Chapter 1616: Old Scores and New World

Early the next morning, in Xia’s restaurant.

Su Xiao chewed his food, while Xia across the table yawned repeatedly.

“Ah~ life, huh?”

Xia sighed, her face full of dejection.

“What’s up?”

Su Xiao put down his chopsticks; usually, Xia wouldn’t sigh like this.

“I made an enemy with someone.”

“Hmm?”

Su Xiao looked at Xia with puzzlement, unable to imagine who Xia could have a feud with.

“Do you remember the red-eyed boy you sent to help me?”

Xia’s expression turned serious.

“Black Blood?”

“Yes, him. I seem to have made an enemy of him.”

“…”

Su Xiao looked at Xia in amazement, not understanding why she would have a conflict with Black Blood.

“After he helped me deal with the enemy, he left the grassland with a few people escorting. I don’t know what I did wrong, but he just kept staring at me. It scared me so much I almost peed my pants. Before leaving, he said, ‘What would happen if I killed you?’ Isn’t that a feud? Why does he want to kill me? I’m innocent; I barely even dare look at him.”

The more Xia spoke, the more aggrieved she felt. She couldn’t understand why Black Blood’s attitude changed so drastically.

“That’s all it is?”

“It’s not trivial at all. I feel like my life is in danger. That boy could chew someone up alive, with crunching sounds…”

As Xia mentioned this, she remembered Su Xiao was still eating breakfast and realized it was not the best topic.

“No problem. Black Blood is a bit mentally unstable. In professional terms, he has antisocial personality disorder plus a mental disorder.”

“So basically, he’s a psycho?”

“You could say that.”

Xia was momentarily speechless. Su Xiao had just finished breakfast, settled the bill, and left. The time he had to stay in Reincarnation Paradise was running out, and he only had 114,280 Paradise coins left. As for the one million Paradise coins, he spent it all to upgrade Goddess’s Affection ability.

[Goddess’s Affection: LV.50 (Passive Skill)]

Skill Effect: Permanent +6 Luck Attribute (increased by 2 points).

Note: For every 10 levels this ability upgrades, an additional 1 point of Luck Attribute increases.

…

The higher the level of Goddess’s Affection, the more costly the upgrade. At Lv.50, each level up costs 70,000 Paradise coins.

Su Xiao now had two options: One was to go to the arena and try to break into the top ten, but for specific reasons, he couldn’t rank too high in the arena, at least not in the short term.

Unable to compete in the arena, Su Xiao could only go train his close combat skills with Sha. Due to Sha’s immense strength, and since it was to hone his close combat skills, Su Xiao couldn’t use a knife. The outcome was predictable.

Although he got beat up rather badly in the trial field by Sha, Su Xiao’s close combat ability skyrocketed. What he lacked wasn’t experience but technique and insight, both of which could be mastered fairly quickly.

“Your balance is too far back, it should be like this.”

In the dojo of the trial field, a sonic boom was followed by a thunderous roar.

“This is how a side kick should be…”

Before Sha could finish speaking, she was clutching her abdomen single-handedly, her face instantly turning pale.

“Those brats with wooden sticks throwing fireballs!”

Cold sweat dripped from Sha’s chin, and the black scar on her side flickered, accelerating the erosion of her life energy.

“I have a way to help you remove this.”

Su Xiao spat out bloodied saliva and smiled gently, a smile Sha had never seen from him before.

“Then you better… help.”

By now, Sha was half-crouched on the ground.

“If I completely remove this for you, you would only die faster.”

Su Xiao’s finger touched the black scar, blue steel shadow energy surged, annihilating the energy within the scar. After most was annihilated, Su Xiao retracted the blue steel shadow energy.

“Huh~ How do you do that? Oh right, you’re an Annihilator.”

Sha clearly felt much more relieved. Su Xiao was right before; if an Annihilator helped her remove the energy inside the scar, she would die faster and more miserably.

“Continue.”

Sha attacked Su Xiao. In a blink, the two clashed, and ten seconds later, Su Xiao was kicked flying.

Time flew by in the grinding of close combat skills. When Su Xiao received a notification from Reincarnation Paradise, he was so exhausted he could only sit on the ground.

“That was quite a workout.”

Sha, bare-chested, put on a shirt. Su Xiao suspected she simply didn’t care about gender differences, or perhaps that was just how Sha was.

“Don’t forget about that matter. If you get a chance to enter the Void, notify me in advance.”

Sha teleported away, and Su Xiao didn’t have much time left until he returned to the real world.

…

On the second floor of the accessory store, after three bangs, Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and A Mu were teleported inside.

Su Xiao exchanged a glance with Bubu Wang and then both looked at A Mu.

A Mu’s appearance had changed dramatically. Its horns were disguised, and in the eyes of others, A Mu was just an extremely strong robust man, one look at whom made people not want to mess with him.

A Mu curiously surveyed its surroundings. Having never been to the real world, everything was new to it.

Clearly, after A Mu was promoted to an affiliated follower, it could enter the real world. Fortunately, its appearance would not arouse suspicion, and Reincarnation Paradise would not allow such situations to happen.

“Bubu, tell A Mu what to watch out for in the real world.”

Su Xiao changed his clothes out of leisure. He intended to go fishing by the nearby river.

Seated in front of A Mu, Bubu Wang began explaining what to be cautious about in the real world, like not randomly eating anything.

After advancing to the fourth-tier Contractor, Su Xiao actually stopped caring much about hiding his identity in the real world. He had always adhered to the principle of ‘If people don’t attack me, I don’t attack them.’ In the task-free real world, Su Xiao had few enemies, or rather, those who could truly threaten him wouldn’t be thwarted by his deliberate concealment. The Janitor Organization’s internal evaluation of him was amusing: danger level extremely dangerous, threat level moderate to low.

Life in the real world is particularly peaceful, allowing Su Xiao’s spirit to gradually relax, because in the next Derivative World, he would be killing many enemies.

Once Su Xiao was fully prepared, the notice from Reincarnation Paradise arrived, announcing he was about to enter a new Derivative World.

[The new Derivative World is about to open. The Hunter will return to Reincarnation Paradise; ensure no witnesses are present.]

[Teleporting…teleportation complete.]

In his exclusive room, Su Xiao sat up. He would enter the new Derivative World in an hour, and upon checking his storage space, he found enough healing items. He had previously spent 100,000 Paradise coins to create 10 bottles of Ancient Secret Medicine.

Su Xiao dialed a remote call to someone, waiting for their response.

Ten minutes, thirty minutes.

“Hurry, now’s the time.”

A strange male voice came from the communication device; simultaneously, Su Xiao crushed the pen in his hand. This was the World Key, and he was about to settle an old score with the Blood Gate.