Chapter 6: Primordial Core
Price: 1 Peak Destiny point (non-equivalent exchange, requires careful consideration).
Tip: After completing this exchange, any remaining "Peak Destiny" points will be immediately cleared.
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Compared to the Spider Queen's exchange options, the Night Mother's corresponding Peak Destiny exchanges had two fewer options.
Su Xiao immediately selected [Eternal Night Starlight (Skill Stone)] and [Endless Origin]. After [Eternal Night Starlight], he promptly applied to Reincarnation Paradise for a swap.
[You have obtained: Extreme Realm Grandmaster Power (Skill Stone).]
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With the new "Peak Passive" in hand, Su Xiao didn't use it immediately. Unlike enhancing his physique or Azure Steel Shadow ability, this was a massive boost to his technique-type abilities. The fastest way to adapt would be to enter the "Land of All Beings: Layer Ten," but currently, he was on Doom Star and couldn't return to Reincarnation Paradise...
Inside Reincarnation Paradise?
Su Xiao was certain that Layers 1 to 8 of the Land of All Beings were located within Reincarnation Paradise. The problem was that "Land of All Beings: Layer Ten" wasn't an upgrade to Reincarnation Paradise's basic facilities.
Essentially, Layers 1 to 8 were advancements of Reincarnation Paradise's foundational areas, such as the Trial Grounds, Attribute Enhancement Hall, Equipment Enhancement Hall, Skill Upgrade Hall, and Central Trade Square.
However, Layers 9 and 10 were not advancements of these basic facilities. Reincarnation Paradise had clearly indicated that these were "Special High-Tier Facilities."
Back then, the choice of which "Special High-Tier Facility" to develop was made by Su Xiao. The reason was that the resources used to upgrade these facilities were obtained by Su Xiao during the Paradise War, where he helped his side secure victory. Combined with achieving a Reincarnation-level world evaluation, this situation arose.
"Land of All Beings: Layers 9-10" originally belonged to Dawn Paradise as a "Special High-Tier Facility," and its root ownership likely still remained with them.
Just as one Paradise faction cannot completely annihilate another, only force it into dormancy, similarly, one Paradise faction cannot fully absorb another faction's "Special High-Tier Facility." Even if currently held, it must be under the notarization of the Void Tree and cannot be pulled into the Paradise's interior.
If that were possible, then Reincarnation Paradise, having pulled the long-dormant Dawn Paradise into its fold, would eventually annihilate it entirely. Su Xiao hadn't read the complete initial regulations, but he estimated that there might be relevant rules within them.
Considering this, Reincarnation Paradise likely placed "Land of All Beings: Layers 9-10" in a world under its jurisdiction—a small world would suffice—and increased its notarization level to ensure absolute security.
Under such circumstances, normally, entering "Land of All Beings: Layers 9-10" would still be impossible. Since he was currently under the notarization of a mission world, Reincarnation Paradise would not allow a contractor/hunter to activate the stay time for "Land of All Beings: Layers 9-10." Even if he entered, he would be immediately teleported back due to having no stay time.
However, the issue was that Su Xiao didn't need a duration. The original prompt was as follows:
[Land of All Beings (Layer Ten) has been opened to you. You have obtained permanent free usage rights.]
The key wasn't just the "permanent free usage rights" but also the preceding "Land of All Beings (Layer Ten) has been opened to you." This "opening" had no time limit.
With sufficiently accurate coordinates and a sufficiently powerful teleportation, could Su Xiao enter "Land of All Beings: Layer Ten"?
Su Xiao was certain that he was currently no match for the Underworld God, so he had to improve himself. He knew that continuing to enhance "Heavenly Edge Shadow Slash" to Lv.100 or even Lv.120 would inevitably cause a qualitative change. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough "Primordial Cores" or "Primordial Source Matter" on hand.
Among these two resources, "Primordial Cores" were guaranteed to drop only from Reincarnation-level chests with exclusive suffixes; everything else was purely random. Coupled with the scarcity of both resources, obtaining them was even more difficult.
In contrast, the steadily obtainable Space-Time Power was clearly a more stable method of improvement. Moreover, a Technique Grandmaster cultivated body, mind, and technique.
The body nurtures the inner mind, and the mind blossoms into technique.
Vigorously enhancing his physique, even if it meant reaching the Supreme Realm later, would not be a loss.
On this matter, Su Xiao had explicitly consulted the Tuanzhang. The stronger one becomes, the simpler and purer their ability system tends to be. The Tuanzhang's original words were that at the peak realm, there were actually two methods of improvement.