Chapter 3807

As Su Xiao took out the "Book of Original Sin," the Mad Demon ring in front released a blood-colored faint light. It looked like it wasn't afraid at all. It could only be said that it was worthy of being the mad demon ring recognized by all hunters.

Su Xiao had always been a good listener, plus he had clear self-awareness, meaning he didn't have the habit of being arrogant. So even though the 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 ring had always been in the Honor Shop, he had never exchanged for it. After obtaining it last time, he also found a way to send it away.

But now, this Mad Demon ring had come knocking again. Plus, Su Xiao estimated that he held the "Book of Original Sin," which sealed the Collector, Book of Necromancy, Scarlet Scepter, Nether Bone Ring, Soul Crown, and World-Eater. None of these had killed him. Could a Mad Demon ring that had killed many hunters really kill him?

Moreover, looking at the current situation, if he didn't wear this thing, it was clearly not going to give up. It seemed it had set its mind on one thing: before it killed Su Xiao, it would never harm anyone else.

Under these circumstances, not hurting each other with the Mad Demon ring would truly be a disservice to the persistence of this equipment. Su Xiao gripped the Mad Demon ring in front with one hand. With a boom, blood smoke erupted from the hand he used to grip the Mad Demon ring, exploding within the four-story mansion. The blood smoke shrouded the building and formed a huge, grinning scarlet skull above it.

After Alan Na, who was wearing round-rimmed glasses, saw this scene, she took off her narrow-rimmed glasses, and the pupils of her eyes gradually tightened. But soon, her gaze calmed down. Although she hadn't been assisting Su Xiao for long, she had increased her spatial resistance by nearly 150 points in a few days, so one could imagine how exciting her recent days had been.

After a few seconds, Alan Na decided to just treat it as a hallucination. She hadn't seen anything.

The blood smoke that had almost shrouded the manor gradually gathered, and finally all submerged into the inner hall on the third floor, submerging into the 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】 ring in Su Xiao's hand.

【You have obtained Blood-Bathing Mad Demon (Hegemon-tier equipment).】

【This Hegemon equipment is extremely special. It is a two-way binding oath. After completing this oath, neither you nor the Blood-Bathing Mad Demon can unilaterally lift this oath. Both parties must lift this oath together to lift the holding/binding relationship.】

【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】

Origin: Ancient Dragon Kingdom · Ebers.

Quality: Hegemon-tier.

Category: Ring.

Durability: 300/300 points.

Equipment Requirement: Charm attribute below 10 points, health above 500,000 points.

Equipment Effect: Mad Demon (Core · Active). After activating this ability, your real Strength and real Stamina attributes will temporarily increase by 50%, and you will obtain a 10% attack speed and movement speed bonus, as well as an 85% blood-sucking effect when attacking. As a price, during the period of activating this ability, you will lose 1% of your maximum sanity value per second, reducing sanity value to a minimum of 1 point. You will lose 1% of your Willpower attribute per second, reducing Willpower to a minimum of 1 point. You will consume 1% of your maximum health per second until your health is below 1%, at which point the bonus brought by this ability will be forcibly terminated.

Prompt: After this bonus starts, your sanity value and Willpower attribute will recover rapidly until they recover to the highest level when abnormal.

Equipment Debuff: Price (Core · Passive). Each time after using this ring, for a period of time afterward, this ring will enter a state where it cannot be unequipped. Based on the time you last entered the "Mad Demon State," for every second of mad demon time, this ring will permanently devour 5,000 points of your original life force (which will cause your maximum health to permanently decrease by 5,000 points), and for every second of mad demon time, permanently devour 10 points of your sanity value and 2 points of Willpower attribute.

Equipment Growth Characteristic: Master-Devouring (Passive). Each time this ring devours a holder, it will obtain growth-type improvement. The bonus of the Mad Demon state will be improved. The higher the original life force, sanity value, Willpower, and blood energy of the devoured holder, the greater the growth this ring will obtain.

Score: 6000 points (Hegemon-tier equipment score is 1~6000 points).

Introduction: Kill, laugh wildly, and finally, be devoured by this Mad Demon ring.

Price: Cannot be sold.

Seeing the attributes of 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】, Su Xiao finally knew why this Mad Demon ring had targeted him. If it came to sanity value and Willpower attribute, he wouldn't dare to say he was the highest among the supreme powerhouses, but if he added up his original life force, sanity value, Willpower, and blood energy, and ranked based on that, he was definitely among the best.

The improvement of the Mad Demon ring was quite exaggerated. Not to mention anything else, just the temporary 50% increase in real Strength and real Stamina attributes was generally outrageous. But conversely, using this thing not only caused health to drop wildly during battle, but after the battle, even if he won, he would suffer an extremely tragic price for using this ring.

Taking entering the "Mad Demon State" for 60 seconds during battle as an example, after the battle, the wearer would be devoured by the Mad Demon ring for 300,000 points of original life force, meaning the maximum health would permanently decrease by 300,000 points, and also permanently decrease 600 points of sanity value, as well as 60 points of Willpower attribute.

Lan Gui's current health was 1.66 million points, sanity value was 1850 points, and real Willpower was 368 points. With his situation, he couldn't afford the price of using the Mad Demon ring many times. One could imagine how fierce this thing was.

Especially in terms of deducting sanity value and Willpower, the lower these two aspects were, the more difficult it was to resist entering the "Mad Demon State" in battles with strong enemies, leading to a vicious cycle.

As for never using it even after obtaining the Mad Demon ring? That was just the most ideal state. When truly about to be defeated and killed by an enemy, choosing between death and the price of the mad demon, in fact, everyone would choose the latter. Once dead, it meant losing everything. It was better to hard-carry the price of one mad demon state. As long as he counter-killed, it was a blood profit.

In fact, all holders of the Mad Demon ring thought this way. Especially never using it, waiting until the most critical moment to use this thing to turn the tables. This was actually the most troublesome point of the Mad Demon ring. It gave the holder a false higher limit of combat power. This trick was useful for others, but for Su Xiao, it was completely ineffective.

Compared to the higher combat power limit given by the Mad Demon ring, the original sin items held by Su Xiao gave a higher false combat power limit. But except for dealing with the Scarlet Monarch, in other battles, Su Xiao had never borrowed the power of original sin items, at most giving original sin items to the enemy during mutual scheming.

Even the time dealing with the Scarlet Monarch couldn't be considered him using original sin items. That should be considered the Collector, Book of Necromancy, Nether Bone Ring, and Soul Crown teaming up to beat the Scarlet Scepter. It was a clash between original sin items and original sin items. In this way, in fact, Su Xiao had never truly used original sin items.

Su Xiao could restrain himself from using original sin items in battle. He was even less tempted by the false combat power limit given by 【Blood-Bathing Mad Demon】. Even after promoting to supreme powerhouse, he had a count in his heart. He was a technique grandmaster, and in battle, he actually couldn't explode his potential.

Wanting to win against the strong with the weak, the combat power gap couldn't be too outrageous, and he had to rely on combat wisdom, as well as the control of timing, to form ability restraint as much as possible. Plus, under the pressure of life and death, he had to remain calm to play games with the enemy in a better psychological state. Only in this way was it possible to win against the strong with the weak.

One problem was, if he kept wearing it without using this Mad Demon ring, it was also a loss, because of this Mad Demon ring, Su Xiao was equivalent to missing out on two other Hegemon equipment. Not finding a way to make this equipment have usable value, the more he thought about it, the more his mood turned from dark to cloudy.

Su Xiao prepared to do an experiment, activating the "Mad Demon State" of the Mad Demon ring for 1 second. If his assumption was feasible, then he would be able to perform equipment usage that was one version ahead.

Su Xiao didn't wear the Mad Demon ring, but released the Magic Spirit, letting the Magic Spirit stand opposite him. His index finger pointed at the black smoke right arm of the Magic Spirit. Crack, crack, crack, crystals extended. As the "Combat Prosthetic" ability activated, the Magic Spirit formed a crystal right arm.

At the end of this crystal right arm, Spirit Shadow Threads extended, submerging into Su Xiao's right arm. He raised his hand, moved the ten fingers of his right hand, and the Magic Spirit opposite made 100% identical movements.

The degree of connection between the Magic Spirit and Su Xiao need not be mentioned. And this combat prosthetic of the Magic Spirit was formed by Su Xiao's body energy being semi-materialized, that is, crystallized. Finally, this arm was also connected to Su Xiao's right arm. He could control it 100%. In this way, this combat prosthetic was equivalent to Su Xiao's right arm, even if he was separated from this crystal arm by the Magic Spirit.

In this way, if the fingers of this crystal arm wore the Mad Demon ring, then it was equivalent to Su Xiao wearing the Mad Demon ring.

To test this point, Su Xiao controlled the Magic Spirit to pick up the Mad Demon ring and wear it on the index finger of the crystal arm's right hand. But before that, he first took off the God Judgment ring, letting his ring equipment slot be in an empty state.

When the Magic Spirit wore the Mad Demon ring, Su Xiao checked his equipment bar. The next second, he saw the Mad Demon ring being equipped inside.

Su Xiao activated the "Mad Demon State" of the Mad Demon ring. He immediately felt a scarlet energy spread along the Spirit Shadow Threads connected to the crystal arm into his arm, then distributed to his limbs and bones. His heart accelerated its thumping, letting these scarlet energies circulate faster throughout his body through the blood.

Power that seemed to be able to crush the whole world appeared in his hand. The charming feeling of this power could make those with weak will immediately become addicted to it. But Lan Gui immediately drew his long knife, slashed off the Magic Spirit's crystal arm with one knife, and sealed this half-crystal arm wearing the Mad Demon ring into the sixth page of the "Book of Original Sin," becoming neighbors with the "Soul Crown" on the previous page and the "World-Eater" on the next page.

With a bang, Su Xiao gripped his right hand and closed the "Book of Original Sin." He had just used the "Mad Demon State" for 1 second. He waited for the Mad Demon ring to ask him for the price. Ten seconds passed, one minute passed, ten minutes passed. His health, sanity value, and Willpower attribute did not slide.

Was the Mad Demon ring suddenly generous, not preparing to ask for the price of using the "Mad Demon State" for 1 second? It was not. The Mad Demon ring couldn't ask for this price because between it and Su Xiao, there was the "Book of Original Sin." Even if the Mad Demon ring had heaven-defying luck and broke through the multiple causal sealing walls, the object it asked for the price from was not Lan Gui, but the Magic Spirit. From the essence, the one wearing the Mad Demon ring was the Blade Magic Spirit...

Unable to break through the barrier of the Magic Spirit, the Mad Demon ring couldn't think about asking Su Xiao for the price. And this price asking actually had a time limit. Once this time limit passed, the account between Su Xiao and the Mad Demon ring was cleared again.

As time passed, the sense of threat from the "Mad Demon ring" gradually weakened. Su Xiao estimated that in about ten hours, the price asking from the Mad Demon ring would completely dissipate.

Using the "Mad Demon State" to fight subsequently? Of course not. Losing 1% of health, sanity value, and Willpower per second, this weakening was too great. Plus, Strength and Stamina attributes suddenly skyrocketed by 50%, and speed skyrocketed by 100%. Where was this a bonus? For a technique grandmaster, in a life-and-death battle, this sudden improvement was an epic-level weakening.

Su Xiao still had two units of Power Essence unused. After using these two units of Power Essence and entering the "Mad Demon State," his Strength and Stamina attributes could temporarily reach 800 points. But wanting not to overdraw himself, the duration of each "Mad Demon State" was best not to exceed 5 seconds. For Su Xiao, this was already enough.

The score limit of Eternal-tier equipment was 6000 points, but even for full-score Eternal-tier equipment, there were differences in strength. Among them, those requiring a body attribute to reach above 800 points were undoubtedly the strongest among Eternal-tier equipment. This type of equipment actually required supreme-tier body attributes to be qualified to use.

Among this type of top-tier Eternal-tier equipment, there was a type called nourishing type. For example, there was once an ornament auctioned at the Goblin Chamber of Commerce. This Eternal-tier equipment required 800 points of real Intelligence attribute to be equipped. After equipping, besides the active effect of the equipment, it would also continuously nourish the wearer, increasing mental power intensity by 15~20 points every natural day, with a maximum increase of 380 points.

In fact, Su Xiao had already obtained this type of nourishing equipment, but it wasn't as direct as the top-tier Eternal-tier equipment, which was the equipment effect 3 of the Black King Armguard:

"Equipment Effect 3: Soul Nourishment (Core · Passive): Your soul power will nourish your Willpower and mental power at a fast speed, thereby permanently increasing your real Willpower and mental power intensity."

Among the "Top-tier Eternal-tier · Nourishing Equipment," for other types of nourishing equipment, Su Xiao using this method to act was bound to bear great risks, even deriving debuffs. This equipment required 800 points of corresponding body attributes to be equipped, which was not without reason.

Only the Stamina type, the "Top-tier Eternal-tier · Nourishing Equipment" that permanently increased health, Su Xiao could handle. The reason was that his current health was 1.66 million points.

The highest supreme-tier could increase health to 3.5 million points, but this was more of a theoretical limit. Among supreme-tier top-tier, there were really few people who could accumulate health to such a high level.

Not to mention, Su Xiao mastered "High-tier Passive · Blood Sublimation · Life Soul 3.30," among which there was a bonus:

"Skill Effect 2: The maximum value of original life force increases by 15% (Supreme-tier health can reach a maximum of 3.5 million points; this increase will increase the upper limit of 3.5 million points)."

If "High-tier Passive · Blood Sublimation · Life Soul" was upgraded to full level, this bonus might reach more than 40%. In this way, when Su Xiao was at the supreme-tier, the upper limit of health he could reach was about 5 million points.

If one had to say where Lan Gui's weakness was, in fact, it was generally complicated. If it came to sorting, the attack aspect was the strongest, followed by high health, and then fast speed. This was the result of stacking passives. Truly reaching the late stage, the more complicated the weakness, the more unsolvable it was...

Relying solely on the increase of "Life Fruit," it was impossible for his own health upper limit to reach 5 million points. In fact, even 3 million points was strenuous. But if he could be one version ahead and use nourishing equipment that only supreme-tier was qualified to use at the supreme-tier, then Su Xiao really had the possibility of stacking health to 5 million points.

When his health reached this level, in fact, he could also try the nourishing equipment with Strength characteristics that required 800 points of real Strength attribute to be qualified to equip. With the physique brought by the amount of health at that time, he would definitely be able to handle it. And nourishing equipment with Strength characteristics could increase his own attack aspect, which could significantly strengthen his combat style where a flat slash was a big move.

High attack, high health, with these two as a foundation, Su Xiao's strength would be significantly improved.

Not to mention, as long as he didn't die in the Witch World and returned to Reincarnation Paradise full of harvest, he could trigger the Origin Stone "Skill level limit of all skills in the skill list increases by Lv. 10." By then, using Golden Skill Points to upgrade all kinds of abilities to full level again, Su Xiao's strength at the supreme-tier would reach a level that was generally...

In this way, he could rely on the strength at that time to accumulate the best conditions for promotion to supreme-tier, so as to prepare for promotion to supreme-tier at the peak. The conditions were as follows:

1. Absorbed a unit of "Initial Source Essence."

2. His own real Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes increased to 800 points.

3. Blade Technique Grandmaster, Close Combat Grandmaster, and Blood Gun Grandmaster all upgraded to Lv. 95.

4. The three high-tier passives corresponding to Blade Technique Grandmaster, Close Combat Grandmaster, and Blood Gun Grandmaster all upgraded to Lv.

5. Five Primordial Cores.

6. Drank a bottle of Original Essence Potion (perfectly achieved).

Only by promoting to supreme-tier with this posture would he have the qualifications to fight against Soul Lord, Underworld God, and the... Supreme Person located at the peak level. Of course, wanting to fight against the Supreme Person, this had to be on the basis of supreme-tier, and then take another step forward.

In this way, being targeted by the Mad Demon ring was not only not trouble, but a rare opportunity.

Su Xiao opened the "Book of Original Sin" and found that the Mad Demon ring on the sixth page, the pattern it showed, was not a ring, but a scarlet diamond head. However, this diamond head looked like it was gradually putting on a happy mask.

Su Xiao closed the "Book of Original Sin." He took out two units of "Power Essence." "Power Essence" was sealed in translucent resin. He crushed one unit with one hand, and a colorless energy submerged into his body. These source energies wandered throughout his body, then became less and less, being absorbed by all parts of the body.

Su Xiao immediately entered a meditative state. Each time he used "Power Essence," he had to be fully focused. Once something went wrong, it would be an unbearable result.

After the translucent source energy throughout his body stabilized, these source energies finished adaptive transformation, turning into a special energy that was 100% compatible with him, nourishing his physique like sweet spring water. This feeling of rapid improvement was very good, but he must never be addicted to it.

Su Xiao took out another unit of "Power Essence" and crushed its shell. When the improvement started, white heat drifted from his body, and surging power seemed to be surging in his body.

Taking out the existing "Primordial Fragments," the "Primordial Fragments" in his hand turned into Primordial Power one after another, submerging into his body. The surging power feeling just now disappeared. It wasn't that the power disappeared, but it became controllable. Su Xiao meditated for a few hours. After his aura completely stabilized, he checked his body attributes:...

Real Strength: 539 points

Real Agility: 539 points

Real Stamina: 539 points

Real Intelligence: 534 points

Charm: -22 points

The improvement range was very large. Although it was still far from 800 points, he could continue to accumulate. Su Xiao just prepared to close his personal data when suddenly, he found something wrong. That was, his Charm attribute, how did it slide to -22 points?

This made Su Xiao frown and think. He had only slain the Twin Lords recently, and his Charm attribute had actually dropped by 1 point. Presumably, it was the reason for obtaining the Mad Demon ring? Hmm, it must be so. The blood energy fluctuation of this ring was extremely strong. It must be this thing that caused his Charm attribute to slide by 1 point.

Thinking of this point, Su Xiao's mood recovered a bit, and a prompt suddenly appeared.

【Because you absorbed a large amount of "Primordial Power," the "Secret Law Power" derived from your "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe" ability will be improved.】

【Secret Law Power: After absorbing Power Essence, current Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes permanently increase by 6% (strengthened seven times through Power Essence).】

Su Xiao's "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe" ability could be said to be far beyond other supreme powerhouses. The price corresponding to it was that each time after absorbing Power Essence, he had to use more "Primordial Fragments" to stabilize and nourish his own physique.

The good news was that more "Primordial Fragment" consumption derived corresponding bonuses. Don't underestimate this 1% improvement; the improvement range was actually very large.

After completing his own improvement, however, for the past two days, Lan Gui did not plan to pursue Black Hole Azle's confidant Madman, but first stabilize his combat power, letting the body attributes that had improved by a large margin completely turn into his own strength.

Su Xiao finished constructing a summoning array with Spirit characteristics. He prepared to use this to contact the Goddess of Luck, letting the other party come to the Witch World. As for whether the other party had a spatial pass to enter the Witch World, there was no need to care about this point. On the Goddess of Luck's "Myriad Worlds Food Guide," there were several food shops in the Witch World.

Su Xiao considered for a while, and finally didn't use the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array" version of the spatial array. However, for the sake of safety, he made some improvements on the basic spatial technique.

He pressed one hand on the array. First, there was a Spirit summoning resonance. Not long after, he sensed the feedback from the Goddess of Luck. Next, it was... the other party followed the guidance of the spatial array and descended to this world...

Golden brilliance emerged above, and it seemed he could even see the Goddess of Luck's face with a faint smile.

Bang!

The spatial array activated.

"Ah~!"

The Goddess of Luck, who originally wanted to perform an elegant goddess descent, fell down because of the fast speed, and sat on the sofa a bit dazed.

"What kind of array did you use? Phew~, it's too exciting. Don't use it next time."

"How much Spirit Source Blood did you get this time?"

The Goddess of Luck was a bit expectant.

"It's not trading Spirit Source Blood."

"Then what is it?"

The Goddess of Luck's gaze gradually became solemn. She suddenly thought, could it be that this time she was entrusted to help improve luck? Even as a goddess who mastered luck, she felt a lot of pressure.

"Do you know about fate?"

Su Xiao found the Goddess of Luck this time because he wanted to confirm one point: after fate was devoured, was there any way to make up for it?

"I know, I am the Goddess of Luck, how could I not know about fate?"...

"Can you control it?"

"Haha, if I could control it, last time in the lakeside dormitory of Arcane Eternal Star, I wouldn't have been blocked in the room by you, scared to the point of almost fainting."

"......"

Su Xiao didn't speak. As the cooperative relationship deepened, he naturally knew more about the Goddess of Luck. This goddess belonged to the type who was full of goddess feeling when she first appeared. Each time she descended, she showed the style of the Goddess of Luck.

After getting to know her, he found that this goddess knew how to enjoy life, but after the cooperation ended, he found that this goddess would say the most difficult things to beat in the most sincere tone. She even named Su Xiao's luck as a luck electrocardiogram, although this description was very wrong.

"However..."

The Goddess of Luck stopped here, smiling somewhat meaningfully.

"......"

Su Xiao took out a bottle of "Spirit Potion." If it were any other time, the generally wealthy Goddess of Luck wouldn't care about this bottle of "Spirit Potion." The problem was, this was a "Spirit Potion" brought out by a supreme pharmacist of the Void, not something that could be compared to those that could be bought with money.

"My best friend is called the Goddess of Fate."

The Goddess of Luck didn't continue, blinked at Su Xiao, meaning, you know.

The Goddess of Luck certainly wasn't prepared to betray her friend. Through the cooperation with Su Xiao, she roughly understood the style of this Law-Extinguisher. If it was a cooperative relationship, as long as he didn't look for trouble and actively stir up any moths, cooperating with this Law-Extinguisher was actually very reliable. As long as he didn't court death, this was an opportunity.

"Introduce me. Don't worry, it's just cooperation. Regardless of whether the cooperation is successful or not, I will pay you a bottle of this potion."

Su Xiao placed a bottle of "Spirit Potion" on the small round table beside his hand.

"That is my best friend, at least... at least five bottles."

"Three bottles."

"Deal. But you must guarantee that you cannot have bad intentions towards her, and even more so, don't use that unique teleportation array of yours to guide her descent. Her spirit physique is not as good as mine."

The Goddess of Luck emphasized the last point particularly. It seemed she had a very deep impression of Su Xiao using the demon teleportation array technique to guide her descent in the past.

"Oh."

"I... I'm still a bit afraid that she will suddenly anger you. This friend of mine, she speaks a bit... hmm~, a bit straightforward. You must guarantee not to hurt her."

"Hmm, then let's sign a contract."

"I suddenly doubt your verbal promise. See you later."

The Goddess of Luck was gradually shrouded in golden brilliance and soon teleported away.

As for why Su Xiao wanted to cooperate with the Goddess of Fate, in his view, since the Platinum Apostle could devour fate, then fate seemed to be something that could also be replenished.

If the fate devoured from the Winter King was replenished, then this King of the Northern Territory might be able to restore his former majesty. In this way, the entire Eternal Winter City, no, the entire Northern Territory, would be the mortal enemies of the Abyss Archbishop, Platinum Apostle, and Priest.

Knock, knock, knock~

The sound of knocking on the window came. Su Xiao came to the window, opened it, and found a large bird with one wing replaced by a machine was waving its wings outside the window. Judging from the eyes of this mechanical-winged large bird, its intelligence was definitely not lower than that of a human. Seeing the window open, this large bird threw a long wooden box, then a contract emerged and burned itself. Seeing this, the mechanical-winged large bird flew away.

【You have successfully received the item delivery from the Goblin Chamber of Commerce. The client is: Demon Blacksmith.】

【You have obtained Seal Demon (Eternal-tier · Scabbard).】

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