Chapter 3769: Limit

After the plan was settled, the Priest left first. He couldn't leave the Sanctuary City for too long; that side had just been heavily damaged by the Scarlet Faction, and the Priest urgently needed to return to stabilize the situation.

Zui Yasi and Wood also left one after another. One of them was preparing various necessary tools, and the other was responsible for disguising the scene, such as Caesar's residence in the plan and the memories of the surrounding neighbors.

This was one of Wood's two core means as a trickster. His strongest ability was to transform enemies or matter from three-dimensional to two-dimensional. His remaining ability was a contract-type ability, which had two branches: contract signing and contract memory.

This ability wasn't a crude tampering with memories, but rather first extracting the subject's memory, then cutting off the segment that needed to be modified, forming a contract memory paper with it, and replacing that segment of memory with the contract memory paper on which information had been written.

For example, if the subject's original memory was that they had eaten a sumptuous lunch today, then writing "Neighbor, Caesar" on the contract memory paper and placing this contract memory paper back into the blank area of the subject's cut memory would cause the other party's memory to automatically perfect itself into: "Today I had a sumptuous lunch and met my old neighbor of many years, Caesar."

It wasn't just Su Xiao who had new abilities; other "good teammates" also mastered various means. Therefore, even though Su Xiao's strength improvement speed was fast, when cooperating with "good teammates," he still wouldn't feel that the "good teammates'" abilities couldn't keep up. On the contrary, the abilities of these "good teammates" often made people feel deeply surprised.

Su Xiao checked the map on the terminal. At this time, a red dot was moving on it, which represented the Scarlet Eldest Son.

The flow of the plan wasn't complicated. The Scarlet Eldest Son went to the Sanctuary City. He had luckily survived from the Nightmare Blood Shadow's hands before. Although his injuries had healed by 60% or 70%, he still carried the unique aura of the nightmare on him.

The moment the Scarlet Eldest Son arrived at the Sanctuary City, he might be detected by the Astral Devourer who was recuperating. Even if it couldn't detect him, the Priest would help the other party detect him. Subsequent things would be easy to handle.

The Astral Devourer didn't have subordinates in the Lightless Temple. The Priest and the priests further below were actually subordinates of the Lord of Eternal Darkness. Under these circumstances, the Astral Devourer had only two choices: go find the Scarlet Eldest Son personally, or find a relatively trustworthy person to drag the Scarlet Eldest Son out.

This candidate was nine times out of ten the Priest. Even if it wasn't the Priest, it didn't matter. If the Astral Devourer really had a trusted subordinate, then it was Zui Yasi's turn to appear. The Marrow-Parasitic Worm was enough to deal with this situation; this thing changed cognition, which was to manipulate the subconscious.

The famous doctor who cured the Scarlet Eldest Son was naturally disguised by Caesar. Subsequent steps would be Caesar helping the Astral Devourer with treatment.

The initial stage of this plan didn't require Su Xiao to appear. He came to a Law-Breaker teleportation array in the basement of the manufacturing plant; this teleportation array corresponded to the Mother Nest side.

With a boom, the teleportation array activated. When the space mist disappeared, the scent of soil after rain from the Mother Nest drifted into his nostrils. Although most of the insect nest's organs were covered in mucus, it was surprisingly clean. While not breeding bacteria, the cell fluid wouldn't easily rot or deteriorate.

Arriving at Jila's sleeping nest, just after walking in, Su Xiao discovered that Jila was actually tinkering with something intently at the preparation table he had used before. Seeing this scene, he felt quite surprised; he didn't expect Jila to start researching pharmacology.

Walking closer to look, Jila happened to turn off the constant-temperature flame, then skillfully flipped the potato chips just fried in the filter container, letting the seasoning be evenly distributed on each potato chip. Picking one up, after crunching down on a piece to taste it, Jila ate the whole piece with satisfaction.

"..."

Su Xiao glanced at the pharmacology books on the side. Clearly, Jila wasn't interested in pharmacology.

A moment later, after Su Xiao finished listening to the report from the leader-level Demon Beast Abaddon about the situation in the past few days, he learned that the situation in the Wild Overgrowth Land wasn't stable, and the World-Extinguishing-level entities here often fought each other.

Besides this, the Silver Queen insect nest located underground had mined a total of 108 units of Life Ore. Their own Mother Nest absorbed it, which could obtain a total of 1.08 million points of biological energy.

It seemed like a lot, but if they bred Demon Flame Dragons, they could only breed 36,000. In other worlds, this was a number of Demon Flame Dragons that could be invincible and flatten everything, but in this world, this number of Demon Flame Dragons really couldn't be considered particularly formidable.

Therefore, relying on the Silver Queen to mine for biological energy could only serve as startup capital. To truly develop the scale and level of the Zerg, they had to fight against World-Extinguishing-level groups. The Demon Zerg was like this: the more they fought, the stronger they became.

How to choose an opponent was the key at the moment. According to the reconnaissance of their special Zerg unit, Shadow Hunting Teeth, the World-Extinguishing-level groups in the Wild Overgrowth Land could be divided into three levels.

First was the Calamity level. This level was very terrifying in the outside world, but in the Eternal Light World, this was the weakest level of World-Extinguishing-level groups, so it was named the third echelon.

Representative groups of the third echelon were: Corrosive Insects, Undead Descendants, Moon Snake Tribe, Alien Demons, Blood-Thirsty Tribe, Mad Blood Hounds, Filthy Giant Tribe, Cursed Tribe, Sea Demon Tribe, etc.

The third echelon had the most groups, and the strength gap was very large. Over 90% of them were exiled to this place by people who inherited the Moon Wolf secret technique, and few were done by the previous generation of Law-Breakers. Among those imprisoned here by the previous generation of Law-Breakers, only the Mad Blood Hounds were.

Although the Mad Blood Hounds were only a third-echelon World-Extinguishing-level group, they were very difficult to deal with. As long as resources were sufficient, these Mad Blood Hounds could split rapidly. And when attacking them, if they were slashed into two halves, the Mad Blood Hounds slashed into two segments would rapidly regenerate into two combined bodies, thus appearing to increase the more they were fought.

Stronger than the Calamity level was the Destruction level. World-Extinguishing-level groups of this level could not be underestimated. Not only were they difficult to eliminate, but the cost of sealing them was also extremely high. This was the second echelon among World-Extinguishing-level groups.

Representative groups of the second echelon were: Star-Parasitic Crabs, Wild Overgrowth Tribe, Deep Sea Evil Spirits (all Deep Sea Evil Spirits were located in the Sea of Sand).

Above the second echelon was the strongest, the World-Boring level. This was the first echelon.

There was only one group of the first echelon in this world: World-Boring.

The reason the World-Boring was so terrifying was that it had evolved the characteristic of being able to devour extreme natural elements. The result of this was that the World-Boring group not only became more powerful, but its upper limit also had a great improvement.

As far as the current situation was concerned, in the entire Wild Overgrowth Land, no group dared to wake the World-Boring in its dormant period, even knowing that the World-Boring would eventually wake up. Once it woke up, there would be a catastrophe in this place.

There were quite a few enemies in the Wild Overgrowth Land. Su Xiao prepared to first let Jila find an opponent from the third echelon, not only to test the enemy's strength and their own combat power, but also to let the bacterial carpet absorb soul energy, thereby converting it into evolution points through the Mother Nest.

The Demon Zerg's current group level was Lv. 95. To reach the level of clashing with the World-Boring, they had to raise the group level to Lv. 100, thereby awakening the Zerg's strongest ultimate-level ability.

Raising the group level from Lv. 95 to Lv. 100 required a full 2100 evolution points. Even if they wiped out all the third-echelon World-Extinguishing-level groups in this world, it wouldn't be enough. Only on this basis, by defeating about two second-echelon World-Extinguishing-level groups, would it be possible.

Besides this, there was another very important thing. In the previous world progress, Su Xiao used a large number of evolution points to raise the Demon Zerg's group level from Lv. 70 to Lv. 95. After entering this world and Jila established a complete Mother Nest, this level improvement also brought another benefit: in the Mother Nest, there was a special energy that could permanently strengthen Zerg units.

This special energy could be called reinforcement points, and its function was to raise the strength upper limit of Zerg units such as Demon Beasts, Demon Flame Dragons, and Titan Beasts. Calculated in standard units, the special energy currently stored in the Mother Nest totaled 25 reinforcement points, which meant that for every 1 level of group level raised, 1 reinforcement point was obtained.

When in the Wind Sea Continent, their Mother Nest was neither complete nor able to breed troops, so this potential couldn't be awakened. The 25 reinforcement points obtained now could be considered extremely precious. This thing was different from evolution points; only 5 more points could be obtained later, so which Zerg unit to add points to required extreme caution.

Su Xiao looked at Jila, who was sitting on an elite Demon Beast, shaking her little legs and eating potato chips. He decided not to seek the opinion of this Zerg Queen. If she got angry after hearing it, this wasn't when Jila was little, where he could beat her if she didn't listen. Currently, leader-level Demon Beasts, leader-level Worker Scorpions, and leader-level Shadow Hunting Teeth were all standing by on the side.

With a total of 25 reinforcement points, Su Xiao invested 2 points into Demon Beasts, 3 points into Titan Beasts, and the remaining 20 points were all invested into Demon Flame Dragons.

After this improvement started, the special energy in the Mother Nest merged into the egg-hatching tissue, starting to strengthen the initial genes of Demon Beasts, Demon Flame Dragons, and Titan Beasts.

The reason for investing so much into Demon Flame Dragons was that this Zerg unit could fight, could resist, and could fly. Dragon Flame ensured large-scale lethality and was the best means to deal with World-Extinguishing-level groups, especially when dealing with Star-Parasitic Crabs and World-Boring; perhaps it would all depend on Dragon Flame.

The improvement took a total of more than 6 hours to complete. Su Xiao opened the Mother Nest list to check and discovered that the breeding costs for Demon Beasts, Demon Flame Dragons, and Titan Beasts had all shown significant changes.

Elite Worker Scorpion: 1 point of biological energy can breed 2000.

Brutal Turret: 200 points of biological energy per unit.

Elite Demon Beast: 8 points of biological energy each (originally 4 points each).

Shadow Hunting Teeth: 150 points of biological energy each.

Demon Flame Dragon: 600 points of biological energy each (originally 30 points each).

Titan Beast: 3000 points of biological energy each (originally 1000 points each).

The consumption quantity of biological energy could directly express the ability of a Zerg unit. Combat-type Zergs were more expensive and stronger, while functional Zergs were more expensive and had higher ability judgments. For example, Shadow Hunting Teeth—this thing would always maintain an invisible state. The stronger the initial gene, the higher the invisibility judgment.

Su Xiao let Jila use the existing 1.08 million points of biological energy to breed 1800 Demon Flame Dragons through the Mother Nest, and then used these Demon Flame Dragons to wage war against the third-echelon World-Extinguishing-level group, the Moon Snake Tribe.

Su Xiao's task for Jila was to first defeat the Moon Snake Tribe in the adjacent territory. After wiping out this enemy, then it would be the Corrosive Insects, then the Blood-Thirsty Tribe, then the Cursed Tribe, then the Sea Demon Tribe, and finally the Alien Demons.

A total of six World-Extinguishing-level groups. Only when Jila wiped out all these enemies could it be considered reaching the passing level. Subsequent steps would be to deal with the more thorny third-echelon World-Extinguishing-level groups.

For this level of clash, Su Xiao prepared to let Jila deal with it alone, not even providing the effect of the War Lord title. If the Demon Zerg had grown to the current level and still couldn't deal with the third-echelon World-Extinguishing-level groups, then even with the title bonus later, they wouldn't be able to deal with the second-stage World-Extinguishing-level groups, let alone deal with the World-Boring.

After arranging these, Su Xiao left the Mother Nest via the teleportation array and returned to the manufacturing plant in Black Iron City. Not long after, he received a prompt that he had obtained 0.12 points of World Reputation. This was Jila having already started dealing with the Moon Snake Tribe.

The reputation obtained from killing one Moon Snake Tribe member was very little, but it accumulated over time. As for whether they would miss the dropped treasure chest, Su Xiao wasn't worried about this. Sometimes killing a small boss wouldn't drop a treasure chest, let alone dealing with small monsters in a World-Extinguishing-level group.

Su Xiao activated the Hunter Brand and then prepared to open the title list. But the next second, the reputation acquisition before his eyes started to refresh the screen continuously. After searching for a moment, he shielded the reputation acquisition prompt.

Just now, he bought 12 non-attribute nine-star titles from Aiduoer. This made one wonder how much World Reputation Aiduoer had obtained to open so many titles and synthesize more than a dozen nine-star titles.

Of course, there was another possibility: when Aiduoer opened title treasure chests, she often got six-star, seven-star, or even eight-star treasure chests. Calculated this way, it seemed she didn't need too much World Reputation.

It wasn't that this possibility didn't exist. Su Xiao vaguely remembered that when in the Tree-Born World, Aiduoer said in person: "Isn't it normal to open an Immortal-level equipment from a Holy Spirit-level treasure chest?"

Epic-level < Holy Spirit-level < Immortal-level < Origin-level.

Regarding Aiduoer's statement, Su Xiao didn't agree. His experience all along was that it was normal to open Epic-level equipment from a Holy Spirit-level treasure chest.

Opening the title list, Su Xiao inlaid the nine-star title 【Deep Blue Shadow】 in the center of the Title Burning Disk. Then five empty grooves appeared around it. He took out 5 nine-star titles. After a few crisp sounds of ding-ding-ding, the five sub-title slots were filled.

【Yes/No to perform this extreme burning.】

【All nine-star titles can be extremely burned at most 5 times.】

【Remaining extreme burning times: 5/5 times.】

【This is the first extreme burning, success rate is: 100%.】

Su Xiao chose to burn. The high temperature released by the Title Burning Disk made him subconsciously block his left hand in front of him and tilt his head slightly. Because the front was becoming increasingly scorching, he controlled the burning disk to be further away from himself.

Observing the Title Burning Disk again at this time, one would find that it was covered with magma patterns. The 【Deep Blue Shadow】 title in the center was completely glowing red, and the title energy of the 5 sub-titles around it was constantly being extracted and gathered onto the 【Deep Blue Shadow】 title.

Su Xiao sat in meditation. A few hours later, he felt the fluctuation of the Title Burning Disk in front of him start to become intense. Opening his eyes, he discovered that the title on the burning disk was releasing a deep blue brilliance.

With a muffled boom, a fluctuation spread from the Title Burning Disk as the starting point. The blue brilliance scattered and then gradually dissipated in the air. Looking at the Title Burning Disk again at this time, the disk had already cooled down.

Su Xiao controlled the Title Burning Disk to pull closer and peeled off 【Deep Blue Shadow】 from it.

【Deep Blue Shadow (Nine-Star Title) has completed this burning.】

【You have achieved the title achievement: Pursuing the Ultimate.】

【You will receive the following achievement rewards.】

1. Miracle (One-Star Title).

2. Reincarnation Paradise · Title Burning Disk permanent free usage permission.

3. Strange Crystal (Title gain-type item).

Performing extreme burning actually had achievement rewards; this was something Su Xiao hadn't expected. The judgment triggering of achievement types was generally related to the Charm attribute. With his "high" Charm attribute of -21 points, it was strange that it could be triggered. However, after a little thought, he thought of one point: this achievement belonged to the kind that would be 100% triggered as long as the conditions were met.

Su Xiao checked the 【Miracle】 title, and the attributes were as follows:

【Miracle (Fat-Sealed)】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise.

Quality: ★

Category: Title (Fat-Sealed, unusable state)

Title Effect 1: Nurture (Passive), can use this title to temporarily wrap any already held title and nurture it, giving the current star level of this title to the wrapped title.

Prompt: After activating this ability, this title will be consumed.

Title Effect 2: Miracle (Passive), due to the characteristics of this title, this title can be burned and improved without limit until it reaches a nine-star title.

Prompt: This title cannot be extremely burned, otherwise it will immediately shatter.

Price: Free trade state.

The 【Miracle】 title's effect was quite good. If this title was raised to nine stars, he could choose any title and, at the cost of consuming the 【Miracle】 title, raise it to nine stars.

Compared to this, a more precious point of the 【Miracle】 title was that this title could be traded. Did this mean Su Xiao could trade this title to Aiduoer and, while paying Space-Time Power, let the other party help raise it to nine stars, and then trade it back?

It should be known that the difficulty of raising titles for him and Aiduoer was completely different. He needed 488,280 points of World Reputation to raise this title to nine stars. Conversely, if he paid Aiduoer 200–300 ounces of Space-Time Power, the other party could help raise it to nine stars. After all, it was custom-made, so it was definitely more expensive than buying a nine-star non-attribute title directly.

Su Xiao chose to contact Aiduoer.

Bai Ye: "Aiduoer, have a business, taking it?"

Anonymous: "Big Brother Bai Ye, you recognized the wrong person, I am not Aiduoer."

Bai Ye: "Is that so? Then let's meet and talk."

Anonymous: "I am not in Black Iron City, I have already left."

Bai Ye: "The third floor of the hotel on 4th Street, the second room after the corner."

Anonymous: "w(? Д?)w"

Bai Ye: "Meet and talk."

Aiduoer: "L-let's talk like this."

Bai Ye: "【Miracle (One-Star Title)】, raise this thing to nine stars, name a price."

Aiduoer: "Eh~, isn't this the achievement reward for the first 'extreme burning'? Bai Ye, you actually managed to hold back until now to use it. When I was at the peak of the eighth stage, I couldn't help but use this title."

Seeing this message, Su Xiao didn't know how to reply for a moment. A few seconds later, he replied:

Bai Ye: "Less nonsense, name a price."

Aiduoer: "260 ounces of Space-Time Power?"

Bai Ye: "Deal, come over to take the title."

Aiduoer: "Okay, but... who else is on your side? If you don't mind, can you tell me? After all, those Contractors qualified to cooperate with you won't all be like you, who will keep their promises as long as the transaction is sincere. My combat power isn't great even in a ninth-stage world. Being inexplicably teleported to the Eternal Light World, I really can't even beat the small monsters outside the city. Before, I joined a squad. Dozens of us joined forces to kill a super big boss, and it turned out that was a normal unit in the Void Tree's judgment—a small monster. That was actually a small monster!! We fought for more than two hours!!"

It could be seen that being teleported to the Eternal Light World, Aiduoer's heart was broken. However, the Void Tree wouldn't teleport her to a place of certain death; her initial location was Black Iron City.

As for Aiduoer asking who Su Xiao was cooperating with, this was understandable. The other party was worried about being targeted by his teammates after coming to Su Xiao's location and then being killed to drop a Scarlet Card. In fact, this was implicitly asking whether they could go to her side to trade.

Su Xiao took out 【Miracle】 and handed it to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, letting Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang go to Aiduoer's side. He continued to check the rewards given for completing the achievement just now.

The second type of reward was quite practical: permanent free usage permission for Reincarnation Paradise's Title Burning Disk. And the third type of reward, 【Strange Crystal】, was a bit special.

【Strange Crystal】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise.

Effect: Used on any already held title, there is a 1% probability of raising that title to a nine-star title.

Introduction: Is good luck perhaps in the next moment?

Price: Untradable (this characteristic of this item has absolute priority).

Su Xiao looked at the fist-sized seven-colored crystal in his hand and only felt that this was a strange piece of trash. A 1% probability of raising a title to nine stars was really too low. And finding Caesar to operate it was even more impossible.

In the item introduction, there was the phrase "this item has priority," representing that the operation difficulty was extremely high. And having the phrase "this item has high priority" meant there was almost no room for operation. As for having the phrase "this item has absolute priority," Caesar wouldn't even try to operate it; there was no room for operation.

Closing the prompt, Su Xiao checked the 【Deep Blue Shadow】 title that had completed the improvement.

【Deep Blue Shadow】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: ★★★★★★★★★

Extreme Burning: Once.

Category: Title · Highly Rare.

Title Effect 1: Adaptive Power (Passive), all damage tiers +2.

Title Effect 2: Deep Blue (Core · Passive), your body speed is improved by 43.7% overall (this bonus is boosted by the Hunter's own True Agility attribute, which is a base bonus of 20% + True Agility attribute × 6%; this improvement has high priority).

Title Effect 3: Wrath Shadow (Core · Passive), when confronting World-Extinguishing-level entities and Abyss-type enemies, will deal an additional 20% true damage (improved by 10%).

Introduction: This is the Wrath-Killing Shadow in the deep blue.

Price: Cannot be sold.

It was only the first "extreme burning," but the strength of the 【Deep Blue Shadow】 title had doubled. He activated the burning disk and inlaid 【Deep Blue Shadow】 on it again, then placed 5 nine-star non-attribute titles around it. A prompt appeared.

【Yes/No to perform this extreme burning.】

【Remaining extreme burning times: 4/5 times.】

【This is the second extreme burning, success rate is: 80%.】

Su Xiao decisively chose to give up and peeled all the titles off the burning disk. Without 100% certainty of success, he wouldn't try.

Wearing 【Deep Blue Shadow】, Su Xiao felt the power of this title gradually spread to his body surface, and then boosted to his limbs and bones.

Just then, news came from Caesar's side that the first half of the plan had succeeded. The Priest had already brought Caesar into the Sanctuary City. In a little while, he would be able to see the Astral Devourer.

Regarding how to deal with the Astral Devourer, it naturally wasn't like dealing with the Progenitor, teleporting it away. The key to dealing with the Astral Devourer lay in the potion the other party was about to drink.

That potion was prepared by Su Xiao and was a fine product among healing potions. It was just that during the preparation of this potion, Su Xiao added some liquefied Black Maple Tree branches. The reason for paying such a cost was for the absolute conductivity and astonishing stability produced by the Black Maple Tree.

Before being added to the potion preparation, these liquid Black Maple Tree products had already been stabilized into a small-sized technique. The function of this technique was that after restoration, it was a space node.

After being added to the potion, these liquid Black Maple Tree products were very stable. Furthermore, with Su Xiao's level of pharmacology, these Black Maple Tree products were almost completely dissolved in the potion, provided that the potion wasn't digested.

It wasn't that Su Xiao looked down on the Astral Devourer; with the other party's understanding of pharmacology, the probability of seeing that there was a problem with the potion was minimal. As for letting others drink it first, the potion had no toxicity. Moreover, without the Astral Devourer's powerful physique, others simply couldn't digest this custom-made potion.

When the Astral Devourer drank this potion and started to digest it, this digestion process would immediately cause the liquid Black Maple Tree in the potion to separate and cling to the inside of the Astral Devourer's stomach.

This wasn't any dangerous technique; it was just a space node, and it required Caesar to trigger it with corresponding instruments nearby to have this effect. Finally, it could only last for a few seconds.

Su Xiao's plan was to take advantage of these few seconds, use that space node as a coordinate, and through the Law-Breaker teleportation array, teleport the "Book of Original Sin" into the Astral Devourer's stomach. He didn't believe that this World-Extinguishing-level entity could withstand the "Book of Original Sin." ===== CHAPTER 3770 =====