Chapter 51: The Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, Pill Refining Comes First

Stealthily creeping toward the main room of the courtyard, the eldest maid first poked her head in to look around.

After confirming that Li Boyang was not in the room.

The eldest maid then shrank her body and nimbly slipped inside.

Unlike the messy courtyard, this room was clearly well-maintained and organized.

Aside from the large bed in the inner room, the outer area looked more like a study.

It was just that what was displayed on the bookshelf to the side were not books, but sheets of specially tanned animal hide and bamboo slips.

Drawn on the animal hides were various design blueprints and maps of mountain and river terrain that the eldest maid could not understand.

Not to mention those design blueprints.

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

As for those maps of mountain and river terrain?

They were maps of water sources, mountain ranges, and roads that Xi Luo had carefully traced while flying Li Boyang over a small half of the Baiyue Mountains.

Although he had been born into this world for over three years, Li Boyang had never ignored the poverty of Li Family Village.

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

If it were possible later on, Li Boyang wanted to mobilize the nearby villages to build an irrigation canal together.

If he could find suitable mud, sand, timber, or even ore...

Li Boyang even wanted to build a sufficiently large reservoir upstream from the village.

After all, only in this way could they completely shake off the current life of relying on the heavens for food and truly achieve food freedom.

"Sure enough, not here..."

Without sparing the bookshelf another glance, the eldest maid went straight to the desk.

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

Although it looked a bit ugly, as the first large object Li Boyang had completed independently, he had never been able to bear throwing it away.

Especially after getting used to it, this desk had become a "treasure vault" in the eyes of the eldest maid.

An iron toad, a wooden bamboo dragonfly, a crude deformation spring, a Rubik's cube with outstanding educational effects, and a music box that could make sound...

In the desk's several drawers, there were basically works that Li Boyang was quite satisfied with.

"If I were you, I certainly wouldn't take advantage of that brat's absence to rummage through his drawers."

Silently, Xi Luo suddenly lowered her tail from the rafters, giving the eldest maid a start.

"Cough, cough, so you're here!"

Lifting her head with some embarrassment, the eldest maid blinked her eyes, attempting to put on an innocent look.

However, having spent three years with the other, how could Xi Luo not know the eldest maid's character? She immediately flicked her tail to intimidate her.

"Eldest maid, guess if that brat finds out you've come to rummage through his drawers again, will he be so angry he won't bring you along?"

With her eyeballs rolling around, the eldest maid tried to organize her words to find a suitable excuse.

"I'm already almost nine years old this year, and I've officially been given a name."

"The name was even given to me by Little Brother; you should call me Li Jingshu now."

The eldest maid... or rather Li Jingshu, emphasized this, a flash of inadvertent cunning crossing her face.

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

Nimbly rolling her eyes, Xi Luo would not spoil Li Jingshu the way Li Boyang did!

"Is it the 'five-colored stones' that the rabbit brought back last time?"

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

Thinking of how that pile of messy, ugly five-colored stones had actually turned into colorful glass, even Xi Luo couldn't help but marvel at Li Boyang's whimsical ideas.

"I heard that brat originally wanted to use this glass to make a 'thousand-mile mirror'."

"But later I heard him muttering about the purity not being enough, too many impurities, and that he had overthought it, which is why these were left over."

When she reached this point, Xi Luo's tone paused slightly.

"I think that brat will use this glass sooner or later, so I advise you not to set your sights on them."

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At the same time, inside the Ghost God Cliff cave.

As the black dog closed its eyes and gradually entered a state of meditation.

Li Boyang also let out a long breath, quietly loosening the hand he had been hiding in his pocket.

Don't let Li Boyang's confident words from just a moment ago fool you.

He had long been mentally prepared for the black dog to lash out at any moment.

For a mad ghost god imprisoned for nearly a thousand years, no amount of malicious speculation about his psychology was too much.

"Good thing I didn't have to use it..."

Muttering softly, Li Boyang then took out a thumb-sized glass bead.

This was precisely the glass Li Boyang had refined from the five-colored stones on a whim some time ago.

This glass was generally an irregular oval shape, but it was more rounded than natural raw crystal.

Most crucially, compared to pure natural five-colored stones, the interior of this glass bead faintly showed a phenomenon of exuberant Qi surging.

Once this glass bead were allowed to burst naturally, the Qi within it would be enough to destroy the entire Ghost God Cliff cave.

"Qi really is a marvelous thing..."

"The entire world has become so transcendent because of the existence of Qi."

As early as three years ago, Li Boyang knew that substances contaminated by baleful energy would undergo a certain sublimation, becoming superior to the original material.

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

However, Li Boyang had never expected.

That the raw crystal he had fired himself would also undergo a qualitative transformation in the end.

In the process of Li Boyang firing those five-colored stones, a continuous stream of baleful energy had poured into the raw stones.

Once they took shape, that surging, violent baleful energy was actually sealed inside the finished product, intact.

Li Boyang knew clearly that this was definitely not a trait the five-colored stones should have had.

Just like that clay brick he had fired himself.

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

[Ordinary five-colored stones will transform after being fired by the fire of baleful energy...]

[Then what if bronze is added? Iron ingots?]

[By mixing different materials in the way of forging 'hundred-refined steel', is it possible to retain their respective characteristics?]

[Also, is it only the fire of baleful energy that has such an effect?]

[What about Xi Luo's flames? Can they also achieve the same thing?]

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Li Boyang couldn't help but think of the Prison Soul Cauldron in the center of the courtyard.

To this day, with the cautionary tale of the Ghost Owl, plus the warning from the Ox-Head...

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

The closest he had come to starting the Prison Soul Cauldron was merely extracting a little of its pill fire to conduct experiments and attempts in isolation.

[If I can really successfully use the Prison Soul Cauldron, could I try to start refining pills?]

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