Chapter 3556: The Choir and Multiple-Choice Questions

Inside the Saint Ten Cathedral, as the gate closed, the mechanisms at the top of the cathedral began to operate. The sound of gears and chains rubbing against each other echoed out. The giant clock at the top of the cathedral, which had only one hand, began to count down, tick by tick. Each tick emitted a heavy "click, click" sound.

One cycle of the giant clock was 160 ticks, which converted to over 30 minutes. When the countdown of the giant clock ended, the sealed gate of the Saint Ten Cathedral would open. If the Chosen One survived the siege of the Choir until then, it would count as passing the challenge, and they could temporarily take away the Source Stone guarded by the Choir.

If the Chosen One died in the subsequent battle, the Choir would temporarily leave the Saint Ten Cathedral, retrieve the Source Stone they guarded, and wait for the arrival of the next Chosen One.

This was also why the Wolf Knight at the Wolf Grave had become the "last" Wolf Knight. That side was known alongside the Choir as the two major combat forces of the Healing Church. However, the Wolf Knights were in charge of slaughter; they wouldn't accept challenges. Those who came were warriors, and if they wanted to take away the Source Stone, they had to use a more direct method. Once the battle started, it was either life or death.

To this day, only the last Wolf Knight remained of the original Wolf Grave. However, the Wolf Knights were different from the Choir. On that side, no matter how many Wolf Knights remained, only one would stand out to fight the Chosen One one-on-one, while the other Wolf Knights would watch the entire process from the sidelines, and also prevent third parties from intruding and interfering with this life-and-death battle.

Inside the Saint Ten Cathedral, there was an empty field, ethereal whispers, and vivid reliefs on the walls. However, the most eye-catching were still the five members of the Choir.

Su Xiao pressed one hand on the hilt, and the long blade unsheathed at a speed that wasn't considered fast. The blade edge hummed lightly. The strong enemies dozens of meters away opposite didn't immediately rush over.

These five Choir members used: a spiral long spear, a diamond shield + long blade, soul bow and arrows, soul battle hammer, and a crystal scepter.

The Choir member standing at the very front was the one holding the diamond shield + long blade. Compared to the other members, she was clearly more robust and wore full-metal golden armor. Her name was Saint Heart Seventeen.

This was naturally not her original name; it was a title derived from her ranking within the Choir, plus the fact that she had been crowned with the Saint Heart. Usually, she was referred to as Saint Seventeen.

Don't think that being ranked seventeenth was low. In the Age of Gods, the Choir would have 30 members crowned with the Saint Heart at the same time. Being ranked seventeenth was already considered excellent.

From Saint Seventeen's weapons and attire, it could be seen that she belonged to the vanguard among the five Choir members, specializing in control and defensive abilities. Battle Shield Grandmaster Lv. 68 + Blade Art Grandmaster Lv. 52 meant that she wasn't just good at defense.

To the left of Saint Seventeen was Saint Heart Ten, who held a translucent soul battle hammer. Although Saint Heart Ten looked slender and didn't wear metal armor, her right arm was completely wrapped in metal, and it was a tight-fitting metal layer that clung to the skin of her right arm, giving her a somewhat fierce look.

To the right of Saint Seventeen was Saint Heart Seven, who held a soul greatbow. Compared to the other Choir members, she appeared petite, but gave off a sharp feeling, like a golden poisonous bee staring at someone else's soul.

And behind Saint Seventeen, Saint Heart Ten, and Saint Heart Seven, standing in the center position and half a head taller than the other Choir members, was naturally the big sister of the Choir, Saint Heart One.

Saint Heart One held a spiral long spear in one hand. This spiral long spear was slender and sharp. The armor on Saint Heart One was made of golden armor plates and dark blue fabric. Different from the hardness of armor, it gave off a sense of beauty while also possessing strong defensive characteristics of both physical and energy types.

Not to mention anything else, Saint Heart One's Spear Art Grandmaster Lv. 70 was dizzying to look at. There was a not-insignificant gap between Lv. 69 and Lv. 70 for grandmaster-level abilities.

Standing at the very back was naturally the little sister of the Choir, Saint Heart Thirty. She wore a golden robe and a hood, and in her hand was a crystal scepter. Judging from her aura fluctuations, she wasn't a melee type.

The situation was already very clear: the Choir had three melee types and two ranged types. Among them, Saint Heart Ten, who used the soul battle hammer, and Saint Heart Seven, who used the soul bow and arrows, didn't know how many challengers had died on the spot due to their soul attacks.

As a Spear Art Grandmaster Lv. 70, Saint Heart One brought even more pressure in all aspects.

Clang!

The spear blade of the spiral spear in Saint Heart One's hand touched the ground, clearly announcing the start of the battle.

With a boom, blood energy erupted with Su Xiao as the center point. This time, the blood energy eruption was exceptionally violent. The reason was that Su Xiao was one against five and had to suppress them with blood energy first; otherwise, this battle would be impossible to fight.

As the blood energy erupted, cracks appeared on the floor of the cathedral. Including Saint Heart One, all five members of the Choir felt the pressure rushing toward them. They all simultaneously blocked in front of them with one arm, leaned forward, but even so, they were still being pushed back at a slow speed.

Through the violent blood energy erupting toward them, Saint Heart Thirty saw a figure with blue light in its eyes, holding a blade in one hand, standing in front.

Pop!

The sound of wind breaking appeared. It was Saint Heart Seven releasing the bowstring in her hand. A translucent arrow composed of soul energy broke through the blood energy, pierced through layers of air waves, and shot toward Su Xiao's forehead, finally piercing his skull and pinning him to the wall more than ten meters behind, exploding with a boom, sending rubble flying.

Su Xiao, whose skull had been pierced, not only didn't fall but instead took the initiative to rush forward. Seeing this, Saint Seventeen, holding the diamond shield + long blade, met him. She had the shield in her left hand and the blade in her right, and the hilt of the long blade in her hand was relatively long.

Clang~

Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan tore through space, slashing out a black mark while slashing toward the sturdy shield in Saint Seventeen's hand. Facing this slash, Saint Seventeen's expression under her faceplate was tense. This battle, full of pressure, made her long-dormant thinking quickly wake up and reach its peak at an extremely fast speed.

The long blade slashed onto the sturdy shield, but what was surprising was that Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan seemed to slash at nothing, easily passing through the sturdy shield.

The reason for this was that when Su Xiao avoided Saint Heart Seven's arrow, he had already used the Dragon Shadow Flash ability to enter a state of spatial penetration, and could maintain this state for 3 seconds.

From his rush to Saint Seventeen's front and slashing this blade, the total time taken was 1.83 seconds. Therefore, he was still in a state of spatial penetration, and Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan and the sturdy shield in Saint Seventeen's hand were simply not in the same spatial boundary, naturally unable to collide with each other, leading to passing through.

But the moment Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan slashed past the sturdy shield, Su Xiao exited the state of spatial penetration, and the long blade slashed straight toward Saint Seventeen's neck. If this slash hit, even if Saint Seventeen didn't have her neck broken and head severed, she would definitely be severely injured and near death.

The piercing wind pressure rushed toward him, and golden brilliance flashed before Su Xiao's eyes. A long spear passed by Saint Seventeen's neck and clanged against the inside of her shield. This long spear happened to block the blade Su Xiao had slashed.

This process seemed very long, but it was actually just a matter of an instant. Even though the battle had just begun, if anyone dared to make a mistake, even the Choir would suffer casualties.

Clang!!

The long blade slashed onto the spiral spear, and the impact produced caused the surrounding rocky ground to explode and rise.

The blade edge and the spiral spear collided, making a clicking sound. Saint Heart One stared at Su Xiao, her calm gaze seemingly saying two words: "Don't even think about it."

A whistling sound came; it was the sound of a heavy weapon being swung. If Su Xiao retreated at this time, he would definitely be suppressed by Saint Heart One, so he raised his left forearm, with crystal layers clinging to it, to hard-tank the heavy weapon swing from the left. One against many was like this; it was impossible to avoid all attacks.

Bang!!

The long-handled soul battle hammer smashed onto Su Xiao's left forearm. Don't look at the fact that the lower half of Saint Heart Ten's face had a bit of baby fat; when she swung the soul battle hammer, she gritted her teeth and was extremely ruthless.

Blocking four members of the Choir by himself, Su Xiao not only didn't retreat, but a blood energy phantom also formed above him, nearly ten meters high, with only the upper body, holding a giant blood blade in its hand. Looking at the posture, it was clearly about to slash down.

Almost simultaneously, the little sister Saint Heart Thirty arrived behind Saint Seventeen, who was holding the sturdy shield, and pressed her small hand on Saint Seventeen's back.

The pupils in Saint Seventeen's eyes became as brilliant as crystals, and she kicked forward with all her might.

"Crystal Blast."

Boom!

A wave of air with crystal patterns exploded, and Su Xiao was sent flying backward.

Flying in mid-air, Su Xiao grabbed the ground with his left hand covered in crystal layers. The moment his fingers touched the ground, he plowed through, sending rubble flying.

Su Xiao stabilized his figure in a half-squatting posture. He didn't even need to look to know that the three melee types, Saint Heart One, Saint Heart Ten, and Saint Seventeen, had already rushed to the front.

Su Xiao gripped the rubble he had grabbed in his left hand. Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy eroded and crystallized, and the injection of blood energy made every crystal fragment have a fine, web-like blood energy distribution.

Pop!

Su Xiao threw the crystal fragments in his hand with all his might. These crystal fragments flew toward the three sisters of the Choir like shotgun pellets. Saint Seventeen's sturdy shield pressed forward, and a golden barrier covered in patterns appeared.

The crystal fragments hit the barrier, and blood energy explosions appeared one after another, accompanied by a blood shadow.

Whoosh, Su Xiao swept out a blood shadow, rushing to the front of Saint Heart Seven, who was holding the soul greatbow. This situation was already a huge crisis for Saint Heart Seven.

"Divine Penetration."

Saint Heart One leaped up. The golden energy on her body instantly merged into her spiral spear, and she threw this spear out.

Poof!

The spiral spear pierced through Su Xiao's body diagonally, pinning him to the ground. Blood flowed from the wound on his flank, quickly forming a large puddle at his feet.

Seeing this scene, Saint Heart One frowned. She didn't believe that an enemy who could bring her such pressure would be pierced and killed like this.

Crack, crack, crack~

The "Su Xiao" pinned to the ground quickly crystallized. This was clearly a crystal shell. Inside was blood energy. Because of the transformation of blood energy, there was a scene of blood splashing when injured. What made it even harder to distinguish was that this crystal shell was also injected with soul energy and body energy, further making it look real.

Discovering that this was a crystal shell, Saint Heart One's pupils shrank sharply. She thought of what was going on and quickly looked at her little sister, Saint Thirty.

Whoosh!

A blood shadow broke through the air. Su Xiao had already appeared behind Saint Thirty, and together with him was Baja, who helped him hide. No one stipulated that one couldn't bring followers to fight the Choir; after all, the Choir had five people.

Clang!

The long blade slashed past, even leaving a black mark in the air representing the unfolding of space. Saint Thirty was beheaded with one blade, blood beads splashed, and her headless body slowly fell.

"Saint Heart Aggregation."

Saint Heart One raised one hand, and the pupils of her eyes completely turned golden-white. Almost simultaneously, Saint Heart Seven, Saint Heart Ten, Saint Seventeen, and even the beheaded Saint Heart Thirty turned into golden fluid and gathered toward Saint Heart One.

Tight-fitting golden armor covered Saint Heart One's body, wrapped in dark blue fabric on the outside. Her golden fishbone braids hung from the back of her head armor. When they reached the middle section, the fishbone braids split into five, and each thin braid had a golden ring like a finger ring at the end. Each ring had an ancient number, representing 1, 7, 10, 17, and 30 respectively.

This was the true Choir, led by Saint Heart One, with the other four assisting her in battle. After entering this state, their conditions all recovered to their peak.

The Eyes of the Masses behind Su Xiao activated, starting to detect the Choir's data. He was still wondering why the Choir, which had been numerous and powerful before, hadn't given him a particularly strong sense of danger. Now it was different.

【Comparing both sides' intelligence attributes. Comparison complete. The friendly side's intelligence attribute is??? times that of the enemy. 42.3% of the enemy's data has been detected.】

Name: Choir

Category: Saint Heart Race/Immortal.

Health: 500%

Holy Power: 90152/95000 points (Body energy can only perform partial gain stacking.)

Strength: 273 (Real attribute)

Agility:??? (Real attribute)

Stamina: 270 (Real attribute)

Intelligence:??? (Real attribute)

Charisma: 279 (Real attribute).

Skill 1, World Shackles (World Passive, Lv. EX): The comprehensive ability of this unit has been permanently reduced. All attributes, technique abilities, passive abilities, etc., have been permanently reduced.

Skill 2, Holy One (Passive, Lv. 82): Health +32000, ignores all control effects, reduces 92% holy damage, suppresses same-tier "Evil Characteristics."

Skill 3, Holy Weapon (Passive, LV. 79): All attacks carry 500 points + Intelligence attribute x 4.5 holy damage.

Skill 4, Soul Symbiosis (Passive, LV. 78): All attacks carry 470 points + Soul Strength x 6.7 soul damage.

Skill 5, Technique Grandmaster (Technique Passive, Lv. 70): Melee attacks carry 350 points + Agility attribute x 2.7 real damage.???

Skill 6, Spear Art Grandmaster (Passive, Lv. 70):???.

Skill 7, Battle Shield Grandmaster (Passive, Lv. 68):???.

Skill 8, Battle Hammer Grandmaster (Passive, Lv. 69):???.

Skill 9, Archery Grandmaster (Passive, Lv. 69):???.??????

Skill 12, Dead Silence Immersion (Passive, Lv. EX): During battle, one's own comprehensive ability will be continuously reduced, with a maximum reduction of 45% of comprehensive ability.???

Skill 14, Holy Bloom (Ultimate Skill,???): This ability cannot be used due to dead silence erosion.

Skill 15, Solar Cutting: Extreme Day (Ultimate Skill, Lv. EX): This ability cannot be used due to dead silence erosion.???

Skill 18, Holy One: Flying Blood Song (???): Due to World Shackles (Passive), this ability cannot be used.

Obviously, the Choir of the past was very powerful. After all, they were the two major combat forces of the Healing Church. Coupled with the original tier of the Gloom Continent, it wasn't surprising that the Choir had such combat power.

Speaking of which, the strong individuals on the Gloom Continent performed a "dimensional reduction strike" on their own world, causing the Choir's combat power to be greatly reduced. The subsequent outbreak of dead silence was another major reduction. After so many years in the Dead Silence City, this was another layer of reduction.

Measuring by the Eighth-Tier top-tier world status of the Gloom Continent, the Choir after the triple reduction was still powerful.

At this moment, the main consciousness of the Choir was Saint Heart One. The spear blade of her spiral spear touched the ground lightly. From the start of the battle, Su Xiao had noticed that the tip of Saint Heart One's spiral spear was broken by a small section, the top 1 centimeter of the spear tip was broken.

Saint Heart One disappeared from where she was. The next instant, she was already in front of Su Xiao, and the spiral spear in her hand stabbed over.

The spiral-shaped spear light rushed toward him. Su Xiao didn't dodge or evade, slashing forward diagonally with one blade.

Clang!!

Sparks flew. The intersection of the blade edge and the spear blade caused an impact to spread, hitting the surrounding walls. The wall in the rear area of Saint Heart One was covered in slash marks, while the wall in Su Xiao's rear area was full of spiral-shaped round holes.

"Su'er (Ancient Language)."

Saint Heart One whispered. She stepped forward with one foot, and crystals appeared on the ground. Crystal-shaped spikes attacked Su Xiao's chest and face. He immediately jumped backward.

Crack, crack, crack~

The crystal spikes spread, almost touching Su Xiao's eyeballs. When he jumped back to a safe distance, a strong wind rushed toward him. It was Saint Heart One swinging her spiral spear to smash at him.

It was unbelievable that Saint Heart One, whose Spear Art Grandmaster had reached Lv. 70, would use her own spiral spear to smash people.

Just as the spiral spear was swinging, soul energy appeared. The spiral spear transformed into a long-handled soul battle hammer, smashing toward Su Xiao.

Boom!

The soul battle hammer smashed to the ground. Su Xiao, who jumped backward again, dodged this blow.

The marble floor was smashed until it cracked. After the soul battle hammer smashed down, a soul shockwave spread, affecting Su Xiao.

A buzzing sound appeared in Su Xiao's ears, and he had a brief feeling of tinnitus, after which there was no discomfort.

And on the opposite side, while the soul shockwave was sweeping, the soul battle hammer in Saint Heart One's hand transformed into a soul greatbow. She jumped backward, pulling the bow and shooting arrows in mid-air. Her golden fishbone braids flew, looking agile and heroic.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three soul arrows were shot out in succession. For those with soul strength lower than 500 points, after enduring the soul shockwave just now, they would enter a 2-3 second state of dizziness, and these three arrows would be impossible to dodge. What was even more despairing was that the Pale Hunters were originally hunters taught by the Choir, which showed the strength of the Choir's archery.

Clang, clang... Clang!

After three rhythmic crisp sounds, Su Xiao slashed away two soul arrows and blocked the last one with his blade.

For others, soul arrows might be an undefendable attack, but for Su Xiao, as long as he switched the "Soul-Severing Shadow" ability to "Soul-Severing: Soul Core," he could slash away soul arrows with his blade, or block them.

While Su Xiao tilted his head to dodge another soul arrow, his left hand wearing the Black King Armguard pointed at Saint Heart One in mid-air. Blood energy compressed to the extreme gathered at his fingertip.

"Blood Smoke Cannon."

Bang!

The straight blood energy eruption blasted out, breaking through layers of small air waves in the air along the way, finally grazing Saint Heart One's neck, plowing a semi-cylindrical wound on her neck. The fresh blood inside this wound had just gushed out when it turned into blood energy and merged into the wound.

"Resonance Blood Explosion."

Blood light surged in Su Xiao's pupils. Almost simultaneously, Saint Heart One's side neck exploded, causing her to tilt her head.

With a bang, fresh blood and broken bones splashed, but another layer of golden-white energy appeared on the wound, and the injury healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. It wasn't surprising that the Choir had this kind of healing ability.

A tall blood energy phantom appeared above Su Xiao. The half-human, half-beast blood energy phantom pointed its beast claws at Saint Heart One, and a massive amount of blood energy gathered at its fingertip, starting to compress.

"Super Blood Smoke Cannon!"

Boom!

The blood smoke cannon, half a meter thick, blasted onto the sturdy shield. Even with defense, Saint Heart One was sent flying backward.

"Blade Art: Blue Ghost."

Clang!

A blue slash swept past. In mid-air, a forearm flew out and landed with a "pat" sound. Almost simultaneously, Su Xiao pointed at this forearm and blasted it to pieces with a blood smoke cannon, so as not to let Saint Heart One pick up her arm and press it onto the wound to heal it. The Choir could do such things.

Seeing the forearm being blasted to pieces, Saint Heart One frowned. The stump of her left arm surged with flesh and blood, quickly growing a fair arm.

By this time in the battle, Saint Heart One's eyes were brighter than before. She sized Su Xiao up and down, remembering this person in her heart. Only then did she see golden energy overflowing from her whole body, and her momentum becoming stronger and stronger.

Su Xiao gathered back the blood energy phantom. After the blood energy was completely restrained, Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy almost erupted. His long blade was covered in blue electric arcs.

With a boom, Su Xiao and Saint Heart One disappeared from where they were at the same time. When the two appeared, the spiral spear broke through the air, and the long blade accurately slashed onto the spear tip of the spiral spear. Normally, this would lead to a big loss, but the spear tip of Saint Heart One's spiral spear was broken; this was a weakness.

With a "zila" sound, the long blade actually slashed into the spiral spear. This made Saint Heart One immediately change weapons, and a soul battle hammer appeared, smashing toward Su Xiao.

Crystal layers clung to Su Xiao's left hand, and then covered his soul energy. He applied the wonderful feeling of the blade edge severing the soul to his fist, and then swung a side punch, smashing toward the incoming soul battle hammer.

Slap!

Su Xiao smashed the soul battle hammer with one punch. This scene made Saint Heart One's eyes widen, and she looked at Su Xiao with some incomprehension. She couldn't understand why Su Xiao's soul could be so strong.

What made Saint Heart One even more incomprehensible happened immediately after. Su Xiao kicked straight, kicking toward Saint Heart One.

Boom!!!

Saint Heart One turned into a straight line and flew backward one after another. She smashed into the wall with a boom, and while rubble flew, smoke and dust rose.

The Saint Heart One, Saint Heart Seven, Saint Heart Ten, Saint Seventeen, and Saint Heart Thirty, who had originally gathered as the Choir, were now kicked until they were somewhat separated. In the concave pit on the wall, their upper bodies suddenly separated, one turning into five, and then they all spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood at the same time. Except for Saint Heart One, the other four looked at each other, all a bit stunned by the kick.

Su Xiao would not give the Choir time to catch their breath. After his right lower leg regained sensation, he sheathed his long blade, preparing to use Blade Dao Blade · Blood Shadow, a single-slash thrusting strike, to launch a surprise attack.

Just then, the five members of the Choir turned into five golden energies, and after each recovered their flesh and blood bodies, they leaped onto five high platforms on the inner side of the cathedral.

On the high platform, the five Choir members bowed, indicating that Su Xiao hadn't passed the test, but had defeated them. Saint Heart One took off the key pendant from her neck and tossed it to Su Xiao.

【Prompt: You have obtained the Secret Treasury Key.】

【Because you defeated the Choir and completed the Warrior's Trial, you have obtained 10% World Source (this is a trial reward).】

【Your reputation in the Choir has increased significantly, reaching the highest reputation level.】

【You have obtained the Choir Emblem (this emblem will disappear after leaving this world).】

A golden emblem appeared on the back of Su Xiao's hand. This emblem was somewhat similar to that of the Healing Church, but it looked simpler.

The gate behind him gradually opened. Not only did this door open, but a stone door on the inner side of the Saint Ten Cathedral also opened.

On the high platform above the stone door, Saint Heart One drew a dagger, stabbed the dagger into her chest, and then cut open the wound. Ignoring the splashing blood, she inserted two fingers into her heart and took out a black crystal from her heart, which was the Source Stone.

Saint Heart One tossed the Source Stone, which was still stained with blood. Su Xiao grabbed the Source Stone and didn't directly absorb it with the Black King Armguard, but temporarily put it away.

Saint Heart One pointed to the gate below the stone platform where she was, meaning for Su Xiao to go in.

Baja, who was in a different space, appeared. Although Su Xiao had the advantage, it had also prepared to help fight. But after seeing Saint Heart One jump up and shoot three arrows in succession, this triggered Baja's autistic past.

"Boss, the Choir won't suddenly give us a few arrows, right?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak.

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang, who had been shot in the butt before, barked.

Taking Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja, Su Xiao walked through the opposite gate. This was the back door of the Saint Ten Cathedral. Just as he walked out, he saw several church knights stationed in the long courtyard.

After seeing the emblem on the back of Su Xiao's hand, the church knights stood straight with a "clatter," and the heavy shields in their hands were lowered a bit, and they bowed their heads slightly to Su Xiao. Until Su Xiao left the courtyard, the church knights raised their heads and continued to guard there.

Obviously, within the sphere of influence of the Choir, Su Xiao could already come and go freely. After passing the long courtyard, he came to a street with a row of church knights standing on each side. The number of church knights was more than expected.

Walking all the way, Su Xiao arrived at a palace. After entering the door, there was a door in each of the three directions of the palace.

The metal door on the left was half-damaged. Looking inside, it was a huge room with a pond. It was a scene of decay inside, the water in the pond had dried up, and only bones remained of the aquatic creatures inside. There was nothing worth exploring here.

Su Xiao looked at the metal door on the right. This metal door was intact, with

Having just fought a battle with the Choir, even though the Choir's condition was worsening the longer they fought due to the erosion of the Dead Silence, Su Xiao's current state was not as good as imagined. To be safe, he would wait for the effects of the recovery potion to fully manifest before opening this door.

The door at the innermost part of the palace was also tightly shut. Su Xiao arrived before the door and took out the 【Secret Treasury Key】 previously given by Saint Heart One.

This key emitted a faint light and was sucked onto the door. In turn, the metal door in front clicked and opened on its own.

Walking inside, Su Xiao first saw empty suits of armor or battle gear on both sides, which were left behind by members of the Choir throughout the ages. After passing through this corridor, stairs leading underground appeared in front.

Walking down the stairs for a few minutes, a silver-gray metal door blocked the way. A circular lock dial was embedded in the door, and a face emerged on the dial, saying, "Password."

Su Xiao had seen this kind of lock-dial face once before. The five members of the Choir clearly knew that Su Xiao could enter the door without a password.

Su Xiao stepped back a few paces. Just as he rushed forward to deliver a direct kick, the expression on the face on the door twisted, and it shouted with a cracked voice, "Wait a second!!"

Click! Click... Click!

The lock-dial face used the fastest speed of its life, achieving an excellent result of 0.28 seconds, to complete the opening of the door this time.

"The three of you, please come in."

The lock-dial face smiled with extra enthusiasm.

Su Xiao led Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja into the silver-gray metal door. Looking around, this was a treasury filled with shelves.

What was even more surprising was that there were people inside. The anonymous Lu Ge, who had met Su Xiao a few times, and the Valhalla member Xue Guai were currently in this treasury, each holding a bag filled with quite a few items.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Lu Ge and Xue Guai stopped their actions and stared at the entrance while holding weapons. When they witnessed that it was Su Xiao who had entered, Lu Ge hurriedly hid the short blade in his hand behind his back. Xue Guai, on the other hand, was even more straightforward; he sucked in his stomach, tucked his hips, and knelt down with a thud.

At the same time, inside a certain building in the Dead Silence City, Valhalla leader Cain was waiting with some anxiety for Lu Ge and Xue Guai to return after completing their task. Near him, a figure draped in a dark gold robe and wearing a hood was sitting nearby; this was none other than the Duke.

"Are you sure there is a treasury there?"

Cain spoke. He had never trusted the Duke, even though the number of teammates he himself had sold out added up to hundreds.

"Of course I'm sure, because that treasury was built by me in the first place."

The Duke spoke with an electronic voice that carried a metallic texture. For some reason, his tone was a bit different from when he was in the High Wall City.

At this moment, inside the treasury.

Su Xiao looked at the two people not far away. He didn't feel angry or anything of the sort, but rather puzzled: how did these two get in?

Lu Ge, who was standing stiffly beside the shelf, swallowed his saliva and said extremely sincerely, "Brother, if I said I happened to come here by chance, would you believe me?"

Su Xiao pressed one hand onto the hilt of his blade. He clearly didn't believe it. Logically speaking, this treasury was managed by the Choir. After he defeated the Choir, the other party gave him the key, which meant this was equivalent to his property.

Right now, Lu Ge and Xue Guai appeared here and were preparing to loot the items inside. This was clearly encroaching on Su Xiao's property, which meant encroaching on the property of a Law Destroyer. However, Law Destroyers are also reasonable, and generally, they would give the following choices:

A. Immediate execution.

B. Hand over all looted treasures + execution later.

C. Hand over all looted treasures + additional compensation for mental distress + consider whether to execute.

After Su Xiao helped Lu Ge and Xue Guai default to choosing A, he drew the long blade from his waist, preparing to send these two on their way. Seeing this, Lu Ge and Xue Guai shouted with extreme tacit understanding, "We will definitely compensate you for your mental distress."

Clearly, a strong desire to survive made Lu Ge and Xue Guai both want to choose C.