Chapter 3899: Winner

Dusk City, Inner City, Great Library.

Although it was called the Great Library, the number of ancient books stored here wasn't large, not even one-ten-millionth of the Soul Great Library. It wasn't that Blazing Sun Star lacked heritage; it was at the end of the First Era, when the Abyssal Dragon Guz swallowed and broke through the heavy defensive barriers of Blazing Sun Star, spraying dragon flames at the city from above Blazing Sun City.

With the enmity between the Ancient Dragon camp and the Sun camp, naturally, they would destroy whatever made the other side hurt more. Burning the palace in the central city area was certainly satisfying, but it wouldn't take long for the Sun God Race to let the groups attached to them build a taller and more magnificent palace. On the contrary, the Royal City Great Library preserved many rare books, and 99% of these books were unique.

The Abyssal Dragon Guz swallowed even abyss energy, and it was already a miracle that it could maintain a certain degree of sanity. Naturally, it didn't care about the damage that burning the Royal City Great Library would cause to the First Era civilization. Moreover, the end of the First Era was when the Sun and Ancient Dragon camps were fighting the most fiercely.

The outcome was that the Abyssal Dragon Guz was killed by the returning Sun King, but the Royal City Great Library turned to ashes, and one-fifth of the Royal City buildings turned into ruins.

Tall bookshelves made of walnut wood stood, with the patina of time on them, giving the wood grain a sense of temporal beauty. When picking up the ancient books displayed on the bookshelves at this time and sniffing them, one could still smell a faint burnt odor.

Beside the tall bookshelf on the innermost side, a candlestick was placed on a small round wooden table. The darkness of the late night was driven away by the dim candlelight. A stooped, skinny old man stood in front of the bookshelf at the edge of the candlelight, his aged hand taking down an ancient book. That skin, like tree bark, seemed even older than the ancient book.

This frail old man dressed in gray long clothes was actually the leader-level figure of the Great Library camp, the Eyeless Sage. Not only was his eye socket pitch-black, but because his gray long clothes were open, one could see his chest, which was withered to the point of showing ribs. Further down was an empty abdomen, as if it had been hollowed out by a wild beast. Inside the abdomen was a piece of darkness, as if it was this darkness that allowed such an old monster to continue living.

A few meters away, Su Xiao sat on a crystal chair, reading an ancient book on pharmacology. After meeting the old monster, he discovered that the other party wasn't a long-lived species, not even a Sun God Race, but a human.

The more this was the case, the more it highlighted the old monster's power. Looking at the entire Sun camp, the old monster certainly wasn't the strongest, but he was the one who could live the longest.

This was also what made people puzzled. When Su Xiao first came to Dusk City, he had always guarded against this old monster who had lived from the First Era to the present. But as the situation developed, he discovered that the old monster was the one with the fewest desires, forming a sharp contrast with Augustus and Black Bertha, who were fighting for power.

This made people suspicious: what exactly was the old monster's goal? And what exactly was he waiting for, enduring the pain of abyss erosion to survive until the Third Era?

One had to know, if the old monster wanted to become the controller of Dusk City, let alone the current Blazing Sun Monarch Ashlot, even Ashlot's grandfather's generation wouldn't be the old monster's opponent.

Combining all this, the old monster didn't give people the feeling of plotting anything, but rather like he was waiting for something. Under such circumstances, cooperating with this old monster was the best choice at present. No matter what, Su Xiao was an outsider. Without cooperating with a local force, those Dusk City power-holders who had been unhappy with him for a long time would swarm him.

Killing all these Dusk City power-holders wasn't difficult, but the problem was that he wouldn't be able to enter Dusk City openly afterward.

"That was a long time ago. A group of us accidentally entered that dark place, and only the three of us walked out alive. Compared to the two of them, the traces I left in later generations are not worth mentioning."

The old monster, the Eyeless Sage, spoke.

"..."

Su Xiao looked suspiciously at the old monster who was wiping the cover of an ancient book. Since coming here, he hadn't clarified his purpose.

"Hmm? Didn't you just ask about what happened to the three of us back then? Could it be that I remembered wrong? What did you just ask?"

"I didn't say anything."

"Impossible, lying is not a good habit for young people."

The old monster put the wiped ancient book back in its place, then took down one he had just wiped and started wiping it again.

Su Xiao had seen quite a few old schemers with superb acting skills. Being able to act to the old monster's level was unheard of. Plus, the other party didn't need to act like this under these circumstances. Inferring from this, this controller of the Great Library seemed to have some... memory loss caused by senility.

"Law-Extinguisher, what did you just say your name was?"

"Bai Ye."

"Oh, Bai Ye."

The old monster nodded thoughtfully, put back the wiped ancient book, picked up the second one he had just wiped, and wiped it carefully. Judging from the wear and tear of the nearby ancient books, the old monster was specifically harming those few; it belonged to cyclical forgetting.

"Don't worry, I still remember very important things, for example, you only came to Blazing Sun Star yesterday."

"..."

"It seems I remembered wrong. You should be more tolerant toward the elderly, not to mention I have lived..."

Speaking of this, the old monster suddenly got stuck. He seemed to be contemplating how many years he had lived. Seeing this, Su Xiao's gaze became a bit solemn. Given the other party's current memory situation, if he really recalled how many years he had lived, he might just be tired enough to fall into a deep sleep.

"Two and a half eras."

Hearing Su Xiao's reminder, the old monster looked suspicious and asked, "Have I lived for so long? How terrifying. Then wouldn't I have become an immortal old monster? But how did I live so long? It seems I ate... darkness?"

The old monster narrowed his pitch-black eyes without eyeballs, then shook his head in disappointment, and then asked, "That..."

"Bai Ye."

"Oh, Bai Ye, what did you come here for this time?"

"I need 'Prophet's Enlightenment'. You name a price."

"Hmm, let me think about where this ancient book is placed. It seems to be on my bookshelf? Follow me."

The old monster waved his hand. For some reason, Su Xiao faintly felt that the old monster should definitely not be so kind and gentle. The other party having this attitude was nothing more than the following reasons.

1. The negotiation effect derived from Su Xiao's own Charm attribute.

Cough~, first rule this out.

2. Some of his previous actions had gained the old monster's favor.

This wasn't very reliable either. When he first came to Dusk City and sensed this old monster who swallowed the darkness of the abyss to survive until the Third Era in the direction of the Great Library, he had maintained vigilance and observation. Although there was no attitude of hostility, it wasn't enough to make the other party so kind and gentle.

3. His identity as a Law-Extinguisher finally had positive feedback in terms of negotiation.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao immediately recalled Green Gillian, because the other party being caught in the crossfire happened quite often. This time, he finally had positive negotiation feedback because of the Law-Extinguishing camp.

Ten minutes later, in the old monster's study on the lower level of the Great Library, he fumbled on the bookshelf for a while and took down an ancient book.

"This 'Prophet's Enlightenment', I got it in... where did I get it?"

The old monster thought for a while, didn't remember, and simply didn't think about this trivial matter. Come to think of it, from the First Era to the present, if he remembered all the trivial matters, no matter how strong his spirit body was, he would go crazy due to memory confusion.

"Who are you giving this ancient book to?"

"Xiguang City, City Lord."

"Oh, that little brat. He has established Xiguang City for a few years, and I don't know how it's developing."

"Xia Er-yin."

"Hmm? This name sounds a bit familiar. Let me think... Oh~, has Xiguang City been established for so many years? It seems it has even changed several generations of city lords."

"What price do I have to pay for this ancient book?"

"A very high price, which you can't pay yet. When you are qualified, I will come to collect it. I think this time is not far away. We will witness it together then."

The old monster placed "Prophet's Enlightenment" on the wooden table beside Su Xiao. After sitting down beside the wooden table, he sighed and said, "This old thing of mine can no longer taste food. Only fine wine brewed from natural elements can allow this half-dead old monster of mine to taste some flavor."

By the end, the old monster sighed again.

"..."

Su Xiao took out the elemental fine wine. The old monster across the wooden table naturally took two wine glasses from the cabinet shelf. It seemed his senility was intermittent. At this time, the old monster was relatively clear-headed.

The old monster, with loose robes and an open chest, skinny and bony, raised his cup to drink with a bit of detachment. Because this was the wine from the lowest layer of the Star Giant Tree Great Wine Barrel, the taste was more mellow and also had a spicy sensation. As the old monster exhaled the wine vapor, his turbid pupils became a bit clearer.

"Your next opponent is the nun, right."

"..."

"It seems so. Give it up, this is a trap."

"Trap?"

"You should have discovered that only Dusk City can be bathed in sunlight for a long time. The further away from here, the dimmer the sunlight. By the time you reach Holy Heart City in the far south or the Nightmare Land in the far north, the sky is pitch-black."

When the old monster said this, he picked up the wine cup-sized pottery cup and drank the fine wine in one gulp, which finally made him feel a bit like he was still alive. He continued:

"Spirit Crown City of the Soul Academy and Holy Heart City of the God Sect are both in that dim land in the south. They don't dare to directly wage war on Dusk City to compete for this land bathed in sunlight every day, but they are unwilling to let it continue, so..."

"The Road to Kingship."

"Right, the 32 'Sun Source Stones' originally possessed by the Sun God Race are now scattered in various places, possessed by many powerful people. The Kingship Trial in the name of recovering the 'Sun Source Stones' is the best excuse. It not only makes Dusk City unable to refuse but also allows them to act when the opportunity arises."

The old monster revealed the secret contained in the "Road to Kingship." Simply put, this was a probe launched by the Soul Academy and Holy Heart City against Dusk City. The three parties each sent a team to recover the "Sun Source Stones" one by one. If Dusk City showed any weakness during this period, the Soul Academy and Holy Heart City would swarm them.

If Dusk City was a dying old lion, then the Soul Academy and Holy Heart City were crocodile groups and hyenas. The crocodile groups and hyenas couldn't figure out how much ability this old lion still had, and neither side wanted to become cannon fodder for the other.

This was also why Su Xiao's team, the Priest's team, and the Smarty's team—these three teams of outsiders—could represent Dusk City, the Soul Academy, and the God Sect to fight in this Road to Kingship. It was not only because the previous teams of the three parties had all been beaten to total annihilation by the Beast God, the Giant Tree King, and the Blood-Thirsty Beast, but also because the purpose of the three parties wasn't actually to complete the Road to Kingship.

What the three parties didn't expect was that these three teams, who had agreed perfunctorily, were one fiercer than the other. As of now, all three teams had each defeated three formidable enemies and were about to challenge their team's fourth formidable enemy.

Especially on the God Sect's side, after figuring out the origins of the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and the Abyss Archbishop, they immediately stopped playing. They wouldn't participate in the follow-up of this matter. These three teams, chosen at random, were truly hair-raising.

Among them were humanoid ancient gods, the fate-system who silently devoured fate, the Abyss Archbishop who was the highest echelon existence of the Dark God Sect, the Law-Extinguishing Shadow who detonated two Sun Holy Swords in the Arcane Eternal Star, the Black Demon who had just crawled out of the shallow layer of the abyss, and the Astral Devourer who hadn't been reincarnated for long.

After the high-level officials of the God Sect found out about these at a great cost, several high-level officials were numb. The next day, they stated that the subsequent Road to Kingship had nothing to do with them, and they completely handed over the participation qualification for this Road to Kingship to the three people of the Priest's team.

After the Soul Academy discovered this situation, they also started to investigate, but there were no very strong diviners here, so they bought relevant information from the God Sect at a high price.

After realizing the nightmare-like lineup of these three teams, the attitude of the Soul Academy was simple and clear: Goodbye.

When Dusk City saw this situation, they prepared to take advantage of the trend to stop this Kingship Trial. Whether it was the old aristocrats or the newly promoted power-holders, they didn't want Dusk City to participate in this trial. If it weren't for the high cost of directly falling out with the God Sect and the Soul Academy, they would have torn their faces long ago.

Facing this situation, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't agree. He had already dealt with the fourth formidable enemy; did Dusk City want to end it just because they said so? Coupled with his main mission, which was this King's Trial, he naturally wouldn't give up halfway. This was also why the old aristocrats and the newly promoted power-holders were willing to join forces temporarily tonight to deal with Su Xiao.

However, the trap dug by the old aristocrats and the newly promoted power-holders wasn't here, but in the fourth formidable enemy Su Xiao had to deal with: the nun.

"Where did I just say?"

The old monster's eyes became turbid again. Seeing this, Su Xiao stood up to say goodbye. After he left, the old monster looked at the flickering candlelight, somewhat dazed.

"Yeah, it's long since not our era anymore. Our sun is about to set."

After the old monster finished speaking, the flickering candlelight went out, and he gradually fell silent in the darkness.

Su Xiao walked out of the main entrance of the Great Library, and the early morning sun shone on the top of the city wall.

"Hey, don't pretend you didn't see me."

Delona, in a black dress, spoke. She was sitting on the roof of the Lord's train, swinging her calves.

"My brother said to let me summon this to pick you up and leave Dusk City, and also said it's very dangerous here now."

Delona spoke incoherently while eating food that looked like a bun. This was Delona's personality. Ever since leaving the Dark Moon Nightmare and sharing a body with Ayesha, the happier Delona was, the more depressed Ayesha was.

Previously, the relationship between the two belonged to not being hostile, but also not looking at each other favorably. So Delona, who had control of the body for a long time, often had bad ideas, such as going to a restaurant to eat and deliberately asking the waiter for some chili, chewing it after enduring the spiciness, and then, while Ayesha's consciousness wasn't paying attention, suddenly giving her control of the body.

Ayesha, who was enjoying the tranquility in the darkness, suddenly came to a noisy restaurant, and her mouth was still full of chili. The situation could be imagined.

What made Ayesha's mood even gloomier was that Delona never tired of this kind of thing. In the end, Ayesha simply sealed herself in the consciousness space. This made Delona very uncomfortable. When she first shared a body with Ayesha, she inevitably had some rejection in her heart, but when the other party really ignored her and almost gave up control of the body, it didn't take long for her to miss Ayesha a little.

The current Delona was in a irritable mood of missing Ayesha very much but not being able to see her.

"Bai Ye, how can I see Ayesha? She won't talk to me~!"

Delona lay back, lying on the roof of the train.

"If it were me, I wouldn't talk to you either. If anyone else dared to harm Ayesha like this, she would have cursed them to death long ago. She is the incarnation of the Dark Bed."

Bahar on Su Xiao's shoulder spoke. Hearing Bahar say this, Delona, lying on the roof of the train, suddenly sat up. She looked at Bahar with one eye big and one eye small on purpose, various bad ideas growing in her heart.

Bahar's expression twitched. It had traveled through so many worlds and had only been stumped by two people. The first was the ultimate green tea Crystal Ji, and the second was the black-dressed Delona. It was hard to imagine how miserably those nightmare creatures in the Dark Moon Nightmare had been harmed by this little aunt over the years.

"Ayesha, Ayesha! I was wrong, don't ignore me. Counting by blood, I am your own younger sister. Do you treat your own sister like this?"

Speaking of this, tears blurred in Delona's eyes. However, Ayesha in the darkness of the consciousness space didn't pay attention to her, but the slightly raised corners of her lips represented that she didn't dislike Delona. But in the next second, she sensed a handful of chili in the fair little hand Delona had in her pocket, and she was so angry that her eyes became even darker.

"Pfft~, sister has learned to be smart. Bai Ye, aren't we leaving yet?"

Delona spoke. She dared to be a rascal with others, but didn't dare to be presumptuous with Su Xiao. Su Xiao hadn't swallowed less magic spirit energy. Where did the magic spirit energy come from? The answer was that it was transformed by the Blade Magic Spirit from the "Immortal Abyss Breeding Source." The Dark Bed was one of the most powerful abyss breedings.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He naturally didn't need to leave Dusk City, and he still had to go to the only entrance from the "Inner City Area" to the "Central City Area," the Silent Ancient Hall.

At this moment, Rear City Area, Silver Coconut Manor.

This was one of the largest manors in the Inner City Area. As the residence of the leader of the newly promoted power-holders, the luxury level went without saying. However, the atmosphere in Silver Coconut Manor today was particularly heavy. At least half of the lineup that besieged Su Xiao last night was stationed in the manor at this time.

In the restaurant on the third floor of the mansion, breakfast wasn't sumptuous but exquisite. Unfortunately, Black Bertha had no appetite at all. The siege last night was equivalent to tearing off the mask. She was certain that the Law-Extinguisher's revenge would come soon. In Black Bertha's view, for a Law-Extinguisher who rushed to challenge the Beast God, the High Tower Knight Commander, and the False King, assassination was the fastest and easiest revenge method to achieve.

After waiting all night, the expected assassination didn't come. Instead, the old aristocrat Augustus went to the central city area to present the 【Blazing Sun Greatsword】. In return, this old fox was about to bring the Monarch Holy Emblem back to the Inner City Area. This meant that in the subsequent confrontation with the old aristocracy faction, the newly promoted power-holders led by Black Bertha would be suppressed, with almost no room to fight back.

Thinking of this, Black Bertha's mood was terrible to the extreme. Beside the dining table, she rubbed her forehead with one hand, thinking about the subsequent countermeasures. Just at this moment, her confidant subordinate crashed into the restaurant with a "bang," panting and wanting to say something.

"Don't panic, we have already considered the worst result."

On Black Bertha's face, which already had initial wrinkles, there was inevitably a bit of loneliness. The confrontation with that old fox had ultimately failed. As for the Law-Extinguisher who hadn't been in Dusk City for long, he was just an outsider. Even if he had strength, but hindered by his limited forces, he couldn't come up with any plans in a short time.

"My lord, good news! That old fox Augustus was slaughtered by an assassin! The Monarch Holy Emblem is also lost. I have confirmed the news; it is absolutely true!"

There was an uncontrollable smile on the confidant's face. Hearing this, suspicion flashed in Black Bertha's eyes. Her first thought was that the old thing was faking his death, but on second thought, this wasn't very likely.

The joy in her heart didn't gush out. A thought appeared: that old fox Augustus was dead, and the Monarch Holy Emblem he obtained was also lost. What should the old aristocrats do? This was simply falling from heaven directly to hell. The old aristocrats would go crazy and hysterical because of this.

"Kukulin Bai Ye, you..."

Black Bertha's expression was ugly to the extreme. After contemplating for a while, she dropped the napkin and stood up, saying to the confidant beside her: "Arrange for me to leave the city immediately, go to... Xiguang City."

"As you command, my lord. Before noon, I guarantee you..."

"Immediately! Within half a quarter of an hour, I want to leave Dusk City."

"Yes, yes."

The confidant hurriedly lowered his head repeatedly. Black Bertha sighed and walked toward the outside of the restaurant.

Pfft~!

The blood-stained blade tip pierced through Black Bertha's chest. She staggered half a step forward, looking down at the blade tip that was gradually sliding down with bloodstains and becoming bright and cold. For the first time, there was a bit of disbelief in her eyes. Even when she heard Augustus died just now, she hadn't been so stunned.

"Lord Augustus instructed me to say goodbye to you on his behalf. Farewell."

The confidant pulled out the short knife that pierced the heart, which caused Black Bertha to fall to the ground with a "thud." In the spreading pool of blood, she stared at her confidant, feeling unbelievable until her death. This confidant who had followed her for decades was actually Augustus's subordinate.

At the same time, in a basement laboratory in the south of the Inner City Area, in a metal pool engraved with spells, a man in his early 30s rose from the slightly viscous semi-transparent liquid. The biological tubes connected to him detached. This body of the man breathed with lungs for the first time, inevitably appearing unfamiliar, and the breathing sound was slightly noisy, but soon, he felt how comfortable this young, strong body was.

The appearance of this body was unmistakably Augustus's eldest son. Augustus possessing his own biological son? Of course not. Many years ago, Augustus's eldest son had been ambushed and killed by an enemy. This matter had been hidden by Augustus, and at the same time, there was a plan. He needed a brand-new identity, an identity that could simultaneously lead both the old aristocrats and the newly promoted power-holders.

Because of this, although Augustus guessed a bit of Su Xiao's open plot, he chose not to use a double and went on the field himself. Looking at it now, he would become the biggest winner in this assassination. He now had a 30-year-old body and energy, hundreds of years of city government, plus knowing the weaknesses and unspeakable secrets of over 90% of the old aristocrats and newly promoted power-holders.

"Kukulin Bai Ye, thank you for giving me such a god-given opportunity. In return, you should just die. If you don't die, I'm uneasy."

Augustus spoke as if talking to himself. He took another deep breath. The wonderful feeling of the new body made a smile appear on his face. He put on his robe, and just as he walked out of the metal pool, he saw a figure leaning against a glass pillar a few meters away. This person was dressed in gray-white feathered clothes and wore a bone mask with bright red outlined patterns on it.

"How much did Bai Ye offer? I'll offer a hundred times."

Augustus spoke almost through gritted teeth, but in the next instant, his whole body couldn't move a bit.

Tap, tap, tap...

Owl walked over step by step. When she reached the front of Augustus, a short knife as thin as a cicada's wing wiped across Augustus's throat cleanly. The knife wasn't stained with blood. Owl walked toward the outside of the basement laboratory step by step. When the exit door of the basement laboratory fell again, a huge amount of blood sprayed from Augustus's neck, and Augustus immediately fell to the ground.

Until his death, Augustus didn't understand how the other party tracked him. For this reincarnation, he even abandoned his former soul body. It was a method of extracting original soul energy in advance and gathering it into a soul seed to reshape the soul body in the new body. This exhausted the wealth he had accumulated for hundreds of years as the leader of the old aristocracy, and it was barely achieved under the condition of having great defects.

Inner City Area, innermost area.

The melee that happened here just now left the surrounding area in a mess. The old aristocrat Augustus was assassinated on this main street.

It stood to reason that this area should be strictly sealed off, but with both Augustus and Black Bertha having accidents, the high-level officials of the Inner City Area had begun to confront each other, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme. However, both the old aristocrats and the newly promoted power-holders were very restrained. Both sides were also surprised to find that although both sides had lost leader-level figures, they had reached a wonderful balance again.

The buildings on both sides of the street became increasingly dilapidated. When Su Xiao reached the deepest part of the Inner City Area, a high wall blocked the front. This high wall was hundreds of meters high. If one wanted to enter through flight, they would definitely be roasted into ashes by the blazing sun.

An ancient but magnificent hall served as the only entrance to this high wall. This was the Silent Ancient Hall.

The split metal giant door blocked the way. For some reason, there were no guards in front of the door.

Su Xiao pushed a metal giant door with both hands. Accompanied by the "click-clack" sound of the door opening, the scene of the Silent Ancient Hall came into view. The hall was very quiet, but if one listened carefully, there seemed to be whispering murmurs in the air. The hall was filled with pitch-black chains. These chains became thinner as they converged toward the center. And at the center was a figure wrapped in black chains, located a few meters in mid-air.

When Su Xiao stepped one foot into the Silent Ancient Hall, all the chains in the hall became scorching red and began to turn into molten iron and scatter on the ground. The figure bound by the chains landed steadily. She opened her eyes and looked calmly at the Law-Extinguisher who had come here.

The nun had awakened. ===== CHAPTER 3900 =====