Chapter 450: Wealthy Woman

Chapter 450: The Rich Woman

"Do you really have a solution?"

Alice gazed at Levi in astonishment.

She was utterly amazed.

She hadn't expected that Levi, after merely observing the so-called production process of Hundred Blossom Essence for a short while, would find a way to solve the problem.

It should be noted that she had visited the stone cave where fresh flowers were stored more than once.

Yet she still couldn't figure out exactly how Hundred Blossom Essence was produced.

She only knew roughly what needed to be done, but not the underlying principles.

Because Alice's mind lacked the concepts of "microorganisms" and "fermentation."

That was why she couldn't understand.

Levi took out some collected microbial liquid and fresh flowers to demonstrate to Alice.

He placed the fresh flowers inside a transparent glass cup.

Then he sprinkled some transparent liquid containing microorganisms.

"Look, this is the normal production speed. It takes about three days to ferment all the fresh flowers into impure Hundred Blossom Essence full of impurities."

Alice looked at what he held in his hands with a confused expression.

She completely failed to understand what Levi was doing.

Just as Alice was about to ask a question,

A ball of flame appeared in Levi's palm, startling the queen bee backward several meters, causing her to retreat far from Levi.

He placed the flame outside the glass cup. Under his control, the flame surrounded the glass cup, continuously emitting a fiery light of forty-two degrees Celsius that shone upon the glass cup.

Under suitable temperature conditions, the speed at which microorganisms decomposed the fresh flowers greatly increased.

Visible spots began to expand on the surface of the fresh flowers.

This time Alice understood. She had seen similar fresh flowers in the stone cave.

"Are you saying that roasting with fire can improve the efficiency of producing Hundred Blossom Essence?" Alice asked.

She only saw the surface phenomenon.

Levi replied, "Exactly, but the key isn't the flame itself, but rather the temperature."

"Maintaining the temperature inside the stone cave at forty-two degrees will accelerate the fermentation speed."

"And then there's nutrition."

As Levi spoke, he took out a small piece of meat and threw it into the glass cup.

When the meat came into contact with the microorganisms, it quickly disappeared.

Alice showed an astonished expression. She didn't understand why the meat vanished.

After consuming the meat, the microorganisms obtained abundant nutrients and energy, rapidly reproducing and dividing, with their numbers surging dramatically.

With increased numbers, the fermentation speed accelerated even further.

In just a few minutes, the fresh flowers melted before Alice's eyes into a pool of pale pink liquid.

Levi poured out the pink liquid and, after simple purification, obtained Hundred Blossom Essence identical to what was found in the stone cave.

Seeing Levi's series of operations easily produce a drop of Hundred Blossom Essence, Alice widened her eyes in disbelief.

"How did you do that?"

Alice exclaimed in amazement.

Levi explained the principle to her.

Alice asked puzzledly, "What are microorganisms?"

Seeing this, Levi waved his hand and said, "Never mind. Just know that doing it this way can improve production efficiency."

He didn't have time to explain the concept of microorganisms to Alice from scratch.

Seeing this, Alice pouted somewhat discontentedly, feeling that Levi thought she was too stupid to deserve an explanation.

Soon, she became serious again and said, "Then I'll leave it to you from now on. What do you need?"

Levi said, "Help me find some magic stones and filter screens. The finer the filter screen, the better."

Alice nodded and said, "Mm, I'll have someone bring the items over right away."

"Then I'll go prepare the magic array first." Levi walked toward the stone cave where fresh flowers were stored.

After taking a few steps, he remembered something and said, "Oh, by the way, prepare some more meat. Although these microorganisms are good at fermenting fresh flowers, they prefer eating meat."

Alice nodded, "Mm, I understand."

"Can ordinary animal meat be used, or does it have to be magical beast meat?" Alice asked.

Levi said, "Magical beast meat is best. Magical beast meat contains more energy."

Alice responded, "Good, I'll prepare it right away."

Levi went to prepare the constant-temperature magic array and modify the filtration system.

Alice prepared the consumables.

Arriving at the stone cave where fresh flowers were stored. Levi wasn't skilled at magic arrays. He hadn't even learned how to set them up.

But he had his own methods.

Levi's method was very simple and direct.

He directly placed several eternally burning fireballs inside the stone cave.

For him, this was much easier than creating a magic array.

He only needed to slightly employ intermediate-level fire rules to accomplish it.

These fireballs would automatically absorb surrounding fire elements to replenish energy, constantly emitting a steady temperature.

Slightly exceeding forty-two degrees.

After all, when the fiery light reached the layers upon layers of fresh flowers below, the temperature would definitely be less than at the topmost layer.

Besides automatically absorbing fire elements to replenish energy, Levi also prepared to use magic stones to power several of the fireballs.

This was why Levi had asked Alice to prepare magic stones.

Then came excavating the underground rock layers and reconstructing the filtration system.

Relying on sandstone cracks for filtration was too inefficient and slow.

Levi used red mother copper to forge pipes for collecting Hundred Blossom Essence, and arranged multi-layer filtration and purification devices on the pipes.

When the Hundred Blossom Essence flowed out of the pipes, it would be the Hundred Blossom Essence that Alice needed.

Levi completed all these tasks.

Alice had also brought the supplies.

"Levi, I’ve brought everything you asked for. Where should I put the magic stones and the magical beast meat?"

Levi climbed up from the underground.

"Just toss the magical beast meat right into the stone cave," he said. "Don't worry, it won't contaminate the essence of the hundred flowers."

"Give me the magic stones."

Alice handed all of the magic stones over to Levi.

They were contained within a separate spatial ring.

Levi took the spatial ring, glanced inside, and a look of surprise crossed his face.

He had not expected Alice to prepare over a thousand magic stones.

He was somewhat speechless. "There is no need for so many."

"Use them as you see fit," Alice replied. "Any leftovers are yours."

Levi's heart stirred slightly, suddenly struck by Alice's immense generosity.

This amounted to over a thousand gold coins.

She truly was the lord of a city, an indisputably wealthy woman.

Alice brought out another spatial ring and began dumping the magical beast meat into the stone cave.

Seeing that the meat was on the verge of filling the cavern entirely, Levi hurriedly called out to stop her.

"Wait! Even if I told you to just dump it, you didn't have to stuff the entire cave full!"

"Spreading a single layer across the ground is quite enough."

Levi felt a bit embarrassed.

Was this a case of having too much money with nowhere else to spend it?

Such extravagance.

Hearing this, Alice took back some of the excess magical beast meat.

After Levi finished arranging the magic stones, more than eight hundred remained.

Even by exerting his utmost effort, he had only consumed a little over a hundred of them.

Five constant-temperature fireballs, with twenty-five magic stones deployed for each.

Levi handed the remaining magic stones back to Alice.

Alice waved her hand and said, "I told you, whatever is left over belongs to you."

With no other choice, Levi helplessly accepted them.

Then, he proceeded to instruct Alice on how to change the filter screen on the copper pipe.

"The residue left after filtration will clog the screen, so it needs to be replaced at regular intervals," Levi explained.

Alice stood beside him, watching his movements, and nodded to commit them to memory.

Afterward, the two of them walked over to the end of the copper pipe.

Drop after drop of the hundred-herb essence distilled and fell.

The speed was dozens of times faster than it had been originally.