Chapter 3913: Strangling

This time entering the Lightless Zone, Su Xiao didn't let Amu go together. The reason was that Amu was better at dealing with strong enemies, and this kind of weird characteristic full situation could be said to be its weakness. Even if Amu was extremely resistant to beating, it wouldn't be able to survive the Eternal Night Empress that needed to be dealt with this time just by being resistant to beating.

Baha also returned with Amu. The space system didn't have much advantage when dealing with weird enemies. Su Xiao asked Amu and Baha to go to Xiguang City. In the Southern District there, there was a branch of the City Bank. It looked like handling financial business, but it was actually an underground material exchange.

For this kind of thing, City Lord Shier Yin chose to close one eye. After all, it was harmless to civilians, at most letting some black merchants enter Xiguang City. Compared to the benefits brought to Xiguang City, it was not worth mentioning.

With her acquiescence, the president of the City Bank became the actual controller of this underground material exchange. After years of development, it became the largest extraordinary material exchange in this world.

Su Xiao was not interested in the extraordinary material exchange itself, but to support an exchange of this scale and be recognized by various chambers of commerce of the three parties of Dusk City, Sacred Heart City, and Spirit Crown City, it must have sufficient extraordinary material inventory. What Su Xiao was really eyeing was the extraordinary material storage of the material exchange.

Later, if he wanted to create "Sun Source Stones", he must have a large amount of rare materials as support. It wouldn't work to rely on Dusk City to have this kind of foundation. The target was only left with this material treasure vault.

This time Su Xiao was not prepared to operate "stocking up" or anything, he didn't have that much time to operate, so he had to be simpler and rougher. As for the large amount of extraordinary materials obtained by doing this, eight or nine out of ten would not be notarized. He didn't care about this point.

These materials were used to manufacture "Sun Source Stones", and "Sun Source Stones" were used for the "Sun Lord" title to absorb. After completing this step, it would naturally complete notarization assimilation.

This matter was very important, but Baha handled it, and Su Xiao was very relieved.

"Done, then I'll go step on the spot first... cough~, investigate the situation."

Baha landed on Amu's shoulder, and Amu walked towards the Vanguard Fortress.

Grin Gillian on the side, of course, also heard Su Xiao's instructions to Amu and Baha, which made her frown, as if she was worried about the reputation of the Law-Extinguishing faction in the Third Era. She said:

"Bai Ye, you are going to rob the material vault of Xiguang City."

Hearing Grin Gillian's words, Zui Yasi and Wood both looked at this predecessor Law-Extinguisher. Grin Gillian's words made the two have some doubts about the conduct of the Law-Extinguishers in the Second Era.

According to records, it was basically evaluated like this: when a world faced abyss invasion, or abyss breeding, Law-Extinguishers were the most reliable saviors. However, there was a problem, which was that when Law-Extinguishers successfully eliminated the source of danger, they would become new "dangers".

Take Grin Gillian as an example. When the Witch World encountered a crisis and asked the Law-Extinguishing faction for help, originally it should be Star-Devouring Arkas who went. But before departure, Arkas, who was at the "Supreme Peak", suddenly suffered from diarrhea.

At that time, the old witches of the Witch World were shivering when they heard this reason. Refusing to help was nothing, but the "Supreme Peak" suffered from diarrhea because he ate something bad, this reason was not an insult to intelligence?

Facts proved that Arkas really suffered from severe diarrhea. As for how he got it, the Law-Extinguishers who had time at that time were only Arkas and Grin Gillian. The old Law-Extinguisher considered Grin Gillian's aesthetic orientation. If she were allowed to go to the Witch World, who knows what kind of moths would be made.

Regarding this, Grin Gillian was very dissatisfied. When she heard that the Witch World was asking for help, her eyes were green like a hungry wolf. How could she let Arkas go? So the reason why Arkas suddenly had diarrhea no longer needed to be mentioned.

Just when the old witches of the Witch World didn't quite understand why the Law-Extinguishers, who had a good relationship with them, were looking for a reason to insult their intelligence when they were in trouble, Grin Gillian arrived. This made the old witches stunned. Their idea was, could it be that the "Supreme Peak" really ate something bad and had diarrhea? A group of old witches started to doubt life.

Subsequently, Grin Gillian almost lost her life twice, helping the Witch World survive this violent abyss invasion. A group of old witches were moved and ashamed in their hearts. They hated themselves for wanting to slap themselves twice for the idea that the Law-Extinguishing faction was going to stand by and watch.

Therefore, the old witches said nothing to let Grin Gillian leave, and must reward this female Law-Extinguisher. Even though the old Law-Extinguisher far away in the Void repeatedly requested Grin Gillian to return as soon as possible, the old witches fought for it, and then Grin Gillian molested the contemporary Moon Witch. After this happened, the old witches almost collectively autistic.

Looking at Grin Gillian's furrowed brows now, Zui Yasi and Wood looked at each other, and both thought that it was possible that the poor reputation of the Law-Extinguishing faction in the Second Era was deliberately smeared by spellcasters later? This possibility was not small. After all, Grin Gillian's brows furrowed deeper when she heard that she was going to rob the material vault of Xiguang City.

"Robbing directly is too rude and loses the face of our Law-Extinguishing faction. It is more efficient to kidnap the City Lord of Xiguang City, Shier Yin, and then use her to blackmail. I heard that the City Lord is a great beauty. This matter, the two of us can join hands. You want materials, I want Shier Yin."

The more Grin Gillian said, the brighter her eyes became. Hearing Grin Gillian's words, Zui Yasi and Wood were enlightened. It seemed that the reputation of the Law-Extinguishing faction in the Second Era was not deliberately exaggerated.

Did the Arcane Eternal Star deliberately smear the Law-Extinguishing faction? The answer was, no. Not only no, but some things about the Law-Extinguishing faction that were jaw-dropping, or complex in expression, or tongue-tied, the Arcane Eternal Star would even deliberately hide.

Why so? No matter what, spellcasters and Law-Extinguishers were mortal enemies, and this mortal enemy once hammered them to a bruised nose and swollen face. Sometimes the mortal enemy's integrity was too low, and the Arcane Eternal Star would also feel ashamed. Among them, the matter between Grin Gillian and Mage Sage Sephilia had to be kept secret.

The group walked into the black mist ahead. As soon as they entered the Lightless Zone, Su Xiao found that the concentration of abyss energy here was lower. If the concentration last time was 3, this time it was at the level of 2. But compared to before, it became quieter, and those dark creatures wandering in the black mist were nowhere to be found.

The Lightless Zone was very dark, not completely unable to see the front, the visible distance was about 5-8 meters, and further away was distorted by darkness. In addition, there were ruins of various buildings here.

In the history of Lieyang Star, there was no precedent for conquering the Lightless Zone, so it was impossible to build buildings here. Inferring this, these building ruins should be small abyss channels in this place. During the abyss energy eruption period, these buildings were rolled from the "Abyss Near Zone".

Therefore, the styles of these building ruins were different. Some were biased towards dark worship, and some were close to giant beast distortion. Among them, a whole black rock wall caught Su Xiao's attention. Just seeing this internally distorted round emblem, it gave people a sense of gloom and coldness, as if being in the deep sea.

"This is the emblem of the Azguk family. The Azguk family is an abyss race. We used to have a big feud, and later I and Marvin and his master tricked them."

Grin Gillian pointed to the lower side of this round emblem, indicating that this round emblem should be looked at upside down.

"By the way, do you know the difference between abyss race, strange existence, abyss breeding, and immortal abyss breeding?"

"Know."

"Have you encountered an abyss race?"

"Not yet."

"Then remember this round emblem, this is Azguk, and we have a big feud. If there is no accident, they are still sealed at the bottom of the Sea Race main city of the Wind Sea Continent. By the way, the current Sea King is actually a member of the Azguk family. Without him inside and outside, Waltz and I really couldn't seal the Azguk family so thoroughly."

Speaking of this, Grin Gillian picked up a black metal fragment and continued: "Difficult abyss races, besides the Azguk family, there is Dukain. Whether it is Azguk or Dukain, they are transliterations of abyss language. The former means Deep Sea Master, the latter is Darkness Descent/Domination. If I remember correctly, the Dukain family was sealed in the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, but now the Ancient Dragon faction has perished, that seal is likely to have expired."

Grin Gillian didn't have the talent to be a teacher. She said whatever she thought of. She continued:

"Azguk, Dukain, Rune, Bronze, Aggregate, um, these are the five abyss races that have the biggest feud with us."

Speaking of this, Grin Gillian stopped and changed the subject: "Going forward, you will enter the domain of the Eternal Night Empress. When will your three 'friends' come? Once the Eternal Night Empress is alarmed, this Lightless Zone will be closed for a period of time."

"Almost here."

Su Xiao leaped to the top of a stone wall several meters high and meditated on the top of the pillar. In this state, his perception range would be larger.

In fact, Su Xiao was not sure that the Priest team would come, but don't forget one point. Before, the Priest team had to abandon the "Sun Source Stone". Although the three were the winners of the siege of the Incarnation of Gods, one grabbed the strongest backstab weapon "Disdain", one absorbed a large amount of "World-Ending Fate Power", and the last one swallowed "Strongest Adaptability", but no one would think they won too much.

Not to mention, the three accepted the main task through the notarization of the Tree of Void. It was rare for violators to accept main tasks. Since they accepted main tasks through the notarization of the Tree of Void, the benefits were only 60% of the Qiyuezhe, and there were also task failure penalties.

Because it was not a full reward, the task penalty did not have "forced execution".

The Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Star World Devourer initially discussed collecting more "Sun Source Stones", seeing Lieyang Monarch Ashilot through the Road to Kingship, and assassinating this king. Don't doubt, the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Star World Devourer had the opportunity to do this. The Sky City Lord of the Witch World, Dragon City, was also killed by the three of them, and that was also a Supreme.

Head-on combat, the situation of the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Star World Devourer obviously couldn't deal with the Supreme, but they had enough old schemers and many weird means.

Using "Disdain" to kill Lieyang Monarch Ashilot, then using high-intensity dark blood to pollute the "Lieyang Blood" inherited by the God Race, thereby reflecting the distorted sun above, making the entire Dusk City constitute a sacrificial ritual. The last step was to complete the opening of the abyss channel at the very center of Dusk City.

Very specific details were difficult to investigate. The ultimate purpose of the three doing this should not be the abyss invasion after the abyss channel opened, but that other forces were willing to pay huge chips for this. This remuneration must be outrageously high.

In this transaction with the unknown faction, the Abyss Archbishop must be the one who earned the most. It was possible that he was the one who bridged it. But the Abyss Archbishop never expected that the purpose of the Priest and Platinum Apostle was not the remuneration of the unknown faction, but "Disdain" and "World-Ending Fate Power".

Or rather, the purpose of the Priest and Platinum Apostle coming to Lieyang Star should still be that agreed plan, but after discovering that they were competing on the same stage with Su Xiao, Zui Yasi, Wood, and Caesar, the Priest and Platinum Apostle both felt that completing this plan was increasingly unreliable, so they acted according to circumstances and backstabbed the Abyss Archbishop to recover losses.

As for why Su Xiao could be sure that the Priest trio had main tasks on them, if they didn't accept main tasks, they couldn't become a representative team of one of the three major forces in this world. This was part of the notarization of this world progress by the Tree of Void.

No one would be willing to bear the penalty of task failure, especially since the Priest team still had a chance to turn the tables. Once successful, it was an extremely considerable harvest. And areas like the Lightless Zone were obviously more advantageous to the Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Black Demon, especially the Black Demon, which had regional combat power improvement after entering the Lightless Zone.

Bo~

Water-like fluctuations triggered in Su Xiao's perception. He still closed his eyes and meditated until these perception water waves became more and more, just like many people walking on the water.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang detached from the environment. It stepped forward, walked into the vast domain covered by the Eternal Night Empress, and then immediately integrated into the environment.

Almost the moment Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang stepped into the domain of the Eternal Night Empress, the entrances on the north and south sides of the Lightless Zone were suddenly sealed by black stone. Strong darkness formed solid, sealing the entire Lightless Zone.

"Ao!!"

Like a dark banshee howling, the domain of the Eternal Night Empress suddenly shrouded the entire Lightless Zone. The Priest trio, who reacted immediately, one prepared to shed its shell, the skin on its body began to wither, one prepared to use space secret treasure, and finally the black demon's pitch-black eyes flashed with a bit of doubt, but immediately reacted and prepared to drill into the darkness.

The movements of the Priest and Platinum Apostle stopped. The two looked at each other and both determined that in this weird domain that affected "existence", daring to act rashly would definitely pay an extremely painful price.

Cracks appeared on the Priest's back. He seemed to shed a layer of dead skin shell, but this shell was wearing clerical clothing. Strangely, the body that had just finished shedding the shell was also wearing the same clothing.

The Black Demon, which was about to drill into the darkness, had pale pupils in its eyes. These pale pupils shrank violently. It immediately terminated the ability. Instinct told it that daring to drill into the darkness now was the end of its existence.

"Priest, it seems we fell into a trap. This thing... is it summoned by Bai Ye?"

Platinum Apostle spoke. He was not surprised that Su Xiao could summon such a dark and weird existence. A guy who sealed several daddy-level original sin objects, Platinum Apostle felt it was normal for the other party to do anything.

"Should not be. This might be the unknown existence encountered by the Hunting Group. It was our carelessness, or rather, we underestimated the Hunting Group. We haven't had time to contact Dusk City, and our understanding of the Vanguard Fortress Hunting Group is not sufficient."

The Priest slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and slid down. Faint black water waves appeared in the air. Seeing this, the kind smile that the Priest had always maintained disappeared a bit.

He rarely opened the "Book of Mercy" in his hand. The pages flipped with a rustle. When it stopped, several twisted and weird characters appeared on a page.

"Eternal Night Empress."

The Priest spoke. He looked at the Platinum Apostle. The Platinum Apostle pointed his finger at his brow and began to read the fate he had swallowed. A moment later, he opened his eyes.

"It is said to be an abyss race that can "devour consciousness" and "kill existence". The good news is that this abyss race system only has the Eternal Night Empress, not in the form of a family. The bad news is that the Eternal Night Empress is almost impossible to be killed."

Hearing the Platinum Apostle's words, the Priest was silent for a while.

"Priest, I just swallowed the World-Ending Fate Power, and now I feel dizzy when thinking. You give a decision."

"Decision? Why decision, shouldn't we go to meet the teammates immediately."

"Teammates? Oh~"

Platinum Apostle understood. The Black Demon on the side had doubts. Seeing his doubt, the Priest said: "Didn't we agree with Bai Ye long ago to come to the Lightless Zone together to deal with the Eternal Night Empress."

"?"

The Black Demon was even more confused, because what was agreed in advance was to siege the Law-Extinguisher and seize the 16 "Sun Source Stones" that would definitely drop after the other party died.

The three walked towards the darkness ahead. Thin mist permeated, and various weird and strange building ruins appeared one after another. Some building ruins even had a bit of living creature characteristics, and one by one weird eyes of different sizes opened on them, looking at the Priest trio.

Not long after, the Priest trio saw Su Xiao meditating on the broken wall. Sensing the breath of the three getting closer, Su Xiao opened his eyes.

"You are late."

Su Xiao spoke.

"Encountered some trouble on the way."

The Priest responded very normally, as if the two were really partners who had agreed to cooperate long ago, rather than mortal enemies.

A moment later, Su Xiao, Zui Yasi, Wood, Priest, Platinum Apostle, and Black Demon, six people, walked into a small church with a grotesque style, standing or sitting in the front row of pews and on the podium.

"Who is this?"

The Priest looked at Grin Gillian in the remnant soul state.

"A remnant soul I met by chance."

Of course Su Xiao wouldn't tell Grin Gillian's identity. The other party was disguising as Grin Wei, but this time entering the Lightless Zone, Grin Gillian detached from Grin Wei's body. It seemed that this female Law-Extinguisher still had a bit of conscience.

The Priest didn't ask any more questions. Given the relationship between the two sides, asking again was deliberately probing.

Su Xiao took out the map of the Lightless Zone and spread it on the crystal table. The area of the entire Lightless Zone was very large, presenting a corridor shape several thousand meters wide. A more intuitive metaphor was that two pitch-black sky walls surrounded a ring shape on Lieyang Star.

The two ends of this ring were not connected. The reason was that whether penetrating the Lightless Zone to the east or west, the deeper one went, the stronger the darkness. When reaching the easternmost or westernmost side, the darkness there was already solidified, which meant that more than half of the space in the entire corridor-shaped Lightless Zone was stagnant with darkness.

Grin Gillian pointed to the entrance of the Lightless Zone on the map, looked around at everyone, and said: "Our position is here, and the activity area of the Eternal Night Empress is here."

Grin Gillian drew the west area of the entire Lightless Zone, and then continued: "Everything in the Star World has 'order' and 'constraints'. There is nothing that cannot be eliminated, including the Star World itself. The Eternal Night Empress's conceptual immortality is difficult to deal with, but her immortality is not resurrection, reincarnation, or regeneration, but that your attacks are ineffective against her. This obviously does not conform to the 'order' and 'constraints' of the Star World."

Grin Gillian raised her hand towards Su Xiao and snapped her fingers.

"......"

Su Xiao looked at Grin Gillian's side face. Grin Gillian, who didn't get a response, snapped her fingers twice more. She looked at Su Xiao suspiciously, her eyes flashed with realization. When she turned her head, it was a fleeting sadness that no one noticed.

A strong woman who had torn off the head of an abyss race, was then involved in an abyss channel, fell to the bottom of the abyss, and climbed back from it with her bare hands, would not let others see her sadness.

As for why Grin Gillian was sad, she acted cool like this in the past and snapped her fingers, and the little fan girl who followed her out to deal with abyss existences would hand her what she needed. It was just that the little fan girl was no longer there. In the Second Era, she was killed by the Supreme Person.

"Give me a liquid crystal."

"Prince Rupert's Drop?"

"Ah right, this one."

"......"

Green Steel Shadow energy appeared in Su Xiao's hand. After turning into crystallization, a Prince Rupert's Drop was formed.

"Several, look at this liquid crystal. If you attack the hammer head, you need to use power a hundred or a thousand times higher than the strength of this crystal to shatter it. This is the absolute immortality of the Eternal Night Empress. Conversely, if you find her weakness, just like this."

Grin Gillian said, breaking the thin tail of the Prince Rupert's Drop, and with a pa, the whole Prince Rupert's Drop burst.

"I penetrated the east side before, although I almost died, I also determined that the Eternal Night Empress's soul core is not in this half area. Simple elimination method, the soul core can only be in the deepest part of the west side. What we have to do is very 'simple': hard-top the Eternal Night Empress's ability, reach the deepest part, find the soul core, and seal it."

Hearing this, Wood asked very timely: "Why not destroy this soul core? Instead of sealing it with higher risk?"

Getting this question, Grin Gillian smiled deeply and looked at Wood appreciatively, secretly feeling that the devil's boy knew how to talk. She turned her head to look at her own, the smile on her face disappeared. Her own, didn't pay attention to her at all.

"The truly difficult part of the Eternal Night Empress is death assimilation. If you destroy her soul core, you will become a 'parasite', experience desperate pain, and then the Eternal Night Empress will grow out of your flesh, squeezing your vitality and devouring your soul."

Grin Gillian's plan was simple and rough. A group of people advanced to the depths together until they reached the hiding place of the soul core, found it, and sealed it to the abyss.

It was not that Grin Gillian didn't want to use strategies, it was that this was already the best strategy. If a group of people acted separately, facing the Eternal Night Empress alone was a certain death situation, and this was in the Eternal Night Empress's domain. After a few rounds, they would all be strangled by the Eternal Night Empress.

That's right, it was strangling. The way the Eternal Night Empress killed the target was to let the victim's soul and fate be twisted like a twist, twisted to the limit.

This was also why the targets killed by the Eternal Night Empress all had their relatives die. Bloodline made fate connected to a certain extent, like threads, connected to two fates. The strangling power caused by the Eternal Night Empress spread along the fate line to the victim's relatives, so the victim's relatives all exploded into blood mist.

Because of this, the deceased would be gradually forgotten. This strangling power would not stop because of the victim's death, but would constantly increase force, tighten, twist, and finally the "existence" of the deceased would crack because it couldn't bear this strangling.

This was the concept of "strangling", which was terrifyingly enhanced by the abyss without restraint. Fortunately, this was a non-spreadable characteristic, which meant that only the Eternal Night Empress had this ability, and it could not be more widely mastered through inheritance, learning, etc.

There was no other choice now, either sit and wait for death in place, be found by the Eternal Night Empress and die, or take the initiative to attack and penetrate the Lightless Zone.

In the lineup of 6 people and 1 remnant soul, the one responsible for the tank responsibility was not Su Xiao, whose health was as high as 2.73 million and whose life aura was strong enough to evaporate ghosts and resentment, but Zui Yasi and the Priest. Both were undead systems, and one was immortal. For the Priest's ability not to die, Su Xiao hadn't figured it out until now.

However, he had a feeling that every time the Priest died, he really died. The key was how he successfully lived after being dead at the notarization level. Figuring this out was the key to whether the Priest could be completely killed. Perhaps, this was the violation characteristic ability of the Priest becoming a violator.

A group of people decided to adapt to the environment here for 10 minutes before advancing to the depths. Don't think that the erosion power of the Lightless Zone environment was low. It was indeed for Su Xiao, but for others, preparations still had to be made. Being eroded by abyss energy was no joke.

【Abyss Shadow Title: Abyss Walking (Core, Passive), when you enter "heavy abyss spreading areas" such as abyss erosion areas, extremely dark areas, etc., as well as "Abyss Near Zone", you will not be eroded by the environment.】

According to Grin Gillian, in this penetration, you cannot run, or face the Eternal Night Empress and retreat. Whether it was psychological fear or fear-related actions in actual action, such as "running away", "retreating", etc., it would lead to immediately attracting the Eternal Night Empress.

The Eternal Night Empress would appear behind this person in less than the blink of an eye and strangle him with darkness. Simply put, you could only walk forward calmly later.

Inside the glass column as thick as an arm, bubbles rose in the pale blue liquid. Su Xiao twisted the seal of the container kacha da da. As he adjusted, the container reached -126.45℃. According to his exploration, this was the best temperature to catalyze "Soul Secret Medicine".

Speaking of which, Su Xiao's naming of potions had a characteristic. Potions were either called "Dark Secret Medicine" or "Witch Secret Medicine". The potion name directly reflected the effect of the potion, and adding a secret

Whether to add "Secret Medicine" or "Potion" as a suffix depends on the situation; if it is a work Su Xiao is satisfied with, a "Miracle Grade" item, he adds "Secret Medicine," whereas if it is a run-of-the-mill "Perfect Grade" item, he uses "Potion."

"What is this? You've been messing with this thing since you arrived in the Lightless Zone."

"Secret Medicine."

"For whom?"

"You."

"Oh my~, I didn't realize you actually cared about your senior."

"Yes."

"Tell me, why are you so concerned about me? Have you been conquered by my personal charm?"

Hearing this, Su Xiao paused while adjusting the catalyst for the potion. He tilted his head to look at Grimm Gillian and replied truthfully:

"In the future, when you encounter your enemies, as long as your remnant soul still exists, it will be more convenient for them to settle their debts with you directly, so they won't come to trouble me."

"You! You're slandering me; everything I've left behind are good karmic ties."

"..."

Su Xiao glanced at Grimm Gillian again without a word. The scene that followed was Su Xiao adjusting the catalytic potion while Grimm Gillian began to mutter and recount the "good karmic ties" she had left behind—namely, a list of the stunning beauties she had once toyed with.

Su Xiao opened the container, cold mist dissipating. He took out a potion vial and said, "Drink this Soul Secret Medicine within 5 minutes."

"The shelf life is that short?"

"Custom-made secret medicine has high activity and is difficult to store."

"Care to enlighten me?"

"For similar potions, the effect that can be preserved for a long time is 3–5 Keni, while custom secret medicine has an effect of 12–15 Keni; the drawback is that high activity is hard to preserve."

"Keni?"

"Keni Luoluo, an alchemy master who successfully quantified potion strength."

"Oh~, learned something new."

Grimm Gillian tilted her head back and drank the "Soul Secret Medicine." Just as she thought this potion, with its remarkably ordinary name, would only adjust the state of her remnant soul, she discovered that the damage to her remnant soul was rapidly recovering. In just a few seconds, it returned to its optimal state and even began progressing toward an even better condition.

At this moment, Grimm Gillian sincerely felt that having an alchemist in one's lineup was truly wonderful, even if this junior of hers was taciturn and rarely initiated idle chatter unless she spoke first.

"You named such a powerful potion 'Soul Secret Medicine'? Don't you consider changing it to a more impressive name?"

"Reason."

"It would be easier to sell..."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Grimm Gillian faltered. She suddenly realized that for this guy's potions, it wasn't a question of whether they were easy to sell; if he were willing, there was no telling how many people in the Void would come knocking to buy them.

After the group was fully prepared, they headed into the depths of the Lightless Zone. Because the Eternal Night Empress could appear at any time, the group kept a distance of over five meters from each other, ensuring they wouldn't be wiped out in one go while still being able to assist one another.

As they moved forward, Su Xiao kept his perception circle active. This time, venturing deep into the Lightless Zone with Zayas, Wood, the Priest, and the Platinum Apostle, he didn't need to worry about backstabbing from the Priest and the Platinum Apostle until they successfully dealt with the Eternal Night Empress—this was the benefit of cooperating with old schemers.

Besides that, the two-man team of good teammates...

Su Xiao's footsteps paused, his brows furrowing slightly. He looked around at his teammates: Zayas, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle. Yes, that's right, he was cooperating with these three to venture deep into the Lightless Zone.

However, why did the Priest, of the Ancient God system, have such detailed intelligence on the Eternal Night Empress? Whether it was the fact that one cannot feel fear or that one cannot retreat, the Ancient God system knew it all so clearly; it was truly...

Su Xiao looked at the Priest, who was walking at the same pace a few meters away. Venturing deep into the Lightless Zone with the Priest this time was truly too reckless; the two of them had come to deal with the Eternal Night Empress.

Su Xiao continued forward, suddenly feeling that venturing into the Lightless Zone alone, bringing only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to deal with the Eternal Night Empress, was truly too reckless...

Su Xiao stopped his steps, then felt Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, lightly bump his leg with its side. This was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang indicating that its state was normal.

"No wonder Lusiwa backed down."

Su Xiao muttered in a low voice. He was certain that he wouldn't have come to the Lightless Zone alone to deal with the Eternal Night Empress with only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. To deal with such a deep-sea descendant with bizarre abilities, he would at least have contacted... contacted whom, again?

The "Book of Original Sin" appeared in Su Xiao's hand. The scene around him shattered with a crack, like a broken mirror. This was not an environmental or mental ability—as a Sword Art Grandmaster, Su Xiao could ignore such abilities—this was part of the Eternal Night Empress's domain.

In this dark domain area, the presence of Wood, Zayas, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and the Black Demon had all been erased. Su Xiao naturally couldn't recall these people. And now, holding the "Book of Original Sin" in one hand, if the Eternal Night Empress used her domain to swallow Su Xiao+...

Everything that had been temporarily "forgotten" was restored. Su Xiao looked at a skeleton a few meters away; he had seen this skeleton once before when he last came to the Lightless Zone. In other words, this was the deepest part of the eastern side of the Lightless Zone.

Without a doubt, the Eternal Night Empress had the ability to open dark spatial passages at will within the Lightless Zone, and this spatial movement was silent—it was the other extreme of the "Magic-Killing Teleportation Array" style.

As for why the Eternal Night Empress had moved Su Xiao alone to the deepest part of the east, to the place furthest from her soul core, it was actually easy to understand. Putting oneself in her shoes, a Magic-Killer who sealed six "Big Daddy" level Original Sin items would make even the Eternal Night Empress reveal a solemn expression, not to mention that the teammates accompanying this Magic-Killer were all difficult to deal with.

Su Xiao checked the team status. Wood, Zayas, the Priest, and the Black Demon were all in the team. Among them, Zayas's avatar was the most absurd: a colored avatar meant alive, a gray-white avatar meant dead. Zayas's avatar was suddenly gray-white, then resurrected to recover its color, then turned black and white again—it had started flashing at a high frequency.

Wood simply turned two-dimensional. Facts proved that after turning two-dimensional, even if one were twisted into a pretzel, one wouldn't die. Compared to Zayas and the Priest, Wood attracted a much larger share of the Eternal Night Empress's attention.

After Su Xiao had Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang find a place to hide, he held the "Book of Original Sin" in one hand, his speed suddenly erupting. He broke through his own afterimages instantly, almost flying at low altitude, leaving layers of air explosions in the darkness.

Regarding the fact that one cannot move forward quickly, and that the Eternal Night Empress would immediately appear behind Su Xiao after high-speed movement, that was just perfect; what he was most worried about now was being unable to get close to the Eternal Night Empress later.

It was precisely for this reason that the Eternal Night Empress had first moved Su Xiao to the far east, the place furthest from her. This was clearly a plan to deal with Zayas, Wood, and the others first, and finally concentrate all her dark power to crush Su Xiao.

The darkness ahead grew increasingly dense. When Su Xiao stopped abruptly, he saw Zayas, whose figure was twisted in a bizarre way, and Wood, who had been twisted into a black line of force after turning two-dimensional. Further to the right was the Priest, who had just been crushed, and then the Platinum Apostle, who changed his appearance as soon as he was crushed—the title "Ten Thousand Faces" was not just for show.

Everyone knew the Platinum Apostle could devour fate, and while devouring fate, he could manipulate others, in addition to potentially disguising himself as anyone. But just because of that, could he survive under the Tuanzhang? Of course not. The Platinum Apostle's strongest ability was that every time he devoured someone's fate, it was equivalent to gaining an extra life.

Other people venturing through mission worlds had one life each, at most an immortality ability, or perhaps a reincarnation ability. But this guy had many, many lives. Conservatively estimated, to avoid being killed, this guy would store tens of thousands of lives. At the moment, the Platinum Apostle was dying rapidly.

The Priest was the most surprising among them. First, he was crushed by the Eternal Night Empress and turned into a pretzel. Once he died, his body, twisted into a pretzel, seemed to reverse; however it was twisted, it would recover exactly the same way. Then, under the gaze of the Eternal Night Empress, he would be crushed again, and subsequently, due to the Priest's own abilities, he would recover unscathed.

Further to the right, the Black Demon didn't have many lives or immortality abilities, but it was truly resilient. Having turned into a black semi-fluid, although it was twisted into a spiral pillar as thick as an arm, no matter how much it creaked while being twisted, it simply wouldn't break.

No ability lasts forever, including this dark crushing. When the crushing stopped and the group recovered one by one, Su Xiao, holding the "Book of Original Sin" in one hand, stepped forward. Everyone stared at the Eternal Night Empress in the darkness ahead. The Eternal Night Empress's black hair grew as if it were a background, moving without wind, full of presence.

A Magic-Killer sealing six "Big Daddy" level Original Sin items, an immortal Ancient God system user, a Devil race member who could switch between two-dimensional/three-dimensional, a humanoid Ancient God who could come back to life after death, a man of ten thousand faces with at least tens of thousands of lives, and a black mud monster that could never be crushed no matter what.

Facing this lineup of monsters and demons, the Eternal Night Empress in the darkness ahead was also silent for a moment, her gaze solemn.