Reincarnated as God - Chapter 19

Chapter 19






As he sat, Meng Li used his Spiritual Sense to feel if any people woke up extremely early . He was lucky - it turned out some people woke up even before dawn . As they woke up and looked outside, Meng Li was simply half-sitting on the pile of planks, looking like he was waiting . He was, in fact, waiting . For morning, so he wouldn't wake up everyone in a mile radius by hammering too loudly .

Fortunately, the dawn came quickly . All of the people around him were already doing their daily routine . He received quite a lot of curious looks from the people walking by . It wasn't strange - his outfit was enough to draw attention by itself, and the weirdness of the situation he was in didn't help . However, Meng Li paid no heed to the strange gazes and simply waited .

When everyone woke up and he judged that the light was enough to start, he began working . Firstly, the house . . . It needed to be demolished . Practically all of the wood used to make the house had rotten, including the thick logs in the corners, which were supposed to hold up the roof . The roof itself was also practically falling apart, with a quarter of it missing, the rotten pieces lay scattered on the floor . The air in the house was a bit stale and damp, and the smell of rot was all-encompassing .

The wood used to make the house couldn't be reused - the only thing they could be used for is laying the bottom of a latrine .

With a well aimed punch, Meng Li collapsed one of the thick logs holding the roof . It was entirely rotten on the inside as well, and it would break even if a child punched it, so it was effortless for him . Without the log's support, the entire roof collapsed, bringing the rotten walls with it on the way . The collapsing wood stirred up a huge cloud of dust, bringing with it plant matter and pieces of the rotten wood . The smell was quite similar to how a forest smells, but not as fresh .

Meng Li shielded his nose with his sleeve . Not waiting for the cloud of dust to settle, he walked over to the second pillar, breaking it with one punch as well . This pillar turned out to be stronger than the previous one, with the rot not managing to enter the core . However, Meng Li collapsed it with a single fist as well . The cloud of dust only thickened with the collapse of another part of the roof . Still shielding his nose, Meng Li broke the remaining two pillars in a similar fashion .
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The loud noise brought the people in the area out of their houses to see what was happening . Meng Li could hear people discussing his actions behind his back, chattering with each other .


"Why is this kid destroying Old Man Yan's house? Does he have a grudge with him or something?"

"There seems to be a pile of planks there . . . Does he plan on rebuilding it? What for??"

"He wouldn't happen to want to live here, would he?"

The people were discussing his actions behind him, but he didn't worry . He waited for a bit for the dust cloud to settle until turning around and facing the people he would be neighbours with .

"Hello friends . I'm planning to live here from now on, so treat me well as a neighbour . " He said with a smile .

The people surrounding him showed a variety of expressions . Ranging from mocking to pity, the common thing was that everyone was surprised .

"You plan to live here? Why this of all places?" one middle aged man asked curiously .

"I wanted a remote house and found this place . Can I live here?" Meng Li asked politely .

"Of course you can . This was where Old Man Yan lived, he died six years ago . He had no relatives, so the house stood empty until today . " the man answered . He was quite welcoming and introduced himself right away .

"I'm Ji Bai . We'll be neighbours from now on . " he said with a big smile and bowed slightly .

"I'm Meng Li . Please take care of me in the future . " Meng Li answered and returned the bow .

With this, more people began to introduce themselves and began chatting with him . He learned their names, ages, as well as their jobs . It turned out that Ji Bai was nearing forty and was an apprentice blacksmith in the blacksmith shop Meng Li bought nails from .

He also learned that the people in the area had quite boring lives, and any change was enough to entertain them for a long time, so he had to prepare himself for frequent visits from his neighbours . That meant that he had to make his alibi better - or rather, come up with a job . For now, he managed to avoid all of the questions, but it wouldn't be so easy in the future .





After all the people left to do their jobs, Meng Li returned to building the house - or, at the moment, cleaning up the old, rotten house . Fortunately, the ground in the old house wasn't planks, but instead simply packed earth, which saved him the trouble of digging up rotten planks from the ground . However, the same couldn't be said about the support pillars - they were dug at least a meter into the ground . Digging all the rotten wood out wasn't hard, but it was annoying for him . And quite disgusting - the rotten wood was inhabited by all kinds of bugs, who were all quite disturbed with the destruction of their house .

Meng Li didn't have a phobia of insects . However, it sufficed to say that he didn't like them that much . Thus, he did not enjoy digging up the rotten logs .

However, to his surprise, the holes he had dug out could be used to build his new house if he just made them a bit deeper . When the holes were all dug out, Meng Li realised that he probably should've also bought a shovel, but he had already done the job, and there was no use in regretting it .

Now that the remains of the old house were cleaned out, he could finally start building . His plan was simple - to have four pillars supporting the roof, and on the pillars the entire house would be built . He would also have wooden floor - having a floor made out of packed earth didn't sound good . As such, the floor would be planks laid on top of two wooden logs stretched between the supporting pillars . If the planks were unable to bear the weight of a few people, he would place a support in the middle .

With a plan, Meng Li got to work . With his strength, carrying logs was nothing, not to mention planks . As such, the four pillars were stable in no time . Now, Meng Li laid four logs on the ground in a square with the four pillars as corners . This way, the logs would serve as both support for the floor and prevent cold wind from seeping in from the cracks in the floorboards .

The logs were attached to the pillars by nails and a few planks which were dug into the ground with Meng Li's immense strength . After he made sure they were stable, he shaved the tops of the logs to be completely flat . The ground was a bit angled - not to the point where it was impossible to walk on, but it was noticeable . And it was annoying . And so, on the logs, he placed the planks . At first, he wanted to have one layer, but it was not at all enough to support a few people even after he added support in the middle . And, it had way too much cracks . So, he laid another layer of planks on top of the first one, but the layer on top laid perpendicular to the bottom layer . Even this wasn't enough, so he laid another two layers . In the end, he settled for four layers .

Now that he had a satisfactory floor, he build the walls . These were simple - also layers of planks . Doing this took a lot of nails, but Meng Li didn't care . After he ran out, he simply made a trip to the blacksmith and bought some more . He didn't see Ji Bai, but it was to be expected since he worked in the forge and had no time to come out . However, he asked the person standing the counter to say hello to Ji Bai from him .

After the trip to the blacksmith, he managed to complete the walls without any trouble . In the end, there was one entrance and one window . He also built a thin wall separating the living space into two rooms . The smaller room was the bedroom, and it was completely closed off except a small door built in the wall separating it from the other room . The other room was quite small too, since the entire house was small . It had the door to the outside, and a small window . Meng Li, in the woodworking frenzy, also decided to build a small tea table . He didn't have a tea set, but he simply summoned one and placed it on the small table . He also summoned two cushions to sit on and placed them around the table .

At this point, he realised that something was missing - it was a fireplace . And it was quite a crucial part of any household . Not very troubled, Meng Li simply cut a round hole in the floor and supported the planks around it . He then used the long unused terrain tab in his consciousness to control the ground into the shape he wanted . He created a simple fireplace, with a chimney sticking half a meter above where the roof was supposed to be . The small fireplace was only open on one side, towards the room with a window, but half of it was in the bedroom, to keep it warm . Although Meng Li didn't need it, it was still more comfortable to be in a hot place while it was cold outside . And, when he left, he would leave a tidy, neat and comfortable home for one . After creating the fireplace, Meng Li fixed the wall he had broken in order to place it . He also used the terrain tool to seal all the cracks in the floor and the walls, to avoid having sealing them himself . After all of that, despite feeling quite tired, he continued to work on the roof . The roof was simple to build - a supporting structure built from thicker planks, and a grid of normal planks on which the roof itself would go . The roof was extremely simple - flat and sloping towards two sides, laid with curved roof tiles . It wasn't special by any means .

The only other thing apart from the small house Meng Li build was the balcony . Or rather, the porch . It was a small platform near the door - With how he built the floor, the door ended up being quite high, so he built a porch . It was covered by the roof which extended over it, but it was barren . Apart from supports for the roof, the only thing on it were the stairs leading to the ground . Meng Li also created a simple path leading to the road from the stairs, but simple removing the weeds growing on it . It was extremely simple, with no decorations whatsoever .

As he finished, Meng Li returned . He was quite tired - not physically, but mentally . All this hard work made him want to go to the control room and . . . Cultivate . . .

When he had this thought, Meng Li began to think that cultivation really was getting into his head . He couldn't help but let out a small chuckle as he stepped into the newly built house . He threw some timber into the fireplace and lit it up . In no time, the small place felt much more comfortable and finally felt like a real home .

Meng Li summoned some tea leaves and prepared himself a cup of tea . It was a long time since he simply sat down and drank tea . . . The familiar flavour comforted him . Meng Li sat down near the table and executed the Heavenly Yin Yang Shroud technique and stretched it over to the young couple's house . This reminded him - he didn't know their names . He would have to make a trip to learn of all the neighbours' names and where they lived .

However, that was for the future . Meng Li smiled slightly and sunk into executing the technique .