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Blackwater City was more dilapidated than Su Yu imagined.

The city wall was made of rammed earth, with a piece broken in the east and a crack in the west. Animal dung and unknown bones were scattered under the base of the wall.

Two gatekeepers at the city gate were sitting in the doorway basking in the sun, wearing half-new leather armor. Occasionally, a better-dressed merchant would pass by and they would reach out to stop him and ask for a few coins.

Su Yu stood under a dead tree a hundred steps away from the city gate and looked at this city of casual cultivators.

He had already transferred all the spiritual stone pills in Lin Shuang's storage bag to his arms in the secret passage, and the storage bag itself was also stored close to his body.

The blood scabs and mud on his face were washed away in the river water. His black hair was messy and hung in front of his eyebrows. His skin was pale due to long-term malnutrition, but his eyes were astonishingly bright.

At his waist was a poison-quenching long sword and a curled frost sword, and in his arms he carried more than thirty spiritual stones, several bottles of elixirs, and the talismans he got from Song Yu - this wealth was enough for him to gain a foothold in Blackwater City.

Su Yu walked toward the city gate.

As expected, the two lazy gatekeepers did not stop him - one of them glanced at him, probably thinking that although the young man was dressed in rags, his eyes did not look like ordinary refugees, so he did not ask for trouble.

He swaggered into Blackwater City.

The scene in the city is more chaotic than outside the city.

The dirt road is filled with potholes and stinking water. Most of them are adobe houses and wooden sheds on both sides. Occasionally, a few brick houses have the signs of the Trading Company and Escort Bureau.

There are all kinds of people on the street - hawkers carrying burdens to sell goods, old men squatting in the corners to bask in the sun, bare-chested coolies carrying sacks, businessmen wearing silk ribbons with bodyguards, and more casual cultivators wearing various robes, with magic weapons hanging on their waists and scars on their faces.

Su Yu saw two fights within a quarter of an hour after walking.

At one time, casual cultivators were fighting in the street for medicinal herbs, and at the other time, coolies were beating up deadbeat merchants.

No one reported to the police because there were no officials in Blackwater City.

The three major forces - the Black Tiger Gang, the Iron Sword Sect, and the Spirit Snake Chamber of Commerce - each have their own territories to contain each other to maintain balance.

The three major forces in the poor corners of the south and north of the city didn't bother to take care of it, and it became a place where casual cultivators and refugees gathered spontaneously.

Su Yu found an abandoned adobe house in the south of the city, pushed open the shaky wooden door and walked in.

There was only a three-legged wooden table and a pile of moldy straw in the room. A mangy cat squatted in the corner. When someone came, it meowed and ran out of the broken window.

He sat down against the corner, put the poison-quenching knife across his knees, and closed his eyes to check his status.

The King's Monument was floating quietly in the sea of ​​consciousness. The body of the Monument was larger than before, with many more dark golden lines.

Current information appears on the monument:

【Time mark: 999】

[Gold marks: 9 (full)]

[Black marks: 7]

[Heavenly Tribulation Exemption: Obtained]

[Physical Strengthening: The First Stage—Physique, Strength, and Reactions Doubled]

[Time Domain: The physical sense of time flow rate of enemies within ten feet of the body is reduced by half]

[Time backtracking: not unlocked (requires 1000 time trace points, unlocked at midnight tonight)]

[Time Tribulation: Burn Nine Breaths to summon the power of Heavenly Tribulation, causing real damage equal to the total amount of time traces, ignoring all defenses.

After use, the gold traces will be cleared and the immunity from heavenly tribulation will be invalid.

The number of new black marks is 1 for the first time, 2 for the second time, 4 for the third time, and doubled thereafter.】

The time mark is almost over a thousand, and you can unlock time rewind at midnight tonight - avoid death once a day.

This is his biggest life-saving trump card.

The Catastrophe immunity has been obtained and Time Plunder is ready for use.

He needs to find a suitable target - a monk in the late stage of Qi refining and above, plunder ten years of life, transform it into a hundred time marks, and condense two golden marks.

The black marks changed from seven to eight, still less than nine, which was temporarily safe; the gold marks changed from nine to eleven, far beyond the threshold.

This allows time marks to be accumulated quickly and safely.

But plunder will destroy a person, and he has to find a deserving target.

As for the Pangu ruins in Black Mountain - Su Xuan's evil memory told him that the Seed of Time was sealed in the ban at the core of the ruins.

It is a treasure left by the ancestors of the Time clan to future generations. After fusion, it can increase the speed of accumulation of time marks, and no black marks will be produced when using the power of time.

The major forces in the outside world only know that the ruins are caves left by ancient powers, and that they contain treasures that can transform people. However, they do not know what is sealed in the core restriction, nor do they know that the blood of the Time clan is needed to open the restriction.

His bloodline is the only key.

Only he knew this news. Even Lin Shuang and her master only vaguely knew that the ban on ruins required some "special conditions", but they didn't know what they were.

He needed to enter the ruins.

Not for the treasure, but for the seeds of time.

The faster the accumulation of time marks, the faster the golden marks will condense; no black marks will be generated, which means that skills such as time blast and time still can be used at will without increasing black marks.

This is what he really needs.

Su Yu opened his eyes and planned to go out and familiarize himself with the environment.

As soon as he stood up, he heard loud shouts and curses coming from outside.

"Stop for me!"

"You stole something from the Black Tiger Gang and you still want to run away?"

Su Yu looked out from the crack in the door.

A thin young man ran wildly in the alley, chased by four or five muscular men with round waists.

The boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with ragged clothes, yellow face and skinny muscles. He was holding an oil paper bag tightly in his arms.

The strong men wore uniform short black cloth jackets with ferocious tiger heads embroidered on the cuffs - the symbol of the Black Tiger Gang.

The boy ran very fast but his physical strength could not last long.

The strong man who was chasing him at the front grabbed him by the back of his collar and slammed him to the ground. A few pieces of dark red monster meat jerky fell out of the oil paper bag.

"Damn it, you broke my legs for a few pieces of dried meat."

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