Chapter 3792: Delicacy

In Xia's restaurant, in the lounge.

At this moment, Xia was standing blankly by the door, watching Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny setting up various equipment. Those precise and huge pieces of equipment made her even more confused. Weren't they going to the Gluttony Castle in the Nether Land to attend a banquet? And then reverse-engineer the recipe by tasting the food?

"Where are we going?"

Xia asked with a puzzled look, but because Su Xiao was debugging precision equipment and she couldn't understand Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog language, only Baja could answer: "Going to attend the banquet. By the way, why are you wearing banquet attire?"

"When attending a banquet, shouldn't one wear banquet attire?"

Xia was even more confused. Baja had a wicked smile on its face and said: "Xia, just by tasting, what are your chances of reverse-engineering the Duchess's strongest recipe?"

The Duchess Baja mentioned was actually the owner of the Gluttony Castle, and her husband, the Duke of Gluttony, had long been killed by her.

"Maybe, 10%?"

Xia was a bit uncertain. In fact, she underestimated herself. Having cooked various high-level ingredients, she had at least a 20% probability of deducing 80% of the recipe for that delicacy.

"So we need to change the method. If you could witness the Duchess cooking with your own eyes, what are your chances of getting the recipe?"

"That shouldn't be a problem, but how am I supposed to see the Duchess cooking? For that level of delicacy, the Duchess will definitely do her best to keep it secret while cooking."

"You don't need to worry about that. We are quite professional. Put this thing on your eyeballs."

Baja threw out a small box. After Xia opened it, she found two things similar to colored contact lenses inside. After she put them on her eyes using auxiliary tools, a Q-version dog appeared in front of her eyes, running through heavy obstacles.

"This is..."

"What is this?"

Baja hurriedly asked. It knew nothing about the technology side, so it was particularly vigilant. After hearing Xia's description, it looked at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and found that Xiang Bubu was slacking off, hiding under the equipment playing games. What Xia saw was actually the screen shared by the goggles Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was wearing.

Having known each other for so long, Xia naturally knew some of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's abilities. The current situation made her suddenly enlightened. As long as Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was in the Duchess's kitchen, she could witness the Duchess cooking throughout the process through the images transmitted back by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang.

"So that's how it is. Then I should wear banquet attire and attend the banquet, otherwise, wouldn't it be very suspicious in the Gluttony Castle?"

Xia asked her doubts, but half an hour later, she was no longer confused.

Da da da~

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang used a pneumatic device to fix the defensive mecha on Xia's body, making Xia swallow her saliva a little nervously. This banquet looked very hardcore.

"Am I supposed to wear this to attend the banquet? Although it looks handsome with a mecha style, isn't it... not quite suitable for the occasion?"

Hearing Xia's words, Baja explained: "Of course not wearing this, that would be too suspicious. This is a crash-landing buffer armor, to ensure your life safety."

"Li... life safety?"

Xia was even more confused. This banquet didn't look simple at all. However, she then thought of something and asked: "Isn't the Gluttony Castle a neutral area? Can there be danger in a neutral area?"

"Um~, this danger, its source is relatively... unique, um, let's call it unique. But you must rest assured, we invited you to attend the banquet, we definitely won't let you die."

"?"

Xia was completely bewildered. It would have been better if Baja hadn't spoken; after this comfort, she felt even more panicked.

Seeing this, Baja explained: "Actually, it's just the way we teleport over, it's relatively... forceful."

"So it's teleportation turbulence. You scared me to death. I thought I would encounter enemies. If I drag you down then, it would be too embarrassing."

"No, definitely not. All risks are entirely in the teleportation aspect."

"If that's the case, then I'm not worried."

Xia's face was full of smiles, but a moment later, the smile on her face became increasingly strained because she was currently under the protection of three layers of defensive mecha. By this time, she completely realized the severity of the matter, but for that top-tier recipe, she decided to take this risk.

Thump thump!

Su Xiao knocked on the outside of the armor. Xia inside nodded. Seeing that Xia had realized the risk and hadn't backed down, Su Xiao knew that this setup hadn't been in vain. As a collaborator, Xia was still reliable.

Su Xiao took out two 【Banquet Invitations】. These two invitations were not only proof of entry to the Gluttony Castle but also a means of teleportation. As long as you activate these invitations, you can teleport over by relying on the teleportation spell on them.

When he first obtained these two 【Banquet Invitations】, Su Xiao's plan was to take the cooking master Xia to the Gluttony Castle, let her deduce the recipe by tasting the food, and just attend the banquet normally.

But after learning that the Duchess, the owner of the Gluttony Castle, was an honored guest of the Arcane Eternal Star and had a close relationship with the high-level officials of the Arcane Eternal Star, various operational methods gradually came to mind.

"My dear friend, I'm not late, am I?"

Caesar suddenly appeared. That's right, one of the members going to the Gluttony Castle this time included Caesar. How to make the enemy wear a sufficiently vivid mask of pain in a neutral area where you can't attack? That must be Caesar's job.

Su Xiao flipped open a 【Banquet Invitation】, pointed his index finger at the space mark on the invitation, and the Proud Song crystal layer spread out, enveloping the mark, and then peeled it off.

Hum~

The peeled-off space mark emitted a slight humming sound. Su Xiao inlaid it into a piece of equipment and cracked its specified coordinates through this space mark.

Click, click~

One by one, the space lock dials on the equipment rotated, starting from the first one, locking one by one onto fixed space coordinates. When more than 90% of the space lock dials were locked, this peeled-off space coordinate was damaged.

Su Xiao took out another 【Banquet Invitation】, again peeled off the space mark on it, and used this mark to determine the remaining few space coordinates.

With a crisp click, more than a dozen space lock dials connected, resulting in a space coordinate. Based on this space coordinate, Su Xiao set the space scale on the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array" he had set up. In this way, he didn't need to use the 【Banquet Invitation】 to teleport near the Gluttony Castle in the Nether Land.

After Su Xiao stood on the teleportation array, he took out a metal mask and put it on his face. Caesar on the side put the Abyss Jar on his head and also stood up. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's head shook like a rattle, but finally, after Su Xiao stared at it for three seconds, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang climbed onto the teleportation array hesitantly.

"Everyone get ready, especially Xia, take a deep breath."

While Baja was speaking, it began to gradually start the teleportation array.

"Ah? What?"

Xia's voice came through. Because it was separated by several layers of defensive armor, the voice was very low.

Boom!!

After a muffled sound, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Caesar, and Xia all disappeared on the teleportation array.

The surrounding space crystal fragments gradually dissolved into the air. After ordinary space teleportation, space mist usually appears, but the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array" is relatively unique. What appears are space crystal fragments, and they are space crystal fragments that gradually float upward and slowly dissipate, looking beautiful.

Alas, Xia had no mood to appreciate this beautiful scenery. She walked out of the opened defensive mecha tremblingly, only to see her supporting the side cabin of the defensive mecha with one hand, and then bowing.

"Ugh~"

Xia had previously maintained some lady-like style, but at this moment, she couldn't care about it at all. The luxurious banquet hall, soothing music, and other diners chatting and laughing that she had imagined were not seen at all. Instead, she had personally experienced the extremely hardcore teleportation, and Xia also received a notification.

【Notification: Your space resistance has permanently increased by 62 points.】

Seeing this notification, Xia was stunned. Her original space resistance was only 8 points. Now it suddenly soared by 62 points. She was happy because of this unexpected gain, but also had lingering fears because of the experience just now.

"Phew, this teleportation was quite smooth."

Caesar, who was hugging a lamppost to stand steady, spoke. Hearing this, Xia immediately suspected whether she had auditory hallucinations because the teleportation was too turbulent. That thrilling... no, it should be a horrifying experience, as if she were inside a space railgun, no matter how you look at it, it couldn't be considered smooth.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, lying on the lawn nearby, agreed with Caesar's words. This teleportation was indeed quite smooth.

Su Xiao looked around and found that this was a small city. Further away was the dark green Nether Mist, which enveloped this small city. Therefore, to reach this Nether Land, one could only pass through the teleportation array.

Following the street, Su Xiao and his party entered the downtown area of the small city. All kinds of shops were available here, and there was even a jewelry store that used Soul Coins as currency. The storefront was not big, but it had several Origin-level gemstones as a display.

There were no vehicles on the street. After arriving at the central area of the small city, the Gluttony Castle appeared in front. This manor occupied half the area of the small city.

The scenery in the manor was pleasant, but the most conspicuous was the bloated castle located in the main position of the manor. This castle presented a dark red color, and the main entrance was a giant mouth, as if swallowing every diner who walked into it.

There were only two 【Banquet Invitations】, but that was enough. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang could blend into the environment. The tier of this ability was already surprisingly high. This time, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang used the "Follower Ascension Qualification." Besides the unique and powerful upgrade of "Basic Physical Defense Tier +1," only the ability to blend into the environment was upgraded.

Speaking of which, the "Follower Ascension Qualification" actually didn't include "Basic Physical Defense Tier +1," but Su Xiao ascended to the Supreme level with 11 Origin Fragments, and the "Follower Ascension Qualification" was actually the derivative benefit he obtained after ascending to the Supreme level.

This also meant that the degree to which he ascended to the Supreme level was directly related to the upgrade magnitude of the "Follower Ascension Qualification." And ascending to the Supreme level with 11 Origin Fragments was undoubtedly of high gold content. Therefore, the "Follower Ascension Qualification" of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny included "Basic Physical Defense Tier +1."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's upgrade this time, besides "Basic Physical Defense Tier +1," only its ability to blend into the environment was upgraded. Sometimes, a single type of upgrade is a good thing, as it brings a higher magnitude of upgrade.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang is just like that. It doesn't even know what tier its ability to blend into the environment has reached now. In the ability display, it has also become???.

The reason for this is related to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's initial positioning. Don't forget, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang is the Space-Tearing Hound Xiang Bubu Teni. Alas, its silly and ghost-fearing personality destined it not to develop in the direction of combat.

But as a follower, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's initial positioning was combat-type, but in reality, its various abilities were aura-type.

In ordinary judgments, this actually didn't matter, but the "Follower Ascension Qualification," as the biggest upgrade for every follower, must be a powerful and accurate upgrade based on its initial positioning.

As a result, the judgment became wonderful. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's combat power was limited to being able to beat Benny, but because Benny was in charge of money, it could only be forced to tie. May I ask, who dares to risk their pocket money?

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's weak combat power caused a problem with the "Follower Ascension Qualification" judgment. If Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang were upgraded to the lowest limit of a combat-type follower at the Supreme level, this upgrade magnitude would exceed the maximum value of the permission. But in terms of aura, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's initial positioning wasn't aura-type. The name "Space-Tearing Hound" wasn't just for show.

Therefore, in a series of judgments, only the ability to blend into the environment matched Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's initial positioning. This led to all of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's upgrade magnitude this time being poured into the ability to blend into the environment, allowing this ability to reach an unprecedented level.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang blended into the environment, and Caesar on the side naturally had a way to enter the Gluttony Castle.

Su Xiao gave a 【Banquet Invitation】 to Xia, which made Xia slightly puzzled, and she asked: "Aren't we going to the banquet together?"

"Too many enemies."

Hearing this, Xia understood. She had previously wondered why Su Xiao put on a metal mask before coming to the Nether Land. After taking the 【Banquet Invitation】, Xia walked into the manor alone.

The owner of the Gluttony Castle, the Duchess, would invite 20 guests each time. Su Xiao invited Xia to come to the Gluttony Castle to get the recipe this time, so he naturally had to consider whether there were any enemies among the other 18 diners. Although he didn't have many enemies, each one was stronger than the last. It would be truly inappropriate to implicate a friend due to this negligence.

Su Xiao walked toward a shop on the side. After opening the door naturally with the Eye of Mystery, he walked in, took out a terminal, and after conquering the puzzle game that Pi Fat helped specifically upgrade, his eyes narrowed slightly. The difficulty of this puzzle game was truly astonishing.

An hour passed quietly. Su Xiao took off the metal mask, and his aura recovered. This thing was a gift from the leader, capable of disguising aura and clothing, quite useful. However, it had many usage restrictions and was a very peculiar piece of equipment.

After leaving the shop and locking the door, Su Xiao walked toward the Gluttony Castle alone. After showing the invitation, he entered the manor gate. But when he passed through the winding path and arrived at the main entrance of the castle, he was blocked by several guards who were facing a great enemy. But after a while, an old butler hurried over.

"Mr. Bai Ye, please come in."

The old butler with graying temples was exceptionally enthusiastic, welcoming Su Xiao into the castle. It seemed so, but in fact, after hearing that the Law-Extinguishing Shadow Bai Ye had come, the old butler broke out in a cold sweat. This was a god of slaughter visiting. The old butler didn't understand the gap in strength or anything else; he only knew one thing: this god of slaughter had made the Arcane Eternal Star pay a painful price and could still live well to this day, so he was definitely someone he couldn't afford to provoke.

Led by the old butler, Su Xiao arrived at a banquet hall illuminated by candlelight. A long table, 3 meters wide and 10 meters long, was located in the rectangular banquet hall, which neither appeared crowded nor, due to the dim candlelight, lacked a compact atmosphere.

Each diner's seat was about half a meter apart, making the atmosphere more harmonious. At this time, only one seat was empty, and Su Xiao sat down in this seat.

There were actually many channels to obtain 【Banquet Invitations】, so the owner of the Gluttony Castle didn't know exactly which diners would come, or rather, as long as the dozen or so 【Banquet Invitations】 released could be sold at a high price, the Duchess didn't care who came.

Su Xiao sat down. His neighbor was Xia, but because of Su Xiao's instructions before entering the Gluttony Castle, Xia acted as if she didn't know Su Xiao. It could be said that her acting was quite good, except that her gaze occasionally went blank, presumably because she was receiving the harvest of recipe +1, recipe +1, recipe +1 through the images transmitted by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang.

Su Xiao looked around at the diners and immediately saw several acquaintances. Opposite him was a person wearing a black bishop's robe, with pitch-black eyes covered in white rings, making one feel as if they had fallen into an abyss just by making eye contact, being enveloped by darkness and despair, and finally swallowed. That's right, it was the Abyss Archbishop.

At this moment, the Abyss Archbishop was also staring at Su Xiao. A trace of dark aura emanated from his left arm, which meant that this arm was unstable and gradually withering. He needed to change his left arm frequently, and this left arm couldn't use any Abyss-type abilities.

The Abyss Archbishop's entire left arm had been severed by Su Xiao with a single Soul-Severing slash. With the Abyss Archbishop's means, forming or regenerating a left arm was a very easy thing. But being severed by Soul-Severing wasn't just a simple matter of soul loss; flesh represents strength, soul symbolizes existence. The soul of the entire arm was severed, which also meant that the existence of this arm was gone.

Why do many people have grudges against Green Gillian but don't seek revenge on this female lunatic? The price of being severed by the ultimate Soul-Severing Shadow is too great, too great to bear.

"We meet again so soon."

The Abyss Archbishop spoke, without threats, let alone anger. At this strength tier, one wouldn't indulge in momentary verbal sparring, but the gaze that wanted Su Xiao to die immediately was undisguised.

However, Su Xiao had more than one enemy present. Serphilia, in the seat diagonally opposite, was also staring at Su Xiao at this moment. Green Wei, beside her, was looking around. If this wasn't Green Wei's own soul controlling her body, then Green Gillian's acting was truly too good.

In a seat further to the right, the Priest smiled and didn't speak. His 'old friend' had encountered enough enemies this time, so he wouldn't join in the fun, although he was also one of them.

Located in a seat further to the right was a tall god with public elk horns on his head. This god wore a cloak-like animal skin, and there were many scars on his face, neck, arms, and other positions. This was the fifth-ranked person on the Void Grudge Ranking, the Deer God. In his early years, the Deer God was either in a life-and-death battle with a strong enemy or on the way to a life-and-death battle. He was the face of the spirit system. In recent years, he had ascended to the Supreme level and rarely looked for strong people to fight.

The other diners should also have significant backgrounds, but Su Xiao didn't recognize them. It is worth mentioning that these diners seemed to know Su Xiao, which made him slightly puzzled. Besides making the Arcane Eternal Star lose the resource planet Fanmao Star, he didn't seem to have done any other major events in the Void that could make him famous.

However, Su Xiao overlooked one point, which was that he had cleared out all the World-Extinguishing existences and World-Extinguishing tribes in the Eternal Light World this time and restored the Eternal Light World to a world with normal rules. This matter had spread widely.

Ten minutes later, the first appetizer was served. Su Xiao picked up the tableware and tasted the sweet shrimp on the plate in front of him. It was a bit sweet and greasy at the entrance, but as he chewed, it slowly became clear and sweet, and finally sweet and delicious. It could only be said that the Gluttony Castle was still very high-level.

One delicious dish after another was served. As he tasted the delicious food, Su Xiao discovered that the delicacy that could improve the origin was actually not a single dish, but rather that one could only obtain this improvement by tasting one dish after another.

After tasting the last main course, Su Xiao felt refreshed throughout his body, but for some reason, a commotion came from outside, along with desperate roars.

The door of the banquet hall was pushed open, and the Duchess, dressed in chef attire with an imposing figure, walked into the banquet hall. She stopped beside Su Xiao's seat and said with eyes full of anger: "It's you."

"..."

Su Xiao put down his drink cup, seemingly unaware of what had happened.

"The one who brought the deceiver in must be you!"

The Duchess's eyes were splitting with anger. It seemed that the loss was relatively heavy. The reason she came to Su Xiao to settle accounts immediately was mainly a problem of faction hostility. If Su Xiao wasn't a potion master, the Duchess wouldn't mind poisoning Su Xiao's food. As for the persistence of a cooking master, before turning against her husband, the Duchess did have this character, but after killing her husband with her own hands, the bottom line of this cooking master plummeted.

"So, in this neutral area, how do you plan to deal with me?"

Su Xiao was indeed a bit curious about this matter.

"Wait for the punishment of the Tree of the Void."

As soon as the Duchess said this, the Priest, who was tasting hot tea diagonally opposite, coughed dryly several times, seemingly having something to say, but in the end, he said nothing.

"If you don't want to suffer the punishment of the Tree of the Void, actually, it's possible. What I lost was wealth, as long as your compensation is sufficient."

The Duchess was prepared to open her mouth like a lion. As for offending the Law-Extinguishing Shadow, it was faction hostility itself. The Duchess didn't care about this point. Her backer was the Arcane Eternal Star.

"Oh."

"You... agreed?"

The Duchess was very surprised, even subconsciously taking half a step back.

"I have a precious secret treasure here..."

Just as Su Xiao said this, the Abyss Archbishop opposite and the Priest diagonally opposite stood up at the same time and walked out. During their fast walk, the two looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts: this place should not be stayed in for long.

Under the gaze of all the diners and the Duchess, Su Xiao took out the "Book of Original Sin." The next second, there was the sound of chairs falling to the ground one after another because people stood up too hurriedly. 10 seconds later, only Su Xiao and the Duchess remained in the banquet hall. As for Xia, she was squeezed out along with the chair she was sitting on by the diners and servants.

In the corridor outside the door, Xia, sitting on a chair with a drink in her hand, was stunned for a moment. This experience was truly wonderful. But the next second, she found fluorescent handwriting appearing on the ground in front of her, which was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was blended into the environment, reminding her to leave this place as soon as possible.

In the banquet hall, the Duchess looked at the "Book of Original Sin" in Su Xiao's hand, and the anger on her face gradually melted, changing into a smiling face. The Duchess said with a face full of smiles: "This guest, you really don't know how to be humorous. I was just joking with you, haha, hahahaha."

Half an hour later, Su Xiao left the manor from the main entrance under the farewell of the owner of the Gluttony Castle and all the servants. Until Su Xiao walked far away, these people still kept smiles on their faces, as well as cold sweat that was about to soak through their clothes.

As for Xia, who came here together, as agreed before, after witnessing the entire process of the Gluttony Castle owner cooking, Xia returned to the Samsara Paradise at the fastest speed, then tried to relive this cooking process in her restaurant, and listed all the necessary ingredients, which Su Xiao handled.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was blended into the environment, appeared. The little look in its eyes meant: "It also wanted to eat those delicacies. Just now in the back kitchen, it was so greedy."

Su Xiao activated the brand function. It wasn't easy to come here, but it was very simple to leave. He activated the permission to return to the Samsara Paradise, and soon, he returned to the storage space. Just after returning, a notification appeared.

【Overlord Equipment · Blood Feather has completed its upgrade.】 ===== CHAPTER 3793 =====