Chapter 3826: Conspiracy

Under the moonlight, the whistle of the giant cruise ship gradually subsided. There were many passengers on the deck; some were enjoying the sea breeze and fine wine, some were enjoying seafood and meat barbecue, and some young couples were hugging and kissing passionately.

In this lively and cozy atmosphere, two old friends met here. There was no previous greeting, because one of them had pitch-black eyes, representing that she had already accepted the Abyss power.

Among those who accepted Abyss power, many did so for revenge, others for selfish desires. But this old friend opposite was not dominated by various desires. Her purpose for becoming stronger was just to break through limits, not believing in fate, not believing in limits—becoming stronger, constantly becoming stronger, going to clash with stronger enemies, until climbing to the peak or life withered away.

But this clash, Su Xiao would definitely win. There was no suspense. Even if Sha's Close-Combat Master was as high as Lv. 93, Su Xiao also had ten-tenths of certainty to defeat Sha. He was now Blade Technique Master Lv. 87, Close-Combat Master Lv. 85, Blood Gun Master Lv. 85.

When promoting to Absolute Strength, one could obtain 5 Original Skill Points through five "Primordial Fragments." Sha used the 5 Original Skill Points obtained to upgrade Close-Combat Master.

The problem was, Su Xiao used eleven "Primordial Fragments" to promote to Absolute Strength, 11 Original Skill Points. Among them, 1 point was allocated to Hegemon Power, and the remaining 10 points: 6 points to Blade Technique Master, 2 points to Close-Combat Master, 2 points to Blood Gun Master.

Even if Sha absorbed the purest Abyss power, she was still not Su Xiao's opponent. This was very strange. Sha was a strong woman with keen perception like a wild beast. After throwing herself into the Abyss, her wild beast instincts should be keener, and her perception of danger should be stronger. Under such circumstances, how could she take the initiative to find Su Xiao for a deathmatch?

No matter how one looked at it, the deathmatch with Sha was too early.

Therefore, in Su Xiao's view, a large amount of resources was already beckoning to him. As a veteran poor man of the three techniques... cough~, a three-technique master, his judgment in this regard was always accurate.

This time it was not a deathmatch, but a competition of acting skills. If Sha was here to fight to the death, as an old friend, Su Xiao would not show mercy. But the other party was here to show off acting skills. Su Xiao would certainly not let this old friend sing a solo act in such an opportunity where both sides could earn a fortune.

First was the content of the Main Quest·Third Ring: "Defeat or kill Sha, seize the portion of Dark Blood she possesses."

This was completely different from the situation when dealing with the Dark Twins and Black Hole·Azule. The former two were clearly marked with "kill." Corresponding to Sha's main quest, however, an extra option of "defeat" was given. This to a large extent represented Sha's state of consciousness.

Besides that, last night Serin tracked Sha's trail, but was caught red-handed. If Sha's heart had been swallowed by darkness, Serin would definitely be dead.

As for whether it was President·Po. Yeen's arrival that allowed Serin to keep her life, that was impossible. The situation must have been that Sha had already left before the President arrived. Otherwise, Sha would definitely be dead. The President was a supreme being; let alone Sha, even Su Xiao would die under one or two strikes from the President.

Of course, if that situation occurred, the President would definitely kneel and try his best to save Su Xiao, and would have to beg him not to die with all his might. The five Original Sin Objects were indeed too terrifying.

Serin didn't die, so Sha must have shown mercy. As for being severely injured, Sha was never a kind person. She had done plenty of things like killing the other party on the spot if they didn't agree.

In this way, not only did Sha still have reason, but she even noticed through the Reincarnation Brand that Serin was a temporary member of the Breaking Dawn team, so she tried to show mercy. The result was that although she showed mercy, she didn't do it thoroughly.

More importantly, Sha took the initiative to come to the door now. This was too intriguing.

Sha was obsessed with deathmatches, but she didn't have a hobby of seeking death. If the above inferences were all true, Sha coming to this place was eight or nine times out of ten the price of obtaining power, and there were eyes watching her in the dark. She had to pretend to be the appearance of having her judgment greatly reduced and being controlled by power after bearing the Abyss power.

The passengers on the deck didn't notice the danger that was about to come. Sha, draped in a black robe, stood up. The black robe on her body slipped off. She still had her ponytail, wore a black vest, and her arms were covered in bandages. However, at this time, the bandages on her arms slowly fell off, revealing her scorching red crystal arms.

These two arms were between crystal and flesh, and the bones and nervous system inside were vaguely visible. The scorching red color had a hint of heat, but before officially starting, these two arms wouldn't erupt with terrifying heat.

This concerned Sha's combat system. The temperature of the blood in her body would rise as the battle continued. The higher the blood temperature, the stronger her power, speed, defense, etc. Correspondingly, there was also a risk of the temperature being too high. As for how to raise the blood temperature, the mystery lay in these two scorching red crystal arms.

A man holding a wine glass with one hand was laughing and talking with his female companion. Suddenly, the sound of the gears in his watch stopped abruptly. With this as the center, everything around him gradually stilled.

Click-clack~

The sound of the second hand moving came from the surrounding air, and Sha disappeared in place.

Clang!!

A scorching red crystal fist slammed into the half-drawn Zhan Long Shan. Su Xiao suddenly turned into a residual image and flew backward. While in mid-air, his brows furrowed slightly. Sha's ability was very difficult to deal with; it should be time-related.

After flying backward for over a hundred meters, Su Xiao landed on the water in a half-squatting posture, sliding backward for dozens of meters. After water splashed along the way, he stabilized his figure.

Snap~

A slight sound of stepping on water came from ahead. It was Sha, who had leaped more than ten meters away.

Clang! Clang!

Su Xiao's long blade blocked in front of him one after another. After two crisp sounds of metal, Sha was still more than ten meters away, as if she had just punched through the air, yet each punch could threaten Su Xiao.

This ability was very much like a space-type, moving the attack after the punch to Su Xiao's front using the space jump effect, thereby forming an attack. But Su Xiao was certain this was not a space-type ability.

Clang! Clang!

Two more crisp sounds of crystal fists being blocked by the long blade. After blocking these two punches, Su Xiao's long blade slashed forward.

Zing!

A fan-shaped slash swept across a range of several kilometers ahead. Sha's body leaned low to the limit, one hand even pressing on the water surface. A few strands of black hair that had been cut off slowly landed. The next second, the impact caused by the slash stirred up a raging wave on the calm water surface, surging toward the distance.

Clang!

Another crisp sound of blocking. Su Xiao felt the vibration of the long blade in his hand, and his perception circle gradually expanded.

"Blade Dao Blade·Time."

Boom~

The impact of Time spread, making everything it touched slow down. In the field of Time, Su Xiao perceived Sha rushing over at high speed. During the rush, the other party gathered strength and punched over.

Clang!

Su Xiao blocked this strike with his blade. He took advantage of the fact that the field of Time hadn't dissipated and slashed at Sha's neck. Strangely, Sha didn't dodge. Just as the blade was about to touch the skin of her neck, she was dragged back by a force, at a speed that made space-types sweat.

Zing~

The blade slashed past, and a faint bloodstain was outlined in the air. A bloodstain gradually appeared on Sha's neck more than ten meters away. The wound was shallow, but no one knew better than Sha what this slash meant. The smile on her face gradually became joyful, and then she thought of something and retracted this joyful smile.

Su Xiao stood on the water, his long blade pointing obliquely at the water surface. Under his control, the Demon Spirit appeared beside him. The graceful Demon Spirit had one arm casually resting on Su Xiao's shoulder, and the other hand formed a crystal arm guard from her forearm, with five fingertips forming long, nail-like sharp blades. This arm hung down naturally, her half-mist, half-hair long hair slowly floating, and those black-blue pupils stared at Sha. During battle, the Demon Spirit would absolutely obey Su Xiao.

This made the activation speed of "Position Swap" and "Demon Blade" nearly twice as fast as before, especially "Position Swap." After the activation speed became twice as fast, Su Xiao's survival ability soared by at least 20%.

Water droplets like rain fell from above. In the water curtain, Su Xiao looked at Sha opposite him. He had already figured out what was going on with Sha's high-speed movement ability.

This ability could be divided into two parts: "Acceleration" and "Retrograde." Every time Sha activated this unknown ability, she could perform a brief "Time Acceleration" on herself.

This acceleration lasted for about 1.5 seconds, only affecting Sha herself, and could not affect the time force field around her. Her advance speed could be as fast as the millisecond level, accelerating 1.5 seconds into a few milliseconds.

If it weren't for Su Xiao's predictive blade technique blocking, it would be impossible to block such a fast attack. Moreover, this was only the first half of Sha's attack. After she successfully attacked the enemy, starting from the moment she activated this unknown ability, as long as the time didn't exceed 3 seconds, she could perform "Retrograde," reversing her own time to 3 seconds ago, achieving displacement and also eliminating the injuries and negative states suffered within these 3 seconds, etc.

A more grounded explanation is that Sha could "save" and "load." Every time she used this ability, it was equivalent to performing a save of up to 3 seconds. Within these 3 seconds, Sha had two choices: move at ultra-high speed twice, each consuming 1.5 seconds, or move at ultra-high speed once + one load, reversing her state to the moment she saved just now. Of course, this ability had a 3-minute cooldown.

This ability was very strong, but this level was not enough to fight Su Xiao.

On the boundless river, blade light crisscrossed, and occasionally a golden boundary thunder struck down. Blood beasts roared to the sky. Looking up at the sky, the clouds in the night sky had been opened into ditches, revealing the starry sky that had been covered.

Half an hour later, the water area where Su Xiao and Sha clashed boiled. On the water, Su Xiao flicked his long blade, outlining an arc-shaped, elegant bloodstain in the air.

The battle was very intense. Of course, it looked very intense. Su Xiao "slightly" held back, such as not removing the seal rings, not using "Kill," not using "Flow," not using "Extreme," not using "Soul Electric Shock," not activating "Time·Dominator," not using "Extreme Blade·World," not using "Ascension Kick," not using "Dead Silence Ash Extinction," not using "Green Shadow King," not using "Heavenly Wrath·Torrent Slash."

Yeah, just slightly holding back.

On a desolate river beach, a figure drenched all over suddenly appeared. There were multiple deep-to-the-bone slash marks on her body. The black hair originally tied into a ponytail was scattered. Her scorching red crystal arms carried high temperatures, evaporating the water droplets stained on them.

With a "thump," Sha fell onto the river beach. Blood spread under her, and her life aura gradually weakened. She was dying. In fact, she had a resin-wrapped medicine capsule in her mouth. If she really became weak to the point of dying, she would immediately bite this potent alchemy medicine. There was no need to doubt its efficacy—it was produced by Saint Flame Pharmacist.

A soul aura emerged, and a pair of ghost sisters appeared a few meters away. They looked only ten years old or so, but their eyes were very mature.

"Sister, she's going to die."

The ghost sister floated forward and poked Sha's shoulder with a finger like a scallion.

"Let her die."

The ghost sister snorted coldly. The cause was that Sha had once squeezed her, as a soul body, into a ball and ate it like cotton candy, scaring her into having nightmares for half a month.

"But, she used up a lot of Abyss power. Although the three supreme existences are using her, wouldn't it be too much of a loss to let her die just like that?"

"Tsk~"

After the ghost sister looked down at Sha for a few seconds, she chose to possess Sha, controlling her heavily injured body to move toward the nearest secret stronghold.

No, this was Sha's plan. The three "Council Elders" of Sky City only knew that Sha came from the Reincarnation Paradise and was obsessed with power, but they didn't know what Sha had experienced. Her willpower was very strong, for three reasons:

1. Technique Master.

2. Her talent ability was "massive" improvement of willpower, and willpower would grow as her strength grew.

3. Long-term acceptance of Su Xiao's treatment made Sha's willpower very strong.

Therefore, absorbing this amount of "pure Abyss power" was not enough to turn Sha into a puppet of Sky City. She hadn't lost herself yet. For Sha, who was obsessed with limits and strength, the "pure Abyss power" possessed by Sky City was a supreme treasure.

This time Sha had a "deathmatch" with Su Xiao and survived by luck. After returning to Sky City, what would the three "Council Elders" do? The answer was, of course, to take out more "pure Abyss power" and let Sha, this puppet, continue to grow stronger. The Dark Twins and Black Hole·Azule had already died, and the Ancient King hadn't awakened yet. They needed Sha, this puppet, to block the aggressive Law-Extinguisher.

In this way, it formed a situation where it seemed Sha was being used, but in fact, Sha was frantically shearing the wool of the three "Council Elders." When the wool was sheared enough, Sha would strip away the "Dark Blood·Will" she hadn't absorbed and immediately escape the current dangerous situation.

Sha was obsessed with power, but she wasn't stupid. Although absorbing "pure Abyss power" had side effects, "pure Abyss power" was an ownerless thing, one of the two supreme powers. Conversely, "Dark Blood·Will"—if she absorbed this thing, what she would face would definitely be a dead end.

In the guest room of the luxury cruise ship, Su Xiao put down the communicator. Although his target this time was Sky City, before going there, he had to go to the Shadow City near the coast, nearly a hundred kilometers away.

If Night City was a place of luxury and chaos, then the Shadow City located on the edge of the Wizard Continent was a dark forest. A more intuitive metaphor was that Night City was equivalent to the trash can of the Wizard Continent, gathering filth and outlaws, while Shadow City was the garbage dump. If they really had no choice, some fugitives and criminals would rather go to sea to fight for a glimmer of life than come to this place.

Because of this, this million-population city with "simple folk customs" became the most active area for the Dark God Sect. The headquarters of the Dark God Sect in this world, the Dark Church, was located here.

Su Xiao didn't plan to enter the city directly to have a conflict with the Dark God Sect this time. When he first entered this world, he contacted Caesar with the purpose of the Dark God Sect's treasury. After Caesar's layout, the time was ripe.

Robbing the enemy's treasury not only didn't hurt his conscience, but made him feel refreshed.

Besides, Caesar also had a unique Goblin Formula. Compared to the robber logic of the Law-Extinguisher Formula, the Goblin Formula mainly highlighted the word "shameless," which was:

The Dark God Sect's treasury = an eyesore for many enemies of the Dark God Sect = the Dark God Sect has many enemies = being eyed by many people = highly likely to be robbed = might as well let Caesar help keep it = fundamentally solved the problem that the Dark God Sect's treasury would be robbed.

According to this logic, the Dark God Sect should even thank Caesar, after all, he helped them fundamentally solve the risk that the treasury might be robbed.

If the high-level members of the Dark God Sect knew this explanation, they would definitely be so angry that their seven orifices would smoke. For so many years, they had been harming others; when had they ever suffered this kind of anger?

But what they didn't know was that there was an even more "surprising" situation waiting for them later, plus a series of particularly vivid masks of pain, all prepared for them.

---Author's Note---

Fei Wen's neck is really bad on rainy days. I originally wanted to write 8000 words, but only wrote nearly half. Sorry, rainy days are really not friendly to Fei Wen's cervical spondylosis. ===== CHAPTER 3827 =====