# Chapter 3: Please Do Not Leave Your Home on a Night with a Full Moon.
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Once Ember Ash City ceases to exist, then "Rule 1: You cannot leave Ember Ash Town" becomes impossible to follow. The chain reaction this triggers is that "Rule 2" loses its meaning, and when this situation occurs, "Rule 3" is also meaningless.
Regarding how to make Ember Ash City cease to exist, one must understand that it is the five major factions of this world that are barely maintaining this sanctuary city.
Imagine, when these five factions are about to leave, will they leave behind the "Array Core" composed of various highly rare materials, allowing this sanctuary city to persist meaninglessly for a few days without maintenance? Or will they take away the priceless "Array Cores" as startup capital to have a better start and development on the Lord Continent side?
The Void Tree cannot forcibly intervene under such circumstances to prevent the curse from invading Ember Ash City, because this would be equivalent to favoring the other participants besides Su Xiao. No matter how one judges it, the current situation of Ember Ash City was orchestrated by Su Xiao. This is not a violation of rules, but rather leveraging the resource advantage he currently possesses, specifically the large quantity of "World-Class Teleportation Array" construction materials obtained from the "Golden City."
When the curse invades Ember Ash City, this city will no longer exist. With Ember Ash City, the subject of notarization, gone, the small "Safe Zones" derived from notarization for each team will naturally lose their notarization as well. To reiterate, Su Xiao cannot shake the safe zones in the slightest, but he can make the safe zones disappear.
Making the safe zones disappear is only the first step; what follows is the true terrifying roar of this world.
"Fenny."
Su Xiao spoke, but Fenny was sleeping soundly. Seeing this, he took out a small crystal vial, opened it, and a fresh minty scent spread. Fenny, who was fast asleep, furrowed her brows, her expression gradually becoming strained. Half a minute later, she suddenly opened her eyes, jumped out of bed full of energy, and rushed straight to the bathroom on the second floor.
After a moment, Fenny returned. Her steps were light, but her expression was somewhat shaken. She said, "That was close, I almost made it onto this year's Sand Sculpture Ranking."
Fenny sniffed the air and asked, "What's that smell? It's quite nice."
"Vapor potion, quickly awakens a sleeping soul."
"Can I have the rest? My best friend loves to sleep in."
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Su Xiao tossed the remaining half of the vial to Fenny. He stood up and walked to the desk. After equipping the "Original Sin Scholar" title, he activated the "Abyss Contract" once again.
Su Xiao's pace of reading ancient texts was not fast. His goal was not to read, but to master. Sometimes he would hold an ancient book and not turn a page for a long time. Time passed second by second. About a dozen hours later, he began to feel a stabbing pain in his brain. A strand of light blue energy thread coiled around his left arm.
The slowly recovering mental energy allowed Su Xiao to continue immersing himself in the mastery of Sealcraft. Unfortunately, by the time the "Abyss Contract" shattered completely, his Sealcraft had still not reached Lv.94. He was only a hair's breadth away, yet this hair's breadth could trap a seal master for a lifetime.
Su Xiao was not discouraged by this. If before, with "Sealcraft, Lv.93," there was a 70% probability of completing the plan, now, at the most extreme pinnacle of Lv.93 Sealcraft, it could guarantee an 85-90% success rate for the plan.
This time, his opponents were Shenfu, Platinum Apostle, and Haoji. Expecting a 100% win rate was wishful thinking. The current win rate was already considerable.
"So sleepy, I really need to get a good sleep this time."
Fenny yawned and walked out, heading back to her own bedroom to rest.
Su Xiao checked the time. This round of the competition was almost halfway through. Although the pressure from Shenfu's side was maxed out, now was not the time to immediately start the plan. His condition was too poor. He needed sufficient rest to bring himself to peak condition before starting the plan. Otherwise, even a slight mistake during the plan would be enough to get him killed on the spot.
Going up to the fourth floor, after checking that the cores on the four arrays were stable, Su Xiao returned to his bedroom. After assigning tasks to Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini, he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
When Su Xiao woke up, it was the early morning of the sixth day since this round of the competition began. Today, Ember Ash City was exceptionally clear, yet the streets were completely empty. In the urban area leading to the underground city, the streets were packed with civilians. Under the maintenance of the Array Master Guild, although it was a bit crowded, it was orderly.
Pushing open the window, a cool breeze blew into the room. A crystal chair formed behind Su Xiao. After he sat down, he opened the World Contact Platform and posted the following content:
White Night (Reincarnation Paradise): "Selling [Tree Emblem] x12. 3000 Soul Coins each."
[Tree Emblem] could increase the final settlement evaluation of this round of the competition. Why would Su Xiao sell this? The reason was, if the plan failed, his settlement evaluation would even get a negative score, like an F rating below E-. And if the plan succeeded, only two people would participate in the final settlement, making the [Tree Emblem] meaningless.
Moreover, this sale of [Tree Emblem] was not for the 36,000 Soul Coins. As a triple Technique Grandmaster, Su Xiao was indeed short on Soul Coins, but not to that extent. This was an open scheme, one that took immediate effect and was highly effective.
If the Violators bought these [Tree Emblems], even better. The contract attached to them would take effect. Unfortunately, Shenfu would not buy them.
Zelina (Apocalypse Paradise): "White Night, don't joke like that. I'm suddenly a bit scared."
Shuifu (Apocalypse Paradise): "Zeli Captain, hold me tight. To be honest, I'm a bit scared too. You can't scare people like this, right? This is like flipping the table."
Luingard (Holy Light Paradise): "Don't panic, it's probably a bluff."
Yuewu (Watchful Paradise): "This is deliberately messing with people's minds. Everyone, don't pay it any attention."
Witch · Lilia (Holy Light Paradise): "I really don't like Violators, but this time, I hope Yuewu is right."
Witch · Lilia (Holy Light Paradise): "[Tree Emblem] x12 (Viewable detailed attributes). This is directly consigned on the contact platform. After I submit notarization to the Void Tree, I will need to pay a total of 37,800 Soul Coins (including 5% handling fee) to purchase [Tree Emblem] x12 from the notarization held by Hunter · Kukulin Bai Ye. For personal reasons, I don't dare to buy this thing easily, afraid there might be strange contract content on it."
Shennu (Holy Light Paradise): "Strange contract content?"
Hunshi (Apocalypse Paradise): "You can try it, it's very interesting (forced smile)."
Guangyan (Death Paradise): "White Night, are you giving up?"
Enzuo (Death Paradise): "Is it possible that he doesn't need this anymore? And, in this round of individual combat, this thing is no longer important."
Guangyan (Death Paradise): "Brother Shui, don't mess with my head. This round is individual combat, yes, but we are still teammates afterward."
Yingqin (Death Paradise): "Husband is right, love you~"
Witch · Lilia (Holy Light Paradise): "Everyone, good luck to you all."
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Su Xiao closed the World Contact Platform. He took out the "Book of Original Sin." For the upcoming plan, there was no need to keep a low profile anymore. Instead, making all the participants wary would be the most effective.
Earlier, the Void Tree had an announcement stating that the content of this round of competition was: Exploration, Competition, Survival, Death, Accumulation.
From now on, all other content would disappear, leaving only "Survival" and how to escape this world. Immediately applying to abandon this round of competition was obviously a very good method.