Chapter 3977: Clever Use

The moment the light screen disappeared, Rosa rushed out first to chase her own Dark Hybrid. Her four teammates behind her hesitated for a moment before having to bite the bullet and follow.

Boom!

Blood energy erupted violently. Su Xiao disappeared from where he was. When he appeared again, he was already beside the Platinum Apostle. He wasn't the type to swallow his anger after being plotted against.

【Blade Dao Blade·Extreme.】

Clang!

The blade was sharp and cold. The Platinum Apostle, who was temporarily in the form of a middle-aged uncle with a ponytail, had his head instantly severed. As his head flew up, he still had a smile on his face and said:

"This blade is also ridiculously sharp."

With a thud, the Platinum Apostle's head landed. Blood flames ignited at his severed neck and head, burning him completely into ashes.

Su Xiao naturally knew that this couldn't completely kill the Platinum Apostle, but making the opponent lose their carrier would make this guy go silent for a period of time, and that was enough.

Su Xiao's heart-palpitatingly fast slash made everyone present leave quickly. Just at this moment, the Priest sent a message:

【Bai Ye, I suggest we act separately.】

The smile on the Priest's face was kind, but Su Xiao knew that this old guy clearly didn't want to face his own Dark Hybrid with three characteristics.

Seeing Su Xiao's silent agreement, the Priest disappeared into the darkness in the distance before long. In this way, only Su Xiao's team remained on the scene.

Bahar flew over and landed on Su Xiao's shoulder. Its gaze swept over Artillery·Harlow, Tank·Giant Mountain, and Tyrant, who had dark skin and looked at everyone with unkind eyes. Especially after seeing Su Xiao, the flesh on Tyrant's face was trembling.

"Three, you have two choices now: pay 300,000 Soul Coins to withdraw safely, or complete the subsequent contest with us..."

Just as Bahar finished speaking, Artillery·Harlow interrupted: "No need for this nonsense. We three brothers won't withdraw from this melee."

Artillery·Harlow's meaning was clear: since the squad captain was strong and dangerous, and the healing-type Fanny stood on the captain's side, the three of them tacitly united.

"Who is your brother? Who do you think you are?"

Tyrant looked coldly at Artillery·Harlow. This made Harlow stunned. He had heard before that the immortal Tyrant was not good at strategy, but now it seemed that he simply had no brain.

Tyrant snorted coldly and walked toward the darkness in the distance in large strides. Harlow and Giant Mountain looked at each other and quietly followed Tyrant, preparing to let this iron fool explore the way. This dim ruin outskirts had a suppression on perception. Even for a perception-type, the perception range was no more than one kilometer in diameter, and for ordinary Absolute Rank levels, perception power was suppressed to less than ten meters.

Just as Artillery·Harlow took a step forward, he suddenly felt a heat on his hand. He looked at his hand in confusion. Scorching blood had already sprayed onto his hand.

"Hmm?"

Artillery·Harlow was very confused. He didn't even feel a sense of crisis, as if everything was as usual. Giant Mountain beside him saw this scene and his eyes widened in anger.

"Harlow, you!"

Giant Mountain shouted angrily, then choked. Because he also couldn't sense where the danger was coming from. In his perception, there were no enemies around.

A scene that made one's spine chill appeared. Artillery·Harlow's throat was slowly cut open by an invisible sharp blade. Artillery·Harlow himself, however, had a normal expression. He was even still using a wet towel to wipe his blood-stained hand, as if it were just dirty, not blood symbolizing danger and death.

A large amount of blood sprayed. Artillery·Harlow turned his head to look at Giant Mountain and asked: "Let's go, what are you stunned for?"

"You you you!"

Giant Mountain had never seen such a bizarre scene. After all, he was a tank-type who grew up in an adventure group and had experienced many strong enemies and big scenes, but he had limited contact with this kind of high-level weirdness.

An invisible short blade sliced open Artillery·Harlow's chest, alive and kicking, took out his heart, and then placed his still-beating heart in his hand.

"Hmm? What is this? Looks familiar. Giant Mountain, did you hand this to me?"

Artillery·Harlow held his own heart with one hand, completely ignoring his bleeding throat, and looked at Giant Mountain.

Giant Mountain took several big steps back, swallowed his saliva, and asked: "Captain, what is this?"

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, but he roughly guessed what that thing was. This was nine times out of ten the Dark Hybrid corresponding to the Platinum Apostle, with the characteristic "Causality·Non-existent Object."

He didn't attack rashly. As far as he knew, the Platinum Apostle's weirdness was half from his own ability system and half from the "Forbidden Mark·Destiny."

Originally, the Dawn Paradise had sealed the "Forbidden Mark." Just from the fact that it needed the Paradise camp to seal it, one could intuitively feel how tricky the "Forbidden Mark" was. Fortunately, this thing had already shattered into five pieces. Every time it found a host, it wasn't particularly powerful initially, but the more it grew, the more powerful its abilities became.

Su Xiao had had plenty of contact with this kind of weird ability. He estimated that this Dark Hybrid might be able to ignore 99.99% of types of attacks, and only one specific type of attack could hurt it. Conversely, when facing this kind of attack, it would be extremely fragile and might die in one or two hits.

Pop!

Su Xiao's crystalline right arm exploded, which made Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Bahar beside him all enter a state of alert.

Su Xiao raised his crystalline right arm, which was only half left. He could realize that he had been attacked, but this feeling of being attacked and the fact were being swallowed by an unknown, huge, invisible object.

He couldn't see where this huge invisible object was and could only vaguely sense the opponent's direction. Since the opponent liked to swallow things, he would satisfy the opponent. The "Original Sin Book" appeared in his hand and was thrown toward the invisible object.

The swallowing suction force, which couldn't be felt but existed in reality, suddenly disappeared from the front. The invisible object fled. Facts proved that this level of weirdness wasn't enough to shake Su Xiao's causality. Extermination Law luck + Original Sin causality, let alone this level of causality-type weirdness, even stronger ones wouldn't want to get close to him.

Moreover, the five "Forbidden Mark" fragments fused together were the truly terrifying things. The Doll Mark, Devouring Mark, Predestined Mark, Soul Mark, and Spirit Mark—the abilities of these five marks matched each other. The person who had the qualification to collect these five marks and had the fusion method had already been killed by Su Xiao.

Just as the invisible object retreated, Artillery·Harlow fell to the ground, his pale dead face looking as if he had been dead for a long time. Seeing this scene, Giant Mountain's cheeks twitched fiercely.

"300,000 Soul Coins, right? Deal."

Giant Mountain had already determined that this wasn't the high-end game he had thought it was just now; this was a purgatory field. Without hard strength, one was simply here to die.

"Cough!"

Bahar cleared its throat. It was time for it to perform. It said: "300,000 was the price we offered. Now that you've come to us voluntarily, it has to be 500,000..."

【Hint: You obtained a 500,000-limit Soul Coin savings card (already notarized by the Tree of the Void).】

This prompt payment made Bahar want to slap itself. It had been used to the long-term flow and forgot that there would be no more participants entering the field. Then, it thought that this was, after all, a contractor who had climbed to the Absolute Rank. Even if the environment of Apocalypse Paradise was gentle and it was easier to reach this step, if it slaughtered too hard, this tank-type wouldn't lack the courage to fight to the death.

After a set of familiar procedures, Giant Mountain was kicked out of the squad in a daze, and then received a hint that he would withdraw in 30 minutes.

"Phew, this ghost place, I am not even for a second..."

A slight sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh came. Giant Mountain only felt a coolness in his chest. Looking down, a black blade rising with black mist had pierced from his back to his chest. He could even clearly see the tip of the blade dripping blood.

With one slash, Giant Mountain's health plummeted by 85%, which made his eyes gradually widen. But the next moment, a hand pinched his neck from behind and dragged him backward.

Clang!

A long blade slashed from in front of Giant Mountain. This time Giant Mountain judged that it was the Hunter who was in front of him just now. Facing him who was being ambushed, he actually wanted to kill him on the spot!

"Wait..."

Giant Mountain just shouted the word "wait" when the space-penetrating Checking Zhan Long Shan had already slashed across his throat without any obstruction. Giant Mountain was of course not stupid; he knew this was a divine skill of space penetration. While envious in his heart, he also knew this was a rescue after collecting money. He immediately cooperated, and golden scales attached to his back.

Everything happened in a flash. After the long blade penetrated Giant Mountain, it slashed toward a figure behind him who was similar in height to Su Xiao, composed of black mist, shirtless, with a long leather coat hem on the lower body, tied with a scabbard strap at the waist, and dark blue eyes.

Su Xiao slashed, usually toward the enemy's throat. This slash was of course the same. Checking Zhan Long Shan was sharp enough to tear space, slashing onto the Dark Hybrid's throat. It entered the flesh without any obstruction, but the next moment, Checking Zhan Long Shan stopped abruptly.

Such a fierce slash stopped abruptly, causing the blade power to bring up a roaring wind pressure, and the Dark Hybrid took the opportunity to drag Giant Mountain's neck and fly toward the staggered space behind.

As the Dark Hybrid landed in the distance, Giant Mountain's residual body, cut into pieces by spatial cracks, fell one after another. The Dark Hybrid stood on the spot, looking at Su Xiao. It raised the black blade with one hand, and with the other hand, the index finger drifting with black mist flicked the blade with a "dang" sound.

Hum!

The space around the darkness breeding twisted into a vortex shape, swallowing it.

Blood flowed down Su Xiao's neck. He was now very sure that this was the Dark Hybrid corresponding to him, Extreme Blade/Space Walking/Backlash.

The "Backlash" characteristic was very tricky. Any damage caused to the Dark Hybrid by anyone fighting it would be fed back to the perpetrator. For example, the slash to the throat Su Xiao just made was completely fed back to himself.

The key was, looking at the form of this thing, it was highly likely that severing its head wouldn't kill it.

Su Xiao didn't believe this thing was unsolvable. He looked around. The teleportation platform behind him just now had disappeared, meaning the Dark Hybrid had just taken a large area of space around here and performed spatial movement. What the hell "Space Walking" characteristic? Originally thought it was walking in space, now it seemed it was walking with a large area of space together.

He took out a "Color Stone." This thing was an alchemical creation. After smashing it on the ground, it would infect the surrounding space, using it as a coordinate.

Pop~

An orange "Color Stone" smashed on the ground, forming an orange ink-like dyeing area and fixing it.

Su Xiao stepped forward. Initially, he started to pull away from the dyeing area, but after walking a few steps, he found that the dyeing area behind started to move with him. This made him stop. Undoubtedly, this large area of space was moving together because of his movement, but the center wasn't him.

Being targeted by his own Dark Hybrid made Su Xiao think of one point: killing the Dark Hybrid had benefits, so would killing him also have benefits for the Dark Hybrid? For this Dark Hybrid created by the Tree of the Void, the most precious thing was undoubtedly freedom.

Thinking from another perspective, for a newly born Dark Hybrid, this place was equivalent to the first trial after birth. Only by completing this trial could it continue to survive and see the vast world outside.

Determining this, Su Xiao gave Bahar a wink, letting Bahar take Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Beini, and Fanny into the different space. He wasn't worried about the Dark Hybrid chasing into the different space. The different space opened by Bahar was more like a shelter and wasn't easy to attack, plus the Dark Hybrid's target was Su Xiao.

After only Su Xiao remained, he began to ponder the weaknesses of this thing. Logically speaking, even in the dangerous Paradise Contest, the Tree of the Void shouldn't create such an unsolvable thing. And, risk and return are proportional. The stronger the Dark Hybrid mapped by oneself, the richer the return after killing it.

The most critical thing now was to find the Dark Hybrid's weakness. The stupidest method was to try various attacks. Su Xiao of course wouldn't do this. He had a type of Extermination Law ability:

"Adaptation Power, Lv. EX (Passive)

Skill Effect: According to enemy characteristics, increase 70–100 points of non-reducible real resistance!

Hint: "Real resistance" has absolute priority, and the enemy cannot reduce this resistance by any means."

Su Xiao was just attacked by backlash. Normally, it should have increased "physical body resistance," but now it increased 95 points of real dark resistance, representing that all the ability sources of the Dark Hybrid came from darkness. No matter how weird, powerful, or unsolvable, they were all derived from darkness.

A flashbang used at the low level appeared in Su Xiao's hand. After pulling the pin, he threw it out.

Bang!

Strong light appeared, and the surrounding space fluctuated quietly. This let Su Xiao know what to do next. Strong light was effective against the Dark Hybrid, but the strong light produced by the flashbang wasn't enough.

One of the top alchemical creations of the Second Era alchemical civilization, "Mysterious Eye," appeared in Su Xiao's hand. The strongest point of this alchemical creation was that it could be developed by the user according to their own needs.

Now he had developed three functions: 1. Detect enemy data (after entering Dawn Paradise, this function was temporarily suppressed by notarization), 2. Lock-picking tool, 3. Flashbang.

It could only be said that if the old alchemist who created the Mysterious Eye knew that the Mysterious Eye had been developed like this, he would definitely pick up the handy tool at hand, hit Su Xiao with it, and curse, you shame of mechanical alchemists!

How much the potion alchemist appreciated Su Xiao, the mechanical alchemist wanted to clean up the portal that much. This was Su Xiao's alchemy.

However, the flashbang function of the Mysterious Eye, which had always been useless, could come in handy at this time.

Activating the Mysterious Eye in his hand, this precisely structured mechanical eye rotated on its own like a super-multi-layered Rubik's cube, and finally used the mysterious inscriptions on it to form a light character in the "Abyss Language."

Su Xiao threw out the Mysterious Eye.

Bang!!

Strong light appeared, illuminating the surrounding area of several thousand meters. One had to know that after reaching a deal with the "Hunting Church," he had obtained the lost core of the "Mysterious Eye," and the complete Mysterious Eye had its various characteristics increased by more than a hundred times.

Range wasn't the point; the key was intensity. This flashbang made the outskirts of this dark ruin reversely breed "pseudo-light elements."

A scream came from a hundred meters away. It was the Dark Hybrid in a state of spatial concealment forced to appear. Its whole body was rising with white mist, and its body was trembling from being burned.

"Roar!"

The Dark Hybrid was angry, and the roar caused layers of black air waves to spread.

With a whoosh of spatial teleportation, the Dark Hybrid attacked Su Xiao, and they slashed at each other.

Clang!

The blades clashed. Very good, the "Extreme Blade" characteristic allowed the Dark Hybrid to inherit Su Xiao's slashing power and slashing force, but the combat technique of the Blade Master couldn't be used just because it was inherited.

Clang clang clang!

Su Xiao slashed three times in a row.

【Blade Dao Blade·Time.】

Dong~

Time's fluctuation spread, and everything around slowed down. The Dark Hybrid immediately blocked with its blade.

There was another crisp "clang" sound, as Su Xiao stepped on the Dark Hybrid's horizontal blade and took the opportunity to backflip and jump, staying in mid-air.

【Blade Dao Blade·Flow.】

In mid-air, elegant wind marks were slashed out. They looked light and thin, but had terrifying cutting power.

Clang!

The black blade was lifted by the wind marks, and on the opposite side, Su Xiao was still in mid-air, not having fallen yet.

【Blade Dao Blade·Swift.】

Su Xiao turned into a blur, and in just an instant, he charged to the front of the Dark Hybrid.

Clang~

A slash mark appeared on the Dark Hybrid's chest. After completing this strike, Su Xiao jumped back a few meters, casually slashed out a deep blue slash, and with a "clang," the black blade was forced to meet the slash. The slashing force forced the Dark Hybrid that was chasing to stop.

Su Xiao felt his chest; there was no slash backlash. He looked at the Dark Hybrid. Because of the flashbang explosion just now, a kind of white smoke appeared on the Dark Hybrid's body, slowly drifting away.

4, 5.

Counting to the 5th second, he found that the white smoke on the Dark Hybrid's body disappeared. In other words, every time it suffered a strong attack with light characteristics, the Dark Hybrid had at least 5 seconds where it couldn't backlash the damage it suffered to the attacker.

The Dark Hybrid's throat made a low growl, and the staggered sharp teeth in its mouth were revealed, representing that it was transforming into a beast. But the next second, the Mysterious Eye flew in front of it, and it used one of its claws to block it.

Bang!

Clang clang.

The blade was sharp, and the Dark Hybrid's two claws were severed, forcing it to kneel on one knee, its sharp teeth biting and clicking. But the next second, even with the Dark Hybrid's ferocity, its dark blue pupils quickly constricted. A strong wind pressure came to its face, and Su Xiao kicked it straight.

Dong!!!

The space within a radius of tens of kilometers around trembled, as if it had been kicked hard by a ten-thousand-meter giant standing invisibly between heaven and earth.

This time the Dark Hybrid didn't suffer a flash attack; it itself turned into light. Su Xiao's straight kick could only be said to be quite inhuman. The entire close-combat master had 99% of its bonuses poured into this straight kick.

Plus other various passive bonuses, this straight kick reached the power of a top-tier ultimate move at the Absolute Rank. No, if it triggered "Source·Star Power," the power would increase fivefold overall.

Boom!!!

A loud noise came, and the Dark Hybrid hit a pitch-black steel giant gate. This was none other than the Dawn Gate. With this kick just now, it must have flown at least fifty or sixty kilometers away.

Before the Dark Hybrid could get up, a spatial shock came. The Extermination Law teleportation array appeared near it, followed by a blood-red light breaking through the air.

【Blood Smoke Cannon.】

With a loud boom, the Dark Hybrid tilted its head to dodge this strike. It threw away the black blade in its hand, choosing the latter between technique and angry beast.

"Roar!!"

A strong dark roar impact spread with the Dark Hybrid as the center. It began to transform from its original humanoid form into a half-human, half-beast form. Because of the beastification of its body, one of its front claws patted the ground, its sharp claws grew wildly, saliva dripped from the corners of its mouth, and its eyes turned into scarlet vertical pupils.

Being stared at by the Dark Hybrid with scarlet eyes, Su Xiao felt a sense of unease in his heart. He had to finish the battle quickly. This thing was getting more and more wrong.

【Blade Dao Blade·Green Ghost.】

A cyan-blue blade light slashed out. Green Ghost's speed was fast, but the next second, the Dark Hybrid slapped the Green Ghost to pieces with one claw. The angry beast itself was stunned for a moment, looking at its own claws in confusion.

Hum~

The Mysterious Eye was thrown over. The Dark Hybrid, which was deliberately showing a flaw, gradually had a cruel arc on its mouth, and its eyes became even more scarlet.

Suddenly, the Dark Hybrid disappeared from where it was, not hiding into space, but truly disappearing. Almost at the same time, Su Xiao's eyes turned scarlet. The long blade in his hand flipped, and the long blade pressed against his side neck, about to slash off his own head.

As a Blade Master, Su Xiao would of course not be mentally controlled. This move of the Dark Hybrid was to cover Su Xiao's body surface with dark backlash power. Logically speaking, its move was an invasive type, a dual control from soul to flesh, but after attempting to invade, it decisively gave up. A Lv. 95 Blade Master, 1,500 points of soul strength—invading the flesh and soul of such an existence was simply wishful thinking.

Just as the blade pressed against Su Xiao's side neck and was about to cut the flesh, the "Mysterious Eye" thrown just now actually flew back while spinning. That's right, this was the "Spinning Flashbang" that Su Xiao had developed for a long time and had always been useless. Originally, he thought this move wouldn't have any effect, but at this moment, it had a miraculous effect.

A bit of confusion appeared in the Dark Hybrid's eyes. With its intelligence, it didn't understand at all why there was such a move, but it didn't need it to understand; it just had to be beaten.

Bang!!

Strong light appeared, and the Dark Hybrid screamed, forced to leave Su Xiao's body surface, stumbling and falling in front of Su Xiao, about to flee in the strong light.

【Blade Dao Blade·Extreme.】

The long blade slashed a black mark in space and also slashed across the Dark Hybrid's throat, which made its head fly up while its body also paused.

With a "pop" sound, the Dark Hybrid's body turned into black flesh fragments and exploded. Almost at the same time, Su Xiao received a hint.

【You have killed Dark Hybrid·First Stage (this unit has a total of seven stages).】

【You obtained "Dark Hybrid Source." This item can be submitted to Reincarnation Paradise to complete "Bounty 3·Breeding."】

【You obtained Source Fragment × 1.】

【Because you did not completely kill the Dark Hybrid corresponding to yourself, you are temporarily unable to obtain the Dawn Ruins "Entry Key."】

【Detected that your Dark Hybrid killing difficulty is extremely high. After successfully killing this Dark Hybrid, you will obtain the following supplies.】

1. Initial Source Quality × 2 copies (this is required for promotion to Supreme Rank, highly rare material).

2. World Key × 10.

3. Eternal-level Nourishing Equipment Treasure Chest (after selecting the type of nourishing equipment, opening this chest will definitely obtain one piece of Eternal-level full-score nourishing equipment).

4. Overlord Source Quality·Unique (this is supreme source quality, currently located in the Tree of the Void inventory).

……

This return was very tempting, but Su Xiao looked at the Dark Hybrid that was starting to regroup. A trace of golden sun flame appeared on the Dark Hybrid's residual body. Seeing this thing, Su Xiao turned and left.

He had previously thought that the three characteristics of the Dark Hybrid—Extreme Blade, Space Walking, and Backlash—the backlash was backlash damage. Now it seemed that wasn't the case. This backlash represented the backlash of the big-boss-level Original Sin items he had sealed.

Su Xiao had sealed six big-boss-level Original Sin items, and because of this, the Dark Hybrid had seven stages. The first stage was the initial stage, and the subsequent six stages each belonged to the characteristic of one big-boss-level Original Sin item. What was coming now was the characteristic derived from the "Sun Mask."

He summoned the Lord Train, let Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, Beini, etc., all board the Lord Train, and the train started. As for killing this Dark Hybrid, please don't have such a fantasy.

And as for how to enter the Dawn Ruins, Su Xiao didn't necessarily have to have a key. He had obtained an item in the Wind Sea Continent before, and this item was named 【Dawn Pass】.

【Dawn Pass】

Category: Pass.

Usage Effect: After using this item, you can enter Dawn Paradise (Dark Ruins state).

Introduction: Go find the treasure located in the darkness, or be buried in that endless darkness.

……

Regarding what to do with this ridiculously strong Dark Hybrid left behind after leaving this place, leave it to other participants. If there are good things, one must know how to share. The killing reward of this Dark Hybrid is so rich, how can one swallow it alone? It must be shared. ===== CHAPTER 3978 =====