Chapter 3601: Teleportation

There were three reward choices. Whether it was the 【Free Usage Permit for Skill Upgrade Chamber (One-time)】 or the 【Honor Medal × 16】, both were very tempting rewards. It stood to reason that the 【Golden Box】 appearing alongside them must also be a rare item.

However, compared to the first two, Reward 3 held less appeal for Su Xiao. After weighing his options, he ultimately chose Reward 2.

【You have obtained 16 Honor Medals. You can use these medals to exchange for supplies in the Honor Shop.】

【Hint: Since this round of World Conquest has ended, the inventory of rare supplies in the Honor Shop will refresh in 30 minutes.】

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Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao, whose entire body was fatigued and sore from 70 hours of bitter cultivation in the Land of All Beings, had Amu lift the sofa and place it in front of the Honor Shop.

Sitting on the single-seater sofa, Su Xiao felt much more comfortable. Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja gathered around, while Benny jumped onto Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang's head. They all surrounded the Honor Shop, waiting for it to refresh.

Although his whole body was fatigued and sore, Su Xiao clearly felt that his current state was vastly different from before. If it were in the past, every time he cultivated bitterly for over 50 hours, he would feel drowsy.

Cultivating for 50 hours meant continuously blasting Blood Smoke Cannons during this period. Every time he blasted a full-power Blood Smoke Cannon, the 1500+ soul clones around him would also blast Blood Smoke Cannons of the same specifications. Afterward, these soul clones would turn into soul energy and submerge toward Su Xiao.

In other words, every full-power Blood Smoke Cannon he blasted in the Land of All Beings was equivalent to performing this ability at full strength thousands of times. He would know the shortcomings and where it needed improvement clearly.

To use a digitized analogy: after Su Xiao developed a skill, its initial level was Lv. 1. The benefit of self-developing abilities was that it didn't consume resources; the downside was that the improvement speed was relatively slow, and it could only be perfected by oneself—what is commonly known as accumulating proficiency.

Self-developing abilities had pros and cons. If one were not a member of the Paradise faction, after self-developing an ability, one might practice it every day, and perhaps after a day of practice, the proficiency would only increase by 3–5 points. By grinding day and night for a month, a year, ten years, or even twenty years, the ability would finally reach its peak, which was Lv. EX. Don't be surprised; this was the benefit of self-developing abilities—they could reach the level cap by accumulating proficiency.

As a contractor of the Paradise faction, Su Xiao naturally didn't have ten years or longer to perfect a move. Logically, he shouldn't self-develop abilities, but if he didn't, the advantage of the Technique-type would be reduced by at least half.

What is a Technique-type? It means that as long as one's physique can withstand it, there is simply no concept of a cooldown for skills derived from techniques.

How to quickly increase the level of self-developed abilities? The answer is naturally the Land of All Beings. Still using proficiency as an analogy, if the previous level of the Blood Smoke Cannon was Lv. 25 (1/1300 proficiency), Su Xiao only needed to blast one Blood Smoke Cannon in the Land of All Beings, and the proficiency of this ability would increase by at least a thousand points.

This is the power of the Land of All Beings, and it is also why the Paradise Conquest was so tragic back then, and why Reincarnation Paradise had to strip this facility from the notarization rights of Dawn Paradise.

Therefore, bitter cultivation on the eighth floor of the Land of All Beings not only tests the physique, but whether the spirit and will are tough is also a very important point. This time, after bitter cultivation, Su Xiao still had the energy to wait for the Honor Shop to refresh because his Willpower attribute had quietly appeared to have a significant increase, the reason being the buff from the Black King Armguard.

【Soul · Coronation of the King】

Origin: Root · Dead Silence City

Quality: Origin-level

Equipment Requirement: Only the King of Dead Silence can wear it (Achieved).

Basic Effect: Exempt from near-death state until death (This bonus has high priority).

Equipment Effect 1: Ember Annihilation (Core · Active)……

Equipment Effect 2: Dead Silence Descent (Core · Active)……

Equipment Effect 3: Soul Nourishment (Core · Passive): Your soul power will nourish your willpower at a slow speed, thereby permanently increasing your True Willpower.

Hint: The higher your soul strength, the stronger the nourishment to your True Willpower attribute.

Current "Dead Silence Origin" seal degree: Five-fold seal (The fewer the seals, the stronger this equipment will be).

Warning: If the seal is reduced to one-fold, the "Dead Silence Origin" will bring many uncertainties and dangers. Only when your own soul power is strong enough can you consider lifting this seal effect at your discretion, thereby completely releasing the power of the "Dead Silence Origin".

Rating: 3000 points (As the seal is lifted, the rating of this equipment will increase).

Selling Price: Cannot be sold.

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Su Xiao's soul strength was 650 points. After triggering the "Soul Nourishment" effect of the Black King Armguard, the increase to his Willpower attribute could be imagined.

After successfully sealing the "Dead Silence Origin" within his armguard, Su Xiao's Willpower attribute was permanently promoted to the True Willpower attribute and displayed in the personal data list as 210 points. From the time he put on the promoted Black King Armguard until now, some time had passed, plus the initial stage of just triggering the "Soul Nourishment" effect brought the most obvious increase, so his current Willpower attribute had increased to:

【True Willpower: 285 points.】

An increase of over 70 points was both surprising and reasonable. After all, it was 650 points of soul strength nourishing the Willpower attribute. If it couldn't reach this effect during the initial stage where nourishment growth was most obvious, then soul strength exceeding 600 points wouldn't be qualified to serve as the main attribute of the Soul-type.

Su Xiao was somewhat curious if, should True Willpower exceed 300 points, he would need to undergo the most difficult trial to pass using the 【Iron Refining Invitation】, the Iron Trial.

As far as Strength, Agility, Stamina, Charisma, and Intelligence attributes are concerned, if one breaks through the 300-point mark without undergoing the Iron Trial, there will be no attribute rewards. It is said that 300 points is the last attribute reward, and also the strongest one.

The intensity of the attribute reward derived from each 300-point True attribute is no less than an Ultimate-level passive ability promoted to Lv. EX. From this, one can imagine its intensity.

Su Xiao estimated that for the relatively special attribute of True Willpower, after reaching 300 points, perhaps there was no need to undergo the "Iron Trial". Whether the derived attribute reward is powerful or not can be estimated just by the attribute reward derived when True Willpower reached 200 points.

【True Willpower 200-point attribute reward · Fearless Shadow (Special Reward): Completely exempt from "Will Invasion" caused by Original Sin items and Abyss-corrupted creatures.】

Before he knew that Original Sin items were "Daddy-level" artifacts, Su Xiao only felt that this ability was okay, but looking at it now, this ability was very powerful.

However, being able to exempt from the "Will Invasion" of "Daddy-level" artifacts didn't mean one could safely use "Daddy-level" artifacts; this only avoided a portion of the risk.

【Hint: The Honor Shop is about to refresh. 3, 2, 1.】

【The Honor Shop has refreshed.】

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Su Xiao, who had already opened the Honor Shop list, saw that the inventory of 【Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chest】, which was originally 0, instantly became 63.

【You have paid 5 Honor Medals.】

【You have obtained Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chest × 1.】

【Insufficient inventory, cannot continue to exchange.】

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The 63 【Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chests】 became 0 in the blink of an eye, taking less than 0.5 seconds in total. It stood to reason; whether one needed it or not, as long as one could buy a 【Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chest】 for 5 Honor Medals, it was a huge profit.

Although this thing couldn't be sold at the Great Gathering Place, it could be sold at a high price to contractors on his own side, and it was especially easy to sell.

Su Xiao still had 12 Honor Medals left. Only then did he have the leisure time to check the Honor Shop list after the refresh. After flipping past the various supply potions at the top, several exchange options appeared before his eyes.

【Soul Supply Box (★★)】

Effect: Opening it grants Soul Crystal Core × 10.

Selling Price: 2 Honor Medals (The price of this supply has been significantly reduced).

Total Inventory: 17.

Hint: Every time a World Conquest is won, the inventory of this supply will refresh.

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【Soul Supply Box (★)】

Effect: Opening it grants Soul Crystal (Complete) × 100.

Selling Price: 1 Honor Medal (The price of this supply has been significantly reduced).

Total Inventory: 370.

Hint: Every time a World Conquest is won, the inventory of this supply will refresh.

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【Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chest】

Effect: Opening it grants a "Basic Passive" scroll of the highest potential.

Hint: There are a total of seven types of "Basic Passive", corresponding to Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intelligence, Charisma, Perception, and Soul attributes.

Hint: The Hunter has already mastered five types of basic passive abilities corresponding to Stamina, Intelligence, Charisma, Perception, and Soul attributes.

Hint: When this chest is opened, the basic passive types already mastered by the Hunter will not appear (only basic passive scrolls corresponding to Strength and Agility attributes will appear).

Selling Price: 5 Honor Medals.

Total Inventory: 0

Hint: Every time a World Conquest is won, the inventory of this supply will refresh.

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【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon (Overlord-level Equipment)】

Category: Killing characteristic,??? rating.

Selling Price: 3 Honor Medals.

Personal Inventory: 1.

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【Emergency Assistance (Permit)】

Effect: This item can be used during a hunt. After use, you will receive reinforcements from another Tier 9 Hunter within 5 seconds……

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【Original Sin Item (Fake)】

Category: An "Original Sin Item" imitated by the Night Bewitcher Guild. After exchanging for this item, you will randomly draw one "Original Sin Item (Fake)".

Selling Price: 5 Honor Medals.

Inventory: 61 pieces.

Hint: The price of an Original Sin Item (Fake) is between 1 and 45 Honor Medals. You can sell it to Reincarnation Paradise to obtain the corresponding number of Honor Medals.

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【Team Skill Card Chest】

Effect: Opening it allows you to randomly draw a team skill (The lower to upper limit of the draw is Team Skill Card Lv. 1 to Lv. EX).

Selling Price: 1 Honor Medal.

Inventory: 999.

Hint: When the Hunter is promoted to Tier 9 and the Honor Shop refreshes once, this exchange permit is guaranteed to refresh.

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【Soul Blade · Sub-weapon (Short knife, short sword, or adaptive attachment)】

List: Skill scroll. Due to the special nature of this skill, the default level after mastery is Lv. EX. The intensity of the ability will be determined by the user's own soul strength and physical energy limit.

Selling Price: 45 Honor Medals.

Personal Inventory: 1 card.

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Seeing the last item, Su Xiao was very interested in it. Although this thing was called a Soul Blade, its usage scope was not limited to blades.

From the introduction, it seemed that this thing was based on one's own physical energy to materialize energy, and then used soul energy to buff its lethality, thereby constructing sub-weapons such as short knives, short swords, etc. If needed, it could also be attached to both hands and forearms to give enemies heavy damage with fists in an emergency.

Su Xiao felt that this ability had a very high compatibility with him. Not to mention his 650-point soul strength, his physical energy, i. e., the mana limit, was as high as 60128 points. Furthermore, he could release energy for crystallization, thereby constructing soul crystal short knives to further increase the power of this ability.

In some special situations, such as during negotiations with an enemy, taking out Zhan Long Shan from the storage space suddenly was fine, but it was far less effective than suddenly constructing a soul crystal short knife in his hand and slicing off half of the opposite enemy's head with one slash.

This soul skill scroll was good in every way, except that it was too expensive. The price of up to 45 Honor Medals made it feel unattainable.

As for the other exchange options, Su Xiao frowned after seeing 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】. This was an old acquaintance. Ever since this thing was refreshed, it had been stuck on Su Xiao's Honor Shop like a piece of dog-skin plaster. The key was that it lowered its price every few days. Last time he saw it, it was priced at 5 Honor Medals; now it had actually become 3 Honor Medals.

Su Xiao ignored it. As for the "Personal Inventory" displayed below the item, this was easy to understand: items displaying "Personal Inventory" could only be exchanged in Su Xiao's own Honor Shop, while those not displayed were also available in other Hunters' Honor Shops, sharing a single inventory quantity.

The newly appeared exchange option 【Team Skill Card Chest】 only required 1 Honor Medal to exchange for one. When he first saw this chest, Su Xiao was in a good mood, but after seeing that (lower to upper limit of draw is Team Skill Card Lv. 1 to Lv. EX), he knew that if he didn't want to waste Honor Medals, he should just act as if this exchange option didn't exist.

Although the fortune electrocardiogram mentioned by the Goddess of Luck didn't sound very pleasant, the truth was often not very pleasant.

But seeing the 【Soul Blade · Sub-weapon】 and 【Original Sin Item (Fake)】 further down, one couldn't help but think that even a fortune electrocardiogram had times when it jumped to the top. Plus, with 12 Honor Medals on hand, he really couldn't buy anything. If it really went up to 45 Honor Medals to buy the 【Soul Blade · Sub-weapon】, that would be a huge profit.

【You have paid 5 Honor Medals.】

【You have exchanged for an Original Sin Item (Fake).】

【Bai Yin Duke】

Category: Original Sin Item (Fake).

Status: Sealed (If you choose to lift the seal, you must pay 2 Honor Medals to seal it again when selling this item to the Honor Shop before it can be sold).

Selling Price: 4 Honor Medals.

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【You have sold Bai Yin Duke.】

【Your current Honor Medals: 11.】

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After doing all this, Su Xiao closed the Honor Shop and acted as if nothing had happened. He took out the 【Basic Passive Skill Scroll Chest】 he had just exchanged for and chose to open it.

【You have obtained Basic Passive · Shadow Speed (Corresponding to True Agility attribute).】

【Basic Passive · Shadow Speed, Lv. 1.】

Type: Basic · Passive Scroll.

Prerequisite: Agility attribute 5 points.

Skill Effect 1: Your body speed +2 points (Body speed includes movement speed, attack speed, basic · nerve reflex speed, basic · dynamic vision, perception speed, etc.).

Skill Effect 2: Damage tier caused by melee weapons +1 (Adaptive after mastery. If the Hunter masters this ability, it will adapt to: damage tier caused by blade-type weapons +1).

Skill Effect 3: True damage caused by your Technique-type abilities, physical energy, and core skills increased by 1%.

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Su Xiao didn't hesitate at all and used this skill scroll directly.

【You have mastered Basic Passive · Shadow Speed, Lv. 1.】

After successfully mastering the "Basic Passive · Shadow Speed" ability, Su Xiao tried to consult the upgrade cost of this ability with the brand permit. The result obtained was:

【To upgrade Basic Passive · Shadow Speed Lv. 1, you need to consume 1000 Soul Coins (20% upgrade cost reduction has been applied through the Reincarnation · Honor Medal).】

Seeing this upgrade price, Su Xiao already had an ominous premonition in his heart. This ability was definitely more expensive to upgrade than Basic Passive · Soul Resilience, and this was also a very late-stage ability.

It belonged to the kind where investing 100,000 Soul Coins wouldn't bring much improvement to oneself, but once this ability was upgraded, the buff it brought would be shocking to the point of tongue-clicking.

Such a late-stage ability made Su Xiao decide not to upgrade this ability at the current stage. He would wait until he upgraded "Basic Passive · Soul Resilience" and "Basic Passive · Blood Awakening" to Lv. EX, and then invest all his Soul Coins into this ability.

【Hint: Your stay duration has reached its limit. You are about to return to the real world.】

【Teleportation starting.】

The scene before Su Xiao blurred. The next second, he was already on the second floor of the accessory shop.

Calm real life began. When Su Xiao went downstairs, Amu had already pulled up the rolling door of the shop, Baja opened the window for ventilation, turned on the sweeping robot, etc. Soon, Benny jumped onto the sweeping robot, but after a while, Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang discovered the joy in it and decisively jumped on.

A moment later, the remains of the sweeping robot were placed on the coffee table. Su Xiao, Baja, and Benny gathered around, preparing to try to repair it. Beside them, Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang, with a slipper on his head and a few cat claw marks on his face, yawned, considering what to eat for lunch today.

Until noon, the sweeping robot was successfully resurrected and even improved by Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang, adding functions such as magnetic attachment, automatic trash box cleaning, automatic washing and mopping, mechanical prosthetics, etc., making Amu, who was holding a mop in front of the restroom, very confused.

Su Xiao put down the pharmacy book in his hand. This was one of the benefits of his promotion to Tier 9. As long as such knowledge-based items were taken out of the storage space and not too far from him, they were within the scope permitted by the permit.

Unknowingly, four days passed. Before this, besides reading ancient pharmacy books, Su Xiao was also considering a problem: how to stably obtain Soul Coins.

This trip to the Arcane Eternal Star made him a small fortune, but this fortune hit rock bottom after only a few days. He originally had over 10,000 Soul Coins left, but after purchasing various supplies to deal with the new world and the material costs required for mixing potions, he only had 3700 Soul Coins left. This was still because of the lesson from Brother No-Umbrella, leaving behind insurance.

Where the new world to be visited this time was, Su Xiao didn't know yet, but he had some confidence in hunting down enemies. First of all, his strength had been improving continuously recently. After reaching the current level, he was somewhat unable to fathom what level he was at within Tier 9.

Besides this, because of the contract in Dead Silence City, the healing-type Saint Poetry from Saint Paradise would go to the new mission world with him. Having a healing-type following along would undoubtedly make the situation a few points more stable.

【Hint: You are about to return to Reincarnation Paradise.】

The familiar feeling of teleportation appeared. When Su Xiao's vision recovered, he had returned to his exclusive room. He checked the brand and found an unread email. After opening it, he found it was from Saint Poetry, meaning that things were prepared on her side, just waiting for Su Xiao's team invitation.

Being in different Paradise factions, as long as it wasn't a World Conquest or a special world progress, it was actually possible to enter the mission world together. However, there was a prerequisite: one had to join one side's team before entering the world. Previously, this required a relatively troublesome process to achieve, but after being promoted to Tier 9 and being able to go to the Great Gathering Place, this was no longer a problem.

When Su Xiao brought Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny to the Great Gathering Place, he saw Saint Poetry sitting by the fountain, possessing the temperament of a neighbor's big sister. Don't be deceived by this temperament; when Saint Poetry held a funeral for enemies, her temperament was quite different from now.

Come to think of it, the team formed by Su Xiao and Saint Poetry was quite compatible. Su Xiao was responsible for killing enemies, and Saint Poetry was responsible for burying them. The division of labor was clear.

"Quite punctual."

Saint Poetry spoke.

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, just sent a team invitation. After confirming that Saint Poetry joined the team, he sat by the fountain with a serious expression.

"Are you always this serious?"

"Not exactly."

"Then what is this now?"

"The world progress will open in five minutes. Teleportation is about to begin."

"So why is your gaze so serious? Come to think of it, we are teaming up now, which means I will be teleported into the mission world by Reincarnation Paradise this time? This is my first time being teleported by Reincarnation Paradise. This is also a new experience."

Saint Poetry spoke with a relaxed demeanor, even taking out a hair tie to tie a single ponytail. After looking in a small mirror, she nodded quite satisfied.

【Hunter List · Blood Pact has been activated. Teleportation will open in 10 seconds……】

"Boss, it's coming."

"……"

"Moo."

"Woof!"

"Meow meow!"

Benny raised her two front paws and covered the back of her head.

Seeing this scene, Saint Poetry felt somewhat dumbfounded. She asked: "What are you guys doing……"

BOOM!!

Before Saint Poetry could finish her sentence, she felt as if the back of her head had been hit by a heavy hammer. There was no real sense of impact, but there was a feeling that her soul was about to be blasted forward. Afterward, her vision plunged into darkness. At this moment, she experienced what Reincarnation Paradise's teleportation was.

However, Saint Poetry probably couldn't have imagined that after entering this world, she would also be able to experience the Demon race's spatial teleportation. ===== CHAPTER 3602 =====