Chapter 3678: Competition

The warning from the Void Tree appeared. Unlike the previous few times, the Void Tree credibility to be deducted this time was specially marked as "huge amount".

For so long, Su Xiao had a relatively deep understanding of "small amount", "medium amount", "large amount", and "huge amount" in item data and prompts. To put it in a relatively easy-to-understand way, adding the previous few description units and multiplying by ten times was probably the minimum value of the "huge amount" unit.

In other words, if he continued to summon Zhila, the punishment for deducting Void Tree credibility this time would be exceptionally fierce. Regarding this, Su Xiao did not care. His Void Tree credibility had already become -??? because of the previous few times he summoned Zhila.

Su Xiao chose to continue the summoning. The Blade of Transcendence at the center of the array rushed directly upward, as if breaking through some barrier in an instant, but the rock ceiling above was completely undamaged.

Just on this rock ceiling, a small piece of fluorescent purple biological tissue appeared, and then this fluorescent purple biological tissue proliferated rapidly, turning into a large patch in the blink of an eye, forming a space vortex while generating claws of the Demon Zerg, forming downward steps under the space vortex.

A petite figure walked out from the space vortex along the claw steps. On both sides of her neck were a few strips of light purple carapace, very smooth and close to the skin. Besides that, at a glance, the creature Su Xiao summoned was no different from a human. It was Zhila.

Light purple spiritual tentacles spread out behind Zhila, very imposing. It could be seen that Zhila's strength had changed greatly from before, but that slightly confused look in her eyes was obviously because she was sleeping soundly in the nest and was suddenly summoned, being a bit dazed. This led to her slipping when walking down a claw step, and then rolling down from the steps. Finally, after her forehead kissed the ground affectionately, Zhila held her forehead with both hands and curled up on the ground.

"……"

Su Xiao pressed his brow lightly with one hand, constantly telling himself in his heart that this was cultivated by himself, and it didn't matter if there was no imposing manner, as long as the ability was strong.

Thinking this way, Su Xiao discovered that the super homebody Zhila was already hiding behind the hem of his long leather coat, still looking around. Obviously, responding to Su Xiao's summoning was Zhila's instinct, so even in a dream, Zhila could be summoned for the first time. It was just that, on the way to being summoned, Zhila was still in a dazed state of half-asleep and half-awake.

Zhila raised her little hand, and more than a dozen elite Mantis Armor crawled out from the fluorescent purple biological tissue on the ceiling. These Mantis Armor had two recurved blade feet, and behind them were six carapace feet, while the tail had three tails that looked like scorpions, all several meters long. However, compared to scorpion tails, the tail structure of the elite Mantis Armor was more flexible, having quite a bit of the feeling of chitinous tentacles.

And these three tail tips were a circle of retractable barbed blades, which could be used to complete precision work, such as cutting, connecting biological tissues, etc. Usually, they could also fix heavy objects on their backs or drag heavy objects.

What was more unique was that the carapace of these dozen Mantis Armor was covered with a layer of fluorescent purple. This was the change brought about by absorbing the fluorescent purple biological tissue on the ceiling.

Don't underestimate these fluorescent purple biological tissues. This was because when Zhila was summoned to this world, because she was Su Xiao's summoned creature in the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise, so when she was summoned, the notarization mechanism of Reincarnation Paradise generated these purple biological tissues with the characteristics of this world's rules and Zhila's cell characteristics as the medium for the portal.

These seemingly useless purple biological tissues had both the characteristics of this world and Zhila's cell characteristics.

As the Zerg Master, as long as Zhila arrived in a new world, she would be regarded as an intruder by this world and be repelled by it at all times. Fortunately, with the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise, this repulsion was offset.

Although Zhila's world repulsion reaction was lifted, the problem was that the Zerg she controlled and the Zerg she cultivated did not have this notarization. In other words, the dozen elite Mantis Armor she summoned should have been repelled by this world.

Zhila let the dozen Mantis Armor absorb the purple biological tissues that had the characteristics of this world and her cell characteristics. These dozen Mantis Armor were equivalent to her followers and would receive secondary notarization from Reincarnation Paradise. In this way, a perfect 'cross-border' was formed.

Even if the Beastmen and Sea Race of this world had means to detect high-danger tribes and extinction-level tribes, they could not detect Zhila's arrival, because theoretically, she had not yet exploded troops with a Zerg nest in this world.

As for why Zhila was so experienced, there was no other reason, only familiarity. Having followed Su Xiao to many Origin Worlds, it would be strange if she wasn't familiar.

The dozen Mantis Armor started working, digging downward, and decomposing the dug-out mud, turning it into a fluid stone-like substance. Their carapace tails unfolded, then clamped 【Active Crystal】, and by absorbing the life energy inside, cultivated the basic tissues of the Zerg nest. A few seconds later, a dark green biological tissue started to spread and expand.

With Zhila's current Zerg tier, the initial Zerg nest was a hundred meters high. This time, it was not about hollowing out the underground to establish a Zerg nest, but letting this hundred-meter-high giant Zerg nest grow underground, with the outer wall in contact with the mud. Even, it had a certain degree of camouflage. As long as no one dug to this place and dug onto this giant Zerg nest, it was difficult to discover its existence.

The entrance of this Zerg nest was on the wall of the second underground floor of the ancient castle. After walking into it, it was a spiral staircase going down. After going down to a certain degree, it entered the main passage, which connected to one branch passage after another, making the Zerg nest accessible in all directions.

Now all branch passages were closed, and the main passage spread directly to Zhila's nest. Don't think that this Zerg nest had no defensive means. After entering the defensive state, all entrances and exits were closed, the volume was reduced by 30%, the defense was improved by two tiers, and the health of this thing was as high as 2 million+.

This was not an exaggeration. The Zerg was a war tribe. As a Zerg nest protecting the Mother Emperor, it must be the strongest defense that the entire Zerg could evolve. The Zerg Mother Emperor was there, everything was there. The Mother Emperor died, and the Zerg immediately withered. This was the extreme and powerful Zerg.

The Zerg nest had not yet been built. Although there were only a dozen Mantis Armor, don't underestimate their work efficiency. By noon at the latest, they could establish the Zerg nest.

Regarding the situation of this world, Su Xiao did not intend to let Zhila explode troops, so the more low-key, the better. Don't forget, the Twilight Winter City fief had six legions. As long as he got a large amount of gold coins and the grain resources needed for the expedition, Su Xiao could send six legions to the main battlefield.

With the "Commander Potential" ability of Ergein, Harvey, and others, Su Xiao did not need to go to the main battlefield personally. He only needed to wear the War Lord title, and Ergein, Harvey, and others could use "Commander Potential" to get 100% title blessing themselves, and also add part of the title effect to the Beastman soldiers under their command.

The Beastman legions of the Twilight Winter City fief had always been fierce. If there was the blessing of the War Lord title, after arriving at the main battlefield, they would definitely become the main force of the Beastman faction in a short time.

Therefore, Zhila's development in this world did not need to explode troops, only needing to let the six Beastman legions under his command carry fungal blankets, and after starting a war with the enemy, unfold the fungal blankets. The fungal blankets could absorb the soul energy left behind after the enemy died, and then store this soul energy that had a few Zerg characteristics.

Then, by teleportation array, the gathered legions would be teleported back to the Lord's manor of Twilight Winter City, and finally absorbed by the Zerg tide, converted into "Evolution Points".

As long as there were enough "Evolution Points", Zhila could grow rapidly, and even become the strongest Zerg. In this way, going to the Eternal Light World would have some confidence.

Even, if the fungal blankets developed well, they could bring certain buffs to the friendly units on them, so not only the six legions of Twilight Winter City, but other Lords' Beastman legions would also be willing to carry fungal blankets and unfold them after starting a war with the Sea Race.

The more Beastman legions used fungal blankets, the more "Evolution Points" the friendly side could obtain.

As for biological energy, although it could also be absorbed and stored by taking the opportunity, the risk of doing so was too great. The high-level Beastmen were not fools. The fluctuations generated by absorbing biological energy were a hundred times stronger than absorbing soul energy.

Absorbing soul energy could be explained as the fungal blanket absorbing a moderate amount of energy to maintain vitality. Saying this, the high-level Beastmen would at most be half-believing and would not say anything. But once biological energy was absorbed, what was certain was that except for the six Beastman legions under his command, other Lords would not let the legions under their command use fungal blankets.

Not only that, the seven major families of the Beastmen would also come to investigate the fungal blankets. If one was not careful, they might find Zhila. This was a Transcendent Origin World, the territory of the Beastmen. Never underestimate the hegemon forces of the Transcendent World, otherwise, one would have to pay an extremely painful price.

Whether it was the Beast King or the seven major families, except when facing original sin items, they made compromises. At other times, they did not give an inch. And always threatening with original sin items, this kind of thing, as long as there was a second time, both sides would definitely fight to the death.

Furthermore, Su Xiao never thought about using the way of fooling to let other Lords use fungal blankets. To be more precise, he also had to let Ergein, Harvey, and other friendly legion leaders keep the secret of the fungal blankets strictly.

Fungal blankets were such conspicuous things. Even if they were kept secret very carefully, they would be discovered by other Beastman legions in a short time. By then, the Lords of those legions would know about this through various channels.

By then, the hundred-plus Lords would definitely have a strong interest in these fungal blankets that could buff Beastman warriors, for example, sending people to inquire, and even secretly stealing a piece of fungal blanket in the melee.

Some Lords with straight tempers would simply come to Su Xiao, using gold coins or resources as a price to exchange for some fungal blankets. By then, Su Xiao would refuse on the spot.

By then, a group of Lords would feel, this guy has such good things to use himself, everyone is a Lord, and everyone is an enemy of the Sea Race, on the same boat. No, this matter must go to the Beast King to reason.

Finally, under the hosting of the Beast King and the strong pressure of a group of Lords, Su Xiao would be 'forced' to take out the fungal blankets and share them with all the Lords.

Most intelligent living things have a characteristic, which is that when they pick up a treasure, or someone suddenly gives them a treasure, after their initial short surprise, they will start to worry.

For example, whether this treasure will have harm, otherwise why was it thrown on the roadside, or, will this treasure bring bad luck, otherwise why would that guy with an ordinary relationship give this treasure to himself.

Finally, under full suspicion, they use this treasure with extra caution.

Conversely, if it was a treasure snatched by all means, even by unscrupulous means, then don't talk about defensive hearts, even if they sleep, they have to hold it in their arms. Defend against what? If this thing had harm, would the guy who originally owned this treasure protect it so desperately?

That's right, Su Xiao wanted to let a group of Lords come to snatch the fungal blankets. The more Beastman legions under the Lords used the fungal blankets, the more "Evolution Points" the friendly side could obtain.

As long as there were enough "Evolution Points", Zhila could improve the Zerg tier through "Evolution Points". Su Xiao wanted this point. The improvement of the Zerg tier was actually the comprehensive permanent improvement of all aspects of the Zerg.

Su Xiao checked Zhila's data, and sure enough, the improvements in all aspects were not small. Just at this time, he received a prompt.

【Prompt: Because of the "Zerg Master" ability of this permanent summoned creature, the evolution points corresponding to this ability will be further notarized.】

【Notarization completed, you can open the corresponding list to allocate these evolution points.】

……

Su Xiao quickly found the Summoned Creature · Zerg option in the brand list. After opening it, the list appeared before his eyes.

【Demon Zerg.】

Existing Evolution Points: 12 points.

Tribe Level: Lv. 70 (Every 10 evolution points consumed can increase the tribe level by 1).

Master (Zhila): Lv. 70 (Every 3 evolution points consumed can increase the Master growth by 1 level. This characteristic will be improved along with the "Tribe Level").

Zerg Nest: Lv. 63 (Every 3 evolution points consumed can increase the Zerg Nest level by 1 level. This characteristic will be improved along with the "Tribe Level").

Gene Bank: Lv. 34 (Every 5 evolution points consumed can increase the Gene Bank level by 1 level. This characteristic will be improved along with the "Tribe Level").

……

There were only four types of characteristics that could be improved in the main list. From the perspective of comprehensive improvement, it was definitely the improvement of "Tribe Level" that brought the greatest benefit. And the three below, Master growth was improving Zhila's own strength, Zerg Nest did not need to say more, this was the troop explosion ability, Zerg building tier, and the strength of all Zerg units, etc.

The last Gene Bank was quite interesting. This belonged to the improvement options notarized by the Paradise. As far as Zhila herself was concerned, no matter what way she used, she could not imagine or construct new combat Zerg genes out of thin air. But in the collection of Reincarnation Paradise, there were massive amounts of Zerg genes.

After notarization, as long as the "Gene Bank" ability was improved, Zhila could unlock new Zerg unit genes through the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise, thereby cultivating stronger combat Zerg.

Whether it was developing Master strength alone, or Zerg Nest and Gene Bank, it was not very wise. It was still stable development to improve "Tribe Level" and let the levels of the other three improve together.

Su Xiao flipped down the list and quickly found the fungal blanket in the branch list below.

"Fungal Blanket: Lv. 20 (Every 1 evolution point consumed can increase the Fungal Blanket level by 1)."

The existing 12 evolution points were accumulated by Zhila for a long time. In the last world, after the fungal blanket reached Lv. 20, it could not be improved. At the moment, arriving at the Wind Sea Continent, there was an opportunity for further improvement. Regarding this, Su Xiao was not surprised. Similar situations, he had already seen a few times. Like the Demon Zerg tribe, being restricted by the world they were in was a matter of course.

Su Xiao tried to improve the fungal blanket with "Evolution Points". In the list in front of him, a translucent plus sign appeared behind the fungal blanket ability. After consuming 1 evolution point, a prompt appeared.

【Fungal Blanket has been improved to Lv. 21, please choose one as the improvement benefit from the following options.】

1. Biological energy, soul energy absorption efficiency +5%.

2. Movement speed of all friendly/allied units on the fungal blanket +0.5%, physical recovery speed +1%.

3. Life recovery speed of friendly/allied units on the fungal blanket after being near death is improved.

……

If it were in the past, he would definitely choose the first one. But at the current stage, he needed a more conspicuous ability, for example, after a Beastman warrior fell near death, some fungal blankets climbed onto him to help him recover health.

How much to recover was not the key. The key was that this kind of recovery would not appear out of thin air, so the fungal blanket had to absorb a certain amount of biological energy, which made sense. As long as he controlled the efficiency of the fungal blanket absorbing biological energy, only opening 10% of the full power, and also limiting the total amount of biological energy stored by the fungal blanket, only opening 5% storage capacity.

And when the Zerg nest cultivated the fungal blanket, he gave it genetic instructions to let it only absorb the biological energy of the Sea Race. This was not difficult. The primordial life force characteristics of the Beastmen and the Sea Race had huge differences.

In this way, even if the fungal blanket started to absorb biological energy, those Beastman warriors and Lords would not suspect the use of biological energy, and would not think that this thing could be used to explode troops. And, this was the fungal blanket absorbing and filtering the enemy's primordial life force and converting it into energy to heal them. Thinking about this, it felt great, and the Beastmen would not be suspicious.

As for the Zerg not needing this ability to recover health after lying on the fungal blanket near death, this didn't matter. Even if the current version of the fungal blanket was developed to be unsuitable for the Zerg, it was only a loss of some "Evolution Points". After all, the fungal blanket was just a type of Zerg building derived from the Zerg nest. Even if this fungal blanket was developed to be useless now, at most, this "Zerg Building · Genetic Memory" would be stripped, and the previous version would be re-enabled, which was the fungal blanket · genetic memory that only had Lv. 20.

Of course, the development of Zhila, Zerg nest, and Gene Bank must be very cautious. These could not be stripped or discarded, and there was no possibility of re-enabling the previous version.

Su Xiao continued to improve the fungal blanket. When the fungal blanket was improved to Lv. 30, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: Because of the "Tribe Level" restriction, the fungal blanket has been improved to the limit level.】

【Fungal Blanket Lv. 30: Biological energy, soul energy absorption efficiency +50%, movement speed of all friendly/allied units on the fungal blanket +25%, physical recovery speed +35%, true physique +5 points. When friendly/allied units fall near death, their life recovery speed will be improved to a certain extent.】

……

It could be said that this version of the fungal blanket was completely unsuitable for the Zerg. The Zerg did not need physical speed recovery, true physique attributes, and near-death recovery at all. Even movement speed bonuses were not that needed.

The Zerg had never relied on individual strength, but on the Zerg sea filling the sky rushing toward the enemy. Under such circumstances, movement speed on the fungal blanket was not that important. The Zerg and the enemy fought, generally after melee, then unfolded the fungal blanket.

As for physical recovery, physical attributes, and near-death recovery, these were all useless bonuses for combat Zerg. After combat Zerg exhausted their physical strength, they would be decomposed by the fungal blanket themselves, converted into biological energy and transmitted back to the Mother Nest, and then the Mother Nest would cultivate new combat Zerg with this biological energy.

The time it took for a combat Zerg to recover from near death to full state, the Zerg nest could probably complete three or four batches of troop explosions.

Although this fungal blanket was not suitable for combat Zerg, it was suitable for Beastmen. Beastmen could not explode troops, so whether it was physical recovery, physical attributes, or near-death recovery, these bonuses were very important.

After other Lords discovered this thing, as long as Su Xiao operated properly, nine out of ten Beastman legions would use this thing. And what Su Xiao needed was the evolution points generated by the Mother Nest after the fungal blanket absorbed massive amounts of soul energy.

The problem at the moment was how to let other Lords see the power of the fungal blanket. The best method was definitely to appoint Ergein, Harvey, Viper, and Evil Tooth as Beastman leaders. The Twilight Winter City had a total of six legions. Let Ergein and Harvey each lead six, and Viper and Evil Tooth each lead one legion, thereby going to the main battlefield.

In this way, Su Xiao could not only obtain 1,800 reputation points of legion expedition income every day, but also let the six legions under his command show the power of the fungal blanket on the main battlefield. By then, other Beastman Lords would naturally take the initiative to come to the door.

Therefore, the difficulty at the moment was still the lack of gold coins and grain. The six legions of Twilight Winter City owed a total of 2 million+ in salary, and to go on an expedition to the front line, at least 500 units of high-quality grain supplies had to be prepared.

There was no problem with grain supplies. Su Xiao had 2,000+ units of grain supplies in the warehouse of the main city. Starting this morning, Amu and Ergein and others had already started to transport this batch of grain resources back.

What really needed to be solved was the gold coin gap. In the case of a large batch of crystal grease before, taking out 2 million+ gold coins was no problem. But this windfall was all used to feed the Lords of the Twilight Winter City fief. Otherwise, how could it be so calm at the moment.

Of course, this was only one of the reasons why Su Xiao was willing to take out this windfall. Thousands of units of high-quality grain plus various living supplies were taken out, and the happiness and economic situation of the Twilight Winter City fief residents had shown a straight upward trend since this morning.

This brought the most intuitive influence, the fief evaluation had been improved from D level to D+ level, and at most by the evening, it could reach C level, and it would definitely be able to climb to B level later.

The requirement for the second ring of the main task was to improve the fief evaluation to C level, so this windfall was not spent in vain. And where to get 2 million gold coins later to fill the vacancy of the Beastman legions on the fief, this definitely had to go to the Sea Race.

Before, Su Xiao led the Lord Squad to launch a surprise attack on the central building of White Hoof Port and destroyed the "spell hub" on the lowest floor of the central building. This seemed to be destruction, but it was actually leaving a backup.

If Su Xiao did not destroy that "spell hub", the Sea Race would definitely check it strictly, lest Su Xiao leave any backup in it. Conversely, if Su Xiao smashed it, the Sea Race would not have this concern. Who would destroy the "spell hub" while leaving a backup? Wouldn't that be destroying the backup he worked so hard to leave?

The real

This also resulted in the Sea Clan sorcerers, when repairing the spell formations, also aggregating the micron-level array diagrams contained in those materials one by one. These array diagrams were useless individually, but after multiple were aggregated, they could be activated. This was precisely the backup plan Su Xiao had left behind.

Regarding the effect of this array diagram, it was very simple: a directional adsorption array diagram. Its function was to unidirectionally activate the Demon Teleportation Array, causing it to generate a powerful suction force, absorbing all surrounding items into it, thereby teleporting them to the corresponding array diagram set by Su Xiao.

Do not forget, White Hoof Port was the only safe coastal fortress of the Sea Clan on the main battlefield. Energy crystals mined from the Crystal Forest must first go to White Hoof Port for transit, and after purification and catalysis in White Hoof Port, they would become crystal grease, and only then would they be transported away.

So, one just needed to wait now. One had to give the White Hoof Port treasury a certain amount of recovery time. Having just been looted once, it would take at least three or four days for it to recover.

As for whether the Sea Clan commander of White Hoof Port, Penele, would abandon that treasury, that was impossible. No matter what, it was the safest place in White Hoof Port. The fact that it was looted last time was purely an accident. That the treasury's defenses could hold for so long even after the central building was captured was already very surprising.

Su Xiao took away the half-bag of potato chips that Jila had left over. It was almost time for breakfast; why eat snacks? This made Jila's gaze turn to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, thinking about asking for another bag. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang immediately looked at the ceiling, pretending nothing had happened.

When returning to the first floor of the ancient castle along the stairs, Su Xiao found that it had warmed up quite a bit, and the aroma of food was drifting from the direction of the kitchen. When he arrived at the dining room, he found the minor lord, Gurwei, sitting quietly at the dining table, waiting for the meal to start.

Not long after Su Xiao took his seat, the maid walked out of the kitchen with the meal. Clearly, she was waiting for Su Xiao to arrive before serving the meal. Do not underestimate anyone's wisdom; everyone has their own way of survival.

After enjoying a fairly rich breakfast, Su Xiao looked at Gurwei. From the time they met until now, this minor lord had remained silent. Regarding this, Su Xiao was not surprised. Gurwei did not lack the ability to speak; rather, she had never spoken a word since her parents were murdered.

Considering Gurwei's experiences and her calm performance after meeting, it was evident that her intellect far exceeded that of her peers.

"You cannot leave Winter Twilight City for the time being. Until the salaries of the six legions are filled, the outside cannot yet be considered my territory."

Hearing this, Gurwei nodded. Her gaze toward the main gate indicated that she really wanted to go out.

"Are they your friends?"

Su Xiao put down his cutlery. Gurwei, on the side, was suspicious, as if she didn't understand what Su Xiao was talking about.

"Since they aren't, Amu, you go."

"Moo."

Amu, holding the Dragon Heart Axe, walked outside the ancient castle. At first, Gurwei was still sitting there quietly, but after Amu pushed open the door, her gaze began to show some unease. She quietly used her fingers to touch the gemstone buckle inside her pocket. There was no need to guess; she was conveying information through the resonance of the gemstone, telling those few infiltrators not to hurt Amu and to retreat immediately.

Actually, Gurwei didn't need to worry; those few infiltrators wanting to hurt Amu was indeed a bit beyond their capability.

Before long, Amu returned with quite a bit of snow on his body. Finding that Amu was not injured and there were no bloodstains on his weapon, the minor lord, Gurwei, finally relaxed. She didn't want Amu to be hurt, nor did she want those few infiltrators to have any trouble. Although Gurwei was still quiet, the aura that had become much more active indicated that she was still a little proud of herself in her heart.

Was Amu unable to do anything about those few infiltrators just now? Of course not. Although Amu was a bit simple-minded, he wasn't stupid, especially regarding Su Xiao's orders; he could fully understand the implied meaning. Whether it was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, or Benny, they all knew that clearing out such infiltrators was definitely a job for Baha, and this time, having Amu go clearly had another meaning.

Su Xiao didn't believe that the old lord hadn't developed some forces that would be loyal to his daughter, Gurwei, for her sake. Looking at it now, this force existed, but it wasn't strong.

Su Xiao glanced at Amu's message in the team channel: there were three infiltrators in total, one Wolf Clan member, one Fox Clan member, and one Tree-Mao Clan member who was relatively short among his kin, standing only a little over three meters tall.

Judging from their appearance, all three were relatively young, around their early twenties. Infiltrating this place today was more about checking on Gurwei's safety.

These three had no intention of rescuing Gurwei, or rather, no matter how one looked at it, Gurwei was safer inside the ancient castle, just with her freedom restricted. Since these three weren't here to rescue anyone, what was their purpose? Or rather, what were they doing to help Gurwei?

Given Gurwei's current situation, ordering those three as a lord wasn't very realistic. Therefore, the relationship between these three and Gurwei was more likely that of close friends, friends who were willing to do things for Gurwei to a certain extent.

Thinking about it this way, what would Gurwei have these three help her do? Get rid of the steward? Those three clearly couldn't do that. The steward had the secret support of the shamans from the tribe, and while he was indeed fragile when touching Su Xiao's side, Gurwei's three friends still didn't have the ability to confront the steward.

Excluding the steward matter, what Gurwei would want to do most must be to retrieve the secret treasure left by the old lord. Considering that the secret treasure had been passed down in Gurwei's family for many years, as the current head of the family, Gurwei had a high probability of being able to sense the general direction of that thing.

Do not forget, there were rumors that two "Primordial Fragments" were embedded in that secret treasure. With the abilities of Gurwei's three friends, it was impossible for them to gain an advantage among the many contenders. But if Gurwei could really sense the general direction of the secret treasure, this treasure-hunting team might very well already be very close to it.

"So, they have almost found that secret treasure, and today they came to tell you this good news."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Gurwei, who was quietly and elegantly tasting her post-meal tea, froze on the spot, but she quickly recovered, as if nothing had happened.

"Oh? It seems I guessed wrong. Those three infiltrators weren't helping you do things?"

Hearing this, Gurwei remained quiet, her ignorant gaze as if she hadn't understood anything. One could only say that children who had transcended their native world were all such good actors.

Su Xiao took out a bag of gold coins and placed it on the table. Although Gurwei wanted it a little, she finally shook her head.

"Not going out for a stroll?"

Su Xiao picked up the money bag on the table. Gurwei struggled internally for a while, and finally held the money bag with both hands. However, after accepting the money bag, she ran upstairs, and not knowing where she got it from, she took a Soul Crystal (Small) and placed it in Su Xiao's hand before going to the kitchen to drag the maid, wanting the maid to accompany her out.

After the maid took Gurwei, who had changed into winter clothes, out, Su Xiao put the soul crystal between his fingers into his wine glass, then drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, crunching and chewing the soul crystal.

"Boss, I just sensed something incredible on those three infiltrators."

Baha quietly flew out of the different space. It lowered its voice and continued: "On the Fox Clan member among them, there is a very hidden mark. That thing has some Abyss characteristics. It doesn't look like it's eroding; it looks more like a tracking coordinate left by someone."

Hearing this, Su Xiao immediately thought of one person: Magic Scythe, Teride. The other party was also eyeing this treasure-hunting team and held the same view as Su Xiao: this treasure-hunting team would definitely be the first to find where the secret treasure was.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao had Baha go to secretly protect Gurwei, to prevent Gurwei from accidentally encountering Magic Scythe, Teride.

The tribe's unknown powerful shaman, Magic Scythe, Teride, plus Su Xiao's own side, the competition for this secret treasure would be even more intense than imagined.

However, compared to the trail of the secret treasure, Su Xiao was more puzzled by another matter, which was that he had already summoned Jila, so why hadn't the Void Tree's reputation deduction penalty arrived yet? Having not seen a penalty notification for so long made one wonder if it was brewing a big move.

Just as Su Xiao thought of this, the Void Tree's notification appeared.

【Notification (Void Tree): Because the hunter summoned the Zerg Sovereign, Jila, and the Zerg Sovereign, Jila, has caused significant changes to the systems of multiple native worlds notarized by the Void Tree, you will have a "massive amount" of Void Tree reputation deducted.】

【Reputation deduction in progress...】

【Deduction failed. Cannot complete this deduction under the condition of reputation -???】

【Penalty balancing mechanism activated. In this world's legend ranking, you currently have 83,450 legend points.】

【Your legend points and reputation have been synchronized. Your legend points have been changed to -???】

【Ranking has been refreshed. The current ranking is as follows.】

Last place: Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise), -??? legend points.

First place: Ruthless Brother (Reincarnation Paradise), 109,500 legend points.

Second place: Magic Scythe, Teride (Holy Light Paradise), 108,410 legend points.

Third place: Priest (Sanctuary Paradise), 86,900 legend points.

Fourth place: Aige (Apocalypse Paradise): 85,850 legend points.

Fifth place: Enzo (Death Paradise), 84,920 legend points.

……

Seeing this ranking, Su Xiao first checked his current reputation points and found that they were unaffected, so his mood immediately turned from cloudy to sunny. As for the legend points, he didn't care too much about that aspect. Whether it was searching for the Wolf Tomb, the "Primordial Mark" fragments, or preparing to stock up at the Sea Clan's faction store, the priority was much higher than competing for the top spot on the leaderboard. Besides, a divine battle royal was happening in this world.

However, what puzzled Su Xiao was why he, as the last place, was ranked above the Ruthless Brother who was in first place, and that -??? legend points seemed to have a lot of room for operation.

PS: (I have things to do and will be going out for the next few days, so updates will be unstable, or there may be no updates. I ask for the readers' understanding, and normal updates will resume before the end of the month.)