Chapter 3647

The Storm Flame Dragon flew over Ghost City. It looked like it was flying toward their temporary base, but it was actually more like circling. Su Xiao's real goal was a surprise attack on the Dark God Sect's base, the Dark Cathedral.

Attacking the Dark Cathedral directly was an extremely unwise choice. Not to mention that the Dark God Sect had been entrenched in Ghost City for many years and its influence was deeply rooted here, if they really used the Alliance army to attack Ghost City, no one knew what the Dark God Sect, forced into a desperate situation, would do.

Don't forget, when the Alliance and the Empire were locked in a thousand-year blood war, the members of the Dark God Sect were the main force of both sides. As long as these guys with dark beliefs were given enough benefits, they were willing to assist either side in the war.

Dark believers with medium strength could summon bizarre alien creatures, and those with strong strength could summon Abyss-spawned creatures on the battlefield. Even ordinary Abyss-spawned creatures were extremely dangerous existences.

The Dark God Sect summoned a total of two "Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned Creatures" into this world. At present, Su Xiao had killed one, and the whereabouts of the other were unknown.

No one knew whether the Dark God Sect had extreme means to perish together with the incoming enemy, which led to the fact that for so many years, neither the Alliance nor the Northern Empire dared to come to Ghost City to provoke this cancer, the Dark God Sect.

The reason why the Alliance's Grand Councilors supported Su Xiao in crusading against Ghost City this time was not only because Su Xiao entered Ghost City in the form of a squad, but also because the Alliance's Grand Councilors faintly sensed that the Dark God Sect was plotting something dangerous.

Since the legion flow was not feasible, Su Xiao decided to adopt other strategies. What he wanted to deal with was actually not the entire Dark God Sect, but only the Abyss leader, Silvis.

First kill the Abyss leader, Silvis, and through probing the other party's soul memory, know the location of the traitor, as well as the location of the Abyss Hole, and reduce the traitor's strength as much as possible.

Su Xiao would not be stupid enough to come to Ghost City to play chess with the Dark God Sect. This was their lair developed for hundreds of years. How could he, suddenly arriving here, be able to beat this local snake? This local snake didn't directly turn against him, still because it was wary of the Alliance army rushing to Ghost City.

Su Xiao had always been very self-aware, so to deal with the Abyss leader, Silvis, he came up with a plan that was both simple and direct, especially after the scramble was notarized by the Void Tree, his simple and crude plan became even more effective.

That is, first adopt an attitude of long-term chess playing with the Abyss leader, Silvis, in Ghost City. A common metaphor is, prepare to play a game of chess with the Abyss leader, Silvis. At present, Su Xiao and Silvis were already sitting on opposite sides of the chessboard.

This game of chess seemed to have Su Xiao at a huge advantage, but if measured carefully, he was bound to lose. But this didn't matter. Su Xiao's plan didn't care about the outcome of this game of chess at all. What he wanted to do was, when everyone, including the Abyss leader, Silvis, focused their attention on the game of chess, he had already lifted the chessboard and slammed it onto Silvis's face, and then, in the horrified gaze of everyone, crossed the chess table and hammered the Abyss leader, Silvis.

For example, the plan of playing chess with the Abyss leader, Silvis, was a means Su Xiao used when he was at the Seventh or Eighth Tier. Now that he had been promoted to the Ninth Tier, the plan he used was naturally returning to the basics. Although simple, it was very effective.

Now the eyes of all forces in Ghost City were focused on the "Dangerous Area: Family Mansion." The Dark God Sect even sent two bishops to the high wall as representatives of the Dark faction, which showed how much they valued this scramble.

If Su Xiao guessed correctly, the Abyss leader, Silvis, had a high degree of desire for the "Primal Fragment," but today the other party didn't show up, especially in the stage where the Alliance faction and the Dark faction were playing chess against each other, the other party actually chose to close the door and not come out.

Did this mean that the Abyss leader, Silvis, was actually also taking advantage of this scramble to attract everyone's attention to achieve something?

The Storm Flame Dragon circled in the sky. Su Xiao, who was meditating, received a message from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Two hours ago, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had already, under Caesar's cover, sneaked into the Dark Cathedral by blending into the environment. At this moment, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang confirmed one thing: the Abyss leader, Silvis, was located in the underground palace beneath the cathedral. Not only that, the corridor in front of the underground palace was full of Cathedral Knights.

These four-meter-tall Cathedral Knights in heavy armor almost squeezed the dozens-of-meters-long corridor full. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang could blend into the environment, but facing this density of guards, it had no good way.

Su Xiao contacted Caesar through the team channel. Caesar, who had arrived days earlier than him, had already become a logistics manager of the Dark Cathedral. The 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】, one of Caesar's three artifacts, was truly powerful. Originally, this thing wasn't so invincible, but under the gain of the Abyss Jar and the secondary influence of Caesar's ability, the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 actually appeared to have the powerful effect of being able to replace existence.

The effect was indeed powerful, but the restrictions were also ridiculously many. For example, it could not replace those with powerful strength, could not replace those with too high status or power, and there was an upper limit to the number of uses in each world. For example, if it could be used three times in this world, then it absolutely could not be used a fourth time. Any method, any means, would not work.

The effect of the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 was only one: to replace the existence of others. But there were as many as 162 restrictions. Caesar's strength lay in the fact that he could push its function to the limit under so many restrictions. The three artifacts of Caesar were not the so-called artifacts themselves, but Caesar himself.

It was also because of the astonishing number of restrictions on the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 that the characters Caesar replaced each time were either quartermasters or logistics officers, because these types of identities generally didn't have strong strength or high official positions, but could come into contact with a large amount of resources.

Confirming that Caesar was ready, Su Xiao contacted Baha and asked Baha, who was at the temporary base, to lead the others to set off for the Dark Cathedral.

Su Xiao controlled the Storm Flame Dragon, Dis. Seeing Dis spread its dragon wings, after drawing an arc trajectory in the high altitude, it roared and accelerated to break the sound barrier, flying toward the Dark Cathedral at full speed.

Almost at the same time Dis changed its flight direction, the members of the Dark God Sect who had been watching Su Xiao's movements immediately passed this news back to the Dark Cathedral.

Boom!

Dis broke through layers of air waves and flew to the sky three kilometers away from the Dark Cathedral. Su Xiao looked down at the Dark Cathedral. Figures were already standing on the ruins around the Dark Cathedral. After being cleaned up by him in the dragon-riding state before, the Dark God Sect was particularly vigilant about this.

"Dean Bai Ye, you rushed here so anxiously, is there any urgent matter?"

The man in front of a group of Dark God Sect members spoke. He looked like a soul body, but had a feeling of being somewhat physical. This was the Wraith Bishop of the Dark God Sect.

The Wraith Bishop's gaze was unkind. He was ready to take action at any time. Not to mention that they were numerous, this was the front of the Dark Cathedral, their lair. In this place, the Wraith Bishop had the confidence to make this Law-Breaker come and not return.

Su Xiao stood up from the dragon's back and looked down at the Wraith Bishop below. He rarely spoke before the battle:

"Undead creature, do you run fast?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the Wraith Bishop's pupil flames condensed, and he said coldly: "What kind of ghost talk are you saying..."

The Wraith Bishop's words were only half spoken when he suddenly felt a hair-raising fluctuation coming from the Dark Cathedral behind him. That feeling was like a sun about to explode inside the Dark Cathedral.

Why would this be? The reason was that Caesar was currently at the logistics department on the second floor of the Dark Cathedral and had activated a Sun's Wrath: Apollo there.

This Sun's Wrath: Apollo was special to the extreme. This was an Apollo that had been doubly gained by Caesar's ability and the Abyss Jar.

Apollo had the following levels:

1. Ordinary Apollo.

2. Sun's Wrath: Apollo.

3. Sun Barrel (10 Sun's Wrath: Apollo + special high-explosive gunpowder).

4. Sun Pillar (100 Sun's Wrath: Apollo + fission solution + special glass pillar container).

5. Sun Holy Sword (600 Sun's Wrath: Apollo + fission solution + special glass pillar container + a large amount of concentrated faith power: Sun + sunlight amplification).

What Caesar was doing now was gaining this Sun's Wrath: Apollo into a "Sun Holy Sword." More precisely, it was gaining the detonation aura of this Apollo to the "Sun Holy Sword" level. Caesar was very confident about this; he had seen the "Sun Holy Sword" explode with his own eyes and had witnessed it three times.

Although this Apollo had the aura of when the "Sun Holy Sword" was detonated, the real situation was that this thing only had the detonation aura, and the real explosion power might not even be as good as a large firecracker. This kind of extreme strength and weakness was very much in the style of Caesar and the Abyss Jar.

The aura after the "Sun Holy Sword" was detonated instantly shrouded the Dark Cathedral. More precisely, it shrouded the entire Ghost City in a short period of time and continued to spread to the surroundings.

Located in front of the Dark Cathedral, just as Su Xiao asked the Wraith Bishop before, whether it ran fast or not, at this moment the Wraith Bishop answered Su Xiao with actions. It not only ran fast, but also flew very fast.

With a muffled boom, wherever the Wraith Bishop passed, spatial ripples were left behind. It spared no effort to burn its life soul, erupting with ultra-limit speed, far away from the Dark Cathedral.

Not only the Wraith Bishop, but the dark believers who had been staring at Su Xiao in front of the Dark Cathedral just now, at this time used various means, desperately fleeing to the distance. Some, during the flight, let out hysterical roars. This was after being shrouded by the aura of the "Sun Holy Sword," beginning to despair and go crazy.

The entire Dark Cathedral was like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed hard. Most of the members of the Dark God Sect inside rushed out from various windows. There was a dark believer who even ran out naked. He took big steps, and his expression during the run was both ferocious and desperate.

In a very short period of time, the members inside the Dark Cathedral were cleared out. Su Xiao jumped off the dragon's back and landed in front of the main entrance of the Dark Cathedral. He walked into the Dark Cathedral from the main entrance in such an open and honest way, first entering the spacious hall, and then following the steps downward on the inner side, down to a magnificent corridor ten meters wide.

The ceiling of the corridor was covered with a kind of crystal that could emit light, illuminating this place. Su Xiao walked forward along the corridor. After he passed the corner, he saw that the corridor dozens of meters long in front was full of Cathedral Knights.

Wide hook blades covered with barbs were drawn out, and heavy hammers full of ferocious spikes rubbed against the wall, splashing sparks while making harsh, sharp sounds.

A total of more than a hundred Cathedral Knights, all wearing full heavy armor two fingers thick, holding various heavy melee weapons. The scarlet runes on the armor at their chests were all activated, which made their eyes turn into dark brown vertical pupils, cruel and difficult to kill.

At the same time, at the main entrance of the Dark Cathedral.

"Don't worry about anyone, advance to the underground palace at the fastest speed."

Tessa spoke loudly with sharp eyes. Members of the Hunter Squad rushed into the cathedral on her left and right sides. Although Tessa tried her best to suppress it, from her accelerated heartbeat, it could be judged how excited she was to attack the Dark God Sect's base. For so many years, she had forgotten how many subordinates, as well as young people who had just arrived at the Hunter Squad, had died in the hands of these dark believers.

Su Xiao's plan was both simple and direct. First, clear the field with a fake "Sun Holy Sword," and then the Hunter Squad took the opportunity to rush into the Dark Cathedral, set up defenses here, and block those dark believers who found that the "Sun Holy Sword" was fake and were preparing to return to the Dark Cathedral.

Not only that, Su Xiao also arranged for the High Priest, Dre, Silver Face, and Veronica to intercept the Bishop, Black Worm, Ernod, and Bishop Blood Demon who were rushing back from the high wall to the cathedral.

Besides that, Amu, who entered the detached state, was responsible for cleaning up the small forces in the city that came to reinforce the cathedral. There were actually quite a few of these lackeys under the Dark God Sect. After Amu entered the detached state, it was enough to clean them up.

In this way, it formed a situation where the Alliance faction temporarily occupied the Dark Cathedral, using this to block the fierce attack of the Dark God Sect members. In Ghost City, there were too many people in the Dark God Sect, so they could only defend passively. And taking advantage of this period of time, Su Xiao would have a life-and-death battle with the Abyss leader, Silvis.

At this moment, in the hall on the first floor of the Dark Cathedral, Tessa, with a ponytail and black gloves on both hands, walked quickly toward the steps leading to the underground corridor. Along the way, the smell of blood was exceptionally heavy. When she arrived at the underground corridor and came near the corner, she actually found that her subordinates had all stopped before the corner.

"What are you guys doing standing there stupidly? Bai Ye should be dealing with a group of Cathedral Knights alone..."

Tessa spoke loudly while walking quickly, but after walking past the corner, her voice gradually lowered, and finally there was no sound at all, because she saw that in the corridor after the corner, large pieces of severed limbs and arms wrapped in heavy armor were scattered everywhere on the ground. The walls on both sides and the ceiling were covered with blade marks and splashed blood stains. There was also a Cathedral Knight covered in blade marks, hanging in mid-air with energy threads wrapped around his neck.

Beside the metal door at the end of the corridor, the only Cathedral Knight still alive was covering his throat, which had been slashed and was spraying blood. He was already breathing more than he was taking in.

Su Xiao flicked the blood off his blade. Blood flowed down his cheeks. Judging from the dark color of the blood, this was clearly not his blood.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Tessa's eyes twitched imperceptibly. Once, she thought Su Xiao's strength was about the same as hers. Now it seemed that was not the case.

Seeing Tessa arrive, Su Xiao nodded to Tessa, pushed open the door at the innermost part of the corridor, and walked into the underground palace.

Just as Su Xiao walked into the underground palace, the door behind him slammed shut, which made Baha on the side and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was blending into the environment, subconsciously vigilant.

Su Xiao looked around at the situation here. The ledges of the palace walls on both sides were filled with ritual candles as thick as arms. The rock bed at the innermost part of the hall was empty. He didn't see the figure of the Abyss leader, Silvis. The hall was empty.

How could an empty palace have so many Cathedral Knights guarding it? Su Xiao came to the bed and sensed that the Abyss aura was faintly coming from the wall opposite. He kicked directly.

Thump!

The rock secret door shattered, and a rock pool full of liquid Abyss energy appeared in the secret room in front. Seeing this, Su Xiao began to observe other places to see if there were any other secret doors.

"Woof."

"Are you sure?"

"Woof!"

"Hmm."

Su Xiao took a deep breath and jumped directly into the liquid Abyss energy. Ordinary people wouldn't dare to do this, but Su Xiao, who had been baptized by wolf blood, had 5 points of Abyss resistance. Don't think this is low.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha had also been baptized by wolf blood. Xiang Bubu's Abyss resistance was 4 points, and Baha's was 5 points. They also jumped into the Abyss energy pool together.

Darkness, sticky and heavy darkness.

Su Xiao felt himself sinking in the darkness. He didn't know how long he had been sinking. Just when he felt he was about to be eroded by the Abyss, his feet felt empty, and he leaked out from the darkness.

Su Xiao landed in a half-squatting posture. The black liquid on his hands evaporated into a gaseous state as soon as it touched the air.

Looking around, Su Xiao found himself in an old and dilapidated rock passage. Directly above was a hole sealed by black liquid. The next second, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha fell from inside and landed on the ground one after another. This was the benefit of the whole team having Abyss resistance.

Su Xiao walked forward along the rock passage. Not long after, he found murals on the walls of the passage. The painting level of these murals was not high, or rather, this was not for outsiders to see at all, but the painter himself left these murals to prevent himself from forgetting what had happened.

The content of the first mural was a group of people wearing robes with sun marks on the back, making the gesture of praising the sun toward the sun.

Su Xiao continued to look back. The second mural was a chaotic battlefield. On this mural, which was deliberately painted pale, several black figures in the chaotic battle, as well as those black monsters, were particularly conspicuous. This represented the Dark God Sect members who were active on the battlefield during the thousand-year blood war between the Alliance and the Northern Empire.

The painting style of the third mural changed. Although the war subsided, a black hole like a leak in the sky appeared over the Sand Kingdom, and darkness poured out from inside. This was the Abyss passage. Figures wearing robes with sun marks on the back were walking toward the direction of the Abyss passage.

The painting style of the fourth mural changed again. The dilapidated Sun Temple, the broken giant sun stone disk, the group of people who praised the sun were left with only one lonely person. He sat on the remaining half of the sun stone disk, looking at the sunset in the distance, his back lonely and desolate. His shadow was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, as if predicting that he was sealing an Abyss-spawned creature in his body, or rather, the first Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature to arrive in this world was sealed in his body.

The content of the fifth mural was the simplest. The person wearing the robe with the sun mark on the back was standing in front of a long blade, and this long blade had the mark of the Law-Breaker of Shadows, representing that this was a Law-Breaker's blade.

The content of the sixth mural was that the figure picked up the Law-Breaker's blade and stabbed it into his own chest, which caused his upper body to appear with a triple phantom. One phantom wore a platinum mask, one phantom was a pitch-black vertical pupil, and the last one had its mouth sealed, with a ring mark on its forehead. Su Xiao had seen this ring mark; he had seen it on the forehead of the criminal "Hatred" on the third floor of the dungeon.

Su Xiao thought about who the last survivor in this Sun faction was. It was precisely the name he saw on the stone tablet in the Land of Meteor Fire, written at the very top: Sun Archbishop Silvis.

The content recorded on this mural was actually not too complicated. First, the Dark God Sect rose due to the thousand-year blood war between the Alliance and the Northern Empire, and then things got out of hand, leading to the appearance of the Abyss passage. The Sun Sect succeeded in sealing the Abyss passage at the cost of near-extinction, but the Sun Sect members at that time almost all died, leaving only the strongest Sun Archbishop Silvis alive.

Although Sun Archbishop Silvis felt lonely, he could not have a moment of relaxation, because he was using himself as a cage to imprison the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature. No one in this world could kill such a powerful thing.

Sun Archbishop Silvis traveled everywhere and finally found a Law-Breaker's blade. He knew that the Law-Breakers of the past could eliminate Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creatures.

After years of investigation and travel, Sun Archbishop Silvis confirmed one point: although he could pick up the Law-Breaker's blade for a short time, it was impossible to fight with this weapon, let alone use the blade spirit inside to devour the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature.

What was even more fatal was that Sun Archbishop Silvis could feel that he couldn't hold on for much longer. The Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature in his body was about to break through his seal and break out of his body.

Sun Archbishop Silvis didn't give up. He thought of a method that was both brilliant and awe-inspiring. Since he couldn't fight with the Law-Breaker's blade or eliminate the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature, he could pick up the Law-Breaker's blade for a short time and use it to pierce himself. As long as he pierced himself, wouldn't it be equivalent to piercing the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature in his body?

In the end, Sun Archbishop Silvis picked up the Law-Breaker's blade and pierced his own chest. At the same time, he divided his soul into three. This was something he had planned long ago. Just piercing himself with the Law-Breaker's blade couldn't continue to seal the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature; he also had to cooperate with other methods.

At the same time as being pierced by the Law-Breaker's blade, Sun Archbishop Silvis's body, soul, and consciousness were divided into three, each with different characteristics: Sun, Abyss, and Chaos.

Representing the Sun part was the Platinum Bishop, responsible for restoring the Sun Sect to its former glory.

Representing the Abyss part was the Abyss leader, Silvis, who had the Law-Breaker's blade stuck in him, responsible for continuing to seal the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature, as well as becoming the leader of the Dark God Sect, gathering the scattered Dark God Sect members together, preferably to a place where birds don't poop, such as Ghost City, and then controlling the lower limit of these Dark God Sect members as a leader, at least not letting them try to open the Abyss Hole again.

Finally, representing the Chaos part was Hatred. Hatred was not given responsibility. Its existence was a kind of insurance to prevent the Abyss leader, Silvis, from going to merge with the Platinum Bishop after being heavily eroded by the consciousness of the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature, leading to the release of the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature.

In short, only Platinum Bishop + Abyss leader Silvis + Hatred could re-aggregate into Sun Archbishop Silvis, and then pull out the Law-Breaker's blade.

The problem now is, I don't know who pulled out the Law-Breaker's blade in the Abyss leader Silvis's body directly, but the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature in the Abyss leader Silvis's body had coexisted with him for too long. The two were no longer in a mutual sealing relationship, but had half-merged together.

The current Abyss leader, Silvis, was no longer the person he was at the beginning. His will had been completely eroded by the Abyss. He longed for the Abyss, yearned for the Abyss, and because he had been bound by the Law-Breaker's blade for a long time, he was also very hostile to the Law-Breaker faction.

After lifting the binding of the Law-Breaker's blade, the Abyss leader, Silvis, found the Platinum Bishop for the first time. After the two sides met, the Platinum Bishop had no chance to take action at all. The two sides were of the same origin. At the moment of meeting, the Platinum Bishop was continuously attacked by the consciousness of the Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-spawned creature and was defeated by the Abyss leader, Silvis, on the spot.

This was also the reason why the Platinum Bishop left without saying goodbye. He went to watch the sunset at that time because he knew that this trip to Ghost City would be the end of his destiny. Unfortunately, before he could set off, he was ambushed by the Abyss leader, Silvis.

The Abyss leader, Silvis, who merged with the Platinum Bishop, also rescued Hatred through Water Brother. He was no longer doing this to break the seal and become Sun Archbishop Silvis again. He wanted to restore his incomplete soul. More precisely, he wanted to become Abyss Archbishop Silvis. In this way, he could open the Abyss Hole in the sacrificial ground, let it become an Abyss passage, and use it to return to the Abyss. As for whether this world would be eroded by the Abyss and become a land of darkness and death, it had nothing to do with him.

Su Xiao stopped at the end of the underground passage. He pushed open the rock door in front, and a sacrificial ground came into view. The sacrificial ground was surrounded by ring-shaped walls, with an area of thousands of square meters and a height of about ten meters. The ceiling above was inlaid with dense skeletons. Looking carefully at the surrounding walls, the rock walls were also mixed with dense skeletons.

On the gray rock ground, there were large mottled, damp black marks, making the Abyss aura here exceptionally rich. A twisted and deformed platinum mask on the ground was stained with some black marks.

In front, a figure was sitting on a metal chair with his back to Su Xiao. Located in front of him was a black hole suspended in mid-air. This hole was spiral-shaped, pitch-black inside. It was the Abyss Hole.

The stone door behind Su Xiao slammed shut, making the sacrificial ground airtight. His opponent in this battle was Abyss Archbishop Silvis.