Chapter 673: 72-Forged Iron Devourer (3)

Chapter 673: 72-Forged Iron Devourer (3)

Su Yu was alarmed as well. Zhao Ming? Lan Tian? Holy shit! He made frequent contacts with Zhao Ming during his time at the Source Soul Research Center. Zhao Ming was someone he had known since he first challenged the ranking.

That was Lan Tian? Master of the Original Devil Sect? Someone like that could kill him easily. How did nobody notice that? Su Yu swallowed nervously. He instinctively looked downstairs. Holy shit. Was one of these old men Lan Tian in disguise?

If that was the case...this was so scary. How was he supposed to detect the disguise of a crazy transformation faction expert? Even Great Xia King himself would visit the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy occasionally. Even so, Lan Tian had been able to avoid detection. Was a Sunmoon of the transformation faction so terrifying?

Zhao Ming...Lan Tian...

Su Yu's eyes flickered. He still remembered what Zhao Ming said during their first visit to the Lan Tian Research Center. Zhao Ming had praised Lan Tian as an incredible person. But Chen Yong had called him a traitor.

At the time, Zhao Ming did not argue. But clearly, he believed that Lan Tian was a super genius, a fact not even his betrayal could remove. Lan Tian Research Center...Zhao Ming was also the first person to talk about that research center.

The look in Su Yu's eyes changed. So that was Lan Tian?

Zhao Ming had been in the academy for decades, right? Meanwhile, Lan Tian's defection had happened around twenty years ago.

Su Yu recalled that Zhao Ming had said that he had joined the academy ten years earlier than Xia Yuwen. And Xia Yuwen had joined around the same time Bai Feng joined, which was nine years ago as of last year. In other words, if one actually calculated the time, everything lined up perfectly. Zhao Ming had joined the academy around the same time Lan Tian defected.

Su Yu was astonished. He said, "In other words, Lan Tian had returned to the academy right after defecting?"

"Yeap. It happened right after. He defected during the academy break and Zhao Ming joined when the academy reopened."

Fuck! Su Yu didn't know what to say. What a crazy guy. The guy had returned right after defecting and stayed in the academy for around twenty years. What was that guy doing in the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy?

Was that academy worth his time? Also, why bother leaving again after so many years? Was that guy really coming after him?

Su Yu couldn't help but shiver. He yelled inwardly that he had never offended that guy. Wait, he was the one who had smashed Lan Tian Research Center's signboard. Holy shit. Did he offend Lan Tian because of that? He had even said that Lan Tian deserved death.

Shit!

"Zhao Ming...Lan Tian..."

Great Xia would probably keep that secret.

They couldn't let the populace know that Lan Tian had actually hidden amidst them for so many years as that would cause mass panic. After all, that was the master of the Original Devil Sect. Su Yu inhaled deeply. An enemy like that was extremely thorny to deal with.

"Fatty, is there a way to determine if someone is Lan Tian in disguise?"

If there was no way whatsoever, it would be really troublesome."

"That's a long topic. How about this? We'll talk again when I'm at Great Ming..."

"Lan Tian won't replace you, right?"

"Nonsense. He would be crazy to try that. I spend so much time with my second grandpa. He can avoid detection for one or two encounters, but he won't be able to survive daily encounters."

But Su Yu wasn't convinced. There was also Wan Tiansheng in the academy, but Zhao Ming had still been able to remain hidden. Then again, Xia Huyou was right. No matter how crazy Lan Tian was, he wouldn't risk prolonged exposure to the Xia Family.

Su Yu ended the conversation with Xia Huyou and left the research center. He planned to purchase some blood essence first. Since he had reached an agreement with the iron devourer, he might as well get a drop of blood essence there.

But he was curious if he had been killed by the iron devourers before. They seemed to enjoy eating way too much. Would they do anything apart from eating? He had no idea. But he might as well give it a try.

It wouldn't be too hard for him to complete the Source Opening of the three cubs. He only needed to provide them with the heavenly source qi of around three to five heavenly source fruits. If needed, he could give them two more to help the cubs recuperate from blood essence extraction. That should do.

"I think I saw someone running away with the little balls!"

"Thief! There's a thief in the faculty!"

The students kicked a huge ruckus.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was back at his research center with the three little balls. Staring at the three little fellows, he grinned.

Their skins were already so thick at such a young age. One should note that they were born in an environment without heavenly source qi. This iron devourer race couldn't be an ancient race, right?

They were ranked among the top 100 races. Su Yu didn't know if this was an ancient race, but he was sure that they had Invincibles in their race.

He randomly grabbed one of them. After taking a look, he confirmed that this was the first little ball Wu Lan caught previously. This little fellow would be his target. He would first feed the little fellow well before extracting the little fellow's blood. Since this little guy was still so young, he was probably unaware of the pain involved in blood extraction.

Su Yu went into the laboratory with the cub and stuffed an apple-like fruit into the little fellow's mouth. Unsurprisingly, the little fellow forgot everything the moment food was offered and allowed Su Yu to do what he wanted.

Su Yu needed to extract at least one-tenth of the little fellow's blood to generate a drop of blood essence. But he had fed the little fellow with a lot of heavenly source qi. And the little fellow did not seem to care. He was too busy enjoying the food.

After about a dozen minutes, the extraction was done. The little fellow looked at Su Yu in confusion. What did this human do to him?

Su Yu couldn't be bothered to say anything. He stuffed another ball into the little fellow's mouth, instantly shifting the little fellow's attention.

Then, Su Yu left and entered his cultivation room to consume the drop of blood essence. This drop of blood essence was too weak. It was only at the Source Opening Realm. If what he needed was a body forging art instead of a racial ability or even a foundation source art, he would have worked for nothing.

His body did not react whatsoever as the blood essence was too weak. After all, he was strong enough to withstand even the blood essence of Cloudbreaches.

Su Yu waited nervously, praying inside that he had been killed by the blood devourers before. Otherwise, all those heavenly source qi would have gone to waste. Fortunately, the golden book reacted. Su Yu was overjoyed.

Finally!

These bears had killed him before!

Iron devourer (First-stage Source Opening)

Racial ability: 72-Forged Iron Devourer (activation with blood essence), Void Devourer (inactive), Skyshaking Technique (inactive)

Foundation source art: Iron Devourer Art (inactive)

Su Yu blanked out. There were more inactive racial abilities? So these abilities would activate depending on the strength of the blood essence? That wasn't the point. More importantly, he had forgotten that he needed a second drop of blood essence. Holy shit. He couldn't extract more blood from ball number one. Should he set his sights on ball number two?

He was pretty pleased. This 72-Forged Iron Devourer must be the body forging art. It was a natural body forging art that existed as a racial ability. There was a reason for this race to have such strong bodies.

Also, that Dumbo was a liar. What was up with that Void Devourer and Skyshaking Technique? That Dumbo had definitely activated these abilities. His offensive prowess was probably as strong as his defensive prowess. This race actually had three powerful racial abilities!

"72-Forged...do I really need to forge my body 72 times?"

Su Yu was astonished. Wasn't this stronger than the body forging arts of the divines and devils? How much heavenly source qi would he need for this? Would he be able to kill Mountainseas as a ninth-stage Skysoar after completing this art? That...seemed possible. Wow. He was going to be so scary in the future.

Su Yu sighed. Moving forward, he could probably be viewed as someone two cultivation levels higher. This was so impressive because the higher the cultivation level, the bigger the gap with the cultivation level below.

"I am too scary."

Once again, he sighed before deciding to keep a low profile. At the very least, he had to be low profile regarding his combat prowess.