Chapter 3: The Mountain God Who Delivers Children

In the blink of an eye, three months had passed since the initial "Earth Mole Village Attack Incident."

After the initial shock, Chen Yun—Li Li Boyang's mother, whether due to her inherently strong nature or her carefree disposition—quickly recovered and continued working in the fields as if nothing had happened.

If not for Li Li Boyang silently circulating his Innate Qi all along to nourish Chen Yun and strengthen her physique,

heaven knows whether this thick-skinned woman wouldn't have collapsed from overwork.

Of course, Chen Yun's excessively robust condition inevitably caused quite a stir.

In this small mountain village of only a dozen households, it was quite normal for pregnant women to work in the fields.

Let alone working in the fields while pregnant;

the vast majority of women would carry their children on their backs and head to the fields the very day after giving birth.

This was the life of the mountain dwellers, and also a characteristic of this barbaric era.

People spent every day rushing about just to secure food and clothing.

Ordinary families simply had neither the time nor the qualification to observe the postpartum confinement period.

However, Chen Yun's condition was clearly different from that of ordinary pregnant women.

Though heavily pregnant, Chen Yun's physical strength was extraordinary, even stronger than before she had conceived.

To be honest, Li Li Boyang had initially worried that Chen Yun's abnormal manifestations might lead those ignorant villagers to treat her as a monster.

But Li Li Boyang soon realized he was worrying unnecessarily.

Through study over this period, Li Li Boyang was now roughly able to understand the language of this world.

Thus, by piecing together fragments of conversation and making reasonable deductions,

Li Li Boyang keenly realized that the villagers seemed to have interpreted his earlier slaying of the Earth Moles as an auspicious sign of the Mountain God manifesting its power.

As for Chen Yun's various abnormal manifestations?

The villagers naturally assumed them to be the Mountain God's special care for Chen Yun.

It was only then, from the conversations of his parents in this life, that Li Li Boyang learned

his own abnormalities had actually manifested ever since the beginning of Chen Yun's pregnancy.

According to Chen Yun herself, during the early stages of her pregnancy, she dreamed every day of a small golden sword.

From initial fear to gradual acceptance...

As the frequency of these dreams increased, the times Chen Yun dreamed of the small golden sword began to decrease, until finally, she dreamed of a child with its back turned to her.

It was only at this point that Chen Yun realized that what she had been dreaming of all along was her own child—the child wanted to see its mother!

【Absurd, nonsense...】

Regarding Chen Yun's claim, Li Li Boyang, with black lines covering his forehead, firmly expressed his opposition.

He did not recall possessing the ability to enter dreams, nor did he remember ever meeting Chen Yun within a dream.

Stories of this sort, of "conception through sensation,"

usually only appeared surrounding sages born to greatness.

Li Li Boyang asked himself if he was such a sage with lofty ambitions, and naturally refused to bear these "innate strange phenomena" that were destined to bring endless trouble.

But despite his refusal to accept the narrative, the events occurring in Chen Yun's household truly could not be described as ordinary.

Ever since the "Earth Mole Village Attack Incident," Li Li Boyang had noticed that he no longer needed to worry about the fate of dying in the womb.

For no matter how he refined his "Innate Qi,"

Chen Yun, as the maternal body, was able to provide ample nutrients, even more than enough.

Thanks to this, Li Li Boyang, in his embryonic stage, had undergone extraordinary growth.

Though only three or four months into the pregnancy,

Li Li Boyang's body had already completed its differentiation and differed little from a full-term fetus.

Beyond this, under the infusion of abundant "Innate Qi," Li Li Boyang's Sword Pellet and Heavenly Eye had also undergone some kind of qualitative transformation he could not yet comprehend.

First was the transformation of the Sword Pellet.

As the vessel carrying Li Li Boyang's soul and consciousness, the Sword Pellet could unleash sword qi to protect the body.

However, this activation was active; it required Li Li Boyang to focus his entire mind, even risking severe depletion of his vital energy, to drive the sword qi.

When he had previously slain the Earth Moles, it was the first time Li Li Boyang had actively triggered the sword qi body protection effect.

However, after receiving the infusion of "Innate Qi," this sword qi body protection seemed to have become a permanent passive ability.

It no longer required Li Li Boyang to deliberately drive or use it.

Whenever Chen Yun encountered any danger, the sword qi would automatically appear and protect the host's maternal body.

Impervious to blades and spears, untouched by water and fire...

These were merely the most conventional manifestations of this protective sword qi.

At critical moments when danger was detected, this sword qi would even actively unleash itself, slaying everything dangerous within a radius of several meters.

Li Li Boyang felt that this "spontaneous" protective sword qi would likely become a major hurdle for his own birth.

Therefore, to prevent the midwife who would eventually deliver him from being slain by the protective sword qi,

for quite a long time to come, Li Li Boyang, besides continuing to absorb "Innate Qi," dedicated himself to learning how to control this spontaneous protective sword qi.

Next was the qualitative transformation of the Heavenly Eye.

Under the continuous infusion of "Innate Qi," the third eye in Li Li Boyang's brow could now fully open.

After fully opening the Heavenly Eye, Li Li Boyang was already able to see events happening outside through Chen Yun's belly.

This was not merely the ability of X-ray vision; it also possessed the function of Clairvoyance.

At the very least, Li Li Boyang absolutely did not possess such strong vision in his previous life, capable of seeing the trembling wings of a mosquito ten meters away.

Furthermore, Li Li Boyang could feel that his third eye was still growing and developing.

With "Innate Qi" being sufficiently abundant, Li Li Boyang was very curious: what exactly was the limit of this Heavenly Eye?

【Eh? What is that?】

Just as Li Li Boyang opened his Heaven Eye once more to observe this world.

He suddenly noticed a mountain cat, its entire body blazing red like fire, appearing on his own house beam?

The reason he put a question mark around the term "mountain cat".

Was simply because the mountain cat's expression was far too human-like, and it held a fresh chunk of meat in its mouth, torn from who knew where.

Appearing silently, then vanishing silently again...

The mountain cat did not disturb the sleeping couple, Chen Yun and her husband, at all; it dropped the fresh chunk of meat and vanished from Li Li Boyang's sight.

【...】

Staring blankly at the spot where the mountain cat had vanished into thin air, Li Li Boyang could not snap out of it for a long time.

【A mountain cat version of the 'Snail Girl'?】

Once Li Li Boyang finally came to his senses, he immediately turned his head to look at the fresh chunk of meat the mountain cat had dropped.

It could be seen that the fresh meat had been carefully selected and torn off.

Moreover, whether it was Li Li Boyang's illusion or not, he even faintly saw some kind of misty aura emanating from that fresh chunk of meat.

【I think I know where that constant stream of 'Primordial Qi' is coming from...】

As this thought flashed through his mind, Li Li Boyang immediately recalled the villagers' earlier discussion regarding the Mountain God.

Now it seemed that the reason the villagers firmly believed Chen Yun was a woman protected by the Mountain God.

Was not merely because he had slain the earth mole?

【That foolish woman... could she really be protected by the Mountain God?】

【Could that civet cat be the legendary 'Child-Giving Mountain God'?】

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