Shocking the Four Directions

Boom! Dead spirits were sent flying backward. Su Yu went with the momentum and flew backward as well. A tiny cloud descended. At that very moment, a multitude of powerhouses surged out of the houses. Among them, Gu Shan of the Archaic Giant race glanced over toward Su Yu once more. The cloud was not large and was soon submerged beneath the death qi, but Gu Shan still caught a hint of something abnormal. His eyes shifted, divine light flickering within them. Looking again, the area was already blanketed by the dead spirits that had been knocked back. Sun and moon rotated in his eyes as time briefly rewound for him. Gu Shan seemed to see a dead spirit that was slightly different. His heart stirred. *What... is this about?* Even he felt a faint trace of bewilderment. Glancing back at the stunned and bewildered god and demon powerhouses, he chuckled and suddenly stopped caring! *What's it got to do with me anyway?* *I didn't spend a single copper... Wait, no, I paid ten drops of Sun Moon blood essence!* Gu Shan shuddered. *Right, I did put up ten drops of Sun Moon blood essence!* *Isn't that money too?* Of course, killing a Sun Moon cultivator was far too easy for him, especially a first-stage Sun Moon—slaying one was like taking a walk in the park. But one couldn't just go around slaughtering Sun Moon experts without cause. Cursing softly under his breath, Gu Shan soon broke into a smile. *Forget it, I'm just here for the show!* *It feels like a massive show is about to unfold!* *This Tianduo... no, was that really Tianduo?* *Even if it was Tianduo, the transaction just concluded without a hitch, so why murder people and flee?* Of course, there could be many reasons. First, to avoid giving the fiend dragon his share. Second, to flee on his own and avoid splitting the gains with the Demon race. Third... and the most terrifying possibility of all: there was something wrong with the goods! If so, that would cause a cataclysmic upheaval! If there was nothing wrong with the goods, Tianduo running away was just Tianduo running away; at most, the fiend dragon would go mad. But if there was something wrong with the goods... it wouldn't just be the fiend dragon going mad. The God race would be shaken to its core, their fury enough to burn the heavens and split the earth. Two thousand three hundred strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light! In any case, Gu Shan couldn't produce that much. Even if he killed himself and sold his own parts, it wouldn't be enough. Many others shared similar thoughts. Some charged into the ancient house Su Yu had occupied earlier, while others unleashed blazing divine light from their eyes to scan the surroundings. Meanwhile, the Dark Fiend Dragon roared furiously, "Seal off the ancient city, now!" He was about to burst with rage! As far as he was concerned, there was probably nothing wrong with the goods—the God race weren't fools, and the onlookers weren't blind. His sole thought was that Tianduo had stirred up chaos and fled simply to renege on paying him his cut! *That damned bastard!* *I bent over backward maintaining order for you and helping you broker the deal, and you fucking ran off without paying me my cut?! Damned bastard!* No one was more furious than him! Death qi billowed as he kicked the dead spirits aside. As the city lord, his authority was immense; as long as he didn't kill the dead spirits, whether he hit them or kicked them, they wouldn't turn on him. Over on the God race's side, Zhan Wushuang swiftly inspected the second storage ring Su Yu had handed him. He swept his senses through it—nothing was wrong! He truly couldn't find any issue! What could possibly be wrong? The corpse was there, the Heaven armament was there, the divine character was there. Could it be a problem with the cultivation method? However, nobody had cultivated the method yet; on a general level, it felt genuine as well. Or perhaps there were restrictions on cultivating it? Zhan Wushuang frowned, faintly sensing that he had been duped, but... he really couldn't detect any flaw. He barked in a low voice, "Search! He couldn't have vanished into thin air!" Regardless, search first! At this moment, the Demon race was equally astounded. What was going on? Tianduo fled? Why did he flee? Modona frowned as well, abruptly turning to Jiyue of the Rade clan and transmitting his voice, "Use the bloodline tracking technique..." Just as he spoke, something vibrated inside his storage ring. His expression flickered slightly, and he quickly retrieved the object from his ring. Over on the other side, the White Mask had already produced the sub-ranking. His face suddenly fell, and he shouted, "Tianduo has fallen!" "..." In that instant, the entire world went silent! Dead silent! Tianduo... was dead? Yes, dead. Since Su Yu knew someone from the Rade clan was present, how could he dare keep Tianduo alive? Wouldn't that be handing them a tracking beacon? Not far away, another cloud descended. Tianduo wasn't overwhelmingly strong, but he was an Earth Ranking genius. The Dark Fiend Dragon arrived at the spot where the cloud descended in an instant, but there was no trace of anything left. The Dark Fiend Dragon was utterly horrified. What was happening? The next moment, his eyes shifted, and he shouted, "Tianduo is dead, murdered by someone... Damn it, this... this... the killer might... might have blended into the dead spirits!" Even he struggled to believe his own deduction! Blended into the dead spirits? How was that possible?! Yet every sign pointed toward the killer mingling among the dead spirits. Otherwise, how could someone vanish right under the noses of so many high-level powerhouses? It was unthinkable! Meanwhile, among the Rade clan, Jiyue's face warped with shock. Tianduo was dead? Just moments ago, they had been enjoying the spectacle—if Tianduo fled, even if he swindled the God race, they were happy to gloat over the God race's misfortune. Yet now, Tianduo was dead? Shock, awe, and disbelief! Right at that moment, Qin Hao thrust his spear, impaling a Shanhai dead spirit to death. The next second, more Shanhai dead spirits emerged, and with another thrust, he impaled yet another Shanhai dead spirit... "Qin Hao!" someone roared in fury. Qin Hao said indifferently, "What? I'm drawing out Sun Moon dead spirits to seal the city so nobody escapes. What's wrong with that? Got a problem?" "Right, seal the city!" Jiyue of the Demon race roared, "Slaughter enough to bring out a Sun Moon dead spirit! Seal the city!" They weren't afraid of mayhem! With over twenty late-stage Sun Moon experts present, unless an Invincible-level dead spirit emerged, sealing the city for three days—or even thirty days—wouldn't kill them! Qin Hao smiled, though a strange glint flitted across his eyes. It wasn't his idea to kill them; Qin Fang had told him to. For no other reason than the fact that Qin Fang found this whole scene intensely familiar. *Holy shit!* Qin Fang truly found it familiar. In fact, he was arguably the person most familiar with this MO. Back then, he had personally watched Su Yu seemingly transform from a dead spirit into a living person, then... slaughter two Sun Moon experts, and finally send Qin Fang flying with a kick! Almost everyone who witnessed that back then had died. Qin Fang survived, making him perhaps the sole living eyewitness. So when Tianduo died, the fiend dragon mentioned the culprit might be hiding among the dead spirits, and a slaughter of numerous Shanhai experts triggered a tide of dead spirits, Su Yu was the first person who sprang to his mind! *Could it be...* Qin Fang could hardly believe it! *No way!* *Impossible!* *How could it be!* *Su Yu?* *He discovered the ancient corpse and impersonated Tianduo... Wait, if it's Su Yu, there's definitely something wrong with that corpse! How could Su Yu sell an authentic corpse to the gods and demons unless it's useless?!* Qin Fang gripped Qin Hao's arm, transmitting his voice frantically: "Second Uncle, kill more, sow more chaos! Holy crap, Second Uncle, that Tianduo just now might have been a fake—it might be Su Yu!" "..." Qin Hao was thoroughly stunned, but he didn't doubt his nephew. Thus came the scene just now: instantly dispatching several Shanhai dead spirits and wiping out numerous weaker dead spirits to summon even more! As for sealing the city for three days, he wasn't particularly worried. Even now, he felt somewhat in a daze. *Su Yu?* As commander of the Vanguard Camp, what kind of grand spectacle had he not seen? He had even witnessed battles among Invincibles. But... *holy shit, don't tell me that Tianduo just now was Su Yu! If it really is Su Yu... then there is definitely something wrong with this deal!* Not just him—at that moment, someone else realized something as well. Shadow and two other late-stage Sun Moon experts tightly shielded Zhu Guangshen. Shadow's eyes flickered, and he hurriedly transmitted his voice: "Quickly kill the dead spirits and sow chaos..." He had been outside the city that day too. Although he hadn't personally seen Su Yu shift from a dead spirit to kill the Sun Moon cultivators, he knew how Su Yu had infiltrated the city, how he had slain the Sun Moon experts, and how he had escaped from the city... This time was far too similar to the last! And now, Tianduo was dead. When he died, a Heaven and Earth reward seemed to have descended nearby. That meant Tianduo had been slain nearby by a living person, not a dead spirit—dead spirits killing people yielded no rewards! Shadow thought of Su Yu at this very moment! He slashed out with his sword, killing a Shanhai dead spirit. Sword qi rippled outward, instantly cutting down over a dozen dead spirits below the Shanhai Realm. Zhu Guangshen was completely bewildered. "What's wrong?" "Your Highness... that Tianduo just now... might be a fake. It might be Su Yu in disguise!" Zhu Guangshen's mouth fell wide open, his eyes popping! *I... I... don't believe it!* *What about that ancient corpse, then?* *Impossible!* *If that was Su Yu in disguise, then Su Yu... scammed over two thousand strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light from the God race?!* *You've got to be kidding!* *That would make this the greatest fraud case in the history of the myriad realms!* Nobody had ever conned away so much wealth, and conned the God race of all people... No, he conned all the races! Every powerful race had shown up today. From every direction, a vast swarm of dead spirits emerged. Above the City Lord Manor, the faint silhouette of a Sun Moon dead spirit materialized. Over by the city gates, the gates began to shut automatically. In the air, the atmosphere among the Sun Moon powerhouses turned grim. Even now, some still couldn't wrap their heads around what was happening. What had just happened? They truly couldn't fathom it! How did Tianduo die? And who killed him? Did someone kill Tianduo to snatch the spoils? Who could vanish silently before their eyes—no, hide within the ranks of the dead spirits, according to the Dark Fiend Dragon's assessment... In any case, many minds were spinning in absolute confusion! What in the world was going on? Zhan Wushuang's face changed again and again. Tianduo was dead! The Tianduo who had just sold them the items was dead! *Fuck your mother!* *Impossible!* He pulled out his sub-ranking and checked it again and again. No names had shifted on the rankings. He retrieved the storage ring and probed it once more, yet still found nothing amiss. "No, that's not right. Something is definitely wrong somewhere..." The seller was dead—that was the biggest red flag! He looked around. The two late-stage Sun Moon experts from the God race had arrived, their faces heavy. With Tianduo dead, they also sensed that something was amiss! "Take a look!" Zhan Wushuang hadn't planned to let them inspect it, but now he handed the items over to them. He couldn't rest easy; he was nervous, filled with foreboding! Two thousand three hundred strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light! Even for a single God King, producing that much on their own was difficult. It could be said that such an enormous amount of wealth was practically equivalent to an Invincible's entire fortune. After all, Invincibles needed resources to cultivate too; reaching the Invincible Realm didn't automatically mean one was swimming in liquid assets. If something went wrong with this, Zhan Wushuang would face immense pressure and condemnation. The two Sun Moon experts examined the contents meticulously, far more thoroughly than before. Yet they still didn't detect any glaring issue. The Sun Moon expert from the Tianyi God race examined the corpse carefully, his brow furrowing slightly. The bloodline undoubtedly belonged to the Tianyi God race; this was indeed the corpse of a Tianyi God race cultivator. What could possibly be wrong? Not only them, even the White Mask from the Heaven Hunting Pavilion was dazed by this turn of events, hurriedly relaying the intelligence back to the pavilion! What kind of madness was this? Tianduo was dead, murdered. The rankings didn't change, which meant he probably wasn't killed by a listed genius. The culprit might have melted into the ranks of the dead spirits... In short, even they couldn't make heads or tails of the situation for now. The God race hadn't erupted into a fury, which meant the items hadn't shown any obvious defect yet... Or perhaps there was a problem, but the God race couldn't even tell what it was, which was even more terrifying! Amid the crowd, Modona's purple hair fluttered, his eyes flashing. Tianduo was dead! Murdered! The rankings hadn't changed. In fact, Modona had felt something was off about Tianduo from the start, which was why he had asked Jiyue to investigate. At this moment, thoughts raced through his mind. It was completely normal for the rankings not to change—entirely normal! If someone ranked far higher than Tianduo killed him, it was no surprise that their ranking didn't budge. A disguise... disguising oneself as Tianduo? A thought surfaced in his mind: disguise... When it came to disguise, many could do it, but lately, who was the master of disguises? Su Yu! The moment the thought appeared, even Modona was shocked. Su Yu! *No way!* *Could that Tianduo just now have been Su Yu?* *Su Yu impersonated Tianduo... What about Tianduo, then?* *Tianduo... Tianduo's sea of will was kept on Su Yu, which was why the bloodline technique detected no abnormality. Just now, in order to escape, Su Yu destroyed Tianduo's sea of will, so Tianduo died!* *And the rankings didn't shift!* How strikingly similar this scene was to the chaos Su Yu had stirred up in Tianmie Ancient City days ago! Melting into the dead spirits... Thoughts flashed through his mind. Almost everyone who had cornered Su Yu last time had died; right up until their deaths, they never figured out where Su Yu was. Then Su Yu melting into the dead spirits... made total sense. In this moment, he understood! And right at that moment, someone suddenly roared in frantic rage, "Su Yu, it's Su Yu! Su Yu killed Tianduo, Su Yu impersonated Tianduo! It was all Su Yu!" Dao Cheng! Dao Cheng was nearly frantic. He suddenly whipped around to Zhan Wushuang and roared, "There's something wrong with the goods! There's definitely something wrong! That was Su Yu just now... He's among the dead spirits! Slay the dead spirits, quickly!" Boom! Lightning erupted across him, space tearing apart as numerous dead spirits were annihilated. Yet in the next instant, more and more dead spirits manifested. Hearing his furious roar, the Dark Fiend Dragon caught onto something as well and abruptly barked, "All of you, stop! Do not kill them! The more you kill, the more appear, and the harder it will be to find him, you fools!" Still killing?! The number of dead spirits only multiplied with every kill; it didn't decrease! Kill one and two appeared. If they kept slaughtering like this, the entire city would be flooded with dead spirits! Once all the weaker dead spirits were dead, a horde of Sun Moon dead spirits would emerge. Did they all have a death wish?! Trying to flush Su Yu out through slaughter wouldn't work! Meanwhile, Zhan Wushuang's face changed continuously. Where had things gone wrong? Even now, he hadn't noticed anything abnormal! Truly, he didn't know where the problem lay. The corpse was there, the armament was there, the cultivation method was there... Su Yu? That number one on the Heaven Ranking, Su Yu? If it really was Su Yu, then there might genuinely be something wrong with the sold items, which would also explain why the seller had fled. The Dark Fiend Dragon ignored all this and shouted, "Xinghong Guards, investigate! Seal off the entire ancient city! Lock down every building inhabited by living beings, and search for me!" Bastard! Whether it was Su Yu or Tianduo, where were his goods? Where was his thirty percent share?! Damned bastard, to dare swindle him, fool him! One Sun Moon expert after another swiftly flew in all directions. On the human side, Qin Hao would casually impale a few dead spirits from time to time, while Shadow and his companions kept hacking away at them as well. Across the entire ancient city, dead spirits grew more and more numerous. Su Yu? If it really was Su Yu... Zhu Guangshen and Qin Hao couldn't even begin to imagine it. The sheer gall of this kid was off the charts! Scamming so many treasures, playing all the myriad races for fools! This time, the God race would definitely dispatch an Invincible to hunt him down! Zhu Guangshen glanced at the two wounded Shanhai captives held by the Heavenly Dao Army commander... and in his heart, he was already certain! *Holy crap!* *It really is that guy!* *No wonder he suddenly kicked the human Shanhai captives over to them earlier, instead of turning them over like the god and demon captives before.* They hadn't paid it much mind earlier, but now, everything made sense! Zhu Guangshen quickly transmitted his voice: "General Qin, we're in big trouble. We must notify an Invincible immediately! You contact King Daqin, and I'll contact my grandfather... That kid is definitely going to provoke Invincibles to come hunt him down!" Although many had died last time, everyone knew it was an accident. This time was completely different! This time, hardly anyone had died—speaking of prominent figures, only Tianduo had been slain. The crux of the matter was that this kid had swindled a staggering 2,300 strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light! Killing him would make even an Invincible rich. Zhu Guangshen swallowed hard. That guy had scammed far too much! It sent chills down his spine. In any case, he would never dare pull off such a stunt, nor could he pull it off. Yet Su Yu pulled it off! Qin Hao's eyes flickered. Without wasting words, he swiftly burned a drop of blood essence to alert an Invincible. There was no way to explain things in detail; the only message he could convey was: *Trouble in the ancient city, come quickly!* King Daqin was his father! Just like Modona and the others calling for reinforcements last time, there was nothing wrong with them calling for help now. The crucial part was that this call for help... felt utterly bizarre! Truly bizarre! Su Yu? He did this? Even now, Qin Hao felt dazed. Did this count as the greatest con in the history of the myriad races? The crux of the crux was... the victim, the God race, seemed not to have detected any problem even now. Zhan Wushuang's sanity was on the verge of collapsing—where on earth was the problem?! The next moment, Zhu Guangshen's expression shifted as he looked at Qin Hao and suddenly transmitted: "Uh... the Great Xia Prefecture once gave Su Yu the corpse of an eighth-stage Sun Moon Tianyi God race cultivator!" Qin Hao's eyes widened instantly! Very few people knew about this because the item was too precious. In the Xia family, only a select few knew; over in the Great Ming Prefecture, a few in the Zhu family knew, along with Niu Baidao and the rest... Yet right now, everything clicked! *Holy crap!* Disguised using a genuine eighth-stage Sun Moon Tianyi God race corpse... death qi... Su Yu blending into the ranks of the dead spirits... Everything, all of it, suddenly became crystal clear! Qin Hao understood completely! Zhu Guangshen understood as well, feeling a twinge of pity for the God race. *You couldn't find any flaws... Now I know why! The corpse is real, and the ancient divine character and such might also be real.* *But one thing is fake: the corpse isn't from the ancient era!* *The cultivation method must be fake too!* Su Yu was a formidable researcher of the human race who had published numerous cultivation methods; his mastery over the path of cultivation arts was exceptionally profound. Without a doubt, that breathing art was fake! Su Yu was also an Earth armamentsmith! That ancient Heaven armament... *fuck, it might be fake too.* The only genuine piece was probably the ancient divine character. Having thought this through, Zhu Guangshen wore an intensely peculiar look. *Holy crap, with a con like this... whoever took the bait was bound to fall for it, unless an Invincible inspected it in person.* The next moment, he also burned a drop of blood essence. Connecting with King Daming! Inside the ancient city, detailed communication was impossible anyway. The only thing he could convey was that they had run into trouble, and their general location was inside Xinghong Ancient City. As for what kind of trouble... there was no way to elaborate. At this moment, even without figuring all this out, Zhan Wushuang of the God race roared furiously, "Search! Sweep the area! Root this guy out!" He hadn't found any flaw, but he was certain there was definitely a problem! They had to search! They had to find... the person who might be Su Yu! The Sun Moon cultivators of the other races were either bewildered or slipped away to search in secret. *Holy crap, if it really is Su Yu, the treasures on that guy are horrifyingly abundant!* *Killing Su Yu... would mean striking it rich!* One Sun Moon expert after another quickly fanned out. As for sealing the city, let it be sealed! Sealing it was actually better; that way, that guy couldn't escape. If the city wasn't sealed, it would be troublesome if he slipped away! Meanwhile, the Dark Fiend Dragon bellowed, "Tally all the dead spirits! Stop killing them indiscriminately!" At this point, there were already over a thousand dead spirits in the city! If they kept killing, more and more would appear. As he spoke, several more dead spirits emerged. He immediately glared at the human experts who were still slaughtering, raging, "Qin Hao, what are you doing?!" Qin Hao chuckled, "Just killing for fun, don't mind us. City Lord Dark Fiend, don't panic, take it slow. You haven't lost anything, have you?" With that, he added in an eerie tone, "I have already notified my father. He will arrive shortly. As an ancient city lord... it's best to stay neutral!" The fiend dragon's expression flickered! King Daqin, the foremost powerhouse of the human race! He was not a Half-Emperor, but his combat power was boundless, a figure who had slain Invincibles. Even if he wasn't a Half-Emperor, he was by no means inferior to the Half-Emperor experts of the God and Demon races. *He's coming?* The dragon cursed madly in his heart! The ancient city was very safe, and inside the city, he might not truly fear an Invincible... but if King Daqin really came, was he supposed to wage war against King Daqin? Indignation churned in the fiend dragon's heart! *Su Yu... Su Yu of the human race?* Judging by Qin Hao's attitude, it really was Su Yu! *That damned bastard, to dare swindle me! That was bad enough, but now there's massive trouble: the ancient city is sealed, and a horde of Invincibles might arrive soon. If a battle erupts inside the ancient city, it's not impossible for me, the city lord, to be killed.* Of course, those people wouldn't have an easy time either, but if he was dead, what did their fate have to do with him? The Dark Fiend Dragon cursed under his breath, then roared, "All Xinghong Guards, return to the City Lord Manor! The City Lord Manor is sealing its doors!" *Neutrality!* Ancient cities were all neutral entities; he had merely been overbearing and wanted a slice of the pie. Now, a horde of Invincibles might be drawn here. *Fuck it, I'll just follow the example of Tianhe from Tianmie City—seal the manor and stay out of it!* ... Meanwhile. Around the Eastern Rift Valley. Suddenly, King Daqin opened his eyes and looked into the distance toward the Sea of Stars. What was going on? Qin Hao called for aid! Hadn't he gone to the Sea of Stars? Over the past two days, word was that an ancient Invincible's corpse was being auctioned... Of course, King Daqin hadn't held out much hope; they were poor and couldn't afford it. Yet... had he run into trouble? Had his son snatched the corpse, killed someone, and gotten trapped in the ancient city? That was his first thought! However... his son might not be able to pull off such a kill. Quite a few high-stage Sun Moon experts had gone there, and naturally, without cause, those people wouldn't dare kill Qin Hao. King Daqin was somewhat surprised, his brows furrowing slightly. Should he go? He still had to guard the Human Realm's territory! At that moment, not far away, an aura surged. King Daming's aura fluctuated as he instantly transmitted: "Old Qin, I'm heading to the Sea of Stars..." "You're going too?" King Daming was taken aback. What did he mean by "you're going too"? The next moment, he asked in surprise, "You're planning to go as well?" "Qin Hao called for aid!" "Guangshen called for help!" The two Invincible powerhouses met in an instant, staring at each other. Could it be that the two of them teamed up and robbed that Tianduo... Well, the next moment, King Daqin received further news and spoke: "Tianduo is dead... Did they kill Tianduo and seize the ancient corpse?" That was the most likely scenario! King Daming thought so too, nodding. *What audacity! What sheer nerve!* Just as they were thinking this... nearby, an Invincible suddenly gasped, holding a sub-ranking in hand, and said in shock, "News from the Heaven Hunting Pavilion... You two, did you receive distress calls?" "Yes. Old Tang, what did you learn from the Heaven Hunting Pavilion?" King Datang abruptly transmitted to all the Invincibles in the area, "This... this might be catastrophic! Tianduo... no, Su Yu! No... Su Yu impersonated Tianduo, auctioned an ancient Invincible's corpse, swindled 2,300 strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light from the God race, killed Tianduo, and escaped right under the noses of dozens of Sun Moon experts! Xinghong Ancient City is in chaos, and the dead spirits have sealed the city..." Indeed, the Heaven Hunting Pavilion could transmit information even when the ancient city was sealed. In that instant, the human powerhouses were thoroughly shaken. The next moment, a burly figure appeared, looking toward King Daming and the others, somewhat speechless. He said, "Old Zhu and I will head over. Old Qin, continue guarding this place!" King Daxia! King Daming nodded, still somewhat dazed. *Su Yu... swindled dozens of Sun Moon experts, fled right before their eyes, and... conned several thousand strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light?* Come to think of it... that was an awful lot! King Daming didn't have that much wealth! Truly, capturing that light required time and patience; he didn't have that kind of time or energy. In other words, with this single con, had that kid just become the richest person in the Human Realm? There was no time to ponder further. The two Invincibles instantly shattered the void and sped toward the Sea of Stars. If the news was true, Invincibles would definitely go to kill Su Yu this time. At the very least, the God race would definitely send Eternals out to slay him. Whoever was in their shoes would be driven mad with rage! After they departed, King Daqin remained behind, still digesting the news. After a long while, a torrent of furious curses erupted in his heart! *I was wrong!* *Last time, I should have gone to Tianmie Ancient City in person and kicked that brat right back into the Human Realm!* When the kid ran off on his own last time, King Daqin had thought it was fine for him to run off and lie low. Yet... was this lying low?! This was pulling off an earth-shattering caper! Even he had never amassed so much Heaven and Earth Profound Light! "Summon more Eternals back to guard the borders!" The thought arose in King Daqin's mind. *Fuck, we have to summon more Invincibles back, or else... I'm afraid even I won't be able to hold the line!* "We must drag that kid back!" Suddenly remembering something, his willpower surged out, catching up to King Daming and King Daxia, transmitting: "If you see him, you must bring him back! Absolutely! He cannot be allowed to stay out there any longer. This is too terrifying—he will draw out countless Eternals..." This time, King Daqin truly believed it: this kid was more terrifying than Xia Longwu, ten times more terrifying than Ye Batian! *Fuck!* King Daming and King Daxia didn't reply. *Nonsense, of course we'll drag him back if we see him! If we don't bring him back, the All-Heavens Battlefield might see an Invincible personally hunt down a Lingyun for the very first time in history.* Previously, there were bounties and warrants; now, Invincibles would personally enter the fray to hunt him down! This was a first since the dawn of creation! Neither Ye Batian nor Xia Longwu had enjoyed such treatment, but now it might actually happen. ... The news spread rapidly through the Heaven Hunting Pavilion. Across various realms, several Invincibles soon received the intelligence. In the western war zone, an Invincible God King shattered the void and sped toward the ancient city! In the Immortal Realm, the Dao King felt like vomiting blood. His grandson was trapped in an ancient city yet again! No, he had to make another trip. In the Demon Realm, several Demon Kings didn't waste words and rushed over immediately, among them a Demon King of the Blood Fire Demon race. A massive battle was about to erupt—given the circumstances, if the Invincibles didn't fight a colossal war, they would hardly be doing justice to the 2,300 swindled strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light! In the Dragon Realm, which was closest, a Dragon King stepped out of the realm in person to observe the situation—perhaps to enjoy the show, or perhaps... to fish in troubled waters! The world was turned upside down! On this day, numerous Invincibles entered the fray in person. They had no choice; the ancient city was sealed once again. Over the past century, the ancient cities had been sealed fewer than ten times, yet two of those instances had occurred recently! Less than a month apart! ... Tianmie Ancient City. The stone sculpture had also overheard the flurry of discussion within the Heaven Hunting Pavilion in the city. He cracked his eyes open, a smug look of *I knew it all along* gleaming in his gaze! *See? I guessed it!* *Even though I'm petrified, I still foresaw it!* *It really is that troublemaker!* *Xinghong Ancient City got sealed, didn't it?* "Will the Devouring God Half-Emperor go?" Just as he wondered, two powerful auras swept past in a flash, streaking right over the ancient city. The stone sculpture recognized them both: two mighty Eternals of the human race, King Daxia and King Daming. Sure enough, the human race had mobilized as well. It seemed that an Eternal war might truly break out over in the Sea of Stars, at Xinghong Ancient City. *Watching the show sounds rather nice!* The stone sculpture almost wanted to attach a wisp of willpower to follow along and watch the spectacle. *Forget it, attaching to Eternals is tricky, and if Xinghong finds out, he'll feel embarrassed and fly into a rage. After all, watching the show at his expense isn't very polite.* The stone sculpture closed his eyes. *I'll just quietly wait for the news to roll in.* *Let's see if absolute mayhem breaks out.* Then again, having chaos erupt in someone else's territory instead of his own felt pretty good! *That kid had better do a lap through all the other ancient cities and throw them all into turmoil—that would be grand!* The stone sculpture thought to himself: *How does he manage to stir up so much trouble?!* ... Before long. In the Human Realm. Great Xia Prefecture, Civilization Academy. Several communication talismans hanging before Wan Tiansheng were flashing with light. He swiftly picked them up to check... Moments later, his body staggered slightly, almost unable to handle the shock. "I..." "This..." "Fuck!" An exclamation of utter helplessness burst from his lips! *Are you sure this is real?* *Are you sure the Lingyun slaying Shanhai that I saw was in the Human Realm?* *Can you even come back alive?!* *I seriously suspect everything I saw was an illusion!* *You won't make it back!* *Su Yu, that lunatic—he's far more arrogant and insane than Ye Batian or Xia Longwu ever were! What kind of Lingyun dares to con Invincibles—and not just one, but a whole crowd of them—swindling dozens of Sun Moon experts and fleeing right in front of their faces?!* "Two thousand three hundred strands of Heaven and Earth Profound Light..." Wan Tiansheng sucked in a cold breath. *He is so fucking rich! If this kid actually survives, will he ever need to worry about cultivation resources again?* "Can he really make it back alive?" He was filled with serious doubts!