"Buzz!"
"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"
Holding the Dexi Power Drill, Lu Li frantically mined Azure Gold Spirit Ore deep in the mine.
The nearly sealed mine made the already faint sound of the drill seem even quieter.
He managed to chisel out a piece of spirit ore almost every half hour.
In just a few hours, he had already collected five or six pieces of spirit ore.
I wonder how much this Azure Gold Spirit Ore sells for outside.
Still, the spiritual power inside it is fairly abundant, so it probably isn't cheap.
I should stockpile more, just in case.
His thoughts flickered, but Lu Li's hands never stopped moving.
He chiseled his way deeper, working through one rock face after another.
Meanwhile, on Blue Star, all of Great Xia's Group 749 was in a frenzy of activity.
Every communication with Lu Li was a matter of enormous importance to Group 749.
All manner of preparations had to begin days in advance.
Experts, scholars, and group members from every field arrived well ahead of time.
They were afraid of overlooking something.
And once the communication ended, the real work officially began.
"Hurry! Hurry!"
"The text of the Cultivation Method Comrade Lu Li sent back needs to be analyzed in detail!"
"Don't rush to feed it into the simulation. First, unpack its literal meaning word by word, sentence by sentence."
"Confirm its true intent and update the model's capacity to receive it before feeding it in for calculation!"
"And... has the new melt crystallizer arrived yet?!"
"This time, we must increase the power of the heat exchange system! The temperature must be kept at 1,600 degrees Celsius!"
"..."
The clamor rang throughout the underground base.
The members of Bureau 749's various teams were busy processing the information and files Lu Li had just sent back.
The strategy team's members were busy reviewing and assessing Lu Li's current circumstances.
At the same time, they were attempting to build a virtual survival model of the Azure Pool Sect.
This would allow them to better analyze the situation.
But the busiest of all was the research team.
Experts and scholars from every industry had now become members of Group 749.
Professors and scholars from traditional Chinese medicine, medicine, biology, and microscopic research analyzed the cultivation insights Lu Li had sent back, word by word and sentence by sentence.
"Found it!"
A professor studying energy mechanics suddenly slapped the table.
"Look at this passage. When spiritual power passes through the Danzhong acupoint, it is like a stream flowing into a pool; it must circle and build up momentum. Comrade Lu Li clearly stated that he felt weak at this point."
"Our previous model used straight-line acceleration, but according to Lu Li's actual tests, spiritual power needs to linger briefly and resonate at the Danzhong acupoint for efficiency to reach its maximum!"
"It's confirmed! This confirms our spiritual power pressurization theory!"
An elderly traditional Chinese medicine practitioner beside him excitedly pointed at the meridian diagram on the projection screen.
"Traditional theory holds that the Danzhong acupoint is where ancestral Qi gathers. Now it looks more like a natural energy resonance chamber!"
"Computer, immediately revise the Five Elements Instruction 2.0 model and add a pulse-buffering algorithm at the Danzhong acupoint!"
"Elder Wang, look here,"
A young researcher said, pointing to Lu Li's description of the "spiritual power pulse interval."
"He mentioned that when wood-element spiritual power flowed through, he felt a slight warmth in the liver area, which turned cool after a few seconds."
"That matches the tissue repair window we simulated perfectly!"
The entire laboratory erupted.
Every insight Lu Li shared was like a light.
They illuminated the indistinct areas in their theoretical model.
This was not just strategy on paper.
This was precious cultivation data that had been verified through actual practice on a human body.
"Quick!"
Wang Zhiwen's voice trembled, but it was utterly resolute.
"Import all the data into the supercomputer. We need to have a Five Elements Instruction 3.0 plan ready before the next communication!"
"This time, we're going to double Comrade Lu Li's cultivation speed again!"
While the research team members studying the Cultivation Method were busy, deeper in the underground base,
Inside a vast, open underground factory complex,
Dozens of the country's most advanced material extraction machines, the "melt crystallizers," were ready.
"Reporting! Unit three is ready, and the furnace temperature has stabilized at 1,600 degrees Celsius!"
An engineer reported loudly inside the underground factory, sweat running down from the edge of his safety helmet.
The chief control engineer stood before the central control console, his eyes fixed on the data scrolling across the screen.
"Begin loading the material! Be sure to record the energy dissipation curve of the spirit ore in its different physical states!"
A robotic arm fed a piece of Azure Gold Spirit Ore into the high-temperature furnace.
"The ore is beginning to melt. Abnormal energy fluctuations detected!"
The monitor's voice rose sharply. "Energy readings are climbing rapidly in the liquid phase, far beyond our previous estimates!"
"Just as I thought!"
Professor Chen, a materials scientist, sprang to his feet.
"The physical properties of this spirit ore are a facade. Its core is the spiritual power stored inside it! The high temperature has destroyed its stable structure, causing the spiritual power to escape out of control!"
"Start the 'rapid cooling procedure' immediately!"
Wang Zhiwen, who had hurried over, gave the order decisively. "We have to 'lock' it inside the crystal before the spiritual power completely dissipates!"
The molten ore was rapidly channeled into a specially made cooling mold.
"The energy reading is dropping-no, it's condensing!"
"It's forming a stable energy core!"
On the screen, a distinct blue point of light was taking shape.
"We did it!"
The young engineer could not help cheering. "We extracted the 'spirit ore core'!"
But Professor Chen frowned deeply. "No, it's not enough. The extraction rate is only three percent."
"Most of the spiritual power material was still wasted during the cooling process."
"We need to determine very clearly what this so-called spiritual power is actually made of, and what the sequence of its components looks like."
The entire factory complex fell into contemplation.
Traditional physical methods seemed to have hit a bottleneck.
Just then, a chemist who had remained silent spoke softly.
"Perhaps, is it possible we've been going in the wrong direction?"
"If we conduct physical experiments without knowing the basic structure of the material, it is inevitable that physical purification will fail because it resists the process."
"Then what if we dissolve it? With a 'solution' that can match its frequency?"
A sharp light flashed in Wang Zhiwen's eyes.
"Adjust the plan immediately! Abandon high-temperature smelting and shift to finding a 'spiritual solvent'!"
"Notify the biology team and the energy team. They're to tackle the problem together!"
Once the order was given, all of Group 749 immediately became a hive of activity.
An endless stream of resources was sent into the underground base.
The ample supply of personnel made the base even livelier.
But some problems could only be tackled by top experts in their fields.
With the problem of the "spiritual solvent" proving difficult to overcome,
A dark-green WZ-10 attack helicopter quickly took off from the State Security Building and sped toward the Jinghua University residential compound...