Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

The soft golden afterglow fell from the blue sky, making the sparsely populated Antique Street look slightly desolate. Although there were only a few customers, none of the shops on both sides of the street looked sad. Instead, they were all happy and relaxed.

The shops that can exist in this antique street for a long time are basically not opened for the purpose of making profit, or to pass the time, or to deceive others. In short, what stands out is a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere, and the overall atmosphere is therefore particularly Buddhist. Tie.

The breeze caressed the frightened bird bell under the eaves, causing soft chirping. The clear sound waves rippled and spread, but it never made people feel noisy. On the contrary, it made the surroundings more ethereal and clear.

Under the wind chime, there is a mahogany chess table placed horizontally between the two shops. An old man and a young man are sitting on both sides of the chess table. On the table, the Chu, He and Han kingdoms are fighting endlessly, and beside them are placed a cup of tea. The fragrance lingers.

On the chessboard, the red square rook was three and six, and the chess was placed between the two pieces, showing a threatening attitude. The old man retracted his palm with satisfaction, looked up at his opponent with a smile, and joked:

"Boy Xu, your business attitude during these three days of fishing and two days of drying nets is more Buddhist than mine."

On the opposite side of the chessboard, Xu Yue ignored the two pieces of artillery and knight that were threatened by the red rook. Instead, he directly entered the rook eight into eight, and made a move to the general.

After the chess pieces were settled, he glanced at the old man's slightly frowned brows, took a sip of the tea beside him, and then replied slowly.

"I don't expect this store to make a living anyway, so naturally I'm more casual. You take care of your old age and I take care of my health. It's all for the same reason."

Compared with the crisis-ridden mission world and the race against time in Paradise City, the pace of life in the real world is always much more relaxed.

During this period of vacation, Xu Yue did not devote all his energy to improving his strength.

Although the three sub-minds in the spiritual space are still practicing the skills of hundreds of soldiers and refining the forging skills all the time, his main consciousness is peacefully immersed in this ordinary and ordinary daily trivial matter.

Relaxation is the way of civility and martial arts.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of 'pop' on the chessboard and the sweet ringing of the wind chimes above his head, his mind became calmer and calmer. The massive evil energy accumulated from killing too many animals on the mysterious island began to gradually subside until he was imprisoned. Securely locked inside the body.

Even the charm value, which has permanently dropped by two points due to the erosion of evil spirits, has a faint tendency to fluctuate in this pure and peaceful state, but the change is extremely slight.

The afterglow of the red sun gently passed over the chessboard where the chess pieces were becoming sparse. The old man slowly turned the red horse in front of him. After hesitating for a moment, he chose to retreat and defend.

"You kid really don't know how to respect the elderly and care for the young."

Xu Yue smiled faintly and did not respond, but the rook on the chessboard, eight flat and six, landed in the middle of the side of the Nine Palaces, completely blocking Hong Shuai's retreat.

"Hiss~"

Looking at Hong Shuai who was in a dilemma in the Nine Palaces, the old man couldn't help but hissed, murderous at every step.

Seeing that there was no way to save the situation on the chessboard, he narrowed his eyes slightly. First, he moved the rook nine into two, and returned to the defense to temporarily stabilize the situation. Then he raised his eyes to look at Xu Yue on the opposite side, and began to attack the heart.

"Xiao Xu, I remember you are still single. My granddaughter is coming to see me in a few days. She has good education, good looks, and a good key character. What do you think? Consider getting acquainted? This is a rare opportunity..."

"Mr. An, it's your turn."

Before he finished his words, Xu Yue cut him off softly. He lowered his eyes and glanced at the deadlocked chessboard situation in front of him. The old man curled his lips indifferently, moved the red rook at will to eat the black cannon of Shuai Qi, and then started again. He continued the previous topic.

"After passing this village, there is no such store. My granddaughter's suitors in Kyoto are like crucian carp crossing the river. It's not me and you who are bragging..."

"Horse five into seven, general!"

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound of the move resounded, and the battle situation in the Chu-He-Han world was instantly clear. The black chess vaulted the horse general, while the black rook on the right blocked two roads, and the shogi on the left intercepted from the air. Three roads were blocked. The red commander was already The vitality is cut off, showing the potential of death.

"The loser will pick up the pieces, An Lao will suffer the consequences, so I will go back to the store and prepare to close the door and get off work."

After saying that, without waiting for the old man's response, Xu Yue drank all the tea on the desk, then stood up and left.

"Hey, you kid!"

Behind him, watching Xu Yue quickly enter the shop, the old man feigned annoyance and called out. After seeing no response, he shook his head and began to tidy up the mess on the chess table.

I'm willing to admit defeat, he won't be so generous to someone, and he will win it back next time.

………

night.

The quiet night is dark, with floating light and mist.

Through the simple window lattice, the moonlight, as delicate as silver sand, filled the bedroom with clear light, slowly dispelling the deep night darkness entrenched inside.

Under the cold moonlight, you can clearly see a tall figure sitting cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed.

…………

Spiritual space, upper floating island.

The two distracted figures were fighting fiercely on the martial arts field. The fire was rising in the forging room of the small courtyard. Xu Yue, as the spiritual subject, was quietly suspended outside the spiritual barrier, playing with a heart that was constantly shrinking in his hand. Inflated black ball.

This ball is the demon seed that he spent a full 3 points of intelligence attributes and a soul crystal (small) before leaving the paradise.

It wasn't until he actually started to operate the demon species that he truly realized that the complexity of this ability was far from being as simple as the skill introduction said.

The entire process of planting demon seeds can be roughly divided into five stages: cutting the mind to condense the seeds, stabilizing the shape, planting and breeding, incubating and growing, and maturing and devouring the master.

Among them, the process of condensing the demon seed by reducing the intelligence attributes and condensing it is the process of condensing the prototype of the demon seed. This stage puts a heavy load on one's own mental body. For at least half a month, he cannot repeatedly condense the second demon seed, otherwise it will cause harm to himself. Irreversible mental damage.

The initially born demon species is only a prototype, so it is extremely fragile and requires a large amount of mental power or pure soul for it to absorb, so that it can completely stabilize its shape and become a stable demon species in the true sense.

In order to complete this step quickly, he consumed a soul crystal (small) as nourishment to succeed. At this stage, the demon seed can carry out the most important host cultivation.

As long as the planting is completed, the subsequent gestation, growth, maturation and other processes will begin on their own within the host's body. He only needs to wait for the final harvest by the Devourer.

Looking at the black ball in his hand, Xu Yue's eyes were deep. At this stage, the demon species could not see its various attributes and specific abilities.

It is just a seed now. After it completes its gestation in the host's body and hatches out the real monster, Xu Yue can connect with it through the monster's accompanying magic mirror and learn about the specific situation of the monster and the host.

This is bound to be a process that takes a lot of time, but he has enough patience to wait. The potential of the demon seed condensed with 3 points of intelligence attribute is the lowest variety, but correspondingly, the gestation and incubation time of the demon seed is also the shortest. For a short time, this is the best pathfinding stone.

Xu Yue doesn't expect much gain from this demon seed. What he values ​​most now is intelligence. As long as enough intelligence can be fed back, the large amount of resources consumed for this will not be a loss.

A bit of white thought flew out from the center of the eyebrows, landed on the surface of the demon seed in his hand, and began to spread rapidly. Soon a white arrow was formed, with a mysterious and deep black core faintly visible inside.

Fennian is equivalent to his spiritual clone. It comes from the same source as the demon species. The two can naturally blend with each other. With the magical support of the demon species, the existence time limit of Fennian will be infinitely extended. This will be the magic of the demon species. The biggest reliance before species hatch.

Throwing away the strange arrow in his hand, the Xiaoyun Long Bow appeared in Xu Yue's hand, and then he drew the arrow and pulled the string. The bow was like a full moon, and the arrow tip pointed directly at the golden sea of ​​stars above.

The string is loose, the arrow is coming out, let go!

"call out!"

A soft cry sounded in the void, and the white arrow wrapped in the demon species turned into a stream of light and flew upward, quickly disappearing into the endless sea of ​​stars above.

The moment the arrow disappeared from sight, Xu Yue's perception of distractions and demons was also completely cut off. He looked up at the golden sea of ​​stars above. After pondering for a moment, he turned his sight to look at a blue star on the edge of the sea of ​​stars. .

Among the bright gold, this blue color is particularly prominent. As for its specific origin, the stars are connected to the queen ant on the mysterious island.

The other party's spiritual space was developed with Xu Yue's help. As long as a little mental power is mixed in the development process as the cornerstone of constructing the spiritual space, when the space is completely formed, its corresponding coordinates will naturally appear in his sea of ​​stars. superior.

And through this blue star, he can easily invade the ant queen's mind space. However, with the ant queen's spiritual skills, the result of rashly entering is most likely to be discovered by the opponent instantly, and then the distraction will be suppressed on the spot, and even some Possibility of source reverse intrusion.

There is no need to take risks at this stage, but it can be left for the future. Both the ant army and the many resources on the island are of great value.

Looking away from the blue stars, Xu Yue stopped paying attention to the boundless golden sea of ​​stars. The bait had already been thrown in. How much he could harvest next depended on when the fish bit the hook.

As his body flashed, he disappeared from the top of the spiritual barrier, and then emerged in the lower Baji Realm.

Wisps of purple fire of desire were drawn from the surrounding sea of ​​fire, and he began to actively temper his will.

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The routine of life in the real world is peaceful. During the day, Xu Yue opens a shop, fishes, and tinkers, and when night falls, he escapes into the spiritual space to temper his will.

Although it is a bit boring, fortunately it is not boring. As time goes by, I have become more and more familiar with the control of the evil energy in the body, and the start time of the next mission is getting closer and closer.

[Tip: A new derivative world is about to open, and the Hunters will return to the park. Please make sure there are no witnesses around you]

[Transmitting...Transmission completed. 】

The long-lost sense of teleportation appeared, and Xu Yue quickly gathered his figure in the exclusive room.

[Hunter level: LV.10. You can receive a notification fifty minutes before entering the derived world. The hunter will enter the derived world in an hour. Please wait patiently. 】

……………

"Master, welcome back."

As soon as his eyes glanced at the paradise prompt that popped up in front of him, Ah Fu's voice also sounded simultaneously.

"Sir, the repair of the Sun Chaser has been completed. This is the captain's token retrieved from the Cybertron machine."

With Ah Fu permanently stationed in Paradise City, all the tedious preparations before the world opens can be completed by him, which indeed saves him a lot of time.

As for the supply of recovery products, the amount of ant honey he obtained in the trial world can probably meet the needs of the entire second level, so there is no need to go to the trading market to purchase it.

What's more, he also has the brewing formula of golden honey and royal jelly in his hand. As for the demand for recovery products, he should not be short of it within the third level.

Thinking of the two technical formulas that had not yet been transformed into physical objects, Xu Yue's eyes flashed. After taking the token handed by Ah Fu and taking back the space, he asked:

“How is the plantation going?”

"The construction has been roughly completed, and various flowers and special strains brought back from the ant nest have been planted."

While talking, Ah Fu walked towards a newly opened room in the exclusive space, followed closely by Xu Yue.

As the door to the room opened, a refreshing fragrance of flowers hit his face. As far as he could see, he seemed to see the endless sea of ​​flowers on the outer edge of the honeycomb, but the overall scale and size of the flowers were much smaller.

Behind the gate is not a simple closed room. After special transformation of the paradise, it is more like a small and vast world.

There is sunlight and rain in the sky that can be adjusted at will, while the ground is covered with gorgeous and complex flowers of various colors, mixed with many kinds of special fungi.

Just to build this flower space, Xu Yue gave Ah Fu a control quota of 100,000 paradise coins.

These flowers, which are abundant in quantity and variety, are a prerequisite for brewing royal jelly and golden honey.

If you want to produce research results, it is necessary to spend money and resources. He has already predicted this. Now it seems that Afu has done a good job.

"How long will it take to produce results? Or what other support is needed?"

After listening to Xu Yue's question, Afu thought for a moment and replied with some hesitation:

"The basic conditions for the flower sea have been met, but a group of specially modified bees still need to be cultivated. In this regard, I can acquire bee colonies in the park and use puppetization to transform the system, but it will take some time."

"Then the sea of ​​flowers needs a group of plant breeders. Perhaps some forest fairies and other creatures can be purchased as servant gardeners of the sea of ​​flowers."

"If the above two items can be solved, preliminary results will be achieved in the three derivative worlds."

Ah Fu's voice gradually fell, and Xu Yue suddenly thought of the flower elf he had seen in a divination shop. He evaluated the price of the flower elf in his mind, and he said in a deep voice:

"You can handle the transformation of the bee colony yourself. If you don't have enough paradise coins, you can mobilize funds in the store at any time. As for the servant gardener, I will handle it. Compared to the forest goblin, another creature is more suitable."

…………

During the conversation, ten minutes passed quickly, and the park prompt sounded again.

[Hunter will enter the derivative world: X-Men in fifty minutes. 】

After seeing the prompt message in front of him clearly, Xu Yue's breath froze, and the image of a dying old man in a wheelchair emerged clearly in his mind.

"Hey, long time no see."

With a chuckle, he took out the tablet from the space and began to quickly search for various information on the X-Men.

X-Men is a rather large series, with more than ten movies alone, and it also contains two separate timelines.

And Wolverine 3, which he experienced in the Predator Trial, was just the most lonely part of it, not to mention the more complex parts such as film and television dramas and comic plots, which even have connections with the high-risk universe of Marvel. Tangled relationships.

Between different systems, the difference in combat power in this world is also huge. Take Magneto, one of the two poles of mutants, as an example. Some Magnetos can rub black holes with their hands, tear up the earth, and master high-end applications of magnetism. But some only use pure brute force to manipulate steel, which can be said to be used as a warhammer with a nuclear bomb.

With the strength of the derivative world, the X-Men world should be dominated by the movie system, but those characters at the top of the mutants' combat power should not be underestimated, such as Apocalypse, and the Phoenix who can tear Apocalypse apart with his hands.

If he faced these two alone, the probability of him being defeated was as high as 99%. Even the newly acquired Sun God Apollo probably wouldn't be able to kill each other. That was truly the top combat power in the world.

Considering that he has just broken through to the second level, he is still far away from the top level if he is thrown into a crowd of mutants with endless perversions.

However, given the physical condition of mutants who generally have strong attacks and weak health, he is not without a chance to give it a try.

Time passed very quickly during the data query, and fifty minutes flew by.

[The time is up, the derivative world: X-Men is opened. There are no abnormalities in this world, the spatial coordinates are stable, and it consumes 0.025 ounces of space-time power. 】

[Based on the power of time and space consumed, the minimum comprehensive evaluation of the contractor in this world must reach C level. 】

[Open world: Hunters can encounter extremely powerful enemies in this world, please be careful. 】

[The Derivative World Contact Platform is being activated...has been activated, and the number of remaining speeches is 6/6. 】

Derived World Contact Platform, this is a new function that was opened after he was promoted to the second level. It is equivalent to a public information communication channel opened for all contractors in the Derived World.

The start of this kind of channel is very helpful for the exchange of information between various contractors, forming a team, selling items, etc., which can be regarded as a very affordable benefit.

[Preparing for open world teleportation...]

A brand new prompt popped up, and the corner of Xu Yue's mouth twitched. He heard Su Xiao mention it during the chat. The meaning of this prompt is that the next blow will be very heavy!

"Master, what does this mean?"

Beside him, Ah Fu, who had only experienced the teleportation service in the park once, although he did not know the meaning behind this pop-up prompt, he clearly felt something bad. The previous teleportation was still fresh in his memory.

"It means that it is accumulating strength..."

Buzz~

As if a battering ram several meters thick was bombarding from behind, Xu Yue's eyebrows were beating and he had to hold back his instinctive reaction of steeling. For the first time, he felt that the defense pile was too high, and he couldn't help it. It must be all a good thing.

boom!

The next second, Xu Yue swore that he really heard the sound of brain sloshing in his skull, and then his eyes went dark and he lost all consciousness.