Chapter 608

This was the gap. A single Soul-Devouring Beast disaster made various factions deeply realize the gap between themselves and the Shenxia Empire.

Finally, the various factions began to soften their stance and started asking for help.

After delaying for more than ten days, the Shenxia Empire finally revealed their trump card.

Soul-Fusion Potion!

The Shenxia Empire could sell them the formula for the Soul-Fusion Potion, but the price was not cheap.

They didn't need gold coins; they required a large amount of materials and treasures in exchange.

At the same time, the Shenxia Empire could also supply the main material, Red Stone, needed for the Soul-Fusion Potion, at a price that was equally high.

Furthermore, there was a quota for Red Stone; only factions that had purchased the Soul-Fusion Potion formula were eligible to purchase a certain quantity.

This was also to prevent the resale of the potion formula.

The Shenxia Empire also made it clear to them that the longer they delayed, the more difficult it would be to deal with the Soul-Devouring Beast.

Every few days that passed, the number of people parasitized by the Soul-Devouring Beast would increase exponentially.

Helpless, the various factions and countries had no choice but to agree to the various demands of the Shenxia Empire in order to resolve the Soul-Devouring Beast crisis as soon as possible.

They truly had to exhaust their national resources to fund the purchase of the potion formula and materials.

Some factions did not have high-level Pharmacists, so the Shenxia Empire specifically sold finished Soul-Fusion Potions for them.

Of course, the price for that was even higher.

This time, the Shenxia Empire had suffered significant losses, so they hardened their hearts and decided to extort them heavily.

Who told them to come knocking on their own?

Otherwise, many national factions far away overseas would not have been affected by the Soul-Devouring Beast at all.

You reap what you sow; curiosity killed the cat.

These past few days, Sovereign Dongfang Yi had been in a great mood.

The national treasury, which had been heavily depleted, was starting to become full again, even surpassing its previous state.

Not only that, but their strength was also increasing.

Their souls had become stronger, their skill fusion rates had increased, and naturally, their strength had improved.

This was even more true for people like Bai Yiyuan and Meng Anwen.

Meng Anwen had originally been just one step away from Level 96.

Level 96 was a threshold; besides moving the skill star core, one also needed to comprehend the corresponding laws and integrate them into their skills.

Meng Anwen had comprehended the Law of Arrays, but he had always been just one step away from the final breakthrough.

This time, after his soul was strengthened, he managed to take that final step.

He was now comprehending the laws every day, getting closer and closer to Level 96.

Bai Yiyuan was the same; although his progress was slightly behind Meng Anwen's, it was only a matter of time before he stepped into Level 96.

The Soul-Devouring Beast incident was a huge opportunity for the Shenxia Empire.

As long as a few high-level god-tier beings could emerge within the Shenxia Empire, the throne of the world's strongest nation would be firmly secured.

For small countries like Sakura Country, even if they exhausted all their trump cards and the God of Will awakened, it would be useless.

The God of Will could only burst out with combat power equivalent to Level 98 for a short time, which was indeed stronger than Level 96.

However, a Level 96 god-tier powerhouse also possessed laws, so they were actually on the same level.

Even if they couldn't win, they could at least hold out for a while.

As long as they held out for a while, Sakura Country could just wait for its destruction.

Furthermore, it was impossible for the Shenxia Empire to have only one Level 96 high-level god-tier being.

And Jiang Yi is also about to be resurrected.

When the time came, whichever faction didn't listen could be taught a lesson…

It was imaginable that before long, all nations would kneel at the feet of the Shenxia Empire.

Lin Moyu exhausted his soul power, relying on the Divine Power to continuously recover quickly, moving the skill star core over and over again.

The second skill star core was much harder than the first one.

It wasn't that the skill was stronger, but that the Skill Space's restraint on it had increased.

As the skill star cores were moved out one by one, the Skill Space's restraint on the remaining skill star cores would only get stronger.

The further he went, the harder it would be.

Although it was difficult, Lin Moyu was full of confidence.

He believed that sooner or later he would empty the Skill Space and incorporate all the skill star cores into his soul.

Besides that, there were even more difficult Talent Cores waiting for him.

If he couldn't even empty the Skill Space, how could he talk about moving his talents?

Finally, after more than ten consecutive days of unremitting effort, the second skill star core was moved out of the Skill Space.

The moment it was moved out, Lin Moyu felt his whole body lighten.

Without the restraint of the Skill Space, the skill star core suddenly became light.

The one he moved this time was not a passive skill, but an active skill.

It was Lin Moyu's strongest trump card skill for a period of time: Corpse Explosion!

After the Elemental Lich appeared, the frequency of using this skill had greatly decreased.

Although Corpse Explosion was powerful, it had too many restrictions.

It required fresh corpses, and only if the corpses were strong enough could this skill unleash great power.

When facing some overly powerful enemies, it was impossible for there to be any corpses around.

Corpse Explosion was actually more suitable for mass killing.

But now that he had the Skeleton King, the Skeleton King's two mass-attack skills were enough to replace Corpse Explosion.

Therefore, this once god-tier skill had been shelved by Lin Moyu recently and was used very little.

Although he used it less, Lin Moyu always held expectations for this skill.

He didn't know what kind of changes would occur after it merged with his soul.

After all, this skill was only Level 7, just a little higher than Lightning Undead Wings.

It was just that this skill was too hard to level up.

When the second skill star core settled down in his soul, his entire soul shook violently again.

This vibration lasted for a long time, a full half-day, without stopping.

During the vibration, the Corpse Explosion skill star core was constantly devouring soul energy.

It was even more frantic than the absorption by the previous Damage Transfer skill star core.

Lin Moyu gritted his teeth and just let it absorb to its heart's content.

The Divine Power played a huge role again; the 6900% recovery ability made the soul's recovery speed astonishing.

Lin Moyu's aura surged throughout his body, waking up Antares.

Antares whispered, "This skill looks a bit strong."

For some reason, it felt a trace of danger from Lin Moyu's aura.

It was as if the skill Lin Moyu was currently merging could cause it harm.

Even though it knew it was impossible, it made Antares feel incredibly surprised.

Chapter 581: Relying on No External Forces, Preparing for the Third Awakening

Antares looked at Lin Moyu, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, with great curiosity.

It was very curious to know what kind of skill could allow Lin Moyu, who was not even Level 70, to cause harm to an existence like itself.

To put it bluntly, even if the Half-step Super Gods of the human race, the Demon Emperors of the Abyss, and the Dragon Emperors of the Dragon race attacked together, they wouldn't be able to hurt a single hair on it.

This was assuming it didn't fight back.

The reason it looked down on these guys was precisely because they couldn't even break its defense.

But now, it felt that this skill of Lin Moyu's could possibly hurt it.

It believed its intuition wouldn't be wrong.

Then it thought of a problem: according to this logic, the attack power of this skill of Lin Moyu's could potentially kill the Demon Emperors and others.

In Antares's cognition, a skill that could hurt it would definitely have no problem killing the Demon Emperors and others.

Thinking about it this way made it feel even more surprised.

Lin Moyu's aura finally began to calm down, and the skill star core's absorption of soul energy came to an end.

Antares didn't sleep anymore; it wanted to ask Lin Moyu properly what kind of skill this was.

The last skill had already surprised it enough; what kind of trouble was he causing this time?

"This brat, he never lets me rest."

The second skill star core, like the first, exploded with a bang after it had absorbed enough soul energy.

And it established a connection with the first skill star core, attracting each other, and began to rotate around the center of Lin Moyu's soul.

[Received soul energy, EXP + 1,000,000]

[Received soul energy, EXP + 1,000,000]

[Received soul energy, EXP + 1,000,000]

…

The information was jumping crazily; the skill star core spat back soul energy, causing a significant increase in EXP.

Lin Moyu didn't pay attention to the EXP; he saw the golden radiance on the Corpse Explosion skill star core, which was only about one-fifth.

It was much worse than the 50% fusion rate of the first one.

Relying on the powerful recovery ability brought by the Divine Power, Lin Moyu truly spared no cost to stuff soul energy into it.

But even so, there was only about a 20% fusion rate.

"Corpse Explosion was extremely difficult to level up before; I didn't expect it to still be difficult to upgrade now that it has merged into the soul."

After the skill star core entered the soul, it no longer looked at the level, but only at the fusion rate.

Looking at the fusion rate that was difficult to improve in front of him, Lin Moyu could only accept it calmly.

[Corpse Explosion (Fusion Rate 20%), detonates corpses or remains, dealing 20% of the corpse's life value before death as damage to specified targets within a 100-meter range.]

After checking the changed skill, Lin Moyu fell into deep thought.

The changes to this skill were a bit strange; the range had increased significantly, from 7 meters to 100 meters. And this 100 meters should not be the limit; it could increase in the future.

And the power was reduced from 40% to 20%, a full reduction of half.

After thinking about it, Lin Moyu felt that this change had both pros and cons.

But overall, the pros outweighed the cons.

Lin Moyu knew that his talent could have an impact on the Corpse Explosion skill.

Then the range would change from 100 meters to 7000 meters.

This range was very large and could cover the entire battlefield; even the sky was within the skill's strike range.

He didn't need to throw corpses into the sky to hit enemies in the air like before.

Secondly, he could lock onto enemies and choose which enemies would take damage.

It was no longer like before, where it would cause damage to all non-teammates within the range.