Unworthy!

At the rear. At this moment, Su Yu seemed like a villain pursuing the protagonist of destiny, cutting down the loyal retainers who guarded him. In truth, Su Yu never considered himself a good person. In this era, who was truly good? Who was truly evil? Everyone simply had their own goals and their own standpoints—one man's hero was another man's mortal enemy. To the likes of Changmei and Changqing, Su Yu was the greatest villain of all. Yet Su Yu held no resentment or indignation toward them. As Changmei had put it, each served their own master; it was just that their master was far from capable enough... After incorporating the Time Record, Su Yu already possessed the strength of roughly a third-tier Ruler of Rules within his own heaven and earth. And now that all those Rulers of Rules had severed their Daos and merged completely into his world, Su Yu's power surged once more, rising from the third tier until it approached the second. Naturally, the stronger one became, the harder it was to advance. However, boosted right now by the Human Sovereign's heaven and earth, Su Yu had in a very real sense reached the second tier within this realm. Of course, this was only temporary. The Human Sovereign's world belonged, after all, to the Human Sovereign. Yet right now, Su Yu was indisputably formidable! Borrowing external strength was something Su Yu had always done. From borrowing power from the Time Record long ago to drawing upon the Human Sovereign's Great Dao today, he saw nothing improper about it. When one lacked personal strength, knowing how to borrow it was a skill in its own right! That Yu was not weak. She was likely on par with the Martial Emperor! Even back in the ancient era, she would have stood among the pinnacle of existences. Yet Su Yu, relying on the foundation of opening his own heaven and earth, bolstered by multiple Rulers of Rules merging their Daos into him, reinforced by the Time Record, and augmented by the Human Sovereign's might, wielded terrifying power under the confluence of all these factors! In this instant, his heaven and earth expanded relentlessly as he gave chase! Leaving his own world would make things far more troublesome. If Su Yu truly stepped outside, he would lose the enhancement of the Human Sovereign's power as well as the support of his own world. His strength would plummet rapidly, likely sinking to the weaker end of the third tier. Were that to happen, he might still be able to trade blows with Hundred Battles and perhaps even defeat him, but against Yu, he would undoubtedly lose. Only within this heaven and earth was Su Yu the undisputed strongest expert in the myriad realms today! "If I don't resolve you troublemakers today, more troubles will only pile up..." Su Yu muttered under his breath. The next moment, he silently spoke an incantation. *Boom!* Far in the distance, Leibao, who was being dragged along in flight by Hundred Battles and the others, suddenly found arcs of lightning power erupting uncontrollably from inside his body. With a deafening *bang*, lightning detonated, blasting Hundred Battles so hard that he staggered. Leibao coughed up a mouthful of blood, an expression of sorrow washing over his face. He glanced back at Su Yu and let out a heavy sigh. "His Majesty Emperor Yu... what a calculation!" A foreign stream of lightning power had actually been lying dormant inside him, and now it had suddenly exploded! He realized when it had happened. Last time, when they dealt with Yue Hao! Back then, Su Yu had joined forces with San Yue and Leibao. Inside Su Yu's projected heaven and earth, Su Yu had infused him with massive amounts of lightning power to slay Yue Hao. Leibao had thoroughly inspected his own body afterward and found nothing amiss. Only today did he discover that a vast quantity of lightning originating from Su Yu's world had remained concealed within his flesh. Now, that lightning had detonated violently, grievously wounding him and even catching Hundred Battles in the blast, causing him to stumble. In the distance behind them, Su Yu wore a nonchalant expression. "My enemies will never gain anything from me for free. Knowing full well you were Hundred Battles's man, did you really think I wouldn't take precautions?" It was only natural! The last time Leibao entered his world, Su Yu had granted him immense lightning power. Under those circumstances, how could he not place a restriction on the man? Such a rare opportunity naturally had to be seized! Leibao tasted only bitterness. Su Yu! What a terrifying monster! Not only terrifying, but ruthless. Back then, they were still allies, yet Su Yu had already begun scheming against him from that early on. Leibao was gravely injured by the explosion. Worse, vast quantities of lightning in the void now converged upon him, continuously erupting by resonating with the thunderous power inside him, showing signs of spinning completely out of control. Leibao sighed, flicking his wrist abruptly to tear free from Hundred Battles's grip. Hundred Battles, still slightly off-balance from the blast, froze for a moment. Leibao sighed and said, "Your Majesty, please go on ahead! Both the Holy Mother and Your Majesty are the hope of the Giant race... In this place, Su Yu is invincible! Let me buy a little time for everyone!" Tearing himself away from Hundred Battles, he voluntarily flew back toward Su Yu. Not just him—Yueluo suddenly broke free from Hundred Battles as well, darting swiftly toward the space behind Leibao. Hundred Battles's expression shifted slightly. Yueluo's laughter drifted over, laced with enchanting allure: "Holy Mother, Your Majesty, escape this heaven and earth first. Leibao and I will join hands to fight him. With two Rulers of Rules, no matter how powerful Su Yu is, killing us will still take time. That will be plenty for the two of you to get away!" Two Rulers of Rules intended to cover their retreat. Hundred Battles's expression fluctuated. He turned toward Yu. "If we join forces to fight Su Yu, there is still hope!" Had they not run at the very beginning, with Changqing and Changmei still present, their chances would have been even greater. Yet even now, so long as Yu was willing to fight, hope remained! Yu was undeniably powerful! Yu's face remained frosty as she continued flying toward the edge of this world. Su Yu's heaven and earth currently covered nearly the entire Upper Realm. The expanse was far too vast, and while inside it, they suffered constant suppression. Their flight was not particularly fast. There was still quite a distance to the borders where Su Yu's world did not reach. Hearing Hundred Battles's words, Yu's gaze turned fierce. Looking at him as she flew, she barked through divine transmission, "Fool! Once we get outside, if Su Yu dares step out, I can kill him on my own! Why insist on fighting him to the death in here? Are you an idiot?" Weighing the pros and cons, it was indeed far more advantageous to fight Su Yu outside. Fighting him inside his heaven and earth meant surrendering every conceivable advantage to him. Pitting oneself at one's weakest against Su Yu at his strongest was an extraordinarily foolish bargain! "While Yueluo and Leibao can tie him down, we must withdraw immediately!" Yu glanced back. It was feasible; there shouldn't be any major issue. Those two were Rulers of Rules after all, enough to stall Su Yu for a while. Outside, Su Yu had no easy way to slay Rulers of Rules, but in here, he could suppress both of them, whittling down their strength while bolstering his own. Under such a stark reversal, the gap between both sides would widen dramatically. When that happened, slaughtering the pair would become trivial. Not only that, Yu thrust her spear forward, shattering the void. "If you want to drag things out longer, both of us bombarding his heaven and earth to drain his strength would be far better than fighting him to the death right now!" Yu's choice was by no means incorrect. Proceeding this way, they would certainly make it outside Su Yu's world. Once outside, moving Su Yu's heaven and earth would not be simple at all; shifting it from the chaos to Human Mountain last time had taken Su Yu seven full days. Right now, trying to flee while carrying an entire world without the cover of chaos—such as entering the myriad realms—would cause Su Yu's heaven and earth to suffer fierce rejection. At that point, if Su Yu refused to come out, both sides would reach a stalemate. If he did come out, Yu was confident she could crush him! Hundred Battles fell silent. Right at this moment, Yuexiao let out a low shout and tore himself away from Hundred Battles's grasp. Hundred Battles froze once more. Yuexiao was white-haired and possessed only the strength of a Celestial Venerable, which counted for little in a clash of this scale. Yet he still broke away from Hundred Battles without hesitation! Without looking back, he flew straight toward Yueluo! Hundred Battles reached out a hand, but the retreating Yuexiao suddenly laughed aloud and called, "Luo, your brother is here to save you!" Brother! In the distance, Yueluo, who was flying toward Su Yu, halted in her tracks. She turned around, a sudden look of grief surfacing in her eyes. "You... go back!" "Luo!" Yuexiao chuckled softly. "Your brother was useless and let others bully you all this time. Today, let us brother and sister fight together! Even if we must die, your brother will die before you!" Without the slightest hesitation, he sped toward them! Farther back, Su Yu advanced steadily, his expression calm as he remarked indifferently, "What touching sibling devotion, what noble self-sacrifice for your master! Even I'm feeling envious!" No matter how deep the bond between enemies was, they were still enemies! Had I lost, my fate would be no better than theirs. In fact, it would be far worse! Su Yu swiftly suppressed the faint ripple in his heart. If I fall in battle, I will not die alone. Everyone who merged into my heaven and earth will likely perish with me. I shoulder far more than they do! They placed their trust in me. With a single command, all of them severed their Daos and merged into my world. If some stray sentimental thought caused me to hesitate in slaughtering my enemies, that would be sheer cruelty to myself, and cruelty to these comrades of mine. Su Yu's heart grew completely cold and resolute in an instant. Just like executing Marquis Yunshui moments ago—he knew she might have regretted her actions in the end, but... he could leave no future trouble behind. Otherwise, even a second-tier marquis could trigger an irreversible disaster! Never underestimate your enemy! Su Yu had never underestimated his opponents, even when they acted utterly foolish. Even now, with the five Rulers of Rules of the myriad races encircling Yuqing and Yue Zhan, Su Yu remained vigilant, guarding against them at every turn! Trust an enemy to keep their word? Trust an enemy to show mercy? Sheer nonsense! Today, I am the victor. Had I lost, my fate would have been ten times more miserable than theirs! ... Su Yu was about to clash with Yueluo and the others. Yet right at that instant, Hundred Battles, who had been fleeing all this while, suddenly stopped in his tracks. Beside him, Yu, who was still flying forward, didn't bother checking on him. Just as she was about to surge ahead, the stars shifted and the world blurred before her eyes! Hundred Battles's 720 physical apertures manifested. One of them abruptly shattered, forcibly teleporting through the void! In the blink of an eye, Hundred Battles and Yu reappeared right beside Yueluo and the others. "Hundred Battles!" A sky-shaking roar of fury reverberated through the realm. Yu's aura instantly erupted to its absolute peak as she glared at Hundred Battles with boundless wrath! Yet at this moment, Hundred Battles no longer showed any fear or panic. His face was placid, as though he had returned to his prime. He said calmly, "We can't escape. Losing your temper at me now achieves nothing! You would do better to think about how we can join hands against Su Yu! Or do you plan to attack me and hand Su Yu an easy victory?" At this moment, he seemed once again to be the Human Lord of old who had swept across the world. Looking toward the approaching Su Yu, he smiled faintly. "Su Yu, you... are truly young!" Envy! Beside him, Yu's face turned livid. An instant later, the Human Gate manifested behind her, as if she still intended to flee. But Hundred Battles's own Human Gate materialized immediately, locking down the surrounding space and depriving her of the chance to activate hers. "Yu!" Hundred Battles said calmly, "Fleeing leads only to death! If we join forces to fight, there is still a chance! Refusing to fight... is a dead end! If you try to run, I will join forces with Su Yu to kill you first!" "You dare!" Yu roared in fury, her terrifying pressure exploding outward. "Zhou Qi, are you rebelling against me?" Hundred Battles said placidly, "Hardly! Having reached this stage, changing course now would be even more foolish! We have already become traitors. If I turn against you now, wouldn't I be letting down the brothers who died? There is only walking this path to the very end! But... you will stand with me and fight him!" Yu's face was completely dark. "You fool! I told you, once we get outside, he is no match for us!" She was incandescent with rage! They clearly could have escaped. Once outside, Su Yu would not be their match, yet this imbecile had chosen this exact moment to act like an utter idiot! Hundred Battles chuckled softly. "How do you know whether he can deal with us outside? Su Yu rose to prominence not long ago. In such a short span of time, he achieved such brilliant accomplishments. How much do either of you or I truly understand about the might of a world creator? Stop judging him purely through your own assumptions!" Hundred Battles looked at Su Yu across from him and smiled. "I underestimated you all along. Even knowing you might have opened a heaven, even knowing you opened one, I still thought that opening a world with such puny strength would be nothing more than a laughingstock... Today, it seems I was the frog in the well." Hundred Battles let out an emotional sigh. "Just as you said, though I am far older than you, what I have experienced... may not exceed yours!" "I felt as though I had never tasted true despair... Today, I can finally experience a measure of it!" Hundred Battles smiled. "Only today did I realize that beyond fear, the greatest despair is an even greater fear, an even deeper despair!" He chuckled. "Back then, I grew terrified of Yu. Today, your appearance has shattered my fear of her!" Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "So what Changmei said was true? You weren't really cowed by a woman who is merely on the Martial Emperor's level, were you? If so, what kind of Human Lord were you? A mere Martial Emperor, a mere Yu—back in the early ancient era, she was nothing more than a third-tier existence! If you even feared her, how did you ever hope to fight the powerhouses of the Chaos and the Heavenly Gate?" She was merely a weaker second-tier Ruler of Rules! True, if Su Yu stepped outside his world right now, reaching the third tier would be difficult. He was indeed inferior to her outside! Yet Su Yu had never felt dread. Never mind dread, he had never even been frightened. In his eyes, figures like her were nothing more than ancient dregs clinging to their pitiful lives! She might be strong now, but what was she really? When Su Yu first entered the Star Residence Mansion, he hadn't known the full extent of the Martial Emperor's strength. Yet he knew the Martial Emperor was incomparably mighty, capable of blasting an Eternal to pieces with a casual roar. Back then, Su Yu didn't even possess the power of an Eternal! To him at that time, the Martial Emperor's might was practically that of a celestial being, omnipotent, able to snuff him out with a single breath. Su Yu had felt caution, but absolute dread? Never. He respected the strong, but he did not live in terror of them! Hundred Battles was supposed to be the ninth-generation Human Lord, the paramount figure of the past hundred thousand years. Yet he had actually been cowed by a single Yu? Utterly absurd! Hundred Battles let out a self-deprecating laugh and nodded slightly. "A single Yu wouldn't have terrified me to such an extent... I... saw the Human Ancestor's projection!" Beside him, Yu's expression changed drastically! Hundred Battles ignored her, smiling as he said, "Do you have any idea how terrified I was when I witnessed that scene? It was unimaginably horrific! Even recalling it today makes cold sweat break out on my back!" "With a wave of his hand, entire realms were obliterated; with a flick of his wrist, Great Daos snapped like twigs! The Human Ancestor's strength surpassed all imagination! I once asked others whether anyone in the ancient era could have achieved such feats. They all said no... Not even King Wen, not even the Human Sovereign had ever witnessed such a scene!" Hundred Battles sighed with emotion. "The Human Ancestor was so overwhelmingly powerful, yet his adversary was not a shred weaker. It was terrifying! So terrifying that it threw me into despair! Then Yu appeared, offering me a sliver of hope... If the Human Ancestor could emerge ahead of time, perhaps he could resolve all these troubles!" Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "Who was the Human Ancestor's opponent?" "Unnameable!" Hundred Battles smiled, and Su Yu smiled as well. "What kind of garbage excuse is 'unnameable'? Fine, I don't care to ask! The Human Ancestor being mighty, the Human Ancestor being unable to win—that's his own business! Seeing that was enough to throw you into despair and cow you into submission?" "I suppose so!" Hundred Battles gave a slight nod. "Actually, it wasn't just that. When I learned that the Prison King lineage also belonged to the Human Ancestor's faction, when I learned Yu did as well, and when I discovered that several ancient marquises were also his followers... I felt that resistance was impossible." "You're quite a piece of trash!" Su Yu laughed. "I'm not mocking you for the sake of it, but no matter how strong those people are, so what? Right now, this world belongs to us! Just as I know the Human Sovereign is strong, King Wen is strong, and the Time Lord is terrifyingly strong... So what? They aren't here, so I call the shots! When they actually emerge, whether I act like their grandson or their son, whether I drop to my knees and beg for mercy or get erased with a wave of their hands—that's a matter for the future!" Su Yu smiled brilliantly. "I'm not afraid of their strength. Right now, I'm the one in charge! Even if I shouted to the heavens that they are all my grandsons, what could they do to me?" I know they're terrifying! The Time Lord, without question, is an unimaginably fearsome entity. Yet... I'm fleecing his wool all the same! The man isn't here! If you have the ability, come back! When you return, I'll bow my head when I must. But while you aren't here, am I supposed to wet my pants just from seeing your projection? If that were the case, I should have committed suicide the moment the Lord of Dead Spirits appeared—I've offended the Lord of Dead Spirits to the bitter end! Hundred Battles offered a wry smile. "Perhaps you are right! Perhaps you and I truly are different! Perhaps things were simply too smooth for me! From childhood, my talent was astonishing. I fought a hundred battles and won a hundred victories, never tasting defeat... Yet losing a single battle caused me to collapse completely!" He laughed at himself. "So it is difficult for me to understand what you feel, and difficult for you to understand what I felt!" A hundred battles without a single loss! Yet the moment he encountered Yu, he suffered crushing blows to both his psyche and his strength. Defeated in spirit, that single loss struck him far too hard! Some people could walk out of it and rise again. Others found it nearly impossible to ever emerge. For so many years, Hundred Battles had remained trapped in that defeat. Today, speaking of it so openly, he had finally walked out of it. Yet... it was too late! Su Yu also sighed with emotion. "What a pity! Speaking of it now, I see little fear or terror in you." "Indeed, because as I said, the best way to suppress fear is with an even greater despair and terror!" Hundred Battles smiled. "And all of this... was given to me by you!" "I'm nowhere near as strong as the Human Ancestor!" "Yet... you can kill me... can't you?" Hundred Battles sighed. "You killed Changmei, you killed Changqing, and now you want to kill Leibao and Yueluo... Su Yu, they were all my comrades!" Su Yu nodded, looking at him, then glancing at the furious Yu, and smiled. "How about we join forces to kill Yu first?" Hundred Battles couldn't help laughing. "You truly have endless tricks up your sleeve. Even now, you still want to seize an advantage! If we kill Yu, all of us will die! Though I hate her, I don't truly hate her... I can only blame my own wavering resolve. It was my fault. Right now, I still need her strength to deal with you. Why would I turn on her?" Su Yu chuckled. "Yu, join forces with me to kill Hundred Battles, and I promise you can leave alive! If he doesn't die now and manages to defeat me outside, he will certainly turn on you. If you have any brains at all, you should understand that!" Yu's expression flickered! Hundred Battles's face shifted slightly as well. "Su Yu..." Su Yu offered a sinister smile. "What? Hundred Battles, did you think a fair, open duel was the respect I owed you? No, no, no, you're a traitor! Do you know how many people perished because of you?" "If you hadn't abandoned everything six thousand years ago, so many humans wouldn't have died!" "Hundred Battles, you caused the deaths of far too many people. And now, you actually expect me to treat you like a hero... In your dreams!" Su Yu roared coldly, his voice shaking the heavens: "You are a rebel, a sinner! A disgrace nailed to the human race's pillar of shame! Because of you, the human race's sweeping momentum of victory was wiped out in a single stroke!" "Because of you, the Fire-Passing lineage was nearly annihilated, and the human heritage was almost severed entirely!" "Because of you, we fought bitterly for five hundred years, and countless soldiers died in battle!" "Because of you, we could not merge our physical bodies with the Dao and were halted permanently at the Eternal realm!" "Because of you, the human race fractured into internal strife, and ninety-nine percent of the surviving ancient experts died!" "Because of you, our human allies were either wiped out or reduced to ruin!" Su Yu seemed to be listing his crimes for all of creation to hear. His furious roar echoed across the world: "Now you've suddenly come to your senses, and you expect me to accord you the treatment of a hero? Laughable! What's more, you haven't truly awakened at all. If you truly woke up, you would kill Yu instead of joining hands with them to fight me once more!" "Hundred Battles, you are a hypocrite! What are you doing pretending to be a saint, pretending to be a gentleman?" "What kind of treatment do you expect from me? What kind of courtesy? You are a rebel, a sinner, a disgrace! What more do you want from me?" Su Yu laughed loudly. "How ridiculous! If you fought me one-on-one, I might have respected you a little—a sinner, perhaps, but at least possessing some backbone! Yet now, you ally with the very enemies you claim to hate, just to gang up on me, the rightful Human Lord of the human race! How do you expect me to view you?" "I... am the hero!" Su Yu barked coldly, "I am the hero of this era! You come to kill me, yet you still hope to leave behind a hero's name? No! You are destined to be a stain of dishonor, never forgotten for ten thousand generations! You will always be remembered as the ninth-generation Human Lord of the human race who was nothing more than a traitor and a sinner!" Hundred Battles turned pale as paper. Down below, King Dazhou and the others were momentarily dazed. The moment Hundred Battles returned, the moment he declared he would fight Su Yu, Hongyue, Xueying, and the others had indeed felt a psychological shift—His Majesty... seemed to have returned! Yet when Su Yu refused him the slightest courtesy and instead bellowed out his crimes for all to hear... everyone was stunned! Today, overwhelmed by Su Yu's sheer dominance, everyone seemed to have overlooked many things. Now, with Su Yu stating it so bluntly, they suddenly woke up. Hundred Battles... could never return! No matter what he did now, he could not change the facts. A wrong was a wrong. It could not be undone with a mere confession of fault. He was a sinner! Because of him, the human race had fallen to its lowest ebb in this tide! Because of him, the human race had suffered devastating losses, struggling repeatedly just to survive. Hongyue and the others went pale, lowering their heads in complete silence. According to Su Yu's words... they were sinners as well. ... Within the heaven and earth. Su Yu's aura surged with chilling detachment. "Since ancient times, the weak have always garnered sympathy! Even when they make mistakes, people will say: humans are not saints, who can be free from error? But errors come in different magnitudes! Hundred Battles, had you merely shrunk from battle, you might have been forgivable! But you didn't just run! You took everything the Human Sovereign and the others bestowed upon you, you destroyed the contingencies the Human Sovereign left behind, and you wiped out the Fire-Passing lineage... You are more hateful and more deserving of death than the myriad races!" "In my struggle against the myriad races, I have never felt they were in the wrong!" "From my perspective, if the Immortal race wants to unify and enslave the human race, I will resist. A war of races is nothing more than the law of the jungle!" "If I am ruthless, they are weak!" "If they are ruthless, we suffer. It's as simple as that!" Su Yu said with boundless coldness, "You are different! Hundred Battles, you are a hundred thousand times more detestable than them! Against the myriad races, at worst I simply kill them—there is no need for reasoning! But against you, I must speak! I will make sure everyone knows you are a sinner, not a hero! You were the Human Lord, the sovereign of the human race, yet you betrayed your own country, your own home, and your own people!" "Someone like you wishes to leave behind an untarnished reputation before dying? You want future generations to remember the ninth-generation Human Lord as a great hero who saw the light in his final moments... Absurd! Stop daydreaming! So long as I, Su Yu, draw breath, you will remain the greatest traitor! I will carve everything you did into the River of Time, the River of Dead Spirits, the Dao Origin Land, my heaven and earth, and every single history book!" "I will make your name reek for ten thousand generations, so that future generations will remember: someone like you is unworthy of leaving behind any honorable legacy!" Hundred Battles's face drained of color in an instant! At this moment, Su Yu's presence completely crushed him! Just when he thought he had awakened, just when he thought his sins might not be so irredeemable, Su Yu told him: No, you are guiltier than anyone else! You are the greatest traitor of all! Su Yu had never treated even the Prison King this way, merely stripping her of her royal title. Nor had he treated the myriad races like this, simply slaying them and moving on. He bore no deep hatred toward Yu either, but toward Hundred Battles... his hatred seeped into the marrow of his bones! He truly hated him to the extreme! At this moment, Su Yu's voice rang out once more: "Originally, I thought you had some hidden hardship! Had you not joined forces with the Sin race, I would have thought you were merely biding your time for an opportunity. In that case, you wouldn't be a good person, but you could still be called a formidable hegemon!" "Your inclination would merely have been different—you would have favored preserving elite forces to achieve a greater victory... Back then, in my eyes, you were still somebody! I was displeased with your choices, yet had you made them to defeat the myriad races and the Sin race, you would still have been an outstanding figure, a ruthless champion!" "Yet now... now that I know you were in league with the Sin race all along! That your true goal was merely to welcome back the Human Ancestor, and all because you were afraid... Hundred Battles, you are a complete and utter piece of trash!" Every word of Su Yu's pierced straight through the heart! Indeed, when Hundred Battles first reappeared, Su Yu had guessed at some of his motives, thinking that while Hundred Battles was ruthless, he was still a hegemon waiting for the right moment to secure a greater victory! Su Yu was displeased, but held no deep hatred; it was merely a divergence of choices. Yet today, with everything laid bare, Su Yu felt only rage, contempt, mockery, and disdain! Thus, he spared Hundred Battles no face whatsoever. He was simply unworthy! Opposite him, Hundred Battles was deathly pale. Meanwhile, a faint sneer appeared on Yu's lips. *Is this the result of your decision to stay behind?* *The result is that Su Yu looks down on you entirely. He doesn't see your choice to stay as heroic at all—only as sheer, unadulterated stupidity!* At this moment, Yu spoke up with a faint smile: "Su Yu, you truly are different from others..." "Shut your mouth!" Su Yu snapped coldly, "You worthless cur, you'd better shut up! Intimidating the ninth-generation Human Lord and instigating his betrayal makes you equally unforgivable! Your guilt matches Hundred Battles's! Of course, you don't count as a traitor, because you were never of my race to begin with! For an enemy like you, taking your head is enough! Hundred Battles at least qualifies to have his name reek for ten thousand generations; a piece of trash like you isn't even worthy of leaving a single drop of ink in the history of my human race!" Yu's expression shifted slightly. Su Yu's tongue was truly venomous! And right at that moment, as the words left his mouth, Su Yu gathered the power of myriad Daos. His aura erupted furiously, brimming with cold detachment: "Since you foolishly chose not to run, then all of you can die!" "Yu is Emperor, the universe and all directions are mine to command!" *Boom!* Heaven and earth compressed, shrinking abruptly! Su Yu's aura surged even higher! Yu's expression changed drastically as she cursed, "What are you waiting for? Kill him!" Since this idiot Hundred Battles had chosen to stay, they had no choice but to fight! What was the point of standing around watching? *Boom!* A long spear, aligned with 720 physical apertures, unleashed boundlessly formidable rule power, shattering the void with a single thrust! At the same time, Hundred Battles and the others struck out together, lunging toward Su Yu! "Let the River of Civilization reveal civilization, let myriad Daos converge to shatter myriad Daos!" *Boom!* The strength of myriad Daos converged as a great river coiled around the perimeter of heaven and earth. At this moment, figures of Su Yu stepped out from that River of Civilization one after another, each holding a book, as though expounding upon the civilizations of the myriad races and the myriad Daos. "I am Devil—the Devil Dao cows the myriad races, devilish fortune shrouds heaven and earth—summon the Devil Ancestor!" *Boom!* In the boundless void, a phantom manifested—the Devil race's innate ability, Devil Advent! Summoning a formidable entity from the unseen depths! In an instant, the Devil Dao Su Yu gained immense power, charging toward the top experts! "I am Immortal—seeking longevity instead of fame, immortal and imperishable is the true immortal..." An Immortal race Su Yu emerged, drifting with celestial grace, coiled by the flow of time. Time may age, yet I do not; immortal and imperishable, that is the true immortal! "I am God—sacred and inviolable, sitting high above the nine heavens, the God Ancestor suppressing the universe..." Incarnations of Su Yu appeared one by one, peerless powerhouses emerging as though drawing strength from the boundless void—immortal and imperishable, sacred and inviolable, devil flames incinerating the heavens! Far off, the powerhouses of the myriad races watched in stunned silence! In this instant, it felt as though they were truly witnessing the Devil Ancestor, the Immortal Ancestor, the God Ancestor... the legendary beings who had forged eras and founded entire races! Did they... truly exist? Right now, Su Yu was conjuring beings of terrifying might within his own heaven and earth. *Boom!* These incarnations of Su Yu expounded upon the civilization of myriad Daos, described the opening of heaven and earth, sowed the seeds of civilization, founded races, and pioneered new eras! Volume after volume of book phantoms blanketed heaven and earth. The Devil Ancestor's flames scorched the skies, instantly enveloping Leibao, Yueluo, and Yuexiao within its pages. The God Ancestor intercepted Hundred Battles, pulling him into his own Divine Dao Tome. The Immortal Ancestor moved against Yu, instantly wrapping her within its pages as well. Yet Yu was formidable indeed. The moment she was dragged in, her spear shattered the book outright, slaying the Immortal Ancestor on the spot. But very quickly, the Immortal Ancestor revived: "I am Immortal, immortal and imperishable is the true immortal!" The moment that Immortal incarnation was destroyed, it actually resurrected! However, in the void, Su Yu's face paled slightly. Soon, he let out a cold snort and manipulated his heaven and earth once more! More incarnations emerged! This time, there were Underworld, Dragon, Phoenix, Spirit, Soul... These incarnations charged toward their foes one after another! Each clutched a book, expounding to them the root of the Great Dao and the dawn of civilization! Hundred Battles fought like a madman, his fists dominating the world as he shattered the God Ancestor within the pages again and again. Yet the God Ancestor was infinitely sacred and radiating brilliant light; after several clashes, Hundred Battles found himself disoriented, his gaze turning slightly blank! ... At this moment, among the myriad races, Yuqing and her allies wore shifting expressions. Su Yu... was too terrifying! No, a world creator was simply too terrifying! Yuqing's face flickered with conflicting emotions as she glanced back toward the Hell Gate. So many people had died, and faint stirrings were now emerging from behind the gate. She sent a transmission: "Everyone, right now only Su Yu and the Dead Spirit Imperial Sovereign have combat strength on their side. Su Yu is occupied with those people... If we join forces, we will definitely kill him! Su Yu will die without a doubt!" This opportunity was simply too golden! So golden that if they struck together, Su Yu would be doomed! The myriad races had five Rulers of Rules. On her side, she and Celestial Venerable Mo were both Rulers of Rules, and Yue Zhan was close. With so many experts, they possessed more than enough power to blow Su Yu to pieces! That was roughly eight Rulers of Rules! Even if they entered Su Yu's heaven and earth together, they could shatter it completely. One against more than a dozen—no matter how strong Su Yu was, unless he had reached the Human Sovereign's tier, even if he were as strong as King Wu, there was no way he could defeat over a dozen Rulers of Rules! At this moment, the experts of the myriad races turned to look at Tiangu. Indeed, this opportunity was extraordinarily rare! Yet Tiangu's expression was conflicted. He said in a deep, grim voice, "Our people are all inside his heaven and earth—both in the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm... With his ruthlessness, even if he loses, our races will be exterminated! Even if we win, only the few of us will survive!" They might win! Yet Su Yu's viciousness was beyond imagination. Even if he were to fall, he would slaughter every single captive first. There was no question about that! Tiangu transmitted his voice to the others, his tone heavy: "Do we gamble on a chance that Su Yu will release our people and let us take them away... or do we gamble that Su Yu won't have time to kill our people before we strike him down?" The expressions of several figures shifted slightly! Should they gamble? "Even if we kill Su Yu... will the Sin race and Hundred Battles truly spare us? They... might not keep their word any better than Su Yu!" In the end, Tiangu transmitted, "Kill Yuqing and Yue Zhan. If we drag this out... once Su Yu wins, we will face even greater trouble! Su Yu unsealed the realm and allowed us to advance... I suspect... he might choose to banish us, expelling us through the Hell Gate or behind the Heavenly Gate... and then seal the Hell Gate shut so we cannot cause trouble!" Tiangu added swiftly, "As five Rulers of Rules, if we enter... we might still have a fighting chance! But out here, we might not even get that chance!" The God Empress glanced toward Su Yu's direction and transmitted, "Tiangu... you think he will banish us beyond the Hell Gate?" "If he doesn't kill us, that is his best choice! Right now, only the Hell Gate has been fully anchored for entry and exit! If Yuqing and her people can enter, so can we!" The God Empress and the others thought rapidly. If that truly happened, what awaited them behind the Hell Gate? Tiangu said swiftly, "There will definitely be danger, perhaps even encounters with powerful figures like the Prison King! But that danger... might not be any worse than what we face now. If our luck holds, we can find a sanctuary and wait for the Immortal Emperor and the others to return... We might even be able to rally a group of chaotic ancient beasts behind the Hell Gate and make our return!" Tiangu urged, "While we have the chance, slay Yuqing and the others. Then we can demand our people from Su Yu and enter voluntarily... giving him no excuse to banish us! That way, we might avoid falling into his trap!" The Rulers of Rules hesitated for a moment. Tiangu added heavily, "Everyone, have you forgotten... the Southern King and the others merged their Daos, but they aren't crippled! They are merely slightly weakened, yet they haven't moved an inch! They are guarding against none other than us!" *Did you see Su Yu fighting alone and forget about those people?* They were slightly weaker than before, but with so many experts, even weakened, combined with the unweakened Dead Spirit Celestial Venerable, could a few Rulers of Rules truly annihilate Su Yu's forces? Furthermore, what of that Chaos Dragon and Eight-Winged Tiger currently skulking about—had they forgotten them as well? Su Yu was guarding against them all along! If push came to shove, those people were fully capable of fighting. The final outcome would likely be total annihilation for Su Yu's subordinates, but the myriad races... would also be slaughtered down to the last man. After all, this was Su Yu's heaven and earth! Only then did the crowd startle awake. Those threats were right under their noses, yet they had nearly overlooked them—a terrifying realization! Su Yu seemed to have deliberately fostered the impression that the Southern King and her comrades had lost all fighting capacity! Yet was that truly the case? The next instant, the God Empress's expression hardened, and she transmitted sharply: "Kill!" *Boom!* A colossal roar rang out as the two powerhouses from the Dragon and Phoenix races instantly coiled around Yuqing. Celestial Venerable Huang and Saint Marquis joined forces to strike at Celestial Venerable Mo, while the God Empress unleashed the power of rules upon her longsword once more. Pushing it to its absolute peak, she slashed directly toward Yue Zhan! Yue Zhan's face drained of color, and Yuqing roared in fury, "Utter fools!" Too foolish! *Boom!* A deafening blast echoed through the myriad realms. Yue Zhan let out a furious roar as the phantom of the Hell Gate materialized behind him, only to be instantly cleaved in two. A crimson line opened across his brow. With lingering resentment and despair, Yue Zhan suddenly turned toward Yuqing, his mouth opening and closing... *Perhaps, had you given me the chaotic will to devour and allowed me to break through, this wouldn't have been the outcome!* *Yuqing... you people... have changed as well!* *You abandoned our kin, preferring to trade our lives just to force the Hell Gate open!* A sudden smile appeared on his face. The next moment, he turned toward Yueluo and Yuexiao, thick drops of blood spilling from his lips as he roared at the top of his lungs, "Yueluo, Yuexiao... remember this! A race that sacrifices its own people to fulfill others... is unworthy of existing! Survive!" *Boom!* With a thunderous explosion, Yue Zhan blew apart. In his final moments, he had seen through everything. The so-called Sacred race was nothing but a joke! Yuqing and her circle had changed long ago! Welcoming back the Prison King and the Human Ancestor was their sole priority; as for the deaths of everyone else, not a single person cared! Such a race... was unworthy of existing! *We are inferior even to the myriad races. At least the myriad races still fight for their people—but whom are we fighting for?* How pathetic!