Chapter 4066

This place was warm and turbid, giving one a sense of life's distortion. Su Xiao looked at the fresh blood staining his hands; the moment he had just killed this bewitching demon, he felt something eroding his soul.

This gave him an inner urge to stay here forever, to no longer risk his life, and to no longer climb toward higher places. The Mother of Birth, Eve, needed him to stay here. Regarding this, a bright red light flared in Su Xiao's eyes, and his blood energy surged violently toward his surroundings.

Boom!

Like a sea of scarlet blood erupting, Su Xiao pressed his right index and middle fingers together, forming a thin, hollow spike. He instantly stabbed this spike into the center of his brow. As he slowly pulled it out, a pink, thread-like worm, appearing both real and illusory, was already inside the hollow spike, constantly twisting and struggling, attempting to escape.

Crack, crack, crack~

Under the assimilation of the crystal, this pink thread-like worm was crystallized and shattered along with the crystal spike. Fortunately, he now possessed "Absolute Will"; otherwise, relying only on the soul-type control immunity of a former Sword Art Master, he would definitely have been caught. Soul control immunity is a shield that can block an instantaneous, violent soul impact, but it cannot block this kind of continuous, soaking immersion that feels like being drowned by a great flood.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha were all asleep on the ground. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was sleeping the most soundly, the reason being that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had no evil thoughts regarding lust. From the way this idiot kept kicking its legs and the expression on its dog face, it was clearly being chased by a group of female peers in its dream.

Amu, meanwhile, had drool flowing from its mouth. It! It had eaten the lustful opposite sex it dreamed of?! Though it was hard to imagine what the lustful partner in Amu's dream looked like.

Baha, on the other hand, had a lewd grin on its face; one didn't need to think to know that this guy was already enjoying it.

The Alchemy Maid, Vinya, had a dazed look in her eyes. She had not fallen into the "Phantasmagoria." The master of the "Breeding Hall," the Mother of Birth, Eve, seemed to have deliberately bypassed the Alchemy Maid, which made Su Xiao further confirm that the Alchemy Maid had once been to this island.

Soul energy clung to his right foot. With one kick each for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, plus the scarlet blood energy Su Xiao was surging toward his surroundings, all three of them were startled awake.

"Boss, I met the love of my life!"

"..."

Su Xiao observed Baha. Seeing that there was still a faint pink phantom in its eyes, he went up and gave it another kick, sending Baha flying against the opposite wall, then bouncing back. Seeing it squirm twice without a sound, Su Xiao made a move to kick it again.

"Boss, Boss! The love of my life has already been kicked away by you. I'm awake, really awake. Damn, I was even wondering, I'm a male, how could I have laid an egg..."

Baha shut its mouth quickly as it said this. If the content of this illusion were to spread, it would be laughed at for a lifetime.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang intercepted this segment recorded on the terminal, preparing to share it with Benny when it returned. This was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's habit. Don't look at how it and Benny often have cat-and-dog fights; for important or interesting matters, it would always intercept the terminal recording and show it to Benny.

Miss Benny often wore an expression of "this cat is not interested," but in reality, she secretly watched these squad recordings in her cat house before going to sleep, often falling asleep while watching.

Su Xiao looked at the Gray Dog brothers. Very good, the two brothers were already lost in thought, each hugging a pillar, performing a high-level social death act there.

Just in this short while, the Alchemy Maid walked toward the inner part of the hall, making a move to push open the pale wooden giant door.

Sss~

The Spirit Shadow Threads retracted, and the Alchemy Maid was pulled back. After she struggled weakly a few times and the daze in her eyes faded slightly, she stopped struggling and instead stood there blankly, her gaze vacant.

"Vinya."

"Vinya."

"Vinya, my child!"

A faint, ethereal call appeared beside the Alchemy Maid Vinya's ear. Just as a different look appeared in her eyes, a hand wearing a crimson metal gauntlet reached out in front of her and snapped its fingers. The slight vibration of blood energy scattered the voice that was flickering in the air.

Confirming that the Alchemy Maid would not have any abnormalities for the time being, Su Xiao constructed a crystal chair and sat down to wait. He could sense that after pushing open the door in front, the existence located in the core area of the "Breeding Hall" would wake up, and what followed would be a fierce battle.

Su Xiao did not intend to fight this battle. As for joining forces with the Big Three, the priest, and Reshma to fight, there was no such possibility. Su Xiao did not trust them, and they would not turn their backs to Su Xiao; it was that simple.

When these guys arrived, whoever wanted to deal with this soul-type powerhouse could go ahead and deal with them. He took the tightly wrapped 【Demon Sealer】 out of his storage space to examine this upgraded scabbard.

【Demon Sealer】

Origin: Void · Demon Blacksmith

Quality: Overlord-tier.

Overlord Ranking: 128th (Growing).

Category: Scabbard.

Durability: 350/350 points.

Equipment Requirement: Shadow of the Law Breaker.

Equipment Effect 1: Demon Sealing Realm (Core · Passive). When "Checking Zhan Long Shan" is in its sheathed state, every point of "Blade Demon Spirit" intensity will nourish your "Base Health." Currently, it can nourish it up to a maximum of 30 million points (this is the upper limit before ascending to the peak of the Supreme Tier).

Current Demon Spirit Intensity: 6605 points.

Current Demon Sealing Realm Nourishment Ratio: 6.5% (This nourishment ratio will be determined based on the comprehensive strength of "Demon Sealer").

Equipment Effect 2: Blade Nourishment (Passive). When your sword is sheathed, it will recover 5 points of durability per minute until the durability is restored to its maximum value. However, for every 10 points of durability recovered, the "Maximum Durability" will be temporarily reduced by 1 point until this weapon is repaired by a highly skilled blacksmith, at which point the temporarily reduced "Maximum Durability" can be restored.

Hint: The durability recovery brought by this scabbard cannot provide a repair effect for your sword; you still need to find a blacksmith to perform a complete repair on this weapon.

Hint: Using this effect to recover the sword's durability will cause the difficulty of the next repair of the sword to increase by 1000%–1200%; you need to choose carefully.

Equipment Effect 3: Gluttonous Overlord (Core · Passive). Demon Sealer can devour "any Overlord equipment" and bring about an equipment rating that breaks the upper limit.

Rating: 7200 points (This Overlord equipment has a unique equipment rating judgment).

Introduction: Fight! Fight to your heart's content!!

Price: Cannot be sold.

Without needing to consider, Su Xiao immediately fed the previously discarded 【Nightmare Eye】 and 【Shattered Star】 to 【Demon Sealer】. The 【Devourer】 was also fed to 【Demon Sealer】. Didn't this Overlord equipment love to devour other equipment before? This time it was its turn to be eaten.

The Overlord ranking of 【Nightmare Eye】 was 559th, and 【Shattered Star】 was 259th. After devouring both, the Overlord ranking of 【Demon Sealer】 rose from 128th to 121st, an increase of only seven places. It seems that only by devouring Overlord equipment that is ranked higher can it help the improvement of 【Demon Sealer】.

Speaking of which, Su Xiao's several pieces of equipment are all somewhat ferocious. Checking Zhan Long Shan eats swords, Demon Sealer eats Overlord equipment, and the Endless Ring is even more impressive; it can eat any equipment.

Other Supreme Hunters have several sets of fully equipped gear to deal with different situations. On Su Xiao's side, the equipment is becoming fewer and fewer. It's truly that there's nothing left; some that cannot be sold are all thrown to the Endless Ring to be devoured.

After entering this world, Su Xiao had already realized that the method of killing "Immortal Abyss Nourished Beings" or "Abyss Descendants" to obtain their "Origin Energy," and then absorbing it through a monopolistic method to increase health + Abyss resistance, although reliable, was very unstable.

For example, after entering this world, he had neither encountered an "Immortal Abyss Nourished Being" nor had the opportunity to completely kill an "Abyss Descendant" for the time being. Previously in the Beast Arena, it seemed there was a chance to kill, but in reality, the rule there was that to completely kill meant to replace their position. He was neither prepared to fall out with that old beast nor did he want to join the Rune family for the time being.

Because of this, his health was still 11.57 million points. For other Supreme-tier powerhouses, this was already not low, but for Su Xiao, it was not enough. Optimistically estimating, if he could master a sufficiently powerful "Supreme Passive · Stamina" later, being able to increase his health by 7 million to 10 million points at the current stage was already the limit.

Wanting to make up the remaining nearly 10 million by absorbing "Origin Energy" was very unreliable. The appearance of the 【Demon Sealer】 scabbard was undoubtedly an opportunity. If he really piled resources on it crazily to make it reach the top 20 or even top 10 among Overlord equipment, then combined with the 6605 points of Demon Spirit intensity, it was really possible to make up for this part of the health gap.

Before ascending to the "Supreme Peak," increasing "Base Health" to 30 million points was a very important link. This could increase the success probability of the ascension, and the proportion of this was second only to the core technique "Heavenly Blade Slashing Shadow." After all, health corresponds to whether one can survive.

Time passed second by second. Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair. In this world, he hadn't let go and fought with full strength yet. And, after mastering "Heavenly Blade Slashing Shadow," "Annihilation Blood Spear," and "Extreme Realm · Astral Realm," he gradually wanted to have a life-and-death battle with an enemy who was evenly matched or even stronger than himself.

This feeling began to gradually intensify after entering this world. Originally, he had decided to have a life-and-death battle with that old beast, but the "Causal Lock Ring" of this world forced this plan to be extinguished. Coupled with the fact that the fighting in the Beast Arena wasn't satisfying at all, he had finally encountered a strong enemy now.

Otherwise, would a soul-type one suffice? Although the experience of fighting wouldn't be exhilarating, it would still be a life-and-death battle of sufficient intensity.

Yes, Su Xiao somewhat wanted to fight. Regarding this bit of battle-thirst, he didn't restrain it. Born as a human, it was impossible to have no desires at all. Compared to sinking into gluttony, lust, etc., having a bit of battle-thirst was the best shortcoming for a Sword Art Master.

He had already abandoned habits like cigarettes, the reason being that the "Elemental Brew" he brewed himself was very good, just like now, when there was some battle-thirst in his heart.

Pop~

The cork was pulled out. Su Xiao held the bottle of "Elemental Brew" and took several large gulps, and the battle-thirst in his heart that was gradually like fire cooled down a bit.

He glanced at the fine wine in the bottle. Before this bottle of fine wine was finished, if those guys hadn't arrived, he would fight this battle. As for whether there was any scheming after landing on the island, he didn't believe the Big Three would be stupid enough to stab him in the back before the "Causal Lock Ring" shattered. Such stupid guys couldn't have survived from the First Era until now.

Su Xiao touched Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog head and took another sip of "Elemental Brew." Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang turned its head to look. It suddenly felt that its master seemed a bit different. This change wasn't sudden; it was a gradual change as his strength increased. He was still the cold and murderous, violent, and powerful technique user, but he had become powerful and difficult to shake. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang wagged its tail happily.

Just at this moment, flesh and blood grew on the ceiling not far away. The Mechanical Pope, Ange Maner, landed first, followed by the Three Pillar Gods, and finally the Origin of All Phenomena, Harota.

After the Origin of All Phenomena, Harota, appeared, he looked at the tall wooden door leading to the inner side.

"You, not interested?"

"Soul-type, not interested."

"Then, according to the agreement, I, come."

The Origin of All Phenomena, Harota, turned into dark red flesh and blood, growing and spreading in large quantities, covering most of the area in front. It gradually permeated the wooden door and entered it.

Boom!!

Dark red aura erupted, confronting the pink aura. Through the doorway, Su Xiao saw a skeleton bed with curtains around it, on which a huge figure was lying on her side. Her upper body was the appearance of a beautiful, huge beauty, and her lower body was rotting flesh that was constantly bubbling and squirming.

This was exactly the "Mother of Birth, Eve," created by the Second Era's alchemy lineup, whose lethality to the world was comparable to the Great Lords. Her battle record was:

Destroyed 2 Supreme-tier worlds.

Destroyed 9 High-tier worlds.

Destroyed 59 Ninth-tier worlds.

Destroyed 104 Eighth-tier worlds.

The above battle record can be checked in the Soul Library.

Su Xiao walked into the sleeping hall, which made the "Mother of Birth, Eve" even more solemn. Facing Su Xiao or the Origin of All Phenomena, Harota, alone, she could be evenly matched, but facing both at the same time, she would have to wake up other sleepers on the island.

After Su Xiao entered the sleeping hall, he glanced at the "Mother of Birth, Eve" and walked toward the dark silver metal door on the side. Seeing this, the skeleton bed under the "Mother of Birth, Eve" came to life; this was surprisingly also a part of the "Mother of Birth, Eve."

After the "Mother of Birth, Eve" stood up completely, she was like a huge skeleton spider. Her originally squirming, bubbling lower body was actually the neck position, and the huge beauty of the upper body was just the head.

Crack, crack~

The center of the huge beauty's chest cracked open, revealing sharp teeth and fangs inside, as well as eyes one after another, and pus dripped down like drool.

"Roar!!"

The roar spread very far, and Su Xiao was also in this roar, but he didn't pay any attention to it, just walking toward the silver metal door.

Zing, zing, zing!

Intersecting slash marks appeared, and the silver metal door shattered with a bang. Su Xiao walked into it, and a large amount of filthy matter sprayed toward him, but it was blocked by the dark red flesh and blood that surged over.

The Origin of All Phenomena, Harota, was draped in a dark red cloak that looked like flowing metal. This cloak closed in front of him. After his arms were invisible, his height of over eight meters and broad shoulders made him appear even taller. Coupled with Harota standing on the towering dark red flesh and blood, his physique and aura gave him a strong sense of majesty, simply looking down on the "Mother of Birth, Eve."

A god, looking down on ants.

The metal corridor seemed to lead to the end of this island. Su Xiao had been walking for half an hour. Just when he thought he had entered some illusion again, a fork in the road appeared in front.

This was a choice. Su Xiao chose to go left, Xiang Bubu chose right. After the squad's final deliberation, they went left.

Ten minutes later, Su Xiao returned to the fork in the road just now, this time going right. The suppression of perception on this island was too strong. Except for his "Absolute Perception," other perception methods were all ineffective. As for why he turned back, don't pay attention to the insignificant detail of walking into a dead end.

Not long after walking, a heavy dark gold giant door stood in front. On both sides of this giant door, there was a fork in the road. On this giant door, there were a total of four keyholes. One had to collect four keys to open it.

Su Xiao took a few steps back. Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha turned around and ran toward the corridor behind them. After Amu ran a few steps, it found that the Alchemy Maid hadn't moved, so it turned around and grabbed the other's back collar, carrying the Alchemy Maid as it ran. As for why Amu brought the Alchemy Maid, it was because the Alchemy Maid cooked delicious food.

The Gray Dog brothers were both full of confusion. Just when the two brothers were hesitating whether to follow and escape or stay and pretend to show loyalty, Su Xiao had already disappeared from where he was, kicking straight with one foot, hitting the metal door in front.

Thud!!!

At this moment, the Gray Dog brothers seemed to see the gate of heaven. The violent impact coming head-on turned them into two beams of light, instantly surpassing Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, who had run a long way in the corridor.

Today, some uninvited guests came to the "Secret Island," which made the Sea of Life, which was calm to the point of being boring, become a bit different. At this moment, above the "Secret Island," the "crawling giant" controlled the floating island to drift here, its giant eyes looking down at the bottom.

The "Alchemy Giant Eye" above the "Secret Island" certainly recognized the "crawling giant." The two of them had had conflicts, but due to the passage of long years, being too bored turned these two former enemies into friends who weren't quite friends. They were looking down at the huge island below.

Thud~!!

The "crawling giant" saw with its own eyes that an impact, starting from the Secret Island, spread to the surroundings, bang, stirring up awakening waves—no, it should be a tsunami. This tsunami was only a few dozen meters high at first, but soon broke through a hundred meters, reaching a terrifying tsunami of several thousand meters. It looked like it was going to sweep across most of the Sea of Life.

Thud~! Thud~! Thud!!

The Secret Island was like suffering divine punishment, beginning to tremble one after another. The metal weathering layer on the edge of the island fell off in large pieces into the sea. After seeing this scene, the "crawling giant," which originally wanted to watch the fun, drove its own floating island and set off into the distance. This fun seemed very dangerous.

The "Alchemy Giant Eye" could only watch helplessly as the "crawling giant" went away. It was fixed here, and except for closing its eyes, there was no other way to avoid it.

In the old metal passage, Su Xiao stomped his slightly numb right lower leg. He didn't have time to look for the four keys, so he chose to bring his own keys. Judging from the results, hmm, very good. The power of the kicking technique at the moment was not on the same tier as before.

"Lv. EX Ultimate Ability · Power Penetration · Kicking Technique Twelve-fold Enhancement (Supreme-tier · Passive): The power of your 'kick' will be boosted by your 'Base Vitality Volume,' 'All Main Attributes,' and 'Soul Intensity.'"

Su Xiao's current real stamina attribute of over 2500 allowed him to kick straight several times in a row, only making his right lower leg numb. Of course, this time it was to open the door, so he was holding back some strength. He couldn't kick this building, which was suspected to be a treasure vault, to pieces with one kick; that would be more loss than gain.

If it were a kick with limit strength during a life-and-death battle, then he must space it out before kicking a second time. He didn't want to lose his right leg while also cracking his internal organs.

The metal treasure vault door in front was curling inward, seemingly showing what kind of brutal treatment it had just received.

【Hint: You have entered the Second Era · Alchemy Faction Heritage Treasure Vault.】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao confirmed that not a single item here could be taken. First, those ultimate ruthless people of the Second Era who could even curse their own power systems would not leave any possibility of providing resources to the enemy. Second, this treasure vault door was not worthy of the security level of alchemy heritage.

The moment Su Xiao walked into the treasure vault, he seemed to have come to the kingdom of giants. One towering display rack after another was neatly arranged, each a hundred meters high, on which were dazzling items of all kinds, including rare materials, secret treasures made by alchemists, and 【Origin Cores】 one after another.

Compared to this alchemy treasure vault, the heritage of the former Ancient Dragon/Sun faction seemed not very wealthy. Su Xiao turned his head to look at Caesar, who had come in together.

Caesar's nostrils were enlarged, and he was snorting like a bull. He made a move to pick up an alchemy secret treasure, but the moment before his hand touched it, he immediately withdrew it. This made him feel like his heart was being scratched and his insides were burning; being able to see but not being able to possess it was simply torture for Caesar.

"My dear friend..."

Bang!

Before Caesar could finish speaking, Amu had already knocked Caesar unconscious with a stick under Su Xiao's instruction. In fact, how could a guy like Caesar, who had "Absolute Health," be knocked unconscious just like that? He was just giving himself and the "Greed Original Sin" a way out.

Arriving at the high platform in the center of this treasure vault, Su Xiao looked around, once again having a new understanding of the wealth of the Second Era alchemists. Was he just going to leave like this? Of course, no.

The 【Endless Ring】 appeared in Su Xiao's hand. He completely released his suppression of this ring. A few circles larger than a gold coin, with a dark gold metal texture on the outer ring and completely pitch-black inside, the "Endless Ring" floated up. It first submerged into the space above, and then expanded, forming a black hole with a diameter of more than ten meters.

A suction force came from above. Living beings could only feel a slight pull, but for rare secret treasures, it was a huge suction force that could not be resisted. All the giant display racks here flew up, and the various rare secret treasures on them flew higher. The "Endless Ring" was like a whale sucking in a river. In just a few hours, all the rare secret treasures were sucked into it.

"Endless Ring · Equipment Effect 2: Endless Devouring (Core · Passive). The Endless Ring can devour other equipment/rare items (including unnotarized states, and even equipment/rare items that do not belong to you), and increase the rating upper limit of the Endless Ring based on the quality, rating, and intensity of the devoured items."

It was precisely because of the characteristics of the "Endless Ring" that Su Xiao chose to do this.

The "Endless Ring" can devour equipment/rare items that are not notarized or even do not belong to Su Xiao. For others, this is just an equipment introduction, but for people like Su Xiao and Caesar who often perform wonderful operations and have a deep understanding of judgment and notarization, the ownership of the "Endless Ring" does not completely belong to Su Xiao, or rather, there is an "ownership interval."

The so-called ownership interval is that between Su Xiao's ownership and the "Endless Ring," there are other notarization parties. After the "Abyss Sacrifice" ability of the "Endless Ring" appeared, he figured out which side the other notarization party between him and the "Endless Ring" was on—it was the Abyss!

Su Xiao didn't know what kind of "causal curse" or more difficult things the alchemists had put on these rare secret treasures, but he only needed to confirm one point.

It was the "Endless Ring" that devoured these rare secret treasures, so the corresponding "causal curse" would first target the "Endless Ring" and spread toward the Abyss along the ownership of the "Endless Ring."

Su Xiao really didn't believe that the arrangements of the Second Era alchemists could penetrate the Abyss and carry out the next step of "causal curse" spreading to him. If the Second Era · Alchemy Civilization were really that strong, it wouldn't have been destroyed.

A force as thick as an arm, blue-gray, with strong causal and curse characteristics, submerged into the "Endless Ring." After a while, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, with no news.

Clearly, the Second Era alchemists didn't expect that someone would be so dog-like... cough~, that someone would be so witty as to use the overall concept of the Abyss to deal with the causal curse they had set up, and, this dog-like person also mastered Lv. 95 Alchemy.

The "Endless Ring" retracted and returned to Su Xiao's hand. This piece of equipment, which could be called peculiar—no, wonderful—had completed this upgrade. This upgrade speed was already astonishing enough.

【Endless Ring】

Origin: Abyss.

Quality: Abyss-tier.

Type: Special Equipment.

Durability: 15000/15000 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Abyss Sacrifice (Passive). Through this equipment, you can conduct sacrificial communication, item trading, etc., with random "Ancient Abyss Existences" far from the Astral Realm.

Hint: After randomly achieving communication or trading with an "Ancient Abyss Existence" through sacrifice, you can choose to fix the sacrificial art pattern of the "Endless Ring," and subsequently only communicate and trade items with this "Ancient Abyss Existence."

Hint: Compared to the rare items recognized by Astral Realm powerhouses, "Ancient Abyss Existences" are more interested in "Tree-Born Pages of the Book of Gates," highest-grade soul stones (i. e., Soul Crystal Essence), and "Ordinary Origin Matter" (i. e., Dead Soul Origin Matter, Corrupted Origin Matter, Resentment Origin Matter, Thunder Breath Origin Matter, etc.) that are of low value to Astral Realm powerhouses.

Equipment Effect 2: Endless Devouring (Core · Passive). The Endless Ring can devour other equipment/rare items (including unnotarized states, and even equipment/rare items that do not belong to you), and increase the rating upper limit of the Endless Ring based on the quality, rating, and intensity of the devoured items.

Current Rating Upper Limit Boost: 9000 points.

Equipment Debuff: Darkness Drowning (Passive)...

Hint: 201 points of Abyss resistance can resist the current erosion intensity (your current Abyss resistance is 213 points).

Rating: 15000 points.

Seeing the current characteristics of the 【Endless Ring】, Su Xiao suddenly had a feeling that he had made a fortune this time.

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