Chapter 1578 Blood and Soul

"Mr. Vader, I think the essence of life is to have a soul." Duo'er solemnly repeated.

"Does the essence of life lie in the soul?"

Joan had some doubts about Duo'er's assertion, but he couldn't find a counterexample to refute it for a while, and as far as the issue he was concerned about at the moment, Duo'er's answer was just right.

Elemental creatures, constructed creatures and undead creatures without flesh and blood, indeed, as Duoer said, at least have "souls" or similar "souls".

For example, Duoer is a high-level pleasure golem. When Professor Moriarty created her, he injected a spirit from the fire element into her body, which is equivalent to injecting her with a soul.

Without this fire element soul, Duo'er would not be able to communicate with Qiao An face to face like now.

The magical mecha "Zaku" made by Joan himself is also a constructed creature. Although the intelligence is far inferior to Duo'er, it also has a spirit from the earth element and can understand more complex commands.

"Duo'er, thank you for your inspiration, I have already figured it out."

"You're welcome, Mr. Vader, it would be great to help you!" Duo'er smiled happily.

Qiao An breathed a sigh of relief, went back to the desk and sat down, first wrote the word "blood" in the notebook, then crossed it out, and then wrote the word "soul" to make a check mark.

Now he has cleared his mind.

Elemental creatures cannot obtain blood essence, so you might as well grab their souls (soul essence) and replace blood essence as the casting material of summoning spells, and try to see what happens.

This idea is very interesting, but first we need to solve a technical problem, how to obtain the essence of elemental creatures?

The "disaster beetle" will definitely not work, even killing elemental creatures directly, the spirit will return to the original plane, just like the ghosts and demons will return to hell and the abyss after death.

Fortunately, Qiao An carried a big killer with him, which was specially used to collect the souls of the dead.

No matter it is the soul of a human being, the soul of a demon, or the spirit of an element, none of them can escape the seal of the "soul-binding bottle"!

Joan opened the storage bag, took out the soul-binding bottle with a hint of excitement, recited the mantra silently, and checked the souls imprisoned in the bottle.

In chronological order, the soul that was first sealed in the soul-binding bottle belonged to the "Old Owl" Walter Lee, a professor of Austrian law at Leiden College.

This soul was actually sealed by Martin Smith. After Joan retrieved the soul-binding bottle from Martin, he did not release Walter Lee's soul for various reasons.

The second soul in the bottle comes from the black dragon Lixini Bloodstone.

The prince of the Abyss Dragon Nest was hired by the Fizen colonists of Jotunheim to participate in the scramble for the Abyss mining area. He was killed by Joan in a conflict, and his soul was imprisoned in a bottle.

The soul of this mature black dragon is very precious, Joan doesn't think it is necessary to use it for experiments, let's keep it for now, maybe it will come in handy in the future.

There are fifteen souls of the third type sealed in the soul-binding bottle, all of which come from "Light Lurkers".

These evil goblins born in the "Fairy Wilderness" are actually a kind of "otherworldly creatures", similar to devils and demons. After the goblins die, their bodies will automatically decompose, and their souls will return to their original plane, which is the "Fairy Wilderness".

There is also the soul of a high-level activated plant in the soul-binding bottle, which is the "Lady of Flowers" Elona. Like those Lurkers of Light, she was also killed by Joan in the conflict in the Yalf Forest.

There are 12 souls of the fourth type sealed in the bottle, all of which come from Huangquan bee. They are the spoils collected by Joan when he investigated the truth of the dinosaur rebellion in Lake Aosta not long ago.

The last soul is the little devil Joan killed yesterday. This crazy guy thinks he can return to the bottomless abyss and regain his freedom after death, but Joan doesn't plan to let this annoying guy go. It comes to experiment.

But before that, Joan still needs to do some preparatory work.

If the soul is released directly from the soul-binding bottle, it will soon disappear without a trace. For the convenience of the experimental operation, Joan feels that it is necessary to arrange a carrier for the soul released from the soul-binding bottle, which can preserve the soul for a long time , to prevent escape, similar to the capsule he used to encapsulate the toxin before.

What kind of substance is suitable for making "capsules" for encapsulating souls?

Joan doesn't need to ponder this question by himself. The predecessors of the Necromancer School have already studied it, and he has read a lot of related papers.

Scholars have found that gems are most suitable for sealing souls. For example, the 8-ring "Soul Binding" and 9-ring "Binding Souls" will indicate that a gem needs to be prepared before casting the spell as a container for sealing the soul. If the gem is not destroyed, the soul will never be able to escape, nor can it be resurrected.

The word "gem" is not strict. It is difficult to say what kind of ore can be called a gem. Natural diamonds are gems, so are artificial diamonds considered gems?

This topic has been debated endlessly, and the academic community has not yet reached a consensus.

Joan is not interested in these debates, he just needs to know which gems can be used to seal the soul, and then choose the most expensive one from them.

The answer was actually right in front of Joan.

What material is the "soul-binding bottle" made of?

Black Onyx.

Is onyx a gemstone?

Forget it, but in the jewelry market, black agate is a low-grade gemstone, much cheaper than ruby, sapphire, emerald, cat's eye and the like.

As a container for sealing souls, black agate has a unique advantage, that is, this mineral has a high degree of compatibility with negative energy, and is often used as a material for necromancy.

The soul itself contains a high concentration of negative energy. Encapsulating the soul with a small piece of black agate, like freezing watermelon with green ice, is the best match.

Joan opened the spell-casting material package, took out some black agate, and then opened the soul-binding bottle. First, he transferred the soul of the little devil into a piece of black agate and sealed it. After thinking about it, he released three souls of the Lurker of Light and the soul of Yellow Spring Bee. , also encapsulated in black agate, as an experimental sample.

Joan first used the soul of the little devil as the material for casting the spell, and matched it with the first-level "monster summoning technique".

After the spell is cast, the imp's soul is consumed, leaving only a blank black onyx.

Joan used "advanced internal vision" to check the lynx summoned by the spell, and found that the big cat belonged to the "mutated lynx", obtained the "Tanari subspecies", and three supernatural abilities that he was already very familiar with.

From the experimental results, using the soul of the little devil as the material for casting spells has the same strengthening effect on summoning spells as using the blood essence of the little devil as the material for casting spells.

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