When Su Yu left the Death Realm, night had arrived yet again. The crimson clouds in the sky were starting to disperse. The world did not seem to care even after the deaths of so many Invincibles. No matter how strong one was, one would be reduced to nothing after death. Grandstar had also returned to his usual position. Suddenly, Senior Wang called out from outside the hall, "Mayor." Shortly after, Senior Wang entered and said, "Mayor, the West Spire head of the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion is requesting an audience with you." Su Yu raised his brow. He had thought that the West Spire head would either leave or return to the Human Realm. Surprisingly, he was here. "Invite him into the city." The West Spire head was a top expert as well. He was a seventh-degree Eternal. During the previous battle, he had stopped the South Chamber head, saving Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng the effort of handling yet another seventh-degree Eternal. At the time, it was unlikely that they would be able to handle another opponent like that. That would force Su Yu to open the death tunnel earlier. In that scenario, Wisdom King wouldn't have appeared. Without Wisdom King's death, the immortals wouldn't have given up so easily. Thus, the West Spire head had played a big role in the battle. Beside Su Yu, Wan Tiansheng said, "I'll leave the room. Watch out. It's unlikely that he will suddenly turn against you, but it's still better to be careful. He's very strong. Keep an eye for any surprise attack." It was necessary to be cautious when meeting an expert like that. Su Yu nodded. At his current stage, a seventh-degree Eternal could easily take him down through a surprise attack before he opened his Heaven Gate. Before Su Yu could say more, Wan Tiansheng solemnly said, "Don't rely on your characters for everything. I know you have a character capable of detecting danger, but don't be overly reliant on it. Characters can both detect and hide dangers. You should understand this well." Characters were not omnipotent. For any ability a character had, there would most likely be another character that was a counter. For example, Su Yu had always wondered if the tribulation and calm characters would cancel each other when used by two different individuals. Su Yu nodded and said, "I understand. I won't take this lightly. I can't give up completely on characters, but I also can't be too reliant on the characters." "It's good that you understand." Wan Tiansheng said nothing else and vanished with a flicker. As for Su Yu, he left the hall after a slight preparation. An expert with a golden mask walked over with Senior Wang. Even from afar, Su Yu laughed and greeted, "My apologies for the wait. First Profound of Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's Profound Department greets the West Spire head." "You jest, Mayor Su. I'm not the West Spire head anymore." Hearing the slightly cold voice of the department head, Su Yu smiled and said, "What are you talking about, Spire Head? The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion belongs to Culture King, which makes it the property of humanity. We are no traitors. The Heavenly Overseer Marquis is the traitor here. We are the true successors of the pavilion. In that case, you are naturally still a spire head and I am naturally still an elder." The West Spire head was slightly shocked by those words. Not even he had considered the matter from such an angle. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had been under Heavenly Overseer Marquis' control for over a hundred thousand years. All these years, everyone had tacitly accepted that the pavilion was his. Meanwhile, Su Yu had a different argument. A very reasonable argument. "The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion...belongs to humanity..." As the spire head muttered to himself, Su Yu chuckled, "That is only natural. The pavilion only has its current fame due to the Heavenly Hunt Index. However, the index belonged to Culture King. The marquis is merely a guard. How dare a mere guard rebel against his master?" The West Spire head thought about it and said, "You can't really put things that way. According to the same logic, the entire Myriad Realms should belong to humanity as well. After all, the Myriad Realms belonged to humanity during the ancient past." "Exactly." Su Yu said confidently, "Is that not the case?" The spire head was starting to find Su Yu's logic hard to follow. That was merely an argument to debunk Su Yu's claim, but Su Yu had actually accepted it as the truth. In truth, he wasn't trying to defend the Heavenly Overseer Marquis. However, he believed that one should still be fair when making such judgments. The ancient past had ended, and the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had been under Heavenly Overseer Marquis' management since then. If he were a traitor, everyone not a human in the Myriad Realms could be considered a traitor as well. With the golden mask, the spire head's expression wasn't visible. He stood where he was and said, "Mayor Su, you are very strong, talented, and blessed by luck. However, I don't see any hope in your success in unifying the Myriad Realms and reclaiming the past glory. Forgive me for being blunt." Original content can be found at novel⁂fire.net "Unifying the Myriad Realms? Reclaiming the past glory?" Su Yu chuckled, "You jest, Spire Head. I don't have such plans for now. My sole goal is to kill all my enemies. That is all." Wasn't it the same thing, then? After all, he had way too many enemies. Almost all the major races were his enemies. And killing them all would essentially be the same as unifying the Myriad Realms. "Spire Head, please come in. It's improper for us to talk out here." After a short silence, the spire head stepped into the hall. Su Yu entered as well. Inside, he did not hesitate and took the main seat while Senior Wang served the spire head tea. After a short wait, Su Yu asked, "Spire Head, are you here bearing a message or a request for help? I am grateful for your help during the previous battle. If you need anything, don't hesitate to mention it." The spire head sank into silence. After a while, he slowly spoke, "I only wish to talk about the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion and save some people." "Yes." The spire head emphasized, "Save some people. There are still quite a lot of humans in the pavilions. There are no Eternals anymore, but there are more humans who have entered the pavilion during this epoch. After my betrayal, the marquis will definitely remove all those people from the pavilion." "Are there a lot of them?" Su Yu knew that there were a decent number of humans in the pavilion, but he never knew the exact number. "The number is likely high." The spire head said, "I used to run the West Spire. Based on what I know, there are no least a hundred humans in the West Spire alone. I believe the same applies for the other departments. There should be no fewer than a thousand of them in total." Su Yu thought about it and asked, "Can he detect all of them? The pavilion's management system is quite restrictive. At each level, one can only control those a level lower..." "Yes." The spire head said, "He is the pavilion master. He has a different level of authority than the rest of us. It is impractical for the master of an organization to know even the members of the organization. Originally, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion belonged to Lord Culture King. He was the sole person with such authority. However, the Heavenly Overseer Marquis has been trying to refine the Heavenly Hunt Index all these years. Even our masks originated from the index. Upon the success of his refinement, he would gain the ability to know everyone's true identity." The spire head continued, "At that point, the humans in the pavilion would suffer. Additionally, he would also know about the spies from the other races, making use of their identities for his own advantage." "You mean...he has yet to fully refine the index?" "That's most likely the case." The spire head explained, "After all, the index belonged to Culture King, not him. Culture King's remnant imprint remains in it. However, enough time has passed that not much of the imprint is still there. Before the previous battle, the record and visual characters were fused with the index for a short time. That would most likely increase the speed of his refinement." "How long would he take to complete the refinement?" The spire head shook his head and said, "But even without a full refinement, he could still summon all the elders to him and inspect them one by one. That is something he was capable of. Upon discovering a human elder, he could keep going down the line of command to find even more humans." Su Yu nodded and asked, "What have the humans in the pavilion done? Have they contributed anything to humanity?" If they had only done things to benefit themselves during their time with the pavilion, why should he face the Heavenly Overseer Marquis for them? "Naturally. They have contributed a lot." The spire head said, "When humanity attacked the various realms during the early period of the human prefecture foundings, they had received information and maps of all these realms from the pavilion. Do you think attacking so many realms at the same time is such a simple thing to accomplish? "During the middle period, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was the biggest trading partner of humanity. The Heavenly Overseer Marquis wasn't someone who would willingly do so. That was merely due to the hard work of all the humans in the pavilion. "And at the late period, the various human prefectures started waging wars against the various realms. Even during that time, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had acted as a source of intelligence for humanity. On many occasions, humans had escaped dangerous situations due to the information they received from the pavilion through third parties." That piqued Su Yu's interest. He said, "In short, all these humans have contributed greatly to humanity?" "Yes. Naturally, some had also joined the pavilion just to profit from the chaos. There is no denying that." At that, he stopped and stared at Su Yu silently. Su Yu was one of these people. Yes. Su Yu had merely joined the pavilion to profit from the chaos instead of contributing to humanity.