Chapter 3022: Old Acquaintance

The final green land, by Po Lake.

A dilapidated small house was half-collapsed. The upper half of the small house had been blown away, landing in the lake water dozens of meters away.

Xiang Bubu Wang walked out from the half-collapsed small house, its nose twitching, searching for something.

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang barked, meaning there was a bloody smell, but it wasn't that a battle had occurred; it was more like the flesh and blood of some aquatic creature had evaporated into the air.

"Boss, they shouldn't be dead."

Baha flew over, clutching a severed arm in its claws. There was light black sparse hair on the severed arm. This was the severed arm of a beast tribe.

Seeing this severed arm, Su Xiao roughly guessed what was going on. The reason he came here was to find the couple Merlos and Marcia. Before fighting in the dream world, Merlos had left a letter in the hotel on Gem Street, roughly meaning that he was at Po Lake and let Su Xiao come to see him.

Before rushing to the final green land, Su Xiao didn't go to see Merlos. This was the Great Sage's territory. The first moment he arrived here, he started to clash with the Great Sage and didn't have time to see Merlos.

Before 'killing' Merlos and his wife in the dream world, Su Xiao knew that these two hadn't died; there was no kill prompt.

Looking at it now, Merlos and his wife had been prepared long ago. The two had always been near Po Lake. The ones who fought Su Xiao before should have been clones or flesh-and-blood shells they had created.

Su Xiao speculated that it was very likely that before the Great Sage withdrew, he discovered the whereabouts of Merlos and his wife and sent beast tribes to clean them up.

The Great Sage didn't withdraw by himself; he still had quite a few beast tribes under his command. How these beast tribes solved the high-speed time flow after leaving the dream world was unknown. What was certain was that these beast tribes definitely paid a great price.

Su Xiao was just here to try his luck. Merlos and his wife had been used by the Great Sage, or rather, they had cooperated with the Great Sage for a period of time and should have had some guesses about the Great Sage's purpose, even if they couldn't fully know it.

Luck wasn't good; Merlos and his wife had already escaped. It would be very difficult to find them again.

Su Xiao took out a bone ring from his storage space. This was something the couple had given him using secret means after he fought them in the dream world.

Looking at the bone ring in his hand, Su Xiao didn't know what function this thing had. This thing was in an unnotarized state and couldn't view specific data.

Su Xiao rubbed the bone ring with his thumb. The texture of the bone ring was smooth. It looked like it was composed of bone, but in fact, it was more like high-density chitin. Chitin mainly existed in the outer shells of invertebrates such as insects and aquatic crustaceans. Based on this inference, this thing was related to bugs.

Su Xiao took out the pale skull, which was the residual container obtained from the Mother God. Preliminary observation showed that the material of the bone ring and the residual container were very close.

Why did Merlos and his wife give this bone ring to him? And it was at the risk of falling out with the Great Sage.

Thinking from another perspective, was this bone ring related to the Great Sage? Or rather, was this manufactured by the Great Sage?

Don't look at the Great Sage being as stable as an old turtle; the breadth of knowledge the other party had accumulated was definitely at the top level of this world.

The residual container came from the Mother God, and the bone ring came from the Great Sage. The characteristics of the two artifacts were very close. Judging this way, the Mother God and the Great Sage should have colluded. The bond between them was very likely the Soul Zhong Ta. Thinking this way, was the Soul Zhong Ta also holding back a big move?

Su Xiao pondered for a moment, then drew the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. Holding the blade in his right hand, he pressed the blade of the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan against his left armpit, ready to sever his left arm at any time. He had a hypothesis and was prepared to test it.

"Baha."

Su Xiao threw the bone ring to Baha. Baha grabbed the bone ring and landed on Su Xiao's left forearm, putting the bone ring on Su Xiao's left index finger at a very slow speed.

"Stop."

Su Xiao flicked his arm, and the bone ring that had just been put on his fingertip was flung away. The bone ring landed in the lake water and soon sank to the bottom.

The pitch-black on Su Xiao's fingertip faded rapidly. After confirming a certain matter, he narrowed his eyes. He had fought with several Ancient Gods, and although he had won every time, every clash left a deep impression on him. The Ancient God encountered this time was the most difficult one to deal with.

Known information 1: The Ancient God was indeed sealed.

Known information 2: The seal was something planned long ago.

Known information 3: Being sealed was actually safer, as there was no need to worry about being perceived by enemies in the outside world, for example, other Tier 8 Ancient Gods.

Known information 4: Everyone wearing a bone ring, regardless of which faction that person belonged to, was Su Xiao's enemy. Those were the true believers of the Ancient God, not fake believers like the Kodo School.

Su Xiao knew more information. At the moment, focusing on the competition for space-time power was what he should do. The Ancient God side was temporarily delayed.

A formation diagram with a diameter of five meters was successfully depicted. Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal (Complete) and placed it in the center of the space formation diagram.

"What is this?"

Yueling looked at the space formation diagram on the ground, her eyes full of curiosity.

"..."

Su Xiao stepped onto the space formation diagram. Seeing this, Xiang Bubu Wang and Baha also stepped up. For some reason, Xiang Bubu Wang's hind legs were twitching.

Goddess · Shata Ye, the old knight, and Yueling all stood on the formation diagram. Su Xiao squatted down halfway and pressed one hand on the Soul Crystal in the center. The formation diagram was activated. Destination: White Town.

Boom!

A loud noise came, and distorted space fluctuations spread. The ground in the surroundings cracked in large areas. This place was like a shell falling, and soil splattered.

White Town, inside the first floor of the residence.

Space vibration patterns spread. The initial coordinates on the ground lit up with golden light. Su Xiao appeared suddenly. He moved forward a few steps quickly, supporting the wall with one hand, and began to calm his breathing.

On the carpet, Goddess · Shata Ye, who had just appeared, knelt on the ground. She lowered her head and didn't move.

"Ugh~"

Yueling also knelt. She supported the ground with one hand and covered her flat lower abdomen with the other, retching.

"Small matter, hahaha."

Baha hung on the chandelier like a hanging corpse. Beside it was Xiang Bubu Wang, who was hanging upside down on the lamp, also swinging left and right.

A figure nearly four meters tall fell from the roof, crashing outside the door with a clatter. It was the old knight. After standing up, he walked sideways like he was drunk, then crashed to the ground with a clatter again.

In the blacksmith shop across the street, the Demon Blacksmith holding a hammer saw this scene. He closed the big iron door silently. With his eye for it, he knew this was the Demon Clan's space formation pattern as soon as he saw the space fluctuations appear.

The Demon Clan's space formation pattern was notoriously unstable, but there was one point: as long as long-distance teleportation started, no one dared to block or intercept it. That was courting death in a fancy way.

Assuming a normal long-distance teleportation was a bicycle, it might be kicked over on the way, then the Demon Clan's long-distance space teleportation was a steel train speeding on a rocky road. One look from afar would be stunned. Who dared to block it?

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated for a while, and the discomfort disappeared.

"Still need improvement. The next long-distance space movement will be much more stable."

"Still, is there a next time?"

Yueling panicked. Just now, she felt as if someone grabbed one of her legs and then spun her at high speed like a windmill, to the point of spinning out afterimages.

Ignoring Yueling, Su Xiao left the residence and walked toward the outside of the White Town. He had set a mark on the Prince of the Heaven Squad before. According to his sensing, that miner named Prince was still outside the Lost Withered Forest at this time.

Su Xiao was going to find the Heaven Squad. That side, after hiring a magic-type 'bodyguard,' became abnormally stubborn and was still mining outside the Lost Withered Forest.

After careful sensing, Su Xiao found that the Heaven Squad's position deviated from before. They should have found other light silver ore veins, which was why they didn't leave this area. Without the tracking mark, the probability of Su Xiao finding the Heaven Squad would be very low.

It had been a few days since they met. As an old acquaintance, Su Xiao was prepared to 'visit' the Heaven Squad. ===== CHAPTER 3023 =====