Free Web NovelChapter 351: Chapter 199: System Reward: Alchemy and the Seven-Star Wind Pill Furnace
Su Liyan hugged Bengbeng, feeling the waves of heat radiating from her daughter’s body.
Su Liyan touched her daughter’s forehead. It was slightly scorching.
Hearing her daughter’s babbling whimpers, the mother’s heart ached.
Su Liyan circulated the qi in her body, concentrating it in her hands to form a cold energy, which she then channeled into her daughter to suppress the violent, rampant energy within her.
Under Su Liyan’s suppression, her daughter’s condition began to improve. The tightly knitted brows on her face slowly relaxed.
Su Liyan and Bengbeng sat on the ground. The crowd of Xingzi didn’t dare to approach, nor did they make a single sound.
Su Liyan’s mother strode over, taking two steps at a time, and quickly reached Su Liyan’s side. She glanced at her granddaughter’s snake tail but said nothing, instead sitting down to help her daughter suppress the unstable energy inside Bengbeng.
The moment Bengbeng’s strange transformation began, a Xingzi had run out of the forest to Su Liyan’s home to tell the "old sister" everything that was happening here.
After receiving the news, Su Liyan’s mother dropped what she was doing, avoided the villagers, and rushed all the way over.
Under the combined suppression of Su Liyan and her mother, Bengbeng’s seven-colored snake tail transformed back into two legs, returning her to her normal appearance.
As Bengbeng was too young, her constitution was no match for an adult’s. After exhausting her strength, she fell into a deep sleep.
Su Liyan picked up the sleeping Bengbeng and looked at her mother, asking, "Mom, is Bengbeng going to be okay?"
Su Liyan’s mother was rich in experience. Although she didn’t know the exact reason, she could guess the general cause.
Su Liyan’s mother reassured her, "She’s fine. Our granddaughter has a special constitution. Today, she must have been exposed to too much of the Xingzi’s aura, causing her atavistic regression to occur prematurely and making her lose control of the energy in her body. She’s too young; we’ll just have to be more careful in the future."
In front of so many Xingzi, Su Liyan’s mother couldn’t be too direct.
When too many Xingzi gather, the surrounding energy field and aura will change. This isn’t something the Xingzi themselves can control. To put it bluntly, the yin energy becomes too heavy.
It’s like the demonic aura of a yao; it’s impossible to hide even if you want to.
"Daughter, let’s go home," Su Liyan’s mother said, feeling that Bengbeng shouldn’t stay here any longer and they needed to leave quickly.
"Okay!" Su Liyan replied, carrying her daughter and following her mother.
The Xingzi in the reservoir and the forest all called out greetings to Su Liyan’s mother.
"Old Sister, come visit again soon!"
"Take care, Old Sister!"
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A short while ago, Lu Yuan was in his room, sleeves rolled up, tinkering with various materials.
He was engrossed in his work when he suddenly heard the System’s voice.
[Congratulations, Host, for receiving a sevenfold passive reward. You have obtained > and the Seven-Star Wind Pill Furnace.]
[The rewards have been delivered to the Host’s System Space.]
Lu Yuan was stunned. ’Sitting at home, and rewards fall from the sky.’ He couldn’t figure out how the System had activated on its own, and even given him such good things.
’Could the System have a bug?’
Lu Yuan didn’t have time to figure out the reason right now. He continued with his work, soldering the various components needed for a surveillance camera.
He didn’t have a soldering iron, so Lu Yuan could only extend his index finger, circulate his Technique, and gather a Flame on his fingertip.
Although the Flame was small, it was extremely pure and could weld all sorts of metals.
After a long while, Lu Yuan picked up the surveillance camera from the floor, looked it over, and was quite satisfied.
It had taken him nearly an hour to build just one surveillance camera. He then made a few simple adjustments to ensure there were no problems.
Inside this surveillance camera, there was not only a motherboard but also a small gadget similar to a chip. He decided to just call it a chip for now.
This chip wasn’t any more complex or technologically advanced than a modern one. It was impossible for Lu Yuan to create a real chip all by himself.
The research and development for real chips was extremely troublesome; otherwise, the country Lu Yuan came from wouldn’t have been held back by other nations in this area.
The chip Lu Yuan built was designed to detect Void Body Practitioners. He did this by engraving a Celestial Master Talisman onto the chip, using the Talisman to carry the Technique.
It also required a tiny amount of precious metal to store the pure energy Lu Yuan infused, ensuring the engraved Talisman could operate for a long time.
This pure energy was refined from the highest quality Spirit Stones. It took over a hundred blocks of Top Grade Spirit Stone Mine to refine just 5 grams of Crystal Source.
The molecular structure of this Crystal Source was different. It had no radioactive properties, yet it contained an infinite amount of energy.
When Lu Yuan refined the Crystal Source, he first forged a small cauldron from precious metals to extract the Crystal Source from the Spirit Stones.
Each time he refined, the small cauldron could hold at most five blocks of Top Grade Spirit Stone Mine.
Each block of Top Grade Spirit Stone Mine was worth twenty years of a common family’s income.
If the Zhao Mansion didn’t own a mine, how could it possibly withstand such consumption from Lu Yuan?
As for why he didn’t use the Seven-Star Wind Pill Furnace the System had just given him, the name alone suggested it was for Alchemy, not for refining ore.
Although the small cauldron Lu Yuan made could refine ore, it couldn’t do so continuously. It needed to be cooled down and maintained after every period of use.
It was definitely not as good as the one from the System, but the good thing was that he could build it himself. If it broke, he could just make another one.
After a short rest, Lu Yuan began building the second surveillance camera.
In a way, the manufacturing process was also a form of cultivation for Lu Yuan, as his control over the Flame grew more and more skillful...
Over the next several days, Lu Yuan built twenty surveillance cameras, but he didn’t create any display screens or similar devices.
