Guiding Li Qianyin

Guiding Li Qianyin

After 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, putting him in first place.

This would increase his voice within the Lineage, even though he was only thirteen years old and merely at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

"From now on, only a few people in the Lineage will know about your true Alchemy Talent." The people Li Ditu meant were all core figures of the Lineage.

"Can I tell Yinyin the truth?"

"Want that little girl's admiration? No." Li Ditu shook his head directly. "If you tell her, I'm afraid the entire clan on Changle Mountain will know within three days."

"Alright." Li Qianqing could only nod.

"Qianqing, I know you want the people you care about to know the truth." Seeing Li Qianqing's slightly disappointed look, Li Ditu decided to put it another way. "But now isn't the time. Once you become pillars of the Lineage in the future, then it will be fine."

Without a doubt, after spending three years together, Li Qianyin was certainly a clan member 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, 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 it.

After closing the door, Li Qianqing followed behind Second Grandfather.

"Next, use twenty jin of White Corn to refine Fasting Pills. I'll watch you refine them and guide you throughout the process."

"Start the furnace!"

Under Li Ditu's guidance, Li Qianqing began his first attempt at refining a batch of Fasting Pills with twenty jin of White Corn.

In Second Grandfather's eyes, his Fasting Pill refinement process seemed fairly smooth at a glance, but upon closer inspection, it was quite unpracticed.

This was how a novice with astonishing Alchemy Talent performed.

The first batch of Fasting Pills made from twenty jin of White Corn was complete. Though he stumbled and bumped his way through the process, he successfully refined two Fasting Pills.

Li Ditu was very satisfied!

Although he already knew of Li Qianqing's talent, these pills had been refined under his guidance.

He was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

"When the White Corn melts down, you must seal the furnace in time. Qianqing, you didn't do well enough on this point. It should be like this..."

In the post-refinement review, Li Ditu pointed out Li Qianqing's shortcomings one by one, while Li Qianqing nodded repeatedly as he listened.

For 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 had already surpassed his own.

During these days of teaching, Li Ditu himself had not improved at all, yet he was still exceedingly happy.

Let alone Li Qianqing possessing astonishing Alchemy Talent—even if his Alchemy Talent had dropped two levels, he would still have been worth guiding like this.

Time flew by.

Before long, it was early April.

In March, all the White Corn on Changle Mountain had been harvested, with thirty to forty percent of it 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 made into Fasting Pills. The vast majority was sold directly, while some was kept for the Lineage's cultivators to eat.

The Lineage's cultivators consumed tens of thousands of jin of White Corn every year. This White Corn basically all came from Changqing Mountain's cultivation. With its five Micro Spirit Veins, Changqing Mountain naturally had far more Spiritual Fields opened up than Changle Mountain.

When multiple Spirit Veins were together, they directly affected one another.

Generally speaking, for every additional Micro Spirit Vein, 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, while 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 fuse over more than a hundred years before they could become a Small Spirit Vein.

The morning of the third day of April.

Not long after Li Qianqing finished tending the Spiritual Fields, he saw that little girl Li Qianyin.

"Qianqing-ge, I finally caught you today. When I came looking for you the past few days, I couldn't find you anywhere. Where have you been going?" Li Qianyin spoke as she walked, voicing her little complaint.

Before, there had been no one in the Spiritual Fields and no one 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 checked her cultivation results every year, and if her cultivation did not meet the standard, she would have to return to Changqing Mountain.

Now, because of her arrangement, the clan members of Changle Mountain had returned to Changqing Mountain to continue working.

"If you couldn't find me, then I was definitely at Second Grandfather's place."

"Why do you keep running to Second Grandfather's place?" Li Qianyin grew even more curious. Based on the number of times she had come to find Li Qianqing, he went to Li Ditu's residence far too often.

Li Qianyin could not figure out what her Qianqing-ge was doing by visiting Second Grandfather.

"Refining Fasting Pills," Li Qianqing answered, then explained, "Second Grandfather said I have good Alchemy Talent and can become an Alchemist for the Lineage in the future."

"I see."

Li Qianyin had already come to Li Qianqing's side.

She was also very 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. Li Ditu had the best alchemy skills among them, while the other was Li Qianyin's Sixth Uncle, whose alchemy skills could only be considered barely adequate.

"Yinyin, I feel that you must also have great talent in some area." Taking advantage of the topic, Li Qianqing looked at Li Qianyin as he spoke.

"Mhm, I think so too." Li Qianyin nodded in wholehearted agreement.

Qianqing-ge's instincts could not be wrong, and naturally, neither could hers.

"By the way, Qianqing-ge, how did you think of learning alchemy?"

"As for me... I became interested in it, so I gave it a try. It turned out I had fairly good Alchemy Talent, and now I have another direction to develop in the future." Li Qianqing hinted.

If Li Qianyin still could not think of Artifact Refining at this point, then all his earlier efforts would have been in vain.

Before this, he had been deliberately and inadvertently cultivating Li Qianyin's interest in Artifact Refining.

"In that case, I want to try Artifact Refining."

The moment Li Qianyin said this, Li Qianqing clapped his hands and cheered.

"Yinyin, that's a great idea. Artifact Refining is a fine choice. The Lineage just happens to lack a good Artifact Refiner. Maybe in the future, you'll become the Lineage's best Artifact Refiner."

"Of course!"

Praised by Li Qianqing, Li Qianyin was very happy, and her interest in Artifact Refining grew even stronger.