Chapter 54

[Wind Spirit’s Blessing]: Reduces arrow damage by 40% for 1 hour.

……

All of them were arrow-specific defensive items,

allowing him to survive beneath the arrow defense tower,

alive.

This was due to the shadow cast at the territory’s founding,

which he had accumulated over two months in the [Trading Hut].

He only wanted peace of mind.

Xu Meng stared blankly at that arrow defense tower,

utterly dazed, motionless.

His newly recruited hero and his griffin had both fallen in battle.

He no longer knew what a lord was supposed to do to stay alive.

“Huh?”

A light exclamation—then a black-haired man in resplendent white robes

appeared in Xu Meng’s field of vision, carrying a black-and-blue bow on his back.

The Lord Terminal kept flashing notifications of kills by the arrow defense tower,

but Su Yu hadn’t paid attention.

Because every day, countless monsters emerged from the War Fog.

This time, however, the notifications flooded the screen nonstop.

Curious, he glanced at the terminal alert,

and could only laugh bitterly.

Arrow defense towers could not attack anything inside the War Fog.

But the location where the target had stood earlier had already been explored by Iloti; the path of light she’d left behind provided line of sight—no fog remained there.

Thus, the arrow defense tower launched its attack *through* the War Fog.

How many troop types…

Are rushing here just to die?

A griffin?

Such a familiar troop type.

Su Yu had deliberately come to take a look,

first, to see who was so reckless,

sacrificing so much just to assault a single arrow defense tower of his?

Second, because he hated wasting those griffin feathers.

In this multiversal battlefield where flying units were scarce,

feathers were a rare commodity.

The moment he arrived,

he spotted a gaunt young man sitting numbly on the ground,

tears welling up like a wronged little girl.

Strangely,

the arrow defense tower’s attack had actually been blocked by the other side.

How many items had been spent on that?

Xu Meng had originally believed

stockpiling these items was merely to buy peace of mind—to sleep soundly at night.

He never wanted to use them.

Not until those merciless arrows appeared again,

not until all his troops and heroes fell in battle,

did he have no choice but to use them.

He never wanted to be killed by arrows again…

He tilted his head up to look at Su Yu,

watching as the arrow defense tower’s attacks ceased.

Instantly, he understood.

A bitter, salty taste seeped into his heart.

That territory, facing imminent disaster—

had it truly resisted the calamity?

Was such a thing even possible?

Across the entire Multiverse, among all races—was there truly anyone capable of this?

Xu Meng was lost,

and he prostrated himself,

“Senior expert, please spare me!”

As he spoke, he surrendered his soul.

Every lord’s soul was stored within their Lord Crystal.

Offering one's soul meant surrendering everything in one's territory to the other party.

"Uh."

Xu Meng's move caught Su Yu off guard for a moment.

Offering his soul the moment they met — what was going on?

"I have no interest in your territory," Su Yu said truthfully.

What could a newly ascended lord's territory possibly have?

Su Yu did not think it would be of any help to his own territory's development.

Hearing this,

Xu Meng, prostrate on the ground, felt as if a bone were stuck in his throat.

This brutal lord had no interest in his territory...

Then his fate could only be death.

"Spare me... I am willing to form a soul contract with you."

Xu Meng's voice carried a hint of trembling.

Before Su Yu,

he did not even dare to commit suicide to flee back to his territory.

The moment he thought that this man might be the fearsome existence who had resolved the calamity,

not a single thought of escape arose in him.

He could only beg for the other's mercy.

A single Arrow Defense Tower had such range.

Could that black-and-blue bow on his back shoot an arrow that would blast apart his Lord Crystal?

Form a soul contract?

Su Yu raised an eyebrow.

This was just like signing away one's freedom, and a contract with the binding force of law at that.

The moment Xu Meng harbored a thought harmful to Su Yu, his soul would instantly collapse and scatter into oblivion.

It signified absolute submission.

"Fine."

Su Yu nodded. He vaguely guessed that Xu Meng might have become aware of something.

After all, aside from Bai Bai Xiaowei, Xu Meng was the only one who had come close to his territory.

Now, seeing this Arrow Defense Tower, he would naturally make the connection to his territory,

and to that time when the calamity — the Void Beast — had descended.

All the lords for countless li in every direction witnessed the descent of the Void 107 Beast.

Yet none of them thought any territory could withstand the calamity,

so they never took it seriously.

Xu Meng was different. He had seen Su Yu's territory with his own eyes and knew its location.

He knew exactly who was facing that calamity.

After all, for ten thousand li around, not a single other territory could claim to possess an arrow defense tower like that.

The Lord Terminal is soul-bound by a covenant.

Xu Meng dropped to his knees, signaling his submission.

The shadow that death had cast slowly lifted,

replaced instead by a surge of barely containable excitement.

The mere thought that the lord before him very possibly had withstood the calamity

made his heart pound erratically with sheer nerves.

Only three newly inducted lords have ever passed a Cataclysm-tier monster wave.

Just three.

The third-place finisher is an angel from the Radiant Divine Kingdom.

The second-place finisher comes from the Crimson Demon Clan.

First place… unknown. Name of the territory: "Never Fall."

The man before him now

is unmistakably human.

A human… took first in the monster wave ranking?

He… alone… overpowered all the myriad races of ten thousand realms?

In that moment, Su Yu's stature in Xu Meng's heart soared without limit.

In Xu Meng's eyes,

this man could only be a peerless figure secretly groomed by the main human universe — the Taiqing Universe!

The entirety of humanity's hopes for an ascent, vested in one man!

Though Xu Meng himself was ineligible to enter the Pan-Human Civilization Lord Trials,

the Ten-Thousand Realms Ranking battles had already exploded across every forum for newly inducted human lords, so it was hardly a secret.

Thinking of all this,

Xu Meng was overcome with a sense of unbelievable fortune; he suddenly felt like the luckiest man alive.

He pressed his forehead fully to the ground and reverently intoned, "I pay my respects to the Holy Son!"

Holy Son — a title normally reserved for a monumental figure destined to lead an entire race's future.

Like the Radiant Divine Kingdom's Holy Son of Light, Louis Louis Muse.

Hearing Xu Meng's form of address, Su Yu felt acutely embarrassed. He was no human Holy Son.

He had never even set foot off the blue planet his whole life.

The human Holy Son must be some figure within the Taiqing Universe, right?

But now that he had entered the Ten-Thousand Realms Battlefield, he supposed he was no less than whatever a Holy Son might be.

…

("Dear readers, the author is working hard to write more. Five more chapters will be up tonight. Thank you all for your support." Yiluodi bows deeply.)