Tribulation of Myriad Races

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion’s branch.

Su Yu was no longer the sole person in the branch. A few residents were also there as part-time workers.

This had always been how these branches worked. Each branch would only have one or two official members assigned. Some branches would only be run by several black masks assisted by more rainbow masks. Most of the time, these members preferred to act alone.

During Su Yu’s previous visit to Heavendoom’s branch, the catgirl serving him was a part-time worker as well. One might be an ancient city resident, but one still needed to make a living, right?

A resident needed income to cultivate. And a resident needed to cultivate to withstand their death qi erosion. For most people, their cultivation speed would be similar to the growth of their death qi. That was how a resident could stay alive.

With the lockdown removed, the hired residents returned to work. He didn’t even need to do much. They already knew what to do, and there was even a supervisor running the store. Su Yu only needed to serve as the connection to the headquarters and watch over the storage. These were his main tasks. The employees would handle everything else.

In fact, Su Yu had been quite surprised when they first returned to work. But he didn’t show it. Before long, operations returned to normal. After spending some time in the branch, he finally figured out how the branch worked.

He had quite a lot of free time in his hands. He only needed to apply for the required products from the headquarters, keep the storage stocked, and handle some of the transactions. Since the inventory was low when he first arrived, he did not bother robbing the branch.

The kind First Profound Elder taught him that. The inventory was too low to be worth robbing. Doing it too frequently would risk exposure. He was better off waiting for the inventory to fill up before robbing it.

The branch was a two-story building. The first floor was meant for business while the second floor was his personal living space. Of course, he still needed to handle some customers personally, such as the stronger experts or index geniuses. That was part of his job scope.

At the moment, he was leisurely cultivating while looking at the view outside through the window. Generally, one shouldn’t even open one’s windows as that would be viewed as opening the door. It would allow uninvited guests to enter.

But since the door was already open for the purpose of doing business, it no longer mattered if he kept the windows open.

Soon, his eyes flickered.

Interesting.

Was that guy visiting the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion?

Topsoil Spirit!

Beside him was a Sunmoon earth elemental. Su Yu judged that this was a late-stage Sunmoon. He did not have to scan the expert personally, but a row of words appeared in front of his mask: Earth elemental, seventh-stage Sunmoon.

The mask only did a surface scan, but even that was sensed by the elder. Instantly, the elder looked in Su Yu’s direction.

When he saw the blurry white mask behind the window, he withdrew his gaze. A member of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

Topsoil Spirit also sensed something, but when he looked in the same direction, he wasn’t able to see anything. He might be a five elemental, but his senses did not seem to be working. Previously, he would still be able to sense some simple things about Su Yu such as the water composition in his body.

Su Yu had grown a lot warier than before. He knew the abilities of the five elementals, so when he learned that there were five elementals in the city, he had altered even these minor details to prevent any detection.

Even if they managed to sense his water composition, they wouldn’t be able to easily determine that he was Su Yu.

Red Soil ignored the masked individual and spoke through voice transmission, “Later, we will send the message with our secret code. Our code is based on the Floating Mountain Compendium of the five elemental race. Don’t forget that. Remember to use this code the next time you send any messages through the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. Never send anything directly.”

Topsoil Spirit nodded and replied, “I’ve been wanting to suggest this long ago. But those geezers were too stubborn. Why did they change suddenly?”

“Su Yu.”

“Oh.”

Topsoil Spirit didn’t know what to say. Those stubborn geezers were only willing to change after suffering at the hands of others. They would rarely need to send messages through the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, but rare did not mean it wouldn’t happen.

No matter how powerful a talisman was, it still couldn’t send messages across realms. Thus, they had to rely on the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion in these unique situations. Of course, the index copies could only be used in the Allheaven Battlefield, but most races had some people stationed near their realm entrances to accept and send messages. And some of these people would be equipped with index copies.

Through this method, it was still possible to communicate rapidly across realms. Even if the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion only focused on providing communication services, they would still be able to earn massive profits.

The two entered the branch while deep in thought.

Before the part-time worker could say anything, Su Yu’s voice rang out, “Invite the two earth elemental friends to the second floor.”

Shortly after, the two were led to the second floor by a bunny girl.

***

Second floor.

Inside the lounge.

Floating in front of the entrance, Su Yu spoke, “Welcome.”

The two earth elementals looked quite nonchalant. One could say that these two were also individuals of considerable status. It wasn’t surprising for them to receive special treatment like this. Those who were weak and poor would not have the chance to step foot on the second floor.

“Congratulations, Lord Topsoil Spirit for leaving seclusion.”

Topsoil Spirit said, “There is no need to congratulate me. I lost a lot of face because of that embarrassing incident.”

Su Yu had the urge to correct Topsoil Spirit and change losing face to losing soil. But he held back. After inviting the two to sit down, he looked at them silently, maintaining a mysterious air about himself.

The two earth elementals weren’t bothered. After a short moment, Red Soil said, “Deliver a message for us. You only need to deliver it to the earth elemental elder stationed at our realm entrance.”

Su Yu nodded, “That is doable. Do you need anything else?”

“I need an index copy.”

Topsoil Spirit made his request.

Su Yu nodded. That was something he could provide. Two days ago, someone from the Earth Department delivered a batch of index copies to this branch. As of late, these geniuses seemed to have gotten addicted to throwing their index copies away. Thus, they had to keep a healthy stock of index copies to better serve these geniuses.

After receiving an index copy, Topsoil Spirit took a look and sighed, “Sure enough, his name is gone.”

He was speaking about Su Yu. He looked up from the index copy and said, “Does the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion have any new updates about Su Yu?”

“What do you wish to know?”

“Strength, cultivation level, and his date of death.”

Su Yu grumbled inwardly that he would still be alive long after this damn soil was dead.

He calmly answered, “You may check through the index copy. I don’t have access to that information.”

“Forget it, then.”

With Topsoil Spirit done, Red Soil spoke again, “We need you to deliver this message…no, wait. We’ll do it ourselves. What’s the fee?”

With an index copy, they could compose the message before having it delivered. There was no need for them to get the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion to compose the message as well.

Su Yu did not mind. As of late, everyone had been using secret codes for their messages anyway. Those messages were basically indecipherable. It was pointless to read these messages.

“You can work on the message first. I’ll get the price from the headquarters.”

“Alright.”

The two started composing the message. Or to be precise, Red Soil was doing it. Clearly, Topsoil Spirit still wasn’t too familiar with their secret code. Inwardly, Su Yu was rolling his eyes. Why were they acting so shifty? What manner of secret were they going to talk about?

Before long, he received a reply from the Yellow Department. They would be charged three drops of Sunmoon blood essence for this service. What a terrifyingly expensive price.

A drop of Sunmoon blood essence was worth 50 heavenly hunt points. For this service, they had to pay a price worth 150 heavenly hunt points. This price was possible thanks to the monopoly the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion held over this service.

Why were these two willing to pay for this service instead of going back with the message themselves? Were they planning to stay? Su Yu was quite surprised. They were actually staying? Were they trying to die? So Topsoil Spirit had not suffered the cruelty of reality enough?

While Su Yu was wondering, Topsoil Spirit asked, “Can Heavenly Hunt Pavilion track Su Yu’s current position? Is he really trapped in the mayor’s residence? This seems way too easy. Is the mayor’s residence merely a smokescreen? Maybe he has long left the residence. He might be hiding somewhere else in the city.”

Su Yu was very surprised. Holy shit! What a smart guy! How did he get it right straight away?

Regardless of his thoughts, he replied calmly, “A lot of people have been asking the same thing for the past few days. But Su Yu does not have an index copy on him. There is no way of tracking him. I’ve also received the mission to track him. If you have any new updates about him, do consider selling the information to the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.”

Topsoil Spirit sighed, “Forget it. By the way, do you still have any heavenly source qi in stock? Get me a hundred portions.”

“A thousand heavenly hunt points.”

Su Yu quoted a price. The Earth Department had restocked their inventory of heavenly source qi as well. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was selling it at ten heavenly hunt points per drop. This was equal to ten thousand human merit points. What an excessive price.

And he didn’t even need to worry that it wouldn’t sell due to the price. There were plenty of buyers around. The worth of five portions was the same as one drop of Sunmoon blood essence or one strand of heavenearth profound light. Even at such a price, there wasn’t a lack of buyers.

Converted to human merit points, each portion of heavenly source qi was worth ten thousand human merit points while each strand of heavenearth profound light was worth fifty thousand human merit points.

In terms of usage, a strand of heavenearth profound light was slightly better than five portions of heavenly source qi. More importantly, heavenearth profound light was extremely limited in availability. Then again, heavenly source qi was also limited in availability to a certain extent.

These were the things that you could hardly purchase with only human merit points. Most sellers were only willing to sell for Mountainsea or Sunmoon blood essence.

Basically, the Mountainseas and Sunmoons of the human race would all turn into paupers in the Allheaven Battlefield. The 7,300 strands of heavenearth profound light he made not long ago were only worth about three hundred million human merit points. Only three hundred million…fine, fine. This was probably a sum of money no single human could take out at one time.