Chapter 1481: Who's Silly? Who's Dumb? (1)

"The nine-leaf skylotus will bloom soon!"

One more day passed.

Near the entrance, a dragon Invincible said, "Everyone, it's time for a talk. There is no need for this silence. There is only one nine-leaf skylotus. Who will take it?"

A divine king coldly said, "Who? Who do you think? Who will say no to it? If talking is enough, we would have talked long ago."

The dragon remained calm. He said, "There is a divine Eternal in the Devote King's residence. The dragon race has not stationed any Eternal here. Both our Eternals are here. Isn't that the same as giving up on the skylotus? If a discussion isn't possible, we won't stay here anymore."

Clearly, the dragon king was looking for an excuse to stop guarding the entrance. In truth, that was the case for many of these Invincibles. Should they allow He Tu to enter? That might actually benefit them.

An immortal king said, "He Tu and the unknown death spirit are both incredibly strong. We still need to keep watch over this place. In my opinion, the Heaven Department head is incredibly strong as well. He should spend a little bit more time here to watch over the entrance."

The department head stayed silent. The various races seemed to have reached the same conclusion. Since he was the strongest, he should be the one to remain.

Someone laughed and said, "The humans look very strong as well. They haven't suffered much loss either. Perhaps the humans should stay here and help the Heaven Department head."

Zhu Tianfang laughed and said, "What are you talking about? I am an enemy of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. If I stay, we might start fighting each other before He Tu is even here. This is a bad idea. The immortals are different. They are friends to everyone, including the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. You guys should be the ones staying behind instead."

"Are the humans unwilling to remain?"

Just then, one Invincible after another appeared from the void. Nobody said anything. They merely stared at the humans and Heaven Department head silently. They were silently pressuring the humans and the department head to stay behind.

There were only four human Invincibles in the mansion while the department head was alone. Meanwhile, there were over twenty Invincibles of the other races in the mansion.

The look in Zhu Tianfang's eyes changed slightly as he asked, "Is this proper?"

"Yes." A seventh-degree Eternal divine, Lightning Divine King, stepped forth with flickering electrical currents around him and said, "I believe so. The humans have benefited a lot this time. Are Lan Tian and Su Yu really not humans anymore? You know the answer better than us. They have killed countless geniuses of the various races. It is only proper that the humans put in more work to make up for that. I also believe that the humans are why He Tu is currently in the mansion."

A devil king joined in, "The humans have benefited massively from killing the geniuses of the immortal race and framing Mo Duona for it. Do you really think that we're blind? This is not up to you. You're going to remain on guard duty here."

The various races focused on the humans. This was only natural since the humans had suffered the lowest number of casualties in the mansion. Furthermore, the humans had never stopped being the public enemy of the various races. Prior to this, the various races had merely been too busy to deal with them. Now, it was finally time for the humans to pay.

Everyone but humans could fight for the nine-leaf skylotus once it bloomed. That was the decision they had reached.

Feeling the pressure of the various Invincibles, Zhu Tianfang laughed, "What's the point of this?"

"Stop wasting time." Immortal King Xuan He said, "Just stay here or the humans will start suffering."

After a slight pause, he added, "Or perhaps you can hand over Su Yu and Lan Tian. In that case, we can even let you get the nine-leaf skylotus for free."

Zhu Tianfang grinned and asked, "Is that a serious offer?"

"Yes." Lightning Divine King had a contemptuous smile on his face as he said, "So what if we allow the king of humans to achieve Daofuse? Hand Su Yu and Lan Tian over and we will give up on the nine-leaf skylotus."

"..."

Qin Zhen couldn't resist shooting back, "What even is this? What did Su Yu do? Did he dig up your ancestral tombs or something? He's not even here yet you're willing to give up on the skylotus just to kill him."

He was left quite speechless by what he was hearing. Was Su Yu really so valuable? Was Su Yu worth more than a Daofuse? Were they viewing Su Yu as a Pseudo Emperor?

But upon further thought, Qin Zhen couldn't help but agree with that valuation. Su Yu was backed by many Pseudo Emperors. Killing him would remove all those connections. The ancient cities would not fight for humanity.

That was also the case for the ancient race of soul devourers. Thus far, they had only fought for Su Yu.

Everyone ignored Qin Zhen. They pretended he didn't exist.

Lightning Divine King looked at Zhu Tianfang and Xia Longwu before saying, "Guard this entrance and humanity will be forgiven of all the murders in the Luminous Domain Mansion. Otherwise...you will need to answer to the various races for your crimes."

Xia Longwu looked around and asked, "Are the other races determined to stand against us as well?"

Nobody answered. This was the trend. They had to follow it or sink. If they refused to cooperate, they would offend the divines, devils, and immortals. All three races had deployed a large number of Invincibles into the mansion. Including the hidden Blood Fire Devil King, they had seventeen Invincibles among them.

How about the humans? What could the humans do when the three major races reached an agreement?

At the same time, an immortal was sending a voice transmission to the other two major races, "Why don't we kill these humans and be done with it. This is the safest option. Death spirits might lack intelligence, but they aren't exactly stupid. The moment the humans give up on fighting the death spirits, it is likely that the death spirits will turn against us instead."

He was proposing to kill the four human Invincibles.

Lightning Divine King sent a voice transmission, "We don't fear the humans, but the other races. The cooperation of our three races will threaten the other races. They will most certainly join hands. Do you think they will do nothing as we attack the humans?"

They were only here to force the humans to face the death spirits, not kill the humans. Those from the dragon, nether, fate, phoenix, and five elemental races were here as well. The three major races were powerful enough to win their support to suppress the humans.

But killing the four human Invincibles would destroy the balance, allowing the three major races to easily wipe out the other races as well. Thus, the support of the other races was not absolute. They could very well turn against the three major races when the humans were in danger, including the dragons.

They were only doing this for their own benefit. There were no true allies or enemies in here. Everyone wanted to maintain a balance instead of allowing a single party to gain superiority over the others.

Thus, it was imperative for the four human kings to remain alive. Their deaths would practically guarantee the victory of the three major races. Everyone understood this. Thus, they could only agree on suppressing the humans, not killing them. Not even the divines and devils would be allowed to kill the humans. The moment someone attempted to kill the humans, they would shift their support to maintain the balance.

Everyone sank into thought upon hearing Lightning Divine King's words. The humans wouldn't be easy to kill. But leaving them around would guarantee further trouble down the road.

While everyone was hesitating, the entrance started rippling.

He Tu was returning.

This time, the atmosphere around the entrance was completely different from before. Prior to this, everyone would do something to stop He Tu even if they were pulling their punches. This time, nobody moved.

Noticing the gazes of the various races on them, Zhu Tianfang smiled and said, "Don't look at us like this. We are not his match. What about this? The divines, devils, and immortals will each send an Eternal out as well. Coupled with us and the Heaven Department head, we will be able to handle He Tu."

Sending one per race? Wasn't that the same as abandoning the lives of these people to the humans and the Heaven Department head?

The moment the other Invincibles left, the humans would most definitely make a move against the three Invincibles left behind. Nobody would be willing to stay here with the humans.

Just then, the Heaven Department head said, "Since nobody wants to guard the entrance, we might as well give up on it. Why waste our time here? As for the skylotus, we will let our abilities determine the result."

The Invincibles looked at each other silently as the atmosphere turned odd.

***

At the same time.

Su Yu and the others heard and saw everything that was happening. They had odd expressions as well. Abandoning the entrance? After so many days of hard work, the Invincibles had decided to give up at the very end.

The entire thing felt like a giant joke. Just what was happening here? Some of them were still confused, but Su Yu understood what was happening. Thus, he wasn't too surprised. In fact, he was in a great mood. While the Frost Divine King was distracted, he had been able to discover the backdoor with his deceit character.

At the moment, his deceit character was hiding under a certain stone vein. Or to be precise, the so-called stone vein was actually a golden stripe of the heaven weapon.

"There is something wrong with this golden stripe."

This was a decent weapon. With 122 golden stripes, it was a middle-tier heaven weapon. All 122 golden stripes could be seen on the ground in the form of stone veins.

After searching all over the space, Su Yu had finally discovered something different. Many weaponsmiths had the habit of leaving their backdoors on these stripes. Such backdoors were extremely hard to detect. Furthermore, any damage done on these stripes might result in the destruction of the entire weapon.

Additionally, most weapon users would avoid touching the golden stripes carelessly. If one weren't a weaponsmith, one could easily damage one's expensive weapon by messing around with the golden stripes.

"How ruthless."

Su Yu couldn't help but wonder who was the weaponsmith in charge of forging this weapon. The backdoor had been planted in the 109th golden stripe. That was an extremely important stripe as it was the dividing line between a heaven weapon and an earth weapon. The moment it was destroyed, it could result in the destruction of the entire weapon.

"Also...it is only partially bound to the Frost Divine King..."

Su Yu laughed when he noticed that. He knew what the divine king was thinking. The divine king was ready to use this weapon as a bomb as well. If it was fully bound to him, the detonation of this weapon would generate a backlash for him as well.

No wonder Su Yu had been able to explore the weapon without being detected. That was because the Frost Divine King wasn't bound too tightly to this weapon.

"So this is why."

The Frost Divine King might have bound the weapon at a deeper level before, but he had withdrawn some of his willpower in preparation of using this weapon as a bomb.

"Interesting."