Tribulation of Myriad Races

At the same time.

When Topsoil Spirit heard those words, he turned around and said without the slightest bit of hesitation, “Elder, let’s go.”

“Hmm?”

Red Soil stared with stupefaction. Why? What was there to fear? Su Yu was already a turtle in a jar. There was nothing to fear. Did Su Yu leave a trauma in this genius of their race? This wasn’t a good thing for them.

Red Soil spoke with the tone of a wise elder, “Topsoil, you need to stand up from where you fall.”

A single defeat was nothing. He only needed to stand back up. Perhaps witnessing Su Yu’s death would help with the removal of this trauma.

As a response, Topsoil Spirit spoke in the tone of a wise elder as well, “Elder, it’s fine to underestimate someone once. It’s even fine to underestimate someone twice. But it is foolish to underestimate the number one genius on Heaven Index repeatedly. Otherwise, you will no longer have the chance to stand up after falling.”

Topsoil Spirit couldn’t understand what these people were thinking. Even after suffering so much in the hands of Su Yu, these people were still trying to go against him? What even was the point?

Running was the right thing to do. He didn’t care how many days Su Yu was going to keep the city sealed. Others could stay and enjoy Su Yu’s hospitality. Why should they take the risk as well? They could simply wait for the result outside.

Red Soil frowned, “Are you not afraid that this trauma will stunt your growth?”

“Nope.” Topsoil Spirit said, “Losing one or twice is not scary. The scarier thing is the failure to learn anything even after multiple defeats in the hands of one person.”

Then, he started walking away. How many times had these people suffered in Su Yu’s hands? Why couldn’t his elder learn from this?

An existence like Su Yu should never be underestimated as long as he was alive. Furthermore, he still had the ancient city as his backer. He wasn’t completely helpless yet. Why bother?

Red Soil had no choice but to leave as well. Inwardly, he was convinced that Su Yu was done for. This was the end of the road for that madman.

What a pity that Topsoil Spirit still had confidence in Su Yu. What could he do in this situation?

***

Before long, Topsoil Spirit was out of the city. And he was not the only person doing so. For many people, Su Yu’s condition did not matter. It was still safer to leave first. This was a conflict between Su Yu and the major races. Even if the experts of the major races could survive this conflict, it didn’t mean that the experts of the minor races could survive as well.

Not everyone could survive staying in a sealed ancient city for three days. And what if the city ended up sealed for more than that?

As time passed, more and more people departed the city. But there were still some courageous ones left. Some were staying behind in hope of taking advantage of the coming conflict.

And some were simply staying behind to try their luck. Seeing to many major race experts around, some minor race experts were hoping that they could leave a good impression on these major race experts by staying behind.

Su Yu was unbothered. He had already given them a chance to leave. He even suspected that he was the kindest person in existence for being so generous with them. He had decided to seal the city the moment the second morning arrived.

This time, he would not unseal the city in advance anymore. As far as he was concerned, he only needed enough wealth for his usage.

Through his previous endeavors, he had earned plenty of resources for his cultivation. He would no longer accept a second deal to release these people as well. If those Invincibles were so amazing, they were free to invade the city. He would be more than happy to see more Invincibles lose their tri-life bodies.

The stone statues and death sovereigns were no pushover.

***

In the blink of an eye, the second morning arrived.

With a rumble, the city gates swung shut. Once again, the city was sealed.

After doing that, Su Yu hid in a random building and started dealing with the death qi in his body. As for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion’s branch, it would remain open for business, but he wouldn’t be there in person to lower the risk of exposure.

Inside an ancient building.

With a large amount of heavenly source qi, Su Yu started forging his body. He had discovered that the clash of death qi and heavenly source qi was very helpful during body forging.

It was capable of accelerating the process.

Good!

This was the main reason he wasn’t too afraid of a tiny bit of backlash. He took the new death qi in and started the reversal process. Unknown to him, Xing Yue opened their eyes once again in annoyance. Again? Could that fellow calm down already?

It hadn’t even been that long since the flow of death qi to that fellow was increased. Why was that fellow creating trouble again? Fine. He asked for it. He better not regret this.

A massive amount of death qi was sent to Su Yu through a unique channel. As governed by the ancient laws, an incorporeal connection existed between Su Yu and Xing Yue due to their identities as the converted and the converter.

Xing Yue increased the volume of death qi flowing through the connection in anger. That fellow enjoyed creating trouble, right? Sure. Have fun with this!

Xing Yue had been trying to let that fellow survive until the Sunmoon, but that damn fellow lacked the ability to appreciate the little breathing space granted to him.

***

Su Yu was alarmed to notice the sudden surge of death qi in his body.

This was more than heavenly source qi alone could handle. Only hard work could deal with this. Originally, he only needed half an hour of reversal to reach a balance in his body. But this increased intensity required him to work at least two hours to achieve balance.

Wow. So he had to really hold back a little. Just look at this sudden escalation of intensity. If this happened more, wouldn’t the intensity eventually grow beyond his ability to handle? He hurriedly worked on the death qi.

At the same time, he was still using heavenearth profound light to help with his body forging. He was not satisfied with only fifty forgings. Forced to hide indoors, he had plenty of time to cultivate. He was also well-stocked with cultivation resources. He had twenty-two body forgings left to complete with over a thousand strands of heavenearth profound light remaining.

***

First day of lockdown.

Everyone lived in peace and harmony.

There were no death spirits in the city nor had the death qi density increased. Even a regular cultivator could stay in an ancient city for three days, so there was no doubt that these Sunmoons would have no issue surviving in such an environment for three days. In fact, even the Skysoars were perfectly fine.

This was nothing they couldn’t handle.

The Sunmoons were very pleased with themselves. They reckoned that Su Yu must be suffering from the intense backlash at that moment.

***

At the same time.

News of what happened started spreading to other ancient cities.

Su Yu had sealed the city again.

What a crazy guy. He was going to die soon. Wasn’t it great to continue living even if the life was a pathetic one? Why was he in such a rush to become a death spirit?

Heavendoom City.

Mayor’s residence.

Tian He shook his head and sighed as he said, “That guy is only making things difficult for himself. Only us mayors understand just how powerful the backlash can be. To make things worse, Grandstar City has lost a lot of residents recently. At this rate, he will have to shoulder the burden alone. The backlash on him will be even worse than what we know.”

The old man in the room said, “He probably knows the Long Life Art he gave you previously. That’s probably what he’s relying on.”

“That’s a decent art, but it requires a lot of heavenly source qi. At most, it can only help him counteract about ten percent of his death qi.”

That was far from enough.

Even with that art, there was still the remaining ninety percent to deal with. Furthermore, Su Yu was converted by a death sovereign. He wouldn’t be able to last more than a few days. Even with the art, he would only last five or six days. But that wasn’t enough to get those Sunmoons killed.

These people must have prepared before entering the city. They would have no lack of heavenly source qi. Su Yu would not be able to outlast them.

How foolish.

Sigh.

Why must he go against them just because they angered him? He wasn’t strong enough to defeat them head-on. What was the point of shutting the gates? This wouldn’t do anything to those late-stage Sunmoons.

Tian He sighed again.

The old man hesitated slightly and asked, “Lord, will you lend him a hand?”

“Me?”

The old man said, “If you want, it’s possible, right?”

After a short silence, Tian He said, “Yes. The mayors can actually gather the ancient cities together. When that happens, the other mayors can take some of the burden off him. However…”

He shook his head.

After a long while, he sighed, “This is improper. Very few people are aware of this ability of ours. If we exhaust ourselves too much doing this, we might fail to pull off our plan. I can help him any other time, but not now when we’re so close to starting the plan.”

“Is the plan related to Prefect Xia?”

Tian He glanced at the old man and spoke slowly, “Yes. You’ve been with me for many years, so you should be able to guess what we’re doing. I hope you don’t disappoint me after learning about this.”

The old man said, “Don’t worry, Lord. I would have died long ago if it wasn’t for you.” He added, “If you’re really at your limit, you can share some of the burden with me. I can try to withstand some of the death qi for you.”

“No.”

Yes, mayors could share some of the burden with their subordinates. Unfortunately, all the guards of Grandstar City had perished. In other words, Su Yu was all alone. As for the existing residents, they were considered the regular citizens of the city. Unless they held any of the unique medallions, Su Yu had no way of increasing the burden on them. Even if he could, it would be pointless if the residents weren’t strong enough.

Suddenly, something flashed in front of Tian He. Then, a person appeared. The newcomer glanced at the old man before proceeding to ignore the alarmed old man. Tian He merely waved his hand, telling the old man to leave.

After the old man left, Tian He asked with a frown, “Why are you here again?”