Chapter 3806

After successfully slaying the Twin Lords, Su Xiao faced them with one hand before their corpses completely dissipated, activating his Soul Eater talent.

A mass of soul memories the size of a millstone was stripped away. This was the first time Su Xiao had stripped away so many soul memories; he did not intend to absorb them, but instead quickly previewed them, discarding all useless soul memories.

As a result, the soul memories were reduced to a mass the size of a fist, and it was pitch black. Su Xiao took out a soul container and sealed these soul memories inside. Come to think of it, this soul container was obtained when he encountered Grimm Gillian in the previous world.

Su Xiao put away the soul container. Just after the battle, Baha, who had a faint scent of blood on him, flew over. Just moments ago, while Su Xiao was clashing with the Twin Lords, a group of mysterious black wizards suddenly appeared. Fortunately, they were blocked by Amu and Baha, and they had already retreated.

This place was not suitable for a long stay. Su Xiao constructed a one-time Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array. Seeing this, Alan Na entered the defensive armor. She felt that if she endured this teleportation one or two more times, she would be able to ride this teleportation array while wearing light defensive gear.

Boom!!

The teleportation array activated, and the layers of spatial blockade around them shattered. It was clearly set up by that group of mysterious black wizards, intending to trap Su Xiao and the others here; however, it had no effect at all.

When the spatial teleportation ended, Su Xiao had arrived at District 20 of Moon Ring City. This was a manor with a pleasant environment. In the summer night, insects chirped incessantly near the pond, and the cool breeze took away the lingering cold of the Northern Territory.

This was a mansion gifted by the Moon Witch. Because it was not far from the Witch Academy, the public security here was good, and the environment was suitable for recuperation after a battle.

Beside the pond in the courtyard, Su Xiao leaned back on a lounge chair. The wounds on his body had all been stitched with Spirit Shadow Threads. After drinking a recovery potion and wrapping himself in bandages, he was no longer in serious condition. Beside him, Bubu Wang looked miserable; judging from the bandage on his butt, he had taken an arrow to the butt in the chaotic battle just now.

Beside a small table nearby, Alan Na was reading a pile of ancient books, investigating the origins of this group through the marks on the hands of those mysterious black wizards. Alan Na pushed up the glasses she only habitually wore when reading; she already had some clues about those mysterious black wizards.

Only then did Su Xiao have time to check the series of prompts that had appeared just now.

【Prompt: Your main quest, First Ring: Twin of Darkness, has been completed.】

【You have obtained a Commission Voucher (1/5).】

【You have obtained an 8-star to 9-star Title Selection Chest.】

【You have opened the 8-star to 9-star Title Selection Chest.】

【Combat, Defense, Special; you can choose any one of these three title types to open this title chest.】

【You have selected the Special-type title.】

【Randomly drawing...】

【You have obtained Rhapsodist (8-star title).】

【Rhapsodist (Sealed)】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: ★★★★★★★★

Category: Rare Title (Sealed; can be used after lifting this state).

Title Effect: Limit Break (Passive). After equipping this title, your 15th-tier mental power cap protection will disappear. Subsequent use of mental-type abilities can permanently increase your overall mental-type damage by 1%~50%.

Prompt: Each time you use a mental-type ability, the mental-type damage of the title wearer will receive a certain degree of permanent increase. However, due to the risk caused by the removal of the mental power cap, each use of a mental-type ability has a 5% probability of causing your own mental power to enter a state of uncontrolled proliferation. This madness state is irreversible.

Introduction: This is a gift belonging to the Rhapsodist, and also the beginning of becoming a demon.

Price: Tradable. Cannot be traded after lifting the sealed state.

This title is very valuable. Su Xiao was not very clear about the situation in other Paradise factions, but within Reincarnation Paradise, by the late stage, mental-type contractors were basically abnormal. Out of ten, five were calm lunatics, two were manic lunatics, two were happy lunatics, and the last one looked very abnormal but was actually the least ill.

The bonus effect of the 【Rhapsodist】 title is very safe, but for these guys who are already crazy, becoming even crazier doesn't seem to have much impact, so this title can be sold for a very good price.

【Your main quest, Second Ring, has been activated.】

【Main Quest, Second Ring: Blood of Darkness.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 95~Lv.???

Quest Introduction: Kill one of the leaders of the Light God Sect, Black Hole Aram, and seize the portion of the Blood of Light he possesses.

Warning: If the Blood of Light is destroyed, your main quest will immediately fail.

Quest Deadline: 10 natural days.

Quest Penalty 1: Soul Chest (After opening, you can obtain 5~30 Soul Crystal Butterflies).

Quest Penalty 2: Commission Voucher (1/5. After collecting these commission vouchers, you can claim the 3.5 million Soul Coins, 100 Soul Essences, 1 unit of Power Essence, and 1 unit of Vitality Essence deposited by the Night Witch Guild to the Tree of the Void).

Quest Reward: Current Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intelligence, and Wealth attributes -10%.

Seeing the difficulty of the second ring quest, Su Xiao felt a sense of foreboding. The difficulty of Lv. 95~Lv.??? probably didn't correspond to the strength of Black Hole Aram, but rather a more complicated situation, which was that the motive for Su Xiao's second ring quest had been exposed.

Once this situation appeared, given the ruthlessness of Black Hole Aram, one of the three leaders of the Light God Sect, this super old schemer might extract the Blood of Darkness himself. If that happened, things would be troublesome.

Although Black Hole Aram and the Twin Lords were both leaders of the Light God Sect, their styles were completely different. Black Hole Aram never stood in the light but hid behind the scenes. A more accurate way to put it is that before the Abyss Archbishop returned to this place, the Dark God Sect here was led by Black Hole Aram.

Assuming the hatred value of the wizard faction towards the Twin Lords was 2000, then the hatred towards Black Hole Aram was at least 50,000. For Sky City to become the weird and gloomy place it is today, Black Hole Aram must be the culprit.

Black Hole Aram had a famous confidant subordinate known as the Madman. This guy named Madman once blew up an entire district of Moon Ring City. Important wizard faction strongholds like Ancient King City and Giant Armor City had all been attacked by this guy, and the casualties were heavy.

Killing Black Hole Aram was difficult enough, and ensuring that the Blood of Light could be seized from him made the difficulty self-evident.

Su Xiao took out the 【Astrological Disk】 obtained from killing the Twin Lords. When he detected the Twin Lords' data earlier, some of the detected data was very important:

"Name: Light/Dark Lord."

"Category: Child of Elements/Child of the Abyss/Former Twin Guardians of the Astrological Tower."

Su Xiao could understand the Child of the Abyss category, and the Child of Elements could also be understood. The relationship between the Abyss and natural elements was not as completely opposed as he had thought when he was at a low tier.

What was truly puzzling was the identity of "Former Twin Guardians of the Astrological Tower." With the arrogance of the Twin Lords, who was inside this Astrological Tower? Who could make them willingly serve as door guards?

Su Xiao took out the 【Astrological Disk】 obtained from killing the Twin Lords and checked its attributes.

【Astrological Disk】

Origin: Witch World.

Category: Key/Seal Core.

Durability: 1460/1500 points.

Effect: After letting it absorb enough Blood of Light, you can use this item to open the Astrological Tower.

Introduction: The black hole that devours hearts, the forgotten ancient king, and the one abandoned by the light. Are you ready to hunt for the Blood of Darkness? Are you ready to defeat the weaklings here?

Su Xiao put away the 【Astrological Disk】. This item was extremely important and could not be lost. He took out the soul container and opened it. A mass of soul memories the size of a fist floated up. His hands gripped the air, and several blue energy threads pierced into these soul memories.

Like watching a movie, soul images flowed past Su Xiao's eyes. A moment later, he discovered a very subtle problem: Black Hole Aram was too cautious. This guy was so cautious that he had never met the Twin Lords. Being leaders of the Light God Sect together, this was very outrageous.

Among these soul memories, compared to the information about Black Hole Aram, his confidant Madman appeared much more often. All kinds of meetings were attended by Madman on behalf of Black Hole Aram. This made some members of the Light God Sect suspect whether the Black Hole faction of the three factions of the Dark God Sect—Extreme Dark, Black Hole, and Ancient—was already run by Madman, and Black Hole Aram had long since died.

This must be a rumor. Madman was indeed very capable and a complete lunatic, but he was not qualified to inherit the Blood of Light.

Su Xiao estimated that if he hunted based on these soul memories, the target would definitely be Madman, not Black Hole Aram. But it was enough. As long as he held onto this thread and kept pulling, the Abyss Archbishop, Platinum Apostle, and Priest would eventually be unable to bear it.

After clarifying the general information within the soul memories, Azle prepared to stop the preview, when suddenly, among the messy soul memories, he discovered a somewhat ordinary soul memory.

That was a very special antique shop. After entering, one could exchange a soul coin for a gold coin with the owner of the antique shop, then go to a dwarf bank on the street. After entering the elevator, insert this gold coin into the coin slot under the collection mechanism. Then, the elevator would go all the way down and stop in front of a long corridor.

The corridor was not wide. Walking straight ahead, one would arrive in front of a wooden counter. After sitting down and waiting, if the owner of this place was there, the small curtain in front would slowly unfold. If there was no movement from the curtain after waiting for five minutes, then one could leave. After returning to the elevator, a soul coin would be spat out from the previous coin slot.

This secret place was located on a pedestrian street in Night City. Su Xiao prepared to go and take a look in a while. Through the images in the soul memory, he saw the mark representing the Tree of the Void on the gold coin he exchanged for with the soul coin.

Storing this soul memory back into the soul container, with this soul container from a master craftsman, the soul memories stripped by Su Xiao's Soul Eater talent had more uses. Storing soul memories in the soul container could preserve them for at least 5~8 days, and the soul memories of some strong individuals could be preserved even longer, allowing for more operational space, unlike before when soul memories would dissipate within minutes after being stripped.

Azle put away the soul container. A strange fluctuation appeared. This feeling was like... someone was summoning him? No, it was his summon, trying to contact him through the summoning contract.

Translucent crystals spread along the chair to the ground, forming a summoning array. The tree spirit of the Greedy Life Tree was summoned. The roots of the tree spirit reached out, holding five "Life Fruits."

After Su Xiao picked up one, a fresh fragrance drifted into his nostrils. Just by smelling this scent, he felt that the original life force in his body became more vibrant.

"Life Fruit: After consumption, it will permanently increase health by 35,000 points (due to the ultra-high-tier characteristics of the Life Fruit, even if consumed multiple times, you can still obtain the increase effect)."

Harvesting five "Life Fruits," Su Xiao was in a very good mood. He took out a sealed bottle containing Eternal Spring water and threw it to the tree spirit. As for why he didn't give more Eternal Spring water, it would arouse the greed of the tree spirit.

The injuries on his body had recovered by more than 70%. Su Xiao got up and came to the mansion. When he walked into the first basement level, this place had already been set up by Amu as a potion room. Amu knew nothing about potion blending, but it was very skilled at setting up a potion blending room.

Sitting in front of the blending table, Su Xiao switched to the 【Miracle Maker】 title and finished the potion blending. He did not blend the five "Life Fruits" into five bottles of potion, but into one bottle. The benefit of doing this was to avoid the diminishing returns caused by drinking potions blended from "Life Fruits" multiple times to the greatest extent.

Although "Life Fruits" could be consumed multiple times, Su Xiao estimated that after consuming about 20 of them, the effect would diminish. Calculating this way, consuming "Life Fruits" multiple times could increase health by about 700,000 points, which was already a quite exaggerated increase.

If he used 5 "Life Fruits" as one batch of materials to blend a potion, with Su Xiao's level of pharmacology, he was confident that he could obtain a health bonus far exceeding 700,000 points.

Therefore, this type of "Life Secret Potion" that used 5 "Life Fruits" as one batch, even if the health increase was less than 175,000 points, was still profitable from a long-term perspective. After all, he controlled the 【Greedy Life Tree】 and had a stable channel to obtain "Life Fruits."

When the sky gradually brightened, Su Xiao finally finished blending. The potion in the water-circle bottle revealed a pale gold color, and beautiful green light particles flickered inside. He opened his "Dog-Cat Vision" and found that those ancient existences drifting in the spatial gaps had been attracted far away. They emitted low moans as if from ancient times, and after drifting in the surrounding spatial gaps for a while, they left one after another.

These ancient existences would not snatch treasures from the material world. However, due to their huge size and terrifying appearance, they were often mistaken for terrible monsters. In fact, these big guys were very irritable. Su Xiao had even sat on their backs and drifted in the spatial gaps, but he didn't drift too far before he left the spatial gaps to avoid getting lost in them. It could only be said that the weaker one was, the more ordinary the world one saw became.

The potion on the table finished cooling. After Su Xiao picked it up, its attributes appeared before his eyes.

【Life Secret Potion (Perfect)】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise · Supreme Flame Medicine Forest

Quality: Eternal-tier · Rare

Type: Recovery Item.

Effect: After drinking, permanently increase health by 120,000 points, permanently increase normal attribute resistance by 20 points.

Perfect Quality Bonus: After drinking, additionally permanently increase health by 30,000 points, and 10 points of healing-type ability resistance.

Score: 6000 points (Eternal-tier quality potion score is 3000~6000 points)

Introduction: TBD (Hunter can freely formulate)

Price: TBD (Hunter can freely formulate)

Successfully blending an Eternal-tier potion with a full score, Su Xiao was in a very good mood. He drank the 【Life Secret Potion】. First, he felt as if a fire was burning in his chest, then it slowly became irritable. The cool, nourishing feeling was extremely comfortable, making his injuries recover much faster.

Among the increases of the 【Life Secret Potion】, the exaggerated bonus of 150,000 health points need not be mentioned. As for the 10 points of healing-type ability resistance from the perfect quality bonus, this characteristic was very boring. If he encountered a powerful poison-healer in the future, this resistance would be useful.

The way poison-healers killed enemies was usually to make the enemy's "destined limit" disappear, then perform excessive healing, healing until the original life force proliferated maliciously, causing them to die miserably.

This "10 points of healing-type ability resistance" did not reduce the effect of healing-type abilities Su Xiao suffered, but made his "destined limit" characteristic less difficult to be closed. Before the "destined limit" failed, the poison-healer could not cause excessive healing to him.

Walking out of the potion room, the morning sun shone in through the gaps in the curtains. Alan Na in the dining room said: "Mr. Bai Ye, time for breakfast."

Su Xiao just had a faint, slightly awkward smile. He firmed himself up, pointed at the dining table with one hand, and said with some happiness: "Breakfast I made myself, Mr. Bai Ye, have a taste."

"..."

Su Xiao sat down at the dining table and studied it for a while, but really couldn't discover what this breakfast was. He picked up a piece to taste. The more he chewed, the deeper he frowned. This breakfast wasn't hard to eat, but the layers of flavor were too many, and the texture was generally complex. One second it felt like he was chewing gum, and after chewing a few times, it became the texture of stewed meat.

"Let's order takeout in the future."

"Why, is the breakfast I made hard to eat? I ate it myself, and it felt quite delicious."

After speaking, Su Xiao just sat down to eat breakfast. Looking at her expression, it seemed it really tasted good.

Su Xiao tasted another bite. The flavor was still extremely simple, but eating it... it seemed the flavor was indeed quite good? After the meal, he took out the "Myriad Worlds Food Guide" and recorded Su Xiao's breakfast on it. This was the breakfast with the simplest and most ordinary flavor and texture he had ever eaten.

After the meal, Su Xiao went alone to the teleportation tower in the district where he was located to head to Night City. When the spatial teleportation began, he had already arrived inside the teleportation tower of Night City. There were very few people here during the day, and the staff all looked a bit sleepy.

After leaving the teleportation tower, Su Xiao wandered around and came to a pedestrian street. After searching for a while, he found an antique shop. Walking into the shop, the owner behind the counter was a Sea Clan member.

Su Xiao placed a soul coin on the counter. After the owner behind the counter looked at Su Xiao, he took a gold coin from under the counter and placed it on the counter without saying a word.

Taking the gold coin, Su Xiao followed the images in the soul memory and found the dwarf bank. Through the elevator, he arrived at a long corridor. At the end of the corridor was a wooden counter similar to a storefront, with a black curtain blocking behind the wooden railing.

Su Xiao sat down in front of the wooden counter. Just as he sat down, the curtain in front opened on its own, and a prompt appeared subsequently.

【Prompt: You are about to trade with the Spirit Merchant. This is a neutral unit notarized by the Tree of the Void. If you choose to attack, you will suffer various evil consequences.】

【The way you trade with the Spirit Merchant is by bartering. No exchange list will be provided. Whether the trade is successful will depend on the willingness of both parties.】

【You can use Spirit Bone as the main trading chip to reach a trade with the Spirit Merchant. For this trade, you need to show the chip first, then the Spirit Merchant will take out corresponding items based on his judgment. If both parties reach an agreement, the trade can be completed.】...

A humanoid creature weighing at least several thousand catties sat behind the wooden counter. The other party had multiple arms, but each hand only had two fingers, just like a human only having a thumb and a pinky. Except for the air holes at the mouth, its head was covered with eyes of different sizes, but the gentleness of each eye made it not look terrifying. The fat on its body made its skin look layered, making one wonder if the Spirit Merchant could get up from that wide seat.

More importantly, the Spirit Merchant had no language ability, so there was a circular mechanism beside its hand, with two simple expressions on the front and back: a smiling face meant refusal, and a miserable face meant agreement.

Su Xiao only had one piece of 【Spirit Bone (Origin-tier)】, but his 【God Hunter】 title gave him two "God Souls," which were "Soul Reaper (9th-tier God Soul)" and "God of Misfortune (Upper-tier God Soul)."

God Souls were very rare. There were many names for this thing, such as Godhead, Godhood, etc. With this item, there was a 95% probability of becoming a corresponding Spirit-type.

Just like the God Soul of the Soul Reaper, in general circumstances, after a spirit is killed, the God Soul will shatter. Then, under the effect of the power of causality, when someone can become a new Soul Reaper, this God Soul will slowly gather in the other party's original energy, forming the God Soul representing the Soul Reaper.

Su Xiao placed a piece of 【Spirit Bone (Origin-tier)】, as well as 【Soul Reaper (9th-tier God Soul)】 and 【God of Misfortune (Upper-tier God Soul)】 on the counter, which made the Spirit Merchant inside very interested.

A bottle of 【Original Essence Potion】 plus a 【Hegemon Chest】 were placed on the table. As a supreme powerhouse, it was difficult to agree to the 【Original Essence Potion】, but Su Xiao had already drunk the strongest 【Original Essence Potion】, so naturally, he was not interested in this bottle of 【Original Essence Potion】.

Discovering this situation, the Spirit Merchant was a bit troubled. After putting away the 【Original Essence Potion】, it placed a bottle of 【Vitality Essence】 on the counter. This essence, which could significantly increase health, was very attractive, but after Azle drank the "Life Secret Potion," he could not use this 【Vitality Essence】 for a period of time.

The Spirit Merchant was very interested in the two God Souls. After discovering that the 【Vitality Essence】 still didn't move Su Xiao, it put away the 【Vitality Essence】 and stood a small sealed bottle containing 【Power Essence】 on the table.

Seeing this, Su Xiao took out a small bottle of Ancient God Source Blood the size of a thumb and stood it on the table. This made the Spirit Merchant no longer firm, and the trade was reached.

【You have obtained Power Essence x1 unit.】

【You have obtained Hegemon Chest x1 unit.】

【You have obtained a Strange Cloth Bag (You can put items into this cloth bag. If the Spirit Merchant is interested in this item, the Spirit Merchant will go to the world where you are located to trade with you. If the Spirit Merchant is not interested in this item, the cloth bag will spit out the items put in).】

After completing the trade, Su Xiao found that the spatial array under his feet lit up. Not sensing any danger, he just stood up. The next second, he was teleported back to the previous antique shop.

The harvest was quite good. Because his injuries had not completely healed, Su Xiao came to the teleportation tower to return to District 20 of Moon Ring City. At nine o'clock in the morning, he had already returned to the mansion where he was staying.

In the inner hall on the third floor, Su Xiao sat on a single sofa. He had previously obtained a unit of Power Essence through a bounty quest, and now he had obtained another one. Coupled with just defeating the Twin Lords, at the very least, he could have a buffer period. Now, using both units of Power Essence was a very good choice. Plus, subsequent enemies would only be stronger. If he could adapt to his strengthened physique as soon as possible and convert it into combat power, the subsequent risks would be lower.

Yesterday, killing the Twin Lords also yielded a 【Source Essence Chest】. Su Xiao prepared to open it. If he opened another unit of Power Essence, he could handle the increase of three units of Power Essence. After all, after he used Power Essence, he would consume a lot of "Primordial Fragments" to stabilize his physique.

【You have opened the Source Essence Chest.】

【You have obtained Thunder Breath Essence.】

Seeing this result, Su Xiao was quite satisfied. Although he couldn't use this thing himself, it was quite valuable. This thing could significantly increase thunder affinity, and what he needed was thunder resistance.

Since his luck was okay and he opened the 【Thunder Breath Essence】, Su Xiao took out the 【Hegemon Chest】 he had just obtained. Come to think of it, it was also good luck. The origin of this 【Hegemon Chest】 was Reincarnation Paradise, which meant that opening this chest could obtain a piece of Hegemon equipment from Reincarnation Paradise's Hegemon equipment inventory. Among the several Paradise factions, Reincarnation Paradise had the most Hegemon equipment in its Hegemon equipment inventory.

【You have opened the Hegemon Chest.】

【You will obtain Hegemon equipment with high compatibility with you.】

【You have obtained Blood-Bathing Mad Demon (Full Score Hegemon Equipment).】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly. He had obtained 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 last time and had already given this equipment to Caesar. Now it had appeared again.

However, thinking about it carefully, this type of combat-type equipment, compared to the Misfortune Gold Coin or Ouroboros Slate, belonged to the type Caesar had relatively high resistance to. Plus, Caesar wouldn't use Hegemon equipment like 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 the way he used the Ouroboros Slate. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but he really couldn't use this type of combat equipment. This was determined by the power characteristics.

With Caesar's character of plucking feathers, how could he let 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 stay in his hands? Therefore, selling this full-score Hegemon equipment to a fated person was the best choice.

Now it seemed that the fated person didn't last long before encountering an accident. Afterward, 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 returned to Reincarnation Paradise's Hegemon equipment inventory, and now it had been opened by Su Xiao again.

Su Xiao had a feeling that he had been targeted by 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】, which was why it was opened. However, this time, the situation was different. He looked at the 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 ring floating in front of him and took out the "Book of Original Sin."