Spirit Bones Piled High, an Ideal Place to Grow

Of course, this lower efficiency was only relative; it was not as efficient as killing Soul Beasts whenever they were encountered.

But in reality, hunting this way still yielded considerable gains each day.

They could hunt three or four each day, and when luck was good, they could even surpass five.

This number of hunts was far higher than in the Star Dou Great Forest, mainly because the prey was easier to kill.

As long as they encountered large fish-like creatures, the hunt would be effortless and entirely risk-free.

"I should have come to the ocean sooner." Jing Chen somewhat regretted not arriving here earlier.

To the Soul Beasts of the Giant Tooth Shark Sea Domain, Jing Chen and Yi Yi were an absolute nightmare.

Several Giant Tooth Shark Soul Beasts disappeared every day, most of them over fifty thousand years old.

The blood Jing Chen used to lure Soul Beasts was taken from Soul Beasts with over fifty thousand years of cultivation.

Naturally, the Soul Beasts attracted by blood of that level were of a high age. Otherwise, how could they swallow the target?

This blood was like an age filter, directly eliminating low-age Soul Beasts and drawing in high-age ones.

By hunting Soul Beasts with over fifty thousand years of cultivation, Yi Yi's age increased rather quickly.

However, this rate of growth slowed as its age increased.

For Soul Beasts with the same fifty-thousand-year cultivation, the higher Yi Yi's age was, the less its cultivation increased after swallowing one.

Yi Yi's cultivation would become increasingly difficult to raise in the future. Raising it to one hundred thousand years would not be easy.

Besides the gains from Yi Yi's increased age, hunting these Soul Beasts also brought him Spirit Bones.

Soul Beasts over fifty thousand years old had a relatively high chance of dropping Spirit Bones. On average, one Spirit Bone appeared for every four Soul Beasts.

This drop rate was even higher than that of land-dwelling Soul Beasts, which surprised Jing Chen somewhat.

He had considered the reason and felt that it might be related to Yi Yi's method of hunting them.

The angrier a Soul Beast was before death, the more likely it was to drop a Spirit Bone, and Yi Yi's helpless style of fighting deeply provoked them.

This method of killing them angered Soul Beasts far more than defeating them head-on. Every Soul Beast died overflowing with hatred.

Viewed from that angle, it explained why the current Spirit Bone drop rate was higher.

"In a few years, the number of Spirit Bones I own should exceed three digits, right?" Jing Chen thought as he looked at the pile of Spirit Bones in a corner of the Time and Space Divine Tower.

There were many Sea Soul Beasts, and with Yi Yi's hunting method, the chance of Spirit Bones dropping was high. Breaking into three digits was genuinely possible.

Jing Chen remained in the deep sea for half a year. Seeing that he had stayed so long, he returned to land once.

After coming ashore, he spent money to hire someone to visit Shrek City and see how the Reincarnation Shop was developing.

He had no intention of going to Shrek City himself, worried that after half a year, those people might still be thinking about him.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, it was better not to go. He would consider it once Yi Yi became stronger.

He did not even have anyone call Ma Ming to meet him, lest the people of Shrek track Ma Ming and find him.

Previously, while traveling from the Star Dou Great Forest to the northeastern coast of the continent, he had used the machine to automatically produce Soul Power Ejection Devices every day.

During those few days, the machine ran continuously, producing nearly three hundred units in total.

He stored the produced Ejection Devices in Storage Rings, disguised them as ordinary items, and had someone deliver them to Ma Ming.

He had made all those Storage Rings himself. They were third-grade Soul Tools with a storage capacity of twenty-seven cubic meters.

Each Soul Power Ejection Device was roughly equivalent in size to a cube with sides of 0.2 meters.

The space in one Storage Ring was more than enough to hold all three hundred Ejection Devices, with plenty of room left over.

While having someone gather information, he was also rushing to make new Ejection Devices, planning to prepare a sufficient supply for them all at once.

He had sold several fourth-grade Soul Tools he made himself to obtain money to purchase materials.

A few days later, Jing Chen received a letter Ma Ming had asked that person to bring back. After reading it, he gained a general understanding of the Reincarnation Shop's situation.

Over the past half year, the Reincarnation Shop's Soul Tool Automobiles had sold extremely well. Every batch sold out as soon as it was produced.

Ninety-six had already been sold, and it was said that another five automobiles would be manufactured and sold in a few days.

Those would also be the last five automobiles, because without Ejection Devices, they could no longer make new ones.

Ma Ming had originally been troubled by this, but after getting in touch with Jing Chen, it was clearly no longer a problem.

In the letter, Ma Ming also mentioned some other difficulties the Reincarnation Shop had encountered.

For example, certain people had set their sights on them. Some had come to the Reincarnation Shop hoping to purchase the method for making Ejection Devices.

Clearly, these people had carefully studied the Soul Tool Automobiles and knew that the Ejection Device was the automobile's core.

Ma Ming rejected all their requests. At first, he was even beaten because of it.

Fortunately, this was Shrek City, and those people did not dare go too far. That was how Ma Ming managed to keep his life.

After being viciously beaten, Ma Ming spent a large sum to hire two Soul Masters as guards. Only then was he no longer beaten when refusing people's demands afterward.

Among those who wanted Ejection Devices were people from Shrek Academy as well.

They did not directly demand them. Instead, they wanted to seek cooperation—simply put, they wanted the method shared with them.

Once they were able to produce Ejection Devices, they would give the Reincarnation Shop one percent of the profits from every unit.

Ma Ming was tempted by such an arrangement, where they could earn money without doing anything. Since the other party was Shrek Academy, he had wanted to agree.

But unfortunately, he did not know how to make the Ejection Devices either, so he could only tell them the truth.

Shrek Academy said they could wait until he contacted his boss before receiving an answer.

"Since I intend to monopolize automobile manufacturing, why would I so easily let you learn how to make Ejection Devices?"

After reading the letter, Jing Chen could not help sneering. It was also not hard to see from the letter that Shrek Academy had attempted to reverse-engineer the Ejection Devices.

They had merely failed, which was why they wanted to obtain the method from the Reincarnation Shop.

When making the Ejection Devices, he had installed self-destruct mechanisms. Once a device was dismantled, it would self-destruct.

That was why even Shrek Academy could not learn how to make the Ejection Devices.

Whether they wanted to make Ejection Devices in order to take a share of the automobile business was still difficult to say.

But one thing was certain: they were extremely interested in the Ejection Devices. Otherwise, they would not have come asking for the manufacturing method.

No matter their purpose, he would not hand over the method. It was a matter of principle.

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