Chapter 55

"About this matter..." Zhuochuan felt a wave of helplessness. He then recounted to Dahei the news he had learned from the enforcement robot numbered "TX479" after the duel, and the fact that he still owed over a hundred thousand high-quality soul crystals.

As soon as Dahei heard this, he immediately jumped up. "How is that possible? Master, you have shed blood and exerted effort for the Human Union. How can they not give you any preferential treatment?"

"Perhaps they think I am completely dead and treat me as a soul successor. TX479 said that soul successors do not enjoy any of the contributions or preferential treatments of their predecessors," Zhuochuan couldn't help but laugh. He had only been in this new world for a short time, yet he already had several identities.

"Damn, a bunch of idiots," Dahei cursed, looking as if someone had stolen money from him.

"Even the Mother Earth cannot recognize that Master was reborn through soul reincarnation. No wonder her authority among the upper citizens is getting lower and lower," Dahei muttered, jumping down from the tray on the wall and pacing around on the ground.

"But it's no wonder. No matter how powerful Mother Earth is, she is just an enforcement machine under the control of the Union. She cannot identify Master's true identity as well as I can."

"But how can we appeal Master's identity to Mother Earth? There is not enough evidence. I am Master's subordinate and cannot be used as evidence." It started to frown again. "Master, you are too low-key. Although you haven't offended anyone, you don't have a single true friend. Otherwise, finding another upper citizen to vouch for you would be enough."

"Stop talking nonsense. I still have a way to gather the resources," Zhuochuan felt a headache. He remembered Xie Huitian, who had mentioned at a previous gathering that he could use the trillion underground currency he had just obtained to buy the qualification to exchange for soul crystals. Using this as collateral, he should be able to borrow from him.

Although this would owe him a favor, and the soul crystals were such precious items, Zhuochuan believed that the other party would definitely be willing.

"Master, even if you are penniless and start over, you can still find a way to gather such a large number of soul crystals," Dahei immediately stopped worrying when he heard there was a solution and started to flatter Zhuochuan again.

"You don't need to worry about this for now. I have another question to ask you. Do you know how to comprehend the soul skill 'Crystallization'?" Zhuochuan thought for a moment. He had plenty of soul power, but was limited by the soul skills. Apart from 'Sigh of Time and Space,' which could use soul power, the others did not require it, wasting the soul power he could absorb daily.

"Oh, Master wants to quickly crystallize soul crystals by absorbing the soul power released by those on the brink of death, just like before," Dahei, having spent a long time with B47995, naturally knew some things and guessed what Zhuochuan wanted to do.

"Um," Zhuochuan was not surprised that Dahei knew this, as the skills he had comprehended were all those B47995 had possessed in life. He believed that Dahei should be able to teach him this skill easily, just as he had with the complex 'Soul Link' skill.

"This is not so easy," Dahei, on the contrary, frowned and drooped his long ears. "If Master hadn't lost your memory, you would know that other soul skills essentially just consume a small amount of your own soul power to trigger a resonance with the temporal and spatial origin. The actual consumption is mostly of the origin power, which is what produces the astonishing power."

This was the first time Zhuochuan had heard someone explain the principle of soul skills, and it was from an authoritative source, so he listened attentively.

"Crystallization, though it seems simple, is a fundamental skill for all citizens and the foundation of all their benefits and privileges. It is a soul skill that benefits the temporal and spatial origin. The soul crystals that are crystallized come from the citizens' own soul power, which is generated from their bodies. Each time a citizen crystallizes a soul crystal, they are consuming their own soul power and also adding strength to the temporal and spatial origin. As for the meaning of the temporal and spatial origin, I will explain it to you later when you become a citizen. It's hard to explain now."

Dahei first gave Zhuochuan a preliminary understanding before explaining the difficulty.

"Because of this, to crystallize, one must first master soul power and be able to extract it from their own soul. Even if Master had mastered many other soul skills in advance, it would still be difficult to master this one."

Zhuochuan was slightly disappointed by this answer, but he was not a novice. He had seen so much in terms of soul power and naturally had his own plans.

"I have seen the soul power emitted by those on the brink of death and can absorb it. If I change my approach and find a way to crystallize it and store it for long-term use before absorbing it, wouldn't this have the same effect as crystallization? This doesn't require me to master my own soul power, does it?"

"Ha ha, Master, your memory has recovered a bit," Dahei did not refute Zhuochuan's idea but said happily, "It's not impossible, but it's very difficult, almost as difficult as a temporal and spatial experiment. After discovering your ability to absorb the soul power of others before their death, you had this idea and conducted many experiments, even interacting with an organization. However, after encountering several bottlenecks and comprehending the true mysteries of time and space, which required a lot of time to prepare for the temporal and spatial experiment, you gave up. As an upper citizen, you had the freedom to act, and although the organization was unwilling, they could do nothing. Later, nothing was heard about it."

"What is that organization?" Zhuochuan asked curiously. With the entire Earth's population as a backup source of soul power, it was clear that Zhuochuan did not want others to compete, and thus would not teach them how to identify soul power. If he could extract and crystallize soul power without them mastering it, the advantage would be significant.

"It is a robot enthusiast alliance supported and regulated by the Human Union. Its history can be traced back to the end of the 20th century, with a thousand-year tradition. They specialize in researching robots and artificial intelligence. Mother Earth is one of their most successful works. However, before your temporal and spatial experiment, due to the increasingly tight supply of soul crystals, the funding they received also decreased. The soul crystals produced by over a billion citizens were precisely calculated to the last bit, and they could no longer conduct experiments as they used to. Therefore, they turned their attention to the trillion backup citizens."

Zhuochuan nodded and stopped asking. This idea was not implemented by his predecessor, so he didn't need to waste time on it for now. He needed to solve Dahei's need for ten thousand low-quality soul crystals first, as this was crucial for his next breakthrough.