Chapter 2805

If it were the original Sleeper, on the Ancient Battlefield, Su Xiao indeed would not be able to defeat the opponent, but right now, this substitute, he could slash it with one blade.

"This place is not bad."

After looking around at the surrounding Ancient Battlefield blood energy, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the stone altar below.

The Ancient Battlefield blood energy continuously gathered toward Su Xiao and was then sucked into the simplified Devour Core. Because the absorption speed was too fast, the wear rate of the simplified Devour Core also increased significantly.

The Ancient Battlefield was not a place to stay for long. The temporary Sleeper solved just now was only a small character. It was best not to stay here for long.

Being in the Ancient Battlefield, Su Xiao was under great pressure. A vague sense of threat often appeared in the distance. What that was, Su Xiao didn't know, but he could be sure that with his current strength, he absolutely could not fight that thing head-on.

If he didn't absorb the Ancient Battlefield blood energy, Su Xiao coming here wouldn't be considered dangerous. If he absorbed the Ancient Battlefield blood energy, the danger level would soar more than a thousand times.

Many Void scavengers came to the Ancient Battlefield to hunt for treasure. Among these scavengers, there was an iron rule: absolutely do not take away the corpses on the Ancient Battlefield. Some giant dragon corpses were very precious, and the blood hadn't even coagulated. Even so, no one dared to touch them.

Right now was a time of racing against time. The sooner he could leave, the better. Thinking of this, Su Xiao overloaded the simplified Devour Core. Having absorbed the Ancient Battlefield blood energy for nearly an hour, this simplified Devour Core was reaching its limit.

Crackle~

A crisp sound came. Su Xiao opened his eyes. This crisp sound didn't come from the Devour Core, but from something else.

Crackle, crackle~

The sound of crushing withered bones appeared. A figure wearing tattered, strip-like clothing walked over. He held a long blade, and the blade edge was covered in chips. Preliminary observation, this was a corpse, but except for the dull color of the skin, the flesh had not withered.

Seeing this figure, Su Xiao pressed one hand on the hilt of the blade at his waist. Just for a moment, he perceived that this Sleeper was a Shadow of Law-Extermination before his death!

Zing!

The Sleeper slashed out a blade. The surrounding ground was all lifted. After the dark blue energy surged wildly, it formed energy threads in mid-air, stretching straight in an interlaced manner, cutting the surrounding powerful corpses into sugar-cube-sized fragments.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Bolts of blue lightning struck down from the sky, preliminarily estimated to be hundreds, covering several kilometers around.

When everything subsided, everything turned into dust particles, drifting in mid-air. A figure in tattered clothing walked toward the distance.

Inside the skill upgrade cabin, Su Xiao breathed out faint blood energy. Although the Ancient Battlefield was full of benefits, it also made people pleasantly surprised constantly. He even encountered the corpse of a previous generation Shadow of Law-Extermination.

Su Xiao could be sure that the corpse had no consciousness; it was just guarding the Ancient Battlefield. In the future, if he went to absorb Ancient Battlefield blood energy again, he would have to be more cautious.

【Warning: Hunter has been eroded by the blood energy of the Ancient Battlefield, body slightly damaged, trace amounts of blood energy residue mixed into the aura. Yes/No to pay Paradise Coins for recovery and clearance.】

This warning was not surprising. The main function of the simplified Devour Core was to filter the Ancient Battlefield blood energy to a level that Su Xiao could absorb, and the most critical part was purification.

"Pay."

As soon as Su Xiao's voice fell, a very unique fluctuation appeared.

【Hint: Removing the erosion of Ancient Battlefield blood energy requires consuming 5236 Paradise Coins.】

【Hint: Recovering injuries requires consuming 260 Paradise Coins.】

【Hint: Removing blood energy residue in the aura requires consuming 12800 Paradise Coins.】

Compared to before, the Paradise Coins consumed this time were much lower, representing that the simplified Devour Core Su Xiao constructed was more precise. One had to know that the blood energy he absorbed this time was several times more than the sum of the previous few times.

Half an hour later, Su Xiao felt that his body was much lighter. The recovery and removal of the Reincarnation Paradise were very reliable and would not have the slightest residue.

【Aura Release lv. 16 (Dual Form)】

Skill Effect (Active): Release your own aura, causing 1200 points of defense-ignoring blood energy damage to all enemies within 120 meters (raised by 340 points), and causing the enemy's stamina consumption speed to increase by +20% (raised by 8%). The effect lasts for 30 minutes.

Hint: During the period of the enemy's accelerated stamina consumption, the enemy's physical defense will decrease by 1 point per second (raised by 0.5 points), until it is reduced by more than 50% (raised by 5%).

Hint: This physical defense reduction has priority.

Hint: This is a non-judgment ability and can only be resisted through aura.

Just by going to the Ancient Battlefield once, Aura Release was raised to lv. 16, and the comprehensive attributes were significantly raised.

There were 4757 Soul Coins left. Su Xiao decided to raise the Technique Sublimation ability from lv. 27 to lv. 30, leaving 1757 Soul Coins.

When Su Xiao walked out of the Skill Upgrade Hall, he was thinking about a problem, which was how to obtain more Soul Coins in the mission world. After Technique Sublimation was raised to lv. 30, the power of blade technique moves was further raised, and the blade technique potential tier +4. The latter's improvement already allowed Su Xiao to vaguely feel it.

The improvement of this kind of potential reached a level where it could be vaguely felt. One could imagine how high the bonus of Technique Sublimation was. Su Xiao suspected that his original blade technique potential tier was between 2 and 3, at most not exceeding 3.

Technique Sublimation was very important, but after this ability reached lv. 30, the upgrade cost further increased, reaching 2000 Soul Coins per level.

On the way back to the exclusive room, Su Xiao took out a translucent scroll. Light flowed on this thing. Just by looking at it, one felt longing. This was the 【Refining Scroll】. After using it, one could raise Holy Spirit-grade or Holy Spirit-grade-below equipment to Reinforcement +14.

How to use this thing, Su Xiao hadn't decided yet. The Black King set, Hunting Dragon set, and Hunting Demon set were all forged by him into one representative piece of equipment. The Black King was an arm guard, and the Hunting Dragon and Hunting Demon were both pendants. There was no way around this; Su Xiao couldn't use the armor, sword, and gun of the Hunting Dragon set at all.

Three sets of equipment could not be reinforced; this was the price after forging. The current Dragon Flash was +12. If he used the 【Refining Scroll】 to raise it, the cost-effectiveness was not as high as imagined. 【Azure Will (Holy Spirit-grade · Hanging Ornament)】 had already been reinforced to +13.

Other equipment that could be used for a long time, such as 【Blood Feather】, 【Soul Lock Lamp】, 【Ancient Mask】, etc., were equipment that didn't need to be reinforced. Even if these pieces of equipment were reinforced, the benefits wouldn't be very high.

【Soul Whisper】, 【Metal · Tyrant】, and other Holy Spirit-grade weapons might be replaced at any time. Right now, Su Xiao had two choices: reinforce the 【God Judgment】 ring, or wait until he got a piece of Epic-grade God Spirit Bone to promote Fate Dominator all the way to Holy Spirit-grade, then reinforce it to +14. By then, he would just be missing the God Blood of the Goddess of Luck.

However, 【God Judgment】 had increased health by a full 40000 points. This was a health increase amount that made main tanks confused and assassination types shed tears, and this was still a growth-type equipment of Holy Spirit-grade.

If 【God Judgment】 was raised to Reinforcement +14, when its quality was promoted, the reinforcement level would be cleared. Su Xiao had already learned this lesson many times through other growth-type equipment.

Thinking for a moment, Su Xiao decided to raise 【God Judgment】. The reason was simple: he was about to undergo the eighth-tier promotion trial. After success, the enemies he encountered in the mission world would be much stronger.

If he died in the mission world, keeping the 【Refining Scroll】 would lose its meaning. During the promotion tier, raising survivability was a good choice.

【You have used the Refining Scroll on God Judgment (Holy Spirit-grade). This is a scroll-type reinforcement item; it only takes 7 minutes and 23 seconds to complete this reinforcement.】

The time required for reinforcement was much shorter than imagined, which made Su Xiao change his mind. There was nothing to do after returning to the exclusive room, so he might as well go to the Tree Arena to experiment with the "Aura Release" and "Killing Intent Tremor (Passive)" abilities, and by the way, test the improvement of blade techniques.

Changing his route, when Su Xiao arrived near the arena, the improvement of 【God Judgment】 was completed.

【God Judgment (Holy Spirit-grade) has been raised to Reinforcement +14.】

【God Judgment】

Quality: Holy Spirit-grade

Category: Ring

Durability: 48/70 (raised by 20 points)

Equipment Requirement: None

Equipment Effect 1: Soul Life (Passive), for every point of Soul Strength the wearer has, it will increase health by 130 points and neural reflex speed by 0.7%.

Current Soul Strength: 380 points.

Health already increased: 49400 points (this equipment can increase health by up to 50000 points).

Neural reflex speed already increased: 175% neural reflex speed (this equipment can increase neural reflex speed by up to 175%).

Growth Condition: After killing an extremely evil god, this equipment can absorb god energy to grow. The growth range will be determined according to the tier of the evil god killed (extremely evil gods are mostly Ancient Gods).

Growth Degree: 62%

Reinforcement Effect:

+5 Additional Effect: Wearer's physical defense +2.

+8 Additional Effect: Equipment durability +20 points.

+10 Additional Effect: Wearer slightly increases god energy resistance.

+12 Additional Effect: Equipment growth speed +12%.

+13 Additional Effect: When fighting an Ancient God, the wearer additionally increases physical defense by 30 points.

+14 Additional Effect: When fighting an Ancient God, one can rely on this ring to cause a momentary god energy loss-of-control effect on the Ancient God.

Rating: 1000+++ (Holy Spirit-grade quality equipment rating is 700~1000 points).

Introduction: Live on, then... hunt evil gods to your heart's content.

Price: Cannot be sold.

Teleporting into the exclusive lounge of the Tree Arena, Su Xiao put on the God Judgment ring.

【Competitor: Su Xiao.】

【Status: Good.】

【Tree Arena Ranking: No ranking (Seventh Tier), ranking needs to be within 10,000 to be visible.】

【Consecutive wins: 0.】

【Matching opponent...】

【Match successful, opponent has no ranking.】

After his vision blurred for a moment, Su Xiao was already standing in a circular arena. Yellow sand covered the ground, and the surrounding spectator seats were full of contractors, employees, and even Void races. It was very lively.

"Already six consecutive wins, tsk tsk tsk."

"That heroic posture during combat, I think I'm moved. Maybe this is love at first sight."

"Cheap, you're just lusting after their body."

The spectators discussed heatedly. The Tree Arena was different from ordinary arenas. The spectators here might come from the Reincarnation Paradise, Apocalypse Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, etc., or they might come from the Void. After all, this was notarized by the Tree of Void.

On the yellow sand covering the ground, some bloodstains had already been stained. Judging from the surrounding pits and sand splashes, several battles had just taken place here. A patch of yellow sand had been roasted red by flames and hadn't cooled down much.

A figure wearing full battle armor and holding a long spear stood a few dozen meters away. Judging from the figure, this was a female, a powerful female like a female war god.

This female war god was continuously competing, that is, fighting a wheel war with different opponents. This was an unfair battle, but it could raise the competition ranking faster. Some contractors whose strength increased quickly and who didn't often come to fight in the arena would choose to do so.

Su Xiao was dragged into the wheel war and became one of the many "small fry." With his unranked status, plus the broken consecutive wins, this was very normal.

"Quick battle, quick decision. Combat was never fair to begin with. You don't need to feel guilty."

The female war god opened her eyes. Because of the mask's obstruction, her voice vaguely revealed a metallic texture.

Zing~

The long blade left its sheath. Su Xiao looked at the female war god in the distance. Their eyes met.

Just for a moment of eye contact, the female war god's pupils contracted to the limit. All the hair on her body stood up, her scalp felt a bit numb, and the long spear in her hand gripped until it made a crackling sound.

With a boom, the energy on the female war god's body surged wildly. Amidst the splashing yellow sand, she assumed a combat posture. That appearance was like she had bristled.