Chapter 3557

Inside the treasury, after an initial "friendly" negotiation, Lu Ge and Xue Guai were hung upside down in front of the wall. Su Xiao sat on a chair made of crystals, looking at the two people hanging upside down.

Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja on the side began to categorize the supplies in the treasury. According to preliminary statistics, they had struck it rich this time.

"Boss Bai Ye, you have to believe us two brothers. We really activated the teleportation array by accident and ended up here."

Xue Guai spoke. He was currently in deep despair. If he confessed truthfully, Cain and the Duke's side wouldn't let him off, but if he didn't confess, the possibility of surviving the current predicament was very low.

"If you share a portion of these resources with me, I guarantee I'll make them say everything they know. How about it?"

Gulu, who had just been brought to this location, spoke. Although she coveted the resources in the treasury, if she dared to take actual action, even if she wasn't beaten to death, she would definitely be beaten half to death.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak and lit a cigarette. Gulu on the side clicked her tongue, knowing that she wouldn't have a share of the treasures this time. This made her heart waver; if there were such situations in the future, shouldn't she be more proactive? It wasn't for anything else, the gains were simply too bountiful.

Click, click, click~

The crystal layer spread to the armrests of the chair, forming several crystal flying knives. Before Su Xiao could pull one out, Gulu's eyes on the side lit up, and she said, "Let me do it. Don't look at me as an assassination type; my flying knife throwing is not accurate at all."

Hearing this, Su Xiao still didn't speak, which counted as tacit consent. Gulu on the side pulled out several crystal flying knives from the armrests, held one between two fingers, and threw it toward Lu Ge and Xue Guai.

With a bang, the crystal flying knife pierced past Xue Guai's ear and nailed into the wall a few centimeters behind his head. He swallowed his saliva with a gulp, and the corners of his eyes twitched fiercely.

Bang, bang, bang...

Gulu threw out flying knives one after another, her face smiling more and more happily. Meanwhile, Lu Ge and Xue Guai, who were hanging upside down, had fine beads of sweat seeping out on their faces. Although they weren't hit by the knives, this feeling was worse than being hit by one. Moreover, with Gulu's throwing power, if these crystal flying knives hit a vital point, there was a high probability they would die.

After polishing off the crystal flying knives in her hand, Gulu might have felt it wasn't enough. She took out a towel, tore off a strip, and held it up to Su Xiao, meaning for him to give her a few more crystal flying knives and then tie this thing on her.

Before long, Gulu, who was blindfolded and had voluntarily retracted her perception, held several "Mercy Thorns" in her hand. After roughly judging the direction, she threw out a Mercy Thorn.

With a muffled groan, the Mercy Thorn nailed into Xue Guai's leg. Xue Guai didn't care about this small injury, but in the next second, his expression twisted into a ball, and his body trembled as if it had been set to vibration mode. This kind of "sour and refreshing" sensation was something even he, an Eighth-Tier contractor, couldn't withstand.

The Mercy Thorn was invented by a genius alchemist, and its purpose was to make those stubborn enemies easier to negotiate with.

"I surrender, I'll talk, I'll say everything."

Xue Guai, covered in cold sweat and panting like an ox, shouted. Hearing this, Gulu took off the blindfold, examined the Mercy Thorn in her hand, developed a strong interest in this thing, and decisively put away the remaining four Mercy Thorns.

A moment later, Xue Guai was let down. This guy, who looked burly but had mastered the art of trimming his sails and bullying the weak, wiped the cold sweat from his face and began to narrate the course of events.

This matter was interesting to tell. Lu Ge and Xue Guai didn't come to intercept the loot. In the previous world, Pandora Star, Cain, Lu Ge, and Xue Guai formed a team for various reasons, and they could be considered birds of a feather.

Among these three, Cain was a teammate-pit-trapping maniac. This guy controlled a large adventure group and used this framework to recruit members. Once the members were recruited, he would trap them all to death, then devour their souls and seize their wealth. Although the name "Nightmare Ghost Cain" wasn't widely spread, those who knew him would feel wary.

Comparing combat power, Cain entered the Ghost King state, and he was completely at the top tier of the super-eighth tier. Among the contractors within the eighth tier, there were a few who were similar to him, but there really wasn't anyone who could steadily defeat him. However, this was before he met Su Xiao, who had 650 points of soul strength.

Meeting Su Xiao, Cain was truly hammered into a state of autism, but this couldn't be said to mean Cain was weak; it was just bad luck meeting a nemesis.

The teammate-selling maniac Cain, after meeting Lu Ge and Xue Guai, found that the three of them were unexpectedly birds of a feather. Among them, Lu Ge was an Apocalypse Paradise contractor, gentle in temper and humble to others.

Generally speaking, such a person in Apocalypse Paradise should have joined an adventure group long ago. The fact was, Lu Ge had been residing in various adventure groups from the first to the fourth tier, accompanied by the total annihilation of quite a few adventure groups.

That's right, Lu Ge's innate ability was to absorb the luck of those around him to strengthen himself. This was a bit like Hao Mei's innate ability, but the specific situation was different.

Hao Mei belonged to the type that made teammates around her unlucky, unlucky to the point of spraining their ankles whenever they went out, or choking several times even when drinking cold water. Although this was the case, it didn't reach a life-threatening level.

Moreover, Hao Mei's innate ability depended on the luck of the people around her and whether it could suppress her luck. If it was suppressed, then several people would have good luck together. For example, right now, Hao Mei's two best friends, Morey and Moon Apostle, were people with good luck, successfully suppressing the bad luck she brought to her teammates, and instead, all three had good luck together.

Lu Ge's situation was different. Hao Mei influenced the luck of those around her, while the gentle-natured Lu Ge absorbed the luck of those around him, causing his teammates to be unlucky.

The number of teammates Lu Ge sent away from the first to the fourth tier was so many that he didn't dare to remember them himself. For this, he had been sorrowful for a long time.

By the fifth tier, his innate ability grew to awaken on its own. This time it was even more outrageous; he didn't even need to be in the same adventure group as him. Even if they just formed a temporary team with him, there was a danger to life. The thing Lu Ge did most often was tearfully pick up his teammates' Scarlet Cards.

Even so, Lu Ge still didn't fall into depravity. Occasionally picking up Scarlet Cards gave him more resources, and his strength began to stand out. It wasn't until the eighth tier that his talent awakened for the second time, reaching its peak, which also opened Lu Ge's journey of courting death.

This time it was even more outrageous. Just by forming a temporary team with him, there was a probability of over 90% of dying suddenly due to various dangers. Regarding this, Lu Ge also saw through it. Since he couldn't have teammate friendship, he simply used this as a weapon to join those temporary teams with ulterior motives, which significantly increased the quantity and quality of resources he obtained.

Lu Ge certainly discovered that Cain was the legendary Nightmare Ghost. He wasn't afraid of this, but joined the Valhalla adventure group as a temporary member. As for why he didn't become a formal member, Valhalla was an adventure group of the Death Paradise faction, and Lu Ge was an Apocalypse Paradise contractor, so he couldn't become a formal member of the Valhalla adventure group.

The current situation was that Cain was puzzled why Lu Ge still dared to come, and Lu Ge was puzzled why Cain hadn't been cursed to death yet. This was a typical case of mutual harm.

As for Xue Guai, this guy didn't look like anything special, but he had survived until now in a way others couldn't imagine. The degree of his foul mouth, and the fact that he hadn't been beaten to death until now, was also a miracle. Last time, he scolded Hao Mei in the World Contact Platform and was beaten half to death by Hao Mei.

The reason why Lu Ge and Xue Guai appeared here had to be mentioned in relation to another collaborator they met before entering the Dead Silence City this time: the Duke.

The Duke came to seek cooperation with Cain, both because of Cain's strength and also holding the idea of letting the other party be a scapegoat if there was danger.

In this way, Cain, Lu Ge, and Xue Guai all entered the Dead Silence City with the Shelter Stone provided by the Duke, and subsequently went straight to the inner city area via a secret route.

Hearing this, Su Xiao felt puzzled. The entrance to the Dead Silence City had been sealed for a long time. Let alone the Duke, even his grandfather's generation couldn't have entered the Dead Silence City.

The Steam God Sect developed technology, and its founder, the Steel Apostle, was the first to fall in the battle against the Sin God. The Steel Apostle, whose core was damaged, fell into a long slumber not long after the Sin God was sealed. The establishment of the Steam God Sect was also with the help of the Archbishop.

Inferring from this, the Steam God Sect's understanding of the Dead Silence City should be far inferior to the Healing Church. Even the Healing Church didn't know there was a relatively safe path within the Dead Silence City that could lead directly to the inner city area.

Not only that, according to what Xue Guai said next, the Duke not only knew the secret passage but also knew about the treasury guarded by the Choir and the special way to enter this treasury.

This made it even more incomprehensible. The Duke's degree of understanding of the Dead Silence City was not just that he had been here, but more like he had stayed here for a very long time.

Su Xiao originally felt that the Duke was a dangerous opponent. Now it seemed that the other party's danger level had risen another tier, reaching a level higher than the Dragon God Dean.

"You can go now."

Su Xiao showed a kind smile. Gulu on the side, after seeing this scene, suddenly shuddered. She, who feared nothing in heaven or on earth, felt a little scared in her heart at this moment.

【Prompt: You have received a trade request.】

【You have received 12,700 Soul Coins from Apocalypse Paradise contractor No. 18***11, Lu Ge.】

As expected of someone from Apocalypse Paradise, even though his wealth was far inferior to Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei, he was still quite willing to spend money to buy his life.

【Prompt: You have received a trade request.】

【You have received 4,950 Soul Coins from Death Paradise contractor No. 17***08, Xue Guai.】

Closing the prompt, blood energy gathered above Su Xiao, gradually forming a blood energy phantom. Lu Ge, who was walking outward, stiffened his expression, gave an awkward dry cough, and then sent another trade request.

【You have received 2,790 Soul Coins from Apocalypse Paradise contractor No. 18***11, Lu Ge.】

Compared to Lu Ge, who had hidden a sum of money, Xue Guai, who only took out less than 6,000 Soul Coins, was instead calm, because that was all he had.

Getting 20,000 Soul Coins so easily could be considered an extra surprise for entering this treasury. However, such things were hard to encounter. If they hadn't encountered it in the previous world and had a slight understanding of Su Xiao's style of doing things, Lu Ge and Xue Guai would rather die on the spot than pay this money.

The reason was that to avoid subsequent retaliation, the recipient of the money would most likely choose to silence them. Su Xiao being able to get these 20,000 Soul Coins was thanks to Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei.

In the previous world, Lu Ge, as a fellow Apocalypse Paradise contractor, knew about the encounter of the Apocalypse Sisters. He originally thought these three sisters were finished, but discovered that these three sisters actually survived.

Lu Ge and Xue Guai left the treasury with trepidation. The moment they left Su Xiao's line of sight, both of them rushed outward at full speed.

Two minutes later, Lu Ge and Xue Guai returned to the treasury. The reason was that after exiting the underground passage, it was the palace, and outside the palace were all Church Knights.

Ignoring the two, Su Xiao began to count the gains in the treasury, totaling as follows:

【You have obtained Soul Crystal Core x 72.】

【You have obtained Ancient One Scroll.】

【You have obtained Soul Residue x 1852 pieces.】

【You have obtained Soul Residue (Large) x 195 pieces.】

If Su Xiao didn't guess wrong, most of what was stored here were Soul Crystals and Soul Crystal Cores. But because the storage time was too long, some storage utensils were eroded by the Dead Silence, causing the Soul Crystals and Soul Crystal Cores inside to be eroded by the Dead Silence energy and become Soul Residue.

If he didn't guess wrong, originally in this treasury, there should have been stored more than 1,800 Soul Crystals (complete) and more than 200 Soul Crystal Cores. Considering the former power of the Choir, having such assets was a matter of course.

Regarding why there were problems in storage, given the current situation in the Dead Silence City, the Choir wouldn't put their attention here, but would instead resist the slow erosion of the Dead Silence as much as possible, waiting for the subsequent arrival of the Chosen One.

Even so, the 72 Soul Crystal Cores that were still well-preserved were also a huge sum of money. In the past, Su Xiao fighting through a world's progress to obtain a dozen Soul Crystal Cores was already a bountiful harvest.

After putting away the Soul Crystal Cores, Su Xiao saved all the Soul Residue with a sealed box. This thing might still be useful in the future. And the final 【Ancient One Scroll】, this thing was very interesting.

【Ancient One Scroll】

Origin: Dark Continent · Soul Library · Top Floor.

Quality: Consumable/Scroll.

Durability: 1/3 (Cannot be restored by any means).

Usage Prerequisite: Soul Energy Tier (8).

Equipment Effect: Ancient Miracle (Active), requires first selecting a skill scroll as the carrier for this scroll. After activating this scroll, it will perform a reverse distortion on the attached skill scroll.

Prompt: During the reverse distortion process, the user needs to provide a large amount of high-tier energy. The tier of this energy will determine the degree, characteristics, and upper limit of the reverse distortion.

Introduction: The preciousness of this item depends on the user's vision and wisdom.

Su Xiao put away the 【Ancient One Scroll】. Regarding this item, he had a unique idea, but he didn't know if it could succeed. Of course, this would require him to return to the Reincarnation Paradise alive to put it into practice.

After organizing the gains, Su Xiao's gaze turned to Lu Ge and Xue Guai. The two were sitting by the wall, one borrowing wine to drown his sorrows, the other puffing on a cigar. Xue Guai's ability to inhale half a cigar and then not exhale even a bit of smoke made one suspect whether he was a range hood in his past life.

Discovering Su Xiao casting his gaze, both of them smiled sheepishly. They couldn't walk through the main entrance, so they could only return the way they came. The problem was, if they opened the secret space passage, the other side connected to the location of Cain and the Duke.

While Lu Ge was still struggling, Xue Guai on the side had already neatly taken out a disc-shaped mechanism. After a total of a few minutes of setup, a space passage about two meters high opened.

Su Xiao let Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja stay behind, and he himself leaped into the space passage.

The space in front was exceptionally chaotic, with light and shadow flying past in the surroundings. Su Xiao looked ahead, confirmed there was no problem, and walked toward the exit of the space passage. At the same time he reached the exit, he heard someone outside say:

"How was the harvest?"

The person who spoke was Cain. Inside the dilapidated but still relatively complete building, Cain stared at Lu Ge and Xue Guai. That gaze was clearly saying that if they dared to embezzle even a little, he would make them die on the spot.

"Uh~, about that."

Lu Ge didn't know how to answer for a moment. Just at this time, Su Xiao walked out from the space passage behind him.

The moment Su Xiao appeared, the Duke, who was sitting on a wooden box by the wall, suddenly stood up. The blue light in his mechanical eyes immediately switched to deep red representing combat. The core engine in the center of his chest entered from 65% to an overload of 110%, which caused electronic patterns to appear on the dark gold robe on the Duke's body.

"Cain, I'll suppress his mobility, you..."

The Duke's words were only half spoken when his expression stiffened, because there was no one left beside him. Cain, who was standing beside him 0.5 seconds ago, was now on the opposite street a hundred meters behind.

If time were abundant, Cain should have said to the Duke: "Suppress your head, retreat quickly. I hit this guy with a soul-type ultimate ability in the previous world and only dealt triple-digit damage."

In the confrontation in the previous world, even though Cain suffered setbacks repeatedly, he never thought of giving up or admitting defeat, even if he was on the verge of death because of it. But when his soul-type ultimate ability hit Su Xiao and dealt triple-digit damage, Cain decided on the spot that from now on, he would act as if this person didn't exist. There were so many mission worlds, and it was very possible he would never meet him again.

Inside the old building without doors or windows, Cain suddenly withdrew. Although it caught people off guard, the Duke, a ruthless person, made a prompt decision, and a sense of danger spread to the surroundings.

Boom!

A short and deafening explosion sound came. A crystal layer quickly climbed onto Su Xiao's body surface. He raised one hand, and as the explosion hit him head-on, a crystal wall started from his hand and quickly spread to the surroundings.

Su Xiao leaped backward with all his might, followed by the feeling of the crystal layer on his body surface being rapidly shattered. When everything calmed down, he was already half-crouched on the roof of a residential house, and most of the crystal layer on his body surface had shattered.

Standing up on the roof, Su Xiao looked at the hemispherical crater with a diameter of a hundred meters in front. Although the range affected by the explosion wasn't large, the power was abnormally terrifying. Things within this range weren't blown up, but decomposed into atomic form.

The Duke had disappeared without a trace. Lu Ge and Xue Guai's aura could still be tracked; the two were fleeing toward the distance, but tracking these two had no practical significance.

There was one point that made Su Xiao feel puzzled, which was that Xue Guai's aura was only half, but even so, the other party still ran very fast. It seemed that being able to survive until now in a team with Cain and Lu Ge, Xue Guai also had special skills; this team was full of talented people.

Su Xiao looked around and discovered that he should be in the area near the treatment center. The buildings here were covered with green moss, which was a rare sight in the Dead Silence City. Presumably, there was something special inside the treatment center.

Returning to the Saint Ten Church, a moment later, Su Xiao returned to the palace with three doors inside and saw Xiang Bubu Wang, Baja, and Gulu who were already waiting here.

Among the three doors, the left side had no exploration value, the innermost door led to the secret treasury, and as for the right door, Su Xiao's state had largely recovered. It was time to open this door and see what was inside.

Taking out the 【Choir Badge】, with a crisp click, the 【Choir Badge】 was sucked onto the double-opening metal door. The dozen or so ring locks on the door, from large to small, began to rotate on their own, finally forming a passage of ancient text in the middle of the door, roughly meaning:

"Chosen One, make your choice based on your own judgment."

Click, click, click~

The double-opening metal door opened, and a fresh floral fragrance rushed toward him. It was truly rare to have such an area in the Dead Silence City.

After Su Xiao walked inside, he discovered that this place was larger than imagined, conservatively estimated at tens of thousands of square meters. One by one, glass jars several meters high were hung up. According to preliminary estimates, there were at least several thousand.

Inside these super-large glass jars were filled with translucent solution, and inside the solution were skeletons emitting a pale white glow. On the stepped high platforms on both sides, various models of glass tubes were used to hold a large number of eyeballs, arms, etc.

Located in front of all the super-large glass jars was the most special glass column. It stood like a pillar up to the ceiling. The solution inside was warm white. Inside the solution, a woman with long silver-white hair had her eyes tightly closed. Her skin was fair and delicate to the point of being fragile. As if sensing someone's arrival, she opened her eyes, and a pair of amber pupils made people subconsciously feel good about her. This was the Moonlight Maiden.

The Moonlight Maiden inside the solution looked directly into Su Xiao's eyes. A smile appeared on her face, and she raised her hand to press against the inside of the glass column.

Seeing this, Su Xiao raised his hand to press against the outside of the glass column, just opposite the Moonlight Maiden's palm across the glass column. He kept looking directly into the Moonlight Maiden's eyes.

The Moonlight Maiden inside the glass column pointed to a metal lever on the ground to the side. As long as Su Xiao, as the Chosen One, pulled this lever, he could release her.

Su Xiao also pointed to the metal lever to the side. The Moonlight Maiden inside the glass column nodded slowly, but in the next second, blood energy gathered at Su Xiao's fingertips, and a blood smoke cannon was fired, blasting the metal lever and the mechanism below it into twisted splashes.

Dense silver patterns appeared on the glass column. The Moonlight Maiden inside looked at Su Xiao with a disappointed expression. She pressed both hands against the inside of the glass column, as if she didn't understand why Su Xiao, as the Chosen One, would do this.

The Moonlight Maiden stroked her cheeks with both hands, then explored upward inch by inch. When she touched the top of her forehead, she felt a small gap, which made the disappointment on her face gradually disappear, and she began to smile. Her cheeks gradually tore open due to the smile, revealing her mouth that split all the way to the sides under her ears, as well as a mouth full of staggered sharp teeth.

Sharp claws protruded from the tips of the Moonlight Maiden's index fingers, scratching across the glass column on the inside. While making a screeching sharp sound, it also made the silver patterns on the surface of the glass column light up with a faint glow.

The former Moonlight Maiden was an important legacy left by the Healing Church. Without her, the Chosen One's path in the Dead Silence City would be more difficult, or even impossible to complete.

In the Archbishop's original words, as long as they weren't dead and returned to the vicinity of the Moonlight Maiden, no matter how severe the injuries were, the Moonlight Maiden could rescue the Chosen One.

But that was the former Moonlight Maiden. When she helped one Chosen One after another, she inevitably became attracted to the character of these Chosen Ones. These Chosen Ones were the strongest or leaders of each era, so their personal charm was naturally not weak.

The initial Moonlight Maiden had no emotions, and the Healing Church wouldn't give her such superfluous things. But the Healing Church gave the Moonlight Maiden wisdom. With wisdom, emotions were like tender buds after rain, gradually breaking through the soil.

Waiting alone in the place of birth for unknown how many years, finally someone came here, and the person who came was a powerful Chosen One. Among these Chosen Ones, some became her friends, and more were people she respected. But 99% of these Chosen Ones died in battle, and only a few left the Dead Silence City, and they never returned.

The constant loss of friends and the long wait in solitude finally caused the Moonlight Maiden to begin to deform from within, and subsequently gradually produced physical deformation, eventually becoming the appearance she had now.

Unless necessary, Su Xiao would not fight this evil deformed creature.

"Chosen Ones will all die. It's so dark and lonely here. Why did you leave me alone here, Chosen One?"

The Moonlight Maiden inside the glass column swam, her sharp fingertips occasionally brushing against the inner wall of the glass column.

"You'll have to ask those ashes in the cathedral."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the Moonlight Maiden's ferocious smile subsided a little.

"Oh, is that so? But that's okay, I'm no longer just a Moonlight Maiden. If I want to, I can gain freedom."

The Moonlight Maiden narrowed her amber vertical pupils and smiled in a way that was somewhat unfathomable. She continued:

"I know, you know. When the Soul Library was still there, I saw people on books who were very similar to you. They were called Law Destroyers. It seems you are one too. You are blood-sworn allies of the Lord of Moonlight."

The "Lord of Moonlight" mentioned by the Moonlight Maiden should be the Silver Moon Wolf.

"The moonlight power I possess is resisting me from being your enemy. Is this the blood oath? Truly wonderful."

As the Moonlight Maiden spoke, her sharp fingertips pointed at the inside of the glass column, leaving a fine crack on it. Clearly, she could break free from this container that sealed her. The reason she didn't break free was that the Moonlight Maiden didn't want to fight the "blood energy monster" outside.

"It's a pity, you came a few hundred years late. If it were a few hundred years ago, when I was still just a Moonlight Maiden, seeing you, I would definitely have said, 'Chosen One, welcome to your arrival.'"

The Moonlight Maiden seemed to have some nostalgia, but after discovering that Su Xiao was still looking at her expressionlessly, she gave a light sneer, pointed to a super-large glass jar several meters high diagonally behind, and said: "There is a semi-finished product there. Her vitality is truly tenacious, even though she is a semi-finished product."

Looking in the direction pointed by the Moonlight Maiden, Su Xiao saw a figure wearing a gray robe, wearing a silver mask, and sitting sideways in a super-large glass jar. This was a semi-finished product made by the Healing Church, or the initial version of the Moonlight Saintess: the Gray Maiden.

Su Xiao shattered one side of the glass jar and discovered that the Gray Maiden's aura was already very weak. He originally wanted to find a powerful healer, but ended up finding a healer who needed to be healed.

Carrying the Gray Maiden out of the glass tube, Su Xiao had Xiang Bubu Wang carry her on his back. After checking that there were no secret treasures in this place, he began to return the way he came.

Until Su Xiao left the Sanctuary of Birth, the Moonlight Maiden didn't speak again. A moment later, she said: "Come out, they have already left."

As soon as the words fell, the secret door on the wall opened, and Crow Woman walked out from inside. Not far away was a man wearing an alloy mask with both arms as mechanical prosthetics. His left eye was an electronic eye, and his right eye was a radial pupil. This was actually the Noble Son, Krank.

After the entrance to the Dead Silence City was opened previously, the Duke and Krank, this father and son, staged a scene of fatherly kindness and filial piety. The result was unclear, but judging from Krank's appearance, he had the upper hand.

The scene at hand had gradually become clear. There were a total of three teams that entered the Dead Silence City. First was the strongest four-person group of Su Xiao, Wood, Sin Abyss, and Caesar the "good teammate."

Then there was the four-person team of the Duke, Cain, Lu Ge, and Xue Guai who were harming each other and seeing who would die first.

Finally, there was the three-person group of the mutated Moonlight Maiden, Krank, and Crow Woman.

It was interesting to say that the purposes of these last three groups were completely unrelated. The Moonlight Maiden was purely watching the fun, Krank was constantly hoping for his father, the Duke, to die suddenly, and Crow Woman was here to find a way to get rid of the Book of Necromancy.

If Crow Woman couldn't do this before the time limit for staying in this world arrived, she would be directly teleported back to the Arcane Eternal Star by the Void Tree, and that would be lively.

As for Crow Woman committing suicide to avoid bringing the "Book of Necromancy" back to the Arcane Eternal Star, that was impossible. Crow Woman was willing to be an executioner for the Arcane Eternal Star, both because the Arcane Eternal Star raised her and because she already had too many enemies in the outside world. As for feeling grateful to the Arcane Eternal Star, Crow Woman, who had been helping the Arcane Eternal Star assassinate enemies since she was a teenager, really couldn't feel grateful.

On the long street outside the palace, Su Xiao returned to the "Saint Ten Church" along the original path and saw the five members of the Choir again. However, due to the language barrier, he couldn't obtain information through negotiation. Su Xiao understood some ancient languages of the disaster era of this world. As for the ancient languages of the God Era even further back, he couldn't understand a single word.

After exiting the "Saint Ten Church," Su Xiao headed straight for the direction he came from along a side street. After traveling for more than an hour, he arrived at the "Courtyard of Slumber" and subsequently returned to the "Cathedral."

Just entering the cathedral, he heard the clanging sound of blacksmithing. The workshop where the Demon Blacksmith was located was still sealed by a stone door. The stone door was glowing red, and Xiang Bubu Wang was even trying to roast an egg to eat more than ten meters away.

Finding a single room with a bed, Su Xiao placed the Gray Maiden there and injected a concentrated vitality solution. Whether the Gray Maiden could recover her consciousness, he didn't know; the other party's situation was very special.

After doing all this, Su Xiao left the cathedral and headed toward the "Gray Rock Plaza" near the high wall.

Along the way, Su Xiao discovered that there were many fewer Dead People. Presumably, the plan on Caesar's side was beginning to show results.

When Su Xiao arrived at the "Gray Rock Plaza" under the high wall, in this circular plaza where only a few winding paths remained among the bone arrows, besides the withered Black Maple Tree in the center of the plaza, Su Xiao also saw a familiar figure. It was Sin Abyss. From entering the inner city area until now, the other party had been grinding here.

Not knowing what method Sin Abyss used, he had already walked dozens of meters away and was still a dozen meters away from the Black Maple Tree. Observing carefully, one would find that he was stepping forward at an extremely slow speed.

What was astonishing was that Sin Abyss's trick was really useful. The Pale Hunters on the high wall behind weren't alarmed, as if they hadn't discovered Sin Abyss's existence.

Sin Abyss, dozens of meters away, noticed Su Xiao had come and signaled with his eyes, the general meaning being: "My method is awesome, right."

Su Xiao nodded to signal, praising the other party's clever method, while he walked quickly along the path between the bone arrows. Before long, he surpassed Sin Abyss and walked toward the withered Black Maple Tree in the center of the plaza.

Sin Abyss was stunned for a moment, and his steps subconsciously became a bit larger, which nearly alarmed the Pale Hunters on the high wall. This was only because it was Sin Abyss; if it were anyone else experiencing this, their mentality would have already collapsed.

The reason Su Xiao could walk over openly was because the Pale Hunters on the high wall were all taught by the Choir. Right now, Su Xiao had the Choir Mark obtained from defeating the Choir, so he was naturally unimpeded. Let alone the Pale Hunters, even if the Church Knights saw him, they would immediately express their respect.

Of course, after encountering the "Dead Silence City Sword Saint Group," if he should avoid them, he still had to avoid them.

Under Sin Abyss's "watching him off," Su Xiao arrived under the withered Black Maple Tree. He stabbed forward with one hand, and after his entire arm stabbed into the main trunk of the Black Maple Tree, he took out an item from inside.

【You have obtained Origin Stone · World (1/5).】