Chapter 1760

The buffet restaurant's business was booming. In the booth where Su Xiao and Mad Fox were sitting, blue smoke drifted slowly. Su Xiao felt a bit more spirited after lighting a cigarette, but he still felt sleepy.

"What does Divine Emperor mean?"

Su Xiao threw the cigarette in his hand to Mad Fox, who hesitated for a moment before pulling one out and lighting it.

"At least he didn't say anything before I left. That thing in your hand is very hard to swallow, but it must be swallowed. This still requires asking for your opinion. What resources do you need recently? We will prepare them as soon as possible."

The purpose of Mad Fox calling Su Xiao out for a meal was certainly not simple. The value of the 【Team Tier Promotion Scroll】 was too high. The Divine Emperor Adventure Group wanted to buy this thing—not to say it would empty the team's assets, but it was close. So Mad Fox came to probe the price. As for why Divine Emperor didn't show up, maybe he didn't want to be stimulated.

"Leyuan coin transactions are also fine."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Mad Fox coughed dryly repeatedly, his eyes revealing 'despair'. Buying the 【Team Tier Promotion Scroll】 was not a matter of a few million Leyuan coins; if paying purely in Leyuan coins, even ten million wouldn't be enough.

"As for what resources I need, Soul Crystal (Complete) is fine, high-purity life energy is also fine, or perhaps special quality equipment?"

"Special quality equipment?"

Mad Fox was slightly puzzled, then thought of something.

"Of course, if you can't pay in full at once, you can pay in two or three installments, but the cost of payment will become higher and higher."

Su Xiao exhaled a puff of blue smoke, a smile appearing on his face.

"Are you... arranging a loan for our leader? Or is it usury?"

Mad Fox's voice changed, and he looked at Su Xiao in astonishment.

If Su Xiao were trading with an individual, he certainly wouldn't choose this method, but Divine Emperor was a large adventure group, and giving them a 'loan' was quite reliable, but the interest would be very terrifying—at least 40% or more of the total value of the 【Team Tier Promotion Scroll】.

"If that's how you understand it, there's no problem."

"Uh~"

Mad Fox struggled for a moment, then laughed. There was actually nothing to struggle about in this matter; Su Xiao only selling the 【Team Tier Promotion Scroll】 to them was already a very sincere transaction.

The twin-tailed cute girl and the seaweed-haired boy beside Mad Fox looked at each other, their eyes filled with doubt about life. If they took out all their net worth, it might not even equal the last digit of the 【Team Tier Promotion Scroll】's transaction price.

"We will prepare as soon as possible, at most 12 hours."

"Okay."

Su Xiao stood up and left. He prepared to go back and take a nap, and after he was fully rested, he would try to master the new ability of the Law-Breaking Shadow.

After returning to his exclusive room, Su Xiao fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Not knowing how long he had slept, Su Xiao climbed up from the bed, was dazed for a moment as usual, and his eyes regained their usual spirit. After washing up, he felt refreshed. He had lost many brain cells while playing mind games with those old schemers in the Ghost World, but now his state was surprisingly good, or rather, his state had never been this good.

This made Su Xiao wonder, could it be that being an old schemer is also a potential that can be improved? As he continued to scheme against other old schemers, would his level as an old schemer also improve?

Shaking his head, Su Xiao felt that he shouldn't count as an old schemer yet—probably not.

If Madam Nancy were still alive and learned of Su Xiao's thoughts, she would definitely roar: "Damn you, you are just like Harold, neither of you are good things—no, you are even less of a thing; I was almost played by you."

Sitting cross-legged on the soft bed, Su Xiao took out all the Soul Crystals (Complete) in his storage space, totaling 10, and checked his existing Leyuan coins, totaling 1.41 million.

Opening the skill list to check Sword Mastery, Su Xiao's Sword Grandmaster had reached Lv. 13, and after the previous accumulation, it could be improved again.

【Yes/No to improve Sword Grandmaster Lv. 13? Improving this ability requires Soul Crystal (Complete) x1 + 100,000 Leyuan coins.】

Su Xiao pondered for a moment and chose to improve it by 7 levels at once, raising Sword Grandmaster to Lv. 20. He still had fresh memories of how strong Sin was.

With a crisp sound, 7 of the 10 Soul Crystals (Complete) in Su Xiao's hand exploded, and the Leyuan coins slid away like flowing water, soon consuming nearly half.

The shattered Soul Crystals (Complete) turned into a stream of crystal-clear energy, wrapping Su Xiao inside. The next moment, a muffled thunder exploded in his ears, and white light surged before his eyes.

When Su Xiao's vision recovered, he was already on a frozen land of ice and snow. Amidst the flying snow, a man in hemp clothes holding a black wooden sword was hacking at a towering tree in the wind and snow. This tree was at least several hundred meters high, with a trunk over ten meters thick at the base, and the whole thing was iron-black.

"One zero three nine, one zero three nine..."

The man in hemp clothes was hacking at the giant tree with one slash after another. His whole body was covered in frostbite, and thick calluses could be seen inside his palms. The whole person looked sallow and thin, and he kept repeating a number in his mouth. He didn't know how long he had been hacking here, and one zero three nine was 10.39 million slashes.

With a crisp sound, the wooden sword in the man's hand shattered. He staggered back a few steps, fell to the ground with a thud, and was frozen to death by the cold wind. He died unknown, yet he was pursuing the ultimate of sword technique.

Su Xiao came to the man in hemp clothes, squatted down, and helped this man who intended to reach divinity with one thought close his eyes.

The man exploded into light particles, his soul shattered, and his memories shattered, leaving only some of the purest things. This was his realization of sword technique from tens of millions of slashes.

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment and did not touch the sharp light with his hands, but walked to the towering ancient tree, and a black wooden sword appeared in his hand.

Slap!

A horizontal slash that was extremely ordinary, a small piece of wood chips splashed. The next moment, Su Xiao felt time passing quickly, but his action of intending to slash was slowed down by tens of thousands of times. At the same time, he saw many men and women with different figures and hemp clothes standing in front of the ancient tree, hacking one slash after another. Some of them successfully realized something, but most of them were frozen to death here.

A stinging sensation appeared in Su Xiao's brain. The next moment, his eyes opened suddenly, and the furnishings of the exclusive room came into view.

Su Xiao gasped for a while, sweat soaking his clothes. He looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table; only ten minutes had passed, but he had witnessed many things.

【Sword Grandmaster has been improved to Lv. 14.】

【Sword Grandmaster has been improved to Lv. 15.】

【Sword Grandmaster has been improved to Lv. 16.】

【Sword Grandmaster has been improved to Lv. 20, and the derivative ability of Lv. 20 has been obtained.】

【Sword Grandmaster: Lv. 20 (Passive Skill)】

Skill Effect: Increases sword-type weapon attack power by 408% (increased by 63%), nerve reflex speed +79% (increased by 35%), immunity to mental-type control, immunity to soul-type bewitchment, induction, etc.

Initial Additional Ability: Rhythm of All Things + (Break through the upper limit by one tier).

Sword Intent: Lv. 65 (Increased by Lv. 5).

Lv. 10 Ultimate Ability: Absolute Shadow Flash (Active).

Lv. 20 Ultimate Ability: Soul Blade (Passive). Through long-term tempering, your sword technique has integrated into your soul. You can exempt most damage from the soul level as well as instant-death effects (Immune to 50% soul damage, exempt one execution effect that can threaten life).

Prompt: After exempting one execution effect, the Soul Blade ability will be dormant for 15 natural days.

Sword Grandmaster reaching Lv. 20 did not derive an attack ability, but rather immunity to 50% soul damage and exemption from one execution. As for the 15-day dormancy period, Su Xiao didn't care at all; how unlucky would one have to be to encounter two enemies with execution-type abilities in half a month?

Su Xiao possessed execution-type abilities, so he knew how unsolvable this ability was. Many of his previous near-death experiences were because the enemy possessed execution-type abilities. Fortunately, his physique was tough enough in the previous few times, forcing out the enemy's execution-type ability before reaching the execution line.

Just like the previous Sin, the five shots the opponent stabbed into Su Xiao's chest were execution-type abilities. If Su Xiao's health had been below 20% at that time, he would have been blown into pieces by Death Penalty: Twilight.