Su Xiao’s eyes suddenly sharpened; Red Eye definitely ca through here.
After carefully examining the nearby walls and finding no signs of damage, Su Xiao used the hilt of Dragon Slash to lightly tap the floor.
Thump, thump, thump.
There was an empty space beneath the floor; judging by the sound, it was not small.
With a swift backward grip, Su Xiao thrust Dragon Slash downward, and then, not stopping there, he pulled it out and stabbed several more tis.
Pulling out Dragon Slash, he didn’t find any blood on the blade tip. Su Xiao then stomped fiercely on the floor.
With a cracking sound, the floor was stomped through into a pitch-black hole.
Taking out a high-powered flashlight to shine down, Su Xiao discovered it was a tunnel, clearly the secret passage through which Red Eye had escaped.
"Could the guards of the Imperial Capital be any dumber? It’s about to beco the headquarters of the Night Raid Team."
Su Xiao cursed under his breath; this was the second ti Red Eye had escaped into such a tunnel, showing how incompetent the imperial guards were, as a tunnel had been dug out under the headquarters without a trace.
Enlarging the hole, Su Xiao flipped himself into the tunnel.
A musty sll erged, and Su Xiao shone the flashlight ahead, revealing only one path through the underground passage.
The tunnel was not too deep, roughly five or six ters underground. From the state of disrepair, it appeared to have been there for so years, likely discovered by the Night Raid Team by chance.
The entire passage sowhat resembled a mining route, with wooden planks supporting the soil above and on both sides; occasionally, so tal frawork could be seen. Without these tal fras to support the passage, it might have long since collapsed, making it seem as if the entire tunnel might cave in at any mont, requiring so courage to delve deeper.
Though it appeared dilapidated, the chanical principles within the tunnel were perfect. Despite the wooden planks being mostly rotten, the tunnel would not collapse in the short term. Confird its relative sturdiness, he proceeded cautiously.
This pursuit of Red Eye wasn’t without rits, as he inadvertently developed a new ability.
After Blue Steel Shadow’s energy invades the enemy’s body, he can sense the enemy’s position within a certain range.
Blue Steel Shadow’s energy acts like a coordinate, and he is the only one who can sense it.
This ability is excellent for hunting; once injured by him, the enemy cannot escape easily in the short term.
This ti, Red Eye’s long escape was purely because Su Xiao was unfamiliar with the imperial capital’s layout.
After traveling through the underground passage for a while, Su Xiao found a pool of blood on the ground. Nearby was a piece of inner clothing with a tear on the left side, left by Red Eye.
Hastily progressing through the tunnel, after about ten minutes, Su Xiao encountered a fork in the road.
With no further clues, he had to choose one of the two directions; choose correctly and he could catch up with Red Eye, choose wrong and it would be a missed opportunity.
People tend to instinctively choose the right path when faced with a fork, and this is not unfounded.
Most people write with their right hand, often raise their right hand first for various tasks, and Su Xiao wields his blade with his right hand. Over ti, people habitually choose the right.
Since it was a gamble anyway, he chose the right path.
After half an hour down the chosen path, Su Xiao realized it was a dead end.
It was not Su Xiao’s inference that was incorrect, but Red Eye’s familiarity with the underground passage, having known earlier that the right was a dead end.
Facing a mound ford by a collapsed soil layer, Su Xiao could only turn around. Just as he turned, he vaguely glimpsed a tallic sheen atop the collapsed soil.
Attempting a Dragon Slash thrust in that direction, a crisp ’ding’ echoed; how could there be a tal door in this abandoned passage?
Su Xiao had been in this fork for half an hour; even at full speed, returning would take more than ten minutes, and Red Eye would be long gone by then.
Instead, the tal door piqued Su Xiao’s curiosity, not rely curiosity, but the prospect of valuable items possibly hidden within the derivative world; so contractors even compiled such locations into a dossier, selling it for 15,000 Paradise coins, known as Secret Realm Compendium.
Retrieving a white-quality shield from storage space, Su Xiao used it as a shovel to dig out the soil.
This shield was obtained in the Giant world, rated only 3, and was in a damaged state, with repair costs high enough to buy a new one. It was the kind of item neither useful nor worthless.
A few minutes later, Su Xiao cleared the soil before the tal door, revealing a door full of red rust.
At the center was a barely discernible emblem, the Empire’s flag.
To open this rusted tal door seed to require brute force. Gripping his blade with both hands, Su Xiao took a deep breath and struck decisively.
Clang.
A trendous reaction force ca through, numbing Su Xiao’s hands, yet the tal door only bore a niche two centiters deep.
Considering Dragon Slash’s current sharpness, cutting through tal like mud wouldn’t be an exaggeration, but it didn’t achieve much on the tal door. It seed he would need to exert considerable effort to cut it open.
This did not dissuade Su Xiao; instead, it excited him. What did such a secure door indicate? Of course, a treasure within.
Killing Red Eye would result in obtaining a treasure chest, but whether it contained sothing good depended on luck, and his luck wasn’t great.
However, exploring this type of secret realm was different, as the value of items within was fixed and not based on luck, just like the small secret realm he found in the Pirate World where he acquired Dragon Slash.
There are many examples like this, such as the vertical shaft in the underground Central City in the 24th District of the Ghoul World, which belongs to a dium-sized secret realm, and the basent of Eren’s house in the Giant World, which is also a small secret realm.
Of course, the term secret realm was coined by Contractors, calling these places treasure rooms would also work, but the term secret realm is more widely spread.
Ding, ding, ding...
Su Xiao began to struggle with the tal door. Dragon Slash is unusually sturdy now, and this level of hacking wouldn’t damage its durability.
An hour later, Su Xiao, dripping with sweat, leaned against the wall of the underground passageway, gulping water. Today’s experiences could truly be called a fantasy.
He had shifted from hunting enemies to treasure seeking so quickly, it was astounding.
Finally, through his persistence, a hole was hacked into the tal door, just big enough for a person to enter.
A strong flashlight beam illuminated the inside, revealing a long corridor. The corridor was also of timber structure, with wooden planks supporting the surrounding soil.
Su Xiao crawled through the hole in the tal door. Unlike the turbid air in the tunnel, the air inside was much fresher, indicating there might be vents, allowing for prolonged habitation.
After entering the tal door, Su Xiao’s steps beca extrely cautious as he began exploring the corridor step by step.
At the end of the corridor was another door, but this ti it was a wooden door, which Su Xiao kicked open directly.
Bam.
Wood splinters flew as the wooden door shattered, revealing a small room in sight.
Click, click.
The sound of chanisms echoed, and a cloud of ghastly green smoke spewed from the room.
[Warning: Hunter is being eroded by ’Caniat Poison Gas’, suffering 5 points of true damage per second.]
A stinging pain emanated from all over his skin, accompanied by a burning sensation in his eyes.
Su Xiao quickly took a few steps back, retreating out of the gas’s range.
With the strong flashlight shining into the room, Su Xiao saw a tal laboratory table laden with nurous apparatus like test tubes. In front of the table was a skeleton.
On the laboratory table, besides a large number of experintal devices, there was also an item resembling parchnt at the center.
The parchnt was roughly half a ter in size, with a lavish purple shimr occasionally flickering across its surface.
Taking a deep breath, Su Xiao rushed into the laboratory. The mont he stepped in, his life value began to drain rapidly like running water, and he would be dead in at most thirty seconds.
After dashing into the room, he grabbed the parchnt without a second look and turned to dash out of the room.
As the stinging pain surged throughout his body, Su Xiao took out the healing item "Vitality Spring" and drank it in one go, only then did the stinging subside.
"Hoo~, hoo~."
Tightly clutching the soft parchnt, Su Xiao was gasping heavily.
"This ti...I seem to have struck it rich."
Seeing the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise, a look of joy spread across Su Xiao’s face.
[You have obtained the (Imperial Implent Transformation Blueprint).]
Imperial Implent Transformation Blueprint
Origin: Slash-Red Pupil
Quality: Purple
Category: Blueprint
Required for Synthesis:
1. Main Material: One Biological Imperial Implent Spirit Essence of a Super Dangerous Species.
2. Secondary Material: Any Item-type Imperial Implent, five pieces.
Tip: The compatibility of the ’Biological Imperial Implent’ and ’Spirit Essence of Dangerous Species’ for the main material must exceed 60%. (For example, a Human-shaped Biological Imperial Implent cannot be synthesized with a Beast-type Spirit Essence.)
Tip: At least five pieces of ’Item-type Imperial Implent’ are required as secondary materials, with up to seven allowed on the blueprint.
Tip: The quantity of ’Item-type Imperial Implent’ as secondary materials will determine the success rate, and the quality of the imperial implent obtained upon success.
Rating: 89 (Note: The rating for purple items ranges from 71 to 150; the higher the rating, the more valuable the item.)
Description: This blueprint was crafted by the original artisans of the forging of imperial implents, whose dream was to create the strongest imperial implent.
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