Chapter 2214

After dining at Xia's restaurant, Su Xiao headed straight for Reed's forge.

Just as he arrived at the forge, Su Xiao saw Reed hammering iron in front of the anvil. The stocky Reed was exceptionally focused when forging equipment.

Do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourself. Su Xiao didn't like being disturbed when practicing sword art, so he didn't call out to Reed. He just found a chair in the forge and sat down to wait quietly. Reed's "adopted daughter" Oho was squatting in the corner, her dirty little face already streaked with tears, occasionally sniffling. It was clear she had been scolded by Reed again, but the bracelet she wore and the ruby pendant on her neck were clearly not ordinary items.

After waiting for nearly an hour, Reed put the strip of metal in his hand into the furnace.

"When did you arrive?"

Reed fished two cans of ice beer out of the coolant and naturally tossed one to Su Xiao.

"59 minutes and 43 seconds ago."

"Cough, cough..."

Reed wiped the beer foam from his beard and sat down beside Su Xiao.

"Is something big going to happen recently?"

"Be more specific."

"I've received a lot of orders recently, all from the Void, mostly from races with central influence. The orders for weapons and armor are the most numerous—at least 10 times more than usual. If you're going to the Void recently, you'd better be cautious."

Reed put down the ice beer in his hand and let out a long, cold breath.

"Strongest Contention..."

Su Xiao stopped halfway through his sentence.

"Hmm? You are... is that so?"

Reed understood and stopped asking about related matters. Su Xiao removed most of his equipment and asked Reed to help repair it.

"This long leather armor..." Reed shook his head and continued: "Get new armor as soon as possible. This thing can be repaired at most one or two more times. I'm not very good at repairing equipment of this material."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Seeing this, Reed began to repair the Black King Armguards and other equipment, as well as maintain Zhan Long Shan.

Taking advantage of the gap while Reed was repairing the equipment, Su Xiao took a bone fragment out of his storage space. This thing was called a God Bone, and it was of Holy Spirit quality.

Su Xiao was all too familiar with this item. Before obtaining this God Bone, Su Xiao had always thought it was a material; after all, every time it appeared on the Soul Coin exchange list, it had no specific attributes.

But after obtaining this Holy Spirit-quality God Bone, Su Xiao discovered that this thing was not a tumor in the exchange list.

【God Bone】

Origin: All worlds where gods exist

Quality: Holy Spirit-level

Type: Synthetic Item

Usage Effect: After collecting three God Bones of the same quality, you can synthesize the same-tier item "Miracle of the Gods."

Miracle of the Gods (Holy Spirit-level) Effect: Can upgrade any Epic-quality equipment to Holy Spirit-level.

Rating: 850 (Holy Spirit-level item ratings are 700–1,000 points)

Introduction: The miracle is right before your eyes.

Sale Price: 390,000 Paradise Coins

Su Xiao had obtained the 【Miracle of the Gods】 synthesized from God Bones before, but the 【Miracle of the Gods】 obtained that time was Legendary-level.

It was by using the Legendary-level 【Miracle of the Gods】 that Su Xiao had upgraded the Destiny Master to Legendary-level.

From this, it can be seen that 【God Bone】 is not a tumor. However, even if he missed it, Su Xiao didn't feel it was a pity. After all, compared to the Epic-level God Bones he had a chance to obtain before, items like 【Mother of the White Goat】 and 【Natural Source】 were clearly of higher value.

He missed the God Bone, but he would have chances to obtain it in the future. But if he missed items like 【Natural Source】, they would be missed forever.

Su Xiao hoped to encounter more Ancient Gods in the future; after all, every time he encountered an Ancient God, the harvest was quite rich.

After waiting for nearly three hours, all of Su Xiao's equipment had been repaired and maintained. This time, repairing the equipment was mainly to prevent any gear from breaking in subsequent battles. Before participating in the Strongest Contention, Su Xiao would still need Reed to help repair his equipment one more time.

Su Xiao left the forge and headed straight for the Trial Ground.

Compared to other basic facilities, there were very few people in the Trial Ground. Su Xiao didn't come this time to practice in the Land of All Living Things, but to use the Trial Ground's combat mode.

He had only used this mode when he was Tier 1 and hadn't used it since. As for the mirror mode, he had long since stopped using it—not because it wasn't effective, but because practicing in the Land of All Living Things was more effective.

There were only a few hundred people in the Trial Ground, all of whom looked like newcomers. Su Xiao arrived at a teleportation array and began to select his mode.

【Welcome, Hunter, to the Trial Ground. Please select a mode.】

【Auxiliary Mode / Combat Mode】

【Hunter has selected Combat Mode. Intensity is being simulated...】

【Simulation complete. Please select enemy intensity and quantity.】

【Selected enemy intensity: Adaptive - Increasing Intensity.】

【Enemy quantity: Endless.】

【Hunter is attempting to disable life-support measures. Please confirm again.】

【Life-support measures disabled.】

【Combat Mode is about to begin.】

【Scene: Frigid Cold.】

【Hunter is about to be teleported to "Ingmiler (Extreme Winter Battlefield - Simulation)".】

【Within this scene, 100,000 Paradise Coins will be consumed every hour.】

【Teleportation has begun.】

After a brief sensation of teleportation, Su Xiao arrived on a piece of frozen earth. With howling blizzards, the white-and-black ground was very hard. Several weapons hanging with icicles were stuck nearby.

At 100,000 Paradise Coins per hour, Su Xiao was certainly not here to test his limits. There were plenty of opportunities for battle in mission worlds. He came to the Trial Ground this time to use an auxiliary scroll to improve his sword art.

【Trial of Bloodbath】

Quality: Holy Spirit-level

Type: Auxiliary Scroll (Extremely Rare)

Remaining uses: 1/2.

Usage Effect: After use, it can assist in improving basic skills.

Hint: The duration of "Trial of Bloodbath" is adaptive.

Hint: After using "Trial of Bloodbath," the user must engage in high-intensity combat to improve basic skill levels. The degree of improvement depends on the method of use.

Rating: 998 points

Introduction: If you dare not face death, how can you sublimate?

If it were an inexperienced newcomer, after obtaining such an item, they would definitely use it in a mission world to improve their basic technique abilities.

Su Xiao didn't do that. He had had many opportunities before; for example, when fighting the Northern Alliance soldiers, that would have been an opportunity to use 【Trial of Bloodbath】.

There are too many variables in actual combat. Su Xiao didn't know what kind of enemies he would encounter, nor could he avoid accidents. He was not omniscient and omnipotent; he also had weaknesses.

Therefore, Su Xiao chose to use 【Trial of Bloodbath】 in a controllable battle. To improve the effect of 【Trial of Bloodbath】, he disabled the Trial Ground's protection mechanism. And to avoid accidents, the enemies he needed to deal with were only a few types of Extreme Winter Battlefield soldiers.

Endless Extreme Winter Battlefield soldiers—this could avoid unknown events and maximize the effect of 【Trial of Bloodbath】.

"Bagusa, Kaka-woo-fish!"

A roar came from afar. Su Xiao drew the long blade from his waist and crushed the 【Trial of Bloodbath】 in his left hand.

Rumble...

The earth began to tremble. Extreme Winter Battlefield soldiers, covered in frost with ghostly blue eyes, rushed in from all directions. If one were to look down from above, they would see these soldiers as endless, like a tide surging in from all sides, rushing toward Su Xiao. The scene was extremely spectacular.

Su Xiao clearly felt that the surrounding world had become different. The effect of 【Trial of Bloodbath】 was clearly a bit exaggerated, but he soon realized what was going on: the 【Origin Stone】 he carried with him had significantly enhanced the effect of 【Trial of Bloodbath】.

"Blade Dao Blade - Super - Ring Break."

With a crisp sound of slashing, centered on Su Xiao, the surrounding Extreme Winter Battlefield soldiers instantly fell in a large swath.