Chapter 4065: Four Divine Artifacts

Su Xiao had never attempted to break the final seal on the "Black King Armguard." The armguard had a total of five seals; as his strength increased, he had broken them one by one. When only the last one remained, he was exceptionally cautious because breaking it meant facing the "Source of Deathly Silence" directly.

Now it seemed that caution was correct. If he had forcibly broken the final seal of the "Black King Armguard" and fully released the "Source of Deathly Silence," even with sufficient strength, it would inevitably have ended in a dismal outcome. The best-case scenario would have been him suffering permanent erosion from the deathly silence, forced to seal the "Source of Deathly Silence" within the "Book of Original Sin."

Su Xiao did not believe that obtaining the 【Eternal Gem】 here was a complete coincidence. He hadn't looked at the old woman, but he knew in his heart that this was help from her. Fate, when tied to the later stages, was indeed powerful.

When they first met, the old woman did not take the initiative to speak, clearly not intending to let outsiders know they were acquainted. For this reason, Su Xiao even took the initiative to step forward and, like the others, tried to ask the old woman some questions, giving up only after receiving no reply.

Su Xiao did not intend to use the 【Eternal Gem】 to break the final risk of the "Black King Armguard" for now. Going to the end of the Sea of Life from here was too dangerous. Not to mention whether a fully unsealed "Black King Armguard" would provide any benefits, even if it did, rashly upgrading before a life-and-death battle would not necessarily be an enhancement to his combat power.

With the sea breeze carrying a sweet, cloying scent blowing in, Su Xiao checked the "Hunting Bounty" he had just triggered. "Bounty 3: Butcher of Eyes" had just appeared, and he had given up on it; now it seemed that was a wise choice.

For Bounty 1 and Bounty 2, he chose to accept them and paid the corresponding amount of "Space-Time Stone Fragments." Among them, "Bounty 1: Poisonous Treasure" was not too difficult; at the very least, there was a clear target.

What truly made Su Xiao feel tricky was Bounty 2: Rebirth, which was to complete the baptism of rebirth in the "Primordial Sanctuary." His ability system had nothing to do with rebirth, baptism, and the like. However, there was one point: the "Hunting Bounty" would certainly not trigger something that, once completed, would definitely affect his power system or even lead to a weakening of his own power system.

The characteristic of the "Hunting Bounty" could be summed up in one sentence: just do it. As long as you dare to kill your way through, you can get as many bounties as you want. Look at the "Fate Tyrant" and the "Butcher of Eyes"—the total bounty amount exceeded ten million ounces of space-time power.

Therefore, the content of this Bounty 2 was not necessarily aimed at Su Xiao, but rather something he needed to facilitate. Since that was the case, the rebirth, baptism, and so on in the bounty content didn't matter. Having roughly determined this, he paid enough "Space-Time Stone Fragments," and the bounty was activated.

A world could accept a total of five "Event Bounties," and four had already been accepted. As Su Xiao pondered, the sky above had turned a dim yellow; it seemed this was the overcast cloud of the Sea of Life. As if to verify his thought, raindrops fell to the ground.

Su Xiao stood up and leaped backward; the raindrops fell where he had just been. He turned and walked toward the cabin. Without him needing to give instructions, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja all walked toward the cabin. Along the way, Baja flew up and slapped the back of the heads of the Gray Dog elder brother and younger brother with its wings.

"Back to the cabin, are you just standing there waiting to die?"

After Baja finished speaking, it landed on Amu's shoulder. The Gray Dog brothers both showed anger, but after Amu tilted its head and looked at them, they shrank their necks and honestly followed into the cabin.

The cabin was about 50 square meters and didn't feel crowded. After Amu closed the door, Su Xiao half-squatted on the ground, pressing one hand to the floor. Crystalline threads spread out, sealing all the gaps in the cabin.

At first, there was the sound of raindrops hitting the outside of the cabin, but after a while, it was as if it were hailing outside. In the end, the ship's hull beneath their feet began to rock back and forth; the giant ship seemed to have turned into a seesaw, swaying forward and backward.

The Gray Dog elder brother cursed under his breath. He came to the window, but because the window was sealed with a crystal layer, he could only press against it to look out.

The scene that met his eyes made his sphincter tighten, and his hair almost stood on end. It wasn't raining outside; it was raining worms. Massive amounts of black wriggling worms were falling from the sky. They accumulated on the deck, and after piling up to a certain degree, they began to flow off to both sides, falling into the Sea of Life.

The black worms, carrying intense mental pollution, crowded and gnawed at each other, emitting a crisp, clicking sound. This caused the expression on the Gray Dog elder brother's face to twist. After hearing this sound, his brain felt very itchy, and he wanted to scratch it with his hand, but after fumbling with his right hand for a long time, he couldn't reach his brain. He simply acted ruthlessly and pointed his finger toward the top of his eyeball.

"Lord Bai Ye, Lord Bai Ye!"

The Gray Dog younger brother was very anxious, but although he was silly, he wasn't stupid. He knew that he couldn't touch his brother at this time, otherwise, he would definitely catch this strange change.

"Slap him."

Su Xiao spoke. The Gray Dog younger brother looked confused, but after Baja made a slapping gesture, he suddenly realized.

Seeing the Gray Dog younger brother, whose muscles were knotted all over and whose tall figure was almost hitting the cabin ceiling, wearing a pink tight-fitting suit, he swung his large hand and gave his brother a heavy slap.

Slap!!

This slap was so fierce that it blew Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's fur backward for a while. The Gray Dog elder brother, as the person involved, was immediately spun into a top. This wasn't a metaphor; he was really spinning at an extremely high speed. Because he was wearing a motorcycle suit with metal accessories all over his body, he actually became shiny as he spun.

A moment later, the Gray Dog elder brother's rotation speed decreased. The Gray Dog younger brother, who was very concerned about his brother's condition and adhered to the principle of "eat more of what's good, take more of what's useful," swung his large hand again. Slap! Another heavy slap sent his brother, whose rotation speed had just slowed down, back to the speed he had been at before.

The worm rain outside the cabin didn't stop, and the two brothers inside the cabin played with the top. However, one acted as the top, and the other slapped. After the Gray Dog elder brother had been spinning for a full ten minutes, a transparent worm flew out from his ear canal.

A blood-Qi needle formed and nailed the transparent worm to the wooden wall. The crystal layer spread over and assimilated the transparent worm into crystal.

It wasn't that the Revenge was unlucky to encounter a worm rain day on the Sea of Life; it was that they were in the middle section of the Sea of Life, where worm rain always poured down. The reason was that there was a "Crawling Giant" on the rotten floating island above.

At this moment, the "Crawling Giant," whose body was so large it couldn't be seen in its entirety, like a mountain of flesh, was protruding eyes that were crowded together, bird's-eye viewing the "Revenge" below.

Seeming to weigh things for a moment, the "Crawling Giant" retracted its crowded eyeballs; the people on this ship were not to be trifled with.

If the orange Sea of Life were to become transparent, one would find that on both sides of the "Revenge's" path, there were many entities with huge bodies and terrifying appearances. Those whose willpower was not strong enough would suffer mental collapse and consciousness madness just by looking at them once.

Sailing until early the next morning, when a pale purple light appeared on the horizon, they finally sailed out of the worm rain zone. Walking out of the cabin, there were no traces of black worms on the deck, only white marks left after the slime had dried.

Minister William struck a thick match, used it to light a cigar, and then threw the burning match onto the deck. With a "whoosh," a grayish-white flame quickly ignited and soon dissipated into the air.

"It's coming."

Minister William looked at the purple light on the horizon. As his voice fell, a wall of heaven stood up from above and smashed down, sinking deep into the sea, booming up a huge wave that pushed the "Revenge" backward.

This was a metal wall of heaven towering between the firmament and the seabed. On it were faces of various appearances—some old, some middle-aged, some young. These faces all had their eyes closed. In the central area of these faces was a giant face.

This face had a ferocious appearance, with hooked eyebrows, and prominent eyes wrapped in eyelids, thick lips, and a large, fleshy nose. As the eyelids trembled, this giant face opened its eyes. This was the "Visage of All Things." The previous few voyages of the Big Three had all been blocked here because attacking the "Visage of All Things" was equivalent to attacking oneself.

If one traded life for life, then if the person who traded life came back to life, the "Visage of All Things" would also be resurrected, turning back into an iron-black metal wall of heaven and smashing down.

What was even trickier was that one needed very powerful strength to be able to break the "Visage of All Things." In this world, the number of people who could break it did not exceed the number of fingers on one hand.

What was even more unsolvable was that only the person who broke the "Visage of All Things" could pass through this place. If others came here, the "Visage of All Things" would appear again and smash down again. Therefore, everyone here had a "Visage of All Things" corresponding to themselves.

In the previous few times, the Big Three had tried various methods to break through the "Visage of All Things," but the result was that the more powerful the means used, the more "Visage of All Things" would fall.

The most times was when the Ancient Patriarch Hatu shattered 1596 "Visage of All Things," and he didn't know what means he used to avoid the death backlash of the "Visage of All Things." He even saw a giant island at the end of the Sea of Life.

Unfortunately, after reaching this level, the "Visage of All Things" began to collapse on its own, and the death backlash increased dramatically. The Big Three could only interrupt that voyage.

And this time, the Bell Tower Master Xier Gofu took out an apple-sized, hollow crystal object. Inside was a self-wriggling, transparent blue liquid. If one were to zoom in on the image, one would see that within this soul liquid were faces screaming in agony, dense and numerous, numbering in the thousands.

"Are you sure?"

Su Xiao spoke. Bell Tower Master Xier Gofu sighed:

"Eighty percent at most. If it doesn't work, we'll use the old method."

"..."

Su Xiao looked at Caesar, but who would have thought that Caesar's look at the "Visage of All Things" was simply a thief's glint with a dim yellow light. This look made the Bell Tower Master subconsciously touch his own space-characteristic ring. A feeling of no threat to life, but a severe threat to property, made Xier Gofu feel secretly solemn.

Caesar took out the Abyss Jar, which made Xier Gofu's eye corner twitch. He looked at Su Xiao and then at Caesar. The only feeling was, was it because the Abyss was encroaching? Are Original Sin items so easy to communicate with?

He remembered that during the First Era, Original Sin items were almost certain death if used. A "Peak Strongest" of his era relied on his own strength to use the "Nether Bone Ring," seeking power above the "Peak Strongest," but ended up dying from the heavy Original Sin karma of the "Nether Bone Ring."

Wearing the "Abyss Jar" on his head, the "Hand of Deception" on his right hand, holding the "Endless Greed Shabby POS Machine" in his left hand, and tying the "Filthy Foot Binding" around his waist.

Caesar, who had taken out all "Four Divine Artifacts," made everyone present exceptionally solemn. Even Reshma, an outsider strange entity who always had a smile on her face and a rather lazy feeling, became serious and retreated a step without a trace.

Caesar stunned everyone except Su Xiao, which made him subconsciously straighten his back and rush forward, making a gesture to leap into the sea. However, he jumped too low, and his foot hooked on the handrail at the top of the ship's side, plunging headfirst into the sea.

With a splash, he fell into the sea. Everyone present changed from the previous solemnity to astonishment. The subordinates of the Big Three even stepped forward to the ship's side, ready to see how this deceiver would be gnawed to the bone by the countless worms in the Sea of Life.

The result was a scene that made everyone's jaws drop. After Caesar fell into the water, the surrounding worms did indeed swarm over. Caesar was not panicked at all and immediately lowered his hand to take off the shoe on his right foot.

At this moment, with Caesar as the center, the orange seawater within a hundred meters suddenly changed color, from orange to dark yellow, and then shifted to a dark yellow that made the stomach uncomfortable.

The worms and various strange aquatic creatures in the surrounding sea area floated on the surface in an instant, and victims continued to increase. Before long, a giant strange aquatic creature floated up, its mouth full of vomit, looking painful. By the looks of it, it had clearly kicked the bucket.

Mechanical Pope Ange Maner, the Three Pillar Gods, Mentor Loichi, Faceless Ghost, Minister William, Soul Master, Aurora, and others were all stunned after seeing this scene, especially Aurora. She was the most severely hurt internally; many of those strange aquatic creatures that were smoked to death were ones she couldn't deal with, yet they were smoked to death just like that.

In fact, Aurora didn't know that when Caesar took off his shoe, Su Xiao, Xier Gofu, and Hatu all had to subconsciously retreat a step. As for the Origin of All Things Harota, anyway, this was just a part of the main body, so if it was gone, it was gone.

Caesar swam on the water surface toward the iron-black metal wall of heaven. With him as the center point, those strange aquatic creatures fled further away, and the faces on the iron-black metal wall of heaven all began to tremble. They all opened their eyes and gradually showed horror.

The "Visage of All Things" at the very center suddenly widened its eyes. It immediately lowered its eyes to look at Caesar, who was climbing up. Its giant face trembled obviously, but it was bound by the "Causal Lock Ring." Unless it was a last resort, on the verge of destruction, it would not retreat.

The limit it could withstand was destruction below 5162 times within two-thirds of a natural day.

The "Visage of All Things" stared fixedly at Su Xiao. It was not afraid of attacks from powerful people; in fact, it became even more powerful by absorbing powerful attacks. This was also the reward the alchemists paid it back then. To hold its ground here for eight eras, the reward was to constantly withstand the attacks of increasingly powerful people for 100 years. From this, it could be seen that the alchemists had not set up this cage for just a day or two.

The "Visage of All Things" had already received the benefits; otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to block the Big Three so many times. Being broken by the Big Three was obviously an extra gain, so the "Visage of All Things" couldn't let these guys pass.

Caesar climbed up with difficulty. Halfway up, he suddenly stopped. Just as everyone on the ship was wondering what means he would use.

This guy took out a very long piece of bread and a large piece of air-dried cooked meat sausage, and began to wolf it down. This was because his physical exertion was too great, and he needed to replenish his strength. Finally, after gulping down half a bottle of water, Caesar let out a satisfied burp. It is worth mentioning that these food and drinks were all stolen by him from the back kitchen of the "Empire Special Affairs Department" before.

Caesar continued to climb upward. With a boom, an impact blasted out from the surface of the "Visage of All Things," but it had no effect on Caesar. Instead, a huge strange aquatic creature flew out from the sea in the distance. In mid-air, it shattered due to the impact force, falling as fragments and a large number of parasitic worms.

When Caesar climbed to below the face of the "Visage of All Things," its expression was already pulled upward to the extreme, looking both funny and ghostly. When Caesar reached its chin, its five senses all closed, with a posture of not opening its mouth or eyes no matter what.

Caesar, who had climbed until he was sweating all over, took out the 【Endless Greed Shabby POS Machine】 from his pocket and operated something toward the "Visage of All Things."

The next second, the "Visage of All Things" magically opened its mouth to the maximum. In fact, Caesar had loaned 5 seconds of "mouth and jaw opened to the maximum" from the "Visage of All Things." The interest was that Caesar would also do the same later, but it would last for 10 seconds, with 100% interest, which was very high.

But in the feeling of the "Visage of All Things," it had always kept its five senses closed.

Caesar took off the shoe on his left foot and threw the shoe, which was emitting turbid yellow thick smoke, into the mouth of the "Visage of All Things." The "Visage of All Things" then closed its mouth.

Seeing this scene, the Bell Tower Master Xier Gofu on the ship had his cheeks twitch.

After a brief silence, the "Visage of All Things" suddenly widened its eyes, opened its mouth to the maximum, and thick yellow smoke poured out from its mouth, nostrils, and ear holes.

"Ah!!!"

A miserable high-pitched scream that resounded through half of the Sea of Life spread out. The metal wall of heaven began to tremble, dissolve, and finally collapsed into the seawater with a boom.

The "Visage of All Things" was not shattered, but entered a state that seemed no better than death. When Caesar, who had put his shoes back on, climbed onto the ship, the eyes of everyone on the ship were different. If it was wariness toward him when he took out the "Abyss Jar" before, now it was key prevention, especially for those present who had relatively large bodies and could be thrown into their mouths by the shoe.

After entering the Sea of Life, there were actually four dangers. First, there were massive amounts of strange aquatic creatures. The reason they didn't approach was not only because of the powerful aura of Su Xiao and the Big Three, but more importantly because of Reshma, the outsider strange entity.

The second danger came from the friendly communication of the "Eye of No Darkness." If one's willpower and soul were not strong enough, basically, one would go crazy after one interaction. The "Revenge" was not the first giant ship to arrive at the Sea of Life. The Big Three had long spread the news that the Realm of the Gods contained all the legacies of the alchemical civilization, but that was more than 1000 years ago.

The reason this matter was not recorded was mainly because the adventurers who had come here in a mighty force had all turned into bones under the sea.

The third danger came from the "crawling giant" on the floating island above. The result was that the "crawling giant" did not want to face the priest directly; it was afraid of being eaten by him. Yes, this maniacal monster, when facing the priest, went from being the perpetrator to the victim.

The fourth danger came from the "Visage of All Things." The situation now was already very clear; it was almost kicked the bucket and had fallen into a deep coma. Whether it could wake up was hard to say, but even if it did wake up, it would have to rest for a few hundred years to slightly soothe the huge trauma it had suffered today.

After sailing for another two days, finally, land appeared in front, and along with it, a giant metal eye in the sky.

If the feeling the "Eye of No Darkness" gave people was that it was composed of energy, and only the core part was unknown and fearful, then this giant metal eye, which seemed to be embedded in the sky and overlooking the bottom, gave people a strong sense of fear and eeriness.

Inside it was an eye tissue structure with biological characteristics, but many long, thin sharp cones were inserted into it. Careful observation would reveal that these were ultra-large "Thorns of Mercy" that could bring extreme pain.

Besides this, various metal structures were rudely stuffed into this giant eye, looking cruel and rude. To ensure stability, the giant eye was riveted with many metal ring strips. Therefore, from a distance, it looked like a giant metal eye.

This giant eye, with a diameter of several thousand meters, causing the surrounding space to be covered with flesh and blood tissue, slowly rotated, aiming its gaze at the "Revenge."

Su Xiao grabbed the fur on the back of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's neck and immediately rushed into the cabin. After all members of the team entered the cabin, he kicked the door shut with a bang.

Crackle! Crackle!

A strong sense of friction came from the entire ship. Mechanical Pope Ange Maner, in the cabin opposite, used his ability to form a body without consciousness and soul, and threw it onto the deck.

After the ownerless body landed on the deck, the skin all over its body was torn open, flesh and blood flew, and bones twisted. This feeling was like the "Mechanical Giant Eye"... no, it should be the "Alchemical Giant Eye." It was like the "Alchemical Giant Eye" venting all the pain and torture it had suffered onto everything within its gaze.

Looking at the buildings on the land in the distance, one could confirm this point; the tops of the buildings were covered with pits, as if they had been repeatedly ground by a saw blade.

The bad situation was that the "Revenge" could not last long under the gaze of the "Alchemical Giant Eye," and it was highly likely that it could not reach the shore.

Su Xiao raised his hand. Before he could speak, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had already handed over a space probe. He stabbed the probe into space. The space within the range of the "Alchemical Giant Eye's" gaze was very unstable. Daring to teleport over a medium-to-long distance, one might not know which layer of the crack one would get lost in. If it was a short-distance teleportation, with the power of the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array," there would be no problem.

Just as he was about to form the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array," a ball-like black spirit entity beside the old woman suddenly appeared. It opened its big mouth covered with small sharp teeth, spat out an object wrapped in black sealing material, and then immediately disappeared.

【You have obtained Seal Demon (Overlord Equipment · 128th · Growable).】

It was the Demon Blacksmith who had finished crafting the 【Seal Demon】 scabbard, but for some reason, the Demon Blacksmith had handed the scabbard to the old woman.

Directly putting away the 【Seal Demon】 scabbard, the "Revenge" was about to be unable to hold on. Su Xiao released a blood-Qi shadow formed by blood-Qi, but this time the blood-Qi shadow was much smaller. He drew his bow and shot an arrow. A crystal arrow shot out and hit the main gate of a particularly magnificent hall, several hundred meters high, on the island in the distance.

The crystal arrow shattered, but that didn't matter. Su Xiao had already calculated the spatial distance. The next second, the "Law-Extinguishing Teleportation Array" enveloped the entire cabin.

Boom!

The "Revenge" shook. Alchemical Maid Vinya, who had been very confused after arriving here, was sent into a dreamland on the spot.

The spatial mist around gradually dissipated. Su Xiao took a side step and supported the wall with one hand. The space in this nearby area was indeed too unstable.

"Ugh~!"

Caesar supported a marble pillar with one hand. If it weren't for being reluctant, he would have already vomited the bread and ham he had just eaten. As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and the Gray Dog brothers, they were all sitting there, completely dumbfounded. A few seconds later, they lined up and began to roar like dragons.

After Su Xiao recovered for more than ten seconds, he looked around at the situation. This was the entrance hall of a hall. Above was a stained-glass dome. Everything he saw was beauties of various races with different charms.

"Law-Extinguisher, the journey has been too hard, you should rest for a while."

A tall beauty with silver-white long hair and daring clothing raised her hand to stroke Su Xiao's face.

After a calm hand-blade from Su Xiao, only more than half of the tall beauty remained. She fell straight down and gradually turned into a pool of wriggling rotten meat, seeping into the black and white checkered floor tiles.

【You have entered the high-risk area of this world: Breeding Hall.】