Chapter 883: Expert Rank Climber (3)
Inside an ancient city in the Plain of Desires.
Heavendoom.
A city doomed by the heavens yet still existed.
Inside the ancient city was a large hall. A large group of people was gathered in the hall.
At the center of the hall was an old man. Facing everyone with his back, he looked at the constantly changing names in the index and said, "Cui Lang of the human race. He has killed several young geniuses in the index as a first-stage Cloudbreach. Someone this talented is very rarely seen. Sure, in the past, a few similar geniuses had also appeared in the Allheaven Battlefield. But this Cui Lang was not known for his combat strength in the Human Realm..."
After thinking about it, he ordered, "Deploy the Four Departments. Enter the Human Realm and investigate Cui Lang's past. Investigate everything about him. Cui Lang is also an excellent weaponsmith. He might already be in the Profound Index, but something feels odd about this..."
The old man muttered, "Any genius in the Profound Index is capable of killing someone above their level. But his feats have been too crazy. All the people he killed were geniuses who were already in the index. Investigate carefully. See if that's really Cui Lang or someone else borrowing his identity."
"Yes!"
Someone else asked, "Lord, do we get the Four Departments to test Cui Lang?"
"No. He's currently in the Skyrend Valley. That place is too chaotic. There is no need for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion to send our members to their deaths."
"Yes."
Before long, some people left to make arrangements to enter the Human Realm and investigate Cui Lang's past.
After a short silence, the old man said, "Is the Evilrid Army still chasing after the people from the Four Departments?"
"Yes."
"Tell them to withdraw. The Evilrid Army has been very active recently. I'm afraid the humans might be getting ready for another war. Withdraw as soon as possible."
"Yes."
"..."
Finally, the old man turned around, revealing a featureless face
The old man seemed to be staring into something. After a short moment, he said, "Cui Lang...Great Ming...Great Ming of Human Realm has been quite active recently. Is anyone here aware of someone called Su Yu from Great Ming?"
"This subordinate is aware of him," replied a masked man.
The old man said, "Investigate Su Yu. After his fight with Shan Xiong several months ago, he has vanished. Not long after, Cui Lang appeared..."
The old man hesitated slightly before saying, "Utilize some of our sleeping agents in the Human Realm. The information in the Heavenly Hunt Index must be reliable and accurate. Any mistake will damage our reputation and credibility. We will no longer be worthy of the name Heavenly Hunt if that's the case."
"Yes!"
More people exited the hall to carry out the new order. The old man said nothing else. The others withdrew from the hall silently. After everyone left, the entire hall vanished into thin air. Not a single trace of the hall was left, as though it never existed.
A regular house appeared at the hall's previous location. Inside the house, a regular family was living a regular life. Nobody seemed to have noticed the hall that had appeared and replaced them in reality earlier.
At the same time.
Inside an imposing palace in the Heavendoom City, a stone statue suddenly opened its eyes and looked in the direction where the hall had disappeared. Its lips moved slightly.
"Heavenly Hunt Pavilion...fuck off from the Heavendoom City."
"Yes, yes, we're leaving immediately. Please calm your anger, Lord Heavendoom. We're only passing through."
Words were exchanged through the air.
The stone statue shut its eyes and returned to how it was. It was as though the stone statue had remained the same throughout the ages, while the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had also existed throughout the ages.
Tranquility returned.
Nobody knew that inside this ancient palace was actually a living statue. Due to the long history of the stone statue, it had long become a part of the palace. The subsequent rulers of the palace had mostly ignored the stone statue. Some of them did try to destroy the statue, but all of them failed. Eventually, people stopped trying.
Lord Heavendoom...if the words of the person from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion were spread, countless people would be confused.
After all, the leader of the Heavendoom City as known by the public was not the stone statue. Rather, it was a ninth-stage Sunmoon of a minor race who had taken control of the city by force. For some reason, the Invincibles of the myriad races had ignored this, allowing him to become a local hegemon of the region.
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Meanwhile, Su Yu was too busy to care about the events somewhere so far away from him.
Slaughter.
And escape.
With Lei Jue chasing after him relentlessly.
"Cui Lang, show yourself!"
"You won't be able to escape!"
"If you continue onward, you will enter the area controlled by An Mintian. Do you want to die?"
"..."
Lei Jue was furious. He was actually having such a hard time capturing a mere Cui Lang. In fact, that human had managed to shake him off several times. Fortunately, the human had been stopping to kill as well, allowing Lei Jue to keep following him through the traces of battle.
That Cui Lang was also quite impressive in combat. He had been able to kill the few opponents he decided to fight instantly before fleeing again If this continued, they would reach An Mintian's location.
At that time, all of Lei Jue's hard work from before would be rendered pointless. He was not An Mintian's match. They both belonged to the greater divine race, but they were from different sub-races. The snowfrost divine race An Mintian belonged to was quite strong as well. And An Mintian was also a Mountainsea.
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Not far ahead.
Su Yu continued moving while hiding with a calm mind. He silently absorbed his latest heavenly reward. He was quite pleased. Finally, he received willpower as the heavenly reward. It had been quite infuriating as he had to kill about seven individuals to accumulate enough kills for this one reward.
Finally, he received a useful reward. The little furball tried to eat some of the willpower, but he sent the furball flying with his hammer. He fed all the willpower to the lightning character alone. But even after absorbing all the willpower, the character did not advance to the next tier. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel~fire~net
Su Yu was very gloomy. It sure was hard for a character to reach the fourth tier. He didn't have that many fourth-tier characters. Only the deceit, blood, fire, and change characters had reached the fourth tier. As for the others, they were all stuck below the fourth tier. This speed was way too slow for him.
After all, he had crushed so many Sunmoon characters for growth. Why did he still have so few fourth-tier characters?
"Without reaching the fourth tier, I won't be able to weaken lightning attacks by much. That fellow will be too hard to deal with. His lightning attacks can easily numb my body and cause me to turn stiff."
And his willpower was also not strong enough. That Lei Jue was a ninth-stage Cloudbreach. If his willpower wasn't strong enough, Lei Jue could probably blast his willpower apart with his lightning attacks. Su Yu did not intend to let himself die from some lightning strikes.
"Fourth-tier character...I guess I need to kill some cultural researchers instead."
Since the heavenly rewards weren't helping, he could kill some cultural researchers and crush their characters for absorption instead. But up until now, he had yet to meet even a single cultural researcher.
Was it because the cultural researchers of the myriad races loved staying at home? Or had he simply been not lucky enough to meet one? Then again, every single member of the five elemental race was a cultural researcher. If he met that Topsoil Spirit again, perhaps he could kill that fellow for his characters.
"Lei Jue..."
Su Yu glanced behind him and cursed. Just wait, Lei Jue!
The damn heavenly rewards had been unhelpful. He had no choice but to set his eyes on the cultural researchers. But why were the cultural researchers of the myriad races so cowardly? Where were they? Why hadn't he seen any?
They should really learn from the humans. Look at how he was running around the Allheaven Battlefield. Look at how Wu Qi was running around the Allheaven Battlefield. What was the point of staying back home?
As he continued his slaughter, he continued rising in ranking. At this point, he had reached the 13th rank.
But he was still unaware of that. Nor was he interested. Even if he found another copy of the Heavenly Hunt Index, he would not take it with him. He wouldn't risk carrying something that was essentially a tracker on him.
The speed at which he was rising in the index shocked countless people. This was only his third day in the Plain of Desires. In such a short period of time, he had climbed from the bottom of the Yellow Index to the 13th rank of the Profound Index. His climb was far faster than some geniuses who had spent years in the Allheaven Battlefield.
At that moment, the index was not in Su Yu's mind. Instead, he was thinking about one thing. If he continued ahead, he might really encounter An Mintian. That was someone who was stronger than Lei Jue.
He had to be careful. But An Mintian wasn't as good as Lei Jue in detection so perhaps he could pass through undetected. As far as Su Yu was concerned, his biggest threat in the Skyrend Valley was not An Mintian or Tianduo. Rather, it was Lei Jue.
Every individual was good at something. And someone good at detection was currently Su Yu's biggest threat. As for whether he would enter the Earth Index after killing Lei Jue...that was something that Su Yu had never considered.
His only consideration was the fact that he might be able to get Lei Jue's blood essence and learn that amazing detection technique. That was a very useful technique. Combined with his Perception Jade, nobody would be able to enter the radius of one kilometer around him undetected.
Rumble!
Suddenly, a loud explosion erupted somewhere further away.
An imposing saber qi rose into the sky.
Even from so far far away, Su Yu was able to see a flash of saber qi and a crumbling divine silhouette.
Huang Teng!
Su Yu's eyes flickered as he hurriedly hid himself. He turned completely still. After less than a minute, a figure shot past him. An Mintian! The white-haired An Mintian was fully focused on heading toward the Huang Teng. He did not spare any of his attention scanning his surroundings.
He finally found traces of Huang Teng! His utmost priority here was to kill Huang Teng, the first-ranked individual on the Earth Index. No other person in the valley was as valuable as Huang Teng.
After An Mintian left, Su Yu moved out of hiding with a pleased expression. Well done, Huang Teng! With the ruckus he created, he would be attracting the attention of everyone in the valley. The path ahead was clear for Su Yu!
"No...An Mintian wasn't alone, right?"
Su Yu cursed. Shit. An Mintian was gone, but what about the people he brought into the valley? Wait...was this an opening for him to reap some lives and get some tasty heavenly rewards?
At that thought, he wasted no time and dashed forward. He was not in a position to give Huang Teng any substantial help. He should still focus on strengthening himself. An Mintian sure was fast. He was so fast that his people weren't able to keep up with him.
As for Lei Jue...Su Yu did not know if that fellow was still targeting him. If that was the case, that fellow would probably spit blood out of sheer anger after learning that Huang Teng had kindly lured An Mintian away, allowing him to move unimpeded.
Chapter 884: Swaggering Into The Earth Index (1)
An Mintian had entered the valley with a considerably large group. There were geniuses of the divine and other minor races in the group. The people qualified to join his group were naturally not weaklings.
These people were moving rapidly in Huang Teng's direction as well, but they were quite far behind An Mintian since he was much faster than them. Everyone saw the saber qi eruption that had killed an expert earlier. That was the saber qi released by Huang Teng.
From how urgent the saber qi felt, they could all sense that Huang Teng was already an arrow at the end of its flight. Tianduo's group had caught up to him. Evidently, Huang Teng and Wu Qi were no longer capable of escaping. Thus, these people were moving while conversing nonchalantly.
"Looks like we won't be able to take part in it."
"Yeah. Huang Teng is already dead. What a pity that we won't be able to get a share of the contribution. Even Lord An might not be able to reach there in time. That Tianduo from the devil race is going to gain a lot from this. Huang Teng is ranked first in the Earth Index. Killing him will definitely produce a great heavenly reward. The reward might be enough to push him to the eighth or ninth-stage Cloudbreach Realm or even the Mountainssea Realm."
"That will save a lot of time for him. Tianduo is also still quite young."
"A Mountainsea of the original devil race...if he really manages to become a Mountainsea, even Lord An might find it hard to defeat him."
This was a place where the strong reigned supreme. This was something all of them had to accept. With their incredible racial abilities, cultivation methods, and talents, the divines and devils had a great advantage over the other races. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on novel·fiɾe·net
No matter how hard someone from a minor race worked, it would be very hard for them to overtake the top geniuses from the divine and devil races. One ought to admit that not everyone was born equal.
Among the group was a Cloudbreach from the divine race. He had three wings on his back, and as he listened to their words, a look of pride covered his face. Arrogance was the common trait of many divines and devils. As far as they were concerned, they were superior to all the other races.
The six-winged divine indifferently said, "The original devils are powerful, but even if Tianduo manages to become a Mountainsea, he still won't be a match for some of the geniuses in our divine race. Even compared to Mo Duona, who is also an original devil, he is much weaker."
Nobody argued. They nodded in agreement.
Mo Duona of the original devil race, number one expert in the Heaven Index. A seventh-stage Cloudbreach who had once killed a seventh-stage Mountainsea. Even the number two expert in the Heaven Index, Zhan Wushuang of the first divine race, was lower than him in the ranking. One ought to note that Zhan Wushuang was a first-stage SSunmoon while Mo Duona was only a Cloudbreach.
One of them asked curiously, "Why isn't Mo Duona here?"
The six-winged divine said, "He definitely won't come. Huang Teng is not worth his time. If Qin Fang is here as well, he might be attracted. Otherwise, Mo Duona is too arrogant to put so much effort into killing a weaker individual."
The others had a look of envy and admiration at the mention of Mo Duona. That was the number one genius of the myriad races. His arrogance knew no bounds. Even someone like Huang Teng was not worth his time. As for the likes of Long Zhan from the dragon race, they naturally couldn't catch his attention as well. Perhaps only the other geniuses in the Heaven Index could catch his attention.
The group continued traveling leisurely while talking about all sorts of topics. The result would be the same regardless of their speed, so why bother wasting their energy?
That was the moment Su Yu arrived. He arrived like a thunderstorm. With the wind character boosting his speed and the pseudo-earth shoes, he had just appeared in the distance before reappearing in their midst with a flicker.
The six-winged divine couldn't even get a clear look at the newcomer. But he did manage to yell out a warning, "Attack!"
These experts were experienced killers. None of them was slow to react. But they were also quite surprised. There were eight of them, and one of them, the six-winged divine, was an expert in the Yellow Index.
He was a young third-stage Cloudbreach who had once killed a sixth-stage Cloudbreach. Who would dare to attack them with such a composition? It would be understandable if there were more in the opposing party, but the opponent was attacking alone.
Right after the six-winged divine yelled his warning, one of them turned into a massive peng. He opened his mouth wide and attempted to pull Su Yu in. As for the others, some went into concealment while some charged him with their weapons raised. One of them was even attacking him with fire.
The six-winged divine flapped his wings and broke through the illusion generated by Su Yu instantly. When he saw Su Yu's appearance, he roared, "Cui Lang! How impudent!"
Was this human crazy? How dare he attack them?
"Six-winged divine?"
Su Yu turned furious the moment he saw the six-winged divine. This was a race he hated. The Six-Winged Divine Sect of the Human Realm had been targeting the multiple character faction repeatedly. They had killed Wu Jia's parents. They had almost killed Feng Ji as well. Because of them, Chen Yong had to leave Great Xia and live the life of a fugitive.
They should all die!
Damn them all!
His killing intent surged. With a furious roar, his hammer turned into a saber. That was the true form of his character technique. It was a character technique with ninety-nine characters. It might still be incomplete, but even in an incomplete form, it was much more powerful than other character techniques.
"Break!"
His break character instantly broke through the defenses of his opponent. At the same time, a powerful burst of willpower erupted from the saber as a layer of black fire appeared around its blade.
Additionally, Su Yu was also using the Sky Sundering Saber. The activation of the Sky Sundering Saber attracted all the saber qi around them, calling them over to further boost the saber strike.
This divine was only a third-stage Cloudbreach. Did this divine think that he would be stronger just because he was a divine? As the rumbling saber descended, the expression of the six-winged divine changed. He hurriedly flapped his wings and moved aside from the attack. That was too strong.
The look in his eyes changed completely as a certain realization hit him. This was not a single character cultivator! This was a character technique!
"Who are you?"
He questioned. Something wasn't right. How could this person know a character technique? As a genius who had fought other humans before, the six-winged divine was quite knowledgeable about the human race. He also knew that character techniques were extremely rare, and one that was so powerful was even rarer. This Cui Lang was not one of the people who should know such a powerful character technique.
"I'm your daddy."
With a roar, Su Yu swung his saber again. Space itself started shattering from the might of his saber. The six-winged divine hurriedly retreated. He was actually quite nimble.
Shock and doubt filled his mind. Who was this person?
The multiple character faction must perish! Those were the words from an ancient prophecy of the divine race, and those words had been passed down from generation to generation in the divine race.
Before the six-winged divine could even recover from his shock, Su Yu abruptly switched to the First Divine Art. The six-winged divine immediately found his body turning stiff. That was a suppression from the ruling race of the divines.
At that point, the expression of the six-winged divine changed again. No...first divine race? Impossible!
"You're not Cui—"
Rumble!
Before he could finish his sentence, another saber attack arrived. This was an attack Su Yu had launched with all his strength. Both his willpower and source qi entered the saber, releasing a blinding saber ray that soared high into the sky. This saber ray was not as powerful as the one released by Huang Teng previously, but it was also not much weaker.
With a loud explosion, the attack landed, blasting the six-winged divine into pieces. Only the six wings of the divine remained undamaged. They tried to escape, but Su Yu activated his fire character and burned them all.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
A miserable wail rang out as the six wings turned into ashes. Only a few pieces of flesh and blood were left where the six-winged divine once stood. With a casual swing of his hand, Su Yu gathered some of the blood.
It was then that the other experts finally broke free of the illusion. But they were all stunned by what they saw. Dead? It had only been a moment. The battle between Su Yu and the six-winged divine had lasted an incredibly short time. The two had exchanged less than three sentences before the divine was dead.
"Run!"
All of them started fleeing, including the peng who had transformed into his original beast form. That was too terrifying.
Run!
Meanwhile, a cloud appeared above Su Yu. After a single glance, he scattered the cloud with a slap. It was some garbage heavenly source qi again. He wouldn't waste his time absorbing a trash reward like that.
"Running from me?" Su Yu snorted coldly, "How dare you join hands with the divines and devils to attack humans? Is the human race something you can afford to provoke?"
The divines and devils were strong, but these minor races were nothing. Even if some of them were members of some top-100 races, such as that peng, the human race was definitely no pushover. They must be tired of living.
At that moment, the little furball made his move. The person who was the slowest to flee instantly stopped with a blank look in his eyes. Then, a saber descended upon him and cut him into two. The two halves started falling from the sky, only to be collected by Su Yu before they could land on the ground.
The six survivors continued fleeing with everything they had. Even with a ninth-stage Cloudbreach among them, they did not have the courage to face that human. This was not someone they could contend against.
At the same time, flashes of lightning appeared far behind Su Yu. Lei Jue was rushing over rapidly. He was not here to help the defeated group. Rather, he was here to kill Cui Lang before that human could escape yet again.
Even further away, An Mintian looked behind him. He saw the imposing saber ray in the sky that Su Yu had used to kill the six-winged divine. He frowned and cursed, but he did not bother turning around. Instead, he continued heading toward Huang Teng.
It wasn't like he could return in time to save those people. In any case, those people were only in a cooperative relationship with him. They weren't his family. Why should he care about them? Huang Teng was not far ahead. He wouldn't give up on Huang Teng so easily.
Chapter 885: Swaggering Into The Earth Index (2)
Su Yu completely ignored Lei Jue as he attacked the group.
The little furball attacked as well, creating an opening for Su Yu to cut a massive demonic beast into two. After collecting the corpse, he heard the peng yelling, "If we keep running, all of us will die. Keep him busy! Lei Jue is coming!"
They were all decisive individuals. Right after those words were said, they stopped fleeing and charged toward Su Yu. One of them appeared below Su Yu with a flicker and stabbed at him with his sword.
The peng flapped his wings and chopped toward Su Yu. The others also unleashed their own attacks. One of them even used a character, but that character had disappeared right after appearing...
The white sable was stunned. Where was his character? Why was it gone? He was completely stunned. Even if he knew that this would be fatal during combat, he still couldn't help himself. What was he supposed to do without his character?
Fortunately for him, he no longer needed to rack his brain for an answer. A large hammer descended loudly. His body remained fine, but his sea of willpower was completely obliterated. Eternal darkness arrived.
Only four remained. In the blink of an eye, Su Yu had killed half the group off. With a casual stomp of his foot, he evoked the power of the Time technique. Crushing Mountainsea, Suppressing Sunmoon, and Battling Invincible.
Against this expert from a minor race, the Time technique was especially effective. Time and space were thrown into disorder. The slow character was also working alongside the technique. The sword was right beneath Su Yu, but for some reason, it couldn't reach him. The wielder of the sword continued flying toward Su Yu, but he was unable to actually approach Su Yu.
"Sky Sundering!"
A roar, a flash, followed by a severed head in the sky. Blood splattered all over Su Yu's body, but he remained completely indifferent. He had an exceptionally cold expression on his face.
At that moment, his killing intent surged with great intensity.
At that moment, his kill character reached the fourth tier.
His fifth fourth-tier character had finally appeared!
The peng and the two remaining survivors no longer dared to fight him. How was this a weaponsmith? This was a butcher! They couldn't understand. Why was this Cui Lang so murderous? His killing intent was too strong.
It was as though he had walked out of mountains of corpses. They were certain that he absolutely surpassed everyone in the valley in terms of killing intent alone. It felt as though he had taken tens of thousands of lives before. He was surrounded by thick killing intent, grievance, anger, and a tiny bit of death qi.
Su Yu was showing no quarter. He used all his strength as he engaged in slaughter, killing five experts in the blink of an eye. The heavenly reward he received earlier was directly slapped aside with disdain. He did not need something like heavenly source qi.
With the new kill, he triggered yet another heavenly reward. A golden beam of light descended from the sky. After shooting it a glance, he allowed the golden light to cover his body. Instantly, all his pores opened wide.
The golden light was tempering his body. His blood coursed through his vessels with great momentum as the air around him rumbled. The flow of his blood was so powerful that even the very air around him was shaking.
Body forging!
He was on the cusp of completing his fourteenth body forging. This golden beam seemed to specialize in body tempering. It was not heavenly source qi, and Su Yu couldn't identify what it was. But it didn't matter. After absorbing the golden light into his body, he transformed into wind.
In a flash, the gust of wind cut through one of the fleeing individuals and destroyed the body. At the same time, the little furball shot into the sea of willpower of that individual and destroyed it with a few bites.
One should not forget that the little furball was a member of an ancient race. All ancient races were known for their strength. Sure, he was not in the Heavenly Hunt Index. But that was because the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had not gathered his aura. Since he had been spending his time inside Su Yu's sea of willpower, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had no opportunity to do that. Otherwise, he would have entered the index after so many kills.
Once again, a cloud appeared above them. This was the heavenly reward for the little furball.
Even without entering the index, he was still entitled to the heavenly rewards of the Allheaven Battlefield. And the reward was actually willpower! Su Yu instantly absorbed everything and said, "I'll pay you later."
"NO!!"
The little furball yelled pitifully. That was his! That was his reward! He could feel it clearly!
Normally, heavenly rewards couldn't be stolen so easily. But the little furball was a unique existence that was almost one with Su Yu. After all, he had been existing as Su Yu's character. Thus, the heavenly reward did not reject Su Yu's absorption. Newest update provıded by Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
The little furball was bursting with rage! That was his food!
Su Yu did not have the luxury to care. He was in urgent need of willpower. The entire clump of willpower was sent toward the lightning character. Alas, the character was still a tiny bit away from advancement.
Out of the eight experts, six had been killed. Only the peng and a ninth-stage Cloudbreach remained. The Cloudbreach had also transformed into their original form: a massive hawk. They were fleeing madly.
Both the peng and the hawk were winged creatures, so both were extremely fast. They did not bother saying anything to each other. It wasn't like they had the luxury to talk. They had stumbled upon an opponent they absolutely couldn't challenge.
There were only two paths before them: A successful escape or death.
Meanwhile, Lei Jue was already less than a kilometer away from Su Yu. That gap could be closed instantly.
Both the peng and the hawk were overjoyed. Lei Jue was near. If Cui Lang continued attacking them, the slight delay would be enough for Lei Jue to catch up. Lei Jue was in a completely different league than the hawk. He might only be a ninth-stage Cloudbreach, but he was far stronger than even regular Mountainseas.
Su Yu was gnashing his teeth with fury.
That bastard!
Did that annoying bastard really think that he had been running because he was afraid? He had exposed too many of his tricks here. There was no way he was going to let the peng and hawk leave with their lives. Sure, they might not have noticed the things he did, such as using his character technique and releasing the little furball, but there was no guarantee
Since he was going to expose his Sky Sundering Saber one way or another, he did not hesitate. He roared yet again.
"Sky Sundering!"
All his acupoints activated as he unleashed the most powerful saber strike he was capable of. All around him, Great Xia King's saber qi converged on him. At the same time, his hammer struck the peng while the little furball attacked the hawk's sea of willpower.
Both of them were momentarily stunned. The saber descended upon them.
Boom!
A gigantic saber ray soared into the sky, its blinding radiance spreading hundreds of meters away. The surrounding area was fully emptied of saber qi while the ground cracked. Every single person in the Skyrend Valley looked in that direction. Many of them were stunned.
Which was the real Huang Teng? That saber eruption was just as powerful as the one they saw earlier. But both had erupted in two opposite directions. Which of them was Huang Teng's?
The ones who were not anywhere near the two couldn't reach a conclusion. Both the peng and hawk broke into pieces.
Rumble!
Yet another heavenly reward dropped from the sky. This time, it was a natural character. After killing multiple experts, including a ninth-stage Cloudbreach, this reward felt especially powerful.
The natural character entered Su Yu's sea of willpower only to be instantly shattered by the golden book. This time, Su Yu was able to get a good look at the character before it was destroyed. He cursed furiously when he noticed what it was.
A space character! It was a space character! Alas, it was not of the human language. Rather, it was written in the divine language.
Holy shit! That was something he had been looking for. Even if it was not a human character, it was still a natural character. Why did that damn book crush it? His heart ached. But he didn't have the time to think too much. He was greatly drained after killing the two demonic beasts. Behind him, a bolt of lightning was approaching him rapidly.
Lei Jue had arrived.
He was very shocked as well, but that did not stop him from attacking Su Yu. In fact, he knew that the human before him was greatly drained. This was a good opportunity to kill this human, who was not weaker than Huang Teng at all!
He didn't have the time to check the index. But he was sure that this human might have reached the first place of the Profound Index. Or perhaps this human was already in the Earth Index.
After all, so many experts had been killed, including a ninth-stage Cloudbreach. This human had killed a genius eight minor realms above him. How terrifying. It would definitely be extremely profitable to kill this human.
A bolt of lightning struck Su Yu's back. His third-tier lightning character wasn't even able to fully digest the heavenly reward yet. It released a burst of lightning to withstand the lightning attack, but it was instantly defeated.
Su Yu wasted no time. After coughing a mouthful of blood, he burned his blood in the area into nothingness before running. While running, he used the Time technique to speed up and the slow character to delay his pursuer. A cruel look covered his face. Just wait!
When he was done absorbing the character intent and upgrading his character, they could finally battle for real.
"Trying to run?"
Lei Jue was getting more and more desperate as well. He couldn't afford to let this human escape. If this human was allowed to run, it would be very hard for him to remain in pursuit. Furthermore, he wasn't even sure if he would be able to defeat this human if the human was allowed to recover. He wasn't sure of his ability to prevail over the level of strength that the human had displayed to kill the group earlier. There were eight of them in the group. But the human had killed them all so easily.
With that, the fight and pursuit between a human and a divine began.
Lightning bolts rained down relentlessly while saber rays danced in the air. They exchanged numerous blows, and Su Yu's defenses were broken through repeatedly. His body was suffering badly, but he wasn't just taking blows without counterattacking. He constantly swung his hammer with his vibrate character active.
All the people they encounter on their way would hurriedly move away from the two. A battle of this level was definitely comparable to the level Huang Teng was in. They did not have the courage to get involved in the battle of such powerful individuals. Even if they were given the chance to ambush such individuals, they wouldn't dare.
Chapter 886: Swaggering Into The Earth Index (3)
Restore scroll position
On the other side of the valley.
Huang Teng and the others were also dumbstruck. So Cui Lang was the person fighting Lei Jue?
Was that supposed to be a joke? Was Cui Lang so strong? Wasn't he a first-stage Cloudbreach? Also, what the fuck was up with that Sky Sundering Saber? Cui Lang knew the Sky Sundering Saber as well?
Everyone was confused.
Huang Teng was still fleeing madly with Wu Qi in tow. She was pale and constantly coughed blood. Green smoke was rising out of the blood she spat out, filling the air with poison. When Huang Teng saw that, he couldn't resist saying, "You're the most ruthless woman in the entirety of humanity. Did you refine your entire person into poison?"
Wu Qi did not answer. Was that ruthless? She did not think so.
Huang Teng couldn't resist blabbering, "Dang! Old Wu, what are you supposed to do when you're trying to get intimate with someone? Just kissing you might get someone poisoned to death..."
"Shut up!"
Wu Qi roared furiously before coughing a mouthful of blood onto his shirt. A hissing sound rang out as the entire shirt rotted away. On top of that, a bloody hole had appeared on Huang Teng's skin.
He wailed in pain and said, "Sorry, sorry! I'll shut up! Big Sister Wu, stop spitting on me!"
Once again, his words infuriated Wu Qi. She resisted the urge to cough on him again and poison him to death. Meanwhile, Tianduo and the other devils were kept occupied by the poisonous smoke in the air.
Tianduo glared at them from afar. He was feeling rather furious. He had not imagined that Wu Qi, someone only in the Yellow Index, would be so difficult to deal with. Yes. He was having difficulty dealing with Wu Qi.
Everyone knew that Huang Teng was strong. How about Wu Qi? Everyone only knew her for her ruthlessness due to her previous feat of advancing by drinking the blood of a devil. But nobody had imagined that she was ruthless enough to even turn her blood into poison. How was it possible that Wu Qi did not poison herself to death during the process? That was unbelievable.
Her poison was strong enough to instantly corrode the flesh of even Cloudbreaches. Even if she had survived the process of turning her blood into poison, she must have suffered greatly.
Huang Teng did not have the luxury to think about all that. He sensed An Mintian's aura and roared, "Stop chasing us. You should be focusing on the other guy instead. That's the real successor of the Xia Family. He is the biological son of Prefect Xia. Fuck you. What's the point of killing me?"
"..."
Silence descended. Yes. The chaotic battlefield actually turned completely silent.
"Xia Huyou?"
Some of the people there exclaimed in shock. Recently, they had heard that Xia Longwu's son was someone called Xia Huyou, the direct successor of the Xia Family. So the other person was actually Xia Huyou?
But Huang Teng smashed their expectations apart, "Xia Huyou my ass. That's Cui Lang. He's the eldest son of Prefect Xia. Nobody knows this. Stop chasing me. That's the real successor of the Xia Family. I'm only a puppet."
He did not look like he was lying. Even Wu Qi was confused. Cui Lang? Eldest son of Xia Longwu? That was actually a member of the Xia Family? Why was she completely unaware of that? Was Cui Lang perhaps the illegitimate son of the prefect?
An Mintian's expression changed. Was that true?
Cui Lang?
Successor and son of the Carnage King?
Great grandson of Great Xia King?
The leader of Xia Family's fourth generation?
Meanwhile, Xia Huyou and Huang Teng were merely puppets meant to misdirect the masses? If that was true, that would explain the strength of the Sky Sundering Saber earlier. But was that true?
Huang Teng continued shouting, "Shit! I'm speaking the truth! Why should I lie in such a situation? An Mintian, are you really trying to kill me just for the heavenly reward? Aren't you here to sever the inheritance of the Xia Family? I'm nothing. Xia Lang is a hundred times more important than me!"
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Wu Qi furiously spat a mouthful of blood on his arm. Once again, a hissing sound rang out as his flesh rotted away. Wu Qi then broke free from his arm and glared at him.
"Huang Teng, you can keep running yourself."
With a roar, she released all her willpower and charged Tianduo and the others. Huang Teng cursed inwardly. It was true. Women couldn't be reasoned with. Wasn't he doing this for their own survival?
From the look of things, that fellow wouldn't die so easily. Even if An Mintian switched targets, there was no guarantee that he would be able to catch up with that fellow. Did this dumb woman believe that Cui Lang was actually Xia Lang? Was she so gullible?
Huang Teng was going crazy. He swore that he would no longer work alongside women in the future as he looked at Wu Qi who was charging toward their pursuers. She was too unreliable!
While gnashing his teeth, Huang Teng turned around as well. A saber appeared in his hand and 144 acupoints lit up in his body. His entire body turned gold as the surrounding saber qi gathered around him like a storm. He unleashed a slash that seemed capable of splitting sky itself apart.
Tianduo's expression changed as he warned, "Retreat!"
The saber descended with a rumble. A devil near Tianduo wasn't able to retreat in time and was instantly turned into mincemeat. The saber ray rampaged and created an open path devoid of obstacles.
Then, Huang Teng grabbed Wu Qi and fled through the path. Tianduo and the others were too busy dealing with the saber qi. They could do nothing except watch as the two humans fled. Soon, Tianduo broke free of the saber qi around him and roared furiously before giving chase yet again.
Ahead of them, the radiance around Huang Teng's body started dimming. Blood started flowing out of his mouth. Looking at Wu Qi who was still struggling in his arm, he grinned, "Woman...how dumb...damn it. Take me...I'm dead..."
Wu Qi finally looked at him and noticed his acupoints exploding one after another. Her expression changed drastically, but soon, determination covered her face as she spat a mouthful of blood out. Huang Teng wanted to dodge the blood, but she caught him and allowed her blood to land on his arm. This time, the blood was no longer poisonous. Rather, it transformed into blood essence that proceeded to repair his acupoints.
"You—"
"Shut up!" She spat another mouthful of blood as her face paled even further. With a cold voice, she said, "Run!"
Huang Teng gnashed his teeth and said, "Fuck! There are too many people! That damn Qin Fang is so unreliable! I notified him long ago, but he didn't come! Things wouldn't have been like this otherwise."
"Hmph!"
Wu Qi snorted coldly. How idiotic of this fellow to put his trust in someone else. In the Allheaven Battlefield, one could trust only oneself. Relying on others? What a joke.
"If they come after us again, we'll fight with our lives on the line! Even if we die, we'll drag a few of them with us!"
Wu Qi looked behind coldly. Mo Erba, Lan Ying, and Tianduo were all still alive. But some other devils had died in the process of chasing after them. If they had to die, they would drag a few of these devils down with them.
She was not afraid of death. She had entered the Plain of Desires to seek life amidst death. Even if she couldn't survive, she would not be fearful of death.
"Cui Lang..."
"That was a random lie," replied Huang Teng. Stop asking him. How was he supposed to know the answer? But seeing her reaction, even he himself was convinced of that lie. Was Cui Lang an illegitimate child of the Xia Family?
Xia Longwu was not the kind of person who would do that. Perhaps...it was Marquis Xia? What a terrifying thought. Was that Cui Lang the cousin of Prefect Xia? Truly terrifying.
He had actually cultivated his Sky Sundering Saber to such a level. That person did not feel like Su Yu. Huang Teng knew Su Yu. That was someone who had killed before, but that did not seem like someone whose killing intent was dense enough to spread dozens of kilometers away.
Were cultural researchers even capable of being so murderous? It was more logical for it to be someone from the Xia Family.
Both Su Yu and Huang Teng were madly fleeing. One was fleeing from Lei Jue while the other was fleeing from Tianduo.
At the same time.
About a hundred kilometers away from Skyrend Valley.
A massive battle was ongoing. A youth clad in black armor was mounted atop a flying sky tiger. With a cold look in his eyes, he casually stabbed an expert to death with his spear. He then turned to look behind him.
"Mo Duona, if you want to kill me, show me your real strength."
Then, the flying sky tiger soared into the sky and flew away carrying the youth.
Behind them, a purple-haired devil youth with a flame symbol on his forehead smiled and said, "Qin Fang, I wonder if Great Qin King will do something after you're dead."
Qin Fang ignored those words and continued fleeing. That fellow should say that after killing him. As for Huang Teng...he could only apologize. This damn Mo Duona was chasing after him. He would consider himself lucky just by surviving. The number one expert in the Heaven Index was no joke. He was not this fellow's match.
***
Battles were erupting everywhere.
And names were constantly disappearing from the Heavenly Hunt Index. The most surprising of all was Great Ming's Cui Lang. He had reached the 36th place of the Earth Index.
As for his battle accomplishment, he had killed a ninth-stage Cloudbreach as a first-stage Cloudbreach. His rank had skyrocketed.
From the Profound Index, he had climbed straight into the Earth Index. And he wasn't even ranked at the bottom of the Earth Index. Rather, he was ranked in the middle. If he managed to kill a Mountainsea as well, he would probably enter the top ten.
And his age was the only reason his rank wasn't higher. A 35-year-old human was equivalent to a 315-year-old divine or devil. He was not young enough.
Meanwhile, someone like Mo Duona was less than 200 years old. After conversion, he was basically equivalent to a 20-year-old human. That was the reason for his high rank.
If Cui Lang was ten years younger, he would have reached the top five or even the top three of the Earth Index. Alas, he was too old.
***
Su Yu was naturally unbothered about that. It wasn't like he was the real Old Man Cui Lang. He was still busy running. He was unaware that Huang Teng had claimed that he was Xia Lang. He only knew that Huang Teng might be dead already. So be it. He could only take care of himself. He was too busy to give Huang Teng any help.
After dozens of hammer strikes, he finally managed to stop Lei Jue for a short moment. He took that chance to dive into the ground and fled underground. He even detected the nearby Topsoil Spirit, but he was too busy to care. He had to focus on running.
As for Topsoil Spirit, he was dumbfounded. Fuck! He had thought that this was a fellow elemental, but it was actually Cui Lang? What was going on? Earth movement technique? And that fellow was actually as fast as him when moving through earth.
He did not have the luxury to think. He hurriedly fled in the opposite direction. What was he supposed to do if Lei Jue decided to beat him up to release some pent-up anger after recovering from the momentary stun? Nevertheless, he was still very shocked. What was going on? Were humans so good at earth movement techniques as well?
Why was he feeling like the five elemental race had lost their greatest advantage over the myriad races?
In the sky, Lei Jue's eyes flickered as he coldly said, "Cui Lang?"
That Cui Lang...was excessively strong. And that bastard had way too many characters. This did not feel like the Cui Lang he knew.
"Lightning, kill, battle, fire, slow..."
He listed a long string of characters as the look in his eyes changed again. Apart from the multiple character faction, no human would cultivate so many characters.
That Cui Lang...was too suspicious!
Chapter 887: Character Advancement, Strength Of Mountainsea (1)
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Lei Jue was not the only person suspicious of Cui Lang.
He knew Sky Sundering Saber. He was very strong. And his killing intent was very dense. Nobody would relate such a person to a weaponsmith or a member of Great Ming. Meanwhile, Huang Teng's claim that he was from the Xia Family was much more believable.
Sky Sundering Saber, Soul Expanding Art, multiple characters...
If it wasn't for the fact that these people didn't know Su Yu too well, they would have guessed his real identity long ago. Both Cui Lang and Su Yu were newcomers at the Allheaven Battlefield.
He was not a regular there like Huang Teng and the others. Thus, the myriad races knew too little about him. But as time passed, Su Yu himself knew that it was only a matter of time before his identity was exposed.
Underground.
Even the soil beneath the Skyrend Valley was filled with saber qi. There were also some life forms operating underground, such as Topsoil Spirit. He loved hiding underground. And that was what Su Yu was doing as well.
The natural character he received as the heavenly reward was crushed. He had even snatched the little furball's heavenly reward. Everything was fed to the lightning character. Lei Jue was still looking for him everywhere. He could only take some time to cultivate before leaving. That fellow was too damn annoying.
As an offensive character, the lightning character was extremely hard to advance. Suddenly, Su Yu's body shook slightly. He had finally completed his fourteenth body forging. To speak the truth, that was an astonishing speed. He had only reached the Skysoar Realm through physical cultivation at the end of February. In less than five months, he had completed fourteen body forgings. But for him, this was not fast enough.
Before this, his physical body felt very strong. In fact, it felt even stronger than his willpower. Whenever he fought someone, he would crush them with his physical strength. But that had changed.
With enough apertures and powerful characters, his willpower cultivation was quite strong as well. His only weakness was the lower tier of his willpower. Even so, he wouldn't have much problem reaching the ninth-stage Cloudbreach Realm with his willpower cultivation. Perhaps he could reach that level soon.
Meanwhile, it was getting harder and harder to strengthen his body. He had completed three body forgings the day his body advanced to the Skysoar Realm. In short, he had only completed eleven body forgings after over a hundred days. On average, he was taking half a month per body forging even with unlimited heavenly source qi.
For anyone else, this would be a crazy speed. A lot of people would stop at nine body forgings. With Su Yu's speed, he could complete that in about three to four months and move on from the Skysoar Realm. But that was not what he wanted.
He needed to complete seventy-two body forgings. With fourteen body forgings, he could muster the strength of nearly seven thousand acupoints. With his semi-opened acupoint and the strength character, he could perhaps surpass eight thousand acupoints.
That was a level of strength many Cloudbreaches couldn't reach. In fact, some of the weaker Mountainseas would only have the strength of about ten thousand acupoints.
Alas, Su Yu's opponents weren't those minor races. Rather, he had to face the divine and devil races, including the first divine and original devil races. For those people, someone with the strength of less than ten thousand acupoints at the Cloudbreach Realm was merely a piece of trash. The best among them could reach that level during the Skysoar Realm.
"Fourteen body forgings."
This was still too weak. Su Yu shook his head. It would be too difficult for him to defeat Lei Jue with only his physical strength. He needed his characters and willpower to do so. Furthermore, he did not have any advantage over Lei Jue in terms of speed.
That fellow was capable of transforming into lightning. In fact, during his short battle with Lei Jue previously, it had been a one-sided beating for him.
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Su Yu sighed, disappointed in himself. He had completely neglected the fact that Lei Jue was a super genius who had once killed a Mountainsea. Once again, thunder rumbled as Lei Jue started scanning the area with his detection technique again. Concealment would be extremely difficult as long as that fellow was still around.
Su Yu continued running while waiting for his lightning character to advance. After advancing into the fourth tier, the lightning character would be able to weaken Lei Jue's lightning attacks by about seventy percent. That would greatly reduce the difficulty of fighting Lei Jue.
Little did Su Yu know, he wasn't the only person fleeing for his life.
A lot of people were doing the same.
Huang Teng and Wu QI were fleeing. Qin Fang was fleeing. Some other human geniuses in the Plain of Desires were fleeing as well. Even Liu Hong, who had just entered the Plain of Desires, was fleeing gloomily. For some reason, everyone in the Plain of Desires started looking for human geniuses to kill not long after he entered.
In the past, even Skysoars could easily survive the Plain of Desires. But for some reason, a large number of Heavenly Hunt Index geniuses had appeared here. This had almost never happened before.
The Allheaven Battlefield was incredibly massive while there were only so many people in the Heavenly Hunt Index. The people in the index would rarely gather in one place. Normally, even seeing twenty of them in the same region was a rare occurrence. But at this moment, there were more than a hundred of them in the Plain of Desires.
One could say that this was an accidental snowball effect. Since the likes of Huang Teng, Qin Fang, and Tianduo were there, a large number of geniuses had also traveled over. Some were there to join in the fun. Some were there to fish in troubled waters. And as news spread, more and more geniuses arrived.
Because of that, the possibility of encountering and killing a genius that could grant one a heavenly reward grew, attracting even more geniuses over.
***
Su Yu was cursing at his rotten luck while fleeing.
Even when traveling underground, he had still encountered massive trouble. That trouble came in the form of a massive stone golem. The golem attacked without even talking, sending a punch that was powerful enough to throw him out of his earth transformation.
"Earth movement technique? I hate this technique the most!"
This was the same stone golem Topsoil Spirit had been running away from. He seemed to harbor some sort of hatred toward the earth movement technique. Thus, right after sensing Su Yu, he threw a punch and forced Su Yu out of concealment.
This was not the only person Su Yu had encountered while he was fleeing. Some were completely incapable of detecting him while some would move away after detecting him. This stone golem was the only person who had actually attacked.
Su Yu was furious. Activating his strength character, he clashed against the stone golem. It wasn't that he didn't want to use his characters or willpower, but he discovered that this stone golem had a unique build. His sea of willpower seemed completely solid. Even after several hammer strikes, his sea of willpower remained unaffected.
Rumble!
But after a short exchange, Su Yu found himself weaker than his opponent. Even with his yang acupoint semi-opened, he was still forced to constantly retreat from the stone golem's punches.
This stone golem felt like a seventh-stage Cloudbreach, but his physical strength was absolutely beyond the strength of ten thousand acupoints. The only thing Su Yu gained from the short exchange was a sore body. When he sensed Lei Jue pulling near again, he cursed inwardly.
Just as he was about to use his character technique, the stone golem noticed Lei Jue as well. Then, he completely forgot about Su Yu and jumped into the sky before roaring furiously, "Lei Jue, I finally found you!"
After that roar, he threw a punch at Lei Jue.
Lei Jue's expression changed as he exclaimed, "Stone Statue, it's you!"
"You're dead!" The stone golem was only a seventh-stage Cloudbreach, but he was incomparably overbearing even when he was facing a ninth-stage Cloudbreach. He had zero fear due to a special characteristic of his. The power of lightning could harm him, but he was also naturally resistant to lightning.
Thus, he could counter Lei Jue's abilities so long as the difference in cultivation level between the two wasn't too big. The stone golem attacked Lei Jue without bothering to say anything else.
Rumble!
The powers of lightning and stone clashed in the sky as a violent battle erupted between the two. There seemed to be bad blood between the two. Below them, Su Yu blanked out. What was happening?
He was just about to join the stone golem and kill Lei Jue when an earthen head popped out of the ground beside him. The head sent him a voice transmission, "Brother from the human race, why are you not running?"
"..."
Su Yu looked at Topsoil Spirit speechlessly. Why was this fellow here as well?
"Don't even dream of helping that big lump of stone.
Topsoil Spirit seemed to have guessed Su Yu's plan. He explained helplessly, "That lump of stone is damaged in the head. He seems to find everyone annoying. If you join the fight, he will conclude that you're interrupting and switch his target to you right away."
"..."
Su Yu was speechless. Such a person existed? Or to be precise, such a stone existed? Forget it. That lump of stone was quite strong. Despite not being a cultural researcher, he seemed to be somewhat of a counter toward cultural researchers due to his sturdy sea of willpower. And he was also stronger physically. Su Yu concluded that he was most likely not the match of that stone person.
He felt quite gloomy. He had been encountering people he couldn't defeat repeatedly. None of these people was a Mountainsea. All of them had relatively low cultivation levels. But he was not their match. He felt very dispirited.
Topsoil Spirit asked, "Fellow Daoist, do you know the earth movement technique as well?"
That was what Topsoil Spirit was most curious about. He noticed that this human was terrifyingly fast when using the earth movement technique. In fact, this human was almost as fast as him.
Su Yu nonchalantly replied, "Yeah. Do you have an issue with that?"
"Not at all!" Topsoil Spirit laughed, "Fellow Daoist, this is not a good place to talk. That lump of stone will only go crazy for a short moment when fighting. Before long, he will retreat after running out of source qi. Should we talk somewhere else?"
Su Yu blanked out. In that case, that lump of stone wasn't really that dumb, after all. He was still smart enough to run after exhausting himself too much. He looked up and noticed that Lei Jue merely fought silently, not bothering to say anything to the stone golem. He knew that any attempt to communicate would be pointless.
This Stone Statue would not stop pestering him unless they actually fought. Since Stone Statue was resistant to his lightning attacks, he was actually slightly disadvantaged in the fight. But in terms of endurance, Stone Golem would not be his match.
After taking a look at the two, Su Yu dove underground and left with Topsoil Spirit. While moving underground, he spoke through voice transmission, "Brother from the earth elemental race, what do you wish to talk about?"
"It's nothing much. I just want to ask about your earth movement technique. Why does it resemble the movement techniques of the five elemental race so much? Have you studied our movement techniques before?"
Su Yu did not deny that. He answered, "Yes. I took a lot of inspiration from the five elemental race. After years of research and forming numerous characters, including an earth character, I finally did it. You're not thinking of stealing my earth character, right?"
"Don't misunderstand!" Topsoil Spirit said, "Fellow Daoist, do you know the water movement technique as well?"
Su Yu replied nonchalantly, "Yes. What about that?"
"..."
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Topsoil Spirit suddenly stopped moving. A pair of eyes seemed to have appeared amid the soil as he said, "You know the water movement technique as well?"
"Yeah." Su Yu said, "What's so surprising about that? I know the movement techniques of all five elements."
He then summoned a puddle of water and instantly traveled through the puddle of water. He did not fully transform into water. Rather, he only utilized a more regular version of the water movement technique. As for water transformation, that was a racial ability. It was different than a movement technique.
"..."
Topsoil Spirit appeared doubtful. Regular water movement techniques weren't rare. He had merely been suspecting a connection between the water elemental he saw before and this human.
That suspicion had developed after learning that this human knew the water movement technique as well. But after seeing this human for himself, he started wondering if he had been too suspicious. How could a human turn into a water elemental?
Su Yu said, "Fellow Daoist Earth, if you have no other business, I think we should separate. Lei Jue will keep coming after me. The divines and devils won't spare me. I'm sure the friends from the five elemental race don't wish to get dragged into this, right?" Updates are released by novèlfire.net
Topsoil Spirit was only here to verify his guesses. He was definitely not interested in helping Su Yu. Thus, he said nothing.
But when Su Yu was about to leave, he suddenly said, "Fellow Daoist, you're going to get into the top 10 of the Earth Index soon. Congratulations."
"Earth Index?" Topsoil Spirit exclaimed in surprise, "Don't you have a copy of the index?"
"You do?" Su Yu spoke bluntly, "I'm worried that the index can be used as a tracker as well. Are you guys not afraid of getting hunted down by the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion one day carrying that thing all day long?"
"..."
Topsoil Spirit said, "Nope. We're only carrying this to wait for those Heavenly Hunt Pavilion fellows to actually come after us. That will give us the chance to hunt them down instead."
"..."
Su Yu was stunned. He seemed to have misunderstood something.
Topsoil Spirit was surprised to see Su Yu's surprise. He said, "This is the Plain of Desires. It is very hard for those top experts to encounter us here. Even if they can track us, only the weaker ones among them can reach us. But what's the difference between sending weaklings and sending food to us? Since there is also the advantage of staying up to date with the current trend with the index, why shouldn't we carry it with us? At worst, we can throw it away after leaving the Plain of Desires. Or we can return straight to our respective headquarters. What can the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion do to us there?"
He couldn't understand the logic of this human. They were only here to kill, right? Thus, they should welcome the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion! What was there to fear? Tracker? So be it. This place was too weird. Even if an expert knew exactly where they were, the expert might not necessarily be able to reach them.
Su Yu exhaled. His line of thought had been wrong from the start. He did not expect that this was what the geniuses were thinking. Location tracker? Great! Feel free to go after them. They would simply kill them all.
How confident.
A certain realization dawned on Su Yu. This was the Allheaven Battlefield. This was a hunting ground. This was the graveyard of geniuses. Everyone knew why they were here. They were here to grow stronger. Thus, they were not afraid of danger. That remained true for everyone.
That applied even to Topsoil Spirit. From the surprise in his voice, it was clear that Su Yu was the one thinking differently from all the other geniuses.
"Why hadn't you attacked me?"
Topsoil Spirit answered, "You're very strong. I have no confidence. The five elemental race is a race of cultural researchers. We don't really counter cultural researchers like you. I prefer killing warriors instead. Is this a satisfactory answer?"
He wasn't saying that he didn't want to kill Su Yu. He only said that it was not worth the effort. None of them was an idiot. It was pointless to be too hypocritical here.
"I understand. Thanks. I learned something new."
After saying that, Su Yu left. Topsoil Spirit's words had taught him a lot. The geniuses here all knew what they wanted and what they were fighting for. None of them was only here to idle around. If one wanted to idle around, one wouldn't be here in the first place.
While Su Yu was worrying about being tracked, these people were willingly carrying copies of the index. They were all waiting for the people of Heavenly Hunt Pavilion to go after them. If they could win, they would slay those people. If they couldn't win, they would simply run. Killing and running. These were the two main themes of the Plain of Desires.
This was a hunt. The people of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion might be seeing them as prey, but they were also seeing the people of Heavenly Hunt Pavilion as prey.
"Index...that is basically a bait. We use it to fish, and the winner will rely on whether the hand reeling it in or the fish is stronger."
Both the fish and the angler could emerge victorious. It wasn't surprising for either of them to be the victorious one.
Su Yu did not spend too much time thinking. He moved rapidly, looking for a new hiding place to fight while Stone Statue was keeping Lei Jue busy. Sure, Lei Jue could keep searching the valley for him, but it wouldn't be so easy for Lei Jue to find him again after losing track of him. Furthermore, Lei Jue could possibly encounter even more of his enemies during the search and get delayed.
After all, Lei Jue's detection technique was too domineering. He was simply forcing everyone out of hiding. If he kept doing this, it wouldn't even be surprising if some individuals decided to join hands and get rid of him. If he offended enough people, it would only be a matter of time before he was killed.
The Skyrend Valley wasn't even that big. It was only about two hundred kilometers from one end to the other end. As for its width, it was only about two kilometers. For an expert, such distance could be crossed in no time.
But due to the saber qi and divine power in the air, everyone's detection range was greatly restricted in the valley. Furthermore, the many openings on the ground turned the entire valley into some sort of maze. Because of that, one would only sense a fight in the valley if one was near enough. Thanks to the chaotic topography, fleeing was also made easy in the valley.
At the moment, Su Yu was hiding in one of the cracks in the ground as he digested the willpower he had received from the heavenly reward earlier. To find him again, Lei Jue needed to search the place inch by inch. Finding someone was much harder than hiding from someone.
"Lei Jue..."
While Su Yu was muttering, the lightning character finally started shaking, showing signs of a breakthrough.
Finally!
Su Yu was relieved. He would go mad if the character remained the same even after absorbing so much willpower and character intent. He didn't have the opportunity to kill too many people anymore. After killing An Mintian's followers, a lot of people must have realized that he was strong. They would be a lot more cautious around him and he wouldn't get another opportunity to slaughter a large group of people.
After about half an hour, rumbling sounds erupted in his sea of willpower. His second character ever, the character formed from the willpower text of the Lightning Source Blade, had finally reached the fourth tier. Characters at the fourth tier were also known as Mountainsea characters.
At this point, there were several fourth-tier characters in Su Yu's sea of willpower. His willpower was still at the Cloudbreach Realm, and it was starting to feel the stress from this. If things continued in this trend, his sea of willpower would be damaged.
But this was not something Su Yu needed to worry about. He unhesitatingly swallowed a pill.
Soul Refining Pill. A pill he had received from a previous heavenly reward. It could strengthen his sea of willpower. He didn't know how effective it would be, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
The moment the pill entered his mouth, it turned into a stream of energy. The energy poured into his sea of willpower before spreading everywhere like gentle tremors. After focusing on it, Su Yu noted that the pill seemed to contain a gentle power of vibration. It worked similarly to the Soul Expanding Art.
The only difference was that the Soul Expanding Art was much more brutish in application. When using the Soul Expanding Art, one could accidentally hammer one's sea of willpower into nothingness if one was not strong enough.
As for the pill, it worked in a gentle manner. Su Yu shook his head. It was helpful, but the effect was too weak. For a weakling, this pill would be a great help. But Su Yu's sea of willpower was already very strong previously.
In truth, the golden book, character technique, and the Soul Expanding Hammer were all capable of strengthening one's sea of willpower. Thus, the pill didn't seem too helpful for Su Yu.
"I have way too many good things. This pill is a treasure for others, but it's not good enough for me. For now, I only need characters and willpower. Perhaps I shouldn't waste the things I don't need. I could trade them for what I need..."
Would the heavenly reward provide other willpower treasures? Perhaps something like riversand? That was very likely. But these willpower treasures might not have that much of a demand among warriors. Some would probably be put up for sale. He could always ask around for such trading centers.
He couldn't let the things he received from the heavenly rewards go to waste. He had also killed a lot of experts, gathering all their storage rings. He had simply been too busy to go over his spoils of war.
While he was thinking about all that, his sea of willpower finally finished absorbing the energy from the pill. His lightning character had finished its advancement into the fourth tier. It was shining brightly, radiating eagerness to do battle.
Chapter 889: Character Advancement, Strength Of Mountainsea (3)
Su Yu exhaled.
Fourth-tier lightning character.
Finally, he was done. Of course, he was in no rush to look for Lei Jue. Since his character had completed its advancement, he could try to work on his body again. He would work on body forging while waiting for Lei Jue to arrive.
It would be even better if some other people delivered themselves to him during the wait. That way, he would be able to kill them for more heavenly rewards. The golden light he had received from the heavens not long ago had actually been very helpful for body forging. It felt even better than heavenly source qi.
Also, he could probably get a copy of the index for himself as well. There had been too many changes. What he saw from Consul Liu's copy might no longer be accurate. Since Great Ming had never been too well-informed about the affairs of the Allheaven Battlefield, even Consul Liu's copy might be an outdated one.
Su Yu started his wait. While waiting, he forged his body with heavenly source qi. He did not mind the cost, wrapping his entire body in a thick layer of heavenly source qi instead of absorbing it bit by bit.
Not a single inch of his skin was left uncovered. He still had a decent amount of heavenly source qi. He had given his father and Uncle Liu some, but he still had about five hundred portions on him.
He also had five hundred thousand merit points and countless spoils of war. That was everything he had at the moment.
"Since I have completed my fourteenth body forging, perhaps I can start consuming Mountainsea blood essence."
He believed that his body was already strong enough to at least survive consuming a drop of Mountainsea blood essence. His body only needed to withstand the power of a drop of blood essence, not all the power of a Mountainsea.
If he could consume Mountainsea blood essence, he would also be able to unleash the power of Mountainseas in bursts. That would make it easier for him to kill Mountainseas. He had some Mountainsea blood essence in his possession. Prior to leaving Great Ming, Zhu Tiandao had provided him with some. But he couldn't decide on which blood essence to consume.
He couldn't consume the blood essence that was too powerful, so divines and devils were out of the question. Even with the help of the golden book, the blood essence of divines and devils might be strong enough to burst his body apart.
"Even the top 100 races might be dangerous. But I can try using the blood essence of the other races. A race with powerful physical strength and offensive power would be the better choice..."
After thinking for a bit, he took out a drop of blood essence. He hesitated slightly before consuming the blood essence with a determined expression.
Boom!
An explosion of source qi erupted inside his body as the power of the blood essence rippled out. His entire body shook while his blood coursed violently. His skin started tearing apart as well. But soon, that destructive power dissipated away.
Su Yu hurriedly utilized the First Divine Art, gathering the divine power in the air. Unsurprisingly, Great Xia King's saber qi started attacking him madly. He did not mind. After a short moment, he switched to the Sky Sundering Saber, calming the saber qi around him again.
He was too busy to care about his surroundings. He had consumed his first drop of Mountainsea blood essence. He wanted to see if there would be any changes.
A page in the golden book lit up.
Drought demon (First-stage Mountainsea)
Racial abilities: Earth Splitter (activation with blood essence), Violent Blood Transformation (activation with blood essence)
Foundation source art: Sky Splitting Art
Foundation body forging art: Sky Splitting Eighteen Forges
Foundation nine transformation art: Sky Splitting Nine Transformations
Foundation source acupoint art: Sky Splitting Source Acupoint Art
There was one additional line!
Foundation source acupoint art!
Su Yu had a pensive look. That was most likely the Mountainsea cultivation method of this race. It was basically a sort of acupoint fusion art. Of course, his acupoint fusion art was mainly produced for the usage of Infinite Strength warriors. It wouldn't be too effective for Mountainseas.
"Source acupoint art...this is probably the advanced version of a basic acupoint fusion art. My acupoint fusion art with only thirty-six acupoints might not necessarily be lower in quality than this."
Su Yu reached a conclusion. The so-called foundation source acupoint art was most likely an acupoint fusion method developed based on their foundation source art to be more effective for Mountainseas, but there must also be a limit to the increase of effectiveness.
Thus, Su Yu did not expect much from the foundation source acupoint art. Of course, it might still be helpful for him after his advancement in the future, but the best option for him would be to develop something uniquely his.
Drought demon! This was a race with formidable physical prowess. It was ranked in the top 300 among the myriad races, so it was actually quite a powerful race.
Su Yu exhaled lightly in relief. Fortunately, a blood essence at this level of power was still within his limit. But he still wondered if his body would be able to withstand it when he utilized the power of a Mountainsea during combat using the blood essence.
Fourteen body forgings might not be good enough for that. He would probably need at least sixteen body forgings to better withstand the stress of using the power at the level of a Mountainsea.
Using a drop of blood essence to unleash the combat prowess of a certain level was his true trump card. This was how he had prevailed over many of his past opponents. At the moment, he was still incomparable to Mountainseas. Even with all his strength, he wouldn't be able to surpass the strength of seven thousand acupoints. That was weaker than even the weakest of Mountainseas.
But he could use a drop of blood essence to gain a temporary boost to the level of a Mountainsea. And that much was enough.
Lei Jue had killed a Mountainsea before, but that was most definitely the Mountainsea of a minor race. The drought demon race wasn't considered a powerhouse race. But Su Yu knew a decent number of heaven-grade arts so that wouldn't be an issue for him. Would combining the Mountainsea strength of the drought demon race, the prowess of excellent arts, and his willpower be enough to kill Lei Jue?
If Lei Jue could survive even that, he wouldn't have remained in the Profound Index. Instead, he should be someone ranked high in the Earth Index. But he was merely a Profound Index genius.
"Hu!"
Su Yu inhaled deeply and sank into thought. Ultimately, he decided to take another drop of blood essence as a test. It would be awkward if he consumed a drop of blood essence during a fight only to find himself bursting apart from the power.
Before actually using it in combat, he had to gather more information. Thus, he consumed another drop of drought demon blood essence.
The Earth Splitter's racial ability activated.
Rumble!
His body shook, his blood boiled, and his skin started tearing apart again. There was too much power.
Su Yu could sense that his body was reaching its limit. He hurriedly activated the cultivation method of the first divine art, gathering the surrounding divine power on his body yet again. He could only sigh with relief that he had attempted this in the Skyrend Valley. Otherwise, he wouldn't know what to do.
The divine power started repairing his body and preventing it from bursting apart. At the same time, his speed of absorbing heavenly source qi was also increasing, allowing him to forge his body at a greater speed. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novel·fire·net
After all, he was currently utilizing the power of a Mountainsea to activate the 72-Forged Iron Devourer. It was understandable that this art would work much faster than before. A large amount of divine power was absorbed into his body.
While Su Yu was absorbing the divine power in the valley, Huang Teng's expression changed. The saber qi around him seemed to have become much easier to control. What was going on?
The other ambient power that had been contending against the saber qi seemed to have weakened slightly. Was someone from the first divine race here? Originally, the saber qi was slightly stronger than the divine power in the valley. But neither had an absolute advantage, so the divine power would still interfere with one's attempt to utilize the saber qi in the air.
But now, that divine power seemed to have weakened slightly. It was a very small change, but Huang Teng was sensitive enough to take notice. Only the people cultivating the First Divine Art or the Sky Sundering Saber could notice this minute change. Otherwise, one wouldn't notice anything.
"What happened to the divine power?"
Huang Teng looked in a certain direction doubtfully. Did Cui Lang destroy some of the divine power in the valley? Or perhaps an expert from the first divine race had arrived? But the arrival of a first divine would also further provoke the saber qi. That was also the main reason why no first divine had entered the valley previously.
Back then, this valley was created when Great Xia King tried to cut a first divine down. Thus, the saber qi in the valley was prejudiced against the first divines.
As for Su Yu, he hadn't actually been focusing only on the First Divine Art. He would constantly shift between the Sky Sundering Saber and the First Divine Art to maintain a balance and prevent himself from being cut down by the saber qi.
Huang Teng did not know that. But it didn't matter. He was still overjoyed by the change. Nice. With the weakening of the divine power, he would be able to utilize even more of the saber qi in the valley. That would be very helpful for him.
Beside him, Wu Qi could no longer maintain her consciousness due to excessive blood loss. Seeing that, Huang Teng sighed. He didn't even know if she could still survive this. At this point, their fate was up to the heavens.
Once again, Huang Teng cursed at Qin Fang. That unreliable bastard from Great Qin. If he managed to survive this, he would not spare that fellow! He could now muster more of the saber qi in the valley.
He firmed his heart and decided that he would let Tianduo have a taste of his strongest attack yet. Even if he couldn't kill Tianduo, he needed to at least get that fellow seriously injured. That would keep that fellow away from them for a while.
Without Tianduo, he did not fear anyone else. In the entirety of the Skyrend Valley, only a few individuals were stronger than him.
Su Yu also sensed the same thing.
After absorbing some of the divine power around him, the saber qi became much easier to control. It could also exert a larger portion of its strength.
At that realization, Su Yu continued activating the First Divine Art. This art had never been so useful before.
Su Yu was in a great mood. After draining the divine power around, his Sky Sundering Saber would be further amplified thanks to the ambient saber qi in the air. Coupled with his Mountainsea blood essence, would he be able to kill Lei Jue with one strike?
But to accomplish that, he would probably need to take an attack from Lei Jue head-on if he wanted to land his attack as well. With Lei Jue's speed, there was no guarantee that he would be able to follow up with a second attack after failing to kill with the first strike.
A wide grin appeared on Su Yu's face.
Lei Jue, you're dead!