"What are you doing here today? Pick up Thales? He lives happily here with us. If you are at ease, just let him study alchemy here. I can see that this kid is quite fond of alchemy. His inexplicable obsession is very similar to... an old friend of mine..."
When speaking the first half of the sentence, Hypast's voice sounded quite happy and relaxed, but at the end, it seemed to bring back unpleasant memories of the past, and his voice unconsciously dropped.
At first Leiter did not think too much about it, but suddenly he realized what was going on. Was the person he was talking about an old friend? An old friend who loved alchemy? Leiter thought to himself, but on the surface he said as if nothing had happened: "Is it the former tower master or deputy tower master? Or a former fellow disciple? The years we spent growing up together are indeed nostalgic..."
"Neither. He is just a friend from my youth. He has average talent, but he loves alchemy and is full of yearning for the Ring Tower. His family tried every means to send him to the Ring Tower at all costs, but unfortunately... they never succeeded..." Hypast sighed twice and said, "His family has a shop in the Ring Market. I met him by chance when I was on duty at the Administrative Office at the Ring Market..."
Hypast waved his hand, shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, let's not talk about this past event. It has been nearly a thousand years..."
"Oh? Is that store still there?" Rhett asked, pretending to be interested.
"It has been fortunately preserved until now, but it has been renamed Vina House. My friend changed it in memory of his mother." Hypast sighed, "Her mother really sacrificed a lot..."
Rhett fell silent and didn't ask any more questions.
By now, it has been basically confirmed that Hypast's old friend is Vina's son, the person who was taken care of by him in the simulation...
Recalling the simulation a thousand years ago, the experience of possessing Vilas and the shop owner Vina, I can't help but sigh at the wonder of fate...
In the simulation, I could still help her, but reality is cruel after all - Vina sacrificed her beauty but still couldn't get what she wanted...
"Hmm... to be remembered so much by the younger generations, he must have made terrible sacrifices."
After sorting out his thoughts, Leiter smiled and said, "Although the Ring Tower is a holy place for alchemy, my family misses Thales so much, so I'd better take him away. Besides, I have also studied alchemy these days and have some experience. Another purpose of my coming this time is actually to discuss with you about the research on blood power..."
"Oh? You're also involved in alchemy?" Hypast put away his sighing expression and showed a hint of surprise. "Interesting, come on, let's change the place to talk."
Having said that, Hepaster actually disagreed with what Rhett said.
The two had a good relationship, but one thing was for sure, he had a general understanding of the other party's experience in the past - he should have a natural talent in alchemy and had no foundation at all.
How could he raise his level in just a few days? If that were true, wouldn't all his efforts as a genius in the Ring Tower be in vain?
It was purely because of his strength and friendship that I was willing to discuss alchemy with him.
——Just consider it as a relaxation...
Arriving at a room on the top floor of the Ring Tower, Rhett had already enabled Manu's audio and video permissions.
Therefore, the first sentence he said shocked Hypast: "I have studied the blood source power carefully in the past few days and found that if you want to condense it and turn it into a condensate that is easy for you to absorb, you can refer to the body structure of the extraordinary."
"For example, multi-line control of mental power, circulating the blood of wild beasts or monsters through the human body's circulation circuit, and adding specific materials to act as human organs. In theory, this has a miraculous effect on filtering impurities and purifying essence, but the frequency of mental power must be controlled at an extremely high level to be possible. At least the conditions of a great magician can be met."
Hepast had just sat down and took out a teapot to make a pot of tea. When he heard this fantastic idea, his wrist shook violently and he almost knocked over the teapot.
After much difficulty, a stream of water finally gathered and flowed into the teapot. A wisp of tea fragrance rose up. Hepast coughed twice and said, "Well, what an amazing idea, King Leiter, the idea you just proposed is really eye-opening!"
"But... did you really come up with this on your own?" Hypast asked tentatively, and then quickly explained: "Well, please don't misunderstand me. What I mean is that you are so talented. You have just come into contact with alchemy, but you have achieved such accomplishments. It is really shocking!"
The genius is not me, but that old monster Manu... Rhett secretly laughed in his heart, and said calmly on the surface: "I guess so. Before this, I read some predecessors' works carefully, and some unconventional ideas did give me a lot of inspiration."
Hypast was still puzzled, but with the facts before him, he had to nod slowly, "Well... the wisdom of our ancestors is indeed very important. Alchemy has been developed to this day, and inheritance and development have always been a constant throughout it."
"So... come to think of it, the idea you just proposed is very similar to an experiment a thousand years ago. Huh? I seem to have found a brighter path. No, I want to experiment now!"
Perhaps inspired by Rhett, a flash of inspiration came to his mind.
With a better idea and the research nature deep in his bones, Hypast couldn't wait to conduct an experiment to verify his idea.
"Can I watch from the sidelines?" Rhett asked tentatively.
"Of course, your help may be needed in the process. Bystanders may be able to offer more effective suggestions. What you said just now has proved that you have the ability to do so! If you are willing, you can experiment with me." Hypast looked straight at Rhett and said seriously.
"Well, my current research on alchemy is only at the theoretical level, and my practical ability is not good enough."
Lei Te quickly waved his hand to refuse, thinking that he was just a big talker at the moment... No, not even a big talker - at best, he was a cheater! Hypast did not force him, and took Lei Te to an alchemy laboratory next door.
Passing through the bubble door, in the center of the densely packed alchemical instruments, there is a large crucible with a diameter of about three meters. In addition, next to the crucible, there are several alchemical jars as big as water tanks.
Seeing the unique, familiar yet somewhat strange alchemical layout, Rhett raised his eyebrows, but when he thought of a fist-sized crystal of blood power that could even condense the essence of three hundred wind wolves, he felt relieved.
He smelled a strong scent of blood from the alchemy pot next to him. It was slightly different from the smell of ordinary blood and was richer and purer.
Under Hypast's control, the lids of the alchemical jars scattered around the room popped up one after another, and streams of blood-colored streams automatically condensed and were drawn into the crucible.
"This blood has been processed and is purer than normal wind wolf blood. The density of blood source power is quite high. I'm afraid that these jars contain the purified blood of at least hundreds of low-level monsters."
In the simulation space, Manu recorded the situation in the laboratory on the light screen in front of him and transmitted the message to Rhett.
A strange look flashed in Lei Te's eyes. He listened to Manu's analysis, looked at Hepast's back, and said calmly on the surface:
"Hypaster, how did you make these alchemy jars? They can actually purify the blood source power to a certain extent. Although there are still many impurities in it, if we process it later, it will be much faster than purifying it directly from the blood."
Hypast, who was operating the alchemy device, felt a shudder in his back, but he continued to work on his task and said without turning his head, "Incredible, you can detect this, which really impressed me - this is not the sense of a novice alchemist at all. To be honest, these blood purification devices are quite advanced, and the inspiration comes from an experiment thousands of years ago."
"I don't know if you have heard of it, but there was a Golden Blood Academy on the continent at that time, and its dean had profound knowledge of human organs and blood. However, due to an accident, the dean of the Golden Blood Academy died, and the academy collapsed. The Ring Tower got the drawings of some alchemical devices, including this one."
Lei Te raised his eyebrows and pretended to be surprised. "This kind of thing happened a thousand years ago? But then again, why did the Golden Blood Academy study the human body at that time? This sounds..."
"Sounds a bit evil, doesn't it?" Hypastor shrugged.
"Well, I'm just curious, nothing else." Rhett pursed his lips and replied in a nonchalant manner.
"It's okay. Your intuition is correct. This experiment was wrong, even ridiculously wrong! It almost led our entire world to a terrible internal conflict and even destruction! Fortunately, as soon as there was a sign, the kings jointly resisted it." Hypastor said with some fear: "When I joined the Ring Tower, the storm was actually coming to an end. I had no idea about the specific content of the experiment. I only got a general idea from my mentor Hades at the time."
"By the way, it's okay to tell you now. In fact, I was very curious about the Blood Source Pearl at the beginning. I also found some familiarity in it and suspected that it was related to the Golden Blood Academy back then. Do you have any new clues?" Haipaster asked casually, thinking of the Blood Source Pearl.
"What a wonderful history..." Lei Te's eyes flashed with a trance, and he calmed down and said, "You mean that kind of bead? If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten it. It's as if it suddenly evaporated from the face of the earth and disappeared at the southwest border. My subordinates didn't find anything else. Maybe... those who do evil will perish by themselves, and they have perished."
"Hmm... that makes sense. Those who do evil will eventually perish. That's a good saying." As if recalling some memories, Hepaster sighed.
At this moment, the blood in the surrounding alchemy jars suddenly stopped coagulating.
It's not that it's no longer needed, but the crucible in front of Hypast is already full and is about to overflow.
A raging fire burst out of the alchemical device below, and the blood in the crucible began to burn rapidly. With his hands as fast as an afterimage, Hypast took out more than ten materials of different colors from the space ring and threw them in one after another.
In an instant, the color of the blood in the crucible gradually changed, from a brighter color to a darker one.
"Did you see what it threw?"
Rhett was unfamiliar with the various materials that Hypast had thrown out just now, but Manu had absorbed a lot of contemporary alchemy knowledge from thousands of years ago, and he thought he knew more than him, so he asked hurriedly.
In the simulation space, Manu fell into deep thought. On the light screen beside him, the names of more than a dozen materials automatically appeared. He said solemnly, "I recognized most of them, but there are two materials that I have never seen before. One is the white heart-shaped material just now, and the other is the black leaf shaped like a blade."
"Don't worry, I'll help you find out."
Leiter looked at the liquid in the crucible and said calmly, "Hypast, are you confident in this experiment?"
"Thanks to you, you have provided me with a new idea. The results of this experiment may be beyond my imagination!" Hepaster said with a shining look in his eyes and a hint of anticipation.
"Really? Good luck to you! I saw you added a lot of ingredients just now, can you introduce them to me?" Rhett asked, acting like a beginner who is curious about everything.
"No problem. We have the Flame Flower Root, Dark Blade Grass, and Hurricane Wolf Heart..."
Hepaster rattled off a string of names like pouring out beans, some of which Rhett had heard of but never seen, and some of which he had never heard of or seen.
But according to the process of elimination, Manu successfully found the two materials that he had not been able to identify just now - the heart of the Gale Wolf and the specially cultivated magic plant Dark Blade Grass.
"Dark Blade Grass?" Lei Te touched his chin. "What kind of magical plant is this? Why have I never heard of it before?"
"In fact, it is a magic plant cultivated inside the Circle High Tower. It is an improvement and adjustment of the Dark Root Grass from generation to generation. It contains certain characteristics that do not affect the purity of blood and can separate impurities." Haipast said: "This is the idea proposed by the previous Circle Tower Master - to transform the magic plant and interfere with it artificially, so as to change its growth direction and function, and evolve in the direction you need. Originally, the previous tower master had achieved certain results, but his strange disappearance completely interrupted the plan, and no one in the entire Circle High Tower was able to continue the development. It was not until nearly a hundred years ago that long-term persistence finally produced some results - the Dark Blade Grass was the first successfully improved magic plant."
Lei Te suddenly realized and gave a thumbs up in admiration: "As expected of the Ring Tower, this spirit of exploration is worthy of admiration! But I still have a question, can this improved dark blade grass produce seeds and allow future generations to retain the characteristics of the improved variety?"
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