Chapter 3677: Secret Treasure

The pen tip wrote across the paper, and the fire lacquer burned into a liquid state poured onto the lower corner of the document. After standing still for a few seconds, a ring-like Lord's emblem was pressed onto it. When the Lord's emblem was taken away, a mark was presented.

After Su Xiao picked up the document on the table, his gaze looked at the Red Dwarf city lord opposite. This was the last one among the eight city lords. Seeing Su Xiao cast his gaze, the Red Dwarf city lord immediately signed a contract on the table.

Please do not misunderstand, this was a formal contract provided by the relevant institutions of the main city, used to further strengthen the Lord's control means over the city lords. Otherwise, each city lord would be equivalent to a small-sized Lord.

Letting Baham send away the Red Dwarf city lord, only Su Xiao and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was sleeping soundly on the bed behind, were left in the room. With a 'snap', the light was turned off. Su Xiao sat in the darkness and pondered. The opponent this time, the butler of the Lord, was a bit too vulnerable.

His original plan was to let the eight city lords who were in urgent need of supplies clash with the butler. Even if they won, these eight lords should have paid some price. But the real situation was not like this. The butler's death was in the plan, but these eight city lords won too easily.

This made Su Xiao think of two possibilities. One was that the little Lord of Twilight Winter City, Gurwei, was not as simple as she looked. Who was the puppet was really unknown. It was possible that the butler was Gurwei's shield.

It was not that this possibility did not exist. A ten-year-old human girl inherited her father's Lord position, and it was in the northern land, which was cold and very far from the main city. In the entire Twilight Winter City fief, besides the various Lords, there were many family forces. Among these people, it was inevitable that there were those who coveted the Lord position.

If little Lord Gurwei stood out to take charge alone, then the assassinations and schemes from the outside world would definitely be aimed directly at her.

Conversely, if little Lord Gurwei only looked like a puppet, then those with ulterior motives must first clean up the butler who was jumping the most happily. Once the butler was killed, little Lord Gurwei would hide deeper, and then continue to disguise herself, acting with a child's mentality, while actually waiting for an opportunity in her heart.

Besides this, there was another possibility, which was that little Lord Gurwei was indeed an ordinary noble young lady, just that her temperament was relatively melancholy, and she liked to wear relatively dark-style dresses, which gave people this conjecture. The one truly supporting the butler behind the scenes was the hidden force of Twilight Winter City.

Just with the butler's personal ability that did not survive tonight, Su Xiao really did not believe that such a person could hollow out a Lord's power. The Lord Council was not for show. Little Lord Gurwei's father had many friends before he died.

Although people leave and tea gets cold, letting a butler hollow out a Lord's power, this matter spread out, it was truly a bit of a loss of face for the Lord Council.

Then there was only one possibility, which was that the price of cleaning up the butler was much greater than losing some face. Therefore, the Lord Council turned a blind eye.

Su Xiao first thought that someone among the seven major families was secretly supporting the butler, but then thought about it, the seven major families could not engage in such low-level dirty tricks. Furthermore, the seven heads of the seven major families were the seven most powerful Beastman Lords. Whether on the surface or in the dark, it was impossible for them to bully their own people.

Su Xiao thought again whether it was the Sea Race secretly supporting the butler. Pondering for a moment, he felt that this was also unlikely. That butler could defect to the Sea Race for power, which made sense, but the two city lords who colluded with the butler, what were they for?

This was not a question of daring or not, but whether it was worth it. If it was a power struggle between their own people, the worst outcome of losing was death. But if they defected to the Sea Race, once discovered, they would be immediately sent to "Sand Bone City" to suffer the punishment of the Soul Purgatory.

Excluding the Sea Race, Su Xiao started to ponder whether it was the cults of this world. There were three cults with relatively strong strength in this world: Sea God Cult, Exotic Beast Cult, and Dark God Cult.

The Sea God Cult was excluded first. The suspicion of the Exotic Beast Cult was also very small. This cult had nothing to do with the exotic beasts of this world. There were only ascetic monks in the cult. As long as they did not take the initiative to provoke them, they would treat people peacefully.

Then only the Dark God Cult was left. It could be said that where there was an abyss invasion, there were these guys. Before, Su Xiao thought that the Dark God Cult was just a cult in the Shadow World. After arriving at the Wind Sea Continent, he discovered that it was not so.

One thing was the same: no matter in which world, the natives hated these guys who believed in the abyss. In the Wind Sea Continent, the Dark God Cult was not rampant. The Beastmen and the Sea Race were truly too strong.

Just as Su Xiao was pondering whether this matter was secretly supported by the Dark God Cult, Baham returned and whispered: "Boss, those two city lords are here and want to see you."

The two city lords Baham mentioned were naturally the two who colluded with the butler before. Now that the butler was dead, the purpose of these two coming to the door could be imagined.

There were ten big cities and ten city lords in the fief, or to be precise, nine formal city lords and one acting city lord. That acting city lord temporarily managed "Twilight Winter City", but after Su Xiao arrived at "Twilight Winter City", this acting city lord would become an executive officer, responsible for assisting the Lord in managing "Twilight Winter City". However, after Su Xiao arrived at "Twilight Winter City", this acting city lord could resign.

Regarding this, this acting city lord had no opinion. After all, the resignation compensation Su Xiao gave was too much. After he resigned, the Spotted Fox tribe's Pilu would serve as the executive officer. At the moment, Pilu had already gone to "Twilight Winter City" overnight to carry out the handover work.

In other words, there were nine city lords on the fief now, two of whom were already at the door, and the remaining seven were those who attended tonight's banquet and took the butler's head.

Su Xiao signaled Baham to let the two in. After the two city lords walked into the room, Su Xiao discovered that among these two city lords, one was a pure-blooded Orc, and the other was a Wolf tribe member. The Wolf tribe member was named Finris. Among these two, it was obviously headed by him.

"Lord, we..."

Before Finris's words were finished, Su Xiao had already raised his hand to interrupt. He said: "Originally, the two were also invited to today's banquet, but my subordinates were delayed on the way."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Finris and the Orc city lord on the side looked at each other, and then their faces were piled with smiles. Finris even took the initiative to pick up the teapot on the table and poured more than half a cup of tea for Su Xiao.

Su Xiao was seemingly chatting about today's banquet, but what he actually expressed was that the butler's matter would be turned over, and he was not prepared to pursue the matter of these two colluding with the butler.

If it followed the normal process, either he would not see these two, or he would mock them a few times, and then clean up these two, letting other city lords on the fief see that this was the end of colluding with others.

Handling it like this, seemingly crisp and neat, would actually immediately become a lone ranger. The nine city lords of the fief seemed to only have these two city lords who were not good things, and the remaining seven city lords were very peaceful. But was it really so?

The city lords of the fief must have known about the butler hollowing out little Lord Gurwei's power. But if those seven city lords cherished half of the old Lord's old feelings, they should have put some pressure on the butler. Not to mention fully supporting little Lord Gurwei, that was a bit unrealistic, but at least they could not let little Lord Gurwei not even be able to leave the manor and be under house arrest.

The seven city lords chose to hide in the dark and watch the changes. In contrast, the Wolf tribe city lord Finris and the Orc city lord, although these two stood on the butler's side, at least they stood out. More importantly, before Su Xiao took over the "Twilight Winter City fief", Finris and the Orc city lord's big cities each had 700+ units of grain inventory. Although it was not enough to support through this severe winter, "Twilight Winter City" at that time only had 500+ units of grain inventory.

The big cities managed by these two city lords had more grain inventory than the core big city "Twilight Winter City", and these grains were not plundered from other big cities on the fief, but these two city lords each relied on their own ability to get them.

At this time, Su Xiao had just taken over the Twilight Winter City fief. Should he favor those seven city lords who liked to watch the changes and not be the first bird, or reuse these two guys who liked to stand out actively?

The answer was obvious. Su Xiao needed city lords who were willing to stand out. He went to the "Twilight Winter City fief", not really for the fief, but to secretly develop the Zerg there, and to extract himself from various trivial matters to find the Wolf Tomb, Soul Death God, and snatch the "Initial Mark" fragments that could be discovered at any time.

"My lord, don't you feel strange that a mere butler dared to stand out and go against you."

Finris opened his mouth with a smile, his tone being a bit closer than just now.

"Tell me about it."

Su Xiao put down the teacup. Finris immediately picked up the teapot and filled it, saying at the same time: "The easiest to ignore is also the most dangerous."

Finris did not point it out directly. Under such circumstances, still daring to make such a riddle-like statement, either he was tired of living, or the party involved had relatively strong prophecy or causality systems.

Su Xiao first thought of the Tribe faction. The three major forces of this world, Beastmen, Sea Race, and Tribe, the former two fought too fiercely, making people subconsciously ignore the Witch Poison Tribe.

If the map of the Wind Sea Continent was laid out on a plane, one would see the territory of the Tribe faction right below the Beastman faction. But why did the Beastmen and the Sea Race fight until the sky was dark and the earth was yellow, but completely ignored the Tribe?

The reason was that between the Beastmen and the Tribe territory was a poisonous swamp, while the west side of the Tribe was a wetland swamp, the east side was a mangrove swamp, and behind it was the "Dark Rain Belt". The "Dark Rain Belt" was the most dangerous forbidden zone for living things in this world, with a danger level similar to the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain" on the north side of the Sea Race territory.

For so many years, it was not that the Beastmen had not considered the threat of the Tribe, and had thought about going to clean up that side, but the terrain around the Tribe territory was too harsh, either a poisonous zone or an erosion zone.

This also led to 99% of the exotic beasts of this world being in the territory of the Tribe. Don't think that the territory there was small; it was equivalent to one-third of the Beastman territory.

It was the Tribe supporting the butler behind the scenes. This was something Su Xiao did not expect. This matter must have a reason.

Seeming to perceive Su Xiao's confusion, Wolf tribe Finris whispered: "My lord, I heard a rumor that after the old Lord died, he actually left behind a secret treasure."

"Secret treasure?"

Su Xiao frowned. He was not very interested in this secret treasure.

"Yes, secret treasure. It is said that the core of that secret treasure is two primordial fragments."

Hearing Finris say this, Su Xiao suddenly became very interested in this secret treasure. The reason was that he had reached a stage where he really needed "primordial fragments", because just 1 second ago, when Finris mentioned "primordial fragments", Su Xiao received a prompt from the Reincarnation Paradise.

【Prompt: Detected that the Hunter's existing resources are enough to improve a technique ability to Lv. 80. Under this premise, some information about "primordial fragments" has been opened to you.】

Before, Su Xiao did not know the specific function of "primordial fragments". He only heard from White Cow that wanting to break through one's own limits and reach the "Absolute Strong" level required this thing, and after reaching the "Absolute Strong" level, one needed this thing even more.

White Cow originally struggled through countless hardships when he was at the peak of the ninth tier to gather 5 "primordial fragments". And after Su Xiao cured the old injury of White Cow's sister, White Cow originally wanted to give Su Xiao 2～3 "primordial fragments", at least to make Su Xiao not as difficult as he was when he was at the peak of the ninth tier and moving toward the "Absolute Strong".

How could it be that "primordial fragments" in the Void were too rare? White Cow only managed to get one piece. Counting the one White Cow gave and the one obtained in the Shadow World last time, Su Xiao had a total of two "primordial fragments".

The reason he needed this thing was that at the current stage, the resources he held were already enough to improve Blade Technique Master to Lv. 80. In a sense, the first upper limit level of Blade Technique Master was Lv. 80. However, rather than saying this was an upper limit, it was more like a kind of barrier.

Synthesizing three "primordial fragments" into one could be used to break through the upper limit of Blade Technique Master Lv. 80 and reach a brand new height. After that, Su Xiao's blade technique upper limit level would soar, at least soaring to Lv. 90 or even higher.

Breaking through Lv. 80 for one technique ability required three "primordial fragments", and three types required nine pieces. Thinking this was the end? It was not.

"Absolute Strong" was not just a title; it was actually a clear strength tier. Moving from the ninth tier toward the "Absolute Strong" required "Primordial Power" synthesized from five "primordial fragments" to break through to the "Absolute Strong" level.

Reaching the Absolute Strong level in this way not only brought about an improvement in all attributes but also had other benefits, making strength soar.

This was also why Ruthless Brother had not moved toward the "Absolute Strong" until now. It was obviously that "primordial fragments" were not enough. Four technique masters + five pieces to break through to the Absolute Strong, a total of seventeen pieces were needed. And Magic Scythe Teride should need about the same number of "primordial fragments" as Su Xiao, after all, it was an abyss-type ability.

Thinking about it this way, when Su Xiao spent 100 ounces of space-time power to open the Abyss Shop, he made a huge profit. The reason was that in the Abyss Shop notarized by the Void Tree, one could buy "primordial fragments".

【Primordial Fragment】

Category:???

Inventory Quantity:??? (Hunter credibility is too low, unable to view).

Exchange Price: 3,820 pieces of Precipitated Glaze.

……

"Precipitated Glaze" was rare, which was true, but at the very least, this was something that could be bought with soul coins. Among the three chambers of commerce Su Xiao patronized, all had this thing for sale, just that one was more expensive than the other, requiring a large amount of soul coins. At this moment, Su Xiao felt again that no matter how many soul coins he obtained, it was not enough.

"Tell me in detail about the origin of this secret treasure."

Su Xiao naturally was not prepared to let go of these two "primordial fragments". Even if it was just a rumor, it was worth trying. Furthermore, the fact that the Witch Poison sorcerers and witch doctors of the Tribe were willing to participate in this matter represented that the possibility of this secret treasure existing was extremely high. Otherwise, why would that side come to Twilight Winter City from thousands of miles away and secretly support a butler?

After listening to Wolf tribe Finris's description, Su Xiao basically understood this secret treasure. This item was the family heirloom of little Lord Gurwei. Because no "Absolute Strong" or family head with strength close to "Absolute Strong" had ever appeared in the family, this thing had been passed down.

This secret was not known until little Lord Gurwei's parents both died in accidents, and little Lord Gurwei's age was too young. She did not know the value of this secret treasure, only because it was a relic left by her father, she kept it by her side at all times, until a maid stole this secret treasure quietly while little Lord Gurwei was sleeping, and this matter was completely spread.

At the moment, in the Twilight Winter City fief, not only were the people from the Tribe side searching for this secret treasure in the dark, but most of the local families and the city lords of various big cities were also searching in the dark.

"Finris, this matter is left to you two. After it is done..."

Su Xiao's thumb and index finger were pressed together, pointing at the document on the table, which made Finris and the Orc city lord guarantee that they would definitely handle this matter properly.

After the two left, Su Xiao came to the side of the bed and pushed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang on the bed.

"Woo~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang let out a lazy low whine.

"Let's go."

"Woo~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang let out another low whine, but there was no movement of getting up. Seeing this, Baham revealed a bad smile. It took out the terminal and played the audio recorded in the "Cold Graveyard" before. The eerie ghost low whine came, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang shivered, his little eyes going from confusion to horror.

Su Xiao let Amu and Ergein continue to guard the warehouse where a large amount of supplies were stored, while he took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baham to the teleportation tower in the Fifteenth City District. When the teleportation array under his feet was activated, this time there was no accident.

The space mist surged around. Because the teleportation distance was far, it took a few seconds for the gray space mist around to dissipate. A cold wind came, cold and piercing. Twilight Winter City had arrived.

Baham closed the window of the teleportation tower that had been blown open, releasing light and heat from the gas lamp, allowing the temperature to gradually rise. Walking down the spiral staircase, Su Xiao saw the elderly guard sleeping soundly on the seat with an empty wine bottle in his hand.

After leaving the space tower, the scene that came into view was silver-wrapped. The buildings of Twilight Winter City were mostly four to five stories high, with steel pipes exposed on the outer walls, releasing temperature that melted the frost and snow on the walls. But every building roof was covered with white snow, combined with the small amount of steam leaked from some pipes, although this place was in severe winter, there was no strong cold feeling visually.

The snow on the street that was too late to be cleared had been compacted into a layer, only revealing the bus train track in the middle. Boarding the bus train, the familiar sizzling sound of oil frying and fragrance drifted over. Su Xiao looked over at the sound. It was in the dining kitchen counter in front of the bus train, where a snack similar to fried meatballs was being cooked. The famous snack unique to the main city, it turned out that it also existed in the northern border land. It seemed that he had been fooled by the dining attendant he met for the first time.

Twilight Winter City was not as big as Eternal Ring City, and it was cold, but here it gave people an indescribable harmony. Although it was almost 6:00 AM, the sky was still dim. There were quite a few shops on the street with lights on. That warm-toned light made the street scene more pleasant.

Taking the bus train to the rear city area, Su Xiao got off and walked into a small forest. Walking along the forest path for a while, a manor appeared in front, which was the Lord's manor of Twilight Winter City.

The area of the entire manor was about the size of a football field. Compared to the Lords of other fiefs, this was already very frugal, which showed that little Lord Gurwei's parents were probably the kind of people who had a sense of dignity, but as long as the residence could guarantee the Lord's face, they did not seek luxury.

There were no guards on both sides of the front gate. Judging from the footprints, there were originally some, but they must have run away after the butler was killed.

Along the path in the manor, Su Xiao came to the ancient castle. After pushing open the castle door, he did not feel warmth, but a dark cold feeling that had not been heated for a long time.

Walking through the corridor with windows on one side, along the steps upstairs, Su Xiao perceived two auras in a bedroom on the second floor. When he stopped at the bedroom door, he knocked on the door. There was no sound inside, but with his hearing, he heard the deliberately suppressed breathing inside, and one of the auras even chose to hold its breath.

Su Xiao's finger pointed at the door, and the entire door instantly crystallized and then shattered. Following the shattering of the door, warm wind drifted out from the room. The huge castle only had this bedroom heated.

"There is no money here anymore. For an ancient castle without money, attacking the Lord, is it really worth it!"

A maid about 30 years old stood in front of a little girl, with one hand still protecting behind her, pressing on the little girl's back.

This little girl's temperament was melancholy, wearing a gold-black dress. Looking at the style, it felt like a Gothic dress. The gold thread patterns on it represented that this dress was worth a lot. Very obviously, this was little Lord Gurwei.

"You, what do you want to do."

Although the maid was afraid in her heart, she still protected little Lord Gurwei behind her.

Su Xiao took out substitute coins, threw them on the small round table, and said to the maid: "Go buy some ingredients, I haven't eaten breakfast yet. Xiang Bubu, you go restore the heating pipelines of this ancient castle. Baham, go kill the dozen or so hidden sentries near the manor."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baham both walked toward the outside of the ancient castle. Su Xiao went down to the second underground floor of the ancient castle. After lifting a large piece of rock floor tile, he grabbed the sand laid underneath. The underground was normal. Establishing a Zerg nest quietly under the ancient castle was no problem.

Su Xiao started to draw the array. Wanting to summon Zhila to the Wind Sea Continent was not a simple matter. Conventional methods could not do it at all. Fortunately, he had obtained a rare item a long time ago. This item was named 【Blade of Transcendence】.

【Blade of Transcendence (Special Item, can use this item to briefly break through the external space barrier of a Transcendent Origin World, allowing individuals whose body size does not exceed a certain degree to enter the Transcendent Origin World).】

Engraving for more than an hour, Su Xiao finally completed the summoning array. He pressed one hand on the array and activated it. In the next second, a prompt from the Void Tree appeared.

【Warning (Void Tree): Detected an external Master-level War Creature responding to this summoning】

【War Creature: Demon Zerg.】

【Tribe Danger Level: Ultra-high intensity.】

【Warning (Void Tree): This world is in the notarization stage, and this tribe has caused the systems of multiple Origin Worlds notarized by the Void Tree to change significantly. According to the initial regulations, you will be deducted a "huge amount" of Void Tree credibility.】 ===== CHAPTER 3678 =====