Chapter 1543: Spirit Suppression General (3)
Finally, Su Yu entered the Empyrean Cloud City.
Empyrean Cloud had learned of what he was doing long ago. She also knew that Su Yu would be there.
When she saw Su Yu, her previous coldness and ruthlessness were nowhere to be seen. Rather, she smiled and asked, "Do you need me to take you to our boss?"
Su Yu smiled and said, "It's fine. You need to stay here for now lest those outside grow too wary. This time, I'm here to thank you for breaking the laws for me previously."
"It was no big deal." Empyrean Cloud said, "I didn't do that for you alone. I was merely...tired of the laws. We are basically prisoners, living our lives in constant fear. We have been guarding the Myriad Realms for a hundred thousand years, but nobody feels any gratitude toward us. They all see us as convenient tools."
She coldly said, "They all believe that we deserve this. They all believe that it is only rightful that we do this. Because this is our duty. How laughable. The ancient past is no more. The ancient court is no more. The ancient assembly is no more. Duty? What duty? There is only a prison. A prison formed of heavenly laws. The damn heavenly laws. What are the laws? What do they think they are?"
After spending some time cursing the heavenly laws, she continued, "Su Yu, our boss has many misgivings, but that's mainly because of us. He is concerned about us. But we don't fear the laws. To convince our boss, you need to do one thing. Or to be precise, you need to give him one promise. That might be enough to convince him to help..."
"Please enlighten me, Lord."
Empyrean Cloud said, "Assembly tokens. Ninety-nine of them. During the ancient past, the human race was in charge of designing the laws regarding rewards. As for the laws regarding punishments, they were the handiwork of the assembly. Naturally, both parties had also designed some other laws together, but those laws are unrelated to us. The blood tribulation hanging above us came from the assembly. Gather ninety-nine assembly tokens...no, only fifty tokens are enough to push the laws back. If you can get ninety-nine tokens, you can even cancel the laws or even design new laws with the power of laws."
"If you agree to gather fifty assembly tokens and protect us from the laws or even relieve us of our duty, our boss will have zero misgivings."
Su Yu inhaled deeply. That wouldn't be easy. In fact, that would be extremely hard. He knew that the tokens were under the control of the major and ancient races. Furthermore, these tokens were all held by the top experts of those races. If he had the ability to snatch these tokens, he might as well kill them outright.
This was a tricky request.