Above The Sky
Chapter 240 - 240 228 Repairing the Ancient Dragon Heart Core 13

240: Chapter 228 Repairing the Ancient Dragon Heart Core (1/3) 240: Chapter 228 Repairing the Ancient Dragon Heart Core (1/3) This was a regular icosahedral sphere of pale golden crystal, the exterior a somewhat faint translucent substance, but as the depth increased, the core gradually took on an amber-like texture.

When Ian first saw the brain marrow crystal, the first thing that came to mind were the eyes of Scott—the Ironfolk Squad Leader’s eyes were roughly this shade of yellow amber, though obviously not as large as the crystal.

Now, in front of the bonfire, Ian cradled the massive crystal, pondering how he might process it to make it more convenient to carry.

The bonfire, ignited by the Brain-Eating Parasite, proved that there were plants in the vicinity of the hall, and not much different from those on the surface.

The flames burned steadily, producing little smoke.

If he were an Alchemy Master, such a fire would be enough to process most materials.

Ian hadn’t reached that stage; he would need some professional equipment to assist him.

But even though he wasn’t an Alchemy Master and lacked equipment,

he had a Silver Chip and an Ancient Dragon Heart Core!

At this moment, Ian could sense that the Ancient Dragon Heart Core behind his heart was starting to ‘activate’ when in close proximity to the brain marrow crystal in the calm environment.

The Heart Core left by Teacher Hiliad was a Fifth Energy Level ‘Authority Level’ Sublimation Organ.

It was also the highest level and highest quality Sublimation Organ that Ian had seen thus far.

Given the amount of Origin Quality Ian currently possessed, let alone using the Heart Core, even starting it was difficult.

The only way to utilize it was to use it as a storage for Origin Quality.

For the past four years, the youth had been transferring the excess Origin Quality he had refined into the Ancient Dragon Heart Core.

This was also the most effective way to leverage the advantage of his high-quality Primordial Seed.

After all, for an Ordinary First Energy Level, even if Ian’s natural recovery and refinement speed of Origin Quality was two to three times theirs, the upper limit was just so much, and until the point of life-and-death battle, the difference between them wasn’t as great as imagined.

This was especially true for the offspring of Nobles, whose diets, even with Ian’s Foresight View, couldn’t compare, naturally surpassing ordinary Sublimators by who knows how many times, with efficiency in utilizing Primordial Seeds higher by several tens of percentage points unattainable.

However, Ian had an organ that could store what was nearly an infinite amount of Origin Quality, and that changed matters greatly.

Until now, Ian had already stored all the Origin Quality necessary for shaping his Second Energy Level Sublimation Organ and was just waiting for the recipe and Magic Potion.

But even though Ian had stored tens of thousands of basic units of Origin Quality in the Heart Core over four years, the Ancient Dragon Heart Core showed no reactions, simply operating smoothly, serving as a support when Ian was exhausted or running out of Origin Quality.

Theoretically, this should not be the case…

because Teacher Hiliad’s strength was only around the Second Energy Level Peak, initially perhaps the Third.

Tens of thousands of basic units of Origin Quality should be enough to simply activate the Heart Core to perform its most basic functions.

Yet the Heart Core remained silent.

Until now.

“It seems, Teacher Hiliad’s Heart Core, was somewhat damaged back then…

When he transferred it to me, in order to prevent the Heart Core’s overpowering force from draining me in an instant, he suppressed the power of the Heart Core, causing it to become even more severely injured,” Ian deduced.

Closing his eyes, Ian used the Silver Chip to scan his body, although with his current strength, even with the Silver Chip, he could not surpass the Origin Structure of the Ancient Dragon Heart Core.

But with the gradually activating Heart Core’s feedback, he could still roughly sense the current state of this Sublimation Organ.

Ice Prison Calamity Ash was likely an intermediate pure energy state structure of the same level as Origin Quality, and could even be said to be a Von Neumann Machine made up of special Origin Quality.

It had extremely high strength and was particularly aimed at Origin Structures, making it nearly a lethal poison for unsuspecting Sublimators.

Simply put, it was a form of offensive nanorobots in an Origin Quality state.

However, Hiliad, with his extremely advanced Essence Manipulation capabilities and the assistance of the Silver Chip, astonishingly managed to suppress the Ice Prison Calamity Ash before all his Essence Organs were devoured, allowing himself to not only survive being completely consumed but also maintain a certain level of combat power.

Even so, the Heart Core still suffered a certain degree of damage during the unexpected event—further transfer only worsened this damage.

This was why the Ancient Dragon Heart Core had not been able to respond to Ian for four years.

It needed repair.

“Could the Brain Marrow Crystal of the Crocodragon somehow repair the Ancient Dragon Heart Core to a certain extent?”

Feeling the vitality of the heart core and its craving for the crystal, Ian realized, “This choice isn’t difficult, just a piece of Second Energy Level magical medicine ingredients, after all.

If it could repair a part of the heart core, that would actually be its honor.”

“But the problem is…

how do I absorb the Brain Marrow Crystal?

Surely I can’t really eat it, can I?”

The youth frowned, looking down—the color of the Brain Marrow Crystal did somewhat resemble maltose, but this thing wasn’t actual sugar, and its hardness was comparable to metal.

Although his teeth were indeed strong enough to chew metal…

this thing was so big, his stomach simply couldn’t fit it.

Unable to think of a solution for the moment, Ian could only search for a possible method within the Silver Chip…

after all, back in the day when Teacher Hiliad, as much of an outsider as he was, could perform alchemy with no equipment using the Silver Chip, what more simple method might he, nearly an official Alchemist, have at his disposal?

And indeed, there was one!

The database of the Silver Chip was full of oddities and wonder, from the eleven ways to cook peppers and sea snails, to making saltpeter the old-fashioned way and little tricks to rice planting, it had almost everything one could think of, but there was no encyclopedia for Ian to search through.

He could only call up the information like ‘memories’ from the chip when he needed it.

Now, the method that Ian called up from the Silver Chip to solve the problem was a technique known as ‘Blood Refinement.’

It was an Alchemy Skill that used the biological fluids of the living being itself to ‘purify and compress’ material from Magical Beasts.

Blood Refinement, in simple terms, was to use one’s own blood to replace the original Magical Beast materials, storing Origin Structure, greatly reducing the difficulty of subsequent absorption.

The only challenge was that this technique was very complex to manipulate, requiring multitasking and adjustments to the Origin Structure to achieve perfect effects.

But complexity was the least of Ian’s fears.

Not to mention that he was naturally superior to average people in this area.

With the assistance of the Silver Chip, he could perfectly replicate the optimal effects of Blood Refinement.

“…This doesn’t seem like an Alchemy method meant for Humans but rather one for Sea Demons, Water Dragons, or even Slimes—those beings with a lot of bodily fluids— to perform alchemy.”

After mulling it over for a while, Ian reviewed the technique transmitted by the Silver Chip in his mind, memorizing it thoroughly.

Then, frowning, he raised his hand and slashed a wound on his wrist with his fingernail.

Supported by the Essence of the Sand Armor Apprentice, Ian’s fingernails were as sharp as a monocrystalline blade, and the Essence concentrated at his wrist also had sufficient hardness.

Drip, drip.

Blood with a slight azure-gold luster fell on the Brain Marrow Crystal.

Seeing the blood flow too slowly, Ian scowled, made another cut, and controlled the flow of blood in his body.

Immediately, more blood poured over the Brain Marrow Crystal.

As Ian manipulated his own Essence with the help of the Silver Chip to transform its form, in accordance with the requirements of ‘Blood Refinement,’ his blood easily ‘eroded’ the crystal like sulfuric acid, raising clouds of golden mist.

Ian noticed that this golden mist was the purest Earth Essence.

He took a deep breath and inhaled the Essence mist into his body, directing it to be stored in the heart core.

The taste was somewhat thick and sweet…

but more so, it was the taste of his own blood.

Meanwhile, his blood continued to flow out steadily, ‘corroding’ the crystal smaller and smaller.

At last, the skull-sized Brain Marrow Crystal was reduced to a lump of amber-colored Crystal Core roughly two fingers wide, along with a lump of ‘blood clot’ that had turned golden yellow.

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