Chapter 957

According to the arena’s rules, once the match begins, competitors are forbidden to leave the Void Arena.

But these are the Void Arena’s rules, not the Paradise of Reincarnation’s rules—whether Su Xiao follows them depends on the situation.

Right now, he intended to temporarily ignore this rule and leave the arena with Lilim for a while; he had already defeated his first-round opponent, and for the remaining matches, he could either watch or recover in the resting chamber.

“Is it okay to leave temporarily? The second round starts in under twenty hours.”

Lilim realized Su Xiao had to participate in the Void Arena—after all, he had revealed his Identity of the Law Annihilator just to enter.

“No problem. I have eyes inside the Void Arena.”

As they spoke, Su Xiao led Lilim to the entrance of a resting chamber.

Creak～

The door to the adjacent resting chamber opened, and the water-wind mage they had met earlier stepped out. He glanced at Su Xiao, noticing the bloodstains on his sleeve, and immediately deduced Su Xiao had just fought in a duel.

“Lucky fellow.”

The water-wind mage muttered under his breath, then let out a cold snort—he recognized Lilim.

“Oh? If it isn’t the Wind Prince.”

Lilim smiled meaningfully. The water-wind mage, also known as the Wind Prince, turned dark-faced and strode quickly toward the arena.

“He’s definitely one of your future opponents. He’s a junior mage from the Eternal Star of Arcana, second son of Lord Frostwind, and one of the most renowned new-generation warriors in the Void.”

Lilim’s smile was strange.

“Strong?”

“No, he’s famous not for his strength, but for combining wind and water elements. You’re a Law Annihilator—you know what it means to perfectly fuse two elements.”

Su Xiao certainly knew what it meant to perfectly fuse two elements—it was nearly impossible.

“In the Age of Law Annihilators, he would’ve been a prime target for execution. Merging two elements isn’t just disrupting elemental balance—it’s fundamentally altering the elemental structure within one’s body.”

“Not my concern, as long as he doesn’t come after me.”

Su Xiao didn’t care what the Wind Prince did; they had no grudge. But it was puzzling—how could a genius like him, who should’ve been heavily protected and nurtured, end up in the Void Arena, where the mortality rate was so high?

“Funny thing—he became so obsessed with elemental transformations that he spent years locked inside his family’s mage tower. Supposedly, after mastering his spells, he left the tower fewer than five times. Eventually, even his father couldn’t stand it, so he dumped him in the Void Arena to ‘see the world,’ and entrusted his friend, the Mage Sage Serphilia, to secretly protect him. Pretty much royal treatment.”

Lilim’s tone dripped with disdain; in her eyes, the Wind Prince was nothing but a bookish, sheltered flower.

The two entered the resting chamber; Su Xiao had temporary rights to use it.

Closing the door, Lilim placed her pale hand against it, and a reversed five-pointed star array appeared. Reversed five-pointed stars were a talent demons excelled at—though structurally similar to magic arrays, this wasn’t magic. Demons never actively communed with elements; they preferred to wield demonic power.

“We’re going to a remote planet in the Void. No need to worry about safety—it’s virtually uninhabited. Usually, no living creature appears for centuries. A certain alchemist who loves solitude lives there.”

Lilim’s hand glowed, and several sharp animal teeth and a sheet of parchment appeared in her grasp.

“Give me an hour.”

Lilim laid the parchment flat on the ground and scattered the animal teeth beside it.

On those teeth, Su Xiao sensed intense spatial fluctuations—they seemed capable of piercing or traversing space.

Lilim pulled out more materials, her face twisted in visible pain.

“Maybe… I should take back what I just said?”

Lilim grimaced, baffled—when had the demons’ Shitan of Su Xiao turned into her paying out of pocket to construct a long-distance teleportation array?

“I’m definitely billing my second brother when I get home. What a stupid idea this was.”

With a face full of bitter suffering, Lilim meticulously arranged the long-distance teleportation array, muttering incessantly under her breath.

About an hour later, the spatial fluctuations in the room intensified. Su Xiao instinctively stepped back.

“You seem to dislike spatial movement?”

Lilim seemed to have discovered something novel—when the little giant had charged at Su Xiao with fury, he hadn’t moved an inch. But now, after the spatial array was complete, he stepped back.

“Not at all.”

Su Xiao faintly felt a dull ache at the back of his skull—it was an illusion, really. After all, every time the Paradise of Reincarnation transported him, the experience was unpleasant.

“Let’s go.”

Lilim channeled demonic power into the parchment on the ground. The spatial fluctuations grew even stronger.

Su Xiao approached the long-distance spatial teleportation array—just from this, one could see how powerful Lilim was; she’d constructed it using nothing but a few materials.

Spatial energy enveloped Su Xiao. His vision blurred, as if he’d been thrown into a spinning washing machine. Compared to the Paradise of Reincarnation’s teleportation, this was wildly unstable.

Just as Su Xiao felt he might vomit, the scene shifted—he stood inside a strange forest. The trees burned crimson, and green fireflies drifted through the air. The entire forest shimmered with breathtaking beauty.

“Ugh～”

A gagging sound came from beside him. Su Xiao turned his head—Lilim was leaning against a tree, bent over, retching.

“You…”

Lilim stared at Su Xiao with disbelief. She wasn’t skilled at constructing long-distance teleportation arrays, so this one was highly unstable.

“Ugh～”

Lilim continued retching. Minutes passed before she finally recovered.

“Don’t you feel sick? The shaking inside the demon wormhole was unbearable—even for me.”

“A bit dizzy.”

Su Xiao vaguely guessed he’d developed resistance to spatial transport from being constantly moved by the Paradise of Reincarnation. Or perhaps the distance between the Paradise of Reincarnation and its derivative worlds was vastly greater than this teleportation—so to him, this was nothing. As long as he didn’t get hit by that crushing blow, a little shaking didn’t matter.

“Your resistance to demon wormholes is monstrous. Your origin must be extraordinary.”

Lilim wiped vomit from her lips. Her drained energy rapidly returned—her physical constitution was formidable.

“Don’t wander around the Blazing Fire Forest. It’s covered in a vast network of alchemical defense wards.”

Lilim crouched, picked up a twig, and sketched several symbols on the ground: sun, moon, test tube, goat’s head, inverted pentagram, X.

These conveyed messages to the forest’s owner: sun and moon as prefixes, test tube representing the owner, goat’s head representing demons, inverted pentagram representing noble demons, and X representing Lilim herself.

Sssss～

Numbers appeared on the soil: 5, 1, 8, 3.

Seeing the numbers, Lilim frowned.

“What a nuisance.”

Lilim picked up several stones, arranged them into a triangle, and stepped forward.

“Follow me. Ignore whatever you see.”

The two walked into the forest’s depths. Wherever they passed, the crimson trees came alive—transforming into treefolk. Conservatively, there were tens of thousands.

These treefolk radiated intense threat. Even one would be beyond Su Xiao’s capacity to handle, let alone tens of thousands.

They were alchemical creations, fused with multiple disciplines of alchemy—including alchemical bio-manufacturing.