Chapter 3731: Entry

Rustling sounds came from above. Having just experienced the teleportation of the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao had a phantom pain in the back of his head as if he had been hit by a hammer. But just at this moment, a sense of crisis suddenly struck.

With a click! Su Xiao's right hand, wrapped in a crystal layer, pinched a crustacean creature the length of a forearm. Only after this did he suddenly open his eyes.

A creature that looked like a lizard but had an earthy-yellow shell all over its body came into view. Even though it was pinched by Su Xiao with one hand, the creature was still struggling desperately from side to side, and the force of the struggle was very strong.

While the strange lizard struggled, it also made a sizzling sound from its mouth. Its sharp jaws tilted to the side as much as possible, intending to use its full mouth of sharp teeth to tear Su Xiao's hand.

Snap!

The strange lizard's body stiffened, and both its shell and bones were crushed by Su Xiao. But the next second, three black worms suddenly drilled out from its flesh and shot toward Su Xiao's face. These three black worms had circular mouthparts, and the layers of sharp teeth were like miniature saw blades. Not only that, but their bodies were covered with dark red barbs, and the sharp front ends of the worm bodies were full of malice to drill into the flesh of other creatures.

Su Xiao tilted his head, and with three pops, the three black worms disappeared into the sand wall behind him. After that, these three ferocious black worms swam in the sand wall. One of them poked out a section and unfolded its layers of mouthparts:

"Roar!!"

Layers of black air waves spread out in the surroundings. Even though the air waves were not large, they still caused ripples to spread throughout the surrounding air.

Finally, the three black worms drilled into the depths of the sand wall and disappeared. Beside Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had witnessed the whole process, was dumbfounded and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. It was terrified at the time.

Su Xiao initially guessed that the Eternal Light World should have nothing, leaving only those world-destroying existences and Abyss-corrupted creatures, and the rest was a wasteland.

Now it seemed that this was not the case. The Eternal Light World had native creatures. Weren't these native creatures... "hospitable," for example, they liked to drill into the brains of guests.

Su Xiao kicked the corpse of the strange lizard far away, so as not to have other parasites inside the thing. Only then did he have time to look at the surroundings.

A wisp of fine sand fell from above, and the dry sandy soil smell was not unpleasant. Looking toward the exit, there were originally metal doors and metal walls, but they didn't know what had eaten them away, leaving only metal slag like sand scattered on the ground.

Whether it was the ground, walls, or ceiling, they were all hardened from sandy soil. Su Xiao glanced at the broken wooden bed on the side; he had just been lying on it sleeping for a while.

After leaving the separate compartment, Su Xiao discovered that this was a shelter located under a sand dune. Amu and Baja were in the compartment next door, and at this time, they had just woken up and got up from the ground.

"Shh."

Su Xiao made a gesture to be quiet. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja merged into the environment and dived into the space, starting to scout the place.

Before long, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja had scouted the situation here. This was a sand dune shelter of about a few dozen square meters that had been abandoned for many years. Judging from the few skeletons found, there were humans in this world, as well as other races, such as a type of intelligent creature that could walk upright but had a skull like a bird, had four arms, and each arm had hand claws.

The reason it was said to be an intelligent creature was that the other party wore various gorgeous ornaments, and the four hand claws were also holding a small notebook, on which a kind of energy was added, allowing this notebook to be preserved intact until now.

Su Xiao used his right hand, which was attached with a crystal layer, to pull the notebook out of the skeleton's hand. Flipping to the first page, it was written:

'Unfortunate and lucky trapped person, before your friend sends the "Shelter Stone," don't try to go out. You are very unfortunate to have traveled to this place, and you are also very lucky not to have been directly exposed to the barren desert.'

Su Xiao continued to read. What was recorded later was the intrigue within this shelter. Among these few people, someone hid a Shelter Stone but didn't dare to use it, because once exposed, they would immediately be attacked by others and die miserably before the Shelter Stone was snatched away.

Just like that, these few people wore each other down like hawks waiting for their prey. Those with shelter stones wanted to wait until the others were asleep to immediately rush out of the shelter, while those without shelter stones worried that the person hiding the shelter stone would escape. In this way, both sides remained deadlocked, and once they all reached their limits, a brutal slaughter began.

Su Xiao first came to the innermost part of the yellow sand shelter. After opening a hard sand secret door, a teleportation array appeared in front of him. Unfortunately, this teleportation array had been severely damaged.

Su Xiao took out several materials and began to repair this teleportation array, and soon it was repaired. He activated it.

Boom!

Spatial debris splashed everywhere. The plating defense of Su Xiao's long leather coat appeared briefly, blocking the spatial debris before fading away. He failed to repair this spatial array diagram. To be more precise, the spatial knowledge he had mastered was useless in this world.

It wasn't completely useless, but the spatial structure within the Eternal Light World was different from any world he had ever been to. As for why this was the case, Su Xiao knew it clearly as soon as he arrived here.

Why was the Eternal Light World so terrifying? Not only because of the world-destroying existences and Abyss-corrupted creatures here, but also because of the composition of this world. Among the basic forces of this world, there was only elemental power, not even a tiny bit of Abyss energy.

Once natural elements were sparse, it would lead to the invasion of the Abyss. When the Abyss channel opened and massive amounts of Abyss energy poured into a world, that world would be shrouded in absolute darkness. That was darkness that light and fire could not dispel; that was the Abyss.

Conversely, what would happen if the elemental power in a world was too strong? The answer was that it would become a kingdom of plants. Various plants would surpass other living creatures in all aspects with sufficient elemental power. When plants rose, it was simply a nightmare; everything would be their nourishment.

But what would happen if the elemental power in a world was abundant to the extreme, without half an Abyss energy? The answer was that eternal daylight would come. The extreme daylight that was enough to roast all living creatures into ashes would shine down forever. Cool nights became a luxury, and eternal daylight roasted the earth, causing different characteristics of distortion in various areas of this world.

That's right, the Eternal Light World only had daylight, and the so-called shelters were places that could provide shade and rest.

Also because of the special environment of this world, the spatial composition here was different from other worlds. And because of this, the basic spatial studies Su Xiao had mastered were completely useless here. But interestingly, he discovered that the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" he had created could actually be used.

This wasn't because the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" was advanced, or because of the connection between Law-Breakers and the Eternal Light World, but because the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" was similar to a spatial railgun, which was to blast from the starting point to the target point. As for spatial rules and spatial composition, this had nothing to do with the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array." The principle of the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" was that as long as it could blast through, it could teleport. It was just that simple and crude.

Although the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" could be used, there was no coordinate point now. Without a coordinate point, it was a random teleportation. If it randomly teleported to a dangerous place, that would be terrible.

Leaving the secret room, Su Xiao came to the original location where the few skeletons were found. After some searching, he found a milky-white crystal block under the lower part of a sand wall.

【Shelter Stone (Consumable): After use, it can allow a target to obtain a shelter state for 5–8 hours.】

The Reincarnation Paradise would not teleport contractors to a place of certain death. This was absolute. Even if Su Xiao's initial position was random, this random initial point must also have a path to survival.

【Entering world; Eternal Light World.】

World Difficulty: Lv.???

Current Location: Barren Desert · Abandoned Shelter.

World Source; 0%.

World Reputation: 0 points.

World Introduction; Welcome to, Calamity Cage.

【Transcendence Era: Even if it is transcendence, it will eventually perish. The glory of the past is no longer there, surpassed by the rising star "Wind Sea Continent."】

【Transcendence Era: The speed of world collapse is slower than imagined. This huge world has collapsed to less than one-tenth, but its vastness is still not comparable to ordinary native worlds.】

【Transcendence Era: Law-Breakers and Abyss Wardens interfered with this collapsing world, integrating a vibrant World Core into this world. The collapse stopped, but the loss of elemental power and Abyss power was irreversible, among which the loss of Abyss power was the most serious. This must lead to the fact that overly magnificent elemental power will evaporate the little remaining Abyss power.】

【Transcendence Era: Law-Breakers and Abyss Wardens brought new vitality and responsibility to this world. Although it could no longer restore the glory of transcendence of the past, this place would become a cage of calamity.】

【Blood Oath: Law-Breaker/Abyss Warden/Eternal Light Monitor.】

【Eternal Light Era: This place, living creatures stop, is a cage of calamity.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 01: The era of Law-Breakers has ended, the inheritance of Abyss Wardens is nearly cut off, and Eternal Light Monitors can only linger in the Gray Dark Sanctuary (the last sanctuary).】

【Under the roasting of extreme daylight, nearly 90% of living creatures have disappeared. Even if the remaining living creatures survived, they distorted into terrible creatures, located in various scattered shelters, and survivors escaped the roasting of extreme daylight in this way.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 185: The Lightless Temple is rising day by day, and the Shelter City is beginning to show itself. The extreme daylight outside the city represents death. Only world-destroying existences and Abyss-corrupted creatures can fearlessly face that terrible extreme daylight.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 279: The Shelter City was completely built. Under the protection of the Lord of Eternal Darkness, the Shelter City became the only large gathering place for living creatures in the Eternal Light World. And the Lightless Temple, which believes in the Lord of Eternal Darkness, also became the manager of the Shelter City under the instruction of the Lord of Eternal Darkness.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 350: Most seals were broken. Those terrible existences imprisoned by Law-Breakers and Abyss Wardens broke out of the seals one after another. The fear from the previous era made the Shelter City precarious.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 352: The Shelter City was destroyed by more than 80% until the Lord of Eternal Darkness descended.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 405: The Shelter City signed an oath with several of the most terrible existences, not to provoke each other. Since then, the Shelter City finally ushered in stability.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 419: A Soul race member banished here successfully cracked the secret arts left by the Eternal Light Monitors and produced "Shelter Stones." People in the Shelter City no longer just sought safety but gradually walked out of the shelter's coverage to explore the wider areas around them that were roasted by extreme daylight. However, the exploration did not bring gains, but let the residents of the Shelter City truly recognize the despair and terror of the Eternal Light World.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 850: Few people in the Shelter City dare to explore outside, and a terrible curse appeared at some point, making it rare for residents of the Shelter City to live past 60 years old. Even if all the dead died of natural aging, without symptoms, this also made the residents of the Shelter City very uneasy. As the manager, the Lightless Temple began to investigate this matter closely.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 925: The curse of the Shelter City is more serious, and few residents can live past 50 years old.】

【Extreme Bai Zhou Era · Year 1029: The curse of the Shelter City intensified again, and it is rare for anyone to survive past 40 years old. Although this only stable place in the Eternal Light World still has some prosperity, a secret seems to be hidden under this prosperity.】

【World Factions:

Shelter City: The only stable place in the Eternal Light World.

Lightless Temple: The leading faction of the Shelter City, responsible for managing the order of the Shelter City.

Hunter Guild: Neutral faction.

Pain Sect: Believes that pain can stimulate potential and create miracles. All power comes from pain and will.

Dark Sect: Worships the Abyss, longs for darkness.

Hunter's current faction: None.

Hint: Because of your Shadow of Law-Breaker identity, you will be in an initial factionless state in this world.】

【World, start.】

Closing the world introduction, the pattern of this world is actually not complicated. The reason is that it is too dangerous here. Except for the Shelter City, other places are dangerous areas. World-destroying existences and Abyss-corrupted creatures have strong resistance to daylight. After adapting to a certain degree, they begin to fearlessly face daylight.

This is the difference between world-destroying existences and Abyss-corrupted creatures and living creatures. No matter how powerful living creatures are, it is impossible to completely fearlessly face daylight. Even if it is an Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe, at most, the resistance to daylight is stronger, and they can resist daylight for a certain period of time without relying on "Shelter Stones."

With Su Xiao's current physique, he naturally cannot fearlessly face daylight. As for developing the Zerg in this world, there is no need to worry about daylight. With the terrible adaptability of the Zerg, they can completely evolve daylight resistance. What world-destroying existences can do, the Zerg can do the same.

Not all areas of this world are shrouded in daylight. To be precise, daylight is one of the most basic dangerous environments in this world. There are four major areas in this world: Wet Salt Area, Barren Desert, Corrosive Rain Land, and Shelter City, three of which have exceptionally dangerous environments.

The Barren Desert where Su Xiao is currently located only needs Shelter Stones in the outer areas. If it is the inner area or the center area, Shelter Stones cannot guarantee safety. It also requires enough vitality to resist, which means the higher the health point limit, the more qualifications to go deep into the Barren Desert.

Su Xiao took out the 【Iron Refining Invitation】. The next second, this thing was activated.

【You have activated the 300-point body attribute barrier trial.】

【Iron Refining Invitation submitted.】

【You will accept the highest-difficulty trial task. In contrast, you will also obtain the strongest attribute reward. When your true strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence attributes break through 300 points, you can obtain corresponding attribute reward abilities in the attribute enhancement warehouse.】

【Hint: Because you chose the highest-difficulty trial task, when choosing attribute rewards, you can choose two rewards for the same true attribute, rather than only being able to choose one as in the past.】

【Trial Task · First Ring (Not activated), you need to arrive at the Shelter City to activate this task.】

Although the highest-difficulty trial task is dangerous, the return is also large. In the past, when choosing attribute rewards, Su Xiao could only choose one for each attribute. But this trial, once completed, was an attribute reward several times stronger than a normal trial. More importantly, he could choose two from these powerful attribute rewards at the same time.

Su Xiao closed the hint. Although the trial task was the most priority thing, it couldn't be rushed now. He had to determine the current situation first, and then find a way to complete the trial task.

【Hint: Survival Ranking has been opened.】

【This ranking will use survival days as the ranking. Being in the Shelter City will increase survival days at a 1:1 time flow rate. If you are outside the Shelter City, survival days will increase at a 1:1.5–50 time flow rate.】

【It is expected that within half an hour, all contractors will enter this world, at which time the reward range of the survival ranking will be announced (the reward range for the first to fifth places this time will be determined according to the number of contractors in this world).】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao checked the communication list of the world communication platform. As a result, he saw that there were 225 people in the communication list. You know, this was still under the condition that more than a dozen people hadn't been teleported in. Counting those dozen or so people, the number of contractors coming here this time was almost 240.

Checking the names or codenames in the communication list, Ruthless Brother, Black Demon, Priest, Solomon, Magic Scythe · Teride, Nightmare Ghost · Kain, Thunder Law God · Aiger, etc., all came. Not only that, but some people who had been famous for a long time at the peak of Tier 9 also appeared on the list.

At first glance, these people came for the "Monarch's Treasure," but in fact, it was not. These people were very likely to come to this world to use the 【Iron Refining Invitation】, or rather, they were taking advantage of the fact that more people shared the risk this time. Those Tier 9 powerhouses who were still hesitating whether to use the 【Iron Refining Invitation】 this time no longer hesitated.

There was no moment more suitable for using the 【Iron Refining Invitation】 than now. Subsequently, the hint verified Su Xiao's guess.

【Hint (Tree of Void): More than 20 contractors, hunters, Battle Angels, etc., in this world have used the "Iron Refining Invitation." Because this number of "Iron Refining Invitations" has been successfully recovered, the reward range for the first to fifth places in this survival ranking will be increased by 50%.】

After seeing this hint, Su Xiao not only didn't worry at all, but was in a very good mood. The reason was that the more people who came to this world for trial assessment, the better. This thing called trial task had an absolute personal characteristic. To make a simple metaphor, assuming Solomon's trial task · First Ring was to find the "Undead Heart Core," then Su Xiao's trial task would absolutely not have half a relationship with this "Undead Heart Core."

Su Xiao pinched the Shelter Stone in his hand between his index and middle fingers. In turn, another Shelter Stone appeared. However, what appeared this time was the 【Extreme Bai Zhou · Shelter Stone】.

【"Extreme Bai Zhou · Shelter Stone: In an extreme daylight environment, it brings a shelter effect. This is a highly rare secret treasure."】

This thing was obtained by Su Xiao through the Chapter of Greed. Although the effect was close to the Shelter Stone of this world, the characteristics were completely different. The Shelter Stone of this world generated a protective layer on the body surface, while the 【Extreme Bai Zhou · Shelter Stone】 temporarily increased extreme daylight resistance.

Through the team coordinates, Su Xiao judged the location where Benny was, which was the direction of the Shelter City. Now he must get to the Shelter City as soon as possible. It wasn't because it was safe there, but because he had to get more Shelter Stones there.

Only by getting enough Shelter Stones could he carry out subsequent actions. Regarding this point, Su Xiao was not too worried, because two dog thieves also arrived in this world. Although he didn't know the purpose of those two guys coming here, he was sure that those two guys came. The reason was that in the team history list in his team channel, two avatars had lit up. This was the advantage of being a paradise faction. Those two "good teammates" didn't know there was such a function.

Ruthless Brother's operation in the last world was amazing? No, he just didn't meet the "good teammate" quartet. This was a combination that even the Priest chose to avoid. If Ruthless Brother met this combination, once hostile, Ruthless Brother would more likely curse "bad luck" and then turn around and retreat, even if Ruthless Brother's partner also came this time.

Su Xiao himself didn't have the confidence to produce Shelter Stones, but if he had those three guys cooperating with him, he still had some confidence.

As long as there were enough Shelter Stones, he could consider letting the Zerg develop subsequently. As for how to develop, given the situation in this world, it was definitely not through developing by fighting powerful enemies. One didn't need to guess to know that with the richness of natural elements in the Eternal Light World, there must be a period of plant madness, which would highly likely lead to the appearance of life stone mineral veins. This was the opportunity for the Zerg to survive the initial stage.

Regarding where to find this kind of place, Su Xiao took out a silver Origin Stone fragment. There were a small amount of biological tissues on this fragment. This was a fragment of the Origin Stone · Silver Queen, and this biological structure that jumped slowly like a heart on it represented that the Silver Queen was not dead yet.

So, there was no need to go to great lengths to scout the location of the life stone mineral veins. Finding where the Silver Queen was naturally meant finding the life stone mineral veins. As for how to deal with the Silver Queen, this would test Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's infiltration ability.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3732 =====