Chapter 1722

Bean-sized raindrops beat against the window. Outside the window, thunder roared. Before six in the evening, it was already pitch black outside.

Rumble!

Muffled thunder exploded outside the room. In the warm room, Su Xiao sat in front of the fireplace, throwing paper into the fireplace's flames. This was a confidential document, and it must be burned after reading.

"No clue at all."

Su Xiao threw the last document into the fire. The paper turned yellow and curled in the fire, finally burning into ashes.

Su Xiao was collecting intelligence about the Immortal King. He had a feeling that whether it was the Eye Chamber, Joshua family, half-breed, etc., they might all point to the Immortal King in the end.

If this Immortal King was a relatively powerful ghost, that would be fine. If it was a "Evil God" type, then the joke would be big. This world of Ghost Continent seemed not to involve the god side, but the actual situation was not so. The energy in the ghost's body was named "Power of Soul." If Su Xiao didn't perceive it wrong, this was a product after the combination of soul + energy. Although the function was relatively single, the tier was higher than chakra or nen energy.

In such a world without "miracles," once some strange "gods" were created, it was very likely that they were powerful energy creatures from the Void or high-risk worlds.

Those energy creatures in the Void had no integrity at all, or rather, they were very similar to the legendary Evil Gods, willing to accept sacrifices and grant small favors, step by step inducing "believers" to build summoning arrays, summoning them into a certain world, and then they might swallow all the living beings and energy of that world.

Even more shameless was that these guys often changed their vests. Today they were Nightmare Lords, tomorrow they might disguise themselves as Gods of Holy Night. In short, however good-sounding and harmless they were, they called themselves that.

Su Xiao knew these energy creatures quite well. After all, they were also targets cleared by the Shadow of Law-Breakers. At least in the view of more than 80% of intelligent creatures, although the Shadow of Law-Breakers looked like madmen and were one more dangerous than the other, in reality, the existence of Law-Breakers was beneficial to most intelligent creatures. At the very least, when completely desperate, a group of madmen might appear to solve these energy creatures with brutal means.

What Su Xiao worried about most was that the Immortal King was this kind of energy creature, and the Sixteen Eye Chambers were the rituals to summon them. This kind of energy creature was generally very strong, perhaps at least having the strength of the sixth tier to be qualified to fight them. Note, not defeat, but qualified.

Now what Su Xiao wanted to figure out most was what the Immortal King actually was. The best result was a ghost, followed by a demon, and the worst result was an energy creature from the Void. God knows how far this world was from the Void.

Just as Su Xiao was sitting in front of the fireplace pondering, a cold feeling appeared, the firelight suddenly dimmed, and the tungsten lamp buzzed.

Tut, tut, tut...

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's upper and lower teeth chattered. It touched Su Xiao with its dog claw, its eyes revealing terror.

"Woo~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang stood upright, its entire body sticking to the wall. The original "woo-awoo" only had "woo" left. That innocent little look seemed to say: "Master, there's a ghost!"

That's right, a "ghost" with black mist floating all over its body, looking like a banshee, was floating in the living room. Its eye sockets were pitch black, and its facial features were terrifying.

Su Xiao looked at the suddenly appearing ghost with interest. He didn't see in the world introduction that there were things like ghosts in this world. Ghosts were indeed a bunch.

Su Xiao stood up, and the ghost floating a few meters away retreated a distance. That's right, this thing seemed to be somewhat afraid of Su Xiao, or rather, she was afraid of the blood energy on Su Xiao's body.

Seeing the ghost afraid of Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's courage clearly recovered somewhat, secretly glaring at the ghost. Xiang Bubu had watched too many horror movies, which was why it was so afraid of ghosts.

A piece of paper floated down from the ghost, black mist surged, and the ghost disappeared.

The moment the black mist appeared, Su Xiao understood what was going on. That familiar feeling was clearly a certain contractor using an ability, and this so-called ghost should be the spiritual body imprisoned or summoned by the other party.

Click, click, click...

The crystal layer formed by Aoge wrapped around Su Xiao's hand. He recently felt that the crystal layer was becoming more and more useful. Its defensive power was stronger than the counter-attack shield, could attack and defend, and the generation speed was the fastest, and the mana consumption was lower than the ordinary energy shield. The principle of this ability was actually somewhat similar to Armament Haki. No, if dealing with Devil Fruit, the crystal layer formed by Aoge might be more powerful than Armament Haki. Defense strong to a certain extent would derive attack power. This point was indeed correct.

Picking up the paper on the ground, there was only one sentence on it: "Councilor Jones's head, 800,000 Paradise Coins."

Clearly, someone wanted Councilor Jones to die, or needed the other party's head, and actually offered up to 800,000 Paradise Coins. As for why he found Su Xiao, it was very simple: Su Xiao had the status of Legion Commander, making it easier to contact the Empire's high-level officials.

Su Xiao threw the paper into the fire. Right now, he had no interest in earning extra money. Moreover, whether the provider of this information was an enemy or a friend was still unknown.

Compared to this matter, whether to exchange Secret Code · Immortal King (1/10) for Secret Code Merit was a more important matter. Right now, Su Xiao had two choices: continue to save the Immortal King Secret Code card and try to see if he could collect it, or sell this Secret Code card. In this way, he could exchange for 【Ghost's Treasure】.

If Su Xiao was the first person to complete the promotion mission's first ring, he might try to save up. But he wasn't. There were contractors who completed the promotion mission's first ring before him, which meant that the other party should be not far from exchanging for 【Ghost's Treasure】.

After thinking about it, Su Xiao felt that the complete Immortal King Secret Code card was too far away, so it was safer to exchange for 【Ghost's Treasure】.

【You have obtained 300 points of Secret Code Merit.】

【You have obtained 20 points of Secret Code Merit.】

【Existing Secret Code Merit: 467 points.】

【You have obtained Secret Code card · Ghost's Treasure. Ghost's Treasure basic reward: Soul Crystal (Complete) x5, Upper limit reward:???.】

With a slap, the cigarette was lit, and the European Emperor state was added.

【Yes/No use Secret Code card · Ghost's Treasure to summon a treasure chest.】

Seeing the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao raised his eyebrows. With his confirmation, the Secret Code card in his hand shattered, and a black-gold treasure chest formed.

【You have opened Ghost's Treasure.】

【You have obtained Soul Crystal (Complete) x7.】

【You have obtained Soul Shackles (Consumable).】

【Soul Shackles】

Origin: Ghost Continent

Quality: Epic

Type: Consumable

Usage effect: Ignore judgment, WW. Soul chains will imprison an enemy for 15~20 seconds. The physical nature of the soul chains is extremely fragile. If attacked externally, the enemy will break free from the soul imprisonment state.

Prompt: If the enemy is imprisoned for more than 14 seconds, they will suffer permanent damage at the soul level, the upper limit of health will be permanently reduced by 50%, and they will be weakened for 30 seconds.

Rating: 690 points (Epic quality item rating is 530~700 points.)

Introduction: Do not attempt to explore the soul, unless... your soul is strong enough.

Selling price: 365,000 Paradise Coins.