Chapter 55 A double-edged sword
While meditating on the Green Forest Plane, the starlight decreased, but several swirls of pale green points of light appeared. This kind of vortex is a form that has never appeared before, it is very unstable, and the time of existence is very short.
Richard tried to capture a few, and found that it contained a lot of life energy. This simple form of life energy is as troublesome as the power of various pure attributes, and it requires corresponding exercises or meditation techniques to be able to absorb it more efficiently.
Very few of the energy contained in this vortex of life can be converted into magic, and most of it will be directly dissipated. Richard's elven bloodline can almost completely absorb the energy of the life vortex, but it is not easy to transport them to the range of elven bloodline absorption.
Although the Akmund bloodline does not reject life energy, it absorbs very little. When Richard accidentally entered a meditative state in the Akmund family cemetery, the Hellfire energy he captured was clearly repelled by the elven bloodline.
In fact, when Richard meditates now, he perceives not only the stars and the vortex of life, but also a lot of floating droplet-shaped energy. This is the most abundant elemental energy that is biased towards water. But Richard tried to absorb them a few times, only to find that their transformation efficiency was even worse than that of the Life Vortex. Only the elemental branches of the elven bloodline can absorb these energies in their entirety, and that is not what Richard is currently trying to strengthen.
Richard now had a faint feeling that he might be meditating on a different plane, and what he perceived was the energy unique to that plane. Whether or not you can use these energies is related to each person's cultivation method and their own attributes, especially the influence of bloodline ability. Some energies are universal, such as the magic that ordinary meditation increases. The starlight caused by the dark blue fantasy is a more advanced general-purpose power, and Richard can detect the existence of the starlight in almost any environment and use it, but the number of stars in different environments is more or less.
The strength of the planes is different, as can be seen from the density of the various energies perceived during meditation. The energy that can be absorbed when cultivating in Norland is much denser, and most of it is based on general-purpose energy. It is only in some special circumstances that a large amount of special energy can be found. Among the secondary planes, there are planes like Midori that are dominated by extreme forces, and planes like Farrow that are highly similar to Norland. However, the latter two are still far behind Norland in terms of energy density and magnitude.
At this point, Richard suddenly realized why the cultivation of the main plane was faster than that of most secondary planes. The so-called upper limit of plane power is determined by the law, but the form of the surface is in the thinness of the energy density.
At this moment, when Richard sensed his body, it was as if he had seen a strange small space. The base of the space is a green meadow, and on the grass there are five World Trees, but some of them are only illusory, and some of them are already very strong. The five World Trees joined together at their roots, and countless tendrils pierced through the mudstone of the base, waving and fluttering in the air.
Around the World Tree, however, were veins of dark red blood, forming a huge hollow spherical network that surrounded the World Tree. Through the outer walls of these moving veins, you can see the magma flowing inside, and there are several golden symbols floating in the magma from time to time. That's Richard's real name for Awakening.
Now the starlight captured by Richard wants to be transported to the World Tree by first passing through a grid made of Akmund's bloodline. This is a difficult job, because the tennis ball made of Akmund's blood is constantly spinning. To penetrate it, in addition to powerful computing power, you need to have enough luck. For every two stars Richard captured, one was inevitably intercepted by the Akmund bloodline. This is also the reason why Richard noticed that the Akmund bloodline began to suppress the elven bloodline.
Richard suddenly remembered that when he first entered the dark blue, Su Helen was extremely curious about his hybrid of demon and elf blood, and this must be the reason. These two bloodlines are indeed inherently difficult to coexist.
Fortunately, the Akmund bloodline was not interested in the life vortex, and he also took the initiative to avoid it, which allowed Richard to nourish the elven bloodline more efficiently. Among the five branches of the World Tree, the Phantasmal Star backbone is the basis for Richard to build his future power system.
So during these hours in the Green Forest Plane, Richard did his best to capture the vortex of life.
The day before his return to Norland, Richard still scheduled a meditation.
He was using his consciousness to tug at a vortex of life, carefully trying to traverse the Akmund bloodline. However, at the moment when the line was about to succeed, the life vortex suddenly throbbed, decomposed and reduced to the original life energy, and overflowed in all directions. Only a small part of the energy that drifted away melted into Richard's body and became magical. The rest was gradually lost.
Richard let go of his frustration and began to pull a new vortex of life nearby, this time before reaching the Akmund Bloodline Tennis Ball, and then it was scattered again. After six or seven successive failures, Richard finally sent a life vortex to the elven bloodline's phantom star trunk.
The main trunk of the phantom star suddenly shinished throughout, and a young branch at the top stretched and trembled, slowly blooming a young leaf. After this young leaf was completely stretched, the entire main trunk of the phantom star vibrated and continued to grow and expand, and finally became a world tree with a complete canopy trunk and roots! Countless green leaves on the crown of the tree shook without wind, shaking off a little starlight from time to time, and dotted the entire main trunk of the phantom star like a mist like a phantom.
The Phantom Star bloodline has awakened to the fourth order, and from the fourth order, the elven world tree will only appear in its full form. And at the top of the main trunk, a new shoot, with a bulging leaf bud on the branch, does not know when it will bloom. This branch will not continue to grow until the fifth order ability of the Phantom Star Bloodline awakens.
The canopy of the expanding World Tree almost reached the Akmund Bloodline Tennis Ball, and countless green tentacles protruded from the branches and leaves, poking out the Akmund Bloodline Tennis Ball, and the roots below also stretched out correspondingly, many of which stretched out of the tennis ball's blockade range. Moreover, countless faint star lines appeared from the main trunk of the phantom star, connecting the trunks of the other World Trees and the Akmund bloodline.
At this time, Richard already knew about the ability of the fourth level of the phantom star, the starlight transformation.
With this ability, several types of energy that were originally not easy to absorb can be transformed into stars through the Guò Phantom Star Tree. Although about two-thirds of the conversion process is still lost, the utilization efficiency is greatly improved compared to the original. And with the improvement of Richard's meditation ability and the advancement of his magic power, living in an alien plane such as Green Forest will soon face a situation where the stars are not enough. You must know that in the green forest, the most is not the vortex of life, but the teardrop-shaped energy with the power of the strong water element. Of all the energies that Richard detected, this type of energy accounted for more than eighty percent, and the rest of the stars and life vortex were half each. And without Starlight Transformation, these energies simply cannot be harnessed.
Although Richard didn't feel the bottleneck yet, it would appear when his mana level exceeded sixteen. The rate at which he absorbs and boosts mana is greatly slowed. This is the essence of the suppression of power.
Not only Richard, but other strong people will face the same problem, the higher the level of the strong person, the stricter the restrictions on the second plane. When they reach a certain level and enter various low-level planes, if they don't gain enough, it is a complete waste of life. For example, in the Green Forest, except for druids, wizards, shamans, and forest warriors who use the power of nature, once the powerhouses of other professions enter this plane, the speed of cultivation and improvement will be greatly slowed down.
Only then did Richard understand why Divine Grace was called a double-edged sword.
Richard's magic is now on the verge of level fourteen, and it only takes another week to be able to return to level fourteen. Going from level fourteen to level fifteen requires a net increase of nearly a thousand units of mana. At Richard's current rate of net gain of eight to twelve units of mana per four hours of meditation, he could reach level fifteen in about three or four months.
This speed is already four to six times faster than that of ordinary magicians. This is the result of the combination of Deep Blue Meditation and the Phantasmal Star World Tree, and it is also where Richard's confidence in using sacrifice lies. If it weren't for the lack of time Richard could allocate to meditation, the speed at which mana would have increased.
Then Richard began to be distracted, he had already reached this kind of stage, so what was the situation of Su Helen? He suddenly wanted to see what the bloodline talent of the legendary mage was.
With this in mind, Richard and his party left the Green Forest Plane and returned to Norland.
This return is mainly for Richard's construction press conference. Whether it was a coincidence or not, the Royal Auction of the Holy Alliance was also scheduled to be held on the same day, and in the end, Richard's construction press conference became an event of the Royal Auction.
There is no doubt that the royal auction is much more attractive to ordinary wealthy nobles than the construction press conference, and only those families who have the leisure and energy to pay attention to mainland politics will pay attention to Richard's construction press conference. Of course, for certain powerhouses, Richard's upcoming buildup is the only reason why they are so popular.
Although the royal auction was in a hurry, it attracted many wealthy nobles on the mainland, and even the mysterious Flame Country, the southernmost part of the continent, sent a team to arrive at Faust at a huge cost by teleporting from the Dragon Palace.
Many of these truly powerful people came for one of the auction items, that is, the fruit of the Tree of Life, which is rare in Norland.
The patriarch of the wealthy family, the peerless powerhouse whose life is about to come to an end, and the emperors of various countries of different sizes all hope to get this fruit of the tree of life in order to continue their lives. The experience of ten years of power pinnacle is truly infinitely valuable.
All the outfits released at Richard Tongguò's construction press conference will also be auctioned at the Guò Royal Auction.