I Can Program My Body?-Chapter 591: Soul Crystal Creation

Returning to his chamber, Nash slumped into his chair, thinking about what to do.

With over half of his computational power available, Nash could do a lot of things, from uploading more books to the [Library Module System], optimizing other module systems, experimenting, building, and more.

Remembering his earlier thought about Soul Energy, Nash finally decided.

"It’s time to improve this one..."

Long ago, he already had an idea what the advanced form of soul energy was.

From raw soul energy to purified soul essence, then to soul elemental energy.

This condensed form could not only replenish soul power faster, it could also instantly restore one’s elemental energy.

After all, while soul essence could supplement elemental energy, it could only help accelerate recovery.

However, with this upgraded form, as long as one had soul elemental energy, they could fight endlessly.

Especially for him, leveraging the almost infinite soul energy he had collected as the platform that provided it, Nash could fight however he wanted without worry of consumption.

Moreover, in his estimate, soul elemental energy should be able to accelerate not only the formation of the elemental core, but also its sublimation!

Thinking of these features, Nash was eager to take action.

Unfortunately, his soul enlightenment state was still on cooldown.

"I’ll just experiment and gather more data..."

While in the state of soul enlightenment, he could deduce things from nothing; it was too inefficient. With more data, Nash could save more deduction steps.

Entering his origin space to collect some data, Nash was immediately drawn to the 19 shining stars in the sky.

"Is this my sublimated elemental cores?"

Different from regular elemental cores, each sublimated one shone like a twinkling star. Not only were they bigger and brighter, they also emitted abundant energy that nourished everything around them.

Given enough time, related elemental resources might even begin growing in the origin space because of them.

However, looking at the current state of the origin space, Nash could only shake his head.

"It’s a mess!"

With the influx of soul energy, the origin planet from before had already turned into a world of sea.

This was not just raw soul energy, but soul essence purified autonomously by the [Control Module System].

With a rough estimate, Nash figured there were about 15 sextillion units of soul essence on this planet.

"It’s time to organize this place."

Although the origin space wouldn’t materialize until he advanced to the Planetary Realm, Nash could begin setting it up now.

Drawing on his thoughts and connection to the place, he began to control the planet as if it were his own body.

Forming mountains, hills, and plateaus, to valleys, gorges, and trenches, the land and sea of soul energy were finally separated.

With the depth and height offered by the varied terrain, the origin planet regained its previous shape.

In fact, because of the different shapes and orientations, it had gained some order.

"Unfortunately, it’s all land and water..."

All his virtualized power had already turned into planets and stars above. Without any other matter besides the land and soul energy, the origin planet was somewhat desolate.

"Let’s liven it up a little more."

Not having anything pressing to do, Nash decided to play god a little longer, forming different terrain across the planet.

Dividing the land into several continents, widening the seas, creating plains, rivers, lakes, islands, oases, and everything he could think of.

Shaping what would become the future of his internal world, he didn’t notice the time slipping by.

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A week later, as Nash created everything in his vision, he couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction.

"Not bad~."

Although it was still barren, the shapes and terrain gave it an indescribable beauty.

Clapping his hands, Nash turned to what he had originally come here for.

Looking at the sea of soul essence, Nash began compressing, filtering, purifying, and synthesizing it, using different intensities, structures, densities, and compositions to collect more data.

Even without the soul enlightenment state, his progress steadily advanced, inching closer to soul elemental energy.

Watching the soul essence grow purer and purer, as a faint trace of elemental energy began to appear within it, a small smile tugged at his face.

"This shouldn’t take too long..."

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Three months later, after countless experiments and a dozen soul enlightenments, Nash finally created the Soul Crystal!

Containing a purer form of soul essence, it also held the elemental energy he had hoped for.

"Haha, finally!" Nash laughed loudly.

Initially, he thought the matter would be finished in a few weeks to a month; he didn’t expect it would take three months.

Creating a purer form of soul energy that contained elemental energy was easy; the hard part was preserving its form.

If not maintained, the form would come loose and revert to its previous state.

Upon reaching this stage, Nash began experimenting and deducing how to preserve its properties.

Eventually, after multiple soul enlightenments, Nash found a way to crystallize it.

The only drawback was that producing a soul crystal required a billion units of soul energy or a million units of soul essence.

Otherwise, if the amount were too small, it simply wouldn’t crystallize.

"I guess this thing can only be used by those with a lot of money."

With such a threshold, one would need to be at least a Tier 5 Void Marshal to stably produce soul crystals.

Fortunately, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

After all, it was a transitional stage for the soul essence, something he created for those who had amassed enough wealth to entice them into earning or extracting even more soul energy.

Extracting a soul crystal he had just condensed from his origin space, a shining grain appeared at his fingertips.

"It’s so small!"

An elemental crystal was at least the size of a marble, yet this particle, containing hundreds of times more energy, was barely the size of a grain of sand.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, it might fall short. But in terms of utility and efficiency, it surpassed the old by a mile.