# Chapter 72: Three Against One (Thanks to Typhoon Restaurant for the Silver Alliance)
Accidentally entering the Starry Sky Seat made Su Xiao look forward to the Starry Seat Banquet, whose timing was unknown. However, he soon selectively put this matter out of his mind.
Rather than hoping to reach the top overnight through trades at the Starry Seat Banquet, Su Xiao felt that steadily improving step by step was more reliable. The former involved a great deal of luck, while the latter was a solid and steady approach.
Thinking this, Su Xiao stood up and left his Exclusive Room, heading straight for the Land of All Beings. He now had 3.29 million Paradise Coins, enough to spend freely within the Land of All Beings.
Only by tempering himself to gain strength could Su Xiao feel truly powerful. Even if he obtained a large amount of resources through the Starry Sky Seat, he would still choose to improve his strength step by step.
Without corresponding training, suddenly gained power was like a castle in the air—beautiful to look at, but no one knew when it might collapse.
[The Hunter has entered the Training Grounds. Please select a mode.]
[Auxiliary Mode / Combat Mode]
Su Xiao ignored the mode selection and scrolled down, quickly finding [Land of All Beings].
[To enter Land of All Beings: First Layer, costs 50,000 Paradise Coins per hour. The Land of All Beings has seven layers in total.]
[Land of All Beings: First Layer: 50,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
[Land of All Beings: Second Layer: 100,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
[Land of All Beings: Third Layer: 300,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
[Land of All Beings: Fourth Layer ~ Seventh Layer: No entry permission.]
...
Su Xiao chose to enter the Land of All Beings: Third Layer. He needed to perfect his Absolute Shadow Flash ability. Or rather, the current Absolute Shadow Flash could be divided into two parts: Absolute Shadow was for trapping enemies, and Flash was for killing them.
Inside the third layer of the Land of All Beings, a forest of stone pillars stood tall. Su Xiao stood atop one stone pillar. As he assumed the starting stance of Absolute Shadow Flash, over a dozen phantom figures of Blade Grandmasters appeared around him, all assuming similar starting stances. The blade techniques of these figures could greatly inspire Su Xiao in developing Absolute Shadow Flash.
Unconsciously, Su Xiao became immersed in the development of his blade techniques. When he came back to his senses, he had less than 500,000 Paradise Coins remaining. He needed the rest to replenish supplies and such.
Moreover, Su Xiao planned to undergo the second awakening of his innate ability, Soul Devourer, in the next world. With his current strength, he was already qualified for a second awakening. The difficulty of awakening an innate ability wasn't constant; the higher the rank, the greater the difficulty.
Two hours later, inside a dojo.
Su Xiao sat on the ground, one hand covering his neck, sweat dripping from his chin. Sha stood beside him, wearing shorts and strips of cloth wrapped around her upper body as a makeshift top.
"Already done? Only two hours."
Sha cracked her wrists. She was surprisingly enthusiastic about teaching Su Xiao close-combat grappling skills.
The reason was simple: after undergoing one of Su Xiao's surgeries, Sha had been traumatized. The feeling of having her body "casually toyed with" made her very uncomfortable every time she thought about it.
When teaching Su Xiao close-combat grappling, Sha could legitimately throw Su Xiao around, which made her feel extremely satisfied.
Su Xiao stretched his neck. Sha's back throw earlier had nearly broken his neck.
"Starry Sky Seat. Heard of it?"
Su Xiao tilted his head back. With a crisp crack, the stinging pain in his neck disappeared, quickly returning to normal.
"Of course I've heard of it."
Sha's expression was normal, as if she didn't care much about the Starry Sky Seat.
"Have you been there?"
Seeing Sha's expression, Su Xiao felt she might know something about the Starry Sky Seat.
"Huh?" Sha looked at Su Xiao in confusion. "The Starry Sky Seat? Isn't that just made up?"
"No. Not long ago, I entered that place."
Su Xiao shook his head as he spoke.
"Oh? What's there?"
Sha became interested. She hadn't cared about the Starry Sky Seat before only because it was a legend.
"Nothing special. Just a scam of a trade. Drank this stuff."
Su Xiao took a bottle of potion from his storage space. It was something he had specially formulated for Sha.
"Drinking medicine again? Last time, that bottle was so bitter I threw up for three days."
Sha reluctantly took the potion and downed it in one gulp.
"Ugh~ What the hell is this?"
Sha bent over, dry heaving, tears nearly streaming from her eyes.
"You wouldn't want to know. Lie down."
Su Xiao took out several electrode pads and stuck them on Sha's back.
"Is my body really as bad as you say? Can't Reincarnation Paradise heal it?"
Sha lay down, pulled the bandages from her chest, and lay bare-chested on a piece of white animal fur, pulling out a fully transparent communicator to browse.
"Of course it can. But you'd need to obtain equivalent authority. That kind of authority requires luck."
As Su Xiao spoke, he pressed his thumb beside Sha's spine.
"Ow!"
Sha was in so much pain she almost got up and punched Su Xiao.
"The accumulated blood in your lungs has been cleared. About five to seven more treatments, and there shouldn't be any problems."
Su Xiao was helping Sha treat her hidden ailments. Sha had achieved her current strength by risking her life. This woman trained herself without regard for consequences. Prolonged overexertion had left her body riddled with injuries. These injuries wouldn't show on the surface, but once they erupted, Sha's strength would plummet rapidly. In the worst case, she might even fall below the Fourth Rank, and her bodily functions would also decline.
Su Xiao formed a special gesture with his ten fingers and pressed down with full force.
Crack!
Sha let out a series of dry coughs, spitting out the potion she had just drunk. The originally transparent liquid was now pitch black, with blood clots visible inside. More terrifyingly, one blood clot was squirming.
"What the hell is this?!"
Sha's cheek twitched.
"I don't know. It should be a parasite that entered your stomach when you drank water or ate in a harsh environment. Not a living creature, but a type of active energy."
"Do I have anything else like this in my body? Get it all out. I don't care if you have to cut me open!"
Sha clearly had a strong aversion to this kind of parasitic thing.
"Only this one. The reason you had no appetite before was because of it."
"That's good." Sha stretched lazily with a smile, somewhat emotional. "Thanks. It's really nice knowing an Alchemist. No wonder those big shots all befriend Alchemists or pharmacists. My body feels much lighter now."
Su Xiao didn't respond to Sha. Instead, he walked out of the dojo. This place counted as Sha's Exclusive Room, and he had permission to enter here.
There wasn't much time left in Reincarnation Paradise. Su Xiao first went to the Mechanical Sister to replenish some ammunition, then returned to his Exclusive Room to start mixing recovery potions. Bubu Wang and Beini went to the Trade Market to purchase necessities.
Soon, the stay time in Reincarnation Paradise reached its limit.
[The Hunter is about to return to the Real World.]
[Tip: The Hunter will participate in the Fifth Rank World War in the next world progression.]
[Warning: The Hunter must not disclose this information to outsiders.]
[Opponents in this World War: Death Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, Apocalypse Paradise.]
[Tip: This World War is extremely dangerous. Reincarnation Paradise will be besieged by three opposing Paradises.]
[Threat levels of hostile Paradises are as follows:]
[Death Paradise: ★★★★★★ (Extremely High Threat).]
[Holy Light Paradise: ★★ (Medium-Low).]
[Apocalypse Paradise: ★ (Low).]
...
Seeing the notification from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao was momentarily surprised. He had fought against Contractors from all three of these Paradises before. Apocalypse Paradise should be Reincarnation Paradise's "mortal enemy"; it was present in every World War as an opponent.
As for Death Paradise, it was very strong. In the Paradise Arena, its reputation was only slightly lower than Reincarnation Paradise's.
What truly surprised Su Xiao was that Holy Light Paradise had joined the battle. In the Paradise Arena, this Paradise was known as the "Soft Girl Paradise," with female Contractors making up over seventy percent of its population.
Clearly, this was also a pushover. Yet this pushover actually had a threat rating one star higher than Apocalypse Paradise. It had to be said, those miners truly lived up to their reputation.
There was no need to think about it. The Contractors of Death Paradise were probably buzzing with headaches right now. Not only was their opponent the extremely troublesome Reincarnation Paradise, but they also had two useless teammates—one responsible for looking pretty, and the other who liked to sweat profusely in the mines.