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Chapter 233 The Saint Who Commands Ghosts and Gods (33)

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With the blessing of the Lightness Talisman and the Swiftness Talisman.

Li Jingshu dragged Lu Huaijin so fast that they were practically out of sight, and soon they reached the end of the blue brick road.

It was a mist that enveloped the entire Yunmeng Marsh, almost stretching as far as the eye could see.

However, as Li Jingshu and her companion ventured deeper into the fog...

The scene that unfolded within the fog was completely different from what people had imagined.

"arrive!"

On the edge of Yunmengze, deep within the endless mist.

One after another, tall and strangely shaped ghosts and gods came into view.

Most of their bodies were submerged in the lake, while their floating forms were faintly visible in the mist.

These spirits or deities might be moving floating islands or dredging lakes and marshes...

Whatever they were doing, the clearly visible golden binding rope around their necks clearly identified them.

Since being captured by Li Boyang, these ghosts and spirits have been tasked with maintaining the entire ecosystem of Yunmengze.

River channels are blocked, floating islands are shifting and drifting...

Any anomalies that could potentially affect the ecology of Yunmengze are among the tasks of these spirits and deities.

However, in the present-day Yunmengze, these ghosts and gods are not the most eye-catching.

Yunmengze is a vast marshland.

And on this vast swamp are hundreds of floating islands.

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

The ecosystems of these islands are all different, and some are even impossible to have formed naturally.

For example, there are lava islands covered by several active volcanoes...

For example, there's the plant island where abnormal plant growth has covered the entire island...

It is precisely for this reason that these islands need the special maintenance of spirits and deities to prevent the various ecosystems within the islands from collapsing due to external influences.

In particular, some extreme island ecosystems require the combined efforts of multiple spirits to maintain their existence.

Because once the ecology and species of those extreme islands are allowed to spread.

Not only the current Yunmengze, but perhaps the entire ecosystem of the Hundred Mountains will collapse as a result.

The reason why Li Boyang created these islands is also very simple.

He is currently conducting research on new species breeding and materials.

However, some special species and materials can only be nurtured in extreme environments.

Tardigrades, thermophilic bacteria, polar planarians...

Diamonds, obsidian, and all sorts of exotic metals...

In addition to these naturally occurring species and materials, Li Boyang will also conduct artificial interventions on certain islands.

This also led to the creation of organisms and materials with properties similar to superhardness, superconductivity, and primordial energy, greatly enriching Li Boyang's choices in alchemy and weapon crafting.

In fact, Li Boyang had already begun screening and promoting alchemical herbs suitable for transplantation to the outside world a long time ago.

Those common herbal plants are fine.

Through Li Boyang's continuous selection and breeding, their cultivation difficulty is no longer much higher than that of ordinary grains.

It might be an exaggeration to say that every household grows medicinal herbs.

But for today's mountain people, common medicinal herbs such as ginseng, notoginseng, angelica, astragalus, wolfberry, and lingzhi no longer require the risk of going into the mountains to pick them.

Several visionary villages, after obtaining Li Boyang's consent, began to cultivate these herbs on a large scale.

Compared to the cash crops that Li Boyang has been trying to promote, there is never any worry about the sales of these herbs.

These herbs, which undergo standardized seedling cultivation, fertilization, and harvesting, have already reached a point of "supply exceeding demand," except that their medicinal efficacy may be slightly lower.

As a result, some clever mountain people began to consider selling these herbs to places outside the Hundred Mountains by boat and water transport.

Instead of stopping them, Li Boyang provided them with great convenience.

To be honest, it would be much better if the older generation of mountain people hadn't had such a low literacy rate.

Li Boyang even considered training a group of doctors, physicians, and even alchemists to process these herbs into elixirs and sell them.

This is different from stereotypes in the common sense.

Li Boyang's "method of alchemy" also has a simplified version, and it does not necessarily involve the use of primordial energy and the Prison Soul Cauldron.

As long as you have a furnace and the materials, and then refine the pills according to a fixed formula...

Even ordinary people can refine highly effective pills.

From Li Boyang's perspective, these pills are actually somewhat similar to traditional Chinese medicine, and are very suitable for popularization and promotion.

Unfortunately, this was limited by the educational level of the older generation of mountain people.

Li Boyang could only entrust the emerging profession of "alchemist" to the next generation of mountain people.

Of course, the pills are not yet available to ordinary people to produce.

However, Li Boyang's "Comprehensive Basic Disease Enlightenment and Operation Manual - Mountain People Edition," compiled specifically for the mountainous areas and their inhabitants, was successfully promoted.

It records some of the most common diseases encountered by the mountain people, as well as targeted treatment and rescue measures.

Although these folk remedies may not be able to completely cure the disease.

However, it is still possible to provide emergency rescue and save the lives of the mountain people.

Correspondingly, there was also the "Comprehensive Basic Disease Enlightenment and Operation Manual - Monster Edition," which was also distributed by the human-faced fish.

Yes, even knowing that the mountain people and spirits are illiterate.

Li Boyang ultimately decided to give away these manuals for free.

Anyway, with the opening of paper mills in the mountain valleys, paper is no longer a rare commodity in the Baidi Mountains.

On the contrary, the mountain people and spirits had to find a way to read and write in order to understand the manual given by Li Boyang, even if it meant forcing themselves to do so.

Especially the spirits, most of them are used to being alone.

If you can't understand those manuals yourself, there won't be any "quack doctors" to treat you when you get sick.

In a sense, this was also a helpless move by Li Boyang in order to popularize and unify the written language.

Who could blame Li Boyang for having so many spirit companions besides the mountain people?

Xi Luo, Pan Hu, E Tu, Xiao Gui, Nü Man, Xuan Si Gu, Du Jiao Si...

The existence of these companions made Li Boyang clearly realize that this world was different from his previous life.

At least in these hundreds of mountains, the mountain people and spirits are of equal status; they are all sentient beings with equal wisdom.

In this world and in this era, Li Boyang is not only a mountain dweller and a human being, but also an innate deity and a red-haired ghost.

The mountain people believe in themselves, but there are also spirits who believe in themselves.

Favoritism has never been Li Boyang's style.

Moreover, doing these things doesn't actually take up much of his time and energy.

Over time, it became known not only to the mountain people as a "prophet".

Even the spirits and deities of the Hundred Mountains have tacitly accepted his status as a "saint".

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(End of this chapter)