The Marshal’s Wife is Wild
Chapter 291 - 290 Luyi Star Crisis

Chapter 291: Chapter 290 Luyi Star Crisis

The potion to enhance physique still maintained the previous progress.

Old Man Yuan even took out half of his time to teach Qu Tong how to make Interstellar high-grade and Special-grade potions.

The potions configured by Old Yuan were very similar to those of the Alchemist Association, and when Qu Tong asked him about it,

Old Yuan coldly snorted with disdain, "That old fart Lan Jianghong indeed has a bit of a talent for potions, but that’s all he’s got. If it wasn’t for stealing my recipe, he probably wouldn’t be able to configure a Special-grade potion in his lifetime."

"Even if he stole the recipe, what’s the use? The Special-grade potions he makes are substandard products anyway."

Old Man Yuan was very confident in his own techniques and immediately configured a Special-grade potion to show Qu Tong.

Upon examination with a machine:

Attribute: Psychotropic Potion

Purity: 99%

Contains spiritual power action factor: 98%

Grade: Special-grade

Additional flavor: Thousand Gold Orchid

Evaluate Effectiveness: Relieves Mental Outburst (SSS-rank)

It was only slightly worse than the potion Qu Tong made.

It was very time-consuming and spiritual power-consuming for Old Yuan to configure one Special-grade potion; he could only produce one every two days.

As long as Qu Tong had enough ingredients, she could produce a dozen or more in one day.

But the advantage of Old Yuan’s recipe was that it did not require the Seven-leaf Heart, and although the cost of the ingredients was high, there were none that were so rare as to be nearly extinct.

After carefully studying Qu Tong’s spiritual power, Old Yuan came to a conclusion.

The reason why Interstellar pharmacists can only configure a limited number of potions each day is because the machines have a great loss when transforming spiritual power.

Her Special Ability, however, was unique, as it essentially bypassed this step. Her spiritual power and Special Ability were inherently one and the same; even through the machine, the effects of the potions she made were different from the ordinary ones.

For example, human spiritual power is like a murky pond filled with pollution.

The purpose of the potion-making machine is to purify the murky water into drinkable clean water. After all the procedures, ninety percent is wasted just to preserve one tenth.

Qu Tong’s Special Ability, on the other hand, is initially clean water, and not just any clean water, but of a spring’s purity.

Being able to configure just a few potions a day and then needing several days of rest, that’s the normal state for other pharmacists.

Qu Tong’s capability, however, is something that even Old Yuan is envious of.

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When Qu Tong received the news that the Insect Clan was attacking, she was listening to Old Yuan’s frantic rambling.

Qu Tong put down the failed product in her hand, her expression turning solemn, "Let’s learn later, I’m going to take a look outside."

Old Yuan’s Light Brain also went off, and he followed Qu Tong out of the lab.

Qu Tong went outside, where Xuan Ping and Tang Shigui had already gathered and were discussing intensely.

"What’s going on?" Qu Tong looked towards Xuan Ping and the others.

In the past, when the Insect Clan attacked, she had never received a message.

"The Prince’s Consort need not worry, this is an air raid alert initiated by the Military Department. The Insect Clan launches a large-scale attack every few years, and the message we received indicates that the military has already dispatched troops there," Gu Xiu explained to Qu Tong.

"No wonder it’s taken so long this time; they were biding their time for a big move," Xuan Ping commented, his face not showing much concern, suggesting that he had grown accustomed to it.

Upon hearing this, some people around them finally relaxed.

Qu Tong instructed them to attend to their tasks, while she sat down with Xuan Ping and others to check for updates on the Star Network.

This time, the official live satellite broadcast allowed Qu Tong to have a direct visual of the battle situation.

Qu Tong’s guess wasn’t wrong; this attack indeed had some relations to the previous assault on the third-grade star.

Fortunately, Si Yuting had taken precautions in time, setting up a Planetary Shield above residential areas ahead of time.

The Insect Clan coming through the wormhole this time were much larger in scale than before.

Even the insectoids from beyond the frontier on the Insect Star seemed to be responding to some kind of call, beginning their assault toward the interior of the border.

"Have you noticed? The Insect Clan’s assault this time is very systematic, as if someone is commanding them from behind," Qu Tong asked.

"It must be the insect queen commanding from the other side of the wormhole, all the insectoids obey the insect queen," Su Hua guessed.

"Is that so?" Qu Tong gazed at the video, an uneasy premonition dawning on her.

And very quickly, this uneasy premonition came true.

An unusual noise suddenly filled the air, causing everyone to look around before they unanimously raised their heads toward the sky.

"What’s going on?" Xuan Ping and others stood up, not understanding what was happening.

The sounds grew more frequent, and some residents began to show signs of irritation and fear, flocking towards Qu Tong’s location.

Qu Tong called up the planetary monitoring from her Light Brain to check.

She saw the Planetary Shield making booming noises under the continuous strikes from scores of insectoids, low-grade, middle-grade, and high-grade alike, creating successive waves of energy upon impact.

"Insectoids!" Xiang Bin cried out in alarm, "How could the Insect Clan appear on Luyi Star?"

No one could answer him, not even Gu Xiu or Xuan Ping knew what was happening.

Qu Tong’s brows furrowed in an instant, and she opened her Light Brain to message Si Yuting, but a red exclamation mark appeared in the dialogue box instead.

Xuan Ping and the others also tried using their Light Brains, to no avail, encountering the same issue.

"There’s a wormhole that has appeared nearby. The energy around the wormhole is very unstable, making it impossible to send out signals," Hu Qing quickly concluded.

The group exchanged looks, each seeing the gravity of the situation in the others’ eyes.

"Xuan Ping, Hu Qing, Wan Huai, please help to calm the residents of Luyi Star. Su Hua, collect all the Energy Stones from everyone’s hands, and Gu Xiu, help to keep a record. I’ll reimburse everyone later. I’ll head to the control center now, please look after things outside for me," Qu Tong directed calmly, while continuously working on her device, disengaging the isolation shields around the villa and the farm.

The isolation shields were not designed to resist insectoids and would hinder movement if not removed.

The fairytale-like castle and the lush orchard were revealed to everyone, but now no one had the time to marvel as Xuan Ping and the others saluted solemnly and quickly went about their tasks as Qu Tong had instructed.

Tang Shigui and some of the other experienced veterans also joined in to assist.

Qu Tong swiftly returned to the control center, where Old Man Yuan was already inside, replenishing Energy Stones for the Planetary Shield.

"Young girl, give me all of your Energy Stones. Damn it, the depletion of the Energy Stones is incredibly fast," Old Yuan couldn’t help but curse.

Without hesitation, Qu Tong threw all the Energy Stones she had from the two Space Buttons to Old Yuan.

Old Yuan took out several large Energy Stones and inserted them into the slots, then heaved a sigh of relief before walking over to Qu Tong.

"Young girl, do you know what’s going on? It makes no sense for so many insectoids to be here since you’re so far from the frontier."

"I don’t know either, there’s a wormhole around Luyi Star. The last wormhole appeared on a first-grade star, so it’s not strange for it to appear on a remote star," Qu Tong replied without taking her eyes off the control panel.

Qu Tong had already set the Planetary Shield’s defense level to the highest, and systems like the air defense detection, Particle Bullet Defense System, and infrared tracking system were all activated.

Distress signals were also continuously being sent out, the pointer in the small window kept spinning round and round, still showing red.

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