Chapter 48: Ghost and Deity Cliff Cave

Although Li Boyang is now three and a half years old, his height is already close to one meter.

Yet compared to the ghost and deity statues on Flying Peak, he still appears as tiny as an ant in his child form.

Looking from afar, those ghost and deity statues stand tall amidst the clouds and mist, backed against the cliffs of Flying Peak, giving off a sense of looking down upon all living beings.

And among these ghost and deity sculptures, a cliff cave leading directly into the mountain interior stands prominently on the small path behind the Mountain God Temple.

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

Standing outside that cliff cave, the lone Li Boyang takes the Destiny Bone Armor out of his pocket.

He gently tosses the Destiny Bone Armor upward, and only after determining there is no danger on this trip does he cautiously walk into the cliff cave.

In the three years since obtaining the Destiny Bone Armor.

Li Boyang has basically developed the habit of calculating everything before doing it.

Although Li Boyang is not the type of person who firmly believes that "destiny cannot be defied."

Calculating good or bad fortune before acting and making sufficient preparations has still allowed Li Boyang to avoid many unnecessary troubles.

It is also because of this that Li Boyang finally understands why those powerful characters in the classical myths of his past life always liked to calculate the will of heaven before doing anything.

Nothing else, it is simply useful!

Of course, Li Boyang has already read through the "Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets" over these three years.

So his application of the Destiny Bone Armor is naturally not stuck at the primary stage like Xi Luo's.

What seemed like just divining good or bad fortune just now was actually Li Boyang using the knowledge from the "Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets" to make predictions about the mountain's terrain and the things that might happen next.

The Destiny Bone Armor essentially just corrects Li Boyang's judgment, ensuring his assessment is not wrong.

Once any unexpected situation occurs, Li Boyang can also respond with the most timely and correct methods.

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

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

"That brat... his courage is truly growing larger and larger."

Not until Li Boyang's back gradually disappears into the cliff cave does Xi Luo quietly appear where he was originally standing.

Although Li Boyang coming into contact with the cliff cave was just an accident, Xi Luo has never been negligent.

Because only she knows how terrifying the existence locked inside the cliff cave is.

Compared to the existence inside the cliff cave.

Those ghosts and deities sealed on Flying Peak can simply be called as docile and harmless as poultry.

Even the Huaijiang Witch of a thousand years ago did not suppress and seal it with raw power alone.

The only thing to be thankful for is that after Li Boyang accidentally discovered the cliff cave, nothing that Xi Luo would not want to see occurred.

On the contrary, Xi Luo highly suspects that some of Li Boyang's astonishing ideas and behaviors are actually inspired by the terrifying existence inside the cliff cave.

Otherwise, it is truly hard to believe that Li Boyang, with his growth speed over these short three years, is still just a three-and-a-half-year-old child.

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Inside the cliff cave, in a quiet, narrow passageway.

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

And at the center of Li Boyang's brow, the already opened vertical eye answers why he is not affected by this dark environment.

Not only that, Li Boyang can even clearly see the vivid ghost and deity sculptures on both sides of the passageway.

Compared to those ghost and deity statues on the cliff outside, the sculptures here are not particularly tall.

The tallest is only six or seven meters, and the shorter ones are only two or three meters...

The most crucial thing is that these ghost and deity sculptures in the cliff cave are not ferocious; instead, they give people a sense of dignity and solemnity, like true divine statues.

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

Passing through those solemn ghost and deity sculptures all the way, Li Boyang does not stop his footsteps until he hears a clear sound of dripping water.

This is the end of the cliff cave, where mountain spring water drips along stalactites into a rock pool at the side.

And near that rock pool, a large black dog tethered by chains is sleeping soundly, completely unaware of Li Boyang's arrival.

"Ahem!"

Not until Li Boyang gives a light, dry cough does the sleeping large black dog wake up from its dream.

Clatter...

As it pulls on the chains extending from the mountain rock, they instantly emit a chaotic clashing sound.

That is not a single chain.

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

"Little brat, when did you arrive?"

Opening its pair of dog eyes wide, the large black dog's voice sounds low and hoarse.

"Just arrived, the second before you woke up."

Having arrived very skillfully near a rock formation opposite the large black dog, Li Boyang's head of red hair instantly ignites with firelight.

Under the illumination of that red firelight, the depths of the cliff cave are lit up as bright as day.

And on that rock formation, which occupies no more than ten square meters, rice seeds that have yet to sprout are neatly arranged.

"Are the seeds this time okay?"

Seeing this, the large black dog also slowly stands up.

The seeds on this rock formation are not ordinary rice seeds, but seeds with large, full grains that Li Boyang carefully selected.

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

He just watched the Li Family Village work hard for a whole year, only to end up with a harvest of less than one hundred catties per mu, and always felt he should be able to do something within his power.

As for the method to increase the yield per mu?

It is nothing more than reforming farming methods and selecting the most suitable high-quality seeds.

To tell the truth, Li Boyang does not know the structure of a curved-shaft plow, nor does he believe that copying the farm tools from his past life would greatly improve the situation in Li Family Village.

After all, Li Family Village does not even have a single head of livestock; relying purely on human labor, the efficiency of land reclamation cannot be increased much.

Fortunately, this is a world where gods truly exist, and Li Boyang happens to have a fairly good relationship with Xi Luo, this Mountain God.

So, after Li Boyang pestered her shamelessly.

Every spring, Xi Luo would helplessly transfer the usage rights of the "Tooth Pig" to him temporarily.

Besides this, Li Boyang would also specifically choose areas with more fertile soil to help the people in the village drive away the wild beasts and monsters lurking there.

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

But this is already the limit.

In the absence of more advanced farm tools, no matter how meticulously one person farms, they can only tend to seven or eight mu of land at most.

After a year of such hard work, they have only just barely reached the subsistence line.

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

Compared to the people of this era, Li Boyang at least knows what high-quality seeds are, and knows how to select suitable seeds for the coming year's planting.

Don't underestimate this as just common sense.

But according to Li Boyang's observation, no one in Li Family Village understands this point.

Let alone specifically picking out those full-grained seeds, whether they need to borrow seeds from other families next year is a problem.

Even Chen Yun, who has always appeared very shrewd, only realized under Li Boyang's reminder that those full-grained seeds could grow more food the following year.

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