Chapter 1047: Shining Even As A Living Dead! (2)

"This cultivation method...is greatly slowing the death qi's growth..."

Xing Yue was left quite speechless. Clearly, this fellow wouldn't be joining the Death Realm anytime soon.

The stone statue noticed the same thing as well. After thinking about it, he said, "You can only adjust the growth rate according to his strength. Do not try to sneakily increase it further or I'll sever your death qi connection. This is also in accordance with the laws. During the ancient past, a way out was left for the death spirits, but a way out was also given to the guardians. If he has the strength, talent, and luck to suppress your death qi, he won't be required to transform into a death spirit. Pursue death to seek life. He might be reborn through this."

Reborn.

At present, Su Yu was already a living dead. He was no longer part of the living. It was almost impossible for any resident to break free of this fate. But almost impossible was different from impossible.

During the ancient past, a way out was given to the death spirits. But the residents were also left with a way out.

Hope was always present.

But it was incredibly difficult to grasp.

The stone statue suddenly felt like he was about to witness such an occurrence for the first time ever.

Xing Yue's voice turned cold, "Is it possible? He is growing fast now because he's still weak. Can he maintain this speed at the Sunmoon Realm? I'm a death sovereign. As long as he remains stuck in the Sunmoon Realm, I'll be able to fully transform him eventually."

It laughed, "This isn't a bad thing, I guess. The more talented he is before death, the stronger he will be after his transformation. If he manages to become a Sunmoon before the completion of his transformation, I might be able to get yet another powerful general under me."

Since this fellow wanted to grow, so be it. Did this fellow think that he could break free just by growing? A death sovereign was an Eternal. Could this fellow maintain this rate of growth?

According to the laws, the death qi should always grow slightly faster than the rate of his cultivation. Of course, this fellow's cultivation speed was terrifyingly fast at the moment. Coupled with his unique cultivation method, he was able to outpace the death qi in his body.

The stone statue said nothing. He only needed to follow the laws. He was uninterested in anything else.

If the death spirit who had converted Su Yu was a Sunmoon instead of a death sovereign, the stone statue believed that Su Yu would definitely be able to break free. This was a freakishly talented human.

How regrettable that it was a death sovereign who had converted him. With this, the possibility of reborn would be incredibly small.

This was both a disaster and an opportunity for him. If he really ended up dying, an Invincible would personally welcome him. He would instantly become an important character in the Death Realm.

Su Yu was unaware of the conversation between the stone statue and Xing Yue.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care. He wasn't even worried. Yes, the growth of death qi in his body had increased in speed, but he had also increased in strength. That allowed him to reverse even more death qi with each attempt. Thus, the overall rate of his transformation into a death spirit had remained the same.

After completing his forty-fifth forging, he left the building. With his third ring medallion, he controlled a peak Mountainsea death spirit. The death spirit blankly followed him into an alley...and when Su Yu walked out of the alley again, a Sunmoon death spirit was behind him.

The dissipating death qi in the city started growing in density yet again. The gates that were starting to loosen became tightly shut yet again. Unsealing the city in three days? No. Su Yu intended to keep the city sealed for three years.

He returned to his building and started cultivating again. In order to resist the death qi in his body, his heavenearth profound light consumption had increased, but he didn't care. He had plenty of heavenearth profound light. Even now, he still had about 250 strands left.

***

At the same time.

The expressions of the experts who had been thinking of going outdoors changed repeatedly. One of them opened the door to look outside before cursing, "What's going on? The death qi is growing thicker again!"

Inside the building occupied by the immortals, people like Dao Cheng and Xuan Wuji were present. Dao King and Xuan King had failed to leave with them. In fact, only Great Ming King was successful in leaving with the people he had arrived for. But that was understandable as he was stronger than the two immortal kings.

In fact, it hadn't been easy for him. He had forcefully resisted the attacks of two death sovereigns and multiple stone statues to complete his task.

With a frown, Xuan Wuji opened the door slightly and looked outside. Noticing the churning death qi outside, his body shone slightly to resist the death qi as he said, "Is this Su Yu's work? Who else would do something like this? Someone must have been killing death spirits again."

It wasn't even hard to guess. Some death spirits must have been killed, causing the appearance of Sunmoon death spirits and the city to be sealed again. These geniuses weren't stupid. They could guess that Su Yu was most likely the culprit. He had probably converted into a resident. They still had their index copies so they still had their sources of information.

Dao Cheng nodded, "We need to stop him. He's probably trying to trap us to death. This isn't new for him. After becoming a resident, the death qi in the city is no longer a concern for him. We can convert into residents as well, but that's the same as dying."

Xuan Wuji nodded. He looked at the two late-stage Sunmoons in the room and said, "Seniors, can I trouble you to contact the late-stage Sunmoons of the other races and arrange for a late-stage Sunmoon to patrol the city each day? We can't give Su Yu the chance to act. He is going to get all of us trapped to death. If you wish to patrol in groups of two or three, that's fine as well. We only need to stop Su Yu from killing more death spirits."

The expressions of the two Sunmoons changed upon hearing those words. If this continued, they would die in the city even if they were late-stage Sunmoons.

One of them walked out the building and spoke loudly, "Su Yu must be the one killing death spirits to spawn a Sunmoon death spirit, extending the duration the city is sealed. Everyone, we need to do something. Starting with the immortals, I suggest we take turns patrolling the city daily. At least two late-stage Sunmoons from the divine, devil, immortal, and dragon races will participate each day. We can't give Su Yu the chance to cause more trouble. Three days later, we will be able to leave."

Su Yu, who was cultivating inside one of these buildings, cursed inwardly. Damn it! That was such a good idea! The immortals were really quite smart, after all.

A different voice rang out in the city, "The devils will take the shift tomorrow."

"The divines will take the shift the day after."

"The dragons agree."

"..."

One late-stage Sunmoon after another gave their reply. They were doing this for their own survival. Killing Su Yu...was no longer possible. He was most likely hiding inside a first ring or a second ring building. They wouldn't be able to get into those buildings.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

It would be a waste of time. Since he was already a resident, they wouldn't even be able to locate him. They might as well save the effort and patrol the city instead. They only needed to prevent Su Yu from killing more death spirits. Three days later, they could leave. Su Yu could enjoy his time alone in the city.

Before long, two late-stage Sunmoons of the immortal race started patroling the city. The number of Sunmoon death spirits in the city had dropped considerably compared to before. Working together, the two immortals were able to proceed with their patrol without much danger as long as they refrained from killing any death spirit.

They only needed to keep this up for three days. At worst, Su Yu would further delay their departure by three more days. But that would give them the chance to pinpoint his location. With how deserted the city was after the recent disaster, it wouldn't be too hard for them to sense it when Su Yu tried to do something big.

***

Inside an ancient building.

After cursing inwardly, Su Yu snorted. Those fools. Did they think that this was enough? He was the owner of ancient city medallions. He could simply get those peak Mountainseas to deliver themselves right to his front door. And they wouldn't even retaliate when he attacked. He could kill them without causing any disturbances.

Did they think that he had to fight a peak Mountainsea death spirit in an intense battle before killing one? What were they thinking? He could basically order for a delivery of death spirits. Those Sunmoons wouldn't even know where the death spirits died.

Su Yu decided to let them stay happy for now before smashing their hope right before the city was about to be unsealed. These people had actually stayed in the city for quite some time.

Through a simple calculation, Su Yu estimated that most of them had been in the city for about five or six days. He refused to believe those people could last that long in an ancient city.

"I better stop wasting my time on those idiots and focus on my cultivation for now."

He had completed forty-five body forgings so far. He aimed to complete even more forgings.

***

It didn't take long before news of what happened inside the city spread outside the city.

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion.

A group of faceless elders were looking at each other in dismay. One of them said, "White One will probably die soon. He's saying that he's near his limits. The holy city will remain sealed for at least three more days. With his previous injuries and the recent death qi erosion on his body, he might not be able to last even three more days."

"Was it Su Yu?"

"Most likely."

"..."

The elders couldn't think of a solution.

White One was the strongest Heavenly Hunt Pavilion expert in Grandstar City. He was a peak sixth-stage Sunmoon. Those at the seventh stage would all be promoted into elders. White One was only a step away from becoming an elder.

At this rate, they would lose this future elder. Sure, they had earned a lot from this incident. But losing a sixth-stage Sunmoon still felt terrible. Not long ago, they had lost one Sunmoon. No, they had lost two recently. One was killed by Umbra while the other was killed during the battle between Invincibles. In fact, they nearly lost even an elder during that incident.

And now, a sixth-stage Sunmoon of theirs was trapped in the city. If White One were to perish as well, they would lose their third Sunmoon. Even the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion would not enjoy losing three Sunmoons in succession.

Sunmoons were extremely rare. Even an organization as ancient as the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion couldn't mass produce Sunmoons.

"Can we contact Su Yu?"

"We need to tell him to stop killing..."

"Are you kidding?"

"We can make a trade with him. He's already a living dead. Why must he drag others down with him?"

"What a stupid question. If you were in the same position, would you still care about anything else apart from dragging more people down with you? All those people are his enemies. He might hold back if there are some humans or his friends inside the city, but that's not the case. He has nothing to lose anymore. How are we supposed to even persuade him?"

"Calm down, everyone. The experts in the city are taking matters into their own hands. There are more than ten late-stage Sunmoons in the city. They might be able to find a solution. Perhaps the city will be unsealed after three days."

"..."

Even the seemingly omnipotent Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was completely helpless this time. White One could only rely on himself. As for the option of getting help outside...well, more than ten Invincibles were there previously. And what happened? A few of them even lost their past and future bodies. No Invincible would be stupid enough to go near that city for a very long time.

"Get White One to contact Su Yu first. Try to persuade Su Yu to carry an index copy..."

"Su Yu has always been very wary of us. Ever since we sold his location to Dao Cheng, he has stopped keeping index copies on him. Do you think he will change his mind?"

The elders felt very helpless. That fellow was willing to shut himself from the outside world to sever all connection with them. He was exceptionally brazen, but at times, he was also exceptionally cowardly.

"Just give it a try. We're not the only ones worried. White One is only one Sunmoon. The various races have seventh-stage Sunmoons trapped in the city as well. At this rate, all those young geniuses and Sunmoons will die. People like Mo Duona, Zhan Wushuang, Ming Yue, Xuan Wuji, Topsoil Spirit are in there. Those races can't afford to lose these super geniuses."

"The divines and devils already lost some of their late-stage Sunmoons previously. Losing more of them will be a massive blow even to these major races."

How many Sunmoons had perished in the span of one month because of Su Yu? During the previous incident, over twenty of them died. This time, nine died. Over thirty of them had died in such a short time.

Even the Invincibles had lost some of their tri-life bodies due to this incident. One ought to admit that the blood in Su Yu's hands was already as thick as the blood in Xia Longwu's hands.

And he was only a Cloudbreach. It was understandable why the myriad races were putting so much effort into killing him. He was simply too terrifying.