Chapter 3766: Nightmare

The Chapter of Greed is a very wonderful piece of equipment. After the strengthening of generations of holders, the difficulty of use has soared. When it reached Su Xiao's hands, it could only rely on the Nightmare Blood Shadow to 'play on his behalf'.

What is even more outrageous is that even if a 'substitute' was created, it had to be constantly strengthened. Even so, the last two "Soul Images" still didn't win.

Su Xiao took out the Chapter of Greed to check the situation of this equipment. Fortunately, the imitation version of the Nightmare Blood Shadow inside was temporarily scattered after being defeated in the battle against the God King Os Tobias, and it hadn't completed re-gathering yet.

If the fake Nightmare Blood Shadow inside the Chapter of Greed was in a normal state, then when the real Nightmare Blood Shadow broke through the nightmare just now, it was hard to say what problems the Chapter of Greed would have.

Su Xiao held the Chapter of Greed with both hands, and strands of energy threads entered it. Subsequently, blood mist emerged from the Chapter of Greed. The fake Nightmare Blood Shadow that was re-gathering inside completely dissipated. After all, this was an imitation, and it was in the re-gathering after being scattered. At this time, driving it away had the lowest difficulty.

Continuing to keep this fake Nightmare Blood Shadow was highly likely to be a hidden danger, so it was better to empty the Chapter of Greed first, and then significantly strengthen this item.

The most important characteristic of this equipment was that it could trap the Nightmare Blood Shadow. Even if it trapped the fake Nightmare Blood Shadow before, it could not be denied that this item had this characteristic. As long as the strengthening amplitude was enough, it was not impossible to use this equipment to trap the real Nightmare Blood Shadow.

As for the two "Soul Images" that had not been defeated yet, if the real Nightmare Blood Shadow was successfully sealed into it, let alone the subsequent two "Soul Images," even if the characteristics of this equipment refreshed and ten more "Soul Images" appeared, the Nightmare Blood Shadow could defeat them all. The problem at hand had already become how to seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow into it.

As Su Xiao's projection in the Nightmare Realm, would the Nightmare Blood Shadow be a bit friendly to Su Xiao, the main body? Su Xiao could be certain that it would not. On the contrary, if the five 'good teammates' stood together, the Nightmare Blood Shadow wouldn't look at the other four, but would head straight for him.

In the final analysis, the Nightmare Blood Shadow rushed out from the nightmare and belonged to an intruder in the material world. The first thing it had to do was to constantly hunt, and then build a real body by ingesting fundamental life force and soul energy, so as to solve the rejection of the material world toward it.

Once the Nightmare Blood Shadow achieved this, it would be an even more terrifying existence. It could travel freely between the nightmare and the material world, and even, there would appear a scene where even if it was killed in the material world, it would be resurrected in the nightmare.

Su Xiao had always had a clear judgment of himself, which was to say, he knew his own limits. He knew very clearly that if it was just his projection in the nightmare, it wouldn't be this terrifying. The main problem was that this thing had been strengthened by four Sinful Objects.

Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair. Because the mysterious merchant on the steps in front unfolded a stall, a list appeared before his eyes.

【You have activated this trade.】

【Current Pure Blood Stone quantity: 543.】

【In this world, due to notarization, the mysterious merchant only accepts Pure Blood Stones as trading currency.】

【You can check the goods in the following list and trade with the mysterious merchant accordingly.】

1. Fate Source Substance.

Effect: After absorption, it can further improve the "Enlightenment" effect, gain greater insight into the future, and control the power of fate.

Prompt: This is an extremely rare source substance.

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 5000 Pure Blood Stones.

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2. Iron-Blood Hound.

Effect: This is special equipment. After use, it can summon five Iron-Blood Hounds with immortal characteristics (Iron-Blood Hounds are exempt from instant death, but can be killed, and can be killed by high soul damage).

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 3500 Pure Blood Stones.

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3. Twisted Abyss Crystal.

Effect: Characteristics undetermined. When touching energy or matter, this twisting will be completed.

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 16850 Pure Blood Stones.

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4. Hegemon Essence (Extra Large).

Inventory quantity: 12.

Exchange price per piece: 120 Pure Blood Stones.

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5. Moon Wolf Sword.

Effect: Weapon left behind by the Silver Moon Wolf.

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 6200 Pure Blood Stones / 0 Pure Blood Stones (When Law-Extinguishing Shadow, Silver Moon Wolf, and Eternal Light Monitor conduct this trade, no Pure Blood Stones need to be paid).

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6. Abyss Great Sword.

Effect: Abyss equipment.

Inventory quantity: 1.

Exchange price: 6200 Pure Blood Stones / 0 Pure Blood Stones (When Magic Sickle or Roaming Hunter conduct this trade, no Pure Blood Stones need to be paid).

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7. Atonement Badge.

Effect: After use, it can eliminate "Bad Luck" causality.

Inventory quantity: 2.

Exchange price: 200 Pure Blood Stones.

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Various items were dazzling. This was still under the condition that the mysterious merchant had not brought out all the goods. Where the other party's home was in which world was unknown, but every time the other party went out, he only brought part of the goods from home.

Among these items, Su Xiao pondered for a while and exchanged for the 【Moon Wolf Sword】. With the 【Inherited Wolf Blood】 he held, the Moon Wolf's system was not considered broken. As for who to pass it on to later, that depended on fate. The power inheritance of Law-Extinguishing and Moon Wolf were both like this.

Although Su Xiao wanted to exchange for the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】, it was too expensive, with a price as high as 16850 Pure Blood Stones. He only had 543 Pure Blood Stones now, not even enough for the tail number.

There was only one way to obtain Pure Blood Stones, which was to kill members of the Crimson faction. The problem was that the Nightmare Blood Shadow was in the underground world. Now going to kill Crimson faction members had a high probability of encountering the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Even though Su Xiao knew that the Nightmare Blood Shadow was hunting fundamental life force and soul energy, he still didn't choose to stop the Nightmare Blood Shadow. It was because it was impossible to beat it. His strength lay in his technique abilities, as well as combat experience and combat reaction speed. The problem was that all his strengths had been inherited by the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Trying to defeat the Nightmare Blood Shadow was a very unreliable plan. This thing originated from the nightmare. Sealing was the correct way. Just like dealing with living beings required killing them, dealing with immortal-characteristic Abyss Breeding Objects required devouring their source through Magic Spirits, and dealing with the Nightmare Blood Shadow from the nightmare, sealing it was the wisest.

The situation had entered a dead end. Unable to deal with the Nightmare Blood Shadow, he couldn't kill enemies in the underground world to obtain Pure Blood Stones. Unable to obtain Pure Blood Stones, he couldn't enhance the Chapter of Greed to try to seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Su Xiao looked at the mysterious merchant opposite. A plan was perfected in his heart. He asked, "Do you want to die in this world."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, the mysterious merchant opposite had some wariness in his eyes. If others said this, he wouldn't care, but the Law-Extinguishing Shadow opposite had a Tree of the Void credibility of -???. It was not surprising that the other party would do anything.

"You guessed right just now. That nightmare avatar is indeed my projection in the nightmare. You know this is a nightmare avatar, and you must also know how much it longs to kill me and take away the causality from me. That is the only way it can achieve perfection."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the mysterious merchant's expression relaxed a bit. After a little deliberation, he felt that what Su Xiao said made sense. But the mysterious merchant asked puzzledly:

"This, young Law-Extinguishing Shadow, I ask you a question, what does your being killed by your own nightmare avatar have to do with me?"

The mysterious merchant's words were as tactful as possible, but Su Xiao didn't answer the other party's question directly, but said:

"I know a neutral unit, his name is Mushroom Prophet."

"Oh, that kid, I know him. He can also be considered a middle-to-high-tier merchant."

"You neutral merchants generally enter mission worlds in two situations: voluntarily entering, or receiving the Tree of the Void's merchant mission. The former can leave the world they are in at any time, and the latter sometimes has time limits, at least staying in the mission world for a few days. This is the Eternal Light World. I guess no neutral merchant is willing to come here voluntarily."

"Hmm, young man, everything you said is correct, but what does your life or death have to do with me directly? I say this perhaps a bit heartless, but our friendship is limited to you bringing me to this sanctuary. As a reward, I gave you a certain trading discount."

"If I die, you might not be able to leave here."

Su Xiao's voice was exceptionally calm. Seeing this, the mysterious merchant frowned. He was very puzzled in his heart, until Su Xiao took out the "Sinful Book."

Opening the first page, the mysterious merchant saw the "Collector," which made his eyes widen a bit.

Opening the second page, the mysterious merchant saw the "Necronomicon," which made his eyes widen to the limit.

Opening the third page, the mysterious merchant saw the "Nether Bone Ring," which made his eyes, which were widened to the limit, gradually burst with bloodshot eyes.

Opening the fourth page, the mysterious merchant saw the "Soul Crown," and he pressed his hands on his strange headgear.

Opening the fifth page, the mysterious merchant saw the "Crimson Scepter." From his gaze, his cognition of the holder of Sinful Objects had been overturned and refreshed.

After Su Xiao closed the Sinful Book, he said, "On this sealing book, I engraved a banishment formula. The moment my life ends, it will be banished to the Abyss and will not stay in the world where I die."

Su Xiao didn't lie. He did permanently engrave this formula on the "Sinful Book." His death meant he had lost. Losing was because his skills were not as good as others. Dragging a world to be buried with him was not glorious. If the Sinful Objects he sealed lost his suppression and were located in one world at the same time, it would be enough to lead this world to destruction. Therefore, the banishment formula on the "Sinful Book" was very important.

But the problem now was that in the Eternal Light World, this banishment formula was invalid.

"You mean?"

"This is the Eternal Light World. The banishment formula cannot take effect. If I die here, these Sinful Objects will break free from their shackles. The Eternal Light World is not short of prisoners who dare to take risks. They will try to use these Sinful Objects to escape this cage. Do you have confidence... that you can live until the mission time limit of the merchant mission in the Eternal Light World after the five Sinful Objects are activated? If you have, just take these words of mine as nonsense."

After Su Xiao said these words, the mysterious merchant fell into deep thought. Finally, he asked with some disbelief: "Young man, did you really... seal five Sinful Objects?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, but threw the "Sinful Book" in his hand to the mysterious merchant. Even with the mysterious merchant's experience, he was a bit flustered when catching it. When he tried to open the first page himself, this soul-penetrating sense of shock made him subconsciously look at the young Law-Extinguishing Shadow opposite.

"You usually carry this thing?"

"Hmm."

Su Xiao's plain reply made the mysterious merchant want to say something, but when the words reached his lips, he didn't know what to say. A moment later, he said: "As expected of a Law-Extinguishing Shadow."

Speaking to this point, the mysterious merchant seemed to remember something and asked: "But young man, I have one thing I don't understand. I wonder if you can tell me."

"Tell me."

"How did your nightmare avatar break away from the nightmare? With your soul power and willpower, this situation shouldn't happen."

The mysterious merchant didn't doubt Su Xiao's strong willpower at all. Someone who could seal five Sinful Objects must have willpower that was outrageously strong.

"Before, the seal of the Deathly Silence Source was completely lifted, and I was affected by the deathly silence for a while."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the mysterious merchant who took out a wine pot and took a sip of wine choked directly, and the wine even sprayed out from his nose. He asked in surprise: "That Deathly Silence Source from the Dark Continent?!"

"Hmm."

"!"

The mysterious merchant was somewhat shocked and finally sighed sincerely: "Young man, the things you suppress are truly extraordinary."

After sighing, the mysterious merchant changed the subject, hugged his shoulders with both hands, raised his chin slightly, and said with some arrogance: "But the rules cannot change. If you want to buy goods from me, you can only use enough Pure Blood Stones."

Hearing this, Su Xiao knew that the matter was done. The mysterious merchant suddenly changed his attitude, looking like he only recognized Pure Blood Stones. In fact, the real meaning was: 'Young man, as long as you bring enough Pure Blood Stones, I will sell this thing to you. As for whether these Pure Blood Stones are real or fake, I am old and have poor eyesight, so it is normal to be unable to distinguish them for a while. Later, I will report to the Tree of the Void that you deceived me with fake Pure Blood Stones. At most, your Tree of the Void credibility will be deducted. In my opinion, your Tree of the Void credibility cannot be deducted any lower.'

Some things cannot be said explicitly, even if there are too many expressions. For example, the mysterious merchant's real meaning at this time.

As for the mysterious merchant directly giving the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】 to Su Xiao, this was naturally impossible. In the final analysis, the mysterious merchant came here because of the Tree of the Void's merchant mission.

Su Xiao walked toward the teleportation array, not using the teleportation array originally belonging to the Dark Sanctuary, but activated a newly set up teleportation array. This was the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array," which could directly arrive at Black Iron City.

"Wait, I'll go too."

While the Dark Eater was speaking, it had already stood on the teleportation array. It didn't want to stay here for even a second. Every time the Dark Lady's gaze looked at it, it felt that death was getting closer and closer to it. This feeling was terrifying.

"Are you sure?"

Out of 'team friendship', Su Xiao confirmed with the Dark Eater whether the other party really wanted to do this before activating the teleportation array.

"Of course I'm sure, let's go quickly..."

While the Dark Eater was speaking, the teleportation array activated, and light filled its eyes.

When the teleportation ended, Su Xiao had already arrived in the manufacturing workshop of Black Iron City. After glancing at the Dark Eater, he released a few spirit shadow threads from his hand, and a moment later, he pulled them, using micron-level stitching to fix all the Dark Eater's parts. Afterward, he took out an injection gun and gave the Dark Eater a shot in the neck.

A moment later, some luster returned to the Dark Eater's eyes. It was first angry, then angry and aggrieved, which made it say angrily: "Bai Ye, why... why did you sneak attack me."

"It wasn't a sneak attack. This is a slight side effect after teleportation."

"??"

In the Dark Eater's ignorant eyes, there was great doubt.

Ignoring the confused Dark Eater, Su Xiao sat down at the round table in the inner hall of the manufacturing workshop. Sin-Aris was making something at a workbench nearby, but this time he didn't come to ask for his help.

Not long after, Wood walked into the inner hall. After he sat down, Su Xiao took out a Soul Coin and flicked it with his thumb.

Ding~

The Soul Coin flew up, and just as it was about to land, it was caught by a hand, and then disappeared in this hand. Caesar, who appeared suddenly, sat down.

"Bai Ye, what's the matter this time?"

Wood opened his mouth, and Su Xiao took out a Pure Blood Stone and placed it on the table.

"Make one the same?"

"Imitation."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Wood understood, but he still said:

"This thing is very difficult to imitate. With my ability, I still can't reach..."

Pa~

A Soul Coin savings card with a face value of 20,000 was placed on the table. Wood's tone changed, and he continued: "Although there is some difficulty, sometimes one has to try boldly. It's just that in terms of success rate..."

Pa~

The second Soul Coin savings card was placed on the table. 20,000 Soul Coins reward for each of Wood and Caesar.

A few hours later, Su Xiao stood on the teleportation array with two large boxes of Pure Blood Stones, and then under the Dark Eater's shocked gaze, activated the teleportation array.

Returning to the Dark Sanctuary, Su Xiao arrived in front of the mysterious merchant's stall and put down the two large boxes of Pure Blood Stones. Seeing this, the mysterious merchant opened a large wooden box and picked up a few Pure Blood Stones.

The mysterious merchant seemed to find something wrong. After careful exploration, he found that there was half a piece of wood on this wooden box, which looked like it was pressed and combined with Black Maple Tree branches. He immediately coughed and said sternly:

"Hmm, the quantity of Pure Blood Stones is just right."

After the mysterious merchant finished speaking, he picked up the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】 and handed it to Su Xiao. But before handing over the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】, the mysterious merchant said with some emotion:

"The Dark Continent no longer has the Deathly Silence Source. There shouldn't be any evil land outside the High Wall City. Don't waste this Abyss Crystal. Finally, I wish you success, Law-Extinguishing Shadow."

Leaving these words, the mysterious merchant walked toward the teleportation array of the sanctuary, and then activated the teleportation array that came with this sanctuary and left this place.

Hearing the mysterious merchant's words before leaving, the doubt in Su Xiao's heart disappeared. He was still puzzled just now why the mysterious merchant got on the pirate ship so easily. The reputation of this old man was generally average among neutral merchants. There were two highest-tier neutral merchants: the mysterious merchant and the traveling merchant.

The rumors about the mysterious merchant were mostly about being old, cunning, and deceitful. This time, he didn't wait for Su Xiao to take out the follow-up trump card and took the initiative to jump on the pirate ship. Now it seemed that the mysterious merchant should be from the Dark Continent. After seeing the "Deathly Silence Source" that almost caused his hometown to collapse, the mysterious merchant decided to jump on the pirate ship.

Arriving in an uninhabited room, Su Xiao began to carve formulas on the ground. This time, he set up a sealing formula, using the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】 to upgrade the Chapter of Greed into equipment with sealing characteristics only aimed at the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Su Xiao didn't think that the Chapter of Greed, which had been upgraded to this extent, could seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow forever, but as long as it could seal it for a month, no, 20-plus days would be enough. As long as the talent mission and the legendary mission were completed, after he returned to the Reincarnation Paradise, he would strengthen the seal of the Chapter of Greed in various ways.

After setting up everything, Su Xiao injected 500 ounces of space-time power into the sealing formula on the ground, and then activated it.

With a buzz, the light flourished. The formula on the ground peeled off from the ground, gathered, and gradually wrapped toward the Chapter of Greed, and the 【Twisted Abyss Crystal】 also gradually dissolved. Finally, the energy it turned into all entered the Chapter of Greed.

This upgrade speed was very fast. The information of the Chapter of Greed changed, and the quality and score both became???. However, it could still enter it to challenge the "Soul Image," but this function was not needed for the time being. The main role of this item now was to seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

【Prompt: The upgrade of Soul · Coronation of the King has been completed.】

【Soul · Coronation of the King】

Origin: Root · Deathly City

Quality: Eternal Level.

Category: Armguard

Durability: 286/300 points (increased by 105 points).

Equipment requirement: Only the Deathly Silence King can wear it (already achieved).

Basic effect: Exempt from near-death state, until death (this bonus has high priority).

Equipment effect 1: Ember Extinction (Core · Active), release Deathly Ember, and hold it in hand. Within the initial 3 seconds, you can specify a target to make its speed significantly reduced. Initial deceleration 70%, subsequent decay 10% per second, until the deceleration effect completely disappears.

Prompt: The initial attack power of Deathly Ember is constant, and there are 5 Ember Extinction Bullets inside.

Prompt: Ember Extinction Bullets receive soul strength bonuses, increasing soul strength x 0.82 extra attack power (705 points extra attack power), and soul strength x 0.82 extra penetration (705 points extra penetration).

Ember Extinction Bullet: Old-fashioned bullets composed of massive deathly silence energy. If multiple Ember Extinction Bullets hit the same enemy, it will lead to the erosion of deathly silence energy, causing the enemy's defense to decrease, making the damage caused by subsequent Ember Extinction Bullets increase. The first Ember Extinction Bullet hitting the enemy is 100% damage, the second is 150% damage, the third is 200% damage, the fourth is 300% damage, and the fifth is 500% damage.

Prompt: If all five are hit, a "Deathly Silence Devouring Explosion" can be performed, destroying all defensive equipment and defensive abilities of this enemy (this bonus has high priority).

Prompt: Ember Extinction Bullets generate one per hour until the magazine of "Deathly Ember" is filled (reaching 5 bullets), and will stop generating automatically.

Equipment effect 2: Deathly Silence Arrival (Core · Active): After activating this ability, this equipment will release high-concentration deathly silence energy generated by the "Deathly Silence Source," performing high-speed assimilation on the environment within 10–30000 meters around, temporarily assimilating this area into "Root · Deathly City," and making the erosion degree of this area above level 80 (increased by 40 levels of intensity).

Prompt: The larger this area, the lower the erosion degree level of deathly silence, with a minimum of level 10. Conversely, the smaller this area, the higher the erosion degree of deathly silence. A 100-meter diameter erosion range can reach a level 80 deathly silence energy erosion degree.

Note: The larger this area, the lower the erosion level of the Dead Silence; the minimum is level 10. Conversely, the smaller this area, the higher the erosion level of the Dead Silence. A 100-meter diameter erosion range can reach a Dead Silence energy erosion level of 80.

Prompt: During the release of Deathly Silence Arrival, your movement speed will be significantly reduced, but as the Deathly Silence King, you can designate 10 targets not to be eroded by deathly silence energy, protecting them with your soul power.

Prompt: The duration of Deathly Silence Arrival (Active) will be comprehensively judged according to the coverage range and your soul strength x 10% (i. e., 86 seconds).

Prompt: Deathly Silence Arrival (Active) has no consumption.

Prompt: Deathly Silence Arrival (Active) can only be used once per world progress. If the number of uses exceeds once, you will receive strong rejection from the world you are in, and even be forcibly excluded from this world.

Prompt: When you are within the range of Deathly Silence Arrival (Active), the unique weapon of Root · Deathly City "Deathly Ember" will be strengthened. For every enemy killed, "Deathly Ember" will temporarily increase attack power by 45 points and immediately replenish an Ember Extinction Bullet.

Prompt: Deathly Silence Arrival and Deathly Ember will have a resonance effect. When you are within the coverage range of Deathly Silence Arrival, after killing an enemy with "Deathly Ember," the enemy will turn into a Deathly Person, Dark Medium, or Tree Erosion after death (depending on the enemy's strength), randomly attacking enemy units in the vicinity. This target will only obey a small part of your orders to a certain extent.

Equipment effect 3: Soul Nourishment (Core · Passive): Your soul power will slowly nourish your willpower and mental power, thereby permanently increasing your true willpower and mental strength.

Prompt: The higher your soul strength, the stronger the nourishment for your true willpower attribute and mental strength.

Current "Deathly Silence Source" seal degree: Two seals (the fewer the seals, the stronger this equipment will be).

Warning: If the seal is reduced to one, the "Deathly Silence Source" will bring many uncertainties and dangers. Only when your own soul power is strong enough can you consider completely lifting this seal effect, thereby completely releasing the power of the "Deathly Silence Source."

Score: 6000 points (as the seal is lifted, the score of this equipment will increase).

Introduction: Are you really ready to face this Deathly Silence Source that caused the decline of a transcendent native world?

Selling price: Cannot be sold.

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The upgrade of the Black King Armguard was undoubtedly good news. Su Xiao put away the Chapter of Greed, and then took Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, preparing to return to the underground world with the monitor ring to seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

It is worth mentioning that Amu's Dragon Heart Axe had been repaired, and this silly guy was exceptionally happy, but now it was more appropriate to call this weapon the Bloodthirsty Battle Axe.

Spatial mist emerged in the surroundings. When the mist dissipated, Su Xiao was already in the lair of the enemy faction, the underground world.

The scene before his eyes made Su Xiao immediately take out the Chapter of Greed. The Crimson Sanctuary, which was magnificent before, was now more than half collapsed, and blood smoke rose from the ruins.

The blood-patterned disc in the distance had shattered, and the fragments floated in mid-air as if there was no gravity. The aura fluctuations of the Lord of Eternal Darkness, the Abyss Archbishop, and the Astral Devourer were no longer in this place, representing that all three parties had left the underground world.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): The hidden faction of this world, the Crimson faction, has been wiped out by more than 95%, and the remaining members have all fled this area.】

【Judgment complete, the Crimson faction has been wiped out by the Nightmare Blood Shadow, and the related faction shop has been closed.】 ===== CHAPTER 3767 =====

【Judgment complete. The Scarlet Faction has been annihilated by the Nightmare Blood Shadow. The relevant faction shops have been closed.】