Chapter 3980: Angry Beast

Dawn Paradise interior, Second Zone, in front of the main entrance of the Attribute Strengthening Hall.

"We're here. The last "Potential Transcendence Device" that can still be used is here. By the way, this has already become my home. As a polite Hunter, I believe you won't mess with things in someone else's home."

Dean walked into the Attribute Strengthening Hall, but after walking a few steps, he found that the man behind him hadn't followed.

"Why, afraid I'll set a trap? This isn't the style of you Hunters."

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out a "Scarlet Card" with an extra scarlet color. Dean, who originally had a smile on his face, suddenly stiffened.

"This... what is this? How could I..."

Dean's body suddenly stiffened. Behind him, a huge phantom could be vaguely seen. Threads hung down from the phantom's ten fingers, connecting to Dean.

Sure enough, Su Xiao didn't sense wrong. Dean was a sub-body controlled by the "Doll Mark," one of the five fragments of the Forbidden Mark, that is... Gray Gentleman's doll.

Logically speaking, Gray Gentleman had already died, and Dean should have died along with Gray Gentleman like other dolls. The key point was that Gray Gentleman was one of the hopes for the revival of Dawn Paradise. With Gray Gentleman's permission level in Dawn Paradise at that time, sending a doll into the Dawn Ruins really wasn't a difficult matter.

Dean wasn't a violator from the previous era at all. He was a violator of the current era. He was sent into the Dawn Ruins, and the memory he was instilled with was that he had been a staff member of Dawn Paradise in the previous era, mainly responsible for the daily maintenance of Dawn Paradise's basic infrastructure.

Because of the violator brand of the same origin, the wandering violators in this place naturally wouldn't attack Dean, which also led to him becoming one of the very few living people in the Dawn Ruins.

Gray Gentleman was indeed dead, but Dawn Paradise was a sealing area for the "Forbidden Mark," which led to the death of the "Doll Mark" spreading from the main body being unable to spread to Dean here in Dawn Paradise.

This was Gray Gentleman's trump card for saving his life. After his main body was killed, if Su Xiao opened his treasure chest, it would be equivalent to releasing the "Doll Mark" from the Scarlet Card. Plus Gray Gentleman wasn't completely dead, the "Doll Mark" would default to inheriting to Dean.

Plus Dawn Paradise was the highest-tier holder of the "Doll Mark," so this mark would naturally be teleported into Dawn Paradise. The next second after Dean inherited the Doll Mark, Gray Gentleman's consciousness could instantly seize the nest by relying on the environment of Dawn Paradise and the absolute lower-position suppression of the dolls under his command, thereby realizing this seemingly outrageous but actually reasonable rebirth.

But Gray Gentleman never expected that Su Xiao had suffered "Shampoo Attack," "Massive New Socks Attack," etc., when opening Scarlet Cards at low levels. Su Xiao was already at the Absolute Rank, and the shampoos he opened at the first rank hadn't been used up yet.

Su Xiao didn't open this Scarlet Card, and all plans were stuck on the spot. This also led to Dean, as a doll, having completely forgotten his doll master, and even mistakenly believing that he was an ordinary staff member who was lucky enough to survive.

"My head hurts, I seem to have... seen you before."

Dean looked at Su Xiao in confusion. Suddenly, he felt his neck was a bit cold. He reached out to touch it, and a blood line stained his finger. He was even more confused: "Why..."

His head landed. Dean's headless corpse turned and ran, but 3 seconds later, he fell to the ground with a thud.

Su Xiao held the "Scarlet Card" that emitted a slightly scarlet light, gradually returning to its usual appearance. Seeing this, he put away this "Scarlet Card." The subsequent mission was added by one, using this "Scarlet Card" as a sensing device to sense if there were other dolls of Gray Gentleman in the Dawn Ruins.

But for some reason, Su Xiao always had the feeling that all this was just the beginning. He always had a doubt: was Gray Gentleman, who was a puppeteer, really dead?

He had a lot of confidence in whether he had killed Gray Gentleman in the past. The problem was, after fighting with holders of other Forbidden Marks, it was completely different from his confrontation with Gray Gentleman in the past. That feeling was like... Gray Gentleman himself was the "Doll Mark." Unless this mark was destroyed, the most extreme killing was sealing him in a Scarlet Card.

This wasn't an exaggeration. In the past, the old schemer trio—Priest, Su Xiao, Gray Gentleman—which one didn't have a unique skill? Priest's Initial Death, Su Xiao was the Shadow of Extermination Law, so Gray Gentleman merging with the "Doll Mark" and becoming one, what was unreasonable about that?

Let's not care whether Gray Gentleman completely merged with the Doll Mark and became one or not. Both cases let him stay in the Scarlet Card. If Su Xiao really climbed to the strongest, then even if Gray Gentleman had a chance to break the seal, what would greet him would only be a more thorough destruction.

Su Xiao took out the "Original Sin Book" and released the Evil Heart on the ninth page.

"You!!"

The Evil Heart's expression was both angry and twisted, but sensing Su Xiao's "kind" gaze, it could only hold it back. Ignoring the Evil Heart, he sealed the "Scarlet Card·Gray Gentleman" on the ninth page of the "Original Sin Book." Su Xiao hadn't forgotten how this guy had plotted against him before.

After doing these, Su Xiao came to Dean's headless corpse.

Click click click~

The crystal layer attached to Su Xiao's right hand, but this time the Aoge crystal presented a nether dark green.

Seeing this scene, the Evil Heart's expression twitched violently. It considered itself very evil, but witnessing this act of capturing a soul with bare hands, it couldn't help but feel terrified.

Several Soul Shadow Threads pierced into Dean's soul body. Su Xiao closed his eyes to investigate the soul memories. A moment later, he took out a Soul Crystal Core, crushed it, and while the soul energy was drifting away, used this soul energy to manifest the soul memory he had just seen.

It was a first-person perspective, a scene of dismantling and maintaining the "Potential Transcendence Device." Su Xiao looked at Xiang Bubu Wang.

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang's meaning was very clear; it could understand it, but it would need some time to digest how this "Potential Transcendence Device" was activated, as well as the supply of space-time power, and so on.

To the side, seeing that Su Xiao wasn't paying attention to it, the Evil Heart quietly retreated. After backing away a certain distance, it sprinted with its tiny legs. Seeming to feel that wasn't fast enough, it began to run on all fours, using both hands and feet.

Su Xiao naturally knew the Evil Heart had slipped away. He didn't care and was certain the other party would return. This was the Dawn Ruins; he had brought the items here after completing the notarization. If it wanted to leave, it should honestly wait for the battle for supremacy to end and then leave with Su Xiao; otherwise, it could just stay trapped here.

Once Xiang Bubu Wang figured out the content of the soul memory, Su Xiao took Xiang Bubu and walked into the Attribute Enhancement Hall. Compared to the Attribute Enhancement Hall in Reincarnation Paradise, this one was a bit smaller, and the appearance of the attribute enhancement chambers was also different from those in Reincarnation Paradise.

Arriving in front of the "Potential Transcendence Device" shown in the soul memory, Su Xiao looked up at this massive device. The device was set on a black iron platform several meters high. Walking up the steps, the main door of the device was tightly closed, and beneath it, cables disappeared into the iron-black base at the bottom.

Su Xiao took out the 【Dawn Badge】, and the "Potential Transcendence Device" in front reacted.

Hum~

A black light emerged on the Potential Transcendence Device. The main cabin door gradually became transparent like glass. Because it had lost the prompt notarization, Void language was displayed on the device's cabin door.

"Not authorized (Void language)"

Su Xiao slotted the 【Dawn Badge】 into the groove on the right side of the cabin door. With a hiss, steam surged from the bottom edge of the entire Potential Transcendence Device, and the Void language on the cabin door changed.

"Insufficient space-time power, cannot complete this activation."

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang barked. Having opened the rear cover of the device, it pressed the manual activation key, which caused a tray to extend from the bottom of the Potential Transcendence Device.

Seeing this, Su Xiao took out the 2,000 "Space-Time Stone Fragments" he had and placed them into the large tray. Xiang Bubu Wang pressed the start key again, the tray retracted, the Potential Transcendence Device roared for a while, and the text on the cabin door changed.

"Activation energy has reached 48.8%."

Su Xiao did have the remaining space-time power, but it was stored within his brand. He tried pressing one hand against the cabin door, and a prompt appeared.

【Yes/No to supply space-time power to this device? This action requires an expenditure of 21,000 ounces of space-time power. The activation consumption of other related linked devices, as well as related notarization fees, the replenishment of rare consumables for this device, etc., resulting in space-time power consumption, will be covered by Reincarnation Paradise for you at 99.99%, totaling 18.6 ounces.】

Choosing yes, Su Xiao felt a large amount of space-time power surge from his Reincarnation Brand, entering the core of the device in front of him.

Hiss~

Amidst the spraying steam, the cabin door of the Potential Transcendence Device opened. After a series of green light beams scanned his body inside, a fixed recliner rose from the bottom. He tried lying on it, all the locking mechanisms locked tight, and then the device stopped.

Su Xiao could only move his eyeballs now. He looked left and right, his eye corners twitching slightly, and said:

"Xiang Bubu."

Hearing Su Xiao's tone and knowing that being naughty again would result in a slipper, Xiang Bubu Wang immediately activated the device. Watching the cabin door close, Xiang Bubu Wang released various defensive combat robots to surround the Potential Transcendence Device, and then it focused intently on observing the various data changes of the Potential Transcendence Device to avoid any accidents.

As for Su Xiao inside the Potential Transcendence Device, the moment the device started, to put it in high-EQ terms, he felt as if he saw the reincarnation of all things in the world; to put it in low-EQ terms, he almost died instantly. A surging power rushed into his body, rampaging around, making him feel that his body could shatter at any moment. If not for his 800-point real stamina attribute, he absolutely would not have been able to withstand such an upgrade.

The world seemed to gradually drift away. Su Xiao could only hear his own heartbeat, and he felt that with every heartbeat, his blood rushed to all parts of his body, and a unique energy within the blood was absorbed by every part of his body.

Su Xiao suddenly opened his eyes. He was currently in a light green life solution. Because he woke up, the Potential Transcendence Device began to drain the life solution. When he stepped on the bottom of the chamber again, he nearly fell to one knee. He supported himself against the chamber wall with one hand to steady his figure.

The strength in his whole body seemed to have been drained, but with his heartbeat, the power temporarily suppressed in his heart erupted. Beyond that, he also felt a wonderful change in his life force, but this change still needed an opportunity to be activated; it required his life essence... or rather, his tier to receive an upgrade.

The gradually filling power in his body allowed Su Xiao to walk out of the Potential Transcendence Device. He pressed one hand to his chest, feeling himself. This sense of power gave him the illusion that he could fight even against the Supreme.

That's right, Su Xiao was very sure this was an illusion. Even the weakest Supreme could not be defeated by the strongest Absolute. The accumulation from the First Tier to the top of the Absolute was actually all to lay the foundation for the Supreme level.

Su Xiao checked his own data. Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes had all reached 900 points. Not only that, the originally light-gold real attribute font had all turned into a deep dark gold.

He had a very strong feeling that 900 points was the limit an Absolute could reach. Before breaking through to the Supreme, even increasing it by 1 point would lead to quite terrible results, either deformity or death.

Walking out of the Attribute Enhancement Hall, a roar came from afar. Ghost-green Nether Flames shot into the sky, and all the wandering rule-breakers stained by these Nether Flames began to be assimilated and devoured by the Nether.

"Xiang Bubu, which round is it?"

As soon as Su Xiao finished speaking, Xiang Bubu Wang jumped down from the building.

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang said the sixth round, which meant that this Wrath Beast was about to reveal its final form.

Boom!!

The Nether Flames spread in layers, and the Nether Wrath Beast fell down with a thud. Don't think it was weak; Su Xiao had stayed in the Attribute Enhancement Hall for 26 hours. Being able to hold on until now against such intense siege was already very terrifying.

Dark red soul power shot into the sky. Seeing this color, Su Xiao knew that the characteristics representing the "Soul Crown" had arrived. Sure enough, a giant crown phantom appeared in the sky. The just-deceased Nether Wrath Beast reassembled. Its body length reached the kilometer level, its entire body was dark red, and it had over a dozen crowded beast heads. All the beast heads were eyeless, the fangs in their mouths appeared translucent blue, and the drool at the corners of their mouths was dark blue.

"Roar!!"

Powerful soul fluctuations spread. The body of the Soul Wrath Beast deformed, turning into a kilometer-tall giant, but the head was still over a dozen huge evil beast heads. Arms deformed and grew out one by one. These arms held various bone weapons, each one exceptionally huge.

Su Xiao was certain that the several parties participating in the battle were all staring at the Soul Wrath Beast. With such rich kill rewards, who wouldn't be tempted? It just depended on who could snatch that critical final kill when the Soul Giant Beast was about to die.

Regarding this, Su Xiao wasn't too worried. The move he had newly developed was particularly suitable for the current situation.

At the same time, on the southeast side of the Dawn Ruins, near the Equipment Enhancement Hall.

The five members of the Kane team, several members of the Magic Scythe team, and even Hao Chou and the Priest were all meeting here. These four teams had the same goal: to seize the kill rewards of the Soul Wrath Beast. However, the four teams had already discussed it: first join forces to seize the kill rewards, and then clash with each other afterward.

Everyone present was a smart person, so it was unlikely they would have internal strife before the Soul Wrath Beast fell.

"Blood Ji, your long-range abilities are the strongest. As soon as you discover any competing parties, act immediately."

Kane spoke, and Blood Ji nodded to indicate she understood. Then Kane looked at Hao Chou:

"Brother Hao Chou, in a while I will send you over. Priest, you come too. Your weakening abilities are the key to Hao Chou killing that Wrath Beast. Besides, you two have rule-breaker brands, so the risk of entering that area is very low."

Kane's words made Hao Chou frown while rubbing his chin, but in the end, he nodded in agreement. Everyone looked at the Priest.

"My abilities don't require getting close."

The Priest's smile remained kind, but there was one thing he didn't say: flying within the ability range of a certain guy was truly courageous.

"Twins, the situation of that Wrath Beast."

Hearing this, the bald man said: "Still early, only 99.84%. Shall we act when 15% is left?"

"No, act at 20%. Any problems?"

Kane looked at Hao Chou. Hao Chou frowned and thought for a few seconds, then said: "With the Priest's weakening, if I go over at 40%, one punch of mine should be able to take more than 20%. The rest will be up to Ms. Magic Scythe. No problem, right?"

"None."

Magic Scythe Teride stated her position, which made everyone secretly breathe a sigh of relief. With Teride's execution, it was still very stable. As for the kill rewards, everyone was in the temporary adventure group of the Priest. With the adventure group's profit notarization, the kill rewards would not belong directly to an individual but would leave a buffer period. This was also the opportunity for the four teams to cooperate.

However, during the negotiations, it wasn't that there were no disagreements. As the organizer of this alliance and the owner of the temporary adventure group, the Priest claimed 20% of the profits for himself. Originally, everyone opposed it, but if they didn't use this adventure group's ability to unite, they would definitely be a scattered mess, so they could only compromise.

Time passed second by second, and the roars of the Wrath Beast and the wandering rule-breakers were incessant. The bald man, vaguely protected in the center by everyone, couldn't help but feel excited in his heart. He had seen many big bosses in the adventure group he belonged to, but this was indeed the first time he had seen one with this level of rewards.

"Blood Ji, the Wrath Beast's HP is about to reach 40%. I'll give you the specific coordinates of Hunter Bai Ye. You suppress him from a distance."

The bald man spoke. It could only be said that by the late stage, only guys who specialized in perception could still perceive a Sword Art Master. After all, although a Sword Art Master's perception circle was small, the perception tier was very high.

"No problem."

Blood Ji held her hand out in the air, and crimson blood formed a three-meter-long, spiral-structured spiral round sword. Her eyes became increasingly crimson, but in the next instant, a "Blazing Sun Blood Spear" struck. Blood Ji didn't hesitate; while abandoning this attack, she activated her life-saving secret treasure.

Thud!

After a dull roar, Blood Ji turned into a blur and flew out from the smoke and dust. And where she had been just a moment ago, there was a stone hole with a diameter of several meters, slanting downward and bottomless.

"What is this?"

Blood Ji crouched on the ground a hundred meters away. Just now, if she hadn't activated her life-saving secret treasure, it might have killed her instantly.

More than ten kilometers away, a ten-meter-tall blood-gas phantom was located behind Su Xiao. Its form resembled the fierce beast Fei, but it only had an upper body. The entire upper body resembled a human; the left hand was a ferocious beast claw with scales on the arm, and the right arm was a human arm, with only the thumb, index finger, and middle finger on the hand.

The blood-gas phantom held the Soul Great Bow crafted by the Demon Blacksmith in its left hand. This was its exclusive weapon. The three fingers that had just released the soul bowstring were still emitting white smoke.

This attack just now had a total of four types of bonuses superimposed, which were:

1. The Soul Great Bow crafted by one of the three legendary blacksmiths. This weapon had an ultra-high attack power, although the attack frequency was a bit slow, and the attack power of this Soul Great Bow was determined according to Su Xiao's soul strength.

In addition to this, there was the bonus from the Ancient Ring of Misfortune, which was:

"Ancient Ring of Misfortune Effect 2 · Misfortune Revelation (Passive · Unique): When attacking enemies from a distance, your negative attributes will bring bonuses to this ancient ring, thereby bringing an increase in long-range damage. Current increase is 13.29 times."

"Ancient Ring of Misfortune Effect 3 · Energy Adaptation (Passive): If you want to activate the characteristics of this equipment, you need to consume a certain amount of body energy. The consumption range is that for every 0.2 times increase in long-range attack intensity, you need to consume 1,000 points of mana for the bonus.

Prompt: If you want to reach the theoretical full attack intensity bonus, one strike requires consuming 60,000 points of mana (increasing long-range attack intensity by 12 times)."

Think this was the end? Of course not. Don't forget, what was attacked just now was the "Blazing Sun Blood Spear," which was composed of a large portion of liquid Apollo plus a large amount of blood gas. Su Xiao's blood-gas attack power was one of the highlights of this attack.

At the location of Kane and the others, the solar flames dissipated. Kane, who was about to spread his wings and fly to take Hao Chou to attack the Soul Wrath Beast, had his steel dragon wings freeze. If that strike just now had hit him, he would have lost a layer of skin even if he didn't die, so he decisively gave up. Flying now was a fancy way to court death.

And at this time, in the area where Su Xiao was, he tried again to detect the data of the Soul Wrath Beast with the Eye of Mystery, but the result was still a detection failure. This was understandable; not to mention that the Eye of Mystery itself was not crafted for detection, the higher the tier, the more powerful the detection ability of the perception type.

Generally, when perception types develop to the late stage, they will develop into one of the prophecy, causality, destiny, or curse types. But there are still less than 1% of perception types who remain focused on perception ability. This type of pure support is very rare, but they are the treasures of top-tier adventure groups.

In this battle for supremacy, there was such a contractor from Death Paradise. As for how Su Xiao knew, it was naturally through the Priest.

He had secretly cooperated with the Priest as early as the last round, and now they had already divided the kill rewards: one share of the initial source essence each, 5 world keys each, the 【Eternal-level Nourishment Equipment Treasure Chest】 went to the Priest, but the supreme source essence 【Overlord Source Essence · Unique】 belonged to Su Xiao.

To ensure they snatched the kill of the Soul Wrath Beast, these two old schemers even conspired in advance. The Priest used his temporary adventure group to gather the members of the other teams and formulated a reasonable and feasible, but impossible-to-succeed, kill plan for these team members. And as the initiator and organizer of this gang, the Priest demanded 20% of the profits.

Out of more than ten people, the Priest himself took 20%. This was a very high profit-sharing ratio. For this reason, this team almost couldn't be formed, but the more the Priest didn't back down with a kind smile on his face, the less the other team members would suspect the Priest had other motives.

Su Xiao and the Priest cared very much about the perception type in Kane's team, so they simply set up such a trap and successfully turned enemies into friends.

Of course, the subsequent kill still needed the Priest's help. The Soul Wrath Beast still had at least 40% of its HP. Su Xiao raised one hand, and a blood spear nearly five meters long was formed. When this blood spear condensed to be the same as a solid metal object, he held it in one hand. Black-blue smoke rose on it, clinging to the entire blood spear and turning it black-blue.

Controlling the blood-gas phantom to nock the arrow and draw the bow, with Su Xiao's accuracy, hitting the kilometer-sized target in the distance 100% was no problem, but he didn't attack immediately; he was waiting.

Substances like gray-white dander drifted down in the distance. This represented one thing: the Priest had held back the Platinum Apostle who was waiting for an opportunity in the dark. This was the biggest hidden danger, and also the reason why Su Xiao agreed to give a large share to the Priest.

Suddenly, the Soul Wrath Beast, under the siege of the wandering rule-breakers in the distance, erupted with black tentacles all over its body. Each of these tentacles was several meters thick, and after piercing through the skin and flesh to grow out, they twisted wantonly.

Seeing this scene, the blood-gas phantom released the translucent blue bowstring of the Soul Great Bow.

Bang!!

The huge black-blue arrow pierced through layers of spatial air explosions and reached the chest of the Soul Wrath Beast in an instant. This Wrath Beast was very powerful, but unfortunately, from its appearance until now, it had never stopped being besieged. Even having spatial abilities was useless.

Among the wandering rule-breakers, there were many who could seal spatial movement abilities. Don't forget, in the last era, they often made a fortune by killing contractors from other paradise factions.

The huge arrow pierced through the chest of the Soul Wrath Beast, and black-blue smoke spread along the wound. When it spread to its eyes and dyed the bottom of its eyes pitch black, the Soul Wrath Beast roared unwillingly and was killed by the Blade Demon Spirit.

The Soul Wrath Beast fell with a crash. The swarming wandering rule-breakers didn't stop, instead turning to submerge this giant beast.

At the same time, Su Xiao received a prompt from the Tree of the Void.

【Prompt: You have killed the Dark Hybrid corresponding to you.】

【Because the kill profit sharing has been allocated in advance, you will receive the following profits.】

【You have obtained Initial Source Essence × 1 share.】

【You have obtained World Key × 5 pieces.】

【You have obtained Overlord Source Essence · Unique (This is a supreme source essence, currently located in the inventory of the Tree of the Void).】

【Prompt: This is a supreme source essence that fits your ability system. Before use, you can choose to pay space-time power to perform an adaptive upgrade on this supreme source essence through Reincarnation Paradise or the Apocalypse Paradise that currently notarized your participation in this battle for supremacy.】

【Your initial compatibility with "Overlord Source Essence · Unique" is: 78.5%.】

【You can immediately absorb "Overlord Source Essence · Unique." If a source essence rejection reaction occurs, you will die as a result, and resurrection/death-exemption items are ineffective against this type of death.】

【The extent of the compatibility upgrade will be determined based on the amount of space-time power you pay.】

【Prompt: This compatibility upgrade can be performed at most once. You need to prepare a sufficient amount of space-time power in advance.】

【If the compatibility between "Overlord Source Essence · Unique" and you reaches 100%, a source essence rejection reaction will definitely not occur.】

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