Chapter 70: The Price of 'Playfulness'
Bang!
Light pink petals scattered as the combat healer was kicked flying by Su Xiao. While mid-air, the combat healer still healed Su Xiao once to prevent triggering a death state, frustrating her to the point of mental confusion.
The combat healer was named Mu Hua, a girl who enjoyed bullying weaker opponents.
Within the sea of flowers, Mu Hua's head pressed against the ground, both knees kneeling, hands clutching her lower abdomen. The colored contact lenses in her eyes had been knocked out, reverting to black, and she muttered something under her breath.
Light red smoke drifted from Su Xiao's body surface. This wasn't his released blood aura, but his blood slowly evaporating, with health points dropping at a rate of 27 per second.
Mu Hua's combat power was astonishingly strong. In close combat, she could fight Su Xiao to a standstill.
"It hurts so much. Should I get serious?"
Mu Hua murmured to herself, still maintaining a pose that invited wild thoughts.
"Forget it. Dropping from rank 34 to over 30,000 is just too hard. Sure enough... I can't lose my mind killing inside a world. Last world, I went too far, got too carried away."
Mu Hua stood up. There was another reason she hadn't switched states: after being tagged by the Blood Feathers, in a one-on-one fight, she truly wasn't Su Xiao's match. If this were a mission world, she would definitely die.
"This ability completely counters healing types. And... so shameless!"
After being thoroughly beaten by Su Xiao, with Dragon-Slaying Flash cutting into her flesh repeatedly, Mu Hua's chuunibyou was mostly cured—temporarily, at least.
"I surrender. You *******"
Mu Hua gritted her teeth and spoke, her mouth as sweet as honey.
[Tip: Opponent has forfeited. Hunter's arena ranking has risen to 36,109.]
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Returning to the rest area, Su Xiao decided not to continue matching opponents. The combat healer he had just faced not only had astonishing defense but also an endless array of abilities. Su Xiao suspected she was a hunter developing three, or even four attributes simultaneously.
That's right, that combat healer was a hunter. Su Xiao had vaguely sensed this when they first clashed, and she had similarly detected that Su Xiao was a hunter, directly asking him about it.
Dragging his somewhat fatigued body, Su Xiao returned to his exclusive room. Sleep was the best way to relieve exhaustion.
After sleeping for a few hours and having dinner, Su Xiao first helped Sha regulate her hidden ailments, then headed toward the training ground.
After advancing to Eighth Rank, Su Xiao gained new permissions for the training ground: the fourth and fifth layers of the Land of All Beings were now unlocked.
[Hunter has entered the training ground. Please select a mode.]
[Assistance Mode / Combat Mode]
Su Xiao ignored the mode selection and scrolled down, quickly finding [Land of All Beings].
[Land of All Beings · First Layer: Costs 50,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
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[Land of All Beings · Fourth Layer: Costs 350,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
[Land of All Beings · Fifth Layer: Costs 500,000 Paradise Coins per hour.]
[Land of All Beings · Sixth to Seventh Layers: No entry permission.]
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The costs for the third and fourth layers of the Land of All Beings were similar, but at the fifth layer, the price skyrocketed.
Su Xiao had 2.37 million Paradise Coins remaining, of which he needed to set aside 270,000 for supplies. The rest could be invested in the Land of All Beings.
Having experienced the Land of All Beings · Third Layer, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't be stingy with Paradise Coins, so he directly chose to enter the Land of All Beings · Fifth Layer.
The moment Su Xiao made his choice, his consciousness blurred, and the [Origin Stone] he carried close to his body grew faintly warm.
When his awareness returned, an icy, bone-piercing cold spread throughout his body.
The wind howled, and heavy snow swept across. Su Xiao stood barefoot on the snow, the howling gale around him seemingly capable of freezing even his soul.
'The blade is the art of slaughter. Where the blade reaches, nothing can steal life.'
'A mortal's blade can also slay gods.'
'Gods? Mere souls beneath the blade.'
A faint voice echoed in Su Xiao's ears. He stepped forward through the wind and snow. Though he didn't know where he should go, he moved forward instinctively, without reason.
In the wind and snow, hundreds of translucent figures appeared, walking alongside Su Xiao.
Su Xiao grasped the longsword still in its sheath, and those hundreds of translucent figures made the same motion.
'Blade Path: Azure Demon.'
Su Xiao slashed out once. Almost simultaneously, hundreds of azure-blue blade arcs shot out from around him, all vanishing into the wind and snow.
With just one slash, Su Xiao was completely drained. The feeling was as if he had executed Blade Path: Azure Demon hundreds of times—indescribably wonderful.
500,000 Paradise Coins per hour. Worth it!
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Four and a half hours later, Su Xiao lay on the bed in his exclusive room. He couldn't even be bothered to move a finger. Every cell in his body was fatigued to the point of 'wailing.' It was Bubu Wang who had carried him back from the training ground.
If the Land of All Beings · Third Layer enhanced the speed of developing blade techniques, then the Land of All Beings · Fifth Layer perfected already-developed techniques, seeking the perfect strike through relentless refinement.
Aside from the fact that a few hours of training led to overload exhaustion, perfecting blade techniques in the Land of All Beings · Fifth Layer was like cheating.
In reality, the Land of All Beings · Fifth Layer didn't have such exaggerated effects. Su Xiao was benefiting from the [Origin Stone]'s boost, which created this effect.
His remaining time was running out. After resting a bit and regaining some strength, Su Xiao took a gold coin from his storage space—the [Cursed Gold Coin].
Su Xiao had never forgotten that the [Cursed Gold Coin] could permanently increase Luck Attribute by 1 point. After returning to the real world, even if the coin landed on tails, temporarily reducing Luck Attribute by 15 points, the consequences wouldn't be too severe.
Sitting up, Su Xiao used his thumb to flick the [Cursed Gold Coin] into the air.
Ding~
The Cursed Gold Coin hovered a meter above the ground, bouncing twice before stopping mid-air. Sun, heads.
[You have triggered the Cursed Gold Coin's beneficial effect.]
[Beneficial effect randomly selected...]
[Beneficial state selected: Permanently increase Luck Attribute by 1 point (can only be triggered once).]
[Tip: The beneficial state grant has been slightly interfered with (negligible).]
[The interference has been ignored, and the interferer has been warned.]
[Your Luck Attribute has permanently increased by 1 point. Hunter's Luck Attribute has reached 10 points. If bare-equipment Luck Attribute reaches 20 points, a special reward will be granted.]
Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was somewhat surprised. When he gained the permanent Luck Attribute boost, there was interference. As for who the interferer was, it was unknown for now. But from the prompt, the interferer was quite weak—at least in the judgment of Reincarnation Paradise.
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Void, Einite.
As a resort destination, Einite had a daily foot traffic of over 500,000, but the 'White Maple Forest' and 'Star Tower' here weren't crowded, given the sheer size.
As one of the main battlefields of the Law Destruction Era, it not only had magnificent ruins but also vast fields of elemental flowers.
In a vacation villa within the elemental flower fields, a woman with golden pupils and long hair was curled up on a sofa. Her aura was strong, but at this moment, she looked like a frightened rabbit.
"I didn't mean to! A Law Destroyer gaining luck... I was just curious."
Curled up on the sofa was none other than the Goddess of Fortune. She was trembling, because she seemed to have provoked an existence that must never be provoked.
Boom!
A spatial rift appeared, and pitch-black chains extended outward.
Just then, an octopus monster leaped in through the window. Seeing this creature, the Goddess of Fortune's face lit up.
"Hulogash, save..."
Before the Goddess of Fortune could finish shouting 'save me,' the octopus monster recoiled, fleeing faster than it had arrived.
The Goddess of Fortune's pale hand froze. With tears in her eyes, she looked at those black chains. Any single one of them could kill her hundreds of times.
"I... I was wrong."
The Goddess of Fortune tilted her head, leaning back as far as possible to avoid touching those chains.
"Fortune, do you have some prejudice against us Law Destroyers?"
A figure glowing with blue light, somewhat translucent, stepped out of the spatial rift. He stood on the black chains, his eyes scrutinizing the Goddess of Fortune.
"Ma, wen... Waltz!"
The Goddess of Fortune's mouth fell open slightly, her pupils rapidly contracting.
"Come back."
A somewhat aged voice came through. Mawen Hua'erzi glanced at the Goddess of Fortune before turning back into the spatial rift.
"Pretend you never saw us, understand?"
A figure wreathed in black smoke stood behind the Goddess of Fortune. She froze instantly, nodding like a chick pecking at rice.
"This child is terrified. After all, she's just a deity."
The black-smoke-shrouded figure stepped onto the black chains and entered the spatial rift, which gradually closed.
For several minutes, the Goddess of Fortune remained curled up, hugging her knees. She was scared stiff. In her entire life, she had never had such a terrifying experience. Two residual souls of Law Destroyers, plus an unknown but extraordinarily powerful being, had all come to 'greet' her. And more importantly, an even more terrifying existence had locked onto her.
"Wah~"
The Goddess of Fortune burst into tears, looking as pitiful as a child who could casually slap the Moon Goddess to death.
PS: (Only three chapters today. I've been working on the detailed outline for the new world all day.)