Chapter 4098

In the underground space at the bottom of Beast Town, Su Xiao did not summon the "Awakening Monument" here. Not to mention the risk of it being destroyed, upgrading the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability was completely different from using the "Origin of Power" to devour abilities.

Furthermore, the "Exclusive Skill Upgrade Chamber" itself had powerful defensive power. Even if enemies attacked, it could provide a certain degree of resistance, not to mention the external Lord Train acting as an outer layer of protection.

The safe area notarized by the Tree of the Void in this world sounded good, but according to Su Xiao's experience, it was usually a building that wasn't very large, at most a few dozen square meters. Moreover, when the natives of this world entered this safe area notarized by the Tree of the Void, this safe area would immediately become invalid. Only when everything was calm would it become a safe area again.

In the past, there were contractors who attempted to kill boss-level enemies by taking advantage of the safe area through a door-blocking method. The final result was that the safe area temporarily retracted, shrinking to a world shop the size of a vending machine. The metal door of that building was smashed open by the small boss with brute force, and several contractors who were caught like turtles in a jar died very miserably.

Besides upgrading the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability, Su Xiao also needed a place safe enough to bring Ayesha/Delona over. Please don't misunderstand; it wasn't to protect them, but to avoid their abilities causing large-scale fate distortion and attracting the attention of other peak powerhouses.

The peak powerhouses had too much experience. Discovering that Su Xiao had brought the daughters of the Bed into this world, and considering that he had sealed multiple Original Sin items, they might really guess that his Original Sin causality was about to erupt. At that point, it would be a disaster.

Besides peak powerhouses, one person also posed a huge threat to Su Xiao: the Priest, who had basically mastered all the power of existence. If things went wrong, that super old schemer might have already sensed that Su Xiao's Original Sin causality was about to erupt.

Fortunately, when the Priest came to this world, he was bound to be an enemy of the Ancient Gods. His initial power was stolen from the power of the Ancient Gods. The Priest's system was completely different from the wizard system. Wizards could only borrow the power of the Ancient Gods, while the Priest mastered it like an Ancient God. Therefore, he was often called a human-shaped Ancient God.

He pulled open the secret compartment next to the seat that contained dozens of communicators, picked one up, hesitated for a few seconds, and dialed. Not long after, the communication was connected, and both sides were silent.

Half a minute later, the Priest broke the silence and said, "It's been a long time since we cooperated at Dawn Paradise. I didn't expect that we could meet in the Meteorite Star this time."

The Priest was clearly talking nonsense. Previously in the World of Gods, the two sides had been killing each other. This was a step down.

"Yes."

Su Xiao's follow-up reply let the Priest on the other side know that they could cooperate this time.

"Help me kill and then banish the Undying Old Man. As a reward, I will assist you in resolving your Original Sin causality. You should be able to judge that the daughters of the Bed alone are not enough to help you solve this trouble."

"What about adding Caesar?"

Hearing this, the Priest was silent for a few seconds, then laughed: "If you add Caesar, I am sure you have a 90% probability of resolving the Original Sin causality at the cost of a sufficiently painful price. Let's be optimistic and calculate it at a 98% success rate. With your luck, are you really confident in a 98% success rate? My old friend."

Speaking to the end, there was already laughter in the Priest's tone.

"..."

The communicator in Su Xiao's hand made a clicking sound and was about to be crushed by him, meaning this negotiation had broken down. The Priest on the other side knew that if this Hunter really got ruthless, there was nothing he wouldn't dare to do or face. This was also the reason why the other party could be as strong as he was today.

"Change the target to the Underworld God. This is our common enemy. You resolve your grudge with it, and I will seize his divine origin. Although, I don't think we are the Underworld God's match."

Hearing this, Su Xiao frowned slightly. He certainly heard the subtext in the Priest's words. The Priest on the other side said:

"Bai Ye, haven't you noticed? There are very few Ancient Gods in this world, and only six have appeared: the Underworld God, the Night Mother, and the Four Original Sins under the Underworld God."

"Yes."

"Where do you think those Ancient Gods went? Who has the ability to devour them all? The Meteorite Star has never been the lair of the Ancient Gods; this is a trap operated by the strongest Ancient God for many years."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, but he remembered one thing: an Ancient God he had once slain, named Feather God: Hegla, had stolen the 【Star Eye】 of the Underworld God and hid in the "Container" of the Dark Star World, just to avoid the Underworld God's pursuit.

Actually, Feather God: Hegla's betrayal of the Underworld God and all its actions were very confusing. What was it aiming for? Just to take away the 【Star Eye】 that could only be lightly activated with its current strength? And then be chased by the Underworld God's hounds until it hid in a sealed "Container" in some world.

You have to know that in the past, the Ancient Gods in the Meteorite Star were the rulers of the major city-states and could suck this world at will. The Meteorite Star itself was a very fierce transcendent world that would constantly absorb nutrients from surrounding worlds. Moreover, this was a transcendent world that moved slowly within the astral world.

Looking at it now, Feather God: Hegla was the smartest among the group of Ancient Gods. It sensed the clues of the Meteorite Star and simply stole the 【Star Eye】. Rather than becoming nutrients for the strongest Ancient God, it was better to hide.

And why would there be rumors in this world that the "Abyss Heart" was about to appear? This was clearly the Underworld God, who had used the "Yargu School" to create an "Abyss Technique" that could lure the "Abyss Heart" to this place.

The Underworld God first devoured all the Ancient Gods in this world except for the Night Mother and the Four Original Sins, allowing itself to faintly reach the extreme of a peak powerhouse. Next, it was to obtain the "Abyss Heart" and achieve the supreme realm.

Things went against its wishes. Although the "Yargu School" established the Abyss Technique, the Eye Princess went missing, which was the current situation. The Eye Princess was with Su Xiao. If it were just this, it would be nothing. The Underworld God would let Su Xiao experience what the limit of the peak realm was. But one peak powerhouse after another entered this world, completely disrupting the Underworld God's plan.

Moreover, the Underworld God was prepared to get rid of Su Xiao first, but after witnessing the fight between him and the Deer God, the Underworld God decided to wait and see for now. Now, if anyone said that this Law-Extinguisher had just been promoted to the peak realm not long ago, the Underworld God wouldn't believe it.

Looking at the world hole that had been "directly kicked" out and still hadn't healed, the nearly ten peak powerhouses in this world wouldn't believe that this guy had just been promoted to the peak realm.

Soul Master had even gone to see it himself. Not only was there no sign of healing, but the pitch-black destructive traces were still spreading to the world hole. In the end, Soul Master was silent.

That is to say, Su Xiao now had a rare opportunity to upgrade the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability and resolve the Original Sin causality. A place appeared in his choices: Shelter City: Gran, the lair of the Dark God Sect.

The Dark God Sect was an absolute freak among the many evil factions. If the world they were in was stable, the Dark God Sect was undoubtedly a tumor. But if the world they were in was chaotic, the Dark God Sect was a relatively conservative faction. If the environment of the world they were in was extremely harsh, the Dark God Sect would likely rise up and resist.

Never think that the Dark God Sect was abandoning evil for good. Their ultimate goal must be to defeat the current ruler and then replace them. The problem was that the Dark God Sect's system would likely develop into being surpassed and crushed by other factions not long after, and then, with astonishingly tenacious vitality, gradually recover amidst heavy encirclement, finally becoming a street rat and tumor in the world they were in.

The point Su Xiao valued about "Shelter City: Gran" was that there were no peak powerhouses there, yet it had never been destroyed. There were only two possibilities for this: one was that "Shelter City: Gran," like the Night Mother's base camp "City of Secrecy: Yargu," could hide on the level of existence. If they didn't open the door inside, the outside world couldn't enter at all.

The second was that "Shelter City: Gran" had unparalleled defensive power, which could be directly ruled out. The reason was that no matter how solid the defense was, there would be a day it would be broken.

Then there was only one possibility: "Shelter City: Gran" had unparalleled escape ability. This was a mobile city that could be teleported away as a whole at any time, and could even abandon the areas invaded by enemies.

Either it could fight, or it was hidden, or it could run. A city had no more than these possibilities. To find the traces of "Shelter City: Gran," he must find the local snake of this world. He took out the communicator to contact Sin Abyss, and after a moment, it connected:

"You're ruthless enough, Bai Ye. I heard that you and the Deer God turned a resource area of the Underworld God Temple into a lava lake."

Hearing this, Su Xiao wasn't surprised. Before clashing with the Deer God, he had first slain one of the twelve bishops of the Underworld God Temple, the Death Bishop: Erqi. The reason the other party came to his door was that he suddenly discovered that an outside powerhouse had entered the resource area he managed.

"Speak, what are you looking for me for this time?"

"Where is Shelter City: Gran?"

"This..."

Sin Abyss grinned on the other side and continued: "I'm the local snake here, that's true, but you ask me about a problem where it can sink into the dark sea at any time, and where it will appear next, even the managers of Shelter City: Gran aren't sure..."

"I'll formulate three potions for you."

"Where are you?"

"Beast Town?"

"There's no teleportation tower there. I'll go over now. It'll take about half an hour. See you in half an hour."

Sin Abyss finished speaking and hung up the communication.

The train drove out from the underground space under Beast Town. Ten minutes later, a figure walked into Beast Town, dressed in pure white clerical attire, wearing a twisted cross around his neck with the image of a sufferer on it, his hands in his pockets, a faint mocking smile on his face.

"Bai Ye, long time no see. You've actually reached the peak realm. Tsk tsk tsk, it really makes people angry. Look at my age, do I still have a chance to be selected by the Paradise camp?"

Sin Abyss was still as punchable as ever. Please don't misunderstand; this wasn't Sin Abyss with his mouth-jutsu fully open. His wife, Ona, was following behind him.

Ona was in a dark-style nun outfit with a sense of beauty, a gentle smile on her face. This was to express her apology for her husband's inappropriate words.

Never think that Ona was just a gentle and virtuous beautiful wife. The "Marrow-Parasite Worm" that could quietly parasitize into others' brains was Ona's means. The "Marrow-Parasite Worm" could change a person's subconscious without a trace, making them mistakenly believe that this was what they wanted to do.

It is worth mentioning that the once intimate little cotton-padded jacket, now the leaky cotton-padded jacket Boiling Red, had one in her brain. It was a "Marrow-Parasite Worm" that had parasitized a wizard's brain after Boiling Red killed him, and it had transferred into her brain.

"God says, you two have gone astray."

The Kind Priest had already stood not far away at some point. The moment they sensed the Priest's appearance, Sin Abyss and Ona—one had translucent tentacles surging from his cuffs, and the other had "Marrow-Parasite Worm" embryos smaller than dust particles distributed within a radius of more than ten meters around her. Not to mention inhaling, just skin contact was enough to parasitize.

However, these "Marrow-Parasite Worms" could not parasitize the Priest, because at this moment, the Priest no longer existed in the "concept of existence." The "Marrow-Parasite Worm" embryos hatched on his hand, and the thread-like "Marrow-Parasite Worms" wiggled confusedly, finally beginning to wither due to long-term exposure to the external environment.

When an ability is outrageously strong in one aspect, it must be very fragile in another.

Seeing that the timing was about right, Su Xiao said: "Our own people."

As for why he didn't say it just now, whether it was the Sin Abyss couple or the Priest, they wouldn't treat each other as subsequent collaborators without understanding each other's means.

Everyone boarded the train, and the train started. Sin Abyss held a large glass of beer and drank most of it in one breath, sighing: "The Meteorite Star isn't short of extraordinary resources, but there are too few living resources available. High-quality alcohol is definitely a rarity here. Sigh~, in the early years, there were Void merchants who came to sell alcohol, but those Witch-Hunting Teams whose brains were all beastified would rob them as soon as they saw them. Now it's good, no alcohol merchants are willing to come."

Sin Abyss cursed and swore for a while, then he changed the subject and said:

"If we want to take down Shelter City: Gran, the controller there, Dark Bishop: Palmer, is very difficult to deal with."

"Tell me in detail."

Bahar landed on Su Xiao's shoulder and spoke.

"That guy is ruthless enough. In order not to have his territory seized, he deeply integrated with that shelter city. To be precise, Shelter City: Gran is him."

"Oh?"

The Priest was quite interested. He thought for a moment and asked Su Xiao:

"Bai Ye, is there any kind of alchemical poison that can make others suffer from severe poison through 'existential causality'?"

While the Priest was speaking, the train stopped, and a Devil girl was the first to board. Seeing Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, she giggled and approached. The defensive technological creation Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang gave her last time was really too easy to use. She prepared to say some nice things to get a few more types from this dog-star man's inventory.

"I don't know if there is such an alchemical poison, but there is this Devil contract."

Wood boarded the train. The old devil, Mammon, didn't come here together. The reason was that he wanted to experience the local customs of "Shelter City: Gran," and the subsequent destination for everyone was "Shelter City: Gran."

"Just right, I have the coordinates of 'Shelter City: Gran.' Dark Bishop: Palmer wants to make a deal with our Devil race. Now the deal isn't going very smoothly. His offer is far less sincere than what he wrote in the invitation."

Wood sat down. In this way, Su Xiao, Wood, and Sin Abyss—the good teammate trio—gathered together, and this time there was also the Priest as a strong reinforcement, plus Sin Abyss's wife, Ona. Such a lineup really made people break into a cold sweat for Dark Bishop: Palmer.

If it were frontal combat power, this team wouldn't rank at the front in the current Meteorite Star. Not to mention the current strongest peak powerhouse, the Underworld God, and the Abyss race duo of Lady Spider and the Crimson Beast: Di Luo, the combat power of the Deer God and Soul Master was unquestionable.

But if it were a sneak attack, then the lineup of this five-person team, let alone Dark Bishop: Palmer, even a peak powerhouse would have to immediately raise their vigilance. Once they were hit, Su Xiao, who was also in the peak realm, could also be a threat, even if he had only just been promoted not long ago.

At this moment, Shelter City: Gran.

This large city was currently on a medium-to-large island in the southern part of the Ancient Sea. Because it was a relatively marginal area of this world, there were rare gaps in the dark clouds above, and rays of light shone down.

The residents on the streets were in a hurry. It seemed the shelter city isolated danger, but conversely, they had to pay a lot for it. Even the teleportation tower in the city center could go to the Void as long as they spent enough Tree Coins.

But the identity of a shelter city resident was engraved on the soul. Once the time limit was exceeded and they didn't return to the "Dark Cathedral" of the shelter city to accept baptism, it would be a tragedy of the soul being gnawed by ten thousand insects.

Located at the very inside of Shelter City: Gran was a giant sculpture a thousand meters high. That's right, this was the statue of Dark Bishop: Palmer.

Below the statue was a pitch-black building a hundred meters high with no aesthetic appeal: the Dark Cathedral. At this moment, on the fifteenth floor underground of the Dark Cathedral, besides the glass pillar in the center, it was empty. The ground was pitch black, like a layer of black liquid. To be precise, this was the Dark Sea.

This glass pillar was three meters wide and seven meters high. Inside was a light golden solution. In the solution was a figure with three arms, a thin torso and limbs, but a very large head. The back half of his huge head was opened, and black tentacles spread out from his deformed brain, leading all the way to the top.

That's right, this was Dark Bishop: Palmer.

Dark Bishop: Palmer suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were pitch black, his pupils revealing a deep soul blue. Dark Bishop: Palmer, who had suddenly woken up, looked puzzled. He didn't quite understand why this sudden palpitation had come.

On the Lord Train, Su Xiao looked at the spatial coordinates on the table. Because Dark Bishop: Palmer completely controlled Shelter City: Gran, from the causal level, the coordinates of Shelter City: Gran were also equal to the existence of Dark Bishop: Palmer.

The gazes of the few people present turned to the Priest. The Priest clasped his hands and began to pray. The note with the spatial coordinates on the table burned quietly. Finally, only a string of spatial coordinates remained, as if inlaid in the air. This coordinate twisted and turned into a ball of black fog, which represented the existence of Dark Bishop: Palmer.

Dark Bishop: Palmer, whose existence had been stolen, immediately sensed it and immediately prepared to take back these existence black fogs. But the next second, Su Xiao stuffed the "Book of Original Sin" into this ball of existence black fog. This was forming a vortex, and the black fog that was about to be sucked away suddenly stopped moving.

Wood took out a quill and pointed it at this ball of black fog, stealing a part of it and using it as black ink to write the contract content on the contract parchment. It is worth mentioning that this contract parchment was provided by Su Xiao.

After the contract was formed, the black ink that formed this contract actually roared:

"Who are you! Who... are you all!!"

A voice full of majesty came from the contract. Su Xiao pressed his hand on this contract. This contract parchment began to layer, finally turning into sixty layers, and each contract was associated with many branch contracts.

"The guilty shall be banished."

The Priest raised his hand, and all the contract parchments were sucked into his hand, turning into threads of existential causality. These threads were absorbed by a vortex and finally spread to the main body of Dark Bishop: Palmer.

At this moment, in Shelter City: Gran, amidst the rumbling dull sounds, was the roar of Dark Bishop: Palmer from underground. The next moment, the thousand-meter-high statue in the city suddenly disappeared, and along with it, Dark Bishop: Palmer himself. As for the place of banishment, it was a distant place in the Abyss, the area where the "Three Fingers" were when he sacrificed with the "Endless Ring" last time.

With Dark Bishop: Palmer's caution, he only needed a period of time to return to the astral world. After all, the Dark God Sect's faith was the Abyss. It was precisely because of this that the Priest banished him to the Abyss. This highly compatible resonance caused the Dark Bishop, who was already bearing astonishing contract power, to be banished immediately.

In the train, Su Xiao put down the ball of "causal threads" in his hand. This was the ownership of Shelter City: Gran. As for Dark Bishop: Palmer, after facing the "Three Fingers," he kicked the bucket on the spot. Come to think of it, this guy had made all kinds of precautions, but he had never thought that he would die in the Abyss, so he didn't have any precautions in this regard.

As for who would control "Shelter City: Gran" afterward, everyone decided by drawing lots. Su Xiao's team often drew lots and had a ready-made lottery device. Not long after, Su Xiao, Wood, Sin Abyss, and Ona all looked at the Priest.

"It seems fate has chosen me."

The Priest put down the gold lot in his hand.

"Oppose." ×5

Su Xiao, Wood, Sin Abyss, and Ona spoke together. As for why there were five voices, it was because Wood's sister also opposed.

Anyone present could control "Shelter City: Gran," except for this old guy, the Priest. Therefore, for the second draw, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Bahar, Mierwei, and the Eye Princess were also included.

The result of the second round of the lottery went very smoothly. It wasn't the Priest or Su Xiao. Everyone present knew that these two guys absolutely couldn't control "Shelter City: Gran." One would make "Shelter City: Gran" no longer safe, and the other might make "Shelter City: Gran" into a strange situation, such as turning the shelter city into a lord system with powerful combat power.

Mierwei held up the gold lot in her hand, smiling victoriously and revealing a mouthful of shark teeth. She took the causal threads symbolizing "Shelter City: Gran" and looked at the Priest, meaning, how do I use this.

"Feel it."

"And then?"

"Accept it with your existence."

"Huh? Accept it with existence? What does that mean? I don't understand."

Mierwei scratched her head. The Priest looked at Mierwei and then at Wood. Wood coughed slightly awkwardly: "My sister has been away from home for many years... well, it's my fault for not teaching her well."

Under Wood's live teaching, Mierwei went from a bit confused to completely confused. Those eyes showed a purity that had never been polluted by knowledge. She scratched her head and simply stuffed the causal thread ball into her mouth and swallowed it.

The Priest smiled even more kindly and said: "That works too."

"Then why didn't you let me do this earlier?"

The Priest didn't answer Mierwei's question, just smiled without saying a word.

The train stopped, and everyone got off. The train drove into a different space. Sin Abyss suddenly said: "I'll be responsible for the teleportation. We only need three teleportation transfers..."

Before Sin Abyss could finish, the Law-Extinguisher teleportation array formed under Su Xiao's feet, spreading and instantly covering everyone present. Sin Abyss's face turned green:

"Wait!"

Boom!

Everyone present disappeared.

Shelter City: Gran, near the inner city area, under a bridge.

Sin Abyss, Ona, Wood, and Mierwei all held the bridge pier with one hand, bending over and roaring like evil dragons. The Priest, however, looked calm. As for why he stood still, don't ask; whoever asks dies.

As for the Eye Princess, she had already fallen into a dream, but looking at her tightly furrowed expression, it seemed she wasn't having a good dream.

【Prompt: Your main mission: First Ring: Eye Princess (Completed). It is detected that the current safety level of the Eye Princess is relatively high. This mission is submitted automatically.】

【You have obtained Reincarnation Badges × 5.】

This mission had a time limit of 15 days. Su Xiao had originally wanted to stall for a few days before submitting it. He didn't expect that after making the Eye Princess too safe, the mission would be completed automatically.

【Main Mission: Second Ring (Triggered).】

【Main Mission: Ritual.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 103.

Mission Brief: Complete the activation of the "Abyss Eye Ritual."

Mission Time Limit: 15 natural days.

Mission Reward: Reincarnation Badges × 6.

Mission Penalty: Forced execution.

The mission information was as sparse as ever. Considering that the "Abyss Eye Ritual" was established by the Yargu School, wanting to activate it would inevitably be through the Ancient God scholars there, and they would have to be Ancient God scholars with superb skills.