Chapter 48: Ghost and God Cliff Cave

Although Li Li Boyang is now three and a half years old and stands nearly one meter tall,

compared to the ghost and god statues on Feilai Peak, his childlike form still appears as insignificant as an ant.

From a distance, those ghost and god statues stand amidst the clouds and mist, their backs against the cliff walls of Feilai Peak, exuding a sense of looking down upon all living beings.

And among these ghost and god sculptures, a cliff cave leading straight into the mountain's interior stands out prominently on the back mountain path behind the Mountain God Temple.

"Let me see; there shouldn't be any danger this time, right?"

Standing outside that cliff cave, Li Li Boyang, all alone, took the Destiny Bone Armor from his pocket.

He was seen gently tossing the Destiny Bone Armor upward; only after confirming there was no danger on this journey did he cautiously step into the cliff cave.

In the three years since obtaining the Destiny Bone Armor,

Li Li Boyang had basically developed the habit of calculating everything before doing anything.

Although Li Li Boyang was not the type of believer who held that "Heaven's Mandate cannot be defied,"

calculating fortune and misfortune before acting and making sufficient preparations still allowed Li Li Boyang to avoid many unnecessary troubles.

It was for this reason that Li Li Boyang finally understood why those powerful figures in classical mythology from his past life always liked to calculate Heaven's Will before acting.

Nothing more; it was simply useful!

Of course, over these three years, Li Li Boyang had already thoroughly read the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

Therefore, his use of the Destiny Bone Armor naturally did not remain at the beginner stage like Xi Luo's.

What appeared just now to be merely divining fortune and misfortune was actually Li Li Boyang applying the knowledge from the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets to predict the mountain's appearance and terrain of the cave, as well as events that might occur next.

The Destiny Bone Armor essentially only corrects Li Li Boyang's judgment, ensuring his judgment is not mistaken.

Should any unexpected situation arise, Li Li Boyang would also be able to respond with the most timely and correct means.

In other words, in the hands of a poor student, the Destiny Bone Armor can only be used for true-or-false questions.

But in the hands of an honor student, it can be used for the most complex application problems.

"That child... is getting bolder and bolder."

Only after Li Li Boyang's figure gradually disappeared into the cliff cave did Xi Luo quietly appear at the place where he had been standing.

Although Li Li Boyang's contact with the cliff cave was merely an accident, Xi Luo had never been negligent.

Because only she knew how terrifying the existence sealed within the cliff cave truly was.

Compared to the existence inside the cliff cave,

those ghosts and gods sealed upon Feilai Peak could almost be described as docile and harmless, like domestic poultry.

Even the Huaijiang Witch from a thousand years ago did not seal and suppress them through sheer force.

The only thing worth rejoicing about was that after Li Li Boyang accidentally discovered the cliff cave, no situation Xi Luo wished to avoid occurred.

On the contrary, Xi Luo strongly suspected that some of Li Li Boyang's astonishingly brilliant ideas and actions were actually inspired by that terrifying existence within the cliff cave.

Otherwise, Li Li Boyang's growth speed over such a short three years would be very hard to believe for a child of only three and a half.

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Inside the cliff cave, within the quiet, narrow passage,

Li Li Boyang moved lightly through it, seemingly completely unaffected by this dark environment.

And at the center of Li Li Boyang's forehead, the already-opened vertical eye answered why he was unaffected by this dark environment.

Moreover, Li Li Boyang could even clearly see the lifelike ghost and god sculptures on both sides of the passage.

Compared to those ghost and god statues on the outer cliff walls, the ghost and god statues here were not particularly tall.

The tallest were no more than six or seven meters, while the shorter ones were even only two or three meters...

Most crucially, the ghost and god statues in the cliff cave were not ferocious; instead, like true divine statues, they gave people a feeling of majestic solemnity.

Drip... drip... drip...

Passing through those solemn ghost and god statues, Li Li Boyang only gradually stopped his steps after hearing a clear sound of dripping water.

This was the end of the cliff cave; clear mountain spring water dripped from a stalactite into a rock pool nearby.

And near that rock pool, a large black dog chained by a chain was sleeping soundly, completely unaware of Li Li Boyang's arrival.

"Ahem!"

Only after Li Li Boyang lightly coughed did the sleeping large black dog wake from its dream.

Clatter...

The chains extending from the mountain rock, pulled by it, instantly emitted a chaotic clashing sound.

That was not a single chain.

Five chains separately locked the large black dog's neck and four limbs, making it difficult even to turn over.

"Little brat, when did you arrive?"

Widening its pair of dog eyes, the large black dog's voice sounded low and hoarse.

"Just now, one second before you woke up."

Arriving very skillfully near a rock opposite the large black dog, Li Li Boyang's head of red hair instantly ignited with flames.

Under the illumination of that red firelight, the depths of the cliff cave were lit up as if it were midday.

And upon that rock, which occupied no more than ten square meters, rice seeds that had not yet sprouted were arranged neatly.

"Are these seeds okay this time?"

Seeing this, the large black dog slowly stood up.

The seeds on this rock were not ordinary rice seeds, but large, plump seeds carefully selected by Li Li Boyang.

Li Li Boyang was not an agricultural expert in his past life, nor did he understand any hybridization techniques.

He simply saw the Li Family Village working hard all year long, only to end up with a harvest of less than one hundred jin per mu, and always felt he should be able to do something within his power.

As for methods to increase the yield per mu?

It boils down to reforming farming methods and selecting the most suitable high-quality seeds.

To speak the truth, Li Li Boyang did not know the structure of the curved-shaft plow, nor did he believe that simply copying farming tools from his past life could greatly improve the situation in Li Family Village.

After all, Li Family Village did not even have a single beast of burden; relying purely on human labor simply could not increase reclamation efficiency by much.

Fortunately, this was a world where gods truly existed, and Li Li Boyang happened to have a rather good relationship with Xi Luo, this Mountain God.

So, after Li Li Boyang shamelessly persisted and wore her down,

every spring when the season turned, Xi Luo would helplessly temporarily hand over the usage rights of the "Toothed Pig" to him.

Beyond that, Li Li Boyang would also specially select places where the land was relatively fertile to help the villagers drive away the wild beasts and spirits that had taken up residence there.

Therefore, in less than three short years, the per capita cultivated area in Li Family Village had nearly doubled.

But this had already reached the limit.

Without the help of more advanced farming tools, no matter how intensively a person farmed, they could at most tend to seven or eight mu of land simultaneously.

After a year like this, working themselves to death, they barely managed to reach the subsistence line.

So naturally, Li Li Boyang thought of the famous hybrid rice from his past life.

Compared to the people of this era, Li Li Boyang at least knew what constituted high-quality seeds and also knew how to select suitable seeds for the following year's farming.

Do not look down on this as merely common sense.

But according to Li Li Boyang's observation, not a single person in Li Family Village understood this point.

Let alone specifically selecting those plump seeds; whether they would even need to borrow seeds from other families next year was a question.

Even Chen Yun, who always appeared very shrewd, only realized under Li Li Boyang's reminder that those plump seeds could yield more grain the following year.

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