Mu Jinyu heard Xia Ruochen muttering with a bit of helplessness, turned his head to look at him, and said: "Not so many people are needed!"

"Ah?" Xia Ruochen was taken aback and looked at Mu Jinyu in surprise.

Mu Jinyu explained: "You still don't get it. This pill furnace is not controlled by an alchemist to manage the heat for alchemy. It's a specialized automated alchemy furnace I developed. Think of the traditional pill furnace as an ordinary stove, and my batch of pill furnaces are like electric rice cookers..."

"Electric rice cooker?" Xia Ruochen's eyes gradually lit up, he spoke out.

Mu Jinyu nodded: "That's right. To automatically refine a furnace of Essence Qi Pills, it takes about ten minutes. The person in charge just needs to put in the materials for the first batch, and the remaining nine minutes, the furnace will complete the process of extracting, merging medicinal liquids, and forming the elixir on its own..."

"So, at the speed of putting materials for Essence Qi Pills every minute, one person can manage ten pill furnaces, which means seven hundred people are enough. With shifts for rest included, one thousand four hundred people should be sufficient."

Listening to Mu Jinyu's explanation, Xia Ruochen suddenly realized, looking at Mu Jinyu with admiration and a bit of oddity.

He really didn't expect that alchemy could be automated like this.

No wonder Mu Jinyu is confident in providing elixirs for the entire nation!

Mu Jinyu, ignoring Xia Ruochen's reaction, continued: "The task of controlling the alchemy furnaces and putting in materials is relatively easy, so one person can manage ten furnaces. However, the harder part is finding people who understand pharmacology or can be trained to accurately divide the spiritual medicine into batches of materials for Essence Qi Pills, for a truly simple and streamlined process..."

Mu Jinyu spoke as he raised his hand to point at the towering pile of spiritual medicine beside him.

These spiritual medicines are all piled together, not yet divided into batches of materials for Essence Qi Pills.

If they're just placed here, by letting the person managing the furnace pick spiritual medicine for refining Essence Qi Pills, it would either require a lot of time to find the main and auxiliary medicines, wasting time, or they might take too much material, resulting in waste.

So the best approach is to hire a batch of skilled pharmacists to accurately divide this pile of spiritual medicine into batches for Essence Qi Pills.

Then when the person managing the furnace comes to get the medicine, it saves time and avoids wasting materials.

Originally, Mu Jinyu planned to perfect this strategy slowly and roll it out at ease, but didn't expect the sudden global winter, forcing him to speed up solving these issues, making time a bit tight.

Not only is there a lack of automated pill furnaces, but also a shortage of pharmacists to categorize the materials.

This is rather troublesome.

And he can't stay here indefinitely to divide materials himself. With that time, he could forge more automated pill furnaces, couldn't he save more lives?

"For skilled pharmacists, I'll see how many can be found..."

Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Xia Ruochen understood the importance of this position and quickly notified his subordinates to search across the country for traditional Chinese medicine doctors and bring them to Qinling.

Although hospitals have many doctors, most rely on instruments for surgical operations and might not be suitable for pharmacology, so Xia Ruochen directly ordered them to find traditional Chinese medicine doctors.

While Xia Ruochen was making calls, Mu Jinyu pondered slightly, then went out to call Zhou Yi, asking him to stop training people and come to Qinling first.

He was considering that, in case they couldn't find suitable pharmacists to allocate spiritual medicine and he didn't have time to do it himself, Zhou Yi would be the best choice.

First, he was now a top-grade Second-grade alchemist and could even refine Third-grade elixirs, easily controlling materials for the small Essence Qi Pills. Second, he had the strength of the Divinity Transformation Realm, so his speed in dividing the materials would far exceed ordinary people.

With a casual wave, he could divide hundreds of Essence Qi Pills materials.

Though this speed might not match the pace of seven hundred people controlling seven thousand pill furnaces, once ordinary pharmacists grasp the specific measurement of materials for Essence Qi Pills, it might be sufficient.

After both Mu Jinyu and Xia Ruochen finished their calls and returned to Qinling's folded space, Mu Jinyu started dividing materials for Essence Qi Pills himself.

This way, when the first batch of people arrives, they can immediately start mass refining Essence Qi Pills.

Xia Ruochen, seeing this, felt a sense of urgency rising within.

They must seize the time to refine as many Essence Qi Pills as possible for the entire nation before the brutal snowstorm arrives, striving to distribute these pills to save lives.

And the cold wave may hit in a day or two, but either way, they're not left with much time...

Hence, Xia Ruochen summoned a group of idle people to throw the divided materials from Mu Jinyu into the neatly arranged alchemy furnaces.

"Boom Boom!!"

Among the idle members of Great Xia Dragon Sparrow present, there were only two hundred-plus, but each was quite skilled, capable of managing a dozen pill furnaces.

Thus, nearly all the seven thousand-plus alchemy furnaces Mu Jinyu brought were activated, absorbing spiritual energy from Qinling and starting automated alchemy.

Ten minutes later.

Mu Jinyu had divided all the matured materials for Essence Qi Pills cultivated over the past seven days into batches complete with main and auxiliary medicines, enough for three hundred forty million packets.

And with each batch producing five pills, three hundred forty million batches could turn into 1.7 billion pieces of Essence Qi Pills!

If all could be refined successfully today, and the cold wave fully hit tomorrow, the first day, everyone should be able to survive.

But in later stages, with not enough matured spiritual medicine and inefficient furnaces, not everyone could consume a piece of Essence Qi Pills to survive.

At that point, casualties might start appearing...

"Let's not think too much now. If enduring the first day's cold wave somehow causes billions to transform into Masters of Dark Energy due to changes in spiritual energy, many elixirs could be saved. Let's forge pills first..."

Mu Jinyu shook his head slightly, no longer overthinking, and started refining Essence Qi Pills.

With his strength, refining a First Grade elixir doesn't take ten minutes like those alchemy furnaces.

In almost a second, Mu Jinyu could complete the extraction, fusion, and forming elixir steps, refining a batch of Essence Qi Pills.

And the batch contained nine pills, with nine Danwen Essence Qi Pills!

Such Essence Qi Pills have potent efficacy, enough for one to endure three days post-consumption in a brutal winter.

While Mu Jinyu was constantly refining pills, Xia Ruochen called over a thousand martial arts school trainees from nearby towns via Great Xia Dragon Sparrow.

Then began teaching them how to take packets and refine elixirs.

The task was now transferred to them.

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