Chapter 51: Hundred Arts of Cultivation, Alchemy Comes First

Quietly sneaking up to the main house in the courtyard, Big Girl first poked her head out to take a cautious look around.

After confirming that Li Li Boyang was not inside the house.

Big Girl then shrank her body and skillfully slipped into the room.

Unlike the messy courtyard, this room had clearly been carefully tidied and arranged.

Besides the large bed in the inner chamber, the outer part looked more like a study.

However, what was placed on the bookshelf nearby were not books, but sheets of specially tanned beast skins and bamboo slips.

Drawn on those beast skins were various design schematics and mountain range maps that Big Girl could not understand.

Let alone those design schematics.

They were all designs Li Li Boyang had drawn, relying on the help of his Primordial Spirit, by diligently recalling various mechanical structures from his past life, which he believed might be useful in the future.

As for those mountain range maps?

They were water source, mountain terrain, and road maps that Xi Luo had carefully traced after flying with Li Li Boyang over nearly half of the Baiyue Mountain Ranges.

Although he had been born into this world for more than three years, Li Li Boyang had never neglected the poverty problem in Li Family Village.

Selecting good seeds was merely the first step in Li Li Boyang's plan.

If possible in the future, Li Li Boyang wanted to mobilize several nearby villages to jointly build an irrigation canal.

If suitable mud, wood, or even minerals could be found...

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

After all, only in this way could they completely break free from the days of relying on the weather for food and truly achieve food freedom.

"Sure enough, he's not here..."

Without even glancing at the bookshelf again, Big Girl went straight to the desk.

This desk was also made by Li Li Boyang using those tools from outside.

Although it looked a bit ugly, as the first large object Li Li Boyang had completed independently, he could never bring himself to throw this desk away.

Especially after getting used to it, this desk had quite literally become a "Treasure Pavilion" in Big Girl's eyes.

Iron toads, wooden bamboo dragonflies, crude deformation springs, exceptionally effective puzzle cubes, and music boxes capable of making sounds...

In the several drawers of the desk were placed mostly works that Li Li Boyang was quite satisfied with.

"If I were you, I certainly wouldn't rummage through his drawers while that doll is away."

Silently and without warning, Xi Luo suddenly lowered her tail from the beam, startling Big Girl into a shiver.

"Ahem, so you were here after all!"

Looking up somewhat awkwardly, Big Girl blinked her eyes, trying to put on an innocent expression.

However, having lived with the other party for three years, how could Xi Luo not know Big Girl's nature, so she immediately wagged her tail to threaten her.

"Big Girl, guess if that doll finds out you came to rummage through his drawers again, will he be so angry that he won't bring you along next time?"

Her eyeballs rolling around, Big Girl tried to organize her words to find a suitable excuse.

"I am almost nine years old this year, and I have officially been given a name."

"The name was given by Little Brother, so you should call me Li Li Jingshu now."

Big Girl... or rather Li Li Jingshu, emphasized this, with a hint of inadvertent cunning flashing across her face.

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

Xi Luo rolled her eyes skillfully; she would never spoil Li Li Jingshu like Li Li Boyang did!

"It's the 'Five-Colored Stones' that Fraud Rabbit brought back last time, right?"

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

Thinking that those messy, ugly Five-Colored Stones had eventually turned into colorful Glass, even Xi Luo couldn't help but praise Li Li Boyang's whimsical ideas.

"I heard that the doll originally wanted to use this Glass to make a 'Telescope'."

"But later he muttered that the purity wasn't high enough, there were too many impurities, and that he had overthought it, so these were what remained."

When speaking to this point, Xi Luo's tone paused slightly.

"I think that doll will eventually use this Glass, so I advise you not to set your sights on them."

At the same time, inside the Ghost and Demon Cliff Cave.

As the Black Dog closed his eyes tightly and gradually entered a meditative state.

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

Although Li Li Boyang had just spoken so confidently.

His heart had long been prepared for the possibility that the Black Dog might suddenly erupt at any moment.

For a mad God and Demon imprisoned for nearly a thousand years, no amount of malicious speculation about his psychology would be excessive.

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

Mumbling quietly, Li Li Boyang then took out a thumb-sized Glass gem.

This was the Glass Li Li Boyang had smelted from the Five-Colored Stones during a sudden whim a while ago.

The Glass as a whole presented an irregular oval shape, yet it possessed a bit more roundness than natural raw crystal.

Most crucially, compared to pure natural Five-Colored Stones, the interior of this Glass gem faintly displayed a phenomenon of leaping Primordial Spirit energy surging.

Once this Glass gem naturally exploded, the Primordial Spirit energy within it would be enough to destroy the entire Ghost and Demon Cliff Cave.

"Primordial Spirit energy is truly a wonderful thing..."

"The entire world has become so transcendent because of the existence of Primordial Spirit energy."

As early as three years ago, Li Li Boyang knew that substances soaked in Evil Qi would undergo a certain sublimation, becoming superior to their original form.

To this day, that ugly cat sculpture still buried at the entrance of Li Family Village serves as the best proof of this point.

Yet no matter what, Li Li Boyang had never imagined this.

The crystal raw stones he had fired himself had ultimately undergone a qualitative transformation as well.

During the process of Li Li Boyang firing those five-colored stones, an endless stream of baleful Qi poured into the raw stones.

Once they took shape, those surging, violent baleful Qi had been sealed inside the finished products completely intact.

Li Li Boyang knew clearly that this was absolutely not a quality the five-colored stones originally possessed.

Just like that mud brick he had fired himself.

The original crystal raw stones had also, during his firing process, transformed into a new substance born from the five-colored stones.

【Ordinary five-colored stones, after being fired by the baleful Qi flame, will transform…】

【Then what if we add bronze? Iron ingots?】

【Using the method of forging 'Hundred-Refined Steel' to mix different materials—could it preserve each of their individual properties?】

【Also, is it only the baleful Qi flame that has such an effect?】

【What about Xi Luo's flame? Could it do the same thing?】

These thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Li Boyang instinctively recalled the Prison Soul Cauldron in the center of the courtyard.

To this day, with the lesson of the Dark Owl before him, and coupled with Ox-Head's warning…

Li Li Boyang had never truly used the Prison Soul Cauldron to refine anything.

The closest he had come to activating the Prison Soul Cauldron was merely extracting a bit of its pill flame, isolating it separately for experiments and attempts.

【If I really can use the Prison Soul Cauldron smoothly, could I then try alchemy?】

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