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Chapter 290 Rejuvenating Potion
Upon returning to the 40K era, Chen Xi immediately summoned the rejuvenation sorcerer assigned to him and consulted him in detail about matters related to the rejuvenation potion.

Although the rejuvenator assigned to Chen Xi was just an ordinary rejuvenator, the rejuvenating potions he possessed were high-grade products specially issued to Chen Xi by the Tribunal.

These high-level rejuvenation potions are strictly controlled strategic resources within the imperial system, and their acquisition is subject to strict authority control.

Even the governors who rule the entire planet would find it difficult to acquire one in their lifetime without special merits or a distinguished background. After all, if such a thing were to be purchased with money, even a planetary governor would find it difficult to come up with such an astonishing sum of money.

Only those wandering merchants who controlled the merchant dynasties could afford to spend lavishly to purchase this level of rejuvenation potion to prolong their lives.

Of course, the status and authority of the traveling merchants were sufficient to allow them to purchase this level of rejuvenation potion.

Even some highly accomplished traveling merchants have dedicated healers assigned by the empire, with all expenses covered by the empire, all as a reward for their contributions to the empire.

Good rejuvenation medicines are naturally more effective, have fewer side effects, extend lifespan for a longer period, and can also reduce the frequency of rejuvenation surgeries.

As is widely known, the more rejuvenation surgeries performed, the worse the effect becomes, eventually causing the rejuvenation medicine to lose its effectiveness.

At that point, only serums with exceptionally high efficacy, or those extracted from some alien body that had become extinct in the 40k era, could work on bodies whose lifespans could no longer be extended through conventional means.

However, generally speaking, people who can endure to this extent, even if they have been using ordinary, low-quality rejuvenation potions, have basically lived for at least four or five hundred years.

As a judge, Chen Xi enjoys a special drug quota, which is theoretically enough to support his life for seven hundred years.

However, each of these potions, which are strictly controlled by the Star District Tribunal, is registered. Not only do they require a special application from the Rejuvenation Sorcerer to obtain, but they must also undergo biometric verification before use to ensure that they are used only by Chen Xi.

This regulation is intended to prevent the misuse of resources, but also because of their astonishing value.

After all, the value of high-level rejuvenation potions is self-evident. If one were to be resold, one potion could even buy an entire continent of a prosperous hive world or an entire palace atop the hive's spire.

Therefore, it was almost impossible for Chen Xi to obtain the rejuvenation potion from this rejuvenation sorcerer. However, as a rejuvenation sorcerer assigned to the Inquisitor, he was quite accomplished in rejuvenation surgery and medicine.

In addition to drug injections, he is proficient in a full range of organ regeneration techniques, stem cell activation therapy, and epigenetic modification technology.

After in-depth communication, Chen Xi successfully obtained a complete manual for the rejuvenation surgery. In addition to drug preparation, it also includes cutting-edge therapies such as telomerase activation, mitochondrial function repair, and epigenetic resetting.

The value of this technical information should not be underestimated.

Even without rejuvenating drugs, these auxiliary technologies alone can significantly improve bodily functions and achieve a certain degree of rejuvenation.

That was all the rejuvenator could do; he didn't know the formula for the rejuvenating potion. The proper production methods for standard rejuvenating serum were only known to the Imperial government and the Cult of Mechanics. Better formulas were kept secret by each organization and would never be disclosed, much less leaked.

Therefore, if Chen Xi wants to obtain the Rejuvenation Serum, he will have to find another way.

And coincidentally, he now has access to several bio-sages from the Mechanic Church.

However, Chen Xi did not visit the sages of Gria, but instead summoned Olivia, who served him, and asked her if she could prepare a potion of rejuvenation.

"Rejuvenation potion? You're so young, do you really need that stuff?" Olivia looked at Chen Xi with some surprise. Although she didn't know why Chen Xi cared about this, she still explained what she could do: "I can make this. Whether it's the Imperial standard biochemical synthesis method or the more bloody method of extracting active substances from living bodies, the Imperial standard rejuvenation potion is not complicated to make."

Of course, the effect of this standard medicine is only so-so.

Generally speaking, the first surgery has the best effect and can extend life by about 50-70 years. The effect of subsequent surgeries will decrease.

Depending on individual physical condition, the lifespan extension will generally become completely ineffective after about three to four hundred years.

If they could get their hands on a more effective rejuvenating potion, they could try to prolong the process, but without it, they could basically just wait to die.

"Do you have a more effective formula?" Chen Xi's plan was to take the aphrodisiac back to the 3K era for his family to use, so naturally he hoped to get a better one.

Although an extension of 50-70 years in lifespan is already remarkable in the 3K era, Chen Xi still hopes to provide his family with something even better if possible.

In response to Chen Xi's question, Olivia curled her lip and said, "Do you think advanced rejuvenation potions are like Golo beasts? It's not something that just anyone can master the formula for. Advanced formulas are either tightly held by a few people or require special raw materials that ordinary people simply cannot obtain."

"Do you have it?" Chen Xi ignored Olivia's words and pressed her for an answer.

“Yes, but the effect is so-so. The first surgery can probably extend your life by about 90 years, which is incomparable to the best batch circulating within the Empire. You should be able to get better stuff from the Inquisition.” Olivia was obviously reluctant to admit that she was inferior in skill, but Chen Xi pressed her for details and she told the truth.

Hearing Olivia say this, Chen Xi nodded knowingly, and then asked her, "If I could provide you with a batch of biological samples, or even human gene samples from Ancient Terra, would that be helpful to your research?"

“It depends on the type of biological sample. Having more ordinary organisms is useless.” At this point, Olivia suddenly gave a very strange look, and then complained, “As for the human genetic samples from Ancient Terra that you mentioned, although I don’t know how they were preserved, unless you have human genetic samples from the Dark Ages, they’re pretty useless. The cloned genetic samples that the Cult of Mechanics possesses are far better than these. The genetic samples of Ancient Terran humans are meaningless except for studying the physiological characteristics of primitive humans.”

“Alright, I’ll find special biological samples for you, but before that, you need to prepare a batch of rejuvenation potions for me. I need the best four of them that you have, and the rest should be prepared according to the standard with some reduced effects,” Chen Xi stated his requirements.

(End of this chapter)