Chapter 3: The Mountain God Who Delivers Children

In the blink of an eye, three months had already passed since the "Tu Lou village raid incident."

After the initial shock, Li Boyang’s mother, Chen Yun—whether due to a tough nature or a thick-skinned one—quickly recovered and continued to work in the fields as if nothing had happened.

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

heaven knows if this scatterbrained woman would have fallen ill from overwork.

Of course, Chen Yun’s overly healthy state still inevitably caused 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 while pregnant.

The vast majority of women would even carry their babies on their backs to work in the fields the very day after giving birth.

This was the life of mountain folk, and a characteristic of this primitive era.

People ran about every day just to keep themselves fed and clothed.

Ordinary families simply had no time, nor the luxury, to observe the traditional month of postpartum recovery.

Yet, Chen Yun’s condition was clearly different from that of an ordinary pregnant woman.

Despite being with child, Chen Yun’s physical strength was extraordinary, even stronger than it had been before she was pregnant.

To be honest, Li Boyang had originally been worried that these superhuman displays by Chen Yun might be treated as demonic by the ignorant villagers.

However, Li Boyang soon realized he had been overthinking it.

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

And so, by piecing together fragments of conversation and his own logical deductions,

Li Boyang keenly realized that the villagers seemed to view his previous slaying of the Tu Lou as a lucky omen of the Mountain God manifesting.

As for Chen Yun’s various abnormal displays?

The villagers naturally assumed it was the Mountain God’s special care for Chen Yun.

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

that his own abnormality had actually manifested right at the beginning of Chen Yun’s pregnancy.

According to Chen Yun’s own account, during the initial period of her pregnancy, she would dream of a small golden sword every night.

From the initial fear to the subsequent gradual acceptance...

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

Only then did Chen Yun realize that what she had been dreaming of all along was her child—it was the child wanting to see her!

[Absurd, nonsense...]

Regarding this claim of Chen Yun’s, Li Boyang, with black lines of frustration on his forehead, firmly disagreed.

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

Stories like this of "conception through divine omen,"

usually only appeared in the lives of those destined to be great sages.

Li Boyang did not consider himself a sage with such grand ambitions, and naturally, he refused to bear the burden of this "supernatural birth omen" that was destined to bring endless trouble.

But refusal aside, what was happening in Chen Yun’s household truly could not be described as ordinary.

Ever since the "Tu Lou village raid incident," Li Boyang had noticed that he seemingly no longer needed to worry about the fate of dying in the womb.

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

Chen Yun, as the host, could provide sufficient nutrients, and even had more than enough to spare.

Thanks to this, Li Boyang received extraordinary growth during his embryonic stage.

Despite only being three or four months into the pregnancy,

Li Boyang’s body had already finished differentiating and was not much different from a full-term fetus.

Furthermore, under the infusion of the abundant "Innate Qi," his Sword Pellet and Heavenly Eye had also undergone a qualitative change he could not comprehend.

First was the transformation of the Sword Pellet.

As the vessel carrying Li Boyang’s soul and consciousness, the Sword Pellet could trigger a protective sword Qi effect.

But this activation was active; it was sword Qi that Li Boyang had to focus on with all his might, even risking severe damage to his vitality, to drive.

When he slew the Tu Lou earlier, that was the first time Li Boyang had actively triggered the protective sword Qi effect.

However, after receiving the infusion of "Innate Qi," this protective sword Qi seemed to have become a permanent passive skill.

It did not require Li Boyang to deliberately drive or use it.

Whenever Chen Yun encountered any danger, the sword Qi would appear on its own to protect the host mother.

Impervious to blades and spears, immune to water and fire...

These were merely the most conventional displays of this protective sword Qi.

At critical moments when danger was sensed, this sword Qi would even activate on its own to slay all threats within a radius of several meters.

Li Boyang felt that this "self-activating" protective sword Qi would likely become a major hurdle for his birth.

Therefore, so that the midwife who would deliver him in the future would not be slain by the protective sword Qi,

for a considerable time to come, besides continuing to absorb "Innate Qi," Li Boyang would be learning how to control this self-activating protective sword Qi.

Next was the qualitative change of the Heavenly Eye.

Under the continuous infusion of "Innate Qi," the third eye in the center of Li Boyang’s forehead could now be fully opened.

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

This was not just a clairvoyant ability; it also possessed the function of a thousand-mile eye.

At the very least, Li Boyang definitely did not have such strong vision in his previous life to be able to see the trembling wings of a mosquito ten meters away.

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

With "Innate Qi" being sufficiently abundant, Li Boyang was very curious as to where the limit of this Heavenly Eye lay.

[Huh? What is that?]

Just as Li Boyang opened his Heavenly Eye once again to observe the world,

he suddenly noticed a... wildcat, with fur as red as fire, appearing on the roof beam of their house.

The reason he put a question mark on the word "wildcat"

was truly because the wildcat’s expression was far too human, and it was holding a piece of fresh meat in its mouth that had been torn from somewhere.

It appeared silently, and then disappeared just as silently...

The wildcat did not disturb Chen Yun and her husband, who were sleeping, throughout the entire process; it dropped the fresh meat and vanished from Li Boyang’s field of vision.

[...]

Staring blankly at the spot where the wildcat had vanished into thin air, Li Boyang could not recover for a long time.

[A wildcat version of the 'Snail Girl'?]

Once Li Boyang finally managed to collect his thoughts, he immediately turned his gaze toward the piece of fresh meat the wildcat had dropped.

It was evident that the piece of fresh meat had been carefully selected and torn off.

Furthermore, and he did not know if it was his imagination, he could even faintly see a kind of misty aura emanating from that fresh meat.

[I think I know where that endless 'Innate Qi' is coming from...]

As this thought flashed through his mind, 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 as simple as him just slaying the Tu Lou?

[This silly woman... could she really have been blessed by the Mountain God?]

[Could that wildcat be the legendary 'Mountain God who delivers children'?]

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