Chapter 361: Go Up and Hammer Them to Death
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The Ninth Floor Master and the others all looked at Su Mo with strange expressions. 'Isn't Su Mo afraid of the Ultimate Pursuit Order at all?' they wondered.
After all, the Ultimate Pursuit Order was a joint kill order issued by the Nine Great Forces.
Even experts from the Sacred Lands would give it a wide berth, or even shrink back in fear.
However, they quickly felt relieved.
They remembered Su Mo's terrifying strength.
The Third Floor Master asked in a low voice, "Ninth Floor Master, what level do you think Su Mo's power has reached?"
"I don't know!"
The Ninth Floor Master said, shaking his head.
Although he had clashed with Su Mo, the strength Su Mo had revealed was a mystery; he couldn't see through it at all.
Unwilling to give up, the Third Floor Master asked, "Then do you think Su Mo has reached the Martial Emperor realm?"
The Ninth Floor Master shook his head again, indicating he didn't know.
But then, the Ninth Floor Master added, "Even if Su Mo hasn't reached the Martial Emperor realm, he's definitely the number one person below it, comparable to Li Kun, who was unrivaled below the Martial Venerable realm."
"Li Kun?"
The Third Floor Master recalled that terrifying existence.
Li Kun's strength was indeed formidable.
Back in the day, he had even fought Li Kun.
At that time, Li Kun was only at the Martial Emperor Great Perfection stage, while he was already an Early Stage Martial Venerable. Yet, he could only barely suppress Li Kun, unable to kill him, let alone defeat him in an instant.
The difference was that Li Kun was the number one person below the Martial Venerable realm, while Su Mo was the number one person below the Martial Emperor realm. Su Mo's strength surpassed Li Kun's by several thousand times.
Such strength had already surpassed all the experts of their Nine Great Forces.
Even among the major Sacred Lands, he would be considered a supremely powerful existence, qualified to become an Elder.
'Tsk, tsk. The number one person below the Martial Emperor realm at only nineteen... He's monstrously talented!' the Third Floor Master lamented inwardly.
'If Fu Tianbo, or even those genius disciples from the Sacred Lands, knew that a monster like Su Mo existed in this world, they'd probably die of shame.'
Soon, the group arrived at the central square of Celestial Valley Town.
In the central square stood a massive Ancient Stele nearly a thousand zhang tall.
The Ninth Floor Master pointed at the massive Ancient Stele and said, "That's the entrance to Emperor Heaven Valley. But it has a seal on it that needs to be broken by force."
Su Mo looked toward the Ancient Stele and saw numerous black runes flowing across its surface.
But then, Su Mo's brow furrowed. "This thing? This requires the combined efforts of your Nine Great Forces to break? And by 'force'?"
"What do you mean?"
Huang Yanchen asked, confused.
Su Mo said, "Not much. If I had known the seal was this simple, I would have broken it myself instead of waiting for you Nine Great Forces."
As soon as he said this, everyone around fell silent.
The seal on this Ancient Stele was jointly created by the ancestors of their Nine Great Forces. Even a Tier Nine Array Master couldn't break it.
Otherwise, the Purple Cloud Palace wouldn't have needed to ask the other eight great forces for help.
Yet Su Mo claimed he could break it himself?
'He must be taking this joke too far.'
The Ninth Floor Master stared at Su Mo. "You're a Saint-level Array Master?"
"I guess so!"
Su Mo replied ambiguously.
'He could fix the flaws in a Tier Seven Array and turn it into a Tier Nine Array. That should mean he had reached the level of a Saint-tier Array Master. However, he wasn't entirely certain. He had never seen a Saint Tier Array, so he didn't know what one was actually like.'
The Ninth Floor Master was completely stunned.
'I guess so? How could you not know whether you're a Saint-tier Array Master or not?'
Huang Yanchen shook her head. "If you're not a Saint-tier Array Master, you can't break the seal. Besides, even with the Jade Tokens to open the seal, our Nine Great Forces can only do so when the Sealing Array is at its weakest."
The power of the seal on the Ancient Stele decays over time, allowing it to be opened once every hundred years.
It had now been decaying for ninety-nine years.
But even so, the seal still emanated a vast, ancient aura, one that connected heaven and earth and gave off a terrifying fluctuation that felt like it could rip the world apart.
This time, the Purple Cloud Palace would have to pay a heavy price to break the Array.
Su Mo didn't argue.
A seal that seemed powerful to ordinary people was nothing special in his eyes.
Still, there was no need for him to break it himself. He could just let the Purple Cloud Palace handle it.
WHOOSH!
Just then, a number of experts arrived one after another, each occupying a different position and gazing toward the Ancient Stele from afar.
"Celestial North Sect, Cangyun Sect..."
The Ninth Floor Master murmured under his breath.
Su Mo glanced at the crowd and indeed saw several Martial Venerables among the newcomers. The auras of two of them even surpassed the Ninth Floor Master's.
'Those two must be the Sect Leaders of the Celestial North Sect and the Cangyun Sect,' he thought.
The Sect Leaders of the two great forces also looked toward the group from the Drunken Immortal Tower.
The Cangyun Sect's Leader, Hua Gu, sneered, "Ninth Floor Master, I hear you've made quite a few new friends recently. Are you referring to that trash next to you?"
"None of your damn business!"
The Ninth Floor Master shot back.
Hua Gu sneered, "While the Drunken Immortal Tower willingly debasing itself is none of the Cangyun Sect's business, I must say, I feel ashamed on your behalf."
"Heh, I feel ashamed too!"
Tianbei, the Sect Leader of the Celestial North Sect, chimed in.
The Ninth Floor Master roared in anger, "Tianbei, you son of a bitch, no one will mistake you for a mute if you just shut up!"
The other Floor Masters were also furious now.
'Damn it! Just because the Drunken Immortal Tower didn't have a Martial Venerable Great Perfection and was a little weaker, everyone wanted to step on them. It was infuriating.'
Tianbei said sarcastically, "Why shouldn't I speak? I'm going to humiliate your Drunken Immortal Tower, and what are you going to do about it? If you've got the balls, come up here and fight me!"
"You..."
Filled with rage, the Ninth Floor Master stared at Tianbei, his fists clenched so tightly his nails dug into his palms, drawing blood.
This was a testament to his immense fury.
Tianbei continued his taunts, "Ninth Floor Master, let me give you a piece of advice. Don't associate with any random riffraff. Not only does it lower the standards of your Drunken Immortal Tower, it lowers the standards for the rest of us."
"Our Nine Great Forces are all connected. We prosper together and we fall together. When your Drunken Immortal Tower does something shameful, our Cangyun Sect has to pay the price too," Hua Gu lectured.
This time, it wasn't the Ninth Floor Master who got angry.
It was Su Mo.
'Those two bastards had called him trash earlier, and he'd pretended not to hear. But now they were calling him riffraff? This was the last straw.'
Su Mo stepped forward. "You two old fools, I suggest you watch your mouths."
Hm?
Hua Gu and Tianbei both frowned at the same time.
'This brat dared to warn them? In front of everyone?'
The Ninth Floor Master was also startled by Su Mo's actions.
"My friend, what are you planning to do?"
The Ninth Floor Master forcefully held Su Mo back.
Su Mo replied, "Do you even have to ask? Obviously, I'm going to go up there and beat the crap out of those two old fools."
"Don't! Please, don't!"
The Ninth Floor Master pleaded in a low voice, "If your identity is exposed, we won't be able to open Emperor Heaven Valley or get the Nine Heavens Green Fall Spiritual Spring."
Su Mo's brow furrowed tightly.
He wanted to say that even if he beat those two old fools to death, he could still break the seal on the Ancient Stele himself.
However, the Ninth Floor Master clung to Su Mo, refusing to let go, and said in a pleading tone, "Su Xiaoyou, you really can't make a move. Otherwise, our Drunken Immortal Tower will be completely finished."
"But I really want to beat them to death."
Su Mo insisted.
