Nanyuan City had achieved victory, and the post-war mopping-up work began in the city.
At the same time.
Just as all the members of the Ten Thousand Races Sect were wiped out in Nanyuan City, outside the city of the Great Xia Mansion.
At Broken Head Mountain.
On a mountain that seemed to have its top cut off, Xia Longwu chopped off the head of the last deity race member with one slash. With a rumble, the corpse over five meters tall crashed to the ground.
"Spare my life!"
At this moment, there were five corpses of the deity race lying around the mountain peak.
There was still someone alive!
It wasn't a member of the deity race but a human.
The leader of the Tianyi Divine Sect!
A guy that the human race had been chasing and trying to wipe out but hadn't succeeded. He was very powerful!
However, at this moment, this powerful leader was kneeling on the ground, trembling all over, and shouting loudly, "Spare my life!"
Xia Longwu raised his long knife, expressionless. He looked at him for a while and said indifferently, "Your master is dead. You should accompany him in death!"
"No... My lord, I'm still useful!"
The leader knelt on the ground, trembling, and said, "I'm still useful. I can lure more members of the deity race for you, my lord. I can gather the followers of the Tianyi Divine Sect. I can also help you infiltrate the Ten Thousand Races Sect and find the strongholds of other sects... My lord, keeping me alive will be beneficial to the human race."
Begging for mercy was useless. He had to show his value.
Xia Longwu was too powerful!
He must have already stepped into that realm!
Wrong, it was wrong from the very beginning. The Tianyi Deity Race had suffered a huge loss this time. A full five top-notch powerhouses had died in the Human Realm, in the Great Xia Mansion.
The Tianyi Divine Sect was also finished. The followers who attacked the cities of the Great Xia Mansion today must have been almost all killed or injured.
The leader of the Tianyi Divine Sect knew that it was all over!
But he didn't want to die. It had been too difficult for him to cultivate to this level. He had hope of stepping into that realm. He had even given up the opportunity to transform into a member of the deity race because he thought he still had a chance.
Xia Longwu looked down at him from a commanding position.
After a while, he smiled faintly and said, "Anything else?"
"Yes... Yes... The Tianyi Divine Sect still has many treasures, many precious items, hidden in a secret realm. I've been to the territory of the Tianyi Deity Race and know their situation. I can lead the way for the powerful members of the human race and launch surprise attacks on the powerful members of the Tianyi Deity Race..."
"My lord, I can also go to the Battlefields of the Heavens and contribute to the human race, as long as you don't kill me..."
The leader trembled and quickly listed his uses.
He didn't want to die.
Defeated!
Six powerful beings had surrounded and attacked Xia Longwu. As a result, five of the deity race powerhouses died quickly, and their deaths frightened him. He was so scared.
"Where is the secret realm?"
Xia Longwu's tone was cold as he asked.
"My lord, as long as you spare me..."
"Where is the secret realm!"
Xia Longwu asked again, with a strong murderous aura. He only wanted the answer.
"My lord..."
Pfft!
With one slash, the head fell off.
Xia Longwu snorted coldly. So much nonsense!
Forget it if he didn't want to say. He would search every inch of the place. It didn't matter if he couldn't find it. If he did find it, it would be a gain.
A brute like him also dared to bargain with him!
Want to survive?
Wishful thinking!
All six powerful beings were wiped out.
Xia Longwu began to loot the corpses. The corpses of the deity race were good stuff. There were five corpses of the deity race here!
While he was cleaning up the battlefield, suddenly, a figure appeared on a mountain not far away.
Xia Longwu didn't even look at it and continued to clean up the battlefield.
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
Applause rang out. On the mountain peak, a middle-aged man was clapping and said with a smile, "Xia Longwu, it seems you don't need my help."
Xia Longwu ignored him.
"Are all geniuses so arrogant?"
The middle-aged man laughed heartily. "However, it's true. At your age, reaching this level is really unexpected. I originally thought that I had to take action today to keep these members of the deity race here. I didn't expect that you would just kill them all."
"By the way, why didn't you spare Yun Hao just now?"
Yun Hao, the leader of the Tianyi Divine Sect, a top-notch powerhouse.
"Scum. There's no need for him to live!"
Xia Longwu had finished packing up his things. He turned his head to look over there and said coldly, "Zhu Tiandao, I didn't invite you to the Great Xia Mansion. What are you doing here?"
"You're really something. I'm your elder, and you call me by my name directly. Alas..."
Zhu Tiandao sighed and soon smiled again. "Just because you didn't invite me doesn't mean no one else did. Those old guys invited me when they left. Is that not okay?"
Xia Longwu didn't say anything more. Obviously, someone in the mansion was worried that he couldn't handle the enemies alone.
Zhu Tiandao didn't continue talking about this either. He smiled and said, "You haven't stepped into that realm yet, right? I think you're almost there, similar to me. Do you feel stuck at this step and unable to make further progress? That feeling is really uncomfortable, isn't it?"
"If you stepped into it, you could have killed these guys in the blink of an eye. You wouldn't have had to fight until now. I have an opportunity here that can help us make further progress or at least let us see the way forward..."
Xia Longwu said indifferently, "No need. I know my own path. I've already seen it clearly! In a few days, I'll go to the Battlefields of the Heavens and kill a king of the ten thousand races. I will definitely step into this realm! I'm not you!"
Zhu Tiandao's tone froze, and he cursed inwardly!
Who was he trying to irritate?
"You think you can succeed? You can't kill them. Now the kings of the ten thousand races are very cunning. Once you appear on the Battlefields of the Heavens, they will definitely join hands to kill you. Give up this idea!"
"Also, there's a big difference between stepping into that realm and not stepping into it..."
"No need for you to remind me!"
Xia Longwu didn't bother to pay attention. It wasn't like he hadn't seen invincible powerhouses before. His grandfather, King Xia of the Great Xia, was an invincible powerhouse at this realm.
Zhu Tiandao was helpless. "Are you really not interested in listening to what I have to say?"
"Not interested!"
Xia Longwu turned around and walked down the mountain. "If it were really possible, you wouldn't be so weak. If your elder brother were still alive, he might have had hope of stepping into this realm. You're much worse than your elder brother!"
"I..."
Zhu Tiandao said angrily, "Kid, you can only say these things to me. Be careful when you come to the Great Ming Mansion and get beaten to death! Besides, my elder brother died when he was nine years old. How do you know he was stronger than me..."
"Because he was the first genius of the human race to reach the Qian Jun Realm at the age of nine!"
"I..."
Zhu Tiandao was left speechless. Yes, his elder brother was a genius. Reaching the Qian Jun Realm at the age of nine, but he had almost become a negative example for the entire human race.
Bathing in the blood of demons and gods, he stepped into the Qian Jun Realm in one day, at the age of nine.
The legitimate son of the Great Ming King!
Nowadays, among the human race, the number of people who know his elder brother is ten or a hundred times more than those who know him. But when Xia Longwu said these words, it always felt like he was mocking.
Xia Longwu really didn't mean to. While walking, he said, "At least he had the courage to try! If you had gone to the Battlefields of the Heavens a hundred years ago and fought with the kings of the ten thousand races, you might have become invincible by now. Why would you be stuck at this step!"
"I won't learn from you. You're not worth learning from!"
"..."
Zhu Tiandao was speechless. After a while, he said, "You make it sound so easy, Xia Longwu. I'd like to see if you can slay an invincible being among the ten thousand races. That's just courting death. You have the potential to reach the invincible realm. Why rush to seek death..."
"If you die, who will support the Great Xia Mansion? Your grandfather? Your grandfather's whereabouts are unknown now..."
Xia Longwu's steps paused slightly, and soon he said, "It doesn't matter. My second uncle is still alive. Just call him back!"
"Him? He's even weaker than me. By then, your Great Xia Mansion won't be one of the top three mansions in the Human Realm anymore!"
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, it won't be your Great Ming Mansion's turn to replace us."
"..."
Zhu Tiandao found that he couldn't communicate with Xia Longwu and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Seeing that he was about to leave, he hurriedly said, "Three years from now, the Xingyu Mansion will open. The Great Ming Mansion has ten places, and you guys have twenty places. How about we join hands then..."
"You guys are too weak. I won't team up with you."
"Xia Longwu!"
Zhu Tiandao was angry. "I came all this way to help. Is this how you treat a visitor from afar? How is my Great Ming Mansion weak? Three years from now, the Great Ming Mansion will send its strongest generation to the Xingyu Mansion! If you don't want to join hands, then according to the rules, since I came to help, you should give me a corpse of a member of the deity race!"
"..."
Xia Longwu's expression changed.
"Otherwise, let's join hands!"
Xia Longwu turned around and stared at him for a while. Unable to hold back, he cursed, "Shameless!"
"How is it shameless?"
Zhu Tiandao said helplessly, "We join hands. It's not like you'll lose anything. Although your Great Xia Mansion is strong, we're not weak either..."
"Humph!"
Xia Longwu snorted softly. After a while, he said indifferently, "Fine! But if the people from your Great Ming Mansion are too weak, I'd rather give you a corpse of a member of the deity race! Weaklings don't deserve to team up with my Great Xia Mansion!"
After saying that, Xia Longwu soared into the air and left.
Zhu Tiandao watched him leave, cursed for a while, and soon a smile appeared on his face. "This kid... Alas, he's really strong!"
With a sigh, Xia Longwu was really about to step into that realm.
He seemed to be about the same as himself, but in fact, he was far better.
Because he himself had been at about this level a hundred years ago, with no progress in a hundred years. A hundred years ago, this kid hadn't even been born yet.
This guy was making progress every time he saw him.
No wonder he dared to take risks this time and fought against the deity race in the Great Xia Mansion, killing five powerful members of the deity race in one battle.
Even though the Tianyi Deity Race was very powerful, they must be heartbroken this time.
Five powerful members died, and even the Tianyi Divine Sect was uprooted.
Nobody knew about the battles in the Great Xia Mansion.
The fall of the five powerful beings of the deity races and the leader of the Tianyi Divine Sect was known to only a few people.
That was too high-level for them to understand.
The city lord and powerful beings like Liu Wenyan were discussing the mopping-up of the remaining members of the Ten Thousand Races Sect outside the city. These matters had nothing to do with Su Yu either.
At this moment, Su Yu and Chen Hao were hiding in a corner looking at their gains.
"Ah Yu, are we rich now?"
Chen Hao looked at the gains in front of him, a bit excited. "Ah Yu, why do you think these people carried so many things when they went out?"
"Nobody in the Ten Thousand Races Sect trusts anyone else. They often move around and have no fixed place to live. Of course, they would carry their valuables with them. It's not surprising."
Su Yu wasn't surprised about this at all.
When killing the high-ranking members of the Ten Thousand Races Sect, the gains were sometimes very little because the high-ranking members usually had fixed residences and were deeply hidden.
However, for the low-ranking members, they had no fixed place to live. They could be here today and there tomorrow. Killing them often meant being able to confiscate all their belongings.
"Two cultivation manuals, two martial skills manuals, five drops of blood essence. I don't know what kind of blood essence they are, but we can find out by asking..."
Chen Hao continued counting and grinned. "There's also a bottle of Body Tempering Pills. Unfortunately, there are only five pills left. These are very helpful for cultivation in the Qian Jun Realm."
"Sixteen Anping gold coins. One coin is worth 10,000 Anping coins..."
"It's the first time I've got gold coins. My father has some, but unfortunately, he won't give them to me..."
Gold coins were quite valuable.
Sometimes, the people of the Ten Thousand Races Sect didn't dare to deposit Anping coins and it was inconvenient to carry them around. So they usually exchanged them for gold coins and carried them with them.
As for savings cards, these guys didn't dare to use them either, fearing that their identities would be exposed and the cards would be frozen.
So this time, after killing two sect members, they got quite a lot of gold coins.
Sixteen coins, which was 160,000!
For two people at a high level of the Qian Jun Realm, 160,000 was neither too much nor too little. After all, they also needed to cultivate.
"Ah Yu, should we hand them in?"
Chen Hao was a bit reluctant, but still said, "After killing these people, we should hand in the spoils of war uniformly."
This was the rule, after all, there were more than one person participating in the battle.
"Hand them in..."
Su Yu thought for a while and said, "Let me think about it. Handing them in would mean that we killed two members of the Ten Thousand Races Sect. But we're so weak. How could we have killed them? Haozi, don't tell others that I killed them. You know what I mean."
"Yeah..."
Chen Hao nodded and then whispered, "Ah Yu, how did you suddenly become so powerful? The Qian Jun Realm! I heard the instructor say that all the invaders this time were powerhouses above the seventh level of the Qian Jun Realm. How did you break through their defenses and kill them?"
"Don't ask. I won't tell you even if you do."
While speaking, Su Yu looked at two small black badges. These were the symbols of the Ten Thousand Races Sect. In general, the members of the Ten Thousand Races Sect wouldn't carry these things to avoid exposing their identities.
However, this was a large-scale operation, and they had to disperse and evacuate afterwards. In order to gather and identify themselves later, almost all the sect members who came this time brought these things to prove their identities.
So they also confiscated two badges this time.
These could also represent their battle achievements!
Su Yu thought for a while, then threw one of the badges to Chen Hao. He also took out a cultivation manual, a martial skills manual, two drops of blood essence, and six gold coins and threw them all to Chen Hao.
"If you want to enter the War Academy, then hand in these things to prove that you killed a member of the Ten Thousand Races Sect."
Chen Hao was a bit excited, but soon he said dejectedly, "Maybe we'd better forget it. Otherwise, it'll be hard to explain. You killed a guy at the seventh level of the Qian Jun Realm. They'll surely investigate it clearly..."
He wanted to enter the War Academy, but if he took these things and handed them in, Su Yu's situation would be exposed.
Su Yu smiled and said, "It's okay. It's not like people in the Qian Jun Realm can't be killed! Of course, we can't report the second one. I crushed that guy's heart with my bare hands and killed him. There's not much problem with the first one. I just cut him with a knife. It's okay if I used more strength and killed him."
"Just go and report it. Say that the other guy was careless and you suddenly cut him to death with one knife."
"Ah Yu, will this work?" Chen Hao was a bit nervous. "Then maybe you should go and say it. Didn't you say that you also want to enter the War Academy?"
"Me? I don't need to."
Su Yu said calmly, "Since I can kill someone in the Qian Jun Realm, do you think it'll be difficult for me to enter the War Academy? I forgot to mention that I broke through to the fourth level of the Kai Yuan Realm a few days ago. I think I'll reach the fifth level soon."
"..."
Chen Hao was hit again. Is it true or not?
So fast!
But since Ah Yu had killed someone in the Qian Jun Realm, he had to believe it.
Chen Hao looked at him with a bit of resentment. Were all geniuses so abnormal?
I didn't see you being so abnormal before!
Su Yu ignored him, packed up the other things, stuffed them into his chest, and whispered, "The battle achievements can be yours, but... the merit points awarded should be for me to use! Also, you've saved over 10,000 private savings. You should give them all to me. Consider it as you bought these from me. Do you hear me!"
"..."
Chen Hao had a pitiful look on his face. Ah Yu was really stingy. With such a big harvest this time, he was still thinking about his private savings.
Was it easy for him?
He had saved it for so many years, and you want to take it all away?
"What are you looking at? If you hand in these things, you'll also get rewards..."
"But the academy awards merit points!"
Chen Hao looked aggrieved. Do you think I'm stupid!
You just said that the merit points would be for you. That means I'll be bankrupt.
"At least, you have hope of entering the War Academy now, don't you? It's just over 10,000. Which one would you choose to enter in the War Academy?"
Chen Hao was a bit confused and nodded. It seemed so.
Over 10,000 to enter the War Academy seemed quite a good deal.
"Then it's settled. When you report it, you can say that I cooperated with you, but it was you who cut that knife."
"But if they check the wound, that knife couldn't have been made just with more strength. What should I say?"
Chen Hao asked hurriedly. He wasn't really ignorant. The experts would be able to tell.
"It's okay. I checked before. The corpses have been collected and are ready to be burned. Wait until they're burned and then go and say it. There's no proof when people are dead. What are you afraid of!"
"But..."
"Then forget it if you don't want to. Anyway, it's not like I want to enter the War Academy and need this battle achievement."
As soon as Su Yu said this, Chen Hao was in a dilemma.
"Okay, I'll go and say it! Don't worry, I definitely won't betray you. If they really want to investigate, just investigate me. What's wrong with me having more strength!"
Chen Hao gritted his teeth. He still wanted to enter the War Academy.
This was the best opportunity!
Su Yu didn't pay attention to him anymore. The possibility of the academy verifying it was not high. Of course, there would surely be some doubts, but the corpses had been burned, and no one would falsely claim the battle achievements. Chen Hao stood up to claim them. At most, the academy would pay more attention to him in the future.
A person in the Qian Jun Realm, not in the Wan Shi Realm. It was not impossible to kill the other person by chance in the Kai Yuan Realm.
"Ten gold coins, three drops of blood essence, five Body Tempering Pills, one cultivation manual, one martial skills manual..."
Su Yu was thinking about today's gains in his heart and was in a good mood.
He had paid one drop of the blood essence of the Iron Wing Bird, and now he got more than ten times the gains. It was great.
Finally, he didn't have to worry about spending all his father's savings and having nothing to eat later.
He would go back and carefully check what kind of blood essence these drops were. Maybe it was possible to open the second page of the atlas.