Chapter 962: Return To The City (3)

Liu Wenyan was able to enter the city without any issues.

Su Yu had entered the city even earlier. The three-day limit of his teleportation talismans had yet to end. But after some calculation, he noted that he only had about seven or eight hours left. Thus, he had to leave before his time was up. To be safe, he should even leave within five hours.

***

The moment Su Yu stepped into the city.

The stone statue opened his eyes.

Holy shit!

He cursed inwardly. That little shit was back!

Damn it!

If the little shit was going to return, why leave in the first place? The stone statue's good mood was completely ruined. He was furious. He only wanted to enjoy his peace as a stone statue. Why was the little shit back?

So many Sunmoons had arrived this time. Was the kid planning to kill those Sunmoons as well?

The stone statue shut his eyes speechlessly. Whatever. Out of sight, out of mind.

***

Ignoring the remaining death qi in the city, the Sunmoons who had entered started acting according to their agreement. They split up and surrounded the inner rings starting from the eighteenth ring.

One of the Sunmoon coldly announced, "Nobody is allowed to go beyond the eighteenth ring."

As for the outer rings, the Sunmoons had already completed a rough scan. They did not notice any occupied buildings apart from those occupied by residents. Unless Su Yu was already a resident, they were sure that he wasn't in the outer rings.

But the inner rings were much harder to check. The buildings of the inner rings were a lot more mysterious. All of them, the mayor's residence included, were shrouded in a layer of death qi. It was very hard for them to see through the walls of these buildings.

Furthermore, the city wasn't completely devoid of death qi. Some death spirits were still in the city.

The Sunmoons had to start performing a detailed scan of each ring starting from the eighteenth ring. The thick death qi of the inner rings would further complicate their search. Thus, one of these rings would be the optimal place for Su Yu to hide himself.

It didn't matter. They were confident that with so many Sunmoons here, escaping would merely be a dream for Su Yu. The strongest ones among them, such as Ming He, were even ignoring the death qi and flew straight to the depths of the city.

One Sunmoon after another released their incomparably powerful aura. The entire city was shrouded in an intense pressure generated from the auras of all these Sunmoons. They were determined to kill Su Yu.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was too busy to care about what they were doing.

Not long after entering the city, he found a deserted place and transformed into a death spirit. With his Perception Jade, he did not need to worry about the prying of anyone apart from Invincibles. If Invincibles were around, it wouldn't matter since escaping would be impossible anyway.

After his transformation, Su Yu directly sent a beam of death qi toward a passing demonic beast. How brazen of this fellow to enter the city as a mere Skysoar. Did these people think that death spirits were kind and harmless beings?

In fact, the same scene was happening all over the city. Those familiar with ancient cities did not hesitate to run from the death beams. Those unfamiliar were struck. Instantly, miserable wails filled the city.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Death spirits would not produce more death spirits when killing. But Su Yu could produce more death spirits when killing. Thus, a death spirit appeared nearby soon after the demonic beast was dead.

Then, he killed the death spirit to spawn two stronger death spirits. And thus, his slaughter began yet again.

His task was to get Sunmoon death spirits to appear and cause the city to be sealed yet again. As for Liu Wenyan, he was tasked with killing the Sunmoon death spirits to spawn stronger Sunmoon death spirits. He could also kill the living Sunmoons if possible. Both of them had clearly defined tasks.

The easiest way to spawn Sunmoon death spirits was killing a few Mountainsea death spirits or killing one living Sunmoon. Before that, they needed to throw the city into chaos. The number of death spirits needed to increase. Chaos must engulf the city.

How were they supposed to fish in troubled waters without trouble?

Also, they needed the dumb Qin Fang to leave as soon as possible. It would be awkward if they somehow got him killed here as well.

Kill, kill, and kill.

The number of death spirits in the city started increasing again. The number of living beings in the city was also increasing. And even more people were entering the city.

Su Yu had even tossed some outer ring medallions on the ground to stimulate the greed of the masses. As chaos spread, fights started breaking out in the city. Very few of them dared to actually kill, but for some reason, people were still dying for unknown reasons.

With death and blood abound, more and more death spirits appeared. As for the Sunmoons in the inner rings, they turned a blind eye to the deaths of the weaker cultivators in the outer rings.

At most, these weaklings would only cause some Mountainsea death spirits to appear. The Sunmoons couldn't be bothered to care about the lives of these weaklings. The Sunmoons were too busy searching the city.

Building by building, they conducted their search. The entire city seemed to have turned into an inescapable net for Su Yu.

At the same time, Su Yu started moving toward the inner rings as well. He was looking for a suitable Sunmoon to kill. But that would create quite a stir. He would even receive a heavenly reward for it. He had to think of a way to escape after the kill. He still didn't want to leave the city yet.

"Perhaps I can gather several Sunmoons together before killing them?"

Su Yu wondered if that would work. He had no idea if Ye Batian's characters were strong enough for that. They should be strong enough to kill some third or fourth-stage Sunmoons, right?

Without killing stronger Sunmoons, the newly appeared Sunmoon death spirits would be too weak to deal with those powerful late-stage Sunmoons.

"At worst, I can seriously injure them and have Teacher kill them instead. After the kill, Teacher can run while I can remain in my disguise?"

His disguise might hold since he wouldn't be the one to receive the heavenly rewards for the kill. He was determined to kill someone powerful before running. He wouldn't stop before spawning at least one late-stage Sunmoon death spirit.

Numerous ideas emerged in his mind.

He continued roaming the streets as a death spirit.

***

Meanwhile, the numerous miserable-looking young geniuses started leaving their buildings.

They would die if they remained in the city any longer. Qin Fang was one of them. He was stealthily moving away when he met the gaze of a Sunmoon.

With an odd look in his eyes, the Sunmoon said, "Wait near one of the gates. After verifying that you're not Su Yu in disguise, you will be allowed to leave."

All the other geniuses were accorded the same treatment. As Su Yu had a history of disguising himself as Cui Lang, everyone had to be inspected before leaving. Qin Fang nodded obediently. He had no choice but to be obedient with so many Sunmoons around.

Mounted atop his flying sky tiger that was on the verge of turning into a dead tiger, he rode toward the outer rings. That was his current priority. He didn't know what Su Yu was up to. He only knew that the city had been silent during the past two days.

Apart from Qin Fang, numerous young geniuses and experts were also heading toward the city gates.

In the outer rings, a Sunmoon yelled, "Those who were already in the city before this, wait near the gates. After verifying your identities, you will be allowed to leave. Do not leave without permission."

No exception was given to anyone. They were very determined to kill Su Yu.

"Verification at the gates?"

Su Yu's heart thumped. Yeah, there would be Sunmoons near the gates. Why must he head toward the inner rings? He could simply kill the ones near the gates. Just by killing one, Mo He and the others would probably enter the city themselves without any effort from Ye Hongyan and the other humans.

There were simply too many Sunmoons in the inner rings for him to deal with. Should he...wait near the city gates?

With that realization, Su Yu started moving toward the gates.

Qin Fang was in the middle of rushing toward the gates when he noticed a death spirit rushing behind him. He cursed inwardly, furious that a mere Skysoar death spirit was actually chasing after him.

He swore if this death spirit was still there when he was at the gates, he would stab that damn death spirit to death with his spear before leaving. No, wait, he should go through the verification process before doing that.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was completely unbothered by what Qin Fang was thinking. Yes, he noticed Qin Fang as well.

What a pitiful fellow.

He only had one thing to ask of Qin Fang: don't cause him any trouble. This fellow had entered the city a few days ago. Instead of killing anyone or accomplishing a single thing, he had nearly gotten himself eroded to death. In fact, he looked so miserable that even Su Yu was starting to pity him.

Before long, Su Yu was back near the city gates. Sure enough, two Sunmoons were there, watching over the nine gates and preventing anyone from leaving. The nine gates weren't actually that far from each other. Thus, the two Sunmoons could easily watch over all of them from the same spot.

Su Yu’s chance had arrived.