Life detonator

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements

Exactly what it sounds like. This is a drug with the express purpose of turning your body into a bomb, obviously used for mass terrorism. It also saw quite a bit of wartime use, but gradually fell out of favour with the soldiers after they realised that the usage of this drug left no POWs. Now it’s mostly used by people trying to ‘make a statement’ by killing themselves in public places. All a massive mess.

Ingredients and recipe Styx water, 1 drop – Heart Rending stage fluid High tier enchanted water – Destiny Chasing stage fluid Chaotic ash, 1 gram – Destiny Chasing stage powder Powdered bone heart, 0.5 grams – Destiny Chasing stage powder Purified water, 25 ml – non magical fluid

Lots of research goes into effective explosives, blame weapons manufacturing or whatever. I just want to discuss the effects.

Styx water culls life, within 3 seconds of touching the water directly a mortal will lose their lifespan and wither. We utilise an incredibly small portion to instead wither the person’s soul, causing them to lose most of their emotions and sensations. A fearless suicide fighter from that point on. A recipe to make this is included in the later sections, but buy it for now.

High tier enchanted water is the same as its low tier variant but with a lot more Qi. No way in heaven or hell you can make this stuff yourself.

Chaotic ash is an odd thing, but that’s why chaos is literally in its name. It’s mainly manufactured but sometimes it just appears in the universe. Please note, this method of ‘appearing’ is different from quantum mechanical processes. An effect of throwing caution to the wind and stirring all nearby Qi into a huge, accumulated pot, this will be the thing making the explosion. Now we just need the pot…

Bone hearts do this for us. These hearts are formed by more powerful creatures whose bloodlines place incredible stresses on their hearts, so the result is a sort of bone chassis to redirect forces on it. These bones are excellent at temporarily storing energy before reaching a failure threshold, so a small amount is all we temporarily need. Unlikely you can hunt the beings these come from, so once more buy it.

Creation is boorish and simple this time. The recipe literally exists to allow soldiers to produce it on the spot just moments before capture.

Add the Styx water to the chaotic ash and allow it to rest. Styx water inherently contains no movable Qi, so we only aim to mix the two together for now. Dissolve it into the purified water.

Now add the enchanted water to the powdered bone heart. The fluid produces a natural glow due to high concentrations of Qi, so you will know of its full absorption by the glow fizzling out. This takes 10 seconds on average, but can finish a lot faster if stirred.

Now pour the Qi dense bone heart powder into the purified water and mix well. When the container becomes a dull grey you know the product is ready. If you plan on actually using it… Well, I try to not get involved with this stuff anymore. Hopefully, no one innocent is harmed.

Usage

You drink it. Over the next 10 seconds your emotions will dull and you no longer feel anything. Some people accidentally fall over at this point as their sense of touch completely dies. Learning how to walk and run without any senses is particularly important. Your sense of sight vanishes after 30 seconds, although you do not have the capability of caring by the time it happens.

At the 1 minute mark, give or take a few seconds depending on random chances and the potion itself, you will detonate. Unless you are at the Destiny chasing stage your body vaporises from the quantity of energy which then travels outwards. A mortal who uses this can destroy anything non-magical in a 50 metre radius. Things are harder to calculate once taking building materials and cultivations into account.

The radius is drastically reduced if the user has cultivation, and if they exceed the Destiny chasing stage then this potion fails to work at all. Instead their bodies contain the energy and refine it after the chaotic ash wears off. The Styx water’s effects will also fade after 2-3 days.