Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1065: Dark Devil Dragon's Fall (2)

The mayor stared at the masked individual silently. In truth, he had indeed been tempted to kill this person earlier. That way, he would no longer need to pay anything for what he wanted. But that was no longer an option.

After a long silence, he took out a black book and said, "This is the Dark Devil Compendium I promised as the payment. This is a heaven-grade cultivation method. All devils and dragons can cultivate it."

The look in his eyes turned frosty as he continued, "However, this cultivation method is worth more than a hundred portions of heavenly source qi. According to our agreement, you need to provide me with an additional three hundred portions of heavenly source qi after the city gates reopen."

Su Yu took his directory out and verified the details of the transaction. Shortly after, he received a reply. That was indeed the deal. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion would provide the remaining heavenly source qi after the gates reopen. Su Yu could claim ownership of a quarter of this art. Was this mayor so poor?

Su Yu was completely unimpressed. With his recent growth in strength, he no longer needed to worry about being sensed by Sunmoons when he thought badly about them.

He said, "Lord, that is the correct deal. But I need to first verify the authenticity of something like a cultivation method before accepting it as payment."

The mayor did not hesitate and tossed it over. He indifferently said, "Don't try anything funny. Barely any building inside this city is beyond my ability to enter. If you dare to pull a trick on me, I'll kill you."

"I wouldn't dare."

Su Yu started inspecting the cultivation method. It was indeed a powerful cultivation method, but it failed to grab his attention. He had plenty of heaven-grade cultivation methods.

Furthermore, this cultivation method could only be practiced by devils and dragons. The two races were supposed to have different acupoints, but the dark devil dragons were a hybrid race between the two races. Thus, something as unique as this cultivation method was created. It utilized some unique acupoints of the two races, resulting in such a special cultivation method. Both races could cultivate it, but it was probably much more effective in the hands of an actual dark devil dragon.

Apart from that, there was nothing special about this cultivation method. It wasn't particularly attractive to Su Yu. Through his experience, he judged that this was a legitimate cultivation method.

He couldn't even be bothered to put too much focus into reading it. But that was mainly because he was worried about accidentally forming a character right in front of the mayor. He might not view this cultivation method highly, but the book itself was still a willpower text written by a ninth-stage Sunmoon.

Yes, it was written in the draconic language so his golden book would probably destroy the formed character instantly. But he still didn't want that happening in front of the mayor.

"Crushing a character formed from this book will probably be quite good for willpower cultivation."

Having reached that conclusion inwardly, he put the book away and said, "Lord, the heavenly source qi you want is hidden in an ancient building..."

He hesitated slightly and added, "I thought that you would still have some guards you could send to retrieve it. But this place is actually...empty."

The mayor was feeling very gloomy about that as well. The mere mention of his guards would fill him with anger. Why was this bastard adding salt to his wound? All the subordinates he had gathered over the years were gone just like that.

The mayor coldly said, "You'll retrieve it."

"Lord...this...why don't we do it this way? Leave the gate open. I'll store it in a storage ring and toss it inside..."

The mayor was furious, "When did the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion become a place filled with cowards?"

"Lord, the city hasn't been very safe lately. It's all Su Yu's fault."

"Su Yu!"

The mayor snorted coldly at the mention of that name. True. Because of that human, everyone had turned extremely cautious.

"Fine. You may toss the storage ring inside."

"Thanks for your understanding, Lord."

Su Yu thanked the mayor and left promptly. The mayor watched silently as Su Yu left. He wasn't too worried. He was still alive. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion wouldn't dare to try scamming him, not for a transaction of this size anyway.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu had successfully gained new information. From his observation, the mayor was indeed suffering badly from death qi erosion. The appearance of a few additional Sunmoon death spirits would probably exacerbate the mayor's condition.

Su Yu started thinking. How should he go about doing this?

"Heavenly source qi and storage ring...what if I set it to explode in his hands?"

But that wouldn't be enough to kill the mayor.

Su Yu was having a headache. The mayor was a ninth-stage Sunmoon. Someone like that was very tricky to kill. Even a gravely injured ninth-stage Sunmoon would still be strong enough to kill him. Promoting the growth of death qi in the mayor's body was the best option he could take.

"In that case, I can fill the storage ring with death qi and set it to explode. That might be enough to further stimulate the death qi in his body. It will be even better if I can get him to kill a few Sunmoon death spirits...Wait, can I store death spirits in storage rings?"

If that was possible, he could totally stuff hundreds of death spirits inside. That would probably be enough to kill the mayor with a mere touch, right? Since death spirits were considered dead, they should be able to enter storage rings, right?

He should give it a try. With that thought, Su Yu started taking a long, complicated route in the city to avoid the mayor's gaze. Soon, he grabbed a random death spirit and tried to stuff it into his storage ring. Alas, he had indeed been too wishful.

It wasn't working. Right, blood essence could be extracted from death spirits. Should he store a large amount of death spirit blood essence in the ring instead? Would death spirit blood essence attract death spirits? He needed to give this a try as well.

He still had some death spirit blood essence on him. Since the blood essence of the living could attract death spirits, how about the blood essence of death spirits?

Also, there was also the issue of entering the mayor's residence. As far as he knew, regular death spirits weren't able to enter the mayor's residence. How could he get the mayor to leave the residence instead?

Numerous ideas rose in his mind.

Shortly after, he killed a random death spirit. The corpse of a death spirit would not remain for long. He had never been too interested in extracting the blood essence of death spirits previously. After all, their blood essence was useless in terms of heavenly source qi extraction.

Then again, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was still selling their blood essence at a rather high price. That was mostly because of the difficulty of gathering and storing the blood essence of death spirits.

Before long, he was done extracting a drop of blood essence. He tossed it at a random death spirit nearby. The death spirit turned visibly irritated upon sensing the blood essence, but it did not attack Su Yu. That was probably due to the much higher level of death qi on Su Yu's body.

"So there is a reaction..."

It was a pity that there were no outsiders left in the city. Otherwise, the blood of the living would work much better. For now, he could only settle with this. At the very least, the city was not lacking in death spirits. As long as the amount was large enough, it should work well.

And thus, Su Yu slayed a bunch of weak death spirits, causing more Mountainsea death spirits to appear. He did not try to kill any of the Mountainsea death spirits since he didn't want to attract the mayor's attention by spawning Sunmoon death spirits.

Eventually, over a thousand drops of death spirit blood essence were gathered. Then, he started gathering the ambient death qi in the city. The city might lack a lot of things, but death qi was not one of them.

Of course, Su Yu was not trying to kill a ninth-stage Sunmoon by merely detonating a storage ring with some blood essence and death qi. This entire plan was for the sake of stimulating the death qi in the mayor's body. He was hoping that the death qi in the mayor's body could either kill or further injure the mayor.

But before that, Su Yu decided to test the plan on himself first. He was a resident as well. If the plan couldn't do anything to him, then there wouldn't be a need for him to plan any further.

At that thought, he detonated a drop of death spirit blood essence and some death qi. The external death qi surrounded his entire body, and soon, even the death qi inside his body started stirring. However, the reaction was quite weak.

Su Yu frowned. In that case, a thousand drops wouldn't be enough. Fine. He decided to prepare even more. There were plenty of death spirits in the city. He only needed to kill more.

With that, Su Yu continued killing death spirits and gathering death qi. He was doing this at a rapid pace as the weaker death spirits were completely helpless before him.

After a while, he noted that the number of death spirits in the city had increased considerably. He had killed more than five hundred death spirits, gathering thousands of drops of blood essence in the process.

***

At the same time, inner hall of the mayor's residence.

Three powerful Sunmoon death spirits had appeared in the tunnel under the stone statue. Their eyes gleamed with intelligence and fury.

"It's him again!"

"The one chosen by the lord!"

"I really want to kill him!"

The death spirits conversed among themselves with fury and disgust. This person had killed death spirits repeatedly, spawning more and more death spirits in the city. Most of those death spirits were unable to even discover the culprit. As for the ones who could discover the culprit, they were completely helpless against the culprit. That was due to the suppression of different death qi levels.

Eventually, even the death spirit generals noticed what was happening. Thus, they had arrived at the tunnel. Su Yu was the only person who could kill death spirits at such a scale without any reprisals. That was someone who had been personally converted by their lord sovereign.

The three Sunmoon death spirits were very strong. They wouldn't have been able to converse among themselves otherwise. To converse, a certain amount of intelligence was required.

"If he keeps this up, we'll take action. Even if we can't kill him, we need to induce the death qi in his body to go wild. He's seeking death!"

"That's right. This is in line with the laws as well. Since the other death spirits lack the courage to act, we will be the ones to induce the eruption of the death qi in his body."

As they conversed, they kept stealing glances at the stone statue. In truth, they were saying all that just to gauge the stone statue's reaction. But the stone statue remained completely still. Evidently, their plan would not break any laws.

The death spirit generals were relieved to see that. Good. If Su Yu kept this up, they would take action and get him killed through death qi eruption.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still completely unaware of all that.

Done gathering blood essence and death qi, he stored everything in his storage ring. Then, he charged the Sunmoon death spirit roaming near the mayor's residence. Before long, the two were engaged with each other. He started moving away rapidly, but the Sunmoon death spirit kept pestering him.

Originally, the Sunmoon death spirit was ignoring him. With the little bit of intelligence the death spirit had, it wanted to ignore Su Yu after sensing the aura of the sovereign on him. But that annoying human had pestered him repeatedly. Finally, the death spirit lost its temper and started attacking him with non-fatal attacks.

At that moment, Su Yu shouted, "Lord Mayor, a death spirit is bothering me! Can I trouble you to come out and collect the ring instead?"

Those words were spoken loudly. The mayor walked out of the hall and floated above the wall. When he looked into the distance, he saw Su Yu and the furious death spirit. He was quite impressed to see that Su Yu was actually strong enough to survive the onslaught of a Sunmoon death spirit.

The mayor frowned. Damn it. Why was there a Sunmoon death spirit? How annoying.

"Send it over yourself."

The mayor demanded coldly. His death qi was growing too quickly. He did not wish to get anywhere near a Sunmoon death spirit as that might induce the death qi in his body to grow even faster. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He had paid for a delivery service. He wasn't supposed to collect the order himself. He did not want to do the collection himself, especially when things were so dangerous.