Chapter 1338: Absolutely Devilish (2)
"You're too naive, Kid. Do you think the stone statues will tell you everything? You're merely a tool. A tool to reduce the pressure on them. You're not their successor. Are you ready to become a stone statue? If you're not planning to do so, they will not tell you the more important secrets. The dao of three bodies might have existed since the ancient past, but I'm sure this is not the dao the stone statues walk."
Su Yu frowned. Was that really the case? This wouldn't be an easy question to ask. Perhaps he should find a chance to ask them about this. Wasn't the fusion of three bodies the only way to achieve dao affirmation?
Lan Tian said, "According to my investigation, the three bodies dao would only be picked byu some minor races in the ancient past. Or perhaps it was a dao that those with no future would walk. It's the same as the thirty-six acupoint arts in the Human Realm. Only the talentless will cultivate them. No genius will cultivate these arts.
"The three bodies dao is also in the same situation. Of course, this is an era with too many talentless fools. Thus, the trash path became the mainstream path. It's fine for the talentless to walk this path. But how can geniuses like us walk this path?"
Su Yu replied through voice transmission, "The Devil Pseudo Emperor walks this path as well..."
Lan Tian replied disdainfully, "He's talentless and young. Look at those antiques. Have you seen any of them using a tri-life body? For example, the Immortal Pseudo Emperor and the Divine Pseudo Emperor."
Su Yu blanked out again. True. He had never seen any other Pseudo Emperors using tri-life bodies.
Lan Tian said, "Also, there might be more than one Devil Pseudo Emperor. Where is the previous Pseudo Emperor? Is he dead? Nobody knows. I only know that the current Devil Pseudo Emperor has only been their leader for two thousand years. However, the devil race is far older than that. Where is the previous Pseudo Emperor? I don't know the answer."
Su Yu said nothing.
Was the previous Pseudo Emperor not dead?
This was a matter worth contemplating.
He knew that the immortal race was hiding a bunch of old geezers. But that was mainly due to their cultivation method. What about the divines and devils? He realized that the various races still had a lot of secrets.
Finally, he inhaled deeply and stopped worrying. He was still far from dao affirmation. Why was he worrying about this now?
He tossed the matter to the back of his mind and returned his focus to the city. Down below, the match was still ongoing. Some of the unlucky combatants had encountered the death spirits in the city and were forced to seek refuge in the ancient buildings.
Some minor race combatants had entered the inner rings, unaware that the ancient buildings in there were harder to enter. A few unlucky ones had even been killed by the death spirits.
However, that was merely a minority. Most of the people picked to participate in the competition were experienced enough to know that not all buildings in an ancient city could be entered easily.
Meanwhile, Zhu Hongliang was still leisurely consuming heavenly source qi in his ring. He only needed to last half an hour to get a slot. This was way too easy. Even Su Yu laughed when he saw that. The Zhu Family was indeed full of tricks. Then again, he was also the same.
The number of active combatants dropped steadily as time passed.
In less than twenty minutes, more than half of them had been eliminated. That left about thirty of them to roam about the massive city.
The death spirit picked by Su Yu was still wandering about with the shining circle on its head. It might even win multiple slots for Su Yu.
After all, the slots abandoned by those who had hidden in the ancient buildings would be distributed among the survivors at the end. Thus, the death spirit could very well receive three or more slots.
Noticing this, a dragon Invincible said furiously, "Why are we allowing the death spirit to participate? A competition like this is pointless. How is this a test of the combatants' strength?"
Someone else protested, "You're wrong. The inclusion of a death spirit will test the eyesight, luck, and strength of the combatants. Some of the combatants have been able to make use of this environment to ambush the other combatants. This is definitely a demonstration of their strength. Just because the dragons can't do this does not mean that this is not a demonstration of strength."
Su Yu looked at the speaker curiously. The dragon race was a major race as well. Who was brave enough to argue against a dragon king?
When his gaze landed on the speaker, his curiosity was answered.
It was an ancient race expert.
The speaker came from the hou race. There were frequent conflicts between the hou and dragon races. More often than not, the hous would emerge victorious when fighting the dragons one-on-one. The experts of the hou race spent a lot of time near the Dragon Realm as their race mainly fed on the dragons.
This was an extremely terrifying race.
The hou expert was appearing in his original form instead of a humanoid form. When he sensed Su Yu's gaze, he turned his head covered by a yellow mane and coldly asked, "Mayor Su, you seem to be looking at me."
Su Yu smiled, "Yes. Do you come from the hou race, Senior? I understand that the hous love eating dragons. I wonder if you have eaten the divines, devils, and immortals as well? To tell you the truth, the immortals taste the best. The old are chewy while the young are tender..."
The immortal kings stared at him coldly. Dao King said, "Su Yu, must you court trouble all the time?"
Su Yu laughed, "Don't misunderstand me. I'm merely stating the truth. The immortals cultivate the Long Life Art. This is an excellent art at taking care of the body. It is capable of discharging all impurities in one's body through a special acupoint. With a lack of impurities, the immortals must be quite a delicacy."
Drip. Drip. Drip.
The hou started salivating. He was not alone. All around him, the experts of some other ancient beast races started salivating as well.
Even the iron devourer Invincible was tempted. For the first time since his arrival, he placed his bamboo down and looked at Su Yu. With a curious tone, he asked, "Have you eaten any immortals before, Mayor Su?"
Su Yu beamed and said, "Nope. I'm strictly a vegetarian. But I have seen roasted immortal meat before. The fragrance...was unimaginable..."
Drip. Drip. Drip.
The ancient beasts continued salivating.
Dao King warned, "Su Yu, if you keep provoking us, don't blame us for dropping all pretenses."
Su Yu shrugged, "I'm not provoking you at all. Dao King, you know this very well. Do you discharge all your impurities during cultivation? If that's not the case, I'll personally cut my head off for you. I'll be honest. I've consumed immortal blood essence before. And heavens, you can't imagine how it feels. I discharged a large amount of impurities back then. I spent a whole day farting. That was so awkward."
Instantly, the expressions of the immortals changed.
A different immortal king argued furiously, "Nonsense! Su Yu, how dare you sully our name!"
Su Yu shrugged indifferently and stopped speaking.
However, he had said enough to convince everyone present.
Farting.
Those with frequent dealings with the immortals were starting to look at the immortals with bizarre expressions. No wonder. No wonder the immortals would always isolate themselves from the others whenever they cultivated.
Now they knew why. So that was how it was. No wonder the immortals were so long-lived. So they had a way of discharging all impurities. This signified that the flesh of the immortals would definitely be the best flesh one could find.
Some of the beasts present appeared completely indifferent. But inwardly, they had decided to capture a few immortals to try the flavor after this. Perhaps the immortals were really very delicious.
Every single one of these beasts was an incomparably powerful existence. And with so many of them thinking such thoughts at the same time, the immortal kings were hit with an intense sense of crisis. The other immortals had unsightly expressions as well. Their instincts were screaming at them of the looming crisis.
Finally, the hou was able to stop salivating. He asked, "Mayor Su, apart from the immortals, which races are delicious as well?"
He had always believed that the dragons were delicious. But now, he had learned that he was wrong.
Su Yu grinned and said, "I recommend the Clearbright Bird Realm..."
Instantly, an eighth-stage Sunmoon clearbright bird shouted from far away, "Su Yu! You dare?"
Su Yu remained completely indifferent. Why would he not dare? He still remembered how this race had hung his wanted poster in front of their city. Did they make the mistake of believing that he was a forgiving person?
Su Yu sneered and said, "Oops. I almost forgot that we're on their island currently. The flesh of this race is a delicacy as well. Thanks to their cultivation method, the quality of their flesh is extremely high..."
Almost immediately after, a massive bird appeared on the claws of the hou.
A clearbright bird.
When Su Yu turned his head, he noted that the clearbright bird who had shouted to him earlier was gone.
The bird started shrinking.
With the bird in hand, the hou asked while salivating, "Are they really delicious? I have never eaten them before."
The expressions of Dao King and the others changed drastically. One of them said, "Hou King, this isn't appropriate! The clearbright bird race is a neutral race!"
The hou king seemed surprised. "I'm only trying to eat a bird. Why are you stopping this? This is merely natural selection at work. Such was the ancient law of nature. Will you hesitate when eating the fire hogs or some other races? How odd."
He was hungry. This was his food. Why were they forbidding him from eating?
Su Yu was all smiles as he suggested, "Senior, remove the feathers first. Then, crush the internal organs before roasting the bird for a bit."
"Raw is the best! It's more chewy that way!"
Su Yu disagreed, "No, Senior. Allow me to be of service. My fire is special. The flavor of food roasted with my fire will be even more pronounced."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
With a smile, Su Yu sent his fire of inheritance toward the bird. In the blink of an eye, the bird became slightly charred. He had grown significantly since the past. Now, his fire was able to harm even eighth-stage Sunmoons.
The suppression the hou was applying on the bird was making the process even easier. In less than five minutes, he was done roasting the bird.
The impatient hou chomped down without any hesitation. Oil dripped down his mouth as white light flickered all over his body. The white light was the effect of the famed healing ability the clearbright birds were known for. He exclaimed in shock, "This is...delicious! And fresh!"
A bird with healing effects roasted with the fire of inheritance was indeed excellent in taste. While the hou was chomping down on the bird, a moon dropped from the sky.
With a rumble, the distant entrance to the Clearbright Bird Realm was sealed. Alas, it couldn't be moved. Even as he was eating, the hou continued glacing at the entrance while salivating. He wanted to eat more.
This was a race without an Invincible. Even with the realm's suppressive force working against him, he could still maintain the strength of a Pseudo Invincible in it. Perhaps...he should establish a ranch here.
Su Yu smiled. With a cold voice, he suggested, "Please enjoy this race for now. When you finish them all, I will introduce you to a few more races. But that will have to wait since I don't want to distract you when you're enjoying this race, right?"
"True. Thank you!"
The hou turned extremely polite to Su Yu. He was starting to view Su Yu as a great food connoisseur.
Once again, Su Yu laughed. But that laughter chilled countless people on the island.
How had the clearbright birds offended Su Yu?
Someone among the crowd said through voice transmission, "I think I know why. All of you should know this as well. Previously, Great Xia King cut this city apart. At the time, the wanted poster of Su Yu issued by the divines and devils was openly hung on the entrance of the city. As a retaliation, Great Xia King cut the city in two. And now, this monster is instigating the ancient beasts to eat the cleabright birds. It's over for them. Without the help of the major races, things will get disastrous for them."
How terrifying.
Understanding dawned on everyone.
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The clearbright birds were simply too weak. If there was at least one Invincible in the race, the hou would probably have more misgivings when moving against them. However, the strongest expert of the clearbright birds was merely a ninth-stage Sunmoon. And now, they had caught the attention of a monster. Was Su Yu the monster here? Or was that hou the monster? Nobody could say for sure.
Nevertheless, there was no denying that the clearbright birds were in trouble.
Suddenly, Su Yu glanced at the distant mountainbreak bull Invincible. The expression of the Invincible changed as he started cursing inwardly.
Fuck!
Why was the monster looking at him?
He was not delicious at all! One ought to know that quite a lot of these ancient races enjoyed eating. A lot of these ancient races were essentially monstrous beasts. Nobody would say that openly, but everyone knew that.
If they weren't so monstrous, they wouldn't have persisted from the ancient past until the current era. There weren't a lot of them around, but they were incredibly powerful. A truly kind race did not exist as such a race would have gone extinct long ago.
Even the seemingly adorable soul devourers were monsters as well. They enjoyed eating characters and willpower. They were just as dangerous as the other ancient races. That was why the major races would always avoid these monstrous races whenever there was a war since the ancient past.
In short, one could live a long life by being a scourge.
Chapter 1339: Absolutely Devilish (3)
Not far away, Great Zhou King glanced at Su Yu without saying anything.
Worried, Qin Zhen sent him a voice transmission, "Su Yu has changed a lot. I admire his decisiveness. But from the way he described the taste of immortal flesh...is it possible that he has really eaten immortals before? This...is rather hard for me to accept. No matter what, the immortals greatly resemble us humans."
It wasn't that he was squeamish. He was also a decisive and ruthless killer. In fact, he was known to Su Yu as the killer of immortal fairies. But eating the immortals as a human was too excessive for him.
Niu Baidao explained, "No. He won't eat something like that. He was the one to discover the Heaven Connecting Acupoint. He found this thing disgusting to no end. How will he bring himself to eat the immortals? You worry too much."
As far as Niu Baidao was concerned, immortal flesh was the last thing Su Yu would eat. He viewed the immortals as a constantly farting race. Even when an immortal smelled nice, his brain would tell him that the immortal smelled disgusting.
Qin Zhen said in relief, "That's good to hear. It's fine to kill them. But eating them...it's fine to eat the beasts or even the dragons. But the divines, devils, and immortals shouldn't be eaten. They are too similar to humans."
Before long, he tossed the matter out of his mind. He even had the leisure to share his opinion, "Su Yu is actually wrong. The clearbright birds taste terrible with their dry flesh. The phoenixes are a lot more delicious. Their flesh is tender."
Niu Baidao and the others were rendered speechless. That was not what they were talking about. He had been misled by Su Yu!
Speaking of, when did this guy try eating the phoenixes? That was an ancient race as well. They were weaker than the dragons, but the phoenix race was still a top ten race. When did this guy kill and eat a phoenix?
***
The various experts started talking among themselves through voice transmissions.
Floating in the sky, Su Yu flashed everyone a devilish and crazy smile. The Invincibles frowned as they wondered if he was really dying. He seemed a tad bit too crazy. In terms of appearance, he still looked perfectly normal. But he was giving off the feeling of a madman.
Even Lan Tian was staring at Su Yu in surprise, wondering if the kid had gone mad. That shouldn't be the case, right?
Not far away, Immortal King Xuan He sent Dao King a voice transmission, "Stop provoking him. He might really be dying. He has gone crazy. There are rumors that he has the ability to absorb death qi as he has opened the fabled heaven acupoint. The acupoint will not take long to be completely full. At most, he will die in two human years."
Dao King blanked out slightly and asked, "How do you know this?"
"I have my sources. He won't live long. His heaven acupoint is imperfect. It can only absorb death qi endlessly. By becoming the mayor of several cities, he has gone far beyond his limits. He will die in a human year or two. It's pointless to provoke him now and lose a few Eternals for nothing."
He would die soon. Only a fool would sacrifice several Invincibles to kill someone like that. One should never provoke a madman with the strength to deal them heavy damage like Su Yu. It was not worth it.
The white-haired divine king was frowning as well.
Su Yu seemed more and more devilish. The kid had been surprisingly silent about his broken promise regarding the carrier treasure earlier. Was the kid...planning to wait and go crazy when the kid's death was near?
That would be the most pointless fight ever.
It was said that a dog would not bark before biting. He would feel a lot more relieved if Su Yu shouted at him in fury. But now that Su Yu was saying nothing about the broken promise, he started worrying. What if Su Yu decided to go after him at the very end? Wouldn't that be troublesome?
Sure, he could hide in the Divine Realm. But the death spirits could enter the Divine Realm as well.
His head ached.
Should he pay up, after all?
But he had arrogantly declared that he wouldn't pay earlier. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to pay now?
Furthermore, a carrier treasure was a big deal. Even Invincibles would treasure something like that. No Invincible could guarantee that they would never lose their tri-life bodies. Each carrier treasure could be useful in the future.
As a veteran divine king, he could still afford to pay a carrier treasure to Su Yu. But he was unwilling to make such a big payment.
After some hesitation, he started consoling himself. There was no need to be too stingy toward a madman who was about to die. Thus, he sent Su Yu a voice transmission, "Mayor Su, we can talk about more cooperation. As for the carrier treasure I promised you before, you will receive it soon."
"..."
Su Yu blanked out as he stared at the divine king. What the fuck? Did carrier treasures drop in price recently? Why was the divine king so generous out of nowhere? Was the divine king crazy?
But after thinking about it, he grinned. Was the divine king intimidated by his madness? Sure enough, nobody was scarier than a dying person.
Yes. He was dying. He had nothing to fear. Everyone else should fear him instead.
He grinned, revealing his white teeth alongside the strands of black qi seeping out of his teeth. Many expressions changed as they noticed the dense death qi in Su Yu's body. This was only natural since Su Yu was having three stone statues act as his bodyguards.
The three stone statues were more than happy to accept this task since it meant they could spend some time outside their cities.
At this time, the match in the ancient city ended.
Sixteen combatants remained.
Apart from some unlucky combatants who had been defeated by the others, sixty-five of the combatants had surrendered by seeking shelter in the ancient buildings. Split among the sixteen remaining combatants, each of them would receive about four slots.
Including the additional slot they had received for participating in the competition, each of them would walk away with five slots.
As Zhu Hongliang lazily put his ring away, he grinned. Five slots!
Not far away, the other human from the army was blanking out in confusion. He had not fought even once. Just like that, he had earned five slots.
Su Yu's special death spirit was still around as well.
If there were only one death spirit, nobody would care. But thousands of death spirits had appeared in the city thanks to Zhu Hongliang. Everyone was scared of attracting all the death spirits after killing one death spirit. Thus, nobody had the courage to even lay a hand on Su Yu's death spirit.
Just like that, Su Yu had earned five slots.
The biggest winner was a lunatic from the blood fire devil race. He had earned nine slots. After splitting the abandoned slots evenly among the remaining combatants, one additional slot was left. It was ultimately given to this blood fire devil as well since he was the best performing combatant of the match, pushing the number of slots he won to ten.
Some devil kings smiled at that, but Moge did not smile. After all, these slots had been won by a blood fire devil. This time, the slots the blood fire devils earned might not go to the original devils. Thus, this wasn't necessarily a good thing for them.
The blood fire devil had behaved in a way befitting of the reputation the blood fire devils enjoyed. He had ignored the dangers in the city and hunted the other combatants. That was how he had earned so many slots.
From this, one could see that the major races were clearly stronger than the other races. Most of the winners hailed from the divine, devil, immortal, and ancient races. Almost all the minor race combatants had been eliminated from the match.
The competition continued.
Su Yu watched on silently, taking note of every single cultural researcher he saw. He wasn't too concerned about the slots. If he had extra, he would simply sell them away. He did not consider the alternative of giving the extra slots to the human race.
If they were too weak to win their own slots, they would simply die after entering the mansion. Things would be a lot more dangerous in the mansion this time around. The human race had secured two hundred slots so far. That was enough for them.
As the match for the second-stage Skysoars commenced, Su Yu saw a familiar face as well. Zhao Shiji, a student from Su Yu's batch and a descendant of General Zhao. He was quite surprised to see that Zhao Shiji was still a second-stage Skysoar. How...weak.
Back then, Zhao Shiji, Zheng Yunhui, Xia Huyou, Xia Chan, Hu Qiusheng, and Wan Mingze were the freaks of his batch. But now, the gap between him and them had grown massively. Even Wan Mingze was already a sixth or seventh-stage Skysoar. How was Zhao Shiji still a second-stage Skysoar?
Su Yu also saw Zheng Yunhui somewhere outside the city. When he focused, he noted that Zheng Yunhui was only a third-stage Skysoar. That was so weak. He was basically as weak as Xia Huyou. Speaking of, Xia Huyou's cultivation speed seemed a tad bit too slow.
They shouldn't be so slow in the Skysoar Realm. At that level, they only needed to forge their bodies. If they focused on physical cultivation, they would be able to progress easily so long as they had sufficient resources.
Su Yu had also left the aperture opening method behind. Thus, they should have been able to grow much faster even if they focused on only willpower cultivation. Why were all of them stuck at the early Skysoar Realm? How useless.
"Do they lack willpower?"
That might be the case. He wondered if Wu Lan had made any progress in her research. The lack of willpower was the greatest problem plaguing the current human cultural researchers.
In Su Yu's opinion, Wu Lan shouldn't even consider entering the Luminous Domain Mansion. She should obediently stay behind and focus on her research. If she succeeded, a large number of experts would emerge from the willpower cultivators.
That was also the case for Bai Feng. They were all research geniuses. Why must they insist on matters related to combat? Wouldn't it be a big loss for them to die because of their stubbornness?
Suddenly, Su Yu's eyes flickered.
Should he...disguise himself as Wu Lan?
Nobody would expect that!
Wow!
He could disguise himself as an early Skysoar weakling of a different gender! ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ N0veI.Fiɾe.net
Hehehe.
And she didn't even have that many enemies out there. She was probably too weak to attract too many enemies. They might not mind killing her if they had the chance, but they also wouldn't waste the effort of seeking her out for the purpose of killing her. Furthermore, very few people knew that she was already a member of the multiple character faction. Even fewer people knew about the research she was conducting.
Su Yu started blanking out.
Wu Lan...a woman.
He was actually considering disguising himself as her. Holy shit! He glanced at Lan Tian before moving away instinctively. Lan Tian was absolutely devilish. He had somehow been infected by Lan Tian. How could he think of such an idea?
Lan Tian was too powerful.
Chapter 1340: Allocation Complete (1)
While Su Yu was in thought, the second match ended.
For this match, Su Yu had picked a death spirit as his combatant as well. This time, nobody said much about it.
The venue was still the ancient city.
This match, everyone was more well-prepared. Zhao Shiji was the human combatant for this match. As the Zhao Family was more straightforward in nature, he was much less crafty than those from the Zhu Family. He wasn't weak, but he was targeted by seven or eight minor race experts right after entering the city.
In less than a minute, he was forced into an ancient building. The divines and devils merely watched on indifferently. For them, it was perfectly normal to allow the minor races to steal the slot from the human race. After that, they would eliminate the minor races before moving on to the ancient races. Only after that would they fight among themselves.
This was how things had always been. Su Yu watched on silently without saying anything. As for his death spirit, it merely roamed the city randomly. Every now and then, someone would be forced to hide inside an ancient building by the death spirit. He only needed to wait until the very end to receive his slots.
Time passed slowly. When nearly half an hour had passed, Su Yu noted that several combatants had appeared near his death spirit. They did not attack. They seemed to be waiting for something.
Su Yu knew what they were waiting for. They were waiting until the very end before killing the death spirit. If they waited until the final moment, they could leave the city right after killing the death spirit. Or perhaps they could hide inside the ancient buildings without losing their slots.
Sure enough, right before the thirtieth minute arrived, they attacked together. Death spirits weren't too powerful against those in the same cultivation level. With multiple elites attacking it together, it wasn't even smart enough to flee. In the blink of an eye, it was defeated.
Almost immediately after, more death spirits appeared in the city. However, the match had ended.
Moge smiled and said, "Mayor Su, looks like you won't be getting any slots this match."
Su Yu wasn't too bothered. He had to let them win something, right? If the death spirits were to win each match, the others might not agree to proceed with the competition anymore.
He smiled and said, "So be it. By the way, the blood fire devils sure are impressive. A blood fire devil managed to survive until the very end yet again. Why do I feel like the blood fire devil race is the true strongest devil race?"
"..."
Moge did not respond to such a blatant attempt at sowing disharmony. Beside him, a blood fire devil king smiled without saying anything. This was an obvious attempt at inciting disharmony.
"Third-stage Skysoars, enter the city."
After the announcement by the white-haired divine king, Su Yu said, "I advise the minor races to send the best you have while you still can. You might get lucky when there aren't that many death spirits in the city yet. I suspect the number of death spirits will continue increasing. The difficulty of the matches will keep increasing. If you have no choice, you can get your combatants to spawn more death spirits in the city to make things harder for the subsequent combatants and reduce their slots. That's better than doing nothing, right?"
"..."
Once again, everyone stared at Su Yu. How was he coming out with such tricks all the time?
This time, the white-haired divine king did not seem too bothered. He said, "No matter how many death spirits there are, only the weak will suffer. The weak will remain weak anywhere. I'm afraid this is something Mayor Su can't understand."
Su Yu smiled, "Of course I understand. The weak are prey to the strong. This is something I have learned through experience. However, I'm afraid you don't understand that the tallest tree is always the one to fall first. Generally, death spirits will first target the strong. Thus, it is important for the weak to create a more beneficial environment for themselves. If you're not strong enough, do consider using your brain more. If only the fist matters, there won't be any wars anymore. Each race can simply do a headcount of each other's Invincibles and let the race with the most Invincibles win. Why bother fighting at all?"
The white-haired divine king did not bother to argue. But through those words, some minor races started changing their strategy. They started grouping up to prevent the major race combatants from finishing them off separately.
As usual, Su Yu picked a death spirit as his combatant. He could send only twenty combatants to participate in the tournament, but he wasn't too worried about waste. At worst, he would earn fewer slots. However, the addition of death spirits would keep things interesting.
***
After two matches, the humans had obtained twelve slots.
However, Great Zhou King was frowning. The human race had done relatively well during the first match. However, it was clear that the other major races were starting to target the humans starting from the second match. They would target the human combatants at the very start of the match.
Even if they had to lose some people doing so, they would still prioritize eliminating the human combatants. As for the injuries they would sustain during the process, they could always allow the injured combatants to be eliminated by one of their own. That way, their slots would still remain theirs. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ NoveI-Fire.ɴet
Niu Baidao watched in silence. After some time, the two third-stage Skysoar humans were eliminated from the third match. That marked the complete defeat for the human race yet again. He shook his head and sent a voice transmission, "Great Zhou King, this can't continue."
Great Zhou King nodded, "Starting from next match, have our people start killing death spirits right after entering the city. The more death spirits there are, the more difficult things will be for everyone. Nobody will dare to approach our people when they are in the middle of battling the death spirits. And when the death spirits reach a certain number, it will be far more difficult for them to isolate and target the human combatants. Even linking up to work together will be harder."
Niu Baidao nodded. This was their only option for now. They had to isolate all the major race combatants and force everyone to rely on luck to survive until the end. That was the only way to somewhat even the battleground.
However, that brought a new concern to him. He frowned and said, "We don't have enough heavenly source qi. Things will be very difficult for our combatants as well. The other major races do not lack heavenly source qi. They will be able to last longer than our combatants."
Humanity was simply too poor in terms of heavenly source qi.
Wan Tiansheng, the madman, had destroyed the two human holy lands. Without the holy lands, the heavenly source qi in the two previous holy lands had dispersed all over the human realm before turning into regular source qi.
This was what humanity lacked the most. In fact, the minor races lacked heavenly source qi as well.
While everyone was contemplating this issue, a white mask from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion appeared. But before the white mask could speak, Su Yu smiled and asked, "Is anyone interested in buying heavenly source qi? Look for me. I don't lack heavenly source qi. I promise you a very good price."
"..."
The white mask looked at Su Yu speechlessly. He was just about to do the same thing.
Su Yu said, "Feel free to sell. I will buy everything you're selling at half price before selling to the others thirty percent cheaper than the full price."
"..."
The white mask stared at Su Yu blankly. After a long while, he said, "M-Mayor Su, you might be an elder, but there is a hard limit to the amount you can buy under discount."
Su Yu said, "I know. I'm just trying to earn as much as I can. I'm too poor, you know."
Once again, the white mask was rendered speechless. So was he only here as a tool to help Su Yu make money? Su Yu could make a lot of profit by buying his heavenly source qi at half price before selling at a thirty percent discount of the full price.
However, there was a limit to the amount an elder could buy at a discounted price. Thus, he did not protest much. Instead, he started marketing his product to the various parties on the island, focusing mainly on the minor races.
Many speculated that the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had a holy land under control as well. However, nobody knew the location.
Unsurprisingly, some minor races started buying the heavenly source qi offered. The price was high, but they had no choice. Then again, Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's price would be expensive even at a thirty percent discount.
Finally, the third match ended.
During the third match, the divines, devils, and immortals were still the biggest winners. The human combatants were quite strong as well, but they had been targeted, resulting in a poor performance.
This time, nobody bothered to go after Su Yu's death spirit as the death spirit had remained in the midst of many other death spirits. Thus, Su Yu was able to earn three slots from the third match.
Including what he earned previously, he had earned eight slots thus far. This was acceptable for him. Of course, the divines, devils, and immortals had been the biggest winners overall. As for the humans, they had won only fifteen slots over the three matches.
That was far below their expectations. On average, they had earned five slots per match. If this continued, they would earn about 180 slots after all thirty-six matches. Even including the two hundred slots promised to them previously, they would only have around three hundred slots in total.
It was also likely that they would end up with even fewer slots than that. Thus, the humans started growing anxious. The moment the fourth match started, the human combatants started killing death spirits to create chaos in the city. They were not the only ones doing so. The minor races were following their lead as well.
By filling the city with death spirits, it would be much harder for the divines, devils, and immortals to cooperate. They would be forced to work independently, and the resulting chaos would allow the weaker combatants to perhaps win something.
Even if it didn't work this match, it might end up working in the subsequent matches.
Suddenly, Grandstar appeared beside Su Yu and spoke through voice transmission, "I've never thought of this, but it's a great idea to hold such a competition in the city. This will kill a lot of death spirits and weaken the burden of death qi on the city."
Each match, ninety participants would enter the city. And they would also carry a considerable amount of heavenly source qi into the city. This would weaken the death qi and reduce the death spirits in the city. Additionally, they would also carry some death qi with them upon leaving the city. They were essentially working for the city for free. With the sheer number of participants, it would have quite an effect on the city.
Su Yu smiled and said, "Lord, these combatants are still Skysoars. When it's the Sunmoons' turn to fight, it will work even better. Just imagine 810 Sunmoons working for us for free. I believe the density of death qi in the city will be quite low after the competition."
Grandstar was very impressed.
810 Sunmoons.
In all his years in the city, he had never seen so many Sunmoons in the city. This had never happened even in the ancient past. Sunmoons weren't so common that over eight hundred of them could be gathered at will.
In fact, a gathering of so many Sunmoons would be impossible without the participation of so many races. Su Yu was starting to wonder if it was a good thing to weaken the death qi so much.
He asked through voice transmission, "Lord, what will happen to the holy city without the death qi?"
"Huh?" Grandstar answered, "With the death qi in the city reduced and the incoming death qi from the Death Realm blocked by the two of us, the residents will have an easier time. Those unable to advance in the past will be able to take this chance to advance..."
This wasn't a bad thing. Even after advancement, a resident would remain a resident.
"That's all?"
"No. The once-per-millennium heavenly reward will be a lot more generous than usual."
Understanding dawned on Su Yu. Previously, Empyrean Cloud had told him that even the stone statues were working on a salary. They would receive their salary once per millennium. The more death qi they could wear down, the better the salary would be.
"Lord, will this affect Xing Yue?"
Wow. This kid was actually worrying about his death spirit.
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Grandstar answered, "No. She is staying in the Death Realm. This won't affect her. But the death tunnel will be strengthened so the difficulty of invading the world of the living will be much higher than usual."
Su Yu nodded, relieved to hear that Xing Yue would be fine. He was scared that she would die.
With his yang acupoint blocked and the reduced amount of death qi he was reversing lately, he reckoned Xing Yue should be living quite decently. He wondered if Xing Yue would be grateful for that.
Sigh. He was truly too kind. He couldn't even bear to inflict suffering on his death sovereign.
Chapter 1341: Allocation Complete (2)
While Su Yu was talking to Grandstar.
The white-haired divine king sent a voice transmission, "Dao King, Moge, these people are killing death spirits to force our people apart. If this continues, our plan to join hands and wipe out the others will no longer be doable."
Dao King said, "They were still weaker. It won't be easy for them to outlast us. Just wait and see. We only need to provide our people with more heavenly source qi and we will be able to get a large number of slots without much effort."
Regardless of what the minor races did, it was undeniable that the major races were still stronger. The minor races were only killing the death spirits to give themselves a slightly higher chance at winning more slots.
The white-haired divine king nodded in agreement. They had to give the minor races a little bit of hope to keep them from causing too much trouble.
***
Time continued passing.
Fifth match. Sixth match. Seventh match.
As the matches progressed, Su Yu saw several familiar faces. Wan Mingze was one of them. He did not showcase anything too eyecatching, but his sealing abilities were as impressive as ever. He was able to seal even death spirits.
Furthermore, the death spirits were quite helpful to him. He was quite lacking in terms of offensive strength. With the death spirits all over the city, he could easily seal his opponents before tossing them into the midst of the death spirits. Or he could simply seal his opponents before throwing them into the ancient buildings. When everyone was prevented from killing, he enjoyed a great advantage.
He alone won ten slots for the human race. One could say that this was the best performance the human race had displayed so far.
As for Su Yu, he had been sending one death spirit per match. Over the nine matches, he had won twenty-five slots. With this, he could take it even slower for the remaining matches.
Meanwhile, the human race had won around fifty slots over the nine matches.
As for the divines, devils, and immortals, each had won around two hundred slots. The dragons had won a similar number of slots as the humans. As for the minor races and the ancient races, they had won about a hundred slots combined.
***
Eastrift Valley.
When Great Qin King and the others received the latest update, their expressions turned unsightly.
The human race had performed too poorly in the competition. Over the nine matches, apart from select individuals such as Wan Mingze and Zhu Hongliang, the rest had performed terribly. In fact, some of them had performed worse than even the minor race combatants.
At this rate, they would only receive four hundred slots, including the two hundred they had been promised earlier. This was far worse than what they had received in the previous openings. This was unacceptable as they had received two hundred slots in advance for this opening.
Silk Destroying King said, "Our gap with the divines and devils are too big. They have each won about two hundred slots. Even Su Yu was able to get twenty-five slots by deploying nine random death spirits into the matches. That's half of what we won after sending nearly twenty Skysoars out. Individually, they are performing no better than even the death spirits."
This was a disastrous result.
The divine and devil races would each send eighty combatants overall for the competition while the human race would send seventy combatants. The difference wasn't that big, but the difference in results was massive.
It wasn't like their opponents enjoyed an advantage in cultivation level during the competition. Each combatant would only be matched with those in the same cultivation level.
Great Han King said, "It's not that we're too weak. Rather, they are all joining hands against us."
Silk Destroying King grumbled, "Do we have no one we can team up with? Sigh."
After their recent quarrel with the immortals, their alliance was as good as gone. On paper, they were still allies. But the alliance might as well not exist. Because of that, the humans found themselves in an even more difficult position.
As for the minor races, they no longer dared to work with the human race for fear of the potential backlash from the three major races.
The ancient races did not have such concerns, but they had the habit of ignoring the humans. They had simply been around for too long. They were well aware of humanity's history. Again and again, humanity had been defeated. Most of the races that had allied themselves with humanity in the past had gone extinct.
Thus, the ancient races would not ally themselves with the human race unless absolutely necessary.
They knew history too well. Each time the humans were defeated, they would be able to somehow survive extinction. Their past allies were far less lucky. Thus, the various ancient races had developed a new mantra: to live long, stay far away from the humans yet refrain from becoming their enemies.
And this was the mantra of the majority of the ancient races in existence. It would remain regardless of how strong or how weak the humans were. Most of the ancient races would remain neutral.
History had taught them that those who had helped the humans when they were in need or stepped on the humans when they were down would not last long. Prior to the competition, the humans had expected to gain eight hundred slots. But at this rate, it was likely that they wouldn't even get half of that.
The human Invincibles looked at each other helplessly. What now?
Not long ago, they had happily allocated twenty slots to each Invincible. But reality had smashed their dreams apart.
After a short silence, Great Qin King said, "Change our participants. Send the best we have. Stop hiding your geniuses. If you keep hiding, we won't even have enough slots to use anymore. It's pointless to keep hiding your geniuses. If we miss this chance, we will need to wait ten years for the next opening. The younger generation can't afford to miss this chance."
Humanity seemed obsessed with hiding its trump cards. Or to be precise, this was what every major race enjoyed doing. But humanity could no longer afford to keep hiding those trump cards. The Luminous Domain Mansion slots were on the line. And for a weakened humanity, those slots were extremely important.
Many Invincibles nodded in agreement. One of them said, "Can we contact Su Yu and negotiate a cooperation? He is the master of the ancient cities. Since the competition is being held in an ancient city, he should be able to do something, right?"
Once again, many Invincibles nodded. If this had happened before, they would have ordered Su Yu to do something. Now that Su Yu was clearly showing his indifference toward humanity, they had no choice but to negotiate.
Great Qin King did not reject that proposal. He said, "I'll get Old Zhou to negotiate with him. Let's see if he can do anything to help."
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Outside the ancient city.
Su Yu was in the middle of watching the match between the first-stage Cloudbreaches. Bai Feng was participating in this match. This teacher of his was actually quite strong among those in the same cultivation level.
Very few of his peers were stronger than him. There was a reason for him to remain relatively unknown despite his strength. Too many experts had emerged from his generation, such as Wu Qi, Liu Hong, Huang Teng, and Qin Fang. They had enjoyed all the limelight. Furthermore, Bai Feng's cultivation level was lower compared to theirs.
Suddenly, Su Yu received a voice transmission from Great Zhou King, "Su Yu, do you have a way to help the human race get more slots? We are willing to negotiate. Consider this a partnership instead of you working for us."
Su Yu smiled and said, "Great Zhou King, is there a need for this? If your candidates aren't strong enough to win the slots themselves, they will die in the mansion even if you manage to get them the slots. What's the point? I believe you are aware of how special this opening will be. Sending more people into the mansion is the same as sending more people to their deaths. Why bother?"
Well, that was rude.
Great Zhou King said, "You know why. The nine-leaf skylotus will bloom this time. Furthermore, Wan Tiansheng's destruction of the two holy lands has greatly reduced the cultivation resources available to humanity. The Luminous Domain Mansion is our sole hope to recover from our recent losses."
If they missed out on this chance, they could very well exhaust all their remaining resources in less than ten years. And Su Yu was partly responsible for this predicament they were in. Yes, he was not the one who had destroyed the holy lands. But the cultivation methods he released had greatly increased the demand on cultivation resources.
Without sufficient cultivation resources, it wouldn't matter how good the cultivation methods were. Humanity did not have enough resources to last until the next opening. This was a greatly troubling issue.
Su Yu smiled and gave no answer. Rather, he spoke loudly, "Everyone, if anyone needs more slots, feel free to buy some from me. I'm looking forward to it. In fact, if you feel like you can't win enough slots from the competition, you can consider helping my people during the competition. With that, I will have more slots to sell. Better that than let others win the slots away, right?"
"..."
Everyone was rendered speechless. Great Zhou King glanced at Su Yu, but he received no reply. Clearly, Su Yu was not planning to help. He said nothing about it. It wasn't like he could do anything about Su Yu's refusal to help.
***
The competition for the slots grew more and more intense.
The number of death spirits in the city was also rising steadily.
Bai Feng had performed quite well during his match. When several divines and devils attempted to join hands against him, he crippled them before tossing them into the midst of the death spirits. When the number of people going after him surpassed what he was comfortable with, he entered an ancient building without bothering to last until the very end. He lost one slot doing that, but he also managed to keep the slots he had won previously.
However, Su Yu knew his teacher too well. Bai Feng was very impressive offensively, but he was lacking in endurance. There was no way he would be able to last for half an hour. He would probably reach his limits in perhaps five minutes. Ultimately, he was not able to win too many slots for humanity.
During the match between the fourth-stage Cloudbreaches, Wu Qi entered the stage. She was quite an impressive cultivator. Apart from a large number of characters, she also had many other trump cards, such as her poison arts. In fact, her poison arts were so dangerous even the death spirits had to retreat in the face of her assault.
The shadow was also in the same match, and he was not to be underestimated. Ultimately, the shadow left the match with three slots while Wu Qi left with nine slots. That was quite an impressive result on Wu Qi's part.
The human race had a decent lineup for the matches involving the Cloudbreaches. After all, Huang Teng was a sixth-stage Cloudbreach while Qin Fang was a seventh-stage Cloudbreach. Neither of them was a weakling.
Additionally, Shan Xiong had recently advanced into the third-stage Cloudbreach Realm. With his unique ability to phase out of the current dimension, he was an extremely difficult opponent for those in the same cultivation level. He was able to leave the match with ten slots.
When the match between those in the sixth-stage Cloudbreach Realm arrived, Huang Teng performed admirably. With his saber, he started slashing everything around him without stopping for half an hour. He was so ferocious that many of his opponents nearly died during the match. He left with an impressive result of fifteen slots.
During the match for seventh-stage Cloudbreaches, Qin Fang demonstrated his strength as a Heaven Index genius. Unfortunately, the number of death spirits in the city was too high. He had no choice but to settle with only twenty slots.
As a whole, humanity had performed well during the matches between Cloudbreaches. They had won nearly a hundred slots through these matches.
Unfortunately, humanity had a far weaker lineup for the Mountainsea matches. But that was understandable. Most Mountainseas were those born over fifty years ago. And that was the era where humanity had declined due to Ye Batian's fall.
Chapter 1342: Allocation Complete (3)
In the blink of an eye, the match for the ninth-stage Cloudbreaches arrived. The various Invincibles started communicating through voice transmissions.
"Eliminate each other the moment you step into the city before rushing into the ancient buildings to wait it out."
"We have reached an agreement with the divines. When you enter, approach someone from the divine race. Let them attack you and surrender immediately."
"Get near an immortal when you enter the city. The moment an attack landed, surrender the slot to the immortal."
The Invincibles were trying to reduce the number of slots Su Yu could win. They had decided to trade their slots among themselves before Su Yu could react. That way, the number of slots Su Yu could win even if he could defeat everyone would be limited.
Meanwhile, Su Yu looked completely indifferent. Too many voice transmissions were being sent at the same time. He would need to be blind to not notice anything. Were they trying to compete against him through speed alone?
Eighty-nine opponents.
Excluding himself, there were eighty-nine opponents to defeat. He could guess that they would eliminate each other to not give him a chance to win too many slots. Was that the case?
He smiled and said, "Guys, it's just some slots. Just let me have them. What's the big deal? Don't ruin the harmony between us for only a few slots."
He laughed and continued, "How can a bunch of Cloudbreaches play their tricks in front of me? You're underestimating me too much."
The white-haired divine king said, "Mayor Su, as long as no rules are broken, anything goes. Nothing else should concern you."
Su Yu nodded with a smile and said nothing else.
With that, the white-haired divine king roared, "Enter the city!"
Instantly, eighty-nine experts shot into the city. As ninth-stage Cloudbreaches, they could already be considered experts. There were even index geniuses capable of contending against Mountainseas among them. Of course, they were certainly incapable of killing Su Yu. Their sole goal was to prevent Su Yu from winning too many slots.
Right after entering the city, they started approaching each other to start their plan of surrendering to each other.
Meanwhile, Su Yu slowly entered the city in an unhurried manner.
Just as someone was about to loudly announce his surrender, Su Yu commanded, "Calm."
The person who was just about to shout calmed down so much he couldn't even shout anymore. His mouth was already open wide so he nearly choked to death.
He had been silenced by Su Yu's character.
Su Yu's characters were quite powerful. That was especially true with his culture character boosting them. A fourth-tier character would be as strong as a peak fourth-tier character after the boost. That was more than enough to deal with these people.
Seeing that it was no longer possible to surrender verbally, the others attacked, aiming to hit just strong enough to fake a victory. But before they could attack, their visions blurred. Then, their targets vanished, replaced by death spirits.
They hurriedly withdrew their attacks. Was Su Yu using death spirits against them?
Those outside the city could see that Su Yu was merely utilizing illusions against them. Even Dao King couldn't help but remark, "His willpower and characters are quite strong. His illusions are capable of covering a wide range."
In fact, more than half of the city had been covered by Su Yu's illusions. The combatants were shown all sorts of confusing scenes. Not giving anyone the chance to react, Su Yu consumed a drop of blood essence. Immediately, his aura surged to the level of a seventh-stage Sunmoon.
An Invincible couldn't help but grumble, "He's already so strong. Why bother consuming blood essence? Is he going to fight a bunch of ninth-stage Cloudbreaches with the strength of a seventh-stage Sunmoon?"
That was too shameless! What was this? The others might as well surrender. The gap between a seventh-stage Sunmoon and a ninth-stage Cloudbreach was simply too big.
Even without this, Su Yu was already as strong as a Sunmoon. Thus, the Invincibles found it incredibly shameless of him to further boost himself when he was already enjoying such a large advantage.
Then, eighty-nine punches dropped down from the sky, one for each combatant.
WIth a rumble, flesh and blood splashed everywhere. Some were directly killed, spawning even more death spirits in the city.
In the sky, Su Yu shrugged, "Too weak. How boring. Why don't you let me fight the Mountainseas. Mo Duona is up next. Won't it be fun for us to fight it out?"
Everyone was rendered speechless. As for Mo Duona, his eyes flickered. But he remained silent.
Bullshit!
Not even Mo Duona would be a match when he was using the strength of a seventh-stage Sunmoon unless Mo Duona channeled the power of a devil king.
Su Yu lamented, "These opponents are too easy. Sure enough, nothing is better than crushing your opponents with overwhelming strength. Fine, fine, I'll accept the ninety slots. How is this so easy? I have over a hundred slots now. I wonder how much money I can earn selling them."
He was blatantly bragging.
The match had ended before it could properly begin. But there was no helping it. He was simply too strong. Those Cloudbreaches couldn't even say a single word in front of him. All their plans had been smashed apart by his punches.
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Done with bragging, Su Yu flew out of the city again.
The competition continued.
This time, it was Mo Duona's turn to fight.
Reputation was a very powerful thing. There was a reason for Mo Duona to dominate the Heavenly Hunt Index for so long. He was truly strong. The moment he entered the city, he started punching. Regardless of whether it was a death spirit or a different living being, he would defeat each opponent with only one punch.
He attacked rapidly. In less than ten minutes, not a single opponent was left. However, he was not able to stop all of them from surrendering to the others like Su Yu. He was able to earn forty slots for the devils, but the rest of the slots were lost to those who had surrendered to each other.
As the competition continued, those from Su Yu's side continued participating.
Bloodmoon and the others fought one after another.
The matches with Heaven Index geniuses would be much higher in difficult for the other participants. This was especially true for the match involving the eighth-stage Mountainseas. That was a match with both Zhan Wushuang and Xuan Wuji. They were able to defeat anyone who was not a Heaven Index genius with only one punch.
As for the humans, their performance had been rather uninspiring. By the time the Mountainsea matches were over, the humans had only won roughly thirty additional slots. All in all, the number of slots they had won was lower than two hundred.
Meanwhile, Su Yu had won 135 slots thus far.
Next, only the Sunmoon matches were left.
Two humans would participate in the match for the first-stage Sunmoons. They were respectively Chen Yong and a general from Great Qin. Both of them were considered strong combatants.
***
Su Yu did not pay much attention to the Sunmoon matches.
Out of the twenty participants he was allowed to send, only two were left.
Tian He would be his participant for the ninth-stage Sunmoon match. As for the final participant, he would select a death spirit after the first Sunmoon death spirit was spawned in the city. That would seal the city, but he could also reopen the city.
In any case, he was not planning to send a Sunmoon resident to join the competition. In truth, he did not have a single reliable Sunmoon resident. It was quite likely that they might end up siding with the others instead of him.
He would rather send a death spirit instead. In the first-stage Sunmoon match, Chen Yong and the general were able to win about five to six slots after suffering some injuries. The match between Sunmoons was a lot more intense than the previous matches.
For the second-stage Sunmoon match, Hong Tan fought. He was near the third stage, so he was able to demonstrate his strength and defeat several Sunmoons before suffering a defeat at the hands of multiple Sunmoons.
For the third-stage Sunmoon match, Liu Wenyan fought. Quite a number of multiple character faction members were participating in the competition and they had won a decent number of slots for humanity.
***
Su Yu remained uninterested until the ninth-stage Sunmoon match when it was Lan Tian's turn to fight. He had no idea why Wan Tiansheng was doing this. The special entrance were always available. Why bother with this competition? Was Wan Tiansheng trying to train someone up?
Lan Tian was as freakish as ever. Right after entering the city, over a thousand Lan Tian appeared everywhere. All of them laughed together, tormenting the minds of the other ninth-stage Sunmoons in the city.
The countless Lan Tians spread everywhere. Whenever a combatant encountered one Lan Tian, hundreds of Lan Tians would appear out of nowhere. All the Invincibles were paying close attention to the match.
Suddenly, Dao King sent a voice transmission, "This person must die. Otherwise, he will grow into a walking disaster. He might grow into an even more troublesome existence than Wan Tiansheng."
Many Invincibles agreed silently.
Lan Tian was too freakish.
He walked the so-called dao of myriad races. This had worried quite a lot of people. They suspected that this was not an original dao. During the ancient past, a freak had seemingly walked this path as well. Nobody knew the ultimate fate of that ancient freak, but from the little they knew about this dao, they were aware that this was not an ordinary dao.
If Lan Tian were left alone, he might end up succeeding. And that would cause them endless troubles.
After defeating multiple ninth-stage Sunmoons, Lan Tian was finally defeated by the other combatants who had joined hands against him. With that, the competition had reached an end.
Tian He had gotten quite lucky during the match. As an ancient city mayor, he was able to hide somewhere in the city and wait until the very end to preserve his one slot. It was quite embarrassing, but that was better than losing the slot.
All in all, Su Yu had obtained 136 slots from the competition. It was a decent result. The myriad races started calculating their gains from the competition. Before long, they started looking at the humans with satisfied smiles.
The humans had won only 232 slots in total. Including the 200 slots promised to them...no, they wouldn't even receive the full 200 slots promised to them. A few of the races that had promised them slots had failed to secure enough slots to make the payment. Ultimately, the humans received only 420 slots.
This was far lower than their expectations. Meanwhile, the divine, devil, and immortal races had each received around six hundred slots.
From this, the gap between the human race and the other races was clear for all to see. If it wasn't for the previously promised slots, they would have ended up with only around 200 slots.
The competition for the slots reached an end.
Many people started looking at Su Yu expectantly. Since he had obtained over a hundred slots, it was time he started selling them. Some of the minor races had failed to obtain even one slot. If they could pay for some slots, they wouldn't mind doing so.
Chapter 1343: Life Death Fruit (1)
Numerous gazes landed on Su Yu, the owner of 136 slots.
Could he even find so many people from the ancient cities to enter the mansion? Unlikely. Rather than wasting the extra slots, he would be better off selling them.
The major races, such as the divines, devils, and immortals, had enough slots after winning about six hundred slots each. However, the minor races were still in need of slots. For the major races with enough slots, buying more slots at high prices wouldn't be worth it. But the minor races were more than willing to pay to enter the mansion.
Of the 3,240 available slots, the divines, devils, and immortals had received almost 1,800 slots. The humans had received 420 slots while the dragons had received 300 slots. Su Yu had received 136 slots and the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had received 40 slots.
That left about 500 slots for all the other races. The ancient races alone had snatched a majority of the remaining slots. Thus, very few slots were left for the minor races. If even a major organization like the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had only received forty slots, one could imagine just how difficult it was for the others to get one of these slots.
In truth, Su Yu did not lack many things at the moment. He only lacked a proper cultivation method, with his source qi being much harder to transform than normal. Additionally, he was still quite lacking in many aspects of his willpower cultivation. For example, he needed more willpower treasures.
He wasted no time. With a smile, he said, "Do you need to hold a token to enter the mansion?"
The white-haired divine king answered, "Yes. The mansion has been surrounded by the various races. Even the humans are there. Don't you know this?"
Su Yu answered, "How am I supposed to know? I'm not a mayor of the human race. I'm a mayor of the holy cities. So you guys are surrounding that place? I'll be sure to send Grand Dream City over later. He will stand watch alongside you guys."
He laughed before continuing, "Since you need tokens to enter, give me my tokens first. This will prevent any confusion at a later date."
The white-haired divine king did not bother to argue. With a casual wave of his hand, a pile of tokens flew out. Su Yu had thought that the major races would try to create some trouble again, but surprisingly, they were very cooperative this time.
The tokens looked perfectly ordinary, apart from the fact that some of them had the auras of some Invincibles on them.
Great Zhou King said, "These tokens are meant to open the seals outside the entrances. There will be a seal covering each entrance. Nobody can enter forcefully. These tokens are essentially keys."
Understanding dawned on Su Yu. He said, "Thank you, Great Zhou King."
136 slots.
He did not hold back. After pulling a random token out, he said, "The sale starts now. I don't need so many slots. I might earn more just selling these slots than what you could earn inside the mansion. Don't worry. It's very cheap. For the first token, I require ten first-stage Sunmoon characters. A second-stage character will be considered as two first-stage characters. Double that number for each increment in stage."
Everyone looked at each other in surprise. Great Zhou King asked, "Why do you need so many characters?"
Su Yu answered with a smile, "Cultivation. The willpower you get when smashing characters apart is very pure. It is very good for cultivation. Don't you know this, Great Zhou King?"
"..."
Invincible or not, everyone was stunned.
Fuck!
Cultivating by smashing Sunmoon characters? Was this guy crazy? Right, he was a madman. How could they forget this? First-stage Sunmoon characters were very valuable. But...they were also quite ordinary at the same time.
Generally, Invincibles would form some additional characters when they had the time even if they weren't cultural researchers. Most of these characters would be Sunmoon characters. The people from the major races were surprised to hear that Su Yu was going to trade his slots for characters that he could use for his cultivation. This was something they had never expected.
Before long, a large, golden bird asked, "Mayor Su, rather than cultivating with characters, you should use blackwood lotus, sevenstar purple orchid, jadespring fruit, and other similar treasures suitable for cultivation. With these treasures, your willpower will be purer. You also don't have to worry about having the willpower of others pollute your willpower."
Su Yu asked in surprise, "Do you have these treasures? I know about them, but they are too rare. Characters are a lot more common. Anyone can cultivate some. If we kill all the Sunmoons and Invincibles present, we can probably gather thousands of them..."
Was he even listening to himself? So he was only after convenience?
They had thought that he was scheming something big with these characters. So convenience was the only reason? Was he being serious here?
Su Yu seriously said, "Also, those treasures are too hard to value..."
The Heaven Department head said, "Elder Su, since you're an elder of the pavilion, we can naturally value these treasures for you. There is no need to worry about this, Elder Su."
After a slight pause, he added, "If you want, you can always have the pavilion act as your agent in selling these slots. We will only take a five percent commission from the sales."
Su Yu laughed, "Forget it. I'm not even planning to sell these slots for crazy prices. I can't have everyone calling me greedy, right? Rather than let the pavilion take a commission of five percent, I might as well give my buyers a discount of five percent. Am I right? With this, everyone will believe that I'm a kind person. Everyone will thank me!"
"..."
Thank his ass!
Su Yu was all smiles as he continued, "Fine. I accept anything that is helpful for willpower cultivation. My willpower cultivation is too terrible. I only have some fourth-tier characters. This is incompatible with my strength and status. Thus, I need to have some Sunmoon characters as well. The first token will be cheaper. As for the subsequent tokens, the price will increase by one character per token sold."
"I'm buying!"
The same golden bird shouted. After tossing three stalks of an unknown plant over, the bird said, "Three sevenstar purple orchid. They are definitely comparable to ten first-stage Sunmoons in value. You can check with the pavilion if you want to be sure."
Su Yu smiled and looked at the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. There, a faceless elder said, "That is true."
Su Yu smiled, "Thank you for your business. Let me give this flower a try."
Then, he took one of the flowers and stuffed it into his mouth. Instantly, a thick burst of willpower surged into his sea of willpower. In the blink of an eye, one of his few remaining third-tier characters advanced to the next tier. It was the meld character, a character he had rarely used.
Su Yu was very surprised. This flower was incredibly effective.
All the onlookers stared at him with stupefaction. Holy shit! Did he just eat that flower? Just like that? How...opulent of him. These treasures were rare even for Sunmoons. However, Su Yu was treating them as common fruits.
Su Yu ignored all the gazes on him. He happily ate the remaining two as well. Of his twenty-seven characters, a majority of them had reached the fourth tier. Some of his newer characters were still stuck below that. One of them was his recently formed culture character. It was quite a useful character for him. With the burst of pure willpower from the three stalks of orchids, he was able to rapidly grow these characters.
Everyone watched on while grimacing as he swallowed the incomparably valuable treasures one after another.
Not far away, Bai Feng grumbled, "What a wastrel! Why is he eating three sevenstar purple orchids raw? What a waste!"
The three orchids had only pushed three of his characters into the fourth tier. Even a single Sunmoon character could probably do better than this. In short, Su Yu had sold the slot for a value below that of a first-stage Sunmoon character. He was too wasteful. He could still grow all those characters by simply spending more time cultivating. Why was he wasting these incomparably precious slots for something like this?
Everyone stared at him speechlessly. They had to admit that he might be good at earning money, but he was also very good at spending money. And there was nothing they could do about it. He was willing to be so wasteful. What about it?
Were the major races willing to be so wasteful? Nope.
Initially, Great Zhou King and the other humans had planned to buy some slots from Su Yu as well. But after seeing how he was behaving, they gave up. He wasn't selling the slots for cheap at all.
While everyone stared, Su Yu ate, digested, and burped in the sky with three stone statues floating around him.
He said, "I have twenty-seven characters in total. Twenty-five of them are at the fourth tier. Two are still stuck at the third tier. I'll be selling two more slots for willpower treasures. When all of them are at the fourth tier, I'll consider selling my slots for some other treasures..."
Right after that, the same bird tossed three more stalks of orchids over and shouted, "Me!"
While burping, Su Yu said, "I love dealing with straightforward people like you, Lord. Which race do you come from? I will be sure to remember your race when I have more good things to sell in the future."
The golden bird replied, "Golden crow race."
Su Yu was surprised. So this was the golden crow race?
He had heard of this race before. He knew that this race was very strong. He had not been able to recognize the bird as he had never met one of them before. He said, "You're truly handsome and heroic, Lord. Thank you for broadening my horizons today. If you don't mind, can we take a picture together to remember this day?"
"..."
Was he crazy? The golden crow was rendered speechless. Picture his ass! What a nonsensical request.
But Su Yu was very serious about it. He explained, "In truth, my biggest wish in life does not involve murder and arson. Rather, I want to take pictures with the strongest experts among the myriad races. I wish to finish a myriad race memoir before I die. That's my greatest and last wish. With pictures, I will be able to write a better memoir. This will be something I can leave for the future generation."
The golden crow did not take those words seriously. But when Great Zhou King noted the serious expression Su Yu had, he started feeling doubtful.
Before he could think much, Su Yu continued, "I'm serious. I advise the next buyers to take a picture with me if you wish to buy from me. If possible, I wish to talk about history, life, and dreams with all of you as well..."
Everyone stared at him blankly.
Su Yu solemnly said, "I have been dreaming of making a memoir like this long ago. Please trust me. I'm not planning or scheming anything. I'm only doing this to commemorate my short life."
This was not a random idea of his. In truth, he had thought of something like this a long time ago. The inspiration came from his golden book. He wanted to make something similar that was more perfect than complete.
He had a feeling that the golden book in his mind was possibly incomplete. That was because some of the races he knew about did not exist in the book. The fire hog was one such race.
Was that because the fire hog race was too young to be recorded in the book? Did it not exist during the ancient past? Thus, he had the idea of collecting more information about the races missing from the golden book, including the specimens, blood essence, cultivation methods, and some other details about these races. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel⟡fire.net
When that thought rose in his mind, the golden book reacted by trembling slightly, as though it had sensed something. In fact, as Su Yu explained to the crowd what he wanted to do, he reached a state of comprehension without realizing it.
And right before the numerous eyes, his willpower pulsed. The world itself seemed to warp slightly as a radiance character appeared in his mind. Then, the previously formed culture character came together with the radiance character.
Together, the two characters meant civilization.
Culture and radiance. The exploration of a civilization.
Explore the unknown. Search the future. The study of civilization. All realms and races were mere subjects of this field of study. In his meditative state, he came to understand numerous things.
This was how a cultural researcher should be. A cultural researcher was meant to explore the unknown, search the future, and study the various realms and races to uncover the truth of existence.
All the Invincibles in the area were stunned.
All the young geniuses and experts were stunned as well.
Everyone was stunned.
Was this...the real number one genius of the Heavenly Hunt Index?
This was Su Yu.
Even those who had never experienced such a state of comprehension could sense what Su Yu was experiencing.