Chapter 8: The Secret of Transferring Spirits

  Mu Jingyan's physical condition was weak, and when it came to the issue of forcibly absorbing soul power, she rarely showed a timid expression. She didn't dare look at Wu Song straight in the eye, but instead stared at the ceiling, saying with little confidence, "I just slightly forced myself to absorb a tiny bit, and I didn't feel any discomfort. After leaving Giant City, I haven't overdrawn again, so it should be fine."

  "Wait till you feel uncomfortable, it's too late!" Wu Song twisted his neck with some annoyance. As a "doctor", he hated Mu Mo's kind of disobedient "patient".

  "It's not like you're here, even if I'm seriously ill, you'll save me, right?" Mu Mogui looked at Wu Song with a slightly aggrieved expression, her fingers constantly twisting the scattered hair on her shoulders into a bun.

  "I'm not omnipotent, if you play with fire again, next time I may not be able to guarantee a 100% rescue!" Wu Song glared at Mu Nianci, but in fact, he still had some confidence in solving Mu Nianci's problem.

  "You heartless thing, can't you say something nice for once!" Mu Mogui looked at Wu Song with some resentment and said, "As soon as we meet, you know how to educate me. It's all in vain that I helped you investigate the news so hard, but you don't even show any gratitude!"

  "Have you heard about that skill?" Wu Song's eyes instantly gleamed with a strange light as soon as he heard this!

  "Of course, don't you know who I am, sister!" Mu Moyu's white and delicate neck was raised high, her chin almost pointing to the sky, she struck several poses that she thought were very becoming, before humming a tune, releasing all the anger she had accumulated earlier, and said, "I'm Mu Xiangxi, the lovely and charming one, loved by everyone! With me taking action personally, is there anything that can't be found out?"

  "Hmm..." Wu Song thought to himself, astonished to discover that besides the village's Feng Jie, there were actually women in this world who were so self-absorbed.

  "I really don't understand, you're a thief, your skill consumption of spiritual energy isn't that much, when it's consumed a lot, can't you just drink a spiritual energy potion? Why do you need such a fast spiritual energy conversion speed?" Mu Mogui didn't see Wu Song's strange expression, this little girl muttered to herself for a while and then said, "That skill is called Soul Transformation Technique, it's based on agility, should be quite suitable for you to use, the effect is that the soul's power transforms into spiritual energy at twice the speed. This thing was something my teacher obtained in his early years, but only has the first layer of incantation, my teacher went to the Imperial Library to search for it, but couldn't find the rest of the incantation, don't know if you'll be able to use it or not."

  "It's working! It's working!" Wu Song was excited this time, thinking that even if there was only one layer of incantation, he had an auxiliary device. As long as the auxiliary device scanned through the first layer of incantation, how could it not infer the subsequent incantations?

  Actually, the skill of increasing the speed of soul power conversion into spiritual energy is not something rare, but most skills in this category are specifically used by controllers. The abilities required for the skills deployed by the controller are far higher than those of the enforcer. As a veteran player, Wu Song understands this point because no matter what type of game it is, the magic value required to deploy skills for occupations in the law system is basically higher than that required for physical occupations, and it is precisely because of this that the blue return speed of occupations in the law system is often much faster than that of physical occupations.

  In the damned world of Spelberg Continent, the law of blue speed is also applicable. Whether it's a controller or an enabler, some special skills require spiritual energy when casting, and spiritual energy won't increase on its own. There are three main sources: one is to recover spiritual energy through skill training, two is to drink spiritual energy potions, and three is to transform through the power of the soul.

  Cultivating skills to recover spiritual energy has no side effects and is the right way. However, the speed of recovering spiritual energy through cultivating skills is limited, and in combat, it is often impossible to be self-sufficient. Once a prolonged battle state is entered, this requires spirit masters (those who can use the power of the soul, including Onmyojis and Kontonjus) to supplement their spiritual energy through two other methods.

  Medicines are the fastest way to recover spiritual energy, but as the saying goes, "medicines have three parts poison", and spiritual medicines have considerable side effects. Spiritual medicines stimulate brain nerves strongly, so even strong-willed controllers cannot use them continuously. This means that both spirit users and controllers find it difficult to rely on spiritual medicines for continuous casting. In other words, their spellcasting mainly relies on the conversion of soul power into spiritual energy through the power of the soul. However, the speed at which soul power converts to spiritual energy is limited. As a result, controllers who are highly dependent on spiritual energy have developed some skills to increase the speed of converting soul power into spiritual energy.

  The skill to increase the speed of converting spiritual power into spiritual energy is not some kind of untransmitted secret technique, and many large libraries even have incantations for this skill. However, the problem is that in order to learn these skills, there is a prerequisite that the learner must possess very strong spiritual power. This alone has basically blocked all spirit masters at the door. However, since spirit masters generally require very little spiritual energy to cast their skills, they can still fully utilize their spiritual energy even if they don't learn this incantation to enhance their conversion ability. Therefore, basically no one will waste their time learning this stuff. But Wu Song is an exception!

  Wu Song was a thief, and in fact, the spiritual energy required to exert his skills wasn't much. However, Wu Song didn't want to be just a thief; after learning about body doubling, developing strength, agility, and physique was no longer a dream. This meant that as long as he wasn't afraid of trouble, he could try learning warrior or even barbarian skills. This was the ultimate goal of Wu Song choosing the thief profession in the first place.

  As the saying goes, "learning for application," having learned more skills means they need to be used. In battle, if only using thief skills, Wu Song's spiritual energy would suffice. However, if he wanted to mix and match multiple skills, he felt that his spiritual energy expenditure would increase greatly. This meant that the spiritual energy obtained through current means might not be enough.

  Therefore, he was eager to learn a skill that could improve the speed of converting soul power into spiritual energy. But he didn't want to waste attribute points on spirit, so he had an outlandish idea - he wanted to find a way to learn this skill without adding spirit. After helping Mu Mogui last time, he asked her to help him investigate if such a skill existed.

  Wu Song's luck wasn't bad; Mu Mogui actually found some leads.