After a slight hesitation, Dao Cheng said, "No. This danger might be something that will be present every day. Just be careful."
He added, "Senior Final Armor, you're a peak Mountainsea. The mystic armor race is a top 100 race as well. You can put up a fight even against a Sunmoon, right?"
"Of course."
"In that case, try not to split up with us."
Final Armor nodded. Fine.
The group started heading toward the main gate. Tonight, they were going to search the city ring by ring. This might seem like a heavy mission, but it wasn't really the case. Most of the people in the city were the residents. The number of visitors that would actually stay the night was quite low in comparison.
The mystic armor race had also been gathering information for this operation. The visitors who had arrived more than two days ago were excluded from their search. They would focus only on those who had only arrived during the past two days.
***
Su Yu remained still even after the group was gone. They might be gone, but he decided to remain cautious. After all, they had a peak Mountainsea with them. He also needed to be careful in case they had something similar to his Perception Jade.
The immortal race was powerful. It wouldn't be odd to see them with similar treasures. Thus, Su Yu remained completely still like a normal piece of rock. After a while, the Mountainsea who had left earlier returned. He returned with a death spirit. It was the same death spirit who had left earlier.
Su Yu's heart thumped. So these people were really capable of controlling death spirits? After checking his surroundings, the Mountainsea turned around and spoke to the death spirit with his medallion raised. The death spirit appeared to be struggling, but the sight of the medallion still compelled it to obey.
A short while later, a thick wave of death qi rippled out of the death spirit. Then, the death spirit started roaming the street. The Mountainsea hurriedly distanced himself, allowing the death qi to fill the area.
Su Yu, who was atop the roof, was being invaded by death qi. The invasion was progressing rapidly. The death qi started spreading all over his body. After going back and forth about five or six times on the same street, the darkness around the death spirit seemed to have faded somewhat, making it look slightly translucent.
A short while later, the death spirit vanished just as suddenly as it had when it appeared. After some time, more people arrived. That was the same group that had departed earlier.
They stared at the street filled with death qi in silence. Looking at Dao Cheng beside him, Final Armor shook his head, "There's nothing. All the buildings here are still unoccupied. If there is someone outside, that person will die to the death qi soon. With so much death qi in them, even if they can survive this, they will become a target of the death spirits soon."
Dao Cheng frowned. Was there really nobody around them?
All this had only happened due to the slight sense of danger he felt earlier. He waited silently. If someone was really hiding nearby, the thick death qi in the air was enough to fill that person's body. He was aware of Su Yu's concealment skills.
Thus, Su Yu was the first person in his mind when he felt a sense of danger earlier. But now, he was starting to doubt his judgment.
"Let's wait a little longer." Final Armor persuaded against it, "The death qi here is too thick. Powerful death spirits might appear. We can't wait too long. And we can only return after the death qi disperses."
Dao Cheng nodded.
After about five minutes, the Mountainsea said with a nod, "Let's go."
Enough time had passed for death qi to invade the body of someone capable of resisting death qi invasion. Once again, the group left. As they departed, a death spirit was slowly taking form.
This was the main reason they had departed. They felt a massive sense of danger arriving together with the death spirit. Not long after they left, Su Yu moved at a rapid speed and instantly vanished into the distance. Damn them!
A mere ninth-stage Sunmoon wouldn't dare to go against the immortals even after becoming the mayor of an ancient city.
"Alright."
Black Armor agreed. Soon, even more night patrol joined their operation.
***
Near the city wall.
The Mountainsea commander who had warned Su Yu about the dangers in the city before was standing atop the city wall while facing the city. He was able to see clearly what was happening inside the city.
Beside him, a guard spoke through voice transmission, "Commander, is that Commander Black Armor from the night patrol? The mystic armors are deploying all their forces. What are they doing?"
The Mountainsea did not say anything. He recalled someone who had just arrived the day before. They were probably targeting Su Yu. The mystic armors were planning to make a move against him inside the city.
Would that fellow fall into their hands? How about the mayor? Would the mayor get involved? Numerous thoughts emerged in his head, but he ultimately opted to look away. This was not something he could get involved in.
If the mystic armors really ended up killing or capturing Su Yu, would a human Invincible show up? He had no answer to that question. He only had a feeling that this incident might be the fuse. More than ten years ago, the Martial Dragon Guard surrounded the city. History might repeat itself.
***
"Five Mountainseas, two immortal geniuses, seventeen Cloudbreaches, thirty-eight Skysoars..."
There were about sixty of them. Cloudbreaches and Mountainseas could be considered experts in an ancient city. As for Skysoars, they were rather common in ancient cities. Even Su Yu did not pay much attention to those Skysoars. He was only wary of the fact that many of them were actually residents of the city. Killing them might bring more trouble than expected. He wondered if he could withstand the consequences of killing residents.
"I guess the best option is to first kill those with ancient city medallions."
The Mountainsea tasked to lure the death spirit away earlier and the guard in black armor were definitely holders of these medallions. The peak Mountainsea was probably a medallion holder as well. In fact, his medallion was probably rather high in level.
Thus, they were indeed the best targets to kill. By killing them, they would lose their medallions. At the same time, death spirits would appear following their deaths. Without their medallions, could these mystic armors still control the death spirits? Unlikely.
At that thought, Su Yu set two of the Mountainseas as his targets. Both were early Mountainseas. No, he added a third target as well: the immortal fairy clad in black robes.
"Why aren't they splitting up?"
Su Yu was getting annoyed. Why were they sticking together? If he simply charged into the group when all of them were together, it would be the same as throwing his life away. The city was massive. How were they going to complete their search without splitting up?
This was not in line with his expectations. They were merely walking along the streets instead of unlocking the doors of the occupied buildings. After a while, they finally selected several occupied buildings. Then, the night patrol started knocking on the doors.
"Open the door. The night patrol is performing a night inspection."
"Open the door, stop wasting time."