Chapter 3562: Shadow Hunting

Inside the cathedral, Su Xiao raised his hand and pressed it onto the "Sacrificial Altar." A stream of golden-black energy gradually spread from his Samsara Mark; this was the Source of Darkness he had obtained.

Gulu, who had originally been eyeing the spoils of war Bahamut was organizing, noticed the fluctuation here. After realizing the "Star Core Stone" had been activated, she asked:

"You got the Source of Darkness?"

Gulu crunched the candy in her mouth. Having touched the "Star Core Stone" earlier, she naturally knew the function and preciousness of the Source of Darkness.

Regarding talent abilities, the most common way to improve them is through talent awakening, which is divided into primary awakening and secondary awakening.

A talent ability after primary awakening can reach S-rank. No matter how strong it is, it will not exceed this limit. Talent rank does not entirely represent the strength of the talent; it more represents the degree of growth of that talent.

After a contractor enters the Paradise and signs a contract to complete semi-digitization, they awaken a talent. This is the initial talent, with a maximum rank of A. At this stage, the talent can gradually grow until the critical point before primary awakening.

After experiencing several mission worlds, contractors begin to develop unique understandings and applications of their talent abilities, using this as a foundation to develop their capabilities.

Upon reaching this stage, they can use an "Awakening Scroll" to trigger the primary talent awakening mission. Once successfully awakened, the talent can reach S-rank.

When one has a deeper realization and application of their own talent ability, it is time for secondary talent awakening. At that point, using the "Awakening Scroll: Secondary" as a medium, one can trigger the secondary talent awakening mission.

This allows the talent ability to reach SS~SSS rank, determined by the potential limit of one's own talent. Achieving this represents that one's compatibility with their talent ability has far surpassed others, and one can begin to find ways to master a second talent ability.

There are many ways to obtain a second talent, such as when Su Xiao ate the Soul Fruit. His Law-Breaking Talent, Shadow Hunting, is his third talent.

Because he already possessed "Secondary Awakened Talent: Soul Eater" and "Secondary Awakened Talent: Blood Beast," when he mastered Shadow Hunting, this Law-Breaking Talent was already in a primary awakened state. In other words, the Shadow Hunting ability only needed to complete one talent awakening to reach its peak.

This is not surprising; the third talent is just like that. It naturally completes primary awakening upon mastery, and one can directly begin secondary awakening.

However, there is one point: to awaken the third talent, the Talent Technique is useless. Su Xiao had already tried this before; it requires high-tier authority.

Besides talent awakening, the Source of Darkness is a means Su Xiao knows of to improve talent strength. Moreover, this improvement does not bring an increase in talent rank, meaning it does not affect subsequent talent awakenings.

"Hey..."

Gulu just started to speak, but her tone changed immediately, and she asked: "Father, how much Source of Darkness did you get?"

"31."

"Then how many talent abilities are you going to improve?"

"One."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Gulu's eyes brightened even more. She said: "Sell the remaining Source of Darkness to me."

"Fine."

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't refuse this. While the Source of Darkness is precious, it can only be used to improve talents. His Soul Eater and Blood Beast had previously been improved within the Dead Silence City, a branch of the Black Throne Continent. Currently, only Shadow Hunting remained unimproved. Selling the remaining 11% of the Source of Darkness to Gulu was the choice that maximized his benefits.

"You focus on improving your talent. If any outsiders come during this time, I'll slaughter them."

Gulu sat on the steps a few meters away, but her gaze gradually became suspicious. Behind Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang and Bahamut both took out first-aid equipment.

Seeing this scene, Gulu thought that using the Source of Darkness to improve talent abilities was probably quite dangerous.

Actually, Gulu misunderstood. It wasn't that using the Source of Darkness to improve talents was dangerous, but that improving a unique Law-Breaking talent ability was dangerous.

Su Xiao pressed one hand onto the Star Core Stone. As he injected the Source of Darkness into it, large patches of star points appeared on it, and a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: Checking talents that can be improved by this ritual...】

【Slaughter Talent: Soul Eater has been improved to its maximum value through this ritual. Growth Talent: Blood Beast has been improved to its maximum value through this ritual. Law-Breaking Talent: Shadow Hunting can be improved.】

【Improvement count: 0/4.】

【Detected that Shadow Hunting is the Hunter's third talent. Because the upper limit of the third talent's strength is extremely high, this ritual cannot be interrupted during improvement. If interrupted, it will bring a 5~7 times increase in the consumption of the Source of Darkness to continue the improvement.】

【Yes/No to improve Law-Breaking Talent: Shadow Hunting.】

There were many prompts, but not much content. Because the upper limit Shadow Hunting could reach was high, it was best not to interrupt this improvement—meaning, improve it four times in a row. If one stopped after each improvement, the amount of Source of Darkness consumed for the subsequent times would increase incrementally.

Su Xiao checked his own Spirit Shadow Constitution ability. The reason was:

"Spirit Shadow Constitution: Skill Effect 4: The body's adaptability to all Law-Breaking energy is improved. When mastering a new Law-Breaking ability or improving an existing Law-Breaking ability, the mortality rate is reduced by 20%."

Seeing that there was no problem with the Spirit Shadow Constitution, Su Xiao chose to improve the talent ability.

Boom!

It was as if a muffled thunderclap rang in Su Xiao's ears, followed by his vision going black, and then there was no "then." It could only be said that Law-Breaking abilities are truly considerate in the later stages; the improvement process involved no pain or discomfort. His vision went black, and when he woke up, the improvement was complete.

The moment Su Xiao improved the Shadow Hunting ability, inside the cathedral, with Su Xiao on the "Sacrificial Altar" as the center point, blue energy suddenly appeared and then surged wildly toward the surroundings.

Boom!!

An irresistible, tyrannical impact force continued to spread outward. Xiang Bubu Wang and Bahamut were immediately blown away.

Gulu, who had originally prepared to watch the show, only felt a "boom," as if someone had kicked her in the chest, and she flew backward.

While flying backward, Gulu's small hand grabbed the edge of the stone seat's armrest. She swayed like wheat in a gale, and finally, because the continuous impact was too strong, after she let out an "eh," the stone seat's armrest broke, and she flew out.

When everything calmed down, Gulu, who was already hanging on the chandelier above, pulled a metal can off her head. She tossed the metal can aside, and the expression on her face—"Who am I, where am I, what happened"—clearly represented that she was already bewildered.

"?"

Gulu, sitting on the chandelier, looked around. When she saw Xiang Bubu Wang and Bahamut walking calmly toward the "Sacrificial Altar," her subconscious thought was that Xiang Bubu Wang and Bahamut definitely weren't experiencing this for the first time.

In front of the Star Core Stone, Su Xiao sat on a crystal seat. He lit a cigarette. The gray maid behind him appeared in a praying posture, and wisps of glowing white energy merged into Su Xiao's body, allowing his severely painful internal organs to recover, and the intense pain also began to subside.

"Make an offer."

Su Xiao spoke. Gulu, who had just jumped down from the chandelier, fell silent. She glanced at the Star Core Stone, then looked at Su Xiao, and the smile she revealed afterward was a bit complicated.

"If I use this to improve my talent, I won't die, right? If I'm slaughtered by an enemy, I accept it, but to die from improving a talent ability, this..."

Gulu just wanted to continue speaking when she noticed Su Xiao's gaze gradually becoming serious, like a "benevolent father" about to hang her up and beat her.

"Don't worry, you don't have that treatment."

Bahamut spoke. Hearing this, Gulu roughly guessed what was going on.

"You Law-Breakers develop abilities, you don't develop them according to the standard of 'as long as you don't die,' do you?"

Gulu had always thought that the system she inherited was a bit extreme. Now it seemed that compared to those predecessors of the Law-Breakers, the founder of her system was simply kind-hearted.

Regarding the sale of the Source of Darkness, even if Gulu called him "Daddy," it was still 2,000 Soul Coins for 1% of the Source of Darkness, totaling 22,000 Soul Coins for 11%.

Regarding this price, it wasn't that Gulu couldn't accept it; it was mainly that she really didn't have any Soul Coins right now.

"I'll offer 23,000."

Saint Poetry suddenly spoke, which made Gulu's expression stiffen as she looked at the mouth on her palm.

Since entering the Dead Silence City, Saint Poetry hadn't said a word the whole time. Was it silence? No, she didn't want any existence in this ghost place to notice her, including Su Xiao.

After entering the Dead Silence City, Saint Poetry regretted it. Was this a place humans should come to? Why would an eighth-tier area have such a perverted danger level? Such questions often appeared in Saint Poetry's mind.

Until Su Xiao killed the Wolf Knight Captain, Saint Poetry, who was in the same combat unit as Gulu and had contributed during the battle, also got a share of the spoils. It could be said that without Saint Poetry's status buffs and healing, whether Gulu could have survived to the end was really hard to say. However, the relationship between the two sides now was that Saint Poetry owed Gulu more favors.

"Damn, are you even human?"

Gulu glared at her own palm. Saint Poetry, however, didn't care at all and said in a tone that maintained elegance with a hint of laziness: "It's a bidding war, anyone can participate. Besides, I'm a soul body now."

"You really are a dog."

Gulu said through gritted teeth.

"Woof?"

Xiang Bubu Wang, who was drinking cola with a straw on the side, looked suspicious. What did this have to do with him?

Finally, under Gulu's gaze, Saint Poetry stopped talking. She knew that if this little lunatic was provoked, the other party might really go out now, find the Dead Silence City Sword Saint team on the street to kill herself, and thus drag her to die together.

The Source of Darkness was finally sold to Gulu for 22,000 Soul Coins, but the payment process hit a snag. Gulu didn't have that many Soul Coins; the reward the Tuanzhang promised to give her wouldn't arrive until they returned to the Samsara Paradise this time.

The barter process began. Gulu took out various items from her storage space. As for why she didn't just owe it, Su Xiao agreed to this point, but Gulu would have to write an IOU.

Upon hearing the word "IOU," Gulu subconsciously shuddered and refused to write one at all costs. Only then did she start bartering with items.

When Gulu took out a piece of 【World Core (Fragment)】, a happy supply-demand relationship began. Mentioning the origin of this 【World Core (Fragment)】, Gulu was furious. She said:

"It's all that vixen, the Second One. Every time she asks me to do something for her, she gives me this stuff. If I could beat her, I'd definitely punch her. It's too bullying."

Bahamut followed the thread and asked: "The Second One?"

"Yeah, the Second One of our Brigade. Ninth-tier is amazing, huh? I'm almost ninth-tier too. When my inheritance completes the ninth awakening, I'll be super strong, and then I'll go beat her up for always bullying me."

"Yeah, yeah, you're super strong."

Bahamut's tone of perfunctoriness was undisguised.

"Don't disbelieve me. Although I'm an assassination type, the inherited system is the type that only becomes strong at a very late stage. I'm currently relying entirely on equipment to hold on. Otherwise, why do you think I like strengthening equipment so much?"

While speaking, Gulu took out another piece of 【World Core (Fragment)】. Seeing this, Su Xiao asked Gulu to take out all the existing 【World Core (Fragments)】.

Soon, a small pile of 【World Core (Fragments)】 appeared on the desk. A rough judgment was that there must be nearly 40 of them. It seemed Gulu hadn't been bullied less by the Second One; every time the Second One asked her to do something, the reward was 【World Core (Fragments)】, and if she didn't go, she would smile and beat her.

Within the Brigade, Gulu respected the Tuanzhang. As for the other members, her relationship with the First One was average, and they didn't interact often. As for the Third One, she and the other party were friends, while the Fourth One, the gravity type, was Gulu's mortal enemy. If it weren't for the fact that both were members of the Brigade, they would have already fought to the death.

And facing the Second One of the Brigade, Gulu was a bit fearful. Before she entered the Samsara Paradise, the two sides knew each other. When she was a few years old, although this neighbor big sister thought of her when she had delicious food and even took her to amusement parks, she also often ordered her around and bullied her.

Now it wasn't a problem of strength gap; it was that when Gulu saw the other party, she subconsciously felt three parts timid in her heart.

Counting the number of 【World Core (Fragments)】, there were 37 in total. According to market price, this stuff was only 350~400 Soul Coins each, belonging to rare items that were bought and sold by chance.

For this stuff, Su Xiao's latest acquisition price was 800 Soul Coins.

"These fragments, exchange for Source of Darkness."

Su Xiao had a great demand for 【World Core (Fragments)】. After inserting this stuff into the soil near the Black Maple Tree, it became a consumable, and it wouldn't take long before it was absorbed by the Black Maple Tree.

"Really?"

Gulu opposite looked at Su Xiao. Regarding these 【World Core (Fragments)】, she doubted life itself. Selling them cheaply felt like a blood loss, and they were also hard to sell. Adding a little price made them even harder to sell.

The transaction was successfully completed. Just as Gulu was about to walk toward the Star Core Stone, Su Xiao said: "In the future, if you have this stuff, you can sell it to me."

"How much?"

"800 each."

"Eh~"

Gulu turned her back, took out her phone, opened the calculator, and started calculating. This wasn't a matter of intelligence; she had self-studied literature, art, multiple languages, and geographical knowledge, and had achieved relatively high attainments in all of them. But when it involved mathematics, once the level of mathematics exceeded the multiplication table, she became confused and had to use the crystallization of human wisdom, commonly known as the calculator APP.

After some calculation, Gulu's mood was good. To say she lost, of course she didn't lose. Previously, 【World Core (Fragments)】 couldn't be sold even at 400 Soul Coins each. In her view, being able to sell this stuff at a high price in the future was very profitable.

"Oh, right, our Tuanzhang has a lot of this stuff. Why don't you buy it from him? With your friendship, he would definitely give you a discount."

"His stuff is useless for me to collect."

"Why?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just turned his head and glanced at Gulu. Seeing this, Gulu let out a light snort and muttered in a low voice: "You guys must be planning something again. It's better that I live easily."

Su Xiao sat on the steps by the wall. Having just finished improving the Shadow Hunting talent, this talent was still in a stable stage. He had to wait for it to stabilize before he could check it. Discovering this point, he took out the 【Silver Moon Blade】 from his storage space. This Overlord-tier equipment had already completed its transformation.

【Silver Moon Blade】

Origin: Overlord Creature · Silver Moon Wolf

Quality: Overlord-tier · Growth-type (Already grown twice)

Category: Secondary Equipment

Durability: 3/3 points.

Equipment Requirement: After using the equipment, there is a chance of temporary Moon Wolf transformation during battle (will be attacked by energy during Moon Wolf transformation).

Prompt: Due to the Hunter's personal reasons, this effect is permanently invalid.

Equipment Effect: Moon Oath (Active), use this blade to cut the palm. If the equipment requirement is met, it will not suffer substantial damage. Within the subsequent 30 minutes, the weapon held by the user will be buffed with the "Moon Blade" effect.

Moon Blade (Passive): Within 30 minutes, increase weapon sharpness by 120 points, increase weapon attack power by 30 points.

Moon Blade (Active): During the duration of the Moon Blade, you can activate this ability again. After activation, the weapon sharpness and weapon attack power increased by this ability will double (increase weapon sharpness by 240 points and weapon attack power by 60 points). In the subsequent 30 seconds, your movement speed, attack speed, and reaction speed will all increase by 35%, and weapon attacks will additionally carry defense-ignoring damage of your own real agility attribute × 3.2 (carrying 842 points of moonlight damage).

Prompt: Each use of "Moon Oath (Active)" will consume 1 point of durability of this equipment. This equipment's durability will not shatter when it reaches zero. After reflecting moonlight, the durability will gradually recover.

Warning: If the equipment requirement is not met, each time you perform "Blade Cutting" to buff the Moon Blade effect, the user will permanently reduce their maximum health limit by 5% (The Hunter is a Shadow of Law-Breaking and has already met the equipment requirement for this equipment).

Rating:??? (Rating is not constant. After promoting to ninth-tier, you will obtain this authority yourself).

Growth Condition: Arrive at the burial ground of the Silver Moon Wolf and offer fresh meat (no need for transcendent creature flesh and blood).

Prompt: Already grown twice (can grow a total of three times).

Introduction: We are willing to use moonlight to illuminate the darkest abyss for you, hoping you can be safe and sound.

Price: Cannot be sold.

Seeing the new effect of the Moon Blade, Su Xiao was relatively satisfied. When fighting strong enemies, although this couldn't be used as a big move, it could be used as a burst of suppression at a certain stage, especially the high-speed acceleration effect brought by the secondary activation of the Moon Blade.

If he kicked the enemy into a broken guard state after opening the Moon Blade, entering an undefended state, that would be a high-speed chaotic slash with explosive damage intensity.

At that time, the slashes would carry the real damage of the Green Steel Shadow, the soul damage of the Blade Master, the defense-ignoring damage of the Soul Hunting Scythe, the real bleeding damage carried by the Blood Gun Master, and the moonlight damage of the Moon Blade, etc.

Regarding the current rating of the 【Silver Moon Blade】, there was no need to care about this. After Su Xiao promoted to ninth-tier, the rating would be constant. It was the same principle as him checking the rating of an Origin-tier equipment now and it also being???; it belonged to the problem of mark level and tier.

Su Xiao took out the 【Wolf Blood】 he had obtained earlier. This stuff was sealed in a round bottle. Besides the red of the bloodstains, one could also see faint blue light spots flickering inside. This was the manifestation of Moon-type abilities.

Regarding this item, selling it was of course impossible. Although this 【Wolf Blood】 was precious, in the eyes of those who didn't understand the Moon Wolf, it was just a professional item, and a professional item with extremely high usage risk.

When using materials, sometimes you have to open up your thinking. Who stipulated that Wolf Blood must be used to obtain inheritance? Su Xiao took out the 【Wolf Blood · Moon Ornament】 and slowly poured the wolf blood onto it.

As soon as the wolf blood was poured onto this ornament, it was immediately absorbed, and it absorbed as much as was poured.

This Immortal-tier ornament was very important to Su Xiao. Its attributes were simple and crude: "Damage tier caused by blade-type and sword-type weapons +1."

【Wolf Blood · Moon Ornament】 entered the improvement stage. Su Xiao put it away and began to consider the subsequent exploration route.

Among the four strong people in the Dead Silence City who possessed Source Stones, only the Sin Aggregate remained. But Su Xiao was considering a problem: if he went to find the Sin Aggregate now, even if he successfully defeated the other party, what if this triggered some kind of ritual, or because the four-fold trial was completed, it led to him being forcibly teleported to the Supreme Sanctuary? That would be bad.

Not to mention that several badges hadn't been found yet, and the corresponding resources hadn't been exchanged, how to make the shelter level reach above 40 was the key to whether he could survive this difficulty.

In Su Xiao's view, compared to the previous Chosen Ones, the advantage he currently occupied was actually not much. Just speaking of the Wolf Knight Captain, the other party was only stronger during the period when they were the Chosen One.

Not to mention the strongest Chosen One in history, the First Saintess, who was a demigod. What was the result? Without exception, they all failed.

Su Xiao never had blind confidence, thinking that he could turn danger into safety with good luck at a critical moment. Just with his luck, not being unlucky at a critical moment was already a manifestation of good fortune. If he relied on luck to reverse a desperate situation, he would have already died at the second or third tier.

Since he didn't occupy an advantage in terms of combat power compared to the previous Chosen Ones, he had to think about which aspect he was strong in, so as to use his strength to attack the enemy's weakness.

First was soul strength, then alchemy, and finally the run+survival+resurrection trio. The trio was as follows:

"Drifting Bait (Rare Item · Apocalypse Paradise · Mo Lei 'gifted' for free): After 1.57 seconds of mental guidance, one can perform space drifting, randomly appearing at a safe location 50 kilometers away..."

"Bud of Creation (Rare Item): When the health of the Memory Life-Mark Holder drops below 0.5%, this item will immediately activate, buffing the user with a high-tier invincible shield. The shield lasts for 2 seconds. During this period, the user will recover 50% health and 50% mana, and obtain a large amount of movement speed bonus."

"Sacred Awakening (Rare Item): Within 5 minutes of the target's death, and with a body integrity of above 60%, using this item on this target has a high probability of resurrecting them from the 'fake death state' and healing critical injuries.

Prompt: After the physical attribute is higher than 200 points and soul strength is higher than 145 points, even if one suffers a fatal injury and enters the 'death state', because of a sufficiently strong physique and soul, the 'death state' will last for 3~5 minutes. Only after passing this time will one completely die.

Prompt: This item is ineffective against targets that have completely died."

Su Xiao believed that the failure of the previous Chosen Ones was most likely because even if they collected all five Source Stones and absorbed them with the Chosen One's representative items, plus the effect of the Shelter Stone, the Chosen One's shelter level didn't reach 40.

Su Xiao estimated that after this set of processes, a shelter level of 20 would be good. The reason other Chosen Ones failed was that they entered the Supreme Sanctuary, that place where the Dead Silence Source diffused, in a shelter state of level 20.

Thinking this way, the train of thought was clear. Compared to fighting the Sin Aggregate now, how to raise the shelter level to above 40 was the key.

Su Xiao felt that it was very difficult to do this by himself. Fortunately, he had long been prepared. The three "good teammates" were all in the inner city of the Dead Silence City. Bringing them here to conspire about this, the probability of success would not be low.

"Good teammates" never talked about empty things. If they cooperated and bet their lives, they must have common interests and goals.

Su Xiao looked at the "Star Core Stone." As long as there was the Source of Darkness, the value of this stuff was enough to make a large faction jealous. This was a means to improve talent abilities.

Sin Yasi and Wood couldn't refuse this. Finally, Caesar—in this kind of matter, there were too many places where this guy could get benefits, so he would definitely be the most active.

In the final analysis, the problem was still on the Source Stones. With only five Source Stones, the Chosen One couldn't reach a sufficient shelter level.

If he got five more Source Stones and let the Black King Armguard absorb them, what kind of shelter level would that bring? If five more didn't work, he would get fifty more. Su Xiao didn't believe he couldn't stack the shelter level up.

An alchemist once said, if the quality is insufficient, make up for it with quantity. As for who this alchemist was, it was unclear, but the surname was Su.

In this way, it had to be traced back to how the Healing Church produced the Source Stones.

Many years ago, the Healing Church cut a piece from the huge "Source" within the Supreme Sanctuary. Later, this piece of "Source" turned into the "Initial Source Stone." Afterward, this "Initial Source Stone" was divided into five, which were the "Source Stones."

How the Healing Church cut a piece from the huge "Source" within the Supreme Sanctuary was untraceable to this day. Su Xiao estimated that he shouldn't be able to do this, but there was one person who might be able to, and that was Caesar.

As long as the money was sufficient, let alone cutting off a piece of "Source," even if Caesar was asked to bite off a piece, it was possible. Sometimes the upper limit of Caesar's ability depended on the amount of Soul Coins given to him.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao left the cathedral and took out a signal gun, firing a shot into the sky. This was the gathering signal agreed upon earlier, representing that there was a large amount of benefits to be plotted, but it required the combined strength of the four "good teammates."

Turning back into the cathedral, Su Xiao went up to the stone platform on the second floor and asked the Archbishop:

"Regarding the Hunter Badge, how much do you still remember?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the half-asleep, half-awake Archbishop cast his gaze over and said in a somewhat uncertain tone:

"That badge, didn't I give it to you?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, lit a cigarette, and took a deep breath.

"Oh, it seems I didn't give it to you."

The Archbishop raised his hand and fumbled on his body for a while, then opened a secret compartment on the armrest of the stone chair. He said: "I remember, it was placed right here. Why is it gone?"

"..."

Su Xiao looked at the back of the chair behind the Archbishop. The engraving representing moonlight was particularly eye-catching. He looked at the empty stone chair with the Hunter's mark on the side, stepped forward, and pressed the mechanism on the armrest.

With a "click," the secret compartment opened, and he took out a badge from inside.

【You obtained the Hunter Badge.】

Seeing Su Xiao take out the Hunter Badge, the Archbishop on the stone chair next to him suddenly realized. He said: "So it was the Holy Sacrificer who took my badge."

The Archbishop pondered for a moment and said: "Did I tell you the location of the Sinner Badge?"

"No."

Su Xiao's mood was very good. The Sinner Badge could be exchanged for 【Origin Stone · Chaos Fire】.

"Hmm, I know where that badge is, but..."

The Archbishop narrowed his eyes, brewed for a moment, and then said: "But, I seem to have forgotten where that badge is."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak and turned to walk toward the first floor.

"Wait."

The Archbishop spoke. Hearing this, Su Xiao stopped his steps, waiting for the Archbishop to speak.

"Where is the Hunter Badge, did I tell you?"

"Yes."

"That's good. Definitely keep it safe. The Hunter Badge can be exchanged for Dark Souls. Dark Souls are very valuable. Your destination won't be the Dead Silence City. Save more resources; you will use them in the future."

"Hmm."

"You must be careful this time when you go to fight the Wolf Knight Captain. His greatsword is very sharp. I fought him before and lost in the end. You must be careful."

"I will be cautious."

"Hmm, it's better to be cautious. When you come back, I will give you the badge representing me. My badge can be exchanged for Dark Souls, so you must come back alive."

"Hmm."

Su Xiao went down to the first floor. The Archbishop was becoming increasingly unclear-headed. Perhaps this was the price for the other party returning to the Dead Silence City. However, compared to the Holy Sacrificer who turned into a beast as soon as she returned to the Dead Silence City, the Archbishop's situation was already considered good.

Going down to the first floor, the fiery red stone door of the forging room remained tightly closed. The Demon Blacksmith was just like that; once he started forging, he wouldn't move even if thunder struck.

Su Xiao sat beside Xiang Bubu Wang and picked up a roasted goose egg to peel and eat. Just at this moment, he felt that a certain ability of his had completely stabilized. It was Shadow Hunting. He checked the attributes of this talent.

【Shadow Hunting】

Category: Shadow of Law-Breaking · Unique Talent (Unawakened)

Rank: S (After completing primary awakening, it can reach SSS-rank).

Talent Effect 1 (Passive): To be activated.

Prompt: Need to go to the Shadow of Law-Breaking Inheritance Hall and touch the Awakening Stele to activate this ability.

Prompt: The Shadow of Law-Breaking Inheritance Hall has been destroyed. The current location of the Awakening Stele is the Holy Light Paradise. The Hunter can exchange for this item through 1000~1200 ounces of Space-Time Power, during which it needs to be notarized by the Void Tree.

Talent Effect 2 (Passive): After killing an enemy, your Soul-Devouring Core will absorb the enemy's source energy that has not yet dissipated, converting it into Soul Energy. When Soul Energy reaches 100%, you will obtain 1 Law-Breaking skill point.

Prompt: This skill point is reflected after notarization by the Samsara Paradise and can improve Law-Breaking abilities (because Talent Effect 1 is not awakened, Law-Breaking skill points cannot exert their full use).

Existing skill points: 8 points.

Su Xiao had just finished checking the improved Shadow Hunting when the main door of the cathedral was pushed open. The sunset hung on the horizon, and the blood-like setting sun reflected on the backs of the three people outside the door, making it impossible to see their faces, only their rough body outlines.

Against the backdrop of the blood-like setting sun, the three people outside the door were, respectively, a treacherous little old man who was thin but impossible to ignore, a man wearing white clerical robes with a twisted cross pendant hanging on his hand who seemed to be smiling, and finally a devil wearing a slim dark purple suit, with a skull inlaid with black gems the size of rice grains, and wearing black gloves.

Seeing these three, Gulu subconsciously took half a step back. Even though she had met them before, a feeling that these three were very dangerous filled her heart at this moment.

"We've been wandering around for so long. Bai Ye, are you ready?"

Wood spoke.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao spread a map flat on the old wooden table. Sin Yasi, Wood, Caesar, and Su Xiao sat around the table together.

Gulu closed the door of the cathedral. She happened to see this scene. At the same time, Saint Poetry communicated with her through mental communication.

"Gulu, I feel something is wrong."

Hearing Saint Poetry say this, Gulu secretly agreed. When the two of them saw the four people sitting around the round table in a relaxed and casual posture, Gulu and Saint Poetry simultaneously had a feeling in their hearts that something very ominous was about to happen in the Dead Silence City. ===== CHAPTER 3563 =====