This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!

Chapter 78: Chapter 078 [An Helei’s Ash: White Summit Church] Completed

Chen Ke gasped deeply, the sensation of falling abruptly broken by the wooden floor. He lay there gazing at the somewhat yellowed ceiling before he slowly recovered.

He gradually sat up, realizing that the Teleportation Gate had sent him back to his rented room in a cheap motel… Why had it defaulted to sending him here…

When Chen Ke had opened the Teleportation Gate, he had only one thought, “return,” and it seemed the Teleportation Gate treated this tiny room as home.

He got up and pulled a shopping bag from under the bed; it was the clothing Chen Ke had bought at Walmart, where he had bought two of each item as spares. They truly came in handy now…

Perhaps it was because the room held Chen Ke’s belongings that the Teleportation Gate treated it as home.

At that moment, two orbs of light drifted toward Chen Ke from the void, one black and one orange-red. Both were absorbed by the Sun Mark on Chen Ke’s chest.

An information frame popped up before Chen Ke.

“Acquired soul: A large deformed soul”

“Acquired soul: The great soul of Faralis”

The information frame was very large, filling his entire field of vision with a semi-transparent white menu, displaying the two newly obtained souls, making a total of three that quietly stayed in the first row.

Before he could properly examine the soul menu, another information frame quickly popped up.

“Teleportation Gate List:”

“Fan Hede Kingdom”

“White Summit Church”

The Teleportation Gate’s information frame was neatly categorized, and within the sub-menu for Fan Hede Kingdom, a shortcut to the White Summit Church had been unlocked.

His gaze shifted to “White Summit Church,” then another frame popped up:

“Use the large deformed soul to open a Teleportation Gate?”

No, no, no… Chen Ke shook his head, and the information frame disappeared with a swoosh.

With a thought, he brought back the soul menu, getting ready to carefully examine the three souls he held.

“Large deformed soul”

“Utility: Adds 10 hours to life expectancy or opens a Teleportation Gate once”

“From a deformed creature that feeds on souls, it transcends time relying on something, making contact with people from different eras to make contracts.”

“A beast that craves souls will eventually lose its own, which is why soulless monsters are attracted to souls…”

Chen Ke concluded it was the soul of a contract demon. It could use souls as a currency to help people from different eras open doors to the Great Void…

Moreover, by consuming such powerful souls, Chen Ke could increase his life expectancy.

The only annoyance was that the Life Transfer Gate also required these souls to open, which meant he had to be cautious about how to use these resources in the future…

Extending life was a critical need, but collecting various Holy Relics to enhance his combat abilities was also important… He would decide how to use them based on specific situations in the future…

He decided not to rush into using the souls. Based on previous experiences when he had increased his life limit by killing toads, his life would be fully replenished each time he extended his life expectancy. He also had four Holy Relics diamonds from Fan Hede Kingdom that he hadn’t appraised yet.

Three white, one blue.

No hurry.

Chen Ke then turned to look at the second soul, the orange one.

“Faralis’s great soul”

“Utility: Adds 10 hours to life expectancy, opens a Teleportation Gate once, refines Faralis’s weapon”

“The princess of Fan Hede, Faralis’s great soul. Only those with mighty power possess such a soul, harboring the great powers of its holder’s life.”

“The witch’s child was born with the ability to control Flame, and after her mother was deemed a heretic, Faralis resolved to use her power to save her homeland.”

Chen Ke carefully examined this soul and discovered it had an additional function: weapon refinement!

This reminded him of the two-handed sword with which Faralis had stabbed at him!

Adding another 10 hours to his life wasn’t a bad choice, but getting his hands on that sword…

The Van Hede straight sword was lost, the Fire-igniting Broadsword was still stuck in the ground of the Fan Hede Church, serving as a campfire… Now Chen Ke needed a Holy Relic weapon.

Although he wasn’t sure if the weapon refined from this soul would be that sword, he was willing to take a gamble.

He decided to see what those four Holy Relics diamonds were all about; if there were no weapons, he would use Faralis’s soul to refine one.

Chen Ke pulled out four Holy Relics diamonds from the bag, appraising all three white ones in one go.

“Consumed 60 minutes identifying Holy Relics…”

[Priest’s Battle Robe]

[Durability: Average]

[Mystical Protection: Magic Damage Reduction 20%]

[Mystical Enhancement: Magic Enhancement 20%]

[Priests of the Black Ring Sect seldom participate in frontal combat, but a group of them was secretly trained as Magic Swordsmen and hidden within the Order, becoming the Pope’s covert agents.]

A blue hooded robe almost like a corpse from the great library, but with narrowed sleeves likely designed for easier ice-blade wielding.

…

[Hard Leather Legguards]

[Durability: Poor]

[Standard Protection Effect]

[Thick canvas pants paired with leather guards provide great protection to the lower body’s vital areas and are standard equipment for low-ranking soldiers of the Fan Hede Kingdom.]

Brown pants, with leather protectors at the crotch and knees, appear to have a tactical effect similar to S.W.A.T. pants.

…

[Priest’s Mask]

[Durability: Brand New]

[Mental Protection: Sanity attack effect reduced by 15%]

[A mask worn by high-level Great Master of the Black Ring Sect, an important accessory signifying status within the Order.]

[Nylonde is the youngest and fastest-rising High-level Great Master within the Black Ring Sect. However, he is not skilled in any form of magic, and is far more adept at manipulating others and gaining their favor than performing magical feats.]

This mask resembled an accessory carried during masquerade balls by the upper class, white, covering only the eyes, shaped like a pair of hands over the eyes.

…

Chen Ke shook his head slightly; it wasn’t that these three Holy Relics were useless, but they weren’t great either. Fortunately, these three weren’t in conflict, so they could at least be worn together.

What’s this blue diamond about?

“Consumed 20 minutes of life identifying Holy Relics…”

A large iron grey shield stood in front of Chen Ke.

[Automatic Standing Crossbowman’s Shield]

[Durability: Average]

[Unbreakable: Greatly reduced durability consumption rate]

[Inertia Absorption: All impact forces nullified by 80%]

[Standing: The shield can stand on any ground.]

[A large shield carried by crossbowmen, can be used as a defensive fortification once planted in the ground.]

[The Fan Hede Kingdom is known for its powerful sword control team, but its pervasive arrow rain should also not be underestimated.]

The shield was over a meter tall; Chen Ke, squatting, could completely hide behind it. He picked up the shield to test it—it was heavy, but not too heavy to carry away. However, it was not suitable for prolonged use by hand.

Its four affixes were simply perfect. Unbreakable, which would greatly extend the shield’s usage time; Inertia Absorption, allowing him to defend confidently against any brute force attacks. Standing meant that Chen Ke didn’t need to find a way to plant the shield in the ground; he just had to place it down, and it would automatically stand there.

The four Holy Relics diamonds indeed had no weapon, but this was within Chen Ke’s expectations.

Chen Ke extended his hand, a ball of soul fire, white on the outside and black in the middle, twisted into appearance in his palm—the soul of a contract demon.

He did not hesitate, crushing it immediately.

“Life Limit +10 hours…”

Duang!

A strange echo resounded in his mind, Chen Ke could now live for 20 hours!

“Just one more push and I can make it through a whole day,” Chen Ke thought to himself,

“Let’s refine a weapon!”

In Chen Ke’s hand, another large ball of orange soul fire appeared, burning intensely like a great flame—that was Faralis’ mighty soul.