Chapter 348: An Unexpected Product in the Magic Core Experiment!
Jiang Lin took out the Qingxuan Ding, and tossed the Fire Stone, which didn't look very good, into it to reforge and purify it. When he took it out again, the originally mottled Fire Stone had turned into a palm-sized, translucent light red crystal.
Looking at the translucent crystal, which should be called a Fire Crystal, Jiang Lin absentmindedly touched his chin, realizing that he had veered off track during his research.
"I remember my original purpose was to figure out how to make humans return to their ancestral roots… Ah, forget it, let's try this first. Once this is figured out, I'll be closer to creating a man-made magic core."
Jiang Lin placed the refined Fire Crystal into the Virtual Core Simulator.
"Oh? Failed? No worries. Hai Laodao's here? Come over and help me hatch the egg. You're a Dou Huang, your Dou Qi is more solid than mine."
"Wait, I'll make you a hatching machine right now. Let me see if the Ice Heart Technique likes this. I'll make you this, it's a more pure Dou Qi method."
"Huh, don't say that. Ice-type Dou Qi has a built-in condensation attribute. Wow, I was still thinking about repulsion... Fire-type Dou Qi can't condense. Still not working? Repulsion is a shared property, but Fire-type is more violent, while Ice-type seems stable, but once it reaches a certain limit, it still disperses."
Hai Bo Dong's arrival made Jiang Lin a bit excited, but soon realized that the ice blocks Hai Bo Dong had made were really just ice blocks. It was just a lump of water, and the energy inside was rapidly dissipating.
"If that's the case, it's not just a single attribute problem, it's more about the condensation of multiple attributes," Jiang Lin thought of the key issue. The magic core appeared to have a single attribute, but was there a possibility that, beyond the single attribute, there could be multi-attribute energy closer to the source? Just like how the human body naturally contains all attributes, with one particular attribute standing out and appearing to be single.
"What are you trying to do?" Hai Bo Dong looked at Jiang Lin, who was muttering to himself from time to time, feeling uneasy. As soon as he arrived, Jiang Lin made him hold a weird, ugly iron can. This was the first time he had come into close contact with Jiang Lin, who was now in research mode, and he found himself completely unable to keep up with Jiang Lin's train of thought.
"Ah? You're asking me? If I don't talk to myself, you'd probably feel even more uncomfortable, right?" Jiang Lin paused, then smiled at Hai Bo Dong and continued, "It's fine, let's continue. This time, let's try adding some techniques from the Crystal Pill into the mix."
"Hai Laodao, aren't you curious about what I'm researching? I've already put the techniques for the first to third-tier Crystal Pills into the refining guild's records. Now, of course, I'm working on something better than the Crystal Pill. I can't spend my whole life just lounging around on the achievements of the Feather Sheath Wing and Crystal Pill research, can I?"
"Don't worry, stay with me and help research. No matter whether we succeed or not, I'll make you a fifth-tier Feather Sheath Wing afterward. Of course, you'll need to find your own materials."
Under Jiang Lin's insistence, Hai Bo Dong reluctantly agreed to continue working with Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin told him what to do, and Hai Bo Dong did it. Gradually, Hai Bo Dong was shocked to discover that Jiang Lin understood his body even better than he did himself!
At the same time, Hai Bo Dong also began to understand what Jiang Lin was doing.
"Man-made magic core?!" A week later, Hai Bo Dong, finally prying the information out of Jiang Lin, was in complete shock.
"Ah, it's not a man-made magic core. It's about making humans rediscover the magic core, but..." Jiang Lin, with a weary look on his face, opened up one of the "eggs" Hai Bo Dong had been incubating — a translucent snow crystal with faint, mysterious patterns on its surface.
"I can't say it was a failure, but I can say it was a complete loss," Jiang Lin sighed lightly, glancing at the snow crystal, then tossed Hai Bo Dong's "son" back to him carelessly, causing Hai Bo Dong to fumble and almost drop it. This was the fruit of their hard work over the past few days!
Jiang Lin (pointing at his nose): Can you speak properly?
"Ah, too many principles haven't been understood, and my strength is insufficient. I can see the operation of the magic core, but I can't comprehend its formation. The gap between the two makes me feel how insignificant I am," Jiang Lin looked back at the "Fire Crystal Son" still barely forming in the furnace and couldn't help but shake his head. Hai Bo Dong, as a Dou Huang, would perform this same experiment much faster.
This made Jiang Lin realize that if he wanted to further uncover the secrets of this world, he would need to improve his own strength. In this world of mystical powers, the individual was like a supercomputer with limitless growth potential. The stronger the performance of this supercomputer, the easier it would be to understand and recognize the mystical world.
"Uh, I don't really understand what you're saying, but this thing?" Hai Bo Dong, not paying much attention to Jiang Lin's rambling, was relieved when Jiang Lin said it had failed. He then shifted his focus to the snow crystal in his hands.
"This thing…" Jiang Lin glanced at the snow crystal Hai Bo Dong held, his gaze flickering slightly, and he smiled helplessly. "It's like making a mistake and accidentally getting something good. It's an unexpected joy."
"It has shape but no substance, but we accidentally got it out. Surprising, yet expected."
"Uh, can you stop speaking in riddles?" Hai Bo Dong's face twitched slightly, unconsciously grumbling.
"Fine, to put it simply, this can be seen as a one-time magic core. Unlike the magic core's violent Dou Qi, the Dou Qi in this is gentle. That means, it probably won't explode and might even be absorbable," Jiang Lin smirked slightly, then softly added, "The Crystal Core, Crystal Pill, ended up accidentally pointing out the 'spiritual stone' technique, though it's not really an accident."
The snow crystal in Hai Bo Dong's hand, if it had to be rated, would be an Ice Spirit Stone!
Jiang Lin's research path in energy had progressed from Dou Crystal, Crystal Core, Crystal Pill, to now an unexpected product, the Spirit Stone!
Originally, Jiang Lin wanted to create a man-made magic core, but he accidentally pointed out the Spirit Stone technique!
The Dou Crystal was a technique passed down by the founding fathers of the Weapon Refining Guild. It was an external magic core. Jiang Lin's Crystal Core was essentially a Dou Crystal, just made of different materials.
Later, based on the principles of the Crystal Core, a special Dou Qi device called the Crystal Pill was derived, perfectly utilizing the relationship between Dou Qi and Dou Qi devices.
Then, when Jiang Lin tried to push the research further to create a man-made magic core, he accidentally uncovered the technique for creating man-made Spirit Stones.
Thanks to Hai Bo Dong just acting as a mild energy supplier and the "hatching machine" in the middle, the result was that the Ice Spirit Stone's energy properties were relatively pure and gentle.
If the Dou Crystal was a reusable private external energy source, then the Ice Spirit Stone was a one-time public Dou Crystal.
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