Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 72 Energy Pool (Please continue reading)
Six years ago, although Su You successfully set up offensive and defensive magic arrays in the Wizard Tower, after testing, the attack power of the offensive magic array was at most slightly higher than that of a third-tier high-grade array, and still far from the attack power of the Nascent Soul level.

After testing and analysis, the final conclusion was that the energy output power was insufficient, which prevented it from exerting its full power to attack the magic array.

A third-tier spiritual vein... ultimately has an upper limit to the input of spiritual energy.

Even with the regulation of a third-tier high-grade array, which concentrates most of the spiritual energy near the wizard tower, the energy conversion output power only increased by 10%, without producing a qualitative change.

Therefore, a large energy pool is still needed to store a large amount of energy and be able to output a large amount of energy in an instant, so that the attack on the witch array can reach its peak.

The quality of an energy pool depends not only on the size of its regular reserves, but also on its compression ratio of external energy.

After all, there is a limit to how large an energy pool can be in a wizard's tower, and compressing energy is another way to increase energy reserves.

Therefore, the more robust the energy pool is, the better.

Several years ago, Su You renovated the second basement level.

First, the size of the energy pool has been expanded. Now the entire energy pool occupies almost the entire space of the second basement level, leaving only a small space in the corner to transmit underground fire.

Secondly, the original materials used for the energy pool were all third-grade stones, but now he has spent millions of spirit stones to purchase fourth-grade stones to recreate it.

Fortunately, fourth-tier stone is a relatively common type of treasure. Because it is produced in large quantities and has a high unit price, it is not like other fourth-tier treasures, which can usually only be seen at auctions.

Inscribing a whole layer of magic runes is a huge undertaking, especially since this is the first layer to be inscribed with such runes; failure is common.

Fortunately, this energy pool is a whole composed of a large number of witch arrays. Even if Su You fails to inscribe some parts, he only needs to replace the stone slab with a new one.

Having spent two months working tirelessly on the second basement level, Su You looked at the dense array of magical runes before him, suppressing his excitement, and issued a command to the air, "Xiao Bei, activate the energy pool at maximum power and connect the energy system to the Wizard Tower."

As he finished speaking, Su You felt as if a valve had been opened, and the spiritual energy from the outside world rushed into the energy pool on the second basement level.

The entire second basement level seemed to have become the center of a spiritual energy storm, and even he was slightly surprised by the astonishing absorption efficiency.

As the spiritual energy fell into the energy pool, the transformation and compression array above also began to operate. Countless gaseous spiritual energies, under the compression of the array, slowly liquefied in the energy pool, turning into drops of light white spiritual liquid that fell into the pool.

"Xiao Bei, bring all the spiritual energy from other places here."

As Su You continued to issue commands, the energy pool's conversion and absorption efficiency further improved.

Normally, the energy pool needs to accumulate energy through its own energy-gathering array, but under the control of the third-order array, this step is completed very easily.

Now, all the spiritual energy of the entire Tier 3 superior spiritual vein is gathered near the Wizard Tower, so the energy-gathering magic array can easily absorb the spiritual energy.

Watching the drops of pale white liquefied spiritual energy fall into the energy pool, Su You calculated that at the current rate, if he could continuously absorb spiritual energy, it would take about two months to fill the energy pool.

Of course, the spiritual energy provided by a spiritual vein is also limited. It is impossible to supply the energy pool infinitely at full power. However, it can maintain a balance between the two at low power.

However, this light-colored liquid has only undergone preliminary compression. This step is fast, but the compression effect is not high.

Once the spiritual liquid falls into the energy pool, another compression array at the bottom will be activated to compress the spiritual liquid a second time. Su You can see that the drops of light white spiritual liquid, after being compressed again, become a pure white spiritual liquid.

At this conversion efficiency, it is estimated that even at full power, it would take decades to fill the energy pool with this pure white spiritual liquid.

Fortunately, the magic array isolates the two spiritual liquids, keeping them clearly separate, so there's no need to worry about them mixing.

"It's a pity, we can only set up two layers of compression magic arrays." Su You shook his head helplessly.

There was originally another compression magic array that transformed liquefaction into crystallization, but although it was mentioned in the inheritance, there was no specific method for setting it up, which means that it was beyond his current level of understanding.

However, Su You doesn't need to worry. Once the energy pool is full, it will reach its limit. The pressure of the energy pool itself will naturally precipitate energy crystals. Although the speed is very slow, it indirectly increases the upper limit of the energy pool.

With a thought, Su You sent a wisp of light white spiritual liquid and a wisp of pure white spiritual liquid into his palm.

"This is a spiritual liquid transformed and compressed from pure spiritual energy, so it should be safe to consume." Su You gently put the light white spiritual liquid into his mouth.

He wasn't afraid of causing problems from the medicine. He had done a lot of experimental medicine work, such as experiments on some mental potions. Although Xiao Bei had analyzed the corresponding formula, medicine is something that is often very precise, and the result can be completely different.

Su Youdu tested the poison on himself to ensure there were no problems before refining it in large quantities and giving it to his twin clones to consume.

Of course, there were many unexpected events along the way. For example, a certain drug disrupted the stability of his mental state, forcing him to commit suicide and be resurrected.

"Hmm! This feeling..." Su You pursed his lips, and then waved his hand again, this time sending dozens of drops of the transformed light white spiritual liquid into his mouth.

A moment later, Su You's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but feel excited. "It's surprisingly easy to refine this stuff into magic power!"

Although it is still much less effective than using a spirit orb, roughly one hundred drops are equivalent to one spirit orb.

However, its refining efficiency is already comparable to one-fifth of that of a spirit pearl, and because it is composed of pure spiritual energy, it will not cause any damage to the body, just like using a spirit pearl.

Most importantly, Su You is now at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, and it still has an effect. In this respect alone, it is better than the spirit pearl.

If he could consistently consume this spiritual liquid during his cultivation, his current cultivation speed could double.

Since using up the spirit pearl, Su You's cultivation speed has become very slow. It took him ten years to advance from the fourth level of Foundation Establishment to the fifth level.

Furthermore, with this spiritual liquid, the cultivation level of the twin clones can be improved even faster.

Su You hadn't left a single spirit pearl for the twin clones, so their cultivation progress had been relatively slow.

In addition, he usually needs to spend a lot of time studying witchcraft formations and alchemy. It took him more than ten years to advance from the first level of Foundation Establishment to the third level of Foundation Establishment.

It should be noted that the twin clones reached the Foundation Establishment stage much earlier than Su You, and their aptitude was also better than the original body, but their cultivation level was still surpassed.

This shows how important external resources are.

(End of this chapter)