GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

He used Origin energy to grow the grafted soul fragments in his cocoon without limit. Normal transcendents can't do that because a living transcendent will die when they go beyond a certain limit of expansion. Their consciousness will fracture once they expand past the limit of their consciousness. They need the comprehension of laws and the bestowal of cosmic energy by the law matrix to increase that limit.

But he doesn't care about the limit because these souls are already dead. They fragmented again because of his reckless infusion of Origin energy but he didn't mind. He would just graft the resulting fragments and repeat the process to get more fragments. This way, he converted Origin energy directly into soul fragments."

He chuckled. "It is like growing my food. The great mother won't be able to bully me with the number of soul fragments she has anymore. I will catch up to her in time."

The great mother is not like the soul prowlers who are living from paycheck to paycheck. She doesn't need to hunt at all because of the Phoenix race that she has created. They give her Origin energy and more from the world of manifestation so she is not in danger of dying. She can sustain herself forever and even uses the extra energy to create soul fragments to increase the Phoenix race.

Legion-7 doesn't know how she achieved the creation of the phoenix race but he doesn't envy her too much now that he has his own source of energy. It is also infinite too so there's even less reason for him to be jealous of the great mother.

He said as he watched his cocoon grow, "This reminds me of my days as young, naive, and playful Gehaldirah."

The availability of infinite Origin energy made it so that he didn't need to hunt anymore. No amount of hunting can beat infinite Origin energy. So he stopped hunting and instead, focused on increasing the quantity of soul fragments and refining them with the soul refining technique to increase their quality.

The soul refining technique is costly to use but he didn't care. He became more powerful quickly. His progress was so fast that his strength doubled in a year. He should have gotten bigger but he reduced drastically in size instead. It is because of the soul-refining technique.

The soul fragments he produced were refined into tiny gem-like objects. They became very tough and durable because of it. They also produced light in various colors after being compressed to a certain level. They made his hive cocoon shine brightly with dots of light of various colors. This way his 100-meter form which should have increased in size was reduced to less than 10 meters in diameter.

He used most of his time to work on his techniques. Power is good but without the wisdom to use it, it will become useless brawn. He can't use his laws so he has to focus on his techniques.

The technique he focused on the most is the soul evolution technique. The best thing that soul prowlers can achieve is an increase in the quantity of soul essence. He has already proven that quantity is useless in the face of quality.

It is not that soul prowlers don't know that quality is better than quantity. It is just that they don't have the resources to increase their quality and evolve. They don't even have the resources to live. He on the other is not as limited as them. He plans to evolve.

He intends to evolve himself and attain an increase in his life order. It is not certain that he would be able to achieve it but it is important to do so because he knows that the great mother has achieved evolution.

The great mother is two levels above most soul prowlers if not all of them. He knows this with certainty because of the law of the soul he gained from her. He has never gained something like that from any other soul prowler in his almost hundred years of hunting in the spiritual dimension.

The fact that he hasn't found another soul prowler with that kind of comprehension of the soul doesn't mean there are none of them in the spiritual dimension apart from the great mother. After all, technically the law of the soul can be comprehended by everything with a soul or consciousness.

Even so, the great mother's success is a unique achievement. She may not have the perception of her soul hampered by a body like those in the world of manifestation, but the other soul prowlers don't either. However, all the soul prowlers he has encountered, and he has encountered a lot of them, have never considered creating an all-encompassing explanation for the existence of the soul, its behavior, and its interaction with the world.

He didn't meet one soul prowler with a smidgen of the comprehension of the soul much less the complete law of the soul. On the other hand, the law of the soul is just the stepping stone required for evolution. If the other soul prowlers haven't comprehended their soul, then they surely can't match the great mother at all since she has gone further to achieve evolution.

He doesn't know she achieved this evolution but he knows she did it with uttermost certainty. And he believes it has something to do with how she managed to create a race in the world of manifestation. It could be that she evolved before she created the Phoenix race or evolved after.

He is more inclined to believe in the latter. After all, this world is barren. It doesn't have the resources required for evolution. At least, he can't see anything that can allow for evolution in the spiritual dimension from the memories he stole from her soul fragment. Then again, he can't anything specific about her evolution either.

He said after thinking about it, "Either she didn't let her soul fragments know about her evolution or I didn't get that memory from the portion I absorbed. I wish it were the former but I am more inclined to believe the latter."