Chapter 3252

The sunset was like blood, shining into the treatment room from the window. Su Xiao glanced at the time; it was already 7 PM. It was time to end today's treatment.

The dozen or so believers queuing in the treatment room hesitated for a moment before leaving. These people had been queuing for nearly a whole day, finally making it into the treatment room, only for it to be 7 PM.

Su Xiao had fixed his schedule: wake up at 6 AM every day, wash up, eat breakfast, meditate for a moment, then leave the apartment and come to the supply point on the first floor of the cathedral. When no one was around, he would 'black' reputation through "cost-price procurement" + "returns."

After finishing this, it was almost 7 AM, then he would come to the treatment room on the third floor, receiving patients from 7 AM to 12 PM, eat lunch, take a short nap to restore mental energy, and it would basically be 12:40 or 1 PM.

Afterward, he would receive patients from 1 PM to 7 PM, eat dinner on the way back to the apartment, mix the potions required for the commission after returning, then meditate for a moment, and rest around 10 PM, sleeping until 6 AM.

Su Xiao had to ensure his sleep. When treating, he needed high-precision control of the energy filaments. Sometimes a deviation of 1 millimeter would lead to a serious chain reaction, causing the patient's death.

Su Xiao's schedule was very full, but he gained a lot during this period. His control over the energy filaments was no longer at the same level as before.

Su Xiao named this energy filament constructed from Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy 'Spirit Shadow Line.' It wasn't because he had another ability called Spirit Shadow Physique that he named it this way.

The origin of the Spirit Shadow Line was very simple. First, the main body of this energy filament was formed during the period when Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy was transforming into the Proud Song state; instead of crystallizing it, he constructed it into micron-level filaments.

This filament was actually very fragile and fundamentally insufficient to suture wounds; it was too thin. So Su Xiao added the 'Soul Silk' effect to it. Because his soul strength was high, his control over soul energy was also strong. Under the bonus of 'Soul Silk,' this micron-level energy filament not only became tough due to Su Xiao's high soul strength but also had more controllability.

The filament formed by Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, which was added and controlled by soul power, was abbreviated as Spirit·Shadow·Line.

Obviously, Su Xiao was relatively weak at naming abilities, except for the Blade Dao series of sword techniques.

The several abilities he developed himself were: side kick, straight kick, aura release, and Spirit Shadow Line.

Looking at it this way, the Spirit Shadow Line was already quite prestigious and sounded much more aesthetic than side kick and straight kick.

Su Xiao somewhat wanted to know if the Spirit Shadow Line could appear on the skill list after it was perfected to a certain degree.

The Blade Dao series didn't appear on the skill list because it was a branch of sword techniques, while the straight kick was a branch of melee master, and aura release was on the skill list.

Joining the Sun Church this time and becoming a pharmacist here was an opportunity for Su Xiao.

Any ability, purely developed and researched by oneself, was useful in the initial stage, but after perfecting it a bit, it needed practice; otherwise, this ability would absolutely not develop, which meant having a head full of flashy operations that would instantly collapse in actual combat.

Su Xiao was indeed often injured, but for training the Spirit Shadow Line, this was far from enough.

The Sun Church had many transcendent beings who were about to be crushed by hidden injuries, namely the Sun believers. In other worlds, one wouldn't encounter so many transcendent beings with severe hidden injuries even after searching for a year or even several years.

For Su Xiao, who had only developed the Spirit Shadow Line not long ago, this was a god-given opportunity to train and practice the Spirit Shadow Line.

Helping believers treat here for a day, the accumulated practical experience was equivalent to a normal year or even several years. Here, patients with various injuries could be encountered. There was an old brother whose eyeball was poked into his brain; not only did he not die, but he could also look at his own brain every day. It could only be said that the physique of transcendent beings was indeed not just for show.

Besides this kind, there were patients whose livers were shattered like pomegranates, patients whose entire left arm bones were broken into 149 pieces, and patients whose various organs were twisted together like twists.

There was nothing one couldn't think of, only things one hadn't seen. Su Xiao felt like he had gained knowledge while treating here.

Every time he solved a patient, it was a kind of training for Su Xiao. At the beginning, when he helped a believer treat, if he didn't use anesthesia, at least 4 to 6 people had to hold them down.

By now, 3 people holding the patient and blocking the patient's mouth was enough. Blocking the mouth was because the patient kept screaming, which was too noisy.

Every day, shrill screams were emitted from the treatment room. Even so, many believers still queued. Compared to the life-worse-than-death they were experiencing, the short-term pain was nothing.

Several light blue filaments were formed at Su Xiao's fingertips. After two consecutive days of high-intensity treatment, the Spirit Shadow Line was much more perfected than before.

He had a hypothesis: when the Spirit Shadow Line reached a certain degree, if his heart was shattered during combat, and the Spirit Shadow Line ability was developed to be strong enough, could he suture his shattered heart together in a short time?

This seemed somewhat like a fantasy, but in principle, as long as Su Xiao's development degree of the Spirit Shadow Line was high enough, his instantaneous reaction was fast enough, and his soul strength was top-notch, suturing a shattered heart within 3 to 10 seconds was not an impossible thing.

Of course, Su Xiao couldn't do this yet, but he had a direction to strive for. Coming to the Sun Church to 'AFK' this time was truly the right place. Treating believers not only could perfect and practice the Spirit Shadow Line but also could gain reputation. Most importantly, there was a benefit that made even Su Xiao's heart beat faster to be gained—three birds with one stone.

Throughout the entire day today, Su Xiao gained 179,900 reputation points by treating believers, which was more than 4,000 points more than yesterday, indicating that his use of the Spirit Shadow Line was becoming more proficient.

Leaving the treatment room, Su Xiao came to the restaurant on the fourth floor. The dinner was exceptionally rich. Su Xiao felt the seal on the bucket on the cook's head looked somewhat familiar; it seemed he had seen it before. He had treated too many believers in the last two days, and he wouldn't deliberately remember everyone.

After leaving the cathedral, the sky grew dark. Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja and walked toward the apartment. As for the supply point Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was responsible for, locking the door at night was no problem. The believers would go out to hunt beasts at night, and few people would come.

Pushing open the door of the apartment, Su Xiao turned on the light and walked into the room. He looked around at the situation in the room; the furnishings hadn't changed, and the hidden mechanisms he set hadn't been triggered. No one had come to investigate.

A few days ago, every time Su Xiao left the apartment, someone would sneak into his room to investigate. No one came today, which explained one thing: the high-level officials of the church began to wait and see. They wouldn't relax their vigilance against Su Xiao, but they wouldn't rashly come to investigate Su Xiao's side, so as not to offend him to death.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang left the environment, meaning that the hidden sentries around had all been withdrawn. It had just scouted the surroundings and repeatedly confirmed this point.

Su Xiao knew very clearly that his relationship with the Sun Church would eventually become hostile; this was a destined thing. If it were in another force, under the circumstance of inevitable hostility with this force, Su Xiao would never help treat people of that force. The Sun Church was different; it was too loose and didn't have a leader in the true sense.

The things Su Xiao would do afterward would face huge risks. If he didn't prepare well, with a slight mistake, he would be besieged and killed by the believers.

How to reasonably reduce the combat power of the Sun Church? Poisoning? Secret assassination? No, the risks of these methods were too high, and the efficiency was too low.

Rough treatment was the most perfect way at the moment. Su Xiao appeared to be rough for the sake of pursuing treatment speed, but this was not the case. After undergoing rough treatment, these believers needed to rest longer to recover. Now, among them, some couldn't even walk steadily, and their legs were slower than Kingsley's aunt.

With believers in this state, let alone besieging Su Xiao, they didn't even have the qualification to stand in front of Su Xiao.

Those who had recovered roughly and could fight had physical trauma caused by the treatment that hadn't healed yet. Their combat power was not increased but decreased compared to before. More importantly, after seeing Su Xiao, they would have a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Initially, when Sha accepted Su Xiao's treatment, because Su Xiao's intuition ability was learned from Sha, Su Xiao made the treatment process as gentle as possible. Even so, Sha was left with a shadow.

The Demon Race's iron-headed Mond, who also accepted Su Xiao's treatment, hadn't been in contact for a long time. It was said that after that iron-headed guy returned to the Demon Race, his father took him to find a psychic healer.

The above two were either Su Xiao's friends or his allies, so his treatment method was relatively gentle. This time, treating the believers, as far as Su Xiao's own feeling was concerned, he felt he was a bit rough.

The facts were indeed so. The believers who came for treatment were all beast hunters. With their endurance and bearing capacity, they couldn't help but scream loudly.

This was the best way to reduce the combat power of the Sun Church in the short term, and Su Xiao was doing it openly and honestly. The believers queued up themselves, bearing the double reduction of physical/mental combat power.

By the time these believers completely recovered and their combat power returned to the peak, it would be unknown when that would be. Su Xiao wasn't a native of this world. By that time, he would have already achieved his goal and left this world.

Taking advantage of the fact that a large number of believers were in the recuperation period, leading to the emptiness of the cathedral's defense, Su Xiao could do many things.

Su Xiao placed a bottle of mixed 【Dragon Power (Modified)】 potion on the table and glanced at the small clock on the test bench. It was already 10:17 PM. According to his previous habits, he would have already fallen asleep at this time.

With a 'snap,' the lights in the room were extinguished. There was no moon tonight. After the lights were out, one couldn't see one's fingers in the room. In the darkness, three pairs of eyes were looking at the window.

Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baja were all lying on the floor. Su Xiao grabbed the edge of the bed with one hand, and after exerting force, his whole body slid under the bed.

Lying under the bed, spatial fluctuations came from behind Su Xiao. This was a 【Coordinate Resonance Stone】 provided by Caesar, which belonged to a consumable and was used by Su Xiao as the core of the spatial array map. It could perform 5 to 6 medium-distance directional spatial movements. The activation time of this thing was very long, about 20 to 23 seconds.

Su Xiao's location here was Point A, and the only place that could be reached using this array map was Point B set up by Caesar.

Caesar was suddenly generous this time, providing the 【Coordinate Resonance Stone】. It could only be said that he had really earned a lot this time; otherwise, Caesar wouldn't be so generous suddenly.

Peaceful spatial fluctuations enveloped Su Xiao. Having been accustomed to the Demon spatial array map, using this ordinary spatial array map again gave Su Xiao a feeling of softness and weakness, lacking the sense of security during teleportation, and missing a bit of meaning.

Initially, it was hard to accept using the Demon spatial array map, but the more one used this thing, the more addicted one became. Although it was bumpy, this feeling was like having been accustomed to driving a tank with thousands of horsepower, and suddenly changing to an eight-handed Alto. That feeling... was uncomfortable all over.

Su Xiao, who was like sitting on a small electric scooter, suppressed the discomfort in his heart and finally waited for the teleportation to end. The place he arrived at was pitch black, inside a secret room.

"Ugh~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang let out a dry retch. The teleportation feeling of sitting on a small electric scooter made it so uncomfortable it was about to vomit; it really wasn't used to it.

Two auras were located in the darkness. Through perception, Su Xiao discovered that the two were sitting at a round table. Seeing this, he also stepped forward and sat down.

"I am Os Valentine. People more often call me the Sun Monarch."

The Sun Monarch in the darkness spoke. His voice had a thick magnetism. From the tone, one could tell that this was an arrogant person, but the Sun Monarch indeed had the confidence to be arrogant.

"Meeting in this enclosed place, although it doesn't fit your identity and mine, it is also for the sake of security. In the eyes of outsiders, whether it is you, or me, or the Sun Church, we are all villains, the craziest evildoers in this world that is about to fade."

After the Sun Monarch finished this sentence, he gave a mocking chuckle. Next to him, Caesar stiffened his face, looking as if he had also substituted himself into the ranks of villains, but it was somewhat incongruous.

"What you say might be right, but even if we aren't good people, at least turn on the light when talking. If there's no light, light a candle. It's too dark."

Su Xiao's words made the Sun Monarch silent for a moment. Ten seconds later, the dim yellow light turned on.

The Sun Monarch's appearance looked to be around thirty years old. He was wearing layered hanging armor combined with gold and deep red, and wearing a crown with three upward diamond spikes. Behind the Sun Monarch, a long weapon that was a combination of a scepter and a blade spear floated vertically. In the middle ridge of this weapon, a gemstone like a small sun was embedded.

The Sun Monarch just sat there with full momentum, having the charm and handsomeness of a mature man. Looking at Caesar beside him, he was like a goblin who was picking his feet.

In fact, it wasn't like; Caesar was indeed picking his feet. He also occasionally smelled his fingers himself. Judging by the way he rolled his eyes every time, he might go into shock at any time; it was too overwhelming.

A smell like mixed chemicals permeated the room. Su Xiao's face was cold and frozen, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang continued the previous dry retching, and Baja held its breath, with tears streaming down. This couldn't be blamed on it; it was indeed stinging to the eyes.

The Sun Monarch was closest to Caesar, but he sat there with a calm face. It could only be said that he was worthy of being the Sun Monarch.