**Chapter 173: Monster Spawn Pool! [Seeking Recommendation Votes]**
Shadow Divine Kingdom.
At first, this kingdom was too close to the Shadow Plane, so it had been assimilated into a semi-shadow state, everything was gray. Most of the Prayer Weavers in the Divine Kingdom were shadow creatures, but as Soren took control of this Divine Kingdom, everything inside was restructured, especially the originally gray world, which had now gained some colors. However, the area of the Divine Kingdom was enormous, and without entering the Divine Kingdom itself, Soren could not complete the entire transformation; thus, to the northwest of the Divine Kingdom remained the desolate shadow realm.
However.
At this moment, some special changes were happening here.
A gigantic reincarnation pool was set up here. Prayer Weavers could not conceive or reproduce, although the gods granted them lifespans far beyond that of mortals, even extending over a thousand years.
But!
No Prayer Weaver could conceive or reproduce, and even Otherworldly Divine Servants could only be created in the form of angels. Therefore, the population in the Divine Kingdom could not increase internally and had to rely on souls from other worlds. This is also why certain deities quickly wither or even directly perish after the churches in the Material Plane are destroyed.
Teams of Heroic Spirit Guards stood at the border.
The boundary of this land was a river; when Soren used powerful divine power to tear open the space and draw the waters of the River of Underworld into the Divine Kingdom, the special reincarnation pool that had been set up long ago was activated.
Soren could not randomly transform souls into his Prayer Weavers.
However, he could transform these souls into other forms; demons were just one of the ways souls could evolve.
As the waters of the River of Underworld transported souls into Soren’s Divine Kingdom, under the influence of the laws of the plane, the reincarnation pool operated automatically, and then a shadowy figure appeared near the reincarnation pool.
It was like a beginning.
When the first shadow appeared, the second and third swiftly followed, then other forms of specters, higher-level shadow lifeforms, and so on. Depending on the essence of the soul, the reincarnation pool automatically transformed them into shadow life of the same level. In just a short time, hundreds of shadow lifeforms had already gathered near the reincarnation pool. They had long lost their memories of previous lives and, after being transformed into shadow life, inherently held hostility towards others. These shadow lifeforms attacked each other and even the nearby Prayer Weavers, but they were quickly eliminated by the Heroic Spirits.
Outside the Divine Kingdom.
Soren gasped as he withdrew his divine power. Redirecting the River of Underworld was somewhat taxing even for a deity, but it seemed successful.
“The first monster spawn pool seems to be complete.”
Soren closed his eyes, sensing everything in the Divine Kingdom. Not being able to enter did not mean he could not perceive; after the later stages of the Saint’s Cataclysm, deities could know about some matters within their Divine Kingdoms.
Monster Spawn Pool.
This was what Soren planned to utilize the River of Underworld for.
Not only could the Abyss Blood Pool steal souls from the River of Underworld to transform them into demons, but the reincarnation pool of the Shadow Plane would similarly transform them into shadow life.
What Soren was doing was intercepting the souls in this tributary of the River of Underworld.
The Material Plane was filled with vast numbers of generic believers; many would not enter the realms of the gods after death but would flow along the River of Underworld back to the Sea of Origins to be reshaped. What Soren was doing was akin to a thief, continuously extracting souls into his Divine Kingdom, then using the reincarnation pool to turn them into shadow life.
It was like a monster spawn pool!
As long as souls flowed through this tributary of the River of Underworld, the reincarnation pool would continuously spawn shadow life.
More importantly.
The Divine Kingdom itself was very close to a state of only allowing souls to enter, not exit. Once souls entered the Divine Kingdom, if they were killed, part of their soul power would be absorbed by the Prayer Weavers to evolve into Heroic Spirits, while another part would automatically merge with the Divine Kingdom itself, allowing Soren to later utilize it when he entered.
It was previously mentioned that Prayer Weavers could also die; when they died, the soul power would automatically dissipate within the Divine Kingdom, and the kingdom would absorb this soul power to expand its area.
Matter itself is composed of energy!
And soul power is closer to the most fundamental energy structure; once transformed, the Divine Kingdom could continuously expand in area.
At this moment.
Within Soren’s Divine Kingdom, thousands of shadow lifeforms had already appeared.
They rapidly expanded and occupied an area of about fifty square kilometers, and outside this area was where the Heroic Spirits under Soren’s command were stationed.
Monster spawning also requires nurturing.
Low-level shadow lifeforms hold little value. Soren planned an area centered around the reincarnation pool in the Divine Kingdom for these shadow lifeforms to expand and grow. As long as the waters of the River of Underworld continued, these beings would not be few. When the accumulation of shadow life reached a critical point, it would be the time for the Heroic Spirit Legion to step in and eliminate them.
This number cannot be too large, otherwise, the casualties among the Heroic Spirits would also be significant.
But it also cannot be too few, as that would yield little benefit.
According to Soren’s assessment, unless a catastrophe arose in the Material Plane causing an excessive loss of life all at once, the area designated for spawning monsters in the Divine Kingdom could be cleaned up once every three days. The accumulated soul power would gradually expand the area of the Divine Kingdom and automatically extract energy from elemental channels to form new matter, which could be seas or mountains. In Soren’s absence from the Divine Kingdom, the births of these matters would be random. Only when a deity is present in the Divine Kingdom can they control whether the area increases the size of the sea or land.
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Meanwhile.
In the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss, the Land of Forgotten.
After an entire day and night of battle, the most powerful Mother of Worms finally appeared.
She killed and devoured the other two Mothers of Worms, and then a gigantic abyss worm over thirty meters long appeared before the eyes of other demons. This was the largest Mother of Worms Soren had seen so far; she even bore a pressure similar to that of a giant dragon, likely approaching the strength of a minor deity.
“I! Am the leader of the Balroth Fire Demons! The Lord of the Land of Forgotten!”
Fierce flames erupted from Soren’s body as he slowly walked towards the Mother of Worms, solemnly stating, “Miserable worm! Submit beneath my feet!”
“Otherwise!”
“I will kill you without hesitation! Extract your soul!”
The pressure of the Demon Lord enveloped the entire Blood Pool, as Soren, holding a gigantic beheading sword, flapped his demon wings and floated before the Mother of Worms, his thirty-meter-long flaming whip lightly waving, seeming ready to strike down at the slightest resistance.
The newly born Mother of Worms appeared uneasy; she hesitated and seemed to resist.
But ultimately, she gave up the fight, for she could sense that she was no match for Soren, and the Mother of Worms was meant to serve the Demon Lord.
“Very well.”
Confirming that the Mother of Worms had submitted, Soren slowly descended.
Behind him, a large group of succubi gathered, and Soren turned to them and said, “Secure this place. Do not let anyone approach. Report the number of abyss worms born each day to me.”
“It seems my Demon Legion needs to expand!”
An Abyss Blood Pool, a Shadow Reincarnation Pool.
In the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss, Soren had already controlled two tributaries of the River of Underworld, and the longer he maintained control, the more souls he could steal!
………………(To be continued ~^~)
