Chapter 3768: Transaction

Inside the secret study, the Priest sat steadily on a wooden chair, his expression as amiable as ever. If one did not know him, they would certainly think this was a kind and benevolent old priest.

The scarlet passage behind him closed, but Su Xiao did not pay it any mind. The moment he saw the Priest, his hand was already pressed against the hilt of his blade.

Clang!

An elegant wind trace slashed past. He greeted him with a "Blade Dao Blade · Flow" right from the start. After the wind trace sliced through the Priest's head, it cut the portrait of the Scarlet Monarch behind him into two halves.

The Priest's head was sliced open diagonally. The upper half of his head began to slide slowly to the side. What surged from the wound was not fresh blood, but a black liquid substance.

In turn, these black liquid substances transformed into very fine black tentacles that coiled together. This prevented the Priest's diagonally sliced upper skull from sliding further, pulling it back to its original position until the wound healed.

An amiable smile remained on the Priest's face, as if nothing had just happened.

Su Xiao sheathed his long blade. He had confirmed that this was not the Priest's true body, nor did he know if this was a new ability the Priest had gained after ascending to the Transcendent level. This clone ability could be considered quite powerful; not only was it difficult to distinguish from the real one, but it also possessed a certain degree of immortality.

The further one progressed, the harder it became to kill Rule-Breakers—like the Priest, or the Phantom Troupe's former No. 1 member, the Platinum Apostle. But thinking about it, it made sense; Rule-Breakers who could survive until the very late stages had been hunted by Hunters and Death Rangers countless times.

To survive these repeated hunts and even complete counter-kills, their ability development direction must surely lean toward immortality, indestructibility, and eerie, treacherous characteristics.

Su Xiao looked at the Priest opposite him. He was certain that the Priest had left a clone here specifically waiting for someone, but that person had not come.

First, he ruled out that this person was from the Scarlet Faction. The Priest was cooperating with the Scarlet Faction, so there was no need for such a grand display upon meeting. Second, he ruled out that the other party was a Some Qiyuezhe or Rule-Breaker, as they could negotiate via the World Channel and had no need to risk meeting in this place.

Furthermore, the number of people who could enter the Underground World was limited; those without strength were just courting death by coming here. Thus, the scope of the person the Priest was waiting for narrowed. Su Xiao suddenly recalled the Scarlet Eldest Son he had encountered earlier; this guy fit the conditions perfectly.

Since both parties had arranged to meet here, they must have had their own agendas. The Scarlet Eldest Son's goal was easy to guess: after the Scarlet Castle was flattened by Su Xiao, this guy urgently needed a reliable faction to take shelter in. Otherwise, in the dangerous Eternal Light World, the Scarlet Eldest Son would eventually meet a dead end.

In the outside world, reaching the Transcendent level was remarkable, but in the Eternal Light World, Transcendent-level beings were everywhere. Without initial Transcendent-level combat power, one wouldn't even dare to breathe loudly here.

Thinking this way, the Scarlet Eldest Son's goal was easy to guess. Even if he had strength, the Scarlet Power he controlled leaned more toward breeding and parasitic characteristics, which clearly wouldn't be favored by the Scarlet Faction. The Scarlet Faction revered the blood flame, burning, and boiling characteristics of Scarlet Power.

Therefore, it was difficult for the Scarlet Eldest Son to join the Scarlet Faction and cling to a powerful backer, but if he had the Priest to introduce him, it wouldn't be a problem at all.

If the Scarlet Eldest Son wanted the Priest's help, he would have to pay a price several or even ten times higher; otherwise, he might not even be able to keep his life. But the question was, what did the Priest need the Scarlet Eldest Son's help with?

No matter how Su Xiao thought about it, he couldn't figure it out. Aside from being good at begging for mercy, the Scarlet Eldest Son didn't seem to have any value for the Priest to exploit. Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of one thing: the Scarlet Eldest Son came from the Scarlet Castle.

Back then, the Dark Blood City Lord and his son of the Scarlet Castle were ruthless people who opened the Abyss passage, even if what surged from it was Scarlet.

When the Scarlet outbreak occurred in the castle, the Dark Blood City Lord fought to the death to cover the retreat, letting his second son take away his youngest child. It was highly likely that the second son, who had mutated due to Scarlet but whose reason remained unaffected, was the current Scarlet Eldest Son.

The reason the Scarlet Eldest Son called himself that went back to the Scarlet outbreak at the Scarlet Castle, which was the consequence of the City Lord's eldest son acting willfully.

In a short time, the second son lost both his parents and all his younger siblings. That hatred toward his elder brother would never be weak. But since this brother was already dead, and the hatred could never be vented, the second son simply acted as if this brother had never existed, hence calling himself the Scarlet Eldest Son.

The Scarlet Eldest Son had been guarding the fourth floor of the Scarlet Castle, the entrance to the bedchamber, claiming to prevent the monsters inside the fifth-floor bedchamber from escaping. In reality, it was more like guarding his own biological mother who had turned into a monster, not giving her the chance to kill and devour innocent beings, until someone could defeat his mother so she could sleep forever.

If this were true, then Su Xiao's previous guess about the Scarlet Castle mission was at least 70% correct.

If the Scarlet Eldest Son was truly the second son of the Dark Blood City Lord, would the knowledge mastered by his brother and father have been shared with him? Being family, this probability was actually quite high.

That is to say, the Scarlet Eldest Son had a high probability of mastering the method to open the Abyss passage in this world—no, the method to open the Scarlet passage.

And the conditions initially discussed by both parties were: the Priest would help the Scarlet Eldest Son get introduced, allowing him to successfully join the Scarlet Faction and obtain a status above the middle level, while the Scarlet Eldest Son would hand over the method to open the Scarlet passage.

The Priest wanted to open the Scarlet passage for only two possible purposes.

1. To obtain Scarlet Power. This was unlikely; the Priest had Old God-type abilities, and after obtaining the Golden Holy Grail, his subsequent development was stable and rapid.

2. The Priest intended to use the Scarlet passage to release the Scarlet Monarch from the seal.

The second possibility had the highest probability. It might be that the Priest's initial cooperation with the Scarlet Faction was to obtain some secret treasure or ability of the Scarlet Monarch.

But thinking about it this way, it didn't seem right. The Scarlet Monarch's ability system clearly had nothing to do with Old Gods. Under these circumstances...

Suddenly, a common point between the Priest and the Scarlet Monarch appeared in Su Xiao's thoughts: both were holders of Original Sin items! And the Scarlet Monarch had reached a level of near-perfect compatibility with the Scarlet Scepter.

It seemed so, but as the current sealer of the Scarlet Scepter, Su Xiao could clearly judge that the relationship between the Scarlet Monarch and the Scarlet Scepter was completely different from that of Caesar and the Abyss Jar; the latter was what one called perfect compatibility.

The relationship between the Scarlet Monarch and the Scarlet Scepter was clearly not perfectly compatible, yet they had filled the gap to near-perfect compatibility through some method. Thinking about it, the Scarlet Monarch and the Scarlet Scepter had a compatibility of over 80%, and the remaining 20% gap was filled by the Scarlet Monarch using some method, thus achieving a situation infinitely close to perfect compatibility.

Thinking this way, the Priest's initial cooperation condition with the Scarlet Faction was this "Compatibility Secret Technique." The Priest was currently holding the "Golden Holy Grail," and he also couldn't achieve perfect compatibility with the "Golden Holy Grail," at most an 80% compatibility, exactly the same as the Scarlet Monarch's situation back then.

Therefore, the Scarlet Faction proposed that as long as the Priest helped them rescue the Scarlet Monarch from the nightmare seal, they would hand this secret technique to the Priest. Both parties signed a contract for this, and handed the contract parchment and the "Compatibility Secret Technique" together to the Void Tree for notarization and safekeeping. As long as the Scarlet Monarch was freed, the Priest could obtain this secret technique through the Void Tree.

Currently, the Scarlet Faction had been wiped out, but for the Priest, this had an impact, but not to the extent of failing the plan. He didn't care whether the Scarlet Faction lived or died; what he wanted was the "Compatibility Secret Technique" currently stored under the Void Tree's notarization. Therefore, releasing the Scarlet Monarch from the Nightmare Land was the Priest's current goal.

This explained why the Priest had arranged to meet the Scarlet Eldest Son here. The Priest didn't have the key to the Nightmare Land deep in the Sea of Sand, and the knowledge the Scarlet Eldest Son mastered to open the Scarlet passage might be the second method that could allow the Scarlet Monarch to escape.

Su Xiao didn't know if his deduction was correct; these were all speculations and conjectures based on known information. But whether it was correct didn't matter; the subsequent probing was the key.

Su Xiao hadn't taken off the 【Scarlet Ring (Fake)】, so he once again opened a passage on the Scarlet Mist behind him, letting Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja immediately go to chase the Scarlet Eldest Son, making sure to intercept the other party. The plan had changed; he couldn't let the other party go to the Sanctuary City for the time being.

This wasn't all. Su Xiao contacted Zui Yasi via the squad channel, entrusting him to catch the Scarlet Eldest Son at the fastest speed. After the deed was done, 5 bottles of 【God Blood Potion】 would be the reward. Upon learning this news, Zui Yasi immediately chose to set off. The 5 bottles of 【God Blood Potion】 were not "important" at all; the key was friendship—a deep, heavy, 5-bottle-heavy friendship.

As for why Su Xiao had Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja go to intercept the Scarlet Eldest Son while also having Zui Yasi catch him, it was actually just in case. Su Xiao instructed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja to deliberately take the wrong path, so as not to be spotted by the Priest's true body the moment they left this place and be intercepted.

The Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja squad would attract any potential enemies, while Zui Yasi was the main force to securely catch the Scarlet Eldest Son.

Inside the secret study, Su Xiao appeared to be in a standoff with the Priest, but his thoughts were racing, and he already had a relatively reliable conjecture. Opposite him, the Priest was actually weighing why Su Xiao had released the Nightmare Blood Shadow and what his subsequent purpose was.

"It seems that releasing the Nightmare Blood Shadow was also an accident for you."

The Priest had guessed it; Su Xiao hadn't intended to release the Nightmare Blood Shadow. In this exchange of mutual calculation, the Priest had taken the initiative first.

"Let me guess, your target is the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple, right? Is it a mission of the Law-Breaker Faction? No, the Law-Breaker Faction only has you left. Then, is it a test of you Law-Breaker Shadows? Or... is it a talent mission of the Law-Breaker? With such an astonishing mission difficulty, the Law-Breaker Shadow's talent ability is truly powerful."

The Priest spoke with an amiable smile. Although this was a clone, it was definitely controlled by the Priest's consciousness.

"I heard that the Abyss Archbishop previously obtained the 'Blade of Sealing' from you. That is the key to leaving this place. A fake 'Blade of Sealing' couldn't fool the Abyss Archbishop, but my old friend Bai Ye, whom I know, wouldn't be so careless. He wouldn't give the Abyss Archbishop even a sliver of a chance to escape, unless this mission wasn't to kill all four giants. Killing three out of four would suffice? So, even if one was accidentally let go, it wouldn't be unacceptable."

The Priest smiled even more amiably. This was the third time the Priest had spoken in this exchange, and each time, every sentence precisely pierced through Su Xiao's goal, taking the initiative three times in a row.

"This is the method to open the Scarlet passage. You should have been to the Scarlet Castle and seen the battle traces left by the City Lord's wife and me fighting on the fifth floor. I discovered this in the City Lord's study on the sixth floor."

Su Xiao took out a rolled-up parchment and then tossed it in front of the Priest. The parchment roll rolled, finally hitting the tip of the Priest's shoe, rolled back slightly, and finally stopped.

This move made the Priest feel extremely uncomfortable. If he reached out to pick it up, he would instantly expose the entire purpose of his cooperation with the Scarlet Faction. But if he didn't pick it up, based on his understanding of this Law-Breaker opposite him, there was over a 70% probability that the other party would throw out the real Scarlet passage opening method. The other party was adept at this kind of open conspiracy that forced people to choose.

In this exchange of mutual calculation, the original 3:0 score was instantly pulled to 3:5.

The situation was somewhat deadlocked; Su Xiao and the Priest both roughly knew each other's goals.

The Priest's goal was to release the Scarlet Monarch. Su Xiao wouldn't let such a thing happen. Once the Scarlet Monarch was released, he would definitely come for Su Xiao first, both because they were mortal enemies and because the Scarlet Scepter was with Su Xiao.

The interesting part came: how to achieve one's own goal while preventing the other party from achieving theirs might be the key to the subsequent steps.

"Bai Ye, you must have a way to undo the Scarlet Monarch's seal."

The Priest spoke, directly laying his cards on the table. But this made Su Xiao's heart sink; the Priest was being too direct, and there must be a trap in this.

"I actually admire the Law-Breaker Faction very much."

The Priest suddenly mentioned the previous generation of Law-Breakers and even stated his admiration directly. But then, his tone changed sharply, and he continued:

"However, even for the previous generation of Law-Breakers, being able to seal the Scarlet Monarch until now is the limit. I am not belittling the seal arranged by the Law-Breakers; a seal that hasn't been maintained for so many years being able to persist until recently is already astonishing."

The implication of the Priest's words was that even if he didn't actively open the Scarlet Monarch's seal, the seal wouldn't last much longer.

"Oh? Then why bother spending time and effort to break the seal using other methods? Just waiting would suffice."

Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair. Hearing this, the Priest smiled and shook his head, saying: "The contract content is just like that. The Scarlet Faction also has experts in contracts. Although not as good as you, the Gray Gentleman, and Wood, they are only a notch weaker. I need to open the seal, or help the Scarlet Monarch escape in some other effective way, for me to be considered as having fulfilled the contract."

Speaking of this, the Priest took out a deep blue crystal fragment and continued: "Actually, before signing that contract, my thought was: it's just a seal about to collapse, breaking it with the erosion of the Old God system shouldn't be a problem. But, for that seal that could at most last another ten days, I attacked with all my might and only broke off a piece this big."

As the Priest spoke, he held the deep blue crystal between his index and middle fingers. In his expression, one could vaguely see a sense of speechlessness. The seal left by the Law-Breaker Faction had refreshed the cognition of even a super old schemer like the Priest.

"Since this result is unavoidable, why don't we take the initiative? Actively open the seal and eliminate the Scarlet Monarch forever. I fulfill the contract content, and you achieve your goal."

As the Priest spoke, the smile on his face grew wider. Against the backdrop of the shadows behind him and the faint light above, his eyes seemed to turn pitch black, and the pressure of an Old God became increasingly intense.

"Ten days later, I will have already left this place. At most, I will never come to this world again. The Scarlet Monarch will be trapped in this world, so what does this have to do with me?"

Although Su Xiao said this, if there was a chance to eliminate the Scarlet Monarch, he wouldn't miss the current opportunity. The reason was that the Scarlet Monarch was not only powerful but also immortal. Having been imprisoned in the seal for so many years, his immortality must have been reduced to less than one-tenth, or even temporarily ineffective.

Furthermore, the "Super-World-Level Sealing Technique" activated here meant that the combat power representing Scarlet Power was also suppressed to the Transcendent level. Even under these circumstances, this entity's combat power was still stronger than the Astral Devourer, the Lord of Eternal Darkness, and the Abyss Archbishop, but there was no doubt that this was the best opportunity to eliminate this entity.

As for what the Priest said about the seal deep in the Sea of Sand only being able to last another ten days, Su Xiao wasn't worried about that. The seal wasn't just one layer; this could be confirmed from the introduction of the obtained item 【Scarlet Eye】.

In this way, the seal should be able to last for a long time. However, one point could not be ignored: the fact that Scarlet Power surged out when opening an Abyss passage in this world—could this be considered a sign? The Scarlet Monarch within the seal had already found another way to escape.

Moreover, Su Xiao didn't know when this escape method would take effect. Perhaps it would be the next second, perhaps in a few days, or perhaps in a few years; it was full of uncertainty. Therefore, while the "Super-World-Level Sealing Technique" notarized by the Void Tree was still in effect, eliminating the Scarlet Monarch was clearly a good choice.

A more thorny problem was that once the Scarlet Monarch was left alone, once he broke through the seal and the "Super-World-Level Sealing Technique" became ineffective, it was not certain whether the Eternal Light World could continue to trap this powerful entity.

The space sealing here hadn't been maintained or repaired for too many years, and the Sintis Dwarves who could repair this space sealing had been nearly wiped out. Even if some survived, they no longer had the technical inheritance to repair this seal.

Not to mention that for so many years, the prisoners here had been constantly attacking this space seal. That it could persist until now was already astonishingly sturdy.

One really couldn't count on this scarred space seal to block the full-force attack of the Eternal Light World's strongest entity, the Scarlet Monarch.

Once the Scarlet Monarch escaped, and with Su Xiao not yet having ascended to the Transcendent-Transcendent level, he would surely die.

After weighing the pros and cons, Su Xiao didn't directly agree to the Priest's cooperation. Not to mention whether the situation the Priest just described was credible, directly agreeing to cooperate with the other party was the most disadvantageous choice. From the surface situation, if the Nightmare Land side was left alone, it seemed the Priest would lose more—at least that was how it appeared.

The Priest opposite clearly understood the meaning, so he said directly: "I guess you are also having a headache about that Nightmare Blood Shadow. I can... trap it for 5 seconds—no, 3 seconds, at most 3 seconds, and I need to prepare the venue."

Hearing this condition, it would be a lie to say Su Xiao wasn't tempted. He had the strengthened Chapter of Greed, true, but it wasn't as if he could just take out the Chapter of Greed and seal the Nightmare Blood Shadow. One of the big difficulties was temporarily trapping the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

When the Priest was an enemy, he was extremely thorny and difficult to deal with, but if the situation required temporary cooperation, this teammate was quite reliable.

Su Xiao frowned and pondered. If he continued to remain hostile to the Priest, the greater possibility was mutual harm + disgusting each other. It might even lead to the failure of both the talent mission and the legendary mission.

Conversely, if he joined forces with the Priest, not to mention whether they could deal with the Scarlet Monarch and the Nightmare Blood Shadow, just considering whether they could deal with the Astral Devourer, the Lord of Eternal Darkness, and the Abyss Archbishop—as long as he didn't overestimate himself and try to deal with all three at once, but rather deal with them one by one, having the Priest as an assistant would increase his winning odds by at least 20%.

As if to show more sincerity, the Priest's clone entered a disguise state, gradually transforming into Temple High Priest Erzle. It should be known that this identity was only below the Four Giants within the Lightless Temple.

Although he had guessed this trump card of the Priest earlier, seeing it was believing. Since one of the Priest's identities this time was Temple High Priest Erzle, having the other party join would conservatively increase the winning odds against the Four Giants by 30%.

As the saying goes, plans don't change as fast as reality. Since he had decided to cooperate, there was no need to entrust Zui Yasi to help catch the Scarlet Eldest Son anymore. He immediately contacted Zui Yasi on the squad channel.

Bai Ye: "Did you catch the person?"

Zui Yasi: "Almost."

Bai Ye: "Then no need to catch him."

Zui Yasi: "What did you say in the previous sentence? My time was reversed for a few seconds, and the message I received is gone. My memory of just now is blurry."

Bai Ye: "Did you catch the person?"

Zui Yasi: "Caught him (attached photo)."

Bai Ye: "..."

Su Xiao closed the contact channel. The efficiency of this dog thief Zui Yasi was truly high. Black Iron City was so far from the Wet Salt Area; how did this guy get over here? Logically speaking, ordinary teleportation arrays couldn't be used in the Eternal Light World.

However, since he had promised, the reward definitely couldn't be less. He had originally planned to pay 80% of the hard work fee if he hadn't caught him. Su Xiao stored the 5 bottles of 【God Blood Potion】 in the squad channel and adjusted it to the pending-collection state.

"See you in Black Iron City."

"I'm already over there. See you in Black Iron City."

After saying this, the Priest's clone exploded into a large number of black tentacles, and eventually, these black tentacles disappeared.

Seeing this, Su Xiao stood up. Just as he was about to leave, he discovered that there were sheets of parchment on the desk not far away. After picking one up, it contained a precisely structured technique, but these techniques were all semi-finished products.

When he first arrived in the Underground World, Su Xiao had seen the exquisite techniques of this technique master in a treatment center. From the current situation, this technique master had been placed under house arrest by the Scarlet Faction. He didn't know what the other party's current situation was.

After leaving the secret study via the 【Scarlet Ring (Fake)】, the ring on Su Xiao's hand cracked with a snap. He didn't care about this; the Scarlet Temple no longer had any fog doors that needed this item to open.

Su Xiao left the Underground World through the space gate opened by the Scarlet Faction and returned to the Wet Salt Area. Just after returning here, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang sneezed and twitched his nose; clearly, he didn't like this place.

Su Xiao took out the Monitor's map, then took out the treasury map given by the Dark Lady. After comparing the two, he searched along the way. Two hours later, he arrived in a woodland with pitch-black dead trees.

Looking around, an ancient tree that required several people to embrace caught his attention. He stepped forward, gathered Green Steel Shadow energy in his hand, and pressed it onto the tree. A vertical crack gradually appeared on the ancient tree, inside which were churning blue fragments that looked very sharp.

He released the Magic Spirit to rush into it. After waiting for a moment, after the Magic Spirit endured the strangulation of heavy mechanisms, it finally arrived in an independent space. He could perceive that it wasn't large. Confirming this, Su Xiao swapped positions with the Magic Spirit.

The scene before his eyes changed; Su Xiao had already arrived inside the Law-Breaker Treasury. Looking around, the rows of shelves were empty, with only one storage box on the innermost side still intact. He walked forward and opened it.

【You have obtained Awakening Stone ×1.】

【You have obtained Primordial Finger Bone ×1.】

【You have obtained Scarlet · Awakening Stone (Manufactured by the Law-Breaker Faction, special awakening stone).】

【Scarlet · Awakening Stone】

Origin: Law-Breaker Faction · Eternal Light Monitor.

Effect: Can be used to awaken Scarlet Power (requires possessing a Scarlet Seed in the body).

Introduction: First open Scarlet, then start Darkness.

Seeing this item, Su Xiao guessed something, but the clues were too few now, and there were too many possible answers, so he didn't speculate on this situation for the time being.

Leaving the Law-Breaker Treasury through the Magic Spirit, and then putting away the Magic Spirit, Su Xiao set up a one-time Law-Breaker teleportation array. After standing on it, he looked at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja. The three of them shook their heads in unison.

Su Xiao looked at Amu, and the Winter War Bull immediately cowered and stood honestly on the teleportation array. He looked at Baja again; after a moment of internal struggle, Baja also stood on it. Then he looked at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Xiang Bubu's dog head suddenly lifted, and he began to whistle while looking up, then secretly glanced at Su Xiao. Discovering that Su Xiao's gaze was the kind that meant he was about to take out the custom-made slippers to beat him, Xiang Bubu hurriedly ran onto the teleportation array.

Through repeated training, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Bernie had all adapted to the Law-Breaker teleportation array to a certain extent, at least not suffering severe injuries after teleportation.

Boom!

The teleportation array activated. The next instant, they had arrived at the Black Iron City's manufacturing plant. After returning to the safe area, Su Xiao didn't rest but set off alone to the location agreed upon with the Anonymous to buy titles.

One hour later, inside the Black Iron Coin Exchange—this place was the safest place in Black Iron City. Given Su Xiao's friendship with the Mechanical Manufacturer, even for the sake of the other party's face, no one would make a move here.

Su Xiao sat on a bench waiting, drinking a local beverage that looked like lemon soda. It had to be said, Black Iron City's drink packaging was quite good; it actually had a thick straw and was an iced drink.

Just then, a figure wearing a khaki long coat and a hood arrived. This attire had a function to conceal the face, making it impossible for others to see the face under the hood.

"H-hello, I am the Anonymous who came to trade titles with you."

The person arriving was somewhat nervous for some reason. Seeing this, Su Xiao took a sip of the iced drink and asked: "You look very nervous. Could it be that you've arranged for teammates to ambush me?"

"How could that be! I... I am because of your reputation outside, it's a bit... fierce."

The Anonymous chose a word that was as euphemistic as possible: fierce, to describe Su Xiao's reputation outside.

"No need to mind those; it's just slander from enemies."

Su Xiao took out 1200 ounces of Space-Time Power and handed the packaging container together to the Anonymous opposite. Receiving the 1200 ounces of Space-Time Power, the Anonymous couldn't help but be a bit excited, but she quickly took out an exquisite wooden box. After opening it, inside were 12 non-attribute titles. She then closed the wooden box and handed it to Su Xiao.

Confirming there was no problem with the titles, Su Xiao said: "If there are more titles later, remember to contact me. It will still be this price."

"Okay!"

The Anonymous relaxed quite a bit, and her tone became a bit more joyful. She turned and walked toward the outside of the Black Iron Coin Exchange Hall.

"Aiduoer."

"Hmm?"

Almost at the door, the Anonymous, who was in a great mood, paused her steps. As she made a move to turn her head to look in the direction of someone calling her, suddenly, the body of the Anonymous—that is, Aiduoer—stiffened, and then, without looking back, she ran out of the Black Iron Coin Exchange Hall.

Watching Aiduoer run away, Su Xiao finished the cold drink in his hand and then threw the empty cup into a trash can a few meters away. He had vaguely felt earlier that this person's aura was a bit familiar, but because of the interference of concealment equipment, he hadn't been able to judge it for a moment. Finally, he chose to probe, and it actually succeeded.

This actually wasn't worth being surprised about. Aiduoer was a healing-type from Apocalypse Paradise. Given the atmosphere of Apocalypse Paradise Contractors, every time they formed a team, the healing-type was always a key protected team member. However, Aiduoer's healing-type ability was powerful without a doubt.

Leaving the Black Iron Coin Exchange Hall, Su Xiao returned to the manufacturing plant. Just after returning and walking into the inner hall, he discovered the Dark Eater staring at the Priest beside the round table as if facing a great enemy.

"Bai Ye, you're back! This guy actually came to the door himself; he simply doesn't put you in his eyes. Let's join forces and deal with him. Priest, you..."

The more the Dark Eater spoke, the more refreshed he felt. A smile was already beginning to bloom on his fair, cracked little face.

"We are teammates now."

Su Xiao spoke in a flat tone.

"Huh?"

The Dark Eater's subsequent words suddenly jammed; for a moment, he didn't even react.

Su Xiao, the Priest, Wood, Zui Yasi, and Caesar sat around the round table. Su Xiao was the first to ask:

"Who is participating in this round to deal with the Astral Devourer?"

Hearing this, the Priest raised his hand, and Caesar smirked. Caesar would definitely participate in something with benefits.

"The Astral Devourer took away quite a few Monarch treasures."

Zui Yasi also expressed his stance.

"Since that's the case, if we seize that treasure, you, Wood, and Caesar will split it equally."

Su Xiao's words received unanimous agreement. He was killing the Astral Devourer because of the mission, the Priest because of the cooperation content + seizing the Astral Devourer's origin power, and Zui Yasi, Wood, and Caesar because of the Monarch treasure that the Astral Devourer had taken away.

The content of the plan remained unchanged; it was still to let the Scarlet Eldest Son go to the Sanctuary City and then attract the Astral Devourer's attention. It was just that this time, with the assistance of the Priest, the Lightless Temple's Temple High Priest, things would be much easier to handle.

At this moment, the Astral Devourer, who was recuperating in the Sanctuary City, didn't know that the "good teammate" group of five—Su Xiao, the Priest, Zui Yasi, Wood, and Caesar—had already set their sights on it. ===== CHAPTER 3769 =====