Chapter 506: Memory Fragment (2)
Su Yu continued approaching the corpse. Suddenly, a saber flashed out of the corpse and shot toward him.
Fast.
Incredibly fast.
But right when the saber reached his head, it stopped before fading away, seemingly having sensed something. Meanwhile, Su Yu was already drenched with sweat.
That was too terrifying. He couldn't even move a finger when that saber was flying toward him. He had nearly been killed. And the shadow and water elemental had actually not reacted.
"You..."
"Phfffft!"
Before he could finish his words, the shadow suddenly emerged from his shadow. Even though he couldn't see the shadow's expression, he could still sense the helplessness that was being emanated by the shadow.
"Lord, it's not that we didn't want to help, but we couldn't."
The mere aura of the saber qi was enough to nearly force him out of concealment. That was too terrifying.
Both the water elemental and shadow felt completely powerless.
Xia Longwu!
A super expert, an existence near the Invincible Realm. He was someone who could be considered a hegemon even in a place like the Allheaven Battlefield.
...
At the same time.
Great Xia City. Prefect's manor.
Inside a hidden chamber, Xia Longwu was in the middle of reading when he suddenly raised his head and looked in the Myriad Race Pit's direction.
After a short moment, he muttered in surprise, "What is he doing there?'
Then, he recalled something and the look in his eyes turned odd. Was the kid...aiming for the buried treasure of the Divine Skywing Sect? What a gutsy kid.
Back then, the sect master had used the buried treasure to bargain for his life. Xia Longwu couldn't be bothered and had slain the sect master with one slash. After the event, he had dispatched some people to search for the treasure. But due to a lack of discovery, he had tossed the matter out of his head.
As far as he was concerned, that treasure might not even exist. Even if it did exist, it might not really be too valuable. Would the divine skywing race actually give their running dogs something good?
Xia Longwu would probably be more interested if it were the buried treasure of the divine skywing race itself. For example, he would be very interested in raiding the realm of the divine skywing race. Of course, it wasn't likely that he would get to do it. That was also a race with Invincibles.
"You sure are brave. Are you not afraid of getting killed by accident?"
Xia Longwu laughed in amusement. Most people wouldn't dare to touch that corpse knowing that his saber qi was there. If it was someone from the cult, he wouldn't have cared if they were killed. But since Su Yu cultivated the Sky Sundering Saber, he should be fine.
Xia Longwu returned to his reading. It didn't matter what Su Yu decided to do. Su Yu was still someone from Great Xia so him finding the treasure would be the same as Great Xia itself finding the treasure. If Su Yu failed to find anything, then that would also be his own business.
Xia Longwu couldn't be bothered to pay too much attention to that matter. He continued cultivating his willpower. After all, he still wanted to push his willpower cultivation to the Sunmoon Realm as well.
...
At the same time, in the Myriad Race Pit.
Su Yu was dripping with cold sweat. But it wasn't like he hadn't gained anything from the scare. At this moment, the saber and kill characters in his sea of willpower were shining brightly.
They seemed to be absorbing something. That was a saber produced by an expert near the Invincible Realm. Even if a majority of its power had dispersed, what remained was still enough to benefit his characters. And with the final bit of saber qi dispersed, this Sunmoon corpse stopped posing any danger to Su Yu.
Su Yu took another step forward. The heavy sensation he felt previously had vanished completely. He did not bother with checking the dead body. Even before reaching the body, he sent his saber flying toward it. But even as a corpse, this sect master still possessed incredible defensive prowess. His saber had actually failed to leave even a cut on the corpse.
The water elemental suggested, "Extract the blood from the wound on the neck."
Su Yu thought of the same. He asked, "Is there any blood left in this corpse?"
"Yes."
"Good."
After exhaling in relief, Su Yu activated his blood character. Slowly, blood seeped out of the exceptionally smooth cut on the neck.
The water elemental was naturally very good at something like this as well.
Thus, he offered, "Do you need my help?"
"Sure."
The water elemental said nothing else. With his help, the speed the blood was being gathered increased. Shortly after, a drop of blood could be seen floating midair. This still couldn't be considered proper blood essence.
"You need to condense more blood together to form a proper drop of blood essence..."
The water elemental could guess what Su Yu was trying to do, but he didn't ask anything. Extracting the blood essence of dead enemies was actually a common practice among all the races.
One drop, two drops...
One drop of blood after another took form.
There was no trace of life in the blood. All life had been severed by that slash of Xia Longwu.
The blood character showed signs of wanting to absorb the extracted blood, but Su Yu did not allow it to do so. Extracting the blood essence of a human to observe the memory fragment was not the same as consuming human blood.
That was something that Su Yu still couldn't accept. Even though the blood of a Sunmoon could help his blood character grow greatly, this still wasn't a line he was willing to cross.
After forming over a dozen drops of blood in the air, the blood character jolted as Su Yu started refining all the extracted blood into blood essence. Once again, the water elemental offered his help, "I can help you with this. With my help, it will be faster."
Su Yu was somewhat speechless. This fellow sure was eager.
But he naturally wouldn't refuse more help. He said, "Get to work, then."
...
A few minutes later, a drop of blood essence took form.
With a wave of his hand, Su Yu grabbed the drop of blood essence.
"Keep watch for me. Tell me if anyone is approaching."
Then, he started working on the blood essence. After being taught by Bai Feng, he had practiced many times with soul devouring bug blood essence. And he had succeeded a few times before.
Of course, his success rate wasn't too high.
With the lack of the usual devices and machineries here, the success rate would naturally be even lower. Su Yu wasn't too worried. If he failed, he could extract more blood essence from the corpse.
This was his very first time seeing the blood essence of a human.
The blood essence of all other races would have a small silhouette swimming about in the middle of the droplet. But that wasn't the case for this drop of human blood essence. He wondered if this was due to the lack of racial ability.
First, he stripped the outer layer of the blood essence. The next step was separating the ability fragment and the memory fragment. Since humans did not have a racial ability, the second step was actually easier than usual.
...
About half an hour later.
Su Yu's brows were beaded with sweat. Carefully, he moved a tiny clump of black substance from the drop of blood essence. That was the memory fragment he was looking for.
It was great that there was no ability fragment to make his work more difficult.
But there were still some resentment and death qi left in the memory fragment. He needed to remove both before he could use the memory fragment. After another half an hour, Su Yu was finally able to extract a tiny transparent clump from the black clump.
He exhaled in relief. It was a success.
Phew.
It would seem like all his previous practices hadn't been for nothing. He wasted no time and sent a strand of source qi out and smashed through the tiny clump. Next, a blurry scene appeared before his eyes.
...
Two individuals could be seen.
But both were very indistinct.
Their appearances couldn't be seen clearly.
But after looking for a bit, Su Yu judged that the person on the left was the sect master. After all, the outfit on that person was the same as what he saw on the corpse.
The person on the right couldn't be seen clearly, and not even their conversation could be heard. Su Yu ignored the two and studied their surroundings. The two seemed to be in some sort of a palace.
He wasn't exactly sure if it was really a palace, but he committed the appearance of the place to memory.
After a short conversation between the two, the scene changed. This time, the person to the right was patting the sect master on his shoulder. At first, Su Yu wasn't paying that much attention. But he soon blanked out when he noticed that on the left arm of the person to the right, a symbol could be seen.
But when Su Yu tried to take a better look, the scene blurred and changed again.
This time, the sect master was alone. He was at a different location with a case in hand. He solemnly placed the case on a table before retreating.
"Treasure vault?"
Su Yu was overjoyed. So it really existed? Where was it?
Only the most memorable memories would be preserved in memory fragments. And the most memorable memory of the sect master was his conversation with the unknown individual. Second to that wasn't the treasure vault, but the case he had placed on the table.
What else?
Su Yu opened his eyes wide as he waited. He had seen the treasure vault, but he hadn't seen its location!
The Human Realm was massive. How was he supposed to locate it?
But after the sect master left the treasure vault, the memory projection ended.
"What?"
Su Yu cursed.
Fuck!
That was it?
Nothing else?
The scene had stopped playing suddenly!
That was all!
...
While Su Yu was busy cursing.
Within a large palace.
An expert in the middle of cultivation suddenly opened his eyes. He looked in a certain direction and muttered, "Someone is prying on me?"
His eyes flickered as he tried to see through something.
But right at that moment, a saber appeared in front of his eyes.
A loud pop sounded.
Blood dripped out of that person's eyes.
The blood dripped onto the ground, and black smoke rose from it.
"Sky Sundering Saber..."
That wasn't an actual attack by Xia Longwu. Rather, that was a scene from the past. This expert had stumbled upon the scene of Xia Longwu killing the sect master.
"Approaching the Invincible Realm? No...he's probably as strong as an Invincible already!"
Very strong.
The expert smiled and tossed the matter to the back of his mind. What could they possibly see from this attempt?
...
At the same moment. Inside the prefect's manor of Great Xia.
Xia Longwu frowned.
"What did...that kid stumble upon?"
Even the past was disturbed. He had actually encroached upon something belonging to the realm of Invincibles?
Fortunately, that had only lasted for a split second.
Xia Longwu's eyes flickered, but he couldn't discover anything. He could only shake his head helplessly. He still wasn't strong enough. He only had a vague sensation that something had happened, but he couldn't discover anything in detail.
He looked in the Myriad Race Pit's direction once again as he muttered, "Something related to the Divine Skywing Sect? Is it an Invincible from the divine skywing race?"
Or was it a different Invincible? It was hard for him to get the answer by guessing. Su Yu might know something. Perhaps he could get the little fatty to ask Su Yu about this matter.
...
Meanwhile, Su Yu was in a bad mood.
He spent some time cursing.
He had a gloomy expression.
The shadow said, "At the moment the sect master left the building, there was another scene. I think it should be a mountain..."
Su Yu said, "I noticed that. But it only appeared for a split second. How am I supposed to find it? I don't even know if it's within Great Xia. The Divine Skywing Sect was originally inactive in Great Xia. And the Human Realm is so big. I only know that it's a mountain. How am I supposed to find it?"
The shadow said, "It might not be in a different prefecture. As you said previously, the entire sect had arrived at Great Xia. Would they leave their treasure vault in their previous territory? They had probably planned to stay long term in Great Xia..."
"That's hard to say." Su Yu gloomily said, "I was too naive. Their treasure vault might have been emptied by the divine skywing race long ago. Or some surviving members could have done so as well. Or perhaps what I saw was the previous treasure vault prior to their migration into Great Xia."
Yes, he had been too naive before this. Just because he could see the treasure, it didn't mean that he could find it.
"I can only give it a try."
Su Yu sighed. But he wasn't too discouraged. He muttered, "Perhaps I can find it. I saw some plants. I hope these plants can only grow in certain places since I've never seen some of them before. I can look these plants up. Maybe I can discover something."
During the instance when the sect master left the building, Su Yu saw a mountain. It wasn't too big, and it looked very ordinary. But he did manage to see some of the plants there.
Some of these plants were unknown to him. That could only mean that these weren't commonly seen plants. Perhaps he could use this to deduce the location of the treasure vault.
All in all, this trip of his had been rather smooth. At the very least, he had managed to see the treasure vault from the memory fragment. But the deepest memory of the sect master was his conversation with an individual. Who was that person? An expert from the divine skywing race?
That person's status was definitely much higher than even the sect master. Patting the sect master's shoulder...normally, that was something a superior would do to their subordinates. Would any random person be allowed to pat the shoulder of a Sunmoon? The other person was probably a Sunmoon or stronger.
"A symbol on the left arm..."
Su Yu took note of that. Some new ideas appeared in his mind.
According to his previous guesses, the Divine Skywing Sect had entered Great Xia to not only move against Xia Longwu, but to do something else as well. Liu Wenyan might have been forced into the Skysoar Realm because someone wanted him to materialize his inherited character.
Thus, that sect master might have been under the influence of the Invincible traitor.
Was that the case?
Was that possible?
Could it be that the individual conversing with the sect master in the memory fragment was the Invincible traitor?
"A symbol on the arm..."
At the Invincible Realm, one could easily rebuild one's body. In fact, even Sunmoons were capable of that. Since this person had not removed the symbol from their arm, was this a special symbol? Or perhaps that person had a unique preference?
Or it might simply be a sort of mark?
"Is this the fellow who has been scheming against our multiple character faction from the shadows all these years?"
But shortly after, Su Yu cleared his mind of the matter. He needed to stop thinking about it.
If it was really an Invincible, even if he knew who the Invincible was, there was nothing he could do. He had no solid proof. Was he supposed to look for Great Xia King and instruct Great Xia King to kill a random Invincible based on his words alone? What a joke. Great Xia King wasn't his father. Why would Great Xia King listen to him?
"There's also that case...it is clearly extremely valuable, even for a Sunmoon. What's inside the case? Has it been used?"
The more Su Yu thought, the more troubled his mind was. He decided to forget about it for now. He would look around after returning. Perhaps the mountain was located right near the capital. Even if he couldn't find it, he could ask the people in his research center.
"Let's return. Stay concealed. I do hope that someone really decides to attack me."
But Su Yu still decided to be prudent. He took out a voice transmission talisman and said, "Fatty, come pick me up later. Be careful and don't let anyone notice you. Bring some experts with you."
Xia Huyou replied promptly, "You noticed an enemy?"
"I don't know. Check something for me. There's a Zhang Family near the Myriad Race Pit. The young madam of the family is a seventh-stage Skysoar. She has an injured son who is relying on baleful qi to suppress his injury..."
"Sure."
Xia Huyou agreed easily. This was no big issue.
He couldn't help but to wonder if Su Yu was too paranoid. Why was he viewing a random Skysoar he encountered as someone plotting against him? If he was so afraid, he should just stay in the academy.
He wasn't suspicious of the family, but for him, investigating a small family like this was not an issue at all. Thus, he did not say anything else and started gathering information about the Zhang Family.