Tribulation of Myriad Races

At the same time, Su Yu’s body shook slightly.

A large volume of death qi had suddenly entered his body.

Curious, he wondered if this was the stone statue yet again.

Whatever.

What was there to fear?

At that moment, his yang acupoint had turned completely black. It was still swallowing death qi endlessly, as though it was determined to continue until it drained Su Yu dry. And inside Su Yu’s body, the death qi seemed to be answering the challenge.

More and more death qi arrived. Death Sovereign Xing Yue continued pumping more death qi into Su Yu’s body. She refused to believe that as a death sovereign, she would not be able to handle a mere Su Yu.

Exhausting her death qi? Let’s see how long he could keep this up! How dare he challenge her!

As long as the death qi within Su Yu’s body remained at a certain level, she was limited in how much death qi she could send his way. But since he was somehow reducing the death qi in his body, she was allowed to send even more death qi into his body. The laws allowed that, and the kid could only blame himself for that. It was as though the yang acupoint and the death qi had entered an ego-measuring contest.

As for Su Yu, he only felt stronger and stronger. The yang acupoint had yet to even fully open. The original 360 acupoints in his body had been fused into nine acupoints. At the moment, all nine of them were orbiting the dark yang acupoint, looking like nine dark celestial bodies.

All nine of those acupoints were also black in color. With the nine acupoints in charge of transferring death qi into the yang acupoint, a sort of connection was established between the yang acupoint and the nine acupoints.

He could clearly feel his body constantly growing in strength. Eventually, the nine acupoints and the yang acupoint started showing signs of fusion. At that point, he gained an even bigger boost of strength.

Su Yu couldn’t help but wonder just how strong he would be after fully opening his yang acupoint and completing his sixty-second body forging. That yang acupoint seemed capable of increasing his physical strength without any limits. How impressive.

“The old master of Bai Family…”

Su Yu couldn’t help but recall one person.

Bai Feng’s grandfather.

He was confident that the old man had opened the yang acupoint as well. And he was also fairly certain that the old man was probably on the verge of being drained dry by the yang acupoint.

Wouldn’t that…be the perfect resident of an ancient city? Of course, he had to first learn the reversal art, or the death qi in his body might lose control and kill him before his yang acupoint could do much.

“If he learns the reversal art and converts into a resident, he will no longer suffer from his yang acupoint. In fact, he will be able to start liberally using his strength!”

Su Yu was more worried that the death spirit in charge of converting the old master would be too weak to support the yang acupoint. Would his death spirit be fine? Well, there should be no issues, right?

After all, it was a death sovereign who had converted him. As of this moment, he felt boundless gratitude toward Xing Yue. Thankfully, it was Xing Yue. If it was a regular Sunmoon death spirit instead, that death spirit would probably die feeding his yang acupoint. That would be regretful.

With such a thought in his mind, Su Yu continued working on his yang acupoint. Since there was no limit to his supply of death qi, he would put it to use. The more power his yang qi gathered, the stronger he would be. After fully opening the yang acupoint, he might even be able to consume the blood essence of eight-stage Sunmoons.

At that time, with an Invincible providing him with an unlimited supply of death qi, he might be able to put up a fight against some of his potential opponents.

Mo Duona?

Young geniuses with ancient emperors attached to their bodies?

Heh, Su Yu thought that he now had a super trump card as well: a death sovereign connected to him. What was there to fear?

Bring it on!

If their bodies could withstand the power of those ancient experts, he could most certainly do it as well. In terms of physical strength, he did not think he was weaker than them. Their ancient emperors might be strong, but his death sovereign was no pushover either.

If Teacher Liu was insufficient to lure the traitor out, he would step forth and become the bait.

And if even a super genius like him wasn’t sufficient, then perhaps that traitor should simply sit back and await his death. They would slowly investigate, close in on him, and kill him.

***

Impressed by this wild idea of his, Su Yu was starting to feel smug again. Meanwhile, Grandstar was blanking out inside the ancient city. The kid was taking in even more death qi?

Holy shit!

Even after getting so much death qi from him, the kid was still draining more death qi from Xing Yue.

Death Sovereign Xing Yue was greatly shocked as well. She started wondering…if she would ever be able to fully transform that kid into a death spirit. Furious, she decided to stop thinking about it. She gnashed her teeth and decided to throw more death qi the kid’s way. That would teach the damn kid a lesson!

At the same time, Grandstar was also stealthily sending even more death qi to Su Yu. It would be fine. But Su Yu showed no signs of faltering. He was still actively draining Xing Yue of her death qi.

Grandstar was stunned yet again.

Holy shit!

Was that really possible? He had actually been underestimating the kid all along! He had been worrying that the kid would die if he left the city for too long. But instead…

What was going on?

Grandstar stretched and said to Xing Yue, “Don’t cause trouble. I’m going on a stroll. Do you understand me?”

Xing Yue stared at him blankly. Ignoring Xing Yue’s reaction, Grandstar vanished. It was time for him to party—no, visit his old friends.

Wow. This felt great!

He did not need to bear any death qi at all. That madman known as Su Yu was crazily absorbing death qi for some reason. Even after leaving the ancient city, Grandstar couldn’t feel any death qi coming his way.

What in the world? In the blink of an eye, he appeared above a different ancient city.

Heavendoom City.

Heavendoom was stunned. He rubbed his eyes. Was he seeing things?

However, Grandstar did not disappear. Thus, he continued rubbing his eyes. After a while, Grandstar laughed, “Heavendoom, the world has changed massively. But it’s still as beautiful as ever. I’m taking a good look at the world. You…may continue enjoying life in your city.”

“Grandstar…”

But Grandstar was already gone.

Heavendoom’s eyes widened. Holy shit!

He came?

And he left?

He was moving in his real body!

What the fuck was this? Where was the promised death qi backlash?

Unless a guardian found someone else to bear the death qi, the guardian wouldn’t be able to leave. Otherwise, the tunnel would no longer remain suppressed. So where was Grandstar’s death qi?

Stone statues like them could always leave their cities momentarily, but not for long. Perhaps in the span of three to five seconds, all the residents would die from bearing the increased burden of death qi.

For Grandstar to come here, he needed more time than that, right? And he was even going somewhere else as well?

“No…Su Yu…yes, Su Yu!”

Furious, Heavendoom punched Mayor Tian He.

“Fuck!”

What happened? Tian He was collapsing emotionally. In the city, only the stone statue could attack him like this.

What happened?

Before fainting, Tian He even wondered if he was the very first ancient city mayor to be knocked unconscious by their stone statue.

Heavendoom glared at the fainting Tian He and asked furiously, “Why didn’t you abdicate your position to Su Yu previously?”

“…”

Tian He was able to hear that question before fully losing consciousness.

He was confused.

What?

What did he do to offend the stone statue?

***

That day, a stone statue became an adventurer.

Sea of Stars.

Stepping into the ancient city under the sea, Grandstar greeted, “Big Brother, wake up.”

The stone statue in the city opened his eyes. After staring at Grandstar for a while, he shut his eyes again as his ancient voice rang out, “Did you get a new mayor? Don’t do anything stupid. It must be the human I saw previously, the one with the ability to reverse death qi. Be careful lest the death qi grows too powerful and reopen the tunnel…”

Grandstar nodded, “I understand.”

He hesitated before asking, “Can I take a look at the Human Realm?”

“No. Do not lead death qi into the Human Realm.”

“My mayor is in the Human Realm.”

The ancient stone statue sank into silence. After a while, he said, “Try to get him back as soon as possible. You should stop running around as well.”

“Fine.”

Grandstar nodded and vanished.

Looking at the direction Grandstar had gone, the ancient stone statue shut his eyes and returned to slumber. It wasn’t a good idea for Grandstar to run around. If he accidentally caused a tunnel to form between the Human Realm and the Death Realm, he would be the one to guard that tunnel according to their rules.

If that happened, and if the ancient Emperor of humanity was in the Death Realm as well…hehehe. Grandstar would get a whole new appreciation of what the word disaster meant.

What a fool.

How could Grandstar allow his mayor to enter the Human Realm? Wasn’t he aware that this was very dangerous?

Whatever. The ancient stone statue decided to return to sleep.