Chapter 3570: Choice

Inside the cathedral, the heat generated by forging gradually receded.

Su Xiao had originally thought that he would have to solve the cause and effect with the Silent City before he could obtain his first Origin-level piece of equipment. What he hadn't expected was that the Demon Blacksmith had actually forged one.

This piece of equipment was named 【Demon Sealing】. It was pitch black all over. After picking it up, one could feel that the scabbard as a whole had been finely polished, giving its surface enough friction for easy fixing, while not feeling rough to the touch.

Located on the upper half of the scabbard was a piece of leather the width of a pinky finger. This was the skin of some kind of Abyssal creature. This wasn't a material Su Xiao had provided, but a collection of the Demon Blacksmith.

Zing~

Su Xiao drew the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan from his waist, preparing to sheath it. But the moment the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan left the sheath, blood-red and black-blue smoke intertwined on the blade. Clearly, it was because of 【Demon Sealing】 that it had such changes.

"Even as a Hunter in the Reincarnation Paradise, the Magic Spirit shouldn't have grown to this extent. Does the Magic Spirit have such violent blood energy? Did you plunder the blood energy of an ancient battlefield?"

The Demon Blacksmith, sitting on a stone seat and sipping fine wine, spoke. He named the scabbard he had forged 【Demon Sealing】 for a unique meaning, but what he said about plundering the blood energy of an ancient battlefield was more like a metaphor.

The Demon Blacksmith had existed for a long time. In his view, even a Law-Exterminator shouldn't plunder the blood energy of an ancient battlefield, probably not.

The long blade in Su Xiao's hand returned to the sheath. As the long blade sheathed into 【Demon Sealing】, the blood-red and black-blue smoke intertwined on the blade dissipated.

"Going to an ancient battlefield to plunder blood energy, besides being eroded by the blood energy there, are there other risks?"

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, the Demon Blacksmith, who was sipping fine wine, paused. He looked Su Xiao up and down and said:

"You went to an ancient battlefield to plunder blood energy?"

While the Demon Blacksmith was asking, he was already frowning. Zuiyas and Wood on the side both cast their gazes. That kind of "as expected of you" look, even if he didn't look at them, he could feel it.

"Occasionally go."

Hearing this, the Demon Blacksmith drank the fine wine and exhaled a breath of wine after, saying: "If you can completely remove the residue, the blood energy there is indeed very special, but..."

The Demon Blacksmith didn't continue, because he suddenly thought of one thing: there was a previous generation of Law-Exterminator, that is, the master of Marwen Waltz, who had even absorbed the Blade Demon energy into himself.

Thinking this way, it was perfectly reasonable for a Law-Exterminator to plunder the blood energy of an ancient battlefield.

The Demon Blacksmith returned to the furnace, picked up a small forging hammer, and tapped on a low forging table, ding-ding-dang-dang. Suddenly, his movements paused, and he looked at Su Xiao and the others, saying:

"If you have nothing else, get lost. What are you joining in the fun here for?"

After saying that, the stone door of the forging room slowly descended, and only the rapid but rhythmic ding-ding-dang-dang tapping sound could be heard inside. The Demon Blacksmith's forging level was unquestionable, and his temper was equally bad.

The Demon Blacksmith's fame period was in the Law-Extermination era. That was not only the era of Law-Exterminators but also the golden age of Alchemy and forging.

The Second Era · Alchemy Civilization didn't need to be mentioned. As for forging, besides the Demon Blacksmith, there was a top-notch blacksmith in the Wind Sea Continent and the Ancient Dragon Kingdom. Later generations called these three the Legendary Blacksmiths.

Among the three Legendary Blacksmiths, the one in the Void was the Demon Blacksmith, while the one in the Wind Sea Continent was the Dwarf King, and the last one in the Ancient Dragon Kingdom was a blacksmith named Molten Giant.

It was said that these three had also compared their forging levels, but that was a private secret gathering. The result was naturally unknown. Blacksmith Grandmasters of this level naturally wouldn't compare publicly, nor would they let a group of spectators point fingers. The purpose of their private gathering was more to find some soul of craftsmanship they didn't have from the forging skills of the other two.

According to Su Xiao's understanding, among these three Legendary Blacksmiths, the Demon Blacksmith was good at forging killing weapons, and his works had a heavy murderous aura.

The Dwarf King was good at forging weapons with elemental characteristics. There was a secret method there that allowed the forged weapons to reach a balanced circulation relationship with elemental power, and even, through this method, made the elemental power in the world more prosperous. Precisely because of this, the Arcane Eternal Star and the super-transcendent native world · Wind Sea Continent had always been in a cooperative relationship.

The last Legendary Blacksmith, Molten Giant, his whereabouts were unknown to anyone. He once lived in the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, but later, after the Ancient Dragons and the Sun God Clan had a battle that was almost mutually destructive, both camps gradually declined.

The Molten Giant, who had always advocated that both sides maintain restraint, left dejectedly after witnessing that tragic blood battle. His whereabouts were unknown. Among the three Legendary Blacksmiths, the battle armor forged by this one was unique.

That kind of battle armor wasn't strong initially, but would be close to the wearer's strength level. But this battle armor was more like half a living creature, accompanying the wearer to grow together. The Molten Giant himself was silent, but the battle armor he forged was quite capable of talking.

The most peculiar thing was that when the wearer was defeated, this kind of battle armor would wrap around the wearer's body and control the body to escape. It was said that if this battle armor was mutually recognized, in times of danger, this battle armor would even be willing to help the wearer cover the retreat.

In short, this was a battle armor that could grow and was as capable of bb as Baja, belonging to the "taunt ability" that came with the enemy.

Su Xiao had just fought the Sin Aggregate an hour ago and urgently needed rest. Furthermore, Zuiyas and Wood had both chosen their proof objects. Using proof objects to absorb artificial Source Stones to obtain a shelter of sufficiently high level also required a certain amount of time. He simply walked into a small room and sat cross-legged on the wooden bed to rest.

In order to solve the Sin Aggregate, Su Xiao adopted the method of killing by injury to reduce the number of Wolf Knights and Choir members, so his injuries could be imagined. Before his injuries were completely recovered and his own state reached the peak, he would absolutely not head toward the "Supreme Sanctuary." That was the final decisive battle ground. Whether he could leave the Silent City alive depended on what happened inside the "Supreme Sanctuary."

After meditation + Gray Maid's treatment, Su Xiao's state was much better. The stuffiness in his chest was gone, and his organs no longer stung. The Gray Maid's treatment ability was as reliable as ever.

This forging and equipment upgrade was successful, but the three-slot standard inscription base entrusted to the Demon Blacksmith for repair was repaired to the point of being scrapped by the Demon Blacksmith.

This was inevitable. The inscription base was a unique resource of the Paradise camp. Although the Demon Blacksmith had seen this thing, he had neither forged it nor studied it deeply. Previously, he just said he would try. The original words were that there was a 90% probability it couldn't be repaired.

Even so, Su Xiao still entrusted the Demon Blacksmith to help repair it. There was no other reason; other blacksmiths didn't accept this commission at all. No, Reed was very willing to accept this commission, but Su Xiao discovered that Reed wasn't sure about repairing this three-slot standard inscription base, but wanted to smash it open with a few hammers to study the structure inside.

Now it seemed that in terms of repairing the three-slot standard inscription base, finding Reed and the Demon Blacksmith didn't seem to be much different. The former was to smash it directly, and the latter was to try to repair it, and after finding that he couldn't repair it at all, he also took a forging hammer to smash it.

Otherwise, Su Xiao couldn't think of any repair method that could repair the three-slot standard inscription base into fragments, finer than passing through a sieve.

Although the Demon Blacksmith said bluntly that if he smashed three or five more inscription bases, he could figure out the structure and principle of this thing, so he could perform good repairs, but considering the price and scarcity of the inscription base, Su Xiao chose to ignore this point.

Needless to say, the Demon Blacksmith had his eye on the 【Inscription Base · Angry Image】 Su Xiao was currently wearing, not wanting to take it as his own, but wanting to smash it open to study the structure inside.

Su Xiao picked up the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan in the sheath beside him. In order to forge the scabbard and upgrade 【Blood Feather】, he consumed two precious Evil God souls, plus a full 100 ounces of space-time power, and other precious materials. This was still the Demon Blacksmith not charging forging fees, and being very satisfied with 【Demon Sealing】, later the Demon Blacksmith added some materials himself.

Su Xiao checked the attributes of the new scabbard 【Demon Sealing】. Before he saw the attributes, the prompt appeared first.

【Prompt: You have obtained your first Origin-level piece of equipment.】

【You have obtained permission: High Rating Constant.】

【Prompt: Promote to Tier 9, or obtain your first Origin-level piece of equipment, and you can activate this permission.】

【Origin-level equipment: Rating is 1500–3000 points, the equipment has unique characteristics, and the number of full-rating · Origin-level equipment that can be produced in each world is limited (Origin-level equipment forged through the notarization of the Tree of the Void and Paradise will not be limited by the place of origin).】

Previously unable to check the rating of 【Silver Moon Blade】, Su Xiao knew this point. At that time, he still thought that he had to be promoted to Tier 9 to obtain this permission. Now it seemed that obtaining the first Origin-level piece of equipment could also activate it.

Closing the prompt, Su Xiao continued to check the attributes of the new scabbard.

【Demon Sealing】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise · Notarization.

Quality: Origin-level

Category: Scabbard (Self-adaptive)

Durability: 210/210 points.

Equipment Requirement: Shadow of Law-Extermination.

Basic Effect: When the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan's Magic Blade ability has not entered the cooldown stage, the blade art damage caused by the Hunter with the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan will additionally carry an energy erosion damage of 1.5–3% of the enemy's maximum Health.

Prompt: This damage will reach its maximum within 1.5–3 seconds, during which the attacked party will find it difficult to gather a large amount of body energy.

Equipment Effect 1, Demon Sealing (Core · Passive): When the Law-Extermination Blade returns to the sheath, the "Blade Magic Spirit" can enter a sealed sleep state.

Prompt: After entering sealed sleep, the "Blade Magic Spirit" will not continue to release chaotic murderous thoughts, thereby avoiding surrounding creatures falling into a state of frenzied murderous rage (the weapon master naturally exempts from this abnormal state).

Prompt: After the "Blade Magic Spirit" enters the sealed sleep state, it will accelerate the "digestion" speed of the devoured origin energy.

Equipment Effect 2, Magic Spirit Awakening (Core · Passive): This characteristic is temporarily unable to be activated.

Prompt: When the Hunter's Supreme Blade ability reaches Lv. EX, this characteristic can be activated.

Prompt: After activating this characteristic, this characteristic will be stripped from this piece of equipment and transformed into an ability mastered by the Hunter himself. This ability can temporarily thoroughly awaken the "Blade Magic Spirit," making it enter the "Frenzied Devouring State," thereby devouring the origin energy of enemies with "Undead Characteristics" to achieve the purpose of eliminating them.

Prompt: After this ability is stripped, the Demon Sealing scabbard will obtain a new ability, and this ability will definitely be a bonus to the "Blade Magic Spirit" in the "Frenzied Devouring State."

Equipment Effect 3, Sheath Accumulation (Passive): When the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan is in the sheathed state, it will begin to accumulate power. By slowly consuming soul energy, it will increase the power of the next slash and the speed of drawing the blade. During accumulation, it will increase attack intensity by 3.5% and blade drawing speed by 1.5% every hour, up to an increase of 65% attack intensity and 32% blade drawing speed.

Prompt: This attack intensity bonus can only be maintained for one slash, and regardless of whether this slash hits the enemy, this accumulation effect will be consumed.

Rating: 3000 points (Origin-level equipment rating is 1500–3000 points).

Introduction: Slaying gods and cutting evil, the Demon Sealer can slay the undead, and the undead are also the food of the magic spirit.

Price: Cannot be sold.

After checking the attributes of 【Demon Sealing】, Su Xiao confirmed one thing: this scabbard was tailor-made for Law-Extermination. Presumably, the Demon Blacksmith had forged similar scabbards for other Law-Exterminators before.

At first glance at the attributes of 【Demon Sealing】, the basic effect and the bonus of Equipment Effect 3 were more obvious, but undoubtedly, the "Demon Sealing" effect and "Magic Spirit Awakening" were the core of this scabbard.

Right now, the Blade Magic Spirit of the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan didn't need to perform "Demon Sealing." At least in Su Xiao's feeling, there was no need for this for the time being.

There was no need now, but it didn't mean there wouldn't be in the future. Thinking of this, Su Xiao left the small room and went to find the Demon Blacksmith.

Just arriving at the forging room, what greeted Su Xiao was the Demon Blacksmith's unfriendly gaze. For so many days, the Demon Blacksmith had been helping to forge equipment for free. The current situation was that in the next few days, if Su Xiao proposed to let the Demon Blacksmith help forge anything again, the biggest possibility was to be hit by a hammer in the face.

However, after learning that Su Xiao came to ask about the "Frenzied Devouring State" of the "Blade Magic Spirit," the Demon Blacksmith's gaze was relatively friendly, but he didn't say too much, only saying that in the future, when you encounter difficult Abyssal creatures, you will know how important the Blade Magic Spirit is.

Returning to the small room where he rested, Su Xiao, sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, drew the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan out a bit. The Demon Blacksmith's meaning was already very clear. Promoting to Tier 9, the battle with Abyssal creatures was not far away.

Ordinary Abyssal creatures were fine, but some Abyssal creatures had undead and immortal characteristics. Even if they were killed this time and burned to ashes, they would appear again in a few days.

Against this kind of extremely difficult Abyssal creature, the invincible execution had no effect. Completely exempting from execution was a unique characteristic of this kind of Abyssal creature. Other existences, no matter how strong, couldn't exempt from execution, unless they passed the judgment during the activation of the execution ability. This was an interruptible exemption from execution ability, not a complete exemption from execution.

Moreover, this kind of Abyssal creature was not only undead and immortal but also had strong erosion, assimilation, regeneration, and corrosion. Let alone fighting a protracted war, encountering them, if they couldn't be solved in a few rounds, the probability of planting was high.

Previous generation Law-Exterminators often dealt with these terrifying existences. Since execution was ineffective against these terrifying existences, let the Blade Magic Spirit briefly enter the "Frenzied Devouring State," thereby devouring the origin of this kind of Abyssal creature, and then let the Blade Magic Spirit slowly digest this origin to thoroughly eliminate these terrifying Abyssal creatures.

Su Xiao seemed to know why the attitude of some high-tier worlds toward Law-Exterminators was both hating to the point of teeth itching and holding a certain welcome attitude.

Hating to the point of teeth itching was because of the robber-like looting of Law-Exterminators... cough, it was the reasonable distribution of resources of Law-Exterminators, which was sometimes difficult to accept.

And welcome was because once that kind of undead and immortal Abyssal creature appeared in a world, it would welcome a nightmare-like disaster. Saying that this kind of Abyssal creature could destroy a world with one was not an exaggeration at all.

Many of the "world-destroying" ethnic groups locked in the Eternal Light World were mutated from this kind of Abyssal creature. Those things mutated to the point where even the "Frenzied Devouring State" of the Blade Magic Spirit couldn't thoroughly digest their origin, so they could only temporarily imprison their origin through the Blade Magic Spirit and then lock them in the Eternal Light World.

Thinking this way, Su Xiao's positioning of the Eternal Light World became clear. In the future, if he encountered Abyssal creatures that could neither be executed nor have their origin digested by the Blade Magic Spirit, he would throw them into the Eternal Light World.

In Su Xiao's view, those terrifying existences that had no reason, or even no self-concept, really didn't need to fight to the death with them. Meeting them was just bad luck, so deal with them.

Putting down the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan in the sheath, Su Xiao took out 【Blood Feather】. After one upgrade, Blood Feather had been promoted from the third-tier Overlord-level equipment to the second tier.

【Blood Feather】

Origin: Overlord Creature · Saint Spirit Bird

Quality: Overlord-level

Category: Special Equipment

Durability: 25/25 points.

Equipment Requirement: Charisma attribute below 5 points.

Excellent Use Effect: Charisma attribute below 2 points.

Best Use Effect: Charisma attribute below 0 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Evil Elegance (Active): Blood Feather will shatter in a short time and attach to the enemy's body surface. The effect lasts for 10 minutes. During this period, the healing skills released by the enemy will cause an equivalent amount of True Damage to their own personnel.

Prompt: If the enemy unit attached by Blood Feather does not use healing skills within 20 seconds, it will trigger an instant death effect.

Prompt: Evil Elegance (Active) has transmissibility. If the attached person dies, it will automatically attach to the next healing-type enemy personnel's body surface, and the duration will reset.

Prompt: If the enemy unit attached by Blood Feather releases healing skills to the holder of Blood Feather (Su Xiao), this healing effect will be increased by 5 times.

Prompt: Evil Elegance (Active) will consume 5 points of durability of this equipment.

Prompt: The durability of this equipment can only be repaired within the Reincarnation Paradise.

Equipment Effect 2: Deep Damage (Active): Blood Feather will shatter in a short time and attach to the healing-type enemy's body surface. The effect lasts for 72 hours. During this period, the healing skills released by the enemy will initially cause normal healing effects to their own personnel, but after this treatment ends, the enemy unit receiving treatment will suffer continuous True Damage of 3.9 times the intensity of this treatment at a random time later (e. g., if receiving 1000 points of healing effect, within 1–600 seconds after the treatment ends, the treated person will suffer 3900 points of True Damage).

Prompt: When the enemy dies from this healing backlash damage, it will be defaulted to being killed by the Hunter.

Prompt: In this state, Blood Feather has extremely strong concealment, can evade more than 96.7% of detection effects, and cannot be purified, forcibly stripped, etc.

Prompt: When the duration effect ends, the Hunter can forcibly retrieve Blood Feather regardless of distance.

Prompt: Deep Damage (Active) will consume 10 points of durability of this equipment.

Prompt: The durability of this equipment can only be repaired within the Reincarnation Paradise.

Rating: 2350 points.

Introduction: The holy bird was stained with blood. Her mourning before death is destined to be used only by villains. Blood Feather Evil Flower · Boswell.

Price: Cannot be sold.

The first characteristic of Blood Feather was the same as before, only the intensity was improved. It was originally 5 minutes, and now it reached 10 minutes.

Compared to the original effect, the newly appeared ability was quite interesting. This ability was silent, and the healing-type attached by Blood Feather found it difficult to discover.

But in the next 72 hours, this healing-type would become a nightmare for teammates. After he healed teammates, there would be no abnormality initially, but at some point in the next 1–600

This damage is 3.9 times the intensity of the previous healing. If, in a moment of crisis, a group is fighting a strong enemy and the melee class blocking the enemy in the front row takes this hit, it is no exaggeration to say that this squad would be wiped out in a short time.

Even if they are lucky and the healed person only sustains the continuous true damage after the battle ends, upon encountering such a surprise attack, the healed person will immediately seek help from the healer in the team. But he does not know that the reliable big healer in his squad has already turned into a "poison healer"—the more they heal, the faster he will die suddenly later on.

Simply put, the second ability of Blood Feather is to attach subsequent true damage to the healer. Although the effect is simple, the lethality is extraordinarily astonishing.

Su Xiao feels that Blood Feather in this state is an assassination-type piece of equipment. It only needs to be used on the healer of an opposing squad, and there is no need to worry about it afterward. Within 3 days, there is over a 90% probability that the squad will be wiped out.

Besides being used as assassination-type equipment, in the future, when fighting a group of enemies, if one cannot wipe them out in one go, one can completely let the "lucky" surviving healer go after winning a battle, then silently attach Blood Feather to them, letting them return to the team as a poison healer. What is even more wonderful is that this poison healer does not know they are a poison healer.

"Someone outside is looking for you."

As Gulu just walked into the small room, her footsteps paused because the soul fluctuations of Saint Poetry in her consciousness space suddenly became stronger and she woke up.

From the time she was entangled by Saint Poetry until now, Gulu had never felt such intense emotional fluctuations from Saint Poetry's soul body. That feeling was like a cat thrown into a group of tigers, with its fur standing on end as if it had been struck by lightning.

"What... are you holding in your hand?"

Saint Poetry spoke, the vigilance in her tone undisguised.

"..."

Su Xiao did not speak and put away Blood Feather. The details of equipment like Blood Feather naturally cannot be known by Saint Poetry. After all, she is the strongest eighth-tier healer contractor. If the other party saw the attributes of Blood Feather, there would only be two results: 1. From now on, whenever she sees Su Xiao, she will turn around and leave, always maintaining a safe distance of more than 20 kilometers from Su Xiao; 2. She will try every possible way to destroy Blood Feather, otherwise, she will not be at ease.

Considering the gap in combat power, if Saint Poetry chooses the second strategy, she will likely become the first person to experience Blood Feather.

Ignoring Saint Poetry's vigilance, Su Xiao asked, "Who is looking for me?"

"Crow Girl."

Leaving behind these words, Gulu put on her headphones and left while listening to music. She would never participate in the subsequent battle; having guts and courting death are two different concepts.

Su Xiao left the cathedral and arrived at the mist-filled Sleeping Courtyard. Sure enough, Crow Girl was sitting beside the dried-up fountain pool, draped in a black feather cloak, her aura weak.

"I'm dying."

Crow Girl raised her head. Her eyes were still pitch black, but her pupils had turned pearly white. This meant she was consuming her life force to resist something.

"..."

Su Xiao did not speak, but he had already guessed Crow Girl's intention.

"I accidentally entered the Dark Zone and was eroded by Abyss-derived organisms. The strange thing is, the Book of the Dead does not allow other enemies to kill me, but it is not prepared to stop me from dying from being eroded by Abyss-derived organisms. So, I'm dying. Will you watch me die before I return to the Arcane Eternal Star this time? I still haven't brought the Book of the Dead back yet."

Crow Girl grinned. If she hadn't come from the Arcane Eternal Star, she would likely have become a contractor of Reincarnation Paradise, or rather, it is very possible she would have become a Hunter.

Actually, she came here just to try her luck. Because she had been too unlucky before and was targeted by Abyss-derived organisms, if she died here now, there was nothing to be done; if she didn't die, it was a gain.

"Will you just let me die like this? I don't know why, but my mood right now... is very good."

"..."

Su Xiao looked at Crow Girl, who was leaning against the dried-up fountain pool. After Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja noticed his gaze, the three of them gradually huddled together, almost hugging each other, because Su Xiao's current gaze reminded them of the experience of being "repaired."

"..."

Su Xiao walked toward the cathedral. Crow Girl, who struggled to stand up behind him, walked along with a smile appearing on her face again. Having been schemed against to the point of almost fighting wits with the air, she finally managed to win a round. Obviously, she did not know what unforgettable experiences she would encounter during the healing process.

Eight hours later, Crow Girl, who was leaning against the dried-up fountain pool, slowly woke up. She looked around in confusion, then raised her hand and looked at her bandaged right hand.

Regarding the experience of the previous eight hours, Crow Girl's impression was a blank slate. She could feel that this was not because part of her memory had been excised, but for some reason, she had sealed this part of her memory herself. It seemed that in these few hours of memory, there was unimaginable fear and pain.

"Hmm?"

Crow Girl narrowed her eyes, suspicious in her heart as to why her injuries had healed so much, and how she had arrived here.

"What... the hell is this thing."

Crow Girl stared at a mark on the palm of her left hand. Although this mark was gradually fading, she always felt that this thing looked like a contract that could be triggered once—a very ominous feeling lingered in her heart.

Crow Girl flashed away from the Sleeping Courtyard. On top of the cathedral a hundred meters away, Su Xiao pressed one hand onto a piece of parchment floating in front of him.

'Contract... established.'

The parchment faded. After seeing this scene not far away, Wood's pupil flames solidified a bit; he was very interested in this kind of one-time contract.

Su Xiao returned to the cathedral. His state at this time had recovered to its peak. It was time to head toward the Supreme Sanctuary.

"I'm fine here."

Zui Yasi raised his hand. He was already wearing a ring on his index finger; this was the proof of having absorbed a large amount of artificial source stone.

Wood, on the side, was the same. A brooch was pinned to the chest of his dark purple suit; this was also a proof.

Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja were also well prepared. If a battle occurred inside the Supreme Sanctuary, Amu would be the tank class for this time. As for how long he could block, that was unclear.

The group walked into the small room where the teleportation device was located. As the spatial teleportation was activated, everything around them blurred for a moment. When the scenery around them became clear again, everyone was already located in the side hall of the "Hall of Atonement."

Leaving the side hall and arriving in front of the door inside the "Hall of Atonement," through the opened door, the scene outside was dim and gray. Gray flocculent matter fell from above, like gray snowflakes symbolizing death. The ground was loose dust, making the terrain crisscrossed with gullies.

Walking on the loose dust, after traveling for about ten minutes, a towering building stood in front—it was the Supreme Sanctuary.

The giant double doors, tens of meters high, stood tall. There were two symmetrical lock discs on each side of the door. At this time, all four of these lock discs were opened, representing that Su Xiao had passed the four trials: the Trial of Hymn, the Trial of the Wolf, the Trial of the Saintess, and finally the Trial of Sin.

Amidst the flying gray snowflakes, Su Xiao pushed the giant doors with both hands. With a rumbling sound, the doors opened. Streams of black ghosts surged out from the crack in the door, brushing past Su Xiao's face, side, and other positions.

The scene of these ten million dark souls surging out from the crack in the door looked both spectacular and chilling. When Su Xiao stopped pushing the door, a cloak made of black mist and a faint crown had already appeared on his body.

Walking into the Supreme Sanctuary, the hundred-meter-high giant hall made one feel as if they had arrived in a towering building built by giants. The scene before his eyes appeared empty; the ground was paved with marble, but the marble floor had already been eroded until it was rough and dilapidated.

After walking for dozens of meters, a door over ten meters high blocked the way. Su Xiao took out the "Sanctuary Key." With a click, the key was automatically sucked into the keyhole.

Click-clack~

How could a combat-type seven-star title compare to the eight-star 【Deep Blue Shadow】? Moreover, whether one could grab it depended entirely on luck. Just based on luck, the possibility of Su Xiao grabbing it would slide to the later echelons.

A spacious temple came into view. At the very back of the temple was a towering rock throne. As Su Xiao and the others walked into the temple, the triple metal doors behind them slammed shut and locked.

A gray but extremely solid stone stele rose in the center of the temple. Su Xiao came to the 5-meter-high stele and, after looking at the dense patterns on it, understood what kind of choice the Chosen One could make.

After passing the four trials, the Chosen One had already proven their own strength and had the qualifications to enter the Supreme Sanctuary, or rather, the qualifications to come to the Supreme Sanctuary to be crowned king.

Accepting the Source of Dead Silence sealed within this gray stele and replacing the God of Eternal Life to continue sealing this source would allow one to be crowned the King of Dead Silence. If Su Xiao made this choice, he would never be able to leave the Dead Silence City by even half a step in the future.

In contrast, there was another choice, which was to break the seal and slay the god. Once the seal was broken, the God of Eternal Life would be completely eroded by the Source of Dead Silence. Defeating the God of Eternal Life, thereby weakening the Source of Dead Silence within the other party's body, and then sealing it with the proof—that was the second choice.

Crack, crack, crack~

A crystal layer clung to Su Xiao's left hand. He swung his fist sideways, and his left fist, wearing the Black King's armguard, smashed the sealing stele to pieces with one punch.

A beast-like roar came from above. Just hearing this roar made one feel as if a heavy stone were pressing on their heart. This was the pressure of facing a god directly. Do not compare the God of Eternal Life with those god-system existences; the difference between the two is too great.

The sealing stele shattered with a boom, and large pieces of broken gray rock scattered in front of Su Xiao. Almost simultaneously, the cloak and crown made of black smoke on his body dissipated.

Break the seal, slay the god!