Chapter 1030: Stay Calm! (3)
Inside an ancient building.
Su Yu was deep in thought. His path of escape through the moat had been severed. This was greatly troubling.
"So I can't leave anymore?"
He muttered to himself. In that case, he would have to remain in the city. He still had some safe houses prepared, but those houses might not be secure enough.
"The safest place was probably the mayor's residence. But that place wasn't so easy to enter. Furthermore, the mayor seems to have sealed the mayor's residence. That damn mayor seems to be very hostile toward me. Maybe I can trick him to open the door once so that I can sneak inside?"
His actual target was the inner hall. When he last visited the inner hall of a mayor's residence, he had obtained three teleportation talismans. Perhaps he could find yet another opportunity to leave from the inner hall this time?
At that thought, Su Yu left the building and joined the tide of death spirits on the streets. The experts were still flying all over the city in search of him.
The number of people outside had decreased. Some of them had been forced to retreat indoors due to the increase in death qi density. Out on the streets, Su Yu was cursing inwardly that he lacked an Invincible talisman.
If he had something like that, he could instantly kill over ten thousand death spirits. That would spawn tens of thousands of death spirits, including a large number of Sunmoon death spirits. That would be enough to keep those experts busy for a while.
They were lucky he didn't have something like that. If he had, he would even kill the Sunmoon death spirits to spawn death spirits powerful enough to kill all these experts.
"I can either enter the mayor's residence or enter an inner ring building and finish my conversion into a resident. I can also choose to not convert and simply wait in the city for a few months. Everyone will believe I'm dead then..."
Suddenly, he realized that it wouldn't work. The damn index would show everyone that he was still alive. At this, he thought of something else. Would the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion continue tracking his status after he became an ancient city resident? Right, he had never considered that. Could a resident still be considered a living being?
He had never seen any ancient city resident on the index. Were they simply not talented enough or were they not qualified to enter due to their status? He had no answer for that. Perhaps only the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion knew the answer.
"If converting into a resident can remove me from the index, this will indeed be a good option..."
In the past, he had thought that it was cool to be on the index. But now, he only wanted to index to leave him alone. If it wasn't for the damn index, how would he be in such a difficult situation? Without the index, nobody would know if he was dead or alive.
But now, the index would constantly remind everyone that he was alive. He couldn't even feign his death. The index would also let everyone know the moment he killed an index genius. That was too annoying.
He even started disliking the heavenly rewards. He once loved them, but now, the heavenly rewards felt more like spotlights meant to expose his whereabouts.
The damn Allheaven Battlefield did not seem that friendly toward geniuses, after all. Here, every single move of a genius would be under close supervision. Here, fame and trouble came hand in hand.
"Allheaven Battlefield..."
Su Yu could roughly understand the underlying principles of the Allheaven Battlefield. Basically, this place encouraged the young geniuses to fight each other head-on. Sneaking around was discouraged as there were too many mechanics in place to expose someone after even one kill of any significance.
This damn place was basically a breeding ground of experts with blood as the sole nutrient. The fact that geniuses could somehow encounter each other easily here was proof of that. Following the tide of death spirits, Su Yu soon reached the mayor's residence.
First, he searched for a hole in the walls he could crawl through. In the previous ancient city, Topsoil Spirit had hidden himself in one of these dog holes. Unfortunately, this mayor did not seem to like dogs. Not a single dog hole could be found on the walls.
Su Yu definitely wouldn't mind crawling through one of these holes into the mayor's residence.
"There are not enough death spirits in the city. And these death spirits are not strong enough to threaten them. The moment an Invincible enters the city, things will get troublesome for me."
Su Yu knew that there were mechanisms in place to prevent Invincibles from entering ancient cities. Back then, an Invincible had once perished in an ancient city due to these mechanisms. Because of that, Invincibles would not enter an ancient city rashly. But that did not mean that they couldn't.
"I guess my final choice is to pinch the little furball to death."
There was nothing too wrong about that. In that situation, he would probably die moments after the furball's death. Since they were so close, it was only fair for them to die together, right?
Inside the sea of willpower, the little furball sensed the same malice coming toward him again. He fixed his gaze on the yummy characters around him, deciding that if he was going to die, he would die full.
Su Yu looked around and saw that a large number of the experts were still flying around in search of him. Only a small number of them had retreated indoors. After circling the mayor's residence once, he found no opening to enter.
Thus, he set his eyes on one of his safe houses in the first ring. At worst, he would lock himself in that building for a few months. He wondered if Invincibles could unlock the buildings here in the first ring forcefully.
"If I can leave, I'll naturally try my best to leave. If not, I'll wait it out."
He could simply hide somewhere and focus on forging his body. He had five hundred strands of heavenearth profound light on him alongside an assortment of other resources. He had enough to complete numerous body forgings. He could emerge again when he was strong enough and get some bastards killed.
His urge to become a resident strengthened. There seemed to be a clear difference between becoming a resident and transforming into a death spirit. As a resident, he could become the mayor or part of the guards if he was strong enough. There were definitely some mechanisms in place to control all these processes. But outsiders did not know too much about these mechanisms.
"It would be even better if I can dethrone the damn dark devil dragon and get that bastard killed."
The mayor was the one who had severed his way out of the city. He was not going to forgive this. The moment that fellow stopped being a mayor, he would most definitely die. The dragons had been wanting to kill him for quite a while.
***
At the same time. Mayor's residence.
The stone statue opened his eyes in annoyance. His city was in chaos. Not long ago, he had been laughing at Heavendoom. But now...he discovered that the source of disaster was indeed capable of bringing disaster everywhere.
The deaths of that damn human and the little soul devourer would definitely cause the appearance of Eternals. That was probably why Heavendoom had kindly given that human some teleportation talismans. He was merely trying to send the troublemaker away. And now, the troublemaker was here to cause trouble.
This was Heavendoom's fault! He scanned the city, looking at the surging death qi and the Sunmoons flying everywhere. After a while, he found Su Yu in a first-ring building. He felt quite troubled. Should he send that human away or should he ignore the human?
It wouldn't be easy to send the human way. He could sense numerous experts outside the city. But he only needed to be concerned about the city. Perhaps he should send the human out and ignore the things that would happen next? Even if a battle between Eternals broke out, it wouldn't matter as long as it didn't happen inside the city.
The stone statue sank into thought.
***
At the same time.
Soul Devourer Realm.
A thought bubble appeared beside the big furball yet again. The big furball opened his eyes and sank into deep thought. He was thinking of an extremely important matter: When was the last time he woke up?
How long ago was that? The little fellow was in trouble again? And the little fellow was still in a holy city? Was the previous incident merely a dream? Or perhaps he had seen the future in his dream, and he had finally arrived at that point in time?
The big furball suspected that perhaps he hadn't settled the crisis of the little fellow after all since that was a scene of the future in his dream. And now, that crisis was finally happening in reality.
So...he saw the future while dreaming? Yeah, that wasn't too surprising. The big furball had been around for a very long time. He had seen all sorts of bizarre phenomena.
"So according to the dream, I need to visit the holy city and have a chat with the guardian?"
The big furball sank into thought again. Was this the same ancient city he saw in the dream? Why did...something feel different? The big furball sank into confusion. There was no helping it since he had too many memories. His brain was stuffed so full of information that he was having a hard time even detecting the passage of time. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
Chapter 1031: Gathering Of Invincibles (1)
Inside an inner ring building.
With his path out through the moat severed and no way to enter the mayor's residence, Su Yu had decided to hide inside a building a cultivate. Every tiny bit of increase in strength would make it easier for him to kill death spirits.
And if he could get some Sunmoon death spirits killed, he might even be able to cause Invincible death spirits to appear. If he was going to die, he might as well drag everyone down with him.
Su Yu didn't want to die, but he did not fear death. Similar to the likes of Mo Duona, the moment he decided to enter the Allheaven Battlefield, he was already ready to kill or be killed.
Wasn't life comfortable and safe in Great Ming? Yes. But he had left that comfortable life behind and entered the Allheaven Battlefield for the sake of strength. He did not want to rely on the protection of others his whole life. The protection of others was not as reliable of the protection of his own strength.
***
"Heavenearth profound light!"
Looking at the heavenearth profound light in his storage ring, Su Yu's mood calmed significantly.
Five hundred strands.
"These should be enough for me to reach my seventy-second body forging, right?"
He had completed thirty body forgings thus far. He only lacked forty-two forgings. Previously, he had needed almost six strands of heavenearth profound light per forging. There was no doubt that the stronger his body became, the more expensive it would be to forge.
But each forging would also grant him a massive increase in strength. Therefore, it was understandable why it was so expensive and hard for him to complete each forging.
In fact, Su Yu was prepared to accept the fact that he might not even have enough to complete all his forgings. It didn't matter. He would just complete as many forgings as he could. Just adding a few more body forgings would still greatly increase his strength.
He stopped hesitating and started consuming the heavenearth profound light in his storage ring. With his breathing technique, his entire body shook. His body hurriedly absorbed the heavenearth profound light, which was much better than heavenly source qi as it was easier and faster to absorb and process.
As Su Yu focused on cultivation, he forgot about everything happening outside. He had yet to decide on fully becoming a resident. He would make a decision when Invincibles actually started arriving. Those Invincibles might not necessarily dare to enter the city.
***
An hour passed.
After using seven strands of heavenearth profound light, Su Yu's body shook as the thirty-first body forging reached completion. He continued his cultivation.
He did not care about what was happening outside. He only knew that nobody had discovered him yet. And it would take at least three days for the death spirits outside to leave. He would think of what to do after three days.
Yet another hour passed. The night was arriving. Once again, Su Yu's body shook as the thirty-second body forging was completed after consuming eight strands of heavenearth profound light.
Time continued passing. Outside, the city seemed to have become much more silent than before.
When the third hour passed, Su Yu's body shook as his life force surged and his aura roared. With a rumble, he completed his thirty-third body forging after exhausting nine strands of heavenearth profound light. He had consumed twenty-four strands just to complete three body forgings. Each subsequent forging would exhaust more resources than before.
Su Yu continued cultivating in silence. Suddenly, he remembered something and started consuming heavenblood fruits as well. These fruits were extremely valuable.
Each fruit was worth two strands of heavenearth profound light. These fruits were beneficial in strengthening one's blood force. Just because one's body had increased in strength did not mean that the blood force would be able to keep up with the growth. The growth of blood force would progress at a much slower pace.
But with heavenblood fruits, one's life force would increase in strength much faster. Of course, heavenblood fruits were extremely expensive. Unless one was a super genius or incredibly wealthy, one wouldn't be able to afford these fruits.
Su Yu naturally didn't feel bad using these fruits. The only reason he had carried out this scam was to obtain more cultivation resources. The moment he swallowed a heavenblood fruit, his life force was ignited. The slightly weak life force instantly started growing.
Rumble!
His blood started coursing through his blood vessels like a raging river. Even Su Yu was shocked to see this. How effective. The divines sure had a lot of good stuff. A single heavenblood fruit was enough to save between three to five days that he would otherwise waste on simply strengthening his life force after his advancement.
Thinking about it, he couldn't help but agree that this was indeed an extremely expensive way of cultivation. Most of the time, only super geniuses would be willing to use these fruits. A regular person would only use these fruits when they needed to replenish their life force urgently.
Basically, Su Yu was using valuable treasures like they were water. But with his life on the line, something like wealth no longer mattered. Nothing was more important than strength.
In truth, these fruits were most commonly used by Sunmoons to recover during intense battles. Some would use these fruits for cultivation as well, but this was relatively rare in comparison.
After consuming his first fruit, Su Yu discovered something: his speed of body forging seemed to have further increased. Previously, his body forging would feel stifled due to a lack of life force.
But after consuming a heavenblood fruit, a powerful burst of life force erupted from his body shortly after. His thirty-fourth body forging had been completed. Ten strands of heavenearth profound light had been used for this forging. The exhaustion of resources had increased yet again.
After some calculations, Su Yu concluded that his remaining 466 strands might not be enough to complete his remaining 38 body forgings. Whatever. He would just complete as many body forgings as he could.
***
While Su Yu was busy forging his body.
The number of death spirits in the city was still increasing. This had nothing to do with Su Yu. Rather, it was the work of Zhu Guangshen and the other humans. Every now and then, they would kill some death spirits when they were alone.
Night had arrived yet again. The death qi density in the area skyrocketed. At this point, apart from the high-stage Sunmoons, the other experts could no longer withstand the thick death qi density. Thus, many of them started seeking shelter indoors under the protection of their Sunmoons.
Inside a large building.
The door of the building was wide open. Zhu Guangshen and Qin Hao were in the building. Both had solemn expressions.
Qin Hao asked, "Do you think he's gone from the city?"
Zhu Guangshen shook his head. That was unlikely. Some of the people in the city were aware that Su Yu had escaped with a teleportation talisman during the previous ancient city incident. Thus, a large number of Sunmoons were patrolling the borders of the city, making it impossible for Su Yu to leave with a talisman. And he might not even have such a talisman.
The connections between the city and the moat were also being watched. The gates had been sealed. Outside the city, more Sunmoons were waiting.
A large number of Sunmoons in the Allheaven Battlefield with some free time in their hands had arrived. Some were here to watch the show, and some were here to fish in troubled water.
Qin Hao said, "The five elementals contacted me secretly. They offered their assistance for Topsoil Spirit's whereabouts and a guarantee of his safety."
Zhu Guangshen shook his head, "Don't be too hopeful about that. Things might get worse for Su Yu if he appears. It's not like we can trust the five elemental race. Just ignore them."
Qin Hao sighed. After thinking for a bit, he said, "Su Yu...I've always known that he's talented. But I've never guessed that he's so brazen as well. The Invincible of the dragon race will be arriving soon. At this rate, he won't be able to escape."
Where could Su Yu go? Nowhere! Even if some human Invincibles came, the Invincibles of the other races would be around as well. If they insisted on protecting Su Yu, a battle between Invincibles might even break out. Su Yu was showcasing too much potential for the myriad races to be willing to let him off.
His skills, talent, intelligence, and courage were all exceptional. He was also completely merciless. Just look at all the sealed Mountainseas they had given him during the auction. He had killed all of them without any hesitation.
The number of Sunmoons who he had schemed to death was probably higher than the number of Sunmoons Qin Hao himself had killed. Could the myriad races tolerate his continued existence? No.
People like Mo Duona and Zhan Wushuang might also be freakishly talented, but they were nowhere as insane as Su Yu. He was basically a fearless lunatic. As long as the potential gains were worth it, he would be willing to do anything. Life and death were of no concern.
Qin Hao's feelings were extremely complicated. He really wanted to protect Su Yu. He believed his father shared the same wish as well. But...could they even do it?
Su Yu had fallen into an unsolvable dilemma. If he did not showcase enough talent, the human race would not be willing to sacrifice too much for him. But if he showcased too much talent, the myriad races would be willing to sacrifice a lot more to end his life.
Why? Because he was a student of the multiple character faction. There was no solution for this issue unless he was willing to obediently stay in Great Ming. But as a genius, if he remained stagnant for too long, his talent would be ruined.
Qin Hao looked at Zhu Guangshen and asked, "Did your old man tell you anything?"
Zhu Guangshen flashed an honest smile and said, "My father said that my grandpa will try to protect Su Yu if possible. But he won't be able to do much if the matter escalates to a level beyond what he can handle..."
Yes. Great Ming King would try to protect Su Yu. But he was alone. There was a limit to what he could do.
Qin Hao nodded. He inhaled deeply and said, "If the entire human race tries to protect him, it is still possible. We have dozens of Invincibles. Not even someone like me is aware of the exact number of Invincibles we have. I know forty-six of them, and there are probably more that we're unaware of. With the number of Invincibles we have, the divines and devils won't dare to go to war against us before their Pseudo Emperors become actual Emperors."
Unfortunately, not all Invincibles of humanity were willing to risk a battle between Invincibles just to protect Su Yu. Furthermore, there was a traitor among them. Or there might even be more than one traitor. That was the biggest issue of all.
Nobody knew who the traitor was. What if the traitor decided to backstab humanity during a crucial moment? That would result in the death of one or more human Invincibles. Just by existing, the traitor had forced the human Invincibles to remain passive. The source of this content ɪs NoveI[F]ire.net
Zhu Guangshen nodded. His father, Zhu Tiandao, had talked to him about this issue before. As per his father, they only needed to wait for now. Great Xia would start everything. Yes. They were sure that Great Xia would be the one to take action first. They would clear all these obstacles within the human race. Zhu Guangshen did not know the exact plan. Not even Zhu Tiandao knew that. They only knew that after Great Xia was done, humanity might be in a better position than before.
Suddenly, all of them trembled. High in the sky, a massive golden dragon had appeared. The incomparably powerful presence of the dragon could be felt deep in the city even though the dragon was still remaining outside.
Inside the city, the little golden dragon, Long Wuyou, flew out of an ancient building and exclaimed in joy, "Grandpa!"
His grandfather was the grand elder of the golden dragon race. An Invincible from the dragon race had arrived. This wasn't surprising since the Dragon Realm was the nearest major realm to this city.
"Wuyou."
The voice of the dragon spread into the city and reverberated everywhere.
Chapter 1032: Gathering Of Invincibles (2)
The golden dragon was so massive he covered the sky itself from the city. The golden radiance from the dragon's body illuminated the entire city, relieving the city of the darkness brought about by the arrival of night.
The dragon looked straight at the mayor's residence. He wasn't able to get a clear look at the residence due to the thick death qi in the city, but that did not matter. He only needed to know the location of the residence.
"Dark devil dragon."
His voice rang out, "Open the city gates and let Wuyou out."
The mayor appeared above the mayor's residence and coldly said, "Elder, there is no need for you to force me. I can open the gates, but I'll need to pay a price for that. The gates were shut by the death spirits. As the mayor, I have to work alongside the city. If I forcefully open the gates, I won't be able to stay alive for much longer. Why must you place me in such a difficult situation?"
After a short silence, the golden dragon said, "Allow Wuyou to take shelter in the mayor's residence. If you agree, the golden dragon race will stop making things difficult for you in the future."
The mayor sank into thought. The moment chaos erupted, the mayor's residence would be the safest place in the city, even if the mayor's residence was also the spawning ground of the Sunmoon death spirits. The golden dragon race was extremely powerful.
Of the greater dragon race, the celestial dragon race was the strongest, followed by the golden dragon race. And this person was the grand elder of the golden dragons. Thus, his promise was believable.
Due to the conflict between the mayor and the dragons, he had been labeled a traitor. A fight would break out each time they encountered each other outside the city.
Finally, the mayor replied, "Deal. Long Wuyou can enter the mayor's residence. But only him, not the other dragons."
"Agreed."
The dragon elder said nothing else and vanished from the sky.
The arrival of an Invincible had definitely changed things. The mayor's residence was showing signs of spawning death spirits that were even more powerful. Thus, the dragon elder decided to withdraw after saying what he had to say. If he caused the appearance of an Invincible death spirit, everyone in the city would die. He would be the one to take the blame from the myriad races in that situation.
During the Heavendoom City incident, a large number of powerful death spirits had appeared even though the Invincibles had not entered the city. Invincibles could provoke a reaction from an ancient city just by being near it. In fact, even death sovereigns might appear. A death sovereign was essentially an Invincible.
A short while later, Long Wuyou was brought into the mayor's residence.
***
Inside an ancient building.
Su Yu peeked outside after opening his door slightly. First, he looked at the mayor who was descending back into the mayor's residence. Next, he looked at the sky that had returned to darkness yet again.
Invincible!
The first Invincible had appeared. It wasn't like he hadn't seen any Invincibles before. In fact, he had even met three of them at once. But those were all fellow humans and they had been keeping their auras controlled at the time.
That was not the case this time. Even deep inside the ancient city, he could still feel the oppressive aura of the golden dragon.
How strong. Just what was an Invincible? What manner of transformation would one go through after becoming an Invincible? In all of history, Ye Batian seemed to be the sole Sunmoon to have ever defeated an Invincible. Just how much stronger than Sunmoons were Invincibles?
Su Yu did not dare to leave his building. He shut the door and returned to cultivation. He was on the verge of completing his thirty-sixth body forging. Strand after strand of heavenearth profound light was used. Shortly after, he consumed yet another heavenblood fruit.
Rumble!
The thirty-sixth body forging felt a lot more intense than the previous forgings. This was where most geniuses would stop. Alongside the rumbling sounds, his blood also churned loudly through his blood vessels.
And as he used the breathing technique, he drained his source qi at a rapid rate. Once again, his body underwent a transformation. A large amount of heavenearth profound light was being exhausted.
After a long while, a final rumble sounded from Su Yu's body. His eyes opened. Something seemed to have changed. But at the same time, everything felt the same.
It was as though only his body had been strengthened, but his instincts were telling him that something else had changed as well. He inspected his body with great detail. After a while, he exhaled. He had discovered the change. His life force had formed a layer of defensive barrier atop his skin. It had appeared by itself, and it felt completely natural, as though it had always been there.
When Su Yu gave it a test, he was impressed. His defensive strength had increased by about ten percent. That was actually a significant improvement. That might not seem like an impressive number, but that was what he would gain after an entire body forging. As someone who had completed thirty-six body forgings, that was massive.
"So there's such a change at the thirty-sixth forging...is this unique to me or does everyone get the same thing as well?"
Su Yu was unsure as among the geniuses he had fought, none of them had thirty-six body forgings. For example, Tianduo had probably completed less than thirty-six body forgings.
At this point, Su Yu's strength had surpassed 55,000 acupoints. He still had his yang acupoint, his characters, and his vibration stacking technique. His actual strength was far beyond that number.
In fact, he had grown stronger than even the fifth-stage Mountainsea he met during his time in the Vanguard Regiment. Naturally, he was probably still not Mo Duona's match without relying on any external boosts. But that might change after a few more body forgings. Physically, he was already as strong as a fifth-stage Mountainsea.
Previously, he would find seventh-stage Mountainsea blood essence difficult to consume and absorb. His skin would start tearing up each time he did that. But he had a feeling that would no longer be an issue.
Then again, the seventh-stage Mountainsea Realm wasn't even his goal. He wanted to gain enough strength to kill Invincibles. He knew that wishing to kill Invincibles right away was nothing but a dream, but he still hoped to grow as strong as he could for now.
To reach the thirty-sixth body forging from the thirtieth, he had exhausted sixty-five strands of heavenearth profound light. Su Yu felt very helpless. At this rate, he would need even more resources to complete more body forgings. Sure enough, even with such a huge gain from his recent scam, he might still not have enough to complete seventy-two body forgings.
Each genius was essentially a massive devourer of resources. A mediocre talent would not be able to grow strong even if they were given the same amount of resources. There was a limit to the height a person of mediocre talent could reach. But a genius would have seemingly no limits. That was the biggest difference between a genius and a regular person.
But regardless of talent, resources were required for growth. Growth would not come from nothing.
"An Invincible is here yet he doesn't dare to enter the city. This is actually good news for me."
But Su Yu also knew that things might change if more Invincibles arrived. He only hoped that the Invincibles would not arrive so fast. Sure, he still wouldn't be able to grow enough to kill Invincibles in time, but he could at least gain enough strength to increase the range of people he could kill.
At the thought of the Invincibles, he clenched his teeth. Fine. He would stay in the city and kill death spirits like crazy. If the Invincibles dared to enter, he would do everything he could to get at least one Invincible killed. Even if he had to die in the process, he would die smiling.
He would be the first Cloudbreach in history to cause the death of an Invincible. He continued working on his body while consuming heavenblood fruits.
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While Su Yu was busy forging his body.
Outside the city, the grand elder of the golden dragons had transformed into a humanoid form. He hovered up in the sky and waited silently. After an indeterminate amount of time, the air shook.
Then, someone else appeared.
When the grand elder saw who the newcomer was, he indifferently said, "You sure care a lot about this, old guy. You're quite fast."
"This is quite embarrassing." The newcomer sighed. Clad in an earthen gray robe, he sighed and said, "The earth spirit race does not intend to get involved in anything. I only want Su Yu to hand over Topsoil Spirit. That kid has gone missing. He is probably sealed into one of these ancient buildings."
"As long as he's not dead, there's hope."
The golden dragon wasn't too bothered. Topsoil Spirit wasn't dead, right? That was enough. The Invincible from the earth elemental race smiled and said nothing else. Yes. There would be hope as long as Topsoil Spirit was still alive.
Originally, he didn't want to come. This was the Ninestar Island. But he had no choice but to come.
Above each of the nine largest cities on the island hovered a massive silhouette. These were all the strongest experts or leaders of the nine realms. They were personally watching over their respective realms. They all emitted incredibly powerful auras.
Each of them was a peak ninth-stage Sunmoon. Borrowing the power of their realms, they formed a connection with each other and erected a powerful barrier with the nine cities serving as the nodes.
When staying near their realm entrances, they were as powerful as Invincibles. They were only doing this for self-protection. With the arrival of Invincibles, they had no choice but to be cautious.
These Invincibles might be claiming that they were only here to rescue their juniors or kill Su Yu, but their words could never be trusted. None of them would give up on the chance to enter a minor realm and eliminate the race inside if such an opportunity presented itself.
These might be minor realms, but they still contained valuable resources. The major races wouldn't have bothered attacking and conquering these minor realms otherwise. The nine Sunmoons also sensed the arrival of the earth elemental Invincible. None of them said anything, but they grew even warier.
As a response, the power of their realms spread even further. Even the realm suppression started spreading further out of the realm entrances. A large number of Sunmoons entered their cities. The spread of the realm suppression wouldn't increase their strength, but it would be effective in slightly weakening any enemies within their cities.
They were on high alert. But the two Invincibles couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge them. They knew very well they wouldn't be the main characters today. The divine Invincibles had yet to arrive. The human Invincibles were not here yet as well.
The earth elemental Invincible looked at the city and asked, "Elder Long Yue, do you think a battle will break out today?"
"I don't know."
It was hard to say.
"But if Su Yu is dead, a battle might not happen."
"Multiple character faction..."
The two Invincibles conversed among themselves.
Su Yu was truly too brazen. He was likely the very first Cloudbreach to have earned that much attention from Invincibles.
Right at that moment, a blinding radiance covered the sky. Next, the sky seemed to freeze before shattering.
The dragon elder curled his lips. The divines were a lot more overbearing than the dragons. A short moment later, space split apart and an incomparably powerful divine king walked out of it.
The divine king overlooked the city in a cold and detached manner before looking at the two Invincibles. He asked nonchalantly, "Is Su Yu still not dead?"
The earth elemental Invincible said, "I've just arrived as well. Divine King Ping Yu, you've actually arrived personally?"
Divine King Ping Yu said nothing. He had arrived with his wrath. Were they scammed?
But they didn't even know how they were scammed. According to the information he received from Zhan Wushuang, they couldn't determine what the scam was. They only knew that they had been scammed.
That was a massive humiliation. Divine King Ping Yu was furious.
Suddenly, a massive blade covered the sky and descended upon the arrogant Divine King Ping Yu.
Chapter 1033: Gathering Of Invincibles (3)
From far away, a cold voice rang out, "Piss off. You're standing in my way."
The sky itself was sliced into two by the majestic saber.
Divine King Ping Yu's expression changed. Even the expressions of the other two Invincibles changed. Holy shit! Why was it this guy?
An overbearing figure stepped through broken pieces of space and manifested in reality. A long saber was held in the hand of that figure.
Looking at Divine King Ping Yu who had stepped aside from his blade, the figure coldly said, "Ping Yu? What's the point of sending a piece of trash like you here? I'm here. You're not needed anymore."
"Xia Wushen!"
Ping Yu looked calm, but he was greatly shaken inwardly. Great Xia King was here!
The infinitely overbearing Great Xia King walked on thin air while shouting, "Fuck off. Why are you standing in front of me? Do you want to die?"
And surprisingly, the two Invincibles actually stepped aside for him.
This was one of the strongest Invincibles of humanity.
According to the estimation of the various races, Great Xia King was slightly weaker than Great Qin King, but he might not be weaker than Great Zhou King. There was no doubt that he was among the top three, but it was unclear if he could occupy the second rank.
With such a powerful Invincible present, how could they not concede? The terrifying part about Great Xia King was the fact that he had a history of killing Invincibles. The humans had actually sent him here!
Even the powerful Great Ming King had been overshadowed by Great Xia King. He was one of the top five Invincibles among the human race. With the two of them here, the three Invincibles of the dragon, earth elemental, and divine races might not be able to win even if they worked together.
Right at that moment, an arrogant laughter rang out.
"Looks like a good show is going to unfold soon!"
Crimson flames instantly filled the entire sky.
Shooting the sky a cold gaze, Great Xia King said, "Xue Mailuo, are you challenging me?"
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A crimson devil king descended from the sky. His pupils shrank slightly when his gaze landed on Great Xia King, but he still laughed as he said, "You misunderstood me, Xia Wushen. Go ahead and whoop Ping Yu's ass. I'm only here to enjoy the show."
The blood fire devils enjoyed fighting and killing, but they most certainly didn't enjoy courting death.
This was Great Xia King. He was too strong. He had only been maintaining a low profile in recent years because Xia Longwu was on the verge of dao affirmation, spending most of his time amid the boundless void.
And why was he staying in the boundless void? To kill. At times, he would encounter a lone Invincible traveling through the boundless void. He would then make a move and kill that Invincible with none the wiser.
There was no denying that Great Xia King was extremely strong. Even the devil king from the blood fire devil race decided to concede before him. With an awkward laugh, the devil king shifted his gaze to Great Ming King. A look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face as he said, "Great Ming King, you and me. Let's fight?"
"..."
Great Ming King stared at the devil speechlessly. Fight his mother! How he wished they were in the boundless void. There, he would be able to act freely and teach this fellow a lesson. How dare this fellow underestimate him, the second in command of the Knowledge Seeking Realm.
Ping Yu frowned and said, "Since the two of you are here, let's stop wasting time. Su Yu must die. He has seriously threatened the current peace we enjoy..."
"Peace?" Great Xia King said, "A mere Cloudbreach is threatening the peace of the Myriad Realms? In that case, shall we kill Mo Duona as well? And Zhan Wu Shuang? How about that old bastard from your divine race? With him dead, the Myriad Realms will certainly enjoy everlasting peace."
"Impudent!"
Divine King Ping Yu shouted, "Xia Wushen, are you provoking the divine race?"
A dazzling saber flashed forward. The sky collapsed and the earth split. Even as all that was happening, not a single noise was made.
Space shattered, and time was thrown into disorder. In the blink of an eye, Divine King Ping Yu appeared hundreds of kilometers away. He stood there calmly with his hands clasped behind him. But both his hands were already drenched with blood.
He stared at Great Xia King silently. Great Xia King was also staring at him silently. Silence enveloped the world.
The other Invincibles moved far away to avoid being dragged into the fight. Even the devil king was hurriedly moving away while cursing under his breath. That damn Xia Wushen was too strong.
Truly worthy of being someone whose blade had killed Eternals before. That single slash had dealt a considerable level of damage to Divine King Ping Yu.
As for the experts of the nine realms, they grew even more nervous. They might stand a chance against any Invincibles except the human Invincibles. After all, humans were immune to their realm suppression.
Great Xia King ignored the Sunmoons of the nine realms. He did not kill anyone either. Firstly, an Invincible wouldn't be so easy to kill. Secondly, there were other Invincibles present. Thirdly, killing an Invincible would instantly cause a war. The human race was still not capable of facing the myriad races in an all-out war.
Fourthly, the Human Realm was still in chaos. If a war broke out now, the pro-war faction might be the one to suffer disastrous losses, granting the pro-peace faction total control over the Human Realm.
Even so, he had still drawn his blade. That was merely a show of force. If he did not draw his blade now, things might become even more difficult later. The divines and devils would most certainly not send only one Invincible each. Since both he and Great Ming King had arrived, the two races would also send more Invincibles over.
In fact, the other Invincibles had arrived.
Dao King could be seen in the distance.
Shortly after, Xuan King appeared.
And moments later, a devil king from the original devil race appeared, flooding his surroundings with overbearing devilish qi.
One Invincible after another had arrived. Not even the previous Heavendoom City incident had caused the appearance of so many Invincibles.
After a long silence, one of them coldly said, "Humans, time to come clean. What do you want? Are you going to make an enemy of the myriad races for the sake of Su Yu?"
Great Xia King said, "What do we want? We want nothing. If you believe you can do it, feel free to enter the city."
Entering the city? They looked at the death qi covering the ancient city. That would be quite dangerous.
A divine king beside Divine King Ping Yu said, "There is no need for that. The death qi will dissipate in three days. We can simply keep a blockade around the city for three years."
It was that simple. For Invincibles, three years were nothing. But that was enough to ruin even the most gifted genius. Even if a genius could survive that long, that genius would have converted into a resident. A blockade. That was their solution.
Great Xia King frowned when he heard that. He wasn't worried about these people entering the city. The death spirits weren't so easy to handle. But a blockade would be truly troublesome.
But suddenly, the stone statue, who would rarely communicate with anyone, suddenly sent them a voice transmission. A hoarse voice rang out in their minds, "Blockading the city? Have you asked for my permission?"
Ping Yu looked at the city and frowned before replying, "If you city guardians have something to say, we will naturally take your view into consideration. But over the years, none of you have been willing to establish a dialogue with us. Perhaps you can simply deliver Su Yu to us. We will naturally leave the city alone after that."
These Invincibles were aware of these guardians. But these guardians had never been willing to communicate with them. One might assume that these guardians were here to suppress the death spirits, but the death spirits were still allowed to freely appear.
The divines knew a little about the truth behind the ancient cities, but they were still unclear about the exact details. In fact, they were actually very curious about these stone statues. According to what they knew, these stone statues were ancient Invincibles.
Almost all the ancient Invincibles had perished. How had these stone statues survived until now? Inside the city, the stone statue gazed outside the city. He said nothing else. Instead, he looked at a certain building. His gaze penetrated the walls to land on Su Yu.
72-Forged Iron Devourer!
Even among the iron devourers, very few had actually completed seventy-two body forgings. This human was actually cultivating the 72-Forged Iron Devourer. No wonder he required so much heavenearth profound light. Without such a scam, he would probably need millions of years to gather as much heavenearth profound light.
"Multiple character faction...grand cycle acupoints...72-Forged Iron Devourer...Five Elemental Art..."
After a while, the stone statue shut his eyes and decided to stay out of this matter. He finally understood why Heavendoom was in such a rush to send this human away. Previously, he had not paid much attention to this human. But he now realized that this was basically a walking source of trouble.
Traces of some ancient races could be seen on this human.
Outside the city, the Invincibles sank into silence as well. Both Great Xia King and Great Ming King were feeling quite helpless. As time passed, it would get progressively harder for Su Yu to survive this.
Chapter 1034: Rapid Growth (1)
Inside the city.
Su Yu could feel the massive pressure coming from outside the city. The death qi in the city started surging, as though an even more powerful death spirit was about to show up. But at the same time, that death spirit was still nowhere to be seen. Evidently, even the death spirits were feeling some pressure from the Invincibles outside the city.
At the moment, Su Yu had just completed his thirty-eighth body forging. His body had grown even stronger than before. Normally, he would feel both joy and excitement from this. But today, he felt none of those emotions. After all, he had seen way too many experts as of late.
High-stage Sunmoons were everywhere, and even Invincibles were starting to show up. He felt incredibly useless. Naturally, he had completely ignored the fact that only a year had passed since he was still a Source Opening cultivator.
So what if he hadn't cultivated for long? Were those Invincibles supposed to give him a hundred or a thousand years to cultivate before going after him?
He could only blame himself for being born too late. If he had been born earlier, he would have gotten a lot more time to cultivate. Thus, he rarely used his age as an excuse when facing any setbacks. For him, youth was no advantage. Why? Because the Invincibles would not allow that to be his advantage.
"I never imagined that I would start provoking Invincibles so soon after entering the Allheaven Battlefield."
Su Yu shook his head while sighing. It was his fault for being too outstanding. He was so outstanding not even the Invincibles could overlook him. Even if he were to drop dead right now, his name would still remain in the history books for ages to come. Su Yu. A human who has fallen only after multiple Invincibles joined hands against him.
There would be a special remark noting that he was only a Cloudbreach when he perished. How amazing. A single Cloudbreach required multiple Invincibles to kill. Could anyone from the future generations surpass such a feat?
Su Yu started comforting himself with such dark jokes. Naturally, he had his worries and fears as well. But at this point, he had instead calmed significantly. He did not regret any of his actions.
He only felt indignant as there were still some things he couldn't complete. But it didn't matter. Even without him, the Myriad Realms would still be the Myriad Realms. Since the Invincibles had yet to discover him, he decided to keep working on his body forging.
At 38 body forgings, his physical strength had surpassed 67,000 acupoints. The more he forged his body, the greater the increase would be. At this point, he would receive an increase of seven thousand acupoints per body forging. That was a terrifying level of growth. But it was also terrifyingly expensive. However, he did not care about the expenses.
Resources were things he could always rob, scam, or find if he needed more. Strength was the only thing that would be truly his. His current strength had neared the level of a seventh-stage Mountainsea.
At this point, it felt a lot harder to further forge his body. His body was simply too strong to be forged further. With his body's current strength, he could probably stand still and allow a Cloudbreach to attack him yet not suffer even a single scratch. His thirty-eight forgings were much more powerful than even the thirty-eight forgings of an actual iron devourer.
And the iron devourers were strong enough to ignore the attacks of Sunmoons at the Mountainsea Realm. When Su Yu reached the peak Mountainsea Realm, he reckoned even peak Sunmoons would no longer be able to get through his defenses.
Su Yu also noted that Long Wuyou had been allowed to take shelter in the mayor's residence.
While he was thinking about that, the voice of an Invincible rang out, "Mayor, what do you think about offering shelter to the experts of the various races? I believe we will all remember this favor if you're willing to help with this."
Someone else spoke out, "What are you trying to do? Are you thinking of stuffing everyone into the mayor's residence before luring powerful death spirits out to break into all the buildings in the city?"
Was that a human Invincible? Su Yu wasn't too familiar with all the Invincibles. Apart from the three he had seen before, he didn't know the voice of the other Invincibles. Who was this? Was that person speaking out to remind him about what the other Invincibles were planning?
There was no doubt that if a death spirit was powerful enough, it would be able to open the door of any building in the city.
The same human Invincible added, "At the Pseudo Invincible or Invincible Realms, death spirits won't be as stupid anymore. They won't remember their past, but they have the intelligence of a normal person."
"Great Ming King, what's the point of this?"
Someone sneered. They were aware that Great Ming King was speaking out to remind Su Yu. Yes. Su Yu seemed to have the ability to hide among death spirits. But that did not matter. That was simply because the death spirits were still too stupid. Even Sunmoon death spirits wouldn't be too smart.
But at the Pseudo Invincible and Invincible Realms, the death spirits would regain their original intellect. As long as such a death spirit was spawned, Su Yu would no longer be able to hide among death spirits.
Could he appear and disappear out of thin air like actual death spirits? They reckoned he couldn't. Death spirits at that level could also freely spawn or despawn other death spirits. They could also communicate with the weaker death spirits.
Su Yu was someone who had killed a large number of death spirits. He would probably be fine if the death spirit experts were unaware of that. But the moment they learned of that, there would be no escape for him. That was a simple yet effective plan.
Of course, the premise for all that was the ability for all their people to seek shelter in the mayor's residence. Back during the Heavendoom City incident, the mayor had maintained complete neutrality. Not a single person had been allowed to take shelter in the mayor's residence.
But the mayor of Grandstar City was different. He would agree to help as long as a sufficient price was offered.
With that, the Invincibles would be able to proceed with their plan without worrying about losing a large number of Sunmoons. Late-stage Sunmoons were valuable regardless of which race it was. All these were essentially reserve Invincibles. Losing one or two of them might still be somewhat acceptable, but no race was willing to lose a large number of them.
***
Inside an ancient building.
Su Yu finally realized that Great Ming King had arrived. Great Ming King was essentially trying to remind him that he shouldn't treat all death spirits as fools. But Su Yu was already aware of that. Previously, the early Sunmoon death spirits he encountered had already shown signs of intelligence.
They all looked puzzled when they saw him. Clearly, his disguise might no longer hold if he encountered stronger death spirits. During the Heavendoom City incident, he had avoided those death spirits by teleporting out of the city. But that was not an option here.
"Dark devil dragon!"
Su Yu vowed to never forget this mayor.
At that time, the mayor spoke.
"The mayor's residence is incapable of taking in so many experts."
"In that case, just exclude the humans..."
Someone suggested with an amused laugh. But right after, a gigantic saber appeared in the sky, threatening to drop down and cut the city into two. Great Xia King's voice rang out, "In that case, all of them should die together. Dark devil dragon, remember to never take a single step out of the city in your life. No...even if you stay in the city for the rest of your life, you will still die. I promise you that."
"..."
Silence descended.
Abruptly, about eight Sunmoon death spirits spawned in the city. They had all been spawned by the heavy threat the saber was emanating. Inside the mayor's residence, the expression of a middle-aged man changed. That was the humanoid form of the dark devil dragon.
Great Xia King's voice rang out yet again, "Dark devil dragon, be very careful when you decide what to do next. As a puny ninth-stage Sunmoon, do you think you are qualified to provoke me just because you have the protection of the ancient city? If I am determined to kill you, who in this world can protect you?"
The mayor's face fell further. He had underestimated the overbearingness of this human. Great Xia King stepped forward and walked on the barrier surrounding the ancient city before stopping right above the mayor's residence. His gaze penetrated the dense death qi and landed right on the mayor in the residence.
"So are you going to exclude the humans?"
Even knowing that there was a barrier between them, the mayor still trembled with fear.
"G-Great Xia King...you must have misunderstood me..."
The mayor was breaking out in cold sweat. Great Xia King continued silently staring at the mayor, as though his gaze could penetrate time and space itself to land on him. After a while, Great Xia King snorted and vanished. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by novel·fıre·net
"Don't think that humans don't have the courage to kill. If you anger me too much, I'll simply charge into random realms and start slaughtering all lives. So what if you have a lot of Invincibles? Can your race continue its legacy without any fresh blood?
"Don't try to push us humans too much. I won't interfere with the things inside the city, but as for you guys out here, you better watch your mouth."
"Great Xia King..."
Once again, the massive blade appeared in the sky and illuminated the earth below.
The sky split into two as Great Xia King said, "My grandson is on the verge of dao affirmation. It doesn't matter if you're going to interfere in that attempt. I only hope that my blade can stay bloodless until that day. Do not force me to feed my blade with the blood of Eternals today."
He was very strong. At the very least, none of the Invincibles present was his match. And none of them were really ready to fight the human race to the death yet. Great Xia King's domineering words caused the world to sink into silence.
Nevertheless, Great Xia King had still conceded. He had stated that he wouldn't interfere with the matters in the city. But he also warned that the Invincibles outside wouldn't interfere either. This was probably the best he could do to help Su Yu.
Sure, he could fight to his heart's content and awe everyone with his sheer strength. But...he couldn't die yet. He had waited too long. His grandson had yet to break through. He still had tasks to complete. Even if Su Yu was boundlessly talented, he couldn't afford to fight all these Invincibles to death.
Chapter 1035: Rapid Growth (2)
"Great Xia King..."
Inside his building, Su Yu was shocked. Great Xia King had arrived!
The overbearing Great Xia King!
He grew up in Great Xia. There, Great Xia King was viewed as a god. Back then, Su Yu himself viewed Great Xia King as a god as well. That might have changed, but that was the case for eighteen years of his life. Great Xia King was the pillar of Great Xia, the leader and the savior of Great Xia.
And today, such a person had drawn his blade. Su Yu's emotions turned extremely complicated. He...did not require the assistance of human Invincibles. Nor was that something he wanted. Sure, he once wished for their help. But that had changed as well.
But soon, he suppressed his emotions. He did not want the human Invincibles to battle for his sake. Life and death were ruled by fate. He would bear the consequences of his actions himself.
He did not need anyone to shoulder anything for him. Even if that would cause his death, he had no regrets.
But Great Xia King and Great Ming King had still arrived. As of late, he had thought that the human Invincibles were unworthy of respect. This had been his opinion for the past year.
But after seeing two Invincibles taking the risk to rush over here, he couldn't help but feel touched. But he also felt very helpless. He wanted to tell them to stop. He didn't want to be moved. The more moved he was, the more he might need to sacrifice. And...he didn't want to sacrifice for anyone.
"I don't need Invincibles to sacrifice anything for me. I don't need Great Xia King's blade..."
Su Yu kept muttering to himself. If Great Xia King really fought for him today, he might no longer be able to erase his sentiments toward Great Xia. He needed to be cold-blooded. He needed to be emotionless.
Su Yu inhaled deeply. Then, the little furball appeared in his hand. He would rather seek help from other races. He might die. He might end up as father furball's food. But that did not matter.
As Su Yu looked at the little furball, the little fellow stared at him while tightly hugging the Soul Expanding Hammer.
Su Yu smiled.
"Little Furball, what do you think about getting your dada to help me? If you get your dada to help me, I'll give you that yummy thing you've always wanted..."
"Liar!" The little furball spoke in his tender, childish voice, "Can't eat that! Not even you can feed that thing to me!"
The little furball wanted to say that he was young, but he was not stupid. He knew that Yummy was lying to him! After spending such a long time in Yummy's sea of willpower, he knew that the yummy thing was located very very very very deep inside Yummy's sea of willpower. There was no way to reach that thing. Yummy was lying!
Su Yu's face sank as he said, "Fine. Even if I can't let you eat that thing, I've been getting you a lot of good food recently, right? Since we're in danger, you need to get your dada to come and help you, right?"
"I can't..." The little furball complained, "It's true! I can't contact Dada! I tried, but Dada didn't reply!"
The little furball suspected that his dada must have fallen asleep again. He still remembered how his dada would spend all the time sleeping back then.
"How about your mama?"
The little furball once said that there were only three members in his race, comprised of his dada, his mama, and him. But as far as Su Yu was concerned, those were merely the nonsensical words of a child.
"Mama's not home."
"Not home? What's your mama's strength?"
Since the dada was a Pseudo Emperor, clearly, the dada was the boss of the race. In that case, the mama must be an expert as well, right?
"I don't know..."
The little furball shook his head cluelessly. He didn't even know his mama's current location. When he left home, he was still extremely ignorant. He had smartened up a lot recently, but everything he knew had been learned from Su Yu. Back then, he would spend all his time sleeping atop his dada. There was no way for him to learn anything that way.
Su Yu was left quite speechless. Why did this fellow know nothing? He continued forging his body while asking, "Have you tried eating some sunmoon profound yellow liquid?"
This little fellow needed to grow stronger as well.
Perhaps this fellow would be strong enough to kill Sunmoons at the Mountainsea Realm. Or to be precise, this fellow could enter the sea of willpower of those Sunmoons, giving him an opportunity to kill them. For example, the willpower of a Sunmoon warrior would probably be at the level of a Mountainsea. The little furball would have no trouble entering such a sea of willpower as a Mountainsea.
"No! Will burst apart!"
The little furball shook his entire body. Previously, he had tried eating some sword qi and flame. Both were the powers of Invincibles, and he had nearly burst apart. In fact, he was still in the middle of digesting the two powers even now. Thus, he was not going to eat anything so powerful anymore.
Su Yu was disappointed to hear that. This fellow sure was bad at enjoying life. Wasn't this fellow supposed to be a foodie? How could a foodie say no to delicious food?
After exhaling lightly, Su Yu smiled. It did not matter. If this fellow didn't want to eat, he would eat. The sunmoon profound yellow liquid could strengthen one's soul aperture. It was mostly meant for Sunmoons.
Previously, he did not intend to use it. That would make it impossible for him to forge his apertures in the future. It was fine. At this point, why still worry about all that? It was time for him to take the sunmoon profound yellow liquid.
Previously, he had received ten drops as a reward. And through his recent scam, he had also earned an additional three hundred drops. He would use this to further strengthen himself.
This time, he was going to strengthen his apertures instead of his body. That way, he would be able to push his willpower to the level of a Mountainsea. With his Soul Expanding Hammer, fourth-stage characters, a powerful sea of willpower, and the little furball, he might be able to kill a Mountainsea with one strike of his hammer.
As for his future difficulties in entering the Mountainsea and Sunmoon Realms, that was a problem for his future self to solve. If this somehow robbed his willpower of the ability to further advance, it didn't matter. Just with his body, he could still sweep through the Myriad Realms. Thıs content belongs to novᴇlfire.net
Su Yu had decided to go completely crazy. They wanted to trap him in the city, right? Fine. He would use everything he had, ensuring that they wouldn't get anything even if they managed to kill him.
With that, he started forging his body while consuming sunmoon profound yellow liquid.
First drop.
Boom!
Instantly, he felt his consciousness dispersing. This felt the same as the first time he opened an aperture. It was as though his consciousness was floating in the air, overlooking his own body below. He had opened a total of 196 apertures so far. He had 16 more apertures to open.
All 196 of his apertures started absorbing the power of the sunmoon profound yellow liquid. His apertures started growing madly. Inside his sea of willpower, his willpower started compressing, putting him in a state where he lacked willpower.
Willpower cultivation felt terrible without Sunmoon characters to crush. But that did not matter. When his apertures grew to a certain level, he took out an Invincible note. In the past, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to do this. But at this point, he no longer cared. He would devour even these Invincible notes.
Each Invincible note was filled with powerful willpower. That was why he had been able to form characters from reading these notes. He had ten of them in total.
Even the notes where he had formed characters reading would still work. Forming a single character out of an Invincible note would not even exhaust the note much. It would still be filled with willpower.
In fact, devouring the willpower inside willpower texts had always been the standard practice of cultural researchers. Su Yu was merely an exception who rarely used this method. That was because most of his willpower texts were the more valuable ones. Thus, he had never been willing to do so. But he no longer cared.
He started reading Great Han King's note while absorbing the willpower in it. The note would be completely useless upon losing all its willpower. Any other person would treat an Invincible note as treasure. Su Yu was one such person in the past. But that had changed.
Thanks to the willpower from the note, his apertures started stabilizing. Even the amount of willpower in his sea of willpower started increasing slightly.
His current state was rather similar to Liu Wenyan's. Liu Wenyan's sea of willpower was powerful, but he lacked the willpower to further his advancement. Thus, he had decided to crush his Sunmoon characters to fuel his growth.
As for Su Yu, he was ruining Invincible notes to fuel his own cultivation. One could say that this pair of teacher and student was basically a pair of wastrels.
Su Yu did not care about how wasteful this was. Wealth did not matter to the dead. He could consider forcefully forcing his willpower cultivation to the ninth-stage Cloudbreach Realm before strengthening his apertures with the sunmoon profound yellow liquid. That way, his willpower would become stronger than even the willpower of some Mountainseas.
He was trying to gain as much strength as possible for now. As for his future, only someone alive was qualified to talk about the future.
Su Yu wasn't too worried that the Invincibles would start spawning more death spirits in the city. At worst, he would complete his conversion into a resident. Even now, there were still a lot of residents in the city. Most of the time, the death spirits would leave these residents alone.
This was something Su Yu had verified during his stay in Heavendoom City. He was not completely out of options yet. If they thought that they could get him killed through death spirits, they must be dreaming.
Consumption, strengthening. This cycle continued repeatedly.
Su Yu started growing at a rapid pace. His characters, sea of willpower, and the number of opened apertures had all reached the level of a Mountainsea. But he had remained as a second-stage Cloudbreach because he had been suppressing his advancement.
But today, he released all his suppression. In fact, he was even encouraging his willpower to advance. If even Dao Cheng could easily enter the Mountainsea Realm after absorbing some treasures, advancement naturally wouldn't be an issue for Su Yu.
In the blink of an eye, he reached the third-stage Cloudbreach Realm. Shortly after, he reached the fourth stage.
After increasing his cultivation, he would receive less heavenly rewards. But that was no big deal. If possible, he even wanted to grow until the heavens deemed him unworthy of reward even after killing Mountainseas and Sunmoons. That way, he would no longer need to worry about the heavenly rewards exposing his position after each kill.
He found that extremely annoying. He stopped caring about heavenly rewards. At worst, he could always compress his willpower and reduce his cultivation level in the future when he needed more heavenly rewards. That was doable.
For example, Zhao Li had dropped from the ninth-stage Cloudbreach to the seventh-stage Cloudbreach after failing his advancement into the Mountainsea Realm. At the time, he had been forced to further compress his willpower after his failed advancement. That was the main reason for the decrease of his cultivation level.
Without any suppression from Su Yu, his willpower was truly growing at an incredible speed. After he was done absorbing all the willpower from an Invincible note, he reached the peak of the fourth stage. Unfortunately, such rapid growth had also filled his willpower with impurities.
But not even that was a problem. He only needed to hammer his sea of willpower a few times to remove some of the impurities. His willpower would no longer be as high in quality as the willpower of top geniuses, but it would still be comparable to the willpower of regular geniuses. Having squeezed one of the notes dry, he moved to the next note. He had ten of them. There was no need to hesitate.
Through this experience, Su Yu discovered just how powerful the sunmoon profound yellow liquid was. The first drop had taken him a long time to digest. The second drop had taken him just as much time to digest. His apertures continued growing.
Su Yu did not know too much about the Sunmoon Realm. He only knew that at the Sunmoon Realm, one would only have a single aperture left. At the first stage, the aperture would only be a tiny part of a circle. Slowly, the circle would be filled up with each advancement.
And when the circle was completely filled like a full moon, one would reach the peak Sunmoon Realm. That was the growth process of a Sunmoon.
Chapter 1036: Rapid Growth (3)
Su Yu had yet to fuse all his apertures into one, but after absorbing the sunmoon profound yellow liquid, all his apertures had turned into semi-circular circles. That was direct proof that his apertures were in the process of being strengthened. But they might also grow so strong that he would no longer be able to enter the Mountainsea Realm in the future.
To enter the Mountainsea Realm, one needed to start fusing one's apertures. With the growth of his apertures, the repelling force between his apertures would also grow incredibly powerful. But Su Yu was unbothered.
If he was being honest, he had never felt that the multiple character faction was actually that strong. He also didn't feel like cultural researchers were strong. Most of the time, his willpower and characters would only play supporting roles during combat.
As for the fear of the myriad races, he couldn't be bothered to worry about that. Would he be useless just because he could no longer be an Invincible cultural researcher? Not necessarily.
A warrior Invincible was still an Invincible. So what if he wouldn't be the one to activate the Human Realm's suppressive force? Liu Wenyan and Hong Tan still had hopes of entering the Invincible Realm.
After fully absorbing the willpower of yet another Invincible note, Su Yu reached the sixth stage. After a short rest, he resumed his work.
This time, he was absorbing the willpower of Great Zhou King's note. This was the note he had comprehended the calm character from. In all honesty, this character had been very helpful to him so far.
Unfortunately, he had not been able to form more characters from the same note in subsequent attempts. As he absorbed the willpower of the note while reading it, surprisingly, a brand new character took form in his sea of willpower.
After crushing his beast character previously, he was left with only twenty-four characters. Finally, he had formed yet another character.
Patience.
"..."
Su Yu was dumbstruck. What was this? While he was reading and destroying this note, the note told him to be patient? What the fuck was wrong with Great Zhou King? First, he received the calm character. Then, he received the patience character. Was Great Zhou King an old turtle?
Calm and patience?
Since this was a character formed from an Invincible note, it entered the second stage right after formation.
Patience.
After staring at the character for a bit, Su Yu laughed in amusement. How was he supposed to stay patient in this situation? How laughable. In essence, a character would take form through one's comprehension. Did this signify that he had comprehended the art of staying patient this time?
But...he was not staying patient at all. What could this character do? In truth, he had a lot of expectations toward the character of the number one human cultural researcher. Even the calm character had been exceptionally useful. He wanted to know if this patience character would be just as useful.
After sinking his senses into the new character, a pensive look covered his face. Understanding dawned on him. This type of patience...was simply the art of turtling.
In short, if he remained completely still, the character would generate a powerful concealment effect. Coupled with the calm character and the concealment technique of the looping turtle race...
Su Yu couldn't help but feel impressed. The two characters and that art were basically perfect for turtles.
"Is Great Zhou King really an old turtle?"
Through these characters, he could learn something about the Invincible. Both the characters he had received from Great Zhou King were similar in nature. They were meant for one to endure and be patient.
In short, Great Zhou King was an incredibly patient man.
***
At that moment.
Somewhere near Eastrift Valley.
A refined middle-aged man with long, fluttering hair clad in long, fluttering robes looked toward a certain direction. Once again, someone had comprehended something from one of his notes.
"Su Yu?"
He was both surprised and unsurprised. With a slight smile on his face, he tossed the matter to the back of his mind. Even in such a moment, that kid still had the time to cultivate. Sure enough, a walking disaster like that would not die so easily. Suddenly, a figure flickered into existence beside him.
"Old Zhou, read someone's fortune for me."
That was Great Qin King.
"Whose fortune?" Great Zhou King smiled, "Xia Wushen?"
"No. Su Yu's."
Great Zhou King said, "Fortune telling is unreliable. We can divine all we want, everything is everchanging. Even if my divination shows that he will die, he might still be able to defy his fate and survive. It's pointless."
"Just give it a try." Great Qin King insisted.
Great Zhou King laughed with amusement and nodded. With a wave of his hand, a silhouette similar to Su Yu appeared in the air. Then, one character after another manifested. First, the silhouette displayed surging battle intent. Then, the body cracked. Eventually, death qi surged out of the body. Finally, the body crumbled into dust.
Great Qin King frowned, "What's the result?"
Great Zhou King said, "He still wishes to fight. He wishes to take another gamble and fight until the destruction of his body. Then, he becomes a death spirit and finally...dies."
"..."
Death?
Great Qin King asked, "Is that accurate?"
"Like I said, everything is everchanging. Will he die just because my divination shows that he'll die?"
Great Zhou King calmly said, "What you see might not necessarily be the truth. That divination only showed one of the myriad possibilities. Of course, if I sacrifice my lifespan and use the Heaven Connecting Mirror, I might be able to get a more accurate result."
"That thing..." Great Qin King shook his head, "It's pointless. Back then, I got Old Zhu to check Ye Batian's future. According to the mirror, Ye Batian will succeed in his dao affirmation. But we all know what happened. Old Zhu wasted a hundred years of lifespan only for such a bullshit result. I can't be bothered to use that mirror anymore. A simple divination is enough for me."
It wasn't like Great Qin King was a big believer in fortune-telling. He only treated this as a reference to what might happen in the future.
There was a possibility that Su Yu would die. Great Qin King sighed. That was the only result Great Zhou King could produce from his divination. He wasn't able to see more. Invincibles were not omnipotent. It was already impressive of him to be able to see one of the myriad possibilities.
***
Meanwhile, Su Yu was still focused on his cultivation.
With a rumble, he completed his thirty-ninth body forging.
Suddenly, the mayor announced, "All living beings in the city are allowed to take shelter in the mayor's residence regardless of race. Residents may stay put. But you need to verify your identity before entering. This offer...does not extend to Su Yu. Please forgive me, Great Xia King and Great Ming King. I will offer shelter to the other humans, but not Su Yu."
Ultimately, the mayor conceded by extending the protection to the other humans. Su Yu was the sole exception. Protecting Su Yu would simply offend too many people. And it wasn't like Su Yu would dare to show up even if the offer was given to him. After all, there were too many Sunmoons around.
Soaring into the sky, Qin Hao replied coldly, "No thanks." ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel⟡fire.net
He landed in front of the mayor's residence.
"Since you're here, why even bother with taking shelter inside the mayor's residence? Let's have some fun out here."
He wasn't entering. But he wasn't about to let anyone else enter either. If they were allowed to enter, the Invincibles outside would start bombarding the city and spawn numerous powerful death spirits. Su Yu wouldn't be able to survive that.
One Sunmoon after another approached him.
One of them coldly said, "Qin Hao, do you think you can stop all of us? Are you going to get yourself, your nephew, and Great Ming King's grandson killed for the sake of Su Yu? There are also the three Sunmoon generals of Great Ming here."
There were four high-stage human Sunmoons in the city. That was the main reason why the humans in the city had mostly been left alone so far. They were simply too strong. To kill the four of them, they would need to deploy at least ten late-stage Sunmoons. That was simply too much trouble. But it wasn't like they couldn't gather more than ten late-stage Sunmoons in the city.
Qin Hao ignored them. He looked at the earth elemental Sunmoon. The five elemental race had deployed two late-stage Sunmoons to the city. He coldly said, "Topsoil Spirit is likely inside one of these buildings. Are you giving up on him?"
The expressions of the two Sunmoons changed upon hearing that. Unless Topsoil Spirit was dead, they would not give up on him. If the Invincibles outside were allowed to carry out their plan, Topsoil Spirit would die as well.
What was their ancestor thinking? They were sure there was a five elemental Invincible outside as well. Had that ancestor given up on Topsoil Spirit? Or perhaps not even their ancestor could stop the other Invincibles.
After all, for the other Invincibles, losing Topsoil Spirit alongside Su Yu was no big deal. The two of them started sending a message through the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. With the city sealed, only the mayor or Invincibles could send their voices through the city barriers.
Thus, they had no choice but to rely on the Heavenly Hunt Pavillion if they wanted to communicate with someone outside. Before long, they received a reply. They wanted to protect Topsoil Spirit, but not even the Invincibles of the five elementals and humans could stop the other Invincibles.
The two were given the order to drag things out and prevent others from entering the mayor's residence. The two felt extremely helpless upon receiving that message. This would be an extremely difficult task.
Since their ancestor couldn't accomplish anything, they had to suffer for it. Even if they decided to work with the humans, there were still too many Sunmoons for them to deal with. But their ancestor also offered them an alternative. They could also try to force Su Yu out of hiding.
That way, the Invincibles outside would no longer need to proceed with their plan. But that seemed to be an even more difficult task.
Basically, they were caught between a rock and a hard place.