Chapter 3704: Essence

Inside the dilapidated hall that had lost its ceiling, a pitch-black great sword was stuck in the ground, with wisps of black smoke rising from it. A hand wrapped in crystal layers gripped the great sword and pulled it out from the ground.

Just by holding the deep Abyss Great Sword, Su Xiao could feel the darkness gradually drowning his heart. This was still under the condition that he had 20 points of Abyss resistance. If the Abyss resistance was lower than 10 points, he would be eroded the moment he touched this weapon.

The risk of destroying this weapon was relatively high. There were two choices: one was to send it to the Soul Library, where they would seal such weapons for free; the other was to throw it into the Abyss. Su Xiao chose the latter. Unless there was a very special Soul Library badge, it was impossible to open the door to the library in a Transcendent Origin World like the Wind Sea Continent.

"Oh? You don't want to keep it for yourself?"

Serphilia, with a pale face and a smile in her eyes, spoke. Hearing this, Su Xiao didn't speak. A sound of breaking wind came; it was Baha flying over.

Seeing Baha come here, Serphilia immediately put on a straight face. She could indeed split the difference with Su Xiao in verbal confrontation and mess with each other's mentality, but when encountering Baha, she truly had no chance to fight back. Therefore, Serphilia turned and left.

"Damn it, count yourself lucky for running fast."

Baha spoke with a cheap smile. As for why it didn't chase out to confront Serphilia, that was absolutely impossible. Now that they were out of Floating Light Island, it was beyond the scope of the contract's constraints. Regarding Serphilia's strength, Baha didn't care on the surface, but was very vigilant in its heart.

Ignoring Baha who was muttering there, Su Xiao took out an injection gun, pressed the potion tube in, and gave the Knight Commander several injections in a row, which made the Knight Commander's face have some blood color and he woke up slowly.

A moment later, the Knight Commander drank the 15th bottle of potion with a gulp. Originally, he thought he would have to recuperate for a month, but now he felt that he should return to his peak state by tomorrow or the day after. Having a pharmacist in the team was truly too top-tier.

Su Xiao took out a set of potions. In the Knight Commander's puzzled gaze, Baha introduced: "This bottle can remove the sequelae of Abyss energy erosion, this bottle is to neutralize the negative effects of Moonlight Power on the soul, and this bottle is for... after being slashed by the soul..."

After Baha finished explaining one by one, it added: "Don't thank our potion; these are all contract contents. Then, our cooperation ends here. I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future. This is your severed arm, in this device. Within two to three months, your severed arm can maintain the vitality it had when it was just severed."

A few minutes later, the Knight Commander carried the gun case and left with the life-support device. Before leaving the hall door, he paused. Not good at words, he nodded to Su Xiao and then left with big strides.

This time, fighting the Wolf God, the Knight Commander was top-tier throughout. Although the damage caused to the Wolf God was far less than Serphilia's, facts proved that having a heavy-armored warrior in the team who could completely block a strong enemy would increase the winning rate of the battle by a large margin.

Su Xiao walked to the inner side of the hall, where an Abyss Hole was floating. He released the Blade Spirit that was about to fall into a dormant state, formed smoke threads, controlled it to sew up the Abyss Hole, and finally gave it a tug, completely sealing the Abyss Hole.

As the Abyss Hole was sealed, the spatial folds that had been sewn up were smoothed out by the large amount of elemental power Su Xiao summoned. Seeing this, he withdrew the Blade Spirit, let it fall into a dormant state, and also began to devour the origin energy of the Abyss-corrupted creature with the Undying trait within Zhan Long Shan.

【Hint: You have closed the Abyss Hole.】

【You can choose one of the following three reward methods.】

1. The gift brought by this world.

2. The reward from the Samsara Paradise for this type of event.

3. The reward from the Tree of the Void for this type of event (Warning: Because your Tree of the Void reputation is -???, after choosing this type of reward, it is estimated that your reward will be paying 12,000–20,000 Soul Coins to the Tree of the Void).

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao frowned. He knew what the first two rewards meant, but for the last one, looking at the meaning, if he chose this reward, not only would he get nothing, but he would also have to pay 20,000 Soul Coins?

Su Xiao chose "The reward from the Samsara Paradise for this type of event." The next second, a hint appeared.

【You obtained World Medal (Souvenir, can be gifted to neutral units, thereby having a certain probability of receiving a return gift).】

【You obtained Secret Potion Formula: Dark Walker.】

【Secret Potion Formula: Dark Walker】

Prerequisite: Pharmacy Lv. 80 or above (Already achieved).

Formula Information: Each manufacture requires 3000 mana points, requires materials: Soul Essence, Dark Essence, Source-less Polymerization Substance II, Concentrated Dark Creature Spinal Cord, Life Extract, Crystal Bottle.

Potion Effect: After drinking, can permanently increase 2 points of Abyss resistance (effective below 30 points of Abyss resistance; if drunk a second time, death is certain).

At first glance, 2 points of Abyss resistance wasn't much, but if one had tried to increase Abyss resistance, one would find that 2 points of Abyss resistance was already quite a lot.

Successfully closing the Abyss Hole, Su Xiao relaxed a bit. Just now, he always felt that something was peeking at him in the darkness connected by the Abyss Hole.

Only then did Su Xiao have time to check the kill hints that appeared just now. After checking, he found that there were two types of kill hints.

【Hint: You have killed an Abyss-corrupted creature (Alien Species).】

【You obtained Golden Skill Points ×3.】

【You obtained Abyss Treasure Chest (After opening, there is a probability of obtaining Abyss products).】

【You have killed the Wolf God Xie En.】

【You obtained 7580 Soul Coins.】

【You obtained 15.8% World Source.】

【You obtained Wolf Blood Treasure Chest (Opening this treasure chest has a certain probability of obtaining Silver Moon Wolf exclusive items, or equipment and gems above Origin-tier).】

The 【Abyss Treasure Chest】 was put away first. Seeing this thing, Su Xiao felt a bit dizzy. He had already opened two Original Sin Objects from this type of treasure chest. If he opened a third one, it would truly be the death of him.

As for the 【Wolf Blood Treasure Chest】, this was a good thing. It could open equipment above Origin-tier. So far, he hadn't obtained such equipment.

Besides these two treasure chests, there were other gains this time. When fighting the Wolf God just now, Su Xiao drew Boundary Thunder, clearing all the dark creatures on the island, which didn't give him Soul Coin or World Source rewards, but dropped treasure chests all over the ground. At this moment, Xiang Bubu Wang was responsible for picking up treasure chests everywhere.

According to Xiang Bubu Wang's observation, the treasure chests dropped by killing dark creatures were all of the same type, named 【Dark Treasure Chest】. He didn't know what could be opened inside, but estimated it was related to the Abyss.

Just then, Su Xiao suddenly felt a faint heat coming from his index finger. He lifted his right hand and found that the 【God's Judgment】 ring was finally about to upgrade.

Regarding the upgrade method of the 【God's Judgment】 ring, Su Xiao had never figured it out. Previously, when he slew the Soul Death God, this equipment didn't upgrade. Now, slaying the Wolf God actually improved it. No matter how one looked at it, the Wolf God couldn't be counted as an evil god. The other party was eroded by the Abyss, but it was sealed by the Beastkin and Sea Tribes just after being eroded.

Thinking this way, the accumulation of the 【God's Judgment】 ring's growth degree was indeed slaying evil gods, but when the growth degree reached 99.99%, its upgrade condition was definitely not slaying evil gods. It was highly likely to be slaying a powerful god who had a huge impact on the world but was already trapped in the mud.

Although he couldn't clearly know the upgrade method, it didn't matter, because the 【God's Judgment】 ring was about to reach its limit quality. Judging from the fluctuation of this equipment, it would only need one more upgrade to reach the absolute limit. Su Xiao checked the upgraded 【God's Judgment】 ring.

【God's Judgment】

Origin: Samsara Paradise

Quality: Origin-tier

Category: Ring

Durability: 105/105 (Increased by 30 points)

Equipment Requirement: Once slaughtered an extremely evil god (Already significantly exceeded equipment requirement)

Equipment Effect 1: Soul Life (Core Passive), every point of the wearer's Soul Strength will increase health by 150 points and nerve reflex speed by 0.5%.

Existing Soul Strength: 710 points.

Health increased: 85,000 points (This equipment can increase health by up to 85,000 points).

Nerve reflex speed increased: 280% nerve reflex speed (This equipment can increase nerve reflex speed by up to 280%).

Equipment Effect 2: Wolf Blood (Passive), when your health is below 50%, melee damage is increased by 12%, and you gain 10% total damage reduction (including elemental damage, soul damage, etc., but cannot exempt true damage).

Hint: If the wearer kills a god unit, the ability obtained from slaying the god will replace this ability.

Equipment Growth Degree: 0%.

Equipment Growth Condition: After killing an extremely evil god, this equipment can absorb the god's origin energy to grow...

Rating: 3000+ (The rating of Origin-tier quality equipment is 1500–3000 points).

Introduction: Hunt, go hunt more evil gods, until...

Price: Cannot be sold.

The bonus of the God's Judgment ring had a significant improvement, especially the newly obtained "Wolf Blood," which could be described as exceptionally practical. However, once a new god was slain, this ability would be replaced. This was the characteristic of the God's Judgment ring, which couldn't be avoided.

Arriving at the back door of the temple, Su Xiao pushed a metal door with both hands. As the metal door opened, faint cyan moonlight and the scent of grass and trees came head-on.

Although the Boundary Thunder that struck down smashed the sealed hall, it didn't pierce through the courtyard behind the hall that was protected by Abyss power. At this moment, there was still a lawn in the courtyard, and various natural elements were drifting in the air.

A grave full of colorful small flowers was located here, as well as the tombstone emitting cyan moonlight, and the Wolf Sword stuck in front of the tombstone.

Due to the fatigue of fighting the Wolf God, Su Xiao simply sat on the ground in front of the Wolf Tomb, took out the flesh and blood of the exotic beast Erba, and pressed it in front of the tombstone, then took out the 【Silver Moon Blade】.

Just after taking out the 【Silver Moon Blade】, this small knife made of moonlight floated up, and wisps of silver moonlight merged into it. Don't know if it was an illusion, but a wolf shadow seemed to be squatting on the tombstone several meters high, looking up and howling silently.

Su Xiao took out a bottle of elemental fine wine. After pulling out the stopper,

Fortunately, this situation did not occur. As Su Xiao grasped the Wolf Sword, cyan moonlight gradually appeared on the blade. After taking some Supreme Moonlight with a sealing bottle, he released the hilt. After all, this was not his weapon; he could use it temporarily only because he was a Shadow of the Law.

Su Xiao walked toward the exit. Before he had walked many steps, he suddenly heard a slight tapping sound, which made his footsteps pause.

After a few seconds, a slight tapping sound came again from a high black wall in the courtyard. Looking toward the sound, a small, jade-like white bone hand was tapping the wall with a slender index finger, as if trying to attract Su Xiao's attention, yet afraid that the sound was too loud and would disturb the Wolf Tomb sleeping here.

Su Xiao came to the wall. The wall was pitch black, and a black stone disk was embedded at a height of about 1.2 meters from the ground.

Su Xiao's hand pressed onto this stone disk.

"Dudu, Gugu."

A very clear sound came from inside the wall behind the stone disk. Hearing this sound, Su Xiao tapped the stone disk with his fingertip. This stone disk made of special material emitted an ethereal sound.

【Hint: You can conduct a friendly trade with Dudu Gugu. Dudu Gugu is a friendly unit of the Wind Sea Continent.】

【Due to your -19 Charisma attribute, Dudu Gugu's perception in this regard has been refreshed, and Dudu Gugu is very afraid.】

【Dudu Gugu is hesitating whether to trade with you.】

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao's brows furrowed slightly, as if noticing his expression.

【Hint: Due to various reasons, Dudu Gugu has decided to trade with you.】

Su Xiao pondered for a moment and took out the 【Ancient Soul Bell】 from his storage space.

【Ancient Soul Bell】

Equipment Effect: Timer (Passive). You can use this Soul Bell to set a timer. After the set time arrives, there is a 50% probability of triggering "Fairy Morning Song" or a 50% probability of triggering "Ghost Lullaby."

Fairy Morning Song: Beautiful singing comes from the Soul Bell to wake you up, welcoming a new day. In the following 16 hours, your Luck attribute +2 points, Stamina recovery speed +10%, and Soul Energy recovery speed +10%.

Ghost Lullaby: You will continue to sleep for 2–5 hours due to the ghost's lullaby. During the continued sleep, your Mental Strength, Sanity limit, and Soul Strength will all receive permanent improvements.

Hint: This equipment can only be used once per natural day, and it can only be normally activated after the user enters a sleep state.

Since obtaining this thing, Su Xiao had used it normally once, and then discovered that while its attributes looked beautiful, using it was another matter.

After Su Xiao set the timer, he basically never triggered the "Fairy Morning Song" that added luck, and he hadn't even seen what the fairy summoned by this equipment looked like. Instead, every time, it summoned a ghost that sang "Ghost Lullaby" on the side.

The key was that the ghost brother summoned always had a tremolo in his singing voice, with a face that looked like he was forced to work. Moreover, because Su Xiao's Mental Strength, Sanity limit, and Soul Strength were all very high, this so-called "Ghost Lullaby" basically had no beneficial effect on him.

This also resulted in the ghost brother's tremolo version of "Ghost Lullaby" being able to sing Su Xiao awake. Being woken up in this way made Su Xiao's mood particularly unpleasant, and then it turned into the ghost brother's confession.

Su Xiao had always found it difficult to accept the tremolo tone of the "Ghost Lullaby." After asking, he learned that normally there was no tremolo; it was mainly because the ghost brother was afraid after seeing Su Xiao, which was why it always had a tremolo.

It was a pity to sell the 【Ancient Soul Bell】, but using it himself had poor effects. Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny couldn't trigger the equipment's effects, so he simply brought it to trade with Dudu Gugu this time.

Having traded with Dudu Gugu twice, Su Xiao had figured out some trading rules. In the past, Dudu Gugu would propose the trade content, and then he would take out items with corresponding characteristics, thus completing the trade. The whole process was a passive trade.

Actually, there was another trading method, which was for Su Xiao to take out an item and give it to Dudu Gugu, and Dudu Gugu would take out an equivalent reward. Afterward, it would be Dudu Gugu's turn to propose the trade type, and Su Xiao would take out items with corresponding characteristics, trading back and forth. However, there was a limit to trading with Dudu Gugu, or rather, a limit on the amount of a single trade.

This limit seemed to refresh after a period of time, or the trading limit would refresh in different worlds.

Dudu Gugu's small bone hand grabbed the 【Ancient Soul Bell】. After a moment.

With a clatter, a large amount of Soul Coins fell onto the tray, not only filling it up but also flowing down the sides. When the last Soul Coin fell, the tray and the Soul Coins on the ground had already piled up.

Su Xiao activated the Soul Coin collection function of his storage space. One by one, the Soul Coins flew up and entered the storage space. The clattering sound of the coins colliding sounded exceptionally pleasant. He received a total of over 20,000 Soul Coins.

"Pitch black, dark and gloomy."

Dudu Gugu's clear voice came from inside the wall. This was a reminder of what it wanted.

Su Xiao checked his storage space for a while, but for a moment, he really couldn't find anything pitch black or dark. He turned and left the courtyard. When he returned, with a clatter, he placed a stone soaked black by Abyssal power onto the stone disk.

Dudu Gugu inside the wall hesitated for a long time before accepting this "Abyss Stone" picked up from the roadside. With a click, a black stone coin fell onto the stone disk. Who would have thought, this little guy was quite witty.

Su Xiao wasn't trying to fool Dudu Gugu; the trading rules were just like that. If the conditions proposed by Dudu Gugu could not be met, the trade would end.

It was Su Xiao's turn again. He was quite curious about one thing: what level of existence was Dudu Gugu? It looked cute and timid, but the places it appeared were one more dangerous than the next. One had to know that this was the center of a severe Abyss erosion zone. Before, he had thought Dudu Gugu had already left.

Thinking about it this way, did Dudu Gugu have any means to deal with Original Sin items? If it did, Su Xiao wouldn't mind taking out some good things, such as 【Soul Crystal Essence】, to exchange with Dudu Gugu for means to deal with Original Sin items.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out the sealing box. After temporarily removing the seal on it, he took out the Soul Crown inside. Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask Dudu Gugu if it had any method to deal with such artifacts, Dudu Gugu inside the wall spoke first.

"Kiss kiss kiss, kiss kiss kiss."

Dudu Gugu's clear voice came from inside the wall again, which made Su Xiao feel slightly surprised. He still remembered that last time he took out something Dudu Gugu particularly liked, Dudu Gugu said exactly this. Could it be that this cute little guy liked Abyssal Original Sin items? This really was a case of "don't judge a book by its cover."

Su Xiao made a gesture to place the Soul Crown on the stone disk. Dudu Gugu's voice inside the wall suddenly raised several octaves.

"Kiss kiss kiss! Kiss kiss kiss!!"

Seeing this, Su Xiao's movement paused. From Dudu Gugu's small voice that almost cracked, it could be heard that it didn't like the Original Sin item.

"You don't want to touch this Original Sin item?"

"Dudu."

Dudu Gugu saying "Dudu" meant yes, while saying "Gugu" meant a negative meaning.

"Do you have the means to deal with this thing?"

"Gugu."

"Oh, seeing you so excited, I thought you liked this thing."

"Gugu! Kiss kiss kiss~"

Dudu Gugu's meaning was to ask Su Xiao to put the Original Sin item away quickly.

Not getting the method to curb the Original Sin item from Dudu Gugu, Su Xiao didn't feel disappointed. He took out the 39 【Overlord Essences】 he had. Seeing this thing, Dudu Gugu's voice immediately became happy and clear.

"Kiss kiss kiss, kiss kiss kiss."

Dudu Gugu held them with its two small bone hands. When all the 【Overlord Essences】 were placed on the stone disk, Dudu Gugu picked up two of them.

"..."

Su Xiao threw an extra one to Dudu Gugu, which made Dudu Gugu happily tap the stone disk with its small bone hand, emitting an ethereal, pleasant sound.

Neutral units notarized by the Void Tree all had one or two unique abilities. Whether it was the Blind Old Man, the Mushroom Sage, or the Dudu Gugu before him, all were like this.

And Dudu Gugu's unique ability was to synthesize 【Overlord Essences】. It had just taken two 【Overlord Essences】, which quite felt like a service fee. Su Xiao gave an extra one as compensation for the other party being scared half to death by the Original Sin item, which was why Dudu Gugu seemed so happy.

However, Dudu Gugu, this little guy, clearly didn't intend to accept an Overlord Essence for nothing. At this time, it was exceptionally serious about synthesizing. After a full few hours passed, it finally synthesized all the Overlord Essences to the maximum specification, which made its gentle and clear aura fluctuation reveal a bit of exhaustion.

While waiting, Su Xiao took out the silver sealing box containing the 【Silver. Moonlight Set】. Using the trace amount of Supreme Moonlight he had obtained, he activated the Moonlight Set inside this sealing box. It was very successful, but to fully activate this technique set, it would still take some time.

【You have obtained Overlord Essence × 8.】

Eight 【Overlord Essences】 were placed on the stone disk. Each one was the size of a fist, looking very solid and faintly presenting a dark red color.

If one collected 10 of these maximum-specification 【Overlord Essences】, one could exchange them for a top-tier Overlord equipment in the Reincarnation Paradise.

After completing the synthesis of the 【Overlord Essences】, the trading quota with Dudu Gugu for this time was exhausted.

"Hand hand hand, grab hand hand."

Dudu Gugu's small bone hand pointed to Su Xiao's hand. Su Xiao pressed his right hand onto the stone disk. Dudu Gugu's several small bone hands grabbed his hand; the small bone hands were slightly cool.

【Hint: You have obtained Dudu Gugu's "Buff Blessing · Good Luck." Your Luck attribute is temporarily increased by 6 points, lasting for 12 hours.】

【Due to the influence of fortune, this bonus failed.】

【Dudu Gugu is attempting to increase the intensity of this buff...】

【Upgrade failed.】

【Dudu Gugu is attempting to increase the intensity of this buff again...】

【Upgrade failed. Dudu Gugu has temporarily fainted due to overdrawing.】

【Dudu Gugu has awakened.】

【You have obtained Dudu Gugu's "Buff Blessing · Protection." Your physical defense +45 points, maximum health +5% (because your maximum health limit is too high, this bonus is reduced from the original 15% to only being able to increase your maximum health by 5%). The effect lasts for 12 hours.】

【Because you reached a trade with Dudu Gugu and the items you took out made Dudu Gugu feel your generosity, when the buff blessing ends, you can return to this place again, or when you encounter Dudu Gugu in other areas, you can regain Dudu Gugu's buff blessing.】

After ending the trade with Dudu Gugu, Su Xiao set a spatial coordinate point here to facilitate future visits. After doing all this, he left the courtyard and returned to the dilapidated Sealing Hall.

Xiang Bubu Wang, who had finished picking up all the treasure chests on the island, had returned. There were a total of hundreds of 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】 in the team storage space, just waiting to return to the Lord's Manor in Twilight Winter City to be opened all at once.

The spatial array was activated with a boom. When the spatial fluctuations subsided, Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, and Baja had returned to the backyard warehouse of the Lord's Manor. Snowflakes were falling outside the window.

A moment later, in the inner hall on the second floor of the ancient castle, Su Xiao leaned back on a single sofa, pondering what to do next. Although competing for the "Initial Mark" fragments was important, searching without a clear goal was not as good as waiting for a large piece of "Initial Mark" fragment to appear. That would have a notarization announcement from the Void Tree, and at that time, he could just go and participate in the chaotic battle of the gods.

Of course, if his conscience wouldn't hurt, Su Xiao could also bring the eight Beast Race legions under his command. It's just that he didn't know if this would violate the notarization regulations.

The primary matter at hand was still to rescue the Dwarf King first. As long as this matter succeeded, the spellcasters who could not obtain elemental artifacts afterward would definitely feel anxious, thereby revealing flaws.

Just as Su Xiao was pondering this matter, he suddenly felt a fluctuation he had never felt before appear in his storage space. It was the technique-type set; the Silver. Moonlight Set had been successfully awakened.

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