Chapter 3957: New Plan
After some friendly persuasion, the weasel merchant sniffed its bloody nose and finally believed the statement that Su Xiao and others were good people. Seeing this, Bahar put away its sharp, metal-like eagle claws that could pierce its skull at any time, and the soul crystal heavy long blade, which was more than twice its body length, gradually dissipated.
"Tell me, why did you run when you saw us?"
Bahar's words made the weasel merchant's eyes turn red. It glared at Bahar hatefully and said angrily: "You... you killed my only friend."
"Friend?"
Bahar was a bit confused. After coming to this world, it shouldn't have killed any intelligent creatures. It only killed a wild small boss. In turn, it thought of something.
"Oh~, I know, don't say it, let me guess. Was it that when you were on the road in the wilderness, you encountered a monster attack, and then the beast Ancient Marrow, who came out to forage, happened to eat the monster that was ready to swallow you into its belly? Is that what happened? Did I guess right?"
"No... that's not it! We have been friends since childhood."
The weasel merchant tried to be stubborn.
"Oh? Is that really the case? Normally speaking, even if it was in the beast's youth, it should have ignored you."
Bahar deliberately put on a look with one big eye and one small eye, and the yin-yang mode was turned on.
"No... that's not it!"
The weasel merchant was so angry that its back hair stood up.
"Oh roar roar~, I guessed it right. Let me tell you another fact. This Ancient Marrow didn't eat you, all because of your unique body odor. Did you still wishfully send food to the other party? How pitiful, you don't even have the qualification to be eaten, let alone become friends. What are you fantasizing about?"
After listening to Bahar's words, the weasel merchant's eyes were a bit dull.
"So, you are not friends at all. After understanding this point, we didn't kill your friend."
Bahar said this and patted the weasel merchant on the shoulder. The weasel merchant lowered its head. It actually wasn't stupid, and it knew that its friendship with the 'old friend' belonged to wishful thinking, but did this matter? It didn't matter. Loneliness was like a monster that could devour everything, starting from the heart position and slowly spreading to the surroundings.
"What's your name?"
Bahar sighed, as if thinking about something.
"Pagg. Bobotuga."
The weasel merchant Pagg was still depressed. Seeing this, Bahar sighed and said: "Pagg, we can be considered half-friends who don't fight and don't know each other, right?"
Pagg, who had just lost an old friend, was not in a high mood and just responded casually.
"I'm sorry for lying to you, Pagg."
"Ah?"
The weasel merchant Pagg felt confused.
"Actually, the one who was teleported away by you just now was indeed our friend, but in order to hit your sense of achievement, I lied that I didn't know that person. We call her Death Soul Girl, she is a necromancer."
"But that was just an avatar..."
"The necromancer's spirit can be 100% connected to the avatar. If the avatar dies, she can't live either."
"This... so serious?! Then, let's go save her quickly. I can probably judge where she was teleported to."
"Too late, she's already dead."
If the Death Soul Girl, who was hung by the soul chain net on Skeleton Island, heard this, she would definitely give Bahar a punch and tell it that she wasn't dead yet.
"This... what should we do."
"?"
Bahar was completely confused because it didn't expect that the weasel merchant Pagg really believed it.
"I... I killed someone."
The weasel merchant Pagg sat on the ground.
"This..."
Bahar was completely confused. It could be more cruel to vicious people, and it could be a hundred or a thousand times more shameless to shameless people, but only this kind of person who was kind-hearted and easy to believe in others made Bahar feel really difficult to handle. It narrowed its eyes, feeling that deceiving the other party made its conscience uneasy. Hmm, it was better to kill it directly.
It looked at Su Xiao with an inquiring look, and the answer was very simple: the time cost was involved, so killing it was equal to a loss.
"Cough~, don't be too sad. Actually, I was just joking with you. We really don't know that guy."
"Hmm?!"
The weasel merchant Pagg looked at Bahar suspiciously. In turn, it seemed to understand something: "You mean, she won't die mentally because of the death of the avatar."
"I'm not familiar with her, how would I know."
"You are so vicious, you actually lie to people."
"Uh~"
Bahar was completely confused. It was a bit difficult to understand that Pagg was so simple in such a dangerous world.
"People you have contacted in the past wouldn't deceive you?"
"I generally... don't meet living people. Those guests who have dealings with me don't seem to bother to lie to me, and sometimes they don't even bother to pay attention to me."
The weasel merchant Pagg began to tell its experience. In short, it inherited its father's work, making various mechanical goods every day and selling them to the dream demons in the Nightmare Sanctuary, or the royal family in the deep underground city of Ash City. In return, it could get clean food and fresh water. The surplus, it took to exchange with the soul merchant for various materials and daily necessities.
Speaking of which, the weasel merchant Pagg also proudly took out the goods it made. There were all kinds of strange things, some for timing, some for identifying "cursed curios."
"The royal family in the underground city exchanged these things with you for food and fresh water? You didn't feel at a loss?"
Bahar could naturally judge the value of these strange objects.
"They also gave me some things I couldn't use. I put them at home. Do you want to go see them?"
"No, go home quickly, it's very dangerous outside, get lost."
After Bahar finished speaking, it even kicked the weasel merchant Pagg's butt. This time, Pagg was unwilling to leave. It had forgotten how long it had been since someone talked to it so much.
Just when the weasel merchant Pagg was ready to leave.
"Wait."
Su Xiao spoke. He looked at this weasel merchant. Although it was not obvious, there was a strange aura on the other party, like a curse, but it had no erosion power.
"Go to your house and take a look."
"Okay."
The weasel merchant Pagg was in a good mood, although it had just lost a fake friend who might eat it at any time.
But as it walked, the weasel merchant Pagg suddenly stopped. It looked at Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Bahar in confusion, trying to ponder for a while, but it still took out an old pen and book, opened it, and the content was automatically recorded. Pagg quickly checked the first page, and its eyes were enlightened.
"Oh, it turns out we are friends. We are on the way to my house as a guest. My memory is a bit bad, I forgot just now. Let's go."
The weasel merchant Pagg put one hand on its head and continued to lead the way in front.
Seeing this scene, Bahar finally knew why Pagg gave people such a strange feeling overall. It turned out that the other party had problems with memory and could only remember things that happened in a very short time. This time seemed to be no more than an hour. Every hour, its memory became blurred, but some knowledge memories would be permanently remembered by it.
That notebook that could automatically generate records was not an objective record of what happened, but a record of Pagg's own feelings and experiences, with relatively strong personal judgment.
Pagg's mood was obviously better. After a while, it arrived at an underground passage entrance. After entering, it was an abandoned underground train passage. Walking along the steel, it walked for a few kilometers. Branch lines began to appear on both sides of the passage, even revealing part of the building. -
The weasel clan lived here, but the weasel clan encountered along the way were very cold to Pagg, and some were even malicious, closing the windows to avoid seeing them. Pagg was used to this scene, although it had long forgotten why it was hated like this.
When walking to the deepest part, the train passage was sealed with thick wooden boards, and turning right led to Pagg's home. This was a two-story wooden building. The height of the first floor was about 2 meters. After entering, one had to be careful not to be hit by the decorations on the ceiling.
Pagg's home was old but tidy. The first floor was its production workshop. Various tools that fit its body size were neatly hung. In addition, there was an exhibition rack.
"These are the rewards given to me by the royal family. Most of them are books. I can't understand a single word, and some are even stranger things, such as this."
Pagg picked up a mechanical ball. Like twisting a Rubik's cube, it twisted loose with a click-clack sound. This was actually a replica of the Mysterious Eye.
This was actually not worth being surprised. The alchemy faction led to mechanical pollution, which was recognized. There was mechanical spread in this world. It was very likely that a small number of alchemists fled here when the alchemy civilization of the Second Era came to an end. After they died one after another, they left alchemy knowledge in this world.
Later, the royal family obtained this knowledge and tried to replicate one of the treasures of the alchemy civilization, the Mysterious Eye, but this thing was more often called the Alchemy Eye.
Su Xiao picked up an ancient book and found that it was the ancient script of the First Era. He couldn't understand it completely, but he could see the general content. This was "Inscription Studies." Looking at the Void Ten Thousand Worlds, the rank of these "Inscription Studies" was still very card-faced.
Su Xiao was not ready to master these "Inscription Studies." Although this knowledge was very useful and had a bonus to seal studies, he had already mastered alchemy, pharmacy, and seal studies, with levels:
Alchemy: Lv. 95 (Full level).
Pharmacy: Lv. 95 (Full level).
Seal Studies: Lv. 92 (Accumulating).
It is said that greed is not enough to chew. The current surplus time is used on "Seal Studies." This is the most important thing. If it is not improved fast enough, there will be a life-threatening danger.
No matter how you look at it, this reward of the royal family is very outrageous, and this should not be the knowledge inherited by the underground city royal family, otherwise this kind of inherited ancient book could not be given away so easily. Ancient books are different from books, and ancient books can be used for spiritual immersion learning and sensing.
"Do the royal family often pay you this kind of reward?"
Su Xiao's question made Pagg a bit difficult. It scratched its head and pondered. After a few seconds, it painfully scratched its head and pondered hard. Suddenly, it seemed to recall something and said:
"I remember, the royal family has a whole large library. There, they are all such ancient books. They also said that if I meet someone who needs them in the future, I can help them introduce them. They are willing to sell all the books in that large library."
Hearing this, Su Xiao picked up the most valuable ancient book and asked: "In that large library, how many such ancient books are there?"
"Probably, seven or eight out of ten are like this, and the rest are very old scrolls."
"..."
Su Xiao sat down, and a plan was gradually conceived. To be honest, he really didn't plan to win this round. The combat avatar built with 1,360 points of Soul Strength + top-level pharmacy is very strong, crushing and beating conventional enemies, but the problem is that the opponents this time are the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and Hao Chou. With the cooperation of these three, why should he win? Is it by luck?
It is a fact that he can't win this round. Because of this, he played this round of the game so honestly according to the rules. Building such a powerful avatar is not a delusional desire to win, but to brush the "dungeon" of this world as much as possible to recover the losses of this round.
Su Xiao could win the first round because of his unreasonable boss fighting ability. He crushed the three elders of the "Dense King Capital" boss, and drove the Lord Train into the central area of the King Capital, fighting against the surging plant King Capital army, and beheaded the three elders in the main hall.
This led to the fact that when he found the second boss with "Broken Origin," the other party implicitly admitted defeat, and later ran away to the Lord Continent overnight. That's right, it was the Swamp King.
Plus in the first round, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and Hao Chou were wary of each other. In a one-on-one situation, although they were not afraid of being enemies with Su Xiao, they were still under full pressure.
In the second round, after Su Xiao turned on the infinite gold coin explosion mode, the Priest and the Platinum Apostle fished for benefits throughout the process. When the final battle came, the two chose to say goodbye. The unconvinced Moon Witch and others wore masks of pain in the final battle, because the last one couldn't be called a final battle, but a wild beast tide spread and pushed horizontally.
The Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and Hao Chou were all wary of Su Xiao. Why? Because in a game, although Su Xiao would not be exaggerated to jump out of the rules, he would definitely not listen to the rules and play games with these violators. It belongs to the game of rock-paper-scissors, the opponent has prepared a violation big knife, and Su Xiao pulls out a chainsaw to sit opposite the opponent, and it is a diesel chainsaw with very fierce power.
Now in the third round, Su Xiao's chainsaw card has been played. The bottom cards of the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and Hao Chou have accumulated from one to two. The bottom card originally intended to be used in the previous round, the Priest, this old guy, kept one hand and saved it to this round.
Compared with the struggle of all means, it is better to keep the means. There are three more important confrontations later. The biggest loss in this round is nothing more than the failure of "Bounty 4: Perfectionist," and the Space-Time Power allocated when this round is settled is not much. He has "Hunting List: Blood Covenant" as a stable means of obtaining Space-Time Power, so he is not afraid of the loss of Space-Time Power.
But now, Su Xiao is not ready to give up this game. Encountering the weasel merchant Pagg allowed him to see these ancient books, and he could use these to turn the tables.
Speaking of which, this is also trained by the "Luck ECG." With his luck, when he carries out the plan, he should be happy if there are no side effects. Don't expect it to be a matter of course.
This kind of adversity like daily life has trained Su Xiao to have a kind of ability. As long as he is given a little opportunity and possibility, he can make the opponent gradually wear a mask of pain. The enemy's mental journey is basically:
"The signs seem wrong, but the overall problem is not big, steady."
"The problem seems a bit big, but steady can still win. Hmm, that's right, this Law-Breaking person can no longer turn over the waves, this game is steady."
"Things seem to be getting more and more wrong."
"Damn! It's broken, it seems like I'm going to lose."
"It's over, that Law-Breaking person has already walked to the door with a knife. In a few seconds, I must be steady in the change of expression. I must be relaxed throughout the meeting, and I must not lose my face even if I die."
Su Xiao closed his eyes and leaned on the wooden chair, one hand on the cover of the ancient book on the small table beside him, his index finger tapping. The feasibility of this plan is very high, but I don't know if the residents of this world will treat him as a villain boss and join forces to resist him. Although he can kill them all, it will eventually make the plan fail.
Su Xiao opened his eyes and looked at the weasel merchant Pagg beside him. This is a weasel clan with short memory and kind heart. If it can accept the changes triggered by the subsequent plan, then other residents of this world will be even more happy to see it.
"Pagg, I have a question, I hope you can answer."
"What?"
Pagg forgot who Su Xiao was again, but after opening the notebook and seeing the words "Bai Ye friend" on it, it nodded firmly.
"Do you hope to live in an area without curse spread?"
Hearing this question, Pagg thought very seriously for a while, and finally nodded, and said with a more serious attitude that it hoped very much.
"Is that so? Thank you for your answer."
Su Xiao raised his hand. When he opened his palm, there were several packaged soul candies. Pagg picked one up, sniffed it, opened the package, and tried to put it in its mouth. The next second, its mood began to bloom beautifully.
"You just said that the underground city royal family has many such ancient books?"
Su Xiao's words seemed to be unheard by Pagg. After all, it was the first time in its life to taste such sweet things. Pagg was stunned there and a bit dead.
Clap, clap~
Su Xiao's two crisp snaps made Pagg come back to his senses. After Bahar repeated the previous question, Pagg nodded:
"Yes, the royal family is very eager to sell those ancient books. Their situation is very bad now. In order to keep their promise to resist the curse, they can't hold on anymore."
Pagg sighed because it felt lost for its powerlessness. Bahar asked: "Promise, curse? Tell me specifically on the way?"
"Okay."
Pagg got up and went to the side of the house. In the utility room of a few square meters, it opened the dark door and moved forward along the passage inside, which could lead to the underground city under Ash City.
Pagg's ancestors were all skilled craftsmen, working for the underground city royal family. By now, the royal family could no longer afford to hire Pagg's father for a long time. The two sides changed from hiring to cooperation, but still maintained the priority supply of the royal family. By Pagg's generation, the royal family had fallen to the extreme.
Pagg also had a notebook, which was handwritten by itself, recording things it thought were important. While leading the way in front, it flipped through the notebook and narrated the situation of the underground city royal family.
That was during the Second Era. The royal family fled here. At that time, the situation in this world was still okay. Although there was curse spread, it could be barely contained. After the royal family arrived in this world, one of the two major forces in this world, the Soul Ancient Hall, advocated expelling the royal family, while the other force, the Temple, proposed to take them in.
The Soul Ancient Hall is today's Array Realm Master Guild and Pilgrims, and in the process of splitting, it can be regarded as a peaceful breakup. And the Temple, which was divided into the Temple of Mercy and the Hunting Church, is obviously that the breakup here is earth-shattering. At the beginning, both sides maintained their demeanor, but finally they fought, and everything like picking eyes, pulling hair, kicking crotch, etc., was greeted.
The result is that the royal family is in a state of being expelled at any time, temporarily staying in this world, until the end of the Second Era, when the two major forces of this world collapsed in the process of resisting curse erosion.
The royal family found the high-level officials of the Temple and promised that in order to thank them for taking them in, they would help them resist the curse erosion of the main city until the end of the Third Era. And the former main city of the Temple was today's Ash City.
During the narration, the passage came to an end. Pagg took out a bunch of keys and opened a metal door. From the branch passages spreading to here, it could be seen that entering the underground city was not difficult, and it was no wonder that the Ash City above blocked the passage from the first floor of the underground city to the second floor so tightly.
Entering the second floor of the underground city, the first impression was that the mist was scattered. This place was like a ghost domain. Buildings stood here, and the doors and windows of these buildings were reinforced, and the lights were on inside.
A slight armor collision came, and a team of inspectors walked over. They were all wearing heavy armor. Some were born with three arms and one eye due to the erosion of the curse, some were tall, with eyes on their chests, shoulders, and other positions, and only mouth, nose, and ears on their heads, and eyes on the backs of their hands.
Hundreds of eyes looked over, and after examining Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Bahar for a while, the patrol captain nodded to Pagg, and the group walked away. Compared with the weasel clan station, the royal family of the underground city was more friendly to Pagg.
Under Pagg's lead, Su Xiao arrived at a dark royal palace. After notifying the six-eyed guard, the guard made a gesture of waiting for a moment. A few minutes later, a hunched back, with seven or eight arms, and an old figure wearing old clothes walked over. Among its five eyes, four were turbid and blind, and only one was still energetic. This was an elder in the royal family.
"You are..."
After the royal family elder saw Su Xiao, he stopped his somewhat slow pace, looked up and down after examining with his only eye, and smiled, revealing only two rotten teeth.
"Yes, darkness is coming, how could you be cut off? Like our second-rate group, we have been lingering until today, let alone you Law-Breaking Shadows."
The royal family elder smiled sinisterly. He beckoned with some slow movements and said: "Come, come here."
The royal family elder walked forward with a crutch, supported by the six-eyed guard. After walking through the main hall and continuing to deepen, because the royal family elder's legs and feet were too slow, it took more than half an hour for the group to reach the end of the corridor and walk into a large library. Rows of dozens of meters high bookshelves represented the former glory of this place.
The royal family elder pointed to rows of bookshelves with a wooden staff: "This is the inherited knowledge of the Feather Clan in the First Era. That's right, it's the big clan that stirs up shit in the Void now. They were also glorious in the past, but every choice was not bold enough, worrying about gains and losses, but because of this, they continued to the present and are still quite glorious."
The royal family elder looked at Su Xiao: "Law-Breaking person, how many are you ready to take?"
"All."
"Oh? This price is very high."
"Prepayment."
"Tell me about it, the old man seems to be a bit interested."
The royal family elder revealed a senile smile. In fact, this old guy's heart was as clear as a mirror.
"After it is done, in the Lord Continent, there will be a place for your royal family to live."
Su Xiao's words made a different look appear in the royal family elder's only eye, and the pupils of the other five eyes condensed a bit. A moment later, he shook his head regretfully:
"No, we promised that we would resist the curse for this city until the end of the Third Era. Although with the spread of the curse, we can no longer hold on to that time, a promise is a promise. Our clan is arrogant, arrogant, and arrogant, but... a promise is a promise."
After saying that, the wooden staff in the royal family elder's hand tapped the ground, and the aura was different. It was not angry but prestigious.
"What if all the residents of Ash City have a place to live in the Lord Continent?"
In the current Lord Continent, the human race, the undead race, and the swamp tribe live in peace with each other. With the vastness of the Lord Continent, these three parties can develop for hundreds of years without reaching the point of resource scarcity and mutual contention.
If the royal family and the residents of Ash City are added, it is actually the same. This population, when they arrive at the Lord Continent, is like mud cows entering the sea. It is more likely that if they are not particularly publicized, the three local forces of the Lord Continent may not know they have come in the next few decades. And outside the barrier of Ash City is the spread of the curse. They have been used to being low-key here.
This offer made the royal family elder moved, but he still shook his head: "Law-Breaking person, the Lords of the Lord Continent will not agree."
"Don't worry."
"Oh? You go to negotiate? Your negotiation ability as a Law-Breaking person, I have experienced it. The process made me lose a few teeth, but the teeth of the Lords are very difficult to knock out."
"Don't worry, I have already killed them all."
After saying that, Su Xiao turned his head to look at the royal family elder, which was to say the most ruthless and shocking words in the most plain tone.
"You..."
The royal family elder's old face twitched, and then he nodded. He believed this was true, because the Law-Breaking person could really do this kind of thing.
"Okay, how do you guarantee it?"
"I guarantee it with the reputation of the Law-Breaking Shadow."
"What?"
The royal family elder suddenly changed from his slow words just now, and his eyes became sharp. If he wasn't too old, it looked like he was going to use his crutch to pose a combat starting style.
Su Xiao and the royal family elder looked at each other in silence. A moment later, Su Xiao said:
"I guarantee it in my personal name."
"Okay, that's a deal. These ancient books are all yours."
Leaving this sentence, the royal family elder walked away slowly with his wooden staff, looking very relieved about Su Xiao's promise.
Walking into the large library, it had not been cleaned for a long time. Not only was it full of dust and spider webs, but there were also broken books and stones on the ground. After reaching the cumulative 10 world comprehensive evaluation S+ before, the size of Su Xiao's team storage space reached 5,000 cubic meters, so there was no problem in holding these ancient books and scrolls.
After sending messages to Amu and Benny in the team channel, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Bahar began to collect the ancient books and scrolls here into the team storage space. Pagg, this warm-hearted person, also wanted to help, so he let it pick out the complete ancient books or scrolls from a large pile of waste books.
An hour later, Amu and Benny arrived. With Amu, the work efficiency improved immediately. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, this lazy guy, really liked to be lazy, but if the situation was urgent, he could be serious enough to hide and stare at the enemy in one place for days, or even longer.
In the evening, Su Xiao collected all the valuable ancient books and scrolls into the team storage space. He didn't return to Ash City directly from the second floor of the underground city, but returned along the original route and returned to the city from the main entrance of Ash City along the previous route. Sometimes, details determine success or failure, especially when dealing with a super old fox like the Priest.
Returning to the safe zone residence in the back city area, Su Xiao controlled the avatar to enter the terminal's culture tank, disconnected the mental power, felt a short dizziness, opened his eyes and sat up, feeling the familiar and powerful body, he had a sense of comfort from the inside out.
If there is no accident, Su Xiao will not control this combat avatar later. However, in the subsequent plan, this combat avatar is very important, and can 'automatically' brush the "dungeon," allowing Su Xiao to obtain rewards for clearing the "dungeon" again and again.
Logically speaking, this combat avatar, which is 100% compatible with Su Xiao's mental power, cannot be controlled by others, but he has a wonderful way.
Standing in front of the control chair, Su Xiao pressed one hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist, released the Blade Demon Spirit, and to a certain extent, lifted the suppression on the Demon Spirit.
The image of the Demon Spirit began to change, from the original only slender finger characteristics, to full of smoky long hair, blue eyes at the bottom of the eyes, and black pupils.
Su Xiao pointed to the control chair. In this state, the Demon Spirit naturally did not listen to his control, but with the suppression of Su Xiao, the Demon Spirit seemed to think for a while. Seeing this scene made Su Xiao's pupils shrink a bit. He rarely showed his emotional changes like this.
A moment later, the Demon Spirit lay on the terminal seat. With the assistance of the terminal chair, the Demon Spirit and the combat avatar gradually formed a mental connection. As for the combat avatar and Su Xiao's 100% mental compatibility, others could not control it. The Demon Spirit obviously could not be counted in the ranks of others. The first trace of Demon Spirit energy in Su Xiao's body appeared when he inherited the Law-Breaking Shadow profession. It was born because of him and also coexisted with him.
The sound of culture medium dripping came, and as the cabin door at the back opened, Su Xiao's combat avatar walked out.
Regarding how to control this Demon Spirit avatar later to achieve the expected goal, Su Xiao took out a contract. Seeing this, the Demon Spirit avatar immediately wanted to escape. The contract parchment in Su Xiao's hand dissolved and turned into a force that merged into the Demon Spirit avatar's body.
The Demon Spirit avatar paused. It was about to take another step, but a force from the contract made it stiff and fall to the ground. After tossing for more than ten minutes, the Demon Spirit avatar got up and stared straight at Su Xiao. The account of grabbing its Demon Spirit energy in the past and controlling it by force this time were calculated together, ready to make a final break after reaching the Supreme level.
Yes, who finally suppresses whom will be the final confrontation after Su Xiao advances to the Supreme level and reaches the upper-middle level of the Supreme level.
The task Su Xiao gave to the Demon Spirit avatar was very simple: go to brush the 10-level dungeon "Soul Hall." Before, he felt that this round was bound to lose, so he built a combat avatar to fish for benefits, so he was naturally as cautious as possible. This avatar level was 1, but the improvement range of using potions was equivalent to the hidden level being Lv. 60.
Either be bold enough to swallow the whole world, or be steady enough to be speechless. This is the way Su Xiao makes decisions and plans when he is in an advantage or disadvantage, so his previous idea was to let the avatar hide level Lv. 60, plus brush wild monsters to upgrade to Lv. 20, and go to brush the Lv. 10 dungeon "Soul Hall" with an actual level of Lv. 80.
You can imagine, if that situation appears, the monsters in the "Soul Hall" will have to shout with tears: 'Don't come over!'
"Bahar."
"I'm here, boss."
Bahar flew over. The task Su Xiao arranged for it was to go out with the avatar, fly all over the world to open the map, strive to show the information and icons of all special areas, that is, dungeon areas, on the map, and then after planning, let the Demon Spirit avatar brush them one after another.
The purpose of brushing these dungeons is twofold. One is the five "Broken Origins" in this round, and there will be two or three later, each in different "dungeon areas." Another is to obtain enough "cursed curios" by brushing these "dungeon areas."
Su Xiao needs at least nine highest-level, that is, A-grade "cursed curios" to exchange for 【Ancient Hatred】 and the "Mysterious Eye Core," the latter is crucial.
Taking out the 【Library Badge】, Su Xiao opened the channel to the Soul Library. The wall in front twisted in an irregular way. He walked into it with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Benny also wanted to go, but as soon as she ran into the wall, she was thrown out by Su Xiao. Benny, the eldest lady, tilted her head in unhappiness, indicating that she was not happy.
The reason why Benny was not allowed to go was that she always caught little elves. The second prince of the elf kingdom, Boboli, told Su Xiao tactfully, meaning that Benny was welcome to come, but don't catch little elves. Benny also knew this was wrong, but seeing small things that could fly, she felt itchy and unbearable.
Space fluctuation, after Su Xiao arrived at the Soul Library, he found that there were no little elves around. Little heads poked out around the bookshelf in front. Seeing that Su Xiao didn't bring Benny, they continued to fly and clean the library.
Deep into the inside of the library, Su Xiao walked up a semi-arc staircase to a separate compartment. The inside of the compartment was occupied by tree roots. The ancient one among the messy tree roots was nowhere to be found. Instead, an old man sat on the chair in front of the tree roots, reading an ancient book.
The owner of the Soul Library, the Ancient One, was not there, but the Painter was here. Seeing Su Xiao coming, the Painter closed the ancient book: "He is not here, it's okay to find me if you have something."
"Sell ancient books."
"How many?"
"About 4,000 cubic meters."
Hearing this, the Painter looked at Su Xiao. He smiled, as if saying it was worthy of you kid. He threw a hexagonal container.
"Put it in here, I will estimate the price for you. Don't worry, in the Second Era when my old friend was busiest, I helped him watch this side for about one-fifth of an era. There is one more thing, do you know about Spider Madam's escape?"
"Know."
"Didn't participate?"
"No."
Su Xiao rarely lies, but when he tells a lie, it is flawless. But to say that he didn't participate, it is actually not counted. It is inevitable to have a relationship. After all, he has been to the Soul Library and the Wind Sea Continent, and it is impossible to clear it completely.
The Painter estimated for a while, and finally judged that these ancient books and scrolls were worth 5,680 library silver coins. This price was notarized by the Tree of the Void, representing fairness.
He went to the top floor of the library. After walking into the top floor, the snoring of the manager of the top floor of the library, the Soul Elder, came. He was used to this. It is said that this one slept for thousands of years once. Continuing to deepen, he saw the acting administrator, little elf Boboli, also snoring. This is understandable. Keeping watch here, maybe he wouldn't see a visitor for a month, so he was naturally bored every day.
Dong dong~
Su Xiao knocked on the table. Little elf Boboli woke up. He looked at him confusedly: "Coming early this time, Bai Ye."
"..."
Su Xiao didn't speak, put down a large box of braised food cooked by Xia. Little elf Boboli swallowed his saliva, took a piece and ate it with a smile, then couldn't bear to eat the rest, and brought it back to his brothers and sisters to satisfy their hunger. Although the elf royal family was rich, Xia's cooking level was not something that could be tasted just by being rich.
Activating the exchange list on the top floor of the library, first return 【High-level Seal Studies】, 3,800 library silver coins were obtained. In this way, he had a total of 9,860 library silver coins. In the list, he exchanged for 【Master-level Seal Studies】 with 7,000 library silver coins.
Activating the exchange list on the top floor of the library, he first returned the 【High-Tier Sealing Studies】, getting 3,800 Library Silver Coins in hand. With this, he had a total of 9,860 Library Silver Coins, and he exchanged 7,000 of them to obtain 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】.
The so-called 【High-Tier Sealing Studies】 and 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】 were unified names given during organization. For instance, 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】 contains a total of over 20 top-tier ancient books on sealing studies, as well as over 100 types of various sealing techniques recorded on scrolls.
These 20-plus top-tier ancient books on sealing studies alone are the results obtained from the First Era to the present, passed down and revised by generations of the most elite sealers.
To be more precise, a major faction of sealing studies would only leave behind one ancient book worthy of being included in 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】 from its rise to its fall. In a very long era, only 10 to 12 such ancient books on sealing studies would appear. The Great Soul Library preserving these 20 shows that its foundation is unfathomable.
After putting away the 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】, Su Xiao arrived at the entrance of the Great Soul Library and opened the exit with the library badge. When the spatial fluctuations ended, he returned to the safe house in Ash City.
This is a safe zone notarized by the Tree of the Void, so even if he exhausts his mental energy mastering sealing studies here, there will be no risk. Su Xiao took out the 【Master-Level Sealing Studies】 and first sorted the ancient books and scrolls one by one.
To achieve his envisioned plan, he must at least raise his Sealing Studies from Lv. 92 to Lv. 93. Although the difficulty is extremely high, fortunately, there are many auxiliary means.
Su Xiao took out the "Abyss Contract". The core function of this item is "restriction" and "price". Trying to obtain something without a price through it will inevitably lead to evil consequences, but if it is used to improve learning ability within a certain time limit, and the set "price" is large enough, there will be no problems. He has tested this many times, and the settings this time are as follows:
The restrictions are: Do not use this item for a long time, do not use it for more than 50 hours in a single session, do not use this contract to directly pry into or crave Abyss power, do not crave easily obtainable dark power, and do not fall into the Abyss.
The prices are: Extreme Bad Luck, Severe Weakness, Intense Soul Vision, Life Stripping (consuming 1440 HP per minute), Deathly Silence Descent (exempted due to holding Soul·Coronation of the King), and Original Sin Descent·Super Large Scale (exempted due to holding the Book of Original Sin).
Su Xiao still trusts the absolute safe zone notarized by the Tree of the Void, so he set the prices very ruthlessly.
Quantifying the prices, the first three are 10 price points each, Life Stripping is about 5 points, and the more ruthless ones are Price 4 and Price 5. Price 4 is 500 price points, and as for Price 5, it is at least over 6,000. The threshold he set for the Original Sin Descent is very high.
The "price" and "gain" of the "Abyss Contract" are like the weights on both sides of a balance, while the pillar in the middle is the "restriction". The weights on both sides must be equal to be stable. Furthermore, when the weights on both sides are very heavy, it tests the load-bearing capacity of the middle pillar, which is the "restriction".
The 6,535-point weight of the "price" can only be described as tragic. In contrast, the return he needs to obtain is: 100 times the knowledge mastery efficiency improvement.
No matter how you look at it, using the aforementioned "restrictions" and "prices" to obtain "100 times knowledge mastery efficiency improvement" feels a bit of a loss. But what if this is the 100x gain after the title improvement?
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【Original Sin Scholar】
Quality: ★★★★★★★★★
Limit Burning: Once.
Title Effect 1: Scholar (Passive). After equipping this title, reading efficiency +153%, reading immersion +194%, knowledge imprint interpretation efficiency +217%.
Title Effect 2: Absolute Focus (Passive). After starting to master knowledge, consume 30 mana points per minute. During this period, the efficiency of mastering Original Sin/Sealing/Darkness knowledge increases by 1200%, and the mastery efficiency of other types of knowledge increases by 35%.
Title Effect 3: Original Sin Scholar (Passive). For every peak Original Sin item you hold/seal, all effects of "Absolute Focus" will increase by 20%.
Current number of sealed Original Sin items: 6.
Current "Absolute Focus" effect bonus: 120%.
That is: After starting to master knowledge, consume 66 mana points per minute. During this period, the efficiency of mastering Original Sin/Sealing/Darkness knowledge increases by 2640%, and the mastery efficiency of other types of knowledge increases by 77%.
Introduction: When a master teacher named Death personally supervises, people's learning potential will continue to climb. Of course, sometimes this master teacher inevitably appears too harsh.
With Su Xiao's current mana limit of 199,906 points, he can maintain "Absolute Focus" for 50 hours each time, which is why he set the restriction of the "Abyss Contract" to not exceed 50 hours in a single session.
Regarding why he made so many exaggerated restrictions to obtain "100 times knowledge mastery efficiency improvement" with the "Abyss Contract", when this hundredfold is placed after the 【Original Sin Scholar】 bonus, setting such strict restrictions is very normal.
Assuming Su Xiao's original knowledge mastery characteristic is 320 points, the title increases it to 8,448 points, and then increasing it by a hundred times reaches 844,800 points. After this massive gain, 1 day equals the efficiency of 2,640 days. Corresponding to this, Su Xiao discovered that the "Abyss Contract" treasure has a limit. Using the "Abyss Contract" this way, he can use it at most four or five times before this treasure is scrapped. Fortunately, the title is very safe.
Considering it can bring a gain of +1 or even +2 to Sealing Studies level, it is worth it. Having prepared everything, Su Xiao picked up the first ancient book on sealing studies and began to improve "Sealing Studies".
Su Xiao actually had this plan for the goal he wanted to achieve after understanding the situation of this world. However, the current Lv. 92 Sealing Studies was too far-fetched to achieve this plan. Don't underestimate the gap between Sealing Studies Lv. 92 and Lv. 93; for the 5 levels after Sealing Studies reaches Lv. 90, each level up is a whole new world.
Checking the progress of this round of the battle for supremacy, no one has obtained the "Fragmented Origin" of this round yet. Actually, Su Xiao had experienced a situation similar to this avatar composition once before. That time, he blocked other participants in the fountain respawn point. If he succeeds this time, he won't need to block the fountain; this time is far more outrageous than blocking the fountain.
Is the plan of the Priest and the others meticulous? It doesn't matter. No matter how meticulous the plan is, when facing the "roar" of this world itself, it will lose its meaning. That's right, Su Xiao wants to make this dead world roar, roar until... it makes all participants' hair stand on end.
At the same time, Nightmare Shelter on the west side of Ash City, inside the Death Tavern.
"I saw it, it's Byakuya's avatar leaving the city, but his avatar is a bit strange."
Moon Witch spoke while covering her right eye, as if she could see scenes from very far away through the covered right eye.
"Strange? How is it strange?"
Hao Tao spoke. His neighbor, the Priest, had a kind smile on his face, having returned to his usual appearance. If Su Xiao were present, he would definitely feel that this old guy's plan was indeed very stable. It wasn't detected through his expression; for an old fox like the Priest, as long as the smile on his face didn't disappear, any other changes in expression were untrustworthy.
"How to describe it, his avatar is like... dark transformation? No, it's black mist transformation. Anyway, it feels a bit like that."
Hao Tao didn't understand the meaning, so he looked at the Priest: "Priest?"
"Byakuya is using his Magic Spirit to control this avatar."
"Oh, you still understand him best."
Hao Tao nodded, then thought of something and said: "Not controlling it himself, but using the Magic Spirit to control it, so he doesn't want to lose attributes? Hmm, this guy's main attributes are all capped at 800, so not wanting to lose them is normal. But I feel like he's given up a bit. This guy is unexpectedly good at trade-offs; he's already seen that he has no hope in this round."
The Priest naturally thought of Hao Tao's statement as well. Although the Priest still maintained a kind smile on his face, a chill rose in his heart. The Kuku Lin Byakuya he knew would try his best to gain benefits in such a losing situation, but he wouldn't go to the extent of breaking the pot.
A feeling of extreme ominousness gradually emerged in the Priest's heart. He began to think about various possibilities, but ruled them out one by one. Suddenly, he thought of something: the book that the other party held... the Book of Original Sin.
The Priest picked up his wooden wine cup. He didn't drink it all in one gulp, but he rarely drank more than half the cup in one go. Afterward, the smile on his face became even wider. He had almost forgotten that this old friend of his was a lunatic of Reincarnation. When you corner a Reincarnation lunatic, what the other party will do is really uncertain.
The surrounding Platinum Apostle, Black Demon, Hao Tao, and others were all watching the Priest, whose smile was becoming even wider. Some even stood up from their seats and retreated several large steps. The first three were fine and very calm, but Moon Witch, Bandage Man, the Four Brothers, and Sea Crocodile were all numb from watching.
"Everyone, what's wrong with you?"
The Priest, whose smile had returned to normal, looked around at the people present.
"Priest, the way you were smiling just now..."
The corner of Moon Witch's eye twitched. To be honest, the Priest's smile just now couldn't be shaken off in her heart for a short time. It clearly wasn't terrifying at all, and was even more kind-hearted, yet it made her whole body feel like her hair was standing on end.
"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of a happy thing. Let's continue with the plan and welcome the... stormy waves that may come."
After the Priest finished speaking, he put down the empty wine cup in his hand. The game that was about to follow made him look at Moon Witch, Bandage Man, the Four Brothers, and Sea Crocodile even more kindly—so "kindly" that it was as if he were looking at a few dead people.
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