Chapter 3747: Strong Enemy

Extremely Dark Castle, guest room in the outer building area.

The scarlet ghost slowly drifted out of the room door. As for why this was, it was because of Su Xiao's soul strength of 860 points, as well as the double soul-severing effect of Sword Technique + Soul-Severing · Soul Core.

Although Su Xiao's soul strength was not reflected through soul-type active abilities, the damage he caused to ghost and resentment-type enemies would increase by 500%~100% or so. Coupled with the double soul-severing effect, the ghost-type enemies that could not be killed by him in one slash were definitely the best among their peers.

Under Su Xiao's gaze, the scarlet ghost's backward movement paused. Seeing this, Su Xiao sat on the bed and pointed forward. The scarlet ghost opposite knew fear, which meant the other party had a certain degree of intelligence and was a good guide.

Seeing Su Xiao's gesture, the scarlet ghost hesitated and drifted to a few meters in front of Su Xiao. It was not that it didn't want to continue forward, but Su Xiao's blood energy was simply its nemesis, just like pouring scorching red molten iron on snow.

Su Xiao stared at the scarlet ghost opposite. The scarlet ghost suddenly shivered. There were not many things that could scare ghost-type things to this extent.

That's right, the situation at the moment was so wonderful. The scarlet ghost was clearly a ghost, but it was terrified now. This was not only because the person opposite was a Sword Technique Master, but because the other party was looking at it with a smile, as if he had restrained the taste of tasting its soul, so he took out a piece of Soul Crystal and was eating it with a clatter, clatter.

"Can you understand what I'm saying."

Su Xiao threw the last piece of Soul Crystal into his mouth and chewed it slowly. After a 'friendly and gentle' negotiation, the scarlet ghost finally spoke, and what it spoke was a relatively ancient Void language.

After listening to the scarlet ghost's narrative, Su Xiao roughly knew what was going on. First of all, it was the origin of the Extremely Dark Castle. This was a very large mansion. The original owner of the mansion was called the Dark Blood City Lord, who was a city lord of Iron Black City.

It is worth mentioning that although Iron Black City was established by the mechanical creator, this existence was not interested in being the city lord. The successive city lords of Iron Black City were all selected by the Steam Guild, and obtained the support of the Exchange and the Explorer Organization.

After this Dark Blood City Lord resigned from the position of city lord, he came back to inherit the family mansion in the Wet Salt Area, which was the Extremely Dark Castle at the moment. Originally, this place was not like this. It was a safe area with multiple protections. Many explorers and scavengers would come to the outer castle area of this place to resupply, rest, etc.

The Dark Blood City Lord living here had always had an ideal, which was to restore Iron Black City, this kind of safe area, to normal. Since it was an extreme environment produced only by elemental power, then open the Abyss Hole, continuously release Abyss power, and let the Abyss and elements reach a balance in this area. In this way, couldn't the area where Iron Black City was located be restored to the appearance of a normal world?

Upholding this idea, the Dark Blood City Lord conducted research, as well as subsequent practice. But he ignored a key problem: due to the extreme elemental environment of the Eternal Light World, the Abyss Hole opening technique that could be used in the outside world could not be used normally after arriving in this world.

The result was that although the Dark Blood City Lord successfully opened a hole, what gushed out from inside was not Abyss power, but a kind of scarlet energy with strong deformity.

Seeing this situation, the Dark Blood City Lord fought to the death to protect his wife, and his wife fully opened the defensive technique of the mansion, which gave the entire small town around it a chance to escape.

In the past, this defensive technique was to resist foreign enemies, but now it became a huge sealed container, shrouding the mansion in it. This allowed the scarlet to not spread out. After that, the small town centered on this naturally declined, and the people living here all moved to Iron Black City.

When the hole closed on its own, the scarlet nearly filled the entire mansion. What followed was deformity. The mechanical creator who learned of this brought people here and sealed the mansion in the darkness that would not be eroded by the scarlet.

The Dark Blood City Lord died because of excessive erosion by the scarlet. Although the city lord's wife survived, because she was eroded by the scarlet, her temperament changed drastically, becoming eager for the fresh life force of living beings. All living beings who entered this place by mistake would be caught by the scarlet guards and offered to the wife, to be devoured by the wife.

There is another point: during the period of being eroded by the scarlet, only those with sufficient strength could resist the erosion of the scarlet, thus appearing subsequent deformity.

And the servants in the mansion, because they were not strong enough, their bodies were eroded into residue by the scarlet, leaving only the souls infected with the scarlet, which was the appearance of the scarlet ghost at this time. In other words, it belonged to the weakest small monster in the entire castle area.

There were high walls around here. Only after passing through the central courtyard could one reach the sleeping palace where the city lord's wife was. Only after passing through the sleeping palace and arriving at the city lord's study could one get a glimpse of the true secret of this place, as well as obtain the secret treasure that the city lord possessed back then.

Su Xiao was not very interested in the secret of this place, but he was very interested in the city lord's secret treasure, especially since his current three-technique ability improvement was more expensive than before.

Normally, after the three techniques exceeded Lv. 80, it would consume 0 Soul Crystal Souls to upgrade each of the three technique abilities by one level. But because the core technique 【Sword Technique Master】 had the bonus of 【Blade's Extreme】 ability, the consumption climbed from 0 pieces to 5 Soul Crystal Souls.

In this way, upgrading the three technique abilities from Lv. 80 to Lv. 90 required a total of 50 Soul Crystal Souls and more than ten thousand Soul Coins. Under such circumstances, Su Xiao was of course more interested in this city lord's secret treasure.

After Su Xiao understood the general situation of this place, he took out a few bottles of potion. In the scarlet ghost's puzzled gaze, he completed the potion formulation, and then splashed this translucent potion on the scarlet ghost.

With a hiss, the scarlet ghost let out a sharp scream. Then, the slight scarlet on its body faded quickly, gradually becoming a normal soul body. What was wonderful was that the dress on its body gradually presented a maid's attire, as if it had returned to the appearance before it was alive.

The soul maid gradually floated up and stopped at a place one meter away from the ground. That dazed gaze seemed to not remember anything that happened before at all. She asked with timidity in her eyes: "This lord, did you save me?"

This scene was really too much like recruiting a maid by chance. If it were a hot-blooded teenager like the Son of the World, he really wouldn't be able to handle this maid's offensive, especially when the scarlet ghost was transforming into a harmless soul body, that particularly natural maid's casual wear, I don't know, thought this was receiving baptism, and the whole soul was transforming towards friendliness.

Su Xiao was a bit interested in this kind of particularly acting one, because good enough acting could sometimes play a great role. Therefore, he saw through but didn't say anything about the soul maid's performance.

Perhaps feeling that she had been seen through in her heart, the soul maid didn't continue to act along the train of thought and floated there quietly, passively waiting for the situation to change.

"How to go directly below this building."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the soul maid thought about it with distress for a while. Although she got rid of the erosion of the scarlet, it was inevitable that her memory would be damaged. A moment later, she finally recalled clearly: "Lord, you can only go out or continue to go deeper. The underground palace below is the entrance for a detour. Why do you want to go there?"

After listening to this, Su Xiao looked directly into the soul maid's eyes. Although the other party didn't have 'scarlet beauty pupils' now, her eyes would reveal a richer soul color. If she lied, she would consider more, which would lead to a deeper soul color in the other party's eyes.

Su Xiao confirmed one point, which was that Bubu Wang, Baha, Zuiyas, and the others didn't enter the Extremely Dark Castle, but were blocked in the maze below. As for why he could enter, this might be related to the fact that he lifted the dark seal in that Law-Destroyer treasure vault before.

In other words, compared to other explorers who entered the Extremely Dark Castle, he could enter this place directly, without having to break through the underground maze level first.

Su Xiao walked towards the outside of the guest room. A moldy smell of wood decaying due to dampness diffused in the corridor. Because the environment was completely pitch black, he opened the "Hunting Vision". Although the world in the hunting vision had no color, it could ignore the dark energy diffusing here.

Walking along the corridor, Su Xiao passed by a mural and looked at it. This was a portrait, an old man in the appearance of a butler.

Su Xiao withdrew his gaze and continued to move forward. Just at this time, he suddenly felt that everything around him slowed down. The elderly butler in the mural beside him turned into a humanoid dark creature, rushed out from the mural, sharp claws, and a mouth full of uneven sharp teeth, all attacking him.

Suddenly, all this perception came to an abrupt end, and the enemy that presented a translucent state shattered into bubbles. This was triggered by the Master's Induction.

"Intelligence attribute 00 points attribute reward · Master's Induction: When an attack strikes, you have a 5% probability to perceive the direction and trajectory of the attack 0.5 seconds in advance."

It was not that Su Xiao was lucky, but this triggering probability had nothing to do with luck. This was an ability that tested hard strength. The stronger one's own perception ability, the greater the triggering probability.

The humanoid dark creature detached a part from the mural beside him and suddenly lowered his body to bite Su Xiao with a strange and extreme speed. This attack was so sudden that even an Absolute Tier, if caught off guard and attacked at a vital point, would be severely damaged.

Su Xiao almost simultaneously stepped back and fluently drew his knife and slashed down, which led to the original surprise attack of the mural dark creature becoming its active execution.

Zing!

The dark creature was cut into two pieces. After the upper half landed, the lower half also detached from the mural. The two pieces of the dark creature struggled painfully on the ground. A moment later, it didn't move. From that look full of surprise and unwillingness, it could be seen that this dark creature didn't understand until it died how Su Xiao could avoid its surprise attack synchronously.

【You have killed the dark creature · Wall-Attached Human Painting.】

【You have obtained Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained 160 points of world prestige.】

Due to the Void Tree's notarization method for this world, there were no Soul Coins in the kill reward, but world prestige was obtained.

Calculating with boss-type units, killing an Absolute Tier boss could roughly obtain 10,000~70,000 points of world prestige, while strength between Absolute Tier and Supreme Tier, killing could obtain 80,000 world prestige. For example, before Su Xiao eliminated 0/1 of the Deep Sea Evil Spirit, it belonged to this category, and killing a Supreme Tier big boss could obtain 70~??? ten thousand points of world prestige.

Because the seal of this century had been opened, it was impossible to obtain kill rewards above the Absolute Tier. However, if one could kill enemies with the strength of Eternal Dark Lord, Progenitor, etc., even if their combat power was suppressed to the Absolute Tier limit, one could obtain about 500,000 world prestige.

Walking through the corridor, after passing the corner, an elevator appeared. Su Xiao walked onto the elevator. Just as he was about to press the start switch, he found a dark golden light particle emerging and drifting upward. Seeing this scene, he didn't react at first, but then thought that this was triggered by the effect of 【Greed Orb】.

This dark golden light particle drifted on the top of the elevator and then dissipated. Su Xiao went to the top of the elevator from the inspection port and saw a withered corpse hanging on the top bolt. Judging from the remaining clothing, it should be the eldest daughter of this castle, or a distinguished guest. When the scarlet spread, she stumbled and fell from the elevator entrance on the upper floor in a panic, dying from the penetrating wound of this top bolt.

Su Xiao used a bit of strength with the crystal layer wrapped around his hand, wrapped around the pendant, and the hardened scarlet crystal shattered, revealing the most valuable ruby part.

【You have obtained Life Blessing (Immortal-grade · Accessory).】

"Life Blessing · Equipment effect: Rescue (Active), immediately consume 0% of maximum mana to activate a healing effect, healing 1.5% of current maximum health (under Absolute Tier comprehensive strength, can heal 45%~50% health)."

Su Xiao looked at the Immortal-grade pendant in his hand. It was a pretty good piece of equipment. Generally, the price of Immortal-grade equipment is around 1900~7000 Soul Coins. Selling this thing for 5000 belongs to the kind that is placed on the stall and is gone.

If you take out some Soul Coins to enhance it to +10, it is a very good piece of equipment before ascending to the Absolute Tier, especially the tank type of the adventure group, who likes this thing the most. They are not afraid of mana consumption. If you take this thing back and sell it to the Divine Emperor Adventure Group, you don't even need to open a price, and that side will offer more than 500 Soul Coins.

At least 500 Soul Coins were in hand, and Su Xiao was in a good mood. The 【Greed Orb】 obtained in the treasure vault before was indeed very practical. If there was no such orb, he really wouldn't be able to perceive this pendant wrapped in scarlet crystals. Even if he was less than 1 meter away from this equipment just now, his perception was better at perceiving enemies or the abilities used by enemies.

Returning to the elevator, Su Xiao started it. The soul maid who was waiting obediently in the elevator just now didn't know where she ran to. This little maid's acting was good, but her patience was a bit poor.

Su Xiao looked at the floor disk that was gradually descending. When he arrived at the first floor, he didn't go to press the door-opening mechanism. A finger in the form of a soul was temporarily materialized and pressed on it. The soul maid appeared at some point, and her soul body was more transparent than just now.

The iron fence door of the elevator opened. After Su Xiao walked out, the soul maid followed immediately behind.

Just after Su Xiao walked out of the elevator, this elevator was shrouded in darkness, and scarlet eyes stared at the soul maid in that darkness. However, these ghost-type existences tacitly kept one point, which was not to enter within 10 meters of Su Xiao, to avoid angering this terrifying human race that was constantly emitting blood energy and malice.

There were many skeletons in the empty hall. Su Xiao walked through these skeletons. He pushed open the broken wooden door, and a courtyard came into view.

The courtyard was very large. In front and behind were two buildings, and on the left and right sides were walls of tens of meters high. In this courtyard, there were broken stone statues and broken weapons. In the center was a large pile of skeletons. At the top of these skeletons was a withered bone wearing battle armor. He presented a half-squatting posture, with a great sword inserted into the pile of skeletons, trying to stand up with the hand holding the hilt as a fulcrum, but failed to stand up again due to serious injuries.

Looking at the building opposite, this was a six-story building. The height of each floor was very high, making this building with only six floors more than a hundred meters high.

This battle-armored skeleton should have broken through the fifth floor, jumped out from the hole there, landed, and was besieged and killed by the scarlet guards in the courtyard.

Su Xiao stepped forward to check and found that the skeletons in this battle armor all revealed a scarlet color. But even so, this person still was not assimilated by the madness of the scarlet, until he fought to the death, and did not have any deformity due to the scarlet. This was the city lord of this place.

With a swoosh, a strong wind struck. Su Xiao tilted his head to dodge, and a metal arrow with scarlet power flew past his face and nailed into the ground behind him.

A blasting sound came from behind. One could imagine the terrifying power attached to this arrow. The space ripples left by the scarlet arrow along the way showed how powerful the average combat power in this area was. It was no wonder that the previous hint warned that if you were not an Absolute Tier, you could not enter this place. If you came, you might fight a small monster, and it would be exceptionally dangerous. The risk and return were completely disproportionate.

After a loud noise, dense armor collision sounds came from the surrounding high walls and the first floor of the building in front. In less than a few seconds, nearly a hundred scarlet guards either jumped down from the high walls or rushed out from the first floor of the building opposite.

Su Xiao took out a common liquid Apollo. Although this weapon had been eliminated, it could be used to test the strength of the enemy. He crushed the container, formed it into an arrow with crystals, and through the technique pattern formed by the arrow, reduced its explosion range and increased its explosion power.

The magic spirit was released, forming a crystal bow and arrow in his hand, using soul energy as the bowstring, pulling the bow and setting the arrow, aiming this sun arrow at a scarlet guard rushing towards him. This scarlet guard was wearing full battle armor, giving people a direct feeling of being strong and unstoppable.

Boom!

The sun arrow shot out, hitting a scarlet guard rushing towards him. With a loud boom, although the explosion range was severely compressed, it still had a range of 100 meters.

The sun flame diffused. The next second, a figure rushed out of the sun flame. It was the scarlet guard who was directly hit by the sun arrow. The anti-knockback and defense of the small monsters in this dangerous area were simply too strong. It was no wonder that the previous hint warned that if you were not an Absolute Tier, you could not come to this place. If you came, you might fight a small monster, and it would be exceptionally dangerous.

With a boom, Su Xiao grabbed a battle spear wrapped in rich scarlet. Because the power of this attack was too fierce, a shock spread centered on him, and the scarlet power eroded the crystal layer on his left hand.

Crack, crack, crack~

Translucent blue crystals clung to the surface of the battle spear. Su Xiao let go of the battle spear, and the blood energy phantom behind him materialized. The blood energy phantom grabbed the battle spear and shot it towards the defensive giant crossbow on the top of the building opposite.

After a roar, the city defense giant crossbow on the top of the building opposite shattered. Almost at the same time, Su Xiao held his knife to block.

With a clatter, the long knife blocked a cone spear. Although the scarlet warrior opposite had a withered body under his armor, his strength and deterrence were exceptionally strong.

Although Su Xiao blocked this blow, the 100+ scarlet warriors and scarlet guards around him rushed forward at the same time. What was even more terrifying was that these guys were all space-type ability rushes. In a moment, they had surrounded Su Xiao layer by layer, various weapons slashed down, or thrust with full force, or carried a hammer with a creepy whimper.

Su Xiao felt that the light around him disappeared because there were too many enemies. Considering that the enemy's attack carried scarlet power, this was an extremely dangerous situation.

"Extreme Blade · World."

Zing!

A sharp and metallic slashing sound appeared. Centered on Su Xiao, every ten centimeters around, there was a slashing flash the size of a grain of rice, shining with sharp slashing light. The darkness that was originally blocked by the enemy around was instantly driven away.

Armor and weapon fragments the size of a sugar cube at most fell with a clatter. In fact, more were only the size of a bean, like falling metal raindrops. Su Xiao walked in this metal rain. A moment later, he stopped at the giant metal door of the main building.

The surface of this building in front was wrapped in scarlet power. Only this opened metal door leaf was not blessed with scarlet energy. But judging from the scarlet spreading around, it would soon be blessed. As for entering from the hole on the fifth floor, this was not feasible. From the outside, one could see the rich pitch black in the hole. Rushing into that darkness would definitely pay a painful price.

Zing!

Su Xiao clearly didn't swing his knife, but several intersecting slashes appeared in front, and the broken metal door leaf fell.

Walking into the main building, this was a magnificent hall. Because there were usually guards on duty, there were no furnishings here, only a dozen pillars more than two meters thick, and near the center was the stairs leading to the upper floor.

Located in front of the stairs, a tall figure was sitting on the ground. His left hand held a tower shield more than two meters high, and his right hand was a heavy black knife ten centimeters thick, half a meter wide, and more than two meters long. Although this black knife had no blade tip, its weight was definitely terrifying. The slightly backward-curved blade could not only cause serious damage to the enemy's weapons but also had powerful slashing power.

More than four meters tall, the scarlet guard chief in full armor, thumb-thick, got up from the ground. Unlike the previous scarlet warriors, this scarlet guard chief still had some sanity, but he still chose to hold this place, not letting the intruder step into the second floor, let alone see the city lord's wife.

Boom!

The scarlet guard chief knocked on the tower shield in his other hand with the heavy knife in his hand. He roared, and layers of scarlet sound waves spread.

Su Xiao held the knife with one hand to block the incoming sound waves. With a series of crisp sounds, the scarlet sound waves were blocked, but the next moment, a foul wind came to his face. It was the scarlet guard chief rushing over.

Overwhelming body size contrast, very large weapon weight difference, no matter how you look at it, Su Xiao could not face the scarlet guard chief head-on. But facing the black heavy knife, Su Xiao not only didn't retreat, or block perfectly, he instead slashed up with his knife.

When!!

Fine cracks appeared in the air around, and with a boom, the scarlet guard chief who rushed over with a heavy slash knelt on one knee on the spot, and the gauntlet of the hand holding the black heavy knife creaked.

As the black heavy knife and the 【Dragon Flash】 wrestled with each other, the right arm of the scarlet guard chief holding the knife exploded with a bang, revealing a thick arm. The muscles on this arm had cracked, revealing the scarlet flowing inside.

"Roar!"

The scarlet guard chief roared and got up from the kneeling state, rushing towards Su Xiao opposite with full force. But who knew, Su Xiao actually took a step back. As a Sword Technique Master, he was stronger in fighting techniques, not in brute force compared to the enemy.

The scarlet guard chief rushed forward with full force. Su Xiao's step back caused the scarlet guard chief's forward rushing power to have nowhere to be met, and he immediately became unstable.

Su Xiao, who had taken a step back, suddenly stepped forward again, slashed with full force, and slashed onto the enemy's black heavy knife.

With a loud bang, the black heavy knife in the scarlet guard chief's hand shattered, leaving only a hilt in his hand. The next moment, his disheveled red hair blew back, and the death perception coming to his face made him raise the heavy tower shield in his hand.

Boom!!

The shock wave spread with the straight kick hitting the center of the tower shield. The rock slabs on the ground collapsed. Before they could fly away, they were swept into stone chips by the impact.

The scarlet guard chief swept across a straight line, broke a metal pillar more than two meters thick behind him, and sank into a pillar further behind. He sat in the metal depression, looked down at the tower shield in his hand, only a hilt remained, connected to a shield face the size of a basin. But after being looked at, this remaining shield face also shattered.

Wind pressure struck. The scarlet guard chief pulled out the spare sword from his waist and raised the sword to block. But after blocking this blow, the scarlet guard chief felt that this was not blocking a knife, but the entire world in front was pressing and slashing towards him. His right arm, shoulder, and part of his torso all shattered.

After breaking the defense with one knife, Su Xiao kicked sideways, hitting the head of the scarlet guard chief, causing his head to hit a metal pillar on the side. This metal pillar also couldn't withstand it, shattering and sinking into the wall on the side, hitting out large holes.

After taking this side kick, the scarlet guard chief's kneeling body swayed left and right in confusion, and then fell to the ground with a thud, and scarlet blood spread under him.

Without any nonsense or humiliation, Su Xiao skillfully held the knife backhand and pierced through the scarlet power gathering point in the center of the enemy's torso. This caused the scarlet in the scarlet guard chief's eyes to dissipate quickly.

Drawing the knife, holding the knife with his right hand, and shaking off the scarlet on the knife, this was a super-strength muscular boss, beaten by Su Xiao all the way backward, not retreating, but flying backward. This was the powerful slash derived after both "Blade weapon damage tier" and "Blade weapon slashing power judgment tier" reached 56 points.

A full 6 points of Original Skill Points, Su Xiao used them all to upgrade sword technique, which made his Lv. 80 【Sword Technique Master】 ability even stronger than the sword technique ability that reached Lv. 89.

If you just talk about the strength of the 【Sword Technique Master】 ability, Su Xiao's 【Sword Technique Master】 ability at this moment is already in the top tier among the Absolute Tier. Although the 【Sword Technique Master】 ability cannot represent everything, this degree of 【Sword Technique Master】 represents that he has the chips to clash with the top powerhouses of the Absolute Tier.

In addition, the strength of the technique type is not compared to brute force, speed, or body energy. If you dare to expose opportunities to the technique type, even if the enemy is the ceiling of the Absolute Tier, you have to pay an extremely painful price.

【You have killed the scarlet guard chief · Hagem.】

【You have obtained 190 Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained 6500 points of world prestige.】

【You have obtained Scarlet Treasure Chest · Guard Chief (After opening, there is a probability of obtaining unique scarlet items in this area, or rewards corresponding to Eternal-grade Treasure Chest · 18%).】

The harvest was pretty good. Su Xiao walked up the steps to the second floor. After arriving at the second floor, he found that this was a library, but many bookshelves fell, and all kinds of books were piled up everywhere, and some even had traces of insect damage.

Su Xiao jumped onto a bookshelf and saw that located at the innermost part of the library, an old man wearing a dark golden old robe with full white long hair was standing there.

Looking at each other, the old man, that is, the owner of the library on the second floor, gradually floated up, and scarlet lightning balls emerged around him, his momentum growing.

"Intruder, all must die at..."

Before the second-floor boss · Scarlet Elder finished his entrance lines, Su Xiao had already released the magic spirit, formed a magic spirit arrow, the blood energy phantom appeared behind him, the soul big bow was pulled full, and an arrow shot towards the Scarlet Elder.

With a boom, the magic spirit arrow hit a static electricity barrier, the scarlet static electricity disappeared instantly, and the magic spirit, which turned into black smoke, made a gesture to fall downward.

Just at this time, Su Xiao suddenly exchanged positions with the magic spirit, and what was more fatal was that before he exchanged positions, he had already started to accumulate "Blade Dao Knife · Kill", and the full-accumulated "Blade Dao Knife · Kill" slashed out.

With a whoosh! The blood-colored chain slashed out diagonally, and with the blessing of blood soul, the slashed blood-colored chain presented a dark red color, full of sparkling fire stars inside. With one knife, the space where it slashed appeared fine black marks, and the dozens of layers of various shields constructed by the Scarlet Elder all exploded.

【Blade Dao Knife · Blood Blade.】

Not giving the Scarlet Elder half a chance to ** (breathe), Su Xiao had already turned into a straight blood-colored slashing light. As the blood-colored slashing light swept past, large splashes of blood sprayed from the Scarlet Elder's chest. His eyes were already wide, staring at Su Xiao. Almost at the same time, Su Xiao felt the temperature of all the blood in his body soar, as if all his blood would explode in the next second.

Su Xiao, who appeared behind the Scarlet Elder with 【Dragon Shadow Flash】, kicked sideways, kicking the Scarlet Elder into a light, diagonally hitting the corner of the library.

Amidst the scattered broken book pages, the Scarlet Elder, whose robe was full of blood stains, lay half on the ground and raised his hand to grasp the air. Because he anticipated the scene of the enemy exploding due to blood, he had a bit of joy in his heart after being beaten and killing the enemy. He didn't believe that a melee type could use such outrageous movement abilities in a short time after two consecutive rushes.

However, the smoke of the Blade Spirit drifted behind the Scarlet Elder. Su Xiao reduced his strength significantly with the side kick just now. The purpose was for precision, letting the Scarlet Elder, who was flying diagonally downward, pass through the black smoke of the Blade Spirit, thereby attaching a certain amount of Blade Spirit to the other party. These spirits were enough to launch a position exchange.

Su Xiao exchanged positions with the magic spirit again. At this moment, the Scarlet Elder, a long-range powerhouse, deeply experienced the mood of a spellcaster fighting a Law-Destroyer.

"Wait..."

Zing~!

A slashing light swept past, and the enemy's head fell. It was just that crisp and neat.

1 second, seconds, seconds, the kill hint didn't appear. Su Xiao opened the "Hunting Vision" and looked around the scene. A scarlet liquid stain was spreading to the distance on the ground. At this moment, it was sinking into a pile of books more than ten meters away. The thing that left this scarlet liquid stain completely shielded the capture of perception.

【Blood Smoke Cannon.】

Aiming at the pile of books, a shot of Blood Smoke Cannon was fired. After a worm-like miserable hiss, a leech-like sticky worm was bombarded into ash.

【You have killed the Scarlet Elder · Worm Shi.】

【You have obtained 1048 Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained 19980 points of world prestige.】

【You have obtained Scarlet Treasure Chest · Crawler (After opening, there is a probability of obtaining unique scarlet items in this area, or rewards corresponding to Eternal-grade Treasure Chest · 15%).】

Slashing two layers of boss units in a row, Su Xiao's state was getting better and better. The feeling of completely controlling his own various abilities in the past gradually returned. Taking advantage of the good state, he took the elevator to the third floor.

After arriving at the third floor, Su Xiao found that the area here was not large, and most of the area was filled with scarlet condensed crystals, leaving only a passage. Walking along the passage, he arrived at a place similar to a nest.

This place was empty, various old furniture were turned over, some collectibles fell to the ground and shattered, and a wall dark compartment similar to a safe was opened, and the door didn't even have time to close.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao came to a teleportation array, squatted down and pressed one hand on it. The teleportation array was still hot, clearly just used.

After Su Xiao slashed two layers of bosses, the boss occupying the third floor was not lightly frightened, so he ran away decisively. Seeing this, Su Xiao immediately accelerated his pace, and didn't take the elevator, but wrapped his hands with crystal layers to form claws, tore down the elevator, and climbed to the fourth floor along the well.

With a boom, Su Xiao kicked open the door of the fourth floor. It was much more luxurious here. A super big fat man, fat and tall, was grabbing a large handful of Soul Crystal Souls and stuffing them into a large leather bag. The fat on his body could be described as layered. This big fat man moved slightly, and these fats would shake. This was no longer obesity, but a powerful ability deformed by this.

Su Xiao glanced at the teleportation array that had already been activated. Fortunately, he came in time, otherwise, he would have let this Scarlet Elder Man run away with his family property. This Extremely Dark Castle exploration, he didn't worry about not being able to beat boss-level enemies, but worried more about this kind of enemy running away with his family property.

"You, you are a Law-Destroyer?"

The Scarlet Elder Man spoke.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak.

"Ah~, scared me to death. Hagem on the first floor and Worm Shi on the second floor were all slaughtered in less than five minutes. It's a Law-Destroyer, great."

"..."

Su Xiao still didn't speak. Seeming to feel the danger, the Scarlet Elder Man hurriedly explained: "Although I deformed because of the scarlet, I successfully coexisted with the scarlet, so my sanity is clear. It was Thornes who let me guard here to avoid the city lord's wife on the fifth floor breaking through the darkness's seal. She is the most deformed, most terrifying scarlet deformed person here."

To verify what he said, the Scarlet Elder Man also took out a half-broken Watcher's Ring. Although this ring could no longer be used, it could also represent his identity. In addition, he said many details about the agreement with Thornes, which was clearly true.

No longer paying attention to the Scarlet Elder Man, Su Xiao came to the innermost part of this floor and went to the fifth floor along the ladder fixed on the wall. When he arrived at the fifth floor and opened a pair of wooden doors, rich darkness blocked the front.

Su Xiao probed one hand towards the darkness. Just as he was about to touch this darkness, he stopped. This was not only darkness, but also seemed to be Abyss energy of super high concentration, sealed here to prevent the city lord's wife from coming out. For the sake of stability, he switched the soul core of 【Soul-Severing Shadow】 to the "Darkness · Soul Core" he mastered in Reincarnation Paradise before.

"Darkness · Soul Core (Advanced · Passive): Temporarily fuse all magic energy, let it significantly enhance your health and body defense tier, and adaptively increase Abyss resistance, but the overall movement speed is reduced by 9%~95%.

Hint: This movement speed reduction has absolute priority and cannot be offset by any means.

Hint: The switching speed of this soul core is slower, and it needs to be switched to this soul core in a stable environment."

Su Xiao walked into the darkness in front. The darkness eroded, making him only able to move slowly. Fortunately, he was in the "Darkness · Soul Core" state, successfully withstanding this erosion.

It's just that the Abyss energy here was not in its original form. Someone injected dark-characteristic energy into it. Under the extreme bonus of the Abyss, this darkness had certain Abyss characteristics, and would also cause those who entered this place to lose health quickly. Compared to this point, what surprised Su Xiao more was that in the Eternal Light World, one could actually get so much Abyss energy.

When Su Xiao walked out from the other side of the dark area, his health only had 56% left. If it weren't for the "Darkness · Soul Core", he really wouldn't be able to pass through this place. Here, high Abyss resistance was not the most important, but also high dark resistance, and strong vitality. And scarlet erosion would significantly reduce dark resistance, which was also the reason why the city lord's wife was blocked by this dark area.

Switching the "Darkness · Soul Core" gradually to "Rapid · Soul Core", and drinking a bottle of recovery potion, Su Xiao looked at the two metal doors tightly closed in front. He could perceive that the strongest person in the Extremely Dark Castle · City Lord's Wife was in the sleeping palace behind the door. (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 3748 =====

However, the abyss energy here is not in its original form; someone has injected energy with dark characteristics into it. Under the extreme amplification of the abyss, this darkness not only possesses certain abyssal traits but also causes those who enter this place to rapidly lose health. Compared to this, what Su Xiao finds even more surprising is that it is possible to obtain so much abyss energy within the Eternal Light world.

When Su Xiao walks out from the other side of the dark area, his health is only at 56%. If not for the "Dark Soul Core," he truly would not have been able to pass through this place. Here, high abyss resistance is not the most important thing; one must also have high dark resistance and strong vitality. Furthermore, scarlet erosion significantly reduces dark resistance, which is also the reason why the Lady of the City was blocked by this dark area.

Gradually switching the "Dark Soul Core" to the "Rapid Soul Core" and drinking a bottle of recovery potion, Su Xiao looks at the two tightly closed metal doors in front of him. He can sense that the strongest being in this Extremely Dark Castle, the Lady of the City, is right inside the bedchamber behind the doors. (To be continued.)