Chapter 3: Child-Giving Mountain God
In the blink of an eye, three months had passed since the initial "mole cricket attack incident".
After the initial shock, perhaps due to her resilient nature or her obliviousness, Li Boyang’s mother—Chen Yun—quickly recovered and continued working in the fields as if nothing had happened.
If it weren’t for Li Boyang silently operating his innate Qi to nourish Chen Yun, strengthening her physique,
who knows if this thick-skinned woman wouldn’t succumb to illness due to overwork.
However, Chen Yun’s excessively healthy state inevitably caused a stir.
In this small mountain village with only a dozen households, it was normal for women to work in the fields during pregnancy.
Not to mention working in the fields during pregnancy,
most women even carried their children on their backs to work in the fields the day after giving birth.
This is the life of the mountain people, and the characteristic of this primitive era.
People were always striving daily for their own subsistence.
Ordinary families simply didn’t have the time or the privilege to have a postpartum confinement.
However, Chen Yun’s state was clearly different from that of ordinary pregnant women.
Even with a child in her womb, Chen Yun’s strength was exceptional, even stronger than before she became pregnant.
Honestly, Li Boyang was initially worried that Chen Yun’s unusual manifestations might be regarded as demonic by the ignorant villagers.
But Li Boyang quickly discovered that he was overthinking it.
Through his learning over this period, Li Boyang could roughly understand the language of this world.
By piecing together a few words and phrases and making reasonable conjectures,
Li Boyang keenly realized that the villagers seemed to perceive his prior slaying of the earth ant as a divine sign from the Mountain God.
As for Chen Yun’s various unusual manifestations?
The villagers simply assumed it to be the special care of the Mountain God for Chen Yun.
Then Li Boyang learned from the conversations of his parents in this life that
his anomalies were actually evident from the very beginning of Chen Yun’s pregnancy.
According to Chen Yun, in the early days of her pregnancy, she dreamed of a little golden sword every day.
From the initial fear, to the gradual acceptance thereafter,
as she dreamed more, the occurrences of dreaming about the little golden sword became less frequent, until finally, she dreamed of a child with its back to her.
Only then did Chen Yun realize that what she had been dreaming about was always her child—it was the child longing to see her!
[Absurd, preposterous nonsense...]
Li Boyang firmly opposed Chen Yun’s claims, believing them utterly nonsensical.
He couldn’t remember possessing the ability to enter dreams, nor could he recall meeting Chen Yun in a dream.
Stories like this, of "birth through dreams," usually happen only to those great saints born extraordinary.
Li Boyang admitted he wasn’t one of those saints with great ambitions, and naturally refused to bear such a "born with strange phenomena" prophecy that promised unending trouble.
Yet, denying it was one thing, but what happened to Chen Yun’s household was indeed beyond ordinary explanation.
Since the "mole cricket attack incident," Li Boyang noticed that he seemingly no longer had to worry about being stillborn.
For no matter how he refined his "innate Qi,"
Chen Yun, as the maternal host, could provide ample nourishment, even in abundance.
Thanks to this, Li Boyang in the embryonic stage experienced extraordinary growth.
Although it had only been three or four months since conception,
Li Boyang’s body had already developed almost completely, without much difference from a full-term fetus.
Moreover, Li Boyang’s Sword Pill and Celestial Eye, in the infusion of plentiful innate Qi, underwent a sort of qualitative change that he couldn’t comprehend.
First was the transformation of the Sword Pill.
As the carrier of Li Boyang’s soul and consciousness, the Sword Pill could invoke the effect of body-protecting Sword Qi.
But this invocation was active, requiring Li Boyang’s complete focus, even risking severe damage to his primordial Qi, to wield the Sword Qi.
Previously in slaying the earth ant, it was the first time Li Boyang actively invoked the body-protecting Sword Qi.
Yet after receiving the infusion of "innate Qi," this body-protecting Sword Qi seemed to transform into a constant passive skill.
It no longer required Li Boyang to deliberately activate or employ it.
Whenever Chen Yun encountered any danger, the Sword Qi would actively appear and protect the maternal host.
Impenetrable by blades or bullets, unscathed by fire and water...
These were merely the most routine manifestations of body-protecting Sword Qi.
When sensing necessary danger, these Sword Qi would even actively manifest, cutting down all threats within a few meters.
Li Boyang felt that this "self-activating" body-protecting Sword Qi would likely become a major hurdle for his birth.
So, to prevent the midwife from being slain by the body-protecting Sword Qi while aiding his birth in the future,
in the ensuing time, apart from continuing to absorb "innate Qi," Li Boyang was learning how to control this self-activating body-protecting Sword Qi.
Next was the qualitative change of the Celestial Eye.
In the continuous infusions of "innate Qi," the third eye at Li Boyang’s forehead had already fully opened.
Upon fully opening the Celestial Eye, Li Boyang could already see the happenings outside through Chen Yun’s belly.
This was not merely a perspective ability but also encompassed the function of the Thousand-Mile Eye.
At the very least, Li Boyang in his previous life certainly never had such sharp sight, able to see the flapping wings of a mosquito ten meters away.
Moreover, Li Boyang felt that his third eye was still growing, developing.
In a scenario where "innate Qi" was sufficiently abundant, Li Boyang was curious about the full extent of this Celestial Eye’s capabilities.
[Huh? What’s that?]
When Li Boyang opened his Celestial Eye again to observe the world,
he suddenly noticed a flame-red wildcat appearing on the beam of his home...?
The questioning on the word "wildcat" was because its expression was far too human-like, with a piece of fresh meat it tore from somewhere in its mouth.
It appeared silently and then disappeared silently...
The wildcat didn’t disturb the sleeping Chen Yun couple, dropping the fresh meat and disappearing from Li Boyang’s sight.
[...]
Gazing in a daze at the spot where the wildcat vanished, Li Boyang couldn’t snap out of it for a long time.
[A wildcat version of ’The Snail Girl’?]
Once Li Boyang eventually collected himself, he immediately turned to look at the fresh meat piece the wildcat left.
It was evident that the fresh meat had been carefully chosen and torn off.
𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Moreover, whether it was just Li Boyang’s illusion or not, he even faintly perceived some misty aura from the piece of fresh meat.
[I might have figured out where that continuous stream of ’innate Qi’ comes from...]
With this thought flashing through his mind, Li Boyang recalled the villagers’ earlier discussions about the Mountain God.
It now seemed that the certainty of the villagers that Chen Yun was under the Mountain God’s protection
was not just simply because he’d slain the mole cricket?
[This foolish woman... could she really be blessed by the Mountain God?]
[Could that wildcat be the fabled ’Child-Giving Mountain God’?]
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