Chapter 263: Devouring Resources
In terms of Spirit Stones, Tang Yin possessed way too much.
He had several tens of billions of Low-grade Spirit Stones, around a billion Mid-grade Spirit Stones, a couple hundred million High-grade Spirit Stones and just over a million Supreme-grade Spirit Stones.
Although a single Low-grade Spirit Stone was inconsequential, several tens of billions would be considered way too much for any cultivator. And this was excluding the Mid-grade and High-grade Spirit Stones, not to mention the Supreme-grade Spirit Stones.
After all of this, there were only resources remaining. These resources made up a majority of Tang Yin’s wealth.
The Beast Soul Receptacle contained the Beast Souls of tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts. At least a quarter of them were Rank 5 Beast Souls...
Tang Yin had obtained a drop of Mountain Crushing Liquid, a few Soul Nourishing Pills and a Jade Crystal in the Mysterious Mountain Auction.
Although these 3 resources were just average for the current Tang Yin, these resources would still be useful for his body and somewhat useful for his Soul Sea.
One of the most precious resources that Tang Yin had obtained was the Myriad Spirit Milk Source Stone and a lake’s worth of Myriad Spirit Milk. Just a single drop of Myriad Spirit Milk contained a colossal amount of Spirit Qi and was useful for all types of purposes. Not to mention a whole lake’s worth of Myriad Spirit Milk and a stone which could produce more Myriad Spirit Milk.
However, Tang Yin did not plan to Devour the Myriad Spirit Milk Source Stone. Instead, he would sell it for a high price.
As for the lake’s worth of Myriad Spirit Milk. He would Devour a majority of it and leave a bucket’s worth for future use.
One of the Artifacts Tang Yin possessed was the Tier 5 Holy Imprisonment Gourd. It contained many Marshal Rank and Lord Rank Demon Spirits inside. Tang Yin would Devour those to increase the strength of his soul.
These were just an extremely tiny amount of resources and treasures that Tang Yin possessed.
He still had 30% of the Four Seasons Sect’s resources stowed away inside his storage ring. They were mostly soul-type and body-refining resources which he specifically handpicked himself.
However, the vast majority of his resources had been obtained from plundering 38 cultivators in the Exotic Enclosure Region.
These resources consisted of Medicinal Herbs, Ores, valuable Demonic Beast parts, Demonic Beast Cores, etc. The sheer amount was too huge to be listed.
Tang Yin estimated that his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique could easily reach the Initial Success stage with the body tempering and body refining resources he possessed.
Most of the resources he had obtained from the Exotic Enclosure Region were split into 2 categories.
One category of these resources were things which cultivators with a cultivation profession desired. Medicinal Herbs would be demanded by Alchemists. Demonic Beast Cores and Ores would be needed by Forgers, etc.
The other category of resources was aimed at specifically increasing a cultivator’s cultivation base.
For example, if a cultivator practised their cultivation with a Training Manual of the ice element, specific ice elemental resources could be used to increase one’s cultivation base.
However, none of this applied to Tang Yin. It did not matter what type of resource he possessed or how insignificant it was. With the Heaven Devouring Abyss, everything could be converted into energy.
However, the energy he obtained depended on the quality of the resource. If a resource possessed a low spiritual quality, the energy devoured from it would be minuscule. Likewise, the opposite was also true.
But this did not mean that all resources worked the same.
If Tang Yin devoured a soul-type resource and utilized the Soul Refinement Technique, the strength of his soul would increase by a good amount.
However, if he used the same soul-type resource to refine his body, the increase in strength would be minimal.
Before Tang Yin devoured a resource, he would observe its speciality. If the resource was linked to the soul classification, he would use the Soul Refinement Technique after devouring it. However, if the resource was linked to refining one’s body, Tang Yin would Devour it and utilize the Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique’s template.
Now that Tang Yin was in seclusion, he planned to empty out his storage ring of all his resources by devouring them to increase his power.
If Tang Yin planned to keep the resources inside his storage ring without using them, these resources might as well not exist.
Tang Yin first planned to Devour the resources which could increase the strength, power, durability, stability and overall forte of his Heaven Devouring Abyss.
The reason for this was quite simple. His soul was already at the peak of the Principle Comprehension Realm.
If his body had been at that level, things would not have been so difficult when facing the Head Elder of the Martial Beast Sect. He might not win, but he wouldn’t be so close to death. He would have enough time, energy and power to buy Xiao Fei time to use her Space Warp.
Since his soul was so powerful, Tang Yin could also increase his cultivation to the peak of the Spirit Ascension Realm whenever he wished. However, he wanted to Devour the resources in his possession to lay out a solid foundation in the Spirit Ascension Realm instead of advancing hastily.
The first resource Tang Yin wanted to Devour was the Mountain Crushing Liquid.
Tang Yin knew that to achieve the greatest power, he needed to Devour all of his resources. However, he also knew that consuming the high-quality resources first would have a limited impact on him if he devoured them too hastily.
Instead, he decided to focus on devouring the low-quality resources first to build a solid foundation for his cultivation. This was also why he was unwilling to advance to the peak of the Spirit Ascension Realm instantly.
Tang Yin brought out a small white vial from his storage ring. Inside was a brownish-gold liquid, it was the Mountain Crushing Liquid.
Tang Yin directly swallowed it. He felt an extremely heavy weight descend on his shoulders, it was akin to a mountain. However, to the current Tang Yin, it was at most uncomfortable.
This uncomfortable feeling of a heavy mountain weighing down on him lasted for a couple of minutes before vanishing.
During the whole duration of absorbing the Mountain Crushing Liquid, Tang Yin utilized the Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique’s template in the Heaven Devouring Abyssal Sanskrit.
He felt the power of his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique increase by a noticeable amount.
Tang Yin did not stop after doing this. He directly brought out the Jade Crystal he had obtained in the Mysterious Mountain Auction and devoured it with the Heaven Devouring Abyss. He directed all the energy and the special attribute of the Jade Crystal into strengthening his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique.
Like this, Tang Yin devoured and absorbed all of the body-tempering and body-refining resources he possessed, they were mostly the ones he had obtained from the Four Seasons Sect.
This took Tang Yin a couple of weeks. There were simply too many resources.
All of this increased Tang Yin’s Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique’s power to the point where he could battle a Mid-stage Spirit Ascension Realm cultivator solely with his body.
These were all the low-quality resources Tang Yin possessed. However, resources weren’t the only thing he could Devour. He could also Devour Medicinal Pills, Artifacts, Demonic Beast corpses, etc.
Considering how he owned hundreds of thousands of these items, the strength of his body and soul would increase by leaps and bounds. And all of this was excluding the high-quality resources.
Tang Yin waved his arm. Hundreds of Tier 9 Artifacts appeared in the underground cave.
He then summoned the Heaven Devouring Abyss, which shrouded the entire underground cave. Within a few seconds, all of the Tier 9 Artifacts were devoured.
Tang Yin used the negligent amount of energy obtained from these Tier 9 Artifacts to refine his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique.
Like this, a year silently passed.
Tang Yin had spent the whole year devouring Tier 9 Artifacts. There were simply way too many in his storage ring.
However, Tang Yin had to admit that devouring thousands upon thousands of Tier 9 Artifacts was effective. His Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique’s strength had increased to the standard of the Late-stage Spirit Ascension Realm.
By now, Tang Yin had devoured all of his Tier 9 Artifacts, now he would Devour all of the Tier 8 Artifacts which were almost as numerous as the Tier 9 Artifacts.
During the past year, nothing of note had happened. Nobody noticed that Tang Yin was increasing his strength silently under a desolate mountain of the Heavenly Bamboo Region, except for Xiao Fei.
Tang Yin had forbidden Xiao Fei from leaving the underground cave. She was bored out of her mind, but she still somehow found some stuff to keep her occupied.
She had also done some preparations for the upcoming Everlasting Heaven Flame Disaster. So, she wasn’t just idling around the whole time.
