The night was hazy.

Su Nian sat at the computer desk in the study and made an appointment with Ji Yun on the other end of the phone to meet tomorrow.

Hanging up the phone, Su Nian got up and stretched.

His eyes then looked at the two objects placed on the desk, picking up the hedron in his left hand and the chessboard in his right hand, and he called up the faction panel at this time.

"Return!"

After making his choice, a flame ignited above his head, and the surging flames enveloped his body.

By the time the line of sight was clear, he had already appeared in the ruined temple.

In front of him was a familiar shrine, and in the corner was an altar of sacrifice, and a tattered conscription banner waving in the wind.

At this moment, the Shadow Camp prompts came to his mind one after another:

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Found the missing part "Faction Editor" in Shadow City, whether to implant it in Shadow City!] 】

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Discover the Shadow Storage Crystal, whether to absorb it!] 】

After making his choice, a faint green light appeared in the eyes of the idol on the shrine, shooting straight at the bronze chessboard in his hand.

The chessboard quickly dissolved, converted into liquefied energy and flew towards the idol.

As the idol absorbed the liquid, the ruined temple roared and trembled, the area expanded rapidly, and a large amount of information poured into his mind, and a miniature version of the ruined temple top-down view appeared above the sea of consciousness.

Upon his consciousness making contact with the point of light, he found the ruined temple unfolding in front of him from a bird's-eye view.

Shadowcity (Primary Main City)

The area of the main city: 58 square meters.

Shadowcity Function Buildings: Sacrificial Altar (Tier 1), Banner of Levy (Tier 1)

……

The information in his mind made Su Nian understand that the implanted camp editing function was mainly divided into three parts.

They are the Shadow City Editor, the Repository Editor, and the Mirror City Editor.

The miniature version of the Ruined Temple, which comes to mind, is part of Shadowcity's editing features.

He tried to use his consciousness to drag the altar of sacrifice on the chessboard to the upper left, and when he opened it, he saw that the altar of sacrifice in the temple had appeared in his place in his consciousness.

That said, the faction editor can help him change the layout of Shadowtown at will.

In addition to this, Shadowtown editors can also change the shape of functional buildings by burning embers, as well as create custom non-functional buildings.

On the right side of the faction editor interface, there are two more functions: mirror city and repository editing.

However, these two features don't seem to be of much use right now, and will only be useful in the future when Shadowcity has the ability to recruit alien warriors.

It's not hard to see what functions do.

Referring to Infernal City, the role of the mirror image is supposed to replicate a parallel urban space attached to Shadowcity.

And the outer city of Purgatory City, where the Terrans are located, is most likely the outer city copied by the mirror image, not the real Purgatory City.

Because the outer city where the human race is located does not have any alien life except for humans, only when you enter the inner city will you come into contact with alien conscription warriors.

But in the description of the aliens, they also started out in the outer city of Infernal City.

This proves that the outer cities of different races are in different spaces, and only when you enter the inner city can you truly enter the Purgatory City.

Another feed editing function, the main role is to edit the main quest, marketplace prices, etc.

After understanding the function of faction editing, Su Nian opened his eyes, and this time he chose to absorb the Shadow Storage Crystal.

I saw that the eyes of the god on the shrine shot light to dock the storage crystal, and the crystal quickly melted into liquid and flew to the shrine, where it was absorbed by the idol.

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Absorb Shadow Storage Crystals and obtain 230,000 Shadow Embers.] 】

Hearing the prompt sound, Su Nian's expression was a little incredulous.

230,000?!

He worked so hard in the Decay World that he almost lost his life to complete his mission, and the reward he gave was only a few thousand Shadow Embers.

But in the shadow storage crystal that Xiaorou dug up outside the city, there were 230,000 shadow embers hidden, and this earth-pouring wealth came in such an unexpected way.

"Sure enough, you can't get rich by working part-time." While feeling pleasantly surprised, he couldn't help but sigh.

More than 200,000 embers are a lot of money even in the eyes of the conscripted warriors in the inner city of purgatory.

For a Recruit like him, who is still on the lowest World difficulty, even if he's lucky, it will take at least ten or more explorations to increase in difficulty and rewards, and it can only be obtained by completing most of the side quests.

In other words, this storage crystal saved him more than a dozen exploration challenges.

The sudden rush of wealth made him think about how to use this huge wealth.

Raise the Butcher Sequence Level? Upgrade your building level? Conscription for life?

After a moment's thought, he looked up at the altar of sacrifice in front of him.

He decided to sacrifice the resources on his body first, and then think about how to use the embers.

When you come to the altar and stand still, reach out and touch the altar, the sacrificial panel pops up.

At this time, the 20 slots in the space bag contained 19 pieces of equipment and a skill mark.

He used his consciousness to drag the decaying aura in the first compartment onto the dark green flame cluster on the panel, and the flames immediately burned violently, refining the aura mass into a dark green energy cluster, and then flew above his head to merge with the ember flames.

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Successfully decompose the Level 1 Material Corrosive Aura Cluster x34 and gain 737 Shadow Embers. 】

The Corrosive Breath Mass was obtained by killing the Bone Warrior, and almost every Breath provided him with 20 Shadow Embers, and if it was sacrificed to the Infernal God, he would only receive a third of the benefits.

Next up is the sacrificial equipment session.

Before each piece of equipment is sacrificed, the value of the sacrifice can be seen on the panel.

Of the 19 pieces of equipment, only 2 pieces are complete and well-quality equipment, and the remaining 17 pieces are broken equipment.

Originally, Su Nian planned to leave the serrated knife in his hand, but after thinking about it, the embers on his body could completely open one of the natal weapons of the butcher sequence, "Killing Shadow", and there was no need to keep this equipment in his hand.

Drag the equipment to the flame ball on the panel in turn to disintegrate, and the ember after successful decomposition keeps ringing in your mind.

Each time he finished disintegrating, a cloud of dark green energy would separate from the Shadow Flame and merge with the ember flames above his head.

After dismantling all the equipment in the space bag, he obtained 4,890 embers, of which 17 pieces of broken equipment had an average price of more than 230 embers after decomposition, of which 6 pieces of purchased equipment earned 840 embers, and the last 2 complete pieces of excellent quality equipment, 430 embers obtained after the serration knife was decomposed, and another piece of fine quality equipment earned more than 550 embers.

Based on all gains x3, he gains an additional gain of 3260 embers.

Coupled with the more than 230,000 embers obtained from decomposing and storing crystals, the total amount of embers on his body at this time came to 235422.

Summoning the personal information panel, he selected Ji Yun's avatar and sent 1,000 embers to Ji Yun through spiritual transmission.

It's not that he doesn't want to give more, it's mainly that he can't explain the source of the huge embers.

Unless he says he holds the secrets of Shadowcity.

Although he trusts Ji Yun very much, thinking of Ji Yun's hot-blooded character may inadvertently expose his secrets.

So he didn't plan to confess the truth to Ji Yun for the time being.

At this time, with a huge amount of money in hand, Su Nian immediately called out the personal information panel and switched to the Shadow Godhead panel.

Click on the Butcher sequence, and three activatable skills will appear below.

[Godhead Sequence 29 - Butcher (Lv1)]

[Shadow of Slaughter (Butcher Knife)]:

Weapon Strength: Butcher-exclusive weapon, weapon strength is affected by the strength of one's body.

Weapon Effect: Devours Blood, Feedback Heals.

Consumption of use: No consumption

Activation Condition: 300 Blood Points (Shadow Embers).

Sea of Blood Souls (Hunting Guide):

Ability introduction: After opening, the consciousness enters the blood soul space, and the blood soul of the hunted flesh life can be absorbed through the blood soul space, and the attribute and ability increase are obtained.

Consumption of use: No consumption

Activation Condition: 800 Blood Points (Shadow Embers).

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He wants both skills.

First, burning more than 300 embers, he activated the Shadow of Killing skill.

Suddenly, the ember flames above his head burned violently, spreading towards his right arm, gathering at his right forearm.

As the flames burned, Su Nian felt a sharp pain and burning sensation coming from his right arm.

Looking down, he saw the blood-colored butcher knife mark slowly appearing on his right forearm.

When the blood-colored butcher knife imprint solidified, the flames automatically dissipated, and information about the ability came to mind.

This ability is firmly imprinted in the mind, as if it were a natural talent that comes with birth.