I Have an All-Knowing Mirror

Chapter 118: The Terrifying Su Yuan

Rumble—

The jade doors opened completely, revealing an entrance leading deeper into the ruins.

Everyone present knew clearly what lay beyond that jade entrance.

It most likely housed treasures far surpassing any Mid-Tier Martial Arts Manual.

Could it be a Superior-grade Martial Arts Manual?

Or perhaps a treasure worth hundreds of kilograms of gold?

Yet at this moment, no one paid any attention to the jade doors.

Every gaze was fixated on Su Yuan.

'Killing Fourth-Rank experts like crushing ants... an expert of the Top Three Ranks,' the ascetic monk sighed internally.

As a powerful Native Resident, he knew many secrets about these ruins. The Black Jade Sect had once produced an expert of the Top Three Ranks, but unfortunately, they were still besieged and killed by the Great Yong Dynasty.Since the Black Jade Sect was capable of producing an expert of the Top Three Ranks...

That meant their sect absolutely possessed a Superior-grade Martial Arts Manual.

It was highly likely that the Superior-grade Martial Arts Manual rested right behind those jade doors.

But right now, the ascetic monk had completely abandoned any thought of fighting for it.

It was not that he did not want to compete.

It was that he simply could not.

With a Top Three Ranks expert standing right in front of them, how could anyone compete?

'His strength broke through,' Hei Guang thought, his mind racing and his heart trembling with shock. This was the only explanation he could come up with.

Only by breaking through and crossing into the Starry Sky Lifeform realm could one experience such a qualitative leap in power in such a short time, vaulting directly into the Top Three Ranks.

Of course, aside from an evolution in Life Level, reaching a profound level of comprehension in some sort of Cosmic Power could also trigger a qualitative shift in strength. However, such instances were incredibly rare.

"Brother Wu is an expert of the Top Three Ranks?"

Mad Saber Qin Mo was a little dazed. At that moment, the words Su Yuan had spoken just a short while ago flashed through his mind once more.

'There is no difference.'

That was his conclusion when facing the numerous Fourth-Rank experts.

When Mad Saber Qin Mo had stepped forward to defend him against the injustice, Su Yuan had simply stated, "There is no difference."

At the time, Mad Saber Qin Mo had not understood the meaning behind those words.

Looking at it now.

It was exactly the truth.

"Since Your Excellency has already stepped into the Top Three Ranks, the treasures within the jade doors naturally belong to you,"

Hei Guang broke the silence after a moment, taking the initiative to speak.

Hearing this, the rest of the Fourth-Rank experts voiced no objections.

The combat multiplier of a Top Three Ranks expert was only a few times higher than that of a Peak Fourth-Rank Expert.

However, those few times were more than enough for a Top Three Ranks expert to slaughter a Peak Fourth-Rank Expert with ease.

Not a single Peak Fourth-Rank Expert on the field had the courage to clash with someone in the Top Three Ranks.

"Then we will be taking our leave."

After saying this, Hei Guang turned to his live stream and explained, "Everyone, bowing your head to a Top Three Ranks expert is nothing to be ashamed of."

"Leave?"

Su Yuan stood tall, resting against his spear as he swept his gaze across the crowd. "You can leave, but you must leave behind all your Gold, treasures, and Martial Arts Manuals."

Within this purple-grade ruin, the Superior-grade Martial Arts Manual was undoubtedly the most precious item.

But that did not mean the other items were worthless, especially given the sheer quantity of them.

"Leave behind our Gold, treasures, and Martial Arts Manuals?" All the Fourth-Rank experts stared at Su Yuan in disbelief. They had already voluntarily surrendered the treasures behind the jade doors, yet this Su Yuan was still not satisfied?

"Your Excellency is a distinguished Top Three Ranks expert, and your strength is indeed formidable. But if we all scatter at once, could you truly kill every single one of us?"

Hei Guang immediately countered.

If they were in the outside world, a group of Planetary Lifeforms facing a Starry Sky Lifeform truly would not be able to flee. The mere life aura casually emitted by a Starry Sky Lifeform would be enough to suffocate any Planetary Lifeform.

But this was the game world. Their Physical Bodies' attributes were locked at the Level 1 Lifeform stage. Even for a Starry Sky Lifeform in the Top Three Ranks, their lethal range was heavily suppressed.

There were simply too many methods they could no longer utilize.

Swoosh!

Right at that moment, the ascetic monk among the Native Resident experts abruptly dashed toward the ruin's exit.

The moment Su Yuan demanded they leave all their treasures behind, the ascetic monk realized that leaving safely would not be an easy task.

With the strength of a Top Three Ranks expert, it would indeed be difficult to stop a horde of Fourth-Rank experts scattering in all directions, but killing a few of them would be no problem at all.

Under that premise, Su Yuan would most likely target someone like him, one of the strongest people on the field.

After all, the stronger the person, the more loot they had gathered beforehand.

Hum— The silver spear whipped through the air like the tail of a massive dragon. The internal energies of Yin and Yang circulated endlessly within it, drawing in the oppressive Yin and Yang energies from the surrounding environment.

"Vajra Body Protection!"

Facing the casual thrust of Su Yuan's spear, the ascetic monk's skin took on a faint golden hue as his physical defense skyrocketed.

'I have cultivated the Vajra Body Protection Art since childhood. My defense is unmatched among the Fourth-Rank martial monks of the Great Chan Temple. Even a Top Three Ranks head elder would struggle to break my Vajra Body in a single strike.'

The ascetic monk was incredibly confident. Facing a Top Three Ranks expert, he knew he was no match, but he refused to believe he could not block even a single strike.

As long as he withstood Su Yuan's spear, he could borrow the momentum of the blow to launch himself into the exit in the shortest time possible and make his escape.

As for Su Yuan? Unless this Top Three Ranks expert decided to abandon the Gold and treasures carried by everyone else, there was no way he would specifically chase after him.

Squelch—

As the silver spear struck, the ascetic monk's previously calm expression warped in terror. He felt an insurmountable force pierce straight through his golden skin, completely throwing off the balance of Yin and Yang energies within his body.

Bang!!

The ascetic monk felt countless bones shatter across his body. His consciousness grew rapidly heavy as his physical form slammed violently against the distant wall, his life force fading away in an instant.

'That ascetic monk... even I would struggle to deal with his strength, yet he just died like that?' Hei Guang watched the scene unfold, his heart reeling in absolute shock.

He had, after all, already witnessed Su Yuan killing Peak Fourth-Rank Experts with a single thrust of his spear.

However, Hei Guang considered himself far stronger than any ordinary Peak Fourth-Rank Expert.

'This person's strength is absolutely not just at the entry level of the Top Three Ranks!' Hei Guang thought, his expression grim. At this moment, he could no longer be bothered with his live stream, focusing entirely on formulating an escape plan.

"Everyone, charge out together! Whoever can escape, escapes!"

Hei Guang bellowed in a low voice.

Instantly, the numerous Fourth-Rank experts snapped out of their shock. If even the ascetic monk, whose strength far surpassed theirs, could not block a single spear thrust from Su Yuan, what chance did they have?

If they wanted to survive, their only hope was to swarm the exit all at once, overwhelming Su Yuan so he could not focus on any single target.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

In a split second, the remaining Fourth-Rank experts sprang into action, scattering as widely as possible as they bolted toward the exit.

"Scattering to flee?"

Su Yuan's expression remained calm, showing no signs of surprise.

This was indeed the only possible escape method for Fourth-Rank experts when facing a master of the Top Three Ranks.

However.

Su Yuan was no ordinary Top Three Ranks expert.

With the gray mirror, Su Yuan could effortlessly predict the exact escape route and timing of every single Fourth-Rank expert.

In a combat state, the gray mirror's precognition was an absolute cheat code for crushing weaker opponents in a top-down power dynamic.

Against enemies whose strength far exceeded his own, knowing their attack patterns in advance would be of little use.

But against enemies significantly weaker than him? Knowing their escape plans meant absolute, unrelenting domination.

Whoosh.

Moving at a terrifying speed, Su Yuan flawlessly intercepted every single Fourth-Rank expert attempting to flee toward the exit.

'The opportunity is here!'

Hei Guang had not surged forward with the rest of the Fourth-Rank experts.

He knew full well that Su Yuan's primary target would definitely be him.

If he tried to escape to the exit alongside the others, he would only be sacrificing himself to create an opening for them.

Su Yuan would undoubtedly prioritize attacking him first.

Therefore, Hei Guang had bided his time, waiting for the perfect moment when Su Yuan would expose a flaw.

'Go.'

Hei Guang's figure blurred, shooting toward the exit like a bolt of lightning. At that exact moment, Su Yuan had moved to the furthest corner from the exit in order to intercept another Fourth-Rank expert.

Under these circumstances, with Hei Guang seizing the chance to flee, it would be extremely difficult for Su Yuan to turn back and stop him.

Swoosh!

Hei Guang pushed his speed to the absolute limit. He had never run this fast in his entire life. The whole world seemed to blur around him as a single, consuming thought filled his mind.

Flee!

"Hm?"

As he neared the exit, Hei Guang could not resist the urge to glance back.

Hundreds of meters away, Su Yuan, who had initially been chasing him, had stopped in his tracks and was quietly watching him.

'I made it!'

Joy blossomed in Hei Guang's heart. For Su Yuan to stop at this moment meant that he had given up the chase.

Realizing this, Hei Guang did not pause for even a fraction of a second, continuing his desperate sprint toward the exit.

He was not stupid enough to stop and taunt a Top Three Ranks expert; that was practically courting death. Su Yuan was not chasing him simply because he could not be bothered to, preferring to focus on slaughtering the remaining Fourth-Rank experts.

But if he stopped to provoke the man and actually enraged him, there was a very high chance Su Yuan would hunt him down to the ends of the earth.

If that happened, even ten lives would not be enough for Hei Guang to survive.

Whoosh!

From a distance, Su Yuan watched Hei Guang reach the exit.

Naturally, Su Yuan had known about Hei Guang's escape plan all along.

Swish!

Su Yuan gripped his silver spear, rearing back into a throwing stance.

A massive amount of Yin and Yang energy gathered into the silver spear, until it finally vanished from Su Yuan's hand like an illusion.

Rip!

A silver-gray dragon flashed through the air in the blink of an eye.

At the ruin's entrance.

Hei Guang finally let out a massive sigh of relief.

Having made it this far, he was basically safe.

Now, he finally had the time to acknowledge the audience in his live stream.

"Everyone, look at that. So what if he's a Starry Sky Lifeform in the Top Three Ranks? He still let me esca—"

On the broadcast, a triumphant smile appeared on Hei Guang's face, but before he could finish his sentence...

Bang!

The silver-gray dragon arrived in a flash, piercing straight through Hei Guang's head before burying itself violently into the ground outside the ruins.

The bloodstained silver spear resonated with the Yin and Yang energies of heaven and earth, radiating an immensely terrifying, oppressive aura.

"Holy shit!"

On a certain life-bearing planet, Hei Guang's real body widened his eyes in disbelief. "I still died?"

After watching the live stream replay, Hei Guang immediately understood the cause of his death. "He threw his weapon just to kill me? Is he really that ruthless?"

Hei Guang felt incredibly helpless; there was truly nothing he could have done.

A thrown weapon traveled far faster than even a Top Three Ranks expert could move. He simply could not have dodged it.

But for a Top Three Ranks expert, their weapon was a core part of their combat power. Throwing it away? That meant deliberately crippling their own strength.

Especially in an enclosed environment like the ruins, without the silver spear to block them, the remaining Fourth-Rank experts would have a much higher chance of escaping.

"Just who on earth is this guy?"

"He only just broke through to become a Starry Sky Lifeform, and he already has this kind of power?"

Recovering from his shock, Hei Guang finally looked at his live stream chat.

At this moment, comments were flying across the screen one after another.

"Hei Guang, you're absolute trash. You couldn't even escape that?"

"Honestly, you can't blame Hei Guang. That Top Three Ranks expert's strength is just too terrifying."

"Exactly. Within the Void Shattering game world, a Top Three Ranks expert's destructive power is heavily suppressed. It should be incredibly difficult to stop a group of Fourth-Rank experts fleeing in all directions."

"That Top Three Ranks expert is anything but ordinary."

The viewers constantly shared their opinions in the chat.

As Imperial Citizens, they possessed their own judgment. They knew that if they had been in Hei Guang's shoes, forget about reaching the exit—they likely would have been skewered by a spear the moment they started running.

'Not bad, at least I'm not getting flamed too hard...'

Seeing the chat's reaction, Hei Guang breathed a small sigh of relief.

At the same time, his curiosity regarding Su Yuan deepened immensely.

In stark contrast to Hei Guang's relief.

The atmosphere inside the ruins had grown increasingly suffocating.

Hei Guang, who had represented their greatest hope of escape by actually reaching the exit, had still been impaled by a flying spear. What chance did the rest of them stand?

"Now that he's lost his weapon, there's no way he can stop us all, right?"

Biting the bullet, the few remaining Fourth-Rank experts scrambled toward the exit.

Unfortunately for them, even without a weapon, Su Yuan's sheer strength was more than enough to crush these Fourth-Rank experts effortlessly.

His weapon's enhancement merely raised his maximum combat limit, but against this pathetic group of Fourth-Rank experts, he did not need anywhere near his maximum limit to begin with.

Very soon.

Only five Fourth-Rank experts remained alive within the ruins.

The faces of these five experts were entirely drained of color. They had always known that Top Three Ranks experts were terrifying, but they never imagined the gap would be this abysmal. Dozens of Fourth-Rank experts had scattered like frightened birds, yet not a single one had managed to escape.

"Your Excellency, we know we were wrong! We are willing to leave behind all the treasures, Gold, and Martial Arts Manuals we obtained."

One of the Fourth-Rank experts surrendered, his voice trembling.

Rather than dying and being forced to pay a hundred thousand Azure Surge Coins just to re-enter the game.

It was far better to obediently follow Su Yuan's previous demands and leave everything behind.

"Yes! We are willing to hand over all our treasures, Gold, and Martial Arts Manuals!"

The other remaining Fourth-Rank experts immediately echoed his plea.

"There's no need."

Su Yuan shook his head slightly. "If I kill you, all your Gold, treasures, and Martial Arts Manuals will become mine anyway."

If they had listened to his orders from the very beginning and handed over their loot, they could have safely left the ruins.

After all, it would have saved him the time and effort of taking action.

But now?

Since he had already started fighting, there was naturally no reason to hold back. It was simpler to just kill them all.

In reality, massacring this many Planetary Lifeforms would require careful consideration of the consequences and potential fallout.

But this was the game world, where no one knew his true identity. Furthermore, before even making a move, Su Yuan had consulted the gray mirror multiple times.

He had confirmed that his actions here would leave absolutely no hidden dangers in the real world.

Naturally, there was no need to show any mercy.

Buzz— Once the five Fourth-Rank experts realized Su Yuan had no intention of negotiating, they immediately launched a final, desperate struggle like cornered beasts.

Yet, in less than ten breaths of time, Su Yuan effortlessly swatted all five of them to death.

For a Top Three Ranks master to fight Fourth-Rank experts while knowing their every reaction and thought in advance—it was simply far too easy.

"They're all dead."

Su Yuan glanced around and communicated with the gray mirror deep within his sea of consciousness.

"Are there any survivors?"

The hazy surface of the gray mirror churned, providing an answer.

[Aside from Qin Mo, there are no living beings left.]

"Good." Su Yuan nodded slightly.

In the distance.

Qin Mo stood completely paralyzed, watching Peak Fourth-Rank Experts drop dead one after another as Su Yuan ruthlessly wiped them out like an ancient demon god.

His mind had gone completely numb.