Chapter 2200: Bountiful Harvest

On the earthen bed, a large number of instruments were placed here. Su Xiao did not leave this pavilion located in the rear area of the Abyssal Serpent Manor, because the surroundings were already under martial law. The old god he had summoned had been scattered, but the Tianba clan within the Abyssal Serpent Manor had also been alarmed. The battle had reactivated their thoughts. For Su Xiao to leave this three-story pavilion at this moment would be more dangerous.

Su Xiao put on rubber gloves, moved his ten fingers, and began to modify the Tianba clan member Sang Leng lying on the earthen bed.

Su Xiao wanted to implant the core formation diagram into Sang Leng's heart to make him easier to control. If Sang Leng was not completely transformed into an alchemical biological entity, the core formation diagram could be used as a remote control device.

Xiang Bubu guarded the entrance of the wooden staircase. Once there was any movement, it would at any time call out to Su Xiao and Bahar to retreat.

Bahar also arrived, taking advantage of the commotion caused by the old god, circling widely before flying in from the rear.

"Won't we be blocked in here, this damned place."

Bahar stood below the window, following the hole it had grabbed to observe the situation outside the pavilion.

After 9 hours and 54 minutes, Su Xiao took off the rubber gloves on his hands and took out an injection gun, stabbing it into Sang Leng's neck. Moments later, Sang Leng slowly sat up.

"Bahar."

Su Xiao threw a 'glass ball' to Bahar. This object was about the size of a marble, its surface covered in engravings.

Bahar tilted its head and directly put the glass ball into its mouth. Its gaze gradually lost focus, and it collapsed to the ground.

"This feeling is truly strange."

'Sang Leng's' arms rose, flapping like wings, looking both ridiculous and comical. Indeed, at this moment Sang Leng was being controlled by Bahar.

Originally, Su Xiao had wanted to personally control Sang Leng's movements, but the current situation no longer allowed it. He was nearly trapped inside this pavilion. For now, there was indeed little danger, but he could not guarantee that no other Tianba clan members would enter this pavilion.

"Strive to complete it within one day."

"No problem."

The Sang Leng controlled by Bahar opened its mouth and walked downstairs along the wooden stairs.

Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu, and Bahar were all inside this pavilion. As for Am, he was located in the forest outside the front gate of the Abyssal Serpent Manor, keeping company with the nocturnal mosquitoes.

Bahar and Xiang Bubu coordinated their actions. Bahar controlled Sang Leng to seek out those Tianba clan members who were about to turn into monsters, helping them die as Tianba before they transformed, after which he would bring their corpses to the Source Pool at the rear mountain, merging their internal essence into the Source Pool. With this procedure, as long as Bahar did not reveal a flaw, the chance of exposure was not great.

To prevent exposure, Su Xiao's modifications to Sang Leng were minimal, even extracting the demonic power from within his body. Initially, using demonic power was merely to quickly bind Sang Leng. To complete the plan, consumption at key steps could not be spared.

As for Xiang Bubu, it blended into the environment, responsible throughout for picking up soul money pouches. Although Bahar controlling Sang Leng to perform the bending-over picking motion carried little risk, this was the Abyssal Serpent Manor—even a seventh-rank contractor coming here would be beaten into autism. In such an area, reducing risk to the minimum is basic common sense.

When Bahar controlled Sang Leng to approach the first Tianba clan member who was about to turn into a monster, the other party's attitude surprised Bahar greatly—they actually knelt on one knee.

All the Tianba clan warriors Su Xiao saw wore green loose clothing, while Sang Leng wore purple long robes. It was highly likely that Sang Leng held a special status among the Tianba clan warriors—this was an unexpected gain.

In less than twenty minutes, Xiang Bubu had stored a soul money pouch into the adventuring team's storage space. Su Xiao took it out; at this moment he already had three soul money pouches and was not in a hurry to open them.

The cooldown of the Fate Sovereign was three natural days. It had already recovered nearly half. In about another day, Su Xiao could use one soul crystal (fragment) at low cost to bless himself with the Lucky Emperor state.

Bahar and Xiang Bubu's coordination grew increasingly seamless. Initially, Bahar worried it could not infuse the 'source' from within the Tianba clan corpses into the Source Pool. After the first trial, it discovered it needed to do nothing—the 'source' within the corpses would naturally drift into the Source Pool, albeit slowly. As long as no other Tianba clan members were present, there was no problem.

After Bahar controlled Sang Leng to circle several times within the Abyssal Serpent Manor, he discovered that the number of Tianba clan members about to turn into monsters was greater than imagined.

It proved that after entering a high-risk zone, one does not necessarily have to charge through. When completely unable to prevail, one must think of other ways to profit.

Time passed slowly. One by one, soul money pouches were stored into the adventuring team's storage space, while Bahar was constantly shuttling between the Abyssal Serpent Manor and the rear mountain, very busy.

In the forest before the main gate of the Abyssal Serpent Manor, the night wind blew. Am sat in a pile of bushes. Possibly because he was truly too bored, Am began imagining himself as a tree.

Compared to Am, who was so bored he had already begun 'pretending' to be a tree, Bahar and Xiang Bubu were abnormally busy.

Unnoticed, the sky began to whiten. In a pavilion in the rear area of the Abyssal Serpent Manor, Su Xiao checked the storage space. Inside were already 34 soul money pouches—this was his reward after expending 【Old God Ashes】 plus 20% of the demonic power from within the 【Demon Vessel】.

Last time contacting the demon race, Su Xiao asked Lilith to produce more demon vessels, ideally up to ten or eight jars. Upon hearing this, Lilith nearly fainted, blurting out: 'Are you a robber?'

According to Lilith, the demonic power within the 【Demon Vessel】 is quite special, a specialty of their demon race. This demonic power has no attribute, no spiritual imprint. Although not extremely precious, its yield is so low as to be pitiful—it is a natural output of a certain place, sometimes no jar can be produced for decades. This jar in Su Xiao's hand is the result of 139 years of accumulation.

Nevertheless, Lilith still promised that the next time they met, she would help Su Xiao produce one jar.

The plan continued. Bahar controlled Sang Leng to search throughout the Abyssal Serpent Manor for Tianba clan members about to turn into monsters. Of course, not all Tianba clan members were willing to accept death.

For this, Bahar simply swept past. The Sang Leng he controlled wielded a longsword. As Bahar was Su Xiao's servant, having been influenced by sight and sound, he naturally understood some swordsmanship. However, he only appeared imposing when drawing the sword; once engaged in combat, he would reveal flaws within minutes.

The reason Su Xiao did not control Sang Leng was to prevent Tianba clan members from entering the pavilion where he was located. Even if he were discovered now, before the Tianba clan within the Abyssal Serpent Manor were thoroughly alarmed, he had a considerable chance to rush out.

Su Xiao sat on the earthen bed, about to pull out a cigarette to light it, but gave up, as this would additionally increase risk.

The only thing Su Xiao needed to do now was rest, to relieve the fatigue from his long journey to the Divine Kingdom.

According to his speculation, the 'Spacetime Nexus Device' was very likely located within the Abyssal Serpent. When the time comes, a swift battle will be necessary; otherwise, the Death Paradise may very well send Punishment Knights. Punishment Knights are equivalent to the Reincarnation Paradise's Hunters.

After Su Xiao rested for nearly 20 hours, the Sang Leng controlled by Bahar could no longer continue pretending. Searching within the Abyssal Serpent Manor for Tianba clan members about to turn into monsters, once or twice was nothing, but after dozens or hundreds of times, suspicion would inevitably arise.

"Exposed!"

Bahar, lying on the earthen bed, spoke. The next moment, its gaze lost focus again, and it continued to control Sang Leng.

Su Xiao picked up Bahar from the earthen bed and came to the rear window, beginning to wait.

Thud!

A loud bang came. Su Xiao slammed open the rear window with a bang and leapt out directly.

"At most attract them for ten or so seconds."

Su Xiao held Bahar, whose wings spread, spitting out the glass ball from its mouth, and it flew into low altitude, helping Su Xiao scout the surrounding situation.

Su Xiao rushed through the bamboo grove, passed through the gap between two mountain peaks, and arrived at the Stone Forest.

Su Xiao glanced at the soul money pouches in the storage space—he had obtained 61 soul money pouches! As long as luck was not extremely bad, 【God's Judgment】 was already in hand. With normal luck, 【Heaven's Passage】 was also in hand. If luck were a bit better, 【Electric Passage (Holy Spirit Level·Accessory)】 could also be exchanged for.

Su Xiao quickly rushed to the edge of the Source Pool and took out a test tube, pouring the solution inside into the pool water.

Gurgle...

The pool water instantly boiled, with a splashing sound, the pool water surged downward—this was caused by the shattering of the sealing layer at the pool's bottom.

At this moment, Xiang Bubu came running from afar.

"Woowoof!"

Xiang Bubu was so anxious it almost spoke human words. Su Xiao had just turned his gaze when an arrow whizzed past his side.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa|damn!"

Bahar leapt directly into the Source Pool. Below was pitch black, but compared to the over three hundred Tianba clan members charging in, this place was obviously much safer.

Su Xiao likewise leapt into the Source Pool, beginning to descend. Finally, Xiang Bubu lunged forward with its body, struck a pose in midair, and then fell into the Source Pool.

Bang!

An arrow came flying, and the crystal layer surged from the Source Pool, wrapping Bu Bu Wang in it.

Bu Bu Wang was about to fall into the Source Pool when it let out a wailing "ao" — it had been shot in the right buttock, but the crystal layer deflected the arrow, so it wasn't deep; however, the water-attribute damage worsened the pain, making Bu Bu Wang tear up. At that moment, it was blending into the environment, and this arrow was purely coincidental.

In the end, the crystalline tears fell into the Source Pool together with Bu Bu Wang.