Chapter 175: Spirit Realm Lighthouse, Illuminating Both Worlds!

Accompanied by the berserker's painful, mournful howl, and beneath a desperate curse.

The berserker's flesh and soul, standing before the sacrificial altar, were swiftly swept up into the rising flames and disappeared.

Moments later, a mass of silhouette like a curtain, silken in texture, fell from the dimension woven by the firelight above the altar.

As the leader of the ritual, Ta Ke silently observed this scene.

"A certain mysterious entity harvests a certain amount of flesh and soul."

"Then it weaves the soul together with shadow."

"It is not necessarily a conscious holy spirit or evil spirit."

"It could also be a mysterious entity lingering in the corners of shadow and death, still possessing reason."

"The supernatural world indeed has too many mysteries, especially mysterious entities with ritual orientations; it's still better to analyze them less."

Ta Ke shook his head slightly, restraining the urge to explore further.

The first part of the four-star powerful ritual witchcraft is this "ritual witchcraft", serving as the prelude.

The middle movement naturally means mastering these "soul curtain shadows" skillfully.

The final movement is applying the number of these soul curtain shadows in combat.

At this moment, around Ta Ke, there were three substantial, silken-like soul curtain shadows.

He placed a single palm upon the soul curtain shadow obtained from the living sacrificial berserker.

After carefully sensing it with his spiritual perception, a look of joy crept up his eyebrows.

"Directly sacrificing a living person yields a soul curtain shadow equivalent to 100% of the weaver's soul-level effect."

"While sacrificing a fresh corpse yields about 80% effectiveness."

"As time passes, the bodily supernatural traits are completely lost, and the effectiveness will only worsen."

"It could even drop to as low as 20% or even less than 10% later on."

"In other words..."

Ta Ke's eyes narrowed slightly.

"If I could capture a high-level supernatural being, or obtain the corpse of a high-level supernatural being, I could gain a considerably powerful soul curtain shadow."

Ta Ke, with his eyes slightly narrowed, pondered a moment and then let out a light laugh.

"Kind of interesting."

Afterward, Ta Ke's gaze swept over the three soul curtain shadows.

Ta Ke's thought stirred.

The Steam·Origin Spirit State Talent naturally took effect.

With the gradual increase in rank, and the development of the Steam·Origin Spirit State Talent,

Ta Ke could now, through his own talent ability, deeply and finely control, and command the surrounding source energy.

The three soul curtain shadows swiftly rose up.

The middle movement's proficient control posed no problem for Ta Ke whatsoever.

In this regard, Ta Ke possesses an absolute talent advantage.

The three standing soul curtain shadows were like supernatural beings that had entered the shadow state.

Ta Ke had the three soul curtain shadows separate from each other.

Ta Ke took a step.

He directly entered one of the soul curtain shadows.

The three soul curtain shadows were like a curtain.

As a witcher, Ta Ke was the magician behind the curtain, able to move freely within these soul curtain shadows.

After repeatedly shuttling back and forth and adapting, Ta Ke increasingly marveled.

Ta Ke walked out from a soul curtain shadow, examined it, and then headed toward the depths of the cave.

As Ta Ke proceeded forward.

The three soul curtain shadows quickly kept up, successively entering Ta Ke's shadow state.

"These soul curtain shadows themselves have little combat power, but… they are all living beings with souls and shadow traits, possessing full high-limit malleability."

"By devouring other soul curtain shadows, consuming souls, and absorbing shadow creatures, they can also be upgraded."

"They have tremendous room for development and potential."

"Whether using the power of barriers or other means, it is possible to raise the upper limit of their soul-level defensive capability."

In the midst of his thoughts, Ta Ke had already vanished into the dark depths of the cave.

…………

After the trip to the Underground City Black Market.

Time returned to a relatively peaceful daily cultivation.

Ta Ke spent most of his time studying inside the Thornflower Miracle Tower.

Especially the witcher courses, and several special courses that require extra fees to study.

Such as astrology, divination, mysticism, ritual studies, and so on.

Ta Ke paid part of the tuition, but he did not study in depth, only learning the basic principles or some simple introductory knowledge.

Each of these disciplines requires a lifetime of painstaking research.

Ta Ke naturally does not have that much energy.

In the main witchcraft courses, that is where Ta Ke puts in effort.

When he encounters something he doesn't understand, Ta Ke directly spends magic gold to find those instructors for one-on-one tutoring.

After repeatedly inquiring with the instructors of many witchcraft courses.

Ta Ke then discovered the problem.

The problem wasn't in his studies, but outside of his studies.

At the beginning, it only happened once or twice.

But later, as chance encounters grew more frequent, Ta Ke gradually realized the serious commonality of the matter.

When Ta Ke rode the steam bus, he would 'coincidentally' run into a certain senior female student from the academy.

In the magic course scroll archive, Ta Ke would meet a senior female student who happened to be at the same study progress as him.

Even when Ta Ke drank coffee, he would run into the senior female students of the Thornflower·Miracle High Tower Academy.

These senior female students not only wanted to have a candlelit dinner with Ta Ke, but even wanted to make Ta Ke their dinner.

Getting some minor support from the junior student wasn't important.

They mainly wanted to show the junior student their elegant sleeping pose at four in the morning.

Occasionally from the conversations of other high tower academy members.

After hearing those simple remarks like 'my family has a mine,' 'as rich as a dragon,' and 'magic gold piled up into a mountain,' they fell into Ta Ke's ears.

Only then did Ta Ke somewhat understand.

Even the Dark Sun Church couldn't trace Ta Ke's whereabouts.

As a result, Ta Ke was chased by this group of high tower academy senior female students, fleeing east and west.

This left Ta Ke rather speechless.

At the same time.

Saint Lande's lighthouse plan also gradually unfolded.

Large numbers of medium and large source-energy steam engines were sent into the spirit realm layer by Saint Lande's intermediate transcendent beings.

Then the corresponding earth-system builders, using their magic in conjunction with the corresponding rituals,

quickly constructing steam high towers in the spirit realm layer.

Arcane mages, constructing the arcane conduits and opening them up.

Activating the source-energy steam engines, streams of steam rings were constructed, the roaring sound of steam swept across the spirit realm layer, and it illuminated Saint Lande's spirit realm layer shrouded by the Dark Sun.

Yes!

Saint Lande's steam high towers are meant to shine from the spirit realm layer into reality.

Developing the spirit realm layer.

This is the first step in applying a transcendent ecological world.

Even many powerful transcendent ecologies will open the gate to the spirit realm, one gate, two worlds.

One side reality, one side spirit realm.

Let the world's ecological layers stack up.

It is said that the Duchy of Sairionus, the 'Floating Star City,' has considerable experience in developing and utilizing the spirit realm layer.

Moreover, the characteristics of the transcendent world rules in the spirit realm layer are easier to manifest than in the material dimension.

Before, Saint Lande lacked sufficient resources and manpower to develop and station in the spirit realm layer.

But now.

With the support of the entire Duchy of Sairionus.

Obviously, developing the spirit realm layer is no longer a problem.

The spirit realm layer's spirit-realm steam lighthouses were erected one after another.

During the construction process, there would naturally be attacks from the Dark Sun forces, and moreover, they were extremely fierce attacks.

And the defense of Sairionus was also extraordinarily resolute.

According to the report of the Saint Lande Steam Gazette.

The clergy of the Duchy's Three-Eyed God Church, the Empire's transcendent legion, and the genius graduating class of the Floating Star City's transcendent academy.

And the elites and even genius transcendents of many other provinces are continually rushing to Saint Lande.

Obviously!

The Duchy of Sairionus intends to forge Saint Lande into a holy shield against the Dark Sun Church.

A holy shield that the Dark Sun Church cannot breach.

Inside the rented cottage.

He browsed through the information in today's Steam Gazette.

After confirming there was no 'recruitment order' for that robbery plan,

Ta Ke placed the newspaper to one side.

He raised his head and Ta Ke looked toward the nearby street.

There, clearly, there was nothing.

But most of the street appeared especially bright.

Even the drifting haze and steam there were somewhat cleaner and clearer than elsewhere.

The steam lighthouse standing in the spirit realm cast its light upon the spirit realm, seeping into reality.

Spirit-realm lighthouse, illuminating both realms.

This is also the beginning of constructing spirit-realm lighthouses to resist the Dark Sun Church's invasion and stop them from dragging the whole world into the Dark Sun Abyss!

After looking left and right for a moment.

Ta Ke made a pass, entering his own alchemy chamber.

Just as he entered.

Ta Ke's peripheral vision swept over the stone window not far away.

It's fine if you don't look.

At a glance, Ta Ke's brows jumped, joy surfaced.

All that could be seen was that the magical little house, about fist-sized, at the top of the magical vine, had vanished.

Moreover, the surrounding ground still bore traces of some debris.

In other words, Ta Ke's magical little house detached on its own, officially coming into being.