Chapter 4078: Astonishing

The Ancestral God couldn't be killed, but it could be exiled. For example, now, Ancestral God Yashimis was slaughtered by Su Xiao and fell into death. Afterward, it would revive when some god was eroded by the Abyss, unless it was eternally exiled, just like that Ancestral God derived from elemental power.

A faint buzzing sound came from the "Origin Code" in Su Xiao's hand. The shattered blue core inside Ancestral God Yashimis's corpse was adsorbed, forming a blue gemstone on the cover of the "Origin Code."

Although the battle ended, no one present felt any joy after winning, because the two major main forces present, Su Xiao and the Priest, were faintly confronting each other.

A strange object resembling amber appeared in Su Xiao's hand.

【Dead Evil Worm】

Origin: Abyss · Dukain Family.

Quality: Abyss-level.

Category: Dangerous Object (One-time item).

Usage Effect: After activating this worm, it will enter the peak "Dead Evil Worm Body" stage, which is the final form of the Dukain Progenitor. This "Dead Evil Worm Body" has no combat consciousness, combat experience, etc., of the Dukain Progenitor Bain, and does not have the "Ultimate Evil (Supreme Peak Passive/Active, Lv. EX)" ability. It is a violent, murderous, chaotic, twisted monster.

Hint: The "Dead Evil Worm Body" exists for a total of 300 seconds.

Item Rating: 13,000 points (Abyss-level item rating is 10–6,000 points)

Introduction: The terror of evil, descends.

In the battle against the Ancestral God, Su Xiao's various combat abilities were reserved for nothing, even using the "Sun Holy Sword," which he only had one of. But this didn't mean he hadn't left a trump card.

As for the Priest, the helper he said he would find never

The Priest glanced at the sealed 【Dead Evil Worm】 in Su Xiao's hand. Just as he prepared to make a move, the "Causal Lock Ring" maintained by Caesar shattered with a boom. Almost simultaneously, the aura of the 【Dead Evil Worm】 in Su Xiao's hand became even more sinister. That sense of evil hadn't even spread yet, but it already made one's soul feel vaguely uneasy.

In Su Xiao's left hand was the 【Dead Evil Worm】, and in his right was a gold coin. He had summoned the Goddess of Fate earlier when Morey was unconscious precisely for this moment. As long as he used this lucky gold coin, which could last for 24 hours, his luck would be swapped with Morey's for 30 seconds under the influence of the Goddess of Fate's ability.

After using the 【Lucky Gold Coin】, he immediately used the 【Dead Evil Worm】, which did not distinguish between friend and foe. The one who would be attacked was bound to be the Priest, who posed the greatest threat to the 【Dead Evil Worm】 on the scene.

Owl had retreated to a metal wall. A drop of sweat trickled down her chin. She put her gray-white feathered hood back on; if the situation turned sour, she would leave immediately.

As for why she didn't leave right away, Owl, as a top-tier assassin, had a feeling that remaining in this increasingly growing world would inevitably be a great opportunity. Based on her knowledge, she guessed that this world might be undergoing the legendary transcendence.

If she were in this world during its transcendence, she would be the supreme powerhouse of the transcendent realm. This was a crucial gain for things like fate and causality.

Furthermore, after this, this world would be her homeland. As an assassin, she would no longer be a wandering soul, which could be considered another major harvest.

The Leader of the Gods, Harota, did not leave this place immediately for the same reason. Being able to catch the opportunity of this world's transcendence was another important goal for it, aside from revenge.

"It seems we have won."

The Priest, whose body was half-shattered and sprouting slowly writhing black tentacles, turned to leave.

Clang!

Layers of wind pressure spread out with Su Xiao and the Priest as the center.

Zhan Long Shan clashed with the "Disdain" in its black glove state. The Priest, wearing "Disdain" on his right hand, looked at Su Xiao with calm eyes. A moment later, a kind smile from the past appeared on his face, and the "Disdain" on his hand dissolved.

Zing!

The Priest's head was severed and flew into mid-air. With a smile on his face, the Priest said:

"We must all face our own destinies. See you in the next world, Bai Ye."

The Priest's head turned into gray-white fragments of skin and scattered in mid-air.

"This monster."

The Leader of the Gods, Harota, spoke in a deep voice. For this powerhouse, who had once been on the verge of ascending to the "Peak of the Supreme" in the First Era, to say such a thing showed just how eerie the Priest was. It is worth mentioning that the Leader of the Gods, Harota, had never ascended to the "Peak of the Supreme." After the Ancestral God occupied its divine body, it used the pretext of ascending to the "Peak of the Supreme" to restore its former strength.

Su Xiao looked around at the people present. No one would let go of the opportunity to seize the "World Core"; there were too many benefits. Under his gaze, which faintly revealed a bloody glow, the people present retreated one after another. Being able to enjoy the status of a powerhouse in the transcendent realm was already quite good; there was really no need to fight this Law-Breaker who had been fighting the Ancestral God head-on the entire time—that was no joke.

Su Xiao kicked the metal throne, and it shattered with a boom, revealing the "World Core" sealed within. He grasped it in his hand.

Thud!

A giant bloody φ mark appeared in the sky. Almost simultaneously, Su Xiao received dozens of notifications related to the transcendent realm and the world's "World Core," among which a few were the most important.

【Detected: The Hunter has obtained the world's "World Core"! And this world is in the stage of transcendent metamorphosis.】

【The Hunter may make the following two choices.】

1. Submit the world's "World Core" to the Tree of the Void.

2. Place the world's "World Core" at the world's central node, which will be formed in 3 hours and 25 minutes (notarized by Reincarnation Paradise).

Su Xiao naturally chose the second option.

【Detected that the Hunter's current physical state is unfavorable for guarding the world's "World Core."】

【Deploying top-tier treatment pods ×5 (your follower slots are already included).】

【Detected that the Hunter has two temporary allies in this battle. You may apply for top-tier treatment pods for them; you do not need to pay extra authority/resources for this.】

【Application submitted.】

【Top-tier treatment pods ×7 are being deployed...】

【Estimated deployment time: 10, 9, 8...】

A whistling sound came from the sky. Ten seconds later, six treatment pods over eight meters tall, plus one giant treatment pod, were deployed onto the Royal Avenue. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out his communicator and dialed Owl:

"Come back."

The other side was silent for a few seconds before hanging up. A moment later, the space nearby fluctuated slightly, and Owl stepped out from the spatial ripples.

"There's one for you."

Leaving these words behind, Su Xiao dragged the head of the Bloodhound, Giant Blood Tooth, to its super-large treatment pod, threw it inside, and activated the pod.

He walked up the metal steps of the adjacent treatment pod, pressed one hand on the pod door for identification, and the pod opened. He lay half-reclined inside and removed his left arm from the life-support device, as well as the crystal left arm and the special Aoge crystal that occupied one-third of his torso. Intense pain washed over him as the pod door closed.

Not only that, but protection at the level of a Reincarnation Paradise safe zone enveloped this treatment pod. Seeing Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Benny all enter their treatment pods, Owl also attempted to enter one.

In the fluorescent green liquid inside the treatment pod, Su Xiao felt drowsy. After a life-and-death battle, recovering from injuries was indeed a quite pleasant experience. Moreover, this top-tier treatment pod was truly extraordinary; the recovery level was the deepest possible. The "Causal Contamination" he had contracted earlier was dispelled before the recovery even began.

An hour later, the treatment pod opened, and Su Xiao stepped out. Aside from feeling the fatigue after a bloody battle, all his injuries had healed—a strange feeling of being both exhausted and relaxed.

Owl's treatment pod also opened. When she stepped out, she looked at her hands and felt her entire body, her eyes filled with undisguised disbelief. All her old hidden ailments, and even the part of her left arm that had been mildly eroded by Abyss power, had recovered.

Actually, this was not surprising; after all, one would never see such a thing as a top-tier treatment pod under normal circumstances. From this, one could see how important notarizing a transcendent realm was to Reincarnation Paradise.

Speaking of which, now that this world was notarized by Reincarnation Paradise, the Imperial Emperor's plan could still be realized, because Reincarnation Paradise's notarization would not interfere with the natural evolution of the world. Even if the final result of the evolution was the collapse of the world, Reincarnation Paradise would not interfere. This seemed to be one of the important initial regulations.

Moreover, the current Star Realm indeed needed such a transcendent realm, with the myriad races using it as a base to unite and deal with the Abyss catastrophe.

Even if it was unknown whether this would be useful, compared to sitting and waiting for death, even if the final result remained destruction, they would not be helpless and desperate. Although unwilling and fearful, at the very least, the myriad races of the Star Realm had resisted.

Owl turned her head and gave Su Xiao a deep look before vanishing into the spatial ripples. Clearly, this top-tier assassin understood that although this Law-Breaker was bellicose and violent, he was actually quite good when dealing with collaborators, and he was not stingy at all when distributing benefits later.

For a powerhouse like Owl who wanted to go further, this restoration of her body to its absolute peak was actually more precious than obtaining a seat as a powerhouse of the transcendent realm.

The world's central node was still forming, and Su Xiao pressed one hand on the hilt of his blade.

"Extreme Blade · World!"

Zing!!

A sharp, metallic-sounding slash echoed. With Su Xiao as the center, a spherical "Extreme Blade Domain" appeared. It only appeared for an instant; it looked as if the color of the surrounding air had deepened, and at intervals of every ten centimeters, a grain-of-rice-sized flash of slashing energy flickered.

Because Su Xiao and the Ancestral God had fought too fiercely here just moments ago, this "Extreme Blade · World" strike immediately pierced through the world in this area. A crack appeared, and Abyss energy spread out from within.

Su Xiao took out the "Origin Codex." This was the method he had determined for eternally banishing the Ancestral God, Yashmis. Among other things, the "World Bounty · Destination" played an important enlightening role.

【"World Bounty · Destination: Complete the writing of the Origin Codex and place it at the "Destination" (requires a bounty deposit of 50 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this bounty. Because the difficulty of this bounty is extremely high, upon completion, you will receive a 5000-fold additional bounty reward)."】

There were two Ancestral Gods in total: one born from the Abyss and one derived from the elements. The one Su Xiao had just defeated was the "Dark Ancestral God · Yashmis," born from the Abyss. And the Abyss was its destination—dust to dust, earth to earth.

As Su Xiao placed the "Origin Codex" into the Abyss crack, a powerful mental pressure erupted from within the codex:

"NO!!!"

The intense will transformed into layers of physical impact. Before letting go, Su Xiao pushed the "Origin Codex" into the Abyss crack.

Flesh and blood made of active metal grew out from the "Origin Codex," forming an arm that tried to reach out of the Abyss crack. But as soon as this arm touched the Abyss power, it was assimilated and dissolved.

Not only that, as the last Ancestral God to be banished, the "Origin Codex" actually began to shatter, because its existence was closely linked to the Ancestral God; it was both the Ancestral God's weakness and existed because of the Ancestral God.

Nothing in the Star Realm was absolutely immortal or indestructible. Abyss descendants could be reborn within the Abyss, but once their "Origin Clan Emblem" shattered, this powerful rebirth would collapse on its own. The Ancestral God was a supreme deity that could not be killed, but the shattering of the "Origin Codex," its weakness, meant that the Ancestral God's "concept of existence" began to crumble.

The "Origin Codex" shattered completely. With a 'pop', the blue core on the cover of the "Origin Codex" cracked, and one of the fragments was very square.

Spirit Shadow Threads spread out and pulled it over. Feeling its appearance—seemingly hard but actually fragile, with an exceptionally gorgeous luster inside but an unusually dull exterior—Su Xiao chose to pay Space-Time Power to apply for notarization from Reincarnation Paradise. After confirming that this item had no connection to the Ancestral God, he put it away.

Although he didn't know what the blue stone block that Dudu Gugu wanted actually was, this item clearly satisfied the description in the mission. Regardless of what equation Su Xiao used to solve this "junior high math problem," the answer was correct.

【You have completely banished the Ancestral God · Yashmis.】

【You have obtained 48,215 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained??? Treasure Chest · Supreme Deity.】

【You have obtained the Divine Soul Treasury Key.】

【Your Main Mission · God-Slaying (Completed).】

【You have obtained a Supreme Passive Scroll Treasure Chest (★★★).】

【Hint: Opening this chest will guarantee a Supreme Passive corresponding to a random physical attribute, and the grade of this Supreme Passive will be ★★★ (the highest level).】

【Your "World Bounty · Destination" has been achieved.】

【Due to the multi-fold bounty + bounty correction of the "Hunter List · Blood Pact," you will receive a bounty reward with a total value of 250,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

【You have obtained Space-Time Stone Fragments ×24,000 (this is an equivalent, which can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time to obtain 240,000 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You have obtained Star Brilliance Stones ×2 (equipment enhancement items; this item is equivalent to a value of 10,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

Since the main mission was completed, Su Xiao checked his remaining time in the world, and the result was:

Current time remaining in the world: No limit until the world's central node (notarized by Reincarnation Paradise) is generated.

With nothing to do, Su Xiao took out the 【Divine Soul Treasury Key】. Based on the resonance reaction of this item, he went to the east side of the Royal City, to an area sealed by black metal. After breaking through the external obstacles, stairs leading underground appeared. At the end, a door leaf that looked like it was made of writhing flesh and blood appeared.

Inserting the key into the keyhole, the flesh-and-blood door leaf in front gradually retracted to both sides. It was not large inside—a fully enclosed secret room of over a hundred square meters. There were only two rows of display racks in total; it seemed that compared to value, it was more of a collection.

Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of various divine souls came into Su Xiao's view. He picked one up and found that this "Absolute Strong" level divine soul had been distorted beyond recognition; it was initially a water-type divine soul, but now it had become a potent poison-type. It was absurd.

Among the 25 divine souls, there were two "Supreme" divine souls. These divine souls were good things. Using the "Return Principle" of the 【God-Hunter】 title, he could return them to their initial state, and most of them could be sold.

A particularly wonderful thing was that normal "Supreme" divine souls, because the fusion conditions were harsh and the fusion probability was extremely low—not even one in ten thousand—plus the fact that failure meant a fate worse than death, and the side effects after fusion, were worth about 800,000 to 1,000,000 Soul Coins each. If they didn't sell after six or seven world progressions, it was possible for a "Supreme" divine soul to drop to 500,000 Soul Coins each, because 99% of the divine souls bought were used as materials to apply for relevant authority from Apocalypse Paradise to ensure that the fusion would definitely succeed. Clearly, this was a privilege only available to those who would help Apocalypse Paradise win a few world contention battles.

Logically speaking, if a "Supreme" divine soul was 500,000 Soul Coins each, then an "Absolute Strong" one should be about 50,000 Soul Coins each. After all, the divine system was really not a good choice in a place like the Paradise faction where there were many power systems to choose from, unless there was a super-high compatibility.

The fact, however, was not so. An "Absolute Strong" divine soul was worth about 200,000+ Soul Coins each. Inheriting divine soul power was not without requirements; physical attributes, and even willpower, the characteristics of core abilities, etc., all had compatibility requirements.

But compared to "Supreme" divine souls, the requirements for "Absolute Strong" divine souls were much lower. Usually, they only required physical attributes, and the pickier ones only required some kind of ritual or rare materials.

Don't forget, in Reincarnation Paradise, there was a group almost as large as the contractors: the Employees. And divine souls with very low inheritance requirements, such as only needing a certain amount of intelligence or stamina attributes, were very popular among Employees. The "Absolute Strong" divine soul system and the gemstone power system were the most popular among Employees for notarization.

And it wasn't just Reincarnation Paradise that had Employees; among the six major Paradise factions, except for Dawn Paradise which didn't have many Employees, the other five major Paradise factions all had a large number of Employees.

Employees were mostly merchants, craftsmen, etc. By the late stages, their financial resources were not bad either. There was once an "Absolute Strong" divine soul whose inheritance requirement was "Intelligence Attribute 75 points," and it eventually went to auction and sold for a high price.

Among Su Xiao's 23 "Absolute Strong" divine souls this time, if he were to win a lottery and get such a divine soul with low "inheritance requirements," he could make a small fortune.

After leaving the Divine Soul Treasury, Su Xiao returned to the Lord Train. He checked the 【Old Hunter】 title that had already completed its promotion.

【Old Hunter】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Extreme Burning: Five times.

Title Potential: 100%.

Category: Rare · Title

Title Effect: Hunter Honor (Passive). When killing enemies/completing main missions, you can obtain honor experience corresponding to their comprehensive combat power/danger level. When honor experience reaches 100%, you can use this to upgrade the current Honor Shop level.

Current Honor Experience: 1000%/1000%.

Current Honor Shop Level: 20 (The conventional maximum level is 15; the Hunter has reached the record maximum level of 48).

Hint: Due to the special nature of this title, you only need to hold this title, no need to equip it, to activate the "Old Hunter" effect.

Introduction: The person with the highest personal Honor Shop level in Reincarnation Paradise can obtain a precious reward exclusive to the individual.

Price: Cannot be sold.

The previous Old Hunter title could only obtain "Honor Experience" by killing enemies. Now, with the addition of completing main missions, the effect was immediate. Even though the storage limit reached 1000%, it was full; the danger level of "Main Mission · God-Slaying" was right there.

【You have chosen to consume all Honor Experience to upgrade the current Honor Shop level.】

【Your Honor Shop has been upgraded to Lv. 30.】

【When you return to your exclusive room this time, your Honor Shop will refresh once and unlock more high-authority items.】

Looking at the time, there were only 20-something minutes left until the world's central coordinate was generated. After setting the destination for the Lord Train, Su Xiao leaned back in his seat and relaxed.

The afternoon weather was exceptionally bright, but the closer one got to the central area of the Royal City, the more miserable the surrounding scene became. Returning to the Royal Avenue where he had fought the Ancestral God just moments ago, as soon as he got off the train, Su Xiao saw the "World Central Coordinate."

It was 80% similar to the "World Central Coordinate" in previous world contention battles, but the specifications were larger and more precise. Previously, his rank wasn't high enough, so he didn't know how precious the materials for the "World Central Coordinate" were. Just for this transcendent-specification "World Central Coordinate," the cost of its basic materials alone would be tens of millions of Space-Time Power, and that was not counting other things.

It seemed that the gain of hundreds of thousands of ounces of Space-Time Power this time was still hard to match compared to the single expenditure of the Paradise faction. However, no one would take the Paradise ladder as a goal.

A pulse spread from the "World Central Coordinate." Seeing this, Su Xiao took out the world's "World Core" and placed it on the central coordinate, which was over a meter tall.

After the central coordinate enveloped the World Core, it gradually sank into the earth until it completely disappeared from the material plane.

Thud~! Thud~! Thud~!

Waves of impact spread out with this place as the core. After a brief silence, a blood-red impact representing Reincarnation Paradise spread to the surroundings.

Where the bloody impact spread, the black iron earth shattered with a crackle. As if time and space were reversing, with the Royal Avenue as the center, the Royal City began to revert to its appearance before being "mechanically polluted" by the Ancestral God.

Streets and buildings quickly returned to their original state. Those civilians, imperial officials, merchants, nobles, etc., whose bodies had been metalized and were kneeling on the ground but still had a trace of life, saw their metalized bodies quickly recover.

Not only that, those refugees who were covered in pustules and walking slowly saw their pustules dissolve after being swept by this impact, their metalized bones quickly recovered to normal, and their radial pupils gradually focused.

The entire Royal City was shrouded in an atmosphere of bewilderment and silence. After a moment, what followed was not cheers, but crying and chaos.

Near the Royal Avenue, a figure who had recovered his flesh-and-blood body rose from a sitting position. Unlike the metal figures kneeling on the ground around him, he had always been sitting cross-legged calmly, even while enduring the intense pain and torture of his body being metalized.

This was none other than the Assistant Prime Minister, Enmu—or rather, the consciousness within this body was the Emperor of the Empire, Roald · Saint · Adez. The Empire had dozens of kings, but there would only be this one Emperor of the Empire.

Roald looked at the majestic Royal Palace in the distance and the colorful vortex gradually emerging in the sky. This scene was not essentially different from what was recorded in ancient books when the Wind Sea and the Witch World transcended, only the specifications were larger than those recorded.

"Sure enough, just as that diviner said, when a world has a disaster, the Law-Breaker is the most reliable savior. However, when a world is stable, the Law-Breaker may become the disaster itself."

At this point, the pupils of the Imperial Emperor, Roald, cracked with a 'click', and his consciousness shattered completely. The body of the Assistant Prime Minister, Enmu, fell. Enmu, who had originally thought he would surely die, suddenly opened his eyes. Clearly, the Imperial Emperor had left a way out for his loyal subordinate.

Not only that, he also left ways out for his confidants, such as Grand Marshal Litangweig and Vice Minister Tu'enta. Unfortunately, in such a major event, half of them died. As for the only one who didn't leave a way out and bet everything, it was the Imperial Emperor himself.

Beside the Lord Train, Su Xiao closed the notifications that kept appearing, but he chose to check the subsequent notifications one by one, because the reward for letting Reincarnation Paradise successfully notarize this transcendent realm had finally arrived.

【Announcement (Tree of the Void): Reincarnation Paradise has successfully notarized the transcendent realm · Myriad Races World.】

【Hint (Reincarnation Paradise): Due to the Hunter's excellent performance, allowing Reincarnation Paradise to obtain its first "Transcendent Realm," your reward this time will be increased by an additional 85% on top of the original foundation. You have obtained the following total rewards:】

1. Reincarnation Badges ×85.

2. Supreme Passive Scroll Treasure Chest (★★★) ×2.

Hint: Opening this chest will guarantee a Supreme Passive corresponding to a random physical attribute, and the grade of this Supreme Passive will be ★★★ (the highest level).

3. Mission Completion Certificate ×3 (after use, you can immediately complete currently accepted missions other than main missions/world missions/war missions, and complete them at the highest mission completion degree).

4. Free usage authority for the Skill Upgrade Pod (eight times).

5. Honor Promotion Supply Treasure Chest (when opened, it will be judged based on your current core abilities to obtain a corresponding number of "Origin Stones" and "Initial Source Matter"—that is, the higher the current core ability level, the more "Origin Cores" and "Initial Source Matter" you will obtain).

6. Absolutely Flawless Soul Stone (this wonder currently has 3 remaining in the Star Realm; each era constitutes a total of 5–8, with 5 in the First Era, 8 in the Second Era, and 7 in the Third Era).

PS: (Tomorrow is Sunday, taking a day off. My apologies to all readers.)