Eerie Stone

Biodata

Appearance and Properties

• Ordinary stones: White; when consumed by Chen Fan’s construction system, they shatter and become milky-white liquid that solidifies into buildings or flows into existing structures 9 12 92.
• Green-hued stones: Found among white stones in a buried cache near Weiwei’s parents’ former lair; their level is not specified 92.
• Level-10 stones: Scarlet, with flowing scarlet liquid inside. Some stored at Heaven’s Mandate’s Resource Coordinates have elaborate surface patterns 276 305.
• Level-11 Hades Stones: Approximately the size of a baby’s fist, pitch-black with a seven-colored surface sheen 438.
• Fragility: Eerie Stones can be crushed under a horse’s hoof or shattered by violent impacts. Chen Fan avoids using Storm Suction to collect exposed stones for this reason 98.

Uses

Construction and Upgrades

• Chen Fan’s Endless Night Lord Panel spends Eerie Stones to construct, upgrade, and enhance buildings within his domain 2.
• Ordinary Builders also require substantial supplies of stones and construction materials; a lone Builder generally cannot sustain development without a faction’s logistical support 149.
• Some upgrades require additional materials, such as a Sea Embryo for the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion or soil from other continents for higher-level buildings 147 216.

Building Fuel and Ammunition

• Eerie Fire: Artificial Eerie Fires require a daily stone supply. Natural Eerie Fire Zones provide protection without that recurring expense 18.
• Arrow Towers: A stone inserted into the tower supplies energy for attacks 9.
• Arrow Rain Storm: Each activation requires one whole stone; a partially depleted stone cannot activate the skill 26.
• Heating: A stove in the Wooden Hut can operate for a year on one stone, making it far more economical than Eerie Fire for heating 15.
• Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion: Consumption rises with the number of occupants and their cultivation demands. Chen Fan’s one-hour test at tenfold cultivation speed consumes seven stones 92 94.
• Godslayer Cannon: Its berserk mode increases firing speed and power but doubles Eerie Stone consumption 145.

Cultivation

Absorbing an Eerie Stone allows a person to become a Cultivator, improving physical capabilities and opening access to supernatural techniques 3.

• The first absorption determines whether someone awakens as a special Cultivator, such as a Nightwalker, Alchemist, Night Watcher, or Builder. This awakening is generally not something effort can reproduce later 3 122.
• Chen Fan absorbed a stone at sixteen but failed to awaken a special cultivation talent, contributing to his loss of standing within the Chen Family 5.
• Further cultivation requires additional stones and time. Chen Fan estimates that absorbing fifty stones through Zhou Mo’s manual would take at least six months and raise him to Level 2 92.
• Crippled Monkey received one stone after servant training but no further supply; despite being called a Cultivator, his physical abilities remained effectively unchanged 5.
• The historical account of early eternal night describes swallowing stones as dangerous: those who survived could become Cultivators 369.

Currency and Services

• Chen Family Station 37 charges outsiders one Eerie Stone for shelter; family members and allies instead require a passage token 2.
• The traveler advises collecting payment before admission, because an Impostor Ghost may promise to pay after entering 4.
• Mortal Domain stations require everyone entering to hold an Eerie Stone, even when their faction token is authentic 129.
• Stones pay for food, wages, trade, construction services, and auction purchases 4 145 155 162.
• A Mortal Domain War Pavilion member earns 100 stones per month 162.
• The Builder Token sells for 170,000 stones’ worth of money, credit, services, and an Enhancement Stone 145.

Weapons and Special Effects

Levels and Energy Values

Higher-level stones concentrate more energy and can power equipment that lower-level stones cannot 261 292.

Eerie Stone Synthesis

The Eerie Stone Synthesis Dark Technology combines lower-level stones into higher-level ones, allowing access to fuel that is otherwise difficult to obtain 292.

Sources and Collection

Storage and Recovery

• The Warehouse’s Archive Room automatically records how many stones are deposited and who deposits them, eliminating manual counting errors 98.
• Pick-Up Sculptures collect drops from nearby slain enemies, but distant kills under Full Firepower leave loot much harder to retrieve 201 418.
• High-Speed Rail carries mined stones directly to the front during major battles; trains depart as soon as enough ore has been gathered to fill them 271.
• Earth-gold hoes accelerate mining on the New Continent 169.
• Strange Entity supply continents sometimes carry stones as ballast, transporting useful cargo while increasing their weight 444.

History and Strategic Importance

The first Eerie Stone Chen Fan receives from a paying traveler activates his Endless Night Lord Panel. Because the station attracts few travelers, he quickly turns to hunting Strange Entities rather than relying on lodging fees 2 3.

During the first Meatworm Wraith Tide, the Camp’s defense becomes a contest between incoming enemies and its dwindling stone supply. Zhou Mo goes outside to gather fallen stones and throw them over the wall, expecting to die. A change in wind diverts the tide and allows him to survive 26 27.

The New Continent transforms the Mortal Domain’s economy. Its ancient battlefields provide recoverable stones, and subsequent mining raises the Domain’s reserves to 189 million, with nearly ten million mined daily. Later, natural Eerie Ore deposits sustain extraction after those battlefield reserves are exhausted 160 169 190.

Large reserves never eliminate the need for replenishment. After the Dark Continent campaign, the Mortal Domain recovers 470 billion stones but spends 420 billion repaying allied wartime aid, leaving only 17.8 billion available after other obligations. Chen Fan responds by accelerating mining and rebuilding strategic stockpiles 276.

Notable Resource Milestones

Limitations

• Fuel depletion can decide a battle: Even superior defensive structures cannot maintain normal fire without sufficient stones 26 201.
• Energy quantity is not always enough: The Handheld Heavenly Dao Cannon specifically requires Level-9 stones; the Mortal Domain’s lower-level reserves initially cannot operate it 261.
• Cost-reduction effects matter: Sculptures and selected building upgrades reduce defensive consumption. The Soul-Devouring Sculpture’s Exhausted Ammunition blessing permits six hours of firing without stones, but afterward destroys itself and every affected defensive structure 150 163 182.
• Stones are not universal food: Weiwei rejects a Level-2 stone but eagerly accepts cooked meat. Zhou Mo suggests that it cannot digest Eerie Stones, though this remains his interpretation 70.