Chapter 1003: Ninestar Island, Im Here! (3)

Chapter 1003: Ninestar Island, I'm Here! (3)

Su Yu's interest was piqued. He asked softly, "Lord, is there a way for us to get one of these rankings?"

Ying Yun, the Mountainsea, nodded with a smile, "Yes. But don't ask me about it. I don't have the courage to buy something like that. When you reach Ninestar City, you can try to buy one from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. The Allheaven Treasure House might try to restrict the circulation, but that's not the case for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. They can even lay the blame on the Allheaven Treasure House. They are intentionally doing this to create trouble for their competitor."

Su Yu was both surprised and amused to hear that. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was actually selling a ranking maintained by the Allheaven Treasure House...

Ying Yun continued speaking, "That's not surprising at all. After all, the Allheaven Treasure House is also selling the results of the Heavenly Hunt Index. Index copies are hard to find yet everyone is very curious about the latest happenings. But the index copies are even harder to get than the ranking copies. Thus, the Allheaven Treasure House provides this service. Naturally, the index copies they sell do not come with the special functions of the original index copies."

Su Yu nodded. He felt like his horizons had been broadened yet again. So both those organizations were actively undermining each other. It was very obvious what was happening. He decided to buy the pirated copies later. He had been quite curious about the latest updates. His only source of information as of late had been gossip.

At the very least, he needed to read about the accomplishments of the various geniuses to form a more accurate judgment about their strength. As for the Dao Affirmation Ranking, he was only curious if Xia Longwu was ranked first.

He also hoped to see Old Zhu's name to boost his own confidence. After all, that was his backer. Then again, Old Zhu might not even be on the ranking even if he was also a ninth-stage Sunmoon.

There were probably too many Sunmoons among the myriad races to rank them all. In fact, almost all the prefects of the thirty-six human prefectures were ninth-stage Sunmoons. And that was excluding senior human cultivators like Cheng Mo of Great Tang and many others. Even with a conservative estimate by Su Yu, there were at least fifty of them. And that was the minimum number.

There were also the principals of the various academies, the generals of the elite armies, and the older experts who had retreated from public life to recover from their old injuries. And among the other races, even the races without Invincibles had some ninth-stage Sunmoons to offer.

Excluding the major races, just the minor races could produce hundreds of ninth-stage Sunmoons. Including those from the major races, Su Yu reckoned that there were probably over a thousand ninth-stage Sunmoons in existence. Of course, most of them would be staying in their own realms.

For example, the nine realms of Ninestar Island. They had more than ten ninth-stage Sunmoons, but not one of them would leave. After all, they were basically Invincibles when they were in their own realms. But if they left, other Invincibles would be able to kill them easily.

With so many ninth-stage Sunmoons in existence, Su Yu wasn't so sure Xia Longwu would be the strongest. Perhaps there were stronger Sunmoons around. He did not recall hearing about Xia Longwu killing ninth-stage Sunmoons. He did hear about some eighth-stage Sunmoons dying in Xia Longwu's hands, though.

Su Yu was normally unbothered about this since he had never thought too deeply about it. But now that he was thinking about it, he felt quite helpless. There were too many races in existence. Due to the sheer number of races in existence, there were also way too many Sunmoons in existence.

Su Yu had never calculated the exact number of races in existence, but he reckoned there were at least thousands of them. And for the most part, even the weaker races would be able to produce some Sunmoons. Thus, it was reasonable to put the estimated number of Sunmoons in existence to at least one thousand.

As for Invincibles, there were at least several hundred in existence. Or even more. Just the divines, devils, immortals, humans, and dragons had over three hundred Invincibles. What if the other races were included? The number would become far higher. The more he thought about it, the more tiny he felt. With so many super experts in existence, why was he feeling all smug about himself?

There were so many Sunmoons out there. The Mountainseas he had been killing might be able to act as the overlords of minor realms or elders of the human academies, but what were Mountainseas here? They were as good as ants.

Nobody knew what he was thinking. If they knew, they would probably go mad with anger. What bullshit was he thinking? How many years had the myriad races existed? There were countless living beings in existence. With so many living beings in existence, a Mountainsea was basically as rare as one in a hundred million. A Sunmoon was even rarer.

The seemingly huge number of super experts in existence was actually something that had accumulated over numerous years. As a mere nineteen-year-old human, why was he measuring himself against Sunmoons and Invincibles?

***

"Shi Zun..."

New thoughts emerged in Su Yu's mind. Was the rivalry between Topsoil Spirit and Shi Zun real or merely an act? If it was real, perhaps Shi Zun held a natural advantage over Topsoil Spirit.

One of them was humanoid earth while the other was humanoid stone. They were quite similar in nature. As Su Yu was busy thinking, a massive city appeared ahead of them.

They had reached Ninestar City.

It was massive, but Su Yu's attention wasn't on the size. He was more focused on his slightly pulsing tribulation character. Evidently, a lot of people capable of threatening him were in the city.

Suddenly, a loud boom rang out above the city. A white dragon and a flaming devil were fighting.

"Long He, are you buying or not? If you're not buying, just piss off."

The devil snorted and threw a punch out. As a response, the dragon swung his tail at the devil. Heavy auras emanated out of them.

Long He roared furiously, "Dawo, don't push it too far! Your people bought the ancient dragonblood tree for only ten drops of sunmoon profound yellow liquid. We have offered ten times the price, but you guys are still being greedy about it."

"Hmph! Five hundred drops. We won't sell it for any less than that."

"Damn it!"

"..."

Right at that moment, someone else soared into the sky and said, "Isn't it a tad bit too excessive for the two of you to fight in the city? You're both experts of major races. Are you going to make a fool out of yourselves before so many juniors?"

Beside Su Yu, the Mountainsea did not even dare to speak through his mouth. Rather, he used voice transmission, "The devils and dragons are fighting again. This is all happening because of the ancient dragonblood tree. The third expert is the mayor of Ninestar City. He's also an elder of the Thousand Region Alliance. He is a very powerful late-stage Sunmoon..."

Everyone in the group was trembling with fear. The first thing they saw after arriving was three late-stage Sunmoons. They were both excited and nervous to see so many experts. Wasn't this why they were here? They were only here to witness the splendor of these top experts. Today, that wish had been fulfilled.

Index geniuses, Sunmoon experts, divines, devils, dragons, immortals...they had seen all these people after reaching the island.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was much calmer. Late-stage Sunmoons were not that rare for him. In fact, he could feel that these three Sunmoons weren't even stronger than Ming He. They were also weaker than Mo He, the original devil he had seen before. Similarly, they were also weaker than the primordial giant he had seen.

After glancing at the three, Su Yu judged that they wouldn't fight for real. Sure enough, with the persuasion of the mayor, the dragon and devil descended from the sky and vanished from everyone's view. Su Yu inhaled deeply. This was so exciting!

Lovely. This place was even more exciting than ancient cities.