Of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, Alchemy Came First

Quietly making her way to the main house in the courtyard, the Big Girl first peeked around and looked it over.

After confirming that Li Boyang was not in the house, the Big Girl nimbly shrunk herself and slipped into the house.

Unlike the messy yard, this house has clearly been carefully maintained and arranged.

Apart from the large bed in the inner room, this outer part looks more like a study.

However, instead of books, the shelves next to it displayed specially tanned animal hides and bamboo slips.

The animal hides were painted with various design drawings and mountain and river maps that the Big Girl couldn't understand.

Let's leave aside the design drawings for now.

These were all designs that Li Boyang, with the help of his Primordial Spirit, painstakingly recalled various mechanical structures from his previous life and drew out, designs that he believed might be useful in the future.

As for those mountain and river maps?

Xiluo led Li Boyang across a large part of the Baiyue Mountains, carefully sketching the water sources, Mountain Terrain, and roads.

Although he has been born for more than three years, Li Boyang has never ignored the poverty problem in Li Household Village.

Selecting superior varieties is only the first step in Li Boyang's plan.

If possible, Li Boyang wants to mobilize several nearby villages to jointly build an irrigation canal.

If suitable mud, sand, wood, or even ore is found...

Li Boyang even wanted to build a large enough reservoir upstream of the village.

Only in this way can we completely get rid of the current life of relying on the weather and truly achieve food freedom.

"As expected, it's not here..."

Without giving the bookshelf a second glance, the Big Girl went straight to the desk.

This desk was also made by Li Boyang himself using tools he had found elsewhere.

Although it looks a bit ugly, as the first large object that Li Boyang completed independently, he could never bear to throw it away.

Especially after getting used to it, this table has become a "treasure trove" in the eyes of the Big Girl.

Iron toads, wooden bamboo dragonflies, rough-hewn deformable springs, Rubik's Cubes with outstanding brain-teasing effects, and music boxes that can make sounds...

The drawers of the table are filled with works that Li Boyang is quite satisfied with.

"If I were you, I definitely wouldn't go through his drawers when the doll wasn't there."

Without a sound, Xiluo on the roof beam suddenly lowered her tail, startling the Big Girl.

"Ahem, so you're here!"

Somewhat embarrassed, the Big Girl raised her head, blinked, and tried to put on an innocent look.

Having spent three years with this Big Girl, Xiluo knew her nature all too well, and immediately wagged her tail to intimidate her.

"Big Girl, do you think that kid will be so angry that he won't bring you along if he finds out you've been rummaging through his drawers again?"

Her eyes darted around as the Big Girl tried to organize her thoughts and find a suitable excuse.

"I'm almost nine years old this year, and I've officially had my name chosen."

"My younger brother helped me choose my name; you should call me Li Jingshu now."

"Big Girl..." Li Jingshu emphasized, a hint of slyness flashing across her face.

"Don't change the subject, what are you planning to steal this time?"

She rolled her eyes deftly; Xiluo would never spoil Li Jingshu like Li Boyang did!

"Is this the Five-Colored Stone that Deception Rabbit brought back last time?"

"Of course, after being fired by that doll, they should now be called glass."

The thought that the messy, ugly pile of Five-Colored Stone had eventually been transformed into colorful glass made even Xiluo admire Li Boyang's ingenious idea.

"I heard that the doll originally intended to use these glass pieces to make a telescope."

"But then I heard him muttering something about the purity not being high enough, about too many impurities, and that he was just overthinking things, so that's why it was left over."

Xiluo paused slightly at this point.

"I think that doll will need these glass items sooner or later, so I advise you not to even think about getting them."

At the same time, inside the Ghost God Cave.

As the black dog closed its eyes, it gradually entered a meditative state.

Li Boyang also let out a long sigh of relief and quietly released the hand that had been hidden in his pocket.

Don't be fooled by how confidently Li Boyang just spoke.

But he had already mentally prepared himself for the black dog to suddenly attack at any moment.

It's not an exaggeration to speculate maliciously about the psychology of a mad Ghost God who has been imprisoned for nearly a thousand years.

"Luckily, I didn't have to use it..."

After muttering something under his breath, Li Boyang took out a glass bead about the size of a thumb.

This is the glass that Li Boyang recently created on a whim, using Five-Colored Stone.

This glass has an irregular oval shape, but it is more rounded than natural crystal.

Most importantly, compared to the pure natural Five-Colored Stone, this glass bead subtly displays a vibrant, surging Yuan Qi within.

If this glass bead were allowed to explode naturally, the Yuan Qi within it would be enough to destroy the entire Ghost God Cave.

"Yuan Qi is truly a wondrous thing..."

"The whole world becomes so transcendent because of the existence of this Yuan Qi."

Three years ago, Li Boyang knew that substances imbued with Sha Qi would undergo a kind of sublimation, becoming superior to their original form.

The ugly raccoon sculpture that remains buried at the entrance of Li Household Village to this day is the best proof of this.

However, Li Boyang never expected that the crystal rough stones he had fired would eventually undergo a qualitative transformation.

During the process of Li Boyang firing those Five-Colored Stone, a continuous stream of malevolent Sha Qi surged into the raw stones.

Once it took shape, the surging and violent Sha Qi was completely sealed within the finished product.

Li Boyang knew perfectly well that this was definitely not a characteristic that the Five-Colored Stone should originally possess.

Just like that clay brick that you fired yourself.

The original crystal stone also transformed into a new substance derived from the Five-Colored Stone during the firing process.

Ordinary Five-Colored Stone will transform after being fired by the fire of Sha Qi...

[What if we add bronze? Or iron ingots?]

[Can the unique properties of different materials be preserved by mixing them using the process of forging high-strength steel?]

[Also, is this effect only achieved by Sha Qi fire?]

[What about Xiluo's flames? Could they do the same thing?]

These thoughts flashed through Li Boyang's mind, and he couldn't help but think of the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron in the center of the courtyard.

To this day, learning from the example of the You Xiao and hearing the warning from the Ox-Head, Li Boyang has never actually used the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron to refine anything.

The closest I ever came to activating the Soul-Controlling Cauldron was merely extracting a small amount of the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron's internal fire and isolating it for experimentation and testing.

[If I can successfully use the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron, can I try refining pills?]

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