Chapter 8: What Kind of Era Is This?
The Sword Pill entered the body, and consciousness returned.
When Li Boyang opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was a big face right in front of him.
"Ah?"
This cry of surprise didn’t come from Li Boyang, but from the owner of that big face.
"?"
Stunned for a moment, Li Boyang was seeing someone scare themselves by trying to scare him for the first time.
Fortunately, he immediately realized that this little girl didn’t mean to scare him on purpose.
Her innocent appearance showed that she should be that Big Girl that his mother found to take care of him.
"Ya?"
Due to his vocal cords not being fully developed yet.
𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Li Boyang could only wave his little hands like this to greet the Big Girl across from him.
Judging from her slightly frightened expression, Li Boyang knew that she must have seen the scene of the Sword Pill entering his body.
The only thing he was unsure about was how much this Big Girl had seen.
"Little brother!"
Unexpectedly, the Big Girl’s emotions came and went quickly for Li Boyang.
Her eyes blinked, quickly turning from fear to curiosity, and she once again brought her big face closer to him.
"Little brother, your hair..."
Pointing at Li Boyang’s hair, the Big Girl hesitated to speak.
Seeing this, Li Boyang instinctively reached up to touch his hair, but suddenly felt a slight warmth in his hand.
"Fire! It’s fire!"
"Be careful, your head is on fire!"
The Big Girl was so startled by Li Boyang’s action that she immediately yelled out.
"Little brother, don’t move, I’ll get a basin of water!"
Upon hearing this, Li Boyang quickly waved his hand, trying to stop this reckless Big Girl.
"Ya ya ya!"
Although he didn’t know what was happening to him right now, Li Boyang definitely didn’t want a basin of cold water poured over him.
After all, it was winter, and the cold north wind was blowing outside.
If a basin of cold water were poured over him, even Li Boyang couldn’t guarantee his constitution could withstand it.
"Little brother?"
It was clear she understood Li Boyang’s actions.
The Big Girl, who was about to go next door to fetch water, stopped immediately.
It wasn’t that the Big Girl had come to her senses, but that she noticed Li Boyang’s hand wasn’t burned by the flames on his head.
"Little brother, are you okay?"
With a careful yet curious stretch of her hand, the Big Girl seemed to want to touch the flames on Li Boyang’s head.
But she was swatted away by Li Boyang, who had come to his senses.
[This girl’s courage is a bit too big, isn’t it?]
With this thought flashing through his mind, Li Boyang chose to completely ignore the Big Girl’s aggrieved face.
The next second, he closed his eyes and began to quietly feel the flow of Primordial Qi in his body.
This was not the Innate Qi from the embryo period.
But the Life Essence Qi that every organism must possess within.
Only recently did Li Boyang rid himself of the Celestial Eye’s assistance and sense the flow of Life Essence Qi on his own.
This Life Essence Qi came from Li Boyang’s blood, from each biological cell in his body.
The more you eat, the better you eat, the more abundant your blood will be...
And the more abundant the blood, the more active the biological cells, causing the Life Essence Qi to surge even more...
However, at this moment, the Life Essence Qi in Li Boyang’s body couldn’t simply be described as surging.
Surge!
It was like a boiling pot of water.
The boiling, surging Qi flowed along Li Boyang’s body’s meridians, rushing to the top of his head.
The "flames" that the Big Girl saw were a phenomenon caused by the Qi pouring out of the Celestial Spirit.
"Hoo!"
Feeling the boiling Qi, Li Boyang immediately adjusted his breathing rhythm.
The habits Li Boyang developed during the embryo period were now gradually evolving into a unique ability.
Just like those Innate Qi in the embryo period.
The Life Essence Qi in Li Boyang’s body, following different breathing rhythms, gradually gathered, then began circulation based on the body’s central axis.
These are traditionally known as the Ren and Du Meridians, also the two main meridians in the body’s meridians network that are the broadest and easiest to find.
Surge!
Under Li Boyang’s deliberate guidance, after completing a circulation, the Life Essence Qi in his body successfully merged into the Dantian where the Sword Pill was located.
As expected, the depleted Qi due to slaying Nai Fu was replenished.
The golden Sword Pill let out a crisp and joyous sword hum.
"Little brother, your hair is no longer burning?"
Just then, Li Boyang heard the Big Girl’s voice again in his ear.
Along with this voice came the slightly cool touch of a small hand stroking his head.
"Ya!"
Instantly opening his eyes, Li Boyang helplessly swatted away the Big Girl’s hand.
Then he saw her pouting and looking at him with a face full of grievances.
"Little brother, I was just touching..."
Rolling his eyes nimbly, Li Boyang of course knew the Big Girl was just purely curious.
But he didn’t want to become a toy for a bear child with overflowing curiosity.
"Don’t be mad!"
"If you don’t want, I won’t touch it!"
Pouting as she said this, the Big Girl then remembered she was called to take care of Li Boyang.
"Little brother, are you hungry?"
"If you’re hungry, I’ll heat up the rice porridge for you."
Noticing the slight drool at the corner of the Big Girl’s mouth, Li Boyang knew what she was thinking.
But seeing her skinny frame,
Li Boyang obviously was not hungry, yet he still silently nodded.
At this moment, he suddenly thought how nice it would be if he didn’t have memories of his past life!
Food scarcity, inadequate clothing...
These were terms Li Boyang could only see in history textbooks in his previous life.
But now, these terms were so real before his eyes, making it unbearable to watch.
Li Boyang even wondered if the frail-looking Big Girl could really reach adulthood?
Of course, in this era, the Big Girl didn’t need to reach adulthood.
Generally speaking, girls like her would start considering marriage at twelve or thirteen years old.
During Chen Yun’s pregnancy, Li Boyang overheard her discussing such matters with Li Yu.
Girls of twelve or thirteen were either married off to neighboring villages.
Or sent to larger nearby towns to work as slaves, exceptions were rare.
The more tragic fates could even be becoming a "human sacrifice," dedicated to some ill-tempered Mountain or River Gods.
Conversely, girls like Chen Yun, who grew up to eighteen before marrying and insisted on marrying the one she loved, were among the very few.
Even after giving birth to Li Boyang, Chen Yun was still not yet twenty.
In Li Boyang’s view, who had lived two lives, Chen Yun at this age was still just a young girl herself.
"Little brother! The rice porridge is here!"
When Li Boyang returned from his thoughts,
The Big Girl was already wobbling over with a big bowl in her hands.
Watching her staggering step after step, Li Boyang felt once again the backwardness and ignorance of this era.
"Ya!"
Under the Big Girl’s delighted gaze, Li Boyang extended his hand to push the spoon she was struggling to lift towards her mouth.
"You’re letting me eat?"
"No, no, you’re still growing, you should eat more."
"I’ll eat after you’re full, Yunniang already told me beforehand."
Insistently bringing the spoon back to Li Boyang’s mouth,
Even though the Big Girl was very tempted, she stubbornly insisted.
Seeing her actions, Li Boyang had no choice but to swallow the rice porridge bit by bit with mixed feelings.
Unlike the exquisite rice porridge of the past life,
This so-called "rice porridge" was basically boiled grains with a few specks of oil occasionally visible.
In Li Boyang’s past life, this would be considered scraps too coarse even to feed pigs.
Yet, in this era, this was a delicacy only babies had the right to eat.
Coarse grains, wild vegetables, tree leaves, mixed food...
Things that were completely looked down upon in Li Boyang’s past life were the staple food for the masses in this era.
[What kind of era is this exactly?]
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