Tribulation of Myriad Races

Chapter 1060: Heavenly Hunt Pavilion’s Profound Nine (3)

Su Yu’s heart thumped. He asked, “Can these masks be snatched easily?”

“Nope. The mask will self-destruct the moment the owner dies. But it is possible for the owner to voluntarily hand it to someone else. There will be a record of the transfer in the pavilion. But no outsider will find out about your identity.”

Su Yu couldn’t help but admit that the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion truly had a lot of treasures. It was true that he had no way of seeing through this mask. Even if he encountered a white mask he had met previously, he wouldn’t know it was the same person.

If a white mask was already so impressive, what about an elder’s mask? No wonder the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had remained a mystery even after so many years. It was likely that these members had other identities with their original faces as well. And upon putting the mask on, nobody would know who they were. And not even Invincibles could see through the disguise of those elders. This was a terrifying concept.

There might even be humans in their ranks.

Su Yu’s understanding of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had grown considerably through this exchange. This was an enigmatic and powerful organization. Furthermore, they also had the Heavenly Hunt Index, an absolutely terrifying treasure.

Profound Nine stared at Su Yu while struggling internally. In truth, he had been tempted by Su Yu’s words. He had been tempted to kill Su Yu and fight for his own survival.

But ultimately, he sighed when he thought of the pavilion he loved so much. He said, “Lord…you’re a good person.”

“Hmm?”

Su Yu was stunned. Yes. he was completely stunned. He was…a good person?

What the fuck? Holy shit! Someone was calling him a good person?

How many people had he killed? How many experts had died because of him? It wouldn’t be wrong for one to consider him a devil instead. But someone was calling him a good person? And that someone was a Heavenly Hunt Pavilion member.

Noticing Su Yu’s expression, Profound Nine laughed. As death qi started leaking out of his body, he sighed again, “Lord, you refused to kill me when you saw that I wasn’t putting up a fight. This might be the pride of a genius. Or perhaps you are simply a kind soul deep inside. But I still hope that you can accept this mask and become a new Profound Nine. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion might be able to provide you with a way out of your current predicament.”

As death qi started taking over his body, he stopped fighting the erosion. With yet another sigh, he said, “Lord Su, this is what happens when someone is fully eroded by death qi. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion is very sincere in recruiting you as a member. Lord, aren’t you the same as us? The human race has abandoned you. Just like us, you’re a lost soul. In that case, you might as well join us…”

Su Yu indifferently said, “Forgive me for being blunt, but the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion isn’t any better than the major races. What’s the point of saying that?”

“True.”

More and more death qi consumed Profound Nine’s body. Su Yu did nothing.

While gasping for breath, Profound Nine spoke again, “At the very least, I still hope that you can agree to accept an index copy. This shall be my final mission. The pavilion gave me a new life. Thus, I served the pavilion until my very last breath. I regret none of this…I…only hope that…you can help plete my f-final…mission. This…is the only thing…I can do for you, Lord. I shall demonstrate the state one will be in…upon being fully consumed…by death qi.”

Boom!

The sounds of a sea of willpower crumbling apart rang out.

Profound Nine was dead.

Su Yu couldn’t understand Profound Nine loyalty toward the pavilion. But he could see that Profound Nine was already dying even before this. But why did Profound Nine insist that he accept an index copy until the very end? What was the point of that?

Something else was happening before his eyes. Profound Nine had been completely consumed by death qi. All the death qi in the building started surging into his body. Slowly, his body turned black while his clothes rotted away. In the blink of an eye, he had turned into a corpse filled with incomparably dense death qi.

And mere moments later, even his facial features fully rotted away. After even more time, Profound Nine stood up again. At this moment, he had fully transformed into a death spirit.

Su Yu was greatly surprised.

Profound Nine walked toward the door and pushed it open, revealing a Mountainsea death spirit who was already waiting outside. Under the lead of the Mountainsea death spirit, Profound Nine vanished into the distance. That was the death spirit who had converted Profound Nine into a resident.

Su Yu thought of something and rushed outside, ignoring the white mask and index copy in the building. He started giving chase. The death spirits had always appeared and disappeared in a mysterious manner for him. They had always appeared out of nowhere and departed by simply vanishing into nothingness.

He only knew that those at the Sunmoon Realm and above would need to leave through the mayor’s residence. Also, the death spirits seemed to be split into two categories: ancient and regular death spirits.

But after a short moment, Su Yu’s eyes flickered. The two death spirits had simply vanished into thin air. Did they move underground? There was no way to move underground in ancient cities. Was it possible that the death spirits were simply residing under the cities? Was that why they could appear and disappear anywhere?

And Profound Nine was brought underground instead of into the mayor’s residence. What did that signify? He wasn’t even brought to the Death Realm. He still remained in the city. Was this the fate for all recent death spirits? Were they restricted from even the Death Realm?

Numerous questions appeared in Su Yu’s mind.

Suddenly, he saw a flash in front of him. Before he knew it, the little furball had reappeared in his sea of consciousness. He rolled his eyes and asked, “How did you find me?”

“Smelly mixed with a tiny bit of yummy. That’s your signature.”

Those were the little furball’s exact words. Even in his death spirit disguise, Su Yu was unable to conceal himself from the little furball. After all, the little furball relied on his instincts instead of anything else to detect Su Yu.

Even if Yummy was now smelly, he was still slightly yummy.

Su Yu was speechless. He grumbled that not even dogs had such an advanced sense of smell.

“Where’s my stuff?”

As a response, the little furball spat a storage ring out and hurriedly explained, “They scammed you! They didn’t pay you the full amount! I was angry, but I wasn’t their match. Before I could do anything, they left…”

Su Yu stared at the furball with stupefaction. Did the furball believe that he would believe this nonsense?

He checked the storage ring. There were 1,200 strands of heavenearth profound light and 800 drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid inside. According to White One, that was what he was supposed to receive. Even the ancient dragonblood fruits and the Sunmoon blood essence were all there. Only the celestial devil fruits were lacking. There were only four left. He was supposed to receive five of them.

These fruits weren’t cheap at all. The five fruits were worth three hundred strands. In other words, he had to kill six early Sunmoons and extract all their blood essence just to buy one of these fruits.

Even if Su Yu didn’t know what he could use them for, he still knew that they were extremely valuable. And now, one of them was missing.

“A fruit is missing.”

“I can’t count! They must have scammed me!”

The little furball even had a frustrated expression to go along with his act. He grumbled in exasperation, “They took advantage of me because I couldn’t count!”

Su Yu didn’t know what to say anymore. The little furball not knowing how to count? What bullshit! The furball had demonstrated an incredible skill with numbers when counting characters in the past. He had counted his characters countless times before. And Su Yu had noticed that.

But he couldn’t be bothered to say anything else. Whatever. So be it.

With this, Su Yu had turned into a terrifyingly wealthy individual. In total, he had 1,380 strands of heavenearth profound light, 1,100 drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid, 50 five elemental fruits, 4 celestial devil fruits, several ancient dragonblood fruits, 470 drops of Sunmoon blood essence, some heavenblood fruits, and 9 drops of eighth-stage Sunmoon blood essence.

He was already wealthier than most of the human invincibles. After all, these human Invincibles were still too young compared with the other major races.

Of the 470 drops of first-stage Sunmoon blood essence, 270 of them were the deposit he had received for the auction, including what he received from the Zhu and Qin Families. He had given them the human hostages, but he had not returned them their blood essence.

He did not have a clear idea of how rich he was before this, but after counting his belongings, he found that he had turned extremely wealthy. Furthermore, he also had seven Invincible notes on him.

He also had a decent amount of Mountainsea blood essence that would serve as his heavenly source qi supply.

“Time to check out the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion branch…”

He rushed back to the branch. Only three items were left in the building.

An index copy, a catalog, and a white mask.

Profound Nine was no more. This was Su Yu’s first time witnessing a transformation into a death spirit. That had given him a lot of new ideas. With the mask in hand, he sank into contemplation.

After a long while, he placed the mask on his face. Perhaps…this would be of use to him. But suddenly, he wondered if the mask was clean. Did Profound Nine have a bad habit such as spitting on the mask or something?

Should he disinfect it first? Also, the previous owner of this mask had just died. Was it proper for him to put it on so soon?

Numerous random thoughts emerged in his mind.