A Bumper Harvest and the Wonderful Uses of Soul Spirits

After Di Tian tossed out the soul spirits, Lin Chen did not sit idle. With a single call, countless employees quickly rushed over from all directions and began sorting and categorizing the soul spirits.

In just fifteen minutes, they had finished sorting them all.

Lin Chen looked over the report sent to him, and a smile immediately appeared on his face: eight thousand hundred-year soul spirits, two thousand thousand-year soul spirits, and one hundred ten-thousand-year soul spirits.

As expected of one of the Eighteen Heavenly Pillars. Its stockpile of soul spirits was truly astonishing.

What a pity. They had only taken two-thirds; the remaining third had all been blown up.

How much energy did that many soul spirits represent?

Yet Di Tian could not bring himself to feel happy as he looked at them.

Every soul spirit represented the life of a soul beast. One Heavenly Pillar meant tens of thousands of soul beast lives. Eighteen Heavenly Pillars meant hundreds of thousands, and when the other small and medium-sized Spirit Pagodas scattered across the entire Douluo Continent were included, tens of millions of soul beasts had died at the hands of the Spirit Pagoda in this manner.

The information was simply too bloody. He suddenly felt that no matter how excessive his actions were, they would not be excessive enough. He had the right to do this, because he was the Beast God.

Before, he had been foolish and blindly loyal. Now, he had awakened. He would make humanity repay its blood debt in blood.

Soul spirits had their own storage methods. Lin Chen had no professionals on hand, but that did not matter. In a few days, people who knew how to handle soul spirits would arrive. Those Spirit Masters would be living here for the rest of their lives.

For now, the most urgent matter was to see just how many years these dragon beasts could gain after consuming soul spirits.

Although the offspring born through Transcendent Reproduction did not possess the ability of Transcendent Reproduction, they did possess both Extraordinary Growth and Extraordinary Development, making them exceptionally well-balanced.

Extraordinary Growth only required high-intensity energy, but Extraordinary Development could only rely on soul spirits.

Although so much had happened, only a little over a day had actually passed.

With three more dragon beasts hatching today—still two Black-Scaled Boar Dragons and one Black-Winged Dragon Boar—there were now fifteen dragon beasts in total.

Di Tian hurriedly used time acceleration to raise the additional six dragon beasts to the hundred-year level.

All fifteen massive dragon beasts stood before Lin Chen. Seeing this, he directly took out fifteen soul spirits, all at the hundred-year level, and placed them before the dragon beasts.

With a thought, he commanded the dragon beasts through their faint spiritual connection. Sensing Lin Chen's summons, they immediately opened their huge, bloodstained jaws and bit straight into the soul spirit spheres before them.

With a crack, the soul spirit spheres were instantly crushed. Once the soul spirits inside were released, the dragon beasts swiftly swallowed them.

As the immense life energy and Soul Power entered their bodies, all fifteen dragon beasts were struck by the impact and then drifted off into a daze.

Were the soul spirits poisonous?

Di Tian's face was filled with astonishment, but Lin Chen merely smiled. "Look how frightened you are. The soul spirits aren't poisonous. The energy is simply too intense for them to endure, so they passed out. They should be fine after sleeping it off.

"And look—even while they're asleep, the energy is rapidly circulating and being digested within their bodies. That is the terrifying ability of Extraordinary Growth."

Still, Lin Chen felt somewhat regretful. He had originally wanted them to devour soul spirits continuously and level up without stopping, but he had not expected them to pass out after eating just one. They could only continue after waking up.

At first, he had worried that there would not be enough soul spirits. Now, however, it seemed there would be no shortage for the time being.

This was only Di Tian's haul. In another day, Bear Lord and the others should return as well, bringing nearly another ten thousand soul spirits. That would be enough for them to eat.

However, Lin Chen's purpose in harvesting soul spirits was not merely to feed them to these dragon beasts. His gaze turned toward the mothers that were still pregnant.

Since those dragon eggs had not yet been born, they possessed tremendous plasticity.

Soul spirits contained the genetic energy of soul beasts. Later, Gu Yuena had used genetic technology to transform these soul spirits into soul beasts, successfully reviving them.

Lin Chen had not considered it before, but the appearance of that glowing egg had made him realize that these dragon eggs could mutate.

That made things interesting. Was it possible that if certain factors or special genes were added during the incubation process, the dragon eggs would mutate and develop powerful bloodlines?

Or perhaps undergo genetic mutations and become strange, bizarre individuals?

To Lin Chen, these soul beasts bred with ordinary animals were merely vessels responsible for breeding in the future.

If they could mutate into something strange and unusual, that would be far more interesting.

He planned to create a separate genealogy specifically for recording unusual mutated breeds.

Of course, these soul spirits had another use as well: they could replace cultivation chambers.

He wanted to cultivate some relatively small soul beasts and let them reproduce normally. It was impossible for them to do so on their own. Not only would their bodies burst from the strain, but they might simply die halfway through gestation.

Ordinary energy could not be continuously supplied. No matter what the research department tried, it could not devise a way to continuously provide mothers with the energy needed for gestation. The energy levels were simply too low to sustain such a high-intensity life-breeding process.

After every other method proved ineffective, Lin Chen instinctively thought of soul spirits.

Soul spirits were expensive, but they were expensive for a reason. Lin Chen knew the principles behind their creation: first, a soul beast's soul was stripped away, after which all of its life energy and Soul Power were infused into that soul, ultimately forming a soul spirit.

Therefore, a soul spirit was essentially all of a soul beast's life energy and Soul Power. This energy should be enough to support the entire process of cultivating soul beasts in cultivation chambers.

His martial soul was the Heavenly Eye Hand, which had mutated after he was bitten by a spider. Therefore, the soul spirit best suited to him would preferably be both a spider and possess a spiritual attribute.

Among these great ferocious beasts, only Myriad Demon King possessed a spiritual attribute. Lin Chen decided that he would be the target of his second contract.

Logically speaking, Myriad Demon King's bloodline was the weakest, because he had continuously strengthened himself through devouring until he became this powerful. Even Scarlet King's bloodline rank was higher than his.

But as the saying went, times had changed. This was now an era where spiritual power reigned supreme. As long as one's spiritual power was strong enough, it could even raise all soul rings to the red level.

He had chosen Di Tian first because Di Tian possessed the strongest bloodline and was also dragon-attributed, allowing him to obtain the strongest initial combat power with the best value for his investment.

His second choice had to be Myriad Demon King. It was not just for his own sake. Spiritual-attributed soul beasts were already extremely rare. If they could be mass-produced, they would possess terrifying combat power once formed into a soul beast army.

It was time for him to start preparing his own soul spirit. Now, he lacked nothing but time!