Chapter 1737: Bitter Fighting (1)

An intense battle erupted.

East Heavenly King was truly impressive. When Su Yu fought the Dragon Pseudo Emperor and Spirit Pseudo Emperor with the white dog's blood essence before, he was able to keep their daos tied down, forcing them to retreat before the white dog. But now, the dao of death spirit was reacting differently. It remained sturdy under the sharp teeth of the white dog.

According to the legends, there was only one dao in the Death Realm. The entire realm walked the same dao. There might only be one Master of Law for this dao, but like the ancient human kings, some of their top Daofuses were probably powerful enough to face Great Dao experts due to how powerful this dao was.

According to Su Yu's guess, this dao was probably comparable to humanity's dao of physical body before it was damaged, or maybe stronger.

Su Yu had a lot of tricks up his sleeve, but all that was pointless when the gap in strength was too big. No matter what, he was only using borrowed power.

"Settle down!"

The human lord's token erupted as the power of luck surged out of it. That caused the East Heavenly King's body to shake slightly, but he merely sneered. With a rumble, his dao pushed the power of luck back. With one hand, he crushed the numerous projections shooting out of the Mark of Civilization.

"Su Yu, is this all you can do?"

One step at a time, East Heavenly King stepped forward. As a response, Su Yu snorted and sent a drop of Dragon Pseudo Emperor blood essence into his Heaven Gate.

Boom!

A massive burst of power erupted in his body, causing even his skin to crack. Ignoring his own condition, he threw a punch. On the tip of his punch, a pen could be seen. That was the Culture Tomb transformed into a pen.

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Up above, Martial Emperor's will was observing the battle.

The clump of will trembled slightly. The Martial Emperor saw a lot of familiar things in Su Yu. He was deep in thought.

The current human king was too weak.

"Little Bug, how did you become the human lord with your weak cultivation? Where is that damn Tai Shan?"

Martial Emperor's voice rang out in Su Yu's ears.

After clashing against East Heavenly King with his punch, he was pushed back by hundreds of meters. Space shattered beneath his feet while blood sprayed everywhere. East Heavenly King followed with a sword strike. He was completely unaffected by Su Yu's previous punch.

While retreating from the sword, Su Yu answered, "Tai Shan and the others are gone. The glory of humanity is over. At present, all realms are against humanity. We are all struggling on death's door. Are you going to help humanity, Senior?"

"Gone?"

The clump of will shook violently. Tai Shan and the others were gone! This shouldn't be possible! He found that hard to believe.

"That's not possible! That damn Tai Shan is incomparably strong! And his companions! Those bastards are even stronger! How could humanity decline?"

"You are free to believe what you want—"

While Su Yu was speaking, East Heavenly King swung his sword again, hitting even the white dog in the sky, causing the white dog's body to crack slightly.

Instantly, Su Yu's body shook violently as blood poured out of his mouth. Instead of pulling back, he pressed forward.

Reverse.

Reversing death qi into source qi.

Reversing death into life.

Holding tightly onto East Heavenly King's arm with both hands, he started reversing madly.

Life and death clashed.

A large amount of death qi in East Heavenly King's arm was converted into source qi. The resulting clash between death qi and source qi tore a hole in the arm. Eventually, a drop of darkish gold blood dripped out of that hole.

That was his blood. A drop of incomparably powerful blood.

East Heavenly King looked surprised, but soon, he smiled and said, "Interesting. So this is your secret. You have a way to freely convert the living and the dead. But how much of my death qi can you convert?"

With his other arm, he punched Su Yu thousands of times in a split second.

As for Su Yu, he activated one character after another. Vibrate, strength, break, suppress...

The white dog's dao had granted him a big boost in strength. His physical body was already strong in the first place. Having fused all his acupoints into one, he could easily activate any technique he knew through that one acupoint. He also had a rich experience in combat. In fact, one could say that he had fought so frequently since his rise that his experience was probably richer than even some of old fossils that were still around.

This wasn't his first time fighting someone stronger than him. However, the gap in strength was too wide to be bridged easily. It hadn't even been twenty seconds since the start of the battle. With a rumble, the white dog was sent flying with a shattered mouth. At the same moment, Su Yu punched through East Heavenly King's stomach, but at the same time, his chest was blasted into mincemeat by East Heavenly King's palm strike.

Like the white dog, he was sent flying. Blood poured of his body endlessly.

The wound on East Heavenly King's recovered quickly as he smiled and said, "I am curious. How long can you last? This is the power from a drop of blood essence...What...a powerful dog. Unfortunately, I do not have the honor of meeting this dog. This is a powerful dog that has created its own dao..."

He had keen eyes. It was only now that he was showcasing his incredible combat strength. The manifestation of the white dog had been able to easily deal with the other daos it had faced before, but that wasn't the case here.

𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The short exchange between Su Yu and East Heavenly King had caused the space around them to shatter repeatedly. Elsewhere, the others were also fighting with great intensity.

On Su Yu's side, Marquis Lanshan was the weakest. After losing her dao body, she had dropped down from the Daofuse Realm. Faced with a Daofuse opponent, she was in a terrible state. Perhaps she would be defeated even faster than Su Yu.

Meanwhile, Grandstar and Empyrean Cloud had the upper hand in their fight. However, victory would take some time even if they were facing an injured opponent.

After looking around for a bit, East Heavenly King said, "I doubt their fights will end anytime soon. But the fight between us can end quickly. Everything will be over for them upon your defeat. Am I right, Su Yu?"

East Heavenly King might have suffered heavy losses due to Su Yu, he might be able to recoup some or all of his losses by taking Su Yu down. The treasures on Su Yu were good enough that even a heavenly king coveted them.

East Heavenly King could even feel the power of daos rippling out of all the treasures in Su Yu's hands. It was likely that Su Yu had several incredible treasures in his possession.

Ignoring the heavenly king, Su Yu looked up and grinned, revealing his bloody teeth. He said, "Senior Martial Emperor, are you willing to remove this disgusting bug here?"

Martial Emperor said nothing.

Su Yu chuckled and said, "Understandable. If I were you, I wouldn't help either."

Who would continue caring for humanity after being reduced to such a state by his fellow humans?

Just imagine having one's buttocks aimed straight to the sky and flowers planted on it for a hundred thousand years. Su Yu imagined himself in that position and knew that the first thing he would do after recovering was to kill Martial King and everyone related to Martial King. Why would he help humanity?

Thus, Su Yu did not place much hope in Martial Emperor. He wouldn't mind making use of Martial Emperor if possible. But if it wasn't possible, so be it. He did not have the time to speak more to Martial Emperor. After all, East Heavenly King was still there, waiting for an opportunity to kill him.

"Five minutes."

That was the time limit for Su Yu. A minute had passed. However, he was unsure if he could even last that long.

After five minutes, the power of the white dog would fade away, leaving him with the power of the Dragon Pseudo Emperor and Golden Peng Pseudo Emperor. But both were too weak. Even if they were here personally, East Heavenly King alone would be as strong as four of them.

Thus, this was not a power Su Yu could rely on. Using their blood essence would only delay his death by a little. Fortunately, he had requested for a drop of blood essence from the white dog before coming. Otherwise, even lasting this long wouldn't be possible.

Suddenly, the distant Empyrean Cloud roared. A shining sword appeared above her, parting the sky above.

"Blood shed in a just cause, illuminating the endless skies!"

Her entire body started shining. Even her unassuming clothes turned incomparably gorgeous. As of that moment, she was the most dazzling existence in the world. Her sword qi surged.

"Die!"

The soundwaves of her roar rippled out while a sword descended from the sky.

A sword of dao.

Boom!

On the other side, the injured marquis roared and manifested the dao of death spirts as well. However, the dao he manifested was far smaller and weaker compared than the one East Heavenly King could manifest.

Boom!

Rumbling sounds reverberated throughout the seventh level. Next, yet another sword shot out.

This time, it was Grandstar.

"Myriad swords as my dao!"

Countless swords surged into the sky before converging into one, descending sword. The sword struck the dao in the sky, causing it to shake violently. It was even showing signs of breaking apart.

"Roar!"

With a roar, death qi rippled out as the marquis shattered Grandstar's sword with a palm strike.

At the same time, a ripping sound rang out elsewhere as Marquis Lanshan's arm was torn off by the marquis she was facing. With a snort, he sent Marquis Lanshan flying while coughing black blood.

Even further away, Heavendoom had transformed into a roaring ape as he struck a marquis madly with a source qi staff. Of the multiple ongoing fights, they were winning some and losing some. However, Su Yu's battle was crucial. His defeat would result in an overall defeat.

Meanwhile, Martial Emperor and Heavenbridge Marquis were remaining silent. As for the death sovereigns in the death tunnel, they had fled far away in fear. He Tu was the only person who had yet to act. However, that was mainly because he couldn't find a chance to do anything.

This was a battle between Daofuses. He was completely helpless here. Thus, he was feeling incomparably anxious. Alas, there was nothing he could do. He was only a seventh-degree Eternal.

Prior to his death, he was only a step away from the Daofuse Realm, and he was as strong as Heavendoom. With that strength, he could have helped Empyrean Cloud and Grandstar with the injured marquis. Perhaps the marquis would be dead by now.

Unfortunately, he could only stay helpless. He had to wait for someone to suffer heavier injuries and help where he could. Right at that moment, a loud rumble rang out as Su Yu was sent flying with a hole in his chest.

"Su Yu!"

He Tu roared in worry. This was looking very bad. Even after consuming a drop of blood essence, Su Yu still wasn't a match for East Heavenly King.