The battle of Invincibles ended in an instant!
Yet it shook the myriad realms.
Four incarnations of Invincibles had fallen. Demon King Lade of the Primordial Demon race had even seen both his present and future incarnations blasted apart. The Demon Emperor of the demon race had personally stepped forth from the River of Time, and the moment this Half-Emperor emerged, all the heavens beheld his radiant splendor.
For such an ancient powerhouse to choose peace and refrain from fighting the stone statue was terrifying to ponder!
And as for the ancient city's stone statue, this was the first time since antiquity that it had stepped outside the city!
It had truly walked out of the ancient city, displaying boundless, terrifying might that struck dread into even Invincibles.
……
Inside the city.
The Sun Moon of the Dragon Silkworm race was dead. Outside the city, while the stone statue obliterated the incarnations of several Invincibles, the other Sun Moons went without saying—they were directly blown to pieces by the stone statue, not a single one surviving.
Even Invincibles were hard-pressed to flee with their lives, let alone mere Sun Moons.
In the city, only the Sun Moons of the Nether race and the Ape race remained. At this moment, both had taken refuge inside ancient houses, trembling violently with the doors bolted, their bodies shuddering without pause!
Everyone else was dead!
The Invincibles had fled for their lives!
Even the Demon Emperor's personal descent had only managed to retrieve Lade's future incarnation. Whether that future incarnation would collapse from losing its past and present was difficult to say; it remained to be seen whether the Demon race's Half-Emperor could save him.
Otherwise, in most cases, once the past and present were gone, the future would dissipate as well.
A rootless, drifting future incarnation was anchored upon the past and present.
At this moment, the Sea of Stars was utterly silent.
Xinghong's emergence filled all the observing powerhouses across the myriad realms with dread, terror, anxiety, shock, and disbelief...
A single stone statue was already this terrifying, and one must not forget—there were thirty-six of them in total!
Inside the ancient city.
Xingyue and the other dead spirit monarchs were also gripped by profound fear. The stone statue returned to the Castellan Manor in an instant, glanced at Su Yu—who was frantically reversing death qi—and ignored him. The next moment, it turned its gaze toward the dead spirit monarchs in the city and said coldly, "Go back!"
Without a word of protest, the dead spirit monarchs vanished instantly.
After waiting for them to leave, Xingyue stepped up to where the stone statue sat, then looked over at Su Yu in the city, demanding sharply, "What in the world is he? No—what cultivation technique does he possess? How can he do this? Why?"
The stone statue opened its eyes, utterly aloof. "Go back!"
Xingyue grew furious. "Are you playing me? Is that it? Did you find a method to counter death qi and deliberately let him enter the city so I would convert him?"
The stone statue's gaze turned chilling. "Go back. I will not repeat myself! The Eternals have retreated; you should leave. Do not defy the rules!"
Xingyue refused to accept it!
She said with simmering anger, "I will increase the death qi channeled into him! I refuse to believe he can truly withstand the death qi backlash of a monarch!"
The stone statue replied indifferently, "You may try."
That was not in accordance with the rules!
The rules of antiquity!
And it was the executor of those rules.
Of course, stepping outside the city earlier had also conformed to the rules, because Lade had attacked it first.
Naturally, increasing Su Yu's burden of death qi also complied with the rules, because the castellan's role was to relieve pressure on the stone statue. Since this castellan was so remarkably capable, letting him relieve more pressure was only natural.
Past castellans had lacked the ability, so there was no helping it.
The stone statue being stationed here did not mean it had to remain locked within the city at all times, nor did it mean it had to bear the corrosion of death qi alone. If someone else was willing to bear it... that was entirely permissible.
Xingyue's death qi surged violently!
The stone statue watched her silently. Do you dare strike?
Or do you intend to violate the rules?
Formidable though the realm of dead spirits was, that depended on whether they could step outside the sacred city!
Xingyue's aura flickered. A moment later, laden with deep resentment, she stepped into the passageway and said chillingly, "Fine. I'll wait for him to grow stronger. I refuse to believe he can smoothly reach the Eternal Realm! So long as he fails to reach Eternal, as long as I stay just a sliver ahead of him, he will eventually become a dead spirit and serve as a general under my command!"
I refuse to believe it!
She refused to believe he could proceed smoothly the entire way. By the rules, Xingyue would always remain a fraction faster than Su Yu, just a little bit faster. No matter how much stronger he grew, she would stay ahead of him!
A gradual accumulation—if one year was not enough, then ten years; if ten years failed, then a century or a millennium. Sooner or later, she would convert Su Yu!
The stone statue remained silent.
Say whatever you please!
A certain someone was still converting the sudden surge of death qi from earlier and had no time to pay attention to them anyway. Speaking of which, dumping the death qi of the entire city onto him in an instant hadn't killed him... He was truly sturdy!
The stone statue mused to itself.
Perhaps... I can let him get used to this.
Perhaps I should give him a bit more pressure. Without pressure, where would motivation come from?
Rather than stirring up trouble all day, wouldn't it be better for him to cultivate diligently, bear the death qi properly, and be a good castellan? Wouldn't that be far better than causing chaos everywhere?
Thinking of this, the stone statue felt a twinge of nostalgia for the sensation of stepping outside the ancient city just moments ago.
It had been too long!
So long ago that it had nearly forgotten how it felt to leave the sacred city. That feeling... had been extraordinarily exhilarating!
The stone statue savored the memory.
When would it be able to go out again?
Were there any other Eternals willing to strike it with a palm? After all... it had to obey the rules!
Vaguely, a tiny glimmer of anticipation stirred within it.
If only someone would hit me with a palm, a punch, or even a blade... then I could walk out fair and square. Earlier, worried that Su Yu might not hold out, it had resolved the fight swiftly and refrained from giving chase, rushing back immediately.
Everything had happened too fast; it hadn't even had time to take a proper look at the vibrant outside world, which was truly a pity!
Now, seeing that Su Yu hadn't died and was merely cursing up a storm while reversing death qi, the stone statue pondered: He hasn't reached his limit yet. Remarkable. He even has the energy to curse. In that case, even if I had stayed away a bit longer, he would have endured it!
With so much energy to spare, I shouldn't have rushed back just now. I could have seized the chance to hunt down those fleeing Eternals.
……
While the stone statue was thinking about Su Yu, Su Yu was currently cursing.
He had finally figured out why the death qi had suddenly spiked—it definitely had to do with that stone statue. What a treacherous trap!
That sudden eruption of death qi earlier had scared him out of his wits.
He had genuinely thought he was about to die!
The sheer volume of death qi pouring in had terrified him, forcing him into frantic reversal. Fortunately, the stone statue had returned, drastically reducing the pressure, allowing him to wear down the death qi that had flooded into him. He had been frightened half to death.
Su Yu cursed inwardly without end!
Not only was there that fright, but also the shock of seeing the Castellan Manor destroyed. It was terrifying—an Invincible's distant palm strike had obliterated the Castellan Manor, which even Sun Moons could barely damage. Utterly terrifying!
"And... weren't those Invincibles blasted to bits just now?"
"Carrier items!"
Su Yu struggled internally, roaring in his mind: *Reverse, hurry up, don't let anyone snatch them away!*
Last time, he had seen a carrier item that Xingyue had taken.
Back then, he hadn't understood, but now he did.
Those were the carrier items for future and past incarnations, treasures of immense value.
Many ninth-stage Sun Moons lacked precisely this, leaving them unable to carry their past and future incarnations to reach quasi-Invincible status. He had to go scavenge them!
Moreover, the Heaven Hunting Pavilion conducted transactions for such treasures as well.
Of course, at that level, it was no longer a matter of money or Heaven and Earth Profound Light.
Such items were only traded via barter!
"Reverse for me!"
Su Yu roared furiously inside. How many past and future incarnations had been blasted to pieces?
If they hadn't been destroyed completely, how many carrier items would be left behind?
I have to go snatch them!
I can't let someone outside the city steal them!
Of course, he was overthinking. At this moment, within a ten-thousand-li radius, virtually no living beings remained. It was too horrifying—four Invincibles blasted apart in an instant, multiple Sun Moons obliterated, and even a Half-Emperor had appeared. Only a fool would come to watch the show right now.
That would be courting death!
Countless beings had fled in terror; who would dare come here to scavenge treasures?
……
Just as Su Yu was frantically reversing death qi.
Outside the Dragon Silkworm Realm passageway.
When the stone statue took to the air and obliterated Lade with a single punch, four formidable Invincibles turned their gazes in that direction, their faces filled with astonishment. A moment later, when the River of Time surged forth, King Miecan couldn't help blurt, "A Half-Emperor! From the Demon race!"
Heavens!
Even a Half-Emperor had been drawn out—just who had they provoked?
"The stone statue!"
"The ancient stone statue!"
The Invincibles were stunned. Had those stone statues emerged?
At that exact moment, King Daxia said nothing, his blade cleaving outward. With a squelch, a Sun Moon fell from the sky, snuffed out in an instant.
"What are you staring at? Go in and kill!"
King Daxia gave a low snort. King Dazhou smiled, waving his hand lightly to cloak the void. From the outside, not the slightest anomaly could be seen; even with a ninth-stage Sun Moon falling, no celestial sign of a Sun Moon collapsing was visible to the outside world.
This group of formidable Invincibles was even stronger than the four outside the ancient city earlier!
King Daxia paid no heed to what was happening over there. Even the appearance of the Demon race's Half-Emperor didn't faze him much. He was weaker than a Half-Emperor, which was a certainty; he had clashed with the Demon race's Half-Emperor before and suffered a loss. But to say a Half-Emperor could easily kill him... if that were true, he would have died long ago.
Seeing King Miecan look like an inexperienced bumpkin, King Daxia felt only disdain. Stepping forth from the River of Time might look grand, but it also proved one thing: that individual was still within the realm of Eternal Invincibles and had not taken that step beyond!
If someone truly reached a higher tier, they wouldn't need to walk out of the River of Time. By then, they could descend anywhere across the myriad realms at will, without requiring a carrier.
……
The Dragon Silkworm Realm.
A colossal major realm, vast and boundless.
At the center of the realm stood a celestial palace.
A massive cocoon lay dormant inside the palace, with a head protruding from it resembling a dragon's—the very origin of the dragon silkworm.
At this moment, the cocoon was suddenly jolted awake!
It assumed human form in an instant!
In the blink of an eye, the white-robed Dragon Silkworm King stepped out of the celestial palace, his fingers pinching in divination as invisible forces from across the entire realm converged upon him.
The Dragon Silkworm King's expression shifted constantly as he surveyed his surroundings.
All around, Sun Moon figures rushed forward.
"King, what has happened?"
"King, what are your orders?"
"..."
Seeing the Dragon Silkworm King's alarm, the Sun Moons were stricken with panic. What was going on?
"Has Wang Hu come again?"
"Most likely!"
"..."
The Dragon Silkworm King said nothing. It was such a strange sensation—the sense of crisis felt immense, yet at the same time, strangely muted.
He did not know this was because King Dazhou had arrived.
King Dazhou, whom Su Yu referred to as the old turtle, had arrived!
Even Su Yu could comprehend the characters "Stillness" and "Endurance" from King Dazhou's texts of will, let alone King Dazhou himself.
The foremost figure of the Quest Realm!
The human race's number-one Civilization Master!
One of the top three powerhouses of the human race!
Each of these titles was part of the capital King Dazhou used to deter the heavens. Among the human Invincibles, several had slain fellow Invincibles: King Daqin, King Daxia, and, naturally, King Dazhou!
There were a few others, but they had mostly achieved it through coordinated ambushes rather than solo kills.
King Daming had never killed one, though an Invincible from the god race who fought him had ended up dead; King Daming claimed credit for it, saying he had killed the foe, but with no corpse to show, everyone took it with a grain of salt.
Right now, two powerhouses who had slain Invincibles had personally arrived at the Dragon Silkworm Realm.
……
At the realm passageway entrance.
A flash of King Daxia's blade brought total annihilation!
All the Dragon Silkworm experts stationed at the passageway entrance were instantly wiped out, whether Sun Moon or Shanhai.
King Daxia looked toward the realm's center and said calmly, "Wang Hu, guard the passageway. Old Liu, wait in the void outside. Old Zhou and I will kill him!"
"Understood!"
King Dahan had no objection. A realm was like an egg; its passageway opened onto the All-Heavens Battlefield, but shattering a realm's boundary did not necessarily lead to the All-Heavens Battlefield—more often than not, it led into the endless void.
That was the birthplace of Heaven and Earth Profound Light!
From the All-Heavens Battlefield, one could also shatter the void to enter the endless void.
King Daxia favored lying in wait within the endless void the most, especially near the god race; he went there often.
King Miecan, however, was dissatisfied. "I wanted to take revenge personally! Besides, I need to sever his past incarnation. You might not be able to slay him completely..."
King Daxia glanced sideways at him and said flatly, "With that meager grasp of time manipulation you possess, do you truly think you can rival me?"
He couldn't be bothered to argue; speed was of the essence!
Otherwise, if the commotion grew too large and dragged on too long, god and demon powerhouses might come to reinforce them. Although they couldn't breach the Dragon Silkworm Realm directly, shattering the realm barrier to enter the endless void gave them a chance to rescue the Dragon Silkworm King.
Since they were here to establish authority, having dispatched so many formidable human Invincibles, failing to kill the Dragon Silkworm King would leave the human race utterly humiliated!
In a flash, King Daxia and King Dazhou vanished.
……
Inside the celestial palace.
The Dragon Silkworm King remained filled with dread. What on earth was happening?
He felt uneasy and panicked, yet at the same time, it felt as though nothing was wrong!
It was far too perplexing!
He grew anxious and restless. The next moment, as if realizing something, he tore through the void, preparing to flee.
Right then, a glint of blade light flashed!
The entire sky and earth were cleaved in two!
Across the entire Dragon Silkworm Realm, only this single flash of blade light remained visible. It was terrifyingly powerful, so overwhelming that it sent chills down the spine, making the entire realm seem to freeze in place.
"King Daxia!"
Terror, horror, despair!
The Dragon Silkworm King roared furiously, transforming into a colossal dragon silkworm that drilled through the void to evade the blade light.
King Daxia!
The human race's King Daxia, wielding the Heaven-Cleaving Blade.
Fear and despair showed upon his massive head as he howled, "The human race invading a minor realm to kill me will surely face the collective opposition of all races! King Daxia, you cannot do this!"
A roar of utter despair!
At that moment, he bellowed again, and two more Dragon Silkworm Kings emerged, tearing through the void to summon a River of Time. It was not as vast as the one Lade had summoned, merely a small stream.
*Buzz!*
The blade fell, severing the river!
King Daxia manifested!
Without a word, the Dragon Silkworm King split into three, fleeing in different directions.
Right then, in the void, a white-robed cultivator stepped forward silently. Reaching out with a hand, he locked the void in place, turning the entire world into an immense net.
It rapidly enveloped the Dragon Silkworm King!
The Dragon Silkworm King fell into absolute despair!
"No... King Dazhou..."
Two of the top three Invincibles of the human race had actually come to kill him!
Joining forces to slay him!
This was the lineup that had once confronted the Demon race's Half-Emperor. Yes, years ago, King Daxia and King Dazhou had teamed up to confront the Half-Emperor. This was not a force he could hope to match. King Daxia alone drove him to despair, to say nothing of King Dazhou being here as well!
"No, you cannot do this..."
"I was born from chaos and tempered through countless ages. It wasn't easy for me to become the supreme god of the Dragon Silkworm Realm... You cannot do this..."
The Dragon Silkworm King was in utter despair!
Yet the two Invincibles didn't even care to speak.
Cold and detached!
Blade light flashed once more—*boom!*
A strike cleaved one of the Dragon Silkworm King's three lives incarnations. One slash, then another—the Heaven-Cleaving Blade contained countless strikes, renowned as the myriad strikes of heaven-cleaving!
In the blink of an eye, ten million slashes fell!
With a thunderous roar, one of the Dragon Silkworm King's incarnations fell. King Daxia reached out and caught a branch in his hand.
On the other side, King Dazhou barely caused a stir.
Divine characters surfaced one after another, blanketing the void and enveloping another incarnation. In an instant, the divine characters vanished, and a black hole appeared where the incarnation had been. The incarnation was gone!
Now, only the present incarnation of the Dragon Silkworm King remained. With a desperate roar, a massive explosion shook the realm, shattering the heavens!
A gaping black hole appeared!
He plunged into the black hole, shattering the realm barrier and prepared to abandon everything to escape!
Yet at that very moment, his desperate howl echoed once more.
"No, King Dahan, no... You cannot do this!"
He had given up all hope, drowning in despair!
He could not believe that three formidable Eternals had been deployed just to kill him. The human race had gone mad. He didn't have that much face; he wasn't worthy of three Invincibles joining forces against him!
Right then, someone grumbled helplessly, "Damn it, why didn't you head for the passageway? I wanted my revenge!"
"Wang Hu!"
Hurled back by a punch from King Dahan that left his present incarnation battered and broken, the Dragon Silkworm King roared furiously, "It's all because of you! If not for you, how could I have ended up like this? Wang Hu, I will walk out from the River of Time once more, and I will kill you!"
Just then, a River of Time materialized.
King Miecan walked upon it, grinning. "Come on then, kill me! Let me kill you for fun first!"
With those words, the river crashed down upon the Dragon Silkworm King.
In the blink of an eye, the Dragon Silkworm King's aura dissipated by more than half, his frame shrinking. King Miecan kicked him repeatedly, reducing him in moments to a tiny silkworm whose aura had decayed to an astonishingly weak state!
King Miecan chuckled, reaching down to scoop the tiny silkworm into his palm, sighing, "Back then, you actually dared swallow me. Dragon Silkworm, you sowed the seeds of your own doom. Perhaps I should change my title from Silkworm Exterminator now!"
*Boom!*
With a resounding boom, he crushed the tiny silkworm into paste.
At that moment, the entire realm felt as though it were collapsing—not that the realm itself was falling apart, but because the Dragon Silkworm King had been born here and was the realm's sovereign ruler. Now, that ruler had fallen!
……
At this moment, on the All-Heavens Battlefield.
Everyone was still focused on the ancient city.
Yet right then, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed. On the All-Heavens Battlefield, where weather phenomena almost never occurred, wild gales swept through, and a star as bright as a blazing sun plummeted from the boundless starry sky!
The next instant, that colossal star seemed to transform into a dragon silkworm, descending from the sky drenched in crimson, bearing an expression of utter despair as it crashed onto the All-Heavens Battlefield!
*Rumble!*
Blood-red light spread continuously from the Dragon Silkworm Realm's passageway, sweeping across the sky for thousands of li!
Shock!
The myriad realms were utterly stunned. The powerhouses who had been watching the ancient city instantly turned their gazes toward that direction.
At the entrances of various passageways, Invincibles emerged.
Floating in midair!
Auras erupting!
Was a war of all heavens about to erupt?
An Invincible had actually fallen!
For fifty-one years, this had never happened.
Even with several fierce battles around ancient cities where incarnations of Invincibles had fallen, there had never been a case where an Invincible was completely annihilated.
Now, shortly after the chaotic battle outside the ancient city, an Invincible had truly and completely perished—the Dragon Silkworm King!
The reasonably powerful Dragon Silkworm King was dead!
He had died inside his own realm, and that direction was precisely the Dragon Silkworm Realm's passageway.
At that moment, four gigantic silhouettes emerged from the crimson light.
Four human Invincibles!
Under the shocked gaze of the myriad realms, the four formidable Invincibles tore through the void toward the east.
At that moment, in the human realm's Eastern Rift Valley!
King Daqin rose, spear in hand, his voice reverberating through the heavens, clanging with iron and blood!
"The Dragon Silkworm King participated in the encirclement of the human race's Su Yu. He deserved death!"
"To the god, demon, immortal, dragon, and all other races: conduct yourselves with dignity! The human race may be weak, but we are not to be bullied!"
King Daqin held his spear across the sky, his voice biting cold. "We have slain the Dragon Silkworm King and eradicated the Dragon Silkworm Realm as a warning to all! Let the myriad races of all realms not bring ruin upon themselves! As for the Human-Immortal Alliance, if the Immortal race wishes to tear up the treaty, let the Ancient Immortal Emperor come to the Eastern Rift Valley, and we shall formally dissolve it!"
The myriad realms fell silent!
The voice echoed outward—a thousand li, ten thousand li, twenty thousand li, thirty thousand li...
Reverberating endlessly!
Shaking all the heavens!
At this moment, King Daqin stood boundlessly formidable, his spear projecting across the heavens, a single spear deterring and suppressing the entire realm!
Across the Eastern Warzone, only that spear stood visible.
Meanwhile, in the Southern Warzone, the Demon Emperor, who had just returned, manifested a projection. Wearing an imperial crown, treading upon the River of Time with hands behind his back, he looked toward the east, sighed softly, and said nothing.
In the Western Warzone, an ancient powerhouse projected his silhouette, divine radiance erupting to shake the heavens.
In the Northern Warzone, after a long silence, an ancient immortal projected a silhouette and said softly, "The Human-Immortal Alliance has not broken. The kings of the Immortal Realm should exercise restraint. Qin Guang, excessive slaughter is unwise. The Dragon Silkworm... alas!"
With a sigh, the figure vanished.
At the same time, the two vast silhouettes in the west and south quickly dissipated as well.
The immense All-Heavens Battlefield, silenced by the appearance of these mighty powerhouses, was dead quiet. Invincibles emerged with solemn expressions, some overcome with absolute terror.
……
The Xuan Armor Realm.
A ninth-stage Sun Moon flew out, face etched with boundless dread, and bowed his head. "My king says he acknowledges his fault! We beg Lord King Tianzhu's forgiveness!"
A strange look crossed King Tianzhu's eyes.
Backing down?
Naturally—how could they not?
Even he was shocked. Impressive indeed: four powerhouses had seized this opportunity to invade the Dragon Silkworm Realm and strike down the Dragon Silkworm King!
In the void, boundless fiery light still reflected across the sky.
An Invincible had died!
This fiery radiance wouldn't dissipate for at least three days.
Even King Tianzhu was shaken. They really killed him?
Are they throwing caution to the wind?
Yes, this could deter some people right now, but it would also make the Invincibles of the other hundred races far more wary of the human race. Slaying him like this could only be called drinking poison to quench thirst; it was prone to pushing those Invincibles into an alliance!
Are they... preparing to launch a war of all heavens?
There was no joy on King Tianzhu's face!
This was the prelude to all-out war!
With the fall of an Invincible as the opening act, was the human race... truly ready?
This time had been a surprise raid, taking advantage of everyone's attention being drawn to the ancient city. Next time, invading a minor realm to kill an Invincible wouldn't be nearly so simple!
Deploying four Invincibles at once had been immensely perilous.
Had the news leaked at the time, those four Invincibles could have been surrounded and killed.
Now that the slaughter had begun, who would hold back out of caution anymore?
King Tianzhu was filled with deep concern!
……
Meanwhile, the All-Heavens Battlefield remained silent for a long time.
No one spoke, and no one moved.
All gazed up at the endless fiery light in the void!
Today, an Invincible had died!
Compared to that, the destruction of several incarnations outside the ancient city earlier was hardly surprising. After all, those weren't true deaths; there was still hope of recovery. But the Dragon Silkworm King was truly dead, dead beyond all measure!
The Dragon Silkworm Realm was wiped out!
Even if the physical realm hadn't been shattered, the Dragon Silkworm race was thoroughly ruined. Perhaps not a single Sun Moon remained, or perhaps a few wandering the All-Heavens Battlefield would become homeless drifters.
This race was finished.
Among the top hundred races, the Dragon Silkworm race no longer existed!
……
At the same time.
Inside the ancient city.
Su Yu nearly choked, almost killed by his own death qi!
He was too stunned to focus on reversing it.
What was going on?
Struggling, he pushed open the door of the ancient house and saw the distant, boundless fiery light illuminating the heavens. He also saw that colossal blazing sun crashing into the earth!
Only much later did King Daqin's faint voice reach his ears, carrying across tens of millions of li!
He also heard the Immortal race's response.
The Dragon Silkworm King had been killed!
An Invincible had fallen!
Su Yu stood dazed. The human race killed him?
The human race had such nerve?
They killed him for my sake?
He heard what King Daqin had said: because the Dragon Silkworm Realm had taken part in the encirclement against him, human Invincibles had broken into their realm and killed the Dragon Silkworm King, eliminating an Invincible!
They had wiped out an entire realm!
That race was no more!
Just a short while ago, a Sun Moon of the Dragon Silkworm race had still been cursing him. Now... that Sun Moon was dead, and the entire Dragon Silkworm Realm was gone?
Su Yu swallowed hard. *Do I really have this much face?*
When had the human Invincibles become so kind-hearted, standing up for him to the point of executing an Invincible?
At this moment, he felt shock, awe, disbelief... and vaguely, a slight surge of satisfaction.
*Does this... count as the treatment of a major race?*
*Is this what a peerless genius experiences?*
He had never experienced anything like this. Of course, when King Daxia and King Daming came to his aid back then, he had tasted a bit of it, but at no point had it felt as clear and visceral as right now.
King Daqin's declaration—for encircling Su Yu... they wiped out a realm!
This caused Su Yu's emotions to suddenly spiral out of control.
"For me... wiped out a realm?"
He murmured to himself, incredulous, yet feeling wronged, stifled, and exhilarated all at once!
His expression was exceedingly complicated!
His feelings were far too tangled!
He instantly put on his white mask. His thoughts were a tangled mess—truly, at this moment, he couldn't describe what he felt. He had always believed he was abandoned by the human race, or rather, that the Multiple Divine Characters Faction was one thing, and the human race was another!
The two had little to do with each other.
Yet now, King Daqin's voice had traveled tens of millions of li. The human race hadn't failed to act; they had their concerns and their difficulties, but at this critical juncture, they had still stepped forward!
They had slaughtered an Invincible!
A warning to the myriad realms!
The human race was still a top-ten race, still the hegemon of the east!
Powerful races like the gods, demons, and immortals aside, even minor races dared cause trouble? Even if they possessed an Invincible, they remained a minor race—any race with fewer than ten Invincibles was a minor race!
They deserved slaughter!
At this moment, Su Yu was so overwhelmed that he could only hide behind his mask. He didn't want anyone to see his loss of composure or his bewilderment.
*I... don't need this!*
*There really was no need to do all this for me!*
*I'm afraid!*
*I finally steeled my resolve that I, Su Yu, am merely myself, not the human race's Su Yu. Don't define me, don't attach that prefix to my name—and yet now, King Daqin is declaring that I am the human race's Su Yu!*
His emotions in turmoil, Su Yu stepped inside for a moment, then immediately burst back out, soaring toward the city gates!
*I don't care about any of this! It has nothing to do with me!*
*I don't want to hear it!*
*I'll do my thing, and you do your killing. It's unrelated to me. I don't want to hear it, nor do I need your help. I am just me. I am Su Yu, not the Su Yu of any race—I am not!*
Nineteen-year-old Su Yu had suffered an enormous shock to his psyche.
There was excitement, resentment, reluctance, and a touch of pride... *Did you see that?*
*I still have backing! Heaps of Invincibles—did you see that?*
*Cross me, and they'll kill your Invincibles!*
Yet he buried these emotions deep in his heart. *No, I can't let this sway me. I don't want these favors. The human race treated my master, my grandmaster, Teacher Liu, and the Multiple Divine Characters Faction too unkindly!*
*I won't accept your kindness!*
*My martial uncle is still wandering, my master and grandmaster are still suffering in the Great Xia Prefecture, my Teacher Liu is still enduring hardships on the All-Heavens Battlefield... I don't need any of this!*
Su Yu numbed himself!
He would ignore it all!
He swiftly dashed out of the city and plunged straight into the Sea of Stars, sweeping around rapidly in the form of a Water Person. Nothing was more enticing than finding carrier items!
*I only care about carrier items!*
*As for the rest, I know nothing about it.*
He didn't know how else to regulate his emotions, so he could only use these treasures to numb himself.
……
At this moment, Su Yu was not the only one shaken.
After a period of silence, the entire All-Heavens Battlefield fell into absolute stillness.
Invincibles returned, and Sun Moons retreated to their nests.
Too many momentous events had occurred today.
Four Invincibles from the god and demon races had been wounded. Of the earlier ten Invincibles, six had lost incarnations. In a single month, ten Invincibles had been heavily wounded, and one had fallen completely!
Among them, two Invincibles each from the god, demon, dragon, and immortal races were severely injured!
An Invincible from the Nether race had also been gravely wounded.
Of all the major powers, only the human race had suffered no losses.
As for the Sun Moon Realm, five late-stage Sun Moons had died today, but their deaths now seemed utterly insignificant!
Dying alongside Invincibles made their demises appear pathetic!
In death, barely anyone even remembered them.
……
On this day, the name of the human race echoed across the heavens once more.
Countless minor races were terrified!
This was a hegemonic race, the co-rulers of antiquity; even if fallen, they were not someone just anyone could provoke!
The Ape race and Nether race quickly rallied their Invincibles to reinforce their realm passageways.
In the Xuan Armor Realm, King Xuan Armor sent word to the human race that he acknowledged his fault.
The god and demon races also rapidly pulled back their defense lines. The Invincibles of the top hundred races quickly established contact, preparing their defenses. A war of all heavens might erupt at any moment!
Xinghong Ancient City was completely still.
The two surviving Sun Moons dared not take a single step out of their ancient houses, trembling in fear. The converted Sun Moons did the same, maintaining absolute silence, not daring to utter a sound!
In the massive ancient city, when Su Yu returned bearing several treasures and walked down the street, he didn't see a single soul!
"Two carrier items..."
Su Yu felt a surge of joy, experiencing the simple pleasure of counting his spoils, forgetting what had happened earlier. *What does any of that have to do with me? I don't remember!*
*All I remember is that I obtained two supreme treasures!*
Not bad luck!
Pretty good, though it felt like there should have been more. There had clearly been more.
Incarnations from all four Invincibles had fallen, hadn't they?
Could they have been blasted to dust?
Perhaps it was the same last time, which was why he had only found a single treasure belonging to the Nether race.
This time, his luck was still decent—he had found two!
……
Just as he entered the city.
Outside the walls.
Xia Longwu held an object in his hand, watching Su Yu disappear through the city gates. He looked down at the treasure in his grasp, then back toward Su Yu, letting out a laugh. *The kid moves fast!*
*Oh well, picking up a treasure for free isn't bad either!*
The next moment, Xia Longwu turned his gaze toward the glow of crimson light and gave a cold sneer. *The Dragon Silkworm King... to have four Invincibles sent to kill him, his death was well worth it!*
Xia Longwu looked back toward the city, in the direction of the stone statue. A flicker of wariness appeared in his narrowed pupils, and he vanished from the spot in an instant.
*That stone statue is someone I can't afford to provoke!*
Inside the city, the stone statue opened its eyes and watched him leave without a word. It was best that he left, saving it from trouble. While it truly wished to go outside, it was better to give Su Yu some time to recover!
The human race was still fierce, slaying an Eternal just like that. The stone statue mused to itself: *that race remains as ruthless as ever.*
Chapter 442