# Chapter 2: Treasure
As time passed, the temperature within the sand dune shelter gradually rose. Faint technique patterns emerged on the surrounding hard sand walls, but these formations were far too ancient to provide effective protection.
Previously, this shelter had been unoccupied and naturally wouldn't activate. After Su Xiao's team arrived, the shelter barely managed to function, but due to the aging of the protective formations, it could only last another 2-3 days at most.
Su Xiao currently had two shelter stones. One was produced in this world, while the other was obtained through the Greed Chapter, namely the [Polar Day·Shelter Stone]. He wasn't planning to use this shelter stone for now because it had stronger effects and would only be used when entering some ultra-high-risk areas.
While contemplating, Su Xiao had already set up spatial coordinates within the shelter's secret chamber, making it convenient for him to quickly return here via the [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array] after leaving.
Having Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha use the [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array] was also possible, but only 1-2 times per day. This was thanks to their training in the exclusive room.
The training method was simple. Su Xiao set up one [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array] in the training room of his exclusive room and another in an empty room. Then, with Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini wearing extensive protective gear, they would use the training room's [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array] to teleport to the empty room, immediately using healing authority to recover from injuries.
Initially, Bubu Wang would slack off after a few training sessions, but after a few slipper beatings, he was forced to continue improving his spatial resistance.
Even so, Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini still couldn't withstand the teleportation of the [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array]. Direct teleportation would certainly kill them. However, after Su Xiao applied a crystal layer on them, they could barely endure 1-2 teleportations per day.
Presumably, through gradual training in the future, this situation would certainly improve. Of course, there was one exception: when Bubu Wang triggered the 10-second invincibility from [Intense Emblem], he could use the [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array] without injury.
Su Xiao arrived at the exit of the sand dune shelter. After pulling open the metal door, some scorching yellow sand that had been blocking the entrance flowed in, allowing the upper half of the exit to see outside.
What met his eyes was a vast expanse of yellow sand. A sun dozens of times larger than that of normal worlds hung in the sky, baking the wave-patterned sand terrain. Thin white vapor occasionally rose from within the sand.
Su Xiao cupped a handful of yellow sand with one hand. Besides the heat, he surprisingly felt a moistness to the sand. As the sand slipped through his fingers, some liquid actually clung to his hand. It felt as if what lay before him wasn't a dry desert but a sea of sand.
This was very unfavorable. If this were a desert, after using the shelter stone, he could simply walk forward. But if it were a sand sea, he would need a boat to cross. Moreover, beneath this calm desert surface, who knew what terrifying creatures lurked. This was the Eternal Light World. Even if a beast with Supreme-level power suddenly burst from the sand sea, Su Xiao wouldn't be surprised.
The special environment of the Eternal Light World had produced some terrifying creatures that could only survive and exist here. These creatures had extremely extreme characteristics. They might possess Absolute Strength-level or even Supreme-level combat power, but correspondingly, once they left the Eternal Light World, they would die within a short time.
The reason these creatures were so terrifying was that they continuously devoured elemental power. If elemental power were compared to oxygen, then the oxygen content of the outside world was about 25%. As for the Eternal Light World, the oxygen content here was 5000%.
This wasn't an exaggerated metaphor. Saying the elemental power content here was 5000% was actually somewhat conservative. Therefore, creatures that could devour natural elements here were exceptionally powerful.
As for why Spellcasters didn't come here to absorb elemental power, it was like breathing. Inhaling air with 21% oxygen content sustains life, but inhaling 5000% ultra-concentrated pure oxygen only causes poisoning.
What Spellcasters devoured were natural elements that coexisted with and had contact with Abyss energy, not the terrifying elemental power of the Eternal Light World, which lacked Abyss energy nourishment.
Su Xiao tossed a bone outside the shelter. As expected, the moment it landed on the sand water, it began to sink. Moreover, during its descent, exposed to the daylight here, the bone became translucent before transforming into transparent liquid that merged into the sand sea.
This was the characteristic of the daylight here: evaporating the flesh of living beings and liquefying bones. Of course, using a shelter stone could prevent this.
Su Xiao crushed the shelter stone in his hand. With a crack, an icy white light spread from within, climbing over his body surface before finally fading away. He climbed out from the upper half of the exit, reaching the top of the shelter. Looking around, he saw ripples slowly passing over the surrounding sand surface, just like the ocean.
Su Xiao had already equipped the [Violator] title, disguising himself as a Violator. This was because, as a Law Destroyer entering this world, once his identity was exposed, he would immediately attract pursuit from all World-Destroying-level existences and Abyss Spawn.
Currently, those terrifying existences didn't know Su Xiao had arrived in this world. But this wouldn't last long. Once he engaged in combat and the enemy was a World-Destroying-level existence or Abyss Spawn, his identity would be immediately exposed.
Therefore, before his identity was exposed, Su Xiao needed to obtain enough shelter stones at minimum. Otherwise, he wouldn't even qualify to deal with the pursuit.
He took out a metal rod as thick as his forearm, pressed the bottom, and threw it into the sand sea. The next second, the contents within the metal rod expanded, forming a small wooden boat. Don't underestimate this boat. It could float on over 96% of water surfaces and had the effect of concealing aura. After setting a direction, it would automatically drift. These functions had been personally tested by Beini and worked well.
Su Xiao jumped down from the shelter's top, landing on the small boat. The boat began sailing in the designated direction, toward where Beini was located.
The blazing sun hung high in the sky. Yellow sand filled every direction, but the gentle breeze carried a moist, cool feeling. Compared to sailing on an endless sea, drifting on a sand sea was actually more terrifying because you couldn't see what lay beneath the yellow sand. The sand here only looked like sand. Below a depth of ten-plus centimeters, the water-sand mixture became much more diluted. Beyond a meter deep, it was completely thin as water.
After sailing less than a kilometer, Su Xiao felt the boat beneath him showing signs of rising. This clearly indicated that something was swimming beneath him, and its size was considerable.
Su Xiao confronted the massive thing below for a few seconds. Although he was disguised as a Violator, his blood energy was not disguised at all. Sufficiently strong blood energy made it easier to travel within the Eternal Light World.
After half a minute of confrontation with the invisible giant thing beneath the water, the boat was lifted up by a surge before the sand surface calmed. Faintly, one could still hear a low rumble from below, like something from the depths of the Nine Netherworlds.
Su Xiao's hand had just lifted from his sword handle when, in the next instant, the wooden boat beneath him was pushed up.
"Extreme Blade: World!"
Zheng!!
A circular Extreme Blade domain instantly enveloped the surroundings. The wooden boat's upward momentum stopped before it fell back down. Then, the surrounding sand became wet, completely liquefying before being dyed blood-red. A massive creature, shaped like a catfish and several hundred meters long, floated up. Most of its fish head had disappeared, the arc-shaped cut exceptionally smooth. Interwoven black marks appeared in the surrounding space.
Su Xiao's hand no longer pressed on the sword handle. He jumped onto a new small wooden boat, which gradually sailed away. At the location of the giant catfish corpse, thousands of fish appeared, all with vicious sharp teeth. This was standard in the sand sea. In a very short time, the giant catfish that had dared to attack Su Xiao was reduced to nothing, not even a trace remaining.
As the temperature continued to rise, the true appearance of the sand sea revealed itself. Besides a thin layer of sand on the surface, everything below had completely turned into liquid.
Su Xiao's aura gradually calmed. Using "Extreme Blade: World" to kill an enemy for the first time, he found this ability more useful than imagined. Correspondingly, the physical stamina consumption was also significant. Without the support of numerous passive abilities, using this ability once might cause exhaustion. With his current physique, using it didn't cause exhaustion, but he absolutely couldn't use it consecutively in a short time.
After sailing for about an hour, a pile of ship wreckage came into view. These remains were a mixture of wooden planks and metal, looking like they were from just a few days ago.
This indicated that within this world, besides the largest gathering place outside Shelter City, there were also various sizes of shelter zones. However, their scale probably wasn't even one-tenth of Shelter City. But compared to Shelter City, these medium and small shelter zones were more daring in exploration.
Fragments of broken floating islands appeared ahead. These floating islands were connected by chains and vines, with some places having suspension bridges and spiral staircases. At the very top was a giant ship, which was being dragged forward slowly by the floating islands.
After observing from a distance for a moment, Su Xiao decisively put away the small wooden boat and jumped into the sand water, letting himself float quietly a few meters below the surface. Everything around was pitch black. The dark abyss beneath his feet brought the unknown and fear of the deep sea.
Maintaining this state for nearly an hour, Su Xiao finally surfaced, released the small boat, and jumped onto it. The floating islands and giant ship he had seen earlier had drifted far away. He could faintly perceive that within the thousand-meter-long giant ship, it was packed with a liquid existence. This thing was some kind of World-Destroying-level existence.
Continuing to sail, Su Xiao sensed through instinct that the piercing sensation constantly transmitted from the surroundings had gradually disappeared. This indicated he was advancing toward the edge of the sand sea. Unfortunately, without a map, he couldn't roughly determine how far it was to Shelter City.
Only now did Su Xiao have time to check the notification that had appeared earlier, concerning the rewards from the "Survival Ranking."
[Current Round Survival Ranking Rewards as Follows:]
First Place: Talent Emblem (Talent-type item, each person can use at most once).
Second Place: Abyss Box (Upon opening, high probability of obtaining Abyss products).
Third Place: Random Origin-level Set (Upon opening, can obtain one of only ten existing Origin-level sets).
Fourth Place: Crimson Crystal (Abyss characteristic item).
Fifth Place: Golden Power Scroll (Upon use, can obtain 1-30 Golden Skill Points).
Sixth-Tenth Place: Corresponding 80-20 Soul Crystals.
Eleventh-Fiftieth Place: Obtain 20,000-5,000 Soul Coins.
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Multiple rewards appeared before him. What immediately caught Su Xiao's attention wasn't the first-place [Talent Emblem], but the second-place reward [Abyss Box].
[Abyss Treasure Chest (Upon opening, low probability of obtaining Abyss products).]
[Abyss Box (Upon opening, high probability of obtaining Abyss products).]
From the [Abyss Treasure Chest] with a low probability of producing Abyss products, Su Xiao had successively opened three Original Sin Objects. If he opened the [Abyss Box], what would happen? Even if he obtained the [Abyss Box], he would have to consider selling it. At his current stage, holding four Original Sin Objects was already his limit.
This made Su Xiao resolve that this time, either he would take first place, or third place, or below third place. All of these were acceptable. He just shouldn't obtain this [Abyss Box].
Besides the ranking, Su Xiao checked this time's Void Tree World Store. Each time, one could obtain World Reputation, and naturally, there was a World Store. The downside was that no matter how capable one was, there was no possibility of manipulating the World Store. The good news was that the World Store would expand its exchange list in stages, often containing high-star titles.
If he could upgrade his two main titles to nine-star titles this time, Su Xiao's chances of completing the attribute trial and advancing to Absolute Strength would both increase significantly.
[World Store activated. Due to the special circumstances of this world, the World Store will not add new exchange items in stages. Instead, it will only retain the most basic title exchange.]
[Title exchange method being randomly selected...]
[Selection complete. This time, titles will be exchanged through "Title Treasure Chests."]
[Due to the characteristics of this world, the types of exchange items in the World Store have been compressed to the minimum. Corresponding authority compensation will be provided. You may choose one of the following authorities.]