Chapter 1254: Return

The third stone gate was still opened in the original way. Taking the Stone of Shadow from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, he put it into the stone gate. The stone gate collapsed. This time, there was no wall behind the gate, but an ocean of energy.

Seeing the blue energy inside the gate, Marvin Waltz's unscrupulous laughter stopped abruptly. He floated forward quickly.

"Has your Green Shadow King ability awakened?"

Marvin Waltz's expression became serious.

"There is still a distance to full awakening. 36% awakened."

"So precise? By the way, you have a backer..."

Marvin Waltz pondered for a moment and said, "You... shouldn't be afraid of pain."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Thanks to Marvin Waltz, his pain tolerance had already become astonishing.

"Akas went all out this time. I haven't seen that guy be so generous before. If you aren't afraid of being pained to death, go in. The Gate of Shadow tests potential. Passing it will bring infinite benefits, and failing it means dying inside. I'm not joking this time."

Just as Marvin Waltz finished speaking, Su Xiao had already walked toward the gate.

Su Xiao walked into the ocean of energy. There was no excruciating pain as he had imagined. On the contrary, Su Xiao even felt refreshed all over, as if soaking in a hot spring.

After going deep into the ocean of energy for a distance, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the ground. The comfort around his body made him somewhat drowsy. A light ball the size of a rice grain appeared in his heart. This was the "seed" of the Green Shadow King ability. Su Xiao had discovered this thing a long time ago. As the awakening degree of the Green Shadow King increased, this light ball "seed" would grow larger and larger, eventually "taking root and sprouting."

Being in the pale blue ocean of energy, the light ball in Su Xiao's heart became active. It was absorbing those energies at a terrifying speed. Su Xiao had never seen this kind of energy before. It was somewhat similar to life energy, but it carried some lightning attributes. This kind of lightning attribute was not composed of elements, but a lightning attribute of an independent structure.

After sitting cross-legged in the ocean of energy for a few seconds, Su Xiao had already started to feel drowsy. This feeling of soaking in a hot spring was truly comfortable.

But after a dozen seconds, Su Xiao's brows gradually locked tightly. The temperature of the "hot spring" around him was getting higher and higher. In the end, it was as if someone had set up firewood under the hot spring.

One minute later, hot sweat flowed down Su Xiao's temples. Now he had no feeling of soaking in a hot spring at all. Instead, it was like sitting in a large iron pot, and the unscrupulous mentor Marvin Waltz was adding firewood under the iron pot. As for why he would imagine Marvin Waltz, Su Xiao didn't know either. In his impression, Marvin Waltz could be called the most pit-like mentor in history, and the other party's unscrupulous laughter was too damn demonic.

Just as Su Xiao felt he was about to be cooked, the temperature around him suddenly dropped, becoming ice-cold and bone-chilling. A few seconds later, the cold feeling disappeared, and this time it felt as if countless sharp needles were stabbing inside his body.

Su Xiao felt like a piece of meat being cooked: first boiled in water, then deep-fried, then thrown into cold water after deep-frying, and finally patted with a needle board...

Ten minutes later, a low growl came from the ocean of energy. The energy light ball in Su Xiao's heart had grown to the size of a marble, but he couldn't hold on any longer.

Su Xiao, with bloodshot eyes, opened his eyes. Now it was no longer a question of endurance, but if he continued to stay here, he would very likely die here.

Noticing this, Su Xiao immediately wanted to leave the ocean of energy. However, he "surprisingly" found that his body was completely numb, and he couldn't even move a finger. As for asking for help, that was also unlikely.

The situation looked critical, but it was not actually so. Outside the stone gate, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang seemed to receive some kind of signal. It bit a metal wire and began to drag it backward.

A few seconds later, Su Xiao was dragged out of the ocean of energy. He fell to the side on the ground, his gaze looking at Marvin Waltz.

"The experience was not bad, right?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk, but that he couldn't speak at all.

Although the experience in the ocean of energy was extremely unfriendly, the "seed" in Su Xiao's heart had already entered a saturated state, and the surface of the light ball was full of cracks.

Su Xiao checked the Green Shadow King ability. The awakening degree of the Green Shadow King had reached 90%. What was needed for full awakening was no longer energy, but an opportunity. As for when he could awaken, Su Xiao himself didn't know very well.

"There is nothing worth exploring in this ruin anymore. As for the Necromancer race outside the ruins, that requires you to find a way to deal with it yourself."

Marvin Waltz snapped his fingers. Spatial fluctuations emerged, and he was sucked into this spatial fluctuation and disappeared.

Su Xiao lay on the ground for a few minutes before his body regained sensation. Whether it was a coincidence or not, every time he met Marvin Waltz, he would be in excruciating pain for various reasons, and this time was no exception.

Every time he heard Marvin Waltz's unscrupulous and demonic laughter, Su Xiao felt a dull pain in his body, which had already formed muscle memory.

The ruin exploration was completed. Su Xiao sat up from the ground. The harvest this time was huge. He not only improved his blade technique but also gave the Green Shadow King ability hope of awakening. Otherwise, at the previous progress, even if he fought to the fifth tier, he might not necessarily awaken the Green Shadow King.

Not only the harvest from exploring the ruins, Su Xiao also harvested three gold-quality gems. The attributes of these three gems were all very strong, and they could be further synthesized.

Stone of Extinction + Stone of Law + Stone of Shadow could synthesize "Soul-Severing Shadow Stone - Incomplete." "Soul-Severing Shadow Stone - Incomplete" was both an embedded gem and an incomplete power inheritance gem. As for how to obtain more Soul-Severing Shadow Stone - Incomplete, it was unknown for the time being.

Su Xiao had heard of Soul-Severing Shadow many times, but until now, he still didn't know what it was.

There was nothing worth exploring in the ruins at the moment. The adventure group promotion assessment was in the third stage, the Purgatory stage. Under normal circumstances, this stage would be very dangerous, but Su Xiao felt nothing. He was sitting in the hall at this time, with a cigarette in his mouth, very comfortable.

With nothing to do, Su Xiao began to stroll in the hall, checking the text below those sculptures. This was the life of the predecessor Law-Extinguishing Shadows. From these fragments, Su Xiao could understand the Law-Extinguishing Shadows better.

Just as Su Xiao was checking the text below the sculpture, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: Entered the Nightmare stage! This is the final stage!】

A line of blood-colored text appeared before Su Xiao's eyes. He seemed to smell a faint bloody stench.

"The final stage, huh. I wonder how much longer I can hold on."

Su Xiao had always been curious about one thing: if he stayed in the Law-Extinguishing Shadow ruins all the time, how long could he hold on? And how dangerous would it be to be rejected by this world?

But before that, Su Xiao had to use the 【Ancient Necromancer Essence】 he had obtained. He still had 16 【Ancient Necromancer Essence】 left. This thing could be used directly, and using it could permanently increase 3 points of abnormality resistance, 80 points of health, and 50 points of mana. A maximum of three could be used.

Keeping three, Su Xiao sold the remaining 13 at a price of 3% World's Source each. World's Source was equivalent to real attribute points. Compared to Paradise Coins, Su Xiao needed real attribute points more.

【You obtained 39% World's Source, now obtained a total of 69.9% World's Source.】

Seeing the full 69.9% World's Source, a smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. This was the result of his fighting through a world.

A whistling sound came from above. Even through the ceiling of the hall, Su Xiao heard that whistling sound.

The smile on Su Xiao's face gradually disappeared. He looked up at the top; something was coming.

*Thump! *

A loud noise came from above the hall. A huge fireball was embedded above the hall, and rolling heat waves splashed onto his face.

Su Xiao blocked his head with his arms, and large swathes of rubble fell from above.

"This..."

Su Xiao had long thought that being rejected by the world would be very dangerous, but he didn't expect it to be so exaggerated. It hadn't even been a minute since entering the fourth stage, and meteorites were falling from the sky. Looking at the size of that meteorite, the diameter of this thing was at least a dozen meters. Because of friction with the air, it was already glowing red.

Fortunately, the Law-Extinguishing Shadow ruins were tough enough; otherwise, they would have been smashed by this meteorite.

*Boom! *

The ground beneath Su Xiao's feet shook. The meteorite had just crashed, and an earthquake was about to strike.

Outside the Law-Extinguishing Shadow ruins, the Necromancer army surrounding the place was retreating quickly, looking quite like they were throwing away their helmets and armor. It wasn't that they gave up surrounding and killing Su Xiao, but if they didn't retreat, they might be wiped out.

Inside the hall, Su Xiao held the attitude of trying it out and didn't choose to return to the Reincarnation Paradise. Now, he had to hold on as long as he could. Only in this way could he obtain a higher evaluation.

But in the next moment, Su Xiao very simply chose to return to the Reincarnation Paradise. The reason was very simple: dense whistling sounds were attacking from above. From the crack smashed by the previous meteorite, Su Xiao saw meteorites like a meteor shower falling from the sky.

What is the Nightmare stage? It was that for every second he stayed in this world, he would experience the feeling of being in a nightmare.

Spatial power emerged, and Su Xiao's body gradually faded.

At the same time, in the Dark Moon Swamp, Amu, who was gnawing on the Dark Moon Vine, disappeared from its spot. Looking around, the Dark Moon Vine within several hundred meters had been eaten clean. A giant crocodile was hiding in the gaps of the vines, shivering. It was originally the hegemon here, until it met a "water buffalo." ===== CHAPTER 1255 =====