Chapter 128: Application Directions of Spiritification

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“A Spirit Plane Silver Dragon… Wind Element?”

This was the subconscious knowledge in Shu Yue’s mind, but the wind element didn’t seem to be part of the Silver Dragon bloodline.

The Silver Dragon bloodline was attuned to Fertile Soil upon the Body; logically speaking, it should have been the Earth Element.

Psychological profiling wasn’t a status panel after all; it simply described a person’s subconscious cognition and gave the caster a rough picture.

Its main function was to prevent people who had learned too many spell arts from forgetting some of them.

Aside from the change in her bloodline column, the only other shift was in Shu Yue’s strength and realm.

She had risen from her original First-order Mid-stage to the Second Order Out-of-Body Realm. Everything else remained the same as before.

The reason Shu Yue still considered herself in the Soul Separation Stage was mainly because she felt her control over the elements wasn’t sufficient yet.

She roughly understood why, yesterday, Luolan had only needed a light touch on those elemental sword qi projections to wrest control away and convert them into ice elements.

It wasn’t that Luolan had used some higher element or her own [Annihilation] nature.

It was purely because Shu Yue had just grasped the power of elements and her control wasn’t precise enough, allowing Luolan to hijack them with ease.

It was like a grown, strong man casually snatching a wooden sword from a child’s hands, gripping both ends, snapping it over his knee, and breaking it in two.

Luolan fighting Shu Yue was like an adult fighting a child.

This wasn’t a gap in raw power but a comprehensive gap in level.

Shu Yue wouldn’t be able to catch up to Luolan’s pace anytime soon.

Moreover, one had been at Tier 3 for a long time and carried the Holy Blood Legacy; the other had just grasped elemental power, her bloodline practically hand-crafted from scratch, only now possessing a thin Spirit Plane bloodline trait, with the rest being a blank bloodline that only boosted physical strength.

How could Shu Yue possibly compare to Luolan?

So, losing wasn’t shameful at all.

Back to the main topic. Shu Yue looked at her spirit-ified hand and began to think.

“How do I use this? Now that my hand is spirit-ified, can it pass through physical matter?”

She tested it, and sure enough, it could pass through cloth.

“Can it grant spirit-ification to objects too?”

Thinking this in her heart, Shu Yue took a Gold Coin from the mirror and tried to spirit-ify it.

“It won’t work?”

Looking at the unmoving coin, she furrowed her brow and put it away.

Spirit-ification seemed to only work on her own body.

“The elemental power contains my Spirituality. Does that mean the elemental power is an extension of me?”

She opened her palm, and a mass of cyan Wind Element power materialized, condensing into a small wind sphere about the size of an egg.

When Shu Yue applied spirit-ification to it, its glow dimmed for an instant, which also made her pale golden eyes light up.

“It works!”

Elemental power was indeed considered a part of her, so spirit-ification could also apply to spell arts…

At least, to spell arts constructed from elemental power.

Suddenly, a surge of information flooded Shu Yue’s mind.

She stared blankly at the wind sphere in her hand, her pink lips moving slightly as she whispered:

“Is this a new element?”

When she had spirit-ified the wind element just now, her perception happened to be inside it.

At the instant of spirit-ification, she had caught a glimpse of some structural change in the wind element.

But she couldn’t yet comprehend this change.

It exceeded three-dimensional imagination.

Just thinking about it made her dizzy, clearly beyond what Shu Yue could touch at the Second Order Out-of-Body Realm.

“It’s not a new element—it’s a higher power!”

After recovering from that strange dizziness, Shu Yue’s eyes widened.

She felt no discomfort; instead, she was exceptionally delighted.

She hadn’t expected to stumble upon something new by accident.

Shu Yue’s Soul told her this was a power called [Spirit Plane Breeze].

Judging by the name, it was a specialty of the Spirit Plane—wind imbued with Spirit Plane properties that could act directly on the Soul.

She tentatively probed it with her Spirituality, but the moment it entered, it was shredded and extinguished.

That tearing sensation made Shu Yue’s heart twitch.

She stared at the small wind sphere in surprise.

“It really can act directly on the Soul, bypassing physical defenses.”

“The part I can spirit-ify is still too small. I can’t even fully spirit-ify a Wind Blade; otherwise, this would be a Soul attack. Against Tier 1 or Tier 2 opponents, a single spirit wind blade would finish them off.”

Shu Yue dispelled the spirit-ification and withdrew the elemental power.

“It’s just that…”

She used the Fire Calling Method to produce flames, watching the spark of fire dance in her hand.

An idea came to her.

If she mastered the Fire Element and then used spirit-ified Fire Element power, she would obtain Spirit Plane Fire.

If she used Spirit Plane Fire in conjunction with the Star Tempering Art, could she directly temper her Soul?

With the idea in mind, Shu Yue immediately prepared to execute it.

Others might lack Fire Element affinity and be unable to fuse Spirituality and magic power into Fire Element power, but she was Shu Yue.

She had no fear of lacking Fire Element affinity!

Just kill anyone with Fire Element affinity, take their affinity for herself, and wouldn’t she have it?

Simple as that!

And if this actually worked, then in the future, Shu Yue could temper only her Soul without having to painfully burn her body.

She could save a lot of Spirituality and refine more people.

With that thought, she prepared to find someone to test on.

Of course, Shu Yue wouldn’t just pick anyone.

First, that person had to possess Fire Element affinity traits.

Regarding Elemental Affinity, Shu Yue had also gained some new understanding.

The affinities ordinary people could possess at most were the four major elements: Earth, Wood, Wind, and Water.

The proportion of Fire Element was smaller.

This was because these four major elements permeated every aspect of Human life in the Material Realm.

People immersed in such an environment for a long time would naturally possess Elemental Affinity traits for them.

For example, someone who grew up in the mountains and forests and successfully learned spell arts would have almost seventy percent Wood affinity, twenty percent Earth, and the rest Wind and Water.

Among these four major elements, ranked in order, it was Earth, Wood, Wind, Water. In the Northern Frontier, there would also be Ice.

The Fire Element affinity Shu Yue needed was something only people who constantly dealt with flames would have.

Such people were either blacksmiths, charcoal burners, or those who had already become Alchemists.

She herself was an Alchemist, but her Fire Element affinity wasn’t high—she felt it was only around ten percent.

Of course, that was also related to the Fire Calling Method being too low-level.

Shu Yue re-equipped the Mirror Flower Water Moon Transformation, dispelled the Barrier, walked out of her room to find a maid, and had Claire prepare what she needed.

She casually called over a maid and had her notify Claire that there was new business to handle—the Dragon Blood and materials could wait.

Before long, Claire hurried back.

This aloof maid, with her wine-red hair tied back and dressed in a maid’s uniform, gave Shu Yue a calm bow upon seeing her.

She showed not a trace of irritation at being summoned back and forth.

She said placidly: “Master Liya, what are your orders?”

“I want to…”

Shu Yue paused mid-sentence.

She couldn’t say she needed a person for her own spell art research; she had to find a suitable excuse.

This matter would definitely be reported to Mrs. Mei Er and Luolan.

Claire was Mrs. Mei Er’s informant by nature and wouldn’t conceal such information from Shu Yue.

Even if Shu Yue gave the order, Claire would follow Mrs. Mei Er’s higher directive.

To avoid trouble, Shu Yue thought for a moment, then asked Claire some questions.

“Claire, are there any large prisons in Frost City? The kind that holds death row convicts.”

“Death row convicts…”

Claire caught the key point in Shu Yue’s words.

She gave Shu Yue a deep look and asked a follow-up question.

“Master Liya, what do you intend to do with death row convicts? My apologies—I’m asking so I can better understand your needs.”

“No matter.”

Shu Yue didn’t mind the counter-question and gave a somewhat acceptable explanation.

“Death row convicts should all bear heavy crimes. I’ve hit a bottleneck in my skills and want to experiment. Ordinary sparring can’t achieve the effect of a life-or-death struggle, so…”

“I understand, Master Liya.”

Claire understood Shu Yue’s meaning, but she still reminded her.

“If the Miss finds out, she may not permit it.”

“Just don’t tell her. Besides, it’s not dangerous. I’ll exercise restraint.”

Shu Yue was insistent on doing this.

Claire nodded and agreed.

She introduced the major prisons within Frost City to Shu Yue.

There were three prisons for ordinary people, all holding petty thieves and troublemakers; one prison for Nobles, holding guilty ministers of the Northern Frontier and their direct descendants.

There were two prisons for Supernatural Beings—one in the north of the city, one in the south.

The one in the north held high-tier Supernatural Beings.

Shu Yue certainly wouldn’t go there looking for Tier 3 and above.

That left only the southern one, which held Supernatural Beings ranging from apprentices to Tier 2.

The numbers weren’t too many, mostly those who had committed crimes within Frost City.

“Death sentences are rarely carried out. They’re usually thrown into the Tian Yuan Defense Line as vanguards against the deep Evil Spirits. Only the most heinous criminals are actually executed.”

“I understand.”

Shu Yue understood what Claire meant—she was telling her not to go overboard.

These people might be death row convicts, but they still had residual value in reducing personnel losses for the Northern Frontier army.

She hadn’t planned to kill them all anyway.

Forget whether she could absorb them all—she couldn’t even refine them all in time.

“Claire, make the arrangements. We’re going to the prison in the south of the city.”

“Yes, Master Liya.”

Claire bowed respectfully and withdrew, preparing for the trip.

That mainly meant arranging a carriage and relaying word of this matter to Mrs. Mei Er.

Shu Yue went back and had nothing to pack.

She tried using spell-art fire to see if it worked—the answer was no.

It seemed only Fire Element power could do the job.

Soon, the carriage was ready.

Shu Yue and Claire rode together, leaving the castle.

Half an hour later, the carriage stopped before a gate that exuded a cold, grim aura.

When Shu Yue stepped down, she glanced at the prison’s side gate, then turned to look elsewhere.

Quite a few carriages were parked here.

“Hm?”

Claire explained for Shu Yue from the side:

“Quite a few children of Nobles pick frail death row convicts for duels. They need to gain the courage to kill their own opponents.”

Shu Yue nodded without comment.

Under Claire’s lead, Shu Yue walked inside and met a deputy warden who had come to receive them.

He was a round-faced Pangzi, eyes squinted into slits, looking very shrewd.

But she could sense a hint of ruthlessness on this man, as well as venom clinging to his Soul.

Shu Yue frowned slightly, but quickly returned to normal, without letting anyone notice.