In just over ten minutes, Chen An encountered another Soul Beast.
However, it was not of the spiritual attribute, but the fire attribute—an attribute he could not absorb.
Chen An chose to evade it rather than engage in unnecessary combat with the Soul Beast.
He only expended the effort to fight when he encountered Soul Beasts with the spiritual attribute.
When he encountered other attributes, he chose to flee, with death and metal attributes being no exception.
His main purpose in coming here this time was to obtain spiritual-attribute power. He would consider the others later.
As time passed, Chen An traveled several li.
Altogether, he encountered more than a dozen Soul Beasts along the way.
Three of them possessed the spiritual attribute, and he successfully hunted and obtained them all.
Although he had only encountered two after the Illusion Feather Butterfly, their cultivation ages were relatively high.
They had respectively reached two thousand years and two thousand five hundred years—more than double the Illusion Feather Butterfly's age.
Thus, after absorbing them, they filled the fruit more than the Illusion Feather Butterfly had.
The fruit was now one-third filled, and the progress was faster than expected.
"The second fruit used nearly fifteen hundred years' worth of soul spirit energy."
"Could this third fruit require around fifteen thousand years' worth of energy?"
When Chen An stopped to rest, he summoned the Creation Holy Tree to inspect its condition.
After roughly estimating its level of completion, he had a vague idea of the answer.
The energy required for this third fruit could probably be supplied by a single ten-thousand-year spiritual-attribute soul spirit.
But all the energy he had infused so far came from thousand-year soul spirits.
The combined energy of ten thousand-year soul spirits was not equivalent to that of a ten-thousand-year