Chapter 3695

The spatial mirror inside the Rock Temple vanished. Seeing this, Su Xiao, the Priest, the Voodoo Warlock Baze, and Caesar all remained silent, but everyone present knew that this cooperation would not end here. The Dark God Sect still had two deities remaining. Since they had already become enemies, they had to settle the aftermath to prevent the Desire God and the Snake God from seeking revenge.

Although the reality was that there was a ninety percent chance the Desire God and Snake God would not come for revenge, in the minds of the four good teammates, that side was already marked as a vengeful deity that would retaliate. Facing such a vengeful deity, even without the conversion of the Law-Extinguishing formula, they had to behead it.

"In such matters, we are still lacking in experience."

The Priest sighed with a hint of regret. Hearing this, Voodoo Warlock Baze looked puzzled, but then realized what was going on. Indeed, if they had all disguised themselves as severely injured or dying after defeating the Soul Reaper just now, the Desire God and Snake God might very well have rushed over with their subordinates at top speed.

In this way, it would not only save time in searching for those two deities but also allow them to set traps within this Rock Temple, waiting for the enemy to step into them voluntarily.

The residual soul aura in the surroundings dissipated completely. Just then, Su Xiao felt that the nine-star title he was wearing, 【God Hunter】, seemed to have plundered something.

"God Hunter Title - Title Effect 3: Hunt and Plunder (Passive): After killing a deity unit, you will plunder its 'God Soul'."

To be precise, a "God Soul" is somewhat similar to a divine position or divinity; only by possessing the corresponding God Soul can one master the divine abilities associated with that "God Soul."

Combat-type deities do not manifest this clearly, but for "God Souls" like luck, fate, or life, their associated divine abilities are the core capabilities of the corresponding deity.

This time, when dealing with deity-type enemies, Su Xiao naturally wore the 【God Hunter】 title; after all, it had the powerful bonus of "when confronting deity units, deal an additional 15%–30% true damage."

Thinking about it, the Soul Reaper, who had quite a bit of tankiness, failing to withstand Su Xiao's two combos had a lot to do with enduring that high amount of true damage.

Su Xiao dragged the treasure chest floating in mid-air with one hand. Although he was teamed up with the Priest, he held full ownership of this chest. This was both because he had dealt high damage to the Soul Reaper and because, in the distribution of spoils, the Priest chose to lean toward Soul Coins and World Origin.

The moment Su Xiao touched this 【Origin-level Treasure Chest: Soul Reaper】, a burning pain appeared in his eyeballs; it was the "Soul Gaze" ability he mastered throbbing.

【Prompt: Detected that you have completed the Soul Trial.】

【Because the skill scroll was originally in a notarized state, while exempting you from having your soul essence extracted by the Soul Reaper, it will also, to a certain extent, reduce the gains from the Soul Trial.】

【Detected that you did not complete this trial by "breaking free," but by beheading the Soul Reaper; the gains from this trial will be significantly increased.】

【Due to the incomplete prerequisites for this trial, you must submit the obtained 【Origin-level Treasure Chest: Soul Reaper】 as the notarized item for this trial, and on the premise of permanently losing the "Soul Gaze" ability, can you complete this trial and obtain the corresponding rewards.】

【Prompt: Detected that the Soul Reaper has been beheaded at this stage. Before this "God Soul" finds a new fit and the new Soul Reaper's comprehensive combat power reaches the ninth tier, some characteristics of your current Soul Gaze skill will be reduced, such as being unable to perform soul beheading on enemies (because there is no Soul Reaper at this stage).】

There were quite a few prompts. First was the "Soul Gaze" skill scroll. Originally, the leader obtained this scroll and then had Gulu go to the trading street to sell it to Su Xiao at a low price.

It seemed like a hidden danger, but in fact, it was not. This was a skill scroll notarized by Reincarnation Paradise. After mastering the Soul Gaze ability on it, the Soul Reaper side could not activate the side effects of this ability, meaning it could not extract Su Xiao's soul essence, which was equivalent to getting this trap from the Soul Reaper for free.

Throughout the entire fight with the Soul Reaper earlier, Su Xiao was never affected by the Soul Reaper because of the Soul Gaze ability. Regarding this, he was actually a bit puzzled. Now it seemed that the leader had notarized the Soul Gaze skill scroll through Reincarnation Paradise. Under the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise, the means set up by the Soul Reaper were not worth mentioning.

As for the "Soul Trial," Su Xiao estimated that it was implicitly accepted after mastering "Soul Gaze," but he was different from normal trial-takers targeted by the Soul Reaper; he was exempt from the Soul Reaper's influence the whole time.

This was also why he needed to pay the extra 【Origin-level Treasure Chest: Soul Reaper】 to complete this trial with a low rating.

Generally speaking, completing a trial with a low rating is a loss, especially on the premise of paying the 【Origin-level Treasure Chest: Soul Reaper】 plus permanently losing the "Soul Gaze" ability.

The problem was that Su Xiao did not complete the trial by "breaking free" from the Soul Reaper's restraints; he directly slaughtered the Soul Reaper, which pushed the trial rating, which was almost down to E-grade, up to SS~SSS grade.

Thinking about it this way, this trial was worth completing, especially after the Soul Reaper was destroyed, the beheading effect of the "Soul Gaze" ability was gone, which was very reasonable. Every time this ability triggered, it was actually the Soul Reaper coming to behead and harvest the enemy's soul.

As Su Xiao made his choice, the treasure chest in his hand gradually disappeared. In turn, he felt a slight soreness in his eyeballs, and a capability stored within them was stripped away. Not only did this not cause discomfort, but there was a sense of relief from having a foreign object removed.

The reason for this was that the Soul Gaze ability did not entirely belong to his own capabilities. If Su Xiao were of another type, he would not feel it so obviously, but as a technique-type, his many capabilities were centered on his own physique, forming a feeling of being a seamless whole.

As for the "Goddess's Attachment" ability within it, it was indeed based on the "Luck God Soul" of the Goddess of Luck, an associated ability, but Su Xiao had Law-Extinguishing luck on him. Apart from increasing the luck attribute, this ability had no influence on luck-related matters at all, and precisely because of this, he could not feel this ability at all.

As "Soul Gaze" was permanently stripped away, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: Soul Trial reward is being judged...】

【Because you successfully beheaded the Soul Reaper, the reward obtained this time is significantly increased. You can choose one of the following capabilities as the reward for this Soul Trial.】

1. Soul Potential (Passive): Every point of your Soul Strength will increase your HP and Mana (each point of Soul Energy can permanently increase 100 HP and 30 Mana).

Prompt: After mastering this capability, it will default to Lv. EX and cannot be upgraded in any way.

2. Soul Saint Seal (Passive): All soul-type capability damage intensity increased by 35%, and all skills capable of causing deep soul damage will have a low probability of causing a soul beheading effect.

3. Soul Avatar (Active): You can construct a soul avatar, initially 1, for every 100 points of Soul Strength, you can construct an additional soul avatar, and all your soul avatars can use the soul-type attack/defense skills you have mastered, with power and intensity at 30% of your own use of this capability. The soul avatar can exist for 60 minutes or until the contained soul energy is exhausted.

All along, Su Xiao had no intention of developing toward the soul type, not only because he did not want his capability system to be bloated, but also because he really did not have that many Soul Coins. Therefore, when developing capability tendencies, he made Soul Strength a basic bonus characteristic as much as possible.

What is a basic bonus characteristic? For example, the crystal layer of Aoge is boosted by the Qinggang Shadow level and Soul Strength, thereby determining its strength. In this way, his own high Soul Strength improves his combat power, and more importantly, this does not consume Soul Coins.

Su Xiao decisively chose the "Soul Potential (Passive)" capability. Each point of Soul Strength increases 100 HP and 30 Mana. Calculated by his current 710 points of Soul Strength, that is a 71,000 HP bonus and a 21,300 Mana bonus, which is quite powerful.

【Prompt: Reward selection complete. This capability must be mastered while the hunter is in the skill upgrade bay.】

【You have obtained the acquisition voucher for "Soul Potential (Passive)". Use this voucher item while in the skill upgrade bay to master "Soul Potential (Passive)".】

The prompt did not end there. Because the Soul Reaper was successfully beheaded, the bounty prompt for the "Hunting List: Blood Pact" also appeared.

【You have successfully hunted the Soul Reaper.】

【Bounty amount is: Regular kill, can only obtain 400–500 ounces of Space-Time Power bounty. If "beheading" this target, can obtain 1500 ounces of Space-Time Power bounty.】

【You have obtained Space-Time Stone Fragment x100 (this is an equivalent, selling it to Reincarnation Paradise can obtain 1000 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You have obtained Secret Treasure Box (this item is equivalent to the value of 500 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

The rewards for this hunting list were different from the previous world. The rewards obtained through the hunting list in the previous world were all judged according to Su Xiao's situation, while this time it tended to be random.

After Su Xiao checked the attributes of the 【Secret Treasure Box】, an ominous premonition appeared.

【Secret Treasure Box】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise.

Category: High-value treasure chest item.

Effect: After opening, can obtain one of the following items (random draw).

1. Skill upgrade bay free usage permission (once).

2. 1–3 pieces of Primordial Fragment.

3. Origin Fruit.

4. Full rating World-class equipment (6000 points rating).

5. Dawn Fragment (Dawn Paradise external defense fragment, high judgment value, no practical use value, precious, high-priced, but useless souvenir).

Introduction: A precious treasure box full of wealth and hope.

Price: This item cannot be sold, transferred, etc., in any way.

Seeing the 【Dawn Fragment】 as one of the draw rewards, Su Xiao's gaze gradually became solemn. This thing was not the kind of item that looked worthless but was actually a treasure; it was judged through layers of Reincarnation Paradise judgments, finally concluding that this item had an ultra-high value in judgment but no practical utility.

For some reason, Su Xiao always felt that this item would bring him indelible and profound memories for a long time to come, and its degree of dominance might far exceed the shampoo from opening scarlet cards in the early stage.

Of the five items in the 【Secret Treasure Box】, except for the 【Dawn Fragment】, all were what Su Xiao wanted. The "Skill upgrade bay free usage permission (once)" went without saying; if he could draw this reward, then the "Basic Passive" capability of the strength attribute, as long as it was obtained, could be pushed to Lv. EX very quickly.

【Primordial Fragment】 was also a good thing, and the 【Origin Fruit】 went without saying. Its exchange price in the Abyss Store was second only to 【Original Sin Object: Collector】, reaching 7680 units of Precipitated Glaze.

Full-rating World-class equipment—for so long, let alone seen one, he hadn't even heard of one. Thinking about it, it made sense; whoever obtained this kind of thing would keep it for their own use, and even if it was not suitable for them, if they took it out to sell, they would sell it to friends.

But it was precisely among these secret treasures that the 【Dawn Fragment】 was mixed in. This was clearly caused by value balancing. The 【Secret Treasure Box】 was a reward corresponding to the price of 500 ounces of Space-Time Power, but even the "Skill upgrade bay free usage permission (once)" was 700 ounces of Space-Time Power in judgment value. When he obtained the bounty in the Shadow World before, Su Xiao had obtained this reward.

The value of the other three items was higher than the "Skill upgrade bay free usage permission (once)," so naturally, it was not something that a 【Secret Treasure Box】 worth 500 ounces of Space-Time Power could draw. But if the 【Dawn Fragment】 with high judgment value but no practical use value was added, the overall value would be balanced.

Su Xiao put away the 【Secret Treasure Box】 and walked out of the Rock Temple. The gains from beheading the Soul Reaper this time were very high. First was the "Soul Essence" of more than 2000 ounces, as well as the World Origin obtained from the kill, followed by the "Soul Potential (Passive)" capability brought by the Soul Trial, as well as the 1500 ounces of Space-Time Power from the "Hunting List: Blood Pact" bounty, and finally the commission from the Hunter Guild.

Su Xiao rode the Storm Flame Dragon to the Holy Snake Tribe. When he returned to the Holy Snake Tribe, the sky was darkening, and huge bonfires were lit. The tribesmen of the Holy Snake Tribe were gathered around the bonfires, enjoying roasted exotic beast meat, and the atmosphere was noisy and happy.

Su Xiao sat on the roof of a stone house on high ground, looking at the tribesmen of the Holy Snake Tribe by the fire. Compared to the Beast Race and Sea Race who were fighting each other to the death, this place was still peaceful.

Of course, the tribe camp also had hidden dangers, which was that this place was a neighbor to the Dark God Sect. From the fact that the Soul Reaper became the deity worshipped by the Soul Herding Tribe, one could see how fatal this hidden danger was.

In the night, Baha flew silently and landed on Su Xiao's shoulder, saying: "Boss, the location is locked. It's in the Dark Zone. If I'm not mistaken, the entrance to the divine domains of the Desire God and Snake God is over there."

"Hmm."

Su Xiao continued to meditate. Regarding dealing with the Desire God and Snake God, in his view, it was necessary, but the premise was not to spend too much time. Not to mention that among the three supreme deities of the Dark God Sect, the Reaper was the strongest, followed by the Snake God, and finally the Desire God. Now that the strongest Reaper was so fragile, he was even more confident about the remaining two.

Of course, these were indeed not weak supreme deities, but they were countered in many aspects. They did indeed have the strength of the top tier of the ninth tier, but they were not the peak tier. The situation of that tier was that ninth-tier combat power could only be strong to that extent, rather than them only having that kind of strength. They were paving the way for "Absolute Strong Ones."

For example, Ruthless Brother and Magic Scythe Teride were representatives of this tier. Don't look at Magic Scythe Teride's last move, which only showed the combat power of the top tier of the ninth tier; that was more of a question of whether it was worth it. After Magic Scythe Teride of the Abyss system fully opened its capabilities, it was very terrifying.

Su Xiao, wearing the God Hunter title, plus the Priest and Voodoo Warlock Baze—the combination of these three could be called a God-Slaying Team without any problem. The reason for dealing with the Desire God and Snake God later was very simple: with the style of the Dark God Sect, after the Reaper was beheaded, they would definitely launch revenge.

To prevent the Dark God Sect from taking revenge, Su Xiao prepared to strike first and beat the Dark God Sect half to death.

Su Xiao was not arrogant enough to think that he could single-handedly take on the Dark God Sect of the Wind Sea Continent. Since this place was so terrifying, he naturally had to use some strategies, such as mobilizing more than 1000 Horse Race heavy cavalry, plus Ergein and the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon, to launch a surprise attack on the lair of the Dark God Sect.

As for whether he could beat them half to death, theoretically, there was no problem. These 1000-plus Horse Race heavy cavalry were selected from their own 10 legions. Even without the title bonus, the weakest were at the leader level, and about 30% were at the great leader level.

Looking at the time, it was already 10 PM. Su Xiao jumped off the stone house roof and went inside to rest. When the morning sun rose, accompanied by the sound of armor clashing, the door was knocked.

Ergein pushed the door and entered. After entering the room, he knelt on one knee and said: "My lord, the cavalry legion is ready to fight at any time."

"Very good."

Su Xiao got up and walked out of the stone house. After walking a few steps, he paused and asked: "I heard that you have been in close contact with the White Dragon Lord recently?"

Su Xiao turned his head to look at Ergein, who was kneeling on one knee. Ergein immediately argued loudly: "My lord, there is no such thing! You must believe me."

"Don't be excited," Su Xiao said, stopping in front of Ergein, looking down at Ergein kneeling on one knee, and continued: "Haven't I always believed in you?"

Su Xiao looked at Ergein with a kind smile, which made cold sweat ooze from Ergein's forehead. He swallowed his saliva and said: "My lord, your malice is pouring out."

"Oh? Is it? It seems my ability to control aura has become worse."

The blood aura diffusing in the stone house was gathered up. Su Xiao walked out of the stone house. Ergein hurriedly got up to open the door. Obviously, this guy's rebellious bone had shrunk in the near future, and whether it would grow again later—of course it would. Without a rebellious bone, this wouldn't be Ergein.

At noon that day, in the Dark Land on the south side of the tribe camp territory, not a blade of grass grew here. Occasionally, one could see a tree, which was also pitch black. Judging from the bloodstains on the black trees, this was definitely not a good thing. It should be disguised as a plant to hunt creatures passing by nearby.

Looking into the distance, it was a gloomy cathedral. Located around the gloomy cathedral were dense and strangely shaped buildings. This place was the headquarters of the Dark God Sect in this world.

The Storm Flame Dragon flapped its dragon wings. At this moment, Su Xiao was standing on the dragon's back, and below him were thousands of Horse Race heavy cavalry. At the forefront of these Horse Race were Ergein, who was riding a war beast, holding a battle axe, and was overall a head taller than the Horse Race heavy cavalry. Whether in physique or strength, he had the aura of a leader.

More importantly, the armor worn by all the Horse Race heavy cavalry present revealed a pitch-black color. This was caused by the integration of a part of the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon. Previously on the main battlefield, the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon chose to maintain its dragon form, spraying dragon flames above the Sea Race, but after only one melee, it no longer did so. The reason was that it was almost killed by the Sea Race legion that time.

Therefore, the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon used its own capability characteristics to temporarily integrate itself into the armor and weapons of hundreds or thousands of Beast Race soldiers. In this way, it could not only extract original life force after the enemy was injured but also improve the combat power of friendly forces.

That is to say, the thousands of Horse Race heavy cavalry at this moment, as well as Ergein at the forefront, were being boosted by the Eldest Son of the Abyss Dragon.

Seeing this, Su Xiao activated the title effect of the Sun Lord, and let Bubu Wang turn on the aura. The Horse Race heavy cavalry present all received the following boosts:

【"All True Attributes +20 points", "All Capability Levels Increased by Lv. 18", "Sunlight Nourishment (Passive)", "Blazing Sun (Passive)", "Ice and Snow Aura", "Maximum HP Increased by 35%", "Stamina Recovery Speed Increased by 40%", "Movement Speed Increased by 20%"】.

"Kill, leave no one alive!"

Ergein at the forefront did not have the slightest bit of the fear he had when kneeling on one knee in the stone house earlier. At this moment, Ergein was violent, cold, and iron-blooded.

Boom!!

More than a thousand Horse Race heavy cavalry stomped the ground with iron hooves at the same time. They drew their heavy cavalry spears and charged toward the Dark God Sect members one kilometer ahead. Due to the bonus of the Sun Lord title, flying sparks scattered everywhere.

In front of the gloomy cathedral opposite, a one-eyed, pale Dark Bishop with black patterns all over his face held his hand in a void grip. He was prepared to let these Beast Race see that the Dark God Sect could exist for so many years by relying on hard strength, not by hiding.

One hour later.

Bang!!

The iron-black metal horse hoof crushed the head of the one-eyed Dark Bishop with one kick. Several heavy cavalry spears stained with sun flames stabbed down, piercing the one-eyed Dark Bishop on the spot, turning him into burning debris and scattering him. Looking down from above, there were corpses of Dark God Sect members everywhere.

Could thousands of members of the Dark God Sect really fight head-on with the Horse Race heavy cavalry legion? The answer is, completely impossible.

The Dark God Sect is a tumor, that's true, but it is more hidden in the dark, with strange and evil capabilities. If they were all Abyss-system, then no one would be their opponent. The problem is, the capabilities of these Dark God Sect members are generally Dark-system, not Abyss-system.

Looking at the Horse Race heavy cavalry, this is the strongest heavy cavalry on the main battlefield, the main battlefield heavy cavalry that can beat multiple Sea Race legions into a daze. The Dark God Sect daring to fight with this kind of ace heavy cavalry on the main battlefield is typically having their brains eroded by Dark-system energy, becoming arrogant and conceited. This is also the drawback of gaining power quickly.

The Storm Flame Dragon landed in front of the gloomy cathedral. After Su Xiao jumped off the dragon's back, led by Ergein, he arrived at the entrance of a divine domain. After walking into the divine domain, he saw a deity sitting majestically on a divine throne, half-hidden in the darkness. It was the Desire God.

Why didn't the Desire God retreat just now? Actually, it wasn't that the Desire God didn't want to retreat, but because Baha, who was of the Space system, was there. To retreat with spatial capabilities, unless one had life-saving items notarized by the Paradise, it was difficult. Not to mention, the Priest and Voodoo Warlock Baze were both restraining the Desire God in the dark.

"Law-Extinguisher, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The Desire God on the throne spoke. This was clearly indicating that it had been waiting for Su Xiao for a long time and wanted to fight Su Xiao to the death one-on-one, especially emphasizing Su Xiao's identity as a Law-Extinguisher.

It was obvious that the Desire God should be a deity that had risen in the last thousand years; otherwise, it would not think that a Law-Extinguisher would care about the reputation of a Law-Extinguisher.

If it were the Snake God, Su Xiao would still fight the other party. As for the Desire God, whose combat power was not in the top tier of the ninth tier, there was really no need to fight it one-on-one. Furthermore, this deity used charm-type capabilities as its core combat method.

"Brothers, kill it!"

Baha pointed its wings forward, and a group of Horse Race heavy cavalry rushed in from the entrance of the divine domain, with large sparks scattering in the air.

When the battle subsided, the inner area of the divine domain was already nailed with metal spiral arrows. Initially, the Desire God was prepared to break out of the encirclement, but after being shot by several spiral arrows attached with sun flames, it realized that things were more serious than expected.

【"Blazing Sun (Passive): When the enemy is in a full 'Blazing Sun Mark' state: all your 'long-range' elite units, attacking this enemy unit will carry 320 points + 10% of maximum HP in true burning damage, and carry a severe healing suppression effect."】

Outside the divine domain, Su Xiao didn't wait long before Baha flew over, holding a snake scale in its eagle claws. This gloomy cathedral was the headquarters of the Dark God Sect. It was not difficult to find things related to the Snake God here.

As for whether the Dark God Sect could be destroyed by this attack, it was completely impossible. Even, for the Dark God Sect, this could not be considered a serious injury. This is the most difficult part of the Dark God Sect—too difficult to eliminate. Most of the high-level members of the Dark God Sect are hidden in the dark and are very cautious.

After Su Xiao set up a one-time demon teleportation array, he activated this teleportation array through the spatial node on the side of the main city, Eternal Ring City.

Half an hour later, in the Fifth City District, inside a mansion.

"Let's say it first, I won't divine your future. Also, you have to pay Soul Coins for this divination."

Witch Lilia sucked on her slender pipe, and light purple smoke puffed out from her thin lips.

Su Xiao placed a snake scale on the table and said: "Its direction."

Previously, when searching for the traces of the Soul Reaper, he didn't come to Witch Lilia's side because there was no medium. In that situation, wanting to divine the direction of a target was like looking for a needle in a haystack. But with a medium, it was different. The greater the connection between the medium and the person being searched for, the more accurate the divination.

"With such a highly connected medium, finding the direction is not difficult."

Witch Lilia held the snake scale fragment in her hands in a void grip, and starlight emerged in her eyes. After a moment, she stopped driving her capability with a hint of fatigue.

"The Snake God is no longer here."

Hearing this, Baha said: "We know it's not in the Beast Race's territory."

"I mean, the Snake God is no longer on the Wind Sea Continent. It left last night."

After Witch Lilia said this, her gaze carried a hint of surprise. She wanted to know what Su Xiao and the others had done to actually scare this evil-camp deity into fleeing to another world overnight.

PS: (Sunday, rest for a day to prevent the recurrence of old illnesses. Readers, please forgive me.)