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Jiang Lichun settled into Li Xiaoyao's home temporarily, as Li Xiaoyao gave up his own room for him to stay in while he moved into Tang Tiantian's room.

Approaching midnight, Tang Tiantian called.

This had become a nightly routine during this period.

Tang Tiantian was extremely busy recently, busy finding students in impoverished areas and then having face-to-face chats with them, asking if they wanted to attend school and if their belief in studying was strong enough.

Every day, Tang Tiantian would be busy until late, sometimes falling asleep amidst her work, and sometimes mustering up the energy to have a phone call with Li Xiaoyao.

"Xiaoyao, do you miss me?" Tang Tiantian whispered from her temporary accommodation in a local's home.

"I do." Li Xiaoyao lay on the soft bed, hearing Tang Tiantian's voice, visions of their tender and sorrowful moments continuously playing in his mind.

"Today I chatted with a few kids, they are all very simple and innocent, and I suddenly found myself really enjoying talking with them."

Tang Tiantian talked about a lot on the phone, her spirits lifting more and more as she spoke, and eventually, she stopped talking about the children, shifting to talk about her expectations for future life.

"Tiantian, is there someone by your side?" Li Xiaoyao suddenly asked.

"No, why?" Tang Tiantian's female intuition sensed that Li Xiaoyao might be entertaining some naughty thoughts.

"Hehe." Sure enough, Li Xiaoyao chuckled mischievously and asked, "Do you miss me?"

Tang Tiantian's cheeks turned slightly red as she softly hummed in affirmation.

How could she not miss him?

The two were deeply in love, yet separated by distance, and she thought of Li Xiaoyao day and night. Fortunately, she was so busy during the day that she hardly had time to think about him.

But when night fell, that longing surged like a tide, making her wish she could instantly fly back to Li Xiaoyao's side.

Li Xiaoyao spoke sweet nothings to her, and he too seemed to feel Tang Tiantian's exhaustion as they talked themselves to sleep.

Tang Tiantian fell asleep, but Li Xiaoyao was left wide awake.

Sitting up in bed, Li Xiaoyao put aside his stray thoughts and closed his eyes to familiarize himself with the Nourishing Pill recipe, deciding to concoct the pill that very night.

While he was missing the main ingredient, the Hundred-year Wild Ginseng, he had a 120-year-old specimen of he shou wu which could serve as a substitute.

This was Li Xiaoyao's first attempt at pill-making. He took out all the necessary ingredients for the Nourishing Pill and laid them on the bed.

Looking at these ingredients, Li Xiaoyao suddenly froze. He realized he had overlooked a very important detail.

The Alchemy Furnace!

Li Xiaoyao opened the System, located the Alchemy Furnace section, and a mere casual glance made him grimace.

The cheapest alchemy furnace cost 100,000 Spirit Stones...

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Li Xiaoyao examined the System intently as if he had discovered a new continent.

He remembered that the System had been upgraded.

Li Xiaoyao glanced at his own Spirit Stones, recalling clearly that before the upgrade, he had 2,488 Spirit Stones.

But now, there were more, a total of 3,988 Spirit Stones!

It was strange—how did he suddenly gain so many Spirit Stones? Where did they come from?

"However, these Spirit Stones should have uses beyond just purchasing items in the System, right?"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

With a spark of insight, Li Xiaoyao looked at the Storage Ring on his finger.

The Spirit Stones piled up like a small mountain within the Storage Ring had now completely vanished, and this also confirmed Li Xiaoyao's speculation.

"Indeed, it's just as I thought!"

Li Xiaoyao's eyes glinted with a bright light, and with a slight thought, an irregularly shaped, emerald-green stone appeared in his hand.

"Such abundant Spiritual Energy!" Li Xiaoyao observed the Spirit Stone in his hand and suddenly had some ideas.

If the Spirit Stone were used for Cultivation, his strength would certainly increase at an extremely rapid pace.

However, if he were to use the Spirit Stone for his own Cultivation, he would not be able to purchase items from the System.

"Still, it's more important to enhance my own strength first."

One can always earn more Spirit Stones, but at the moment, increasing strength is of the utmost importance.

"Eh, I can't afford an Alchemy Furnace now." Li Xiaoyao shook his head, closed the System, sat on the bed, and fell into deep contemplation, gazing at the bed full of herbs.

"The Alchemist Manual doesn't mention that an Alchemy Furnace is absolutely needed."

"Otherwise, could something else be substituted for the Alchemy Furnace?"

Li Xiaoyao got off the bed, gathered the herbs, and headed for the kitchen.

In the next room, Jiang Lichun had not rested; he sat cross-legged on the bed, hands resting on his knees, eyes tightly closed as if he were meditating.

Suddenly, Jiang Lichun opened his eyes, a trace of puzzlement and inquiry in his gaze, as he looked towards the door.

"Huh, why is there such a dense presence of Spiritual Energy?"

Kitchen.

Li Xiaoyao picked out a pressure cooker, lit the stove, and placed it on the burner.

Li Xiaoyao took out the herbs, enveloped them in Spiritual Energy, and tossed them into the pressure cooker.

The Alchemist Manual only described the steps of making Pill Medicine but didn't explain how exactly to do it.

Indeed, figuring out the specifics of making Pill Medicine still required his own experimentation.

Li Xiaoyao casually threw over a dozen types of herbs into the pressure cooker and then stood aside with the lid on.

"Are you cooking up a late-night snack, young friend?"

Jiang Lichun stood at the kitchen door like a ghost, staring at the pressure cooker, and asked with a smile.

Li Xiaoyao glanced at him warily and replied, "Yes."

Jiang Lichun licked his lips and said, "This Daoist just happens to be hungry, would you mind sharing with one more?"

"I do mind!" Li Xiaoyao said ungraciously.

Jiang Lichun was momentarily taken aback, clearly not expecting Li Xiaoyao to reject him so directly. However, he wasn't angry and instead said, "It seems I was presumptuous."

"But what I smell from your pot seems to be all vegetarian; there's no meat, which is rather unfortunate." Like magic, Jiang Lichun pulled out an enormous thing resembling a chicken leg from behind him and said, "I have some supplies here. Why don't we sit down together, drink some wine, and eat some meat? How about it?"

Li Xiaoyao's eyelids twitched as he stared at the large leg in his hand, which was from an unknown animal, and asked, "Where did you hide something so big? Also, what is that? Is it edible?"

With an unfathomable smile, Jiang Lichun said, "Let's not talk in circles in the presence of a reputed person. You and I are both of the same path, and that ring on your finger, I also have."

Li Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes but did not speak.

He had long suspected that Jiang Lichun was not an ordinary person, and now that he admitted it, Li Xiaoyao was not surprised.

"You still haven't told me, what is that in your hand?"

Jiang Lichun lifted the leg he was holding and said, "This is the right front leg of a Demon Beast."

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