Chapter 3320

After paying 3000 Soul Coins, 【Inscription Base】 was obtained. Regarding Caesar's reward, Su Xiao initially planned to pay in Soul Coins, but Caesar was more interested in the Black Maple Tree branches.

Su Xiao obtained 4370 grams of Black Maple Tree branches produced by the Arcane Eternal Star this time. After some bargaining, he finally paid Caesar 370 grams. The remaining amount was rounded up to 4000 grams to be sold together. There were many buyers, and he hadn't decided who to sell to yet.

Caesar took the 370 grams of Black Maple Tree branches with a treacherous smile. This scene fell into the eyes of the Ahoge King. She weighed her assets. Except for a sword and necessary supplies, everything else was sold and exchanged for Soul Coins to improve her own abilities. In other words, her assets were very poor.

Why was the Ahoge King eroded by dark matter? The reason was that she needed Black Maple Tree branches. After going to the bottom of the Abyss Dragon, she didn't get the Black Maple Tree output and was eroded by dark matter.

The reward Caesar took this time was not low, but not particularly high either. This didn't fit his consistent style. Sure enough, just after taking the 370 grams of Black Maple Tree, Caesar revealed his true colors.

"My dear friend, Caesar hopes this transaction will continue."

"Continue?"

Although Su Xiao had already guessed what Caesar was going to say, he pretended to be confused.

"That's right, Caesar really needs the output of the Black Maple Tree. How about this, Bai Ye, is there anything you need? I'll help you think of a way. My channels here... are many."

This "many" at the end of Caesar's sentence sounded exceptionally treacherous and lewd.

"Can you get anything?"

"I dare not say that, but it's about the same, hehehe."

Caesar rubbed his hands. Hearing his words, Su Xiao did think of something he needed: 【Awakening Stone】.

The new "Shadow · Demon Blade" effect of Zhan Long Shan, which is continuous killing, requires the use of 【Awakening Stone】 to awaken it before it can be used normally.

"Awakening Stone, do you have a way?"

"What is it used for?"

"A rare consumable for awakening the Law-Extinguishing Blade ability."

"I'll ask around and give you a reply by tomorrow at the latest. We'll talk about the price then."

Caesar left after saying this. Su Xiao let Benny go to the Trading Street to stop listing the remaining Black Maple Tree branches. If Caesar could get the 【Awakening Stone】, it would be very profitable to exchange it for these 4000 grams of Black Maple Tree branches.

Regarding 【Awakening Stone】, Su Xiao had no way. He had asked the Black Merchant and the Shadow Chamber of Commerce. The Black Merchant had an item with the same name, which was used to awaken spirits in dust, not the kind of thing Su Xiao needed. The Shadow Chamber of Commerce had never heard of an item called 【Awakening Stone】.

Not to mention the channels in Su Xiao's hands, even the channels accumulated by Benny as Saint Flame Cat hadn't heard anything about 【Awakening Stone】.

Today, without Caesar mentioning it, Su Xiao had already prepared to bring this matter up with Caesar after this cooperation was completed. As a result, because Caesar wanted to get more Black Maple Tree branches, he brought it up himself.

"Xiang Bubu, Amu, let's go~"

Baha flew out of the Ahoge King's exclusive room. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang called Amu, who didn't understand the situation, to retreat.

"Let's start."

Su Xiao walked toward the treatment room, with the Ahoge King following closely behind. Before long, faint cries for help with sobbing could be heard from the treatment room. It can be said that the Ahoge King was stronger than before. Last time she cried and shouted, but this time she was much more honest.

Three hours later, Su Xiao walked out of the treatment room, carrying a metal tube 20 cm thick and nearly half a meter long. There was a glass structure on the tube wall, and one could see it was divided into more than a dozen pieces inside. This treatment obtained 3 portions of 【Dark Sediment】 and 8 portions of 【Dark Matter】.

The harvest was indeed good, but the intensity wasn't controlled well. Stripping 3 portions of 【Dark Sediment】 from the Ahoge King's body in a single session was indeed a bit too much, causing relatively large psychological trauma.

After leaving the Ahoge King's exclusive room, Su Xiao strolled around the trading market before returning to his own exclusive room.

【Inscription Base】 was obtained. Su Xiao had two Immortal-grade inscriptions, but the 【Inscription Base】 obtained was a three-slot one.

【Inscription Base】

Origin: Apocalypse Paradise

Type: Three-inscription slot base.

Main Inscription Slot: No inscription.

Sub-Inscription Slot: No inscription.

Sub-Inscription Slot: No inscription.

Inscription Effect: None (requires inserting an inscription piece to possess this characteristic)

Rating: 0 points

Introduction: Standard inscription base, lacking the charm bestowed by the craftsman.

Selling Price: 3600 Soul Coins.

Very clearly, this inscription base is average. Having it is better than not having it. Furthermore, given the scarcity of inscription bases, even the most average one would be snatched up by many people.

This inscription base can insert three inscriptions. Su Xiao currently has Dark and Sun inscriptions. Getting one more would fill it up. He sat on the sofa, poured himself a cup of maple leaf tea, and took a light sip. The taste was good.

Recently, he has been fond of drinking tea because the tea made from Black Maple Tree buds indeed has a unique taste. It tastes slightly bitter at the entrance, returns to sweetness after a while, and then it feels as if the heart and lungs have been moisturized by the tea. Even if mentally exhausted to the point of fainting, drinking half a cup of maple leaf tea slowly will alleviate it. After a sleep, he feels refreshed the next day without a splitting headache.

Every time Su Xiao interprets the Alchemy Secret Code, he relies on drinking maple leaf tea to avoid the splitting headache that occurs the next morning because his brain has accepted too much knowledge.

He previously gave some to the Leader and White Bull. On the way, a small bag was snatched by Saintess. With Saintess's character, she wouldn't drink tea; nine times out of ten, it was to honor the elders in her clan. No wonder those old immortals treat Saintess as the apple of their eye.

Su Xiao opened the auction platform and looked for inscriptions inside. Regarding the third inscription, Su Xiao didn't need its rating to be very high; the characteristic was more important.

The characteristics of the Dark Inscription and the Sun Inscription conflict. It is true that the higher the rating of an inscription, the stronger it is, but it depends more on the combination.

For example, getting a Flame Inscription + Ice Inscription—the effect obtained is definitely not "Ice-Fire Two Heavens," but "None," or extremely low fire resistance and ice resistance. The two conflict. If the inscription pieces don't shatter, it's a blessing from heaven.

But if it's Flame + Ice + Evaporation, it's a very strong "Steam Characteristic."

Su Xiao filtered, first choosing price sorting, then choosing special equipment, and finally entering inscription piece. A large row of listed inscriptions appeared before his eyes. The list had more than a dozen pages.

Are inscriptions not precious? No, it's that inscription bases are too hard to get, so Qiyuezhe from various paradises choose to sell them after obtaining inscription pieces. As the saying goes, "the child is valued by the father." The scarcity and high cost of inscription bases make the price of inscription pieces relatively high.

Su Xiao searched for a while, and an inscription caught his eye. This inscription was covered with sparks and was an Immortal-grade inscription with a 1007 rating.

【Burning Ash Inscription: The embers burning in the dark seem to be about to go out, but they have powerful strength.】

This inscription doesn't look excellent. The bottom-tier rating among Immortal-grade proves this, and the attributes are also a bit confusing.

For Su Xiao, this inscription is hard to come by. Compared to other inscriptions, this inscription is the cheapest, only 2700 Soul Coins. He bought it immediately.

Compared to Immortal-grade equipment with the same rating, this price is at least 800 Soul Coins more expensive. Su Xiao doesn't care about this, but whether 【Burning Ash Inscription】 can hold up. He plans to use 【Burning Ash Inscription】 as the main inscription in the middle, letting Dark and Sun be the two sub-inscriptions on the sides.

The Dark Inscription has a 1500++ rating, and the Sun Inscription has a 1500 rating. The Burning Ash Inscription, with only a 1007 rating, seems to be wailing: "Don't come over, I really can't take it, I will explode."

That's right, this is the problem Su Xiao is worried about. The characteristic of the Burning Ash Inscription is embers burning in the dark, which just happens to correspond to Dark and Sun, making it especially suitable as a main inscription, provided it doesn't explode.

Su Xiao took out the Dark and Sun inscriptions. Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang hurriedly jumped off the bed and woke up Benny, who was taking a nap, meaning: let Benny get up and see. The loud noise before wasn't caused by it; it was caused by five Immortal Souls colliding together. Don't blame it.

Understanding Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's meaning, Benny's "waking up anger" +80 points. It tried to calm its mood, thinking "don't be angry, don't be angry, continue sleeping."

Just as Benny lay on the carpet to sleep, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang immediately stepped on it, meaning: "Sleep my ass, you have to watch."

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Benny was confused. It felt Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was saying to it: "Why don't you hit me? If you don't hit me, you still want to sleep?"

"Woo meow meow!"

"Ow~! Wang?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was hit by cat claws again, came to Su Xiao's leg to complain to Su Xiao.

Su Xiao inserted the last inscription piece into the base. The next second, the three inscription pieces on the base all lit up. The left side was dark, the right side was sun, and the inscription in the middle was black-brown, with a texture as rough as rock, covered with cracks. Due to the influence of the Sun rune on the right, these cracks all turned into magma patterns.

The Burning Ash Inscription looked like it was about to explode and die for Su Xiao on the spot. A few minutes later, this inscription gradually stabilized. He checked the attributes of the inscription base.

【Inscription Base】

Main Inscription Slot: Burning Ash.

Sub-Inscription Slot: Dark.

Sub-Inscription Slot: Sun.

Inscription Effect: Ember Fire (Passive), when the base wearer is attacked and loses more than 20% of their max HP in a short time, Ember Fire will burn inside your body, significantly increasing your physical defense for the following 10 seconds (this physical defense will decrease according to the following values).

Prompt: Initially increases physical defense by 200%, and will decrease every second according to the following values: 200%→180%→150%→120%→100%→80%→60%→40%→20%→10%.

Prompt: This effect has no cooldown and can be triggered multiple times in a short time, but will not stack.

For Su Xiao, losing 20% of HP in a short time is both difficult and simple. Fighting conventional enemies, unless besieged, this situation won't occur. But if fighting a big boss like the Old Knight, it's another concept.

Previously, the Old Knight pierced Su Xiao's chest with a sword, causing his HP to drop by 56.7% on the spot.

When fighting strong enemies, every time he is attacked, there is a high probability of triggering the "Ember Fire (Passive)" effect. The decreasing physical defense added in the following 10 seconds can save his life.

There is one more point: Su Xiao prefers this kind of decreasing buff. That kind of buff that ends suddenly would suddenly "shake" him when fighting strong enemies. Fighting strong enemies, there is no time to care how long the buff ability can last. He doesn't have that mental energy; he must put all his attention on the enemy in front of him. A 0.5-second distraction could lead to death.

Su Xiao equipped the inscription base. He was very satisfied with this harvest. If his luck was good enough, in the situation of being injured by the enemy and losing more than 20% of HP, he would enter a near-death state, and then "Phase Three" would come.

In fact, Su Xiao's development direction is straight toward the big boss. The normal state is Blade Technique + Straight Kick + Blood Gun Shooting, which belongs to Phase One. If the enemy is very difficult and the battle reaches an intense stage, he will draw his gun, materialize "Blood Gun · Firm," one hand with a long blade, one hand with a blood gun.

When his HP is below 10%, he successfully enters Phase Three: Blood Gun Master near-death melee attack intensity bonus + Black King Armguard near-death immunity + team skill life-saving + Rune Base · Ember Fire + left hand blood gun + right hand long blade.

Su Xiao took out a ring, which was 【Old Killing Ring】. Regarding this ring, he had a hypothesis.

"Equipment Effect 2: Weakness Slaughter (Passive), when attacking enemies from a distance, it will trigger Hills' soul power to continuously bless the long-range attack (blessing bullets, arrows, etc.).

Prompt: If the long-range attack hits the enemy's vital point, the vital damage caused will increase by 4.72–6.32 times (depending on the chosen vital point position; head vital point is the highest priority, followed by neck, heart, etc.)."

Su Xiao previously discovered that using a sniper cannon actually couldn't use this ring. The recoil of the sniper cannon was too large, and it was easy to shatter this ring.

Having mastered Blood Gun Master, Su Xiao had a hypothesis: could he create an ability similar to "Susanoo" from the Naruto world by manipulating blood energy, and then order a super-large bow from Reid, let the tall blood energy phantom behind him draw the bow, and shoot a blood gun like an arrow?

When using this ability, Su Xiao himself would not be impacted. He really wanted to know if 【Old Killing Ring】 could take effect on this ability, thereby shooting and killing enemies from about 1-2 kilometers away.

The positioning aspect is absolutely no problem. At that time, let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who is integrated into the environment, go nearby to act as a coordinate, using Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang as coordinate A to lock the position of coordinate B. In this way, it's like having wall-hacks, shooting and exploding with one blood gun.

This made Su Xiao want to strengthen 【Old Killing Ring】. He had tried it before. Strengthening this Holy Spirit-grade equipment is the same as strengthening Immortal-grade accessories, which is paying Soul Coins to strengthen. In fact, except for strengthening Immortal-grade weapons, strengthening other Immortal-grade equipment is not particularly expensive.

Keeping the development of this ability in mind, Su Xiao prepared to fulfill a previous promise. He took the 【Book of Doors】 and tore off a page of "Tree-Born Leaf."

When fighting the blood energy monster in the desert, at the beginning of the battle, the Lush Madness helped to severely damage the six-body blood energy monster, and then waited for Su Xiao to finish fighting the blood energy monster before the Lush Madness took action and clashed with the Abyss Jar.

If the Lush Madness had taken action directly to clash with the Abyss Jar, Su Xiao would have died, and he wouldn't have had time to catch Morey and escape with the opponent's life-saving prop.

This is a favor, and a favor must be repaid. Su Xiao took out a very small piece of tree root and, without touching it, placed the tree root on the "Tree-Born Leaf."

Half a minute later, this tree root began to grow, swallowing the "Tree-Born Leaf." The Lush Madness arrived. Because of the Reincarnation Paradise's notarization, the Lush Madness could not appear directly.

Emotions seemingly from ancient times appeared—it was confusion. The Lush Madness was confused why Su Xiao gave it a "Tree-Born Leaf" for nothing. For all Void alien existences, this is a rare item, not to mention that the main body of the Lush Madness is like a large mass of tangled tree roots, and the effect of the "Tree-Born Leaf" on it soared.

A stream of blood energy was released from Su Xiao's hand, forming the appearance of a blood energy monster. Seeing this, the fluctuations of the Lush Madness subsided, and it accepted the "Tree-Born Leaf."

Since the Lush Madness had come and there were five pages of "Tree-Born Leaf" left, he would trade with the Lush Madness once. It just happened that he hadn't traded with this alien existence for a long time, and by the way, he would ask for some of the opponent's tree roots.

Su Xiao took out another "Tree-Born Leaf." Several tree roots of the Lush Madness spread from above, gradually devouring the "Tree-Born Leaf."

A black pottery shard fell from above and landed on the wooden coffee table with a plop. This was the trade item brought out by the Lush Madness.

The more Su Xiao looked at this black pottery shard, the more familiar it looked. This thing... it looks like Wood's wild father, no, this is it!