Chapter 1: Atypical Transmigrator

When Li Li Boyang opened his eyes again, he had already escaped that endless darkness.

Yet his eyes still could not see anything; he could only vaguely hear conversations from outside that he did not understand at all.

But Li Li Boyang did not find this strange.

Because he knew he was still an unborn infant, an embryo not yet fully formed.

Strange as it may be, though his brain had only just begun to develop, Li Li Boyang already possessed preliminary thinking and learning abilities.

Day after day, month after month, he listened to those conversations from outside.

Li Li Boyang was using a learning ability that no normal infant could possibly possess to familiarize himself with and learn the language of this world.

【So, am I a genius in this life?】

As that thought flashed through his mind, Li Li Boyang began to carefully sense his current state.

Unexpected yet entirely logical.

What truly supported Li Li Boyang's thinking was not this underdeveloped infant body.

At Li Li Boyang's dantian, a sword pill existing between presence and absence, appearing in a semi-transparent state, was his true soul vessel.

【So I have become a sword spirit?】

As a new-generation transmigrator from the twenty-first century, Li Li Boyang possessed sufficient capacity to accept and understand.

As for how Li Li Boyang became a sword spirit?

Through constant retrospection of his fragmented memories.

In a daze, Li Li Boyang seemed to witness a life of a "non-template transmigrator."

After transmigrating to a strange otherworld, he received no special opportunities or golden fingers.

Instead, due to the death of his physical body, his soul was abnormally exposed before a peculiar old man.

Then, that old man screamed and laughed wildly in a language Li Li Boyang could not understand, swiftly capturing him.

By the time Li Li Boyang reacted.

That old man had already thrown him into a massive alchemical cauldron, attempting to refine his soul with a terrifying three-colored flame.

Unacceptable to heaven, unacceptable to earth, and not falling into reincarnation...

As a soul from another world, no matter how the old man tortured Li Li Boyang, he always maintained the attribute of "indestructibility."

Until the old man produced a small golden sword, Li Li Boyang's soul was finally refined by that huge alchemical furnace and merged into the small golden sword.

His memories from before the transmigration also began to become fragmented at that moment.

【So the question arises: how did I escape from his hands?】

【And why did I turn into this fetus-like form now?】

Although a myriad of doubts filled his mind, Li Li Boyang's mood was extraordinarily calm.

He knew his current state was not normal, yet he could not generate even a shred of anger or hatred.

The old man's various actions, though they did not completely refine Li Li Boyang's soul, still produced some profound and lasting effects upon him.

Extreme calmness, or rather indifference, was merely one of the side effects.

Without the interference of the seven emotions and six desires, Li Li Boyang could more calmly, from the perspective of a complete observer, examine everything happening to himself.

【Emotions are merely biological hormones...】

【Once I regain a body, I will sooner or later recover my emotions.】

Thinking thus, Li Li Boyang closed his eyes again, quietly sensing the development process of his body in this life.

Then Li Li Boyang noticed the "crack" at his brow, which was clearly not a normal biological developmental organ.

【Pineal gland?】

【No, that is the third eye; it is the Heavenly Eye!】

If Li Li Boyang still had emotions now, he would certainly have been utterly astonished.

Li Li Boyang was unsure whether that Heavenly Eye was an essential organ for creatures in this world.

But he could clearly realize that this not-yet-fully-formed Heavenly Eye differed from normal biological organs.

Merely attempting to open that Heavenly Eye, Li Li Boyang saw the formless things resembling blood and qi surrounding his embryo.

This was when the embryo was still in the prenatal stage.

A nutrient substance specifically produced by the maternal placenta to allow the child to grow healthy and robust.

Although he had never seen anything similar, this did not hinder Li Li Boyang from seeing its function and making use of it.

Hoo!

With his own rhythmic fetal breathing, those nutrient substances were accelerating their integration into Li Li Boyang's body, causing his body in this life to grow in a more perfect form.

And different breathing rhythms seemed to also affect the embryo's absorption of those nutrient substances.

Therefore, through the observation of that not-yet-fully-formed Heavenly Eye at his brow.

Li Li Boyang began to consciously control the rhythm of his fetal breathing, absorbing and digesting those nutrient substances to the maximum extent.

It was also during this process that Li Li Boyang noticed those nutrient substances were actually effective for the sword pill at his dantian as well.

Or more precisely, the sword pill at the dantian and the Heavenly Eye at the brow were the organs with the highest utilization rate for those nutrient substances.

After the sword pill absorbed those nutrient substances, its entire body became even more brilliant.

After the Heavenly Eye absorbed those nutrient substances, its formation speed became faster and faster.

After Li Li Boyang's comparison and observation.

He discovered that if relying on a normal infant's absorption of those nutrient substances, the Heavenly Eye could not possibly form within the mother's ten months.

【From this perspective, does the Heavenly Eye seem to be a 'discarded organ' abandoned during the process of biological evolution?】

After reaching this conclusion, Li Li Boyang truly did not know how to comment.

After all, the Heavenly Eye required too many nutrients; discarding it during the embryonic stage was simply the most correct choice possible.

Because biological evolution never evolves toward "perfection" or "the strongest."

"Suitability" is the unchanging principle of biological evolution.

【It can promote the secondary development of "waste organs" and also has a certain strengthening effect on the Sword Pill and the soul.】

【Could those nutrients be the "Primordial Qi" of Daoist legend?】

As this thought flashed through his mind, Li Li Boyang quickly retracted his slightly distracted thoughts.

【Now is not the time to think of such things...】

【So far, there is still a more important problem waiting to be solved!】

【Can my mother in this life provide enough nutrition for my development?】

If it were the twenty-first century, Li Li Boyang would not worry about this problem at all.

But the problem now is that if the world he is in is that strange old man's world, then it has nothing to do with any technological era.

Referencing Earth's ancient feudal, or even slave society periods.

It is a very normal occurrence for a mother to be unable to provide sufficient nutrition for an infant, or for a stillbirth to occur due to various accidents, or even for both mother and child to die.

【It seems research and utilization of the "Primordial Qi" must be put on hold for now.】

【I must first ensure that I can be born safely, rather than becoming a stillbirth due to excessive greed.】

Having been reborn as a human again, Li Li Boyang has a clear understanding of this.

Thus, he began to listen more seriously to the various sounds and conversations coming from the outside world.

Language... is often the first threshold to understanding the world.

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