Chapter 547: The Peak of Technique

"Lord Tao Baibai, I have come hoping to speak with you regarding the matter of Su Qingqiu's ransom..."

The leader of the 【Death Paradise】 gathering was a woman, thin and with slightly dark skin; she likely did not want her avatar to be designed too conspicuously, as she looked quite unremarkable.

If one saw her in the Shanty Town, no one would likely imagine that such a woman was actually the controller of the renowned high-level gathering, 【Death Paradise】.

The woman codenamed 【Muyu】 pushed up her black-rimmed glasses; her aura was not strong, and in front of Tao Baibai, she instead appeared like a subordinate.

Black Butler, Jin Yuean, and Li Qingzi stood behind Bai Cangshu, and further back, Su Qingqiu had been whittled into a human stick; if they were not in the space, he would likely die at any moment.

Meanwhile, the dark purple-haired 【Death Sword·Sijian Yinianqingsi】 had a chain around her neck and was currently standing behind Bai Cangshu, kneading his shoulders and neck.

Muyu tried her best to control her mind; although she had already received the result from His Excellency 【End Sun】, seeing this scene in person still made her eyes twitch.

Accompanying Muyu was also a woman, with long pink hair hanging to her waist, white gauze clothing wrapped around her sides, and a quite revealing chest.

【Death Bird·Su Enfei】, the other iconic high-level Title-level Reincarnator of 【Death Paradise】.

The so-called 【Death Paradise】 was precisely the reputation built by Su Enfei and Su Qingqiu.

These two were suspected to be siblings or lovers; most Information Brokers believed they were Korean, but some also believed they were Dongxia people.

"Tao Baibai, two items equivalent to an S-rank Singularity should be enough to trade that trash back, right~"

The relationship between Su Enfei and Su Qingqiu was not as harmonious as outsiders claimed; Black Butler could tell that Su Enfei was indeed speaking these words with considerable malice.

She was about to continue speaking, but Muyu took the initiative to interrupt her.

"Mr. Tao Baibai, I heard that you have recently been seeking items like 【Bodhi Leaf】; coincidentally, I have some in my possession."

Bai Cangshu leaned his head back, resting it directly on Yinianqingsi's body; in the space, the two could have direct physical contact, which meant they had also concluded a contract granting complete dominance.

Li Qingzi stood in the back, watching this scene with indifferent eyes.

Jin Yuean, however, let her gaze sweep over Li Qingzi without a change in expression; she was increasingly able to grasp the mode of interaction between these two.

She pushed up her glasses, took out a tablet, and began to negotiate.

"According to the current market price in the Shanty Town, 1 A-rank Singularity per 【Bodhi Leaf】 is a good price."

Muyu shook her head; her aura was weak, but her speech was calm and unhurried, not overly pressured by the current situation.

"Although the Bodhi Leaf is only a purple-quality consumable item, for a Martial Artist like Lord Tao Baibai, its value has an extra overflow."

"I think two Bodhi Leaves for 1 S-rank Singularity is a price we can both accept."

Ever since the news of Tao Baibai defeating Daheitian and others in the real world spread, Black Butler no longer feigned having a rift with Tao Baibai.

At this moment, she was also mercilessly helping to drive down the price.

"Lord Muyu, it is true that we have a need for Bodhi Leaves, but you should also know that since the news of that battle spread, many teams have been using items that Lord Tao Baibai likes to curry favor with us."

"The value of a Bodhi Leaf is not as high as you imagine."

As the few exchanged verbal blows, Su Qingqiu, who had been whittled into a human stick and had signed a 【Slave Contract】, looked on with calm eyes; when he moved to kill Tao Baibai, he had already prepared himself to be killed by the other party in return.

Those who kill will be killed; this is fair.

The reason Bai Cangshu was patiently listening to these people negotiate was simply because he was currently in a stage of extreme resource scarcity.

The damage caused by peeking at the Root and connecting to the Root was even more severe than he had anticipated.

Just repairing his body after returning cost one A-rank Singularity and tens of thousands of Dimension Points, almost emptying the resources he had previously saved.

And in the battle against those people in 【Paradise】, repeatedly opening that unknown Magic to peek at the essence of others' abilities and forcibly seizing Daheitian's 【End】 ability came at the cost of his body being eroded by the Root once again.

The price of these Magic Eyes was far more intense than the 【Mystic Eyes of Death Perception】.

Almost every time he used them, his body would suffer from the erosion of the Root.

Bai Cangshu had queried the space; the reason he suffered this erosion was that his body was not born from the Root, nor could it well adapt to the 【Root of Vortex】.

In other words, he did not possess the essence of Root Shiki, so the price of using those eyes was extremely high. If not for the fact that Reincarnators possessed the characteristic of infinite self-repair within the space, Bai Cangshu would never have been able to bear these eyes.

The end result of being eroded by the Root of Vortex was not death, but the elimination of one's nature and the assimilation of one's existence.

Bai Cangshu's Immortality and Super-Speed Regeneration could not exempt him from the effects of this erosion.

Bai Cangshu enjoyed the massage from the new generation leader of the renowned 【Black Water】 in the space, while his mind was thinking about his next direction for strengthening.

He opened the panel.

【Specialty: Martial Arts Mastery lv9+ (9+2); Street Fighting lv9, Fist and Foot Mastery lv9, Footwork Mastery lv9, Spirit Art Mastery lv9...】

【Ability: Ripple Qigong lv9; Magic Spear lv9; Divine Finger Art lv7; Killing Intent Wave lv4; Shun Goku Satsu lv4; Wind God Leg lv9; Ice Heart Art lv9; Kaioken lv3...】

In terms of technique, he had gradually approached the limit of a Common Reincarnator, reaching the so-called 【Peak of Technique】.

After Bai Cangshu's Martial Arts Mastery reached lv9, with the bonus from 【Tao Baibai's Pink Robe】, it became an 【lv9+】 state.

He could feel that he had entered a bottleneck; his exertion of force, dissipation of force, and control of Force were all at their peak.

Ahead lay the sheer cliff of ordinary Martial Artists.

He had gone a little further than others with the help of items, but he was still unable to break through that limit.

This was the limit for most physical-side and sword-side Reincarnators; high-level Reincarnators, under the massive tilt of team resources and with the help of various items like 【Bodhi Leaf】 and 【Jingshen Shiguangwu】, could raise their mastery to lv9.

At this point, basically without relying on any abilities, a Reincarnator could display the terrifying lethality of their own attributes to the fullest.

Just like Bai Cangshu, with his current base strength of 50 points, under the control of this level of Martial Arts Mastery, he could already achieve everything Tao Baibai had shown him that day in the Dragon Ball World.

Whether it was killing with finger wind, plucking flowers and flying leaves, stomping the ground to transmit force dozens of meters to precisely vibrate a target to death, or opening his mouth to kill directly with Qi.

None of it was a problem.

But Bai Cangshu knew very well that above this 【Peak of Technique】, there existed an even higher realm.

【lv9+】 was not the limit.

He wanted to enter the transcendent realm of 【lv10】 and 【lv11】.

After witnessing Sasaki Kojiro's secret sword named 【Swallow Return】 in the Type-Moon World, Bai Cangshu was certain that once technique broke through to a certain level, it could also touch upon incredible power.

Even though Sasaki Kojiro himself could not understand how he did it, there was no doubt that that sword had broken through the level of technique and begun to approach the level of 【Law】.

On the other side, Bai Cangshu needed to make up for the deficiencies in his 【Agility】 and 【Spirit】 attributes; thinking of this, he looked at Su Qingqiu with some regret.

If the other party were an Agility-specialized or Spirit-specialized Reincarnator, he would likely have already turned into his nourishment by now.

Muyu saw that look Tao Baibai cast toward Su Qingqiu; the Greed Sin in those eyes made her entire body turn cold.

She did not want to entangle herself with this kind of Monster any longer, and furthermore, she had to completely sever the grievances between Su Qingqiu and the other party.

She suddenly stood up, causing Su Enfei, Jin Yuean, and the others to be astonished.

Muyu walked in front of Bai Cangshu and said with a calm expression,

"I can offer one 【Bodhi】, and additionally, I have Intelligence on another 【Scarlet Sin】; that is a... quite agile Great Sin."

The next moment, she saw what seemed to be intense Qi flickering in Tao Baibai's eyes, and a scorching breath almost sprayed onto her face.

"Very good, very good!"

Bai Cangshu reached out a hand, and 【Su Qingqiu】, who was his slave, was snatched through the air without any resistance; he threw this human-stick to Muyu.

"After I kill that Great Sin, I will dissolve the slave Contract with him."

Muyu handed Su Qingqiu over to Su Enfei and continued,

"I know every Scarlet Sin is your best supplement, Tao Baibai; I hope the grievances between Su Qingqiu and you end here, and in the future, our 【Death-Announcing Heaven】 will not accept any missions related to you."

"This is my promise."

(End of this chapter)