Chapter 94: 5 Seconds
[Tree's Blessing] could be consumed in two portions. Su Xiao picked up one bottle and drank a third of it. As soon as the potion entered his mouth, even with his composure, he nearly spat it out.
Su Xiao exerted considerable effort to swallow the potion in his mouth. His face turned slightly green, and only after letting out a long breath did he recover. This stuff was truly too difficult to drink.
"This thing..."
Su Xiao released his mana externally, calming the remaining two-thirds of the liquid inside the crystal vial. Taking the opportunity to seal it with the stopper, the liquid inside gradually stabilized. This stuff could be preserved for over a decade.
To grow stronger within Reincarnation Paradise, if he could reach the level to consume this potion a second time in the future, it would definitely not take more than ten years. The next consumption would be used to break through that unknown limit, but whether it would succeed remained unknown, after all, the potion's data indicated a certain probability of success.
Putting away both bottles of potion, Su Xiao sensed his own body. A very comfortable feeling spread from the center of his chest to the surrounding areas. After only a few seconds, he felt a sense of relief—this was the permanent damage accumulated from prolonged battles being restored.
This kind of damage was not something Reincarnation Paradise couldn't repair, but it required high-tier authority. The basic recovery function was more for saving lives.
After having the witch send over the Void Tree fruit, the contact with Tuanzhang was cut off. He would have to wait until the next Empty Seat Banquet to complete the transaction with Tuanzhang. The other party would pay the concoction fee then, and he imagined that during the transaction, Undying Old Man and White Bull would be quite envious.
After Su Xiao concocted 5 bottles of [Ocean Essence], 15 bottles of [Life Trait · No. 01], and 10 bottles of recovery potion [Vitality Essence], he traded the first two to Beini, letting Beini go sell them at the Trade Market.
There was one last thing to do. After finishing this, Su Xiao planned to go with Reid to some remote place in the void. He would give up this rest period of returning to the Real World. While instructing Reid's old friend's daughter, he could also relax his mind, since it wasn't going to be a battle.
Leaving the Exclusive Room, Su Xiao headed straight for the Trial Grounds.
[You have entered the Trial Grounds, please select a mode.]
[Auxiliary Mode / Combat Mode.]
This was the Summon Mirror. Su Xiao hadn't summoned it in a long time because it wasn't very helpful to him. Scrolling the prompt to the bottom, Su Xiao activated the Land of All Beings within the Trial Grounds.
[You have activated Land of All Beings · Sixth Layer Usage Rights (30 hours). This usage right requires normal payment of Soul Coins, 35 Soul Coins per hour, totaling 1050 Soul Coins. Yes/No to pay.]
Su Xiao had wanted to enter the sixth layer of the Land of All Beings for a long time. He decisively chose to pay.
A spatial array diagram appeared beneath Su Xiao's feet, and the next instant, he was on an icefield. This icefield was as bright as a mirror. Looking down through the transparent ice, he could see millstone-sized Soul Crystals embedded within.
Su Xiao's first thought was to try and dig out these Soul Crystals. If he could get just one out, raising Blade Grandmaster to Lv.60 wouldn't be difficult, and Melee Grandmaster could also be raised to Lv.60. Unfortunately, the Soul Crystals within the ice layer were absolutely impossible to dig out.
Su Xiao grasped the hilt of the blade at his waist. As soon as he drew his sword, transparent phantoms identical to his appearance and aura appeared all around him.
Su Xiao looked around at the thousands of his own phantoms. These phantoms were all composed of the energy from the Soul Crystals. No wonder the sixth layer of the Land of All Beings required 35 Soul Coins per hour.
'Blade Path Sword: Flow.'
Su Xiao slashed out once, and the thousands of transparent phantoms around him all slashed out 'Flow'. After slashing out 'Flow', these phantoms shattered and surged toward Su Xiao from all directions.
A very wonderful feeling emerged. Su Xiao felt as if he had just slashed out 'Blade Path Sword: Flow' a thousand times, and this improvement in training efficiency placed little burden on himself.
'Blade Path Sword: Flow' had not yet reached its most perfected state. 'Blade Path Sword: Extreme', 'Blade Path Sword: Blood Blade', and 'Blade Path Sword: Slay' could be stabilized during this opportunity. The newly developed blade techniques also needed to be perfected.
The arduous training began. Unfortunately, the usage rights for the sixth layer of the Land of All Beings were only 30 hours. After that, even if he was willing to pay Soul Coins, he couldn't enter anymore, unless he could obtain the entry permission here. If it were permanent entry permission, that would be even better.
Time flew by during the intense training. Su Xiao felt as if only a few hours had passed, but Reincarnation Paradise prompted him that 30 hours were up.
The fatigue of his body was undeniable. Su Xiao walked to the teleportation point, glanced back at the endless icefield, and was teleported out of the Trial Grounds.
After contacting Reid, Su Xiao returned to his Exclusive Room to rest. Before entering the void, he needed to recover to his usual state.
Seven hours later, inside Reid's blacksmith shop. Wo Wo, adopted by Reid, was squatting in the corner sobbing, clearly having been scolded by Reid again.
Sitting on a chair with a can of beer in his hand, Reid was so angry he almost had a stroke. He couldn't understand why Wo Wo, as an orphan of the Slinster race, had top-tier manufacturing talent in the void but such a low level of forging skill.
"Bai Ye, take her away. Adopting her has shortened my life by at least 200 years."
"Are you sure?"
Su Xiao was well aware of the Slinster race's manufacturing talent. This race had made many things for the Ancestral Law Destroyers. Not to mention anything else, Mawen Hua'erzi and the old Law Destroyer would definitely provide protection.
"Ready to set off?"
Reid pushed open the door to the back room, not mentioning the previous matter at all.
Entering the back room, a four-seater machine appeared before him. Su Xiao looked at this suspicious machine, then back at Reid.
"Although it looks shabby, it's absolutely no problem. This is a space traversal device built by Wo Wo. It only takes 10 seconds to reach 'Sheng Geya' in the void. I use it for restocking; it's very sturdy."
"..."
Su Xiao was silent for a moment but did not sit inside the space traversal device.
"I can set up a long-range spatial array diagram, combined with a Void Travel Certificate..."
"Absolutely not, Bai Ye. Did I offend you? Riding this thing is safer."
Reid seemed to recall something terrifying. His stubbled face twitched. Once, because Su Xiao was an alchemist, he entrusted Su Xiao to set up a long-range spatial array diagram for him.
After the long-range spatial array diagram was activated, Reid experienced what it felt like to be thrown into a super high-speed washing machine. His balls were numbed from the shaking, an unforgettable experience.
"..."
Su Xiao sat down in the space traversal device. Bubu Wang and Baha followed closely behind. They were also coming this time, treating it as a trip.
Seeing this, Reid sat in the main seat and activated the space traversal device.
"Everyone, clench your teeth."
"Why?"
Baha felt a premonition of doom in his heart.
"To avoid biting your tongue."
As soon as Reid finished speaking, Su Xiao felt an extremely strong propulsive force from behind. The back-thrust sensation was intense, even causing some pain in his back.
"Uragh~"
Baha bit his own tongue with his beak, making a strange sound, unable to utter any slick talk.
Light and shadow flickered before his eyes. After about 10 seconds, Su Xiao noticed the strip-like space around him gradually healing, and the scene before him began to clear.
This was a luxurious, empty room. The space traversal device was located on a metal track. This track was composed of four metal rails. From the wear marks, Reid indeed used this thing frequently.
"The remote void location 'Sheng Geya' has arrived. The scenery here will definitely satisfy you."
Reid pointed toward the window. Su Xiao got up from the space traversal device and walked to the window. The scene before his eyes was indeed beautiful. A pure white path was covered with maple leaves, and the maple trees on both sides rustled in the wind.
In front of a maple tree nearly a meter thick, a young girl holding a wooden sword was repeatedly striking the tree trunk. Her movements were crisp and clean, with sweat dripping down her fair chin.
Beside this young girl was an old man wearing loose white clothes with white hair and beard, urging the girl to strike the tree trunk repeatedly. Judging by appearances, this old man was most likely the girl's blade technique master.
"Bai Ye, what do you think?"
Reid raised his chin, indicating that the young girl was his old friend's daughter.
"5 seconds."
"She has that skill? She can survive 5 seconds fighting you?"
"I mean the other one."
"This..."
Reid looked at the old man under the maple tree outside the window, choked up for a long time, and couldn't say anything.