Refining the Dragon Pearl

Chapter 751 - Daily Life

To make the "Dragon Pearl," embedded with a Magic Array, mimic the exact properties of Little Red Carp's Natal Magic Tool, the "Li Pearl," and, together with specific spirit-locking and spirit-gathering Runes, minimize the influence of this world's Heaven and Earth Rules, Li Bai had infused it with enough spiritual energy to last twenty years.

As for what would happen after those twenty years... that would depend on luck. Perhaps it could hold out for another year or so, but no longer. Once its time was up, the entire "Dragon Pearl" would become an ordinary stone, no longer able to withstand the experiments it had undergone in the past.

Honestly, a twenty-year shelf life was a sign of Great Demon Li's conscience. If he'd cut corners, even one year would have been more than the French deserved for their hundred million euros.

If not for the need to divert the world's attention and let the French take over and shoulder the blame, he wouldn't have gone to such lengths, spending so much effort and precious spiritual energy to craft a "Dragon Pearl" whose appearance was identical to the Li Pearl using orthodox artifact-forging techniques from a renowned Taoist school. It was far beyond the half-baked knockoff methods used by rogue cultivators. Even the Li Pearl was merely a high-quality imitation—an authentic factory-made A-grade item (a surplus batch).

Even though it wasn't genuine, this "Dragon Pearl" was enough to keep the French busy studying it for quite some time. They might not achieve a thing before its shelf life ran out.

After all, even Li Bai himself couldn't explain what spiritual energy was. That made no scientific sense!

He casually found an exquisite wooden box, took a square piece of brocade, wrapped the "Dragon Pearl," which