Chapter 1001: Ninestar Island, I'm Here! (1)

"Topsoil Spirit!"

Su Yu muttered that name. That fellow had been maintaining quite a low profile. He had to be careful lest his secrets were exposed by that fellow. He felt quite regretful at his failure to capture or kill Topsoil Spirit.

But there was nothing he could do about it. Not everything would progress smoothly in life. There would eventually be some regrets here and there as one went through life. Despite his feelings, Su Yu decided to accept and deal with it when possible. At present, that fellow would certainly be much more cautious than before. It wouldn't be easy for him to track that fellow.

"Let's focus on Tianduo and the little golden dragon for now..."

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

He had missed his best chance to capture Topsoil Spirit. With their recent encounter, Topsoil Spirit would be on extreme alert against him, making further actions against Topsoil Spirit extremely difficult. Furthermore, that fellow was quite a slippery opponent.

"Between the little golden dragon and Tianduo, the golden dragon probably has a lot of trump cards as well. Tianduo might be the easier target."

Su Yu would certainly not underestimate that dragon. He had even heard that an Invincible had recently moved for that golden dragon. The little golden dragon had an Invincible grandfather who was also the grand elder of the golden dragon race.

Meanwhile, Tianduo was about seventeen generations apart from a devil king. He might be an Invincible descendant as well, but he was quite distant from the Invincible in his family. The divines and devils enjoyed long lifespans. Thus, they would inevitably produce numerous descendants across generations.

By Tianduo's generation, one would very rarely get the chance to even meet their ancestor Invincible unless one was exceptionally talented. That was not surprising at all. Nevertheless, his identity as an Invincible descendant was still quite useful at times.

"Tianduo will remain my main target..."

The golden dragon could very well have a way to directly contact the Invincible in his family. Furthermore, the Dragon Realm was not that far away. This place was practically their territory. Thus, it would be very dangerous to set his eyes on the little golden dragon here.

The fight with Topsoil Spirit had served as a good wake-up call for Su Yu. He was not that strong yet. He had merely relied on trickery and coincidences to kill Sunmoons. The fifth principal's characters had played a great role as well. He was still not a Sunmoon. Nor was he actually capable of killing more Sunmoons. At most, he could only handle seventh-stage Mountainseas. And seventh-stage Mountainseas were ants before Sunmoons.

Su Yu reminded himself that like those Mountainseas, he was merely an ant. He should reign himself in. This region was filled with Sunmoons. He should never overestimate himself. He warned himself repeatedly to stop acting rashly.

He had grown increasingly confident after killing some Mountainseas and Sunmoons. He was even starting to look down on all the other geniuses. But reality had given him a good slap in the face. A mere Topsoil Spirit had nearly killed him. And there were numerous geniuses far more dangerous than Topsoil Spirit out there.

In Su Yu's mind, even though Topsoil Spirit was still not good enough to enter the Heaven Index, that was most certainly someone stronger than Huang Teng. Could Huang Teng kill fifth-stage Mountainseas? Unlikely.

After repeating those warnings in his mind, Su Yu transformed into an iron-winged bird. He had thought that the identity of a mountainbreak bull was low-profile enough for him. But he found that he was wrong. The blood of the mountainbreak bulls was too popular. He was not the only person who enjoyed harvesting mountainbreak bull blood. In fact, his disguise as a mountainbreak bull was probably the main reason Topsoil Spirit had decided to target him.

No wonder he had not encountered a single mountainbreak bull after entering the Sea of Stars. He couldn't find even one of them on Red Clouds Island. It was likely that these bulls did not have the courage to travel alone. What about the iron-winged birds, then? This race was unpopular enough, right? A Cloudbreach iron-winged bird was decently strong with relatively inexpensive blood essence. With this disguise, nobody would set their eyes on him anymore, right?

Su Yu exhaled in relief after putting on his new disguise.

Remain low-key!

He didn't know if Topsoil Spirit would start spreading words of his appearance. He could never be too careful.

***

Ninestar Island.

This island was far larger than Red Clouds Island.

Nine realm entrances were spread over the island, splitting the island into multiple administrative regions. One should never underestimate the size of this place just because it was called an island. It could very well be larger than even an entire prefecture in the Human Realm.

Numerous cities could be found on Ninestar Island. Among these cities, each of the nine realms had its own personal city. Additionally, the nine realms had also joined hands to erect a city in the center of the island. The city was away from each of the nine realm entrances, and it was named Ninestar City.

There was also an ancient city on this island. Naturally, the ancient city was much less popular than the other cities. Nevertheless, it wasn't like this city enjoyed zero traffic. It was still a good place of refuge for people escaping their enemies.

The island was densely populated. Due to its vicinity to the Luminous Domain Mansion, the source qi density on the island was much higher than the source qi density in the nine realms. Thus, numerous natives of the nine realms lived on the island instead of their own realms.

Every ten years, the island's population would peak. Geniuses from numerous realms would congregate there. This place was also different from the Plain of Desires. There, a majority of the geniuses were Skysoars. Meanwhile, apart from a lack of Invincibles, even Sunmoons were common sights on Ninestar Island.

As of late, battles had been erupting all over the island, providing the locals with numerous topics to gossip about. From what they could see, the next opening of the Luminous Domain Mansion would probably be a very eventful one. What they were experiencing currently was merely the warm-up for the coming event.

Apart from the young geniuses popular in the Allheaven Battlefield, the myriad races still had a lot of young geniuses to offer. Some of them had merely remained in their native realms, but that did not mean that they were weak. In fact, some of them had already started conquering large swathes of lands in their native realms.

As the next opening of the mansion drew near, these geniuses were starting to appear. The geniuses of the ancient races had also exited seclusion one after another. At present, nine levels of the Luminous Domain Mansion had been discovered. There might be even more undiscovered levels.

A majority of those exploring the mansion would be Skysoars. Cloudbreaches would be the main leaders of the numerous forces, with a small number of Mountainseas entering the mansion alongside the Skysoars and Cloudbreaches.

The stronger a genius was, the higher the level they could enter. But the higher the level, the more dangerous it would be. Additionally, the danger in the mansion also corresponded directly to one's age and strength. Thus, the younger geniuses would have an easier time in the mansion compared to the older geniuses.

The mansion was one of the best sources of opportunities in the Allheaven Battlefield. Some had stumbled upon a massive fortuitous encounter in the mansion, fusing all their apertures and entering the Sunmoon Realm in one day.

Some had discovered heaven weapons in the mansion. With these weapons, they killed the exploring Sunmoons to obtain the resources they required to grow further. Some had encountered valuable source qi transformation treasures in the mansion, instantly completing their nine transformations.

***

With the opening of the Luminous Domain Mansion drawing near, countless experts of the myriad races were starting to congregate around Ninestar Island. Originally, the crowd would only start to swell at the end of the year. But this year, the crowd had started swelling earlier than normal. That was all thanks to Su Yu. No, more like that was due to Mo Duona. He was the first person to notify all the Heaven Index geniuses about Su Yu's potential whereabouts. Otherwise, all those geniuses would have taken longer to arrive.

And due to the unique phenomenon where geniuses could encounter each other more easily in the Allheaven Battlefield, even the geniuses who initially did not plan to come had somehow changed their minds. With so many geniuses heading over, how could they miss out on the fun?

On his way, Su Yu stumbled upon numerous fights. And sure enough, disguised as an iron-winged bird, he had attracted far less trouble. It was pointless to target weaklings. Those from the weaker races were simply unworthy of even being killed. Nobody could say if this was fortunate or unfortunate for them. For many geniuses, they disdained the act of targetting the weaker races.

Eventually, Su Yu reached Ninestar Island. Even on the island, battles were breaking out everywhere. Naturally, he did his best to avoid all the chaos. The number of Sunmoons he sensed also increased massively once arriving at the island. He could sense at least twenty Sunmoons of the various races. Even late-stage Sunmoons could be sensed, such as Qin Hao and the master of the hawk he encountered previously. And most of them were gathered in Ninestar City.

Most of the other cities were partially enveloped by the power of the nine realms. Thus, these cities felt rather uncomfortable for these Sunmoons due to the existence of realm suppression. Furthermore, it was also rather unsafe to stay right in front of a realm entrance.

Some of the nine realm entrances were even guarded by ninth-stage Sunmoons, with some of them enjoying the presence of multiple ninth-stage Sunmoons. When such existences fought near the entrance of their respective realms, they might even be able to unleash the combat strength of Invincibles. Thus, foreign Sunmoons did not enjoy visiting these places unless absolutely necessary.

Naturally, a certain level of order was still maintained on the island. For example, Ninestar City was under the direct management of the Thousand Region Alliance.

The nine realms of Ninestar Island were members of the Thousand Region Alliance as well. Thus, peace still prevailed within Ninestar City. Generally, the visitors would try to hold back out of respect for the Thousand Region Alliance. No matter what, this was an alliance of hundreds of races. They might not be fully united, but they were still able to rapidly come together when they were threatened by the major races.

After all, the price of disunity in such a situation was the potential fall of their realms. Almost all the minor realms in the eastern, southern, western, and northern sectors of the Allheaven Battlefield had already been conquered by the major races.

That was one of the contributing factors to the rapid rise of the Thousand Region Alliance. The only thing this alliance lacked currently was the backing of their very own Invincibles. They still lacked power projection, but they could protect themselves well when they were in their own territories.

Su Yu had learned about all that before this. Thus, he was already quite familiar with Ninestar Island even though he had never been there. At the moment, he wasn't traveling alone. After paying a hundred drops of source qi liquid, he had joined a group of travelers. Or to be precise, this was one of the teams specializing in providing a unique escort service to all visitors.

Apart from Ninestar City, their service also covered the other cities on the island. They only required an affordable fee for their services. They would ensure the safety of those visiting the island. Most of the people in these escort teams were experts of minor races and the nine realms.

They would also deal with any inconveniences one might encounter during one's travel on the island. The escort team Su Yu had hired was led by a sixth-stage Mountainsea. Also in the team were two first-stage Mountainseas and ten Cloudbreaches.

They had been waiting near the shore for customers. Including Su Yu, thirty customers had purchased their service, allowing them to earn three thousand drops of source qi liquid for the job. If everything went smoothly, they could make the trip to Ninestar City in only one day. Thus, this was actually quite a profitable job.

Three thousand drops of source qi liquid were worth around ten thousand human merit points. Shared among thirteen individuals after deducting the necessary payments to the higher-ups of the Thousand Region Alliance, each of them would be entitled to a share of about five hundred merit points.

Through Su Yu's calculation, if they made a trip every three days, each of them could earn thousands of merit points per month. Not even the academy elders back in Human Realm could earn that much.

Then again, this was also a high-risk job. After all, danger was everywhere in the Allheaven Battlefield. And this business was only viable once every ten years. There wouldn't be enough visitors to sustain this business at any other time.