269 Gifting A Pill As Compensation (1/2)

After popping the Soul Enhancing Pill in his mouth, Leon worked to replenish his mental strength by spreading the medicinal efficacy to work its magic quickly.

A cold soothing sensation waved over his soul. His mental fatigue was elevated and 50% of his mental strength was recovered.

The core of the Soul Enhancing Pill was to enhance and not to recover. As such, he did not recover as much mental strength as he had hoped to, but his soul did improve a bit.

His divine sense and Divine Will could now reach up to 220 yards away. It was an improvement of 20 yards with one pill.

The range of Divine Sense for a Divine Origin practitioner was up to 1000 yards. Compared to a Divine Origin realm practitioner, he was still far from his peak. But compared to Revolving Core practitioners, his soul was already many folds more powerful.

”If I want to sustain such a frightening cultivation speed for longer periods, I have two choices. I can continue to enhance my soul, or refine some soul recovery pills that focus on the replenishment of mental strength.” Leon ruminated.

Ideally, enhancing the soul was the better choice as he could also improve his divine sense and Divine Will ability.

However, he was not sure how many times he could enhance his soul with Soul Enhancing Pills before his soul starts to feel the strain from overstretching. If that happened then, the loss would far outweigh the gain.

He was quite sure that the secret to breaking past the Divine King realm was greatly related to the soul.

”It seems I should start looking into soul recovery pills.” Leon decided. ”But before that… let me test one more thing.”

He was not done with his Divine Will experiment. There was one more test, possibly the one he is most curious about.

Leon expanded his divine sense and gathered all the faint traces of spirit energy in the sky to his palm. The scarcity of spirit energy only allowed him to gather enough to produce a speck of azure glow.

He creased his brows, thinking that such a pitiful amount was not even close to drawing the simplest of runic circles.

Could his grey ring of energy also transform into spirit energy to compliment what was lacking?

Sure enough, the grey ring of energy began to change under his Divine Will and a stream of spirit energy channel out of his body and merged with the tiny speck in his palm.

In a brief moment, the tiny speck became the size of a walnut. Under his Divine Will, the walnut-size spirit energy began to flatten and spread to form a simple array of runic circles and symbols interlinked together.

The process only lasted a couple of breaths before the array was formed. It was much quicker than manually engraving runes. If Leon had a clear and concise image in his mind, the array would easily from like its been drawn from several points rather than from a single point.

Crack…

”Sure enough, there is no spirit energy in the surrounding to support the activation of a spiritual array, causing it to consume its own energy and collapse.”

The ancient spiritual array master did not die out without reason.

Leon shook his head. He had met the prerequisite to becoming a Spiritual Array Master, but the scarcity of spirit energy between heaven and earth did not allow him to witness the might of a spiritual array as vaguely mentioned in the inheritance.

A series of distant footsteps immediately perked Leon's ears as listened to the sounds drawing closer. He turned towards the courtyard entrance as expected incoming guests.

Leon smiled wryly as he did not find it strange at all for his eye-catching experiment to draw other people's curiosity over. In fact, it would be strange if it did not.

The head of the Supreme Elder and Princess Faelyn soon popped around the corner with two palace maids. If not for some procedures that had to be done to enter the Inner Palace, they would have arrived much sooner.

”Good afternoon, Esteemed Envoys. How may I help you?” Leon greeted and asked casually, but it was enough to cause the Supreme Elder to flinch. He was immediately amused as he could see a trace of fear in the person's eyes. A powerful Transcendent was afraid of him? Why is that so?

”Ahem, greetings, Your Highness.”

”Pardon our sudden visit, Your Highness. We were curious about the phenomenon that just happened here. If I may be so impudent as to ask, what was it?” The Supreme Elder continued while maintaining a respectful distance from Leon and under his curious gaze.

”Oh, that? Just something I was testing out. Since you are both guests here, please allow me to perform as a proper host. Come, have a seat while we chat over tea. I believe it's hardly appropriate to talk over such awkward distance.” Leon invited them over to the tea-table.

He had missed the negotiation talk previously, but his father had informed him afterward about what went down. He was quite surprised to learn that the elves were willing to become vassals of their Crawford Kingdom to overcome a calamity that may or may not happened.

Nevertheless, he highly doubted that their only reason for coming here. Surely, they had come from the World Tree. The timing was too coincidental.