Chapter 57: Whisper
The returns from the nine Epic Chests were less than satisfactory. Su Xiao decided to directly open the chest dropped by the Alien King. As soon as the chest opened, light burst forth.
[You have opened a Holy Spirit Chest (27%).]
[You have obtained Soul's Whisper (Holy Spirit Weapon).]
[Soul's Whisper]
Origin: Ten Thousand Beasts Continent
Quality: Holy Spirit Rank
Category: Weapon (Short Blade)
Durability: 152/152
Attack Power: 310~372
Equipment Requirements: True Agility 149 points, Soul Strength 80 points or above.
Equipment Effect 1: Sky-Rending (Passive): Can deal damage to enemies in the midst of spatial movement, teleportation, or penetration.
Equipment Effect 2: Whisper (Passive): When using this weapon to deal damage to an enemy, it will inflict defense-ignoring damage equal to (Soul Strength Difference) × 20.
Equipment Effect 3: Soul Resonance: Each point of the user's Soul Strength increases this weapon's Sharpness and Penetration by 1 point.
Note: Currently increased by 210 points of Sharpness and 210 points of Penetration.
Rating: 1000 points (Holy Spirit equipment rating ranges from 700 to 1000 points).
Introduction: A weapon forged from the Alien King's spatial tail. This spatial tail, passed down through 37 generations, possesses incredible spatial adaptability and penetrability. Tempered by the souls of successive kings, it has become a soul weapon.
Price: 630,000 Paradise Coins.
Opening the Alien King's chest only yielded a short blade for Su Xiao. This short blade was about 47 centimeters long, with a texture resembling metal. The hilt was wrapped in fine scales, the blade edge was thin and light, and a row of scales along the spine made it not fragile, usable even in direct frontal combat with an enemy.
This blade had all passive abilities, and its characteristics suited Su Xiao well. First, it could injure space-type enemies. Encountering an assassination attempt from such an enemy would be a one-hit kill. Main space-type enemies all shared a trait: they liked to partially merge into alternate space to avoid attacks.
Compared to the Sky-Rending property, Su Xiao valued this short blade's Soul Strength benefit more. The higher his Soul Strength, the sharper this blade became, and it would also deal damage based on the Soul Strength difference.
Su Xiao's Soul Strength was 210 points. Assuming an enemy's Soul Strength was 50 points, one slash would deal 3200 points of additional damage, and this was defense-ignoring damage. Combined with the true damage from Azure Steel Shadow, the effect was quite good.
Seeing the short blade's attributes, Su Xiao realized one thing: if his Soul Strength hadn't been high enough, he would have died in the previous battle with the Alien King. The enemy's spatial tail could definitely deal soul damage, which was different from Hugh's Black Flame.
Hugh's Black Flame burned the enemy's soul, while the spatial tail determined attack intensity based on the Soul Strength difference.
Su Xiao's Soul Strength was clearly higher than the Alien King's, so he suffered almost no soul damage. The Alien King had an ability called "Soul · Strangle" that it never used, which was a very wise decision. If the Alien King had used it, Su Xiao would have been largely unaffected and could have instead seized the upper hand.
In cramped environments, using Dragon-Slaying Flash in combat was inconvenient and couldn't be fully utilized. Although this situation was rare, it wasn't nonexistent, so Su Xiao always kept a short blade ready to prevent such scenarios.
His previous short blade had been consumed when Dragon-Slaying Flash was upgraded, and Su Xiao hadn't found a suitable replacement since. [Soul's Whisper] was excellent, not only for combat but also as an "emergency ration" when Dragon-Slaying Flash needed to be upgraded and Holy Spirit weapons were insufficient.
Putting away [Soul's Whisper], Su Xiao looked at the remaining three chests, all Holy Spirit rank. One was obtained after capturing the Death Paradise base camp, and the other two were from killing the Alien Commander.
Su Xiao decided to open the chest from capturing the base camp first, as the remaining two were special and could be synthesized.
[You have opened a Holy Spirit Chest.]
[You have obtained 12 Soul Coins (Seventh Rank).]
[You have obtained Giant Spirit Stone (Epic Gem).]
It seemed his luck had run out a bit, especially since [Soul's Whisper] was so perfectly suited for Su Xiao. He hadn't even expected to get such a handy backup weapon.
Su Xiao picked up [Holy Spirit Chest · Ankidu] and [Holy Spirit Chest · White Ape] and performed a synthesis.
[Yes/No to synthesize Holy Spirit Chests. Performing this synthesis will consume 1 Soul Coin (Seventh Rank).]
Su Xiao decided to give it a try. This was the first time he had seen chests that could be synthesized. These two chests had dropped together.
[You have obtained Overlord Chest · Alien White Ape.]
This was a pleasant surprise. Su Xiao had sensed during the battle with the giant ape that the parasitic host had seized the body of an Overlord creature.
Overlord equipment was very special. Opening an Overlord Chest had only two outcomes: directly obtaining an Overlord equipment piece or obtaining an Overlord Essence. Three Overlord Essences could be exchanged for one Overlord equipment piece in Reincarnation Paradise. [Blood Feather] had been obtained this way.
[You have opened the Overlord Chest.]
[You have obtained Overlord Essence.]
A guaranteed minimum reward. He was two Overlord Essences short of another Overlord equipment piece. Obtaining [Soul's Whisper] earlier was already a huge profit.
After opening the chests, Su Xiao first needed to consolidate his resources before enhancing his own strength. However, before that, he wanted to get some sleep. The battle with the Alien King had left him exhausted.
After taking a hot shower, Su Xiao fell asleep as soon as he lay down on the bed.
In a daze, Su Xiao felt a small thing jump over him. Not long after, a larger thing also jumped over.
He didn't know how long he slept, but Su Xiao sat up groggily. This was how he always woke up, looking very confused.
"Meow!"
"Woof!"
Bubu Wang and Beini were facing each other. From the way Beini's body was wriggling, she was about to pounce on Bubu Wang's face. The cat-dog war had started again. Baha was fanning the flames on the sidelines, and Amu sat in the corner, wanting to intervene but not daring to.
"Stop fighting."
Just by looking at the wet fur on Beini's face, Su Xiao knew what they were fighting about. Nine times out of ten, Bubu Wang had been dreaming of wrecking the house and had bitten Beini on the head. This wasn't the first or second time this had happened.
Imagine, when would Beini ever tolerate such treatment? She immediately scratched Bubu Wang. Bubu Wang, woken up by the scratching, wouldn't let it go, so they started fighting. It was their daily friendly interaction.
After a simple breakfast, Su Xiao walked out of his exclusive room. Bubu Wang trotted along behind him, sticking its tongue out at Beini before leaving.
Leaving the exclusive room, Su Xiao headed towards the Adventurer Guild. He still hadn't collected the team supplies from the "Iron Blood Adventurer Team."
After walking for over twenty minutes, a magnificent building appeared ahead. The Adventurer Guild had arrived. This building was several hundred meters tall, and the structure at the top resembled an inverted giant sword.
Entering the Adventurer Guild, there weren't many contractors inside, mostly intelligence dealers.
Although the building was grand, it only had one floor. The core areas were three: Adventurer Team Creation/Transfer, Adventurer Team Level Upgrade, and the Intelligence Trading Platform.
After searching for a while, Su Xiao finally found the resource storage area. If the team space was full, materials could be temporarily stored here, with a daily usage fee of 2000 Paradise Coins.
Su Xiao pressed his hand on the identification device, and a prompt appeared.
[Yes/No to retrieve stored supplies. Retrieving these supplies requires a payment of 50,000 Paradise Coins.]
The 20% team space supplies of a Sixth Rank Adventurer Team were definitely worth 50,000 Paradise Coins.
[You have obtained Space Compression Storage Box × 7. After opening, the storage boxes will be retrieved.]
Several metal boxes, each one meter in length, width, and height, appeared. The contents belonged to Su Xiao, while the boxes belonged to Reincarnation Paradise.
Su Xiao opened the first storage box. Although opening these wasn't as exciting as opening chests, the returns should be decent.
[You have obtained Soul Crystal (Small) × 95.]
[You have obtained Soul Crystal (Medium) × 53.]
[You have obtained Soul Crystal (Large) × 9.]
The first storage box was filled entirely with Soul Crystals. A Sixth Rank Adventurer Team was quite wealthy.
With this good start, a smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. But when he opened the second storage box, his smile gradually faded.
"Woof?"
Bubu Wang was a bit confused. It couldn't figure out why the leader of the Iron Blood Adventurer Team had stuffed a bunch of this stuff into the team space. Was it giving out employee benefits?