# Chapter 1: World-Destroying Supreme Blade
Category: Overlord Equipment · Eighth Position!
Compatibility with Hunter: 97.62%.
Stock: 1 (Unique).
Exchange Price: 1,000,000 Precipitated Glass.
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Su Xiao continued scrolling down the list. Below were [Primordial Core] and [Primordial Source Matter], but those weren't urgent to exchange. With 1,023,081 Precipitated Glass on hand, there was no reason not to take this Overlord Equipment ranked eighth.
Not to mention, its true strength was worth 2.5 million Precipitated Glass.
[You have paid 1,000,000 Precipitated Glass.]
[You have obtained World-Destroying Supreme Blade.]
[World-Destroying Supreme Blade]
Origin: Scar of Annihilation · ???
Quality: Overlord Rank.
Overlord Ranking: 8th.
Category: Pendant/Necklace.
Durability: 120/120 points.
Equipment Requirement: Blade Grandmaster X, and must gain this equipment's recognition within 10 natural days.
Equipment Effect 1: Supreme Blade (Core · Passive), overall intensity of blade technique core +25%.
Current enhancement characteristic: Extreme Realm Effect · Heavenly Edge Severing Shadow.
Extreme Realm Effect: Heavenly Edge Severing Shadow (Extreme Realm · Exclusive Passive), your blade technique ability will no longer be constrained by past blade technique forms. You can execute blade technique moves highly suited to the current battle and environment, depending on different worlds, different environments, and facing different enemies.
Equipment Effect 2: Arrogant Posture (Passive), this equipment will occupy 8 [Main Equipment Slots] and simultaneously occupy 3 Overlord Equipment Slots.
Current total main equipment slots: 14.
Current total Overlord equipment slots: 5.
Description: Simple, yet pure power.
Price: After choosing to activate this equipment, it cannot be traded, discarded, transferred, etc.
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The characteristics of this Overlord Equipment matched its description exactly. All of Su Xiao's current blade techniques started with [Heavenly Edge Severing Shadow] and were executed with [Extreme Blade] as the foundation. A 25% boost to [Heavenly Edge Severing Shadow] was equivalent to increasing Su Xiao's combat power by roughly one-fifth.
As for why it wasn't one-fourth, while he primarily relied on blade techniques, combat wasn't entirely dependent on them.
But one thing was certain — [World-Destroying Supreme Blade] would be permanently welded into the equipment slots. Even though it occupied eight main equipment slots plus three Overlord equipment slots, that didn't change this fact.
Su Xiao opened the equipment list. While [World-Destroying Supreme Blade] occupied three Overlord equipment slots, in the judgment of the [Overlord Power] ability, this equipment counted as the weight of three Overlord equipment pieces.
If the eighth position was this overwhelmingly powerful, then the top five Overlord equipment pieces must be even more astonishing. As for the top three, that was a smaller tier. And the first-ranked Overlord equipment — needless to say, its value of 8.52 million ounces of Space-Time Power said it all.
Time ticked by. Every so often, Su Xiao would condense a Blood Beast again, compress it into a [Beast Core], flick his index finger, and casually toss it into the hexagonal crystal.
Unfortunately, the harvest time was always short. Twelve hours before the Black Tide arrived, and after Beast Morach's Nth resurrection, the dark magic circle on the ground collapsed. A powerful, terrifying world backlash surged from the dark magic circle.
In the sky above, eyes of various shapes and from different races opened, looking down with malicious intent toward the direction of the dark formation. At this location, only Beast Morach remained, his gaze somewhat dazed from the cycle of resurrection, death, and resurrection.
After a few seconds, Beast Morach's gaze sharpened again. He raised his hand to summon a black spear, but summoned nothing. The next moment, he felt as if his outer clothing had been stripped away and a large bucket of ice water filled with crushed ice had been poured over him.
Beast Morach shivered, immediately looked at the sky, and saw the eyes that had replaced the sky — eyes of various shapes and sizes, all filled with intense malice. This world's world consciousness was mad and extreme, a result of being connected to the [Causal Lock Ring].
In fact, this world had always been a semi-transcendent world, unable to take half a step further toward transcendence precisely because of the [Causal Lock Ring] and this maddened world consciousness.
To continue transcending, there was only one path: shatter the [Causal Lock Ring], allowing the connected, already mad world consciousness to perish along with the ring's destruction. This was the world's only way out. World consciousness should not, and could not, possess a [self]; otherwise, it would no longer be world consciousness.
The death of world consciousness didn't mean the world's destruction. Given this world's scale and robust condition, a new world consciousness would soon be born. Moreover, the world's maintenance didn't necessarily require world consciousness.
Beast Morach gazed at the sky. The feeling of challenging an entire world alone didn't frighten him; instead, it reignited the blood that had grown cold from repeated deaths.
Boom!
A dark purple realm thunderbolt struck down. Several hundred kilometers away, Su Xiao was jolted by the deafening sound, instinctively pressing his hand on his sword hilt. He glanced at the realm thunderbolt — hundreds of kilometers thick, radiating violence and corrosion — completely ignored it, summoned the Lord's Train, boarded, and tossed the demon clan girl Milwe he was carrying onto a brown leather seat.
Sitting in his exclusive train seat, Su Xiao tapped the touch sensor beside him. A drawer with a luxurious feel slowly extended. Back then, Molei had helped find a friend to handle the Lord's Train's interior decoration. Later, Bubu Wang upgraded some facilities. The various amenities inside the train became more convenient with use.
Su Xiao searched through dozens of communicators for a moment, finally found one with a skull on it, the skull inlaid with fine diamonds. He picked it up, dialed, and then began a long wait.
After Su Xiao finished enjoying the barbecue-themed dinner prepared by the alchemical maid — tonight's grilled fish was excellent — the communicator on the table connected.
"What's up, Bai Ye."
Wood's slightly tired voice came through the communicator. Hearing the other party's increasingly eerie, ethereal voice, Su Xiao paused the metal fruit fork he was using to spear post-dinner fruit.
"Actually, you didn't have to choose this way."
"Hehehe, you've got nerve saying that to me. If it weren't for your terrifying rate of improvement, Zuiyasi and I wouldn't have to push ourselves so hard. He's even more ruthless than me — ruthless enough that... we might not see him next time. And even if we do, it might not be the Zuiyasi we know."
Wood's tone carried a hint of melancholy.
Zuiyasi was truly desperate this time. The Abyss's doomsday calamity was approaching. In this calamity, the Ancient God System was clearly not among those who could survive unscathed.
Zuiyasi had a wife, a mischievous son, and a clever, slightly mischievous daughter. So he chose to risk everything, just to have greater strength when the doomsday calamity came.
Zuiyasi's original ambition was to reach [Supreme Peak]. Night Mother's advice to him was that unless he recklessly devoured Abyss power, there was less than a one in a trillion chance of reaching that level.
Upon hearing this, Zuiyasi remained expressionless and decided — well, forget about reaching [Supreme Peak], [Super · Top-Tier Supreme] would do too.
Night Mother ignored him afterward, but Zuiyasi was who he was. He immediately went to harass other elders within the cult. In the end, the determined Zuiyasi set a new goal: just reaching Supreme was enough!
That was very Zuiyasi.
"Your sister is with me."
Su Xiao spoke. Across the line, Wood chuckled, glanced at the second-floor balcony of the library where Edeir was learning etiquette, tasting exotic wine, and shuddering from the sourness.
"My friend, Edeir is within arm's reach of me."
As Wood spoke beside the bookshelf, a gold coin suddenly appeared before him. He sighed, caught it, and tossed it up. The coin flipped. Wood's palm faced upward, and the coin smacked down into his palm, showing a Void number 5.
"Damn!"
Wood, always a gentleman, cursed for the first time. After all, he was just one step away from the fatal 6.
Wood tossed the coin again. As it fell, he flipped his hand, and a book with a thick cover — blank on the outside — appeared in his hand.
"Knowledge, huh."
Wood let out a long breath. Holding the heavy book in one hand and the communicator in the other, he said:
"Bai Ye, I'm a bit busy right now."
"Don't play dead."
A faint cry of pain came from the communicator, causing Wood's pupil flame to shrink slightly. The next second, his sister Edeir pressed close to his face, ears perked, listening to the communicator.
"You seem to have more than one sister."
"Milwe? Bai Ye, you found Milwe? That brat ran away from home years ago. Where did you find her?"
"Realm of the Gods."
"That world with the mad world consciousness, Realm of the Gods? No wonder the top diviners couldn't locate her."
"Send her back?"
As soon as Su Xiao said this, a stubborn voice from Wood's communicator shouted, "I don't want to!"
"Sorry to trouble you. How long would it take?"
"Five minutes."
"Then I won't trouble you, Bai Ye. Everyone has their own life. We can't interfere too much with Milwe's choices. As her elder brother, I should have realized this long ago."
Inside the train, Milwe was stunned. She pushed up her small round sunglasses, unable to understand why her brother's attitude had changed so quickly.
In truth, given how scheming Wood was, how could he not realize that a five-minute delivery meant the [Law-Destroying Teleportation Array], and specifically a [Realm-Level Law-Destroying Teleportation Array]? He wanted his sister home, yes, but he didn't want her turned into an even layer splattered across the stone open ground of his backyard.
"Actually, my teleportation array has undergone many improvements. You and I need not worry."
"Mm, I trust you, Bai Ye."
"Send her back now?"
"No, thank you."
Wood's [no] was clearly more certain than his earlier [I trust you].
"Then I'll release her."
"Alright. Knowing she's safe, I'm relieved."
"..."
Su Xiao ended the call. They had arrived at the destination. The door opened. He looked at the demon clan girl Milwe, indicating she could leave.
A smile gradually bloomed on the demon clan girl Milwe's face, her eyes beneath the small round sunglasses curving. She said:
"Brother Bai Ye, where are you going? I can come too. Don't judge me by my appearance — my abilities are quite peculiar."
"..."
Su Xiao stared expressionlessly at the demon clan girl Milwe. Sometimes, an expressionless face meant no danger. A smiling face, on the other hand, meant seeing the satisfaction of finding cannon fodder.
"I can turn anyone into a harmless little animal. Of course, this also makes them immune to all damage at the causal level and unable to be forcibly moved more than 0.2 meters away. But the duration is long enough — well, as long as the target isn't absurdly powerful, the duration is long enough."
The demon clan girl Milwe proudly tilted her chin.
"Alright then. Turn her into a small animal."
Su Xiao pointed at a person walking toward the train window.
"Sure thing~"
The demon clan girl Milwe leaned out the window and saw, strolling over, followed by a dozen Cursed Eye Hounds — Reshma.