Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 923: Su Yu’s Trump Card (1)

Heavendoom City.

Su Yu had retreated into a building. A short while later, Dao Cheng arrived outside. Several death spirits were still following him. He was feeling very helpless about them.

Final Armor looked at him and said, “He’s trapped now. Brother Dao Cheng, I hope you can talk to the mayor now. If we can get the mayor’s medallion, we will be able to unlock the doors here as well.”

With the door unlocked, Su Yu would be dead. He had nowhere else to run.

After a short silence, Dao Cheng nodded, “I’ll give it a try. Brother Final Armor, please keep a close watch. Don’t allow Su Yu to escape.”

“Don’t worry.”

Final Armor did not say anything else. He was a peak Mountainsea. If he allowed Su Yu to run when he was personally watching the door, then he might as well kill himself out of embarrassment.

Dao Cheng turned around and left. The death spirits also left with him. This was the cost of killing a death spirit. But it wasn’t like there was no solution. He only had to remove the death qi in his body and stay away from the city for a period of time. If he waited long enough for the mark within him to disperse, the issue would resolve itself.

For now, he had no choice but to keep countering the death qi with his heavenly source qi. Before long, he reached the mayor’s residence. Technically speaking, the mayor’s residence was similar to any other building in the city. It was merely bigger than the rest. The entrance was wide open.

The death spirits stopped abruptly right outside the entrance. Seeing that, Dao Cheng exhaled in relief. It felt much more comfortable without them following him everywhere. It would seem like the mayor’s residence was still capable of suppressing these death spirits.

Eight armored guards were standing near the entrance. They were completely still, but the moment he stepped through the entrance, they stopped him and expressionlessly said, “As per the mayor, Heavendoom City does not involve itself in the conflict between major races.”

Dao Cheng frowned slightly, but he unfurled his brows immediately and said, “I do not intend to involve the mayor in the conflict. I merely wish to borrow the mayor’s medallion for a short time. I will return it right after I’m done with it. I can also settle with a medallion for the eighteenth ring.”

At that moment, an old man walked out in an unhurried manner. He might seem like he was walking slowly, but he was absolutely not small.

After a short moment, the old man reached the entrance. He looked at Dao Cheng and smiled, revealing his crooked teeth as he said, “As per the mayor, we do not involve ourselves in the conflicts between major races. If the immortals were to succeed in killing Su Yu with our medallion and the humans decided to avenge him, our mayor would not be able to withstand the consequences.”

Dao Cheng frowned again as he said, “The immortals—”

The old man did not give him the chance to finish, “If the immortals can kill Great Qin King, Great Xia King, Great Ming King, and Great Zhou King immediately, the Heavendoom City will naturally obey all your orders unconditionally.”

If the immortals couldn’t kill those people, they should stop bluffing. Immortals? What even was the worth of their words? The city would remain here. Even the mystic armor race was in a better position as they had their own realm they could fall back to. That was not the case for the city and the mayor.

Dao Cheng said, “We’re only asking to borrow the medallion…”

“May I suggest you kill a Mountainsea death spirit? Generally speaking, a Mountainsea death spirit will have the medallion for the eighteenth ring. You can get one yourself if you really need it.”

“…”

Dao Cheng was speechless. Things were absolutely not that simple. Killing a Mountainsea death spirit might result in the appearance of a Sunmoon death spirit. And if Sunmoon death spirits could be dealt with so easily, these ancient cities would not have remained independent until now. The death qi of a Sunmoon could probably rot someone like Dao Cheng into nothingness in a split second.

“Is there no other way around this?”

The old man smiled, “Lord Immortal, we can’t. You can easily leave after killing Su Yu. The mystic armors can retreat to their realm. But what about us? We are already making things easy for you by not reigning in the chaos unfolding in the city. You can’t keep pushing us around, Lord Immortal. The ancient cities might be weaker than the immortal race, but there are a lot of ancient cities spread all over the Allheaven Battlefield. Why must you push the mayor? Things will only get ugly if you insist.”

He was being both tactful and unyielding at the same time. He was essentially telling Dao Cheng that the immortals and the mystic armors were only able to create so much chaos in the city because they had allowed it. They shouldn’t try to ask for a mile after they were given an inch.

They might be weaker than the immortal race, but the immortal race also needed to consider things properly before deciding to offend them. After all, there was more than one ancient city in the Allheaven Battlefield. There were dozens of them. If they were pushed too much, it was even possible for them to join hands.

Things would only get ugly if the immortals asked for too much. Had they considered the consequences of that? Dao Cheng sighed. His status as a member of the immortal race had always been extremely useful, but even that was losing its effectiveness here.

If their target was a genius from a minor race instead, the mayor would have probably helped the immortals without any hesitation. Unfortunately, their target was a human genius.

The old man said, “The mayor also has a reminder for you. He might not like to involve himself in these affairs, but this is an ancient city. It has its own rules. The disturbance among the death spirits has awakened some of the older death spirits from their slumber. These newly awakened death spirits are not the original death spirits. If the chaos continues and ends up awakening the truly ancient death spirits…I believe you understand the consequences of that.”

Dao Cheng frowned, “The ancient death spirits are awakening? How is that possible? Up until now, we have yet to actually target the death spirits. I had merely killed a Skysoar death spirit by accident. That shouldn’t be enough to awaken the ancient death spirits, right?”

The old man said, “I don’t know. Maybe the chaos is getting too out of hand. The moment those ancient death spirits start appearing, we will seal the mayor’s residence. At that time, the city gates might enter automatic lockdown as well. Lord Immortal, you can decide what you want to do from here. We won’t interfere.”

Dao Cheng nodded and left with a sigh. He had failed to borrow the medallion.

After Dao Cheng left, the old man smiled and returned to the main hall. There, Tian He was still enjoying his liquor. The old man bowed and said, “Lord, he left.”

Tian He asked nonchalantly, “Is he giving up?”

“I’m not sure.”

Tian He said, “They should leave as soon as possible. The conflicts between these geniuses are creating a lot of disturbance in the city. If some powerful death spirits really appear, to the point even some Invincibles are alarmed, the city will sink into chaos. This is not what I want to see.”

“I understand.” The old man said, “Su Yu is currently trapped inside an ancient building. He won’t be able to last long. The death qi in the eighteenth ring is very thick. Even as someone who has entered through the main gate, he won’t be able to last more than three or five days. Even if he has some heavenly source qi on him, that won’t change. This is already his second day in the city.”

The old man was unsure if Su Yu’s death would really trigger a chaotic battle in the city between the super experts of the various races.

He asked, “Lord, why don’t we just kick all of them out of the city?”

“Kick them all out?” Tian He laughed, “There is no need for that. It will only give those major races an excuse to make more noise about the city. Su Yu might not be happy with that. Even the immortals might be displeased. In the end, we will end up offending everyone. Since they want to fight in the city, so be it.”

“Ignore them. Several Mountainseas and even more Cloudbreaches and Skysoars have perished in such a short period of time. I’m looking forward to the awakening of the first ancient death spirit. Let’s see how many more of them will die when that happens.” “Get ready to seal the mayor’s residence. Notify the residents to try staying indoors for now. As for the visitors, well, they can only count on fate. If fate wishes for them to die, what else can they do but die?”

“Yes!”

Having received his orders, the old man withdrew from the hall. Mayor Tian He gazed in Su Yu’s direction before smiling and removing his gaze. Since they wanted to fight in the city, so be it.

Ultimately, they were the ones who would suffer. If these ancient cities were really so simple, those Invincibles wouldn’t have been so wary of them.

***

Inside an ancient building.

To be precise, it was a large villa with a two-story tall main building. The residence was made entirely of wood. There was even a garden in the residence, but there were no plants in the garden apart from the two dead trees that looked ancient.

To the two sides of the main building, two smaller buildings could be seen. One of them was most likely the kitchen while the other was probably the stable.

Su Yu was in the middle of exploring the residence. It was still daytime, so the density of death qi was much lower. Even so, the place was not completely devoid of death qi. In fact, the death qi inside this residence during the day was even denser than what one could find in the outer ring buildings during the night.

The density of the death qi here would probably rise to a terrifying level when night arrived. Sure enough, the deeper one went into the city, the thicker the death qi would be. According to Mo Duona, he had entered the eighteenth ring during his previous visit to a different ancient city.

Su Yu did not know how long Mo Duona had stayed there. At the moment, his body was still strengthening itself rapidly. He had no idea what the golden light was, but it was a lot more useful than even the heavenly source qi for body forging.

He was in no rush to cultivate or deal with the death qi in his body. Rather, he took out the index copy and started writing on it.

“Do you know about the golden light given out as heavenly rewards? I’m talking about the golden light that can help with body forging. What is that exactly?”

“You need to pay for information.”

“Why are you so greedy? I’m a repeat customer. Can’t I get a special treatment or something?”

After a momentary pause, a reply came, “Heavenearth profound light. It is as valuable as the sunmoon profound yellow liquid. It is very helpful for warriors.”

Understanding dawned on Su Yu. Heavenearth profound light. Just from its name alone, it sounded very useful. And it had indeed been helpful for his body forging.

At that thought, he asked, “Do you sell this thing?”

“Yes.”

“What’s the price?”

“Heavenearth profound light can only be profounded by super experts during the precise moment when the sun, the moon, and the stars shift their position. A Sunmoon might need to wait in place for years before they can harvest even a single strand of heavenearth profound light. A drop of Sunmoon blood essence can get you a strand of heavenearth profound light from us.”

“What’s the price for sunmoon profound yellow liquid?”

“Three drops of Sunmoon blood essence for a drop of sunmoon profound yellow liquid.”

“…”

Damn those greedy bastards!

In short, the life of one Sunmoon was worth three drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid or ten strands of heavenearth profound light for them. He didn’t even know how much heavenearth profound light there was in a single so-called strand they kept mentioning.

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was basically a model unscrupulous merchant. Everyone claimed that Marquis Xia was unscrupulous, but Su Yu now understood that everyone had been too mean toward Marquis Xia. Not even Marquis Xia was this greedy. He was not going to proceed with the transaction. On the bright side, he now knew the price.

He said, “I’m surrounded. What’s the price to kill Final Armor? And what’s the price to kill Dao Cheng?”

“Final Armor, peak Mountainsea, member of a top 100 race. This requires someone no weaker than the third-stage Sunmoon Realm to guarantee the kill. Additionally, we will offend the mystic armor race for this. We require a million merit points of the human race or other items of equivalent value to proceed with this.”

“Dao Cheng, genius immortal, Earth Index genius, a descendant of an Invincible. His price is five times Final Armor’s price.”

“…”

Fuck!