Chapter 4059: Rebirth

The "Beast Arena," which was noisy just a second ago, was now terrifyingly quiet.

Su Xiao stood in the center of the black sand field. On the circular stone walls around, the Ten New Talents with different postures were sneering, some were angry, but the top five Ten New Talents all had solemn expressions.

The Faceless Ghost, ranked first, with the stature of a small giant, jumped down from the stone wall, representing that it accepted this ten-on-one challenge. Seeing this, the second-ranked Guixiang, third-ranked Chihui, and fourth-ranked Xifu jumped down from the stone wall one after another, faintly semi-surrounding Su Xiao.

This scene made the tenth-ranked Chai, who had a mocking look, suddenly stiffen. Its gaze narrowed, and the black hair all over its body, which was wet like a water monkey, gave it a despicable gloominess. But except for it, the other nine had all jumped down, making it grit its teeth and jump down as well.

Seeing this scene, the devil-race girl Milwei in the spectator stands adjusted her glasses. The sentence from the other party just now, 'If you dare to call me handsome lightly again, Amu will break your legs immediately,' suddenly reminded her of her brother who hadn't been seen for a long time. When he was still in the Void, her brother had said similar things, but he said: 'If you dare to be so light-hearted again, I'll break your legs.'

Therefore, this made the devil-race girl Milwei decide to trick this guy away, letting the other party stay away from this place which looked like just a death fight, but actually, once one participated in one, one would be completely addicted to fighting because of "Dark Corruption."

"Pity, I haven't thought about what to do, and you jumped into the dead end yourself."

The devil-race girl Milwei tilted her head, using her index finger with sparkling diamond manicures to tap her forehead, wondering what she was thinking.

On the field, Su Xiao didn't make a move immediately. The reason was that after he stood on this field, he actually triggered a mission notarized by the Void Tree. This mission was:

【Side Mission · Beast Arena.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 95~Lv. 98.

Mission Introduction: The death fight participated in next will accumulate "Battle Intent Value." When "Battle Intent Value" reaches 30%, the mission can be completed at the minimum standard.

Tip: This mission will trigger different "Battle Intent Value" bonuses according to different situations.

Mission Deadline: 48 hours.

Mission Reward: Determined by the quantity of "Battle Intent Value."

Mission Penalty: All main attributes reduced by 10%.

The penalty for this mission was tragic. If this mission failed, Su Xiao would lose 1028 points of physical attributes.

However, risk and benefit always coexist. In addition, "Beast Arena" did not involve "Ancient Patriarch Hatu." In other words, as long as he wasn't careless and overturned in the gutter, this was a reward delivered to his door.

Su Xiao felt puzzled. With his Void Tree reputation, how could he encounter such a pie-in-the-sky good thing? After consulting the Reincarnation Paradise about the situation, he learned that all contractors, hunters, battle angels, etc., who were in the "Beast Arena" would trigger this mission. This belonged to a public characteristic mission.

【Tip (Void Tree): The "Battle Intent Value" bonus trigger for the main mission · Beast Arena, if you successfully kill all the new talents within 3 minutes/5 minutes/20 minutes/60 minutes, your "Battle Intent Value" acquisition this round will be 30 times/15 times/5 times/2 times the "Battle Intent Value" acquisition amount.】

Su Xiao immediately chose to kill all the new talents within 3 minutes. It wasn't arrogance. This main mission was very interesting and could trigger temporary benefit improvements. And this trigger effect had no penalty mechanism. If not achieved, at most there was no bonus, and it wouldn't even reduce the basic benefits that should be obtained.

The hand he pressed on the hilt changed to gripping the sword, and he pulled out the long sword from a calm and composed position, raised his right arm, pointed the long sword at the top of the sky, and said in a flat tone:

"You ten, any one of you who lives for more than 3 minutes, you win."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, even the Faceless Ghost, who had always been solemn, started to get angry, and the deputy eyes on both sides of its eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Kill... him! (Abyss language)."

Chai roared, and filthy gray smoke started to rise all over its body, and all its eyes turned into whirlpools.

【Extreme Blade · Black Moon!】

A pitch-black round moon appeared in the sky, and Su Xiao slashed down with his long sword pointing at the sky.

Boom!!!

Invisible slashing pressure descended from the sky, falling on the "Beast Arena" in an open-air state. In an instant, on the circular spectator stands layer by layer, large beads of black blood splashed. However, it was just an instant, and the Abyss-type or other bloodthirsty people watching here were all crushed and killed on the spot. Su Xiao wouldn't care about the life or death of these guys.

The only survivor in the spectator stands was the devil-race girl Milwei beside Amu. At this moment, her small round sunglasses slid down to the bridge of her nose, and her ghost-green pupil flames contracted to the extreme.

On the field, the Ten New Talents who were arrogant just now were either kneeling or crushed to the ground by the slashing pressure. The last-ranked Chai had its whole body bones clicking. Its originally strange and ugly appearance was now squeezed into a ball, and black blood surged from the air holes in its mouth.

Click, click—!

Its whole body started to make crisp sounds. It roared wildly in anger, preparing to pounce on Su Xiao.

Bang!

Blood beads like black marbles scattered. Chai was crushed into powder by the slashing power of the "Black Moon." After it, the ninth, eighth, and sixth died one after another. The "Black Moon" slashing pressure that lasted for half a minute dissipated.

【Extreme Blade...】

Su Xiao raised his long sword again.

【Black Moon.】

Slashing down with one sword, the slashing power of "Black Moon" descended again. This made the Ten New Talents, except for the first-ranked Faceless Ghost, all feel despair. The reason was that they thought the means used by this Law-Extinguisher just now, not to mention the strongest blade technique move, was definitely a big move level. Now it seemed that this... seemed to be a conventional blade technique move that had no burden to use.

The third-ranked Chihui's black scale snakes twisted and drilled. It stared at Su Xiao, waiting for this enemy to reveal even a tiny flaw. However, what greeted it was a hand wearing a crimson metal gauntlet, pointing at it with an index finger.

【Blood Smoke Cannon.】

Bang!

The Blood Smoke Cannon blasted layers of air waves in the air, and together with it was the upper body of the third-ranked Chihui being blasted to pieces. The next second, it was crushed by the slashing pressure of "Black Moon."

Su Xiao raised his long sword, aimed at the fourth-ranked Xifu, blood aura gathered at the tip of the sword, compressed to the size of a needle point, and the Blood Smoke Cannon blasted out. Together with it was Xifu's head being blasted to pieces. Its last thought was, did it have to be this ridiculously strong.

【Extreme Blade · Double Moon.】

Su Xiao slashed down again with his long sword pointing at the sky. With a boom, the black sand on the field was pressed into a sand board layer comparable to steel. Facing the "Double Black Moon" in the sky, the remaining Ten New Talents, except for the Faceless Ghost and the second-ranked Guixiang, all died on the spot without making a sound.

The immortality of Abyss descendants is not that they cannot be killed on the spot, but that they can be reborn in the Abyss by relying on the "Origin Clan Badge."

In fact, members of the Rune family have very strong body immortality. The problem is that they are facing a three-soul-slashing blade technique master. In addition, "Extreme Blade · Black Moon," besides slashing power crushing, is fundamentally a blade technique move, naturally carrying the three-soul-slashing characteristic. Therefore, the Ten New Talents who died just now turned into residual limbs and fragments, and then became that 'peaceful.'

Only the Faceless Ghost remained on the field. Under the suppression of the Double Moon, it, which was like a small giant, started to twist and deform its flesh irregularly.

The Faceless Ghost roared. It had clearly recognized that compared to the monster opposite, the strength gap between the two sides was like a wall. But it at least had to... make a move once. Otherwise, even if it could be reborn from death, the heart of the strong, which had been nourished by the power gained from death fighting all along, would collapse. It had never lost, and today it was not only going to lose, but lose so thoroughly.

The Faceless Ghost stepped forward with bloodstains all over its body. Its flesh condensed. Just as it prepared to use everything to rush to the front of the Law-Extinguisher under this terrifying slashing pressure, the Law-Extinguisher with a long sword in his hand was already standing less than two meters in front of the Faceless Ghost.

【Extreme Blade · Heavy Moon.】

Another calm virtual slash was made. A third black round moon appeared in the sky. A total of three black moons overlapped each other, just like shadows.

This scene made all the eyes of the Faceless Ghost widen. It looked up at the sky, and its expression changed from the coldness and cruelty of the past to a bit of stupidity.

Boom!!

The Faceless Ghost, like a small giant, shattered. Black blood beads the size of fists flew toward the surroundings. Bloody, cruel, but under the reflection of the triple black moons in the sky, it had a kind of dark beauty.

【You killed the Ten New Talents.】

【You obtained 8.59% World Source.】

Only World Source was obtained, and there were no treasure chests. This belonged to the normal situation. And don't ignore one point: this prompt is "You killed" instead of "Kill" in previous prompts. If the Ten New Talents were really completely extinguished, the benefits would increase by dozens of times.

If these Abyss descendants were reborn a few days later and killed again, it would be the same killing all Ten New Talents, and maybe even 3% of World Source wouldn't be obtained. Su Xiao didn't know the specific notarization rules, but simply understood that frequently killing Abyss descendants in a short time, it wouldn't take many times before there would be no World Source benefits.

In the case of not completely extinguishing the Ten New Talents, being able to obtain World Source already made Su Xiao certain that the plan in his conception could be realized.

【Tip (Void Tree): You obtained a total of 700% "Battle Intent Value" this time. This is the acquisition upper limit for this mission, not your acquisition upper limit this time. You should have obtained 8730% "Battle Intent Value" this time.】

Obviously, this mission was not for Su Xiao to complete, but a reward for "Top-tier Supreme Strength" to "Super-Peak Supreme Strength" who dared to challenge the "Beast Arena." A more intuitive comparison is that the ultimate big boss of the "Beast Arena" is the Great Elder among the three elders.

And the Great Elder obviously belongs to the descendant of the Ancient Patriarch · Hatu. And Su Xiao's actual combat power is in the same tier as the current state of the Ancient Patriarch · Hatu, the Master of the Clock Tower, and the leader of the gods.

So he came to fight the "Beast Arena," which belongs to normal behavior from his age and world progress after ascending to Supreme Strength. But if looking at his actual combat power...

Su Xiao took out the crystal invitation letter and threw it out, which meant that he was going to continue the next death fight, which was to fight the Three Elders.

However, this "Beast Arena" notarized by the Void Tree didn't react, which only represented one thing: the Three Elders among the three elder-level individuals were not on the Southern Continent at this moment.

Why so? This had to be said that the Three Elders, who looked like mummies, were really agile. It watched the whole battle from the top of the arena. After seeing the three black moons appear overlapping, the Three Elders knew that this matter was not simple. The thought in its heart was, is the Great Elder sick in the head? Why invite such a monster to the arena?

One might ask, why did the Great Elder do this? In fact, it was very wronged. It was the patriarch who invited it to do so, in order to test the strength

If the other party can fight their way to the peak of the arena, then one can consider letting them board the ship. If they cannot, one must find a way to usurp their alchemy knowledge. Although this is very unstable, compared to carrying a burden with insufficient strength who could die on the "Sea of Life" at any time, this is the only way.

Just like that, the blunder occurred where the Great Elder had Xifu invite Su Xiao. Right now, the Third Elder has already run off. As for the claim that the members of the Rune family are obsessed with battle, one must first distinguish that fighting and being abused are not the same thing.

And after arriving at the Southern Continent, Su Xiao discovered one point: this so-called Rune family is clearly not the full picture of the Rune family. Its foundation is truly too weak, not at all worthy of the title "Abyss Descendant." The previously fallen Dukain family, while declined, did not have such a thin foundation.

The feeling here is more like a lower-level branch of the Rune family. The only one who truly gives off that terrifying feeling of an Abyss Descendant is the "Ancient Patriarch, Hatu."

The remaining members of the Rune family in this world are more like those developed by Hatu using "Dark Corruption," only it took over two thousand years of development to look this decent.

In the Star Realm, there is a common cognition that when calculating the number of Absolute Strength and Supreme Strength, it is default not to calculate Abyss-type in it, because some Abyss-type born in the Abyss are Absolute Strength at the beginning, and some outrageous ones are Supreme Strength by birth.

The corresponding price is that these Abyss-type that are Supreme Strength by birth have a 90% probability of being unable to leave the Abyss and drifting in the Abyss forever.

Adding up the existing major Abyss Descendant families, there might be dozens of "Supreme Strong Peaks." At first glance, this is very exaggerated. The problem is, if calculated from the First Era to now, this number is quite normal. Abyss Descendants rarely die of old age; they are long-lived species capable of surviving for several eras.

The current situation gives Su Xiao a rough understanding of the Rune family's circumstances. This family representing the Abyss Beasts has a total of only a few "Supreme Strong Peak" members. Furthermore, the "Origin Clan Emblem" belonging to the Rune family is not a single piece, but several large chunks. Each member of the Rune family is qualified to take away the piece of the "Origin Clan Emblem" engraved with their own "Causal Fate Mark."

Because of this, the Ancient Patriarch Hatu, trapped here, was able to develop this abridged version of the Rune family. And because of this, it had no objections to Su Xiao arriving here. In fact, it wouldn't mind if Su Xiao slaughtered all these Abyss Descendants; that would be equivalent to helping it clear out the positions on that large chunk of the "Origin Clan Emblem" that belongs to it.

Sizzle~

The Soul Shadow Thread was pulled back, also bringing back the "Crystal Card" he had just thrown out. He frowned while checking the attributes of this item; it had been notarized by the Tree of the Void, so there shouldn't be any problems.

After pondering for a moment, he chose to continue challenging upward. The next second, space fluctuated, and twisted black threads appeared in front of him. They surged and coiled, forming a sphere with a diameter of over ten meters.

This was the Second Elder of the arena. As for why it wasn't the Second Elder of the Rune family—the entire Rune family didn't even have a patriarch in the true sense, so where would "elders" come from?

As soon as the Second Elder appeared, it spread toward the surroundings. In the blink of an eye, everywhere the gaze reached was filled with half-meter-long black thread-worms. They were the thickness of earthworms, their bodies covered in mucus, drilling through space. The visual impact was extremely disgusting.

"Extreme Blade: Heavy Moon!"

Su Xiao had just finished fighting the Dukain Progenitor in the previous world and didn't want to experience the feeling of Abyss insects drilling into his flesh again.

Boom!

Under the pressure of the slash, Su Xiao immediately located the main body of the Second Elder.

"Extreme Blade: Flow."

Elegant wind marks cut through. The black thread-worms filling the surroundings suddenly paused. A severed dark red thread-worm twisted in pain and proliferated in large numbers.

"Roar!!"

The Blood Beast formed in an instant let out a roar, and layers of blood-colored sound waves diffused. After affecting the Second Elder's main body, it caused its proliferation momentum to stop abruptly.

Inside the garrison fortress of the 24th Abyss Spreading Zone, a muffled sound spread. The soldiers stationed here immediately became alert. The squad leader among them was just about to shout and ask, when the person who came said:

Crystal walls were erected around the Second Elder. A layer of blood energy adhered to the inside of these crystal walls, causing the "Beast Core" that pierced the Second Elder's main body to bounce back at high speed. It ricocheted at high speed within these crystal wall cages, from a single red dot at the start to bouncing so fast it formed lines of refracted red light.

A terrifying, booming sound of ricocheting came from within the crystal cage. As for the Second Elder inside, one can only say that the Second Elder's proliferation ability is truly strong, still able to occasionally occupy one-third of the crystal cage. The problem is, the ricochet speed of the "Beast Core" continued to accelerate as if there were no upper limit.

After a crisp sound, as if a glass ball had been shattered, the Second Elder's proliferation suddenly stopped. The "Beast Core" ricocheting inside the crystal cage instantly smashed all the dark red worms inside to pieces. Finally, the "Beast Core" exploded with a boom, and the crystal cage scattered.

As for what this move is called, it has no name. It is an ability Su Xiao combined from "Blood Beast," "Blood Smoke Cannon," "Aoge Crystal," and "Seal Studies." It has good efficacy for dealing with enemies with extremely tenacious vitality. Hmm, it's specialized for bullying the weak.

【You have killed the Beast Arena Second Elder.】

【You have obtained 3.82% of World Source.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao activated the Crystal Card again to challenge the final enemy of this arena, Great Elder Morachi.

Rumble~

The entire arena began to tremble. A figure appeared in the sky. The next instant, the opponent was less than half a meter from the ground, landing slowly. This was a man over three meters tall, humanoid in shape, wearing a bone-white mask on his face, with pitch-black eyes, holding a heavy black spear over four meters long.

This black spear looked extremely heavy. From the faint black smoke rising from it, one could judge that this was an Abyss weapon.

After Great Elder Morachi appeared, pitch-black aura erupted without any nonsense. Su Xiao, feeling slightly disappointed with the "Beast Arena," began to release his blood energy. This Great Elder was not simple; the previous ten newcomers plus the two elder-level ones couldn't compare to it alone.

"Extreme Blade: Heavy Moon!"

With a boom, the slash pressure descended. Great Elder Morachi's body sank significantly, its posture slightly hunched. It held the black spear in one hand, while the other hand formed a claw shape. Furthermore, its pitch-black hand had white, spiderweb-like stripes, full of power.

The darkness all over Great Elder Morachi's body erupted further. The mouth area of its bone mask cracked open with a snap. There was no sense of hard objects shattering; instead, it was a snap of flexible membranes tearing apart. Its mouth full of beastly fangs was revealed.

Great Elder Morachi... no, at this moment, it was no longer the Great Elder of this place, but a beast that had encountered a strong enemy worth risking everything to challenge. Beast Morachi braced against the slash pressure of "Heavy Moon" and charged forward ferociously.

At this moment, Beast Morachi felt surging power throughout its body. It hadn't felt this way for a very, very long time. That was several hundred years ago, when facing that powerful beast. The opponent stood on a giant rock, looking down at it, who was covered in blood from heavy punches and on the verge of death, and said:

"From today on, be my child. My deceased child Morachi, from today on, this name belongs to you."

Decades later, Beast Morachi relied on countless battles to become the Great Elder of the Beast Arena. People respectfully called it Great Elder, and over time, it got used to this title. But today, Morachi became a beast once again.

Every step Beast Morachi took while charging made the entire Beast Arena shake slightly. The slash pressure from the pitch-black Heavy Moon in the sky was too terrifying.

But Beast Morachi discovered that the closer it got to the strong enemy in front, the more insignificant it seemed to become. The closer it got to this strong enemy, the more obvious the opponent's massive, grinning blood beast appearance became in its perception.

"Roar!"

Beast Morachi let out a wild roar. The oncoming pressure and blood energy caused substantial wounds to appear on its bare upper body. It gripped the black spear with both hands. The truly terrifying part of this long spear was not the sharpness of the blade, but its horrific weight. It raised the black spear high and slashed down, and what greeted it was a long sword slashing over.

With a boom, the long sword hadn't arrived yet, but the wind pressure brought by the terrifying power of the slash arrived first. Beast Morachi's long hair and tattered trousers were immediately blown straight back.

Beast Morachi, who had intended to slash down with force, immediately made adjustments. The black spear flipped, and it held it horizontally with both hands to block. It was already prepared: after blocking this strike, it could rely on its combat experience and instinct to temporarily suppress the strong enemy.

However, when the long sword truly slashed over, Beast Morachi's pupils contracted violently. Only when truly facing this seemingly plain and unadorned slash did it deeply feel how terrifying this strike was—the feeling of its heart being tightly gripped by an invisible hand, the perception warning that its brain felt like it was being pricked by a thousand needles, and the blood throughout its body feeling like it was about to boil and burst out.

Thud~!!

The long sword slashed onto the black spear, not with the crisp sound of metal clashing, but like a muffled, explosive roar.

As the party involved, Beast Morachi's mask was torn apart by the oncoming wind pressure, revealing its wild appearance and the dozen or so eyes occupying the upper half of its face. Its beastly lips were ravaged by the wind pressure, flapping uncontrollably, and flesh cracks began to appear on its arms.

All of Beast Morachi's eyes widened to their maximum. It even temporarily grew six arms of varying lengths on the sides of its torso, also gripping the black spear.

After a wild roar from Beast Morachi, the slashing force was finally held back by it. It retreated several large steps in succession. Three right arms held the spear, while one left hand subconsciously covered its jaw. As a result, it still let out a "wah" sound, spitting out a large amount of black blood, and it spat out several large mouthfuls in succession.

The fangs and sharp teeth in Beast Morachi's mouth gnashed until they clicked. It used all its strength to stand up ferociously, making a move to pounce on the strong enemy opposite. As a result, the strong enemy holding the long sword was already standing less than two meters in front of Beast Morachi.

Zing~

After a light and crisp slash, Beast Morachi felt its body was very light, especially its head, which floated up lightly.

Before completely falling into darkness, Beast Morachi felt a pure and dark power merge into its body. Its death perspective also verified this: a Tauren was grabbing its headless corpse, dragging it onto a formation diagram that was filled with pure and massive Abyss power.

On the arena, Su Xiao was half-crouched in front of the Abyss formation diagram, pressing one hand on a node of the diagram. With his attainments in "Top-tier Abyss Studies," constructing this formation diagram was no problem.

Beast Morachi was beheaded by his sword and returned to the Abyss to be reborn—that was correct. But the connection between this headless corpse and Beast Morachi's causality was not as simple as just being related; from the root, the two were the same causality.

What was truly difficult was how to transmit the Abyss buff on this headless corpse to the Beast Morachi causality located within the Abyss. This was where Caesar came in.

As the saying goes, wear an Abyss Pot on your head, and you can deceive everything in the Star Realm.

Caesar was helping for free this time. It wasn't that Caesar had lost his greed, but that he was preparing to challenge whether he could use the Abyss Pot to "defraud" the Abyss power after it had been transformed by the formation diagram.

Caesar wouldn't try to defraud the Abyss directly; that would be equivalent to courting death. But after the Abyss power left the Abyss and was transformed by the formation, Caesar was very happy to try it. The result was that Caesar succeeded.

Why did Su Xiao and Caesar want to buff Beast Morachi? The answer is: normally, Beast Morachi would need several days to be reborn in the Abyss. Su Xiao certainly didn't have three days to wait; he and Caesar wanted to accelerate this progress.

Commonly known as: this small boss refreshes too slowly, so Su Xiao and Caesar are helping it accelerate its refresh.

Merely making Beast Morachi reborn quickly was useless; they also had to ensure its rebirth location. This was easy: the opponent's corpse was still at the center of the dark formation, which was inevitably the highest-priority location for Beast Morachi to return to the material world. Furthermore, one of the effects of this formation was to forcibly drag the reborn Beast Morachi back.

In this way, Su Xiao and Caesar solved both the refresh speed and the refresh point. The most critical problem was that the first kill of Beast Morachi yielded 8.6% World Source. After the next kill, under normal circumstances, the World Source yield would drop to below 2%. After a few times, no more World Source would be obtained.

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't let this happen. First, one had to clarify why killing an Abyss Descendant for the first time yields a certain amount of "World Source," which then gradually decreases.

After Su Xiao and Caesar discussed it, they reached a conclusion: the so-called "World Source" is likely related to "World Power." When a powerful being influences more World Power and has a greater impact on the world they are in, killing them yields more "World Source."

This is why killing high-ranking figures who are not powerful themselves but hold high status can yield a large amount of "World Source."

Su Xiao and Caesar's hypothesis was: if "World Power" is infected by Abyss energy, and then this specific Abyss energy is added to a powerful being, can killing the opponent yield "World Source"?

The pocket watch in Su Xiao's hand ticked second by second. When the time reached five hours, dense black smoke emerged from the dark formation in front. After a unique spatial fluctuation, a downward-facing, circular dark spatial hole appeared ten meters above. Beast Morachi, accompanied by Abyss energy so dense it was liquid, fell from the spatial hole.

After Beast Morachi landed, there was a brief moment of confusion. It raised one hand, and the black spear was immediately sucked into its hand, gripped with a powerful and forceful "bang." Beast Morachi, still feeling somewhat confused, immediately noticed the man standing opposite, holding a long sword. Relevant memories flashed through its mind like a high-speed movie.

However, when it realized what a powerful technique grandmaster the person in front of it was, a long sword had already slashed in front of it. The sword hadn't arrived, but the formidable slash pressure had arrived first. The feeling of death came rushing toward it.

When Beast Morachi's consciousness regained some wakefulness again, it was already in an endless expanse of liquid darkness. A dark power wrapped its consciousness within it, connecting it to the "Origin Clan Emblem" not far away. This let Beast Morachi know that it had returned to the Abyss to be reborn.

Now, Beast Morachi's situation is: what to do when your rebirth point is being camped after you've been reborn.