Chapter 426: Running Low on Spirit Stones
To create the Soul Inheritance Life Card, other than the Soul Cores, Ethan needed two more things.
They are:
[1) 100 High-level Spirit Stones]
[2) 1 Million Life Points]
For Ethan, Life Points were not a problem because he already had 100 million, and even if there was an urgent need, he could just cultivate for a day and earn millions of Life Points.
However, the issue was Spirit Stones.
Before entering the Greenheart Realm, Ethan had nearly three billion low-level Spirit Stones, and to create a single Soul Inheritance Life Card, he needed 100 High-level Spirit Stones or one Million Low-level Spirit Stones.
Adding the 10 Life Cards he created just now, Ethan had created 20 Soul Life Cards until now in the Greenheart Realm and spent 2 Billion Low-level Spirit Stones.
Moreover, he even spent 400 million Spirit Stones to create a perfect environment for the Spirit Plants and another 100 million on the Greenfolk People for their cultivation.
Thus, Ethan was now left with less than 500 Million Low-level Spirit Stones, with which he could still create five Soul Inheritance Life Cards.
'Five Soul Inheritance Life Cards won't make much of a difference now. So, I should keep Spirit Stones for emergencies.'
Currently, each Soul Inheritance Life Card is reducing his Mandatory Waiting Time by only 5–10 seconds.
Moreover, in this realm, where there are no natural Spirit Stones, Ethan decided not to use those 500 Million Spirit Stones.
'Let's use the Life Cards now.'
Once he decided, Ethan no longer wasted time and started using the 10 Soul Inheritance Life Cards he had created just now.
[Soul Inheritance Life Card is used. The host's Soul has slightly strengthened, and the waiting period in the Soul Realm has reduced by 8 seconds]
[....reduced by 5 seconds]
[....reduced by 7 seconds]
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[Current Mandatory Waiting Period in the Soul Realm: 27 Minutes and 45 seconds]
The 10 Soul Inheritance Life Cards reduced one minute of waiting period, which was within Ethan's expectations, and he was satisfied with the current waiting time.
'I will keep these 90 Soul Cores aside and create the Soul Inheritance Life Cards after returning to the Emerald Green Plains.'
Ethan didn't expect that he would be running low on Spirit Stones but not on the Soul Cores when it comes to the Soul Inheritance Life Cards.
Nevertheless, Ethan didn't think much about it and focused on the work he had come to the Special Death Chamber for.
[Cultivation Time Pearl]
[Abyssal Death Essence Refining Technique]
'Swoosh'
In the next second, a pearl appeared in Ethan's hands and following that, he circulated his Death Technique, crazily absorbing the Death Essence in the Special Death Chamber.
[The host has received 60,000 Life Points by converting the Death Essence in a minute]
'T-this…'
Ethan didn't convert the Death Essence into Golden Essence; instead, he wanted to get an understanding of how many Life Points he would get in a minute.
And the result shocked him.
'If I cultivate for 12 hours, I can get more than 40 million Life Points, and in just 25 days, I can break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.'
The [Interface of the Killer's Stat], which was generated after getting killed by the Spectral Death Knight, was still active, and as long as he had a Billion Life Points, he could break through to the Nascent Soul Realm whenever he wanted.
However, Ethan had no plans to break through because, other than the fact that his requirement for the Life Points would increase, his rewards from harvesting the Spirit Plants would also greatly decrease.
Moreover, unlike his rushed breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, Ethan wanted to condense as many Golden Blood Drops as possible using his Heavenly Talent: Infernal Dragon Blood Heart.
Thus, Ethan wanted to take his time for his next breakthrough.
'Nevertheless, with such thick Death Essence, my Obsidian Spirit Root will reach its maturity within 25 days for sure.'
With that thought in mind, Ethan resumed his cultivation, and this time he didn't bother to convert the Death Essence into Life Points but into Golden Essence to nurture the Obsidian Spirit Root.
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Time continued to pass, and in a flash, a week passed by in the Greenheart Realm with no surprises.
During this one week, Ethan strictly followed his schedule, which included:
[1) Morning Session (Six hours): Nurturing the Emerald Sword Grass]
[2) Afternoon Session (Three hours): Teaching and Guiding the Greenfolk People]
[3) Evening Session (Three hours): Playing with Spirit Pets and doing other small things]
[4) Night Session (Twelve hours): Cultivating in the Special Death Chamber]
Inside the Special Death Chamber,
'Rumble'
The door to the Special Death Chamber opened as the Great Undead General, Eduart Bones, entered the chamber.
'He is here.'
Ethan had already descended his soul into the Dark Overlord because it was the day for his meeting with the Great Undead General.
"How is the progress in your cultivation?"
As soon as he entered, Eduart directly asked about Dark Overlord's progress.
"After I broke through to the Nether Soul Realm, it has become incredibly difficult to progress in my cultivation."
Ethan stated the fact of how difficult the cultivation for his Undead Avatar has become.
Even after one week of cultivation, Dark Overlord has barely consolidated his cultivation.
There was a time that Ethan even felt it was just a waste of time to cultivate through the Death Essence; instead, using the Soul Cores as the system suggested might be the fastest way to become stronger.
Nevertheless, getting so many Soul Cores was not an easy thing.
"Haha… I know. Especially for Skeletal Beings like us, it is very difficult to progress in our cultivation."
Hearing Ethan's words, the Great Undead General didn't seem to be surprised as he let out an eerie chuckle and nodded his head in understanding.
"However, it seems you were already close to consolidating your Nether Soul in just a week. As expected of an Extraordinary Abyssal Son."
After checking Dark Overlord's progress, Eduart praised him and continued saying that, "If you continue at this speed, you can break through to the Level 2 Nether Soul Realm in just six months."
For Skeleton Beings that take decades to break through a single level in the Nether Soul Realm, six months was considered very fast, and the Great General was quite satisfied with the Abyssal Son in front of him.
"Six months?"
However, Ethan was not satisfied with that speed, and after thinking for a moment, he informed Eduart, "Sir Eduart, if I have 2000 Soul Cores, I can instantly break through to the Level 2 Nether Soul Realm."
Although Ethan didn't know exactly how rich the Great Undead General was and how many Soul Cores he had, he decided not to be courteous with him and take as many Soul Cores as possible.
"So, you need 2000 Soul Cores for your instant breakthrough."
Eduart was no longer shocked by Ethan's words.
Compared to the instant realm breakthrough to the Nether Soul Realm, instant level breakthroughs are nothing in his eyes.
"Next week, I will bring the Soul Cores. Until then, you can cultivate."
After saying that, Eduart left the Special Death Chamber, and Ethan once again returned to his daily schedule.
Three days later,
Inside the Stronghold,
During his evening session, Ethan was playing with his Spirit Pets when he suddenly received a series of system notifications that made him pleasantly surprised and excited.
[The Ghostbone Thistle inside the host's body has matured]
[The Heavenly Talent: Heavenly Mystic Harvesting has triggered]
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