At the alchemy laboratory, Su Xiao opened a sealed container. Wisps of darkness drifted out, revealing liquid abyssal energy inside. He tossed the Laughing Ghost Mask into it. Completely activating the item was that simple—and that dangerous.
At the preparation table, he tried several times, but still failed to prepare the "Sky Potion." It was one of the top potion formulas he had obtained from the Golden Library. Among them, the "Sky Potion" was the easiest to prepare, yet repeated attempts still ended in failure.
Besides that, Su Xiao picked up one of the peerless divine souls on the preparation table. This item was called the "Lightning Divine Soul." Of the more than twenty "peerless divine souls" he had obtained, it was the only one that had successfully undergone "returning to the origin." He had never tried the process on a peerless divine soul before. Unexpectedly, unable to withstand it, the thing had exploded, transforming into divine essence and returning to the Astral Realm.
It had not been entirely fruitless. Su Xiao's Luck had actually increased. Fortunately, the increase was not large. After all, his Luck's lower limit and upper limit both rose together. If his Luck's upper limit increased, its lower limit would also become even lower.
He absolutely could not underestimate this increase in Luck. Su Xiao had never directly come into contact with the Astral Realm. In his view, the entire Astral Realm probably had nothing resembling a "world consciousness." It should operate according to some fixed rules.
Allowing "divine essence" to return to the Astral Realm could clearly trigger feedback from those rules. Following that line of thought, using the God Hunter to turn polluted divine souls into "primal divine souls" and then selling them was obviously not the correct approach. Besides, the prices of divine