Chapter 107: Dividing the Spoils
A redemption list appeared before Su Xiao's eyes. Redeeming these items could wait for now; he was more concerned about a prompt below.
[Prompt: The Plunder·Demon Blade ability has been activated. The Hunter must decide which ability to plunder within 30 seconds.]
Plunder·Demon Blade was a temporary ability that Dragon-Slaying Flash gained after devouring another Law-Annihilation Blade.
[Supreme Blade Effect 4: Plunder·Demon Blade (Temporary, Passive) — After killing an enemy with the Blade Demon Spirit, one of the enemy's abilities can be stripped and sealed into a designated item. The sealed ability can be used once.
Note: The only item the Hunter can currently store abilities in is the [Sealing Scroll·Void (Holy Spirit Rank)]. After storing an ability in this item, the Hunter can use the stored ability once without consuming the scroll. This storage and use is unrelated to the [Sealing Scroll·Void (Holy Spirit Rank)]'s own properties; it merely utilizes this item's characteristic of being able to bear abilities.]
This ability belonged to the Law-Annihilation Blade that Dragon-Slaying Flash had devoured. It didn't have a high compatibility with Su Xiao. After being used 2 to 3 times, this ability would disappear.
Once Plunder·Demon Blade vanished, Dragon-Slaying Flash would gain an ability more suited to Su Xiao. What that ability would be was still unknown. Su Xiao estimated it would most likely be a passive ability, enhancing sharpness or slashing power.
Su Xiao's requirements for Dragon-Slaying Flash were simple: having a killing-type ability like Demon Blade was enough. Other abilities should focus on stacking sharpness, defense reduction, and penetration.
Whether it could break through an enemy's external and physical defenses was the most crucial function of Dragon-Slaying Flash. If it couldn't do that, Dragon-Slaying Flash's boost to Su Xiao's combat power would be greatly diminished, making any number of active abilities useless.
After the Plunder·Demon Blade effect activated, a total of eighteen abilities appeared, all of which were skills of the Sun Bird. All passive abilities were grayed out, in an unplunderable and unsealable state.
Su Xiao's first thought was to use the [Sealing Scroll·Void] to seal the Sun Bird's ultimate move, World-Burning Karma Fire. But after seeing another ability, his idea changed.
[Sunlight Amplification (Active, Lv.72): Consume 4200 points of Sun Energy to grant yourself a buff state. For the next 50 seconds, the power of any Sun Miracles or Sun-System items/abilities you use will be additionally increased by 50% to 52.7% (the bonus effect of this ability on ultimate abilities and abilities of the highest level is reduced to 10% to 10.9%).]
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The sealed ability could only be used once. Sealing the Sun Bird's ultimate move, World-Burning Karma Fire, seemed like a good choice, but Su Xiao had never used that ability before, and his proficiency with it was too low.
He, along with Zuiyasi and Wude, had taken down the Sun Bird in one combo. The enemy hadn't used that ability but instead used another suicidal trump card.
Compared to an unfamiliar ability he had never even seen, Su Xiao preferred to seal the Sunlight Amplification ability. He estimated that after activation, there was a decent chance it could boost the power of [Blazing Sun's Wrath·Apollo].
Using Apollo was something Su Xiao was very familiar with. He chose to use Plunder·Demon Blade to seal the Sunlight Amplification ability into the [Sealing Scroll·Void].
A suction force appeared around him. The [Sealing Scroll·Void] he had taken out unrolled by itself. Golden patterns gradually appeared on the blank scroll, and finally, the scroll rolled up.
[Prompt: To use the 'Sunlight Amplification' ability within the sealing scroll, you need to consume 4200 points of Sun Energy or 6 Warm Sun Stones.]
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No ability could be used out of thin air; it was normal to need to consume Sun Stones when using it. Su Xiao felt that Plunder·Demon Blade wasn't suitable for him. He needed to use this ability again soon to make Plunder·Demon Blade disappear and gain an ability more suited to himself.
Putting away the [Sealing Scroll·Sunlight Amplification], Su Xiao checked the redemption list for killing the Sun Bird. There were a total of seven Sun Origins and four choices: World Source, a scroll of the Sun Bird's ultimate move, a special weapon, and finally, a high-level soul equipment, though this equipment was just an empty shell.
A full 20% World Source was tempting, as was the [World-Burning Karma Fire·Lv.1] scroll. [Sun Feather] was a rare offensive and defensive equipment. Not only was it Immortal Rank, but its appearance was also explosively beautiful. If a female powerhouse encountered it, she would be willing to spend more Soul Coins.
Su Xiao was more curious about what the soul equipment looked like. His own soul strength was very high, and he had also mastered the 'Basic Passive·Spirit Toughness'.
[You have received the Scorching Empty Shell (Soul Equipment, Unusable State).]
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[Scorching Empty Shell] was not a complete soul equipment. After using [Soul Fusion] on it, the [Scorching Empty Shell] would undergo a transformation, turning into a unique soul equipment. Su Xiao had [Soul Fusion], which was why he chose to exchange for the [Scorching Empty Shell].
[Frenzied Spirit: This is a Soul Fusion type item. It can be used on high-level soul equipment in an empty shell state to make it complete.]
Su Xiao observed the [Scorching Empty Shell] in his hand. It was a pomegranate-sized, light red, semi-transparent empty shell. The shell was as light as nothing, and faintly, a phantom of a Sun Bird could be seen inside.
"Brother Bai Ye, what's that thing in your hand?"
Zuiyasi, whose head had been blown down to half, drifted over in the water.
"I think this item has a connection with me..."
Su Xiao didn't pay attention to the second half of Zuiyasi's sentence. The first half sounded strangely familiar. He remembered saying something similar before, and vaguely recalled that after saying it, he seemed to have started a fight... ahem, started a forced redistribution of resources.
Su Xiao, whose body was covered in multiple wounds from the explosion, placed one hand on his sword hilt and put away the [Scorching Empty Shell]. This thing couldn't be fused now; he had to wait until he returned to Reincarnation Paradise and go find Wude for help.
He could fuse it now, but the success rate was around 27%. If he went to find Wude, Wude occasionally helped people fuse Soul Empty Shells and Soul Fusions, with a success rate of at least 60% or higher.
That's right, the fusion of Empty Shell + Soul Fusion was not 100% successful. The rarity of high-level soul equipment could be imagined.
The Sun Bird had just self-destructed, blowing itself to pieces. It was impossible to stew it now.
Su Xiao took a test tube from his storage space and swam near a drop of golden blood. Before this drop of golden blood could dissolve into the seawater, he pulled out the test tube's stopper, letting the semi-transparent fluid inside envelop the golden blood.
A few seconds later, the golden blood was absorbed by the semi-transparent fluid. The semi-transparent fluid transformed into tree roots, growing outward. Before long, the surrounding few hundred meters were filled with these tendrils. The main body of this thing was located in front of Su Xiao.
After waiting for over ten minutes, Su Xiao took out an injection gun, inserted an empty blood collection tube into it, then used the injection gun to pierce the semi-transparent main body. He precisely controlled the depth of insertion and then used the injection gun to extract.
The golden blood was drawn out, entering the 3 cm thick, 10 cm long blood collection tube. Before long, Su Xiao had collected four tubes of golden blood.
Zuiyasi, whose injuries had mostly recovered, watched the whole process. When he saw Su Xiao about to put away all four tubes of golden blood, he coughed lightly.
Su Xiao tossed one tube of golden blood to Zuiyasi. Without a word, Zuiyasi used a slender tentacle to pierce the rubber seal of the blood collection tube and absorbed half of the golden blood inside.
This was the Sun Bird's Source Blood. The explosion just now had scattered these Source Bloods. The surrounding area was all seawater, making them extremely difficult to collect.
Su Xiao often fought against Ancient Gods, so he frequently collected Ancient God Blood. Over time, he had developed this "Blood-Sensing Extraction Plant."
"Cough!"
Wude's cough came from the side. Su Xiao said nothing and tossed one tube of the Sun Bird's Source Blood to Wude.
"What a pity, the Sun Bird self-destructed."
As soon as Zuiyasi finished speaking, he noticed that the black smoke behind Wude had dissipated a bit, revealing a huge bird leg and a section of wing root.
"10 kilograms."
Su Xiao spoke. Wude waved his hand, and a large piece of bloody fresh meat was cut off, wrapped in black smoke, and flew towards Su Xiao. Su Xiao caught it and tossed it to Bubu Wang, who was dog-paddling over.
"Are we eating it raw too? That's not good."
Zuiyasi said as he took out a bag. This was a specialty unique to Doom Star. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out some rare seasonings.
An hour later, inside a civilian house in the inner city of Sanctuary City No. 6, a stone table stood in the middle of the room. Su Xiao, Wude, Zuiyasi, Bubu Wang, and Baha sat around the stone table.
At the center of the stone table was a large iron pot embedded in the table. Firewood was burning beneath the pot.
The soup in the pot was thick and rich. The poultry meat inside was cut into appropriately sized pieces. The pot also contained the unique Flower Hazel Mushrooms from Doom Star. The iron pot bubbled and simmered over a high flame, then slowly cooked, emitting an incredibly fragrant aroma.
That's right, the Sun Bird, a divine being, the strongest in the Sand World, the ultimate weapon of the Sun Church, was now being stewed by Su Xiao, Wude, and Zuiyasi. And it was a mushroom-added iron pot stew.