Chapter 3173: Friendly Forces?

Su Xiao closed the Firearms Grandmaster data. The improvement cost of Firearms Grandmaster is very confusing. It is expensive in the early stage, normal in the early-mid stage, expensive in the mid-stage, and gradually normal after Grandmaster Lv. 20. This is very likely the strange improvement cost curve caused by pushing technique-type abilities hard.

Compared to the improvement cost of Sword Art Grandmaster, Firearms Grandmaster is nothing at all. Su Xiao tried to improve Sword Art Grandmaster, and the prompt appeared immediately.

【If you need to improve Sword Art Grandmaster Lv. 60, you need to consume Soul Crystal Core x10 + 650 Soul Coins.】

After Sword Art Grandmaster breaks through the Lv. 60 mark, the Soul Coins required are not many in Su Xiao's view. The main thing is the Soul Crystal Core, which is the big head that is difficult to handle.

Besides this point, Su Xiao discovered one thing through the improvement cost of Sword Art Grandmaster. Previously, the cost to improve Sword Art Grandmaster from Lv. 59 to Lv. 60 was Soul Crystal Core x10 + 8.5 million Paradise Coins.

After Sword Art Grandmaster reached above Lv. 60, the Soul Crystal Cores required for each level remained unchanged, but the other cost became 650 Soul Coins.

The price difference between 650 Soul Coins and 8.5 million Paradise Coins is so large that it is astonishing. 1 Soul Coin equals 150,000 Paradise Coins.

Seeing the current improvement cost of Sword Art Grandmaster, Su Xiao's most intuitive feeling is that the cost of improving abilities in the past was too cheap, as if it were a preferential treatment.

Or rather, the existence of Paradise Coins itself is a preferential treatment that is difficult to detect, a preferential treatment for Qiyuezhe in the early and mid-stages. It is important to know that Paradise Coins are only used within Reincarnation Paradise. In other Paradises, such as Apocalypse Paradise and Death Paradise, Paradise Coins are not used.

The currency of Reincarnation Paradise is Paradise Coins, the currency of Apocalypse Paradise is Paradise Points, and that of Death Paradise is Death Coins. These are currencies unique to each Paradise.

These currencies are not used in various Paradises, and their purchasing power is also different. This is a preferential treatment. If they were used universally, it would cause various chaotic phenomena.

Taking one Soul Crystal (Small) as a reference, among several currencies, the purchasing power of Paradise Coins is the strongest.

This also means that Reincarnation Paradise gives the greatest preferential treatment to its own Qiyuezhe. Its side often wins world contention battles, so Reincarnation Paradise seizes more resources, thereby further improving the purchasing power of Paradise Coins.

As a price, experiencing worlds within Reincarnation Paradise is the most dangerous and has the highest mortality rate.

Paradise Coins are a preferential treatment, not Su Xiao's speculation. He reached this conclusion based on Soul Coins. Soul Coins are the hard currency of Reincarnation Paradise, Apocalypse Paradise, Death Paradise, and other Paradises. Not only that, the Tree of the Void also accepts Soul Coins.

The improvement cost for Su Xiao's early and mid-stage skills was Paradise Coins, while improving late-stage abilities, such as Technique Sublimation, Sword Art Grandmaster Lv. 60, etc., all require consuming Soul Coins. After conversion, it is concluded that once improving skills requires consuming Soul Coins, the price increases sharply. This should be that in the late stage, when the Qiyuezhe's strength grows to a certain level and can stand alone, the preferential treatment from Reincarnation Paradise gradually decreases.

Su Xiao tried to convert all 10,000 Soul Coins into Paradise Coins. After converting 217 Soul Coins into 32.55 million Paradise Coins, the conversion stopped abruptly. He also received a prompt that with his current permission, in this world progress, he could only convert this many Paradise Coins using Soul Coins, and it would refresh after 2 world progresses. Not only that, his Reincarnation Brand also appeared with a Paradise Coin transaction limit, which also refreshes after 2 world progresses. This made him completely certain that Paradise Coins are indeed a preferential treatment for the early and mid-stages, while Soul Coins are the hard currency of various Paradises and the basic currency for high levels.

Su Xiao activated the skill upgrade chamber, improving Technique Sublimation Lv. 58 at the cost of 5,000 Soul Coins per level. Seeing this cost, he missed the feeling of improving firearms abilities just now.

Three hours later, Su Xiao, sitting cross-legged in the skill upgrade chamber, opened his eyes. Faint slash marks appeared around him. His Technique Sublimation ability had been improved to Lv. 65, higher than the level of Sword Art Grandmaster. As a price, he only had 2,911 Soul Coins left.

【Technique Sublimation: Lv. 65 (Technique-type, Passive)】

Skill effect 1: Increase the power of self-developed sword art moves by 153% (increased by 26%).

Skill effect 2: Sword art potential rank +9 (increased by 2 ranks).

Skill effect 3: Basic Nerve Reflex Speed +75 points (increased by 33 points), Basic Dynamic Vision +75 points (increased by 33 points).

Su Xiao did not leave immediately but began to stabilize his physical state. Although he did not intend to invest resources in Basic Passive: Spirit Resilience at the current stage, this ability must be mastered first. This can improve soul damage by 3% and soul energy rank +1. He would not let go of any opportunity to improve himself. Now that all kinds of abilities have been improved, there is no need to worry about the "body being hollowed out" after mastering Basic Passive: Spirit Resilience, which would make it impossible to improve abilities for several days.

This is not because Su Xiao has persecution mania. Some abilities of the Demon-Exterminating Shadow have this characteristic. The initial mastery requires at least a few days of weakness to recover. During this period, practicing sword art makes one pant. Go to the Skill Upgrade Hall to improve Technique Sublimation? That is wanting to not think straight and looking for death in a fancy way.

Su Xiao crushed the Basic Passive: Spirit Resilience scroll in his hand. In the next instant, he felt a "bang" before his eyes, and it was all white. In the blur, he vaguely saw a forest. These trees were all translucent, and the translucent branches hanging down emitted light blue brilliance, looking beautiful and magnificent.

These are Soul Trees. Su Xiao did not know why he knew this. The moment he saw these Soul Trees, he knew the name, origin, etc., of these trees.

Su Xiao's soul body stood upright and floated. Logically speaking, after entering this soul state, living beings would feel instinctive fear. After all, the soul has lost the protection of the body. Su Xiao is not so; his physical body is powerful, and his soul is not weak either.

Su Xiao looked forward. Among the large area of Soul Trees, a black tree was particularly conspicuous. This is a Black Maple Tree. The more Su Xiao looked at this Black Maple Tree, the more familiar it felt, especially the piece of bark torn off on the trunk and the finger marks at the gap.

Looking around and confirming that there was no one around, Su Xiao floated toward the Black Maple Tree, one hand forming a claw.

"Ahem!"

An old, dry cough came from the Black Maple Tree. The light and shadow around blurred, and an old man with pitch-black eyes sat under the Black Maple Tree. It was the Old Demon-Exterminator.

The Old Demon-Exterminator looked at Su Xiao's soul body, his cheeks twitching imperceptibly.

"You brat, you really look like me when I was young."

As the Old Demon-Exterminator spoke, he waved his hand, and Su Xiao's soul body was sucked into a vortex and disappeared.

The Old Demon-Exterminator sat under the Black Maple Tree, his face changing constantly. He appeared here for a reason. Two months ago, he was still in the Land of Origin and End, and his Black Maple Tree was also there.

Originally, the Old Demon-Exterminator planned to keep the Black Maple Tree there until Su Xiao was teleported to the Land of Origin and End due to improving Sword Art Grandmaster. At that time, the Old Demon-Exterminator discovered that the Land of Origin and End was no longer safe, and his Black Maple Tree could become bald at any time.

When Su Xiao was teleported to the Land of Origin and End for the second time, the Old Demon-Exterminator had a certain degree of understanding of Su Xiao. He discovered that if he kept the Black Maple Tree in the Land of Origin and End, maybe the next time he went out and came back, this Black Maple Tree would be bald.

So the Old Demon-Exterminator transplanted the Black Maple Tree to the Soul Forest. This was a major project. Three days after the Old Demon-Exterminator finished the work and was preparing to stabilize his remnant soul, Su Xiao arrived.

Su Xiao suddenly opened his eyes. He was still located in the skill upgrade chamber.

【You have mastered Basic Passive: Spirit Resilience.】

Su Xiao sensed himself. His body did not feel weak. He had worried too much before, but being cautious about his own improvement is always right. Because mastering a new ability caused his own weakness, which made it impossible to improve currently mastered abilities for the next few days, this is a quite terrible situation.

The door of the skill upgrade chamber opened. After Su Xiao left the Skill Upgrade Hall, he headed to the trading market. Someone was waiting for him there.

Arriving at the agreed stall, Su Xiao saw a figure wearing a black feather cloak. The other party wore a helmet resembling a skull, followed by a Skeleton Reaper, a Dark Death Knight, and a Blood Grievance Soul.

No Qiyuezhe approached within 10 meters around, and the stalls were all empty. The deterrent power of those three leader-level undead summons was too strong. More importantly, their pupil flames seemed to want to choose people to devour; that is greed for the energy of living beings.

One thing recognized by Qiyuezhe in Reincarnation Paradise is that even if they are friendly forces in a mission world, do not approach the undead system, because you don't know how long their summons have been hungry and whether they will bite off a large piece of your soul.

The Qiyuezhe sitting behind the stall was named Solomon. Technique-type, Mage, and Undead-system in Reincarnation Paradise are recognized as strong, and also recognized as poor.

Solomon's strongest point is that among the three types of poverty, he occupies two. He is both a Mage and an Undead-system. If he masters a technique-type ability, he will have to take off, take off from poverty.

Su Xiao stopped five meters away. It was not that he did not want to get closer, but although Reincarnation Paradise is an absolutely safe area, being bitten by an undead summon would not be a good experience. Just the smell alone is imaginable.

"Bai Ye, thank you this time for keeping it for me for so long."

As soon as Solomon's voice fell, the three undead summons behind him all looked straight at Su Xiao, their killing intent boiling. Their entire group's "food" had dropped by seven or eight standards recently, and their Soul Cores were "starving" to the point of losing rationality, just because of the weapon this human wanted to sell.

"Step back."

Solomon spoke in a low voice. The Skeleton Reaper, Dark Death Knight, and Blood Grievance Soul all retreated behind him. They dared not disobey Solomon's orders.

Su Xiao took out 【Death's Cry】 from the storage space. At that time, the agreed price for this undead-system bone staff was 14,000 Soul Coins, and it had been kept for Solomon for a long time.

Before the transaction was completed, Su Xiao discovered that Solomon had actually traded 14,900 Soul Coins. The extra 900 coins were a thank-you fee for him keeping 【Death's Cry】 for so long without selling it to others.

Su Xiao looked at Solomon. The feeling of power and poverty seemed to come head-on. He did not refuse the extra 900 Soul Coins. He would lend Soul Coins to Solomon, but he would not give them to the other party as alms. These are two concepts.

"Bai Ye, will you go to the Tree-Born World?"

Solomon spoke calmly, his black-green eyes not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes."

"Is that so? Then you must be careful of the Grey Gentleman and the Priest. I fought the Priest in the last world. That seemed to be a... Ancient God? Very strange. I have fought other Ancient Gods, but when dealing with the Priest, his aura..."

Solomon frowned, pondered for a moment, and then continued:

"Unfortunately, when I get to the Tree-Born World, I cannot accompany you. The Black Demon will also go to the Tree-Born World, and I have to settle my grudge with it. It swallowed my Daina."

Hearing this, Bahar beside Su Xiao was energized.

"Oh? Daina? Your summon?"

"Yes."

"Listening to this, you and her have something going on."

"No."

"Then what is this?"

"Before Daina was swallowed by the Black Demon, she was wearing 5 pieces of Holy Spirit-level equipment and 2 pieces of Overlord equipment."

When Solomon said this, his pale complexion began to turn gloomy.

Hearing these words, Su Xiao turned and left. Just now, after hearing Solomon say that both the other party and the Black Demon would enter the Tree-Born World, Su Xiao's mood was quite good. These are all friendly forces that can be united.

After understanding the grudges between the two sides and evaluating Solomon's economic situation, Su Xiao knew that the Black Demon and Solomon had formed an irreconcilable blood feud. The style of the undead system has always been: 'You can provoke me, or even attack my summons, these are all fine, but you absolutely cannot threaten my property. Otherwise, I will kill you first, then resurrect you as a corrupted creature, then kill you again, resurrect you as a skeleton, then kill you again, resurrect you as a ghost, and in the end, I will even scatter your ashes.'

Bidding farewell to Solomon, who had made up his mind to kill, Su Xiao walked toward the exclusive room. Just then, he received a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise.

【Tip: Wood Spirit has completed its transformation.】 ===== CHAPTER 3174 =====