Chapter 1339: Soul Ability Check and Collect Soul Storage In a large whale fall, the gathering of the souls of the giant whales could result in the birth of this extraordinary lifeform. At least 80% of the energy in the giant whales’ flesh would turn into the Island Whale embryos. Although Red Thorn seemed to be producing an enormous spectacle, it was only absorbing less than 20% of the blood energy from the giant whales’ flesh. As for the giant whales’ spirit qi and pure elemental energy, those were stored in the giant whales’ bones and marrow. The giant whales’ marrow needed decades to decompose. This was why although the Island Whale embryos started forming from the beginning of the whale fall, they only hatched at the end of the whale fall. It was not a 100% guarantee that the Island Whale embryos formed in a large whale fall would hatch. In fact, it would be lucky if just two Island Whale embryos hatched from the whale fall with three Island Whales. Even if an Island Whale embryo did form from middle-sized whale falls, it would not hatch even when the whale fall ended. This was because the Island Whale embryos needed too much pure spirit qi and water-elemental energy in order to hatch. Thus, every Island Whale embryo would start a fierce fight with the other Island Whale embryos from the moment they were formed in order to have the best chance of hatching. From the moment the Island Whale embryos were formed, they started to train their consumption ability. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶 Every Island Whale embryo vied to suppress the other Island Whale embryos to reach the last stage of the whale fall where the whale bones broke open so it would be able to absorb the pure spirit qi and pure water-elemental energy that flowed out. However, the Island Whale embryos that did not manage to hatch would not be left without a future. There was a high amount of concentrated spirit qi and water-elemental energy at the bottom of the sea. As time passed, the unhatched Island Whale embryos would eventually be able to absorb enough water-elemental energy and spirit qi. Every lifeform in the sea would be focused on protecting the Island Whales. It was just like how sea-king experts and the Sea Emperors would do anything to ensure that the Island Whale embryos hatched. Nonetheless, many undiscovered Island Whale embryos were at the bottom of the sea. There were also many examples where a particular area of the sea had especially tough rocks that slowed down the permeation of spirit qi and resulted in the Island Whale embryos failing to hatch even when they reached the end of their lifespans. Hence, the most critical thing to Lin Yuan was the marrow within the giant whales’ bones. Besides the bone marrow within the whale bones, the whale bones themselves were also precious. They were equally as valuable as jade-textured wood. Furniture and other items made out of large pieces of whale bones were rarities and could be auctioned off for high prices. Top factions liked to buy furniture and other items made from whale bones. From a certain angle, it could be said that whale bones were even better at displaying one’s status than jade-textured wood. After Red Thorn dug out the first Island Whale’s brain oil, it called over three of the morphed flowers and watched as they used their gill-shaped petals to carry the whale oil over to Lin Yuan carefully. Lin Yuan gently stroked Red Thorn’s hair with his finger. He broke off a fingernail-sized piece of the whale oil and handed it to the Remembrance Soul Whale. The Remembrance Soul Whale used its mouth to touch the whale oil gently before happily swallowing it. Meanwhile, Lin Yuan placed his hand on the Remembrance Soul Whale’s head. He circulated his spiritual power to transfer pure spirit qi to the Remembrance Soul Whale. Under the influence of both the Island Whale brain oil and the pure spirit qi, the Elite VI Remembrance Soul Whale’s power and quality shot up. It did not take long for it to reach Elite X. But instead of allowing the Remembrance Soul Whale to reach Bronze grade, the Remembrance Soul Whale’s quality evolved to Epic quality. Only after this did he allow the Remembrance Soul Whale to break through its grade. This was because feys that had been Spirit Locked by Morbius could only raise their grade without gaining new abilities. As such, they would only be able to use their Normal abilities. Hence, Spirit Locked feys needed to rely on their exclusive skills to improve their Normal abilities. After the Remembrance Soul Whale reached Bronze grade, three exclusive skills appeared. Lin Yuan now needed to choose the one that would be best matched to Soul Knot. The first exclusive skill was Soul Ability Check.` [Soul Ability Check]: Raise the Remembrance Soul Whale’s range of surveillance and increase the rate at which souls are collected. Lin Yuan’s eyes lit up when he saw this exclusive skill as it would enable the Remembrance Soul Whale to gather souls more easily. With this, the Remembrance Soul Whale would be able to have more confidence to awaken the memories in the souls. On the other hand, Lin Yuan found the ability to increase the speed of gathering of souls to be necessary as it would not take much time to collect souls, and increasing the speed would make an insignificant difference. Regardless, Soul Ability Check was suitable for Soul Knot. Even if the other two exclusive skills were lacking, Lin Yuan still had an option he would be satisfied with. When Lin Yuan used to evolve feys, he always evolved all of them to Elite X/Epic. When he evolved them to Bronze grade, there were many times when all three exclusive skills had been useful. Since the first exclusive skill could already allow Lin Yuan to set his mind at ease, he went on to see the Remembrance Soul Whale’s second potential exclusive skill. [Collect Soul Storage]: Collect souls and digest them to turn them into nutrients that can increase power and grade. During combat, the collected souls can be spat out and cause damage according to the strength of the souls. Lin Yuan frowned when he saw this exclusive skill. Although Collect Soul Storage could greatly increase the rate at which the Remembrance Soul Whale could raise its power without using soul-type spiritual ingredients and could also be matched with Soul Knot, this compatibility ran opposite to Lin Yuan’s goal. Lin Yuan could not allow the Remembrance Soul Whale to use the people he cared about as fodder to raise its power or weapons to be used against enemies. He immediately abandoned Collect Soul Storage and moved on to the third exclusive skill.