Chapter 3261: Is This Something a Human Can Do?

The building complex behind the Cathedral, near Apartment No. 4.

Su Xiao walked quickly toward the apartment. There wasn't much time left. Although the Sun Bird Tahakak was sleeping, it would soon discover the loss of the Soul Crystals, scroll fragments, etc., and then they wouldn't be able to leave.

Caesar had disappeared without a trace. Presumably, he had long planned an escape route. Su Xiao's escape route was to return to his residence in Apartment No. 4 and use the spatial array map there to arrive at Saint Dan City.

Although the Sovereign of the Blazing Sun, who had become a monster, was there, for Su Xiao now, that was the safest place.

At first glance, the Sovereign of the Blazing Sun was the combat representative of this world, but in reality, it was not so. The Sun Bird Tahakak was the ultimate boss.

If the Sun Church had such a ruler with great power, this world wouldn't have anything to do with the Sovereign of the Blazing Sun. The Sun Church, with the Sun Bird Tahakak sitting in town, would have long dominated this world.

The Sun Bird Tahakak had been sleeping, only responsible for a few things, such as guarding the treasury of the underground Cathedral, or, after the believers couldn't suppress the number of psychic beasts, it would go out and burn a large batch to death. It couldn't strike easily. Every time it struck, the speed of the Sand World's collapse accelerated by one point.

The Sun Bird Tahakak was undoubtedly the ultimate boss of this world. The rewards for killing it would be very tempting. Su Xiao wasn't attracted by this reward. Daring to fight for one's life and courting death were not the same thing.

Although there wasn't much time left, after arriving at the building complex, Su Xiao's pace slowed down to avoid arousing suspicion. Apartment No. 4 was right ahead.

"Mr. Bai Ye, where have you been so late? Want to have a midnight snack together?"

A slightly familiar voice came. Su Xiao turned his head and saw Airo, um, Lady Airo.

"No."

Su Xiao declined and made a gesture to walk into Apartment No. 4. 【3261

"Mr. Bai Ye, why do I have the feeling that something major is going to happen tonight?"

Airo leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, wearing a robe capable of amplifying Sun Miracles.

"..."

Su Xiao let go of the door handle; 【Whisper of Soul】 had already appeared inside his sleeve, ready to slide out and be gripped in his hand at any moment.

"Then, let's have a late-night snack together."

Su Xiao's expression remained normal. Airo was a Sun Miracle practitioner; a single blade strike through the skull followed by an immediate crushing of the throat would be fatal and prevent the opponent from screaming.

"Should we go call Caesar too?"

"Sure."

"I'll go get him. Mr. Bai Ye, let's meet at the main entrance of the cathedral in a while."

Airo used a hair tie on her wrist to pull her hair into a single ponytail and walked quickly toward the cathedral. The moment she turned her back to Su Xiao, fine beads of sweat quickly seeped from her forehead.

Watching Airo walk away, Su Xiao retreated into the dark porch of Apartment No. 4. He activated the Dragon Shadow Flash ability. When he appeared again, he was already in a third-floor bedroom. He had intended to risk a strike to kill Airo, but she had escaped through a stroke of quick thinking; there was no need to waste time killing her now.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja were already waiting there. After Su Xiao stood on the formation, he threw out a metal pillar nearly two centimeters thick. Inside it was a trace amount of semi-fluid Apollo, demonstrating the benefit of developing ordinary Apollo into a fluid state—the amount of one ordinary Apollo could be divided and used many times.

Ding-ling~

The metal pillar, about 10 centimeters long, landed. The blue indicator lights on it lit up one by one. When the last light came on, a fire pattern emerged on it.

The spatial fluctuations in the room faded, and Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baja vanished from the spot.

Boom!

Golden flames exploded, and the entire Apartment No. 4 was blown to pieces. The remaining structural frame burned in the solar flames, crackling, and the spatial formation set up there was destroyed.

On the southernmost side of Saint Dan City, inside a mobile abandoned building beneath the city wall, the light of teleportation suddenly appeared.

Su Xiao stepped on the stone platform beneath his feet, causing large cracks to appear on the teleportation array. His goals had all been achieved; he could choose to watch the show afterward, and if there was an opportunity, he certainly wouldn't mind reaping more benefits.

The night was deep. Su Xiao took a deep breath of the trace-amount air. The spoils he had obtained this time were all displayed in his storage space. Seeing these things, Su Xiao was in a good mood; indeed, only when they were in his own storage space did they truly belong to him, which made him feel at ease.

Busy until now, Su Xiao finally had time to check the large number of prompts that had appeared earlier. There were dozens of various prompts. After flipping through them for a while, he found the kill notification for the Blazing Sun Lord.

【Prompt: You have killed the Monarch of the Blazing Sun.】

【You have obtained 15.36% of the World's Source (this is the Main Painting World's World's Source).】

【You have obtained 2196 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained an Immortal-grade treasure chest (81%).】

The rewards were very generous, but Su Xiao felt they were slightly lacking. Su Xiao had accounted for 100% of the kill share for the Monarch of the Blazing Sun, making it an independent kill; he had insta-killed this big boss.

This was the first big boss Su Xiao had insta-killed since entering Reincarnation Paradise. Thinking back to the scenes where he had fought big bosses to the death, the Monarch of the Blazing Sun was a good person.

The Monarch of the Blazing Sun had indeed been arranged perfectly by Su Xiao, but Su Xiao estimated that given the Monarch's strength, the rewards should have been a bit higher.

Closing the prompts, Su Xiao walked out of the drafty building. A throbbing sensation appeared in his heart, and he raised his left arm.

Splat.

A black semi-fluid struck Su Xiao's crystalline left arm and gradually clung to it. It was the First Generation Devourer. When Su Xiao had released it earlier, the First Generation Devourer was ferocious and unruly, but now, it was actually on the verge of dying, which was why it had returned on its own.

Su Xiao had created two generations of Devourers. The First Generation Devourer had a 6A panel, with a hexagonal ability curve, while the Second Generation Devourer had a Speed and Density 2A panel, with a diamond-shaped ability curve.

To be honest, Su Xiao preferred the Second Generation Devourer, Boiling Red, while the First Generation Devourer, Black A, was extremely difficult to control once released and was overly aggressive.

In the previous world, Black A had wanted to stay with his good buddy Aiqi and continue to drive him. Su Xiao, of course, wouldn't let that slide; without the first generation as a blueprint, he wouldn't be able to cultivate the second generation.

Now that Black A had returned on its own, judging by its attitude, it clearly wanted to return to the life-sustaining fluid.

He took the cylindrical stripping container holding Black A out of his storage space. As soon as he opened the lid, Black A dove in. Upon entering the life-sustaining fluid, Black A's vitality recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Seeing this, Su Xiao closed the lid and tightened the lock.

Bang! Bang!

Black A kept slamming against the glass column. As soon as it recovered, it thought about breaking free from Su Xiao's restraint to find a host to parasitize, showing just how ungrateful this thing was.

Originally, Su Xiao had an idea to develop Black A into an external buff-type biological entity; for example, if Black A attached to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's body, it could increase Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's speed, survivability, and so on.

Unfortunately, Black A's development went astray. It was incredibly strong in parasitism and growth; it would constantly stimulate the host's growth potential, allowing the host to grow, and at the same time, Black A would also grow.

The ideal of an external buff-type biological entity could only fall on the Second Generation Devourer, Boiling Red.

"Boss, Black A is too irritable."

"Hmm, Boiling Red is much better."

Su Xiao took out the container holding Boiling Red. The dark red Boiling Red was swimming in the life-sustaining fluid, elegant and relaxed. Boiling Red was still obedient, and Su Xiao nodded with satisfaction.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Boiling Red suddenly slammed against the glass wall repeatedly. The faint smile on Su Xiao's face vanished. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja quickly turned their heads, pretending they hadn't seen anything. Baja even whistled; heaven knows how it whistled with its beak.

Su Xiao threw both Black A and Boiling Red into his storage space. Not a single one of the Devourer series was obedient.

Why did the unruly Black A return? Su Xiao looked toward the palace in the distance. Above the palace, a figure with six wings of light on its back, wearing golden robes, floated in mid-air. Its clothing was composed of golden light energy, hanging down like strips of cloth.

This monster with six wings of light had pale skin all over, covered in light patterns, with circular light rings in some places, giving off a unique sense of majesty.

Su Xiao knew why Black A had returned. It had previously invaded the Monarch of the Blazing Sun's body. Perhaps the Monarch's regenerative power was too strong, or perhaps he had died too indignantly, causing him to undergo spiritual beast-transformation before death.

The Monarch of the Blazing Sun had just undergone spiritual beast-transformation when he kicked the bucket. This was awkward; the beast-transformed consciousness that had just appeared had to face the fate of following the Monarch to the grave, as the Monarch's body was already dead and beast-transformation couldn't save it.

During this process, Black A was taking over control of the body. The beast-transformed consciousness, about to follow the Monarch to the grave, instinctively treated Black A as an enemy, preparing to take Black A with it before it perished.

Black A wouldn't sit and wait for death; it started to solo the beast-transformed consciousness. One was a dark-attribute parasite, the other a dark-attribute consciousness. Their confrontation was, of course, about whose dark attribute was stronger.

The problem arose here: because excessive dark energy was raging within the Monarch's remains, the light in his bloodline was awakened. The power of the royal lineage had two branches: Ocean and Flame.

After the Monarch's Flame awakened, Black A fled on the spot. As a dark-attribute parasite, staying inside the Monarch's body now was like soaking in "acid."

If you want to talk about stubbornness, it had to be the beast-transformed consciousness. It confronted the power of the Flame head-on and was then purified into another existence. It was now coexisting with the Monarch's body.

The current Monarch of the Blazing Sun had become a Flame Beast. It floated in mid-air, one against a large crowd. Golden light spears pierced down from the sky like rain, which was extremely spectacular.

Fundamentally speaking, this big boss was created by Su Xiao by sheer coincidence after he insta-killed the Monarch of the Blazing Sun.

Under the night sky, Su Xiao watched the Flame Beast at least several kilometers away. A bold idea appeared in his mind: if he had created a big boss, could he obtain a treasure chest if he slaughtered it?

If understood this way, would that mean obtaining a double portion of treasure chests and World's Source through the Monarch of the Blazing Sun?

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took the J-Demon Sniper Cannon out of his storage space. The city wall, dozens of meters high behind him, was simply a dream sniping position.

Su Xiao didn't necessarily have to snipe the big boss Flame Beast. If the timing was right, he could cooperate with the Flame Beast from a distance and close range to hammer Wood, Zuiyas, and Water Brother—in short, temporarily teaming up with the big boss.

Su Xiao had checked the factions that hadn't entered yet: Saint Light Paradise, Sanctuary Paradise, Star Clan, Wind Sea Continent...

The probability of troublesome opponents appearing among those mid-sized Void races that were just here to make up the numbers was low.

The current situation was that it was inevitable for the Arcane Eternal Star's Crow Woman to enter. Su Xiao suspected that she might have already entered the Sand World but hadn't appeared yet, or like him, had found a place to "AFK."

In this situation, if he could eliminate one of the three—Wood, Zuiyas, or Water Brother—it would be very profitable. These opponents were too troublesome. If they were all as easy to deal with as Morey and the Moon Apostle, Su Xiao wouldn't kill any of them to avoid stronger enemies coming in.

Among the factions that hadn't entered yet, the Star Clan was purely here to join the fun. He had dealt with the Sanctuary Paradise's charlatans many times and had experience in dealing with them. The Wind Sea Continent side was not to be trifled with, but this was a contention battle, so there shouldn't be any "Strange Beasts" from there participating.

Finally, the Saint Light Paradise had healing-type noobs, which posed little threat.

The Boundary Line tightened, and Su Xiao quickly ascended. After reaching a height of several dozen meters, he braced one hand against the edge of the city wall, leaped onto it, took out the gun mount, and began setting up the gun.

Teaming up with the big boss Flame Beast to hammer Wood, Zuiyas, and Water Brother was something Su Xiao had carefully considered. First, he was far enough away, and second, besides Wood, Zuiyas, and Water Brother, there was a large group of people fighting the big boss Flame Beast, only they were being suppressed.

Although it was difficult to eliminate Wood and Zuiyas in the current situation, these two "good teammates" had survivability that was nauseating.

With his thoughts clear, Su Xiao decided not to make a move yet and observe how strong the Flame Beast was.

Judging from the current battle situation, Su Xiao found that the Flame Beast's defeat was only a matter of time. Its Flame energy was about to be exhausted; perhaps in less than half an hour, the Flame Beast would be killed.

This, of course, wouldn't do. The big boss Flame Beast was now a temporary teammate and a reserve high-quality treasure chest. After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao on the city wall decided to send Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to cast auras on the Flame Beast.

"Xiang Bubu, go, cast auras on the Flame Beast."

"Woof?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog face was bewildered; this was the first time he had experienced casting auras on such a big boss.

Su Xiao sat beside the J-Demon Sniper Cannon. He felt that besides Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's auras, the big boss Flame Beast was still missing something—for example, the healing of a healing-type transcendent.

Looking around at the distant battlefield, Su Xiao soon saw a female transcendent with a holy aura and clothing resembling a nun. This must be a healing type. After confirming this, Su Xiao took 【Blood Feather】 out of his storage space. The Flame Beast now had a healer.

PS: (Two updates today. I updated too hard yesterday and strained my neck; my cervical spondylosis has slightly recurred.)