Lin Beichen sat at the desk in the student dormitory, writing and drawing, occasionally lost in thought.
"Huadu, located in Jiangnan, is a place with abundant water resources. The array to modify fertilizers is best powered by the Power of Water and Wood. Although my Withered and Flourishing Qi can only control the Power of Earth and Wood, all spiritual energy belongs to me, and Water Spiritual Qi depends on earth veins and favorable conditions, it might still be supplied."
Lin Beichen constructed a Spiritual Qi Array in his mind, then wrote it down on paper, occasionally making revisions and sketching out the general shape.
With his enlightenment, he could figure out solutions, but most of these weren’t suitable for the current situation.
For example, he could create a Spiritual Energy Furnace, similar to machines that roast chestnuts and seeds, where spiritual energy rolls back and forth inside, mixing and operating. The disciples controlling the array would just need to keep adding spirit grass and let it merge with the herbs as spiritual energy changes.
Using this Spiritual Energy Furnace, a day’s growth time for spirit grass can equal a year outside.
As the controllers become more skilled, they can even harvest every three days, with three days’ worth of efficacy matching a thousand years.
The most marvelous feature of this Spiritual Energy Furnace is not in catalyzing herbs, but in compressing spiritual energy while catalyzing, turning it into various spiritual liquids, with the added herbs giving different properties to the liquids.
Some spiritual liquids can assist in cultivation, some can prolong life, and others can be used in battles to kill enemies.
Though this method is wonderful and yields multiple outcomes simultaneously, it demands too much from the disciples, and the materials to construct the Spiritual Energy Furnace are hard to find.
Be aware that Lin Beichen nearly exhausted Medicine Immortal Pavilion’s entire stockpile just for one Golden Core; this is Medicine Immortal Pavilion’s treasure accumulated over a thousand years.
Lin Beichen considers even Medicine Immortal Pavilion as insufficient, not to mention other organizations.
The history of the Human Race is long, but if investigated thoroughly, it has only lasted over ten thousand years, and civilized history is but a few thousand years old.
No matter how profound the history, there aren’t many organizations like Medicine Immortal Pavilion.
Relying on the current human power, the Spiritual Energy Furnace couldn’t be built at all.
"This method, though currently infeasible, can be slightly improved. The fundamental logic of the Spiritual Energy Furnace is just to transform spiritual energy into boundless flames to modify each tiny structure of the herbs."
"Pre-condition is to confirm various properties of the herbs. In the preparation stage, manufacture matching growth fertilizers. Finally, seek scholars proficient in herbs and spiritual energy to let them research independently. I just need to oversee the final stage."
Lin Beichen continued writing and drawing, deep in thought.
In fact, using earth vein techniques to forcibly infuse herbs with spiritual energy is also a method.
This method consumes excessively.
Relying solely on himself, in the long run, averaging each day, he might only produce a few hundred pieces.
In a year, managing a hundred acres of spirit grass garden would be his limit.
So, all in all, he still needs to find spiritual energy fertilizers.
Utilizing trace elements and spiritual energy in the land to slowly modify spirit grass, managing a hundred acres of land at once is a minor feat for modernized planting.
Moreover, depending on the nature of the land modified by arrays, the properties of growth fertilizers can be adjusted.
Whether it’s spiritual energy, evil qi, or yin qi from moonlight, or magma qi, the modified spirit grass could be diverse, even forming a broad discipline.
"The modified spirit grass still needs to be stored in a Spiritual Qi Array to continue age catalysis using my Withered and Flourishing Array to change its medicinal properties."
"Withered and Flourishing Array, integrating the Power of Earth and Wood, accelerates growth with various spiritual energies. Though not as efficient as the Spiritual Energy Furnace, it can reduce time by a hundredfold, needing less than ten years to produce thousand-year-old spirit grass."
Lin Beichen paused when writing this, then immediately crossed out his inference.
"Ten years may seem short, but it requires nearly a generation’s effort. Cultivators across the Celestial Gate advance continuously, while I would be tending to herbs for ten years.
I guard such a vast treasure trove, and after ten years, how can I ensure I won’t be killed for my wealth?"
Technical monopoly relies on having enough power to protect these treasures.
Currently, he is revered as the world’s number one, an unparalleled first.
No one in the world dares to challenge him because they all know that even the combined power of all current cultivators couldn’t harm him."
But what about ten years later?
When he presents acres of thousand-year-old herbs, with cultivators across the Celestial Gate having researched for ten years, even if they still acknowledge him as number one, what guarantees they wouldn’t defeat him with collective strength?
Cultivating the Withered and Flourishing Body is incredibly difficult, requiring unimaginable spiritual energy for each rank ascension.
At this moment, Lin Beichen suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
Luckily, he is cultivating the Withered and Flourishing Body now; if he cultivated other bodies, wouldn’t it be impossible to nurture herbs?
With spiritual energy difficult to sustain cultivation, he must depend on the power of herbs to accelerate growth.
"Current cultivators can’t meet the minimum requirements. The School of Life Sciences at Huadu is the best frontier technology academy domestically, could they meet my needs?"
Huadu University’s comprehensive ranking is about seventh nationwide.
But the School of Life Sciences, composed of Frontier Medicine and Frontier Biotechnology, firmly holds the top spot.
Only national research institutes or key national labs can surpass Huadu University.