I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 95 - 7: Human-faced Fish (2/5)

Behind Li Family Village, the Mountain God Reservoir.

This is the lowest lying area within a radius of dozens of kilometers, where the water flow and earth veins converge.

Li Boyang chose this place to build the reservoir.

Apart from valuing the topography here, the difficulty and cost of building a dam here are also relatively low.

Layer upon layer of terraces, from high to low, from far to near, each layer is equipped with a large number of windmills and waterwheels.

When those windmills turn, the water from below is lifted upwards, then guided into corresponding channels, effectively irrigating the terraced fields outside.

When it’s not yet necessary to release water, these windmills take on the roles of irrigation, drainage, and flood reduction.

Moreover, to maximize the use of these windmills.

Li Boyang also directed the villagers to set up some milling tools nearby, which work in conjunction with the windmills.

Every time the busy farming season ends, Li Family Village would organize and orderly use these windmill-driven mills to hull grains or grind them into flour and other processed products.

In this world, these windmill-driven mills are simply a product ahead of their time.

Initially, the older generation of villagers, led by the old village chief, were distressed over the dehulled rice, thinking it was wasting food.

However, when the rice yield increased and the benefits of brown rice were realized, even the most stubborn old village chief chose to acquiesce to everyone’s actions.

Because during the process of processing rice into brown rice, although one-fifth of the mass is lost,

the taste of the rice significantly improves, and it is also more easily digested and absorbed by children and the elderly in the village.

Moreover, the husks that are removed can be used to feed poultry and livestock, so it’s not really a waste.

As for further processing brown rice into white rice?

Li Boyang knows how to do it, but he hasn’t created the corresponding tools.

In an era when the mountain people generally struggle just to fill their stomachs,

repeatedly milling brown rice just to improve its taste is simply a shameful waste.

Such luxury should be considered only after everyone’s living standards improve!

If building windmills only perfected the basic function of the reservoir, allowing the villagers of Li Family Village to truly appreciate the reservoir’s value in daily life,

then those more numerous and complex waterwheels were designed to further enhance productivity levels.

It is due to these waterwheels providing continuous power to the brick kilns,

that Li Family Village can utilize semi-assembly line advantages in an era devoid of even the concept of "handcraft," to mass-produce high-quality green bricks.

Li Boyang’s next plan is to model after these brick kilns and establish iron forging, and possibly even steel forging workshops near the reservoir.

He does not aspire to reach the smelting scale of the 21st century or even the feudal era,

as long as he can stably produce ingots of iron and get rid of the manual workshop model, Li Boyang is confident in genuinely changing the lives of the mountain people in this era.

After all, from the situation in the Guifang Kingdom, it’s evident that this world’s issue is not the lack of blacksmithing skills, but rather the scale of iron and steel production.

Once there is stable production of iron ingots, Li Boyang can genuinely promote various durable agricultural tools throughout the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

Instead of as it is now, where only Li Boyang holds the core technology.

Of course, all of this is predicated upon Li Boyang first finding a mine that can stably produce ore.

It’s a bit challenging, but not overly so.

What truly troubles Li Boyang is how to rationalize transporting the ore into Li Family Village, rather than having it intercepted by other villages or mountain people on the way.

In this Primitive Era, human nature is always the first element that hinders productivity development.

Especially when everyone is hungry, anything can happen.

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"Even though I watched this reservoir being built bit by bit..."

"No matter how many times I see it, it’s still as awe-inspiring as the first time."

Silently, a crimson leopard descended from the sky, transforming into a petite raccoon cat upon landing.

"This is the power of wisdom, the power of the collective, the power of civilization."

Closely following the raccoon cat, a black cloud gradually dissipated.

Li Boyang, wrapped in a red coat, also leapt gracefully, landing right on the dam of the reservoir.

"Civilization?"

With a slight trace of deep thought and nostalgia in his eyes, a faint smile appeared on Xiluo’s lips.

"So, can you now tell me what’s happening?"

"Did you come all the way to the reservoir because this incident is related to it?"

Before Xiluo’s words even finished, Li Boyang suddenly opened the third eye on his forehead.

The next second, the shadow beneath Li Boyang’s feet swelled unusually.

Forming into a black humanoid figure without facial features, kneeling in a half-crouch before the two.

"It’s coming!"

As if responding to Li Boyang’s words, the originally calm reservoir suddenly rippled faintly.

Then, a large fish with a human-like face but fully formed limbs leapt out of the reservoir.

Then the second, the third...

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

In a blink, hundreds and thousands of human-faced fish leapt from the water, creating an astonishing spectacle.

Before Xiluo could even react, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared at the center of the reservoir.

Whirl... whirl... whirl...

The whirlpool emerged from nowhere, expanding from small to large, spreading across almost half the reservoir in an instant.

"What’s going on!?"

Without even having time to question why human-faced fish would appear in the reservoir at this time of year, Xiluo instinctively took on a startled, defensive posture.

Because at the center of the massive whirlpool, Xiluo sensed a disturbance in the Water Vein Primordial Qi.

It seemed like a Water God, yet it wasn’t like any Water God Xiluo had ever known.

However, regardless of what kind of Water God it was, they were all naturally countered by Xiluo, who wielded fire.

The combination of flame and feline elements...

Xiluo was far more averse to water than Li Boyang had imagined.

"This is quite unexpected..."

It was unclear whether he was referring to Xiluo or the massive whirlpool at the center of the reservoir.

Li Boyang cautiously took a step back, then formed a hand formula, pointing towards the center of the whirlpool.

This hand formula was Li Boyang’s attempt to simulate the operation of Talismanic Proverbs, a way to maximize the efficient use of his inner Primordial Qi.

Unfortunately, compared to the various miraculous hand formulas of the Taoist School, the hand formulas Li Boyang devised could only serve an auxiliary function.

For him, the symbolic meaning outweighed the practical effect. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Buzz...

Without a moment’s hesitation, the black humanoid figure, originally kneeling, turned and walked on water, rushing directly towards the human-faced fish.

Whirl... whirl... whirl...

In response, the massive whirlpool at the center of the reservoir churned again.

A colossal creature, over ten meters long, suddenly leapt from the water.

The huge face displayed an expression of anger and pain, twisted into a grimace.

"Hah!"

A sharp, piercing sound formed a substantive shockwave.

The black figure didn’t even have a chance to get close to the center of the whirlpool before it was shattered and splintered into countless shadow fragments falling into the water.

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