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Chapter 3672

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As night approached, the glowing plants in the jungle began to emit a faint light, looking beautiful and magnificent. Unfortunately, Raven Woman didn't have the mood to appreciate this beautiful scenery.

"You want me to... hold two Original Sin Objects at the same time?"

Raven Woman spoke with forced composure, while constantly reminding herself in her heart that she was a cold-blooded assassin, and she was also a disciple of the Hunter Guild's Owl. She was cold-blooded, and she must be calm and composed.

After constantly reminding herself of these things, Raven Woman's gaze regained the spirit of their first meeting, that kind of lazy and casual feeling with a bit of coldness.

"Your mentality is adjusted well, try to maintain it."

While Su Xiao was speaking, he picked up the charcoal box containing the Soul Crown and crushed it with a crack. His right hand began to numb the moment it touched the Soul Crown, but Su Xiao still held it in the air with one hand, which made the Soul Crown begin to shrink, finally turning into a black ring in the shape of a crown.

The Blade Magic Spirit was released by Su Xiao. He threw the Soul Crown in his hand to the Magic Spirit, letting the Magic Spirit temporarily control Raven Woman to wear the shrunk Soul Crown on her index finger.

This wasn't over yet. Su Xiao crushed the other charcoal box and let Raven Woman, controlled by the Magic Spirit, wear the Nether Bone Ring on the index finger of her other hand. The next instant, Raven Woman's eyes became pitch black and ghostly green respectively, but this change appeared and then disappeared. The two Original Sin Objects didn't corrode Raven Woman's soul at all.

This was something Su Xiao had long anticipated. Although these two Original Sin Objects were connected to his cause and effect, these two Original Sin Objects actually didn't want to be with him. The reason was that they were both in a sealed state and couldn't devour resources, etc., which belonged to extremely poor treatment. This wasn't the treatment of a wild daddy; this was clearly coming to sit in jail.

Added to that, Su Xiao and these two Original Sin Objects mutually disliked each other. More accurately, the reason why the Original Sin Objects disliked Su Xiao now was more than before, respectively as follows:

1. The identity of Law-Extinguisher + Hunter, with a huge causal body.

2. "Undying Shadow" derived from real willpower.

3. Mastered Magic Spirit Awakening, which made Su Xiao's resistance to Original Sin Objects increase by a large margin.

4. Su Xiao held too many Original Sin Objects. Original Sin Objects had always appeared alone. Even in a place like the Soul Library, only three Original Sin Objects were sealed. Conversely, on Su Xiao's side, he carried three by himself.

Adding these factors together, as long as it wasn't opened from an Abyss treasure chest, but encountered in some dangerous area, Su Xiao didn't need to worry at all. That Original Sin Object might even take the initiative to stay away from him because it disliked him.

Right now, the reason why the "Soul Crown" and "Nether Bone Ring" didn't corrode Raven Woman's soul was because they perceived Raven Woman's cause and effect with Arcane Eternal Star and were prepared to use this to go to Arcane Eternal Star.

Su Xiao was naturally happy to see this. It would be best if he could send these two great masters away this time. He never thought that he could defeat an Original Sin Object. In the process of holding an Original Sin Object, as long as there was the slightest negligence, it would be a total loss. An Original Sin Object could be sealed by him countless times, but as long as he failed once, the effort he had made to fight to this day would all vanish, along with his life.

Su Xiao was never afraid of dying in a life-and-death battle with a strong enemy, or dying in some dangerous area, such as a place like the Root · Death Silence City. But he just didn't want to die because of the corrosion of an Original Sin Object.

Su Xiao took out an injection gun and other items. After adjusting it, the injection gun pierced into Raven Woman's side neck. Feeling the slight coolness of the potion being injected, she said indifferently: "Quite cautious, you actually poisoned me this time..."

Raven Woman stopped halfway through her sentence because she found that this didn't seem to be a poison, but a recovery potion. The internal organs that were dull with pain from being beaten just now were gradually recovering, and even her breathing became smooth.

Under Raven Woman's astonished gaze, Su Xiao injected several more potions into her. In a while, Raven Woman felt with a face full of confusion that the hidden illnesses she had left behind due to long-term practice were actually healing. Even her right shoulder, which often had soreness after recovering from a serious injury, became relaxed. At this moment, Raven Woman was completely confused, but on second thought, she guessed what was going on, and said:

"Give up, I won't defect to you."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just put away all kinds of treatment tools after adjusting the infusion speed, and finally took out a round jar like an extractor, activated it against Raven Woman's heart. Before, he couldn't do these things, but after learning advanced knowledge, he still had some confidence.

Su Xiao wasn't a beginner in seal study. Alchemy had knowledge in this area. Right now, after learning advanced knowledge, his seal study level was actually very high. Added to that, the strict supervision of several Original Sin Object "teachers," if he didn't master it as soon as possible, he would really be in danger of his life.

As Su Xiao activated the extraction device, Raven Woman's eyes instantly fell into pitch black and she fainted. A few minutes later, when Raven Woman woke up again, she found that Su Xiao was sealing an "Elemental Soul Seal" into a container. This "Elemental Soul Seal" was none other than the means for the high-level members of Arcane Eternal Star to control Raven Woman's life and death.

Although Arcane Eternal Star had more than one means to prevent Raven Woman from betraying or escaping, this must be the most difficult one to remove.

The current situation made Raven Woman even more confused. Not only were all her hidden illnesses and dark wounds healed, but even the "Elemental Soul Seal" was removed. It could be said that her inner state had never been better. If she could get rid of the two Original Sin Objects, it would be so good that it would be like dreaming.

Su Xiao was helping the enemy? Of course not. When you need someone to do something, don't let the other party feel despair, but give them hope, as strong as possible.

Just like just now, after holding two Original Sin Objects, Raven Woman was heartbroken. With Original Sin Objects on her body, many hidden illnesses left over from past battles, and being bound by the "Elemental Soul Seal," she was naturally heartbroken. But now, her gaze was lively and active, because she couldn't bear to part with her life.

On the way to put away various tools, Su Xiao's movements paused. He looked at Raven Woman leaning under the giant tree and said: "Are you prepared to have dinner before leaving?"

Hearing his words, Raven Woman disappeared in place. A moment later, Su Xiao spoke: "Is the signal stable."

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was integrated into the environment, appeared. The terminal held in its two dog paws was presenting Raven Woman's first-person perspective, and one could even hear the sound of her breathing when she was running.

After Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang adjusted the terminal, he handed it over. Su Xiao watched Raven Woman's first-person perspective for a while and then put the terminal away. With this channel, perhaps he could hear some secrets of the Sea race faction.

When Su Xiao left the forest and came to the assembly point of the lord's team, he found that the team members had already lit a large bonfire. Not far away, there were cargo boxes piled up one by one. These alloy boxes sealed with space technology contained a total of 2000-plus tons of energy crystals.

Even if they weren't purified into "active crystal fat," they would cost more than 1000 gold coins per ton. That is to say, these energy crystals were worth more than 2 million gold coins.

This was only about half a day's output of the Crystal Forest. Excluding the quiet time of the Crystal Forest at night, then in a year, the Crystal Forest would be enough to produce resources worth billions of gold coins.

Before the transaction with Grand Commander Kane, the other party only took out 2000 gold coins. One could imagine the purchasing power of gold coins. This was also why, before, when Egein and others saw Soduo, which was gold coins, their eyes began to go straight, and why Egein, this guy, used 20 gold coins to be extravagant for a morning, was such a luxury thing. Or rather, the commoners of the Beast race basically wouldn't use such large-denomination coins unless they were buying real estate.

These 20 gold coins, I don't know where Egein used them to be extravagant. Spending 20 Soduo in a morning really wasn't simple. This was also why, before, the members of the lord's team could find underground contract masters for 10 gold coins to find ways to terminate the contract.

If Grand Commander Kane knew that the 2000 gold coins he allocated to Su Xiao were spent so easily by Su Xiao, he would definitely have a face of iron, because these 2000-plus gold coins were prepared for Su Xiao to recruit Beast race soldiers and purchase weapons, armor, etc.

Facts proved that these 2000 gold coins were worth it. Right now, 2 million gold coins were about to be in hand.

Su Xiao stopped by the bonfire, looking at Evil Tooth, who was lying on the alloy box with a stooped back, holding his stomach with both hands, his body twitching from time to time, and making groaning sounds in his mouth. Baha on his shoulder naturally saw this scene and asked:

"What's wrong with Evil Tooth? Seriously injured? Doesn't look like it."

"Eh~, this, well."

Viper's tone was hesitant, and finally he squeezed out that he was poisoned.

Checking Evil Tooth's pupils and tongue coating, Su Xiao frowned. Evil Tooth seemed to have snake venom, or neurotoxin. The most confusing thing was that this snake venom wasn't injected into the blood, but more like Evil Tooth drank it, or ate this fierce poison. Because this poison was too fierce, it seeped into the stomach, causing the organs to be poisoned first, and then there were the current poisoning characteristics.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao couldn't help but suspect, was this poison given to Evil Tooth by his own people?

Viper beside him knew he couldn't hide it and began to narrate the process of the matter. In fact, there was no infighting or poisoning. In the battle just now, Viper poisoned an enemy sea beast to death. He didn't care, and didn't even pay attention to the appearance of the sea beast. But after the battle, Evil Tooth swallowed the deep-sea pituitary gland of the sea beast, and said, "Swallowing this thing raw is good for the kidneys." Whether it could be good for the kidneys was still unknown, but poisoning was certain.

"Lord, save me~"

Evil Tooth spoke weakly. Hearing this, Su Xiao threw down an antidote and let Amu carry him to the distance to pour it. In the last few hours, Su Xiao didn't want to see this idiot.

Taking all the spoils on the return journey, Su Xiao didn't expect such a harvest this time. The reason was that in the past, after the Sea race transport team was attacked, once the war situation was unfavorable, they would destroy the alloy boxes. This thing was sealed with space technology, and it would explode with a fierce attack, which led to the fact that surprise attacks on transport teams in the past basically wouldn't have material boxes left.

The reason why the harvest was fruitful this time was because the combat power of the lord's team completely crushed the opposite side. After killing the enemy like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood, the enemy fled, and a total of 120 alloy boxes, only 16 were destroyed.

Besides this, counting the faction mission, Su Xiao gained a total of 3275 reputation points, which made his reputation points become -12205 points.

It looked like it was still quite a bit short, but as long as there were enough gold coins, he wouldn't worry about not being able to recruit members later. Or rather, later it wasn't recruiting members, but buying members.

Iron Fortress City naturally wouldn't have human trafficking places. No one in the Beast race dared to do this. But what if it was outside the territory of the Beast race? Or rather, it was in the lawless land on the west side of the main battlefield.

Located in the Black Fog Gobi on the west side of the main battlefield, there was an abandoned ancient city. Here, the city walls looked dilapidated, and the city was full of broken walls and ruins. In fact, the underground was a different world. This was an underground city, and its core building was the underground market.

Where did the prisoners of the Beast race and the Sea race go? With the degree of hatred between the two sides, negotiation was impossible, so the existence of the underground market was born. Here, it looked like slave trading, but if there were really slave traders who dared to sell the Beast race and the Sea race as slaves, they were tired of living.

The Beast race and the Sea race were using this method to redeem the soldiers and generals of their own side in a tacit way. If the slave traders were arrogant and really treated these people as slaves, the end would definitely be miserable.

Of course, the tribes and the clansmen of many small and medium-sized factions were really treated as slaves and traded here. In this era of chaotic fighting from the very beginning, the law of the jungle had been maintained until now.

Su Xiao's idea was to return to Iron Fortress City first, deal with the energy crystals obtained this time, and then go to the underground city to redeem a batch of Beast race leaders and big leaders, and take this group of people to find trouble with the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon."

The so-called "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" was actually the first descendant of the "Abyss Dragon," but because it was excessively eroded by the abyss, it became exceptionally violent and cruel, to the extent that it swallowed its own younger brother and was eventually exiled to this world by the "Abyss Dragon."

Because the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" was too severely eroded by the abyss, it sometimes didn't move in the form of an Abyss Dragon, but turned into a large piece of black fluid. Many years ago, the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" once swallowed a city of a medium-sized faction. When it left, not even the skeletons of the living beings in the city were left.

The "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" couldn't be considered a strange beast of this world, but it also had a wingspan of several hundred meters when it spread its wings in the form of an Abyss Dragon. Those broken, dark dragon wings wouldn't affect its flight speed, and it could both transport all members of the lord's team and be a powerful combat force after the war started.

Although it was impossible to brand a permanent summoning contract with the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon," Su Xiao could still do it to brand a temporary control over the other party. The only problem right now was that in the full-victory state of the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon," it was impossible to be branded by a summoning contract. Only when it was weak to a certain extent would there be a possibility of success, which meant beating it half to death first.

Thinking of taking down the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" once or twice was unlikely. Su Xiao estimated that taking down the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" three or five times would be a pleasant surprise.

This was actually an opportunity. Right now, the lord's team was mixed, and added to the fact that there were sufficient gold coins now, he could supplement the number of members through the underground city. Then fighting to the death with the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" was also equivalent to eliminating members who weren't strong enough in the lord's team through fighting, thereby allowing the lord's team to advance into a boss team.

After developing into an ultimate boss team and successfully contracting the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon," he could take action against areas like "White Hoof Port," "Ancestor Lighthouse," and "Floating Light Island."

Su Xiao's current goal was "Floating Light Island." After some investigation and combining known intelligence, he estimated that the Wolf Tomb had a 60% probability of being on this island. The problem was that the location of "Floating Light Island" was no longer in the main battlefield area, but on the edge of the Sea race's territory. Without sufficient combat power, he couldn't go there.

When the lord's team returned to Iron Fortress City, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Su Xiao first contacted Caesar. Upon learning that there were spoils to be sold, Caesar promised to arrive within half an hour. But upon learning that the spoils were 2000-plus tons of energy crystals, in the time it took Su Xiao to turn around, Caesar was already groping the alloy boxes there.

Su Xiao didn't ask Caesar if he had a way to open these alloy boxes. Others might not have a way, but Caesar, as long as the benefits were in place, this kind of matter was his most skilled field.

Why was the reward for the mission of ambushing the transport team only 1000-plus reputation points? One must know that the energy crystals looted were worth more than 2 million gold coins.

This was both because the transport team would destroy these space alloy boxes once they were attacked and couldn't fight back, and also because these alloy boxes were difficult to open. Not to mention violent box opening, even if the space-type tried to find a way to open them, the success rate was less than one in ten thousand. The space imprints on these alloy boxes were simply understood as password identification.

"My dear friend, these material boxes are too difficult to open. I need to pay a huge price, so... let's split it two-eight."

Caesar's meaning was that he took 80%, and Su Xiao took 20%.

"Three-seven split."

Su Xiao also offered a price, meaning he took 70%, and Caesar took 30%.

After some bargaining, the final split was five-five. After talking about this point, Caesar began to work. He first put the Abyss Jar on his head. After man-and-jar-as-one, he took out an iron bucket from the storage space, inside which was a viscous transparent unknown liquid, a bit like the nasal mucus of some huge creature.

The Snake sister standing behind Su Xiao, after seeing these viscous liquids, subconsciously wrinkled her small face. I don't know why, she just had a sense of physiological discomfort.

After Caesar danced around, he first took off his shoes, then took off his socks, threw the socks into a juicer that was leaking electricity, then added the viscous semi-transparent liquid inside, and finally sealed the lid and started the juicer.

"Ugh~"

The Snake sister subconsciously retched. After leaving the sentence, "Lord, I'll go out first," she hurried out of the station hall. I don't know if her heart was impacted, and Egein on the sofa had a tight face at this time, seeming to be negotiating with his stomach.

After Caesar tossed around, he finally poured a kind of shit-yellow viscous juice onto the surface of the alloy box. After the hissing erosion sound, the space imprints on the alloy box quickly failed. Caesar tried to open it, and with a bang, a large amount of energy crystals surged out, burying Caesar inside.

In the second half of the night, transport vehicles drove into the courtyard one after another. When all matters were handled, Caesar sent 10 large boxes of gold coins, a total of 100,000 gold coins, and nine dark gold cards. These were savings cards of the Beast Bank, each representing 100,000 gold coins saved, which could be taken out from the Beast Bank without password, identity identification, etc.

A large sum of gold coins was in hand. Su Xiao took out the communicator and contacted the Spotted Fox race's Pilu. From recruiting this person and arriving at Iron Fortress City, Su Xiao had asked the other party to find a way to reach the underground city of the Dark Gobi to contact the underground market there. Right now, it was time to test the Spotted Fox race's Pilu.

As the communicator was dialed, the voice of the Spotted Fox race's Pilu came from the opposite side: "Lord Bai Ye, I have prepared everything properly on my side. The situation here isn't as complicated as imagined. You can come at any time."

Hearing this, Su Xiao hung up the communicator, ordered to set off for the underground city of the Dark Gobi, and before leaving, made supplements in terms of armor and weapons again.

This time it was exceptionally smooth. City Lord Feizi seemed to know nothing about this matter. The reason was that the energy crystals obtained this time were actually purchased by City Lord Feizi with the funds of Iron Fortress City. At the current stage, the Sea race occupied the "Crystal Forest," and the Beast race was naturally very short of energy crystals. City Lord Feizi, who held a batch of this material in his hand, could do quite a few things with it.

Early the next morning, Su Xiao arrived at the Dark Gobi. This place must have been an abyss erosion area, otherwise the sky wouldn't be so dim early in the morning. Considering that the "Ancient Ruins" weren't far from here, it made sense that this place had been eroded by the abyss.

Passing through the broken walls and ruins, Su Xiao came to a wide staircase leading downward. At the bottom, guards wearing black armor with their aura concealed blocked the front, making it difficult to distinguish whether they were Beast race or Sea race.

In a while, a figure who was also wearing armor but was short and bloated walked out from inside. After saying something to these guards, the guards opened the gate to let them pass.

Through a wide and deep passage, the front suddenly opened up. A train drove past from the front. The pedestrians on the street were dressed differently. Some were Beast race, some were Sea race. Contrary to the rumors from the outside world, the underground city wasn't a place without law at all. There was a set of its own unique rules here, and it was precisely these rules that allowed many commoners to settle here.

Su Xiao came to the underground city, naturally didn't bring Egein and others, only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha. Egein and other Beast race members were all waiting a few kilometers away from the Dark Gobi.

"Lord, this way."

The Spotted Fox race's Pilu didn't know where he popped out from, dragging a tail that didn't move, and walked over. That unique pace made people suspect that his tail was fake.

"Lord, I've figured out the situation. There are two types of slaves in the underground city market. One type is fighters, all Sea race and Beast race, and the other type is servants."

Hearing this, Baha asked: "What's the difference between fighters and servants?"

"The difference is huge. The cheapest fighter also needs 5 gold coins to redeem, and there is no slave contract. The fighter you redeem will only serve you for one year. In fact, it's hiring him for one year. During this period, whether the fighter listens to your orders or not, you have no qualification to beat or punish him."

The Spotted Fox race's Pilu emphasized while speaking: "And not everyone has the qualification to redeem fighters. Of course, you don't need to care about this aspect, Lord."

The fighters that the Spotted Fox race's Pilu mentioned were actually the captured Beast race and Sea race warriors or generals. They were captured, and it was because they were defeated or surrendered. They had no complaints about being sold as slaves. But if they were really bought as slaves, then the problem would be big. And the market here had an iron rule: the Sea race couldn't buy Beast race slaves, and the Beast race couldn't buy Sea race slaves.

During the chat, the underground market approached. After Su Xiao walked into it, he felt a wave of hot wind head-on, followed by a sense of stuffiness.

The underground market was an underground space of several tens of thousands of square meters. Huge gas lamps were hanging high above. After walking into the first half of the market, Su Xiao saw iron cages on both sides of the aisle. There were many races of slaves in the iron cages, all wearing metal collars on their necks, with tame and obedient gazes. These were real slaves, and I don't know where the slave traders caught them.

As they moved forward, the huge iron cages on both sides gradually disappeared, turning into steps. Beast race and Sea race members with lazy or violent expressions sat on the steps on both sides. They were basically injured, and on their ankles, they wore shackles symbolically.

Not long after walking, under the negotiation of the Spotted Fox race's Pilu, a red dwarf with a big belly walked over. This person said with a face full of smiles: "Mr. Bai Ye, please show your identity proof."

"..."

Su Xiao took out the lord badge. Seeing this, the red dwarf's smile became more enthusiastic, and he took out a list.

After Su Xiao flipped through the list, he found that to redeem a Beast race elite, it needed 20 gold coins, a Beast race leader needed 400 gold coins, and a Beast race big leader needed 1500 gold coins.

This price was ridiculously high. Buying a slave with the strength of a big leader in the front area of the market was only around 300 gold coins.

Right now, he was in the stage of being rich and imposing. Su Xiao redeemed 300 Beast race elites, 50 Beast race leaders, and 3 big leaders with 30500 gold coins, which made the red dwarf laugh from ear to ear.

No need to sign a contract, the Beast race members redeemed by Su Xiao were all untied from their shackles. These Beast race members followed behind Su Xiao and walked toward the outside of the market.

After walking out of the underground city smoothly, on the desolate Dark Gobi, Su Xiao sat on a strange stone several meters high. The 300-plus Beast race members in front looked at him with big eyes and small eyes.

"This, Lord, what should we do next?"

A Wild Beast race member spoke, which made other Beast race members begin to discuss in low voices.

"According to the convention, you have to serve me for one year."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the Beast race members present all expressed agreement. Even some with gloomy faces didn't deny this, after all, it was Su Xiao who spent tens of thousands of gold coins to bring them out of the underground city.

"But one year is too long, why don't we change it?"

"That's good, Lord, you say, how long should it be changed to?"

A group of Beast race members all showed joy, but a few Beast race members showed worry.

"How about changing it to helping me fight one battle?"

Hearing this, the originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly cooled down. A Minotaur asked: "May I ask Lord, who are we going to fight with? The Sea race? We are all good at this."

"No, I want you to surround and kill the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon."

As soon as this statement came out, the 300-plus Beast race members suddenly became quiet, leaving only the sound of the wind in the Dark Gobi.

"No need to look mournful. Those who don't want to go with me can leave now. That side is Iron Fortress City."

Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal and bit off a piece with a crack. Recently, he had been relatively well-off and could taste the taste of Soul Crystal again.

I don't know why, but a group of Beast race members didn't stand up, but looked at each other, and no one made a move to be the first bird.

"If you go with me to surround and kill the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon, as long as it succeeds, 1000 Soduo for each person on the spot."

This sentence of Su Xiao made the Beast race members present even more hesitant. At this time, they believed that they could really leave at any time, without having to serve this lord for even 1 second. But if they stayed, there would be an opportunity to get a return of 1000 gold coins.

A few seconds later, a Half-blood Elf race member stood up and left. After walking a long distance, he turned his head to look, and no one chased after him, which made him immediately run with big strides. But I don't know why, the more he ran, the slower he became, and finally stopped in place.

An hour later, Egein and others came to meet. Counting them, the number of members of the lord's team reached 430, and everyone had the strength of "boss level."

Target, Dark Salt Lake, beat the "Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon" to the ground.

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