CHAPTER 296: CHAPTER 241: ALTERNATIVE SPIRIT SUMMONING POTION

Ye Bai stayed in the laboratory.

Although he is currently a temporary staff member, he can place an order using Zhang Lingxue’s account.

The Imperial Capital Research Institute has quite a lot of treasures.

Especially the Heart of the Insect King that can help the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm evolve into the Ten Thousand Changes Butterfly.

This is indeed a rare treasure.

Heart of the Insect King, a gem symbolizing the insect emperor, only condensed by the king of insect-type beasts.

With it, the insect emperor can firmly control the vast insect army.

Ye Bai placed an order without any hesitation, securing the Heart of the Insect King.

He understands the principle of "the winner becomes the king, the loser becomes the bandit."

As long as Zhang Lingxue can develop the Spirit Summoning Potion or enhance the Sword Butterfly’s ability to reproduce, even if the Sword Butterfly lays one more egg each time, it’s a leap forward.

Therefore, Ye Bai taking some resources is not excessive.

As for whether someone will question the purpose of using the Heart of the Insect King.

This is easy to explain, it’s precisely through the Heart of the Insect King that the latent genes of the Sword Butterfly were activated, revealing its uniqueness.

Moreover, Ye Bai’s discovered Sword Butterfly laid dozens of eggs at once.

This is naturally significant, considered a major discovery in the scientific community, worthy of a Nobel Prize.

If this research is published, the master’s ambition for assistant director is nothing compared to becoming the director being easily attainable.

Ye Bai opened the laboratory’s computer and found Zhang Lingxue’s research data.

After more than a month of effort, Zhang Lingxue had analyzed ninety-seven percent of the main components of the Sword Butterfly Egg.

As for the remaining three percent, no matter how she analyzed it, she couldn’t find a substitute material.

In this research, Zhang Lingxue had explored every conceivable part.

Zhang Lingxue is definitely a genius researcher; the experimental data is extremely detailed. Even if Ye Bai himself were to research and analyze, he likely couldn’t achieve Zhang Lingxue’s level.

There were many of Zhang Lingxue’s hypotheses inside, but the raw materials involved were too many.

If each were tried one by one, it would probably take a year and a half.

Zhang Lingxue’s laboratory is operated solely by her, mainly because she fears her experimental data might be leaked out.

Now, with Ye Bai here, it is much simpler.

With Ye Bai’s talent for the Memory Palace, combined with the Eye of Insight, finding that remaining three percent should be relatively easy.

However, before that, Ye Bai plans to first configure the Spirit Summoning Potion based on his understanding, to see if it’s worth his effort to locate the remaining three percent material.

After all, if Sword Butterfly can achieve large-scale reproduction, there will be enough Sword Butterfly Eggs, ample raw material, ensuring an abundant supply of Spirit Summoning Potion.

There are some Sword Butterfly Eggs with the Sunflower Emperor, so Ye Bai is not afraid of wasting them.

The formula for the Spirit Summoning Potion is incredibly complex.

A lot of materials are required, and the configuration process is extremely intricate.

Its difficulty level is Tier Seven; aside from talent, a little bit of luck is needed to successfully configure the Spirit Summoning Potion.

Fortunately, Zhang Lingxue had left a recording specifically on configuring the Spirit Summoning Potion.

So, Ye Bai watched the video over and over, observing each detail.

Until he confirmed that configuring the Spirit Summoning Potion was flawless, his mind was swiftly calculating.

The Sword Butterfly Egg plays a crucial role as the main ingredient in the Spirit Summoning Potion.

It adds the final touch, perfecting the masterpiece.

The Sunflower Emperor and the True Dragon Sword were assisting Ye Bai on the side.

Handling various medicinal materials as per Ye Bai’s instructions.

The most precious ingredient is basically the Sword Butterfly Egg.

This is the main ingredient of the Spirit Summoning Potion.

Ye Bai extracted and purified these herbs one by one, eventually obtaining an important foundational liquid.

This was the prelude to the successful creation of the Spirit Summoning Potion.

The configured foundational liquid was crystal clear.

After configuring the foundational liquid, the Sunflower Emperor pierced the Sword Butterfly Egg as per Ye Bai’s instructions.

A trickle of crystal-clear liquid flowed from the egg and dripped onto the Spirit Summoning Potion.

Upon contact with the foundational liquid, it emitted a gorgeous brilliance.

Achieving this step meant the Spirit Summoning Potion was mostly complete.

This Spirit Summoning Potion was configured to perfection.

At this moment, Ye Bai took out another potion intended to replace the Sword Butterfly Egg, carefully using the pipette to drop the liquid.

The liquid was also crystal clear, but without that three percent, the foundational liquid turned into a deep blue, like the most beautiful sapphire in the world.

After configuring both batches of Spirit Summoning Potion, Ye Bai began testing their effects with instruments, while also having the True Dragon Sword assess them.

The two Spirit Summoning Potions achieved completely different effects.

Through the bond with the True Dragon Sword, Ye Bai received feedback from the True Dragon Sword.

The Spirit Summoning Potion configured according to the original formula was like robust old wine, with substance, able to maximize the enhancement of its spirituality.

While the newly configured Spirit Summoning Potion was like a low-alcohol fruit wine, slightly alcoholic.

But overall, its effect was quite average, similar to 1% potency of the Spirit Summoning Potion.

According to the True Dragon Sword’s online evaluation, it’s akin to an ultra-low-grade version of the Spirit Summoning Potion, with minor effects after drinking ten or eight cases.

Clearly, lacking that essential three percent ingredient makes a world of difference.

Moreover, consuming it is quite invigorating.

Upon hearing the evaluation of the True Dragon Sword, Ye Bai felt a stirring in his heart.

The greatest effect of the Spirit Summoning Potion is to enhance spiritual sense, isn’t this similar to refreshing the mind?

Approaching this concept from a different angle, it seems much stronger than things like Black Bull and Western Peng.

So Ye Bai picked up the newly configured Spirit Summoning Potion and gulped it down.

Indeed, a cool and stimulating current flowed through his brain, sweeping away the fatigue accumulated over the past days.

This indeed is a good idea. As long as it passes the food safety test and is proven to be harmless to the human body, this could be a best-selling product.

"Why don’t I add some Sunflower Emperor’s honey into it, wouldn’t the taste be even better?"

Moved by a thought, Ye Bai added Sunflower Honey into the newly configured potion.

The moment the Sunflower Honey dripped into the potion bottle, the potion changed color, radiating an alluring purple glow like a bewitching purple enchantress.

Indeed, these two potions, one blue and one purple, look quite beautiful.

"Let’s taste it."

Ye Bai directly dropped the potion onto the True Dragon Sword, then held a beaker to catch some and drank it down.

Boom.

Ye Bai felt like his entire mind was about to explode.

The icy current filled his mind.

He sensed his mind had elevated considerably.

"Oh man, did I accidentally discover a new potion?"

"Could it be that I have some luck in potion configuration as well?"

A cook has a kind of luck termed as culinary fortune, which allows them to find the most suitable foods to make dishes.

Similarly, an alchemist has a certain luck that helps them stumble upon the herbs most suited for themselves.

Even though Ye Bai didn’t know how the original Spirit Summoning Potion tasted.

He felt it wouldn’t be worse than the potion with added Sunflower Honey.

The True Dragon Sword was trembling all over.

It could sense its spiritual sense rapidly consolidating.

This was a case of accumulating to focus.

Echoing dragon roars emanated from the True Dragon Sword’s blade.

Immense pressure surged from the blade wave after wave.

Ye Bai felt slightly disappointed that the True Dragon Sword didn’t advance, as if it got halted right at the crucial moment.

After discussing with the True Dragon Sword, Ye Bai knew that the revised Spirit Summoning Potion with added Sunflower Honey still couldn’t compare to the original.

But it could already achieve 50% of the effect.

So Ye Bai didn’t need to painstakingly analyze what the remaining 3% was.

He just needed to wait for Zhang Lingxue to achieve Sword Butterfly’s self-replication, naturally obtaining enough Spirit Summoning Potions.

The discovery of these two potions also has epoch-making significance, proving that potions helping equip-type Pet Beasts in enhancing their spirituality are not limited to Spirit Summoning Potion.

Strictly speaking, the discovery of these two potions could already be used by Zhang Lingxue to complete her mission.

At this moment, an unexpected person entered.

"Master Ancestor, why are you here?"

Ye Bai curiously asked.

Su Qingxian looked at Ye Bai helplessly: "I just wanted to come and see Ling Xue."

"This child, proud and ambitious, can’t stand me enduring any grievance."

"Kept me in the dark, privately made a bet agreement."

"Once I found out, the bet agreement couldn’t be revoked anymore."

Su Qingxian said helplessly.

"Ye Bai, I heard you became the champion of the Young Qilin Cup and have successfully enrolled?"

"Then you must participate well in the international youth cultivation competition."

"It’s a great opportunity to bring honor to the Flame Country."

"Ling Xue also achieved good rankings in the cultivation competition back then, now it’s up to you to bring glory to the Flame Country."

Su Qingxian said earnestly.

"I just came to see Ling Xue and tell her not to worry."

"At worst, I won’t contend for the deputy director position, so Ling Xue won’t feel too much pressure."

Su Qingxian is supportive of Zhang Lingxue, willing to painfully forgo even such an excellent opportunity for promotion.

"Master Ancestor, don’t worry."

"Things aren’t as bad as you think."

"Go ahead and compete for the deputy director position."

"I assure you won’t be disappointed."

Ye Bai smiled and said.

After pondering for a while, he took out the blue and purple potions he configured.

"This is what I researched, considered as an alternate to Spirit Summoning Potion."

"The blue bottle has only 1% effect."

"The purple bottle has half the effect."

"Now the teacher is still researching in the Secret Realm with initial results, Master Ancestor, rest assured."