Slaying Lingyun, Sunmoons Appear

"Su Yu!" Enraged roars rang out one after another! The genius student of the Barbarian Ox race had been slain; Bai Ce of the Fox race was dead; Xia Qing of the Tiger race was dead; Zhan Fei of the Ironwing Bird race was dead; the Flying Wolf youth was dead... All dead! Even Chen Chen, whom the Single Divine Character Faction had prepared to capture Su Yu, was swiftly cut down by him. Effortless! Dominant! At the Yangxing Realm, Su Yu slaughtered Tengkong cultivators with total ease. As for the five Dao Protectors, the Ironwing Bird protector was dead, and the Cloud Tiger protector was dead. The two Shanhai of the Barbarian Ox and Fox races were being besieged by three great demons, while the Flying Wolf race's Lingyun was being ganged up on by Water Person, Shadow, and their companions. In the blink of an eye, the rapid transformation of the battlefield shook everyone to their core! When they first arrived, there had been twelve students besides Su Yu. Now, Zhou Hao had departed, five alien students were dead, and Chen Chen was dead. Only five remained: Ji Xiaomeng, Li Minyu, the Heavenly Horse youth, the Black Panther youth, and the female gazelle of the Mountain Gazelle race. A chaotic melee had erupted! Yu Hong and Old Zheng were besieging Hu Hao, who had been dispatched by Chief Hu; Xia Wen and Xia Wu were clashing with the two elders from Jiutian Academy; the three great demons were holding off the Old Fox and his two companions; and Old Tianma and the Old Goat were battling Blood Rakshasa. A stalemate of evenly matched forces! At this moment, great formations rose one after another on the perimeter, sealing the void until the sky turned a murky, desolate gray. Having effortlessly dispatched several students, Su Yu turned to look at the remaining ones and smiled. "Gentlemen, ladies, why not state your backgrounds and show your hands? Traitors like Yu Hong have colluded with scum from the various races, aiming to murder me and slaughter the Xia family's Dao Protectors. What do you have to say for yourselves?" Ji Xiaomeng said innocently, "I really just came to watch the show!" Su Yu looked at her with a smile. "Miss Ji, you really just came to watch the show?" "Really!" Ji Xiaomeng replied, looking aggrieved. "I never lie!" Su Yu chuckled again. "What if I give you a slash of my blade? How does that sound?" "..." Ji Xiaomeng looked pitifully innocent. Seeing Su Yu stepping toward her after a pause, she panicked slightly and pointed at Li Minyu. "Fine, I admit it! I came because of her!" Li Minyu remained impassive, uttering not a word. Seeing that Su Yu was still glaring at her and advancing, Ji Xiaomeng hastily added, "It's true! My dad said there must be a Sunmoon Realm expert behind her, very likely Lan Tian, so he told me to keep an eye on her! Really, I'm not lying to you!" She then pleaded miserably, "We're on the same side! Don't kill me!" "Lan Tian?" Su Yu turned to Li Minyu. At that moment, Li Minyu's gaze shifted. In the next instant, the youthfulness vanished from her demeanor, replaced by a subtle change in aura, and a voice emerged from her lips: "Don't misunderstand. I am merely watching the show as well." Su Yu looked at Ji Xiaomeng, then at Li Minyu, and burst into laughter. How fascinating! Both of them had Sunmoons backing them. Had Director Ji discovered traces of Lan Tian? Su Yu said nonchalantly, "Whether it's Lan Tian or Director Ji, neither of you should meddle in my business. The ones I want to kill belong to the Single Divine Character Faction, not you. If you want to cause trouble... suit yourselves!" He was arrogant! Of course, he had some capital to back it up. He wasn't without a backer right now. A ninth-stage Sunmoon was waiting nearby, ready to intervene at any moment. He didn't fear these two unless they had broken through to the Invincible Realm! Neither of their true bodies had come; rather, each likely had a wisp of divine sense attached to Ji Xiaomeng and Li Minyu. Surprised, Su Yu asked, "What is your relationship with Li Minyu?" He was asking Lan Tian. Li Minyu smiled. "Student." "Student?" Su Yu furrowed his brow. Li Minyu already had a teacher, a Shanhai Elder—could Lan Tian be that elder? Or had she been taken as a student in secret? Well, he couldn't be bothered to care. He sensed the presence; it was likely just a wisp of divine sense. Slaying it would accomplish nothing and merely offend a Sunmoon. Before the situation stabilized, there was no need to make enemies unnecessarily. As for the fact that the other party was the Primordial Demon Cult Master—what did that have to do with him? If the Xia family didn't care, the Quest Realm didn't care, and the War God Hall didn't care... why the hell should he? Nor did he have the strength to interfere! If he had the power, he would slaughter them all with a single stroke of his blade! Sure enough, everyone who tagged along had issues. Of course, a few were genuinely clean—like the Heavenly Horse group, who naively treated this excursion as a true trial, running along as if sightseeing. Su Yu couldn't be bothered to deal with those two further. He had Little Furry Ball keep an eye on them, then swiftly turned to the Heavenly Horse youth. "You three, huddle together and watch each other closely! Be on guard in case there are other cultists lurking!" Still in his beast form, the Heavenly Horse youth stared at him in terror. Fuck! He slaughters people like mowing grass! Xia Qing and the others had been butchered in an instant. He was genuinely terrified. Su Yu barked coldly, "Hurry up! Do you want to die?" None of the three dared make a sound. The little female gazelle, the little black panther, and the little heavenly horse quickly huddled together at top speed, trembling with fear. The Black Panther race's Lingyun expert had previously been ambushed and slain by the Flying Wolf expert. At this moment, the little panther was also shivering in panic, at an utter loss. "As for you two..." Su Yu looked at Ji Xiaomeng and Li Minyu, smiling. "Stay right here. Don't run around. Don't think you're untouchable just because you have Sunmoons behind you. Whether it's Lan Tian or Director Ji, this isn't a place for you to run wild. If you're not afraid of death, feel free to step right in!" Neither Ji Xiaomeng nor Li Minyu uttered a word. Neither moved, remaining rooted to the spot. Meanwhile, Su Yu observed the battle for a moment and shouted, "Water Person, Shadow, hurry up and kill that bastard! What are you dawdling for?" Water Person and the other great demons were fighting tooth and nail. Their strongest was only at the seventh stage of Lingyun; facing a ninth-stage Lingyun, it was nowhere near as simple as Su Yu made it sound. Five demonic beasts tangled together. The Suanni and the Mountain-Boring Ox were repeatedly battered and flung outward, nearly beaten to death. Grief and indignation filled their hearts. As expected, nothing good came from being released! The moment they came out, it was an epic clash! Even the weakest enemy was in the Lingyun Realm! Fuck! Had they known, they would rather have waited for death in the containment cells! The five great demons fought in a chaotic cluster while battles raged across every front. By now, no one wasted breath shouting or roaring. It was futile! There was only slaughter! The two great demons Su Yu had planted had slain two Shanhai experts, abruptly overturning the balance and driving the battle into a deadlock. Su Yu was in no rush. Are there more? Keep waiting! He wanted to wait and see if anyone else would show their head. At this point, Su Yu shouted, "Zhou Pingsheng, you useless dog! Are you still going to hide? You dare not come out? My original goal this time was just to kill you dog-thing, but who would have thought I'd hook so many big fish!" Su Yu laughed heartily. "Elder Yu, Elder Li, Elder Qiu, Elder Tang... and Elder Zheng from the Great Shang Prefecture! What a grand spectacle! Five Shanhai elders! I wonder, if anyone escapes today and word leaks out, will you elders still be able to survive?" "Such brazen audacity! Betraying the human race, betraying the Great Xia Prefecture! Five elders colluding with the All-Races Cult to assassinate students—what magnificent courage!" "The Xia family has three Shanhai right here! I'd like to see how you deal with them!" Five Shanhai elders, three Shanhai Dao Protectors, two Lingyun Dao Protectors, and three All-Races Cult Shanhai—two more than initially anticipated, namely the two from Jiutian Academy. A total of eleven Shanhai Realm experts! Wiping them all out in one fell swoop would deal them a devastating blow! Su Yu yelled, shouting once more, "Zhou Pingsheng, come kill me! You worthless piece of trash..." Meanwhile, sounds of slaughter erupted on the perimeter as well. Zhou Pingsheng had no time to pay attention to Su Yu. The moment One-Eye was revealed to be Su Yu's operative, he had received Yu Hong's order: wipe out the men One-Eye had brought! How could he spare a moment for Su Yu? Right now, the independent cultists One-Eye had brought were also consumed with fury and despair. Fuck! That member of the Demon Eye race actually worked for Su Yu! Excuses were pointless; there was only bloodshed! Zhou Pingsheng and his cohorts were far from weak—all in the Lingyun Realm, seven or eight Lingyun experts in total. Up against a few Lingyun and some Tengkong, backed by the great formation they had set up beforehand, the barrier activated to trap them within as the slaughter exploded. Blood flowed like rivers! ... Even farther along the perimeter. Jin Yuhui appeared. He did not enter the core battlefield, but instead erected a grand formation around the exterior, casually slaying any rogue cultists lucky enough to flee the perimeter. Kill! Not a single person would escape today. If word leaked from anyone, it would spell disaster. Head of Jiutian Academy! A half-step Sunmoon expert! Whether Lingyun or Tengkong, every cultivator was crushed with a single palm under his hand. Not far away, Zhao Mingyue appeared, watching him in silence. Jin Yuhui paid her no heed. Zhao Mingyue said coldly, "Aren't you afraid the Xia family will find out?" Jin Yuhui replied calmly, "What have I done? What did I do wrong? I am slaying All-Races Cult members. Tang Yunfei and Qiu Yunhua committed treason; I came here to hunt them down. Is there an issue with that?" Was there? None at all! Even though he had not intervened in the central fight, it was under the guise of preventing the cultists from escaping. He looked at Zhao Mingyue with cool detachment. "On the other hand, what about you? What are you doing? That person earlier was from the Single Divine Character Faction—why did you kill them?" "Hmph!" Zhao Mingyue scoffed. "Jin Yuhui, even at this point, you still dare to quibble?" "Quibble?" Jin Yuhui smiled. "How am I quibbling? Zhao Mingyue, what have I done? As the Head of Jiutian Academy, is it not proper for me to pursue two traitorous elders?" "You..." Unable to best him in an argument, Zhao Mingyue was incensed. Jin Yuhui had indeed not directly intervened in the core fight! He was only killing those attempting to flee. Yet if anyone claimed he had come purely to arrest Tang Yunfei and Qiu Yunhua, who would believe it? Still, he was a half-step Sunmoon and Head of Jiutian Academy, holding immense status and authority. As long as he did not personally act against allies, no one had justification to arrest or execute him. Even Zhu Tiandao would not dare kill him rashly, or else both the Quest Realm and the War God Hall would hold him accountable. Unless he struck personally! Jin Yuhui paid her no more attention. Smiling faintly, he continued sealing off the perimeter, ignoring Zhao Mingyue entirely. If you dare attack me, I dare execute you on the spot! Even if your brother makes a fuss all the way to the Great Xia Prefecture, it will be useless. If you strike at me first, I have every right to kill you! Zhao Mingyue felt stifled! Utterly suffocated! What a scoundrel! At this moment, she couldn't help admiring Su Yu. Su Yu had lured out so many experts and provoked them into striking against him and the Xia family, so people like Yu Hong could now be slaughtered without hesitation. Yet Jin Yuhui was different! He had arrived openly and nominally within the bounds of duty. Even if his true motives were obvious, there was nothing anyone could do to him. Nor was her strength a match for his! Jin Yuhui smiled and ignored her. Until the very last moment, he would not enter the field. And if he did enter... he would leave not a single survivor! Once everyone was dead, there naturally would be no evidence left. Zhao Mingyue gave a cold snort. Gritting her teeth, a spear manifested in her grasp as she prepared to fly toward the depths, intent on joining the battle to slay the traitors. If she couldn't gain an advantage here, she would go kill! Just as she moved, an expert with a blurred face suddenly launched an ambush! Zhao Mingyue flicked her spear, and with a thunderous boom, she drove her opponent back while coughing up a mouthful of blood herself. She shouted, "Wang Ming?" Wang Ming of Wendao Academy! Back then, he had also attacked them at the 18th Middle School; she recognized him! Wang Ming did not utter a word, neither confirming nor denying. He launched rapid attacks, sword aura crisscrossing everywhere. A "Sword" divine character shone with terrifying might, even stronger than before, forcing Zhao Mingyue back step after step. Jin Yuhui chuckled, then suddenly projected his voice: "Su Yu has colluded with the demon race, brutally slaughtered a Shanhai of the Cloud Tiger race—an ally of humanity—and murdered multiple students. His crimes are unforgivable! Members of the Xia family, do you truly intend to shelter Su Yu?" Hu Hao, who was vomiting blood under the joint assault of Yu Hong and Elder Zheng, suddenly cursed furiously, "Jin Yuhui, bullcrap! The Cloud Tigers already betrayed us—" "Which eye of yours saw them commit treason?" Jin Yuhui countered coldly, "All I saw was that they killed an expert of the Demonic Scorpion Cult; they were heroes slaying the All-Races Cult! Yet Su Yu's great demons slaughtered them! Hu Hao, seeing is believing—are you blind?" "..." Hu Hao was beside himself with rage! He knew full well the man was spouting pure nonsense, yet he couldn't refute it. The Cloud Tiger protector had not made an overt move against Su Yu before dying. And that was an alien race! If it were a human, like Jin Yuhui, who hadn't directly struck any human, what could anyone do to him? Even knowing full well his foul intentions! "Head Jin..." Over there, Xia Wen bellowed, "Since you claim you are here to apprehend traitors, why don't you come over and slay these two!" Aren't you supposed to capture traitors? Kill them! Jin Yuhui replied indifferently, "The situation remains murky. I must guard against anyone fleeing. Wait a while!" Just wait! At this moment, radiant light enveloped him, suppressing the entire battlefield. Yu Hong and her allies grew increasingly exhilarated. Even without striking, Jin Yuhui's mere presence held the advantage and suppressed their opposition. A guaranteed victory! At the crucial moment, Jin Yuhui would undoubtedly step in. A moment later, Zhou Pingsheng and his group finished off the independent cultists. No longer hiding, Zhou Pingsheng called out loudly, "Head Jin, we have eliminated the All-Races Cult members!" "Merit recorded. You shall be rewarded upon returning to the Great Xia Prefecture!" Jin Yuhui said calmly, "Su Yu ordered demonic beasts to indiscriminately slaughter allied races, and the situation remains unclear. Go apprehend Su Yu and escort him back to the Great Xia Prefecture for confrontation. Do not take his life!" High-sounding, righteous words! Don't kill Su Yu; I just don't know the full story, and only saw you slaughtering students, so I'm merely sending people to take you into custody! In the distance, Su Yu sneered, "Despicable scoundrel clinging to petty schemes! Jin Yuhui, if you had struck directly, I might have respected you a little as someone who at least behaves like an academy head, showing the demeanor of a half-step Sunmoon. But this... disgusting!" Jin Yuhui was entirely unmoved. A mere Yangxing cultivator, no matter how gifted, was hardly worth his concern. Curse all you want, say whatever you wish. It didn't matter! Soon, you'll be dead. "If Su Yu resists, execute him without mercy!" Jin Yuhui added softly. Zhou Pingsheng, leading six other Lingyun experts, did not waste words and flew toward Su Yu. These people were all Lingyun cultivators drafted from various academies. At that very moment, someone in the shadows prepared to intervene. Though unaware of the specifics, Su Yu didn't care; he did not want Zhu Tiandao to act just yet. He bellowed, "You came just in time! Once I butcher every last one of these trash, I want to see if you, Jin Yuhui, will still sit on your hands!" This was the situation he wanted. The only unexpected factor was that Jin Yuhui hadn't struck directly, which deviated from his original expectation. This was a big fish! More than enough! Hooking Jin Yuhui was far more significant than catching Yu Hong and her lot. ... On the perimeter. Zhu Tiandao paused in surprise, understanding Su Yu's intent. He wants to handle it himself? Stop joking! You brat are only in the Yangxing Realm! There are seven Lingyun experts facing you, three of whom are at the seventh stage, with the rest in the early and middle stages! And you still want to wait? Aren't you afraid of getting yourself killed? At this point, Yu Hong and the others could all be killed without hesitation; only Jin Yuhui was difficult to touch. But in Zhu Tiandao's eyes, it was almost time to haul in the net. ... Su Yu paid no heed to anyone. Soaring into the air, he rocketed straight into the sky. Today, I will slay Lingyun experts for all of you to see! When even I can slaughter Lingyun cultivators, can big shots like you truly hold back against such a threat? The stronger he was, the greater the threat to the Single Divine Character Faction. Able to kill Lingyun now—who could tolerate this? Not even a half-step Sunmoon! Even true Sunmoons couldn't stomach it! If you don't kill such a monstrous prodigy now, when will you? Su Yu was gambling with his own life. Of course, it also required absolute trust in Zhu Tiandao and the Zhu family. If the Zhu family shrank back in fear, today... he would be utterly finished; he had no means of dealing with a half-step Sunmoon. Saber in hand, Su Yu's aura surged ever higher! Faintly, it was already comparable to a ninth-stage Tengkong. Zhou Pingsheng frowned slightly. Even if he could rival a ninth-stage Tengkong, so what? Did he really think he could kill them? The distance between them shrank rapidly! Right at that moment, Su Yu's aura surged wildly, and in the next instant, an aura of the Lingyun Realm erupted! "Kill!" A furious roar, laden with a terrifying surge of origin qi, rattled the surroundings! Su Yu moved like the wind, whistling past! His long saber flashed, lightning crackling around it as he cleaved outward! "Trash!" Squelch! Su Yu flashed through the void, panting for breath, his body tearing open from the violent strain of origin qi as blood seeped through his skin. In midair, among the seven Lingyun experts encircling him, one stared at him with confusion and bewilderment... before his entire body detonated with a deafening bang! Dead! The battlefield around them froze in place. Even when two Lingyun experts had died earlier, it hadn't elicited such sheer shock. "Slaying... a Lingyun!" A Yangxing cultivator had killed a Lingyun with a single strike! No, it wasn't Yangxing—it was the explosive power of the Lingyun Realm! "Innate blood essence!" At that moment, the realization struck them, leaving them in unprecedented horror. Yu Hong was shaken to the core, and even Jin Yuhui on the perimeter felt his pupils constrict. "Lingyun Realm innate blood essence!" How could this be possible?! ... Further out on the perimeter, Zhu Tiandao swallowed hard and turned to Director Hou. "Have you ever seen Lingyun Realm innate blood essence?" "No..." Director Hou was completely dumbfounded! Holy shit! If Su Yu brought this to the Great Ming Prefecture, would the Great Xia Prefecture invade Great Ming? A Yangxing killing a Lingyun! If he produced tens of thousands of drops of this innate blood essence, wouldn't that mean... an army could become a ten-thousand-strong Lingyun legion? That... that could kill Sunmoons! Holy shit! An army capable of slaying Sunmoons—how insane was that? Of course, they could also tell that the burden was immense; even Su Yu, at the ninth stage of Wanshi, could barely withstand the strain. But Tengkong cultivators certainly could! If there was Lingyun blood essence, was there Shanhai blood essence? And if there was Shanhai, was there Sunmoon blood essence? Holy shit! Director Hou's eyes gleamed brightly as he looked at Zhu Tiandao. "Prefecture Lord, we must take him in—even marrying off your daughter to him would be worth it!" Hadn't people said the Multiple Divine Characters Faction had only researched Wanshi blood essence? Why was there Lingyun blood essence?! If the Great Xia Prefecture knew about this, they wouldn't let Su Yu leave even if it killed them! Such research was genuinely capable of overturning the tides of war, perhaps even creating a legend where Tengkong cultivators slaughtered Sunmoons! Of course, that required enough Tengkong cultivators and sufficient blood essence. If ten thousand Tengkong cultivators all acquired the strength of Lingyun, could they kill a Sunmoon? Perhaps they really could! Utterly terrifying! Everyone knew of the Multiple Divine Characters Faction's innate blood essence, but no one had imagined their research had reached this level! ... The four directions were shaken to the core. Su Yu paid no heed to their shock and laughed. Moving at blinding speed, he looked at Zhou Pingsheng and the others, sneering, "You really took me for a soft persimmon! Zhou Pingsheng, when I killed Zhai Feng, I said I would kill you with my own hands. Today, prepare to meet your end!" With that, his body shuddered. He vanished in an instant! Zhou Pingsheng felt a chill in his heart and shouted, "Group up!" Fast! Be quick! Damn it, what was that? Last time Su Yu killed people, he had shown glimpses of unusual methods, but this time was far more terrifying. A Su Yu wielding Lingyun strength was vastly more dreadful. Just as he spoke, a gust of wind swept through the void. Within the wind, Su Yu instantly reformed his physical body. In front of him, a Lingyun expert roared, divine character manifesting to suppress Su Yu. But Little Furry Ball suddenly appeared, biting toward the divine character! Little Furry Ball wasn't in the Lingyun Realm yet; if it had been, it would have swallowed the divine character silently in one gulp. Right now, it fell just short of that. In the void, the divine character barely appeared before—crunch!—Little Furry Ball bit away half of it! With a bang, the divine character detonated, blowing Little Furry Ball backward! Unable to swallow it whole, it could only bite forcibly. With his divine character destroyed, the Lingyun's body shuddered. Su Yu swung his saber, and with a wet squelch, a head flew into the air! The second Lingyun! Right then, a divine character materialized behind him—Zhou Pingsheng's. But in the next instant, Zhou Pingsheng swiftly retracted it, eyes filled with shock and horror! What was that? A divine character had been chewed apart! Divine characters existed between the ethereal and physical; unless an opponent was overwhelmingly powerful and shattered them, they couldn't be destroyed like that. Yet a tiny creature had bitten right through one, frightening him into immediately recalling his own. Dead! In the blink of an eye, Su Yu had slain a second Lingyun. The remaining five huddled together. Su Yu's face was pale, and Little Furry Ball hopped back onto his head, fading into the void until not a trace could be seen. "Lingyun... so weak!" Su Yu grinned, and a handful of blood essence suddenly appeared in his palm. "Today, I'll show you just how astonishing the Multiple Divine Characters Faction's innate blood essence truly is!" Devour! Blood essence entered his stomach! Su Yu vanished from the spot. In the distance, divine light flashed in Jin Yuhui's eyes as he shouted, "Behind you!" Boom! Zhou Pingsheng unleashed a divine character behind himself, only for it to be bitten with a crunch, causing him agonizing pain! "Bastard!" By now, Su Yu was practically translucent, his silhouette flickering faintly. With a grin, he disappeared again, his voice echoing through the air: "Head Jin is a man of vast experience. I'd love to see how many innate techniques you can recognize!" Divine light flickered in Jin Yuhui's eyes, and he saw through Su Yu instantly! At this moment, Su Yu was actually creating clones! "Careful, clones!" He warned once more, "The real body is on the left—" Squelch! The other five Lingyun experts couldn't see Su Yu at all and were filled with panic. The one on the left swung his blade frantically. With a crash, Su Yu was repelled, but on the right, another Su Yu suddenly emerged and slashed downward—crunch! An arm was severed! In all directions, the Shanhai combatants were no longer focused on their own fights, every one of them staring in stunned disbelief! One man fighting seven Lingyun experts! And that wasn't even the point. The point was the sheer variety of Su Yu's methods. Invisibility, cloning, turning to wind, turning to water, spatial evasion, earth evasion... In just these brief moments, Su Yu had displayed seven or eight innate techniques! Fuck! Facing someone of the same level with such abilities on a battlefield, a single person was practically guaranteed to be slaughtered! Was this... the power of innate blood essence? This was simply terrifying! Not only were the Shanhai dumbfounded, but Jin Yuhui was also stunned, and Zhu Tiandao wore a look of utter amazement. Even this works? Did I... did I just hit the ultimate jackpot? Of course, that was provided Su Yu could bring this technology to the Great Ming Prefecture and was willing to refine innate blood essence for Great Ming. "Sunmoon blood essence... If I had a hundred types of Sunmoon blood essence, I'd dare challenge an Invincible..." Zhu Tiandao murmured. No, give me Invincible blood essence! I'll find a way to get Invincible blood essence, have the old man secure some, and you refine a hundred drops of Invincible blood essence innate techniques for me. If I encounter an Invincible, I might even be able to counterkill them! This was too frightening! With zero restrictions, he could use any innate technique from any blood essence—how was that not horrifying? It concentrated the essence of myriad races into a single being! Meanwhile, Zhou Pingsheng and the others were thoroughly suppressed. They didn't dare unleash their divine characters recklessly, which was their greatest handicap. That Little Furry Ball could snap a divine character in two with a single bite. Among Civilization Masters, divine character masters were the deadliest in battle! When a divine character master couldn't use their divine characters, what were they? Mere sitting ducks! Without externalizing their divine characters and only able to use them within their sea of will, their combat strength dropped by thirty percent! More critically, Su Yu was elusive and ghostly, completely undetectable. Had it not been for Jin Yuhui's timely warnings, only the two late-stage Lingyun experts would likely still be alive. Jin Yuhui's expression changed. In the distance, Yu Hong's face contorted as well, and she screamed, "Kill him! Head Jin, strike! Kill him!" If Su Yu didn't die, the world would truly change! Today he could slaughter Lingyun; after a little more time, or after gaining power inside the ruin, wouldn't he be able to slaughter Shanhai? Terror! The sheer terror of facing a monster! Yet Su Yu continued to appear and vanish like a ghost, flashing unpredictably and hacking down with his blade! Again and again! He was laughing—laughing maniacally. Strike! I'm just waiting for you, Jin Yuhui! I want to reel in a massive fish. Can Zhu Tiandao handle him? He hasn't reached Sunmoon yet, so he should be able to, right? Displaying genius, exposing innate blood essence, slaying Lingyun, and with the ruin appearing before them—if you don't strike now, will you have any chance of survival once I grow stronger? At this moment, Yu Hong went mad! With an enraged scream, a divine character detonated with a deafening blast! Boom! Hu Hao's physical body was blasted into mangled flesh by her detonating divine character. Elder Zheng's gigantic beast divine character also detonated instantly, and another thunderous explosion shattered Hu Hao's body into pieces! Even as his body blew apart, Hu Hao couldn't help feeling a surge of sorrow. Holy shit, Su Yu was right! I really can't hold out! If I had known, I would have trusted you! How tragic! Right at that moment, a streak of sword light shot toward Zhou Pingsheng and the others. Just as Zhou Pingsheng was about to strike it down, Jin Yuhui shouted, "Fall back!" That was sword light from a divine talisman! It wasn't an attack from Su Yu! The talisman had been taken from Zhai Feng by Su Yu back then, and today he used it as a feint. Zhou Pingsheng hastily retreated, and with a wet squelch, the person beside him had his head sheared off by Su Yu, who had suddenly emerged from nowhere. Su Yu frowned, vanishing and retreating rapidly. Jin Yuhui! That bastard was a half-step Sunmoon after all and could see clearly; Su Yu couldn't deceive his vision. Were it not for Jin Yuhui, he would have long wiped out everyone below the seventh stage. Even so, up to now, he had only slain three Lingyun cultivators! Jin Yuhui ordered sharply, "Fools, form a formation to seal off all sides! Let nothing through!" The remaining four Lingyun experts swiftly formed an array. Sealing all four directions! Su Yu collided with the barrier, and the four struck at the same time, but Su Yu had already vanished. In the next instant, he appeared a hundred meters away, face pale, grinning widely. Over there, Yu Hong and Old Zheng had destroyed Hu Hao's physical body. Just as they prepared to follow up by eradicating his willpower and shattering his sea of will, Xia Wen roared from afar. Another thunderous boom echoed as Tang Yunfei's physical body was obliterated by Xia Wen. With a deathly pale face, Xia Wen disengaged from his battle and charged toward Yu Hong and Old Zheng, while Hu Hao rapidly began reforming his body. For Shanhai Realm Civilization Masters, destruction of the physical body rarely caused immediate death; most could forcibly reassemble their flesh. For warriors, however... it almost certainly meant perishing on the spot. Such was the advantage of Civilization Masters! Hu Hao barely managed to reconstitute his flesh, but was exceedingly frail. Seeing Xia Wen rush to his aid, he laughed bitterly, "It's over! My physical body is ruined! If only I had known!" If only he had trusted Su Yu and brought a few friends along! Fuck! His physical body was crippled! His hopes for the Sunmoon Realm were dashed! "Just cultivate it again!" Xia Wen roared. Why whine? Just cultivate it anew, starting back from the Qianjun Realm! With the aperture fusion method available now, the difficulty was far lower. Spend a few decades repairing it, and it would hardly matter! Yu Hong and Old Zheng roared in fury. They had paid a heavy price just now, yet still failed to finish off Hu Hao, while that useless Tang Yunfei had gotten his body destroyed by Xia Wen. Xia Wen was also at the seventh stage of Shanhai. At this moment, he fought the two of them single-handedly. With all of them severely wounded, the battle hung in balance. Right at that moment, a bloodcurdling scream rang out! Slash! Su Yu had vanished again. This time, instead of ambushing Zhou Pingsheng and his companions, he struck the besieged Flying Wolf expert! While the four demonic beasts were surrounding the Flying Wolf, Su Yu suddenly intervened. Little Furry Ball bit and shattered a divine character, and Su Yu unleashed his origin qi, displaying the full might of the Lingyun Realm as he severed the wolf's waist with a single slash! The four demonic beasts capitalized on the opening to finish him off! Almost simultaneously, Shadow pierced the wolf's head, Water Person drained all his blood, the Suanni smashed a paw down to break his limbs, and the Mountain-Boring Ox stomped down with a hoof! With all of them striking at once, the ninth-stage Lingyun of the Flying Wolf race was torn apart in the blink of an eye! Panting, Su Yu glanced at Zhou Pingsheng and the others, grinning. "Five against four! We have five, you have four!" Fun, isn't it? I have more fighters! Even though the Suanni and the Mountain-Boring Ox were weak—only at the ninth stage of Tengkong—two against one was plenty, wasn't it? Zhou Pingsheng remained silent, his expression grim! Su Yu was simply too difficult to deal with. He couldn't be located or struck. Zhou Pingsheng was at the Lingyun Realm, but so was Su Yu now. Without a significant disparity in realm, tracking Su Yu's movements was nearly impossible! Su Yu had grown to such a terrifying extent! Even if it was due to innate blood essence, Su Yu possessed it while they did not—and that was the difference. Fierce clashes raged across the various battlefields. In reality, Su Yu's side was falling into a disadvantage. Blood Rakshasa was beating Old Tianma and the Old Gazelle until they coughed up blood continuously; if this continued, Blood Rakshasa would win. As for Yu Hong's side, her strength was truly formidable. Joining forces with Old Zheng, she battered Xia Wen into vomiting blood repeatedly. Hu Hao, having reformed a frail physical body, went to engage Tang Yunfei—whose body was also ruined—and the two clashed using willpower from afar! Tang Yunfei was not weak either. Back then, when he clashed with Wu Yuehua, he was ultimately driven away only by her poison. Wu Yuehua was at the peak of the eighth stage of Shanhai and still had to rely on poison, which proved his immense strength. A seventh-stage Shanhai divine character master was inherently stronger than those divine pill masters. Unfortunately, Xia Wen, whom he encountered today, was also exceedingly powerful—no one without such strength would be qualified to protect Xia Huyou—which was why Tang Yunfei's physical body had been blasted apart. Now, clashing with Hu Hao whose body had also exploded, they were evenly matched! Once Blood Rakshasa won her fight, the entire momentum of the battlefield would shift. Moreover, Jin Yuhui had yet to make a move. On the perimeter, Zhao Mingyue and Wang Ming of Wendao Academy were locked in a ferocious struggle, blood flying everywhere, yet neither could subdue the other as shockwaves constantly erupted. Yet the focal point of everyone's attention was Su Yu! And the ruin! The method to produce innate blood essence, the aperture fusion method, the Soul Devour Art, and... the basic cultural arts! At this moment, those discerning experts realized that Su Yu had opened divine apertures—many of them, perhaps even exceeding thirty-six! Otherwise, his willpower wouldn't be strong enough to deceive those Lingyun experts, even with innate blood essence! Yet Su Yu had accomplished it, meaning his willpower strength was likely comparable to high-stage Tengkong experts! Unless such a monstrosity was eliminated, none of them could rest easy! "Head Jin, what are you waiting for?!" Yu Hong roared once more. Slaughter everyone to eliminate future troubles—didn't he understand that? What on earth was he waiting for?! At this point, did he really think he could still walk away unscathed? Jin Yuhui ignored her, gazing into the surroundings and speaking coldly: "Which friend is hiding in the shadows? Jin has sensed your presence for some time now. Friend or foe, why not step out and speak?" He couldn't be bothered to deal with an idiot like Yu Hong. Did she think he wouldn't strike if he were certain of victory? It was precisely because he wasn't certain that he didn't dare act rashly! There was someone else in the shadows! Someone extremely powerful! A danger sensing that originated from his half-step Sunmoon Realm! "Head Jin, it's been a long time!" At that moment, a burly, rugged man appeared and chuckled. "So it's you!" Jin Yuhui sighed. "Why bother? Decades ago, you left for distant lands, and today you hold an esteemed place in the Great Zhou Prefecture. Why involve yourself in the conflicts of the Great Xia Prefecture?" The rugged man laughed. "I had no choice. My junior brother sent me a message saying that if I didn't come back, he'd expel me from our master's lineage!" With that, he looked toward Su Yu in the distance and remarked with emotion, "What a genius! To think you didn't become my junior brother's disciple—what a pity. No wonder he asked me to keep you alive!" Su Yu was momentarily stunned, before asking uncertainly, "Are you... Zhao Tianbing?" "Kid, calling me by my full name isn't very polite, is it?" Su Yu was embarrassed, yet unable to conceal his shock. The Head of the Great Zhou Forging Academy! The Fourth Principal's eldest disciple! A mighty pillar of the Forging faction! Decades ago, he traveled to the Great Zhou Prefecture, weathering storms for decades until he became an honored guest of Great Zhou and Head of its Forging Academy! A true titan! His status was considerably higher than even Jin Yuhui of the Great Xia Prefecture, because he could forge Earth-rank cultural weapons, because he was a grandmaster of the Forging faction, and because he was an exalted figure who had stepped into the Sunmoon Realm! Such a titan was the very bedrock of Zhao Li's arrogance. The Fourth Principal's lineage had never ended! Though Great Xia's faction was weak, in the Great Zhou Prefecture, his senior brother was an influential big shot. And now, he had actually arrived! Su Yu's heart surged with turbulence, at a loss for words. It turned out Teacher Zhao had known all along; otherwise, his senior brother couldn't possibly have rushed here from the Great Zhou Prefecture so quickly! Zhao Tianbing! At this moment, the rugged Zhao Tianbing chuckled, "Quite a show. The Great Xia Prefecture... is truly a mess, even messier than Great Zhou. But both are pretty much the same—the pot calling the kettle black. Ah, whenever someone wants to attain Dao confirmation, trouble always follows! "Look at Great Ming Prefecture: no one's trying to attain the Dao, so it's peaceful. Even if you crack each other's skulls open, Zhu Tiandao couldn't care less about you!" With a sigh, he reflected that Great Zhou was messy as well. He was somewhat better off because he was a forging master; otherwise, Great Zhou would have been a headache too. Now, upon arriving in Great Xia, he felt Great Zhou was actually comparatively better—it hadn't deteriorated to this extent. Everyone had gone mad! Dozens of Shanhai clashing here, and even Jin Yuhui, a half-step Sunmoon, had come out. That was the head of an academy! Jin Yuhui's eyes flickered. "You only entered the Sunmoon Realm a few years ago. Do you truly wish to meddle?" "I'm already here; would you people even give me a chance to walk away?" Zhao Tianbing laughed. "Besides, can you stop me? Divine character masters are strong, but we in the Forging faction aren't weak either!" With that, Zhao Tianbing smiled again. "How about this: I take Su Yu away, and you can keep fighting among yourselves. I won't interfere. What do you say?" No one said a word! Su Yu was the key; taking him away was a laughable fantasy! No one would leave today! Letting even one person escape would result in an insurmountable catastrophe! By now, the number of revealed experts had reached twenty-four: twenty-three Shanhai Realm experts—one of whom was a half-step Sunmoon—and Zhao Tianbing, a genuine Sunmoon. Starfall Mountain was now enveloped by outer formations, while its interior had long been turned upside down. Demons, the All-Races Cult, the Single Divine Character Faction, the Xia family's Dao Protectors, Su Yu's protectors, Feng Qi called by Chen Yong, Zhao Tianbing summoned by Zhao Li, Zhao Mingyue who had followed along... Experts stood like a forest! The little heavenly horse and his companions were dumbfounded. A weak race like the Black Panther race couldn't muster this many experts across their entire tribe! Sunmoons appearing and a massive gathering of Shanhai clashing—on the All-Heavens Battlefield, this was enough to wage a war of racial extermination! Zhao Tianbing looked at Jin Yuhui and smiled. "If you don't agree, then I'll strike. Since you're all traitors anyway, every kill counts... Old Jin, you wouldn't stop me, would you?" Jin Yuhui's eyes flickered. After a moment, his aura shifted slightly. "Zhao Tianbing, some things require careful consideration!" In the next instant, his aura transformed, and he sighed, "The Multiple Divine Characters Faction... is formidable! And the Divine Character Fusion faction is exceedingly powerful as well!" Boom! A sun and moon rose above him, the celestial bodies revolving within his eyes. Jin Yuhui—Sunmoon Realm! Jin Yuhui of Jiutian Academy was the earliest expert in the Human Realm to embark upon the path of fused divine characters, publicly hailed as one of the pioneers of the Divine Character Fusion Dao. Back then, having plagiarized the achievements of the Multiple Divine Characters Faction, he had advanced far along this path! Breaking through was difficult for others, but not for him. He was essentially a weakened version of the Multiple Divine Characters Faction; his eight divine characters formed a complete system, breaking free of the restraining force of the God and Demon characters! At this moment, Jin Yuhui broke through into the Sunmoon Realm! Zhao Tianbing's face shifted! Fuck! He might not actually be a match for him. A blacksmith couldn't necessarily beat a professional combatant. He wasn't Zhao Li and didn't know the Expanding Will Art. His stamina... was only mediocre, giving him no real advantage among those of the same realm. Having entered the Sunmoon Realm only a few years ago, he was still merely at the early stages of Sunmoon. ... At this moment, everyone turned their eyes toward the two—Sunmoon against Sunmoon! This battle had drawn in two Sunmoon Realm experts! Su Yu's expression grew solemn. For Zhu Tiandao... it was still hard to make a move now. Jin Yuhui was a wily old fox who stubbornly refused to strike first, and now that he had reached the Sunmoon Realm, Zhu Tiandao couldn't execute him casually. ... On the perimeter, Zhu Tiandao was rendered speechless. Enough already! Two Sunmoons had appeared! Earlier, he had thought a few Shanhai would be the limit, but now this was truly troublesome. "Prefecture Lord, do we strike now?" Director Hou asked. Zhu Tiandao pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth. "Wait a bit longer—keep fishing! Jin Yuhui can't kill Zhao Tianbing. Now that Zhao Tianbing has shown up, if they don't kill him, word will leak and they'll all die. Let's wait for them to call for reinforcements and see who else turns up!" I'm just waiting for you to call for help! Let's see if they can summon another Sunmoon. Only with two Sunmoons would they have the certainty to eliminate another Sunmoon, as was usually the case when cultivation levels were close! Perhaps he could hook another one! Thrilling! Zhu Tiandao rubbed his hands together eagerly. To hell with it! I'll play big with you bastards!