Chapter 4014: Divine Power

The Lord Train is traveling on the pitch-black wilderness when, at this moment, an impact strikes.

Boom!

Even the Lord Train, traveling within a different space, is shaken by it, shaken back into the main space, causing the train to begin to decelerate, and before long, it stops completely.

Inside the train bedroom, Su Xiao, who was taking a nap, opens his eyes.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barks and yawns, indicating that all the train's tracks have been entangled by a filament-like substance.

Su Xiao and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang get off the train, Baja stays in the carriage bedroom to look after Amu, and Exploration Captain Afiya also gets off the train with Su Xiao.

"It has spread again."

Afiya looks at the scene spreading to the surrounding area, making the surroundings look like a black silk ocean. She sighs and shouts to the train:

"Charles, aren't you coming to see Gonsalu?"

No one answers on the train. Seeing this, Afiya sighs with emotion and introduces to Su Xiao and the others:

"This is the ruins of Ancient Longcheng. Not long ago, it was still a... fairly prosperous Shelter City, although not as good as Doan, it was also home to many people. But under the instigation of Lady Scorpion and several confidants, Ancient Longcheng began to fight internally. Not long ago, this Shelter City was destroyed, but strangely, the Dark Bishop of Ancient Longcheng disappeared mysteriously at the time. If he had been there, Ancient Longcheng might have had a chance."

Hearing Afiya's words, Su Xiao thinks of a possibility. As the head of a city, to disappear suddenly when there is some hope, this is too intriguing.

Added to his identity as a Dark Bishop, Su Xiao suddenly thinks of a person, one of his enemies, the Abyss Archbishop, who can complete possession and revival in the Dark Bishop of any world in an instant.

If the Abyss Archbishop replaced the Dark Bishop of Ancient Longcheng, then everything makes sense. Su Xiao does not believe that the Abyss Archbishop, who was a mortal enemy of the Law-Extinguishing faction, would have no friendship with the Abyss lineage. In this way, letting the Abyss lineage destroy Ancient Longcheng is obviously doing an old acquaintance a favor, why not do it?

Elf Kingdom, original site of the Old Dragon Church. This place has turned into a lake several hundred kilometers in range. A burly figure and a slender figure stand on the water surface. The slender figure kicks the bottom of the towering woody-fied biological growth in front and asks:

"So, this is your old friend? To be honest, your friend doesn't look very active."

Magic Scythe Aina has her hands on her hips, her body slightly lowered, as if observing casually. She is still in her original attire, wearing a tube top on her upper body, a loose white shirt open without buttons, and ultra-short shorts on her lower body.

It must be said that Magic Scythe Aina is beautiful enough to make one's breath stop. The problem is, her figure, well, slender, and very flat, belongs to the kind of feeling that, despite having a peerless face, does not make one produce any evil thoughts.

"Archbishop, your friend doesn't seem to like talking much."

Magic Scythe Aina kicks the woody-fied structure in front with her right foot and says: "Hey brother, wake up, how come you sleep like you're dead."

"He is, dead."

The Abyss Archbishop speaks in a tone of gritting his teeth.

"Ah? Dead? I even thought this was a brand-new form of the Abyss lineage. Damn, I was just marveling in my heart, worthy of being one of the three Ducain councilors, sleeping so soundly like he's completely dead, really amazing."

Hearing this, the Abyss Archbishop is even more speechless. He really cannot communicate on the same channel as Magic Scythe Aina.

"What do we do now?"

Magic Scythe Aina steps forward with a grinning face and points her finger at the woody-fied structure. Suddenly, she discovers something, and the grin on her face disappears.

"A master of techniques?"

Magic Scythe Aina puts her hands together, closes her eyes, and mutters in her mouth: "May you rest in peace."

After saying this, Magic Scythe Aina's expression recovers. This is Aina, a collection of contradictions. She never respects others, but she respects those who pursue ultimate strength and those who fall on this path of pursuit, because she is also this kind of person, or rather, Magic Scythe Aina does not respect strength, but respects unyielding and firm will.

"We are taking the Beast Lord's weapon."

As the Abyss Archbishop speaks, darkness spreads, intending to pull the Beast Lord's Abyss weapon "Chisha" from in front of the Beast Lord's woody-fied concrete corpse.

"You, move it, try it."

Magic Scythe Aina is full of grins, deliberately looking at the Abyss Archbishop with one eye big and one eye small.

"What's wrong with you?"

The Abyss Archbishop frowns at Magic Scythe Aina. He does not doubt that if he continues to move "Chisha," this crazy woman will suddenly take action and fight him to the death right here. He asks:

"Did you know the Beast Lord before?"

"Not at all."

"Then why..."

"No reason, I just don't like it. I have to kill what I don't like. Besides, the technique master who defeated it didn't take its weapon, why should you take it? The other party left this weapon named 'Chisha' for 'Chisha' to serve as a tombstone for its owner, yet you, this old friend of the past, want to take it away? Too ugly, heh~ ptooey!"

Magic Scythe Aina's series of taunts leaves the Abyss Archbishop speechless. He turns and leaves.

"Hey, Archbishop, you have no grace, just saying a few words to you, I apologize, I apologize. By the way, where are we going next?"

Magic Scythe Aina chases after him quickly. Before leaving, she waves at the Beast Lord's grave with her back turned. In fact, she is saying goodbye to "Chisha." The dark aura on "Chisha" fluctuates slightly, as if responding.

The Abyss Archbishop walking in front is too lazy to look back at Magic Scythe Aina, just perfunctorily saying:

"Going to find another old friend."

"Who?"

"Another Ducain Family councilor, the controller of the Corrupt King City, the Twin Kings."

"Oh, is that so? By the way, this time it won't be dead again, right?"

"Shut your crow's mouth."

After the Abyss Archbishop finishes speaking, he calms his mood. This was caused by Magic Scythe Aina's anger. The two, one tall and one short, walk side by side on the lake surface and disappear into the water mist in the distance before long.

At the same time.

"So, our next target is the Twin Kings of Corrupt King City?"

Afiya uses the equipment made by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to clean the black filament-like substance on the train tracks. This thing is both tough and sticky like liquid, very difficult to clean. It is not that it cannot be forcibly rushed through, but it causes certain damage to the Lord Train.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang suddenly barks, meaning someone is hiding nearby.

Boom!

Blood energy erupts with Su Xiao as the center point. A hundred meters away, a woman wearing a black complex dress, with long black hair hanging past her knees, and black cloth wrapped around her eyes, suddenly appears. Her behavior is calm, and despite being blindfolded, she still looks at the ruins of Ancient Longcheng.

Dark Bishop Charles frowns and observes the black-dressed woman. A few seconds later, his pupils shrink slightly, saying: "Dark Saintess of Ancient Longcheng, Sifreya!"

Hearing this, Afiya and the Pain Priest both show solemn expressions, obviously having heard of the Dark Saintess's notorious reputation. The two quietly sense the Dark Saintess's aura, and surprisingly... it is like an ordinary person.

Discovering this, the two feel even more solemn in their hearts. In this world invaded by the Abyss, the less powerful a guy looks, the more dangerous they are. As for guys who don't even feel powerful when sensed, that is dangerous to the extreme.

"..."

Su Xiao frowns and looks at the Dark Saintess. He feels puzzled by the solemnity of the three Shelter City people. He doesn't know why, but he always feels that this Dark Saintess seems to be a human with a low-to-mid tier constitution. He looks at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang sends detection data. This Dark Saintess is really not an ordinary person.

Or rather, in terms of combat power, the Dark Saintess is at an ordinary person's level, but she has a skill that can be called astonishing:

"Dark Sun Healing Art, Lv. 98 (Passive): Can use specific tools, herbal preparations, etc., to perform high-tier healing effects."

The gold content of this ability is extremely high. Let's put it this way, during combat, this ability is useless, but after the battle ends and the outcome is decided, even if one is on the verge of death with only one breath left, and high-tier healing potions cannot save them, the Dark Saintess can extend their life, and then gradually heal them, or even restore them to their peak state.

Physician and healer are two different professional systems, and the Dark Saintess is the strongest physician Su Xiao has ever seen, bar none. His idea is that if the Dark Woman could bring Sifreya to the Gray Sanctuary in the Eternal Light World, this would not only be a huge guarantee for the few people in the Gray Sanctuary but also mean that their side has an extra top-tier physician.

Su Xiao glances at Baja, and Baja understands in a second.

"Your cruelty, I have heard of in Doan."

Dark Bishop Charles speaks. Hearing this, Sifreya just smiles gently, but her inner thought is:

"Oh my god, another Dark Bishop, it's over."

Dark Saintess Sifreya, one of the core members of the Ancient Longcheng Dark Church, is known for her smiling cruelty and cold-bloodedness. It is said that she once imprisoned someone who was disrespectful to her in a narrow metal jar filled with rotting maggots, letting the person be gnawed for several years before dying in despair. And the servants who served her daily life would change a batch of faces every month, all tortured to death by her.

Even, Sifreya has a basement of torture instruments that belongs to her. The thousands of torture instruments inside are her favorites. She likes to hear the wailing of intelligent species. In that room, it is all body organs of victims she collected. The collection on the dense display rack represents one victim after another who has undergone torture.

The pain of others brings joy to Sifreya, and death is Sifreya's life seasoning.

In fact, is it really so? Of course not. Sifreya was forcibly captured to this world. In her hometown, she was a naive and lively daughter of a duke, who could be said to be pampered in every way, until one day, members of the Dark Church in the city discovered the healing ability talent of this duke's daughter, and at that time, the Dark Bishop of Ancient Longcheng was in that world, conducting an important trade.

Sifreya was abducted to the Ancient Longcheng of this world and forced to join the Dark Church. When she was first abducted, she cried every day and was extremely aggrieved, and was forced to learn an ability called "Dark Sun Healing Art." Especially, every time she said the knowledge she learned was simple, her temporary teacher would beat her even harder with a bone stick. However, it was really so simple.

Regarding the servants around her, changing a batch every month, those were all killed by one of the high-level members of the Ancient Longcheng Dark Church, Skeleton Bishop Gonsalu. This guy is a perverted killing maniac. If he doesn't see blood every day, it's like he hasn't eaten. Added to Sifreya's crying and cowardly appearance, Gonsalu simply pushed the matter to her. Anyway, the ones who died were also her servants.

The even more perverted Heretic Inquisitor Diana discovered this matter and felt hot inside. Not long after, the basement of Sifreya's residence was gradually renovated and expanded by her.

Sifreya didn't know that among the wounded sent every day, some were tortured by Heretic Inquisitor Diana, making the injuries even harder to treat, which caused Sifreya's healing ability to soar continuously.

As for this smiling reaper of Ancient Longcheng, Sifreya, what kind of person is she really? Let's put it this way, the boldest thing she has ever done is to go to the vegetable market to buy slaughtered chickens and ducks. As for why she doesn't buy cheaper live ones, the reason is that she dares not kill, because she always cries aggrievedly. The servants in the closed manor would ignore her, and sometimes even not provide meals.

Regarding this, Skeleton Bishop Gonsalu acted as if he didn't see it. Why would he punish a group of dead people? Besides, he didn't like this cowardly ghost who cried every day. If it weren't for the Dark Bishop's order, he would have long ago played with this cowardly ghost who loves to cry.

Sifreya has three major characteristics: loves to cry, takes the blame, and likes small animals. As for how much she likes them, it can be said that she can't do without them at every meal. Yes, this noble young lady is a bit greedy, but this cannot be considered a shortcoming.

Although Sifreya has no combat power, with her healing ability, she can roughly judge the approximate strength of the few people nearby.

She looks at the three strong men of Shelter City Doan, which makes Sifreya, who is smiling and known as the smiling reaper, almost unable to maintain the smile on her face and the cruelty hidden in her eyes. However, she quickly calms down. After all, Ancient Longcheng once had supreme beings.

She shifts her gaze to Su Xiao and Black Leech. Sifreya almost cries out loud. What's wrong today? The people she meets are all supreme beings. This world is so dangerous. She regrets leaving that dark cave, but hiding inside, she was really hungry.

Sifreya has an idea. She estimates that these people are likely from another Shelter City, that is, Doan. If she could mix into there, added to her existing notoriety, wouldn't her future days be so good that they would soar to the sky? Wouldn't she... have three full meals a day!

Sifreya decides to mix into Shelter City Doan, and then appear to be living in seclusion, but actually become a salted fish. At most, she will help the residents there treat injuries and illnesses, etc. Treatment can be free, but the medicinal materials need to be provided by the visitor!

"I understand, Miss Sifreya, the reason you appeared now is to seek revenge on the Ducain Family, right."

Dark Bishop Charles speaks. Hearing this, Sifreya is confused inside. Ducain Family? Never heard of it. But it seems that not answering yes might cause her persona to plummet. She says:

"Everyone has to pay the price for what they have done, don't they."

"Understood."

Dark Bishop Charles continues to repair the train, while Afiya shows a smile, reaches out her hand, and says:

"Welcome to join us, smiling reaper, Miss Sifreya, but your desire for cruelty needs to be suppressed temporarily, or perhaps go catch a dark creature to vent?"

Afiya's words make Sifreya's heart tighten. She shakes her head calmly and says in a low, gentle voice: "No need."

After saying this, Sifreya walks onto the train. In order to maintain her persona, she doesn't dare to look around too much. However, after sitting on the single luxury seat, she almost has tears overflowing. This seat is so comfortable.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang controls the Little Bu and sends a cake. Seeing this exquisitely styled, fragrant cake, Sifreya really wants to take a bite, but in order to continue living in this team that looks like a powerful wolf pack at first glance, she can only maintain her persona and pretend to decline this food that doesn't fit her persona.

"One should always try new things, or are you afraid we poisoned it?"

Hearing this, Sifreya pauses her hand that was about to push it away slightly. After glancing at Baja casually, she picks up the tableware, appearing to be unhappy, but in reality, she is almost crying inside, and says: 'You big bald bird, you are really nice!'

If Baja knew her thought, it would definitely be a mouthful of fragrance.

After cleaning the Lord Train, everyone gets back on the train. Su Xiao doesn't get on the train but looks into the dense darkness to the south. He can sense that there is some powerful and huge Abyss existence there, revealing part of its body, and the other party has no malice.

It must be this existence that made the Lord Train stop, and even changed the flow speed of the different space to a certain extent, allowing the Lord Train to arrive nearby, thereby picking up Sifreya.

Su Xiao nods into the darkness. He vaguely guesses who the existence there is.

Because Su Xiao nods, some fluctuations appear in the darkness. A moment later, that powerful and huge existence gradually fades away and returns to the Abyss.

The Lord Train starts and heads in the direction of Shelter City.

When returning to Shelter City, it is already the next morning. Shelter City is still in darkness.

Su Xiao returns to his temporary residence on the sixth floor of the Gloom Cathedral. Just as he sits down to taste today's breakfast, he feels a ray of morning sun gradually illuminating the window. Walking to the window, he sees the 【Flame Core】 being initially lit on top of the thousand-meter-high Torch Tower in the center square of Shelter City.

It seems that Dark Bishop Charles and the others have carefully studied the 【Flame Core】 and discovered that activating the 【Flame Core】 to different degrees can imitate the morning sun, the noon sun, the evening sunset glow, etc.

In the past, the central Torch Tower of Shelter City would only be lit for five days a year, each time for a different festival. But starting today, for the next two eras, the daylight of Shelter City Doan will be bathed in the light of the sun.

When Su Xiao took out the 【Flame Core】 before, why didn't Charles and the three use it? The answer is, they wanted to use it but didn't dare. This is a matter concerning the entire Shelter City. Logically speaking, they would observe Su Xiao for a dozen years, or even longer, before considering initially using the 【Flame Core】.

It has only been a few days now, why do the three supreme beings of Shelter City trust Su Xiao so much? The reason is too simple. In just a few days, Su Xiao, as a Law-Extinguisher, first beheaded the Beast Lord, and then formed an irreconcilable blood feud with Lady Scorpion.

If they were still hesitant about the 【Flame Core】 Su Xiao took out under such circumstances, then the three supreme beings of Shelter City would be too timid. Compared to the benefits, the risks they are currently bearing are low to the point of not being worth mentioning.

The morning sun light shining into the windows of building after building naturally attracts the attention of all Doan residents. Although this is a Shelter City isolated from the outside world, it has a population of several hundred thousand, or rather, since the destruction of Ancient Longcheng, Doan is the last hope for the creatures of this world.

Residents of Doan walk out of their homes a bit dazed and stand on the street. They look at the morning white shimmer emitted from the central Torch Tower. A feeling from deep within their blood tells them that this is safe, the light of hope they have always longed for.

On street after street filled with Doan residents, many Doan residents shed tears without knowing it. The air in this damp, cold Shelter City with a strange musty smell seems to have cleared up a bit.

Why are Charles and the three so anxious to activate the 【Flame Core】? The reason is that Shelter City Doan actually has quite a bit of spare land. It lacks food here, and too many people starved to death in the past, which led to more land. Now that there is light, it means there is a chance for planting.

As for relying on the Dark-series abilities of "Farmer" and "Livestock Master" to obtain food with huge hidden dangers like Ancient Longcheng, the fate of Ancient Longcheng has already explained everything.

【Prompt: You have brought hope to Shelter City Doan.】

【You have obtained 195,000 Shelter City reputation.】

【Prompt: Because "Shelter City reputation" and "World Source" have essential differences, there is a settlement cap when there is a "World Evaluation," which is a maximum of 200,000 Shelter City reputation participating in the final world evaluation settlement of this world.】

【As the provider of the light of hope for Shelter City and the owner at the notarization level, for every subsequent natural day, as long as the "Flame Core" is in an activated state during the day, you will obtain a corresponding amount of Shelter City reputation based on the happiness of the residents of Shelter City Doan.】

【Current happiness of residents of Shelter City Doan: 20/100 points.】

【You can obtain 10,000 Shelter City reputation every natural day.】

Su Xiao had long thought about the fact that "Shelter City reputation" has a cap on the world settlement. However, he wants to obtain a massive amount of Shelter City reputation in order to get the top reward on the leaderboard notarized by the Tree of Void this time.

The Ancient Dragon Kingdom is not opened every world progress, but once every multiple world progresses. Added to the special situation of this world, the reward for the top of the reputation leaderboard this time is more than ten times, or even dozens of times, the reward for other supreme-tier world leaderboards.

Su Xiao checks the reputation reward corresponding to the happiness of the residents of Shelter City Doan. He finds that this happiness is an improvement of 10 points per level. Every 10 points is a tier. When happiness is 10 points, it is 5,000 reputation per day, and when happiness reaches 20 points, it is 10,000 reputation per day.

By analogy, it is 20,000 per day for 30 points of resident happiness. If it reaches the full value of 100 points of resident happiness, it will be 2.84 million Shelter City reputation per day. Of course, there is another calculation method, but it is not considered for now.

Looking at the top of the leaderboard, the Soul Master's existing 3.57 million reputation, no, it is already 4.19 million. This guy is indeed very resourceful.

Regarding how to improve the happiness of the residents of Shelter City Doan, Su Xiao still has some experience. First of all, the residents here have been in darkness for a long time, bearing threats of hunger, disease, etc., so it cannot be done bit by bit.

It is best to have a single explosive improvement, letting their happiness reach 100 points directly. Even if it gradually slides down a few days later due to more desires in human nature, a few days of 2.84 million Shelter City reputation per day is enough to make the Soul Master side suffer.

First, the food problem of Shelter City must be solved. Su Xiao's strategy is to trick the Zerg Queen Silver... cough~, find her to cooperate, and let her use the Zerg's powerful biological genetics to build Zerg nest organs that can cultivate fresh meat of livestock and poultry. For the Zerg Mother Emperor, this is not difficult.

Su Xiao is prepared to let Dark Bishop Charles be fully responsible for this matter. As for the risk of attracting the Silver Queen, please don't be funny. This is a world severely invaded by the Abyss. Is the Silver Queen crazy to try to explode troops here?

Added to the fact that this is for Shelter City Doan, Dark Bishop Charles seems cunning and unserious, but for this matter, he will definitely squeeze out 12 points of effort even if he only has 10 points.

The plan is gradually conceived. Su Xiao himself has other things to do. He must go to the third kingdom ruled by the Ducain Family as soon as possible, the "Corrupt King City" located at the end of darkness.

And, Su Xiao's "Side Quest: Ancient Divine Power."

"Quest Introduction: Kill the four Heavenly Gods of the Pantheon (After accepting this quest, you can sense the location of the four Heavenly Gods once every natural day)."

The target area of this quest is also over there, and this concerns several hundred, or even more, Golden Skill Points.

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