Above the gray fog

Above the deserted land.

A stream of light passed by quickly.

Time was running out. After being able to manipulate the four-dimensional puppet skillfully, Lin Shan put the puppet away and acted as his body.

The next goal was to strengthen the puppet.

Strengthening the puppet only required one resource.

A resource called spiritual element.

Unlike spirituality, spiritual element is not produced from nature.

It is a kind of original power carried by all living beings.

It is the superiority of faith power and willpower or their cornerstone.

The lower the life level of the living beings, the more and purer the spiritual element they carry, while the higher the life level, the more signs of scarce or impure spiritual element.

Once the spiritual element carried by the living beings is extracted, there will be ideological damage such as lack of seven emotions and six desires, or lack of wisdom.

If the spiritual element is completely extracted, it will become a vegetable with only flesh.

In other words, if Lin Shan wants to continuously strengthen the puppet, he must continue to kill.

Lin Shan had asked the parchment before whether all the methods of ascending to heaven require this step.

Parchment did not pretend to be dead again, but gave an answer - [There are yin and yang in the world, and there is a balance between positive and negative. There are also good and evil on the road to heaven. Evil is the ruthless nature. The strong stops the weak, and the strong stops the strong. The spirit element is a disaster. You can't help yourself. You can be reborn after the disaster. 】

Lin Shan roughly understood the meaning.

There are yin and yang in the world, and there is a balance between positive and negative. There are also right and evil ways to ascend to heaven.

Going to heaven from the evil way will face the ruthless side of nature, which makes the strong slaughter the weak, and makes the stronger kill the strong who slaughtered the weak.

Absorbing spirit elements is like going through the disaster, slaughtering all living beings involuntarily, standing on the opposite side of all living beings, and the danger in the disaster is the stronger.

In this process, the weak and those who slaughter the weak will mostly die.

After learning about this situation, Lin Shan immediately asked Parchment if he could change one?

Although he didn't have too many feelings, he was not a big devil who slaughtered all living beings for no reason.

Got the second answer from Parchment.

[It is fate and destiny. The righteous path is gradual and the evil path is soaring. If you can't be a bad person despised by all living beings, you can't be a saint who saves all living beings. ]

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Lin Shan came to a new gathering place.

On the surface, it looks prosperous, with creatures coming and going, full of vitality.

Lin Shan first lurked for a few days and carefully observed the movements of the strong people in this gathering place.

Not many, as expected.

But there are still king-level creatures in charge.

In the Wuxiang realm, it is almost impossible to find a gathering place without a king-level creature in charge.

It can be said that many gathering places are gathering places where king-level creatures first appeared and then existed.

Lin Shan does not intend to confront these strong people head-on. He is not ready to be a big demon who slaughters all living beings.

He has made a more secret and feasible plan for himself.

Cast a wide net and catch less.

Meaning, he can visit more gathering places and get a small amount of spiritual elements from each gathering place.

It doesn't have much impact if a creature loses only a small amount of spiritual essence. At most, the brain will become a little dumber and the emotional response will become a little duller.

Lin Shan began to arrange the ritual of extracting spiritual essence around the gathering place.

This ritual must be painted with the blood of living beings, which is not difficult for Lin Shan. When he passed by the busy area just now, he extracted one or two drops from each living being, and collected more than 200 million kilograms, which is enough to complete a corner of the formation.

The ritual has four corners in total, which need to be arranged around the gathering place.

In the method of ascending to heaven, there are more than ten ways to deprive spiritual essence. Arranging this kind of ritual is the most convenient and resource-saving, and only blood is needed as materials.

The diameter of this gathering place is about 20,000 light years, and the population living in it is too numerous to count. There are at least 100 trillion individuals in any corner.

Worried about being discovered, Lin Shan arranged it carefully.

He even used his mind to create a device that can connect to the energy of the time spear.

Mind is omnipotent. In theory, as long as the mind is strong enough, any illusory thing can become reality.

Lin Shan placed such a device in every corner of the ritual to transmit the energy of the time spear and to conceal it.

When all four rituals were arranged, an invisible energy field, like an invisible spider web, covered the entire gathering place.

At night, the gathering place gradually became quiet.

Lin Shan, who was waiting quietly, opened his eyes.

As Lin Shan raised his hand, the energy field above was instantly stimulated.

Circles of energy ripples that only he could see continued to spread outward.

These energy ripples slowly penetrated the bodies of every living being, quietly absorbing their spiritual essence.

Those strong men would also feel it.

But Lin Shan had adjusted the power of the ritual and would not absorb the spiritual essence of the strong.

The strong men in this gathering place must have discovered something, but the spiritual essence is as secret as the method of ascending to heaven. Few people know about it. At most, they will feel that the energy fluctuations around them are a bit abnormal.

The spiritual essence of all living beings began to precipitate.

In Lin Shan's eyes, the sky above the gathering place was filled with invisible transparent bubbles.

These bubbles were guided into the body of the four-dimensional puppet, which was like a bottomless pit at the moment, greedily devouring these spiritual elements.

The nature of the puppet was even closer to Lin Shan than an avatar, similar to the Holy Spirit, but Lin Shan could not feel any sensations from the Holy Spirit, but could feel all the changes in the puppet's body.

Lin Shan could clearly feel that the puppet's body was being gradually strengthened, and the progress was very fast. As long as it was extracted by morning, the puppet would be able to advance to Sequence 6.

And the loss of such a little spiritual essence would only make the sentient beings in this gathering place a little dumber.

It was a peaceful night.

The sentient beings slept in dreams, and Lin Shan's four-dimensional puppet completed the promotion in this quiet night.

Lin Shan thought in his heart that if all the spiritual essence in this gathering place was drained, the puppet might be able to advance to Sequence 4.

After struggling for a while, Lin Shan finally suppressed the malicious thoughts in his heart and cancelled the rituals arranged in the four corners of the gathering place one by one.

He understood that if he completely drained every gathering place he arrived at, it would inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.

Moreover, this approach also violated his original intention.

There are countless gathering places in the Wuxiang Realm. As long as you walk more, you will always have spiritual essence.

The streets that had been quiet for a long time gradually became lively. Lin Shan left this gathering place and began to look for the next target.