Chapter 3912: Change
The restaurant door was pushed open, and Wood and Zui Yasi walked into the restaurant. Both of them looked dusty, and Zui Yasi was even more exhausted.
"Bai Ye, this time if you don't pay more Black Maple Trees, you won't be worthy of the 600+ times I died in the last few days."
Zui Yasi sat down, not caring that it was leftovers, picked up a piece of ham bread and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this, Su Xiao asked the servants to bring up the prepared delicious meal. Zui Yasi, whose face had always been thicker than the city wall, started directly, and Wood, who paid attention to etiquette, also ate relatively fast. It seemed that the two were really hungry.
After eating and drinking, Zui Yasi let out a long sigh and took out more than half a piece of sheepskin paper from his arms. This thing looked like it had years on it, eroded by time into the texture of wood. It could break off a small piece with a snap.
On the ancient sheepskin paper was more than half of a circular array diagram. This array diagram was so dense that it was dazzling. Su Xiao could still recognize the characteristics of the main nodes: Sun, World, Aggregation.
Originally, the Dusk Team was Su Xiao, Zui Yasi, and Wood, but after dealing with the first strong enemy "Distorted Beast God", Zui Yasi and Wood entered a 'stealth state', as if they hadn't come to this world. Subsequent High Tower Knight Commander, Pseudo-King, Nun, and Incarnation of Gods were all dealt with by Su Xiao himself.
May I ask, what did the two good teammates do during this period? This question involves the essence of the Dusk Team. Simply put, it can be summarized as: defeating strong enemies and winning "Sun Source Stones" one by one.
No one stipulated that there was only one way to obtain "Sun Source Stones", which was defeating strong enemies in this world and seizing the "Sun Source Stones" existing in this world. And what exactly "Sun Source Stones" were, this point, the previous prompts gave the result.
【Sun Source Stone: The supreme treasure of this world, it is the nourishment and gift of Lieyang to the Sun God Race for believing in and praising the sun for thousands of years. But today, many Sun Source Stones have fallen into the hands of strong people who usurped the power of the sun. You need to defeat these strong people and take back those Sun Source Stones.】
According to the information given by Reincarnation Paradise, there are a total of 32 "Sun Source Stones" in this world. Su Xiao has already obtained 16. That is to say, the remaining 16 are likely in the hands of the Sun God Race, that is, Lieyang Monarch Ashilot.
There is no information indicating that there can be at most 32 "Sun Source Stones" in this world, and after all, this treasure named "Sun Source Stone" is an artificial object created later.
The two good teammates have disappeared for so long, and their goal is to find and explore how "Sun Source Stones" are manufactured. Right now, this more than half of the sheepskin paper is the harvest of the two. These two dog thieves don't know where they got the secret method that the Sun God Race has lost/lost from the gap of time.
This "Sun Source Stone Manufacturing Secret Method" has been lost in this era. The first goal of the two good teammates is to determine roughly in which era it was lost, and then through Zui Yasi's time ability, they saw this old sheepskin paper. Because it hadn't been sold for a long time in the Northern Continent, Steel City, Second-hand Market, it was thrown in the drawer at home by that bearded middle-aged man, and was broken by the playful child at home a few days later.
After finding it couldn't be repaired, the wife at home let the naughty child experience that maternal love was also like a mountain collapse, and threw this broken old sheepskin paper into the stove.
As for why the "Sun Source Stone Manufacturing Secret Method" ended up in this situation, this was still the contradiction between the previous Lieyang Monarch and his younger brother. The source of the contradiction between the two was whether to continue to inherit the "Lieyang Blood".
Not to mention the throne inheritance of the Sun God Race, Zui Yasi saw through the time-system ability completely what this old sheepskin paper looked like before it was broken. Doing this was not easy. Zui Yasi needed many media related to this old sheepskin paper, maybe the wooden box that held this old sheepskin paper, or the sealing box that stored it, or the adjacent secret treasure that had been stored there for thousands of years in the treasure vault, etc.
Zui Yasi and Wood spent a lot of time on this, and finally positioned it successfully. One point worth noting is that Zui Yasi used the time-system ability, not the divination perspective of the prophecy system. He saw it with his own eyes. There is an essential difference between the divination screen and seeing it with his own eyes.
After seeing this "Sun Source Stone Manufacturing Secret Method" with his own eyes, Zui Yasi dug out his right eye and threw it to Wood. For others, this was an unacceptable price, but Zui Yasi, who regenerated his right eye in 1.2 seconds, didn't care about this point.
Next, it was Wood's turn to play. What was Wood's core ability? Contract Master? No, he was a Fraudster. What was the peak skill of a Fraudster? The answer was deceiving oneself. Its ultimate ability was: I can do it.
Wood used this eyeball as a medium and began to use the "temporary materialization" ability obtained by fraud to materialize the old sheepskin paper. With its current ability, it was unlikely to materialize the old sheepskin paper directly. Such a thing from nothing was outrageous just thinking about it.
But don't forget, Wood had the ability to switch matter between 3D/2D. If he first materialized the 2D version of the old sheepskin paper, he would turn the impossible into possible. After successfully materializing the 2D version of the old sheepskin paper, he would then 3D-ize it.
If the difficulty of directly materializing the old sheepskin paper was 50,000, then after dividing it into two steps, the difficulty immediately slid to the level of 500-600.
The problem is, this old sheepskin paper is broken, and only 60%-70% of the "Sun Source Stone Manufacturing Secret Method" on it remains. Even if Su Xiao's array diagram knowledge is high, facing this level of array diagram technique, in the absence of 30%, deducing it is daydreaming.
Array diagram/technique knowledge can't do this, but some particularly unscientific, and even would be notarized as %#*& such garbled code abilities, can use some wonderful, cunning, and shameless ways to do this. For example, the famous Fraudster Nicholas Caesar, that's right, it was letting Caesar help restore this ancient sheepskin paper.
Caesar's shameless ability, Su Xiao's alchemy, Zui Yasi's time system, Wood's fraud and 2D/3D-ization, the four of them together, if they didn't try to manufacture "Sun Source Stones", they would have come to this world in vain.
Su Xiao's existing "Sun Lord" title characteristic is that the more "Sun Source Stones" absorbed, the stronger the 【God Race Holy Emblem】 converted after swallowing the "Lieyang Blood" and completing the finishing touches.
Creating more "Sun Source Stones", Su Xiao is the only beneficiary. Zui Yasi, Wood, and Caesar are willing to help because of Black Maple... cough, because the friendship is too thick.
However, one point to note is that when defeating the final strong enemy, Zui Yasi and Wood will not compete for the benefits derived from "Sun Source Stones". This point of integrity, these two dog thieves still have. But if there are other benefits, such as successfully entering the Sun God Race's treasure vault, then the backstabs of these two dog thieves will be played particularly skillfully. Of course, Su Xiao's backstab blade is also very skilled.
Su Xiao asked Baha to send the ancient sheepskin paper to Caesar in the outer city area. He had to determine that Caesar could restore it before he could take the next step.
Taking out the "Dark Moon Star Ring" from the storage space, according to the agreement, the Daughter of Nature, Elucru, helped Su Xiao deal with the Incarnation of Gods, and Su Xiao paid the other party this "Dark Moon Star Ring". The problem is, when Su Xiao was fighting to the death with the Incarnation of Gods, Elucru was healing her wounds.
It's interesting to say that in the first siege of the Incarnation of Gods, Su Xiao, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and others all showed their means to escape. On the scene, there were still Tyrant, Star World Devourer, and Elucru. The former two lay on the ground pretending to be dead, and Elucru floated in mid-air, resonating with the surrounding natural elements through elemental ability, so as to avoid being discovered.
The three originally thought that the Incarnation of Gods would leave, but who knew, the Incarnation of Gods actually entered the darkness above. Seeing this, the three could only continue to pretend to be dead and disguise themselves.
Finally, the three waited for Su Xiao to come here. Tyrant and Star World Devourer's idea was to take the opportunity to slip away, while Elucru prepared to assist Su Xiao in defeating the Incarnation of Gods, so as to get the "Dark Moon Star Ring".
The three actually thought too much. When Su Xiao entered the Dragon Rider state and flew into the high sky, Elucru felt something was wrong in her heart. When the giant brother's hammer smashed down, Elucru no longer had any idea of participating in this battle.
Seriously injured and successfully escaped, Elucru didn't doubt life. Instead, she felt that the world was different from now on. Before coming to Lieyang Star, she actually felt tired. Every enemy she dealt with was either scared out of their wits by the prestige of the Arcane Eternal Star, or was vulnerable under elemental ability.
And this time, entering a world where the peak of the Absolute level was rampant, Elucru felt that the upper limit she had already touched suddenly raised a lot.
Wearing a grey-black robe and a hood, Elucru walked on the pedestrian street of the inner city. She looked at the sun above. Her intuition as an elemental system told her that there was not much time left in this world, and something big was about to happen.
The problem is, the only goal of Elucru coming to this world, the "Dark Moon Star Ring", hadn't been obtained yet. Her only harvest was signing a bunch of unheard-of contracts for no reason. If it weren't for these contracts becoming invalid after leaving this world, her mood would be even more gloomy at this time.
Elucru's brows furrowed a bit. How to obtain the "Dark Moon Star Ring" next was a problem that had to be solved. Only by obtaining the "Dark Moon Star Ring" could it be possible to curb the abyss channel in the Void Green Wetland that couldn't be closed. This was crucial.
Thinking to this point, Elucru suddenly heard a crisp sound from in front of her feet, as if some metal object fell to the ground, and there was a bit of ethereal feeling. It should be someone's metal ring that fell. She subconsciously looked down and saw a dark purple ring that was several sizes larger than a ring, with infinite darkness inside. In this darkness, it seemed that there were vast stars.
Elucru picked up this ring and observed it carefully. The more she looked, the more she felt it was like the "Dark Moon Star Ring". After peeling off the sealing wax on it, after the fluctuation unique to the "Dark Moon Star Ring" emerged, Elucru was 100% sure that this must be the "Dark Moon Star Ring".
The abyss channel in the Void Green Wetland that couldn't be closed must be closed as soon as possible. Once a large-scale event notarized by the Tree of Void was triggered because of that special abyss channel, Qiyuezhe from multiple paradises might be summoned there. Once Su Xiao was also in this category, not only would there be no time for continued development, but he would also have to face the Supreme-level spellcaster, which was the worst situation.
Just picking up the "Dark Moon Star Ring" like this, Elucru was not stupid, and was hit by 10,000 true critical dignity damage on the spot.
On the pedestrian street, Elucru held the "Dark Moon Star Ring" with trembling hands.
"Shame... shame."
Elucru muttered in a low voice, her tone even doubting life. But she was not an ungrateful person. After taking a few deep breaths, she said to the surroundings: "This time, thank you."
After saying this, Elucru wanted to hit herself a bit. She turned to leave, but suddenly, her footsteps stopped, because she thought of another problem, which was how to explain how she obtained the "Dark Moon Star Ring" when she returned to the Arcane Eternal Star this time. Just say, she was walking on the pedestrian street of the inner city of Dusk City, and then picked it up on the ground?
Just thinking about saying this, the gazes of several faction leaders such as Soul Lord, Gale King, and Sephilia made Elucru feel cold sweat. She must not say that.
But if she fabricated lies, she would have to use a series of lies to fill them. Finally, she didn't dare to mention anything about the Law-Extinguisher. If she mentioned it, the lies might have flaws. In this way, she had to willingly help the enemy hide the information she knew.
Between "picking up the Dark Moon Star Ring on the pedestrian street" and "hiding enemy information", Elucru chose the latter without hesitation. The former was too outrageous.
Under the pitch-black sky wall of the Southern Continent, Vanguard Fortress.
The light of the teleportation array faded, and Su Xiao walked off the teleportation array covered with knife and axe cuts and monster claw marks. Cold and fierce gazes came from all around. Those stationed at the Vanguard Fortress were all members of the Hunting Group. These guys had explored the Lightless Zone for many years, and the dark aura on them was very heavy.
"Lord Bai Ye, please this way."
The general captain of the second brigade of the Hunting Group, Black Heart Gude, quickly greeted and led Su Xiao and his party to the inner area of the fortress. There was a bit of life here, but most of them were members of the caravan. Ten minutes later, the group arrived at Luciva's residence.
This was a two-story small building. After going upstairs to the door of the study, Black Heart Gude made a gesture of please and stood by the door. Su Xiao, Wood, and Zui Yasi walked into the study.
"You're here."
Behind the desk, Luciva, who was checking the intelligence statistics, spoke without raising his head. They were all old acquaintances, no need to be polite. After Su Xiao sat down opposite the desk, Luciva put down the intelligence statistics, let out a long sigh, and took a bottle of wine from the shelf behind him. The wine liquid was pitch black. Luciva introduced:
"This is a specialty of the Vanguard Fortress."
While speaking, Luciva poured a glass for Su Xiao, and his gaze looked at Zui Yasi and Wood, meaning whether the two wanted to taste it. After all, these were people brought by Su Xiao. Even if Luciva didn't know them, he wouldn't neglect them and reject Su Xiao's face.
"Suddenly coming to the Vanguard Fortress, you wouldn't be going into the Lightless Zone, would you?"
"Yes."
Hearing Su Xiao's words, Luciva's brows furrowed tightly. He opened the drawer, took out an exploration report from a few days ago, and said:
"Starting from three days ago, the Lightless Zone became abnormal. I let my men withdraw. After observing for a few days, I am preparing to close the sky wall entrance here for a few months."
Luciva's words made Su Xiao know the severity of the situation. The Hunting Group's worst time was 90% casualties in half a month, even so, they didn't retreat, but recruited people again and penetrated the Lightless Zone again a month later.
But this time, the Hunting Group clearly wanted to temporarily give up exploring the Lightless Zone. The reason was that four days ago, the third brigade of the Hunting Group was wiped out in an instant. The few second brigade members who escaped described that it was an instant darkness descent, and after an instant, the darkness disappeared, leaving only static blood mist in the air.
The Hunting Group had encountered many weird existences, but after returning to the Vanguard Fortress to prepare to investigate what this existence was, Luciva found a more terrible problem. All the relatives of those dead members of the second brigade, even distant relatives like aunts and uncles, all turned into blood mist at the moment these members died.
In the following few hours, Luciva noticed signs of forgetting. He recorded their names in his notebook before forgetting these second brigade members. A few hours later, he still remembered that the second brigade was wiped out, but opening the notebook, the names that were once as close as brothers were so strange.
Luciva soon realized that this was not an abyss existence that the Hunting Group could deal with. Among the three abyss contact levels of direct confrontation, invasion, and remaining, the Hunting Group's limit was "invasion level", but this time, it should be "direct confrontation level".
Facing this situation, retreating immediately was not admitting defeat, but being responsible for the lives of his brothers. If it was really "direct confrontation level", head-on collision would only lead to the Hunting Group being wiped out.
"Bai Ye, I know Law-Extinguishers are good at dealing with the abyss, but the situation is wrong this time. If possible, don't enter the current Lightless Zone."
As soon as Luciva finished speaking, Su Xiao received relevant prompts.
【Prompt: This round of main task is reconnaissance, exploration, and infiltration (non-combat killing). The task difficulty of this type of task will gradually increase according to the intelligence you know, becoming closer to the accurate value.】
【Prompt: Accurately judging the true danger level of reconnaissance, exploration, and infiltration main tasks is part of the task difficulty.】
【The current task difficulty of Main Task: Seventh Ring: Darkness of No Light is Lv. 95+.】
【This task difficulty is determined based on the danger level of the deepest part of the west side of the Lightless Zone under normal circumstances.】
【The task difficulty of Main Task: Seventh Ring: Darkness of No Light has been increased to Lv. 95++++++.】
【The task deadline for this task is +3 natural days.】
【The task reward for this task has been significantly increased. After successful completion, you can obtain 2 exclusive team skill card treasure chests (Inside this team skill card treasure chest, only exclusive team skill cards of Lv. EX tier will be drawn).】
【Prompt: For main tasks above Lv. 95+, it will be expanded from combat/survival type to combat/survival/exploration. Among them, for exploration tasks, no matter what method is used to achieve it, it is defaulted to 100% best completion degree.】
Compared to the rules of exploration main tasks, Su Xiao cared more about the task difficulty of Lv. 95++++++. What was the concept of this task difficulty? The task difficulty of defeating the Incarnation of Gods was Lv. 95+++++.
Before leaving, Su Xiao was prepared to distribute 97,500 soul coins to Luciva according to the prior agreement obtained from "Side Task: Hunting Shield Gun". As a result, Luciva said: "Poor ghost who develops three masters, don't be so generous. I have more soul coins than I can use."
After the group left the Vanguard Fortress, the magnificent pitch-black sky wall appeared in front. The Vanguard Fortress behind gradually moved away. Black mist drifted out from the entrance on the sky wall. Usually, Hunting Group members would be stationed here, but at this time, there was no one.
"Wang."
Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out the small cloth number and prepared to control the small cloth number to enter and explore. As soon as the small cloth number drove into the black mist at the entrance, strong interference made the screen reflected back by the small cloth number appear distorted, and finally it was pitch black. Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang controlled the small cloth number to retreat.
After observing, several people found that the small cloth number was not eroded by darkness. This meant that the environment in the Lightless Zone was milder than before, but the unknown existence wandering in the Lightless Zone made the danger level of the Lightless Zone soar.
Zheng zheng zheng......
Sharp blades rang, and several blue crystal long knives without handguards were nailed in front of several people in turn. The soul body of Grin Gillian appeared from the black mist ahead.
"Bai Ye, although I especially want to find you for help, this kind of muddy water, you definitely can't come to wade."
"......"
Su Xiao didn't speak. Seeing this, Grin Gillian's gaze rarely carried a bit of guilty conscience, and she asked tentatively:
"Could it be, because of the brand task of the Paradise faction, you came here? Otherwise, you just resist the price of this task failure. Rest assured, I will compensate you several times for this loss. In short, absolutely don't enter this abyss spreading area now."
"Forced execution."
"Ah? That what, my soul body is not very stable, the world in front of me... started to spin, I can't hear what you are saying at all."
"......"
Su Xiao looked at Grin Gillian silently. A moment later, Grin Gillian covered her eyes with one hand, looking sad. If it weren't for the corners of her mouth that she tried hard to hold back from curling up, perhaps he would still believe her sadness.
"Unimportant details, I won't waste time saying them. The current situation is that the seal in the deepest part of the west side of this abyss spreading area has been opened by me. I came to Lieyang Star this time specifically to make a break with the things sealed inside. As a Law-Extinguisher, I must do this."
Speaking to the end, Grin Gillian let out a long sigh.
"Deepest part of the west side, I have been there, there is no seal."
When Su Xiao spoke, the expression on his face was calm.
"Cough! Your sensing is not sharp enough, and sealing this thing, you don't understand."
Grin Gillian tried to muddle through.
"I sealed six original sin objects."
"Ah this, I mean, this, er~"
Grin Gillian was speechless for a while, but could this stump her? Only to see her suddenly look serious and start to explain the current situation.
The unknown existence in the Lightless Zone is called the Eternal Night Empress, an abyss race. The good news is that her combat power is no longer judged by Absolute or Supreme, she has long lost her former strength, but has become weird and strange. If the response method is wrong, she will definitely die. But if her weakness is discovered, she can still deal with it.
The difficulty of killing this abyss race is extremely high. To say it cannot be eliminated, that is not the case, but in this world, no one can do it. The purpose of Grin Gillian coming here in a remnant soul state is to banish the Eternal Night Empress to the abyss. She sealed this abyss race back then, and now calculating the time, this seal should not be able to hold on.
Rather than waiting for the Eternal Night Empress to break through the seal and appear outside the Lightless Zone, it is better to take the initiative to open the seal. In this way, the Lightless Zone barrier left by the Sun God Race back then can still trap the Eternal Night Empress for a period of time.
Although Grin Gillian is known as the most vicious female Law-Extinguisher in history, she is very serious about dealing with abyss races. And she didn't intend to be able to leave this time when she came.
As for why Grin Gillian was stammering just now, it's interesting to say that when the Eternal Night Empress was still a human, she deceived Grin Gillian quite a bit. Grin Gillian, who had cheated on many girls, suffered retribution from the Eternal Night Empress, and wore a painful mask.
Even so, as the Eternal Night Empress gradually fell into the abyss, Grin Gillian persuaded and stopped her more than once, until the other party completely fell into the abyss. Grin Gillian could only pull out her saber with a complex expression. She hadn't loved many people, and the Eternal Night Empress was the 129th person she loved deeply.
"Hey, I was clearly dedicated to love, but she still fell into the abyss in the end."
Grin Gillian let out a sigh. Hearing this, Baha said: "Are you sure the Eternal Night Empress didn't fall into the abyss because of your stimulation?"
"This is definitely not, the world where her hometown was located was eaten by the Star World Devourer, and not a single relative was left."
Hearing this, Baha understood and nodded. Grin Gillian didn't need to lie about this, or rather, with Grin Gillian's reputation already at the end of viciousness, there was no need to lie about such things.
"You, me, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, plus the Ancient God system, Devil race, this is our entire lineup?"
Grin Gillian looked worried. If possible, she didn't intend to pull Su Xiao onto the pirate ship, but things have come to this point, coupled with the sealing level of six original sin objects, in the subsequent banishment, she is definitely the MVP.
"Three more 'friends' will come."
The friends Su Xiao mentioned were naturally the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Black Demon. If prepared properly, it was not impossible to temporarily pull these three guys onto the pirate ship. At that time, being trapped in the Lightless Zone, even if the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Black Demon didn't want to be teammates, they had to be.
As for why these three had to be pulled into the group, this was a matter of probability. If it was Su Xiao, Grin Gillian, Wood, and Zui Yasi dealing with the Eternal Night Empress, then when facing some unsolvable weird abilities, all four were in a one-fourth unlucky probability. But if you count the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Black Demon, the probability immediately becomes one-seventh. ===== CHAPTER 3913 =====
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