Chapter 75: Black Eyes
Light and shadow flickered before his eyes, a sensation of weightlessness appeared, and when Su Xiao's vision returned to normal, he was already standing in front of the Trial Grounds.
There were still a few hours left before returning to the Real World. Originally, Su Xiao had planned to keep developing his blade techniques within the Land of All Beings: Third Layer, but the cost of 300,000 Paradise Coins per hour was too high. He currently had only 340,000 Paradise Coins left, and these needed to be used to replenish recovery items, bullets, explosives, and so on.
If Su Xiao had chosen to develop his blade techniques in the Land of All Beings: Second Layer, he would have saved a lot of Paradise Coins. However, the effects of the Second and Third Layers were vastly different; the strength of the manifested phantoms was on a completely different level.
In the Land of All Beings: Third Layer, Su Xiao had perfected Ring Break. Both the speed of execution and its power had undergone a qualitative leap. As for that blade technique that sealed space through slashes, although he had some clues, it was still far from complete. Even so, this technique could already be used in actual combat, since Su Xiao was developing it based on inspiration from that move, not simply imitating it entirely.
After returning to his Exclusive Room, Su Xiao began crafting Ancient Secret Medicine. He planned to enter the Naruto World in the next world and participate in the Summit War, so recovery items had to be plentiful.
He produced 20 bottles of Ancient Secret Medicine one after another, and the remaining 140,000 Paradise Coins were used to replenish explosives and standard supplies.
When Su Xiao finished all this, he had three hours left of his stay in Reincarnation Paradise. After some deliberation, he had made some progress on the concept of a Cyan Steel Shadow Energy weapon, but before fully perfecting it, Su Xiao decided to use the Golden Skill Point. This could immediately boost his combat power.
The Golden Skill Point was definitely meant to upgrade an X-rank ability. There were six candidate abilities: Absolute Magic Constitution, Spirit Shadow Constitution, Dragon Shadow Flash, Slaughter Shadow, Devouring Core, and Supreme Blade.
Absolute Magic Constitution and Supreme Blade were ruled out first; these two abilities didn't need urgent upgrading. Slaughter Shadow was also excluded, as he had only recently mastered it, and the concept of the Cyan Steel Shadow weapon wasn't fully complete yet. The remaining options were Spirit Shadow Constitution, Dragon Shadow Flash, and Devouring Core.
There weren't many sources of life energy suitable for Su Xiao to devour; most were Tailed Beasts or the ability-formed bodies of descending deities. Moreover, Devouring Core had already reached X++, meaning it had broken through the upper limit by two ranks, which was sufficient for Su Xiao at his current stage.
The only ones left were Spirit Shadow Constitution and Dragon Shadow Flash—one was survival-oriented, the other leaned toward offense plus survival.
After pondering for a long time, Su Xiao chose to upgrade Dragon Shadow Flash. This ability was practically a miracle for melee combat, having saved him from countless fatal crises and allowed him to sever the heads of many enemies.
[Selected Dragon Shadow Flash X, upgrading…]
With a bang, the space around Su Xiao changed. Spatial fluctuations spread outward like ripples on water. He extended his hand forward, and with this simple action, it pierced through layers of space.
The surrounding space became as viscous as amber. Su Xiao tried to take a step forward, and with a whoosh, he vanished from his spot.
A few minutes later, the space around Su Xiao returned to calm. He didn't comprehend anything like spatial laws, nor could he distinguish between the eleven dimensions and six dimensions. Fundamentally, Dragon Shadow Flash wasn't entirely a spatial ability.
Most spatial movements involve setting coordinates first, then moving oneself or swapping positions with nearby objects. Dragon Shadow Flash was pure penetration—no calculation of spatial coordinates, no need to distinguish between layers of space.
The principle of Dragon Shadow Flash was so simple and crude it was astonishing: penetrate from point A to point B, and that was it. Those tedious calculations had nothing to do with the Shadow of Law Destruction. The advantage of this was that Dragon Shadow Flash's movement speed far exceeded other spatial abilities. The downside was that it couldn't perform long-distance spatial movement, unless he became strong enough to ignore the dangers within the layered spaces.
The upgrade of Dragon Shadow Flash didn't give Su Xiao too intuitive a feeling, after all, this ability was too simple and crude.
[Dragon Shadow Flash: X+ (Active Ability).]
Skill Effect: Can break through spatial barriers to move 15 meters (increased by 3 meters), freely choose between 0 to 15 meters.
Tip: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active) cooldown is 2 minutes.
Tip: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active) consumes 300 points of Cyan Steel Shadow Energy (reduced by 100 points of energy consumption).
Tip: If Dragon Shadow Flash (Active) is on cooldown, it can be forcibly used. After use, Dragon Shadow Flash's cooldown temporarily increases to 10 minutes. If forcibly used again, it will place a heavy burden on the body, and the cooldown temporarily increases to 30 minutes.
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Dragon Shadow Flash's movement range increased, consumption decreased, and it could be forcibly used. Forcible use meant Su Xiao could move positions two or even three times in quick succession. But if he did that, Dragon Shadow Flash's cooldown would temporarily increase.
When Su Xiao used Dragon Shadow Flash three times consecutively, its cooldown would reach 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, if he used Dragon Shadow Flash again, its cooldown would reset to the initial 2 minutes.
At life-or-death moments, Su Xiao didn't care at all about how long Dragon Shadow Flash's next cooldown would be. It could be said that Dragon Shadow Flash had undergone a qualitative improvement. The advantage was being able to use it three times in quick succession; the downside was that using it twice consecutively would accelerate physical stamina consumption.
Closing the skill list, Su Xiao began waiting for his stay time to reach its limit. Just then, he suddenly remembered that he had also obtained two unknown eyeballs in the Ghost World. Since Reincarnation Paradise hadn't provided an appraisal for these two eyeballs, Su Xiao had tossed them into his Exclusive Room and nearly forgotten about them.
Picking up the two pitch-black eyeballs, Su Xiao found that they had become very hard, like two pieces of obsidian. One was discovered by Su Xiao in the eye chamber, and the other was looted after killing Sin.
[Unknown Eyeball ×2]
Origin: ???
Type: ???
Usage Effect: ???
Description: ???
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With nothing else to do, Su Xiao tried to sense the fluctuations within the two eyeballs. After sensing for a long time, he found that they were similar to stones, with nothing special detected. However, one thing confirmed they were not ordinary: both eyeballs had been brought into Reincarnation Paradise without being certified by it. This led him to speculate whether these eyeballs had already been certified by Reincarnation Paradise long ago.
Just as Su Xiao was puzzled, a teleportation sensation appeared—his stay time was up.
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Real World, First Floor of the Accessory Shop.
Su Xiao fell from midair and landed on the sofa.
Bang!
A dull thud came. Su Xiao turned his head to see Bubu Wang crashing headfirst into the bar counter. Stranger still, it was standing upside down in midair, caused by unstable teleportation.
A few seconds later, Bubu Wang finally freed itself from the spatial fluctuations, rolled twice, and landed inside the bar counter.
Boom!
A loud noise came from above the small building. Su Xiao pushed open the shop door. Outside, the sky was just beginning to lighten, around 5 AM.
With a leap, Su Xiao jumped onto the roof of the small building. Amu was sitting on the roof with a bewildered expression, and from the way it scratched its head with a large hand, it was clear how confused it was.
Su Xiao's brows furrowed tightly. He was certain that when he returned to Reincarnation Paradise, he was on the second floor—that was his habit.
But now he had been teleported to the first floor. Bubu Wang had its head stuck in the bar counter, and Amu was even worse, having fallen directly from above.
Not only that, Su Xiao looked at the two black eyeballs in his hand. Before returning to the Real World, he had stored these two eyeballs in his Exclusive Room. Yet after returning to the Real World, these two black eyeballs appeared beside his feet.