119: Chapter 119: The Next Project: Spiritual Energy Replenishment Liquid Production Line

The Golden Giant Dragon that had carried a fleet for hundreds of kilometers became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

After this incident, the whole world became unusually quiet.

Those countries that had been clamoring before, wanting to use "environmental issues" to get a piece of the pie in Xia Country, all shut their mouths.

The M Country aircraft carrier battle group, which had already reached the Western Pacific, retreated three hundred nautical miles overnight and stayed put, not even daring to fly reconnaissance planes this way.

As for R Country, they didn't even dare to issue a protest statement. That fleet, which had been "escorted out of the territory," slunk back to its home port. It is said that more than half of the crew on board were forced to retire and sent to psychological rehabilitation centers due to extreme mental trauma. The captain, Ito Hirobumi, was sent directly to a mental hospital, muttering "Dragon... there is a dragon..." every day.

This crisis, triggered by the resurgence of the deep-sea spiritual vein, came to an end in a way that no one could have expected.

Donghai City was saved.

The lives and property of hundreds of millions of people along the coast were preserved.

And the cost of all this was merely Xia Country conducting a "large-scale marine ecological restoration exercise" in its own territorial waters.

Of course, that was the official explanation.

Privately, everyone who participated in the "Zhenhai Project" knew exactly what they had experienced.

East Sea Port, Commander-in-Chief tower.

The celebration party was simple yet enthusiastic.

Director Zhao Lixin held a cup of plain water and walked over to Jiang Ning, who was sitting in a corner studying a screen.

"Engineer Jiang," he raised his cup, his face filled with heartfelt admiration and gratitude, "On behalf of The Ninth Bureau, Donghai City, and everyone you saved, I toast you!"

Jiang Ning looked up from the screen, glanced at him, and also picked up her water cup to clink it with his.

"No need to thank me." She took a sip of water, her tone still as flat as ever, "This is my job. Besides, the harvest this time was not small."

She pointed to the screen.

On the screen was the real-time data of the "base station" base station.

The base station had completely integrated with the undersea spiritual vein, becoming a stable and efficient energy hub.

It not only completely suppressed the turmoil of the spiritual vein, preventing a tsunami.

More importantly, it was continuously converting the vast energy within the spiritual vein into the purest spiritual energy, which was then transmitted through deep-sea fiber optic cables into the power grid of Donghai City.

"According to the current output power," Professor Chen, who was beside them, leaned over and added excitedly, "The energy naturally overflowing from the base station alone is enough to support the electricity consumption of three Donghai Cities! And it's absolutely clean, zero-pollution! This... this directly solves our country's future energy problem!"

"This is just the beginning." Jiang Ning shook her head, "The energy of the spiritual vein is far more than just generating electricity."

Her gaze fell on another screen.

On it was a newly unlocked, fresh blueprint—《General Design Outline for Automated Alchemy Industry》.

"The energy problem is solved; next is the material problem." Jiang Ning muttered to herself.

She knew clearly that whether it was continuing to upgrade Earth's defense system or starting to build that "Star Gate" capable of connecting to the Immortal-Mortal Realm, it would require massive amounts of high-level spiritual energy materials that simply did not exist on Earth.

Relying on her alone to refine items, she wouldn't be able to refine much even if she worked herself to death.

The only way out was industrialization.

And alchemy was the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency way to convert materials.

Using alchemy techniques to catalyze and aggregate ordinary ores and herbs into "pills" or "spiritual materials" containing spiritual energy.

This was one of the true core productive forces of the Immortal Cultivation civilization.

"Engineer Jiang, what are you looking at?" Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo also came over with his cup, curiously peeking at Jiang Ning's screen.

On the screen were all sorts of pipe and reactor designs that he couldn't understand, which were more complex than those in a chemical plant.

"I'm thinking about our next project." Jiang Ning replied casually.

"Next project?" Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo's eyes lit up, and he immediately became spirited, "Where? Still in the sea? What kind of big thing are we building this time?"

"Not in the sea." Jiang Ning shook her head, "On land."

She stretched out her hand and swiped in the air.

A 3D model of a super factory covering several square kilometers, composed of countless silver-white spherical reactors, dense conveyor belts, and automated robotic arms, appeared before everyone.

"This is... the design prototype for the 'Fully Automated Spiritual Energy Potion Production Base'." Jiang Ning introduced it simply, "Simply put, it's an alchemy factory."

"Alchemy... factory?" Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo, Director Zhao Lixin, and the others looked at each other.

They had learned a little about alchemy from Sect Leader Lu Yun and the Kunlun Academy textbooks.

In their impression, it was always an ethereal old Taoist priest, guarding a small alchemy furnace, fanning the flames, and spending ten days or half a month to refine a single batch of pills.

But this thing in front of them... what was it?

This wasn't alchemy; it was clearly a chemical plant producing shampoo!

"Its design goal," Jiang Ning ignored their surprise and continued in her flat tone, "is to achieve full-process automation, from raw material processing, medicinal property extraction, spiritual energy catalysis, and pill synthesis to final packaging and shipment."

"A standard production line, operating twenty-four hours a day, can produce 100,000 units of 'Standard Spiritual Energy Supplement' daily."

"The effect of one unit is approximately equal to one medium-grade peiyuan pill."

"Hiss—"

In the command center, there was a chorus of gasps.

One hundred thousand medium-grade peiyuan pills a day?

This number stunned everyone.

They had learned from the captured Sect Leader Lu Yun that in the Immortal-Mortal Realm, a top-tier alchemy master could refine one hundred medium-grade peiyuan pills a month, which was considered high-yield.

But Engineer Jiang's "factory" could produce in one day what others could in a lifetime!

"The most important thing is the cost." Jiang Ning added, "The raw materials used are the most common herbs and mineral powders on Earth. The energy is drawn directly from the base station. Calculated out, the cost of one unit of 'Spiritual Energy Supplement' is about... three yuan and fifty cents."

Three yuan and fifty cents!

In the Immortal-Mortal Realm, a single medium-grade peiyuan pill was enough to make two immortal cultivation families fight until they were bleeding for it.

Here, it was actually only worth the price of a bottle of cola?

"I... I'm a bit dizzy..." Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo held his forehead, feeling that his worldview had been refreshed again.

Director Zhao Lixin was also in a daze.

He seemed to have already seen the future, where pharmacies across the country would have shelves filled with this "Spiritual Energy Supplement" priced at three yuan and fifty cents a bottle.

Before an exam, students could have a bottle to refresh their minds.

After working overtime, workers could have a bottle to instantly restore their physical strength.

Elderly people doing square dancing could each have a bottle, and the more they danced, the more energetic they would become.

This... this would completely change the entire society!

"I propose," Director Zhao Lixin steadied himself, looking at Jiang Ning with an extremely solemn gaze, "to immediately submit a report to the central government, listing the 'Spiritual Energy Potion Industrialization' project as a national-level top-tier strategic project!"

"This project will be the most solid step for our Xia Country toward the era of 'Universal Immortal Cultivation'!"