Chapter 614: The Guardian of the Core Area, Wang Peng!

The entire Executioners' Square fell into dead silence.

In just a few minutes, the score jumped directly from over nine thousand points to the current twenty thousand points.

The difference between them was a full ten thousand points or more.

To be called a Slay Ash Monarch, one must kill over ten thousand of them.

Even a Red Monarch requires killing over a thousand.

Even a Purple Monarch requires killing over a hundred.

Such a terrifying record.

It made all the Executioners present shudder.

This surge in the data is truly terrifying.

「This guy, could it be that the Monarchs in the Godspirit Abyss have been weakened? How could he possibly kill over a hundred Purple Monarchs in just a few minutes? 」

Someone stared blankly at the team ranking list before them.

It was truly shocking.

You know, even someone as ruthless as Chu Kuangren might not be able to kill a Purple Monarch in a few minutes.

But Su Yu killed over a hundred of them in just a few minutes.

The gap in combat power is already hard to describe.

At that moment, a newly promoted Executioner wandered blankly into the Godspirit Abyss.

「Could it be... that the Monarchs in the Godspirit Abyss have all been weakened? 」

He walked down with a hint of doubt.

A few minutes later, a miserable scream came from within the Godspirit Abyss.

Shortly after, that newly promoted Executioner came out clutching his wound, his face blank.

「How is it? Are the Monarchs in the Godspirit Abyss weakened? 」

His return directly drew many gazes onto him, as if they wanted to verify something.

He stared blankly around, then finally shook his head.

His expression suddenly turned ferocious.

「Who the hell is saying the Monarchs have been weakened? I'll kill him! 」

「Damn, as soon as I went in I ran into a Red Monarch—if I hadn't run fast, I'd be dead now! 」

His cultivation is roughly at the peak of the Great Dao Realm, around 908,000 li of the Great Dao.

Facing a Red Monarch, he had no power to resist at all.

He could only flee.

Even so, he still ended up wounded.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

They stared in shock at the team ranking list before them.

「If the Monarchs haven't been weakened, how did Su Yu manage to kill over a hundred Purple Monarchs in just a few minutes? 」

Everyone fell into a state of bewilderment.

Over a hundred!

Even a late-stage Venerable Realm expert entering there might not be able to do that.

Yet Su Yu did it.

For a moment, everyone fell into silence.

While everyone remained silent, the name of the Slay God Squad continued to slowly climb the rankings.

It surpassed one team after another.

Finally, it stopped at the seventy-fourth position.

Nobody knew why, but seeing the Slay God Squad stop, everyone let out a simultaneous sigh of relief.

「It seems Su Yu also has his limits; killing over a hundred Purple Monarchs in one breath has already pushed him to his limit, so today the Slay God Squad will stop outside the top seventy. 」

Someone chuckled and said.

Godspirit Abyss.

Su Yu stood in the dark abyss passage; the corpses of the Purple Monarchs around him turned into chunks of purple stone that fell silently into the passage.

There was no sign of life.

This was not what the Executioners outside had guessed.

It wasn't that Su Yu had reached his limit.

Rather, the Purple Monarchs around him had been completely slaughtered by Su Yu!

「None left? 」

Su Yu pondered.

His gaze slowly shifted toward the deeper area.

If an Executioner were here, they would realize this spot is already the central area of the entire abyss passage.

Going further in would be the core area.

Upon reaching the core area, let alone Purple Monarchs—

one could even encounter an Azure Monarch!

And a single Azure Monarch is equivalent to an expert of the Imperial Realm!

「Imperial Realm... 」

「I am currently a mid-stage Venerable Realm cultivator; if I were to encounter an early-stage Imperial Realm Monarch, relying on the Taiji Bagua Diagram, I could suppress his cultivation down to peak Venerable Realm... 」

But upon reaching the Imperial Realm cultivation level, whether human or fiend, those who cultivate no longer rely on the power of laws, but on a more profound power.

Does the Taiji Bagua Diagram work on Imperial Realm experts?

Su Yu felt a great doubt in his heart.

Su Yu opened the Synthesis Slot and checked the rank of the Taiji Bagua Diagram.

Upper-grade Venerable Artifact!

It doesn't even count as an Imperial Artifact.

Know that my Ancient God Blade and Ancient God Armor are already considered Lower-grade Imperial Artifacts.

Indeed, it's useless against Imperial Realm experts?

With my current strength, I basically have no opponents in the Venerable Realm, but the Imperial Realm...

Su Yu hesitated slightly.

Yet Su Yu's hesitation was still about those Blue Fiends.

First, get closer to look, without entering the Core Region; moreover, the number of Purple Fiends in the Central Region sharply drops, and the Purple Fiends in the Core Region will also advance toward the Central Region to replenish numbers.

Su Yu recalled the Blade Execution Hall's introduction to the God Spirit Abyss.

The existence of the Blade Execution Hall suppresses the God Spirit's aura, preventing the fiends in the Abyss Passage from emerging.

Conversely, the God Spirit Abyss will replenish a certain number of fiends in certain areas, thereby checking the Blade Execution Hall's strike against the God Spirit Abyss.

Perhaps these have no effect on Saint Realm experts, but once experts below the Saint Realm enter, they will also inflict some damage on the God Spirit Abyss.

So, in short, both sides are in a mutually restraining situation.

Once one side weakens, it will quickly replenish personnel and combat strength.

Perhaps... we can hunt on the edge of the Core Region!

Su Yu's eyes lit up.

Since you need to replenish Purple Fiends, you must certainly enter the Central Region from the Core Region.

I just need to stay on the edge and kill each one that comes in.

I don't even need to search everywhere.

Such a good thing... Su Yu would love it!

Thinking this, Su Yu's mouth curled slightly, his figure flickered, ignoring the corpses underfoot, he slowly walked toward the edge of the Core Region.

Along the way, he also encountered some scattered Purple Fiends.

Obviously, compared to the previous hundred Purple Fiends, these were extremely easy for Su Yu.

About the time of an incense stick passed.

Su Yu floated to the edge of the Core Region.

Before him, it was still a pitch-black expanse; only with the Holy Sword's blessing on his body could he see clearly in this dark world.

Faintly, Su Yu could feel strong aura fluctuations in the core of the Abyss Passage.

Huh?

Su Yu gazed at the Core Region, his brow slightly raised.

Because at the edge of the Core Region, there was a person sitting cross-legged silently.

However, that person's position was inside the Core Region, while Su Yu's position was on the edge of the Central Region, near the edge of the Core Region.

Between them, it seemed as if a layer of barrier separated them.

Even if that barrier was merely illusory.

That person also seemed to sense Su Yu's gaze and slowly looked over.

Eh!

Aside from that little madman, the Blade Execution Hall actually has someone who can reach this position; it seems during my absence, the Blade Execution Hall has produced a genius!

This person did not hide his voice, so Su Yu could hear him clearly.

Su Yu was stunned, then gave a slight bow to this person.

"Under Dharma Protector Xiao Yun, Captain of the God-Slaying Squad, Su Yu, greetings, senior!"

Although I don't know his identity, being able to sit steadily in the Abyss Passage means he must be from the Blade Execution Hall, since no other faction can enter here.

"So it's Xiao Yun's lackey, the Blade Executor, Su Yu... this name sounds somewhat familiar!"

This person muttered, as if recalling something.

"Su Yu... uh... the junior disciple of the Second Hall Master!"

This person seemed to have realized something, suddenly stood up, and looked at Su Yu.

Su Yu's body paused slightly, his expression turning somewhat strange.

Because Su Yu clearly sensed a strange emotion from this person's gaze.

And that emotion had also appeared on Bai Lie.

It was somewhat like... the taste of licking?

While Su Yu was still doubtful, this person's excited voice rang out.

"So you are the Second Hall Master's junior disciple!"

That person stepped forward and came directly before Su Yu.

Only then did Su Yu get a clear look at this person's appearance.

He was a middle-aged man with a crew cut, his cheeks looking somewhat lewd, especially as he faced Su Yu, sizing him up from head to toe.

He kept rubbing his hands, as if wanting to say something.

"Senior... what is this..."

Su Yu couldn't help but step back with his hind leg, his whole body's muscles instantly tensing, as a stranger suddenly appeared before him.

Moreover, I still don't know the other party's identity.

This forced Su Yu to become vigilant.

"Oh oh oh!! I forgot to say, hehe, I am one of the Thirty-six Dharma Protectors of the Blade-Wielding Hall, Wang Peng!"

Wang Peng hurriedly introduced himself, stating his identity.

"Wang Peng, Dharma Protector?"

Su Yu's mind surged with waves, as if recalling that among the Thirty-six Dharma Protectors, there was one named Wang Peng.

"Wang Peng, Dharma Protector? What are you doing staying here now?"

Su Yu remained somewhat wary.

"Cough cough cough, little brat, don't be so wary. If I wanted to attack you, with your mere Mid Venerable Realm cultivation, could you even escape?"

Wang Peng coughed once, no longer approaching Su Yu, and said to him like that.

"Hehe, what I mean is, since you are the Junior Martial Brother of the Second Hall Master, you should be able to say a few words in front of the Second Hall Master. Or... when you go back, tell the Second Hall Master to lift my punishment? Let someone else take charge here?"

Wang Peng said with a grin.

Su Yu's eyebrows twitched slightly.

"Being stationed here... is a punishment?"

Wang Peng explained, "Not entirely, you also know that within the Core Area there are traces of Azure Kui. If there is no Imperial Realm Expert stationed there, those Azure Kui entering the Central Area would be a devastating blow to the Blade-Wielding Hall's Blade Wielder and even some Elders."

"So, every so often, a Dharma Protector enters here to take charge. Usually they stay for only a year or two."

"But I... offended the Second Hall Master, and I have been stationed here for a full eighteen years!"

Wang Peng wailed.

"Eighteen years..." Su Yu's mouth twitched slightly as he muttered, "Doesn't that mean he's been here since not long after I was born?"

Although Su Yu spoke extremely softly, Wang Peng still heard it.

After all, he is an Imperial Realm Expert, so his ears are naturally sharp.

Wang Peng looked at Su Yu in astonishment, sucking in a breath of cold air.

"Little brat, you're only twenty?"

Su Yu nodded.

Speaking of which, Su Yu is only one or two months away from turning twenty-one.

"Hiss!"

Wang Peng took a deep breath and stared at Su Yu in shock.

"Mid Venerable Realm at twenty... your talent is downright terrifying!"

Wang Peng murmured.

In Heaven Beyond Heaven, there are many strong ones, and their lifespans are also long.

Generally speaking, being able to reach the Law Realm at twenty is already extraordinary talent.

You should know that the individuals of the Nether Child level in the Holy Hall and the Nine Netherworld Purgatory, although they have Late Venerable Realm cultivation.

But their age... is already thirty or forty years old.

After all, for Heaven Beyond Heaven, especially those from the Central Immortal Realm, thirty or forty years old is merely childhood.

So, from the beginning, many people have overlooked Su Yu's age.

Even now, Su Yu is only twenty years old!

Wang Peng looked at Su Yu as if he were a rare treasure, letting out sighs of amazement.

"No wonder you're the Junior Martial Brother of the Second Hall Master, able to be taken as a disciple by the Azure Dragon Saint—truly extraordinary."

Su Yu fell silent, having figured out the other's identity, and he was no longer so on guard.

He simply walked silently to the edge of the Core Area.

"What are you doing?"

Wang Peng looked at Su Yu curiously.

"Wait for the Purple Kui to come out, then kill it!"

Su Yu said lightly.

Wang Peng, having been alone stationed here for years with no one to talk to, ended up speaking more after seeing Su Yu.

"Killing the Purple Kui can be done in the Central Area; why come here? If the Azure Kui notice, be careful they rush out and kill you."

Wang Peng sat on the ground without any decorum, speaking listlessly.

Seeing Su Yu not responding, Wang Peng seemed to think of something.

He suddenly straightened his body.

"Wait a moment!"

Wang Peng looked at Su Yu in horror.

"You damn well haven't killed all the Purple Kui in the Central Area, have you?"

"The Central Area alone has nearly two hundred Purple Kui at least!"

Su Yu hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

"Hiss!"

Throughout the passage, the sound of Wang Peng sucking in a cold breath echoed.

"Monster! Indeed a monster!"

Wang Peng couldn't help but speak.

"But... doing this will easily attract the attention of those Azure Kui!"

A cunning gleam appeared on Wang Peng's face.

How about... we two make a deal!

You here happily hunt down the purple chief that appear; I'll help you block those green chief—how about that?

Wang Peng wore a smile, but no matter how you look at it, that smile was somewhat cunning.