Chapter 3440: An Unprecedented Pie Falling from the Sky

In the Dark Domain, inside the shrine at the innermost part of the small town.

Bones were piled into a slope against the wall. These bones had a peculiar structure: multiple skulls were squeezed together, the neck bones were short and thick, and the ribs further down were thin but dense, totaling three layers, fused together. The limbs were shaped more like four sets of running beasts.

It is worth noting that these bones all had traces of bone cracks or comminuted fractures. They must have originally had flesh and blood, only it had been scraped away, and the organs within the ribs had already turned black and shriveled.

Seeming to sense Su Xiao's arrival, the Light-Bearer sitting before the long table in the back ceased his prayer.

Perhaps aware of how formidable his image was, and how it didn't fit the first impression a Light-Bearer gives, he had a small mustache on his chin and wore glasses with decorative chains hanging from them.

Unfortunately, these disguising accessories appeared exceptionally helpless after being stretched tight by his pectoral and bicep muscles under his clerical robe.

"New resident, welcome to 'Dawn Town'. Darkness will always pass, and dawn will eventually arrive."

The Light-Bearer smiled kindly, but just then, a slightly burnt fragrance drifted out from the small wooden door in the back.

"My name is Anderson, the Light-Bearer of 'Dawn Town'. These are the candlestick and tallow candle; keep them well. If you encounter any trouble in the town, you can come find me."

The Light-Bearer Anderson handed over an old copper candlestick and a candle that was white with black undertones.

"Have you chosen your residence..."

Before Anderson could finish his sentence, the wooden door leading to the back room made a *bang-bang* sound; something inside was lightly bumping against the door.

"It's the pet I keep. It might be hungry. Wait a moment, I'll go handle it."

Anderson stood up and walked toward the back room. After he stood up, his 2.7-meter height was full of oppression.

As soon as Anderson opened the door, a pitch-black claw reached out from the door crack, groping left and right. This black claw gave off a very strong sense of evil, filth, and distortion. Undoubtedly, this thing was not to be trifled with. However, judging by the groping motion of the black claw, it was currently filled with panic.

Anderson calmly used his size-67 foot to push the black claw back in. Seeming worried that Su Xiao might suspect something, he explained, "It seems it really is starving."

A few minutes later, after Anderson finished handling it, he walked out from the wooden door. He was carrying a tray with several large pieces of hard bread and some dried fruit.

Dawn Town was not a place rich in resources, but the residents here wouldn't starve to death even if they didn't eat.

Anderson sat on the floor, placed the tray between himself and Su Xiao, and made a gesture of invitation.

Su Xiao picked up a piece of toasted bread but didn't eat it. He judged that the age of this toasted bread was likely older than he was; it hadn't decayed only because of the special environment of Dawn Town.

Su Xiao took out some food from his storage space. Anderson still just ate the expired toasted bread in his hand. He warned:

"Eat these abundant rations as quickly as possible, then forget their taste. This can reduce the pain of missing them during the long time ahead."

Anderson spoke; as the only Light-Bearer in the town, he was also unable to leave the Dark Domain.

Rather than calling this the Dark Domain, Su Xiao felt it was more like a place of exile, where those dangerous, unstable existences were exiled to this place.

This was not Su Xiao's random speculation; do not forget, the only entrance and exit to the Dark Domain was under the Queen's bed, guarded by her personally.

Among the three dark residents encountered earlier, two gave off a dangerous feeling. Pig Brother was intense savagery and ferocity, like a mouth that could swallow the world, while the Imitation Man was eerie—eerie to the point of purity.

The last one, Aria, who was also the Queen's sister, was likely here because she had nowhere else to go, or perhaps she was an eye the Queen had left here.

Thinking about it this way, Aria was the monitor, Light-Bearer Anderson was the warden, and Pig Brother, the Imitation Man, and others were the heinous criminals exiled to this place.

From the previous prompts, Su Xiao learned a piece of information: everyone here, even the most law-abiding, was Chaotic Neutral, followed by Chaotic Evil and Extreme Evil. Looking across the entire Dawn Town, one couldn't find a single good person.

While dining, from Anderson's fragmented words, Su Xiao learned some things. For example, Anderson was not a native of this world.

Anderson came from a place called the "Nidibo Continent," where he once served as an executioner.

Situated in a decaying, massive empire about to meet its demise, plus a bloodthirsty, cruel monarch, numerous obedient imperial ministers, and finally a capital city with a population exceeding 2 million, teetering on the edge of riots.

Adding these factors together, one could imagine how busy Anderson, as an executioner, was at the time. He performed beheadings every day, so tired that his waist ached at night and his arms were so swollen and painful he couldn't sleep.

From when he didn't know, Anderson began to hear many strange, eerie voices. One night, he dreamed of himself sinking into a dark quagmire, and he woke up covered in sweat.

The next morning, "Master An," starting his new day of work, had just chopped off the head of the first prisoner when he discovered a strange power flowing into his body. A few minutes later, when his body absorbed this strange energy, he became a bit stronger.

As a price, the chaotic babbling in Anderson's ears became more pronounced, but work had to continue. Anderson repeated the daily executions.

The empire's situation became increasingly chaotic. Anderson's targets for execution went from ordinary people to soldiers, then to weaker supernaturals, and later to quite powerful supernaturals. In the end, among those executed, there would occasionally be big-name ruthless characters.

Anderson discovered that the more powerful the prisoner he beheaded, the more strange energy he could absorb, and the more he grew in strength.

Anderson's treatment became worse and worse. Originally, it was 10 hours of work a day, later 16 hours, 18 hours, until finally 24 hours a day.

Prisoners were brought up, pressed onto the block, beheaded with an axe, and the head fell into a bamboo basket—this was what Anderson repeated every day, dull, tedious, bloody, and cruel.

An executioner who never slept or rested—this title even caught the attention of that cruel monarch, who personally visited Anderson's execution and bestowed rewards.

Although the massive empire was already decaying, it would take years, or even longer, to fall. This also caused Anderson to almost turn into an execution machine, until one day, after Anderson chopped off a prisoner's head with an axe, he discovered he had cut a black mark. He had used that execution axe, which could only be considered ordinary, to slice open space.

An executioner had gained the ability to continuously strengthen his flesh through killing. Plus, having forgotten how many people he had executed, even Anderson himself didn't know how strong he was at the time.

The bad news was that the babbling Anderson heard became more and more obvious. His sleepless, tireless executions were because these babblings annoyed him so much he couldn't sleep.

Finally, one day, Anderson's strength exceeded a certain limit. He grabbed those "Dark Wandering Souls" out from an unknown place with his bare hands and shattered them with a few axe blows.

At that time, Anderson felt the world was quiet. After 4 years, he could finally sleep soundly. After sleeping for a whole week, Anderson returned to his previous work: execution, execution, every day only execution and blood.

Such days continued for another 3 years. Anderson was thoroughly fed up. He couldn't understand why those royals had so many people to kill? The royals had too many enemies.

To solve the problem at the root, that night, Anderson, alone with one execution axe, went to the palace, chopped to death the Great General hailed as the empire's strongest with one axe, and then bloodied the palace.

Anderson left no survivors, not even witnesses. After doing all this, he returned to the penal institution. For him, power, money, etc., were all meaningless. His greatest pleasure was chatting with those death row prisoners. Every word spoken by those dying prisoners was poured from the heart, with little hypocrisy, little lying.

The old empire's royals were slaughtered, and a new empire was established. Anderson, as an executioner not involved in power, was not affected. Of course, this also had to do with the fact that he looked very difficult to provoke at first glance.

Initially, Anderson's work increased again. A few months later, he entered the off-season, executing only a few people a day. This gave him plenty of time to chat with those death row prisoners. Because he had plenty of money to buy wine and meat, those death row prisoners were naturally willing to chat with him.

Unfortunately, Anderson's good days didn't last long. 60 years later, he discovered that the number of prisoners to be executed was gradually increasing. Everything seemed to have returned to how it was before, and this time it was even more excessive. Those newly formed royals repeatedly investigated why he, with his scruffy beard and sloppy image, showed no signs of aging after more than 60 years.

The number of prisoners to be executed increased again. Anderson no longer had time to chat with them. Plus, those royals kept playing small tricks to probe him. In the end, Anderson was annoyed.

Everything was the same as 60 years ago. The royals and the palace guards were wiped out overnight. According to witnesses, it was done by a demon with black smoke rising from its whole body.

After Empire 2.0 perished, Empire 3.0 was established in a short time. Anderson was still not affected. His feeling at the time was that this batch of royals seemed okay.

Anderson was careless. Empire 3.0 only lasted for more than 40 years before it was about the same as Empire 1.0, and not even as good as Empire 2.0.

Anderson, feeling a bit tired, dug up the execution axe he used to destroy two generations of royals from the ground and wiped out the royals of Empire 3.0.

After Empire 3.0 was destroyed, Empire 4.0 appeared in just ten days.

Everything seemed like yesterday. Birth and destruction constantly alternated. Hundreds of years later, when Anderson watched the establishment of Empire 12.0, he was thoroughly disappointed with the human heart and human nature. People always thought that if they were the monarch, they could do better in that position. In reality, that was just because they hadn't sat in that position before.

At that time, Anderson figured out a lot. People hated greedy ministers but envied power and pleasure; people hated the monopoly of wealthy merchants but hoped their own goods were unique; people mocked the empire's atmosphere and corruption but, after making mistakes themselves, spent money everywhere to pull strings, hoping to avoid punishment. This made Anderson understand that what people were angry about was not unfairness, but that they weren't standing in an advantageous position and couldn't become the vested interest group. This was the human heart, this was human nature.

When Anderson had a great awakening, one thing attracted him: faith, faith in gods.

Anderson left the capital and went to the holy land representing faith, becoming a servant of the gods.

But not long after, Anderson discovered that the god known as the "Lord of All Things" seemed to have impure motives. Anyone could come to believe in it, and those heinous villains, as long as they were willing to turn over a new leaf, could immediately receive the god's love. Conversely, those simple people who had faithfully believed for decades were struck by divine punishment just because of a tiny mistake.

Anderson, full of questions, sought out the representative of the "Lord of All Things" in the human world, the Divine Priest. Regarding Anderson's questions, the Divine Priest was furious and shouted on the spot: "Take this heretic down."

The result was that the heretic wasn't taken down, and the holy land representing faith was mostly destroyed. From beginning to end, the "Lord of All Things" never descended.

It was also hard for the "Lord of All Things." It was just a divine existence. Seeing Anderson, whose whole body's grievances were almost forming into substance, the "Lord of All Things" felt its spine chill and its head buzzing.

But the stubborn Anderson decided he wanted an explanation from the "Lord of All Things." He was full of piety; why did it say he was a heretic?

The final result was that the "Lord of All Things" brought in three other divine existences, facing Anderson like a formidable enemy. But because they answered a certain question incorrectly, all four gods were chopped by Anderson.

Just as that battle ended, Anderson was swallowed by surging darkness. When he woke up, he had already arrived at the Tree-Born World. That was still the Dark Age, the peak period of the Yada civilization.

The Yada people's thirst for and faith in light moved Anderson. He saw many shining points of human nature in the Yada people, so he became a Light-Bearer, walking in the darkness with the Yada people, spreading light. He no longer killed easily and gradually restrained his irritable temper.

Every time he shared light with others and watched the happiness on their faces, Anderson felt a sense of fulfillment.

In the final battle between the Yada people and the darkness, Anderson was swallowed by the dark. I don't know how much time passed, but when Anderson woke up again, he was already in the Dark Domain. At that time, Dawn Town had already been established, but the houses then had more than a dozen rows, unlike now, eroded by darkness until only two rows remained on the street.

Hearing Anderson's reminiscent self-narration, Baha swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a *gulp*, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang on the side was dumbfounded. Although Anderson's tone was calm when saying these things, the content was too fierce.

"These are all old things from the past. You can just listen to them as stories."

Anderson smiled kindly, not taking pride in his former strength. Conversely, when talking about light-bearing, he spoke exceptionally detailed.

"Anderson, do you believe in a god representing light?"

"I no longer have faith; I am just a Light-Bearer."

The sitting Anderson placed his hands on his knees, his smile becoming a bit kinder.

"Have you heard of anyone believing in the sun?"

"Believing in the sun? What kind of god is that?"

"Not a god, but the sun."

Su Xiao tossed a small bottle to Anderson. Inside it was the Power of Faith: Sun.

After Anderson opened it, tiny golden light particles drifted out. Anderson tried to touch them with his hand. The next instant, his eyes became vacant, yet it was as if he saw thousands of things.

After a long while, Anderson's eyes regained their luster. His face, which had a hint of shock, seemed to be saying: 'In this world, there is actually such a great way of faith?'

Turning, Anderson shook his head, said nothing more, and stood up to walk toward the back room.

Su Xiao left the shrine, found an uninhabited stone house on the street, and pushed the door open to enter.

This stone house was about 30 square meters. Although the table, chairs, and bed were old, everything was complete. An entire wall was occupied by a bookcase, and on the wooden shelves above, numerous books were displayed, mostly historical biographies, etc. No valuable books were seen.

The bedding on the bed had already turned black and hard, and Baha threw it out. Considering he might stay here temporarily, new bedding was spread out.

With a *clatter*, the nearly 10-centimeter-thick metal door closed. Not to mention anything else, the "anti-theft awareness" of the residents here was very strong. With the material of this door and window, plus the blessing of dark supernatural characteristics, even a naval gun couldn't blast it open.

In the darkness, Su Xiao lit the tallow candle. The white candlelight reflected out, and combined with the enclosed, safe environment here, it gave one the urge to live here forever.

This was clearly some kind of induction method of Dawn Town, letting the dark residents here stay at home and not cause trouble randomly.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the bed and took out the Queen's Crown. This thing had great use. He had previously drunk 【Blood Fragrance Mellow Wine】 with the Queen in the Queen's bedchamber, completing the "Hidden Mission: Pain of Thorn Poison."

The 【Stone Throne Supplement Device】 obtained from the mission was to be used in conjunction with the Queen's Crown.

First, Su Xiao had to return to the "Underground Gathering Place: Siyi" located in the Cold Cemetery, and go to the sealing hall in its deepest part, which was where the Stone Throne and the Queen's foster father, the Betrayer Goru, were located.

At that time, Su Xiao could use the 【Stone Throne Supplement Device】 to complete the Stone Throne and have it notarized by Reincarnation Paradise.

Soul cold mist would drift from the Stone Throne. If Su Xiao wore or held the crown and sat on the Stone Throne, he could use the crown to filter out the cold in the soul cold mist and obtain pure soul energy.

This soul energy would pass through the 【Stone Throne Supplement Device】, and after the notarization transformation of Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao could absorb it directly to improve several of his own abilities.

The utility time limit of the 【Stone Throne Supplement Device】 was 5 hours. Simply put, Stone Throne + Supplement Device + Reincarnation Paradise Notarization + Crown equals a 5-hour skill upgrade permission.

Su Xiao sensed his own situation. The battle with the Queen had left him severely injured to the point of near-death. As an alchemist, under the combined treatment of Vitality Stock Solution + Spirit Shadow Thread, his injuries had already recovered quite a bit.

This death battle allowed Su Xiao to gain quite a few hidden harvests. For example, through this battle, the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy had completely stabilized.

Su Xiao took out the 【Old Beast King's Essence Soul】, activated the Devour Core ability, and began to absorb the energy within the essence soul. After the biological energy within the essence soul was filtered, purified, and refined, it turned into a colorless energy, merged into Su Xiao's body, and was quickly absorbed by the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy within him.

Two hours later, the empty shell of the essence soul floating in front of Su Xiao turned into powder.

【Prompt: Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to Lv. 50.】

An Immortal-grade essence soul upgraded the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability by 8 levels. This was the benefit brought by the increase in energy absorption rate.

【Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying: Lv. 50 (Active/Passive Skill)】

Usage condition: After activating the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability, consume 240 mana points per minute (increased by 30 points).

Active effect: Each melee attack will burn 782 mana points of the enemy (increased by 32 points) and cause true damage equal to 1.7 times the burned mana points (1329 points of true damage + Checking Zhan Long Shan increase 25% + Blue Shadow King increase 30% = 2060 points of true damage). The enemy will suffer intense pain after mana burning.

Defensive form: Proud Song (Active)...

Combat form: Law-Extinguishing (Passive). After you suffer magic-type damage, it will cause the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in your body to further activate, thereby continuously increasing your magic-type resistance (incremental increase).

Prompt: If you do not suffer magic-type damage within 40 minutes, this bonus will gradually decay.

Prompt: After each battle with magic-types, if you have suffered multiple magic-type damages, your magic-type resistance will have a small permanent increase.

Prompt: When you suffer effects such as lightning, fire, cold, etc., you will permanently and slightly increase the corresponding resistance (this is a growth-type increase, and the increase speed is slow).

The true damage caused by Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy broke through the 2000-point mark. This was the strength accumulated over time. The new characteristic that had never been awakened also awakened this time.

This passive characteristic called "Law-Extinguishing" could be described as simple and unadorned. After suffering magic-type attacks, Su Xiao would continuously stack magic-type resistance, and in the end, it might even be stacked to the point where magic-type enemies couldn't move him.

Combined with the 60% magic-type damage immunity provided by the Magic-Extinguishing Constitution, Su Xiao's defense in terms of magic-types would reach an exceptionally exaggerated degree.

This let Su Xiao understand one thing: when the Law-Extinguishers and Spellcasters fought in the past, why was it always many Spellcasters besieging one Law-Extinguisher? The reason was both simple and helpless: without besieging and bombarding, one simply couldn't kill a Law-Extinguisher.

It was no wonder that Marwin Waltz said back then that to fight, one must first ensure one can survive. This ability called "Law-Extinguishing" completely carried out the Law-Extinguisher's combat style against Spellcasters: you hit me for a long time, I'm fine, but I give you one slash, and you die or are severely injured.

Su Xiao exhaled turbid air from his mouth, and his physical state was much better. He took out the 【Container Core】 from his storage space. He had previously traded for the right arm of a Shadow Spirit, and he prepared to combine the two.

To combine the two, the most ideal way was to add some other materials as a balance. He took out five 【Active Crystals】, a certain amount of 【Fire Gold】, and about 10 ounces of Power of Faith: Sun, and began the combination of the Container Core and the Shadow Spirit's source energy.

The candlelight flickered from time to time. Su Xiao was not in a hurry to leave Dawn Town now. His goal had been partially completed, and the pressure was greatly reduced.

Currently, he and the Grey Gentleman seemed not to have a direct confrontation, but they were actually competing in the dark. He needed to obtain the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone and find the Talent Awakening Device to awaken the Law-Extinguisher's unique talent ability.

He was certain that the Grey Gentleman was also completing something on his side, so both sides were mutually restraining each other at the current stage, at most entrusting collaborators to disgust each other.

The situation at the current stage was that once Su Xiao found the Talent Awakening Device and awakened the Law-Extinguisher's unique talent, he could free up his hands. At that time, the remaining thing for him to do was to catch the Grey Gentleman and beat him fiercely, which would make the Grey Gentleman feel so uncomfortable he would vomit blood.

Conversely, if the Grey Gentleman completed what he wanted to achieve first, he could also free up his hands to beat Su Xiao fiercely. Even Su Xiao would be beaten until he was dizzy and disoriented.

So, it seemed that both sides hadn't met yet, but they actually had the same attitude: 'Wait for me to finish what I have in hand, and then I'll beat you to death.'

Su Xiao had already finished half of his side. One problem was that he didn't know where the Talent Awakening Device was. He had asked Caesar before, and that guy used the Ouroboros Plate to predict it, but the answer was very unclear.

This meant that the Talent Awakening Device involved too much causality. Just as Su Xiao was thinking, the door was knocked. Baha came to the door, cleared his throat, and asked, "Password."

"Xiang Bubu climbs the tree."

"Password correct."

Baha opened the door, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang on the side was very confused.

"..."

Su Xiao looked at Caesar walking through the door. This password was truly unique.

"My dear friend, there were too many people before, so I didn't dare to say. A few days ago, I went back to my hometown and brought you some local specialties."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He wasn't interested in the local specialties Caesar brought, because when this guy gave gifts, he always attacked the urinary system fiercely. Besides whips, it was still whips.

"This is the Five-Chain Whip Medicinal Wine I brewed. Don't be polite, accept it."

Caesar was holding a wine-soaking bottle in his arms and patted it. Sure enough, inside were indeed five whips.

"..."

Su Xiao put away the "Five-Chain Whip Medicinal Wine." It was rare for Caesar to give a gift, plus Su Xiao prepared to resell this "Five-Chain Whip Medicinal Wine" to Zuiyas. Anyway, the other party had an Old God-type constitution and definitely wouldn't drink himself to death, so even product insurance was saved.

"Caesar, do you have a way to let the residents here leave the Dark Domain?"

"No way."

Caesar had a look of regret, but having cooperated for so long, Su Xiao noticed that his hand-rubbing motion slowed down. Every time Caesar's interests might be damaged, he would have similar instinctive actions.

Su Xiao estimated that Caesar could likely do this, but the price to be paid was very high, or he had to bear very high risks. For a guy like Caesar, his own life safety was absolutely in the highest echelon, followed by his wealth.

"What a pity, I originally wanted to use it as a reward."

Su Xiao took out a scroll from his arms. On it was recorded "Decay and Dangerous Fermentation." Su Xiao hadn't studied this kind of alchemy knowledge, but he felt Caesar would be very interested in this aspect.

"My dear friend, you have already paid Caesar a lot of alchemy knowledge. I haven't thoroughly mastered those knowledge yet, so..."

Before Caesar finished speaking, Su Xiao seemed to have not held the scroll in his hand firmly, causing the scroll to slip out a bit and unfold itself halfway.

At this moment, Caesar was like being possessed by a printer, his eyes widened to the limit, recording the dense and tiny Void characters on the scroll, as well as the cumbersome icons.

It only took 0.72 seconds for Caesar to record the first third of the scroll, but Su Xiao closed the scroll.

Caesar began to sort out the knowledge in his mind, which made the cunning smile on his face disappear a bit, and his eyes also revealed a rare solemnity. He discovered that "Decay and Dangerous Fermentation" was simply a "match made in heaven" for him. If he had this knowledge as a foundation, many of his ideas that couldn't be achieved could be integrated, for example, making one of his "Three Divine Artifacts," 【Evil Turbid Foot Binding】, get a significant improvement.

Caesar's eyes went from solemn to conflicted, and then to uncomfortable and heart-wrenching. He tentatively asked, "My dear friend, is it okay to bring only one person to the outside world?"

"Yes."

"Then... it can be done."

Caesar had a look of going all out. Seeing this, Su Xiao knew that the timing was more than half mature. At the moment, a more critical point was waiting.

Su Xiao left his residence, came to the stone house of the Queen's sister, Aria, and knocked on the wooden door covered with black patterns.

"Is it Mr. Law-Extinguisher?"

Aria's gentle voice came from inside the door.

"How do you know I am a Law-Extinguisher?"

A different luster appeared in Su Xiao's eyes, and he pressed one hand on the hilt of his blade.

"Uh~"

Aria was speechless for a moment. She thought about it very seriously and said, "I guessed."

"..."

*Zheng~*

Seeming to hear the sound of a blade being drawn, Aria inside the door was slightly nervous. She stammered and said, "I actually, um, can foresee some things. Yes, I am a prophet."

"..."

Su Xiao still didn't speak.

"Sorry, I lied. The Light-Bearer told me."

Aria began to lie wildly within her limited cognitive information.

"..."

Su Xiao remained silent, because the Light-Bearer didn't know he was a Law-Extinguisher either.

"I... saw it."

After saying this, Aria sighed. Hearing this, Su Xiao's hand released the hilt, and the Checking Zhan Long Shan, which hadn't been fully drawn, slid back into its sheath, making a crisp *da* sound.

"Since I was little, I could see many things. Some I could understand, some were beyond my scope of understanding. I can both see and make wishes."

"Make wishes?"

Baha on Su Xiao's shoulder took over the conversation. It decided to negotiate on Su Xiao's behalf.

"Yes, make wishes. As long as it's something I wish for, it will definitely be realized, but I also have to pay an equivalent price, a very... painful price."

"So, your parents are both outstanding Ghost Clan members?"

Baha continued to probe.

"My mother is a Ghost Clan member, but besides having beauty, everything else about her is very different. And my father, I have never seen it, only heard many people mention it."

Aria's chatterbox opened, and she could be said to know everything and say everything.

"Chatting for so long, we can be considered friends. At least tell us your father's name."

Baha discovered that although the Queen's sister, Aria, had a gentle mature woman's voice, her mentality was like a child's.

"Okay. People all call my father... Abyss."

Hearing her say this, the corners of Baha's eyes twitched, but it asked with a calm expression: "Abyss? Is this a person's name?"

"My mother said that one day she accidentally walked into the darkness, and when she walked out, her belly was already very big. The next morning, she gave birth to me and my sister."

Hearing this, Su Xiao thought that in the Queen's data, the category was Ghost Clan/Eldest Daughter of the Abyss. Previously, he thought the Queen was severely eroded by Abyss power, which was why she was like this. Now it seemed that was not the case.

The Queen's mother had been affected by Abyss power. Not only did she not die, but due to multiple coincidences, she became pregnant and gave birth to a pair of sisters.

The younger sister had astonishing aptitude. Although she was delayed by those old things of the Ghost Clan and chosen as the "successor," her strength still continuously grew stronger. When she could act freely, it only took her two years to leap from the middle-upper echelon to become the strongest in the Northern Continent and become the Northern Queen. What terrifying talent and aptitude this was.

And the Queen's sister, Aria—if Su Xiao hadn't guessed wrong, this was an abnormal existence. She didn't have the Queen's powerful aptitude, but from the moment of her birth, she had two abilities: "Seeing" and "Wishing."

As long as it was something Aria wished for, it would definitely happen. Afterward, everyone related to this wish, except Aria herself, had to pay an extremely painful price.

The Ghost Clan once valued this ability very much. A few years later, the Ghost Clan threw Aria into the Black Forest. In the eyes of the Ghost Clan at that time, Aria was simply a monster wrapped in a soft and beautiful skin.

Regarding the fact that Aria was dangerous, Su Xiao knew from the very beginning. The hints in Reincarnation Paradise's prompts were already very obvious: in the entire Dark Domain, there wasn't a single good person.

Su Xiao wouldn't make wishes through Aria. This kind of ability that seemed to be able to reach the sky in one step had unimaginable prices behind it. However, the "Seeing" point could still be utilized.

"Aria, can you help me 'see' one thing?"

"Okay, but you have to exchange with me equivalently, otherwise some things will 'link' to you. Also, everyone can only let me help them see once."

While Aria was speaking, a rectangular, flat, lidless wooden box was pushed out from under the door.

Su Xiao pondered for a moment. Since it was an equivalent exchange, Soul Crystal or Soul Crystal Core was the best choice. Considering that what he asked involved major consequences, he took out five Soul Crystal Cores and placed them in the flat, lidless wooden box. He had gone all out this time.

The wooden box was pulled away, but after a while, it was pushed out again with great disdain.

"I don't want these crystal blocks, they are impossible to bite... *cough cough*, they have no meaning to me."

"..."

Su Xiao frowned and put away the five Soul Crystal Cores, wiping the saliva off one of them in the process.

Su Xiao took out some desserts that Benny loved from the team storage space, including caramel pudding, ice porridge, soufflé, osmanthus cake, yogurt fruit salad, etc., and completely filled the flat, lidless wooden box.

After this lidless wooden box was pulled back, within a few seconds, a slurping sound came from inside the door, the sound of sucking jelly.

Su Xiao lit a cigarette. If he had known it was so easy to satisfy, he wouldn't have taken out the Soul Crystal Cores. This was truly: "You are not a fish, how do you know the joy of a fish."

"Bai Ye, what do you want to know?"

Aria inside the door spoke. Her address for Su Xiao had changed from Law-Extinguisher to the more intimate Bai Ye. This was clearly a great increase in friendliness. It could only be said that they were worthy of being twin sisters; both were foodies.

"Where is the Talent Awakening Device I'm looking for?"

"In the Great Ruins. Anything else?"

"No."

"Then I'll continue eating. This is really delicious, sweet and soft."

"..."

Su Xiao walked toward his temporary residence. The Talent Awakening Device being in the "Great Ruins" was both good news and bad news for him.

The bad news was that the "Great Ruins" were in the extreme south, the place furthest away from the extreme north where Su Xiao was.

If he returned the same way, he would have to pass through the "Black Forest," "White Swamp," and "Cold Cemetery," and then to the "Yada Ancient Capital" in the central region.

Afterward, he would arrive at the south side of the ancient capital, first entering the "Hot Jungle," then passing through the "Sunshine Wetland" adjacent to the "Hot Jungle," then passing near the "Soul Arena," and finally arriving at the "Great Ruins."

The Tree-Born World had 3 initial trees: one in the Black Forest, one in the Ancient Capital, and the last one located in the Great Ruins in the extreme south.

If going north meant a cold climate, going south meant it would get hotter and hotter. As he walked, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang might temporarily turn into a "two-fool" from the heat.

After returning to the temporary residence, Su Xiao calmed his heart and waited. He would wait for at most 12 hours. If it didn't work, he would immediately set off south.

The person he was waiting for didn't make him wait for 12 hours. The other party took the initiative to come to his door after more than 5 hours.

*Dong dong dong. *

The door was knocked. Su Xiao signaled Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to open the door, and Anderson walked into the room.

"Something up?"

Su Xiao ended his daily meditation. After a long exhale, he came to the wooden table and sat opposite Anderson, using the hot water Baha had boiled to brew a cup of maple leaf tea for the other party.

Anderson didn't refuse. The tea fragrance made him unable to refuse, even though he was a person who didn't drink tea, he couldn't help but pick up the teacup.

"It's not a very important matter, just wanted to ask you about the faith in the sun. Is this a sect? Or a force?"

"This is something to fill the void in the hearts of those who have nothing in their hearts. There is no corresponding god, no dogma, no force, not even a specific initiation ritual. The sun is in the sky; you believe in it, and it rewards you. It's that simple."

"This..."

Anderson didn't know what to say for a moment.

"I have come into contact with many people who believe in the sun before. Believing in the sun is both simple and difficult."

"How so?"

Anderson asked while drinking the maple tea.

"In the outside world, believing in the sun is very simple; just praise the sun. But here, can you see the sun?"

"That's true."

Anderson smiled and shook his head. In this dark, sunless Dark Domain, one couldn't see the sun, so naturally, there was no talk of believing in the sun.

"This is something someone gave me. I have no use for it. Since you are interested in sun faith, I'll give it to you."

Su Xiao took out a glass column and tossed it to Anderson. Inside it was the Devourer: Sun.

"This is?"

"Coexisting with it allows one to possess the ability to spread sun faith. As for the specific situation, I don't know either. After being 'parasitized' by this thing, it takes at least 4 to 5 days to safely peel it off."

"This gift is too precious."

Anderson was very interested in the "Devourer: Sun." As a Light-Bearer, if he could spread sun faith, it would be a very meaningful thing for him, after all, the sun also represented light.

Anderson looked at the "Devourer: Sun" inside the glass column, his heart filled with mixed feelings. He both knew there was such a great faith system as sun faith and had the qualifications to be a sun herald, but he couldn't get out of the Dark Domain. Whoever was in his position would feel uncomfortable.

Su Xiao wasn't trying to develop a Sun Legion flow. According to known information, it absolutely couldn't be developed in the Northern Continent; that would be a waste of time. It could be developed in the last world because the situation gave an opportunity.

What Su Xiao wanted was the Power of Faith: Sun. As long as someone spread sun faith through the "Devourer: Sun," it would definitely be guided by the Sun Ring. In this way, the Power of Faith: Sun produced by those living beings would all be absorbed by the Sun Ring held by Su Xiao.

"Caesar, I think Anderson is a good person. You think of a way."

Baha spoke.

"No possibility, absolutely no possibility. This is a place that has been eroded by the Abyss. I even suspect that this was an area connected to the Abyss passage before."

"Damn, you are too stingy."

"It's not a question of being stingy. This... it's very hard for me to handle."

Caesar sighed. Hearing this, Anderson's gaze changed. He was trapped here, not here voluntarily.

"You might be able to use this."

Anderson took out a palm-sized wooden sculpture and placed it on the table. After Su Xiao picked it up, a prompt appeared.

【You have obtained Ancient Idol (Special Equipment).】

【Ancient Idol】

Origin: Tree-Born World · Yada Civilization

Type: Special Equipment

Durability: 107/107 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Record (Active), can record the Initial Tree.

Recorded Initial Tree: Yada Ancient Capital · Initial Tree.

Recording limit: 19/20 (1 occupied).

Equipment Effect 2: Travel (Active), can use this equipment as a medium to teleport to the recorded Initial Tree.

Prompt: This teleportation requires 20 seconds or more of guidance (if the number of teleported units exceeds 2, the teleportation guidance time will be additionally increased).

Prompt: Each use will consume 1 point of durability of this equipment. After soaking in water, this equipment will slowly restore durability, but each large-scale restoration will cause the durability limit to permanently decrease.

Introduction: An idol made by the Yada people. In the Dark Age, there were many Initial Trees, and this idol became a must-have for explorers among the Yada people. This is the highest honor given to the brave.

Selling price: Soul Crystal x 3.

Su Xiao calmly accepted the 【Ancient Idol】. This thing had strategic significance in this century.

Although there were only three Initial Trees left, one was in the extreme south, one in the central region, and one in the extreme north. The locations were all very good.

Currently, the Initial Tree in the central region had been recorded, and Su Xiao could use the 【Ancient Idol】 to teleport there at any time, which could save a lot of travel time.

Seeing Su Xiao put away the 【Ancient Idol】, Caesar understood everything and signaled Anderson to follow him with a cunning smile.

With the goal achieved, there was no need to continue staying. Su Xiao returned the same way, exited the Dark Domain, returned to the Queen's bedchamber at the bottom of the large tree hole, and then folded back the same way until he exited the tree hole and stood under the Initial Tree.

Su Xiao activated the 【Ancient Idol】 in his hand and began to record. A moment later, he checked the data of the 【Ancient Idol】.

"Recorded Initial Tree: Black Forest · Initial Tree"

Very good, the places he could teleport to became two. Su Xiao waited for nearly an hour. After Caesar arrived, he activated the 【Ancient Idol】 and teleported to the Initial Tree of the Yada Ancient Capital.

*Weng~*

A fluctuation spread out, and everything around became hazy with mist. A few dozen seconds later, the thick fog around dissipated a bit, the world became clear, and a breeze with the smell of soil blew over.

Su Xiao looked around. He had returned to the Initial Tree of the Ancient Capital. On this circular grassland, there were still traces of the battle left from the previous scramble for supply boxes.

The crown was still in his hand, and Su Xiao hurried toward the north again. He had to pass through the Cold Cemetery again and arrive at the "Underground Gathering Place: Siyi" there.

A few hours later, in the sky full of wind and snow, Su Xiao saw the huge hole in the snow ahead. As soon as he entered the hole, warmth rushed toward him. The "Underground Gathering Place: Siyi" had arrived.

The underground gathering place was still empty. After experiencing the previous events, looking at the Ghost Clan corpse hanging on the vines above again, one would have a different feeling.

Behind this hanging Ghost Clan corpse, there was a stone wall with many horizontal and vertical bars drawn on it to record the days, as well as the last message: "Queen, take me away too."

Su Xiao marched into the depths of the underground gathering place. Soon, he saw the sealing hall, the metal door that had been forcibly bumped open, and the claw marks on the edge of the metal door.

Back then, the Ghost Clan besieged the Queen in this hall. The result was that they used fierce poison, but were counter-killed by more than half, and finally, the Queen escaped. The Ghost Clan was a typical case of being weak but loving to play.

As the saying goes, fools have foolish luck, but idiots don't, especially idiots who constantly court death. If the Ghost Clan didn't court death, with the abilities of the Queen and her sister, they could definitely have raised the Ghost Clan into the hegemon force of the Northern Continent.

There was a conjecture that one could infer why the Ghost Clan treated the Queen and her sister this way. Their birth was closely related to the Abyss, and the Ghost Clan extremely hated Abyss power. This led to the fact that from the very beginning, the high-level members of the Ghost Clan were both full of vigilance and looked down upon the Queen and her sister.

Su Xiao walked into the sealing hall and immediately felt the temperature drop sharply. Seeming to sense his arrival, the Betrayer Goru, sitting cross-legged beside the Stone Throne, opened his eyes.

"Law-Extinguisher, you succeeded?"

"..."

"It seems you succeeded. Bring the crown here. It originally belonged to my Ghost Clan. Now, return it to its original owner."

*Bang! *

A blood spear pierced through the Betrayer Goru's head, pinning him to the wall behind.

"Why..."

The Betrayer Goru's face showed anger, his expression very ferocious. He no longer hid his strength.

*Bang, bang! *

Two more blood spears attacked, piercing through the Betrayer Goru's neck and chest completely. He died on the spot.

Su Xiao came to the Stone Throne and felt quite satisfied after confirming that the previous attack hadn't affected the Stone Throne. He couldn't hand over the crown.

Everything was ready. Just as Su Xiao was about to take out the 【Stone Throne Supplement Device】, he received an announcement from the Tree of Void. It was almost 12:00 noon, and the coordinates of the special hegemon unit, Aiduoer Papa, were about to be announced.

Killing one person could obtain 100 points of killing merit. Up to now, Su Xiao had only obtained 76 points of killing merit.

Su Xiao didn't care much about this, but in the next second, after the coordinate sharing appeared, a momentary surprise appeared in his eyes. He turned his gaze to the ceiling directly above. The special hegemon unit, Aiduoer Papa, was on the surface above, no more than 200 meters away from him.

Su Xiao didn't react for a moment. After all, this kind of good thing of a pie falling from the sky was truly the first time he had encountered it from the first tier to the eighth tier. With his luck all along, he felt a bit unaccustomed at this moment.

"My dear friend, don't kill her."

"Huh?"

Su Xiao looked at Caesar.

"Must catch her alive. This is a big deal."

Hearing Caesar's words, Su Xiao knew that this guy was going to operate. ===== CHAPTER 3441 =====