Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

  Chapter 25 [Astronomical Changes Predecessor's Last Wish]

  On the cliff where immortals live, there are colorful fallen flowers.

  Mountain flowers on the back hillside withered most of them overnight, leaving only some green branches and green leaves. From time to time, petals floated down the stream, and the fragrance wafted along the mountain wind.

  Fang Chang put down the pitcher, looked up at the scene, and liked it a little.

  Suddenly moved, he found a piece of thin, tall bluestone from nearby, and moved it to the stream to stand firm.

  Looking back, he was satisfied with the location of the stone, and moved his fingers like a sword to write on this stone.

  Although there are only two fingers, he writes with the feeling of brush and ink. In an instant, as the stone chips flutter and reveal the groove marks, the three characters "Huanhuaxi" appear on the stone surface like silver hooks painted on iron.

   "From then on, you have a name, Huanhuaxi." Fang Chang smiled at the stream.

  The sound of gurgling water and the mountain wind, light and cheerful, seemed to echo him.

  Filled the bamboo tubes on his body with water and plugged them up, and then filled the water cans with water. As he walked back, he thought, the current way of fetching water is quite a waste of time.

  In the future, you can consider burning a water tank, and then make a few buckets to store water for drinking. This requires a large kiln, and the conditions are not available for the time being.

  Another method is to open a branch for this Huanhua Creek, bypassing his thatched hut, which can not only provide a water source close at hand, but also improve the surrounding scenery. This can be done as soon as possible, even if there is no efficient tool, you can use stone flakes, anyway - I have plenty of time.

   After a little comparison in his mind, Fang Chang secretly smiled and said: Ordinary people make choices, and practitioners either want them all or don’t want them all.

  Both of these can be done, you just need to act according to your mood and follow your heart.

Walking to the open space in front of the house, he poured water into a mound of soil. The top of the mound was made into a depression for holding water. After going back and forth a few times, he stirred it with a long wooden stick and stepped on it with bare feet. A pile of reconciled dirt.

   Fang Chang planned to use these to expand the kiln, add a chimney to the furnace, and burn some lime at the same time.

  The deep woodland on the Xianqi Cliff provided Fang Chang with almost endless firewood.

  The abundant and easy-to-obtain fuel makes there be smoke all day long on Xianqi Cliff. Fortunately, the clouds and mists in the Yunzhong Mountains are always misty, and it is difficult to see from the nearby slightly higher mountain tops, so people will not be suspicious of the smoke on Xianqi Cliff.

  Lime raw materials are easy to get, ordinary bluestone is good, it is very common in the mountains, the kind Fang Chang used to carve the name of Huanhuaxi just now.

  Choose bluestone of appropriate size and uniform texture, put it into the furnace, add firewood to calcinate, and then quicklime can be obtained.

  However, it needs to be fully digested for moisture-proof foundation.

   Not far from a stone platform, a depression becomes a natural ash pit. Put lime in it, add water fully, and wait for seven or eight days.

  Bringing slaked lime into the ground of the house can have better strength and water resistance, which is a good improvement to the living environment. At the same time, quicklime can also protect the roof from moisture and can be used to bond masonry.

  With it, many things are more durable, and the time for manufacturing tools and utensils is greatly reduced, and labor efficiency is improved.

  There is a thick layer of lime in the ash pit. After being poured into the water, the lime block absorbs water and emits heat, bursting with beeps, and the poured water also starts to boil, and white mist rises up. The momentum is really strong.

   The birds and small animals not far away were frightened, and they ran into conflicts, staying away from this place for the time being.

  The lime digestion process still needs seven or eight days.

  Fang Chang didn’t want to be idle for the time being. He quickly demolished the previous kiln, then doubled its diameter, and built a bigger and better kiln—it can burn thirty-two bricks at the same time.

  Bricks are also used in many ways, such as building houses, paving roads, making floors, or as some supports. With no gauges, he can only use the same frame to take off the adobe. The thoroughly dried adobe can be used to build a kang, build a stove, or be used as a temporary wall, but Fang Chang is not ready to use it for the time being. This time, he plans to make hundreds of bricks and save them for later use.

  In the past few days, Fang Chang has been dealing with dirt all the time, which made him a little dusty and without a sense of immortality.

If those who called him "Xianchang" and "Shangxian" saw him now, they would definitely shatter the original image in their hearts. Fortunately, no one came to the fairy cliff, and none of Fang Chang's previous vests fell off. .

   Once the kiln is ignited, it cannot be extinguished and needs to be watched until it is finished.

  After entering the practice, Fang Chang didn't need to sleep, and he had no pressure on it. He walked around slowly, adding some firewood every once in a while to maintain the temperature in the furnace.

  Beside the thatched hut, a new shed was built, with only four pillars and a thatched roof, for storing some things, such as excess firewood, and bricks that are about to come out of the kiln.

  The mountain wind was gentle but cool, Fang Chang put his hands behind his back and looked up at the beautiful night sky.

"Huh?"

  Compared to last night, a few stars in the night sky today have obviously moved their positions, and they shine brightly, emitting a pale light.

   This is not a good sign.

  He had a feeling in his heart, and he did a simple calculation, and the sky had already appeared. With his current superficial level of calculation, he could also draw a conclusion: this world will not be very peaceful in the future.

   Sighing slightly, Fang Chang went back to work.

  The brick kiln still needs to be looked after, and the fire cannot be extinguished.

  ...

  …

  As the brick kiln began to cool down, Fang Chang suddenly found himself idle again.

Looking at the piles of firewood in the house and shed, he felt that it would be better to burn some charcoal. Charcoal is purer than firewood and has a higher calorific value. Pottery made with charcoal has higher temperature and fewer impurities. The quality will be even better.

   There are many ways to build a charcoal kiln, with different effects and applications.

   Fang Chang is not going to build those reusable kilns, he just finds something to pass the time in the cooling gap of the bricks, and he can burn firewood into charcoal, that's all.

  Choose wooden sticks of appropriate thickness and tight texture, stand them up, pile them up like a bonfire, and then paste the mud outside as the kiln body.

  At the bottom of the charcoal kiln, in the four directions of southeast, northwest, each leave a ventilation hole about the size of two fists, and leave a hole at the top, and then light the fire from the fire pool in the house, and ignite it at the top hole of the semicircular charcoal kiln. When the red light can be observed from the four ventilation holes at the bottom, block the upper hole and the bottom ventilation hole in turn.

   Next, it will be rather boring. You need to fill the cracks with soil continuously, and fill where there is smoke.

  This is a technique that Fang Chang learned in his previous life, but this is the first time he has practiced it.

  Back then, when he opened and closed his eyes, he changed the world and the environment, and appeared on this warm body, which made Fang Chang feel a little melancholy.

  However, his easy-going personality allowed him to adapt to his new identity smoothly, and even embarked on the road of practice after the adventure.

  The predecessor of this body walked very peacefully before, allowing him to receive the process smoothly.

   But he also has a last wish. For Fang Chang's path of practice, if he can't solve it smoothly, it will be considered a big difficulty.

   Second update~

   I recommend the book "Tomorrow's Calamity" by the big bear, wolf and dog: Meteors pierced the sky, and also pierced the peace of the world; when extraordinary power descends on the world, who is watching in the dark, and who is whispering in the ear...

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