Chapter 3535: God of Immortality

In a quiet room that hadn't been lived in for a long time, moonlight shone in from beside the half-covered curtains. A pale man lay on the bed. Looking at his appearance, he should have just recovered from a serious illness.

In fact, Klank, known as the Noble Son, was still playing piano pieces in the music hall this morning to kill the time that made him feel bored every day. Or rather, playing piano pieces without an audience was one of his few hobbies.

As the saying goes, heaven has unpredictable winds and clouds. Klank, who was safe and sound yesterday morning, "happened to meet" a famous doctor. This famous doctor saw that he was "unwell" and specially brought him to a secret stronghold, helping him cure his "stubborn illness" for free.

Because there were many details during the period, it was hard to describe clearly in a few words what happened from yesterday morning to midnight today.

The residential house where Klank was located was a quite good place for recuperation, located in the southeast corner of High Wall City. Because it was located in the "South City Planting and Grazing Area," the scenery here was good. Outside the window was a large piece of farmland, and in the distance was a birch forest. Because the rain had just stopped, the frogs in the ditch opposite were croaking non-stop, which had a quite pleasant feeling of a cool summer night.

A breeze blew into the window. Klank, lying on the bed, opened his eyes with trembling eyelids. His originally white eye bottoms were now covered with black velvet-like distribution. Just waking up, he was very weak and groaned in a low voice:

"Water~"

Klank swore that in his previous 27 years of life, he had never been this weak. This feeling of being so weak that every cell was shriveled due to lack of water made him even want to stick his head into the ditch outside the window and compete with the frogs inside for the precious fresh water that was not clean but could be drunk.

Seeming to hear Klank's weak call, the door was pushed open. A teenager wearing a long shirt with the collar blocking his nose bridge walked into the room. It was Xiusi, the space-type subordinate newly selected by Su Xiao.

【Kill him, swallow his blood, and you won't be thirsty.】

A voice suddenly appeared in Klank's mind. He suppressed the hunger and thirst that was about to swallow him with his own powerful willpower, and instead went to sense the source of the voice in his mind.

Klank was very calm. He quickly noticed that it wasn't that some consciousness had invaded his mind, but that a more direct creature... no, it should be a parasite, had parasitized into his body.

The sound of liquid surging appeared under Klank. Black mud-like semi-fluid seeped out from his spine, turning into black tentacles the thickness of a little finger, supporting him up from the bed.

"Strange... parasite."

His lips were dry and cracked, and the whole person was so thin that he was skin and bones. Klank spoke. At first glance, it was Black A's successful symbiosis. In reality, at this time, these semi-liquid tentacles spreading behind Klank were led by his consciousness. Black A's consciousness power had been sealed and trapped in his own consciousness space.

Although Black A was not easy to mess with, it was misled by its old lover Aiqi this time. When it parasitized Aiqi initially, Black A wanted to do whatever it wanted, and with a little bewitchment, Aiqi took the bait.

Compared to parasitizing Aiqi in the past, this time parasitizing Klank was arranged from the start. Someone like Klank, who was indifferent to most emotions, had willpower that ordinary people couldn't imagine, plus a calm judgment that was almost cold-blooded.

Encountering such a person, a series of devourers like Black A, Boiling Red, and Dark Sun had no chance. Only the fourth-generation devourer, Sun Apostle, could compete with Klank in terms of willpower.

Choosing Black A this time was not to fool the chosen one through the devourer, but to keep it as a backup. For the use of 【Will of the Betrayer】 on Klank, and fusing the 【World Eye】 among the three world items with his eyes, one must prepare a trump card that would not be excluded and was strong enough.

Black A's role was just like this. When Klank attempted to be an enemy of Su Xiao, the Black A in his body would explode in a brutal manner, placing him in a desperate situation in a short time.

Of course, the purpose of implanting Black A was not just this. Black A had growth potential that other generations of devourers couldn't match, especially the mapping of this potential to the host. Looking at Aiqi back then, one could see how obvious this growth potential mapping was.

Simply put, it was to let Klank have a faster strength improvement speed. Su Xiao didn't have a few years to wait for the other party to grow up slowly, not even a few months, at most giving the other party a few days.

At first glance, this was somewhat unbelievable, but don't forget, now Klank's strength growth buffs were almost stacked full.

In the room, Klank and Xiusi looked at each other in silence. The former was too thirsty to speak, and the latter was unable to speak due to postnatal reasons.

In the study next door, Su Xiao closed the ancient book in his hand and looked at the projection that had just appeared on the wall in front. Klank woke up smoothly, but there was one thing Su Xiao could never figure out.

During the period when Klank was anesthetized to the point of fainting, Su Xiao used 【Will of the Betrayer】 on him. The awakening of the Will of the Betrayer was one aspect, and more importantly, Klank didn't die, representing that he was now the Son of the World.

I don't know why, after Klank became the Son of the World, there were no heaven and earth visions, or attention from the World Consciousness of this world, etc. That feeling was like this world gave Klank the relevant resources to become the Son of the World, but didn't give him favor.

This made Su Xiao feel strange, or rather, the Dark Continent itself was a strange place. The land area here was vast to the point of being unimaginable. Compared to the Sel Star or the Alliance Star, etc., the land area here was hundreds of times larger, and the ocean hadn't even been explored to the edge.

The land area of High Wall City was already equivalent to two-thirds of the land area of Sel Star, which could imagine how grand and incredible it was when these high walls were built back then.

Precisely because of this, the land resources, etc., within the high walls could support millions of people, and allow ordinary families in the city to eat meat every week as long as they were willing to work.

The land area of the Dark Continent was so vast, and the wilderness outside the wall was like it was dead. Su Xiao had looked out from the high wall before. Within a few kilometers, let alone a tree, even half-dead wild grass was not many.

The existence of refugees outside the wall was actually more dangerous than the wild beasts or wild beasts outside from a certain point of view. Those refugees could no longer be considered intelligent creatures with civilization; they were a group of humanoid beasts with intelligence.

As for why the gap between inside and outside the high wall was so big, it was unknown. Even Su Xiao, as the deputy director of the Treatment Institute, didn't understand this. Perhaps only the two old immortals in the Healing Church Cathedral knew the inside story.

In general, the situation of forces outside the wall was particularly simple: refugees, wild beasts, wild beasts. Refugees were mostly in the form of tribes, forming one after another of large and small tribes. Wild beasts and wild beasts had no essential difference. Both were creatures brought by excessive extraordinary power and multiple malformations.

Both had not low intelligence. The view of wild beasts was that they were used to living outside the wall, and even if they were a bit envious, they wouldn't come inside the high wall. Some wild beast tribes even used suffering as training, honing unparalleled purity and strength.

Wild beasts were actually wild beast tribes, but because of their strong aggressiveness and invasiveness, they were distinguished. Wild beasts had always wanted to attack into the high wall, kill all the human races here, and occupy High Wall City.

Su Xiao sat on the wooden chair, holding the closed ancient book in his hand, his thumb stroking the slightly rough book cover. He didn't care much about the situation outside the wall. He cared more about the fluctuations that appeared in this world after Klank became the Son of the World.

The only change was that a strand of world power submerged into Klank's body while he was in a coma. This strand of world power combined with part of his blood to form Fate Blood.

Regarding Fate Blood, Su Xiao knew it relatively well. The Son of the World relied on consuming this thing to obtain rapid strength improvement.

Su Xiao had obtained Fate Blood before, and after research, he discovered that he couldn't use this thing at all. This thing had a difficult-to-crack "identification" characteristic. Only the Son of the World himself could use it to accelerate strength improvement.

Su Xiao had long given up on cracking this "identification" characteristic. Researching this aspect was too time-consuming, and the benefits obtained were not proportional.

Compared to researching Fate Blood, Su Xiao was more willing to research the higher-level World Power.

Su Xiao had Space-Time Power, but he hadn't obtained World Power yet. After learning about the characteristics of World Power in the last world, his first thought was to use this strange energy to improve the effect of "Permanent Gain Potion," thereby improving some physical potential that couldn't be improved in the past.

Regarding the acquisition of World Power, the only known channel was Klank. Or rather, it was only after the other party became a relatively strong Son of the World that he could produce a sufficient amount of World Power.

In this aspect, the effect of the three world items could be described as the top priority.

【World Eye (Immortal Level · Set · Fusion Equipment): This equipment will fuse with the user's eyeball to form the World Eye. When the user's emotions fluctuate strongly, the World Eye will absorb World Power, thereby improving the user's comprehensive combat power.】

【World Hunter (Immortal Level · Set · Pendant): After killing someone who affects the safety of the world, you can obtain a certain amount of World Power.】

【Prompt: World Power can improve the quality of Fate Blood, and can also be used as a superior gain-type energy.】

【World Attachment (Immortal Level · Set · Ring): After wearing this ring, it will improve the luck attribute according to 30% of the user's own charm attribute.】

Letting Klank become a relatively strong Son of the World in a short time seemed impossible, but in reality, the success rate was not low. In order to get more World Power, Su Xiao gave Klank a bunch of strength-enhancing buffs, totaling as follows:

1. Relying on alchemy biology, perform preliminary replacement symbiosis on Klank's visceral system. To speak human language, let Black A's main body fuse into Klank's organ system, greatly improving his digestion and survival. At this moment, even if Klank ate a few catties of walnuts without peeling the shell, there would be no discomfort in his stomach.

2. Gains from various permanent alchemy potions, commonly known as the Holy Flame Alchemy Potion Set. The last one to experience this set was Yuyuan, who was often forgotten.

3. Potential mapping of the Devourer Black A symbiosis state. In this aspect, it could massively improve Klank's strength improvement speed. The previous host Aiqi had experienced the feeling of suddenly becoming much stronger after waking up from a sleep. Because of this, Aiqi's little friends secretly envied it for a long time.

4. Duke's eldest son identity. Klank, as the Duke's eldest son, his status in the Steam God Sect could be imagined. The Duke was the leader of the Steam God Sect. When his eldest son needed extraordinary resources, he could definitely get priority.

5. Son of the World identity.

6. Combination of World Hunter + World Eye effects. The former could get World Power after killing an enemy of the world, and the latter would bring all-around strength improvement when emotions had strong fluctuations by relying on World Power.

At first glance, Klank, who was basically expressionless every day, wouldn't have strong emotional fluctuations that could stimulate the World Eye. In fact, it was not so. Don't forget 【Will of the Betrayer】.

After having the Will of the Betrayer, when he betrays others, he will feel unimaginable pleasure.

In layman's terms, the current Klank, as long as the 【World Hunter】 he wears has World Power stored, then after he backstabs others, his emotional fluctuations will be extremely strong, thereby triggering the passive effect of 【World Eye】. In other words, every time Klank successfully backstabs others, he will become much stronger.

What is even more wonderful is that the storage upper limit of World Power in 【World Hunter】 will have corresponding improvements according to the wearer's own strength improvement, and it is a permanent improvement. At present, there is only a storage upper limit of about 1.5-2 ounces. Exceeding this upper limit, even if there is more World Power, there is no way to save it.

Su Xiao's goal this time is to let Klank improve the storage capacity of 【World Hunter】 to about 50 ounces, and fill it with 50 ounces of World Power.

Su Xiao estimated that if this matter succeeds, perhaps this is his biggest gain in this world, rather than the origin-level treasure chest that has a probability of being obtained but 99% cannot open origin-level items.

In general, with Klank's personal ability, plus six layers of "gain buffs" on his body, his strength improvement speed will definitely reach a jaw-dropping level.

In the room next door, Klank, wearing a hospital gown, was still confronting Xiusi. Both looked calm, but in reality, their hearts were not very calm.

Xiusi, as a space-type, his ability was still a bit mysterious. He was from a refugee background, and it was normal for his ability to be weird. No one would go deep into this point. As long as the academy confirmed that Xiusi's character was no problem, the threat brought by his ability would not be easily included in the risk assessment.

After all, the two old immortals at the highest level of the Healing Church now were both relatively old and mysterious existences.

Please note, the "relatively old" here was not over 100 years old, but at least over 400 years old.

The atmosphere was quiet to the point of suffocation. Sweat seeped from the palms of Xiusi's hands in his sleeves. He had already calculated in his heart that as long as the Noble Son Klank opposite made a move, he would immediately hit the wall on the side and rush into the study where the deputy director was. He felt that he might not be able to beat Klank, but hitting the wall open was no problem. Asking his own deputy director for help was not shameful.

And Klank opposite, at this time, was also full of mixed feelings in his heart. From the time he understood things until now, it was the first time he felt that he was a living person. The emotions he couldn't feel in the past could now be felt a little bit. What he didn't know was that this was a hidden negative effect brought by Black A after symbiosis with him.

In the past, Black A amplified the desires and aggressiveness of the chosen one. This time, encountering this cold man Klank, it just happened to reconcile for him, making his emotions reach a level that was a bit more indifferent than ordinary people.

During the confrontation between the two, Klank suddenly grabbed the mattress on the side and threw it at Xiusi, but Xiusi had already hit the wall on the side before Klank made a move.

Baha, who was watching the show in the different space, saw this scene and was so angry that he almost pinched his own philtrum, no, it should be bird philtrum. It really wanted to scold Xiusi: "You kid reacted so fast, why don't you rush up and hammer him with a fist."

Pfft~

Boom!

The sound of the window being hit and the wall being hit through came at the same time. Klank hit and jumped out of the window, and Xiusi hit through the wall and reached the study. Both were stunned for a moment. The difference was that Xiusi felt very safe now, while Klank turned and fled.

"Xiusi, why are you running."

Baha flew out from the different space. Hearing this, Xiusi lowered his head and covered the lower half of his face with his collar. He took out the small notebook and wrote a few words quickly, which were:

【I am afraid I can't beat him, losing face for Bai Ye.】

Seeing this, Baha said with a smile: "Hahahaha, you kid are quite good at sophistry."

【I am very weak, even can't beat Lis.】

Seeing Xiusi write this line, Baha nodded. The new director Lis was indeed not very strong, more like a secretary.

The reason Su Xiao chose Xiusi was not because of his combat power, but because of the other party's space-type ability that was conducive to rushing, which could help him save a lot of time to do more things.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang jumped into the room from the broken window. The meaning of the bark was that Klank had already fled far away.

Su Xiao didn't intend to cover up what happened tonight. This would be suspicious instead. Regarding the reason for catching Klank, he had long been prepared.

He picked up the old-fashioned dial phone on the desk beside him and dialed. After about half a minute, someone answered. The man's voice coming from the opposite side was deep and thick, with a faint texture of electronic synthesis. It was the Duke.

"Who?"

"Me."

"Want to drink? Or is it about the ancient gold coins? If you are urging for ancient gold coins, then wait a while, I am here..."

The Duke started to shirk. Obviously, he was going to default on the debt. This guy's reputation outside was that he said one thing and did another, but facing a strong person of the same level, he was the one who didn't follow the rules the most. This was the Duke's temper. He disdained bullying the weak. Even if he defaulted on the debt, it was defaulting on someone of the same level of identity or the same level of strength.

Hearing the Duke start to talk about other things, Su Xiao lit a cigarette and said: "Your son is with me."

"Which son?"

The tone on the Duke's side actually carried a bit of playfulness.

"Klank."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, the other side of the phone suddenly fell into silence. It was completely silent. Even the flow of air, the insect chirps of the summer night, etc., all disappeared.

After a few seconds, the opposite side gradually restored some sound. The Duke said in a deep voice: "Bai Ye, disaster does not reach family members. Aren't you afraid that one day, I will also make a move on your relatives..."

"Please do."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the Duke on the opposite side held it back. He recalled in his mind the person who was closest to the deputy director on the other side of the phone, it seemed... probably... maybe, it was himself.

The Duke even considered the absurd and ridiculous assumption of kidnapping himself. Thinking of this, his face turned black.

"Say a location, 400 ancient gold coins, I will send them to you now."

Just as the Duke said this, a knock on the door came from the opposite side of the phone. It seemed that the Duke's subordinate entered the room and whispered something to him.

"Talk next time."

After leaving this sentence, the Duke on the opposite side hung up the phone. Obviously, he had already learned that his eldest son Klank had escaped.

Su Xiao was in the Southeast City District. The entire East City District was the territory of the Steam God Sect. The speed of information transmission was not ordinary.

The situation at this moment was clearly that the Duke knew his eldest son had escaped, and didn't intend to repay the balance of 400 ancient gold coins.

Regarding this, Su Xiao had long expected it. Making this phone call was more to make what happened tonight have a development that could be explained. Otherwise, he had no reason to kidnap the Duke's eldest son Klank, and the Duke's side would definitely have various suspicions.

As for those gains or implants he did to Klank, if the research department of the Steam God Sect could find out the clues, then Su Xiao's alchemy for so long would have been developed in vain.

That side would at most notice the existence of the Devourer Black A. As for clearing it, understand symbiosis. Before Klank's strength reaches a certain limit, even Su Xiao himself couldn't strip away Black A while ensuring survival.

Su Xiao had roughly finished the preparatory work for the initial stage. As for the God Sacrifice Day the day after tomorrow, in this aspect, although Dragon God Dean's assassination attempt helped their side in terms of intelligence to a certain extent, wanting to completely judge from this point which of the three major forces, Steam God Sect, Vadi Family, High Wall Council, wanted to make trouble was still unrealistic.

The contents of the promotion mission and the main mission pushed the intelligence that there would be a sudden change on God Sacrifice Day to the bright side, but wanting to investigate everything clearly was too difficult for Su Xiao, who had only been in this world for two days.

Su Xiao took out 【Sacred Oak】. This equipment only had 4 points of durability left. He activated this equipment at the cost of reducing his charm attribute.

【You have obtained 1 Golden Skill Point.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was very satisfied in his heart. Although there were risks in gambling with evil gods, the benefits were hard to refuse.

Su Xiao always felt that evil gods were actually a relatively loose force, just like arranging the "Initial Temple" last time. In the future, when he had time, he could investigate this aspect and cooperate with the Abyss Jar or the Necronomicon to eradicate evil gods together.

Thinking of this point, Su Xiao suddenly had a feeling that he seemed to be standing on the side of the friendly camp this time. But after thinking for a while about things related to evil gods, he was hungry.

"Return to the Treatment Institute for a late-night snack."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Xiusi made a handshake gesture toward the air in front of him. A green ghost hand gradually appeared and shook hands with him. He used this ghost hand like a door handle, and with a creak, he pulled open a wooden door in the air.

Around the door frame were eyeballs or grievance ghosts squeezed together. These filthy things were wriggling and panting, slippery and cold. It could be said that Xiusi's space ghost gate was very underworld.

One of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's hind legs had already begun to tremble uncontrollably. Just now, hearing that he was going back to eat, he was full of joy. What was more worth being happy about than eating? But now, the expression on his dog face gradually became serious.

Seeing Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang wanted to slip away, Su Xiao grabbed Xiang Bubu's hind neck meat, and the group walked into the space ghost gate. Among them, Xiang Bubu was even "happy" to the point of constantly kicking his hind legs.

In the Treatment Institute building, in the deputy director's office, beside the desk used as a dining table, the aggrieved Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was eating chicken leg rice. The small look he gave Xiusi was almost saying: "This teenager is a disaster."

After dinner, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the top of the main building, blowing the night wind and meditating daily. The promotion mission and the main mission would only officially start after God Sacrifice Day began. In other words, doing nothing now was the best strategy.

At the same time, outside High Wall City, in a gray rock valley dozens of kilometers away.

Here, messy triangular wooden tents were built with various semi-rotten wood materials. Judging from the scale, this was a refugee tribe with a population of over a hundred.

In the past, such a refugee tribe with a population of over a hundred was already very difficult to mess with. After all, being able to survive in this evil land itself was an amazing thing.

But now, this refugee tribe was almost swallowed by flames, with broken limbs and arms everywhere.

Under the reflection of the firelight, figures that were human-shaped overall, nearly three meters tall, with sparse hair all over their bodies, appeared. Their hair was wild, their fangs were sticking out, and their rough appearance revealed a bit of unintelligent dullness.

This was one of the branches of the wild beast species. The official name was Punaki, which meant cannibal giant monster, cannibal species, etc. The folk names included evil land troll, half-beast, etc., but more people called them cannibal monsters or cannibals, because this kind of wild beast species ate everything. Whether it was city residents or evil land refugees, they were all within their hunting range.

The fire in the gray valley was soaring into the sky. A total of 30 cannibal monsters were looting this place. Midsummer was the best time for them to hoard food. By autumn and winter, there was basically no food output in the evil land. If possible, in fact, cannibal monsters didn't want to eat refugees either. Refugees were monsters after malformation. Eating them had a certain probability of sudden death.

The leader of this group of cannibal monsters was named Broken Tooth. Because one of his fangs was broken, he was named after it. His height of nearly 4 meters and his strong physique made no fellow clan dare to resist him in this cannibal monster tribe.

In front of a group of cannibal monsters, Broken Tooth's gaze looked around. Other cannibal monsters immediately lowered their bodies and concentrated the looted spoils in front of Broken Tooth.

Seeing this, a slightly brutal smile appeared on Broken Tooth's big face. He looked at the dozens of refugees huddled together on the side, preparing to kill all these enemies.

"Kill them."

Broken Tooth spoke in the unique language of the cannibal monster tribe. Hearing this, several cannibal monsters holding weapons were about to make a move, but at this time, a cannibal monster with much more agile eyes spoke.

"Leader, we... should, leave them."

This cannibal monster who spoke was somewhat nervous. His name was Bobolo.

Hearing Bobolo's words, the smile on Broken Tooth's face gradually disappeared. He asked in a somewhat low voice: "Why not kill them?"

"It's like this, leader, we..."

Bobolo knelt on one knee, lowering his head to narrate his thoughts. In his view, looting the refugee tribe like this was a very unwise method. Every time they looted and killed all the refugees, the refugees in this hunting ground would become fewer and fewer.

Rather than this, it would be better to only loot food and precious items each time, and not kill the refugees here, while also leaving them a part of the food, letting them develop again, and waiting for a period of time before looting again.

In this way, they could loot food and precious items wave after wave, and the refugees could also survive. In the evil land, as long as they could survive, the refugee tribe would not easily leave the territory they were familiar with.

Hearing this statement, the cannibal monsters were shocked. They whispered to each other, and some even nodded repeatedly.

"You are called... Bobolo."

Broken Tooth spoke, looking down at Bobolo.

"Yes, leader."

"Come forward."

Broken Tooth spoke, which made Bobolo even more nervous, but there was more excitement in his heart.

Bobolo stood in front of Broken Tooth. Although he only reached the position of Broken Tooth's chest, in the eyes of some cannibal monsters, Bobolo was a wise man.

Broken Tooth looked down at Bobolo, and suddenly, he swung his huge palm and gave Bobolo a heavy slap on the face.

Pfft!!

A shock spread, and Bobolo was slapped spirally flying into the fire on the side, leaving a few nosebleeds that gradually fell in mid-air.

Broken Tooth roared toward Bobolo's direction: "Among us, we don't need idiots!"

After leaving this sentence, Broken Tooth strode toward the outside of the gray valley. In his simple thinking, not looting clean every time they looted, if this wasn't stupid, what was?

Above the valley, three figures stood here, witnessing everything below. One of the women spoke:

"The day after tomorrow is God Sacrifice Day. Isn't it too late to choose now?"

Hearing this, the man beside her shook his head and explained: "Can't catch them too early. The Treatment Institute is too difficult to deal with. Even if they were wiped out the day before yesterday, Kuku Lin Bai Ye is still not dead. Catching cannibal monsters and locking them in the city in advance has too high a risk."

"What are those people above thinking? Preparing for so long? Just to make some cannibal monsters come out to make trouble on God Sacrifice Day? This is also..."

The woman who spoke actually wanted to say that this was too degrading.

"It's more of a representative meaning. Cannibal monsters can eat us. Their appearance in High Wall City has a great psychological impact on the civilians. High Wall City is also the place where we live, so we can't make it too excessive."

"So that's how it is, then let's start. Try to complete this hunt before dawn."

"Good."

After speaking

Interestingly, in the minds of the citizens within the High Wall City, the refugees, beasts, and mad beasts outside the walls are all monsters. But in the minds of those refugees, beasts, and mad beasts outside, Su Xiao, the Duke, the Archbishop, the Saint Priest, Vadi Lifak, and others are the true monsters—terrifying monsters that make them fear approaching the vicinity of the high walls.

The morning sun rose. In the bedroom, Su Xiao sat up on the bed. He had just left the bedroom to prepare for breakfast when the new Dean, Lis, hurried over.

"Lord Dean, the Archbishop wishes to summon you."

The new Dean, Lis, addressed him as Lord Dean right away, clearly forgetting that she was the legitimate Dean herself, even if it was only in name.

"The Archbishop is looking for me?"

Su Xiao set down the glass of milk he had just picked up, glanced at the time, and took only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang with him as he went out.

Guided by Lis, Su Xiao did not head toward the cathedral but instead arrived at a desolate area in the southern part of the city, where there were many abandoned buildings with no inhabitants.

In front of a two-story building covered in vines, Lis knocked on the door. A moment later, an attendant wearing a black hood and hunting gear opened the door. His gaze, sharp as a scraper, swept over Su Xiao and Lis before he bowed slightly to Su Xiao and gestured for him to enter.

Entering the two-story building, the room was somewhat dim and smelled faintly of dust. The furnishings in the room were simple. Most conspicuous was a large wooden chair against the wall in front. Sitting and reclining on it was an aged, withered old man. He was covered by a blanket, revealing only his head. His lips were covered in vertical cracks, his face was full of age spots, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his eyes were clouded.

Seeing Su Xiao arrive, the old man revealed a rare, slight smile. He slowly raised his arm from under the blanket, signaling for Su Xiao to come over and sit.

This person was one of the highest authorities of the Healing Church, the Archbishop. As for his name, it seemed no one knew it anymore.

"Don't leave today. Stay here and chat with this old thing, and have an apple first."

The Archbishop handed over an apple and then stopped speaking, closing his eyes to rest as if he had fallen asleep.

At this moment, in the surrounding area, hundreds of prying eyes retreated in frustration. Some of these people had enough explosives strapped to them to level this wasteland. This was clearly a long-planned assassination, intended to eliminate Su Xiao at an immortal cost before the God Sacrifice Day began.

But at this time, Su Xiao was with the Archbishop; as long as that hidden force hadn't completely lost its mind, they wouldn't dare make a move against the Archbishop.

Inside the two-story building, Su Xiao naturally sensed those breaths in the surroundings retreating, and he naturally thought of the reason the Archbishop had brought him here.

"It will be fine by tomorrow morning. You have more important things to do; there is no need to determine a winner or loser with these dead soldiers."

After the Archbishop finished speaking, he grew even weaker and could only continue to nap and rest.

Su Xiao looked at the apple in his hand. Of course, he was not prepared to determine a winner or loser with those dead soldiers; even if he won, the gains and the risks taken would not be equal.

With nothing to do, Su Xiao closed his eyes to meditate. He happened to be free today, and all kinds of matters were prepared, just waiting for the God Sacrifice Day celebration to begin tomorrow.

After meditating for a moment, Su Xiao opened his eyes, looked at the Archbishop, pondered for a moment, and asked, "How long have you lived?"

"I have forgotten. Young man, do not pursue eternal life. What is opposite to eternal life is dead silence."

After saying this, the Archbishop truly fell asleep.

Eternal life and dead silence—Su Xiao felt this sentence contained a massive amount of information, but until there was more intelligence, everything was still just speculation.

In meditation, time passed quickly. Nightfall arrived quietly, and the city was brightly lit. Tomorrow was the grandest day of the year.

When the first ray of the morning sun rose over the high walls, the streets of the central district were almost packed with people. Civilians from the four districts of East, West, North, and South had almost all gathered here. The local residents couldn't even squeeze onto the streets and could only look out into the distance from the rooftops.

The central square was empty, but outside the iron gates of the six entrances, it was already crowded with people. People held various bouquets in their hands. Originally, sacrificing to the gods meant offering candlelight, but because candles often appeared in such numbers that they covered the statue of the god, it was changed to bouquets hundreds of years ago.

As the gates in the six directions around the central square opened, many civilians walked into the square. A miraculous scene occurred: as soon as they walked in, the petals of the bouquets in their hands began to detach and float toward the sky.

How to squeeze into the central square was a difficult problem, but how to squeeze out after sacrificing to the gods was an even greater problem. Every year, there were people injured by the crowding.

As batches of civilians came to sacrifice and then left, the sky was filled with petals of various colors, and the floral scent gave the atmosphere of the central square even more of a festive color.

A statue more than ten meters high stood in the very center of the square. This was the stone statue of the God of Eternal Life. However, to speak the truth, the God of Eternal Life did not look kind; instead, it looked more like a half-human, half-beast existence standing upright.

The square was bustling with noise. After the initial wave of people, it was no longer as crowded, and one could begin to hear the laughter of children and couples snuggling together.

On the south side of the central square, this area was semi-blocked off. In previous years, this was the jurisdiction of the Healing Church, but this year the situation was special, and this place was taken over by the Wrath Hammer organization.

The Duke stood in front of a group of Steam God Sect members. Slightly behind him was his eldest son, Krank.

"Bai Ye, it seems our worries were superfluous."

The Duke spoke, a faint smile on his face. Hearing him speak, among the group of Steam God Sect members behind him, a masked man quietly retreated. He was going to order the release of the man-eating monsters. The Wrath Hammer organization would not miss this opportunity to completely replace the Healing Church.

"The God Sacrifice Day has only just begun."

Su Xiao watched the petals floating in the sky, an ominous feeling growing closer.

Hearing this, the Duke beside him smiled and shook his head. As for the attack on God Sacrifice Day, it was he who had planned it, so of course, he was certain of success.

Drip, drip~

Raindrops fell, which made the Duke frown. Rain was not a good thing. After releasing the man-eating monsters, if things went poorly, the heavy rain would hinder the civilians' escape, thereby causing unnecessary trouble.

A bloody smell permeated the air. At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that what was falling from the sky was not rain; to be precise, it was blood rain.

Crack!

A clap of thunder sounded on a clear day, and the sky was instantly covered in dark clouds. The blood rain fell harder and harder.

"How was this done?"

Su Xiao turned his head to look at the Duke. The Duke was speechless for a moment; how the hell would he know how this was done?

The blood rain fell, causing the civilians in the central square to be extremely terrified. Among those fleeing outward, stampede incidents had already occurred.

Snap, snap~

A crisp sound came, and the stone statue of the God of Eternal Life in the center of the square cracked, finally exploding with a boom. This thing was actually a stone shell, and what was imprisoned inside was the God of Eternal Life itself.

"Roar!!!"

In the blood rain, the God of Eternal Life roared at the sky, layers of sound waves spreading out.

After witnessing all this, Su Xiao looked at the Duke beside him again. The Duke's cheeks twitched violently; he wanted to say that this matter was indeed not done by him.