Chapter 4101: Choice

The sea breeze in the southern polar zone howled. This place was an endless ice field. The low temperature here would freeze ordinary powerhouses instantly; below the absolute strong, it was unbearable.

Devil Girl Mi Erwei and Yero Iliya were shivering from the cold. Both of them sniffed their noses at the same time and looked at Magic Scythe Aina. Aina scratched her short blue hair, looking at the dark teleportation array under her feet with a puzzled expression.

"This shouldn't be."

Magic Scythe Aina still refused to admit that her teleportation method was not very reliable.

Why did the three of them come here? The reason was that in Yero Iliya's destined perception, they had to go to the base camp of the Underworld God Temple, which was the "Eternal City of Or," and more specifically, the 035 district of the Eternal City.

Hearing this, Mi Erwei and Aina flatly refused. Are you looking for death? Going to that ghost place? That was the base camp of the ancient gods.

However, Yero Iliya's next sentence made the two waver: in a secret underground treasury of an abandoned manor there, there were 428 "Soul Crystal Essences."

Among the three sisters of destiny, whether it was Magic Scythe Aina, Devil Girl Mi Erwei, or Yero Iliya, "Soul Crystal Essence" was their core resource for becoming stronger. The systems of magic scythe, devil transformation, and causal wizard required "Soul Crystal Essence" ten times more than other systems.

Especially for the magic scythe, its core skills, in the late stage, did not need "Primordial Nucleus" as much as more "Soul Crystal Essence."

Among the three, Magic Scythe Aina was the strongest. If they succeeded, she should take the lion's share. However, the distribution ratio proposed by Yero Iliya was 4:3:3—Aina would take 4, and she and Mi Erwei would each take 30%.

To this, Magic Scythe Aina naturally denied it flatly. The original words were, "I must take 90%, otherwise no one gets anything." But after Yero Iliya said a date with a sweet smile, Aina disdainfully "tched" and muttered that 40% would do. This matter was considered settled.

However, there was a problem: that secret treasury had a self-destruct spell, and the opening dial must be obtained. To this, Yero Iliya was very confident and asserted that the dial was in the "Wild Stone Mountain Range," and even stated the specific location.

After Magic Scythe Aina and Devil Girl Mi Erwei looked at each other and confirmed the look, this time, it seemed they had accidentally encountered a super thigh, although this thigh was delivered to their door voluntarily, but it looked very harmless.

"Are you really okay? Or should I do it?"

Devil Girl Mi Erwei summoned the "Wonderful Magic Wand." Seeing this, Magic Scythe Aina raised her hand to refuse, and she put her hands together.

Rumble—

Space trembled. The next second, the environment where the three were changed. As far as the eye could see, it was a mountain range with endless pitch-black trees.

"Haha, I said I could do it, you didn't believe me..."

Aina's words were halfway through when she suddenly tilted her head and looked at the top of the highest mountain in the distance. Just for a moment, Aina's scalp went numb. She saw a heavy black afterimage colliding with a blue slash.

After a brief silence.

Boom!!!

Magic Scythe Aina felt that the world she was in was about to explode. Everything around was trembling. Yero Iliya fell down with blood from seven orifices without a sound. Devil Girl Mi Erwei let out a "wow" and sprayed blood from her mouth and nose. Before feeling the world moving away from her, she pressed the "Wonderful Magic Wand" against her chest.

Pop—

White smoke dispersed, and Devil Girl Mi Erwei turned herself into a flower deer. Her "Transformation Technique" had one very wonderful point: although it had no offensive power, it could ignore many attacks. The direct attacks of peak powerhouses could naturally pierce the limit of the transformation technique, but the aftermath of very distant attacks could still barely be resisted.

Mi Erwei in the flower deer state held the "Wonderful Magic Wand" in her mouth. With another "pop," Yero Iliya, who had just been awakened by Magic Scythe Aina feeding her a potent healing potion, turned into a little white sheep.

"Me, me, me."

Although Magic Scythe Aina was supreme, for that battle nearby, she chose to avoid it. How could a supreme try to get involved in a battle of the peak realm?

Pop—

Magic Scythe Aina turned into an ostrich. Just like this, with the ostrich in the lead, followed by the flower deer, and further behind the little white sheep, the three sisters of escape fled toward the outside of the "Wild Stone Mountain Range." Even though it was so dangerous, Magic Scythe Aina did not forget the dial used to open the treasury. That thing was in the outer area of the Wild Stone Mountain Range, relatively far from the battle location.

Boom, boom!!

The earth trembled, and a slash shot into the sky. Aina in the ostrich state suddenly stopped. She looked at the high sky, and the scene she saw made her unforgettable for life.

In the sky was a slash mark that could not see the end. The world was cut open, and the rich Abyss seemed to flow down. A seven-colored light film blocked the Abyss invasion. Accompanied by the rapid healing of the deep layers of the world, the scene changed, becoming the appearance of the entire sky being cut open.

Boom!!

The earth trembled again. Whether it was soil or mountain rock, it turned dark red, like a carpet that had been gathered and pulled up, gathering toward the center position, and then blasted out.

Crack!!

The surrounding space was full of cracks. On this basis, three crisp slashes, "dang, dang, dang," neatly cut these spatial cracks. The next second, these three slash marks exploded, turning into a large number of slashes, gathering and attacking the source of that pitch-black power, followed by a deafening roar.

Aina chose to continue running at full speed. This place was too dangerous. Just at this time, she suddenly saw a golden star appear in the sky. In broad daylight, how could there be stars? The next second, she saw clearly that it was a golden star falling down.

With a loud noise that resounded through the world, Aina's ears buzzed. When she flew more than ten kilometers away, climbed up from the ground, and shook her head, she found that the aura of the death battle at the mountain peak had changed from two to three: one blood-red, one pitch-black, and one golden.

To be honest, Aina really couldn't bear to leave, but the situation was getting more and more dangerous, so she chose to look back while running. In the ostrich state, this view was surprisingly good.

The blood-red aura and golden power suppressed the darkness. Seeing this, Aina knew that among the three powerhouses, two were besieging one. However, compared to this, what she cared more about was that although her escape speed had decreased due to the transformation technique, she had been running for almost half an hour, so why hadn't she escaped the battle's affected area?

The blood color and gold suppressed the darkness more and more. Finally, after a strong burst of dark power, to the point that the blood color and gold were temporarily suppressed and even suffered heavy injuries, the dark power withered and dissipated.

This belonged to being defeated without dying. Abyss races were like this, especially Abyss races in the peak state like the Rune family. Rebirth from the Abyss took less than a day. If needed, this time could be compressed to a few hours. Of course, there was a corresponding price.

After the darkness died in battle, the blood color and gold did not stop. Not only did they not stop, but the battle became even more intense.

Boom—

An impact spread over. Suddenly, Aina felt the surrounding world become viscous, as if she were in water. Being so far away, there was such an aftermath. If it were the core area of this ability, wouldn't the world be stagnant?

Obviously, Aina guessed wrong. World stagnation was indeed very strong, but it was far from being as unsolvable as "Astral Stagnation."

Slashes cut through the golden power and flew obliquely into the high sky. The golden power suddenly weakened and then collapsed, which made Aina and Mi Erwei stop their steps. Yero Iliya reacted for a while before stopping. Among the three, she ran the slowest.

Aina wanted to say something, but only made an ostrich sound. Her general meaning was:

"Is that Law-Extinguisher that strong?"

Just as Aina gestured this meaning, on the shattered mountain range in the distance, golden power shot into the sky. The battle continued, and it was even more earth-shaking than before.

After a full hour of running, the three sisters of destiny finally ran out of the battle's affected area. Coupled with the special state of the transformation technique, among the three, only Yero Iliya suffered minor injuries.

Aina looked into the distance. The next moment, she felt an impact hit her face, and then a loud noise came, making her ears buzz. She saw a blood-red afterimage fly out and disappear into the distant horizon. That feeling was like being knocked away by a war club.

It could only be said that causality was cyclical. Not long ago, Su Xiao kicked the Deer God away to who knows where. Now it was the Deer God's war club that blasted him from the Wild Stone Mountain Range to the north of the "Eternal City of Or." To be more intuitive, he flew across about one-third of the land distance of Meteorite Star.

The three sisters of destiny stood on the cliff, looking at the "Wild Stone Mountain Range" ahead. Where was this still a mountain range? It was a flat rock clearing that had been razed to the ground. The spatial area above was full of slash marks, as well as golden sun fire burning space. The huge fist mark with a diameter of a thousand meters in the sky was left by the Red Beast Di Luo. Within the cracks of the fist mark, pitch-black Abyss power slowly flowed down.

Beast Town, a few hundred kilometers to the east. This place was already a crater with a diameter of tens of kilometers.

Su Xiao got up from the crater burning with golden flames. Just as he stood up, he felt a dizzy spell. His two life-saving means were "Two Life Cores" + "Heart of Extreme Blade."

"Life Core (Life Passive): The moment your health reaches 0.1%, you will not die. The 'Life Core' will immediately shatter and immediately restore 100% of your original life force (i. e., restore your current health to full), and remove 'all negative states' for you, restoring 'any body damage'."

"Heart of Extreme Blade (Blade Passive): When health is below 1%, each Heart of Blade can block one 'fatal attack'."

Both life-saving means were used to successfully survive. This clash with the Deer God made Su Xiao feel that the other party was one step stronger than before. Especially, after he killed the other party with "Extreme Realm: Astral Realm" + continuous slashes of Green Qing Qing Gang Ying true damage, the other party was reborn from the golden blood, and their combat power increased by another notch.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Su Xiao covered his mouth and coughed repeatedly, blood seeping from between his fingers. Although he was beaten quite miserably this time, his combat experience skyrocketed. Especially, this time it was a melee between him, the Red Beast Di Luo, and the Deer God.

Summoning the Lord Train, Su Xiao came to the bedroom in the rear carriage of the train. After drinking a bottle of refrigerated custom-made recovery potion, he recovered a bit. In the bathroom, warm water washed away the blood stains on his body, and after dealing with the rough injuries, he came to the bed and fell asleep. It was not only physical exhaustion but also because a lot of "original life force" was devoured by the Red Beast Di Luo.

This caused his supreme health to permanently decrease by 2.12 million points. In the past, this would be a huge loss. Now, his supreme health limit was 50 million points, but there were more than 6 million original life force overflowing, in a state waiting to be converted. Generally speaking, after saving enough for 50 million points, another "Life Core" would be formed.

Now, these overflowing original life forces nourished the loss this time, and Su Xiao's supreme health gradually recovered to the limit of 50 million points.

His current strength was not enough to fight the Deer God, but Su Xiao could clearly feel that his strength had significantly increased by a notch at the peak level after enhancing 84 points of total supreme attributes this time.

For other peak powerhouses, enhancing supreme physique was the most time-consuming and the way with the lowest comprehensive enhancement range. But this thing couldn't withstand quantitative changes leading to qualitative changes, and this kind of continuous accumulation of foundation to enhance oneself, when reaching a certain degree, would be very unsolvable.

Su Xiao's two opponents this time, the Red Beast Di Luo, directly devoured others' original life force, one bite was a million-level original life force, and as an Abyss race, he was immortal. The Deer God had an undying fighting spirit, immortal, and every time he stood up, he would be stronger.

Facing these two outrageous guys, Su Xiao was not afraid at all. The reason why he was blasted away by the Deer God after fighting to the end was that he wanted to enter the "State of No-Self." Even the Deer God, with undying fighting spirit and immortality, did not want to face a slash from Su Xiao in the current "State of No-Self."

Su Xiao's goal had always been to reach the peak. Although he hadn't reached the absolute peak yet, at the very least, he was in the top tier. This feeling of clashing with various powerful people in the Astral Realm was very good.

It was a pity that he didn't meet Spider Lady this time. Su Xiao estimated that with his current strength, there was a probability of killing Spider Lady. Even if the other party became an Abyss race, he still had a way.

As for why he didn't kill the Red Beast Di Luo this time, there was indeed no chance. It looked like he and the Deer God were besieging the Red Beast Di Luo, but in reality, as they fought, it became a three-way melee. In a non-single-player situation, even with "Magic Spirit Awakening: Causality Tear," it was almost impossible to kill an Abyss race of Di Luo's level.

When Su Xiao's injuries recovered by 80%, the Lord Train returned to "Sanctuary City, Gran." Gran in the evening was very lively. The last week was the Wine Festival, and the Dark Bishop Palmer, who dominated this city, was dead, so the residents in the city were reveling.

It was worth mentioning that many residents who had left Sanctuary City before had returned one after another this afternoon, making the somewhat deserted Sanctuary City lively again.

Compared to the liveliness of the city center, the Gloom Cathedral, shrouded in shadows on the side of the city, appeared quiet and safe. After Su Xiao returned to the third floor of the cathedral, the room where the "Stele of Awakening" was located, he found that it had been fully furnished, all of which Bubu Wang had completed one after another.

The room had a faint floral fragrance, drifting from a large field of flowers on the south side. This natural herbal fragrance made people feel relaxed. Coupled with the overall warm color tone of the room, it had an extra sense of comfort.

Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, Su Xiao contacted Beni. It was still the previous process: let Beni acquire 7-10 supreme passives, and contact the Goblin Chamber of Commerce to sell the existing space-time power at a ratio of 1:423.

For this business, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce was very welcome. At first, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce was quite dissatisfied with this ratio. The General Manager of the Goblin Chamber of Commerce, Jinguwo, withstood the pressure to conduct this business. But after the transaction amount exceeded 500,000 ounces of space-time power, the mouths of the high-level officials of the Goblin Chamber of Commerce were about to split with laughter.

The Abyss catastrophe was imminent. Having a large amount of space-time power on hand was definitely beneficial and harmless. Even in the worst-case scenario, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce could ensure it wouldn't be completely destroyed by paying a massive amount of space-time power.

Normal situations could be like this, but the problem was that this current Lord of the Abyss seemed not only prepared to let the Abyss spread throughout the Astral Realm but also to drive those huge "Ancient Abyss existences" in the distant drifting lands to swallow, smash, and tear the Astral Realm after the Abyss spread.

So the Goblin Chamber of Commerce had to bet everything this time; there was indeed no way out.

Su Xiao didn't wait too long. Ten "Supreme Passive" skill scrolls appeared in the team storage space. Taking them out, he summoned the Lord Train to this sufficiently large room. The area on the right side of the room was reserved for summoning the Lord Train.

Su Xiao came to the "Exclusive Skill Upgrade Warehouse" in the rear carriage of the train. In his hand, one skill scroll after another shattered, turning into special awakening energy and merging into himself. One supreme-tier ability after another was constructed and awakened.

【You have mastered Soul Radiance, Lv. 21.】

【You choose to enhance "Supreme Passive: Soul Radiance" to Lv. MAX, totaling 33.8 million soul coins. Do you want to perform this enhancement?】

The ability enhancement began. This time, he wanted to max out 10 "Supreme Passives," but the problem was that there were no golden skill points on hand. This was not a big problem. Lv. MAX "Supreme Passives" could also be devoured, but the "supreme attribute points" enhanced were not as many as Lv. EX.

Fifteen hours later, 10 Lv. MAX "Supreme Passives" appeared in Su Xiao's supreme-tier skill list. Fortunately, his "Supreme Skill Slots" were enough, with a limit of 22. Currently, 7 were used permanently, 10 were occupied temporarily, and 5 remained.

Subsequently, he should indeed look for a few supreme passives worth keeping. The "Stele of Awakening" indeed had such abilities, but the danger level of mastering them was called "extremely dangerous" even by the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers.

Translating the danger level expressed by the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers:

Able to master safely = no accidents during mastery, won't die.

No risk = 20-30% probability of dying during mastery. Of course, if your physique is strong enough, there is no risk, so it equals no risk. If you die, it's your own fault, don't blame the ability. Not to mention anything else, just say whether it's strong after mastering this ability.

Risky = Master with certainty, estimated 30-40% probability of dying.

Relatively dangerous = After preparing everything, there is still a 60-70% probability of dying due to mastering this ability.

Extremely dangerous = 90% probability of dying when mastering this ability, but because the strength after mastering this ability is outrageous, it is inscribed in the records.

And there was one point: the "Supreme Passive" abilities of the Law-Extinguisher faction were generally not recorded on the "Stele of Awakening" but were recorded on the "Stele of Inheritance," which had been completely shattered due to that epic bloody battle.

More clearly, only two abilities were recorded on the "Stele of Awakening."

1. Abilities that Law-Extinguishers must master, such as Green Qing Qing Gang Ying, Severed Soul Shadow, Green Shadow King, Demon-Extinguishing Physique, etc. These were abilities mastered and awakened when Law-Extinguishers were enlightened or grew to a certain extent.

And what recorded many abilities that Law-Extinguishers could selectively master was the "Stele of Inheritance."

There was a problem: those "Supreme Abilities" with outrageous strength and abnormal danger to master, should they be recorded on the "Stele of Inheritance"? Or the "Stele of Awakening"?

After consideration, the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers once thought that recording them on the "Stele of Inheritance" was too pit-like. The abilities on it were generally relatively gentle, but when they reached the supreme tier, the difficulty suddenly rose to the ultimate nightmare, which was too pit-like for future inheritors. Especially, if the Law-Extinguisher faction had an accident and was temporarily silent, appearing in intergenerational inheritance, it would be even more pit-like for inheritors.

A group of previous generation Law-Extinguishers discussed it and began to observe the "Stele of Awakening." Aha? This Green Shadow King was also very dangerous to master, and what about Magic Spirit Awakening, Magic Spirit Awakening, Time Dominator, Devouring Physique—each one was a heavyweight.

The previous generation of Law-Extinguishers slapped their thighs. Safe abilities were all distributed to the children's table, which was the "Stele of Inheritance," and these dangerous ones were all served to the adults' table, which was the "Stele of Awakening."

The bottom and middle parts of the "Stele of Awakening" recorded various necessary inheritance skills. As for the large empty space at the top, colleagues, don't be stingy with your supreme-tier abilities, just put them all on it. Of course, those that were safe but had average power were all inscribed on the children's table (Stele of Inheritance).

Just like this, all the supreme-tier abilities of the Law-Extinguisher faction with the top strength but also the most danger were inscribed on the "Stele of Awakening."

The bigger problem was that Su Xiao didn't know this at all. From his perspective, these were the "Supreme Passives" of the Law-Extinguisher system, powerful but high-risk.

And he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with these abilities. His line of thought was that as long as his physique was strong enough, he could master these "Law-Extinguisher Supreme Passives" with low risk.

Let's set a goal: when the total supreme attributes reach 450-500 points, try to master the first "Law-Extinguisher Supreme Passive," and subsequently master one for every 80-100 points of total supreme attributes increased. In this way, there would be no great risk.

If the previous generation of Law-Extinguishers knew Su Xiao's outrageous plan, they would inevitably fall into collective silence, because... this plan was really very feasible. The problem was that reaching 500 points of total supreme attributes was a particularly outrageous thing.

Su Xiao activated the "Source of Power" ability. He felt his heart become scorching hot. A moment later, the 10 "Supreme Passives" disappeared from the skill list. After the power furnace reached the critical point, "Source of Power" entered the second stage. The bright red energy quenched by the power furnace formed a unique mark.

Hum—!

The vortex mark sucked in a large amount of pale golden energy. This was the "Astral Source Power." He absorbed it with the "Source of Power" ability to nourish himself.

A few hours later, all the "Astral Source Power" was absorbed. He stabilized his breath, and a prompt appeared.

【All your supreme main attributes have been permanently increased by 100 points.】

【Your technique potential limit +500.】

【Your Abyss resistance +40 points.】

【Prompt: Your overflowing supreme health has reached 50 million points. You will condense a "Life Core" again.】

【Life Core quantity: 3/3.】

Su Xiao originally thought that the two "Life Cores" that shattered earlier today would have to wait 50 hours, which was two days later, to recover. Now, a new "Life Core" was formed, restoring his life core state to the peak.

Not only that, the body injuries that had not yet recovered also healed at a very fast speed. Besides that, there was one prompt that was crucial.

【Prompt: Your supreme mana has reached 30 million points. Your overflowing supreme mana has no gain for the time being (relevant ability not mastered).】

Any powerful person had a limit. Su Xiao's mana reaching 30 million points was already very outrageous. As for the overflowing 8.2 million supreme mana, it didn't disappear but formed a blue crystal near his heart, beating with his heart.

For a supreme peak, body energy reaching the limit and forming a "Second Heart Core" also meant immersing in this realm for many years. Su Xiao strongly disagreed with this statement. The reason was that he had been ascending to the supreme peak for less than a month in total.

What needed precipitation to form a "Second Heart Core" was, in the final analysis, that the physique was not strong enough. This so-called "Second Heart Core" was naturally formed after body energy overflowed.

Regarding the use of the "Second Heart Core," this was a "Seed of Ability." In the words of the Paradise faction, it was a prerequisite for skill mastery.

There were two such skills on the "Stele of Awakening," namely:

"Supreme Soul (Supreme Passive): Use your own Second Heart Core to form a 'Supreme Soul Mark,' and permanently strengthen your own soul by permanently consuming overflowing body energy, which is permanently increasing soul strength."

"Ultimate Green Shadow King (Supreme Passive): Use your own Second Heart Core to form a Green Shadow King core, and increase the Green Shadow King core capacity by permanently consuming overflowing body energy. The core initially has 100 points of 'Green Shadow King energy,' which will slowly recover. When it reaches the full value, you can immediately enter the Green Shadow King state, consuming 1 point of 'Green Shadow King energy' per second."

Ability warning slogan: An overly powerful Green Shadow King will have a risk of losing control. Maintaining the overly powerful Green Shadow King state for a long time will start "Blade Demonization."

【Prompt: If you choose the "Ultimate Green Shadow King" ability, your current Green Shadow King energy will undergo adaptive ascension. This ascension has risks and requires paying 210,000-250,000 ounces of space-time power (depending on the current situation). And after this ascension, you need to choose a body attribute as the core attribute of the Green Shadow King. While the Green Shadow King is enhanced by this attribute, it will also bring unique feedback gains to this body attribute.】

Two choices, actually no need to say more. The core problem now was whether Su Xiao's current 402 points of supreme strength attribute could withstand the risk of mastering "Ultimate Green Shadow King." ===== CHAPTER 4102 =====