Chapter 3529

Closing the Alchemy Codex, due to the interpretation all along, Su Xiao's mental toughness had improved more than ten times compared to before. This was an incidental buff from interpreting the Alchemy Codex.

As a price, the feeling Su Xiao had every time he finished interpreting the Alchemy Codex was simply dizzying, and he had to sleep to recover. However, after a long time, his adaptability in this regard was getting stronger and stronger, just like now.

All the pages of the Alchemy Codex were metal in texture, but the feel was like thick paper. The back of the fifth and sixth pages recorded one of the secrets of the alchemists' wealth: "Silent Servant" and "Tunneling Servant."

Su Xiao had seen this silly duo in other alchemy fragments long ago. The evaluation of the silly duo by alchemists was exceptionally unified: this was one of the most comfortable inventions of the Second Era.

One of the silly duo was responsible for exploration, and the other was responsible for mining. But did you think they could only do this? Of course not. The "Silent Servant" among them was not only for exploration; after discovering rare plants or extraordinary resources, it also knew how to pick, preserve, etc. Although it couldn't collect all resources, it could distinguish most precious resources.

As long as these two silly ones were brought enough "Liquid Gold," they could collect resources outside for 30-180 days, and every time they returned, it was a big harvest.

The so-called "Liquid Gold," simply put, was a kind of active metal. "Silent Servant" and "Tunneling Servant" both used this as kinetic energy + nutrients to obtain mobility.

Compared to immediately starting to make the silly duo, Su Xiao had something more important to do.

Facing strong enemies, Su Xiao had never retreated half a step, but if it was facing unknown risks, he would never push hard. That wasn't brave, but silly.

Su Xiao had already improved his combat power to the greatest extent. Since combat power couldn't continue to climb, he would use other means. He had prepared several plans to deal with the Dead City pre-selection.

There is a saying that one should know how to share. A place like the Dead City that hides secret treasures shouldn't be swallowed alone; one's conscience would hurt.

As the saying goes, it's better to share joy with others than to enjoy it alone. Since entering the Dead City alone is a ten-death-no-life situation, what if other Eighth Tier powerhouses entered and helped Su Xiao share the risk?

Su Xiao didn't care about others going to the Dead City to get benefits. He didn't want to go to the Dead City, but he had no choice.

Having used the Black King Armguards for so long, if he didn't make a break before promoting to Ninth Tier, he would only pay a more painful price in the future. Long pain is worse than short pain. He was going to the Dead City this time not to seek treasure, but to end the cause and effect with the Dead City and complete the tier promotion assessment.

Since it wasn't treasure hunting, others coming to the Dead City had a hundred benefits and no harm to Su Xiao.

That said, why would other Eighth Tier powerhouses go? No need to worry about this. If a message spread that a Black Maple Tree seed had appeared in the Dead City, and this message had accurate evidence, would those Eighth Tier powerhouses still be calm? That was a Black Maple Tree seed; who wouldn't be tempted?

What's more wonderful is that the Dead City is dangerous as hell, but it is an Eighth Tier world. Under the notarization of the Void Tree, whether it is a Void powerhouse or a peak powerhouse of a transcendent/native world, they have no way to deal with it.

That is to say, even if this message spreads, at most Eighth Tier powerhouses will head to the Dead City.

Su Xiao took out a great sword from the storage space. This sword was obtained in the Azure Dragon Continent. It had been eroded by the dead silence, but after regional separation was carried out there, subsequent erosion was avoided.

【Withered Sound Great Sword】

Origin:???

Quality: World-level

Category: Great Sword

Durability: (about to be permanently damaged)

Attack Power: 6-10 points

Equipment Requirement: None

Equipment Effect: Can be inserted into a certain place on the top floor of the Supreme Sanctuary in the Dead City of the Black Throne Continent.

Rating: None

Introduction: When the withered babbling sound breaks the dead silence, the real Dead City will appear before your eyes. The "enthusiastic" people of death will "welcome" the arrival of all living beings.

Price: World-level treasure chest × 1.

Undoubtedly, this is the key to entering the real Dead City, or rather, a ticket. However, such a large ticket, enjoying it alone is very wasteful.

Bang!

Su Xiao's fist, wrapped in a crystal layer, smashed onto the Withered Sound Great Sword. This symbol of time, which had only 9 points of durability left, could no longer hold up and shattered with a bang.

Although Su Xiao couldn't be sure that the shattered 【Withered Sound Great Sword】 was still useful, he had a backup plan. He still had 4 pages of the Tree-Born Page. At worst, he would enter the Dead City by virtue of the Tree-Born Page at that time. At most, he would lose a World-level treasure chest. There is gain only if there is loss. If he couldn't even bear this cost, how could he let more Eighth Tier powerhouses go to the Dead City?

The great sword, nearly 1.3 meters long, shattered into more than a hundred pieces. After Su Xiao picked up one of them, he knew he had bet right. How could a ticket to simply enter the Dead City be worth a World-level treasure chest? This was clearly the weight that only hundreds of tickets would have.

The ticket was ready, and an introduction was missing. Su Xiao contacted Caesar and told the other party that they could start.

After this message was sent, Su Xiao paid attention to the trading platform notarized by the Void Tree. Before long, a large number of Black Maple Leaves appeared on it, and they were all sold individually, leading to a large row of Black Maple Leaves in the consignment list. More importantly, the price of these Black Maple Leaves wasn't high.

Regarding the origin of these Black Maple Leaves, Caesar didn't mean to ask at all, which was also the reason why Su Xiao could cooperate with Caesar for so long.

Heaven knows where Caesar got his sales quota on the trading platform. With Su Xiao's current authority, he only had 5 quotas, while Caesar had at least 90 or more.

More than 90 sales quotas were all used to list Black Maple Leaves, which immediately attracted the attention of many people. This Black Maple Leaf seller was clearly in urgent need of money. Although the price wasn't particularly low, buying them would definitely be profitable.

Someone selling Black Maple Leaves wasn't the important part; the important part was the attributes of these Black Maple Leaves. Don't forget, these were planted in Su Xiao's exclusive room. Theoretically, they were similar to the agents he prepared and belonged to his personal property and output, so he could "slightly" do something to the attributes of these Black Maple Leaves.

【Black Maple Leaf】

Origin:??? · Dead City

Quality: Highly rare material.

Effect: Too many uses, need to open the branch list to view.

Introduction: Extremely rare and precious material.

Why would the origin of the Black Maple Tree be??? · Dead City? Even if this was Su Xiao's personal output, he shouldn't be able to tamper with its origin to this extent. In fact, he didn't tamper with it; he just hid the first half of the origin.

After these Black Maple Leaves were picked, they all underwent a trace amount of "buffing" by dead silence energy. Regardless of the result, Su Xiao's post-processing was in the direction of buffing. As a result, the dead silence energy failed to cause a buff to the Black Maple Leaves, which belonged to buff failure.

Any item's data, as long as it has undergone secondary buffing, can have a suffix origin attached. For example, the agent manufactured by Su Xiao has the origin of Reincarnation Paradise · Saint Flame Pharmacist.

Letting Caesar sell a large number of Black Maple Leaves was to let a message spread: the Dead City suddenly produced Black Maple Leaves. Selling Black Maple Leaves so openly, buyers certainly couldn't hide this information. Since that was the case, profiting from this as soon as possible and selling information was the best choice.

It wouldn't take long for the news that the Dead City produced Black Maple Leaves to spread.

Then, not long after, a large pile of "Withered Sound Great Sword" fragments were listed on the trading platform. It seemed that someone was preparing to make a fortune from this.

This whole process was full of loopholes. As long as someone investigated, they would find some clues. But was this a bad thing? Of course not. Su Xiao deliberately made it full of loopholes.

There were many roles in this matter. First, an adventurer who had explored the Dead City and obtained Black Maple Leaves (fictional), second, a profiteer who cooperated with the adventurer (fictional, prototyped by Caesar), and then many buyers who bought Black Maple Leaves, etc.

So many people were directly or indirectly involved in this matter. If everything was perfect and watertight, without a trace of suspicion, anyone with a little brain would immediately think that this was a setup by someone. Real random development wouldn't be so watertight.

Precisely because this matter was full of loopholes and the information was true and false, it made people feel at ease instead. With so many participants, if there were no hidden secrets or illogical points, that would be the biggest suspicion.

Moreover, the Black Maple Tree seed matter was clearly a gimmick. Anyone with a discerning eye could see this point. Now that the ticket to enter the Dead City was released, in all paradises, there was no shortage of powerhouses who liked to go to dangerous areas. The saying that risk and return are equal was common in all paradises.

Therefore, what Su Xiao did was more like a kind of publicity, letting more people know that there was such an ultra-high-risk area as the Dead City during this period. As for whether they would come or not, that was entirely up to their willingness and courage.

Based on Su Xiao's understanding of the Dead City, wanting to find the real Dead City was definitely not simple. All worlds eroded by dead silence could be divided into two major parts.

First, there were areas where living people still resided. There might be cities, civilizations, etc., but it was also absolutely full of weirdness. And the other part of the world was the real Dead City, which was an ultra-high-risk area.

After Su Xiao threw out a few hole cards, he closed the auction platform. I wonder which Eighth Tier powerhouses would come to the Dead City this time.

Walking into a room usually used for testing blade mastery, Su Xiao activated the Dead Silence Arrival ability. Suddenly, the surroundings became dilapidated, cotton-like objects flew, and a shocking scene appeared.

Figures wearing tattered clothes standing in the darkness in front appeared. They stared at Su Xiao with pairs of gray-white eyes, making people shudder. They were the people of death.

This was also the reason why Su Xiao chose to go to the Dead City to make a decision. Using Dead Silence Arrival now was already at this level, and the people of death were staring at him.

Su Xiao looked at the people of death in the darkness in front. A few seconds later, he threw out a pitch-black tree seed. This was dropped when he killed the Filthy Tree Leader · Twisted Armor before.

One by one, the people of death raised their hands to grab the black tree seed. Su Xiao took out Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's camera and took a photo with a click.

In the photo, because of the angle and the timing of the snapshot, it looked like the people of death were raising their hands and dragging the black tree seed in the air. The scene was both weird and had a sense of mystery.

Closing Dead Silence Arrival, everything around disappeared, including the consumable tree seed that had characteristics similar to Origin Stone. Speaking of which, the characteristics of that tree seed really had a bit of the feeling of a Black Maple Tree seed.

Or rather, who had seen a Black Maple Tree seed with their own eyes? The answer is that only a few predecessors of the Law-Extinguishing system had seen it. The spoils of war when they opened the abyss channel in the Void were the Black Maple Tree seeds.

Walking out of the trial room, Su Xiao gave the photo to Benny and let it sell the photo through channels. Rumors alone weren't enough to move people's hearts. With this photo, the persuasiveness was a bit greater.

Regarding other Eighth Tier powerhouses coming to the Dead City, Su Xiao's attitude was: come as much as you want. In the Dead City, not only were there people of death, but Tree Erosion, Crow Doctor, etc., were also not to be trifled with.

Su Xiao suspected that the number of people who could find the real Dead City at that time might not exceed the number of fingers on one hand. Even so, it was more stable than exploring the Dead City by himself.

Su Xiao was just about to close the world contact platform when he suddenly found that several more types of tickets to enter the Dead City appeared. Clearly, these people had also been to the branch Dead City.

The fragments of the Withered Sound Great Sword were sold one after another. As a ticket, this thing certainly couldn't be priced high. Each piece was 100 Soul Coins. The remaining entire hilt was kept by Su Xiao. He was also going to the Dead City, so he certainly had to keep a part.

Walking into the alchemy laboratory, Su Xiao consumed a total of nearly 20,000 Soul Coins to exchange for a large amount of materials. He was going to start making "Silent Servant" and "Tunneling Servant."

The hardest part of making the silly duo was the biological core. Plus, Su Xiao's attainments in alchemy were more inclined toward agents, and in terms of alchemy biology, it was just average.

This "average" was aimed at him personally, and it was only average when compared to those alchemists of the Second Era · Alchemy Civilization.

Three hours later, Su Xiao soaked a biological core the size of a soccer ball in the solution of a glass column. This was the core of the "Tunneling Servant." Beside it, a smaller one was the biological core of the "Silent Servant."

"Xiang Bubu, Baha."

Hearing Su Xiao speak, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang on the side adjusted the equipment, letting the mechanical arm chair Su Xiao was sitting on rise. He began to manufacture the body parts of the silly duo.

To be precise, the silly duo were not entirely intelligent creatures. They could understand relatively complicated commands, but they basically had no thoughts of their own, and more were pursuing instinctual preferences. The instinctual preference of "Silent Servant" was to look for things everywhere, while "Tunneling Servant" was mining and digging.

After a busy period, two figures, one tall and one short, were soaked in the solution.

The body size of "Silent Servant" was significantly changed by Su Xiao. Its height was about 1.4 meters, and it was humanoid as a whole, with a total of four mechanical arms and six mechanical tentacles on its back.

When needed, these mechanical tentacles could split into dozens to achieve high-precision work. The head of "Silent Servant" looked a bit old, just like a human face spliced together from multiple metal parts, and there was a microscope-like inch lens probe on the right eye.

In the glass column next door was its good brother "Tunneling Servant." "Tunneling Servant" was a big fatty. Its height was 4.2 meters, its body width was 3 meters, and it was wearing work overalls. The upper part of its head was wearing a sealed metal helmet, revealing only one red electronic eye. It held a large mining pick in one hand and hung various tools such as mining shovels on its waist.

This mining duo, Silent Servant looked a bit sneaky, while Tunneling Servant was the same as expected, completely a silly one.

The mining team's plan was now half completed. The reason for saying this was because neither "Silent Servant" nor "Tunneling Servant" were combat units, which also meant that if they were released before they found minerals, they might not be able to explore for long before being killed by extraordinary animals or other enemies.

The Devourers manufactured all along were to make up for this point. After collecting more data on the Devourers, Su Xiao would try to manufacture Perfect Body · Devourers, using 3-4 Perfect Body · Devourers to protect "Silent Servant" and "Tunneling Servant," thereby forming the ideal mining team.

By that time, Su Xiao would send the mining team into the Painting World, which was an undeveloped world with resources as rich as oil.

Thinking of this, the hope for the Soul Coins needed to buy "Technique Soul · Blade" was gradually seen. The subsequent two mastery abilities would no longer be out of reach to improve.

Checking the remaining Soul Coins, there were 564 left. Su Xiao still had one thing left to do. He had previously obtained 【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】 and 【Life Inscription】. He could embed four inscriptions on 【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】, and he was preparing to use it to replace the existing 【Inscription Base】.

【Inscription Base】

Main Inscription Slot: Burning Ash.

Secondary Inscription Slot: Darkness.

Secondary Inscription Slot: Blazing Sun.

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

The "Darkness Inscription" on it had a great background. It was obtained by Su Xiao after killing the Old Knight and opening the Old Knight's treasure chest. It was a powerful inscription with Immortal-level · 1500++ rating.

As for the "Blazing Sun Inscription," this inscription was Immortal-level · 1500 rating, also not to be underestimated.

Interestingly, as the main inscription, the "Burning Ash Inscription" only had a 1007 rating. The situation at this time was that the "Burning Ash Inscription" was about to explode, and the durability upper limit was continuously decreasing.

Su Xiao estimated that it would only support 3-4 more battles before the "Burning Ash Inscription" would explode.

"Darkness Inscription," "Blazing Sun Inscription," and the "Life Inscription" obtained this time all had significant backgrounds. Su Xiao was preparing to get another 1500-rating inscription, and then use the "Darkness Inscription" as the main inscription to embed these four inscriptions onto 【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】.

There were many inscriptions on the auction platform, and there was no shortage of high-quality ones. The reason was that inscription bases were too hard to buy.

Su Xiao let out a long breath and began to pry the "Burning Ash Inscription" off the 【Inscription Base】. With a pop, the "Burning Ash Inscription" exploded directly, which caused the remaining two inscriptions on the 【Inscription Base】 to detach themselves.

Su Xiao scrutinized the situation of the 【Inscription Base】. Although this was an ordinary item, breaking it was also a huge loss. Soon, he saw several cracks on the back of the inscription base, which made his mentality crack on the spot.

Su Xiao contacted Reid and asked if the other party could repair it. Reid laughed and left a sentence: "White Night, I sincerely thank you for thinking so highly of me. I really can't repair that thing. You should go find a more brilliant blacksmith."

Reid didn't say he couldn't repair it, but claimed his level wasn't enough, which made Su Xiao wonder if the Demon Blacksmith could repair it? It just so happened that he had an appointment with the Demon Blacksmith in the Dead City this time.

After meeting then, I don't know if he would be hit by a hammer. Making an appointment to meet someone in the Dead City is particularly rare.

Not considering these for now, Su Xiao gave Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang 5 Soul Coins for ice cream money + errand money. Xiang Bubu ran to the Equipment Enhancement Hall and sold 35 【Refined Immortal Stones】 at a price of 627 Soul Coins each.

This was the money at the bottom of the box. Unless necessary, Su Xiao wouldn't sell Immortal Stones.

With more than 20,000 Soul Coins in hand, Su Xiao continued to flip through the inscription list on the consignment platform. With hundreds of pages of storage, he didn't believe he couldn't find a suitable inscription.

After flipping for half an hour, Su Xiao discovered an inscription worth 18,600 Soul Coins. This inscription was called "Steel Inscription," with a rating of 1500 points.

How the attributes of the inscription were could only be judged by the name and rating. The former represented characteristics, and the latter represented strength.

Darkness + Life + Blazing Sun + Steel, what would this be? Dark life of steel and sun?

After searching in the list for a while, Su Xiao still felt that the Steel Inscription just now was the most suitable. He flipped back and took it down.

【You have obtained Steel Inscription.】

There were 3909 Soul Coins left, which couldn't be used. The negative example of Umbrella-less Brother made Su Xiao remember it deeply to this day.

Darkness, Life, Steel, and Blazing Sun—all four inscriptions were inserted into 【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】. With a hum, the energy of the four characteristics intertwined and circled, lasting for a long time before calming down.

【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】

Origin: Underworld · Ascetic Monastery.

Type: Four-inscription slot base.

Main Inscription Slot: Darkness.

Secondary Inscription Slot: Life.

Secondary Inscription Slot: Steel.

Secondary Inscription Slot: Blazing Sun.

Inscription Effect 1: Dark Embers (Core · Passive), when the wearer of the base has Health lower than 25%, you will trigger the power of Dark Embers.

Hint: This effect lasts for 30 seconds, and the trigger interval is 48 hours.

Warning: Triggering this ability requires ensuring that your Willpower is above 120 points; otherwise, you will not be recognized by the Darkness Inscription.

Inscription Effect 2: Steel Blazing Sun (Passive), when illuminated by the sun, real Stamina attribute +10 points, ** strength improved by 10.5%.

Hint: Without the buff of the Blazing Sun, this buff is reduced to real Stamina +5 points, ** strength improved by 5.5%.

Introduction: A pendant that is easy to carry, with the image of a majestic ghost god with angry eyes. In the ancient era of the Light-Extinguished World, ascetics...

Selling Price: 4920 Soul Coins.

Su Xiao wore 【Inscription Base · Wrath Image】 like a pendant. He immediately felt a warm force buffing him, making the vitality of his internal organs improve. As for the Dark Embers effect, this would have to be tested later.

After exiting the exclusive room, Su Xiao headed straight for the Land of All Living Things, and the ascetic practice began.

34 hours later.

Su Xiao lay on the "Ice Field" on the seventh floor of the Land of All Living Things. Saying this was an ice field, in fact, the "ice" here was composed of soul energy. The pieces of soul crystals the size of millstones at the bottom of the ice made people want to pry one off when they saw it.

Tried it before, was fined 10 Soul Coins.

【Hint: Your stay time has reached, and you are about to return to the real world.】

【Teleportation starting.】

The scene before his eyes blurred, and the next second, Su Xiao was sitting on the floor of the second floor of the accessory shop.

A calm real life began. Su Xiao was completely relaxed. At Eighth Tier, even if there was a battle, it was to fight in the mission world. Old schemers like the Gray Gentleman wouldn't take the initiative to fight people here.

On the first floor of the shop, Su Xiao was resting on the sofa. Just then, the shop door was pushed open. A female guest walked into the shop, strolled around, and picked up a string of ladies' amber bracelets.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't figure out what the female guest was here for for a while. When the other party said she wanted to check out, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was stealing cola behind the counter, almost sprayed it out. Since the accessory shop opened, except for Li Murui being forced to consume, this was really the first guest.

The female guest left after paying. Judging from her expression, she seemed quite satisfied.

On the sofa around the coffee table, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Benny looked at each other in silence. Baha tentatively said, "How about ordering a big meal tonight to celebrate?"

"Moo."

Amu agreed, and so did Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Miss Benny stretched, didn't express her opinion, and Su Xiao picked up his phone and ordered a seafood feast. Miss Benny was still indifferent, but the tip of her tail swayed significantly faster.

The three days of relaxation in the real world passed in a flash. Recently, Benny and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had been at odds, the reason being whether the body wash should be chosen for cats or dogs. Calculating carefully, anyway, it was all washing fur, and Benny only allowed buying one bottle.

Xiang Bubu suspected that this cat-star person, nine times out of ten, didn't like the smell of dog body wash, which was why it decided so. Frugality was never Benny's style.

As a result, the next day, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang got a pile of catnip for a bath, and then was scratched by Benny. The reason was that Benny didn't care about the smell of catnip, but the key was that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang couldn't sit on its head. It was sat on until it was stunned.

The unlucky one on the third day was Fatty Ma. Heaven knows what evil this guy was possessed by, actually wanting to catch Benny to catch mice. The result was that he didn't catch a single hair of Benny. That night, Benny brought strong laxatives and, in collusion with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, sneaked into Fatty Ma's house. The next day, Fatty Ma threw javelins for a day.

【Hint: You are about to return to Reincarnation Paradise.】

【Your Ninth Tier promotion trial is about to start.】

【You have selected the trial world, which is an Origin-level difficulty world, the Root of Dead Silence.】