Chapter 389 God-level Alchemist
Chen Jiu was sitting cross-legged on a branch of the Fusang sacred tree, wondering where to find the kingdom of God with rich spiritual energy. Zhu Tianpeng asked cautiously, "Master, what should I do with these magical herbs? I heard that the spiritual energy will dissipate if they are left for too long, and they are useless."
This is indeed a problem.
He didn't bring any jade boxes or caskets. If so many magical herbs and medicines were not preserved, they would be wasted.
He has been cracking the code for five or six days now, and he has no idea how many wood-type kingdoms he has cracked. His four disciples have taken turns going in to pick countless magical herbs and medicinal seeds.
There are at least millions of magical herbs and elixirs stored in their demonic power space, and the most is estimated to be more than two million.
So many magical herbs and medicines cannot be wasted.
It just so happened that he hadn’t been back to Jiuling Mountain for a while, so it was time to go back and take a look.
Chen Jiu thought about it, then stood up and said, "I'll take you back to Jiuling Mountain and hand over all these magical herbs to Prime Minister Huo. I'll also bring some jade boxes and chests. When the time comes, you can just use the jade boxes and chests to pack the magical herbs you picked."
After saying this, he directly took his four disciples to the Kingdom of God and flashed to the sky above the Nine-Curve Formation.
This time, he finally remembered to say hello.
He used his spiritual sense to scan the area, and then said to Shui Ling Tian Zun who was sitting there seriously, "Shui Ling, tell them that I'm going back to Jiuling Mountain."
After saying that, he flashed away and soon returned to Jiuling Mountain and came to the study of Prime Minister Huo's office.
When Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji saw him suddenly flash over, he could not help but stand up and said excitedly: "God, you are finally back. You haven't collected the magic pills from last month, and you produced hundreds of furnaces in the past two days. I don't know what to do."
Chen Jiu thought about it, then said solemnly: "If I don't make it back in time, you can give the magic pill to my mother for safekeeping."
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, Lord God, then will you take the magic pill this time?"
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Well, give me all the magic pills, and have someone fetch all the empty jade boxes and chests."
Upon hearing this, Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji was stunned.
He was stunned for a moment, then took out more than 2,000 bottles of magic pills, and then asked carefully: "God, do you want to take all the empty jade boxes and chests?"
Chen Jiu collected the magic pill and asked curiously, "What's wrong? Do you need to use the jade box and the jade chest to store other things?"
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji shook his head and said, "No, no, Lord God, the main reason is that we have received too many jade boxes and chests in the past few years, and I don't know who has them.
Because in the past, it was the immortal-level alchemists who followed the god-level alchemists to learn how to refine the magic pills who helped open the jade boxes and jade chests to prepare the materials for the magic pills, and we have no shortage of these things, so I didn't specifically order anyone to collect them.
Whoever opened the jade box or the jade chest would put it into the immortal palace, because it would take up too much space if left outside.
Later, many immortal-level alchemists were promoted to god-level alchemists. They probably forgot whether they had jade boxes or jade chests in their own kingdom of gods. I can't figure out who has put so many jade boxes and jade chests in their immortal residences or kingdom of gods.
Now I know that the earthly immortals who specialize in sorting immortal herbs and spiritual medicines have some jade boxes and jade chests, but their jade boxes and jade chests are all used to store immortal herbs and spiritual medicines, and a lot of those immortal herbs and spiritual medicines are used up every day, so it is unclear how many jade boxes and jade chests they have. "
Oh, it turns out there are too many.
They have indeed collected a lot of jade boxes and jade chests over the years. In the beginning, the hundreds of thousands or even millions of immortal herbs and elixirs were all packed in jade boxes, and each jade box could hold at most ten plants. But every time Yuyi Tianzun brought back purchases from the God Realm, the sky was filled with jade boxes.
Later, Qingmufang Market thought that the jade boxes were too troublesome to pack, so they simply replaced them with jade chests. One box could hold tens of thousands of magical herbs. The jade boxes were over ten feet in size, and if hundreds of them were taken out together, they would cover the sky.
Chen Jiu recalled that scene and couldn't help but smile: "I don't actually need to take all the empty jade boxes and chests. I need jade boxes that can hold 30 million immortal herbs. It shouldn't be difficult to collect them, right?"
There are only three thousand jade boxes, so it is not difficult to collect them.
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji immediately sent a message via his spiritual consciousness, and soon several earthly immortals hurried over.
They all respectfully put out the neatly arranged jade boxes in piles for Chen Jiu to collect, then bowed and left.
The three thousand jade boxes were quickly collected, but Chen Jiu looked at the backs of the earthly immortals and asked curiously, "Master Ma, do you still have many immortal-level alchemists here?"
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, after the Wood and Fire Earth Immortals were enlightened, most of them went to learn the art of alchemy and tried it out. Although less than 10% of them had outstanding alchemy talent, there were so many of them that almost 20,000 immortal-level alchemists were selected.
You said that we should continuously train god-level alchemists, so I didn't let them do anything else. I just kept training them to make alchemy. Now we have only over 4,000 god-level alchemists in total, and there are 15,000 immortal-level alchemists left.
They don’t even have the magic pills to make now, so I have no choice but to arrange for them to do some work such as collecting magic herbs, sorting magic herbs, and preparing magic pill formulas.”
That’s so much, just right!
Chen Jiu thought about it, then waved his hand and said, "Come on, Master Ma, take us to the place where the immortal herbs and magical medicines are sorted."
Upon hearing this, Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji hurriedly took them to Tianjia Kingdom.
The Tianjia Kingdom is considered to be one of the earliest wood-type kingdoms developed by the Jiuling Mountain Divine Dynasty. It is also the largest of those wood-type kingdoms and is equipped with the most complete equipment. Even the large-scale cultivation of immortal herbs and spiritual medicines started in the Tianjia Kingdom. The immortal herbs and spiritual medicines here should be the first to mature.
Therefore, Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji directly built a city for sorting magical herbs and medicines inside the Tianjia Kingdom. There are as many as three or four thousand earthly immortals sorting magical herbs and medicines here!
Chen Jiu watched the earthly immortals carefully sorting the magical herbs and elixirs into jade boxes one by one, and then putting batches of them into jade boxes, while listening to the detailed introduction of Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji, and nodded repeatedly.
They have collected more than four million magical herbs and medicines a month alone, plus the six million they bought from Qingmu Market, a total of more than ten million herbs.
These magical herbs and medicines cannot be used up in a day or two. Some of them that are not needed temporarily may need to be kept for several months or even years. In order to ensure that the spiritual energy does not dissipate, those that are kept for a long time need to be double-sealed in jade boxes and jade caskets for preservation.
As for those that can be used up in about a month, they cannot be simply stored in jade boxes and piled together. Otherwise, they will be crushed after a long time. These also need to be packaged in jade boxes.
Only those that are used up in a day or two will be placed in jade boxes and transported to the city where alchemy is done.
Chen Jiu looked at it carefully for a while, then waved his hand and said: "Great Sage, take out all the magical herbs and medicines you have collected and put them on the special sorting tables.
Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong, Zhu Tianpeng and the other three waved their hands without hesitation, and the sorting table that was about to be sorted was suddenly filled with messy magical herbs and medicines, as well as piles of magical herbs and medicine seeds.
The earthly immortals who were sorting the herbs were all dumbfounded. Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji couldn't help but asked in surprise, "God, where did you get so many immortal herbs from? There must be at least six million of them!"
Chen Jiu said with a little pride: "These are collected from the divine kingdoms connected to the Fusang Divine Tree. As long as you can refine the divine pill in time, I can collect at least 30 million trees for you in a month."
My God, at least 30 million plants a month!
How many furnaces is that?
No, we have to add the 6 million plants purchased from Qingmufang City every month, which makes a total of 36 million plants. If we assume that there are 4,500 plants in one furnace, that means more than 8,000 furnaces a month!
More than 8,000 furnaces were divided into three batches for refining, each batch consisted of 2,700 furnaces.
Their magic alchemy furnace can barely produce this much, and they have enough god-level alchemists. As long as they expand the city for refining the magic pills, there will be no problem in refining these immortal herbs and elixirs into magic pills.
The problem is the arrangements of these alchemists.
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji thought about it carefully, and then said carefully: "God, there is no problem in refining more than 30 million immortal herbs into divine pills in a month. The problem is that we have to expand the city for refining divine pills, and let those god-level alchemists continue to rotate to refine pills.
Last time you asked me to consider the arrangements for these god-level alchemists and god-level weapon refiners. I thought of letting them study the way of space in batches, and then come back to refine god-level pills and comprehend the way of space in turns.
After they slowly comprehended the Dao of Space, we slowly sent the god-level alchemists to the God Realm, and let them continue to make pills there. This way, we wouldn't delay their practice of other types of skills, and they wouldn't have to worry about their lifespan.
However, if you collect so many immortal herbs and spiritual medicines for them, I'm afraid they won't have time to take turns to comprehend the Way of Space. There are more than 8,000 furnaces of divine pills, and almost everyone of them has to take turns to refine two furnaces every month. They only have ten days to rest. How can they have time to comprehend the Way of Space?"
This is indeed a problem. These god-level alchemists are treasures. We absolutely cannot let them stay in the mortal world and die of old age. How about collecting fewer of them first?
Chen Jiu thought about it carefully, and then said decisively: "Okay, I will collect less every month. I have other things to do. It is impossible for me to crack the entrance to the Kingdom of God all day long. Moreover, no matter how many entrances to the Kingdom of God connected to the Fusang Divine Tree there are, the number is limited after all. It is impossible for them to be cracked forever.
Think carefully about it and see how much you need to collect so that they can rotate and comprehend the way of space. I will collect as much as they need each month."
So, how much should be collected each month?
There are more than 4,000 god-level alchemists now, divided into three waves of about 1,500 each, which means about 4,500 furnaces per month. Then, if we calculate based on 4,500 immortal herbs and elixirs in one furnace, that would be about 20 million plants.
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji calculated carefully and said carefully: "God, if this is the case, then we can only refine about 20 million immortal herbs into 4,500 furnaces of divine pills every month. If we add the 6 million plants bought from Qingmu Market, then 14 million plants will be enough every month. Do we still need to purchase immortal herbs from Qingmu Market?"
Chen Jiu said without hesitation: "Of course, if we don't buy them, those magical herbs will be bought by others to be refined into magical pills or elixirs.
Right now, the only ones on our side in the God Realm are Tongtian Sect and Qingmu Market. We can’t let other forces in the God Realm get away with it. We still have to continue collecting immortal herbs and magical medicines. About 14 million plants per month, right? It just so happens that I still have more than half a month to do other things.”
Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji nodded, and then asked carefully: "God, should we increase our investment in elixirs from now on and train a large number of god-level alchemists? After all, in a few years, the immortal herbs and spiritual medicines we planted in these divine kingdoms will mature one after another, and by then, there will be a huge amount of immortal herbs and spiritual medicines."
I don’t have time to take care of this.
Chen Jiu said without hesitation: "You should arrange it according to the time. I won't care. Just tell me how many elixirs you need after you arrange it."
He was about to turn around and go check on his mother, but an earth immortal in charge of sorting quickly raised his hand and said, "God, please wait a moment."
Chen Jiu couldn't help but walk over and asked curiously: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
The earth immortal said carefully, "Forgive me, God. You can't pull these magical herbs and elixirs one by one like this. Many of them are broken. Besides, the dirt is not cleaned up, so it's hard to sort them. We have to wash them before we can put them in the jade box."
Ugh, you four guys!
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu couldn't help but turn around and glare at Sun Dasheng and the other four.
Sun Wukong and Zhu Tianpeng were so frightened that they quickly retracted their necks, turned their heads away and pretended not to see anything.
Upon seeing this, Fire Prime Minister Ma Ji quickly stepped forward and suggested, "God, you can actually let us do this rough work. You can pick so many immortal herbs and medicinal herbs every month anyway, so we don't need to send so many earth immortals to each wood-type kingdom to search carefully. Otherwise, how about I give each of the four of them a thousand earth immortals who specialize in collecting immortal herbs and medicinal herbs?"
That's great.
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Okay, take them there directly and give each of them one thousand earth immortals who specialize in collecting immortal herbs and elixirs. I'll go see my mother."
