Chapter 273: Refining Magic Potions, Multiple Syntheses

"Synthesis!"

Looking at the butcher's heart and demon bone shards before him, Su Hao's mind stirred slightly, and he used the Synthesis Heart on them.

Because Su Hao's situation is special, he wants to maximize his gains after advancing to Supernatural Grade, needing not only three portions of magic potion but also to re-synthesize these potions.

The potions of the Blood Mage and Necromancer must first be synthesized into the sequence runes of the Blood Flesh Controller and Necromancer Bone Mage, and then these two sequence runes are synthesized into the series runes of the Crimson Bone Demon.

The butcher's heart and demon bone shards are the materials used to synthesize the Blood Flesh Controller and Necromancer Bone Mage.

Similarly, the Physician's potion also needs to be synthesized before consumption, but Su Hao hasn't yet decided what materials to use for the synthesis.

One must wait until the Aggregated Stitching Monster's suturing nerve is refined, then based on the effect of this primary material, infer the approximate effect of the magic potion, and then select suitable synthesis materials.

However, before that, one can first prepare the synthesis materials for the Blood Mage and Necromancer.

Now the proficiency of the Synthesis Heart has reached perfection, synthesizing items below Supernatural Fourth Tier no longer consumes synthesis attempts, and these materials happen to be items below Supernatural Fourth Tier.

Soon, Su Hao synthesized two portions of Supernatural Third Tier demon bone shards and two portions of crimson hearts.

One portion is used for this potion synthesis, while the remaining portion serves as a sample for replicating Infinite Cells.

When the time comes to synthesize fourth-tier Blood Mage and Necromancer potions, these two fourth-tier materials will be needed, so it's good to prepare them now in advance.

Not long after synthesizing these two materials, the corpse of the Aggregated Stitching Monster was also refined.

As the blood-red light sphere wrapped around the corpse vanished, the original irregular mass of ugly flesh disappeared, leaving three things in its place.

The first thing is a pool of bright red blood floating in midair; just a glance makes one feel the urge to swallow it.

【Aggregated Stitching Monster's Essence Blood】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: After consumption, it enhances the physique and greatly increases recovery ability.

However, note that after consuming the Aggregated Stitching Monster's Essence Blood, the flesh will undergo mutation, transforming toward the state of the Aggregated Stitching Monster.

The weaker the physique, the greater the extent of the transformation.

……

"Trash!"

Su Hao shook his head and casually stored it in his Storage Bag.

If it were other survivors still struggling to survive, after obtaining this essence blood, they would likely ignore the bodily mutation and consume it.

After all, this is a Supernatural Third Tier item that can strengthen physique and recovery ability, a huge boost to power, allowing the consumer to survive better in the apocalypse.

Even if the body mutates because of it, no matter how much it mutates, it's still better than death.

As long as one can stay alive, even if the body mutates, there is hope of recovery in the future, no matter how slim; that is a kind of hope, whereas if one dies, there is nothing left.

But for Su Hao, this thing is practically useless; he himself could never use it, nor would he let his subordinates use it.

He has many ways to increase his strength, so there's no need to take this risk.

Whether it's inflated muscles or blazing flame dragon fruit and other supernatural fruits, their effects are all better than this essence blood.

He couldn't even be bothered to synthesize it, casually storing it in his Storage Bag and moving on to examine another item.

This is a pink lump of flesh about the size of a washbasin, covered with sprouts, wriggling irregularly, and emitting a strange odor.

If an ordinary person saw this disgusting shape and strange smell, they'd probably be unable to eat for days.

【Aggregated Stitching Monster's Rotting Flesh】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: After consumption, it causes the entire body's flesh to rot, yet does not cause death.

After rotting, the body no longer has natural recovery ability, but has no vital points; even if the heart is completely dug out or the brain smashed, it will not die from that.

……

"Trash!"

Looking at the contents shown by the appraisal result, Su Hao shook his head and showed a look of disdain.

The body has no vital points, so it won't die from damage to the heart or brain; this is indeed a decent ability, but the price to pay is too high.

Once this chunk of rotting flesh is consumed, the entire body's flesh will rot, becoming like this chunk, and will also lose natural recovery ability.

This means that even if a small knife cuts the hand, it cannot heal automatically; one must use some recovery potion or recovery magic.

Even though Su Hao, due to being a Crimson Bone Demon of the Supernatural Sequence, is not particularly repulsed by the Aggregated Stitching Monster's grotesque appearance.

But as a human mindset, he absolutely refuses to become like that, and does not want such things wandering around his territory.

Just like the Aggregated Stitching Monster's Essence Blood, for Su Hao this chunk of rotting flesh likewise has no value.

He casually flicked it into his Storage Bag, then turned to the last item, which he most anticipated.

It is a strand twisted into a coil, estimated to reach hundreds of meters in length, made from an unknown kind of flesh.

Upon seeing this clump of flesh-thread, Su Hao felt that it possessed the ability to heal all things.

It seems that no matter how severe the injury, as long as this flesh-thread is wrapped around it, the wound can recover in a short time.

However, the specifics still need to be seen from the appraisal result; immediately, Su Hao's mind stirred slightly, and he used the Item Appraisal Technique on it.

【Aggregated Stitching Monster's Suturing Nerve】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: Wrapping the suturing nerve around the wounded area can speed up wound healing; even if bodily tissues are separated, they can be reconnected.

Using the suturing nerve also allows two different bodily tissues to be sutured together, causing the bodily tissue to change.

Bodily tissue sutured with the suturing nerve can retain partial effects of the original tissue.

However, note that wounds sutured with the suturing nerve will have a period of weakness, causing natural recovery ability to approach zero.

Additionally, external bodily tissue sutured only with the suturing nerve may provoke a rejection reaction, causing that tissue to not be under the body's control.

……

"Bodily Tissue Suturing..."

Looking at the appraisal result, Su Hao rubbed his chin, revealing a hint of contemplation.

Based on his experience brewing magic potions, usually the main ingredient's ability in a potion formula is somewhat similar to the potion's primary effect. For example, the bloody butcher's heart used to brew a second-tier Blood Mage magic potion has the effect of strengthening the physique and gaining extraordinary recovery ability.

The primary ability of a second-tier Blood Mage is likewise a strong physique and extraordinarily strong recovery.

The ghost soul crystal used to brew a second-tier Necromancer magic potion likewise has an effect related to the Necromancer's primary ability.

Another primary ingredient that can be freely chosen also influences the potion's final effect, though its influence is slightly weaker.

After seeing the primary ability of the Stitching Nerves, Su Hao formed a rough guess about the effect of the third-tier Physician magic potion.

If nothing unexpected happens, the primary ability of the Physician lineage should be related to bodily recovery and bodily transformation.

But what should be used to synthesize such an ability to maximize its effect? Su Hao rubbed his chin, pondered for a long time, then suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he had thought of something, and a hint of joy appeared on his face.

However, to put this into practice, one must wait until the magic potion is brewed.

But before that, Su Hao still needs to replicate the Aggregated Stitching Monster's Stitching Nerves using Infinite Cells.

The higher the monster's tier, the scarcer its numbers become.

If this synthesis result is unsatisfactory, then for Su Hao to find a second Aggregated Stitching Monster and brew a second dose of third-tier Physician magic potion would not be so simple.

To be safe, it's better to first replicate a copy of the Stitching Nerves as a backup.

Anyway, it's only a Supernatural Third Tier item; replicating a copy won't take much time.

Afterward, Su Hao went again to the T235 Experimental Base, took out three portions of Supernatural Fifth Rank Infinite Cells, and performed a synthesis on them.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of the Infinite Cells, the faster they assimilate and replicate bodily tissue, and they can also replicate higher-tier bodily tissue.

Unfortunately, sixth-tier Supernatural items seem rather special; using three portions of Supernatural Fifth Rank Infinite Cells still failed to synthesize them into sixth tier.

Today's synthesis count has only been used once, leaving four chances; Su Hao did not stop there, but instead took out two more synthesis counts and synthesized two fifth-tier Infinite Cells again.

Then he took these three Infinite Cells that had already been synthesized once and performed another synthesis.

One can clearly feel that this synthesis consumed much more mental power.

Even with Su Hao's current mental power strength, he needs to consume Scarlet Essence Blood to restore his mental power before these three Infinite Cells can begin synthesis.

With such great mental power consumption, the required synthesis time is also longer; during the wait, Su Hao first placed the Stitching Nerves together with a portion of Supernatural Fifth Rank Infinite Cells into a glass jar for replication.

For a Supernatural Third Tier item, using Supernatural Fifth Rank Infinite Cells to replicate it finishes in a short while.

Afterward, Su Hao brought a portion of Stitching Nerves and three Black Dragon Hearts back to his room, and began brewing a Supernatural Third Tier Blood Mage magic potion and a Supernatural Third Tier Physician magic potion.

According to the potion formula, Su Hao poured 100 milliliters of pure water, a strand of Stitching Monster's Stitching Thread, and a Man-cutting Grass into a clean glass cup.

After thoroughly stirring, Su Hao, following the method shown in the formula, used mental power to wrap around the Aggregated Stitching Monster's Stitching Nerves and threw it into the glass cup.

As for the other primary ingredient, Su Hao chose Hellish Monster Adhesive.

Since the Physician's primary ability is suspected to be related to bodily transformation, Hellish Monster Adhesive might further enhance the potion's effect.

Using the same method, Su Hao placed the Hellish Monster Adhesive into the glass cup.

The next moment.

The Stitching Nerves and Hellish Monster Adhesive gradually showed signs of melting; the liquid in the glass cup rapidly boiled, and strands of blood-red gas rose from the cup's mouth.

After consuming sufficient mental power, this mass of gas shrank back into the glass cup.

At this point, the brewing of the magic potion is mostly complete.

Afterward, Su Hao used the corresponding method to also brew the third-tier Blood Mage magic potion.

According to Su Hao's estimate, these two potions need to wait until tomorrow night to finish brewing; he did not sit here idly, but took three Black Dragon Hearts from his Storage Bag and used today's last high-tier synthesis count.

During the days he went to the Calamity Swamp, the Black Dragon Hearts had already replicated into four, allowing the first synthesis to begin.

"Hopefully it will succeed in one try..."

That day, Su Hao had been waiting for a long time.

After consuming a Black Dragon Heart, there is a chance to obtain a Dragon-related talent.

The Dragon Race is one of the strongest races in this world; a talent related to the Dragon Race is undoubtedly extremely powerful.

Unfortunately, directly consuming a Black Dragon Heart only has a minuscule chance to obtain that Dragon Race talent.

So Su Hao has held the Black Dragon Hearts for a long time without using them, waiting for them to finish replicating, then synthesizing them to increase the chance of obtaining the Dragon Race talent before consuming.

"Synthesize!"

Su Hao took a deep breath and used the Synthesis Heart on these two hearts.

The next moment.

Su Hao's mental power from deep within his soul surged forth like a tide, quickly consuming more than half of it.

"Hiss!"

"This consumption is surely too great..."

After the Synthesis Heart reached mastery, Su Hao had synthesized many Supernatural Fifth Rank items before, but such massive mental power consumption was still the first time.

However, he did not feel distressed because of it; on the contrary, he looked forward to this synthesis even more, since such enormous mental power consumption meant the result would certainly not be poor.

Perhaps only one synthesis is needed to greatly increase the effect of gaining a talent after consuming the Black Dragon Heart.

In that moment of dazedness, Su Hao's mental power was nearly depleted; if there were no mental power supply, wasting a synthesis count would be tolerable, but if the synthesis materials were damaged, that would be a huge loss.

Su Hao dared not delay; he hurriedly took a handful of Scarlet Essence Blood from his Blood Sea Robe and stuffed it into his mouth to replenish the consumed mental power, finally consuming over a hundred drops of Scarlet Essence Blood to let these three Black Dragon Hearts begin synthesis successfully.

However, the time required for this synthesis was longer than Su Hao had anticipated; it is estimated to take two or three days to complete.

Having waited this long, would Su Hao mind these two or three days? Anyway, there's nothing else to do, so just wait.

"Once the Black Dragon Heart synthesis is complete and the Supernatural Rank advances to third tier, I don't know if I'll have the strength to fight a Supernatural Fifth Rank."

Su Hao's eyes flickered slightly, and a hint of anticipation appeared on his face.

He took a deep breath, calmed his excited emotions, opened the door and walked out toward the planting area.

Whether brewing the magic potion or synthesizing the Black Dragon Heart, neither can be finished in a short while.

Taking advantage of this time, Su Hao plans to test the Treant's talent to see if it truly matches what he thought.

(This chapter ends)