Tribulation of Myriad Races

At the same time.

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

The elders were still gathered. When White One's message arrived, they saw a ball...then, several elders dropped the cups they were holding.

"This..." One of them exclaimed in alarm, "This...is the living being helping Su Yu...do...any of you know such a race?"

"Y-yes..."

One of the elders answered while trembling. Of course he knew such a race.

Holy shit!

Su Yu had something like this on him? This wasn't right. When did he get together with someone from this race?

"Soul devourer!"

That person? Some of the elders were still confused.

A trembling elder explained, "That person. Do you remember the fight between Great Ming King and Twilight Divine King? The fight where Twilight Divine King died suddenly for no reason?"

Finally, all the elders recalled a certain existence. Fear and alarm covered their faces. The ancient race of soul devourers! The incredibly mysterious ancient race with a taste for characters?

Over three hundred years ago, Great Ming King fought a cultural researcher Invincible from the divine race. Unlike the fake cultural researcher Invincibles of the human race, that was someone who had truly cultivated his willpower to the Invincible Realm.

That was an incredibly powerful divine king, suppressing Great Ming King in the fight. Next...there was no next for him.

A ball had appeared in a flash before vanishing again. Then, multicolored rays of light spread across the entire Allheaven Battlefield. That was a phenomenon caused by the death of an Invincible. The divine king had died.

His entire sea of willpower had disappeared. That ball had devoured the entire sea of willpower in a split second. That was the most miserable, pathetic, and ridiculous death of an Invincible in centuries.

"Are you sure this is the offspring of that person?"

"Yes. They look exactly the same."

"Are there mentions of this race in the ancient records?"

"Yes."

An elder explained, "Over three hundred years ago, Twilight Divine King died suddenly. Through our investigation, we discovered some sparse mentions of the soul devourer race in our ancient records. This race has existed since the ancient past. Back then, there were very few of them around yet each of them was terrifyingly powerful. They were the bane of cultural researchers. According to the records, they seemed to have a complicated relationship with the multiple character faction of the ancient past..."

"And someone from this race has joined up with Su Yu."

"How did the two come together? Did Su Yu subdue this soul devourer himself or was this related to the multiple character faction?"

"According to the records, this is a very small race. It's very hard to judge their actual numbers. How did Su Yu meet one of them?"

"..."

The elders were very surprised. At the same time, they were also feeling fearful. They were aware of a certain entity in that race. That was an extremely terrifying existence. Someone who had eaten a divine king in a split second.

And the divines didn't even retaliate. Perhaps they had simply failed to locate the soul devourers. Or there were some other unknown reasons. In any case, war did not break out between the divines and the soul devourers over that matter.

"Even the soul devourer race is making an appearance...How troublesome. Get White One to stay further away. Do not try to capture the aura of this soul devourer. Since this soul devourer will be staying with Su Yu, we will have plenty of opportunities to do so in the future. He has probably been staying concealed around Su Yu all along. No wonder nobody knows this."

Shortly after, White One received his new order. He was ordered to not offend or alarm the furball to prevent anything unexpected from happening.

***

Meanwhile, the various experts in the city were also greatly surprised.

A brand new life form. Or to be precise, a brand new race had appeared. But not all of them thought the same. The two Sunmoon divines looked both doubtful and horrified at the same time.

What was that? That furball seemed so familiar...or to be precise, the furball resembled something they had heard of before. A lifeform with the appearance of a furry ball.

Fast, incredible concealment abilities, almost undetectable presence…

Finally, the two Sunmoons looked at each other with horror in their eyes.

Meanwhile, Zhan Wushuang was staring at the furball curiously. What was that? Su Yu was actually keeping a pet with him?

But next, the Sunmoon beside him dragged him away while speaking through voice transmission, "We need to leave! Immediately! The moment the gate opens, rush through it. Do not delay! Return and notify the Divine Realm to not send anyone here..."

"Why? Su Yu is still in the city. He scammed such a huge amount of wealth from us..."

"It's fine."

The Sunmoon said, "Just listen to me. The moment the divine king learns of this, he will forbid you from coming as well. Do you understand me?"

Zhan Wushuang frowned. Was this related to that little furball? He said nothing. Perhaps something he didn't know was at play here.

At this time, some of the other late-stage Sunmoons finally recalled something as well. Instantly, their expressions changed.

Soul devourer race! Someone from this ancient race had once devoured a divine king in a split second!

It wasn't that nobody had ever killed Invincibles before. There were plenty of such people out there. For example, Great Xia King and Great Qin King. The human race had lost a decent number of Invincibles as well. Naturally, these Invincibles had also been killed by other Invincibles.

But not a single Invincible had died in such a helpless manner. In a flash...everything was over. The body remained, but the sea of willpower had vanished.

As for the corpse of that divine king, it had naturally been collected by a certain human king who had nearly pissed himself in fear after witnessing what the furball did. At the time, there were other experts in the area as well. That was how words of that mysterious furball spread.

As for the human king who had collected the corpse, he had naturally stayed completely silent, thinking that nobody would know that the corpse was with him if he stayed silent. Even after someone called him out for collecting the corpse, he had vehemently denied it. But everyone knew that he had the corpse.

That was probably the best-preserved Invincible corpse in history. Why didn't that mysterious furball devour Great Ming King as well? Some speculated that the furball was probably full after consuming the divine king. Some claimed that Great Ming King was simply too ugly to be eaten. Anyway, nobody knew the answer.

That was why Great Ming King had reminded Zhu Tiandao to advise Su Yu against entering the Allheaven Battlefield with this little furball. That might attract the attention of that mysterious furball.

Apart from the divines, some of the other Sunmoons also started fleeing with their confused young geniuses. These geniuses were too young to know an event from so long ago. Back then, that incident had shocked countless people in the various realms.

With the passage of time, everyone had forgotten about that incident. But that ancient race had emerged yet again. Even though this furball did not seem to be the same furball, even if this furball seemed much weaker, they still didn't want to provoke this race. What were they supposed to do if they somehow caused the existence who had devoured the divine king in a split second to appear as well?

***

The little furball was able to collect the storage ring smoothly.

He started counting the resources inside, but he wasn't very good at math. Thus, his tender voice rang out again, "Heavenly Hunt Pavilion, 1,200 strands of heavenly profound light, 800 drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid, and many fruits. How much are they worth?"

White One hurriedly answered, "The heavenearth profound light and sunmoon profound yellow liquid are worth 3,600 strands in total. Each dragonblood fruit is worth 300 drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid, which is equal to 900 strands of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. All these things are worth 4,500 strands. The five celestial devil fruits are worth three hundred strands. The remaining two hundred strands are paid in Sunmoon blood essence of equal value."

The little furball nodded his entire body with satisfaction. Well, well, this fellow was quite tactful, after all. Since there were no issues, it was time for him to leave. He was still quite scared.

With the storage ring, he vanished into thin air. Before long, the door of a random building swung open. After hiding inside, he shut the door again. During the short moment the door was open, everyone checked inside and verified that Su Yu was not there. But this wasn't surprising.

What a cunning bastard.

Not long after, the city gates started shaking while the death qi in the city started receding. As for the Sunmoon death spirits in the city, they were starting to leave as well. Finally, the gates swung open.

All the experts and geniuses rushed out of the city. They did not dare to delay their departure for even a moment, fearing that Su Yu would go crazy again. They had barely left the city when the city gates swung shut again with a rumble.

Inside, Su Yu had killed yet another Mountainsea death spirit. This was his city now! At the very least, that would apply until the mayor was done recuperating.

***

Inner hall of the mayor's residence.

Xing Yue had reappeared. While looking at Su Yu, it said, "This fellow is killing death spirits nonstop. This won't do. They are his future colleagues. If he keeps this up, he will offend the generals under me."

But the stone statue ignored Xing Yue. In fact, he was more than happy to see death spirits dying.

Generally, a resident wouldn't be spared from killing death spirits. But Su Yu had been converted by a death sovereign. With the aura of the death sovereign on him, no death spirit could lay a hand on him.

As far as the stone statue was concerned, this was the most qualified resident ever. This was how a guardian of the ancient city should act. This was the real reason these residents existed.

While alive, they would suppress the death spirits. After dying, they would become death spirits.

Such was their purpose.