Yunmeng Marsh, Hidden Dragon Island.

This is the permanent place arranged by Xiluo for Er Tu after his return.

Similarly, it is also the place where the Wind and Thunder God Xuansu is imprisoned.

However, although she is imprisoned on Hidden Dragon Island,

Xuansu herself quite enjoys her current living environment and state of life.

No longer needing to consider any mission duties, nor having to deliberately disguise her feelings and thoughts.

Xuansu’s greatest hobby is carrying a fishing rod to fish beside the Yunmeng Marsh by the island.

Despite most of the time catching rather greedy Human-faced Fish, she finds joy in it.

After all, there’s not many in the whole Yunmeng Marsh who can use pills as bait.

This has gone beyond the question of luxury.

It’s that aside from Xuansu, there’s really no one who would use precious pills this way.

However, recently, Xuansu has stopped doing this.

This is not because she’s out of pills, but because she has a new, fascinating hobby—reading newspapers.

The newspaper in Xuansu’s hand is a giant piece of talisman paper roughly two by four feet, with eight pages.

Though called a "newspaper," this talisman paper is as resilient as silk and even resistant to water and fire.

And the publishers of this newspaper are none other than the members of the Li Family Village led by Li Jingshu and Qing He.

In a sense, this so-called "newspaper" is actually an upgraded version of the "talisman paper radio" from a few years ago.

Unlike the newspapers from Li Boyang’s previous life, these newspapers are not one-time things.

As long as the master copy held by Li Jingshu and Qing He isn’t lost, the content of the newspaper can be rewritten at any time.

Correspondingly, the copies in others’ hands will also change accordingly.

So even outside of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range,

as long as there is a copy of this newspaper, one can learn about the happenings in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range at any time.

In fact, when Li Jingshu brought this to Li Boyang, he was truly amazed.

In this era where traveling mostly relies on walking and communication largely depends on shouting, the mountain people created something akin to a mobile phone.

Of course, calling it a mobile phone isn’t exactly accurate either.

Because while these newspapers are updated daily, they certainly don’t have active search functions.

In Li Boyang’s view, it’s more like a text version of a mobile radio or a portable small TV.

Subsequently, based on Li Boyang’s suggestions, the newspaper team led by Li Jingshu further divided the newspaper into eight sections.

The first section is the [Front Page Headline].

It primarily publishes significant, key news.

This news can include but is not limited to major events in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and some plans and predictions for the future.

The second section is [Today’s Headlines].

It mainly focuses on crucial events that have occurred in the short term, or even today.

This section is quite miscellaneous, covering everything from major transportation routes to conflicts between villages.

The third section is [Hundred Lands Ecology].

It mainly describes and introduces the ecology and appearance of certain Hundred Lands Gods and spirit monsters.

Especially focusing on some gods and monsters with more volatile tempers or those who have been causing trouble recently, warning the mountain people through the newspaper.

The fourth section is [Weather Forecast].

As the name suggests, this section predicts future weather conditions.

Thanks to the widespread use of the Divination Method, this section can almost predict in detail the rainfall and weather situations in various areas of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range for the coming days.

This way, even those more primitive villages do not need to specifically have someone learn the Divination Method, greatly facilitating the lives of the mountain people.

Next is the back of the newspaper, featuring some frequently rotating secondary sections.

This includes [Cultivation Analysis], [Essential Magic], [Technology Sharing], [Divine Sequence], [Spirit Monster Popular Science], [Cultural Education], [Convenient Services], [Hundred Lands Seeking Aid], [Public Welfare Advertising], and [Dynamic Entertainment], etc.

Among these secondary rotating sections,

the recently introduced [Dynamic Entertainment] section has become the most popular among the mountain people.

After all, Li Boyang has been promoting the unification of written language and education for a long time now.

But compared to the vast number of mountain people, there are still many among the older generation who are illiterate, and even among the new generation, illiteracy is inevitable.

The emergence of [Dynamic Entertainment] perfectly caters to the needs of these illiterate people.

Because this section consists entirely of dynamic imagery, unlike the predominantly text-based non-dynamic sections.

The creation of this section means that this newspaper more closely resembles the televisions in Li Boyang’s memory.

To achieve "continuous motion display of images" on the newspaper,

Li Jingshu rarely took the initiative to seek Li Boyang’s help, thus breaking through this technical bottleneck.

Since the promotion of this newspaper called "Prophet Daily,"

within the borders of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, within the mountain people’s range of activity, many other newspaper offices have been established one after another.

Although these newspapers lack the [Dynamic Entertainment] section, and even maintaining daily updates is difficult,

their emergence has greatly enriched the lives of the mountain people.

These newspapers have linked mountain people who are now scattered all over the world in a much closer way.

Take Xuansu, for example; her greatest hobby now, aside from reading the "Prophet Daily," is collecting newspapers published by other mountain people.

A collection of newspapers as thick as a book is enough for Xuansu to understand everything about the Hundred Lands Mountain Range both inside and outside from the comfort of Hidden Dragon Island.

To distinguish this special newspaper from ordinary newspapers,

many people are accustomed to calling it the [rune newspaper]—a special newspaper made using talisman techniques.

"It’s a pity that other newspapers don’t have dynamic sections; they can only publish images."

Flipping through her collection of newspapers, Xuansu sighed with regret.

Keeping the pictures in motion remains an exclusive secret technique of the "Prophet Daily" to this day.

Even though "Prophet Daily" has previously shared this technique with everyone who reads the newspaper through the [Technology Sharing] section,

the materials involved and the modification of the master copy are still beyond the reach of ordinary mountain people.

Perhaps only when a powerful god becomes interested in the newspaper business will a second "Prophet Daily" be possible.

Xuansu feels that day shouldn’t be far off.

At least in Yunmeng Marsh, many gods are already itching to try.

But considering Li Jingshu’s formidable reputation, they are all waiting for a pioneer.

Only after confirming Li Jingshu’s stance will the ghosts and gods of Yunmeng Marsh apply this technology to other newspapers.

After all, the things that interest gods and mountain people differ.

They have enough time to wait and test the waters, so there’s no rush at all.

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