Chapter 469: Quasi-Divine Effect: Mystic Refining

‘I wonder what this Rank 2 Blood Spirit Grass will turn into?’

Since the Blood Spirit Grass was just a Rank 2 Spirit Plant, even if it didn’t give out good items from refining the Blood Spirit Grass, Ethan wouldn’t be losing anything.

[A Perfect Quality Blood Spirit Grass…requires at least 9 more Blood Spirit Grass for refining]

[Note: Using more quantity gives high-quality rewards]

Just as Ethan was about to inject his Golden Essence to activate the Cauldron’s Quasi-Divine Effect, he received system notifications that made him mutter, ‘Interesting… so, the quality of the end result will depend on the quantity.’

Ethan had harvested lots of Blood Spirit Grass in the past, and he sold most of them in the Starlight Merchant Union’s store, but he still had thousands of them aside.

Moreover, since it was his first time using the Quasi-Divine Effect of the Mystic Soil Heart Cauldron, he wanted to see the result before using some high-level items.

Thus, without hesitation, Ethan tossed 1000 Blood Spirit Grass into the cauldron before activating it.

‘Swiish’

Soon, a transparent golden lid appeared on the cauldron, blocking Ethan’s sight from what was actually happening inside the cauldron.

‘Ting’

There was a sound from the cauldron, which Ethan knew without any explanation that the refining of the 1000 Blood Spirit Grass was completed.

[The refinement is successful]

[The host received a High-level Spirit Stone (Blood)]

‘A High-level Spirit Stone? Really?’

Ethan was shocked and soon, he became excited.

One High-level Spirit Stone is equivalent to 1000 Mid-level Spirit Stones and 1 million Low-level Spirit Stones.

In exchange for 1000 Rank 2 Spirit Plants, getting one million Low-level Spirit Stones was thousands of times more profitable.

‘According to the market price, by selling 1000 Perfect Quality Blood Spirit Grass, I cannot earn more than 10,000 Low-level Spirit Stones, but using this Cauldron, I got 1 Million Low-level Spirit Stones.’

So, how could Ethan not be excited about it?

‘Although it is a Blood-attributed Spirit Stone and would be less valuable, it is still a High-level Spirit Stone that can be extremely useful to my two Demonic Blood Dragons, and even Seraphis, my First Night Demon, could use these types of Spirit Stones to increase her cultivation.’

When it comes to the attributed Spirit Stones, the most valuable one was obviously the Universal Spirit Stones that could be used by any cultivator for their cultivation.

Next would be the five elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Wood, and Earth.

Following that, Metal, Blood, Sun, Moon, Azure, and so on are extremely rare—and so are the cultivators who have such special elemental spirit roots.

Of course, if you find the right customer, you could sell these special-type Spirit Stones at a premium since they are rare.

‘I have no plans to sell the Blood-type Spirit Stones as I have two gluttons and a Night Demon.’

Although there were more than a dozen Night Demons under him, only Seraphis had a special skill that let her use the Blood Element.

‘Compared to the two gluttons, giving this Blood Spirit Stone to Sera would be the best thing.’

Sera was close to perfecting her foundation and was not far from breaking through to the Demon Core Realm, and a Blood Spirit Stone was a perfect cultivation resource she needed.

Therefore, Ethan decided to give her the Blood Spirit Stone.

‘Let’s see whether I will get the same item or a different one.’

Ethan wanted to get a full understanding of how the Quasi-Divine Effect works.

So, he started using 1000 Blood Spirit Grass to do various tests.

[The refinement of 1000 Blood Spirit Grass is successful]

[The host received a High-level Spirit Stone (Blood)]

…

[The refinement of 100 Blood Spirit Grass is successful]

[The host received a Mid-level Spirit Stone (Blood)]

…

[The refinement of 10 Blood Spirit Grass is successful]

[The host received a Low-level Spirit Stone (Blood)]

After a few times, Ethan learned that he would receive the same Blood Spirit Stone every time he refined the Blood Spirit Grass.

However, depending on the quantity, the level of the Blood Spirit Stone changed.

Moreover, he also learned that he could not add more than 1000 Blood Spirit Grass in one batch of refinement.

‘If not for that, I was planning to put 10,000 or even 100,000 Blood Spirit Grass into the cauldron to see what level of Spirit Stone it would give.’

Ethan smiled, but he knew he was thinking too much about it.

‘Also, there is no need to refine low or mid-level Blood Spirit Stones when refining High-level Blood Spirit Stones is the most profitable thing to do.’

This was the conclusion that Ethan came to after a few experiments.

With that, Ethan refined another two batches of 1000 Blood Spirit Grass into High-level Blood Spirit Stones.

‘Now, it is time to see what I can get from the Bloodheart Lotuses.’

With the satisfying results from his sample tests, Ethan decided to move to the next round of refinements, where he would be using Special Rank 4 Spirit Plants.

After five minutes,

[The refinement of the 100 Bloodheart Lotus is successful]

[The host received a Special Rank 5 Pill: Bloodheart Pill]

‘A Special Rank 5 pill… great.’

It was Ethan’s first time hearing about it; however, seeing that it was a Special Rank 5, Ethan was more than satisfied.

[Pill Name: Bloodheart Pill]

[Effect: Upon consumption, the cultivator’s injuries will be rapidly healed and the duration of the activated bloodline will be increased by 25 percent]

[Note: If the bloodline is not activated, the second effect will disappear and the cultivator needs to consume another Bloodheart Pill]

[Note: Only one pill can be consumed per day]

‘What? It will increase the duration of the activated bloodline?’

Compared to the rapid healing effect, Ethan was more excited about the second effect of the pill.

Although it was only 25 percent, and there were limitations to it, it was enough to change the tide of the battlefield, and Ethan was more than happy about it.

‘But the sad thing is, I have no more Bloodheart Lotus to do some experiments with.’

Ethan only had a little more than 100 Bloodheart Lotuses in his possession. So, he could not try to refine various qualities.

“I wonder what I will get if I refine 1000 Bloodheart Lotuses?”

Ethan was curious as he muttered to himself.

“Master, just like how you can’t refine more than 1000 Blood Spirit Grass, you can’t refine 1000 Bloodheart Lotuses due to its grade.”

Hearing Ethan’s words, Miso chirped, explaining the restriction.

“Really?”

Ethan was not surprised about it because he knew there was indeed such a restriction on the quantity of the Spirit Plants tossed into the cauldron.

Since Bloodheart Lotuses are Special Rank 4 Spirit Plant, the cauldron can’t refine 1000 of them at once despite being a Quasi-Divine Grade Cauldron.

“But, why did you stay silent until now? If you know everything about it, why can’t you say it?”

Although Ethan didn’t hate what he was doing—in fact, he was loving what he was doing.

But, he just wanted to tease the little spirit whenever he could.

“It’s because you didn’t ask.”

Miso flew around Ethan with a smiling face.

After opening up their hearts to one another, Miso was in a good mood today, thinking about the future.

So, she was lost in her thoughts, and by the time she woke up from her thoughts, Miso heard Ethan’s muttering and answered him.

Of course, she didn’t say she was thinking about the future all this time and just woke up; instead, she used an excuse that Ethan didn’t ask her for help.

“Forget it.”

Looking at the smiling face of the Nature Spirit, Ethan shook his head with a smile and focused on the next refinement session. “Time for the final testing.”

This time, Ethan tossed 100 Emerald Lightning Life Grass into the cauldron and once again, activated the cauldron.

However, the cauldron didn’t close, meaning he overloaded it.

‘As I expected, I can’t refine 100 Emerald Lightning Life Grass at once.’

Since Emerald Lightning Life Grass is a Special Rank 5 Spirit Plant, he could not refine so many of them at once. So, he started removing them.

‘Swiish’

Only when there were 10 Emerald Lightning Life Grass, the Mystic Soil Heart Cauldron got closed, and its Quasi-Divine Ability was triggered.

After one hour,

As the grade of the items placed inside the Cauldron increased, the duration for their refinement also increased.

Regardless of the quantity, the Blood Spirit Grass was refined within a minute, whereas 100 Bloodheart Lotuses needed five minutes.

Now, when he was refining the Emerald Lightning Life Grass, even after one hour, the Cauldron didn’t show any signs of completion.

Another hour passed by when the Cauldron finally started shining brightly, and with a ‘Ting’ sound, the lid disappeared.

[The refinement of the 10 Emerald Lightning Life Grass is successful]

[The host received a Supreme-Level Spirit Stone (Life-Elemental)]

[The host received a Supreme-Level Spirit Stone (Lightning-Elemental)]

‘T-this… two Supreme-Level Spirit Stones?’

Although it was Ethan’s first time hearing about the Supreme-level Spirit Stones, he knew there existed Spirit Stones that were above High-level.

Since his Spirit Root was now a Supreme-Grade one—which was higher than a High-Grade Spirit Root—Ethan was expecting there to be Supreme-level Spirit Stones.

Nevertheless, Ethan was thoroughly shocked when he saw he didn’t receive the pill but not one Supreme-level Spirit Stone, but two.

‘Moreover, one of them is a Life-Elemental which can be used by all living beings.’

Ethan hurriedly picked the two Spirit Stones from the cauldron, and the moment he touched them, the system showed their information.

In that, he saw an effect that excited him.

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