Chapter 4061: Abyss Shop

To Su Xiao, the 【Hand of Deception】 was equivalent to a useless item. To Caesar, this was a divine artifact. In addition, since he was currently cooperating with Caesar, of course, the more means Caesar had, the more advantageous it was for their side. Not to mention, it was something like the 【Hand of Deception】, which was equivalent to a divine artifact for Caesar.

"My dear friend, Caesar suggests that we can appropriately change the plan we scheduled before."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, which was a tacit agreement to Caesar's statement. Seeing this, Caesar handed over a voucher that looked like a contract but had a Reincarnation Brand on it.

【You obtained Space-Time Power Storage Voucher (100,000 ounces/Reincarnation Paradise Notarized Storage).】

This was very interesting. You must know that if you store Space-Time Power in the "Underworld Bank" and "Giant Bank," you can collect interest in Soul Coins proportional to the savings amount. With Caesar's greed, he actually didn't go to those two major Astral Realm forces to save. Conversely, the deposit hall inside the Reincarnation Paradise not only had no interest but also required sufficiently high authority to store for free.

It seems Caesar didn't think highly of the "Underworld Bank" and "Giant Bank." These two major forces, in the face of this Abyss doomsday disaster, were hoarding goods for speculation just like they did during other major events in the past. Don't look at the undercurrents in the Void now; these two forces could be said to be exceptionally well-off.

In contrast, the "Gnome Chamber of Commerce," which previously had a much worse reputation than these two, had already begun to provide ultra-low interest, or even interest-free, loans to major Void forces.

This was also why Su Xiao, despite having slight conflicts with the Gnome Chamber of Commerce, still chose to sell the "World Tree output" to them, instead of letting the "Underworld Bank," "Giant Bank," and "Gnome Chamber of Commerce" compete.

No one knew how terrifying the doomsday catastrophe from the Abyss would be. Letting the Gnome Chamber of Commerce grow stronger through this opportunity would undoubtedly improve the overall strength of the Void. At least from the Gnome Chamber of Commerce's current actions, this was the case.

And, when selling the "World Tree output" before, although the price was extremely high and required rare resources like "Soul Crystal Essence" and "Primordial Core," the other side agreed very decisively. This was obviously also because the Abyss doomsday catastrophe was imminent, and under the condition that interests were not damaged, they tried to achieve mutual success as much as possible.

Regarding the attitude of the Arcane Eternal Star, the Gnome Chamber of Commerce was smiling and respectful on the surface, but in their hearts, they had already begun to crazily greet the ancestors of these spellcasters for eighteen generations.

Of course, for some existing businesses, the Gnome Chamber of Commerce wouldn't cut them off. They were shrewd and wouldn't try to provoke these incomparably powerful spellcasters, and they indeed couldn't afford to offend them.

Actually, Caesar originally deposited his savings in the Gnome Chamber of Commerce and then, through various operations and the judgment of the Tree of the Void, ate interest at the Gnome Chamber of Commerce... cough~, let's call it that. After actual calculation, the interest amount was so high that even loan sharks would have to kneel, hand over a cigarette, and call him big brother. It was interest, right?

Ever since Caesar tricked the chairman of the Gnome Chamber of Commerce until he didn't even have his underwear left, the grudge between the two sides was set in stone.

Su Xiao put away the 【Space-Time Power Storage Voucher】. In the blink of an eye, Caesar, who had just said goodbye, disappeared. It seems the Imperial Treasury was quite busy lately.

Su Xiao looked at the Beast Morachi in the sky. The hexagonal crystal and the "Beast Cores" inside were very stable. With nothing to do, he sat on the crystal chair and opened the task list. The previously completed "Side Quest: Beast Arena" had been slow to react and had been in settlement for a long time.

He tried to claim the settlement rewards again, and it actually triggered the relevant judgment.

【Your task settlement for this time has been completed.】

Good guy, after the Tree of the Void reputation dropped to -????, sometimes the settlement-type reward prompts wouldn't pop up automatically and had to be triggered manually.

【Your task completion rate for this time is 700% (the limit for this task completion rate).】

【You obtained Overlord Treasure Chest: Champion (After opening, you can obtain Overlord equipment ranked 1–100).】

This was definitely a good thing. Even if the Overlord equipment opened didn't have enough compatibility and had to be sold to the Tree of the Void, it was still at least 410 【Overlord Badges】.

Putting away the 【Overlord Treasure Chest: Champion】, Su Xiao opened the Abyss Shop. It still looked the same as it had a long time ago, but right now he had 62 refresh chances, which would definitely yield six "High-Value Refreshes," commonly known as the "True Abyss Shop."

He checked the refresh count, and the result was 0. It seems that when the Tree of the Void reputation broke through from -??? to -???? last time, even the refresh count of the Abyss Shop was cleared.

Su Xiao tried to refresh the Abyss Shop. The next second, all the pitch-black characters floating in front of him gradually dissolved, turning into a pitch-black sphere. This sphere twisted and rotated for a moment, gradually dispersed, and reconstructed the characters of the Abyss Shop.

【Abyss Shop has been refreshed.】

【Judging the Hunter's personal situation...】

【Original Sin Keeper (Passive Authority): For every Abyss/Original Sin item you hold/seal/suppress, the exchange price of all items in the Abyss Shop will decrease by 10%.】

【Currently obtained exchange price reduction: 60%.】

【Current Precipitated Glazed Crystals: 2,978,121.】

【You can perform the following exchanges, and the prices of the following items have all been reduced by 60%.】

1. Primordial Core.

Category: Primordial Power.

Inventory: 1.

Exchange Price: 24,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

2. Original Sin Core.

Category: Original Sin trait oddity, containing a "large amount" of Original Sin traits.

Inventory Quantity:??? (Hunter reputation is too low, unable to view).

Exchange Price: 4,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

3. Flame of the Candle.

Category:???

Effect: After lighting, it will???

Inventory Quantity: 1.

Exchange Price: 2,800 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

4. Greedy Money Bag (Supreme)

Effect: After opening, you can obtain -50 million to 500 million Soul Coins.

Inventory Quantity: -- (No exchange limit).

Exchange Price: 1 Precipitated Glazed Crystal.

Prompt: The exchange price of the next "Greedy Money Bag (Supreme)" will be superimposed based on the quantity already exchanged.

In the past, every time Su Xiao refreshed the Abyss Shop, dozens of pages of items would appear densely. This time, only four types appeared. However, who said that normal attacks couldn't produce miracles? This was just a normal refresh, and it actually yielded a 【Primordial Core】. This was a good start. As for the 【Flame of the Candle】, this belonged to the category of "whoever lights it gets sent away."

This thing was very magical. Whoever lights it dies. Summoning and simultaneously angering the Candle Lady, can one not die?

The three peak Astral Realm alien existences Su Xiao knew: The Rampant Growth doesn't actively show malice if you don't provoke it and trade with it. The problem is that there are many taboos in contacting this Astral Realm alien existence, which is hard to grasp.

The malice of the Old Lord is very strong, belonging to the type where you need Paradise-level protection throughout to trade with it, but you must never communicate with it, or you will be polluted.

The Candle Lady is more direct: Die, die, die! Everyone die!!

Hmm, very... pure.

【You paid 36,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.】

【You obtained Primordial Core ×1.】

【You obtained Original Sin Core ×3.】

Su Xiao could never have too many 【Original Sin Cores】. This thing was something that could devour as many as there were "Books of Original Sin." God knows if he would encounter a seventh big-daddy-level Original Sin item later.

Su Xiao began to refresh the Abyss Shop consecutively. Sure enough, the first time refreshing a 【Primordial Core】 was good luck. In his next eight refreshes, there were quite a few items in the Abyss Shop, and every refresh had dozens of pages and hundreds of items to buy. The problem was that only the 【Original Sin Core】 was worth buying.

Spending a total of 76,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals, he obtained another 19 【Original Sin Cores】. Finally, Su Xiao performed the tenth refresh. As he chose to refresh the Abyss Shop, the pitch-black characters floating in front of him dissolved and aggregated into a sphere again. However, this time the sphere turned toward dark gold. After brewing for half a minute, it dispersed again, forming the dark golden characters of the Abyss Shop.

【Refresh complete. This time a "High-Value Refresh" has been triggered. You can perform the following exchanges.】

1. Primordial Core.

Inventory: 10.

Exchange Price: 24,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

2. Initial Source Quality.

Category: Supreme Source Quality.

Inventory: 1.

Exchange Price: 108,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

3. Original Sin Core...

4. Greedy Money Bag (Supreme)...

Seeing this refresh result, Su Xiao immediately cleared the first three items. He didn't ask for anything else, as long as he had enough 【Primordial Cores】 and 【Initial Source Quality】. As a technique-type, he indeed needed these two too much. Even if he could use "World Tree output" to exchange from the Gnome Chamber of Commerce, the "Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow" ability was a bottomless pit for resources.

【You paid 408,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.】

【You obtained Primordial Core ×10.】

【You obtained Initial Source Quality ×1.】

【You obtained Original Sin Core ×15.】

He continued to refresh the Abyss Shop. When he refreshed to the 20th time, this "High-Value Refresh" only yielded five 【Primordial Cores】 worth exchanging. Instead, he exchanged quite a few 【Original Sin Cores】.

He continued to refresh. When he reached the 30th time, he had some doubts: was this refresh related to luck?

By the 40th time, Su Xiao's goal became: as long as there were 【Primordial Cores】 after a "High-Value Refresh," it wasn't a loss.

After refreshing the 50th time, Su Xiao's heart was already calm. The various strange encounters from opening treasure chests in the past had long made his heart incomparably strong.

Refreshing to the 59th time, Su Xiao summarized his current expenditure and gains.

Total expenditure: 1,860,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals. Gains:

【Primordial Core】 ×25.

【Initial Source Quality】 ×4.

【Original Sin Core】 ×207.

Current remaining: 1,118,121 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

Remaining Abyss Shop refresh count: 3.

The next refresh would be the sixth "High-Value Refresh" triggered by Su Xiao. Right now, he had already used the 【Fate Dominator】 to bless himself with the "Absolute Luck" state. Speaking of which, this was the first "Absolute Trait" buff he had ever obtained. He hadn't known much about this aspect in the past, so he had ignored it.

Su Xiao chose to refresh the Abyss Shop. It was still the same as the previous dozens of times; all the pitch-black characters dissolved and aggregated. But this time, a golden thread appeared on the surface of the pitch-black sphere, and this golden thread continued to spread, turning the pitch-black sphere into a golden sphere. Then it dispersed, forming golden characters with flowing colors.

【Refresh complete. This time a "High-Value Refresh" has been triggered. You can perform the following exchanges.】

1. World-Destroying Blade.

Category: Overlord Equipment/8th Position!

Compatibility with Hunter: 97.62%.

Inventory: 1 (Unique).

Exchange Price: 1,000,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

Su Xiao continued to look down. There were 【Primordial Cores】 and 【Initial Source Quality】 in the list below, but he wasn't in a hurry to exchange those. He had 1,023,081 Precipitated Glazed Crystals on hand, so there was no reason not to take this Overlord equipment ranked eighth.

Not to mention, the true strength of this item was 2.5 million Precipitated Glazed Crystals.

【You paid 1,000,000 Precipitated Glazed Crystals.】

【You obtained World-Destroying Blade.】

【World-Destroying Blade】

Origin: Trace of Destruction/???

Quality: Overlord-level.

Overlord Rank: 8th.

Category: Pendant/Neck Ornament.

Durability: 120/120 points.

Equipment Requirement: Blade Technique Master Lv. EX, and obtain the approval of this equipment within 10 natural days.

Equipment Effect 1: Absolute Blade (Core/Passive), overall strength of Blade Technique core +25%.

Current enhanced trait: Extreme Realm Effect/Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow.

Extreme Realm Effect: Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow (Extreme Realm/Exclusive Passive), your blade technique ability will no longer be confined to past blade moves. You can execute blade moves highly compatible with the current battle and environment based on the different worlds, different environments, and different enemies you face.

Equipment Effect 2: Proud Posture (Passive), this equipment will occupy 8 "Main Equipment Slots" and simultaneously occupy 3 Overlord Equipment Slots.

Current total number of Main Equipment Slots: 14.

Current total number of Overlord Equipment Slots: 5.

Introduction: Simple, yet pure power.

Price: After choosing to activate this equipment, this equipment cannot be traded, discarded, transferred, etc.

The traits of this Overlord equipment were exactly as the introduction said. All of Su Xiao's current blade moves started with "Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow" and were based on "Extreme Blade." A 25% increase in "Heavenly Blade Slash Shadow" was equivalent to increasing Su Xiao's combat power by about one-fifth.

As for why it wasn't one-fourth, he indeed relied mainly on blade technique ability, but in battle, he didn't rely entirely on blade technique ability.

But one thing was certain: the 【World-Destroying Blade】 would definitely be welded into the equipment slot, even if it occupied eight main equipment slots and three Overlord equipment slots, this situation wouldn't change.

Su Xiao opened the equipment list. While the 【World-Destroying Blade】 occupied three Overlord equipment slots, in the judgment of the "Overlord Power" ability, this piece of equipment was equivalent to the weight of three Overlord equipment pieces.

Even the eighth-ranked is so overbearing; the equipment of the top five overlords must be even more astonishing. Furthermore, the top three form another small tier. As for the overlord equipment in the first position, not to mention anything else, its value of 8.52 million ounces of Space-Time Power says it all.

Time passed second by second. Every once in a while, Su Xiao would condense a Blood Beast again, compress it into a "Beast Core," and with a flick of his index finger, easily throw it into the hexagonal crystal.

Unfortunately, the time for harvest was always short. 12 hours before the Dark Tide arrived, and after the Beast Morachi's Nth resurrection, the dark formation on the ground collapsed, and a world backlash, intense to the point of terror, surged from this dark formation.

In the firmament above, eyes of different appearances and from different races opened, looking down with malice toward the direction of the dark array. Here, only the Beast Morachi remained, its gaze somewhat dazed from continuous resurrection, being killed, and resurrection.

After a few seconds, the Beast Morachi's gaze returned to sharpness. It raised its hand to summon the black spear, but summoned nothing. The next second, it felt as if it had been stripped naked and doused with a large bucket of ice water filled with crushed ice.

The Beast Morachi shuddered and immediately looked at the sky, seeing the eyes of different appearances and sizes, all with intense malice, that had replaced the sky above. The world consciousness of this world was crazy and extreme; this was caused by its connection to the "Causal Lock Ring."

Even, this world had always been a semi-transcendent world, unable to take another half-step toward transcendence, precisely because of the "Causal Lock Ring" and this crazy world consciousness.

To continue transcendence, there was only one path: shatter the "Causal Lock Ring" and let the crazy world consciousness connected to it perish along with the shattering of the "Causal Lock Ring." This was the only way out for this world. World consciousness should not, and cannot, possess "self"; otherwise, it is no longer world consciousness.

The perishing of world consciousness didn't mean the collapse of the world. With the scale and robustness of this world, it would soon be able to nurture a new world consciousness. Moreover, the maintenance of the world itself didn't necessarily require world consciousness.

The Beast Morachi looked at the firmament. The feeling of challenging the entire world alone not only didn't make it afraid, but instead made its blood, which had been cooled by being killed, boil again.

Boom!

A dark purple world thunderbolt struck down. Hundreds of kilometers away, Su Xiao was shaken by the loud noise and subconsciously pressed his hand on the hilt of his blade. He looked at the world thunderbolt, a hundred kilometers in diameter, revealing a sense of violence and erosion, acted as if he didn't see it, summoned the Lord Train, boarded it, and threw the Devil girl, Mi'erwei, whom he was carrying on his shoulder, onto the brown leather seat.

Sitting on his exclusive train seat, Su Xiao tapped the touch sensor on the side. A drawer with a very luxurious texture slowly extended. Back then, Morey had helped find a friend to do the interior decoration of the Lord Train, and later Bubu Wang upgraded some of the facilities. The various facilities inside the train became easier to use the more he used them.

Su Xiao searched for a moment among dozens of communicators and finally found one with a skull on it, and the skull was inlaid with fine diamonds. He picked it up, dialed, and then followed a long wait.

Su Xiao finished his barbecue-themed dinner cooked by the alchemy maid. The grilled fish tonight was great. At this time, the communicator on the table connected.

"What's wrong, Bai Ye."

Wood's slightly tired voice came from the communicator. Hearing the other party's increasingly weird and ethereal voice, Su Xiao, who was stabbing post-dinner fruit with a metal fruit fork, paused.

"Actually, you didn't have to choose this way."

"Hahaha, you still have the nerve to talk about me. If it weren't for your speed of improvement being too stimulating, Zui Yas and I wouldn't have had to fight so hard. He is more ruthless than me, ruthless to the point... we might not see him next time, and even if we do, it might not be the Zui Yas we know."

Wood said this with a hint of sadness in his tone.

Zui Yas was truly anxious this time. The Abyss doomsday catastrophe was imminent, and in this catastrophe, the Ancient God system was clearly not among those that could be spared.

Zui Yas had a wife, a mischievous son, and a daughter who was obedient but had a bit of a smart-aleck streak. So he chose to risk everything, just so that when the doomsday catastrophe came in the future, he would have more power.

Zui Yas's original ambition was to reach "Peak Supreme." The Night Mother's suggestion to him was that only by risking everything to devour Abyss power would there be a one-in-a-billion chance of reaching that level.

After hearing this, Zui Yas didn't change his expression and decided, hmm, better not ascend to "Peak Supreme" then, "Super Top-Tier Supreme" would also do.

The Night Mother didn't pay attention to him afterward. However, what kind of person was Zui Yas? He immediately went to harm other elders in the sect. Finally, with a firm goal, Zui Yas set his target: as long as he could ascend to Supreme!

Can only say, this is very Zui Yas.

"Your sister is with me."

Su Xiao spoke. Wood on the other end smiled and looked at Edaier, who was learning etiquette on the balcony of the second floor of the library, tasting exotic wine, and shivering from the sourness.

"My friend, Edaier is within my reach."

As Wood, who was standing by the bookshelf, spoke, a gold coin suddenly appeared in front of him. He sighed, held it, and tossed the coin. The coin flipped. Wood's palm faced upward, and the coin slapped into his palm. On it was a Void number 5.

"Damn!"

Wood, who had always been a gentleman, broke his record and cursed. After all, he was only a hair's breadth away from the certain death of 6.

Wood tossed the coin in his hand again. As it fell, he flipped his palm, and a book with a thick cover, but blank on the cover, appeared in his hand.

"Knowledge?"

Wood exhaled a long breath, holding the thick book in one hand and the communicator in the other, and said:

"Bai Ye, I'm a bit busy right now."

"Don't play dead."

A slight cry of pain came from the communicator, which made the pupil flames in Wood's eyes shrink a bit. The next second, his sister Edaier leaned close to his face, pricking up her ears to listen to the movement in the communicator.

"You seem to have more than one sister."

"Mi'erwei? Bai Ye, you found Mi'erwei? This dead girl ran away from home for many years. Where did you find her?"

"The World of Gods."

"That World of Gods where the world consciousness is crazy? No wonder the top few diviners couldn't divine her."

"Send her back to you?"

As soon as Su Xiao said this, a stubborn voice saying "I don't want to" came from the communicator in Wood's hand.

"Sorry to trouble you. How long will it take?"

"Five minutes."

"Then I won't trouble you. Bai Ye, everyone has their own life, and we shouldn't interfere too much with Mi'erwei's choices. As an older brother, I should have realized this long ago."

Inside the train, Mi'erwei was stunned. She pushed her small round sunglasses and didn't understand why her brother's attitude changed so quickly.

In reality, with Wood's level of old schemer, how could he not think of how his sister would be sent back in five minutes? It must be the "Law-Breaking Teleportation Array," and it had to be a "World-Level Law-Breaking Teleportation Array." He hoped his sister would go home, yes, but he didn't want his sister to become a uniform large patch, splattered onto the stone ground of his backyard.

"Actually, my teleportation array has been improved over many generations. You and I don't need to worry."

"Hmm, I believe you, Bai Ye."

"Then send her back now?"

"No need, thank you."

Wood's "No need" was clearly more certain than the "I believe you" from just now.

"Then I'll release her."

"Good. Knowing she's fine, I'm actually relieved."

"..."

Su Xiao hung up the communicator. He had reached the destination. The train door opened. He looked at the Devil girl, Mi'erwei, meaning she could leave.

The Devil girl, Mi'erwei's face gradually bloomed with a smile, laughing until her eyes under the small round sunglasses curved. She said:

"Brother Bai Ye, where are you going? I can go too. Don't look at me like this, my ability is very weird."

"..."

Su Xiao looked at the Devil girl, Mi'erwei, expressionlessly. Actually, sometimes expressionless means not dangerous; showing a smile, that is the relief of seeing cannon fodder.

"I can turn anyone into a harmless little animal. Of course, this will also allow the other party to be immune to all damage at the causal level, and they cannot be forcibly taken away more than 0.2 meters away. But the duration is long enough, hmm, as long as the other party isn't outrageously powerful, the time is long enough."

The Devil girl, Mi'erwei, proudly raised her chin.

"That's good, turn her into a little animal."

Su Xiao pointed to someone walking outside the train window.

"Okay~"

The Devil girl, Mi'erwei, leaned out to look outside the train window and saw Leishma, who was strolling over, followed by more than a dozen weird-eyed hounds. ===== CHAPTER 4062 =====