What was ritual magic, and what was the Wisdom Tree?
These were, of course, a few clever ideas from Dalun Li.
The Wisdom Tree was, naturally, the Eternal Imprisonment Brain he had created.
Ritual magic was a new project for the Well of Eternal Imprisonment, combining the masterpiece grade magic item, the Secret Book of Fire-Stealing, with the Eternal Imprisonment Brain.
It combined the Eternal Imprisonment Brain with the second special ability of the Secret Book of Fire-Stealing: Foundry Insight.
Foundry Insight allowed one to pray and ask questions, receiving answers in return.
By using the Eternal Imprisonment Brain to activate this ability of the Secret Book of Fire-Stealing, one could perform a ritual to pray to the Eternal Imprisonment Brain for answers to certain questions.
As for why he was doing this...
First, it would create a new source of income.
In ritual magic, those who prayed for answers had to offer sacrifices. The higher the value of the sacrifice, the more detailed and complete the answer provided.
Second, it would enrich the knowledge base of the Eternal Imprisonment Brain.
Questions themselves possessed value. Those who used ritual magic to ask questions of the Eternal Imprisonment Brain were effectively helping Dalun Li train it.
The more questions the Eternal Imprisonment Brain answered, the more knowledge it would acquire.
Dalun Li could not allow the Eternal Imprisonment Brain's processing power to sit idle or be wasted on trivial matters.
Currently, most of the brain's processing power was dedicated to learning the death-related knowledge within Withered Reincarnation's Book of Death.
However, that knowledge would eventually be fully mastered.
When that time came, what would the brain's learning capacity be used for?
Thus, Dalun Li was already setting the stage.
By having others ask valuable questions and having the Eternal Imprisonment Brain answer them, he would enrich his own knowledge reserves.
Next was...
Creating the nineteenth floor.
Transferring to the eighteenth floor, Dalun Li looked toward the chaotic space deeper within.
The remnants of divine power were still floating within that chaotic space.
However, based on the distance of those remnants from him, it would be difficult for the nineteenth floor to reach the nearest one.
“It seems the nineteenth floor won't be able to incorporate a piece of divine power,” Dalun Li sighed.
He locked onto a direction within the chaotic space and began creating the nineteenth floor.
Based on this direction and depth, when the twentieth floor was created, it should be able to swallow a fragment of the Harvest God's divine power.
The accumulated Earth Vein Power began to deplete rapidly. Following the path down from the eighteenth floor, rock and soil quickly carved a path through the chaotic space.
Soil mixed with water element power, forming vast stretches of swamp upon the rocky foundation.
Within the swamp, countless specks of wood element power, shimmering like bioluminescence, transformed into a forest of trees, creating a dense jungle.
A thick toxic mist, formed by the mixture of water and earth elements, permeated the jungle.
As the last of the Earth Vein Power was exhausted, the nineteenth floor was complete.
Dalun Li habitually transferred himself and his pedestal to the newly created nineteenth floor.
【Earth Vein Power required to create the next floor: 90,000】
“The temperature is definitely lower.”
As soon as he transferred to the nineteenth floor, Dalun Li noticed the change in temperature.
Starting from the sixteenth floor, the temperature had been steadily dropping.
Now, on the nineteenth floor, Dalun Li could see a layer of frost floating within the jungle.
With temperatures this low, he was truly worried his dear adventurers might catch a cold.
“...Perhaps this is a good source of inspiration.”
The light of wisdom flashed through Dalun Li's mind as a new idea for a monster took root.
A monster whose attacks carried a poison attribute.
It could lower an adventurer's resistance, making them more susceptible to falling ill in cold, damp environments.
Once sick, they would receive debuffs such as reduced defense, decreased speed, lowered magic resistance, dizziness, fever, and so on.
In a swamp environment like this, the mortality rate would skyrocket once they fell ill.
Patiently tucking this creative idea away in his mind, Dalun Li scanned the entire floor to see if any wonderful tools for tormenting adventurers had appeared.
The trees seemed normal.
Wait.
A new type of shrub had appeared.
Dalun Li moved into the toxic mist of the forest and looked at the low shrubs growing between the trees.
These shrubs had slender branches and long, thin leaves with purple edges. The edges were lined with sharp serrations, and they grew throughout the floor.
“They seem to have a faint toxicity.”
“No, it's not a toxicity inherent to the shrubs themselves.”
The leaves could absorb toxins from the air and deposit them along their edges.
As for the source of the toxins, it was naturally the toxic miasma floating in the air.
After confirming the new plant, Dalun Li continued his inspection of the forest.
He primarily looked for any rare magic trees.
However, after checking the trees across the entire floor, he only found one giant tree containing mana, and it possessed no special abilities.
Including this magic tree, the number of magic trees within the Well of Eternal Imprisonment was now quite substantial, greatly satisfying Dalun Li's daily material needs for monster creation.
Beneath the ground, there were only a few ordinary small mineral veins.
Combined with the swampy terrain of this floor, mining would be difficult and held little value.
Aside from that, there were no other resources underground that excited Dalun Li.
However, in the misty forest on the surface...
Dalun Li gathered several types of plants he had discovered.
One was a moss growing on the bark of trees.
One was a fungus parasitic on rotting wood, resembling a lingzhi mushroom but with fungal leaves shaped like hands.
There were also two types of herbs growing independently in the swamp; one was brownish-purple with straight stems and leaves.
The other was brown with purple flowers.
Without exception, all four plants contained mana and were considered magic plant materials.
Though not numerous, they were distributed across the entire floor.
Dalun Li quickly identified the names and effects of these medicinal magic plants.
The moss was Snake Hair Moss, a common material for making recovery-type potions.
The fungus was Witch's Hand, a material for detoxification potions.
The herb was Kro Grass, a medicinal material for treating external wounds.
The most precious was the final purple flower, called the Unicorn Flower. Legend said these medicinal flowers only bloomed in forests where unicorns had walked.
At the moment, he could prove that this legend was likely false.
It was one of the materials for crafting high-level potions. Adding it during the brewing process could elevate the effects of other potions.
For example, if a Unicorn Flower was added during the production of a low-grade healing potion, it would enhance the recovery effect.
If the effect of the low-grade healing potion approached that of a mid-grade potion...
The Unicorn Flower would directly elevate the potion to mid-grade.
“Is the true value of this floor in these medicinal resources?”
Among the nineteen floors so far, no other floor had grown as many medicinal plants as this one.
Looking back from the sixteenth to the nineteenth floor, although medicinal plants were sparse on each, they were present on every floor.
It seemed these medicinal plants grew more easily in the misty forests of the swamp floors.
With this in mind, Dalun Li intended to create a new intelligent monster to make good use of these medicinal resources.
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