Chapter 3680

Twilight Winter City, inside the first basement level of the Lord's Manor ancient castle, boxes of crystal fat were sealed in alloy boxes. After weighing, the alloy boxes were neatly stacked together.

The crystal fat obtained this time didn't seem like much, looking like less than 1500 kilograms. In fact, these were processed solid crystal fat, and their value was not comparable to the liquid crystal fat obtained previously and the energy crystals that could be called rough blanks.

If it were within the Sea Tribe faction, the price of these solid crystal fats would be 50-60 million gold coins. But the Beast Tribe faction had never been good at purifying energy crystals, let alone the deep quenching of crystal fat. Therefore, the price of these solid crystal fats was worth more than 3 million gold coins on the Beast Tribe side, and it was a case of having a price but no market.

The batch of crystal fat Su Xiao obtained previously was all sold to Grand Commander Kane. It seemed that Kane gave a lot of benefits, but if you calculated carefully, the other party gave more promises, and the benefits actually obtained were exceptionally limited.

Su Xiao was not surprised by this. That was Grand Commander Kane, a well-known old fox in Eternal Ring City. If the other party was really full of sincerity, he would have to be vigilant instead. That guy Kane only used full sincerity to paralyze the other party before he wanted to deal with someone.

It was too difficult to get benefits from this old fox Kane, which made Su Xiao think that it might be better to sell this batch of solid crystal fat to the Seven Great Families this time. Although he had some entanglements with the Seven Great Families before, in the mission world, interests more often determined positions.

As for the attitude of the Beast King and Grand Commander Kane, there was no need to worry about that. As long as Su Xiao didn't sell this batch of crystal fat to the Tribal Faction or those small and medium-sized forces, the Beast King wouldn't interfere.

Going up to the first floor of the ancient castle, after Su Xiao sat down, he found the Spotted Fox-kin Piru and asked him to be fully responsible for this matter. As for entrusting Caesar to sell this batch of crystal fat, although it could maximize the profit, considering that he still had to stay in the Beast Tribe faction until the end of this world's progress, it was better not to entrust Caesar.

As long as this sum of gold coins was in hand, the salaries of the six legions in Twilight Winter City would not be a problem. At that time, allocating a sum of food would allow Egein, Harvey, Viper, and Evil Tooth to each lead 12 legions to battle.

Compared to the reputation value obtained by the legions going to battle, Su Xiao actually valued the large amount of evolution points that the bacterial carpet could bring. After all, coming to the Wind Sea Continent this time was both to complete the mission and to fish for resources. Although there were many strong enemies this time, the probability of Su Xiao dying in this world was over 30%.

But compared to the risk of going to the Eternal Light World, this time was really not dangerous, because going to the Eternal Light World, Su Xiao's death rate might reach 99%. This was not an exaggeration. The world-extinguishing groups there were all locked in by the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers, and their hatred for Law-Extinguishers had long broken the limit.

Not to mention, the World-Eater, Silver Queen, and Pain Queen were all locked in by Su Xiao himself. The hatred of these three for Su Xiao was both fresh and full, and their hatred was full every moment.

To break the situation, he must obtain a massive amount in this world and raise Jila to an astonishing height. Even so, wanting to push through the Eternal Light World with the Zerg was just a pipe dream, because by then, Jila's mission would be to hold off the incoming world-extinguishing groups and buy Su Xiao some time.

Su Xiao had to complete the trial of breaking through the 300-point attribute barrier within this limited time, thereby stepping into the ranks. That is to say, before entering the Eternal Light World, he had to achieve all the promotion requirements besides breaking through the 300-point attribute barrier, totaling as follows:

1. All seven types reached, thereby activating.

2. All three technique masters reached Lv. 80.

3. Prepare five pieces.

Achieving these before entering the Eternal Light World, as long as he passed the 300-point attribute barrier, Su Xiao could be sealed. And by then, he would have a certain ability to protect himself and exploration qualifications in the Eternal Light World.

Don't think it's weak, but the Eternal Light World was dangerous to the point of being too hellish. To put it another way, it was the previous generation of spellcasters who imprisoned the roots of various disasters in the Ten Thousand Worlds in the Eternal Light World.

The new generation of Law-Extinguishers who wanted to master the strongest power of the Law-Extinguisher Shadow had to have the determination to face all this, as well as the psychological preparation to die in the Eternal Light World, otherwise, they were not qualified to possess that power.

After handling the solid crystal fat matter, Su Xiao came to a rest room on the inner side of the first floor. Just as he stopped in front of the door, he heard the sound of slightly flustered packing tools inside. After he pushed the door open, he found that the thin man who had been transmitted with the crystal fat was still lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

Seeing this, Baha showed a wicked smile and said: "Boss, this guy's identity is unknown, why don't we let Amu deal with him."

"Yeah."

Seeing Su Xiao agree, Amu, the silly guy, stepped forward carrying the Dragon Heart Axe. Without waiting for the thin man on the bed to react, he slashed down with an axe. But in the next instant, the thin man on the bed turned into a large piece of obsidian-like shattered material.

"Wait, wait."

A hand stretched out from under the bed, also making a gesture of surrender. Amu didn't care about this and raised his hand to slash with an axe again. However, Baha, who landed on his shoulder, stopped this scene, and Amu, holding the Dragon Heart Axe, retreated to the side.

"Sit."

After Su Xiao sat down, he pointed casually to the chair opposite the table. The thin man sighed and sat down helplessly.

This person's height was around 1.75 meters, a human, with slightly dark circles under his eyes and sloppy hair, which indicated his persistence in doing things. Besides the aspects he was keen on, he didn't care about his own external image at all. And his attire, which was decent but not pleasing to the eye, also indicated this point.

There were many small corrosion holes on the clothes at the collar and cuffs of this person, and the skin on his hands was covered with burn marks and scars, and three fingers on his left hand were replaced by mechanical prosthetics, which meant that what he usually did had certain risks.

Those arms that were not strong, and his thin physique, indicated that this person was not outstanding in forging. At least among the blacksmiths Su Xiao knew, they were all broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with full faces of stubble.

Strangely, this person was actually a disciple of the Dwarf King, one of the three legendary blacksmiths. And looking at the patterns on the cuffs and collar, this person was definitely not an ordinary disciple, and was likely the kind of favorite student. This was even stranger: the Dwarf King's chief disciple was actually so physically weak that he couldn't maintain a high-intensity forging.

"For a small, unlucky person like me, Mr. Bai Ye, you don't need to treat me so seriously. Otherwise, why don't you let me go? My master and the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers still have some friendship. Just consider it as remembering old feelings?"

The thin man spoke with a bit of a breathless feeling. It didn't feel like he was suffering from a serious illness, but more like an innate physical weakness.

Obviously, this thin man recognized Su Xiao, or rather, the only Law-Extinguisher who claimed to be a Law-Extinguisher and was still alive was Su Xiao alone. Plus, he had previously blown up two resource stars of the Arcane Eternal Star, and he was already notorious.

"Secret Pattern Master?"

Su Xiao threw a piece of information on the table. This information had no photo and recorded the disciple most valued by the Dwarf King, the Secret Pattern Master.

The information recorded that the Secret Pattern Master came from a small country. Because of the war between the Beast Tribe and the Sea Tribe, that small country was eventually destroyed and almost burned out by the flames of war. Although the Secret Pattern Master in his childhood escaped a disaster, because he inhaled the liquid mist diffused by war weapons, the vitality of various internal organs was greatly reduced. Even if he later became a disciple of the Dwarf King with amazing talent, the Dwarf King took him to find many famous doctors and pharmacists, but in the end, he couldn't cure the old illness he suffered in his childhood.

The Secret Pattern Master's physical condition destined him to be unable to show talent in forging, but in terms of secret patterns, he reached a height that even his own mentor couldn't reach. What was even more commendable was that the Secret Pattern Master who had such achievements didn't expand and always respected his mentor like a father.

The Dwarf King had many world-shocking works, and the secret patterns on them all came from the hands of this Secret Pattern Master. The seal badges on those world-shocking works, the outer seal badge represented the Dwarf King, while the inner circular logo symbolized the Secret Pattern Master. In this guy's life, besides his obsession with secret patterns, there was nothing else.

"Mr. Bai Ye, I personally suggest that you change a transmission formation diagram as a means of transportation. The demon formation diagram you are using now is truly hard to describe. After I was rolled into it, I thought I was dead for sure."

The Secret Pattern Master picked up the hot tea calmly. After taking a sip, his stomach, which had been wailing, calmed down.

"That is to say, you are not good at forging equipment, only engraving secret patterns?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the Secret Pattern Master's expression stiffened, and he explained: "For battle armor or weapons, secret patterns are crucial..."

Su Xiao raised his hand to signal the Secret Pattern Master not to continue.

"So, you still won't forge equipment."

"Yes... I won't."

After the Secret Pattern Master finished speaking, he drank two large sips of tea with a bit of stuffiness in his heart.

"Then you are useless. The front door is over there. Keep walking out. After passing the gravel road in the woods, there is a public bus. Then transfer to a long-distance train to Eternal Ring City, and continue north to Iron Fortress City. That place is very close to the main battlefield, and the Sea Tribe often haunts that area."

After saying this, Su Xiao signaled Baha to give the Secret Pattern Master some travel expenses. It wasn't until a small bag of gold coins was placed on the table in front of him that the Secret Pattern Master was still a bit confused.

"You don't intend to imprison me and let me engrave secret patterns for you for free?"

"..."

Su Xiao frowned and looked at the Secret Pattern Master, as if he didn't understand what the other party was talking about.

"Your notoriety in the outside world is very inconsistent with meeting in person."

"Rumors."

"I heard you blew up two resource stars of the Arcane Eternal Star."

"Oh, that's a fact."

"A person who can do this actually let go of a Secret Pattern Master so easily. With your notoriety outside, you should at least imprison me and then ruthlessly knock the Sea Tribe for a sum. I personally recommend you do this."

"I treat people kindly and won't do such things."

While Su Xiao was speaking, he picked up the hot tea on the table and took a small sip.

The Secret Pattern Master's eyes were full of hesitation and confusion, saying: "Just now you were ready to let your subordinates cut off my head."

"That was a joke, don't talk nonsense, go quickly."

Su Xiao signaled Amu to see the guest out. Seeing this, the Secret Pattern Master lowered his body and hugged the table leg. He always felt that today's matter was wrong. The Law-Extinguisher opposite didn't look like someone who treated people kindly no matter how he looked at it.

"I'm not leaving!"

The Secret Pattern Master's attitude was very firm. Seeing this, Su Xiao's brows frowned even deeper. After learning that this person was a Secret Pattern Master, he had already told Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang in the team channel to let Xiang Bubu notify Egein, Harvey, and Viper, and let those three take their respective confidants to ambush on the only way out of the manor's front door.

As long as the Secret Pattern Master went out, he would be taken down by Egein and others in masks, and then treated well, but he would be temporarily under house arrest to facilitate ruthlessly knocking a large sum of benefits from the Sea Tribe.

As for why he did this, if Su Xiao directly detained the Secret Pattern Master, the rumors outside would be that the Beast Tribe faction lord imprisoned the Dwarf King's favorite disciple and demanded a high ransom from the Sea Tribe.

Conversely, if Su Xiao politely and kindly sent the Secret Pattern Master out of the manor, what happened to the other party outside the manor would have nothing to do with Su Xiao. He had only been a lord in Twilight Winter City for one day, and the public security in this place was not good, so he couldn't help it.

Looking at the Secret Pattern Master who was hugging the table leg tightly and refused to let go, Su Xiao asked Amu to "invite" the other party away quickly. Egein and others were still waiting.

"Wait, I know a secret. As long as you let me stay here for five days, I will tell you this secret."

"..."

Su Xiao was unmoved and didn't even pay attention to the Secret Pattern Master. Compared to a secret, the ransom from the Sea Tribe was more real.

"Aren't you surprised that those arrogant spellcasters actually agreed to the Sea Tribe's almost arrogant request? Which Void Faction have you seen before that would be willing to come to the main battlefield of the Wind Sea Continent to muddy this water."

Once this was said, Su Xiao signaled Amu, who had already stuffed the Secret Pattern Master into an extra-large luggage bag, to stop. Baha on the side said with heartbreak: "Amu, how can you treat a guest like this? It's too impolite. Mr. Secret Pattern Master, get up quickly."

The shaken Secret Pattern Master sat down again, picked up the hot tea that had just been poured, took a sip to suppress his shock, and said straightforwardly: "As far as I know, there is a big problem in the Void. A deep abyss passage that is unprecedentedly large seems to be about to appear."

According to the Secret Pattern Master, a long time ago, the Arcane Eternal Star was prepared to cooperate with the Sea Tribe. The reason was that at that time, the Sea Tribe used a semi-coercive way to make the Dwarf King stay in the Sea Tribe faction.

The Dwarf King not only had top-notch levels in armor forging, but he could also create items with elemental characteristics. With the benign resonance of these elemental items, he could increase the total amount of natural elements in an area, and even the world where he was.

For such elemental items, the Arcane Eternal Star had been peeping for a long time and arrived at the Wind Sea Continent by various methods. If a full-scale war started, the Arcane Eternal Star would completely defeat the Sea Tribe, but after arriving at the Sea Tribe's territory, those few spellcasters didn't take advantage.

After the two sides clashed, they both felt that the other was not easy to mess with. Regarding the asking price of the elemental items, the Sea Tribe didn't dare to raise it easily. The Arcane Eternal Star was quite satisfied with this, until not long ago, the Sea Tribe suddenly raised the price and indicated to the Arcane Eternal Star that they would no longer choose secret transactions in the future. The Arcane Eternal Star must provide help in terms of force and deal with the Beast Tribe together with the Sea Tribe before the Sea Tribe would continue to be willing to take out elemental items.

The result was that the Sea Tribe, who had been beaten up by the Arcane Eternal Star, soon became honest, sat there with a belly full of resentment and didn't speak, and then was beaten up by the Arcane Eternal Star again.

Although the Sea Tribe was beaten up twice, the Arcane Eternal Star couldn't completely not give the Sea Tribe face, so they sent a part of the Ninth-Tier spellcasters and two Absolute Strongs to assist the Sea Tribe in dealing with the Beast Tribe.

At first, the Sea Tribe was very angry, feeling that the Arcane Eternal Star was perfunctory. As a result, after fighting, the Sea Tribe hugged the Arcane Eternal Star's thigh tightly. The strength of the spellcasters on the battlefield was indeed shocking to them.

The reason why the two sides could cooperate to this step was only because of one point: in a hidden place in the Void, an abyss passage appeared. The Arcane Eternal Star had a lot of experience in dealing with this aspect. This abyss passage hadn't appeared for long before it was closed by the spellcasters using a method stolen from the Law-Extinguishers many years ago.

But who knew, not long after, this abyss passage opened again, and it was a circle larger than the last time. Regarding this, although the spellcasters were suspicious, they didn't realize the seriousness of the matter and still chose to close it.

But a few months later, this abyss passage opened again in the same position, and its size was a circle larger than the last time. This made the spellcasters immediately vigilant. This was clearly a regular opening, and each time it was larger than the last, and the interval was shorter.

At first, this abyss passage was only the size of a walnut, so small that the spellcaster who went to deal with this abyss passage at the beginning felt amazed. He had never seen such a small abyss passage.

But to this day, the diameter of this abyss passage had reached 3 meters. Although it was still much smaller than a normal abyss passage, this special abyss passage was getting larger each time. Perhaps in the near future, this would become the largest abyss passage in history.

The Arcane Eternal Star also knew that simply blocking it like this was just drinking poison to quench thirst. The reason was that they had swallowed too many natural elements. Finding a way to increase the total amount of natural elements in the Void was the correct way to solve this special abyss passage. This led to the scene where the Arcane Eternal Star and the Sea Tribe cooperated to hammer the Beast Tribe.

Hearing the Secret Pattern Master's description, Su Xiao suddenly remembered that he had previously taken the Demon Tribe's train to attend the Empty Seat Banquet and met Seraphilia on the way. The other party took Green Wei to the terminal of the Demon Train, the Green Wet Land.

Although Seraphilia got off the train halfway and tried to hide her whereabouts, they met on the train, and it was very difficult to continue hiding.

At that time, Su Xiao felt that this matter was wrong and asked the Demon Train driver, the old sheep brother. The other party revealed obscurely that the terminal of the Demon Train, the Green Wet Land, was shrouded in thick black fog, and there were many spellcasters guarding the surrounding area, and they had set up heavy barriers.

From this, it could be seen that there was a 70% probability that the special abyss passage was there.

"How about it, is the secret I said valuable?"

"..."

Su Xiao stared at the Secret Pattern Master for a few seconds, then picked up the communicator beside his hand, contacted Egein, and said: "The person won't go, you guys withdraw."

Hearing this, the Secret Pattern Master's cheek twitched. A short sentence contained a lot of information. Sure enough, some of the rumors about the Law-Extinguisher were quite credible.

"Bai Ye, what are you doing?"

"I just asked someone to prepare a farewell banquet for you. Since you are not planning to leave, naturally there is no need to prepare."

"Farewell banquet..."

The Secret Pattern Master's gaze carried a bit of suspicion, and in the end, he wisely chose not to delve into it, although he always felt that this so-called "farewell banquet" was likely that he would be carried onto a car and kidnapped by several burly men as soon as he left the manor.

From figuring out where this was and that Su Xiao was a Law-Extinguisher, the Secret Pattern Master's attitude became very strange. There was no hostility, and there was a bit of probing. This feeling was like the Sea Tribe was his enemy, while Su Xiao's side was a potential partner.

"Woof!"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang suddenly ran over, his expression carrying a bit of anxiety. Seeing this, Su Xiao followed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and walked quickly to the inner hall on the second floor. Although the Secret Pattern Master behind didn't know what was going on, he subconsciously followed.

The projection was reflected on the wall. Looking at the projection that was almost a first-person perspective, the Secret Pattern Master showed confusion. This situation was more complicated, and it was difficult for him to understand at first glance. However, after observing for a while, he slapped his thigh in surprise and said:

"I know, you are using these young people to help you find something. You are the mastermind."

The Secret Pattern Master looked Su Xiao up and down, as if he were seeing the real old schemer for the first time. After all, this guy used to study secret patterns in the workshop and didn't need to fight wits and courage with anyone.

Su Xiao looked at the projection on the wall and found that Little Lord Guowei and Alpha Wolf York's four people seemed to be in an underground palace. From the imprints left on the rock walls, this underground palace should have a history of hundreds of years, and it was accessible in all directions.

Just when Guowei and others were nervous and had a bit of excitement about exploring the underground palace, the four passed a corner and arrived in a secret room with a half-open stone door. On the wall at the innermost side of this secret room, there was a protruding hook, and a pendant was hanging on it.

This made Guowei, York, and the other four who walked into the secret room stunned. Fox-kin Silver Feather, who was further back, took a few steps forward and rubbed her eyes, as if doubting she had seen it wrong.

"We, found it? The thing that nine city lords, a dozen families, and tribal warlocks couldn't find was found by us just like this?"

Fox-kin Silver Feather took the pendant off the hook, stroked the broken part of the main body of the pendant with her thumb, observed it for a few seconds, and handed it to Guowei.

Guowei took out the broken corner of the pendant, relaxed her fingers, and with a *thud*, the broken corner was adsorbed onto the main body. A glimmer of light flowed across the pendant and then disappeared.

Guowei slowly exhaled and finally wore the pendant on her neck. Just then, a change occurred. A poisonous snake made of dark green energy suddenly appeared and headed straight for Guowei's neck.

A phantom of a magic scythe appeared out of thin air behind Guowei and with a *thud! * slashed the dark green poisonous snake to pieces. As this energy magic scythe rolled, it hooked the pendant on Guowei's neck.

A burst of blood energy detached from Guowei's body surface, turning into a blood beast phantom, and a roar spread out.

"Roar!!"

Layers of sound waves spread, the energy magic scythe shattered with a *crack*, and the blood beast phantom slowly dissipated.

The four people in the underground palace secret room were all stunned. This change happened too suddenly, and these methods were clearly not from the same person.

At the same time.

Twilight Winter City, south of the city, a figure wearing a black robe with gold patterns on the edges was looking at a rule-breaker nailed to the city wall by black spikes a few meters away. This person was Magic Scythe Tailide, and the rule-breaker in front was naturally killed by her.

Seeming to notice something, Magic Scythe Tailide looked at the distant sky. Suddenly, black-blue flames burned around her, burning a door fan in the air, and she stepped into the door fan.

And in the Lord's Manor, a large amount of black semi-fluid poured out from the fourth floor of the ancient castle. After the Abyss Dragon's eldest son gathered his body, he spread his dragon wings. In the next instant, Su Xiao was already standing on the dragon's back. In the wind and snow, the Abyss Dragon's eldest son broke through the space barrier with a *boom* and swept toward the sky, leaving behind some dark embers like sparks along the way.

Ten minutes later, in the underground palace.

*Boom! Boom! *

Loud noises came from behind. Little Lord Guowei, Alpha Wolf York, and the other four were all running at full speed in the underground passage with pale faces.

"What kind of monster is that!"

Fox-kin Silver Feather was a bit desperate. At this moment, every step she took on the ground, she could feel the vibration caused by the giant monster running behind her.

"That's the warlock's servant. Don't let this monster touch you, it has highly toxic poison on it!"

Alpha Wolf York spoke loudly while running. At this moment, he had begun to feel difficulty breathing. The chest and abdomen area that had been injured by another servant began to go numb and gradually lost consciousness.

In the underground passage, the four people fleeing for their lives passed a corner and ran for dozens of meters before suddenly stopping. It wasn't because the underground passage ended here, but because the passage ahead was shrouded in darkness, as if the light there had been absorbed.

York tried to reach his hand into the darkness ahead. With a *rip*, the invasion of darkness made him immediately shrink his hand back in pain and confirmed that if he dared to step into this darkness, he would definitely die.

But for some reason, York had a feeling as if someone was standing in this darkness. However, he quickly dismissed this ridiculous idea. How terrifying must a person be to be able to stay in this darkness safely?

The roaring sound came from behind. Guowei, York, and Silver Feather all looked back. The scene they saw made the four of them almost have their hearts stop. In that 4-meter-wide, 5-meter-high passage, it was crowded with all kinds of beast-type monsters, as well as weird snakes and insects. These servants, covered in highly toxic mucus, firmly blocked the passage behind and pushed over.

Just when Guowei, York, and Silver Feather were all feeling desperate, those terrifying snakes and insects actually stopped surging and gave way to a passage. A Voodoo Warlock dressed in the Tribal Faction style, with graffiti all over his face, walked out from this creepy passage. His pair of dark green eyes, just by making eye contact, made people shudder.

In the passage ahead was the Voodoo Warlock, and the passage behind was occupied by thick darkness. For a moment, Guowei, York, and Silver Feather all felt that their lives were about to end here.

The Voodoo Warlock walked over step by step, but when he was more than ten meters away from Guowei, York, and Silver Feather, he stopped his steps with a look of fear.

This made the four people trapped in a desperate situation very surprised. However, in the surprise, Guowei, York, and Silver Feather all felt a bit floating in their hearts, because such a terrifying Voodoo Warlock seemed to be afraid of them? This, for anyone, would inevitably feel a bit floating.

In fact, what the Voodoo Warlock was afraid of was the person standing in the darkness behind them, as well as the other party's pair of calm but red-glowing eyes.