293 Extraordinary Ones Awakening (1/2)
”Grandmaster Chen.”
When Chen Fan came to Yu Qin, she was accompanied by another elderly man. This old man looked to be in his eighties, but his eyes were sharp and glittered with wisdom. He wore a spiffy uniform with two stars on his shoulder badge.
”This is the Director of the Biology Research Institution, Mr. Ding Shanxue. A research fellow of the national research council.”
”You don't seem to be surprised by my visit.” Chen Fan remarked.
”Grandmaster Chen dismissed the lab and other recent measures meant that you are about ready to negotiate with us.” Yu Qin said matter-of-fact-ly
She was wearing a tight-fitted uniform and a beret that brought out her exceptional curves. She batted her eyes as she locked her gaze on Chen Fan.
”That's right, the Vitality Serum has been under development for a while. It is time for it to be introduced to the public now.”
To Chen Fan, the Vitality Serum was just a tool for growing Spirit Medicine, however, it meant a great deal more to the mortals and could boost the mortal world right into an Immortal Cultivation civilization. Whether that would happen or not still remains to be seen.
Even if that would happen one day, hundreds of years would have passed by, by then Chen Fan should have already left Earth.
”What did you do to those dismissed researchers?” Chen Fan asked curiously.
Starting a few months ago, when the stock solution was created, Chen Fan had sensed the presence of elite guards around the perimeter of the lab. Their military men had been disguised as school security guards. However, their overbearing demeanor and deadly intent in their eyes betrayed their identity. They were the elites of the elites and were very likely from special law enforcement units.
”We knew that Master Chen must have measures to prevent the secrets from being stolen, so we didn't intervene. However, we couldn't simply let them come and go as they please.” Yu Qin cracked a smirk and said,”We will detain those spies from America and Japan, not to harm them, but to use them to exchange for some of our men. Meanwhile, Aid International would have to pay a large ransom to get their researchers released. That being said, we also aware that we can't stop new spies from coming in to steal your recipe, sooner or later they would get what they want.”
”Then they will realize that the recipe was entirely useless.” Chen Fan said with a shrug.
Yu Qin and Xue Jiao both smiled knowingly.
”That's what confused us at first. We had repeated the same procedure countless times and failed to reproduce the same result!” Ding Shanxue suddenly put in.
”Is that because we had the wrong recipe or we had missed one or two steps?”
”Neither.” Chen Fan shook his head and asked: ”Mr.Ding, what do you think is it that made Vitality Serum so extraordinary?”
”What made it extraordinary?” Ding Shanxue paused and then pondered a second, then he said: ”It seems to contain mysterious energy that was intrinsically linked to the evolutionary force of the human body. It can improve physique, delay aging and boost the immune system. However, no modern testing methods could pinpoint what exactly had given the serum such effect. It was just a solution infused with yeast on the paper.”
”Indeed! The mysterious energy you mentioned; we call it Spirit Qi or Essence Qi.”
Chen Fan rose to his feet and padded back and forth in the room with his hands linked behind his back
”Essence Qi? Spirit Qi?” Everyone was perplexed by the names
”Spirit Qi is everywhere and nowhere. It existed in every molecule in the air, but no equipment would detect it. It might as well does not exist.”
Chen Fan closed his eyes and took a heavy breath. ”However, a cultivator like me can feel the ebb and flow of this vast and powerful energy. The main goal of a cultivator is to learn to control this energy. ”
Even as Chen Fan spoke, two wispy tendrils of white mist came out from his nose. They twisted and twirled in the air like two mischievous willow o the-wisp. After a while, the two strands of mist retreated back into Chen Fan's nose, stunning everyone who saw it.
Ding Shanxue nodded as if he had finally made some sense of Chen Fan's explanation.
”The Biology Research Institution used to work alongside the military and conducted a slew of tests on Internal Force users. The test results suggested that there was an unknown type of energy within these martial artists breath and it was that energy that had given them superhuman strength. However, no matter how hard we tried, we can't locate the source of the energy.”
”That is because your level of technology is too primitive. Only a society that has reached Galactic Civilization could have sensed the presence of Essence Qi.”
Chen Fan thought to himself.
Based on the inter-galactic traveling experience, he suspected that it would take the mortals on earth another two hundred years to detect the Essence Qi and another five hundred years for them to make use of the Essence Qi. However, even with the Super Soldiers they created using the Essence Qi, they were no match against other Immortal Cultivation civilizations that possessed countless Exalted Immortals within the nine Immortal Cultivation sects.
Chen Fan remained quiet and kept his thoughts unspoken.
The Vitality Serum was the most powerful thing he could use on earth with little to no consequences. Anything more powerful might have an adverse effect that was beyond Chen Fan's control.