Chapter 3650

In front of the fog gate beneath the high wall, a group of hunters greeted the Black A who had just emerged from the underground palace with smiles on their faces. To prevent any underground palace monsters from rushing out of the fog gate behind Black A, one hunter even used their ice-type ability to "thoughtfully" seal the fog gate behind Black A.

Under the "welcome" of the group of hunters, Black A narrowed his eyes and gripped the "Abyss Meteor" sword in his hand. Vivi, who was behind him, tried to explain that this was all a misunderstanding, but after noticing the hunters' smiles becoming increasingly radiant, she was forced to give up.

"The Ancient Emblem is in your hands?"

Su Xiao, sitting in front of the group of hunters, spoke. Black A did not reply. Seeing this, Su Xiao signaled that the hunters could attack.

In front of the fog gate, Black A loosened his neck, looking quite confident. Just as the hunters rushed over to surround him, the "Abyss Meteor" sword in Black A's hand stabbed into the ground.

Boom!

The vibration spread far and wide. Although it lacked the grandeur of the Sand King's sword strike that shattered dozens of kilometers of land, it was still quite imposing. Black A let out an angry roar from within the dust and smoke, his aura fully released—furious and dark.

30 seconds later.

"What are you doing stabbing a broken sword into the ground randomly? You got dirt all over me; I just washed my hair this morning."

Tessa's confidante, the bespectacled girl, threw another punch at the fallen Black A. Black A was indeed not weak; the problem was that he was currently fighting the Alliance's strongest violent organization: the Hunter Corps. These hunters had even besieged the Immortal-characteristic Abyss-bred creatures; besieging Black A right now was simply a piece of cake.

"You're still glaring? You beat up our Young Lady, and you still dare to be so arrogant? I'll finish you off today."

The bespectacled girl was a bit hot-headed. She drew the sharp sword of a masked man nearby and prepared to strike Black A. With the joint persuasion of several hunters and Alisa, the bespectacled girl sat down to the side in anger, staring at Black A with unkind eyes.

Black A, who was being held to the ground by several hunters, remained calm with cold eyes. Seeing this, Su Xiao had several hunters bring him forward. Soon, Black A was sitting on the ground two meters in front of Su Xiao, his body bound with many loops of energy threads, and a hook blade pressed against his neck.

"Black A, do you know what you are doing?"

As soon as Baja spoke, Vivi behind Black A hurriedly explained: "Dean Bai Ye, we were wrong. Actually, we joined the Dark God Sect to prevent them from obtaining the Ancient Emblem. Black, hurry up and take out the Ancient Emblem."

Vivi, who was also bound, nudged Black A beside her with her shoulder, but Black A remained unmoved, just hanging his head.

"Are you sure you won't hand it over? Now that there is notarization, we really have no way to snatch it by force."

Baja touched its chin with its wing as if it were a hand, looking somewhat distressed. Seeing this, Black A's eyes finally fluctuated. He was certain of this point, which was why he had remained silent all along, increasing his bargaining chips. As for Black A's goal, it was naturally to exchange the "Ancient Emblem" in his hand for "Life Essence Polymerized Crystals."

Baja changed the subject, smiling wickedly at Black A: "You are currently in the Dark God Sect camp; you can't deny that, right?"

Hearing this, although Black A did not speak, judging by the subtle changes in his expression, he tacitly agreed.

"Now the Dark God Sect in Ghost City has fallen. Without this base camp, those remaining members are like grasshoppers after the frost. And now, the Alliance's Hunter Corps is arresting Dark God Sect members all over the city, and you are obviously one of them."

"So what?"

Black A finally spoke. Seeing this, Baja smiled even more unscrupulously. It continued: "So what? Think about it, what will be your fate after being arrested by the Hunter Corps? It's nothing more than two options: 1. Being executed, 2. Being transferred by the Hunter Corps to the Twilight Asylum and locked in the underground prison of the asylum. Given our friendship, we certainly won't let you be executed. Young man, don't worry, we will arrange for you to move into our asylum as soon as possible."

Hearing this analysis, Black A's eyes gradually became solemn. This clearly bypassed the notarized prohibition clauses.

"Compared to getting nothing and being locked in an underground prison, I have a proposal. See if you can accept it. I know what you are thinking—you want to exchange the "Ancient Emblem" for "Life Essence Polymerized Crystals," right? Actually, we think so too."

Hearing Baja say this, a different look appeared in Black A's eyes, but Baja's tone changed, and it said with regret:

"The problem is, you came out too late. If you had come out earlier, we would certainly have been willing to exchange a whole "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" for the "Ancient Emblem." But before you, the Sun Apostle exchanged all the "Ancestral Secret Treasures" he obtained for half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal." Don't look at me like that; he originally wanted to exchange for a whole one, but we felt the chips weren't enough, so we gave him half first and let him go get more chips to exchange for the remaining half."

At this point, Baja took out half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" and said with some regret: "We can't just use this half of a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" to exchange for the "Ancient Emblem" with you, right? You certainly wouldn't agree. Eh? Why did you take out the "Ancient Emblem"? You agree?"

Baja looked at Black A in "surprise," and with some "incredulity," used half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" to exchange for the "Ancient Emblem."

"In my opinion, Black A doesn't look like a member of the Dark God Sect. He must have been coerced. You all agree, right?"

Baja's words made the surrounding hunters speak up one after another:

"Our captain contacted me saying there's an emergency, so I'm leaving first."

"I have diarrhea, excuse me."

"I, I..."

The last hunter stammered for a long time without coming up with a new excuse, but he also walked away quickly. In less than half a minute, all the hunters had left, and they even took Alisa to see her sister, Tessa.

Only Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baja, Black A, and Vivi remained in front of the fog gate. Black A broke free from his restraints and stood up from the ground. He looked at Baja, and just as he was about to speak, Baja predicted: "The Sun Apostle went that way, probably for... half an hour? That should be about right."

Hearing this, Black A took Vivi and left quickly. Before leaving, Vivi secretly used gestures to express to Su Xiao that she would keep an eye on Black A and not let him do anything out of line. Clearly, Vivi knew very well who the real boss was.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao had an idea: the subsequent mining team could actually include Vivi. Black A's compromise this time was clearly not out of fear of death or being locked in the asylum's underground prison. Although it was very subtle, Black A was wary of the tragic death of Vivi, who had been following him. Black A had gained a lot by devouring the Dark Son, but in contrast, he had also developed weaknesses.

In Su Xiao's view, this was good. If Black A had no weaknesses, before leaving this world, he would have used reserved means to make Black A return to his previous devourer form. Now it seemed there was no need for that. The current Black A was the combat powerhouse of the mining team.

Regarding the mining team, this was Su Xiao's idea from a long time ago, and it was becoming more and more perfect. His idea was to send the Silent Servants and Tunneling Servants into resource-rich Tier 8 worlds.

If he only sent the Silent Servants and Tunneling Servants, once discovered by people in the world, let alone the resources mined by them, they themselves would be snatched away, which would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

The current situation was to form a small team with Black A, Alisa, the Sun Apostle, and the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants, and send them together into a resource-rich Tier 8 world. After Black A and the others entered that world, Su Xiao wouldn't care what they did, but they had to ensure the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants were safe until the end of a world progress, at which point the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants would be recalled to the Samsara Paradise by Su Xiao using his authority.

There was one more point: as alchemical creations, Su Xiao could manufacture more Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants. For example, manufacture 3 Silent Servants + 3 Tunneling Servants, and let these three groups each find a resource-rich location to conduct resource extraction.

If operated properly, obtaining more than 100,000 Soul Coins per world would be no problem. If the world's resources were abundant, a profit of more than 200,000 Soul Coins was not impossible. If they mined highly rare and highly scarce mineral veins, a profit of more than 500,000 Soul Coins per world progress was not a delusion.

Black A, Alisa, and the Sun Apostle each had their own specialties and also had a check-and-balance relationship. Black A and the Sun Apostle were the combat powerhouse and the strategic powerhouse, respectively. The problem was that these two guys were both rebellious sons. If he let them take the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants, one would snatch openly, and the other would steal from within. But if Alisa was there, Black A and the Sun Apostle wouldn't dare, as the price of being discovered was too heavy.

Su Xiao would turn a blind eye to other things Black A and the Sun Apostle did, but if these two dared to touch the resource output of the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants, then they would truly be finished, wiped out without any chance of resistance.

Having ensured that the mining team would not engage in internal theft, one had to consider the external threats of the world they entered. The world the mining team entered would certainly have various intertwined forces. When someone among these forces discovered the Silent Servants + Tunneling Servants and the resources they mined, they would certainly become greedy.

This was where Black A, Alisa, and the Sun Apostle came into play. Black A was the combat powerhouse, good at group battles; Alisa was good at pursuit + single combat + assassinating enemy high-level officials; the Sun Apostle was good at strategy and calculation. In a Tier 8 world, there were few forces they couldn't deal with after cooperating.

In this way, the mining team was formed. The current problem was how to send them into the Tier 8 world. In this regard, it depended on the three scoundrels of the Arbiters. Therefore, of the mining team's profits, Su Xiao would take 50%, Caesar 20%, Toad 10%, Violent Rat 10%, and Black A, Alisa, and the Sun Apostle would take 10%.

At first glance, Su Xiao had prepared for so long and only took 50%, which seemed a bit low, but from another perspective, everything Su Xiao needed to do had already been done, and he could just sit back and reap the benefits later. Moreover, for this kind of thing, if you didn't distribute the tangible benefits, it couldn't be maintained for long.

In front of the fog gate, Su Xiao checked the time. He had been waiting here for more than an hour, and the Sun Apostle still hadn't come out. Among the three, Black A obtained the "Ancient Emblem," Alisa obtained the black pottery jar, and as for the Sun Apostle, all the "Ancestral Secret Treasures" discovered by the participants were with him at this time.

A portion of them was stolen by the Sun Apostle through strategy, and more were traded by him using a type of inhibitory potion.

Being in the family mansion and the underground palace, one would suffer from a negative status called Bloodthirst Syndrome. This negative status would continuously stack, and once it exceeded the tolerance limit, one would mutate into a monster within the mansion or the underground palace. But as long as one drank the inhibitory potion, the Bloodthirst Syndrome could be alleviated, and after leaving this dangerous area, this negative status would naturally slowly dissipate.

The Sun Apostle used this inhibitory potion to exchange for the "Ancestral Secret Treasures" obtained by the participants. Only Black A didn't trade with him, because Black A had slashed the old merchant in the mansion, so he had enough inhibitory potion. It was also because of this that the Sun Apostle later found a way to steal the "Ancestral Secret Treasures" obtained by Black A.

The fog gate in front fluctuated, and a figure walked out from within. It was the Sun Apostle. He still had a smiling appearance, carrying an old leather package in his hand.

"The things you wanted, I have brought them out for you."

The Sun Apostle put down the old package in his hand. This guy was very smart. Seeing that there were only Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baja outside the fog gate, he guessed that the situation was not right.

"..."

Su Xiao threw out half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal." After the Sun Apostle received this item, his aura clearly fluctuated for a moment, but he quickly discovered the uncoordinated cross-section on the item, which meant it had been split.

"The remaining half is with Black A."

Su Xiao's voice had just fallen when a whistling sound came. A figure jumped down from the top of the high wall above and crashed to the ground. It was Black A, who had just left.

"Found you. Come and fight me to the death..."

Before Black A finished speaking, the Sun Apostle had already thrown the "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" in his hand. Half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" landed with a plop on the dirt in front of Black A's feet, causing his words to come to an abrupt end.

Black A frowned, feeling that there must be a conspiracy, but half a "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" was right in front of his feet. He picked up this half of the "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" with a deep frown and touched it to his own half. With a click, the two adsorbed together and fused perfectly. Seeing that this half of the "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal" was genuine, Black A was completely stunned.

Black A looked at the Sun Apostle, then stared at Su Xiao, who was still sitting on the chair. He suddenly thought that there must be something wrong with the "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal." This thing did not have the effect he had imagined.

Black A absorbed the "Life Essence Polymerized Crystal." The next second, he felt the power that bound his origin and soul dissolve in a short time. At this moment, he had completely broken free from the Creator's shackles! Not only that, his strength also began to slowly improve.

Even for Black A, a smile appeared on his face uncontrollably. He looked at Su Xiao with complex eyes and said: "Never again, see you."

After Black A said this, he was about to flash away, but before that, Su Xiao said in a calm tone: "Enjoy the remaining time well. After all, this is your last time of existence."

Hearing this, Black A immediately stopped and asked with a frown: "What do you mean?"

"Don't doubt it, you are completely free, detached from all my control."

Su Xiao was not lying. The current Black A had indeed completely broken free from all shackles.

"Black A, what do you think you are in the world consciousness of this world? A native? A guest? Neither. You are an outsider who appeared out of thin air, an existence that needs to be excluded. In the days to come, you will gradually feel the world's exclusion of you, until the world consciousness reaches the limit of tolerance and clears you out with world thunder."

"Impossible, Abyss-bred creatures are also alien creatures, they..."

Su Xiao raised his hand to interrupt Black A's defense and said: "Abyss-bred creatures come from the Abyss, and their causality is also in the Abyss. This world is not yet qualified to exclude them."

"Then why wasn't I excluded before?"

"In the judgment, you are a contracted creature under my command, a contracted creature notarized by the Samsara Paradise."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Black A suddenly stopped talking, narrowed his eyes, and thought about it.

Su Xiao took out a wooden box. After opening it, there were several bottles of 【Vitality Stock Solution】. He threw the wooden box to Black A and said: "In the next few days, you will need them more and more."

Su Xiao jumped onto the dragon's back, ready to leave. From beginning to end, he was not afraid of Black A breaking free from his control; otherwise, he would have eliminated this rebellious son long ago.

"Creator, what should I do next?"

The Sun Apostle asked with a smile.

"As you wish."

Su Xiao left these words, and the Storm Flame Dragon spread its wings and flew into the high sky, leaving behind Black A, who was frowning and had already begun to doubt life.

"What is the point of us doing all this?"

Black A looked at the Sun Apostle. Hearing this, the Sun Apostle smiled and said: "Of course it makes sense. This is winning the qualification. The winners of this competition have never been one, but five. You, me, Boiling Red, Dark Sun, Crystal Ji, all have winner spots. It's just that we fought each other to the death, and a few winning spots were lost. Think carefully, what does the Creator really need us to do? Watch us fight and take pleasure in it? Of course not. There are very important things to do later, and good things are still waiting for us."

The Sun Apostle left with a full face of smiles, in an exceptionally good mood. In fact, not long after this competition started, the Sun Apostle was bound to be one of the winners because he had always been lying low. This guy guessed that whoever lasted until the end would be the winner.

Alliance, Kuss City, Twilight Asylum, third floor, Dean's bedroom.

With a roar, the transmission was completed. Su Xiao walked out of the bedroom. This trip to Ghost City was considered successful, but also not. What was successful was that the competition was completed; what was not successful was that he only knew the general location of the traitor.

Sitting behind the office desk, Su Xiao closed his eyes and leaned back for a while. The snoring of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu came one after another. These few days had truly exhausted Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had infiltrated the Ghost Cathedral many times, while Amu, in a detached state, had fought against the small and medium forces of Ghost City alone with the Dragon Heart Axe. These small and medium forces that wanted to take advantage of the chaos were beaten into submission by Amu.

Su Xiao placed the sheathed Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan on the table. He estimated that it would take about 3 days for the Blade Demon Spirit within Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan to complete the devouring of the Immortal-characteristic Abyss-bred creature's origin energy.

Compared to this, determining the traitor's trail was more important. In this regard, he naturally had to entrust the intelligence department of the Hunter Corps. He had just destroyed the Dark God Sect, and the Hunter Corps attached great importance to his commission. The space-type intelligence personnel there had already headed to the "Bar Great Forest," driving animal servants to find that cabin in the woods.

Not only that, the Hunter Corps' intelligence department also drew a portrait of the traitor based on Su Xiao's description. Except for the colors being a bit pale, it didn't look much different from a photo.

The phone on the table rang. It was from Tessa's side. After Su Xiao picked it up, the other side said:

"The cabin in the woods in the Great Forest has been found. There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"The bad news."

"The bad news is that the person who lived in that cabin in the woods left a few months ago."

"..."

"Don't you want to hear the good news?"

"Speak."

"I have a talent under my command who can track soul remnants. You know my department; tracking is a daily routine. The person you are looking for is extraordinary. His soul remnants from a few months ago caused my subordinate to go into shock on the spot due to backlash. Before he fell into a coma, he only had time to say 'Northern Territory.' As for where in the Northern Territory, we have to wait until he wakes up to know."

Hearing Tessa's words, Su Xiao hung up the phone. The traitor had gone to the Northern Territory Empire. This was good news. As long as the other party appeared in any city in the Northern Territory, there would be a way to find them, at least better than finding them in the "Bar Great Forest."

Su Xiao took out the "Ancient Emblem" and observed it. He found that the use value of this thing was far lower than its existence value. This thing was the starting point of the dangerous areas: the family mansion and the ancestral underground palace. With this thing, the Void Tree could notarize these two places and strip them from this world.

Su Xiao did not know why the initial regulations were formulated, but he could be sure that there was a clause in the initial regulations that the Void Tree and the Paradise camp could not arbitrarily strip parts of areas within a world. Even if they wanted to strip them, they had to have representative items, such as this "Ancient Emblem."

【You have submitted the "Ancient Emblem."】

【You have become the winner of this competition.】

【You have obtained Primordial Fragment ×1.】

【Your Void Tree reputation has improved...】

【Improvement failed.】

【Re-improving...】

【Re-improvement failed.】

【According to the compensation criteria of the initial regulations, you have obtained 10 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.】

Su Xiao looked at the 10 pieces of Precipitated Glaze that appeared on the table, and a different look appeared in his eyes. He suddenly thought that his -??? Void Tree reputation seemed to have a special wonderful use.

If he could obtain a "massive Void Tree reputation improvement" reward through some event, and the improvement still failed, wouldn't he be able to obtain random materials equivalent in value to the "massive Void Tree reputation"?

Putting away the 【Primordial Fragment】 and 【Precipitated Glaze】, Su Xiao took out all the "Ancestral Secret Treasures" and, using the authority attached to the Abyss Shop, sold these artifacts containing "Abyss Precipitates" to the Void Tree, obtaining 19.2 ounces of "Abyss Precipitates," and then used this to exchange for 192 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

Su Xiao opened the Abyss Shop, and a long list appeared before his eyes:

1. Collector.

Category: Original Sin Object (Sealed)...

Exchange price: 9800 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

2. Origin Fruit.

Category:???

Exchange price: 7680 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

3. Primordial Fragment.

Category:???

Exchange price: 3820 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

4. Bud of Original Sin.

Category: Original Sin characteristic wonder...

Exchange price: 1100 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

5. Inscription Base: God Sacrifice (Five Slots)

Category: Rare item.

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 128 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

6. Random Covenant Object.

Characteristic: After exchanging for this item, you will randomly obtain a "Covenant Object."

Inventory quantity:??? (Hunter's reputation is too low to view).

Exchange price: 50 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

7. Greedy Money Bag

Effect: After opening, you can obtain -1 to 500,000 Soul Coins.

Inventory quantity: —— (No exchange limit).

Exchange price: 1 piece of Precipitated Glaze.

8. Soul Crying

Category: Misfortune Object.

Effect: After activation, all creatures within 100 meters are infected by a soul poison curse, causing their souls to slowly wither irreversibly until death.

Holding/Use debuff: Your own soul is slowly devoured by this Misfortune Object.

Exchange price: 62 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

【You have paid 128 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained Inscription Base: God Sacrifice (Five Slots).】

Su Xiao directly exchanged for the 【Inscription Base: God Sacrifice】 and looked at the remaining 95 pieces of Precipitated Glaze. It seemed like a lot, but the items that could be exchanged basically all had huge costs. But if he chose to save up, he didn't know how long it would take to exchange for the high-value items at the top.

Su Xiao decided to exchange 50 pieces of Precipitated Glaze for a 【Random Covenant Object】. It wasn't that he wanted to exchange for a Covenant Object suitable for him, but he planned to take this thing to the Soul Library and sell it for Library Silver Coins. Recently, he had taken a fancy to a sealing technique worth more than 400 Library Silver Coins.

The "Potion Master: Advanced Chapter" that Su Xiao currently mastered was only worth 307 Library Silver Coins, and the Sealing Encyclopedia worth more than 400 Library Silver Coins was absolutely amazing in gold content.

The reason he exchanged for that thing was because Su Xiao already held three Original Sin Objects, and he had to make his sealing level achieve an advanced improvement in the near future.

【You have paid 50 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained Covenant Object: Life Reversal (Small Pendant).】

【Effect of this Covenant Object: Weakness Compensation (Passive): After wearing, it will increase your weak body attributes by 20–80 points, as well as the resistance corresponding to that attribute (Charm attribute has been selected, and this selection cannot be changed. Because your Charm attribute is -17, this bonus is invalid).】

【Hint: You must bear the Covenant Price to wear/use this Covenant Object.】

【Covenant Price of this Covenant Object: To be selected (After selection is completed, the Covenant Price will be bound to this Covenant Object).】

【Hint: You can choose one of the following Covenant Prices as the price for wearing/using this Covenant Object.】

1. Life Distress (Covenant Price: Unique Passive): When your health is below 50%, all healing effects you receive are reduced by 10%. When your health is below 30%, all healing effects you receive are reduced by 20%. When your health is below 10%, all healing effects you receive are reduced by 30%.

Hint: You can only bear one Covenant Price at a time, which is the Covenant Object: Unique Passive.

2. Strength Loss (Covenant Price: Unique Passive): During the period of wearing this Covenant, your real strength attribute is reduced by 15 points.

3. Near-Death Curse (Covenant Price: Unique Passive): The near-death health limit is increased from 10% to 20% (that is, when your health is below 20%, you will enter a near-death state).