novellaaa Chapter 63 The Wonderful Uses of Spiritual Energy, A Treasure Trove of Space!
Chapter 63 The Wonderful Uses of Spiritual Energy, A Treasure Trove of Space!
Chapter 64 The Wonderful Uses of Spiritual Energy, A Treasure Trove of Space!
One o'clock in the morning.
Inside the meditation room.
Su Chen sat cross-legged on the cultivation mat and slowly opened his eyes.
After nearly two hours of sitting meditation, the fatigue had dissipated by 90%, and my energy had been largely restored.
The muscle soreness left by the practical assessment was gradually washed away by the repeated stimulation of psionic energy, leaving only a faint tingling sensation.
He moved his neck, and his cervical spine made a few soft cracking sounds.
"I'm almost fully recovered! I entered the endurance test this morning in peak condition."
"To be honest, I've improved my speed so much, but this time it's a 5km race, so my ranking should have improved a bit, but my score only increased by one or two points..."
"In the subject of Strength, compared to the ten-school joint exam, it's actually possible to improve by nearly ten points!"
"Spiritual affinity... I scored 32 points in the ten-school joint exam. I haven't activated the acupoints in my brain, and I haven't taken the Heavenly Soul Fruit yet, so there shouldn't be much change."
"Firearms handling is scored half on target practice and half on equipment knowledge, disassembling and assembling firearms... The ten-school joint exam is worth 42 points. This is considered half academic subject, so it's not bad!"
"The key is endurance; I only scored 25 points in the ten-school joint exam! Like strength, it's a weakness."
"But now, I feel much better."
"However, this endurance test involves carrying 50 kilograms of weight and running a 20-kilometer cross-country race. The requirements are really outrageous! I'm afraid many people won't be able to finish in two hours... If I take the test in the morning, I don't know how many points I can get."
Su Chen took a deep breath, temporarily setting aside his grades, and focused his consciousness into the pet space.
Two new buildings stand within the space.
In those two hours, he naturally figured out the two new buildings.
Su Chen first looked at the panel of the Abyss Converter.
Abyss Converter Current Level: 1
Energy output:
Spiritual energy: 248
Psychic Crystals: 0
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"248 points of spiritual energy." Su Chen calculated silently in his mind. "It's been running for almost two hours. Subtracting the portion consumed by the learning machine, it can produce nearly 150 points per hour!"
His gaze shifted to the dark red, distinctive area that was still slowly rotating.
Just over two hours ago, there were thousands of abyssal souls gathered there, densely packed, with light and shadow intertwined.
But now, the edges have become much sparser.
The outermost layer of demonic insect spirits, as well as the weakest and most impure souls, had been extracted by the converter, with more than fifty of them being transformed into the initial spiritual energy output.
"The rate at which the Abyss Souls are being consumed is much faster than expected!" Su Chen clicked his tongue. "I wonder how long this batch accumulated during this practical assessment will last."
He made a rough estimate.
What is currently being transformed are all abyssal demonic insect spirits at the servant and soldier levels.
The quality is poor, and the spiritual energy that an individual can provide is pitifully small.
But there are even better options in the converter!
The spirits of the hundreds of little demons were of significantly higher quality than those of the demonic insects.
The spirits of dozens of ghouls are humanoid and have a more complex structure.
The spirits of dozens of abyssal wolves, including some at the peak of the soldier level.
besides...
Su Chen's gaze fell on the center of the special area.
There, the dark golden spirit of the lava golem floated silently, its seven-meter-tall body standing out among the souls!
It was still devouring the small spirits around it, gulping them down as if it were eating.
"This stockpile should last a week or two without any problem." Su Chen withdrew his gaze. "The golem's spirit should be the last to be converted. I wonder when that will be..."
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He recalled that line of text in the description of the Abyss Converter's functions.
The extraction and conversion effect is directly related to the quality and integrity of the Abyssal Soul. The more powerful the Abyssal creature, the more likely it is to produce high-value resources.
"Psionic crystals, skill stones—even mythical spirit orbs!"
Su Chen licked his lips.
This golem can produce mythical spirit pearls, so there must still be traces of mythical power remaining in its soul.
If the converter can extract anything from it —
He took a deep breath and suppressed his expectations for the time being.
Not urgent!
He slowly worked on the converter, focusing on the immediate issues first.
Su Chen turned his attention to the study of spiritual energy.
For more than two hours, he was not just sitting cross-legged to recover his strength.
Most of the time, he was repeatedly testing the various parameters of the spiritual energy.
First, there's the increase in the efficiency of learning machines.
Su Chen brought up the skill learning machine's panel.
[Skill Learning Machine currently loading Skill Stone: Thunderous Charge (Remaining Energy: 97%)]
Skill learning efficiency: 20% + 5%
"Adding 5% spiritual energy to the catalysis has increased my cultivation speed by a quarter compared to before!" Su Chen noted it down. "It's not too exaggerated, but its advantage lies in its sustained stability."
The skill learning machine consumes about 1.5% of its energy per hour, and one skill stone can last for more than sixty hours!
"With Xiao Zi's talent, she should be able to learn it before her energy runs out, right?"
"That means learning a new skill in three days! An eight-skill high-level pet at the soldier level, insane! And there's more to come..."
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"This is many times faster than guiding a pet to develop its bloodline potential and then using pills to induce it!"
"Learning skills manually can be incredibly tedious, just understanding how to generate power is enough to wear you down."
More importantly, the results of the second test.
Spiritual energy can reduce the energy points consumed by pets when learning skills.
Su Chen retrieved the energy consumption record.
The learning machine was originally running at full capacity, consuming twelve pet energy points per hour.
However, after connecting to the spiritual energy supply from the Abyss Converter, the energy consumption was halved, requiring only six points per hour.
"Six o'clock—" Su Chen quickly did the math. "The consumption is the same as when we only used the pet learning machine. That means the newly built learning machine has zero cost!"
"It's a pity that spiritual power can't completely replace pet energy points. Otherwise, pet energy points could be saved up to purchase the four related technologies for pets."
"It includes advanced paths!!! Little Purple has a full five advanced paths, so we definitely have to choose the best one!"
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Su Chen glanced at the spiritual energy data again.
A single learning machine requires 30 points of spiritual energy per hour to maintain, so two would require 60 points.
The converter produces approximately 150 points per hour!
The remaining spiritual energy can be reserved for the pet's weaponry and the master's equipment in the future.
"The effects of psionic crystals must be even better, but it's a pity I don't know how long it will take to get one."
Su Chen made a note of his plan for using spiritual energy.
After a moment, he stopped thinking about it.
I plan to take advantage of this opportunity and try out Wang Yichuan's Iv5 Shadowless Step.
Zhang Yan, that power monster, hasn't learned the Shadowless Step!
Su Chen took a deep breath and began loading Wang Yichuan's Iv5 Shadowless Step.
Upon closer inspection, spiritual energy surges from the acupoints and flows downwards along the meridians of the legs.
The ninth acupoint—Xiyangguan (Knee Yang Gate)!
During the actual combat assessment, he was chased by demonic wolves and broke through his acupoints in the heat of battle!
Now, scalding spiritual energy is flowing within the acupoints.
Before starting his cultivation, Su Chen looked at the pile of pills in his system backpack.
He hasn't properly tallied up all the loot from the six levels of this dungeon yet.
He laid out the medicinal supplies in front of him and checked them using the pet space panel.
【补气丹×8、培元丹×5、霸体丹×2、风雷丹×3，悟道果×3，水元灵果×2，天魂果×1。】
In addition, there are five Bone Shaping Pills as a reward from Mission Two - Hundred Enemies Slaying, and four Ice Skin Jade Bone Pills that I still have on hand.
There are a total of six kinds of pills and six spiritual fruits!
This doesn't even include the Wind and Thunder Pill that was left over from Mission One—the Hundred-Mile Raid.
Su Chen looked at the bottles and jars on the ground, remained silent for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his lips.
"A horse won't get fat without night grazing, and a person won't get rich without unexpected wealth!"
Two weeks ago, all he had were the resources provided by the school, and he relied on his parents for support most of the time.
Two weeks later, he had three Enlightenment Fruits in his hand, each worth at least 100,000 on the market and 300,000 from the system!
He now possessed the Heavenly Soul Fruit, something unheard of by students in the senior year of high school in Jiangling City.
The current pet space is truly a treasure trove!
"We need to find ways to trigger this instance more often in the future."
"Unfortunately, when the dungeon was triggered, it mentioned: [Note: The probability of obtaining high-level items from the prize pool is greatly increased on the first trial.]"
"Otherwise, the probability of getting the Abyss Converter and the three skill stones in the lottery would definitely not be that high."
"This benefit will no longer be available..."
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Su Chen made a mental note of it and then began to categorize it.
He picked up a jade bottle and poured out a bone-shaping pill, placing it in his palm.
The pill is milky white with fine bone-like patterns on its surface. It feels slightly heavy in the hand and has a faint herbal fragrance.
"Bone-shaping pills on the market come in two types: those for humans and those for animals."
Su Chen frowned: "I wonder if I can use products made by the system. Surely it won't cause me any problems?"
He brought the pill close to his nose and smelled it.
The scent of grass and trees is pretty much the same.
"Little Purple has four Wind and Thunder Pills now. After the mission is completed in a few days, it will have five more. Nine Wind and Thunder Pills will be enough for it for a long time!"
"Five bone-strengthening pills, how about... I take one for it?"
He suddenly glanced at Xiao Zi guiltily.
In the corner of the cultivation room, Xiao Zi was fast asleep on the blanket.
It curled up into a silvery-white ball of fur, its back undulating slightly, and made a soft purring sound in its throat.
Today, it fought its way through a multitude of battles, from the ever-changing snake to the swarm of demon rats, from the giant-toothed demon boar to the pack of demon wolves, and finally faced the demon golem with lightning-based escape techniques. It was so exhausted that even its ears drooped down.
Su Chen stared at it, his heart almost stopping.
Even though Xiao Zi had her back to him, she seemed to sense something unusual. She twitched her ears, turned over, and narrowed her light golden eyes as if she were glancing at him.
A moment later, Xiao Zi buried her head back into the blanket and started snoring again.
"Phew!"
Su Chen let out a long breath and put the jade bottle down.
"Forget it, let's leave the Bone-Shaping Pill for now?"
His gaze fell on the remaining pills.
"I still have four Ice Skin Jade Bone Pills left. They worked well when I took them yesterday, opening up an acupoint and clearing the Ren meridian! I was planning to use them sparingly, but now, I'm rich!"
Su Chen calculated in his mind: "The two Body Strengthening Pills are dungeon rewards, specifically for enhancing physical strength. The Body Strengthening Technique is currently at Iv1, but with the Body Strengthening Pills and the humanoid pet—Zhang Yan, I can quickly reach Iv2."
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"Once the Overlord Body Technique reaches level 2 and reaches its peak, I'll immediately consume the Enlightenment Fruit!"
He licked his lips.
The Enlightenment Fruit can accelerate the growth of martial arts proficiency; when combined with the Invincible Body Technique, the effects are cumulative.
"Aim to upgrade the Overlord Body Technique to Level 3, or even higher, within eight days of signing the contract with Zhang Yan!!!"
"Then, once the level of the Overlord Body Technique is high enough, and the physical strength is maxed out, and Zhang Yan's Iv6 Overlord Body Technique is activated, I'll try to eat the Overlord Fruit! I'll try to destroy the evidence as soon as possible."
Looking at the food in front of him, Su Chen hesitated for a while, wondering which one to eat now.
A moment later, he suddenly laughed.
He said with a self-deprecating laugh, "I was used to living a tough life, so I was very frugal. Now that I'm living a life of luxury, why should I be saving money anymore?"
"Just focus on increasing your strength!"
He picked up a pill called "Ice Skin Jade Bone Pill," tilted his head back, and swallowed it!
Although I took one yesterday, taking another one today would result in overlapping effects and be somewhat wasteful.
but...
I'm a senior in high school now, time is tight and the task is heavy!
We must charge forward with all our might!
No one knows when disaster will strike.
Only when resources are converted into strength can they truly belong to you!
The elixir melts instantly upon entering the mouth.
A cool current surged from the throat into the dantian, then spread along the meridians to the limbs and bones.
Su Chen closed his eyes and entered a state of introspection.
This kind of internal vision is not true internal vision. He has not yet reached the Spirit Martial Realm and cannot explore every detail of his body.
However, the trajectory of the flow of spiritual energy can be sensed through the pulsation of acupoints.
Name (Jingming acupoint), Big (Daying acupoint), Second (Ermen acupoint), Third (Sanjian acupoint), Fourth (Sanjian acupoint), Outer (Waiguan acupoint), Upper (Shangguan acupoint), Teeth (Jiache acupoint), Lip (Dicang acupoint), Cheek (Zhuan acupoint)
These ten acupoints are ten important acupoints on the front of the head.
It is the intersection point of six Yang meridians on the head and face: the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, the Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian, the Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian, and the Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian.
These areas twitched when I took the Ice Skin Jade Bone Pill last time.
But now...
Su Chen could clearly feel that the throbbing at three of the acupoints was more than twice as strong as the last time!
The Qunliao acupoint!
Su Chen was shocked when he realized this.
It's not the Mountain-Splitting Fist, not the Overlord Body Technique, not the Shadowless Step...
It was the head!
"I have a spiritual affinity test tomorrow."
"Then... charge!"