivable crimes, condemned by heaven and earth, plagued by misfortune!" Boom! A world-shaking blast resounded. Thunder flashed in the void, and within Su Yu's heaven and earth, the Human Lord Seal shook violently! An overwhelmingly powerful force of fortune swept toward them! In the distance, within the Human Sovereign's Dao, a resonant tremor erupted. The next moment, a voice could faintly be heard saying: "Approved!" Having said that, as if seizing the chance, that person seemed to want to say more: "What the hell are you doing..." Stripping this one's title one day, stripping that one's the next—what in the world are you playing at? You're making this old man thoroughly depressed! At this moment, tracing along Su Yu's fortune power, ancient fortune intertwined. That honest fellow, the Human Sovereign, seemed to transmit a sliver of his will: *Stripping marquis titles again, damn it! You think my bestowals were child's play?* Nevertheless, the Human Sovereign had still agreed. Thus, a thunderous crash resounded across heaven and earth, accompanied by the snapping of connections. Changqing and the others suddenly cried out in agony as their Great Daos backfired, the newly mastered Dao power rebounding upon them all at once! Boom! Unable to withstand the recoil, their physical bodies directly ruptured! Su Yu roared, "Quick, drag them into my heaven and earth... Letting them advance was solely so we could strike it rich!" Without advancing, what was the fun of merging a Celestial Venerable? Merging a Ruler of Rules was how you struck it rich! At this moment, Hundred Battles' expression darkened completely! Of all his calculations... he had never calculated that Su Yu would collude across vast distances with the Human Sovereign! Taking advantage of the very instant they advanced, Su Yu had stripped all human fortune from them. Unlike the Prison King—who had been so absurdly powerful that it hardly mattered—these people were different! They were originally humans who had inherited a vast portion of human fortune. Their marquis titles were effectively a boost to their strength and a bonus to their talent. When Su Yu stripped it all away... they naturally met with catastrophic misfortune! And this, too, was within Su Yu's calculations. Back when he stripped the Prison King's fortune, it had little impact on the Prison King and her lineage because the Prison King herself was terrifically strong, enough to support an entire clan on her own! It was only at this moment that everyone truly sensed the terror of fortune! The Dao of fortune was ethereal and illusory! Yet once Su Yu swallowed Marquis Jiantian, the bearer of ancient fortune, his own fortune became outrageously potent! It completely suppressed Hundred Battles' faction! And it just so happened that Changqing and these people all held marquis titles! Right now, if they didn't suffer, who would? Only now was the Southern King wild with joy: "Splendidly done, my good son..." "..." A dead silence fell over their surroundings. Su Yu's expression froze. *Who are you calling that?*