Chapter 2837: Temple

Su Xiao had just exited the underground passage when a collapsing sound came from behind.

At this moment, he was located in a tomb. On the surrounding rock walls, there were many broken holes, clearly visited by grave robbers many times.

"Meow."

Benny leaped down from Su Xiao's shoulder. After drinking a bottle of potion, its injuries basically recovered, but the bloodstains on its fur made it very uncomfortable. Benny had a slight cleanliness obsession; if its fur was dirty, it felt uncomfortable all over.

Benny took out a stone slab and carved five patterns on the ground with its meow claws. These patterns were, respectively, a disk, a scepter, a thorn whip, an ouroboros, and a ball of flame.

Benny stood the stone slab above the ouroboros pattern. On this stone slab with irregular protrusions on the surface, it seemed that an ouroboros was embedded. It was hard to distinguish whether this was carved out or a real snake was embedded inside.

"You mean, the Ganglu Dynasty perished, not because of building the Sun Ladder, but because of these five items?"

"Meow."

Benny nodded and carved a mask above the five patterns on the ground. There was a round hole in the center of the brow of this mask.

At this moment, what Benny was carving was the same as the photo provided by Philosopher, and the location in that photo was the place where a group of Sanctuary Paradise contractors died miserably. What the Priest did there was unknown.

Su Xiao picked up the stone slab on the ground, and a prompt appeared.

【You have obtained Ouroboros Stone Slab (This is a special item, cannot be brought out of this world).】

【Prompt: This is a key item for the Hunter's "Tier 8 Promotion Assessment Mission."】

【Prompt: After the Hunter's promotion assessment mission is activated, you will have a sense for this type of item.】

【Because the Hunter has already obtained the Ouroboros Stone Slab, after the promotion assessment mission is activated, you will no longer be able to perceive this type of item. The original perceivable "Heart Flame," "Heart Flame" is located in the City of Smoke, owned by the Black Tower organization.】

Seeing these prompts, Su Xiao thought of many things. His initial force was the Black Tower, which had a reason. If he won the World Contest, then he would have to contact the Black Tower organization to obtain the "Heart Flame."

Ouroboros Stone Slab, Heart Flame, Sun Disk, plus a scepter, and a thorn whip—there was a huge connection between the five.

Su Xiao didn't consider these things. Fight the World Contest well first. If the World Contest was lost, even if he collected all five items, it would be meaningless.

Su Xiao checked the kill prompts. He obtained 67 points of Samsara Paradise Merit, plus 31 Scarlet Medals.

The Scarlet Medals obtained were quite a few. Killing a Tier 7 contractor could generally obtain about 1–3 Scarlet Medals.

The existing number of Scarlet Medals reached 188, which was still far from the 400 needed to exchange for 【Echo (Blood-colored Weapon)】. Considering that the decisive battle at the ancient capital was about to start, as long as he wasn't surrounded and killed, he wouldn't lack Scarlet Medals later.

Compared to Scarlet Medals, the Samsara Paradise Merit Su Xiao obtained was much less, only 104 points. This was a normal situation. Before, he had been competing on the same stage with Tier 8 contractors. The Scarlet Medals obtained from killing those Tier 8 contractors were far higher than the Samsara Paradise Merit.

"Meow."

Benny meowed. That meant it would continue to explore in this tomb. If it discovered important information, it would send it to Su Xiao through the team channel.

As Benny interrupted the ability of 【Shelter Gem】, a pulling force came, and a spatial crack appeared behind Su Xiao.

After a brief darkness before his eyes, Su Xiao returned to the first floor of the Sun Temple. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was looking around at the door, and Bahamut and Amu were searching inside the temple.

On the first floor of the Sun Temple, there were dozens of stone pillars. This place was suitable for ambushing. His side's contractors used these stone pillars as cover, concentrating firepower at the front door. The metal door there could be destroyed, but the walls couldn't.

Following the stairs on the side of the grand hall, Su Xiao went up to the second floor. There was a passage several meters wide in the middle of the second floor, and on both sides were rooms without doors, with thin mist drifting inside.

Su Xiao walked forward a few steps, and a pulling force came from his side. His eyes blurred, and he was on a circular stone platform.

This stone platform was about a hundred meters in size, circular as a whole. Coming to the edge, Su Xiao saw pitch-black darkness that couldn't be seen to the bottom. Falling from here, there would definitely be no good end.

Su Xiao could feel that he could leave this place at any time, but if an enemy entered here, he couldn't leave. One had to die before someone could leave.

Spatial fluctuations appeared, and Su Xiao appeared on the second floor of the temple. He looked at the doorless rooms on the left and right sides. There were 50 rooms in total, each room being a gladiatorial arena. As long as two hostile people entered, one had to die, and the other could come out.

This place was originally a place for the Ganglu Dynasty to test "Sun Warriors." Only by passing these 50 trials could one become an official Sun Warrior.

Assuming his side had 50 contractors located in these 50 rooms, then the enemies passing in front of these doorless rooms would immediately be dragged into them for a 1-on-1 forced duel.

Su Xiao walked forward. Every few steps, he would suddenly disappear and then appear again. When he arrived at the innermost side of the second floor, he pressed his hand on a hexagonal engraving, and the spatial mechanism on the second floor was temporarily closed.

He thought that the lunatics on his side would definitely be full of joy after knowing there was such a place, but who these 50 spots belonged to was a big problem. This point would be solved later.

Following the stairs on the second floor, he arrived at the third floor. There was nothing in the third floor.

Su Xiao took out a piece of clothing and threw it out. Crystal protrusions appeared on the wall.

*Sizzle~*

Beams of scorching golden lasers appeared. This was the light beam produced after gathering sunlight. These finger-thick sunlight beams swept randomly in the third floor, lasting for a full dozen seconds before subsiding.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang swallowed his saliva. The intensity of those sunlight beams just now, even Amu couldn't withstand. Being in these sunlight beams for at most 2 seconds, Amu would be shredded and then burned into ashes.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): Sun Shelter is generating...】

A circular mark appeared on the back of Su Xiao's hand. The sense of crisis in the surroundings was eliminated. He stepped forward and didn't trigger the mechanism here.

This was the advantage of seizing the World Core first. After passing through the third floor, Su Xiao arrived at the fourth floor. Just as he walked into the fourth floor, he retreated immediately.

Inside the fourth floor, it was stepped as a whole. Scorching red human-shaped phantoms appeared. These phantoms held semi-transparent bows and arrows, drawing their bows at the same time, shooting out beams of sunlight.

*Clang, clang, clang... *

Over a hundred sunlight beams shot onto the wall, actually making a metal-like collision sound. After sensing no living aura, these 102 human-shaped phantoms disappeared.

The defense of the fourth floor seemed powerful, but for contractors, this at most served as a deterrent and would be broken before long.

The "Sun Shelter" mark on the back of Su Xiao's hand was perfected a bit. After he walked into the fourth floor, he no longer triggered the mechanism here.

Going up to the fifth floor, there were no defensive mechanisms here. Throughout the fifth floor, there were many walls of different heights, some only half a meter high, some more than four meters high. This was a melee zone.

Arriving at the sixth floor, there were many stone sculptures standing here. They were ordinary stone sculptures, with no unknown energy blessing inside, and they were very easy to smash.

Su Xiao walked to the stairs of the sixth floor and found a paragraph of ancient text written on the wall above. Because he had mastered the temporary common language, he understood what this paragraph of ancient text represented.

"No retreat ahead, intruders die."

Su Xiao stepped on the stone stairs and walked into the seventh floor, entering the highest floor of the Sun Temple.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): You have arrived at the designated defensive area.】 ===== CHAPTER 2838 =====