Chapter 106

Chapter 106

Bai Xiaoyu looked at the newly arrived alchemy machines for the Small Healing Elixir and the Great Healing Elixir.

These two elixirs were produced according to the needs of the legion and had only been listed in the Pharmacy Department on the newly ignited planet last month.

The Small Healing Elixir, when consumed during severe injuries, can quickly restore one's condition and keep them alert. The Great Healing Elixir can sustain the life of someone near death, giving them enough time to be rescued.

Both elixirs have been very popular among the soldiers since their listing.

The two legions transported the herbs needed for these elixirs, with twice the amount required.

However, he couldn't produce them alone before, and it was unexpected that they would become available once his points broke through the twenty million mark.

It must be said that this time, the system did a good job; otherwise, providing even fifty bottles daily to each of the sixteen planets' Pharmacy Departments would have been challenging. After all, there were also enhanced growth fluids and mental strength recovery elixirs that needed manual production.

Now, it's time to make another choice. The Small Healing Elixir requires eight million points and five hundred billion credits, while the Great Healing Elixir requires ten million points and six hundred billion credits. The enhanced growth fluid and mental strength recovery elixir require five million points and two hundred billion credits each.

With over twenty million points, Bai Xiaoyu has enough to exchange for three alchemy machines, but his credits are insufficient. For now, he can only choose one from each batch.

The system appeared again, gloating: "The system had long warned the host to earn more credits, or they would face such an awkward situation."

Bai Xiaoyu: "I will eventually exchange them; it's impossible to achieve everything at once."

The income from the Pharmacy Departments is gradually stabilizing, and the online pharmacy store sells elixirs selectively to the cultivation centers on various fringe planets every day. The incoming credits are substantial, but so are the outflows.

The credit costs for acquiring herbs from multiple supply chains, setting up new acquisition stations, and installing equipment on various planets are just part of the expenses. The largest portion still goes to the Herb Base.

Given the remaining credits, it's already quite impressive.

Based on the previously understood needs of the legions, Bai Xiaoyu decided to exchange for the Great Healing Elixir and the mental strength recovery elixir alchemy machines. After all, the enhanced growth fluid focuses on quickly restoring the soldiers' physical strength, which they can recover naturally with rest. Mental strength recovery, however, is not as quick in the tense battlefield environment.

The exchange interface now only showed three types of alchemy machines: the Small Healing Elixir, the Great Healing Elixir, and the enhanced growth fluid machines.

After exchanging for the Great Healing Elixir machine, Bai Xiaoyu could only choose to refresh with five thousand points. The exchange interface not only lists new alchemy machines but also includes all previously available ones, making any combination possible. Now, Bai Xiaoyu saw three identical alchemy machines for the previously exchanged Peiyuan Elixir, and had no choice but to continue refreshing.

Finally, on the third try, the mental strength recovery elixir machine appeared, and he exchanged for it.

Bai Xiaoyu took out the two newly exchanged alchemy machines from the system's storage space and placed them on the ground. The sound of the machines landing startled those secretly scheming ways to approach the rare species, who immediately turned their attention to the new machines, studying them intently, touching and rubbing them, completely engrossed.

Lou Hao, feeling a strange tingling sensation, sighed in relief, "Do you still want the Xiao Sha?"

Tao Limeng refocused his eyes and nodded without hesitation, "Of course, but that won't be resolved anytime soon. Right now, researching the new machines is more important. Fortunately, the previous two alchemy machines are almost finished, so we can include this one in our research process."

The nearly completed alchemy machines are for repair and Peiyuan elixirs, which is good news for the expanding Fireseed.

Thus, Tao Limeng continued researching the alchemy machines, while Bai Xiaoyu resumed producing elixirs.

The next day, Bai Xiaoyu opened his live stream and began the daily routine check on the eggs.

Viewers flooded into the live stream and gathered around the incubation compartments they favored. Among the eggs, the most popular was the red one with the distinctive patterns of the herb and a faint black seal. This egg was now quite large, barely fitting within Bai Xiaoyu's hands.

This egg is the largest among the current batch, aside from the tentacle egg.

When viewers first discovered the red egg in the incubation compartment, they were amazed until Bai Xiaoyu explained that it was an egg, the smallest dormant egg transferred inside. Their jaws dropped.

Initially, they didn't believe it, even suspecting it might be a rare plant-human. Even now, many still hold that belief.

Seeing Bai Xiaoyu adding solid growth medium to the egg, their focus shifted to the roots exposed by the semi-transparent medium.

"The egg is growing so fast; look, the roots have thickened."

"In less than half a month, these eggs will start moving. Do you think the red egg will move?"

"Probably not; the red egg is rooted in the medium and can't move like the others."

Bai Xiaoyu thought about it; the herb itself cannot move, but the hatchling inside certainly can. It's impossible for it to remain stationary like a plant.

This egg is fine, so he moved on to check the next one.

This egg was previously dormant and weak, but after using specially formulated elixirs, it has now joined the main group in absorbing regular elixirs.

Although its size ranks lower, it still has time to catch up.

After checking all the eggs, Bai Xiaoyu's final gaze fell on the transparent instrument mimicking the mother's womb. He walked over to investigate.

For this egg that has yet to fully recover, the viewers are also concerned. If not for the visible signs of increased activity through the transparent display, they might have thought it would turn into a dud egg.

Bai Xiaoyu's mental power entered the egg, finding the hatchling's size unchanged since the first visit. However, the once pale hatchling now had a hint of color.

His mental power carefully entered the hatchling's wrist, sensing the faint but steady heartbeat. Though weak, it beat steadily.

Continuing deeper, he found the hatchling's tiny heart beating and all organs functioning, indicating a gradual recovery.

Everything was improving. With daily doses of life essence and specially formulated repair elixirs, the hatchling had shown signs of movement in recent days.

The hatchling inside the egg was recovering well, and Bai Xiaoyu believed it would soon join the other eggs in the incubation compartments.

However, he soon noticed something amiss. On the first day, the hatchling moved its limbs; on the second day, it repeated the same actions; on the third day, it was still the same.

This hatchling, which should have been active after two months of incubation, remained in a repetitive state. Its movements resembled instinctual reactions rather than voluntary actions.

This indicated that the hatchling's new mental body was not controlling its body.

Bai Xiaoyu's mental power scanned the hatchling's body, finding no significant issues. Finally, his attention focused on the hatchling's head, which he usually avoids probing.

His mental power gently tapped the hatchling's head. In the past, this familiar gesture would prompt the hatchling to clumsily extend its tiny mental touch.

Now he had been knocking for quite a while, but still received no response.

After several attempts, Bai Xiaoyu carefully controlled his mental threads, intending to probe inside to see what was going on.

Soon the cub's brain appeared before him, and its development seemed normal. The problem was that he discovered an incomplete, clearly divided mental body.

Both the large and small mental bodies were extremely weak, clinging together but unable to merge.

Bai Xiaoyu's mental power circled around the two split mental bodies. One of the smaller ones produced purer fluctuations, much like most cubs' initial mental bodies. The other, significantly larger mental body, had more complex and variable fluctuations, resembling those of an adult's mental body.

Bai Xiaoyu's first reaction was possession, but soon he realized that the two mental bodies seemed to have split from a single entity.

Once they were one, now one resembled a newborn, while the other seemed as if it had gone through a cycle of reincarnation.

Bai Xiaoyu was momentarily confused and somewhat bewildered.

However, this did not stop him from thinking about solutions to the cub's mental body condition.

Both split mental bodies were very weak, and neither could control the body. The only solution was to fuse them together.

There were many mental fusion potions available, and Bai Xiaoyu chose a mental restoration potion for this situation.

This potion could eliminate the sharp edges formed by a mental body split for too long, returning it to its original form. This would allow the split mental bodies to slowly merge.

Due to the extreme weakness of both mental bodies, Bai Xiaoyu used the tenderest parts of the herbs to concoct a very mild potion, which he administered cautiously to the cub every day. He also supplemented with mental strengthening potions to gradually restore the two weakened mental bodies.

The mental strengthening potion required powerful mental energy as a catalyst, which Bai Xiaoyu naturally provided himself.

To his surprise, the cub's mental power showed no signs of discomfort, so the mental strengthening potion was incredibly beneficial, visibly reviving the two mental bodies day by day.

Through this experience, Bai Xiaoyu also sensed that the cub's mental body had very similar fluctuations to his own.

Actually, his mental power fluctuations were also similar to those of the little one. If this egg belonged to that cheap father, it was normal for the mental power fluctuations to be similar. After all, his and Bai Kan's mental power fluctuations were the same.

Now the cub's mental power fluctuations were just like another little one.

Thinking about this, Bai Xiaoyu fell silent. Those cheap parents had actually given birth to another, and this one hatched alongside the original owner.

So this meant another full-blooded brother?

As for why he felt it was a younger brother rather than an older one, Bai Xiaoyu simply knew at first glance that this one was a younger brother.

Surprised as he was, he couldn't concern himself with the situation of those cheap parents. Now he needed to focus on repairing the two mental bodies. After half a month, the two mental bodies finally merged.

The cub, who had previously only flailed its limbs, finally became more agile.

Bai Xiaoyu's mental power knocked on the cub's forehead again. After a few taps, the mental body inside finally seemed to awaken from a long sleep. Two small mental power antennae slowly emerged from the cub's head.

Due to using Bai Xiaoyu's mental power energy as a catalyst, the cub generated two mental body antennae after the fusion. One was thick, and the other was thin.

Bai Xiaoyu gently poked the thicker mental power antenna, and it wobbled. Soon, a surprisingly precise consciousness, completely unlike that of a cub, transmitted: "Who's poking me? It's you who knocked my head and woke up this stellar super invincible emperor, right? I'm going to punish you!"

Bai Xiaoyu looked at the cub, who hadn't opened its eyes yet but was already putting its tiny hands on its hips: "...???"