Chapter 3936: Contest

Inside the speeding Lord Train, Fenny was studying the contents of the contracts one by one. She would only sign the contract parchment in her hand after checking all the contracts.

Su Xiao was not in a hurry about this. He already held four "Origin Fragments." There were a total of five in this round. In that case, only the final Great Canyon contest remained before entering the second round, the clash on the "Lord Continent."

Su Xiao took out a "Broken Origin" and held it high, observing the translucent crystal fragment. He saw the dense patterns inside. There were a total of 50 "Broken Origins" in this contest. If nothing went wrong, gaining 26 would guarantee victory.

For this type of notarized item related to the outcome of the contest, even if he really pulled Caesar into this world, Su Xiao didn't intend to try artificial creation; that was a waste of time.

He opened the bounty list of the "Hunter List · Blood Pact." Bounty 4 · Perfectionist made his brow furrow slightly.

"Perfectionist: Before the start of the fourth round of the contest, obtain 15 Broken Origins."

Judging from this bounty, the first three rounds should have 5 "Broken Origins" each world. The problem was that the difficulty of this bounty was too high. But correspondingly, once completed, it was a net gain of 20,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.

Obtaining the first 4 "Broken Origins" went smoothly. It was precisely this smoothness that made Su Xiao feel the scent of a scheme. At the current stage, there were a total of six enemy teams: the Cain team, the Demon Scythe team, the Witch team, the Priest team, the Hao Chou team, and the Knight team that had just been eliminated.

During the contest for the first 4 "Broken Origins," Su Xiao didn't feel pressure from other participants. It was normal for the Priest team and Hao Chou team not to show up, but the Cain team and Demon Scythe team should have come to contest, especially the Cain team. In terms of comprehensive strength, this was a team that could rank in the top three.

In this situation, there was only one possibility: someone was secretly stopping these teams. In this way, the first 4 "Broken Origins" would definitely fall into Su Xiao's hands. Don't forget, "Broken Origin" was an item that definitely dropped after a kill. Before the very last second of the contest ended, even if one obtained 50 "Broken Origins," it had no decisive significance.

Looking at it this way, there was only one possibility: the Priest was secretly stopping the Cain team and the Demon Scythe team. The reason was that in the plans of these two rule-breaker teams, they definitely had to deal with Su Xiao in the final round. Even in the plans of Hao Chou and others, the Dawn Ruins were Su Xiao's burial ground.

In this way, the more "Broken Origins" Su Xiao obtained before the final round, the more beneficial it was for the rule-breakers. Anyway, obtaining "Broken Origins" couldn't immediately improve combat strength. Added to this, after holding more than 26 "Broken Origins," one would definitely have a cautious mindset, and there would definitely be concerns during a death match.

This plan could be said to be very "Hao Chou": either live and win everything, or die in this contest.

But for Hao Chou to go to such painstaking lengths for a single contest victory was really not very reasonable. The other party had made too many preparations before. That attitude clearly showed he wanted to perform a heaven-defying change of fate in this world progress...

Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of what Hao Chou wanted. If it were someone else, it would indeed be a bit whimsical, but Hao Chou, who had 800 points in all attributes and had maximized the potential of a large number of mastered passive abilities, indeed had this qualification. What the other party was truly eyeing, there was a high probability, was the 【Origin Stone · World】.

【Origin Stone · World (Introduction): You possess the "qualification," but you are not the only one.】

This sentence could be understood more directly as: you are already a Chosen One, but not the only one. The reason you are not the only one is that this "qualification" can be seized.

Looking at it this way, all of Hao Chou's previous preparations began to make sense. I've heard of Hunters hunting rule-breakers; it's indeed very rare for rule-breakers to eye a Hunter.

Regarding this, Su Xiao was happy to see it. The reason was "Bounty 4 · Perfectionist." Hao Chou's plan just happened to fit Su Xiao's completion of Bounty 4. For the final round of the clash, he certainly wouldn't fear the rule-breaker team.

Besides Bounty 4, the war mission issued by Apocalypse Paradise also had rewards that were hard to refuse. If he obtained 26 "Broken Origins" and held them until the end of the contest, the gains would be 【Apocalypse Supply Box × 5】, 【Shelter Treasure Chest × 1】, and the 【Apocalypse · Glory Badge】.

Especially the 【Apocalypse · Glory Badge】. Although this thing couldn't be traded, it could be sold to Apocalypse Paradise, with a value as high as 5 million Soul Coins. For a three-technique grandmaster who was about to be promoted to the Absolute Strong level, the attraction of these 5 million Soul Coins was very great.

"Really, no problem?"

Fenny asked with some trepidation in her tone.

"......"

Su Xiao didn't speak. His gradually kind gaze made Fenny realize she couldn't hesitate any longer.

"Alright, I believe you."

When saying the three words "I believe you," Fenny almost had a crying tone. The gains from boarding a pirate ship were indeed many, but it was also too much of a test of mentality.

Su Xiao took out an old-fashioned typewriter. After Baha took it, it skillfully adjusted it and began to send a message to Caesar with it. The content was as follows:

【Danger, reinforcements needed, massive gains, world coordinates, ψ10, μ7.22. ρ1685. β53. η655, team number, 001566952, waiting for opportunity, Arbiter identity, join team.】

Except for necessary information, the shorter the message, the higher the probability of it being sent out. Baha attempted to send it. The first attempt failed, and the old-fashioned typewriter immediately became a bit older. It attempted to send it again, and the typewriter began to operate, typing out the pre-input content until it was completed.

After waiting for a few minutes, the typewriter operated on its own. The content that appeared was:

【Currently in Samsara Paradise, can provide immediate reinforcements.】

Caesar was actually in Samsara Paradise, which was very unusual. With Caesar's identity as an Arbiter, nine times out of ten he was on a Tier 9 battlefield, subject to the Tree of Void's adjudication notarization, serving in an Arbiter function.

However, thinking of Caesar's flexible Arbiter identity, this time it was very likely he was cleared out of the world he was in. If I'm not mistaken, Caesar used this price to allow the friendly participants in that world to gain a huge advantage. Right now, an old friend requesting reinforcements could be said to coincide perfectly.

Su Xiao had Baha send a message again, the content being:

【Temporary Arbiter identity, transmission coordinates, ψ10, μ7.22.】

After this message was sent, Su Xiao took out an iron bucket that looked like a small trash can. After waiting for more than half an hour, a thudding sound came from inside. It was Caesar transmitting something over. Given the current world, normal means couldn't transmit it over, but this thing that looked like a small trash can was the "Caesar-brand Receiver" produced by Caesar. Besides being able to receive strange things, its success rate for receiving normal items was no more than 0.2%.

Opening the small trash can, Su Xiao took out a metal badge with a ф mark, but it looked like it had been soaked in the deep sea for tens of thousands of years. He pressed it onto the contract parchment. In turn, this metal badge merged into the contract parchment, turning into a seal pattern.

"Sign."

Su Xiao looked at Fenny. Fenny almost had tears in her eyes. It really wasn't that she was dragging her feet; these were 7,875 contract contents! She had never seen so many contracts in her life, let alone signed them.

Zing~

The long blade was drawn, calmly resting against Fenny's neck. This sense of ritual immediately came up. Fenny, "forced by circumstances," under the "life-and-death threat," could only "be forced" to pick up the contract pen and sign the contract.

It could only be said that this healer girl was very smart, knowing how to leave herself a way out. If something went wrong later, she would have the opportunity to apply to Apocalypse Paradise for a re-judgment, the reason being that she was forced—the blade was held to her neck, she was in despair, and she cried.

As Fenny signed the contract, she immediately received a large number of prompts and warnings. Before she could understand what was going on, the most heavy-hitting prompt appeared.

【Prompt: You have been expelled from the team by the captain.】

After Fenny was kicked out of the team, the team position she was in didn't become vacant. The reason was that Su Xiao, through a large number of contract operations, had put a "temporary Arbiter vest" on Fenny. 99.99% of Hunters couldn't do this. The reason he could do it was Caesar's flexible Arbiter identity.

Caesar often hovered between an official Arbiter and a reserve Arbiter. Therefore, in his gain judgment mechanism, reward items like "temporarily granting Arbiter identity" would appear, just like Su Xiao could obtain items related to "negative charm gains."

Through the items transmitted by Caesar, plus Su Xiao's authority as a Hunter and his means as a Contract Master, he successfully put a vest on Fenny that could only last for half an hour. The problem was that the fit of this vest was very poor. It was precisely by utilizing this point that after Su Xiao kicked Fenny out of the team, the team member position she was originally in would inevitably only have a vest left.

To avoid Fenny being directly eliminated, Su Xiao pulled her back into the team. He had tried this with the Ghost Witch · Vielle before: kicking her out and pulling her back within 60 seconds was feasible.

Fenny had just returned to the team when she discovered that the member position she was in just now was actually occupied, and the avatar position corresponding to this position became gray. The next second, the avatar of a treacherous and skinny old man appeared on it. Seeing this treacherous and skinny old man, Fenny first associated him with a treacherous goblin.

Logically speaking, Caesar couldn't join this team. He was an Arbiter of Samsara Paradise. The facts were indeed so. Operations were operations, but when facing the Paradise's notarization, one must definitely comply with the notarization. Caesar was expelled from the team on the spot.

You know, because Caesar had exerted his "talent" as an Arbiter to the maximum in the previous Tier 9 world, he was demoted to a reserve Arbiter while being expelled back to Samsara Paradise. Before Caesar came this time, he used a wonderful item to temporarily take back his Arbiter identity.

This had two benefits: one was corresponding to the temporary Arbiter vest in the team, and the other was that if he were always an Arbiter after successfully arriving, he would definitely be banished from this world. The problem was that he had just arrived, and this "official Arbiter" identity expired. And in the notarization judgment, a reserve Arbiter without actual functional capabilities was not a target that needed to be immediately expelled from the contest.

Not to mention, Caesar also immediately used a wonderful item called "Commoner Imprint." The characteristic of this thing was that it could be temporarily nativized—that is, in the subsequent ten-plus days of judgment, he would be changed to a native judgment.

One of Caesar's most proficient abilities was to replace an identity after entering a world, such as Quartermaster, Material Warehouse Manager, etc. After he stabilized with the "Commoner Imprint," he immediately launched his ultimate move. That is to say, the current Caesar was already the Quartermaster of the White Horn Tribe of the Rain Drop · Semi-Beast Tribe.

After this series of operations, the probability of Caesar being banished from this world was infinitely close to 0. Note, it was not truly reduced to 0. This was also Caesar's most brilliant point. If it were truly reduced to 0, it would correspond to deep notarization. His operation couldn't withstand deep notarization. On the contrary, the incompleteness of this operation kept the notarization at the preliminary stage.

The operation was completed. Under Fenny's expectant gaze, Su Xiao lifted all the contracts. This made Fenny relax, and at the same time, she secretly decided that in the future, when signing contracts, she must observe carefully. It seemed that strange knowledge was still somewhat useful to Fenny.

Under Fenny's confused gaze, Su Xiao took out a Soul Coin.

Ding~

The Soul Coin flicked up. Just as it was falling, a hand grabbed the Soul Coin.

"My dear friend, Caesar didn't come late, did he?"

The suddenly appearing Caesar made Fenny look vigilant. She asked with some uncertainty:

"This, is this the old friend you mentioned?"

"......"

Su Xiao didn't speak, while Caesar rubbed his hands, saying with a treacherous smile on his face: "This lady, I recently prepared some top-quality potions. Are you interested?"

While Caesar was speaking, he took out a product table. After Fenny took it with some uncertainty, a string of potion lists appeared before her eyes. Judging from her gradually tightening pupils, the "powerful" potions that entered her eyes shocked her ignorant and world-weary heart.

"The prices of these potions... are they not marked wrong?"

"Of course not. I have a fate with the healer." Speaking of this, Caesar suddenly choked up a bit and continued: "To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the help of that healer, I would have died long ago. So I decided to repay the healer well. This beautiful and elegant lady, are you interested in these potions? I'll give you a 20% discount, and I can issue an invoice."

"This..."

Fenny was clearly moved.

Just then, Su Xiao spoke: "One of our own."

"Tsk~"

Caesar was a bit restless, muttering why Su Xiao didn't say so earlier. This confused Fenny. Seeing her expression, Baha took out a nano-scale micro-microscope from the team storage space and, amidst Fenny's confused expression, handed the nano-scale micro-microscope to her, letting her wear it to re-examine the attributes of those potions.

From Fenny's gradually doubting-life expression, it could be seen how shocked she was by the "hidden attributes" of these potions. A moment later, she swallowed her saliva and quietly came to Su Xiao's side, asking in a low voice:

"Is this old friend of yours really an Arbiter?"

"Occasionally."

"Occ... occasionally?!"

Fenny felt that she had absorbed too much strange knowledge. Could the identity of an Arbiter also be occasional?

Ignoring the confused Fenny, Su Xiao poured Caesar a cup of Soul Tea. Caesar picked it up with a smile and drank a few cups, first getting his fill of water.

"It's like this, I recently received a hidden mission..."

Su Xiao explained the situation of "Hidden Mission · Curse Origin." This mission actually had three themes: 1. Synthesize the Cursed Finger; 2. Purify the curse power within the Cursed Finger; 3. Use the Cursed Finger to go to the Cursed Land · Rotten Blood Sea · Secret Island to open the door.

The most cumbersome part was purification, and the problem also lay here. Su Xiao didn't have so much time to waste on this mission, so he killed the guiding NPC for this mission, which also led to him being unable to find the subsequent mission NPCs responsible for purification.

Su Xiao took out a large amount of "Origin Water" he had just obtained. Caesar picked up the "Cursed Index Finger," shook his head, and sighed:

"This is actually a container for sealing curses. Its characteristic is absorption, a powerful absorption of curses to the extreme. So wanting to strip the curse power from inside..."

Speaking of this, Caesar shook his head again: "This matter is hard to handle."

"5 ounces of Space-Time Power."

Su Xiao offered a price.

"At least 3,000 ounces."

"10 ounces."

"No, no, too little. Below 2,000 ounces, I won't take this commission."

"200 ounces."

"Deal."

"Cough~"

Fenny, who was drinking tea to suppress her shock, was successfully choked by this price difference.

Caesar, who had received the benefits, was naturally reliable. He took out a new generation of "Ouroboros Slate" and took out all kinds of strange things. Finally, he took out a large wooden barrel, put these things into it, and slapped the Ouroboros Slate onto the outer wall of the barrel like mud with a slap.

Pouring a suspicious and dirty liquid into it, and taking out a large club, Caesar pounded everything inside like garlic. This wasn't the end; he poured the black liquid inside into a large pot. Seeing this, Su Xiao immediately controlled the Lord Train to stop.

Under a giant tree on the grassland, Caesar was busy in front of the bubbling large pot. Seeing that the timing was about right, he threw the Cursed Index Finger inside.

Think Caesar's operation ended here? Of course not, this was just the beginning. Caesar used a red dye to outline a sacrificial array on the ground. After pondering for a while, he took off his shoes, placed one sock in the center of the sacrificial array, and took advantage of the fact that the unknown evil god opposite hadn't reacted yet, he immediately chose to sacrifice this sock.

After a brief calm, the sacrificial array began to tremble. A giant mouth twisted and covered with layers of sharp teeth poked out, opening angrily and emitting a roar that could shatter the soul of a living being. But as soon as this roar appeared, Caesar threw the shoe in his hand into it.

Seeing this scene, Fenny, hiding in the train, suddenly felt that this unknown evil god was a bit pitiful. The evil god, who used to be the perpetrator, had become the victim this time.

"Ugh~!"

The evil god's mouth emitted dry heaves and then vomited uncontrollably. Caesar was overjoyed and stepped forward, holding a large magnet-like adsorption device. Several items flew out from the filthy vomit and were adsorbed onto it.

With a thud, the evil god's mouth fell to the ground, occasionally twitching with foam at its mouth. Seeing this, Caesar hurriedly took out a large glass bottle and poured all the cooled liquid in the large pot into the large glass bottle, the sealing index finger naturally being among them.

Caesar, like an IV drip, inserted several conduits extending from the bottom of the large glass bottle into the protruding meridians of the evil god's mouth. Because the evil god's mouth had an extremely powerful devouring force, plus the treatment Caesar performed on the 【Cursed Index Finger】 and the extraction of the curse, the rich curse power inside was sucked away by the evil god's mouth along with the viscous liquid.

The evil god's mouth was really unlucky this time. It was attracted by the sacrifice, and not only did it not devour any soul, but it also ate a smelly sock and Caesar's exclusive weapon · right shoe, and finally was forced to drink a pot of curse thick soup.

Snap snap snap~

The sacrificial array shattered under the struggle of the evil god's mouth. The evil god's mouth sprayed green juice and hurriedly shrank back into the sacrificial spell and disappeared. It seemed that in the near future, this unknown evil god would have a psychological shadow regarding sacrifices.

"My dear friend, it's done."

"......"

While Su Xiao took the 【Cursed Index Finger】, he traded 200 ounces of Space-Time Power to Caesar.

【Prompt: Detected that the mission item · Cursed Index Finger you hold has been purified.】

【Detected that you did not execute the specified content related to this mission.】

【Your mission execution degree is 1.5%.】

【Your mission completion degree is 295% (The curse power within the Cursed Index Finger has been purified to the maximum extent).】

【Judging...】

……

The prompt stopped temporarily. It seemed that in Apocalypse Paradise, not many people did missions like Su Xiao.

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Second Ring (Completed).】

【Mission reward has been accumulated to the next ring.】

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Third Ring (Completed)……】

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Fourth Ring (Completed)……】

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Fifth Ring (Completed)……】

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Final Stage (Activated).】

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Final Stage.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 95++++

Mission Introduction: Must hold this "Cursed Index Finger" and go to the Cursed Land · Rotten Blood Sea · Secret Island to open the mechanism hidden on the island.

Mission Deadline: Activated after entering the Cursed Land, at which time the mission deadline is 10 natural days.

Mission Reward: Determined based on the final accumulated completion degree.

Mission Penalty: Forced execution.

……

It seemed that Su Xiao's wonderful way of opening this mission also caused Apocalypse Paradise's mission judgment to appear in a way different from the past. Otherwise, the mission penalty couldn't be forced execution.

When the group returned to the train, Fenny was still doubting life. The amount of strange knowledge was too large, and her mentality had cracked a bit, especially after personally experiencing skipping four whole rings of missions. She really wanted to be alone and quiet. From that little expression of "I won't become a rule-breaker, will I?", one could somewhat understand her mood.

After Caesar boarded the train, his eyes began to glow green. However, for an old friend's things, he was just envious and wouldn't go so far as to be greedy. Sitting on the recliner and enjoying himself was still a must.

Su Xiao came to the bedroom, unfolded the blending table, and began to blend potions with the 【God Blood Fruit】. After changing to the "Miracle Maker" title, it only took two hours before entering the cooldown stage. A moment later, a dark red potion with ice-crystal-like substances inside appeared.

"God Blood Secret Medicine (Perfect): After drinking, permanently increase HP by 158,000 points, slightly increase physical strength, and wound recovery speed."

Su Xiao drank the "God Blood Secret Medicine" in one gulp. He felt like he had drunk strong liquor. Just then, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt (Tree of Void): Detected that the Hunter currently holds "Broken Origin" × 4. Before the relevant war side-mission is released, you have snatched all the "Broken Origins" possessed by the two major forces in this world.】

The first round of the World Contest had been going on for less than three days. Logically speaking, the 12-day first round had the first four days for participants to familiarize themselves and develop in this world. Only after four days would the war side-missions for contesting the Three Elders and the Swamp King be released. But the current situation was that it was only the third day, and these native powerhouses had either been slaughtered by Su Xiao or had admitted defeat.

【Prompt (Tree of Void): You currently hold "Broken Origin" × 4. You can choose to speed up the release time of "Broken Origin" × 1 and "Rare Materials" for this round. If you make this choice, the release for this round will be set at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning (estimated 13 hours later).】

【If you choose to perform this early release, the quantity of corresponding "Rare Materials" will increase by 100%.】

This no longer needed a choice. With Su Xiao's current state, participating in the Great Canyon contest was no problem at all. And, the train route he set was going to the Great Canyon.

【Because the Hunter is the facilitator of this early material release, you can know the type and quantity of the released materials at the current stage, totaling as follows:】

1. "Broken Origin" × 1.

2. Soul Crystal Essence × 300 (will be released divided into six "Purple Supply Boxes").

3. Initial Source Quality × 1.

4. Primordial Core × 2 (will be released divided into two "Golden Supply Boxes").

【Because the final contest of this round is about to begin, and it is detected that the number of members in the Watcher Paradise · Second Team is 0/0, a new team will be filled in to enter this round of the contest. It is expected that this team will arrive in 30 seconds.】

……

Originally thought it was just contesting 1 "Broken Origin," now it seemed other materials were also the main event. With this amount of resources released, among the eight teams present, no one would continue to watch from the sidelines. That is to say, the first round of the melee was about to begin.

Su Xiao checked the information of the current eight teams. The newly entered team, just from the name, could tell they were not easy to deal with, named the Gentleman Team.

This name undoubtedly made people think of the Gray Gentleman, but Su Xiao could be certain that the Gray Gentleman was still dead. However, one point was basically certain: the two teams of the Watcher Paradise faction were both composed of rule-breakers.

Besides this, the situation of the Priest team shouldn't be Priest, Priest, Priest, Priest, Priest. The other party wouldn't show their trump cards at the very beginning. Added to this, this contest concerned Dawn Paradise and could enter the Dawn Ruins. In such a situation, it was too simple for the Priest to recruit four powerful rule-breaker teammates.

So, for the melee in the final round of the first round, Su Xiao had to face three rule-breaker teams simultaneously. The scenery outside the train window flew by. He sat on the single sofa, feeling his body gradually digest the "God Blood Secret Medicine," while equipping the "Old Hunter" title.

The Old Hunter's hunt was about to begin. ===== CHAPTER 3937 =====