Chapter 457 - 340: The Advent of Tier Three: Mountain Giant Potion

In the underground laboratory at No. 7 Wisteria Lane, a faint, earthy smell lingered in the air.

Ian stood at the Alchemy Platform, his gaze fixed on the three main ingredients laid out before him.

The first was the Tier Three Earth Monarch Blood Essence, deeply activated through Original Blood Origin Tracing.

Inside the Crystal Bottle, a phantom mountain range within the dark gold liquid was several times clearer than before.

At the edges of the phantom, faint golden veins could be seen slowly pulsing, like a slumbering heart.

The second was a fist-sized Tier Three Rock Dragon Heart Core.

The heart core was a dark yellow, its surface covered in honeycomb-like pores, while a viscous, magma-like Energy flowed within.

Aidele had just acquired this through her family’s channels at great cost.

The third was a complete Earth Vein Flower.

Its petals were dark gold, layered one upon another, as if sculpted from solidified rock.

Deep within its stamen, a dense starlight flickered, emitting a pure Earth Vein Energy.

Beside them were several Auxiliary Materials: Thousand-Year Stone Heart Vine Marrow, Earth Vein Crystal Powder, Star Realm Silver Sand...

Each one emanated rich waves of Energy.

Ian took a deep breath, and the Perception of his three Rules flowed through his body like mercury.

Deep in his pupils, a faint silver luster appeared.

His miniature Order Divine Body activated, like a layer of flowing armor, compressing the Rule Power against the surface of his body.

’Let’s begin.’

Ian reached out, picked up the bottle of Earth Monarch Blood Essence, and the moment he uncorked it—

BOOM!

The air in the Laboratory suddenly distorted.

A majestic, tyrannical, and almost berserk Earth Energy erupted from the mouth of the bottle.

The dark gold phantom mountain range shot out of the bottle, instantly swelling to three meters in size.

Inside the phantom, mountains, river valleys, and an Earth Vein network could be seen... like a living, three-dimensional map suspended in mid-air.

The oppressive might emanating from the phantom made the air in the Laboratory exceptionally dense.

The ground trembled, and the instruments on the Alchemy Platform clattered.

Ian’s eyes narrowed. He made a pressing motion with his left hand, unleashing his Gravity Rule with full force!

An invisible Gravity Field, like a giant net, enveloped the phantom mountain range.

It forcibly compressed and pulled at the phantom, trying to crush it back into a liquid state.

But the phantom’s resistance was incredibly fierce.

It thrashed wildly, trying to break free from the Gravity Field’s grasp. With every struggle, it sent violent ripples through the Force Field.

At the same time, the Rule Fragments inside the Blood Essence began to run rampant.

The nascent forms of the "Mountain Spirits," like startled beasts, charged wildly through the liquid.

With every collision, the temperature of the Blood Essence skyrocketed.

From room temperature, it instantly leaped to three hundred degrees, then five hundred, then eight hundred...

Fine cracks began to appear on the surface of the Obsidian Crucible on the Alchemy Platform.

Ian’s heart tightened. ’This is bad...’

The Energy of the Tier Three Blood Essence was even more violent than he had anticipated.

If the temperature continued to rise, the Runes on the crucible’s inner walls would disintegrate, and the whole thing would explode.

When that happened, the Blood Essence inside would instantly vaporize, and the Rule Fragments would shatter and disperse.

Ian raised his right hand and activated his Time Rule!

With him at the center, the flow of time within a three-meter radius abruptly slowed fivefold.

The boiling Blood Essence inside the crucible slowed down noticeably.

The speed at which bubbles burst, the frequency of the energy collisions, the curve of the rising temperature—all of it was forcibly "stretched out."

But this was just a temporary measure.

He needed to focus on refining the Potion and couldn’t afford to be distracted by maintaining the time-slowing effect.

’I have to stabilize the Blood Essence, and fast.’

Ian’s Spiritual Power poured down. His left hand maintained the gravitational suppression while his right hand kept up the time dilation.

At the same time, the Purification Rule began to circulate frantically within his body.

A faint golden Order Energy flowed into the Blood Essence like a trickling stream.

It soothed the rampaging Rule Fragments, guiding them back to tranquility, back to Order.

This process lasted for a full ten minutes.

After pouring out his immense Spiritual Power like a flood, the Blood Essence finally began to stabilize.

The struggles of the phantom mountain range gradually weakened as the Gravity Field compressed it bit by bit, back into a liquid state.

The temperature slowly dropped from eight hundred degrees to six hundred, then four hundred, then two hundred...

Finally, it stabilized at one hundred and eighty degrees.

This was the key temperature for refining the Earth Tyrant Potion.

It was also, according to Ian’s calculations, the most suitable starting temperature for a Tier Three Bloodline Potion.

*Phew...* ’I guess that’s the first hurdle cleared.’

Ian let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Not daring to relax his focus, he continued with the next steps.

He slowly poured the stabilized Blood Essence into the Obsidian Crucible, then added the Rock Dragon Heart Core.

The instant the heart core touched the Blood Essence—

TSSS!

The dark yellow heart core began to melt, turning into a viscous liquid Energy that seeped into the Blood Essence.

The two different Rules began to collide and merge.

The purpose of the Rock Dragon Heart Core was to act as a "Stabilizer."

The "Rock Solidification" Rule it contained could enhance the structural stability of the Blood Essence.

This would prevent the Rule Fragments from running rampant again during the subsequent refining process.

However, this fusion process was equally dangerous.

The conflict between the two Rules made the Energy inside the crucible boil once more.

The temperature began to soar again: one hundred eighty, two hundred, two hundred thirty...

Ian’s eyes were filled with Concentration as he held his hands hovering over the crucible.

His Spiritual Power, like the most precise of probes, delved deep inside the potion.

He perceived every subtle change in the Rules, every fluctuation of Energy.

All the while, he continuously fine-tuned the suppressive strength of the Gravity Field and the rate at which time was slowed.

Time ticked by, second by second.

The constant sound of the potion bubbling filled the Laboratory.

Nearby, Gaga stood bolt upright, its eyes fixed on the crucible.

The little guy knew not to cause any disturbance now, and even its breathing was shallow.

「Three hours later.」

The Rock Dragon Heart Core had completely melted, fully fusing with the Blood Essence.