There's a real problem here.

Of course, Lin Li wasn't referring to the director but rather the doctor in front of him.

He had just even thought about what to write on his own epitaph.

Don't complain about your director during such contexts that can easily lead to misunderstandings!

As it turned out, he was worrying for nothing, which was really embarrassing.

Lin Li now really wanted to throw this doctor out of the operating room and then shyly say, "Ah, ah, ah, such a simple surgery didn't succeed, I'm so embarrassed."

However, a false alarm is always better than real bad news. After confirming that he no longer needed to do anything, Lin Li packed up his belongings and left the consultation room.

"Son, I don't understand this stock, and I don't like watching it. Can you change it to some opera for your dad to watch?"

"Dad, this isn't stocks, it's an electrocardiogram, you can't change it!"

As Lin Li passed by the doorway, the old man waiting outside was still as consistent as ever.

Anxious to get home, he once again used hitching a ride as a weapon to coerce the driver into speeding home, and then Lin Li checked the harvest from his task this time.

"Low-grade Spirit Stone" is really just a "Low-grade Spirit Stone."

But including Spirit Stones among array materials is indeed reasonable.

"Vermilion Spirit Sand" is a semi-liquid, semi-solid sense of liquid sand stored in a small porcelain bottle, vermilion in color, with a crystalline flow within.

"High-grade Array Core" is a diamond-shaped crystal about the size of a thumbnail, covered with intricate runes that look impressive but incomprehensible.

The "Star Array Plate" is the largest item among these five materials, about the size of Lin Li's fully spread hand, a circular plate, which is also densely covered with flowing patterns like a star river, with a thumbnail-sized core similar to the array core embedded in the center, shining brightly.

Both the array plate and the array core are very hard, requiring no effort to crack a walnut with them.

Lin Li casually ate some walnuts, tossed the shells into the trash can, and then returned these materials to the warehouse.

He can't use them.

While injecting spiritual power into the array plate, he could see the flow of the star river speeding up, but that was it, Lin Li didn't know what to do next.

Other than covering them with spit, Lin Li couldn't do anything with them.

This is what happens without basic knowledge; even if Lin Li's talent in this area were increased by 50%, he's still not at the level to immediately figure out the use of materials just by looking at them.

Lin Li materialized the "Spirit Gathering Celestial Array."

An elaborate array core about the size of a palm appeared before Lin Li, and numerous materials unfamiliar to him appeared simultaneously, moving towards the surroundings, only stopping when encountering walls and beds, as ethereal array patterns connected the materials in mid-air.

Lin Li reached out to touch the array core and was able to feel the exact location of the other materials, but attempting to manipulate them felt laborious.

He couldn't do it.

When Lin Li materialized the "Spiritual Spring," he noticed that the Spiritual Qi escaping from the spring's mouth was being absorbed and converged in the array's eye, subsequently forming a small drop of Spiritual Liquid clinging beneath it.

As expected, though he didn't guess wrong about its purpose, this array, true to its name, is used to gather Spiritual Qi.

In the Cultivation World full of Spiritual Qi, it's probably a very basic array that every cultivator must know, but in the modern world, it appears quite useless.

If it was merely to gather Spiritual Qi from the "Spiritual Spring," any hollow shell could accomplish that.

"The most needed thing is still basic knowledge." After returning everything to the warehouse, Lin Li sighed softly.

Regarding both sword techniques and array principles, what Lin Li needs more now is theory.

With the theory, perhaps he could use his talents and the supposedly non-existent Spiritual Qi to attempt creating usable arrays in the modern environment and with contemporary materials.

Even if they are low-end, that would be fine.

These materials seem to hold potential, but the issue is that their owner lacks any.

Worrying doesn't help; all he can do is pin his hopes on the system, so Lin Li pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind and continued to carve open the "Qiankun Ring."

...

Sunday night.

At midnight.

"Can't carve it anymore." Lin Li tossed the ring aside and rubbed his head.

As the space within the ring reached further, expanding it became increasingly difficult. Although the consumption of Spiritual Qi hadn't changed, the sheer difficulty required more time and effort.

To the extent that up to now, the internal space is no bigger than a shoebox.

Dozens of Low-grade Spirit Stones have been consumed just like that, this thing really uses up Spirit Stones, and Lin Li's stockpile is nearly depleted.

Fortunately, the "Spiritual Spring" still shows no sign of drying up until now, allowing sustainable development, with no urgency to use the "Fortune Charm" and "Random Quality Spirit Stone" to open blind boxes again.

"Carved during the day, carved during evening self-study, carved after school—carved for two days straight, wasn't it fun, huh?" Taking a breather to regain his composure, Lin Li made a dirty joke addressed to the ring.

"Old Lin, look at how you've filled it to the brim." Lin Li shook the ring as if 'responding.'

The shoebox-sized space now finally holds more significance, capable of storing quite a bit of stuff.

Now, Lin Li filled it with some food supplies.

Then he relaxed, waiting for the stroke of midnight.

[Update complete.]

October 28th, midnight.

Monday.

"Happy eighteenth birthday to me." Hearing the notice from the system, Lin Li snapped his fingers and opened his eyes, smiling to himself.

His phone buzzed with an incoming message at that moment, followed by a vibrating call.

"Happy birthday, son." Wu Min's voice came through the line after answering, "I knew you weren't asleep yet."

"Sister Min, your call woke me up."

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