Chapter 2122: Sudden Changes (1)

The giant continued pushing forward.

Instead of waiting, Su Yu smiled and said, "He Tu, tell everyone to look for their essence and teach them what to do with it."

"Your Majesty!" He Tu exclaimed in alarm, "All of them?"

"All of them." Su Yu said, "Have everyone consume their essence and become whole again."

Then, he shot forward.

Behind him, He Tu had more to say. However, towering waves rose to cut him off, leaving him helpless. At the moment, he couldn't even move freely in the death spirit dao anymore. In fact, that was the case for many of them.

***

"Die!"

On his way toward the giant, Su Yu encountered South Heavenly King's group. Just as they were about to say something, he waved his hand and pushed them in He Tu's direction. Apart from focusing on taking back their essence, they shouldn't be doing anything else right now.

Boom!

A gigantic palm shot forth.

Instantly, the palm clashed against the trident the giant was holding.

With that clash, he could finally sense the giant's strength. Only a heavenly king. Well, a heavenly king was also a terrifying opponent. After all, this was an enemy generated by He Tu. Alone, He Tu would probably die to a single strike from this enemy.

After that clash, Su Yu was sure of one thing. Even more power was pouring into the giant's body. The giant would have an unending supply of energy from the death spirit dao. However, Su Yu was not an ordinary Venerable. He had been saying that he was comparable to Hundred Battle King from six thousand years ago.

And six thousand years ago, Hundred Battle King was capable of facing three Venerables alone. A single Venerable was capable of facing two or three heavenly kings alone.

Thus, Su Yu was far stronger than the giant.

Another palm shot forth.

Boom!

With one strike, the giant was crushed into fine powder. But next, it regenerated. With the same blank expression, it roared in the ancient common language.

"Theft of essence? Die."

"Theft of essence? Die."

Yes. The giant was repeating the same words.

Su Yu's expression changed slightly. A saber appeared in his hand as he unleashed the Sky Sundering Saber toward the giant, once again crushing the giant. But moments later, the giant reformed.

A certain understanding dawned on Su Yu. With a helpless tone, he muttered, "Unkillable."

Yes. This giant was unkillable. The giant was a manifestation of the entire death spirit dao. It couldn't be killed unless Su Yu had the strength to sever the death spirit dao itself.

After sending another slash toward the giant, Su Yu roared, "Move, everyone!"

Even more people were approaching. At this point, Su Yu could already guess how the giant operated.

When more people started retaking their essence, no new giants would emerge. However, this giant before him would grow stronger. And it wouldn't stop growing until it was done killing all the thieves.

Should everyone scatter since there was only one giant? At present, only He Tu had devoured his death essence. But when more people started doing it, the giant would grow stronger.

Right at that moment, the giant returned.

Perhaps further growth would result in something even more terrifying. Even now, the giant still seemed half-awake. It was only moving in a robotic manner. However, Su Yu could sense its will slowly awakening.

"How annoying."

After pushing the giant back one more time, Su Yu pulled back. He stopped killing the giant. He had noticed something serious. Destroying the giant would only help the giant grow faster. And the more times it was destroyed, the more aware it would become.

"I can't keep killing it. I can only seal it away."

With that thought, Su Yu started laying down numerous sealing formations ahead of him. As someone cultivating the myriad daos, he was capable of utilizing simple sealing formations even if he wasn't very proficient in them.

At the same time, a gigantic pen appeared in Su Yu's hand. Pen dao. He had devoured quite a lot of power from the pen dao. And it had always been a sealing dao.

The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone daos were all the tools Culture King had prepared for the purpose of resurrection. Clearly, Culture King was not completely clueless about the process. At the very least, he knew that an unkillable being like this would appear during the process.

"The pen dao is a sealing dao."

With the pen in hand, Su Yu drew numerous large formations before sealing the giant inside.

The giant roared as it struggled.

Boom!

It combarded the formations with its massive trident.

After sealing the giant away, Su Yu looked at the nearby death spirits and roared, "What are you waiting for? Go!"

Many of the death spirits looked fearful, but they all gnashed their teeth and flew past the struggling giant. However, that was not the case for all of them. One of them, an Eternal death spirit, started flying back to the opening Su Yu had torn open. He was scared.

He did not want to do this anymore. Only now did he understand just how dangerous this was. That giant alone was already far more than he could handle. But before he could go far, a massive wave crashed down on him and reduced him into nothingness.

Su Yu's eyes flickered as he looked over. The wave there had calmed after crushing the death spirit, but Su Yu still noticed something. Meanwhile, the giant had also calmed slightly.

"When a death spirit dies, everything will be absorbed by the river. What...does this signify?"

Su Yu reached a certain conclusion. With He Tu retrieving his essence from the river, the river reacted to the loss by generating a giant. But the death of another death spirit would also weaken the giant as the loss had been reduced.

Each death spirit would have about half of their strength sealed within the river. But when a death spirit died, all their strength would go to the river. However, this was only an Eternal death spirit, one far weaker than He Tu.

Thus, the death of this death spirit was only able to slightly calm the giant instead of sending it away.

With that in mind, Su Yu continued reinforcing his seals on the giant. He was unsure how long these seals would last, but that was the best he could do for now. He couldn't stay here forever since he still needed to help the others with their essence absorption.

Before long, he returned to the gathered death spirits. At the moment, nearly sixty of them had gathered there. They differed in strength, and all of them were resisting the berserk waves around them.

Some of them were on his side, and some weren't. Even some of the death spirits under North Heavenly King and the sealed death spirits were among them.

Su Yu didn't dare to imagine how powerful the giant would grow when all these death spirits attempted their resurrection together.

It didn't matter. He had to do this now. A second opportunity would not arise anytime soon after this.

"Go. Find your essence."

With Su Yu's command, South Heavenly King and the others flew away. Su Yu continued calming the path forward for them with the token, but clearly, the token was starting to reach its limit.

The death spirit known as Heavenly Fire said, "Powerhouse of the human race, the resistance of the river toward us will grow the further we go. And the presence of a living being will further strengthen the resistance. Why don't you focus on that giant? We will advance through our own efforts. We can't be relying on you to do everything for us. We need to do something as well."

In truth, he was simply worried that Su Yu would be too distracted trying to do multiple things at once. It would be much better of them to resist the waves themselves. This human should just focus on the giant.

However, Su Yu ignored him.

South Heavenly King said, "Your Majesty, we are not children. We, too, are powerful experts. Allow us to rely on ourselves for this. If we die from this, so be it. We are not children! You shouldn't distract yourself just to take care of us!"

Heavenly Fire was right. Su Yu was trying to protect them and deal with the giant at the same time.

And they couldn't solicit the help of others. The presence of living beings would only intensify the reaction of the river. It would be fine for them to secure the help of some living beings at the very last moment, but not now. In any case, Su Yu did not intend to call for more help.

Hearing their words, Su Yu looked at the gathered death spirits. Some still wished for Su Yu's protection, but a single look at the struggling giant was enough to change their minds. One of them said, "Your Majesty, focus on the giant. We will do this ourselves."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Xing Yue, who had just arrived, said, "Just focus on that giant. We only need to look for our essence. It's not that difficult. If we're too weak to even complete this, it only means that we’re to weak to deserve resurrection."

Su Yu sank into silence. After a short moment, he nodded and plucked the floating Xing Yu's token from the air. He handed it to Xing Yue and said, "This is yours. Hold on to it yourself."

Xing Yue was stunned.

Su Yu said, "This item has been very helpful for me, but it is ultimately not mine. It is yours. Xing Yu's token is capable of suppressing everything. However, I have exhausted the majority of its strength. Just use it for now."

After a short silence, Xing Yue accepted the token.

Su Yu looked at the others and said, "This has always been Xing Yue's item. I did not intend to explain, but..."

He looked at the death spirits not on his side and said, "Do not try anything because of this token. Xing Yue, just focus on protecting yourself with this token. Many of these preparations were made for your sake in the first place."

Xing Yu's token and the four daos were all meant to help Xing Yue with her resurrection. Thus, it was fair to say that they all belonged to her. Xing Yue said nothing. The others remained silent.

Su Yu sent He Tu a voice transmission, "Protect Xing Yue. I suspect she's very important. Don't allow anyone to snatch the token from her. The token is definitely more important than it seems, especially when it's in her hands."

Some things had been arranged long ago by the ancient superpowerhouses.

And these things were most likely all related to Xing Yue.

Su Yu said, "I wish you luck, everyone. I will be dealing with the giant. It can't be killed, so it will continue growing stronger."

South Heavenly King and the others nodded. Then, they resumed their journey forward. However, some of the Eternals moved in a different direction. Their essence was located elsewhere.

As for Su Yu, he flew back to the giant.

***

Boom!

The moment Su Yu arrived, the giant smashed through his seals.

His expression changed. Why did the giant grow stronger when nobody had started retrieving their essence yet? The giant was growing at a far faster rate than expected.

"How annoying." Su Yu cursed, "So you'll keep growing regardless of how many people I'm resurrecting at once?"

In that case, his choice to resurrect everyone together was the right choice. This damn thing was capable of constantly growing even if no additional people were retrieving their essence.

"Die!"

The giant's voice turned colder than before as it swung its trident toward Su Yu.

Boom!

A saber and a trident met.

The battle raged while towering waves continued to rise throughout the river.

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