Li Ditu learned of his Alchemy Talent.
His Guided Plan was complete as well.
Once Li Ditu reported his situation to the Patriarch, among the Qian Generation, the importance placed on him would surpass even Li Qianyin's and rise to first place.
This would increase his voice within the Lineage, even though he was only thirteen and merely at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
"Only a few people in the Lineage will know about your true Alchemy Talent later on." Li Ditu meant the Lineage's core figures.
"Can I tell Yinyin the truth?"
"Want that little girl's admiration? No." Li Ditu shook his head outright. "If you tell her, I'm afraid the whole of Changle Mountain will know within three days."
"All right." Li Qianqing could only nod.
"Qianqing, I know you want the people you care about to know the truth." Seeing Li Qianqing's slight disappointment, Li Ditu decided to put it another way. "But now isn't the time. It'll be fine once you become pillars of the Lineage in the future."
Without question, after three years together, Li Qianyin was certainly a clanswoman Li Qianqing cared about.
Li Qianyin would definitely learn the truth in the future. So long as nothing unexpected happened, she would absolutely become one of the Lineage's core cultivators.
"Close the door. Come in with me now. From here on, the task of refining part of Changle Mountain's White Corn harvest into Fasting Pills will be handed over to you."
To become an Alchemy Master, neither talent nor experience could be lacking.
Li Qianqing was a piece of fine jade, and Li Ditu was about to begin carving him.
After closing the door, Li Qianqing followed behind Second Grandfather.
"Next, you'll use twenty jin of White Corn to refine Fasting Pills. I'll watch you refine them and guide you throughout the process."
"Raise the furnace!"
Under Li Ditu's guidance, Li Qianqing began his first attempt at refining a batch of Fasting Pills from twenty jin of White Corn.
In Second Grandfather's eyes, the process of his Fasting Pill refinement looked fairly smooth on the surface, but upon closer inspection, it was rather unpracticed.
That was the performance of a novice with astonishing Alchemy Talent.
The first batch of Fasting Pills, using twenty jin of White Corn as its ingredients, was complete. Though he had stumbled and bumped his way through the process, he had successfully refined two Fasting Pills.
Li Ditu was very satisfied!
Although he already knew of Li Qianqing's talent, this was pill refinement completed under his guidance.
He was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
"When the White Corn melts down, you must seal the furnace in time. You didn't do well enough on this point, Qianqing. It should be like this..."
In the recap after refining the Fasting Pills, Li Ditu pointed out Li Qianqing's shortcomings bit by bit, and Li Qianqing nodded repeatedly as he listened.
Over the next few days, Li Qianqing refined Fasting Pills under Li Ditu's guidance.
Watching his junior improve as though ascending to the heavens where he stood, Li Ditu had the feeling that Li Qianqing's proficiency in refining Fasting Pills seemed to have already surpassed his own.
During these days of teaching, Li Ditu himself had not improved at all, but he was still immensely happy.
Let alone Li Qianqing possessing astonishing Alchemy Talent—even if his Alchemy Talent had dropped by two grades, he would still have been worth such guidance.
Time flashed by.
Soon, it was the beginning of April.
In March, all of Changle Mountain's White Corn had been harvested. Thirty to forty percent of it would be turned into Fasting Pills.
The Lineage's best Alchemist was on Changle Mountain, so more Fasting Pills were refined here. Of the White Corn from the ancestral land, Changqing Mountain, only a small portion was turned into Fasting Pills. The vast majority was sold directly, while some was kept for the Lineage's cultivators to consume.
The Lineage's cultivators consumed tens of thousands of jin of White Corn every year. This White Corn was basically all planted on Changqing Mountain. With its five Micro Spirit Veins, Changqing Mountain naturally had far more Spiritual Fields cultivated than Changle Mountain.
Multiple Spirit Veins gathered together directly influenced one another.
Generally speaking, for every Micro Spirit Vein one possessed, the effect of each Micro Spirit Vein increased by ten percent. In other words, two Micro Spirit Veins together had an effect equivalent to 2.2 separate Spirit Veins; three Micro Spirit Veins together had an effect equivalent to 3.6 separate Spirit Veins...
A Small Spirit Vein above Micro Spirit Veins required ten Micro Spirit Veins to naturally merge over more than a hundred years before they could become a Small Spirit Vein.
On the morning of the third day of April.
Not long after Li Qianqing had finished tending the Spiritual Fields, he saw the little girl Li Qianyin.
"Qianqing-ge, I finally caught you today. Whenever I came looking for you these past few days, you were nowhere to be found. Where have you been?" Li Qianyin spoke as she walked, voicing her small grievances.
Previously, there had been no one in the Spiritual Fields or in the small wooden house. Unable to find Li Qianqing, she could only go back and cultivate properly.
She had promised her father that she would cultivate diligently. Li Lilong would inspect her cultivation results every year, and if her cultivation did not meet the standard, she would have to return to Changqing Mountain.
Because of her arrangements now, the Changle Mountain clansmen had returned to Changqing Mountain to continue working.
"If you couldn't find me, then I must have been at Second Grandfather's place."
"Why do you keep running to Second Grandfather's place?" Li Qianyin grew even more curious. Judging from how often she came to see Li Qianqing, he went to Li Ditu's residence far too frequently.
Li Qianyin could not think of what her Qianqing-ge was doing with Second Grandfather.
"Refining Fasting Pills," Li Qianqing answered, then explained, "Second Grandfather said my Alchemy Talent is very good and that I can become the Lineage's Alchemist in the future."
"I see."
Li Qianyin had already come to Li Qianqing's side.
She was happy that Li Qianqing had good Alchemy Talent. It meant the Lineage would value Qianqing-ge even more.
Their Li Family currently had only two Alchemists. Among them, Li Ditu had the best alchemy skills. The other was Li Qianyin's Sixth Uncle, whose alchemy skills could only be called barely passable.
"Yinyin, I feel that your talent in some area must be very good too." Taking advantage of the topic, Li Qianqing looked at Li Qianyin as he spoke.
"Mm, I think so too." Li Qianyin nodded in strong agreement.
Qianqing-ge's feeling could not be wrong, and naturally, neither could her own feeling.
"By the way, Qianqing-ge, how did you think of learning alchemy?"
"As for me... I became interested in that aspect and decided to give it a try. It turned out I had pretty good Alchemy Talent, so I gained another direction for future development." Li Qianqing hinted.
If Li Qianyin still did not think of Artifact Refining at this point, then all his earlier effort would have been for nothing.
Earlier, he had deliberately and inadvertently cultivated Li Qianyin's interest in Artifact Refining.
"In that case, I want to try Artifact Refining."
As soon as Li Qianyin said this, Li Qianqing clapped his hands in praise.
"Yinyin, that's a great idea. Artifact Refining is a good choice. The Lineage just happens to lack a good Artifact Refiner. Maybe in the future, you'll become the Lineage's best Artifact Refiner."
"That goes without saying!"
Praised by Li Qianqing, Li Qianyin was very happy, and her interest in Artifact Refining grew even stronger.
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