Chapter 18: The Civet Cat Sculpture That Is Ugly to the Point of Reaching the Heavens

When the eldest maid carried Li Boyang to find Chen Yun and handed that pitch-black square brick to her.

Chen Yun, who was in the middle of transplanting rice seedlings in the field, just took the black mass in a daze.

It was not until the eldest maid gestured wildly and told Chen Yun everything Li Boyang had done that she looked at Li Boyang in the carrying basket with a strange expression.

Although she had long been convinced that her son was born extraordinary, and had even witnessed with her own eyes what he looked like when his hair caught fire...

Yet, after learning of Li Boyang’s actions, Chen Yun still appeared somewhat at a loss.

It was a feeling of pride mixed with trepidation.

As the only young lady of a prominent family in Li Family Village, Chen Yun was not the type of country woman who lacked worldly experience.

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

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

Gently rubbing the eldest maid’s head, Chen Yun leaned down and whispered a warning.

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

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

A flash of craftiness crossed her eyes, and the eldest maid immediately gave her word.

Living as an orphan and a widow in the village, the eldest maid had long since grown accustomed to the ways of the world.

She knew who was truly good to her, and she was clear about which things should not be spoken of to outsiders.

The eldest maid even had a faint feeling in her heart.

If outsiders were to find out about Little Brother’s monstrous performance, she might never see him again in this lifetime.

"I knew the eldest maid was sensible!"

"However, you must wash your muddy face before you go back; make sure you don't let your mother see it."

Reaching out to wipe the mud off the eldest maid’s face, Chen Yun then cast her gaze back toward Li Boyang in the basket.

"And you, you little brat, I will handle this matter, so don't you go getting involved again."

Blinking his eyes obediently, Li Boyang tentatively put on an innocent smile, but the response he got was Chen Yun’s look of utter disgust.

"Put your fangs away, don't smile so creepily, you’re giving me goosebumps!"

Although she said that, Chen Yun ultimately lowered her head and kissed Li Boyang on the forehead, then said with a face full of doting affection.

"Good son, well done!"

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Facts proved that the initiative of the couple, Li Yu and Chen Yun, far exceeded Li Boyang’s imagination.

In just a few short days, Li Yu organized the young and strong men of the village to build a primitive, crude earthen kiln at the location where the soil was discovered.

Through these earthen kilns, Li Family Village successfully fired real bricks and used them for building walls and creating traps.

Just as it seemed everything was on the right track, a new question arose for Li Boyang.

[Why do the bricks they fire seem a bit different from the ones I fired?]

At nightfall, this was Li Boyang’s conversation with Xi Luo, who was on the roof beam, while holding the Spirit-Rhino Horn.

The square bricks Li Boyang fired that day were pitch-black, while the bricks fired by the village were a normal earthy red.

Not only that, according to Li Boyang’s observations, he discovered that the red bricks fired by the village were also inferior to his black bricks in terms of hardness.

"Nonsense, of course they're different!"

"What you possess, little brat, is the Fire of Malice; how could those mortal fires compare to it?"

Rolling her eyes in annoyance, Xi Luo felt that Li Boyang was talking nonsense.

"The bricks you fired were tainted by malice, so they naturally possess a strength and ferocity that surpass ordinary bricks."

"If you were to place them at the village entrance, I guarantee that ordinary wild beasts would never dare to approach this place..."

When she reached this point, Xi Luo’s voice paused slightly.

"No, let alone ordinary wild beasts."

"With your current manifestation of malice, even ordinary spirits and monsters would likely have to weigh their options before approaching here."

Xi Luo was not exaggerating; she was stating a fact.

When it came down to it, the malice of the Rufei is a curse, not a blessing.

The malice that poured into Li Boyang’s body twenty-four hours a day had long since exceeded the scope of what a normal living being could withstand.

The most critical point was that Li Boyang was not simply expelling that malice from his body.

His sword pellet, Heavenly Eye, and even his body were absorbing and digesting the power of this malice, appearing even more ferocious than the natural-born fierce god that was the Rufei.

It is easy to imagine what kind of deterrent power the bricks eroded by Li Boyang’s malice possessed.

[Listening to your description, why does it feel like a wild beast peeing to mark its territory?]

Listening to Xi Luo’s explanation with black lines on his forehead, such an image surfaced in Li Boyang’s mind.

"Pretty much, it’s all the same thing anyway..."

Licking her paws, Xi Luo appeared indifferent about it.

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

Hearing Xi Luo’s inquiry, Li Boyang immediately remembered the main topic of their meeting.

[After my practice these past few days, I can roughly control the force now!]

Before the words had even faded, the sword pellet in Li Boyang’s dantian could be seen rotating leisurely.

The next second, under Li Boyang’s manipulation, the sword pellet flew out of his dantian and appeared in the dim room.

Compared to the obvious sound of breaking air from last time.

The sword pellet appeared silently this time, without making any sound at all throughout the process.

"Truly impressive..."

Seeing that golden sword pellet again, Xi Luo still could not hide her shock.

Compared to the last time, when it was soaring through the clouds and filled with killing intent.

The sword pellet now looked even more delicate, exquisite, and obedient to his will.

[That’s nothing, let me show you something even more impressive!]

With a proud display of multitasking, Li Boyang manipulated the sword pellet to fly toward the black brick placed on the table not far away.

Swish!

The golden sword pellet instantly transformed into a stream of light.

It actually circled the black brick at high speed, carving it like an embroidery needle.

After just a few breaths, when the sword pellet stopped, the black brick tainted by malice had already been carved into the outline of a civet cat.

"..."

Because the precision and maneuverability displayed by the sword pellet were simply too outrageous.

Xi Luo even forgot to make a snide remark for a moment, just staring intently at the small, harmless-looking sword pellet.

[How is it? Isn't it very impressive!]

Only when startled by Li Boyang’s words did Xi Luo blink her eyes.

Then she slowly shifted her gaze, looking at the carved civet cat with a face full of disgust.

"Is this supposed to be me? It’s too ugly!"

Just as Xi Luo said, that carved civet cat was indeed ugly to the point of reaching the heavens.

With a crooked nose and slanted eyes, a long body and short legs, plus that curled-up posture...

If one hadn't known beforehand that it was a civet cat, an ordinary person probably wouldn't be able to distinguish its prototype at all.

[Wait, the key point doesn't seem to be here, right?]

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