Tribulation of Myriad Races
Chapter 912: Carnage Begins (2)

After a slight hesitation, Dao Cheng said, "No. This danger might be something that will be present every day. Just be careful."

He added, "Senior Final Armor, you're a peak Mountainsea. The mystic armor race is a top 100 race as well. You can put up a fight even against a Sunmoon, right?"

"Of course."

"In that case, try not to split up with us."

Final Armor nodded. Fine.

The group started heading toward the main gate. Tonight, they were going to search the city ring by ring. This might seem like a heavy mission, but it wasn't really the case. Most of the people in the city were the residents. The number of visitors that would actually stay the night was quite low in comparison.

The mystic armor race had also been gathering information for this operation. The visitors who had arrived more than two days ago were excluded from their search. They would focus only on those who had only arrived during the past two days.

***

Su Yu remained still even after the group was gone. They might be gone, but he decided to remain cautious. After all, they had a peak Mountainsea with them. He also needed to be careful in case they had something similar to his Perception Jade.

The immortal race was powerful. It wouldn't be odd to see them with similar treasures. Thus, Su Yu remained completely still like a normal piece of rock. After a while, the Mountainsea who had left earlier returned. He returned with a death spirit. It was the same death spirit who had left earlier.

Su Yu's heart thumped. So these people were really capable of controlling death spirits? After checking his surroundings, the Mountainsea turned around and spoke to the death spirit with his medallion raised. The death spirit appeared to be struggling, but the sight of the medallion still compelled it to obey.

A short while later, a thick wave of death qi rippled out of the death spirit. Then, the death spirit started roaming the street. The Mountainsea hurriedly distanced himself, allowing the death qi to fill the area.

Su Yu, who was atop the roof, was being invaded by death qi. The invasion was progressing rapidly. The death qi started spreading all over his body. After going back and forth about five or six times on the same street, the darkness around the death spirit seemed to have faded somewhat, making it look slightly translucent.

A short while later, the death spirit vanished just as suddenly as it had when it appeared. After some time, more people arrived. That was the same group that had departed earlier.

They stared at the street filled with death qi in silence. Looking at Dao Cheng beside him, Final Armor shook his head, "There's nothing. All the buildings here are still unoccupied. If there is someone outside, that person will die to the death qi soon. With so much death qi in them, even if they can survive this, they will become a target of the death spirits soon."

Dao Cheng frowned. Was there really nobody around them?

All this had only happened due to the slight sense of danger he felt earlier. He waited silently. If someone was really hiding nearby, the thick death qi in the air was enough to fill that person's body. He was aware of Su Yu's concealment skills.

Thus, Su Yu was the first person in his mind when he felt a sense of danger earlier. But now, he was starting to doubt his judgment.

"Let's wait a little longer." Final Armor persuaded against it, "The death qi here is too thick. Powerful death spirits might appear. We can't wait too long. And we can only return after the death qi disperses."

Dao Cheng nodded.

After about five minutes, the Mountainsea said with a nod, "Let's go."

Enough time had passed for death qi to invade the body of someone capable of resisting death qi invasion. Once again, the group left. As they departed, a death spirit was slowly taking form.

This was the main reason they had departed. They felt a massive sense of danger arriving together with the death spirit. Not long after they left, Su Yu moved at a rapid speed and instantly vanished into the distance. Damn them!

His body was completely filled with death qi. He was nearing his limit. Behind him, a death spirit appeared noiselessly. A ray of death qi shot toward him.

Su Yu was greatly alarmed as his tribulation character started pulsing madly. He did not dare to risk it and hurriedly dashed into a nearby unoccupied building. Inside, he took out a large amount of heavenly source qi and bathed himself in it.

Hissing sounds rang out repeatedly.

One portion, three portions...

He had been tainted by too many death qi. He was only able to remove it after using around twenty portions of heavenly source qi. On the bright side, his body had also been strengthened by this episode. He was getting nearer and nearer to completing his seventeenth body forging.

Inside the unoccupied building, Su Yu was gnashing his teeth. Those people were too cautious. But they were also very impressive. They were actually capable of making use of death spirits.

"The death spirit tried to target me..."

Su Yu muttered to himself. That was due to the large amount of death qi in his body.

"But the residents also have a lot of death qi in them. Why aren't the death spirits targeting them? Will the death spirits pick their targets?"

Numerous thoughts rose in Su Yu's mind. He snorted coldly. Since they wanted to play this game with him, he would gladly oblige. After a short wait, he opened the door and poked his arm out. Nothing happened.

Only then did he leave the building. He transformed into a gust of wind and vanished.

***

A short while later.

Su Yu found the group of mystic armors. More people had joined the group. Or to be precise, some of the mounted guards from the night patrol had joined their group. What a coincidence!

The same aggressive commander from the previous night was with them! Why was Su Yu so sure? Because he sensed his profound weapons amid the group. That increased the number of their Mountainseas by one.

Five Mountainseas!

They also had Dao Cheng and Jiu Xuan, individuals capable of fighting Mountainseas with them. Thus, they practically had seven Mountainseas in the team. For the sake of dealing with him, these people were not holding anything back.

Under the guidance of the night patrol, they were searching the buildings in the thirty-sixth ring. All the unoccupied buildings and buildings with residents could be ignored. When Su Yu arrived, he overheard their conversation.

"Even if that human is in the city, he won't be staying in the outer rings, right?"

"Let's just check. Remember to have some people watching over the places we checked. We want to prevent that human from switching buildings."

"Black Armor, have the night patrol work harder tonight and prevent anyone from moving around freely tonight."

The same night patrol who had been very aggressive toward Su Yu during the previous night replied, "Sure. But...is the mayor fine with the participation of the night patrol?"

"He's ignoring all this. Don't worry." Final Armor said, "He's only a desperate Sunmoon. We have Invincibles in our race. We also have the assistance of these envoys. The mayor won't have the courage to interfere."

A mere ninth-stage Sunmoon wouldn't dare to go against the immortals even after becoming the mayor of an ancient city.

"Alright."

Black Armor agreed. Soon, even more night patrol joined their operation.

***

Near the city wall.

The Mountainsea commander who had warned Su Yu about the dangers in the city before was standing atop the city wall while facing the city. He was able to see clearly what was happening inside the city.

Beside him, a guard spoke through voice transmission, "Commander, is that Commander Black Armor from the night patrol? The mystic armors are deploying all their forces. What are they doing?"

The Mountainsea did not say anything. He recalled someone who had just arrived the day before. They were probably targeting Su Yu. The mystic armors were planning to make a move against him inside the city.

Would that fellow fall into their hands? How about the mayor? Would the mayor get involved? Numerous thoughts emerged in his head, but he ultimately opted to look away. This was not something he could get involved in.

If the mystic armors really ended up killing or capturing Su Yu, would a human Invincible show up? He had no answer to that question. He only had a feeling that this incident might be the fuse. More than ten years ago, the Martial Dragon Guard surrounded the city. History might repeat itself.

***

"Five Mountainseas, two immortal geniuses, seventeen Cloudbreaches, thirty-eight Skysoars..."

There were about sixty of them. Cloudbreaches and Mountainseas could be considered experts in an ancient city. As for Skysoars, they were rather common in ancient cities. Even Su Yu did not pay much attention to those Skysoars. He was only wary of the fact that many of them were actually residents of the city. Killing them might bring more trouble than expected. He wondered if he could withstand the consequences of killing residents.

"I guess the best option is to first kill those with ancient city medallions."

The Mountainsea tasked to lure the death spirit away earlier and the guard in black armor were definitely holders of these medallions. The peak Mountainsea was probably a medallion holder as well. In fact, his medallion was probably rather high in level.

Thus, they were indeed the best targets to kill. By killing them, they would lose their medallions. At the same time, death spirits would appear following their deaths. Without their medallions, could these mystic armors still control the death spirits? Unlikely.

At that thought, Su Yu set two of the Mountainseas as his targets. Both were early Mountainseas. No, he added a third target as well: the immortal fairy clad in black robes.

"Why aren't they splitting up?"

Su Yu was getting annoyed. Why were they sticking together? If he simply charged into the group when all of them were together, it would be the same as throwing his life away. The city was massive. How were they going to complete their search without splitting up?

This was not in line with his expectations. They were merely walking along the streets instead of unlocking the doors of the occupied buildings. After a while, they finally selected several occupied buildings. Then, the night patrol started knocking on the doors.

"Open the door. The night patrol is performing a night inspection."

"Open the door, stop wasting time."