Chapter 3960

The prepared potion was poured into a container to cool. Su Xiao picked up the container and observed the semi-fluid potion levelly. This potion presented a dark red color, with a strong sense of ominousness.

This is a potion prepared with 【Old Dragon Essence Soul】 as the main material. Originally prepared to be called "Dragon Soul Secret Medicine," but now, calling it "Evil Dragon Potion" is more appropriate.

The location of the 【Old Dragon Essence Soul】 was provided by the Evil Heart, located in the extremely dark cave deep in the "Ash Land." When the Magic Spirit avatar found that old dragon, it had been dead for several years. For a dragon of this strength, within ten years after death, dragon blood and soul essence, etc., will not rot. This process will only gradually proceed after 16-19 years.

Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't wait for the dragon blood to rot before attracting strange beasts with keen sense of smell to swallow it. The extremely dark cave terrain of the "Ash Land" is special, forming a natural dark ring seal, so this "Old Dragon Essence Soul" has remained until now.

But when the Magic Spirit avatar found the old dragon's corpse, Su Xiao saw through the feedback from the monitoring device that this Peerless-level old dragon's blood was severely corrupted, its dragon skin was pale and rough, and its pupils, which had long lost their luster, were exceptionally turbid.

This is actually not abnormal. This old dragon must have been seriously injured and hid in the "Ash Land" to heal. How could it be that the injury was too heavy, so it died. Considering the curse environment of this world, it is not worth being surprised that the corpse has such changes.

This "Old Dragon Essence Soul" has a bonus effect. Directly absorbing it can permanently increase 120,000 health points, but it will permanently decrease 20 points of Willpower. Trading 20 points of Willpower for 120,000 health points is a profit no matter how you look at it.

The problem is that the Evil Heart predicted the location of this "Old Dragon Essence Soul," and the Evil Heart may have already noticed that its oath-master · Scarlet Lord is dead. Under such circumstances, the Evil Heart will urgently and unscrupulously break free from Su Xiao.

With the Evil Heart's deceit and cunning, it definitely won't think about breaking free from Su Xiao in a short time, but will bury hidden dangers time and time again, just like this "Old Dragon Essence Soul."

Or to put it another way, taking the Evil Heart's prediction of "Supreme Life Essence" as a boundary point, before this, the Evil Heart was always afraid that its oath-master · Scarlet Lord would find it, or that the Lord of the Old Days would suddenly track it, a small character. After all, no one can predict the behavior of Void alien existences.

In the case of having these two threats, being bound by Su Xiao is not a bad thing. When the two come looking for it, the Evil Heart plans to hide in Su Xiao's place and let Su Xiao help it block them.

After Su Xiao obtained the "Supreme Life Essence," the Evil Heart's oath-master · Scarlet Lord died, and the Lord of the Old Days had no sign of looking for it, a small character. As a result, Su Xiao became the number one enemy for the Evil Heart to obtain freedom.

It must be said that the selection of this "Old Dragon Essence Soul" is indeed at a high level. If Su Xiao hadn't pursued potion quality and wanted to remove all the negative effects of the "Evil Dragon Potion," he really wouldn't have discovered the hidden characteristics of this potion.

The "Evil Dragon Potion" has five version states. The first version of the "Evil Dragon Potion" is:

"Permanently increase 85,000 health points, permanently decrease 1 point of Willpower attribute."

This made Su Xiao very dissatisfied, not only because the buff was reduced too much, but also because there was still a debuff. Fortunately, the preparation was not completed and could be catalyzed and changed. This led to the second version, which is:

"Permanently increase 100 health points, permanently decrease 0.1 points of Willpower attribute."

Su Xiao extracted and stripped away almost all the buff parts of this potion. Even so, that 0.1% Willpower reduction, like a bone-attached maggot, could not be removed no matter what. This made him realize one thing.

The composition of this potion is like a gourd balloon. The big end is the buff, and the small end is the debuff. Even if you let air out of the buff side, although it can make the small end smaller, it is impossible to make the small end disappear. Because of this, the "Evil Dragon Potion" had a third version:

"Permanently increase 210,000 health points, permanently decrease 50 points of Willpower attribute."

As expected, the buff and debuff of this potion are connected. Su Xiao spared no cost to improve the buff characteristics, but the expected bunch of debuff characteristics didn't appear. The dozens of debuffs expected were all swallowed by the single debuff of "reducing Willpower."

That's right, it's swallowing. This is not an adjective. The debuff characteristic of this potion corresponds to some kind of living thing that is particularly difficult to detect. Su Xiao tried to use microscopic observation, but even with maximum microscopic observation, he still didn't detect anything. Therefore, he switched to contract testing.

He used the side effect of this potion as the price of a contract, and then used the "Contract Origin Canon" to determine the characteristics of this price. The final result was:

Writhing, erosion, parasitism, commandment.

The three characteristics of writhing + erosion + parasitism basically judge that this is a living thing. Let's call it a Hidden Leech for now, because this kind of living thing will suck the host's Willpower like a leech sucks blood.

The key is the final "commandment" characteristic, which means that as long as this potion is not drunk, the Hidden Leech in this potion will definitely not actively invade. It can only be said that the luck was okay this time. There is no risk in preparing this kind of potion. As long as you don't drink it, this is why the fifth version of this potion came into being.

"Permanently increase 620,000 health points, permanently decrease 150 points of Willpower attribute, and highly likely to cause the Willpower attribute to continue to slide for a period of time afterwards."

After Su Xiao discovered that the Hidden Leech had the characteristic of swallowing negative effects, he simply didn't use life-characteristic potion materials to enhance this "Evil Dragon Potion." It was too expensive. He used various materials that were a hundred times cheaper than life-characteristic materials but had strong side effects to enhance the "Evil Dragon Potion."

Su Xiao looked at the potion in his hand that emitted an alluring rose red. In some situations, using this thing to deal with enemies is more useful than fierce poison, especially when playing games with big forces and wanting to get rid of a high-level member of this big force.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao unfolded the preparation again. This time he added extreme fierce medicine and finally obtained the fifth version of the "Evil Dragon Potion."

"Permanently increase 10% lifespan limit, permanently increase 300,000 health points, permanently decrease 30% + 150 points of current Willpower attribute, and highly likely to cause the Willpower attribute to continue to slide for a period of time afterwards."

This thing certainly cannot be sold as a buff potion. After considering this point, he later contacted Caesar and asked him to help 'buff' it, that is, to make the "permanently increase 10% lifespan limit, permanently increase 300,000 health points" more obvious, while the part of deducting Willpower becomes almost imperceptible, unless notarized through the Void Tree or Paradise faction to check the attributes.

Originally, he planned to clean up the Evil Heart in the near future. Now it seems that it is better to postpone it. Just take this bottle of "Evil Dragon Potion" as an example. If a high-level member of a hostile big force drinks this thing, the destructive power caused is a hundred times stronger than directly poisoning the other party to death.

As for relying on high Willpower to resist the debuff of this thing, there is no such possibility. This is to bore through the Willpower. Subsequently, the Hidden Leech will continuously suck the host's Willpower, leading to the host's Willpower becoming negative. By then, the host's behavior will be unpredictable, sometimes angry, sometimes crazy, sometimes desires spreading, sometimes cruel and bloodthirsty.

Baja flew in from the window and brought back a wooden box. After opening it, inside was a precision core the size of a marble. Su Xiao took out the "Mysterious Eye." The "Mysterious Eye" began to resonate with this core, floated up and unfolded by itself, clicked, and adsorbed the core into it, then closed.

Hum~

The "Mysterious Eye" emitted a violent humming sound of operation, and dense runes lit up on it. A moment later, it calmed down.

The "Mysterious Eye" fell into Su Xiao's hand. It didn't look like it had changed much. After studying it for a moment, he felt the improvement of the "Mysterious Eye." First, there was a significant improvement in functions such as detection and unlocking. Even the "Spinning Flash Bomb Mode" he developed had its effect enhanced by more than a hundred times.

It used to be a burst of strong light that could make perception painful, but now it directly vibrates the body + soul. Even with Su Xiao's current physique and soul strength, he would have to recover for a long time after being hit once. The only problem is that this function is useless.

Flash bombs are useful, but adding the spinning characteristic makes it useless. What's even more pit-falling is that this spinning has a strong tracking effect. As long as Su Xiao throws it out, no matter what speed he uses to evade, the Mysterious Eye in the spinning flash bomb mode will accurately track him, ensuring it can explode in front of his eyes.

As for the other functions of the "Mysterious Eye," he still has to develop them himself. Perhaps when those few masters of alchemy mechanical engineering manufactured this item, they didn't consider what kind of scene it would be when this thing fell into the hands of an alchemy potion master.

Su Xiao came to the basement of this building. This place had already been excavated by Amu into a shaft, and an elevator had been built. Taking the elevator down, after going deep into the ground for hundreds of meters, the elevator stopped.

This is an underground space of more than ten square meters, overall semi-circular, like an inverted big bowl. The walls are composed of a gray-white chitin. This special chitin has strong load-bearing capacity.

Dense sealing spells were engraved on the surrounding walls. After checking that these engravings were fine, Su Xiao took the elevator back the same way. Just after returning to the bedroom on the third floor, Baja said:

"Boss, the Magic Spirit has arrived at the Eternal Bell."

"..."

Su Xiao sat on the wooden chair, looking at the scene in the projection. The Magic Spirit avatar stood on a pale earth. A black-green bell thousands of meters high was hung in the sky by a very thick chain. Clouds and mist flowed above the Eternal Bell. Looking at the bell from below, the inside of the bell was chaotic.

A few hours ago, the Magic Spirit avatar arrived at Smile Town on Skeleton Island. The result was that the Magic Spirit failed to kill through here. The weirdos here have real strength. As a price, more than 80% were killed by the Magic Spirit.

Finally, the Magic Spirit avatar found a secret passage to the deep underground in an old house in Smile Town. After arriving 10,000 meters underground in Smile Town, there was a passage made of skeletons. After traveling more than ten kilometers along the skeleton passage and taking the elevator at the end, the Magic Spirit finally arrived at the Secret Island corresponding to the hidden mission.

There are broken ruins on this Secret Island. In the center of the ruins is a tall stone tablet, which records the method of activating the "Eternal Bell." More precisely, the "Eternal Bell" is actually a kind of test.

There are three such stone tablets recording the secrets of the "Eternal Bell" in total. One is on "Skeleton Island," which should have been found and destroyed by the Priest. One is on the Secret Island. The last one is on the second floor of the underground city of "Yu Hui Town," kept by the Spirits of Darkness.

The reason he knows this is that near the stone tablet on the Secret Island, there was a withered corpse. In the bear skin bag of the withered corpse, there was a notebook recording the experience of the withered corpse. This was a pilgrim who fled halfway. The guilt of fleeing made him travel everywhere and write this precious notebook. When he was ready to bring this back to Yu Hui City to atone for his sins, he died on the Secret Island, the last stop.

The Magic Spirit avatar went to the Secret Island and of course used the "Cursed Index Finger" to open the "Hidden Mechanism" on the Secret Island. Through the notifications that appeared, Su Xiao knew what was sealed in this mechanism palace. It was the big boss of this world · the Giant Curse Devourer.

There were two major forces in this world before, the Soul Ancient Hall and the Radiant Holy Hall. Now this Giant Curse Devourer is the last leader of the Soul Ancient Hall. There are even rumors that the intensification of the curse was promoted by this person.

【Hidden Mission · Curse Origin · Final Link.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 95++++

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

Mission Deadline: 10 natural days.

Mission Reward: Determined according to the final cumulative completion degree.

Mission Penalty: Forced execution.

According to the process, one should go into the mechanism palace to kill the big boss of this world · the Giant Curse Devourer. The problem is that this big boss is over level 170. The Magic Spirit is only level 90 now, even if you add the hidden 60 levels, it's only level 150. Plus the bonus of the environment to this big boss, the Magic Spirit avatar cannot win.

Unless the Magic Spirit avatar completes the test of the "Eternal Bell," it is impossible to challenge the Giant Curse Devourer. Therefore, Su Xiao didn't intend to let the Magic Spirit avatar challenge the Giant Curse Devourer. The hidden mission only requires opening the mechanism hidden on the Secret Island, and doesn't require defeating this big boss.

Facts have proved that Su Xiao's judgment was correct. The mission was indeed completed, but the completion degree of this final link was as high as -1132.65%.

From the first link to the fifth link of this mission, the completion degree of each link was very high, with an average value of over 240%. The problem is that the highlight of this mission is to open the hidden mechanism of the Secret Island and then kill the big boss · the Giant Curse Devourer within a limited time.

Su Xiao omitted this link, which also means that he let the big boss who was originally imprisoned in the mechanism palace go and ignored it. This is why the magical mission completion degree of -1132.65% appeared.

Finally, Su Xiao completed this hidden mission with an astonishing mission completion rate of 2.65%.

【You have completed the hidden mission · Curse Origin.】

【You obtained the Cursed Treasure Chest (After opening, there is a 1% probability of obtaining gains, and a 99% probability of bearing the curse).】

Regarding the loss of the hidden mission being destroyed, Su Xiao didn't care at all. Compared to the subsequent gains in this world, this loss is nothing. He looked at the Magic Spirit avatar in the projection, knowing that the time had come. He drew the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan from its sheath and inserted it into the summoning array on the ground.

At the same time, near the Eternal Bell, the Magic Spirit avatar used a crystal long knife to outline a rune in the air, and slashed at this rune with a virtual slash. The slash expanded, and with a clang, it slashed onto the Eternal Bell.

In an instant, the surrounding area shook, and the long bell sound shook away the clouds and mist. A few minutes later, the surroundings gradually became quiet.

This quietness only lasted for a moment. The ground began to vibrate slightly. Looking down from the sky, countless cursed people swarmed from the surroundings, surrounding the Magic Spirit avatar.

Zing!

The circular black flame slash expanded, and all the cursed people within a thousand meters were slashed into two. Almost at the same time, the Magic Spirit avatar died from woodification. This is a situation that only occurs when deeply cursed.

These cursed people have a characteristic: as long as you kill them, their curse will spread to the killer along with the cause and effect, accumulating curse value. Once the curse value reaches 100%, they will die immediately.

In other words, the Magic Spirit avatar killed itself with one circular slash.

At the same time as the Magic Spirit avatar died, in the bedroom on the third floor of the safe zone, Su Xiao activated the summoning array and pulled the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan out from it. Black-blue smoke emerged, and the Magic Spirit was summoned back. Before the Magic Spirit could react, it was suppressed again, and then retracted into the Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan.

【Your combat avatar has died, you will suffer corresponding losses.】

【Notification: Detected that you are the original owner of this avatar, but you are not the actual controller of this avatar. When this avatar died, it could not be fully linked to your judgment.】

【Judgment completed, Blade Magic Spirit's Magic Spirit strength permanently -10 points.】

Su Xiao was not surprised by this result. He came to the fourth floor and took back the four cores on the four arrays one by one. Actually, three were enough, but to be on the safe side, he got one more.

Arriving at the second floor where the teleportation array was set up, Su Xiao stopped in front of the teleportation array. The reason why he didn't use the "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array" this time, but used expensive conventional long-range teleportation array materials, was to ensure that the teleportation process was stable enough. To strengthen this point, he also increased the teleportation time from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.

Opening the map, the appearance of the map was greatly modified at this time. The gray area represents the "Curse Spread Area," the black area represents the "Abyss Erosion Area," and the rust-colored area represents the "Mechanical Pollution Area."

The central areas of these three major areas were all set with spatial coordinates by Baja. Su Xiao first adjusted the scale of the long-range teleportation array to the coordinates corresponding to the "Curse Spread Area." After activating it, he teleported a cylindrical device half a meter thick and three meters high to this area.

After a 30-second teleportation, the cylindrical device arrived on the gravel ground of the Secret Island. After landing, it immediately unfolded, and the array inside spread out, forming an array with a diameter of several hundred meters. Careful observation reveals that this is a World Power Condensation Array.

This world is being eroded by the Abyss. The dark erosion of the Abyss has caused this dead world to have almost endless World Power. Simply put, once the overflowing World Power of this world is consumed, new World Power will be converted through Abyss energy immediately.

But the problem is that the World Power of this world has negative characteristics. Because of this, the curse and mechanical pollution have spread to this extent.

Now that this World Power Condensation Array appeared in the area with the highest curse concentration, the result was that the massive amount of World Power surging out caused the curse intensity here to continue to climb. From the original invisible form, it gradually turned into gray fog. This is not just an increase in quantity, but a qualitative change.

The same as this place is the World Power Condensation Array that appeared deep in the "Corrupt Forest," which also caused the degree of mechanical pollution here to climb at a speed visible to the naked eye. The semi-metallic trees began to become rusty.

In front of the long-range teleportation array on the second floor of the safe zone, Su Xiao's plan certainly didn't stop there. This was just an appetizer. He dropped a giant "World Power Condensation Array" in the Crying Black Nest, Eternal Bell, and Ash Land respectively.

With this foundation, he opened the "Original Sin Book," stripped the "Scarlet Scepter" from the sealed state inside, and completely released its seal. That is looking for death, so he used a crystal core that took several days to cultivate to wrap the "Scarlet Scepter."

Arriving next to the teleportation array, following the activation of teleportation, he released the "Scarlet Scepter" wrapped in crystal in his hand.

At this moment, above the Ash Land, the "Scarlet Scepter" suddenly appeared, falling vertically, and clicked into the center of the "World Power Condensation Array." After a brief silence, strands of scarlet energy spread out. The next second.

Boom!

Massive scarlet energy spread to the surroundings. The spectacle was like a surging sea of scarlet. Opening the real-time map to check, the western area of this world was quickly infected by scarlet.

This is not the end. Su Xiao stripped the "Sun Mask" from the "Original Sin Book," and after wrapping it with a crystal core, teleported it to the "World Power Condensation Array" in the Eternal Bell area.

In the central area of this world at this time, the "Sun Mask" was stationary a few meters above the ground. The golden color representing the scorching sun gradually turned into a dark golden red representing distortion under the nourishment of World Power, like thick sun blood.

Compared to the surging scarlet, the distorted sun simply formed a dark red sun in the sky. Everything covered by it began to distort. Even the Eternal Bell began to ooze magma and began to distort.

In front of the teleportation array in the safe zone, after Su Xiao confirmed that the distorted sun was stable, he stripped the "Nether Bone Ring" from the "Original Sin Book" again. Because the relationship with the "Nether Bone Ring" was indifferent, unlike the extremely bad relationship with the "Scarlet Scepter" and "Sun Mask," he didn't choose the crystal core of the reinforced seal version.

Applying a seal to the crystal core to avoid the invasion of Original Sin items at critical moments is one of the reasons for raising Seal Studies to Lv. 93 this time.

After checking, Su Xiao dropped the "Nether Bone Ring" wrapped in the crystal core onto the "World Power Condensation Array" located in the "Crying Black Nest" via the long-range teleportation array.

Just after completing the teleportation, Su Xiao discovered that the dark green on the map began to spread. Compared to scarlet and the distorted sun, the trend of the netherworld was not fierce, but the spreading speed was incredibly fast.

In the area where the Nether Fog is spreading at this time.

"Roar!

"

The former Black Nest creatures were running wildly to the surroundings at this time. After they rushed out of the Nether Fog, Nether Fog began to emerge on their bodies, causing the Nether Fog left along the way to spread at a very fast speed.

A Black Nest creature eroded to madness rushed into the gathering place of the Scavenger tribe. These Scavengers usually eat everything. Humans, Nightmare tribe, all kinds of fierce beasts are their food, but at this moment, after a Black Nest creature eroded by the netherworld rushed into this Scavenger gathering place, a burst of angry shouts came from inside, and then it became quiet.

It was quiet for a few seconds, and a Scavenger looked up and roared. Its eyes emitted eerie dark green pupil light, and Nether Fog was surging on its body.

It was only a dozen seconds, and this Scavenger gathering place, which occupied an area about the size of half a Yu Hui City, began to emerge with Nether Fog at each exit. Amidst the hoarse roars, Scavengers with Nether Fog permeating their bodies rushed out from each exit of this gathering place, making the netherworld spread faster.

What is truly terrifying is the spreading center of the Nether Fog, "Crying Black Nest," which is not far from the center of the curse, the Secret Island. Therefore, the netherworld quickly contacted the curse. There was no mutual erosion as imagined, but the curse was assimilated by the netherworld, which allowed the netherworld to spread to most of the curse area at a faster speed. The netherworld of this world officially became the Nether Curse.

The same as this side is the mechanical pollution assimilated by the scorching sun. A type of energy called distortion pollution began to spread rapidly.

Of course, whether it is the Nether Curse or distortion pollution, they are not qualified to change the characteristics of the "Nether Bone Ring" and "Sun Mask." These two big-daddy-level Original Sin items are still pure "Nether" and "Sun," but in order to facilitate spreading in this world, they temporarily assimilated the negative characteristic energy originally in this world.

Scarlet is relatively pure, but its spreading speed is getting faster and faster. Wherever it passes, the earth turns dark red, and the sky seems to be burning.

An even more outrageous scene appeared on the Secret Island. The big boss of this world · the Giant Curse Devourer, who had just broken through the giant gate of the mechanism palace, was painfully surging in the Nether Curse at this time. Painful faces appeared on its huge body. After issuing an unwilling roar, the Giant Curse Devourer was unable to continue surging forward.

This big boss, who used to feed on curses, was eroded to death by the Nether Curse just like that. It can be seen how terrifying the Nether Curse is. The combat avatar that can exempt conventional curses is even less likely to resist the Nether Curse.

At this time, in front of the teleportation array in the safe zone, Su Xiao put away the "Original Sin Book," took Fanny, Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny to the basement to take the elevator, and arrived at the shelter that had been prepared long ago, hundreds of meters underground.

The layers of sealing spells here were activated, completely closing this shelter. This is the main purpose of raising Seal Studies to Lv. 93, which is to hold on until the end of this competition amidst the subsequent spreading of scarlet, distortion pollution, and Nether Curse.

Sitting on the carpet on the ground, Su Xiao began to maintain the stability of these hundreds of thousands of layers of seals. Beside him, Fanny, who was hugging her knees with both arms, looked a bit dull. It's no wonder she was like this. Now the warning notifications in front of her have started to screen-scroll.

If you open the World Contact Platform, you will find that the situation is even more lively. Clicking on the contact list of the World Contact Platform, the avatar and name colors are normal, representing that they are still in this world. Dim colors represent giving up this round of competition and going to the teleportation transit station to wait. Gray-white represents death.

In the contact list, one avatar after another became dim. Nearly half of the participants chose to give up this round of competition. It's not that they experienced the power of scarlet and distortion pollution in such a short time, but that the Nether Curse spread too fast and had already spread to Yu Hui City. Coupled with the fact that all residents here left for the Lord Continent, the defense array boundary maintained by no one was eroded through in a short time.

Yu Hui City will cease to exist. The notarization based on this city naturally became a castle in the air. So what really made these participants willing to give up was the small safe areas that were about to disappear one by one.

Zelina (Apocalypse Paradise): "Bai Ye, is there teammate damage reduction for the scarlet and distortion pollution outside?"

Shui Ge (Death Paradise): "You can try bravely."

Goddess (Holy Light Paradise): "Why does everyone think that it must be the Night of Beheading that led to the current situation?"

Ying Qin (Death Paradise): "Very simple, because except for Moon Witch and the four brothers who are unconvinced among the rule-breakers, the others have withdrawn. You can understand it as us being implicated by the rule-breakers."

Lu Yingade (Holy Light Paradise): "The Priest obtained four 'Fragmented Origins' in this round, but decisively gave up and left the field. So everyone, I'm leaving first, you guys continue to hold on."

Soul Master (Apocalypse Paradise): "The safe area is about to disappear, everyone, see you in the next round."

Goddess (Holy Light Paradise): "Arriving at the Peerless-level, fighting a competition is so outrageous. In order not to die here, I also gave up."

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