Chapter 3864: Team

That afternoon, Su Xiao completed a total of 50 Iron-Blood Hound summons. Each time, the summoned Iron-Blood Hound was different, and on average, he gave 3-4 dragon hearts each.

Initially, Su Xiao thought that the dragon hearts didn't quite meet the requirements of the Iron-Blood Hounds, but after summoning twice, he found that this was not the case. No matter how he looked at it, the second Iron-Blood Hound was stunned there because it was given dragon hearts without fighting. From the look of staring straight at the dragon hearts, it was enough to see its drooling.

By the third one, Su Xiao threw a total of four dragon hearts. This Iron-Blood Hound seemed to feel that eating these dragon hearts without doing anything really didn't fit the style of the Iron-Blood Hound tribe.

So it performed a dog-head split for Su Xiao, turning into a nine-headed dog to demonstrate its attack methods, before it began to devour the dragon hearts with nine heads. But because the nine heads each had their own ideas, they actually started fighting while eating.

The fierceness of these nine dog heads biting each other made Bubu Wang hide behind Su Xiao's legs.

The fourth Iron-Blood Hound left a deep impression on Su Xiao. Excluding the tail length, the body length of the first three was over four meters, while the fourth one's body shape was like a small dog, and it was a small-boned, particularly thin type, but this guy's gaze was the fiercest.

Its head was somewhat cone-shaped, and its fighting style also confirmed its fierceness. It would jump onto the enemy through super-high-speed rushing, bite open the outer skin defense, drill into the enemy's body from the wound, and wreak havoc inside the enemy's body.

Compared to the first three Iron-Blood Hounds, the fourth Iron-Blood Hound had its own name. It was named Red Leech, and it ranked 39th in combat power and 21st in the number of enemies killed in the Iron-Blood Hound tribe.

At first, Iron-Blood Hound Red Leech was also cold and arrogant, but after Su Xiao threw five dragon hearts, Red Leech couldn't hold back. When it ate until its belly was round, it actually spat out Void language. Even though the pronunciation was relatively difficult and vague, it could still be understood.

According to Red Leech, their Iron-Blood Hound tribe had more members than Su Xiao expected. They even had their own social system, but there was no currency. Transactions were barter, or simply the strong plundering the weak, belonging to a coexistence of beastliness and rationality.

In the current era, the number of the Iron-Blood Hound tribe is over 100,000. Of course, the Iron-Blood Hounds that Su Xiao can summon are actually only a few dozen. It's not that his summoning technique is limited, but that 99% of the Iron-Blood Hounds are not qualified to be summoned by him.

The Iron-Blood Hound tribe has a basic combat power of Tier 2 to Tier 3 after birth. This is an extremely powerful and bloodthirsty tribe. Female Iron-Blood Hounds will conceive 5-8 Iron-Blood Hounds per litter. Before these young bodies are born, they will wake up from the gestation state in the mother's body and devour their brothers and sisters before birth.

Nature makes them want to occupy all the blood milk of the mother Iron-Blood Hound before they are even born. After being breastfed for 1-1.5 weeks, the mother will abandon the cubs, and the cubs will enter the independent survival stage.

If it is a senior summoner, they will know that from Tier 3 to Supreme, one can summon corresponding Iron-Blood Hounds. Even, this is a very high-level school among summoners. As for why it is not famous, it is because the Iron-Blood Hounds' asking price is too high.

Summoners pay great attention to cost-effectiveness. Summoning alien creatures to fight is their core fighting method, and alien creatures obviously won't fight for free after being summoned like in games. After calculating the strength of the summoned creature and the price paid to summon them, one will get a summoning cost-effectiveness ratio.

A cost-effectiveness ratio of 1 is the most conventional summoned creature, while those less than 1 are the priority choices of summoners. As for Iron-Blood Hounds, their cost-effectiveness ratio is 8-10, belonging to the type that has particularly strong combat power but very low cost-effectiveness. Unless necessary, they will not summon them.

The few dozen Iron-Blood Hounds that Su Xiao can summon all have Supreme-level strength. For a tribe, this number of Supreme-level is simply outrageous to the extreme. However, there is a problem: the place where the Iron-Blood Hounds are is the "Netherworld."

The so-called "Netherworld" can be understood as the very bottom of the Astral Realm. It is as bottom-heavy as the silt layer at the bottom of the water. It cannot even be completely considered a material world, but a bottom-layer world of the Astral Realm mixed with material, spiritual, and nightmare worlds.

Speaking of which, the closest to the "Netherworld" is "True Reality," but the two are separated by the rule barrier of the material world. A relatively simple metaphor is that "True Reality" is on an island on the "water surface," while the "Netherworld" is in the silt under the water.

The "Netherworld" is a place Su Xiao will never go. As a human, going to the "Netherworld" is definitely thankless. A more common metaphor is that assuming the creatures of the "Netherworld" are aquatic animals, then the creatures of the normal material world are terrestrial animals.

Aquatic animals can stay on "land" for a period of time, but they must not survive there for a long time, otherwise there will be big problems. For example, the Iron-Blood Hound can stay on the Sun Star for less than 10 days at a time. Once it exceeds 10 days, the Iron-Blood Hound will gradually feel uncomfortable, then become weaker and weaker, until it begins to be gradually decomposed by the natural elements of this world.

If this Iron-Blood Hound returns to the "Netherworld" for a few days and is then summoned again, the stay time on the Sun Star will be restored to the 10-day level.

Conversely, if creatures from the normal material world go to the "Netherworld," everything will be as usual for the first few days, but after a certain time limit, the creature will be eroded by the abyss power.

Judging from the situation of the "Netherworld," the places in the Astral Realm where Supreme-level powerhouses walk everywhere are not only the previous Eternal Light World; the Netherworld is also a similar situation.

There is no faction struggle in the Netherworld because there is no resource output there. As long as they devour the abyss energy diffusing in the environment, they can gradually become stronger, or die due to the erosion of abyss energy.

Summoned creatures with dark, weird, scarlet, and other characteristics are all "Netherworld" creatures, but not all summoning-type creatures come from the "Netherworld." For example, moon-type summoned creatures live in a top-tier Tier 9 world, protected by the Moon Goddess.

Speaking of which, the reason why the Moon Apostle can summon hundreds of thousands of summoned creatures is that she doesn't need to pay any price for summoning. Simply put, almost all moon-type summoned creatures know that this girl who looks like a shut-in is one of the successors chosen by the Moon Goddess.

More interestingly, at the current stage, the other successors chosen by the Moon Goddess are almost performing a palace drama, but no one has come to trouble the Moon Apostle. It's not out of fear, but because they don't want to waste time.

After understanding the general situation of the Iron-Blood Hound tribe, Su Xiao continued to summon. Among the 50 summons, the strongest Iron-Blood Hound was named Fierce Prison. It was larger than a normal Iron-Blood Hound, ranked 8th in combat power, and 7th in the number of enemies killed.

The strength of the Iron-Blood Hound in the entire "Netherworld" is definitely in the top three. This is still because the tribe is not united enough, so it ranks third. If all the Iron-Blood Hounds gathered together, they would definitely be the strongest in the "Netherworld" against a single faction.

The combat power of Fierce Prison, which can rank 8th in the Iron-Blood Hound tribe, is imaginable. Corresponding to it is Fierce Prison's aloofness and violence, but after Su Xiao threw out eight dragon hearts, Fierce Prison's violent vertical pupils were obviously a bit clearer.

In addition to Fierce Prison, a large-sized Iron-Blood Hound left a deep impression on Su Xiao. That Iron-Blood Hound was named Giant Blood Tooth. Among the many Supreme-level Iron-Blood Hounds, it was the only defensive type.

If the battle did not go well, or even if it was about to be defeated, it would swallow the summoner into its belly, ignore the enemy's attacks, and jump and escape in a short time. Its strong hind legs like a frog gave it unparalleled jumping and running power, and its skin defense of over a thousand meant that it could withstand a large number of attacks.

Su Xiao gave this big guy 15 dragon hearts, and seeing that it wasn't too smart, he told it not to talk about it after going back. Giant Blood Tooth nodded clumsily and seriously. It looked at Su Xiao carefully, wanting to remember Su Xiao's appearance. There were not many things it could remember, so it would be extra serious when it wanted to remember a person's appearance.

Consuming less than 200 dragon hearts, Su Xiao almost handled all the Supreme-level Iron-Blood Hounds. Normally, summoning Iron-Blood Hounds is random, at most summoning Iron-Blood Hounds of the same tier as one's own strength.

Su Xiao's current situation is that for these Iron-Blood Hounds that have been here this time, he can summon whichever one he wants.

Of course, it is impossible to summon two at the same time. This was the standard set when the "Summon: Iron-Blood Hound" ability was notarized before.

【Hint: The World Shop has been opened for you.】

【Current opening category: Title type.】

【Current Sun Coins: 425.】

【You can perform the following exchanges.】

1. Title Treasure Chest (★).

Usage effect: After opening, you can obtain a 1-star to 9-star title (random draw).

Inventory quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).

Exchange price: 5 Sun Coins.

2. Title Treasure Chest (★★).

Usage effect: After opening, you can obtain a 3-star to 9-star title (random draw).

Inventory quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).

Exchange price: 10 Sun Coins.

3. Title Treasure Chest (★★★).

Usage effect: After opening, you can obtain a 6-star to 9-star title (random draw).

Inventory quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).

Exchange price: 20 Sun Coins.

4. Title Treasure Chest (★★★★).

Usage effect: After opening, you can obtain a 7-star to 9-star title (random draw).

Inventory quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).

Exchange price: 30 Sun Coins.

5. Title Treasure Chest (★★★★★).

Usage effect: After opening, you can obtain a 9-star title.

Inventory quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).

Exchange price: 120 Sun Coins.

【Hint: Because the notarization of the World Shop in this world is missing, although the items in the shop have no quality problems, the above title treasure chests cannot be traded, transferred, etc. The titles obtained after opening are all non-tradable titles.】

After reading the information of the five types of title treasure chests, Su Xiao's train of thought became clear at once. Well, very good, a 9-star title for 120 Sun Coins each.

【Hint: The World Contact Platform has been activated, and there is no limit to the number of speeches per day in this world.】

Su Xiao rarely uses the World Contact Platform to speak, but he attaches great importance to the communication list of the World Contact Platform, which can let him know which paradise faction opponents have come to this world.

Open the branch World Contact Platform of the World Contact Platform, and names or code names appear one by one. This list is not sorted by strength, but by the order of entering this world. The first one is Black Demon, followed by (No mission invading).

If this is a resource-type world, then it is understandable that someone invaded this place. Who would take the initiative to invade the Sun Star? Thinking about it this way, Black Demon's way of entering this world is relatively special.

The current Sun Star actually has another name, called the Abyss Near Zone, especially the Lightless Zone of this world, which is rampant with abyss creatures. If Black Demon fell into the abyss by accident, he would only have two endings: falling into the depths and being swallowed, or climbing out of a small abyss passage in the "Lightless Zone" of this world shortly after falling.

Estimating this way, I won't consider contacting Black Demon later. Su Xiao and the little fatty are friends, and with Black Demon, at most, he won't take the initiative to be hostile. Last time they met, the little fatty's consciousness almost disappeared. This time falling into the abyss, the little fatty should be completely gone.

Looking down at the communication list, Xier's name is among them. Strangely, the ruthless guy who is her partner did not come to this world. What surprised Su Xiao even more is that after Xier's name, there is a string of small text like a hint.

【Hunter cannot actively attack this unit (this hint is only visible to Reincarnation Paradise Hunter).】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao knew that Xier had a special mission this time, because the other person under the opponent's name was too special.

【Bee (Reincarnation Paradise).】

Bee is the last contractor of Dawn Paradise. Now the faction after the name has actually changed to Reincarnation Paradise. This information is very large.

It seems that Xier received the mission to protect Bee. Speaking of which, Su Xiao's combat power is now stronger than Xier's. If there is an important mission, his priority should be higher. But thinking about the completion of the protection-type missions given to him by Reincarnation Paradise when he was at a low to medium tier, it is reasonable that this mission fell to Xier.

Continue to look at the communication list, skipping a few he doesn't know, Su Xiao saw Thunder Law God Aige. For this person, his memory is still relatively deep, especially the opponent's big move, which is the most powerful and least powerful ability he has ever seen.

When Su Xiao saw the name Tyrant, he remembered one thing: the Astral Realm Devourer might have already arrived in this world. If it really came, it shouldn't take long for the opponent to take the initiative to find him.

Continue to look through, Su Xiao saw the Priest, an "old friend." It is highly probable that there will be a confrontation in this world later.

Continue to flip down, he saw the name of the Platinum Apostle turning gray. Whether it is a contractor or a violator, as long as they enter this world, they will definitely appear on the communication list, and the name turning gray means they are dead. Su Xiao doesn't believe that the Platinum Apostle died as soon as he entered this world.

The Priest and the Platinum Apostle have both come, so the Abyss Archbishop should have come too.

Close the communication list, and a soul coin appeared in Su Xiao's hand.

Ding~

The soul coin was flicked up. On its way down, a hand grabbed it. After grabbing the soul coin, he pinched it in his hand and rubbed the Void Tree pattern mark on it with his thumb.

"My dear friend, Caesar seems to have found something incredible in Dusk City."

"Be more specific."

"There is no way to be specific for the time being. When there is more accurate news, I will discuss it with you. Now, more importantly, summon the Toad and the Violent Rat. They are all waiting for my teleportation, but my dear friend, you know, Caesar has been destitute for a long time, so..."

"Coordinates."

"Hehehe, the coordinates are here."

Caesar handed over a card with a treacherous smile, on which the coordinates were written. Su Xiao turned over the back of the card and saw that it was a promotional card, which read "Caesar's Diet Therapy, your intimate friend for stomach and intestines."

"..."

Su Xiao glanced at Caesar. Caesar rubbed his hands and smiled treacherously, saying that this was just one of several side jobs, and the implication was that his diet therapy required booking and was particularly famous in the goblin circle.

After turning over the card and checking the spatial coordinates on it, the crystal layer spread under Su Xiao's feet, and then a teleportation array was formed on the ground. A few seconds later, with a roar, the Toad and the Violent Rat appeared. They both nailed to the wall of the backyard with a bang. The Toad kicked its right hind leg, and then didn't move.

The coordinates were slightly deviated and needed improvement. After Su Xiao recorded this in his spatial notebook, he took out two bottles of elemental wine. The Toad and the Violent Rat, who came over angrily, suddenly had their anger disappear a lot.

"Unexpectedly lively."

A somewhat lazy voice came. This voice sounded magnetic, but it was actually the tone of being squeezed dry by his wife. Naturally, it was brother Zuiyas. His Ancient God-type physique was naturally strong, but the problem was that his wife was also an Ancient God-type, which resulted in a negative. Facing a life-and-death battle, Zuiyas, who was indifferent, had to hesitate at the bedroom door for a while after hearing his wife say "turn off the lights and sleep."

"Your complexion is not bad, Zuiyas."

Wood walked into the courtyard. Hearing this, Zuiyas sighed and said: "I have been in the Meteorite Star for the past few months, either fighting and killing people, or on the way to kill people. Even if it is an immortal type, I can't stand dying every day. Bai Ye, I need your tonic potion. It doesn't matter if the medicinal power is stronger. I die hundreds of times every day now, and using regeneration to change arms and legs is much more diligent than changing clothes."

"You said, it doesn't matter if the tonic potion has stronger medicinal power, this... is it true?"

Su Xiao's eyes seemed to light up a bit. This was the interest of a potion master.

"It was true just now, but now I'm a bit hesitant. Let's keep it moderate."

"Pity, I was originally prepared to give you a multi-compound secret medicine."

"How strong is the medicinal power of this multi-compound secret medicine?"

Zuiyas showed some hesitation. In the past few months, he had indeed died too many times, so the potion Su Xiao mentioned made him feel quite moved.

"The medicinal power is about 1200 times that of 'moderate'."

"Very good, let's decide on 'moderate'."

Zuiyas completely lost interest in the multi-compound secret medicine. Seeing this, Su Xiao felt a little disappointed. His multi-compound secret medicine had never been drunk by anyone. But since Zuiyas chose "moderate," it must be provided in moderation.

Or rather, during the cooperation of 'good teammates', before the moment the final big boss falls, they still trust each other.

Baham explained Su Xiao's plan to Zuiyas, Wood, Caesar, Toad, and Violent Rat. After hearing it, Zuiyas and Wood expressed no opinion. It is indeed necessary to support an agent in Dusk City, and the former noble Albers is indeed a very good candidate.

After listening to the series of plans, Caesar said that this plan should be slightly changed, because he entered this world by replacing his identity. His current identity is the material warehouse manager of the Soul Academy.

Hearing this initial identity, the few people present couldn't help but sweat for the Soul Academy, but this was not the point. The point was the memory images Caesar saw through his previous identity.

In the negotiation between Su Xiao and Dark Bishop Bohewa in the morning, Bohewa gave a piece of information: the high-level officials of Dusk City decided to select a new successor for the "Blood of the Sun." The detailed situation is that Sun City, the Soul Academy, and the Pantheon each send a team to take back the "Sun Source Stones" that have been usurped.

The person who finally gets all the "Sun Source Stones" is the new successor of the "Blood of the Sun."

The existences qualified to usurp the "Sun Source Stones" are all particularly powerful, not to mention that the "Sun Source Stone" itself is a source of power, which is much more powerful than the "Blood of Darkness" in the Witch World. Simply put, after swallowing the "Sun Source Stone," it can be defaulted to an organ that can absorb world power, which can convert world power into original energy that can continuously and permanently enhance oneself.

May I ask, how many "Sun Source Stones" are there in the outside world? The answer given by the high-level officials of Dusk City is 18. The high-level officials of Dusk City dare not fake this news, otherwise, they will be hostile by all factions. However, it is not clear whether the central city area of Dusk City still stores "Sun Source Stones." At the very least, the probability of the "Sun Source Stones" scattered in the outside world is indeed 18.

Up to this point, the information given by Dark Bishop Bohewa is fine. The real problem is timeliness. The Southern Continent and the Northern Continent are separated by the Lightless Zone, making message delivery difficult. Coupled with the fact that Earth City in the Northern Continent does not care about the situation in the Southern Continent, they care more about how to block the next wave of monster tide impact.

So this recruitment of the new successor of Dusk City was actually a matter of half a year ago. Dark Bishop Bohewa learned about this through a slave trader, and because this matter has passed for half a year, it is no longer the secret it was at the beginning.

A more accurate statement is that at the beginning, the three parties of Dusk City, the Soul Academy, and the Pantheon all used their own people to carry out this path to becoming a king. But after three months, all three parties gave up and began to release the news, recruiting their own teams for the path to becoming a king. But no one is a fool. How could their own people from the three major factions not go for such a good thing? Could it be their turn, these outsiders?

The three major factions also wanted their own people to become the new king, but the teams they sent out couldn't even beat the first strong enemy of their respective teams, and several teams died one after another.

The enemies that the three parties' teams need to defeat are as follows:

Dusk City team: Aberrant Beast God, High Tower Knight Captain,??? (some relevant information, no specific information),??? (some relevant information, no specific information).

Soul Academy team: Blood-thirsty Beast, Undead Knight (Undead), White Wolf Lord, Exiled Sun Warrior Leader.

Pantheon team: Giant Tree King, Undead Ascetic (Undead), Dark Moon Eldest Prince, Frenzied Sun Beast.

The ranking is from weak to strong. That is to say, the Aberrant Beast God, Blood-thirsty Beast, and Giant Tree King, these three starting bosses, beat the teams sent by the three factions.

If it weren't for the fact that Dusk City also died a lot of people, the Soul Academy and the Pantheon would have suspected that this was a conspiracy of those old immortals in Dusk City.

Subsequent recruitment of candidates for the path to becoming a king was not smooth. It took nearly two months to gather three teams, and they were all wiped out after one morning of departure.

From the beginning, only people from the three major factions were qualified, to later as long as they had strength, until now, as long as they were willing to come, they could.

It is necessary to support an agent in Dusk City, but there is no need to wait for the agent to master the power before obtaining a quota for the path to becoming a king. Now go directly to Dusk City. Even if you tell the captain of the city guard team stationed at the city gate that you want to participate in the experience of the path to becoming a king, this city guard captain will immediately smile and invite the visitor into the city, straight to the inner city area.

In addition, at noon today, the Soul Academy seems to have a new team setting off to the area where the Giant Tree King appears.

Hearing this, Su Xiao thought of a possibility. Participating so decisively is very much in line with the Priest's style. That old guy will grab the opportunity first, then go with the flow, and finally, no matter win or lose, he will never lose.

In this way, the members of the Soul Academy team should be: Priest, Platinum Apostle, Abyss Archbishop.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that if any of the three teams is not strong enough, it will make the subsequent situation extremely difficult. The bad thing is that after dealing with all the super big bosses who usurped the "Sun Source Stones," wanting to snatch the "Sun Source Stones" they obtained from the Priest's team is really no easier than fighting the boss.

Speaking of this, Zuiyas and Wood at the stone table both agreed.

The teams of Dusk City and the Soul Academy are basically finalized, so the remaining Pantheon team must also be powerful enough. After Su Xiao thought of this, he, Zuiyas, and Wood looked at Caesar at the same time.

The meaning is obvious. No matter who is on the Pantheon team, with the assistance of the Arbiter Trio, the probability of winning the "Sun Source Stones" one by one will definitely increase.

At this moment, Southern Continent, Holy Heart City.

This is the lair of the Pantheon. This big city with a population of ten million has a somewhat strange architectural style. In front of the Holy Church of the Pantheon, a trio of one tall, one short, and one thin is standing side by side.

A member of the Pantheon who walked out of the cathedral was about to go up and give these guys who dared to approach the Holy Church without authorization a lesson they would never forget, when he suddenly noticed the "wise" eyes of the three, which made him stop and hesitate. He was considering whether the strong man who looked like a smart guy would slap his head off as soon as he opened his mouth.

After hesitating, this Pantheon member walked away. Facts have proved that the fanatic believers are also somewhat afraid of smart guys.

As the intelligence representative of the Smart Guy Team, the Astral Realm Devourer walked into the church. As for the purpose of the three, it was naturally to compete for the "Sun Source Stones" as the team representing the Pantheon. For these "Sun Source Stones" that made him drool just by looking at the photos, the Astral Realm Devourer decided to postpone the reward for Su Xiao and spare that guy's life for the time being.

At the same time, the Arbiter Trio is rushing here from the Northern Continent. The Pantheon team is likely to be six people: Tyrant, Immortal Brother, Astral Realm Devourer, Caesar, Toad, and Violent Rat.

This combination only gives people one feeling, which is... wonderful. ===== CHAPTER 3865 =====