Chapter 3417: Gold Coins (Revised)

The fighting in the Steel City subsided, and key locations such as the city walls and artillery towers were all occupied by our forces.

There were quite a few corpses of both sides within the city, but these were not difficult to deal with; the enemy corpses had been burned to a near-crisp, and it would suffice to dig a pit near the Steel City and bury them.

As for the corpses of our own Wild Boar Warriors and War Boar mounts, there was no need to handle them too much. They all contained the Power of the Sun within them. As long as they were placed in a location exposed to direct sunlight, after about 3 to 5 hours, their remains would turn into a mixture resembling ash and sparks due to the Power of the Sun within them, drifting upward into the sky.

In the eyes of the Wild Boar Warriors and Dwarf Boar-men, this was a very sacred event and the ending they were most willing to accept.

Do not think that the Wild Boar Warriors and Dwarf Boar-men were a group of fanatics who only knew how to believe in the sun; sun worship was not such a simple thing.

Regarding the origin of sun worship, one must, of course, mention the Sun God Clan. In this system, they established the most brilliant civilization.

The Sun God Clan and the Ancient Dragon faction were enemies for generations, and both sides were evenly matched in terms of strength, resource foundations, and cultural heritage.

For example, the final battlefield of the two sides, "Ancient Dragon Kingdom: Eboasi"—if that world were notarized by the Paradise, Su Xiao estimated it would be a world in the peak tier of the Ninth Tier.

From this, one can imagine what kind of glory the civilizations of the sun and the ancient dragons once had.

The sun worship that Su Xiao allowed the Wild Boar Warriors and Dwarf Boar-men to obtain was inherited from the Sun God Clan.

Although the Boar-men did not have their own civilization, they inherited the cultural foundation of the sun system. This was also why the Wild Boar Warriors and Dwarf Boar-men were able to develop subjective consciousness in a short time and understand how to stand up and resist, because they had seen a larger world.

It was precisely because of this that the Dwarf Boar-men were able to build some structures different from the style of this world; these were scenes they had vaguely seen while undergoing metamorphosis within the Evolution Nest.

Those ingenious buildings, magnificent sculptures, and spiral ladders that seemed to climb to the sky—these scenes were things they could never forget.

Therefore, Su Xiao never worried about the expansion of the Sun Fortress. He was actually not interested in building a faction; creating the Sun Legion was a means to defeat the enemy.

Although Su Xiao had no interest in developing a faction, he was very interested in getting more Boar-men to believe in the sun, as this involved his profits; the Power of the Sun was very precious.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao had a feeling that gods tricking so many people into believing in them was actually no different in essence from what he was doing; both were for the sake of obtaining the Power of Faith. Not to mention anything else, this was truly a good thing.

Sitting on the roof of a small building by the street, Su Xiao looked at the Kin female officer diagonally below.

"Your name?"

"Wen Na."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na spoke; wearing an officer's uniform, she had a unique temperament.

"Do you have any faith?"

Su Xiao's tone was much kinder. Hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na frowned slightly and said:

"We Kin do not believe in gods."

"That is not a good habit. Why don't you believe in the sun?"

Su Xiao pointed to the sun in the sky.

"Okay."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na immediately complied. She was not a fool; after being captured, of course, she would comply with what the enemy said.

"Hey, you."

Su Xiao casually called over a Wild Boar Cavalryman. This cavalryman urged his mount forward with a solemn face and lowered his head to Su Xiao to show respect.

Seeing this Wild Boar Knight approach, Su Xiao pointed to Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na and said, "Teach her to praise the sun."

"Yes."

The Wild Boar Knight made the posture of raising both arms to embrace the sun. Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na was a bit stunned, but she immediately learned to do it as well.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao was fairly satisfied. He sensed the "Sun Ring" in his hand. After more than ten seconds, his brows furrowed. The "Sun Ring" did not receive any Power of Faith from Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na. Su Xiao did not care at all whether the other party was pious or not, but not being able to contribute Power of Faith would not do.

"Be more pious."

"Huh?"

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na, maintaining the praise-the-sun posture, was very confused. She really wanted to say that a forced melon is not sweet, but due to the safety of her life, she could only start imagining how pious she was in believing in the sun.

Subtle fluctuations appeared from the "Sun Ring" in Su Xiao's hand. A very weak Power of Faith entered it; its quantity, even if accumulated for ten years, would not equal the Power of the Sun contributed by one Wild Boar Knight in a single day.

A forced melon is indeed not sweet, but it can quench thirst. Besides, Su Xiao was not looking to eat it; he was just purely seeing if it could be twisted off.

"How far into the future can you see? Is it a directional line, a branch line? Or is it a premonition?"

Su Xiao was very interested in Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na. The directional line he spoke of was similar to *Final Destination*, where the protagonist could directly see the scene of their own death.

As for the branch line, it was seeing countless possibilities, thereby choosing a correct course of action among them.

It would be a lie to say Su Xiao was not envious of this regret-medicine-like ability. He had never counted on himself having Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's ability.

Everyone's energy is limited; if one were proficient in everything, one would end up being a jack-of-all-trades. But just because he did not choose to master it did not mean he could not covet such an ability.

Su Xiao was stationed in the Evil faction, dealing with all kinds of monsters and demons. Wood and Zui Yasi from the previous world, Kingsley from the world before that, as well as the Kodo School from even further back, the Priest from Magic Spirit Star, etc. —they all seemed to have cooperated, but were these people really easy to get along with?

The answer was, absolutely not. First, take Wood and Zui Yasi: one represented the Devil race, bringing out a terrifying thing like the Abyss Jar and getting rid of its entanglement.

The other was sent by the Underworld God with the participation qualification for the Fallen Star; he himself was an Ancient God-type ability user, his wife was an Ancient God believer, his mother-in-law was an agent of the Ancient God, and his father-in-law was an Ancient God scholar.

And Kingsley—although he seemed to have cooperated fully with Su Xiao in the end, joining forces inside and out to defeat the Supreme Insect, one must never think that Kingsley was a great, upright, and righteous person.

This guy had trained the Son of the World of that world into his own son, and there was also the man-made Son of the World, the white-haired youth, and before that, he had plotted to obtain the dangerous item, the Black Emperor, etc. There were too many such things.

Why were these people willing to cooperate with Su Xiao? First, Su Xiao's strength was high; second, they were all wary of Su Xiao. Only when both sides were at the same level was cooperation possible.

As the saying goes, if you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet? Su Xiao's current idea was whether he could seize a portion of precognition from Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na.

For example, letting Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's ability infect a gold coin, thereby allowing this gold coin to have a certain degree of detection of good or bad fortune.

For instance, tossing it to the front would mean the situation was still okay, while tossing it to the back would mean the trip was dangerous and might even result in death.

Having a bottom line in one's heart versus having a blank path ahead were two completely different feelings. Thinking of this, Su Xiao took an item out of his storage space. This item was:

【Fate Gold Ingot】

Origin: fatestaynight

Quality: Special

Type: Material Consumable Currency.

Usage Effect: If this item is used directly, Luck attribute is temporarily increased by 3 points, effect lasts for 5 natural days.

Rating: None

Introduction: Dropped from a treasure chest after killing a Son of the World; there is a certain probability of obtaining this item after opening.

Su Xiao gently stroked the square gold ingot in his hand with his thumb and looked at Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na again. An idea emerged in his heart. He took a bottle of potion out of his storage space, tossed it to Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na, and said:

"Drink it."

"Is this... poison?"

After Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na took the potion, she pulled out the cork without much hesitation.

"It is not. This is something I concocted using the power of faith; it can give you a firmer will."

"Heh~"

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na smiled noncommittally and drank the potion. She did not believe a single punctuation mark of Su Xiao's words.

As the potion entered her abdomen, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na immediately felt comfortable in her body, as if she had drunk warm water, but the heat of that warm water lingered and gradually spread to her whole body. This feeling was like soaking in a hot spring; every pore was relaxed, and her body was warm—it was incredibly comfortable.

A few minutes later, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na broke free from this comfortable feeling. After she opened her eyes, she found that the world seemed different. The fear and worry in her heart due to being captured had faded by more than half. She now had a feeling that even if ten thousand enemies were in front of her, she would not be afraid. This willpower, which seemed to require years of bitter cultivation to improve, made her feel pleasantly surprised.

"Even if you bribe me like this, I will not betray the Alliance, but... thank you for the solicitation."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's tone softened a lot. Hearing this, Su Xiao said nothing. Was he soliciting Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na? Of course not. In the process of implementing his previous idea, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's experience would not be very good. If the other party could not hold up on the spiritual level, the manufacture of the 【Fate Gold Coin】 would come to nothing.

"I will trouble you later, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na felt a chill in her heart. She found that the enemy was too friendly to her, which made her inexplicably start to panic.

Su Xiao walked toward the control room of the Steel City, which was located in the central tunnel.

Half an hour later, a giant metal door in front of Su Xiao slowly opened. This was a building over ten meters high; the outer wall was a gray-black metal layer, and there were no rooms inside, but a large number of metal veins and pipelines were distributed throughout.

This was the core of the Steel City, or rather, the Steel Fortress. Su Xiao stopped in front of a giant metal heart over seven meters high that was beating rhythmically, and pressed one hand onto it.

The fortress was a living thing, but its consciousness was very vague and lacked subjective thought. What Su Xiao needed to do now was to let the Steel Fortress repair the four sides of the steel city walls by consuming the spare metal reserves.

The orientation of the main gate of the Steel City needed to be changed. It was currently facing the Border Area; the modified orientation would have the main city wall aimed at the Kin side.

When the sky darkened, the appearance of the Steel City had taken on a new look. The surrounding black-brown steel city walls were repaired, and the buildings inside the city were arranged in an orderly manner. These buildings were not entirely metal; the outer walls were more like a kind of rock-textured regenerative material.

Walking out of the general control room, Su Xiao ordered Hausman to move the Dwarf Boar-men, female Boar-men, etc., from the source base camp over to move into the Steel City; there were even ready-made residences here.

Our side had 130,000 Dwarf Boar-men, so subsequent detailed construction and the like would not be a problem. Compared to living in the mountain space, the living environment of the Steel City was simply improved by four or five grades.

Because the original site of the base camp was not far from the Steel City, the city gradually became lively around eight or nine o'clock in the evening, especially when Head Chef Lady Motie announced that dinner was served at ten o'clock, making the scene even more lively.

Inside a two-story building that looked very inconspicuous—it was not that Su Xiao wanted to pursue simplicity, but living in a building that was too luxurious could result in being bombarded by long-range heavy artillery weapons.

The candlelight in the living room emitted light. The reason for not turning on the lights was to avoid affecting the ritual.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na, without a stitch of clothing, lay on a square platform formed by the intertwining of black metal tree trunks. She was covered with a snow-white blanket, and two tear tracks flowed down both sides of her eye corners, disappearing into her beautiful hair.

"You... will not... die a good death."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na shifted her gaze; turning her eyeballs and speaking vaguely was the only thing she could do now.

"Let's make a deal. If you can persist until the end, I will let you leave."

Su Xiao sat on a recliner to the side, holding an alchemy textbook in his hand. In terms of manufacturing artifacts, he was not particularly skilled, differing greatly from pharmacy and bomb studies.

"I will not believe you again."

The tearful Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na stubbornly turned her head away. In fact, she had not suffered any physical pain or humiliation; she had just been 'dying' the whole time.

From the afternoon until now, after she lay on this sleeping platform formed by the intertwining of metal tree roots, her precognition ability had gone out of control. She began to constantly foresee her own death, such as being smashed to death by a heavy hammer, being beheaded by a blade, falling to her death from a height of ten thousand meters...

Actually, saying that Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na had not suffered any physical harm was not accurate; her chest had been sliced open once.

Under her own gaze, Su Xiao pulled her heart out a little, transplanted a gold coin into her heart, and finally helped her heal. What made Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na not know whether to be angry or grateful was that the scar on her chest had been removed as well.

Since then, she had persisted until now in her precognition with various ways of dying. At this moment, she could not even distinguish whether this was reality or precognition.

"Maintain yourself, persist until 12 o'clock tonight."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na had excitement in her eyes that could not be concealed. She asked weakly, "After 12 o'clock, will all this end?"

"No, after 12 o'clock, you will be used to it."

"You..."

Suddenly, the book in Su Xiao's hand turned into thousands of pages, slicing Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na to pieces; blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's eyes opened suddenly, gasping for breath. Everything just now was her precognition. She turned her head to look and saw Su Xiao sitting on the recliner to the side, holding a book in his hand.

"Foresaw me again? How did I kill you this time?"

Su Xiao put down the book in his hand.

"Book."

After Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na responded, she turned her head away. The next second, she saw a giant standing outside the window, a giant with a dog's head.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na turned her head again; everywhere she looked was full of 'Blue Smurfs'. She sighed; this feeling was so similar to the scene when she was poisoned by eating poisonous mushrooms in her childhood.

In reality, Su Xiao was leaning on the recliner, and Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na to the side was in a deep sleep, snoring evenly. A golden faint light shone from her chest; the 【Fate Gold Coin】 was gaining spirituality.

This was an unexpected gain. Although Su Xiao was not sure if it could succeed, even if there was a 30% chance, it was worth a try.

At present, the war situation between our side and the Kin side was a great advantage for us; after all, we had been holding back such a big move for so long.

At the current stage, the border forces of the Kin side had been beaten back by our side. The current situation was that because the capital of the Sentry Tower, "Freedom City," was too close to the border, the next defensive point where the Kin side would concentrate their forces must be Freedom City.

Tomorrow morning, Su Xiao planned to attack Freedom City, and further behind was "Loyash," the city of the Judgment Office. The defensive strength there was much stronger than expected. Fortunately, the 20,000 light cavalry sent out before had retreated immediately after seeing that the situation was not good.

This was also the most helpless point for the Kin side; Su Xiao's side was all cavalry, and Su Xiao himself, the only one who was not cavalry, had also temporarily transferred to become a Dragon Rider.

Su Xiao wanted to attack the Kin, but he could not just rush forward; he had to press the border steadily. First, break through the capital of the Sentry Tower, "Freedom City," then the Judgment Office's "Loyash," and then the base camp of the Kin Alliance, "Kevab Ring City."

Reaching "Kevab Ring City" would be equivalent to occupying two-thirds of the Kin's territory, but this could not help him obtain 【Dark Mist】.

If the situation developed to that extent and the Kin were beaten down, the Humans located behind them would also be terrified and would not feel the slightest joy because the Kin were suffering, because a more terrifying enemy had appeared.

By then, Su Xiao could coerce the Kin and Humans to dig three feet into the ground in the territory they occupied.

Do not forget that the Void Tree was currently sealing this continent, and all participants could not leave. In such a situation, coupled with the hostility of the Humans and Kin, and Su Xiao being able to sense the location of 【Dark Mist】 through the half of the World Core in his hand.

If the Golden Count was in our territory, the Sun Legion would go to intercept him. If the other party was in the remaining territory of the Kin and Humans, Su Xiao would force the Kin and Humans to go to intercept him.

If he was in the territory of the Beast race, the Beast race had almost been beaten to their knees by Su Xiao before, calling him daddy. As long as Su Xiao applied pressure, those intelligent alienated beasts would definitely surround and block the Golden Count with red eyes.

Besides this, by then, the Sun Legion under Su Xiao's command, entering whichever side's territory, as long as they did not engage in provocation, aggression, etc., that side would definitely pretend not to see them.

This meant that by then, Su Xiao could lead hundreds of thousands of Wild Boar Knights to surround the Golden Count; just thinking about this situation was desperate.

This was Su Xiao's way of dealing with the Golden Count. Since the other party could carry a group of pits, he would make it so that the other party had nowhere to live. On the entire continent, even the beasts would become their enemies.

Su Xiao tested the remaining notarization time of this Void Tree through some methods that did not conform to the rules; this time was 7 days.

The Golden Count's side knew that they had no chance of winning, but that brother had a lot of backbone and was not prepared to admit defeat just like that. Instead, he wanted to continue dragging it out; he wanted to stubbornly withstand the punishment and help the Apocalypse Paradise win back this world.

This world had previously been notarized by the Apocalypse Paradise. If a draw were reached now, even if Su Xiao had half a World Core in his hand, the final result would be that the Apocalypse Paradise and the Samsara Paradise would each occupy half of the area of this world, and then wait for the next World Contention to proceed.

Retaining half was better than having it all taken away. In fact, the Apocalypse Paradise's wealth in resources was also because there were people like the Golden Count that they were so wealthy.

No matter how many miners there were, without a world to mine, it was meaningless.

As for the type like Morey, letting her fight in a World Contention or become a leader—she was a muggle. But letting her hunt down rule-breakers, she was incredibly serious.

The Moon Apostle was another kind of talent. If she could survive and develop, she would be a phantom god in team battles, a super thigh for the contractors of the Apocalypse Paradise. If she were caught halfway, she would run away on the spot + become autistic.

Although the seven-day time limit was limited, Su Xiao did not rashly advance. Without a stable rear, rashly advancing forward would definitely not have a good result.

Moreover, this seven-day time limit was not fixed. In the Void Tree's balance mechanism, the Golden Count's side deliberately hiding and delaying the battle was a representative behavior of a leader, representing that the entire Apocalypse Paradise side was delaying the battle.

This caused one point: under the notarization of the Void Tree, every time Su Xiao's side won a historical-level victory, the notarization time of the Void Tree for this contention would have a certain increase.

One side was delaying the battle, while the other side was actively advancing the progress of the World Contention. One can imagine how the Void Tree would notarize it.

Originally, the notarization of this World Contention would end in 5 days. After Su Xiao captured the Steel City, this time became 7 days.

There was good news: the Sun Citizen in Su Xiao's plan was feasible. After the Dwarf Boar-men and female Boar-men arrived at the Steel City before, Su Xiao opened the Sun Fortress and let all the female Boar-men enter the "Evolution Nest" to metamorphose.

The result was that the mortality rate was extremely low, though not zero, and the consumption and time spent were more ideal than expected.

A female Boar-man transforming into a Sun Citizen was not to give her power, but to let her body have a small amount of the Power of the Sun; 50-plus points were enough. In this way, she could resonate with sun worship.

The 160,000 female Boar-men who were previously responsible for various logistics had all transformed into Sun Citizens. Their appearance had changed to a certain extent, and they began to contribute the Power of the Sun.

There was one more thing: the situation in our fortress before was that the attitude of the Wild Boar Warriors toward the female Boar-men, although not cold, had lost the attraction between female and male.

But after the female Boar-men transformed into Sun Citizens, it really made the group of bachelor Wild Boar Warriors crave them, and they began to attract each other again.

These Sun Citizens—the Power of Faith produced by about 2 to 3 of them combined was equivalent to one Wild Boar Knight. From this point, it could be seen that the production of the Power of Faith, although related to strength, was more dependent on whether they were pious or not.

Su Xiao could not develop millions of Wild Boar Knights; that was a fantasy. But he could definitely develop millions, or even more, Sun Citizens.

Having warriors alone was not enough; one had to use a huge population base. Only in this way would the enemy faction fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Thinking to this point, Su Xiao pointed his finger at Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's forehead. After confirming that there was no problem, he picked up the communicator to the side and dialed a frequency that was frequently connected recently.

After the call was connected, the other side was silent.

"He Kendiwei, there was a little accident today."

"What accident."

He Kendiwei's voice was low; it could be heard that his mood was not very good.

"Originally, I planned to attack the Humans. When crossing the border, I was stopped by the garrison of your Steel Fortress. As a result, you also saw that a large-scale brawl broke out between our two sides, and my people, by accident, beat away the garrison of the Steel Fortress."

Su Xiao's words made He Kendiwei on the opposite side silent.

He Kendiwei's thought was: not to mention that the melee of hundreds of thousands of people was not called a brawl, but that sentence 'my people, by accident, beat away the garrison of the Steel Fortress'—is this human language?

"Bai Ye, do you mean that everything today was a misunderstanding?"

"You can understand it that way. Your army's quality needs improvement."

"You this..."

He Kendiwei almost spat out hometown slang.

"Bai Ye, since you say this is a misunderstanding, shouldn't you withdraw from the Steel City?"

"Well, logically speaking, that is so, but I didn't expect the Kin's troops to be so weak, so I decided not to fight the Humans and changed to beating you instead."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, He Kendiwei on the opposite side held a breath in his chest.

"You contacted me tonight? Just to stimulate my blood pressure?"

"Of course not. I originally had 140,000 Kin soldiers in my hand. After I ordered the slaughter of 70,000, there were 70,000 left. Let us discuss the problem of these 70,000 Kin soldiers."

"You slaughtered 70,000 captured Kin soldiers? Bai Ye, is this something that has already happened, or are you preparing to do so?"

He Kendiwei's voice was cold to the extreme.

"It is in progress. I heard that your people used the factory's meat grinder to grind more than 70,000 Boar-men tonight to appease public anger. This is a return gift for you."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, He Kendiwei's momentum choked, and he said slowly:

"That was something done by people below; why vent your anger on those soldiers."

"He Kendiwei, have you been to the grasslands in the thirsty season? In the thirsty season, even beasts will not forage near water sources, except for crocodiles. He Kendiwei, are you a crocodile?"

"No."

"That's good. Since you are not a crocodile, there are rules to talk about, right."

"Right."

"After the city is captured, do you hope to see captured civilians in the city, or corpses piled up like mountains?"

"Civilians."

"Very good. Then let's talk business. How many Boar-men can the 70,000 Kin soldiers I captured be exchanged for?"

"Can it not be 140,000?"

When He Kendiwei said this, he sighed.

"It could during the day, but now, no."

"Understood. I will deal with the group of officials who presided over the grinding of Boar-men today."

This was He Kendiwei's compromise, and he could not afford not to compromise. Su Xiao's methods were more decisive than the Kin side had expected.

"Oh? Is that so? Then the captured Kin soldiers on my side might increase to 80,000."

"I will urgently introduce a law that Boar-men must not be killed, and killers will be treated as murderers."

"Congratulations, the captured Kin soldiers on my side have increased to 100,000."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, He Kendiwei still wanted to propose some conditions to save more Kin soldiers. He Kendiwei was different from politicians; he was the Marshal of the Alliance and had deeper feelings for the various troops under his command.

"No need to say more; the rest are already gone."

"If I had contacted you actively earlier, sigh... forget it. Bai Ye, I, Gladstone He Kendiwei, will do my best to take your head to comfort the heroic spirits of those warriors."

"Then you work hard."

"Okay."

Su Xiao and He Kendiwei hung up the communication almost at the same time.

The reason Su Xiao executed a large number of captives was to prevent the Kin side from killing all the Boar-men, thereby cutting off our source of troops and the source of Sun Citizens.

This was something Su Xiao absolutely would not allow to happen, as it affected his fundamental income of whether he could obtain a large amount of Power of Faith.

If He Kendiwei's side had not softened their attitude just now, not a single captive in Su Xiao's hand would have remained, and he would have found a way to throw an 【Apollo: Rage of the Sun】 at "Kevab Ring City" to let them know what true ferocity was.

Facing an enemy with a tough attitude, one must be more savage than them, killing until they are afraid. Otherwise, kindness to the enemy will be our own nightmare.

After dealing with the urgent matters, Su Xiao leaned on the recliner, his ears filled with the snoring of Bubu Wang to the side.

Checking the prompt records, what puzzled Su Xiao was that the Title Shop that the Void Tree had prompted to open had not had any movement until now.

Su Xiao had discovered that the best choice for reaping benefits was to continuously attack the Kin. As the overlord of this world, attacking them could yield benefits.

For example, after breaking through the border and taking the Steel City before, Su Xiao obtained a total of four types of benefits: 【Victory Badge x3】, 【Adventure Group Honor Certificate】, and the exchange permission for the Title Shop being raised to Lv. 7, etc.

Regarding the failure to open the exchange permission for an Eight-Star Title, Su Xiao did not feel regret at all; instead, he felt he was lucky.

He estimated that with the number of Soul Coins he held, whether he could afford an Eight-Star Title was really uncertain.

No, there was a more than 90% probability that he could not afford it.

The most annoying thing in this world is nothing more than being able to see it but not being able to afford it. After finally obtaining the Lv. 8 exchange permission, it turned out that the Soul Coins were not enough. Just thinking about that situation made one's mood not very beautiful.

Just as Su Xiao was thinking this, the Void Tree's prompt appeared.

【Prompt (Void Tree): Because your exchange level has been raised to Lv. 7, the Title Shop is about to open for you personally for 5 minutes.】

【Prompt (Void Tree): When you exchange for your first Seven-Star Title, the price will be reduced by 99%. This reward is consumed after one discounted exchange is completed.】

【Title Shop has opened; you can exchange for the following titles.】

1. Abyss Walker (Seven-Star Title).

Price: 11,300 Soul Coins (Discounted price is 113 Soul Coins).

Stock: 1.

2. Soul of Scorching Fire (Seven-Star Title).

Price: 12,700 Soul Coins (Discounted price is 127 Soul Coins).

Stock: 1.

3. Holy Communion (Seven-Star Title)

Price: 13,900 Soul Coins (Discounted price is 139 Soul Coins).

Stock: 1.

The prices of the 3 Seven-Star Titles were all over 10,000 Soul Coins. Su Xiao could only choose one. Although titles were good things, he could not dump all his resources into them; other abilities also needed to be improved, and a bunch of passive abilities were still waiting to be fed, especially the "Technique Sublimation" ability.

Every time he improved this ability, Su Xiao clearly realized why technique-type users were all universally poor.

Want to see a passive ability that costs 6,000 Soul Coins to improve by 1 level? Join the technique-type. By the later stage, one has to master several such technique-type abilities.

There is no such thing as groundless strength; how many people can see the bitterness and payment behind it? Those unsolvable abilities, when they were at a low level, were so trashy that they made people confused. It was because of gradual accumulation that those abilities appeared unsolvable.

Among the three major poverties of the Samsara Paradise, the technique-type is expensive in individual abilities, the undead-type is expensive in resources required to improve abilities, and the mage-type is expensive in the number of abilities to improve. Every time a mage improves a magic-type passive ability, it's like picking a concubine.

【Abyss Walker】, 【Soul of Scorching Fire】, 【Holy Communion】—although there was no specific data, just looking at the names, Su Xiao knew that among these three titles, there was a high probability that none could improve his combat power.

Under normal circumstances, one must exchange for one. Su Xiao would definitely exchange for 【Abyss Walker】. But now that there was a 99% price discount, of course, he would choose the most expensive one. Even if he could not use it, the special energy contained in the title would be more, which would be more useful when refining titles.

【You have paid 139 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained Holy Communion (★★★★★★★ Title).】

Exchanging for a Seven-Star Title with a "huge sum" of 139 Soul Coins was an excellent experience. Su Xiao checked the attributes of the 【Holy Communion】 title.

【Holy Communion (Resin-sealed)】

Origin: Void Tree

Quality: ★★★★★★★

Category: Title (Unavailable state)

Title Effect: Reverse Positive Eating (Passive), can select 1 Three-Star to Six-Star title to let this title devour it. There are two results of devouring.

1. This title completes the devouring, meaning this title has no changes.

2. This title is counter-devoured; the new title that devoured this title will inherit the star level of this title.

Prompt: If this title continuously devours more than 3 titles (the devoured titles must not be lower than Four-Star), this title will enter a period of "Satiety State." In the "Satiety State," this title is more easily counter-devoured.

Introduction: A precious title sealed by resin. After peeling off the resin on the surface, this title will be activated, but it will also be converted into a non-tradable state.

Selling Price: Free trading state.

Seeing the attributes of the 【Holy Communion】 title, Su Xiao immediately thought of 【Dream Chaser】, but 【Holy Communion】 was much more ferocious than 【Dream Chaser】.

This title not only had special effects but was also tradable. This was the first time Su Xiao had seen a tradable title. He thought the resin on it must be very precious, so he had to be careful when peeling it off and try to preserve it.

Closing the title list, Su Xiao checked Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's situation again; it was still stable.

In meditation, time passed quickly. In the early morning, the Steel City became lively. With this city, the Dwarf Boar-men merchants were excited beyond measure last night. This morning, before dawn, various small shops were opened, among which taverns were the most numerous; the Wild Boar Knights loved to drink the most.

Su Xiao asked Bahar to notify Hausman to assemble the troops; today's target was Freedom City, which was a tough nut to crack.

An hour later, the Sun Legion left the city one after another. Su Xiao stood on the city wall and looked into the distance for a while, then jumped down from the city wall. The Storm Pterosaur that swept past just happened to carry Su Xiao.

Standing on the dragon's back, the wind whistled past Su Xiao's ears. His right hand gripped the air, and a Dragon Riding Spear condensed in his hand. This was a melee Blood Spear. Because it was mixed with the dust-state Exile inside, as well as the high condensation of the Blood Spear, this Dragon Riding Spear had a metallic texture.

The Golden Thunder Stone appeared in Su Xiao's hand, and the 【Thunder Spirit】 used to induce World Thunder clung to the sleeve of his right arm.

Freedom City was not easy to attack, so Su Xiao prepared to test the effect of the 【Thunder Stone】 in this battle, as well as the power of World Thunder in the Dragon Riding state.

Samsara Paradise ===== CHAPTER 3418 =====