Chapter 4060: Contract

The plan between Su Xiao and Caesar succeeded, but not entirely. The first kill of the Beast Morachi yielded 8.6% of the World's Source, but by the second kill, it had decreased to 7.9%.

Initially, the Beast Morachi could resurrect once every five hours. After Su Xiao and Caesar increased the energy output of the formation, this time was reduced to once every two hours. This was the limit; increasing the energy output further might cause the "Dark Formation" to explode.

It was now two o'clock in the middle of the night, with over 50 hours remaining until the next Dark Tide.

Because Su Xiao had repeatedly used "Extreme Blade: Heavy Moon" here, the original black sand terrain had been pressed until it was relatively flat and possessed a hardness exceeding steel, making the "Dark Formation" supported upon it more stable.

Located above the dark array was a hexagonal hollow crystal, over ten meters in diameter. Su Xiao had constructed it by converting 2.7 million mana points into Aoge Crystal. Its inherent strength was astonishing, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of layers of sealing formations on its surface.

This hexagonal crystal perfectly enclosed a black dot in mid-air at its center. After the Beast Morachi's "resurrection point" refreshed twice, it stabilized here. It wasn't that the Beast Morachi couldn't choose its own resurrection location; it was being forcibly dragged here by the "Dark Formation" to undergo resurrection.

Inside this hexagonal crystal were over a dozen "Beast Cores." At this moment, these "Beast Cores" were ejecting at ultra-high speeds within the crystal, occasionally leaving black marks in space, which showed their power.

In this way, as soon as the Beast Morachi resurrected, before it could react, it would be instantly beaten into a honeycomb by the "Beast Cores" and sent back to the Abyss to resurrect. This was practically an automated elite boss farming setup.

Just a few minutes ago, Su Xiao had conducted a preliminary test. After the Beast Morachi defended a few times, it was pierced through consecutively. As for the opponent's signature weapon, very sorry, that black spear had gone missing after encountering Caesar.

The problem was that this third kill only allowed Su Xiao to obtain 3.5% of the World's Source. Considering the Beast Morachi's faster resurrection efficiency, overall, it was still profitable.

At first, the Beast Morachi was full of fighting spirit in the face of this situation, but after Su Xiao increased the number of "Beast Cores" to 30, the Beast Morachi began to enter an unsolvable cycle of resurrection → death → waiting for resurrection → resurrection → death.

As he killed the Beast Morachi time and time again, Su Xiao's wariness of the Abyss race not only didn't decrease, but grew stronger. If he couldn't kill it even with this setup, and if he hadn't maxed out the strength of the "Blade Demon Spirit" and obtained the "Causality Tear" ability, he really would have had no way to deal with the Abyss race.

"Causality Tear (Passive): After killing an 'Abyss Race' member, you can choose to activate this trait, allowing the 'Blade Demon Spirit' in the killing state to forcibly tear the 'Causal Life Source' of the killed 'Abyss Race' member from the 'Origin Emblem' of their family, causing them to perish completely due to this kill."

"Uses per world: 2/2 times."

It seemed that destroying their "Origin Emblem" would kill them, but the problem was that the "Origin Emblem" was nine times out of ten inside the Abyss. Daring to step into the Abyss rashly would inevitably lead to destruction. Fortunately, Su Xiao possessed one of the strongest titles currently in the Astral Realm: 【Abyss Shadow】.

"Title Effect 3: Abyss Walking (Core/Passive): After entering the Abyss, you will not be eroded by the environment, and you will not emit the aura of an 'Outsider'."

Looking at this title effect now, it was indeed top-tier. If he didn't have this title ability, Su Xiao would have truly had no hope in the previous world of destroying the "Origin Emblem" of the Dukain family.

Like Ximan Achide, who rushed into the Abyss alone and slashed the Dukain family's "Origin Emblem," such a peerless ruthless person was the only one from the first to the third era of the Astral Realm.

Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair, waiting for the resurrection of the Beast Morachi diagonally above. He didn't let the "Beast Cores" eject randomly, but instead controlled the "Beast Cores" to avoid the Beast Morachi's three hearts as much as possible. This was difficult, but it was just right for training his control over the "Beast Cores."

The "Beast Core" wasn't a new ability; simply put, it was an upgraded "Blood Beast." He used the compression method of the "Blood Smoke Cannon" to compress it. Or rather, Su Xiao had originally wanted to use the "Blood Beast" to execute a "Blood Smoke Cannon," but discovered that compressing a "Blood Beast" was different from compressing pure blood energy.

As for whether the "Beast Core" could be used in actual combat, the answer was no. This move had overly harsh requirements for the terrain and didn't distinguish between friend and foe. If the ejection angle wasn't chosen well and it hit Su Xiao himself, he would also end up with blood holes in his body. However, using it to set traps was definitely the top choice.

He checked the time; there was an hour and a half left until the Beast Morachi's next resurrection. Just then, the communicator in his arms rang. It was from Leishma. After connecting, Leishma reported a spatial coordinate on the other end.

Crack, crack, crack~

The Law-Breaking Teleportation Array constructed of Aoge Crystal formed. Su Xiao threw a metal ball onto it and activated the teleportation.

With a thud, the metal ball was teleported to the coordinate Leishma had just mentioned. The crystal teleportation array on the ground shattered, but it left behind scorching red spatial burn marks on the ground. The temperature was so high that the nearby air distorted.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, meaning there was no problem with the sensor ball.

The Law-Breaking Teleportation Array formed under Su Xiao's feet. Caution must never be discarded, no matter when. Do not become blindly arrogant just because you have ascended to the Supreme level or even started moving toward the "Peak Supreme" level. He seemed not far from the Peak Supreme, but in reality, there was still a long way to go.

Just based on his luck, even with a 99.99% success rate for ascending to "Peak Supreme," he might still kick the bucket. Must be cautious.

The surrounding scene changed; the sky was dim and the earth was pitch black. It was near the No. 24 Abyss Spreading Zone. He walked into the Abyss Spreading Zone and saw many corpses of dark creatures and criminals along the way, among which the corpses of the criminals looked particularly tragic.

Seeing those criminal corpses that looked as if they had melted, with only their faces remaining, Su Xiao suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.

Not long after, the Abyss passage appeared ahead. Su Xiao looked at Leishma, whose pupil light was even dimmer, and the remaining dozens of criminals whose auras were becoming increasingly powerful, but whose pupil light was also beginning to dim.

"Mr. Bai Ye, recently, I have dreamed of many things. Also, do you still want me to continue clearing other Abyss Spreading Zones? If it is your wish, I allow you to command me."

Leishma's dim pupil light actually had a different look. She shyly put her hands behind her back, and her cheeks had a hint of a blush. It felt as if she were confessing to someone she had loved for a long time, but Su Xiao immediately noticed the key point of these words: "I allow."

It seemed this was the condition that triggered certain death.

"It has allowed it."

Su Xiao raised the hand holding the "Book of Original Sin." Leishma's girlishness gradually faded, and her pupils returned to being dim.

A moment later, the black stone barrier of the No. 24 Abyss Spreading Zone shattered with a boom, and the pinky-thick spirit shadow thread in Su Xiao's hand dissipated.

"Officer, if you agree, I can borrow your ability to close the Abyss passage."

A faint smile appeared on Leishma's face.

"Oh."

Su Xiao wasn't very interested in this. The reason was that Leishma was a more dangerous existence than expected. If the originally estimated level of weirdness was 30, then now it might be 500, or even 5000 or more; the upper limit was currently uncertain.

Everyone has moments of error. Waking Leishma up completely was one of Su Xiao's mistakes this time. Fortunately, he had an emergency plan for when there was danger; otherwise, he wouldn't have woken Leishma up. This emergency plan was naturally to have Leishma move into the "Book of Original Sin."

Actually, it was also because of this point that Leishma didn't show her true weirdness to Su Xiao after being completely awakened. She was vaguely wary of the "Book of Original Sin."

"I need a medium to temporarily borrow this ability of yours. Of course, if you want to take this ability back, any time or place is fine; I am just borrowing it temporarily."

As Leishma spoke, a strand of hair fell from her temple. Combined with her eyes that lacked pupil light, it had a kind of... weird, lazy aesthetic?

"A medium?"

"Yes, any medium will do."

"A contract will also do."

"Of course~, that is fine."

Hearing this reply, Su Xiao's thought of wanting to deal with this hidden danger immediately vanished.

"I draft it now, is that also fine?"

"Of course~"

Leishma crooked her finger, letting a criminal with dim pupil light step forward, and commanded:

"Become a chair."

The zombie-like criminal fell to the ground. White bones grew out from within his facial features. These white bones proliferated and coiled in large numbers, forming a white bone round table and two chairs.

Crack, crack, crack~

A crystal layer spread, enveloping the white bone round table and chairs. Only then did Su Xiao sit down.

He took out a contract parchment. After choosing from three contract parchments, he picked up one with some reluctance. The contract parchments he exchanged in the Reincarnation Paradise were not standard ones, but were exchanged in batches. After all, the consumption was relatively large, often consuming thousands at a time.

Such exchanges had both pros and cons. The downside was that among the contract parchments produced in a batch, there would inevitably be inferior ones. Fortunately, they could be used to carry branch contracts.

The upside was that this was 20% cheaper than exchanging for "Standard Quality Contract Parchment," and exchanging in batches like this had a very low probability of obtaining top-tier, or even top-tier+ "Contract Parchment."

Su Xiao had exchanged for many batches of contract parchments. Fortunately, this thing wasn't expensive, but even so, with his level of contract parchment consumption, he had only saved three top-tier+ quality "Contract Parchments."

Besides the contract parchment, other contract tools were very conventional. Su Xiao didn't treat anyone as a fool. As a Hunter, having a high-quality contract parchment was justifiable, but if he took out a pile of professional contract-signing apparatus, it was very possible that Leishma would go back on her word on the spot.

Su Xiao began to write the contract. It took more than twenty minutes to complete the drafting. He let Leishma look it over. As Leishma looked, her brows furrowed slightly:

"Officer, this contract of yours..."

"What?"

"The format isn't quite right. This part should be changed to more definitive Void language to have sufficient contract power. I suggest modifying it."

"..."

Su Xiao frowned, seemingly displeased. He directly drew a line through that section with his pen and began to rewrite it in the space next to it. This left Leishma, with her dim pupils, somewhat speechless.

Half an hour later, a contract with scribbles and revisions was initially drafted. Leishma put down the pen, exhaled lightly, and said:

"Officer, you should improve your contract drafting ability. Although this isn't used often, it shouldn't be this poor."

Leishma looked at the contract parchment in her hand and began to doubt whether this contract could take effect.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak and casually dropped the pen in his hand. Speaking of which, these two pens were both temporarily constructed by him using Aoge Crystal. Because there was no ink, he used the black blood of Abyss-type creatures.

Regarding Leishma's worry about whether this contract could take effect, she didn't need to worry about it at all, because every revision on this contract, every sentence layout, and even every punctuation mark had its necessary meaning.

A trace of a cutting blade appeared out of thin air, cutting Su Xiao's thumb. He directly used his own blood to press it onto the signature area of the contract parchment. Seeing this, Leishma almost supported her forehead with one hand, but she also used her nail to slightly cut her palm and used the bloodstain to press her thumbprint.

The result was that after several seconds, the contract parchment had no reaction. Just when Leishma was about to say something, the contract parchment took effect and gradually faded due to the power of the contract.

The contract was reached. Leishma held her hands in a void grip and pulled. Pinky-thick spirit shadow threads appeared between her hands, representing that she had truly temporarily borrowed Su Xiao's ability to close the Abyss passage.

Seeing this, Su Xiao checked his ability list. Nothing abnormal appeared. "Aoge/Passive" was in an available state. However, he tried to construct the special spirit shadow thread used to seal the passage inside the Abyss, but the result was that just before this special spirit shadow thread formed, a trace of a bright red thread appeared within it, causing it to fail.

Su Xiao chose to bear this risk. With the contract in hand, he could minimize the risk and maximize the benefits. Speaking of which, if it weren't for the medium Leishma mentioned just now, which involved the contract, he definitely wouldn't have let the other party temporarily borrow this ability.

Besides this, he had a trump card for this aspect: "Luck -150,000," check it out. Leishma was indeed very weird, but not weird enough to pierce through such a high amount of luck in a few days. Regardless of whether it was positive or negative, it was still luck, wasn't it?

The Law-Breaking Teleportation Array formed under Su Xiao's feet. Leishma leaped back slightly.

Thud!

Leishma's beautiful hair flew. Even though she had awakened further, she felt this teleportation array was very dangerous.

Southern Continent/Beast Arena.

Su Xiao had just returned for a short while when the Beast Morachi completed its resurrection. All "Beast Cores" were activated. A moment later, two pitch-black hearts were pulled out of the hexagonal hollow crystal by spirit shadow threads. Very good, the normal spirit shadow threads could still be used.

Because Caesar had already left, only he and Amu remained here. There was also the temporarily unconscious Devil girl, Mi'erwei. He had just sat on the crystal chair when a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: Your Imperial Squad has set off for the No. 23 Abyss Spreading Zone and is about to conduct continuous crusades. The settlement for this crusade will be postponed.】

The same as expected, Leishma, awakened to a certain degree, began to speed up the progress.

Opening the terminal handed over by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, he saw that Leishma, who was in the No. 24 Abyss Spreading Zone a second ago, appeared near the No. 23 Abyss Spreading Zone hundreds of thousands of kilometers away the next second. And, not a single one of those criminals was missing; they followed her to the No. 23 area.

"How much longer can it be maintained?"

What Su Xiao was asking about was the positioning device Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had set up. Those were nano-robots that could fuse into the metal parts of clothing and accessories, but they had a decay period.

"Woof."

"That's enough."

Su Xiao felt that five days was enough to finish dealing with this matter. Even, before the Dark Tide came, Leishma would give up her disguise, and even, the other party also wanted to board the ship and head to the "Sea of Life."

Su Xiao, with the authority of the Minister of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department," after some maneuvering, contacted the Honorary Second Lieutenant stationed at the No. 23 Abyss Spreading Zone fortress. This female officer had a serious personality, but after just a few sentences of communication, the other party suddenly lost her voice. Ten seconds later, the other party suppressed the turmoil in her heart and described the collapse of the pitch-black sky wall and the disappearance of the Abyss passage.

Click~

Su Xiao pressed stop on the countdown of his pocket watch. A total of 15 minutes and 30 seconds. Leishma had killed all the dark creatures in the No. 23 Abyss Spreading Zone. As for the Abyss-type creatures there, they weren't stupid and didn't want to fight to the death with someone as weird as Leishma.

With nothing to do right now, Su Xiao began to contact the Honorary Second Lieutenants of each vanguard fortress one by one to learn about the situation of the "Imperial Squad." From the moment Leishma could close the Abyss passage, it was clear she wasn't pretending anymore. She wanted to slaughter all the dark creatures in all the Abyss Spreading Zones and use their dark blood to reawaken the power she had forgotten.

In the No. 23 Abyss Spreading Zone, those criminals had already begun to become half-human, half-beast, but they were exceptionally fierce. By the No. 20 Abyss Spreading Zone, they could no longer see their former human appearance. These criminals, there was nothing worth sympathizing with; the evil they had done was heinous in every single case, otherwise, they wouldn't have been chosen by Tu. Enta.

At that time, Tu. Enta had vented his anger. After the Empire abolished the death penalty law, he had always wanted to deal with those criminals in the major heavy-security prisons. In his view, the actions of these guys were no longer challenging the bottom line of the Empire's laws, but challenging the lowest limit of being human, no, of being a sentient race.

Actually, Tu. Enta didn't need to be angry about this, because after Leishma closed the No. 15 Abyss passage, these criminals all died suddenly. From within their corpses, hounds with oily black skin and fierce, weird appearances crawled out. They became Miss Leishma's dogs.

Su Xiao's original promise was to act as Leishma's anchor, letting the other party fly free for a month, and then return to the Leishma he first met.

But last time, when helping Leishma transplant the "Blood of Fate," that so-called true Leishma was just a personality created by the psychic system. As a result, during the treatment process, it completely collapsed and disappeared. This naturally meant the previous promise regarding the anchor couldn't be fulfilled.

Previously, Su Xiao also thought that this psychic system was gradually bewitching Leishma, making her a pawn in the layout. But now it seems, it seems, it appears, it probably, that psychic system was really sealing Leishma's weirdness. In this way, Su Xiao's situation became: the villain is actually myself.

Good news: he had often been a villain before, so he was long used to it.

Bad news: Leishma was uncontrollable.

Su Xiao picked up the communicator and dialed the Zhong Ta Master, Xier Gofu. It took a long while before it was answered:

"What is it? I've been very busy lately..."

"Busy cultivating your beloved disciple?"

"Hehe, good to know. Speak, what is it."

"Do you recognize Leishma?"

"Oh, that deputy minister in your department? You don't need to pay attention to her."

Hearing these words from Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu, Su Xiao felt a sense of foreboding in his heart. Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu knowing Leishma was the beginning of the bad news.

"She has awakened somewhat."

"Awakened? To what degree? Has she suppressed the psychic personality?"

Hearing these words from Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu, Su Xiao calmly turned down the volume of the communicator and held it further away before saying:

"From fully waking up, there is still..." Su Xiao said this, looked at the photo sent from the No. 3 Abyss Spreading Zone fortress, and changed his words: "Hmm, she has already fully awakened."

"What!!"

Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu's angry shout came from the communicator. Fortunately, he had held it away in advance; otherwise, with the roar of this powerful soul-system user, his eardrums would definitely have been buzzing, even through the communicator.

"You woke her up?"

"Of course not."

"You guarantee it with your personal reputation."

Hearing this, Su Xiao was silent for a few seconds before saying: "I guarantee it with the reputation of a Law-Breaker..."

"It was you kid who did it!!"

One can imagine that Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu, who had lived for three eras, was rarely this furious. However, a moment later, Xier Gofu sneered:

"You deal with the trouble you caused yourself."

"Good."

Hearing Su Xiao agree so readily, Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu on the other end twitched his eyes and said in a deep voice:

"You kid, you dare to mention my name to her..."

Before Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu could finish speaking, Su Xiao had already promised: "I will do my best."

Su Xiao's words undoubtedly meant: I will definitely tell Leishma every single one of your honorable names without omission, and let Leishma repeat them silently so she can recall your 'great kindness' from the past as soon as possible.

Su Xiao suddenly knew why the old king had given him the position of Minister of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" without any conditions. This was not only to sell a personal favor, but also because the deputy minister of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" was Leishma.

He had originally thought that Leishma was an outsider weirdness that had come here by accident. Now, looking at Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu's reaction, it was clearly not so. These three old immortals were old acquaintances with Leishma. It's possible that when they stepped into the second era's alchemy formation trap, it wasn't three people, but four.

At the critical moment, these three "Peak Supremes" + super old schemers sold Leishma out, letting Leishma bear the more tragic sealing suppression of the "Causal Lock Ring," until more than 2,000 years later, when she could be considered to have recovered her former weirdness and strength.

Su Xiao's plan just now was to wait for Leishma to close the No. 1 Abyss passage and then banish her using the contract as a medium. Now it seems he really can't do that, because the fully awakened Leishma might be a temporary ally.

First of all, Leishma must have also borne the sealing of the "Causal Lock Ring." Her goal now must be to recover her former power by devouring a large number of dark creatures. Even if she couldn't recover her former strength because she was in this world, she had to recover to the combat ceiling of this world, and then board the ship to go to the "Sea of Life" together.

For an outsider weirdness of Leishma's level, it was impossible to leave the matter of escaping the trap entirely in the hands of others.

This also meant that if the group succeeded in destroying the "Causal Lock Ring," Leishma would immediately aim her spear at the three giants of this world who had once pitted her: Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu, Leader of the Gods/Origin of All Things Harota, and Ancient Patriarch Hatu. This was undoubtedly the situation Su Xiao wanted to see.

Was Leishma acting all along during their previous time together? No. At that time, Leishma was in a state of memory and power deficiency. As she enjoyed the suffering of others, first her ancient memories recovered, and her former power followed.

On the terminal, the coordinate representing Leishma changed again, appearing near the No. 0 Abyss Spreading Zone of the Southern Continent. You must know that this dark continent was the lair of Ancient Patriarch Hatu. Coming to close the No. 0 Abyss passage was undoubtedly a provocation to this person.

Half an hour later, the massive black cloud slowly rotating in the sky stopped and dissipated. This meant that the root of the dark power here had been cut off, which meant Leishma had closed the No. 0 Abyss passage.

Regarding this, Ancient Patriarch Hatu didn't even show his face. It wasn't out of fear of Leishma, but because more than 2,000 years ago, the extent to which he pitted Leishma was second only to Zhong Ta Master Xier Gofu. Right now, Leishma hadn't come to fight to the death directly, and because of the existence of the "Causal Lock Ring," it was difficult to turn against each other immediately.

【Prompt: Your "Imperial Squad" has successfully closed all Abyss passages in this world.】

【Settling the crusade of the "Imperial Squad"...】

【Settlement complete. 10% has been deducted, and the rest is your gain this time.】

【You obtained 2,785,230 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.】

【You obtained Abyss Shop Refresh Count ×62 (This refresh count can be stored).】

【Detected that your "Bounty 1: Abyss Shadow" and "Bounty 2: Heart of the Stars" have both been completed. Do you want to submit the bounties simultaneously?】

【Submitted "Abyss Shadow/Heart of the Stars" bounties simultaneously.】

【Due to the multi-bounty + bounty correction of the "Hunting List: Blood Pact," you will obtain a bounty with a total value of 70,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

【You obtained Space-Time Stone Fragment ×1500 (This is an equivalent, which can be sold to the Reincarnation Paradise at any time to obtain 15,000 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You obtained Hand of Deception (Unique Trait/Abyss Oddity; this item is equivalent to the value of 55,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

【Hand of Deception】

Origin: Abyss.

Category: A long leather glove stained with grime.

Prompt: This is the exclusive category for this item.

Quality: -- (Due to the highly special nature of this item, it has exceeded the scope of free notarization. If relevant notarization is required, Space-Time Power must be paid).

Effect: Can perform "Deceptive Mimicry."

Warning: Because your compatibility with this equipment is extremely low, you will be unable to wear and activate this equipment.

Rating: --

Introduction: Mimicry to the extreme can make the fake look real.

Seeing this item, Su Xiao opened the friend list of his Reincarnation Brand, found Caesar, and sent it over. The content further down was very simple: "Price."

Only 3 seconds passed. Caesar didn't reply but appeared directly in front of Su Xiao, looking with fiery eyes at the long brown leather glove stained with stains that couldn't be washed off in Su Xiao's hand.

The greed and desire in Caesar's eyes were undisguised. However, thinking of the price he had to pay, he had a twisted expression of being torn apart. Finally, he ruthlessly bid:

"100,000 ounces of Space-Time Power!"

PS: (Tomorrow is Sunday, taking a day off. My dear readers, please forgive me.) ===== CHAPTER 4061 =====