Dragon God, immortal

Emmm...

Enlightenment?

No, no, no, it’s the pot-lifting apotheosis!

It's like pouring water from a kettle into your ears!

Heisong's head was buzzing as he listened. He could understand every word Shushan pronounced, and the meaning could also be understood with the help of the Dragon God's translation magic, but... was this a spell?

Fortunately, Hei Song also understood that a good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Ever since Juan Hua popularized paper and writing, the production team and the watchers must carry a notebook in their pockets. Well, even if they can't read, they must know the pinyin of the Claw Mark characters!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, just go back and ask Wenguahua, right?

"This is roughly the process. Do you remember it?" Shushan said this and then realized that he had talked too much.

"I didn't remember it, but I remembered it in my notebook..." Hei Song looked at his notebook. He could understand each word, but what was the meaning of the combination?

"Oh? So you can read. By the way, how many people in the Sanhua tribe can read?" Shushan blinked. He knew that Juanhua had mastered the papermaking technique, but he didn't know how far these little cat people had come.

"Most of the children are learning it. As for me, I'm okay with using the Claw Mark Pinyin, and I only know six Chinese characters." Heisong scratched his head embarrassedly.

"What six words?"

"Black, pine, curly, birch, white, chrysanthemum."

"Haha, that's not bad!" Shushan praised Heisong highly, saying that he could write his own name and the names of his family members, so he was definitely a cultured person.

Shushan now looked at Hei Song seriously. In his memory, this messy-haired little cat was still a baby, showing off his gifted magical ability in front of Juan Hua, and was slapped on the head by him... He didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, time had passed and his child was almost as old as he was back then...

As for why Shushan feels so emotional, he is 40 years old this year. If it were human age, he would be in his forties...

But Shushan is not only not "unconfused", he has never even stepped out of his own house...

The entire Cat's Paw Islands is his home.

He never strayed far from this underwater mountain range that emerged from the sea.

What is the world like outside?

Is there any delicious grass?

What do other minerals smell like?

"Well, then... I won't disturb you, Lord Shushan. I still have work to do, so I'll leave first..." Hei Song breathed a sigh of relief. Lord Shushan was still as generous as ever. To be honest, it seemed that he had only seen Shushan lose his temper when the rust fungus was rampant.

"Oh, then you go ahead and do your work. I'll just rest here for a while." Shushan nodded, and his tail behind him swayed up and down unconsciously. It slapped the ground but did not stir up a trace of dust. This was because the surrounding ground had been compacted by Shushan.

Hei Song was about to leave when he stepped on something hard. He jumped up with his hands covering his foot in pain. As luck would have it, his other foot also stepped on something hard...

The cat-eared tribe has thick pads on the soles of their feet, so they basically don’t wear shoes. It’s okay on muddy and sandy ground, but there are too many hard rocks here, which are not very friendly to the cat-eared tribe...

"Hmm? Are you okay?" Shushan looked at Heishong worriedly, a little worried about tetanus...

"Ah, it's okay, I brought ointment..." Hei Song sat down on the ground, took out a crystal bottle from his waist bag, and applied the emerald green ointment on the pads of his feet.

"Yangchuncao, this is a good stuff. It can help wounds heal, but it tastes very bitter and is not delicious." Shushan said after taking a look at the crystal bottle.

Sixty acres of fertile land on Zhangqiu Island.

They were all transformed into magic potion fields by Juanhua.

Among them, the most planted ones are naturally the flame flower and the ice crown flower. The extract of the former is more burnable than gasoline, and the latter also has many wonderful uses.

Next are storm vines and groundbind roots. The former is high-quality fiber, and the latter is hard in texture. More uses may be developed for them in the future, but there is no rush.

Well, Juanhua once complained to Shushan that it was difficult to grow heartbreak moss, blinding grass, night-dream flower and spring grass even in the potion field. Even if they germinated successfully, the plants that grew were uneven. Her most important job now was to overcome the bottleneck problem of these four potions.

Are these four magic potions in urgent need? It is quite urgent. After being processed, the heartbreak moss is the best quality insecticide. Blinding grass can be used effectively at night with caution. Dream night flower can remove toxins and calm the nerves. Yangchun grass is a therapeutic herb... In short, proper use can greatly improve the living standard.

And, most importantly...

Potions are a renewable resource!

"This crystal bottle is very beautiful." Shushan was relieved when he saw Heimong stand up. "Did you make it yourself?"

"Yes, as long as you cast the [Merge Mud Magic] on ordinary mud, you can get mica. Purify and crush the mica to get pure quartz sand. Then crush and aggregate the quartz sand repeatedly to synthesize pure and transparent crystal." Hei Song nodded. He was very good at this. "Once you have a crystal block, you can use it after a little polishing!"

"Well, quartz is indeed a very good container. It is hard and corrosion-resistant." Shushan sighed in his heart when he heard this. If there were no magic, transparent crystal would not be so easy to obtain.

"It's just... sometimes, the quartz sand that is condensed is not quartz sand, but something else... To aggregate those similar gravel, the magic power consumed is several times more than that of making crystal, and I don't know what it is." Hei Song thought about it and told Shushan about this doubt.

"Oh, is there a sample? I have to see it with my own eyes to know what it is." Shushan blinked.

"Yes, it's here." Hei Song took out a few raw gemstones from his waist bag.

Shushan took a look.

Just know what this thing is.

"This is corundum, and this is rutile..." Shushan stretched out his fingernails and used magic to classify the stones in front of him one by one. "I guess that corundum was extracted from the red soil in the west, and rutile was found under the mountain in the southwest."

"Lord Shushan is absolutely right! It was found in those places!" Heisong nodded vigorously. Those were the ones he found when he was prospecting and mining before!

Shushan certainly knew where these things came from.

Those places are his cafeterias.

He found the ore he ate every day there. He just pressed it and dug a block like Steve, and he could eat it in one bite. It was so delicious.

The red soil in the west is 'bauxite', so natural corundum (aluminum oxide crystal, a general term for sapphire and ruby) can occasionally be found. In the southwest is a large iron-rich mine, accompanied by 'ilmenite', so there is also natural rutile (titanium oxide crystal).

Well, although it is said to be natural, in fact... it is a byproduct of geological action when the tree mountain was formed into an island...

Chapter 23 How was steel tempered?

The forty-fifth year of the Dragon God calendar, late summer, early autumn.

Suju slowly sat up from the bed, rubbed her eyes, wiped her ears with the fluff on the back of her hand, and looked out the window. Hmm... the sun was shining directly overhead, and the weather was just right!

The fifteen-year-old girl slowly got out of bed and dressed. Today was the day she graduated from elementary school, so she couldn't be late... Ah, no, she would be late by now...

"Why not just sleep a little longer?" Su Ju yawned and murmured.

The new generation on the Cat's Paw Islands.

There is no survival pressure at all.

The older generation of cat people had experienced the undead plague, and they kept telling stories of the horrific horror, but it was difficult for the younger generation to empathize...

On the Island of the Ball, there was plenty of living space and no shortage of food. Even in the years when the sacred corn was lost, there was still oatmeal to fill the stomach... Of course, it was okay to eat it occasionally, but eating it every day was really unbearable.

Even at that time, a slightly more diligent cat-ear tribe family could kill two sheep a year.

Then there is Suju, the white cat with curled ears.

They are even more pampered.

The witch mother who controls the cultivation of magic potions, the father who commands the entire clan to give birth, the guardian of the big house who was a watcher... It really is nice to sit under a big tree and enjoy the shade!

Generally speaking, the new generation of cat-eared people are children before the age of five. From five to ten years old, they will be educated by the matriarchal guardians of the big house. After the age of ten, they will go to the Watcher Basic College for in-depth studies until they become independent at the age of fifteen.

Su Ju is a little different. She progresses faster than other cat people of the same age.

He had learned all the basics by the age of ten, and even completed three elective courses before he was fifteen!

Among them, Long Yu achieved the best result, which was even recognized by Lord Shushan.

The second is potions. With a mother who deals with potions every day, it’s hard not to get into it.

Finally, magic...

She has no magical talent...

It seems like it’s a pity that I didn’t get the magical talent from my father.

Having said that, Su Ju actually knows magic, it's not the [magic of attracting and repelling all things], nor the two magics of gathering and crushing, and certainly not the three magics of commanding plants.

It's [Communication with Living Beings Magic]! Just like other magic, it's a magic learned by imitating the abilities of Master Shushan! Currently, only Suju, a cat-man, has mastered it completely!

"Good morning, little lamp. You don't need to shine at this time." Su Ju poured a few drops of cold water into the flowerpot, and the brightness of the blinding grass in the flowerpot suddenly dropped, turning it into an ordinary 'weed' that did not shine.

Xiao Deng: I don’t want cold water, I want hot water!

"No, if you use hot water you'll explode and be gone!" Su Ju refused.

Little lamp: I want to shine, I want to attract insects to pollinate and spread seeds, I want to...

"Stop, stop. I said stop. Just stay as you are. I will do the pollination and seed transfer." Su Ju soothed her, and the blinding grass obediently retracted its light.

This is the [Magic of Communicating with Living Beings].

A natural ability of the Dragon God.

Su Ju discovered a long time ago that the language used by Lord Shushan was dragon language. How did the cat-eared people who did not understand dragon language communicate with him?

The answer is simple. Lord Shushan is born with the ability to exchange ideas with other creatures. He can communicate with any creature with extremely small errors. This is a very incredible ability.

To the cat-eared people, making things float, condensing or crushing rocks, or controlling the growth and decay of plants are all incredible things, but the cat-eared people can master these abilities under the guidance of Lord Shushan.

What about other abilities?

What about the ability to communicate smoothly?

After years of observation - Shushan visited two or three times a year - Suju came to the conclusion that Master Shushan could not teach this ability to others because it was an innate ability.

Well, but just like what Master Shushan taught to Juanhua’s mother and passed on to her, nothing is difficult for one who sets his mind to it. Some things require hard work before you know if you can do them...

Then she did it. She found that although Shushan-sama's [Communication with Living Beings Magic] was a magical ability, it did not consume magic power. In other words, the magic power consumed was negligible...

When she realized this, she felt the other people's... 'souls'?

Yes, that may be the soul, which is different for every person and every living being.

It can't be seen, touched, or heard, but it exists and she can feel it.

This is somewhat similar to [Command Plant Magic].

The difference is that being able to communicate doesn't mean others will listen to you...

So every day when she gets up and turns off the lights, she has to chat with the blinding grass. It has become Su Ju's habit...

Get up and go downstairs.

Open the refrigerator.

The mist emitted by the sublimation of the diluted liquid of the ice crown flower is so hazy that it is difficult to see clearly.

"Cheese, fat beans, maltose... ah, and corn. That's great, fresh corn!" Su Ju took some food out of the refrigerator. Not afraid of the cold food, she closed the refrigerator door with her tail and then came to the dining table.

Su Ju clasped her hands together in front of the plate, thanked Aunt Bai Lan for leaving food for her, then started eating while wagging her tail.

The cheese is dried goat cheese. Nearly half of the cat-ear tribe cannot eat milk, so goat cheese is more popular.

Fat beans have become a common delicacy in every household in recent years, especially in large houses where female cat-eared people live, where there are so many of them.

The reason seems to be that a lactating female cat person can feed two or three babies by eating it, so the appearance of this fat bean in the tribe is a new gift bestowed by the Dragon God, and it can also be called a "holy fat bean", but this statement was later forgotten.

Because the most sacred food is still corn!

No cat-eared person would argue with this!

"I feel like the corns these days seem to be quite small..." Su Ju finished chewing a fist-sized corn, "I seem to remember that when I was a kid, I ate the long and fat corns..."

Well, today's corn is already No. 5 corn, which is greatly affected by the fertility of the soil. However, this influence is only reflected in the yield, and the taste will hardly change... So what if it's small? As long as it tastes good!

After eating, drink the maltose water in one gulp. Maltose has a mild taste and is good for the stomach, which is something that even the adults in Shushan approve of!

Just when Su Ju was working hard to eat.

The door of the big house was opened.

It was Bai Lan, the old watcher, who had returned. Seeing this, Su Ju lifted her tail and bent it into a question mark shape. This was the instinctive action of a cat person when seeing someone close to them...

"Ah, are you finally awake? You missed your mother's speech!" Bai Lan was holding a piece of beef hanging with a thin rope.

"Ha, I guess he is going to say something serious on the stage again... study hard and make progress every day to be a role model or something like that?" After Su Ju said that, she drank the maltose water in one gulp and lay on the table, mumbling in a daze.

"It also talks about the tribe's future development goals and personal directions of effort... Speaking of this, what about you? My pure white little flower, do you want to join the production team or be a guardian?" Bai Lan pulled open a sturdy wooden chair, put his tail on the groove of the chair, used magic to summon a quartz cup, and poured himself a cup of maltose water.

"I don't want to be a witch."

"I didn't ask you if you wanted to be one."

"Hmm... it's so hard to choose. Actually, the watchers and the production teams are the same. Either magic or physical strength is needed. I'm not suitable for those..." Su Ju's cat ears drooped, her tail drooped, and her aura was also drooped.

Technology is the primary productive force, and among all the technologies, only magic stands out. For example, the magic level of the production team leader Hei Song can take on the production capacity of ten cat people...