The power of technique abilities in the late game was unquestionable, but the amount of resources they could consume was truly terrifying. Su Xiao arrived before the Black Maple Tree. Before long, A' Mu and Baja brought over various materials from the alchemy laboratory.
Su Xiao was confident in setting up the Devouring Spell Formation. According to Green Gillian, there had been a forty-percent chance of failure, and the Black Maple Tree had nearly been blown to death. Only after finding an alchemy master had she successfully set it up.
Although Su Xiao was not an alchemy master in the traditional sense, his attainments in potion-making would have placed him firmly among the top even in the alchemy faction of the Second Era. Potion-making inevitably involved catalytic processes, and the spell formations required for those processes were extremely demanding.
With A' Mu and Baja's assistance, materials worth a total of 210,000 soul coins were consumed before the main body of the Devouring Spell Formation was completed. Su Xiao pressed one hand against it and began gradually activating the formation, which lay one meter before the Black Maple Tree.
The first layer of the Devouring Spell Formation was quickly activated, followed by the second. When it reached the lowest, third layer, spiritual shadow threads formed at Su Xiao's fingertips and connected to several roots of the Black Maple Tree. As expected, this caused more than one-tenth of the tree's roots to spread toward the formation, eventually connecting to it.
To be safe, Su Xiao wrapped the spiritual shadow threads around those roots. If anything went wrong later, he could crystallize them and minimize the damage to the Black Maple Tree.
He opened the container and used 0.5 ounces of Space-Time Power to let it flow into the Devouring Spell Formation. The