Chapter 3597: Harvest

【Teleportation complete. You have returned to Reincarnation Paradise.】

Su Xiao lay on the carpet of his exclusive room. The familiar furnishings here, the herbal fragrance that appeared every time Benny took a bath because she liked using so much hair conditioner, plus the slight pendulum sound from the antique clock that Amu liked—the combination of all this gave one a sense of relaxation.

During this trip to the Arcane Eternal Star, except for the moment he captured the Goddess of Luck, Su Xiao didn't make a move the whole time, but instead played a different kind of game with the spellcasters.

During this period, it seemed there was no danger, but in fact, as long as Su Xiao showed a flaw, the situation he faced would be dangerous to the extreme. That was the enemy's base camp.

Lying on the carpet for a while, Su Xiao opened his eyes and immediately saw the magnified dog face above because it was too close, and then this dog face poked down.

"Woof?!"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang bumped and shivered. It had just woken up in the middle of a deep sleep and saw Su Xiao. It thought it was dreaming and figured it should just keep sleeping, and the result was the current scene.

"Boss, did it go smoothly?"

Baha flew out from the alchemy laboratory. Before Su Xiao left, he asked it to watch the changes in the Devourer: Crystal Ji. Although Baha was usually sloppy, it would do its best for things Su Xiao ordered.

"It's a pity, if I could have gone together this time, I would definitely have had to greet Serphilia a few times."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. This was the reason he didn't bring Baha. Baha's ability to handle things, execution, bravery, and other aspects were impeccable, but its sharp tongue was its only shortcoming.

In fact, it wasn't just Baha; other members of Su Xiao's team also had their own shortcomings. For example, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was extremely timid when facing ghosts and monsters, and whenever it saw something valuable, it always wanted to take a bite to test the taste.

Amu liked to eat; its happiness was eating, eating, and eating. However, this couldn't really be considered a shortcoming.

Benny had a strong desire to win and a strong sense of self-esteem. Sometimes, after its self-esteem was hurt, it would turn its back and ignore everyone. But there was no need to coax it; Benny didn't hold grudges. After a while, it would lift its head, meaning, "This cat is broad-minded, so I'll forgive you this time."

"Moo?"

Amu pushed the door and returned. Seeing this, Su Xiao asked it to order food at Xia's restaurant. Amu immediately turned and went out, being particularly proactive about this.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the carpet and began to summarize the gains and losses of this trip. First was the enemy's loss. The Arcane Eternal Star lost one and a half resource stars this time. The reason it was said to be one and a half was because Su Xiao saw before being teleported away that the second Sun Saint Sword hadn't completely pierced through "Mine Star No. 19." It looked like it had blasted away a small half.

Even so, the collapse of "Mine Star No. 19" was only a matter of time. Calculating this way, it was indeed reducing the enemy's two resource stars.

In terms of killing the enemy, after "Lush Star" was attacked, the low-to-mid-level spellcasters prepared to swarm into "Lush Star," but they were stopped by the high-ranking spellcasters, who only sent less than one-tenth of the spellcasters, and more often dispatched magic guards.

The result was that this one-tenth of the spellcasters who were sent were almost wiped out. On "Lush Star," which was pierced by the Sword of the Sun, except for the Gale King and his few trusted subordinates, rarely could any spellcasters survive in that situation.

The reason Su Xiao chose "Lush Star" as his target was that when the spellcasters learned that a Law-Breaker might attack, their first thought would definitely be to protect the Black Maple Tree well.

Between a Black Maple Tree and a resource star, which one was easier to protect? The answer was definitely the former. The Black Maple Tree could be protected layer by layer with barriers. Conversely, if a resource star were covered with a sufficiently strong barrier, the level of investment would be unimaginable.

Undoubtedly, the Arcane Eternal Star suffered heavy losses this time. The resources produced by the two resource stars every year were worth hundreds of millions of soul coins, and that was while maintaining continuous development and performing moderate collection.

In addition to the losses in resources, there were also the casualties of the spellcasters. This aspect was actually okay; the high-level combat power of the spellcasters had zero casualties.

But after this incident, the Arcane Eternal Star's unprovokable hegemonic majesty became shaky. Compared to the losses of resources and personnel, this point was the most uncomfortable.

This was also why the White Cow forces and the Ancient God camp dared to participate in the plan in this way. They all knew that after experiencing this, what the Arcane Eternal Star would do was definitely not to retaliate with thunderous means.

The Arcane Eternal Star, which had just had a piece of meat bitten off, once it chose to go to war with the White Cow forces and the Ancient God camp now, other major forces in the Void would definitely not sit idly by and would definitely take advantage of the three parties going to war to bite off pieces of meat from the Arcane Eternal Star as well.

Among them, the representatives were the Demon Race, the Devil Race, and the Soul Race. The Demon Race didn't need to be mentioned; they had just been schemed against by the Arcane Eternal Star and the Feather Clan. If there was a chance, they would definitely choose to take back the territory that had been snatched away.

The Devil Race didn't need to be mentioned either; they had always been at odds with the Arcane Eternal Star, plus this time's "Necronomicon" scapegoating made the Devil Race very willing to take the opportunity to give the Arcane Eternal Star a stab.

The last was the Soul Race, which was the most willing to hammer the Arcane Eternal Star. As one of the few major forces in the Void, the Soul Race was very powerful back then, but now they were very low-key. Why was that? That didn't need to be asked; they were hammered by the Arcane Eternal Star back then.

Under such a situation, the Arcane Eternal Star could only pretend that nothing happened this time and pin all the blame on the Law-Breaker. Everything was done by the Law-Breaker, all of it.

The reason the Arcane Eternal Star did this was to calm the situation and recuperate. As long as they recovered from this loss, the White Cow forces, the Ancient God camp, the Demon Race, the Devil Race, and the Soul Race—the Arcane Eternal Star would deal with them one by one.

As for these forces taking the opportunity to unite and wipe out the Arcane Eternal Star? Absolutely impossible. If these five major forces besieged the Arcane Eternal Star now, even if the Arcane Eternal Star were defeated, at least 3 to 4 of these five major forces would have to be wiped out.

Moreover, the White Cow forces and the Ancient God camp wouldn't participate in this matter, because even if the Arcane Eternal Star recovered, they wouldn't retaliate too harshly against them. The White Cow forces were equivalent to the underground world of the Void. Even if the spellcasters were powerful, it was very difficult to retaliate against these outlaws. Finding them was a big problem.

Moreover, even if they killed them all, so what? In a place like the Void where the strong prey on the weak, countless criminal events happened every day. Those outlaws designated as criminals by the major forces of the Void could only rely on White Cow. After that, don't go around committing crimes wantonly; becoming a small minion under White Cow was the only way to save their lives.

Therefore, retaliating against the White Cow forces was actually very difficult. If it came to killing White Cow himself, in terms of strength, White Cow was really not as good as the Supreme One. But many years ago, the Supreme One took the four leaders—that is, Serphilia, Lord Soul, the Gale King, and Dean Guya—and still couldn't get rid of White Cow. White Cow had fought his way from a small leader in a block to become the Black Emperor of the underground world over so many years. Being hunted down, he was a professional.

The leader was too difficult to hunt down, and killing his subordinates didn't make much sense. It wouldn't take long before they were replenished. Therefore, the Arcane Eternal Star's retaliation against White Cow was eight or nine times out of ten just killing a few major leaders under White Cow to save face. The Arcane Eternal Star was really unwilling to fight White Cow; it was simply a waste of time and energy.

As for dealing with the Ancient God camp, how to deal with it? Go to war with Meteorite Star? The key was, after many spellcasters were killed or injured and a large amount of resources were consumed, what then? What was on Meteorite Star? That place was only suitable for Ancient Gods and their followers. Normal people had a hard time surviving there.

In other words, after the Arcane Eternal Star paid a large amount of material and combat costs, at most they would defeat the Ancient God camp, and then they would be stuck with a super-huge world that was useless and couldn't even be lived in. In the future, they would also be constantly retaliated against by those Ancient God fanatics.

Therefore, now whenever the Arcane Eternal Star thought of the White Cow forces and the Ancient God camp, they felt uncomfortable. Fight them? Fighting them meant losing. Don't fight them? The face of the hegemon couldn't be lost. So they could only fight them while holding their noses in the future. As long as their face was regained, that would be fine.

On the contrary, the Arcane Eternal Star was very interested in beating up the Demon Race, the Devil Race, and the Soul Race. The basic situation was: "It was you three who were watching covetously after I was schemed against by the Law-Breaker?"

Therefore, the subsequent development of the situation in the Void would be strange to the extreme. The White Cow forces and the Ancient God camp, who had taken action, would at most be beaten up, and then the Arcane Eternal Star would shout: "Get lost, disappear from my sight."

On the contrary, the Demon Race, the Devil Race, and the Soul Race, who were watching the show, would be ridden and beaten by the Arcane Eternal Star after they recovered. While beating them, they would snatch things from their pockets to make up for the previous losses, and let other races know that they not only dealt with those who dared to provoke them, but even those who were gloating on the sidelines, they would also beat them up. It could be said to be killing two birds with one stone.

However, among these three beaten brothers, the Devil Race would definitely be beaten the lightest. If they were beaten too hard, they would throw out a "Wild Dad," and the Arcane Eternal Star would also be very uncomfortable.

【Your travel mission: Law-Breaker was here (Completed).】

【Completion: 60%.】

【You have obtained the team skill card random draw permission (Draw range: Lv. 30 to Lv. 80).】

For this travel mission, Su Xiao failed to go to two places, the "Clock Tower" and the "Elemental Wetland," but this mission didn't specify that he had to go to all locations. With low completion, the 【Team Skill Card Random Draw Permission】 obtained wasn't too good.

【You have activated this skill card random draw permission.】

【You have obtained team skill card: Robust Life (Passive, Lv. 60).】

【Robust Life (Passive, Lv. 60): All team members' HP +3500 points.】

A fairly good team skill card. After Su Xiao activated the "Dawn Team," he inserted this skill card into the corresponding slot. In this way, the "Dawn Team" buffs became:

【Dawn Team】

Member count: 1/5.

Team Tier: SSS (Shares the single-player adventure team level possessed by the hunter).

Team skill limit: 4/4 (Team skills can be obtained through team skill sharing, or by inserting team skill cards. Such skill cards are extremely scarce and have fixed levels and fixed bonuses, which cannot be improved).

Team Skill 1: Radiant Team (Passive, Lv. EX), all team members' HP +9700 points, Mana +4200 points.

Team Skill 2: Thunder Breath Blessing (Passive, Lv. EX): Improve physique with active lightning. After triggering this ability, permanently increase HP by 1 point per minute (increase limit is 5000 points), increase Mana by 1 point every five minutes (can increase up to 1500 points), and increase lightning resistance by 1 point per day (can increase up to 30 points).

Tip: When the buff effect of Thunder Breath Blessing reaches its maximum, the bonus of this ability to the individual will be adaptively changed to increase high lightning resistance.

Team Skill 3: Robust Life (Passive, Lv. 60): All team members' HP +3500 points.

Team Skill 4: Vitality Awakening (Rare Team Passive Lv. 49), when a team member's HP drops below 10%, this ability will be activated, restoring 5300 HP + 51% of maximum HP within the next 3 seconds (the cooldown of this skill is 19 hours, and the cooldown between team members is calculated separately).

Team Luck: E~S+

Except for the "Robust Life" ability, which was average, the other three abilities were exceptionally powerful. However, "Robust Life" was a skill card improvement and could be withdrawn at any time to be replaced by a better team skill card.

The gains were quite good. Su Xiao began to summarize his gains on the Arcane Eternal Star this time. His existing soul coins had reached 352,327.

Just then, Su Xiao received an email. It was from Caesar, who had sold off the items bought at the auction with Goblin Checks.

The accounts were written very detailedly in the email. First was the proceeds from the auction items bought with 500,000 Goblin Checks, but because they had to be sold off as soon as possible, plus the auction proceeds, the price inevitably had some losses. In this way, 500,000 Goblin Checks eventually turned into 469,503 soul coins.

Su Xiao took 30% of it, which was 140,851 soul coins. The soul coins attached to the end of this email totaled 140,851.

In this way, Su Xiao's usable assets reached 493,178 soul coins. Although this trip to the Arcane Eternal Star made Su Xiao miss a world progress, with this amount of soul coins obtained, plus the 100+ soul crystals obtained, missing a world progress this time was not only not a loss, but a bloody profit.

【Tip: Killing Instinct has been upgraded to Immortal Grade.】

Before Su Xiao left, he used the Miracle of the Holy Spirit to upgrade 【Killing Instinct】. This equipment had already been upgraded, but he hadn't brought it with him.

【Killing Instinct】

Durability: 120/120 (Increased by 21 points)

Equipment requirement: True Agility 240+ points, Willpower 135+ points.

Equipment effect: Instinct Activation (Special Skill), after wearing this equipment, a Willpower judgment will be performed. If the judgment is successful, the "Instinct Activation (Passive)" effect will be activated. If the judgment fails, you will enter the Instinct Killing state (Active), the effect lasts for 120 hours. After the Instinct Killing (Active) state ends, you will be permanently unable to wear this equipment.

Instinct Activation (Passive): Significantly increase the growth speed of the wearer's perception-type abilities.

Tip: It is detected that the fit between Instinct Activation (Passive) and the Intuition ability has reached 93.8%, and the growth speed of the Intuition ability is increased by 5~70 times (70 times during combat, 42 times in dangerous environments, 5 times in safe environments).

Rating: 1492 points (Immortal grade equipment rating is 700~1500 points).

Seeing that the core attributes of 【Killing Instinct】 hadn't changed, only strengthened, Su Xiao felt relieved. His core perception ability, Intuition, relied entirely on this equipment to grow rapidly; otherwise, he wouldn't have his current close-range perception ability.

Of course, the "Basic Passive: Awakening" in terms of perception also contributed significantly to the growth of the Intuition ability.

After organizing the resources for a while, Su Xiao decided how to use these nearly 500,000 soul coins and 100+ soul crystals.

His Sword Technique Master and Close Combat Master had both been upgraded to Lv. 70. After reaching Lv. 70, every level increase for these two abilities required 100 soul crystals and 6,300 soul coins.

Compared to upgrading Sword Technique Master or Close Combat Master by 1 level, upgrading the Blood Gun Master from Lv. 60 to Lv. 70 would bring a greater improvement to his own combat power. As for the Blood Gun Master's Lv. 60 ultimate ability, Blood Soul Resonance:

"Blood Soul Resonance (Passive): Blood Gun Master can devour the aura-type abilities you have mastered (requires the aura-type ability to reach Lv. MAX, or higher Lv. EX). After devouring, the aura ability will be removed from the skill list, but it will not reduce your existing blood energy intensity, total blood energy, etc. After completing this devouring, it will bring a certain degree of improvement to the Blood Gun Master and further improve the quality of your blood energy."

Su Xiao didn't plan to use this characteristic to upgrade the Blood Gun Master yet, but first use soul crystals and "Excitation Soul: Blood" to upgrade the Blood Gun Master to Lv. 70, and then start using this characteristic to upgrade the Blood Gun Master.

In this way, the number of soul crystals required to develop the three masters would drop by one-third. Just pay enough soul coins to buy new aura abilities and use the Ancient Battlefield to upgrade them to full level, thereby upgrading the Blood Gun Master.

Another benefit was that constantly developing and devouring aura abilities would make Su Xiao's blood energy stronger and stronger. This was a process of constantly stacking blood energy, and during this period, he could also upgrade the Blood Gun Master, killing two birds with one stone.

Now the soul crystals required to upgrade the Blood Gun Master were enough. In terms of "Technique Soul: Blood," Su Xiao took out an old-fashioned telephone. After picking up the receiver, the number dial on the phone turned by itself. A moment later, a low voice came from inside:

"Panskap, oopu..."

Ancient Demon language came through. Hearing this, Su Xiao cleared his throat and began to communicate with the other side in not-so-proficient Ancient Demon language. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baha, and Benny, who were surrounding him, were all confused.

A moment later, Su Xiao ended the conversation. The content of the entire conversation was very simple: Su Xiao intended to buy "Technique Soul: Blood" from there, and the price was the output of the Black Maple Tree.

He naturally didn't plan to use the output of his own Black Maple Tree to buy "Technique Soul: Blood" from the Demon Race. Law-Breakers and the Demon Race were allies, that's true, but that was a matter of the previous era. Every era had different patterns and situations. Therefore, Su Xiao didn't plan to reveal to the Demon Race that he had a Black Maple Tree.

The Black Maple Tree output he planned to pay this time was obtained from Serphilia. Anyway, it was obtained for free. Using it to exchange for "Technique Soul: Blood" from the Demon Race was very profitable for Su Xiao.

Because Su Xiao gave too much, the Demon Race promised that they could send "Technique Soul: Blood" within 24 hours at most. After 24 hours, they would meet and trade at the Great Gathering Place.

After "Technique Soul: Blood" was settled, Su Xiao began to consider another matter. Previously, he didn't have enough soul coins to upgrade Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan to the Origin grade.

Now with a huge sum of nearly 500,000 soul coins in hand, buying some Immortal grade long swords was no problem. Furthermore, after he upgraded the "Supreme Blade" ability to the limit level Lv. EX, the range that Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan could devour had increased a lot.

But Su Xiao still planned to buy as many sword-type weapons as possible. Devouring the same type of weapons would give Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan more blade value.

Previously, after devouring a Law-Breaker Blade, Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan's blade value limit increased from 100% to 120%. It seemed that the consumption was greater, but the initial attributes after upgrading to the Origin grade would be stronger.

Conservatively estimated, for Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan to upgrade from Immortal grade to Origin grade, it would need at least 10 weapons of the same level. Now Su Xiao had two, which were 【Shadow Twins (Immortal grade weapon: dual long swords)】 and 【Dark Silver Remnant (Immortal grade short sword)】.

Su Xiao only knew three parties that could take out eight Immortal grade sword-type weapons at the same time: Black Sail Chamber of Commerce, Shadow Chamber of Commerce, and Goblin Chamber of Commerce.

Su Xiao first contacted the Black Sail Chamber of Commerce and asked about the price of Immortal grade sword-type weapons. They offered a minimum of 12,000 soul coins each. The price of Immortal grade weapons was similar to the price of Immortal grade full-rating equipment, which was acceptable.

Upon learning that Su Xiao needed a total of eight high-rating Immortal grade long swords, they increased the price to 19,000 soul coins each.

It wasn't that Su Xiao hadn't thought about buying them one by one, but with the shrewdness of black merchants, after selling the third Immortal grade long sword on the same day, they would definitely raise the price desperately.

It could only be said that this was very much in the style of black merchants. As for retaliation, black merchants didn't care. Except for acknowledging defeat to the Brigade, or rather, to the Team Leader, when facing others, they seemed to acknowledge defeat on the surface, but in fact, they wouldn't reduce the price at all.

Su Xiao contacted the Shadow Chamber of Commerce and the Goblin Chamber of Commerce again. The Shadow Chamber of Commerce was very enthusiastic after hearing that Su Xiao needed a total of eight Immortal grade long swords. After all, he was an old customer. Previously, when Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan upgraded from Holy Spirit grade to Immortal grade, the multiple Holy Spirit grade long swords needed were purchased with the help of the Shadow Chamber of Commerce.

Shadow No. 6 of the Shadow Chamber of Commerce gave a reply. Their meaning was to give them some time. After this world battle was over, there would definitely be a wave of high equipment output. If possible, they would help Su Xiao get eight full-rating Immortal grade long swords at a price of 18,000 soul coins each.

The Shadow Chamber of Commerce was quite sincere. On the black merchant side, slightly higher-rating Immortal grade long swords were priced up to 19,000, while here it was 18,000 soul coins per full-rating sword.

However, Shadow No. 6 tactfully indicated that their strength was not as good as the Black Sail and Goblin sides, and they might not be able to get eight. At most, they dared to guarantee providing six. For more, it would depend on luck.

Su Xiao naturally agreed to this order and immediately transferred a deposit of 57,000 soul coins, which made Shadow No. 6 guarantee one after another that after this world battle ended, within 24 hours at most, they would definitely give Su Xiao a satisfactory answer.

Su Xiao finally contacted the Goblin Chamber of Commerce. Their reply was: full-rating Immortal grade long sword, 22,000 soul coins each. Within 20 swords, they had stock that day and could trade in 10 minutes. No matter how many were needed, it was this price, neither increasing nor decreasing.

Black Sail, Shadow, and Goblin—the three had completely different styles. The Goblin Chamber of Commerce liked to speculate on prices, but the overall price was stable, the capital was strong, and the strength and reputation were guaranteed.

Although the Shadow Chamber of Commerce was a large chamber of commerce, it was still developing, and there was still a gap compared to Black Sail and Goblin. The Shadow Chamber of Commerce's view was: small customers are friends, big customers are relatives, and super-big customers are my dad, my own dad.

Among the three, the most interesting was Black Sail. Usually, when buying anything, don't look for them; they are too black. But if you need some strange things, such as inheritance items of your own profession, or other things that are difficult to find, as long as you give enough soul coins, those black merchants will go to heaven and earth to find them and then sell them to you at a high price.

There was once a rumor that a guy inherited the Moonlight bloodline and lacked key professional advancement items. He contacted Black Sail. These black merchants didn't know what method they used, went to the Dark Continent, and even tried to drill into the Root: Dead Silence City. After many people died, they finally found that "Moonlight Stone" in the cathedral, brought it out, and sold it to that guy at a high price.

Excluding the soul coins reserved for buying Immortal grade long swords, Su Xiao planned to use the rest to upgrade his "Basic Passive" abilities.

Su Xiao stood up and came to the planting area, stopping in front of a large wooden wine barrel. This large wine barrel was 3 meters thick and 3 meters high, covered with metal structures used for reinforcement. This was the elemental brew Su Xiao was brewing.

According to the brewing method recorded by the God King, the more natural elements gathered during the brewing of this wine, the better the quality of the wine. Of course, these natural elements didn't blend with the wine liquid. The role they played during the period was similar to fermentation enzymes. After fermentation was completed, these natural elements would drift away.

At this time, even without elemental vision, one could see the natural elements around. There were so many natural elements gathered that they were almost covering the large wine barrel.

In terms of elemental fermentation, it had reached the best. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out eight pieces of "Time Crystallization" from the storage space. He didn't touch this thing, and after releasing it, he let it fall to the ground.

Su Xiao came to the fruit and vegetable planting area and picked some wild fruits. Just then, the birds raised by Amu were chirping. One of the silly-looking guys was even preparing to fight Su Xiao one-on-one. I don't know where Amu picked up the bird; it was actually so silly.

Taking the wild fruits, Su Xiao placed them on a piece of "Time Crystallization." The next second, because of the ultra-high-speed passage of time, the wild fruit began to shrivel and shrink, eventually turning into a hard black ball.

Su Xiao looked at the large wine barrel aside and thought for a while. He took out the mechanical prosthetic limb, put it on his arm, and used it to pick up the "Time Crystallization" on the ground.

Trying in various ways, Su Xiao went to the alchemy laboratory for a while and then back to the planting area. After working for more than ten hours, he finally completed his idea.

Eight pieces of "Time Crystallization" were fixed on the outer wall of the large wine barrel. Since this thing would accelerate the passage of time for items it touched, why not try to use it to speed up the brewing speed?

The time Su Xiao entered each mission world was about 20~30 days. Assuming that "Time Crystallization" could accelerate the time flow of the items it touched by a thousand times, then by using this characteristic to speed up the brewing speed of the elemental brew, in this way, when Su Xiao returned from the next mission world, these elemental brews might be aged for more than eighty years?

Considering the excellent quality of the elemental brew itself, if this attempt succeeded, this large barrel of elemental brew should be very valuable.

Su Xiao looked at the natural elements flying around the large wine barrel. Previously, White Cow mentioned that the next Empty Seat Banquet would be held in about a month. At that time, Su Xiao planned to bring some elemental brew to let other members of the Empty Seat Banquet taste it and let them judge the quality of the elemental brew.

Just as Su Xiao thought of this, a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise appeared.

【Tip: The upgrade of Fate Dominator has been completed.】 ===== CHAPTER 3598 =====