Chapter 3748: Secret Treasure in the Study

Stopping at the door of the sleeping palace, Su Xiao looked at the two metal doors opening in front and found that he seemed to have omitted quite a few mission steps again.

The reason for saying this is because on the sleeping palace door in front, there was a lock plate of the same style as the Watcher's Gao Ta, and even the structure of each circle of lock rings was the same as that of the Watcher's Gao Ta. Without thinking, he knew that the lock plates of these two places both came from the mechanical creator.

The good news is that the lock plate of these three circles in front only had three circles, unlike the top floor of the Watcher's Gao Ta, which reached an astonishing thirty circles, and the category of each circle of lock rings was different.

The lock plate of these three circles in front was a combination of secret patterns. Because there was no clue, and there was no corresponding key to insert into the center of the lock plate, it was not even possible to turn the lock rings. Su Xiao took out the 【Mysterious Eye】 to try if this masterpiece of alchemy civilization could lift the carefully laid out seal of the mechanical creator.

As for using a universal key to open the door, for the creations of the mechanical creator, Su Xiao still had some respect, so he wouldn't use the universal key, so as not to kick it and make his feet numb.

After adjusting the mode of the 【Mysterious Eye】, Su Xiao adsorbed it on the center of the lock plate. A precision mechanical tentacle probed from the 【Mysterious Eye】, first entered the lock hole, changed into various combinations, and with a click, the lock hole was handled. After that, three mechanical tentacles each adsorbed on a circle of lock plate and began to turn the lock plates one by one at a speed that made people dazzled.

Time passed minute by minute. After Su Xiao waited for more than twenty minutes, he heard a crisp click, the three circles of lock plates on the door retracted, and the lock plate imprints on it formed a circular mark, and the door of the sleeping palace opened a gap.

【Hint: You have opened the City Lord's Wife's sleeping palace.】

【You have not completed the side mission · Dark Blood City Lord's Relics (total three-ring mission).】

【You have not completed the side mission · Scarlet Secret (total four-ring mission).】

【You have not completed the side mission · Creator's Secret Lock (total two-ring mission).】

【You have triggered the final link mission of this area · City Lord's Study.】

【Because of this mission, you have become a temporary teammate with the Apocalypse Paradise · Law Soul Team.】

【Detected that your temporary teammate · Apocalypse Paradise · Law Soul Team is too far away from you and will not be able to share this mission.】

【If your temporary teammate Law Soul Team does not go to the City Lord's Wife's sleeping palace where you are within 1 hour, it will be regarded as voluntarily giving up the mission.】

【Because of this requirement, it has seriously exceeded the limit category of the four members of the Law Soul Team, judging...】

【Judgment completed, the Law Soul Team has voluntarily given up this mission. Your temporary teammate relationship with the Law Soul Team is lifted. Because your location is more qualified to complete this mission, you will obtain the mission completion degree accumulated by the Law Soul Team. After the side mission · City Lord's Study is completed, the obtained completion degree will be settled as your mission reward.】

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao roughly guessed what was going on. This Extremely Dark Castle belonged to a large dungeon. Just the side missions that needed to be completed to enter here totaled three, totaling nine rings.

Side mission 1: Dark Blood City Lord's Relics.

Side mission 2: Scarlet Secret.

Side mission 3: Creator's Secret Lock.

First talk about the "Dark Blood City Lord's Relics" mission. If I'm not mistaken, this requires obtaining a certain initial mission item. The location to obtain this item is nine times out of ten Iron Black City. After obtaining this mission item, the next step is to contact the City Lord's Manor of Iron Black City.

As the mission continues step by step, when it finally reaches the last ring of this side mission, one finally sees the current city lord. The current city lord will explain the origin of this relic, as well as the story of the Dark Blood City Lord, etc. In this way, it involves scarlet erosion.

Following the clues given by the current city lord, the next step is to find the person who knows about this matter. That person who knows might be the surviving relative of the Dark Blood City Lord, or someone who knows in the small town around it back then. After interacting with this 'mission NPC', one will get the admission ticket to the Extremely Dark Castle, which is the shelter item to avoid being eroded by the scarlet in this place.

This thing was solved by Caesar, but Su Xiao basically confirmed that what Caesar got was not the real ticket, but a shelter item similar to the ticket.

After completing this step and having the qualification to enter the Extremely Dark Castle, the 'mission NPC' who gave the shelter item would reveal that the most terrifying existence in the Extremely Dark Castle now is the City Lord's Wife. It can be said that it is difficult to enter the fifth floor where the City Lord's Wife is.

After that, it is to find the mechanical creator, and after passing the mechanical creator's test with Absolute Tier strength, one will get the way to temporarily open the dark area channel, as well as the three-digit secret pattern combination to open the sleeping

After this, the next step is to explore the Extremely Dark Castle, then explore all the way to the Scarlet Main Castle. After defeating the Scarlet Guard Captain on the first floor and the Scarlet Elder on the second floor, one can unite with the Rational Beast on the third floor to deal with the Scarlet Eldest Son on the fourth floor together.

When about to defeat the Scarlet Eldest Son, he will reveal that he is not from the Scarlet Castle faction, but is cooperating with the Eternal Light Monitor, Thorns, and is responsible for guarding the entrance to the bedchamber. This is both to prevent anyone from releasing the Lady of the City and to guard against the Lady of the City breaking through the main entrance of the bedchamber and rushing out from the dark area.

Up to this point, the battle is considered to have subsided. The Rational Beast and the Scarlet Eldest Son leave the place one after another, leaving only the Qiyuezhe or Qiyuezhe squads who have completed the series of tasks to challenge the final big boss, the Lady of the City, and trigger the final task of the Scarlet Castle: the City Lord's Study.

Su Xiao's method of coming here is much simpler. He accidentally opened the dark seal and fought his way here. He resisted the dark area head-on, unlocked the bedchamber door with the Eye of Mystery, and he hasn't even seen the current City Lord of Iron City, that important NPC, or the Mechanical Creator.

Not to mention these people in the task flow, he hasn't even seen the Rational Beast on the third floor of the Scarlet Main Castle. However, even if he did see it, it is more likely that he would just turn this boss into a treasure chest.

At this moment, in a two-story mansion in the rear district of Iron City.

The Thunder Magic God, Aige, sits before the table with a face as gloomy as water. On the sofa not far away is the lazy, charming, and dangerous witch, Liliya. Opposite them is the gloomy-eyed Nightmare Ghost, Kain. That's right, these three unlucky top-tier Ninth-Tier powerhouses have formed a squad again.

Among them, Nightmare Ghost Kain and Thunder Magic God Aige came here to undergo a breakthrough trial. They certainly wouldn't miss such an opportunity. Come to think of it, both of them have solid strength, especially Thunder Magic God Aige; he is really only a notch weaker than Brother Fierce, Masked Woman, and Magic Scythe Teride. Ordinary powerhouses who have reached the Ninth-Tier limit are easily beaten by him single-handedly.

That was until Thunder Magic God Aige met his ultimate nemesis in fate, not only being disguised as an altar girl once but also being blackmailed for 200,000 soul coins, and in their first meeting, he was countered to the point of doubting his life.

Even when facing an ultimate big boss of the same tier, Thunder Magic God Aige had never dealt such low damage with an ultimate move, and he once began to doubt himself.

It wasn't until later that Thunder Magic God Aige learned from his temporary teammate, the witch Liliya, that another teammate, Nightmare Ghost Kain, had once dealt triple-digit damage with an ultimate-level move. This made Thunder Magic God Aige feel much better immediately, and he secretly had the idea of being temporary teammates with this guy more often in the future.

At this moment, the three members of the Magic Soul Team, whose mission was inexplicably terminated, all feel particularly confused. What "Lady of the City's bedchamber"? Where is that? Isn't the current mission location in Iron City?

"This is too much! Can the Night of Decapitation just steal other people's missions? Are you all just going to endure this?"

A girl with fair skin that emits a faint fluorescence and short blue hair slowly shedding light particles stands up angrily. She is a new member of the Magic Soul Team, Ling Yao. Having the qualifications to join the Magic Soul Team, she naturally has many methods and strength.

Hearing Ling Yao's words, the eyes of Aige, Liliya, and Kain all change. Kain agrees, saying, "Ling Yao is right; this matter cannot just be left like this."

Before Ling Yao can answer, Liliya speaks first: "Hmm, then who will solve this? We can't all go together, right? Four against one, it won't sound good if it gets out."

"I heard~ that the Night of Decapitation is quite strong..."

Before Ling Yao can finish her sentence, Kain says, "With the strength and reputation of the four of us, we really shouldn't do four against one."

Ling Yao: "But..."

"How about this, we choose a representative from among us to go find Kuku Lin Bai Ye and ask for an explanation. How do you feel about this proposal?"

After Kain finishes speaking, he looks around at Liliya and Aige. Liliya immediately expresses her agreement. Aige, whose conscience is not yet entirely gone, hesitates for a moment, but hindered by the fact that both teammates agree, he can only agree as well.

"Actually, sometimes stepping back..."

Ling Yao is already starting to feel that something is wrong; her fluorescent blue short hair is no longer shedding light particles.

"No, you were right just now, Ling Yao. That guy is too much. Let's draw lots among the four of us to see who goes to deal with him. Come on, let's draw lots."

Kain takes out four lots. Ling Yao, who already feels something is very wrong, hurriedly draws one first. She is truly afraid that these three teammates will tacitly draw the three others and leave her with the losing lot.

Ling Yao opens the result of the draw, her expression stiffening, but she hides it very well and asks, "What are your results?"

"Not me."

"Not me either, what a pity~"

"Let me see, hmm, not me."

Kain, who opens his lot last, shows his result, and then all three look at Ling Yao, which makes the corner of Ling Yao's eye twitch violently.

"Ling Yao, you wouldn't be... afraid, would you? If you're afraid, actually, we can just let it go."

"You... you're full of crap."

Ling Yao blurts out, immediately regretting it as soon as the words leave her mouth. But as a Light Spirit, having become a Qiyuezhe by chance, she clearly fell for the old schemer's provocation.

If the potential attributes of each race were quantified, the Human race would have low initial values but high growth and a high ceiling. Like the Light Spirit race, their initial natural combat power is at the B to A level. In contrast, their growth in terms of strategy is not as high as that of the Human race.

"I must get back the mission reward that belongs to me. As for your share..."

"It's all yours."

Kain immediately makes the decision for the other two.

"It's a deal."

A smile appears on Ling Yao's face, and with a few flashes of light, she arrives in the courtyard outside.

Kain, Aige, and Liliya stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, watching Ling Yao walking happily in the courtyard below. Aige, whose conscience hurts a bit, asks, "Is what we're doing a bit mean?"

"Heh, Aige, who do you think this little girl teamed up with to enter the Eternal Light world?"

"Who?"

"The Priest."

"Kain, you did a great job with this."

Thunder Magic God Aige's mood immediately improves a bit. He returns to the bar, pours himself a glass of wine, and drinks it slowly alone.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Kain watches Ling Yao, who has already walked far away, and asks, "Liliya, what kind of ability does this little Light Spirit girl have? I don't feel like she's a Light-type for frontal combat."

"Of course not, she's a Misfortune-type."

"Oh? Is that so? Can she cause some trouble for Bai Ye?"

Kain's eyes change; after all, he has been beaten up by Su Xiao several times, and each time he was nearly beaten to death.

Liliya smiles without saying a word. She can't even imagine how funny it would be for a Misfortune-type to secretly cast misfortune curses on the Shadow of Law-Extermination from the shadows.

……

In front of the Lady of the City's bedchamber door, after Su Xiao stabilizes his breathing, he holds his blade in his right hand while using his left hand to push one of the door panels wider. Accompanied by a clicking sound, scarlet mist spreads out from the bedchamber.

This scarlet mist has a faint fishy and bitter smell and completely blocks perception. The range of perception is suppressed to be closer than sight. Due to the surrounding scarlet mist, visibility is no more than three meters; beyond three meters, everything becomes blurred due to the scarlet color.

Crack!

Su Xiao steps on several bone fragments and looks down. On the surrounding ground, there are large piles of bones. Before the Mechanical Creator of Iron City sealed this place, it was a monster nest. The Scarlet Guard Captain would lead Scarlet Warriors to hunt adventurers or scavengers passing through the surrounding area.

Then they would be thrown into the bedchamber where the Lady of the City resided through the skylight at the top of the Scarlet Main Castle. But there was one point: before being thrown in, the prey had the right to request a weapon, as the Lady of the City, who had become cruel and violent due to the scarlet, was no longer satisfied with hunting those unarmed prey.

But even with a weapon, after being thrown into the bedchamber from above, no one could survive for more than five minutes, including many adventurers with immense combat power.

Although the gap between the immense and the immense is not small, those who can advance to the immense cannot be underestimated. For example, the Arcane Eternal Star seems to have only three veteran immense powerhouses: Dean Guya, Serfilia, and the Frost King. In fact, this is intentionally displayed. Only the spellcasters of the Arcane Eternal Star know how many newly advanced immense powerhouses there are in secret.

Regarding this point, Su Xiao has never doubted it. Veteran immense powerhouses like Dean Guya, Serfilia, and the Frost King have been famous since the end of the Law-Extermination era until now. After so many years, would the Arcane Eternal Star, with the "Prosperous Star" and a Black Maple Tree, have no resources to cultivate new immense powerhouses?

Furthermore, as the hegemon of the Void, the spellcasters here who advance to the immense are so low-key that even the lower-middle-level spellcasters are unaware, because the Arcane Eternal Star already has three immense powerhouses as a facade, and there is no need to show stronger power. There are two benefits to doing this.

One is not to put too much pressure on other forces in the Void, avoiding several major forces, such as the Demon race, the Feather race, etc., from being forced to form an alliance. The second is that anyone with a discerning eye knows that after so many years, the Arcane Eternal Star certainly has more than three immense powerhouses. Being unable to determine how many immense powerhouses this strongest hegemon of the Void has is what makes people most wary.

The most terrifying thing is always the unknown. It is also because of this unknown foundation that no one in the Void dares to stand up and challenge this force that devours natural elements and causes the abyss to continue to spread.

Su Xiao guesses that it won't be long, at most a month, or at least half a month, before a spellcaster from the Arcane Eternal Star who was particularly low-key in the past will high-profilely advance to the immense. The reason is that Dean Guya was killed by the Law-Extermination, and the Arcane Eternal Star will definitely fill this position as soon as possible.

Without considering this for now, Su Xiao continues to move forward in the scarlet mist. The further he goes, the more bones there are around him, and these bones have changed from being completely shattered to being cut into several sections. The neat cuts make him frown slightly.

Just at this moment, a blood shadow flashes out from the scarlet mist on the side. This figure is half-human, half-beast, with two feet and eight arms. Two of the arms are used as front claws, forming a beast-like running and leaping motion, while the other six arms all hold a blood-flesh blade more than three meters long and as wide as a door panel.

This blood-flesh blade has a backward-curving edge, with a bright edge 30 centimeters wide, looking extremely sharp. Further back is the weighted part of flesh and bone. Because the flesh structure at the spine of the blade presents a tentacle-like shape, when this blood-flesh blade is swung, these flesh tentacles are dragged behind like tassels, forming a red slash shadow. This actually has a cruel beauty of dancing.

Whoosh!!

The space trembles due to the excessive slashing force. The speed of this strike is too fast, and combined with the surrounding scarlet mist blocking perception, when the blood-flesh blade is sensed, it is too late to dodge, and he can only rely on Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Su Xiao penetrates space...

Pfft!

Most of his body is slashed off, along with the hand holding the blade, falling into the distance. Blood splatters on his cheek, and everything illusory around him comes to an abrupt end. This is not real, but a predictive perception of "Master Intuition."

Everything around shatters like bubbles. Su Xiao, who is not injured, has his pupils gradually shrink. A harsh sound of breaking air has already struck from the right side, representing that the Lady of the City's attack has arrived, but this time, he already knows about this attack.

The Lady of the City's attack can ignore spatial penetration, which is a quite powerful characteristic. At the same time as the blood-flesh blade, more than three meters long and as wide as a door panel, strikes, a Blood Soul usually used to strengthen blood-type abilities suddenly compresses, turning from a fist-sized sphere into a marble-sized one, flying past the edge of the blood-flesh blade. Before the blood-flesh blade slashes Su Xiao, this Blood Soul has already hit the Lady of the City's head.

The flight speed of the Blood Soul is actually not fast; it was mainly already there, and now it was hit by the Lady of the City.

"Time Dominator (Passive): When you attack an enemy's flaw, it will affect the time force field within a 10-meter diameter range, thereby causing a continuous 0.2–0.5 second time 'sluggish phenomenon.' Within this area, you will ignore the 'sluggish phenomenon' and maintain normal speed to attack the enemy.

Hint: Each type of technique-type ability will derive an attack 'flaw' judgment, and the 'flaws' derived from each technique-type are different. The flaws you can perceive are: Force Flaw (corresponding to Blade Mastery), Body Flaw (corresponding to Close Combat Mastery), and Breath Flaw (corresponding to Blood Spear Mastery)."

The "sluggish phenomenon" triggered by the Breath Flaw immediately slows down the Lady of the City. The blood-flesh blade she slashed with her six arms naturally slows down as well.

As everything around slows down, Su Xiao leans to dodge the attack. Although affected by the time sluggishness, the speed at which the Lady of the City swept past was still exaggerated, and in the next instant, she disappeared into the scarlet mist on the right.

What's more troublesome is that because the scarlet mist is scattered around, it cannot be tracked through perception, and hunting vision is not applicable to combat. As a result, he can only rely on reaction speed.

After practical testing, Su Xiao found that the trigger probability of the "Master Intuition" ability is definitely not just 25%.

"Master Intuition (Passive): When an attack strikes, you have a 25% probability of perceiving the direction and trajectory of the attack 0.5 seconds in advance."

For the first attack of a battle, there is at least a 70% probability of triggering "Master Intuition." However, after this trigger, the probability of triggering "Master Intuition" again in this battle decreases, probably around 20%–30%.

Even so, this ability is still powerful. Su Xiao looks around. This battle, regardless of victory or defeat, will end very quickly because the Lady of the City he is facing this time is a terrifying opponent capable of killing an immense-level powerhouse in seconds. It is not that the Lady of the City's strength exceeds the immense, but that this strong enemy's ability is very single and extreme.

The Lady of the City only has one move, which is the surprise slash. All her other abilities are to strengthen this move. That is to say, the Lady of the City's immense strength is all concentrated on this point, which also allows her to achieve a terrifying attack capable of killing an immense powerhouse in seconds.

If it were in another environment, the Lady of the City would at most be a terrifying but deeply flawed enemy. The environment here makes the Lady of the City's danger level soar by several tiers. Just the scarlet mist blocking perception + blocking the line of sight makes the Lady of the City, who only knows how to charge and slash, arguably the most terrifying hunter here.

Su Xiao's aura becomes more and more stable. The most serious problem he is facing now is that the Lady of the City's charge slash speed is too fast. When he sees the opponent, it is already too late to use Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan for a perfect block. To be precise, after seeing the Lady of the City, there is not even a chance to adjust the blocking angle in the remaining time.

To perfectly block the Lady of the City's charge slash, one must trigger "Master Intuition," and then when the Lady of the City in the scarlet mist just uses the charge slash, Su Xiao must synchronize with a predictive perfect block.

One must trigger "Master Intuition" first to have a chance for a "perfect block," and only after a successful "perfect block" can one counterattack, eventually killing the Lady of the City.

As for what to do if the Lady of the City's charge slash doesn't trigger "Master Intuition," he can only dodge. Su Xiao estimates that even if his "Undying Constitution" has advanced once, facing a powerhouse like the Lady of the City who concentrates everything on one move, he can at most withstand three charge slashes.

Su Xiao quietly releases the Magic Spirit. Suddenly, he has a feeling of hair standing on end from the back left. Don't think this is a perception prediction; no, it is the Lady of the City's blood-flesh blade, which has already reached 5 centimeters from the back left side of his neck.

Clang!

Su Xiao's head is slashed off. When the head flies up, it has turned into the black smoke of the Blade Magic Spirit. Su Xiao, who successfully swapped positions with the Magic Spirit, is located a few meters away, in a half-squatting posture.

Hum~

The sound of the charge slash strikes again. Su Xiao just prepares to swap positions with the Magic Spirit when he suddenly stops. The next instant, the Lady of the City sweeps past in a blood-colored afterimage that even Su Xiao cannot see clearly. With one charge slash, she slashes off the Magic Spirit's head. This time, the Lady of the City's target is directly the Magic Spirit.

It is not that the Lady of the City has lost her sanity due to scarlet erosion. On the contrary, the Lady of the City first uses the sharp sound of the slash to trigger Su Xiao's sense of crisis, pretending to attack Su Xiao, but actually slashing the Magic Spirit.

Under such circumstances, once Su Xiao swaps positions with the Magic Spirit, he will definitely be severely injured.

Sizzle~

Su Xiao pulls the Spirit Shadow Threads around him tight with one hand. Since perception doesn't work, he sets up Spirit Shadow Threads. But as soon as the Spirit Shadow Threads are set up, red liquid like blood condenses on them. It doesn't erode the Spirit Shadow Threads, but the scarlet color causes the Spirit Shadow Threads to be unable to pass back feedback.

Clang!

When the sharpness of the charge slash strikes, don't rejoice at hearing this sound. By the time you hear this sound, the slash has already passed. This is a slash many times faster than sound.

The Magic Spirit, slashed diagonally into two pieces, re-aggregates. Su Xiao again uses the swap with the Magic Spirit to dodge a charge slash from the Lady of the City.

He gathers a large amount of Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy on the index finger of his left hand, at least ten thousand points, causing the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy to appear as blue liquid on his index finger. He uses this index finger to tap on the blade of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Clang~!

The blade vibrates, and layers of sound waves mixed with Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy spread out. These scarlet mists do indeed block perception, but they definitely cannot block Su Xiao's perception of his own energy.

As the sound waves spread, Su Xiao feels that the sound waves 60 meters to the right are blocked by something when spreading. He doesn't know what it is, but he knows that he is at least 100 meters away from the wall on the right. Right here.

"Perfect Block!"

Clang!!!

A loud explosion causes the scarlet mist that has merged with space around to dissipate a bit. Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan successfully blocks the Lady of the City's blood-flesh blade, and sparks fly everywhere.

The charge slash with such momentum is completely blocked. The Lady of the City immediately falls to the ground. Of the six arms holding the blood-flesh blade, five are loosened. If the remaining one were not fused with the blood-flesh blade, this weapon would have already been thrown away.

Although Su Xiao's right arm is numb, he immediately takes a step forward and kicks straight with 70% of his strength. The reason for doing so is to avoid kicking the enemy into the scarlet mist. 30% of the strength is enough to kick out a flaw.

Bang!

The Lady of the City, who was just about to force herself up, is kicked out of a flaw.

"Blade Dao Blade · Extreme."

With one slash, a small half of the Lady of the City's head is slashed off.

"Extreme Blade · World!"

The Extreme Blade domain appears. After the sharp slashing sound, the Lady of the City is covered in bloodstains, and only two of her six arms remain.

"Super · Blood Smoke Cannon."

A Blood Smoke Cannon strengthened by two Blood Souls blasts onto the Lady of the City's head. The Lady of the City roars and retreats.

"Blade Dao Blade · Flow,"

Clang!

The sound of the wind-trace slash is exceptionally crisp. The Lady of the City's body immediately shatters. Amidst the scarlet splashing, a humanoid figure with long scarlet hair grabs the blood-flesh blade with one hand and then sinks into the scarlet mist behind. This is the Lady of the City's true body. The Lady has entered the second stage.

Everything around slows down. It is the trigger of "Master Intuition." The scene within the next 0.5 seconds flashes through Su Xiao's mind. His eyes narrow slightly because he predicts that his left arm will be slashed off by the charge slash.

Su Xiao immediately swaps positions with the Magic Spirit. With a boom, the Lady of the City, who is too fast to be seen at all, sweeps past with a charge slash, slashing the Magic Spirit into two pieces. Think it's over? No, the Lady of the City who has entered this state will immediately connect to the second stage of the charge slash.

Clang!

At the same time as the slash comes from behind, Su Xiao leans down as if he had foreseen it. The charge slash that was originally a decapitation slash misses.

Think it's just a two-stage charge? Not at all. Without giving even 0.01 seconds of breathing time, the Lady of the City charges forward again.

Su Xiao's gaze stares forward. A Blood Soul that had already been set up there, shrunk to the minimum, only a bit larger than a dust particle, suddenly stops shrinking and returns to its original fist size. The Lady of the City, charging at full speed, immediately crashes into it.

The Breath Flaw triggers "Time Sluggishness." When everything around slows down, Su Xiao performs a simple and unadorned forward slash. Afterward, the Lady of the City, who was charging, brushes past him.

This time, the speed at which the Lady of the City rushes into the scarlet mist is significantly slower, and even slower and slower. In the end, she walks slowly while dragging the blood-flesh blade that does not match her body size. Finally, this headless corpse falls down.

Fighting the Lady of the City to the end, Su Xiao finally learns the Lady of the City's weakness and the method to defeat the opponent, which is that one cannot retreat and must face the Lady of the City's attack directly to kill this strong enemy.

【Hint: You have killed the Lady of the City.】

【You have obtained 2580 Precipitated Glaze.】

【You have obtained 62800 World Reputation points.】

【You have obtained Scarlet Treasure Chest · Scarlet Lady (After opening, there is a probability of obtaining unique scarlet items from this area, or rewards equivalent to an Eternal-level Treasure Chest · 67%).】

……

【You have completed the final task of this area.】

【Checking...】

【Check complete, you have obtained the mission reward: Scarlet Amplifier.】

【Scarlet Amplifier】

Origin: Eternal Light World · Scarlet Castle.

Quality: Hegemon-level.

Category: Strengthening item/one-time consumable.

Effect: Can be used on Hegemon equipment with a compatibility exceeding 70%. After use, this Hegemon equipment can be strengthened through the Soul of the Hegemon.

Rating: 4500 points (Hegemon-level equipment rating is 1–6000 points).

Introduction: The power of scarlet may be far beyond imagination.

Price: 7560 soul coins.

……

This thing is quite good. After checking, Su Xiao finds that the compatibility of this item with 【Blood Feather】 reaches 93%, while the compatibility with the other two pieces of Hegemon equipment is less than 10%. If he obtains the Soul of the Hegemon later, he can consider using this thing on 【Blood Feather】 to make 【Blood Feather】 a strengthenable Hegemon equipment.

This mission reward is quite good. After all, he didn't do many mission rings, and having this mission reward is already an unexpected harvest.

Su Xiao comes to the inner side of the bedchamber and searches for a while, finally finding the elevator to the sixth floor. As the elevator operates slowly, he checks the existing Precipitated Glaze, totaling 4787 pieces, which is enough to buy the 【Origin Fruit】. This trip to the Scarlet Castle was too worth it, not only mastering the power after advancing to the immense but also having other rich harvests.

This makes Su Xiao think about whether to master another high-tier passive. Not to mention anything else, high-tier passives are truly strong. If he also adds high-tier passives like "Technique Sublimation · Ultimate Blade" to Close Combat Mastery and Blood Spear Mastery, although the development of the three technique masters consumes a lot, the equivalent is a significant improvement in strength.

The elevator stops. The scene that comes into view is a whole floor of laboratories. Scarlet liquid in containers soaks various creatures of this world. On the mechanical equipment in the center, a layer of scarlet crystals clings.

It seems that besides the situation mentioned by the Soul Maid, there is a second version of the story of the City Lord and the Lady of the City. Thinking about it, it makes sense. The Soul Maid was just a maid in this castle before her death, and she didn't even have the qualifications to enter this Scarlet Inner Castle, let alone come to the sixth floor, which even the Scarlet Guard Captain was not qualified to come to.

Su Xiao comes to the innermost City Lord's study. After pushing the door open, he finds that the layout here is not complicated. All around are bookshelves leaning against the walls, as well as a desk. On the chair in front of the desk sits a withered corpse. Attempting to detect data, the information obtained is that this is the City Lord's eldest son.

A notebook is placed quietly on the table. After Su Xiao picks it up, he opens the first page to check:

"Scarlet is a power that can be mastered. I will definitely be able to prove it to Father..."

By flipping through the notebook, Su Xiao understands what happened here. It was not just the Dark Blood City Lord who was researching how to open the abyss passage, but also his eldest son. As the saying goes, father and son soldiers, these two father and son can be called the protectors of the entire town.

Unfortunately, all this changed during the first attempt to open the Abyss Hole. How could someone like the Dark Blood City Lord, who had served as the City Lord of Iron City, open too large an Abyss Hole at once? The real situation is that when the Abyss Hole was opened for the first time, although scarlet poured out from it, it was immediately sealed by the Dark Blood City Lord.

This failure did not hit the Dark Blood City Lord, but it dealt a considerable blow to his eldest son. After the Dark Blood City Lord comforted his son, he immediately went out to find an old friend to get another batch of resources, preparing to use other methods to open the Abyss Hole.

But when the Dark Blood City Lord returned a few months later, he found that his wife's speech was hesitant. At first, the Dark Blood City Lord was stunned. He couldn't believe that his wife would do something to let him down. And when he walked into the sixth floor of the main castle and saw that it had been transformed into a laboratory and the things placed inside, he knew that his wife had no problem; the problem lay with his eldest son, whom he had always been proud of.

Just as the Dark Blood City Lord hurried to the door of the spell secret room, the scarlet shattered the secret room door and rushed towards him. The subsequent story is as the Soul Maid said. The Dark Blood City Lord desperately protected his wife, and the Lady of the City took this opportunity to activate the castle's defensive spell.

Unfortunately, the Lady of the City deformed too quickly. The Dark Blood City Lord could only turn and rush to the fifth floor, taking his youngest son, who was the only one not eroded by the scarlet, and breaking through the wall of the fifth floor to jump into the courtyard.

In the courtyard, a large number of guards deformed into Scarlet Warriors. The Dark Blood City Lord, who was severely eroded by the scarlet, blocked thousands of Scarlet Warriors and let his second son, who deformed but did not lose his sanity for some reason, take his younger brother and escape from this place. He stayed behind to cover the retreat. Finally, the Dark Blood City Lord, who alone blocked the Scarlet Guard Captain, Scarlet Elder, Scarlet Mad Beast, Dark Demon, and thousands of Scarlet elite warriors, died in the courtyard.

Su Xiao takes out the 【Greed Orb】. A strange scene appears: the 【Greed Orb】 detects that there are treasures here, but because something seals those treasures, the speed at which the 【Greed Orb】 condenses dark gold light particles is very slow. Conservatively estimated, it will take more than ten minutes to accumulate enough to track where the treasures are located.

Su Xiao is not in a hurry. He checks the existing World Reputation, which has 116140 points. This makes him want to open a wave of title treasure chests. With so much reputation, if he happens to open some two-star titles, that would also be very profitable.

【You have exchanged for 116140 title treasure chests.】

【Title Treasure Chest: After opening, you can obtain ★～★★★★★★★★★ titles.】

【The titles obtained from this treasure chest will have a 15% probability of being tradable titles (this is an additional compensation for the danger level of this world).】

【Due to the unique function of the World Contact Platform of this world, the results of your opening the title treasure chest will be announced on the World Contact Platform to facilitate title trading, exchange, etc.】

【For this announcement, you have chosen to hide your name】

【You have opened 116140 title treasure chests.】

……

Almost simultaneously, on the World Contact Platform.

【Title Message: Anonymous has obtained 116140 one-star non-attribute titles.】

Moon Witch (Holy Light Paradise): "?"

Little Ge (Sanctuary Paradise): "???"

Wind Wolf (Apocalypse Paradise): "This is truly... an eye-opener."

Xier (Reincarnation Paradise): "Strange knowledge has increased,"

Thunder Magic God Aige (Apocalypse Paradise): "Can this be endured? If you don't initiate a re-check to the Tree of the Void, you'd have to have negative thousands of Tree of the Void reputation to open such a result."

Brother Fierce (Reincarnation Paradise): "I'm telling you, don't slander me. Although I have negative 4000+ Tree of the Void reputation, I can occasionally open three-star titles."

……

Su Xiao researches for a while and finds that this title message cannot be turned off. Although they are all one-star titles, he is one step closer to being able to upgrade two main titles. He looks at the dark gold energy emerging in the 【Greed Orb】, which is already enough, and moves closer to the bookshelf on the right.

After observing for a while, Su Xiao finds that this is a spell. Fortunately, he didn't flip through it directly here; otherwise, if this spell were triggered, the items in the password cabinet would be teleported away.

Su Xiao presses his hand on it, and a crystal layer spreads, first sealing the spell on it, and then setting up a stripping spell on the surface of the crystal layer, slowly peeling off the crystal layer. The complete trigger-type spell is stripped off.

Pushing the bookcase to both sides, the password cabinet door on the wall appears. After adjusting the Eye of Mystery, he attaches it to it. Su Xiao constructs a crystal chair, sits down, and starts to wait. A few minutes later.

Click~

With a pleasant crisp sound, the unlocking is successful. Su Xiao opens the door of the password cabinet. Although there are not many things inside, two "Origin Fragments" already make him feel comfortable.

Subsequently, a soul container that one knows is a supreme treasure just by looking at it once comes into view. Although the structure of this container is simple, it must be the work of a top craftsman master.

After Su Xiao examines this soul container for a while, the blue soul aura inside that makes him feel familiar yet strange makes his gaze more and more solemn.

Bang!

Su Xiao closes the door of the password cabinet, his eyes narrowing slightly. This time, he discovered something incredible.