Hundred Lands Mountain Range, Gaotun Village.
Once protected by the Spring God·Nvman as a town.
This place has always been a critical hub for the development of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
Starting from the most basic agriculture, to more advanced light industry, and then to large-scale, systematic heavy industry...
Gaotun Village has already become a model specimen for the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, and indeed, the entire world.
Every year, countless people go in and out, learning the advanced production experiences within, and bringing them back to their villages, towns, cities, and the Fang Kingdom.
Due to the overwhelming number of people entering and leaving Gaotun Village each year.
Probably starting about five or six years ago, an array barrier surrounding Gaotun Village began to be set up.
It was only recently that this world-renowned super-large array barrier was finally completed.
The foundation of this array is the "Qiankun Array Map" that Nvwa begged for from the Red Fish.
Using the "Qiankun Array Map" to mobilize the earth veins within a thousand miles radius, a group of divine beings led by Nvwa created a "Qiankun Talisman".
The coverage of this "Qiankun Talisman" is vast.
It almost encompasses a fifth of Yunmeng Marsh, more than half of the mountain people’s settlements.
At the moment the "Qiankun Array" took shape, the disturbance in the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi momentarily caused an anomaly in the climate of the entire Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
Fortunately, Li Boyang intervened in time to sort out the turbulent Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, preventing this disturbance from truly evolving into a disaster.
However, the huge price paid was worth it for Gaotun Village, and indeed for the mountain people.
Because after the "Qiankun Array" took shape, it quickly formed into a semi-open Blessed Cave Heaven.
Within this Blessed Cave Heaven, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, as well as the four seasonal climates, would be controlled by the barrier, bringing benefits to the mountain people that are self-evident.
In addition to not having to rely on the weather for agriculture, various industries have also rapidly developed.
When water, wind, or electricity is needed, they can be timely adjusted, allowing the development of races to enter a state of virtuous cycle to the greatest extent.
Moreover, the essence of the "Qiankun Talisman" is the materialization of the power of space-time.
The regulation of time is another matter.
The manifestation of the "Qiankun Array" in terms of space is the most vivid and direct.
The result of fully compressed space-time is that the living space of the mountain people has expanded more than tenfold.
The previously tense land-people relationship due to the rapid development of the mountain people was suddenly greatly freed.
Now, what troubles the mountain people is no longer the lack of land, but rather what to do with too much land.
Try to have more children?
But even if more children are born, they cannot fill the land that expanded tenfold in a short time!
Therefore, to make the most use of this excess land, agriculture naturally entered an era of industrialization with large-scale farms.
Sowing and transplanting integrated machines, large combine harvesters, even high-altitude drones...
On Earth, these are undoubtedly high-tech products.
However, in this world, a single Bronze Beast can solve the problem of semi-automation.
With the help of many gods and the guidance of Li Boyang, similar "parallel products" quickly emerged.
With ten or more Bronze Beasts working together, they can be equipped with intricate mechanical structures for sowing, transplanting, and harvesting machines.
This modular concept is perhaps even more advanced than some large-scale farms on Earth.
Because the large machinery on Earth is produced by large companies.
For patents and confidentiality, they often artificially increase the difficulty of use and maintenance.
After large companies achieve industry monopoly, farmers even have to pay extra every time they use these machines.
In contrast, the large agricultural machinery in this world is characterized by simplicity, roughness, and wildness.
The only slightly technical content might be the high-altitude drone from the Flying Heaven Stronghold.
It’s not just a simple flying Bronze Bird.
Its directional cruising and pesticide spraying devices are absolutely secret technology of the Flying Heaven Stronghold.
With the wisdom of gods and cultivators, deciphering this device isn’t difficult.
The challenge is how to deal with the subsequent owner of Flying Heaven Stronghold—Wu Zhen.
Unlike the Tao Ancestor, Wu Zhen doesn’t have an open-source attitude towards all her technology.
Although born in Great Xia, she doesn’t know the word "patent", she already has a basic encryption awareness and confidentiality methods.
At least, at present, the Hundred Lands Group respects the labor achievements of the Flying Heaven Stronghold.
Even the most curious Li Jingshu only privately disassembled the high-altitude drone from the Flying Heaven Stronghold and did not publish its specific structure in the "Prophet Daily".
Thus, a "patent awareness" based on tacit understanding rather than explicit regulations was born.
Li Boyang knows this is a manifestation of civilizational progress, so he didn’t prevent this from happening.
On the contrary, upon learning all this, Li Boyang even deliberately instructed Li Jingshu and the others that from now on, the "Prophet Daily" would only disclose widely-known patents.
Fortunately, Li Boyang has not ceased updating the "Luo Book".
So as long as the "Luo Book" exists, the birth of "patent awareness" will not affect the progress and development of the entire civilization.
Outside the agricultural system, the sudden expansion of land undoubtedly impacts industry the most.
Previously, due to the consideration of the existence of gods, the mountain people avoided gods intentionally or unintentionally when developing the industrial system.
This was like dancing with shackles, ultimately unable to fully realize the potential of the mountain people.
But now, on these newly emerged lands, there are no gods.
The mountain people, holding various {Xirang}, almost without any worries, transformed the land according to their intentions.
Roads stretching in all directions, factories built along the water, mines built along the mountain, bridges spanning rivers and mountains, street lights and watchtowers everywhere...
In just a few short months, it presented a scene entirely different from the outside world.
Complex, lively, yet orderly...
Everywhere you look, various farms and factories are in sight.
The farms are large scale and systematic large farms.
The factories are large industrial parks organized and chained together.
Between these farms and factories, various small Bronze Beasts run continuously around mountains or rivers, driving the development of the entire region.
Looking up to the sky, you can vaguely see countless floating objects drifting with the wind, occasionally releasing a striking arc of electricity.
If a visitor has enough acute vision, they can even see past those layers of clouds.
See a gigantic mechanical construct like an eyeball suspended high on the dome, operating non-stop for 24 hours.
That is the low-altitude artificial satellite—Sky Palace II, exclusively built for this Grotto Heaven by gathering the power of the entire Li Family Village and the Flying Heaven Stronghold by Li Jingshu.