Wilderness: I Tame Beasts to Survive

Chapter 414: Chapter 282: Parting (Part 2)

"In the language of your Xia Country, you could call it a ’Treasure Body.’ It involves using Spiritual Power and attuned Elements to construct a relatively stable spiritual structure outside of the physical body. Only by forming a Treasure Body can one resist the corrosive storms in the depths of Subspace."

"My Treasure Body is called the Broken Gold Flowing Fire Body, which is a Fire Attribute Treasure Body."

"When your Soul Beasts reach the Emperor... no, the Monarch Limit, their understanding of the Elements reaches a very high stage. The ambient Elements in the Main World can no longer satisfy their needs. At that time, a Beast Master must leave their physical body and travel with their Soul Beasts to more primitive worlds to absorb higher-level energy."

"Your Spiritual Body can gather abundant Spiritual Energy for your Soul Beasts to absorb. As their strength increases, they can in turn nourish your physical body and spirit, creating a perfect feedback loop."

"Besides Advanced Energy, Subspace also contains many shattered worlds filled with endless resources. Generally, high-level Beast Masters will choose to spend long periods away from the Main World, exploring Subspace for the sake of their Soul Beasts’ growth."

"The Power of Void we are currently collecting is a type of High-Level Energy, specifically suited for Emperor Level Star Spirits. A Star Spirit is a Pure Elemental Soul Beast formed from starlight. Your Jade Hook Spirit Wood is a type of low-level Star Spirit."

"So that’s how it is..."

Han Ning nodded in understanding at Sage’s explanation.

It wasn’t just about Monarchs or Emperors. Even now, it was difficult for Grey, Yin Yi, and Egg Pancake to find enough Spiritual Energy on the Insect Continent. Their only options were allocating points from the panel, indiscriminately slaughtering other Soul Beasts, and mining ores. Beyond that, they had to rely on the Soul Beast Space, enhanced by the Four Symbols Meditation Technique, to absorb large amounts of Elemental Spiritual Energy.

Sage picked up a piece of gravel from below, tossed it into a spatial rift, and continued speaking:

"Everything in this world is composed of different forms of energy. We just lack the methods to analyze them and break them down into their constituent energy types. This... was also the lifelong goal pursued by Netherworld. The stitched monstrosity with the Gluttonous Demon has the ability to break down material energy, but... it’s not perfect. It still has quite a few flaws."

Hearing this, Han Ning couldn’t help but ask, "Teacher Sage... why did you first come here?"

’This question had been weighing on his mind for a long time. He hadn’t been familiar with Sage before, so it wasn’t appropriate to ask. But now that the topic had come up, he took the opportunity to voice his question.’

"My reason for coming here is somewhat related to what I just mentioned. My Witch Spirit Race and the Alatake Clan jointly discovered a sub-world attached to the Purple Crystal World. That world was likely blown here from some corner of spacetime by a spatial storm and then absorbed by the rules of the Purple Crystal World."

"We named that sub-world the ’Painful Labyrinth.’ It’s filled with rampant negative emotions and Dark Energy, and it has given birth to all sorts of rare, high-level materials..."

"The cause and course of the war between our two clans are too complex, so we’ll skip that. My reason for being here is, simply put, that I once led my Ashen Order into the Painful Labyrinth to explore. We unexpectedly discovered a fragment of an Earth Core Primordial Embryo, a remnant from a star’s birth... I just never imagined it was a plot by the Alataku People."

"Some Earth Core Primordial Embryo... In reality, it was a Chaotic Transmission Array set up in advance by the Alataku People. By the time we realized something was wrong, all 128 members of my order, besides myself, and nearly a thousand Soul Beasts had perished. Netherworld wanted to capture me alive. I gave it my all just to barely escape... but it’s clear I paid a heavy price... I was utterly defeated."

Golden flames erupted around Sage, their brilliant light obscuring his ethereal form and hiding his expression from Han Ning, who stood opposite him.

"Teacher Sage, as long as you’re still here, there’s still hope."

"I don’t need your comfort. Let’s get into Subspace and get down to business."

Han Ning had wanted to comfort Sage, but the latter’s expression remained cold and stern. Without another word, he transformed into a streak of fiery light and dove into the rift.

’He’s a monster who’s lived for tens of millions of years, after all. He’s not going to be overly sentimental,’ Han Ning sighed to himself, then followed close behind with Fei Lin.

The scenery inside Subspace was still a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors.

The golden-red light flowing from Sage’s body converged into a dozen or so fine threads, as thin as fishing line. They spun rapidly around his Spiritual Body, blocking all the incoming radiation and ethereal winds.

"Teacher Sage, what are all those colorful patches in the distance?" Han Ning asked curiously, looking at the faraway shapes.

Communication via spirit was highly efficient. An entire exchange would take less than a tenth of a second in the Main World, so it didn’t interfere with their collection of the Power of Void at all.

"They’re projections of stars from the Main World. Don’t be fooled by how close they look. Unless you’re riding a Soul Beast that has mastered Spatial Attributes or have a set of coordinates, you could fly for ten thousand years and never reach them."

"I understand."

After talking with Hom and Sage multiple times, Han Ning had gradually formed a faint understanding of his surroundings.

The Insect Continent where they were was actually part of the Purple Crystal World. And the Purple Crystal World was likely a colossal star, at least countless times larger than the former Blue Star.

Overall, the Main World still seemed to exist within the framework of a universe.

As for the so-called Subspace, it was somewhat similar to the gaps between universes in multiverse theory. It was like a filler space between multiple universes, capable of reflecting the images of stars from different universes and containing all sorts of complex matter.

Sage fell silent. Wisps of Spiritual Power emanated from his Spiritual Body, linking with the Elements to form a large, golden-red net that spread out all around him.

Han Ning stopped overthinking it. He and Fei Lin floated over to another area some distance from Sage and began to absorb the Power of Void.

Gradually, faint, shimmering violet particles began to precipitate from the nothingness. Drawn in by the Spiritual Power, they gathered on the spiritual net.

Unlike Han Ning’s Inner Absorption, the Power of Void that Sage collected would gradually form a small, violet Energy Ball under his Spiritual Imprisonment, hovering outside his Spiritual Body.

...

「Three days passed.」

With Sage’s help, the progress of collecting the Power of Void increased significantly.

As expected of a Profound Moon Level Beast Master. Even though the current limit of his Spiritual Power was only at Tier Two, the amount of Power of Void he collected was in no way inferior to the Tier Four Han Ning, and even slightly surpassed it.

Over the past three days, besides absorbing the Power of Void, the two of them had also summoned the other people from Night Nether City to jointly draw several sets of Spiritual Arrays for creating Energy Cores.

Because inner synthesis doesn’t create a physical object, the others had to follow the external synthesis method provided by the panel to create physical cores.

In reality, the method for creating a physical core wasn’t too difficult. It just involved drawing a special Spiritual Array on a clean Spiritual Carrier. This array would fuse the Power of Void and Dark Energy, prevent the energy from leaking, and highly compress it.

All the functions were completed automatically by the Array. The others just had to trace the Spiritual Energy Circuits as instructed.

Another difference between internal and external synthesis was that the panel’s energy was attributeless and could be converted between various Attributes. However, to externally synthesize the Energy Cores Grey needed, they could only use Lord Level Dark Type Crystal Stones, not those of other Attributes.

But thankfully, this was the Grudge Abyss, so Lord Level Dark Crystal Stones weren’t too rare.

Energy Cores had another advantage over regular crystal stones: the absorption efficiency for Soul Beasts was very high, only about 10% less than direct absorption from the panel.

After several days of effort, Grey had consumed more than ten Energy Cores in total. Finally, on the afternoon of the fourth day, an unprecedented and terrifying wave of Spiritual Energy suddenly erupted from the landing platform in Night Nether City!

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