Over the next few days, Ren Baqian didn't find a suitable candidate to experiment on after grinding two more Invisible Arrows. Instead, his attention was attracted by another matter.
"Your Highness, there has been progress in the study of vitality."
Upon hearing this news, Ren Baqian immediately wanted to go to Eternal Mountain.
However, after some thought, he gave up on this idea.
He asked the person in charge of the Eternal Mountain laboratory to come to the capital.
Two days later, Ren Baqian met with three people.
The person in charge was a white man named Lloyd Adam. He was a German and an expert in chemistry.
The other two were white and Latino, and they were both experts in chemistry.
These three people were also somewhat famous on Earth. They were kidnapped by Ren Baqian to be in charge of the study of vitality.
"Tell me the details," Ren Baqian asked as he sat on the sofa.
"Yes, let me introduce you first.
In the previous experiment, we discovered vitality atoms with the element symbol YQ.
Vitality atoms are everywhere, whether it's in the air, plants, soil, rocks, humans, or beasts.
An individual vitality atom is very active and can combine with a variety of elements, the most important of which is the oxygen atom. After the vitality atom combines with the oxygen atom, it can become vitality particles that can be absorbed by us. Its composition is YQ2O, also known as binary oxygen.
Although vitality atoms are active, they are very stable after combining with other elements and are difficult to separate.
That was until the black crystal sent by Your Highness.
That crystal is composed of ternary silicon sulfide with a structure of YQ3SIS. This structure is also very stable and difficult to separate even at high temperatures. The vitality atoms play a major role in this.
Even if it is separated, the vitality atoms will quickly combine with other elements and react. This reaction can only be stopped under vacuum conditions.
However, it can be converted into ternary aluminum sulfide using aluminum.
We also discovered a substance with a composition of KUC, cyanide carbide, which reacts with ternary aluminum sulfide to produce relatively unstable ternary carbon. "
"What do you mean by relatively unstable? What's the use of this ternary carbon? "Ren Baqian leaned forward slightly and asked. Judging from the other party's words, the focus was on this ternary carbon.
"Ternary carbon is a kind of crystal, but when it comes into contact with air, its structure will slowly change into binary oxygen and carbon dioxide. If I had to describe this process, it would be like evaporation, "Lloyd Adam said proudly.
Ren Baqian did some calculations in his mind. According to the results of the research, two-dimensional oxygen was the so-called vital energy, and it was the main source of vital energy absorbed by the human body.
When it entered the human body, the oxygen and vitality were absorbed by the human body.
Ternary carbon could be converted to ternary oxygen. Wouldn't this artificially form an area with higher vitality than other places? Upon realizing this, Ren Baqian's heart beat a little faster.
"The structure of binary oxygen is very stable, right?"
"Yes."
"What's the rate of evaporation?"
"A crystal like this will take about six hours to completely evaporate." Lloyd Adam took out a small bottle. It contained a kind of liquid and a white crystal the size of a knuckle on his little finger.
"Is this the preservation of ternary carbon? How long can it be preserved? What kind of liquid is inside? "
"Inside is unsaturated high-grade fatty acid vegetable oil. Ternary carbon can be stored in it for more than three years."
"That's enough!" Ren Baqian stood up happily.
Something as important as vital energy was actually separated and produced by chemical means in the laboratory. This simply made it difficult for him to calm down.
If they could produce their own vital energy in the future and distribute it to everyone, such as Hong Wu and the other generals who were stationed in various places, the important ministers in the court, and warriors with potential, the strength of the human race would be greatly improved after a period of consolidation.
Only a small number of people could pass through the wall between the two worlds. Otherwise, they would definitely be besieged by the foreign races.
Furthermore, the logistics wouldn't be able to support it. That mountain range could only support the empress and the others.
However, if they could produce vital energy, many people wouldn't need to pass through that area and could improve at the fastest speed.
If there was enough ternary carbon, it could even make the vital energy in a space far surpass that of the foreign races outside the wall between the two worlds.
The value of this was simply too great.
"What do you need to produce ternary carbon? Can we only use ternary silicon sulfide? "Ren Baqian got up and walked around a few times before asking.
Ternary silicon sulfide was the black, translucent crystal that Li Fu and the others had knocked out from the wall between the two worlds.
At present, there were still foreign tribes that were too close to the territory of the foreign races. It would be best if they could use something else to replace it.
"Ternary silicon sulfide is currently the most suitable material to produce ternary carbon in large quantities. As for other materials, ternary carbon may also be produced, but from the looks of the materials we have studied so far, it is difficult to produce them in large quantities," Lloyd Adam said.
Ren Baqian calculated in his mind. It seemed that he had to get the wall between the two worlds no matter what.
Now that the empress and the others were cultivating there, it was better not to disturb them.
It was said that the wall between the two worlds was vast and boundless, at least 5,000 kilometers wide. There were only two foreign tribes, including the one by the sea, and there were only three foreign tribes. There was still a large area outside of their control.
They should immediately arrange for people to go to the wall between the two worlds, set up a factory, and peel off the ternary silicon sulfide from above.
However, the wall between the two worlds was extremely hard, and even Li Fu could only break a fist-sized piece at a time. If they wanted to peel off the ternary silicon sulfide, they still had to rely on these experts.
Ren Baqian sat back on the sofa and praised, "Well done. What reward do you want?"
Ren Baqian was in a very good mood. Given the contributions of these scientists, any reward wouldn't be too much.
"Money, reputation, and women. We also want to move here. Mount Empress is too desolate. Although there are brothels, we see those people every day," Lloyd Adam said bluntly.
"I agree!" Ren Baqian laughed.
It wasn't just these people. The sword masters also had the same idea. After staying in the desolate mountains for most of their lives, they had found a stable place to live. Of course, they had to find a prosperous and affluent place.
Ren Baqian had previously promised those sword masters that he would take this opportunity to move some of them over and build another laboratory in the capital.
It was better to keep some of the important research under his watch.
After that, Ren Baqian asked Lloyd Adam for a few more pieces of ternary carbon. Ren Baqian simply asked for all of them and found a few places to experiment.
The ternary carbon that Lloyd Adam took out at the beginning wasn't the largest, and of course, it wasn't the smallest either.
The smallest was a crystal that was a little bigger than a grain of rice, which was the result of the initial experiment.
The best was a white crystal that was the size of two fingers.
Ren Baqian experimented, took out a piece of ternary carbon that was the size of a knuckle, and placed it on the cloth. As soon as he took it out, he could feel a trace of vitality slowly emitted from it. As he breathed, it was slowly absorbed into his body like a clear stream washing through his body. A small part of it slowly integrated into the blood in his body, while most of it completely dissipated.
Ren Baqian had only felt this kind of vitality when he broke through to the Earth Embryo Realm. After that, he could only feel the movement of the earth's veins. It was probably because there was too little vitality in the air or because he wasn't strong enough.
Presumably, this would change after he became a Spirit Wheel expert.
Today, with this piece of ternary carbon, Ren Baqian could feel the existence of vitality again and was immediately overjoyed.
Although he couldn't see anything in the short term, Ren Baqian dared to conclude that this item was invaluable.
However, a small piece of ternary carbon could only release vitality bit by bit. If it was in a small enclosed space, it could slightly increase the vitality content in the air.
However, it didn't have this effect in the main hall. Ren Baqian could only absorb a very small part of it, and the rest dissipated with the air.
Of course, it didn't disappear, but it was like a drop of water falling into the sea and didn't have any effect.
Then, Ren Baqian took out the two-fingered piece of ternary carbon and placed it in his palm. His entire body was immediately invigorated.
Vitality that was seven to eight times thicker than before assaulted his senses.
Ren Baqian felt a burst of joy in his heart. After playing with the ternary carbon for a while, he saw that it had shrunk a little.
Based on this speed, this piece of ternary carbon should be able to be used for 24 hours.
Ren Baqian put the crystal back into the bottle and sealed it.
Previously, there weren't many black crystals that were sent back. After all, they were difficult to mine, and Li Fu didn't know what they were used for. He only picked up a few large pieces and sent them back.
Nowadays, there weren't many left in the laboratory.
If he wanted to obtain them in large quantities, even a year wouldn't be enough.
The round-trip journey was too long, and the current flight route was only to Qu Xia City.
The straight-line distance from Qu Xia City to the Wall of Two Worlds was at least 20,000 kilometers. However, this was in the middle of a mountain range. They had to cross mountains and ridges, and they had to avoid some dangerous places. It was more than 30,000 kilometers.
Moreover, there were ferocious beasts everywhere, and some poisonous insects could cause great trouble. The winged cavalry warriors were only at the Kismet Heaven level and had to be careful there. They could only travel about 50 kilometers a day, and a round trip would probably take close to two years.
"It seems like we have to expand the Protectorate of the South further south. Now that the flight route to Qu Xia City has been opened, the logistical pressure has been greatly reduced, and we should be able to recruit another 30,000 soldiers.
After recruiting this time, we don't have to expand the area of control to either side. We just have to go all the way to the south, as far as possible, and then clean up the ferocious beasts in the area and open up the flight route.
Tomorrow, we will have to discuss this matter with all the ministers in the imperial court. That old fellow, Qin Chuan, will definitely not object. Although Tu Yu is dissatisfied, with the ternary carbon as a weapon, no one can say anything. Not only will he not object, but he will also strongly support it! "Ren Baqian chuckled.
"Previously, the Chen Nation had to use Dayao's paper money. Those people in the imperial court are still arguing, so we have to put in more effort." Ren Baqian pondered again and felt that he should let Zhuo Yue, the Protectorate of the South, take action to let them know who was the master and who was the subordinate.
Under the pressure of the large army, no matter what considerations they have, they have to listen to him.
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