"This Tier One low-level Flowing Light Grass has reached a fifty-year medicinal potency!"
Seeing this spiritual medicine that occasionally emitted a stream-like golden light, Qi Ping's heart surged with excitement and joy.
The final main material for the Bloodline Mutation Potion was finally successfully cultivated!
During this week, Qi Ping hadn't focused much on cultivating Blood Ginseng. Most of his time was devoted to cultivating the Flowing Light Grass. It took quite a bit of effort for Qi Ping to finally succeed.
Fortunately, accelerating the growth of Tier One low-level spiritual medicine like Flowing Light Grass is much easier compared to Tier One intermediate spiritual medicine like Blood Ginseng. That's why Qi Ping was able to complete the cultivation of Flowing Light Grass in less than two weeks, while also taking care of other cultivation work.
The medicinal materials are gathered!
It's almost time to begin!
Soon, a pile of medicinal herbs appeared in front of Qi Ping.
The most striking one was a deep red, semi-transparent ginseng that exuded a dazzling brilliance like a crystal. The spiritual qi emanating from it made one feel as if their cultivation would improve just by inhaling it.
Once the Blood Ginseng reaches a centennial medicinal potency, it undergoes a qualitative change, which is far beyond what it was at ninety years.
Next is the Flowing Light Grass, which occasionally flows with streaks of golden light. After reaching a fifty-year medicinal potency, the Flowing Light Grass also underwent a qualitative change, with the golden light shifting from a pale gold to a dark gold, adding an indescribable sense of weight.
No wonder the formula has minimum age requirements for these two main ingredients. It turns out that only with these qualitatively changed spiritual medicines can the Bloodline Mutation Potion have the effect of altering the bloodline.
"The Bloodline Mutation Potion formula..."
[Formula Name: Bloodline Mutation Potion]
[Main Ingredients: Blood Ginseng over a hundred years old, Flowing Light Grass over fifty years old]
[Secondary Ingredients: Insect Gall Wood, Vine Yellow, One Green Dot...]
[Effect: While retaining the effect of Blood Ginseng to nourish the body and spirit qi, it amplifies the effect of making the blood boil by more than ten times. After consuming this potion, there is a chance for Demon Insects to experience bloodline mutation and advancement...]
[The success rate of bloodline mutation depends on the specific type of Demon Insect, and there is a considerable risk of death...]
[The better the physical condition of the Demon Insect and the higher its adaptability to Blood Ginseng, the greater the chance of transformation...]
[Alchemy Method: Use spiritual qi to extract each herb and stably complete the fusion.]
[Blood Ginseng extraction technique and product requirements... Flowing Light Grass extraction technique and product requirements...]
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"The main ingredients are gathered..."
"The secondary ingredients have also been found..."
In this Bloodline Mutation Potion formula, the secondary ingredients are common non-tiered herbs, available in many ordinary herb shops, and even abundantly in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range. Qi Ping had already taken the time to collect these while cultivating the Blood Ginseng and Flowing Light Grass.
"But the risk of consuming the potion is considerable. I just hope the Beast King's Blessing skill can increase the success rate of the Golden Marrow Bees' transformation a bit..."
[Beast King's Blessing: As your animal companion, it will gain increased upgrade speed and transformation success probability.]
With this skill, the success rate of the Golden Marrow Bees' bloodline mutation should be significantly higher than that of other Demon Insects.
Judging from the effects of the Bloodline Mutation Potion, its efficacy is quite explosive.
Its essence is to use the effect of the Flowing Light Grass to wash and cleanse the body, in combination with other herbs, to retain the Blood Ginseng's nourishing effect on the body and spirit qi. At the same time, it amplifies the effect of making the blood boil by more than ten times, thereby forcing and promoting the upgrade and mutation of the Demon Insect's bloodline.
The herb like One Green Dot also slightly increases the probability of bloodline transformation without compromising the main ingredients' efficacy.
In essence, it's very straightforward and brutal; it bets on the potential of individual Demon Insects, which carries a significant risk of death.
However, if they withstand it, there is a probability that Demon Insects may break through their original bloodline shackles in the process, becoming a stronger new type of Demon Insect, with naturally multiplied strength and bloodline!
But such a straightforward and brutal effect inevitably brings a high mortality rate, so this potion only has value in the development of colony-type Demon Insects.
If it were other Demon Beasts similar to the Barbaric Armor Bear or Crimson Flame Tiger, not only would it require massive amounts of Centennial Blood Ginseng, Flowing Light Grass, and other precious herbs to prepare the potion to achieve a bloodline mutation, but they would also face a high mortality rate, rendering it essentially valueless.
In contrast, colony-type Demon Insects have two significant traits: short lifespan and reproductive dependence for survival. As long as one is successfully cultivated, that mutated Demon Insect can be used for reproduction and cultivation.
Then, in a very short time, a new generation of powerful Demon Insects can emerge, bringing about a bloodline upgrade for the entire swarm. Usually, within three to ten generations, the effects of this bloodline mutation can endure.
However, initially facing the issue of mortality rate, Qi Ping hesitated when he saw the Bloodline Mutation Potion.
Therefore, upon receiving the potion formula, Qi Ping communicated with the Golden Marrow Bees.
The response from the Golden Marrow Bees made Qi Ping realize he was overthinking it.
Confronted with such a potion, all the Golden Marrow Bees went wild, clamorously eager to consume it.
To have something that could elevate the entire swarm's bloodline, they wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice dozens, or even half of the swarm, as long as they could achieve the bloodline mutation.
Indeed, from a Demon Insects' perspective, a small sacrifice to enhance the swarm's bloodline is the best deal possible.
However, within the swarm, not all Golden Marrow Bees could use it, as the advancement of single individuals meant little for the swarm. Only by having drones complete the bloodline mutation, mating with the Bee King to produce offspring with the new bloodline, could the entire swarm transform.
Golden Marrow Bees typically mature in four to eight weeks, and if honey supply is sufficient, it may even be quicker. Approximately one month is sufficient for a Golden Marrow Bee to grow from a larva to a mature individual.
So theoretically, once Qi Ping successfully concocts the Bloodline Mutation Potion, the Golden Marrow Bees could cultivate a massive new swarm within about a month.
"Next is the method to concoct the Bloodline Mutation Potion..."
At this stage, Qi Ping couldn't help but feel a bit nervous.
Although concocting these potions is considerably easier than alchemy, requiring only the simplest spiritual energy control to extract the spirit medicine essence, then stabilizing and merging all spirit medicine essences in the correct proportions, it still presents two major challenges for most cultivators:
One was the extraction of spirit medicine essence or the removal of spirit medicine impurities, which demanded a high level of spiritual energy control and understanding of medicinal properties.
If the spiritual energy control wasn't precise enough, one couldn't accurately isolate the impurities from the spirit medicine.
If one didn't understand the medicinal properties well enough, distinguishing impurities and medicinal essence was impossible, let alone removing impurities, as it couldn't be identified in the first place.
And any mistake in the composition or slight deviation in the spirit medicine essence would lead to failure in alchemy...