Chapter 1668: Vegetable

Saint Zha Jia's ancestral graves exploded on the spot. In fact, one could tell from the name "Progenitor" how much the Saint Zha Jia family valued their ancestors.

Now that the resting place of more than ten generations of ancestors had exploded, could Saint Zha Jia endure it? The answer was yes, he had no choice. Heaven knows who bombed his family's ancestral graves. Although it looked very much like Black Marsh judging from the weapon style, this matter didn't make sense. The three major forces in the Redemption Highlands had always coexisted peacefully, so Saint Zha Jia could only vent his anger helplessly.

Su Xiao, of course, wouldn't care about Saint Zha Jia's psychological shadow area. At this time, he had already returned to his residence in the atrium, just as he said: go home to sleep after bombing.

This attack on the Progenitor faction didn't bring any benefits, but it gave Su Xiao a clear goal: the Ash Bud was in the Progenitor's territory. As long as he got this thing, the promotion mission would be completed.

It seemed close at hand, but in reality, it wasn't. According to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's observation, based on the current situation, it was simply impossible for Su Xiao to kill his way into the central area.

According to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's observation, there were rarely living people in the central area. The only sturdy man he saw also gave Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang a very dangerous feeling. According to Xiang Bubu's estimation, Su Xiao was definitely not that person's opponent.

Not only that, there were a large number of living corpses in the central area. These living corpses weren't all cannon fodder; there were many elite individuals among them, guarding near the altar. Among them was a living corpse whose aura was even stronger than Su Xiao's by a notch.

If Su Xiao faced the leader of the Progenitor, that is, the living person, Su Xiao would definitely be the one to die. This was an unquestionable fact. But if there were multiple people besieging, perhaps there would be some chance.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had arrived, Sha had no news for the time being, and whether Amu and Benny could enter the Black Abyss was unknown. In this way, Su Xiao couldn't place his hope on a siege.

Su Xiao began to sit on the sofa and think, holding a cigarette between his fingertips. Seeing his expression, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang let out a long sigh. That look clearly meant: "This is someone else about to be unlucky."

"*Sss—*"

Lilith was "disdainful" of this. After a period of self-reflection, she had discovered that she was destined to have nothing to do with conspiracies and tricks. Her brain clearly couldn't keep up with these things. Out of the absolute law that if you can't eat grapes, they will be sour, she began to be hostile to old schemers.

Was Lilith a cold female demon warrior? After a period of contact, Su Xiao knew this girl wasn't. She could at most be considered a dull and cute female warrior—very dull, not too cute, but the kind that could fight very well.

"Lilith, do you have a way to contact the Demon Clan?"

"No way. I came to the Black Abyss to train and find the 'power' that belongs to me, so I won't accept too much help."

Although Lilith said so, she never looked at Su Xiao, which meant she was lying.

"Contact your sister Lilim."

"I already said..."

Lilith turned to look at Su Xiao and found Su Xiao looking at her with a full face of smiles. The last time she saw this smile, she was drugged, stripped naked, and buried in the sand for a night.

"Contact her, it's urgent."

"..."

Lilith struggled for a while, and finally, after cursing "abominable" in a low voice, she threw a pendant on her neck to Su Xiao.

Taking the pendant, Su Xiao connected to this thing through mental power. No response. After converting to Demon Power, the ruby on the pendant reflected white light. This white light was like substance, finally slowly forming a crystal mirror.

"Oh, oh, oh, my dear sister actually took the initiative to contact me?"

Lilith's face, which could be called a disaster, appeared. What was even more fatal was that this girl was soaking in a wooden barrel, and heat was slowly rising.

When Lilith saw the situation in the crystal mirror, her body shrank into the water.

"I still thought that girl had softened her attitude. So it's an ally. Taking the initiative to contact me, it wouldn't be because you missed me, right?"

Lilith's eyes were like silk, laughing coquettishly. Now that her sister still had to rely on Su Xiao to take care of her, she naturally had to express it appropriately.

"Have you heard of the Ash Bud?"

Su Xiao went straight to the point. Although the situation in the Redemption Highlands was becoming clearer, the actual development momentum was becoming more and more strange. He needed to know what was about to happen here.

"It's not just heard of," Lilith exhaled a puff of hot air and placed her hand on the edge of the bath barrel. She seemed to be recalling something, and only after a moment did she slowly say: "The Ash Bud is actually the ash transformed after the Soul Fruit is over-matured. If I remember correctly, there is one in the Redemption Highlands, in the hands of a man named Saint Zha Jia."

"So that's how it is."

Su Xiao suddenly realized. So the "Ash Bud" was an over-matured Soul Fruit. Thinking about it this way, the Progenitor faction wasn't planting the Soul Vine for the first time.

"You wouldn't be interested in that thing, right? If you compare the Soul Vine to the starting point, then the 'Soul Fruit' and the 'Ash Bud' represent life and death respectively. The Soul Fruit is full of vitality, and after eating it, you can awaken new abilities—this represents life. The Ash Bud is over-matured, which is reaching the degree of death, but it's not yet 'death.' You should have already seen those living corpses, right? They are affected by the Ash Bud."

Lilith had clearly been to the shallow layer of the Black Abyss and might have even fought Saint Zha Jia.

"In other words, Saint Zha Jia will carry the Ash Bud with him?"

"How is that possible? That thing represents 'death.' Even Saint Zha Jia wouldn't dare to touch that thing at will, unless he wants to become a living corpse. That thing will be near the altar, and can only be near the altar."

"Understood. One more thing, when will you come to snatch the Soul Fruit?"

Su Xiao looked at Lilith with burning eyes. This was the question he cared about most.

"It should be... soon, right? The lord responsible for this matter is notoriously impatient. And this time, those sissy Feather Clan people are also involved. Those damn sissies, they look prettier than women, ptooey!"

The more Lilith spoke, the angrier she got. Clearly, her relationship with the Feather Clan was very bad.

"Thanks this time, contact again if there's a chance."

After saying that, Su Xiao stopped injecting Demon Power into the pendant.

"Hey, you asked me so many things, I have one thing..."

In Lilith's bedroom, her hand froze in mid-air, her cheek twitching.

In the underground room, Su Xiao threw the gem pendant back to Lilith. Most of his doubts had been answered.

The Ash Bud was also a product of the Soul Vine, just over-matured. But this didn't mean the Ash Bud had no value. This thing could create living corpses and control them. To a certain extent, its value was even higher than the Soul Fruit.

Or rather, those corpses transformed by the Ash Bud were no longer considered biological, nor were they living corpses. They were a category of their own. They had completed the transformation into plants. They had no breathing, no heartbeat. Judged by biological standards, they were already dead. Judged by plant standards, they were actually still alive, becoming true "vegetables." In the Black Abyss, they were called Assimilators.

The difficulty now was that if Su Xiao went to snatch the Ash Bud, those Assimilators would stop him at the first opportunity. The Ash Bud was equivalent to their signal base station and could control them with the highest priority.

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