Chapter 2269: The Agreement

Su Xiao looked at the black sea chart in his hand. His goal had been achieved; the location of Terror Island was recorded on it. As for the "Soul Refining of the Angry Sea," it had nothing to do with him.

After arriving at Terror Island, Su Xiao would complete the third round of the Strongest Contest. By then, he would be teleported out of the Viking Sea, and he likely wouldn't have time to complete the "Soul Refining of the Angry Sea."

Although it was a bit of a pity, the cost for Su Xiao to obtain the "Soul Refining of the Angry Sea" was very low: an Ancient God's right arm, plus the gold coins of this world, all of which were obtained incidentally after slaughtering the Ancient God.

Looking at the gains, after Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ate the flesh and blood of dozens of sea beasts, its strength would improve. Not only that, Su Xiao could also sell the 【Soul Refining of the Angry Sea】. 35 Seventh-Tier Soul Coins was not a small number. According to his estimation, the price of a Holy Spirit-level piece of equipment was around 100–150 Seventh-Tier Soul Coins, with the more specific price depending on the type of equipment.

Besides these, Su Xiao also obtained 5 Legendary treasure chests and 1 Epic treasure chest through purchasing sea beasts.

Adding these together, the return was higher than the time invested.

The negotiation ended, and Redbeard took his men and left. After all, he had just calculated against Agati. Of course, he had to leave as soon as possible.

Although Agati was calculated against, she was very satisfied with the gains from this time. She was only responsible for contacting both sides, and she obtained a god's arm.

After Redbeard left, the pirates under Agati also retreated, ambushing in various places near the small building to prevent Redbeard from pulling any more tricks.

"Are you going to kill me?"

Agati spoke in a low voice. What she had done before was not honorable.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, a smile appearing on his face.

"So you can smile after all. Tell me, what must I pay? I won't be naive enough to think that what I did before could earn me this god's arm."

Agati raised her hand, and a black-and-red feathered crow flew over, placing the Ancient God's right arm in her hand.

"No, it belongs to you."

Su Xiao stood up and walked toward the door. This made Agati knit her delicate brows. What even she didn't notice was that the hair behind her ears had already turned white.

The divine power of an Ancient God—even Su Xiao, as an alchemist, wouldn't use it rashly. Yet Agati directly integrated the residual divine power within this arm into an artifact.

"Wait, there's something wrong with this arm."

Agati tore off a pendant and tossed it onto the table.

Agati was very ambitious. She had set her sights on the Minguang Divine Sect, preparing to use the combination of this Ancient God's arm and several secret relics to control the Minguang Divine Sect and take this tumor for her own use.

"100,000 Kingdom Gold Coins. I only need information—information about this arm."

Agati's words made Su Xiao, who had already pushed open the door, stop his steps.

"The Ancient God has already been slaughtered by me. There's no information to sell to you."

Su Xiao turned his head to glance at Agati and stepped out of the small building.

At the same time, on a certain isolated island.

Black clouds shrouded the sky above. The shallow water area below reflected a pale red shimmer. Observing carefully, one could find that the water was full of corpses. Their expressions in death were extremely painful, and some corpses were monsters covered in black scales.

In the center of the shallow water area, a figure draped in a black robe stood on a pile of corpses. The night wind blew his tattered hem.

"The person who possesses the inheritance of the Evil God... has appeared. I made a pact with that person to slaughter them all."

With a boom, a sonic boom spread, and the figure draped in the black robe suddenly disappeared. His target was Agati, thousands of miles away. Aside from the Nightmare God Nigadi, who could drag him into the dream world, few people in this world could defeat him. He was a sorrowful ferryman and also the god of death for the cultists.

At this moment, Agati didn't know that the god of death was coming to knock on her door.

The bright sun was in the sky. A wisp of water mist sprayed from the sea surface. A giant whale flipped up a large spray of waves in the sea.

The Doom sailed through the waves, and the deck was exceptionally lively.

"Woo-hoo!"

A wolf howl traveled far. It was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang who had woken up. It had passed the sleeping stage, and because it had absorbed a large amount of life force, its energy was exceptionally vigorous. If Bahamut hadn't stopped it, this fool would have started dismantling the Doom.

Once Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's "dazed period" ended, its attributes and various abilities would improve.

The direction the Doom was sailing was straight toward Terror Island, located at the center of the world. Although it was located at the center of the world, with the level of sea charts in this world, trying to judge where the center of the world was wasn't as reliable as directly searching for the coordinates of Terror Island.

According to Su Xiao's estimation, the difficulty of the third round of the Strongest Contest was mainly finding the location of Terror Island and boarding the island.

Now that the location of Terror Island had been determined, he could just sail there to obtain it. He didn't believe that with the current Doom, there would be too much difficulty in boarding the island.

The third round of the Strongest Contest would eliminate many participants. Before returning to the rest area after the end of the second round, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahamut had roughly counted the number of remaining participants.

After the end of the second round, there were probably a few hundred participants left, over 90% of whom were Void races.

And how many people would be left after the end of the third round? It was highly likely that more than two-thirds would be eliminated.

The way Su Xiao obtained the coordinates of Terror Island before was "wrong." He directly obtained the 【Soul Refining of the Angry Sea】 from Redbeard, and the location of Terror Island was just obtained incidentally. That's right, just incidentally; the ultimate goal of most participants was obtained by Su Xiao incidentally.

If it weren't for the limited stay time and the lack of mission rewards, Su Xiao would have had ways to provoke conflicts between the kingdoms and the three great pirates, thereby creating a large-scale naval battle.

If the Viking Sea were a mission world, the Minguang Divine Sect side would be very interesting, and the Fuyinding Kingdom could also be contacted.

Su Xiao's original plan was to unite with either Agati or Redbeard to hammer the other, and set a condition that the naval battle must take place near Terror Island.

The factions within this world had been restraining each other for too long. Once two or three sides started fighting, it would definitely evolve into a multi-party melee.

Su Xiao would draw the battlefield to the vicinity of Terror Island. In this way, he could block other participants from reaching Terror Island.

One might ask, what would happen if other participants couldn't reach Terror Island? The answer is, the Strongest Contest might not have a fourth or fifth round, and the decisive battle would take place directly near Terror Island.

Alas, there was also a great pirate, Bone Sheep, on the Viking Sea, as well as the fleets of various kingdoms, plus the tumor that was the Minguang Divine Sect.

As long as there was enough time, Su Xiao could make the area near Terror Island a bloodbath. Unfortunately, this was not a mission world, and contacting various factions took too long.

During the period of searching for the Ancient God and contacting Agati, Redbeard, and others, Su Xiao incidentally obtained the coordinates of Terror Island.

The sea breeze blew against his face. Su Xiao sat on the deck at the bow of the ship. He looked at the blue sky. The sunlight made him narrow his eyes. The weather was good, and his mood was also good, so he simply abandoned a certain plan in his mind.

This was already the day after leaving Turtle Island. Su Xiao looked into the distance, and an island with a peculiar shape came into view. From a distance, it looked as if there were two horns on the island, pointing straight into the sky.

Terror Island, he had arrived. ===== CHAPTER 2270 =====