When Li Boyang opened his eyes again, he had already left that endless darkness.
However, his eyes still couldn't see anything; he could only vaguely hear conversations from outside that he couldn't understand at all.
But Li Boyang wasn't surprised by this.
Because he knew that he was currently still an unborn baby, a not yet fully formed embryo.
Strangely enough, even though his brain had just started to develop, Li Boyang already possessed basic thinking and learning abilities.
Day after day, month after month, he listened to those conversations from outside.
Li Boyang was familiarizing and learning the language of this world with a learning ability that was impossible for a normal baby to possess.
[So, am I a genius in this life?]
This thought flashed across his mind as Li Boyang began to attentively feel his current state.
Unexpected yet reasonable was.
The true support for Li Boyang's thinking was not this infant body that hadn't fully developed.
In Li Boyang's Dantian, a Sword Pill that existed between presence and absence, presenting a semi-transparent state, was his real soul carrier.
[So I have become a Sword Spirit?]
As a new-generation Transmigrator from the 21st century, Li Boyang had enough capacity for acceptance and understanding.
As for how Li Boyang became a Sword Spirit?
Through the continuous retrospection of his incomplete memories.
In a daze, Li Boyang seemed to see the life of a "non-template Transmigrator."
After traveling to a strange Otherworld, he didn't gain any fortuitous encounters or cheats.
Instead, due to the death of his physical body, his abnormal soul was exposed in front of a mysterious elder.
Then, that elder, with words Li Boyang couldn't understand, yelled crazily and laughed, swiftly capturing him.
By the time Li Boyang reacted.
The elder had already thrown him into a gigantic Alchemy Tripod Furnace, attempting to refine his soul with a terrifying three-colored flame.
Not allowed by Heaven, nor allowed by Earth, nor falling into reincarnation...
As a soul from the Otherworld, no matter how the elder tortured him, he continuously maintained an "indestructible" nature.
Until the elder took out a small golden sword, Li Boyang's soul was ultimately refined and fused into the small golden sword by the great Pill Furnace.
It was at that time when his memory before the transmigration began to become fragmented.
[Then the question arises, how did I escape from his hands?]
[And why have I turned into the form of this fetus now?]
Despite having a myriad of doubts in his mind, Li Boyang's mood was extraordinarily calm.
He knew that his current state was not normal, yet he couldn't muster any anger or hatred.
Although the elder's various actions didn't entirely refine Li Boyang's soul, they still had a profound and lasting impact on him.
Extreme calmness, or call it indifference, was just one of the side effects.
Without the interference of emotions and desires, Li Boyang could more calmly, from a completely spectator perspective, examine everything happening to him.
[Emotions are nothing but the body's hormones...]
[Once I have a body again, I will eventually regain emotions.]
Thinking in this way, Li Boyang closed his eyes once more, quietly feeling the development process of his body in this life.
Then Li Boyang noticed the "fissure" on his forehead, which was clearly not a normal biological development organ.
[Pineal Gland?]
[No, that's the third eye, the Celestial Eye!]
If Li Boyang still had emotions now, he certainly would have been astonished beyond measure.
Li Boyang couldn't be certain if this Celestial Eye was a necessary organ for living beings in this world.
But he could clearly perceive that this not-yet-fully-formed Celestial Eye was different from normal biological organs.
Just attempting to open that Celestial Eye, Li Boyang saw something like blood and Qi surrounding his embryo, something invisible.
That was when the embryo was still in the Xiantian stage.
The maternal placenta produced a special nutrient to ensure the child's healthy and robust growth.
Having never seen such a thing before, this did not prevent Li Boyang from seeing its function and utilizing it.
Whuff!
With his rhythmic embryonic breathing, those nutrients were accelerating their integration into Li Boyang's body, allowing his physical form in this life to grow in a more perfect posture.
Different breathing rhythms also seemed to affect the embryo's absorption of those nutrients.
Therefore, through observing with his not-yet-formed Celestial Eye on his forehead.
Li Boyang began to consciously control the rhythm of his embryonic breathing to maximize the absorption and digestion of those nutrients.
During this process, Li Boyang noticed that those nutrients were equally effective for the Sword Pill at his Dantian.
Or more precisely, the Sword Pill in the Dantian and the Celestial Eye on his forehead were the organs that utilized those nutrients most efficiently.
After absorbing those nutrients, the Sword Pill became more radiant entirely.
Whereas the Celestial Eye, after absorbing those nutrients, its formation speed became increasingly faster.
After a series of comparisons and observations by Li Boyang.
He found that if a normal infant absorbed those nutrients, the Celestial Eye wouldn't possibly form within ten months of the maternal body.
[From this perspective, the Celestial Eye seems to be an "abandoned organ" discarded in the evolution process of living beings?]
After reaching this conclusion, Li Boyang really didn't know how to evaluate it.
After all, the Celestial Eye required too much nutrition, and being discarded at the embryonic stage was simply the most correct choice.
Because the evolution of life has never moved toward the direction of "perfection" or "highest strength."
"Suitability" is the unchanging rule of biological evolution.
[Able to promote the secondary development of an 'abandoned organ,' and also has some strengthening effect on the Sword Pill and soul.]
[Could those nutrients be the legendary 'Innate Qi' described by the Taoist School?]
This thought flashed through his mind, and Li Boyang quickly brought his somewhat distracted thoughts back.
[Now is not the time to think about these things...]
[So far, there's one more important issue to solve!]
[Can my mother in this life provide me the nutrients necessary for development?]
If he were in the 21st century, Li Boyang wouldn't worry about this issue at all.
But the current problem is, if the world he's in now is that mysterious old man's world, then it has nothing to do with any era of science and technology.
Referencing the ancient feudal, or even slave society periods on Earth.
It's quite common for a mother's body to fail to provide sufficient nutrition to the infant, or because of various accidents giving birth to a stillborn, or even a situation where both die.
[It seems that the research and utilization of 'Innate Qi' must be delayed.]
[I must first ensure that I can be safely born, rather than becoming stillborn due to greed.]
Having the rare chance to be reincarnated as a human again, Li Boyang had a clear understanding of this.
Thus, he began to listen more intently to various sounds and conversations coming from the outside world.
Language... is often the first threshold in understanding the world.
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