Chapter 355 - 158: The Power of the Yin Yang Creation Furnace
In their Spirit Farmer area, they raise chickens and ducks, and even cattle and sheep.
These were left over from previous ancestor-worship rituals, and they've been breeding them, with the chickens and ducks laying several nests of eggs.
A lamb was also born, becoming the little darling of the Hairpin Lady Tower, and a group of little girls happily took on the role of pooper scoopers.
In reality, people keep cats and dogs, but in the game they raise lamb demon beasts from another world.
"Should I go to the Spirit Farmer area to bring the chickens, ducks, and River Demon?" suggested one of the blacksmiths.
"Sure, but the manor won't cover the cost; Night Mad Cultivator, it's on you."
Jiucai Rong was quite delighted, exclaiming, "Indeed, this manor keeps rolling the dice, and a new pool of cards has been born! How can the European Emperors not move forward?"
Night Mad Cultivator was also pleased, announcing loudly in the square:
"Everyone, come and see this! A new character card pool; from now on, everyone creates a [Login Race], you get the patent, and people who log in with the race you created have to pay you, isn't that cool!"
The crowd of young scallions felt quite tempted.
Patent fees, huh, wouldn't you be sitting and collecting money afterward? Many began to daydream.
"Sounds so fun!"
"Way more fun than the forging furnace next door."
"Exactly, the forging furnace draws weapons, the creation furnace draws characters!"
"This is the real character-up card pool!"
Soon, the River Demon and a duck were brought over and tossed into the Yin Yang Creation Furnace.
But after a while, there was no reaction.
Quack, quack, quack!
Inside the creation furnace, the duck quacked with a bewildered expression.
The River Demon's beady eyes looked adorably dumb, suddenly opened its mouth wide, and swallowed the quacking duck whole.
"Is this the synthesis method?"
Someone was bewildered.
"Hell no, hurry and save the duck!"
After struggling to rescue the duck, they were thoroughly confused; without a manual, who knew how to use it?
"Is it supposed to be a dead body?" someone weakly suggested.
The crowd thought it might be, and decided to kill the River Demon and the duck, tossing the bodies inside.
This time, there was a reaction.
The bodies merged, entwined, and the flesh blended and condensed, becoming smaller.
After more than an hour, all that remained was an egg, wrapped in a skeletal shell with densely twisted patterns.
"Holy heck."
"Egg incubator!"
"The classic egg machine!"
"Shao Chaikun, hurry and incubate the egg!"
A group of clueless people chattered for ages, stunned, but could only say "holy heck."
...
"Egg?"
Ning Zheng watched carefully from below the manor.
This thing would be their manor's divine artifact in the future.
It was a big treasure they got from the court's treasury; who knows when they'd get another Celestial Spirit Root next time.
Couldn't let him be disappointed.
Soon.
A blacksmith moved the egg out.
Someone tried touching it; the shell was hard, and inside, there seemed to be signs of life bouncing?
Someone held a magnifying glass to look inside, "The shell is kind of rough; can't see anything."
"Might need a strong flashlight to see the embryo shape inside, but we don't have one." Someone analyzed.
With no other way, they sent it to the clinic.
The Medical Fairy was sitting in a chair chatting.
"Ah, Xinyi, how's Erya doing over at the shop?"
The Medical Fairy was happily chatting with the exclusive token from the shop, "I told you... Erya is super good."
The voice was intermittent,
"Ah, no way out, my medical talent is just too great, my family urgently summoned me back, I'll return to the shop later."
The Xinyi on the other side didn't take it seriously; how great could it be? Just a middle grade physician level, she knew.
Thought their talking style was amusing, but the family was just a small local one.
If talking about impressive medical skills, it had to be the recent famous Xi Rong team across the Nine-State, with a skilled physician adept in soul medicine.
That was impressive.
At this moment, the Medical Fairy was still talking:
"When I return, we'll study new embroidery art."
"Erya's been very good lately? I told you so."
"Wait a minute, another matter came up in my family, let's chat next time."
The Medical Fairy ended the call with the shop client, looking at the crowd squeezing into the clinic.
"Egg?"
After understanding the situation, the Medical Fairy logged off to fetch the Immortal Aunt, and a few minutes later, the two began examining together.
The examination result of the Soul Separation Flower showed no soul fluctuations inside, possibly a dead egg.
The examination result of the Blood Separation Flower showed blood energy fluctuations inside, full of vitality.
"So, it might be a living soulless entity inside."
"When it comes to egg hatching..."
The Medical Fairy's skills with the Blood Separation Flower are still quite good, reaching the level of a Middle Grade Physician:
"Give it some nutrition, Spirit Liquid... Go to the Spirit Farmer area over there, Spirit Plant Liquid would be good, after all, this thing is plant essence, a prime choice to replenish vitality."
In no time, the egg was soaked in Lower Grade Spirit Plant Liquid.
Under everyone's expectant gaze, the vitality grew stronger, and before long, it actually hatched.
The eggshell shattered, revealing a sticky little creature that slowly grew, soon reaching the size of a small dog.
With bald green skin like a River Demon, four webbed feet, a duck's beak, beady eyes, it was somewhat ugly yet cute.
"It's alive?"
"A mutation, it looks like the offspring of a River Demon and a duck?"
Within a few minutes, this Mutant Beast suddenly died.
Everyone was left stunned.
Following this, they conducted numerous experiments.
The final results were quite disheartening; all failed.
Moreover, they discovered a problem.
Everything that went inside, regardless of success or failure, was without a soul, just a blood and flesh puppet, a "vegetable".
This furnace seemed more like a Puppet Maker's exclusive Magical Artifact!
It produced special puppets one after another.
The neighboring Bottle Ancestor, being a Puppet Master, seemed like he would quite enjoy it?
"It's possible that we can't synthesize a soul, but rather, we haven't reached the technology to birth a soul yet."
"It's simply a cross-species egg-creating machine."
"It feels like the closer the life patterns are, the higher the survival rate?"
"I think it's possible, with a synthesis formula, the survival rate of fish + fish egg is high, fish + chicken might not work."
"We'll still have to experiment."
...
Failure did not dampen their spirits.
On the contrary, it ignited their fighting spirit even more fiercely.
This device of endless possibilities for "synthesis" filled them with anticipation.
As collectors, studying the Synthesis Atlas kept them entertained for months without feeling bored.
The joy of collecting atlases—those who understand will understand.
...
Seven o'clock at night.
Ning Zheng was having dinner at home, meanwhile watching the egg hatching machine at the manor.
Lately, his meals had improved significantly.
Because the prison matter had basically settled, these two were more relaxed and began to play around in the yard.
Researching talisman making.
Suz Yuniang, the nanny, was deeply passionate about life and started tinkering with new dishes.
"Yin and Yang, Five Elements, I found that cooking is a skillful hand!"
Suz Yuniang was in the yard, whispering and sharing insights with Ning Jiaojiao, "Life, has Yin and Yang energy, harnessing Yin and Yang, giving ingredients a massage!"
"Five Elements, metal controls the iron pot, wood controls the fuel, water controls the broth, fire controls the heat, earth controls the stove."
Recently, Suz Yuniang's cooking skills seemed to have improved significantly and were well-received in prison.
She became known as the recognized prison culinary deity.
Ning Jiaojiao, the silly girl, was enjoying her meal happily, having never eaten such delicious food in her life.
After finishing their meal, Ning Jiaojiao and Suz Yuniang climbed into the well for a winter swim, and night fishing.
Later, they planned to go to the prison to cut down a wave of Manor Master Embers.
Previously, during emergencies, they conducted research on Embers three or four times a day, but after spending considerable resources, they returned to normalcy.
Now, two cuts a day were the most cost-effective.
They entrusted the daytime experiments to the blacksmiths on the mountain to control that Guardian God, and recently, they went to fight bosses.
The nighttime experiments were conducted with their prison sisters, together controlling.
Of course, it wasn't controlling Embers for random acts but controlling Three Flowers to go to the Nursery.
Nowadays, regularly watching nighttime prison cinema, viewing random nursery scenery from fixed cameras, has become the daily entertainment in the monotonous prison life.
Occasionally, they could glimpse the Capital City scenes, including intense family arguments, capital city studies, cultivator combat, wildlife world....
Thousands together silently reveling, it was joyful.
Ning Zheng watched their departing figures, suddenly thought:
"I only need one more time to absorb the first Essence Realm; how about I give my Embers +20,000 and let the female prisoners of this prison take a look at the Chronicles of Time."
After all.
Ning Zheng was quite humane.
Just because they were dead doesn't mean they had no rights, or because they were Earth-bound Spirits that they had no freedom?
With thousands of female prisoners, occasionally letting them out for "team-building" and opening the prison for collective activities was still rather nice.
