Above The Sky
Chapter 872 - 872 58 Elemental Crystal Condenser getda☆ze!

872: Chapter 58: Elemental Crystal Condenser getda☆ze!

(8000)_4 872: Chapter 58: Elemental Crystal Condenser getda☆ze!

(8000)_4 Ian followed the flow of porters and moved forward.

Ahead was the core location of the Jiamu Sect’s Alchemy Workshop, where massive amounts of raw materials and packages were being delivered by numerous porters and caravans, yet Ian saw very few ‘products’ being transported out.

Foresight View scanned the raw materials, and Ian couldn’t help but mutter curiously, “Mushrooms?”

These mushrooms were called ‘Sky Crystal Mushrooms’, a special product of the Bison Mountain Range, which only grows on the moist cliffs.

These crystalized mushrooms would release a faint glow, and when they covered the entire cliff face, they would form a hazy flow of light around the cliffs, resembling aurora clouds, hence named Sky Crystal Mushrooms.

However, the raw materials being transported here were different: the Sky Crystal Mushrooms were larger, and the spore aggregations beneath their caps—glowing ‘crystals’—were also much larger, clearly specially cultivated specimens.

Such specimens…

“Can be used to refine Elemental Crystals!”

Ian felt a subtle shock in his heart.

He was always calm and strategic, and he would hardly ever be shocked unless it was something truly preposterous.

But precisely, the Elemental Crystals, this type of strategic fuel, was outrageous enough to shock him.

“Could it be that the Mountain People are trying to produce Elemental Crystals?!” Even with his imagination, this was the only possibility he could think of.

This was not impossible.

The reason The Empire had been able to inhibit the technological progress of the Mountain People for so many years was precisely because of tight control over Elemental Crystals—any slightly high-tech creation, whether it was Armor Suits or professional-grade Alchemy equipment, were all unusable by the Mountain People!

If the Mountain People wanted to break The Empire’s technological blockade, the first thing to do was to solve the energy issue.

And moreover, not just the Mountain People…

Ian needed it very much as well.

—Smart AI, new agriculture, fuel for the Alchemy Workshops within his territory, Armor Suit supplies, and all sorts of other messy stuff…

Ian didn’t even have time to finish thinking when he took a deep breath—he calmed down, used Foresight View to observe his surroundings, and, confirming there was no danger, began to sneak in.

A lithe figure avoided the Jiamu Sect Guard Squad stationed at each street corner, holding Alchemical Firearms, floating down from the rooftops in the dim rainy shadows brought by the overcast clouds, silently landing on the second floor window of the workshop, like a stealthy large cat.

This Alchemy Workshop was rather luxurious and magnificent, clearly in the architectural style of Fiery Flame Land, with narrow doors and windows.

A typical grown man could open the window but could hardly enter, but Ian was just the right size.

He easily used Earth Origin Quality to remotely open the window from inside and entered.

There were many guards inside the Alchemy Workshop too, stationed at each Dao entrance and corridor, and most of the moving personnel were Alchemists and technical workers.

All uniformly Jiamu Sect people.

Obviously, such a crucial Alchemy Workshop couldn’t possibly be operated via outsiders’ hands; the Jiamu Sect wasn’t that generous.

Having Foresight View, Ian didn’t need to think about where the ‘item’ was.

He directly headed toward the center of the workshop that emitted the most intense purple glow, and along the way, the fog of a ‘Confusion Potion’ that could bewilder the mind and lower alertness slowly diffused.

The concentration was very low, and wouldn’t trigger an alarm—most people would just feel as if they had spaced out for a moment.

And during that fleeting moment, a white figure swiftly passed by, carrying a moist scent.

The guards of the Jiamu Sect were not professional, and soon, Ian, as if entering an uninhabited territory, arrived at the central part of the Alchemy Workshop.

This place was a fairly large assembly line factory.

Boxes and boxes of colorful Sky Crystal Mushrooms were sent into the line, crushed and screened, and then into a huge centrifuge for separation treatment—accompanied by the buzzing rapid rotation sound, translucent white crystal chunks separated from the mixture of Sky Crystal Mushrooms, then extracted and sent to another, and truly important processing line.

That was the core of the Alchemy Workshop—a Elemental Crystal Condenser.

About the height and width of a person, composed of numerous regular hexagons, the nearly spherical crystal instrument resembling a beehive opened, and the white crystal chunks from the Sky Crystal Mushrooms were placed inside until it was filled and closed.

The deep humming of the machine vibrated, and a brilliant light that was too intense to look at directly instantly burst forth, melting all the crystal chunks within.

For a time, a large amount of colorful mist erupted, and these mists containing numerous complex impure Origin Quality were extracted and sent out of the Alchemy Workshop, while on the surface of the spherical beehive instrument, pure transparent crystals were gradually growing and solidifying at the center of each hexagonal crystal grid.

That was the Elemental Crystal.

Ian watched this scene unwaveringly.

It had to be said, the efficiency of the Elemental Crystal Condenser was extremely high.

Only about five boxes of Sky Crystal Mushroom extract were needed to refine a set of pure Elemental Crystals.

This was probably technology used by Fiery Flame Land itself, not some outdated production line.

—How on earth did this group of Mountain People obtain an entire production line for Elemental Crystals?!

This, on Earth, would be equivalent to the Federal Government helping a local private company build a small-scale nuclear fusion power plant, or gifting a small-scale Quantum Computer—no matter how you think about it, it’s preposterous!

Ian couldn’t understand this at all, it was too illogical, there must be a huge conspiracy behind this, and Jiamu Sect held the leverage over Fiery Flame Land, which is why such an unfair deal could be achieved.