Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

"No, it shouldn't be that thing. There are too many stars in the star sea."

Shaking his head, Xu Yue dismissed the images in his memory. The golden stars in the sea of ​​​​stars could not be the coordinates of the universe that suddenly appeared at the auction. There were too many and they did not match up at all.

Judging from the system's ability to be instantly killed by Paradise in just one encounter, it was hard for him to imagine that thing could have so many cosmic coordinates.

But even if these stars are not cosmic coordinates, they must be related to the system that took him through.

Withdrawing his raised head, Xu Yue had no intention of spending any more energy on guessing the origin of the sea of ​​stars above his head.

Anyway, no matter what it is, as his attributes steadily improve, he will know it one day.

After drinking the last sip of tea in the cup, his figure disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, the surrounding environment had turned into an extremely huge octagonal arena.

In fact, given its current size, it is no longer appropriate to call it a ring. It is more like an octagonal square.

As the bottom layer of the spiritual space, the area of ​​the octagonal arena corresponds to the floating island above. When the floating island becomes the size of a manor, the arena also expands into a wide square.

Xu Yue stood in the center of the square and looked around. He saw eight huge pillars standing on all sides. Between the pillars, there were black mesh walls made of fine iron wires.

Outside the net wall, except for the translucent spiritual barrier, is the endless boiling purple sea of ​​fire. Because the square is located at a low position, looking towards the sea of ​​​​fire from here, you can clearly see the constant swaying in the sea of ​​​​fire. The swinging flames.

Compared to the floating island above, this place seemed much more eerie and terrifying. The cold steel wire mesh border and the boiling sea of ​​fire so close away highlighted the gloomy and depressing atmosphere.

Unlike the floating island where you can see the golden sea of ​​stars when you look up, when you look up in the Octagon Square, all you can see are the sharp and ferocious stone thorns, which are the bottom of the floating island.

The floating island blocks all the starlight in the Star Sea, and the only source of light here is the purple flames outside.

"Heh, it feels a bit like purgatory."

After surveying the surrounding environment, Xu Yue chuckled, and then pulled out a black battle flag from the void.

The battle flag has a white bone as its pole and a black sail as its face. The image of the Taotie on the flag is lifelike, and its long and narrow red eyes are wide open, full of ferocity.

Throwing the Taotie war flag in his hand, Xu Yue randomly chose a direction and threw it toward a pillar.

The battle flag was tied on the pillar directly in front of him and slowly penetrated into it. After a moment, the entire pillar began to emit a hazy blood light. A relief sculpture of a strange beast appeared on the pillar, with its sharp claws reaching down, choosing people. Phagocytic shape.

After looking at the greatly changed shape of the pillar with satisfaction, Xu Yue said:

"Keep an eye on this place. If any spiritual body enters, kill them immediately."

"You can take 20% of the spiritual power generated after killing the enemy."

"Roar!"

A soft roar came from the relief, and then became silent again. The glutton's mind had long been wiped away.

And after the last battle with the black dragon, it consumed too much spiritual power, so Xu Yue placed it here.

On the one hand, it can solve the accumulated mental body, so that you don't have to go to the spiritual space every time after lighting the firewood; on the other hand, it can also make Taotie continue to grow and become stronger through absorption.

After arranging everything, Xu Yue's figure dissipated and left the spiritual space, leaving only the empty octagonal square and the relief sculpture of the Taotie with red eyes on the pillar.

………

Outside, Xu Yue, who was sitting cross-legged on a soft cushion, opened his eyes.

After standing up and stretching his legs, which were a bit stiff from sitting cross-legged for too long, he looked at the clock on the wall.

Then he opened the door and walked out of the house. After passing through an elegant courtyard, he came to a weapons shop with simple decoration and many weapons placed around it.

After glancing at the neat and complete weapon racks to make sure there were no gaps, Xu Yue slowly walked to the front door of the shop, unbolted the door, and opened the closed front door.

As the door opened, bright sunlight rushed in. The golden sunlight passed through his strong arms and poured into the lobby behind him. The swords reflected cold light under the light.

Outside the door, there is an antique long street, along which there are all kinds of shops like his, but what he sells is weapons and crafts, while the other shops sell antiques, calligraphy, porcelain, root carvings and the like.

"Xiao Xu, your store opening time is getting later and later."

Next to the shop, an old man in a black coat was sitting leisurely on a rocking chair, holding a small vermilion teapot in his hand, basking in the sun while watching the scattered flow of people on the street.

After noticing that the shop next to him had finally opened, he turned his head and looked over, and couldn't help but joke.

Xu Yue smiled and responded softly.

"There's not much business anyway, so I just took a nap for a while. Mr. An is busy, and I have to clean up the shop."

"Go, go, come and have tea with me when you're free."

After exchanging a few words, the old man waved his hands and continued to bask in the sun.

Xu Yue opened the door completely, placed the latch, then turned and walked towards the counter in the store.

Sitting on the mahogany armchair at the counter, he turned on the computer in front of him, clicked on the interface of a video website, and started today's supplementary work. This was his leisure life back in the real world.

I practice skills in the spiritual space at night, and during the day I open a shop, make up for it, and sell it out. Sometimes when I get bored, I go to the forge in the back to blacksmith, or I go to drink tea and play chess with Mr. An next to me.

This kind of life gave him the illusion of returning to his hometown. In the past, he had a small shop in his hometown, and his lifestyle was the same as now. This is why he bought this shop as soon as he returned from abroad. .

Although the shop is located on an antique street, there is really not much traffic, because the prices of all the items in this street are surprisingly expensive, and most of the people who open the shops here are elderly people who come to provide for their retirement.

Perhaps for the sake of cleanliness, the shopkeepers have tacitly raised the selling price. The main focus is a leisurely and casual business attitude. If you like to buy, buy, and if you don't, leave.

"Boss, how much does this Mingguang armor cost?"

"The price is below, see for yourself."

Behind the counter, Xu Yue, who was making up the order, heard the customer's question and responded without raising his head.

After a while, the customer's surprised voice sounded again.

"It's so expensive! Is there a discount, boss?"

"No bargaining."

Xu Yue's decisive response made the customer who was about to bargain choke. However, after seeing the five-digit price under the domineering armor, he hesitated for a moment and continued:

"boss…"

Before he finished speaking, as if he guessed what the customer wanted to say, Xu Yue continued:

"If you feel it's a bit expensive, you can go out and turn right. There's a weapons shop two hundred meters away. It's cheaper there."

As soon as these words came out, the customer suddenly stopped talking. After looking at the mighty and domineering Mingguang Armor placed in the shop with nostalgia, he turned around and left.

In this way, relying on Xu Yue's unique service attitude, he only made one sale this morning.

At noon, he stood up from behind the counter, stretched and then went straight to close the store door.

"Go forge."

…………

In the real world, the days are spent here setting up shop, working hard, practicing martial arts, and the continuous cycle passes quickly, and the notification tone of the paradise also sounds in the afternoon.

[Hey, a new derivative world is about to open, and the hunters will return to the reincarnation paradise. Please make sure there are no witnesses around you. 】

[Transmitting..., transmission completed. 】

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