Chapter 19: The Periphery of Liudong Temple
A scroll appeared in Su Xiao's hand, shimmering with a pale golden light.
[Sealing Scroll: Love's Black Mole]
Quality: Pale Gold
Type: Sealing Scroll (Internally sealed with Love's Black Mole).
Effect: After using this scroll, a "Love's Black Mole" will appear below the eye position, and this sealing scroll will be damaged.
Love's Black Mole (Passive Skill): After use, Luck Attribute will be permanently fixed between -1 and 1 points. When negotiating with females, Charm Attribute +20 points, and the Mind Hunt effect is attached. This effect will perform a Will Attribute check on the female. If the female fails the Will check, she will fall madly in love with you.
Tip: If the hunt fails, the negotiation with the female will be judged based on the Charm Attribute +20 effect.
Rating: 305 points.
Description: An extremely precious sealing scroll, can be opened.
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Su Xiao looked at the scroll in his hand, feeling quite conflicted. Calling this skill garbage, it does have a +20 Charm effect when negotiating with females.
If he encountered a female in a derivative world with high status and weak willpower, the Mind Hunt ability would be a divine skill. For example, in the Hunter world he was previously in, if he could use the Mind Hunt ability to control a female high-ranking official in the V5 department, the benefits would be extremely astonishing.
However, this thing actually reduces the Luck Attribute, which Su Xiao found extremely repulsive.
His luck itself was sometimes good, sometimes bad. After spending a heavy sum to forge Fate Redemption, his Luck Attribute finally reached 2 points.
Now, having him permanently fix his Luck Attribute between -1 and 1 points was absolutely unacceptable. That meant he couldn't use the Lucky King state. So-called permanent fixation meant there was basically no possibility of increasing his luck.
The Luck Attribute is very difficult to increase; this is common knowledge within Reincarnation Paradise. Therefore, all abilities or equipment that reduce the Luck Attribute are defined as trash. Equipment is okay; it can be stored in the storage space when not in use. But skills, especially passive skills, are absolutely unacceptable.
"This damn roulette wheel."
Su Xiao made a move to throw away the scroll in his hand. This kind of pale gold quality, yet actually very trashy ability, left him unsure how to handle it for a moment.
Sell it? Don't be ridiculous. No one would buy it. Even if it could increase Charm Attribute by 20 points, this Charm Attribute isn't a complete Charm Attribute; it only targets females.
Just as Su Xiao was about to put the scroll away, he inadvertently saw the description of this scroll. The description clearly stated, "An extremely precious sealing scroll, can be opened."
Su Xiao raised an eyebrow. This was quite intriguing. Logically, shouldn't the scroll's description be about Love's Black Mole? Why was it describing the scroll itself?
Having nothing better to do, Su Xiao began studying the scroll in his hand. After a long while, his expression showed some surprise.
"So that's how it is!"
A smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. After some research, he discovered that it was the scroll itself that was judged as pale gold quality, not Love's Black Mole. The pale gold was the quality of the scroll itself.
Previously obtained scrolls were all marked as "Skill Scrolls," but this time it was a Sealing Scroll. As for Love's Black Mole, it was just an ability sealed within the scroll.
Su Xiao tried to pry off the black mole pattern at the center of the scroll with his hand, but this crude method clearly didn't work.
Su Xiao continued experimenting: soaking it in water, scraping it with a knife. After trying many methods, Su Xiao found the way to use this scroll: inject mana to open it.
After injecting about 200+ mana points, the sealing scroll emitted light.
[Yes/No to open the sealing scroll. If opened, the sealed ability "Love's Black Mole: Purple" within will dissipate.]
"Open."
The black mole on the sealing scroll gradually dissipated, and the attributes of this sealing scroll also changed.
[Sealing Scroll: None]
Quality: Pale Gold
Type: Sealing Scroll (Internally sealed with no ability).
Effect: Can seal one ability. This ability can be stolen from a corpse that has been dead for no more than 10 minutes. The enemy must be a living being (abilities from energy beings like Heroic Spirits cannot be stolen). The corpse must maintain over 60% integrity.
Tip: The highest level ability that can be sealed is Dark Purple rank.
Tip: Sealing an ability requires consuming 800 Mana Points + Soul Crystal (Medium) x 3 + 10,000 Paradise Coins.
Rating: 280 points.
Description: An extremely precious sealing scroll, already opened.
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This time, Su Xiao couldn't bear to throw away this scroll. This was a chance to freely seize an enemy's skill. After killing an enemy in battle, he could use this scroll to steal an ability from the enemy's corpse.
Although there were many restrictions, and after learning the ability sealed within the scroll, the scroll would be damaged and become invalid, this didn't diminish the scroll's value.
Su Xiao made a decision in his heart: from now on, when checking item information, he must carefully examine everything. He had almost missed this pale gold quality scroll. Today's incident was a lesson: when looking at things, one cannot only look at the surface.
Su Xiao contentedly put away the scroll. He would need to be cautious when stealing an enemy's skill, as the cost was not small.
After putting the scroll away, having nothing else to do, Su Xiao looked at Matou Sakura. Although they hadn't spent much time together, this little girl's mental state had changed considerably. Though she wasn't exactly innocent and carefree now, she was much better than her previous puppet-like state. Bubu Wang's Charm Attribute could only be described as overwhelmingly powerful.
Being stared at by Su Xiao, Matou Sakura was clearly a bit scared, timidly shrinking closer to Bubu Wang.
"Do... do you want some? I'll give it to you, no bugs."
Matou Sakura offered the yogurt again. At this point, there were already three empty yogurt bottles at her feet.
"No, thanks."
Su Xiao took out a special set of tarot cards from his storage space. This thing was used to test psychological states. He had studied psychology for a while, though he wasn't exactly proficient.
He spread several special tarot cards flat in front of Matou Sakura. The cards were: Death, Witch, Cat, Horse, Chocolate.
"Pick one."
Matou Sakura, with the straw in her mouth, unhesitatingly pointed her little finger at the Cat.
Su Xiao put away the tarot cards and drew new ones. After Matou Sakura made six choices, Su Xiao roughly judged her psychological state. Whether it was accurate or not was unclear, as his psychology was only basic.
Based on the current situation, Matou Sakura was in the early recovery stage of "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." She now liked to follow others' commands in everything she did, meaning her self-awareness was weak.
Having determined this, Su Xiao put away the tarot cards. Matou Sakura's mental state was good now, at least there was no sign of resistance. Once Matou Kariya died, Matou Sakura could immediately replace him, allowing Su Xiao to continue staying in this derivative world.
However, Matou Kariya had extremely strong survivability. Although he had taken a spear from Diarmuid to the chest just two hours ago, his injuries had mostly healed.
After staying in the abandoned warehouse for a few hours, at exactly 12:00 AM that night, Su Xiao led Bubu Wang out of the warehouse, followed by Matou Kariya and Matou Sakura.
They headed straight for the outskirts of Fuyuki City, specifically the original site of Liudong Temple.
Along the way, Su Xiao was very cautious. The Apostle's Eye floated high in the sky, detecting the surrounding half-kilometer.
After confirming no one was following and circling the outskirts a few times, Su Xiao arrived at the original site of Liudong Temple. What came into view was a wasteland. This was his second time here.
As soon as he arrived, something inside his coat heated up—the Ghost Goat Skin.
Taking out the Ghost Goat Skin, this palm-sized piece of sheepskin floated up on its own and began to spontaneously combust.
As the Ghost Goat Skin burned, the surrounding air also began to burn. If one looked closely, they would see that it wasn't the air burning, but a layer of barrier.
When the unknown barrier was burned into a large hole, the Ghost Goat Skin turned to ashes, and the unknown barrier began to slowly heal.
Su Xiao hesitated for a moment before charging into the hole in the unknown barrier. Bubu Wang behind him also rushed in. With Bubu Wang's loyalty, even if Su Xiao jumped into a volcano, it would jump in with him.
Boom~
A roar sounded in his ears. Su Xiao seemed to enter an alternate dimensional space. Looking around, he found himself in a wasteland of waist-high grass. In the distance, a temple was faintly visible—that was Liudong Temple.
[Warning: Hunter has entered the periphery of Liudong Temple!]
[Warning: Hunter has entered the periphery of Liudong Temple!]
[Warning: Hunter has entered the periphery of Liudong Temple!]
Three warnings appeared in succession. The prompt was dark red, as if outlined in blood, giving off an ominous feeling.