Chapter 80: Chapter 79: Human Race in Peril, Foundation Establishment Pill Refining!
The contents of the report are not profound; it’s mainly a data calculation.
Currently, the national production of Bone Marrow Cleansing Flowers is approximately six hundred stalks per month.
And this requires hundreds of Wood Spirit Root Qi Refining Cultivators to continuously expedite maturation day and night for a month.
Planting the Bone Marrow Cleansing Flower is much more difficult than the Red Blood Flower.
The biggest challenge is the required maturity period for medicinal use.
The Red Blood Flower can be used for refining Qi Blood Pills after three years, whereas the Bone Marrow Cleansing Flower requires over ten years before it can be used medicinally.
This necessitates more effort in hastening its maturation.
Currently, the technological process for instrumental refining of Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills is already very mature.
Calculating at a pill formation success rate of sixty-eight percent, approximately four hundred Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills can be produced in one month.
Annually, that’s four thousand eight hundred pills.
This is just enough for eighty Martial Artists to achieve the Postnatal Purity Body within a year.
Wang Lishan explained:
"We plan to include the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill in the resource provision for the Sequence Plan."
"According to calculations, the production of Bone Marrow Cleansing Flowers will increase tenfold within a year."
"By then, we can ensure that eight hundred Martial Artists achieve the Postnatal Purity Body annually."
"And these Martial Artists will be true geniuses, the elite of the Human Race!"
Lin Chen was astonished by Wang Lishan’s ambitious plan.
Producing eight hundred Postnatal Purity Bodies each year requires a massive amount of cultivation resources.
The Postnatal Purity Body progresses very quickly along the Martial Path, Lin Chen estimated it would not be much slower than his own progress.
He advanced from Martial Artist to Grand Martial Master in six months (a year).
And the Postnatal Purity Body Martial Artist are geniuses themselves, perhaps reaching the Martial Master Realm within a year as well.
During this period, they would need nearly sixty Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills, twelve Qi Blood Pills, and hundreds of bottles of high-level nutritional fluid to support them.
And this is only a small part of the resource expenditure.
After advancing to Martial Master, they need adequate Demon Beast flesh to ensure rapid cultivation.
Calculating at one pound per Martial Artist annually, eight hundred Martial Artists would require eight hundred pounds of Third Tier Demon Beast flesh.
The enormous cost will result in a batch of powerful individuals near the Martial General level after a year.
This equivalent to the Great Xia gaining a method to quickly produce powerful warriors.
Within three years, a batch of Martial Generals is created!
And the Martial Generals are the pillars of the Martial Realm, the main force against Demon Beasts.
"So, has the situation become this critical already?"
Lin Chen suddenly asked.
"What crisis?"
At first, Wang Lishan was confused, but upon seeing Lin Chen’s serious expression, he could only smile wryly and say:
"Well, during this period... we have suffered great losses in the Martial Realm."
"The loss of equipped weapons is secondary... more importantly, the continuous deaths of high-level and core forces."
"Three thousand!"
Wang Lishan suddenly mentioned a number.
"Three thousand Martial Generals, that’s the number of sacrifices the Blue Star Human Alliance made in the Martial Realm last year..."
"While throughout the whole Blue Star, only three thousand Martial Generals have been born in the past decade."
"As for the casualties below the Martial Generals, they number in the millions..."
"At this rate, perhaps in decades, humans will completely lose control over the Martial Realm... only able to defend our home planet!"
Speaking of this, Wang Lishan’s eyes were bloodshot.
"At that time, humanity’s true disaster will begin..."
Lin Chen fell silent upon hearing this.
During the past half-year, although Wang Lishan never directly told him how dire the Human Race’s current situation was,
from some scattered words, Lin Chen could deduce the situation.
The Martial Realm is the critical line separating the direct confrontation between the Human Race and Demon Beasts.
Most human powerhouses are in the Martial Realm, battling Demon Beasts to prevent them from directly invading Blue Star.
And once the Martial Realm is completely invaded, Demon Beasts will be able to reach Blue Star’s territory directly.
At that time, the losses would be unimaginably terrifying.
Ordinary people, and even those below the Martial Master level, would have no power to resist in front of Demon Beasts.
Imagine that a Third Tier Demon Beast breaking through the Martial Realm’s blockade could slaughter over one hundred thousand ordinary people within a day.
If a Demon King descends upon Blue Star...
That might result in the downfall of a Human Race city, with the loss of tens of millions of lives...
Thinking of this, Lin Chen felt an unprecedented sense of urgency.
Under such an overarching crisis, how could anyone be spared?
"Chen, don’t stress too much... if the sky falls, there are those of us to hold it up!"
"You’re doing very well now... without you, perhaps we wouldn’t even have the hope to resist the Demon Beasts."
Wang Lishan patted his shoulder, comforting him.
Lin Chen nodded silently.
...
Several hours later, in the Alchemy Room.
Lin Chen took out dozens of sets of materials for crafting Foundation Establishment Pills, preparing to perform alchemy.
"I have the Pill Formula for Foundation Establishment Pills and have seen the refining process before. But now that I am refining it myself, I still feel somewhat uncertain..."
"Fortunately, I have thirty sets of materials for crafting Foundation Establishment Pills, which equals thirty attempts!"
Lin Chen’s psychological bottom line is to refine ten Foundation Establishment Pills.
Thus, combined with the seven pills he already possesses, achieving a Perfect Foundation Establishment is within reach.
As for why not have Han Jihai help him with alchemy? Naturally, it’s because the source of the Foundation Establishment Pill materials cannot be explained.
"How did my mentor refine it before?"
Lin Chen took out a recording and started a virtual projection.
It was a scene of Han Jihai refining Foundation Establishment Pills that Lin Chen had recorded earlier.
He watched the recording dozens of times and recalled the details of Han Jihai’s alchemy process.
Determining he had not missed anything, he began his first attempt.
"Start the furnace for pill forging, the Pill Furnace temperature must be maintained around eight hundred degrees Celsius..."
"At this stage, gather the materials into liquid form."
Lin Chen flicked his fingers, infusing a Celestial Spirit Fruit, an Illusion Heart Grass, and two auxiliary herbs into the Pill Furnace.
Afterward, the furnace temperature remained constant at eight hundred degrees Celsius.
Until half a two-hour period later, Lin Chen remarked:
"Second stage, high heat to purify the pill, refine the liquid..."
"Temperature control, perhaps between three thousand to three thousand five hundred degrees..."
Lin Chen roughly speculated, not having exact alchemy temperature data.
Thus, another half a two-hour period passed.
Bang!
As the Pill Furnace emitted a strange sound, the first attempt at alchemy was unsurprisingly a failure.
"The problem is with the temperature and timing..."
Lin Chen pulled up the internal temperature data from the Pill Furnace.
The display showed, when the temperature reached three thousand four hundred degrees, the liquid had evaporated, utterly failing to achieve purification.
"Hence, in the second stage, the maximum temperature must be controlled below three thousand four hundred degrees."
Lin Chen summarized the experience and started the second attempt.
Turning the materials into a liquid form was quite smooth.
In the stage of liquid purification, Lin Chen remained cautious.
Through the miniature camera on the furnace wall, Lin Chen could clearly observe the changes in the liquid.
After several probes, Lin Chen roughly concluded.
"In the liquid purification phase, the optimal temperature is between 3381 and 3389 degrees Celsius."
"Above this temperature, the liquid would evaporate; below, purification effect cannot be optimal!"
Lin Chen noted everything meticulously.
If he successfully acquires a set of data for Foundation Establishment Pill refining, perhaps he could mass-produce high-quality Foundation Establishment Pills.
Following this is the third stage of Foundation Establishment Pill refining—
Condensing liquid into pill!