198. Chapter 198 – Purifying Pollution
Chapter 198 – Purifying Pollution
“…… That’s it in a nutshell.”
Heine told Barry the whole story of her communication with the Spirit Ashes Horse.
It did have a richer response compared to a basic meta-spirit.
However, other than the initial phrase “Scared the horse to death~”, there were only a few words that flipped back and forth.
“I’m so tired~ I’m so hungry~ I’m so sleepy~”
And a trembling “I was wrong”.
“I haven’t dealt with elemental creatures, are they like this too?” Heine asked.
Barry shook his head slightly.
“The level of intelligence of elemental creatures depends on the purity of the energy; the more refined and advanced the energy incarnation, the more intelligent it is, and vice versa for chaos.
“But chaos is manifested by the inability to respond definitively to commands, and those like the one you encountered that are able to accurately indicate needs and just keep repeating them are rather rare ……”
He suddenly murmured, “You said that both Yuan Material and Spirit Ashes are ‘deceased form’ Yuan Spirits, if the former is the remains of the deceased, then isn’t this current form more like a wandering spirit?”
“Are you saying that it has the characteristics of a wandering soul?”
“Yes.”
Barry nodded.
“Your soul-repelling curse caused it to refuse to respond to the psionic spell, but under a more powerful communication spell, your meta-spiritual affinity counteracted the repulsion from the soul-repelling curse again, and that’s why it got a vague response.
“The reason why wandering souls repeat their ravings is because they possess a mind while alive, from which a clear need is born, but not being fulfilled and dying as a result is what makes them ‘resentments’ after death.
“It is after all from the same underworld as the wandering soul …… We should perhaps start from this aspect and look for the commonalities between it and the species of the underworld, and in this regard necromancy works rather better than psionics.”
Heine drifted off.
The old man’s words opened up new ideas for him.
If the Spirit Ashen Horse was a “wandering spirit” like existence, then it would mean that his geno-spirit affinity would be discounted.
Upon closer examination, this also seemed to be the reason for its black color.
He suddenly remembered the small mass of black mud that he had purified with his spiritual power after being contaminated by the magic net.
That thing had turned from activated spirit ashes to activated meta material.
He hurriedly told Barry about it.
The latter was not surprised after hearing it.
“That’s how it was originally, otherwise Quirkus wouldn’t have held out for so many years.
“Rather than relying on its strong spiritual power to purify the pollution, it relied on the characteristics of being an ancient tree.
“The calmness that comes from long years counteracts the negativity, and just like the two props you prepared for that warrior boy, the holy light and the shadows annihilate on contact.
“That’s why it’s best for you to find something that can counteract this contamination, relying solely on spiritual power seems reckless.”
Heine’s heart fluttered.
He suddenly remembered the goods he had seen in the underground hall of the mine that day.
Black swirls appeared on the surface of the cargo boxes being transported by the Void Sacs, that was the corrosion caused by the Void.
It was necessary to fill this deficit with the energy in the energizer stone to eliminate the corrosion.
“Do you have any energizer stones at home?” He asked busily.
“The boy has them in his lab.”
Heine hurried toward the third floor, but was stopped by Barry.
“His lab moved to Floating City.”
“Huh?”
Heine froze, only to see the old man give a creepy but warm smile.
“Although he said he moved away because he didn’t want to listen to my nagging, in actuality, he was afraid that the death aura would affect me.”
Heine smiled back, “Mr. Dylan is indeed a good boy.”
“I can’t let him hear that, I’m afraid he’ll be proud.”
The old man waved his hand.
“Go on, I’ll wait for your good news.”
“Okay.”
Heine rushed towards the floating city.
……
“Charging stones are in the third drawer from the bottom, 7 gold coins a piece.”
“How are you one gold coin more expensive than the Silver Bazaar?”
Heine pulled open the drawer and found only a handful left. Dylan grunted, “You haven’t been to the Silver Bazaar in at least two months, have you?”
“Huh?”
“The price of energizer stones went up 20%, I thought you knew that.”
“That’s strange, by the way, how is it produced and how did the price go up? Did it go up much in the past?”
“I couldn’t use Charging Stones for my experiments in the past.”
“OK bah.”
Heine was helpless.
The man was wearing his proud “I’m level four now” face again.
Heine tried to put him down with “I’m also level 4”, but the guy just sneered and spat out three words.
“Drop out.”
Behind Heine’s extremely rapid climb in strength was a gap in knowledge.
He couldn’t really refute this aspect.
He took out the energizer stone and approached the ring.
But there was no reaction.
Dylan immediately sneered unmercifully.
“Use your brain, if the energy of the Charging Stone escaped so easily, would it have a shelf life of more than ten years? That finger ring of yours doesn’t look like something with the ability to ‘draw energy’ either.”
“Makes sense.”
Heine left the floating city and went to the airship to fetch a projectile energy lamp down.
It contained the simplest set of runes: absorb-release, so it was the most basic magical tool and was often used by Karl for lectures.
With the white light hitting the ring, the latter began to absorb the substantial “energy” like a sponge.
Dylan also stopped his experiment and came over curiously.
The original navy blue ring was becoming brighter and lighter in color.
After three charging stones were fed, it completely turned sky blue.
At the same time, a significantly more intimate awareness came from the ring.
It was faint, but clear.
This meant that it no longer possessed the attributes of a wandering soul.
Under the pupils of the dead, the sparse silver shattered light in the air was merging into it.
Although it was still in a weakened state, it didn’t need to be summoned for Heine to know that it had been purified into a silver color.
It was always possible to live in a fish pond now, wasn’t it?
“The birth of the Charging Stone might have something to do with spiritual power, and the purification of the black mud has some similarity to the elimination of Void Corrosion.”
Heine went to share this conclusion with the old man before jumping on the airship and heading straight to the fish pond.
……
At the same moment, a giant white eagle with feathers shining in the sunlight flew towards the southwest.
On its back sat a pitch-black skeleton in vestments, each of its two talons grasping a skeleton.
Mr. Xia: “Are you two sure you want to do this?”
Wei Diankui: “What do you mean ‘the two of us’, there’s still you here, isn’t there?”
Mr. Sa: “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We are now accomplices!”
Mr. Xia: “What are you talking about, it was clearly me who found out that the two of you wanted to skip work, and then my buddy took the initiative to come and take you back.”
Mr. Sa: “If you really say that, I’ll have Hui Yu turn around.”
Mr. Xia: “Don’t don’t don’t, you’re my brother, tell me where you’re going and what you’re going to do.”
Wei Diankui: “Then let’s have a say ah, this idea is my idea, and the relationship with Mr. Sa’s sister. It’s because I’ve been idle for a while now, so I thought I’d borrow Mr. Sa’s bird and go to the neighborhood to fight wild monsters.
“Mr. Sa said that playing wild monsters is no fun ah, to play a copy, go to the silent post! This is also an afternoon it, rush, must not be Heine found! Then the two of us set off, who knew you were following behind.”
Mr. Xia: “You listen to his nonsense, an afternoon plus a night is enough to fly back and forth, and don’t forget that there is also experience, iron was Heine found.”
Wei Temple Iris: “You mean this copy is really not difficult?”
Xia teacher: “Uh …… that indeed, that copy is a sentry tower, no entrance, no flying mounts in the early stage, climbing the tower from the outer wall will be attacked, can only enter the cellar from the secret passage, and then honestly take the stairs.
“Now it’s different, we just fall from the sky ‘FBI! open the door!’, it’s really not difficult.”
Mr. Sa: “So what’s the big deal, by the time Heine finds out, we’ll be back, it’s called cooking the rice.”
Mr. Xia: “Okay, I’ll reluctantly accompany you guys to go shopping around.”
Mr. Sa: “Ah yes yes yes, I’m the one who begged you.”
(End of chapter)