[Hearing your words, Jade interjected, "Isn’t that not a problem? I don’t know what you specifically discovered via Hint Prompt, but the quantity of powerhouse corpses and blood isn’t really a problem for you."]
["Just killing one of them is enough to water the Ether Fruit Tree with the blood of countless Mid Aether rank powerhouses and fertilize it with the bones and flesh of Mid Aether rank powerhouses."]
["With your Unlimited Food Creation, even killing normal humanoid creatures like humans would add their blood and flesh to your food catalog. If we went to specifically hunt edible monsters instead, then we can absolutely ensure that it would be added to your food catalog."]
[Listening to Jade’s interjection, you knew that was the case before.]
[However, you shook your head in the end, as you explained, "It was like that before with the Blood Fruit Tree and Crystal Gem Tree. Now, it’s no longer applicable to the Ether Fruit Tree."]
["Before, we could just use the blood and flesh of the same powerhouse, as it didn’t make much difference. After all, what we were after were the residual power or ’nutrients’ from their corpses, using it to fertilize the tree."]
["But for the Ether Fruit Tree, we can’t use the same flesh and blood as fertilizers. As an Aether rank Tree that is literally at Aether rank, it naturally has the unique requirements of an Aether rank powerhouse."]
[Pausing for a while for emphasis, you continued your explanation, "For the Ether Fruit Tree to further advance, not only did it need the residual energy and power of Mid Aether rank powerhouses, but also their Authorities."]
["As a tree at Aether rank, it needs Authorities to advance further in rank. In essence, an Authority is a law fragment or someone’s comprehension of a certain world law."]
["Even among Authorities, there’s a major difference. For example, Scarlet’s Blood Authority is naturally inferior in quality to Morvane’s Death Authority. If they only fought against each other with only their Authority, Scarlet’s chances of defeat are way higher due to Morvane’s Death Authority of higher quality."]
["Another example is if we were to comprehend the Fire Authority. Someone with a lower comprehension of the concept of Fire will naturally lose even if both possessed Authorities with similar fire concepts."]
["For the Ether Fruit Tree’s advancement, it naturally needs those law fragments. Even in the station world where we acquired the Ether Fruit Tree from, it literally took the entire nutrients of a world just to keep the Ether Fruit Tree properly nourished and thriving in its environment."]
["If not for the residual energy and power of the Initial Aether rank World Serpent that we used to fertilize the Ether Fruit Tree, it would have long withered and died."]
[Hearing your explanation, Jade immediately understood what you were implying as she commented, "So, aside from energy and nutrients, the Ether Fruit Tree needs the law fragments contained from those Authorities to advance?"]
[You nodded, "Yes. Since it needs the law fragments of Authorities, then the Authorities themselves didn’t have to be complete. Although the quality and completeness of an Authority would still affect its growth speed, just the sheer quantity of the variety of Authorities would be enough to let it advance to Mid Aether rank."]
["Moreover, we only need the law fragments contained within an Authority."]
["Even if we were to use a Titan rank powerhouse as a fertilizer, as long as their Authority is of the same quality as an Aether rank powerhouse, then it would still be just as effective."]
["Moreover, it didn’t have to be specifically an Authority. As long as we were to use law fragments as fertilizers, then anything that contained a law fragment would be just as effective."]
["The corpse of Aether rank powerhouses naturally contained residual law fragments since they possessed an Authority when they were alive. However, if we were to use an object instead that contained law fragments, even if it’s not from an Authority, it would work the same."]
["The residual power and energy of a Mid Aether rank powerhouse isn’t a problem, as the same powerhouse can be used since we’re only after the nutrients their flesh and blood bring to the Ether Fruit Tree."]
["What we should be after is the quantity of law fragments. Naturally, a dead Aether rank powerhouse would yield fewer law fragments due to it being incomplete."]
["But if we were to capture an Aether rank powerhouse alive and extract their Authority and use it to fertilize the Ether Fruit Tree, then it would be far more effective than just using their dead bodies to fertilize the Ether Fruit Tree."]
[Listening to your explanation, Jade contemplated for a while before asking, "What if we were to comprehend a lot of Authorities and then extract it from our soul, then use it to fertilize the Ether Fruit Tree?"]
[Faced with Jade’s question, you used Hint Prompt (Gold) first to confirm its viability before responding, "That will work, but it’s similar to shooting ourselves in the foot."]
["The Authority we comprehend is naturally different from others, and it’s somewhat unique. If we were to extract it from our soul and transfer it to others, we won’t be able to comprehend the same authority again."]
["Or to be specific, it’s not that it’s impossible, but it’s way more difficult, to the point that it’s more worthwhile to comprehend a different authority. The only exception is if we were to kill the entity we transferred our Authority into, thereby releasing the law fragments of that authority back to the universe."]
["In some ways, you can think of Authorities as owning a certain percentage of a certain law. Hence, an Authority is merely called a law fragment since it’s truly just a fragment of a universal law."]
["Like stocks, if we were to transfer it to another person and they possessed it, then we can’t possess the same stocks and had to acquire a new one or take it back from them."]