Chapter 58 - 58

Chapter 1140: What Big Brother Stone Statue Can Do (2)

Countless people were shocked.

As for the other ancient city mayors, they felt immensely jealous.

Heavendoom City.

Mayor Tian He was losing his mind from the sheer envy he was feeling.

Holy shit!

Su Yu was actually capable of getting the stone statue to fight for him. In fact, he was actually capable of getting multiple stone statues to fight for him! What the fuck was that?

Tian He wanted to shout that he was a mayor as well! Why was he so much less important than Su Yu? Thirty-six stone statues? He couldn't even make the stone statue of his city move. Just look at Su Yu! That was how an ancient city mayor should be! That was how an overlord should be!

Su Yu was a role model for all aspiring overlords. If anyone dared to threaten him, he would blow up their lair! So what if the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was an ancient organization? So what if they had numerous Invincibles? What was there to fear? He would still make his demands known and threaten them with war if they refused.

Even the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, with its eight Invincibles, desperately wanted to resolve this conflict.

How miserable.

Their Invincibles didn't even know what had happened. Out of nowhere, thirty-six Invincibles had attacked their headquarters, revealing their location, and nearly causing them to be surrounded and annihilated. If they had not fled before the encirclement was formed, they would definitely need to lose some Invincibles to make an escape.

So was that an ancient city mayor in the truest sense? Tian He and all the other mayors were definitely fake mayors! They were so unloved that the stone statues wouldn't care even if they all died.

Just look at Su Yu. That was a true winner in life.

He alone caused the Myriad Realms to cower.

Just look at how enjoyable his tenure as an ancient city mayor was. He would immediately strike back against any provocation.

***

At the same time.

Border of human territory, Eastrift Valley.

The Invincibles there were all stunned.

Great Xia King, in particular, was the most shocked. One could also say that he was confused. Xiao'er had informed him not long ago that Profound Nine was the one who had blasted his little grandson apart. And Profound Nine was Su Yu. In that case, who was the guy who had shocked the entire Myriad Realms after losing his temper?

Was he supposed to believe that Su Yu was able to make the thirty-six stone statues fight for him without even being there? Wasn't that...a tad bit too crazy? Or perhaps his son had been fooled. That Profound Nine was not Su Yu.

Great Xia King felt greatly doubtful.

That must be it!

His face turned solemn. Yes, that was possible. Xiao'er had not met Su Yu himself. Thus, that Su Yu in Human Realm could very well be fake. Everything about Profound Nine might be one big lie. He had misled them by pretending to be Su Yu!

That was definitely the case! If even Great Xia King was starting to suspect that, who would believe that Profound Nine was actually Su Yu?

Great Qin King lamented, "Su Yu...Su Yu of the human race...sigh."

His influence. His power.

He had truly turned into an overlord of a region.

After this incident, nobody would dare to provoke Su Yu anymore.

After a short while, Great Qin King had an amused expression as he said, "The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion is seeking our help to explain that they don't have his father. Everything is a misunderstanding. They are offering to punish the people responsible and compensate him for this misunderstanding. They hope that he won't further pursue this matter."

The Invincibles were stunned yet again. Even the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was cowering.

One of them asked in surprise, "They...actually bowed?"

Great Qin King said, "The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion fears no one. Not the devils. Not the divines. Not us. But clearly, they fear those ancient stone statues as those statues are capable of tracking them."

Understanding dawned on the Invincibles. Their expressions changed. Yes, those stone statues could track the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. No wonder they conceded so quickly. Most of their power came from their mysterious origins and concealment capabilities.

But now, the stone statues had revealed their ability to track the pavilion. With everyone aware of this, the next time this happened, it might really spell the end of the pavilion. Thus, what choice did the pavilion have but concede? Anyone would make the same choice in that position.

The Invincibles looked at each other speechlessly. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion that had roamed the Allheaven Battlefield fearlessly for countless years had actually conceded to a puny Cloudbreach. They were even willing to punish their own people and pay to settle the issue. That was...truly inconceivable.

And the humans were not the only ones who were finding this inconceivable. The myriad races shared the same opinion. Nobody could believe this.

***

Human Realm.

The moment they heard of what happened, the jaws of Great Ming King and Zhu Tiandao dropped.

Father and son looked at each other in stupefaction.

After a long while, Great Ming King said, "That Profound Nine is not Su Yu! That's a fake Su Yu!"

"..."

Zhu Tiandao stared at his father silently. Great Ming King continued staring at his son.

Really?

So Su Yu was still in the Allheaven Battlefield?

He was living in an unfettered manner, showcasing his overbearingness to the world. After this, perhaps not even the divines and devils would dare to provoke him anymore. How could he be in the Human Realm?

Had they been lied to? Their faces turned solemn. They had actually been fooled. That Profound Nine was the real Profound Nine, not Su Yu in disguise!

How terrifying.

That guy was able to fool even them! This was too terrifying!

***

At the same time.

Wan Tiansheng was quite speechless as well. He was the one who was fully aware of the whole story. If not, he would have captured the so-called Su Yu in the academy by now. After what just happened, anyone would suspect that the Su Yu in Human Realm was fake.

This...

Those ancient statues seemed to have placed a tad bit too much importance on him, right? Even Wan Tiansheng was finding this inconceivable.

As for Su Yu, he was not too concerned about what happened. Or to be precise, he was too occupied to care. The death qi in his body had suddenly increased massively in volume, forcing him to sit down cross-legged and start cultivating immediately.

Inwardly, he was cursing nonstop. He had yet to hear of what happened. As far as he was concerned, he had only asked the stone statue to solve a small problem for him. Why did he receive so much death qi in return?

What was the stone statue doing? What the fuck was that? He only asked the stone statue to do a small job. Why did the stone statue give him so much death qi in response? Did the stone statue leave the city again?

Su Yu continued cursing.

Looking at Su Yu who was busy dealing with death qi, Wan Tiansheng had a complicated expression. This kid sure was doing well in life. In fact, the kid was doing much better than him.

Wan Tiansheng thought that if he had the protection of the thirty-six ancient stone statues as well, he wouldn't even bother to return any more.

Wan Tiansheng didn't even know what to feel about this. Looking at Su Yu who was busy handling the death qi, Wan Tiansheng sighed and casually reached out. He easily grabbed the little furball and dragged the little fellow over. Then, the two stared at each other silently.

After a short silence, Wan Tiansheng smiled, "What a powerful bloodline. Any Invincible from your race will be the nightmare of all Invincibles."

The little furball started trembling. Was this the prelude of death? Was this fellow trying to murder a ball? After following Su Yu for such a long time, the little furball had familiarized himself with the concept of eliminating a threat from its very roots.

Wan Tiansheng continued, "Cultivate well. According to the ancient records, the soul devourer race and the multiple character faction are perfect partners."

Then, he stuffed the little furball back into Su Yu's sea of consciousness. The trembling little furball started madly licking the characters in Su Yu's sea of consciousness to calm his nervous heart.

***

At the same time.

Human Realm.

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

The enforcer elder's head was lowered in silence. He was receiving countless messages through his mask.

"You dumb bastard! Are you aware of the trouble you caused?"

"Who told you to test Su Yu's identity?"

"Idiot, who told you Profound Nine is Su Yu?"

"Brain! Do you have one?"

"Idiotic bastard! Do you know that your stupidity has nearly caused our destruction?"

"..."

He was being scolded.

He was being scolded by Invincibles. The Invincibles were furious.

The Invincibles had just found out that the entire thing had happened because of something stupid. Someone called Yellow Nine had claimed that Profound Nine was Su Yu. Then, Profound Nine told the pavilion to test Su Yu if they doubted him.

Holy shit!

Test his ass!

"Tell Yellow Nine to return immediately! No, capture Yellow Nine with your own hands! Track and kill him! That bastard is definitely a traitor!"

The Invincibles couldn't even be bothered to investigate further.

Damn it!

Because of that bastard's claim, the entire Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had suffered massively. Six Invincibles had suffered injuries. That was not the main issue here. More importantly, the curtain of mystery they had been hiding behind for so many years had been ripped apart.

Yes, the six Invincibles had yet to expose their real identities, but they had exposed too much of their strength. Even the location of their headquarters had been revealed. Even if they had moved away, that was still a big deal. Upon learning how all that had happened, the Invincible was infuriated.

"Su Yu is the overlord of a region. How can he be Profound Nine? Are you stupid? Do you have a brain?"

The Invincibles were furious. What were these people thinking? Also, the elder who had died in front of the city totally deserved it! How could that fool threaten Su Yu with his father? How would that not drive him mad? He must have paid a massive price to get all the stone statues to fight for him.

These Invincibles were not completely clueless about how the ancient cities worked. After a long while, the Invincibles finally managed to calm down a little.

"Idiot, if Profound Nine were really Su Yu, he would be dying from the backlash of death qi right about now. Just try to contact him. If he replies, there will no longer be any doubt that he's not Su Yu. If you still suspect him even after that, you will be punished! Don't think that you won't be punished just because you're an enforcer elder!"

The scolding continued. How infuriating! Their anger was understandable. For a simple claim made by Yellow Nine, they had provoked Su Yu. Sure, what the elder did wouldn't be wrong if it did not result in such a backlash.

But since Su Yu was such an overbearing individual who had instantly taught the pavilion a lesson for challenging him, the elder naturally needed to take the blame. The entire branch was enveloped in silence. All of them had heard of what happened.

When they saw how the elder was behaving, they understood that the elder was probably being admonished by the higher-ups.

Chapter 1141: What Big Brother Stone Statue Can Do (3)

After a long time, the elder finally returned to normal. He slowly spoke, "Contact Profound Nine. Also, tell First Profound to report to the branch. Additionally, capture Yellow Nine. I will personally unmask him."

Toward the end, the enforcer elder was gnashing his teeth. He knew Profound Nine wouldn't be Su Yu! But that damn Yellow Nine had misled them all!

Damn it!

Damn it!

Because of that bastard, he received a scolding from the Invincibles.

Bastard!

That damn Yellow Nine was a bastard! Prior to this, none of them suspected Su Yu. That damn Yellow Nine was the one who had misled them all! That damn Yellow Nine deserved death!

Furthermore, they had also lost an elder from this. Nobody dared to say anything. One of them hurriedly did as told and sent Su Yu a message.

A short while later, a reply came.

***

Heart Cultivating Pavilion.

Su Yu was still working very hard to resolve the death qi in his body. Since he was so far away from the ancient city, the burden on him was incredibly heavy.

But it was still bearable. After a while, he finally got it under control. At that moment, his mask shook slightly. A message had arrived.

At a glance, he guessed that the stone statue must have done something. In that case, the pavilion no longer suspected him, right? Then, he noted that someone was looking for him in the shared channel.

"Profound Nine, are you there?"

"I'm still alive. How can I die without waiting for my identity to be verified? Hehehe. Yellow Nine, just wait. Everyone will know you're a traitor."

Su Yu could easily guess that something had happened. But Profound Nine shouldn't know about it yet. Then again, he was indeed still unaware of what exactly had happened.

***

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

White One replied, "Elder, Profound Nine is still around."

The enforcer elder blanked out.

But he also exhaled in relief. It would seem like they had indeed guessed wrongly. Sigh. It was all Yellow Nine's fault.

"Tell Profound Nine that his identity has been verified. Assure him that he shouldn't worry. He has contributed greatly in spreading our fame and avenged two of our enforcers. He deserves a reward. Since he's a Sunmoon, he will receive ten drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. Also, tell him that we will rebuild our forces in Great Xia soon. He will still be in charge there. The pavilion will never mistreat a member who has contributed to us."

Now, they had to placate Profound Nine.

The enforcer elder sighed. This mistake had caused them dearly.

Profound Nine might be good at causing trouble, but he had also helped the pavilion catch the traitor. Since they had disappointed him by suspecting him, they naturally needed to compensate him.

He shouldn't be blamed for what he did.

After all, chaos was indeed important for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. If Profound Nine was punished for causing trouble, who would dare to cause trouble for the pavilion's sake in the future?

Wouldn't that be the same as hurting themselves? In fact, a troublemaker like that should be rewarded. It didn't matter if the trouble was big. Great Xia...was still not an entity they couldn't afford to provoke.

As for Su Yu...whatever. The pavilion only needed to distance itself from Grandstar City in the future.

The elder felt very helpless.

The pavilion did not fear any other forces even if those were forces with Invincibles. It didn't matter how strong those Invincibles were. At worst, they could simply avoid the stronger Invincibles. but Su Yu was different. The stone statues backing him were actually capable of tracking their headquarters. Follow current novᴇls on novel·fire·net

The chamber masters and department heads had tentatively guessed the reason for that. The stone statues had most likely traced them through the ancient Heavenly Hunt Index. After this incident, the Invincibles would probably move the Heavenly Hunt Index out of the headquarters and store it somewhere else. That was their sole option.

It was way too risky to keep what was essentially a tracker in their headquarters. Even Invincibles wouldn't enjoy such a feeling.

The elder sighed again. Why did he even consider Yellow Nine's words? He swore to beat that damn Yellow Nine to death one day. Also, the direct superior of that bastard was suspicious as well.

They had suffered too massively from this. Yellow Nine was probably the traitor who had caused Rainbow One and the others to die in the operation. No wonder Yellow Nine survived. Sigh. The elder greatly regretted his previous choice. He should have captured Yellow Nine long ago.

***

Meanwhile, Yellow Nine, who was hiding at an unknown location, shivered.

He felt like massive trouble was upon him. Something must have gone wrong when they tested Su Yu. But he could only wait for further updates. He hoped that the result wouldn't be too bad for him.

***

Everyone was talking about Su Yu. Everyone was talking about the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

Great Xia City.

Prefect's residence.

Marquis Xia stared at Xia Huyou silently. Xia Huyou was also staring at Marquis Xia silently.

After a long while, Marquis Xia asked, "Did you see Su Yu with your own eyes?"

"Nope."

"So you only spoke through voice transmissions?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure that was Su Yu?"

"Yes...I guess?"

Xia Huyou had a look of stupefaction. He didn't know what to think. He still hadn't recovered from his shock.

He had also heard of what happened.

Great Xia King had personally sent a message to someone in Allheaven Prefecture before the message was delivered straight to Great Xia.

Profound Nine might be pretending to be Su Yu.

The real Su Yu was enjoying life in Allheaven Battlefield. Not long ago, thirty-six stone statues had nearly demolished the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion for his sake. The Myriad Realms were shocked.

Through that incident, Su Yu officially became the overlord of a region. In Sea of Stars, Grandstar City was considered just as dangerous as the dragon race.

Were they sure Profound Nine was Su Yu? Marquis Xia and Xia Huyou continued staring at each other in stupefaction. Were they...fooled?

That was too terrifying a possibility. One ought to know that they had shared a lot of secrets with Profound Nine. Xia Huyou was the main culprit. Through his conversations with Profound Nine, he had leaked a large amount of information.

Holy shit!

If that was really a fake Su Yu, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Xia Huyou swallowed and said, "Previously, he sent me a message asking for help. He claimed that the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion wanted to test his identity. Second Granduncle, is it possible that...he found a solution without our help?"

Marquis Xia stared at Xia Huyou for a long while before saying, "Contact him. Make sure you see him with your own eyes. No, that might not be enough. Try to ask more questions to verify his identity. You should also pay Wan Tiansheng a visit..."

Was Wan Tiansheng fooled as well?

The mere thought of that caused Marquis Xia to shiver all over. No way, right? At this point, everyone was wondering if they had indeed been fooled. It was simply impossible for Su Yu to accomplish something like that while remaining in the Human Realm. That was too terrifying.

After a long while, Xia Huyou said sullenly, "Fine. I'll try. But if that's really a fake Su Yu...We sure are pitiful. No, it's my uncle. He sure is pitiful. He has received a beating for nothing."

That wasn't exactly right. His beating had still helped progress their plan. However, the exposure of their plan would be disastrous for them.

Xia Huyou stood up and said, "I'll see Faculty Head Hong and Teacher Bai in the academy first. Second Granduncle, if this whole thing is a lie...should we change our plan immediately?"

Marquis Xia nodded blankly. As a frequent schemer himself, he had finally experienced how it felt to be schemed against. Hopefully, Profound Nine was really Su Yu.

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion needed to ensure that Su Yu wasn't Profound Nine. But for them, they had to ensure that Profound Nine was Su Yu. That single incident had caused both parties to doubt the world.

It was too hard for anyone to believe that Su Yu was actually Profound Nine.

***

Su Yu would have never guessed that he would be such a successful spy, to the point where nobody could believe that he was a spy. He was most probably the most successful spy in history.

A few hours later, he met Xia Huyou as Bai Junsheng. Xia Huyou was extremely wary, staying far away from him. Beside Xia Huyou were Hong Tan and Bai Feng. All of them were staring at Su Yu suspiciously.

After a long while, Bai Feng asked, "Are you Su Yu?"

"..."

Su Yu was stunned.

Shouldn't Bai Feng know the answer already?

Hong Tan said, "Who's the person in the Allheaven Battlefield?"

"That's one of my arrangements..."

They continued staring at him with disbelief.

Fortunately, Bai Feng was slightly convinced as he said, "I think so as well. Teacher, why would a fake Su Yu be so generous with us? We received a few hundred drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid from him."

Hong Tan was hit with a realization. True!

This must be the real Su Yu!

Even Xia Huyou was slightly relieved to hear that. Such wealth...such generosity...this...was probably the real Su Yu, right?

How terrifying.

From them, Su Yu finally learned of everything that had happened. He was completely dumbfounded.

He only asked his big brother to solve a small problem for him. Was there a need for...that? His big brother even summoned all thirty-six stone statues to attack the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion together?

Holy shit!

Was the stone statue perhaps his father instead of his big brother?

Chapter 1142: Myriad Assembly In Human Realm (1)

After hearing about the magnificent feat of his big brother, Su Yu could only clap approvingly.

He felt so proud. Thirty-six stone statues had punched the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion for him. This felt great. He greatly regretted not being there to witness such a magnificent sight. If he could be there to watch the show live, he would probably feel even better.

Oh well. There was always a next time for everything, right?

Finally, Su Yu understood why everyone was suspecting him. He laughed heartily and said, "Like I said, I'm tight with my Big Brother Stone Statue. He has my back when I'm in trouble. It's no big deal."

He was not lying. Those were the stone statue's own words. It was no big deal. The three couldn't help but grimace in envy.

Xia Huyou mumbled sourly, "Why don't you invite your big brothers on a trip to the Human Realm? I'll play host."

"Heh."

Su Yu gave Xia Huyou a look of contempt.

Such a minor scheme would not work on him.

He naturally wouldn't admit that the stone statues couldn't actually enter the Human Realm. Instead, he said, "Stop dreaming. My big brother is only tight with me. As for the rest of you...he will probably turn you into mincemeat with one punch if you try to ask for a favor from him."

Xia Huyou didn't even deign to entertain that bragging. He said, "Since you're fine, I'll be taking my leave. Your disguise as Profound Nine is now safe. Be careful. I still need to keep searching the city for the killer."

Beside them, Bai Feng and Hong Tan looked at the two disapprovingly. These two were the main culprits for what happened to Xia Xinyi. Why were they acting like they were completely innocent?

Xia Huyou did not waste any time and left immediately. He was a very busy man. His time was precious.

As for Hong Tan and Bai Feng, they returned to seclusion, deciding once again that nothing could force them to exit their seclusion prematurely again. They swore to not leave before they broke through.

They were tired of this. Again and again, they were forced to exit seclusion due to a false alarm. Furthermore, they were forced to experience what it meant to be envious repeatedly. Su Yu had somehow established a connection with a bunch of Invincibles outside. In that case, they should really stop worrying about him. Rather, they should worry more about themselves.

***

After the two returned to seclusion, Su Yu was left alone in the research center.

He sighed. But inwardly, he felt great. This was such an amazing feeling. His mood had been great recently. Everything had been going smoothly for him as of late.

Of course, nothing was free. Even the help of the stone statue came with a price. The sudden death qi eruption ensured that Su Yu wouldn't forget this fact. Each time the stone statue left the city, he would need to endure an intense death qi eruption. Any other person would have died long ago.

"Reversal art!"

Su Yu mumbled to himself. This art had played a big role in helping him handle the death qi in his body. And this was an art he had obtained from the death spirit race.

Su Yu started thinking. Since he could use this art to convert death qi into source qi, could the death spirits do the same? But why had he never heard of a death spirit transforming into a living being? Was it possible that the transformation into a death spirit was a one-way street? Perhaps that was the case.

If so, he had to ensure he didn't die. Otherwise, it would be highly unlikely for him to return to life after becoming a death spirit. There were so many death spirits out there, including the powerful death sovereigns. But he had never heard of anyone returning to life.

The devils were attempting to do so, but they had yet to succeed even after so many years. The difficulty was definitely unimaginably high.

"Well, I'm temporarily out of trouble."

Since he was no longer in trouble, it was time for him to get back to work. What was his work? Troublemaking. What else could it be?

Great Xia was starting to lose the attention of the masses. Su Yu himself was the one who had snatched the spotlight. But it didn't matter. Su Yu would remain low profile while Profound Nine would remain high profile. Great Xia would remain the hottest topic ever.

Su Yu had a lot to think about. He had learned about many things, including the truth behind Xia Longwu's dao affirmation and Wan Tiansheng's plan to fight the traitor Invincible. He did not wish to see anything bad happen to these people. Thus, he needed to do more.

With his current strength, he would not have the ability to interfere in a battle between Invincibles. The stone statue would protect him, but that protection did not extend to anyone else.

"Heavenly Hunt Pavilion..."

Su Yu recalled the fact that there was a decent number of Invincibles in the pavilion. This might be a good tool to use.

"I need to also work hard for the pavilion."

***

While Su Yu was thinking about all that.

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

The enforcer elder kept getting people to contact Yellow Nine, but Yellow Nine seemed to have vanished.

White One sighed and said, "Elder, Yellow Nine might have noticed something. Seems like he...fled."

"What about First Yellow?"

As the direct superior, First Yellow could track Yellow Nine. With First Yellow around, they could still locate Yellow Nine. Unless Yellow Nine decided to destroy his mask, he would have no way of avoiding this method of tracking.

"First Yellow Elder..." After a slight hesitation, White One continued, "...fled as well."

"Hmm?"

The enforcer elder was stunned, "Fled?"

"Yeah." White One nodded, "That is very likely. We have lost all contact with him. We can only get the Yellow Department head to track First Yellow, but the department head is still in the Allheaven Battlefield. It won't be easy to track someone in the Human Realm. Unless the department head enters the Human Realm personally with the main Heavenly Hunt Index. The index copies are not sufficient to track an elder. That's why the two of them have nothing to fear. They can flee from us without a need to destroy their masks."

The enforcer elder cursed, "Damn it!"

The main index was not in the Human Realm. Tracking through realms was too difficult. And the higher ranked the mask, the harder it would be to track. And a faceless mask was already considerably high in rank.

The difficulty of tracking such a person was incredibly high. Then again, if they were in the Allheaven Battlefield, this would still be doable.

"I'll ask the heads. We also need to know First Yellow's identity."

The enforcer elder coldly said, "Sure enough, Yellow Nine is the traitor!"

There was no need to further investigate. Since the two had fled, who else could be the traitors but them?

The enforcer elder reckoned that it wasn't a bad thing for them to discover Yellow Nine as a traitor. At the very least, that had exposed First Yellow as well. Even the Yellow Department head might be suspicious. The enforcer elder started considering sending a message to the first elder.

There were nine elders in the Enforcement Unit. He was the eighth elder. The first elder was the strongest among them. Perhaps the first elder was even an Invincible. Or a Pseudo Invincible. He was unsure.

However, there was no doubting the status and strength of the first elder. The Yellow Department might be problematic.

The enforcer elder coldly said, "No wonder Yellow Nine insisted on framing Profound Nine. Looks like they don't wish to see the rise of actually capable members in the pavilion. Issue a bounty on First Yellow and Yellow Nine. All the direct subordinates of First Yellow are to report to us. Their identities will be investigated."

That entire line needed to be investigated.

White One nodded, "I never expected this...sigh. Twelve elders entered the Human Realm. One died, and First Yellow betrayed us. We are left with only ten elders. As for the one hundred white masks, nineteen of them have perished so far."

This was a heavy loss. They were left with only ten elders and eighty white masks since Yellow Nine had also betrayed them. Of course, this only took the members of the four departments into consideration. Those from the Enforcement Unit were not counted among them.

The pavilion had also lost an elder while testing Su Yu. They had lost three late-stage Sunmoons and several other Sunmoons in a row. They had sustained heavy losses for this adventure in the Human Realm.

The enforcer elder sank into silence. After a long while, he said, "Profound Nine can't die. If he dies as well, our loss will be even bigger. Ask him if he's safe. If he's in trouble, we can mount a rescue operation."

"Yes!"

White One left to carry out his orders. As for the enforcer elder, he still felt greatly troubled. How troublesome.

As big as the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was, the losses they had incurred this time were still too heavy for them to simply shrug off. They had begun operations in some other prefectures as well, but strictly speaking, that was all thanks to Profound Nine, whose actions had spread their fame far and wide in the Human Realm.

Otherwise, they would have taken much longer to start their operations. They were also sending more and more of their experts to Great Xia. It was pointless to spare more manpower to the smaller prefectures. As for the other major prefectures, they had yet to even start operating there.

There was no need to talk about Great Qin. Even Great Ming was too dangerous for them. They had lost contact with almost all their people in Great Ming. And nobody knew if Great Ming King was still there. Who would dare to go there when an Invincible might be lurking?

"Sigh."

Without the backing of an Invincible in the Human Realm, things were very difficult for them. He wondered if any of their Invincibles would enter one day. If they could obtain the support of an Invincible, things would be much less difficult for them.

***

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Somewhere in the wilderness outside Great Xia City.

A faceless elder and a white mask were looking at each other in a lonesome manner.

Yellow Nine said in a wronged manner, "Elder, I did not betray them!"

Yellow Nine felt terribly wronged. This felt miserable. Not long ago, Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had officially issued a bounty for them. Even First Yellow was implicated in this.

"That Profound Nine...is a bastard!" Yellow Nine cursed, "There might not even be a traitor at all. Profound Nine is sick in the head. Why is he insisting that there is a traitor?"

Not even Yellow Nine suspected that Profound Nine was a traitor. How could a traitor be so crazy? He had merely accused Profound Nine as a traitor out of desperation. He wasn't even serious. Who would have guessed that the pavilion would actually test it out? And who would have guessed that Su Yu was so violent, instantly getting so many people killed?

And now, the higher-ups were infuriated. They were demanding him to report himself to them. What nonsense. If he went there, they would definitely investigate him. To speak the truth, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was filled with people of questionable identity. Who could truly be clean? Would he dare to go? That was the same as throwing his life away.

After such disastrous losses, the pavilion was looking to make someone a scapegoat. And who would be the better scapegoat than Yellow Nine?

First Elder sighed, "So be it. It's no big deal. But...this is too obvious. Only the two of you survived. What can we do about it?"

The elder was basically telling Yellow Nine to stop pretending.

Yellow Nine was so furious he felt like coughing blood. Damn it! Even his elder couldn't trust him. In fact, even he himself was wondering if he had indeed betrayed them. But he couldn't remember doing so! Did he expose the operation accidentally?

This made zero sense.

Helpless, Yellow Nine could only shut his mouth. It was pointless to try explaining himself.

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"Elder, what now?"

"We can't enter the Allheaven Battlefield anymore." First Yellow said, "If we go now, we have to crush our masks or they will be able to locate us. I guess we'll stay here for now. I'm only an eighth-stage Sunmoon. The Nanyuan ruin might be a very powerful ruin. Perhaps...There is still hope. The moment I reach the ninth stage, I can open the River of Time and capture my past or future body. Then, I can affirm my dao. All hope is not lost."

Yellow Nine nodded, "So we...stay?"

"We stay." First Yellow said, "This is a rare chance. Great Xia is in chaos. And the chaos is our chance. Furthermore, with these masks, a regular person won't be able to see through our disguise so easily. And Profound Nine is still here. I can see that he will create more chaos. We'll wait."

Yellow Nine nodded, but he still felt wronged. He felt greatly wronged! He did not recall betraying them! Or perhaps Earth Eighteen and the others were the traitors. They had merely died accidentally. Who could be sure of anything?

Why must there be a traitor in the event of a failure? He was tired of this. Just because a mission failed, it did not mean that there must be a traitor. Also, perhaps the enforcer was the traitor instead?

Profound Nine was such an idiot. Why must Profound Nine insist that only one of them could be the traitor? With that accepted as the conclusion, how was he supposed to explain himself?

Yellow Nine was greatly annoyed with how stubborn Profound Nine was. He sighed and left with First Yellow. He had yet to even complete a proper mission in Great Xia. And now, he no longer needed to complete any missions.

***

Su Yu was quite surprised to see the bounty issued for both Yellow Nine and First Yellow.

But soon, he tossed the matter out of his mind. With their escape, they were essentially admitting to being traitors. Even Su Yu was stunned when he heard about that. Why did they run? He was the traitor, right? They were innocent, right?

In fact, Su Yu was already prepared to deal with what would happen next. If the two of them reported themselves to the pavilion and proved that they weren't traitors, he would simply claim that perhaps Great Xia had been suspicious all along. There might not be a traitor, after all.

But why did they run like they were guilty? How kind of them to take the blame for him. Since they were the traitors, Profound Nine's name had naturally been cleaned.

When White One asked if he required help, Su Yu said, "No. But I need manpower. Great Xia is a treasure trove. There are countless experts here. The Nanyuan ruin might surface soon. According to an undisclosed source, that place has been leaking heavenly source qi every now and then. I need more experts."

White One hurriedly asked, "Are you sure? Where did you hear that from?"

"Yes. Don't ask me about my source. I naturally have my own means of obtaining information. This was the same person who had provided me with Xia Xinyi's schedule. There are plenty of people waiting to see the Xia Family's fall. Don't tell me you believe that the Xia Family has no enemies in the Human Realm?"

"I see."

It was perfectly understandable for Xia Family to have plenty of enemies. White One did not suspect anything. Everyone had their own sources of information. It was perfectly reasonable for someone to betray the Xia Family with the sheer number of enemies they had.

"Profound Nine, are you sure about Nanyuan?"

Su Yu answered confidently, "Definitely. Of course, the heavenly source qi is too small in amount. We can't be sure if that has anything to do with a ruin. I need to conduct further investigation. But I'm an ancient city resident. I'm very sensitive toward heavenly source qi. If I go there personally, I'll be able to know more."

"True."

White One was reminded of Profound Nine's background. This was his natural advantage over others. He was an ancient city resident. Of the white masks they had sent to Human Realm, Su Yu was the only ancient city resident. Others wanted to come as well, but they ultimately gave up because it was too expensive.

Su Yu continued, "After so many battles, I've used a large amount of heavenly source qi. The pavilion promised to cover seventy percent of my heavenly source qi expenditure. You also promised me ten drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid for the recent incident. It's time you guys deliver all that to me. Otherwise, I might end up dead to death qi corrosion. Dying after working so hard is totally not worth it."

"Don't worry. Someone will be there soon. In fact, I'll go there personally."

White One asked, "Do you need anything else?"

"I need at least ten white masks. Even better if some of them are Sunmoons. The Xia Family commands too many experts. I intend to keep them so busy they can't spare a hand to interfere with our activities anymore. If I can drag other forces into this mess, even better. The Myriad Race Cult will be perfect for this. I need some information about their experts. By working together with their experts, we can throw Great Xia into complete chaos."

"That...is acceptable. We do have some information about their experts. You will receive that information."

Su Yu was overjoyed. Perhaps before long, he could infiltrate even the Myriad Race Cult as well.

Sigh.

Yet again, Su Yu was impressed with himself. Instead of joining the cult and working his way up from the bottom, he could simply infiltrate them as an expert from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

If he had to work with the cult, he would naturally aim to deal directly with the higher-ups. Why should he waste his time with the small fries in the cult?

White One said, "We'll try to contact them as soon as possible. Profound Nine, are you sure you can escape Great Xia City safely?"

"Of course. But I suggest you try to give them some pressure. I'm worried that if they keep the city sealed for too long, they might find me. My current identity is still safe, but I'm maintaining it through a secret technique. I can't keep it up for too long. Everything will be over for me the moment my disguise is broken."

"Sure. We'll pressure them."

"..."

After the conversation ended, Su Yu sank into thought, wondering if he should get White One and Gray One killed as well.

Of the four enforcers, two had died. Only these two remained. Wouldn't it be too lonely for them to stay alive without the other two? No, he would think about this again in the future.

Su Yu also remembered that he had forgotten to ask Wan Tiansheng about Ji Hong. Had Ji Hong really discovered clues of the traitor?

In fact, Su Yu himself had some clues as well. Back when he extracted the Divine Skywing Sect master's blood essence, he had discovered something.

Inside the sect master's memories, he saw someone. That someone seemed to be a human expert, and that expert seemed to be an Invincible. Su Yu saw the scene of that expert conversing with the sect master. He also noted that there was a unique symbol on that expert's left arm. He wondered if this information was related to the traitor.

At that, Su Yu also recalled something else. A case appeared in his hand. It was a case forged from the horn of a Sunmoon dragon. The sect master placed a lot of importance on this case. Su Yu was unsure if this was something the sect master had received from the human Invincible or if this was something from the divine skywing race. In any case, the sect master, who was a seventh-stage Sunmoon, treated this case like the most valued treasure in his possession.

When Su Yu first obtained this case, he would frequently study it, preparing to eventually open it. At the time, he was still too weak to actually open it. He had subsequently gotten too busy and so rich that he had completely neglected this case.

"Just what can I find inside this case?"

Once again, Su Yu regained his curiosity toward this case. Not even Zhu Tiandao, a ninth-stage Sunmoon, could see through it. Perhaps something really valuable was stored in it. Of course, it was also possible that the case was empty.

"Something a seventh-stage Sunmoon treasured...is this perhaps a carrier treasure?"

That was quite a likely possibility.

At the seventh stage, one wouldn't be that far away from the ninth stage. Sure, a Sunmoon of that level still couldn't use a carrier, but one also had to prepare a carrier in advance. And it was perfectly logical for the divine skywing race to provide the sect master with a carrier treasure. Or perhaps it was something given by the unknown expert with a symbol on his left arm.

Su Yu couldn't be sure. When he saw the case in the sect master's memories, nobody else was there. Thus, he couldn't determine the actual origin of this case. Content orıginally comes from N0veI.Fiɾe.net

With the case in hand, Su Yu attempted to send some of his willpower into it. He had grown much stronger. It should be possible for him to open it now, right?

After a while, he concluded that he only needed to work on the case for about three to five days to open it. This was not bad at all. Opening the case had indeed turned much easier now that he had grown stronger.

Well, since Great Xia was still in lockdown, he should first focus on completing his fifty-ninth body forging.

After several battles and several eruptions of death qi, he had utilized a large amount of heavenly source qi and heavenearth profound light. Thanks to that, his fifty-ninth forging wasn't that far from completion. He was confident he could complete the forging in a few days. By then, Great Xia would have probably ended the lockdown.

***

While Su Yu was cultivating and waiting, chaos was also unfolding in Allheaven Battlefield.

It hadn't even been that long since the stone statue incident when Xia Longwu's whereabouts were exposed.

That caught a decent amount of attention. Perhaps he was avenging his dead cousin, Xia Xinyi. Somehow, he had discovered the location of a Heavenly Hunt Pavilion elder. Somewhere in the immortal territory, he killed the faceless elder before vanishing again.

Clearly, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion wasn't having that great of a time. They were losing elders left and right. The experts of the various races did not involve themselves in this incident, allowing things to calm down again. But suddenly, a new storm started brewing near the human border.

Even more Invincibles had arrived there. The divines and devils negotiated with the humans, requesting to have more geniuses of the myriad races to enter the Human Realm. They claimed that these geniuses would only be there for further studies and tourism.

They hoped that the humans would agree. Sure, they could always smuggle more people into the Human Realm. But it was only a matter of time before these people were discovered. They might as well find a way to enter openly.

***

Near Eastrift Valley.

The Invincibles were still in the middle of negotiation.

"Great Qin King, we are all Invincibles here, so I'll be frank. The geniuses wish to try their luck in Nanyuan. Of course, we're not asking this favor for free. The Luminous Domain Mansion will open soon. The human quota has yet to be finalized. According to past convention, humanity will only obtain around three to four hundred slots."

The Luminous Domain Mansion could be entered from four directions. There were nine levels in each direction, and each level could be entered by ninety individuals. Thus, a total of 810 individuals could enter through each direction. Additionally, there was also a special entrance, allowing 360 individuals to enter.

All in all, 3,600 individuals could enter each time the mansion was opened. Yes, the human race was also a major race. But it was weaker than the divines, devils, and immortals. Thus, the humans had been forced to settle with about three to four hundred slots per opening.

Someone laughed and said, "This time, we wish to give the youngsters more opportunities. And these opportunities can be found in both Nanyuan and the Luminous Domain Mansion. If the human race agrees to allow our geniuses entry and guarantee their safety, we will concede one of our own slots for each genius allowed to enter the Human Realm."

The divines, devils, and immortals each monopolized one direction. Thus, each of them had 810 slots. And they were also the main negotiators here.

Great Qin King coldly said, "Not interested."

Someone said, "Not interested? Even if you refuse, our people will still enter the Human Realm. They will be forced to do it secretly. There is no guarantee that you humans will be able to detect all of them. What's the point of rejecting us? You might as well accept our proposal. That way, you can at least monitor those people."

A different expert laughed and said, "They are all youngsters. You humans have a lot of youngsters as well, right? I heard that you have some multiple character cultivators coming out of your minor realms. But the Allheaven Battlefield is rather dull at the moment. Why don't you let the myriad race geniuses enter the Human Realm and allow the youngsters to temper themselves against each other instead?"

The expressions of some human Invincibles changed upon hearing that.

Chapter 1144: Myriad Assembly In Human Realm (3)

A devil king sneered and said, "How can a minor realm nurture a true genius? It's not like we're killing every multiple character cultivator. We only target Ye Batian's line. That line has offended too many people. We're not cruel enough to exterminate the entire multiple character faction."

They were all speaking with a mocking tone. Did the humans think that they were unaware of those so-called secret multiple character cultivators?

How ridiculous.

The humans could never imagine how much the myriad races had spread their influences in the human race. The humans could hide their multiple character cultivators in the minor realms. But these geniuses required resources and guidance, right?

More importantly, they also needed to form their character techniques, right? Excluding Great Xia's character stele, the major races probably knew more about the character steles of humanity than humanity itself.

Thus, it wouldn't be hard for the major races to notice that some numbers weren't adding up when some character techniques vanished from these steles. It was clear the human race was producing some multiple character cultivators in secret.

But the myriad races only feared Ye Batian's line, not the entire multiple character faction. Ye Batian's line was the only line that mattered.

As for the other multiple character cultivators, they were of no concern. If it was so easy to become an Invincible, someone from the multiple character faction would have done so long ago. Over so many years, Ye Batian, or Great Xia's multiple character faction, had shown the potential to actually achieve that.

That was also why Great Xia suffered so much suppression. That was also why that line of multiple character faction had declined to the point it barely had any members.

Just look at how things were going in Great Ming. They had dozens of members in their multiple character faction. Hu Xiansheng was a late-stage Mountainsea from the multiple character faction. But nobody bothered to even suppress him. The human Invincibles felt quite helpless to have their secret mentioned so casually. Updates are released by novel fire.net

Great Qin King appeared calm. This was never supposed to be something the myriad races could never discover. However, he was still quite surprised at how deeply the myriad races had infiltrated the human race. They had just decided to let those secret geniuses out not long ago, yet the myriad races were already aware of that.

He remembered that when they spoke about this matter before, only Invincibles were present.

Of course, the logistics of moving those secret geniuses out of minor realms would be handled by some other people, so the Invincibles weren't the only ones who could leak the information. Or perhaps the minor realms themselves had already been infiltrated as well. There was also a possibility that this was simply the information they had purchased from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

Great Qin King started thinking about it. They were right. Even if the humans refused, their people would simply sneak into the Human Realm instead. If the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion could do it, these major races could do it as well. If the humans accepted the proposal, they could at least monitor those visitors somewhat.

The myriad races seemed really interested in the so-called Nanyuan ruin. There were many reasons for that. Su Yu was one such reason. The location of Nanyuan was also one of the reasons.

After a long while, Great Qin King replied, "We can agree. But we can't guarantee their safety."

Someone laughed and said, "Sure. But we hope that no Invincible will make a move against them. Or to be precise, we don't want to see cases of seniors bullying juniors. Human cultivators below a hundred years old are free to act against them. If they die, they die."

Confidence.

And arrogance.

Any human younger than a hundred years old were free to attack.

Great Qin King coldly said, "Sure. I'll call Xia Longwu back. He's quite young as well. I believe he will be more than happy to play around with your juniors."

"..."

Silence descended.

Holy shit!

They had nearly forgotten about that monster.

Which of their geniuses could contend against Xia Longwu?

For Xia Longwu, fighting them was the same as fighting children.

If Xia Longwu was allowed to participate, none of their geniuses would survive.

An awkward silence descended. They didn't know what to say. After a while, an immortal king laughed, "Great Qin King is very humorous. Xia Longwu has yet to affirm his dao, but he is already known as the Carnage King. Why should he waste his time fighting children?"

Stop messing around.

They were in the middle of a negotiation. What even was the point of this if Xia Longwu was allowed to participate?

Great Xia King spoke coldly, "You wish to enter Nanyuan? That's Great Xia's territory. Is that a place you can go as you wish? Have you asked for my permission? Have you asked my blade about this?"

The myriad race Invincibles cursed inwardly. One of them said, "There is no need for you to act like this, Great Xia King. There are already plenty of myriad race geniuses in Great Xia. Xia Longwu is on the verge of dao affirmation. Wouldn't it be nice if he could affirm his dao peacefully?"

That was essentially a threat. If the humans agreed to talk about this, they would be willing to talk about Xia Longwu's dao affirmation as well. If not, Xia Longwu could forget about his dao affirmation.

With an unsightly expression, Great Xia King said, "Don't bother. Everyone has been threatening me with this. Even if we agree, would you really let Longwu off? My son is too naive. Wan Tiansheng is too naive as well. They believe that taking a step back will earn your favor. How ridiculous. Would you? I highly doubt it."

Once again, the Invincibles sank into silence. After a moment, an immortal king smiled and said, "Great Xia King, Xia Longwu's dao affirmation is actually a good thing. The other races might not want to see that happen, but the immortal race will definitely be happy to see that happen."

How fake.

A lot of people cursed inwardly again. The immortals were a bunch of hypocrites. Would the immortals really allow him to affirm his dao?

Nonsense.

A different Invincible said, "A slot to enter Nanyuan for a slot to enter the Luminous Domain Mansion. This is a fair trade for the human race."

It wasn't like they were asking for free entrance. Why were the humans being stubborn?

After thinking about it, Great Qin King said, "Sure. But nobody will guarantee their safety. I can only promise that the experts of the two holy lands at the Sunmoon Realm and above won't lay a hand on them. One slot for one slot, but for each Sunmoon, we want two slots. And that is only applicable for early-stage Sunmoons. For each middle-stage Sunmoon, we want four slots. For each late-stage Sunmoon, eight slots."

Since they wanted to enter, so be it.

But they had to pay for it.

Great Qin King added, "These slots do not include our usual slots. For this mansion opening, we want six hundred slots in total."

Some sank into silence, and some sneered.

What a beautiful dream.

A dragon spoke, "The eastern side has always been shared between the dragons and humans. There are only 810 slots there. If the humans are given 600 slots, are we supposed to settle with only 210 slots?"

Great Qin King replied coldly, "If it wasn't for the divines, devils, and the other races, the dragon race would never be able to get that many slots. Use your brain. Do you really think we can't do anything to you? If the dragons wish to become the vanguard in the war against humanity, so be it. You are free to give it a try. I promise you that before the human race is exterminated, we will first wipe the dragon race out."

Those words were accompanied by an extremely intense killing intent.

The dragon blanked out as his heart thumped nervously. Great Qin King! Number one expert of humanity!

"Hmph!" Great Qin King snorted and continued, "I'm not even asking for much. I am willing to take a step back and accept only five hundred slots, but that is our limit. Do not try to haggle anymore. If you dragons are unhappy about that, you are free to fight us for more. Do not take our patience as cowardice."

In the past, the eastern slots had always been shared between the humans, dragons, and some other demonic beasts.

The dragon was slightly intimidated as he said, "Five hundred for humans and the rest for all of us..."

"Yes." Great Qin King said indifferently, "If you dragons are capable enough, you can take all the remaining slots for yourself. Since you don't even fear us, why do you fear the ancient races and all those minor races? Or perhaps you believe that we humans are weaker than them?"

Silence descended.

The dragon king sank into thought. Shortly after, someone else laughed and said, "Great Qin King, there is no need for that. We intend to send a lot of people into the Human Realm. You will definitely receive a lot of slots. Why don't we all take a step back? The humans can get four hundred slots while the other races can take a hundred slots each. With a fairer distribution, you won't anger all the minor races."

They had to slightly respect the minor races, right? Naturally, the fairness advocated here did not apply to the divines, devils, and immortals. This so-called fairness was only for humanity to enjoy.

Great Qin King's eyes turned cold. A divine king smiled, "Great Qin King, that's a lot. This time, each race intends to send a hundred geniuses into the Human Realm. They might also be accompanied by their dao protectors. According to this agreement, all three of us will allocate two or three hundred slots to you humans. Who knows? You might even end up with more slots than us."

"That's right. Great Qin King, the Luminous Domain Mansion offers far more than Nanyuan. Why must the human race provoke the myriad races so?"

Great Qin King said, "Don't waste my time with that bullshit. Will the divines and devils share the opportunities in your realms with us?"

"Haha...if you're interested, you are free to send some human geniuses to our realms as well."

A devil king laughed. Sure. The humans were welcomed. That instantly shut Great Qin King's mouth. He felt rather helpless. The humans greatly lacked experts among their younger generations. Most of their top experts were those born over three hundred years ago. That was an era where they had produced a large number of Invincibles.

But in producing those experts, humanity had drained their own realm of opportunities. There was no helping it. As a result, the newer generations had not been able to surpass the older generations.

It wasn't that they were less talented. They simply lacked resources and opportunities.

Furthermore, the era three hundred years ago was different. The bigger the crisis, the bigger the room for growth. At the moment, the humans lacked the same sense of crisis they felt three hundred years ago.

With nothing else to say, Great Qin King couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He cursed inwardly. He swore to teach them a lesson one day.

These people were calling this a negotiation, but in truth, it was merely coercion. If the humans refused, they would still enter. Even the situation at the border might grow more dangerous than before with the rising tensions.

After a long silence, Great Qin King conversed with the other human Invincibles through voice transmissions. Finally, he spoke, "We accept your offer."

"Good!"

The non-human Invincibles laughed. This came as no surprise.

Meanwhile, the human Invincibles remained silent.

No joy was felt. Even though they had obtained more slots through this arrangement, they still couldn't feel any joy.

***

That day, the human race reached an agreement with the various races to allow some geniuses and dao protectors into the Human Realm.

That day, Marquis Xia and the others heard of this arrangement. They grinned.

This came as no surprise.

He had thought that those myriad race experts would sneak into the Human Realm. But instead, they were going to enter openly. This was not a bad thing. It was time for the Nanyuan ruin to show clues of its existence. Wouldn't it be terrible if the people there left because nothing was found?

A mere Great Xia had attracted the geniuses from the various realms.

That day, one human after another stepped out of several minor realms. Some were arrogant, some were subdued, and some were shrewd. Together, they headed toward the Human Realm.

Finally, they were going to step into the Human Realm.

Chapter 1145: Boss Su Yu (1)

Boom!

A loud explosion erupted and source qi rippled out.

Inside his cultivation room, Su Yu had just completed the fifty-ninth body forging. With this, he could muster the strength of around 500,000 acupoints. This was the standard a genius of a major race would reach upon reaching the Sunmoon Realm. Only at that level would someone have the courage to admit being the genius of a major race.

With this advancement, Su Yu had officially stepped into a new world. A world of experts. A Sunmoon, or to be precise, a Sunmoon of a major race would be regarded a genius and an expert everywhere.

As Su Yu's body shook, his blood rushed through his veins. One could almost hear the sound of gushing water from the intensity of his blood flow.

With his newfound strength, Su Yu was confident he was now strong enough to kill Yuan Qingdong. That fellow's body was simply too weak. As for that fellow's characters, well, they didn't feel too strong either. What a worthless guy, considering he was the descendant of an Invincible.

Su Yu stood up and withdrew his aura. The golden radiance around his body also faded away. His 144 acupoints had also reached the final stage of transformation. The transformation had started a few months ago, but he had never put any effort on this.

That was mainly because only some of his acupoints were transforming, so he didn't care that much about this matter. Nevertheless, the completion of this first transformation would still grant him an increase of strength.

"I'm stronger now." Su Yu smiled and put his white mask on.

Moments later, he saw White One's message. The geniuses of the myriad races would start entering the Human Realm within the next two days. White One was heading toward Nanyuan with a few white masks, and he was asking Profound Nine for a place to meet.

Profound Nine was allowed to set the venue of the meeting. This was the sign of their trust in him and the importance they placed on him. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novel※fire.net

Over the past few days, Great Xia had been unpeaceful. The capital was sealed, and numerous people were killed. A large number of unfortunate cultists were discovered and killed. Even the spies of other forces and some uncooperative myriad race experts were killed.

The Xia Family had gone mad. More than ten Sunmoons were deployed to search the city repeatedly. Even an unlucky white mask had been discovered and killed during the search. Meanwhile, Profound Nine's whereabouts were nowhere to be found. It was as though he had ceased existing.

Since there were tens of millions of people in the capital, it wasn't realistic to keep the city sealed for too long. And today, the city would reopen. The lockdown would finally end.

"Let's gather on Starfall Mountain near Nanyuan. That's a good place."

White One had been waiting for a reply. Thus, he replied the moment he saw Su Yu's reply, "Starfall Mountain? Great Ming King might still be there. That place is not necessarily safe."

"That's a border territory. It will be fine. Please trust my intuition, Enforcer. My intuition has been honed by my numerous escapes from death."

White One did not argue against that.

Immediately after, Su Yu sent Zhu Tiandao a message, "We'll be gathering at Starfall Mountain. Prefect, please avoid that place for now."

What was there to fear? That was Old Zhu's turf. He could simply tell them to stop searching that place for now. In fact, he could do so with both Great Ming and Great Xia. There was nothing for him to fear.

Zhu Tiandao suddenly asked, "Where did we meet for the first time?"

"..."

Su Yu was rendered speechless. What was this?

"Xia Restaurant."

"Recite the Long Life Art for me."

"..."

Su Yu rolled his eyes. Why was Old Zhu doing this?

Holy shit!

Was Old Zhu suspecting his identity?

Realizing what was going on, Su Yu explained directly, "What happened in the ancient city was due to my Big Brother Stone Statue. Prefect, don't think too much."

"Stop wasting time. Just recite it already."

Su Yu felt gloomy. But he had no choice but to do it. Who did Old Zhu learn this from? Was that the newest trend? To first test the other party before starting a conversation? Had everyone learned what he once did in the common channel hosted by the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion? This was tiring.

When he was done, Zhu Tiandao said, "Fine. I'll trust you once. Why are you going to the Starfall Mountain?"

"I'm going there with some colleagues for work."

Zhu Tiandao understood the implied meaning. He said, "Just don't take those people into Great Ming. If you want to have fun, do it in Great Xia. By the way, we caught three white masks. Do you need them?"

"Nope. Just get rid of them. I don't want them to turn turncoats and trouble me instead."

He did not need those people.

But he soon changed his mind, "You can also release them. The next time something happens, they will be very convenient as scapegoats. I am filled with both wisdom and courage. With my wits, I have contributed to the pavilion by catching more traitors. Wow! Yes! Prefect, release them. I shall see through those traitors with my wise eyes and further boost my prestige in the pavilion!"

It was Zhu Tiandao's turn to be speechless. But that was reasonable. These people would be useful as scapegoats. On top of that, they could help boost Su Yu's reputation.

"Sure, I'll release them when I'm done. Be careful. Don't tell them your identity. When you have to, just sell them out. Traitors won't be welcomed no matter where they go."

For some reason, Su Yu felt like Zhu Tiandao was talking about him. He said, "Don't worry, Prefect. After leaving Great Xia, I won't leave Great Ming. Yes, I have a new big brother, but you're still my grandpa, Prefect."

"..."

Zhu Tiandao cursed inwardly. Screw that. This was not a grandson he could afford to have. What if the kid decided to first call him grandpa in front of a stone statue before calling the stone statue big brother? Zhu Tiandao suspected that this kid was trying to set him up. What a bastard!

He couldn't be bothered to talk about that anymore. He said, "I have a reminder for you. A lot of multiple character cultivators have arrived as well."

"Hmm?"

"Some prefectures have been secretly training their own multiple character cultivators."

"Oh."

"You're actually so nonchalant about that?" Zhu Tiandao was surprised.

Su Yu smiled, "My situation is unrelated to them. Why blame them? Their cultivation is their business. Prefect, you underestimate me. If I'm being honest, we don't walk the same path. I don't even know them. Since the prefectures are willing to spend money on them, so be it. I don't care. I only care about those people using us as bait. I don't care about anything else."

He was being truthful. It didn't matter if these secret geniuses were strong or weak. That was none of his business. It wasn't like he was the one paying for their cultivation. As long as they stayed out of his way, he wouldn't waste his time on them. He would rather spend his time on his own cultivation.

Zhu Tiandao was quite surprised. The previous Su Yu felt like an angry youth to him. But after returning from the Allheaven Battlefield, the kid seemed to have become much more optimistic than before even if the kid had also gotten his hands dyed red in blood.

The kid had changed. Perhaps not even the kid himself realized this. The previous Su Yu would probably flip up at the mention of these people. But now, he couldn't care less about them anymore.

"I'm glad to hear this. Those people are humans as well. They are also fighting for humanity. Of course, if they do choose to provoke you...deal with them as you see fit. In any case, Great Ming is not involved with them."

"..."

How honest. This was so honest that Su Yu was left quite speechless. So Old Zhu was trying to instigate him against them? What a waste of time.

"Yeah, I know. Bye, Prefect. I'm a busy man nowadays. I still have a lot of things to do."

Damn it!

Zhu Tiandao spat. The kid was getting very cocky nowadays. Could the kid be busier than a prefect like him?

A boy was indeed a boy. He started getting cocky after getting a little bit strong. Hmph!

Zhu Tiandao started cursing that the kid better not return to Great Ming. That damn kid had been working so hard for the Xia Family. The kid should have done something for Great Ming as well!

Yes. Old Zhu was being jealous here. It was obvious the so-called murder of Xia Xinyi was the kid working for Xia Family. Had the kid forgotten how bad the Xia Family was? The kid should remember that the great Prefect Zhu was the one who had saved and raised him!

Old Zhu sighed. Whatever. He had to focus on dao affirmation first...wait, no. He had to focus on reaching the peak of Sunmoon Realm first. Yes. He was a fresh ninth-stage Sunmoon. He shouldn't bite off more than he could chew.

***

Some people were so good at being deceitful that they could fool even themselves.

For example, Su Yu.

At the moment, he was busy bidding farewell to his recently made friends. With a look of reluctance, he said, "I need to leave. Great Xia is too chaotic. My cousin is too busy to take care of me. I have to go back home."

"Brother Bai, I hope we can meet again in the future."

"Yeah, Brother Bai. How unlucky that things are changing so fast. We should have gotten drunk at least once before your departure."

"..."

The youngsters all looked reluctant to part with him as well. That included a woman in the group, and when Su Yu saw her expression, he trembled with fear. He did not even know her that well! Why was she acting like this?

When he was done, he gave the Heart Cultivating Pavilion a glance. Then, his gaze landed somewhere else. It was the Weaponsmithing Faculty. He had not visited Zhao Li. Yes, Bai Junsheng could find an excuse to meet Zhao Li. But the previous incident involving had attracted too much attention to Zhao Li.

Everyone was already aware that Cui Lang was Su Yu. Everyone finally understood why Zhao Li had picked Cui Lang as his assistant back then. Meeting Zhao Li with this identity might also end up attracting unwanted attention.

It wasn't like he was going too far this time. He had plenty of chances to see Zhao Li again in the future. There was no rush.

***

Once again, Su Yu departed Great Xia City. This time, he did not travel alone.

The Martial Dragon Guard had deployed a team to Nanyuan. Thus, Su Yu was traveling with them. At Nanyuan, Great Ming would be near. As far as they were concerned, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to find a way back from there. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had also been quite silent recently. Thus, things weren't too dangerous.

Martial Dragon Guard.

Su Yu's feelings were quite mixed as he traveled with these soldiers. Back then, he believed the Martial Dragon Guard to be capable of everything. He viewed every single one of them as a super expert. But now, they no longer looked that special in his eyes.

These were merely a bunch of Skysoars. In the coming chaos, they wouldn't even be able to do much. Nevertheless, they were still the soldiers of Xia. When they fought in formations, they were still quite formidable.

Su Yu wondered if the soldiers with him knew such formations as well. They probably knew. That would be good enough to deal with some unimportant individuals.

During the travel, the soldiers remained silent and solemn. Su Yu also maintained his silence. Well, it wasn't like he had a choice. Everyone was ignoring him. They were in a terrible mood as the murderer of Xia Xinyi still remained at large. It was understandable why they didn't feel like talking.

As they traveled at a rapid pace, they reached Nanyuan in the early morning of the second day. At the moment, intense source qi undulations could be felt above Nanyuan. Due to the low source qi density in Nanyuan, when an expert cultivated here, they could easily cause intense source qi undulations even if they only cultivated using source qi liquid.

From the undulations in the air, it was obvious there were a lot of experts in the city. At a glance, Su Yu noted at least eight Sunmoons in the city. Just look at those thick pillars of source qi. It was clear these people weren't even bothering to hide their presence.

How brazen.

And this only applied to those not concealing themselves. There might be even more who had hidden away.

"We're here."

The leader of the group was a 10000-man commander. He glanced at Su Yu and said, "You're a member of the Bai Family. Do you have anyone here to escort you back? If not, I advise you to stay here for a bit while finding some people to send you back. It's better to be safe."

"It's fine." Su Yu indifferently said, "A friend from Great Ming is coming to meet me. We'll be returning together."

"Sure."

The commander did not say anything else. In that case, he did not need to do anything else for this guy. He was a busy man as well. He couldn't spare too much time taking care of some foolish youth.

Chapter 1146: Boss Su Yu (2)

At the same time.

A golden dragon was flying toward Starfall Mountain while dragging a golden chariot behind him. This was none other than Zhu Tiandao's personal mount. But at the moment, the person seated in the chariot was not Zhu Tiandao. Rather, it was Umbra and Bai Junsheng.

Bai Junsheng had a stupefied expression.

"Lord, where are we going?"

"Nowhere. We're going on a ride for you to get some fresh air. We'll return shortly."

"Lord..." Bai Junsheng asked sullenly, "Can you guys release me? What did I do? I have been locked up for quite a while. Who did I offend this time? Did Zhu Hongliang tell on me? I have not beaten him up as of late!"

Umbra ignored Bai Junsheng. It didn't matter what Bai Junsheng had to say. Umbra's mission was to take a ride in the area with Bai Junsheng before returning. Nothing else was related to him.

As for the reason behind this mission...it was none of his business as well. The prefect had issued him this mission. He only needed to complete it. This kid should feel proud to be given the chance to take a ride on the prefect's chariot.

Yes. They were only out to let the kid catch some fresh air.

They kept flying. When they finally flew across Starfall Mountain, Umbra received a message, "You may return."

Umbra wasted no time and dragged Bai Junsheng to the uncovered part of the carriage before shouting, "Golden Dragon, we can return now."

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The golden dragon spoke with Great Ming's unique accent. He did not even ask anything and started flying back. Meanwhile, Bai Junsheng was left at the uncovered segment of the chariot, his ability to move sealed by Umbra. He couldn't even speak anymore. He could only pitifully freeze in the cold wind as they journeyed back.

He had the urge to curse. What did he do? What were they trying to do to him? He had been locked up for no reason. Finally, he was out. But for some reason, they decided to parade him on the chariot.

Were they trying to punish him publicly? But for what?

***

At the same time.

Somewhere on Starfall Mountain, a hidden individual said, "Great Ming...sure is ostentatious. Is there a need to deploy two Sunmoons to escort a mere Bai Junsheng back? Since when is the Bai Family so important?"

"More like Bai Feng is important. Bai Junsheng is a troublemaker. Not long ago, he even got involved with the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. They naturally need to ensure his security..."

These people did not give this matter much thought.

It wasn't like this was the first time Great Ming had ever done something like this. Their prefect had never acted like a proper prefect. And their Invincible had also never acted like a proper Invincible.

In fact, just two days ago, Great Ming King had personally hosted a beauty contest in the prefect's residence. Was that something an Invincible was supposed to do? Perhaps he had left. Or perhaps not. In any case, it still wasn't wise to provoke Great Ming while Great Ming King was around.

In fact, those lazy bastards in Great Ming would not care about anything as long as they weren't bothered.

One of them said, "The leader told us to keep watch here. But what are we watching?"

"Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. The leader said that we will be working with the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion moving forward. The higher-ups will hold a meeting. But I don't know if that's true. We only need to keep watch. If the meeting does happen, it will happen here."

"I see."

That was not an issue for them to worry about. They were nobodies in the cult. What they knew might not be the truth.

***

Meanwhile, inside a certain valley near Starfall Mountain.

Su Yu appeared with a flicker.

Moments later, several figures appeared ahead of him.

"Profound Nine!"

White One first looked at Su Yu before looking at the horizon as he said, "I almost thought you were not going to come. Two Sunmoons from Great Ming were here previously. I thought they were going to search the mountain."

Su Yu said indifferently, "Great Ming? I know them. As long as you leave them alone, they will ignore us."

"True." White One sighed, "We lost quite a lot of white masks in Great Ming. Some are confirmed to be dead. But some might have been captured. We still can't establish contact with them. I don't know how they are doing."

Su Yu coldly said, "It's fine. As long as we grow our operations here, a day will come when we're strong enough to threaten even Great Ming."

White One laughed, "You did well. We'll still be relying on you after this."

"You're too kind, Enforcer." Su Yu's killing intent surged as he said, "I truly wish to see Yellow Nine's corpse. He might still be in Great Xia. I won't let him off. Enforcer Rainbow One had complete trust in me. Back then, he allowed me full control over the mission. I have never failed any mission before. This is the only exception. All because of Yellow Nine, we suffered such disastrous losses!"

White One and the other white masks also sighed as they heard that. They had indeed suffered disastrous losses. Two middle-stage Sunmoons had perished. Subsequently, they had lost another elder to the ancient city before losing another to Xia Longwu. Some of their white masks had also been killed by Xia Family. All that had been blamed on Yellow Nine.

If it wasn't for his betrayal, if it wasn't for his insistence that Profound Nine was Su Yu, how would any of that happen?

White One moved on from the topic and said, "Including me, eight white masks have arrived. Three of us are Sunmoons and the other five are late-stage Mountainseas. Profound Nine, Eighth Elder intends to have you lead all of us here."

Su Yu asked, "Including you?"

"Yes."

"You're a sixth-stage Sunmoon. I'm only a fresh Sunmoon. Eighth Elder is overestimating me. What am I supposed to do if you decide to disobey me anyway?"

White One solemnly promised, "Don't worry. We all have our own specialties, but you're the only one who has survived all these dangers. We all trust you. Since the eighth elder has spoken, we will naturally follow your lead."

Three Sunmoons and five late-stage Mountainseas. This could already be considered a powerful group. Furthermore, White One was a sixth-stage Sunmoon.

The eighth elder had commanded all of them to obey Su Yu's words during their time in Great Xia. He would remain the leader of all their Great Xia operations. Of course, it was very likely that this was yet another way for them to further monitor Su Yu.

Then again, this wasn't something Su Yu was concerned with. In the short term, he would not take on a different identity. As for Bai Junsheng, well, that guy had safely returned to Great Ming.

When Bai Junsheng was back at Great Ming again, Zhu Tiandao would either alter his memories or keep him locked up. There was nothing to worry about there.

Su Yu asked, "Do you have the things I asked for?"

At that, White One handed a storage ring over. On top of a large amount of heavenly source qi, ten drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid could also be found in the ring.

How stingy.

Su Yu couldn't help but grumble inwardly. A few days ago, he had just handed five hundred drops away. He was looking forward to replenishing his stock, but evidently, the pavilion was too stingy.

After putting the ring away, he asked, "How's the situation with the Myriad Race Cult?"

"We'll meet up with them first before negotiating further." White One said, "The cult will also send their Sunmoons over for this meeting. They have been in the Human Realm for many years so they know this place better than us. But the cult is also quite a mess internally. At the moment, they are split into multiple factions, with the First Divine Sect master, Original Devil Sect master, and some myriad race experts acting as their main leaders."

"Who will we be meeting?"

"The master of the Six-Winged Divine Sect."

Su Yu snorted, "I've heard of this sect before. They have two Sunmoons, but they are quite weak. Are they looking down on us? Why are they sending a weakling over?"

"You can't put it that way. After all, we only represent the branch, not the pavilion as a whole."

Su Yu countered, "Enforcer White One, don't worry about them too much. I investigated them before. Those cultists are shameless. The type that will step all over you if you give them even a little. In their eyes, non-humans like us are superior to them. There is no need to care about their feelings too much."

White One was left quite speechless. Was this guy being serious? Profound Nine was getting very arrogant nowadays. Fine, fine. Since the eighth elder had appointed him as the person in charge here, so be it.

"In that case, do we still need to meet them?"

"Of course we do." Su Yu replied, "Enforcer White One, please notify them to meet at the center of Starfall Mountain later at sunset. The same place where Su Yu once killed some single character faction experts."

"That...won't that be too conspicuous?"

"The most obvious place is usually the safest place. Don't worry."

Su Yu continued acting arrogantly. The white masks said nothing. Fine. They would listen to him.

***

Before long, night arrived.

At the place where he killed Zhou Pingsheng previously, also the place near the Divine Skywing Sect's treasure vault, eight individuals appeared with a flicker.

White One was not among them. According to Su Yu, they should leave someone nearby to keep watch. That way, they could avoid being encircled without knowing it. The Myriad Race Cult was most definitely not an organization they should trust. Eight of them moved like specters.

Eventually, they stood silently in the middle of the valley, with their white masks and fluttering white robes.

A short while later, sounds of movement rang out. Before the newcomer even arrived, his grumbling voice rang out, "Why are we meeting here? This is such an inauspicious place."

This was indeed an inauspicious place. Here, the Blood Fire Sect had lost a fifth-stage Sunmoon. That was one of their previous sect masters. What a terrible meeting place.

Eight individuals arrived. Only one of them was a Sunmoon while the rest were Mountainseas. The Sunmoon leading the group was not someone Su Yu was familiar with. But Chen Yong would most certainly be familiar with him. This was the Six-Winged Divine Sect master who had pursued him for quite a while. He was known as Silverwing.

They did not even bother to hide their appearances. The sect master looked like a frail, middle-aged man. His gloomy appearance did not befit his name, Silverwing.

After taking a look at Su Yu's group, the sect master spoke, "I'm SIlverwing. Where's White One?"

"Enforcer White One is not here." Su Yu replied coldly, "I call the shots here."

"You?" Silverwing sneered, "White One was the one who has been in contact with me. Who are you?"

"Profound Nine!"

Instantly, Silverwing's expression changed, "The same Profound Nine in Great Xia?"

"Yes. Am I qualified to talk to you?"

After saying that, Su Yu scanned the group of newcomers. One Sunmoon and seven Mountainseas. Among them, a Mountainsea looked familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. How odd. Whatever. Since this wasn't someone he should know, he shouldn't worry too much about him.

"Profound Nine..." Silverwing smiled, "You are indeed qualified. But...are you sure you can represent the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion?"

Su Yu maintained his cold tone, "I have the same question for you. Neither the First Divine Sect master nor the Original Devil Sect master is here. You don't even have a late-stage Sunmoon in the group. Are you sure you can represent them?"

"Of course."

Silverwing smiled, "They're not here, but the Mountainseas of the various sects are here. We're enough to act as the intermediaries. Don't worry. We will be passing your words to them."

Su Yu nodded. These cultists were quite mysterious as well, it seemed.