Life Essence

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Production and Properties

Life Essence is made by condensing the life force of someone with the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline. Jiang Taichu produced the first demonstrated drop, while Ah Yin took responsibility for making the supply he sold 4.

• Appearance: Jiang Taichu’s first drop is described as silvery-blue; the following chapter calls it emerald-green 4 5.
• Potency: Ah Yin’s initial drops contained more life force than Jiang Taichu’s. He later told customers that his Soul Power Level affected the quantity and quality he could produce 5 8.
• Recovery: Ah Yin’s recovery speed doubled inside the Myriad Beasts Record, allowing her to condense Life Essence faster 4.
• Production risk: After Ah Yin condensed nearly a hundred drops, Jiang Taichu warned that using too much life force at once could damage her life origin 5.
• Later output: After Ah Yin exceeded the three-thousand-year level, she could condense hundreds of drops a day at the previous potency. Jiang Taichu nevertheless restricted public supply 14.

Effects and Limitations

Restoration

• A drop strengthened the elderly shopkeeper of Hundred Years of Good Reviews, making him feel as though he were ten years younger 4.
• Other elderly buyers lost aches and pains, stood straighter, and became visibly more vigorous 6.
• Zhao Gang’s old injury healed after he took a drop and expelled congealed blood. Freed from the injury, he broke through from level nineteen to level twenty using the power he had accumulated over ten years 6.
• Jiang Taichu stated that his first drop could improve the shopkeeper’s health but could not extend his lifespan 4.

Jade Phosphorus Toxin

• Two drops softened Dugu Yan’s skin and removed the faint poisonous smell associated with her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul 13.
• The increased vitality briefly suppressed the toxin’s spread, but did not cure its root cause. Her meridian pain, swollen and sore limbs, and poisonous smell began returning after a few days 14.

Assessed and Advertised Uses

• Ye Qingxian judged Ye Lingling’s drop useful to ordinary people and low-level Soul Masters, but of negligible use to high-level Soul Masters 9.
• Jiang Taichu’s stall advertised benefits including improved skin, faster recovery from injuries and Soul Power expenditure, and a greater chance of breaking through bottlenecks. It also claimed benefits for virility and children’s growth; these claims are not separately demonstrated in the available account 5.

Sales and Transactions

Story Role

• Establishing a livelihood: Jiang Taichu devised Life Essence as a way to fund cultivation resources after arriving in Heaven Dou City. Its demonstrated effects turned an initially skeptical crowd into eager customers 4 5 6.
• Drawing friends and threats: Battle Axe tried to seize the final bottle and planned to abduct Jiang Taichu to force him to produce more. After Jiang Taichu defeated him, Ye Lingling purchased the bottle and became interested in its seller 6 7.
• Connecting with Dugu Yan: Ye Lingling gave Dugu Yan two drops. Their temporary relief of her toxin symptoms led Dugu Yan to seek a regular supply from Jiang Taichu 13 14 15.
• Seeking another source of funding: Jiang Taichu later considered a partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to support his summoned beasts, since selling too much Life Essence could make him a target 26.