Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1284: Can’t Afford To Offend (2)

Slowly flying in the sky in his fluttering white robes, Su Yu flashed a bright smile as he studied his surroundings. His gaze settled on the two cities whose mayors were opposed to him and said, “Fellow mayors, I am perfectly fine with holding the assembly outside. Since that’s your suggestion, I will choose to respect your suggestion. But there is no guarantee that the other mayors will agree. Who knows if you are colluding with some Invincibles to kill the other mayors? It’s very dangerous out here…”

With a frown, the Eternal Serenity mayor said, “You misunderstand us, Mayor Su. We only proposed that for our safety. We don’t mean anyone harm.”

Su Yu laughed but did not bother to reply. Before long, he reached the Empyrean Cloud City.

Mayor’s residence.

A delicate and beautiful figure appeared. The first thing Su Yu noticed from afar was that pair of big, vivid eyes. When he reached the mayor’s residence, his heart thumped. What a seductive woman.

Suddenly, he requested, “Uhm, Mayor Green Fox, can you keep your tails away? I’m…not comfortable with that.”

The seductive look in the mayor’s eyes changed slightly, replaced with the expression of a disappointed mistress.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was grumbling about the tails inwardly. He found tails ugly. To make things worse, this fox seemed to have more than one tail. If she only had one tail, it would be decently adorable. But with multiple tails…he found it exceptionally ugly.

He was not fearful of the green fox. He did not come because he trusted her. Rather, he was here because he had reached an agreement with Empyrean Cloud herself. With his fists cupped at the inner hall, he said, “Lord Empyrean Cloud, Su Yu is here to fulfill my promise.”

The green fox giggled and said, “Little Brother, why are you so dull? How can you ignore a pretty girl like me when I’m standing right here?”

Su Yu turned to face her and solemnly said, “Mayor Green Fox, we need to be serious and respectful before the great lord guardian. Before you sever your death qi connection, you will remain a subordinate of the holy city. How can you interrupt a conversation between me and my lord?”

“…”

The green fox was rendered completely speechless. Su Yu? Talking about respect? What nonsense was that? Hidden behind that sanctimonious face of his were countless devious schemes!

Suddenly, she sent Su Yu a voice transmission, “Little Brother, I heard you received two carrier treasures from the humans not long ago. Why don’t you stay here tonight for a night of bliss? I only hope that you will take pity on me and grant me one of your carrier treasures…”

Bullshit!

Su Yu cursed inwardly. Screw that! He was not interested in foxes! And she was actually asking for a carrier treasure for that! She must be dreaming!

He didn’t even deign to give her a reply. Right at that moment, a voice rang out from the inner hall, “Come on in.”

That was a unique voice, a voice that was tinged with the passage of time.

Su Yu did not hesitate to head straight to the inner hall. The green fox’s expression changed slightly as she hurriedly followed behind him. Outside the city, everyone else was waiting silently.

Could Su Yu really withstand the burden of a second ancient city? Was he really going to become the mayor of two cities? In that case, he would be the first mayor in history to do something like that.

***

Inner hall.

A massive stone statue could be seen.

With one look, Su Yu realized that it was a female—cough, woman.

The stone statue had a humanoid appearance as well. Just looking at the stone statue was enough to cause one’s heart to flutter. She was not emanating the charm of seductiveness, nor was she emanating the charm of innocence. Rather, she was emanating the charm of pure beauty. That was all.

Su Yu was unsure which race she belonged to. But he did notice that most of these stone statues looked humanoid. But he was also sure that they weren’t humans. For example, Heavendoom had a tail. As for Grandstar, he had scales on his skin. They were clearly not humans.

He couldn’t see what race Empyrean Cloud belonged to yet, but it was unlikely she was a human.

Empyrean Cloud opened her eyes and studied Su Yu thoughtfully as her eyes flickered repeatedly. After a while, she asked emotionlessly, “Can you take the burden of a second holy city?”

Su Yu gave it some thought. Then, he activated his death character and absorbed a large amount of death qi in his body. At the same time, he directed his yang acupoint to start absorbing pure death qi instead of the source qi he had reversed from death qi.

The reversal method was a sort of cultivation method. But that wasn’t the case for the yang acupoint. Its presence served as proof of Su Yu’s extraordinary talent.

Empyrean Cloud noticed that as well. She said in surprise, “I see. Incomplete heaven acupoint…No wonder. But there is a limit to even the heaven acupoint. At this rate, you will fully transform into a death spirit in only a few years.”

When the green fox heard that, she started grumbling inwardly. So there was a limit? He wouldn’t even be alive for long! So he would only be able to strut around arrogantly for a mere few years? She had thought that he had some super secret to deal with death qi. How disappointing.

She obediently said, “Mistress, can I open this heaven acupoint as well?”

Empyrean Cloud replied with the same emotionless voice, “If you’re a human who has opened 360 acupoints, perhaps you can.”

“…”

The green fox gave up immediately. No wonder Su Yu was the only person capable of this.

She smiled and asked with the same obedient tone, “Mistress…how long can he last with two cities? When he dies, I wish to serve you again.”

Su Yu said nothing. This female fox was too cunning. She was trying to ask a lot of questions indirectly.

Empyrean Cloud said, “About three to five years. If he takes on a third city, he will die in a year. He also must refrain from borrowing the power of the guardians or he will die faster.”

With that, the green fox gave up all hope. So this guy wouldn’t even live for that long. One ought to know that mayors like them could survive for a few hundred years even if they had to endure the torment of death qi.

Meanwhile, Su Yu would die in a few years. He also needed to restrain his actions or he would die even faster.

Worried that Su Yu would withdraw from the deal, she hurriedly handed her medallion over and said, “Mayor Su, since you have an agreement with my mistress, you will be the mayor from now on. Be sure to serve my mistress well. I’ll be a normal resident after this…”

Su Yu smiled, “Mayor Green Fox, don’t you want to be an official or something?”

“No. It’s fine.”

The green fox resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She would be stupid to agree to that. After all, the mayor could share the burden with the subordinates of the city. The moment one accepted the position of an official, one would be subjected to the whims of the mayor.

Meanwhile, the mayor couldn’t do the same to the normal residents. Only the stone statue could do so. In short, the more one received from the city, the more one had to risk.

Su Yu smiled. He didn’t mind. This fox better not regret this choice. A mayor could transfer more death qi to their subordinates, but the same was also true in reverse. As a mayor, he could share some of their burden. The fox would regret missing this opportunity.

Su Yu shook his head disapprovingly. Sure enough, all foxes had the bad habit of scheming about every little thing in life. It might not always benefit them to scheme too much.

“Mayor Green Fox…” Su Yu said, “You may leave. I’m not comfortable with having someone else present while I’m refining the medallion.”

The green fox smiled, unbothered. She bowed at the stone statue again as she said, “Your loyal servant will be taking her leave, Mistress. When Mayor Su falls, I’ll be back to serve you…”

Perhaps she could use the break and advance into the Invincible while Su Yu was here. That way, her next tenure as the mayor after Su Yu’s death would be much easier. This wasn’t a bad thing.

Empyrean Cloud said nothing.

Soon, the green fox left with a sizeable group of people from the mayor’s residence. Those were her subordinates. She did not leave the city. As she was still a resident, that wouldn’t be wise. She had merely been relieved of her burden as the mayor. But she would also lose the benefits she had been enjoying as the mayor.

For example, she would lose the ability to fuse with a death spirit, borrow the power of the death qi in the city, and seal the city.

***

Inner hall.

As Su Yu started refining the medallion, a large amount of information poured into his mind. The death qi in his body started churning.

Empyrean Cloud merely watched in silence. But as time went on…something felt off.

She noted that after a while, Su Yu was clearly annoyed with the large amount of death qi in his body. Thus, he reversed the death qi into source qi. And he was doing it at an incredible speed.

Previously, his yang acupoint would be consuming all the death qi pouring into his body. But now, he was directly reversing the death qi into source qi, massively reducing the burden on him.

In fact, he was having such an easy time at it that he could even speak, “Lord Empyrean Cloud, I have a question…”

Empyrean Cloud, who was still slightly stunned by what she saw, replied, “Yes?”

“Why isn’t there a death sovereign here to convert me?”

Su Yu complained unhappily, “I wish to build a few more death qi connections. Why…is there no death sovereign here?”

Empyrean Cloud blanked out.

She considered herself an experienced and knowledgeable person, but this was her first time hearing such a request. After a long time, she answered, “One death qi connection is sufficient.”

“Uh…”

Su Yu was feeling very regretful. So he couldn’t deal with that devil death sovereign called Yanmo the same way he dealt with Xing Yue? He had been thinking of using this as an opportunity to weaken that death sovereign before killing him.

How dare that death sovereign threaten him previously!

But now…

He gloomily said, “In that case, I won’t be able to form any connection with that Yanmo? Is there any way for me to do that? Maybe I can get Xing Yue of Grandstar City killed before forming a connection with Yanmo?”

“…”

This was Empyrean Cloud’s first time dealing with Su Yu, so she was stunned yet again by the request. This mayor…was planning to get a death sovereign killed. Not to gain his freedom, but to establish a connection with a different death spirit?

How did that brain of his work? Also, did this human lie to her earlier? He didn’t even need that incomplete heaven acupoint to deal with the death qi. His biggest trump card was his ability to reverse death qi.

Previously, she had judged that he wouldn’t be able to stay alive for long. But now…she had to remove her previous verdict.

Dying soon? Nonsense! From what she was seeing, this fellow would be able to live a very long life. If he tried hard enough, he would live an unbelievably long life. It would be very difficult for him to die.

As he continued working on the medallion, Su Yu asked, “Is that not possible, Lord?”

“Is it…possible?”

Empyrean Cloud blanked out. Was something like that really possible?

After thinking about it for a while, she answered, “If you can kill Xing Yue, Yanmo might not have the courage to convert you.”

This time, it was Su Yu’s turn to be stunned. He said, “Will I stop being an ancient city mayor without being a living dead?”

“Yes.”

Su Yu exclaimed, “That won’t do! You’re saying that I can’t be a mayor anymore after Xing Yue is dead?”

He was greatly alarmed.