Chapter 3853: Huge Improvement

With the opening of the 【Abyss Treasure Chest (★)】, a fist-sized crystal core, entwined in black and white, appeared in front of Su Xiao.

The moment he saw this, Su Xiao thought he had opened another big-daddy-level original sin item. Fortunately, the result of the opening prompt was not so.

Click, click, click~

Su Xiao had a crystal layer clinging to his right hand, and he added multiple sealing techniques. As he held the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 with one hand, he confirmed that this thing was closely related to big-daddy-level original sin items.

After observing carefully, he even had a feeling that two big-daddy-level original sin items were entwined and coiled together, putting the other to death... No, using "putting to death" to describe original sin items was not appropriate. Original sin items didn't have the concept of death; it should be that they were destroyed and fell into eternal silence.

What was the reason that caused two big-daddy-level original sin items to fall into eternal silence at the same time? Su Xiao recalled the confrontation between the Overgrowth Frenzy and the Abyss Jar. Both sides were very powerful and had no way to deal with each other. It belonged to the type that could make the other party pay a huge price, but unless an extremely small probability opportunity appeared, there was no possibility of making the other party fall into eternal silence.

Thinking of the Soul Library again, the Ancient One's existence was as long as the Void's different existences. Coupled with the powerful foundation of the Soul Library from the Void's First Era to the present, this side could only deal with original sin items by sealing them, which showed how difficult it was for original sin items to be destroyed and thus fall into eternal silence.

Su Xiao held the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 high. The appearance of this thing made him confirm one point: the only feasible way to make a big-daddy-level original sin item fall into eternal silence was through another big-daddy-level original sin item.

Or rather, the existence of the "Book of Original Sin" was verifying this point. Su Xiao had never counted on the current "Book of Original Sin" to forcibly seal five original sin items. He was using the "Collector" within it to seal the Book of Necromancy, Scarlet Scepter, Nether Bone Ring, and Soul Crown.

As for why the Book of Necromancy was also in this line, don't look at Su Xiao occasionally cooperating with the Book of Necromancy, but as the owner of the Law-Extinguishing Luck and Hunter Brand, there was also a relationship of mutual dislike between the Book of Necromancy and Su Xiao.

According to the normal process, after Su Xiao obtained the Book of Necromancy, he would be unable to restrain his desire for power, open this human-skin book, obtain power through the bizarre knowledge recorded on it, and thus fall into it step by step, becoming a slave to the Book of Necromancy, and offering all the resources he obtained.

The current situation was that Su Xiao had complete control over every soul coin he obtained. Under such circumstances, the Book of Necromancy naturally had some mutual dislike with him.

Su Xiao always had a good sense of himself. He firmly believed in one point: he could seal five original sin items, and the Law-Extinguishing Luck and Hunter Brand were only part of the reason. The bigger reason was that he didn't covet the powerful power bestowed by original sin items. Although that power was obtained quickly, it would always require a price.

Su Xiao looked at the "Book of Original Sin" floating on the side. Five types of original sin power—dead gray, ghostly green, dark gold, scarlet, and black-red—were almost rushing out from inside. This represented that the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 had a huge temptation for the five original sin items.

Come to think of it, big-daddy-level original sin items in an era were actually not many. These two big-daddy-level original sin items with light/dark characteristics should have appeared at the beginning of the Void's First Era. It was very difficult to explore what caused both to fall into eternal silence.

Letting the "Book of Original Sin" devour the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 was of course the best choice. The problem was that the current "Book of Original Sin" didn't have the ability. Devouring the secondary original sin item "Misfortune Ancient Scroll" was the limit of the current "Book of Original Sin."

And it had to be the half-dead "Misfortune Ancient Scroll." Currently, the "Book of Original Sin" was most suitable for devouring 【Original Sin Core】.

Retaining the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 and waiting for the "Book of Original Sin" to be powerful enough to devour it seemed like a good choice. The problem was that the Collector within the "Book of Original Sin" was now exhibiting a strong desire for plunder. Without it maintaining it, it really couldn't seal the other original sin items.

Now it could only be one out of five. Giving the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 to one of the five original sin items—giving it to the Collector seemed like a good choice. The problem was that this would cause the Collector's "collecting addiction" to soar to an unimaginable degree, and even leave the "Book of Original Sin" immediately. Under that degree of "collecting addiction," sealing four original sin items could no longer satisfy the Collector.

Su Xiao turned the "Book of Original Sin" to the fifth page and pressed the 【Twisted Entwined Core】 toward the Soul Crown on the fifth page. Compared to the other four big daddies with a danger level of 100, the Soul Crown with a danger level of 99.5 was the best choice. After the Soul Crown devoured the 【Twisted Entwined Core】, it would definitely become a newly promoted big-daddy-level.

Among the original sin items Su Xiao sealed, the Collector, Book of Necromancy, Scarlet Scepter, and Nether Bone Ring all had checks and balances on each other, only the slightly inferior Soul Crown was excluded, which made the "Book of Original Sin" have a very poor "sense of balance."

The Soul Crown promoting to big-daddy-level would raise Su Xiao's sealing threshold to big-daddy-level. From now on, original sin items that didn't reach big-daddy-level would not be considered for sealing into the "Book of Original Sin," to avoid the sealing pressure soaring due to a poor "sense of balance."

Besides this, Su Xiao had another idea. After the five original sin items were sealed in the Book of Original Sin, their situations were roughly similar. The Soul Crown, which was at the bottom, had obtained the 【Twisted Entwined Core】. Could the four big daddies—Collector, Book of Necromancy, Scarlet Scepter, and Nether Bone Ring—be happy?

These four big daddies were unhappy, so of course, they wanted to mess with Su Xiao. But if they could mess with Su Xiao, they would have done it long ago; why wait until now? Since they couldn't mess with Su Xiao, they might as well beat up the Soul Crown together. This belonged to something they could reach and beat.

The Soul Crown was at the critical moment of absorbing the 【Twisted Entwined Core】. Even if it was beaten by the Collector and the other four, it would definitely endure it first.

The five original sin items were busy with their own things. In this way, the pressure on Su Xiao to seal the five original sin items would be reduced to an unprecedented degree. Suppose the previous sealing pressure was 2 million; it would temporarily drop to 50,000–100,000.

There was another point: the Soul Crown, which was absorbing the massive "Primordial Original Sin Power" in the 【Twisted Entwined Core】, because it was being beaten by the four original sin items, the "Primordial Original Sin Power" it absorbed would definitely overflow by 20%–30%. These "Primordial Original Sin Powers" that were beaten out were just absorbed by the "Book of Original Sin," thereby becoming stronger.

It could be said that this move of sowing discord was so wicked that it made people couldn't help but laugh, but it was also absolutely the best solution now. It not only temporarily relieved the sealing pressure but also epicly enhanced the "Book of Original Sin."

There were two treasure chests left, namely 【Scarlet Treasure Chest: Spirit Demon】 and 【Soul Law Treasure Chest】. Besides this, Su Xiao also had the 【Directional Acquisition: One-time】 authorization, which was a reward obtained from executing the "Resource Task: Space-Time Power Contention" in the Dark Star World, and it had been retained until now.

Su Xiao originally prepared to use it to open the "Scarlet Card: Gray Gentleman," but after pondering for a long time, he gave up this idea. He always felt that the Gray Gentleman really might not be dead thoroughly, and the other party's soul was very likely in this Scarlet Card.

This method was vicious to the extreme. Under the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise, no method could destroy this Scarlet Card. This belonged to rewards/gains, and the soul being located inside achieved absolute safety.

The only place where the Gray Gentleman miscalculated was that he never expected that Su Xiao would almost have a shadow from opening Scarlet Cards when he was at a low tier. Every time he was excited to open some shoes, socks, shampoo, body wash, or various new adult products that were unexpected, anyone would have no good impression of Scarlet Cards.

In fact, this situation was very rare. Su Xiao inherited the Law-Extinguishing Shadow system after experiencing one trial world after entering Reincarnation Paradise. A more serious problem was that at that time, he was the only Law-Extinguisher, and the Law-Extinguishing Luck was all with him.

Why did Su Xiao feel that his luck was poor when he reached the middle and late stages? This was because there was no comparison in the early stage. He didn't know battle angels like Mo Lei and Hao Mei who were so lucky that people wanted to beat them up. In fact, the scene of opening Scarlet Cards like shopping in a wholesale market for miscellaneous goods was very rare.

Under normal circumstances, although contractors would deliberately put a pile of items without extraordinary value that disgusted people in their storage space, not many were opened.

【You have started the Soul Law Treasure Chest.】

【You obtained Iron Blood Oath.】

【Iron Blood Oath】

Origin: Nightmare Land (Ultra-heavy Abyss Erosion Zone).

Category: Oath Item.

Durability: 1/1 point.

Usage Effect: After activating this oath, you will sign a contract with the Iron Blood Hounds of the Nightmare Land, obtaining the qualification to summon them to fight for you. In return, after each battle, you must pay a strong person's heart (at least Absolute Strong-level strong person's heart) as the reward for this battle. If the reward is not paid, you will suffer the fierce backlash of the Iron Blood Hounds.

Contract Prerequisite: You need to survive for 30 minutes under the attack of an Iron Blood Hound, or kill the Iron Blood Hound once.

Prompt: Because of your -25 point Charisma attribute, you do not need to undergo this test and will default to obtaining the recognition of all Iron Blood Hounds.

Prompt: Because you possess powerful blood energy (personal aura), you will have the natural favor and trust of the Iron Blood Hounds.

Favor and trust are initial: 78 points.

Introduction: You are sure, this size of monster... is a hound?

Price: Can be sold, transferred, etc.

Being able to survive in an ultra-heavy abyss erosion zone and occupying a fixed territory, the combat power of the Iron Blood Hounds was undoubtedly strong. In return, the price to have them assist in battle was also very high. Each time, a heart of an Absolute Strong person was required. For this reward, Su Xiao was very satisfied.

This contract only required the heart of an Absolute Strong person; it didn't specify which ethnic group's Absolute Strong person's heart. Since that was the case, cultivating a powerful Demon Flame Dragon body through the base camp insect nest and taking out its heart without injecting a soul—wasn't this also an Absolute Strong-level heart? And it was a rare dragon heart among Absolute Strong.

There was no dragon heart that couldn't appease an Iron Blood Hound. If there was, then pay the other party two. If they were still not satisfied, it didn't matter. The biological energy consumption for cultivating a soulless, powerful Demon Flame Dragon body was how much? Ten or twenty dragon hearts were all small matters.

Judging from the attributes of this oath, the Iron Blood Hounds had a certain intelligence, but they were violent and cruel in their actions. But this was irrelevant. Imagine, if Su Xiao summoned Iron Blood Hounds many times and paid the reward particularly generously each time, then accepting his summons was undoubtedly a good thing.

Interests generate competition, and competition highlights strength. If Su Xiao summoned Iron Blood Hounds enough times, it would form a situation where only the strongest few Iron Blood Hounds had the qualification to be summoned by him.

Su Xiao particularly needed this kind of mercenary-like summon. Facing a very dangerous unknown environment, he never let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Beni go to explore. These were followers who had followed him to this day.

As Su Xiao activated this oath, the dark red Iron Blood contract mark appeared in front of him. He pressed his hand on it.

Boom!

Blood smoke exploded, and one after another, Iron Blood Hounds with blurred shapes and scarlet eyes watched Su Xiao in a semi-circular posture. But a few seconds later, these Iron Blood Hounds restrained their ferocity. Both sides were evil-faction auras, and they could be recognized after a preliminary probe.

There was no trial, not even a slight probe, and the Iron Blood Hounds retreated, acknowledging Su Xiao as the person of this oath.

【You have mastered a new skill: Iron Blood Hound Summoning Technique, Lv. EX.】

【This skill cannot be improved by any means. Because there is no possibility and necessity for improvement, this skill will not be included in your personal skill list.】

Su Xiao picked up the 【Scarlet Treasure Chest: Spirit Demon】. The story of this treasure chest was too full. This had to be traced back to the Eternal Light World. At that time, the Spirit Demon was courting death by pursuing him, but was killed by him. It looked like the Spirit Demon was randomly courting death after the Platinum Apostle devoured her fate, but in fact, it was premeditated by the Platinum Apostle for a long time.

The Platinum Apostle, through Su Xiao, who was a Hunter, brought an "unnotarizable item" that was absolutely impossible to bring out of the Eternal Light World from the Spirit Demon's storage space, and brought it out of the Eternal Light World through Su Xiao's killing gain, which was the Scarlet Treasure Chest.

Before in the Witch World, the Platinum Apostle wanted to take back this treasure chest. Speaking of which, this was the first official confrontation between Su Xiao and the Platinum Apostle. After witnessing Su Xiao summon the Demon Insect Sea, the Platinum Apostle temporarily suppressed the idea of seizing 【Scarlet Treasure Chest: Spirit Demon】.

【You have activated Directional Acquisition: One-time (this authorization can only be activated for killing-type treasure chests such as Scarlet Cards, Scarlet Treasure Chests, Blood Keys, etc.).】

【Activation Target: Scarlet Treasure Chest: Spirit Demon.】

【All items in this treasure chest will be presented to you in the form of a list, and you can choose any one of them as your gain from this treasure chest.】

All of the Spirit Demon's equipment, and even her skills, were presented in front of Su Xiao. He flipped down, and when he flipped to the very bottom, a blurred card appeared. This crystalline card looked like it was half-hidden in the fog. If one didn't observe carefully, one would likely ignore it.

【You have selected???】

【You obtained???.】

Although Su Xiao expected that this gain would be special, he didn't expect it to be strange to this degree. He tried it with a try-and-see attitude and checked the attributes of this item.

【???】

Origin: Dawn?

Quality: Paradise...

Category: Permanent improvement type.

Effect:???

Introduction: Death, transcendence, or... the ultimate one. Those who crave the limit, how can they refuse this challenge and temptation.

Price: Cannot be traded, cannot be transferred, cannot be discarded, cannot be stored in storage spaces below tier 10 (the Hunter can store this item in the storage space).

Warning: This is a Dawn Paradise characteristic item that cannot be notarized. The Hunter can choose to submit it or arrive at the??? place in the Dark Ruins of Dawn Paradise to use this item.

Prompt: With the Hunter's current authorization, you can check the conventional mode attributes of this item by applying for notarization to Reincarnation Paradise. But after performing this notarization, you need to complete the binding with this item within 10 minutes. After binding, you must use this item.

Inspection Result 1: This item only has the notarization restriction of "Paradise-level" and has no usage risk (this description only includes the usage process).

Inspection Result 2: This is a positive gain characteristic item, unique to Dawn Paradise. Due to the current situation of Dawn Paradise, you need to prepare 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power yourself to charge the device activated by this item before you can complete this improvement.

Inspection Result 3: Because you are a Hunter, when you successfully use the??? device to complete the improvement, the ownership of this device will change. Reincarnation Paradise has a 50.95% probability of successfully notarizing this high-tier device a second time, thereby obtaining the composition, manufacturing, and driving process of this high-tier device, thus adding a high-authorization improvement facility to Reincarnation Paradise.

Prompt: Detected the Hunter's behavior of using this item, there is a probability of bringing gains to Reincarnation Paradise. If you successfully enter the Dark Ruins of Dawn Paradise and arrive at the storage place of this device, the 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power you originally needed to pay will be covered by Reincarnation Paradise for 99.99%. You only need to pay a total of 18.6 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this??? high-tier device.

Prompt: Before the Hunter's Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes all reach 800 points, please do not go to the storage place of this??? high-tier device in the Dark Ruins of Dawn Paradise.

This thing had a huge amount of information. However, seeing that it involved using this thing only when Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes all reached 800 points or more, Su Xiao put it away.

Checking the remaining materials, the 100-plus Soul Crystals left made Su Xiao frown. In the past, Soul Crystals were never enough, but this time soul coins were in short supply, with only 3,270 left. After considering it, he chose to sell the share revenue of the Painting World.

【Yes/No to sell the Painting World authorization revenue? You can sell this item in the following ways.】

1. Sell immediately to Reincarnation Paradise, obtaining 500,000 soul coins and 800 ounces of Space-Time Power.

2. Immediately activate the quick auction function of the auction platform, and auction this authorization within the next 10 minutes.

Su Xiao chose the second one, and the subsequent prompt appeared.

【Yes/No to pay 50,000 soul coins to let more contractors see this quick auction, or consume one of the "Quick Auction Authorization 2/2" to auction this item.】

Su Xiao really didn't know he had this authorization before. After checking the detailed information, he learned that this wasn't ignored. This authorization was only activated after his brand level reached Lv. 95. Generally, staff members who were big merchants had this kind of authorization in the middle and late stages.

Su Xiao set the base price at 1 soul coin, and the auction began. The authorization of the Painting World was notarized into an "Authorization Item." On the side was the current auction price, and below were the three operations Su Xiao could perform, which were: deal in 5 seconds, deal immediately, and fail to auction. Among them, failing to auction for no reason would deduct a certain amount of liquidated damages.

The popularity of the "Painting World Share Authorization" far exceeded Su Xiao's imagination. He always felt that this thing was a bit trashy, but the feeling of all the bidders this time was: someone is actually willing to sell this thing?

After a round of auctions, the Painting World share authorization was actually sold for 968,530 soul coins. What was even more wonderful was that both the buyer and the seller felt they had earned it. For Su Xiao, how many more world progresses would it take to earn 960,000 soul coins? At least 20–30? Perhaps more.

His wallet was strengthened again, but compared to the wealth of having more than 5 million soul coins just now, it was only considered slightly rich at this time. The cost of improving abilities for technique-types in the later stages was too high.

Checking the storage space, Su Xiao sold the 42 accumulated ordinary Origin Stones at the market price of 5,160 soul coins each. This thing was particularly easy to sell. Just after trading it to Beni to hang on the stall, it was bought by a passing merchant, and another 200,000-plus soul coins were credited.

Su Xiao took out 【Ancient Dragon Soul Stone: Unique (Ultra-high rarity item,???)】, which was one of the gains from killing the Ancient King. He originally intended to keep this item temporarily to study it well, but now he was indeed too poor, and even the three main technique abilities couldn't be improved. Moreover, his strength system had nothing to do with the Ancient Dragon faction. Leaving this rare item, which was 99% likely to be a skill inheritance stone, was highly likely useless.

Su Xiao stored it in the team storage space. Beni, who was at the gathering place, began to contact buyers. This kind of item was still relatively easy to sell. The "Unique" suffix on it was very bluffing. However, the buyers contacted were also old foxes.

Finally, this item was sold for 510,000 soul coins. The reason was that the Ancient Dragon faction was a declined transcendent world. If it were a unique characteristic item of an existing transcendent world, the price would definitely be over a million soul coins.

With this wave of gains, Su Xiao continued to improve the Close Combat Grandmaster and Blood Gun Grandmaster. Consuming a total of 1,567,500 soul coins and 165 Soul Crystals, Su Xiao's Close Combat Grandmaster and Blood Gun Grandmaster both reached Lv. 91.

【Close Combat Grandmaster: Lv. 91 (Technique Passive)】

Skill Effect: Kick damage tier +47 (improved by 13), physical toughness increased by 58% (improved by 5.5%).

Lv. 10 Ultimate Ability: Power Penetration: Kick Technique Basic Enhancement (Ultimate-level Passive)...

Lv. 70 Ultimate Ability: Power Penetration: Kick Technique Six-fold Enhancement (Ultimate-level Passive)...

Lv. 80 Ultimate Ability: Power Penetration: Kick Technique Seven-fold Enhancement (Ultimate-level Passive): Kick attack judgment improved to "Ascension-level," and has a probability of triggering the "Death Retrospection" effect on the enemy, thereby reducing the enemy's avoidance probability.

Lv. 90 Ultimate Ability: Power Penetration: Kick Technique Eight-fold Enhancement (Absolute Strong-level Passive): Kick attack judgment improved to "Extermination-level," and has a probability of causing the enemy's body and soul to separate moderately, thereby causing a strong control effect of soul characteristics.

【Prompt: Your Blood Gun Grandmaster ability has been improved to Lv. 90, and your passive ability "Life After Death" has been absorbed by the Blood Gun Grandmaster.】

【Life After Death (Passive), when your health drops to a near-death state, your soul power will be fully activated. During this period, all your close combat attack damage is increased by 65%.】

【Blood Gun Grandmaster: Lv. 91 (Passive)】

Skill Effect: Blood energy attack tier +54 (improved by 21), any blood energy-type attack will reduce the enemy's 30% all defense (improved by 7%).

Blood Energy Intensity: 440 points (improved by 105 points).

Basic Effect: When your health drops to a near-death state, your soul power will be fully activated. During this period, all your close combat attack damage is increased by 65% (current near-death health is less than 20% of maximum health).

Lv. 90 Ultimate Ability: Blood Controller (Absolute Strong-level Passive): When your health is only 1%, all your remaining soul energy, mental energy, and 80% of your body energy will all be instantly converted into blood energy through the Devouring Core, and with this huge amount of blood energy, protect your "Life Primordial" for 6 seconds...

Prompt: Within the 6 seconds of activating "Blood Controller," the basic effect of this ability, "all close combat attack damage increased by 65%," is temporarily increased to "all close combat attack damage increased by 100%."

There were 127,750 soul coins left. The good news was that the gains from the mining team had arrived, still delivered by Crystal Ji.

"Hu~"

Crystal Ji drank a sip of maple tea. Her somewhat pale complexion represented that her injuries had just recovered. However, she deliberately used light makeup to cover it up. Strangely, because her "makeup technique was poor," she couldn't completely cover it up, which gave a feeling: 'I'm injured, afraid you'll worry, I didn't let you know, but the makeup wasn't drawn well and was still discovered by you, I can't help it either.'

"Sigh~, every time it's me running over tirelessly, but you always ask why my sister didn't come. It's okay, I won't be sad."

As soon as Crystal Ji opened her mouth, Baja, who was squatting on the back of the sofa not far away, had a headache. This belonged to its ultimate nemesis.

"So, this is the reason you stabbed through Boiling Red's heart with your bare hands behind her back?"

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Crystal Ji, who was holding the teacup with both hands, dodged her gaze and sophistically said: "It's normal for sisters to have some small conflicts."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, and threw the terminal on the table with a pop. In the terminal's screen, Crystal Ji was walking and talking with Boiling Red. As they walked, Crystal Ji's pace slowed down, and then she suddenly stabbed through Boiling Red's heart with her bare hands, and pressed her head with one hand, pressing her to the ground. Crystal Ji, whose fair cheeks were stained with dots of blood, had a smile of pleasure and effort to suppress on her face.

Seeing these pictures, the corners of Crystal Ji's eyes twitched imperceptibly, and she whispered: "It must be that bastard Sun Apostle. Black A would never do such a thing as reporting behind the back."

"10 seconds, I'll give you 10 seconds to explain."

Su Xiao set the mechanical pocket watch and placed it on the table.

"I just wanted to see you..."

Click, click, click~

After the countdown entered five seconds, the pocket watch made a crisp, pleasant mechanical sound, which made Crystal Ji's breathing speed up a bit. She couldn't hold back the powerful oppressive force coming toward her. Just as she was about to make up another reason, the countdown ended, and the Demon Spirit appeared beside her, hugging her shoulders with one hand.

"Let me explain again, I..."

The Demon Spirit shrouded Crystal Ji and walked toward the planting area, followed by the sound of falling into the water.

Half an hour later, Crystal Ji, who only had half a life left, lay beside the Eternal Spring Water pool. Her clothes were soaked, and her tears hadn't had time to be wiped away. Although she could still maintain some elegance and decency, she was still lingering in fear. The taste of being dragged by the Demon Spirit into darkness and water made Crystal Ji unforgettable for the rest of her life.

"I really just wanted to do that suddenly. I don't know the reason myself."

Crystal Ji looked at Su Xiao with innocence in her eyes. That look was as if she had really been wronged.

For Crystal Ji's acting, Su Xiao had always recognized it. He withdrew the Demon Spirit and said while turning to walk out: "Is that so? Then I blamed you wrongly."

Crystal Ji left with lingering fear. After she left, Baja landed on Su Xiao's shoulder and asked: "Boss, these guys are not honest again. Do you want me to go and beat them up?"

"No need."

Su Xiao naturally knew that the devourers wouldn't be honest. Black A, Boiling Red, Sun Apostle, Crystal Ji—except for Boiling Red, who was his own daughter and worth trusting, the others were either rebellious children, filial children, or elegant scheming bitches with a little perversion.

This time, the mining team had a total gain of 358,600 soul coins. After deducting the shares of other parties, Su Xiao got 179,300 soul coins.

After meditating to stabilize his aura, Su Xiao tried to improve the Blade Technique Grandmaster.

【To improve Blade Technique Grandmaster Lv. 95, you need to consume Soul Crystals x100 + 750,000 soul coins, as well as 1 "Original Sin Core."】

The improvement cost of the Blade Technique Grandmaster was simply outrageous. This was actually very normal, because after this technique ability reached Lv. 95, it reached the full level in a conventional state. If technique grandmasters wanted to improve this ability again, they had to go through "Ultimate Realization."

Sometimes it was after a life-and-death battle that this realization was triggered, successfully improving the Blade Technique Grandmaster by one level. Sometimes it was arriving at a brand new world and obtaining this realization, but more often it was stopping here forever.

The reason Su Xiao was so smooth and broke through the upper limit directly after the Blade Technique Grandmaster reached "conventional full level" was the effect of 【Origin Stone: World】.

"Equipment Effect 2: Strength (Passive), you will obtain a permanent gain. The level cap of all skills in your skill list is increased by Lv. 10 (only when the real Stamina attribute reaches 500 points can this bonus be triggered)."

In other words, Su Xiao's Blade Technique Grandmaster ability was smooth all the way until it reached Lv. 105. Don't look at the astonishing amount of resources consumed to improve it; other technique grandmasters would beg for this opportunity. Compared to that ethereal "Ultimate Realization," this improvement requirement that could be seen and touched was reliable.

This was the only bonus Su Xiao had ever seen that improved the level cap of "Basic Technique Ability." Others, such as "all technique ability level caps increased" or "blade technique ability level cap increased," actually improved the blade technique ability derived from "Basic Technique Ability," not the foundation itself.

Su Xiao checked the existing 291 Golden Skill Points. He opened the skill list, pondered for a while, got up and came to the improvement room, opened the skill upgrade cabin and sat cross-legged inside, enjoying the buff of reduced death rate when improving skills, before starting to improve Law-Extinguishing abilities.

Su Xiao first improved the "Spirit Shadow Physique" ability. With 10 Golden Skill Points added, he immediately fell into a dream.

When he woke up feeling a bit light-headed, the "Spirit Shadow Physique" ability had returned from Lv. MAX to Lv. EX. After maxing out, the pale gold flowing color of the skill name appeared again.

【Spirit Shadow Physique, Lv. EX (Passive Skill)】

Skill Effect 1: Mana and body have produced a wonderful resonance. Mana and health form a good cycle, and health is greatly enhanced. The improvement amount is 100% of total mana.

Note: Current mana 116,779 points, health increased by 116,779 points.

Skill Effect 2: Movement speed +45%, dynamic perception +95% (speed increased by 30%, dynamic perception increased by 15%).

Skill Effect 3: Physical perception potential upper limit +7 (improved by 3).

Skill Effect 4: Current total health increased by 20% (no improvement).

Skill Effect 5: The body's adaptability to all Law-Extinguishing energy is improved. When mastering new Law-Extinguishing abilities and improving such abilities, the death rate is reduced by 60% (improved by 15%).

Seeing the improvement of "Spirit Shadow Physique," Su Xiao felt much more secure. Counting the "Unyielding Shadow (Exclusive Passive)" obtained after the Stamina attribute reached 300 points, the two combined reduced the death rate when improving Law-Extinguishing abilities by 85%.

With this foundation, Su Xiao maxed out the "Indestructible Physique," "Dragon Shadow Flash," and "Soul Induction" abilities with 30 Golden Skill Points. The next second, he fell into a dream again. It had to be said that the sleep quality today was truly top-notch.

An hour later, Su Xiao sat up. This time, there was no light-headed feeling. He checked the three improved abilities.

【Indestructible Physique, Lv. EX (Passive)】

Skill Effect: When your health drops to 70%, according to your real Strength, real Agility, real Stamina, and real Intelligence attributes, "hugely" improve your body defense.

Improvement range is: real Strength + real Agility + real Stamina + real Intelligence, total sum x 0.5 (maximum improvement of 950 points of body defense, reaching the limit bonus).

This improvement could be called a qualitative change. Before, Su Xiao's blood volume had to be lower than 50% to trigger, but now it was improved to 70%. Not only that, the upper limit of 800 points was also increased to 950 points.

In contrast, the "Soul Induction" ability only improved the trigger probability, from 15% per slash to 25%. At first glance, this improvement was not small, but for Su Xiao, it was more about improving the efficiency of accumulating to 100% and triggering it.

【Dragon Shadow Flash: Lv. EX (Active Ability).】

Skill Effect: Can penetrate space and move 50 meters (improved by 15 meters), freely choose between 0 meters and 50 meters (this ability has the highest priority space judgment).

Prompt: The cooldown time of Dragon Shadow Flash is 2 minutes (this is the most stable interval time).

Prompt: Each time Dragon Shadow Flash is used, 1,500 points of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy are consumed.

Prompt: The space penetration state can be maintained for 0.2–3 seconds (determined according to the user's will).

New Characteristic 1: Every 1 hour this ability is not used, this ability will store one usage count. The current maximum storage count is 3/3. Before the usage count is exhausted, this ability will not enter the cooldown stage.

New Characteristic 2: If you successfully kill an enemy target with vigorous vitality, you will devour its vitality through the Devouring Core and convert this vitality into non-attribute energy with space characteristics, thereby immediately replenishing 1 Dragon Shadow Flash usage count.

Simply put, Dragon Shadow Flash now enters the cooldown stage only after being used three times. If Su Xiao is in a group battle of one against many, he can use the Dragon Shadow Flash ability very frequently.

Su Xiao continued to check the skill list. With the foreshadowing just now, he selected five abilities to improve: "Technique Resonance: Speed," "Devouring Core," "Adaptability," "Soul-Severing Shadow," and "Demon Spirit Awakening." When 50 Golden Skill Points were invested, he fell into a dream again.

Two hours later, Su Xiao sat up. He first checked the "Technique Resonance: Speed" ability and found that this ability was still pure, only improving body speed, and the improvement range was larger, soaring from the original 2.604 times body speed to 4.155 times body speed. This made Su Xiao feel that everything around him had slowed down, and he had to adapt for a while to recover.

This level of improvement was very exaggerated in the middle stage, and even more exaggerated in the later stage. Su Xiao felt that he was now fearless of the terrifying speed of the Primordial Witch.

【Devouring Core: Lv. EX (Active Skill).】

Skill Effect: Can absorb high-tier biological energy/rare soul energy to nourish Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy. According to the level and quality of the absorbed energy, improve the level and strength of the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability.

Passive Effect 1: Filter energy purity +90% (improved by 14%).

Passive Effect 2: Energy absorption speed increased by 15 times (11.8 times).

Passive Effect 3: Devouring Core energy storage upper limit increased by 800% (no improvement).

Passive Effect 4: When absorbing high-tier biological energy/rare soul energy, apply an energy paralysis effect to the enemy (this paralysis effect has priority, but can only be triggered when absorbing high-tier biological energy).

Passive Effect 5: Obtain sensing amplification of high-tier biological energy/rare soul energy. Your sense of smell and taste will include these two types of energy in the cognitive judgment of "delicious delicacies."

Su Xiao's Devouring Core ability had the characteristic of devouring high-tier biological energy to improve the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability level before, but the problem was that it was very difficult to encounter such targets with high-tier biological energy.

Now the scope of devouring had broadened, not only high-tier biological energy but also rare soul energy. Although these two types of energy were still rare, Su Xiao could now detect their existence through his sense of smell, just like being able to smell the aroma of food.

【Adaptability, Lv. EX (Passive)】

Skill Effect: According to the enemy's characteristics, improve 70–100 points of non-reducible real resistance!

Prompt: "Real resistance" has absolute priority, and the enemy cannot reduce this resistance by any means.

This ability was low-key yet powerful, and it had helped Su Xiao save his life countless times. Now its strength had soared by a large margin, and the specific strength would be experienced in actual combat.

【Soul-Severing Shadow: Lv. EX (Active)】

Existing Soul Cores: Blue Steel, Speed, Soul-Slashing, Blade Spirit, Falling Thunder, Darkness.

Total Soul Core Slots: 6/15 (6 soul core slots occupied).

The upper limit of soul core slots was increased from 12 to 15, which would only be reflected in the effect when developing the Soul-Severing Shadow ability later.

At the current stage, Su Xiao was still in the preliminary mastery stage of Soul-Severing Shadow. Although this ability had been improved to the full level, it wasn't that he didn't want to develop it deeply; before promoting to Absolute Strong, deeply developing this ability easily led to the body being unable to bear it, thus dying suddenly.

【Demon Spirit Awakening: Lv. EX (Unique Skill)】

Passive Effect: Fully release the Blade Demon Spirit within the Dragon Slash. Within the next 30 seconds, the Blade Demon Spirit will enter the "Frenzy Devouring State." During this period, if attacking an Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-Parasitic Creature with health below 30% (improved by 20%), the Blade Demon Spirit will devour all the primordial power of this Abyss-Parasitic Creature, thereby sealing it within the Dragon Slash.

Commonly understood, this was improving the devouring/slashing line for Indestructible Characteristic Abyss-Parasitic Creatures from the original 10% to 30%, which was very practical.

The improvement hadn't ended yet. Su Xiao selected five more abilities: "Time: Dominator," "Perfect Physique," "Combat Prosthetic," "Supreme Blade," and "Magic-Immune Physique." Among them, "Magic-Immune Physique" hadn't reached Lv. EX before, so 5 more Golden Skill Points were invested.

A total of 55 Golden Skill Points were invested. Su Xiao fell into a dream for the fourth time today. When he woke up, more than three hours had passed. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Beni were all particularly worried and gathered around the bed. Seeing Su Xiao wake up, they were obviously relieved.

Su Xiao checked "Time: Dominator" and found that the strength of this ability had only improved. The duration of the time force field within a 10-meter diameter increased from 0.2–0.5 seconds to 0.2–1 second. Don't underestimate this improvement. In the actual combat of the current tier, a gap of 0.5 seconds was the distance between life and death.

【Perfect Physique, Lv. EX (Passive)】

Skill Effect: Every 5 points of your real Strength, real Agility, real Stamina, and real Intelligence attributes will use this ability to make the corresponding body attribute additionally increase by 1 point.

Prompt: Every 10 points of body main attributes you improve will permanently increase 1 point of abnormal attribute resistance.

The characteristic of the Perfect Physique ability was that the earlier you mastered this ability, the more powerful the characteristics you exerted. However, Su Xiao mastered this ability only in the late Ninth Tier.

But calculating carefully, the subsequent bonus of this ability was still quite strong. Su Xiao's Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes were now all 634 points, and each was still 166 points away from 800 points. Calculated this way, the Perfect Physique ability could improve more than 60 points of abnormal attribute resistance later, not to mention that after promoting to Absolute Strong, body attributes could be improved to more than 800 points.

Checking the "Supreme Blade" ability, its characteristic was that the Dragon Slash could now only devour Eternal-level blade weapons. As a gain,

You must know that Eternal-tier is the highest quality in the equipment system, and Eternal-tier items have a rating of 3000–6000 points. Previously, Zhan Long Shan's rating could reach 3000–10500 points, which was already rare and precious; now, reaching 3000–12000 points has truly reached the extreme.

Zhan Long Shan's potential has soared, but to nurture it, many Eternal-tier longswords are needed. Calculating based on the price of 400,000 to 500,000 per high-rating Eternal-tier longsword, Su Xiao's wallet feels a dull ache.

【Combat Prosthetic Lv. EX (Passive)】

Skill Effect 1: Increases Aoge state intensity by 960% (increased by 140%), crystal formation and adhesion speed increased by 98% (increased by 6%), crystal stability super-significantly increased.

Skill Effect 2: If upper or lower limbs are missing (both arms and both legs), combat prosthetics can be rapidly constructed via Aoge crystals to replace the missing limb functions. Combat prosthetics can stably exist for 45,000 natural days.

Combat Prosthetic Strength: 99% restoration (increased by 4%).

Combat Prosthetic Speed: 98% restoration (increased by 5%).

Combat Prosthetic Tactile Sense: 95% restoration (increased by 5%).

Combat Prosthetic Nervous System: 93% restoration (increased by 8%).

Note: While the combat prosthetic exists, the current maximum mana is reduced by 5%–10% (depending on the number of combat prosthetics constructed). The reduced maximum mana is used to stabilize and maintain the combat prosthetics. When the combat prosthetics are dismissed, the reduced maximum mana will be immediately restored, but the equivalent amount of mana will not be restored.

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The restoration degree of the combat prosthetic is already quite high, but in all fairness, original arms are still better to use. Don't underestimate that slight difference; in a life-or-death battle, the gap still exists. However, compared to having no arms or legs after an amputation, the combat prosthetic is a divine skill.

【Magic-Immune Constitution, Lv. EX (Passive).】

Skill Effect 1: Cannot master/learn any spell-type skills.

Skill Effect 2: Immune to 70% of magic-type damage.

Note: This passive ability has the highest priority and can immunize against true magic damage, holy magic damage, and execution-type magic damage.

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The effect of Magic-Immune Constitution remains as plain and unadorned as ever, while making magic-users despair. No matter how you look at it, exempting 70% of magic-type damage is an exceptionally absurd passive ability. However, considering the ratio of numbers and casualties between Law-Breakers and spellcasters when they clash, the existence of this ability is reasonable to the extreme.

After continuously upgrading more than ten types of abilities, Su Xiao meditated for a moment to stabilize his aura. When his state recovered, he simultaneously upgraded the seven basic passives: "Basic Passive: Source of Power," "Basic Passive: Shadow Speed," "Basic Passive: Recovery," "Basic Passive: Body Soul," "Basic Passive: Awakening," "Basic Passive: Spirit Resilience," "Basic Passive: Blood Awakening," plus "Technique Sublimation" and one basic technique passive.

With a total consumption of 80 Golden Skill Points, Su Xiao fell into a deep sleep for the fifth time today. The quality of this sleep was so good that he didn't even feel like sleeping much for the next few days.

This time, Su Xiao woke up in less than half an hour. It seemed like he upgraded many types of abilities, but the benefits brought by these abilities were actually very simple: increasing attack power, strength, speed, perception, and stamina cap. This stamina cap has nothing to do with HP, but rather the duration of combat.

There were still four abilities Su Xiao needed to upgrade. After sensing his condition and feeling that he could still hold on, he maxed out "Soul Blade: Secondary Weapon," "Ultimate: Basic Passive: Overlord Power," "Technique Sublimation: Supreme Blade," and "Body Sublimation: Ascension Power." The feeling this time was similar to upgrading Law-Breaker abilities, so the sleep quality was extremely good.

When Su Xiao woke up, the first thing he saw was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang yawning. After he got up, his state was unprecedentedly good compared to the previous few times. Checking the time, he had slept for ten hours this time. It seems that after continuously upgrading more than 20 abilities, his body couldn't take it anymore, so he took the opportunity to enter a sleep state.

【Soul Blade: Secondary Weapon (Passive, Lv. EX).】

Skill Effect 1: Your Aoge ability's overall intensity is increased by 80% (increased by 50).

Skill Effect 2: You can construct adaptive weapons through the crystals produced by the Aoge ability. The slashing power, blunt force, penetration, etc., of this weapon will be determined by your soul strength and body energy cap.

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This ability was originally intended for the Magic Spirit to construct weapons, but in actual combat, Su Xiao discovered that the Magic Spirit didn't use this ability very well, while he himself found it exceptionally handy.

For example, when an enemy's strength is too great, he will attach a large number of crystals to Zhan Long Shan. When he slashes against the enemy, the crystals on the blade explode, which not only acts as a buffer but the scattered sharp crystal fragments also have lethality.

【Technique Sublimation: Supreme Blade: Lv. EX (Technique-type: Passive)】

Skill Effect 1: Blade-type weapon attack power increased by +1580% (increased by 300%).

Skill Effect 2: Blade technique move power increased by 1580% (increased by 300%).

Skill Effect 3: Blade technique potential tier +27 (increased by 6).

Skill Effect 4: Blade technique upgrade cost +50%, upgrade effect +50% (this trait cannot be upgraded by any means).

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【Body Sublimation: Ascension Power: Lv. EX (Technique-type: Passive)】

Skill Effect 1: During melee combat, kick technique attack power increased by 480% (increased by 110%).

Skill Effect 2: During melee combat, kick technique attack power increased by 780% (increased by 210%).

Skill Effect 3: During melee combat, kick technique attack power increased by 1420% (increased by 320%).

Skill Effect 4: Melee Master upgrade cost +50%, upgrade effect +50% (this trait cannot be upgraded by any means).

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Where is the advantage of Su Xiao's straight kick ability? The answer is focus. All the skills he uses to upgrade his straight kick are piled up to death with attack power, and then this monster-like ability was piled up.

【Ultimate: Basic Passive: Overlord Power, Lv. EX.】

Skill Effect: Increases 250,000 HP, all attributes +40 points, exempts 25% physical damage (increased by 5%), exempts 25% energy damage (increased by 5%), all potential cap tiers +11 (increased by 3), all technique ability level caps +11 (increased by 3; basic technique skills cannot trigger this bonus).

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Another 50,000 HP obtained. With this, Su Xiao's HP cap has reached 2.08 million points.

There were still Golden Skill Points remaining, but the problem was there were no more skills to add. Actually, the "all skill level caps +Lv. 10" of 【Origin Stone: World】 also has exceptions, and "Magic-Devouring Constitution" is one of them.

【Magic-Devouring Constitution, Lv. EX (Passive)】

Skill Effect: When the Magic Spirit devours the source energy of an Undying/Indestructible Abyss-born creature to obtain Magic Spirit energy, you can use the Devouring Core to seize 50% of the Magic Spirit energy obtained this time, and use the Devouring Core to convert it into permanent gain energy that your own constitution can absorb, thereby increasing your "all potential cap tiers" and "Abyss Resistance."

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Why wasn't this ability upgraded? The reason is that upgrading the level cap of this ability has a more than 90% probability of bringing about fatal consequences. "Magic-Devouring Constitution" belongs to a state that is currently stable; once there is any change, it becomes unstable to the extreme. Therefore, under the judgment of Reincarnation Paradise, the upgrade regarding this ability was discarded, triggering the protection mechanism of the Hunter Brand.

Of course, if one were courting death and didn't need this protection mechanism, it would be possible to forcefully upgrade "Magic-Devouring Constitution," but Su Xiao was not prepared to do so.

Arriving at the planting area, sitting under the Black Maple tree, listening to the sound of the Eternal Spring water falling, Su Xiao meditated with an exceptionally calm heart. This allowed his aura, which had become unstable due to the massive increase in strength, to gradually stabilize. The ability "Heart Meditation" seemed useless in the beginning and a waste of time to upgrade, but in the late stage, it is definitely one of the divine skills.

Speaking of which, Su Xiao has upgraded many abilities, but his combat system is becoming more and more refined. He piles up various passives, making the point that "a basic slash is a big move" more and more powerful. Of course, he will also use other big moves in combat, such as Blue Shadow King and Heaven's Wrath: Torrent Slash.

Su Xiao upgraded his four main attributes to 646 points, upgraded Blade Master to Lv. 95, Melee Master and Blood Gun Master both reached Lv. 91, and a total of 26 abilities broke through their caps, reaching an unprecedented height. Combining all these improvements, he felt a bit confused: what tier is his own combat power actually in?

The top tier of the Absolute Strong? It must be stronger than that. The absolute extreme of the Absolute Strong? He hasn't reached it yet, but it should be about the same. Plus, his improvement this time hasn't ended yet; he still has 31,455 ounces of Space-Time Power unused, and 80 Law-Breaker skill points that haven't been added at all.

In the past, to judge how strong he was, he could go to the Tree Arena notarized by the Void Tree. Now, they won't let Su Xiao participate there. While browsing the function list, he casually opened the Tree Arena list and was surprised to find that the matching prompt had changed from the previously untriggerable gray to a triggerable gold-red. He tried to match.

【Welcome to the Tree Arena.】

【Because the Hunter's combat power exceeds 99% of the competitors, ordinary competitions will no longer be open to you.】

【The competition you can participate in is: Overlord Arena.】

【Participate or not.】

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Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was quite surprised. It was actually possible to clash with Overlord units in the arena; that was quite good. He chose to match.

【Note: You have been matched as an Overlord unit.】

【Because you are the Overlord unit side, there is no need to pay Ancient Coins (this currency can only be used in the Tree Arena shop to purchase unique Tree Arena supplies).】

【The competition rules are: all challengers pay 100 Ancient Coins each. If the challengers win, they will receive double the profit. If you, as the Overlord unit, win, you will receive all the Ancient Coins prepaid by the challengers (if collusion or other cheating behavior is discovered, both parties' participation rights in the arena will be permanently canceled).】

【Number of challengers this time: 58.】

【Total Ancient Coin pool this time: 5,800.】

【The competition will begin in 30 seconds. Please prepare your equipment.】

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Seeing these prompts, Su Xiao discovered he had guessed wrong. This wasn't him clashing with an Overlord unit at all; he himself was the Overlord unit.

At this moment, in a luxurious waiting room in the Tree Arena, all 58 competitors here received the successful matching prompt. These Apocalypse Paradise contractors were surprised at first, followed by a burst of joyful laughter. They were not members of the same adventure group or team; they came to the Tree Arena to challenge Overlord units after every world progress to obtain Ancient Coins. They even formed a small faction named Overlord Hunters.

Right now, all 58 Overlord Hunters had matched into a battle. They knew too well how to deal with large-sized Overlord units, so the air in this luxurious waiting room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere. However, it is unknown if these Overlord Hunters have ever dealt with a human-type Overlord unit.