Chapter 3566: Gains and Risks

After Siyas and the others left, the cathedral inevitably felt a bit desolate, with only the sound of hammering coming from the forge.

Su Xiao came to the side of the cathedral, found a desk against the wall, felt the place was decent, and began setting up, preparing to turn it into a temporary alchemy lab to concoct potions and later produce "Origin Stones."

Shortly after, Su Xiao sat at the desk, checking the various tools on it, while Gu Er peered around from behind, seemingly preparing to secretly learn alchemy.

Su Xiao glanced sideways at Gu Er, who had already taken out a recording device, and said: "You're interested in alchemy?"

"Interested, very interested, will you teach me?"

"..."

Su Xiao took out the Alchemy Secret Canon, and Gu Er happily held it close, her joyful expression clearly unaware of the dangers of this world.

One hour later, Gu Er was holding a game terminal, already teaming up with Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahar to play games; as for studying alchemy, after attempting to decipher the Alchemy Secret Canon, she said it was no exaggeration to call it half-dead, and at that time, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahar both wore the smirk of seasoned veterans, especially Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had even prepared a mental shock suppressant potion.

Su Xiao observed Gu Er throughout and concluded that before reaching a certain level of mental strength, one cannot comprehend, or rather, cannot bear alchemical knowledge—this is crucial information; going forward, he must find ways to continuously enhance mental strength to avoid being unable to bear deeper alchemical knowledge.

Su Xiao took out the "Holy Mark of the Ring" he had just obtained; this holy mark relied on a stone tablet, was entirely golden, and staring at it for long gave the feeling that one's spirit might be sucked into it.

The "Holy Mark of the Ring" is also known as the "Synthesis Holy Mark"; theoretically, besides living things, this holy mark can synthesize anything, but the synthesis results are extremely unstable, and most are negative buffs.

For example, using Soul Crystal + Soul Crystal + Soul Crystal yields certainly not a Soul Crystal, but a Soul Crystal Shard Ball, whose value is even less than that of a Soul Crystal.

Soul-level synthesis exceeds the range of the "Holy Mark of the Ring," which is why the result appears as shattered fragments gathering into a clump; in the Divine Spirit Era, apothecaries discovered the marvelous use of the "Holy Mark of the Ring," namely material synthesis.

Precisely, it is the synthesis of plant-based materials, because the materials' properties are sufficiently singular, reducing synthesis error to a minimum, and additionally, the "Holy Mark of the Ring" has extremely high compatibility with plant materials.

According to the method passed down by apothecaries of the Divine Spirit Era, Su Xiao sketched an energy transmission array on the tabletop, then placed a large Soul Crystal at the energy output node, positioned the "Holy Mark of the Ring" at the central point, and thus set up a simple, practical synthesis array.

He took out several materials, was about to begin material synthesis, when he suddenly thought of another possibility: activating the "Holy Mark of the Ring" via forward energy conduction to enable synthesis; what would happen if reverse energy conduction were used instead?

Su Xiao modified several energy nodes of the array, confirmed no issues, then activated the array; the originally gold-glowing synthesis array instantly turned pitch black; he tossed in a material resembling a fruit pit, and the next second, it turned to dust—precisely, it had been decomposed.

Su Xiao figured out the marvelous use of the "Holy Mark of the Ring": forward energy conduction activates the synthesis array, while reverse energy conduction activates the decomposition array.

After understanding the basic properties of the "Holy Mark of the Ring," Su Xiao stopped researching it and instead used the synthesis array to synthesize dozens of materials, enhancing their quality, then began concocting potions.

When Su Xiao stopped concocting, his experimental table already had a row of potions laid out, totaling:

【Ancient Demon Elixir·Four Improvements·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Dawn Flame·Four Improvements·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Holy Dragon Guard·Three Improvements·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Holy Mark Elixir·Three Improvements·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Vitality·Strength·One Improvement·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Radiant Elixir·One Improvement·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Tree of Life·Perfect (Permanent Buff Potion).】

【Ancient Secret Medicine·Perfect×2 (Permanent Buff Potion).】

……

Su Xiao concocted these potions, of course not for himself to drink, nor for Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahar; the four of them drinking these potions had all reached the effect limit, and each time a new formula was obtained, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Bahar, and Benny would casually drink it.

Su Xiao stored nine potions, keeping seven and leaving only two bottles of 【Ancient Secret Medicine·Perfect】, and let Gu Er see them.

"Ancient Secret Medicine (Perfect): After consumption, physical strength permanently increases by 6 points, health permanently increases by 2500 points (Perfect grade bonus—can drink another bottle of Ancient Secret Medicine)."

Among all the potions concocted this time, Ancient Secret Medicine provides the greatest boost to survivability.

"What is this potion?"

Gu Er was drawn in; seeing this, Su Xiao revealed the attributes of 【Ancient Secret Medicine·Perfect】.

"This potion……won't it be for me?"

Gu Er spoke while already beginning to retreat backward; after seeing the potion's attributes, her heart was very greedy, but the problem was, she found it hard to imagine what plan would later be made to prepay her such generous compensation.

Gu Er retreated half a step and stopped, not because of anything else, but because the potions on the table were simply too tempting.

"Gu Er, you chickened out?"

Bahar spoke up; hearing this, Gu Er made an elegant middle finger gesture, came to the experimental table, and drank both bottles of 【Ancient Secret Medicine·Perfect】.

Su Xiao's plan was very simple: just have Gu Er wear the World Three-Piece Set, whose effects are:

"World's Fondness: Wear this ring, and based on your charm attribute's 30%, increase your luck attribute."

"World's Hunter: After killing someone who affects world safety, obtain a certain amount of world power."

"World's Eye: This equipment will fuse with the user's eyeball, forming the World's Eye."

……

World's Fondness guarantees survivability, World's Hunter is the way to obtain world power, and finally, World's Eye can store acquired world power; having evolved three times, the World's Eye can bear more world power than imagined.

All enemies in the Silent City are those affecting world safety; killing them while wearing 【World's Hunter】 yields world power; additionally, in the kill rewards for slaying the Death Folk, there is also a considerable amount of soul coins.

Having Gu Er, wearing the World Three-Piece Set, go find the Death Folk for a duel—Gu Er, as an assassination specialist, could win, but given the Death Folk's eighth-tier minor wave SS-like health and physical defense, after Gu Er kills one Death Folk, her skills are basically all on cooldown.

Expecting Gu Er to hunt the Death Folk to obtain large amounts of world power is utterly unreliable.

Su Xiao's method is: he first goes to the central high tower of the inner city, the best vantage point in the inner city area, then he will construct a blood qi phantom via blood qi, and through soul energy, build a soul great bow, then have the blood qi phantom hold the soul great bow, using blood spears as arrows, to long-range snipe the Death Folk.

The problem is, the Death Folk in the inner city area generally do not go to open places; they stay in streets between buildings or inside buildings; given the perception suppression in Silent City, Su Xiao cannot blind-snipe from afar, even with Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang's positioning, it won't work.

If so, then let Gu Er lure the Death Folk; her task is to run—run as fast as she can—as long as she lures the Death Folk into Su Xiao's shooting range, her task is complete, and Su Xiao has a way to quickly snipe the Death Folk.

This is also why Su Xiao gave Gu Er permanent buff potions: being hunted by the Silent City Sword Saint Heavenly Group is quite stimulating.

"So, you only need to lure the enemies into my shooting range."

Upon hearing Su Xiao's words, Gu Er took out an exquisite metal box, opened it, and inside were various premium candies—these were the ones she usually couldn't bear to eat; now she had stuffed her mouth full, her cheeks bulging like a goldfish's.

Having finalized the plan, Su Xiao, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang, Bahar, and Gu Er were just about to set out when the cathedral door was pushed open; a figure with pitch-black eyes and black mist drifting from his entire body entered the cathedral—it was Cain.

Su Xiao's hand rested on the sword hilt; he did not understand Cain's intent, for his talent could bring extremely high soul growth, and Cain's soul energy posed little threat to him; of course, this was not because Cain was weak, but because he had encountered Cain's counter.

"I came to redeem someone."

While speaking, Cain looked toward the deer-like figure hanging upside down from the chandelier, entirely wrapped in black tentacles, with all five senses sealed—it was Ge Lu.

Hearing Cain say this, Su Xiao felt quite surprised in his heart; Cain, this teammate-selling maniac, actually came to redeem a teammate?

Actually, Cain came to redeem people not out of friendship or any non-existent camaraderie; he didn't care about the life or death of his three teammates this time, the duke and the snow monster, and even wanted to find an opportunity to kill them, but the contractor named Lu Ge made Cain take notice.

Or perhaps Cain and Lu Ge are simply the best partners, because the Evil Ghost Cain would first trap his teammates to death, then devour their souls and seize their inheritance.

Lu Ge differs from Cain in that he never intentionally traps his teammates in his subjective consciousness, but due to his unique talent, teammates die in batches.

Judging by the current situation, with Cain's strength and Lu Ge's talent, it is basically ineffective against this ghost king; precisely speaking, Cain doesn't even count as a living person.

If Cain, as the captain of the Hall of Heroes, recruits teammates and Lu Ge is within the Hall of Heroes, then Cain wouldn't need to personally trap teammates—teammates would successively die due to Lu Ge's ominous, lone-star-like ability.

The higher the rank, the more alert and vigilant the members recruited by the adventuring team; Cain, who was originally about to advance to the ninth rank, had prepared to abandon this large adventuring team, the Hall of Heroes, but now Lu Ge's appearance has given Cain another hope: to "cleanse" himself after advancing to the ninth rank.

First, he would frame Lu Ge as a violator, then Cain himself would seek a way to join the ranks of violators; he knows a secret: violators also have full certification, and years ago, violators were simply a rank in some paradise faction.

Cain's idea is that he has killed countless contractors over the years, and in the judgment of the Death Paradise, he is absolutely a harmful element; fortunately, the Paradise has no joy, anger, or bias, so as long as he doesn't cross that line, he won't face punishment or even warning.

But the Paradise's reputation score, this kind of judgment value, keeps Cain worried—he is close to becoming a harmful element, and the day when the Death Wanderers hunt him is not far off.

So Cain must do one big thing: first become a violator, then in small-team form attract same-rank violators, and then use Lu Ge's extremely formidable ability against the living to trap these violators to death, so they die without knowing what happened.

In this way, he can not only devour the powerful souls of violators but also avoid further becoming a harmful element and thus being hunted by the Death Wanderers; in a sense, such a Cain is a Death Wanderer wearing the guise of a violator.

Cain has already planned all this and is preparing to implement it upon his return, but alas, the core members of the team he envisioned are now completely wrapped in black tentacles, hanging upside down from the chandelier.

Zheng.

The Flash of Sword Light flashed past, and all the black tentacles on Lu Ge's body snapped with a sound; Lu Ge, still hanging upside down, widened his eyes and gasped heavily.

"Opening bid."

Su Xiao spoke; hearing this, Cain, whose number of trapped teammates adds up to four digits, actually came this time to redeem teammates—how fickle the world is.

"5000 soul coins."

"Deal."

Finding that Su Xiao agreed so readily, Cain inwardly thought he had overpaid; he looked at Lu Ge, still hanging, and said:

"Lu Ge, old brother, I only have 400 left now—lend me 4600 first."

"?"

Lu Ge was a bit dazed; he looked suspiciously at Cain.

"Hurry up—later Bai Ye might regret it."

"No…… this……"

In utter bewilderment, Lu Ge handed over 4600 soul coins to Cain; this income he had received less than 12 hours ago, and now he produced it all.

【Prompt: You have received a trade request.】

【You have obtained 5000 soul coins.】

Su Xiao had Bahah release the person; earlier he had already released Lu Ge, but was recaptured by Sin Yas; now obtaining a sum of soul coins is pure unexpected joy, and afterward he will share a portion with Sin Yas.

"Cain, old brother, if fate allows, we'll meet again."

Bahah spoke, causing Cain, who was walking outward, to pause in his steps, as if saying 'better not meet again,' and then left together with Lu Ge.

After leaving the cathedral, Lu Ge's expression was especially complex; he looked at Cain and said: "Th… thank… thank you, old brother."

"No need—just return the 5000 soul coins to me later."

"Huh? What 5000?"

Lu Ge immediately became confused; he continued: "Old brother, isn't that 5000 including the 4600 I lent you?"

"Yes, but this is the expense for redeeming you—do you really feel entitled to demand repayment from me?"

Cain stared at Lu Ge, almost saying outright: "You dare ask for this money? I'll beat you half to death right now."

"No…… I'm embarrassed to ask."

Lu Ge conducts himself, always adhering to the principle that the wise adapt to circumstances.

"Since you're embarrassed to ask, then this account will be written off as one stroke—but one must keep clear accounts: I saved you, yet produced 5000 soul coins; you cannot deny this debt."

"But……"

Lu Ge scratched his head, his mood especially complex; he was deeply moved by Cain's rescue this time, but regarding this account issue, he began to lose clarity.

"Let's leave this place and go to High Wall City to meet one of our friends."

Cain looked toward the dim sky, his gaze solemn.

"Friend? Who?"

"Priest."

"Ah?!"

Lu Ge was so startled he nearly slipped and did a split in place; in the previous world, he had been terribly trapped by the priest, and the memory remains vivid—yet now he is going to seek him out, seeing Cain's intention, the priest is still the one he just found in this world.

"Old brother, what are we going to see the priest for? He is a dangerous figure among violators, and same-rank violators all fear him."

"It's not really a big deal—we two also want to become violators."

"!"

Lu Ge stopped in his tracks, his gaze at Cain seemingly saying: 'Brother, why don't you let me go back and continue hanging? Hanging from that chandelier is actually quite nice.'

"Are you afraid?"

Cain looked at Lu Ge.

"Trembling with fear."

Lu Ge's reply is utterly unfeigned, rendering Cain's provocative tactic completely ineffective.

"Since that's the case, then I can only go see the priest myself."

Cain's tone carries a hint of regret.

"Old brother, farewell."

After speaking, Lu Ge turned and walked toward a side alley, but just as he turned—

Bang!

Lu Ge suffered a heavy blow to the back of his head, his vision plunged into darkness as he collapsed with a thud, a black mist entering his body, the specters controlled by Kaiyin driving him to rise and follow behind Kaiyin.

On the cathedral roof, Gu Lu watched this scene, and because there were no subtitles and the plot was complex, she somewhat failed to understand it.

Su Xiao took off the wireless earphones on his ears; earlier, Xiang Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang had followed up, so he naturally overheard the conversation between Kaiyin and Lu Ge, the key point being that the priest had already arrived in this world, currently in Gao Ta City.

Using the teleportation device inside the cathedral, Su Xiao quickly reached the second floor of the clinic, and upon descending to the first floor, he saw the ghostly old man inside the wooden display case.

"The goods have been delivered."

The ghostly old man produced a sheepskin scroll bearing a large handprint pressed in black bloodstains, made by Am.

After Su Xiao took the scroll, his mental power entered it, and the scene before his eyes shifted, transforming into a battlefield dominated by dimness and blood-red tones; atop a corpse pile formed from stacked strange beasts, Am sat upon it.

Am's entire body was mottled with filthy blood, large wounds covering him, many of which were blackened, the dragon-heart axe stained with filthy blood and flesh fragments embedded in it, having cleaved a strange beast's skull beside its foot, while he held in his hand half of a strange beast's leg, the bitten part exposing bone.

The scene before Su Xiao's eyes shattered, and the sheepskin scroll in his hand ignited on its own.

"Those supplies almost didn't make it; we encountered special circumstances on the way, but fortunately we resolved them in the end."

The ghostly old man did not elaborate on the encounter with Caesar along the way.

"..."

Su Xiao activated the faction shop, consuming the 【Hunter's Badge】 and the 【Sinner's Badge】.

【You obtained Origin Stone·Chaos Flame.】

【You obtained Technique Soul·Darkness.】

Though Dead Silence City is fraught with danger, its rewards are equally abundant; Su Xiao still possesses a 【Saintess's Badge】, but the issue is that the "proof item" obtained by exchanging it is used to go to the ancient laboratory, since the Iron Maker no longer allows outsiders in, rendering the exchange of the "proof item" meaningless.

In that case, selling the 【Saintess's Badge】 is the best option; as for whom to sell it to, he hasn't decided yet.

After leaving the clinic, Gu Lu began rubbing her eyes, the World's Eye temporarily merging with her eyes, causing her some discomfort.

"I always feel like I'm courting death in a flamboyant way."

Gu Lu let out a long breath and walked eastward, while Su Xiao headed toward the nearby central Gao Ta.

The journey was smooth; when Su Xiao reached the top of the central Gao Ta, several dozen meters high, he discovered the ballistae there had been destroyed, likely the work of Sin Ya Si.

Su Xiao clasped his hands together, releasing one-third of his blood qi, forming a blood qi phantom above him.

The blood qi phantom stood about ten meters tall, showing only the upper body, resembling the fierce beast Fei, yet tending more toward humanoid features, with the left hand as a beast claw and the right arm as a human arm, bearing only the thumb, index, and middle fingers on the hand.

Furthermore, Su Xiao released soul energy, using the cyan steel shadow energy crystal as a base, supplemented by soul properties, to construct a great soul bow, with the blood qi phantom gripping the bow shaft with its beast claw.

Ten blood spears, each nearly four meters long, materialized, and as Su Xiao controlled them, they were driven into the rock wall half a meter ahead, facilitating the blood qi phantom's access.

Merely doing this would make a one-hit instant kill on the Dead Impossible, so Su Xiao took out a ring and placed it on the index finger of his right hand.

【Ancient Killing Ring+13】

Quality: Spirit Saint Grade

Category: Ring

Durability: 1/1 (extremely low durability consumption from wearing and use, extremely fragile under attack, weak to all attribute attacks).

Equipment Requirement: None

Equipment Effect 1: Hill's Assassination Soul Mark (Passive)……

Equipment Effect 2: Hill's Power (Passive·Unique), when making ranged attacks against enemies, it triggers Hill's soul power, enhancing ranged attacks (bolts, arrows, etc.).

Note: If a ranged attack hits an enemy's vital point, the resulting vital damage increases by 5.49~9.97 times (depending on the selected vital point, head vitals being highest priority, followed by neck, heart, etc.).

Equipment Drawback: Extremely Fragile (Passive·Unavoidable), while wearing it, any judgment deemed an attack, regardless of which body part it strikes, will cause this equipment to shatter immediately; once broken, it cannot be repaired by any means.

Equipment Drawback: Slow Movement (Passive·Unavoidable), wearing this equipment allows only walking-speed movement; if movement speed exceeds the set value, there is a high probability the equipment will shatter.

Equipment Drawback: Slow Removal (Passive·Unavoidable), to remove this ring, one must five seconds in advance sever energy resonance via mental will, fully ending the resonance before removal; forcibly removing it will cause immediate damage.

Equipment Drawback: Friendly Faction Hatred (Passive·Unavoidable), as Hill the Assassin hates friendly factions, friendly factions cannot use this equipment (Hunters are fully exempt from this drawback).

……

When Su Xiao snipe-kills the Dead, he chooses to attack the torso, because for the Dead, the head is not considered a vital point.

Thus, the Killing Ring's damage bonus is approximately sevenfold, meaning the vital attack power of one blood spear approaches that of seven blood spears' vital killing power.

One blood spear cannot instantly kill a Dead, but the power of seven blood spears stacked together will certainly achieve an instant kill.

Ba Ha landed on Su Xiao's shoulder, its sharp eagle eyes scanning the surroundings; it is Su Xiao's lookout, responsible for observing all movements in the vicinity and detecting approaching Gu Lu as quickly as possible.

Beside him, Xiang Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang erected a signal base station, beginning to collect wind speed, possible air resistance variables, and the real-time distance between Su Xiao and the enemy.

Initially, Su Xiao frequently scanned the surroundings, but after waiting half a day, Gu Lu still had not appeared.

"Boss, I'm here!"

Ba Ha pointed with its wing toward the east; Su Xiao followed the direction and saw Gu Lu leaping between buildings, with three Dead behind her.

Dong!

A booming explosion rang out—a Dead struck the ground with the explosive hammer in hand, sending the ground within a hundred meters flying upward, and Gu Lu was launched into the air by the underground shockwave.

Seeing this, Su Xiao controlled the blood qi phantom to nock an arrow and draw the bow.

Ka ka ka~

The great soul bow emitted a heavy draw sound; Su Xiao locked onto a Dead 1.7 li away, and the blood qi phantom's large hand released the bowstring.

Peng!!

At the moment the blood spear shot forth, a burst of air explosion erupted, afterward the blood spear broke through layer after layer of air explosion, following a downward diagonal trajectory straight toward the Dead holding the explosive hammer.

The newly stabilized Gu Lu, hearing a sonic boom a few meters to her side, felt the shockwave's air blast lift her hair; the attack passed a few meters away, making her feel a faint facial pain, or rather, a premonitory pain of perception.

The blood spear struck the explosive-hammer Dead, whose body instantly became as brittle as dead wood, its upper torso shattering in an instant into dry fragments that scattered outward.

Dong!

The blood spear sank into the ground, plowing up gravel, leaving a trench several hundred meters long before descending underground, the depth of the excavated hole unfathomable.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

Another three blood spears shot forth; the second Dead was blown apart on impact, the third, with long braids and exceptionally agile build, dodged the third arrow but was blown apart by the fourth arrow's predictive shot.

A few minutes later, Gu Lu reached the top of the central tower, Gao Ta, lying on the ground, sweat sticking a few strands of hair to her face; although she had only run for a dozen or so minutes, she felt somewhat drained, swearing that those dozen or so minutes were the fastest she had ever run in her life, constantly pushing beyond her limits and exhausting her stamina.

"Another three or four times, and the world's power should be enough, right?"

Gu Lu gulped down most of a bottle of water in one go before feeling herself come back to life.

"Enough."

"Then continue."

Gu Lu rose to her feet and leapt down from the central tower, Gao Ta, which was several dozen meters high.

One hour later.

Gu Lu returned to the tower top with a slow, weary pace; as soon as she arrived, she slumped onto the ground:

"This is already the fourth batch, a total of eleven Death Folk slain—should the world's power be enough now?"

Gu Lu felt she was about to collapse from exhaustion.

"Not enough."

"What?"

Gu Lu lifted her head and glared at Su Xiao, feeling cheated and angry.

"..."

Su Xiao produced 【Tree of Life·Perfect】 and tossed it to Gu Lu, causing her gaze to gradually clear.

"Tree of Life (Perfect): Permanently increases 4 points of true stamina attribute (this potion takes effect when true stamina is below 257 points; repeated use is ineffective)."

"At most... I can draw three more times—I'm truly going to exhaust my stamina."

After a brief rest, Gu Lu descended the tower to lure the Death Folk, feeling she was no longer just a dancer on the blade's edge, but madly probing the brink of death.

Over an hour later, Gu Lu lay once more on the stone slabs of the tower top, gazing at the sky, she said:

"I can't even take a step anymore; no matter what you produce this time, it's impossible—my legs don't even feel like my own."

"..."

Su Xiao produced 【Holy Dragon Protection·Triple Refined·Perfect】 and 【Holy Mark Potion·Triple Refined·Perfect】.

"Holy Dragon Protection (Triple Refined): After injection, the user's subcutaneous tissue is enhanced, generating Holy Dragon Protection, which can block one same-rank curse, microbial erosion, etc. (this potion takes effect when true stamina is below 255 points; repeated use can be fatal)."

"Holy Mark Potion (Triple Refined): Permanently increases 3 points of true strength and 2 points of true agility (this potion takes effect when true strength and true agility are below 263 points)."

Seeing the attributes of these two potions, Gu Lu closed her eyes, rested for ten minutes, then rose from the ground again.

"Continue."

Gu Lu leapt down to the base of the tower and regained her strength.

Three hours later, with only her right arm remaining and her left arm placed in a life-support device, Gu Lu lay on the stone slabs of the tower top; seeing her dulled gaze, one knew she had exhausted her strength.

"..."

Su Xiao produced 【Vitality·Strength·Single Refined·Perfect】 and 【Radiance Potion·Single Refined·Perfect】, these two potions not only grant permanent buffs but also greatly restore stamina loss.

After resting for over half an hour, Gu Lu's condition recovered, and she once again went to search for Death Folk in the surroundings.

Four hours later, Gu Lu returned once more to the top of the tower; this time she didn't even bother to lay out a blanket, simply lying down and remaining motionless.

Su Xiao produced 【Dawn Flame·Quadruple Refined·Perfect】 and 【Ancient Elixir·Quadruple Refined·Perfect】, placing them on the ground for Gu Lu to choose from herself.

After seeing the attributes of these two potions, Gu Lu said: "Help me up—I can still go on."

After resting for one hour, Gu Lu set out once again.