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A Green Bone Spirit Cat Warrior can instantly advance to the first rank, low grade, and awaken Bone Spirit Power by completing its Inheritance Spirit Rune.

Other high-year Transcendental Green Bone Skeletons are only half a step away from the first rank. They possess Transcendental power, and daily cultivation easily lets them cross the threshold to advance to the first rank, thereby awakening Bone Spirit Power.

Over the past two months or so, more than thirty apprentice Transcendental Green Bone Skeletons have advanced to first-rank Bone Spirits.

Compared to Transcendental Skeletons, ordinary Green Bone Skeletons have a much harder time awakening Bone Spirit Power on their own.

But as long as the base is large enough, the numbers are still considerable. Kurd City has a great many high-year Green Bone Skeletons, and every now and then, one or two ordinary Green Bone Skeletons awaken on their own.

First-rank, low-grade skeletons that have awakened Bone Spirit Power can continue to grow by strengthening their Bone Spirit Power and Transcendental power.

Among the earliest batch of first-rank, low-grade Green Bone Skeletons, more than a dozen have advanced to first-rank, mid-grade.

"Lord Medivh, we've found the ancestral land of the Spirit Cat Tribe!"

When Medivh was in the Underground Warehouse of the High Tower Castle, running a skeleton assembly line to refine bones excavated from the Ancient Battlefield, a Spirit Cat Skeleton Warlock who had gone out to scout brought back good news.

The Spirit Cat Skeleton Warlock, along with several Cat-men, had traced the origins step by step and found the early birthplace of the Spirit Cat Tribe.

"Handle them gently!"

Medivh felt no psychological burden whatsoever about digging up someone else's ancestral graves.

He attached his spirit power to a Common Skeleton and remotely guided the skeletons in excavating the Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral tombs.

The Spirit Attachment Technique was something Medivh had learned from a Storm Skeleton Mage in recent days.

A certain component of that Storm Skeleton Mage, when alive, had considerable expertise in alchemical puppets, and the Spirit Attachment Technique was a method for remotely controlling alchemical puppets.

Medivh's skeletons, unlike traditional undead, were more like alchemical puppets made of special materials.

Medivh could completely control every move of a skeleton through the Spirit Attachment Technique.

Any high-year bone was extremely precious. Carelessly destroying a few Blue Bones or Purple Bones would be a major loss.

The skeletons participating in the excavation were Archaeology Skeletons specially trained by Medivh. Their movements were gentle and precise, and they were very skilled at excavating nearly decayed bones.

When high-year bones were unearthed, first-rank skeletons would use Bone Spirit Power to create a Spirit Membrane to seal and protect the skeletons, ensuring these bones wouldn't accelerate in decay due to environmental changes and wouldn't shatter from jostling during transport.

The Archaeology Skeletons had participated in multiple Ancient Battlefield excavations and were highly skilled. Under Medivh's remote guidance, all the preserved bones were retrieved from the Spirit Cat ancestral tombs.

This was only the first step. Next, they had to constantly maintain the Spirit Membrane on the bones to ensure this batch could be safely transported back to Kurd City.

In Kurd City's bone warehouse, there were professional conservators.

For perishable bones that Medivh didn't need immediately, Skeleton Conservators worked day and night, using Bone Spirit Power to nourish them, slowing down their weathering and decay.

From excavation to conservation, from sealing to activation, Kurd City had formed a specialized industrial chain. When it came to bones, they were professionals.

Any bones of poor quality or short shelf life that could be refined, Medivh would prioritize refining into skeleton components, never wasting them, while also easing the burden on the Skeleton Conservators.

"Those are our ancestors?"

When the Skeleton Caravan returned to Kurd City, the Cat-men, learning that their ancestral tombs had been dug up, lined the streets to see off their forebears.

"In time, our ancestors will accompany us in another form."

Looking at the Spirit Cat Skeleton Warlock and Spirit Cat Skeleton Warriors in the Skeleton Caravan, they thought to themselves.

The Cat-men didn't riot over the grave-robbing. The batch of bones was successfully delivered to No. 1 High Tower Castle.

Medivh stopped refining and resurrecting Common Skeletons and went in person to inventory and process that batch of bones.

The Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral bones were numerous. The oldest was a skeleton with a history of seven hundred and sixty-two years.

Purple Bones with over five hundred years of history, after proper treatment, were sent to the Core Storage Room for preservation.

The rest were all Blue Bones. Medivh first picked out the poorly preserved ones for refining.

The Spirit Cat Tribe had migrated more than once; they had moved even before the Odyssey War broke out.

The bones excavated from the Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral land were all at least four hundred and thirty-two years old, meaning the Spirit Cat Tribe had left their ancestral land over a hundred years before the Odyssey War.

Medivh knew the approximate location of the Spirit Cat Tribe's first migration site, but it was too far away, so he didn't send skeletons across most of the Odyssey to excavate bones there.

The Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral land was actually closer to the Odyssey.

In fact, during their second migration, the Spirit Cat Tribe initially intended to return to their ancestral land, which was why they left behind an Ancient Battlefield site near Kurd City.

It was only after encountering a major setback on their migration route that they diverted to Spirit Cat Hill.

The geology of the Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral land was special, and the bones of their Cat-man ancestors had been unexpectedly well-preserved.

This excavation yielded several thousand Blue Bones, the youngest being four hundred and thirty-two-year-old Cobalt Blue Bones.

With Blue Bones in hand, Green Bones became yesterday's news. Medivh worked tirelessly, focusing on refining those Cobalt Blue and Deep Blue Bones.

Medivh didn't refine the well-preserved Deep Blue Bones over four hundred and ninety-five years old. He had the Skeleton Conservators send them to the Core Storage Room to let history settle.

In just five years, those Deep Blue Bones would turn into Light Purple Bones, increasing their historical value even further.

If Kurd City didn't need a certain level of Transcendental power, Medivh would have wanted to let all the Deep Blue Bones settle into history.

This measure would only be considered once Purple Bone Skeletons were in service and Blue Bone Skeletons were no longer the backbone of the force.

Similarly, in the Graveyard District, a batch of Minotaur bones less than a hundred years old was currently settling into history.

For now, Kurd City's backbone was the Green Bone Skeletons. They weren't short on combat power, so there was no rush to activate and refine them into resurrected skeletons.

"Suixiang, you really are my good luck charm!"

After spending several days, Medivh had smelted all the bones that urgently needed processing.

During a break, Suixiang, wearing a maid dress, walked over carrying food.

Medivh was in high spirits; he reached out and pulled her in, making her his main course.

This group of cat-girls he had unexpectedly taken in had contributed immensely to Kurd City's development.

The first time Kurd City took off was when Suixiang led him to excavate the ancient battlefield where the Spirit Cat Tribe had fought against the human army.

After that excavation, the number of Transcendental Skeletons in Kurd City increased.

With that foundation, Kurd City stood firm through various subsequent incidents, even taking the initiative to destroy the Minotaur Tribe in the mountains and dig up their ancestral graves.

Taking in the Spirit Cat Tribe was also a major boost.

The bones brought back from Spirit Cat Hill greatly strengthened Kurd City's upper-tier forces.

The ancient battlefields later marked by the Spirit Cat Tribe brought a large amount of high-quality Green Bones to Kurd City.

This excavation of the Spirit Cat Tribe's ancestral land, in particular, brought a massive quantity of high-quality Blue Bones to Kurd City.

Once this batch of high-quality Blue Bones is fully smelted and resurrected into Blue Bone Skeletons, Kurd City's upper-tier combat power will be elevated by a significant margin.

Resurrecting Blue Bone Skeletons is an efficient form of spiritual cultivation.

For the coming period, Medivh's spiritual power will grow at a very rapid pace.