Mixed-Blood!

"Die!" With a cold shout, King Dayuan proved that his combat prowess was no exaggeration. He was exceptionally skilled in close-quarters combat; even though fury had made him somewhat irrational, his combat methods were long ingrained as instinct and could not be forgotten. As Su Yu was knocked flying, King Dayuan did not close the distance. In an instant, a curved bow appeared in his grip. Less than a thousand meters separated them, yet no physical arrow was drawn on the bow. Instead, it unleashed an incomparably sharp burst of arrow qi! "Who do you think you are?" "You want to be lord of the Sacred Ground? Are you worthy?" Buzz! The void quivered as countless streaks of arrow qi erupted instantly, hurtling toward Su Yu! Su Yu let out a low growl as the civilization chronicle manifested. Instantly, myriad behemoths appeared to devour the arrow qi. One phantasmal beast after another detonated, blasting the void apart! The others scrambled back in retreat! Over there, just as King Daxia was about to intervene, Su Yu barked in fury, "Let me handle this myself! No one interferes! Today, I will personally slay King Dayuan! Whoever dares intervene, my sacred city guardians will surely attack the human realm!" Su Yu was utterly enraged. "Arrogant fool, daring to ambush me unprovoked—I will kill him!" "Su Yu!" King Daxia called out in a low voice. Su Yu snapped, "I said, I'll do it myself! He came at me first. Once I cut him down, let's see who has anything to say!" "Cut me down?" King Dayuan sneered. His bow bent and loosed. In an instant, tens of millions of arrow-qi streaks transformed into humanoid figures, charging in for the kill. "Su Yu, boastful brat, this king will kill you first!" Su Yu snorted coldly and pierced through the void in a flash, hurtling toward him! His formidable physical body ripped through space. Using his hand as a blade, he slashed out! The next instant, the civilization chronicle swept over, myriad beasts disrupting the incoming arrow qi. King Dayuan's fury also boiled over. The bow vanished instantly, replaced in his hand by a long spear... no, that was an arrow! Yet at this moment, he transformed arrow into spear, wielding it with whistling sonic booms that rained mercilessly down toward Su Yu! Phantoms flickered as Su Yu continually shuttled through the void, closing the distance in the blink of an eye! Using his hand as a blade, blade and spear clashed in an instant! Boom! The void was torn open. Several Invincible experts immediately bellowed, "Everyone back away! Emissaries of the myriad races, halt where you stand! Take another step, and you will be executed without mercy!" At that moment, the auras of multiple Invincibles erupted, intimidating the entire area. The entire Great Xia Prefecture fell utterly silent. The experts of the thirty-six prefectures who had backed away, as well as the emissaries from the myriad races who had come to offer birthday congratulations, were all thoroughly astonished. Su Yu and King Dayuan were fighting—was this a duel, or a genuine life-and-death clash? They couldn't tell yet! Was it an act? Or a real battle? If it was an act, what was the purpose? Did they want King Dayuan to defect to the myriad races? If it wasn't an act... were they truly trying to kill each other? Just as they were pondering this, King Daxia swung his blade toward King Dayuan! Boom! Su Yu threw a punch, blowing apart that blade qi, and shouted, "I said, I will personally slay him!" King Daxia felt like cursing! Madmen! Something had gone wrong with King Dayuan—his three bodies had clearly malfunctioned. Why trade life-and-death blows with a madman right now? Was it worth it? Across from him, King Dayuan was just about to impale Su Yu's head with his spear. Seeing this, he instantly pulled back and sneered, "Fine, this king will give you your chance! Su Yu, if you can slay this king today, the Dayuan Prefecture will obey you from this day forth! If you cannot... this king will take your life!" Buzz! The spear shook the heavens. Su Yu let out a cold cry and lashed out with a kick, the river of time rippling around him. Rumble! The terrifying physical force repeatedly shattered the void. As both kept their force contained within their duel, tearing through empty space, they exchanged over a hundred blows in the blink of an eye. In brutal close quarters, blade and spear collided, causing the heavens and earth to lose their color! ... "Old Zhou..." King Daxia muttered in a low voice. King Dazhou frowned and sent a voice transmission: "Wait and see a bit longer! Su Yu isn't weak, and Old Yuan might have lost control. Let's see if he calms down after venting. If we stop him now, it will be hard for Old Yuan to return to normal, and Su Yu is in a fit of rage too..." Just then, the two exchanged a blow and failed to contain the force. With a tremendous blast, the ground cracked open, forming a massive fissure that rapidly spread in all directions. Several Invincibles swiftly intervened. Yet the two combatants were simply too powerful. With a boom, Liu Wushen was sent flying, coughing up blood! All around, the crowd was terrified! That was an Invincible! Watching King Dayuan and Su Yu fight, everyone could see it was terrifying and monstrous, but they hadn't known the precise scale. Now, Liu Wushen, a newly ascended Invincible, had coughed up blood merely trying to suppress the expanding shockwaves! In other directions, among the new Invincibles, only Xia Longwu remained largely unharmed. The others all showed signs of strain to varying degrees! Utterly appalling! Even the Invincibles were shocked. Was this the full, unreserved power of two high-tier Eternals going all out? Su Yu snorted coldly. "Into the formation! I don't want to destroy the Great Xia Prefecture. King Dayuan, do you?" "Fine, have it your way!" The two instantly plunged into the great formation. King Dazhou shouted, "Old Zhu, maintain the formation's operation! Do not let the shockwaves spread out!" Seeing this, King Daming was both speechless and irritated. He yelled, "Everyone help out! Keep the formation running and contain the leakage of power!" Several Invincibles stepped forward to maintain the great formation. The already incomplete formation became even more precarious now that two high-tier Eternal combatants had barged inside. Thunderous roars immediately reverberated across the surroundings, the formation quaking as one portal after another nearly crumbled! At that moment, just as King Dazhou and King Daxia were about to step in and assist, King Daming snapped, "Stay back! You don't understand how this formation operates!" The formation was being forged by King Daming and his peers, so naturally they understood it. King Dazhou and King Daxia did not; interfering would only throw the formation into chaos. Meanwhile, massive shockwaves battered outward in every direction! Rumble! In the central area of the Tower of Ten Thousand Gates, two figures as formidable as primeval gods and demons collided repeatedly, their battle stripping color from heaven and earth! That sheer might turned the faces of the surrounding onlookers pale with dread. Was this Su Yu's true strength? They had only heard rumors, but today, they witnessed it with their own eyes for the first time. Even King Dayuan, one of the human realm's pinnacle experts, appeared merely evenly matched with him, locked in an unresolved stalemate. ... In the heart of the formation, Su Yu unleashed every technique in his arsenal! Heaven Cleaving Saber, Time, Mountain-Suppressing Fist... King Dayuan responded with his spear! His spear art was extraordinarily powerful; every thrust roared like a giant dragon swallowing heaven and earth. The moment he forced Su Yu back, he would instantly draw his bow to shoot! Although King Dayuan was a warrior, he was a rare ranged fighter among warriors. Up close, his arrow became a spear; create a bit of distance, and the spear became an arrow, sniping at Su Yu from afar! Every strike packed immense power! Even the forces of time and space trembled, reverberating outward! In the center of the formation, the space between them was battered into nothingness in the blink of an eye. The lingering shockwaves continued to expand; when two top experts wielding high-tier Eternal power clashed, the aftershocks alone were enough to obliterate those who had just entered the Eternal Realm. Seeing the two fight with mounting madness, King Daming shouted, "Hold your positions! Old Zhou, Old Xia, set up another layer of formations on the outer perimeter! Otherwise, if these two bastards keep fighting, the Great Xia Prefecture is finished!" With a stern face, King Daxia said nothing. He swung his long saber, cleaving through the void in an attempt to carve out the entire pocket of space! As for King Dazhou, divine characters fluttered around him like spirits, laying down defensive formations around the perimeter of the void. Right now, it was unwise for them to intervene. Two experts wielding seventh-stage Eternal power were engaged in a life-and-death struggle. If they stepped in now, the two madmen might turn and attack them instead. ... "This is..." Over by the Five Elements race, Foutuling watched for a while and sucked in a breath of cold air. "This doesn't seem like an act. Real fury has been sparked. Has King Dayuan lost control of his emotions because his three bodies were affected?" Initially, his first thought had been that it was staged! Yet after watching for a while, a brilliant light gleamed in his eyes. Observing intently, he realized this probably wasn't theater! They had truly fought themselves into a genuine rage! The two were slaughtering each other in the void. Flesh and blood were already flying, but neither of them cared about the discarded gore anymore. Even someone like Su Yu had thrown caution to the wind, locking in close-quarters combat with King Dayuan until death qi began to leak out! Evidently, Su Yu might now resort to death qi to kill his enemy! Wielding vast amounts of death qi inside the human realm was hardly a good idea. ... "Open!" With a low roar, Su Yu's Heavenly Gate threw itself wide open, and death qi surged out! His eyes burned with chilling intent to kill! "You are courting death! You have provoked me!" Su Yu roared as he unleashed a punch. Heaven collapsed and earth cracked as death qi swept across the surroundings. King Dayuan's expression shifted, and he swiftly vanished into the void. However, thousands of portals surrounded them. He was struck by one of the portals with a loud bang, shattering it, but his movement hitched, and his river of time briefly stagnated! Right at that instant, Su Yu threw another punch. King Dayuan roared in anger and punched back! Boom! A deafening explosion rang out in all directions! King Dayuan tumbled several times through the air, his arms drenched in blood as death qi rapidly spread over him. Su Yu stumbled back several steps, sneering coldly, "A mantis trying to stop a chariot!" "Arrogant!" King Dayuan roared. His bow reappeared, and he loosed an arrow! It fell like a blazing sun! Around them, the void shook violently. The furious ripples rattled the perimeter, and King Jintian, who was guarding the formation, coughed up a mouthful of blood under the violent surge of energy. Divine characters swiftly surfaced around him to bind the ambient power, and he yelled, "Set up formations on the outer perimeter quickly! If this goes on, the great formation will be destroyed!" These two were simply too strong! Although King Daming was presiding over it, he could only ensure the two didn't instantly demolish the formation. Without King Daming, this great formation would have been destroyed long ago! Right now, Su Yu cared for none of that. Destruction! Obliteration! Death! He had to slay King Dayuan's three bodies. If he couldn't control it... he would kill the man himself! He wasn't about to hold back intentionally! This fellow had already gone mad. I don't care if you end up completely dead! He couldn't use death qi for too long; otherwise, if the passage to the necropolis opened, the necropolis passage on the human realm's side might not be safe. It could be used to escape, but right now... it was best left closed if possible! Empowered by the death qi, his physical body became even stronger. With the Heavenly Gate open, his combat power skyrocketed, approaching the strength of nearly a hundred million apertures. In terms of pure destructive force, a single strike was comparable to the eighth or ninth stage of the Eternal Realm. King Dayuan was a true Invincible adept in the Dao of rules, yet the thousands of portals here placed constraints on him! Whenever those portals made contact with the river of time, they produced a stagnating effect. Though incomplete, it still restricted King Dayuan. With his death qi surging, Su Yu closed the distance in an instant! He had also learned from Wan Tiansheng how to wield rule power—divine characters were rules! The divine character "Pierce" traversed time and space. Combined with the art of time, he materialized before King Dayuan in an instant and lashed out with a kick that shook the surroundings. The character "Vibrate" attached to him, vibrating tens of millions of times! King Dayuan swung his spear, but the weapon trembled violently, showing signs of shattering! Neither uttered a word, their fighting growing ever more savage! King Dayuan suddenly bellowed, abandoned his spear, and struck with his fists, hammering Su Yu with dozens of punches in succession that shattered Su Yu's sternum. Su Yu, meanwhile, turned his fists into claws, seizing King Dayuan's arms. With a sickening crunch, he dislocated the joints, splintering bones and sending flesh flying. The two tore into each other ceaselessly, their clash forcing the surrounding Invincibles to cough up blood repeatedly as they cursed internally! Two lunatic maniacs, neither valuing their own lives! ... "Old Zhou, we can't wait any longer!" King Daxia's face was grave. "If this continues, a disaster will happen!" King Dazhou nodded and swiftly rushed toward the inner perimeter, shouting, "Jintian, you control the formation! I will channel origin qi and willpower into you. Do not resist!" "This..." "Hurry! Control the formation to disrupt them! Don't let them fight to mutual destruction!" "Then... very well!" King Jintian said no more, quickly accepting King Dazhou's origin qi and willpower. Rapidly converting the energy, he took control of the portals on his side in the blink of an eye. On the other side, King Daxia flew toward King Miecan, shouting, "Miecan, take my power!" King Miecan bared his teeth. "I haven't even used my full strength yet. Are you looking down on me? Go help Zhou Tianyuan!" With that, his origin qi detonated! His blood qi soared to the sky! In an instant, power at the sixth stage of the Eternal Realm erupted. Though rumored to only possess fifth-stage strength, he now displayed sixth-stage might, shockingly formidable! ... At that exact moment, the voice of the mother ball suddenly echoed in Su Yu's mind: "Found it! That King Miecan... has the Prison King bloodline!" Su Yu was startled! King Miecan! It was truly him! *Damn it...* Su Yu cursed internally. It really was King Miecan. He had been investigating between King Miecan and King Jintian. King Miecan was rumored to possess a Human King bloodline, which he had never revealed. Only at this very moment had King Miecan exposed the aura of his bloodline! It was this fellow! Su Yu felt conflicted. Damn it, he had even learned the man's spacetime technique, so there was some connection between them. Yet in the end... he was a descendant of the Prison King! Over there, King Miecan's aura flared, and his time power erupted, instantly stabilizing the turbulent formation! Not far away, King Dazhou glanced in that direction, his brow furrowing slightly. "You advanced to the sixth stage?" "Hahaha, didn't expect that, did you? After killing that Dragon Silkworm bastard, I advanced! Slaying him cleared my mind, so naturally I broke through!" King Dazhou said nothing more. Giving a slight nod, he continued channeling origin qi and willpower to King Jintian. With his backing, King Jintian was able to hold down his section as well. The other flank was controlled by King Xiaozhou, who was also holding his ground. ... *Found him!* Su Yu experienced a strange mix of emotions. No longer hesitating, he let out a low growl, traversed the void, and triggered the divine character "Slow," instantly reducing King Dayuan's speed! Rumble! He threw dozens of punches in rapid succession, leaving King Dayuan battered and covered in blood as death qi seeped into him. King Dayuan roared as well, his spear piercing the void and stabbing Su Yu until blood spouted from his wounds. King Dayuan continuously retreated, drawing his bow and loosing arrows whenever he created distance, riddling Su Yu with bloody holes! Ignoring the injuries, Su Yu roared and closed in again, driving King Dayuan back toward King Miecan's direction, shattering nearby portals and shaking the formation! Seeing them approach, King Miecan couldn't help but yell, "Don't come over here!" Damn it, stay away from my side! I'm only at the sixth stage, while both of you possess seventh-stage strength! Su Yu paid him no heed. Like a mad demon, death qi filled his eyes, making him resemble a dead spirit monarch descended upon the mortal realm. His death qi struck dread into heaven and earth, while King Dayuan bellowed incessantly, his blood qi surging high! Kill, kill, kill! The two battled relentlessly! By now, King Dayuan's three bodies were gradually drifting apart, on the verge of being shattered. King Dayuan let out a roar, and the three bodies swiftly merged into one once more, the phantasmal state disappearing as he bellowed, "You want to kill me? You aren't qualified!" "You will die!" Su Yu barked coldly. In that instant, the Heavenly Gate upon his brow opened completely, death qi billowing out, and a passage to the necropolis faintly manifested beneath him! "Die!" The divine character "Death," carrying extraordinarily dense death qi, transformed into a massive gateway that crushed down upon him. Around them, hundreds of portals were swept up by Su Yu, severing King Dayuan's river of time in a flash. The necropolis gateway crushed downward! King Dayuan's movements instantly froze—for only a split second, but in that split second, Su Yu charged in and unleashed a punch! The power of nearly a hundred million apertures erupted! On the perimeter, shouts of alarm instantly rang out. "Your Majesty!" Over by the Dayuan Prefecture, a quasi-Invincible's face drained of color, and the current Dayuan Prefect turned pale as well! Boom! A tremendous roar shook the area! With a loud crash, King Dayuan was blown to pieces! The violent energy shockwave swept out in all directions, slamming into the perimeter. King Miecan cursed loudly and tried to flee, but it was already too late! With a squelch, an arrow of blood shot from his mouth. Meanwhile, after Su Yu blasted King Dayuan to pieces with a single punch, he reached out with one hand to gather the surrounding flesh and blood—including King Miecan's sprayed blood—blended them together, shattered them once more, and then summoned the civilization chronicle, instantly devouring every drop of blood and scrap of flesh! In the distance, the river of time trembled. King Dayuan was about to revive! King Daxia bellowed, "Stop!" King Dayuan had lost! One of his temporal incarnations had been blown apart by Su Yu! ... All around, the foreign experts stood with their mouths agape! A true fight to the death! One of King Dayuan's... three bodies had been obliterated! This was beyond doubt a genuine battle to the death! No one would joke around with a seventh-stage Eternal incarnation. King Dayuan was one of the foundational pillar experts of the human race, yet today, Su Yu had obliterated one of his bodies before everyone's eyes, and he might even perish entirely! This could not be an act! There was simply no need for it! Even if King Dayuan defected to another race, that race wouldn't trust him, nor could it bring the human race benefits exceeding a seventh-stage Eternal. That was impossible; no one would treat you as a confidant just because one of your three bodies was slain! For a figure of such high standing, faking a defection was completely pointless! However, some people realized what had happened and sighed. "King Dayuan's three bodies must have run into trouble. He went mad. He genuinely wanted to kill Su Yu, and Su Yu was provoked into genuinely wanting to kill him!" By now, quite a few had finally figured it out! This was an accident! King Dayuan had lost his mind, and Su Yu was neither someone who tolerated insults nor a pushover. Relying on the opening of his divine apertures and the formation's suppression of time power, he had slain one of King Dayuan's incarnations! With one body dead, King Dayuan was doomed to defeat! His remaining two bodies were definitely no match for Su Yu! "Your Majesty!" "Father!" On the perimeter, the people of the Dayuan Prefecture turned pale. The Dayuan Prefect shouted in panic, "Su Yu, don't kill my father! Our Dayuan Prefecture supports you becoming the lord of the Sacred Ground... Your Majesty King Dazhou..." In the distance, King Dazhou also shouted in a cold voice, "Stop! Su Yu, King Dayuan's madness was merely an accident, not intentional..." Su Yu looked coldly toward them. "What, taking advantage of the fact that I, Su Yu, am alone? I said I would kill him! You think because I arrived by myself, you can push me around? Do you want to go to war with the sacred cities?" A Castellan Token appeared. Su Yu said chillingly, "If any of you dare interfere, the token will pulse, and the thirty-six guardians will surely march into the human realm! King Dayuan dared try to kill me, so he must die. No one can stop it!" The moment these words left his mouth, faces turned pale in every direction! Right—Su Yu was not alone! If they truly interfered with his duel today and the token pulsed... a war between the human race and the ancient cities would erupt... The consequences would be unimaginable! At this moment, several Invincibles felt utterly helpless. Others felt so stifled they wanted to scream curses! This was supposed to be a momentous, joyous occasion. How had it suddenly come to this? A life-and-death clash had abruptly erupted between King Dayuan and Su Yu. Now, interfering was bad, but not interfering was just as bad. If they didn't intervene, King Dayuan would surely die! If such a formidable Invincible was slain right in front of King Dazhou and the others... Then they would have to fight anyway! They might as well strike down Su Yu before King Dayuan died! Now, King Daxia and the others were completely torn! What were they supposed to do? In the distance, atop the river of time, King Dayuan's figure gradually coalesced. Inside the civilization chronicle, the mother ball licked a drop of blood and bobbed up and down. "It's the Prison King bloodline, no doubt about it... but mixed with something else, likely the bloodline of another powerhouse. A mixed bloodline... King Miecan's time power must contain some inheritance of the Prison King. The Prison King excels at confinement, and confinement is often inseparable from the power of time." King Miecan! It truly was him! Worried he might make a mistake, Su Yu had deliberately used the battle to wound him and force him to cough up blood, gathering all the blood indiscriminately in this chaotic setting. Even though King Miecan saw it, he couldn't stop it. Now... it was confirmed! It was actually King Miecan! Su Yu's feelings were somewhat complicated. He wasn't particularly close to King Miecan, but... he had inherited the man's cultivation technique and practiced it from early on. Yet today proved that this fellow was the traitor who had orchestrated Ye Batian's downfall! Su Yu turned the thought over in his mind and quickly regained his composure. Villains were all masters of disguise! There was no need to waver over such things. He swiftly looked toward King Dayuan in the distance. By now, King Dayuan's physical form had reformed. His face was slightly pale, but his teeth were clenched with wild madness as he charged toward Su Yu again! "You could kill me once, but can you kill me twice? If I kill you just once, you die!" Boom! The battle erupted once more! Over there, King Daxia could no longer care about the consequences. He charged straight into the fray, shouting, "Su Yu, give the Xia family some face! Old Yuan lost control, he didn't do it on purpose..." "Get lost!" Su Yu and King Dayuan roared in unison, both striking at King Daxia! King Daxia was also infuriated. Taking Su Yu's punch head-on, he turned his back to Su Yu and deflected King Dayuan with a saber strike, shouting again, "Su Yu, it's a misunderstanding... The human race will give you an explanation! You've already killed one of his incarnations..." He did not want Su Yu to kill King Dayuan! Not merely because he and King Dayuan were old comrades-in-arms, but also because if Su Yu killed King Dayuan—even though King Dayuan had struck first—from then on, Su Yu would never become the sacred lord of the human race, and the two sides would inevitably part ways! Even if the human race accepted it this time, people would harbor resentment against Su Yu! That was not a good outcome! King Daxia did not want things to end like that! For Su Yu's return this time, the Great Xia Prefecture had contributed people and resources. After all, Su Yu originated from the Great Xia Prefecture. King Daxia hoped he would return, not turn into an enemy over this! Meanwhile, Su Yu glanced at King Dayuan. Seeing that the madness in his eyes remained blatant, he frowned slightly. The man still hadn't regained his senses! Did the three bodies have such an overwhelming influence? Terrifying! Seeing King Daxia interfering—and knowing King Daxia was so powerful that Su Yu was no match for him—Su Yu sent a swift mental message: "Lord Chui, latch onto his sea of will for an instant!" "Latch onto whose?" "King Daxia's!" "Okay!" The mother ball agreed cheerfully. While latching on, it could nibble on a bit of willpower; King Daxia wouldn't know, right? Su Yu wouldn't know either, right? A delightfully pleasant plan! King Daxia was still trying to hold Su Yu back. With him in the way, Su Yu had virtually no chance of killing King Dayuan. Yet at that exact second, Su Yu threw a punch toward King Dayuan! King Dayuan charged madly at Su Yu as well! Just as King Daxia was about to knock King Dayuan away and block Su Yu again, his expression abruptly changed! In that single fraction of a second, his mind experienced a slight daze! In that brief moment of distraction, Su Yu's fist slammed forward. With a thunderous boom, his immense explosive power blew King Dayuan to pieces once more! Meanwhile, King Daxia's blood qi surged, his saber qi trembling as he slashed out! With a squelch, Su Yu's civilization chronicle cracked slightly, and a blade pressed against Su Yu's forehead! King Daxia's face was dark. He frowned at Su Yu, and then at the civilization chronicle beside him! "You..." Looking at Su Yu, he cursed frantically in his heart! This bastard... what kind of terrifying entity was he carrying on his person?! ... Outsiders had not understood what had just occurred. All they saw was King Daxia hesitating for a moment, followed by Su Yu's punch obliterating King Dayuan's second incarnation. In the distance, the Dayuan Prefect wailed in agony, "Your Majesty King Daxia, save my father! Even if my father was in the wrong, his crime does not warrant death! We beg Your Majesty for mercy!" With a thud, he dropped to his knees. He thought King Daxia had done it intentionally! That he had hesitated and held his blade! Not just them—the onlookers thought so too. King Daxia... had probably wavered in the end and chosen Su Yu. Thus, he had allowed Su Yu to destroy King Dayuan's second incarnation with that punch! Was this... to let Su Yu vent his rage by killing King Dayuan? ... "They're playing for keeps!" When King Dayuan's second incarnation died, no one believed it was fake anymore! Fake? How could it be! His present and future bodies were dead, leaving only his past body. His strength was drastically diminished; even if King Dayuan's past body had been continuously tempered, at most it held the power of a fourth- or fifth-stage Eternal. Compared to the seventh stage, it was worlds apart! And he only had one life left! Such a loss was virtually irreversible! One of the human race's pillar experts had plummeted in an instant, reduced to a weaker member among the mid-tier Eternals because he had only one life remaining! This could not be staged! Could King Dayuan's... third body survive? Just then, the river of time rippled once more. A moment later, King Dayuan revived again. This time, his gaze was far clearer. This was his third body—his past body! The King Dayuan of the past! The current King Dayuan looked considerably younger, his gaze haughty and unyielding, devoid of the previous madness. He seemed to recall what had happened. Looking at Su Yu, and then at King Daxia, he let out a bitter, self-deprecating laugh. "I lost! To think... to think I wasn't even a match for you... How humiliating! Old Xia, step aside! Since I struck first, life and death are up to fate! Su Yu, I was no match for you... As I said before, if I lost, the Dayuan Prefecture is willing to honor you as lord of the Sacred Ground. The battle between you and me involves nothing else... Old Xia, Old Zhou, my death in battle... is of my own doing!" Stepping out from the river of time, he carried an air of overbearing dignity and majesty. "Su Yu, if you want to kill me, I won't just wait for death with tied hands. But as I said, this battle is our personal grudge and involves nothing else!" "Old Xia, move aside. I haven't fallen so low as to beg like a dog for my life under someone else's protection!" King Daxia frowned, looking at him, then quickly turned to Su Yu. "He's regained his senses. Su Yu, he's sane now!" He knew that Su Yu had a Dao Merge expert on his person! A member of the God-Devouring race! He had already deduced it! He also knew that if Su Yu truly wanted to kill King Dayuan today, no one could stop him—not him, nor Old Zhou. With a Dao Merge expert here alongside Su Yu, even if he and Old Zhou joined forces, they would struggle to match a Dao Merge expert! Of course, King Daming was also present. If a true melee erupted, Su Yu's side might not necessarily win! However... if they fought to the bitter end, the most likely outcome was mutual destruction. Once Su Yu opened a passage to the necropolis, the human realm would be turned into purgatory! Su Yu's gaze was cold, death qi flaring around him. King Dayuan appeared to have regained his senses... but if I said I'd kill him and then don't, where does that leave my face? I said I would definitely kill him! Just then, in the distance, King Dazhou said in a deep voice, "Castellan Su, this was all a misunderstanding. King Dayuan simply lost control of his three bodies earlier! He is clearheaded now! Castellan Su's martial prowess is peerless, having already slain his present and future bodies, leaving only his past body... Regarding the matter of the Sacred Ground, my Great Zhou Prefecture offers our full support. If Castellan Su stops here, my Great Zhou Prefecture will certainly honor you as lord of the Sacred Ground!" *Fuck you!* Su Yu cursed internally! This old bastard truly wanted to play both sides! By phrasing it like that, his meaning was crystal clear: I didn't originally support you, but now I have no choice; for King Dayuan's sake, I must agree! Those in his faction shouldn't think he had betrayed their trust! Not at all—he, King Dazhou, was doing it for the human race, for King Dayuan's life! It was out of utter helplessness! Such helpless desperation forced him to compromise with Su Yu! This way, the Great Zhou Prefecture throwing its full support behind Su Yu wouldn't draw any blame—we had no other option! King Dayuan might even feel grateful to him! In reality, it was this old bastard King Dazhou who had subtly nudged Su Yu into doing this. Slaying you while making you thank him—this was the true face of a treacherous schemer! Yet Su Yu ignored his offer! He sneered coldly, "The Great Zhou Prefecture's support? Lord of the Sacred Ground? Do I give a damn?" With that, he looked into the distance toward Liu Wenyan and the people of Liu City, saying in a low voice, "Teachers, tell me: should I, Su Yu, slaughter my way out of the human realm today, or spare this fellow? If we fight our way out, are you willing to leave with me and join the sacred cities? I am confident I can carve a path out. Once I open a necropolis passage, even if another King Daqin shows up, I am certain I can fight my way out!" The moment these words fell, everyone shivered! In the distance, the foreign races trembled in terror as well! Was an all-out war about to erupt? One wrong move, and everyone present today might be finished. Su Yu was ready to open a necropolis passage and fight his way out of the human realm! And the deciding authority over all of this seemingly rested in the hands of that group from Liu City! As for King Dazhou... no one was listening to him anymore! Your words didn't count! The ones whose words carried weight were Liu Wenyan and the others! At that moment, all eyes converged on that group from Liu City. What... would they choose? Would they fight their way out alongside Su Yu, or persuade Su Yu to spare King Dayuan and let today's incident end with two of King Dayuan's bodies destroyed? Today, everyone had truly come to know Su Yu! Too proud, too haughty! And far too domineering! He would not bow his head, nor was he willing to settle things peacefully. The only ones who seemed capable of dissuading him were his father and his teachers! If his teachers and father were to die, there probably wouldn't be a single person in the myriad realms capable of restraining or counseling him! This was an overlord completely impervious to threats! ... At that moment, the expressions on the faces of Liu Wenyan and the others shifted repeatedly. Zhao Li and Zhao Tianbing had also abandoned weapon forging and walked over. Zhao Li frowned, looking at Liu Wenyan, then at Bai Feng, and finally at Su Yu. In a deep voice, he said, "Su Yu, though we dislike the petty infighting of the human realm's experts, we were born human, born and raised in the human realm! King Dayuan's loss of control over his three bodies wasn't necessarily targeted malice. Su Yu... heed my advice. Let this matter... end here!" Even though King Dayuan was the one who had two bodies slain, it was made to look as if Su Yu was the one who had suffered an immense grievance and insult! Yet... no one raised any objections. After all, King Dayuan had launched the surprise attack on Su Yu first; everyone had seen it! Even the people of the Dayuan Prefecture felt helpless and sorrowful. Indeed, no one had anticipated King Dayuan suddenly losing his mind. Now, King Dayuan's life and death depended on Liu Wenyan's group, and on Su Yu. Meanwhile, Su Yu felt humiliated, believing the human realm was deliberately targeting him... and no one could argue against that, because the facts spoke for themselves! Liu Wenyan let out a sigh. "Su Yu, let it go. At worst, we leave the human realm. Slaying King Dayuan... is unnecessary. Since the human realm doesn't welcome us, then we leave, and all targeted hostility will naturally vanish like smoke!" He sighed, looking helpless and pained. Beside him, Bai Feng ground his teeth in fury. "This time, we returned to the human realm thinking that now that Su Yu has strength and ability, he could lend the human race a hand! Who the hell cares about your damn Sacred Ground or your damn sacred lord? Yet you push us again and again—shameless! We thought that if Su Yu became lord of the Sacred Ground, he would have legitimate reason to help the human race. Do you think human experts are so remarkable? Look at King Dayuan, wasn't he effortlessly stripped of two bodies by my student all the same?" He was furious! Glancing around, he shouted in rage, "A pack of shameless hypocrites! To hell with this human realm, to hell with your Sacred Ground—we want none of it! We live far more comfortably out in the myriad realms!" Fury! Sorrow! Disappointment! At that moment, it seemed as if the Multiple Divine Characters Department had suffered the greatest injustice and boundless humiliation, their fists clenched tightly, their expressions grim. ... Meanwhile, Su Yu was pondering a question. Were these people acting, or being serious? I clearly held the absolute upper hand and beat King Dayuan half to death. The way you're carrying on... if I don't look aggrieved, I'd look out of place! Thus, Su Yu also adopted an expression of rage, indignation, and disappointment! I came to help the human race, and this is how you treat me! Seeing this, several Invincibles felt a bit ashamed. Indeed, Su Yu was thriving outside, yet here, he had been ambushed by King Dayuan. If he were slightly weaker, wouldn't he have been killed on the spot? King Dazhou, King Daxia, and the others were refusing to let Su Yu kill his attacker; that... felt a bit like ganging up on him! It was over the line! For a moment, many felt that this perspective made sense; it truly had gone too far! They were supposed to form an alliance, yet now they were about to force Su Yu and his people out of the human realm again. There probably wouldn't be any chance of cooperation in the future! Not far away, King Dayuan's expression fluctuated. "A thousand faults, ten thousand errors—the blame lies solely with this king! Su Yu, do you feel wronged? This king will take responsibility for his own actions. This has nothing to do with anyone else. The fault is mine, and it will not affect the alliance between the ancient cities and the human race... If I become a dead spirit in the future, you may summon me to fight again!" With that, he raised a palm to strike his own skull! Ending his life right here! He, King Dayuan, had merged his three bodies, lost control of his emotions, and been consumed by fury and murderous intent, leading him to ambush Su Yu. This had brought the human race and the ancient cities to the brink of hostility, an act that could even jeopardize the survival of the entire human race! This was a monumental blunder! Since that was so... let his blood bring an end to this matter! Yet at that exact instant, Su Yu threw a punch, sending him flying with a loud thud! Su Yu sneered, "Forget it! I won't lower myself to your level! If you really commit suicide, the human race will probably curse me to death, saying Su Yu forced a realm-founding king to his end! King Dayuan, what a clever scheme—dying with a clear reputation, ending yourself for the sake of the human race, while I, Su Yu, am left bearing eternal infamy! Truly a vicious, brilliant calculation! If you die... I, Su Yu, would probably be cursed by the human race for ten thousand years!" King Dayuan froze. "I had no such intention..." That seemed true upon reflection! Yet he genuinely hadn't meant it that way! However, hearing Su Yu put it like that, he realized that if Su Yu drove a realm-founding king to suicide, even if Su Yu was in the right, the dead commanded deference; Su Yu truly would be reviled for eternity! Did that mean he couldn't even die? For a moment, King Dayuan was at a loss. He couldn't die, yet living... Su Yu was furious as well. In this day and age, could a man not even choose death? Not far away, the corner of King Dazhou's mouth twitched almost imperceptibly! Impressive! This kid had reversed the entire situation in an instant, taking both sides of the argument and leaving nothing for anyone else to say! Su Yu sneered coldly, "Whatever, do as you please. I returned this time to celebrate my father's birthday. Once the banquet ends, I will leave the human realm! Clamoring over power and prestige—how utterly laughable. It's uncertain how much longer the human realm can even survive, yet this struggle for authority is so revolting!" With that, Su Yu stepped into the air and departed, his mocking laughter echoing across heaven and earth: "I, Su Yu, am ashamed to associate with the likes of you!" "..." That single sentence cursed everyone present! Yet the Invincibles and the experts of the various prefectures wore strange expressions, unable to utter a word of rebuttal. The man... truly might not care about being lord of the Sacred Ground! Yet on the very first day of the conference, things had devolved into such a spectacle, becoming a colossal joke. A realm-founding king had actually ambushed Su Yu during the assembly... This was a farce the myriad races would delight in watching! Instead of forming an alliance, they had turned into enemies! Behind him, King Dayuan looked grim. Gritting his teeth, he shouted, "Su Yu, it was solely my fault! Why drag the entire human race into this? I, Yuan Qifeng, am willing to accept punishment! I only hope Castellan Su will continue to participate in the Sacred Ground assembly, and not let my individual sin implicate the entire human race!" *I beg you to attend the meeting!* That was his underlying plea! Nearby, King Dazhou sighed as well. "Castellan Su, show your magnanimity. Some matters... my human race will naturally provide an explanation for. We still hope Castellan will continue taking part in the Sacred Ground assembly!" Su Yu was insisting on making him bow his head! Fine, I'll give you face. Why go this far! In the distance, Su Yu sneered, "We'll see. I only hope my father's birthday will not be disrupted!" "Naturally!" King Dazhou let out a sigh. Watching Su Yu leave, he looked back at King Dayuan with a helpless expression, then at the others, sighing, "Disperse for now. What a mess... sigh!" Endless helplessness, unspeakable sorrow. Soon, he rose and said, "I'll go speak with Su Yu. Old Xia, check on Old Yuan and see if anything can be salvaged. Two of his three bodies destroyed... Su Yu... is invincible beneath the ninth stage!" With another sigh, he departed swiftly to look for Su Yu! Meanwhile, the surrounding crowd was filled with complex emotions! A battle had erupted and ended, King Dayuan had lost two of his bodies, Su Yu had stormed off in rage, the Multiple Divine Characters faction was thoroughly disillusioned with the human race, and the Sacred Ground assembly might end without resolution... Sigh! Truly troubled times! As for the emissaries of the myriad races, strange expressions crossed their faces—they had witnessed quite a show today! The human race had fought several campaigns without suffering significant losses, yet today they had fallen into internal strife, nearly costing King Dayuan his life... This was no small loss; that was a seventh-stage Eternal expert! The emissaries scrambled to find ways to send the news back outside. Back to their respective races! Massive news! When the powerhouses of the myriad races heard this, they would probably laugh themselves to death! *We haven't even attacked you yet, and you're already tearing each other apart. Hear a few more stories like this, and anyone would die laughing!* ... Meanwhile, at the Su Manor. Su Yu took a seat and sipped some tea. King Dazhou manifested in an instant, chuckling softly. "It was all a misunderstanding..." Su Yu glanced at him and scoffed, "Misunderstanding? Your Majesty, I helped resolve King Dayuan's crisis of losing control. You know that very well—in fact, you hinted at it. Isn't there any compensation?" "You saw through it?" King Dazhou smiled, and Su Yu smiled as well. "Do I look like an idiot to you?" "You do not!" King Dazhou chuckled. "So, this time, those folks from Liu City became heroes of the human race. Isn't that great?" "Tch, that was just because you wanted to take credit. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered getting involved!" King Dazhou smiled. "If I hadn't phrased it like that, you wouldn't have had the chance to deflect the spotlight back onto Liu City. I calculated that you would act that way!" "Heh!" "Heh!" The two looked at each other and chuckled. Soon, King Dazhou turned serious. "Are you certain?" "Yes, King Miecan!" King Dazhou frowned slightly, remaining silent for a long time before saying, "If I told you... it might not be him, would you believe me?" Su Yu frowned. "He possesses the Prison King bloodline! That traitor had the Prison King bloodline! Furthermore, that traitor also had the Prison King bloodline insignia—I saw it with my own eyes!" King Dazhou fell silent for a moment before saying, "If I said the traitor isn't Wang Hu, but Jintian, would you believe me?" "Why?" Su Yu stared at him. *I verified it personally!* *You come here to contradict me? You think whoever you name is the culprit?* King Dazhou fell silent for a moment. "Intuition!" Su Yu chuckled. "Intuition?" "Yes!" King Dazhou said calmly. "Su Yu, I believe I am not mistaken! All the evidence points to Wang Hu, yet I... simply feel it is Jintian! Nine times out of ten, Wang Hu is not the traitor!" "Aside from intuition, do you have any reason?" King Dazhou thought about it and shook his head. "None. I investigated him and found nothing! But I just suspect it's him! Su Yu, if you don't believe me... I will go with you to find Wang Hu and give him a chance. What do you think?" Su Yu furrowed his brow! King Dazhou took a deep breath. "Trust me this once. Nine times out of ten, Jintian is the traitor. Wang Hu... might have been framed, perhaps without even realizing it himself!" "Framed?" Su Yu frowned. King Dazhou nodded. "If you hadn't found that it was Wang Hu, I would have suspected him. But now that you have identified him, I feel... the problem is actually far more grave!" With that, King Dazhou thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Let's find Wang Hu. I will have him take us on a trip through the river of time! We will investigate him personally. If he refuses, I will forcibly search his sea of will! If he still resists... I will execute him as a traitor!" Su Yu was surprised. Was King Dazhou truly this confident? Intuition? Su Yu rubbed his chin, considered it, and gave a slight nod. "Fine, as you say. If King Miecan refuses, we kill him. You do the killing, not me, so the human experts don't gang up on me!" "Agreed!" King Dazhou looked entirely confident, as if he had deduced something. Su Yu raised an eyebrow. Was there truly a twist? *I investigated and verified it personally, damn it!* *There's no mistaking it—King Miecan has the Prison King bloodline!* King Dazhou said no more and vanished shortly after. He reappeared near the great formation. At this moment, King Daming and the others were still repairing the structure. King Dazhou waved a hand. "Wang Hu, come here! You count as half a master to Su Yu. Come with me to talk to him!" King Miecan said helplessly, "Would he acknowledge me as his master? That kid... with that explosive temper of his..." "Come try and you'll find out!" "Fine, then!" King Miecan sighed. "The formation is half-ruined; who knows if it can even be repaired. King Dayuan... sigh!" Shaking his head with a sigh, he quickly vanished alongside King Dazhou. ... Su Manor. King Dazhou and King Miecan arrived together. King Dazhou's very first words were, "Wang Hu, whose Human King bloodline do you carry?" King Miecan instantly grew wary. "What's that supposed to mean?" "Speak!" King Dazhou frowned. "Do you not know what bloodline you have?" King Miecan chuckled. "Why are you two so serious? I... carry King Ping's bloodline!" King Dazhou said coldly, "Are you trying to force my hand against you?" King Miecan looked at him, then at Su Yu, who sat motionless. After a long pause, he slumped dejectedly. "I carry the bloodlines of the Prison King and the Yanhuo Demon Emperor!" Su Yu shrugged, smiled, and glanced at King Dazhou. King Dazhou frowned. "Mixed-blood?" The corner of King Miecan's mouth twitched, and he nodded. "So you knew? Indeed... some things can't be hidden forever!" He looked somewhat crestfallen. "After so many years, no one cared. Why... investigate this now?" King Miecan said helplessly, "I'm a mixed-blood, I admit it. But I was born human, and I never intended to become a demon..." He let out a sigh. "You two, all this commotion you stirred up... couldn't... couldn't have been specifically aimed at me, could it? Had I known, I wouldn't have dragged King Dayuan into losing two of his bodies!" With a helpless sigh, King Miecan said, "Fine, I admit it! I thought I could keep it hidden, but now that I've confessed, if you want to kill me... I accept it!" Su Yu raised an eyebrow slightly, while King Dazhou frowned deeply. Su Yu said with a light smile, "King Miecan, you had the chance to kill me back during the trial at the Great Xia Prefecture. Why didn't you do it?" "..." King Miecan stared at him, speechless for a long time, before saying, "I'm a mixed-blood—does being a mixed-blood mean I have to kill you? Su Yu, aren't you overestimating yourself? Why would I want to kill you for no good reason?" Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "Then when you ambushed the Fifth Generation, why didn't you say that?" "Ambushed the Fifth Generation?" "Ye Batian?" King Miecan was taken aback. "No, I never ambushed him!" King Dazhou let out a sigh. "Su Yu, some matters... are best handled with a bit of trust first. I think... there really might be a misunderstanding. If we don't inquire carefully, perhaps... Miecan will die a wrongful death!" He felt that King Miecan was not the culprit; otherwise, with concrete evidence in hand, Su Yu wouldn't have bothered confronting him. If they took this at face value... King Miecan would definitely end up dead during the upcoming journey to Tianyuan! King Dazhou took a deep breath. "We might have been wrong from the very beginning. Who says that what one sees is always the truth? Who says that whoever has the Prison King bloodline must be the traitor? A mixed-blood... isn't necessarily a traitor!" "Traitor?" King Miecan froze. "You... I am not! I concealed my mixed-blood status, but I never betrayed the human race... What do you mean by this?" Su Yu frowned at him, remaining silent. A mixed-blood wasn't the traitor? King Jintian was the real one? Was this old schemer truly acting purely on his intuition?