Chapter 489

Searching the Plane of Water Elements for hearts of water elements—about a hundred of them.

If that really were the task, then no matter how close Sui Xiong was to Ariel, all he could do now was borrow that classic line from Empresses in the Palace: "This humble consort cannot do it!"

Fortunately, the number was not fixed. If they could find relatively high-grade hearts of water elements, one could count for several.

In fact, they probably only needed to find forty to fifty hearts of water elements.

The Goddess of Wealth's divine kingdom had some in storage. Veye stepped forward to negotiate and bought some more from other gods and quite a few nations, leaving less than half the original shortfall.

That was a number worth making an effort to search for.

So Ariel mobilized every powerful expert under her command and among her friends who excelled at moving through water—the eight Sea Kings of the main plane, herself, and Sui Xiong. Ten god-level powerhouses spread out in all directions through the Plane of Water Elements, searching everywhere in an effort to gather the remainder.

If they could find some higher-grade hearts of water elements, that number could be reduced even further.

Suppose—purely hypothetically—that they could find the elemental heart left behind by an elemental lord at the demigod level. Then that one heart alone, as the core, would be enough to construct that enormous water-element condensation pool.

As for how one could make a demigod powerhouse, who had once again escaped the very concept of "lifespan," die of old age—that was another question altogether.

"There actually is a way..." Sui Xiong muttered as he tirelessly swam in circles. "For example, I could go find a demigod lord right now, figure out how to strip away his immortality, and