Theoretically, as long as there are enough of them, by virtue of this inherent characteristic, the Ya Wolf could even forcibly break through to A-, which is around 9,000 magic essence.
Imagine, tens of thousands of A-strength Ya Wolf surging like a tide.
The scene is quite unsettling to think about.
Of course, A-rank is also the limit for the Ya Wolf Clan.
After all, it's just an inherent skill (extra skill); it's impossible for it to grant the Ya Wolf the qualifications of a Demon Lord Seed like a Unique Skill would.
Furthermore, relying on the characteristic of 'group is individual', when Bai Luo bestowed names upon the eighteen clan leaders, another large sum of magic essence was diverted to all the remaining Ya Wolf.
500 Ya Wolf, with an average of 3,000 magic essence.
To make them evolve to B-rank with 6,000 magic essence, it would require at least 1,500,000 magic essence.
Such a vast amount of magic essence, even if Bai Luo included the 200,000 from Violet and doubled it, that would only amount to 460,000 naming magic essence (magic essence used for naming, Violet's discount is equivalent to doubling the effect).
460,000 compared to 1,500,000 is a drop in the bucket, far from enough.
But, the good thing is the Ya Wolf Clan's characteristic of 'group is individual'.
This characteristic greatly reduced the cost for Bai Luo to bestow names upon the entire Ya Wolf group.
It didn't require 1,500,000; only one-fifth, which is 300,000 magic essence, was needed to complete the evolution of all Ya Wolf species into the Star Fang Wolf Clan.
"Master's magic essence is recovering rapidly!"
On the other side, Snow Empress noticed the rapidly rising magic essence on Bai Luo and looked at Violet with some surprise.
"After the naming, our magic essence reserves were only 80,000."
80,000 magic essence, this was already a very dangerous number for both Violet and Bai Luo.
Once a monster's magic essence is exhausted, it is equivalent to the demise of its own existence.
However, what Bai Luo did was not simply throwing money away, but investing.
"Investment means being able to receive returns."
The first feedback to Bai Luo was 55,000 magic essence from Star Fang.
Star Fang was a monster named by Bai Luo, which meant that the magic essence it fed back to Bai Luo reached 15% of its total magic essence, which is 8,250 EP.
Similar to him, there were also the other eighteen Ya Wolf, which is 15,000 x 15% x 18, totaling 40,500.
Including Star Fang's, it was approximately 50,000 magic essence.
This was only the feedback from the nineteen leaders.
What truly pleased Violet was the remaining 500 Star Fang Wolf Clan members.
Due to the wolf clan's characteristics, these remaining Star Fang Wolf Clan members actually directly bypassed the follower stage and reached the rank of named monsters.
Yes, in the judgment of [Unique Skill: Ten Thousand Spirits Return to One], all 500 Star Fang Wolf were considered named monsters.
Thus, the 500 Star Fang Wolf, with an average magic essence reaching B-rank, which is 6,000 or more.
Even calculated at the lowest.
500 x 6,000 x 15% reached a terrifying 3,000,000 magic essence!
This was why Bai Luo, regardless of anything, exhausted all his magic essence to name all the Ya Wolf Clan at once!
Bai Luo admitted that there was an element of gambling.
But he won the gamble!
The originally ordinary, C-rank Ya Wolf, instantly became the biggest taxpayer providing Bai Luo with the most magic essence feedback.
What Ya Wolf species?
This was clearly Bai Luo's treasure trove!
What is getting rich in one go? This is getting rich in one go!!
"What a pity…"
Violet looked at Bai Luo, whose magic essence reserves had reached 990,000.
Of course, the extra 2,000,000+ magic essence didn't disappear but was stored with Violet.
"What?"
Snow Empress was puzzled, not understanding what Violet meant by "what a pity."
"He cannot challenge the True Demon Lord awakening ritual yet."
"Why?"
Snow Empress had heard Bai Luo say that a Demon Lord Seed could break through to an awakened Demon Lord Seed by simply absorbing enough souls.
Just souls.
"No, it's not that simple."
Violet explained, "To obtain a soul, you must break through the Astral Body that envelops it."
Absorbing souls is not as easy as it sounds.
You see, there is a special energy called the Astral Body that exists between the soul and the outside world.
This energy protects the soul from interference by other forces, and it is one of the most mysterious and fundamental logics of the Cardinal World.
"The method to break through the Astral Body cannot use magic essence; instead, it must rely on one's own will to forcefully break through."
Violet didn't know how Rimuru in the original story managed to do this.
She could only say that the Star Dragon King and Lucia's remnant souls helped Rimuru quickly cross this chasm, which was pure cheating.
"But if that's the case, why were there so many awakened Demon Lord Seeds later?"
Snow Empress remembered Bai Luo saying that Hong Maru, Shion, and others all had the potential to grow into True Demon Lords.
In the original story, they awakened with Rimuru's help by absorbing enough souls.
"Souls and Astral Bodies are two different concepts."
If it's just a pure soul, then you can absorb it directly.
If Bai Luo could obtain 100,000 souls, he could instantly show the Demon Lord Seeds of this world what it means to awaken into a True Demon Lord on the spot.
"But where would we get 100,000 defenseless souls?"
Such a massive amount of souls, aside from ancient Demon Lord Seeds like Guy who might have reserves, is impossible for anyone else to possess.
After all, souls follow the rules of reincarnation.
No one can interfere with the destination of souls, except for beings who wield ultimate authority.
Moreover, obtaining these souls isn't as simple as just killing 100,000 people.
The souls of ordinary people are too low in quality.
In the storyline where the Falmuth Kingdom attacked the Demon Country Federation, the army sent by the kingdom consisted of human elites.
Only souls of that caliber can meet the conditions for a Demon Lord Seed's awakening.
"Once an ordinary person dies, their soul cannot remain in the material world and immediately goes to the other side to be reincarnated."
"Only individuals with combat power above C-rank can temporarily remain and be absorbed by a Demon Lord Seed."
"And in this process, the soul's consumption will be enormous."
If 100,000 people die on the spot, a Demon Lord Seed would be lucky to absorb three or four tenths of the souls.
More souls would still be pulled by the rules of reincarnation, disappearing without a trace.
"So, according to you, the only way for Bai Luo to awaken as a True Demon Lord is to directly face 100,000 souls enveloped by Astral Bodies and then forcefully absorb them?"
"Yes."
Violet: "Leaving aside whether this act would cause him mental discomfort."
"Just withstanding the impact of the Astral Bodies is a huge problem."
With Bai Luo's ordinary human mental will, can he truly withstand the impact of so many Astral Bodies?
You see, Astral Bodies are nothing else but the emotions and memories accumulated by the soul in each reincarnation.
Bai Luo can certainly achieve a forceful impact.
But what would be the result?
With so many memories and emotions piled together, could Bai Luo maintain his original self, or would he be transformed into another person?.