Chapter 3655: Return

The Stele of Awakening in front emitted a light blue shimmer. Su Xiao just tried to perceive the abilities engraved on it when he received a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise.

【Yes/No to notarize this Stele of Awakening? The notarization fee for this time is 30 ounces of Space-Time Power. After completing the notarization, the abilities engraved on the Stele of Awakening will be semi-digitized, and it will evaluate how many you can master at most, and designate them as Law-Breaker skill slots.】

Although the expenditure of 30 ounces of Space-Time Power was not cheap, Su Xiao chose to notarize it. The reason was that knowing how many he had was a very safe means. If he only estimated based on his own feelings, such things would inevitably have deviations.

In case the estimation had a slight deviation, leading Su Xiao to rashly activate the Stele of Awakening to master it before he had reached the point where he could master one more, that wouldn't be a narrow escape from death, but certain death. Mastering it itself had the risk of losing one's life. Or rather, this was the style of the Law-Breaker faction: as long as the ability was strong, there were no side effects or sequelae after mastering it. Whether one would die during the mastering process was not the most important thing.

【Notarization completed. Because this item cannot be put into the storage space, this notarization comes with permission. You can transmit this item directly back to your exclusive room. If you need to transmit the Stele of Awakening to other locations later, you need to pay additional Space-Time Power.】

Su Xiao pressed one hand on the Stele of Awakening. The item he had been thinking about for a long time was finally in his hands.

【Vacant Status: Law-Breaker Skill Slots: Nine.】

【Existing Law-Breaker Skill Points: 62 points.】

【You can master the following skills by consuming Law-Breaker skill points:】

1. Demon Shadow Awakening: After mastering, you can release the Blade of Demon Spirit.

2. Power of Adaptation: According to the enemy's characteristics, increase the corresponding non-reducible true resistance!

Prompt: Possesses absolute priority; the enemy cannot reduce this type of resistance by any means.

Seeing the first two abilities, Su Xiao was in a very good mood. He had already seen what kind of ability releasing the Blade of Demon Spirit was from the Traitor. This ability was simply shameless.

Su Xiao had a vision for the Blade of Demon Spirit. According to his observation, the crystal weapon in the hand of the Blade of Demon Spirit was clearly a crystal weapon formed after the Blade of Shadow energy was converted.

And that crystal weapon could also be switched at will, which made Su Xiao think that he could actually create better ones. The reason was an exchange item in the Honor Store, which was:

【Blade of Soul: Sub-Weapon】

List: Skill Scroll. Because of the special nature of this skill, the default level after mastering is based on the ability strength, which will be determined by the user's own soul strength and the body's energy upper limit.

Selling Price: 45 Honor Medals.

Personal Inventory: 1.

Su Xiao had tested it many times. The crystal converted from Blade of Shadow energy could be perfectly combined with his own soul power. Thinking of this, using 【Blade of Soul】 to form a crystal weapon for the Blade of Demon Spirit, this weapon would not only enjoy the bonus of Su Xiao's Blade of Shadow ability but also receive the bonus of his 680 points of soul strength. Its power could be imagined.

Besides this, the Blade of Demon Spirit had other development directions. In addition to swapping positions and climbing onto the surface of other organisms to control them, Su Xiao had another vision: could the Blade of Demon Spirit mimic?

For example, the Blade of Demon Spirit mimics a black mist arrow, and Su Xiao shoots it at the enemy with a blood-qi phantom. The moment the enemy dodges, the Blade of Demon Spirit returns to human form and then smashes a hammer onto the back of the enemy's head, smashing the enemy's skull to pieces.

Or it could completely conceal its aura, then turn into black mist, and Su Xiao could remotely control this black mist to sneak into the enemy's base and use the Blade of Demon Spirit to kill a high-level official who didn't have strong combat power but was invincible in strategy.

Su Xiao looked at the ability under the Blade of Demon Spirit. This name sounded ordinary, but this ability was not ordinary at all. He had never heard of it before, but in every battle, he had indeed experienced the feeling of having various resistances reduced.

For example, when fighting the Abyssal Archbishop, not long after the battle started, his dark resistance was almost reduced to a negative number. Real combat is not game data; 100 points of resistance is not always 100 points of resistance. Resistance is more like a recoverable armor. It is full value normally, but when fighting an enemy, this armor will gradually wear out due to attacks. When it is riddled with holes, it naturally doesn't have the same defensive power as when the battle just started.

And true resistance is like layers of filters stacked together. It will not completely resist the enemy's energy erosion, which makes it not break. From the beginning of the battle to the end, it is always that many layers.

For Su Xiao, it was quite useful. However, he found that this ability was somewhat like his equipment 【Heart of Berg】, although the bonuses of the two were worlds apart and not on the same level at all.

【Heart of Berg】

Origin: Dark Star World, Gem Master, Lindberg

Quality: Immortal

Category: Accessory, Pendant

Equipment Effect: Power of Adaptation: During battle, according to the enemy's ability characteristics, increase the wearer's abnormal status resistance by 62–80 points.

Prompt: If the enemy has fire-characteristic abilities, increase fire attribute resistance by 62–80 points. If the enemy has dark-characteristic abilities, increase dark attribute resistance by 62–80 points...

Prompt: If fighting multiple enemies, a random enemy unit will be selected to increase one's own abnormal status resistance.

The person who created this equipment was named Lindberg, known as the Gem Master. Interestingly, he created the Heart of Berg in the White Town, and it was with the Demon Blacksmith. The Demon Blacksmith had mentioned this.

This makes one wonder, was the inspiration for this equipment proposed by the Demon Blacksmith? Was its original source of conception one of the abilities of the Law-Breaker faction?

Of course, this was just a random guess. However, one thing was certain: 【Heart of Berg】 was very suitable for Su Xiao. Once he mastered it, once he started a battle with an enemy, 【Heart of Berg】 would provide ordinary adaptive resistance and true adaptive resistance. With both resistances together, his survival ability would immediately be raised a notch.

Even if he obtained an Origin-level pendant, Su Xiao wouldn't easily replace 【Heart of Berg】. Also, he was preparing to upgrade this equipment to Origin level. He currently had two Origin-level God Bones, and he didn't know if he could encounter an Ancient God or Evil God in the near future. At that time, for the sake of the God Bones... cough~, no, that's not right, for the sake of saving those creatures ravaged by Ancient Gods and Evil Gods, he must slay them.

Su Xiao continued to check other Law-Breaker passives on the Stele of Awakening:

3. Technique Resonance: Speed: According to the total level of mastered technique-type abilities, increase one's own body speed. The degree of increase is: Total Technique Level x 0.012 = the multiple of body speed increased.

Prompt: At most one type of this technique resonance ability can be mastered.

4. Technique Resonance: Inspiration: According to the total level of mastered technique-type abilities, increase one's own perception. The degree of increase is: Total Technique Level x 0.012 = the multiple of perception increased.

Prompt: At most one type of this technique resonance ability can be mastered.

5. Perfect Constitution: Every time Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes increase by 5 points, this ability will allow that body attribute to increase by an additional 1 point.

Seeing this, Su Xiao felt a sense of regret. It was simply a divine skill for the development period. Unfortunately, there was no Stele of Awakening before. Fortunately, it was not too late to obtain it now. For example, in the previous world progress, he obtained 49 true skill points. Calculated this way, it could help him increase his body attributes by nearly 10 points. This ability must be mastered as soon as possible.

And as for 【Technique Resonance: Speed】 and 【Technique Resonance: Inspiration】, one didn't even need to think about it; it must be to increase the former. Only with sufficient body speed would one consider perception.

This 【Technique Resonance: Speed】 had an outrageously high fit for Su Xiao. He was developing three grandmaster abilities. After adding the levels of the grandmaster technique abilities, it was Sword Art 70 + Close Combat 70 + Blood Spear 70, which was 210 levels x 0.012 = 2.52 times body speed increase.

Discovering this, Su Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly. He was considering, during the process of mastering this ability, because the increase was too large, what kind of unforgettable experience would he have? And would he die in the process?

Among the first five abilities, there wasn't one that Su Xiao didn't want to master. He already felt that the seemingly large 62 Law-Breaker skill points were simply not enough. He continued to check the Stele of Awakening:

6. Soul Electric Shock: Greatly strengthen the control characteristics of Blade of Shadow energy. When Blade of Shadow energy burns the enemy's body energy, there is a 15% probability of triggering a paralysis state. The duration of the abnormal status is 0.2–3 seconds.

Prompt: This effect can be continuously stacked. Every time Blade of Shadow energy burns the enemy's body energy, if the effect is not triggered, the trigger probability of this characteristic will increase by 20% until this probability reaches 100%. The next slash carrying Blade of Shadow energy will definitely cause the enemy to fall into the state after hitting the enemy.

7. Undying Constitution: When your health drops to 25%, your body defense will be increased according to your true Strength, true Agility, true Stamina, and true Intelligence attributes.

The increase range is: True Strength + True Agility + True Stamina + True Intelligence, the sum x 0.5.

8. Law-Breaker: Heavenly Thunder Fury: Every 3 points of Elemental Affinity increases 1 point of World Thunder resistance.

9. Law-Breaker: Dark Abyss Flash: Every 3 points of Elemental Affinity increases 1 point of Dark Thunder resistance.

10. Law-Breaker: Soul Thunder Spirit: Every 3 points of Elemental Affinity increases 1 point of Soul Thunder resistance.

Prompt: At most one of Law-Breaker: Heavenly Thunder Fury, Law-Breaker: Dark Abyss Flash, and Law-Breaker: Soul Thunder Spirit can be mastered at the same time.

Su Xiao had mastered 【Heavenly Thunder Fury】 long ago, but as he was promoted to Tier 9, the strong enemies he faced were not affected by this at all. The previous generation of Law-Breakers clearly encountered the same situation, so they developed 【Dark Abyss Flash】 and 【Soul Thunder Spirit】.

Further down, these abilities didn't even need to be considered; they must be learned in the near future. The power of balanced development of the four attributes was about to be demonstrated again by this ability.

Su Xiao flipped to the three abilities of Law-Breaker: Heavenly Thunder Fury, Law-Breaker: Dark Abyss Flash, and Law-Breaker: Soul Thunder Spirit. He hadn't heard of Dark Thunder and hadn't seen Soul Thunder. As for World Thunder, he used it often.

When seeing the attributes of Law-Breaker: Heavenly Thunder Fury, Su Xiao discovered for the first time that Elemental Affinity was actually so useful. His Elemental Affinity, which was as high as 990 points, was finally useful.

Thinking about it, the previous generation of Law-Breakers also had very high Elemental Affinity. With the inheritance of Law-Breaker abilities generation after generation, how could no one have developed the use of Elemental Affinity during that time? Even if Law-Breakers were unwilling to use elemental power, they could still develop some abilities that had nothing to do with elemental power based on their strengths in this area. The Law-Breaker faction had never been stubborn.

Initially contacting the Law-Breaker faction would give one the feeling that Law-Breakers were hostile to all magic systems. In fact, as long as one didn't devour natural elements, even if a magic system gathered natural elements in a 360-degree spiral to cast spells, no Law-Breaker would care. It might even be that a Law-Breaker would say, "That's truly cool."

Using magic system abilities would not cause the total amount of natural elements to decrease. Fire elements condense, blast out, and then the fire elements are gone? Of course not. Fire burns out, and the fire elements will drift back into the air. Burning is a process, not an end.

If Su Xiao mastered 【Heavenly Thunder Fury】, his thunder-summoning methods would increase quite a bit. It was to increase World Thunder resistance according to one-third of his own Elemental Affinity.

Su Xiao's current elemental resistance was 990 points, and World Thunder resistance was 214 points. After mastering this ability, it would be 217 + 330 = 547 points of World Thunder resistance. With such high World Thunder resistance, if he summoned World Thunder with Elemental Affinity in a Tier 9 world, he probably, seemingly, wouldn't be struck to death?

Temporarily not considering this problem, Su Xiao continued to check the Stele of Awakening:

11. Time Dominator: When you see through an enemy's flaw with a technique-type ability and attack it, your technique-type ability will affect the time field within a diameter of 10 meters around you, thereby causing 0.2–0.5 seconds of time. In this area, you will ignore it, maintain normal speed, and attack the enemy.

Prompt: Each type of technique-type ability will derive an attack judgment, and each type of technique-type ability will derive different ones. The flaws you can perceive are: Flaw of Strength, Flaw of Body, Flaw of Breath.

Prompt: Under the blessing of this ability, attacking an enemy's flaw will cause basic attack + 8.5% of the enemy's maximum health in ignore-defense damage.

Prompt: Due to your Close Combat Grandmaster characteristic, your straight kick, as long as it hits the enemy's torso position, will definitely kick out a flaw effect.

12. Blade of Shadow King: Awakening: To fully awaken the Blade of Shadow King, one must ensure that one's own Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes are above 300 points, and the Blade of Shadow King has been upgraded to Lv. 40.

Prompt: After awakening, the attack strength and attack method of the Blade of Shadow King will have a significant increase, and it will carry 20%–30% true damage of the enemy's maximum health.

Su Xiao could only master these at the current stage. The subsequent ones required body attributes to break through the 300-point barrier before they could be mastered.

The 12 types that could be mastered now were all powerful and practical. Unfortunately, there were only 62 Law-Breaker skill points for the time being.

Besides these, there were a whole bunch of others. These were more like individual skill trees, some centered on a single skill, and some centered on attributes like Strength, Agility, Stamina, etc.

When Su Xiao flipped the skill list to the very bottom, he found two abilities that could be mastered without consuming skill points, which were 【Law-Breaker: Attribute Balance】 and 【Law-Breaker: Engraving】.

The so-called 【Law-Breaker: Attribute Balance】 was to lift the restriction that the main attributes could not differ by more than 3 points. Originally, this restriction was to prevent new Law-Breakers from being greedy for rapid strengthening and thus developing a single attribute. But by the middle stage, this restriction was not very important. By this stage, the inheritors of Law-Breaker abilities had long understood this point.

Su Xiao prepared to master both 【Law-Breaker: Attribute Balance】 and 【Law-Breaker: Engraving】. The role of the latter was not complicated; it allowed him to engrave the Law-Breaker abilities he developed on the Stele of Awakening. He was not very good at this aspect, the reason being that he didn't have much free time and was mostly in mission worlds.

Su Xiao activated the permission to transmit back to his exclusive room. He brought Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha back to the surface and found that Saint Poetry was sitting sideways by the campfire in the field surrounded by tree walls, looking ahead with dull eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out the contract that Saint Poetry had signed back then. It was because she signed this contract that Saint Poetry followed Su Xiao into this world.

Seeing this contract, Saint Poetry's eyes lit up a bit. She stood up gracefully, took the contract calmly, and the next second, she gritted her teeth and tore the contract to shreds.

"Why did you tear it up? A contract should be burned with fire."

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, Saint Poetry said:

"I'm happy, so what?"

Saint Poetry now had no contract, plus they were acquaintances, so her tone became tough immediately.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out another contract, which made Saint Poetry's gaze go from confusion to solemnity. She asked: "What is this?"

"This is a self-forming contract. You just tore up the contract, leading to the appearance of a new contract."

"How is that possible!"

"Of course it's possible. Article 1063 of the previous contract noted that tearing up the contract in a way other than burning with fire is treated as a directional breach of contract."

"?"

Saint Poetry was stunned. She didn't understand what kind of operation this was. In fact, her focus was wrong; the point was that the previous contract had at least 1063 articles.

"Remember to burn it with fire this time. There are two best ways to eliminate all contracts: notarized elimination and burning with fire."

Su Xiao handed the newly appeared contract to Saint Poetry. Saint Poetry took it with some suspicion and asked: "Are you really so kind?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Seeing this, Saint Poetry tried to burn this contract and found that it was indeed lifted. She looked at Su Xiao with a slightly complex gaze and said: "Cooperation... happy. See you again if there is a chance in the future. However, I absolutely, absolutely will not assist you in fighting strong enemies again. I haven't lived enough, and I don't want to die from an unknown large-scale attack."

Speaking of this, Saint Poetry activated the return permission. After being enveloped in the return transmission of Holy Light Paradise, the smile on her face became more and more comfortable. With a sweet smile, she said: "Don't miss me, Bai Ye."

"I won't miss you. See you in the next world."

"Hmm, next world... what did you say!?"

Saint Poetry, enveloped in the return transmission, had the smile on her face suddenly freeze, and she gradually put on a mask of pain. Before she could ask clearly, she had already been transmitted away.

Su Xiao also activated the return permission. Everything he needed to do in this world had been achieved. Plus, this place was the deepest part of the Abyss. If he wanted to return to the nearest teleportation array, it would take more than 40 hours, so there was no need to stay here.

As for Saint Poetry, Su Xiao didn't know what went wrong with his combat power judgment, but since he had temporarily caught a healer, he naturally couldn't let her go easily.

【Transmission started. You are about to return to Reincarnation Paradise.】

After Su Xiao's eyes went dark, everything around him became quiet. I don't know how long it had passed before he opened his eyes, and the familiar scene came into view.

【Transmission completed. You have returned to Reincarnation Paradise.】

Su Xiao sat on a single sofa, his body and mind completely relaxed. Baha on the side took out a life-support device. After opening it, it presented Su Xiao's left arm + left shoulder + a small part of his left torso.

Activating the recovery permission, the crystal arm on Su Xiao's left arm shattered, and the severed arm floated up. Large patches of green light particles covered the wound. Because his body and mind were relaxed, he simply took a nap.

"Meow~"

Benny meowed. From the tear-filled eyes, one could guess its experience in this world. For more than half of the world progress, it had been swimming in the embrace of Mother Ocean.

Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang began to practice swimming on the carpet. Benny's tears welled up immediately, but because there was no reason, even though it knew Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was deliberately angering it, it wasn't easy to strike first. This clearly inherited Su Xiao's habit: before taking action, find a reason as much as possible.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang stopped after swimming for a while. It squatted there and let out a breath. This immediately attracted the attention of the teary-eyed Benny, whose gaze seemed to be saying: "Why are you breathing so loudly?"

"Woof?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was stunned, then stepped forward, one bite aimed at Benny's head. Not long after, Benny and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was using "Tooth-Passing Tooth," fought together with meow-punches.

Not long after, Benny squatted in the corner as if facing the wall. It had been feeling aggrieved enough, thinking that a daily duel with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang might make it feel better if it won. As a result, it didn't win, and that silly dog's "Tooth-Passing Tooth" kicked it into a spin.

Half an hour later, Su Xiao opened his eyes. He raised his recovered left arm and felt nothing unusual, exactly the same as before it was severed. The recovery of the Paradise was as reliable as ever.

【Prompt: You have obtained 4,290 Soul Coins.】

This was the share from the Painting World. Every time a world progress ended, Su Xiao could get a share. Initially, it was a few hundred Soul Coins, then over a thousand, and this time it doubled to over 4,000. Thinking about it, it would be over 10,000 next time.

【World reward settlement started.】

Native World: Shadow World.

World Difficulty: Lv. 56–Lv. 85.

World Source: 139.5%

Number of completed quests: 5.

Comprehensive Evaluation: S

Starting to collect World Source...

World Source collection completed, starting to calculate rewards.

Obtained rewards: 52 true attribute points, Origin Stone x3.

Prompt: True Power: Plunder has been activated. You will obtain 1–3 Golden Skill Points.

Prompt: You have obtained 3 Golden Skill Points.

The comprehensive evaluation is S. The Hunter's brand level is currently Lv. 80, brand level +5.

Prompt: Tier 9 world settlement, the brand level increases by a maximum of Lv. 4 at one time. Your brand level has reached Lv. 84.

Prompt: Your additional permission + Lv. 1.

Settlement completed, rewards have been deposited into the Hunter's brand.

【Prompt: The shared ability of the SSS-level adventure group has been triggered. Every time a world settlement occurs, corresponding team skill points will be obtained according to the comprehensive evaluation obtained by the leader.】

【The comprehensive evaluation this time is S. You have obtained 30 team skill points.】

【Team Skill, Hunting Group: During world settlement, you can increase your own body attributes by 1–3 points.】

【The beneficiaries of this skill are: Hunter himself, Xiang Bubu Teni, Amu, Baha, Benny.】

With the appearance of this prompt, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Benny all gathered around. It was time for the lottery again. Su Xiao was relatively interested in this lottery, but the next second.

【Your Willpower attribute +1 point.】

【Your Charm attribute +2 points.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao opened the team list, first upgraded 【Hunting Group】 to Lv. 9, and then upgraded 【Team Skill】 to 【Full】.

After doing all this, Su Xiao took out all the treasure chests. The treasure chests totaled:

【Miracle Soul Treasure Chest.】

【Origin-level Treasure Chest: Mad King.】

【Elf Will Treasure Chest.】

【Abyssal Treasure Chest.】

【Abyssal Treasure Chest.】

【Law-Breaker Treasure Chest.】

Su Xiao looked at the two Abyssal Treasure Chests. For some reason, he suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of palpitations. Instead, he thought that he first obtained 【Origin Stone: Endless】, and then opened 【Soul Crown】 and 【Nether Bone Ring】 from the Abyssal Treasure Chests. How many Original Sin Objects were there in total? From a probabilistic point of view, it was unlikely to open a fourth one. Hmm, it must be impossible. ===== CHAPTER 3656 =====