Tribulation of Myriad Races

Inside an ancient building.

Su Yu was deep in thought. His path of escape through the moat had been severed. This was greatly troubling.

"So I can't leave anymore?"

He muttered to himself. In that case, he would have to remain in the city. He still had some safe houses prepared, but those houses might not be secure enough.

"The safest place was probably the mayor's residence. But that place wasn't so easy to enter. Furthermore, the mayor seems to have sealed the mayor's residence. That damn mayor seems to be very hostile toward me. Maybe I can trick him to open the door once so that I can sneak inside?"

His actual target was the inner hall. When he last visited the inner hall of a mayor's residence, he had obtained three teleportation talismans. Perhaps he could find yet another opportunity to leave from the inner hall this time?

At that thought, Su Yu left the building and joined the tide of death spirits on the streets. The experts were still flying all over the city in search of him.

The number of people outside had decreased. Some of them had been forced to retreat indoors due to the increase in death qi density. Out on the streets, Su Yu was cursing inwardly that he lacked an Invincible talisman.

If he had something like that, he could instantly kill over ten thousand death spirits. That would spawn tens of thousands of death spirits, including a large number of Sunmoon death spirits. That would be enough to keep those experts busy for a while.

They were lucky he didn't have something like that. If he had, he would even kill the Sunmoon death spirits to spawn death spirits powerful enough to kill all these experts.

"I can either enter the mayor's residence or enter an inner ring building and finish my conversion into a resident. I can also choose to not convert and simply wait in the city for a few months. Everyone will believe I'm dead then..."

Suddenly, he realized that it wouldn't work. The damn index would show everyone that he was still alive. At this, he thought of something else. Would the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion continue tracking his status after he became an ancient city resident? Right, he had never considered that. Could a resident still be considered a living being?

He had never seen any ancient city resident on the index. Were they simply not talented enough or were they not qualified to enter due to their status? He had no answer for that. Perhaps only the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion knew the answer.

"If converting into a resident can remove me from the index, this will indeed be a good option..."

In the past, he had thought that it was cool to be on the index. But now, he only wanted to index to leave him alone. If it wasn't for the damn index, how would he be in such a difficult situation? Without the index, nobody would know if he was dead or alive.

But now, the index would constantly remind everyone that he was alive. He couldn't even feign his death. The index would also let everyone know the moment he killed an index genius. That was too annoying.

He even started disliking the heavenly rewards. He once loved them, but now, the heavenly rewards felt more like spotlights meant to expose his whereabouts.

The damn Allheaven Battlefield did not seem that friendly toward geniuses, after all. Here, every single move of a genius would be under close supervision. Here, fame and trouble came hand in hand.

"Allheaven Battlefield..."

Su Yu could roughly understand the underlying principles of the Allheaven Battlefield. Basically, this place encouraged the young geniuses to fight each other head-on. Sneaking around was discouraged as there were too many mechanics in place to expose someone after even one kill of any significance.

This damn place was basically a breeding ground of experts with blood as the sole nutrient. The fact that geniuses could somehow encounter each other easily here was proof of that. Following the tide of death spirits, Su Yu soon reached the mayor's residence.

First, he searched for a hole in the walls he could crawl through. In the previous ancient city, Topsoil Spirit had hidden himself in one of these dog holes. Unfortunately, this mayor did not seem to like dogs. Not a single dog hole could be found on the walls.

Su Yu definitely wouldn't mind crawling through one of these holes into the mayor's residence.

"There are not enough death spirits in the city. And these death spirits are not strong enough to threaten them. The moment an Invincible enters the city, things will get troublesome for me."

Su Yu knew that there were mechanisms in place to prevent Invincibles from entering ancient cities. Back then, an Invincible had once perished in an ancient city due to these mechanisms. Because of that, Invincibles would not enter an ancient city rashly. But that did not mean that they couldn't.

"I guess my final choice is to pinch the little furball to death."

There was nothing too wrong about that. In that situation, he would probably die moments after the furball's death. Since they were so close, it was only fair for them to die together, right?

Inside the sea of willpower, the little furball sensed the same malice coming toward him again. He fixed his gaze on the yummy characters around him, deciding that if he was going to die, he would die full.

Su Yu looked around and saw that a large number of the experts were still flying around in search of him. Only a small number of them had retreated indoors. After circling the mayor's residence once, he found no opening to enter.

Thus, he set his eyes on one of his safe houses in the first ring. At worst, he would lock himself in that building for a few months. He wondered if Invincibles could unlock the buildings here in the first ring forcefully.

"If I can leave, I'll naturally try my best to leave. If not, I'll wait it out."

He could simply hide somewhere and focus on forging his body. He had five hundred strands of heavenearth profound light on him alongside an assortment of other resources. He had enough to complete numerous body forgings. He could emerge again when he was strong enough and get some bastards killed.

His urge to become a resident strengthened. There seemed to be a clear difference between becoming a resident and transforming into a death spirit. As a resident, he could become the mayor or part of the guards if he was strong enough. There were definitely some mechanisms in place to control all these processes. But outsiders did not know too much about these mechanisms.

"It would be even better if I can dethrone the damn dark devil dragon and get that bastard killed."

The mayor was the one who had severed his way out of the city. He was not going to forgive this. The moment that fellow stopped being a mayor, he would most definitely die. The dragons had been wanting to kill him for quite a while.

***

At the same time. Mayor's residence.

The stone statue opened his eyes in annoyance. His city was in chaos. Not long ago, he had been laughing at Heavendoom. But now...he discovered that the source of disaster was indeed capable of bringing disaster everywhere.

The deaths of that damn human and the little soul devourer would definitely cause the appearance of Eternals. That was probably why Heavendoom had kindly given that human some teleportation talismans. He was merely trying to send the troublemaker away. And now, the troublemaker was here to cause trouble.

This was Heavendoom's fault! He scanned the city, looking at the surging death qi and the Sunmoons flying everywhere. After a while, he found Su Yu in a first-ring building. He felt quite troubled. Should he send that human away or should he ignore the human?

It wouldn't be easy to send the human way. He could sense numerous experts outside the city. But he only needed to be concerned about the city. Perhaps he should send the human out and ignore the things that would happen next? Even if a battle between Eternals broke out, it wouldn't matter as long as it didn't happen inside the city.

The stone statue sank into thought.

***

At the same time.

Soul Devourer Realm.

A thought bubble appeared beside the big furball yet again. The big furball opened his eyes and sank into deep thought. He was thinking of an extremely important matter: When was the last time he woke up?

How long ago was that? The little fellow was in trouble again? And the little fellow was still in a holy city? Was the previous incident merely a dream? Or perhaps he had seen the future in his dream, and he had finally arrived at that point in time?

The big furball suspected that perhaps he hadn't settled the crisis of the little fellow after all since that was a scene of the future in his dream. And now, that crisis was finally happening in reality.

So...he saw the future while dreaming? Yeah, that wasn't too surprising. The big furball had been around for a very long time. He had seen all sorts of bizarre phenomena.

"So according to the dream, I need to visit the holy city and have a chat with the guardian?"

The big furball sank into thought again. Was this the same ancient city he saw in the dream? Why did...something feel different? The big furball sank into confusion. There was no helping it since he had too many memories. His brain was stuffed so full of information that he was having a hard time even detecting the passage of time.