Tribulation of Myriad Races

A few minutes later.

The gate of the mayor's residence was still tightly shut. The doors of several nearby ancient buildings were left open. And several Sunmoons were seated cross-legged inside those buildings, keeping watch over the mayor's residence.

Furthermore, an expert radiating powerful nether qi was seated right in front of the gate.

Su Yu was not surprised to see someone from the nether race here. Why was the nether race even more enthusiastic about this than the devils and divines? He heard that a nether king had been crippled by a stone statue during the previous chaos. From a veteran Invincible, that expert had lost his future and present bodies. It was highly unlikely that he could recover to his previous height.

With a past body, he would still be strong. But he would be forever stuck at the level when he first advanced into an Invincible. If he lost even the past body, he would die. Furthermore, carrier treasures were incredibly rare. Thus, even catching a new future body wouldn't be an easy task. More importantly, that expert had lost his present body as well. There was no future without present. Recovery would be extremely difficult. Su Yu had learned all that recently.

Thus, a descendant of that nether king had personally arrived to deal with Su Yu. That nether king had hidden away due to his current weakness.

Additionally, this nether expert was also here to avoid any other troubles that might arise from the weakening of his nether king. After all, not even his enemies would dare to rashly kill inside an ancient city.

Su Yu was unbothered. He started taking note of all these experts.

One eighth-stage Sunmoon from the nether race. Very strong.

One...holy shit! Ninth-stage Sunmoon from the devil race. Very, very strong. And this damn devil was even a blood fire devil. Holy shit! Were they ever going to run out of Sunmoons? So many of them had died recently.

There was also a seventh-stage Sunmoon from the immortal race. Clearly, the immortal race wasn't trying as hard this time.

Oh, Red Soil of the five elemental race was here as well. What the fuck was he doing here? Was he joining the blockade as well?

There was even a seventh-stage Sunmoon from the dragon race here. What was the dragon race doing here? Su Yu couldn't recall causing the deaths of any dragons recently.

No, wait. He recalled someone called Long Dou, a seventh-stage Sunmoon from the dragon race. That fellow was killed in Heavendoom City because of him. Wow, so he had turned even the dragons into enemies?

And that was not all. A seventh-stage Sunmoon from the silkwyrm race was here as well. How brave. Were they not afraid of Silk Destroying King anymore? Surprisingly, nobody from the mystic armor race was here. Had they finally learned to feel fear?

And...there was also a monkey there. Someone from the heavenly spirit ape race was present.

Su Yu was very surprised. Why were they getting involved as well? But soon, he recalled that he had once picked up the corpse of a big monkey at the seventh-stage Sunmoon Realm before. That must have offended them.

Even now, that corpse was still in his storage ring. How terrifying. There were eight late-stage Sunmoons, including someone at the ninth stage. The myriad races were truly placing a lot of importance on this.

Did they think that everything would be fine if they kept him trapped in the mayor's residence? These experts were probably operating in shifts. After all, even Sunmoons needed to take some break from death qi every now and then.

Su Yu wondered if this could be a contribution to the human race as well. Thanks to him, there were eight less late-stage Sunmoons for the human to face. Just how many enemies had he eliminated for humanity as of late? Why hadn't the human race awarded him for his services?

Previously, he had been rewarded a hundred merit points for each first-stage Skysoar he killed. The reward for Cloudbreaches was a thousand points per head, and ten thousand points per Mountainsea, right?

Su Yu started recalling what he learned in the past. The human race would reward their people for each kill on the battlefield. Was the reward a hundred thousand merit points per first-stage Sunmoon killed?

Su Yu couldn't remember the details too well, but he reckoned he was right. Then, shouldn't he be rewarded nine hundred thousand merit points per ninth-stage Sunmoon killed? Through his calculation, he concluded that he was owed a lot of money.

Including the dark devil dragon, he had gotten eight late-stage Sunmoons killed. As for early and middle Sunmoons, he had caused dozens of them to die. If he was given an average of three hundred thousand per head, he should still get at least ten million merit points.

"Yes, I can't forget this. This is too much money to write off. I'll be sure to demand my money when I return. I can even give them a discount and write off the money they owe me for the dead Mountainseas, Cloudbreaches, and Skysoars."

He wouldn't settle for less than ten million merit points.

While he was thinking and moving around the mayor's residence, he also observed the other parts of the city.

As the Luminous Domain Mansion was going to open soon, there were quite a lot of people in the city. He noticed almost thirty Sunmoons in the city, but there weren't that many young geniuses. As of late, these young geniuses had been avoiding ancient cities. Su Yu must have traumatized them with his troublemaking.

That was especially true for people like Mo Duona and others who had been trapped in more than one ancient city by him.

"There are around thirty Sunmoons, but I can't get an accurate number since some are keeping their doors shut. There are a lot of Mountainseas as well."

What about the situation outside the city? Su Yu moved toward the city walls. He was greeted by an interesting scene. Some people were actually trying to rebuild the island. The land reclamation was being carried out by numerous experts. It was likely that these were the members of the Thousand Region Alliance.

The cities of the nine realms had been destroyed by the previous disaster, leaving their realm entrances completely naked in the middle of the sea. This was very dangerous. Their realm entrances had essentially been rendered completely defenseless.

Previously, they could slowly spread the suppressive force of their realms into the cities under their control. But with their cities gone, they couldn't do so anymore. The Sea of Stars itself would reject this spread. Thus, they were trying to reclaim the land around their realm entrances.

Su Yu wasn't too bothered about that. This wouldn't be an easy task, and there was no guarantee that the land they reclaimed would even remain for long. With that, he was done observing the situation inside and outside the city.

He reached a conclusion that it wouldn't be easy for him to kill anymore. That was mostly due to the high number of experts present. He was also quite wary after what happened previously. Three incomparably powerful death spirits had appeared after he killed one Sunmoon death spirit.

"In that case, I'll directly seal the city with the mayor's medallion. Everyone will need to convert into residents to survive. Maybe I can consider releasing some of them to show that I'm a good and kind man."

Even if he told the others to leave, the ones blockading the mayor's residence would stubbornly stay. There was no doubting that. Thus, they wouldn't be able to blame him if they ended up suffering after that.

"Sealing the city with the medallion will only result in a death qi backlash. That's not an issue. Yes, it's definitely doable."

He was a bit afraid of killing death spirits right now so he decided to not do that. Yes. It was about time he started acting like a civilized man. Only brutes would use violence to solve everything.

***

With a plan made, Su Yu returned to the branch.

How should he spread this news and promote his kindness?

Should he start shouting that he was going to seal the city?

Should he tell them to run or he would kill them all?

Would those people doubt his courage? After all, they knew that mayors would suffer a backlash from sealing or unsealing the city forcefully. That was why most people didn't place much hope on the mayors unsealing the cities when they were trapped as that was the same as telling the mayors to kill themselves.

These people probably believed that he was in such a grave situation that he wouldn't be able to survive any backlash. That was why they could confidently form a blockade around his mayor's residence.

Suddenly, Su Yu took out the mayor's medallion. Previously, the dark devil dragon had been able to spread his voice all over the city without even opening the gate of the mayor's residence. Was that one of the functions of the medallion?

Should he give it a try? He started recalling all the information he received when refining this medallion. Soon, he reached a decision.

***

Grandstar City was still as calm as ever.

Su Yu had been very quiet as of late, as though he had accepted his fate. With him trapped in the mayor's residence, everyone was relieved. Very few people had the courage to kill death spirits. Furthermore, there were other experts in the city. Anyone daring to create trouble in the presence of these experts would not be spared.

Normalcy was slowly returning to the city. That night, a loud voice suddenly rang out in the entire city.

"I'm Su Yu, the mayor of Grandstar City. You are all given one day to leave the city. This mayor does not wish to kill the innocent. No guarantee of safety will be given to those who are still in the city after one day."

His voice spread everywhere. It seemed as though the voice originated from the mayor's residence, but nobody was too concerned about it.

The nether expert seated in front of the mayor's residence coldly said, "Su Yu, talk is cheap. Just stay obediently inside the mayor's residence. You might be able to live longer that way."

"A nether? Don't force me to seal the city. If I seal the city for one full month, all of you will suffer."

The nether expert coldly said, "Sure. Let's see who can last longer. Su Yu, don't treat everyone as fools. In your current condition, you will die three days after sealing the city. All of us can survive that long."

That confidence was why they had the courage to come. As late-stage Sunmoons who were already prepared for this, they could survive even a month in the city. As long as no Invincible death spirits appeared, they had nothing to fear.

"Remember this! You forced me! Don't regret this if you remain stubborn!"

Those words did not inspire confidence at all.

The nether expert merely sneered. The other experts exchanged glances and laughed as well. One of them said, "He's at his limits. This is a good thing."

Was this the final struggle of a caged beast? Was this his final fight?

Su Yu had caged himself. He couldn't blame others for this. It would have been much harder for them to locate him if he remained as a random resident. But after becoming a mayor, everyone knew he was in the mayor's residence. He had basically delivered himself to them.

The experts laughed with amusement. Sealing the city? If Su Yu was not afraid of backlash, he was free to try it. It wasn't like no mayors had attempted this before.

Guess what happened to them?

They ended up dead before their enemies were dead. Only a fool would do something like this.