"Furball..."

"No!"

The little furball rejected Su Yu before he could even finish his sentence. The little furball was no fool. This was going to be very dangerous.

Su Yu smiled, "Don't be in a rush to say no. I can see that the death qi is unable to taint your body. You see, you have been staying with me all this time. Since you're immune to death qi, it is a great idea for you to be in charge of luring the death spirits away."

"No!"

The little furball continued refusing. He might be a ball, but he was scared of those things as well.

Su Yu thought about it and started searching his storage rings. Sure enough, he found an ancient city medallion in the storage ring of the recently deceased Mountainsea. A mark of the ancient city could be seen on it. Or to be precise, a map of the city could be seen on it.

A number could also be seen on the medallion. This was a medallion of the lowest level, one that only worked in the thirty-sixth ring.

"Can this be used against the death spirits in the twenty-fourth ring?"

Su Yu didn't even know how he was supposed to use these medallions. But he was quite impressed. The mystic armors seemed to have gathered quite a lot of ancient city medallions.

Outside, the death spirits were still knocking on the door. Su Yu wasted no time and entered the rooms inside the manor before taking everything he saw. He was not about to leave anything for the mystic amors.

After being stationed in the city for so many years, the mystic armors had accumulated a considerable amount of wealth. Su Yu wasn't even bothered to check what he was taking. His sole goal was to take anything that looked even remotely valuable.

By the time he was done, his entire body was emitting a bright golden radiance. His seventeenth body forging was on the verge of completion. After killing that Mountainsea and receiving the heavenly reward, his progress had increased significantly. Additionally, his body had also strengthened considerably. Thus, the death qi was no longer as big of a threat to him as long as he had enough heavenly source qi.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The knocking sounds on the door grew louder and louder. It was likely that an even more powerful death spirit had arrived. He had to leave now if he didn't want to end up trapped in the manor.

He should make his escape while there weren't that many death spirits out there. It also seemed like they were still quite limited in strength. If a Mountainsea death spirit had arrived, they might have broken through the door by now.

"Maybe I can try killing one or two of them..."

But he immediately gave up on that thought. Why should he even do that? He should be keeping them around instead. Not everyone had unlimited access to heavenly source qi like him. Not even the immortals. Sure, they had their holy lands rich with heavenly source qi, but how much heavenly source qi would they take with them?

If the number of death spirits increased, Su Yu would be troubled. But others would be troubled even more. He could even make use of them to keep his opponents occupied while he was fleeing.

"Tonight, I will fill the streets with death spirits!"

Once again, Su Yu looked at the little furball and said, "Furball, go out and keep them for a bit. I only need a single moment. The next time I receive willpower as heavenly reward, you can have the entire reward."

"Really?"

The little furball blinked. Was that for real?

"Yes!"

Instantly, the little furball nodded his head, or to be precise, nodded his entire body in agreement. He shall do battle for the sake of food!

Su Yu inhaled deeply, raised his ancient city medallion, and covered his entire body with heavenly source qi before opening the door.

Four death spirits appeared before him. Several beams of death qi were instantly unleashed upon him. But as the door was not fully opened, most of the death qi was blocked. Only a tiny bit got in through the gap.

The little furball shot through the gap and fled into the distance. Three of the death spirits proceeded to give chase while one remained in front of the door.

Suddenly, Su Yu rushed out and threw a punch wrapped in heavenly source qi. The death spirit was sent flying by the punch. As the heavenly source qi came in contact with the death spirit, hissing sounds rang out repeatedly as the heavenly source qi clashed against the death qi on the death spirit's body. An unsettling roar rang out from the death spirit's mouth.

But at that moment, Su Yu was already gone. Almost immediately, more death spirits appeared in the area. One of them was much larger than the rest, and it also seemed to be quite strong.

The death qi density in the area skyrocketed.

***

Chaos had arrived.

Some of the living beings hiding in the buildings of the city started trembling with fear. A battle had broken out on the streets! Even death spirits had appeared.

An ancient city was not that easy to provoke. If a death spirit failed to kill the offender, stronger death spirits would appear in succession until the offender was either dead or gone. There was also the third alternative where a high-level medallion was used to send all the death spirits away.

***

At the same time.

Outer rings.

Final Armor suddenly looked toward the middle rings of the city. Under the dark night, a certain location seemed to be much darker than usual. The death qi density there seemed to be much higher as well.

Red light erupted from his eyes as he asked, "That's the location of our headquarters, right?"

A Mountainsea beside him nodded, "Yes."

"What happened?" Final Armor asked solemnly, "The death qi there is very thick. Did some death spirits appear?"

He looked at the experts around him and ordered one of them, "Broken Armor, go take a look."

"Yes, Lord."

Dao Cheng hurriedly spoke, "No, do not split up."

He also looked in the direction of the disturbance and solemnly said, "Be careful lest this is a trick to separate us from each other. Whatever happened there has already happened. If we separate now, we will only give our enemy the chance to deal with us separately."

He suddenly thought of something and took out an index copy. He noted that Su Yu's rank was still the same. Since this wasn't Su Yu's first time killing a Mountainsea, his rank did not change.

As for the mystic armors, they didn't have any ranked genius among the ones left in the headquarters. Or to be precise, thanks to Su Yu, there was no longer any ranked genius among the entire mystic armor race. Thus, they were unable to determine anything from the index copy.

With a frown, Dao Cheng looked toward the direction of the disturbance again. Several characters appeared above his palm as he performed a quick divination. Shortly after, he said, "Do not go. It is very inauspicious."

𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Final Armor said, "That's our base of operations. We still have a lot of elites in there."

Cloudbreaches and Mountainseas could be considered elites wherever they went. It would be too big of a loss if all of them were dead. Their previous losses were already big enough, with the deaths of their Sunmoon and two index geniuses. They could not afford to suffer more losses.

Dao Cheng asked, "Does the mystic armor race know any soul gathering arts?

"No."

Final Armor shook his head, "Only some of our Sunmoons will leave a part of their souls back in our ancestral lands. Those parts will disperse at the death of their owners."

In that case, there wasn't even a way for them to determine if those left in the headquarters were still alive. Meanwhile, the death qi density around their headquarters continued increasing.

Final Armor made a different decision, "Black Armor, have the night patrol check."

After a slight hesitation, Black Armor nodded and ordered two mounted Cloudbreaches to go and check.

Dao Cheng inhaled deeply and said, "Let us continue. If something really happened there, it might be Su Yu or some other humans."

He glanced at the random human they captured and said, "Continue capturing any human we come across."

"Is there a point?" Final Armor asked doubtfully, "Holding these weaklings hostage against Su Yu? Will this even work?"

"There's no harm in trying. Human emotions are quite complicated. At times, nobody can understand how their minds work."

Beside him, Jiu Xuan offered, "Big Brother Dao Cheng, should I go to the middle ring and check as well?"

"No."

Dao Cheng rejected it unhesitatingly. His divination had produced an inauspicious result. In fact, that had happened twice today. Jiu Xuan might be strong, but she wasn't necessarily Su Yu's match. There was no need to take that risk.

Dao Cheng urged, "Let's continue. Slowly close in deeper into the city and keep Su Yu trapped. Even if we don't manage to capture him, we need to keep him trapped in the city. If we can do that, it is only a matter of time before he dies or becomes a permanent resident."

And the moment Su Yu became a permanent resident of an ancient city, he would stop being a threat to them.

"Have the night patrol shut all the gates. There are only nine gates in total. As long as we keep the gates under our control, we can take turns watching over the gates and drag it out until Su Yu is no longer a threat."

Basically, they were trying to turn Su Yu into a turtle in a jar.

Final Armor hesitated to proceed with that plan, "What if the humans send some experts over..."

"Don't worry. Zheng Ping is on his way back after rescuing Huang Teng. This return trip won't be an easy one. If the humans end up deploying reinforcements, those reinforcements will be focused on helping Zheng Ping and Huang Teng. They will be too occupied to come here as well. We only need to keep this up for no more than ten days. That will be enough to cripple Su Yu's prospects."

"What about the mayor?"

Shutting the gates of an ancient city was a very big deal.

Dao Cheng smiled, "It's fine. I'll deliver some heavenly source qi over to the mayor tomorrow to help with the death qi in his body. The mayor will not interfere."

Final Armor nodded, "I can still control the night patrol somewhat, but the guards stationed at the gates are under the direct command of the mayor. They are known as the Heavendoom Guard. I hope there won't be any conflict with them."

Dao Cheng said, "That won't be an issue. I believe the mayor is smart enough to make the right choice when the immortals are involved. Even if he wants to subordinate himself to the humans, he has to see if the immortals will allow it."

Final Armor said nothing else. If this immortal was so confident, so be it. He was only worried that they would offend the mayor with all the disturbance they were causing. Inviting the mayor's displeasure would still cause them some trouble while they were still inside the city.

Suddenly, the distant death qi increased exponentially in density.

"Roar!"

A roar of a death spirit reverberated in the air. Not far away, Black Armor shook slightly as he exclaimed, "The night patrol I deployed earlier are dead."

"Dead?"

Final Armor was alarmed. Two Cloudbreaches were dead!

How brazen! Everyone in the night patrol was a resident of the city. Killing a resident in an ancient city would spawn a large number of death spirits. Who was the lunatic who had done something like that?

Was it Su Yu? Not even Su Yu would be able to handle so many death spirits. This was not wise at all.

Dao Cheng was still calm. He said, "Commander Black Armor, deploy more night patrol members over. Let him kill to his heart's content."

So Su Yu loved killing? Fine. He might have been carrying some heavenly source fruits on him. That was probably the reason for his confidence in facing the death spirits. But it didn't matter. If he killed enough, even Mountainsea or Sunmoon death spirits might appear. There was no surviving that.

Even Dao Cheng himself would have a very difficult time against a Mountainsea death spirit. To survive, he would have no choice but to flee the city.

Looking at Final Armor, he added, "Get the night patrol to take over the control of all the city gates. Do it immediately."

"Fine." Final Armor roared his orders, "Black Armor, contact our people and gather around all the city gates. We will be taking over the control. Inform the Heavendoom Guard that an explanation will be given to the mayor."

"Yes!"

Black Armor said nothing else and started heading toward the city gates with the night patrol.