"Sadly I am not joking." Gao Lan Mei paused for a moment before speaking again, with indifference. "Let me send all these over so you can see them first. Gao Lan Mei understands if Ma Fei Hong will not agree to her request immediately. After all, they are talking about the soul, a piece of the existence of every being.
Inside the underground safety chamber, Gao Lan Mei placed all the stones using magic on a cloth before tieing the cloth up to hold everything together, before opening a magical transportation circle.
Gao Lan Mei is supposed to grab the tied cloth, but Wei Jiayi already took the initiative to get it for her and pa.s.s it to Ma Fei Hong.
"Thank you." Gao Lan Mei"s hands are currently numb after all the runes that she had written. She will just have to fix her hands later when her spiritual energy has recovered.
After that, Wei Jiayi then carefully grabbed Gao Lan Mei"s hands, that are now red and numb, for writing too much, and blew at them.
Wei Jiayi"s heartaches by just looking at her dainty hands that are overused for beings that she is not supposed to be involved at, aside from her own family.
"Why do you need to use both your hands?" Wei Jiayi asked as he looked at Gao Lan Mei with unhappiness. "I can cure them with my saliva if you want." He offered playfully, but she knows that he serious about it since a dragon"s saliva have some healing effect.
Gao Lan Mei just glared at him as she tried to get him to release her hands. However, she eventually gave up as Wei Jiayi refused to let go.
She also felt warmth being sent to her hands as he tries to heal them.
He then raised one his hand to her mouth to give her a healing pill. "Be good now, open your mouth..." Wei Jiayi carefully said a depressed look on his face, so Gao Lan Mei does not have a choice and just complied.
"Knock! Knock!" Ma Fei Hong shouted to get their attention, "What is this?" she asked as she looked at the bundle of cloth at her feet. She bends down to check what is inside and see that they are a bunch of stones, glistering with spiritual energy.
She picked up one stone and Ma Fei Hong immediately felt warmth and peace from it. Just like what she felt when she touched the large that Gao Lan Mei had summoned. "These are written using the charcoal from that fire right?"
Ma Fei Hong was able to see how Gao Lan Mei made the defense walls inside the chambers so she already knows that this thing works, it is just that asking the experts to give up even just a part of their soul may be close to impossible.
"Yes, you are correct. I will be very blunt with you Sister Ma. I do not have spiritual energy to use to make another batch of stones." Gao Lan Mei explained. Even though she already took a healing pill, it will still take a while for her to fully recover.
Continuing, "They may be a lot, but in all honesty, even if you used all of that, it will not be enough if the spiritual energy that it gathers are just from low-level cultivators."
"Even if I have spiritual energy left, it is still not strong enough to create the defense barrier for the whole empire. You know that. The only way we can do it is with the help of everyone." Gao Lan Mei added.
"The experts just need to willingly share a part of his soul, there is no specific amount. You can a.s.sure them that they can crush the stone after to get their souls back later."
"This is... This is not possible..." Ma Fei Hong replied honestly as she never heard of anything before.