Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside Grandstar City, the Sunmoons of the powerful races were all busy with their own tasks. Some were inspecting the death spirits while some were rebuking the humans.

“Qin Hao, what are you trying to do?”

Dawo was furious. These humans were still killing death spirits nonstop. This would only create more trouble for them. Sure, they had a lot of late-stage Sunmoons, but everyone still remembered the Heavendoom City incident.

Even they would be troubled if the number of Sunmoon death spirits grew too big. If things further escalated, even Invincible death spirits might appear. No matter how many Sunmoons they had, they wouldn’t be able to stop an Invincible.

Before Qin Hao could say anything, Xuan Wuji of the immortals spoke, “General Qin, we’re not even sure that’s Su Yu yet. Even if we’re sure, it’s not wise to risk the lives of so many people like this.”

Boom!

He had just finished speaking when a spear strike was unleashed upon him. A late-stage Sunmoon immortal met the spear with a sword. With a rumble, the two weapons clashed, sending shockwaves all around them. But after the exchange, the expression of the immortal turned solemn. Even Xuan Wuji’s expression changed.

With a cold expression, Qin Hao’s killing intent erupted as he said, “When adults are speaking, children should learn to shut up. Xuan Wuji, back then, your father was beaten by me so badly that he had to kneel down and beg for forgiveness. I only spared him after your grandfather came out and begged for peace from my father. Who are you to tell me what to do?”

Xuan Wuji’s expression changed further.

With a sneer, Qin Hao continued, “Don’t forget your place just because you’re on the Heaven Index. Who am I?”

He raised his voice, “I’m the first son of Great Qin King, the general of the Vanguard Regiment. What are you, brat? Who are you to tell me what to do? The alliance was formed between the human race and the immortal race as a whole, not only the Profound King’s forces. If he wishes to cancel the alliance, tell him to say it himself. Who are you to run your mouth before me?”

His eyes turned frosty as he looked at the late-stage Sunmoon who had blocked his previous attack and said, “Keep a leash over this brat. Does your ancient immortal king know that this brat is trying to order me around out here?”

The expression of the late-stage Sunmoon changed as he said, “You misunderstand us, General Qin. Wuji did not intend to order you around. But your wanton killing can really create more trouble for us. It hasn’t even been that long since the Heavendoom City incident. If an Invincible death spirit appears, none of us will survive. We’re not the only ones in this city. Please consider this before doing anything.”

“That’s more like it.” Qin Hao laughed, as though he wasn’t the same person who had gone all angry earlier. He said, “You’re right. I was having too much fun killing them. You know that the Vanguard Army specializes in killing. I killed out of habit and forgot to stop. Don’t mind me.”

Those from the other races watched silently. Even the divines and devils remained silent. They merely sneered at the thought of this alliance. What a joke. This so-called alliance had only remained in name for quite a while.

As of late, the immortals had been stirring into action. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before the alliance was broken officially. Perhaps the first to attack the human race would be the immortal race instead of any other race.

Qin Hao ignored all those people, but he did stop killing the death spirits. The immortals had already shown their displeasure. If he continued, the other races would be angered as well. That would only turn them into the public enemies of the people here.

He thought to himself that he had done everything he could. Then again, if that kid was really disguised as a death spirit, was one of the death spirits he killed earlier actually that kid in disguise?

Worried, he looked at Qin Fang and sent a voice transmission, “Check the index. See if he’s still there.”

Qin Fang was left speechless. If someone died, the index would shake. But he did as told and confirmed that Su Yu was still on it. Qin Hao was relieved to hear that. Good. Wow, his accuracy was really impressive, then. Just look at how he had been able to avoid killing that kid even when he was randomly killing death spirits.

In fact, Umbra was also thinking the same. He had stopped after a while, worried that he would accidentally kill Su Yu instead. There was no doubt that Su Yu could disguise himself as a death spirit.

That kid was probably unable to defend himself against a seventh-stage Sunmoon. It would be awkward if the kid ended up dead in such a manner. They were doing this to create more cover for the kid, but in the process, they killed the kid. That would be the most sullen death ever.

The humans had stopped killing death spirits, but the remaining death spirits were already furious. They started attacking every living being indiscriminately. The death qi in the city grew thicker and thicker.

Above the mayor’s residence, the Sunmoon death spirit finally finished manifesting. As for the city gates, they had all swung shut. The Sunmoon death spirit wasted no time and rushed toward Qin Hao’s group right after appearing. Out of everyone in the city, these people had killed the most death spirits.

Instantly, a massive battle broke out. Qin Hao wasn’t afraid, but he didn’t bother fighting the death spirit head-on either. He kept luring the death spirit everywhere, spreading the death spirit’s attacks everywhere. This was annoying the others to no end as they couldn’t kill this death spirit. Even if they sent the death spirit flying, it would return with vengeance soon after.

And thus, a scene of a single second-stage Sunmoon death spirit chasing a bunch of high-stage Sunmoons around unfolded. This was their only option as killing this death spirit would only worsen the situation.

Fortunately, they were strong enough to handle the attacks of this death spirit. They would be safe from even the death qi of this Sunmoon death spirit for some time. This was unlike the previous incident where several middle-stage Sunmoon death spirits had appeared. A single early-stage Sunmoon death spirit was still not too hard for them to handle.

Furthermore, there were only four late-stage Sunmoons to deal with multiple Sunmoon death spirits. This time, there were over twenty late-stage Sunmoons to deal with one Sunmoon death spirit.

Thus, they were still not in any danger. But there was no doubt that the number of death spirits had increased significantly. In fact, over two thousand death spirits had appeared in the city thus far.

And that number was still rising. Someone must still be killing death spirits somewhere.

Zhan Wushuang could no longer be bothered to waste any time on the humans. He shouted, “Spread your willpower around and inspect all the death spirits.”

At that, a late-stage Sunmoon of the divine race released his willpower and resisted the pain of death qi erosion to inspect all the death spirits around him. Meanwhile, Zhan Wushuang took out an umbrella. When he unfurled the umbrella, all the death qi around him was pushed away.

With the umbrella in hand, he overlooked the death spirits from the sky alongside the late-stage Sunmoon. Miraculously, the death spirits started ignoring him the moment he took the umbrella out.

With a cold expression, Zhan Wushuang’s eyes lit up as he scanned every death spirit he could see. Where was Su Yu hiding? The start of the incident had been too chaotic. The humans had also been causing trouble by killing death spirits. Because of that, they had not been able to properly examine the city until now.

And now, the immortals, devils, and dragons had reached a tacit understanding to keep an eye on the humans together. They had to find Su Yu. Yes, the other races were happy to see the divines losing. But they also wanted to see Su Yu dead. That human was becoming more and more of a threat.

Also, how was he disguising himself as a death spirit? Was Su Yu’s disguise really so amazing? Even the five elementals were busy searching the city. At this point, a lot of things had become clear. Su Yu might have captured Tianduo to assume Tianduo’s identity. Topsoil Spirit must have discovered something and caught Su Yu’s attention. Since Topsoil Spirit was still alive, he was probably imprisoned somewhere.

Su Yu was too dangerous. No such Cloudbreach had ever appeared in history. As a mere Cloudbreach, Su Yu seemed capable of creating massive trouble everywhere he went.

The Sunmoons of the ancient races were also busy searching the city. But their goal was much simpler. They did not care whether Su Yu was dead or alive. In fact, they would much prefer sparing Su Yu if possible. But they would not refrain from robbing Su Yu if they could find him.

Who wouldn’t be tempted by 2,300 strands of heavenearth profound light? As for the possibility of the divines demanding for the heavenearth profound light from them after the robbery, what nonsense.

That was the money the divines had spent. They did not have the right to demand the money back from someone who had robbed Su Yu. Ancient Mountain was among the ancient race Sunmoons who were busy searching the city in the hope of robbing Su Yu.

It really wasn’t that hard for so many Sunmoons to go through only two thousand or so death spirits. Even if Su Yu decided to spawn more death spirits by killing, that would only make it easier for them to find him.

At one point, the death spirits were no longer increasing in number. Clearly, Su Yu had stopped killing.

Up in the sky, Zhan Wushuang was casually striding around with a late-stage Sunmoon beside him. While inspecting the death spirits down below, he spoke, “Su Yu, I know you’re here. Hand over the things you received from me earlier and I’ll let this go.”

The Invincibles were on their way to the city. But that would take some time. He had to retrieve what he had given Su Yu before that. Otherwise, he would displease the divine Invincible.

That was unavoidable even if he wasn’t the sole person who had been scammed today. Everyone had been scammed. But he was the biggest victim. The two late-stage Sunmoons were actually only sent here to assist him. He was the actual person in charge during the auction.

He was on the verge of becoming a ninth-stage Mountainsea. And the moment he became a Sunmoon, he would be among the higher-ups of the divines. But if he suffered such a disastrous loss here, his future prospects would be significantly affected.

Thus, he had to handle this before the Invincibles arrived. It would be even better if he could capture or kill Su Yu. That would be the best way of washing the humiliation he had suffered.

Meanwhile, Dawo was speaking to Mo Duona through voice transmission, “Mo Duona, do we look for Su Yu as well?”

“Let the divines try first.” Mo Duona looked around and said, “Stay on alert. If that fellow has more Ye Batian’s characters, he will be able to threaten even Sunmoons.”

But Dawo did not seem to agree. He doubted that Su Yu would be able to kill a seventh-stage Sunmoon even with Ye Batian’s character. That did not seem possible at all. In fact, Dawo was starting to think that Mo Duona was no longer behaving in a way befitting the number one genius on the index. But then again, he was indeed not the number one genius anymore. He had been dethroned by Su Yu.

Mo Duona did not give any further explanation. Since the divines wanted to charge at the forefront, there was no need for them to try too hard for now. In any case, the devils had not suffered that big of a loss…wait, no. They did suffer the loss of a genius. Tianduo was dead. But that was a genius who had died in the hands of a different genius. As far as Mo Duona was concerned, that was fair game. He wasn’t too bothered about that.

A true genius would not be killed. That had always been his mantra. In fact, he was even willing to accept the fact that he also wasn’t a true genius if someone from the same generation could kill him one day. That would only prove that he wasn’t genius enough to sweep through the various realms and countless experts.

After looking around, his gaze settled on the surrounding buildings as he said, “We need to check these buildings as well. He’s still a living being. Unlike the death spirits, he can actually enter and hide in these buildings.”

With his reminder, the experts started paying close attention to the buildings as well.

Mo Duona himself didn’t bother to do anything. After a short contemplation, he said, “Previously, he was able to directly leave the sealed ancient city. I suggest everyone to get some experts outside to surround the city and prevent the same thing from happening.”

The moment those words were said, the experts in the city started sending messages out of the city through the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. Naturally, this was not a free service. They were charged for each message sent.

The masked individual from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was also stealthily reminding his superiors to charge a higher price for this service. Trapped in the city, these people would have no choice but to pay regardless of how expensive it was. Su Yu sure had brought them a lot of profit.

As an observer from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, he was busy sending updates to the headquarters, providing the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion with plenty of information to peddle. As for the others, they were only allowed to send some unimportant information out of the city. The core information about the incident was monopolized by the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. This was their way of protecting their monopoly and market dominance.

In fact, they had sold over a thousand packages of information about this incident to the various races thus far. They were charging a modest fee of one drop of Sunmoon blood essence for an hour’s worth of updates. That seemed reasonable, but it was actually terrifyingly expensive.

Most of the buyers were the representatives of the more powerful races. As for those buying the information individually, these were mostly Sunmoons or the young geniuses capable of affording this price.

It hadn’t even been that long but the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had earned over a thousand drops of Sunmoon blood essence through this incident. Fortunately, Su Yu was unaware of this. Otherwise, he would probably go mad with fury.

He had painstakingly planned and worked for so long to earn 2,300 strands of heavenearth profound light. That was worth as much as 2,300 drops of Sunmoon blood essence. Including the deposit he had received, he had earned around 2,500 drops from this whole plan. And he had taken such a large risk for it.

Meanwhile, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had easily reaped such a large profit from his hard work by relying on their Heavenly Hunt Index. At this rate, they would earn even more than Su Yu without even offending anyone.

After all, they were earning this profit from a large number of people, unlike Su Yu, who had overwhelmingly earned from a single group of people. One drop of Sunmoon blood essence was simply nothing for the more powerful races.

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was earning so much that they even decided to stop their investigation on Su Yu. The masked individual even received an order to secretly help Su Yu escape if he was somehow discovered. They intended to squeeze as much profit as they could with their live reporting services.

Yes. They were essentially reporting live from inside the city with hourly updates. This was a massive business. Even the nearest Invincible would need at least half a day to reach. And those departing from inside their realms would probably take a day or two.

Thus, everyone had to rely on the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion for now if they wanted to stay updated. And nobody could even challenge their monopoly. It was naturally to their benefit to have Su Yu last longer. The end of Su Yu would also signal the end of their money-raking plan.

They only needed him to survive for at least half a day to earn even more than what he had earned from his scam.