The Tribulation of Myriad Races

The Tribulation of Myriad Races is a long web novel by Lao Ying Chi Xiao Ji, serialized on Qidian from February 6, 2020, and completed on January 31, 2021, at roughly 8.34 million Chinese characters in 966 chapters. The story is set in a world where countless races stand across the heavens: humanity was once the overlord of the myriad races but has since declined into a weak race hunted by others, barely holding on through the cities of the human realm and the martial artists sent to the battlefields of the heavens. The protagonist, Su Yu, comes from Nanyuan City in the Great Xia Prefecture; his mother died when he was young, and he lives with his father Su Long, a veteran. He also has a secret no one knows—for over a decade he has been hunted by the myriad races in his dreams every night. At eighteen, his father is called up again to the front, and Su Yu, who had meant to test into a research academy, instead joins a war academy to follow in his father's footsteps, and in a desperate moment awakens a golden tome in his sea of consciousness. The golden tome can absorb the essence blood of the myriad races and analyze and reproduce alien talents and techniques, and from this Su Yu carves a path of "using wits to overcome force": entering the academy, cracking the secret arts of the myriad races, creating his own techniques, and fighting on the battlefields of the heavens, growing step by step from an ordinary youth of a small Nanyuan city into a figure the myriad races fear. With the slogan "I am the tribulation of the myriad races of the heavens," the work offers dense leveling battles and reversals of scheme, and also depicts the factional strife within humanity and the contests of interest among the myriad races; supporting characters such as the Great Qin King, Liu Wenyan, and Bai Feng are widely discussed by readers.