Chapter 3671: Double

Through the not-so-dense jungle, one could see the sunset like fire on the horizon. In the jungle, Su Xiao sat on a dead tree several meters thick, meditating. Several squirrels crawled out from the hollow tree trunk. One of them even climbed onto Su Xiao's head, holding a pine nut, and looked into the distance with its feet raised.

Logically speaking, small creatures like pine squirrels shouldn't dare to get so close to Su Xiao. To the extent that because of Su Xiao's blood energy, they wouldn't dare to get within one kilometer of him.

Su Xiao completely summarized his blood energy system with the Blood Spear Grandmaster's Blood Soul Resonance. After he collected his blood energy, let alone weak creatures, as long as they weren't on par with his strength, they couldn't perceive his blood energy as long as he didn't actively release it.

In the past, Su Xiao actually had two basic abilities of the blood energy system, which were "Blood Spear Grandmaster" and "Breath Release." This responded to a saying: many but not refined. A more common metaphor is that Su Xiao's previous blood energy system ability was equivalent to breathing with both mouth and nose. Although it didn't affect breathing, the control was very poor.

Now that there was only one basic ability of the blood energy system, "Blood Spear Grandmaster," it was equivalent to breathing only with the nasal cavity. Not only was the breath natural, long, and stable, but the control also soared.

Su Xiao opened his eyes and took out a bag of Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang's nut set snacks. After tearing open the oil paper seal bag, several squirrels soon stuffed their mouths like hamsters. One greedy one even drilled half its body into the bag to eat, and kept kicking its two hind legs exposed outside, looking very satisfied.

At this moment, looking around Su Xiao, one would find that besides quite a few large-leaf plants distributed, there wasn't a single Beast Race member. Actually, more than a hundred Beast Race members were hiding around. After all, they were elites from various Beast Race legions. Temporarily not discussing their character, in terms of ability, there were really no weaklings in the Lord's team.

Seeing that the time was right, Su Xiao switched to the War Lord title. The next second, an invisible wave swept over. The sudden surge in strength made the Beast Race members hiding in the jungle almost unable to maintain their hiding state.

Ergein, Viper, Evil Tooth, and others hiding in the jungle all felt a vast and scorching energy burst from their hearts. Afterward, this energy flowed through their limbs and bones, making their bodies more powerful, their skin tougher, their bones stronger, and the intensity of the abilities they mastered also increased by a large margin.

This was the "All Real Attributes +20 points" and "All Ability Levels Increased by Lv. 18" bonus provided by the War Lord.

Not only that, Ergein also felt that a soft, warm energy core seemed to appear in his heart, which made the blood in his heart become different.

Every time his heart beat, the warm blood in his heart would bring that sun-like warmth to all parts of his body, nourishing his vitality. He even had a feeling that even if he were injured, this warm energy would make his wounds heal quickly. This was "Sunshine Nourishment."

"Sunshine Nourishment (Passive): When in the sunshine, recover 1% of maximum health per second."

Not only that, Ergein also perceived that a power like a scorching sun appeared on his body surface from time to time. It seemed that every attack he made later would carry this effect. Although he would pay extra physical strength consumption for this, compared to the powerful attack effect obtained, the extra physical strength consumption was not worth mentioning.

A long time ago, Ergein had heard that some powerful Lords had abilities that could improve the combat power of their subordinates. Before, he thought this should be abilities similar to the "Encouragement" and "Inspiration" of tribal shamans. Now he found that it wasn't like that at all. The intensity of the two wasn't on the same level.

Just when Ergein thought the improvement stopped there, four halo effects enveloped him. It was Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang's halo, which was "Ice and Snow Halo's recovery effect," "Maximum health increased by 35%," "Physical strength recovery speed increased by 40%," and "Movement speed increased by 20%."

This feeling of strength suddenly soaring made Ergein close his eyes and let out a long breath. He even had a feeling that he was already invincible among "leader-level" units. In fact, this wasn't an illusion. Not to mention leader-level, even among "Lord-level" units, there weren't many who were his opponents. Of course, against a "Hegemon-level" like Su Xiao, Ergein still wasn't enough.

Strangely, various buffs and halos were added to Ergein and other Beast Race members, but their loyalty didn't immediately increase by 70 points. This was actually the wonderful thing about the Sun Lord title.

The Sun Lord title didn't forcibly brainwash the targets being buffed, but as long as Ergein, Viper, Evil Tooth, and others fought under the bonus of the Sun Lord title, their loyalty would increase in a stable and relatively fast way, with a maximum increase of 70 points. This kind of increase was a subtle increase.

In other words, even if Ergein's loyalty increased by 70 points due to the Sun Lord, from -20 points to 50 points, his traitorous personality wouldn't change. It was just that because of the subtle increase in loyalty, it wouldn't be so easy for him to have rebellious thoughts.

As for Viper and Evil Tooth, they would completely abandon the idea of betraying Su Xiao due to the gradual increase in loyalty. Of course, their personalities wouldn't change because of this. Viper's wall-flower personality wouldn't disappear, and Evil Tooth's cruelty and cunning would be difficult to eliminate.

Simply put, when Viper's loyalty reached 100 points, even if he were a wall-flower, he would be a wall-flower within the faction. For example, in the boss team, if Ergein and Evil Tooth had a disagreement, Viper would definitely ride the wall, and even stir up trouble from the middle. One moment he would say to Ergein, "Big Brother, I support you anyway," and the next moment he would say to Evil Tooth, "Fourth Brother, Second Brother has been riding on our heads for so long, can this be tolerated? I support you anyway."

When Ergein and Evil Tooth were about to have a complete falling out, Viper would definitely come to find Su Xiao immediately, saying with a worried face: "Lord, Ergein and Evil Tooth have fallen out. You should go and see them quickly. I can't persuade them."

No need to doubt, Viper could do this. However, Ergein and Evil Tooth wouldn't have such a conflict, because although Evil Tooth was cruel and cunning, he was very afraid of Ergein.

Under the bonus of eight types of buffs including Sun Lord + Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang's halo, the Beast Race elites of the Lord's team all had obvious changes in their aura. Even a Half-Elf Race member who used to be at the bottom of the "Elite level" in strength stood up on the spot, and his strength reached at least the upper reaches of the "Leader level," close to the "Big Leader level."

Everything was ready, just waiting for the Sea Race transport team to step into the ambush point. And at the same time, 10 kilometers away.

A Sea Race transport team of about a thousand people was traveling in the valley. This transport team had no vehicles. The reason was that with the terrain on the edge of the main battlefield, the speed of vehicles would be slower instead.

More than a hundred giant fishmen were carrying huge alloy boxes 3 meters high and 2 meters wide. A careful observation would reveal that this alloy box was sealed with spatial secret patterns, similar to a spatial storage box that opened slowly. Each alloy box looked only 3 meters high and 2 meters wide, but actually, each contained 19.5~20 tons of energy crystals, which needed to be opened or packaged with large spatial devices.

A total of 120 giant fishmen were carrying such alloy boxes. That is to say, this batch transported a total of more than 2000 tons of energy crystals. After purification and catalysis, at least 22~24 tons of active crystal fat could be obtained, which could be considered a huge wealth. But for the "Crystal Forest," this was only the output of about half a day, from which one could understand why the Beast Race and Sea Race had been fighting for the "Crystal Forest" for many years.

Not to mention the factions in this world, even the Spellcasters who came here couldn't help but be greedy. For example, the Spellcaster sitting on the back of a sea beast at the front of the transport team, Soul Hand Fast.

Fast looked at the sunset on the horizon. They were not far from the stronghold, which made his nerves relax a bit. At the same time, he hated a certain Law-Breaker even more in his heart. If it weren't for the other party blowing up the Prosperous Star, he wouldn't have been transferred to the Wind Sea Continent. In this war world, he had to be cautious everywhere. Even if he had the top-tier combat power of the Ninth Tier, he was equally dangerous here.

"Transport teams are occasionally attacked, but what you did before was also licking blood on the edge of a knife. You should have been used to this environment long ago. There are some things I don't want to say too much, but you have to know that this is one of your few opportunities."

Fast looked at the figure sitting on the back of the sea beast behind him. This person was wearing a black robe and a hood. The eyes under the hood were pitch black at the bottom, the outer circle of the pupils was white, and in the center of the pupils, there was a pitch-black central pupil, black to the depths, soul-stirring.

This person didn't speak, just broke the dried meat in his hand and chewed it in his mouth.

"Remember, if it weren't for Lord Soul protecting you, you wouldn't even have this opportunity to make up for your mistakes."

Hearing Fast say this, the black-robed person sneered and said, "Arcane Eternal Star has just always been using me. Don't say it as if you gave me any great favor."

"So you know it in your heart. As long as you know it."

Fast looked at the black-robed person with a half-smile and stopped paying attention. But just at this moment, the sound of breaking wind struck head-on.

Bang!

A spiral metal arrow nearly three meters long shot over. Fast tilted his head to dodge. The wind pressure brought by the spiral arrow blew away his hood, revealing a bald head covered with black runes, which made him look a bit more powerful.

With a bang, the metal spiral arrow hit the Shark Race member behind and exploded. Hearing this sound, one knew it was the Horseman Race's spiral arrow.

"Enemy attack!!"

The sharp screech of the Sea Siren spread throughout the battlefield. Afterward, figures rushed out from the jungle on the side. Among them, a Blood Beast Race member leaped forward from a long distance and attacked Fast.

Only to see Fast hold his hand in the void. With a hum, the Blood Beast Race member stopped in mid-air a few meters in front of him. Afterward, it was like being twisted into a twist by two invisible big hands, and it was actually twisted into a twist-shaped flesh column as thick as a cup and several meters long. The wails of the Blood Beast Race member remaining in the air seemed to still linger.

Fast stood up from the back of the sea beast. He looked at the Beast Race members rushing forward, his brows furrowed slightly. He didn't quite understand why these Beast Race elite teams, which were almost all leader and big leader level, would come to raid the transport team?

Although puzzled, Fast's movements were not slow at all. He pressed his hand forward in the void. With a thud, an invisible impact expanded toward the front, which forced the Beast Race members rushing over to slow down, and even began to retreat due to the impact.

The dense forest from which the Beast Race members rushed out was lifted away in an instant, revealing a flat muddy ground. This momentum continued to advance for a few kilometers before stopping.

The culprit of all this, Fast, had pressed his hand down at this time, and a gravity wave affecting several kilometers around fell. Ergein, who was rushing at the front, felt a weight on his shoulders and half-knelt on the ground. Compared to him, the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor was even more unlucky, directly pulled up by gravity, as if held by an invisible big hand, causing green juice to spray from its mouth and head.

A group of Beast Race members had just received a wave of strengthening and were full of brewing to kill all sides, but they were educated by the Spellcaster. In fact, this was very normal. If Spellcasters weren't strong enough, they couldn't become the strongest hegemon in the Void. They relied on devouring one of the two strongest source power forces to improve themselves. Being strong was a matter of course.

Just when Fast was about to crush the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor from the air, the sound of breaking wind came from the side. His soul power was released and blasted toward the incoming enemy.

Thud!

The enemy shattered, but the next instant, this human figure composed of black-blue smoke appeared beside Fast. A sense of trembling deep into the soul enveloped Fast. He looked sideways at the black smoke figure beside him. He could be sure that he had never seen this thing in his life.

"Soul Torrent!"

Fast's eyes widened, and he released a "Soul Torrent" that didn't distinguish between friend and foe toward the surroundings. Whether it was the Sea Race or sea beasts, they were all lifted away, and the black-robed person also retreated.

When the Soul Torrent stopped, the black fog figure was still standing there. The next instant, a sharp cone pierced through its head, blowing its head apart. However, the exploded black smoke gradually gathered again.

A crystal long knife was formed in the black fog figure's hand, slashing toward Fast. Fast originally wanted to retreat, but he suddenly noticed that the slashing ability of this black fog figure didn't seem strong. Furthermore, although he was a Spellcaster, his close-combat ability wasn't weak at all. A soul greatsword gathered in his hand, and he had a slash-for-slash with the black fog figure.

With a clang, the wind pressure scattered, and a layer of ground was lifted. Fast slashed the black fog figure back a step. He took the opportunity to step forward, another powerful slash.

But just at this moment, the black fog figure blurred, and then swapped positions with a person. Su Xiao appeared opposite Fast, his long knife facing Fast's soul greatsword.

With a crack, the soul greatsword exploded magnificently. Together with it exploded Fast's mentality. During his backward leap, he put his hands together.

"Soul Storm!!"

Fast's eyes widened to the maximum, the veins on his neck bulged, and he used the strongest Soul Storm of his life.

The storm enveloped Su Xiao, filled with soul blades, and rotated at a terrifying speed. Soul blades cut his body. In a very short time, his "Magic-Immune Physique" and "Law-Breaker (Passive)" were fully stacked, bringing 60% magic damage reduction, plus a magic resistance as high as 190 points. You know, this was additional resistance. As a Law-Breaker, Su Xiao's own magic resistance was already high, at least 300-plus points.

That is to say, he now not only had 60% magic damage reduction, but the remaining 40% of magic damage also had to go through layers of reduction by various passive abilities, and finally be reduced by 500-plus points of magic resistance, which was the magic damage caused to Su Xiao.

Think this was all the damage reduction? It wasn't. This unlucky guy Fast was Soul-type + Magic-type, so his ability was soul damage mixed with magic damage. That is to say, it had to go through Su Xiao's soul strength reduction as high as 710 points before it was the final damage caused by Fast to Su Xiao.

Therefore, the Soul Storm looked imposing, and the attack frequency was extremely high, but the damage intensity caused each time really wasn't high. Occasionally, the soul blades would even cut out single-digit damage prompts, which looked a bit sad.

Fast stared at the Soul Storm dozens of meters in front. He already had a combat strategy: first use the Soul Storm to reduce Su Xiao's physical strength + defense ability, then use his ultimate killing move, and then... run. Taking advantage of this Law-Breaker being severely hit by his ultimate move, he would immediately retreat.

Under Fast's gaze, Su Xiao walked out of the Soul Storm. This made Fast's gaze go from astonishment to confusion, as well as very strong disbelief. From the day he mastered the Soul Storm, he really hadn't thought that anyone could walk directly out of it.

With a bang, the magic robe on Fast's body shattered. His heart turned into soul blue. He converted 90% of his original life force into soul energy. That is to say, even if he survived today, his remaining lifespan would be reduced by more than 90%.

"Ha!"

Fast clapped his hands together. A soul-warrior knight riding a warhorse manifested behind him. The soul-warrior knight was completely composed of soul power. Following Fast's manipulation, the soul-warrior knight charged and shattered space, rushing toward Su Xiao.

"Blade Dao Knife · Extreme."

Clang!

The long knife and the cavalry spear slashed against each other. The terrifying power turned into white light, enveloping the surroundings.

When everything calmed down, Su Xiao stood in a crater with a diameter of several kilometers. Due to the high temperature caused by the energy collision in the crater, large areas of glassification appeared. The soul-warrior knight had shattered, turning into a shell scattered on the ground, while Fast opposite him was thin to the point of skin and bones, and his hair became dry and gray.

"Defeated, truly thoroughly."

Fast was very calm. Because he was defeated head-on, he had nothing to resent or be unwilling about. The next instant, the blade light sealed his throat, and Fast fell to the ground.

Su Xiao pulled up the sleeve of his right arm and poured a bottle of 【Vitality Original Liquid】 on it. The several flesh-and-blood cracks on his right arm healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Throwing down the empty potion bottle in his hand, a blood energy phantom appeared above Su Xiao. He manipulated the Magic Spirit of the Blade to turn into a black smoke arrow, then threw it upward. The blood energy phantom caught it, drew the bow and arrow, and shot the black smoke arrow out.

In the distance, a black-robed person was traveling at full speed in the jungle. Just at this moment, she suddenly turned sideways, and a black smoke arrow shot past her side narrowly, nailing to the giant tree opposite.

This made the black-robed person breathe a sigh of relief. But the next second, she found that the black smoke arrow nailed to the giant tree trunk dispersed and reorganized into a black smoke figure. After a spatial fluctuation, Su Xiao and the Magic Spirit of the Blade swapped positions.

Seeing Su Xiao arrive here, the black-robed person's teeth bit together with a clatter, and the intense hatred was about to overflow.

Su Xiao pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, first withdrawing the Magic Spirit, then releasing it again, and manipulated the Magic Spirit to rush toward the black-robed person opposite.

The black-robed person was about to meet the Magic Spirit, but a spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared behind her. It was Su Xiao who suddenly appeared behind the black-robed person with Dragon Shadow Flash. He kicked sideways.

The speed of this side kick wasn't fast. The black-robed person immediately lunged forward to dodge this side kick. But the next instant, Su Xiao chose to swap positions with the Magic Spirit, becoming opposite the black-robed person. What was even more wonderful was that in order to avoid this side kick, the black-robed person chose to lunge forward. At this moment, it was she herself who met him.

Bang!!

The black-robed person turned into an afterimage, flying out in a straight line to the side, crashing through several giant trees before falling. This was still Su Xiao not using his full strength for the side kick.

After the black-robed person landed, she covered her mouth with one hand, but still couldn't help spitting blood. Blood gushed out from between her fingers, but she didn't give up, instead getting up and fleeing.

The wind whistled in her ears. The black-robed person walked quickly through the dense forest, and was surprised to find that the enemy didn't chase. This made her both unable to believe it and finally able to spare energy to perceive her own injuries.

Upon this perception, she found that her right arm was numb. Pulling open the sleeve and taking off the black glove, she saw that her right arm was covered with black-blue patterns, and faint black-blue smoke was drifting. Not only that, the black-blue patterns on her right arm were continuously climbing upward, about to climb to the torso.

Seeing this scene, the black-robed person didn't hesitate to raise her left hand and slash down like a knife. But this hand knife stopped halfway, and her left arm also began to numb. She bit off the black glove on her left hand and found that her left hand was also covered with black-blue patterns.

Even so, the black-robed person still didn't give up. Just as she wanted to continue fleeing, her arms uncontrollably pierced into the tree trunks on both sides.

"What kind of shameless ability is this!"

The black-robed person gritted her teeth and spoke. She swore that she had never seen a more shameless ability than this. It ignored physical/energy attacks, could swap positions, had attack means, and could manipulate others.

In a while, the black-blue patterns spread to the black-robed person's cheeks. With extreme unwillingness, she leaped onto the tree branches and began to jump between the trees, heading toward Su Xiao's direction.

On the chaotic battlefield outside the jungle, with a bang, Ergein, holding a long-handled war knife, kicked the fishman leader opposite to the ground, and then slashed down with a fierce weapon like a horse-slaying knife, splitting the fishman leader into two on the spot.

After killing the enemy, Ergein looked at the war knife in his hand, feeling slightly uncomfortable. If he had encountered a fishman leader in the past, he would have had to suppress him for several rounds at least before killing him. But now, the feeling of slashing a fishman leader to death was a bit like slashing a minion in the past. Not only that, the giant fishmen weren't resistant to beating either. He hadn't slashed enough, but the tall giant fishman couldn't hold on and died on the spot.

The chaotic battle he expected didn't actually happen. After the Lord's team clashed with the transport team, it was completely like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood. A few minutes after the start of the war, more than a thousand fishmen were about to be wiped out. Some giant fishmen simply knelt and surrendered after being killed. The speed at which this one-sided slaughter-like battle reduced morale was too fast.

"Ah~"

Evil Tooth looked up with his big mouth open, loosening the deep-sea pituitary gland clamped between his fingers, and swallowed it with a gulp.

"Why did you swallow the pituitary gland of the sea beast?"

Viper asked with a look of doubt.

"Swallowing this thing alive is good for the kidneys."

"Oh~?"

Viper showed surprise, and began to look around, searching for the sea beast he had poisoned to death just now.

Not far away, the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor sat up from the ground. Its large hand composed of branches began to grope its torso, head, etc. It originally thought it was going to die, but after basking in the sunset for a while, it not only healed most of its injuries but also had more strength. Not only that, it also found that it seemed to have become more resistant to beating.

The reason for this was the "Sunshine Nourishment" ability of the Sun Lord, which had an additional bonus to the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor. This was both because the power of the sun was highly compatible with the plant race, and because of the personal physique of the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor.

Others' "Sunshine Nourishment" effect was: if in the sunshine, recover 1% of maximum health per second.

The Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor's "Sunshine Nourishment" effect was: if in the sunshine, recover 2% of maximum health per second, and every time the body is damaged, and the degree of damage exceeds 15% of the maximum health, your health and physical defense will receive a permanent increase (the increase range will be judged according to the degree of damage received).

Su Xiao naturally noticed this talent of the Tree-Mao Race member Giant Armor. If cultivated well, this would be the main tank of the boss team in the future. In addition, the large size of the Tree-Mao Race could both attack and attract firepower.

After Su Xiao ordered to clean up the battlefield, he walked toward the jungle. Not long after walking out, he saw a figure standing under a giant tree. As he withdrew the Magic Spirit, the black-robed person fell to the ground due to exhaustion. The hood on her head had long since fallen off. This was Raven Woman.

The Beast Race scout only detected one Spellcaster, which belonged to the normal situation. Raven Woman's ability wasn't magic-type. As for why she was sent to the Wind Sea Continent, it was a guess that someone was protecting her and let her come here to make up for her mistakes.

Raven Woman sat against the giant tree, looking at Su Xiao with a smile, and said: "Bai Ye, you can't use me anymore. Perhaps even you don't know, those who have given up the "Necronomicon" are not qualified to hold it a second time. So, do it."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just sat opposite Raven Woman. After a long time, he discovered one thing, which was that because Raven Woman had held the "Necronomicon" and didn't die because of it, Raven Woman had a blessing in disguise and had a certain degree of resistance to Original Sin Objects.

Although this resistance wasn't high enough to use Original Sin Objects, if the limit of most people was to hold one Original Sin Object, then Raven Woman could hold two Original Sin Objects at the same time.

Su Xiao still didn't speak, which made Raven Woman feel a little irritable in her heart. She said: "Don't try, the Necronomicon won't choose me again."

"Who told you that I only have one Original Sin Object."

"?"

Raven Woman couldn't understand this sentence for the first time. After all, the impact was too great. In her astonished gaze, Su Xiao took out two charcoal boxes in a sealed state.

"You... are you asking me to choose one of two."

Raven Woman's eye corners twitched as she spoke.

"Don't underestimate yourself, you can have them all."

As Su Xiao spoke, he placed the two charcoal boxes in his hand in front of Raven Woman. Clearly, this time, he prepared double the happiness for the Arcane Eternal Star to "send a gift." ===== CHAPTER 3672 =====