Although the drop rate for souls that increased the various growth potentials of Soul Crystals was not high, there were an enormous number of monsters, and BOSSes almost always dropped them. All told, they could still obtain quite a few complete souls. If players could use them without limit, it would undoubtedly shatter the game's balance, something the game AI would never allow.
Just as players could only use one soul to increase their attribute growth potential, items that improved the growth potential of pets and Summoned Beasts could only be used on a single target once. A five-star increase in growth potential did not improve their strength by much.
Still, being able to improve it was better than not being able to. More or less, it could increase the strength of pets or mounts and thereby raise everyone's damage output.
By using various items to improve the growth potential of Soul Crystals, mounts, and pets, coupled with players occasionally replacing their equipment with better gear and learning more powerful skills, the strength of those defending the city gradually increased. This made it somewhat easier to withstand the attacks of countless monsters. As Yan Hua Yi Leng had analyzed, the Chinese server did not need to abandon the outer city walls to hold back this wave of monsters.
Because the Misty Pavilion alliance had the highest monster-killing efficiency, even more monsters surged toward them. Some of the monsters at the eastern and western walls even rushed over. Although this increased the pressure on Ye Luo and his group, killing more monsters meant greater gains and a greater boost to the alliance's strength, so they were more than happy with it.
Time slowly passed as they defended the city. Another twenty or thirty minutes went by in the blink of an