Tribulation of Myriad Races

The stone statue looked the exact same as before.

Su Yu hurriedly said, “Lord, I might only be an eighth-stage Cloudbreach, but my actual strength is far higher than that. I am basically a Sunmoon. The ability to fuse with a death spirit for more combat strength is completely useless for me. Basically, I have no way of enjoying the biggest benefit of being a mayor. Lord, may I receive more benefits as compensation?”

The stone statue sank into thought. That was a very logical argument. The ability to fuse with a death spirit was meant to grant the mayor more strength.

Most of the time, only ninth-stage Sunmoons could become the mayor. Those below that level had all died while refining the medallion. Meanwhile, with his puny cultivation level, Su Yu was still perfectly fine even after becoming the mayor.

A Cloudbreach wasn’t even supposed to be able to succeed. For a ninth-stage Sunmoon, fusing with a death spirit of the same level was the same as fusing with a tri-life body. That would result in a massive growth of strength.

Previously, the dark devil dragon had refrained from using that ability due to the condition he was in. Doing so would further stimulate the death qi in his body, putting him in even bigger trouble.

And now, a Cloudbreach had successfully refined the mayor’s medallion. That had rendered the biggest benefit of becoming a mayor completely useless. With Su Yu’s actual strength, the boost he would receive from fusing with a death spirit of the same cultivation level was negligible.

The stone statue had never planned to communicate with Su Yu in any way or form. But in this situation, communication was necessary. Nevertheless, he did not speak normally. Rather, he did the same as Heavendoom. As Su Yu’s vision swam, he found himself entering a dreamlike state. A loud voice rang out beside his ears.

“There are advantages and disadvantages to fusing with death spirits. But you’re right. This benefit is negligible for you. You shall be awarded three Sunmoon talismans. Use it well.”

With that, Su Yu returned to reality. Three talismans had appeared unknowingly in his hand.

Sunmoon talismans!

He couldn’t see the exact level of these talismans. He looked up at the stone statue and hurriedly said, “Thank you, Lord. However, all my enemies are Invincibles. These Sunmoon talismans…”

Wouldn’t be too useful. He left those words unsaid.

He was quite greedy as well. Or perhaps he was simply looking down on Sunmoon talismans. He had personally witnessed Invincible talismans in action. And those talismans couldn’t even kill a weakling like him. An Invincible was supposed to be able to kill him by simply breathing on him.

Yet the Invincible talismans couldn’t even harm him. How disappointing. Talismans weren’t so dependable, after all. Little did Su Yu know, the Invincible talismans he had seen Topsoil Spirit use were…yes, yes, these talismans were indeed weak.

It wasn’t that they weren’t willing to give Topsoil Spirit stronger Invincible talismans. Rather, could Topsoil Spirit even activate a talisman with the full strength of an Invincible? For example, back when Su Yu was at the Source Opening Realm, a Mountainsea talisman would simply be the same as a piece of paper for him. He wouldn’t have been able to activate it.

The Invincible talismans given to Topsoil Spirit were indeed produced by Invincibles, but they did not contain the strength of a fully-powered strike by an Invincible. If that was the case, Su Yu would have died during their previous encounter.

Restricted by Topsoil Spirit’s strength, the talismans he used could only reach the level of Sunmoons. That was why one of the ancestors had told him that it was normal for the talismans to fail in killing Sunmoons back then.

Meanwhile, the talismans in Su Yu’s hand were legitimate Sunmoon talismans with the strength of Sunmoons. Upon activation, they could release the fully-powered attacks of Sunmoons.

Naturally, Su Yu was unaware of all that. Unfortunately, his opinion on talismans had been completely skewed by Topsoil Spirit.

The stone statue ignored him.

Invincibles?

Was the kid asking for Invincible talismans?

Would the kid be able to even activate them?

Nope.

How idiotic. Just imagine giving a large hammer to a child. The child wouldn’t even be able to lift it, let alone swing it. What was the point of giving a powerful weapon to someone who couldn’t even use it?

A child would be much more dangerous with a small knife than a large hammer. The stone statue decided to not further entertain Su Yu.

Seeing the lack of response, Su Yu was feeling quite gloomy. He had not been given anything good at all. Wasn’t he working for this statue now? After becoming a mayor, they were basically family, right? What was wrong about giving something good to a family member?

Su Yu felt very helpless.

This stone statue was not lovable at all. The stone statue in Heavendoom City was much better in comparison.

***

The stone statue remained silent.

This kid was underestimating Invincibles.

Did this kid think that he wouldn’t be able to sense those thoughts when the kid was standing right in front of him? Complaining that he wasn’t as adorable as Heavendoom?

Adorable…yeah. Yes. The stone statue agreed. Such an embarrassing term was indeed more fitting for Heavendoom. Heavendoom could stay adorable. Grandstar was fine with that. Wow…a brat was actually calling Heavendoom adorable…

Grandstar didn’t know what to feel about that. He had the urge to tell Heavendoom about this. He wanted to see Heavendoom’s expression after hearing about this. He hadn’t felt this curious in many, many years.

***

While sulking inwardly, Su Yu finally made the decision to withdraw from the inner hall.

Despite his unhappiness, he still spoke politely, “Thank you for your gift, Senior. I will be sure to spend more time with you in the future. You have been so lonely for too many years. Don’t worry. I’ll bring some life into this dull place.”

Su Yu had the habit of testing the patience of others.

Seeing that the stone statue had not slapped him to death and had even given him those talismans, he decided that there might be a chance for him to establish a closer relationship with this stone statue. As far as Su Yu was concerned, shamelessness was an important virtue to have.

A super backer was waiting right in front of him. What else was he supposed to do except grab tightly onto this super backer?

***

On that day, Su Yu officially became the mayor of Grandstar City.

The gate of the mayor’s residence remained shut.

He was the sole person inside the large residence. No, there was also a stone statue and a sleeping furball.

The city gates were still shut as well.

Su Yu did not intend to shut the gates again the next time they opened. He did not plan to kill more death spirits. Locking himself inside the mayor’s residence, he started cultivating. He would allow the city gates to reopen, increasing the city’s population to take some of the burden off him.

The mayor’s residence was different than the other ancient buildings. Anyone could enter those buildings the moment the occupants left. Meanwhile, nobody could unlock the gate of the mayor’s residence even when the mayor wasn’t around.

Su Yu was pleased to learn this.

He had decided that when the city returned to normal and its population started increasing again, Profound Nine would start operating in the city again. Meanwhile, Mayor Su Yu could remain secluded inside the mayor’s residence to hide from his numerous enemies.

As for the duration of the seclusion…it naturally depended on how long his identity as Profound Nine would remain useful.

***

Nevertheless, Su Yu would still cultivate in seclusion for a period of time. He intended to focus on completing even more of his body forgings. In any case, he had gathered plenty of cultivation resources.

To cultivate, time was also required in addition to resources. The higher one’s cultivation, the more time one would require to make further advancement. In the beginning, he only required an hour to complete one body forging. But recently, he had been needing at least three days for a single body forging.

Yes. Three days per forging. Su Yu was probably the only person in existence who would think that this was slow. Nobody else would share this thought.

Meanwhile, Death Sovereign Xing Yue was feeling quite annoyed in the Death Realm. Su Yu was only a Cloudbreach. But Xing Yue was unable to suppress him even after sending enough death qi to keep a Sunmoon suppressed.

If it wasn’t for the restrictions of the laws, Xing Yue would have increased the intensity of the death qi sent to Su Yu long ago. How troublesome.

That troublesome brat had annoyed Xing Yue to no end as of late. Every few days, that brat would require an increase in the intensity of the death qi sent his way. Xing Yue even suspected that if it entered seclusion and forgot to pay attention for a period of time, Su Yu would have broken free by the time it left seclusion.

***

And finally, the gates of Grandstar City reopened. About twenty days had passed since the auction.

But nobody dared to enter the city even with the gates open. Yes. Everyone was too terrified of entering. They were worried that this was Su Yu’s trap. Who knew if he was waiting for more people to enter before sealing the city again?

In fact, even the other ancient cities had seen much less traffic as of late. Why? Well, some people had started to imitate Su Yu. Unlike Su Yu, they wouldn’t survive the attempt. But it didn’t matter if they hated their enemies enough. Just dying together with their enemies was good enough for them.

This had happened not long ago in an ancient city near the Divine Realm. A Mountainsea had gone mad and killed a peak Mountainsea death spirit to spawn some Sunmoon death spirits and seal the city, trapping all his enemies in the city. Then, he started killing numerous weak death spirits, drowning the city in death spirits and death qi.

A large number of people had died because of that. Naturally, the culprit had also died. He was unable to kill more death spirits and keep the city sealed after three days because he didn’t even survive that long.

A lot of people were inspired by Su Yu, removing the label of safe haven from these ancient cities. And thus, it was naturally not surprising that nobody dared to enter the city even after Su Yu allowed the city gates to reopen.

There was no such fear in the other ancient cities as none of the Su Yu copycats could survive the initial three days. Meanwhile, Su Yu seemed exceptionally good at surviving in ancient cities.

That was why he was so terrifying. He could even keep someone trapped in the city for thirty days if he wanted.

Su Yu was completely unaware that all the other ancient city mayors were cursing him for the trend he started. If this continued, nobody would dare to visit ancient cities anymore. It would only be a matter of time before all the other mayors die to death qi erosion.

They even started to consider sponsoring Su Yu’s return to the Human Realm. Just keep the troublemaker out of the Allheaven Battlefield already. Alas, Su Yu was already a resident. That was simply impossible. Realizing that, all the other mayors sank into the depths of despair.

Please! Just stop already!

Eventually, some of the mayors announced that if anyone dared to try the same thing in their cities again, they would kill those people immediately. This was the very first time these supposedly neutral mayors made such a declaration.

No matter what, these mayors were ninth-stage Sunmoons. Thus, this declaration was quite effective at curbing these Su Yu copycats. As the trend settled, the masses returned their focus to Grandstar City.

The other mayors would kill these copycats. What about the mayor of Grandstar City? Would he do the same? No, right?

Su Yu was busy hiding inside the mayor’s residence from his many enemies.

At this time, some people started thinking that this would perhaps be their true playground moving forward. After all, this was the city with the weakest mayor. The city would turn even more lawless than before. It would be even better if the major races could send some Sunmoons to form a blockade around the mayor’s residence.

Without an active mayor, Grandstar City would turn into their playground.