Chapter 3: ??? Campaign.

Chapter 3: ??? Campaign.

Prompt: Only the above three situations can raise the brand level to Lv.105 or above.
Prompt: Your additional authority +Lv.3.
Settlement complete, rewards have been deposited into the Hunter's brand.
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Su Xiao activated the recovery function. Seeing this, Baha took out the life-support device storing the left arm, and recovery began. When Su Xiao finished his short rest, this recovery session ended. It was worth noting that because his Reincarnation brand level reached Lv.105, this recovery was free, and for each subsequent world he experienced, he would receive one free recovery. This was a one-time grant upon initial activation of the authority.
A few hours later, Su Xiao opened his eyes and checked a series of world settlements. The amount of information in this world settlement was quite substantial.
First of all, Su Xiao no longer needed to be forcibly teleported into a mission world. Or rather, with his current Supreme Peak strength, entering any world and clashing with that world's powerhouses—if he crushed them, it was fine, but if the fight was evenly matched, it was entirely normal for the world to collapse.
However, this didn't mean he had no channels to obtain resources afterward. Long-term missions were a good choice. Among such missions, some particularly dangerous ones offered rewards no lower than entering a mission world.
But without the Void Tree certifying the entire Void, Su Xiao would not go to the Void. The Supreme Being would not stop others from attaining the Supreme, but Su Xiao was unsure whether the Supreme Being would kill another possessor of the "Extreme Realm · Star Realm."
In Su Xiao's view, this probability was not high. The Supreme Being still had considerable vision. Although this being was too invincible, lonely at the peak, and even beginning to lose humanity, he would not do things like nurturing enemies. He was more like waiting at the peak, which also meant one thing: regarding the Law Destruction faction of the Second Era, the Supreme Being's intervention must have involved a huge secret.
Was it that the First Generation Law Destroyer vaguely threatened the Supreme Being during the First Era? Unlikely. If so, the Supreme Being would not have allowed the Law Destruction faction of the Second Era to sprout. With the Supreme Being's strength, he could have suppressed everything before the Law Destruction faction rose.
What could make the Supreme Being intervene must concern the entire Star Realm. Su Xiao felt he was very close to this secret, only lacking a few clues to know all the secrets.
The Supreme Being was clearly manipulating something, and this must concern the entire Star Realm; otherwise, it wouldn't be worthy of his manipulation.
This matter was not Su Xiao's concern for now. His principle was that after advancing to Supreme Peak, before having the strength to face the Supreme Being directly, unless there was no choice, he would not go to the uncertified Void, betting his life on the enemy's past behavior patterns was quite reckless.
One by one, "Time Crystals" floated in front of Su Xiao. He didn't need this item. Cultivating in the "Extreme Land" could slowly improve Supreme physical attributes. The problem was that as an Extreme system user, Su Xiao didn't need this, which for other contractors was almost the only option, but the efficiency was too low.
After pondering, Su Xiao opened his contact list and began text communication with the Tuanzhang. After a moment, the two started a conversation.
Bai Ye: "[Time Crystal], need it?"
Tuanzhang: "I'm not an Extreme system. If it's free, I need it."
Bai Ye: "Okay."
Tuanzhang: "Text communication, don't be so silent. How many did you get from this settlement?"
Bai Ye: "[Time Crystal x315]."
Tuanzhang: "Huh?"
From Tuanzhang's 'Huh?', it could be seen that this quantity of [Time Crystals] was very valuable. As for giving them to Tuanzhang for free, during this time in Doom Star, Su Xiao had received a lot of behind-the-scenes help from Tuanzhang. After distinguishing kindness from enmity, repaying kindness was a basic principle.
Tuanzhang: "Did you catch a Peak Angel from Apocalypse Paradise?"
The Peak Angel Tuanzhang mentioned was a Battle Angel of Apocalypse Paradise. After advancing to Supreme Peak, they were called Peak Angels.
Bai Ye: "No, obtained from world settlement."
Tuanzhang: "You and the Underworld God destroyed Doom Star and still got rewards... Oh~, a Transcendent Realm has a staggering amount of Space-Time Power. You destroyed Doom Star, which is a Transcendent Realm without an owner. So in the Void Tree's judgment, Reincarnation Paradise is the first certifying and punishing party. After comprehensive judgment, your actions this time will yield rewards. How was it given? World settlement?"
Bai Ye: "Yes, haven't you encountered this?"
Tuanzhang: "Not yet. No contractor has been 'fortunate' enough to destroy a Transcendent Realm that still maintains the 'Transcendent' prefix."
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After chatting for a while, Su Xiao sent the [Time Crystals]. This made Su Xiao look forward to the Supreme Realm even more, because even at the Supreme Realm, one could still improve their physique, which was exactly what Extreme system users wanted to see.
But at the end of the chat, Tuanzhang mentioned something:
Tuanzhang: "Bai Ye, Ross said that the 'Abyss Source Power' in your right arm was blasted out by an elemental impact?"
The Ross Tuanzhang mentioned was the previous Wandering Hunter.
Bai Ye: "Yes."
Tuanzhang: "Good thing. You're an Extreme system; you shouldn't try to absorb 'Abyss Source Power.' By the way, does this source power come from the previous Lord of the Abyss? If so, I can buy it."
Bai Ye: "I'll give it to you."
Tuanzhang: "What do you need lately?"
Bai Ye: "Space-Time Power."
Tuanzhang: "To be honest, I'm short on that too."
Bai Ye: "Primordial Source Matter."
Tuanzhang: "I still have 65 portions of this."
Bai Ye: "Good."
Tuanzhang: "Good what? I need at least 15 portions. I'll send you the remaining 50."
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Not long after, a mail arrived. Opening it, the attachment was fifty portions of "Primordial Source Matter."
The value of this "Previous Lord of the Abyss Source Power" was actually hard to measure. For those who didn't need it, it was not only worthless but also a source of danger.
For those who needed it, the price wasn't this outrageous either. Tuanzhang's meaning was very clear: this thing on Su Xiao was reassuring, but now it wasn't on Su Xiao, and it was likely sold by Su Xiao. Tuanzhang wasn't so reassured, so he simply bartered, providing the resources Su Xiao currently needed, except for Space-Time Power.
Su Xiao now had 1034 "Primordial Cores," fifty portions of "Primordial Source Matter," plus the 138 [Reincarnation Badges] on hand, which could be exchanged for the insufficient "Primordial Source Matter." It seemed that raising the Heavenly Blade Shadow ability to max was within reach. The problem was that he was even more short on Space-Time Power.
[To upgrade Heavenly Blade Shadow, Lv.100, requires consuming 100,000 ounces of Space-Time Power, Primordial Core x10, and one portion of 'Primordial Source Matter.']
Su Xiao continued to check the requirements for upgrading Heavenly Blade Shadow. With his authority, he could see up to Lv.130. From Lv.130 to Lv.145 was the limit level, which could only be unlocked after reaching Lv.130.
From Lv.100 to Lv.110 required 1,000,000 ounces of Space-Time Power. From Lv.110 to Lv.120 required 1,500,000 ounces. From Lv.120 to Lv.130 required 2,000,000 ounces of Space-Time Power, totaling 4,500,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.
This huge sum, unless he could complete a bounty mission like "Completely Eliminate the Mother of Mercy," which Su Xiao could defeat, but completely eliminating her with his current strength and methods was very unlikely. For such beings, killing them and sinking them into the Abyss for ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of years was possible for Su Xiao, but completely eliminating them was another matter at the causal level.
Speaking of which, during the peak competition for the "Heart of the Abyss," the Mother of Mercy had been planning all along. And her ultimate goal was to obtain Doom Star. It could only be said that the plan was completed, but the result had some flaws: Doom Star was destroyed by Su Xiao and the Underworld God.
The Mother of Mercy was very angry. She was angry for a long time. As for coming to seek revenge on Su Xiao, it was still that sentence: Su Xiao could definitely kill the Mother of Mercy, but he couldn't completely eliminate her.
To make a simple analogy, the Mother of Mercy was not a single individual. A group of Mothers of Mercy were all the Mother of Mercy group. Some of them were in the Abyss, some in the Elemental Drifting Lands, and their causes and effects were not connected. So it was impossible to cause a chain death by eliminating their cause and effect, like killing the Platinum Apostle.
For example, Mother of Mercy 1, Mother of Mercy 2, Mother of Mercy 3. Killing 1 would definitely not affect 2 and 3, and 2 would quickly split into 1. And after this situation, 2 and 1 still had no causal connection.
This was why Su Xiao, the Underworld God, and others completely ignored the Mother of Mercy. One individual was hard to kill, let alone a group of individuals, each with separate cause and effect.
Thus, how outrageous the 6,000,000 ounce bounty was became obvious. As for the "Fate Gold Coin" as a "Big Daddy Level · Original Sin Object" with a 1,800,000 ounce bounty, without a doubt, among all the Original Sin Objects Su Xiao had encountered, this was the most harmless-looking but the most troublesome.
The "Fate Gold Coin" didn't even have the ability to directly kill its holder. If the "Scarlet Scepter" was a cold-blooded maniac, the "Sun Mask" was a majestic king, the "Soul Crown" was the king of death and bones, and the "Nether Bone Ring" was the domination of absolute power, then the "Fate Gold Coin" was an omnipresent golden-red liquid.
It had no power, no majesty, but could bring change through slow infiltration.
Su Xiao checked his personal information:
True Charm: -70 points (-25 points)
True Luck Attribute: -10 points (-9 points)
Fortune: -18,000,000 points (-3,000,000 points)
...
Su Xiao's True Charm attribute had been dropping, but never this sharply. Being already negative, a single drop of 25 points set a record. Without a doubt, this was the work of the "Fate Gold Coin."
He took out the "Book of Original Sin," manipulated it to turn to page seven, and under the shocked gazes of Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini, he released most of the seal on this page.
Buzz~
An ancient coin, several times larger than an ordinary coin, appeared. The front had a blurry head portrait, and the back had numbers that occasionally changed.
The "Fate Gold Coin" showed no sign of wanting to erode Su Xiao's fate. The reason was that this Original Sin Object had never experienced a holder with such fortune remaining unharmed. Not only unharmed, but sometimes even able to reverse fortune.
Targeting Su Xiao was, for the "Fate Gold Coin," no different from when the "Collector" as the leader of the "Book of Original Sin" successfully sealed the first Original Sin Object and had its "collecting obsession" supremely satisfied.
To put it more directly, all holders who died from the "Fate Gold Coin" did so because their fortune was too negative, eventually dying from various dangers that seemed coincidental but were actually inevitable.
This was also the process of the "Fate Gold Coin" continuously strengthening. Every time it made a holder's fortune negative to a certain extent without the holder dying, that negative fortune limit became the new lower limit of the "Fate Gold Coin."
When this holder died, the next holder of the "Fate Gold Coin" would soon reach this new lower limit, and then based on this lower limit, create a new lower limit again.
Others died when their fortune was negative by hundreds of thousands or millions. Su Xiao was previously at -12,000,000, which made the "Fate Gold Coin" feel like it had discovered a new continent. And now, its new lower limit was -18,000,000 points of fortune, and it planned to continue like this.
Su Xiao naturally wouldn't allow this. He would later use the "Wisdom Codex" to further improve his Sealcraft and completely seal this Original Sin Object.
This matter wasn't urgent for now. The decline in Charm and Luck attributes caused by the "Fate Gold Coin" had a certain periodicity. Such situations wouldn't occur again for a while. He checked the prompt that had just appeared.
[You have completed the bounty 'Doom.']
[Due to the multiple bounty + bounty correction of the 'Hunt List · Blood Pact,' you will receive a bounty with a total value of 1,000,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.]
[You have obtained Time Stone Fragment x50,000 (This is an equivalent item, can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time for 500,000 ounces of Space-Time Power).]
[You have obtained a Complete and Flawless Time Stone (This item is judged as equivalent to the value of 500,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this assessment).]
...
A "Time Stone" about the size of a fist, radiant and dazzling, appeared in front of Su Xiao. This was his first time seeing this [Complete and Flawless Time Stone]. He used his terminal to take a photo and send it to Tuanzhang, which was done in one smooth motion—both sharing a good item and incidentally asking about the price.
Tuanzhang's reply was that it was a good item, and he would offer 490,000 ounces of Space-Time Power. Very good, the highest value of this item was selling it to Reincarnation Paradise, saving 10,000 in intermediary price difference.
1,000,000 ounces of Space-Time Power were stored in the currency column of his storage space. In the past, this would have been a huge sum, but now, Heavenly Blade Shadow, this ultimate resource devourer, was indeed too resource-intensive.
The subsequent upgrade path was simple: prioritize the Heavenly Blade Shadow ability, max it out, and then unreservedly improve Supreme attributes. From the perspective of combat power conversion rate, Heavenly Blade Shadow above Lv.100 was still stronger, and this ability, after reaching Lv.100, had been faintly hinting at some kind of trait about to emerge, but it was still brewing.
Regarding this, Su Xiao chose to wait patiently. The longer such abilities brewed, the higher the subsequent burst of improvement.
He picked up Beini, who was sleeping on his lap, and placed her in her small nest nearby. Su Xiao stood up and came to the Honor Shop, opened it, and had a clear goal.
[You have paid 105 Reincarnation Badges.]
[You have obtained the Initial Life Spring (Star Realm Curio).]
"Initial Life Spring (Star Realm Curio): After drinking, it will judge from the first passive-type bonus you obtained, up to the moment you drink the 'Initial Life Spring.' During this period, all the miscellaneous passive trait bonuses you have obtained will be fused and absorbed by the related physical traits (i.e., a passive ability that increased body defense by 10 points when mastered at the first rank will be absorbed by the body's physical defense, becoming the initial state defense of the body).
As for some passive bonuses that are no longer compatible with your current physique and ability system, they will be transformed into your 'Source Power,' nourishing your body's various potentials. After completing the above improvements, you will obtain a 'Life Power Leap,' i.e., all Supreme attributes increase by 10% to 15% (depending on the current Supreme attribute strength), and you will gain the 'Power Devour' effect.
Warning: 'Power Devour' will definitely change the characteristics of your 'Law Destruction Talent · Shadow Hunt,' allowing it to obtain ??? power after extreme awakening.
Warning: To bear this power, you need an extremely powerful physique.
Warning: To bear this power, you need an extremely powerful soul.
Warning: To bear this power, you need an extremely powerful will."
This book's latest chapter is at one look.
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The reason Su Xiao hadn't submitted the "Law Destruction Talent Awakening Mission" until now was this.
The [Initial Life Spring] was very important. Its fusion into one, simply put, was to have all the trivial passive bonuses from the past be devoured and absorbed by the body itself, turning scattered into whole. For a Technique Grandmaster like Su Xiao, this was an intangible huge improvement.
What was called an Extreme Grandmaster pursued simplifying complexity. This improvement perfectly matched this point.
As for the powerful physique, will, and soul required by "Power Devour," Su Xiao now possessed all of them. He picked up the uniquely shaped container in front of him with one hand and drank the golden-green semi-fluid liquid inside. As soon as the liquid entered his mouth, it flowed into his abdomen as if alive.
A warm feeling spread throughout his body. This was the "All Supreme Attributes Increase by 10% to 15%" taking effect. About six hours later, Su Xiao's all Supreme attributes became:
Life Core: 29/29.
Supreme Strength: 1150.
Supreme Agility: 1150.
Supreme Stamina: 1150.
Supreme Intelligence: 1150.
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All Supreme attributes increased by 10%. With Su Xiao's current physique, a 10% increase was already very good. Moreover, this was the first time after breaking 1000 attributes that he obtained an "Extreme Passive" improvement.
[Your all Supreme attributes have reached 1100 points. You have obtained 'Extreme Passive · Extreme Grandmaster's Might'!]
[Extreme Grandmaster's Might (Passive): Your blade technique slashing intensity/power is increased by 120% overall based on the current limit (including normal attacks and the power derivation of all blade technique moves).]
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This improvement was an amplified version of "Overlord Power · Blade (Passive)." The problem was that Su Xiao's current combat power was completely different from when he mastered "Overlord Power · Blade (Passive)."
No wonder several previous choices had the following prompts:
"Important Prompt: This choice is extremely important. It will concern your combat style in the later stages of the peak realm. You must choose with the most cautious attitude."
As for this improvement, to make an analogy, suppose the previous comprehensive blade technique slashing power was 100. After a 50% increase, it reached 150. Now it would be at least 2800 to 3000, after all, Extreme Grandmasters became more outrageous as they accumulated, i.e., "Blade Technique Comprehensive Slashing Power 3000 x 120% = 3600," and the final result was 3000 + 3600 equals "Blade Technique Comprehensive Slashing Power 6600."
The Extreme system itself was outrageous, and the Extreme Grandmaster was outrageously outrageous. It made one want to dump all 1,000,000 ounces of Space-Time Power into Supreme attributes, increasing them by another 100-plus points. But this was too unbalanced. An Extreme Grandmaster only had "Extreme Physique," not "Grandmaster Power." In the end, it couldn't be a 1+1=5 type of incremental improvement.
Moreover, after this "Fusion into One" through the [Initial Life Spring], Su Xiao's accumulated trivial passives from the past were either directly absorbed to enhance his Primordial Life Force or fused into his body attributes. This instant refreshing feeling was absolutely wonderful.
Just as Su Xiao was experiencing the wonderful feeling of "Fusion into One," the "Power Devour" trait awakened by the [Initial Life Spring] came. This made his vision go black. Thanks to his astonishing physique, he wasn't sent into dreamland, but after another blackout, he was sent into dreamland.
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Wind Sea Continent, Abyss Moderate Erosion Zone.
This was no longer the Wind Sea Continent of the past. This was now the territory of the Abyss Descendant · Azguk Family, i.e., the Fish Family.
Dark sky, the horizon was a blood-like sunset. Everything on the ground was black-toned. Various floating Abyss creatures swam in the air as if in the sea.
Drip, drip~
Blood dripped from the fingertips of a burly figure, falling into a shallow black puddle. Sitting on a round stone, wearing a tattered black beast-skin cloak, he gradually grinned, but still cursed:
"These damn Spellcasters. Bai Ye ruined their plans, but instead of chasing Bai Ye, they chased me?"
White Bull wiped the blood off his face and grinned. It could only be said that White Bull's escape skills were as good as ever.
Multiple Supreme Spellcasters had besieged White Bull. For others, facing a single same-rank Spellcaster one-on-one would be a sure loss, let alone one against several. And this time, it was led by the peak realm's Raging Sea · Hells. Fortunately, White Bull managed to escape before Raging Sea · Hells arrived and struck.
Even so, Sefeiliya's Lightning Element was very hard to endure. If not for his single-minded escape and, as an underground emperor, being unskilled at fleeing would have long died at the hands of enemies, although he succeeded in escaping, severe injuries were inevitable.
Just then, a faint light lit up on a nearby teleportation array. White Bull's expression tightened, but seeing Lucius and Thais, he inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if these two hadn't come looking for him, he would have ordered his subordinates to hide in various places recently. The unprovoked assassination by Arcane Eternal Star, though baffling, was very deadly.
There were eight people in total. The leader was the Second Boss · Lucius, a man in a dark brown leather jacket with slightly wrinkled trousers, a deep red scarf covering his neck and lower face, and a long dagger with an ivory-white handle inserted into his belt. He had a clean crew cut, and his face and head had many fine scars, the most obvious one running through his left cheek, left eye, and up to the top of his head.
Further back was a bare-chested, sturdy, and fierce-looking man. This was the Third Boss under White Bull · Thais. Then the Fourth Boss, the Fifth was Pineapple Head wearing a mask, and the Sixth was a ponytailed one-eyed female powerhouse.
"Boss, why did Arcane Eternal Star make a move? I probed around when I came; none of our men provoked them."
Second Boss · Lucius spoke with a somewhat hoarse voice, his gaze calm and cold, clearly a ruthless person.
"The Spellcasters suddenly went mad. Thais, you go back to our lair later."
White Bull spoke, but he didn't order the Second Boss, instead the Third Boss · Thais. This wasn't strange. Compared to the Second Boss, who vaguely had ability and rebellious intentions, Thais, though slightly less capable, was more loyal.
Thais nodded, came to White Bull's side, helped the boss take off his cloak, took bandages from the Fifth, and began to bandage White Bull. Only he, the most trusted, could treat White Bull this closely.
"Lucius, our trouble this time is not small, but..."
White Bull spoke up to this point.
Pfft!
A sharp knife suddenly stabbed through White Bull's back from behind, hitting his heart. This weapon, imbued with causal power, numbed White Bull's body for an instant.
Pfft!
The long dagger with an ivory-white handle stabbed into White Bull's throat. Second Boss · Lucius gritted his teeth and forcefully twisted and rotated the dagger to a certain extent, causing blood to gush from the wound and White Bull's mouth and nose.
Pfft, pfft, pfft!
One by one, daggers or short knives stabbed into various parts of White Bull's body. The power he was about to burst out began to extinguish. Being besieged by multiple Supremes, escaping here was already the last gasp. All kinds of life-saving methods had been used. Moreover, being besieged by Spellcasters, if he held back, he wouldn't even have a chance to escape, let alone the fact that Third Boss · Thais's weapon, imbued with elemental causal power, was indeed too deadly.
In a state of last gasp, being backstabbed by a trusted confidant with such a weapon, followed immediately by Second Boss · Lucius's dagger opening his throat, and then multiple trusted confidants swarming in, even for White Bull, who was experienced in being hunted, he could only grab Second Boss · Lucius's leather jacket collar with one hand. His face was bulging with veins, and his eyes were wide open.
"Thais..."
Hearing White Bull's words, Thais was ready for the ensuing curses. His lips trembled, not because his family was threatened or anything.
When the enemy first threatened him to do this, they killed his family one by one in front of him. If he didn't comply, the brothers loyal to him would die even more miserably. And the root cause of all this was indeed that the person he followed had been greedy, coveting what shouldn't be coveted.
But these were only triggers. The most critical reason was that after Thais held this backstabbing weapon, ranked third in the entire Star Realm, named "Betrayal," everything was doomed.
"Run, quickly."
"Wha, what?"
Thais was stunned. He looked at the short knife named "Betrayal" in his hand and was dumbfounded for a moment. In fact, because of this, after backstabbing White Bull, "Betrayal" shed all its disguises. White Bull immediately recognized the weapon's aura. The causal characteristics of this weapon were too iconic, which was why he told Thais to run.
Pfft!
A knife opened the throat. Second Boss · Lucius didn't hesitate at all. And the weapon he held was only slightly inferior to "Spite." Or rather, the currently unawakened "Spite" had less killing power than this "Throat Opener."
Thais covered his spurting throat and fell with a thud. By this time, White Bull had lost his strength, couldn't hold Second Boss · Lucius's collar, and collapsed to the ground.
"Remember what I once said?"
Second Boss · Lucius spoke in a deep voice. White Bull, whose pupils were beginning to dim, suddenly recalled what the other meant.
Many years ago, Void · Mammon Mord Fortress · Main City · Back District.
Chaos was the main theme here. The Demon Clan controlling this place clearly didn't intend to interfere, because this was an excellent place for the Demon Clan to fence stolen goods. One afternoon, White Bull, still a small-time boss, went alone to a rival gang's territory.
After a fierce battle, blood-stained White Bull sat on the steps by the street, looking at the bruised and swollen Lucius on the opposite bench. He said:
"How about recognizing me as your boss from now on? What do you think? That fat pig has already stopped breathing."
White Bull pointed to Lucius's original boss, a giant weighing at least 500 kilograms whose neck he had broken. It was worth noting that White Bull was about three meters tall back then.
Lucius didn't speak. Seeing this, White Bull said, "Then I'll take that as a yes."
With that, White Bull stood up, supporting himself on his knees, and spat out a bloody phlegm.
Lucius spoke up: "If one day you lead me to death, I'll kill you and take your place."
"Oh? Hahaha, alright, let's see if you have the ability."
With that, White Bull's big hand pressed on Lucius's shoulder. Lucius frowned, somewhat disgusted by the other's enthusiasm, but didn't directly refuse the other's face.
And so, the two walked forward, with more and more subordinates on both sides. White Bull's height gradually increased, and his boldness turned into steady brutality, while Lucius became more mature and sinister.
The more people around them, the more their expressions became like that. The two kept moving forward, experiencing huge turning points. The one that made them leap to become a third-rate force in the Void was when they instigated the trusted confidants around their old boss, surrounded and stabbed the old boss to death at the main seat of his home's dining room, and then left no survivors among his family.
Rain pattered down, falling on White Bull's lifeless, ashen face. Second Boss · Lucius flipped the dagger in his hand, and with the help of the others, cut open White Bull's chest, slit his heart, and took out an activated "Elemental Magic Core" from inside.
Seeing this thing, Second Boss · Lucius inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. He took out a communicator, dialed, and said, "Mr. Hells."
The person Second Boss · Lucius contacted was none other than Arcane Eternal Star's peak powerhouse, Raging Sea · Hells.
"Speak."
Raging Sea · Hells spoke, causing Second Boss · Lucius to slowly exhale and say:
"The 'Elemental Magic Core' has been found, inside White Bull's heart."
"Is that so? Are there any cracks on it? Any signs of dimming or decay?"
"No, it seems to have been... activated? It has already begun to nourish White Bull's power."
"Oh? An activation that beats like a heart?"
"Yes."
Receiving this clear confirmation from Second Boss · Lucius, Raging Sea · Hells on the other end smiled, very satisfied. Clearly, he was confirming whether White Bull intended to use the "Elemental Magic Core" for himself or sacrifice it to open and obtain something. The answer being the former made Raging Sea · Hells so satisfied.
From the moment White Bull obtained the "Elemental Magic Core," the terrifying elemental causal volume made it impossible to use divination or prophecy to discern what White Bull had done, unless a certain strongest diviner in the Star Realm was still alive. And that strongest diviner had died in the Realm of Gods.
"Bring that 'Elemental Magic Core' back. After that, we and the Merchant Alliance will support you in replacing White Bull."
After saying this, Raging Sea · Hells hung up the communication.
Second Boss · Lucius looked at the "Elemental Magic Core" in his hand, then at White Bull, who had fallen into the mud and was dead.
"Is this your end?"
Second Boss · Lucius sheathed the "Throat Opener" in his hand.
Suddenly, the dead White Bull, lying in the mud, twitched the fingers of his ashen but thick right hand.
Boom!!!
A large hand fiercely grabbed Second Boss · Lucius's throat. A wave of air spread. Lucius was lifted by the throat, his feet three meters off the ground. His throat was completely crushed. A surge of violent physical power surged within him, preventing him from even drawing the "Throat Opener" again. As for the others, their bodies were shattered and scattered everywhere.
White Bull's face was still ashen, but in his eyes, golden-red pupils had appeared. This was his "Peak Ten Thousand Beasts Power" from when he climbed to the peak realm in the past. This was also his not-quite-trump-card trump card, because using this meant he was already dead. Even if he stood up again, he would only last a short while before dying.
Regardless, White Bull had once climbed to the Supreme Peak. Even if he had continuously declined since then, he had still taken that step. Over the years, major forces dared not attack his organization because they were worried whether he could briefly return to the peak at the cost of his life. The answer was no.
But if White Bull died, the out-of-control "Peak Ten Thousand Beasts Power" would definitely erupt.
Just like now. It wasn't that White Bull had regained his strength; it was that the "Peak Ten Thousand Beasts Power" had completely lost control. This power, which even rebelled against its master, showed its ferocity. When White Bull was alive, it wouldn't erupt like this. The power did rebel against its master, but not to such an extent. But once White Bull died, this power, which had been nurtured to the peak realm, immediately erupted.
Slap!
Second Boss · Lucius exploded. The "Elemental Magic Core" flew up, and on its way down, White Bull caught it with one hand. He threw it into his mouth, crunched it, swallowed it, and temporarily had a source for the "Peak Ten Thousand Beasts Power," which was about to decline but gradually stabilized.
Three days. White Bull probably had about three days. He raised his hand, looking at his right hand, which, though not ashen, had cracks. His cause and effect had been shattered. In three days, he would definitely die, beyond anyone's help.
Confirming this, White Bull, standing in the pouring rain, instead felt relieved. His old friend's daughter had been sent to the Ten Thousand Races Realm, which was Bai Ye's territory. The Spellcasters dared not set foot there. His closest sister had died. His most trusted subordinates, whom he regarded as family, had also died. Now, he had lost everything, with nothing to tie him down. So the ones who should be worried were those who had made him lose all this.
The Abyss Calamity was approaching, making all major forces in the Void tense their nerves. But the Void was already turbulent, ready to ignite at a spark. And now, White Bull was like a powder keg. The situation in the Void would be detonated by him, meaning the chaotic war in the Void was about to begin.