Chapter 855 - Crystallized Soul Core

"You can't do this, my Lord! W-we are your followers—!"

The demons tried to reason with the hidden being in the fallen outer space debris beneath the rubbles of earth, but the hidden being did not listen to any of them.

As more fleshly tentacles shot out from the ground and captured the demons one by one, they knew that the being they worshipped and entrusted to safeguard the Starfall Dominion from other territories was determined to eat them all.

"Run if you don't want to die! The Lord has gone mad!" a Mid-rank Greater Demon shouted.

The demons in the abyss didn't hesitate to flee; they scrambled and climbed their way out desperately as their life depended on it, literally.

However, the being's fleshly tentacles were fast and versatile like whips; once caught by them, their lives would be forfeited.

Only Arch Demons would have a chance of escaping from the being's terrifying tentacles.

Nevertheless, there were thousands of demons and only so many fleshly tentacles the being could produce at once; a portion of the demons will definitely escape successfully.

However, who lives and who dies all depends on luck.

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Meanwhile, Leon returned to Duna's location, unaware of the changes in the outside world after he kicked the humans and demons out.

At that moment, Duna was busy challenging the Mid-rank Arch Demon-level sea monsters without any disadvantage or advantages.

It was a stalemate.

The difference between Low-rank Arch Demon-level beings and Mid-rank Arch Demon-level beings was not small.

Nevertheless, she quickly noticed Leon's return after sensing the spatial fluctuations.

"Where did you go?" Duna questioned him with a grumpy tone.

Evidently, Duna was still unhappy about the previous matter of him leaving abruptly without waiting for her to finish speaking.

However, Leon did not answer her question in words.

Instead, he waited for good timing to toss the crystal orb in her direction, which she quickly noticed.

"Hm?"

Duna distanced herself from the Mid-rank Arch Demon-level sea monsters and shooed them away with Banshee Scream before catching the grey crystal orb.

"What is…" Duna was about to ask when her eyes widened with astonishment, "Where did you get something like this?"

"From the other half of the Teleportation Array that brought us to this secret realm," Leon casually said before adding, "I'm quite certain it contains a lot of souls, but do you know what it is?"

Judging by her reaction, he could tell she understood more about the crystal orb than he did.

"You grabbed this thing and simply gave it to me without knowing what it is?" Duna glanced at Leon speechlessly.

At the same time, Leon immediately guessed the crystal orb was much more valuable than he gave it credit for.

However, he showed no concern even after understanding that much.

"Well, you needed souls, so I went and fetched you some souls," Leon shrugged nonchalantly before asking, "Is that a problem?"

"No problem," Duna smiled before saying, "But I wonder if you can remain nonchalant after I say this is the crystallized form of a soul core?"

"A crystallized soul core? No wonder it can contain souls…" Leon muttered with surprise.

It wasn't difficult to understand that a soul core contains soul energy.

"However, I've never heard or even seen a crystallized soul core like this before…" Leon mentioned his doubt.

Everyone can inspect their soul core with a bit of practice.

However, the soul core that exists inside everyone's sea of consciousness was incorporeal; it did not have any physical properties at all.

"Of course, you wouldn't," Duna stated as a matter of fact before adding, "Did you think this crystallized soul core is something common?"

"Judging by its sturdiness, it has to be the crystallized soul core of a Demon King-level being at the very least, and not just any Demon King-level being either," she added.

"A Demon King-level soul cultivator, I assume?" Leon guessed.

"Right," Duna nodded.

"Because the world doesn't have any true soul cultivation methods, any soul cultivation will build impurity over time until it crystalizes like this solid soul core."

"Soul cultivation is all about quantity since we can't increase quality without a pure soul cultivation method. So once a soul cultivator achieves crystallization, their path on soul cultivation is as good as coming to an end."

"Because the size of the soul core becomes fixed after crystallization, huh?" Leon comprehended.

"Exactly," Duna nodded before she stared at him like she was staring at a fool and asked with an impish smile, "So? Feeling regretful yet?"

"Why should I?" Leon responded nonchalantly.

Duna was immediately stunned by his lack of emotion; it was not the kind of reaction she was hoping to see from him.

"Don't you know what this means? This crystallized soul core is a priceless resource for soul cultivation! If you digest all the soul energy inside, your soul could reach the same heights as a Demon King!"

"Isn't that even better for you?" Leon replied.

"You… I don't know what to say… Are you even aware of what you are saying? You're willing to hand over such an opportunity to me?"

Duna looked at Leon speechlessly, failing to understand Leon could remain calm in front of such evident temptation.

"You know, if I presented this opportunity in front of other people, they would even kill their own families for the chance to obtain it. You know that, right?"

"I do, but you underestimate me too much," Leon shook his head and nonchalantly said, "It's just the Demon King Realm, nothing worth mentioning."

The Demon King Realm was only around the Divine Transformation Realm in divine cultivation, a realm below Divine King.

"It'll need to be True Divinity level at the very least to tempt me," Leon added slyly.

"Heh, you think it's easy to find cultivation resources that can take you to the True Divinity Realm in this age? You'll have a higher chance looking for phoenix feathers," Duna snickered.

Nevertheless, she engraved Leon's kindness in her memory.