Chapter 681: Laboratory, Genesis Bottle

Chapter 689: The Laboratory and the Creation Bottle

Xu Zhi believed that after their Shushan incident, they would remain quiet for a while.

They needed time to fully comprehend the profound implications of their actions.

During this period, Aimin and the Alchemy Emperor continued their research in the Underworld, constantly studying new materials for magic cores and refining their internal structures.

They were working on creating a new brain!

Specifically, a brain unique to the Ishdal people!

The process was highly intricate.

The brain, a mysterious region for storing souls and consciousness, involves the very essence of life. However, for the Bottled Pygmies, who had already researched the fundamental 'essence' of life, this was not a significant amount of work.

For experts at their level, sleep was largely unnecessary; they conducted research relentlessly every day. In just over two years, they had produced a prototype.

In the third year, they continuously refined the version.

Soon, a truly complete artificial magic core was finalized.

It was a glass bottle covered with intricate, transparent patterns.

These transparent patterns resembled the trails of mucus left by snails crawling on glass, subtly glimmering with a faint, iridescent refraction when viewed at an angle.

*Click.*

Aimin lifted the cap of the glass bottle, as if opening a human skull, placed a quality worm inside, and then closed it again.

"It doesn't melt. Using this material was indeed a success; the magic core brain didn't fail," Aimin said, sensing it with a joyful expression. "It can accommodate... essence."

"The processing speed is close to the original magic core, which is also very good," the Alchemy Emperor said, smiling and whispering continuously from inside the original glass bottle.

These two, the deepest researchers in their transcendent world, had worked tirelessly and finally, after exhausting all their efforts, achieved their ultimate breakthrough.

This achievement was truly astonishing!

With this, the Alchemy Emperor could move into a new bottle, effectively residing within a brain, much like a parasite?

It sounded somewhat unsettling.

However, the magic core was capable of holding souls and, like *Grim Reaper's Eternal Life*, could be used to build virtual online games, storing souls and forming a virtual world.

What did this equate to?

It was akin to mass-producing mental spaces, similar to how they previously mass-produced physical spaces, like inner worlds.

For them, it was a massive step forward!

"A new world, a new future," they said, exchanging glances. Looking out at the Underworld, they couldn't help but smile with immense joy.

"Research complete. View data?"

The wisdom sub-brain emitted a mechanical voice.

"Finally complete?"

At this moment, Xu Zhi was organizing and improving his entire bookshelf.

Concurrently, he was transforming the internal structure of his study, turning the entire room into a laboratory. Various alchemy reagents, alchemy furnaces, and even technological equipment, microscopes, and other high-tech devices were neatly arranged.

Everything was readily available.

Undoubtedly, this laboratory was a multi-civilization super-laboratory.

Alchemy civilization, ancient elixirs civilization, and the Ishdal people's technological civilization merged, giving it an exceptionally fantastical, even magnificent, style.

From now on, this would be his main research laboratory.

His alchemy project for the day involved manipulating various experimental equipment in this room to create... Creation Bottles.

How could bottle universes, placed on a bookshelf, exist without a corresponding laboratory beside them?

Therefore, Xu Zhi had prepared the laboratory, and just minutes after finishing it, he received a monitoring report from the wisdom sub-brain.

"Just as fast as I expected."

Xu Zhi gazed at the transformed study, now a brand-new alchemy and technology lab, and mused, "Once I finish setting up this room, their master-disciple duo's research findings can be immediately put to use."

They were busy with their work, and I was busy with mine.

"Wisdom sub-brain, retrieve their data," Xu Zhi commanded.

*Whoosh!*

Pages of pale blue text records appeared in his mind.

"Main brain, increase time flow: one day equals a hundred years."

Time around him rapidly accelerated.

Xu Zhi slept and reawakened as vast changes occurred over eons.

Dressed in a lab coat, he sat diligently in the laboratory like a working scientist, slowly absorbing the entire production process. As for the more complex underlying mechanisms, he naturally wouldn't study them himself, leaving them for his clones to research thoroughly later.

For now, he only needed to know how to utilize the research findings.

At this point, he entered the world-creation phase, naturally increasing the time acceleration as before.

"So, this is roughly how it's done?"

Xu Zhi pondered continually, sitting at the lab table, when he suddenly opened his mouth wide in a strange manner.

*Gurgle.*

Slowly, he spat out whitish clay.

Rectangular glass bottles, shaped like wishing bottles, were expelled one by one and placed on the table.

Unlike the Alchemy Emperor, he didn't require special materials to store 'essence.' Therefore, using clay as the material to create glass ceramics was the most convenient and powerful method for him.

After all, glass bottles made from his entire race's material were indeed astonishing.

*Swish!*

Transparent glass bottles began to multiply.

"Using material from my entire race is convenient. When creating the bottles, embedding the internal mainboard is easily done. Next, I need to refine special materials for engraving magic patterns and then engrave the brain's neural pathways," Xu Zhi said, wearing a black robe. He stood up and slowly went to operate the equipment nearby.

He ignited a flame.

Using glass beakers and other equipment, he added biological materials, distilled out some special substances, and then returned to the lab table. Holding a pen-like tool, similar to a soldering iron, he slowly engraved the material inside the glass bottles.

Soon after, numerous glass bottles were created.

"It's done. It took quite a bit of effort, after all, the brain involves the essence of life—spirit and soul—one of the universe's core laws."

"And by using this law to create new worlds, I've already transcended the traditional material universe..." Xu Zhi opened a magic core bottle and peered inside. "This feeling... it's like opening a human skull?"

Fundamentally, there was no difference.

Human brains were made of flesh and blood; Ishdal brains were magic cores.

His expression turned odd again. "But I'm not just opening a brain; I'm also going to put water in it? Sand? All sorts of things?"

This was perhaps the literal embodiment of having "water in one's brain."

Xu Zhi suddenly felt as though he truly were a mad scientist, performing the kind of horrifying experiments found in science fiction.

"These are magic core bottles, but essentially, they're also a new form of openable magic core. They could even develop sentience... Of course, I won't let them develop true sentience."

He lowered his head and picked up a glass bottle with one hand.

"The bottle is like a world wall, encompassing the inner virtual universe from all directions... At the same time, the bottle's walls also function as a Heavenly Dao intelligent virtual program, allowing me to set the universe's physical parameters: gravity, light speed..."

"And when glass bottles are stacked together, they form a crystalline wall system world. The bottle's wall is the world's crystal wall. Powerful souls can penetrate the bottle's glass to reach another bottle."

"It's truly convenient, yet also so bizarre."

"It's as if this... is the true reality of the crystalline wall system universe. Are the so-called mythological crystalline wall system universes merely ridiculous glass bottles stacked together, with mysterious giants conducting experiments outside?"

"Constantly crushing bottles, then creating new ones and placing them inside?"

Xu Zhi's face showed admiration as he sat in the laboratory, holding up a glass bottle. He examined it with appreciation under the light, as if looking at a true universe.

But clearly, ordinary people couldn't achieve this.

For ordinary people, like the Alchemy Emperor and others, it would only function as a soul world, absorbing biological souls from the existing external world to propagate within.

"But for them, it's just a soul world. For me, I can create species, kill and introduce them—that is, *Grim Reaper's Eternal Life*, where death is just the beginning... It's a truly new mental universe with infinite possibilities."

Xu Zhi's eyes gradually brightened as he put down the glass bottle.

"It's time to get to work."

He pushed open the door, went to the courtyard entrance, bent down, and gently lifted the Gorgon Medusa, who was curled up asleep beside a chair, then slowly walked into the laboratory.