Chapter 2224: Enhancement and Production (12)

Apart from that.

There's another gene synergy effect related to dynamic vision: 【When carefully observing something, the observed target will appear 300% larger.】

But another related gene is "Night Vision," which also needs to be enhanced for this synergy effect to improve in tandem.

Not possible yet.

That's fine.

Zhao Chi drains their bloodline energy every day; it's only a matter of time before he fully enhances all their genes.

It'll improve sooner or later.

Then comes the last gene.

【Bone-Gathering Rebirth (Enhanced)】 After death, can gather power to revive, retaining all information. Gathering time is 【1→0.5】 times the base attribute in days, while consuming 【10→5】 years of maximum lifespan.

How should I put it…

Better than nothing.

Can't say it's useless, but it's not all that useful either.

After all, compared to the Bone-Gathering Rebirth gene's own effect, this enhancement really does feel pretty mediocre.

But from a long-term perspective, it's not bad.

Previously, Taoyuan women could revive at most 100 times; now it's up to 200.

And before, revival took roughly 26 days; now it's 13.

Good enough, I suppose.

At least it's better than nothing.

Close the system.

At this point, Zhao Chi has basically done everything he can.

So he'll wait two and a half days for the long-duration truce talisman's effect to expire, then join the main force in battle.

As for now…

He'll go make some fire oil.

The fire oil had been reformulated before.

There are now two types of fire oil in total.

【Long-Lasting Super-Heat Fire Oil】 Illuminates 5 meters, flame temperature +1000%, burn time +1000%

【Clean-Type Super-Bright Fire Oil】 Illuminates 16 meters, illumination brightness +1000%, cleanliness +250%

Zhuang Ya has always used the first type.

The flame is almost bright white with only a hint of yellow; the temperature is indeed very high, and it lasts a long time.

Once Zhuang Ya pours it on herself, it can burn for an entire battle.

Of course, that also has to do with how quickly Zhao Chi's side finishes their fights, but sustained high-heat burning for over 20 minutes is absolutely no problem.

The Warm Tribe members are already quite numerous now; he can use these last two days to make some for them to carry.

So they can ignite themselves at any time to gain flame.

Saving them spiritual power.

The second type of fire oil has always been used in the territory.

Taoyuan women all have night vision, so it's basically Zhao Chi and the serfs of Chaoge Town who use it.

A large batch was produced last time, and it's almost used up now.

They really do need to make another batch.

He called for Qi Yue again and entered the oil refinery.

Oil refinery team leader Chen Hua laughed: "Oh, my lord, you really did come! I just had a feeling you'd be dropping by soon."

Zhao Chi laughed: "How did you guess?"

Chen Hua laughed: "Of course because the stock of super-improved fire oil is running low! But no worries—the warehouses next door are all full of our refined semi-finished products. You just need to super-improve them."

"Not bad. Which warehouses are those?"

"Of course. All the raw materials Su Qin and Sister Gu Qing bought back have been fully refined by us. Speaking of which, we'll need to buy another batch of raw materials."

"No need to buy. From now on we'll be slaughtering Feathered Oxen—ten tons of fat every day. Should be enough for you, right?"

"Wow, ten tons of fat a day? That'll refine into about 8 tons of oil, and with some fire oil raw materials added in, we can produce about 10 tons of fire oil. That's plenty!"

Fire oil quantity is measured in liters.

Previously, it was all made in small pots.

Each pot yielded 3 liters of fire oil.

But now the volume is too large; they switched to big pots long ago.

It's a large cylindrical metal pot; one pot can refine 1 cubic meter of fire oil, and it's very heavy.

But these female oil workers like Chen Hua also have over-limit load capacity; it only takes two of them to easily move and lift a big pot full of oil.

One cubic meter is 1,000 liters, meaning each refining session yields 1,000 bottles of fire oil.

But as quantity increases, refining time increases enormously too.

It's like making stockings: refining fire oil in a small pot is like making a single pair of stockings.

Refining fire oil in a big pot is like making 1,000 pairs of stockings at once—every step and process still has to be done.

But refining fire oil is, after all, different from making stockings.

It's really not that rigid.

Big-pot refining does save quite a bit of time.

Zhao Chi said: "Alright, Chen Hua, bring over all the fire oil you've refined. You've already done the basic improvement, right?"

"Of course!" Chen Hua nodded. "I'll have someone bring it over right away."

Chen Hua and the others had likewise never used a master-level recipe; for now they were only expert-level oil-makers.

But this kind of fire oil was made from the most ordinary raw materials; even the fat of feathered oxen was just ordinary fat.

For them, the difficulty of production was normal.

Super-improvement still posed some difficulty, but ordinary improvement was no problem at all.

Very quickly.

Barrel after barrel of improved fire oil was carted to the oil-refining shop.

Then it was all poured into a large iron cauldron.

Zhao Chi controlled Qiyue's six arms and formally began the boiling and super-improvement.

Chen Hua and the other female workers were all watching from the side; Zhao Chi tried his best to explain the key steps and conditions to them.

In the early hours of that day, seven production cycles were completed.

A total of 200 cauldrons of fire oil were super-improved, equivalent to 200,000 liters.

Half of each of the two types of fire oil.

This was enough for the Warm Clan to use, allowing each of them to carry 100 bottles.

Of course, there was no need to actually carry that many; ten bottles per person was enough.

Fire oil was helpful in war.

It could be set up as an "incendiary bomb" and thrown out.

But against werewolves, the effect was not great.

So Zhao Chi did not provide super-hot fire oil to friendly forces.

Werewolves all had equipment-stacking abilities; even if burned, it could not reach their true bodies, and they felt no pain.

Moreover, the fire oil had to be ignited and then struck directly onto the werewolf's body to work.

If thrown onto the ground, the werewolf would leap over it.