I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 233 - 3: Saint Who Commands Ghost Gods (3/3)

Hoo!

With the aid of the Light Body Talisman and the Divine Movement Talisman.

Li Jingshu dragged Lu Huaijin, almost creating afterimages, and quickly reached the end of the bluestone road.

There lay the mist that shrouded the entire Yunmeng Marsh, stretching far beyond sight.

However, as Li Jingshu and Lu Huaijin delved deeper into this mist.

The scene within the mist was entirely different from what the world imagined.

"We've arrived!"

At the edge of Yunmeng Marsh, deep within the endless mist.

The first things that caught their eyes were the towering, varied forms of the Ghost Gods.

Most of their bodies were submerged in the lake, with the part floating on the surface semi-concealed by the mist.

These Ghost Gods were either moving the floating islands or diverting the marsh waters...

Whatever they were doing, the clear golden God-Binding Rope around their necks clearly indicated their identity.

Ever since being recaptured by Li Boyang, these Ghost Gods have been tasked with maintaining the ecosystem of the entire Yunmeng Marsh.

Blocked river water veins, drifting and shifting floating islands...

Any anomaly that might affect the Yunmeng Marsh's ecosystem falls within the duties of these Ghost Gods.

Yet, in today's Yunmeng Marsh, these Ghost Gods are not the most eye-catching.

The Yunmeng Marsh is a vast marshland.

And above this marshland lie hundreds of floating islands.

These floating islands were not naturally formed; they were artificial islands created by Li Boyang over the years.

The ecosystem of each island is different, and some could never naturally form.

For instance, an island covered with several active volcanoes...

Or a plant island overrun by excessive vegetation growth...

Because of this, these islands require the specialized maintenance of the Ghost Gods to prevent their ecosystems from collapsing due to external influences.

Especially for some extreme island ecosystems, it requires the concerted effort of multiple Ghost Gods to maintain them.

Because if those extreme island ecospheres and species were to spread.

Not only the current Yunmeng Marsh but possibly the entire Hundred Lands Mountain Range's ecosystem would collapse.

The reason Li Boyang created these islands is quite simple.

He is engaged in the cultivation of new species and material research.

Some unique species and materials only thrive in extreme environments.

Water bears, thermophilic bacteria, polar rotifers...

Diamonds, obsidian, various peculiar metals...

Besides these naturally nurtured species and materials, Li Boyang also intervenes artificially on some islands.

As a result, living beings and materials possessing super-hard, superconductive, or innate Qi attributes were born, significantly broadening Li Boyang's options for alchemy and artifact refining.

In fact, from quite early on, Li Boyang began selecting and promoting herbs suitable for transplantation to the outside world.

The ordinary herbal plants were not a major issue.

Through continual selection and breeding by Li Boyang, their planting difficulty is no higher than regular crops.

To say every household would grow herbs might be an exaggeration.

But for today's mountain people, ginseng, Panax notoginseng, angelica, astragalus, wolfberry, reishi mushrooms, and similar common herbs can already be gathered safely without venturing into the mountains.

A few far-sighted villages, with Li Boyang's consent, have even started mass planting these herbs.

Unlike the economic crops that Li Boyang has been trying to promote, there is never a worry about the sales of these herbs.

These herbs, through standardized nurseries, fertilization, and harvesting.

Aside from possibly weaker efficacy, their yield has reached a point of "supply exceeding demand."

Thus, some astute mountain people have started considering transporting these herbs by ship to sell beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

In response, Li Boyang not only did not obstruct them but provided considerable support.

To speak frankly, if not for the low literacy rates among the elder mountain populace.

Li Boyang might have cultivated a batch of doctors, physicians, and even alchemists to manufacture these herbs into pills for sale.

Unlike the stereotype notion.

The Pill-Refining Method in which Li Boyang excels also has a simplified version that doesn't necessarily involve using Primordial Qi or the Prison Soul Tripod.

As long as there's a Pill Furnace, materials, and a fixed pill recipe to follow...

Even ordinary people can craft highly effective pills.

From Li Boyang's perspective, these pills are somewhat like traditional herbal preparations, ideally suited for widespread adoption and promotion.

However, limited by the educational level of the elder mountain people.

Li Boyang has to rely on the next generation of mountain people to fulfill the role of this emerging profession of "alchemist."

Of course, while pills cannot yet be produced by ordinary people.

Li Boyang's "Comprehensive Basic Disease Enlightenment and Operation Manual - Mountain People Edition," tailored for the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and mountain people, has been successfully distributed.

It records the most common diseases encountered by mountain people and specific treatments and first aid measures.

Though these traditional methods might not fully cure diseases.

They can still be used for emergency rescue and preserving the lives of mountain people. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The counterpart, "Comprehensive Basic Disease Enlightenment and Operation Manual - Spirit Monster Edition," has also been distributed by the Human-faced Fish.

Yes, even knowing that mountain people and Spirit Monsters are not literate.

Li Boyang ultimately chose to distribute these manuals for free.

Anyway, with the paper workshop in Mountain Village operating, paper is no longer a rare item in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

On the contrary, to understand the manuals distributed by Li Boyang, both the mountain people and Spirit Monsters have to find ways, even force themselves, to read and write.

Especially the Spirit Monsters, who are mostly used to being solitary.

If they can't read the manual themselves, if they fall ill, there won't be a special "healer" to treat them.

In a sense, this is also Li Boyang's reluctant measure to promote and unify literacy.

Because apart from mountain people, Li Boyang has many Spirit Monster companions by his side.

Xiluo, Panhu, Er Tu, Xiaogui, Nvman, Xuansi Gu, Unihorned Rhinoceros...

The existence of these companions has made Li Boyang keenly aware that, unlike his previous life, this world is different.

At least within the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, mountain people and Spirit Monsters hold equal status; they are all sentient beings with equal wisdom.

In this world, in this age, Li Boyang is not just a mountain man, a human, but also an Innate Divine, a Red-haired Ghost God.

The mountain people believe in him, as do some among the Spirit Monsters.

Favoring one over the other is not Li Boyang's style.

Moreover, doing these things doesn't cost him much time and effort.

Over time, it is not just the mountain people who call him "Prophet."

Even the Spirit Monsters and Gods of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range acknowledge his status as a "Saint."

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