Scientific Exorcism? Just Clearing the Smog!

How could the black mist of Black Cloud Marsh be contained, weakened, or even eliminated?

This was a difficult question.

Even Xiluo, who had lived for a thousand years and seen much of the world, could only pin her hopes on a child like Li Boyang.

Or, more precisely, out of unconditional trust in her elder sister, Xiluo believed that Li Boyang would surely find a solution in the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination.

But as far as the facts went, Li Boyang thought Xiluo was being rather too blind in her faith.

Never mind how obscure and difficult the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination was, or whether anyone in this era could even understand it.

Even if someone really understood the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination, putting its theories into practice would certainly not be the work of a single day.

Only a transmigrator like Li Boyang, gifted beyond the ordinary and versed in both ancient and modern knowledge, could have devised a temporary solution to this black mist.

[No matter where that black mist originates, or how bizarrely it behaves...]

[In essence, it is only a special kind of mist.]

The golden flying sword slowly circled above the valley as Li Boyang's voice simultaneously reached Xiluo's mind.

[According to the calculations of the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination and the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron...]

[This is a place the black mist of Black Cloud Marsh must pass through to expand outward.]

[Across the entire perimeter of Black Cloud Marsh, there are only thirty-two such critical points.]

[As long as we intercept the black mist at these thirty-two locations, the black mist of Black Cloud Marsh can only remain trapped in that little patch of swamp.]

This sounded somewhat mysterious.

But as far as Li Boyang was concerned, all he really needed to do was treat this black mist as smog.

Whatever methods the big cities of his previous life had used to deal with smog, copying that experience here would work much the same.

[This is a downwind opening, which is why the wind here blows the black mist out of Black Cloud Marsh.]

[In theory, as long as we block this downwind opening, we can solve the problem of the black mist spreading out through this spot.]

Xiluo listened to Li Boyang's explanation with a thoroughly overwhelmed expression.

Ignorant and unlearned, she finally gave up trying to understand and simply asked outright.

"Just tell me what to do, all right!"

This was how Xiluo had dealt with the Witch of the Huai River a thousand years ago, and it had worked surprisingly well.

Apart from the Witch of the Huai River sighing every time, Xiluo saw nothing wrong with it.

[Aren't you a mountain god?]

[Then just move a mountain here and block this wind outlet.]

At Li Boyang's words, Xiluo shook her head like an electric fan.

"What on earth is a child like you thinking?"

"If I could do that, I might as well move a mountain straight over to Black Cloud Marsh and smash it!"

It was not as though Xiluo had never seen divine beings capable of moving mountains and toppling peaks, but they usually revealed the dragon's head without showing its tail.

If a divine being like that presided over the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, how could a mere evil ghost ever have had the chance to run wild?

[Then, as a mountain god, can you make plants grow?]

[Planting more vegetation at the mouth of this valley can also stop the black mist from spreading outward.]

At this, Xiluo licked her paw in some embarrassment.

"Ahem, although I'm the mountain god of Flying Peak, I'm actually not very good at that sort of thing..."

The flying sword paused briefly in midair before Li Boyang's voice came through again.

[Then what about Summoning Clouds and Bringing Rain? Surely you can do that?]

[As long as you can keep this area damp over the long term...]

[The moisture in that mist will naturally condense into droplets, making the mist settle and reducing its spread.]

Li Boyang clearly remembered that after killing Ruifu, Xiluo had used the Summoning Clouds and Bringing Rain method to extinguish the remaining Ice and Fire Sha Qi.

"Do you think summoning clouds and rain is that convenient?"

"I can only make rain fall ahead of time. I can't create clouds and rain out of thin air."

Looking up at the boundless clear sky above the valley, Xiluo retorted irritably.

[Why does a damned place like this insist on obeying science...]

After a brief silence, Li Boyang's voice was filled with helplessness.

[Then I suppose you can't produce a strong wind at this mountain pass and blow it in the opposite direction either?]

Blinking awkwardly again, Xiluo argued in a small voice.

"For that sort of thing, you should find a professional wind god. I'm only a little mountain god..."

Listening to Xiluo's excuses, Li Boyang realized for the first time just how ignorant and unlearned she was.

[Then what can you do?]

Upon hearing the question, Xiluo immediately perked up with renewed vigor.

"I can set fires!"

"What do you think about burning this whole valley down?"

Listening to Xiluo talk about setting fire to the mountain, Li Boyang felt black lines cover his forehead and hurriedly interrupted.

[It hasn't come to that, and there's absolutely no need.]

[Since you're good at controlling fire, can you raise the temperature locally in this area?]

[It doesn't need to be much, only about three to five degrees higher than over at Black Cloud Marsh...]

[Then the air near the ground will heat up, forming a local inversion layer, which can also prevent mist from forming and moving.]

With the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn's assistance, Xiluo fully understood what Li Boyang had said.

Although she still did not understand the unfamiliar terms mixed into it, at least she understood what she needed to do.

"That's easy. Setting fires is my specialty!"

She abruptly leaped, instantly transforming from a leopard cat into a red leopard as fiery clouds formed beneath her feet.

Under Xiluo's precise control, the temperature throughout the valley's downwind opening soared, producing tangible, visibly shimmering waves of heat in less than a few breaths.

A distinct updraft formed in the area, visible to the naked eye.

The black mist pouring out of Black Cloud Marsh had no time to surge out of the valley.

Instead, it rose into the air along that updraft and was then pushed back.

From Li Boyang's perspective, the Primordial Qi representing "flame" gathered at the mountain pass within a short time.

It hardly looked as though Xiluo was controlling that Primordial Qi. Rather, it seemed to be responding to her thoughts of its own accord.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The red leopard bounded through the air at low altitude on fiery clouds, and Primordial Qi naturally gathered wherever she passed.

Primordial Qi gathered, the temperature rose, an inversion layer formed, and then a distinct updraft appeared...

The entire process flowed like drifting clouds and running water, completed in one unbroken sweep, and soon achieved the result Li Boyang wanted.

Such an extraordinary spectacle inevitably alerted the other mountain gods, water gods, river gods, and spirits nearby.

Although they did not know what trouble that mountain cat was stirring up this time.

Seeing that the commotion was taking place near the edge of Black Cloud Marsh's black mist, any being with a little intelligence chose to give it a wide berth.

For their observations over this period had shown that wherever that mountain cat and flying sword went or lingered, a battle with corrupted beasts was sure to occur.

To avoid being fish caught in a disaster at the city moat, leaving before the two sides began fighting was the wisest choice.

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