Chapter 3693: Trap

The sound of the wind whistled past his ears at high altitude. As the Storm Flame Dragon lowered its flight altitude and arrived below the clouds, the wetland environment below came into view. All kinds of animals never seen before inhabited here, and plants grew exceptionally lush in the mud and water.

Looking into the distance, the Holy Snake Tribe settled on a flat area on the mountainside came into view. The mountain behind the tribe was covered with large-scale snake scale carvings. Unlike the primitive tents in the imagination, there were many rock buildings in the tribe, and the central area was a huge bonfire pile, which looked like it was in a semi-extinguished state.

With the approach of the Storm Flame Dragon, hunting roars came one after another from the buildings of the Holy Snake Tribe. Some even jumped onto the stone roofs, looking up at the Storm Dragon flying from high altitude. Obviously, Witch Doctor Bazhe had explained it in advance, otherwise, at this time, it would definitely be a large area of war spears flying to high altitude.

Exotic beast Erba was thrown at the foot of the mountain. As soon as this giant exotic beast landed, many Holy Snake Tribe members ran over, some happily climbing up the snake scales.

With a 'whoosh', the Storm Flame Dragon swept past at low altitude, and the tree crowns where it passed were pressed low. When it glided to the flat area on the mountainside, that is, in front of the giant bonfire, the Storm Flame Dragon landed. Witch Doctor Bazhe, who had been waiting here, greeted him with a smile. After all, Su Xiao brought gifts this time.

"Bai Ye, you are being too polite."

Although Witch Doctor Bazhe said so, his old face smiled like a blooming old chrysanthemum. The flesh and blood of a 10,000-meter-level exotic beast were good things. Although the Holy Snake Tribe was qualified to hunt, the price paid was too high.

Under the guidance of Witch Doctor Bazhe, Su Xiao walked into the tree house symbolizing the High Priest. This tree house was built on the basis of a towering giant tree, probably about a dozen square meters. The walls inside were full of shelves, on which were all kinds of strange things. In the center of the tree house was a floor table. After sitting on the animal skin on the ground, Witch Doctor Bazhe opposite poured a drink for Su Xiao.

The drink in the cup was sticky and mellow. It should be made by frying some kind of fruit pit, then grinding it and brewing it. It tasted a bit like burnt fragrance, and there was also a bit of fruit wine fragrance. In general, it was still quite good.

"Bai Ye, a suspicious guy came to our tribe recently and even said he knew you. I saw he looked like a spy from the Soul Shepherd Tribe, so I locked him in the dungeon. Do you know this person?"

Hearing this, Su Xiao, who was enjoying the drink, paused. After pondering for two seconds, he said: "Don't know."

"I said so, how could you cooperate with that kind of god-stick."

Witch Doctor Bazhe smiled exceptionally naturally. Hearing the word god-stick, Su Xiao seemed to 'just think of' something and asked: "Could it be that it is a Priest?"

"Hiss~... seems like it."

Witch Doctor Bazhe was 'shocked', with a look of 'wouldn't I have tied up my own people'.

"That is indeed our cooperator. You locked him in the dungeon?"

"It was my oversight. Look at this trouble. I will let him out immediately."

"No matter, keep him locked up for now."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the smile on Witch Doctor Bazhe's old face seemed to be even happier.

"The dungeon is damp and humid. My old bones, it's better not to stay there for a long time."

The Priest pushed the door and walked into the tree house. After politely closing the door, he sat cross-legged beside the floor table.

Seeing that the dungeon didn't lock up the Priest, and he was walked into the Priest's room so frankly, Witch Doctor Bazhe was not surprised. This was the cooperator chosen by the Law-Exterminator Kuku Lin Bai Ye, how could he have no means? He locked the other party before, mainly because he felt this person was dangerous, and used the excuse of locking the other party to let the other party suppress the evil beast at the bottom of the tribe's dungeon.

"This misunderstanding is quite a fuss. If I had known you were one of us, how could I have locked you up with that evil beast? As compensation, I sincerely express my apologies to you."

Witch Doctor Bazhe's attitude was particularly sincere. As for material compensation, don't even think about it.

"Small matter, besides, the taste of that evil beast is not bad."

Hearing this, Witch Doctor Bazhe was secretly shocked. He really didn't expect that the Priest had devoured that evil beast.

It was not only Witch Doctor Bazhe who was wary of the Priest, but the Priest was also wary of him. The first day the Priest came, he was poisoned by Bazhe. With the Priest's ability characteristics, the person who could poison him to the point of lying down, his means could be imagined.

Su Xiao's personal abilities were witnessed by both the Priest and Witch Doctor Bazhe, so they naturally recognized his identity as a cooperator. Now Witch Doctor Bazhe and the Priest had also seen each other's abilities, and the cooperation of the three was basically finalized. This was the way of cooperation in the evil faction. The process was not important; what was important was personal ability.

"So, no one knows the whereabouts of the Soul Reaper?"

The Priest put down the tattered parchment, which was an intelligence record about the Soul Reaper.

Witch Doctor Bazhe nodded thoughtfully and added: "As far as I know, this Soul-type god is not only the god believed in by the Soul Shepherd Tribe but also one of the three Supreme Gods of the Dark God Sect. He rarely comes out in person. Even when besieging Soul-type powerhouses and plundering their soul essence, he lets his followers do it."

After saying these, Witch Doctor Bazhe picked up the snacks on the table and put them into his mouth, chewing slowly. This was a kind of food wrapped in tender leaves, inside was roasted insect eggs, which belonged to one of the delicacies of the Holy Snake Tribe.

"That is to say, the difficulty of finding the Soul Reaper is far harder than executing him?"

The Priest looked at Su Xiao while speaking, meaning, did Su Xiao have any way to find the whereabouts of the Soul Reaper.

"That side sent a bishop to contact me, but I estimate that it was just an ambush set by the Dark God Sect members, and the Soul Reaper is not prepared to do it himself."

Hearing this, Witch Doctor Bazhe was worried, while the Priest was still kind and amiable. From this, it could be seen that Witch Doctor Bazhe wanted to eliminate the Soul Reaper more. For so many years, the Soul Shepherd Tribe had always been hostile to the Holy Snake Tribe. The reason why that side had the guts was mainly because there was a Soul Reaper supporting them behind the scenes.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Death God, Desire God, and Snake God of the Dark God Sect seem to be in the same divine domain. Dealing with the three Supreme Gods of the Dark God Sect at the same time is still very tricky, not to mention that the Dark God Sect has many crazy followers."

Hearing Witch Doctor Bazhe's words, a strange look appeared in Su Xiao's eyes. He asked: "Are you sure the Death God, Desire God, and Snake God are in the same divine domain? Or rather, are you sure the Soul Reaper is in a certain divine domain?"

"Sure."

"So, the Soul Shepherd Tribe occasionally offers some sacrifices to this god?"

"Not occasionally, but often. The relationship between the two sides is more like the protection given after receiving benefits."

Witch Doctor Bazhe's tone was firm, obviously having investigated this matter specifically before.

Being in the divine domain and often receiving sacrifices, these two factors added together, Su Xiao suddenly thought, why look for the traces of the Soul Reaper? Luring him out, wouldn't it be better? At that time, he could also set up a trap to reduce the difficulty of executing the Soul Reaper. No, it would be better to have three people fight one Soul Reaper.

"Bai Ye, you mean, use sacrifice to lure the Soul Reaper out? This... is not very feasible. That god is very vigilant about this. Before, there was a tribe that wanted to execute him with the power of the entire tribe, but the sacrifice ritual couldn't lure that Death God at all."

Hearing this, Baja's smile beside him gradually became unscrupulous, saying: "Priest, don't worry, in this regard, we are professionals."

"Is this plan really feasible?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. In his view, this plan had at most a 60% success rate. He would set up the sacrifice ritual. With the bonus of 【Dark Crawl (Abyss: Ritual Item)】, the ritual would be exceptionally tempting. The problem was, this was not enough to be stable.

If Su Xiao's ritual technique + Dark Crawl + Gnome Jump combination, then it would be stable. Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out a soul coin and made a move to flick it out, but considering the distance problem, the strength of one coin was likely not enough, so he took out a bag of soul coins and threw it on the table.

"My dear friend, throwing things around is not a good habit."

Caesar, who appeared without warning, made Witch Doctor Bazhe and the Priest secretly vigilant. After understanding the current situation, Caesar's eyes showed greed. He was good at Gnome Jump, and he had practiced it before.

After the four discussed, they felt that the combination of ritual deployment + Dark Crawl + Gnome Jump was still not stable enough. It would be best to create a kind of sacrifice that the Soul Reaper couldn't resist.

Finally, it was decided that the four would each produce a precious material, and then Su Xiao would prepare it. Su Xiao naturally accepted this proposal. He took out a bottle of 【Fallen Blood】. Seeing this, the Priest opposite took out a sealing bottle. After opening it, it was full of pure divine blood. This divine blood was pure to the point of being unthinkable. As for the origin, there was no need to think about it.

Witch Doctor Bazhe hesitated for a while, took a pottery jar from behind, and took out a translucent tentacle from it. Judging from the fluctuations, it should be a part of some very powerful Abyss-born creature.

Only Caesar was left. He was good at collecting things, but taking them out made Caesar feel like scratching his ears and cheeks. Finally, he took out a small jar of high-purity Abyss energy.

Su Xiao looked at these four materials in front of him and didn't know where to start for a while. Mixing these materials together to prepare, how did it feel like it had nothing to do with positive gains? But Caesar patted his chest and guaranteed that as long as the grade of the prepared thing was high enough, it would be fine.

This was the core characteristic of Caesar's ability. Caesar couldn't disguise a stone as a piece of gold. This was changing the value, not the characteristic. But Caesar could disguise a cup of Origin-level poison as a cup of Origin-level nectar. This was the grade remained unchanged, but the characteristics shown changed.

Just like now, as long as Su Xiao prepared something of high enough grade, then after the sacrifice ritual started, Caesar could disguise it as liquid "Soul Essence" of astonishing quality.

Su Xiao took out various utensils and began to prepare. A few hours later, he looked at the dark red liquid churning in the preparation container. He estimated that if he absorbed this thing, he wouldn't die but wouldn't have half a life left. However, this thing was not used for absorption, but only for disguise.

Su Xiao picked up a small jar of high-purity Abyss energy. This was the last step. Using this to extremely buff the higher-quality prepared item, after pouring the Abyss energy into it, the liquid in the container quickly turned pitch black.

After it cooled down, Caesar stepped forward to check and nodded quite satisfactorily.

"Is there any place like ruins or ancient relics nearby?"

Caesar put away the sealed bottle. Hearing him ask this, Witch Doctor Bazhe pondered for a few seconds and thought of a suitable place.

Two hours later, in a ruin, stone houses were scattered in a mess. It looked like a living place left behind after a tribe declined. Located at the very inside was a towering rock temple.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran into the open-air temple. After looking around, he began to set up the place. In about an hour, it became completely enclosed, and the ground was full of strange array diagrams, with candles placed around the ritual array diagram.

All kinds of large and small evil items were placed around the ritual array diagram. When everything was ready, Xian Lulu, who witnessed all this, was stunned. Her thought was, how many times had this been done to be so skilled?

【Dark Crawl (Abyss: Ritual Item)】 was activated. In an instant, the area around the ritual array diagram became pitch black, and only the flickering candlelight could be seen. Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baja, Xian Lulu, Witch Doctor Bazhe, and the Priest were all hidden in the surrounding darkness, leaving only Caesar on the ritual array diagram as the focus of the whole scene.

Caesar took out the

He had lived for over two hundred years, and although he had seen Original Sin items with his own eyes, he had truly never seen anyone put an Original Sin item on their head. This behavior exceeded the cognition of this Ninth-Tier top-tier powerhouse.

The surroundings were pitch black, with only a faint light on the ritual formation. After the person and the jar became one, Caesar took out the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 and put it on the Abyss Jar.

Caesar began to dance and perform an unknown ritual. About a few minutes later, his appearance gradually changed, turning into a devout believer draped in a black robe. He held the ritual vessel in both hands, and the vessel was filled with liquid "Soul Source."

Eerie and mysterious whispers drifted in the air. Under this atmosphere, a space vortex suddenly appeared, and then, a voice speaking in the language of gods came through.

"My devout follower, I have responded to your summons and come."

Pale and withered arms reached out from the several-meter-high space vortex. Several of the hands reached toward the ritual vessel filled with "Soul Source." Although they tried their best to suppress it, those hands were also trembling slightly with excitement.

In the darkness, Su Xiao's brows furrowed. He felt that the aura of the god being drawn in was wrong; there was no strong soul fluctuation.

When that huge oval-shaped head poked out from the space vortex, Su Xiao was certain that this was not a Soul Reaper at all, but some weak demigod from who knows where.

Caesar also discovered this point and was almost so angry that his nose went crooked. He had gone through all this trouble, was exhausted and covered in sweat, only to summon some weakling demigod from who knows where.

Baha poked his body out from the darkness, and after centering his energy, he roared with full lung power: "SCRAM!!"

Hearing this full-throated shout, the demigod was stunned for a moment, then turned fierce. But in the next second, the darkness behind Baha receded slightly. The figures of Su Xiao, the Priest, and Baze were half-hidden. A pair of eyes radiating red light and a pair of dark green eyes were all staring at the demigod in the center of the formation. Even more terrifyingly, it was as if an invisible giant mouth that had devoured countless gods was gradually revealing its fangs in the darkness.

After seeing this scene, the fierce light in the demigod's eyes vanished in an instant. Its gaze became exceptionally clear, and it slowly retreated into the space vortex. But in the next instant, the invisible giant mouth that struck out from the darkness bit it, and just like pulling a tree worm out of a dead stump, it pulled it out of the space vortex, leaving a trail of mucus along the way.

After a burst of rapid chewing sounds and screams, the darkness fell silent. Caesar, in the center of the formation, wiped the hot sweat from his forehead and continued to prepare the Goblin Jump.

Alas, after Caesar had been busy for over ten minutes, he summoned another exotic beast that was half-fused with a divine creature. This time, the Priest took action directly.

A scene that made people laugh and cry appeared: first a demigod, then a demi-beast god, followed by a hybrid divine creature, and finally an exotic creature that had devoured divine blood. One after another, they were drawn in. The Soul Reaper wasn't summoned, but the Priest's invisible giant mouth was half-full.

Caesar, exhausted and covered in sweat, sat on the formation. It wasn't that the direction of the sacrificial lure was inaccurate, but that there were too many monsters and ghosts in this Transcendental Native World of the Wind Sea Continent.

Just as Caesar was preparing to lure one last time, and if he couldn't lure it, he would rest for a while, a space vortex more than ten meters high appeared in front of him.

Gray-white cold mist spread out from within. Skeletal hands reached out from around the space vortex, locking onto the edge of the space vortex like rivets, making the entire space vortex look like a Gate of Death, especially the row of skulls at the top, which made people feel as if this were a passage to the underworld.

A figure more than ten meters high, draped in a large black robe, stood within the space vortex. The edges of the black robe on his body were outlined with gold thread, which looked like no ordinary object at first glance. And under that loose hood was dense darkness and five eyes radiating soul-blue and white light. The Soul Reaper had arrived.

Inside the space vortex, the Soul Reaper reached out a hand that looked like it was only bone, but was actually covered in soul-natured flesh and skin. With that huge hand, he held up the ritual vessel with one hand and said in the language of souls: "You are very devout."

After speaking, the Soul Reaper was about to lift the ritual vessel into the space vortex. From this, one could see the Soul Reaper's caution—he stayed inside the space vortex the whole time, unlike those demigods who couldn't help but want to pounce out when they saw so much "Soul Source."

Just as the Soul Reaper was about to lift the ritual vessel into the space vortex, the vessel exploded with a bang, and the "Soul Source" scattered. Almost simultaneously, the space vortex twisted under Baha's interference.

In the darkness outside the ritual formation, Su Xiao leaned forward slightly to build up power. The advantage of a direct kick was fully manifested at this moment. The enemy wouldn't even feel him brewing his ability because there was no energy fluctuation.

A crystal layer climbed onto Su Xiao's right lower leg, and Qinggang Shadow energy attached to it. That wasn't all; an energy with Ancient God characteristics also attached to it—this was one of the Priest's trump cards. Almost simultaneously, dark green witch-poison energy also climbed onto the crystal layer on his right lower leg.

Su Xiao vanished from the spot using his Dragon Shadow Flash ability. This action caused the disguise of 【Dark Wriggling (Abyss Ritual Item)】 to be unable to continue. Everything around it shattered like bubbles with a bang, returning to the original appearance of the Rock Temple.

But at the same time, Su Xiao had already raided to the front of the Soul Reaper and delivered a direct kick.

Crack!

A layer of soul shield wall shattered in response. Su Xiao's kick not only contained all the power of his Close-Quarters Combat Master Lv. 74, but also included his Qinggang Shadow ability, all his various passive buffs, the Priest's trump card, and the strongest witch-poison ability of Witch-Poison Master Baze.

Boom~!!!

Xian Lulu, who was hanging on Su Xiao, felt a buzz in her ears, and everything before her eyes turned white. She wasn't attacked; she was just shaken by the sound wave caused by this direct kick. Dangerously, Xian Lulu's Health dropped by a large chunk from the shock.

At the moment of taking this direct kick, the pupils in the Soul Reaper's five eyes were somewhat distorted. The space vortex he was in exploded violently, and the surrounding space shattered like glass. A large mouthful of black blood sprayed out from the air holes in the mouth of his face mask.

After the Soul Reaper took this direct kick head-on, he flew backward in a straight line. Before he crashed through the wall, Baha, who had been waiting there, spread his wings, and an exotic space passage opened.

Crack!

The Soul Reaper almost didn't crash the exotic space passage directly. Baha almost made a fist with his wings, and after pushing his ability until his feathers were somewhat standing up, he maintained the exotic space passage without it shattering, allowing the Soul Reaper to fall into it and arrive at an exotic space he had chosen.

Su Xiao, the Priest, and Witch-Poison Master Baze rushed into the exotic space together. At this moment, in the exotic space, the Soul Reaper had just stood up. Judging from his staggering footsteps, this direct kick was not light. Compared to this, one could see from the Soul Reaper's gaze, which had just regained its focus, how much of a mental impact the Goblin Jump had on him. This god, who had existed for thousands of years, had truly never experienced today's scene.