Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God-Chapter 2169 - 989: The Path Is Useful Even in the Bottomless Abyss_2

Chapter 2169: Chapter 989: The Path Is Useful Even in the Bottomless Abyss_2

The Plains of Bone is a massive soul reservoir, where souls are buried like mineral deposits, and the Soul Pool is a unique mining tool.

This is the only way to explain why the Skeleton Soldiers in the Plains of Bone seem endless, like repeatedly harvested chives.

This mirrors the endless cycle of the Bottomless Abyss and The Nine Hells, serving both as a prison and a place of suffering for those souls, where they endure limitless cycles until their last trace of will and memory are worn away to nothing.

On the Material Plane, falling into the Abyss or Hell is a vicious curse, a punishment Khan Yamun intended for Gaven.

But things turned out differently.

Gaven’s ability to stir things up far exceeded Khan Yamun’s expectations. Not only could he thrive in The Eastern Desolation, but also cause significant waves in the Bottomless Abyss or The Nine Hells.

Meanwhile, Gaven keenly noticed hidden information.

Under the same domain, the Soul Fire is not infinite.

In a defensive battle, if you suffer repeated defeats, the Soul Fire dissipates on the spot and is absorbed locally.

If you can mobilize your troops quickly enough, you can engage in a war of attrition.

It might even lead to a scenario where the more you fight, the stronger you become, as the Soul Fire of the vanquished enemies scatters in your territory.

As long as the Soul Pool isn’t captured by the enemy, there’s always a chance for a comeback.

But if you’re conducting an offensive outside the territory and suffer successive losses, losing troops in another territory, that part of the soul will be absorbed by the other territory, resulting in a deficit in your territory’s total soul count.

Eventually, this could lead to the depletion of Soul Fire.

This hidden information is crucial, relating to the future use of strategic and tactical approaches.

Should you fight a defensive counterattack in your territory?

Or conduct a reckless offensive attrition war?

What is your limit in terms of endurance and consumption?

What about the enemy’s limit?

Where is your threshold for future Slaughter Devouring Evolution—this way of merging Soul Fire is tantamount to prematurely squeezing the potential for explosive soldier creation in your territory.

Now that this issue is recognized, measures must naturally be taken to verify it.

The method of verification is simple.

The Skeleton Hound Pool currently exists as an enclave outside the territory, and everything there is not yet integrated, including the total soul count.

Gaven directly dispatched two Skeleton Lords there, bringing all the Skeleton Hounds to the Main Domain, and destroyed them all on-site.

This experiment serves dual purposes.

It not only tests the hypothesis about territorial potential but also ensures the validity of the experiment, as the soul resources will not be lost but merely plundered from the enclave to the Main Domain.

However, this experiment will be somewhat time-consuming.

Everything in this enclave operates separately from the Main Domain, including the rate of troop recruitment per unit time, which still maintains a basic rate of one every ten minutes, requiring a full ten weeks to recruit ten thousand Skeleton Hounds.

And the souls stored underground are far more than just ten thousand.

Completing this experiment may well take a year or two.

Not to mention a year or two, even ten weeks feels too long to Gaven, during which he could accomplish many things.

But for now, without a better method, he can only prepare in three ways.

While conducting the experiment, he prepares strategic tactics under the assumption that his hypothesis is correct, while continuing to modify the territory to expand his advantages.

Even reducing his troop creation speed by five or six times, or even two or three times, would be remarkable, granting him an unending supply of troops when engaging in attrition warfare, especially in defensive battles within his territory.

Given the Plains of Bone’s hostility towards him, the future issue isn’t whether to expand the territory but potentially facing a situation where many unite to attack.

All the Undead of the Plains of Bone would become hostile and attack him, potentially spreading throughout the Bottomless Abyss.

This issue is closely related to the power he wields; the stronger he becomes, the stronger the reactionary forces.

This relates to the will of the Abyss being a dead thing, only reacting to current situations, similar to how Gaven tried to use Murderous Divinity Power to stain and control the Soul Pool.

If it were intelligent, it would use Thunderous Power to eliminate potential threats early—dispatching a named Demon Lord leading an army of a million to strike directly.

Gaven running with his tail between his legs would be the wisest choice.

Since the idea of transformation is correct, efforts must be made to accelerate the transformation, especially since his territory will continue expanding at an ever-increasing pace—each Slaughter Divinity will expand the territory by over three hundred square kilometers.

After much consideration, breaking through in modification speed still relies on Divine Nature Power.

The Divine Nature Power he possesses is not limited to Slaughter Divine Power alone.

He wonders whether injecting some Road Divinity Power could have a unique effect?

Broadly speaking, anything that involves transport falls under the category of paths.

No matter that the transported material is different, here it belongs to the Soul Channel.

Gaven tentatively injected a bit of Road Divinity into the Skeleton Soldiers’ Soul Channel.

Boom!

With this injection of Road Divinity, Gaven felt as if he had opened a brand-new door, directly elevating his control over soul energy within the territory to a whole new level.