Chapter 4142

Su Xiao came to the room where the Su Xing Monument was stored and pressed one hand on it. Because the Su Xing Monument had been fully notarized, the skill list of the Law-Extinguishing system appeared on it. At the top was an ability called "Eternal Physique." He hadn't known the meaning of this skill name before, but now he knew.

If it were before completing the awakening of the "Shadow Hunter Talent," Su Xiao would have been exceptionally cautious about mastering this ability. Now, he only needed to be sufficiently careful. After drinking a bottle of exclusive recovery potion, he pressed one hand on the "Su Xing Monument."

Su Xiao's Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy spread out, beginning to outline based on the ability core of "Eternal Physique." Almost simultaneously, the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy within his body built an identical ability core. The moment the ability core was completed, he saw light.

The reason he saw light was because he fell to the ground after entering dreamland and happened to see the white light on the ceiling. He sat up and checked his skill list. In the Law-Extinguishing ability column, he saw the newly appeared ability.

【Eternal Physique, Lv. EX (Passive).】

Skill Effect: This skill cannot bring bonuses to the Extreme Realm System · 1000-point Supreme Attribute. This skill is currently ineffective for you, but it can undergo a soaring-level upgrade to promote it to "Supreme Physique."

Prerequisite 1: All Supreme Main Attributes reach 1000 points.

Prerequisite 2: Consume 120 "Soul Energy Crystals."

Prerequisite 3: Possess a sufficiently massive causal volume.

Prerequisite 4: Powerful mind (Achieved).

Important Note: If you successfully master this "Supreme Physique" ability before successfully ascending to the Supreme Realm, then when you ascend to the Supreme Realm, and complete the Supreme Realm ascension through the highest ascension specification, you will have a certain probability of obtaining "Supreme Power · Su Xing."

If the soaring-level upgrade of the "Law-Extinguishing Talent Shadow Hunter" was a way for Su Xiao to see hope in moving toward becoming a Supreme Being, then "Supreme Power · Su Xing" was undoubtedly further increasing that possibility.

The prompt for 【Eternal Physique】 made Su Xiao think of another possibility: this ability was not meant to replace "Astral Source Power" to improve his physique at all. The reason this ability had this trait was that the Supreme Attributes of the master had not reached 1000 points, thus resulting in an "ability degradation derivation."

The correct way to master 【Eternal Physique】 is actually to master it after the Supreme Attributes reach 1000 points. Its function is to obtain "Supreme Physique" before ascending to the "Supreme" realm.

Then, ascend to the Supreme Realm with the highest specification, thereby accumulating a massive amount of the power that should have been used to nourish the "Supreme Physique."

Magnify this power by more than ten times, or even a hundred times, to achieve a qualitative change from quantitative change, and allow this power that has already undergone qualitative change to boost the "Supreme Physique" trait he has already mastered, allowing the "Supreme Physique" trait to successfully advance to "Supreme Power · Su Xing."

Su Xiao weighed it and felt that he could complete this sublimation of 【Eternal Physique】 in the near future. Moreover, instead of improving his physique for the time being, he would focus all his efforts on the "Heavenly Blade Severing Shadow" ability as preparation for a battle in the near-Abyss area.

He could even enter the Abyss alone. The Abyss is vast and boundless, so he didn't worry about suddenly encountering the Abyss Lord. As for the pursuit from the Abyss Lord, while currently staying in Reincarnation Paradise, as long as he had enough extra permissions, he could return to Reincarnation Paradise at any time. It's just that returning from a battle deep in the Abyss requires a large amount of extra permissions.

Regarding this, Su Xiao had a way to deal with it. Although he wouldn't enter a mission world for the time being and there would be no world settlement, he could take on missions that grant large amounts of extra permissions. Such missions were not uncommon on the mission posting machine in the Guild Hall.

The next goal was very simple: obtain a large amount of Space-Time Power.

Opening the "Peak Communication Platform," he still couldn't see any messages. Checking the contact list of the "Peak Communication Platform," Su Xiao found it was all blurred; he could only see the Tuanzhang's avatar. It wasn't that the relevant permissions weren't enabled, but that he couldn't probe the situation of other peak powerhouses. This conformed to the Void Tree's notarization guidelines to avoid conflicts between Supreme Peak powerhouses, which would subsequently lead to offline duels.

In the final decisive battle, every Supreme Peak powerhouse is very important, so only those who actively speak in the channel can see their affiliated Paradise faction, as well as their own codenames, etc.

But Su Xiao felt that the number of Supreme Peak powerhouses in the six major Paradise factions combined must be quite large. He didn't believe that there were only "Supreme Peak Seats" in the Astral Realm. The Astral Realm, the Abyss, and the Elements all have "Supreme Peak Seats," and in this era, he clearly hadn't heard of an Elemental faction. So many vacant "Supreme Peak Seats" certainly wouldn't remain empty forever.

What is one of the long-term missions of the Paradise faction, and a long-term mission with extremely high rewards? Su Xiao seemed to already know. That's right, it's going to the Elemental area, through some method, to help the Paradise faction he belongs to obtain the "Supreme Peak Seats" that have been vacant.

Although he didn't know the specific number, he guessed that the number of peak powerhouses in the "Peak Communication Platform" would not be small. Also, one point could not be ignored: the battle between the Tuanzhang and the previous Abyss Lord was a super-large-scale battle. Perhaps 90% of the peak powerhouses of the Paradise faction of that generation died, and the rest went missing. After all, that battle was neither a win nor a loss, and such situations are often the most tragic.

The auxiliary nature of the Paradise faction for strength improvement is reasonable and logical, not to mention that they fought another Paradise Contention battle later.

Besides that, the Supreme Peak powerhouses of the Paradise faction generally don't cower. They all accumulate step by step, and some of them even fought their way out. It would be strange if they cowered. Conversely, the Peak Realm of the Astral Realm, cowering from the First Era until now, is standard operating procedure.

If they improved slowly in the Astral Realm and, after successfully sealing the Peak Realm, generally cowered for half an era or even an entire era, how could they possibly be the match of the Abyss-system peak powerhouses when facing them?

Not to mention anything else, when the Goblin Elder · Maza · Bia · Dorthy was at the Meteorite Star, was he a bit too cautious and conservative? That's because he had the lowest combat strength among the peak powerhouses in that confrontation.

But such a Goblin Elder, in the Peak Realm of the Astral Realm, is also not to be trifled with. After all, he had the confidence to join the contention for the "Heart of the Abyss."

And once the Abyss invasion descends and the Abyss Gate officially opens, the peak battle that erupts will be much more tragic than the Meteorite Star.

Not to mention anything else, just take the Scaleless Sea King · Nezmo. Don't look at how it was hammered by Su Xiao until it doubted its fish life; in the last peak battle when the Abyss was about to erupt, the Scaleless Sea King · Nezmo was a fierce man who slaughtered in all directions. It's just that the intensity of the Third Era was too abnormal.

If Su Xiao's guess was correct, the final battle corresponding to the Abyss Catastrophe might be the main reason why the Paradise faction cultivates contractors to become stronger, especially the peak lineup capable of countering the catastrophe in the catastrophe battle.

As for the Paradise faction directly interfering in the Abyss Catastrophe, that is definitely not allowed. One of the "Basic Regulations" of the major Paradise factions is that they cannot perform the most direct interference, execution, tampering, etc. This is actually not just a "Basic Regulation"; once interfered with, the Paradise faction would experience self-limiting rule conflicts.

Because of this, the Paradise faction avoids having two peak powerhouses from the same Paradise faction slaughter each other. Of course, this is limited to warnings, not coercion. The cruelty of the Paradise faction is beyond doubt, but besides main missions and contention missions, it doesn't seem to force its contractors to do anything. Even for main missions, risk and reward are equal.

Just like the initial choice of whether to join the Paradise faction, if you choose no, you can choose not to join, but what follows is the death that should have descended anyway.

Feeling himself, Su Xiao originally thought that after mastering 【Eternal Physique】, he would be weak for a period of time. Now it seems that is not the case. In that case, he would improve his "Extreme Realm · Astral" ability. He took out two 【Star Brilliance Stones】.

【Whether to use Star Brilliance Stone ×2 to improve the Extreme Realm · Astral ability. This improvement will bear the risk of death, with a death rate of 0% (determined by the sum of your Supreme Main Attributes).】

Improving "Extreme Realm · Astral" requires a powerful physique; this was expected long ago. And after using this ability many times, he understood it more. The Astral Stasis of "Extreme Realm · Astral," theoretically, is to absolutely freeze everything in an area, entering a state where it can neither operate nor is it absolutely invincible.

One might ask, why can Su Xiao kill enemies in this area? The answer is that he is the only one who can lift part of the stasis during the duration of "Extreme Realm · Astral." This is also the reason why he can move freely in the "Extreme Realm · Astral" area, rather than it being a game mechanic without reason.

When he holds the long blade, his causality naturally spreads to his own blade. The moment the blade edge of Zhan Long Shan slashes the enemy's body, the small part being slashed will temporarily lose stasis and enter a destructible stage. As the long blade slashes through the enemy's body, the Astral Stasis will strike again.

A more intuitive metaphor is: "Extreme Realm · Astral" 'freezes' everything within the range. Su Xiao is the source of absolute high temperature, so he will neither be frozen nor can he move. Zhan Long Shan is a scorching red high-temperature blade, slashing at an absolutely frozen enemy, capable of 'thermal cutting.' After completing the 'scorching cutting,' the 'cold' returns to the surroundings. Enemies without a 'heat source' will be immediately 'frozen' again.

This metaphor is not quite appropriate, but it is very easy to understand.

This is also why, sometimes when Su Xiao slashes an enemy in the static Astral area, the enemy's blood splashes. However, this blood splashing doesn't even last 0.5 seconds before it freezes in mid-air in a splashing shape.

As for how Su Xiao causes Astral Stasis, he relies on the power of the Technique Grandmaster to forcibly terminate the operation laws of the Astral Realm in the surrounding area. This sounds very difficult, but in actual operation, it is indeed not simple.

Su Xiao opened his eyes. The feeling of improving "Extreme Realm · Astral" was not bad, and it could further deepen his understanding of the Astral Realm.

【Extreme Realm · Astral: Lv. MAX++ (Transcendent Tier · Active)】

Skill Effect: You fully release your Technique Grandmaster might, affecting the Astral operation within a 50,000-meter range (improved by 30,000 meters), causing this area to enter the "Astral Stasis" state for 7 seconds. During this period, you can "Limitedly Dominate" this area, thereby permanently seizing one ability of a powerful enemy. If seized as a "Peak Ability," it can be formed into your permanent "Life Core" through the Astral transformation of this area and the purification of "Astral System Power." It can form 1~? cores, depending on the strength of the enemy's "Peak Ability." Enemies whose abilities are permanently stripped will fall into a 2~3 second "Absolute Weakness."

Note: When the target within "Astral Stasis" is not a powerful enemy and their comprehensive tier is lower than yours, all their abilities will be permanently seized. This behavior will cause them to die immediately with a super-high probability, or you can perform "Absolute Domination" on such targets through the "Limited Domination" of the Astral area. Targets subjected to "Absolute Domination" will definitely die after 48~72 hours.

Note: Because you have further mastered "Extreme Realm · Astral" which possesses "Self-Traits," you can now freely activate/deactivate "Extreme Realm · Astral" at will, and can even briefly activate "Extreme Realm · Astral" for at least 1 second.

Note: This ability can only be used once every 1 natural day; this is the extreme usage interval derived from this trait.

Su Xiao was more confident about going to the Abyss to slaughter. At that time, he could fully activate "Extreme Realm · Astral" instantly when surrounded by Abyss creatures, turning a large number of surrounding Abyss creatures into "Dominated Targets," letting them scatter and spread out over a large area. Once they sensed the aura of the Abyss Lord, Su Xiao would immediately be able to detect it. But the most critical problem is whether "Extreme Realm · Astral" can be used to perform stasis within the Abyss.

As long as the stasis is successful, "Limited Domination" can be triggered. The "Extreme Realm · Astral," which has been significantly improved, might really be able to have some effect within the Abyss.

As for what to do if he is not in the Astral Realm when fighting the Supreme Being, as long as he ensures that his own "Extreme Realm · Astral" ability is similar in strength to the Supreme Being's Astral Stasis ability, Su Xiao cannot use "Extreme Realm · Astral," but the opponent also cannot use it. If both cannot use it, it is equivalent to nothing happening.

In the battle against the Supreme Being, the role of "Extreme Realm · Astral" is to cancel each other out, not to decide the outcome. Whether he can win depends on his comprehensive hard strength.

Just then, Su Xiao felt a palpitation in his storage space. He took out the palpitating object: 【Origin Stone · World】.

"Equipment Effect 4: Peak (Passive), can be activated upon reaching above Supreme."

This trait became clearer. The "above Supreme" mentioned here is clearly not Supreme Peak, but the Supreme Realm. And the current 【Origin Stone · World】 had some changes in its data:

【Origin Stone · World】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise (determined by the location at the time of synthesis).

Type: Special Equipment.

Durability: 18000/18000.

Equipment Effect 1: Meditator (Passive), if the Hunter carries the Origin Stone with them, each meditation will improve the progress of the current meditation ability by 10% (can be triggered once per natural day), and can allow the "Meditation" ability limit to reach Lv. 110.

Equipment Effect 2: Strength (Passive): No changes.

Equipment Effect 3: Sealing (Passive): No changes.

Equipment Effect 4: Peak (Passive), can be activated upon reaching above Supreme.

Equipment Effect 5: World · Heaven-Chosen (Passive), you become the "Unique · Heaven-Chosen," Fortune limit +2.05 million points.

Current Fortune limit: 20 million points.

Introduction: You are "Heaven-Chosen," and also unique.

Sale Price: Cannot be sold, cannot be traded, cannot be transferred, will definitely drop upon death. If the person who kills you is not worthy of possessing the Origin Stone · World, this Origin Stone will shatter into five pieces.

Good news: he had become the unique Heaven-Chosen of the current era. What the benefits were was not yet clear. To say there were no benefits was really not true; his Fortune soared from the original 50,000 increase to 2.05 million, which also allowed Su Xiao's Fortune to reach the -20 million point mark.

Thinking about it, the "Fate Coin" now would probably be somewhat silent. It didn't do anything, but its holder actually lowered the lower limit of Fortune himself.

What truly makes people speechless is not that the Great Daddy-level · Original Sin Item "Fate Coin" does nothing, but that it actually quietly boosted the sealing power of the "Book of Original Sin," which is the same thing the "Collector" did. It seems it doesn't hope that the current holder will die from the backlash of multiple original sin powers, at least for the short term, that is its attitude.

Putting away the "Origin Stone · World," Su Xiao came to the alchemy laboratory and redeemed materials for 10 portions of "Extreme Body Shell Potion." The Tuanzhang had previously helped post the sales information for "Extreme Body Shell Potion" on the Peak Communication Platform.

The price wasn't set at 120,000 ounces. With the decisive battle against the Arcane Eternal Star imminent, if he could quickly obtain a large batch of Space-Time Power, he certainly couldn't miss it. Now was not the time for slow and steady progress.

The price was set at 100,000 ounces per bottle, and he left Benny's stall number on the Peak Communication Platform. Peak contractors in need would naturally go to the stall in the Great Gathering Place to purchase it.

Besides that, he also gave news to several major chambers of commerce and the "Gil-Eryu Family." He sent a bottle for free to the latter as a return gift for those two extra handed-down famous blades.

Wearing the 【Peak Work】 title, Su Xiao threw himself into potion blending. When the second bottle was blended, he confirmed that this potion could not be blended in batches. The difficulty of catalyzing more than one portion at a time soared, and the stability also dropped sharply. Seeing this, he began to blend one by one, feeling his potion-making ability, which had improved to Lv. EX.

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Su Xiao became more proficient the more he blended. After all ten bottles were blended, he opened the team channel, preparing to let Benny sell for a while, and after they were sold out, he would continue blending.

As a result, as soon as he opened the team channel, he saw order after order sent by Benny. Not only did peak contractors need this item, but several major chambers of commerce and major Void factions that learned of this potion through chamber of commerce channels also showed demand, which showed how popular this "Extreme Body Shell Potion" was among powerful people.

After all, after the destruction of the Second Era · Alchemy Civilization, it had been too many years since such a permanent bonus secret medicine had been seen. Moreover, the top potion-makers of the Second Era · Alchemy Civilization were alchemy potion-makers and couldn't blend "Extreme Body Shell Potion." This item was a formula corresponding to ancient potion-makers, or rather, it wasn't that it couldn't be blended, but that the blending difficulty was higher and the finished product was not ideal.

This led to the "Extreme Body Shell Potion" appearing for the first time in this great era from the First Era to the Third Era. If it were a top secret medicine corresponding to alchemy potion-makers, the sales volume would definitely not be this good.

When the pre-order volume reached 25 portions, Su Xiao knew he could only go to enhance Zhan Long Shan in the afternoon.

Su Xiao threw himself into potion blending. When he finished blending, he had blended a total of 40 bottles of "Extreme Body Shell Potion." He estimated that before the battle of the Arcane Eternal Star began, this would be the sales volume. Those bought by several major chambers of commerce would definitely be resold, causing "Extreme Body Shell Potion" potential customers to be intercepted.

Regarding this, Su Xiao didn't care. Being able to obtain a large sum of Space-Time Power as soon as possible was what he most wanted to see at the moment.

Besides that, the sales situation of the 【Perfect Amulet】 was also not bad. After Benny placed this item on the stall, contractors who could see Reincarnation-level items surrounded the stall three layers deep inside and three layers deep outside. Those contractors who only saw??? were completely bewildered by this scene.

The 【Perfect Amulet】 didn't need to be sold by haggling, and Benny couldn't haggle either. Its throat was almost hoarse from meowing, but the result was still a bewildered negotiation. It simply hardened its heart and opened the fair auction mode. Generally, in the Great Gathering Place, this mode wouldn't be opened. At this tier, even if they didn't know each other, they were familiar faces.

But this time, Benny really had no other way, and everyone present had no objections. With the 【Perfect Amulet】 being in the top three of Reincarnation-level items, holding a grand auction for it was not an exaggeration at all.

Afterward, a group of powerful people began to perform the act of smashing pots and selling iron. There were too many people in need of the 【Perfect Amulet】, or rather, 99.9% of contractors with Reincarnation-level item permissions needed it. This item only required 10 points of Luck Attribute. Is there any difference between this and having no equipment requirements?

And it improves full-body equipment by 35%. Except for extremely special systems, which high-tier contractor doesn't have a set of powerful equipment?

The "Coordination Resonance" effect goes without saying. The 【Perfect Amulet】 has already begun to be renamed by contractors, called the "Resurrection Amulet." Nothing is more important than life. This item actually ranked third, so how outrageous must the top two pieces of Reincarnation-level equipment be?

Finally, the 【Perfect Amulet】 was sold for 7.55 million to a Hunter of Reincarnation Paradise. That brother was wearing a black robe, and the exposed parts of his hands were withered and covered in cracks.

Counting the subsequent gains from 【Extreme Body Shell (Peak)】, Su Xiao now had ten million Space-Time Power. He suddenly had the idea of whether to upgrade the "Heavenly Blade Severing Shadow" ability to Lv. 145. But considering the maximization of resource conversion into combat strength, upgrading "Heavenly Blade Severing Shadow" to Lv. 130~135 was the best choice.

This time, not only was the 【Perfect Amulet】 sold, but the 【Immortal Will (Passive, Lv. EX)】 scroll was also successfully sold. It was a barter, exchanged for:

"Highest-Level Enhancement Stone (Permission Item): Can be used at the equipment enhancement machine when enhancing equipment, making the current equipment enhancement level succeed +1."

Taking the 【Highest-Level Enhancement Stone】 from the team storage space, Su Xiao went out with Xiang Bubu Wang and Bahar, heading straight for the Equipment Enhancement Hall.

Half an hour later, in front of the Equipment Enhancement Hall, various enhancement tragedies were engraved on stone slabs. The mood of having equipment shattered during enhancement can be imagined. Conversely, once a piece of equipment, especially a weapon, is enhanced to a high level, it can really allow a contractor to turn things around on the spot.

Walking into the Enhancement Hall, it was more bustling than ever. Su Xiao came to an equipment enhancement machine and started it.

【Welcome to use Equipment Enhancement Machine No. 16666.】

The tray of the equipment enhancement machine extended. Su Xiao placed Zhan Long Shan on it, the metal tray retracted, and a prompt appeared.

【Equipment check complete. To enhance Zhan Long Shan (Reincarnation-level) to +1, you need to consume 1 Primal Core.】

【Detected that this is a Reincarnation-level weapon enhancement. You need to know the following enhancement regulations.】

1. The enhancement of Reincarnation-level equipment is not a direct enhancement of the equipment core, but an increase in the causal-level limit. This process is extremely rapid. When the causal-level limit increase is completed, the equipment enhancement machine will perform a corresponding improvement to this equipment core based on the magnitude of this improvement.

2. Because the enhancement process is an increase in the causal-level limit, you can perform multiple enhancements in succession, and after a successful enhancement, increase the enhancement level by multiple levels with the equipment enhancement machine. Conversely, the time for this improvement will be slightly extended.

3. After a successful enhancement of Reincarnation-level equipment, you can choose to perform continuous enhancement before the equipment core is improved. Continuous enhancement will increase the equipment enhancement success rate until the accumulated success rate of this time is cleared (probabilistic clearing, or clearing after two consecutive enhancements, or clearing after three to five consecutive enhancements).

4. Because Reincarnation-level equipment involves the improvement of causal limits, once an equipment enhancement fails, it will be immediately destroyed! However, Reincarnation-level equipment with durability higher than 3000 points can resist the destruction caused by enhancement failure, which will clear the enhancement level to 0 and permanently deduct a certain amount of the durability limit.

Seeing these prompts, Su Xiao knew the enhancement rules for Reincarnation-level weapons. First, each enhancement consumes one "Primal Core." And because it is first improving its causal limit, if the limit is improved, it means the enhancement is successful, so the enhancement result is very fast. For example, enhancing to +1 takes only a few seconds. However, completing the subsequent core improvement takes a while.

As for the success rate accumulated by continuous enhancement, this thing is random. After one successful enhancement, it might accumulate a 0.1% success rate, or it might accumulate 99.9%, all depending on luck.

At the stage of enhancing Reincarnation-level equipment, luck has long been a part of strength because this is derived from the Luck Attribute or Fortune. If one ignores the fair probability of luck, it is instead the greatest unfairness to contractors who have invested in this aspect.

Su Xiao activated "Weapon Enhancement Permission."

"You can use this permission to upgrade weapons of 'any quality' to +15."

The equipment enhancement machine began to operate. He began to receive enhancement prompts.

【Zhan Long Shan +1 success.】

【Zhan Long Shan +2 success.】

【Zhan Long Shan +3 success.】

【Zhan Long Shan +4 success...

【Zhan Long Shan +13 success.】

【Zhan Long Shan +14 success.】

【Zhan Long Shan +15 success.】

A series of prompts appeared one after another. If it were before, each enhancement level would have to wait for a while. Now, the causal limit improvement of the Reincarnation-level meant that the enhancement from +1 to +15 took a total of 60 seconds.

Hum~!

The equipment enhancement machine began to operate, with continuous roaring sounds and the buzzing of electric currents inside. Six hours later, a burst of steam sprayed out from the four corners of the bottom of the equipment enhancement machine, and a prompt appeared.

【This enhancement has been completed.】

Su Xiao didn't take out Zhan Long Shan. He took out the 【Highest-Level Enhancement Stone】 and pressed it into the card slot of the still-scorching equipment enhancement machine. Consulting the relevant prompts and confirming that this counted as an enhancement rather than the permission trait improvement of the previous type, he took out 【Fate Reversal】, used "Equipment Effect 2 · Fortune Accumulation" to restore the durability of this fate oddity to full, and activated "Power of Fortune."

【Whether to perform this enhancement.】

【Enhancing...】

【Zhan Long Shan +16 success.】

【The success rate for this time has accumulated to 95%. Whether to perform continuous enhancement, you need to use a "Primal Core" to perform this enhancement.】

A choice was placed before him. Should he perform a continuous enhancement with the 95% success rate randomly generated by this burst of fortune?

If it were in the past, he would definitely stop while ahead. But 【Fate Reversal】 had already proven more than once that it could really reverse fortune. 【End】 and 【Perfect Amulet】, these two Reincarnation-level · top-tier equipment, were both proving this point. Now, the 95% success rate randomly generated was proving this point again.

【Zhan Long Shan +17 success.】

【The success rate for this time has accumulated to 98% (increased by 3%). Whether to perform continuous enhancement, you need to use a "Primal Core" to perform this enhancement.】

【Zhan Long Shan +18 success.】

【The accumulated success rate has been cleared.】