Chapter 2080: Dao Pioneering Begins (1) |
Su Yu couldn't be bothered to even spare Martial Emperor an additional glance.
He was busy heading toward the Origin Land with hundreds of experts.
***
Deep inside the Origin Land.
Once again, faces appeared on the many pillars of light.
They all had solemn expressions.
"Are the living declaring war against us again?"
As of late, things had been turbulent in the Origin Land.
North Heavenly King had withdrawn to the Origin Land with his people. At first, things were relatively quiet. North Heavenly King did not seem interested in provoking them. But not long after, Dragonblood Marquis started clashing against the subordinates of the sealed experts. And Dragonblood Marquis was a subordinate of North Heavenly King.
Additionally, a large number of experts had also awakened from the Celestial River of Death recently. The experts from the domain of the four heavenly kings had not bothered to kill these newly awakened experts. Instead, these experts had all been chased into the Origin Land. Some were even teleported over directly.
And with that, chaos erupted in the previously peaceful Origin Land. Not long ago, Celestial Chasm Realm had fallen deep into the Death Realm. And now, numerous Daofuses were approaching under the lead of a large number of heavenly kings.
All of them were living beings. No, there was also a large number of death spirits with them. With the inclusion of the death spirit marquises, the number of Daofuses in the group had surpassed one hundred.
That was a terrifying number.
"Is a war coming?"
Someone sneered, "Even if they're attacking someone, they will be attacking Ming Douhe. We are all sealed. Killing us will only spawn stronger experts from the river. It's pointless."
Also, an attack against them could break the seals around them. Was that really a bad thing for them?
***
At the same time.
North Heavenly King's territory.
A large number of experts had been gathered. North Heavenly King had lost some of the death spirit marquises under him, but he had also recruited some of the newly awakened experts from the river.
Including Dragonblood Marquis, he had more than ten Daofuses under him. North Heavenly King had a solemn expression. Dragonblood Marquis was frowning deeply as well. There were way too many experts in the approaching group. Were there really still so many experts in the world of the living?
"Dragonblood." North Heavenly King said, "What do you think we should do about this?"
Dragonblood Marquis had been exceptionally active as of late. He had also been growing rapidly. Not even North Heavenly King could be sure about his actual strength anymore. After all, the two had never fought each other.
At present, Dragonblood Marquis was still a powerful general under his command. But he could also feel that something didn't seem right. Many of the newly awakened Daofuses were getting closer and closer to Dragonblood Marquis, to the point where North Heavenly King felt like they were more loyal to Dragonblood Marquis than him.
This wasn't a good thing. Of course, it still wasn't the time for him to do anything about that. He had too many things to worry about. The sealed experts in the Origin Land and the experts in the previous domain of the four heavenly kings were all no pushovers.
Dragonblood Marquis asked, "Lord, are they here for us?"
There was such a possibility. But wasn't that a bit too excessive? There were more than ten heavenly kings in the approaching group. This was way too powerful a force for them to handle.
All the gathered death spirits looked around solemnly.
What to do?
Flee?
They had fled all the way to the Origin Land. Where else could they go after this? But were they supposed to stay and wait to be killed?
One of them raged, "Let's fight it out with them!"
Fighting it out? How? North Heavenly King and Dragonblood Marquis couldn't be bothered to acknowledge that suggestion.
With flickering eyes, Dragonblood Marquis asked, "Lord, should we fake a surrender instead?"
"Faking a surrender?"
Dragonblood Marquis smiled and said, "Su Yu seems to be among them. He has always wanted to take over the entire Death Realm. Why don't we fake a surrender and redirect them toward the sealed experts instead? We can have them fight Dizhiluo and the others instead."
Dizhiluo's side was very powerful as well. One should not forget that there was a Death Imperator among them. That was someone even Dragonblood Marquis feared. He was unsure if Death Imperator was already a Master of Law as the seal was messing with his senses, but there was no denying that Death Imperator was extremely powerful.
North Heavenly King stayed silent. The approaching experts were already near. Finally, he said, "Let's leave. We will move out of their way and see if they will keep coming after us."
If the living beings continued moving their way even after they moved aside, things would grow troublesome. The death spirits said nothing and moved with North Heavenly King. Before leaving, Dragonblood Marquis looked in Su Yu's direction with an odd expression. For some reason, something seemed to be calling toward him from that direction.
***
At the same time.
Sensing the movement of a large group of death spirits, South Heavenly King said, "Should we deal with them while we're here?"
North Heavenly King was no longer a concern for them. It wasn't that he was weak, but Su Yu simply outnumbered him too much. North Heavenly King was no longer a difficult target for them to handle. The strength of Su Yu's force was probably ten times that of North Heavenly King's.
Shooting a glance in North Heavenly King's direction, Su Yu smiled and said, "Let it be. It will take us some time to catch up since they're fleeing. We shouldn't be wasting time today."
He stared into the distant darkness and said, "We'll head over there. I can sense the presence of some experts there."
Those were probably the sealed experts. He would decide what to do after taking a look at them.
Su Yu said, "South Heavenly King, you're only a step away from a Venerable. Marquis Lanshan is also a step away from the level of a heavenly king. Perhaps we only need to kill a few heavenly kings to give the two of you the push to advance forward.
"Of course, there is no rush. If I manage to gain the ability to resurrect the dead, you will naturally grow stronger during the process."
South Heavenly King said nothing, but Marquis Lanshan asked in excitement, "Your Majesty, can we really return to life?"
"It's hard to say." Su Yu said, "I wish I could give you an answer, but the matters of life and death are filled with uncertainties. I have never experienced real death. Perhaps that is needed before I can attempt something like resurrection."
Hearing that, Marquis Lanshan deflated slightly. She looked slightly dispirited as she really wanted to return to life. Su Yu continued ahead while completely ignoring Dragonblood Marquis and the others. Things were getting really interesting around Dragonblood Marquis.
A decent number of experts had awakened from the Celestial River of Death. With these newly awakened members, North Heavenly King should have gathered over twenty Daofuses under his command. But even now, his total number of Daofuses had remained almost the same.
Clearly, Dragonblood Marquis had been hard at work recently. This wasn't a bad thing. Instead of dealing with these death spirits personally, Su Yu could leave the job to Dragonblood Marquis.
Before long, they crossed the territory of North Heavenly King. A large number of weak death spirits were there, and all of them were trembling in fear, having sensed the large number of powerful death spirits in Su Yu's group.
He continued onward.
When Su Yu opened his Heaven Gate, more than ten powerful pillars of light appeared in his vision.
Su Yu's heart skipped a beat. Those pillars of light seemed to have sensed his gaze as well. The darkest and biggest of all the pillars reacted as a face appeared on it before gazing straight at Su Yu.
This felt like a repeat of what happened when Su Yu spied on the Venerables in the Upper Realm. He saw an incomparably powerful expert, someone potentially at the level of a Master of Law.
Su Yu's initial trajectory would miss the sealed death spirits by a short distance. But having seen those pillars, he started moving in their direction instead. As they advanced, South Heavenly King and the others began to sense powerful auras in the air as well.
***
Shortly after.
A curtain of light appeared before them.
Numerous chains could be seen on the barrier, sealing the entire area from the outside world.
Beyond the curtain, more than ten dark pillars shot into the sky. A face appeared on one of them. That was none other than Dizhiluo, the one who had conversed with North Heavenly King previously.
He recognized South Heavenly King with one look and sneered, "Yu Ziqi, did you get yourself a new master? I suppose that's not surprising since you can't resist turning yourself into someone's running dog."
South Heavenly King merely stared at him coldly. As for Su Yu, he looked around and noted that there were fifteen pillars of light in total. Each sealed death spirit was incomparably powerful.
Dizhiluo, in particular, was actually one of the weaker ones among all the sealed experts.Then again, nobody truly weak would be qualified to be sealed here. What even was the point of sealing a weakling? It would be a waste of time. A weakling could simply be killed.
There were fifteen of them, and even the weakest was at the level of a heavenly king. About ten of them were at that level, with the other five being even stronger than that level. Four gave Su Yu the impression of Venerables, and one...was stronger.
Su Yu suspected that the person sealed in that final pillar of light could very real be a proper Master of Law. Sure enough, a large number of experts had been sealed here back then.
He did not allow Dizhiluo's words to anger him. Instead, he smiled from beyond the curtain of light and asked, "What's your name?"
"Is that a question for your grandpa?" Dizhiluo announced, "I am Dizhiluo. Brat, are you thinking of killing us? That must be the reason for you to arrive with so many people. Give it a try. But first, you have to break the seal apart."
They could only escape when the seal was broken.
"Dizhiluo?" Su Yu chuckled, "I'll remember your name. Looks like Martial King's decision to seal all of you here was the wrong decision. I would have killed all of you instead of wasting my time playing with seals. I would keep killing the newly spawned death spirits as well, until there were no more death spirits to kill. How strong could you lot be? Could you be stronger than the Master of Death? What a dumb choice. Instead of solving a problem, he had merely left it for the future generation to handle."
As far as Su Yu was concerned, these people should have all been killed. What was the point of keeping them around? There were quite a lot of them. Su Yu had previously thought that there would only be a few of them. Fortunately, things weren't that bad as there was only one Master of Law among them.