181: Chapter 181 The True Function of Soul Crystals

Hearing this, Su Fan smiled, his eyes crinkling into slits as he said, "Holy Lord Jiang, please feel free to ask!"

"My request is simple: I hope our Shenyuan Clan can also participate in the development of the Soul Realm," Jiang Zibo said in a serious tone.

"Of course, our Shenyuan Clan won't take advantage of your Xia Clan. When the time comes, the soul crystals obtained from hunting specters will belong to whoever kills them."

"Fine! No problem!" Su Fan agreed without hesitation; the request was not excessive.

Over the years, the Shenyuan Clan had borrowed several spaceships from Su Fan and mined a large amount of dark energy crystals from other planets in the Shengyang Star System.

This had greatly resolved the Shenyuan Clan's predicament of insufficient dark energy crystals.

As a result, over the past century or so, more than a hundred God-Forging Level 1 practitioners had emerged within the Shenyuan Clan.

However, that was only a hundred or so God-Forging Level 1 practitioners, while the Xia Clan had hundreds of billions!

Furthermore, the dark energy crystals in the Shengyang Star System belonged to the Shenyuan Clan.

Ever since it was confirmed that the Shenyuan Clan and the Xia Clan shared the same roots, Su Fan had stopped mining dark energy crystals from other planets in the Shengyang Star System.

The universe was so vast that there was no need to mine the meager resources of his own brothers.

Following that, Su Fan and Jiang Zibo chatted about a few more things, after which Su Fan departed.

Three days later, Su Fan's original body personally visited Shenyuan Star and took ten thought stones recorded with the Soul Attack Secret Method.

The reason he didn't make them himself was that producing thought stones was time-consuming and exhausting; since he could get them for free, why make them himself?

In the following period, Su Fan selected another nine hundred soldiers with very high ideological awareness and used the thought stones to let them temporarily memorize the Soul Attack Secret Method.

Of course, it was only memorization, because it would take at least several years for an ordinary person to learn the Soul Attack Secret Method.

To master it or even reach a higher realm would take even longer.

A month later, while ninety spaceships remained to guard the Nether Planet, the other ten spaceships brought a hundred soldiers back to Blue Star.

And that soul crystal was successfully delivered into the hands of Su Fan's true body!

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Inside Su Fan's home, in his exclusive underground cultivation room.

The soul crystal, emitting a white glow, lay quietly in Su Fan's hand.

To prevent the soul crystal from causing him harm, he had already wrapped his entire body in Mental Energy.

"With this appearance, it's clearly a treasure!" Su Fan thought to himself.

"Absorb the dark energy crystal and the soul crystal together?"

"Give it a try?"

"Will it be dangerous?" Su Fan was a bit conflicted.

"I'll just try a tiny bit."

Thinking of this, he reached into a nearby box and took out a dark energy crystal.

Then, he held the dark energy crystal in his left hand and the soul crystal in his right.

"How should I absorb them? Use the Guidance Technique or the God-Forging Technique?" Su Fan was a bit confused.

"Let's try the Guidance Technique first." He slowly began to circulate the Guidance Technique.

However, after ten minutes, much of the dark energy crystal had been absorbed, but the soul crystal remained unchanged.

"Does it require the God-Forging Technique?" Su Fan stopped the Guidance Technique, rested for a moment, and then slowly began to circulate the God-Forging Technique.

As soon as the God-Forging Technique began to circulate, a wisp of white airflow from the soul crystal slowly flowed along his arm into Su Fan's mind!

At the same time, the black airflow from the dark energy crystal also flowed into his mind.

The two airflows reached Su Fan's mind simultaneously, and then...

"Hiss—" Su Fan took a sharp breath.

This sensation was a mix of pain and exhilaration, discomfort and comfort; it was truly addictive!

In this state of painful pleasure, half an hour passed.

Su Fan stopped his cultivation.

"I feel like my Mental Energy has become more refined!" Su Fan was somewhat excited.

"Moreover, every wisp of Mental Energy seems stronger and can exert greater power!"

"Is this the effect of the soul crystal?" Su Fan murmured to himself.

"This effect can perhaps be described by the word 'tempering'."

"Tempering Mental Energy to make it more refined and powerful!"

Su Fan's eyes grew even brighter.

"Let's try practicing the God-Forging Technique without the soul crystal."

He had a feeling that tempered Mental Energy might increase the speed of practicing the God-Forging Technique.

"As expected, the cultivation speed has slightly increased, and Mental Energy is growing faster!" A look of pleasant surprise appeared in Su Fan's eyes.

"soul crystals, I need more!"

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As for the Soul Attack Secret Method, besides the nine hundred people Su Fan selected, the remaining one hundred spots were given to the first batch of one hundred soldiers who entered the Soul Realm.

However, because the Soul Attack Secret Method was too difficult, Su Fan would not be able to obtain soul crystals through them for a short while.

But that single soul crystal was used up by Su Fan in just one day.

After using up the soul crystal, Su Fan discovered a problem.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Cultivating with a soul crystal was faster and eliminated the pain of using only dark energy crystals, making the practice of the God-Forging Technique easy and enjoyable.

Su Fan endured for another six months, but when he saw that the progress of the thousand soldiers with the Soul Attack Secret Method was slow, he finally couldn't take it anymore.

That day, he contacted the Great Elder.

"What? You're planning to go to the Soul Realm yourself?!"

"Stop joking! You are the soul of the Xia Country!"

"If something happens to you, what will happen to the Xia Country!" The Great Elder immediately flew into a rage upon hearing that Su Fan wanted to venture into the Soul Realm personally.

"I absolutely do not agree; this is non-negotiable!"

Su Fan actually felt it was inappropriate for him to go personally, but to be honest, he was somewhat eager to take a personal risk.

After living in peace for so long, it was normal to have such thoughts.

"Su Fan! Open the door!" Outside the villa, the Great Elder's voice suddenly rang out.

Su Fan was stunned. He had just briefly mentioned his idea to the Great Elder over the communicator, and he didn't expect that only a few minutes later, the Great Elder would arrive at his home.

"Hello, Grandpa Xia!" Su Fan had already heard Zhou Xiaoxiao greeting the Great Elder.

Zhou Xiaoxiao's grandfather was also an elder in the Xia Country's Council of Elders, so she would privately address the Great Elder as Grandpa Xia.

"Where's Su Fan? He hasn't gone out, has he?" the Great Elder asked urgently.

"No! He's in the third-floor study," Zhou Xiaoxiao replied with a hint of confusion.

"That's good, that's good!" The Great Elder breathed a sigh of relief, but still called out loudly, not quite at ease, "Su Fan! Su Fan!"

"Coming!" Su Fan had no choice but to respond, then slowly went downstairs and into the courtyard.

When the Great Elder saw Su Fan, his heart finally settled.

"Su Fan, you absolutely must not go to the Soul Realm. A gentleman does not stand beneath a crumbling wall, and the son of a wealthy family does not sit near the eaves. The Soul Realm is too dangerous!"

"What? You want to go to the Soul Realm?" Zhou Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and then she pointed to her belly.

"It's been six months!"

Su Fan felt a bit embarrassed. "Cough... I was just thinking about it."

"Don't even think about it!" Zhou Xiaoxiao's tone was unfriendly.

"You don't represent just yourself now; you represent the Xia Country!"

"Do you know that you are now the Pillar of the Nation for the Xia Country?"

"Once something happens to you, the Xia Country will definitely fall into chaos! Even... forget it, I won't say the worst-case scenarios, you know them yourself," Zhou Xiaoxiao said earnestly.

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