Most of the people were unwilling to open their doors. Some of the frequent visitors did open their doors, but they only did so unwillingly since they knew that the night patrol could forcefully unlock their doors anyway.
At the very least, that was the case for the outer rings. Furthermore, very few experts would choose to stay in the outer rings. The truly strong ones would not lower themselves to stay in the shabby buildings in the outer rings. After the doors were opened, the night patrol proceeded to search the buildings.
As for those who had refused to open their doors, their doors were opened forcefully by Black Armor with his medallion. Thanks to that, Su Yu was able to get a good look at the medallion.
He noted that when the medallion was used, it would release some dark light before easily opening the locked doors. They refrained from killing, but they did give the ones who had refused to open their doors a beating before proceeding with their search.
It was not worth killing these people for something like that. The more they killed, the more troublesome it would be. After all, each death would attract a death spirit. It wasn't like the medallions were omnipotent. If more than one death spirit appeared, they would have a hard time containing those death spirits even with their medallions.
***
"Why are they still sticking together?"
Su Yu continued following them while gnashing his teeth impatiently. After thinking about it, a new idea emerged in his mind. So many experts had left their base of operations. In that case, were there any experts left?
He did not have the chance to check when he was there earlier. He also remembered that the mystic armors had kept their door open at all times...
Should he...go there and kill a few mystic armors first? But he was worried that he would attract some death spirits. That would be troublesome.
"So be it. Since you guys are doing things in such an orderly fashion, let me introduce some chaos into the mix."
If he really did trigger the appearance of death spirits, he only needed to run for a bit. The most dangerous aspect of a death spirit was its death qi. His confidence stemmed from the fact that he was capable of countering death qi.
Having made up his mind, Su Yu started moving away. It was pointless for him to stay here. Most of the people staying in the outer rings were the weaker cultivators. These people did not have the ability to even resist the search. Things would remain in order for quite a while. In that case, he had no choice but to create some chaos for them.
***
After about ten minutes, Su Yu was back at the mystic armor headquarters.
Even under the dark sky, several individuals were still standing guard near the entrance. Unlike how it was during the day, they were now standing behind the entrance even if the door was still left wide open.
Sure enough, even these people were afraid of the night. By standing behind the door, they could shut it promptly in the event of danger. This was the twenty-fourth ring. The doors here couldn't be unlocked that easily.
Su Yu turned into a gust of wind and drifted over. The guards were merely Skysoars. There was no way they could detect him. In the blink of an eye, he was inside the manor.
The manor was rather big. Right after going through the main entrance, he was welcomed by a courtyard surrounded by rooms. Here, he could finally sense the existence of one Mountainsea, three Cloudbreaches, and twelve Skysoars in the manor.
The mystic armor race had indeed invested heavily in this city. In total, they had deployed about six Mountainseas and twenty Cloudbreaches here. This was a force powerful enough to command an army of a hundred thousand soldiers in Great Xia.
"If I kill inside a building after shutting the door, will the death spirits still appear?"
With a pop, the black metallic heart was destroyed. Everything had happened instantly. Before anyone could react, the Mountainsea was already dead.
"Shut and guard the door."
Su Yu sent a voice transmission to the furball. He was going to trap them all inside before dealing with them. The four guards couldn't even react before they all collapsed onto the ground. The little furball had killed them all with a single strike.
Finally, the door slammed shut. Right at that moment, several death spirits appeared outside. Rumbling sounds rang out as they knocked on the door. They were trying to enter.
Su Yu could not spare them any attention. He used all his strength and activated his character technique. His physical strength had been pushed to the Mountainsea Realm.
With a punch, a Cloudbreach was blasted apart. Then, he turned around and sent his leg through a Cloudbreach who was charging his way.
The final Cloudbreach tried to escape, but he had only moved several meters when the little furball penetrated his sea of willpower with a flicker. Despite his appearance, the little furball was a Cloudbreach from an ancient race and a descendant of a Pseudo Emperor. These regular mystic armors were incomparable to an existence like him.
The Mountainsea and Cloudbreaches died one after another. That left the remaining Skysoars shivering in fear. They couldn't even flee. Having dealt with the stronger opponents, Su Yu turned into wind and cut through the remaining mystic armors. The ground was slowly being dyed in the color of blood.
Finally, all the mystic armors in the courtyard were dead. Only then did a bloodstained Su Yu reappear in his human form. His blood character activated and absorbed all the blood in the area while he took all the corpses into his storage ring.
Rumbling sounds could still be heard from the door. The death spirits were trying to break through. There were too many deaths and blood, greatly provoking the death spirits. But the door seemed rather sturdy as the death spirits were still kept outside.
Before Su Yu could even think of what to do next, a large amount of death qi surged into the manor.
The look in Su Yu's eyes changed as he muttered, "So death is coming from all directions."
Finally, he understood why it was such a bad idea to kill inside an ancient city. If he left the building, the death spirits would be waiting outside. If he remained inside, the manor would slowly be flooded with death qi. With enough time, the death qi would kill him.
Su Yu started releasing heavenly source qi to counteract the death qi around him. At the same time, a cloud appeared out of nowhere and entered his body. It was yet another heavenly source qi reward, but Su Yu was quite pleased with it this time.
Circumstances had changed, so his mind had naturally changed as well. The newly arrived heavenly source qi was greatly helpful against the death qi around him. He was dealing with the death qi relying on only the heavenly source qi. He hadn't even used the nine shining spheres he received after challenging the main gate.
He continued using heavenly source qi to wear the death qi down. He refused to believe that the death qi here was endless. Of course, leaving this place was still his biggest priority. He might have shut the door to kill without causing much commotion, but the sheer number of death spirits gathered outside was enough to tell the mystic armors that something had gone wrong.
"This is what I want, but the death spirits out there...are quite troublesome."
Su Yu rubbed his chin. How should he get rid of the death spirits? This was getting quite inconvenient. Was he supposed to stay here? Wouldn't that be the same as a turtle in a jar? His gaze landed on the little furball who was still standing guard behind the door.
When the little furball noticed Su Yu's gaze, he started trembling.
Rejection and despair filled his eyes. He could feel that Yummy was going to make him do something bad again!
No, rather than something bad, Yummy was going to make him do something dangerous!