My health recovery is incredibly fast.

“Hmm… repeat that again, just to avoid any mistakes,” Christo said.

“The first step is to take control of the replica of the spirit shrine.” Xia Zuo’s gaze fell on the table in front of him, where there was a tiny spirit shrine about the size of a fist.

This is a replica made by the temple to imitate the shrine of Divantana.

It allows the holder to see the spirits of other people through clairvoyance.

Counterfeit shrines do not possess offensive capabilities, nor can they protect the holder's spirit from moving freely in the dark.

There are no shrine candles inside; only a small piece of specially made fluorite serves as the light source.

In short, it is merely a one-time-use tool for Xia Zuo to observe Rena's spirit, and the threshold for mastering it is extremely low.

"The second step is to observe whether there are any changes in her spirit and body as Rena uses various spiritual materials to strengthen her elemental body."

Xia Zuo looked at a parchment on the table, which was covered with shamanic writing. To the right of the parchment was a translation written in the common language.

"The third step is to find the spiritual material that caused the change."

“Yes, that’s it.” Christo nodded slightly. “Then you may begin.”

Xia Zuo extended his right hand and placed it on the altar, entering a meditative state.

In the spirit's hand, a small shrine shrouded in smoke appeared, ethereal and fleeting like a bubble.

Xia Zuo used the method of making totems to create totem patterns around the small shrine, strengthening the connection between the spirit and the shrine.

The message from the cheat system came to my mind:

"Host has been detected attempting to control the replica of the spirit shrine. Multiple attribute checks are in progress..."

"Resistance..."

Strength, agility, endurance...

"Willpower, spirit..."

"Verification passed. Do you confirm control of the replica shrine?"

“Confirmed,” Xia Zuo murmured.

The mist surrounding the small shrine vanished instantly, as if it had been pulled out of the fog, and the fluorite inside the shrine glowed.

Chapter 82 Replica of Sacrificial Shrine Candles

The Soul Vision was originally set against an backdrop of endless darkness.

When the fluorite in the shrine glowed, the darkness receded, and the warm light illuminated the space about two meters around the spirit.

The sofa was shrouded in smoke, the carpet was covered in wisps of tobacco smoke, and the wooden floor was covered in a hazy gray.

The reality illuminated by the candlelight was shrouded in lingering smoke, just like the shrine before Xia Zuo took control of it, which was illusory.

Shazo saw the spirits of Rena and Christo.

They were no different from Xia Zuo's own spirit.

A golden-white, humanoid luminous being, whose front and back, and male and female aspects, are indistinguishable.

The only way to tell is by their physical positions and postures: the one closer to you is Rena's spirit, and the one sitting on the sofa with her right leg crossed is Christo's spirit.

Xia Zuo immediately realized that the shrine was of great significance.

Prior to this, no one outside of the shamanic society knew how to see the surroundings through spiritual vision.

it's OK now.

No wonder the Mage Temple is so concerned about the shrine.

Xia Zuo composed himself and looked at Reina opposite him.

She activated her elemental husk, which was also shrouded in smoke, unlike Xia Zuo's clear and bright husk.

The spirit and the body are completely synchronized; whatever the body does, the spirit will do as well.

Rena's spirit made several movements.

Crushing, grinding, stirring, mixing, filtering... This is her on-the-spot processing of spiritual materials according to a pre-determined list.

There are many types of spiritual materials.

Prior to the Nyxat incident, the temple had approximately 160 kinds of spiritual materials.

After the temple forces entered the crater, the number of documented spiritual materials increased to more than 370.

The alchemists and scholars in the temple worked overtime to study spiritual materials and initially figured out formulas for combining dozens of spiritual materials.

Reina was responsible for creating the corresponding spiritual materials according to the recipe, and then fusing them into her elemental body.

She is about to incorporate her first spiritual material.

The raw materials are the roots of a shaman elder, three calyx-leaf herbs from the crater, and a small cup of spiritually rich spring water.

Xia Zuo watched as the other party fused the spiritual materials into a component of the elemental body, but no change occurred.

The component was still shrouded in smoke, indicating that it had not acquired the functionality that appeared in the soul-seeing ability.

Xia Zuo exited his meditative state, shook his head at Reina, and then picked up his pen to put an X next to the first line of text.

Xia Zuo entered a meditative state once again.

Reina then began preparing the next batch of spiritual materials.

The two repeated these steps until they had tried all 370+ spiritual materials.

I actually found three useful spiritual materials.

Christo herself stepped in, summoning an alchemy table to attempt to refine the three spiritual materials into one.

Xia Zuo watched as she put some kind of white grease into the crucible, and then he understood what the two of them wanted to do.

They are researching how to replicate shrine candles.

After the shrine candles are fused into the elemental bottles, the elemental shells condensed from these bottles will appear directly on the spirit body, possessing the ability to see through the soul and travel through the natural world.

Conversely, spiritual materials that can give elemental shells this property could be the raw materials for shrine candles.

Now, if we refine these three spiritual materials into the shape of a shrine candle, we might be able to directly create a shrine candle.

This is somewhat like pursuing metaphysics, but it's understandable given the lack of spiritual knowledge.

As Christor refined the product, she used an identification spell to record the reflective code of the intermediate product.

After trying two or three times, she got a pot of thick, white liquid.

Christo poured the white liquid into a pre-made mold, and after the liquid cooled naturally, she obtained a candle with a rich color and pure white body.

She cast her appraisal spell on the candle, and the result left people with mixed feelings.

谷苎

"Not a shrine candle."

Christo picked up the candle with her fingers. "But it can imbue the elemental shell with a spirit. We must be missing some secret key material to make a true shrine candle."

Xia Zuo asked, "Your Excellency, does the temple possess any items that imbue elemental bodies with spirituality?"

“No, Shazo,” Christo said, shaking her head.

“The elemental body was never designed for spirits.”

"We have always regarded it as an elemental protective gear to protect the body."

"Even after entering the Fifth Era, the Temple and the Church of the Otherworldly Demons drew a line between themselves, and their wars were no longer as intense as before. Our Temple also did not focus its research on giving elemental bodies spirituality."

Christo's face showed a hint of worry. "But now a spirit shrine has appeared, which allows its holder to directly attack the spirits of others. This is a form of attack that is even harder to defend against than destroying the physical body. If the spirit shrine falls into the hands of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, all sorts of troubles will follow."

"Do otherworldly demons...have spirit bodies?" Xia Zuo asked thoughtfully.

This question caused Christo and Rena, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet, to fall into a brief silence.

There are only two ways to determine whether a living being has a spirit.

The first method is to teach them how to enter the realm of psychic vision, and then have them recount the scenes they saw in psychic vision. If these scenes match existing confidential information, then they are a spirit.

The second method is to use a spirit shrine.

By having the holder of the shrine, in a state of soul-seeing ability, walk to the target's side with the shrine and observe briefly, one can determine whether the target has a spirit.

It now appears that the second method is more efficient and more accurate than the first.

Now that we have the shrine, do we have a stockpile of the sealed demons?

Xia Zuo recalled the recent situation at the Bosing Building.

Since the Church of the Otherworld sent three cults to cause trouble at the end of last year, the number of Otherworlders in the basement of the building has dropped to single digits.

Two Converters, one Shadow Fiend.

This is all the inventory.

The entire Silvermoon Alliance's inventory of Otherworldly beings is no more than a hundred, and the types are limited to Transformers and Shadow Demons, which is enough to test whether Otherworldly beings have spiritual bodies.

The key question is whether the Temple dares to do so.

The Transformer has a blood connection with the Blood Demon who created them.

They can communicate using secret blood-related messages.

The Shadow Fiend possesses the ability to move through shadows, and the candlelight from the shrine will disrupt the lighting environment of the sealing chamber.

If one is not careful, the existence of the shrine will be revealed by the transmuter.

Or perhaps, during the experiment, the Shadow Fiend accidentally exploited a weakness and teleported away.

Xia Zuo couldn't make decisions on matters of this level.

He stood quietly to the side, waiting for Christo's answer.

"We have to give it a try."

Christor pondered for a few seconds before making a decision, "We will explore whether the Otherworldly beings possess spiritual entities without being detected by them. I will conduct this experiment at the Persin Building."

Why not conduct this experiment in the outer sanctuary?