The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

The next moment!

Personal Space was suddenly filled with numerous twisted forces, strange sounds drowned out Su Qi's senses.

"Boom boom boom!"

He once again felt a terrifying sensation of descending!

As if he had walked through countless worlds, he saw all kinds of strange images!

The speed was too fast!

A crazed reversal!

"Boom!"

Yet another outbreak, with a scene like a massive universe explosion! Instantly destroyed Su Qi with a terrifying light speed.

He was forced to abruptly open his eyes!

He looked around with a bizarre expression at the space that had returned to normal, then towards the clock.

"Just a second has passed...."

"...What happened?"

But... trying to reconstruct the memories to recall any image from just before, he found he could remember nothing.

And Su Qi's gaze slowly shifted to a twisted Light Ball before his eyes.

He reached out and grasped it.

[Name: Star]

[Effect: You can light up a star at any location, at any time, without any restrictions, that will never disappear or move unless you deactivate it]

[Note: Besides glowing, it has another amazing feature—it really glows]

Su Qi: "?"

Such a plain and simple ability of infinite dimension!

And isn't the note just stating the obvious!

Darn it!

I saved you for the last draw, just because... I had expectations!

And the result...

This is it?

What's the use!?

Su Qi raised his hand, and a Star appeared in the Personal Space...

It was perfectly spherical... roughly the size of a fingernail, shimmering with Starfire, its contents indecipherable, but undeniably, the light was quite pleasing—a lightbulb for Personal Space.

"However, no consumption..."

"No limit on the number of uses..."

Su Qi raised his hand... snapped his fingers, and small stars started appearing constantly, soon filling the Personal Space with stars.

They all hovered in mid-air, perfectly still...

"Great..."

"Such a useless Skill!"

Su Qi propped his chin helplessly, tapping on the stars... he felt a sense of disappointment.

"Alright, that's a bit too many."

He prepared to deactivate the stars.

But Su Qi's eyes widened: "Wait a second, for god's sake...."

"To deactivate... actually requires Spiritual Ability Points!"

"Darn it...."

Su Qi couldn't be bothered anymore...

Just as he was about to check others, he received a special invitation from the Night Watch.

[You are invited to enter Zone 9...]

[Please note]

[Entering Paradise, you can obtain a hidden identity, and appearance]

"A friendly reminder."

The next moment.

Su Qi chose to hide, since his name was probably already spreading around Paradise, previously... among the many forces on the Rainbow Bridge, some were certainly shadows of some clubs in Paradise, some were affiliates, some cooperated, and some had deeply infiltrated.

[Player has accepted the invitation]

After the pop-up appeared.

Su Qi was once again shrouded in ink-like Darkness.

And this time.

Su Qi was slightly startled.

Because... within the Darkness, those stars were not swallowed up at all, they still stood firm, twinkling with light.

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Paradise... Zone 9...

"This is Zone 9…" Su Qi looked around.

The dome covered in a light screen.

And beneath the dome was a city not much different from reality, almost completely replicated.

"Yes, this is Zone 9, how does it feel? A bit disappointed? It doesn't seem as grand as you imagined," said Xu Linqiu, who was currently accompanying Su Qi with a hidden identity through the streets.

"I wouldn't call it a disappointment..."

Su Qi looked toward the towering core hub that loomed like a mushroom cloud among a multitude of buildings, standing out distinctively, the light screen that covered the entire Sky Dome originated from it: "What's that?"

"We call it... the Heart of Adam, it's the most important core of Zone 9, as well as the cornerstone that allows us to... build everything here."

"Hmm?"

Su Qi: "Build? Cornerstone?"

Xu Linqiu gently shook his head: "Actually, I wanted to call you and meet up, to tell you the true content of Paradise, but..."

He said with a sigh: "You didn't answer."

"All I can say is that you called too many times." Su Qi said with an unabashed face.

In fact, over these three days.

He had been in his own Dream Space, urgently training Gan Wencui along with the Shadow Army and the Thousand Faces Army, since he didn't get tired anyway, in the Dream Space he was practically 007.

"Come with me first."

Xu Linqiu led Su Qi towards the core hub.

The population density in Zone 9 was not very high, there was a certain sense of liveliness, but everyone seemed to be in a hurry.

Whether on the road, fully geared and ready to go,

Or hurrying towards the outside world with urgent steps.

There were also discussions among people.

"Is that Su Buxian here yet?"

"I don't know... but even if he steps into Paradise, he would hide everything."

"... He's now on the Universal Bounty List..."

"... The reward is more tempting than you'd think..."

Su Qi walked past these people, turning to Xu Linqiu: "What's this Universal Bounty Order?"

"It's a list that transcends rules, once prestige surpasses a certain level, everyone will be listed on it... Anyone can accumulate valuables to offer, choosing to put a bounty on someone else... and whoever completes the mission, will directly receive... the value of the reward."

Su Qi paused: "Any?"

"Like... you've got ten enemies, they each contribute to the Universal Bounty List to put a bounty on you, the accumulated value... can raise your ranking and bounty."

"I see, I'm like a broadcaster, and they're like sponsors... throwing money at me to increase exposure and draw attention."

Xu Linqiu: "..."

That's one way to put it.

"So what's my current ranking and value?"

Xu Linqiu slowly pulled up a window, displaying the so-called Universal Bounty List: "There are two lists for the Bounty Orders, the Sequence List and the Extraordinary List, the former is for rankings below sequence five, you're ranked number 19, worth 6.8 billion Spirit Coins."

"Is that all?"

Xu Linqiu widened his eyes: "All my ass... The list targets the entire Present World, and the top one thousand in strength on the Sequence List are almost all sequence fives; even the offspring of the Spirit Kings didn't make it into the top 20, which are the existences many people wish to take down."

"And even on the Extraordinary List, your amount would rank quite high."

Su Qi's eyes twinkled:

"Even the Seven Spirit Kings, the Traveling Merchant, are on the list..."

"They're currently among the top twenty existences in the Present World..." Xu Linqiu also looked over: "And this one... ranked above the Seven Spirit Kings, fifth on the Extraordinary List."

He uttered four words.

"Despicable Person..."

Su Qi's eyelids twitched imperceptibly: "I seem to have heard of this guy too, he hasn't revealed his strength, so why is it ranked so high? The value..."

He saw countless zeroes and a series of various obscured items.

Xu Linqiu paused: "Do you even need to ask? To be able to infuriate that terrifying existence from the Abyss... it must be extraordinary."

He said with emotion:

"The top five on the Extraordinary List... Who knows how many people... how many existences want to find it, but there's absolutely no news."

To be ranked in the top five on the Extraordinary List within the Present World.

That was a truly terrifying thing!

"....."

Su Qi hadn't expected the Evil God... to actually top the list.

Now,

He also knew that the words, the Despicable Person, must never be revealed. Though his own value was high, it wasn't high enough that countless mighty ones would drop everything to come for him.

But the Despicable Person was different.

When the time comes...

There might be enemies from all over the Ten Thousand Realms.

"Okay."

Xu Linqiu looked at the core hub in front of him.

"Come up with me."

Su Qi raised his head: "What's up there?"

"There's... a better view." Xu Linqiu said slowly: "It'll allow you to see the true face of Paradise."

"Aren't we already in Paradise?"

"In... But Paradise has never been a city, nor a world..." Xu Linqiu's tone carried a hint of mystery and gravity.

"You've been to Anxious Land, perhaps you'll quickly understand... the meaning behind the words Abyssal Paradise."

"And..."

"Why we try so hard... to crazily go to all the worlds, to complete everything."