Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 297 Two Methods of Resurrection! Advantages and Disadvantages!

War inevitably involves death.

Whether it's humans or the other three major elite races.

Especially when the war in the outer battlefields escalated due to the involvement of the Divine Elixir and the Soul Palace, and both sides began to increase their stakes.

The casualties were even more severe.

In just a few months, while the human faction had killed hundreds of kings from the other three factions, their losses were actually greater.

After all, the three major factions do have more top-tier experts, and their numbers are also much greater.

Fortunately, their relationship is extremely bad, and they still fight each other when they meet, but they will work together to suppress humanity.

Even so, humanity suffered heavy losses in the face of targeting from the three major factions.

But humans are not at a disadvantage either.

Being killed by the 3000 elite Soul Hall squads roaming the Star Tower and various battlefields means you're truly dead, with no chance of resurrection.

The vast majority of humans, however, have a chance to be resurrected.

It goes without saying who will suffer if time drags on.

But if this continues, the competition will actually come down to the power of the cosmic ruler behind them.

Resurrection comes at a price!

The more times time can be reversed and resurrected in a short period of time, the greater the damage to the Lord of the Universe.

This is why the resurrection and conferment of kingship takes a very long time to occur, allowing the lords of the universe time to recover.

Otherwise, the lords of the universe could easily resurrect even those who were granted titles of nobility or ordinary military commanders.

But that's a regular resurrection!

Reversing time and resurrecting one's life naturally comes at a price.

But what if Qin Ming collected their souls and refined them into a soul body?

Qin Ming had already conducted this kind of experiment.

He can collect their souls and then use his Netherworld bloodline to create a physical body for them, thus achieving an 'alternative resurrection'.

After resurrection, all that is needed is to release the enslavement of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Normal enslavement of the soul is irreversible.

Once controlled by a soul, one can never break free, not even its master.

However, the enslavement by the Myriad Souls Banner is different. Once the Myriad Souls Banner advances to the sixth rank and gains absolute control over the Netherworld, Qin Ming will be able to do so.

As the Soul Palace continued its fierce battles and harvested souls on some super-large battlefields, many human souls also entered the Netherworld.

The Netherworld today has a diameter of over 7 trillion kilometers, and the number of humans living in it is countless, including those at the cosmic, domain lord, and world lord levels.

After all, he's only human.

It would be a waste to leave it unattended and let its soul dissipate.

Even Qin Ming couldn't bring himself to kill them all and refine them into his soul essence.

Therefore, when he created the Soul Palace, he selected a group of talents from the Netherworld to establish the Underworld Law Bureau and formulate laws belonging to the Netherworld.

Furthermore, the Department of Punishing Evil, the Department of Rewarding Good, and the Department of Investigation are responsible for rewarding good and punishing evil within the human realm of the underworld, maintaining its normal operation.

The first draft of this law has been completed.

Qin Ming plans to name it "The Black Laws of Fengdu".

Because the largest city in the Netherworld, the core of the Netherworld, is called 'Fengdu'.

This was one of Qin Ming's own quirky interests.

These were also some of his inner thoughts.

When he first established the Soul Palace, he actually wanted to call it the Underworld!
To master the cycle of life and death in the primordial universe, the origin continent, and even the infinite primordial space!
If he actually succeeds, it might not be very effective for reincarnated beings like the Mountain Dweller.

Even a god-king must go through the underworld after death!
But the current underworld clearly does not have this ability.

Not to mention the source world and the primordial universe, he couldn't even control the extraterrestrial battlefield, and his resurrection was achieved through some clever tricks.

That's why it's called the Soul Palace!
The Soul Palace is actually just an organization for external warfare in the Netherworld, composed of a group of elite members selected from numerous souls, nothing more.

However, this batch of king-level souls is different from the domain lords and realm lords he collected before.

Those who have reached the rank of King will be resurrected by the human faction.

If he were to take it over directly, then the target of the Soul Palace would no longer be the three major clans, but the four peak clans!

Even the Lord of Darkness couldn't protect him.

Collecting the souls of one's own people is an extremely heinous act.

So his initial consideration was how to better resurrect these human kings after their fall.

Work for yourself better!

For example, if I resurrect them, will the debt that the tribe resurrected for them be transferred to me?

The cost of resurrecting a powerful human is extremely high.

Take Master Qianwu as an example.

He fell three times, owing the clan a total of 2.2 treasure points.

However, over the long years, he did pay back some of his debts, and when he first fell, he also used some treasures to repay them.

Therefore, it would take approximately 1 Treasure Point to resurrect a Cosmic Venerable level being once.

This is about all the wealth of a typical high-ranking cosmic being.

The cost of reviving someone who has fallen at the King level is less, but it still requires at least 5 to 10 Treasure Points.

For some top-tier kings, especially those possessing powerful treasures, resurrection is even more difficult, comparable to that of cosmic venerables.

The most valuable treasures will affect resurrection! Resurrecting through a clan means spending your entire life working for the clan to pay off your debts.

The efficiency and cost of resurrecting beings in the underworld are far greater than those of the human universe's ruler.

For example, if they only charge 1 Treasure Point as a fee, the human leadership would naturally be happy, as resurrection would also harm the Lord of the Universe.

They can even expand the scope of resurrection, such as becoming a marquis and achieving immortality, or even different kinds of immortality.

Most of those who are resurrected are willing to accept it.

Although my resurrection will have some minor limitations and flaws.

For example, after being killed by an enemy, you need to get to the scene as quickly as possible to collect the broken soul. If too much time passes, the soul will be lost.

Take the powerful figures who have been granted the title of King as an example.

If the souls are collected on the spot, then naturally there will be no problem.

However, if the entire squad is wiped out, or if any member of the Soul Hall dies, then the shattered souls must be collected within three to seven days.

If the time is exceeded, the fragments of its soul will scatter severely.

Forcibly resurrecting someone may result in mild memory loss, or even, in severe cases, intellectual disability.

Upon resurrection, one can use the original body materials as a blueprint to create a new body from the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Although there won't be any rejection, if the original gene count is high, the Netherworld Blood Sea will still be unable to produce results.

With Qin Ming's current abilities, he can only create a body with 10 times the genetic potential, and that would be quite costly.

Furthermore, the soul and body are refined and fused back into a divine body, which also consumes a considerable amount of resources.

In general, the Netherworld at this stage can only revive beings with souls, and their souls are collected after their fall. Furthermore, it takes a certain amount of time for them to recover their strength after revival.

Reversing time and being resurrected is a different story.

It can directly pull a body from the past timeline before death back to the real world, and at a sufficient price, even powerful and rare treasures can be brought back.

Of course, that price would be enough to buy ten times more precious treasures and supreme treasures.

No cosmic ruler would do such a thing.

In general, both resurrections have their advantages and disadvantages.

in short.

Resurrection in the underworld is fast and inexpensive, but it comes with many conditions and is less effective.

The Lord of the Universe has fewer limitations in reversing time and space, and can restore his strength upon resurrection, but this is inefficient and costly.

"The best approach is to combine both methods; this is the optimal solution. In this way, the human race won't suffer losses in a war of attrition against the three top races."

Qin Ming understood this principle.

But, do you really want to do this?

The matter of the 'Death Curse' has made the Soul Palace a thorn in the side of other races, but it is still within a controllable range.

If another 'resurrection' ability were to appear, then it's hard to say what would happen.

"If we want to be resurrected in the Netherworld, we must first create a separate resurrection space. The situation inside the Netherworld must not be exposed."

"Or perhaps we can use the World Tree's talent to control spacetime and do some work. The resurrected powerhouses can be enveloped in the spacetime they control, simulating the normal resurrection process."

"In this way, other races will suspect that the Soul Palace may have a universe ruler. And its special ability can reduce the cost of resurrection."

Qin Ming carefully considered the pros and cons, and was also trying to make it as reasonable as possible.

The process of refining a fragmented soul back into a complete soul by the Netherworld was entirely under Qin Ming's control.

They have no awareness of the outside world.

Although the World Tree's ability to control spacetime is relatively weak, its power is increasing with the explosive growth of its genes. It should be able to fool the newly resurrected King, who is still not fully conscious.

"We also need to consider the reaction of the higher-ups in humanity."

Qin Ming sighed.

The emergence of the Soul Palace must have raised questions among humanity's higher-ups.

Other alien races were unaware of the Soul Clan's situation and assumed it was a powerful clan within some secret realm.

However, the Dark Lord and the Chaos City Lord knew perfectly well that the so-called Soul Clan and Soul Palace were races they had 'created'!

The concepts involved are completely different.

Fortunately, he and the human race had already achieved a deep bond.

In the eyes of the alien race, both Bian Que's identity and Qin Ming's identity as the strongest human talent are comparable to the Lord of the Universe.

With two identities combined into one, one's status becomes even more prominent.

In the human race, his status is already at the level of a cosmic lord!

"I'll find some time to discuss this with Teacher Darkness and sound him out. I still need to improve my strength. If I break through to become an Immortal or a Universe Venerable, there won't be so many problems."

Qin Ming shook his head. At his current full power, he was comparable to a Venerable.

If one breaks through to immortality with the 10081 perfect divine body, not only will their strength increase dramatically, but they will also receive the strongest secret technique bestowed by the primordial universe.

In that case, he could quickly acquire the strength of a top-tier cosmic overlord, and upon breaking through to the Venerable level, he would be comparable to a cosmic master.

But how can the gene multiplication rate increase so quickly?
No matter how much resources are poured in, it still takes time.

Ultimately, it was because they weren't strong enough.

"This matter should be addressed as soon as possible; let's go find Teacher Darkness first!"

Seeing another group of human kings in the Star Tower area beheaded and their souls taken into the Netherworld, Qin Ming no longer hesitated.

If someone comes looking for you during this time, that's a different story.

(End of this chapter)