[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t":3,"chapter-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-56":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Survival: The Tower Witch with an E-Rank Talent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1374351,1818,"Chapter 56: Volcanic Worm","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-56",56,"\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"It's hard to describe precisely, but if I had to use an analogy... think of the relationship between a gas canister and a balloon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Go on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"The gas canister represents the talent's total upper limit. The balloon represents our body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"Right now, our bodies are about the size of those long, thin finger-balloons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"Trying to use all the gas in the canister with a balloon that small has only one outcome — it pops.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"We simply can't withstand the full capacity of our talent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai elaborated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, this was a lesson Li Huai had paid for in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last time he'd used even a sliver more power beyond his body's limit in a critical moment, he'd been left battered and broken — nearly unable to make it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Got it, thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a single reply, Lan Qingyou went completely silent. Li Huai looked at the screen with a mix of exasperation and amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exasperation: back on Blue Star, he'd been a successful young CEO. Here, he was an S-rank talent holder — a top-tier powerhouse. And this was the treatment he got?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Used and discarded?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The amusement: this kind of behavior was perfectly in character for Lan Qingyou as he knew her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou, of course, couldn't care less what Li Huai thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the answer she needed, she could now fully validate her hypothesis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching out to Li Huai had actually been a carefully considered decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talents like hers or Gu Xiaobei's were too indirect to serve as useful reference points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Huai was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His talent was offensive — pure and straightforward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he needed to do was attack. No additional considerations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which made his feedback the most direct and reliable possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now she had his answer — exactly the answer she'd been hoping for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined with her own theory and Li Huai's confirmation, Lan Qingyou was highly confident in her \"talent equals magic\" formula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this formula came a breakthrough point for developing a talent-enhancing potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Do you have any spirit-attribute monster materials or herbs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan: \"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Send them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shrieking bats, fuzzy alpacas, swaying flowers, blue-spore mushrooms, forget-sorrow grass, whispering grass...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief exchange, Lan Qingyou had a batch of spirit-attribute monster parts and herbs in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she launched into development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though talents came in every variety — self-targeting like Lan Qingyou's, external-targeting like Gu Xiaobei's, or enemy-targeting like Li Huai's —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the form, they all fell under the absurdly broad category of \"magic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Lan Qingyou essentially designed her approach around the conditions for upgrading magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her personal info stated that magic could not be upgraded, but knowledge could be accumulated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, upgrading magic wasn't a simple matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After three more batches, Lan Qingyou was on the verge of shutting down entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three batches — a full three hundred mugs — and not a single one had produced the golden flash? Not even half a success?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where had she gone wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scratching at her already hopelessly disheveled bird's-nest hair, dark circles ringing her eyes, Lan Qingyou's brow knotted tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way her formulation ratios were off. She'd tried every permutation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So where was the problem?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou was starting to feel irritable — the inevitable result of going without sleep for dozens of hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pulled up her personal status on her right hand and stared at it with laser focus, willing herself to find some fragment of inspiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several full scans later, nothing new emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only so much on the status screen. No matter how hard she stared, she wasn't going to conjure flowers from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sigh of frustration, Lan Qingyou closed the display and braced both hands on the wooden desk, eyes boring into the notebook full of crossed-out formulas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Something's wrong. Something is definitely wrong.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But if the formulations and ratios are all correct, what am I overlooking?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze traced the ingredient names listed beside each formula, and her frown deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait — the materials!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mid-thought, Lan Qingyou's eyes locked onto the ingredient names and she snapped her personal status back open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze darted straight to the one character she'd been overlooking all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'E.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was it! E!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How had she not noticed before?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she was trying to develop was a talent upgrade potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every one of the two hundred million forcibly teleported people had awakened a talent, regardless of rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lowest rank was E, ascending through D, C, B, A, and S.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So if she wanted a potion that upgraded an E-rank talent to D-rank, then the potion itself would need to be at least D-rank quality — which meant she should be using D-rank materials!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh heh heh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou tapped her slightly sweaty forehead, fighting the urge to laugh at herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd still somehow managed to stumble into the most basic of errors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But did she even have any D-rank materials?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably not — and Shang Chuan likely didn't either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, D-rank materials were something that hadn't appeared anywhere in the Forgotten Forest. And even if they had, current-era survivors wouldn't be able to—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mid-thought, Lan Qingyou suddenly remembered Li Huai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wait!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Actually... maybe I do?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating to the storage room, Lan Qingyou located the box Li Huai had given her previously — the one containing a volcanic worm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This creature was not only D-rank but also happened to be spirit-attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she had just the one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she contacted Li Huai. When he didn't have any more, she checked with Shang Chuan — who, as expected, didn't either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine. All her hopes now rested on this single specimen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no other choice, Lan Qingyou pulled out the volcanic worm, set it on the alchemy workshop table, and began her dissection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, its crystal core was still intact — at least that counted as something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was its blood, or more accurately, the liquid inside the volcanic worm's body. That needed to be preserved too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou worked with extreme care, spending a full half hour to completely dissect the not particularly large volcanic worm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She crushed the entire D-rank monster crystal core and ground it into fine powder, then brought out her collection of jars and containers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beakers, measuring cups, an alcohol lamp, a funnel...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some swift assembly, she managed to cobble together a rudimentary distillation apparatus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distillation setup was for purifying the volcanic worm's crystal core. With only one core, she had to treat it with the utmost seriousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once all the prep work was finished, Lan Qingyou reviewed her planned workflow one more time, selected some of the rarer E-rank materials as secondary ingredients, and began a fresh round of brewing.\u003C\u002Fp>",1140,"2026-06-05T21:58:31.955Z",1,"novelbin.me","eef8a8e436fda7340b88591680f2cdc731869e2c64d7ccd0a253b9b36d9d4190","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-57","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-55",965,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-cover.jpg"]