Inside the Skyrend Valley.

Inside Su Yu's sea of willpower, the tribulation character pulsed again. The pulse was weak, signifying that the threat wasn't too big. But there was still some danger. What was going on?

Su Yu was confused. The character had pulsed out of nowhere. He waited a while, but he saw nothing.

"Was it broken?"

But that wasn't possible. In that case, at that exact moment, something related to him had happened. That something was capable of bringing him danger

"Whatever. I'll stop thinking since I can't figure it out for now."

What could he do if he had zero clue? He just had to stay cautious. His current form, a broken sword, was wrapped in a layer of heavenly source qi. Both saber qi and divine power were gathered around him.

He was on the verge of completing his thirteenth body forging. This place was too good for body forging.

Suddenly, he stopped all action. Even the layer of gold around the broken sword faded away, revealing a rusty sword. Accompanying the rusty sword were several piles of bones and some other broken weapons. This blade blended perfectly with its surroundings.

A short while later, a figure appeared noiselessly. This was not someone from the shadow race. Rather, this person was using some unique concealment ability. That was Su Yu's conclusion since he was quite familiar with the shadow race. Sure enough, the newcomer turned into a large bug resembling a grasshopper.

"Dark locust!"

Su Yu recalled something. This was a sub-race in the greater locust race. They possessed excellent concealment abilities, but this race wasn't considered a major race due to a lack of Invincibles.

What was someone from a race without Invincibles doing here? Was this fellow courting death?

"Well, this fellow's pretty strong. Hmm...is this a fifth or sixth-stage Cloudbreach?"

But this level of strength was nothing special here. The locust started probing their surroundings with their feelers. They also scanned Su Yu's location with their large eyes doubtfully. Soon, they stopped probing and turned into shadow before vanishing.

Su Yu did not resume his cultivation. Rather, he waited silently. That dot of light reflected on his Perception Jade had yet to disappear.

The silence persisted. After about seven minutes, a dark figure emerged from the ground. Once again, the locust sent their feelers out to scan the area around Su Yu. There was no new discovery.

Finally, the darkness dispersed to reveal the locust. The locust had a doubtful look in their eyes. There was nothing here? Was it a hidden treasure? At that thought, the locust looked at the piles of bones nearby. Previously, they detected some odd undulations here. But the undulations had vanished after their arrival.

Suddenly, the dark locust swung one of their limbs. With one attack, the piles of bones were reduced into powder. This time, the dark locust finally relaxed. So nobody was hiding here as a pile of bones.

Phew.

The locust then leaped past Su Yu, sending the broken sword flying in the air. Right at that moment, the locust felt a sense of crisis. But that sensation faded instantly after that.

Suddenly, the broken sword in the air turned into a character technique with over twenty characters. With a pop, it penetrated the dark locust's head.

Character technique!

With numerous fourth-tier characters forming the character technique, the dark locust's sea of willpower was instantly destroyed. The locust corpse dropped onto the ground. The blade turned into a human and Su Yu's hand shot through the locust's head. The blood character activated, extracting ten drops of blood essence from the locust.

Su Yu's gaze landed on the sharp limbs of the locust. These limbs might be good weaponsmithing materials as well. He thus collected them. After dealing with the corpse, Su Yu vanished again.

That locust wasn't a genius in the Heavenly Hunt Index. Thus, Su Yu was able to kill them easily.

In fact, the geniuses in the Heavenly Hunt Index were not that common at all. After all, there weren't that many of them compared to the number of people in the Allheaven Battlefield. But even someone like the dark locust who wasn't in the index was incredibly cautious. Even when Su Yu was concealing himself so well, the dark locust had still been able to sense something.

"There sure are a lot of talented individuals out there."

Su Yu lamented as he moved to a different location. Even someone from a minor race like the locust race was so capable. He might have killed the locust with one hit, but that definitely didn't mean that the locust was weak.

"Luminous Domain Mansion..."

Su Yu started wondering about something. In the past, the Cloudbreaches were the main characters when exploring the Luminous Domain Mansion. At the very least, that was the case for the human race. Since high-stage Skysoars like Bai Feng and the others were forced to fight for the spots to enter, it was clear that there weren't enough Skysoar spots to go around.

The majority of the participants would be Cloudbreaches, and a small number of Skysoars would be mixed among them. In the past, Su Yu thought that Cloudbreaches were extremely strong.

But after experiencing the Allheaven Battlefield for himself, he felt like Cloudbreaches would simply be throwing their lives away by participating in an event that major. Wouldn't the divines and devils send their Mountainseas over?

Also, that suanni had actually survived the mansion as only a ninth-stage Skysoar. Was the Luminous Domain Mansion really such a safe place to explore? Su Yu stopped thinking that much and turned into a broken sword again before hiding at a spot with traces of past battles.

Su Yu was slowly becoming more and more impressed with the five elemental race. The five elemental transformation abilities were incredible. This was a race born for concealment. Then again, Su Yu had only achieved his current effect thanks to the help of numerous unique characters as well. Additionally, he was also using the concealment technique of the looping turtle race to further boost his concealment abilities.

"Stop bothering me. I only want to forge my body."

Su Yu couldn't even be bothered to hunt any of these geniuses down. His sole priority was his body forging. A few hours passed. Suddenly, the broken sword Su Yu had transformed into released a blinding eruption of golden light.

Boom!

The rocks around him were all reduced into powder. Meanwhile, Su Yu had vanished into thin air. He had finally completed his thirteenth body forging.

Moments after he left, the ground shook and a head made of soil emerged from the ground. The head looked around doubtfully. Someone from the five elemental race? Was there another brother from the five elemental race here?

He did not recall seeing anyone from his race entering. As for that water elemental...he had naturally erased that shit-stirrer from his mind. That troublemaker was probably busy hiding somewhere after creating such a big ruckus.

After looking around and failing to find anything, Topsoil Spirit disappeared again. Moments after, a nimble figure arrived. But the moment that figure landed, the ground shook slightly and transformed into numerous massive hands.

In mere moments, the newly arrived gold leopard was covered by numerous earthen hands. A sharp earthen spike appeared from each of these hands, stabbing through the leopard.

The leopard roared miserably, "Topsoil Spirit...you dare?"

Right after that, his body was crushed into mincemeat. The hands vanished while the ground returned to its previous appearance.

Topsoil Spirit appeared as a clump of mud. After wrapping around the leopard and consuming the body, Topsoil Spirit muttered, "The taste is decent..."

With a laugh, he vanished again. Not a single one of the geniuses in the Heavenly Hunt Index could be underestimated. Since an opportunity had presented itself, there was no need to think too much. Just kill first, consequences be damned.

No trace of Topsoil Spirit was left behind.

After some time, a stone golem arrived. After spending his senses around, he muttered, "Topsoil Spirit! It's that fellow! Is he treating this place as a free buffet?"

The stone golem shook his head and stomped on the ground, instantly destroying the traps left underground.

Somewhere far away, Topsoil Spirit sensed something and cursed inwardly. That damn stone-headed fool. That fellow was too troublesome. He was most likely not that fellow's match since that fellow's abilities could counter his abilities. What a pity that the water elemental was not around. The water elemental would be useful in restraining that damn stone golem.

"Forget it. That water guy is a bringer of calamity."

Topsoil Spirit started moving as far away as possible. He was not interested in meeting that stone-headed fool. The stone golem race could be considered a branch of the five elemental race, but they had never acknowledged that fact. A long time ago, the ancestor of the stone golems had reached the Invincible Realm and conquered a big realm. From then on, the stone golems severed their relationship with the five elementals.

Furthermore, the stone golem race was a natural counter to the earth elemental race. Thus, the stone golems were unwilling to remain the subordinates of the five elementals.

***

Carnage was unfolding all over the Skyrend Valley. That was especially true for those who were not even in the Heavenly Hunt Index. These people were dying in large numbers. Slowly, some of the young geniuses sensed something odd and started withdrawing.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was still ignoring all that. He was constantly switching locations while cultivating. The rewards from killing could not compare to his own cultivation efforts. After all, the heavens seemed to enjoy granting heavenly source qi a lot. For him, that was the same as rewarding him with trash.

Su Yu had confirmed that nearly all the rewards from killing those weaklings would be heavenly source qi. He could only grumble that the heavenly laws of the Allheaven Battlefield were too stingy. Also, why did the heavenly laws reward him with a non-human character? How boring.

Then again, even a non-human character was better than heavenly source qi. After all, that would grant him a large amount of character intent and willpower. Yes. In Su Yu's mind, heavenly source qi was garbage. He was the only person who would say something like that.

For anyone else, including Sunmoons, heavenly source qi was very useful. They could use it to open acupoints, forge their bodies, strengthen their internal organs, or even heal from their injuries. In short, the heavenly source qi was incomparably precious for everyone except Su Yu.

Su Yu's perception had been skewed by his ability to extract heavenly source qi. To get heavenly source qi from the heavenly laws, he had to kill geniuses. That might backfire. He was better off extracting heavenly source qi from blood essence. Then again, it wasn't like he had not benefited from the constant slaughter. His kill and battle characters had grown much stronger than before.

The calm character had also grown considerably due to his frequent usage. Of the five elemental characters, the fire character had advanced. The other four characters had also grown.

The Allheaven Battlefield was too exciting.

The feeling of dancing between life and death had brought Su Yu back to his nightmares when he was a child. Back then, a single moment of carelessness was enough to get him killed in his nightmares.

Due to the unending slaughter in the Skyrend Valley, heavenly rewards had been appearing constantly all over the valley as well. Each appearance was basically a marker to notify everyone that someone was there.

With these markers, the people in the valley were able to determine the location of the geniuses who had been rewarded by the heavenly laws. And these geniuses would quickly turn into the targets of the other geniuses.

Huang Teng and Wu Qi were still alive, but a large number of the geniuses who had entered to hunt them had perished. The myriad races were never in lack of geniuses. Each generation of each race only needed to produce a few geniuses and there would be tens of thousands of geniuses in existence.

Only someone capable of growing amid all adversity and profiting from countless dangers was qualified to be called a true genius. This was how the myriad races had always cultivated their young talents. Through endless deaths.

The Allheaven Battlefield was nothing but a massive training ground. The weak would die and the strong would rise.

A place ruled by the strong.

***

Rumble!

A loud noise erupted somewhere in the Skyrend Valley.

While coughing blood, Huang Teng grabbed Wu Qi's hair and started fleeing while dragging her with him. Wu Qi remained silent and did not even complain about the pain. Blood was flowing unceasingly out of her stomach. Her face was pale, but no despair could be seen on it. At the same moment Huang Teng started fleeing with her, she roared and released a tiny sword.

With a pop, the sword pierced through the nearest seventh-stage Cloudbreach. The burly Cloudbreach merely sneered as his wound instantly closed.

"Wu Qi, is this all you're capable of?"

Wu Qi said nothing. Immediately after, the burly man's expression changed. Before he could do anything, his entire body rotted away.

Only then did Wu Qi exhale in relief and slap Huang Teng's hand away. She got back up on her feet while staggering and grabbed his arm before shouting, "What are you waiting for? Go!"

The speechless Huang Teng hurriedly resumed running. While running, he said, "You sure are cruel. Why are you cultivating poison on your own cultural weapon? Are you not afraid of poisoning yourself to death accidentally?"

Before Wu Qi could reply, he added, "Can you give me some of that poison? It's amazing!"

Yes, that poison was indeed amazing.

Wu Qi ignored his words and said with a frown, "That fellow wasn't too strong. Maybe I can try to kill one more and see if I can generate a heavenly reward. Perhaps the heavenly reward will be something that can help with my injuries."

"Running is our priority. More experts are coming this way."

There was a reason for Huang Teng to say that. They had just killed their previous pursuer but yet another expert was heading their way. As for Wu Qi's feat of killing an enemy with a single sword strike...no, to be precise, she had poisoned that enemy to death. He was actually quite fearful of that poison. He couldn't resist asking, "You won't be using poison against me, right? Was that poison your creation or your grandaunt's?"

"Shut up!"

Wu Qi was tired of the endless words coming out of his mouth. Why was he so talkative even when they were fleeing for their lives?

Huang Teng immediately shut his mouth and increased his speed. There were some openings on the ground, leading toward other openings. Thus, one could say that there was also an underground maze under the Skyrend Valley.

Not long after they left, Tianduo arrived with several other individuals. Noticing the puddle of green liquid on the ground, he coldly said, "What a powerful poison. Be careful. We underestimated Wu Qi. I wonder if this was her own poison or something she obtained from Wu Yuehua."

Wu Yuehua was a top-tier pillmaster. And she was also exceptionally good at producing poison. However, accidents could happen easily if one used the poison of others. After giving his companions that warning, Tianduo continued ahead.

The two wouldn't be able to escape them. The Skyrend Valley would be their final resting place. He only needed to watch out for the possibility of Huang Teng triggering the saber qi in the valley before dying. Apart from that, there was nothing for him to worry about.

***

Su Yu also heard the loud explosion.

But that was not the first explosion he had heard after entering the valley.

Complete chaos had descended upon the Skyrend Valley, so explosions had been erupting everywhere. He had been ignoring all that and focusing only on forging his body. This felt great. He would only consider hunting those geniuses when the saber qi and divine power in the valley stopped being effective for him.

"I can probably complete the fourteenth forging after one more day."

This was such an excellent place to cultivate. He couldn't miss out on this chance. After leaving this place, he would need about half a month to complete a body forging. That was way too slow. This place was the best. He would be able to finish his fourteenth body forging after one more day.

With fourteen body forgings, his body would be able to muster the strength of about seven thousand basic acupoints. With the semi-opened yang acupoint and the strength character, he would probably be comparable to some divines and devils in physical strength.

"Too bad this place is too crowded. There are way too many disturbances for me to fully focus. I wish I could kill them all to cultivate in peace."

Su Yu sighed regretfully. Of course, an even better option was to force Great Xia King and that divine Invincible to help him with his body forging. That thought vanished right after surfacing. It was never a good idea to think too much about Invincibles.

***

At that moment, a burly man who was moving in concealment near the Divine Realm frowned. Who was thinking about him? That fellow was thinking something bad about him. Was it the fat kid from his family?

That person must have thought of him somewhere related to him. And that person was most definitely thinking something bad about him. That was why he was able to sense the thought vaguely even when he was so far away.

Similarly, a first divine Invincible who was cultivating in seclusion suddenly opened his eyes. He stared into the boundless space. Who was that brazen fool? Was that fool tired of living?

The sensation was very weak, but it was definitely there.