Chapter 3889

Twilight City, Outer City, District 86.

Few people lived here. The altitude was around 800 meters, the land was fertile and loose, and the soil had a high organic content. It was rainy but warm, and due to the terrain, it did not easily accumulate water. Combined with high sunlight exposure, District 86 was the main rubber production area for Twilight City.

At dusk, the vehicle drove along a dirt road lined with rubber trees on both sides, startling a large flock of birds. Deep in the forest, a manor appeared in sight. The manor looked somewhat dilapidated, but as the largest raw rubber processing plant in District 86, its value was destined to be beyond the reach of ordinary merchants.

This was one of the ancestral properties of the great noble Luciva. Luciva bringing Su Xiao here was naturally not to show off his ancestral property, but to retrieve a rare raw material called "Alcohol Glue." This stuff was particularly interesting.

This rubber forest was about 92,000 hectares. Under the accumulation of the Aberrant Sun's radiance day after day, it was inevitable that mutated individuals would appear. Most were negative mutations, but less than 0.1% would show benign mutations. These rubber trees were known as Treasure Trees.

Once such a tree was discovered, all rubber trees within a 1,000-meter radius were cleared. Except for a limited dozen species of birds, no living creature was allowed to approach at will. It was guarded 24 hours a day by five teams of guards in rotation.

The rubber produced by these Treasure Trees was called "Dense Glue." It possessed extremely high stickiness, resistance to corrosion, decay, and various other properties. Simply put, if two wooden boards were glued together with heated "Dense Glue," the strength of the bonded area would be many times higher than the original material.

This also meant that the supply of "Dense Glue" was perpetually lower than demand. What outsiders didn't know was that after this stuff was collected, it underwent an extraction process at the rubber manor. The extract was called "Alcohol Glue," a substance with absurdly high viscosity and toughness, and it possessed permeation and assimilation properties.

Just a small bottle of "Alcohol Glue" laced with bait could solve a large group of dark creatures. The method of use was to throw the "Alcohol Glue" out, ensuring its container shattered. The scent of the bait inside the "Alcohol Glue" would attract dark creatures. When the first dark creature swallowed the stuff in one gulp, its painful struggle would begin.

The assimilation property of "Alcohol Glue" would turn the dark creature's blood into "Alcohol Glue" and emit the scent of the bait, attracting more dark creatures. Before long, you would see a large group of dark creatures, either with their heads stuck or their jaws glued shut, constantly opening and closing their mouths, exercising their masseter muscles.

This stuff was much more effective than deadly poison. Dark creatures weren't unintelligent; if they saw their own kind poisoned to death, they would immediately leave. But seeing their own kind stuck, struggling in such a comical way, other dark creatures would only find it funny. After mocking them, driven by curiosity and the scent of the bait, they would also try to go up and take a bite.

The vehicle drove into the manor. An old butler led many servants and workers to greet them. Seeing Luciva, the old butler's wrinkled face blossomed into a smile. It was to be expected; with such an important industry, and given that Luciva was rarely in Twilight City, he would naturally entrust this industry to the person he trusted most.

The group got out of the car. When the old butler saw Luciva's sister, the slacker girl Delona, the smile on his face noticeably stiffened. He wanted to say something to Luciva but was stopped by Luciva's gaze.

The slacker girl Delona acted as if she hadn't noticed anything. In reality, she had long been accustomed to it. Compared to the rumors of outsiders and the malice of others, the alienation from her own family was the blade that carved into her heart, hurting so much she didn't dare to breathe hard.

The group walked into the warehouse. After taking the warehouse elevator down to the second basement level, they found an underground platform where a single-car train was parked.

This train was over 20 meters long in total. The front part contained the braking device, transmission machinery, and so on. The entire front of the train looked like a monster with backward-curving horns. The rear part was the passenger carriage, 12 meters long and 5.2 meters wide, with four windows on each side. Judging by the marks on the exterior, this train traveled through different dimensions.

After Su Xiao walked into the carriage, he discovered that the windows on both sides had a special texture, featuring a honeycomb-like grid. They were normally the same color as the interior walls. After pressing the switch next to the window, the special glass first revealed the honeycomb grid before gradually becoming transparent.

From the reflection angle, even while traveling in a different dimension, one could see the natural scenery outside through spatial refraction, providing an experience identical to looking out the window of a normal train.

The interior area of the carriage was larger than it looked from the outside. There were long seats against the walls on both sides, which could comfortably seat over a dozen people. Further inside was a square dining table with four seats around it. Deeper still was a door; pushing it open revealed a bedroom of over ten square meters. In Luciva's style, besides a single bed, the weapon rack was even more conspicuous.

The reason Su Xiao observed this train in such detail was that it was an "Eternal-grade Special Tool." Its name was 【Lord Train】, commissioned by a great lord of the Eternal Light World during the First Era and crafted by the Silintis Dwarf race.

The main material of the 【Lord Train】 was Silintis metal, an alloy created by the Silintis Dwarves. In the past, it was sold by the gram. Crafting such a train with Silintis metal was absurd just to think about.

Even more absurdly, that great lord had originally wanted to build a total of twenty cars, each with a different style for mobile travel. But there wasn't enough Silintis metal, so under the persuasion of the Silintis Dwarves, he only built this sturdier, single-car luxury train.

The core of this train was a modified Ninth-Tier World Core. With the train's consumption, it could run for another 1.8 to 2 billion years without any issues. However, this core was very sensitive to long periods of inactivity. Because it hadn't been started for nearly an era, the power core had suffered severe wear. Its remaining kinetic energy could probably maintain the 【Lord Train】 at full speed for another 150 to 200 years.

The 【Lord Train】 had three travel modes:

Mode 1: Natural Travel, which meant traveling in normal space. It ran smoothly not just because of the compound suspension system, but also because it crushed whatever it encountered.

Mode 2: Interdimensional Travel, where the entire train entered a different dimension to travel at ultra-high speeds.

Mode 3: Interdimensional Overload Travel. After entering a different dimension, the power core would overload by 55% to 60% to travel at maximum speed, which was about 29 to 30 times faster than Mode 2. After 60 minutes of overload, it would be forced to switch to Mode 2. This state was prepared for escaping dangerous environments or when being pursued by massive numbers of enemies.

This train originally had other functions, but to this day, only the main functions remained. Additionally, because this 【Lord Train】 had been parked in a deep abyss-spreading area for nearly an era, under the erosion of abyss energy, the train had developed certain living characteristics.

The entire front of the train was metallic on the outside, while the inside was half-metal, half-biological. Metal flesh and neural tissue firmly wrapped around the kinetic core, which meant that past repair methods were no longer applicable to this 【Lord Train】.

Come to think of it, the Law-Breaker faction once had a train like this, which even had an extra "Realm-level Travel" function. After all, the Law-Breaker faction and the Silintis Dwarves were blood-sworn allies, so such treatment was normal.

That train was eventually damaged beyond repair. It was said that after the Law-Breaker faction was defeated, the half-damaged train was auctioned off at a high price by a major shareholder of the Goblin Chamber of Commerce and placed in the main hall of the Goblin Treasury, surrounded by barriers. The reason for doing so was that the train had been corroded and torn by massive amounts of abyss-spawned creatures while six Law-Breakers were dealing with a super-giant abyss tunnel. The Law-Breaker faction had nearly been wiped out that time.

Su Xiao sat on the long seat of the 【Lord Train】. The great noble Luciva took out a metal card-like train key and pressed it into the card slot inside the front. After receiving the destination coordinates in the form of a mental command, the train started.

After entering the different dimension, the train passed through wall after wall. When the wheels were level with the ground, as if traveling on land, the 【Lord Train】 roared and accelerated. However, inside the carriage, Su Xiao didn't feel a strong braking sensation; it felt just like sitting on a train traveling through the wilderness.

Although Su Xiao had the Law-Breaker teleportation array, its limitations were significant—for example, it could only go to places where spatial coordinates had been set, and some areas were difficult to establish coordinates, such as the Ancient Gao Ta he had visited before.

If he had an Eternal-grade means of transportation, it would make him more convenient in mission worlds and even increase his total earnings by 20% to 30%. With the speed of the 【Lord Train】, he could save a large amount of travel time. Moreover, this thing didn't need to be looked after; as long as he held the train key, he could summon it from any area other than "High-Risk Areas."

"The Black Wudao only appears at night. Calculating the time, we should reach the area where the World Giant appears around 8 o'clock."

Luciva drank from a bottle of elemental fine wine. As a heavy-armored warrior powerhouse who had spent years in the Lightless Zone, how could he not love wine?

"Why? Do you have your eye on my train?"

"Yes."

"Make an offer."

"..."

Su Xiao took out the 【Star Core Stone】. He had obtained this in the Root Dead Silence City. He had originally discussed with Wood and Sin Abyss to profit from this treasure, which could enhance the talent abilities of the younger generation of various races. Later, after research by the Old God scholars on Sin Abyss's side, it turned out that wouldn't work. Su Xiao could use the 【Star Core Stone】 to increase the upper limit of his talent ability strength, but that didn't mean others could.

To put it more clearly, let alone giving it to the younger generation, apart from a very small number of factions with powerful inheritance systems, no one really dared to try using this stuff. The dark characteristics of this thing were too violent. If it weren't for Su Xiao having the Blade Demon Spirit, it would have been very difficult to withstand the enhancement of this thing.

Speaking of dark characteristics, the members of the hunting groups who had explored the Lightless Zone for years and were on the verge of losing control and mutating due to dark erosion really didn't care about sinking deeper into the darkness. And the source of darkness needed to activate the 【Star Core Stone】 was something the Lightless Zone had in abundance—high-concentration dark characteristic energy. If that didn't work... he could just use abyss energy.

Compared to the Soul Academy and the God-Worshipping Sect, the hunting groups of Twilight City were a bunch of true lunatics. Everyone in the hunting groups believed one thing: the source of the Blood Night Descent that caused them to lose all their loved ones must be the "Lightless Zone." Even if they would one day turn into out-of-control monsters, they would not stop their steps toward the "Lightless Zone."

Looking at the 【Star Core Stone】 Su Xiao held in his hand, it would be a lie to say Luciva wasn't tempted. But this train was too important to him; it was like his partner.

"Take this thing away, don't let me see it."

Luciva drank his wine in depression.

"Not trading?"

"Would you trade your follower for a treasure?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. This was a question that didn't need an answer. He tossed the 【Star Core Stone】 in his hand to Luciva. Luciva caught it, and because of the exaggerated weight of the 【Star Core Stone】, his hand dipped, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"You can't force a trade."

"This thing is useless to me."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Luciva's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "Is this for me?"

"Borrowing it to you for a few days. Return it before I leave this world."

"This... for no reason, I feel a bit embarrassed."

Although Luciva said this, he had already stood up and locked the 【Star Core Stone】 in a safe.

"Let this Star Core Stone absorb as much darkness as possible; only then will it have value to me."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Luciva suddenly understood. A 【Star Core Stone】 that had been activated and used multiple times would temporarily become a super-high-tier "Dark Matter Characteristic" oddity. The usage range for such oddities was quite broad.

Using the 【Star Core Stone】 this way, although it would lower its value by a bit, was still better than having no usage value at all.

The train traveled at ultra-high speed. When admiring the wilderness scenery through the window, the rapid speed didn't cause the view outside to become a blur. Su Xiao took the "Moon Eclipse Mark" from his storage space. This was an energy mark. After absorbing it, as long as he touched the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf," he could fully activate this blade and use it.

Su Xiao didn't intend to use the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" as a secondary weapon. His style was to face strong enemies head-on. When he fought to the death with the Gao Ta Knight Commander, he hadn't chosen to avoid the edge of this strong enemy, and the characteristics of the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" leaned toward flowing darkness.

The reason Black Moon Wolf Xilaibuhe was called the most special Moon Wolf was because of his unique hunting style. When other Moon Wolves encountered "Abyss-Spawned Creatures," they would calmly walk up, draw their greatswords, and unleash full moonlight. Black Moon Wolf Xilaibuhe, on the other hand, would first ambush and backstab, then fight head-on.

His weapon naturally fit his style. The "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" appeared to be a great blade, but it had no fixed form. After being fully activated, the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" was a mass of black semi-fluid. It could be any form. "Black Blade" was its name on the outside, but "Wild Hungry Wolf" was its essence—like a lonely hungry wolf on the wilderness, doing whatever it took to hunt and fill its stomach.

This weapon was more suitable for Baha. Su Xiao handed the "Moon Eclipse Mark" to Baha and took out the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf." Baha's eagle claws gripped the mark and absorbed it. The next second, the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" turned into a semi-fluid and surged toward Baha.

The black metal clung to Baha's sharp claws and feathers, making every feather seem to have a metallic texture. Compared to the word "clinging," it was more like an enhancement integrated into the surface of the feathers. What was most greatly enhanced was Baha's pair of eagle claws. Under its control, the claws instantly turned into fierce weapons with sharp blades inside, combining piercing and cutting.

The compatibility between the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" and Baha was higher than expected. The most powerful point of this weapon was that it had different abilities for different users. Of course, this required gaining its approval; otherwise, even with the "Moon Eclipse Mark," don't even think about using it.

There was another point: the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" was not crafted by Black Moon Wolf Xilaibuhe. That was a false rumor.

It was Black Moon Wolf Xilaibuhe who obtained the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" and gained the high approval of this weapon. Assuming the approval rating of the "Black Blade: Wild Hungry Wolf" for Black Moon Wolf Xilaibuhe was 100/100 points, then the current approval rating for Baha was probably around 85/100 points.

Su Xiao attempted to view the attributes of this weapon. Its attributes were:

【Night Howl: Wild Hungry Wolf】

Origin: Abyss Erosion Land, Fifth Foundry, Drifting Elder.

Quality: Special.

Category: Weapon.

Durability: 480/1000 points.

Hint: Due to the special nature of the Wild Hungry Wolf, its durability will be consumed at 50 times the speed.

Equipment Requirement: Approval of the Wild Hungry Wolf.

Equipment Effect 1: Dangerous Game (Core, Passive): The durability of the Wild Hungry Wolf is a constant 1000 points. This characteristic cannot be changed in any form. The lower the durability of this weapon, the higher its activity, resulting in higher attack power.

The enhancement ratio is: Increases weapon attack power by current lost durability × 0.5.

Hint: When the durability of this weapon drops to 0 points, the weapon will not be destroyed but will transfer into the owner's body, recovering durability by absorbing blood until the durability is higher than 10%.

Hint: The Wild Hungry Wolf's blood intake will definitely not cause the holder to die. When the holder's health is below 2 points, the Wild Hungry Wolf will automatically stop blood intake.

Equipment Effect 2: Magic Eagle Power (Core, Passive): When you break out of stealth and attack the back of an enemy's neck, this attack will cause base damage + 10% of the enemy's maximum health in "True Fatal Damage."

Hint: If the enemy's "True Stamina" attribute is lower than your "True Agility" attribute, this attack will carry a "Strong Instant Kill" effect.

Hint: The "Strong Instant Kill" effect is an instant kill effect without judgment.

Hint: Lord-level, Overlord-level, and World-Extinguishing-level strong enemies will not be affected by the "Strong Instant Kill" caused by this ability, but will fully suffer the 10% maximum health "True Fatal Damage."

Introduction: When black feathers hide in the darkness and glide silently, enemies can only hide in their nests and tremble in fear. When you break through the darkness and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy, the enemy will let out a silent night howl before dying.

Price: Cannot be sold, transferred, or discarded after use; will definitely drop upon death.

Baha's assassination ability had undergone a qualitative leap, especially with the "If the enemy's 'True Stamina' attribute is lower than your 'True Agility' attribute, this attack will carry a 'Strong Instant Kill' effect" bonus. Although this characteristic was useless against big bosses, the ability of "10% maximum health True Fatal Damage" made Baha one of the main damage dealers when fighting powerful enemies.

Just then, the train stopped. Outside the window, it was pitch black. At some point, the 【Lord Train】 had carried everyone to the northwest direction of the "Dungeon" on the Northern Continent. This was a pure black land hundreds of kilometers away from the "Ancient Gao Ta." Looking around, let alone trees, there wasn't even a blade of grass on the ground.

The Blood Moon was in the sky. The Blood Night Descent outside did not affect the inside of the 【Lord Train】, showing that this train was also a mobile shelter with strong concealment. Even if discovered, the train body crafted from Silintis metal could provide powerful protection. Plus, since it was a train, travel speed was its greatest strength.

"How about it? My train is pretty good, right?"

Luciva said with a smile. This was purely showing off between close friends.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Seeing this, Luciva took out a communication device. After contacting his subordinates, he began to draw on the map based on the coordinates provided by the other party. A moment later, he said:

"According to the patterns we've summarized, the World Giant will pass through the nearby area tonight. When that happens, you climb up along the chains hanging down from the Black Wudao. I'll wait for you on the train."

Luciva was not afraid of death. The reason he didn't board the Black Wudao was because he had a grudge against the island's owner. Of the other party's eight eyes, five had been blasted apart by him.

After waiting in the train for two hours, a vibration came.

Thump, thump...

Ripples appeared in the water in the cup on the table. Su Xiao looked out the window and saw a towering figure between heaven and earth, walking forward with large strides. Every step it took took several minutes, but every step covered a great distance.

With Su Xiao's eyesight, he saw the head and shoulders of this figure located above the night clouds. The World Giant wore a metal hood on its head, with chains hanging from it. These chains were not thick for the World Giant, but each chain was over 100 meters wide and tens of thousands of meters long, with some even longer, dragging on the ground and extending far into the distance behind it.

Several long spikes pierced through the World Giant's chest, abdomen, and other positions, with the ends of the spikes also connected to chains. Not only that, but the World Giant showed signs of decay; the flesh on its lower right ribcage had withered, revealing gray-white ribs.

Most conspicuously, the World Giant carried an island on its right shoulder, which forced it to tilt its head and lift its right arm. Careful observation revealed that the bottom of this island, which emitted black fog, had giant metal spikes. These pitch-black spikes were deeply embedded in the World Giant's shoulder, further securing the Black Wudao to prevent it from falling off the World Giant's shoulder.

The train door opened. Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baha got off. The World Giant under the Blood Moon had already moved away. Baha flew up, and a moment later, Su Xiao activated the Law-Breaker teleportation array under his feet.

When the spatial cracks around them healed, Su Xiao was already on the Black Wudao, tens of thousands of meters in the air. Standing on the island, there was no expected feeling of swaying; the entire island remained motionless. Black fog swirled on the island, and it seemed as if whispers were mixed into the black fog.

Su Xiao stepped forward. The black fog ahead became increasingly dense. A viscous wriggling sound came, and a slightly bitter scent permeated the air, yet it made people feel refreshed. This was actually an illusion; it was a biological hallucinogenic mist that made people particularly excited, causing physical actions to outpace brain thinking—commonly known as acting without thinking.

Su Xiao took a sealed bottle from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's backpack, threw it into the darkness, and then took out an ordinary silver coin. With a "ding," the silver coin flew out of its trajectory and shattered the sealed bottle, scattering the "Alcohol Glue" laced with bait.

The wriggling sound in the black fog ahead became more intense. Su Xiao sprinkled a handful of powder and flicked another silver coin coated with phosphorus powder. After friction with the air, the coin dragged out a few sparks, igniting the powder he had just thrown. With a "whoosh," a blood-red flame rose, dispersing the surrounding black fog.

In the riddled air, rows of black worms were ahead, so numerous they were uncountable. The space in this area looked like cheese that had been severely moth-eaten.

The effect of the "Alcohol Glue" laced with bait was outstanding. Before long, the black worms ahead formed a giant ball. Su Xiao bypassed this giant ball and proceeded according to the direction on the map.

This map was naturally provided by Luciva. For a place like Black Wudao, the hunting groups would certainly explore it. However, the exploration of Black Wudao many years ago had caused the hunting groups to suffer a great loss.

The owner of this island, the Shadow Spawn, was truly not to be trifled with. After both Luciva and the Shadow Spawn left "mementos" for each other that they would never forget, although both sides held grudges, they tacitly chose not to provoke each other in the future.

The problem at this moment was that Su Xiao didn't perceive this island owner named Shadow Spawn. Was the other party not on Black Wudao? The answer was, of course not.

The Shadow Spawn was right in the black fog, but after sensing the aura of a Law-Breaker, it chose to hide. The reason was that during the Second Era, it had been caught by two previous Law-Breakers who came here to worship the Wolf Grave. Tragically, one of the Law-Breakers was named Marwen Waltz, and even more tragically, the other Law-Breaker was named... Grimm Gillian.

Pain, this was too painful. It was so painful that after more than half an era, the Shadow Spawn's first reaction upon sensing a Law-Breaker was not to test the other party's strength, but to hurry and hide.

Passing through layers of black fog, the area ahead of Su Xiao suddenly opened up. This was the area near the center of Black Wudao. There was no black fog in the sky, only a sky full of stars. Even under the reflection of the Blood Moon, there was some cyan moonlight, reflecting on the graves with wolf swords stuck in front of them.

There were hundreds of graves here. It seemed the Moon Wolves had a custom: after death, their kin would send them back to their homeland to sleep in peace.

Su Xiao took out the 【Abyss Watcher's Soul Residue】 and used the Silver Moon Blade to cut open the container of the soul residue. The soul residue scattered, and in turn, strands of silver moonlight drifted out from each grave, finally converging into the Silver Moon Blade and merging into it.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had always been particularly respectful of the Moon Wolves and was currently placing fresh meat in front of each wolf sword.

Hum～

The Silver Moon Blade floating in mid-air emitted a pleasant humming sound. After absorbing all the silver moonlight, this special equipment fell into Su Xiao's hand.

【Silver Moon Blade】

Origin: Overlord Creature, Silver Moon Wolf.

Quality: Overlord-grade.

Category: Secondary Equipment.

Durability: 5/5 points.

Equipment Requirement: After using this equipment, there is a chance of Moon Wolf Transformation during combat (will be subject to energy erosion during Moon Wolf Transformation).

Hint: Due to the Hunter's personal reasons, this effect is permanently invalid.

Equipment Effect: Silver Moonlight (Active): Use this blade to cut your palm. If the equipment requirements are met, you will not suffer substantial damage and will erupt with Moon Brilliance. You will randomly obtain one of the following four bonuses.

1. Current weapon sharpness increased by 25%, lasting 30 minutes (Dragon Flash's current sharpness is 2162 points; this characteristic will increase weapon sharpness by 541 points).

2. Current total health increased by 15%, lasting 30 minutes (at the current stage, can temporarily increase health by 360,000 points).

3. Luck attribute increased by 50 points, lasting 30 minutes (this is Luck Protection from the moonlight, with an "Absolute Luck" bonus effect, which can take effect in the presence of Law-Breaker luck).

4. Significantly increase your Charisma attribute, with an increase equivalent to 50% of your Strength attribute (this is Charisma Protection from the moonlight).

Hint: Each use of "Silver Moonlight" will consume 1 point of durability for this equipment. If the equipment's durability reaches zero, it will not shatter; after reflecting moonlight, the durability will gradually recover.

Hint: The above buff states can exist simultaneously, but the effects of a single type of bonus will not stack.

Warning: If the equipment requirements are not met, each use of the "Silver Moonlight" ability will permanently reduce the user's maximum health limit by 10% (the Hunter is a Shadow of the Law-Breaker and has met the equipment requirements).

Equipment Effect 2: Moon Blood Oath (Core, Passive): When you are in the abyss or an abyss-spreading area, moonlight will appear around you, dispelling the absolute dark environment within a limited range for you.

Hint: This characteristic has extremely high priority.

Rating: 8000 points (the rating for this Overlord-grade equipment is 1–8000 points).

Introduction: We are willing to use moonlight to illuminate the darkest abyss for you, wishing you peace and safety.

Price: Cannot be sold.