Chapter 4110: Moonlight and Spider

【Hint: Your main mission has changed, shifting from a survival mission to a strategy mission.】

【Because the nature of this mission has changed, caused by the Hunter himself, the mission rewards will increase to a certain extent.】

【Main Mission: Peak Fate (Third Ring).】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 105

Mission Introduction: Ensure the "Ritual Container" of this world is filled with peak source blood.

Mission Deadline: 20 natural days.

Mission Reward: Reincarnation Badge x 20+5.

Mission Penalty: None.

……

The Baalgu ruins where Su Xiao was located were like experiencing the erosion of thousands of years of time, quickly decaying and collapsing. This was caused by the slashing power shattering the techniques of this place.

Su Xiao walked out of the ruins' great hall. Just as he exited the main entrance, the great hall behind him collapsed with a boom, turning into broken walls and ruins. The bright sun shone down, and the sky, which was originally covered by dark clouds, already had a slash mark.

"Hehehe, a guy who destroys wantonly wherever he goes, really impolite."

Dark red skin, bare upper torso, a mini skull ornament on his right ear, a strong body covered in various scars, coupled with that beast-like aura—that's right, it was the crimson beast Di Luo.

It would be fine if others said this, but Di Luo clearly wasn't qualified to say so. After all, it was it, Su Xiao, and the Deer God together who had beaten the "Barren Stone Mountain Range" out of existence.

Di Luo sat on a thick stone pillar. With its eight-meter-level body, this stone pillar was like a small park stone stool. Not far away, the Deer God, wearing tattered animal skins, stood leaning against a deep Abyss totem over ten meters high with his arms crossed.

Seeing Su Xiao cast his gaze, the Deer God nodded at Su Xiao. The Deer God rarely spoke. Moreover, unless someone caught his eye, he would directly ignore them. What was even more peculiar was that whether someone caught the Deer God's eye had no direct relationship with strength. If he encountered a treacherous and evil person, the Deer God would definitely pay attention and give them a battle stick head-on.

Tap, tap, tap~

The sound of high heels stepping on stone slabs came. A figure with a tall figure, wearing a moon-white long dress, with a dignified yet gentle temperament, walked over. Because of her arrival, a full moon had already appeared in the sky. Yes, it was the Moon Witch Serphilis.

No one knew what method the Moon Witch Serphilis used to be able to temporarily leave the "Moon Temple" and keep the Witch World from having problems.

The three transcendent worlds of the Second Era all had peak Supreme-level fighters as their reliance in the past. The decline of the Wind Sea Continent was precisely because there were no peak Supreme-level fighters in the Third Era, or rather, the peak Supreme-level fighters sealed in this transcendent world had problems—that is, the Spider Lady.

The grudge between the Spider Lady and the Wind Sea Continent had nothing to do with Su Xiao. His only thought about the Spider Lady was: slay her.

Seeing the Moon Witch arrive, Di Luo's pitch-black eyes narrowed, and he asked: "Bai Ye, is this a helper you found?"

Di Luo looked reckless, but it wasn't the case. It said this for the Deer God to hear. If the Moon Witch was a helper found by that Law Breaker, then the two of them would have to be careful after this cooperation ended, lest they be finished off by being two-on-one twice.

"Collaborator."

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, Di Luo grinned, revealing a mouth full of flat teeth. It licked the transparent blood on its teeth and chewed the last piece of the space-type eerie creature that was still twisting painfully. 【4110-

Su Xiao, Di Luo, the Moon Witch, and the Deer God have officially formed the Peak Squad. Come to think of it, the four members of the squad each have their own distinct characteristics. Di Luo is as bold and unconstrained as a wild beast, and he talks the most. The Moon Witch appears dignified and gentle, but that is only from the perspective of a subordinate; in daily contact, one would discover that this beautiful and powerful being, who always wears a gentle smile, often utters a single soft sentence that leaves people silent and broken.

This isn't being sharp-tongued; it's describing the facts while making them unbearable for the person involved from the inside out. For example, Di Luo fought the Blade Demon and lost. In the Moon Witch's words:

"You were never his equal to begin with. Your so-called transcendence is merely a self-delusion, so there is no need to feel discouraged by this defeat."

This is a fact, isn't it? But hearing it is very... plus her gentle smile, soft voice, beautiful face, and her status as a top-tier powerhouse in the Astral Realm.

Within the squad, Su Xiao is the type who, if he can use force, generally doesn't bother with arguments.

The Deer God, on the other hand, either ignores people entirely or uses his battle staff to smash them until their bodies and souls are destroyed, to the point where even their causality and fate explode.

Therefore, if there is a need to negotiate with others in the future, the Moon Witch will certainly be in charge. Of course, Su Xiao is more adept at physical communication. If the other party is stubborn, Di Luo's "First Iron Fist of the Astral Realm" can make them eat their fill until they yield. If they remain hard-headed, the Deer God is responsible for physically destroying them from the conceptual level of causality and fate.

Verbal negotiation → Physical negotiation → Heavy-fisted torture → Physical destruction.

It can be said that although the Peak Squad's temporary combat power ceiling is unknown, in terms of negotiation, it is quite comprehensive.

The Peak Squad has a basic rule, which is:

Before the ritual vessel is filled, no one may attack other team members without reason (if there is a legitimate reason, both parties can settle it themselves, or simply fight to the death, and the subsequent winner will rejoin the team).

"So, who is our first enemy?"

The Moon Witch spoke. Hearing this, Di Luo tilted his chin slightly toward Su Xiao, meaning that the Law-Extinguisher had already made the choice.

"Lady Spider."

Hearing this name, the Moon Witch looked at Su Xiao with a smile in her eyes and said, "You really never drag your feet when it comes to revenge."

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak. A Law-Extinguisher teleportation array formed beneath his feet, enveloping everyone present. As for where Lady Spider went, she was actually in the "Hidden City of Yargus." This was indeed something Su Xiao hadn't expected. It wasn't as Di Luo had said; Di Luo didn't know Lady Spider's whereabouts either. After Lady Spider completed a resurrection while fighting the Deer God, her trust in Di Luo had greatly diminished.

The reason he knew Lady Spider's whereabouts was thanks to Zuiyas's father-in-law, Chief Cleric Bergman. And it wasn't Su Xiao asking him; it was the other party contacting Su Xiao, mentioning that Lady Spider had arrived at the Hidden City and formed an alliance with the Night Mother.

It seemed like Bergman was offering favors for no reason, but in reality, he was secretly indicating, "The matter over at 'Innsmouth' has already been handled for you. As for my grandson's matter, you see..."

Regarding this, Su Xiao naturally had to show his stance. He had already contacted the Goblin Chamber of Commerce General Manager, Jinguwo, and through the Goblin Chamber of Commerce's channels, sent Zuiyas's son, Griffin, away.

Actually, it would have been simpler and faster for Su Xiao to send him over himself. The problem was, whether Griffin would still be breathing upon arrival depended on Griffin's vitality. Conversely, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce's teleportation channel was very slow, taking 4 days in total, but it had the advantage of being safe and comfortable.

As for Griffin's seat in the causality of the Myriad Races World, Su Xiao felt a bit puzzled. He indeed lacked the ability to grant such things. However, if he went to the Myriad Races World in person, he could rely on the causal mass of the "Book of Original Sin" to temporarily touch the "World Causality of the Myriad Races World," and then pluck off a large chunk for Griffin to eat.

Hearing Su Xiao's approach, Chief Cleric Bergman was silent for at least a minute, because this was a method that was both feasible and extremely beneficial to Griffin. Chief Cleric Bergman's original idea was for his grandson to receive some baptism from world causality. Ahem, to put it bluntly, just touching world causality would suffice; being able to eat some directly was another concept entirely.

However, Chief Cleric Bergman immediately thought of another problem and asked it directly: "Bai Ye, aren't you afraid of the causal backlash from the Myriad Races World?"

This question hit Su Xiao's knowledge blind spot instantly. He was silent for a few seconds and asked back: "What is causal backlash?"

The power of this sentence was comparable to a top-tier "Silence-type ability," leaving Chief Cleric Bergman speechless for another minute. It wasn't that he didn't want to say anything, but he had organized his words several times and still didn't know what to say.

Chief Cleric Bergman thought to himself, yes, this is the holder of the "Book of Original Sin," the only living Law-Extinguisher in the Astral Realm, the creator of the Myriad Races World, the Dead Silence White King, the Sovereign of Eternal Light—how could he possibly be affected by causal backlash?

Moreover, the God World, which was half-dead and constantly mutating at the time, was successfully transcended into the Myriad Races World after this man's slaughter and cleanup. With such a status as a world guardian in the Myriad Races World, consuming some world causality wouldn't cause any reaction from the transcendent world consciousness of the Myriad Races World.

……

Hidden City of Yargus, dawn/night time (because the Hidden City is in darkness for over 90% of the time, dawn/night is roughly equivalent to 6:00 AM to 7:30 AM in the outside world).

Only since the existence of the Hidden City has the number of Night Mother believers begun to grow steadily. It looks like they won, but only the high-level members of the Night Mother faction know what they paid. Offending the Yargus School to that extent meant the loss of the scholar system. Knowledge is sometimes not just power, but also wealth.

To put it more intuitively, in Meteor Star, this most special transcendent world, over 95% of its produced resources have backlash or causal toxicity. The only ones who can handle this well are the oldest scholar faction in this world, the Yargus Academy.

Looking at the Hidden City from afar, the surrounding area is the Lower City, which has chaotic architecture and the largest range, surrounding the Central District. In the Central District stands a super-giant cylindrical building, resembling a high tower, with stairways winding around it. Located at the top of this giant tower is the Top City, which is about one-fifth the size of the Lower City.

The buildings in the Top City are taller and larger, and the level of development is similar to the central city area of "Innsmouth."

At this moment, on the Prayer Road that winds around the giant tower, a team of pilgrims is climbing the winding stairs. They are carrying huge metal baskets filled with glowing round stones, each the size of a leaf.

The youngest member of the team is only in her teens, but she hasn't fallen behind. Pella wipes the hot sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. Although she cannot fully understand why they must believe in the Night Mother, this does not hinder her piety, because all her relatives are believers of the Night Mother, or rather, in the family she belongs to, not believing in the Night Mother is in itself a heretical act, an act of ingratitude for the protection received.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with this statement. Without the Night Mother's protection, these believers would either choose to accept the ocean's curse, go to the cold lands of the extreme zones to survive, or go to the Dead Sea to become drifting tribes. If they believed in other Ancient Gods, that would be the beginning of suffering and nightmares.

When the pilgrimage team arrives at the outskirts of the Top City, Pella looks out at the city area in the distance, her eyes filled with undisguised hope. She has heard too many wonderful rumors about the Top City and yearns even more for this place where the God Lord slumbers.

The pilgrimage team leader takes out an old copper watch, checks the time, and feels a sense of relief in his heart. This time, they are transporting 20% more Holy Insect Stones than usual, but the given time limit is three days shorter. Now, they have finally reached their destination.

"Are you exhausted, Pella? There haven't been such heavy holy objects in the past, but that's fine. Being able to endure this means you are an excellent pilgrim."

The pilgrimage team leader is a strong and gentle middle-aged man. A gentle-looking old man further back says, "Being chosen is our honor."

"Indeed."

"The God Lord's grace."

The pilgrims close their eyes and look up slightly, as if receiving grace from the God Lord above.

Not to mention how the Hidden City came to be, the Hidden City at this moment is indeed quiet and peaceful.

Boom—!!

A dull, loud sound comes from above, causing all members of the pilgrimage team, who were still grateful for the Night Mother's grace, to tremble. They look up at the firmament simultaneously. It feels as if something huge outside the firmament has struck the Hidden City hard.

Boom!!

This sound is closer. Both the pilgrimage team leader and Pella feel as if they have been forced to jump up by the earthquake beneath their feet.

Boom!!!

The firmament is pierced. A giant crimson fist breaks through the dark night sky, located above the Top City. After this giant fist is withdrawn, a massive figure with a mouth full of fangs and a size of over 100,000 meters is seen using a giant eye to look at the scene inside the fist hole.

Yes, it is the Crimson Beast, Di Luo. As for why it didn't use this Furious Beast avatar when fighting Su Xiao and the Deer God—is it crazy? Is the Dragon Flash not sharp enough, or is the force of the battle staff "Choushou" insufficient?

"Really hard to find. The Night Mother's lair actually has over a dozen phantom cities."

A huge voice like a booming bell comes from outside the firmament.

The next moment, the pilgrimage team leader, Pella, and the others, who were looking up with astonishment, see the dark red crescent moon in the sky gradually become complete and begin to transform into a silver full moon.

With a boom, a golden figure rushes into the hole in the firmament. He lands fiercely. Seeing the fierce impact, surrounding buildings are shattered in large areas, but no innocent people are harmed. The Top City is entirely composed of high-level members of the Night Mother faction or their families, without exception. The reason is that they have been hostile to the Underworld God Temple for a long time, and the Night Mother faction has suffered quite a bit in this regard.

The Lower City, on the other hand, is over 90% civilians. Therefore, after the golden power spreads to the inner edge of the Top City, it does not fall like molten golden liquid but cools rapidly. Otherwise, the entire South City of the Lower City would have been in trouble.

As soon as the Deer God appears, he heads straight for the Temple of Slumber where the Night Mother is located.

The sound of breaking through the air whistles as a massive amount of crimson meteorites burning with black flames fall, bringing astonishing destructive power and beginning to wash over the Top City. It is obvious that Di Luo and the Night Mother have old grudges. In their long lives, they have had no intersection, which is strange in itself.

The top-tier combat power of the Astral Realm is actually not as large as one might imagine. From the First Era to the Third Era, excluding the Abyss and Elemental factions, the number of supreme peak seats in each era is limited.

Di Luo does not occupy this seat. The Deer God and the Moon Witch are the peak seats of the Second Era. Like the Undying Old Man, he is simply the supreme peak seat of the First Era. Su Xiao and the Night Mother are the peak seats of the Third Era. Come to think of it, the peak seats of the Third Era are currently still vacant, as it is only the early stage of the Third Era.

After the meteorites land, violent explosions occur. The meteorite bombardment is quite spectacular and terrifying. However, the Night Mother faction was only stunned by the surprise attack for a short while. Over 80% of the residents in the Top City have not-so-weak combat power, and the remaining 20% are support personnel. This is also the result of long-term clashes with the Underworld God Temple.

In the lakeside courtyard, Lady Spider watches this scene expressionlessly. She indeed didn't expect the Deer God, Di Luo, and the Moon Witch to join forces so quickly, and that their first target would actually be the Night Mother.

But thinking that the Night Mother is a newly promoted supreme peak, it is indeed easy to be the first to be targeted, so Lady Spider feels relieved.

Regarding the current situation, Lady Spider already has a decision. Of course, it is to join this Peak Squad. Her temporary cooperation with the Night Mother was just to observe the situation, and both sides are clear about this. And since one of the members of the Peak Squad is Di Luo, it also means that the difficulty for Lady Spider to join is not high.

As for staying in the Peak Squad, Lady Spider doesn't intend to do that. She has long known about the awakening stage of the "Abyss Eye Ritual," which requires the source blood of five peak powerhouses. This means that the peak powerhouses who have come to this world must either retreat immediately or choose a side to join; continuing to act alone will sooner or later lead to being besieged.

Looking at it this way, the subsequent development will be the clash between the Peak Squad and the Underworld God Squad.

Current known intelligence is:

Underworld God Squad: Underworld God, Soul Master, Old Demon Hag, Night Mother, Lord of the Underworld.

Peak Squad: Deer God, Moon Witch, Di Luo.

Neutral powerhouses in this world: Undying Old Man, Blade Demon, Goblin Elder Maza Bia Dorti.

Having made up her mind, Lady Spider lazily picks up her black tea cup and takes a small sip. Suddenly, her hand pauses.

A blood-colored beam of light falls, instantly turning this place into a monstrous sea of blood. The scarlet sea of blood spreads, even filling the entire Top City.

Everything around Lady Spider is washed into powder by this sea of blood, and her expression also becomes very ugly. The appearance of this aura signifies that one of the seats in the Peak Squad is the Law-Extinguisher, Kuku Lin Bai Ye.

A verdant, highly toxic domain spreads, causing the incoming sea of blood to dissolve instantly and turn into blood smoke. Not only that, as the highly toxic domain expands, a faint white spider phantom forms behind Lady Spider. This spider phantom has pitch-black armor legs, dense patterns, and clean white fur on its body. Its spider eyes are fluorescent green, and whatever its gaze touches is immediately corroded by the highly toxic poison, even causing space and the world itself to hiss.

Just as the highly toxic domain is about to swallow Su Xiao, a gray-white domain spreads. Unlike the explosive nature of the highly toxic domain, the gray-white domain spreads slowly and firmly. A high seat symbolizing the power of dead silence appears behind Su Xiao, and white flocculent matter flies about.

The highly toxic domain and the dead silence domain erode and spread into each other, eventually holding their ground. This is inevitable when domain powerhouses clash. But there is a problem: Su Xiao is not a "domain-type powerhouse"; he is a "Peak-type." He has a domain only because of the Dead Silence Descent of the Black King's Armguard.

The blood-colored beam of light that had been pouring down finally subsides. Su Xiao, shirtless, slowly draws the long blade at his waist, holding it in his right hand with the tip pointing obliquely at the ground.

Opposite him, Lady Spider suddenly feels that something is wrong. It's not that the opponent's domain is weak, but that it doesn't perfectly fit the opponent. Although the fit is at least over 98%, any peak powerhouse must have a 100% fit with their own "Peak Domain."

"Bestowing death upon you."

Lady Spider just speaks, and terrifying highly toxic power erupts at the world center located in the middle of Su Xiao's chest. With a hiss, most of his body is infected with the highly toxic poison, but it doesn't develop further because this is simply a residual image Su Xiao left behind. Under extreme body speed, this ability appears naturally.

Whoosh!

Wind pressure hits his face. Lady Spider's pupils shrink violently. The Law-Extinguisher holding the Law-Extinguisher Blade is already in front of her.

A strong threat of death erupts from Lady Spider. If it comes to frontal combat ability, she might rank in the bottom few among peak powerhouses, but in terms of danger, Lady Spider, whose peak ability is "Desperate Highly Toxic," is very dangerous and lethal.

"End Fate: Bloom!"

A huge dark purple highly toxic flower phantom appears, poised to bloom.

"Peak: Astral Realm."

With Su Xiao as the center, everything around is frozen.

When the scene before Lady Spider's eyes recovers, she is already in a flower field several kilometers away. Everywhere she looks are clean white moonflowers. However, the sharp pain in her throat makes her press one hand to it, but she doesn't find any wound. Among her three life cores, one that has shattered clearly represents that she just experienced a fatal threat.

In fact, the "life core" of every peak powerhouse has different effects. For example, Lady Spider, after her life core shatters, can instantly escape from the place of death, leaving behind a shell that will erupt with "Deadly Highly Toxic" in place, while her true body appears several thousand kilometers away, or even further.

Lady Spider failed to escape several thousand kilometers because this time her life core shattered while her consciousness was frozen. Naturally, she also didn't know that she had just had her head cut off by one slash, and her body turned into two pieces by the second slash.

The truly terrifying thing is not that the enemy is stronger than oneself, but that one died once without even knowing how they died.

"Illusion-type?"

Lady Spider immediately dismisses this thought. No matter how strong an illusionist is, she would have woken up if her life core shattered. She begins to recall carefully. The moment before her memory was interrupted, it seemed that everything was frozen. World frozen? Time sealed? Neither. Lady Spider has faced these types of abilities before.

What she faced this time is not in the same dimension as those abilities. Let alone the possibility of breaking free, even the thought of breaking free didn't have a chance to emerge.

A horrifying conjecture floats in Lady Spider's mind: could this Law-Extinguisher have the ability to freeze the Astral Realm?

The good news is that this Law-Extinguisher has already used this ability, so there will be opportunities to win later. Lady Spider stabilizes her vitality and adapts to the body that has just been resurrected by the "life core."

Yes, after becoming an Abyss descendant, Lady Spider's "life core" gained an additional resurrection characteristic. The price was that the six "life cores" she originally possessed from devouring the "Wind Sea Treasure: Endless Life" were reduced to only three. Even so, among Abyss descendants, her number of life cores is still considered high.

It seems that Lady Spider's life cores have more functions and stronger life-saving capabilities, but don't forget that these life cores have a disadvantage: they discard the current physical body. Although Su Xiao's life core doesn't have so many functions, it can lock his health when it drops to 0.1%, meaning he never abandons the body he has always had.

Lady Spider looks at the full moon above. The entire Hidden City is sealed, which is also the reason why she hasn't used any means to escape this place temporarily. Facing four supreme peaks, retreating is not shameful at all; the key is that she can't leave now.

Her aura stabilizes quickly, but another problem makes Lady Spider's expression very ugly: her body energy is almost exhausted. She naturally knows that fighting a Law-Extinguisher will cause body energy loss, but she didn't expect it to reach such an exaggerated level.

Although Lady Spider is good at close combat, she would never be stupid enough to engage in close combat with close-combat peaks like Su Xiao, the Deer God, and Di Luo. In other words, she is now almost a poison-type mage with no mana, about to face a top-tier technique grandmaster who cannot be controlled, has peak speed, peak strength, 50 million health points plus four life cores, 95% damage immunity, and 500 points in all supreme main attributes.

Yes, Su Xiao is simply strong in strength, speed, vitality, and sword technique. After this simple strength accumulates to a certain level, there will be very unsolvable situations.

On the flower field, a light breeze blows. The Law-Extinguisher holding the long blade walks over slowly, the tip of the blade still dripping with pale purple blood.

Lady Spider takes a deep breath. Then, her eyes become determined. She holds up a dark blue ancient urn with archaic patterns in one hand. After this ancient urn appears, the surrounding air becomes as thick as seawater. Not only that, the atmosphere in a large area around them changes, as if they were deep in the ocean.

It can be seen that Lady Spider does not intend to use this item, at least not until she is about to die. But even just holding it is already a very great deterrent.

This is none other than the "Daddy-level" Original Sin Object, on the same tier as the six other "Daddy-level" Original Sin Objects like the Collector and the Necronomicon: the Deep Sea Ancient Urn!