# Chapter 39: No-Self
【Scepter of Life·Midi】
Origin: Ten Thousand Races Realm.
Quality: Reincarnation Rank.
Category: Scepter.
Durability: 350/1100 points.
Equipment Requirements: True Strength 1500 points, True Stamina 3000 points, True Intelligence 3000 points, obtain the recognition of 「Midi」.
Equipment Effect 1: Divine Activation (Core·Active), can assimilate the surrounding area into 「Activated Metal」, the range depends on your True Intelligence attribute, can at most put the entire world into an 「Activated Metal」 state, and you can freely control the activated metalized area.
Innate Ability 1·Metal Servant: You can erode living beings through activated metal, transforming them into metal servants without pain, low emotion, and forced loyalty. The maximum number controlled depends on your willpower (ranging from 1 to tens of millions of metal servants).
Innate Ability 2·Giant Incarnation: Can use the assimilated 「Activated Metal」 to form an ultra-giant 「Activated Metal Incarnation」, with a size between 30 to 5000 meters, depending on your Strength/Stamina/Intelligence attributes.
Abilities to Develop: 3 (The Scepter of Life can remember a total of five abilities derived from 「Divine Activation」, with two fixed abilities built-in, the remaining three you can freely develop and create).
Equipment Effect 2: Life Nourishment (Core·Passive): The Scepter of Life·Midi will constantly nourish your 「Primordial Life Force」, bringing a continuous/long-term permanent increase to your 「Primordial Life Force」.
Introduction: Obviously, this divine artifact called the Scepter of Life will not serve the Law Destroyers.
Rating: 16290 points (Reincarnation Rank equipment rating 15000~30000 points).
Price: 37160 Soul Coins.
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Reincarnation Rank equipment, and only mid-to-lower tier Reincarnation Rank equipment at that, already has such exaggerated power. Correspondingly, the market price of these things is also very expensive.
Because Su Xiao had obtained the Reincarnation Rank equipment/item permission, Beini also had the relevant permission unlocked. Information in the Great Gathering Place that was naturally shielded before could now be seen.
The Great Gathering Place had dozens of stalls that year-round purchased Reincarnation Rank equipment. The price was, even for the most garbage Reincarnation Rank equipment, a minimum of 2 million Soul Coins, or 6600 ounces of Space-Time Power. Of course, the 「Equipment Requirements」 of such equipment would definitely have two words: obtain this equipment's 「recognition」. Seeing these two words, the price of the equipment directly dropped to 10%. Otherwise, even the lowest-rated Reincarnation Rank equipment started at 60,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.
Moreover, these stalls year-round purchased 「Space-Time Power」 at 1 ounce = 300 Soul Coins. However, very few Supreme Rank contractors were willing to sell, because once you reached the Supreme tier, you would more or less need to use some Space-Time Power. Even if not used frequently, once needed, it was for very important matters, such as breaking through important levels of abilities, or activating some important permissions.
As for those willing to sell, they generally didn't have much Space-Time Power. Therefore, the price of 「Space-Time Power」 had been continuously rising from 1 ounce = 95 Soul Coins in earlier years, only stabilizing at 1 ounce = 300 Soul Coins last year.
Speaking of the actual value of the two, this ratio was definitely not right. But this was almost the market price maintained by Supreme Rankers, having nothing to do with over 90% of contractors. Hence, this price, although obviously unreasonable, if not raised to this level, 「Space-Time Power」 couldn't be purchased.
Even so, some stall owners only received about 100,000 to 200,000 ounces of Space-Time Power during the rest period after each world progress. They would then raise the price a bit and sell it to the big shots of the same Paradise who purchased Space-Time Power long-term.
Speaking of which, Su Xiao's need for Soul Coins was obviously not as urgent as before. Previously, Blade Art, Melee Combat, and Blood Spear Grandmaster were all big consumers of Soul Coins, plus upgrading various abilities, all consuming massive amounts of Soul Coins.
Currently, his Blade Art, Melee Combat, and Blood Spear were all maxed out. And 「Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash」 was absurd to the point of being a skill upgraded with Space-Time Power. Compared to other Supreme Rankers, whose abilities broke through important levels, like every 10 levels requiring some Space-Time Power, this 「Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash」 that used Space-Time Power as its 'staple food' was truly outrageous. However, it was also genuinely powerful.
If Su Xiao experienced a dozen or even dozens of world progresses at the Supreme Rank, and all his various abilities were raised to the point of being unraisable, leaving only his core abilities, which couldn't be raised due to lack of 「Space-Time Power」, then he would definitely do the thing of buying Space-Time Power with Soul Coins.
Thinking about it this way, 1 ounce = 300 Soul Coins, then reselling to big shots at 1 ounce = 350 Soul Coins, was a seemingly unreasonable but actually very reasonable reselling behavior. It wasn't that the market determined the value of 「Space-Time Power」; the rank of this stuff was too high, and the current market maintained by contractors couldn't determine its value.
Discovering this situation, Su Xiao was in a very good mood. He had the exclusive passive 「Origin of Power」. He would always need Soul Coins. Furthermore, when his 「Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash」 lacked 【Primordial Core】 and 【Primordial Source Matter】, causing its level to be unable to rise, he could even sell his existing 「Space-Time Power」 for Soul Coins.
Then use this massive amount of Soul Coins to purchase 「Supreme Passive」 abilities, and then use Soul Coins to max them out. After all, over 90% of 「Supreme Passives」 only needed Soul Coins when upgrading.
Then use the 「Origin of Power」 ability to devour and absorb these maxed-out 「Supreme Passives」, thereby enhancing his own strength. During a strength bottleneck period, this was a quite cost-effective way to improve.
【Scepter of Life·Midi】 was not equipment Su Xiao needed. Selling it would probably fetch over 9000 ounces of Space-Time Power. When it came to buying Reincarnation Rank equipment, Supreme Rank contractors were still willing to spend Space-Time Power. One of the important reasons they saved Space-Time Power was to buy Reincarnation Rank equipment. However, the compatibility of 【Scepter of Life·Midi】 was too poor. For all equipment requirements that included needing 「recognition」 for Reincarnation Rank equipment, the price could be discounted to 30%, and often to 10%. Except for the first owner, such equipment rarely recognized others. Therefore, the final fate of 【Scepter of Life·Midi】 was to be smelted. 9000 ounces of Space-Time Power was basically its material value. If the equipment requirements didn't have the two words 「recognition」 for obtaining this equipment, this Reincarnation Rank equipment would be worth at least 90,000 ounces of Space-Time Power. If encountering a suitable buyer, it would start at 110,000+.
Next, Su Xiao had to mobilize all the resources he could currently mobilize. He opened the task list and completed the 「Abyss Task·Granting of Death」 which had full task completion. This was the harvest from the Abyss journey.
[You have chosen to submit the Abyss Task·Granting of Death.]
[Current task completion: 300% (single-time limit).]
[Because the task completion is at the single-time limit, you can choose three types of rewards from the following task rewards.]