Chapter 3225: Turns Out to be One of Us

Drip, drip~

Water droplets dripped onto Su Xiao's face. His eyes opened suddenly. The dim environment made his pupils first expand to adapt to the light, then shrink to normal size.

Su Xiao, with dried blood scabs on his face, stood up from the ground. The smell of roasted protein drifted into his nostrils, and the fire crackled as it burned the wood.

"I thought you were dead."

A slightly aged voice entered Su Xiao's ears. Su Xiao followed the firelight and saw a figure wearing tattered armor sitting by the fire.

The armor on the other side was somewhat charred, as if it had been burned by high temperature. A dark red cloth strip was wrapped around his head, and occasionally something would surge under the cloth strip, as if something was about to drill out from the skin on his face.

A bright greatsword was stuck to the side. This two-handed greatsword was about a palm wide, and it was clearly not an ordinary object. It had a thick, vast power added to it.

The person sitting by the fire, Su Xiao had seen him before; it was the Great Knight.

During the first half of the siege on the Nightmare King last time, Su Xiao was sniping from afar, and it was perfectly normal that the Great Knight didn't see Su Xiao's appearance.

In that siege on the Nightmare King, the Great Knight was schemed against by Ceyas and retreated halfway. It could be said that the Great Knight's strength was very strong, and it was not easy for him to have survived until now after being shadowed by Ceyas's ability.

"You are not a resident of the Sand World. What is your purpose in coming here? Are you here to seize the fragments of the World Painting?"

The Great Knight, no, calling him the Old Knight was more appropriate, used a wooden stick to skewer a large bird. This large bird somewhat resembled a chicken but had the size of an ostrich.

"..."

Su Xiao stood up with one hand on the wall. Pieces of release fragments broke out from his already healing wounds, gathered toward the crystal arm of his left arm, and finally merged into it.

After walking a few steps, Su Xiao's numb body slightly regained sensation. After sitting down against the wall, he checked the prompt records. There was one prompt and one announcement, respectively.

【Prompt: Storage space has been unsealed (prompted 15 hours ago).】

【Announcement (Void Tree): The participants of the Watcher Paradise have been eliminated. In 12 hours, participants from the new faction will arrive in this world (announced 16 hours ago).】

The unsealing of the storage space was something Su Xiao had long expected. He had guessed before that the probability of the storage space being unsealed after leaving the Endless Desert was over 80%.

Although the storage space was unsealed, food and fresh water resources were still sealed and would only be unsealed after leaving the Sand World.

The participants of the Watcher Paradise being eliminated looked very confusing at first glance, but if you sort it out carefully, it was actually very simple. Su Xiao had temporarily eliminated the Arcane Eternal Star faction before, giving the new faction a chance to enter.

The new faction that came this time was the Watcher Paradise. That contractor had bad luck. After arriving at the Endless Desert, he started exploring the surroundings, but he arrived 12 hours later than Su Xiao and the others. When he found the Heart Beast transformed from a soul, the Endless Desert was broken by the Overgrowth of Madness and the Abyss Jar.

That contractor died on the spot. Without eliminating his own Heart Beast, he couldn't leave the Endless Desert. From this, it could be seen that the Overgrowth of Madness had given face before. This was also the reason why Su Xiao chose to promise the other party a page of 【Tree Life Page】.

Now that the unlucky ghost of the Watcher Paradise was dead, the new faction obtained the entry qualification. Calculating the time, the new faction had already entered. I don't know which side it was, but as long as it wasn't the Star Clan or the Death Paradise faction, these two sides were hard bones to chew.

Su Xiao sat in meditation on the ground, perceiving his own state. A few minutes later, he conceived a treatment plan and drank a bottle of 【Vitality Original Liquid】.

The medicinal liquid entered his abdomen, and a warm feeling spread. He pressed one hand on a wound on his chest, and soon, blood began to seep from this wound.

In the process of converting Green Steel Shadow energy into a crystal layer, Su Xiao interrupted it and used this near-solidified energy to construct micro-meter-level energy threads, adding the "Soul Thread (Passive)" effect to ensure the strength of these micro-meter-level energy threads.

At this moment, in Su Xiao's chest, there were dozens of these energy threads, stitching his damaged organs. If bones were broken, he used these energy threads to wrap around them, aligning the broken bones and then connecting them together.

If Su Xiao's energy control ability and soul strength were stronger, he could even perform cell-level stitching. He couldn't do that yet.

The benefit of using energy threads to stitch wounds was not only to significantly speed up the recovery of injuries but also not to worry about problems like removing stitches. Lifting the Hunter's energy that constituted the energy threads, these micro-meter-level energy threads would naturally disappear.

Su Xiao took a deep breath. His originally deflated lungs bulged, recovering vitality under the nourishment of 【Vitality Original Liquid】. The remaining blood stasis in his chest turned into blood Qi at a speed visible to the naked eye and permeated into his lungs.

"Whoosh~"

Su Xiao spat out a large mouthful of turbid blood Qi. The stuffy pressure and dull pain in his chest cavity disappeared. This was the benefit of mastering alchemy. As long as he didn't die, and there were alchemy potions or materials by his side, Su Xiao could recover his combat power in a short time.

Meditating for half an hour, Su Xiao's injuries recovered by 40%. After meditating for an hour, the injuries recovered by 70%. Two hours later, although the injuries hadn't fully healed, he had the capital to fight the enemy to the death.

Ending the meditation, Su Xiao came to the fire and looked at the Old Knight, who was still nearly two meters tall even when sitting there.

"So, are you prepared to cooperate with me to seize the fragments of the World Painting?"

"That's right."

The Old Knight pointed to the roasted "ostrich" by the fire, let's call it an ostrich, and the Old Knight signaled Su Xiao not to be polite.

"Are you sure?"

While Su Xiao was speaking, he checked the team channel. He had to find Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, not only to meet up but also to retrieve the Black King Armguard as soon as possible. Without near-death immunity, he didn't feel at ease when fighting.

"Not... very sure. Compared to my life, the fragments of the World Painting are more important."

The Old Knight made a certain decision in his heart. He must bring back the fragments of the World Painting. The ancient capital couldn't hold on for much longer.

"Suppressing the Ancient God-type energy of Ceyas must be very hard. This is a reward for you not giving me a sword when I was unconscious."

Su Xiao tossed a potion to the Old Knight. He had been studying Ancient God energy for a long time. In fact, what was in Ceyas's body was not Ancient God energy, but Ancient God-type abilities.

Both had similar characteristics, but there were not small differences. For example, Ceyas was not an Ancient God. No matter how strong he became, he couldn't become an Ancient God.

The Old Knight caught the potion Su Xiao tossed, then fell silent.

"What is your relationship with that man who can grow tentacles?"

"Sometimes we are cooperators, sometimes we are enemies, it depends on the situation."

Su Xiao looked at the night outside the hall. He had successfully entered the Sand World. The next thing was to find the 【Scroll Fragment】.

"Then we are competitors. I accept your gift. I hope that next time we meet, we are not enemies."

The Old Knight stood up from the fire and walked outside the hall. He stepped on the ground covered in cracks and disappeared into the night.

Watching the Old Knight's back disappear, Su Xiao felt a bit regretful in his heart. Knowing that he had some cooperation with Ceyas, the Old Knight didn't show hostility and wasn't prepared to cooperate.

Hiding from the Old Knight that he and Ceyas were in a cooperative relationship was certainly possible, but the variables involved might ruin the big event at a critical moment.

Judging from the Old Knight's performance just now, he was no different from the information given in the Reincarnation Paradise prompt. This was not a person from the kind faction, but a neutral/mildly evil faction. One could see this from his seizing fragments of the World Painting everywhere.

Although he didn't reach a cooperative relationship with the Old Knight, the current situation was also very favorable to Su Xiao. Assuming that in the subsequent competition for fragments of the World Painting, the Old Knight appeared, his first target would definitely be Ceyas, followed by Wood.

As for Su Xiao, the Old Knight couldn't let go of his face. After all, Su Xiao had just given the Old Knight a potion to suppress Ancient God-type energy. For Su Xiao, the cost of this thing was less than one Soul Coin, but for the Old Knight, it was a treasure.

Su Xiao walked outside the dilapidated hall. There were two things to be completed as soon as possible: first, meet up with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, and second, figure out the general situation of the Sand World.

Today's night was not dark. The sky was full of stars and the full moon was high. Su Xiao walked among the broken walls. After walking for about an hour, he arrived at the edge of this ruin.

Just as he arrived at the edge, Su Xiao heard footsteps nearby. This was a figure wearing an iron bucket-like helmet, wearing black and gold clerical long clothes, walking out from behind a broken wall.

This cleric saw Su Xiao, and his aura became unkind. He took a few gems from his arms. The faint light emitted by the gems was as if it were the sun.

A few seconds after this person appeared, figures wearing iron bucket-like helmets on their heads all appeared around. There were more than a hundred people. The auras of these people were very strong and gave people a sense of danger, as if after killing them, very dangerous results would immediately appear, most likely triggering self-detonation-type abilities.

This was a group of lunatics, with faith, lunatics with firm faith. And now, Su Xiao had accidentally encountered these lunatics and entered the place where they gathered.

A roar came from a few hundred meters away. It was a giant black energy knight sword stabbing down from above. After that, dazzling light erupted in that area, illuminating it as if it were broad daylight.

The Old Knight was fighting with the colleagues of these faith lunatics. Judging from the sound of the battle, the Old Knight was retreating. He might have come to this place on purpose, wanting to seize fragments of the World Painting from these faith lunatics, or wanting to obtain them through trading.

The malice of the more than a hundred auras around became more intense. To this, Su Xiao was very calm, even though he had just recovered from severe injuries.

Under the gaze of a group of faith lunatics, Su Xiao took out the 【Church Knight Head Bucket (Holy Spirit-grade Set)】 from his storage space and put this head bucket on his head.

The malice of the strands around dissipated instantly. Obviously, Su Xiao had become one of their own in their hearts.

【Prompt: Hunter has successfully joined the Sun Church (Extreme Evil Faction).】

【Due to Hunter's Charisma attribute, faction reputation +2690 points.】

【Due to Hunter's aura, faction reputation +1946 points.】

【Due to Hunter's head equipment, faction reputation +120 points.】

【Current faction reputation: Friendly (4756/5900 points).】

【Because Hunter's initial faction upon entering this world was the Evil Faction (members include: Hunter himself, Ceyas, Wood), and Hunter has now joined the Extreme Evil Faction, your faction reputation acquisition speed is increased by 45%.】 ===== CHAPTER 3226 =====