A Raccoon Cat Sculpture Ugly Beyond the Heavens

When Big Girl found Chen Yun with Li Boyang on her back and handed her the pitch-black brick,

Chen Yun, who was transplanting rice seedlings in the field, simply took the lump of black material in bewilderment.

Only after Big Girl told Chen Yun everything Li Boyang had done, gesturing animatedly all the while, did she look at Li Boyang in the carrying basket with a strange expression.

She had long been certain that her son had been born extraordinary, and she had even seen his hair catch fire with her own eyes...

But after learning what Li Boyang had done, Chen Yun was still somewhat at a loss.

It was a feeling of pride mixed with fear.

As the only young lady from a well-to-do family in Li Household Village, Chen Yun was no ignorant country woman.

At the very least, Chen Yun knew what the brick in her hand meant.

"Be good and don't tell anyone about this."

Gently rubbing Big Girl's head, Chen Yun bent down and gave her the quiet reminder.

"Mm, I know, Sister-in-law."

"This is Little Brother's secret. I won't even tell my mother!"

A flash of cunning passed through Big Girl's eyes as she immediately gave her assurance.

Living in the village with only her widowed mother, Big Girl had long since grown accustomed to the ways of the world.

She knew who was genuinely good to her, and she also knew which things should not be spoken of to outsiders.

Big Girl even had a faint feeling in her heart.

If outsiders learned how monstrously gifted Little Brother was, she might never see him again for the rest of her life.

"I knew Big Girl was sensible!"

"But you need to wash that filthy face before you go back. Don't let your mother see it."

Chen Yun reached out and wiped some mud off Big Girl's face before turning her gaze back to Li Boyang in the carrying basket.

"And you, little rascal, I'll take care of this. Don't get involved anymore."

Li Boyang obediently blinked and tried putting on an innocent smile, only for Chen Yun to respond with a look of disgust.

"Put those fangs away and stop smiling so creepily. You're giving me goosebumps!"

Despite what she said, Chen Yun ultimately lowered her head and kissed Li Boyang on the forehead, then spoke with an indulgent smile.

"My good boy, well done!"

As it turned out, Li Yu and Chen Yun were far quicker to act than Li Boyang had imagined.

In just a few days, Li Yu organized the village's able-bodied men and built a primitive, crude pit kiln at the spot where the clay had been found.

Using these kilns, Li Household Village successfully fired real bricks and put them to use building walls and making traps.

Just as everything seemed to be getting on track, a new question arose for Li Boyang.

Why do the bricks they fired seem a little different from mine?

At nightfall, Li Boyang held the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn and had this conversation with Xiluo, who was perched on a roof beam.

The brick Li Boyang had fired that day was pitch-black, while the bricks fired in the village were an ordinary earthy red.

Not only that, but Li Boyang also observed that the red bricks fired in the village were not as hard as the black brick he had fired himself.

"Obviously they're different!"

"You have Sha Qi fire, kid. How could ordinary fire compare?"

Xiluo rolled her eyes irritably, thinking Li Boyang was stating the obvious.

"The brick you fired was imbued with Sha Qi, so it naturally has strength and ferocity beyond those of an ordinary brick."

"If you put it at the village entrance, kid, I guarantee ordinary wild beasts wouldn't dare come near this place..."

At that point, Xiluo paused briefly.

"No, never mind ordinary wild beasts."

"Judging by your current Sha Qi, even ordinary spirits and monsters would probably have to think twice before coming near here."

Xiluo was not exaggerating. She was stating a fact.

After all, Ruifu's Sha Qi was a curse, not a blessing.

The Sha Qi that poured into Li Boyang's body without pause, twenty-four hours a day, had long since exceeded what a normal living creature could endure.

Most importantly, Li Boyang was not simply expelling that Sha Qi from his body.

His Sword Pill, Heavenly Eye, and even his body were absorbing and digesting the power of this Sha Qi, making him seem a little more of an Ominous Deity than Ruifu, who had been born one.

It was easy to imagine how much deterrent power a brick imbued with Li Boyang's Sha Qi possessed.

The way you describe it, why does it sound like a wild beast peeing to mark its territory?

As he listened to Xiluo, black lines filled Li Boyang's face, and that image surfaced in his mind.

"Pretty much. It's the same thing either way..."

Xiluo licked her paw, looking entirely unconcerned.

"Speaking of which, how has your practice gone these past few days?"

Xiluo's question immediately reminded Li Boyang of the main reason for their meeting.

After practicing these past few days, I can more or less control the force now!

Before he had finished speaking, the Sword Pill in Li Boyang's Dantian began to spin slowly.

The next second, under Li Boyang's control, the Sword Pill flew out of his Dantian and appeared in the dim room.

Compared with the distinct sound of it cutting through the air last time,

the Sword Pill appeared silently this time, making no sound at all.

"Amazing..."

Seeing the golden Sword Pill again, Xiluo still could not hide her shock.

Compared with the last time, when it had soared into the clouds, brimming with killing intent,

the Sword Pill now looked more delicate and moved as freely as he wished.

That's nothing. Let me show you something even better!

Rather proudly dividing his attention between two tasks, Li Boyang guided the Sword Pill toward the black brick on a nearby table.

Whoosh!

The golden Sword Pill instantly turned into a streak of light.

Like an embroidery needle, it circled the black brick, cutting into it at high speed.

A few breaths later, when the Sword Pill stopped, the black brick imbued with Sha Qi had been carved into the rough shape of a raccoon cat.

"..."

The Sword Pill's precision and controllability were simply so outrageous that

Xiluo even forgot to make a snide remark for a moment, staring without blinking at the small, harmless-looking Sword Pill.

Well? Impressive, isn't it?

Only when Li Boyang's words snapped her out of it did Xiluo blink.

Then she slowly looked away and stared with disgust at the carved raccoon cat.

"Don't tell me that's supposed to be me? It's so ugly!"

Just as Xiluo said, the carved raccoon cat really was ugly beyond the heavens.

Its nose was crooked, its eyes were slanted, its body was long and its legs were short, and on top of that, it was curled up in a ball...

If they hadn't been told beforehand that it was a raccoon cat, most people probably wouldn't have been able to tell what it was modeled on.

Isn't that beside the point?

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