Chapter 55: The Law Destruction Faction
Several prompts appeared in succession, the most important being the last one: consuming Lv.5 Hunt Authority to seal off a large area.
Seeing these prompts, Su Xiao wanted to know one thing most of all: how large was the area sealed off by consuming the authority? If it was just to seal off the area where the Starry Sky Seat was held, then it was unnecessary.
The Starry Sky Seat was originally loose in structure, and as its core, the Starry Sky Seat, if it couldn't even prevent internal conflicts or avoid external interference during its convening, it wouldn't have lasted until today.
But if the area sealed off by consuming the authority was relatively large, then it was worth considering. This meant that through this black invitation, one couldn't directly reach the venue of the Starry Sky Seat, which was why the authority was consumed to seal off a large area.
Not being able to directly reach the venue of the Starry Sky Seat was something Su Xiao had anticipated. As for the safety issues along the way...
The known members of the Starry Sky Seat included the Blade Demon, the Tuanzhang, and the Holy Maiden Seat. Any one of these people wouldn't bother harming others unless provoked; no one would ambush them halfway.
Given the loose nature of the Starry Sky Seat as an organization, they wouldn't arrange everything too meticulously. Su Xiao could even imagine the process of convening the Starry Sky Seat, which should go as follows:
The Black Mist Figure chose the venue and acted as the planner of the Starry Sky Seat. He wasn't a member of the Starry Sky Seat but the organizer.
The location was chosen by the Black Mist Figure, and the convening time of the Starry Sky Seat should be decided by several members through voting or similar means.
Once these two points were completed, the rest was simple. A spatial coordinate was set near the venue, and members of the Starry Sky Seat holding invitations could arrive nearby and then head to the venue.
The problem lay here: how far was the 'nearby' in the Black Mist Figure's perception? Moreover, Su Xiao felt he might not even be able to reach the spatial coordinate set by the Black Mist Figure, as he was inside the Reincarnation Paradise, not the Void.
The spatial transmission between 'Same Realm Position' and 'Intersecting Realm Position' was different. An existence like the Black Mist Figure should be able to precisely set up transmission points, but this involved the issue of consumption.
The Black Mist Figure wasn't a servant of the Starry Sky Seat members. Strictly speaking, the Starry Sky Seat wasn't even an organization; there were no superior-subordinate relationships. Those qualified to come could participate in the Starry Sky Seat. Dying halfway only meant they weren't qualified.
Su Xiao was now half a member of the Starry Sky Seat. He would only become a full member after participating in this Starry Sky Seat.
How to reach the venue of the Starry Sky Seat was the issue Su Xiao needed to consider at this stage. Once there, there would be no problem.
This time, the venue wasn't in some abandoned world. The Starry Sky Seat was often held in such places. If it were in an abandoned world, Su Xiao had multiple ways to arrive quickly, even faster than other members.
This Starry Sky Seat was held somewhere in the Void. If he entered the Void, the threat of the Arcane Eternal Star had to be considered.
Once Su Xiao's whereabouts were exposed, the Arcane Eternal Star would definitely send people to hunt him down. Su Xiao didn't think that a Void overlord like the Arcane Eternal Star would be foolish enough to send same-rank spellcasters to intercept him, allowing him to grow while occasionally sending cannon fodder to show their presence.
Su Xiao felt that if he were surrounded by the Arcane Eternal Star's people, it would definitely be a large group of Eighth Rank spellcasters, or even stronger ones, encircling him. While they sealed off space, countless Law Destroyers would quickly converge.
Since becoming an enemy of the Arcane Eternal Star, he had never been besieged by them even once, not even threatened. But once surrounded, there would be no miracle; he would surely die. A Void overlord wasn't just for show. Either they didn't act personally, hiring people to assassinate, but once they acted, they would definitely kill Su Xiao, leaving no chance of escape. This was the code of conduct in the Void, this was the Arcane Eternal Star.
Compared to sealing off a large area, Su Xiao preferred to conceal his own traces, which had lower consumption.
After consulting the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao found a type of authority like this: permanently consuming Lv.1 Hunt Authority could block tracking for 74 hours and allow an immediate return to the Reincarnation Paradise.
Compared to sealing off a large area, the cost of this individual authority was very low. Moreover, this was a forced return authority from the Reincarnation Paradise, far more reliable than items. No, the two were incomparable.
"Consume authority."
[Lv.1 Hunt Authority has been consumed. The Hunter will not be locked by any tracking methods for the next 74 hours and can return to the Reincarnation Paradise at any time.]
[Tracking methods blocked: 105 types.]
The tracking methods of the Arcane Eternal Star were more numerous than imagined. Su Xiao had been to the Void Arena and participated in the Strongest Warrior Battle, during which he had multiple battles. It was inevitable that the Arcane Eternal Star had collected his blood or that spellcasters had remembered his aura fluctuations.
Blocking all tracking for a period of time was clearly a privilege of the Reincarnation Paradise for Hunters. Hunters were different from Contractors. Contractors only needed to become stronger, with the most dangerous being World Wars. Hunters, on the other hand, had to deal with all kinds of monsters and demons.
When Violators appeared in derivative or Primordial Worlds, the Hunter went.
When Space-Time Power was hijacked by Ancient Gods and Violators, the Hunter went.
When hunting the strongest Seventh Rank Violator, the Hunter went.
When a Contractor in a low-level world was about to 'darken' into a Violator, the Hunter went.
As long as it was a problem Contractors couldn't solve, it was all handled by Hunters. Therefore, among the three types of Primordial Worlds, there wasn't one Su Xiao hadn't visited. He had forgotten how many Violators he had hunted, conservatively estimated at several hundred.
Su Xiao checked the recovery potions Beini had purchased in his storage space. There were six bottles, enough. This time, Amu and Beini wouldn't go. They would stay in the Reincarnation Paradise. Su Xiao would only bring Bubu Wang and Baha, because Bubu and Baha had strong survivability.
Su Xiao's hand reached into the black vortex ahead. A pulling force came, followed by a dizzying sensation.
At that moment, Su Xiao realized that compared to being hit from behind, this transmission sensation was dozens of times worse. Those old immortals—no, they weren't old immortals. Strictly speaking, among those old fellows, two were remnant souls, one was an unknown existence, and its body was black mist.
The Law Destroyers Su Xiao knew of totaled five, namely:
Mawen Hua'erzi: Also known as the Unscrupulous Mentor.
Old Law Destroyer: An old man with pitch-black eyes, a ruthless person who swallowed the Blade Demon energy within his body. He was also Mawen Hua'erzi's master and owned an extremely tall Black Maple Tree (taller than the Blade Demon's).
Green Gillian: A female Law Destroyer who liked to lock people in cages. She had an ambiguous relationship with Anna of the Death House and once captured Alice of the Demon Castle as a pet for a while. Green Gillian was dead, whether she had remnant souls was unknown.
First Generation Law Destroyer: Age unknown, gender unknown, deceased.
Blade Demon: A former Law Destroyer, from which era unknown, one of the top-tier existences in the Void.
...
The Law Destruction Era was indeed over. There were three Black Maple Trees in the Void. Adding the Old Law Destroyer's tree made four, and with Su Xiao's tree, five.
Among the known five Black Maple Trees, the Law Destruction Faction possessed three, even after the Law Destruction Era had ended.
The weightlessness disappeared. Su Xiao stood within chaotic spatial fluctuations. Everything around him twisted. A few seconds later, the torn space healed into strips. A gust of wind carrying sand blew over.
The scene before him was a vast Gobi Desert. Huge animal bones were half-buried in the soil. The sand floating in midair fell, and the sunlight was somewhat dazzling.
The Gloomy Star, arrived.