Start as a Spiritual Planter: I Have a Game Panel

Chapter 147: Devour the Remnant Soul

Ram tried to absorb the Reiki from the space into his body. The familiar flow of energy entered, but just like before, it slipped away almost as quickly as it came, dissipating back into the environment.

"Alas," Ram sighed in frustration. He had hoped that within his own space, absorbing Reiki would improve his cultivation speed, but the result was no different from his previous experiences.

Only his spiritual power, restored through his recovery talent, stayed within his body, refusing to leak back.

Shifting his focus to the Life Energy particles, he noticed that, unlike the abundant Reiki, there were only a few of these particles, which were easy to count.

Life Energy particles like these have always been rare outside the Wood Spirit World; they could only be extracted from life energy stones, which are obtained by killing monsters.

Life Energy is the essence of all living things, and it has many benefits, like strengthening the body, speeding up healing, and even extending one's own lifespan.

However, the life energy inside the Life energy stones is not pure, and it requires a professional to spend more time absorbing and refining it.

"It must be a specialty of the Wood Spirit World and the Life Spirit Tree that supports it," Ram thought to himself, observing the particles in front of him carefully.

He tried gathering the small Life Energy particles into his body, and unlike Reiki, they stayed—floating inside his body without escaping.

However, Ram soon realized that his body wasn't absorbing them. It was more like his body refused to absorb them.

The particles moved around, lingering inside him, yet they had no exit and no way to be fully integrated.

Curious, Ram examined the concentration of these energy particles using his divine consciousness.

He noticed that their concentration was similar to the amount of Life Energy he had when he was still at Tier 2.

The difference now, however, was that his current life energy concentration was already ten times stronger, and it carried unique attributes that made it far superior to the raw particles in his space.

"Seems like I've already outgrown this level of energy," he muttered, feeling the disconnect between the small particles and his enhanced body.

He allowed the Life Energy particles to drift back into the space, realizing they wouldn't be of much use to him at his current level.

Shaking his head, Ram refocused his attention on the Sylvan Soul Tree.

He looked further down below the 'Soul Conversion: Sylvan Spirit Rebirth', to check for any other new ability.

But after looking, he realized there was nothing new on the Soul Tree side. However, the previous ability, Soul Tree, seemed to have undergone a new transformation.

Its name had shifted to Sylvan Soul Tree, and while the description remained largely the same, Ram could sense more within it.

The ability had definitely grown more stronger, even if the details weren't outwardly different.

Stepping forward, Ram reached out and touched the small tree in front of him.

As soon as his fingers made contact with its delicate branches, a flow of information surged into his mind as if the tree itself was communicating with him.

According to the transmitted knowledge, this small plant had sprouted from a Sylvan Soul Seed and had now become the core of his entire personal space.

Because the plant is fused with his soul. As long as it remained intact, he was immortal in a sense, with the ability to use Sylvan Spirit Rebirth to resurrect even if his physical body were to be destroyed.

But the connection came with another risk—if the Sylvan Soul Tree were ever destroyed, he would die, regardless of the state of his physical body.

Since it is the core of the territory, he might be targeted by other lords.

Although he didn't know how other lords fought with each other, with his current strength he felt he needed to be more careful.

He took a deep breath, realizing the significance of the Sylvan Soul Tree.

Another piece of unexpected news as Ram continued to explore the Sylvan Soul Tree's depths was inside the small tree, one soul was already locked within—just as he had suspected earlier.

It was none other than the remnant soul of the Goddess of Wildfire that attacked him.

He was immediately overjoyed, but when he tried to use the Sylvan Spirit Rebirth to convert it into wood spirit, "Shit... why is there so much of it? It's just a remnant, right?" Ram muttered in disbelief, a scowl crossing his face.

From the newly acquired information, he gasped at the huge amounts of Life energy and Spiritual power needed for assimilating such a powerful remnant—seven million units each, based on his current level.

He simply shook his head; with his current strength, he needed to wait for at least one and a half years to store so much life energy and Spiritual power.

Ram took a deep breath, he didn't want to wait so long, with a resolute determination, he communicated with the Sylvan Soul Tree, commanding it to devour the soul body of the goddess in order to strengthen itself as nutrients.

There was no reason to hesitate. After all, improving the Sylvan Soul Tree directly meant strengthening his own soul.

The tree responded, its leaves trembling softly, as if eager to swallow the soul power contained within the remnant soul of the Goddess of Wildfire.

Suddenly, his perspective changed, and he felt like he was turned into a small tree, and felt it through the Sylvan Soul Tree, it's not just the huge amount of soul power, even the quality of the soul seemed many times stronger than his current soul.

Soon numerous small tree roots extended from the Sylvan Soul tree and wrapped themselves around the locked soul.

The remnant although unconscious still resisted instinctively, causing the space around the Sylvan Soul Tree to shimmer and warp under the immense pressure of the goddess's remaining willpower, attempting to lash out and free itself.

However, there were not many changes to the Sylvan Soul tree, and Ram also remained steady. His gaze didn't falter.

The soul was already captured, and there was no way to escape as the tree's roots started siphoning the raw energy from the soul.

Each strand of power pulled into the tree sent jolts of wild energy surging through Ram's soul, his body trembled under the intensity, and for a moment, it felt as if the wildfire might consume him.

But it was at this time, that the wild soul energy that entered the Sylvan Soul Tree and rampaged around was forcefully torn into even smaller strands and absorbed by it.

"Keep going..." Ram whispered with excitement, silently cheering out. He could feel the pull between his soul and the Sylvan Soul tree becoming stronger with each second and cool currents strengthening his mind.

He could also feel that the upper limit of his soul power and his spirit attribute began to increase with noticeable changes, even the plant body began to grow larger and stronger.

After completely absorbing four strands of soul power, a new branch with two large leaves grew up on the side of the Sylvan Soul Tree.

And Ram immediately checked both his Spirit attribute and Soul power, there was a sharp increase in both.