Supreme Electromagnetic Tyrant
Chapter 210 - 161 Dragon Blood Obtained

Chapter 210: Chapter 161 Dragon Blood Obtained

Most of what lay upon the table was US dollars—the green bills bound into dozens of bundles. Ji Xinghuo had counted them once; all were of the highest denomination, worth one hundred thousand each, totaling more than two hundred million dollars. According to the current exchange rate, this amounted to over fifty million Ya Yuan.

Since the 1980s, the value of the US dollar had been lower than that of the Ya Yuan.

To this day, the exchange rate between the two fluctuated between 1:4. Over the long term, the value of the US dollar had been continuously declining.

"Over two hundred million US dollars aren’t easy to offload domestically," Ji Xinghuo observed the pile of money, "we’ll have to try in Olympia."

He packed up the cash and stashed it in his Dimension Stomach.

Besides the US dollar cash, the most valuable items in Gonsaz’s collection were True Dragon Coins, of which there were five—all Golden Dragon Coins.

One Golden Dragon Coin was worth approximately 4.5 million Ya Yuan, totaling 22.5 million!

"This is..."

Ji Xinghuo picked up a crystal and examined it closely before his eyes.

The crystal was a hexagonal column, about ten centimeters in length and around three centimeters in diameter. It felt weighty in hand, semi-transparent, allowing one to see the faint flow of energy inside. It reflected a pale rainbow light, extremely peculiar.

"Ether Crystal!"

Ji Xinghuo’s eyes lit up, recognizing what it was.

Ether crystals were incredibly valuable resources, naturally occurring in the Star Realm, and were also artificially manufactured. They were one of the hard currencies between the Star Realm nations and Galaxy Civilization.

On Earth, the use of ether crystals was quite limited, mostly consumed in maintaining the Spirit Stone World.

In the Star Realm, however, ether crystals had many uses!

Almost all Ether Technology was built upon ether crystals. Various buildings, facilities, and constructions all required the energy of ether crystals to operate. This could simply be understood as the role of oil on Earth before humanity mastered controlled nuclear fusion.

The more powerful and developed the nations and civilizations are, the more they relied on ether crystals.

Ether crystals are also graded according to energy density.

The knowledge of Ether Technology on Earth is still at a primary level and has not entered the practical application stage, so ether crystals have not become common circulation.

You cannot buy ether crystals on the market.

However, their value is far higher than that of True Dragon Coins, at least over ten million Ya Yuan.

Gonsaz’s collection included three ether crystals, all of the lowest grade, yet their total value still exceeded thirty million Ya Yuan. There were also some other miscellaneous items, jewelry, luxury watches, antiques, etc., worth tens of millions of Ya Yuan.

That brought the total to over one hundred million!

Even though Ji Xinghuo was no longer short of money, suddenly acquiring over one hundred million Ya Yuan worth of wealth was a delightful surprise.

"Indeed, a man does not become wealthy without an unexpected windfall, just as a horse does not get fat without grazing at night," he remarked.

Having been the mob boss in Immortal City for over a decade, Gonsaz had surely amassed wealth far exceeding one hundred million; most likely spent on buying mechanical prosthetics, indulging in food and drink, as well as acquiring numerous assets in Immortal City. The contents of the safe were just a small portion.

Ji Xinghuo guessed there were at least several hundred million more in Gonsaz’s bank accounts, but there hadn’t been time to transfer them under the pressing circumstances.

"Such a pity..."

Once everything was packed away, Ji Xinghuo started to think how he might spend the money to convert it into power.

Alien Species were out of the question for now.

His weapons and equipment were sufficient.

Ji Xinghuo’s gaze fell on Qing Hong beside him, who could advance to a Superior Spiritual Object and integrate Alien Species like an intelligent race, but it required special objects to expand its capacity.

So far, Qing Hong had only consumed one Life Spirit Seed.

Having ascended to an Advanced Mutant, he still had one opportunity left to integrate an Alien Species. If he successfully acquired Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood, he would then need more expansion objects.

He accessed the online platform and searched for those special objects.

There were about a dozen known special objects on Earth, but most were only documented and could not be mass-produced, hence unavailable on the market.

"Life Spirit Seed, 8 million."

"Amber Cat’s Eye Stone, 28 million."

These were the two most common types of special objects, both of which Ji Xinghuo had used before. He also found Sky Blue Fruit, but every platform was out of stock.

There was also a synthetic potion called "Red Scale Factor," the only special object Earth had mastered in mass production.

It was made by farming a type of tiny insect called "Red Scale," crushing their bodies upon maturity, and extracting hormones to produce the potion. This was similar to the expensive pigment known as carmine, but more complex and precise, and naturally more costly.

A portion of Red Scale Factor required millions of Red Scales as material. For Mutants below Legendary, consuming it provided an additional opportunity to integrate an Alien Species.

As many companies produced Red Scale Factor, its price was relatively stable.

"55 million!"

Ji Xinghuo shook his head; if not for acquiring a fortune today, even his cash wouldn’t be enough to buy a portion of Red Scale Factor.

Life Spirit Seed, Amber Cat’s Eye Stone, and Red Scale Factor were the three kinds of expansion objects Mutants could buy with money.

For others, it was a matter of luck.

Like Star Tears.

There was no sale of Star Tears on the online platform; rather, there were many buyers with offers around 300 million Ya Yuan.

"No rush, let’s sell the US dollars first."

"After gathering the money, I’ll buy a piece of amber cat’s eye for Qing Hong and a dose of Red Scale Factor for myself," Ji Xinghuo thought. Not all expansion spiritual objects were suitable for Qing Hong, but consumables were perfect, and luckily these three were just that.

He immediately set off for Olympia.

A few hours later, he had sold the US dollars and the jewelry, not keeping even the five True Dragon Coins he just obtained, swapping them for over seventy million Ya Yuan in cash, all of which he deposited into his bank account.

The balance in his bank card was back to nine digits!

Ji Xinghuo felt relieved and checked the time—it was just after eight in the evening—so he called Zhao Manying, and she answered almost instantly.

Zhao Manying’s beautiful face appeared on the screen, a surprised voice came through, "Xinghuo, you’re back?"

"Yeah," Ji Xinghuo didn’t mention the mission, instead asking, "What are you up to?"

"Just had dinner, getting ready to go online and spar with someone in martial arts," Zhao Manying replied with a smile beaming across her face, "Are you asking me out?"

"Yes, I need to buy some stuff, want to join?"

"Sure!"

The two met soon after, and Zhao Manying had changed her look again—today, she was the picture of youthful beauty, a girl-next-door with long black hair and wearing a simple elegant dress. She greeted Ji Xinghuo with a warm hug and excitedly asked, "What are you buying?"

"Red Scale Factor," Ji Xinghuo replied.

Both the amber cat’s eye and the Red Scale Factor were worth tens of millions, and with the high risk of online shopping, buyers typically opted for offline purchases for more reliability and security.

Zhao Manying laughed, "Making a fortune, huh? Planning to buy Red Scale Factor." She had used Red Scale Factor before and was no stranger to such expansion spiritual objects.

"Made a tidy sum on this mission," Ji Xinghuo didn’t hide it.

"Nice, nice," Zhao Manying felt happy for Ji Xinghuo, "Let’s go, I know a store in Chang’an that specializes in expansion spiritual objects and has a good reputation. I’ll take you there."

Happy times always fly by quickly.

In the middle of the night, when Ji Xinghuo arrived home, his Dimension Stomach had an extra piece of amber cat’s eye and a dose of Red Scale Factor, and his bank card’s balance had reduced by over eighty million—an almost complete spending of his cash earnings for that day.

The next afternoon.

Ji Xinghuo was cultivating when he received a message from Zhou Yishang: Your items have arrived.

He hurried to the Qinling Base and entered Zhou Yishang’s office where, apart from Zhou Yishang, the head of the training department, Tan Jichun, was also present.

Both were smiling.

"Director Zhou."

"Sit down, Xinghuo," Zhou Yishang nodded. "The Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood you applied for has arrived. You’ll be receiving it through the proper procedures."

"Why so soon?" Ji Xinghuo was pleasantly surprised, wasn’t it supposed to take three days?

"The Star Realm Department has the authority to distribute the Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood. You helped them recover documents from Shen Yucheng’s possession, preventing significant losses, so they wouldn’t stall your approval. The Sword Bureau received the application this morning and knew it was for you, so they approved it immediately," Zhou Yishang explained.

Ji Xinghuo understood.

At that moment, Tan Jichun opened a cooler in front of him, took out a test tube the size of a finger, and handed it to Ji Xinghuo.

"This is the Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood!"

Ji Xinghuo took the test tube, which contained a pale silver liquid, resembling mercury but even thicker, pulsing with enormous vitality.

An information interface popped up in front of him.

[Alien Species: Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood]

[Grade: Transcendent]

[Fusion Success Rate: 96%]

[Can It Be Upgraded: Yes]

"Just as I thought, the fusion success rate of Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood is very high, much better than Block and Counterattack," Ji Xinghuo felt jubilant and somewhat sentimental. He had tirelessly trained from the age of eighteen to twenty-two, aiming precisely for this Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood.

He thought he might miss it forever, but ultimately, he had it in his hands!

"If there’s no issue, you can sign here," Tan Jichun handed over a receipt panel, and Ji Xinghuo signed his name.

This was a government procedure, the distribution of such items had to follow official channels regardless of their value, not based on the whims of an official.

The distribution process for a dose of Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood required approvals and signatures from many departments and officials.

Tan Jichun looked at the test tube in Ji Xinghuo’s hand, his eyes full of envy, and said, "The Star Realm Department rules that the Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood cannot be taken away privately; you can only fuse it at the Sword Bureau’s base. If you can’t fuse it right now, the Sword Bureau will keep it for you."

"I’m going to fuse it right now," Ji Xinghuo said.

He held the Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood and entered the base’s cultivation room. On the way, he secretly let Qing Hong touch the test tube, gaining new information.

The fusion success rate between Qing Hong and the Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood was 87%, quite high, only second to the Gravity Mutation it had already fused with.

"If there were two doses of Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood..."

Ji Xinghuo shook his head internally; it was impossible. Even if he made more contributions, there was no reason to apply for a second dose of the dragon blood. "Either find another source of dragon blood or upgrade the Alien Coexistence to the next level and let Qing Hong share this Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood; let’s try our luck."

In the cultivation room at the base, Ji Xinghuo shut the door, took out a syringe, drew the dragon blood into the tube, found a vein in his arm, and plunged it in.

The fusion method for Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood was injection.

Ji Xinghuo pushed the syringe gently, slowly injecting all the dragon blood into his bloodstream. Soon, he began to feel the changes in his body.

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