After Li Xuan put away the recipe, he took out the materials for making the puppet from the Zhangtian Bottle and continued to process the puppet.

There was no other way. There was a severe shortage of labor in the Zhantian Bottle. The salt-reclaiming ponds were about to be completed. A large number of puppets would be needed to make them all operational. Li Xuan had no choice but to go into seclusion to make the puppets.

If there were enough labor in the Zhantian Bottle, Li Xuan could increase the development efforts in the trench. Li Xuan also felt that there were other valuable things in the trench. Once all the corpses of soul beasts were transferred out, further exploration could be carried out.

After all, Li Xuan’s trip to the sea this time was not only for the test of Poseidon Island, but also to develop the treasures in the sea.

In addition to ordinary puppets, Li Xuan also needs to make a batch of fourth-order exploration puppets. There is still some distance to the Sea God Island, so it is inevitable to encounter various mineral veins. Puppets can also be used to mine ore.

So thousands of ordinary puppets and hundreds of fourth-level puppets are waiting for me to make.

So Li Xuan put down the parts in his hand, left his room, found Zhou Chen, asked Zhou Chen to take charge of the overall situation, and prepared to let these people rest on this island for a while.

Wait until Li Xuan’s puppet is completed before going out to sea.

If Li Xuan enters the space of the Zhantian Bottle again after going out to sea, he will need to use his mental power to control the puppets. In that case, Li Xuan will be very uncomfortable, so it is better to process all the puppets on the island and then go out to sea.

As for other problems in the camp, Zhou Chen can basically solve them.

After arranging other people’s affairs, Li Xuan returned to his wooden house, hung a sign on the door that read “In retreat, do not disturb”, and began to concentrate on making puppets in the room.

……

A month passed in a flash.

In Li Xuan’s room.

Li Xuan injected a trace of soul power into the soul-nourishing wood, and then quickly placed the soul-nourishing wood into the puppet’s body and sealed the puppet using a special method.

After doing all this, Li Xuan sat on the ground and let out a long breath.

“It’s finally finished. In one month, we have processed 7,000 ordinary puppets and 800 fourth-order puppets. Others really wouldn’t be able to complete this.” Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the finished puppets in front of him.

Making puppets is too monotonous and boring. Fortunately, Li Xuan has a stable mind, otherwise he would easily become autistic.

Then Li Xuan controlled the puppet and checked its physical condition.

After some tests, it was found that there was nothing wrong with the puppet. Li Xuan waved his hand and threw the puppet into the Zhangtian Bottle, letting it go plow the field.

Now that we don’t go out to sea, these fourth-level puppets have no use, so they are all used for farming.

Then, Li Xuan sat on the bed and rested for a while. After he recovered a little, he got up from the bed.

He tidied his clothes and walked out of his room.

After opening the door, Li Xuan was blinded by the dazzling sunlight and subconsciously covered his eyes.

It is now noon.

Zhu Zhuqing walked towards Li Xuan carrying a food box. As soon as she got nearby, she saw Li Xuan who had just walked out of his room.

“Xuan brother, is the retreat over?” Zhu Zhuqing came to Li Xuan and asked with a smile.

Hearing Zhu Zhuqing’s voice, Li Xuan put down his hands and turned his gaze to Zhu Zhuqing.

“Hehe, the retreat is over, the puppets are made, and we can go out to sea tomorrow.” Li Xuan gently put his arm around Zhu Zhuqing’s waist and said with a smile.

During this period, Zhu Zhuqing would bring meals and wash clothes for Li Xuan every day, so the end of this retreat was the cleanest that Li Xuan had ever been.

Otherwise, Li Xuan would probably be unkempt and ragged when he went out this time, just like the beggar begging on the street.

“You’ve been exhausted during this period of seclusion. Why don’t you take a rest?” Zhu Zhuqing frowned and advised Li Xuan as she looked at his tired appearance.

“Don’t worry, after the processing of this puppet is completed, I will not process puppets again in a short period of time, so I will not be in seclusion anymore. After going out to sea, just have a few comfortable sleep. Don’t worry, don’t worry about me.” Li Xuan touched Zhu Zhuqing’s hair and said with a smile. No matter what, it feels really good to have someone care about him.

“That’s fine. Now that you’re out of seclusion, let’s go to the cafeteria to have dinner together. After a month of seclusion, it’s time to go out and meet them.” Zhu Zhuqing broke free from Li Xuan’s arms, took Li Xuan’s hand, and walked towards the cafeteria.

Li Xuan was also happy about this, so he followed Zhu Zhuqing to the camp cafeteria.

Today, the cafeteria’s menu has been adjusted from seafood back to rice and vegetables.

During the past few months at sea, we have been eating seafood. These people who go out to sea really can’t eat more of it anymore because seafood is too easy to get tired of.

Li Xuan also knew that it would not be long before these people would get tired of eating seafood, so he planted a large amount of fruits and vegetables in the space of the Zhantian Bottle in advance, which was enough to keep the people on the Ba Hai supplied.

“Brother Xuan, your retreat is over.” After seeing Li Xuan, Lou Gao greeted Li Xuan and asked with a smile.

“Yes, Mr. Lou, he has come out of seclusion.” Li Xuan smiled and responded to Lou Gao.

“Brother Sikai, it’s a good thing that you are here too. My retreat is over, and it’s time for us to go out to sea again tomorrow. But we have to hurry and reach Poseidon Island as soon as possible. I feel that the injury of the deep-sea dragon seal is about to recover.” Li Xuan thought for a moment and said to Sikai.

“Okay, Brother Xuan, after dinner, I will arrange for the sailors to get ready to go out to sea tomorrow.” Sikai nodded to Li Xuan and said.

“Mr. Lou, in that case, I will go to have dinner with Zhuqing.” Li Xuan smiled at Lou Gao, then took Zhu Zhuqing to get food.

“Go, go.” Lou Gao smiled heartily, then waved at Li Xuan and said.

When others saw Li Xuan, they greeted him enthusiastically, and Li Xuan responded one by one.

Then, Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing ordered a meal, found a corner, and started eating.

After lunch, the two of them wandered around the island again. It was not until the sun set that Li Xuan sent Zhu Zhuqing back to her room.

After Li Xuan returned to his room, he entered the space of the Zhantian Bottle. Now all the puppets were in place and they were about to go out to sea. Li Xuan was also ready to carefully check the condition of the Zhantian Bottle. After going out to sea, it would be troublesome to enter the space of the Zhantian Bottle again.

After Li Xuan entered the space in the Zhantian Bottle, he first went to the salt retreat pool.

Now, one hundred salt-recovery pools have been built, and salt cone trees are planted on the walls of the pools, extracting sea salt from the corpses of these soul beasts all the time.

Moreover, when the number of salt ball fruit trees is large enough, the green spirit liquid will no longer be needed to ripen them. The salt ball fruit they produce every day is enough. Therefore, the green spirit liquid is also used to improve the cultivation of Lihuo Fentian Wood. Li Xuan is also preparing to absorb the seventh soul ring. After all, it has been a long time since Li Xuan absorbed the sixth soul ring.

Thousands of ordinary puppets skillfully carried pieces of meat and picked salt cones. The desalination work was carried out in an orderly manner in the desalination pool, turning the bacon into edible ordinary meat.

There are a total of 10,000 ordinary puppets in the first-level and second-level salt-removal pools, which are enough to meet the normal operation of the salt-removal pools.

In addition to the 10,000 ordinary puppets in the salt retreat pool, there are two thousand puppets cultivating the land in the Palm of Heaven Bottle, planting medicinal herbs, dragon tooth rice, fruits and various vegetables. After all, the space in the Palm of Heaven Bottle is mainly used to grow plants, and it would be a waste if the fertile land is not planted with anything.

The last three thousand ordinary puppets were responsible for taking care of the soul beasts. They used the desalted meat to make feed, and then fed it to the soul beasts raised by Li Xuan.

With the feed made from the meat of these powerful soul beasts, the cultivation of the soul beasts in the Zhantian Bottle improved by leaps and bounds.

A blue-striped blood python that is more than 9,000 years old has appeared in the snake garden, and this snake is about to break through the ten thousand years of cultivation and become a ten thousand year soul beast!
At that time, Li Xuan can try whether the snakes raised in this way can produce inner elixir.

If the inner elixir is produced, Li Xuan can use the inner elixir to exchange for some good things with the system. Although the things made by Li Xuan are of good quality, they are ultimately not as good as those produced by the system.

Li Xuan’s main purpose of cultivating snake soul beasts is to obtain inner elixirs and exchange them for items.

After the construction of the salt reclamation pond was completed, the Yellow Turban Warrior did not return to the talisman to rest, but continued to help Li Xuan level the land, dig canals and water wheels in the space of the Palm of Heaven Bottle, and also finely polished the bamboo building.

Now that the Yellow Turban Warriors’ strength has been improved, they can stay outside longer.

At this time, the Yellow Turban strongman was working. Li Xuan took a look from a distance, then turned and left.

Then, Li Xuan came to a warehouse next to the bamboo building.

Stored here are the soul bones from the corpses of soul beasts brought back from the trench.

Li Xuan didn’t know how long this trench had existed. More than a dozen hundred thousand year old soul beasts had been dismantled, so there were already more than a dozen hundred thousand year old soul bones in the warehouse.

Most of the rest are ten thousand year soul beasts, although ten thousand year soul beasts have a chance to produce soul bones.

But the quantity is too large. Hundreds of corpses are dismantled every day, and a lot of soul bones are produced.

In the past month, Li Xuan has collected seventy or eighty ten thousand year soul bones, and they are of very good quality, all of which were produced from soul beasts that are eighty to ninety thousand years old.

It’s just that these soul bones have been soaked in the sea for a long time. They need to absorb spiritual energy in the space of the Zhantian Bottle for a period of time and use the spiritual energy to warm the soul bones so that they can exert their maximum effect.

Li Xuan has now absorbed six soul rings, but he already has three soul bones and half an external soul bone. Each of the next three soul rings he will absorb will bring Li Xuan a soul bone, so Li Xuan cannot use so many soul bones in the warehouse.

However, even though Li Xuan cannot use them, it does not prevent these things from being priceless treasures!
A hundred thousand year old soul bone is enough to stir up a bloody storm on Douluo Continent.

After Li Xuan checked the number of soul bones, he came to the corner outside the bamboo building.

There are a large number of soul beast bones piled here, and Li Xuan originally had no good way to deal with these bones.

But a month ago, Li Xuan exchanged a recipe for a fourth-grade elixir in the system mall, which just required these bones.

“The problem with the puppet in the Zhantian Bottle has been solved. Next, I can relax and try to refine a fourth-grade elixir!” Li Xuan became interested as he looked at these bones.

Li Xuan had an idea and assigned several puppets the task of collecting herbs, asking these puppets to help him pick some materials for the Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pill.

With a wave of Li Xuan’s hand, thousands of pounds of bones entered the small cave.

Li Xuan turned and entered the alchemy room in the bamboo building. Soon, several ordinary puppets placed the freshly picked herbs in front of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan has all the medicinal materials needed to refine the Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pill, so after picking them, he can directly refine the pill.

The medicinal herbs in front of Li Xuan are enough to refine ten furnaces of Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pills.

Slowly closing his eyes, Li Xuan slowly adjusted his state.

After all, it is the refining of a fourth-grade elixir, so Li Xuan still needs to be alert.

Half an hour later, Li Xuan slowly opened his eyes. At the same time, six flames of different colors were released from Li Xuan’s body and transformed into a lotus-shaped alchemy cauldron in front of Li Xuan.

“Go.” Li Xuan waved his hand, and hundreds of pounds of soul beast bones were thrown into the alchemy cauldron.

Li Xuan clasped his hands together, and the flame in the alchemy cauldron suddenly became fierce, and began to use high temperature to roast the essence in the bones.

Half an hour later, the bones were burned into grayish-white powder by the dark flames.

In addition to these powders, there is also a drop of pure white liquid, which is the essence of these soul beast bones and is also the main ingredient for refining the Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pill.

“One drop is not enough. At least two drops are needed.” Li Xuan nodded as he looked at the essence in the alchemy furnace.

Then, Li Xuan threw in several hundred kilograms of soul beast bones for refining.

Half an hour later, the three drops of animal bone essence had been refined.

The next step was to refine the medicinal materials. Li Xuan handled these medicinal materials easily and there was no difficulty at all.

Two hours later, the lotus cauldron slowly dissipated, and eight white pills appeared in Li Xuan’s hands.

These eight pills are all white in color, with a protective layer like porcelain glaze on the surface. They look very similar to shell beads. If you look closely, you can see a faint pattern.

Normal Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pills are red, but Li Xuan used aged bones, so they are white.

[Congratulations to the host for successfully refining 8 “Fourth-grade Intermediate Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Pills”. Because of refining pills above the required level, you have gained 400 points of experience in the secondary occupation “Alchemist”]

“Sure enough, if you want to improve your alchemist level, you still have to make pills of higher levels.” Li Xuan said, touching his chin.

“But it’s a pity that the fourth-grade pill we refined is only of intermediate quality.” Li Xuan said with a sigh as he looked at the pill in his hand.

However, it was already quite good to be able to refine a mid-level quality elixir for the first time. (End of this chapter)