# Chapter 6: Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, Beini All Missing
Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini were all nowhere to be found. In this world, even the position sensing of the team channel could be blocked. To reunite later, they could only rely on their respective wisdom.
Excellent. Such a "dream start" caused Su Xiao's blood energy, which had gradually cooled during the Absolute Strength peak stage, to begin boiling and raging once more.
Almost simultaneously, the three Supreme Strongs watching from three directions around the wooden house all felt their hearts tighten. The feeling of a violent, massive blood beast lurking inside the wooden house was too intense. Though they couldn't see it, in their powerful perception, a massive blood beast phantom had already enveloped the wooden house, grinning savagely at them.
The three changed from their original encirclement posture to gathering together. Among them were two men and one woman, led by a man wearing pure black priestly robes with gold patterns on the edges. He had a cockscomb hairstyle, and his right face was covered in tattoos.
This man was the current leader of the Dark God Cult, Dark Bishop Charles. Compared to Dark Bishops from other worlds, Charles lacked a fanatical madness, instead wearing a half-smile and golden earrings.
To the right of Dark Bishop Charles was a woman whose half body had been replaced by living machinery. She wasn't particularly strong in build, of medium height, but gave off an especially reliable feeling. A cigarette dangled from her mouth—unknown what type of tobacco, but one inhale produced an astonishing amount of smoke.
This was Exploration Captain Afiya, a boisterous woman who loved smoking and hated seeing her subordinates die.
On the far left stood a man draped in tattered dark red linen robes, bald with no eyebrows. His face, hands—every exposed part—was covered in scars. His build was medium to strong, with little light in his eyes. The faint bloody smell on him made one suspect his worn dark red linen robes had been stained that color by blood.
This was the leader of the Pain God Cult, Pain High Priest Zdenek. He gave off a feeling of bloodiness, silence, and emotionlessness.
Dark Bishop Charles narrowed his eyes slightly and whispered to Exploration Captain Afiya beside him:
"Ms. Afiya, if we're forced to fight, what are our chances?"
"We can definitely keep this person here," Exploration Captain Afiya said as she exhaled a puff of smoke, then continued, "But at least two of us three will die. Only Zdenek might survive."
Hearing this, Dark Bishop Charles frowned deeper and asked, "That troublesome?"
"If my sensing isn't wrong, he's a Grandmaster. Swordsmanship? No, blade techniques or maybe others. A Technique Grandmaster who can climb to Supreme—I've never seen one that's easy to mess with."
Exploration Captain Afiya had of course been to the outside world, such as the Witch Realm, Wind Sea Continent, Doom Star, etc. She could have left this homeland about to be swallowed by darkness long ago—it wasn't that she couldn't, but that she wouldn't. The same situation applied to Dark Bishop Charles and Pain High Priest Zdenek beside her.
"Should be... a guest."
The taciturn Pain High Priest Zdenek spoke. After saying this, he stepped toward the small wooden house. When he reached Su Xiao's perception range, a stinging sensation throughout his body made him stop.
Creak~
The wooden door was pushed open. Su Xiao walked out from the small wooden house, scanned the three present, and asked, "Three of you, who's the representative?"
"Him."
"Her."
"Him."
Dark Bishop pointed at Afiya, Afiya pointed at Dark Bishop, and Pain High Priest Zdenek pointed at Dark Bishop. With a two-to-one result, Dark Bishop rubbed his nose.
From the behavior of these three, it was clear that Sanctuary City had no power struggles or similar issues. This was good, facilitating the subsequent plan's execution.
"Too dark, this Sanctuary City."
Su Xiao looked into the distance at the tall flame torch tower in the center of Sanctuary City. He estimated that the population of this Sanctuary City should still be several hundred thousand. Being able to persist in this darkness every day, these Sanctuary City residents must have firm hearts. The probability of producing strong seedling talents shouldn't be low.
Among the three, Dark Bishop was most adept at social graces. Hearing Su Xiao say this, he roughly understood that this outsider wasn't here to cause trouble. He said with a smile:
"Our fire source is almost exhausted, so we have to use it sparingly. Now we light the torch tower for 5 days each year, each time for different festivals. When festivals come, we have to give our compatriots some firelight, right?"
Dark Bishop looked at the torch tower, somewhat emotional. Though he was a Supreme Strong, when looking at the torch tower, his eyes held undeniable warmth. In his childhood, his greatest wish was for the torch tower to be lit during festivals.
What Sanctuary City Doan lacked wasn't fuel—ordinary flames couldn't illuminate this world's darkness. It needed Solar Flame, or flames of an equivalent tier that were especially powerful.
"..."
Su Xiao didn't speak. He simply took out [Flame Core], one of his spoils from winning the Paradise Battle. Because this item was so targeted, he estimated it wasn't a randomly obtained reward. Rather, in Reincarnation Paradise's judgment, holding [Ancient Dragon Key], he would definitely go to [Ancient Dragon Kingdom Eberath], hence this reward was derived.
Paradise Battle rewards were like this—determined based on the involved party's comprehensive situation. Therefore, Su Xiao hadn't submitted this item during his previous Supreme promotion task. His thinking at the time was to prevent any unexpected darkness invasion incidents in the treasury of [Ancient Dragon Kingdom Eberath].
[Flame Core]
Origin: Sun Center Zor.
Quality: World Rank.
Category: Blessing Item.
Effect: Can use this item to reignite the sun, or use it for 1.5 to 2 eras of flame illumination.
Illumination Range: 200 to 600 kilometers in diameter (depending on torch tower specifications).
Note: When [Flame Core] is placed on a sufficiently specified [Torch Tower], it can dispel all darkness.
Rating: 6000 points (World Rank item rating is 10 to 6000 points).
Description: Only those trapped in undispellable darkness know the preciousness of flame light.
Seeing this item, Dark Bishop, Afiya, and Pain High Priest Zdenek couldn't look away. Though they had never seen this item before, the intense solar aura made them certain this thing could serve as a fire source for a long time.
"How long can this thing still burn?"
Dark Bishop asked.
"About 1.5 to 2 eras."
"This..."
Afiya's eyes widened slightly. Her first thought was that if Doan's central torch tower had this item, year-round daylight flame illumination wouldn't be a problem.
"This... traveler, you can name your price..."
Dark Bishop had just gotten this far when Su Xiao had already tossed the [Flame Core] in his hand. Dark Bishop caught it subconsciously, gripping it tightly for fear of any mishap, and was immediately at a loss, his prepared speech all choked back.
"It's a gift to you."
Su Xiao's words instantly choked the three Supreme Strongs before him. The scene was very quiet for a moment.
A few seconds later, Su Xiao received a notification:
[Notification: Your Last Sanctuary City Doan faction reputation +70000 points.]
[Current faction reputation: 11400 points.]
[When [Flame Core] is successfully installed on the central torch tower, your faction reputation will gradually increase subsequently.]
[Because your faction reputation is above 0 points, the faction store has been reactivated. The faction ranking list has been opened.]
[Your current ranking: First Place.]
[Note: [Ancient Dragon Kingdom Eberath] is not continuously open. Approximately every 15 to 20 world progressions, this world opens to contractors of various paradise factions under Void Tree's notarization. Therefore, the faction ranking list rewards in this world are 7 to 8 times those of other same-rank worlds, with exclusive rewards for the first place provided by Void Tree.]
[Total contractors/hunters/death rangers/battle angels etc. entering this world this time: 32 people.]
After this series of notifications appeared, it wasn't just the three Supreme Strongs before Su Xiao who were stunned. The other 31 contractors in this world also received notifications of the ranking list first place change. Seeing the faction reputation of 11400 points right from the start, everyone felt stifled.
Finally getting randomly assigned to [Ancient Dragon Kingdom Eberath], only to encounter such an outrageous person. However, those present didn't yet know that facing this world's treacherous situation, Su Xiao planned to summon Kaisa to collude... ahem, no, to work together to deal with the current risks.
Therefore, the contractors in this world didn't yet know that the situation that would make them hate to the extreme and be completely dumbfounded hadn't truly appeared yet.
Su Xiao closed the related notifications. Just then, he suddenly felt as if his heart had pounded fiercely. A certain barrier that had been gestating inside him since completing his promotion to Supreme suddenly cracked open. This reminded him of the unique golden-red notification that had appeared during his previous Supreme promotion:
[Notification: Due to your ultra-limit specification Supreme promotion, you have obtained ??? Supreme Upper Limit!]
The surrounding world seemed to slow down. In his perception, Dark Bishop and the other two became exceptionally clear. Almost simultaneously, the three opposite all felt a kind of hair-raising sensation. From earlier, they had sensed that this person, clearly at least [Senior Supreme] strength, had an aura fluctuation as if he had just been promoted to Supreme and hadn't fully stabilized yet.
When the surrounding world returned to normal, Su Xiao clearly felt that as long as he continued improving his technique abilities and physical strength, he could very smoothly reach the limit of Supreme—that is, [Supreme Peak].
His barrier in this regard had just been broken. This was one of the strengths of being promoted to Supreme with ultra-limit specifications, and among various hidden benefits, this wasn't even in the top five gains.
Su Xiao didn't bother with the wary Dark Bishop trio. He leaped onto the wooden house roof and casually sat down. The surrounding darkness and trace Abyss energy spread, continuously stimulating his body and perception, allowing him to further understand himself.
He hadn't sensed it before, but after "digesting" a certain degree of [Supreme Upper Limit] enhancement, if Su Xiao were compared to a container, his current capacity had skyrocketed dozens of times over.
It was that exaggerated. And not only that, with his promotion to Supreme this time, a full 120,000 [Supreme Potential Points] had been added. His body began to show signs of "indigestion" from the promotion.
To put it more intuitively, the 120,000 [Supreme Potential Points] could be divided into four parts.