Chapter 694: Dragonrise Drum Rumbles (1)

Zhu Tiandao had left to throw a tantrum while the others started cleaning up the battlefield. Su Yu was under constant protection by Sunmoons to prevent any surprise attacks.

Beside him, Hu Xiansheng was gazing at him anxiously. At the moment, nobody was more worried about Su Yu's safety than him. After all, Su Yu still owed him a million merit points. Thus, killing Su Yu was the same as killing him.

Seeing how Hu Xiansheng was behaving, Su Yu had the urge to laugh. He said, "Faculty Head, what do you think about the prefect's trip to the Dual Holy Prefecture? Does complaining do anything?"

"Definitely." Suppressing the urge to ask for his money, Hu Xiansheng answered, "Our prefect might not be the strongest of all prefects, but when it comes to throwing a tantrum-cough, cough-arguing on strong grounds, he is pretty good at it."

"The two holy lands have been quite a failure as of late. They have been making a lot of mistakes. Things can be swept under the rug if nobody says anything. Now that the prefect has personally gone there to throw a tantrum, Great Han King and Silk Destroying King will be forced to make an appearance. Those two are the ones currently in command of the two holy lands. As for what will happen...it will depend on what the prefect says."

Su Yu said with a regretful tone, "I wish I could go there to witness this as well."

"No!" Hu Xiansheng said, "It's better that you don't go. Your presence will only make things complicated. People will definitely start making a fuss out of your grand cycle acupoints. If Great Han King or Silk Destroying King asks you about it, do you tell them or not? Sure, as Invincibles, they might be gracious enough to not care about a refusal. But that is still an insult to them. But if you tell them, you might not be happy with it. That was why the prefect had gone without you. Are the two Invincibles supposed to personally visit Great Ming and ask you about it?"

Hu Xiansheng grinned, "The prefect has his reasons for doing things this way. Without you there, he can operate more easily."

Su Yu nodded. That was true. That was especially true for Silk Destroying King since he had learned the Time technique. Upon a meeting, what should he say if Silk Destroying King decided to ask about his grand cycle acupoints?

Refusing to answer was a bad choice. But he also wouldn’t be willing to answer. He did not intend to tell anyone in the short term.

After all, opening 360 acupoints was not a feat the masses could accomplish. This was something that would only benefit super freaks with a lot of money to spare. Most of these people would be the descendants of Invincibles. A regular person would have almost zero hope of succeeding.

Since that was the case, why bother? That would only reduce his advantage over others. He might even create some strong enemies with his very own hands.

After looking left and right, Hu Xiansheng softly asked, "Kid, do you still have money? If you do, I can get a few friends and create a long-distance recording device. Everything is doable as long as you have money."

"..."

Su Yu was left speechless. Why did Great Ming suddenly feel like Great Xia? Money was needed for everything. Did this faculty head set him as a target? Sure, he had a lot of money, but most had been used on Hu Xiansheng. Then again, what he got was totally worth the money.

Su Yu was actually quite interested in that Teleportation Door. Thus, he asked, "Faculty Head, do you really need a million merit points to build that door of yours?"

"Cough..." Hu Xiansheng said, "Not really. But it's near that amount. Also, that is the crystalization of my knowledge accumulated over hundreds of years. It is definitely worth a million merit points. You saw it yourself. Even a third-stage Sunmoon ended up trapped inside the door. Without the heavy injuries caused by my door, he wouldn't have died that easily."

Su Yu nodded, "True. Faculty Head, around half the door remains after the explosion. Since I've paid for it, the remaining half is mine. Don't forget to send it over."

"..."

Hu Xiansheng stared at Su Yu with a grumpy expression. Did the kid notice that? More importantly, why was the kid asking for the remaining part of the door? That was all he had left!

Su Yu avoided Hu Xiansheng's gaze. He was very interested in the door. That could serve as an extremely powerful tool for murder. No Mountainsea could survive that door.

Speaking of, the main entrance of his research center had a similar ability. But that door was connected to the very foundation of the research center, deriving some of its power from the Spatial Cutting Room. Thus, it was impossible to use the door outside the research center.

Meanwhile, Hu Xiansheng's door could be brought everywhere. Because of that, it was a lot more impressive.

Hu Xiansheng said grumpily, "Without a spatial character, you won't be able to control it. It's a waste..."

Su Yu said, "I don't mind, Faculty Head."

"I—"

Hu Xiansheng wasn't even asking about his feelings!

With a helpless expression, Hu Xiansheng said, "I can still put it to use after repairing it. Why don't I get you a long-distance recording device for free instead?"

He was feeling a lot of grief. He had no choice but to spend more of his own money. If he had known this would happen, he would have stayed silent.

Su Yu smiled, "Sure. I'll be troubling you, Faculty Head."

Hu Xiansheng sighed and said, "There is no rush. The prefect will probably reach tonight. We have plenty of time."

One should not forget that this entire operation was carried out for Su Yu's sake. Su Yu was not the type to let his allies suffer for him. Of the money he had received from Marquis Xia previously, he had 1.06 million merit points left. Even after paying Hu Xiansheng, he would still have 60,000 merit points left for himself. That was enough.

If he was really in need of money, he could always collect what was owed to him. The stronger version of the Double Wu Acupoint Fusion Art, the Source Soul Cultural Art, and the upcoming Source Soul Acupoint Opening Art were all golden geese. As long as he didn't spend too excessively, he would never be short of money.

"There are, but we don't have the ability to strip the characters from the corpses. We have to wait for the prefect to return." Niu Baidao smiled, "The first dead Sunmoon who was the master of the Blood Fire Sect and the Sunmoon burned alive by Old Hu were both cultural researchers. Both have probably left a few characters behind. The rest of the Sunmoons were warriors."

Sunmoon characters could be turned into grottos. But the two dead Sunmoon cultural researchers might not have too many characters. And apart from their main characters, their other characters might not even be in the Sunmoon Realm.

Su Yu asked, "Principal, these are all traitors of humanity. Can I extract a few drops of blood essence from them and check their memories? Perhaps we can learn some secrets from them..."

"Yow know how to extract memories?"

Zhu Baidao was surprised. That was a very rare skill to have.

"Yeah."

Niu Baidao thought about it and nodded, "Sure. I'll send you some later. But Su Yu, remember this. You can study those memories or even research the blood essence. But you can't cultivate with human blood essence. That will make you a devil. And this is only allowed for cultists. For any other human, you are not allowed to extract their blood essence. If I learn that you're doing so, no matter how big of a genius you are, Great Ming will not welcome someone who has lost his humanity."

Su Yu nodded. On the very first day he entered a laboratory, Bai Feng had solemnly told him the same.

"I won't."

"Good. I don't want to see you standing opposite the human race one day. There might be some parasites within the human race, but that does not mean that all humans are bad. This applies to Great Qin, Great Xia, or even Great Zhou that you probably dislike. Even Great Zhou has countless soldiers fighting for humanity on the front lines..."

"Due to different positions, some people might cross some lines. But these people are not necessarily evil. You are probably aware of this, but there is a camp of people trying to avoid war with the myriad races. They believe that we should seek peace and delay the war. At the end of the day, they are also working hard for the sake of humanity. In fact, Great Ming can be considered a part of this camp. Our prefect's official stance is to delay the great war as long as we can. Do you think that our prefect is evil, Su Yu?"

Niu Baidao sighed, "There are a lot of things we must consider when making our policies. Not everything can be solved by fighting a hot-blooded war with our enemies. We can only fight when it is worth doing so. You should avoid putting the same label on everyone just because of their position."

Su Yu nodded, "I understand. Don't worry, I don't have such extreme opinions."

A lot of people had told him the same, such as Hong Tan, Wan Tiansheng, Chen Yong, and Liu Wenyan. He should not be too quick to put a label on everyone. Some people might not be friends, but these people might not necessarily be enemies either.

Why did so many people tell Su Yu the same thing? Because they believed that Su Yu was still too young and inexperienced with the ways of the world.

Su Yu did not argue. He actually agreed with them. He was not a merit point. Not everyone would love him. It was normal for people to dislike each other due to differing opinions. He wasn't extreme enough to label anyone with a different opinion as an enemy. But there were some people who he would definitely deal with one day. For example, the Invincible who had attacked earlier.

He was not optimistic that they would be able to find out the identity of this Invincible through this attack. If it was this easy, this Invincible wouldn't have stayed hidden for so many years.

"Seven characters..."

That was quite a lot, especially since all of these were Sunmoon characters. Not even Invincibles could form Sunmoon characters so easily. These seven characters might be the ones that the unknown Invincible had kept hidden all along. Otherwise, others might find out who that Invincible was through those characters.

But Su Yu had one more question. Was this the same Invincible as the one who had appeared during the battle in Great Xia?

At this thought, Su Yu asked the little furball, "Can you differentiate the smell of different characters?"

"Yes, but I need to enter the sea of willpower and have a meal inside before I can do that..."

Su Yu's eyes flickered.

"So you can only do so after entering the sea of willpower?"

"Yeah."

The little furball replied lazily. He was unsure, but he was confident he could do so if the food was nice enough.

Su Yu felt helpless. This was quite a useless ability. If they could access the sea of willpower of that unknown Invincible so easily, things would have been much easier to solve. Which Invincible would allow one access to their sea of willpower? That would never happen.

In fact, even at Su Yu's current level, he would never allow anyone to inspect his sea of willpower.