My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"The Extreme Storm is as mysterious to us as the human brain and soul. After many years of research by our alchemy school and the tower mages, we have gained a lot, the most representative product of which is the protective barrier around the temple."

"This barrier possesses multiple properties such as shielding detection, teleportation, and energy transfer. These properties are similar to those of the Extreme Storm, but in terms of destructive power, the barrier is far inferior to the Extreme Storm."

Adanavardos paused for a moment and then laughed:

"If you become interested in the Extreme Storm, you don't need to specifically switch to studying Giant Creation and Elemental Manifestation. About half of the products of the Erben and Alchemy Bionic Systems are used in the research of Extreme Storms, which you will come into contact with in the future."

“Mentor, I was just curious.” Xia Zuo replied with a smile.

He was genuinely happy.

The mentor's words undoubtedly proved that he was able to make a barely possible contact with the Blood Element servants who were far away on the Western Continent, rather than being completely unable to sense the Blood Element servants who were separated by an extremely vast storm.

Once a method is found to strengthen the connection between oneself and the Blood Element servants, it will be easier to control the Blood Element servants located on the Western Continent.

...

More than two months later, Xia Zuo returned to Poseidon after completing his studies.

At dawn that day, the entire city was just waking up.

On the top floor of the Bosing Building, Xia Zuo's figure appeared in a burst of bright light. The teleportation crystal behind him disappeared into the air and was no longer available to him.

Xia Zuo pushed open the iron gate of the teleportation system, stood in front of the window in the corridor, looked at the city view for a while, and quickly came out of his classical impression of the temple teaching area.

He took off his long robe, shook out his federal-style trench coat, stepped into the elevator, and moved smoothly downwards.

The first thing to do upon returning here is to report to Supervisor Vickers, as the elevator will take you directly to his office on the second basement level.

As the elevator descended, the communication ring in the alchemist's pocket kept beeping, receiving several messages at once.

Xia Zuo first took out An Ru'er's ring and glanced at it. It had a worried message on it, tinged with a hint of emotion.

Anru woke up from her meditation yesterday, only to find that her lover had not returned on time. After asking Sylvia, she learned that Xia Zuo had received a special reward and was allowed to stay in the temple's teaching area for an additional 9 days.

Her worries subsided, but her petty tantrum remained.

Xia Zuo activated [Bloodline Sense] and calmed Anruer, who was taking a public carriage to work, before stepping out of the elevator.

Then, he took out several other message rings, all of which contained unimportant information.

After sending a private message to Rexol about the evening's training, Shazo put away the rings and knocked on Vickers' office door.

"Come in," Vickers' voice came from behind the door.

Xia Zuo instantly pictured the other person with slicked-back hair and black-rimmed glasses.

"Supervisor, I've finished my training," Xia Zuo said as he pushed open the door.

"Shazo, you're here. I've received the letter from headquarters." Vickers reached into his desk drawer, pulled out a bulging file folder, and said as he stood up and walked towards the door:

"Come with me, we're going to the biology lab. I'll tell you about what's happened in the last two months."

The two walked deeper into the corridor and entered a private elevator lobby.

Vickers unlocked the elevator door with his alchemy card and pressed the button to go to the 8th floor. "While you were away, Poseidon City was relatively peaceful, with only four Category 3 disasters. The task force has dealt with them."

"Is it the Transformers' fault, Supervisor?"

Vickers nodded. "The Converter and the Shadow Fiend teamed up to commit a small-scale crime, and they acted swiftly. It seems more like they were testing us."

"A test?" Xia Zuo asked. "Why do you say that?"

“You may not know this, but right now, the only action team permanently stationed in Poseidon City is your 17th Action Team. All members of the 10th Action Team have been temporarily transferred to Tambus State for defense support. The Church of the Otherworldly Demons’ infiltration operations there are exceptionally fierce, resulting in considerable casualties,” Vickers said.

Xia Zuo then realized that Senior Mars had not sent any messages after arriving in Tambus State... He was likely tied up with a series of unexpected events and couldn't get away, which was why he didn't have time to fiddle with the secret message ring.

“Your future job has been divided into two parts,” Vickers said as he led Xia Zuo out of the elevator.

"One is to continue serving as a non-combatant in the 17th Action Team, identifying the poisons left behind by the demons and providing assistance in capturing the murderer."

"Another one is to assist the bio-research center in Tambus State in helping them develop raw materials for erucic and alchemical biomimetic systems."

Vickers swipes open the door to the biological laboratory, and surprisingly, there are very few people inside. Instead, there are mostly elemental servants floating in the corridor, acting as internal staff.

“I know you have a question—why not send qualified alchemists to Tambus State to conduct relevant research on-site?”

Vickers looked at Shazo who was nodding and said, as if answering his own question:

"This is a valuable lesson learned from history. 'If you put all your eggs in one basket, you'll likely end up with a basket of broken eggs.' Once Tambus was destroyed, there will be a second time, and by then it will be too late to evacuate the alchemists."

Vickers swept his hand across the laboratory. "Everyone who can work here has undergone rigorous screening. The alchemists who directly serve as researchers have all undergone a loyalty ceremony. The rest of the staff also wear spell alarm devices. We've eliminated unnecessary manpower and left the trivial matters to the elemental servants."

Vickers pointed to Shazo's alchemy pouch, "Also, once you enter here, most of your communication rings will be temporarily disabled; only my ring and Captain Dunk's ring will work."

And the ring of the veteran pureblood mage Kristor will definitely work normally... Shazo added in his mind.

“This way, your alchemy lab is over there,” Vickers said as they walked.

“Each researcher has their own alchemy lab, and I don’t need to go into detail about the alchemy equipment inside; you know more about that than I do. However, I must remind you that unless it’s for work, try to avoid contact with other people. This will help keep secrets and protect yourself.”

In Xia Zuo's biological alchemy room, in addition to the observation chair and other commonly used alchemical instruments, there are ten pocket-sized books containing information on erogen. To read them, one needs to go inside the glass partition and use a reader with a magnifying glass.

“This is your current research assignment.” Vickers placed the file folder on the other person’s desk, took out an alchemy card from his pocket and placed it next to the file folder. “There’s also a new access card. Keep the original one; you’ll need it when you go to the action team.”

"Yes, supervisor." Xia Zuo put the card away.

"Let's get to work now. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me." Vickers left the alchemy room.

Xia Zuo changed into a leather robe used for refining poison and shook out the documents from the file folder.

During his studies, Xia Zuo and Mars talked about the darkroom.

The other party said that as long as the connection points with the existing transit planes are reinforced, the expansion of the Church of the Otherworldly Chamber can be prevented.

After reading the document, Xia Zuo learned the name of the transit plane currently used by the Temple—Lei Hai.

It was an ocean world filled with lightning and thunder. Apart from the lightning in the sky and the boundless sea, nothing else existed. It was filled with wind and water elements, and the lightning contained fire elements. There was no earth element in the entire plane.

This environment is not suitable for human life.

Within the Thunder Sea Plane, the Mage Temple has established numerous connecting points that link this plane with the natural world. The guarding forces at these points are primarily high-ranking mages and a large number of elemental golems.

This perfectly answers a question that arose in Xia Zuo's mind when he first saw the elemental puppet disguised as himself:

Since elemental golems are so useful, why not promote them on a larger scale?

He knows the answer now.

The Mage Temple uses elemental golems as its primary force to protect the dimensional juncture.

This results in an astonishing consumption of all consumables related to elemental golems.

Moreover, the Church of the Otherworldly Demons frequently sends its armed forces to invade the Thundersea Plane, destroying the connection points of the Mage Temple and causing great trouble to the daily maintenance work. This has prompted the Temple to invest a lot of resources in developing more autonomous and efficient elemental puppets.

What Xia Zuo had to do was to do his best to develop suitable bait and raw materials according to the characteristics and requirements in the document.

Ok…

With the help of the Blood Element servants, this task was not difficult.

Xia Zuo sat down in the chair and brought up the perspective of the blood element servants in his mind.

During his last three days in the Temple teaching area, he made up his mind that there was no longer any need for Blood Element Servants No. 1, 4, 5, and 6 to remain in Stillwater Town.

The most important thing is to advance to a high-level mage as soon as possible and improve the quality of blood runes.

He spent some time dealing with the notes and stationery in the cave, and then dismissed the four Blood Element servants located in Stillwater.

From this point on, everything in Jing Shui Town would be none of his business.

The available amount of mental attribute value increased by 4 points.

Using his spare 5 points of spirit attribute, Xia Zuo created a Blood Element Servant with a health of 2000 points, specifically for containing poison and assisting in cutting.

There are three research tasks at hand, two of which are time-limited.

The remaining one is a long-term task.

Xia Zuo needs to dedicate his free time to researching "a solution that can repair energy fluctuation interference with light energy and prevent it from becoming immune to light energy".

This is the lifelong pursuit of every bio-alchemist.

If this material problem can be overcome, the issue of wear and tear will be easily solved.

There are three main research approaches within the alchemy school.

First, reduce the energy fluctuation of [light energy repair] to make it lower than the threshold of interfering erogen.

Based on past research, when the power of [light energy repair] is less than 1/500 million, the energy of the wave it emits will be less than 1/1000 million. At this point, erbium will not be affected by it.

The alchemy school is developing an alchemical tool called the "Energy Synergistic Reduction Device" to steadily reduce the power of the device that activates "Light Energy Repair."

Current research has shown that the power of solar energy repair can be reduced to 1 in 210 million.

But we are still a long way from our goal.

For Xia Zuo... all he needs to do is learn the Light Energy Repair spell and combine it with [Spellcasting Instinct] to cast spells...

If I were to create my own elemental golems in the future, I could avoid the hassle of wear and tear and repairs, and simply use light energy with a power of 1/500 million to fix them…

The second research approach:

Develop an oil that can completely isolate energy fluctuations.

This involves oil alchemy, which Xia Zuo cannot intervene in for the time being.

The third approach is to improve the bait to make it less susceptible to energy fluctuations.

Xia Zuo is good at this.

Since only master-level poison alchemists like him are qualified to develop and improve bait, and most master-level poison alchemists choose to spend their time removing the side effects of elemental toxins, the third research approach is progressing very slowly.

and many more…

Xia Zuo slapped his forehead!

wrong.

He misunderstood.

The side effects of elemental toxins should be removed first, and then the bait should be improved!

It wasn't that the other poison alchemists were neglecting their duties, but rather that Xia Zuo himself hadn't grasped the situation.

Chapter 47 The Special Functions of the Demon Hunter School