Chapter 3462

In the ancient hall, as the crack on the ceiling "healed," the Abyss Guardian was nowhere to be found.

The crack leading to it closed, meaning the Abyss Guardian could no longer return to this ancient hall, and this place became a relatively safe place.

For Su Xiao, this was good news. Although killing the Abyss Guardian could get a super high kill reward, one had to act according to one's ability. Su Xiao wouldn't force himself. The enemies he encountered, if he couldn't beat them, he absolutely couldn't beat them. There was no dog-shit luck or anything else.

Being able to drive the Abyss Guardian away was a victory for Su Xiao. Moreover, he didn't come away empty-handed. The Abyss Guardian left behind a right arm. For most contractors, this thick arm was useless, but for Su Xiao, it was a good thing. The sufficient knowledge reserve came in handy at this time.

But before that, Su Xiao had to deal with his left arm first. Just now, he touched it directly with his crystal left arm, which caused tiny but vivid painful faces to appear on his crystal arm. To be safe, after throwing it out, he lifted this crystal arm.

Su Xiao arrived in front of the broken crystal arm. The fragment-form Exile was still distributed inside. He tried to control Exile. Unlike in the past, a sense of obscurity appeared. This feeling was like playing a game with a delay of thousands of milliseconds. After the mental command was issued, it took 2 to 3 seconds to react.

Exile, which was one with the crystal arm just now, was affected by something after touching it. Su Xiao was psychologically prepared for this.

Moreover, Exile was not his ability itself, but a weapon constructed through it.

Skill effect: Increases the strength of the Proud Song state by 320%, can convert Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy into a solid state for external release, and can be controlled within a distance of 150 meters.

In essence, Shadow of Slaughter was the strengthening of the crystal layer, and as for Exile, Su Xiao could construct a new one, but because the current Exile had fused with a blood-colored weapon, its characteristics in all aspects had been improved by a large margin.

If he constructed a new Exile, unless he could get another blood-colored weapon of the same kind, he wouldn't be able to reach the level of the current Exile.

Su Xiao carefully perceived the situation of Exile and found that the "delay" in controlling Exile was getting higher and higher. He put Exile away with the charcoal box and would find a way to repair it later when he had time.

Su Xiao controlled the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body, releasing it externally at the broken arm on his left shoulder while crystallizing it, and constructing the most active Spirit Shadow Lines within the crystal.

Click, click, click—

A crystal arm was gradually constructed, filled with blue threads inside, like a nervous system. These were the most active Spirit Shadow Lines, between body energy and solidification, thereby connecting the nerves at his broken arm.

Su Xiao moved his crystal left hand. Every bone and joint was restored to 100% of the original proportion. He added a newly constructed Exile into this crystal arm to improve controllability and arm strength.

From the perspective of a prosthetic limb, this was already very good. Frequently breaking an arm wasn't without benefits; the development progress of prosthetic limb skills was soaring. At the moment, he could reach this level through the Proud Song ability + special Spirit Shadow Lines.

"How is Wood's situation?"

Su Xiao stopped near Wood, not too close, so as not to be suddenly attacked if Wood woke up.

"Uh—"

Zuiyas tried to hold back his laughter. Although it was very unloyal to laugh now, this situation where fate was indescribable really made people want to laugh.

"Compared to the damage to his body, the critical hit he received on the spiritual level was even harder."

Zuiyas shrugged with a smile, meaning you know.

"Don't just talk coolly, consider Wood's mood."

Inside the twisted cross worn on Zuiyas's neck, Ona's voice came out.

Speaking of which, it was interesting. Before in the Painting World, Zuiyas never took the initiative to chat up girls when he met them, nor did he engage in ambiguity, but after Ona was by his side, he would stare fiercely whenever he saw a girl, making Su Xiao and Wood vaguely feel Ona's gradually violent aura. Zuiyas carried out one sentence: death is like wind, always by my side.

"I'm not as fragile as you think."

Wood got up from the ground. He still looked a bit unclear-headed. He said:

"Bai Ye."

"..."

"How much do you know about the Necronomicon?"

Wood's pupil flames gradually recovered. Although he was hit hard, he remained calm. The first thing he did was not to complain or shift the blame, or pursue responsibility, but to find a way to solve the problem.

Wood certainly saw through the situation just now. Without taking out this "father-level item," there was no way to repel the Abyss Guardian, which would eventually lead to the whole team being wiped out here.

Moreover, Wood's current thought was, since he could send it away, why couldn't he send it away? This is fate. Crossing this hurdle, life will be more exciting. Don't complain when things happen, but think with your brain first, and then solve the problem. This is the character he honed in the evil camp.

In Wood's view, yelling and shouting when encountering drastic changes, shouting that he must take revenge, or having his personality directly blackened, were all extremely childish expressions.

When encountering drastic changes, one must first remain calm. Anger will make one's IQ lower. Then, according to the specific situation, choose to endure or attack, and find possible allies. Don't drive away possible allies because of temporary anger; that is a very unwise approach.

So at this moment, in Wood's cognition, Su Xiao was a powerful ally. Although he wished he could give Su Xiao a punch, he clearly saw before that Su Xiao threw it toward the Abyss Guardian, and then because the Abyss Guardian waved to block it, that thing flew to him.

Every debt has its debtor. Wood knew one thing clearly: the one who caused him to welcome a new father was that humanoid creature who was five meters tall, covered in muscles, but had no balls.

"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Su Xiao spoke. Regarding the situation, it was indeed hard to explain in a few words.

"You guess."

Wood's pupil flames condensed. If he had a complexion, his face would definitely be black at this time.

"Do you and Zuiyas know about me getting rid of the priest before?"

"Know."

"Then I'll explain simply. The priest came to the Tree-Born World, not to help the Gray Gentleman deal with me, but to use my identity as a Samsara Paradise Hunter and Law-Exterminator to get rid of it. In the Painting World, you should have discovered that those dangerous items hate the hunters of Samsara Paradise, plus I am also a Law-Exterminator."

Speaking of this, Su Xiao took out a cigarette and lit it, continuing:

"The previous holder of the Necronomicon was the priest. He used a fake death to let the Necronomicon fall into my hands..."

"Wait, you said, can the Necronomicon be inherited through death?"

A smile gradually appeared on Wood's face.

"Theoretically, it is like this, but the priest was alone, and you have many relatives. I estimate that if you die, the Necronomicon will most likely be inherited by your relatives."

Su Xiao's expression was calm while speaking. Seeing this, Wood felt angry in his heart. He said with a bit of complaint: "Can't you say something nice?"

"This is a fact."

"Got it, and I didn't expect you two to be able to say anything nice, but... I still prefer to hear this kind of truth, although I often lie."

Speaking to the end, Wood himself laughed.

"Dog thief."

Standing a few meters away, Zuiyas, who didn't want to smoke second-hand smoke, teased.

Su Xiao pulled the Boundary Breaking Line, and the Abyss Guardian's severed arm flew over, falling to the ground with a plop. With the Abyss Guardian's body defense, even if this arm had left the main body, it was still difficult to separate. Moreover, forcibly separating it would destroy the most precious thing inside.

Su Xiao took out a spray can, first constructed a coffin-like box with crystals, put the Abyss Guardian's arm inside, then sprayed into it, and finally sealed it to wait.

A moment later, Su Xiao lifted the crystal and took out a short blade with a simple shape. Like cutting butter with a red-hot knife, he easily cut the Abyss Guardian's arm into three sections.

"This blade is not bad, Bai Ye, why don't you use it to fight?"

Zuiyas spoke.

"..."

Su Xiao looked at Zuiyas with the eyes of looking at an illiterate person. He felt that if he explained, Zuiyas would most likely not understand.

The Abyss Guardian's arm was divided unevenly. Considering Wood's huge loss this time, he should get more. Zuiyas was fishing the whole time, at most giving him a small section. Su Xiao smiled and accepted the remaining section of the upper arm.

After dividing the loot, Su Xiao and the others prepared to continue moving forward, but before that, Su Xiao had to set up some mechanisms in the long corridor behind. Just now, the Abyss Guardian retreated, causing this long corridor to open by itself again.

After setting up a series of traps, Su Xiao and the others continued to move forward. The wall at the innermost part of the ancient hall was what the Elf King Krenwei mentioned before he died.

The way to open it was very pit-like. You must never insert the key of the door into the keyhole. If you do that, it will instantly trigger all the mechanisms in the ancient hall.

Su Xiao stopped in front. With the key on his body, standing in front of the door for a few minutes, the door opened.

Five minutes later, the ground door ahead trembled and gradually sank into the ground.

A long corridor a few meters wide came into view, and wind blew from inside, which meant it was very close to the Great Ruins. Maybe after this corridor was the Great Ruins.

Regarding the situation of the Great Ruins, Su Xiao knew a little. It was a closed environment with black mist on top. Only the current passage could enter the Great Ruins.

A steady stream of airflow blew from the corridor. Su Xiao pressed his hand on the hilt of his blade. He smelled blood. This blood smell was a bit special; it was fresh, but it didn't seem to be from the human race or the elf race.

Walking along the corridor, after walking more than a hundred meters, a figure sat leaning against the wall, with a large pool of blood under him.

This figure was wearing full-body armor. Its armor was very strange. The helmet was particularly large, overall oval-shaped. The armor on its body was like an iron bucket. Its legs were slightly short and thick, and compared to its torso, its arms were disproportionately long.

Su Xiao tried to detect the other party's data and learned that this was a knight among the mushroom people, that is, a Mushroom Knight. The other party's strength was very strong.

"Cough—cough, cough!"

A coughing sound came from under the Mushroom Knight's head armor, and light red blood flowed out along the air holes. It raised its head with some difficulty and looked around at Su Xiao and the others.

"Leave here. There are no resources or treasures you want here, only disaster. Cherish life, leave."

The Mushroom Knight was already doomed. Its vitality was completely exhausted. If it weren't one of the strongest in this world, it would have died by now.

Don't underestimate the Mushroom Knight. Although the Mushroom Village is not big, it has produced many talents under the shade of the Village Chief, the Mushroom Prophet.

The Queen, the Elf King, and the Mushroom Knight are all the strongest at the top of the pyramid in this world, but compared to the former two, the Mushroom Knight is more low-key.

At this time, the two-handed greatsword stuck beside the Mushroom Knight was covered with chips and fluorescent blue blood. It was obviously involved in a fierce battle.

The Son of Destiny, Yuer, who didn't speak much along the way, stepped forward, knelt on one knee in front of the Mushroom Knight, and bowed his head, saying: "You have worked hard."

"You are..."

The Mushroom Knight tried to sit up straight. Seeing this, Su Xiao gave Baha a look. Baha flew forward and took out a needle to inject the Mushroom Knight. This was not a life-saving potion, but one that allowed the Mushroom Knight to have a flash of brilliance before death for a longer time.

The Mushroom Knight's aura recovered a bit. It changed to sitting cross-legged on the ground and said: "The Elf King's son has grown so tall. It's a pity that I couldn't fulfill the agreement."

Su Xiao was not surprised by the appearance of the Mushroom Knight, or rather, it would be abnormal if there wasn't such a person.

The Elf King Krenwei had long anticipated that the Elf race would have its current ending, so he used his offspring to cultivate the strongest vessel like raising a poisonous insect.

The vessel, that is, the combat power of the Son of Destiny, Yuer, was indeed not weak, but it was obviously unrealistic for him to open the road to the Great Ruins by himself.

Unless the Elf King Krenwei could predict the future and knew long ago that Su Xiao and the others would come to the Tree-Born World, the fact was obviously not so. The Elf King Krenwei could not predict the future.

So the Elf King Krenwei arranged for someone to open the way for Yuer, that is, the Mushroom Knight. To avoid the Mushroom Knight failing to open the way, the Elf King specially didn't let Yuer act with the Mushroom Knight to avoid the whole team being wiped out.

Looking at it now, this decision was very correct. The arrival of Su Xiao and the others gave the Elf King Krenwei a second plan. After he died, he first notified the Mushroom Knight to quickly open the road to the Great Ruins and clear all strong enemies in the Great Ruins.

Just in case, the Elf King Krenwei wrote a letter in a residual soul state. This letter seemed to be for the Village Chief, the Mushroom Prophet, but in fact, it was for Su Xiao to see.

The Elf King knew that Su Xiao would definitely go to the Great Ruins, so he implicitly suggested that Su Xiao bring the Son of Destiny, Yuer, who had considerable combat power. After all, the goals of both sides did not conflict.

The situation at the moment was that the Mushroom Knight, who was supposed to sweep away the threats in the Great Ruins in the plan, suffered a Waterloo and barely retreated from the Great Ruins.

However, Su Xiao had a question, which was how the Mushroom Knight passed the Abyss Guardian's level.

"That existence had no hostility toward me. It just felt that the Abyss power here was special, so it was sleeping in the ancient hall."

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Hearing this, Su Xiao and Zuiyas both looked at Wood.

If Su Xiao's guess was correct, the Abyss Guardian was mainly targeting Wood, or rather, targeting Wood who was once the holder of the Abyss Jar.

Thinking about it now, the Abyss Guardian was also quite depressed. It was sleeping soundly in the 【Abyss】 all year round. One day, it was awakened, and after following the passage to a new place, it chose to continue sleeping soundly.

It was sleeping soundly, when suddenly someone broke into its "bedroom." Among those people were its enemies. This was not the end. The fighting style of these intruders was particularly despicable, constantly throwing 【Abyss】 at it, causing it to have to break its own arm and retreat in a hurry.

Looking at it this way, the encounter of this Abyss Guardian was somewhat similar to a certain ancient god who was a homebody in his own underground palace.

"The distortion of Shell City and this place has become the power source of the Mother of Water Life."

The Mushroom Knight spoke. After understanding the purpose of Su Xiao and the others, he decided to share the intelligence he explored with his life with Su Xiao and the others, regardless of anything else, just because the goals of both sides were similar.

The Mushroom Knight's goal was to get rid of the Mother of Water Life, and Su Xiao's goal was to find the 【Talent Awakening Device】. These two points did not conflict, because the Mother of Water Life had already regarded the 【Talent Awakening Device】 as its private property.

According to the Mushroom Knight, the current Mother of Water Life was much stronger than before, and also much weaker. The reason for saying so was that the Mother of Water Life had become weaker in frontal combat, but it had gained other abilities.

Shell City distorted to this extent, partly because of the Abyss power, and partly because this power merged with the water characteristics of the Mother of Water Life. In other words, the Mother of Water Life was also one of the roots of disaster. It distorted along with the distortion of Shell City.

The Mushroom Knight killed the Mother of Water Life many times, but found that it was meaningless. As long as the distortion of Shell City was still there, the Mother of Water Life would not truly die.

The Mushroom Knight had traveled to other worlds with the Mushroom Prophet, and his vision was certainly not bad. He discovered one point: the connection between the Mother of Water Life and the entire Shell City must have 【Nodes】.

Not long after, the Mushroom Knight found the 【Nodes】 and discovered that there were a total of five. Each node was not a dead object, but a strong person in Shell City who endured the distortion.

Only by first eliminating these five 【Nodes】 could the Mother of Water Life be completely killed. The representative figures of these five 【Nodes】 were:

1. Queen Sigrian.

2. Four-Life Evil Ghost.

3. Five Royal Descendants.

4. Holy Warrior Fenwei.

5. Shadow of Death Duke.

The Mushroom Knight ended up in his current state because he challenged these five parties. Only by clearing these could the connection between the Mother of Water Life and Shell City be temporarily severed, thereby completely killing the Mother of Water Life.

In the repeated challenges, the Mushroom Knight soon discovered another problem: the five parties were also connected to each other. They could also be resurrected by the distortion power of Shell City. One must clear all these five nodes within a limited time, so that they would die completely, and then immediately get rid of the Mother of Water Life.

According to the Mushroom Knight's estimation, the death time of the five parties could not exceed 25 minutes from each other.

That is to say, after starting the war with Queen Sigrian, the Four-Life Evil Ghost, the Five Royal Descendants, Holy Warrior Fenwei, and the Shadow of Death Duke, as long as one party dies, the remaining four must be killed within 25 minutes.

Otherwise, the party that died first would be resurrected by taking the distorted Abyss power from the others.

"I couldn't find out more intelligence. I didn't expect that I would die here. I originally thought that when I died, it would definitely cause a sensation..."

After saying this last sentence, the Mushroom Knight's head slowly drooped, and his aura dissipated.

In fact, the Mushroom Knight's encounter was very similar to Jiraiya in the Naruto world. The Mushroom Knight died from testing the enemy's abilities. Among the five parties, Queen Sigrian and the Four-Life Evil Ghost were the most powerful, which was also the main reason for the Mushroom Knight's death.

The Four-Life Evil Ghost were the four people in the fishing village. Su Xiao parted ways with these four people near Shell City before. The four people in the fishing village saw that Shell City and the surrounding Forest City were in trouble, and they were worried about the situation in the fishing village, so they rushed back to see if it was safe. If the fishing village was safe, they would come back to continue working for Su Xiao.

The situation in the fishing village was unknown, but from the fact that the four people in the fishing village distorted into the Four-Life Evil Ghost and appeared in the Great Ruins, it could be guessed that the fishing village had suffered a disaster, lost their loved ones, and the last string of the four people in the fishing village had broken, completely becoming evil ghosts.

Su Xiao looked at the map drawn by the Mushroom Knight with blood on the ground. The terrain of the entire Great Ruins was circular. The five parties were located at the five corners of the inner ring of the Great Ruins, surrounding the Mother of Water Life in the center.

Wood on the side observed the map for a moment and said: "We each deal with one. After the war starts, let Baha sneak into the center to avoid the Mother of Water Life reinforcing the five around it."

Hearing this, Zuiyas frowned and questioned: "If Baha goes to watch the Mother of Water Life, you, me, Bai Ye, and Yuer, the four of us are responsible for one place each. What about the last node? Let Aiduoer go? Aiduoer, choose one of these five yourself."

Zuiyas pointed to the five names on the ground. Aiduoer's gaze wandered between Queen Sigrian, the Four-Life Evil Ghost, the Five Royal Descendants, Holy Warrior Fenwei, and the Shadow of Death Duke. She felt that none of these were easy to mess with.

Among the five parties, Queen Sigrian must be dealt with by Zuiyas; no one else could do it.

Queen Sigrian's ability was too difficult to deal with. She was the eldest wife of the Elf King Krenwei, his first wife in his life. Her ability was not strong in the past. She could make the enemy feel the same pain as her by harming herself.

This ability could be said to be extremely useless. For example, if she gave herself a knife, she would bleed endlessly, but the enemy would only feel pain and have no substantial injury.

But after the distortion, Queen Sigrian's ability underwent a qualitative change. As long as she saw the enemy, she could 【Link】 with the enemy, and then the damage she suffered would be 100% synchronized to the enemy.

Queen Sigrian had super strong recovery power after the distortion. What was unsolvable was that she would only synchronize the damage to the enemy, but self-healing would not be synchronized. That is to say, after she cut her throat, she would recover in the next second, while the enemy would be holding their throat and spraying blood with both hands.

What was even more unsolvable was that because she was one of the five parties, as long as the others were not dead, even if she died, she could regenerate her body from the blood silt of the Great Ruins, achieving resurrection from death.

Queen Sigrian was left to Zuiyas to arrange, while Su Xiao dealt with the Four-Life Evil Ghost, which had the strongest frontal combat power.

The four people in the fishing village could even deal with the priest when they were alive. After they completely stopped being human and turned into evil ghosts, their combat power must be improved by another level, so they were dealt with by Su Xiao, who was best at frontal hard-hitting.

Wood went to deal with the Five Royal Descendants. The ability of the Five Royal Descendants was splitting. They were not five people, but a group of people. It was best for Wood, who was best at group battles in the squad, to deal with them.

Yuer went to deal with Holy Warrior Fenwei. This didn't need to be discussed; the ability restraint was very obvious.

The last Shadow of Death Duke had no one to deal with. Logically speaking, Baha should go, but Baha had a very important task. It had to be the first to break through the perception of the Queen, the Four-Life Evil Ghost, the Five Royal Descendants, the Holy Warrior, and the Shadow of Death, and sneak into the vicinity of the Mother of Water Life in the center to avoid the Mother of Water Life reinforcing any party after the war started around.

"Zuiyas, let Ona come out? She must have no problem dealing with the Shadow of Death Duke."

Wood suggested. Hearing this, Zuiyas said: "If we could use a husband-and-wife team, we would have acted together long ago."

"Then what should we do now? Let Caesar deal with the Shadow of Death?"

While Wood was speaking, he looked at Su Xiao. Among the people present, Su Xiao was most familiar with Caesar.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. This was unlikely. Caesar valued his life very much. Expecting him to deal with the Shadow of Death Duke was not as reliable as hoping Duke would commit suicide.

Among the intelligence given by the Mushroom Knight, the information about the Shadow of Death Duke was the least. To be safe, it was best to arrange a ruthless person, just in case.

"I have a candidate for this."

Su Xiao took out the communicator to check. There was only half a bar of signal. After a while, entering the Great Ruins, there would definitely be no signal at all. He dialed a wave frequency, and there was continuous interference.

"Hiss, hiss~ In... Shell, hiss~"

Hearing this vague voice, Su Xiao guessed that the meaning expressed by the other party was that he was in Shell City.

"Palace back courtyard area, Kingdom Council Hall, Palace back courtyard area, Kingdom Council Hall..."

Su Xiao kept repeating these two sentences, trying to avoid the influence of poor signal. Even if the other party heard it intermittently, they could roughly guess.

After repeating more than a dozen times, Su Xiao hung up the communication and asked Bubu Wang to temporarily lift the traps laid before.

Waiting for nearly an hour, footsteps came from the long corridor behind. Solomon, wearing a black magic robe, walked over. This magic robe looked extraordinary, with gold threads embroidered on the collar edge and other positions, which must be of Immortal quality.

Solomon's aura, which was like a Black Mamba King snake, was hard to forget. With his arrival, the temperature dropped by a few degrees, and behind him followed his three strongest summons: Hell Knight, Death Lord, and Blood-Thirsty Reaper.

As soon as Solomon arrived, Su Xiao received a prompt.

Aiduoer was very smart. The Break of Dawn Squad normally only had 5 vacancies, and it was full at the moment. Solomon coming here must be to join the squad, which was convenient for contact and could also get bonuses through squad skills.

The reason why Aiduoer chose to pay soul coins rather than quit the team was that she felt this team, which was like a boss team, was very likely to break through the Great Ruins. She didn't want the spoils of war, but just the rewards in terms of titles were enough to make her laugh in her dreams.

Closing the prompt, Su Xiao didn't say anything else. He pulled Solomon into the team through the brand as a medium.

As soon as Solomon entered the team, a look of suspicion appeared in his eyes. Thinking about it, he had never seen a squad with luck from E- to S+.

The boss team was successfully formed. Target: Great Ruins.