"Profound Nine, are you fine?"
When First Profound saw Su Yu the next day, he was greatly astonished. What happened?
First Profound asked, "Are you out of heavenly source qi?"
Why was the death qi in Su Yu's body so thick? In the past, he couldn't even feel the death qi in Su Yu's body, but now, he could clearly feel it.
Su Yu gloomily said, "I'm fine. I'm merely a dying person fighting for a tiny chance to keep living. This is to be expected after staying away from the ancient city for so long. If the death qi hadn't been suppressing my strength, I would have been able to kill even third-stage Sunmoons!"
"..."
First Profound was stunned. Was the kid really dying or was the kid pretending? That tone of voice...and that attitude...felt like someone ready to go all out and do something crazy.
He was suppressed by death qi. Thus, his real strength wasn't at the early-stage Sunmoon Realm. Rather, he was probably at the middle or late stage. Was that what he was trying to say? He sure was good at making things up.
Su Yu said, "Everyone, Liu Wenyan has entered the city. The ruin will emerge soon. Due to the thick death qi in my body, I can clearly feel the increased rate of heavenly source qi release in the city. It won't be long."
Everyone stirred in excitement upon hearing that.
Was the ruin really emerging?
Finally!
They had been feeling quite stressed as of late.
The Titanic Strength Sect master asked, "When will it emerge? What should we do about the Xia Family? Everyone knows that the Xia Family is luring the traitor Invincible out so they definitely have a way to contend against even Invincibles."
Su Yu said, "That has nothing to do with us. Let the strong deal with the strong. We only need to keep killing those trying to fish in troubled waters. Luck is fickle. Why are so many young geniuses here? Because the myriad races believe that these young geniuses have fortune on their side. That is why these geniuses are still here even if things are getting dangerous. They believe that the ultimate winner might not be the strongest expert. Rather, it will be one of them."
The Titanic Strength Sect master exclaimed in realization, "So that's why!"
Everyone else rolled their eyes. How was this idiot only aware of this now? Wasn't this obvious?
Why else would these young geniuses be here otherwise? At times, the luck of these young geniuses was incredibly unpredictable, magical even. A lot of times, these geniuses were the ones to benefit regardless of how hard the various experts tried. That was why the various races had deployed their young geniuses here.
Su Yu said, "And these people will be our targets. We can intercept them. We can kill them. But we can't allow them to get the treasures in the ruin. As for the Xia Family and the traitor Invincible, or the tri-life bodies of the other Invincibles, that isn't something for us to worry about."
"I understand."
When they looked at Su Yu again, they couldn't help but feel somewhat regretful. Profound Nine was a super genius as well. They didn't know him well, but they could see that he was quite young as well. He was so strong, yet the thick death qi around him indicated that he didn't have long to live. Clearly, not even heavenly source qi could suppress the death qi in his body anymore.
This wasn't even the effect Su Yu had deliberately created. Rather, a certain stone statue had skipped on his job, causing this to happen. Su Yu was so frustrated that he felt like coughing blood. He felt like at this point, not even shutting his yang acupoint again would help. That damn stone statue had run off from the ancient city!
What a lazy stone statue!
Thanks to the lazy stone statue, he couldn't even hide the surging death qi in his body anymore. With the stone statue gone, he alone was bearing the burden of the ancient city, including the backlash from leaving the city for both him and the stone statue.
His annoyance was understandable. He had no choice but to further encourage his yang acupoint to absorb all the extra death qi. That was the only choice left to him.
Su Yu was left quite speechless by what the stone statue was doing. Was the lazy stone statue getting addicted to skipping work? Previously, the stone statue would only leave momentarily. That was still acceptable. But this was a tad bit too excessive! How could the stone statue skip work like that? He was sure the stone statue had yet to return from the surging death qi in his body.
He could only hope that the stone statue would return to work soon. After all, he might require the stone statue's help later. What was he supposed to do if the stone statue wasn't available to help when he required it?
Tossing the matter to the back of his mind, Su Yu said, "Let's go. We'll wait outside Nanyuan. The ruin will emerge in a few days. The traitor Invincible might even try something to test the Xia Family. Let us enjoy the show. Do not allow anyone to leave after arriving."
"Yes."
And thus, the group of Sunmoons moved out and formed an encirclement around Nanyuan.
The former sect masters felt great. They were encircling a city of Great Xia right before Xia Family's eyes. Sure, this was dangerous. Sure, they might even be forced to fight the divines and devils. But this felt liberating!
In the past, the Xia Family was so ferocious no cultist would dare to try anything under their watch. But now...hehehe. They could do anything they pleased. What could the Xia Family do to them?
So what if this would offend the Xia Family? They were no longer cultists. They were now pavilion members! Thanks to such thoughts, the former cultists were working very hard under Su Yu's command.
***
"The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion is here again."
"They're everywhere."
"How brazen."
"Of course they're brazen. Just look at their numbers. They have dozens of Sunmoons. Individually, which race can contend against them here? Previously, the devils suffered in their hands. And what did the devils do? They could only swallow their losses."
A myriad race genius asked, "Just when is the ruin emerging? Things are feeling more and more dangerous here in the Human Realm. I can almost smell the arrival of death."
"So you're feeling this as well? I'm feeling the same. Everyone, a battle between Invincibles might really break out here. Are we really staying?"
"Just what is the Xia Family going to use to fight Invincibles? Are they relying on the First Divine Sect master?"
The various young geniuses could feel the impending danger. Things were getting more and more dangerous. However, they had to stay since their respective races had ordered them to do their best and snatch the Culture Tomb.
Here, the young geniuses would be the main players while the top experts would only serve as helpers. This did not sound right at all.
The young geniuses were the ones in charge of fighting for the treasures while the top experts were only in charge of handling the other top experts instead of the other way around. But according to the experience of the myriad races, these young geniuses had a much higher success rate when fighting for these absolute treasures. It was more likely for the top experts of the older generations to perish instead.
Thus, there was a good reason for the myriad races to make this arrangement.
While everyone was busy discussing among themselves.
Suddenly, Hong Tan soared into the sky and said, "Today, the myriad races are here. There are many human experts here as well. It has been proven that the ruin here is a cultural researcher ruin. Great Xia does not wish to see everyone returning empty-handed. Thus, the multiple character faction will start teaching the disassembly method today. May humanity remain prosperous. May the multiple character faction of humanity last forever. May the myriad races learn from this."
Those words shocked all onlookers.
Immediately, someone protested, "No! Hong Tan, this isn't wise! You—"
Hong Tan cut that person off and continued, "We will pass on our teachings. May the teachings of the multiple character faction last for eternity. We might all die today. But the multiple character faction will remain. From today onward, the teachings of multiple character faction will be opened to the masses. Everyone will be able to cultivate straight to the Skysoar Realm instead of waiting. You can continue cultivating until you have more than ten characters before forming your character technique regardless of your cultivation level."