222 How Do You Want To Die? (1/2)

”You can blame your soul core for that,” Maya said grudgingly like she was still vexed over that matter. If Leon's soul core didn't snatch all of it, she, of course, would have been the first one to snatch all of it instead.

Wood energy had great affinity with life energy, and life energy was the most ideal form of energy for her recovery and functions.

Leon does not know it yet, but the [Divine Book of Life] has an in-built array called the Universal Life Conversion Array that allows the heavenly treasure to refine other forms of energy into life energy.

This was what allowed her to awaken for a brief period the first time. The problem was that true life energy would always be better than ones created from the Universal Life Conversion Array.

This is because the Universal Life Conversion Array requires an astronomical amount of energy for conversion, but it only returns a pitiful amount of life energy in return. Wood energy would allow for more life energy production no matter how small it still was.

Meat was still meat. Maya was not going to be picky, especially when it helps her recover faster. Alas, she, the great artifact spirit of the [Divine Book of Life] was bound to Leon's soul core.

From a visual point of view, she was residing within Leon's soul core. The excess energy absorbed his body would go through his soul core before it gets to her.

For her, this was like looking at a delicious cake on display behind a thin wall of glass. She could see it, but she cannot touch it. She can only watch as it gets gobbled up by someone else and fuels her frustration.

”My soul core did?”

Leon was surprised, although he shouldn't be. He had already seen the wood elemental seed merging with his soul core along with the other elemental seeds.

The wood energy of the withered plants should have been what formed his wood elemental seed. But for it to form on its own, it was like the time he was in deep meditation to form his earth elemental seed, except this time, he was unconscious.

He didn't know that something like this was still possible, but it happened.

Is this supposed to be his blessing after surviving a disaster? Leon didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Perhaps, among the withered plants, there were some amazing spirit herbs that could aid his cultivation greatly and the thousands of transcendent crystals could have been used to train thousands of experts to strengthen the Crawford Kingdom.

But there was no use crying over spilled milk. He now had to look for alternative ways to protect himself until the transformation process completes and he can access his powers granted by his cultivation base again.

'It seems I will be practicing body forging ahead of schedule…' Leon thought wryly.

The Ravenous Black was identical to the one he had seen and used in the dreamscape.

Leon stared at the Ravenous Black in his hand for a while, before he suddenly said to his artifact spirit with a smile, ”Say, Maya, do you happen to know any good body cultivation techniques?”

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Outside the inheritance building, another three days had passed since Leon had entered the building.

During the first day, the group would still patiently wait for Leon.

They would climb down the elder tree and grab a few ant carcasses during mealtime, but due to the prince's absence, they had resort to primitive means to cook their food.

As for water, some chose to drink the herbal sap obtained from crushing the crimson leaves according to the treant's instructions, while some chose to wait it out.

During the second day since the prince's absence, the Lilith and the palace guards became impatient and anxious. They could no longer wait for the prince to leave the building on his own accord.

They began searching every nook and cranny of the inheritance building for alternative methods to enter.

The Dragon Phoenix Jade seemed to have lost its purpose and no longer powered the outer puzzle, or rather the puzzle itself had short-circuited and no longer draw power from the jade.

At the same time, someone else was even more anxious than them. As time flew by, Zorbek's bearing became more unnatural as his desire to escape grew stronger.

The palace guards had silently noticed his behavior and raised their vigilance.

The tough layer of earth above the elder tree had been removed, but it was only around 15-meter diameter in size. It was pin size in comparison to the elder tree at large.