Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1064: Dark Devil Dragon’s Fall (1)

Since he had received a job from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion so soon after assuming the new identity, Su Yu decided that this was an identity worth keeping. A hundred portions of heavenly source qi.

“I don’t have too much heavenly source qi left either…I guess I need to make some preparations…”

With that thought, he wrote on his directory, “Tell the mayor to give me a moment. I need to break free from the Sunmoon death spirits. There are still some of them left in the city.”

“Alright. Try to be quick about it. Also, submit a report on the updated inventory of the branch as soon as possible. We still need to verify it with White One.”

“Alright.”

Su Yu already had a general gist of how the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion operated. It would seem like he had to report the current inventory of the branch to the headquarters as well. At that thought, he contacted First Profound again.

“Elder, do I need to take responsibility if someone else robbed the branch and emptied its inventory?”

“…”

First Profound was in the middle of a conversation with the other elders. When he received the new message, he was left speechless. After a moment, he replied, “Of course you need to take responsibility for that. If there is proof of the robbery and the identity of the perpetrator, you will only be fined ten percent of the inventory as punishment. Without any proof, you will be held liable for the entire inventory.”

“Oh…Our branch was robbed by Su Yu. I have proof of that. I even have a recording of him in action. So I only need to pay 10 percent of the inventory, right?”

“…”

First Profound was dumbstruck. Robbed by Su Yu. What? Oh…The elder finally understood!

This kid was staging yet another play. Profound Nine would end up robbed by Su Yu. The main blame would go to Su Yu, not Profound Nine. Was that the play?

“What are you thinking? The inventory is quite empty right now!”

Su Yu instantly understood what the elder was trying to say. He should give the inventory some time to fill up before doing it. It wasn’t worth doing when the inventory level was low. That would force him to do it more frequently, increasing the risk of exposure.

If it only happened once, it wouldn’t be too suspicious. After all, everyone knew Su Yu was in the city. Understanding dawned on him.

Su Yu sighed. Wow. First Profound Elder was such a nice guy. The elder had taught him yet another trick to deal with the pavilion. From this, he could see that this elder was a good superior to have. Just look at how understanding he was of his subordinates.

First Profound said, “Profound Nine, I’m warning you. There is a special agency in the Profound Department answering directly to the department leader. In our department, the rainbow codenames are directly subordinate to the leader. Part of their job involves supervising the department. Every member of the Profound Department can be supervised and audited by them. Do not try anything stupid.”

Each department leader had an agency directly subordinate to them. As for the Profound Department, this agency was manned by the rainbow codenames.

Su Yu nodded in understanding. So that was the case. No wonder. He had been wondering about the high level of freedom they allowed their members. So there were mechanisms in place as checks and balances.

***

After ending the conversation, Su Yu went back to the branch.

He picked up the catalog left by the previous Profound Nine and checked the inventory. There were some blood essence, a small amount of source qi liquid, some heavenly source fruits, and some weapons. There was a decent selection of profound weapons, but there was only a single earth weapon in the inventory.

Perhaps this was only a small inventory comparatively. Strictly speaking, this was still quite a valuable inventory. The actual warehouse was located inside the branch as well. Each branch was equipped with formations installed by Sunmoons to help with storage management. Only the branch leader could control the formations.

In other words, these formations were under Su Yu’s control. He did not spend too much time checking the inventory. Soon, he moved on to extract more heavenly source qi. He couldn’t help but wonder if he could still do this with the amount of death qi in his body.

Also, he was curious if the heavenly source qi he extracted now would be mixed with death qi. Shortly after, he completed the extraction of a small portion. It was still working well. He could still extract pure heavenly source qi without any death qi mixed in it. That was mostly because the moment any death qi come into contact with heavenly source qi, it would melt away. How unfortunate. Su Yu’s plan to poison the mayor to death was not going to work.

He had nearly forgotten that heavenly source qi and death qi were the polar opposites of each other.

“Since the mayor requires heavenly source qi, he must be on the verge of being completely eroded by death qi. Otherwise, a ninth-stage Sunmoon like him would have plenty of ways to deal with his injuries without seeking help from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. His injuries must have been very heavy indeed.”

Numerous thoughts emerged in Su Yu’s mind. At the current stage, the mayor was his biggest enemy. No, that wouldn’t be accurate. They were competitors. This was merely a power struggle.

Su Yu wanted to take over the city, but he had to worry about the threat of the mayor. The moment the mayor left seclusion and noticed that the city was still sealed, he would probably kill Su Yu unhesitatingly to maintain his grip over the city. After all, the city was his biggest backer.

There was no avoiding this conflict. As for their previous conflict, that wasn’t something that could not be resolved. After all, it wasn’t that big of a deal. But the conflict over the ancient city was not something they could resolve. Neither of them would be willing to give up on the city. That was simply impossible.

Su Yu could no longer leave. There were probably dozens of Sunmoons still outside waiting for him. Thus, control over the city was extremely important for him.

“How should I go about killing him?”

Su Yu started thinking while extracting more heavenly source qi from blood essence. Even as he was doing this, the heavenly source qi would automatically fight against the death qi in his body with each portion he extracted, resulting in a considerable amount of waste. But he wasn’t too bothered as this would also reduce the amount of death qi in his body.

“With heavenly source qi in hand, the mayor might gain the ability to counteract a decent amount of death qi in his body. Will this backfire on me and help him recover instead?”

If that happened, he would look like an absolute fool. But as a ninth-stage Sunmoon, the mayor wouldn’t be fooled by some fake heavenly source qi. The difficulty of fooling the mayor with fake heavenly source qi was too high.

The mayor would most definitely inspect the heavenly source qi carefully after the transaction. Nobody trusted the so-called reputation of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. It wasn’t like they had never outright robbed someone in the absence of witnesses before. In fact, they had planned to do the same to him before.

Of course, nobody could prove that they had actually done something like that. Even so, everyone knew about their dirty deeds. Nobody would fully trust them.

“Faking the heavenly source qi won’t work. I won’t be his match in a fight either. As a ninth-stage Sunmoon, he will still be stronger even if he’s gravely injured.”

Furthermore, the mayor would definitely be on high alert during their meeting. Su Yu felt greatly troubled. He couldn’t even kill someone who was so badly injured. What was he supposed to do here?

“Should I rely on the death spirits? But death spirits won’t kill residents unless the residents are guilty of killing death spirits…”

Unless the mayor killed enough death spirits to spawn Sunmoon death spirits, there was no point in relying on death spirits to kill the mayor.

The mayor was no fool. Why would he kill death spirits out of nowhere? That was even more so in his current condition. He was already suffering from death qi. He would try his best to distance himself from death spirits instead.

Numerous ideas took form, but they were all deemed unsuitable. These plans were too risky when the target was a ninth-stage Sunmoon.

“So troublesome.”

What a pity that he was out of Ye Batian’s characters. Otherwise, he could probably kill the gravely injured mayor if he could catch the mayor by surprise.

“Whatever. I’ll meet him and check his condition first.”

After about three hours, he finally extracted enough heavenly source qi. In the process, the level of death qi in his body had dropped by about ten percent. It would start growing again before long, but he wasn’t worried. Sure. Feel free to grow. It would never be able to grow as fast as his cultivation.

In fact, he found the death qi in his body so harmless that he couldn’t even be bothered to spare it much attention.

***

Mayor’s residence.

Once again, Su Yu was here.

With his white mask, white robes, and the change, deceit, and calm characters, combined with the concealment art of the looping turtles, and his brand new patience character, he would blend almost perfectly into his surroundings when he remained still.

Furthermore, his willpower, source qi, and characters had also grown considerably compared to before, further boosting his concealment and disguise capabilities. With the assistance of the mask, he could probably look normal to even Pseudo Invincibles so long as he remained inactive. Even if they did see him, they would only take it for granted that all Heavenly Hunt Pavilion members were such enigmatic existences.

When he reached the gate, he altered his voice to mimic the voice of the previous Profound Nine and spoke, “Lord Mayor, Heavenly Hunt Pavilion is here.”

Moments later, a wave of powerful willpower spread out and scanned him. Nothing was said but the gate swung open.

“Come in.”

With that invitation, Su Yu floated inside. Yes, he was floating instead of walking. He had noticed that the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion members loved floating around like ghosts instead of walking like a normal person. Thus, he decided to do the same.

It was incredibly quiet inside the mayor’s residence. He remembered that a large number of guards had entered the residence previously, but not one of them could be seen. The dark devil dragon had probably recruited a decent number of subordinates after running the city for so many years. But after a single calamity, all of them were gone.

Su Yu was unbothered by their deaths. He even saw some ancient city medallions on the ground. These were probably left behind by the dead guards. The jade path led him straight to the main hall of the residence. He floated into the main hall, acting as enigmatic as any other Heavenly Hunt Pavilion member.

Inside the hall, the mayor had assumed a humanoid form. Seated on the throne, his skin had turned slightly dark. That was a result of death qi erosion. He was no longer the same overbearing tyrant Su Yu had seen previously.

“Greetings, Lord Mayor.”

The mayor narrowed his eyes as he studied Su Yu and asked, “Are you the branch leader who has been staying in this city?”

“Yes.”

“Profound Nine?”

“Yes.”

The mayor nodded. He wasn’t too close to the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. Or to be precise, he didn’t want to be too close to them.

He found their tendency to pry on all sorts of secrets annoying. Thus, he preferred keeping a distance from them. He was not interested in becoming yet another merchandise they were selling. This time, he had initiated contact with them because he was out of options.

“Do you have the heavenly source qi on you?”

“Nope.” Su Yu replied nonchalantly, “What about the payment? Do you have it on you? I don’t have the heavenly source qi on me. I was worried that you might decide to take it by force instead.”

“Hmph!”

A single snort was enough to cause Su Yu’s heart to thump violently.

The mayor’s eyes turned cold as he said, “Profound Nine, the people of Heavenly Hunt Pavilion are supposed to be the hunters of the heavens. Since when did you all turn into such cowards?”

“This is embarrassing, but I have to do things this way.”