Chapter 53: Chapter 52: Awakening the Spirit, Awakening the Spirit! (Part 1)
Just as the construction site commenced its work.
A group of warriors, led by Lin Ziming, quietly arrived outside the Wei Family Mansion.
During the previous qualification testing.
All members of the Fire Camp—including research personnel, military warriors, and the engineering information team at the high-frequency base station outside the city, totaling over 2,800 individuals—underwent Spiritual Root testing.
Ultimately, one person with dual Spiritual Roots (namely Cao Yi), 35 with triple Spiritual Roots, and 643 with quadruple Spiritual Roots were detected.
Among the first batch of senior personnel at the Fire Camp, only Wang Qiang, Lin Ziming, Ma Ning, and two others turned out to have quadruple Spiritual Roots.
The rest were all quintuple Spiritual Roots.
The qualification testing was complete, leaving only the Awakening Process.
According to the information previously provided by the Wei Mansion.
Although the Awakening Process is not risky, its success rate is not 100% either.
Given the current Spiritual Energy concentration in the Damo Realm.
The probability of successful awakening with the Spirit Awakening Pill is about a bit over 60%.
Generally, a prospective cultivator needs to consume the Spirit Awakening Pill two to three times to succeed.
Throughout the long cultivation history in the Damo Realm.
Cases where one has to consume seven or eight times, or even more than a dozen times, to awaken have emerged.
Considering the limited amount of pills provided in the first batch by the Wei Mansion, the camp specially screened the personnel participating in the Awakening this time.
Eleven Yin Yang Master players, including Wang Qiang, were excluded from the start.
The remaining hundreds of warriors were split into two groups based on Spiritual Roots.
A round of luck testing was held in the form of a red envelope grab.
Ultimately, twenty of the luckiest ’Emperors of Luck’ were selected, aside from Cao Yi and Lin Ziming, to attempt the Awakening at the Wei Mansion today.
Among these 22 people, there were one with dual Spiritual Roots, six with triple Spiritual Roots, and fifteen with quadruple Spiritual Roots.
As for the other triple Spiritual Root player, Yan Shaohua.
He was unfortunately left to lead a team at the military base due to the oversight of a foolish author in Chapter 50, hence waiting for the next round of Awakening.
Furthermore.
Along with this batch of warriors heading to the Wei Mansion, there was a research team composed of seven individuals, led by Academician Liu Xiangqian.
Once the group arrived at the Wei Mansion.
They were guided by Wei Fan and Wei Niandong to a secluded courtyard.
The courtyard was located in the southern part of the mansion, surrounded by dense vegetation, occasionally visited by birds.
There was an artificially excavated pond at the front with fish leisurely swimming, giving the courtyard a serene and elegant atmosphere.
Upon entering the courtyard gate, a refreshing aura instantly greeted everyone.
Wei Fan, noticing the relaxed expressions on people’s faces, smiled and said:
"This is the special courtyard for Awakening within the clan, equipped with a Spirit Gathering Array inside.
The array’s gathering and purification effects are even better than those at the Martial Arts Arena.
Normally, this array is closed. When we heard you were coming, I had it opened beforehand.
This way, the Awakening results will be much better for everyone."
Lin Ziming, upon hearing this, expressed his appreciation: "Clan Leader Wei is very considerate."
"It’s a small matter, a small matter."
Wei Fan cheerfully waved his hand and then took out a talisman from his waist.
He performed a technique and tore and threw it out.
The talisman slowly floated into the air, paused about ten meters above ground, then suddenly dispersed into several streaks of light.
The streaks of light shot to the four corners of the courtyard, instantly forming a semi-circular protective shield.
Upon observing this, Wei Fan nodded slightly with satisfaction.
Explaining to Lin Ziming and others:
"This is a Tier One Talisman primarily used to prevent spiritual sense intrusions and also has soundproofing effects.
It was crafted by my third uncle, the only Talisman Master in our clan.
Although the mansion is quite secure, it’s always better to be prepared."
He then took a small wooden box from Wei Niandong’s hand, containing several small porcelain bottles:
"These are all the Spirit Awakening Pills from our clan.
There are ten bottles in total, sixty pills altogether.
However, we have already placed orders with several medium-sized trade associations.
A new batch of pills will likely arrive in about a week."
Lin Ziming walked over, carefully picked up a porcelain bottle, gently shook it, and said with surprise:
"The Spirit Awakening Pill seems quite light."
Wei Fan nodded, poured out a brown pill from the bottle:
"The outer part of the Spirit Awakening Pill is a medicinal coat, while the interior is filled with gases extracted from Spirit Medicine, so the pill body is very light."
"I see..."
Lin Ziming acknowledged while discreetly exchanging glances with Liu Xiangqian.
Both understood each other’s intent:
They must uncover the secret of the Spirit Awakening Pill!
This time, the Wei Mansion provided sixty Spirit Awakening Pills promptly and even promised to supply at least one hundred pills within half a month.
Objectively speaking.
This efficiency is not particularly low.
After all, the average consumption of Spirit Awakening Pills by ordinary families in the Damo Realm each year is only about five to ten pills.
But for the rabbits.
A hundred Spirit Awakening Pills, let alone a hundred million pills, would still not be enough.
This is the foundation of the cultivation path, the key to the leap of life.
For rabbits to make progress in the Damo Realm, mass production of Spirit Awakening Pills is the necessary first step.
According to the information provided by the Wei Mansion.
The herbs required for the Spirit Awakening Pill are not particularly precious.
But the pill-making process is time-consuming, and due to the lack of technical barriers, the price remains unchanged, with a relatively low cost performance compared to other similarly time-consuming pills.
Coupled with limited market demand, annual production has always been low.
Meanwhile, for the rabbits.
Now, with breakthroughs in the research of earth vein fire.
The prospect of unraveling the Spirit Awakening Pill is not extremely high, but it has a certain feasibility.
This is also the reason Liu Xiangqian came with the team this time—he needs to observe and analyze the Awakening process.
Just as Liu Xiangqian and Lin Ziming exchanged glances.
Wei Fan sensed the concentration of Spiritual Energy in the courtyard and spoke:
"Everyone, the Spirit Gathering Array’s effect has pretty much reached its limit, and will only fluctuate within a small range from now on.
So shall we prepare... to begin the Awakening?"
Lin Ziming quickly returned to his normal demeanor, smiling:
"We are outsiders, and as the saying goes, outsiders should not interfere in expert affairs.
So today’s procedure will rely on Patriarch Wei for direction."
Wei Fan could tell Lin Ziming was not just being polite, so he did not refuse:
"Alright, then please come up to get the medicine pills, two pills each.
The courtyard has many meditation mats, each person can pick one to sit on, then just follow my instructions."
Lin Ziming turned to Cao Yi and the others and instructed:
"Attention everyone, line up to get your pills, and wait for the next step after taking seats!"
The warriors present quickly formed a queue upon hearing this.
One by one, they stepped forward to receive their pills and took their seats.
Fifteen minutes later.
On the rabbit side, apart from Liu Xiangqian’s research group, everyone including Lin Ziming had sat down on the mats.
Among these 22 people.
Cao Yi, a triple Spiritual Root warrior named Dark River, and a quadruple Spiritual Root warrior named Zhang Xin.
All had some silver-white patches attached to them.
These patches primarily handled heart monitoring, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, among other data observations and collections.
Additionally, the three had consumed diluted phycocyanin in advance.
It is well-known.
Phycocyanin is a famous fluorescent tagging reagent.
Before Cao Yi and the others consumed the diluted solution, the Plant Biology Laboratory had already conducted experiments on small white mice and several surviving two-headed bulls.
It was confirmed that the activation spectrum of phycocyanin remained unchanged in the Damo Realm, thus it can serve as a fluorescent marker there.
In many people’s mindset.
Fluorescent protein is merely an experimental reagent, not applicable to the human body.
Actually, this concept is incorrect, as the fluorescent protein’s use for disease diagnostics in the in vitro diagnostics industry is already quite mature.
For instance, phycocyanin and phycoerythrin, typically used in immunofluorescence, only require coupling to be utilized in in vitro diagnostic reagent production (clinical disease diagnostics based on online real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR).
Additionally, Liu Xiangqian and others had prepared sufficient tyrosine kinase for enzyme coupling at any time.
After all preparations were completed.
Wei Fan closed his eyes to perceive the fluctuations of Spiritual Energy around.
As the Spiritual Energy reached the peak concentration of this band, Wei Fan suddenly opened his eyes wide:
"Take the pill!"