Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1304 - 1270: Harvest

Chen Fei, guarding Chapala City, had never received valuable intelligence from the informant Kraken. Rather than idly waiting, he decided to borrow the path from the "Boundary Pearl" Life Space, using a "Stargate" beneath the "Life Tree" to directly reach the exclusive Royal Mansion at the Imperial Capital Delan City of the Silan Dynasty, located on the Cangqiong Star Morning Star Continent.

This royal courtyard has now become a dedicated unit for the research of wisdom race souls.

As long as he obtained accurate coordinates, configuring Longinus' "Dimensional Gate" was indeed pointless for Chen Fei, as "Dimensional Gates" required matching pairs, whereas "Stargates" did not, and though the energy consumption was immense, he clearly wasn't lacking in energy reserves.

When Chen Fei emerged from the chamber confirming the Stargate coordinates within the Royal Mansion, he witnessed the Soul Research Team's building transporting corpses out, one after another.

The expressions of the deceased varied, some appeared peaceful as if asleep, others were fearful as if they died with unresolved matters, some seemed bewildered, while others showed no expression, seemingly having gone quietly.

A large cart was parked in the yard, with bodies thrown in directly, stacked layer upon layer, numbering no less than ten, from species including but not limited to the Human Race.

Once dead, all orifices open, like a specialized morgue, the air was filled with a faint lingering stench, clearly not a condition of just one or two days.

Chen Fei frowned slightly, wondering how many lives these researchers had disregarded during his absence.

Under the highly centralized feudal imperial dynasty rule, they simply don't care about some protests and opposition voices.

If necessary, they could secretly incite conflict, draw out all opposition forces, and wipe them out in one go, with a battle every few decades, sweeping away hidden dangers, and constantly innovating, repeatedly, under the euphemism of "Rotation Battle"!

Politics, whether in the Federation or the Dynasty, is forever corrupt.

"Good morning, everyone!"

The Soul Research Team had a few new faces, but with the help of AI "Adam" connected to the team's database, Chen Fei could still call out names and was aware of each person's capability rank level and related information.

The first to respond to this greeting was a Heavenly Rank Mage, specialized in soul-related Curse Magic, and one of the team leaders.

The entire Soul Research Team was now advancing in three directions, leveraging continuously improved Alchemical Artifacts and planetary-level compute node infinite computing power support provided by Chen Fei, along with the unlimited supply of death row inmates, new breakthroughs were made daily, allowing originally imperfect soul research to leap forward incessantly, finally producing qualitative change from accumulated quantitative change.

Team members greeted Chen Fei eagerly, especially the new members who proactively introduced themselves, which didn't prevent him from understanding them in advance, but was a matter of attitude.

The entire Soul Research Institute was founded because of Chen Fei; soul material Life-extending Agents, related equipment, and enormous computing support were all provided by him, making every research result owe to Chen Fei's indispensable contribution. Without him, even the Silan Royal Family wouldn't pool manpower and resources to support this project; this was already the best resources and backing available, unmatched elsewhere.

"I heard there's significant progress, just happened to have time to come check it out."

Chen Fei straightforwardly stated his intention.

"We have discovered an active substance with very good affinity with soul energy."

The first Heavenly Rank Mage to greet Chen Fei took a cylindrical glass jar from a wall shelf, containing a brain biological specimen.

The brain tissue floating in transparent viscous preservative solution wasn't from a human but a Demon Tribe brain, with two deep sulci dividing the tissue into three balanced lobes; the sample came from a Demon Tribe male over two hundred years old, possessing fire system and dark element dual elemental affinity gifts, who died from old injury relapses, donating his body rather than leaving death-row inmate-organ storage.

The soul research experiments were indeed somewhat inhumane, often causing death row inmates unable to leave intact brain tissues; quite a few skulls were turned into a mix of blood and spinal fluid pink slurry, lacking value for extraction.

"This is the brain of Demon Tribe warrior Jiong Sa Mr., we can see two sulci, Humans only have one, it's a racial difference; for instance, Giant Magical Beast Xuan Yu Huangxing species have at least a hundred cerebral sulci, and even several auxiliary brains. We can now accurately detect the existence of soul energy, having answers first makes retroactive problem-solving relatively easier." The Heavenly Rank Mage pointed to various-sized Alchemical Artifacts and scientific instruments in the room, stating: "Magic Alchemy based on elemental series energy plus technology grounded in industrial processes is termed 'Magic Movement,' Blue Star's Dragoon Magic Movement industry uses this name, directly illustrating the company's technical strengths, unique across Blue Star."

Seeing Chen Fei nod in understanding, the Mage continued.

"Soul energy mainly concentrates at the pineal gland, which is also the core of spiritual power; thus we hypothesize spiritual power is an expression of the soul, stronger souls correspond to stronger spiritual power. Verified by hundreds of samples proving this hypothesis correct, meaning spiritual power fluctuation intensity can be used as an index measuring soul energy's amount." The Heavenly Rank Mage illustrated with gestures inside the cylinder containing the Demon Tribe brain, "Moreover, our usual skills and specialties can determine soul energy distribution areas to a small extent. As I mentioned earlier, most soul energy concentrates at the pineal gland but not all, a portion exists in other brain tissue locations; for Humans left-brain or right-brain, Demon Tribe mainly in midbrain."

At this moment, the Mage's finger just happened to point at the brain tissue wedge between the two sulci.

"Thank you, I can grasp that."

Chen Fei appreciated the effort to simplify complex technical jargon understandable to outsiders, requiring considerable thought, otherwise, he would be utterly confused right now.

Using simple language, a completely unversed crowd hearing explanations on airplane flying, building, and repairing would not distinguish between BBA and ABB, likely thinking pilots would shout "pay the bill" facing death, otherwise freeloading in peacetime.

"Having found direction and proven soul energy's existence, the next steps come smoother; Alchemists split into two groups, one extracts soul energy affinity matters from brain tissue, the other artificially synthesizes similar affinity matter, both paths succeeded."

The Heavenly Rank Mage held a conical thin-necked bottle containing transparent liquid, shook it before Chen Fei, boasting, "We've simply merged them, doubling the effect."

Chen Fei focused on the swayed vessel, asking, "Uh, won't such things lose activity in regular Storage Magical Device?"

"Huh?"