# Chapter 4: Delaying the Break with the Elf Clan
Sometimes, showing enough dominance and destructive power will make potential enemies wary. This way, the Elf Clan wouldn't dare think about imprisoning Su Xiao to have him concoct potions or anything like that. Instead, they would engage in equal trade.
With these three points established, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't be polite. His current attitude was: either open the barrier and he'd toss an Apollo inside, or he'd directly throw it into the back district.
From the moment Su Xiao entered Bay City until he activated this Apollo, the Elf Clan had acted as if they were the ones in charge here. Even if Su Xiao was a Law Destroyer, he was still just an outsider, insufficient to stand on equal footing with them.
'5, 4, 3...'
The Apollo was three seconds from detonation when the barrier suddenly opened a gap.
Bang.
The Apollo burst through a wave of air and flew into the barrier. As the gap in the barrier closed, over a hundred barrier masters simultaneously channeled their abilities to reinforce, reinforce, and reinforce the barrier again.
Boom!!
A muffled explosion came from within the barrier. The Elf King, the Five Royal Descendants, and Su Xiao's guard Fenwei all felt the ground beneath their feet tremble. Even standing outside the barrier, their faces felt a scorching heat. The hundred-plus barrier masters were going all out reinforcing the barrier, yet cracks still spread across its surface.
Inside the massive spherical barrier, only golden Solar Flame remained. After the explosion, buildings, the pond, and even the soil had evaporated. At the center of the flames, a figure rapidly carbonized.
"In the end, I still lose to you."
The aged voice gradually dissipated in the flames, the broken body burning to ashes, the ashes vaporized by the high temperature into gas.
The Solar Flame continued burning. Su Xiao didn't pay attention to this. After the Apollo exploded, his notifications flooded.
[You have killed Black Armor Guard·Elite. You receive 27 Soul Coins.]
[You have killed Black Armor Guard. You receive 'Distorted Crystallized Matter·Abyss'.]
[You have killed Black Armor Guard·Elite. You receive 28 Soul Coins.]
[You have killed Black Armor Guard·Squad Leader. You receive 107 Soul Coins.]
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Not all Black Armor Guards yielded Soul Coins upon death. Only by killing the elites or squad leaders among them could one obtain Soul Coins. Although these individuals weren't numerous, after checking his current Soul Coin amount, Su Xiao found he had gained 35,267 Soul Coins. A huge sum had arrived.
Besides this fortune, Su Xiao also obtained quite a few [Distorted Crystallized Matter·Abyss]. These weren't in hand yet; he would have to wait for the Solar Flame to die out and pick them up inside the barrier. He just hoped this stuff wouldn't get blown up by the fire—that would be a huge loss. The ownership of this item was already Su Xiao's, so he tried to check its attributes from a distance.
[Distorted Crystallized Matter·Abyss]
Origin: Treeborn World / All worlds heavily eroded by Abyss Force.
Quality: Immortal Rank
Type: Enhancement Item.
Effect: Can use this item to replace 'Refined Immortal Stone' when enhancing equipment in the Equipment Enhancement Hall.
Warning: Any equipment can be enhanced using this item, but after completing one enhancement, this equipment will be permanently unable to increase its enhancement level through any other means.
Warning: Using this item to enhance equipment will have dual effects. The enhanced equipment will gain extremely prominent benefits, along with equally prominent drawbacks or usage costs.
Hint: Using this item for enhancement can raise equipment to a maximum of +10. Upon reaching +10, the enhanced equipment will undergo a qualitative change. The benefits gained will greatly increase, and the drawbacks will also greatly increase.
Rating: 1000 points (Rating decreased due to numerous side effects).
Introduction: The distorted Abyss power is contained within. The power of the Abyss is fair—while bringing something, it also takes something away.
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Su Xiao continued scrolling through the notifications and soon saw a long list of kill notifications, which made him feel slightly surprised.
[You have killed Violator 17***56 (Death Paradise).]
[You have killed Violator 12***90 (Holy Light Paradise).]
[You have killed Violator 15***11 (Apocalypse Paradise).]
...
Su scrolled down. There were over a hundred notifications in total, which earned him 189 points of Killing Merit, plus 265 Diamond Honor Medals.
This made Su Xiao think that Shenfu's terrifying ability was probably built on the foundation of tricking others. Now that he had been blown up by an Apollo and burned in the barrier for so long, that method had been broken. The more individuals Shenfu split into, the faster he could derive offspring. Conversely, when he was killed once, the number of deaths wasn't simply one death.
Su Xiao estimated that Shenfu must have tricked at least over a hundred Violators to get so many kill notifications.
Scrolling to the very bottom, he finally saw the notifications he wanted to see.
[You have killed High-Risk Violator 170042.]
[You receive 1 + 70 points of Killing Merit (from killing the target + the target's owned Killing Merit).]
[You receive 82 Diamond Honor Medals.]
[You receive Necronomicon (High-Intensity Sealed).]
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A thread-bound, old book floated before Su Xiao. The book was about a thumb thick, with each page edge uneven, as if many leather pages had been bound together.
This cult classic, made from human skin, divine skin, and Void aberrant being skin, was definitely not a good thing. The aura on it couldn't even be described as evil. Any eye contact with it would bring a slightly dizzying sense of fascination.
"Elf King, this is my war trophy. Your Elf Clan suffered heavy casualties this time. Consider this forbidden tome as compensation."
Hearing Su Xiao say this, the Elf King looked at the [Necronomicon] with interest. After a moment, he stopped looking at this cult classic. The Elf Clan's situation was already bad enough. If they brought in another cult classic, they would be 'happy' to the point of flying.
Noticing the Elf King didn't want it, Su Xiao took out a charcoal box and, without touching the [Necronomicon], put it away.
Su Xiao would never read this thing. There were too many dangers in this world. He even suspected that if this thing clashed with the Abyssal Jar, it wouldn't be at a disadvantage.
Su Xiao's plan was: since the ownership of the [Necronomicon] now belonged to him, he shouldn't avoid it. If this thing actually took the initiative to target him, that would be troublesome. So for now, he would put it away but not read it. When he later encountered a 'fated person,' he would give the [Necronomicon] to them.
Su Xiao could sense that the [Necronomicon] actually didn't like him either, to the point that it wasn't even preparing to latch onto him.
Thinking about it, it made sense. Dangerous objects like this generally didn't like the identities of Reincarnation Paradise's Hunters or Law Destroyers. And Su Xiao was a Hunter + Law Destroyer, extremely unpopular with dangerous objects. Last time he contacted the Abyssal Jar, he had even been rejected by it.
Su Xiao's thought was: since the [Necronomicon] didn't like him, that was even better. Find a fated person and give it away. That would also be considered forming a 'good karma' with the [Necronomicon] and that fated person.
Before giving it away, Su Xiao planned to use the [Necronomicon] to lure evil gods when he had the chance. The fluctuations of this thing should be quite attractive to evil gods.
If the [Necronomicon] cooperated, he wouldn't mind sharing some of the evil god war trophies with it.
Su Xiao put away the charcoal box. This was made by burning Black Maple Tree branches into charcoal and pressing the charcoal together. He had previously used this charcoal box to store the roots of Maosheng's Madness, proving its stability.
Su Xiao closed the notifications. From the notifications, he had eliminated Shenfu, and the [Necronomicon] had appeared.
The problem was, this old bastard had a record. Last time in the Holy Land·Chiliad, Su Xiao had killed him once. Damn it, not long after killing him, that guy showed up again, and he didn't come to find Su Xiao for a deathmatch because of being killed.
Shenfu had killed an extremely large number of Contractors and Violators. Last time during the World War in Moling Star, this old bastard had teamed up with Tuanzhang·Luogeshi to trick and kill several hundred Contractors from Sanctuary Paradise, causing Sanctuary Paradise to withdraw directly from that World War.
Su Xiao looked at the barrier. The Solar Flame had receded. After the Elf King gave the order, the barrier opened, and a wave of heat came head-on.
Bubu Wang and Baha began cleaning up the loot. They eventually found 127 [Distorted Crystallized Matter·Abyss] and two Immortal Rank Chests.
The value of these two Immortal Rank Chests was on the lower end, which was normal. After tallying the gains, Su Xiao walked toward the front courtyard of the palace.
Noticing Su Xiao's actions, two of the Five Royal Descendants made as if to speak up to stop him. But after seeing the Elf King's expression, these two Royal Descendants remained silent.
"He won't leave. No need to send people to monitor him."
"But Your Majesty..."
"Would you give up the chance to obtain a large amount of resources? Don't worry. Even if he leaves Bay City, he'll be back within a short time."
The Elf King was right. Even if Su Xiao left, it would only be to temporarily go out on business.
Inside a mansion in the front courtyard of the palace, Su Xiao pushed open the door and walked in. After searching around, he didn't find any trace of the Crow Woman, Beast Hao, or Bee.
Leaving this mansion, Su Xiao walked into a neighboring two-story residence and locked the bedroom door behind him.
Taking out the ancient divine statue from his bosom, he activated it. Gray mist surrounded Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and Baha. He was going to return to the ancient capital in the central region, to the [Ring Tree City] near the ancient capital.
Counting the Killing Merit in hand and seven 100-point Killing Merit cards, Su Xiao's Killing Prestige had broken through 1000 points.
Over an hour later, inside an unseeable room in [Ring Tree City], Su Xiao stood before the World Store, raised his hand, and activated it.
[Prompt: You have activated the Treeborn World·World Store.]
[Current Killing Merit: 1019 points.]
[The following items can be exchanged using Killing Merit.]
Su Xiao directly exchanged for [Greed Chapter (World Rank)]. Only what was in his hands was truly his.
A wooden plaque appeared in Su Xiao's hand. This plaque was roughly cylindrical, about 10 centimeters in height and 3 centimeters in thickness. There was a damaged mark at the bottom corner.
[You have consumed 1000 points of Killing Merit.]
[You have obtained Greed Chapter (World Rank).]
PS: (Regarding Greed Chapter, Feiwen has decided to set up a vote in the free chapter of the next chapter. Specific details will be explained in the free chapter of the next chapter).
**Greed Chapter**
Regarding Greed Chapter, Feiwen's original purpose in constructing it was to write about those powerful beings from worlds Su Xiao had experienced but hadn't been able to fight, or those whose timelines prevented them from fighting (those powerful beings who had died of old age).
The reason it wasn't written later was that the rewards from the previous version of Greed Chapter were truly not great. This was mainly a problem with the level of reasonableness. The previous Greed Chapter's difficulty of acquisition didn't match the too-high rewards. This time was different.
Therefore, Feiwen is preparing to continue perfecting Greed Chapter. This is a very interesting piece of equipment. Currently, three opponents have been challenged.