Chapter 3985: Watch

Hao Chou is savage and violent, but this doesn't mean he is brainless. After finding that things couldn't be done, he decisively threw out a teleportation scroll and disappeared in place.

Su Xiao didn't pursue. The reason is that he still has to sell something to Hao Chou later to add more trouble to a certain old guy.

The Priest didn't pursue either. The reason is that he is very tired now. Using "Disdain" to complete the backstab is a huge consumption even for him.

The Priest turned into gray-white tentacles. With the dissipation of these gray-white tentacles, the Priest's aura disappeared. Seeing this scene, Su Xiao's eyes narrowed somewhat. He had killed many powerful Ancient Gods, but he had never perceived such a death aura as the Priest's at this moment.

This feeling is clearly that the Ancient God power has merged with the death power, opening up an unprecedented path, rather than the "Death Ancient God" previously thought. This feeling is more like the Priest using the Initial Death to swallow his own Ancient God source power. Thinking about it this way, this Initial Death has a greater origin than imagined, and it is likely to be that kind of ancient and dangerous thing.

But there is one thing that Su Xiao feels puzzled about. After the Priest already has this "Initial Death" that has been strengthened by swallowing Ancient God source power, why does the other party plot the "Forbidden Mark"? From the end of the Gray Gentleman and the Platinum Apostle, becoming the owner of the "Forbidden Mark" is not necessarily a good thing.

Furthermore, the Priest is using the liquid continuously spreading from the Original Sin item "Golden Holy Grail" to increase his Ancient God source blood, and then using the Ancient God source blood to nourish his own Ancient God source power, and then using "Initial Death" to swallow the nourished Ancient God source power.

In terms of Original Sin item possession, Su Xiao admires Caesar the most. Being able to be in cahoots with the "Abyss Jar," the Original Sin characteristic of the "Abyss Jar" is greed, which is 1000% compatible with Caesar.

Except for Caesar, Su Xiao also agrees with the Priest's way of using the Original Sin item "Golden Holy Grail." With such a powerful promotion perpetual motion machine, going to pursue the "Forbidden Mark" with high risk is really puzzling.

Ignoring this for now, Su Xiao jumped onto the highest building in the nearby area. The moment the Platinum Apostle was killed, the outcome of this Paradise Contention was decided. All that needs to be done next is to wait.

The reason why the other teams were not eliminated is that each team still has members alive. In the final round, the "Fragmented Origin" held by each team will be automatically inherited by the surviving members.

【Hint: Detected that currently in the Dawn Ruins, only the Apocalypse Paradise team and the Sanctuary Paradise team remain, and the captain of the Sanctuary Paradise team is in a state of withdrawal.】

【Notarizing...】

【The corresponding notarization has been completed, and all other Fragmented Origins will belong to the Apocalypse Paradise team.】

【The Apocalypse Paradise team currently holds 51 pieces of Fragmented Origin.】

【The 1 piece of Fragmented Origin reserved by the Tree of the Void is about to be given to the Apocalypse Paradise team.】

【The Apocalypse Paradise team currently holds all Fragmented Origins.】

【Fragmented Origin is synthesizing...】

【Synthesized, you have obtained the complete Origin. Place the complete Origin at the central node to obtain the victory of this Paradise Contention.】

A crystal core the size of a football appeared. Su Xiao held this crystal core with one hand and tried to pinch the complete Origin in his hand, trying to explode it. Of course, he didn't intend to really do so.

The next second, a large number of warnings appeared, the most critical of which was that if the complete Origin is destroyed, the qualification to win this contention will be lost, and the qualification will be inherited by the team with the second largest number of Fragmented Origins held at the beginning of the final stage.

Unsolvable.

Su Xiao looked at the "Hunter List: Blood Pact" bounty 5 · Dawn Erosion, knowing that things could not be violated, he let go of the complete Origin in his hand and let it fall on the base device that bloomed.

With a click, the base fixed the complete Origin.

Thump!

An invisible impact swept across. Wherever it passed, everything in the Dawn Ruins showed cracks, and all the wandering violators in this place also had cracks all over their bodies, shattering along with the surrounding buildings.

【Announcement: Apocalypse Paradise has won this Paradise Contention.】

As soon as this announcement came out, the dust settled. While Su Xiao closed this announcement, he also closed several recruitment hints from the Apocalypse Paradise.

【Hint: The rewards for this contention are as follows:】

1. Infrastructure, high-level facilities, unique facilities, some special notarization permissions, and some special judgment rights of Dawn Paradise sealed by the Tree of the Void.

2. Exclusive, rare resources remaining before Dawn Paradise went dormant, and "super-massive" general resources.

【Apocalypse Paradise will obtain 35% of them.】

【Reincarnation Paradise will obtain 50% of them.】

【You will obtain 15% of them.】

【Detected that this type of resource has extremely low compatibility with you as a Hunter. According to the notarization judgment, you can transfer the 15% Paradise materials obtained this time or retain them yourself.】

【Transferable party: Apocalypse Paradise/Reincarnation Paradise.】

【Apocalypse Paradise gives transfer reward: Apocalypse Material Box x50, Power of Ascension (special item).】

【Reincarnation Paradise gives transfer reward: Reincarnation Badge x50, Supreme Promotion Certificate (after using this certificate, you can increase it to 30% according to the current achieved Supreme promotion specification).】

【According to the Tree of the Void ruling, the reward gain given by the Reincarnation Paradise is 2.65 times that of the Apocalypse Paradise. The Hunter needs to make his own choice.】

No need to choose. Directly choose to transfer the 15% Paradise materials that have not yet been obtained to the Reincarnation Paradise. Su Xiao doesn't know what 【Reincarnation Badge】 is, but even if it is only 【Supreme Promotion Certificate】, he will agree to this exchange.

Su Xiao is pursuing the "Law-Breaker Promotion Secret Technique," which belongs to the limit of the limit of the Supreme promotion specification. Now he has increased it by 30% on top of the limit without paying extra resources, just by using the 【Supreme Promotion Certificate】. This kind of good thing cannot be refused at all.

【You have obtained Golden Skill Points x30.】

【You have obtained Supreme Promotion Certificate x1 (this Supreme Promotion Certificate can only be used by Hunter Su Xiao).】

【You have obtained Reincarnation Badge x50.】

【Reincarnation Badge: You can use this badge to ignore price and remaining stock to redeem any item in the Honor Store. Each redemption will consume 1 Reincarnation Badge.】

【You have obtained permanent free use of the Attribute Reinforcement Chamber.】

【Hint (Apocalypse Paradise): Detected that you have obtained a total of 52 pieces of "Fragmented Origin," and you have completed this "War Mission · Supreme Battle" with the highest specification.】

【Because you completed the "War Mission · Supreme Battle" with dual identity (Participant/Final Phase Strong Enemy), you will increase an additional 85% on the basis of the highest reward of this mission. You have obtained the following items.】

1. Apocalypse Material Box x8.

2. Shelter Treasure Chest x1 (after opening, you will definitely obtain the highest-level shelter-type item produced exclusively by Apocalypse Paradise).

3. Apocalypse · Glory Badge x1 (when worn, the usage fee of the Apocalypse Paradise · Skill Upgrade Chamber is reduced by 20%).

4. High-Tier Essence Treasure Chest x3.

【Other reward settlements are about to be carried out.】

【You have obtained the complete notarization of the Aggregation Treasure Chest.】

【You have obtained 987650 Hunter Coins.】

Various materials appeared in Su Xiao's storage space, but he didn't relax his vigilance. He is still in the Dawn Ruins right now. If his estimation is not wrong, something big is about to happen.

A violent teleportation feeling struck. Even for Su Xiao, he felt a bit uncomfortable. Almost at the same time, he felt an item in his storage space being forcibly stripped away. It was the "Puppet Mark" inside the "Gray Gentleman Scarlet Card."

Dawn Paradise has always been sealing the "Forbidden Mark." Because of the last dormancy, the "Forbidden Mark" was broken into five pieces and broke away from the seal. Right now, the seal of the Dawn Ruins on the "Forbidden Mark" has not disappeared. Coupled with the fact that this seal was notarized by the Tree of the Void, this time it naturally left the "Forbidden Mark · Puppet Mark" in this place.

When the teleportation feeling subsided, Su Xiao was already in a building. This building was like a clock tower, very high. At this moment, it was located in the empty top floor. There was a terrace in front. He stepped onto the terrace.

Looking down, the buildings here were messy. It can be seen that the vast building area below was stepped, divided into several major areas. The closer to the high area of this clock tower, the more prosperous the buildings, while the lower city area on the slope was particularly dilapidated. Some locations even had temporary shacks, like slums.

A building made of iron gray came into view. The Θ brand on that building made Su Xiao think of a possibility. Here... seems to be inside the Watcher Paradise.

The scene seen at this time makes it hard to imagine that this place is one of the six major Paradise factions along with the Reincarnation Paradise. But he soon thought of the comparison of the number of worlds notarized by major Paradises:

Worlds notarized by Reincarnation Paradise: 175236 (Tier 1 ~ Pre-Transcendence World).

Worlds notarized by Death Paradise: 106430 (Tier 1 ~ Pre-Transcendence World).

Worlds notarized by Apocalypse Paradise: 86220 (Tier 1 ~ Tier 9).

Worlds notarized by Sanctuary Paradise: 75400 (Tier 1 ~ Tier 9).

Worlds notarized by Holy Light Paradise: 38662 (Tier 1 ~ Tier 9).

Worlds notarized by Watcher Paradise: 7260 (Tier 1 ~ Tier 9).

Watcher Paradise has declined. The number of notarized worlds is not even as good as the tail number of the second-to-last Holy Light Paradise, and most of the worlds it possesses are low-tier worlds.

The vicious result caused by this is that the mission worlds of this faction are not enough, so they can only enter other worlds notarized by other Paradises through the notarization transit of the Tree of the Void at the cost of Watcher Paradise paying a certain amount of Space-Time Power. The problem is that not all contractors can bring such a turnaround.

In contrast, Watcher Paradise will raise the mission difficulty, forcing contractors to recover notarization costs, which will inevitably lead to a surge in the mortality rate of Watcher Paradise contractors.

The surge in mortality rate leads to a reduction in contractors, and the vicious result is that they cannot beat other Paradise factions in world contentions, which leads to fewer notarized worlds, continuing the above vicious cycle.

What's worse is that not all mission worlds can be reset. Only low-tier worlds can be reset, that is, derivative worlds can be reset. However, contractors can bring very little Space-Time Power to the Paradise faction in derivative worlds. More often, the Paradise faction loses Space-Time Power in derivative worlds but can cultivate stronger contractors through this.

Native worlds cannot be reset, which means they are worlds that exist in reality. With the destructive power of contractors to native worlds, it is destined that mid-to-high-tier native worlds are chronic consumables, only Tier 8, Tier 9, Supreme, and Supreme-level native worlds are fixed assets.

The reason is that with the strength of the native forces of these worlds, contractors can only tuck their tails and be human when they arrive inside. Of course, some individual Hunters are excluded, and they will even threaten the safety of these high-level native worlds.

Many contractors feel that the representative occupation of Watcher Paradise, the tank system, is really not very good. Early stage meat, late stage meat, late late stage meat, it is just a life of being beaten. In fact, the tank system is really not weak, but they have lost the high-risk advancement channel. Some particularly powerful tank abilities only have awakening devices in Watcher Paradise.

For example, the three tank systems of Sky-Prop, Earth-Shake, and Eternal Wine, none of them are easy to mess with. Unfortunately, with the decline of Watcher Paradise, these tank systems have no possibility of appearing.

With a boom, muffled thunder appeared in the sky. Su Xiao looked up and saw that the sky was already covered with black lightning.

All Watcher Paradise contractors below have walked out of various buildings. They looked up with confusion and astonishment, while a very small number of high-level Watcher Paradise contractors looked decadent. An even more terrifying scene was that a Watcher Paradise Guardian was covering his upper arm with painful eyes, where the Watcher Paradise Guardian brand was rapidly peeling off and dissipating.

Boom!

A black lightning fell, and the Watcher Paradise clock tower exploded. The Θ brand didn't shatter but gradually faded.

Pitch-black energy gathered, and at the location of the original Watcher clock tower, a towering black iron palace was formed. The Ξ brand on the palace was particularly eye-catching, and the Ξ brand represented Dawn Paradise.

The iron-black energy representing Dawn Paradise spread from the sky and began to swallow the notarization of this space of Watcher Paradise, thereby replacing it.

【Announcement (Tree of the Void): Watcher Paradise has gone dormant.】

【Announcement (Tree of the Void): Dawn Paradise is about to revive.】

Su Xiao looked at everything that happened before his eyes. He was clearly witnessing history. As for whether he could stop the revival of Dawn Paradise in this Paradise Contention, the answer is, absolutely impossible.

First of all, in this Paradise Contention, the Reincarnation Paradise, which ranked first in comprehensive strength, actually had no team seats. Therefore, Su Xiao had to participate in this contention through the indirect notarization of the Apocalypse Paradise.

The reason why this situation occurred is that the notarization of the Reincarnation Paradise denied the convening of this Paradise Contention from the beginning. Among the six major Paradises, the four major Paradises of Death, Apocalypse, Sanctuary, and Holy Light agreed to the convening of this Paradise Contention at the notarization level, and Watcher Paradise abstained.

The voting result was passed. In this way, the Reincarnation Paradise was equivalent to natural abstention from this Paradise Contention, and naturally, there was no team quota.

And the abstention vote of Watcher Paradise made the participating teams here relatively vague in judgment. Therefore, the notarization of Dawn's impending revival took advantage of the situation, leading to the Watcher Paradise team this time being violators such as Hao Chou, Black Demon, Moon Witch, and Platinum Apostle.

And the only team participating in Watcher Paradise this time was the Knight team, which was composed of several guards of Watcher Paradise. As soon as they appeared, they were tracking Hao Chou and fighting with him. As the top echelon of Watcher Paradise, the Knight Captain naturally knew what was about to happen, but even so, he still didn't want to be with violators like Hao Chou and others. Therefore, the Knight Captain said that sentence before he died:

"We are the last face of the Guardians."

The Knight Captain didn't exaggerate. Perhaps there will never be Guardians again in the future.

Therefore, Sanctuary Paradise simply didn't send participants but summoned the violators of Sanctuary Paradise. The result was that except for the Priest, no Sanctuary Paradise violators responded to the summons.

However, compared to these signs of Dawn's revival, there is an even more obvious point, which is bounty 5 of Su Xiao's "Hunter List: Blood Pact" this time:

"Bounty 5. Dawn Erosion: Witness the erosion of Dawn (need to pay a bounty mortgage of 20 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Because the bounty difficulty is extremely high, after completion, you will get 10-3000 times the additional bounty)."

Why is the completion difficulty extremely high? The reason is that only by becoming the winner of this Paradise Contention can one be qualified to come here and witness this scene of Dawn eroding Watcher.

The revival of Dawn Paradise has a significant impact on Su Xiao. He can be sure that those hidden Supreme-level violators in the past will definitely respond to Dawn's summons immediately after Dawn revives and become violators under Dawn Paradise.

Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of a point, which is why Dawn Paradise revived this time. If he didn't guess wrong, the revival of Dawn Paradise should have great restrictions on recruiting new contractors, or even unable to recruit new contractors through normal channels, but only able to recruit violators who defected from other Paradises.

Blocking is not as good as dredging. Letting violators of various Paradises do whatever they want through the public notarization of the Tree of the Void is not as good as letting Dawn Paradise revive and letting violators of major Paradises be restrained.

Not to mention anything else, at least before Dawn Paradise went dormant, there were no such monsters among violators as the Gray Gentleman, Priest, and Platinum Apostle.

The representative figure of the previous generation of violators, Shiketo, was secretly surprised when he met the Priest and the Platinum Apostle. His thoughts were: are the current violators so outrageous? Ah? Can you still swallow Initial Death? Ah? Do you dare to use Forbidden Marks? Isn't this thing sealed by Dawn Paradise?

As a violator, you can be a bit of a horse, but you can't be a monster.

Therefore, Dawn revived under the opposition of Reincarnation Paradise and the approval of Apocalypse Paradise, Death Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, and Sanctuary Paradise. From now on, whichever side has violators again, it is not the Paradise faction of each side that makes the ruling, but the Tree of the Void that makes the fair ruling on whether this target becomes a violator.

Once becoming a violator, the initial stage is to be hunted down by powerful people of various Paradise factions such as Hunters and Combat Angels. When this violator survives three pursuits, he will get the Dawn brand and become a violator of Dawn Paradise.

Su Xiao closed the information obtained from the Tree of the Void. With his Tree of the Void reputation, he certainly didn't have this permission, but this time he was the winner of the Paradise Contention, so he could still view these materials.

【You have completed Bounty 5. Dawn Erosion: Witness the erosion of Dawn.】

【Due to the multi-fold bounty + bounty correction of "Hunter List: Blood Pact," you will obtain a bounty with a total value of 60000 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

【You have obtained Space-Time Stone Fragment x3500 (this is an equivalent, which can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time to obtain 35000 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You have obtained Heaven's Wrath · World Thunder Fall (unique characteristic skill scroll, this item is equivalent to the value of 25000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

Dawn Ruins, South District.

This place slowly collapsed with the revival of Dawn Paradise. The Priest came to the "Puppet Mark." This was part of the transaction, the reward for handing over the Paradise Contention. Of course, if he fought hard, Su Xiao would also be the winner, but he wouldn't win so thoroughly, and even obtained the resource amount for the highest qualification promotion to Supreme.

The Priest touched the "Puppet Mark" with one hand, and the mark disappeared into his

This place was slowly collapsing following the revival of the Dawn Paradise. The Priest arrived before the "Puppet Mark." This was part of the deal, the price paid for yielding in the Paradise Contest. Of course, if they had fought head-on, Su Xiao would still have been the winner, but he wouldn't have won so thoroughly, nor would he have obtained the amount of resources required for the highest qualification to ascend to the Supreme level.

The Priest touched the "Puppet Mark" with one hand, and the mark sank into his palm. He continued forward, arriving a moment later before a black iron sanctuary. This sanctuary had multiple seals, but due to the collapse of the Dawn Ruins, the seals were riddled with holes.

Walking inside, the Priest saw the "Mind Mark" located there. With this, all three fragments of the "Forbidden Mark" were in his hands.

"Puppet Mark" + "Destiny Mark" = "Mastery Mark."

Then, "Puppet Mark" + "Destiny Mark" + "Mind Mark" equals "Domination Mark."

The Priest took out a mass of grayish-white fluid. The presence of this thing was exceptionally distorted, causing the surrounding space to twist and tremble. The Priest used this object to envelop the three marks.

Boom!

Violent power surged. The Priest, standing within arm's reach, had the flesh on his body split open. Fine, grayish-white tentacles emerged from the cracks, twisting wantonly. He didn't care about the pain in his body, but instead stared at the marks gradually merging together in front of him.

With a buzzing vibration, a black mark was formed. This was the "Domination Mark." Thick and viscous dark liquid dripped from the mark, even polluting the space it touched.

Was the Priest's goal the "Domination Mark"? Of course not. Ultimately, the risk of holding the "Forbidden Mark" was too high, and since Dawn had already revived, continuing to be a holder of the Forbidden Mark was tantamount to seeking his own death.

The Priest held his hands out in a phantom grip toward the "Domination Mark." In a very short time, the Priest aged to his limit. The skin on his body wrinkled and sagged, his entire person became skin and bones, his hair became sparse and withered, and his eyes grew dim and lusterless, losing the spirit of the old fox he once was. But the power of the "Initial Death" was triggered to its peak at this moment.

The grayish-white power symbolizing "Initial Death" spread from the Priest's hands and clung to the "Domination Mark." A teeth-gritting sound of devouring destruction came forth. This old guy, the Priest, he was actually... going to use the Initial Death to pollute the "Domination Mark"!

The surrounding ruins were collapsing, and the notarization power of this place was interrupted. At this moment, all the rule-based power of the Dawn Ruins reached a level close to zero. This was a migration of the Dawn Paradise, completely shifting the notarization of this place to the newly formed Dawn Paradise. The Priest had been waiting for this very moment.

This migration of notarization left all rules in this place in a vacuum. In such an environment, any living thing would inevitably die instantly.

But the Priest was "Initial Death," and the thing he feared least was death. This rule vacuum caused the "Domination Mark," which relied on such power as its foundation, to suddenly choke. Its power, originally flowing endlessly, became a rootless source.

The grayish-white power of Initial Death quickly eroded, polluted, and swallowed the dark power of the "Domination Mark." The entire mark gradually turned from pitch black to grayish-white. One second before the rule-vacuum environment disappeared, the pollution was complete.

A new mark appeared. This was a mark fused with "Initial Death," named the "Death Mark." More crucially, this mark possessed the power of Initial Death—no, a death power even stronger than before—and it no longer carried the tragic curse of Initial Death.

The Priest's appearance recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. The "Death Mark" sank into his chest. In this way, he not only shed the cannibalistic curse of Initial Death, which gnawed at his flesh and soul every moment, but also ensured that this mark, which possessed powerful strength, was no longer a Forbidden Mark.

With this, the Priest would have no problems heading to the revived Dawn Paradise. Not only that, but the Dawn Paradise was also very likely to issue him missions, letting him use the "Death Mark" to devour the remaining two "Forbidden Mark" fragments, namely the "Devour Mark" and the "Soul Mark."

【Transmission complete, you have returned to Reincarnation Paradise.】

The sensation of transmission subsided. Su Xiao leaned back on the single sofa, relaxing his body and mind from the inside out. The gains this time were quite good, giving him the chips to ascend to the Supreme level. After resting for a moment, he opened his mail and saw an unread message from Xiao. It didn't disappoint him; this strongest assassin of the myriad worlds had truly found that "Exclusive Secret Technique for Law Breakers" in the depths of the ancient battlefield.

Following standard procedure, Su Xiao chose to recover his injuries. Amu and Baha were also well-versed in this; they took the life-support device from the team storage space, opened it, and revealed his right arm.

There was a small problem this time: the right arm had been eroded by pure Abyss energy in its initial state. If things went poorly, he would have to construct a new right arm. Of course, if possible, this original factory-issue right arm was better.

【Injury assessment complete. To complete this recovery, you need to pay 1,292,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

There are troubles after becoming stronger, too. Recovering a right arm actually required nearly 1.3 million Soul Coins. However, considering the right arm had been eroded by Abyss power this time, it made sense. To avoid hidden dangers, he would pay this amount; it just so happened that the gains this time were extremely high.

Su Xiao was just about to pay the Soul Coins when he suddenly realized something was wrong. This didn't seem to be paying Soul Coins, but rather... ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands... hmm, he hadn't misread it: 1.29 million ounces of Space-Time Power.

Looking at the right arm eroded by pure Abyss power, he suddenly had a feeling that this arm wasn't just simply eroded by Abyss power. Instead, because of his high Abyss resistance, his body wasn't easily eroded by Abyss power. In the tug-of-war between the two, this arm had actually perfectly absorbed the Abyss energy. Furthermore, that Abyss energy came from the previous generation's Abyss Lord, so it was incomparably pure and clean.

Realizing this, Su Xiao knew he could only construct a new arm. He chose the limb restoration authorization.

【Prompt: No limb injury detected; cannot activate this authorization.】

【Detected that your right arm is in an abnormal detached state. Notarization complete. The consumption of this limb restoration authorization will be used to correct and treat the current state of your right arm.】

Su Xiao immediately chose to terminate the notarization, only to find that this correction notarization was an authorization that had already been paid for. In other words, no refunds.

With a "pop," Su Xiao's crystal right arm prosthesis shattered. His Abyss right arm flew over, docked, and began to heal its bones, nerves, flesh, and blood.

Good news: the pure Abyss energy within the right arm had been perfectly absorbed by the arm. Bad news: the right arm seemed to have become somewhat Abyss-ified, and it was the highest-spec orthodox Abyss-ification—a spec so high that it reached... the level of the previous generation's Abyss Lord.

And at this moment, Su Xiao did not know that the Blade Spirit, having sensed this scene, nearly went berserk. Currently, the Blade Spirit's strength was 850 points. As it continued to devour Supreme-level Abyss-derived organisms and even the origin power of Abyss clans, the Blade Spirit's strength would begin to skyrocket. When that time came, the Blade Spirit would have a chance to usurp the master.

But right now, with an Abyss right arm of such great power, Su Xiao used this arm to hold his blade. Never mind 850 points of Blade Spirit strength; even a Blade Spirit with 8500 points of strength would be steadily suppressed by him.