Pine had some strange misunderstandings about the way the demon merchant harvested souls, probably because he didn't have a good understanding of the word "demon", and then he slit his own neck.

With Mu Hua by his side, it would be difficult for Pine to die as long as Mu Hua didn't want him to die. However, Pine died in the end.

Because Mu Hua found his soul very interesting.

There is nothing special about Pine's existence itself, but he sold his soul to the devil with a strong will to protect others. This will caused his soul to produce a wonderful chemical reaction during the transaction with the devil.

The devil likes to lure others into selling their souls. Mu Hua originally thought that those souls were a delicacy for the devil, or that those who sold their souls were easier to control.

When Pine committed suicide, his soul did not decay and die along with the trauma of his body, but instead consciously went to find Mu Hua. When Mu Hua discovered the specialness of Pine's soul, he felt that this kind of soul might be what the devil merchant wanted most.

How to say it, it is like a condensed universal energy. There is no need for complicated processes. You just need to crush the soul and it will burst out a harmless energy that far exceeds the energy level of the soul itself.

This energy is not aggressive at all, which means it cannot be used as a means of attack, but it can be transformed into magic power, emotional energy, the power of faith and transaction compensation.

Pine's soul is like a small high-explosive grenade, but instead of causing destruction when it explodes, it spreads out an energy that can be absorbed and transformed at will.

In other words, it can also be viewed as an energy storage device filled with compressed energy.

This is probably the soul that the demon merchants are obsessed with. Because they have never come into contact with this kind of soul, when Mu Hua tried to study it, Pine was naturally disappointed. . .

'The Greedy Soul of the Redeemer'

This is a mass-produced token whose value is higher than that of the Philosopher's Stone. Beings other than gods and ghosts may also transform it into the power of faith and the energy of original sin to activate some special magic items.

But in most cases, it will be transformed into the Philosopher's Stone. Depending on the complexity of the soul, it can transform into five to hundreds of Philosopher's Stones.

The soul is not a ghost. Under natural circumstances, it will dissipate with the death of the physical body.

The so-called complexity can be generally defined as the original survival time and life experience of this soul. This is also the fundamental reason why the devil merchants will not harvest the souls of their customers too early.

Mu Hua's identification skills have already reached perfection. After carefully understanding the information he learned from the Redemption of Greedy Souls, Mu Hua vaguely feels that the process of this thing converting energy is a bit like the Philosopher's Stone obtained by smelting corpses in the Burning Source Furnace.

But without clear evidence, we can only give up after some research.

Although demon merchants also use some souls as trading items, the greedy souls of the redeemer are more complex and more precious than ordinary souls.

It seems that the demon merchants also regard it as an internal secret. This kind of soul is generally only circulated among those beings whose power level reaches a certain level, or it is used as a material to make high-quality equipment props.

It can transform the Philosopher's Stone, the crystals of divine magic, and even completely erase the fantasy nature of the devil's creations.

Through Pine's soul, Mu Hua learned about a high-quality currency that circulated among high-level life forms in hell.

But the price is, it seems that some bad rumors about him have spread among the vampires, such as, for example, that he is a black-hearted businessman and lacks professional ethics.

After all, a devilish businessman would not let his customers die right after completing a transaction. This guy is not a devilish businessman at all. Even a fraudster would not let people die so easily. . .

The matter of Pine can only be regarded as a small episode in Mu Hua's life. When releasing the color domain protozoa in Ukuru, if Mu Hua senses that there are potential customers nearby, he will also provide door-to-door service.

Unfortunately, all the blood clans who saw him basically treated him as a plague god, just like guarding against thieves, and those vampires with richer families would bring up the name of Mephisto when they talked about the problem of devil merchants.

Never mind whether it's true or not, their stories are all similar. There's no rush for transactions. Our clan also has some regular clients developed by Mephisto, and we're also considered to be related clients. So, Your Majesty, why don't you go somewhere else first?

There is a certain pattern to how much the devil merchants get in transaction compensation. If they negotiate a transaction themselves, they will get more transaction compensation than if someone else negotiates it for them.

A trading partner who can make the devil hear his call and whisper can bring more trading compensation than an ordinary trading partner.

Of course, these have little to do with normal trading gains and losses, but as demon merchants, the focus of their transactions is definitely not actual property, which also leads to Mu Hua also preferring to develop customers based on calling and whispering.

The attack and defense between humans and monsters in the Caines Courtyard has become normalized. Several forces that have some connection with Mu Hua have asked whether they need to engage in in-depth cooperation, but they were basically rejected by Mu Hua.

Mu Hua's intention to dominate the Caines Courtyard is obvious, but now he does have the qualifications. According to news from the Adventurer's Guild, the Brigade Alliance has rejected the applications of several brigades to enter Caines.

However, they were worried that those brigades would come into conflict with Mu Hua's forces. In order to avoid unnecessary civil strife and losses on the human side, the Brigade Alliance adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards the Caines Courtyard until there was no major defeat in the Caines Courtyard.

Mu Hua has absolute say in the human adventuring forces in the Kanins Courtyard, but at the same time, in order to deal with the attack and defense with monsters, and in order to cross the Death Canyon and march into the Bloody Hills in the future, Mu Hua also needs to accumulate and cultivate more combat power.

The Court of the Dead was in the hands of Tabitha, while the Court of the Caines was in the hands of Monday, Tuesday, and a dragon named Lancelot.

Uh, Thursday? Thursday went to guard the Sacred Garden of the Dragons, and now she is working hard to earn money in order to return home in glory.

The biological resources in the Warcraft Courtyard can greatly enhance Mu Hua's power, but the prices there are too high, so, you know...

Mu Hua's time on the Abyss Island was gradually increasing. He now had to spend money in moderation to avoid being "drunken and dreamless" like he did on Thursday.

Producing undead at an extreme rate has become a boring yet important part of Mu Hua's life in the abyss.

In terms of the cultivation and growth of individual combat power, Mu Hua has advantages that cannot be matched by conventional methods.

But in the battle for a courtyard, even if Mu Hua tried his best to spawn undead, it would still be difficult to strike a balance between quantity and quality for a long time.

The problem of resource acquisition is also at hand. The current reality is that Mu Hua's demand for the quantity of troops is higher than their quality, otherwise it will be difficult for him to ensure the stability and development of the occupied areas in a large-scale war environment.

The Island of Abyss can provide the undead under Mu Hua with more time to grow, but as far as development resources are concerned, Mu Hua is not sitting there with a fortune, but spending as much as he earns step by step.

The Caines Courtyard requires a sufficient number of troops, but these troops cannot become strong enough in the short term.

In order to avoid a surge in troops here and casualties there, magical armaments such as chariots, mechas, and airships that have a certain life-saving ability and an attack strength far exceeding that of conventional magic equipment have become an issue that Mu Hua's forces have to focus on.

It's not that magical weapons are necessarily stronger than magic equipment, but even if you equip skeleton warriors with magical weapons, they won't be able to exert their full combat power.

Those skeleton warriors thrown into the courtyard were basically divided into two groups, guarding between the Abyss Island and the Caines Courtyard. The longer they survived, the faster their evolution would be.

The magical armaments are meant to increase their chances of survival. Mu Hua does not intend to develop his own army in the direction of magic, but as long as they can survive, they will eventually form a huge army composed of fierce individuals under Mu Hua's command.

The magical armament can be regarded as a transitional link, but with the Brigade Alliance and those forces who are also eyeing the Cains Courtyard watching, Mu Hua cannot sit idly by and wait for this link to pass smoothly.

You have to fight the battle against the monsters. If you don't fight, someone else will fight for you.

It’s fine if you have the ability to occupy the toilet, but if you occupy the toilet but don’t do anything, haha…

Due to various factors, the weapons that were robbed from the arms graveyard in the early years were no longer enough. Mu Hua's demon merchant had not yet made a name for himself, and the production and procurement of advanced weapons became a necessary task for him to carry out. (End of this chapter)