Chapter 163: Burning Life

The spacious carriage slowly came to a halt before the signpost at No. 74, Purple Cotton Street, Antu Kang District.

This was not far from Deep爵 Castle.

As soon as Gune stepped down from the carriage, he saw Deep爵 Castle, now completely reduced to ruins, not far away.

But soon, a new Deep爵 Castle would be built on the ruins of the old one; in this castle district, there was plenty of land that nobles would purchase.

"This is your new residence, Purple Magnolia Castle," said Nigel, who also alighted from the carriage.

"Purple Magnolia?" Gune looked around.

Indeed, even in the depths of winter, within the glass greenhouses on the spacious lawn courtyard of Purple Magnolia Castle, a profusion of purple magnolias were blooming brilliantly.

Even with two sizable purple magnolia glass greenhouses, the lawn and garden area of Purple Magnolia Castle still appeared very spacious.

Moreover, the main structure of Purple Magnolia Castle was wider, taller, and more spacious than that of Deep爵 Castle.

"Very nice. I like this place," Gune said with a smile.

When he arrived at the main gate with the others, the gate opened directly.

Then Gune saw Frees, dressed as a butler.

Seeing Frees, Gune was momentarily startled, then a smile spread across his face.

"Oh! Senior Frees, it's really great to see you safe."

At this moment, Frees also wore a broad smile.

"I had no news of you before and was worried something might have happened. Only when I learned you would be coming today did I feel relieved."

"How are they all?" Gune asked as he walked into the hall.

"You mean Leona and the others? They're safe. They'll all come tomorrow morning."

"Mm, good." Gune nodded slightly.

It didn't matter that the castle was broken; as long as everyone was safe.

"The underground alchemy laboratory is fully prepared," Frees then said, looking at the group.

"Mm!"

Led by Frees,

the four of them descended the stone stairs to the underground alchemy laboratory.

The specifications of the underground alchemy laboratory at Purple Magnolia Castle were the same as those at Deep爵 Castle, but with more complete and reasonably numbered alchemy equipment.

"Senior Nigel, now..."

Entering the underground alchemy laboratory, Gune looked at Nigel.

"Shh!"

Nigel immediately shushed him, signaling Gune not to speak.

Under Gune's gaze, Nigel began to act.

He first carefully inspected the interior and exterior of the underground alchemy laboratory, confirming there was nothing unusual.

Then he activated the sealing array of the underground alchemy laboratory itself.

After that, he took out two sealing scrolls and applied a second and third layer of special seals to the entire laboratory.

Having done all this, Nigel looked at the two Transcendent Masters.

"I have sensed and inspected; there's no problem. We can begin," Transcendent Master Hiro nodded slightly.

The information regarding the Rune Potion was extremely important, not allowing any leakage; no degree of caution was excessive.

Parks came directly to Gune's side and said solemnly, "According to the information we obtained from Dr. Gerard, Rune Potion No. 132-26 has achieved very perfect experimental results."

"After using this rune potion, the silver-armored mice enter a sleep state."

"This sleep state is ordinary sleep; they can be awakened at any time, but experimental studies show that waking them midway affects the increase in the soul's transcendent properties from the rune potion."

"The potion significantly enhances the soul's transcendent properties of the silver-armored mice within one to two hours of sleep."

"The potion can increase the density of the soul's transcendent properties in silver-armored mice from the range of 0.40-0.50 to the range of 1.20-1.30."

"After several days of various tests, the potion has no obvious negative effects. Moreover, the enhanced soul transcendent properties are very stable."

"This potion is preliminarily designated as a perfect soul rune potion, and subsequent experiments on transcendents are about to begin."

After listening to Parks's explanation, Gune was somewhat surprised.

"From the level of 0.4, 0.5 directly to 1.2, 1.3? That's quite an exaggerated increase!"

"Although it might shrink somewhat in humans, it's still at least a doubling."

"This is just with small doses; with larger doses, the effect would obviously be even better—a four- or five-fold increase in transcendent properties wouldn't be a problem."

"Lord Gune." Parks said with a smile beside him.

"Although theoretically, subsequent soul experiments on transcendents are needed, we all know that experimental subjects like silver-armored mice are very fragile."

"Even they can perfectly digest this soul rune potion, which shows how excellent the stability and efficacy of this soul rune potion are."

"For us humans, digestion is completely without any issues."

"It can be basically confirmed that this rune potion has been perfectly born in your hands."

"Subsequent experiments are just further verification of this fact."

"So, please, Lord Gune, give me the detailed formula for Rune Potion No. 132-26."

"Mm, no problem." Gune nodded.

With a flip of his hand, Gune produced a list of ingredients.

"This is just the ingredient list. The specific experimental steps are not recorded; I followed a fixed procedure."

"I'll do it once and explain all the key points. Then, Senior Parks, you can fully record them."

"Mm." Parks nodded. "No problem."

Everyone's experimental methods are different, especially in this kind of research work.

There are certainly many creative methods, all unique; these cannot be shown on an ingredient list.

While opening and familiarizing himself with equipment like the small high furnace, steam boiler, energy tower, alcohol lamp, and separator, Gune also began to explain.

Gune had long been prepared for the fact that after the successful rune potion experiment, he would need to present the complete steps so others could replicate his experiment to produce the potion.

"First," Gune began slowly.

"The most important point for Rune Potion No. 132-26 is that it requires a sufficient amount of Life Spring Water."

"We have Life Spring Water; that's not a big problem," Parks responded.

"Good!" A hint of a smile curled at the corner of Gune's mouth, but he didn't rush to elaborate.

Later, when they encountered problems with the Life Spring Water, they would naturally understand just how much was needed.

"These several materials first need to be..."

"Then..."

"Next..."

"Like this..."

"To this degree..."

"Then..."

...

Step by step, Gune explained as thoroughly as possible.

When Gune experimented alone, he precisely observed the transcendent properties and their transcendent activity, and once they met the standard, he quickly moved on.

He consumed a lot of materials and Life Spring Water.

But during the demonstration, Gune obviously couldn't be so wasteful.

In the demonstration experiment, he used only small amounts of Life Spring Water, which required a great deal of fine manipulation.

After all, the Pioneer Group had given him only a limited amount of Life Spring Water—about ten thousand milliliters in total.

If he casually used two or three hundred milliliters for a single potion, they would surely become suspicious.

About an hour later,

a clear bottle of Rune Potion No. 132-26 was perfectly produced in Gune's hands.

Then, Gune took out a backup of Rune Potion No. 132-26 from his storage bracelet.

When Gune made it himself, the quantities were larger, and he had more backup stock of various potions.

"This is a backup I made earlier."

"Senior, you can take both for testing; the effects are the same."

Gune placed both potions in front of Parks.

At this moment, the composed Parks took the two rune potions and stood there, lost in thought.

After a long while, Parks looked up at Gune.

"The entire experimental process has no major issues."

"Many key steps can be handled by expert alchemists using tools."

"This experiment is indeed reproducible."

"But... I have one question."

Parks's eyes sharpened.

"Master Gune, your method of using Life Spring Water to extract transcendent properties is a truly remarkable creation."

"But the problem is, how did you use a small amount of Life Spring Water to achieve a large output of life properties to activate the materials and complete the extraction of transcendent properties?"

"This seems unreasonable. Are you burning your own life?"