Chapter 3718: Flaw

Su Xiao closed the "Initial Imprint" fragment ranking. As far as the current situation was concerned, the ranking on this list was no longer credible. It was not questioning the judgment of the Tree of Void, but it seemed that a guy who could copy the "Initial Imprint" had mixed into this ranking.

Wanting to become the final winner, distinguishing whether the "Initial Imprint" fragments held by all parties were true or false was the primary problem.

In Su Xiao's view, the "Initial Imprint" fragment held by the Beast King in the first place had the most gold content. The reason was that before the competitors came to this world, these fragments might have been collected by the Beast Clan faction and offered to the Beast King.

This also solved a doubt for Su Xiao: the Beast Clan's territory was so vast, why didn't any of the "Initial Imprint" fragments scattered in this world fall to this side? He was the Beast Clan Lord before, and now he was the Beast Clan Great Commander, so he should have been able to obtain the "Initial Imprint" fragments scattered in the Beast Clan's territory.

Now it seemed that it wasn't that the "Initial Imprint" fragments didn't scatter to this side, but that they had all been collected and were in the hands of the Beast King.

With this way of speculation, the 30.95% "Initial Imprint" currently held by the ruthless guy should also be real goods. The reason was similar to the Beast Clan side: the "Initial Imprint" fragments scattered on the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain were all collected by the Ice Plain Clan and offered to the Elder.

The remaining "Initial Imprint" fragments all had certain risks, especially those held by rule-breakers, which had a high probability of being replicas.

Especially the 20.3% "Initial Imprint" held by the Priest. Although the origin of these "Initial Imprint" fragments was clear, they were obtained by the Priest from the Dark Eater, but the problem was, had these "Initial Imprint" been swapped by the Priest? Those real "Initial Imprint" fragments had long been hidden somewhere.

Not only that, Su Xiao actually had another conjecture, which was that the "Initial Imprint" belonged to a key, or more accurately, a key to a "Space-Time Power Storage Device" of the Dawn Paradise.

The problem was, the Dawn Paradise had more than one "Space-Time Power Storage Device". How could a paradise faction only store a few million ounces of Space-Time Power? As a Tier 9 hunter, Su Xiao had thousands of ounces of Space-Time Power.

Speculating this way, the Dawn Paradise definitely had more than one "Space-Time Power Storage Device". Since there were more locks, perhaps there were more keys, representing more "Initial Imprints".

If someone brought those abandoned "Initial Imprints" to this world? What would happen? One must know that this was a genuine "Initial Imprint", an "Initial Imprint" notarized by the Dawn Paradise.

According to common sense, this kind of thing generally wouldn't happen. The problem was that the Priest was also one of the competitors in this competition. This old guy was not a competitor selected, but a competitor who participated voluntarily.

Not only that, before, the price the Priest paid to obtain the 20% "Initial Imprint" from the Dark Eater was too high.

Then was there such a possibility, which was that the Priest had a large piece of "Initial Imprint" a long time ago, temporarily calling it "Initial Imprint No. 1". It was just that the "Space-Time Power Storage Device" corresponding to "Initial Imprint No. 1" had long been abandoned. This thing was more like a souvenir.

But not long ago, the Priest learned that the imprint competition was about to begin, and the competition content was "Initial Imprint". It was just that this time, what was being competed for was "Initial Imprint No. 2".

The characteristics of the two were similar to the extreme, but there was such a slight difference. And the reason why the Priest was willing to pay a high price to obtain the 20% "Initial Imprint" from the Dark Eater was to let two imprints with characteristics similar to the extreme complete assimilation.

If there was still the notarization of the Dawn Paradise, there was absolutely no possibility of doing this. The problem was that the notarization of the Dawn Paradise had long expired, and the "Initial Imprint" had retreated from a paradise notarized item to a paradise product.

Paradise notarized items and paradise products had essential differences. The former, even if Caesar, the ruthless guy, and the Priest were added together, couldn't operate at all. The latter was different. As long as there were corresponding means, it could still be operated slightly.

The most critical difference was that paradise notarized items could not be obtained by contractors personally. Even if obtained, they could only be temporarily held and had no ownership. Paradise products, on the other hand, belonged to the contractor's personal assets after the contractor obtained them.

Before, the reason why competing for the "Initial Imprint" required holding it for 40 minutes before officially possessing it was the process of the Tree of Void retreating the "Initial Imprint" to a personally held item.

In this competition, many contractors had a misunderstanding, which was that they thought the nature of the "Initial Imprint" was similar to the "World Core" and was a mission item with absolute priority. In fact, this was wrong. After the "Initial Imprint" was obtained by a competitor, it was a personal item. Mission items would never become personal items.

Speaking of which, this thing was very similar to the "Scroll Fragment" type in the Painting World. The Priest might have seen this point, so he brought a large piece of "Initial Imprint" and came to this world.

Thinking of this, the Priest didn't copy a fake "Initial Imprint". This old fox's means were more stable. He brought a large piece of genuine "Initial Imprint" into this world himself.

Precisely because of this, the Priest was willing to pay such a high price to obtain the 20% "Initial Imprint" from the Dark Eater. It was both to use this piece of "Initial Imprint" as a standard to assimilate the "Initial Imprint" he held before, and more critically, after the Priest obtained this 20% "Initial Imprint", the total amount of imprints he held was already a sure win.

This made Su Xiao think of another problem, which was that the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain became a rule-less competition venue, really only because of the ruthless guy alone? Perhaps that was not the case, but the ruthless guy became the Elder, and the Priest assimilated the large piece of "Initial Imprint" he brought himself. These two things added together, then created the rule-less competition area.

In this way, the total amount of "Initial Imprint" could not be calculated according to 100% as the upper limit. And the "Initial Imprint" fragments in the ranking reached 100.1%, also because of this situation, rather than someone copying the "Initial Imprint".

What was even more wonderful was that the Tree of Void would not interfere with this matter at all, and would even regard it as an advantage of the competitor. It was just like in the Painting World, Su Xiao was initially carrying a "Scroll Fragment" and participated in the Painting Competition.

Su Xiao estimated that if it continued to develop like this, the final winner would not be the ruthless guy, but the Priest.

Su Xiao took out the 5.1% "Initial Imprint" he currently had. He had a means to test whether the Priest had succeeded. Under the surprised expression of Hao Mei opposite, Su Xiao's hand exerted force, and the 5.1% "Initial Imprint" in his hand shattered into three pieces with a 'crack'.

There was no warning, and even no prompt. This represented that this item completely belonged to Su Xiao. Even if he completely destroyed it, the Tree of Void would not interfere. Destruction was okay. Using other "Initial Imprints" of the same origin to assimilate more naturally had no problem.

Don't ignore the most critical point: this "Initial Imprint" was an item with Dawn Paradise characteristics. And the Dawn Paradise was once the old nest of rule-breakers. As a rule-breaker, the Priest had a natural advantage in operating the "Initial Imprint". It was possible that the item characteristics of the Dawn Paradise had a space that allowed rule-breakers to operate to a certain extent. This was part of the Dawn Paradise notarization regulations.

No matter how you looked at it, there was no chance to win against the Priest. But the other party had a flaw that seemed small but was actually fatal. Thinking of this point, Su Xiao opened the list of the World Contact Platform and found Witch Lilia to contact the other party.

【Hint: The contractor you contacted has left this world. The World Contact Platform does not provide cross-world communication for the time being.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao looked up to the wit of Witch Lilia. At the same time, his vigilance against this person increased a bit. This witch obviously noticed something wrong. She would rather not participate in the final competition than complete the main mission early and leave this world.

Su Xiao took out the communicator and contacted Diviner Perier. After a long blind tone of communication, the communication hung up by itself.

Seeing this, he took out a feather and tried to activate it. This was a contact method of a prophet on the Tribe side. But this feather floated in the air for a long time without being activated.

One divination type leaving might be a coincidence, but Perier and the Tribe prophet disappearing at the same time was a bit abnormal. Especially since Perier had just finished cooperating with Su Xiao, and the cooperation process was pleasant. Throughout the whole process, no outsider noticed that the other party participated in killing the absolute powerhouse spellcaster. Under such a situation, Perier actually hid and didn't see Su Xiao.

What was the fastest way to find someone? The answer was to find a top-tier diviner. Right now, Su Xiao wanted to find the trace of a rule-breaker, but the diviners he knew before all disappeared. Saying that this was not secretly interfered with by someone was obviously impossible.

The rule-breaker Su Xiao wanted to find was naturally not the Priest, but rule-breaker Beverly. Wanting to reverse the current situation, only by finding this rule-breaker could there be a slight possibility.

Just as Su Xiao was thinking about how to break the current situation, Bahamut flew into the inner hall and said: "Boss, the last batch of fungus blankets has been recovered and sent to the Mother Nest underground."

"Yes."

Su Xiao tried to check the data of the Mother Nest. Since the last time the Mother Nest was upgraded, he had been busy with other things, and only now did he have time to check.

【Demon Insect Clan】

Clan Level: Lv. 90 (Every 50 evolution points consumed can increase 1 clan level).

Master (Jila): Lv. 90 (Every 15 evolution points consumed can increase 1 master growth level. This characteristic will increase with the increase of "Clan Level").

Insect Nest: Lv. 83 (Every 15 evolution points consumed can increase 1 insect nest level. This characteristic will increase with the increase of "Clan Level").

Gene Library: Lv. 54 (Every 25 evolution points consumed can increase 1 gene library level. This characteristic will increase with the increase of "Clan Level").

Seeing these data, Su Xiao was a bit puzzled. According to the previous evolution point consumption quantity, the clan level should have been upgraded to Lv. 92. But right now, it only reached Lv. 90.

Before Su Xiao could consult what was going on, a prompt appeared.

【This upgrade has been completed. You can choose the development direction of this insect clan from the following choices.】

1. Queen's Arrival (passive): After choosing this characteristic, the clan level upper limit is Lv. 95, and when the clan level reaches Lv. 95, the Insect Queen's ultimate ability is unlocked.

2. Master's Will (passive): After choosing this characteristic, the clan level upper limit is Lv. 100, but every time the clan level is increased, the evolution points consumed will increase. Every time the clan level is increased, it will bring a greater comprehensive improvement. When the clan level reaches Lv. 100, the Insect Master's ultimate ability will be awakened (self-adaptively selected from several strongest insect clan ultimate abilities).

Two choices were placed in front of him. If he chose the first one, through the evolution points obtained from these 1000+ fungus blankets, he could upgrade the Demon Insect Clan to the limit, which was consuming 50 evolution points for every level increased.

But if he chose "Master's Will", the difficulty of upgrading the clan level would soar. From Lv. 90 to Lv. 91, it needed to consume 50 evolution points, but upgrading to Lv. 92 would consume 100 evolution points, and upgrading to Lv. 93 would climb to consuming 150 evolution points.

Calculated this way, if he chose "Master's Will", upgrading the clan level from Lv. 90 to Lv. 100 would consume a total of 2850 evolution points.

But there was a problem: if he chose the Queen level as Jila's upper limit, could she really be the opponent of those extinction-level existences in the Eternal Light World after reaching the limit strength?

Su Xiao had recently discovered a problem, which was that the trial of the Eternal Light World for the Law-Maker inheritance was not pitting the new generation of Law-Makers, but for him, this was a huge pit.

The reason for saying this was because in the Law-Maker era, powerful Law-Makers sealed extinction-level groups in the Eternal Light World, and the newly grown Law-Makers went to the Eternal Light World for trials. This back and forth balanced the number of extinction-level groups in the Eternal Light World to a stable degree.

Some particularly powerful extinction-level groups would be trapped in an area in the Eternal Light World, not enough to let the new generation of Law-Makers face these terrifying existences.

But after the Law-Maker faction declined and even the inheritance was nearly cut off, naturally there were no new generation Law-Makers to go to the Eternal Light World to clean up those extinction-level groups.

If it was just like this, it was actually okay. The number of extinction-level groups in the Eternal Light World would only decrease, and those extremely terrifying extinction-level groups might also be trapped to death.

The problem was that after the previous generation Law-Makers died, several Silver Moon Wolves also died one after another. Fortunately, they left behind inheritance, allowing the outstanding ones among other groups to have the possibility of becoming Abyss Guardians.

If it was just like this, that was okay. The problem was that in later generations, a genius-level Abyss Guardian perfected the lost "Sealing Secret Technique". When the newly appeared Abyss Guardians encountered extinction-level groups they couldn't deal with, or Immortal Characteristic Abyss Nourishing Creatures, they could only rely on this "Sealing Secret Technique" to exile them to the Eternal Light World.

And in the Eternal Light World, those old monsters trapped by the previous generation Law-Makers, through various methods, induced those extinction-level creatures that had just arrived at Eternal Light, and finally basically all escaped.

The old monsters trapped by the previous generation Law-Makers, as well as the extinction-level groups and Abyss Nourishing Creatures exiled to the Eternal Light World in the following millennium, and even strange existences, or extremely rare and dangerous weird existences.

Adding these together, the situation in the Eternal Light World could be imagined. This was also the reason why the Dark Eater chose to admit defeat when he saw Su Xiao set up the exile technique before. This guy was well-informed and had a general understanding of what the situation in the Eternal Light World was.

This was also why Su Xiao thought that just letting Jila's upper limit reach the Queen level couldn't deal with the Eternal Light World.

Without too much consideration, Su Xiao chose "Master's Will" as the development line of the Insect Clan.

Not long after he completed the choice, the fungus blankets recovered this time were absorbed, and the soul energy inside was converted into evolution points.

【Hint: The Mother Nest obtained a total of 725 evolution points.】

【The Mother Nest obtained a total of 126,500 biological energy.】

Su Xiao tried to upgrade the clan level and found that the evolution points were enough to upgrade the clan level to Lv. 95. He chose to upgrade. Recently, there was no need for the Mother Nest to explode soldiers, and it didn't matter if Jila slept.

After doing these, Su Xiao came to the first basement level of the castle alone, pushed open the secret door on the wall, and walked into a secret room. There was a Demon Teleportation Array inside, which was specially set up before.

Boom!

The teleportation array was activated. As the spatial mist gradually dissipated, the freshness of grass and trees came from the surroundings. Su Xiao arrived at the Wolf Tomb on Floating Light Island. Because Floating Light Island was still an area where Abyss energy spread, few people would come to this place.

The elemental light particles flying around gave the Wolf Tomb area within the giant barrier a warm tone. When passing by a tombstone several meters high, Su Xiao stopped his footsteps. A bunch of wild flowers was placed in front of the Wolf Tomb. From the traces, these wild flowers were picked nearby.

A trace of Abyss-like aura remained in front of the Wolf Tomb. Discovering this point, Su Xiao knew that Magic Sickle Teride had been to this place.

Continuing forward, he arrived in front of a stone wall and knocked on the stone disk one meter above the ground.

"Dudu, Gugu."

A pair of translucent small bone hands reached out, making a gesture to hold Su Xiao's hand to add a buff state to him, but was blocked by Su Xiao.

"Dudu!"

Dudu Gugu seemed to be a bit angry. Facts proved that this little thing also had a bit of temper.

Su Xiao took out the 8 extra-large 【Hegemon Essences】 synthesized at Dudu Gugu's place before, and then took out the 26 【Hegemon Essences】 obtained this time. He wrote the void number 10 with his finger on the stone disk, meaning to synthesize 10 【Hegemon Essences】. These 10 【Hegemon Essences】 could be synthesized as large as possible.

The reason for doing this was naturally to prepare to exchange for the first-tier Hegemon Equipment with 10 extra-large 【Hegemon Essences】. But even for the first-tier Hegemon Equipment, there were differences in strength. He wanted to try whether he could obtain a piece of Hegemon Equipment with a full score of 6000 points.

Seeing that it was 【Hegemon Essence】 synthesis, Dudu Gugu, who was a bit angry, became happy. The handling fee it charged when synthesizing was not low, and the 【Hegemon Essences】 it obtained were all eaten by it. This was Dudu Gugu's favorite delicacy, none of them.

Such a big business, Dudu Gugu hadn't encountered it in hundreds of years, so it was especially serious when synthesizing. After a long time, it synthesized all the Hegemon Essences to the limit.

【You obtained Hegemon Essence - Extra Large × 10.】

Ten 【Hegemon Essences】 were placed on the stone disk, each the size of an apple. They looked smaller than before, but were more condensed. The outside was wrapped in black energy, and the inside revealed a deep dark red.

"Hand hand hand, grab hand hand."

Dudu Gugu's small bone hands were exceptionally translucent. Seeing this, Su Xiao pressed his right hand on the stone disk, and Dudu Gugu's small bone hands grabbed his hand.

【Hint: Dudu Gugu is trying to add "Buff Blessing - Good Luck" to you.】

【Addition failed.】

【Dudu Gugu is trying again...】

Didn't see it, this little guy was unexpectedly stubborn. Last time it tried to add a good luck state to Su Xiao, but it overdrawn until it fainted temporarily. This was obviously on its mind. This time it was prepared to wash away the shame.

After fainting three times due to overdrawing, Dudu Gugu seemed to have recognized reality.

【You obtained Dudu Gugu's "Buff Blessing - Protection", your physical defense +45 points, maximum HP +5%, effect lasts for 12 hours.】

When Su Xiao returned to the Lord's Manor through the teleportation array, it was already evening. In the restaurant, while enjoying dinner, he flipped through the information in the World Contact Platform. Because the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain became a rule-less notarization area, the contact platform was also exceptionally lively. Some contractors with old grudges simply made an appointment to fight on the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain.

The result was very funny. Both sides of the appointment didn't go, and several people who were prepared to be the oriole behind the mantis launched a small-scale chaotic battle. As a result, in a very short time, the names of these people in the World Contact list all disappeared.

Not long after that, the sign representing the 30.95% "Initial Imprint" suddenly moved on the map of the contact platform, not only leaving the ice palace but also briefly disappearing and then appearing.

This represented one thing: that largest piece of "Initial Imprint" so far had changed hands. Someone snatched food from the ruthless guy's mouth, which made some rule-breakers and contractors who were still hesitating unable to hold back and joined the competition.

Then a horrifying scene appeared. The names in the World Contact list suddenly disappeared in a large area, and the sign representing the largest piece of "Initial Imprint" quietly fell on the vast ice plain. Within 1000 meters around, let alone people, there wasn't even an Ice Plain Clan member. That feeling was very much like the ruthless guy and those competitors perishing together.

After a full few hours, finally an assassination type who was good at speed couldn't hold back and snatched that "Initial Imprint". Initially, others were just watching, but when this assassination type fled to the edge of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, a group of people couldn't hold back and began to block the assassin.

A terrifying scene appeared. The names in the World Contact list suddenly turned gray in a large area, and then disappeared one after another. What was even more creepy was that the largest piece of "Initial Imprint" was quietly located at the edge of the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, in the wind and snow, with no one approaching.

All of this was obviously the ruthless guy fishing. Whether it was that piece of "Initial Imprint" being stolen or changing hands halfway, it was all his deliberate indulgence, just to let more rule-breakers be unable to hold back their greed.

Actually, by Tier 9, rule-breakers would be exceptionally restrained. Unfortunately, without knowing the Priest's conspiracy, the imprint held by the ruthless guy represented almost the last hope of winning. The world mission corresponding to millions of ounces of Space-Time Power was enough to make people lose their minds.

As long as you become the final winner, rule-breakers can submit this world mission to the Tree of Void.

Su Xiao didn't intend to go to the Eternal Sealed Ice Plain, because he didn't need to snatch the "Initial Imprint" in the ruthless guy's hands. Both were hunters of Reincarnation Paradise, some things could be discussed later.

The Priest's layout seemed unsolvable, provided that Su Xiao didn't unite with others. There could indeed only be one first place, but why become the first? In the final analysis, it was for the corresponding benefits. These benefits could be shared by two people, especially since Su Xiao and the ruthless guy were both hunters of Reincarnation Paradise, making it more convenient to share rewards.

Now the ruthless guy had 30.95% of the "Initial Imprint", plus the 5.1% Su Xiao had. Although it was higher than the Beast King in the first place, after the old guy Priest's trump card was revealed, it was really not necessarily better.

Since that was the case, then find a way to get more imprints. In terms of strength, the ruthless guy was stronger than Su Xiao, but there was one thing that Su Xiao might be able to do, while the ruthless guy absolutely couldn't do, which was to play a game with the Beast King and obtain the 35% "Initial Imprint" in the Beast King's hands.

Just an hour ago, a gift from Eternal Ring City was placed in front of Su Xiao. This was a steel feather, a steel feather from the old Beast King's cloak.

When the old Beast King was still the War King, he had a habit: when he was about to fight to the death with an opponent, he would take off a steel feather from his cloak and send it to the opponent. When he killed this opponent, he would take it back. To be precise, this was the habit of the Beast Clan's Steel Feather family.

When receiving this steel feather, it already represented the termination of the cooperation with the Beast King. As for whether the other party would take back the power, actually there was nothing to take back. If he couldn't snatch the Beast legions under Su Xiao, he couldn't take back any power.

As for those Beast legions located in the "Crystal Forest", not to mention that recalling them now was an unimaginable loss to the Beast Clan. Even if the Beast Clan high-level officials really wanted to recall them, they couldn't recall them. Ergein, this two-faced guy, didn't even listen to Su Xiao's words much, so he ignored the Beast Clan high-level officials even more.

Su Xiao used the "Crystal Forest" that was bound to be obtained as a chip. The old Beast King won, and this was the new Beast King Knight Commander's.

If the old Beast King lost, his 35% "Initial Imprint" would belong to Su Xiao. More accurately, among all the competitors, only Su Xiao had the qualification and chips to clash with the old Beast King. The old Beast King only looked up to Su Xiao and was prepared to fight the last opponent in his life before the fire of life burned out.

However, before playing a game with the old Beast King, Su Xiao had another thing to do. Rule-breaker Beverly had 8.75% of the "Initial Imprint". This was not a small number.

Although the Priest let all diviners hide, Su Xiao had other ways to find Beverly. He sat cross-legged and meditated, waiting. When the silver moon hung high and it was almost late at night, a small figure passed through the glass, gradually recovered to a solid body in mid-air, and landed on the table.

"Tsk~, found the target. How are you going to thank me?"

"..."

"Don't be silent! I almost got caught... Boss, let's go this way, wear thick clothes, it's snowing outside."

The irritable little elf holding a bottle of Elf Secret Potion immediately changed his attitude, which could be described as beaming with joy.

If you ignore this guy's vomiting fragrance, smoking, alcoholism, inability to move when seeing little elf girls, and being exceptionally noisy after drinking, the infiltration and tracking ability of the irritable little elf Diagu were beyond doubt.

Right now, he had already found Beverly's trace. As Su Xiao guessed, the Priest wouldn't let Beverly be alone now. A total of four rule-breaker teammates, together with Beverly, were hiding in the Sea Clan's main city.

Like Beverly, this kind of rule-breaker would be exceptionally vigilant at this juncture and would escape if there was something slightly wrong. In the past, Su Xiao had ways to deal with it. But before dealing with Serphilia, Bahamut's spatial prohibition ability had already been used and was now in the cooling stage.

Finding Beverly was not the hardest part. How to get close to the other party when she had several teammates, so as to strive for a one-hit kill and snatch the "Initial Imprint", this was the biggest difficulty.

Su Xiao took out the 【Rule-Breaker】 title. With this title, many difficulties could be solved easily.

"Title Effect 1: Disguise (passive), after wearing this title, you will obtain Disguise - Apocalypse Paradise Rule-Breaker, and activate the corresponding temporary brand."

"Title Effect 3: Killing Disguise (passive), after killing a rule-breaker in the disguise state, you can replace the disguise and disguise as this person."

"Title Effect 4: Absolute Fear (active), when you are in this disguise state and only facing one rule-breaker, you can perform a willpower judgment with this enemy. If the enemy does not pass this judgment, they will fall into the "Will Fear" state, lose the ability to speak within the subsequent 10 minutes, and have all contact means closed (this control ability has priority). You will cause an additional 20% ignore-defense damage to the enemy who has fallen into "Will Fear"."

"Hint: The cooling time of this ability is 2 natural days."

"Hint: If you successfully kill the enemy who is "Will Fear", this ability will immediately refresh the cooling time and enter the activatable state."

Su Xiao pinched the scarlet 【Rule-Breaker】 title with his index finger and thumb. His fingers loosened, and the title fell into his palm. As he clenched his right hand, scarlet light threads climbed along his arm and began to disguise.

The hunt, began. ===== CHAPTER 3719 =====