Chapter 4058: Beast

The death of the old King undoubtedly gave the Empire's situation a sense of turbulence, but all parties chose to restrain themselves. The reason was that the three major forces never expressed their stance.

The reason for this was that the three old immortals were the absolute controllers of the three major forces. At present, the three major forces reached an initial cooperation with Su Xiao. At least before resolving the "Causal Lock Ring," neither the three old immortals nor Su Xiao would let the situation become chaotic. The response method was very simple.

If at this time, some forces secretly made trouble, preparing to take advantage of the old King's death to stir up this pool of water completely, then these speculators would first face the "Mechanical God Sect," "Imperial Royal Family," and "Three Ministers," the three major forces on the surface.

When a rebel force successfully dealt with the strangulation of these three surface major forces, they would have the illusion that the old man finally stood up, and from now on in this world, the force under his command would become the fourth major force in this world.

At this time, it was the moment when one of the "God Sect," "Soul Zhong Ta," or "Rune family" would make a move.

However, the Empire was established thousands of years ago, and various relationships were intertwined. The existence of some forces was very subtle and strange. The three major forces were not easy to make a move in terms of interests. At this time, a certain Law-Extinguisher didn't mind helping with this favor.

For example, our dear Imperial Grand Duke Nikuniza Kray. First of all, he came from the Imperial Royal Family. Secondly, his family had believed in the Mechanical God Sect for several generations, and he was the president of the Southern Continent Chamber of Commerce. The import and export of resources in the 0 Abyss Spreading Zone all involved this president.

It could be said that this family's buffs were fully stacked. By the generation of Grand Duke Nikuniza Kray, it reached the peak of family history. The family cultivated two Supreme Strength individuals! Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of Absolute Strength individuals, and besides the Grand Duke, his eldest son, second daughter, third son, eldest son-in-law, and two nephews all held important positions in the Empire.

As an ambitious person, the Grand Duke could keep quiet for so many years, more because of his fear of the three major forces and the old King. The buffs he could stack were all stacked there. Now the old King died, and the successor was weak. This kind of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, saying he wanted to usurp the throne was a pipe dream, but taking the opportunity to make the family force strongly rise was something he must do.

In fact, the choice problem of Grand Duke Nikuniza Kray was that the cooperation between the three old immortals and the Law-Extinguisher had been finalized in the main tower of the Soul Zhong Ta last night. One thing recognized by the four parties was that before setting sail for the "Sea of Life," if other parties dared to jump out and make trouble, they would be cleaned up to death. And the one who dared to be the first to jump out.

Therefore, Grand Duke Nikuniza Kray was just unlucky. He really couldn't hold back anymore, or rather, he had held back for too long and finally waited for the old King's death.

In the Grand Duke's family manor, there was a castle with quite a Baroque style. This was a corridor with windows on one side, and on the other side were the Duke's bedroom, study, and the bedroom for spending the night with his lover. After all, facing his wife and lover in the master bedroom at the same time would inevitably anger this original wife, whose family background was no less than the Duke's.

The other rooms with average lighting were personal guard rooms, servant rooms, collection rooms, etc.

This spacious corridor over four meters wide was paved with famous East Sea White Rock. This was a type of marble. Because of the formation process, it would emit a faint lavender fragrance after cutting and polishing. The smell was very light but could last for decades, and it was a high-end building material sold by the gram.

However, the originally snow-white Sea White Rock had been invaded by blood. The ground was full of broken limbs and arms. The eighth daughter, whom the Duke had spent 70% of his family wealth to cultivate, a flesh-system Supreme Strength individual under 50 years old, was now a headless corpse sitting against the wall, with her head embedded in the wall.

Just at the moment of meeting, the man with red eyes appeared beside Seshi, and then slashed out a very ordinary diagonal slash. Even at this moment, Seshi had used all kinds of trump card abilities, but it didn't affect the speed of her head flying off.

Or rather, from the moment this monster walked into the front gate of the manor, only Seshi made him draw the long sword at his waist and slash out a slash. The rest of the family death soldiers, guards, bodyguards, etc., as long as they approached a certain range of this man who had one hand on the hilt, would be slashed to pieces in the next instant, with arms, legs, and heads flying everywhere.

More precisely, everyone within a radius of 50 meters of him, within a diameter of 100 meters, as long as they showed hostility to him, would be slashed to pieces in the next second, even if the other party didn't draw their sword.

Just now, a maid was paralyzed on the ground in fear, but she wasn't slashed to pieces. But after her lover guard was slashed to pieces by dense slashes that appeared out of thin air and scattered on the ground, she was first afraid, shocked, and then had intense hatred. The next second, she was slashed to pieces by the slashes that appeared out of thin air, and blood splashed everywhere.

Inside the Duke's study.

Drip, drip~

Blood dripped along the tip of the sword. The Duke opened the safe with a gloomy expression and said coldly:

"Let my family come over, I want to see them now."

Hearing this, Baha smiled and said: "Letting them go upstairs is a bit difficult. After all, they are all mixed together. But sending you on your way to reunite with your family, I am very willing to help."

"You!"

The Duke finally broke his defense, pointed angrily at Su Xiao, and said sharply: "How dare you!"

Baha appeared on top of the Duke's head instantly. While falling, eight eagle claws each went deep into the brain marrow, sending the Duke away.

Obviously, the Duke still thought this was a game between Imperial high-level officials. If he lost, he would lose interests at most. However, this was a clash of madmen. If he dared to enter the game, he had to be prepared to have his whole family sent away. It wasn't that the Duke was ignorant, it was that he had spent his whole life and couldn't come into contact with such top-tier and dangerous powerful people lurking in the darkness. The top-tier power he recognized were actually puppets of these lurking giant beasts.

The pity was that in order to rise this time, the Duke had bet almost everything, so the assets in his safe were only a few melons and dates, better than nothing.

Ten minutes later, the Duke's manor was engulfed in raging fire. On the Lord Train, Su Xiao opened the list. These were all people entrusted by the old King to be killed. The position of Minister of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" saved a lot of trouble. He hadn't arrived in this world for five days, and he had progressed to this extent.

Not to mention repaying kindness, it was a very good way of doing things worth following. This name of Grand Duke Nikuniza Kray appeared not only on the old King's kill list but also on the favor entrustment of the three major forces.

At one o'clock in the afternoon that day, Su Xiao sat on the terrace of a spire building. Inside this building, except for him, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, there were almost no other living creatures. He didn't make a move this time, but let Amu handle it. The angry shouts and screams gradually subsiding downstairs represented that it was almost finished.

If Su Xiao made a move, it was generally against those who were hostile to him. He acted as if he didn't see those who were unarmed. Killing those unarmed people was meaningless and increased the risk of charm attribute slipping.

If Amu takes action, apart from the young, he basically leaves no survivors. The reason Amu doesn't harm the young is because in a world not long after Su Xiao created him, he was saved once by a cocky little brat.

Not long after, Amu walked onto the terrace carrying a dark battle axe stained with blood.

"Amu, hungry."

Amu spoke in a muffled voice. Don't say, you really don't say, Amu said these four words more and more fluently. Of course, it was limited to these four words.

"Go back to the train in a while, go find the Alchemy Maid."

"Amu."

Just as Amu spoke, a gray bird flew over. This little thing with lively eyes landed on Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's head. Choosing one out of four, it felt Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was the easiest to get along with.

Taking the letter bag on the gray bird's back, this method was very primitive, but it was not easy to leave traces. Opening the letter, it was a message from Assistant Prime Minister Enmu, or rather, the content of the transaction between the old King and Su Xiao.

Su Xiao helped the Crown Prince clear these obstacles, with one condition, which was that the old King had to inform Su Xiao of the approximate locations of the three major treasure vaults of the God Sect, Soul Zhong Ta, and Rune family.

The old King didn't ask Su Xiao what he wanted to know these for, just after Su Xiao left, he immediately summoned Assistant Prime Minister Enmu and asked him to focus on protecting the Empire's underground treasure vault.

And on the existing basis, temporarily increased the defensive power by dozens of times. After a certain Law-Extinguisher left, he would gradually restore it to the previous defensive level.

In fact, the old King worried too much. For the Imperial treasure vault, Su Xiao had no ideas. The reason was that the current Minister of the Imperial Treasure Vault Supervision Department was named Nicholas Caesar.

After being supervised by Caesar for so many days, was the Imperial treasure vault still worth coveting? It was also fortunate that the old King had foresight. Before this clash started, he had already exchanged the secret treasures accumulated in the Imperial treasure vault for many years into a certain resource, which played a crucial role in the decisive battle.

Just returning to the train, a faint smell of roast meat drifted over. Today's lunch was herb lamb chops, vegetable soup, steamed fish, and fragrant rice. Alchemy Maid Vinia was gradually improving her cooking according to Su Xiao's taste. From the rice, roast lamb chops, etc., one could see this point. It was just that there was still room for improvement. Red-braised, charcoal-grilled, etc., were more in line with Su Xiao's taste.

The train started. With the meal, Alchemy Maid Vinia became truly busy. Amu's appetite was there, coupled with Alchemy Maid Vinia's cooking skills, which were only one notch lower than Xia's. If Alchemy Maid Vinia's cooking skills were Lv. 92, then Xia's was Lv. 95.

The destination of this Lord Train was very far, even passing through two sea areas, during which it passed through the territory of the Seven Seas Alliance. That's right, Su Xiao was going to the 0 Abyss Spreading Zone in the Southern Continent.

After eating lunch and cleaning the inside of the Lord Train again, Alchemy Maid Vinia sat in the seat by the window, looking out the window in a daze, as if recalling where she should eventually go.

In the afternoon, the Lord Train drove to the sea. Because it was driving in a different space, land and sea made no big difference to the Lord Train. At most, it changed a driving method, and the driving speed decreased by about 5%.

Passing through the territorial waters of the Seven Seas Alliance, the Lord Train slowed down and stopped for cooling. It was not necessary, but to ensure the good condition of the Lord Train's semi-biological engine, it was best to let it cool for a period of time after driving for a few hours. Of course, this was on the premise of not being in a hurry. When there was an emergency, rest my ass, driving continuously for half a month was a common occurrence.

Su Xiao saw that most of the islands of the Seven Seas Alliance were floating in mid-air. Initially, the civilian technology level was behind the Empire, belonging to the electrical age mixed with biological technology, with a stronger cyberpunk feel, especially a few teenagers with different hair colors stepping on ghost fire flying pedals, whistling past.

A few seconds later, a small flying fleet chased past. From the flashing light colors at the bottom of the small flying fleet, this represented security, supervision, etc., in the Seven Seas Alliance. One could only say that after seeing this scene, this place was more cyberpunk.

Compared to here, the Empire with good public security was not cyberpunk at all.

After the full cooling system of the Lord Train completed the restart, the train started again. Su Xiao came to the bedroom and sat cross-legged to meditate. Unknowingly, he immersed himself in it. When he broke away from meditation, the train had stopped. It had reached the destination.

Compared to this, Su Xiao was more concerned about the changes in his own meditation ability. He checked his meditation ability and saw:

【Heart Meditation: Lv. 110 (Passive)】

Skill Effect: Current "Heart Bearing" for technique-system abilities is 8200 points.

Current "Heart Evil Thoughts" for three technique abilities + Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow is 5890 points.

When Su Xiao first mastered Blade Technique, he mastered meditation ability by default. Later, this ability advanced to "Heart Meditation." And when Marvin Waltz taught Su Xiao, he didn't care about anything else, only when teaching him the Devourer, and repeatedly urged him that he must not give up, which seemed useless but was actually the meditation that carried the Law-Extinguishing Blade in his hand.

At present, the "Heart Meditation" ability, due to the meditation bonus of 【Origin Stone · World】 power, which is "every meditation will increase the current meditation ability's progress by 10%," Su Xiao didn't use the original plan of 110 days to reach 【Heart Meditation】 Lv. 110 full level, but achieved this in less than 50 days.

Since 【Origin Stone · World】 was activated to the "Sealing Stage," the bonus to meditation was very outrageous. Every meditation, the "Heart Thought Value" of Heart Meditation rose by a small grid by a small grid.

Besides this, the growth of the technique master system actually relied heavily on talent, which was: first ensure that the "meditation ability" reached a certain level before improving the technique master ability.

A more intuitive way of saying it is to ensure that one's "Heart Bearing" is greater than "Heart Evil Thoughts." The so-called "Heart Evil Thoughts" is the burden on one's own heart, spirit, and thought after one's own technique ability is improved. Once this burden exceeds one's own bearing, it brings about power runaway, and the consequences can be imagined.

Simply put, improving technique ability is improving oneself. Everyone has a beast in their heart. As oneself improves, this beast is naturally improving. This is the significance of meditation.

When the technique ability level is improved, the corresponding physical comprehensive strength can be improved, and then the physical comprehensive strength will feed back into the actual combat power of the technique ability.

According to the situation Su Xiao knows, Lv. 110 is the full level of meditation ability. The problem is that after his meditation ability reached Lv. 110, it didn't turn into Lv. MAX. As for using golden skill points to improve it to Lv. EX, it was even more impossible.

Obviously, Su Xiao's "Heart Meditation" ability didn't reach the expected full level. And all along, he had a cognition that he was never an ultimate genius, so there must be a reason why "Heart Meditation" didn't reach the full level.

Opening the personal data list, after a preliminary check, Su Xiao found the reason. If he wasn't wrong, it was the 2172-point real willpower that further increased the upper limit of "Heart Meditation."

How much it increased, it was unknown for now. But the current meditation ability could no longer be upgraded by one level every few days like before. He was not in a hurry about this. The key to meditation ability lies in persistence.

And, after his soul strength tier increased before, he obtained the top-tier physical ability "Soul Bathing Heart," which while improving soul strength, also increased the real willpower attribute.

Su Xiao got off the train. The scene became dim. This was the feeling of entering the Abyss Spreading Zone. He looked into the distance. Behind him was an endless dark sea area. He took out a seal group from the storage space, and after the seal was lifted, a crystal card appeared in his hand. It was the invitation letter given to him by Xifu, one of the Ten New Talents before.

As he took out the invitation letter, the prying from the surrounding darkness receded. He moved forward into the darkness ahead. Faint teleportation feeling struck. He didn't resist. A brief teleportation feeling appeared. He was still in the Western Continent, just passing through the outer area of the Western Continent and the Abyss-type creature occupied area in the center, directly arriving at the center of this continent, the Beast Arena.

Based on the aura faintly captured during teleportation just now, Su Xiao estimated that there were many Abyss-type creatures occupying this dark continent. Among this huge base, many were Absolute Strength and Supreme Strength.

In the Star Realm, there is a common consensus that when calculating the number of Absolute Strong and Supreme Strong, Abyss-types are defaulted out of the count. This is because some Abyss-types born in the Abyss are Absolute Strong from the start, and some outrageous ones are born as Supreme Strong.

The corresponding price is that these Abyss-types born as Supreme Strong have over a 90% probability of being unable to leave the Abyss, drifting within it for eternity.

However, everything has exceptions. The Abyss Spreading Zone is an exception for these Abyss-type, but this is already the limit. If they leave the Abyss Spreading Zone, it won't be long before they are eroded by natural elements to extinction.

All Abyss-type here love death fighting, so in the Southern Continent, there are the most various beast arenas. And the Beast Arena located in the center of the Southern Continent is the largest and highest-spec beast arena.

One might ask, why are the Abyss-type entering this place so bloodthirsty and combative? The reason is the "Dark Corruption" characteristic of the Rune family, which is to make the mind become combative and bloodthirsty.

Initially, it was just the mind. With the deepening of "Dark Corruption," it gradually penetrated into the soul and causality, until finally, either killed by other powerful people and becoming nutrients, or becoming members of the Rune family.

Su Xiao walked toward the front gate of the Beast Arena. This building was very similar to an ancient Roman open-air arena magnified dozens of times. The hundred-meter-high arch welcomed everyone to come here.

Just as Su Xiao walked into the porch, hot wind blew toward his face. He found that there were many Abyss-type here. Some were composed of black worms, some were like small giant beast races, and some resembled canine types, but the mouth was thin and sharp, and the whole body was covered with eyes.

These Abyss-type whispered to each other after seeing Su Xiao. It could be seen that the Abyss-type who could come to the "Beast Arena" were generally more rational. Those with beast nature greater than rationality also existed, but they were in death fighting.

A Law-Extinguisher appearing in a beast arena full of Abyss-type could be called a strange sight. To be on the safe side, Su Xiao only brought Amu, and let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha stay on the Lord Train. I have to say, the Lord Train is really more useful the more it is used.

Walking through the arch, ahead was a terrace. At the end of the terrace, one could see the central fighting area of the "Beast Arena." This was a field several hundred meters wide, paved with pitch-black fine sand on the ground. Originally, this was the white sand of the nearby beach, but after being stained by the blood of the Abyss-type, it turned into black sand.

Located around the circular death fighting area were rings of upward stands. These stands were simple stone structures. Except for being extremely sturdy, they didn't consider comfort at all. What was even more explosive was that there was no barrier around the death fighting area. Taking away a few spectators during the fight was a common occurrence.

From the black blood stains on the surrounding spectator stands that couldn't be washed away after multiple washings, one could imagine how fanatical and bloody this place was after the death fight started.

Just arriving at this place, Su Xiao gradually felt a sense of killing in his heart. He immediately understood why the Great Elder of the Rune family invited him here and also let Xifu, one of the Ten New Talents, send an invitation letter.

Su Xiao's 2172-point real willpower was not for show. He was just about to lift his foot to move forward when a figure with small round sunglasses, flesh like withered, and ghost-green pupil flames in the eye sockets blocked Su Xiao's way.

"Oh, this is not a place where non-Abyss-type should come. Handsome, you need a guide."

The rebellious devil-race girl grinned, revealing a mouthful of shark teeth.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't intend to ignore this devil-race girl, but after the other party lowered her head, hooked down the small round sunglasses with a diamond-manicured index finger, and completely revealed the ghost-green pupil flames, he changed his mind.

"I may need a guide, but there are some things to deal with first."

While Su Xiao was speaking, he took off the "Wild Hunt Night" long leather coat on his body, adjusted the Zhan Long Shan in the scabbard, and threw the "Wild Hunt Night" long leather coat to the devil-race girl.

"This..."

The devil-race girl tilted her head in confusion. She glanced at the long leather coat in her hand. Although she was only good at gem appraisal, she also saw at a glance that this was a piece of powerful defensive gear of extraordinary value—no, it should be astonishing value. She suddenly had a thought of whether to escape like this. But after looking at the 3.5-meter-tall, somewhat unfriendly-looking minotaur, she dismissed this thought.

Before she ran away from home, her brother taught her that greed is fine, but don't be greedy for things that are at the limit of what you can bear.

"If you dare to call me handsome lightly again, Amu will break your legs immediately."

Su Xiao spoke with his back to the devil-race girl. After speaking, he jumped from the circular spectator stand to the black sand field in the center.

This place is the "Beast Arena," the highest-spec death fight on this dark continent. Usually, there are quite a few Abyss-type or other strong people from other races who come here to seek power. However, a fight here happens once every half a month, which is already rare.

Entering this death fighting area means at least challenging the Ten New Talents. This requires challenging level by level in the beast arenas on this dark continent until one obtains the "Beast Arena Invitation Letter" to stand on this field.

Why did the Great Elder give Su Xiao the "Beast Arena Invitation Letter" directly? Could it be that he wanted him to challenge level by level? That's not an invitation, that's a provocation. If so, it wouldn't be Su Xiao landing on the Southern Continent, but the "Sun Holy Sword" being inserted into this Southern Continent.

Su Xiao stood on the death fighting area paved with black sand and looked around. He found that within a very short time, 30% of the seats in the surrounding spectator stands had been occupied.

Figures jumped or teleported to the circular high wall at the edge of the black sand field. There were a total of ten Abyss-type, among whom Xifu, one of the Ten New Talents, who was bare-chested, had lion-like messy hair, and was over 5 meters tall, was among them.

The other nine must be the other Ten New Talents. Xifu's aura was not the strongest among them, ranking fourth.

Among the three stronger ones, one was composed of a large number of scale snakes. The so-called "scale snake" was a kind of Abyss-type that resembled black scale snakes. However, the scale snake had no head. The head position was a bunch of tentacles. After unfolding, there were sharp barbed teeth inside. This was the third-ranked Ten New Talent, named Chihui.

The second was an Abyss-type composed of black flesh that was sometimes humanoid and sometimes beastly. It had transformed into an Abyss giant snake at this time. Its head had hundreds of eyes, coldly overlooking Su Xiao. It was named Guixiang.

The strongest Ten New Talent was a giant squatting on the stone wall. It looked like a small giant. Except for the deputy eyes on both sides of its eyes, it was no different from the human race.

This was just the surface. In fact, the strongest among the Ten New Talents would swallow and replace whoever it defeated, or rather, losing to it meant not only losing life, but everything one once possessed would be taken away by it. It was named Faceless Ghost.

Xifu looked at Su Xiao standing on the black sand field and grinned, saying:

"White Night, among the ten of us, you can choose any one to fight to the death with you. Don't worry, the rest of us will just watch until one day later, when the next death fight must start."

Xifu was somewhat eager to try, and the pupils of his eyes were almost vertical like a beast.

Su Xiao's hand pressed on the hilt of his sword. After looking around, he said in a flat tone: "I'm in a hurry, you ten, come together."

As soon as this was said, the spectator stands of the arena, which had gradually become noisy, suddenly became quiet, quiet to the point where a needle drop could be heard. The devil-race girl who witnessed this scene from the spectator stands also had her eyes widened in shock, and the small round sunglasses she was wearing slid down a bit. ===== CHAPTER 4059 =====