Chapter 3716: You Found the Right Person

Su Xiao paid attention to the situation in the World Contact Platform for a while and basically confirmed that the immortal chaotic battle was about to begin. The largest piece of "Initial Fragment" so far had been discovered in the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain".

The "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain" was located in the northernmost area of the Sea Clan's territory. However, even with the strength of the Sea Clan, they had built a towering barrier adjacent to the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain", named Winter Wall...

To be precise, there were four major factions in this world, namely, the Beast Clan, the Sea Clan, the Tribe, and the Ice Plain Clan.

However, due to the protracted war between the Beast Clan and the Sea Clan, both sides became the protagonists of this world. And although the Tribe had strength, it was a scattered sand. More importantly, the Ice Plain Clan on the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain" were not living beings, and were even inorganic organisms.

This made the Ice Plain Clan carry out the sentence "if people don't offend me, I won't offend people" to the extreme. In addition, the resources they needed were very different from those of living groups. The only energy resources that had a relationship of contention were also too far from their territory. The "Ancient Ruins" and "Crystal Forest" were located in the crack between the Beast Clan and the Sea Clan, and the Ice Plain Clan had no possibility of intervening.

A more critical point was that coldness was a necessary factor for the existence of the Ice Plain Clan, just like all living beings needed water and oxygen. The Ice Plain Clan would dissolve if they left the coldness.

This led to the fact that the Ice Plain Clan, which was obviously very cruel, had no aggressiveness. Or rather, the entire Eternal Sealed Ice Plain was occupied by them. Even if they wanted to continue to expand outward, it was impossible. Not to mention, at the edge of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, a thousand-meter-high Winter Wall was built. That solid wall made of solid ice and steel blocked the expansion of the Ice Plain Clan, as well as its influence on the history of the Wind Sea Continent.

Speaking of which, it was precisely because one-fifth of the Sea Clan's legions were stationed at the Winter Wall that the Sea Clan was continuously suppressed by the Beast Clan on the main battlefield, so much so that later the Sea Clan found the Arcane Eternal Star as a partner.

If one could obtain a complete map of the Wind Sea Continent, one would find that located on the north and south sides were the "Black Rain Belt (severely eroded Abyss area)" in the southernmost part and the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain (forbidden area for living beings)" in the northernmost part.

When the Dawn Paradise originally teleported the broken "Initial Imprint" to this world, nearly 30% of the "Initial Imprint" were scattered on the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain".

The current situation was that these 30% of "Initial Imprint" were basically found by the Ice Plain Clan on the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain" and offered to the Elder, who was the oldest, most powerful, and wisest existence among them.

The Ice Plain Clan could exist for more than 800 years on average and had innate, powerful strength without the need for cultivation. And they were born by splitting to produce new individuals. Except for the two highest-level powers of the Abyss and elements, they could ingest any energy to use for activities. No matter how you looked at it, this was a hegemonic group, but they had a fatal flaw, which was that their IQ was not very high.

Adventurers once summarized that if you encountered the Ice Plain Clan on the ice plain, even if you were prepared to take out benefits to let the other party spare your life, it was best to choose some precious and small-quantity things. The quantity of these things should not exceed seven or eight. The reason was that the Ice Plain Clan generally had eight claws. Once it exceeded their limited calculation range, their CPU would overload, causing them to gradually become irritable, and finally leading to the failure of begging for mercy.

Also because their wisdom was not high, although the Ice Plain Clan was cruel and had a strong desire for possession, they had no aggressiveness. However, in contrast, these guys were quite vengeful. Or rather, every day, besides wandering and daydreaming on the ice plain, they had nothing else to do. Therefore, once they were hated by one of them, they would hate with extra focus.

Most of the time, the Ice Plain Clan stood still in the wind and snow like ice sculptures, or slept in ice caves or in the cold water under the ice layer. This also meant that once they were disturbed, they would attract indiscriminate attacks.

Simply put, the Ice Plain Clan was somewhat like wild monsters that could be negotiated with to a certain extent, and the weakest was also at the elite monster level.

The most troublesome problem now was that the 30% "Initial Imprint" was in the hands of the leader of the Ice Plain Clan, the Elder. Looking at the situation, the Elder should know the value of this "Initial Imprint".

Once a contractor obtained this piece of "Initial Imprint", the notarization process would begin. First, this contractor who obtained the "Initial Imprint" could choose to set up a defensive point, or take this piece of "Initial Imprint" and flee to the ends of the earth. When the notarization began, the location of this "Initial Imprint" would be announced in the contact platform.

At that time, all contractors would be able to perceive this location and go to compete for it. The holder had to ensure that this piece of "Initial Imprint" was not snatched away within 40 minutes. Then it would be considered officially possessing this piece of "Initial Imprint", and it could be stored in the storage space, and no contractor would be able to perceive its location anymore.

There was another point, even if the holder of this imprint fragment failed to keep this imprint and abandoned it at a dangerous moment, they could still obtain some mission rewards. This was considered a consolation prize for finding the imprint.

There was one thing that made Su Xiao a bit worried. If this imprint was obtained by Thunder Law God Aige or Water Brother and others, the subsequent competition would likely be a normal process. But if this imprint fragment was obtained by the ruthless guy, what kind of competition would follow was unknown. After all, this was a person who added a prompt to the Honor Store.

Su Xiao actually wanted to obtain this imprint first. Although it was time-consuming and laborious, and once snatched away later, only the consolation prize would remain, but this could determine where the competition would take place. This was the biggest advantage of the first acquirer. If the competition for this imprint fragment could be held in the Winter Sealed Territory, the winning odds would soar.

Unfortunately, Su Xiao was either looking for the Soul Reaper or looking for the Wolf Tomb before, and later went to fight the Wolf God, and ambushed the absolute powerhouse spellcaster. He simply didn't have time to prepare for this matter.

It was too late to go to the "Eternal Sealed Ice Plain" now. It was better to wait for the announcement to appear before going to compete for that imprint fragment.

Compared to this matter, there was one thing more important right now. After Su Xiao closed the door of the potion room, he sat in front of the workbench and took out the sealing box containing the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade".

Because he had just killed Dean Guya not long ago, the Blade Magic Spirit inside Checking Zhan Long Shan was still in a semi-sleeping state. Devouring the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" in this state was undoubtedly the safest. He never worried that the Magic Spirit would be damaged or anything. This thing could only get out of control or backfire. The possibility of being damaged was minimal.

But the problem was, just when Su Xiao took out the sealing box of the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" just now, he found a circular 'gem' embedded on it. After looking carefully, he found that this was not a gem at all, this was clearly 【Source】.

Previously, Su Xiao thought that Hunting Tide could be resurrected by 【Source】, but the higher the tier, the more he found this impossible. No matter what, Hunting Tide had been his secretary for two worlds, so the promise still had to be kept as much as possible.

Su Xiao's original idea was that if there was a chance to come into contact with the World Source of a Tier 9 world, he would find a way to let that World Source absorb 【Source】 and let Hunting Tide detach from 【Source】.

In this way, Hunting Tide would change from existing attached to 【Source】 to existing attached to the World Core. Although it still didn't reach true resurrection, it could move freely in a vast Tier 9 world. This was also a fairly good reward that Su Xiao paid.

Unfortunately, the patience of the first beauty of the Tianba Clan was not enough. It might be that she felt Su Xiao was going to break the agreement and had been trapping her in 【Source】 as a tool person. This time, she actually controlled 【Source】 to a certain extent and touched it to the sealing core of the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade".

Under the mutual adsorption of the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" and 【Source】, Hunting Tide successfully escaped from 【Source】, which was considered breaking through the seal Su Xiao had set, and entered the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade".

The current situation was that Hunting Tide was swallowed by the Magic Spirit energy inside the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade". What was even more headache-inducing was that if it was left alone, the Magic Spirit energy inside this "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" might develop consciousness. If it was devoured by the Blade Magic Spirit, whether the Magic Spirit would develop consciousness or something was really uncertain. In that case, the probability of backfiring would be higher.

Therefore, Su Xiao decided to rescue Hunting Tide, who was invaded by Magic Spirit energy, and strip the other party's soul from the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade", letting the other party return to 【Source】.

From many traces, Hunting Tide, who had just entered the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade", had already found something wrong and prepared to retreat. Unfortunately, the car door had been welded shut, and the Magic Spirit energy invaded, shrouding Hunting Tide's soul in it.

Su Xiao held the sheathed "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" with one hand. Inside, there was still the aura of Hunting Tide, which was obviously still salvageable. But it couldn't be rescued immediately. He had to wait until Hunting Tide was completely eroded by the Magic Spirit energy before he could rescue her. It was not intentionally pitting Hunting Tide. The other party's soul was closely connected with those energies during the erosion by the Magic Spirit energy. If he dragged Hunting Tide's soul out stiffly, he might tear the other party's soul into two halves.

The truly effective rescue method was to wait until the erosion of the Magic Spirit energy ended, and the energy entanglement and adsorption were small, then drag Hunting Tide's soul out from inside. I don't know what kind of changes Hunting Tide, who had been baptized by the Magic Spirit energy, would have.

After rescuing Hunting Tide from inside, he could use Checking Zhan Long Shan to devour this "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade" with peace of mind. At that time, the Magic Spirit strength of the Blade Magic Spirit, which was 70 points, would soar to at least 170 points or more.

This made Su Xiao think of one point: could he change a way to develop the Magic Spirit? His current way of using the Magic Spirit was more about "swapping" positions with the Magic Spirit.

Even if the Magic Spirit could be called immortal, its attack strength at the current stage was limited and it was difficult to severely injure the enemy. In addition, there was another problem, which was that Su Xiao came into contact with the "Magic Spirit Awakening" ability too late. He only mastered this ability at Tier 9. According to normal progress, he should have mastered this ability around Tier 5.

Marvin Waltz didn't want to teach, but couldn't teach clearly. Being able to use and be proficient, and being able to teach were two concepts. Otherwise, the previous generation Law-Makers wouldn't have needed to spend such a high price to build the "Awakening Monument".

As for the old Law-Maker, this guy didn't have the ability to release the Magic Spirit at all, because this guy had devoured the Magic Spirit.

Thinking of this point, Su Xiao had an idea. Previously, the Magic Spirit obtained a new ability, which was "Magic Shadow Physique (passive)". This made all of Su Xiao's potential upper limit tiers +8. Such an improvement was simply ridiculously exaggerated.

The reason why it would be like this was because it was suppressed. It should have been a gradual improvement from Tier 5 to now. Now, improving all at once in a short time, naturally, it appeared ridiculous and exaggerated.

But this also gave Su Xiao an idea, which was that every time he devoured the Immortal Characteristic Abyss Nourishing Creature, the increased Magic Spirit energy, half of it was used to improve his own "all potential upper limit tiers".

In this way, not only was the problem of possibly being backfired by the Magic Spirit solved, but he was also constantly improving himself. And it was that every time he eliminated an Immortal Characteristic Abyss Nourishing Creature, he could improve his own upper limit.

Su Xiao had always had self-knowledge. He would never be arrogant enough to think that he was the chosen one. But his greatest enemy, the Supreme One, was an existence that surpassed the "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe".

To reach that level, one's own ability, potential, talent, luck, means, etc., were all indispensable.

Su Xiao would never dream that he was born with the potential to reach that level, nor did he think he had very good luck. Since that was the case, he would use acquired efforts to constantly improve his potential upper limit until he had the possibility of reaching that level.

Relying on heaven's favor was too ethereal. Since that was the case, he would obtain it with his own hands. And the Magic Spirit was Su Xiao's best means currently. Through devouring Magic Spirit energy to improve his own all potential upper limit, he had already verified through the Magic Shadow Physique that it was feasible.

Before obtaining the improvement of "Magic Shadow Physique", he also saw such a prompt below this ability:

"Hint: You can obtain at most one improvement of this type of Magic Spirit ability (this characteristic has absolute priority)."

This prompt seemed to mean that he could only absorb Magic Spirit energy once, but in fact, it was not. It meant he could only trigger "Magic Shadow Physique" once.

Su Xiao didn't need to trigger "Magic Shadow Physique" again. Although his Devouring Core didn't have lethality, the auxiliary Devouring Core had its own benefits. He could completely construct a Devouring Core that was precise enough to make people tongue-tied, and use it to filter Magic Spirit energy to a level that he could absorb. He had an X-level top-tier Devouring Core.

Su Xiao wouldn't devour the Magic Spirit completely like the old Law-Maker, but coexist with the Magic Spirit, and ensure that he could always suppress the Magic Spirit. Every time he devoured the Magic Spirit energy increased by the Immortal Characteristic Abyss Nourishing Creature, half was used to improve the Magic Spirit, and half was used to improve himself.

Although the subsequent improvement couldn't reach the "all potential upper limit tiers +8" brought by the first improvement, it definitely wouldn't be low. Moreover, this was a fairly stable development. Su Xiao had already discovered that after reaching Tier 8 and Tier 9, his fate with Abyss Power could be said to soar in a straight line.

More importantly, the Eternal Light World had many powerful Immortal Characteristic Abyss Nourishing Creatures. If he devoured the source energy of those Abyss Nourishing Creatures, his upper limits in all aspects would reach an especially exaggerated degree.

To achieve this, he had to construct a Devouring Core similar to the operation mode of "Magic Shadow Physique". Su Xiao carefully reviewed the feeling of activating "Magic Shadow Physique", as well as the energy sequence form at that time. Not long after, a crystal-structured Devouring Core was constructed.

He tried to release a tiny amount of Magic Spirit energy. As a result, just as these Magic Spirit energies entered the Devouring Core, the crystal-textured Devouring Core shattered.

The good news was that just for that moment, this crystal Devouring Core did operate, representing that the development direction was correct. But it shattered the moment it operated, which must mean there were huge drawbacks, and it needed time to perfect and develop.

As long as there was a general direction, things would be easy to handle. After this type of Devouring Core form was developed, he could use Checking Zhan Long Shan to devour the "Pseudo-Law-Maker Blade".

Just as Su Xiao was thinking about this matter, Bahamut flew over and said: "Boss, a guest has arrived."

"Who."

"Magic Sickle Teride."

The water vapor of the hot tea drifted up. In the inner hall on the second floor, Su Xiao and Magic Sickle Teride sat opposite each other across the tea table. Only one cup of hot tea on the table was picked up. Magic Sickle Teride, wearing a slightly tattered black robe and a hood, seemed to be half-hidden in the darkness.

"The tea is getting cold. Could it be that you are afraid I put poison in the tea?"

"Yes."

Magic Sickle Teride said "yes" without hiding it, which made the atmosphere a bit stiff. After all, she was a strong woman walking alone in the darkness. Although she had saved countless people, she was not good at socializing, nor was she good at scheming. Magic Sickle Teride was purely powerful and focused.

"This is Maple Tea, it's a waste."

Su Xiao raised his hand to grab the cup rim, but just as he raised his hand, Magic Sickle Teride sitting opposite picked up the Maple Tea and took a sip. Her tightly furrowed brows relaxed a bit.

"Oh? Now you are not afraid that I put poison in it?"

"Law-Maker, poison killing, Abyss Magic Sickle, very rare."

After saying that, Magic Sickle Teride took another sip of Maple Tea. The unique soothing feeling brought by the Maple Tea made her aura relax a bit.

"Tell me, what important matter could make you come to find me regardless of previous suspicions?"

Su Xiao put down the empty tea cup. While pouring himself a cup, he also refilled Magic Sickle Teride's cup.

"Let's work together to drive the ruthless guy out of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain."

"Good suggestion."

While speaking, Su Xiao, who had been looking at the tea set, looked up at Magic Sickle Teride.

"You agreed?"

"I don't agree."

"Why."

Magic Sickle Teride furrowed her brows a bit, not quite understanding why Su Xiao didn't agree to deal with the most troublesome ruthless guy.

"First tell me, why did you come to unite to drive the ruthless guy out of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain."

"Because he is a hunter..."

Halfway through the sentence, Magic Sickle Teride thought that the person in front of her was also one. She changed her words and said: "Because he is a hunter with a Tree of Void reputation of -3800 points or more. I have done some wrong things before, and my Tree of Void reputation was negative 400 points. I know very well how much a person with nearly negative 4000 points can play with the rules. With him in the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, we might not even have the chance to participate in the competition for the imprint fragment."

Hearing this, Su Xiao had a moment of confusion in his eyes. If he didn't understand wrong, Magic Sickle Teride came to find him because of the ruthless guy's various astonishing combat records before, as well as his very low Tree of Void reputation? Preparing to unite with him to drive the ruthless guy with a Tree of Void reputation of -3800 points out of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, so as to avoid the other party doing some operations that made people mentally retarded?

Thinking of this point, Su Xiao stared at Magic Sickle Teride opposite. This made Magic Sickle Teride feel a bit confused. Because she had been alone in the Abyss erosion area for a long time, being stared at like this, she frowned and felt uncomfortable.

On the side, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Bahamut had different expressions. Amu was wiping the antique clock he had taken apart, his expression as usual. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahamut had serious faces. One was rubbing his face with his wings, and the other was picking his teeth with his dog claws, because only in this way could they hold back from laughing.

"So, you think highly of my Tree of Void reputation?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Magic Sickle Teride pondered for a while and said: "I used some special methods to check your Tree of Void reputation. At least your reputation is not a negative number."

After hearing this, Su Xiao knew what was going on. There were not many people who had the ability to drive the ruthless guy out of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain. In addition, the ruthless guy had two very low-key partners. It was unknown if they were in this world. In this way, Magic Sickle Teride could only unite with the contractors, hunters, battle angels, etc., who ranked in the top few in this world.

The best candidate was Thunder Law God Aige. After all, he was a serious Battle Angel, and his Tree of Void reputation reached 3000 points or more. Unfortunately, Thunder Law God Aige's whereabouts were unknown.

The subsequent choices were Su Xiao, Priest, Black Demon, Solomon, Undead Sister, Ranger Four Brothers. Among these people, after Magic Sickle Teride struggled to choose, she found Su Xiao, who seemed to have the highest Tree of Void reputation.

At this moment, Magic Sickle Teride still didn't know that the hunter sitting opposite her didn't have a negative Tree of Void reputation, but was so negative that it couldn't be checked.

However, from a certain perspective, Magic Sickle Teride actually found the right person. As the saying goes, only magic can defeat magic. And facing an enemy with a very low Tree of Void reputation, then go find one who is even lower, has more diverse operations, and is more astonishing.

Just at this time, a series of announcements suddenly appeared, interrupting the negotiation between Su Xiao and Magic Sickle Teride.

【Announcement (Tree of Void): The "Initial Imprint" fragment in the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain area has been acquired by???, and the notarization of this competition is about to begin.】

【This "Initial Imprint" fragment is 30.95% of the overall "Initial Imprint".】

【This competition has been notarized.】

【Because the way??? acquired this "Initial Imprint" fragment is extremely special, the notarization has changed. The original 40-minute competition time limit has been increased to 72 hours.】

【Notarization initial area: Eternal Sealed Ice Plain.】

【During the notarization period, all contractors, hunters, battle angels, etc., can perceive the accurate location of this "Initial Imprint" fragment at any time.】

【Because the way??? acquired this "Initial Imprint" fragment is extremely special.】

【This competition rule: None.】

【This competition restriction: None.】

【This competition venue restriction: None.】

---Side note---

My neck is still a bit stiff, the update is less than before, please forgive me, readers. ===== CHAPTER 3717 =====