Black Soul Stone Enhancement Blueprint, Fifth Layer (Third Update)
Bai Xiaowen flipped through the fifth level of the Enhancement Blueprint but couldn't find any enhancement options for the Skeleton Champion and the Vengeful Spirit. It seemed that he would have to go to at least the sixth level before he could enhance them and devour the souls of Leader Tier powerhouses.
"Forget it, let's not devour them for now... They are already Elite Template, and devouring other Elite Tier souls won't be very effective. It's better to save the opportunity to devour them."
Before the Skeleton Mage was enhanced, it couldn't devour the souls of Leader Tier powerhouses and fought in its initial form. It wasn't until the Jiajing Plane World that Bai Xiaowen unlocked the Skeleton Mage's enhancement option, allowing it to devour the soul of Zhu Zhi, the Yellow Turban Army's great physician, resulting in a magnificent transformation and significant enhancement.
Bai Xiaowen checked the attributes and skills of the newly added Skeleton Champion.
[Skeleton Champion (Elite Tier Level 5)]
[Race: Undead Species / Bonefolk]
[Attributes: Strength 34, Agility 15, Constitution 20, Spirit 11] (Bonus calculated)
[Skill 1: Whirlwind Slash: The Skeleton Champion swings his greatsword and dashes in one direction, dealing moderate physical damage to enemies in his path. Enemies with lower strength than the Skeleton Champion will take additional damage and be briefly knocked back.]
[Skill 2: Heavy Cleave: The Skeleton Champion raises his greatsword, charging up before unleashing a powerful attack. The longer the charge time, the higher the damage.]
[Skill 3: Hollow Skeleton: Racial passive ability, Skeleton Champion are immune to bleeding and have a 10% evasion rate against minor piercing damage.]
This is a power-type summoned creature, following a physical damage-dealing, violent warrior route. Its most outstanding feature is its first skill, Whirlwind Slash. Dash skills have always held a high tactical importance, especially since this skill also has a knockback effect.
With the Skeleton Champion's 34 points of Strength, even some Agility Specialty- or Mental Specialty- type bosses would find it difficult to escape being Whirlwind Slash. As an interrupt skill, it is quite good.
Next is the attribute panel for the Vengeful Spirit.
[Vengeful Spirit (Elite Tier Level 5)]
[Race: Fiend Species / Ghost Clan]
[Attributes: Strength 9, Agility 17, Constitution 19, Spirit 36] (Bonus calculated)
[Skill 1: Phantasmal Form: Racial Passive, increases evasion rate against physical attacks to 99%, and increases damage taken from magical attacks by 99%.]
[Skill 2: Venomous Resentment: The Vengeful Spirit inflicts the Venomous Resentment effect on the target. The target must resist mentally, otherwise the Vengeful Spirit spirit will drain their Divine Might at a rate of 1 point per second for 15 seconds. If the target's Divine Might drops below 2 points, they will fall into Stunned Status, lasting for the remaining time of the Venomous Resentment's Divine Might drain. This skill has a 120-minute cooldown.]
(For example, if a target with low Divine Might is successfully drained by the Vengeful Spirit ghost's Venomous Resentment attack, and their Divine Might drops below 2 points in just 10 seconds, then the target will not have their Divine Might drained further in the remaining 5 seconds; instead, they will fall unconscious.)
[Skill 3: Fright: Passive. When an enemy target engages in a mental battle with Vengeful Spirit, they will suffer additional mental penalty. The lower the target's Willpower attribute, the higher the mental penalty (fluctuating between 0 and 10).]
"A summoned creature of the Ghost Clan can actually appear in the Black Soul Stone?" Bai Xiaowen was somewhat surprised.
The Ghost Clan belongs to the Fiend Species and is generally associated with an Eastern background, while the Soulkin belongs to the Undead Species and is associated with a Western background.
Black Soul Stone originate from the Aaron Plane World of existence and are based on a Western setting. The summoned creatures brought by the Return of the Dead skill are also Undead Species creatures from a Western background, such as Skeleton Soldier, Ghost, Zombie, and Vampire.
The sudden appearance of a Fiend Species surprised Bai Xiaowen.
When asked about Delifa, the Banshee couldn't give a clear answer.
"What exactly is the origin of the Black Soul Stone?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
The Banshee Delifa shook her head repeatedly. "I don't know either. It seems there's a tightly closed door in my consciousness, sealing away a very long period of my memory..."
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes. This was yet another difficult mystery; the origin of the Black Soul Stone could only be discovered in the Aaron Plane World.
Thinking of the Aaron Plane World, Bai Xiaowen recalled the female knight Goliya, whom he had tricked twice. Back then, Bai Xiaowen could only flee in defeat when facing Goliya. But things were different now. After more than half a year of growth, Bai Xiaowen had gradually gained the ability to confront Advanced Boss.
However, the female knight is likely also improving, though the speed of her improvement is unclear.
Logically speaking, Goliya's progress should be limited in just over half a year. However, the flow of time in the Spirit Realm Plane cannot be completely equated with Earth's reality.
Bai Xiaowen had learned that in Spirit Realm Plane awakened beings enter, the flow of time in that realm would be consistent with that on Earth while the awakened being remained there. If they stayed in that realm for ten days, ten days would also pass on Earth.
However, if there isn't even a single awakened being, the evolution of the Spirit Realm Plane will gradually accelerate. Perhaps one day on Earth is two or three days in the Spirit Realm... This acceleration will increase faster and faster, and at its fastest, it can even reach dozens of times the time on Earth! This will continue until an awakened being is found and enters the spirit world.
When an Awakened One enters a certain plane, it's like stepping on the brakes, slowing down the flow of time in that plane and restoring it to the same speed as Earth.
Although there are millions of awakened beings on Earth, a considerable number of them are content with the status quo and are unwilling to frequently explore the Spirit Realm, thus they are considered an inactive group.
In addition, due to the scarcity of Spirit Realm Ticket, not many Awakened Ones can enter the Spirit Realm at the same time. Each Awakened One treats entering the Spirit Realm as a major event, and will only enter after several months or even half a year of thorough preparation.
The Spirit Realm contains countless planes, and even today, at the end of Spirit Origin Era 96, humanity on Earth dares not claim to have explored all of them. Perhaps many planes have never been set foot in by awakened beings since their inception, until natural evolution led to the Plane Unification and the restart of the cycle of reincarnation.
Just like the stars in the night sky, while Earthlings gaze at the night sky and marvel at the dazzling stars, perhaps hundreds of millions of light-years away, countless stars are born, evolve, and perish, unknown to us.
This is also why information in the Spirit Realm is highly circulated but not expensive, because information becomes outdated and is eliminated very quickly.
If no awakened beings have entered the Aaron Plane World in the past six months, a considerable amount of time should have passed in the Aaron Plane, Goliya's strength may have increased significantly.
Bai Xiaowen's thoughts wandered for 0.1 seconds before his attention returned to the newly summoned creature, the Vengeful Spirit.
The skills of the Vengeful Spirit are very special. Due to the existence of the Phantasmal Form racial passive ability, the Vengeful Spirit itself has no physical attack ability (this can be seen from the White Ghost Queen). However, its Venomous Resentment skill is a rare mana drain skill, which can be very effective against certain enemies with low Divine Might.