There was no sadness in saying goodbye to Ruo Hong and the others. After all, they are not far away and could be visited often.
After everyone was sent away, only Yang Yang’s family of three were left in the manor.
After Cream Puff finished drinking the milk, Archibald held him to his chest, and patted his back until he burped, while Yang Yang took out the Bean Sprout from the Soul Cube.
When Bean Sprout was taken out, the top of its head was bright red. The top branches that originally had only a few small fruits now had a large amount of fruits hanging from the branches, seeming a little top-heavy.
However, although it’s fruits had been grown at much faster rate, it has also grown a lot — the branches were thicker, the two leaves on the top of the head had also sprouted branches, with new buds sprouting on its branchtips.
This was all due to the fact that Yang Yang had been feeding Bean Sprout a lot these days.
Yang Yang got a lot of high-grade mineral essence and soul crystals from his two fathers, and fed them all to Bean Sprout. Facts have proved that in order for Bean Sprout to grow, it really needed the soul power from eating these things— even though this soul power was not as mellow as that in the Soul Cube.
Yang Yang didn’t understand why, but he didn’t think about it in detail. Anyway, it was probably due to balanced nutrition helping with fast growth.
After Bean Sprout was taken out this time, its mood was very stable and it became used to such sudden calls.
Yang Yang didn’t hesitate, took out the wooden box from the storage chip, picked the smallest soul core and placed it in front of Bean Sprout.
”Look at what this is.”
Bean Sprout’s mung bean eyes rolled, and when it looked at that thing, its eyes suddenly lit up, as it let out a high-pitched sound that they had never heard before: “Chi!!!!”
At the same time, Bean Sprout stretched out branches, wanting to reach the soul core.
Yang Yang was startled by Bean Sprout’s high-pitched voice, but his body reacted quickly and slapped his hand over the soul core, blocking the branch that Bean Sprout had stretched over.
Bean Sprout was stunned for a moment, then raised its head to look at Yang Yang, and asked angrily.
——What’s wrong with you? Are you going to let me eat, or lead the tree in circles? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?
Yang Yang said calmly: “Shut up, or I’ll take away your soul crystal.”
Bean Sprout: “…”
Okay, shutting up.
Bean Sprout stopped talking, and Yang Yang let go of his hand, revealing the soul core as big as a grain of rice, and asked Bean Sprout: “It seems that you recognize it, tell me what it is.”
Bean Sprout looked at the soul core eagerly, and then let out a chirp: “Ji?”
WIll you give it to me after I say it?
Yang Yang smiled and said: “It depends on what you’ll say.”
Bean Sprout wilted. It knew its bandit master very well. To put it bluntly, it depends on its master’s mood. If he was in a good mood, he will give it to eat, but if it isn’t good, he won’t give it.
But what can it do? It’s just a tree-shaped cabbage. Aiii!
Bean Sprout’s legs dropped a little lower, which probably meant that it was sitting down, and then it said softly: “Jiji, ji…”
Archibald didn’t understand Bean Sprout’s words, and neither did Cream Puff hanging on his body, but he was attracted by the movement.
Cream Puff turned around and looked, haiya, it’s an acquantaince!
Cream Puff patted Archibald’s chest with his little paws, and after attracting Archibald’s attention, he pointed to the Bean Sprout on the table with his short paw: “Umm!”
Little daddy, give it to me.
Archibald laughed, stretched out his hand to press down on his short legs: “You can’t play, daddy is talking about business.”
Cream Puff tilted his head, and then hung back on Archibald’s body: “Um!”
Okay! Play in a while!
Archibald didn’t know what Cream Puff was thinking, so he just continued to pat him on the back.
Fortunately, Bean Sprout couldn’t understand what Cream Puff said, so he just raised his head and glanced at Cream Puff, and then continued jiji-ing.
It chirped for more than a minute before finally finishing.
After hearing this, Yang Yang was silent for two seconds, then turned to look at Archibald and said, “Bean Sprout said that this thing is indeed the soul core of the soul beast, it has eaten it before.”
Archibald was already mentally prepared and after hearing this, he just nodded slightly.
Yang Yang continued: “Not only it has eaten it, but Bean Sprout also knows how it is formed.”
Archibald was startled, and finally showed a surprised expression.
Yang Yang did not show off and said: “Actually, the soul core is the soul beast’s soul power.”
Archibald was a little confused: “You mean, the soul core is not a special creation, but the soul beast’s soul power itself? —But the soul core and the soul crystal look different.”
Yang Yang nodded: “It can be understood that it is the most essential part of the soul power. ——Duke remembers how the soul corpse beast was produced.”
Archibald clearly knew, it was common sense.
When the soul beasts are killed, their soul power is dispersed, most of it condensing into soul crystals, and a small part will overflow and stay on the planet. ——This part can often dissolve itself and become part of the planet’s energy. But under extremely special conditions, these spilled parts will gather and then enter some suitable dead corpses, thereby “resurrecting” these corpses, and the Soul Corpse Beast will be born.
It’s just that there was no concrete conclusion and only vague concept about what the “extremely special conditions” were supposed to be.
But now after listening to Yang Yang’s question, Archibald suddenly guessed the answer: “You are the soul. The part that enters the animal corpse after overflowing is not the ordinary soul power condensed into soul crystals, but the soul core part of the soul power?”
Yang Yang nodded: “Yes.”
Yang Yang opened the wooden box and put it on the table to show Archibald: “The soul core is big or small, not because it is born, but The degree of condensation is different. In other words, the soul cores here are actually condensed from strands of soul power invisible to the naked eye. ——It’s just that this naturally formed solid soul core is very rare, because when the soul Once the body dies, the soul core will collapse again along with the soul power.”
Archibald frowned: “So that mysterious man has mastered the method of making a solid soul core. —Does the soul core have any medicinal effects?”
Yang Yang: “You can say it does, you can say it doesn’t. —In addition to dead animal carcasses, there are also plants that absorb the soul power of soul beasts. For example, soul essence plants.”
Archibald was really shocked now.
The soul essence plants were an indispensable and important formula for making soul power riot inhibitors. Its effect and the soul power of the soul beast were basically two extremes. They were synonyms of incompatible and couldn’t be mutually reinforcing. How could they come be from the same source?
Yang Yang: “It is easier for plants to absorb the soul power of soul beasts rather than animal corpses. After absorbing the soul core’s soul power, plants will break down the soul power, transform and absorb it, and finally form unique medicinal properties. Then they become wild soul essence plants.
This is the reason why soul essence plants are grown randomly in the wild, and greenhouse cultivation requires finding seeds from wild soul essence plants, and you cannot cultivate them yourself.”
Archibald thought about this theory, but couldn’t digest these words.
He looked down at Bean Sprout.
Archibald: “What about those that have developed self-awareness like Bean Sprout? Whose self-awareness they have?”
Bean Sprout raised its head full of fruit, “Jijiji!”
Of course it’s mine! I gave birth to it myself! My own blood and flesh!
Cream Puff, who was still hanging on Archibald, heard Bean Sprout, turned around, and showed a representation of evil dragon roaring: “Mpph! Umhh!”
Are you trying to harm my little daddy? I will beat you up!
Bean Sprout: “Ji??”
Cream Puff: “Umph!!”
Yang Yang: “…”
Archibald: “…”
The two of them pulled the two little things apart one by one, and then Archibald kissed Cream Puff, and Yang Yang glared sideways at Bean Sprout.
Bean Sprout: “…”
Ai, you can tell who is not a biological one.
Yang Yang rolled his eyes before continuing: “The self-awareness of spiritual plants is generated by themselves, because the self-awareness of soul beasts cannot assimilate plants. However, the lifespan of plants is not long, and they need to reserve great amounts of soul power for them to develop consciousness. It’s very difficult to obtain so much soul power, for example, those soul plants discovered in past had very restricted consciousness and could not communicate.
Of course, Bean Sprout was a special case.
It originally swallowed a self-aware soul core, but due to the soul beast consciousness being unable to assimilate a plant, Bean Sprout took advantage and became a spiritual plant. As it happens, it itself was a treasure-hunting sapling, which can walk on its own and find soul power to eat.
But although it absorbed soul power much faster than ordinary plants, it still took thousands of years to become what it is now — although it has slept for more than half of the thousands of years.”
”The mineral essence is also similar to the soul essence plant. But the mineral essence cannot generate self-awareness. Among them, there are only a few that have medicinal effects, but their medicinal effects are stronger than ordinary soul essence plants.”
Yang Yang said, changing the subject.
”In addition to animal carcasses, plants, and ores, Lester people can also absorb the soul power of soul beasts.”
Archibald was stunned for a moment, then understood: “You mean soul power infection?”
Yang Yang nodded: “That’s right. The essence of the soul core is soul power, and Lester people are more likely to come into contact with the soul power of soul beasts on the battlefield than animals and plants, so they must be also absorbing the soul power of the soul core.
It’s just that the essence of soul power itself is too rare and a certain amount has to accumulate to form self-awareness. In addition, the self-awareness of living people is very strong, and it is difficult for the self-awareness of soul beasts to dominate.”
Yang Yang looked at Archibald: “Duke, don’t you think that the soul riots caused by the soul beast’s soul power are similar to a battle for self-consciousness?”
Archibald’s face turned ugly: “You mean, people with soul power riot symptoms have the self-awareness of a soul beast in them?”
Yang Yang shook his head: “It’s not self-awareness, it’s the soul power of the soul core. Since this kind of soul power can produce self-awareness, it must be special, and it will also have an impact on people’s self-awareness, thus affecting the mental state and leading to mania.
For severe infections like grandpa’s, it is likely that there was too much soul core soul power in his body, resulting in appearance of foreign self-awareness and competing with grandpa for autonomy of his body.”
Archibald’s face softened slightly, after thinking about it, this did make sense.
However.
”If so,” Archibald clicked on the wooden box, “these here are the soul cores of the soul beasts formed by the villagers taking medicine stones and accumulating soul beast’s soul power for a long time. —What kind of medicinal effect can this thing have?”
Yang Yang was also puzzled by this point.
”So the key thing is the medicine stone.”
As he said that, Yang Yang put away all the soul cores, pretending not to notice Bean Sprout’s eager mung bean eyes. Then he took out the medicine stone from the Soul Cube and placed it in front of Bean Sprout.
”Look at this thing again.”
Bean Sprout didn’t understand, and looked at Yang Yang with mung bean eyes with yearning.
Yang Yang: “I can’t give you the soul core, but today I will give you two more soul crystals.”
Bean Sprout was a little unhappy, but after thinking about its master’s banditry, it had to accept it.
Bean Sprout did not recognize it at first sight this time, but almost pressed it against it, and even rubbed off a little of the medicine stone’s surface before confirming this thing.
”Ji.”
Isn’t this also a soul crystal?
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Cream Puff: Mmph! Umph! (evil dragon roar.jpg)
Bean Sprout: Ji? (what is this little kid doing?)
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