Harvest

Two divine characters advanced to the Sun Moon Realm, and the civilization chronicle advanced to a Heaven armament! Within Su Yu's sea of will, massive waves churned as it expanded. Judging by the strength and breadth of his willpower, Su Yu should have long since fused his apertures and stepped into the Shanhai Realm as a Civilization Master. However, Su Yu had previously cultivated using Sun Moon Xuanhuang Liquid. His apertures were exceptionally powerful and varied in size, which increased the difficulty of aperture fusion. Thus, Su Yu remained at the ninth stage of the Lingyun Realm. Furthermore, Su Yu did not wish to fuse his apertures yet. First, he had not accumulated enough divine characters. Second, he had not yet opened all 360 divine apertures. Fusing apertures now would hardly benefit Su Yu. Once all 360 divine apertures were opened and had all grown uniformly powerful, going by what had occurred with his origin apertures, he might automatically undergo aperture fusion into nine apertures. Stepping into the ninth stage of the Shanhai Realm in a single day would be entirely normal. Though he had not yet stepped into the Shanhai Realm, Su Yu's sea of will continued to expand. The impact brought by the Sun Moon divine characters caused his sea of will to swell ceaselessly. The civilization chronicle was his divine character. As the civilization chronicle grew stronger, Su Yu grew stronger as well. At this very moment, as the civilization chronicle evolved, the sun and moon shifted within Su Yu's eyes, gradually reflecting the outline of a book. He seemed to see many things. He looked toward Xia Huyou. Xia Huyou's aura was surging and he was reveling in it, but his expression suddenly shifted slightly. Looking at Su Yu, his heart gave a jolt. In that split second, he seemed to have felt a piercing sensation. As for Su Yu, looking at Xia Huyou gave him his first experience of a completely different perception of spacetime vision. Looking at Xia Huyou, what he saw was not the boy, but a blade! A terrifyingly powerful blade! A blade sealed within his body—the Xia family's blade, an ancestral blade, King Daxia's blade! Su Yu watched in silence. So that was it. King Daxia... had never been using the blade he always used. His blade was on Xia Huyou, inside Xia Huyou's body! It was a blade that was sealed, yet still exceedingly formidable. Perhaps Xia Huyou could not control it or bring out its full might, but carrying this blade within him meant Xia Huyou's strength was by no means weak—at least nowhere near as weak as he made it appear. Killing Lingyun cultivators was a certainty; as for killing Shanhai cultivators... most likely he could. Su Yu stared at him, making Xia Huyou somewhat uneasy. Xia Huyou descended from midair, looked at Su Yu, and said dryly, "You... you're making me pretty nervous staring like that. What are you doing?" Su Yu's eyes looked exceptionally deep at this moment. His eyes had already been tempered and were inherently powerful. Now, with two divine characters in the civilization chronicle reaching the Sun Moon Realm—characters possessing the innate trait of peering into the past and future—Su Yu's gaze was truly hair-raising to behold. Su Yu ignored him and turned his gaze toward Huang Teng. Over there, Huang Teng also gave a start and hurriedly restrained his aura. Yet in that split second, Su Yu saw 240 brightly glowing origin apertures radiating radiance! Two hundred and forty apertures opened! Surrounding his physical body was a halo of light—the manifestation of 36 Castings. Right now, Huang Teng's strength was at the sixth stage of Lingyun. Two hundred and forty apertures, 36 Castings of the physical body, Lingyun six transformations... If those 240 apertures could form a complete cultivation technique or a unified circulatory system, with each Lingyun transformation multiplying strength by 1.5 times, then Huang Teng's explosive power right now would exceed 300,000 apertures of force, approaching the strength of a first-stage Sun Moon. However... he clearly could not. His 240 apertures did not form a single complete system; only 144 of them formed a major system. Because of this, the drop in Huang Teng's effective power was huge. Su Yu made a rough estimate: it was probably between 100,000 and 150,000 apertures, comparable to an ordinary seventh-stage Shanhai. The difference between the two was vast. A 144-aperture technique was already the limit. Unless one reached the Sun Moon Realm, one could not convert the power of apertures beyond 144 into combat strength—that was the power of Sun Moon single apertures. Otherwise, below the Sun Moon Realm, no matter how many apertures you opened, if they did not form a system, the increase in strength was minimal. As for Su Yu, it was because after opening 360 apertures, he actively circulated them to fuse forty apertures into one, which gave him such a monstrous foundation. In the past, Su Yu had never seen through Huang Teng. Looking again today, he could see through most of it, grasping virtually everything. Sweat gradually beaded on Huang Teng's forehead. Under Su Yu's scrutiny, he felt more terrified than when facing a Sun Moon expert, even vaguely sensing the terrifying feeling of facing an Invincible who saw through everything about him. Su Yu was neither an Invincible nor a Sun Moon... or perhaps he could be counted as one, because his divine characters had reached the Sun Moon stage. Combined with the uniqueness of the "Civilization" divine characters and his peculiar eyes, he could see things that even ordinary Sun Moon experts could hardly perceive. "Su Yu..." Huang Teng said somewhat nervously, "Don't look at me like that! We might not be close, but I'm close with your teacher!" Su Yu smiled. The divine radiance in his eyes receded, and he looked away, allowing Huang Teng to heave a sigh of relief. Su Yu was getting more and more terrifying! Truly terrifying! The last time he encountered Su Yu in the ancient city, even though Su Yu had sent him flying with a single punch, back then Su Yu had merely felt a bit stronger than him. There had been nothing mysterious or unfathomable about him. Today's Su Yu was completely different! Xia Huyou also hastily changed the subject: "Su Yu, you sealed off the Twin Dragon Gorge, and there are still quite a few people inside... Are you planning to kill them all?" Su Yu had killed the people outside the Twin Dragon Gorge. Yet right now, pages from the civilization chronicle blocked the gorge's exit. Was he planning to wipe them all out in one swoop? Xia Huyou added, "Too much slaughter might cause unnecessary trouble." Su Yu nodded slightly, walked toward the entrance of the Twin Dragon Gorge, and chuckled. "Scared?" "Not at all!" Xia Huyou chuckled. "Even if you kill them all, what do I have to be afraid of? Still... you should be careful with some top geniuses! Some descendants or direct disciples of Invincibles might have trump cards up their sleeves!" Su Yu nodded slightly. He had thought of that before—for instance, when Foutuling brought out the Five Elements Divine Talisman. However, he had always felt that even an Invincible talisman could not unleash too much power in ordinary hands. But just now... he had seen the blade inside Xia Huyou's body. Thinking of this, Su Yu said thoughtfully, "Only one person can enter a passage! Do you think someone might leave a drop of blood essence inside someone's body, like an Invincible's blood essence?" He had not touched the realm of Invincibles, nor had he ever asked about such things. Xia Huyou possessed deep family heritage, however, and immediately replied upon hearing this, "It's possible—Invincible blood essence... But even if it erupts within the body, an ordinary person couldn't withstand that explosive force. They'd blow up instantly. It's strictly a mutually destructive measure!" Su Yu nodded. Even he could not withstand it, let alone the others on the first floor. Even if one's physical body reached the Sun Moon stage, one still would not be able to bear it. "Then could someone bring along an Invincible armament from their clan? How much power could they bring out?" "..." Xia Huyou looked at him silently with an odd expression before replying after a while, "First, it depends on bloodline! Second, it depends on whether the Invincible has completely relinquished control over that Invincible armament. If they gave it up, and the person managed to take control of the weapon with the Invincible's assistance, the power they can unleash is still tremendous! Heaven armaments can sometimes unleash Sun Moon power, and the stronger the wielder, the more power they can bring out!" Su Yu nodded slightly. He possessed a Heaven armament too. And not just any ordinary Heaven armament! Sun Moon power? Perfectly normal! His tome now had 301 pages, each page a Sun Moon! Xia Huyou explained further, "Normally, an Invincible wouldn't give their weapon to their descendants or disciples, but right now is different! This is a special time. Those entering this place all came to seize treasures, and perhaps to snatch the Nine-Leaved Heavenly Lotus... The first floor isn't as bad, but on the higher floors, I suspect there are even three-life embodiments of Invincibles who entered in disguise..." Su Yu nodded slightly and walked up to the Twin Dragon Gorge. At this moment, the pages sealing the gorge were being attacked. Evidently, someone inside had realized the Twin Dragon Gorge was blocked and was attempting to forcefully breach the seal. "Have you seen my teachers and the others?" "No!" Xia Huyou shook his head. "They might have already gone to the second floor, or they're somewhere else. Teacher Liu definitely isn't on the first floor. Teacher Bai might be, but if he is, he'll probably head for the higher floors soon..." Su Yu thought the same. If Bai Feng were on the first floor, he would also have to rush to the higher floors, provided he found Wu Jia and Wu Lan first, because their goal this time was the Heavenly River Sand. There did not seem to be any Heavenly River Sand on the first floor. At this moment, the pages blocking the Twin Dragon Gorge trembled violently under the onslaught; the attacks from inside grew fiercer and fiercer! Su Yu recalled the pages. In an instant, seven or eight attacks hurtled toward him. The lethality was not weak! Some divine talismans were even hurled at him! Someone spotted Xia Huyou and roared furiously, "Xia Huyou, do you have a death wish?!" Hardly had the curse left his mouth when divine light exploded from Su Yu's eyes! Boom! Figures shattered one after another! A book swept across the void, and in the blink of an eye, the seven or eight individuals who had just attacked the pages vanished instantly, leaving not even a scrap of flesh or blood behind. Huang Teng and Xia Huyou both drew sharp breaths. Su Yu's methods of killing were becoming increasingly mercurial. And his strength was growing ever more terrifying! Su Yu paid them no heed and looked at Huang Jiu. "You, Xia Huyou, and the others stay here and block the other exit. I'm going in through this one!" The Twin Dragon Gorge consisted of two major chasms. Su Yu wanted to scour both! Huang Jiu was quite strong, and together with Huang Teng and Xia Huyou, blocking one exit was feasible. Huang Jiu remained silent, tacitly agreeing. Su Yu said no more. With the little fur ball around, he was not worried about Huang Jiu playing any tricks anyway. Soon, he stepped into the left passage—or perhaps one should say the left nostril. As soon as he left, Xia Huyou smiled. "Elder Sister Liu..." "My surname isn't Liu!" Huang Jiu snapped irritably. "My name is Huang Jiu!" Xia Huyou chuckled, unbothered. "Then Elder Sister Huang... Elder Sister Huang must have some goals for entering the Star Residence Mansion, right? Quite a few people from the Great Xia Prefecture entered. If Elder Sister Huang needs anything, the Xia family might be able to help." Huang Jiu ignored him. At the side, Huang Teng also chuckled. "Huang Jiu, strictly speaking, you and I share the same clan name, so we're family. His Highness Huyou harbors no malice, he just wants to make friends! An extra friend makes an easier road." Huang Jiu glanced at them and suddenly sneered, "You think I'm a member of the Liu family, feel you owe me, and want to make it up to me?" Xia Huyou plastered on a smile. "That's not what we mean..." Huang Jiu scoffed. Soon, a thought struck her, and she smiled mockingly. "If I truly am that person... then strictly speaking, you and I have a marriage agreement! Didn't Su Yu say I wasn't worthy of you? Perhaps he was right; I'm unworthy of associating with your Xia family. But many across the myriad heavens know about this. If one day I truly go acknowledge my kin in the Liu family, will you, Xia Huyou, marry me?" Xia Huyou chuckled dryly. "Well... if elder sister doesn't mind..." Huang Jiu scoffed, "Don't bother. I'm not worthy of you! How about this: if your Xia family agrees to one request of mine, even if I do acknowledge the Liu family, I will take the initiative to sever all ties with your Xia family. How about that? That way, it won't be that your Xia family was heartless, but that I, Huang Jiu, didn't know what was good for me!" "Name it!" Xia Huyou did not say much else. Huang Jiu pondered for a moment and said, "My grandfather wants to attain the Dao. His Dao attainment will bring immense trouble! Perhaps he will attain the Dao here this time. Regarding your Xia family, did your father come?" "He did." "Then have your father help my grandfather once, and everything between your Xia family and me will be wiped clean!" Xia Huyou looked at her, somewhat surprised by her thoughts and choice. "You mean Kongkong?" "I only have one relative!" Huang Jiu said coldly. "Of course, you don't have to agree. After all, I might not be the person you think I am, and even if I am, I won't necessarily go to the Liu family or seek them out!" Xia Huyou took a deep breath. "This matter... unless we reach the seventh floor, talking about it is pointless. You want to go to the seventh floor?" "Naturally!" "Then... let's talk about it once we reach the seventh floor!" Xia Huyou did not refuse, nor did he agree. The situation was uncertain; whether they could even reach the seventh floor was up in the air. ... Meanwhile, Su Yu had already stepped into the left nostril. Upon entering, trees grew everywhere—some colossal, some tiny. No one was in the outer perimeter; even if there were survivors, they were currently in the inner perimeter. Su Yu glanced around. Those pieces of Dragon Entangling Wood showed signs of having been plucked, while others had not been plucked, but severed. Trimming nose hair and plucking nose hair were two very different concepts. One look was enough for Su Yu to understand. Cutting them off carried little danger, but plucking them... would definitely bring peril. "If this is a nostril, then it breathes... Every once in a while, there must be a breath. The astral wind—that's when it's most dangerous!" Su Yu calculated in his mind. "A cultivation technique circulates once every ten years! Following this ratio and comparing it to myself, comparing the time it takes to circulate a cultivation technique to a single breath..." He did not know a Cosmic circulation technique, but he had a rough idea of how long it took for 360 apertures to naturally circulate one heavenly cycle—about one day. And at his realm of strength, under normal, natural circumstances, he took a breath once every five minutes. One 288th! "Around every twelve days, it takes a breath... As for the duration of a breath, one breath of mine takes about ten seconds, so a breath here would last about ten hours... Terrifying..." Su Yu rapidly deduced this in his head. He had never been here before, but he could roughly infer certain dangers. Once he understood the circumstances here, certain crises ceased to be crises. Soon, Su Yu encountered someone running back along the way. It was a Demon race expert. Seeing Su Yu and sensing his fairly powerful aura, the demon was not keen on fighting and leaped into the air, about to leave. Yet Su Yu suddenly appeared before him. The Demon's face fell, and he snapped coldly, "What do you think you're doing? Has the Demon Wolf clan grown so bold? Have you forgotten who your masters are?" The Demon Wolf clan was subservient to the Demon race. Su Yu smiled. "Just asking a question. Are there still people ahead? Any big names? Also, why aren't you continuing inward instead of running back?" The Demon's expression shifted. A ninth-stage Lingyun Demon Wolf! Whereas he was only at the first stage of Lingyun. If someone killed him here, no one would ever know. Though incensed, he quickly regained his composure. "Demon Wolf, don't get cocky! Lord Zhan Ta is not far away. If you make a move and draw Lord Zhan Ta's attention, you're a dead man!" "Zhan Ta?" Su Yu was slightly surprised. "He's on the first floor?" He actually knew this person. Zhan Ta, a genius of the Blood Fire Demon race, fifth stage of the Shanhai Realm, an Earth Ranking genius. He was not young anymore, so why would he appear on the first floor? Shouldn't he be on at least the second or third floor? This fellow had even gone to the Human Realm previously. Su Yu had assumed he was dead, yet he was still alive—what good luck! A fifth-stage Shanhai Earth Ranking genius possessed truly formidable strength. The Demon sneered, "Of course Lord Zhan Ta is here! This gorge is our Demon race's territory. Beat it, or soon you won't even know how you died!" With that, he took a few steps back and warned warily, "Also, the Heavenly Astral Wind is about to descend. If you don't leave, even as a high-stage Lingyun, you'll be shredded into mince!" "It's coming already?" Su Yu was rather surprised. It seemed the Demons had explored this place quite thoroughly. The astral wind was likely the breath. Lasting ten hours... But judging by what he said, Zhan Ta and the others had no intention of leaving and were still in the inner area. How bold! Of course, they probably had the confidence; after all, an Earth Ranking genius could most likely weather the ordeal without issue. Having gotten his answers and seeing the Demon's wariness, Su Yu smiled. The sun and moon manifested in his eyes as he looked at the demon. The Demon was startled at first, then went blank, entirely dazed. At that moment, he was drawn into an illusion, completely disoriented. Su Yu casually raised the tome and pulled him into the book. A new page was added to the Demon section—not bad at all. Outside, the Gods, Demons, and Immortals were hard to kill, but in here, killing them was effortless. A weakling at the first stage of Lingyun was far too easy to eliminate. "The Blood Fire Demons... really invested heavily this time. Zhan Ta counts as a top genius of their clan. Taking Zhan Ta in would be nice too!" Su Yu continued forward. Those nose hairs occasionally attacked him. Whenever they attacked, Su Yu severed them with a slash, reaping a large swathe each time. Truth be told, the quality of these nose hairs was quite decent. Crafting an Earth armament might be tough, but crafting profound armaments was definitely not an issue. More importantly, there were so many of them! Su Yu was not actually interested in forging profound armaments, but if they could forge Earth armaments, he needed to cut down more of them. Perfecting his civilization chronicle would consume far too many treasures! Ten thousand pages! That was Su Yu's plan—every page an Earth armament. Ten thousand of them! An ordinary person forging them could probably forge until death without gathering enough materials. The Star Residence Mansion was a great place; only here could one gather such quantities. Otherwise, one would have to go plunder the God, Demon, Immortal, and Dragon realms, because plundering the Human Realm would not even be enough. This thing was immensely powerful, but it ate money like crazy! Truly an absolute money pit! An Invincible most likely could not afford to maintain it. To forge this thing into a divine armament, Su Yu suspected it could eat dozens of Invincibles out of house and home. Right now was pretty good—the Star Residence Mansion opened right on time, and treasures were plentiful. ... Deep within the Twin Dragon Gorge. At this moment, the tall, burly Zhan Ta stood with several Demons, staring at a colossal Dragon Entangling Wood with eyes full of longing. "Once the Heavenly Astral Wind sweeps through, this Dragon Entangling Wood will be shaken by the wind, and it might even be blown free on its own. Even if it isn't, that will be the best time to sever it... This one can definitely be used as a carrier!" It was an enormous, golden-gleaming Dragon Entangling Wood, swaying in midair right now. Even Zhan Ta did not dare approach carelessly; that thing could kill. Beside him, a Blood Fire Demon with crimson hair said in a low voice, "Lord Zhan Ta, I'm afraid this thing... can't be severed, right? It can only be uprooted!" Zhan Ta nodded and smiled. "The roots are easier to dig out. As long as we get our hands on this, even if we gain nothing else from this trip to the Star Residence Mansion, it will be a complete success! Based on past patterns, since a carrier-grade Dragon Entangling Wood appeared on this side, there should be one on the opposite side as well... That side has been seized by the Gods. Later, we'll see if there's a chance to get rid of them. They're probably waiting for the astral wind too!" The Gods and the Demons had each taken over one of the Twin Dragon Gorges, both of carrier grade! This thing could be used to forge Heaven armaments or directly as a carrier. Such was the allure of the Star Residence Mansion: treasures were everywhere, and as long as you had the capability, you could take them! Furthermore, these things seemed inexhaustible. Even if you took them away, they might reappear years later. Su Yu just had not arrived yet; if he had, he would have told him that nose hairs grow back after being cut—it just took a bit of time. At this moment, faint astral winds began blowing through, sweeping in from the depths! That was where the true danger lay. Normally, no one dared enter the depths. Just as Zhan Ta was itching to act, waiting for this opportunity, someone behind him suddenly chuckled, "Zhan Ta, pretty good luck you've got!" Zhan Ta took fright and whipped around, demanding coldly, "Who are you?" This was no Demon Wolf! How could a ninth-stage Lingyun Demon Wolf possess such guts? "Lang Tu!" Su Yu chuckled. Glancing around, he saw that these fellows had already cut down quite a few nose hairs. And looking ahead at that thick golden nose hair, Su Yu was also astounded. Remarkable! No wonder these people stood guard without leaving! Furthermore, Su Yu admired the person who forged this Star Residence Mansion more and more. Truly extraordinary! Could this nose hair regenerate endlessly? If so... that was truly frightening! A carrier—an inexhaustible supply of carriers! This was a foundation for countless generations! Granted, massive amounts of origin qi or other powers were probably siphoned to nourish it. Still... being able to construct a mansion of this caliber, to allow carriers to regenerate so that people could harvest them again after years had passed—that was true capability, unimaginably mighty! Su Yu said no more. A book hovered in the air and swept over the others. Zhan Ta, already sensing trouble, roared loudly as his body expanded instantaneously. Gripping a giant axe, he hacked down toward Su Yu. As a fifth-stage Shanhai, Zhan Ta's strength was by no means exaggerated. Ordinary cultivators below the seventh stage of Shanhai possessed power not exceeding 100,000 apertures of force. This fellow approached nearly 300,000 apertures of force—a bonafide genius capable of battling peak Shanhai experts. Su Yu did not pay it too much mind. Instead, his eyes blazed like torches as he looked at him. He did not fear Zhan Ta; he merely needed to watch out for the fellow's trump cards. Right now, his yang apertures were not yet opened, and while his combat power was immense, he still had to be careful not to capsize in a gutter. Sure enough, with this look, Su Yu spotted an issue. Something was indeed sealed inside this fellow's body. Looking closer... it was a drop of crimson blood, not of an Invincible, but of ninth-stage Sun Moon intensity. Su Yu breathed a quiet sigh of relief. Indeed, Invincible blood essence was far too rare. But as for ninth-stage Sun Moon blood essence, after an Invincible killed an opponent, they could preserve it. These fellows truly all had their own means. "Just a drop of blood essence!" Ninth-stage Sun Moon was strong, but a drop of ninth-stage Sun Moon blood essence was something Su Yu could handle. Still, it would be best to preserve that blood essence without giving Zhan Ta the chance to trigger it! That meant he had to instakill him! At that moment, a massive hammer appeared silently in the void, imbued with dozens of divine characters, and smashed down heavily! Zhan Ta felt a sudden chill in his heart and subconsciously looked up, utterly horrified. "Su—" BOOM! With a single hammer blow, Zhan Ta went dizzy, his aura plummeting instantly. Meanwhile, the book had already enveloped the others in a flash, swallowing them all within the blink of an eye. As for Zhan Ta, having knocked him unconscious with the hammer, Su Yu reached out with a claw. With a squelch, he plucked a drop of blood essence straight from his heart into his hand. That blood essence still tried to pulse and erupt, but with a low bark from Su Yu, its rampaging aura was snuffed out instantly! "Wouldn't it have been better to just behave?" Su Yu chuckled. At this moment, the book descended and devoured Zhan Ta in an instant. And the moment Zhan Ta was devoured, a cloud suddenly descended. A myriad heavens reward! Su Yu curled his lip. Nowadays, he killed many people, yet opportunities to receive rewards had become rare. This likely had to do with the advantage he took last time; if his name were still on the Heaven Hunting Ranking, Su Yu's record would include assisting in slaying an Eternal. Since then, Su Yu had killed numerous people without receiving any rewards—even when he killed Sun Moon experts previously, the credit had been accumulating. Accumulated rewards! It meant that despite killing so many people, including quite a few ranked experts, he had not met the threshold for a reward to descend. Now, having killed an Earth Ranking genius like Zhan Ta, he had finally met the requirement. The reward yielded by an Earth Ranking genius was probably higher than that for a third-stage Sun Moon. Slaying geniuses yielded greater rewards. If someone could kill Su Yu, even an eighth-stage Sun Moon might advance to the ninth stage from the reward. Now that Zhan Ta was dead, the reward manifested. There was only a single cloud! The cloud descended instantly. This time, it was not heavenly origin qi, willpower, or anything like that. When Su Yu took it into his hands, the cloud vanished, leaving behind a book that looked like metal yet felt like iron. Inscribed upon it were not the characters of any race, but pure texts of will—the exact same script as Su Yu's "Civilization" characters. "Detailed Explanation of Armament Forging!" Looking at those four large characters, Su Yu was somewhat surprised. This was a book on the Dao of Armament Forging. This was the first time he had received a reward concerning the Dao of Armament Forging. In the past, he had received armament rewards, but never forging techniques or methods. Today, he was actually rewarded with this. More importantly, this had accumulated from Su Yu slaughtering hundreds of geniuses. This thing had to be quite extraordinary, right? Anything written in texts of will was exceptional—and that meant pure texts of will, not texts written in the scripts of other races. Su Yu opened it and glanced inside. Before his eyes, images flickered into view—scenes of an expert forging armaments. He watched for a bit; the forging methods were exceedingly adept... After observing for a while, Su Yu put the book away, overjoyed. This thing would be best gifted to Zhao Li! For Su Yu, his engagement with the Dao of Armament Forging was strictly utilitarian, not a passion. But for Zhao Li, armament forging was his very Dao. This was a great treasure! He had not given his teacher many gifts. This book was likely written by an ancient Heaven Armament Master; its forging techniques were entirely different from current ones. Giving it to Zhao Li for reference might aid his advancement to Heaven Armament Master! "Not bad at all!" Su Yu was delighted. At this moment, an astral wind blew in from the depths. In an instant, the astral wind swept past, causing a stinging pain across Su Yu's flesh, but it remained within tolerable limits. Were it not so, Zhan Ta would not have dared stay behind either. Su Yu looked at the golden nose hair, which was swaying as the astral wind blew past. Su Yu chuckled and suddenly used his hand as a blade, chopping toward the base of that nose hair! This was good stuff; even if it could not serve as a carrier, it was sufficient as a primary material for forging Heaven armaments! As for carriers, he did not have many left on hand. Su Yu possessed ambition—immense, boundless ambition! He wanted to forge the civilization chronicle into something unimaginably powerful. Lan Tian required carriers to integrate myriad Daos, but Su Yu... was not considering that right now. He wanted carriers to fuse into the spatial dimension of every single page! One per page! He wanted to forge an unprecedented divine armament—ten thousand would be best! By then, this book would likely become the most powerful armament across the myriad heavens and myriad realms! And the root of the book was the two characters "Civilization." At that time, his divine characters would definitely advance to the Invincible Realm or even beyond! Using armaments to drive the advancement of his divine characters! With a squelch, the rock beneath the nose hair was shattered by Su Yu. At that moment, the nostril seemed to twitch with pain, and the astral wind thickened noticeably. Countless nose hairs lashed out at Su Yu as if seeking to eliminate this intruder! Su Yu snatched up that golden nose hair, pocketed it, and swiftly retreated! No rush to head into the depths; there was still the other side! First take care of the opposite side, then come back to harvest! The first floor was his treasure trove. In a bit, not a single one of these nose hairs would escape—he was taking them all! Of course, the others he would cut if possible; if he dug them up by the roots, what if they did not grow back next time? He might come back here in the future! ... Su Yu's figure vanished in a flash. Outside, before Huang Jiu and the others could see anything, Su Yu was gone. Immediately following that was a gust of powerful astral wind blasting outward. The group fled instantly, while Su Yu charged into the right gorge against the astral wind. ... Half an hour later. Su Yu once again reaped the lives of everyone inside using the book. The civilization chronicle grew increasingly sacred! And Su Yu plucked yet another golden nose hair. A massive harvest! Furthermore, there were countless storage rings he had looted after killing people. Su Yu did not even bother opening them to look; he would do that when he had time. Now, he began exploring the secrets deep within the nostrils. What benefits would the nose apertures bring? ... A few hours later, Su Yu emerged from the depths of the nostril with an odd look on his face. Right now, his two nostrils were different sizes—one large, one small. The other side had not been tempered yet! Tempering this side had been... hard to describe in a few words! Just a moment ago, a stream of water had surged straight into Su Yu's nostril, nearly killing him with pain. The result was... a great deal of impurities had been flushed out of his nostril. Previously, with every breath, some impurities had been mixed in. In that instant just now, they had all been purged. Not only that, Su Yu felt his nose hairs had become much tougher. He felt that if he plucked a nose hair right now, he could pierce a Soaring Realm cultivator to death! Was this forging him into something inhuman? With a mix of anticipation and excitement, Su Yu walked toward the depths of the other nostril. In the past, people would say, "I could kill you with a puff of breath," which Su Yu thought was an exaggeration. Now, Su Yu felt that if his nose took a breath, it could genuinely kill someone. If the mouth aperture was tempered, could he truly kill Soaring and Lingyun cultivators with a single puff of breath? ... At the same time Su Yu was tempering his twin apertures, outside, multiple passageways collapsed yet again. Not only that, names vanished one after another from the Heaven Hunting Ranking. This time, several more Heaven Hunting Ranking geniuses had died. From the moment they entered until now, more than thirty names had vanished from the Heaven Hunting Ranking! The crowd wore grim, darkened expressions. The casualties were too heavy! Something immense had truly happened on the first floor. The Gods, Demons, and Immortals had all suffered losses, and the other races had each lost some as well. Only the human race had suffered the fewest casualties, which incensed everyone—this was definitely the handiwork of humans! At this moment, an Invincible said chillingly, "I can contact my descendant to head down from the higher floors to investigate the situation. However... the cost to me is too great. If anyone supports this, they can provide some compensation!" Otherwise, dragging it out like this would mean everyone would be slaughtered! "What strength?" "Seventh-stage Sun Moon!" The group of Invincibles weighed this in their minds. Seventh-stage Sun Moon was very, very strong, but... would it be enough? "Could it be insufficient...?" That Invincible said coldly, "Then let an Eternal or a ninth-stage Sun Moon go. The question is, is anyone willing? To give up the Nine-Leaved Heavenly Lotus just to investigate the first floor?" At these words, everyone fell silent. That was true! The group soon reached a consensus: have a seventh-stage Sun Moon find a way to investigate first. As for whether they could enter the first floor, that would depend on luck. While they were figuring out a solution, passageways continued to collapse. Su Yu was not the only one killing; in truth, slaughter was taking place on every floor. It was just that none killed as many as Su Yu. Of the 3,600 living beings, by the time the first day had just passed, a full 300 were gone! And on the first floor, more than 200 had died! The mansion was open for a month. At this rate, in twelve days, all of them would be dead! This was the first time in so many years that such catastrophic casualties had occurred. Even if slaughter maniacs had entered in past sessions—such as those of the Blood Fire Demon race—after killing a few, they could not be bothered to keep killing and would soon proceed to the next floor or get surrounded and killed. This time, however, the slaughter was relentless! ... "Ruthless!" In the ancient city, Liu Hong clicked his tongue in wonder. Don't ask—if you did, it was Su Yu's doing. That fellow was truly ruthless. In a single day, he had killed over two hundred geniuses. If the myriad races found out it was his doing, they would truly go mad. Liu Hong watched for a bit, descended from the sky, glanced at the rear hall, chuckled, and quickly entered the City Lord Manor, ignoring it all. As for the rear hall, he did not know when Xingyue would leave. As for Xinghong, he could be diverted at any time—all it took was someone attacking the city! "That fellow Su Yu will probably wait until the very last day to come out, right?" Calculating in his mind, Liu Hong closed his eyes and began cultivating. Not going to the Star Residence Mansion did not stop him from growing stronger; he had conned quite a few treasures out of Foutuling last time!