A Top Scholar in Everything-Chapter 865 - 851: Lifeless Fruit

Baiyu followed the small red characters all the way down.

[Nightmare Task: Sacrifice a Lifeless Fruit, specific sacrifice method as follows...]

[Reward: Nightmare Gift Bag]

The task description was very simple, so simple that Baiyu was a bit doubtful whether this was indeed a Nightmare Difficulty task. Completely different from those long synopses before, this time there was only one keyword: Lifeless Fruit.

Baiyu had never heard of this thing before.

However, he became interested in the change in space. Sacrifice, in other words, does the space itself need energy too? Or, who is the sacrifice for? Is it the space itself, or another entity?

This made Baiyu a bit uneasy.

He even felt a slight suspicion toward the space; could it be a machine created by some high-level deity to harvest energy? Continuously issuing tasks and making him work hard, just like those ruthless capitalists.

After thinking for a while, Baiyu figured it out.

If the Scholar Space really had a mastermind behind it, he would not be a match for them now. They can create such a thing, killing him would be as easy as flipping a hand. This kind of thing is too outrageous to consider.

But this Nightmare Task reminded Baiyu, space also has demands and needs.

Fortunately, the sacrificial ritual was not some eerie and bloody ceremony, but a very orthodox sacrifice ritual, just needing a Lifeless Fruit, some paint, and Spiritual Water to complete. This kind of sacrifice belongs to normal sacrifices.

Most official Extraordinary individuals, more or less, know some specific sacrificial rituals, used to communicate with the Seven Gods that protect humans. Not all sacrifices are evil, bloody, and cruel; it depends on the target of the sacrifice.

The more evil the Divine Spirit, the more evil the sacrificial ritual.

And the Scholar Space's sacrificial ritual is quite normal, even excessively simple and kind, obviously having nothing to do with an Evil God.

What has Baiyu troubled now is the Lifeless Fruit, what on earth is this thing; he's never heard of it. According to the difficulty level of a Nightmare Task, this thing is very likely not easy to find. If it were too easy to obtain, the Nightmare Task's difficulty would be too low, and the previously highlighted red words would be meaningless.

But thinking that checking won't hurt,

Baiyu typed the characters for Lifeless Fruit into the browser on his room computer, and he really found something.

"Has anyone seen the Lifeless Fruit in the Ninth Forbidden Area? My master said that just a little bit of it will cause instant death and no one can save you, it's simply the deadliest poison in the world!"

This was a post on a forum.

The network Baiyu used was not the ordinary network people use; it was a special network used by Martial Artists and Extraordinary individuals, where other users were also Martial Artists and Extraordinaries. This post appeared on a Martial Artist forum, as a highlighted top post, [World's Deadliest Poisons Discussion].

It was a group of people debating the deadliest poisons in the world, after all, poisoning people is quite common in the Mysterious Realm. If you can't win by fighting, then poison them. Those titles have all been earned by poison masters through illustrious achievements.

A Tier Six Martial Artist might very well poison and directly kill a Tier Four Martial Artist. This is the most likely method to kill a higher-level enemy, provided he has a bottle of poison capable of killing a Tier Four Martial Artist and can approach and poison him unnoticed.

This is a technical job.

The post is dedicated to discussing how to poison enemies, demons, and the various methods of poisoning. Many skilled and cunning practitioners appear in the thread, sharing their experiences. Fellow peers in the industry feel at home.

So within such posts, discussions about poisons naturally cannot be avoided. After all, it's the core of poisoning.

The Lifeless Fruit.

Is considered by most people to be the deadliest poison in the world. The name Lifeless Fruit comes from this. To have death without life, anyone who eats this fruit, even if just a little juice touches them, will immediately die.

Absolutely no exceptions.

This kind of ultimate poison is the dream of many poison users, but obtaining it is incredibly difficult.

The Ninth Forbidden Area. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Baiyu saw that these four words were repeatedly mentioned in the post.

Knowing little about the Mysterious Realm, he typed the words Ninth Forbidden Area online. A torrent of information appeared before him.

Life Forbidden Zone, Devil's dwelling place, a place where Divine Spirits cannot tread.

Everything was there.

The descriptions of the Ninth Forbidden Area weren't positive; from the online descriptions, it was a place no ordinary person would go.

A Life Forbidden Zone among Life Forbidden Zones.

What is inside the Ninth Forbidden Area remains undetectable; the most reliable description of this Life Forbidden Area is "entry without exit."

It's said there's an ancient divine spirit's great opportunity inside.

Others say it's connected to the Netherworld, so anyone who enters can't come out and is absorbed by the Netherworld.

Still others claim inside lies a huge Tidal World, a place of despair created during the last century's Era of Darkness when Divine Spirits fought.

No matter the theory, the Ninth Forbidden Area is depicted as extremely terrifying.

Baiyu was momentarily troubled.

Was he really supposed to enter and search for the Lifeless Fruit? That difficulty was too high, practically a suicide mission. No wonder the previous Nightmare Difficulty task was marked with red lettering. This thing really requires risking one's life to obtain.

After considering the feasibility of entering the Ninth Forbidden Area to search for the Lifeless Fruit, Baiyu quickly abandoned the idea. Although someone did escape from the Ninth Forbidden Area with the Lifeless Fruit, that was an exception.

If he went running over there.

It would be like a long-lived life hanging itself, courting death.

After giving up this plan, Baiyu quickly considered another: procurement. But this method, when it comes to specific execution, also has difficulties.

Logically,

any person or force able to acquire the Lifeless Fruit would be extraordinarily powerful. What leverage did he have to trade with them?

Money?

At that level, money wouldn't be a concern. As for barter, Baiyu couldn't think of anything he had that would interest them.

Furthermore, the more practical issues were,

how to find a seller? How to ensure the trade wouldn't result in a double-cross?

All these concerns needed consideration.

Trying to obtain the Lifeless Fruit through trade was evidently as difficult as entering the Life Forbidden Zone.

Baiyu was troubled about how to proceed.

Then suddenly, someone knocked on the door.