Chapter 3978: Clever Plan

As the Lord Train moved away, the feeling of being roasted by the scorching sun gradually faded.

"Roar!!"

An angry roar came from afar. A large number of small meteorites with golden flames crashed down. The angry beast in the golden flames ran at full speed, but because it had just completed the transformation of its form, it could only watch the Lord Train drive away.

【You have completed Bounty 3·Breeding: Obtained Dark Hybrid Source and submitted it to Reincarnation Paradise.】

【Due to the multi-fold bounty + bounty correction of "Hunting List·Blood Pact," you will obtain a bounty with a total value of 7,500 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

【You obtained Space-Time Stone Fragment × 250 (this is an equivalent, can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time to obtain 2,500 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You obtained Treasure Box (this item is equivalent to the value of 5,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

……

【Treasure Box】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise.

Category: High-value treasure chest item.

Effect: After opening, you can obtain two of the following items (randomly drawn).

1. Primordial Core × 1–5.

2. Initial Source Quality × 1 copy.

3. Strength Source Quality (one standard unit).

4. Passive Scroll Treasure Chest·Highest Tier × 1.

5. Souvenir L (item with no actual value; after collecting 10 types of souvenirs, you can specify the opening item of the next Treasure Box by consuming these 10 souvenirs.)

Hint: Opening this treasure box is a low-probability item acquisition.

6. Souvenir H (item with no actual value; after collecting 10 types of souvenirs, you can specify the opening item of the next Treasure Box by consuming these 10 souvenirs.)

Hint: Opening this treasure box is a low-probability item acquisition.

Introduction: Secret treasures are all inside.

Value: After opening this treasure box, this item will appear in your Honor Store, and during the stage when the resource inventory of this treasure box is sufficient, this treasure box can be exchanged without limit.

Hint: The price of this item in the Honor Store is 5,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.

……

Seeing the attributes of 【Treasure Box】, Su Xiao suddenly felt a bit of a headache. This thing was a super upgraded version of 【Secret Treasure Box】. The memory of opening 【Secret Treasure Box】 before was too profound. Amu's "Absolute Defense" large shield, the Dawn Shield, was spliced together by him using the Dawn Fragments he opened.

Before participating in this World Contest, Su Xiao rarely saw 【Initial Source Quality】 and 【Primordial Core】. He saved for a long time and didn't save much. But this time, although these two types of returns were still rare, at least they could be seen occasionally. He estimated that 【Primordial Core】 was not only used for promotion to the Supreme Rank, but even after reaching the Supreme Rank, this would be a scarce and core material.

In this way, the 【Primordial Core Treasure Chest】 obtained before had a lot to say. This thing could open 1–10 "Primordial Cores." In the past, he certainly wouldn't perform this kind of operation. After all, he was a Hunter. The problem was, he entered this world through the temporary notarization of Apocalypse Paradise.

That is to say, this treasure chest was notarized by Apocalypse Paradise. Even if he operated with Caesar to fleece the sheep, it was fleecing someone else's sheep and didn't involve the notarization ruling of Reincarnation Paradise.

Su Xiao looked out the train window. In the distance was a pitch-black steel high wall. That high wall seemed to have no boundaries, standing all the way to the unknown place above. It was time to end this battle as soon as possible. If his guess was correct, this contest couldn't be won no matter how he turned the tide, but it was still possible to obtain a large amount of returns during the period.

He wanted to reach the Dark Ruins as soon as possible because he had a very good mission.

【War Mission·Supreme Battle.】

Issuing Camp: Apocalypse Paradise.

Difficulty Level: Adaptive.

Mission Tier (One): Obtain at least one "Broken Origin."

Mission Reward: None.

Mission Tier (Two): Obtain more than three "Broken Origins" and hold them until the end of the final stage.

Mission Reward: Ordinary Supply Box × 1.

Mission Tier (Three): Obtain more than five "Broken Origins" and hold them until the end of the final stage.

Mission Reward: Rare Supply Box × 3.

Mission Tier (Four): Obtain more than ten "Broken Origins" and hold them until the end of the final stage.

Mission Reward: Apocalypse Supply Box × 1.

Mission Tier (Five): Obtain twenty-six "Broken Origins" and hold them until the end of the final stage.

Mission Reward: Apocalypse Supply Box × 5, Shelter Treasure Chest × 1 (after opening, definitely obtain one highest-level shelter-type prop uniquely produced by Apocalypse Paradise), Apocalypse·Glory Badge (when worn, the cost of using the Apocalypse Paradise·Skill Upgrade Warehouse is reduced by 20%).

Hint: Detected that you are a Reincarnation Paradise·Hunter. You can sell this "Apocalypse·Glory Badge" to immediately obtain 5 million Soul Coins.

Mission Deadline: Before the end of this contest.

Mission Penalty: After completing Mission Tier (One), this mission has no penalty.

Failure Penalty: If Mission Tier (One) is not achieved before the end of this World Contest, all attributes -8%, and 20% of the returns of the subsequent three world progresses will be deducted.

……

Su Xiao already had 18 "Source Fragments." This opportunity certainly couldn't be missed. Plus, he was about to be promoted to Supreme Rank, so he was looking forward to the output of the "Apocalypse Supply Box."

The train drove for more than half an hour. After confirming that the darkness breeding couldn't catch up for a short time, Su Xiao got off the train. The train entered the different space, and the train key in his equipment bar became summonable.

Taking out 【Dawn Pass】, Su Xiao half-activated it. A pitch-black teleportation array appeared under his feet. At the center of this teleportation array was a Ξ brand.

"This is?"

Fanny looked puzzled. She felt that this teleportation array was not simple. Bahar on Amu's shoulder answered her doubt:

"This is the teleportation array summoned by the Dawn Pass. We are going to the Dawn Ruins."

"Eh?"

Fanny was stunned. She asked hesitantly: "Will there be problems if we don't comply with the notarization of the Tree of the Void?"

"Of course not."

Bahar's tone was so firm that Fanny had the feeling that this group of people was particularly experienced in this matter.

"Oh, don't worry, little girl. We haven't really complied with the Tree of the Void's notarization missions in the world contests we've fought in the past, and nothing happened."

Bahar tried to fool... cough~, convince Fanny.

"The Tree of the Void credibility will be deducted!"

"That's only if there is any."

Bahar muttered in a low voice. Fanny clearly didn't hear it and asked: "What?"

"Ah~, nothing, let it be deducted, then what."

"The consequences are very serious. I tell you, if the Tree of the Void credibility is not higher than 50, it's very dangerous!"

Fanny's tone was firm, and at the same time, she decided in her heart that although these guys were all ruthless people who didn't blink when slaughtering, they hadn't abandoned her, the healing-type, in so many dangerous situations before. Naturally, she couldn't watch this Hunter jump into a pit now.

"Not over 50."

Bahar looked at its boss, Su Xiao, and the smile on its face was a bit brilliant.

"You don't need to worry, little girl. That's dangerous for you. Anyway, are you going or not."

"Are we not trying to defeat the Dark Hybrid? Hey, wait, you... you!"

Fanny stomped her feet in anger and finally had to run to the teleportation array. Bahar said with a sharp tongue: "Oh? Not afraid of the Tree of the Void credibility being deducted anymore?"

"With one more person to share, it can be deducted less."

After Fanny finished speaking, she started muttering. The next second, the teleportation array was activated.

……

Dark Ruins, southeast side, on a stone-paved street.

The shops on both sides had the characteristics of the Paradise camp, combining different eras and different people's aesthetics. At the end of this road was a fountain. Continuing forward was an empty square. It was estimated that this place was a trading square.

Su Xiao stood on this street. He tried to check the positions of Amu, Bahar, and Beini, but it showed that he couldn't detect the positions of his followers. Being in the Dawn Ruins, all unreasonable situations were reasonable.

"Wang."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked lightly, meaning, Master, what should we do next.

Su Xiao took out 【Dawn Badge】. This was a necessity to activate the "Potential Transcendence Device," and this "Potential Transcendence Device" was one of the ultimate goals of his participation in this contest.

Trying to activate 【Dawn Badge】, a resonance fluctuation gradually spread. A moment later, he vaguely sensed that the nearest "Potential Transcendence Device" was located in the southwest. He took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and walked quickly in the direction of the resonance feedback.

Just as he walked to the fountain pool, an inexplicable sense of crisis struck. It was a danger warning given by "Master Induction." He flashed into a shop on the side, while Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang disappeared on the spot. "You can't see me," this divine skill, could be said to be a divine skill from the early stage to the very late stage.

After a brief silence, a figure walked from across the trading square. His clothes were tattered, and his aura was like a violator, but there was an essential difference. That feeling... dark and chaotic, and with an extremely pure sense of power. Su Xiao tried to detect with the Mysterious Eye.

【Comparing intelligence attributes of both sides... due to the environment, successfully detected 25.6% of the enemy's data.】

Name: Violator No. 105???

Health: 100%

？？？

Real Strength: 800+120 points.

Real Agility: 526 points.

Real Stamina: 128 points.

Intelligence: 53 points.

Charm: 298 points.

Skill 1, Strength Pollution (Passive, LV. EX): Due to the pollution of the "Aggregate," the strength attribute reaches the extreme and is additionally increased by 350 points.

Skill 2, Strength (Passive, Lv. 95): Strength-type attack intensity increased by 36.8%, and comes with "Crushing Destruction" effect.

Skill 3, Limited Life (Passive, Lv. EX): This unit can only exist within the Dawn Ruins. If it leaves the Dawn Ruins, it will die immediately, and its body will explode violently because it cannot bear the existing power.

Skill 4, Dawn Shelter (Passive, Lv. EX): This unit is located within the Dawn Ruins. When health drops to 1%, it will be granted "Indestructible Judgment." Within the subsequent 3 seconds, this unit will be exempted from death.

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Violator No. 105's strength was tricky, but with Su Xiao's combat power, he had the confidence to empty its health in one slash. After delaying for 4 seconds, he would kill it with the second slash.

The key was that now it wasn't clear whether this kind of wandering unconscious violator was rare. If a group came, that wouldn't be a joke. This kind was subject to "Strength Pollution." Heaven knows if there were other types of pollution in this Dawn Ruins.

Su Xiao gave Xiang Bubu a wink. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang quietly went to the commanding height, and all halo abilities were opened. Although perception couldn't be deployed here, the halo was a buff skill and wouldn't be shielded by the perception suppression effect. And this halo effect was developed by Xiang Bubu to be particularly unique, not distinguishing between friend and foe. That is to say, the moment the enemy entered the halo skill area, they would receive Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's buff, and at the same time, they would be discovered by Xiang Bubu.

Violator No. 105 wandered on the trading square. Su Xiao walked out of the abandoned shop and walked slowly toward Violator No. 105. Just for an instant, the originally wandering Violator No. 105 suddenly turned its head. Because the force of turning its head was too great, and the body strength was difficult to control, it snapped its own neck with a click.

After Su Xiao took a step, the next instant he had already arrived beside Violator No. 105 by relying on Dragon Shadow Flash, and the long blade in his hand slashed horizontally.

Clang.

After a neat and sharp slash, Violator No. 105's head flew up, and its health plummeted to 1%, but it didn't fall. Instead, its whole body muscles expanded, and in an instant, it turned into a five-meter-tall headless little giant, slapping Su Xiao with one hand.

Su Xiao jumped sideways slightly, and at the same time slashed upward, severing the giant arm that Violator No. 105 slapped down. After this giant arm left the body, it was thrown away due to the giant force of the slap, crashing onto the ring wall of the trading square behind. The terror of the power made the entire trading square tremble.

Su Xiao's brow frowned slightly. The force of this strike, even if he met it with the sharp edge of the long blade, he felt its heaviness. If he were hit head-on, this strike would definitely be enough to suffer.

Clang clang clang!

Three slash lights crossed, and Violator No. 105 was slashed into several pieces. Even so, it could still act. The severed limbs were waving chaotically, but after 3 seconds passed, these residual limbs suddenly stopped, and then, as if triggering some chain reaction, they exploded with bang bang bang.

【You have killed Violator No. 105???】

【You obtained 3,680 Hunter Coins.】

……

Seeing this number of Hunter Coins, Su Xiao was surprised. It was true that Violator No. 105 had super-limit powerful strength due to "Strength Pollution," but its actual combat power, he estimated, was only worth 200–300 Hunter Coins.

The "Old Hunter" title had been upgraded and became a full-potential·single-attribute title, that was correct. But what it improved wasn't the total value of the returns obtained from killing enemies. This was constant by the Tree of the Void and the four major Paradise camps. "Old Hunter" increased the extreme value of the obtainable returns.

So what exactly pulled an enemy with a danger estimation of 200 to 3,680? The answer was ready to come out: the environment. Su Xiao was now in Dawn Paradise, killing a violator.

And the most critical point was, if he obtained the entry qualification by defeating the Dark Hybrid in the previous round, then because he entered the final stage of the contest, the Tree of the Void would perform a corresponding notarization mechanism for Su Xiao.

If that were the case, he would have entered the "Dawn Ruins" with a completely controllable notarization mechanism. Conversely, he now entered the "Dawn Paradise" to kill a violator by personal means.

"Dawn Ruins" and "Dawn Paradise" were indeed the same place now, but in the killing judgment notarization, these were two completely different things.

Su Xiao didn't know how many such wandering violators with dead consciousness but living bodies were in the Dawn Ruins, but he could be sure of one point: when Reincarnation Paradise launched a large-scale attack on Dawn Paradise, Dawn Paradise, 99.99% wouldn't let its subordinate contractors enter the mission world to perform missions, or rather, it would forcibly teleport all contractors back.

That final battle must have been extremely tragic, but the final result was that Dawn Paradise went silent, not that it was broken or completely destroyed. Even the "Potential Transcendence Device," a secret treasure that couldn't be replicated and could raise body attribute extreme values to 900 points, wasn't obtained by Reincarnation Paradise, which already explained everything.

Judging by this, the number of wandering violators here must be quite large. Then for Su Xiao, this was a massive amount of Hunter Coins.

Su Xiao's "Abyss Shadow" title needed a massive amount of "Spreading Hotbeds" to upgrade its potential. With Su Xiao's invincible luck, he estimated that 500,000 Hunter Coins would be enough to complete the upgrade of "Abyss Shadow," which would be the blessing of the previous generation of Extermination Law practitioners. Ah, phew, this bad luck was inherited from the Extermination Law camp. If the previous generation of Extermination Law practitioners blessed him, he might be even unluckier.

Besides the upgrade of "Abyss Shadow," Hunter Coins had another function:

"Hunter Coin: This coin can be traded, but only between owners of the Old Hunter title and titles of the same type as Old Hunter, for trading and transfer."

This thing could be traded. Powerful Hunters, Battle Angels, Pioneers, Death Rangers, etc., all had this title. That is to say, in the later stage, it wouldn't be difficult to find a trading party. Su Xiao was already at the Absolute Rank peak, which was the late stage, making it easier to find.

Su Xiao suddenly felt that the harvest of Hunter Coins this time might become one of his main sources of income, bringing a great help for his promotion to Supreme Rank.

But the problem now was, there were indeed a large number of wandering violators here, but how should he kill them? In the case of not being able to kill instantly, with the huge noise caused by killing, attracting more and more violators was inevitable.

As for using the Sun Holy Sword, there was indeed one left in the storage space, but even if it attracted a large number of violators and then detonated, the number that could be killed was still limited. This made Su Xiao fall into deep thought.

A few seconds later, Su Xiao took out the communicator and tried to dial. A moment later, the communication was connected. He asked first:

"In the ruins outskirts?"

"What's the matter, my dear friend? I'll be there to meet you inside the ruins soon."

"Don't come yet."

Su Xiao's words made Caesar, who was preparing to activate a strange teleportation array, stop. This teleportation array was very wonderful... ah no, it should be very strange. The entire teleportation array was composed of rags, broken hair, residual bones, and even suspicious soup. At the center was a violator brand flickering with black light.

"My dear friend, how big is the business this time?"

Dark yellow pupil light lit up in Caesar's eyes, which could be said to be full of treacherousness.

"Give you one-tenth."

"No no no, I must have at least 70%. Caesar is always the hardest working."

"At most two-tenths."

"I think 60% is my bottom line..."

After the two bargained, it was decided that Caesar would get 30% of the subsequent returns, and Su Xiao would get 70%. Regarding the two's plan, four words could fully summarize it: drive the tiger to swallow the wolf.

After Su Xiao and Caesar confirmed each other's spatial coordinates, both sides began to deploy. Su Xiao looked around the trading square and felt that this place was quite good, the venue was large enough. It's just that there might be ghost-like violators wandering here.

"Xiang Bubu."

"Wang."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang activated the team storage space and took out various equipment from it. Xiao Bu, mechanical swarm, etc., were all taken out. He also temporarily launched a low-altitude satellite to ensure that the signal in the surrounding area was stable enough.

Half an hour later, the sky above the trading square flickered, and a honeycomb-like grid sky curtain shrouded this place, followed by the projection and camouflage stage. After everything was set up, the entire trading square was closed. From the outside, the trading square was empty.

Su Xiao took out 120 【Soul Essences】. This was enough to upgrade a level of Blade Master, but this was a necessary cost. He took out a precision instrument, placed it on the crystal array, put in 120 Soul Essences, and started it.

Waiting for nearly an hour, Su Xiao closed the high-temperature-to-scorching-red melting instrument. After opening it, he poured out the liquid "Pure Soul Solution." It was mixed with inert solution to prevent the soul power from drifting away without a carrier, but it also made this solution appear silver.

Su Xiao pondered for a while. Several types of sealing techniques were denied by him because the sealing depth wasn't enough. After the target died once, the sealing technique naturally lost its carrier. However, he wasn't good at "causality-type" sealing; that was another sealing system.

However, as a sealing master, Su Xiao soon found a clue. He needed this sealing technique to be tough enough to withstand fierce attacks. He didn't worry about this point. Now the six big-boss-level Original Sin items represented how sturdy his sealing technique was.

Since he couldn't lock causality, he would make this sealing technique have tracking ability. In this way, he wouldn't be afraid of the target dying. After dying, he could still track it immediately and continue to complete the attachment of the sealing technique.

To ensure nothing went wrong, Su Xiao chose "Soul Energy" as the carrier of this sealing technique. This was one of the very high-level sealing carriers.

After waiting for the soul solution to cool for a few minutes, he reached his hands into the container. Under his control, the soul solution attached to his hands like mercury. He sat cross-legged on the ground, held his hands virtually, and began to use the soul medium on his hands to construct the sealing technique.

With his current level of sealing studies, he could reach about 3,500 layers. Please don't misunderstand; it wasn't a total of 3,500 layers, but constructing 3,500 layers of sealing techniques per second. Strict teachers produce excellent students, not to mention the "careful teaching" of six strict teachers.

Ten minutes later, Su Xiao completed the weaving of the sealing technique. It wasn't that he could only weave 2.1 million layers of sealing techniques, but that the soul solution was used up.

Slitting his palm, Su Xiao used his own blood to construct a mark, and then used the sealing technique to wrap this blood mark in the center. After completing these, he held the sealing technique virtually with both hands and began to compress this technique.

Click, click~

The sound of glass breaking came between Su Xiao's hands. It wasn't the sound of the sealing technique, but the surrounding space being compressed until it cracked. When everything was completed, there was a palm-sized technique mark between his hands. This mark emitted white light. If one looked directly at it, their eyes would be stung by this white light.

Su Xiao gradually pulled away his virtually held hands and, after confirming that the sealing technique was fixed in this space, began to deploy a teleportation array with this place as the center. This time it wasn't teleporting outward, but a receiving end.

At the same time, in the ruins outskirts, in a dim hall, several people from Cain's team were hiding behind broken stone pillars at the back door of the hall. Captain Cain, member Water Brother, and a bottle-bottom-glasses healing-type, and a two-headed man.

This two-headed man had two bald heads, one of which was sleeping. It was worth mentioning that these were actually two participants, an older brother and a younger brother. Except for fighting, the younger brother would always be sleeping, with the older brother as the main one.

The sound of biting and swallowing came from the dim hall. The glasses nurse looked up and looked around. Even with the two-headed man's perception shielding ability, she felt a palpitation after seeing the Dark Hybrid.

"Captain, this situation is so strange. Are we lying down and winning?"

The glasses nurse spoke, her gaze always looking at the dark area on the inner side of the hall.

"Probably, count as it."

Cain's expression was a bit speechless. He searched for a whole morning and finally found his Dark Hybrid, but before he could do anything, his Dark Hybrid with the Steel Magic Heart characteristic had already been killed. It was torn alive by a beast that looked like a wild beast, over seven meters long, with gray hair all over its body, and the hair seemed to be burning with sun flames. Now it was eating it alive.

"Talide, you got it done over there?"

Cain looked at Magic Sickle·Talide on the side.

"Hmm."

The taciturn Talide hugged her arms and leaned against it, as if taking a nap with her eyes closed.

The glasses nurse on the side spoke: "This monster, what is it?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it's Bai Ye's Dark Hybrid."

Cain's words made the glasses nurse's expression a bit brilliant. She pushed her glasses with the lower side of her palm and asked in disbelief: "This monster is a Dark Hybrid?"

"Yes."

Cain looked at the Dark Hybrid in the dark area. Even though he knew that the Dark Hybrid couldn't find them, he still felt bursts of palpitation.

Just at this moment, the Dark Hybrid that was eating... no, calling it a Sun Hybrid was more appropriate. The Sun Hybrid seemed to sense something. It stopped eating, licked the black blood from its mouth, and sniffed. The vertical pupils in its eyes gradually turned into the scorching dark gold of the scorching sun.

Boom!

The Sun Hybrid's jumping caused the hall to shatter. It ran on four legs, already closer to a wild beast. Before long, it arrived near the familiar aura. It saw a little old man who looked particularly abominable, holding an earthen jar with blood smoke drifting. The aura of that blood smoke was the existence it had to kill.

The Sun Hybrid suddenly pounced and killed, slapping Caesar away with one claw. It didn't care at all about Caesar crashing into the black iron sky wall. The Sun Hybrid gripped the earthen jar with one claw and crushed it with a click. The blood smoke drifting inside made it even more angry.

The Sun Hybrid couldn't find the target. It looked at the annoying little old man it had slapped away just now. What puzzled it was that the little old man, who clearly looked weak in perception, was standing safely under the black iron sky wall, and then ran away in a puff of smoke. That running speed made even the Sun Hybrid hesitate because it felt that it definitely couldn't catch up with that annoying and wretched little old man.

However, the Sun Hybrid didn't notice that the earthen jar it had just crushed made its claw stained with a black mark. The next moment, an array appeared under the Sun Hybrid's feet.

The Sun Hybrid was very sharp, destroying the array under its feet with one claw while jumping out of the array's range. Then, in Caesar's smiling gaze in the distance, it jumped onto the real teleportation array he had prepared for a long time. To prevent the Sun Hybrid from still having spatial characteristics, Caesar's teleportation array wasn't spatial, but a very rare "gate characteristic."

The Sun Hybrid only felt a blur before its eyes. When the surrounding world recovered, it was already in a spacious square. A sealing technique that had been waiting for a long time didn't give it a chance to react at all, and it firmly adhered to its chest and abdomen, even adhering into the flesh and blood, and finally firmly fixed to the soul level. ===== CHAPTER 3979 =====