211: Soul-eating!

Now, Chen De's concurrent cultivation methods are not the priority.

Although concurrent cultivation methods are good, they are not very useful right now.

Cultivating an additional system means needing to spend an additional set of attribute points.

Chen De currently doesn't have enough attribute points, so cultivating them would be useless.

Therefore, Chen De is currently contemplating a new technique.

Chen De feels that attribute points are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

Relying solely on Spirit Devouring and Blood Refining is still too monotonous.

Based on Chen De's research during this period and the combined use of his other talents,

Chen De can take a certain ability of Evil God Essence as the core, supplemented by other abilities and their uses.

Through various combinations, he has devised a technique that doesn't conflict with Spirit Devouring and Blood Refining, which he tentatively calls a martial skill.

After all, it's not Chen De's innate talent or skill; it's not something the system panel provides.

It's merely an application of Chen De's own abilities, something that needs to be learned, much like a martial artist learning martial skills.

However, Chen De still feels somewhat unsatisfied.

Because the non-conflict of these three methods made Chen De realize that they could be combined.

Chen De hasn't done much research on creating fusion-type martial skills.

However, generally, several different things can often be combined through formations.

Furthermore, this is a combination of two talents and one martial skill.

Its difficulty is much simpler than combining three martial skills.

Of course, Chen De's most important task now is to first figure out how to completely create the technique.

Ultimately, it's just an application of his talents, so it doesn't seem overly complex.

First, the foundation is the Soul Capture ability of Evil God Essence.

Similar to the Heaven Forsaken Demonic Spider's ability to cultivate by devouring the hatred, resentment, and killing intent of slaughtered lives...

Hatred, resentment, killing intent... these things are essentially a type of soul energy.

Evil God Essence's Soul Capture and Extreme Rift Demon Fetus's soul devouring, these two abilities can perfectly complement each other.

This was a sudden idea Chen De had only after obtaining the Extreme Rift Demon Fetus.

According to Chen De's calculations, the feasibility of this method is very high.

Afterward, Chen De began to study it carefully.

It's easier said than done; although it's professionally aligned, combining them isn't that easy.

After all, these are two abilities, not one.

It will still take some effort to combine them.

Thus, based on Chen De's research during this period, he finally made some progress.

That is, to use these two abilities as the core, supplemented by other methods, to achieve a seamless connection.

The initial theoretical process was fine; Chen De could deduce it himself.

Although Chen De believed his theoretical process was perfectly deduced,

theory is theory, and practice is practice.

There must still be some things Chen De hadn't considered.

Therefore, Chen De quickly began the second phase—experimentation—in his cultivation chamber!

Here, using natives is very convenient.

As long as it's not large-scale, widespread slaughter, no one will notice no matter how many die.

Moreover, being in the natives' place of origin, the cost is low, and there are as many as he needs.

It is completely sufficient to support Chen De in completing the experimental phase.

Thus, under the arrangements of the core disciples Chen De had influenced,

batch after batch of natives were sent to Chen De's cultivation chamber.

Originally, so many people definitely couldn't fit.

But what kind of place is this? With a command from Chen De, the underground cultivation chamber was quickly expanded into a plaza.

...

In the underground cultivation chamber, Chen De sat quietly cross-legged on the ground.

He slowly opened his eyes and exhaled, "Finally perfected."

Around Chen De, there were terrifyingly dead natives of all kinds.

Eyes bulging, mouths agape, faces contorted...

Without exception, all were lifeless.

It was exactly the same as when Chen De had soul-searched people to death.

During Chen De's experimental phase, most of these natives...

died in the first step—Soul Capture; such pain is not something ordinary people can endure.

Chen De had not fully considered this point during the theoretical stage.

But practice, after all, is for discovering problems.

If a problem arises, you just find a way to correct it.

Including many subsequent problems that arose, Chen De also had to correct them one by one.

Moreover, a problem usually cannot be discovered from just one native.

Sometimes, this problem appears in one native but not in another.

So for one problem, Chen De often used hundreds of natives for verification.

Finally, after consuming tens of thousands of natives, Chen De finally perfected this martial skill.

Of course, it's still not certain if it's perfect enough.

Chen De waved his hand, and all the native corpses before him released a large amount of blood qi.

It merged into Chen De's body, bringing him a few tenths of an attribute point.

The native corpses scattered across the field also all turned to ashes.

The cultivation chamber, which was just crowded and had no place to stand, suddenly became spacious.

Although it has been confirmed that there are no problems, it still needs to undergo a final test.

Chen De slowly stood up, a faint flash of blood light in his eyes, and a signal was sent out.

A moment later, the door to the cultivation chamber opened, and approximately thirty thousand natives walked in, dull and listless.

There was no one guiding them; Chen De hadn't deliberately influenced them, yet they were so obedient.

After they walked in, Chen De beckoned, and a force immediately enveloped them.

Immediately after, Chen De instantly used his technique on them.

In an instant, all thirty thousand natives showed expressions of pain, grimacing in agony, but no sound came out.

Their mouths were open, bloody inside, their tongues long gone.

When using this method, Chen De's goal is to obtain attribute points, not to torture people or search souls.

Therefore, what he values is efficiency.

These thirty thousand natives were all very ordinary, very common natives.

In less than three breaths, they all fell to the ground, completely lifeless.

Seeing that everything was done, Chen De also lowered his hand.

In Chen De's hand now was a small purple bead, about half a millimeter in diameter.

This was the harvest from the thirty thousand natives—a Soul Crystal!

Being able to collect Soul Crystals was within Chen De's expectations.

Many steps that had problems earlier also yielded Soul Crystals.

So, the presence or absence of Soul Crystals can no longer be considered the sole proof of whether there are problems.

Of course, being able to produce Soul Crystals is definitely the most basic requirement.

Other issues are merely about increasing efficiency and improving utilization on this basis.

Chen De carefully checked; not a single one of the thirty thousand natives had a problem.

If so, this martial skill can be considered perfected.

What should it be named?

Chen De paced back and forth a few times, then had a good idea: it would be called...

Soul Devour!

Spirit Devouring, Blood Refining, Soul Devour!