[After giving Jade countless buffs using your multiplication fairy fruit, you then summoned Order King by your side and commanded, "Order! The energy cost of innate talents possessed by human holders who are female, and is named Jade, will have a 90% reduction!"]
[By narrowing the scope of your World Order down to the minimum possible, you were able to increase its effects with less spirit energy cost per second.]
[Because of that, you could set rules that are beneficial to your allies, and it still would cost less energy. It was far easier to do buffs than debuffs since the targets, when buffing them, wouldn’t be resistant to the effects of world order.]
[After receiving countless buffs from you, Jade felt that, let alone peak gold-grade items that were a major rank higher than hers, she could even exchange for platinum-grade items now!]
[For example, even the Fists of Power that you have, which was a platinum-grade weapon artifact, Jade believed she could exchange for it as long as she had enough items. The conversion fee for it was bearable for her now under the state of countless buffs.]
[After receiving your buffs, Jade no longer dawdled and started exchanging the mystic apples for peak gold-grade spirit crystals.]
[In just under a minute, she managed to create hundreds of them, and so, she handed most of them to you and a portion of them to Scarlet, which was more than enough to upgrade spirit avatars to peak gold-grade.]
[You stored some of the peak gold-grade spirit crystals Jade had given to you into your system inventory. As for the rest, you kept them to use them directly.]
[Using your Train Conductor Authority, you checked the item description of the peak gold-grade spirit crystals.]
{Spirit Crystal (Peak Gold): A spirit crystal specialty from the Spirit Avatar World. Absorbing its spirit energy can grant +50 stats to Spirit attributes permanently, with a limit of Peak Gold stat cap. If you have a Spirit Avatar, you can instead let your Spirit Avatar absorb it to increase its grade, with a limit of Peak Gold-grade Spirit Avatar.}
[Reading its item description, it was indeed an item that could not only increase your Spirit Avatar’s grade but even your Spirit attribute.]
[Your current Spirit attribute was around 1,200. To reach Peak Gold rank in terms of Spirit attribute, the stat count would be at 2,000.]
[’Fortunately, Jade can create more than enough of these spirit crystals to not only improve our spirit avatar’s grade but also our Spirit attribute to Peak Gold rank. That way, even if our other three attributes lag behind, we’ll still be considered as Peak Gold rank combatants due to our spirit avatars.’]
[From what you know, the power ranking system of the Train Survival World was quite abstract, as it was mostly used to determine the approximate power rank of something, but not its true combat power.]
[At least, even when your Spirit and Physique attributes had currently reached Gold rank, you were still labeled as a Peak Silver rank Train Conductor.]
[There were exceptions in the power ranking system, and there ought to be some entities that are stronger than the power rank that was labeled on them.]
[So, you only thought of it with a grain of salt and only used them as a reference. You never treated it seriously since some skills or artifacts could bridge the gap between power ranks.]
[An example of that was none other than the Death Papyrus that you and Jade coveted. Even mortals who were just weaklings could use it to kill those who weren’t immortals.]
[After checking the peak gold-grade spirit crystals, you started absorbing the spirit energy within them.]
[The method to absorb the spirit energy wasn’t fixed. You didn’t know how others do it, but due to you, Jade, and Scarlet having high Spirit attributes, just using your mind to draw in the spirit energy within the spirit crystal was enough to do it.]
[In other words, a spirit crystal might be useless to a normal human. Even the people of this station world would need to use a Spirit Manifestation Core first to manifest a Spirit Avatar. Only then would they be able to perceive the spirit energy within a spirit crystal.]
[Another method would be to use a spirit-related ability and let it absorb the spirit energy. But in such cases, the spirit energy will be used to empower that spirit-related ability rather than increase Spirit stats, just like how Spirit Avatar improving its grade via spirit crystals would work.]
[As you absorbed the spirit energy contained within the peak gold-grade spirit crystal, you felt a soothing energy wash over your mind and soul.]
[It was almost similar to that sensation you had when awakening a Spirit Avatar using the Spirit Manifestation Core.]
[The only difference was that you didn’t feel something manifest inside you. It was more like your mind and soul took a bath in a hot spring.]
[As that sensation continued, you shifted your gaze and noticed that Jade and Scarlet were also absorbing the spirit crystals they had on hand.]
[Like you, they didn’t immediately use the spirit crystals to improve the grade of their Spirit Avatar and instead, they used them to improve their Spirit stat to Peak Gold rank.]
[After half a minute passed, you felt that the spirit crystals you had beside you weren’t depleted yet. However, the spirit energy absorbed could no longer improve your Spirit attribute.]
[Forwarding your hand, you called upon the vast spirit energy within your soul, and a ball of spirit energy formed on top of your right palm.]
[’So this is the Spirit attribute at Peak Gold rank. Even when I don’t have any spirit-related skills for it, I can already draw upon my spirit energy and materialize it to perform spirit energy-based attacks.’]
[’I could do this before since my Spirit attribute was at Initial Gold rank. But unlike now, it didn’t feel as dense and easy to control. I even feel that reaching Platinum rank-’]
[’No wait, I might already be at Platinum rank in terms of Spirit attribute. While the spirit crystal had allowed me to reach Peak Gold rank, I feel like both my Spirit Avatar and Semi-Awakening Stage Fairy Fruit had allowed me to reach Platinum rank in the Spirit attribute.’]
[To confirm your conjecture, you summoned your Train Conductor Panel and indeed saw that the Spirit attribute was at 2,300, which was at Initial Platinum rank.]
[Stat attribute range of 1,001 - 2,000 is Gold rank. On the other hand, a stat range of 2,000 - 5,000 corresponded to Platinum rank.]
[’So there’s a huge qualitative difference between Gold rank spirit attribute and Platinum rank spirit attribute. My spirit attribute at Gold rank wasn’t as vast and dense as it is now. Moreover, I can even use spirit energy to attack spiritual creatures.’]
[’In other words, even without Spirit Avatars, a Platinum rank being, who had at least had their Spirit attribute reach Platinum rank, wouldn’t have to worry about being helpless in dealing with non-physical creatures as long as they aren’t immune to spirit energy-based attacks.’]
[Thinking of this, you realized that increasing the Physique attribute might also yield the same qualitative change. However, your Physique attribute was only at Initial Gold rank while your Strength and Agility attributes were at Peak Silver rank.]
[’Anyway, improving the physical body stats isn’t as important as Spirit, at least for this station. Just my current attributes now allow me to be invincible below Platinum-rank Spirit Avatar Masters.’]
[With your Spirit attribute reaching Initial Platinum rank, you decided to use the peak gold-grade spirit crystals you have left to increase your Spirit Avatar’s grade to peak gold-grade.]
[Summoning Order King to your side, you controlled it to take the peak-gold spirit crystals. Through Order King, you absorbed the spirit energy within those spirit crystals, letting the spirit energy enter Order King’s spirit avatar body.]
[Jade and Scarlet were also doing the same, as they had summoned their respective spirit avatars. But unlike you, their avatars weren’t humanoid, so they didn’t let their spirit avatars hold the spirit crystals.]
[Instead, they use their mental will to absorb the spirit energy and then direct the absorbed spirit energy towards their spirit avatar, Golden Time, and Void Claws.]
[After several minutes passed, Order King finally reached Peak Gold-grade!]
[Not only you, but Jade and Scarlet’s spirit avatars had also already been successfully upgraded.]
[After a spirit avatar reaches gold-grade, the third spirit avatar ability will be unlocked.]
[And with Order King becoming a peak gold-grade spirit avatar, you awakened your third spirit avatar ability.]
[It was none other than Royal Confiscation.]
{Royal Confiscation: As sovereign authority, Order King may temporarily revoke the right to use one ability/talent/skill of the chosen target within his domain. The revoked ability cannot be used, no matter what, unless the target exceeds Order King or your rank.}