Chapter 3698

On the main battlefield, on the west side, on a gloomy Gobi near the Dark Salt Lake. This place looks desolate and dim, but in fact, there is something else underground—an underground city with a population of more than 100,000.

At this moment, in a side street underground, a figure in a black robe stopped, seemingly confirming that no one was following, and knocked on an iron door.

With a swish, the probe hole of the iron door was pulled open. In the darkness inside were the eyes of a Beast Race member. After observing for a moment, the Beast Race member inside closed the probe hole with a bang and opened the iron door.

The black-robed person followed the Beast Race member into the dark house, passing through a corridor. There were many doors on both sides of the corridor. In some open rooms, they were either identifying stolen goods or doing joyful things. After passing through a slaughterhouse with a pungent smell, the Beast Race member in work clothes stopped in front of an iron door, clenched his sandbag-sized fist, and knocked on the door with a thud.

With a swish, the probe hole of the iron door was pulled open, and a Sea Race female demon was observing inside.

"Open the door."

The Beast Race member spoke with a hint of impatience. The Sea Race female demon inside muttered. This is the underground city, a lawless place. It is not surprising that the Sea Race and Beast Race cooperate.

After opening the door, the Sea Race female demon tidied her hair and said: "The person is dead, and no useful intelligence was asked. Tell Lord Ergein, I tried my best."

"I didn't have much hope originally. You should dress more strictly and send this person to the manor in Twilight Winter City."

The Beast Race member carried the corpse wrapped in layers and spoke. Hearing his words, the Sea Race female demon looked surprised and asked: "To the manor? A good errand. Why don't you go."

"Heh~, you guess who you are going to see."

Hearing this, the Sea Race female demon immediately felt uneasy. Just as she was about to shirk, the Beast Race member had already carried the corpse and walked away.

Ten minutes later, the faint light of the teleportation array lit up in the warehouse. The Sea Race female demon with a lowered hood walked out of the warehouse, leading the black-robed person toward the ancient castle ahead. Just as she approached within tens of meters of the ancient castle, the Sea Race female demon felt as if a pair of demon eagle eyes were staring at her. That cold and sharp gaze was like invisible needles piercing her soul.

Thud thud thud.

As the door was knocked, the door creaked open. Just as the Sea Race female demon was about to speak, she swallowed it back. Inside the door, the tall figure, more than 3 meters high, chewing something in his mouth, with lowered eyelids, was looking at her with those eyes that faintly revealed red light, as if thinking about whether the visitor would bring danger. If so, he would kill them with an axe on the spot.

"I am from the slaughterhouse, sending a guest here."

The Sea Race female demon spoke in a deep voice. Hearing this, the Amu inside the door was still chewing something, didn't speak, and didn't mean to let the visitor in. At this time, the Sea Race female demon suddenly remembered the important thing she forgot because of nervousness, and hurriedly showed the badge.

Amu's chewing action paused for a moment, then he stepped aside to make way. The Sea Race female demon at the door turned her head to look at the black-robed person on the side, meaning she could only send her here.

After the black-robed person walked into the first floor of the ancient castle, she immediately felt much warmer. Led by Amu, she arrived at the inner hall on the second floor. Although the black-robed person sat on the single sofa, she didn't take off her hood.

"Don't be so cautious, we are all our own people."

Su Xiao poured a cup of tea for the visitor. The visitor's hand that was about to take off the hood paused. Her slender fingers clenched into a fist, and she said with a hint of gnashing teeth: "Who is... your own person with you."

Crow Woman stared at Su Xiao, which could be said to be hating him from the inside out to the roots of her teeth.

"Back then, you chased and killed me many times, but you 'raised your hand high,' and sponsored a lot of Black Maple Tree products from the Arcane Eternal Star for free, and helped me bring the three Original Sin Objects to the Arcane Eternal Star side. Isn't this our own person?"

"You... nonsense!"

Crow Woman's emotions were a bit agitated.

"Oh? So, you have always been working seriously for the Arcane Eternal Star?"

"Of course."

Crow Woman answered very frankly.

"Then I sincerely hope that the Arcane Eternal Star has more people like you who work seriously."

"You..."

Crow Woman was about to make a move, but suddenly thought that she couldn't beat this guy at all, so she chose not to suffer immediate losses. After calming down and taking a long breath, she asked: "What's the matter with finding me? I won't meet you secretly again in the future."

Su Xiao took out a metal box covered with sealing formulas from under the table. The uneven silver metal box, as if scorched by fire, made Crow Woman subconsciously feel bad. But considering that Su Xiao already held three Original Sin Objects, she felt a bit comforted in her heart. How unlucky would one have to be to encounter a fourth Original Sin Object? Impossible, absolutely impossible!

"This is an Original Sin Object. You just need to take it back."

After Su Xiao finished speaking, he took out a small wooden box, placed it on the table, and continued: "After doing this, you can come and take this contract."

Crow Woman came here today because she was wary of the contract's restraint. As long as she got this contract, she wouldn't be afraid of Su Xiao at all afterward.

"You are dreaming!"

Crow Woman suddenly attacked Su Xiao, and energy like black sand filled the room.

A moment later.

Bang!

A residual image broke through the window and slammed into the woods in the backyard at high speed. Just after landing, it turned into an elegant black shadow and disappeared on the spot. But the next second, a black smoke arrow attacked, surpassing her at a faster speed.

After seeing the black smoke arrow with her peripheral vision, Crow Woman's heart went cold. She had been educated by this shameless Demon Spirit ability.

A large amount of black sand-like energy turned into blades around Crow Woman, attacking the black smoke arrow. Almost at the same time, the black smoke arrow turned into a demon spirit, and blades pierced through its body one after another. But with the surge of black mist, all the breaks recovered as before.

Seeing this, Crow Woman sneered, and her eyes turned completely pitch black. Just when the Beast Race warriors surrounding her thought Crow Woman was going to fight for her life, a crystal appeared in her hand and was thrown to the ground by her.

With a boom, spatial dust splashed everywhere. When these dusts dissipated, Crow Woman was nowhere to be found. At the same time, in the inner hall of the ancient castle, Su Xiao picked up the wooden box in the secret compartment under the table. After opening it, he found that it was empty. The contract parchment originally stored here had been stolen by Crow Woman.

This was a real contract, not a fake one. More importantly, this time Crow Woman successfully escaped without touching the Original Sin Object. It can be said that this was the time Crow Woman won most thoroughly in the many confrontations between the two sides.

Su Xiao looked at the silver metal sealing box on the table. What was stored inside was not the "Golden Holy Grail" at all, but two other Original Sin Objects. To be more precise, the Priest failed to strip the "Golden Holy Grail" this time.

It wasn't that it couldn't be forcibly stripped, but as a price, all of the Priest's divine blood would be plundered into the "Golden Holy Grail" during this stripping process. This Original Sin Object is very special, or rather, this Original Sin Object itself will not cause any damage to the holder at any level.

It is not like the "Demon Jar" that will swallow the holders of past generations, nor will it be like the "Necronomicon" that makes one's heart increasingly crazy as long as one reads the knowledge on it, and the body will also constantly deform with the madness of the heart.

The function of the "Golden Holy Grail" is that as long as the holder kills a creature, divine blood will pour out from it according to the strength of the creature killed, and it is incomparably pure divine blood. This is more like a different kind of sacrifice.

Whether it is directly touching the "Golden Holy Grail" or holding it for a long time, there is no danger. The real risk comes from the outside world, which is that every time one drinks the divine blood overflowing from the "Golden Holy Grail," the holder's mysterious luck will increase a bit.

What is mysterious luck? It's okay in the early stage, easy to encounter wandering souls, ghosts, etc. When the mysterious luck is strong to a certain extent, it starts to be easy to encounter evil spirits, strange objects, etc.

If the mysterious luck reaches its peak, maybe one trips when going out in the morning and trips into a spatial crack, then enters the gap of drifting by mistake, turns around and looks, eh~, isn't that the Candle Girl? It seems to be drifting toward me~

That's right, once the "Golden Holy Grail" is used, it is simply opening the hell difficulty by oneself. As the "Golden Holy Grail" is constantly used, one's own mysterious luck will become stronger, and the strange existences encountered will also become stronger.

To deal with these strange existences, one can only use the "Golden Holy Grail" more frequently to drink the divine blood inside to improve strength. But the more this is done, the stronger the mysterious luck, and the stronger the strange existences encountered, constantly in a vicious cycle, drinking poison to quench thirst.

Until the end, entering the gap of drifting by mistake, looking at the huge Lush Madness in front, this is an almost irresistible existence.

There was a brother who didn't know what method he used to survive this stage, seeing the Candle Girl, Lush Madness, and the Lord of the Old Days. Just when this brother thought that this was already bad to the limit, he sneezed. When he opened his eyes again, he found a black dot appearing in front. This black dot suddenly became larger and then disappeared.

When this brother initially adapted to the darkness, he found that drifting in the darkness around him were countless indestructible characteristics: Abyss-born creatures. He was sucked into it by an accidental and short-lived Abyss channel and fell into the deep part of the Abyss.

Just this morning, Su Xiao discovered one thing, which was that the Spellcasters didn't know what price they paid to let the three Original Sin Objects come back. He opened his eyes, and the Necronomicon was floating above, the Soul Crown was on the bedside table, and the Nether Bone Ring was on the table. As for Fairy Lulu, she was squatting on the chandelier with tears in her eyes. Judging from the trembling meow claws, she had been squatting there for at least half the night.

Su Xiao was not surprised at all that these Original Sin Objects came back. In the final analysis, he was the holder of these Original Sin Objects. These Original Sin Objects were willing to be sent away because they couldn't swallow resources from him. Of course, they were willing to be sent away occasionally. The two sides were always in a relationship of mutual dislike.

All along, Su Xiao had recorded the Original Sin Objects he had seen and held, and summarized their characteristics.

Su Xiao wrote down the characteristics of the "Golden Holy Grail" in the "Original Sin Object Notebook" and put it away.

Now it contains the characteristics of a total of six Original Sin Objects: "Abyss Jar," "Necronomicon," "Soul Crown," "Nether Bone Ring," "Collector," and "Golden Holy Grail."

There shouldn't be any more recorded afterward, at least that's what Su Xiao hoped. After all, even now, when he sees a new Original Sin Object, he still feels palpitations.

At the same time, on the edge of the main battlefield, on a shallow puddle, bloodstains floated on the water surface. A figure wearing black tights and a long ponytail was lying in the puddle. Her vision was constantly narrowing and blurring. Just then, she heard hurried footsteps approaching.

"She is here."

Hearing the therapist's thick smoky voice, Crow Woman knew the plan was successful this time. Soon, a group of Spellcasters who rushed over placed her on an emergency pad. Green faint light appeared in the therapist's hands, diffusing around Crow Woman, but was pushed away by Crow Woman. She asked with blurry vision: "Where are that old woman Sephiria and that old man Guya."

"Right in front of you."

The trace of a smile on Sephiria's face disappeared. Hearing her voice, Crow Woman took a deep breath, forcibly making her vitality active for a few points, and her gaze returned to clarity. She looked at Sephiria and said: "The mark is attached to his scabbard. Whether it can succeed depends on you."

Crow Woman didn't hide from the group of Spellcasters when she met Su Xiao this time, but went to find Sephiria and Dean Guya after receiving a secret contact, and explained the situation to both of them.

"Well done, you didn't waste Lord Soul's trust in you."

Sephiria spoke seriously. Hearing this, Crow Woman was a bit moved, as if she was moved by Sephiria. She stopped talking, plus her near-death appearance, made everyone present moved.

"If you want to say something, say it."

Sephiria patted Crow Woman on the shoulder, which made Crow Woman more "moved." She said weakly: "Even if I say something, can you forgive me?"

"Of course, as long as you are not a traitor."

Hearing this, Crow Woman said in a low voice: "Of course I am not a traitor. However, those two Original Sin Objects before, after I was beaten half to death by that Law-Extinguisher, he stuffed them to me, and I didn't..."

"Shut up, there are no Original Sin Objects at all. No Original Sin Object has ever entangled us, never... ever."

Sephiria spoke word by word. It could be seen that the entanglement of the Original Sin Objects had been resolved. As for how painful the price paid was, only she and Dean Guya knew. In short, after returning to the Arcane Eternal Star this time, they had to sell some Black Maple Tree products to other forces.

Twilight Winter City, inside the ancient castle of the Lord's Manor.

Su Xiao sat on the chair in front of the window, looking at the snow scene outside. Until now, he hadn't figured out one thing, which was where Crow Woman set the coordinate or mark. The reason he thought of this point was because everything was in the plan.

In the situation where he couldn't strip the Original Sin Object from the Priest, Su Xiao still invited Crow Woman to take the Original Sin Object, which itself represented many things. Whether it was Crow Woman temporarily yielding to come here, and then turning hostile and attacking, to taking the opportunity to steal the contract scroll, and finally escaping with heavy injuries, it was actually in the plan. Conversely, if Crow Woman completely yielded today, Su Xiao's plan would not be able to proceed.

But who is that? That is the direct disciple of Owl, one of the strongest hunters. Crow Woman would be defeated or even killed, but there was no possibility of yielding.

In this situation, the other party still risked her life to attend the appointment, which could only be for a very strong purpose, such as constructing a coordinate or mark on Su Xiao or items he always wore. As an assassin, Crow Woman was very good at this, plus the support of Spellcasters who were not short of money, she was even more handy.

The purpose of doing this was that once Su Xiao's real-time location was mastered, it would be convenient to ambush him. At least in Su Xiao's view, it was like this. If he were a Spellcaster, he would also do this.

There is a saying that high-level hunters often appear in the way of prey. Those Spellcasters wanted to kill Su Xiao, and Su Xiao also wanted to kill an Absolute Strong Spellcaster. Ask, when is the enemy most careless? It is when they think they have won. When they think they have surrounded this Law-Extinguisher, in fact, this hunt has just begun.

But there is a problem now, which is where is the coordinate or mark left by Crow Woman? Su Xiao checked his clothes, scabbard, etc., as well as sensing his body surface, but found no signs. This made him a bit suspicious. Could it be that Crow Woman came to the appointment just to steal the contract scroll?

Thinking about it again, it's not right. If this matter hadn't been told to Sephiria and Dean Guya, then with Crow Woman's current injuries, she should have died. Now that there is no kill prompt, it shows that Crow Woman received effective and powerful treatment. It is obvious that the other side planned to wait for Crow Woman near the teleportation destination of the spatial item.

Su Xiao continued to check his belongings, but whether it was energy fluctuation or soul energy sensing, everything was the same as before, without any difference. Discovering this, he prepared to go to Witch Lilia. Although the other party's divination was very likely in the calculations of the Spellcasters, it was worth a try.

"Bai Ye, what are you busy with there?"

Fairy Lulu floated up and stretched.

"What is that on your scabbard? Is it a new pattern? It wasn't there yesterday. It was just printed on today. It's too inconspicuous."

"..."

Su Xiao suspiciously picked up the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan in the scabbard, observed and sensed carefully, and finally used a microscope, but still found nothing.

A moment later, Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, Jila, and Fairy Lulu sat around the table, with Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan on the table. Xiang Bubu Wang observed carefully, but saw nothing.

"Although it's not obvious, you didn't see this mark?"

Fairy Lulu patted the mark on the scabbard with her meow claws. Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Jila looked at each other, seeing the confusion and incomprehension in each other's eyes.

Why Fairy Lulu could see this mark was something Su Xiao couldn't figure out. Could it be that Fairy Lulu had this kind of ability? But checking Fairy Lulu's data, except for auxiliary skills, there was no detection for marks.

Su Xiao called several guards and let them all try to see the mark on the scabbard, but they couldn't see it either. He found the little lord Gurwei, and she couldn't see it either. City Lord Fenris observed for a long time and finally shook his head.

Just when Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, and Baha were all worried, the Maid Chief said softly: "Is it a ring-shaped mark?"

Hearing this, Su Xiao suddenly thought of the reason. The standard for whether this mark can be seen is quite clever. If he wasn't mistaken, this should be a causal mark, ignoring all detection and perception, only visible to the naked eye. A clearer standard is that people whose strength is weaker than a certain degree can see this mark.

Coupled with the fact that this mark is not easy to notice, the servants around Su Xiao who can see this mark would not notice this fine change at all. Even if they noticed it, they wouldn't mention it. The reason is that in the past, they hadn't observed the 【Magic Sealing】 scabbard carefully. This kind of tiny change at this moment, the possibility of ordinary people noticing it is almost negligible.

The most fatal thing is that Su Xiao is the Lord. Even if he is relatively kind to these servants usually, they respect and fear Su Xiao in their hearts. Even if they notice the subtle changes on the scabbard, they will never mention it voluntarily.

Upon learning that it was because his combat power was too weak that he could see this mark, Fairy Lulu was stunned. She, who was still a bit proud just now, suddenly couldn't be happy. She looked at Xiang Bubu Wang and said decisively: "Single-handedly!"

"Wang?"

Xiang Bubu Wang had a confused dog face.

A moment later, Fairy Lulu with tears in her eyes sat in front of the wall, and the Maid Chief comforted her softly on the side.

Determining that it was a problem with the Magic Sealing scabbard, things were easy to handle. In fact, it didn't matter if it wasn't determined. Su Xiao's plan was, if he couldn't determine whether there was a mark, he would just wear ordinary clothes when going out recently, and put other things into the storage space. He didn't believe that the Arcane Eternal Star side could track things put into the storage space.

【Prompt: Your Beast Race legion has captured White Hoof Port.】

【Because you obtained the capture reward for White Hoof Port, you obtained a total of 12940 reputation points for capturing White Hoof Port this time.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was in a good mood. Risking the accelerated growth of Ergein's rebellious nature, he had previously delegated power to Ergein again. Now it seems it was correct. That guy really went to attack White Hoof Port, and actually took it down. However, as a price, their own Beast Race legion was reduced from 12 to 8. From this, it can be seen that Ergein had a tragic bloody battle with the Sea Race Commander Poniello at White Hoof Port.

Su Xiao arrived at the map. After taking White Hoof Port, heading west was the Sea Race's "Ancestor Lighthouse," and heading north was "Floating Light Island." It's just that "Floating Light Island" is on the sea, and their own legion needs to go to sea.

The next step must be to head to "Floating Light Island." Su Xiao being this Beast Race Lord is not to help the Beast Race beat the Sea Race to death. He is more like cooperating with the Beast Race, and as a gain, he wants to achieve some of his own goals.

In addition to the good news of taking White Hoof Port, the fungus blankets would all be recovered tomorrow morning, which means a large amount of evolution points are coming. I don't know to what extent the Zerg can be improved.

At present, there are a total of 16490 reputation points. The Soul Crystal Soul and Soul Crystal Cores in the faction store have been exchanged away. After flipping through for a moment, he found the resources he wanted.

【Overlord Essence】

Inventory quantity: 30 (replenished irregularly).

Exchange prerequisite: Reputation Tier: Leader-level (already achieved).

Single exchange price: 120–400 reputation points (depending on the quality of the exchanged Overlord Essence).

Su Xiao chose to exchange all 【Overlord Essence】.

【You have consumed 9856 reputation points.】

【You have obtained Overlord Essence x30.】

Pieces of 【Overlord Essence】 of different sizes appeared in front of Su Xiao. He put them all away. Counting the Overlord Essence he had saved before, he had a total of 39 【Overlord Essence】.

Exchange for 13 third-echelon Overlord equipment? Of course not. Su Xiao's idea was that this time going to Floating Light Island, he would see if he could exchange for 10 largest-specification 【Overlord Essence】 through Dudu Gugu, and use these 10 extra-large 【Overlord Essence】 to exchange for a piece of first-echelon Overlord equipment.

Speaking of which, he had obtained quite a few pieces of Overlord equipment, but only two remained: 【Golden Scale】 was broken before, and 【Collector】 was assimilated and absorbed by the Mother Nest, which left him with only 【Silver Moon Blade】 and 【Blood Feather】.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out one of the largest 【Overlord Essence】 he held. But just then, an ethereal child's voice came.

"Can I eat it? It looks delicious."

This voice made Baha on the side tremble. Xiang Bubu Wang also looked over upon hearing the sound. But the next second, Xiang Bubu Wang's little expression became terrified, and his hind legs trembled.

A little boy wearing luxurious ceremonial clothes, with pale skin but ceramic-like cracks on his face, was standing on the side. His eyes were pitch black, and in that pitch black, there were tiny white dots jumping and rotating. And the mouth he grinned with was also pure darkness. Although he smiled innocently, it made people's backs feel cold.

Seeing this thing for the first time, Su Xiao determined that this was the seller of the "Primal Mark" fragment in the Sea Race's main city, Yato Ancient City.

Without any movement, the 【Overlord Essence】 in Su Xiao's hand disappeared and arrived in the hands of the black-eyed existence. It made a gesture to swallow the 【Overlord Essence】, but Su Xiao said:

"I have more interesting things. How about we exchange?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the black-eyed existence's movement paused. After the smile on its face became a bit strange, it said: "Contract, reached."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out the silver sealing box, opened it, and took out the "Soul Crown." This made the black-eyed existence on the opposite side narrow its eyes, a bit unhappy. But what was worth vigilance was that it seemed not to fear this Original Sin Object.

Seeing this, Su Xiao took out the "Nether Bone Ring." Seeing this thing, the anger on the face of the black-eyed little boy on the opposite side gradually receded, but one could still see from its expression that it was not very reconciled.

Su Xiao didn't speak. He took out a charcoal box, opened it, and took out the Necronomicon. The meaning was obvious: didn't the black-eyed existence want precious resources? These were all for it.

The three Original Sin Objects were placed in front. The black-eyed existence no longer narrowed its eyes, and its gaze seemed to be a bit clearer. It looked at Su Xiao in surprise, as if it had seen something rare in its life. Finally, the black-eyed existence slapped the "Overlord Essence" in its hand onto the table, looked at Su Xiao with disgust, and turned to walk into the wall of the other party.

After the black-eyed existence left, Su Xiao's face became expressionless. He had been schemed against by the old guy Priest. That old thing left the Sea Race's main city and headed straight for his side. After coming, he said he wanted to strip the "Golden Holy Grail," but that old thing knew very well in his heart that at the current stage, there was no possibility of stripping the "Golden Holy Grail."

You don't need to think to know that the old guy was targeted by the black-eyed existence, and he deliberately led the black-eyed existence to Su Xiao's side, letting this existence target Su Xiao.

As for why he didn't lead it to other places, it was because the Priest felt that the probability of others dragging down the black-eyed existence was too low. Only Su Xiao, who often dealt with Lush Madness, was good at this.

As a good teammate, the Priest launched a backstab. In the Priest's view, compared to the life-threatening danger brought by the black-eyed existence, backstabbing a good teammate, and paying some other things, were all acceptable.

For this kind of behavior of a good teammate, Su Xiao naturally had to respond actively. He opened the contact platform and tried to contact the Priest, but received a prompt: No contact permission. This was obviously premeditated, and contact had been blocked in advance.

Discovering this, the smile on Su Xiao's face became more kind. He activated the Legend Ranking and transferred Legend points to the Priest.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): Your Legend points are -???, unable to perform regular transfers.】

【Detected that the transfer target is a semi-notarized violator, you can perform this transfer, but if the transfer amount is huge, the Legend points held by the transfer target have a high probability of being synchronized to -??? the same as yours.】

Su Xiao didn't hesitate at all and transferred 10 million Legend points to his good teammate Priest. Not only that, he didn't forget the Priest's teammates, Violator Beverly and Violator Xiao Ge, transferring 10 million Legend points to each of them. These three had been teaming up since the Dead City time until now. Soon, the Legend Ranking became:

【Ranking refreshed, current ranking is as follows.】

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

Last place: Priest (Sanctuary Paradise), -??? Legend points.

Last place: Xiao Ge (Sanctuary Paradise), -??? Legend points.

Last place: Beverly (Reincarnation Paradise), -??? Legend points.

First place: Ruthless Brother (Reincarnation Paradise), 756900 Legend points.

This ranking came out, and Ruthless Brother, who was in first place, suddenly became confused. He didn't know why, but he felt aggrieved being in first place, as there were several people ranked above him.