Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 459 "Spiritual Body"

Sanctuary paradise, exclusive room.

"Uh um... Lailai, how long has it been?"

"About three hours. Welcome back, Ling Yuzi."

Soft light sprinkled into Ling Yuzi's pupils. She opened her eyes, looked at Xin Lailai's face in front of her, and heard the other party's words, feeling a sense of relief in her heart.

"Xiaobai and the others haven't come back yet?"

"They're back, but they seem too tired from playing, so I let them rest first."

Xin Lailai stroked Ling Yuzi's snow-white hair, looked up at the two little guys who were sleeping together, and said with a smile.

"That's it..."

Upon hearing this, Ling Yuzi sat up from Xin Lailai's arms and looked in the direction Xin Lailai was looking. When he saw the two little ones snoring with their bellies tilted back, a warm smile broke out on his little face.

Sure enough, that was the most correct choice...

"What's wrong? Why are you laughing so happily?"

"Nothing, I just feel that it's great that Lailai and I can live like this now. Lailai, what do you think...if one day we can live to the point where we don't need to stay in paradise anymore, what kind of life will we live?"

"Well... I think it's probably better to find a more stable place to live with Xiaobai and Xiaopu and do what I like, right?"

Xin Lailai sat on the bed, hugging Ling Yuzi, looking at the scene in front of him, squinting his eyes, and muttered:
“So, we have to survive even more.”

"Ah."

When Ling Yuzi heard this, his eyes moved slightly. He held Xin Lailai's hand with his small palm, nodded slightly, and snuggled in the other's arms, closing his eyes and taking a rest.

Seeing this, Xin Lailai didn't say much, but just gently stroked the hair of the girl in his arms, with a hint of tenderness in his eyes.

Although he has not yet sensed the girl's memory and understood her specific experience in the process of awakening her talent, he is still very clear that the longer it takes to awaken the talent, the more energy it consumes.

So, Xin Lailai held the girl in his arms and focused his attention on the book in front of him again.

Although he was very curious about what kind of talent Ling Yuzi would have after awakening, he knew very well that Ling Yuzi would definitely prefer her to share this joy in person rather than for him to check it out alone.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ling Yuzi."

……

The next day.

"Uh-huh?"

When Ling Yuzi opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was not Xin Lailai's face, but a soft, snow-white little head.

"Aww!"

When Xiao Pu saw Ling Yuzi waking up, he let out an excited cry, then immediately jumped forward excitedly and threw himself into Ling Yuzi's arms.

Ling Yuzi smiled when he saw this, but suddenly remembered that he was still in the state of a soul. When he was about to use the crystal element technique to condense a magic crystal to catch Xiao Pu, he saw that the other party fell directly into his arms, and...

——It didn’t penetrate the past.

"Eh?"

Ling Yuzi was startled when she saw this. At this moment, Xin Lailai's voice suddenly came from her ears:

"Are you awake?"

"Well, Lailai, this is..."

Ling Yuzi looked at Xin Lailai who was hugging him and nodded, then looked at Xiao Pu who was acting coquettishly in his arms. There was a hint of confusion in his eyes, but he had already guessed something in his heart.

"Although I don't know what's going on, but judging from the results, after awakening your talent this time, it seems that you have the ability to transform your soul into a physical entity. As for the specific details, we will only know after seeing the specific effects of your talent."

"Come to think of it, I've been looking forward to it all night, waiting for you to reveal the answer, Ling Yuzi."

Xin Lailai said with a smile. When Ling Yuzi heard that Xin Lailai had not yet checked the specific content of his talent, he was stunned at first, and then he immediately understood the other party's thoughts. His eyes moved slightly, a happy smile appeared on his face, and he nodded vigorously.

"Well, I'll start watching it then. If the talent doesn't work, don't laugh at me, Lailai!"

"Pfft, I should be the one saying this, right? After all, my complete substitution is much more deceptive than your spiritual body, Ling Yuzi."

Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai smiled and said jokingly:
"Okay, let's get started. To be honest, I really can't wait!"

"Ok!"

Ling Yuzi responded with a hint of anticipation in his eyes. He took a deep breath and clicked on the talent interface on the branding interface.

The next second, a large amount of light blue text appeared, causing the two people's breathing to subconsciously become tense:

……

【Talent Interface】

Name: Spirit Body

Category: Special Talent (One Awakening)
Level: S (highest level for first awakening)
Talent effect 1, Transformation of Soul into Body (Passive): Soul potential rank +1, Soul strength +10, Soul ability effect increased by 50%, Soul energy recovery speed increased by 200%, a semi-solid Soul energy crystal shell can be formed on the surface of the soul, greatly reducing the speed of Soul energy loss when the soul is exposed to the outside world, and improving environmental resistance.

Talent effect 2, transform soul into shell (active): can consume 100% of soul energy and transform the soul energy crystal shell into a permanent soul shell. The soul shell can be operated freely, and when the soul dies, it can be reborn immediately with the help of the soul shell. The current upper limit of soul shells that can be condensed is: 0/1.

Tip: The soul shell will automatically dissipate when the distance between it and the main body exceeds the world range.

……

Soul energy crystal shell, soul body...

After seeing the specific effects of the talent, the two rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

"Lai Lai, this... is it really my talent?"

"If the park doesn't show any errors, I think... it should be."

Xin Lailai looked at the talent introduction in front of him and his throat moved slightly twice.

Magic skills.

Any contractor with a little vision, seeing the spiritual body in front of him, will definitely understand how abnormal this talent is. Even if someone who specializes in the soul system sees this talent, he will definitely be so jealous that he can't sleep for several days!
Under normal circumstances, what would a pure spiritual soul like Ling Yuzi fear the most?
Was it the enemy's devastating attack? Or was it that their own attack methods were too poor?
Unfortunately, neither is true. What spirits like Ling Yuzi fear most is the loss of soul energy caused by a special environment with extremely complex supernatural energy.

Pure soul bodies are different from normal humans. Once they lose their physical bodies and are exposed to a complex extraordinary energy environment for a long time, the soul energy in their bodies will begin to dissipate continuously because they lose the protection of the physical body.

To put it bluntly, a pure soul body is very fragile. Although the soul body is immune to all kinds of physical damage and can basically ignore all kinds of spell damage, once it encounters an extreme environment that is not suitable for the soul body to perform, the soul energy will be consumed after walking a few steps, and it will be torn to pieces if it encounters some energy turbulence.
This shortcoming can be said to have seriously affected the timing and environment choices of the soul body's actions in the outside world, making it impossible to bring into play many of the advantages that the soul body should have.

Of course, as a huge system that has remained strong after several epochs, the Soul System naturally cannot be without means to deal with this kind of problem. However, most of those means are too advanced for them now and they cannot afford to use them for a long time. The few that can be used now have very poor effects and can basically only be used as emergencies.

But now, with the semi-solidified soul energy crystal shell, they basically don't need to worry about the problem of soul energy loss anymore. However, judging from the fact that Ling Yuzi's soul energy did not decrease at all after a good sleep, the soul energy required to maintain the soul energy crystal shell is simply too little to be called outrageous.

It can be said that a soul energy crystal shell alone is enough to make all the soul system jealous, and the spiritual body talent effect 2 directly raises the value of this talent to a level comparable to those top soul talents.

To put it simply, this effect can be understood as follows:

——From now on, they have one more life that they can spend as they please.

In fact, due to the soul core, his and Ling Yuzi's souls can be re-condensed with the help of the soul core even if they die. However, since condensing the soul requires a lot of energy, and if one of the souls dies suddenly, it will cause their strength to decline seriously in a short period of time, they often dare not waste their souls.

But that's different now.

With this extra life, they can use it to test the enemy's intelligence and consume the enemy's status. Finally, when they feel that it is enough, they can explode to disgust the opponent. During this period, they don't need to worry about any impact on their main body. Afterwards, as long as the soul crystals are sufficient, they can use the soul-absorbing secret method to quickly restore soul energy, and then condense a new soul clone to continue rushing over to disgust the opponent.

"Ling Yuzi, how about you try to figure out how long it takes to condense a soul body?"

"Well, I'll try it now!"

Ling Yuzi nodded excitedly, closed his eyes immediately, and followed the feelings in his mind and the additional information after awakening, trying to condense his soul body.

As Ling Yuzi made this move, it was clear that the color of the semi-solidified crystal shell on his body surface began to darken, and at the same time, the soul energy bar on Ling Yuzi's status bar began to decrease rapidly. One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Time passed little by little, until almost ten minutes had passed, when an invisible soul wave suddenly spread out, and an extremely illusory figure popped out from the completely materialized 'Ling Yu Zi' and fell to the ground staggeringly.

"Hoo...Hoo! Lai...Lai, have you taken a look? I...I feel that you should be able to control her, too?"

Ling Yuzi, whose entire soul had become a little weak due to the huge consumption of soul energy, looked at the body in front of him that was exactly the same as his own, and said breathlessly. At the same time, he hurriedly reached out and pressed on the soul crystal prepared by Xin Lailai, quickly absorbing the soul energy inside.

He can also manipulate the soul body formed by the zero-residue? !
Xin Lailai was slightly startled when she heard this, then her eyes lit up and she realized that this was indeed very likely.

Wait, if that's the case, this kind of thing should...

Suddenly, Xin Lailai seemed to realize something, and hurriedly opened his talent interface to check:
……

Talent 2, Ethereal Body (first awakening): Soul Strength +10, Soul ability effects increased by 50%, Soul energy recovery speed increased by 200%, a semi-solid Soul energy crystal shell can be formed on the surface of the soul, greatly reducing the speed of soul energy loss when the soul is exposed to the outside world, improving environmental resistance, and can control the soul body formed by the Soul energy crystal shell.

……

Sure enough, all these abilities were described in the talent he shared from Ling Yuzi!

Xin Lailai looked at the information at the edge of his vision, and a hint of understanding appeared in his eyes. Then he looked at the soul body in front of him with a burning gaze, opened up the spiritual field, and then...

"Um, Ling Yuzi, how do I transfer my consciousness into this thing?"

"Just go with your feeling, like this."

"...Wait a minute, show me again. I didn't see it clearly just now."

"Really, Lailai, why do you become such an idiot when you get to a place like this?"

"Ahem, can you blame me for this? This kind of thing has no theory and no process. It's all based on my own feelings. For someone like me with a D-level soul aptitude, the requirements are too high..."

"Hmm...how about Lailai, we enter the spirit assimilation state first, it should be easier to teach you this way?"

"Hmm!" "Ah?"

"Little Pu, mom and dad are busy, how about you go play with your brother first?"

"Ah~!" "Well, so good!"

……

So, half a day later, the exclusive room.

Pfft!
"Finally all the tests are completed. It's so tiring!"

In the room, Xin Lailai, with a tired look on her face, lay down on the bed, feeling completely exhausted.

"I can't help it. Who told you to rush to take part in every endurance test and self-destruction test, Lailai? I clearly said that we would take over."

"Ahem, isn't it because I don't want you to be too tired?"

"really."

"Then why do you always change your slogan every time you blow yourself up, Lailai?"

"Well, this... is mainly... uh, that..."

Xin Lailai, who was lying on the bed, heard Ling Yuzi's question and a look of embarrassment appeared on her face. She avoided the other's gaze embarrassedly.

——He couldn't say that he actually felt that exploding in that kind of atmosphere would bring about a sense of passion and romance that was unique to men, right?
——As for the endurance test, it was simply because he didn't want Ling Yuzi to get tired. After all, it was not decent for a grown man to watch his wife do hard labor.

"Ahem, how about we take a look at the results of today's experiment first? We still have to give gifts to Xiaobai and Xiaopu later!"

Xin Lailai coughed twice in embarrassment, and just like a thief, he turned his eyes to the test results in front of him under Ling Yuzi's scrutinizing gaze:
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[Record number: 01-67]

"Spiritual Body (First Awakening)" Effect Test Data Report

Test content: This test condensed the spirit body 14 times in total, and the data obtained during the test is as follows...

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Lines of information flashed before Xin Lailai's eyes. These were the data he and Ling Yuzi had obtained after testing for half a day.

The first is the existence time of the [Soul Shell]. According to their tests, since the [Soul Shell] is not a real soul body, even if it is formed by the [Soul Energy Crystal Shell] with an extremely low escape rate of soul energy, if it is left alone, even if it is placed in the soul space, it can only exist for about 3 days.

However, if a [soul body] is inhabited by consciousness, the soul energy inside it will be affected by conscious activities and become more orderly, and the existence time of the [soul body] will become abnormally long. According to the escape rate they tested, a [soul body] with consciousness inhabited can conservatively be estimated to exist for at least one year.

In other words, after condensing the [Soul Shell], it is best to temporarily use the [Soul Shell] as a 'clone' to temporarily replace the soul body to act, otherwise they will have to condense the [Soul Shell] again every few days due to the problem of dissipation rate, resulting in serious waste of soul energy.

From this point of view, this is actually a small flaw of the soul shell. If a person has not opened up a soul space, he may have to face the problem of where to place his soul body if he uses the [soul shell] to act.

Of course, compared to the powerful effect of [Soul Shell] itself, this small flaw can be completely ignored.

In addition, they also conducted a lot of tests on the performance of the [Soul Shell], and finally concluded that the soul clones formed by the [Soul Shell] can perfectly exert their various abilities, and will also undergo certain changes depending on the different occupants.

For example, when Xin Lailai moves in, the mark on the [Soul Shell] will change to [Devil's Mark], and when Ling Yuzi moves in, the mark on it will change to [Angel's Mark].

To put it simply, although they use the [Soul Shell] as a clone, in fact, this thing is just as its name suggests, just a shell, a container, a group of soul energy formed into a special structure. It does not have any special abilities itself. Even the basic [Soul Shell] with the ability cycle given to them by 83203 cannot be copied. Otherwise, it would not be able to exist for only three days without anyone controlling it.

At the same time, after several tests, they also found that the death of the [soul body] did not have no effect on the main body at all, but the impact was extremely weak.

To put it more specifically, if they experience death repeatedly in a [soul body] within a short period of time, it seems that it will cause a certain error in the accuracy of their mental power and soul energy control within a short period of time.

But in subsequent tests, they discovered that if they could voluntarily abandon the [soul shell] before death, they would not be affected by the death of the [soul shell]. Based on this result, he and Ling Yuzi speculated that it was probably because the part of their [consciousness] that entered the [soul shell] still belonged to the main body. Therefore, if it could not be extracted before the death of the [soul shell], it would still have a very minor impact on the main body.

This also includes the formation of the [Soul Shell]. This process is not a fool-proof automatic operation, but must be carried out by the Zero-Residue... or the two of them in the elf assimilation state, concentrating on carefully constructing every structure of the [Soul Shell].

To put it simply, although the ability description of [Soul Shell] is that it can be condensed by consuming only soul energy, in fact, the energy consumed in the process of condensing [Soul Shell] is also extremely huge.

Considering the time it takes to condense, this ability is obviously not suitable for use in combat, but is more suitable for use when one's own body is absolutely safe.

There is also the hardness of the [Soul Energy Crystal Shell] itself. After repeated tests, they confirmed that the material hardness of this thing is roughly the same as the basic defense of a contractor with 80 points of physical attributes who has not broken the real attribute barrier without any bonus. It is not that weak, but when put into the battles they are experiencing now, it is not much different from paper.

As for the explosive power of a punch without using any supernatural powers, simply using the soul body wrapped in the [Soul Energy Crystal Shell]... it can only be said that it is in line with the fact that the soul is light.

Of course, although the power is relatively subtle, thanks to the advantage of being light, even if a set of [Soul Energy Crystal Shell] is condensed on the body, the flying speed of the soul body is not greatly affected. If the soul could travel 30,000 miles in one thought before, now it is probably about 28,000 miles in one thought. Although it has been reduced, considering the benefits brought by the [Soul Energy Crystal Shell], this shortcoming is completely within an acceptable range.

In fact, after conducting detailed tests, Xin Lailai gradually calmed down and realized that although Ling Yuzi's awakened "Spirit God Body" was powerful, it was still within the scope of what the "Spirit God Body" itself could achieve, and was not as omnipotent and abnormal as he had imagined at the beginning.

At least, judging from the current results, the strength of Ling Yuzi's current "Spirit Body" is actually still significantly different from the "Immortal Soul Body", the top talent of the soul system that Kagus had told them about at the time.

For example, the "Spirit God Body" itself is a special talent that cannot grow, while the "Immortal Soul Body" is a growth-type talent that can grow infinitely. Another example is that the "Spirit God Body" only forms an empty shell, while the "Immortal Soul Body" can form a complete soul incarnation, and so on...

-By the way, the reason for this comparison is not for any other reason, but simply because Kagus revealed to them that his initial talent is the "Immortal Soul Body".

“Tsk, your luck must have been affected by your previous encounter with Shan Xi, Ling Yuzi. Otherwise, how could your awakened talent not even be better than that of Teacher Kagus!”

Xin Lailai lay on the bed, complaining indignantly.

"...Um, Lailai, why don't you say a few words? I think this is actually quite good. There's no need to surpass Mr. Kagus."

Ling Yuzi looked at Xin Lailai, who was filled with indignation, and said in a low voice.

"How can this be possible! Ling Yuzi, you are the cutest spirit in the world, even more so than Mr. Kagus, an outdated antique..."

Xin Lailai continued to speak in ecstasy, but halfway through her speech, a picture from Ling Yuzi suddenly appeared in her mind. She paused for a moment, and quickly looked at Kagus standing at the door of Xiaobai's exclusive room, rubbing her hands, and said in a flattering manner:

"Hey! Isn't this Mr. Kagus? Come on, come on, please take a seat! Mr. Kagus, wait a moment, what kind of tea would you like? I'll make it for you!"

"Haha, today I suddenly want to drink tea made from the blood of my unfilial disciple. How about it?"

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(End of this chapter)