# Chapter 6: Full Body Equipment
Among the equipment currently worn, the lowest-rated piece is the top-tier Overlord Equipment·Planet Destroyer, with a rating of 6000 points. The remaining equipment consists of Overlord Equipment exceeding 6000 points, Eternal Rank equipment, or World Rank equipment, including ultra-powerful pieces like 「Endless Ring」, 「Soul·King's Coronation」, and 「Blood Moon Queen」.
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It was obvious that the six teams from the four opposing Paradise factions had no idea what they were about to face. Were they here to clash with enemies of the same rank? No, no, no. They were here to confront the ultimate final boss. What seemed like a PVP confrontation was actually a PVE mode boss battle.
One might ask, why was Su Xiao suppressed by the Void Tree to appear last? Was this for fairness? Let's just say, that was partly the reason. More so, it was to prevent the situation of blocking the fountain at the start. It wasn't that the Void Tree was predicting; it was that Su Xiao had actually done this sort of thing before!
The Battle Angel·Zelina beside the opposite bench blinked. She even temporarily set aside her captain's dignity and elegant, pretentious style, rubbed her eyes, and looked at Su Xiao sitting by the fountain pool. After confirming she hadn't mistaken him, she instinctively stepped back half a step.
"How... how is this possible."
Battle Angel·Zelina muttered to herself. However, it must be said that a top-tier Absolute Strong Battle Angel reacted quickly. She immediately reported Su Xiao to the Apocalypse Paradise. The reply she received nearly made her break down on the spot.
[Tip (Apocalypse Paradise): In the current area, you cannot report friendly members.]
Seeing this prompt, Battle Angel·Zelina's feeling wasn't that they had a strong ally and this round was secure. Instead, it was that in this Battle for Supremacy, her team might have to switch to survival mode.
From Rank 3 to Absolute Strong, Battle Angel·Zelina had seen more than once how the madmen of Reincarnation Paradise treated those who held the team back or were useless teammates. These madmen would kill their own teammates first, then hunt the enemies. The penalties and judgments of the Notarization Mechanism? They couldn't care less.
"Bai Ye, which side are you representing this time?"
Battle Angel·Zelina spoke calmly.
"..."
Su Xiao looked at Zelina with a smile on his face, which made Zelina's negotiation experience increasingly unpleasant. After staring at each other for over ten seconds, Zelina understood the current situation. This Reincarnation madman's intention was obvious: enter the battlefield, then kill all the violators and enemy teams there.
Zelina left with her teammates, looking somewhat troubled. Su Xiao opened the 「Battle for Supremacy Contact Channel」 notarized by the Apocalypse Paradise side. The messages inside were lively.
Fenny (Healing Type): "Looks like I won't be entering the battlefield this time. My team is ranked 32nd."
Mechanic (Tech Side): "I'm on Team 7. Zelina is also in the channel, so I won't say things like 'we can enter.' After all, if we enter, it means the first team has been completely wiped out."
Zelina (Tech Side): "Good news, our lineup this time is too strong."
Zelina (Tech Side): "Bad news, our lineup this time is too strong."
Aiduo'er (Healing Type): "What are you talking about?"
Yu Zhi (Assassination Type): "Looks like Zelina's team is in a bad spot. By the way, where's the other first team?"
Luo Luo (Healing Type): "Actually, I want to know what the lineup from Death Paradise is."
Zelina (Tech Side): "Good news, Reincarnation Paradise didn't enter."
Zelina (Tech Side): "Bad news, Reincarnation Paradise didn't enter."
Aige (Lightning Magic Type): "Zelina, what's wrong with you? You seem to have a very dark outlook on your performance."
Kele (Gravity Type): "As the captain of the first team, don't be so pessimistic. You're making me a bit nervous (currently on Team 10)."
Bai Ye (Overlord Unit): "Recruiting a healing-type teammate. Requires healing/buff ability rating of 350 or above. No personality requirements, no character requirements, no Apocalypse Paradise/Void Tree reputation requirements (even negative is fine, can still join). After joining, excellent treatment, friendly teammates, relevant guarantee contracts can be signed, excellent team skills (attached are the four team skill treatments of the Dawn Team, partially visible without applying, fully visible after applying)."
Kele (Gravity Type): "Captain upstairs, why is your system listed as Overlord Unit? Is that also an ability system? Isn't that a boss type?"
Aiduo'er (Healing Type): "Theoretically speaking, this classification is fine (forced smile)."
Yu Zhi (Assassination Type): "Zelina, I think I understand why you're so strange today, and your words above all make sense."
Aiduo'er (Healing Type): "The only one qualified to join seems to be one of the top Absolute Strong healing types, Suoweiya."
Mechanic (Tech Side): "What a good move for revenge. I've long heard you two have a conflict. But saying Suoweiya is the best healing type this time is indeed no problem."
Suoweiya (Healing Type): "You two, just wait."
Titan·Gelizi (Tank Type): "Trembling healing type Fenny. She's usually active, but today she suddenly went silent."
Mechanic (Tech Side): "Great, this time the two strongest healing types, Suoweiya and Fenny, have entered Reincarnation Bai Ye's list."
Suoweiya (Healing Type): "...."
Fenny (Healing Type): "Heh~, if I don't agree to join, even if Reincarnation Bai Ye is strong, he can't force me into the team, right? Besides, shouldn't he be in a Reincarnation Paradise team?"
Mechanic (Tech Side): "Fenny, which team number are you on?"
Fenny (Healing Type): "Team 6, why?"
Mechanic (Tech Side): "I'm saying, hypothetically, if Reincarnation Bai Ye kills all the first five teams, then as Team 6, wouldn't you enter the battlefield?"
Fenny (Healing Type): "You... don't joke like that to scare me."
Mechanic (Tech Side): "Fenny, in previous World Battle for Supremacy, haven't you seen the Reincarnation madmen engage in deathmatch Arena?"
Hai Hu (Curse Type): "Stop talking, I'm already recalling particularly unpleasant memories."
Kele (Gravity Type): "Hahaha, Fenny is panicking."
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Su Xiao closed the contact channel, opened the corresponding list, and selected Suoweiya and Fenny to invite into the team. He hadn't expected so many Apocalypse Paradise Absolute Strong Battle Angels to recognize him. Therefore, using team skills to trick healing types into joining wouldn't work. Thus, he could only rely on invitations full of "sincerity."
He got up and wandered around the square. Before long, he spotted a girl in a gold-white robe with a hood. She had a petite figure and beautiful amber pupils. When their eyes met, she immediately looked away. Guessing blindly, this was either Suoweiya or Fenny.
Su Xiao stopped in front of the hooded girl. A crystal seat formed behind him. After sitting down, he calmly looked at her. A few seconds later, the surrounding contractors backed away, forming a circle around them.
"She's Fenny."
Someone among the onlookers spoke, clearly having a grudge against Fenny. Hearing her name called out, Fenny gritted her teeth in hatred.
"It seems my invitation has confused you."
Su Xiao spoke. This kind of negotiation opening surprised Fenny. She had thought he would directly threaten her or something.
"It's... it's okay."
Fenny forced a smile.
"Since it confuses you, then we have no chance to cooperate this time. What a pity."
Su Xiao spoke again. If it were someone who knew him, like his two dog thief good teammates, or the Apocalypse Three Sisters, they would have already taken a big step back. According to the Apocalypse Three Sisters' theory, the longer Bai Ye's sentence, regardless of its meaning, the more dangerous it was, period.
"It's... not really. My personality is like this, putting stability first."
Fenny smiled especially sweetly. Her inner thought was, the rumors aren't credible. The rumored Reincarnation madman, the god of death-like Bai Ye, was actually quite reasonable when negotiating.
"Is that so? What a shame."
Su Xiao made a move to stand up, but suddenly thought of something. He raised his hand to indicate a handshake and said, "I hope we have a chance to cooperate in the future."
"Haha, I hope so."
Fenny hesitated, then chose to shake Su Xiao's hand. After all, she couldn't be too disrespectful. What if they met in a mission world in the future?
Hands clasped.
"Contract... signed."
Su Xiao looked at Fenny with a kind smile. More accurately, at Fenny, whose pupils rapidly contracted. Her dazed, wide eyes were filled with shock at the evil of the world beyond her understanding.
Among the dozens of onlookers, many widened their eyes. Those with weaker mental fortitude were already stunned, their mouths agape. However, Battle Angel·Zelina among them was very calm, after all, she was an elegant pretentious master. But the psychological shadow area of her three teammates beside her was enormous.
After successfully recruiting a healer, Su Xiao walked out of the square. After wandering around a few times, he arrived at the Trade Market. The place was bustling with people. Due to the upcoming World Battle for Supremacy, the prices of potions had skyrocketed. However, compared to a few days ago, the prices of equipment and skill scrolls had dropped, especially skill scrolls, which were only 75% of the usual price.
The reason equipment prices had dropped was that many contractors were selling equipment they were usually reluctant to part with, to stock up on more potions and increase their survival rate in the Battle for Supremacy.
Su Xiao noticed that the equipment prices in Apocalypse Paradise were similar to those in Reincarnation Paradise, as follows:
Immortal Rank Equipment: 1900 to 7000 Soul Coins per piece.
Origin Rank Equipment: 20,000 to 100,000 Soul Coins per piece.
Eternal Rank Equipment: 100,000 to 500,000 Soul Coins per piece.
Su Xiao still had 1,100,861 Soul Coins. He planned to buy one Eternal Rank belt-type equipment and a few of the cheapest Eternal Rank pieces for the 「Endless Ring」 to devour.
After browsing around, he found no suitable Eternal Rank belt. Thus, he had to accept the Goblin Merchant Guild's offer: a full-rated Eternal Rank belt for 2800 ounces of Space-Time Power.
This price was very high, plus he still had to repay 85,000 ounces of Space-Time Power to Reincarnation Paradise. However, without a belt-type equipment, he would lose an entire world progress's worth of perception growth. Especially this time, entering the Dawn Ruins, in such a dangerous environment, the perception ability level would definitely skyrocket.
Su Xiao replied to the Goblin Merchant Guild and paid 2800 ounces of Space-Time Power. They promised to deliver within a few hours.
He checked his various consumables. Everything was ready. He decided to keep 95,000 Soul Coins and use the rest to buy enough cheap Eternal Rank equipment. These 95,000 Soul Coins were for the materials to make three 「Sun Holy Swords」, plus 5000 Soul Coins for emergencies.
Three hours later, Su Xiao returned to his Exclusive Room in Reincarnation Paradise. After the spatial fluctuations subsided, he sat down on a single sofa. This time, he had bought a total of 12 pieces of Eternal Rank equipment. Normally, the cheapest Eternal Rank equipment would cost 100,000 Soul Coins per piece. Such a good deal was rare.
Su Xiao took out the Abyss equipment 【Endless Ring】. He held the 【Endless Ring】 with one hand, preparing to pick up a piece of equipment for it to devour. The moment it received the signal to devour, the 【Endless Ring】 instantly devoured all 12 pieces of Eternal Rank equipment.
If Dragon-Slaying Flash crushed and devoured weapons one by one, like savoring a delicacy, then the 【Endless Ring】 devoured like a glutton, wolfing everything down.
Compared to the devouring, the 【Endless Ring】's digestion was equally rapid. He checked the 【Endless Ring】's current attributes.
【Endless Ring】
Origin: Abyss.
Quality: Abyss Rank.
Type: Buff-type equipment.
Equipment Effect 1: Life Serenity (Passive), each point of this equipment's rating provides 50 points of Health Points bonus.
Current Health Points Bonus: 480,000 points!
Equipment Effect 2: Endless Devouring (Core·Passive), Endless Ring can devour other equipment, and based on the quality, rating, and strength of the devoured equipment, increase the rating cap of Endless Ring.
Current Rating Cap Bonus: 3600 points.
Equipment Detriment: Darkness Indulgence (Passive), while wearing this equipment, you will gradually be invaded by the darkness of the Abyss. This erosion can be resisted by your Abyss Resistance, but the greater the buff from this equipment, the higher the intensity of this erosion.
Tip: 40 points of Abyss Resistance can resist the current erosion intensity (your current Abyss Resistance is 95 points).
Rating: 9600 points (under normal circumstances, Abyss Rank equipment rating is 1 to 6000 points).
Introduction: Darkness, always serene. Serenity gives rise to precipitation, precipitation brings decay, decay transforms into nutrients, nutrients nourish life. At the very center of darkness, the purest and most vigorous life source matter is nurtured.
Sale Price: Cannot be sold.
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Estimating this way, one piece of Eternal Rank equipment could increase the 【Endless Ring】's equipment rating by 300 points, equivalent to 110,000 Soul Coins, which increased Health Points by 180,000 points.
Given Su Xiao's current combat power, this was a worthwhile increase. His Health Points reached 3.9 million, about to break through the 4 million mark. As for the Absolute Strong rank cap of 6 million, he still had a way to go.
Su Xiao came to an empty room, took out the 【Corrupted God Blood Stone (Filth Source/Sealed Item)】, and chose to activate this sealed item. The next second.
[Connecting...]
[Old One sensed.]
After this prompt appeared, Su Xiao noticed that the ceiling and floor around him began to visibly soften and deform, becoming like everted flesh.
Amidst this flesh, cracks appeared. Accompanied by a strange opening sound, eyes opened stickily within the flesh. These eyes were densely connected, varying in size, some squeezed together, layered upon each other, giving a sense of spiritual pollution.
Anyone with insufficient willpower or a weak soul would, at a single glance, experience hysterical claustrophobic despair, as if their soul were trapped by their body. They would wish they could gouge out their own eyes, deafen their ears, tear open their scalp, and let their soul drill out, heading towards that distorted freedom filled with death, suffocation, and fear.
Pure, extreme malice descended from above. This was the Old One, also an endless torrent of malice. The eyes on the walls and ceiling began to distort, squeezing each other into blood plasma. All the blood coalesced into a large hand, reaching for Su Xiao. The sacrifice corresponding to the 【Corrupted God Blood Stone】 was actually the user themselves.
This was Reincarnation Paradise, so of course the Old One couldn't do anything to Su Xiao. But he would eventually go into mission worlds. At that time, the Old One would come to collect the sacrifice. With Su Xiao's current combat power, he was absolutely no match for the Old One.
A more intuitive comparison was that the Old One and the Madness of Maosheng were on the same level. The Madness of Maosheng had clashed with the Abyssal Jar, resulting in a fifty-fifty outcome. Although the Abyssal Jar wasn't a combat-oriented Original Sin Object, was the Madness of Maosheng a good fighter? The answer was no. The Madness of Maosheng's strength lay elsewhere.
The Old One's twisted hand reached down towards Su Xiao. At that moment, he took out the 「Book of Original Sin」 and made a move to hand it to the Old One. The Old One's hand paused. After a few seconds, this sacrificial hand burst apart. Was the Old One backing down? Not exactly. This was the Old One acknowledging that this was not a sacrifice, but a transaction. This was the hardest part of negotiating with the Old One: gaining the qualification.
Su Xiao took out the main body of the 【Greedy Life Tree】. Even though the Life Tree's tree spirit struggled frantically, constantly admitting its mistakes, even groveling, Su Xiao ignored it all.
The eyes on the floor and ceiling began to distort, squeezing each other into blood plasma. This plasma coalesced into a new sacrificial hand, grabbing the 【Greedy Life Tree】, holding it in its palm. Amidst the tree spirit's hysterical screams, it was absorbed by the Old One.
Two fingers of the sacrificial hand pierced the side wall, pulling out a heart-like dark red fruit. Each time this fruit beat, the dark red turned to bright red. On the heart fruit, countless hair-thin tentacles writhed wantonly. Even more grotesquely, an eye opened at the center of this heart.
"Save... me."
The heart fruit spoke, in the Abyss language. This wasn't the tree spirit; that tree spirit had already vanished. This was an ancient and evil thing.
Crack, crack, crack~
A crystal layer formed on Su Xiao's right hand. He caught the heart fruit handed over by the Old One with one hand. The flesh and eyes on the surrounding walls and ceiling receded. This caused the eye on the heart fruit to narrow evilly. Below it, a small mouth full of sharp teeth appeared. It smiled.
"You are, lucky, to have obtained me. As repayment..."
The heart fruit spoke up to this point, its peripheral vision catching the 「Book of Original Sin」 in Su Xiao's hand. This caused its gradually blooming evil smile to immediately retract and disappear.
The evil heart had finally escaped? Think again. This was a classic case of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. However, since it hadn't died in the Old One's hands, this evil heart's endurance must be very strong. If subsequent negotiations didn't go smoothly, he could try locking it in.
Su Xiao checked the remaining stay time. The Old One seemed to have descended for just a moment, but now there were only a few hours left before entering the Dawn Battlefield. The good news was that the burning and refining of two titles was complete.
[Title: Mysterious Scholar burning and refining complete.]
[You have obtained: Original Sin Scholar (Limit Burning·1st).]
[Title: Old Hunter burning and refining complete.]
[You have obtained: Old Hunter (Limit Burning·2nd).]
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It was past six in the evening when I got home. I took a day off yesterday, thinking I wouldn't take another day off today. I ended up writing until the early hours of the morning, but I finished before dawn. I'm very sleepy. Going to sleep now. Goodnight, dear readers.