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Chapter 739 Blood of the Sun
At this time, Ming Wang Lin Rui also noticed the arrival of Fang Junhao and the others. He stood up, patted the dirt on his hands, and said with a smile: "God Envoy Fang has arrived? God Envoy Yu Shengzhou has returned from a hundred battles. Thank you for your hard work!"

Fang Junhao's face was solemn. Together with Xiao Xingyi, he bowed deeply to the Ming King. "Your Highness, I, Fang Junhao, pay my respects to the Ming King! As the Demon-Suppressing Divine Envoy, fighting for the Divine Cult is my duty. I do not deserve the hardship."

Lin Rui nodded, then waved towards Fang Junhao and Xiao Xingyi, saying, "Please come closer and take a look. Do you recognize what this is?"

Xiao Xingyi had been paying attention to this project of Shennong Temple for a long time. He smiled but said nothing when he heard this.

Fang Junhao observed carefully, his expression hesitant: "It seems to be a blood sunflower?"

"It's a variant of the Blood Sunflower, a product of extraterritorial demon gene editing technology."

Lin Rui picked the flower of the blood sunflower and played with it carefully in his hand.

This flower is somewhat similar to the sunflower on Earth, so the federal translation of the word is also based on the sunflower.

“Although the gene editing technology of the Extraterritorial Demons is amazing, under the influence of the Light of Purgatory, the DNA of various crops will inevitably mutate if it is even slightly unstable. Therefore, the Shennong Temple is carrying out more than 700 projects simultaneously, but only the blood sunflower in my hand has any hope of success.

From the test plantings, it seems it has not only adapted to the environment of this underground farm, but has also inherited and enhanced the medicinal properties of the Blood Sunflower, purifying some of the Purgatory Light and transforming it into ingredients beneficial to the human body. Using it as the main ingredient in a drug formulation not only provides a strong soothing effect on the mind, but is also effective for both humans and demons. It can also help demons from other realms generate a certain amount of telomerase activity, repairing their telomeres and thus extending their lifespan."

At this point, Lin Rui paused, his eyes gleaming with wonder. "The key is that this variety of sunflower is not only easy to grow, but its growth cycle has also been shortened to five months, only half of what it used to be. The sunflower seed yield has increased by 280%, so it can be made cheap enough."

Fang Junhao was also moved when he heard this: "280%, Your Highness, how do you mean easy to support?"

He understood why His Majesty Ming Wang attached so much importance to this item.

You should know that blood sunflower is a high-level spiritual medicine and the main ingredient of many elixirs and medicines. It has always been possible to rely on picking and cannot be bred and cultivated on a large scale.

"It still has limitations. Currently, it can only survive around the Glorious Altar, with a radius of 200 miles around the main altar and 100 miles around the secondary altar. This creature still has to rely on the power of the Holy Flame of Light to fight against the Light of Purgatory. But even so, it can still earn more than 8000 million taels of divine gold a year, more than doubling the income of our underground farm!
I plan to name this variety of sunflower 'Blood of the Sun', and after the spiritual herbs outside are harvested, I'll start growing it on a large scale."

Lin Rui smiled as he spoke, and bowed to the dozens of 'priests' around him who were either working in the fields or observing and recording. "Our sect was able to harvest such a rare treasure, and its future is bright. This is all thanks to the efforts of you gentlemen. Please accept my greeting!"

Those 'priests' were also flattered and stood up to return the greeting, saying they dared not.

These people are actually members of the Institute of Biology of the East Asian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. They are "alien bodies" of scholars from the two major research institutions, including seven academicians and the research teams they lead.

Seven months ago, Lin Rui reached a cooperation agreement with the East Asian Academy of Sciences and planned to build the "Shennong Temple" within the Church of Light. The East Asian Academy of Agricultural Sciences sent personnel to help the Church develop crop improvement and animal husbandry methods in underground farms, and at the same time cultivate talents within the Church. Lin Rui was responsible for providing shelter.

The Institute of Biology and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are also very interested in this cooperative project.

They were already studying the effects of the "Light of Purgatory" on various crops and organisms. The research of the Church of Light, which used the power of two artifacts, the Holy Thunder Fire and the Glorious Altar, to resist the Light of Purgatory and cultivate various crops on a large scale underground, was of great benefit to their research.

The environment of this underground farm is also unique in the Earth Federation's other underground scientific research bases, so these scholars are very enthusiastic and have taken the initiative to raise a large amount of support funds for this project.

However, Lin Rui did not expect that Shennong Temple would achieve results so quickly.

Although blood sunflower is one of the several elixirs that he designated Shennong Temple to develop, the DNA of this medicinal herb itself is very unstable.

Currently, the Earth Federation's research on the Light of Purgatory and various spiritual medicines of Tianji Star is still at a relatively superficial level, and it has not been able to grasp the deep principles of how the Light of Purgatory affects genes.

Therefore, there is no shortcut to cultivating this elixir, and it can only be done through massive accumulation of experiments.

Therefore, this harvest was really an unexpected surprise. Their luck was really good, which was really encouraging.

Fang Junhao frowned when he heard the words "Glorious Altar", then sighed slightly.

In his heart, he completely sided with the Ming King and believed that the expansion and construction of a new magnificent altar was an urgent matter for the Divine Religion.

Simply because the benefits of this 'Glorious Altar' are so huge!
A magnificent altar can bring in tens of millions of taels of divine gold in the coming months. Who in the Divine Religion would not be tempted?

Previously, Ming Wang used the backup materials left by the seventh generation of leaders and spent six months to build a new "Glorious Sub-Altar".

Its scale is not large, and the sacred fire can only cover an area with a diameter of 1000 miles underground, which is less than one-eighth of the area covered by the main altar.

At that time, many people in the church were opposed to it, believing that it would be a huge waste of manpower and financial resources, but now Fang Junhao wishes that there would be as many glorious sub-altars as possible.

He bowed again and spoke sincerely, "Your Highness, I see that the Regent is very persistent and anxious about the starship. If the headquarters firmly refuses, the Regent may not give up."

Lin Rui raised the corners of his lips slightly when he heard this.

After he knew that the Invincible Dharma King was his mother, he no longer had any interest in poaching Invincible's women.

However, the importance of the "Pure One Altar" now far exceeds that of the starship. He must build more Pure One Altars as soon as possible, and at the same time, transform the glorious altar of the Divine Religion as soon as possible.

This created a fundamental conflict between him and the Invincible Dharma King.

Lin Rui signaled the White-browed Dharma King Yin Wansui to seal off the surrounding area with his conceptual power. He then asked gently, "Do you know why the Regent is obsessed with starships?"

He actually knew the source of the Invincible Dharma King's obsession. His mother must have been driven by instinct and fragmented memories, wanting to return to the Ninth Base City as soon as possible. Although the couple had made plans and arrangements before their deaths, Li Weiliang still instinctively worried about them.

Fang Junhao, however, was not aware of this. He frowned and said, "Your Highness, I have also been trying to understand the Regent's intentions, but the Regent and his close associates are very secretive about this."

Although the Regent gave many plausible reasons for purchasing the starship, Fang Junhao knew that they were all fabricated excuses.

Lin Rui nodded. "I heard from someone close to the Regent that the Regent is planning to build a starship fleet to invade the Ninth Heavenly Demon Homeland. She and the Hundred Winged Sword King both have an obsession with this place and want to go there to find something and do something."

Fang Junhao immediately raised his eyebrows.

He knew that he had not yet entered the core circle of the Invincible Dharma King and had not gained the true trust of the Regent Deputy Leader, but how did His Majesty the Ming King know this?

Who is the 'someone' around the regent?

At this moment, Lin Rui changed his tone and said, "Actually, if the Regent wants to go to the Ninth Heaven Demon Homeland, he doesn't necessarily need to use a starship. He can also use a different body. I heard that the Forest Group has mastered the technology to cultivate different bodies for high-level martial artists. Even if they have reached the ninth level of cultivation, they can achieve the unity of body and soul!"

Fang Junhao's pupils couldn't help but dilate slightly when he heard this. "Can you achieve the unity of body and soul? Your Highness, are you serious? How is this possible?"

The Demon-Suppressing Holy Temple under his jurisdiction was built by the order of the seventh generation leader, and its responsibility is to train the alien practitioners within the Divine Religion.

Therefore, Fang Junhao knew that once a martial artist reached the sixth level or above, it would be impossible to cultivate an "alien body".

After reaching this level, even if an alien body is cultivated, it is impossible to achieve the unity of body and soul, and its combat power is less than one tenth of the original body.

And the higher the level of cultivation, the weaker the alien body's strength.

Therefore, as the demon-suppressing god, he does not have his own mutant body.

"How could it be false? This is an open secret in the Earth Federation. All parties suspect that Lin Rui, the owner of the Forest Group, created a mutant for the masters around the Crown Prince Lin Hao of the Great Song Dynasty. However, no one has yet found evidence."

Lin Rui said leisurely, "However, the cooperation between my Church of Light and Forest Group is getting deeper and deeper. As long as we have enough 'Blood of the Sun' in our hands, I will have enough bargaining chips to ask Forest Group to make a mutant for the Regent."

Fang Junhao's mind moved, and he thought that if this was the case, he could try to test the regent's attitude and perhaps make him change his attitude.

He immediately frowned, "I'm afraid it might not be reliable, and it's hard to gain the trust of the Regent."

"I have a channel and can ask the Goddess of Divine Law to guarantee it. If the Regent still doesn't believe it, we can let someone try it out first to see the integrity and ability of the Forest Group."

Lin Rui waved his hand and turned to look at Fang Junhao. "I wonder if Divine Envoy Fang is willing to mediate on my behalf? Actually, it's not just the regent, but also your Demon Suppression Holy Hall. Since the seventh generation, the Demon Suppression Holy Hall has been in decline. I intend to mobilize elite soldiers and generals from the Divine Cult to join the Demon Suppression Holy Hall. At the same time, the headquarters will fund the cultivation of spiritual and physical bodies for them. In addition, if this 'Blood of the Sun' is a great success, I am also willing to mobilize funds to have the mechanical engineer build 60 quantum spirit summoning instruments for the Demon Suppression Holy Hall to use."

Fang Junhao was moved again.

During the era of the Seventh Generation of Sect Leaders, due to the generally strong combat capabilities of the Demon Suppressors, they not only shouldered the task of reverse infiltration of the extraterritorial demons, but also served as the pillar of military force within the Divine Sect.

However, in the past four hundred years, not only has the Church of Light been repeatedly attacked by the Five Heavenly Gods, but the Demon-Suppressing Holy Temple has also suffered repeated heavy losses.

There are now less than 130 members and only about quantum séance machines.

They even lost control of the "Holy Church of Light" within the extraterritorial demons 100 years ago, and it has gradually declined. Most of their demon-suppressing envoys are mixed up in the lower levels of the demons, and few can get high positions.

The reason why Fang Junhao was able to become a giant within the Divine Religion was mainly due to the Xiliao Diocese and several incense halls that he had previously presided over, rather than relying on the Demon-Suppressing Holy Hall.

It was not until the last six months that the Demon-Suppressing Holy Temple recovered its strength with the support of the Regent.

The reason why the starship fleet under the Regent was able to complete two interstellar trades was because of the assistance of the Demon-Suppressing Temple.

This is also the reason why Fang Junhao is willing to support the Invincible Dharma King.

Fang Junhao pondered for a moment, then bowed and said, "I need to return to Beisheng Diocese as soon as possible. Your Majesty, please wait for good news!"

He was furious and determined, thinking that no matter what, he had to convince the regent to accept the headquarters' decision!

Lin Rui sensed Fang Junhao's thoughts and smiled with satisfaction: "Then I'll have to trouble Divine Envoy Fang."

Naturally, he would not rely solely on Fang Junhao for this matter.

To convince the Invincible Dharma King to suppress her obsession, a multi-pronged approach is necessary, and Fang Junhao is just one of the tools.

Lin Rui used his mind to sense his body, sensing the increasingly powerful body, the increasingly majestic true essence, and the increasingly rich and thick abyss source essence. He couldn't help but feel anxious.

He really doesn't have much time left -

　I have something to do at noon, I will update in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)