I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 51 - 7: Among the Hundred Arts of Cultivating Immortality, Alchemy Comes First

Chapter 51: Chapter 7: Among the Hundred Arts of Cultivating Immortality, Alchemy Comes First

Quietly sneaking to the main house of the courtyard, Big Girl first peeked around cautiously.

After confirming that Li Boyang was not inside the house.

Only then did Big Girl swiftly squeeze her way into the house.

Unlike the messy courtyard, this room was obviously arranged and tidied with care.

Besides the large bed in the inner room, the outer part looked more like a study.

But on the bookshelf beside it, there were not books, but rather sheets of specially tanned animal hide and bamboo slips.

On the animal hides were various design diagrams and topographic maps that Big Girl couldn’t understand.

Let’s not discuss those design diagrams.

They were all sketched by Li Boyang, with the aid of his Primordial Spirit, as he diligently recalled all sorts of mechanical structures from his past life; he drew these designs that he thought might be useful in the future.

As for those topographic maps?

They were carefully mapped out by Xiluo as she flew with Li Boyang over half of the Hundred Yue Mountain Range, covering water sources, mountain formations, and road maps.

Even though he had been born into this world for over three years, Li Boyang had never ignored the poverty issue of the Li Family Village.

Selecting good seeds was merely the first step of Li Boyang’s plan.

If it were possible next, Li Boyang wanted to mobilize a few nearby villages to build a canal together.

If they could find suitable silt, timber, or even minerals...

Li Boyang even intended to construct a sufficiently large reservoir upstream of the village.

After all, only this way could they completely shake off the days of relying on the heavens for food and truly achieve food independence.

"Sure enough, he isn’t here..."

Without giving the bookshelf another glance, Big Girl directly went to the desk.

This desk was also made by Li Boyang using those tools outside.

Although it looked a bit ugly, as the first big piece Li Boyang independently completed, he never had the heart to discard this desk.

Especially after getting used to it, this desk had clearly become the "Treasure Pavilion" in Big Girl’s eyes.

A metal toad, a wooden bamboo dragonfly, a rough deforming spring, a Rubik’s cube with an outstanding intellectual effect, and a music box that could play sounds...

In several drawers of the desk, there were mostly works that Li Boyang was quite satisfied with.

"If I were you, I definitely wouldn’t rummage through his drawers while the kid’s away."

Without a sound, the tail of Xiluo suddenly hung down from the roof beam, scaring Big Girl into a shiver.

"Ahem, so you were here!"

Slightly embarrassed, Big Girl lifted her head and blinked, trying to appear innocent.

But having lived together for three years, how could Xiluo not know Big Girl’s nature? She immediately wagged her tail threateningly.

"Big Girl, do you think the kid would bring you along if he knew you were rummaging through his drawers again?"

With her eyes rolling around, Big Girl tried to find the right words, looking for a suitable excuse. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"I’m almost nine years old and formally named."

"The name was given to me by little brother, so you should be calling me Li Jingshu now."

Big Girl... or rather Li Jingshu emphasized this, with a fleeting hint of craftiness on her face.

"Don’t change the subject. What do you plan on stealing this time?"

Xiluo rolled her eyes deftly, not about to spoil Li Jingshu the way Li Boyang did!

"Is it the ’Five-Colored Stone’ that Er Tu brought back last time?"

"Of course, after that kid’s firing, they should now be called ’Glazed Glass’."

Thinking about how that pile of messy, ugly Five-Colored Stone eventually became colorful glazed glass, even Xiluo couldn’t help but marvel at Li Boyang’s ingenuity.

"I heard the kid originally wanted to use this glazed glass to make a ’Thousand-Mile Mirror.’

But later, he muttered something about the purity not being enough, too many impurities, perhaps I overthought it, and so on, and then these were left over."

When she got to this point, Xiluo’s tone paused slightly.

"I think that kid will eventually use this glazed glass, so I advise you not to have your eyes on them."

...........................

At the same time, inside the Ghost God Cliff cave.

As the black dog closed its eyes, gradually entering a state of meditation.

Li Boyang also took a long breath, quietly releasing the hand he had kept hidden in his pocket.

Don’t be fooled by the way Li Boyang spoke so confidently just now.

In his heart, he had long been prepared for the eventuality that the black dog could act out at any moment.

For a crazed Ghost God who had been imprisoned for nearly a thousand years, it was fair game to maliciously speculate about his psyche.

"Glad it didn’t come to that..."

Muttering softly, Li Boyang then took out a thumb-sized Glazed Treasure Pearl.

This was precisely the glazed glass that Li Boyang impulsively produced through smelting Five-Colored Stone some time ago.

The entire piece of glazed glass presented an irregular oval shape but was more rounded than natural crystal ore.

Most crucially, compared to pure natural Five-Colored Stone, the interior of this Glazed Treasure Pearl faintly displayed an excited Primordial Qi phenomenon.

Should this Glazed Treasure Pearl spontaneously explode, its internal Primordial Qi would be enough to destroy the entire Ghost God Cliff cave.

"Primordial Qi is truly a marvelous thing..."

"The whole world becomes so transcendental because of its presence."

As early as three years ago, Li Boyang knew that materials stained with Evil Qi would undergo some sort of sublimation, becoming superior to their original form.

To this day, that ugly raccoon cat sculpture still buried at the entrance of Li Family Village was the best evidence of this point.

However, no matter what, Li Boyang never expected.

The crystal ore that he also fired would eventually undergo a qualitative transformation.

During Li Boyang’s firing process of those Five-Colored Stone, a steady stream of Evil Qi flowed into the ore.

After the shaping process, the surging and violent Evil Qi was unimaginably sealed inside the finished product.

Li Boyang clearly knew that this was definitely not a characteristic the original Five-Colored Stone should have.

Just like that piece of clay brick he fired himself.

The original crystal ore, during his firing process, metamorphosed into a new material derived from the Five-Colored Stone.

[If ordinary Five-Colored Stone undergoes transformation through the firing of Evil Qi...]

[What if bronze were added to it? Or iron ingots?]

[Using the method of forging ’Refined Steel’ to mix different materials, would it be possible to preserve their respective characteristics?]

[Also, is it only the fire of Evil Qi that has this effect?]

[What about Xiluo’s flames? Could they achieve similar results?]

These thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Boyang inevitably thought of the Prison Soul Tripod at the center of the courtyard.

To this day, with the Ghost Owl’s precedent and in addition to the Ox-headed’s warning...

Li Boyang had never truly used the Prison Soul Tripod to refine anything.

The closest he ever came to initiating the Prison Soul Tripod was when he extracted some Pill Fire from it, conducting isolated experiments and attempts.

[If I could really use the Prison Soul Tripod successfully, could I attempt some alchemy?]

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