Sam holed up in the research and as the first step, he tried to clearly understand the detailed working process of the cylinders.
He understood the core principle on how they work and which part of it contributes to what aspect.
But there is still a lot he has to learn, how to make each and every component and what makes that component possibly change the energy from particle form to liquid form.
He has to understand that.
And he started the research from the Parent formation cylinder.
He created a simulation of the cylinder on the second floor of the divine dimension and started proceeding.
The research started and Sam forgot about the time. He just spent studying and trying to obtain something from that research.
The first objective is the transparent cylindrical body. He can actually reconstruct a spirit stone back to its original form.
He can change shapes, but ultimately what he could do is just make it a larger spirit stone. He couldn't find any other purpose to it.
But this cylindrical body which is also made of the same material as the spirit stones is different.
After creating the simulated model, he started subjecting it to various simulated tests. He used all kinds of elemental attacks on it, physical attacks, and much more.
The elemental attacks are surprisingly ineffective. None of the elements, even the spatial elements directly used on it didn't work. Physical attacks have some effect. A constant physical abuse would make it crack and the void style is most effective of all.
As for elemental explosions caused by destabilizing the spirit stones, that made the cylinders most vulnerable.
If the cylinder is within the area of the explosion, the exposed part instantly vaporized as if it never happened.
Sam couldn't understand how someone managed to make the empty spirit stones into something like something, but he is extremely excited to reverse engineer this.
For more than a month he kept on doing all kinds of experiments on it to see how it would react.
He tried to mold the material with the direct manipulation ability he has, but that only resulted in making the structure collapse.
His manipulation ability might not be delicate enough for the job.
But soon, he managed to find out another feasible method.
This also requires spiritual energy manipulation, but in a completely different way.
He instantly drew a large formation and placed a bunch of empty spirit stones in the middle of it. He started injecting the spiritual energy from the outer edge of the formation.
The energy moved slowly and in a dense way at that.
There were a lot of spirit stones on the outer edge of the formation along with Sam and he slowly channeled the energy from them into the formation.
The energy that entered the formation from all sides is circulating in many currents within the formation and as they moved inwards, the energy currents started merging with one another.
By the time they reached the circle where the empty spirit stones are kept, only three dense energy currents are left.
They all enveloped the empty spirit stones and Sam slowly but forcefully injected the dense spiritual energy into the spirit stones uniformly, making them temporarily active. Not on a cellular level but as the object as a whole.
He used his observation ability and manipulation ability to carefully manipulate the shape of the stones as with the temporary force activation of the empty spirit stone as a whole, the solid stone itself became a lump of dense energy.
The manipulation is a bit difficult and it took up a lot of mental strength Sam and when the whole process was done, Sam fell on the ground as he panted heavily with the headache.
He slowly stood up and made his way to the center of the formation to take a look at the final product. A flat circular disc made of empty spirit stone material.
He checked the structure of the object and the internal structure which should have been present was completely gone. There are still faint traces of it, unlike the original cylinder.
But he checked the properties of the material with different experiments, and they are extremely similar and it is not exactly a problem to use it instead of the cylinder.
Now, his research took a different turn, how to produce it more effecticiently.
This manufacturing method is not going to be feasible. The energy cells are already a commodity only he can which made him limit the production a long time ago.
But he cannot let the same thing happen to this product, he is going to make this product that could be mass-produced.
He dove right into the research.
Days became weeks, weeks became months.
Not just in the divine dimension, even outside, it has been a few months Sam stayed in the divine dimension and he even lost the track of how long he stayed as he dismantled, analyzed, reverse-engineered, and even modified every single component to his purpose.
The energy liquidation process.
The liquefied energy storage process.
The liquefied energy transmission process.
He researched everything and got many different by-products in the process.
After six months passed outside the divine dimension, Sam finally came back.
When the people looked at his state, they were stunned by what they saw. Sam is very particular about his hair and how he looked.
Even though people preferred long hair in this world, he always cut the hair short, but now it grew beyond his shoulders. He got a lot of facial hair.
He looked like a completely different person as he muttered a lot of different things.
Things that no one around could understand at all.
Sam is still in a daze as he groomed himself back to normal and kept on thinking about what he had done.
There are many results, but all of them are experimental products. He needs to find possible methods to mass-produce some of them as some of the products are not suitable for him to release in this world.
As much as Sam wanted to stop creating easily accessible weapons of mass destruction, it seems like he couldn't stop himself.
His relation with destruction seemed to be never-ending and their existence is always together.
He calmed himself down after a long time and finally met with the team.
"Boss, let's start the third phase operations, the rest of the players already started it."
"I know, I still remember them asking if they could go and me giving them a greenlight half-mindedly. How far behind are we?"
"Not much actually, no matter how early the rest started, they are at most Pre-transcendent stage cultivators of Astral Plane.
Players are using some long shots. In the past six months, they are barely able to take one each and even and only some of them managed to finish the second target halfway." Five elemental King explained.
"You broke through?" Sam asked in surprise as he sensed the energy while looking at the reports.
"Yes, the changes in the body improve my cultivation speed by a lot."
Now Sam has another Transcendent stage, Astral Plane cultivator.
Even Agar and Argan broke through to peak stage. Kiran is on his way to the transcendent stage and might have a breakthrough in the next few months. And even Paras and Vidyut might reach the middle stage in that time.
The team is getting stronger. Sam lamented a little as he lacked a lot of progress in the last few months.
He went through the list and said.
"We need to take down at least thirty-six phase organizations. We can leave the rest to the other players.
These thirty-six will be divided into three different phases.
The first twelve are the organizations with a middle-stage Transcendent stage cultivator in charge.
The second twelve are the late-stage and the final twelve are the peak stage.
We are going to go after these particular organizations.
Paras, fourteen out of these thirty-six are actually organizations you want to focus on. There is a possibility they are involved in your incident and they would have extra information.
Night Ghost, you are going to collect the souls of every person that is killed and store them. I would need some of those souls. Particularly I want the souls of people specialized in formations, artisanship, inscriptions, and healing.
I want you to nurture them in special containers I am going to give you.
As for the rest of the souls, you can use the high-level ones as you like and all the souls that are useless to you will be used by me.
The rest of the team can take any resources they acquired from the families themselves. Except for the mines and spirit stones and the family heirlooms.
I want every one of you to focus on cultivation while this journey.
All the current Transcendent stage cultivators should reach Consummation before the end of these thirty-six organizations.
All Pre-transcendent stage cultivators should reach the later stage of the Transcendent stage.
We are moving right away.
Generally, we would have started with the First-Twelve of the list, but we are making an exception this one time."
Sam proceeded to explain their next target.
