Chapter 3764

Upon learning the attributes of the 【Sacred Gem】, Su Xiao had no interest in it. While selling it for a high price after obtaining it would be nice, finding the Dead Silence Ember and the 【Moon's Radiance】 was more important now, especially the latter, which had a very high priority.

If his guess was correct, the Abyss Archbishop and the Lord of Eternal Darkness had likely already arrived in this underground world. As for the Astral Devourer, logically speaking, it would be most secure for these three to come to the underground world together, but one must not forget that the Abyss Archbishop and the Astral Devourer had only recently finished fighting over the "Blade of Sealing."

Given the Abyss Archbishop's shrewdness, he would certainly not let this matter cause a conflict with the Astral Devourer. With a great enemy who had slain the Progenitor before them, it was naturally not the time to dwell on such grudges.

The Abyss Archbishop had such shrewdness, but the Astral Devourer did not. This guy was able to become one of the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple by relying on an incomparably powerful physique. If one were to rank the frontal combat power of the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple, the Astral Devourer would definitely be first. It could fight and take hits, and despite its large size, it had super-fast speed. Its defensive power was so formidable that even after taking the Abyss Archbishop's strongest ultimate move, only a layer of its outer shell cracked.

Although the Astral Devourer had an unparalleled and powerful physique, its intelligence was truly average. What was even more fatal was that the Astral Devourer always believed that its own schemes were not inferior to those of the Abyss Archbishop and the Lord of Eternal Darkness.

Therefore, this time coming to the underground world, it was definitely the Abyss Archbishop and the Lord of Eternal Darkness together, while the Astral Devourer acted alone. This was an excellent opportunity to kill the Astral Devourer.

Currently, there was no trace of the Astral Devourer yet, so it was better to first save the good teammate who had been caught, in order to resolve the thorny great enemy that was the Priest. Thinking of this, Su Xiao walked in the direction where the patrol team had disappeared.

"Bai Ye, where are you going? The Tyrant's Palace is over there; you're walking in the wrong direction."

The Witch Lilia kindly reminded him. Su Xiao paused his steps and said, "I have a teammate who was taken away by the patrol team."

"That's the Sacred Gem, are you really not going to compete for it?"

"Not interested."

After saying this, Su Xiao walked in the direction where the patrol team had disappeared. Watching Su Xiao's back, the Witch Lilia was lost in thought.

At the ancient bonfire, a wisp of burnt-out ash slowly drifted upward, forming a straight line, standing between the firmament and the earth.

Ancient, mysterious, and bloody—this was the feeling the place gave people. A stone disc covered in circular grooves stood floating behind the altar, and the blood patterns on it vaguely formed the shape of a sun.

The altar was built from huge square stones piled up. The platform located at the top was about several hundred square meters. Set off by the blood-patterned disc at the back, this altar gave people a strong sense of mental pressure.

A guillotine was located in the center of the altar. The blade hanging above this guillotine faintly revealed a scarlet color that made one's heart feel cold.

At this moment, red-eyed warriors were guarding around this altar. They were fully armored, their gazes cold and serious.

To ascend the altar, one could only proceed from the front steps. After passing the ancient bonfire, there were these hundreds of steps. The captured Dark Eater was being pressed up the altar by a blood-eyed warrior leader and two blood-eyed warriors.

The Dark Eater's gaze scanned the surroundings from time to time. As for being sent to the guillotine, it didn't care. As a world-destroying creature, would it be executed like this? It was simply absurd.

Holding such thoughts, the Dark Eater went up to the altar. Suddenly, it discovered that the one being pressed onto the execution platform was actually its acquaintance from the Erosion Rain Land, the Deformed Abomination Nierse. This guy had even beaten it up before.

Recalling this, the Dark Eater's small face couldn't help but smile. However, it was a bit puzzled as to why the Deformed Abomination Nierse had been caught and brought here; the other party's survival ability was very strong.

Just as the Dark Eater hadn't figured this out, the blade above fell. At this instant, the Dark Eater's pupils shrank to the minimum, its flowing energy blood stagnated for a few seconds, and an unprecedented fear rushed toward it.

Puchi!

The Deformed Abomination Nierse's head was chopped off. The luster in its vertical pupils quickly disappeared. Blood from the severed neck gushed out, followed the grooves below the guillotine, spread toward the blood-patterned disc at the back, and was finally absorbed by this disc.

It was only a few seconds, but the Deformed Abomination Nierse's corpse completely lost all extraordinary characteristics, turning into a monster corpse that had no features other than being harder.

Witnessing all this, the Dark Eater's legs went a bit soft. It could perceive that the result of being executed here must be a hundred times more terrifying than death.

A hand wrapped in blood-colored arm armor grabbed the Dark Eater's nape. It was the warrior leader who had caught the Dark Eater before. The warrior leader carried the Dark Eater to below the guillotine and was just about to press the Dark Eater onto it.

A loud explosion came from the high tower a thousand meters away. When this sound was heard, a blood spear that pierced through layers of spatial ripples had already arrived half a meter in front of the blood-armored leader.

Dong!

After a dull, loud sound, most of the blood-armored leader's body disappeared. The remaining lower half retreated a few steps and collapsed to the ground with a boom.

This surprise attack immediately attracted all the red-eyed warriors around. Spiral arrows pierced out with sonic booms, blasting the upper half of the high tower a thousand meters away. The destruction caused by these spiral arrows made that space appear with a huge spherical hole, and scarlet color spread and stirred inside.

There were two types of red-eyed warriors: melee and ranged. Their scarlet power was very terrifying and would damage the enemy's original life force.

Damaged life force could gradually recover, but once the original life force was damaged, it would lower the maximum life limit, and it was a permanent reduction.

That is to say, after taking a few arrows from these scarlet warriors, even if one didn't die, the maximum life limit would drop from 100% to below 50%. What was even more thorny was that whether it was healing abilities or recovery potions, they were useless. The maximum life limit had been lowered, and the healing effect received would only overflow.

Fragments of the high tower scattered down, crashing to the ground one after another. A crowd of red-eyed warriors and parasites rushed forward, preparing to tear the enemy who shot their leader into pieces.

Among them, a parasite over five meters tall, with a fat body, cracks all over its blood-colored armor, and blood-colored spikes growing on its back, twitched its nose covered in holes, searching for the intruder's tracks. But when it took another step.

Pa~

A Shadow Spirit Thread was stepped on, followed by the unique fluctuation of an Apollo being detonated.

With a dull thud, an Apollo exploded. The explosion range of this Apollo was only a hundred meters, but the flames that emerged were dazzling gold. In the past, only when the Sun Sacred Sword exploded would there be such a color of solar flames.

That's right, Su Xiao had carried out a comprehensive strengthening of the Apollo. He had shrunk the Apollo's explosion range. If a large-scale explosion was needed, the Apollo could never compare to the Sun Sacred Sword, so it was better to abandon the explosion range and strengthen the power and detonation time.

The new version of the basic Apollo had an explosion range of only 100 to 500 meters. Within the explosion range, the power was about 85% of the Sun Sacred Sword. If detonated by mental power, the detonation time of the upgraded Apollo only needed 2 seconds. And by setting up Shadow Spirit Threads to conduct a more direct trap-style detonation, it could achieve the effect of instantaneous detonation after the Shadow Spirit Thread was triggered.

The enemies dealt with before were either too strong, with no chance to use the upgraded Apollo, or too weak, making the use of this kind of Apollo seem like a waste. But this time, the enemy's strength was enough to use this means.

The golden solar flames gradually subsided. The red-eyed warriors and parasites who had just rushed to the bottom of the high tower were left with only a few sets of armor, still burning in the golden flames.

Weng~!

A parasite with a huge belly blew a horn. This horn was a full four or five meters long, with a strange shape, and the sound traveled very far. In just a few seconds, an afterimage broke through the air. It was a flying dragon with black scales all over its body. This flying dragon looked like a dragon and a bird, with a bird's beak and a bird's sharp claws. On its back was a dragon rider leader wearing gold-red armor, carrying a large bow, and holding a cavalry lance in one hand.

"Baye, Duye-yeyesu-pu (unknown language)."

The dragon rider leader scanned the red-eyed warriors and parasites kneeling on one knee in front. No one present dared to raise their heads, not even daring to let out a breath. The dragon rider leader seemed to have other things to do, sternly reprimanded the red-eyed warriors present, and then rode the black flying dragon away.

At this time, inside a building near the ancient bonfire, looking at the outside from within a different space, the scene outside often had ripples. Su Xiao pressed his index and middle fingers together against the spatial barrier, making the ripples disappear. His gaze passed through the barrier, watching the dragon rider leader flying away.

This Eternal Light World seemed to be a simple and dangerous cage. After actually entering this place, Su Xiao discovered that the situation here was not simple. The Shelter City went without saying; the existence of the Black Iron City had already surprised him enough.

He originally thought that this world was two major forces: the Lightless Temple of the Shelter City and the Manufacturing Workshop of the Black Iron City.

Now it seemed that there were three major forces. The scarlet force in this underground world was hidden too well. If one didn't go deep into this place, one would subconsciously think that this was the Tyrant's lair, and after the Tyrant's death, this place had been occupied by mindless monsters.

The real situation was not like this. Only after the Tyrant's death did this place reveal its true face. The scarlet force here not only had discipline and ranks but also unique language, architectural style, power inheritance, etc.

No matter how one looked at it, this was not something that the monsters here had deformed into after the Tyrant's death. Without the accumulation of several eras, this force would not give people this feeling.

Su Xiao's conjecture was that the force within the underground world at this time was the empire once ruled by the Scarlet Monarch, which had quietly come to the Eternal Light World, preparing to open the seal of the Nightmare Land.

If this was the case, then one of Su Xiao's doubts was resolved: how did the Tyrant find the parasites that could adapt to the scarlet power back then? Now it seemed that these parasites had long existed. It was just that the Tyrant mistakenly thought that it was his subordinates who gradually cultivated the parasites that could adapt to the scarlet power.

Also because of this, the Tyrant's parasites eventually went out of control, which also led to the total annihilation of his Disaster Legion in a short period of time, making it very convenient for someone to take over this underground world later.

If his guess was correct, the Tyrant's most trusted confidant back then, that is, the person who created the parasites, was actually a person from the Scarlet Faction. The other party infiltrated the Tyrant's subordinates and used this guy wearing the "Soul Crown" to come to this underground world.

The real reason why the "Soul Crown" abandoned the Tyrant was perhaps not that the Tyrant lost to the Witch World, but because the Tyrant was used by this confidant.

Another point was that people from the Scarlet Faction should not be able to enter the Eternal Light World. The spatial seal in this place, nine times out of ten, had the effect of resisting the scarlet and rejecting those with scarlet power from entering this place.

The remnants of the Scarlet Faction had always wanted to rescue the Scarlet Monarch, let this terrifying monarch rule them again, let the myriad worlds see the posture of the Scarlet Legion again, and let a whole world be shrouded and crushed by the scarlet, and finally, only the remaining crystalline world power, embedded on the blood-patterned disc, would give all scarlet power controllers endless life essence, making them nearly immortal.

Compared with the Scarlet Monarch, even if the Tyrant wore the "Soul Crown," he was just a little brother. If the Scarlet Monarch were to wear the "Soul Crown," that would be a catastrophe.

As for how the people from the Scarlet Faction entered the Eternal Light World and arrived at the underground world, Su Xiao thought of the Tyrant's out-of-control parasite, the Maw of Greed.

This thing was nine times out of ten a powerful spatial coordinate, allowing people from the Scarlet Faction to successfully enter this place. Of course, it was impossible to get out with this thing. The difficulty of leaving the Eternal Light World was much higher than coming in.

If this underground world was already the lair of the Scarlet Faction, then what the Witch Lilia said just now about going to the Tyrant's Palace to compete for the 【Sacred Gem】 was clearly a trap. The strange thing was that the Priest also seemed to have fallen into this trap.

Suddenly, Su Xiao remembered one thing. Before entering this world, Caesar mentioned that someone claimed the "Monarch's Treasure" was in the Eternal Light World. This was almost the same method he used before entering the Dead Silence City, saying that the Dead Silence City had Black Maple Tree seeds.

The person who claimed the "Monarch's Treasure" was in the Eternal Light World also spread photos of the "Monarch's Treasure." However, the content of these photos was the part of the "Monarch's Treasure" that Su Xiao and Caesar had divided up in the upper space of the underground world just now.

The person who spread this news had been confirmed to be the Priest. Su Xiao was not surprised at all that the Priest had such an operation. What he really couldn't figure out was where the Priest got that photo? Those secret treasures were located in the upper layer of the underground world, which was a hidden place that was very difficult to reach.

There was only one possibility: the Priest had long been cooperating with people from the Scarlet Faction. The secret treasures in that photo were the benefits promised to the Priest by the Scarlet Faction. This time, being dragged into the Eternal Light World, the Priest simply lied that this was the "Monarch's Treasure" and deliberately let it out.

This also explained why the Priest clearly disguised himself as the High Priest of the Lightless Temple, Ezzler, but did not reveal any information about Su Xiao to the Four Giants. Because the Priest was not trying to defect to the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple, this old guy was playing a double game with the Scarlet Faction, using each other while preparing to stab each other in the back at any time.

Su Xiao looked in the direction of the Tyrant's Palace. He was certain that it was a trap set by the Priest and the Scarlet Faction, and the purpose was temporarily unknown.

Dong!!

A loud noise came from the direction of the Tyrant's Palace that Su Xiao was looking at. A black lightning pillar poured down from the firmament over there. This black lightning pillar lasted for half a minute before gradually subsiding.

Su Xiao checked the World Contact Platform and found that among the rule-breakers who came here, except for the Priest and the Moon Witch, the codenames of all others had disappeared from the contact list. Beverly, Xiao Ge, the Bug Controller, etc., were gone in an instant.

In addition to these people, the codename of Black Demon in this list had become translucent. This was a situation that had never appeared before. If they were dead, they should have disappeared from the list, and if they had left this world, they would appear gray.

Such a situation must be because of the Priest's plan. This old guy hadn't made a move before, but now he started to exert his power. This actually didn't fit the Priest's style of waiting until the end to make a move. This situation showed that the Priest must have a big plot this time.

Not to mention anything else, although the Priest was a rule-breaker, Su Xiao found that the number of rule-breakers who died at the hands of this old guy seemed to be no less than those he had killed.

Just as Su Xiao was thinking about what this old guy, the Priest, was planning, purple-black starlight emerged in the distance, followed by a deafening roar. An impact came. Even though he was in a different space, Su Xiao still felt the force of this impact. It should be that the Astral Devourer in the distance had made a move.

Meteorites the size of a hundred meters fell in the distance, followed by dragon roars and scarlet flashes. Before long, the black flying dragon in the distance let out a mournful cry, was torn into two pieces by a ten-meter-tall four-armed giant beast standing on top of a towering building, and then swallowed into its belly in a few bites. That four-armed giant beast was exactly the Astral Devourer.

The meteorites in the distance kept falling. Even though they were more than ten kilometers away, Su Xiao could still feel the ground under his feet shaking, and the surrounding space became extremely unstable. He let Baha lift this different space.

As soon as the different space was lifted, a deafening loud noise came again. A giant meteorite, dragging a black-purple tail flame, smashed down. In the flames of the meteorite, the Astral Devourer roared angrily.

Gray-white human skin emerged. These gray-white human skins formed a giant hand covered with black tentacles, grabbing the Astral Devourer's face. It could be seen that even the Astral Devourer, because of this extremely weird attack, had its aura silenced for a few seconds. A moment later, this weird giant palm shattered and fell as gray ash.

Su Xiao was certain that this was the Priest's attack. The Priest also took this opportunity to advance to the Absolute Strong. This great enemy finally began to reveal his powerful means.

A few minutes later, the melee in the distance subsided. Even though he wasn't at the scene, Su Xiao could see that the Priest and the Scarlet Faction were cooperating, and the Astral Devourer's physique was simply too strong. Even though it was besieged, it successfully retreated.

Just at this time, Su Xiao found that darkness erupted on the south side. Rich darkness emerged over there, so exaggerated that it dyed that piece of starry sky black. This was the Abyss Archbishop making a move.

The red-eyed warriors leaping on the roofs of buildings, as well as the dragon knight representatives flying from the sky toward the dark area—the Scarlet Faction was very likely to have had its lair raided by the Abyss Archbishop and the Lord of Eternal Darkness.

A huge spatial gate appeared in the distance, and then a large group of Lightless Temple members rushed out from there. For a time, most areas of the underground world were in a melee. But this kind of melee only lasted for more than ten minutes. All Lightless Temple members were either dead or fled. These guys, who were treated as pawns by the Four Giants, were completely no match for the red-eyed warriors.

These red-eyed warriors reminded Su Xiao of the Sword Saints of the Dead Silence City. Currently, these guys were even stronger. He had even just seen a red-eyed warrior kill a red-robed priest with three slashes.

The former could only be considered elite mobs in the underground world, while the latter could be considered a small boss in the Lightless Temple. As for the red-eyed warrior leader using dual long swords, slaughtering the Lightless Temple members was completely like cutting melons and vegetables.

Simply put, the Scarlet Faction had strength in all its members but lacked powerful ones like the Astral Devourer and the Abyss Archbishop. The situation of the Lightless Temple was the opposite: there were three powerful ones with leader-level combat power, but the other members were basically small fries.

The situation was a bit chaotic, but Su Xiao's train of thought was very clear. He had only three purposes in this place: first, to find the Dead Silence Ember; second, to find the 【Moon's Radiance】; and third, to kill the Astral Devourer.

Why the Priest's target was the Astral Devourer, Su Xiao was not very clear, but he was certain that this was the best time to kill the Astral Devourer.

Besides that, the gains from killing red-eyed warriors and parasites were very high. Su Xiao checked the prompts that had just appeared.

【You have killed the red-eyed warrior leader Ha Wago.】

【You have obtained 2150 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained Pure Blood Stone x5 (Rare Item).】

【Pure Blood Stone: A condensate formed after cooling because the original life force was assimilated by the scarlet. This is a rare material. If you encounter a mysterious merchant by chance, you can use this item to trade with the mysterious merchant and purchase Abyss-characteristic equipment or other rare equipment from the mysterious merchant.】

【Prompt: The mysterious merchant has arrived in this area due to the activation of the Blood Altar and is expected to stay in this area for 5 to 8 days.】

【Warning: The mysterious merchant is a neutral unit notarized by the Tree of the Void. If you attempt to attack, you will bear various evil consequences.】

【Prompt: Due to the mysterious merchant's ability characteristics, he will ignore the derivative effects of the Charm attribute, will not be affected by high Charm attributes, and will not have a cold attitude due to low Charm attributes.】

【You have killed six red-eyed warriors.】

【You have obtained 1860 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained Pure Blood Stone x6 (Rare Item).】

【You have killed two parasites.】

【You have obtained 722 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained Pure Blood Stone x2 (Rare Item).】

【You have killed one red-robed warlock.】

【You have obtained 409 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained Pure Blood Stone x2 (Rare Item).】

More than 5000 Soul Coins were in hand. This was still with Su Xiao not making many moves, only shooting and killing a warrior leader from a distance with a blood spear, and the gains from using the improved Apollo. If the purpose this time wasn't to save the Dark Eater, but to kill enemies to obtain Soul Coins, the gains would be at least 20,000 Soul Coins or more.

If one wasn't afraid of death, hunting Scarlet Faction members here for a whole day, with the exaggerated kill rewards in this area, the gains would be at least hundreds of thousands of Soul Coins, plus there were 【Pure Blood Stones】, although he didn't know where the mysterious merchant was now.

Su Xiao looked at the darkness rising into the sky in the distance. Whether it was the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple or the Scarlet Faction, they were all his enemies. Then this place wasn't chaotic enough. As for how to make this place livelier.

He opened the World Contact Platform, chose to speak anonymously, and then posted the kill gains from killing the red-eyed warrior leader to the contact platform.

After a few seconds of silence on the World Contact Platform, messages started to flood the screen. The content was basically team recruitment. In such a high-gain area, few people were willing to miss out. Even if this place was dangerous, it was very good to fish for some benefits in the peripheral areas.

After doing all this, Su Xiao looked at the Dark Eater on the side and said, "The Priest is here."

"Where is he!"

There was murderous intent in the Dark Eater's eyes.

"That gray-white giant hand just now was the Priest's means."

Hearing this, the Dark Eater's expression was surprised, but then it thought that in the last world, the Law-Extinguisher in front of it couldn't beat it, but in this world, it could already be hung up and beaten. Sometimes, the speed at which the Paradise Faction became stronger was just this outrageous.

"Why, don't you want to take revenge on the Priest?"

"Of course not, it's just..."

"It's just that you're scared?"

"I'm scared? Would I be scared?!"

The Dark Eater made a gesture to find the Priest for revenge, but after thinking about that gray-white giant hand just now, it inexplicably shivered. This made it change the subject and say, "Finding the Priest for revenge is not urgent. You saved my life just now, and repaying your life-saving grace is more important. Revenge is temporarily postponed."

Saying these words, the Dark Eater could be said to be completely comfortable. This way, it not only appeared to know how to repay kindness but also didn't appear to be cowardly.

"Hmm, that's fine too."

Su Xiao answered exceptionally naturally, as if he had long known that the Dark Eater would say so.

Hearing Su Xiao's such smooth reply, the expression on the Dark Eater's face stiffened. It suddenly felt that it seemed to have been set up, but it couldn't go back on its word.

"Wang."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang returned to the large stone house. It had already patrolled, and there were no red-eyed warriors around. Except for the hundreds of red-eyed warrior leaders guarding the Blood Altar, the parasites, red-robed warlocks, etc., had all rushed to the front of the Scarlet Sanctuary.

Speaking of which, whether it was the ancient bonfire or the Blood Altar, they were both in the backyard area of the Scarlet Sanctuary, while the Tyrant's Palace, Skeleton Street, Ascension Platform, sewer entrance, etc., were all in the area in front of the Scarlet Sanctuary.

This huge Scarlet Sanctuary almost divided this underground world into two large areas. Su Xiao was currently in the backyard area, while the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple, the Priest, the Moon Witch, and the Scarlet Legion members were all in a large area in front of the Scarlet Sanctuary.

Su Xiao didn't leave the large stone house he was in immediately, but tilted his head to the side, looking at the Dark Eater beside him. His calm gaze made the Dark Eater feel more and more guilty, and finally, it said angrily, "Why are you staring at me?"

"I'm thinking about why you were caught by those red-eyed warriors."

"Because... because I'm unlucky."

"Pfft~"

Baha almost couldn't help but laugh out loud. The Dark Eater and the word unlucky could be said to have nothing to do with each other.

Seeming to feel that it had let something slip, the Dark Eater started to explain, but the more it explained, the worse it got.

As Su Xiao sat down, a crystal chair was formed simultaneously. He looked at the Dark Eater in front and said kindly, "Just now, I saved your life, right."

"Hmm."

"Since that's the case, then why are you deceiving me?"

Su Xiao looked at the Dark Eater with a smile. The Dark Eater gulped down a mouthful of saliva. Feeling that it really couldn't beat the Law-Extinguisher opposite, it gave a light sneer and took out a piece of parchment that revealed a blood color.

"It's because of this thing that I was caught."

"..."

Su Xiao took the blood-colored parchment and observed it for a while, finding that this was a map of this place. Except for the situation inside the Scarlet Sanctuary, other areas were depicted exceptionally detailed. It should be a map issued to the patrol team back then for dividing patrol areas.

"Where did you steal it from?"

Su Xiao felt that this item was very valuable and started to watch it carefully.

"After I was swallowed by that giant mouth, when I opened my eyes again, I was already on a very wide street. I picked this up."

Hearing the Dark Eater say this, Su Xiao felt slightly surprised. He knew the Dark Eater had good luck, but this was too outrageous. Just arriving at a dangerous area, and as a result, a few meters away from the starting point was a detailed map of this area. This luck was really outrageous.

Su Xiao checked the map for a moment and found that on the back right side of the Scarlet Sanctuary, there was a red mark, which looked very much like it was expressing that this was a door.

Whether entering the Scarlet Sanctuary from the front door or the back door, it was extremely difficult. The groups of people in front fought so fiercely that they didn't break through the defense of the front door. One could imagine how fierce the defensive power of the Scarlet Sanctuary was.

The back door was blocked by a large group of parasites. Just now, when passing by the ancient bonfire, Su Xiao saw that group of parasites from afar. That thing was definitely not to be trifled with. Don't forget, the scarlet power here was different from the Scarlet Castle. The scarlet power here was purer and could erode the original life force, leading to a reduction in the maximum life limit.

Su Xiao decided to go to the mark of this blood-red archway to see. If he could really pass through this place and enter the Scarlet Sanctuary, then he would have a great advantage. If his guess was correct, the Dead Silence Ember and the 【Moon's Radiance】 were both inside the Scarlet Sanctuary.

After leaving the large stone house, a gust of wild wind hit. The wild wind carried a fishy and sweet smell. Combined with the blood moon in the sky, the blood in one's body seemed to become a bit irritable.

Not walking far, Su Xiao retracted his aura and hid behind a sculpture. Before long, a patrol team in full armor passed by. Among them, a blood-eyed warrior was leading a two-headed dog that had two heads, severe hair loss, and scarlet ulcers on its skin.

The closer to the Scarlet Sanctuary, the more patrol teams there were. The good news was that because of the melee in various places in the front area of the sanctuary, more than 70% of the patrol teams in the backyard had gone to reinforce. Therefore, it didn't take Su Xiao long to arrive at the target area, in front of the blood-colored archway marked on the map.

Walking up a dozen steps, Su Xiao stopped on the stone platform. In front, there was indeed an archway three meters wide and five meters high, but this archway was blocked by rich scarlet energy.

Ka ka ka~

A crystal layer spread on Su Xiao's hand. He reached one hand into the scarlet. Following the erosion of the scarlet, the crystal layer on his hand turned into a blood color. Afterward, the scarlet eroded his skin and invaded his body.

【Warning: You are suffering from the erosion of scarlet power!】

【The scarlet power and the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy will conduct this round of judgment.】

【Judgment complete.】

【Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy priority is 10.】

【Scarlet power priority is 9.69.】

【Because you are suffering from erosion, the effect you bear will be relatively passive.】

【You will suffer the erosion effect of the scarlet power, leading to a temporary slide in the maximum life limit. The degree of sliding and duration will be determined according to the degree of erosion.】

【Your maximum life limit has slid from 100% to 99.8%. This effect lasts for 5 natural days (this is the shortest time limit for the scarlet power erosion to last).】

Even if Su Xiao had Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, he still couldn't avoid having his maximum life limit lowered. But the good news was that even if it was scarlet power, it couldn't make him permanently lose his original life force, so this debuff was temporary.

After confirming this matter, Su Xiao pulled his hand out from the high-concentration scarlet power. The crystal layer wrapped on it dissipated. Afterward, he put on the 【Scarlet Ring (Fake)】.

【Scarlet Ring (Fake)】

Equipment effect: After wearing, you can control scarlet power to a certain extent.

Although using this ring would also be eroded by the scarlet, the degree of erosion was not strong. Su Xiao pressed one hand toward the scarlet energy in front. The scarlet energy blocking the archway gradually surged, and finally formed a passage.

Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baha, and the Dark Eater walked quickly into the Scarlet Sanctuary along this passage. The passage behind closed quickly.

Checking the ring in his hand, the cracks on this item were denser. It was estimated that it could be used four or five more times. However, just after entering this place, the Black King Armguard on Su Xiao's left arm had a different fluctuation.

Vaguely, Su Xiao felt that it seemed like something was echoing with the Black King Armguard. That was the location of the Dead Silence Ember.

The long corridors in this place extended in all directions, like a maze. Following the empty corridor, Su Xiao gradually approached the location of the Dead Silence Ember. But when he arrived in front of a corner, he stopped his steps and leaned against the wall. Behind this corner was an archway. After passing through this archway, one could reach a spacious hall. Located in this hall, hundreds of red-eyed knights were guarding this place.

These red-eyed knights wore armor as thick as a thumb, holding two-handed heavy swords or war hammers covered in spikes. What was even more astonishing was that scarlet parasites were also clinging to these red-eyed knights. The strength of these enemies must be higher than the red-eyed warrior leader.

Especially since these red-eyed knights were all five meters tall, they were very oppressive, just like small bosses guarding this place.

And in the innermost part of this hall was a door that had been dusty for many years. Wisps of dead silence power spread out from the keyhole of this metal door.

Throwing a "Sun Sacred Sword" in seemed like a good choice, but Su Xiao couldn't determine whether that metal door could withstand the "Sun Sacred Sword." If it couldn't withstand it, the Dead Silence Ember might be melted by the solar flames. The Dead Silence Ember was an attack-type weapon; even if it was a supreme treasure, it couldn't withstand an overly strong attack.

"Bai Ye, these guys don't look like they're easy to mess with. How do we get past?"

The Dark Eater stared at the door in the inner part of the hall. There, it seemed like there was a fruit that had condensed a huge amount of darkness, which made it drool.

"We sneak in."

"But we don't have sneaking abilities. You... why are you walking out directly!"

Under the Dark Eater's surprised gaze, Su Xiao walked directly into the hall from the archway. As for sneaking, the Dark Eater obviously didn't quite understand what Su Xiao meant. Sneaking meant killing all the strong enemies in the hall without alarming more enemies, and then sneaking into the treasure vault further inside.

Su Xiao walked into the dim hall openly like this. The fire basins on the walls on both sides of the hall ignited by themselves one after another.

Zheng~

Su Xiao drew the long sword from his waist. The red-eyed knights opposite drew heavy swords or blood-blade dual swords over three meters long. Some picked up nail hammers, chain hammers, etc., from the ground.

Boom!

Blood energy shrouded the hall, but it didn't spread to the archway behind at all.

At the same time, Shelter City, Lower City District, Dark Street.

Inside a three-story building, there lived dozens of half-grown children, as well as some children under ten years old. In the Lower City District, this kind of special family was not rare. Many Lower City people spent their childhood and youth periods like this.

Located in a bedroom on the third floor, Yusha, as the leader of this Dark Street family, naturally had a separate bedroom. But now she was tossing and turning. The increasingly high protection fees of the local gangs made her unable to maintain expenses just by the income from the teleportation array.

Therefore, Yusha finally took a step toward the outside of the city, bringing a few reliable little partners, to become a scavenger. As a result, just after leaving the city, she witnessed the scene of the Law-Extinguisher vs. the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple. This dimensionality-reduction-like shock made Yusha doubt life a bit. Was it so dangerous outside the city?

For some reason, Yusha herself wasn't afraid at all, but her little partners were all scared pale. They wouldn't dare to leave the city again in the near future. Leaving the city to be a scavenger also failed, which made Yusha even more worried. At this time, she was tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

However, what Yusha didn't notice was that as she became drowsy, the noise and bustle outside the room gradually subsided. The children in other rooms seemed to have deliberately lowered their voices because Yusha was gradually falling asleep.

Finally, these children were completely silent, and the expressions on their faces also shed the childishness from just now, stopping like puppets. To be precise, these were actually puppets, puppets controlled from a medium distance by a puppeteer.

The door of the small building was pushed open. A figure wearing a green robe walked into the small building and went all the way up to the third floor. She stopped by Yusha's bed, wanting to touch Yusha's cheek with her hand, but seeing her hand covered in cracks because of sealing the scarlet object, her hand stopped, and finally, she withdrew it in disappointment.

"I'm sorry, although I gave you life, I also made you bear responsibility. However, there is still a Law-Extinguisher lord here. One day, he will come to help you get rid of this fate. I will definitely let you leave here, go see the splendor of the myriad worlds, I definitely will."

After saying this, the green-robed woman sat on the wooden chair by the bed, looking at Yusha in deep sleep with love.

However, Yusha's sleep at this moment was not peaceful. Her consciousness was constantly sinking, as if sinking to the deep bottom of the earth. When she opened her eyes again, she was already in a library.

Yusha was no stranger to this place. She had come to this dream when she was very young and had explored it. As a result, whether it was books or scrolls, they were all scarlet after being opened.

Yusha gradually floated up. This was her ability in the "Dream." She floated to a bookshelf familiarly. She was too familiar with this place; she had come here thousands of times since she was a child.

But today, Yusha suddenly discovered that the door that had always been tightly closed was opened with a gap today. With her size, it would definitely be no problem to squeeze through.

After discovering this, Yusha was both excited and had a bit of fear of the unknown. She floated to the door and squeezed through the gap. She let out a long sigh of relief; this gap was a bit tight. Afterward, she showed doubt. In the dream, her feelings should be very dull. Afterward, she discovered that she actually couldn't fly and could only walk on the ground, and a cold touch came from under her feet.

This dream was really too real, real to the point that Yusha didn't dare to continue exploring, but the courage in her heart made her decide to continue investigating.

After passing the corner, a long corridor appeared. Walking to the corner at the end of the corridor, Yusha immediately stopped her steps. The clanking sound of metal boots stepping on the ground came. Yusha took a deep breath. This was another ability of hers in the "Dream." As long as she didn't breathe, she could become transparent, or rather, temporarily half-detach from this "Dream."

A red-eyed knight over five meters tall walked past. When this red-eyed knight walked far away, Yusha breathed heavily. After seeing this red-eyed knight, an unprecedented sense of fear surged into her heart. Her intuition told her to return to the library immediately; only there was it safe.

But a moment later, Yusha looked around blankly. She had actually gotten lost in the "Dream." But before she could distinguish the direction, a rotten two-headed dog had already appeared behind her. Yusha immediately ran away at full speed.

But the more she ran, the more rotten two-headed dogs chased behind her. Until there was a boom in Yusha's ears, as if penetrating a barrier, all the dozen rotten two-headed dogs behind her stopped, and retreated with fear, and finally all fled away.

"Hu~, fortunately I ran fast."

Yusha let out a long sigh of relief. Only then did she have time to look around. She was currently in a hall, and there was a fire basin on the walls on both sides every few meters.

The hall was filled with wisps of blood energy that made Yusha's heart beat faster and her soles go soft. What was even more terrifying was that the terrible red-eyed knights she saw just now were everywhere at this moment. At least dozens of red-eyed knights were shattered and scattered everywhere.

A figure whose long clothes were full of blood energy, holding a long sword, with blood light that could capture people's souls in its eyes, was stepping on the shoulder of the last red-eyed knight with one foot, drawing the blood-stained long sword from the head of the kneeling red-eyed knight.

Seeing this blood shadow, Yusha felt an unprecedented sense of fear. She couldn't even move a bit. The next instant, that blood shadow appeared in front of her.

"Oh? A mental body projected through a dream."

Yusha heard the blood shadow opposite actually speak. Although she wanted to answer that she didn't mean to offend, the crushing pressure that rushed toward her made her unable to speak.

"You can leave."

Hearing this, Yusha's mood was indescribable, and she even had the feeling of crying with joy for the first time in her life. However, the other party's next sentence made her fall into an ice cellar again.

"When you wake up, I will go... find you."

After the blood shadow said this, it grabbed one of Yusha's hands that she had subconsciously blocked in front. A sharp pain came from the back of Yusha's hand.

"Ah!"

Yusha suddenly sat up from the bed. She widened her eyes and scanned the dim bedroom. While panting heavily, she felt that sweat had stuck her close-fitting clothes to her back. Finally, she let out a long sigh of relief.

"Fortunately it was a dream, but such a real and strange dream... the pain was just like the real thing..."

While Yusha was speaking, she raised her right hand to check, which made her muttering stop abruptly. Because she saw that on the back of her right hand, there was a blood-colored mark. If her knowledge was broad enough, she would discover that this was the mark used by Law-Extinguishers when positioning.

At this moment, in the fire basin hall of the Scarlet Sanctuary, Su Xiao looked at the mental body that was gradually dissipating in front. If his guess was correct, the main body of this mental body was very far from this place. If things went wrong, the other party would think that this place was a dream.

The reason for letting the other party leave was not only because the other party had the mark of the Eternal Light Watcher, but also because the other party seemed to be sealing something. It looked like scarlet, but it was not quite the same as the scarlet here.

Temporarily not considering this point, Su Xiao shook off the blood on his sword. Back then, he was chased and killed miserably by the Dead Silence people in the Dead Silence City. Coming to the Scarlet Sanctuary this time, he naturally wouldn't repeat the same mistakes.

Arriving in front of the innermost door, Su Xiao pushed the door open. A small room appeared. It was only a few square meters, with an exhibition rack, and there were three items on the exhibition rack.

At the bottom was a pitch-black fruit, in the middle layer was the Dead Silence Ember, and on the top rack was an ancient and twisted scepter. This was actually a Sin Object, and a Great Father-level Sin Object. This was:

Sin Object · Scarlet Scepter!