96: Enter the Ghoul Lair!

So, theoretically, making a strong 7th-tier Master-Servant Contract would require exactly 28 moonstones.

But this is only theoretical, a theory where not a single failure occurred during the process.

Lin Chuan then took out the Master-Servant Contract from the drunkard's ring.

It wasn't much different from the Master-Servant Contract Lin Chuan bought in Paradise, except that the material looked more high-end.

Lin Chuan had interacted with Su Hai in his previous life, so he had some understanding of the contract's creation process.

Contracts are not generated out of thin air but require some simple crafting tools, such as parchment or animal hide, human blood or animal blood, etc.

The contract given by the drunkard should have used more high-end crafting tools.

Next, Lin Chuan took out the last item from the ring—a small booklet.

Opening the booklet, he found that it could be considered an enhancement manual, mainly explaining the precautions for using moonstones to enhance different items.

There was even a separate chapter specifically detailing the method for enhancing contracts.

After a quick glance through the booklet, Lin Chuan couldn't help but sigh, the people of the Source Plane truly had abundant resources and impressive methods.

In the small world he was in, they couldn't even come into contact with something like moonstone.

Yet, the people of the Source Plane had already thoroughly figured out how to use moonstones!

This disparity was like the people of his world still playing in the prehistoric era, while the people of the Source Plane had already entered the information age, thoroughly researching all sorts of high technology!

There's no helping it, some people spend their whole lives striving to reach Rome, while others are born in Rome.

Lin Chuan just briefly noted the auxiliary tools needed to enhance the Master-Servant Contract, then put the booklet away.

At this point, the gains from this Secret Realm journey were only the nearly three hundred corpses and the remaining fourteen crystal balls that hadn't been opened.

Lin Chuan wasn't planning to use the crystal balls immediately.

After all, for him, who possessed the BUG-level Fireball, acquiring a Talent was not difficult!

He could make the crystal balls serve a greater purpose!

Training subordinates, trading items, or using them in the Secret Realm!

The conditions in many Secret Realms are similar to the Evil Dragon and Warrior Secret Realm; they restrict Talents but not items!

The next time he encounters a Secret Realm that restricts Talents, Lin Chuan can open a few crystal balls at the start, immediately giving him several more Talents than others!

That effect would definitely be greater than using the crystal balls directly now!

As for the nearly three hundred corpses, Lin Chuan didn't cremate them directly for now either.

Because he had previously given his Shadow Clone Cai Zhiji All Attributes +100, and those attributes hadn't been recovered yet.

With his current attributes, cremating corpses would no longer guarantee 100% acquisition of a Talent.

So Lin Chuan had two immediate priorities—

First, raise his Siwei attributes back to their limit.

Second, level up frantically!

And both of these things could be accomplished in the “Ghoul Nest Secret Realm”!

Nest-type Secret Realms are purely sacred grounds for monster grinding and leveling up!

In reality, the Crystal Nucleus drop rate for Corpse Eaters is shockingly low.

But for Corpse Eaters in the Ghoul Nest, the Crystal Nucleus drop rate is almost as high as ninety percent!

Lin Chuan flipped his right hand, and the Ghoul Nest Secret Realm token he had obtained before entering the Evil Dragon and Warrior Secret Realm appeared in his palm!

He didn't enter directly but instead contacted Aiya again, asking her to trade over all the Blood Gu insects she had cultivated today!

This trade startled Lin Chuan!

It actually filled more than fifty mineral water bottles!

He immediately sent Aiya a message: [How are there so many? Are you still alive??]

Aiya: [Nonsense! Of course I'm alive! I'm perfectly fine!]

Aiya: [When I leveled up to 2, I added Constitution to my attributes. Then the attribute fruit rewarded from the leaderboard also added 2 points of Constitution. Later, I leveled up to 3 myself, and added another point of Constitution! Now, one bloodletting can cultivate about ten bottles of Blood Gu insects! After resting for an hour or two, I can continue bloodletting to cultivate insects! If I could find more hornet nests, I could have cultivated even more!]

Not bad, not bad, this girl still had some ambition.

It wasn't in vain that Lin Chuan left his Shadow Clone with her to assist!

As for the lack of hornet nests, he remembered that in Shen City, there were more Dimensional Monsters of various insect types.

At that time, cultivating Blood Gu insects with insect-type Dimensional Monsters should yield even better results!

Coincidentally, the address of the Ghost Shadow Cat that Yang Xiao told Lin Chuan was also in Shen City.

It seems he would have to make time to go to Shen City again.

Lin Chuan quickly planned in his mind, then accepted the more than fifty bottles of Blood Gu insects, directly communicated with the Secret Realm token, and flashed into the Ghoul Nest Secret Realm!

The Ghoul Nest was a vast graveyard, with a dim and gloomy sky, and a nauseating stench of decay permeating the air.

All sorts of gravestones were scattered everywhere!

The Corpse Eaters wandering around quickly surrounded Lin Chuan as soon as they saw him appear!

However, Lin Chuan dealt with these little toys as easily as crushing vegetables!

It took him almost only half an hour to eliminate all the wandering Corpse Eaters!

Lin Chuan's attributes also skyrocketed rapidly!

Next, he took out his Thousand-Jin Axe and smashed open a gravestone.

The moment the gravestone shattered, the ground beneath his feet rumbled!

Not long after, a large number of Corpse Eaters crawled out from beneath the gravestone, one after another!

Lin Chuan found it even easier to deal with them!

After about another half an hour, he cremated the corpses, raising all his Siwei attributes to the upper limit of 103 points!

After this, he began his Gu cultivation plan!

He successively smashed ten gravestones, then, with extremely quick movements, scattered the more than fifty bottles of Blood Gu insects onto the broken ground of the gravestones!

The Blood Gu insects instantly burrowed into the ground, and Lin Chuan also felt the ground shaking much more violently than before!

The sensation was almost comparable to an earthquake!

After shaking for more than half an hour, a giant Corpse Eater finally crawled out from beneath one of the gravestones!

Unfortunately, it was only Level 6.

Lin Chuan stood not far away, casually swung his teng snake sword, and easily instantly killed it!

At the same time, a Level 6 Crystal Nucleus was acquired!

After waiting a while longer, another Level 6 Corpse Eater crawled out from beneath another gravestone.

Lin Chuan repeated the process, easily harvesting it again!

Thus, out of a total of ten gravestones, the first nine all produced Level 6 Corpse Eaters.

Lin Chuan felt a little disappointed, his gaze finally falling on the tenth shattered gravestone!

The previous nine gravestones had each only received 5 bottles of Blood Gu insects.

Only the tenth one, Lin Chuan had thrown in the extra few bottles of Blood Gu insects.

But he wasn't sure if he could cultivate a Level 7 Corpse Eater!

So, he waited for another seven or eight minutes!

Beneath this tenth gravestone, an even more violent tremor finally erupted!

Lin Chuan's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously stepped back.

“Boom ~ Rumble —”

“Thud! Rumble —”

Goodness, even the gravestones around that gravestone were shattered!

The shattered gravestones had not been sprinkled with Blood Gu insects, and the ordinary Corpse Eaters inside quickly crawled out!

But even these ordinary Corpse Eaters seemed stronger than before!

Lin Chuan held the teng snake sword in his right hand and Death Grip on his left, launching various frenzied attacks non-stop!

However, as the ground shook, gravestones continued to shatter one after another.

At the same time, a large number of Corpse Eaters also emerged frantically!

When their numbers gradually became too much for Lin Chuan to handle, he pulled out a pigeon whistle with his backhand, put it to his lips, and blew hard!