Chapter 791: Scientific Research Costs Soar

Chapter 791: Scientific Research Costs Soar

Chapter 791: Scientific Research Costs Soar

The huge Creation Fairy Palace was empty and deserted. Not to mention the fairy children and guards, there was not even a yellow-turbaned strongman to do the rough work.

According to Wen Rui's current official position, let alone having a hundred attendants and thousands of guards, even if he transferred a hundred fairies from the Yao Chi Palace to serve as palace maids, it would be considered low-level.

Bi Ma Wen, a minor official, had deputy supervisors, bookkeepers, strongmen, and officials of all ranks under him.

Wen Rui is the great emperor, and his mansion should not be so sparsely populated, shabby and deserted.

Even if the Jade Emperor has always looked upon Wen Rui with a cold eye, he would not deliberately treat him badly or behave so innocently.

When he first established his government, the Jade Emperor equipped Wen Rui with imperial officials and hundreds of attendants. The Queen Mother also selected hundreds of beautiful fairies from the Yaochi fairyland to serve as palace maids, but Wen Rui rejected them all.

After all, Wen Rui was deified with a greedy mind. If he couldn't get what he wanted, he would steal. If he couldn't steal, he would rob...

He was planning to use the residence of Emperor Jie Tian as his hideout, but he was afraid that there would be too many people around and that the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother might interfere.

Therefore, Wen Rui's huge mansion is managed by Ultron robots, and no outsider can enter.

In the center of the Immortal Palace, Wen Rui adjusted the full set of inspection equipment and placed the Kaitian Bead on the bracket again.

A golden thread extended from Wen Rui's fingertips, and as if it had life, it reached towards the orb according to his wishes.

The Pi Di bead in the artificial Dantian separated a wisp of previously stored Hun Yuan Qi, which was transmitted along the meridians of the golden hoop and was introduced into the Kai Tian bead in an instant.

This ray of Hunyuan Qi penetrated into the gem, and Wen Rui's heart rose to his throat. He looked at the screen showing the monitoring data with great anticipation.

The pearl did not change at all, as if the wisp of Hunyuan Qi had sunk into the sea, but Wen Rui did not care. Just because there were no visible changes did not mean that there were really no changes.

Everything depends on the data feedback from the monitoring equipment.

Before traveling through time, Wen Rui had read quite a few novels about cultivating the true nature of things. When the protagonists in those novels were testing treasures, often a certain action, such as dropping a drop of blood, would trigger a very obvious, even overly deliberate, reaction from the treasure.

After traveling through time, Wen Rui also obtained many treasures, but none of them could be easily unlocked by dripping a drop of blood or probing the spiritual sense. It often took repeated tests, constant observation and trial and error, and it took a lot of time to reversely deduce the method of refining the magic weapon.

The whole process is similar to a locksmith opening a safe, which is really not that easy.

Strings of data scrolled on the screen, and AI assisted in continuously screening out the differences in the data from the previous two aura and fairy energy tests, and analyzing the differences between the three.

A wisp of Hunyuan Qi did not trigger the characteristics of the gem, so Wen Rui gradually increased the speed of introducing Hunyuan Qi.

Ten strands, a hundred strands, a thousand strands, ten thousand strands...

As time went by, a steady stream of Hunyuan Qi was injected into the gem, but the Kaitian Pearl remained the same, with no reaction at all, as if it were a dead object.

The more Wen Rui infused himself with Hunyuan Qi, the more uneasy he became.

You should know that Hunyuan Qi is different from immortal energy. When a ray of Hunyuan Qi is infused into the body of a true immortal, the true immortal must concentrate all his attention and devote all his immortal power to carefully refine it so as not to damage the immortal body.

Although the body of a Golden Immortal is more resistant to the Primordial Qi, the injection of hundreds or thousands of strands can also break the indestructible body of a Golden Immortal. The total amount of Primordial Qi injected into the enemy's body by Wen Rui's independently developed Primordial Bangser Spear is only at the level of hundreds of strands, which is enough to paralyze an opponent at the Golden Immortal level. Erlang Shen would feel numbness in his hands and feet and tremble all over after being hit by one.

A thousand strands of Hunyuan Qi is a lethal dose that can kill a Golden Immortal who has just achieved the golden body. Ten thousand strands of Hunyuan Qi can easily kill a Golden Immortal.

Of course, the Golden Immortal is not a wooden stake. He will not stand there and let Wenrui inject the Hunyuan Qi into his body. He has all kinds of life-saving magical powers to escape from danger.

Such terrifying and powerful energy was injected into an inconspicuous gem, but the gem did not react at all, which was already the biggest abnormality.

Moreover, unlike the Earth-Opening Pearl, the monitoring equipment did not find any Hunyuan Qi stored in the Sky-Opening Pearl. The injected energy seemed to disappear out of thin air without a trace.

After the injection of ten thousand strands of Hunyuan Qi was completed, Wen Rui's heart began to beat fast. He even wanted to give up and terminate the experiment.

If this thing exploded, not only would the Creation Palace be reduced to ruins, even the Lingxiao Palace next door would be reduced to ruins, and the Jade Emperor would be badly injured if he didn't die.

What's more, the Hunyuan Qi stored in the Earth-Splitting Pearl has already been used up, and injecting more Hunyuan Qi will cost one's life.

The so-called kryptonian life means constantly urging the Hunyuan Pearl to produce Hunyuan Qi at the cost of consuming the number of times one's own cells divide.

Previously, the large amount of immortal energy was produced by relying on the artificial stomach sac to quickly digest the best immortal pills. In order to produce a large amount of Hunyuan Qi, in addition to consuming more immortal pills, it also consumed Laojun Jindan for healing and prolonging life.

If Laojun's golden elixir were put into the mortal world, it would be a life-saving elixir that cultivators would fight for. It had the miraculous effect of curing the dead and exposing bones. Even if a person was healthy and took one, his life span would be increased by hundreds or thousands of years.

Its value is many times higher than that of the elixir of immortality.

Ever since the Golden and Silver Boys and the Green Bull Demon, who were bribed by Wen Rui, were caught stealing elixirs by Laojun, Wen Rui's supply of top-grade elixirs has been cut off, and the elixirs he had saved have become less and less.

If the golden elixir reserves are exhausted, one will have to be careful when using the Hunyuan Shrinking the Earth and Hunyuan Invisibility skills in the future, lest one accidentally overspends his life, not having enough time to replenish his lifespan, and being burned to death by the violent Hunyuan Qi in his body.

But on second thought, he had already invested ten thousand strands of Hunyuan Qi, and it would be a loss to just interrupt it like this. He would be wasting the sunk cost but getting nothing in return.

Gritting his teeth, Wen Rui decided to make additional investments. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. When doing research and development, one cannot be stingy with research funds. If he loses all his golden elixirs, the worst that can happen is that he will go to ask his ancestor grandmother, the Golden Spirit Holy Mother, for help, or go to his father Wen Zhong to ask for an advance payment of his inheritance.

The power of the artificial stomach was turned to the extreme. Handfuls of elixirs and golden pills were like coal ash thrown into a boiler. Through the modified digestive system, they were transformed into endless immortal energy and longevity.

The immortal energy and life span were all transformed into Hunyuan Qi through the Hunyuan Pearl and poured into the Kaitian Pearl which was like a bottomless pit.

Twenty thousand strands, thirty thousand strands, fifty thousand strands, a hundred thousand strands…

The more he infused it, the more numb Wen Rui felt. He had expected that the consumption of Hunyuan Qi to trigger the new characteristics of Kaitianzhu would not be low, but he didn't expect it to be so high.

One hundred thousand strands of Hunyuan Qi, I'm afraid even a Hunyuan Golden Immortal may not have so much stored in his body.

He no longer dared to think about whether the palace would explode. Once it exploded, half of the palaces in heaven would collapse. It was hard to say whether the Jade Emperor who lived next door and had experienced countless disasters could survive this disaster.

(End of this chapter)