I'll Quit Being a God
The sky and the earth are infinitesimal as a grain, and a life of peace is like the sea. Lu Heng, who crossed over to the other world, found himself transformed into a huge white wolf, a mountain God of a remote mountain with a group of villagers under his rule. In this strange and wild world, demons and giant beasts run rampant, and human order is almost non-existent. These, however, are not what Lu Heng needs to think about. What he needs to think about now is how to tell this group of villagers that he does not need little girls. Besides, he actually doesn't want to be a God anymore…
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Chapter 1: Mountain God
On the fifth day of March, when the day starts getting warmer and insects stop hibernating, it rained heavily.
Lu Heng, who was lying on the eaves of the mountain god temple, looked out over the mountains and forests in the rain. He took a deep breath and tilted his head before letting out a long howl.
"OW - "
The loud wolf howl echoed continuously, far into the mountain forest.
Lu Heng sat in the rainstorm and let the rain wet his fur. He closed his eyes and began to absorb the energy of the early spring when everything is being filled with vitality.
This may be a peaceful and calm scene, but if someone were to bump into it, they would definitely be scared on the spot and run away screaming.
Because the one sitting knee-deep on the roof of the mountain temple in the rainstorm was not a human, but a white wolf with a silver body.
Although this wolf seems to be awe-inspiring, and quite extraordinary, it was still a fierce beast. And it was enough to make people who saw this scene turn around and run away in fear, thinking they had seen a demon.
This is what Lu Heng looks like now - a huge white wolf.
Crossed into this strange world for three days already, Lu Heng gradually received the memories belonging to the white wolf.
In the wolf demon's vague and fragmented memory, it was originally an elite monster practicing in this Cold Feather Mountain. And after inadvertently saving the life of a man decades ago, they built a temple and worshipped it.
With the incense offerings, the white wolf became the mountain God of this Cold Feather Mountain, lying under the altar of the God to practice.
But the cultivation of spirits and mountain demons is not easy, and this Cold Feather Mountain is not famous amongst the mountains and rivers, also the town at the foot of the mountain is remote and barren, so little incense was offered to the temple of the mountain God.
Even though the white wolf has shown its fierce face several times and forced the mortals in the village to offer incense to it, the incense offerings are still scarce and the cultivation process is always slow.
In such a slow practice, the increasingly restless white wolf eventually went astray, attracting heavenly thunder to the head and the white wolf was roasted alive.
However, after the white wolf was killed, Lu Heng came through and came back to life in the corpse of the white wolf.
During these three days, Lu Heng did not travel too far from the Mountain God Temple.
Because after the white wolf's soul was struck by heavenly lightning, its body also suffered heavy damage.
In these three days, Lu Heng has been lying in the Mountain God Temple, using the few incense wishes within the temple to repair his body, until today he barely regained the ability to move.
Coinciding with the day of The Waking of Insects, also the birth of all things, this day is a great time to cultivate in the memory of the white wolf.
Lu Heng then sat on the roof of the Mountain God Temple to absorb the vital energy that drifted during the days, according to the memory of the white wolf.
Although he was a little depressed about the fact that he had crossed over to a different world and had become a demon. Unfrortunatley this kind of thing is not something he can resist.
There was a good saying, if you can't resist, then enjoy it.
At the very least, this demon's body has the advantage of living long enough, although with various inconveniences.
The white wolf in the mountain has cultivated for hundreds of years, so it was a standard long-lived species. To Lu Heng who died because of cancer in his early twenties, such a long life is a good thing that he could not have gained previously.
"If I practice well, sooner or later I will be able to transform into a human form, and may even ascend to heaven…"
With a bright future in mind, Lu Heng sat on the roof of the Mountain God Temple and practiced, ignoring such high-profile behavior that is so eye-catching.
Anyway, this mountain temple is too remote, and with the white wolf's fierce reputation, there was no one whom dared to approach in the past.
However, Lu Heng heard noises approaching him in the rainstorm while he in a trance. It seemed that a crowd of people were heading towards the mountain temple.
He opened his eyes and looked in the direction where the sound was coming from.
Under the gloomy sky, the torrential rain washed everything away in the dense forest.
As Lu Heng broke away from his state of cultivation, his keen sense of hearing allowed him to hear more clearly the voices of the mortals who were heading this way.
There were many of them.
The crying of women, men complaining, and the elderly sighing… The sounds broke the peace of the forest and made Lu Heng a bit curious.
With such heavy rain, why is this group of villagers braving the rain into the mountains? Some people were blowing gongs and drums, is there a girl's wedding passing through here?
Lu Heng thought so, leaping from the roof of the temple, and disappeared into the mountain god temple so as not to scare the group of mortals with his fierce appearance.
Soon after Lu Heng disappeared, the group of mortals finally approached the range of the Mountain God Temple.
But after approaching the Mountain God Temple, the sound of blowing gongs and beating drums stopped.
The elderly village chief is walking in the front of the procession, followed by a group of villagers draped in red. They looked quite festive.
In the middle of the procession, there was a young girl sitting on the rattan wood palanquin, with four of the same red-decorated bearers carrying it. The girl was very small, about ten years old. Now she was wearing red wedding clothes, huddled in the rattan wood sedan, with fearful eyes.
Her mouth was gagged with cloth, so that she could not even cry out, only able to emit a small sob.
By the girl's side, in addition to an old woman who gave her an umbrella to prevent her from getting soaked, she was not accompanied by any relatives. There was only all those nervous-looking young and strong men dressed in red.
Such a wedding procession came to a halt, before they entered the Mountain God Temple.
What appeared in front of the villagers was the mountain God temple located in the middle of the woods . The temple was not tall, and had no outer wall, it did not look dilapidated for the villagers repaired it every year. But even so, it could not dispel the temples eerie and horrifying atmosphere.
And associating it with the ferocious bloodlust of the occupying demon… a few youths with slightly weaker guts started to panic.
Among them, the only one that could probably remain calm is the old village chief.
"Move fast! Do not annoy the Lord Mountain God!"
After the old village chief's serious whispered command, the four bearers hurriedly carried the vine palanquin hung with a big red wedding cloth into the open door of the mountain God temple.
There was little light inside the temple. Facing the door on the altar, the clay statue of the deity was not a human deity, but a wolf, a fearsome looking wolf.
The rainstorm outside the house increased, and the rumbling of thunder cut through the sky. From time to time the miserable white light shone on the altar, seemingly more on the clay sculpture of the wolf, that was fierce and hideous to behold.
The group of bearers simply did not dare to stay any longer, so they put down the vine sedan and then ran directly outside, leaving the vine sedan and the girl together in the mountain God's temple.
Outside the temple door, the villagers had quickly completed the process of killing the chickens and slaughtering the sheep.
Fishy red blood gushed in the mud in front of the temple, staining the muddy water.
After the old village chief and his party recited the words to the direction of the mountain God temple, they did not dare to stay any longer after seeing the sedan chair was put down.
This mountain God was unpredictable, nobody knew what would happen if you lingered.
Anyway, the virgin girl had been sacrificed, and they also sacrificed the chicken and goat, the villagers no longer dared to nor wanted to stay any longer. They dragged the body of the goat that was slashed through the throat, carrying the corpse of the rooster that was still convulsing and quickly left the vicinity of the mountain temple, soon disappearing into the surrounding mountains and forests.
With the departure of the villagers, the small temple in the mountains once again fell into an eerie dead silence, only the rainstorm outside the house was still ongoing.
In the temple, the girl on the rattan chair looked at the gloomy mountain temple in front of her in fear, with her body shivering.
She tried to escape, but her hands and feet were tied to the rattan chair, she simply could not break free.
A cold wind blew, the girl fiercely shivered, feeling that something in the darkness seemed to be watching her.
That kind of eerie sight made her scalp tingle and a chill went down her spine, and her limbs stiffened from fear.
"Woo…"
A desperate whimper emanated from the girl's throat.
She shook her head desperately, struggling desperately to escape, but could only shake the rattan sedan, making it creak.
Instead, this creaking sound seems to have alarmed the temple, even if the rain is pouring outside and thunder roaring, the girl on the rattan chair clearly heard the low breathing sound coming from behind the clay statue.
That low breathing seemed so heavy that it could not have come from human beings.
The girl's little face was completely pale. She looked at the clay statue of the white wolf on the altar in despair and couldn't stop the tears from flowing out.
"Woo… father… mother… who will save Xiao Ai, who will save Xiao Ai…"
The girl kept crying out in her mind, yet her mouth strangled by the gag could only whimper. That frightened and desperate whimpering in this deserted mountain looked so pitiful and helpless, but it was simply impossible for someone to save her.
And the low breathing behind the divine altar began to move.
A terrifying black shadow slowly peeked out from behind the idol.
Inside the gloomy mountain temple, the girl vaguely saw the shadow's claws, and the fierce and overwhelmingly huge fangs…
"Woo!"
The girl struggled harder, tears of desperation having wet her chest and wedding clothes.
What kind of monster was lying behind the altar!?
It looked like a wolf, but its head was bigger than that of the biggest bull in the village.
Those eyes that reflected an eerie light in the dark, like ghost lights floating in the dead of night, gazed straight at her.
The girl's body twitched in terror, and urine spilled out from her red wedding dress.
However, the giant wolf behind the statue did not seem to have any compassion as it came out from behind the altar. Although it was in a normal standing position with all of its four limbs on the ground, the height to the ground from the bottom of its head was already more than two meters.
"Such a huge beast! It probably would swallow me in one bite…"
When looking at the monster's entire body, a surprisingly weird thought emerged in the girl's heart.
Boom -
Outside the house, there came a booming sound of thunder from the sky.
The giant white wolf was standing inside the temple, and the lightning reflected the entirety of his body. At this time, he just lowered his head, watching the girl on the vine palanquin: her big red wedding dress and those terrified, quivering eyes. Then he tilted his head again and looked in the direction of the villagers.
He was a little confused.
What is going on here?
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Chapter 2: Xiao Ai
Lu Heng was a little confused.
He did not react to the sudden appearance and the departure of that group of villagers.
Originally, he heard the sound of gongs and drums in the forest, he initially thought it was someone's daughter who got married in a stormy day, so the bridal party came to Mountain God Temple to avoid the rain.
Lu Heng then disappeared behind the altar and used the power of the mountain God to dive underground so as not to disturb this group of mortals, intending to wait for the mortals to leave before coming out to practice.
However, after listening underground for a while, he found that the group of villagers arrived and left quickly. They didn't stay long at all before running away, and left someone behind in the Mountain God Temple.
Out of caution and curiosity, Lu Heng emerged from the underground to take a look, only to find a little girl left inside the Temple.
She wore an oversized crimson wedding dress, with her hands and feet tied to the palanquin. She desperately struggled but could not break free, and her mouth was strangled tight by cloth, so she could only make pitiful whimpering sounds. What on earth was this? Human trafficking? Or what?
Lu Heng was surprised to see a little girl who had a pale, frightened face in front of him, and decided to calm the little girl first.
He knew his demonic body looked scary, and would frighten the little girl if he didn't speak and pretended to be mysterious.
With a harrumph, Lu Heng said in a deep voice,
"Little girl, you do not need to be afraid, I will not eat you."
Lu Heng's voice was low and husky, with a faint echo that could be described as a very cool voice - similar to an evil villain in a movie.
And this handsome voice now really played a role.
The little girl who heard the wolf speak twitched and passed out, and the temple became silent.
Outside the temple, the rain was still falling.
And inside the temple, Lu Heng was slightly embarrassed.
"Why is this little girl so timid?"
Lowering his head, he got close enough to look at the little girl... Well, it seems she had been scared into unconsciousness.
Stretching out his front paws, Lu Heng used his sharp nails to cut loose the rope tied to the girl's body, as well as the cloth in her mouth, helping the little girl to regain her freedom.
However, at this time, the little girl could not escape.
She lay limp on her back on the rattan sedan, with her limbs rigid and face frightened and eyes tightly closed.
If not for her heartbeats, Lu Heng would've thought that this little girl was scared to death by him.
Hey... what kind of situation was this?
In his previous life, he was not exactly a handsome man, but he was not so ugly as to scare children into tears.
In this life, he scared a little girl to passing out and becoming unconscious, as if he was a demon who commited all sorts of heinous crimes.
Wait... demon?
Lu Heng stood by the vine palanquin, pacing and contemplating, once again flipping through the giant wolf's vague and fragmented memories.
The wolf demon's soul completely dissapeared after being heavily struck by the heavenly thunder, and Lu Heng only inherited some of its memory fragments when he crossed over, so he could only speculate about most of the wolf demon's life based on its fragmented memories. But he could not know every single thing about it.
But now after carefully going through these memory fragments, he did find some useful information.
It seemed that not long ago, the wolf demon informed the villagers at the bottom of the mountain to offer something to sacrifice.
This sacrifice was related to the wolf demon's cultivation, although Lu Heng could not recall what the specific sacrifice requirements are, but it should not be any righteous cultivation method.
Then he looked at the girl who was unconscious in front of him, and then thought of the villager's weird behavior, Lu Heng immediately linked it with a legend - sacrificing a virgin girl to a demon?
Damn!
This wolf demon had been a mountain God here for eighty years, and it asked the villagers to offer it virgin girls because of its stagnant cultivation? This practice route was something a real demon would do.
A mountain God for decades, and this was the result?
No wonder it was severely affected by the heavenly thunder, it really deserved to die.
In the mountain God temple, Lu Heng figured out everything, then once again looked down at the little girl in front of him.
She wore a slightly wide wedding dress, and even in a coma she was also curled up. She was very insecure.
What should he do to avoid scaring her into fainting again?
Lu Heng thought about it, and directly jumped on the altar and went inside the clay statue of the God
Then he blew a breeze. After the breeze fell on the girl's face, her expression gradually softened as her eyes were tightly closed and her brow furrowed.
And after a while, the girl slowly opened her eyes, slightly dazed after seeing the mountain God temple in front of her, and she suddenly remembered the horrible sight she saw before she fell unconscious.
"Help?!"
The moment the girl opened her mouth in horror, she suddenly found herself able to speak.
She hurriedly lowered her head, only to find that the ropes on her body had been untied and she was no longer tied up.
And in this empty mountain God temple, although it still looked eerie and gloomy, the huge white wolf could not be seen.
Inside the empty and cold mountain God temple, there was only one living person, the girl. She shrank nervously, looking around all this with trepidation and unease, wondering what was happening.
Could the white wolf she saw before passing out an illusion? Why else hadn't she been eaten?
And who untied the rope on her body?
The girl scrambled to the door and looked out.
Rain was still pouring outside the house, one can simply not travel on such a stormy day, and and she could not see any good people outside.
She could only turn back again, looking nervously at the clay statue of the white wolf on the altar of the Gods and shrinking her neck.
Did... did the Lord Mountain God help her untie the rope?
With terrified and uneasy thoughts, the girl carefully surveyed the white wolf clay statue on the divine altar, feeling this white wolf clay statue somehow was not quite the same.
It obviously looked the same as before, an ordinary clay sculpture. There was no change. But she vaguely felt this clay sculpture seemed to come to life, and the eyes of the clay sculpture was looking at her...
Little girl carefully called out, "Lord Mountain God?"
This low call sounded like weak mosquitoes, and a little farther away simply could not be heard.
But the clay sculpture on the altar of the God suddenly moved, and the clay sculpture of the white wolf let out a low laugh.
"Surprisingly, you took the initiative to call out to me... Are you not afraid of me anymore?"
The moment the clay idol opened its mouth, the girl was scared and took several steps back, and her expression became frightened once again.
But perhaps the clay statue did not look as scary as the giant wolf before, or perhaps the mountain God's low laughter did not sound menacing, so the girl did not faint from fear this time.
Although still scared to death, the girl immediately knelt down and kowtowed desperately.
"Lord Mountain God! Please don't eat me! Please don't eat me!"
She desperately begged for mercy, and she could not think of any more begging words, only repeating such a phrase.
The clay statue of the God on the altar once again made a sound.
"Okay, okay, don't kneel, I won't eat you. I am a mountain God, not a demon, how can I eat people?"
The clay statue of the God spoke such words, leaving the little girl was somewhat confused.
She thought, "Lord Mountain God does not eat people? Then why does the village offer the Lord Mountain God a virgin girl?"
The girl's face was bewildered. But Lu Heng was not going to explain.
Although he crossed into the body of a demon, but he had a human soul, how could he do such things as eating people?
Seeing that the little girl's emotions had finally calmed down, Lu Heng jumped out of the clay statue of the God.
The moment that huge white wolf appeared within the mountain God temple, the girl was scared and trembled again - the impact of this huge size of demonic beast on mortals was too much.
But this time the little girl was not stunned, although scared and shaking all over, she forced herself to kneel there, because she was afraid that she had annoyed the mountain God in front of her.
Outside the house, the rainstorm gradually stopped.
Lu Heng looked down at the little girl and asked, "What is your name?"
"Little... Xiao Ai, Ai of mugwort."
"Xiao Ai... I know," Lu Heng nodded, spat out a wooden sign from his mouth and said, "You can go back, go back and tell the people in the village that I no longer need you to sacrifice me young boys and girls."
"This wooden medal is my mountain God's order, which can take you out of Cold Feather Mountain and back to the village."
"If you follow the mountain trail with this wooden medal, the beasts of Cold Feather Mountain wouldn't dare to hurt you. You can go back now, if you delay to long it will get dark."
Lu Heng looked at the sky outside the house, although the rainstorm has stopped, the mountain road was still muddy. The little girl would take a long time to go back alone.
If she delayed too long, the mountain road after dark was not good.
Of course, this time the fastest way was actually for Lu Heng to personally send the girl back.
With the power of the mountain god, he could shrink in this Cold Feather Mountain, or even directly disappear. It would not take long to get out of the deep mountains.
But Lu Heng now still had a strong residual force of heavenly thunder in his body, so he was still in a state of serious injury. Without the dissolution of the thunder force in his body, he simply could not leave the mountain God temple, and he needs to rely on the accumulated wish power of the temple incense to suppress the heavenly thunder in his body.
Anyway, with his Mountain God order, this little girl can also get out of Cold Feather Mountain alone. Just a little tired on the way, the Mountain God order was enough to protect her.
With the Mountain God order to send the girl away, Lu Heng once again disappeared into the ground and continued to practice, trying to dissolve the thunder force in his body as soon as possible, to restore the ability to move freely.
It was a good time to spend all day in the ground practising.
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Chapter 3: Monkeys
Xiao Ai felt a slight cold touch after receiving the small palm-sized wooden medal.
This wooden medal was wrapped with a silver silk thread that could be hung around her neck.
She gently pulled it, and found that this silver silk thread was too tough to tear.
Raising her head, the girl looked at the giant white wolf in front of her, and once again heard the low voice of Lord Mountain God.
"Well, go now, go back to your family."
Although this voice was still low and serious, and there seemed to be a faint echo in it, the girl was not so afraid anymore.
She knelt down with understanding and kowtowed hard.
"Thank you, Lord Mountain God!"
The rainstorm outside the house had stopped by now, but the roads in the mountains were still muddy and difficult to navigate.
The girl wearing small red embroidered shoes did not go far, embroidered shoes had become muddy and wet, and even the skirt of the big red wedding dress was dirty.
But she was happy.
She thought she was going to die or be eaten by the mountain God, but instead of eating her, he let her go home, and this was a happy ending she could never have imagined.
After walking some distance away, the girl turned back to look in the direction of the mountain God temple.
In the gloomy light of day, the mountain God temple surrounded by dense forest was slightly eerie. And the white wolf inside the temple had also disappeared.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she simply wouldn't have imagined that there would be such a big wolf in this mountain.
"Is this the mountain God that everyone fears?" It did not seem to be the same as what the village elders say.
The girl was a little confused.
Growing up in Shuisheng Village, since she was young, the legends she heard about the mountain God were all rumors that the mountain God was very powerful, scary, and would even eat people.
But after meeting the real Lord Mountain God in person, she found that although he was indeed very majestic and intimidating looking, he was not at all cruel and horrible as rumored.
And even a little... friendly?
The girl hurriedly shook her head to shake this thought out of her mind.
How could Lord Mountain God be described as friendly? She should be in awe of such a majestic and powerful mountain God.
Thinking about this, the girl gripped the wooden medal in her hand again.
The small wooden sign was made of some kind of mysterious material and was cold to the touch, making her feel very light and refreshed when she held it. Even though she should have been very tired after walking so far up the muddy mountain road.
But now she did not feel tired, still feeling light on her feet.
And holding this wooden sign, her mind surprisingly knew which direction to go to return to the village - obviously she had never been to mountain God temple before and had no idea of the mountain path.
In the sky, the light gradually became gloomy and dull.
It was not a sign that heavy rain was coming, but that it would be late and dark.
Perceiving the change in the sky, the girl was a little anxious. If she couldn't get out of the mountains before dark, she wouldn't be able to walk in the dark without a lantern or torch when it got dark.
Although Cold Feather Mountain was not a famous mountain, there were some cliffs.
She was unfamiliar with the path. If she was walking in the dark, she would be dead if she accidentally fell off the cliff.
The sign given by the Lord of the Mountain could only protect her from being eaten by the beasts, but it did not mean that she would not fall to her death.
The girl walked more briskly at the thought.
Her skirt was already full of dried mud, which solidified on the skirt and made it heavy. And after walking inside the mountain for so long, she gradually began to get hungry.
~~Growl~~
Her stomach rumbled, incomparably harsh in the cold mountain forest.
The hungry girl walked for a long time on the muddy mountain path, and eventually couldn't hold out any longer and sat down on a rock to rest.
In the gradually dimming mountain, the girl covered her hungry and cramped stomach, and her eyes filled with tears.
"I am so hungry... so hungry..."
She could not walk anymore.
Although she wouldn't get tired from walking with the Mountain God sign in her hands, she still felt hungry and weak on her feet.
The girl sitting on the rocks covered her stomach, teary-eyed haze looking at the increasingly dark sky, murmuring, "So hungry..."
She did not know how long she had to walk, but she really could not walk anymore.
If only there was something to eat now, the girl thought in her mind.
But since she grew up in the mountain village, she also understood that during this time of the year there weren't any ripe fruits and vegetables that she could find and eat in this mountain.
She had thought so.
But something suddenly fell on her head, hitting her head and causing some pain.
The girl picked it up and froze... walnuts? Why were walnuts here?
She tilted her head, and found a dozen monkeys squatting in the trees above her head.
These monkeys appeared at some point, all standing on the branches, looking down at her, as if they were watching something funny.
After the girl looking up, the monkeys threw out a dozen walnuts one after another, all still at the girl's feet.
Seeing these monkeys' actions, the girl was a little confused.
"You guys... are you giving walnuts to me to eat?"
She once heard the old people said that the monkeys in the mountains would collect dried fruits like walnuts in the summer and autumn to hide them for the winter.
But these monkeys offered to give her food? Were monkeys so kind?
The girl was confused, because these monkeys in the past days perched in the Cold Feather Mountain. Once the crops in the fields became ripe, they would come down in groups to steal fruits and vegetables, so the villagers hate them.
But now these thieving bandit-like monkeys were offering to feed her?
"Did Lord Mountain God send you here?" The girl asked cautiously.
But the monkeys left after throwing down some more walnuts and simply ignored her.
Watching the monkeys disappear into the woods, the girl couldn't help but sigh. Yeah, these monkeys could not even talk, so how could they possibly answer her questions.
But they suddenly came to deliver something to her to eat, must be sent by the Lord Mountain God. Otherwise, how could these monkeys be so kind?
The girl knelt down in the direction of the mountain God temple and kowtowed heavily before squatting down and picking up the walnuts on the ground, cracking them open one by one with a stone and eating the pulp inside.
Although the pulp in these walnuts was not much, after eating more than twenty walnuts in one breath, the girl's hunger finally eased to some degree.
At this time, the sky had become gray, the light of day almost gone. The mountain was so bleak that it was almost impossible to see the road in the distance.
With her hunger relieved, the girl finally had the strength to continue walking.
She walked in the dark for a short time, and the vision of the mountain road gradually became familiar with her memory. The girl was a little excited, because she knew she was almost home.
She held the small wooden sign in her hand and quickened her pace, finally getting out of this strange mountain.
Dark clouds obscured the stars and the moon in the dark night sky, with occasional blazing white flashes of lightning breaking through and rumbles of thunder ringing through the heavens, as if another rainstorm was about to fall.
But the girl walking on the familiar mountain path was no longer afraid. Even though she was walking in the dark at night, she has not deviated from the right direction.
Finally, after walking for an unknown amount of time under such a dark night sky, she heard the crashing sound of the river flowing.
"It's home!"
The girl excitedly held the wooden sign and ran quickly in the direction of the river.
Just step over this bridge and cross the river, it won't take long to get back to the village!
The girl was excited. Even though due to the darkness she could not see the outline of Shuisheng Village, her mood was still very good.
Soon, the girl found the stone bridge leading across the river and saw the lights of Shuisheng Village in the distance in the darkness.
Behind the girl in the mountain, monkeys who had followed her all the way to the village, at this time also turned around, and entered the densely forested Cold Feather Mountain, no longer following.
Half an hour later, Lu Heng received the news that the girl returned safely to the village.
And it was the group of monkeys who had been sent by Lu Heng to escort the girl who sent back this message.
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Chapter 4: Controlling Lightning
As the only mountain God and also the most powerful being in Cold Feather Mountain, Lu Heng can order other beasts in the mountain to do some simple things,
Like escorting this girl named Xiao Ai back to her village.
Although he can't leave the mountain God temple now, he can ask this group of monkeys to do something.
Lu Heng was also not a member of any extreme animal protection organization, so there was no psychological burden for such things.
After receiving the simple information passed back by the monkeys, Lu Heng dispersed the group of monkeys in front of the mountain God temple and let them go back.
Knowing that Xiao Ai was safely back in the village, Lu Heng returned to the ground and started cultivating with a peace of mind.
Or rather, repairing this seriously injured body.
Although it did not seem to have any external injuries, Lu Heng's body was actually on the verge of collapse.
The thunder power flowed between his limbs and bones, and his demon body could collapse at any moment. But once Lu Heng tried to dispel these thunderbolts in his body, the moment his mind touched the thunderbolts, his eyes would go black and he would feel a strong tingling sensation of pain.
It was just like touching high-voltage electricity.
The only way to dissipate these thunderbolts was to rely on the incense wish power accumulated in this mountain God temple for eighty years.
According to the wolf demon's residual memory, Lu Heng could use this incense wish power to slowly repair his demon body.Using it little by little to smooth out the thunder qi in the body - this was the least expensive way to use incense wish power.
But Lu Heng didn't want to do that because it would take too long, at the very least several years, to barely remove the power of the heavenly tribulation in his body.
He couldn't wait that long, and Lu Heng didn't care about the incense wish power either
One could say he even disliked it.
The wolf demon built a temple on this site and received offerings from mortals, which helped his practice and gave him some convenience and authority as a Mountain God. But in becoming a Mountain God, the wolf demon was bound to this place and could not leave Cold Feather Mountain at all.
The wolf demon did not care about this, but Lu Heng did not want to stay in this remote Cold Feather Mountain for the rest of his life. He wanted to go out and see the outside world.
He didn't want to be a Mountain God in this place.
If he could use up this incense wish directly, it might be a good thing for him.
Thinking about this, Lu Heng no longer hesitated and directly swallowed the wolf demon's incense wish power that had been accumulated for eighty years into his body, guiding this power to swim in his limbs and bones, using this warm and soft incense wish power to disperse the power of heavenly thunder in his body.
This process was not fast, but it was not slow either.
With eighty years of incense wish power raging, Lu Heng clearly felt the body's thunder force gradually dispersed.
At the end of the day, only a cloud of condensed and undissipated thunderbolt power remained inside the brain.
Without hesitation, Lu Heng directly guided all the remaining incense wish power in his body to the brain, trying to erase this group of condensed and unbroken thunderbolt power in one fell swoop.
But just as all the remaining incense wish power surged into his brain together to disperss the condensed thunderbolt, Lu Heng felt his head explode and his whole body jerked and shook several times.
The group of thunderbolt power had not disappeared, but spread along Lu Heng's limbs and bones, and instantly spread to his whole body!
Hiss~~~
Lu Heng, who was filled with the power of thunder all over his body, sucked in a breath of cold air and felt tingling all over his body.
"I am going to die, with so much thunderbolt power coming out at once, I am going to die!"
Lu Heng despaired.
But immediately afterwards, he noticed something not quite right.
The thunderbolt force that filled his body did not damage his demon body, but slowly integrated into it.
Huh?!
"What is this situation?"
While Lu Heng was bewildered and amazed, a sudden thunderbolt exploded in the sky outside the mountain God temple. A blazing white light flashed, illuminating the heaven and earth in a ghastly white.
Then, a huge thunderbolt cut through heaven and earth and viciously struck down on the earth in front of the temple of Mountain God, finally spreading along the mud all the way to the ground and merging into Lu Heng's body.
"Holy shit! Again?!"
The moment he was struck by lightning, Lu Heng's body twitched again.
He simply did not expect that he could be struck by lightning even if he was hiding so deep underground.
And this time, he clearly felt the painful sensation of his demon body being struck by lightning. This feeling, however, was different from the feeling of being struck by heavenly lightning in the wolf demon's memory.
Although the pain existed, the pain was not strong. And the lightning did not destroy his body, it slowly integrated into his body just like the previous thunderbolt power instead.
He moved his thoughts, and even vaguely felt that he could release the lightning from his body.
And in a trance, he felt that he could rely on these thunderbolts in his body to connect the thunder in the sky!
Realising this, Lu Heng was a little confused.
"What is this about?"
In the wolf demon's memory, demons were clearly the most afraid of lightning. Even if the original wolf demon was successful in his cultivation, he would not dare to go out on a thunderstorm, but would hide underground for fear of being struck by lightning.
But now Lu Heng seemed to be able to control thunder and lightning? Was he still a demon then?
After a few seconds of hesitation, Lu Heng left the earth and returned above ground.
At this time the night sky looked quite terrifying with lightning and thunder, just like silver snakes dancing wildly.
And in the forest the wind howled and the mountains rained like a scene before the end of world.
Standing in the midst of this raging wind and thunder, Lu Heng frowned and tried to hook up the lightning in the sky according to the kind of intuition that appeared vaguely within him.
Then...
"Boom!!!"
A huge thunderbolt exploded, a blazing white lightning bolt lit up the sky and earth and struck the huge white wolf directly in front of the temple of mountain God.
At that moment, Lu Heng's body trembled and his mind went blank instantly.
A huge movement of thunder power surged into his body, almost causing him to burst.
It was true that he can now control lightning, but taking two thunderbolts in a row was beyond his tolerance limit!
Limbs twitching, Lu Heng fell limply in front of the mountain God temple, and shrunk back into the ground. He was afraid that the sky will send another thunderbolt to split him.
This lightning was really not so easy on him.
Lu Heng, whose body was tingling and twitching, thought this in his mind happily, although he was struck by lightning.
Control thunder and lightning!
This is the control of lightning!
Although he did not know if it was caused by crossing over, the current Lu Heng was able to absorb lightning and release the lightning in his body.
Even though taking two thunderbolts was currently the limit, as long as he continued to improve, he would be able to achieve true control of thunderbolts sooner or later.
When the time came to encounter the enemy, he could directly strike out a heavenly lightning bolt. With the fear of thunder among the mountain spirits and demons in this world, as long as Lu Heng was not too reckless, at least he had the capital to live in peace.
If he could constantly absorb thunder and lightning, refine his body, and finally reach the level where he could guide ten thousand thunder surges in one breath, then even if he encountered the legendary demons, Lu Heng could probably also retreat in one piece.
Thinking this in his mind, Lu Heng took a long breath.
On his fourth day of crossing over into a demon, Lu Heng, as a demon in this bizarre world, had finally gained some sense of security.
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Chapter 5: Family
In the night sky, thunder flashed and huge lightning broke through the sky.
The girl holding the wooden sign of the mountain God trotted through the freshly planted rice paddy and saw the entrance to the village.
"Woof! Woof!"
Before entering the village, the girl had heard the piercing bark of the big black dog at the entrance of the village.
This big black dog that used to scare her now sounded friendly.
She happily ran into the village and ran towards the house of her eldest uncle.
The wind tore at the girl's thin body, but could not stop her happy pace of returning home.
Although in the past, the girl had a lot of complaints about her eldest uncle and eldest aunt, they were after all her only family. And at this time, only they could bring her some warmth.
Never before was there a moment when the girl was so eager to go home - to the home that did not belong to her.
When she arrived at the door, she couldn't help but smile when she heard her cousin's shouting inside the house.
"New clothes! I want new clothes too! I also want new clothes like sister Xiao Ai!"
In the house, her cousin was complaining loudly, seemingly pestering his parents to buy him new clothes.
This familiar yelling was still brash and nonsensical, but it sounded so cute at the moment, not at all like the usual which disgusted her.
Immediately after, the house unsurprisingly resounded with the impatient scolding of aunt.
"New clothes! You have been screaming all afternoon! Where is the money for you to buy new clothes? I will ground you if you keep shouting."
The aunt spoke in a harsh and threatening tone.
But obviously, her threat did not work, and her son was still rolling around noisily.
"I don't care I don't care! I just want new clothes! I just want new clothes! Sister Xiao Ai has new clothes to wear, why I don't get new clothes! I want new clothes!..."
In the house, the chubby little boy squirmed desperately on the floor and cried out.
Such a move completely annoyed the peasant woman.
The money they secretly gave to the village leader and the money to buy that new set of wedding clothes had used up all of the family's modest savings. Now she was already in a bad mood, and her son was making a lot of noise. Even though she always spoiled him, she could not stand it.
Viciously picking up the little boy, the peasant woman directly slapped him and scolded, "You keep making trouble! If you make any more noise, I'll send you to the mountain and let the Mountain God eat you up!"
Such a threat immediately had an effect.
The little boy's body stiffened and his expression was somewhat frightened. But in the next second, he shouted again in defiance.
"Liar! You liar! Dad said that after offering sister Xiao Ai to the Lord Mountain God, he will not come and eat me! Sister Xiao Ai has gone instead of me! The Mountain God will not eat me!"
"You just don't want to buy me clothes, you're telling lies to cheat me...You buy new clothes for Xiao Ai, but not for me... You guys are biased! You guys are just biased! She's dying and she's wearing such a beautiful new dress...You guys waste money! Woo..."
The little boy covered his face and cried out in aggravation again.
However, the little boy's crying made the girl outside the door freeze.
She stood in the darkness outside the door, listening to the noisy crying in the house. Her expression was somewhat dumbfounded.
In the story she knew, the mountain God needed child girls, so the village adults drew lots to decide, and finally she was unfortunately chosen and could only wear the new wedding clothes that her uncle and aunt spent money on and go into the mountain.
Because she was chosen, her aunt, who had always hated her, took a rare interest in her and made her several delicious meals. The uncle also sighed several times, complaining about his incompetence, saying that he failed to protect his second brother's daughter, and that he felt very guilty.
Then the girl suddenly realized that although the eldest uncle's family did not treat her well in daily life, they really did treat her as a family member. After she encountered such a thing, her aunts and uncles, whom she usually disliked the most, treated her the best.
That's why after Lord Mountain God let her go back, she was so happy and wanted to run home to share her joy with her aunts and uncles.
"If her aunts and uncles knew that she survived, they would surely be very happy too, right?"
Originally, she had thought so.
But now she heard something completely different.
The girl's expression stiffened a little.
She began to think back to those things before. After being chosen, her aunts and uncles began to treat her well and be kind to her...
Could it be that all that care, all that love, was all fake? Everything they did turned out to be to trick her into being a scapegoat?
The person chosen was not her at all? But the son of the eldest uncle?
That's why her aunts and uncles, who had always disliked her, suddenly changed their attitude.
The girl became frightened and desperate.
After hearing these words, the door in front of her no longer had the slightest sense of cordiality, but was instead terrifying like the door of a ghost gate, at any time there may have a ghost jumping out to grab her.
The constant noise and cries inside the door were no longer warm, but became like the howling of evil spirits in hell, which made her body chill and face pathos.
"Not like this... not like this... don't become like this..."
The girl's hands were clasped tightly to her chest as she kept backing away, shaking her head desperately.
She even gave birth to an impulse to run away far away to escape from here.
"But where can I run..."
The girl in was despair.
Her mother had died of illness, the whereabouts of her father were unknown, and now her only family in the world, her only place to stay, was the hut in front of her.
But people in this house tricked her to be a scapegoat...
"Woo..."
The girl's heart had been filled with sadness.
And at that moment, a shaky footsteps sounded behind her, and someone was approaching the place.
The girl with a dull expression subconsciously turned her head back and saw the person behind her.
It was a crippled, drunken man with a shaky figure and a face full of stubble - none other than her own great uncle, her father's older brother.
A cripple...
And when the girl turned back, the night sky just crossed a blazing white lightning. And the tragic white light shone on the earth, shining on the girl's face. Her small face with a desperate expression reflected in a tragic white.
At that moment, the drunken man behind the girl clearly saw the weird scene.
Because he was lame, the man who was called as Ai Cripple by the village people stared in horror.
Then he let out a heartbreaking, mournful scream.
"Ghost!!!"
……
A quarter of an hour later, the girl, who had been tied up by the villagers, was escorted to the door of the village chief's house.
The night sky was still roaring with the sound of thunder, and the howling wind was blowing everything in the small village.
All the young and strong men of the village have gathered here and formed a circle outside the village head's house.
The torchlight waving in the gale reflected the expressions of the people in a gloomy and uncertain manner. And the little girl being escorted to kneel in front of the crowd, head bowed, desperate mouth sealed by cloth, even the cry of defensive words can not be issued.
In the front of the house where the most authoritative old man in the village lived.
When a big event happened in the village, everyone immediately gathered here, waiting for the village chief's instructions. And before that, someone had already come to inform the village chief of what had happened in advance.
So they didn't have to wait long, and the door of the house opened.
Immediately after, the village chief on crutches was supported by his son and walked out.
Under the dim glow of the torches, the aged old man walked slowly and eventually came to the girl. The crowd watched nervously as the old village chief lowered his head, looked at the girl in front of him, and frowned.
The little girl in front of him was dressed in a big red wedding dress, exactly the same as when she was sent up the mountain. But the skirt was full of mud, and shoes were already completely unable to see the original color. This dirty look showed that she clearly escaped from the mountains.
After a few seconds of silence, the village chief then looked up at the villagers in front of him and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where did you find her?"
When village chief opened his mouth to ask, everyone looked at the cripple in the crowd.
Being stared at by the crowd, Ai Crippler hurriedly came out and carefully reported to the village chief, "She was found in front of my house, village chief. I thought at the time that she was back to claim a life as a vengeful ghost. I was terrified. The good thing was that we found that she had a shadow and was not a ghost, so we guessed that she had secretly escaped from the mountain, and immediately caught and brought her to you."
"And after she was caught by you, did she plead for herself?" The village chief inquired, but his eyes stayed on the little girl's body.
At this time, the little girl's face was pale, and there were bruises on the corners of her forehead. It seemed that the villagers did not have a smooth process of catching her.
Noticing the village chief's line of sight, Ai Crippler hurriedly defended, "When we caught her, she struggled desperately and said nonsense that she had not escaped secretly and that the mountain God had let her go. She also used her teeth to bite people, in an emergency, we..."
Speaking of the latter, Ai Cripple's voice became smaller and smaller, because the village chief was glaring at him with an incomparably stern look.
When Ai Cripple shut up and did not say anything, the old man then heaved the cane in his hand and stared at him coldly, "No more? Keep talking, tell me how you injured the girl who was sacrificed to the Lord Mountain God!"
The old man's angry questioning made the group of men all dumbfounded, they silently bowed their heads, and did not dare to say a word.
Seeing them like this, the old man became even more angry.
He slammed his cane in his hand to the ground, he was so angry that his hair stood up straight, "a group of pigs! Doing things without thinking at all!"
"Even if you want to catch her, you can't hurt her! Why can't you think of such a simple thing? If you make her scarred, what if the mountain God doesn't like her and wants us to offer someone else? Which one of your children will be sacrificed then? If you are blamed, can you afford it?"
The village chief cursed angrily, but all of them cowered and obediently listened to the lecture, not daring to contradict.
When the old man had almost finished shouting, someone asked carefully, "Then, village chief, what should we do next?"
"Yes, village chief, what should we do? This little bitch escaped from the mountain secretly, the Lord will be angry, right?"
Everyone was worried, afraid of angering the Lord Mountain God as a result.
But the old man shook his head and fed everyone a peace of mind.
"If Lord Mountain God was really angry, our village would have been in big trouble long ago, so how could you guys be worried? There is no movement until now, perhaps he also did not find out about the little bitch's escape."
"So let's hurry now and send this little bitch back to the mountain, maybe it's still not too late. This time we'll send someone to keep watch, we absolutely can't let this little bitch run away again."
Speaking of this, the village chief gave a hard pause on his cane, looked sternly at the crowd present, and said, "Let's go into the mountain now!"
"If Lord Mountain God really gets angry, our Shuisheng Village will be completely doomed!"
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Chapter 6: Furious Mountain God
In the dark forest, the wind was howling, and the path was rugged.
While the villagers were walking on the trail with torches, they were very careful for they feared that they would fall off a cliff and die.
This section of the mountain road was very dangerous because the road was narrow and was next to a cliff. Even the hunters who usually went into the mountains from time to time were a bit frightened to walk this road in the dark at this time of night.
What's more, tonight's Cold Feather Mountain was spooky everywhere, so that everyone was frowning, with heavy heart.
In the night sky above them, thunder and lightning flashed as if silver snakes danced wildly.
One after another huge lightning cut through the sky, and each time the earth would be reflected in a tragic white.
In the past, if there was such weather, it would have rained heavily.
However, tonight was different. The sky was full of lightning and thunder, but no raindrops fell at all. Furthermore, they realized that the farther they went into the mountains, the more intense the lightning and thunder in the sky was.
It seemed that there was something calling thunder clouds in the night sky somewhere in Cold Feather Mountain...
This horrible speculation surfaced in people's minds and soon turned into a whispered muttering.
"Tonight's thunder is a little abnormal... Could it be that the Mountain God is angry? Will he send thunder to smite us?"
"Pooh! Wang, what nonsense are you saying! How dare you say such things?"
"That's it! Wang, do you want to die?"
"This thunder and lightning is certainly not the Lord Mountain God's anger, and the Lord Mountain God will certainly forgive us."
"That's right, we are not wrong. The Lord will definitely forgive us."
"Blame it on this selfish little bitch who is afraid of death! She was obviously chosen, and she ran out on her own. Is this not a deliberate attempt to harm us?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's all this little bitch's fault."
The villagers were talking, and from time to time they turned around to glare at the girl in the middle of the procession.
The girl in the big red wedding dress was tied, and then carried up with a long stick through the knots in the rope on her hands and feet. She was like a pig to be carried to the market for sale, quite miserable.
But no one from the villagers expressed sympathy for her, instead they were full of resentment towards her. If not for the fear of Lord Mountain God, the villagers would have vented their anger on this damned little bitch already.
And the girl, who was resented by the villagers, had stopped resisting at this time.
She looked dumbly at the sky above her head, looking at the huge lightning that appeared from time to time in the night sky. Originally she was very afraid of thunder, but now she found that she was not afraid of these terrible thunder sounds anymore.
Clearly she had explained the situation to everyone, and it was Lord Mountain God sending her back, why did the people just not believe her? They even scolded her with those vicious words... It was not that she fled for fear of death, but Lord Mountain God let her go back.
And on her way back, the Mountain God also asked the monkeys to send her food, afraid that she was hungry. How could such a good God be the man-eating monster that everyone said?
The girl's heart was full of grief and anger, thinking the adults must have been wrong.
At first she tried to argue, but it didn't matter. No one would believe what she said.
Even if she kept telling everyone that Lord Mountain God did not want sacrifices and did not eat people, no one believed her. Instead, people thought she was lying and even sealed her mouth.
"Are they the village adults?"
The girl looked at the night sky with lightning flashes in bewilderment, and her expression was somewhat bewildered.
Growing up in the village since childhood, she was familiar with everyone around her. In the past, everyone was amiable, even if occasionally she got into trouble, the adults just shook their heads and generously forgave her. They really were very nice people.
But today, the girl found that all this has changed.
Those adults who always smiled gently and treated her well have all changed. Their faces could not see smiles, and their once gentle expressions had become vicious. Their eyes were full of resentment, and their originally familiar faces had become incomparably strange.
She seemed to have come to a strange village, surrounded by a group of strange people.
If only this was all a dream...
The girl thought sorrowfully, and her dull eyes looked at the sky above her head.
Boom -
The sound of loud thunder roared through the heaven and earth.
And in the night sky, there was a huge thunderbolt that suddenly cut through heaven and earth, viciously striking down in front of the mountain.
Seeing that huge thunderbolt strike down, the villagers on the mountain road were terrified.
Because that thunderbolt was too big, much thicker than ordinary thunder, and it struck the mountain directly...
"That seems to be Mountain God Temple!"
Someone recognized that direction and let out a frightened shout.
This statement made everyone's expressions look bad.
On this kind of stormy night, there was actually lightning falling in the direction of the mountain temple, and it happened on the day that girl secretly escaped ...
"Village Chief..."
The villagers looked nervously at the old man in the group, trying to gain insight.
The one who had the most contact experience with the Mountain God was the old man in the village. Now that this strange and unpredictable thing happened, everyone subconsciously looked at the old man.
But at that moment, another lightning struck down in the sky. It was bigger than the previous one, just like a huge pillar of light that blasted down on the mountain.
Boom——
The deafening blast almost shook the villagers unconscious, they even felt that the earth was shaken by the lightning. The terrifying sight directly scared the villagers, and all of them fell limp and trembled.
Even the villagers who grew up in the mountain had never witnessed lightning striking the mountain so close - and it wasn't even a normal lightning strike! How could there be such a large lightning strike!
The villagers were incomparably frightened, while the old village chief at the front of the procession clutched the walking stick in his hand tightly.
Everyone stood on the trail in fear, fearing that the next bolt of lightning would strike down on their heads, or possibly something even worse would happen. They waited for a while, but the mountain calmed. Not only did no third lightning bolt strike down, even the wind seemed to have subsided.
The old village chief gave a hard pause with his walking stick and said in a hoarse voice, "Go! Take the girl to the Mountain God Temple as soon as possible! We can't delay any longer. I've never seen the Mountain God so angry! If we are late, something big will really happen!"
The old village chief's words startled all the young men.
In the village, the old man's words were the law, and no one dared to question them. If the old village chief said so, it meant that the matter had really reached a very serious point.
No one dared linger. The villagers immediately ran up the mountain path. Even if the mountain road was dark and rugged, and even after witnessing the horror of lightning, no one dared to slow down at all.
They took turns carrying the elderly village leader, carrying the girl in the big red wedding dress, and ran wildly and difficultly through the rugged mountain roads.
Finally, when everyone was panting and almost on the verge of running out of energy, they saw the Mountain God Temple standing in the jungle.
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Chapter 7: Grievance
At this time the forest quieted down, as the villagers gradually approach the temple of the Mountain God in the deep mountain, the roaring night sky and flashing lightning completely disappeared, no longer like before.
Even the mountain wind whistling at this time also stopped, the whole Cold Feather Mountain was quiet and spooky.
The villagers walked in the mountain all with frightened and nervous expressions. The abnormal weather made everyone feel scared.
Especially not long ago they witnessed the horrific scene of heavenly thunder striking the mountain, which seemed like a scene from the end of world and an extreme level of fear filled their hearts.
So when they saw the Mountain God Temple, all the villagers subconsciously stopped breathing. They no longer dared to go forward, and were afraid of what horrible things might happen. It was not until the old village chief angrily urged the terrified villagers to move that they started moving towards the temple with their trembling feet while gritting their teeth.
The temple was built more than 80 years ago, and according to the old people, it was originally funded by a wealthy businessman in the city. However, after the temple was built, the God of the mountain was discovered in the mountain, and Shuisheng Village had to offer incense to the God in exchange for blessings.
In the past eighty years, Shuisheng Village had almost never suffered from famine, and even the beasts in the mountain no longer came down to the village. Even in the winter months, the hungry beasts would not come down to eat people. The villagers lived a fairly peaceful life under the blessing of the Mountain God.
But everyone knew that the Mountain God in this Cold Feather Mountain was not gentle, but rather fierce and brutal. If you dare to disobey it, you will definitely incur great calamity.
The old people spread horror stories about the Mountain God getting angry, tearing people alive, and even making the fields wither and crops fail. They warned everyone that they must respect the Mountain God and never bring calamity to the village.
But now, they seemed to have angered Lord Mountain God.
The girl who should have been sacrificed secretly escaped back to the village. This was a terrible scourge that made people's toes curl.
But the villagers did not even dare to run away. They could only force themselves walking on trembling legs towards the Mountain God Temple, praying in their hearts that Lord Mountain God would let them live.
In such fear and anxiety, the villagers finally arrived at the gate of the Mountain God Temple.
In the dark mountain, the Mountain God Temple illuminated by the light of the torches seemed slightly eerie. The rattan wooden palanquin left in the temple during the day was surprisingly still there, and ropes that were cut by sharp instruments were scattered in the temple.
Seeing that the rope was cut, the villagers were convinced that the girl had escaped on her own. They glared viciously at the girl, but at this time in front of the statue of Mountain God, no one dared to raise their voices.
The girl was re-tied to the rattan palanquin, and the villagers carefully stepped back, intending to go outside to keep watch. This time no one dared to leave without permission, they must stay here and know that the Mountain God would take the girl.
But as the villagers retreated to the entrance of Mountain God Temple, the clay statue of the God on the altar suddenly moved. Then, a low, faintly echoing, as well as terrifying sound rang out in everyone's ears.
"What are you guys arguing about?"
The gloomy whisper was not loud, but it was like thunder exploding in the ears of the villagers, and all of them were scared and sat down directly on the ground.
The only one who could remain calm was the elderly village chief. He was horrified to see that the clay God on the altar was staring at them coldly as if he had come to life.
The old village chief had a jolt and immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed desperately.
"I am begging you for mercy! I am begging you for mercy!"
The village chief's pleading cry woke up the group of frightened young men around him. Other villagers also hurriedly knelt down, following the village chief's example and kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy.
"Beg you for mercy! Beg you for mercy!"
The orderly shouts of the people begging for mercy spread far and wide, stirring up a burst of echoes in the mountain.
"For mercy... For mercy..."
On the altar of God, Lu Heng looked at the group of villagers who kept kowtowing and begging for mercy at his feet and was a little confused.
He was lying on the ground digesting the thunderbolt power in his body, and at this time, this group of villagers appeared inexplicably. What were these people doing here at night?
But when Lu Heng saw the girl who was re-tied to the rattan chair, as well as the girl's forehead wound, he roughly understood what happened.
"Did you guys send her back?" Lu Heng asked.
As the statue spoke, the villagers stopped shouting and begging. They knelt in front of the temple door, bowing their heads and not daring to move.
Only the old village chief raised his head trembling and explained, "Lord Mountain God, we were the ones who sent her back. We caught her in the village and knew that you must be very angry, so we immediately sent her back. She was the one who escaped, we didn't even know about it! Please be merciful, Lord Mountain God!"
The village chief finished, and then knocked head heavily, making the yellow mud floor thud.
Behind the village chief, the villagers also all followed him and kowtowed vigorously, "we are begging Lord Mountain God to show mercy!"
The scene of dozens of people kowtowing at the same time was spectacular, but Lu Heng looking at the scene was speechless.
He really didn't expect that these villagers were afraid of him to such an extent that it could be said that they were scared birds of prey. However, thinking about the previous actions of the wolf demon, the villagers could not be blamed for having such a reaction.
He sighed and said, "All right, raise your head, I won't blame you. This little girl was indeed released by me, and she did not escape by herself."
After saying that, Lu Heng did not care about the shocked reaction of the villagers. The clay statue on the altar exhaled a cold wind, brushing the girl on the rattan palanquin.
This cold wind seems to have a wonderful power. After it brushed the girl's body, the rope that tied the girl automatically broke apart.
The girl regained her ability to move freely again, and the cloth tied around her mouth was loosened.
On the shadowy altar, the clay statue of the God looked down at the girl on the vine palanquin and asked, "Why didn't you tell them the truth about what happened?"
The villagers were all startled and then a little nervous by the inquiry of the Mountain God.
The moment the Lord Mountain God asked the girl, they understood that they had made a mistake. This girl really did not escape privately, but Lord Mountain God let her go?
Although they did not know why Lord Mountain God let her go, now they kidnapped the girl back and disturbed Lord Mountain God, they must have angered him.
The villagers were scared to death, and the old village headman, who had always been calm, was trembling slightly. Everyone secretly looked at the girl on the vine palanquin, afraid that the girl would say something fatal next.
But the girl on the vine palanquin did not speak when she regained her freedom.
She raised her head dumbly and looked up at the clay statue of the white wolf on the altar. Faced with this vicious Mountain God that the old people spoke rumors about, she was not afraid, but instead, endless grievance emerged in her heart.
On the way here, the girl had thought she would not cry. But hearing the words of Lord Mountain God to do her justice, and thinking of the treatment she received back in the village, the girl's grievance completely exploded.
"Woo...", the girl cried out directly.
The cry spread far out and echoed among the mountains. Her cry was heartbreaking, making the villagers in front of the Mountain God Temple look embarrassed and uncomfortable.
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Chapter 8: My whole life
The sound of crying lasted for a long time.
The more she cried, the sadder she became. Unable to stop, her entire body convulsed from her endless tears. This desperate and sad cry made villagers finally start to feel both guilty and afraid because of their treatment of the girl.
The old village chief nearest to her finally couldn't help himself hastily pulling her sleeve, and said to her cautiously, "Stop crying, Xiao Ai. Lord Mountain God..."
"Never mind," the white wolf clay statue on the altar spoke gently, interrupting the old village chief, "let her cry. If a child is aggrieved, it would be too cruel to not allow her to cry."
After saying that, Lu Heng looked at the girl on the rattan palanquin and said, "Cry, little girl. Cry as much as you want, you don't need to care what these mortals think. Cry out all the grievances in your heart, cry as loud as you want. It doesn't matter how long you want to cry, no one dares to get in your way here."
Lu Heng's words were not harsh, but the lighter his tone, the more the villagers were afraid.
The old village chief had shrunken into a ball, and both his hands were trembling. Fear of imminent disaster surfaced in his heart, and he no longer dared to say a word. He kneeled with head bowed low, looking fearful and humble.
And the old chief's actions made the villagers frightened. Although they did not quite understand what happened, they were also nervous, everyone followed the old village chief's example of kneeling, bowing their heads, forehead flat to the ground, and did not dare to move.
Dozens of people just knelt terrified and humble, listening to the girl's cry.
And the girl on the vine sedan cried for a long time, finally sobbing, crying gradually stopped.
"Woo... Lord Mountain God..."
The girl was sobbing and her eyes were already red. She kept wiping her tears while walking down from the rattan palanquin, then she knelt in front of the altar and kowtowed heavily.
Looking at this, Lu Heng on the altar of God felt reluctant.
"All right, all right, get up, don't kneel."
The villagers looked at each other, then raised their heads and felt nervous and anxious. Lu Heng said, "Since this matter has come out, you can take the girl back. I don't need boys and girls any more, so this is the end of the matter. In addition, this girl has suffered from all this, and has been very unfortunate, I hope she will not suffer any more harm."
Lu Heng's words made the old village chief raise his head and hastily open his mouth, "We promise to you, Lord..."
"No need to promise, just do what needs to be done," the clay on the altar interrupted the old man again, "Now you can go back."
Once these words were spoken, the meaning of expulsion could not have been more obvious. The villagers then respectfully kowtowed to the altar under the leadership of the old village chief before they carefully stood up and slowly retreated backwards.
Inside the temple, the girl who had stopped crying looked behind her at the adults who should have been familiar, but tonight were incomparable strangers, and then looked at the dark altar in front of her and hesitantly called out softly, "Lord Mountain God..."
The girl's voice was low, so low as to be almost inaudible.
But the white wolf on the altar still heard it, and he lowered his head, gazed at the little girl in front of him, and asked, "Is there anything else?"
"..." The girl fell into a short period of hesitation and silence, and during this time the girl seemed to think a lot.
But in the end, she shook her head in loss and murmured, "No more things. Thank you, Lord Mountain God."
She also followed the adults' example and kowtowed to the Lord Mountain God on the altar, and she slowly walked out of the shadowy mountain temple.
Behind her, in the gloomy Mountain God Temple, the clay statue did not move, and Lu Heng once again returned to the ground to cultivate.
The little girl in the dirty, big red wedding dress then walked among the villagers and followed everyone out to the mountains.
The dimly lit torches barely illuminated the road, and the villagers all slowed their pace and kept their mouths shut, not daring to make any extra noise for fear of disturbing the dreaded Mountain God.
Now, they just wanted to leave this eerie Cold Feather Mountain, and return to their warm home of Shuisheng Village, sharing everything they saw in the mountain tonight with their wives and children.
The feeling of facing the God was too terrifying, and that feeling was now a little palpitating when you think about it. Usually the young and strong were bold, but at this time were not hardened, and they all lowered their heads, didn't dare to speak loudly.
And the girl walking in the middle of the crowd did not say a word, and even if the misunderstanding had lifted, no one showed her intimacy again. But unlike the adults around her who were too scared to breathe, the girl was unafraid.
In the process of leaving, she turned back from time to time, looking from far away at the slightly lonely and gloomy Mountain God Temple gradually disappearing in the jungle, with eyes full of sorrow.
What happened tonight made her feel even more helpless and desperate than the day her mother died of an illness.
She never thought that one day, the kind and gracious elders of the village would show such a vicious and hideous expression to her. It was clearly not her fault, and even the person who was chosen was not her at first. But when everyone found her walking out of the mountain, at that moment everyone's expressions became unbearably terrible.
No one believed her, and everyone was cruel to her.
In such a situation, the only one to do her justice and to make her feel warm was the vicious Mountain God in the old legends that adults often used to scare the children.
The loneliness and helplessness spread in the girl's heart. Bewildered, she followed the adults along the rugged mountain path, not knowing where she should go and what place might accommodate her.
The wind in the mountain was gradually picking up again.
But this time the mountain wind was not bitterly cold, and no one cared. They just quickened their pace, not wanting to stay long in the mountain.
But as they walked, someone noticed something not quite right.
"Something seems to be following behind us all the time ..."
said Wang Laoliu, a veteran who had hunted in the mountains for many years.
He looked back in the direction he came from with a tense expression, "Did you guys hear that? There seems to be a sound behind us all the time."
Wang Laoliu's sudden words scared the villagers. Because there were many beasts in the Cold Feather Mountain. In the past, when the beasts lacked food in winter, they would go down to the village to take away children, or even attack the villagers who were left alone.
After Shuisheng Village became dedicated to the Mountain God, the beasts in the mountain no long came down to attack the living. But if the villagers met those beasts in the mountain, they still ate people without hesitation.
Late at night, if there were hungry wolves...
Among the villagers, someone shouted angrily, "Wang Laoliu! Don't scare people, okay? There are so many of us that even if there really were beasts, how could they dare follow?"
"That's it! Wang Laoliu, you are always talking nonsense to scare people. Why at this time too? Can't you just stop? Don't be annoying!"
The villagers cursed loudly, trying to embolden themselves with such words.
The little girl in the group subconsciously held the small wooden token hanging around her neck and felt the cold touch. She was not afraid because the sign of Lord Mountain God was still on her.
And the beast that was following behind her seemed to be able to feel when she held this Mountain God sign.
"It's the monkeys..."
In the crowd, the little girl suddenly spoke up.
She stared blankly at the dark woods behind her, and in a trance, seemed to see through the heavy trees the group of monkeys that had followed them all the way - clearly her eyes saw nothing, but there was a strong intuition in her heart.
That following them all the way, was the group of monkeys.
But why did this group of monkeys follow her...?
The girl looked in the direction of the mountain temple in a daze.
In the mountain, it was so dark in the direction of Mountain God Temple. And they were already far away from it, where they could not see the old temple which was located deep in the mountain. But the girl's sight seemed to penetrate the barrier of the mountains and saw the temple located in the middle of the mountain and saw the white wolf statue on top of the altar.
"Lord Mountain God..."
The girl clenched the token in her hand and murmured in her heart.
"I must offer incense and worship to you every day for the rest of my whole life."
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Chapter 9: Spiral Cloud (Part 1)
"It's the monkeys," as the little girl murmured, the adults' expressions changed.
In this dark forest, even the experienced hunter Wang Laoliu was not sure what was following behind them. But the girl was very sure that it was monkeys. Everyone had just left the Mountain God Temple and Lord Mountain God seemed intent on defending this little girl.
The village chief silently paused his cane and decided to talk to the girl's eldest uncle, Cripple Ai. He would not let Cripple Ai's family bully this homeless girl.
Thinking of this, the old village chief said, "Well, let's go."
He glanced at the young men around him and said, "Whether it's a monkey or a tiger, they won't rush over after seeing so many people. Just stay close and don't stray off alone."
Everyone subconsciously obeyed the village chief, and put away the anxiety and nervousness in their hearts temporarily to continue the journey. While walking in the forest, everyone was much closer, fearing that they would be separated and then caught by a beast.
As the villagers gradually left the Cold Feather Mountain, shortly afterwards Lu Heng inside Mountain God Temple also received the news back from the monkeys.
The group of villagers had gone down and no one was bullying the little girl.
This news gave Lu Heng some peace of mind.
He was really worried that the little girl named Xiao Ai would be bullied by the villagers when she returned, so he deliberately said some words to take care of the girl before he drove away villagers.
After all, the reason why this little girl was sacrificed was the original wolf demon's need. Now that Lu Heng has crossed over, the matter was more or less associated with him. It was great that this problem could be resolved, otherwise he would feel guilty.
Now that this matter was perfectly resolved, Lu Heng went to practice once again after diving into the ground.
However, today he was different from the original wolf demon, he no longer absorbed the spiritual energy in the earth veins. The previously absorbed thunderbolt power surged among his limbs and bones, filling up Lu Heng's body to the point of exploding. And he digested this power incomparably slowly, trying to absorb the thunderbolt power completely.
But in the process of absorption, Lu Heng gradually felt his limit, because the power from the thunderbolt could not simply be directly refined into magic power.
This thunderbolt power was completely different from the earth vein aura. It was stubborn like an unchanging iron stone; no matter how Lu Heng knocked and refined, he could not change its thunderbolt nature.
The good thing was that Lu Heng, after some experimenting, discovered that this special lightning power behaved similarly to his demon power. It seemed to use the same type of magic.
So Lu Heng had no choice and could only continue to digest the thunderbolt power and store it as a new "demon power".
Gradually, the power in his body was divided into three distinct types: The demonic power that was cultivated for two hundred years, the incense wish power that was accumulated for eighty years by the offerings of the mountain people, and the new thunderbolt power.
Among these three powers, the thunderbolt power had the least amount, but it gave Lu Heng the strongest and most frightening feeling, like a heart-stopping sensation.
Although the amount of strength was huge, 200 year of cultivated demonic power which had been slowly gained by the previous wolf demon was completely lackluster when compared to this heavenly thunder power.
Therefore, Lu Heng felt that he might be able to try a new direction of cultivation.
For example, with the absorption of thunder power as the main way of cultivation, he may be able to come out of a completely different path from the demons...
Ten days later, Lu Heng, who had finally absorbed all the thunder power in his body, emerged from the ground.
Now the thunder power in his body had grown much stronger. Although in terms of quantity, it was still far from the two hundred years' demon power, Lu Heng was confident in it.
And during these ten days, he finally repaired his cracked body completely, so he could move freely and no longer had to guard this Mountain God Temple.
He raised his head to the sky and gave a long howl. The long wolf whistle spread far away in the mountain, stirring up countless echoes, just like a group of wolves howling.
This funny echo made Lu Heng laugh.
He was in a very good mood after his first successful practice.
He ran directly through the mountains, not using the Mountain God's power to shrink the ground, but running wildly like an ordinary beast.
The two-meter-tall white giant wolf was like a silver lightning bolt, hurriedly passing through the mountain paths and cliff walls. All the birds and beasts seen along the way were scared and scattered, and the quiet mountain immediately became lively.
In the end, after stirring up half the lives of Cold Feather Mountain, Lu Heng finally arrived at his destination, the largest river in the mountain.
The river was about three feet wide and passes through Shuisheng Village and Cold Feather Mountain, and finally disappeared at the other end of Cold Feather Mountain. Not only did it support the villagers of Shuisheng Village, but it was also an important source of drinking water for the beasts in the mountain.
When Lu Heng walked to the river, the beasts that were originally lying on the river drinking water all fled in fear. Now only Lu Heng could be seen on both sides of this large river.
But he did not care, just standing at the riverside and looking down at his own reflection in the river. In the reflection of the river, the silvery-white giant wolf was awe-inspiring and heroic, just like the beasts of myth and legend, without the slightest hint belonging to the demons and evil spirits.
This body was not bad. Lu Heng said in his heart.
But he didn't come here to enjoy his appearance. After standing by the river and looking at it for a while, Lu Heng then opened his mouth wide and took a deep breath at the river in front of him.
Then, the power of Mountain God was activated. Instantly the river churned, and one after another fish fluttered and leaped up from the river, flying towards Lu Heng's mouth.
One, two, three... These leaping river fish, regardless of their size, instantly disappeared into the white wolf's terrifying blood mouth, without the action of chewing.
After eating fifty river fish, Lu Heng was finally stuffed. And he stop the power of Mountain God, the river that was rippling and churning finally calmed down.
Under the bright sunshine, Lu Heng, who had eaten and drank enough, was in a good mood.
As a wolf demon that had cultivated for two hundred years, although Lu Heng could go on without food for a long time, the maintenance of the demon body would become difficult if he did not eat all the time.
He actually did not like this way of eating.
But there was no restaurant in this Cold Feather Mountain. Even if he went down to the Shuisheng village to find offerings, he thought the offerings made by the villagers were only enough to stuff his teeth.
"Being a demon is so hard. I need to hurry up and cultivate a human form so that I can eat a big meal." He thought.
Lu Heng turned away, and his pace was as slow as an old man walking in the park. It took a long time to return to Mountain God Temple.
Then, Lu Heng started a new round of cultivation.
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Chapter 10: Spiral Cloud (Part 2)
By now, Lu Heng's cultivation method had essential differences from the original wolf demon.
The cultivation method of the wolf demon was to use the power of the Mountain God to continuously absorb earth's spiritual energy and refine it into its own demon power, supplemented by wish power offered by the villagers.
This way of cultivation was very slow, and it was easy to encounter a bottleneck. Whenever the demon power held by the body reached its limit, it had to stop and wait for the slow growth of the demon body.
The effect of wish power was to accelerate the growth process of this demon body, which would allow the wolf demon to enter the next stage of cultivation more quickly.
However, Lu Heng did not like this wish power, so he always left it alone. He also did not want to be bound to this Cold Feather Mountain, so he did not want to be a Mountain God anymore. When his cultivation was successful, he would break free from this Cold Feather Mountain and go to see the outside world.
As for the earth vein aura, he hadn't absorbed it in a long time.
Recently, he had been indulging in the practice of thunder power, because he found that the absorption of thunder power seemed to have no bottleneck.
Each time he absorbed thunder power into his body, the power would be integrated into his limbs and bones, constantly transforming his demon body and expanding the limits of its capacity.
By the time he had absorbed all the thunder power, the capacity of his demon body had also grown, and then he could go on to absorb new thunder power.
Such a nearly infinite cycle of cultivation mode was so different from the wolf demon's slow cultivation method.
After Lu Heng opened up this cultivation mode, he completely abandoned the traditional cultivation method of the wolf demon, and the demon power in his body never grew again. Instead, thunder power slowly increased.
Maybe one day, the thunder power in his body would completely surpass the demon power and take the absolutely dominant position.
But at that time, would he still be considered a demon?
"Forget it, don't think so much, just continue to practice." He thought.
Lu Heng, who emerged from the ground, did not go to the river to eat fishes this time, but looked up at the huge spiral cloud in the sky.
Unknowingly, the amount of this thundercloud had become so frightening.
At the very beginning, Lu Heng just tried to call up thunder power on a clear day to see if there would be thunder coming down. He succeeded.
It was a sunny and clear sky, and as he used thunder power within him to call up clouds, a small thunder cloud slowly gathered in the sky. Although that thunder cloud was small in size, it did strike down thunder and was successfully absorbed by Lu Heng.
After his successful experience, Lu Heng no longer concerned himself with the weather for his cultivation. Whether it was windy, rainy, or sunny, he directly connected heaven and earth, attracting lightning to strike the mountains.
In this way, as Lu Heng cultivated, the thunderclouds gathered above Mountain God Temple became thicker and heavier and more massive. By now, it had turned into a huge spiral thunder cloud, suspended forever in the sky above the Mountain God Temple.
Even if the sun was shining and the sky was cloudless outside, the sky here at Mountain God Temple was still flickering with thunder. The atmosphere was horrible, and people felt that heavenly thunder may strike at any time.
And because of the appearance of this thundercloud, the beasts of the mountain no longer dared to approach the Mountain God Temple.
In the past, although the beasts in the mountain were afraid of the white wolf, they would occasionally pass near Mountain God Temple. But now, unless Lu Heng summoned them, the beasts in the mountain would avoid this spiral cloud and were not even willing to come close.
With the Mountain God Temple as the center, a five-mile radius of the mountain was so quiet that it even had no birds, no matter day and night. Only the spiral clouds in the sky occasionally resounded the low sound of thunder.
And as the one who caused all this, Lu Heng's heart did not have the slightest feeling of unease.
Anyway, now that he was no longer afraid of lightning, the spiral clouds in the sky couldn't scare him. He looked up at the sky, where the clouds were constantly roaring. Lu Heng took a deep breath, once again calling up to the sky thunder.
Then--
Boom!
Deafening thunder blasts spread far and wide in Cold Feather Mountain.
The terrifying sight of the huge thunderbolt cut through heaven and earth and struck the mountain. Even in the Shui Sheng Village, which was far away from Cold Feather Mountain, people could clearly see it.
In Shuisheng village, the working villagers all subconsciously raised their heads after hearing the terrifying thunder blast and looked in the direction of Mountain God Temple.
It was clear that the sky above the villagers' heads was blazing hot with the sun, and not even a single cloud could be seen. But in the deep of Cold Feather Mountain, there was a huge vortex cloud shrouded in constant rotation, with thunder flashes in the cloud, and now a heavenly thunder was striking down.
Wang Laoliu wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "Is Lord Mountain God angry again? He gets angry a lot in the last six months."
Not far away, Cripple Ai glared at him and said, "Wang Laoliu, you're talking nonsense again! The village chief has already said it is not the Lord Mountain God being angry, do not panic! If Lord Mountain God heard what you said, there will be no good consequences for you."
Barefoot standing in the field, Wang Laoliu smiled because he was not afraid, "even if Lord Mountain God will be angry, the first one who will get punishment is certainly not me, but you, Cripple Ai. Six months ago when we entered the mountain, Lord Mountain God was very fond of Xiao Ai. And who in this village doesn't know how you treat her?"
Wang Laoliu laughed, and Cripple Ai was a little embarrassed.
He glared at Wang Laoliu and cursed, "What's wrong with me? In Shuisheng village, everyone knows that it's me who kindly kept her, so that she did not starve to death... A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe!"
The crippled man shouted in a stern voice, but Wang Laoliu laughed more loudly.
"Cripple Ai, you are really shameless. Are you kind? You are coveting the legacy left by Xiao Ai's father and mother! Now that your little niece is here, do you want to talk to her about the location of her family's land and property?" Wang Laoliu laughed and squeezed his eyebrows.
Hearing this, Cripple Ai was startled and turned back in a hurry, and indeed saw his niece Xiao Ai appearing far away in the field. Seeing his niece's appearance, the expression on Cripple Ai's face instantly changed and became somewhat frightened.
Sternly glaring at Wang Laoliu, Cripple Ai cursed in a low voice, "Enough nonsense! I will not spare you!"
After scolding Wang Laoliu, Cripple Ai hurriedly rubbed his face, trying hard to squeeze out a soft expression, and waited until the young girl carrying the kettle and bowl came closer. He said with a smile, "Xiao Ai, here you are."
"Yes", the girl nodded in response. After placing the kettle and rice bowl on the ridge, she said "Uncle, aunt asked me to bring you some rice. She also said that little brother felt a little unwell, so she asked you to go back early to look after him."
"Okay, okay," Cripple Ai smiled, "you can go back, the sun is so strong outside, don't get sunburn."
"Well, then I'm going back," the girl greeted both Cripple Ai and Wang Laoliu in the field, "Uncle Ai, Uncle Wang, I'm leaving."
"Yes, Xiao Ai, go back quickly, your uncle is afraid of you..."
Wang Laoliu's laughter spread far and wide. The girl who had already left paused in her steps, but did not speak, as if she had not heard anything. She continued to walk forward.
Half a year has passed since she was first chosen to be dedicated to Lord Mountain God.
In these six months, everyone in the village had a huge change in their attitude towards her.
First of all, her uncle's family, who had always treated her badly before, now was careful with her. And she was treated like her cousins at home.
The attitude of others in the village was more complicated.
Faintly, the girl felt that the villagers were afraid of her, and the village adults even forbade their children to play with her.
Although no one dared to blatantly show this alienation and fear in front of her, the girl was still sensitive enough to perceive it.
She didn't overreact.
Although being isolated by everyone could be a little bit lonely, she was not the same as she was before. Even if no one her age wanted to play with her, she was not very sad.
The experience six months ago had changed her a lot and she was not very interested in playing around anymore.
When she was alone, she would not think of going to play with her peers. Now, she preferred to sit quietly alone on the threshold, staring blankly at the Cold Feather Mountain.
She wasn't quite sure what was wrong with her, but she found that she now didn't care much about many of the things she used to care about, and didn't seem to care about anything anymore.
And in this case, the only thing she cared about was that every morning when she woke up, she must offer a stick of incense to Lord Mountain God in the shrine at home.
It was something she had to do every day for these six months, and not a day had she dared to forget it.
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Chapter 11: Gongshu Jie
In the hot afternoon, Xiao Ai left the ridge of the field and walked towards the village not far away.
It was already September, but the heat in the air had not yet dissipated.
Walking under the hot sun, she felt a little breathless. While the weather was so hot in the village, Cold Feather Mountain was shrouded in thunder clouds and howling wind, as if a rainstorm was about to come.
The villagers in Shuisheng village were accustomed to such a scene, after all, this lasted half a year. But Xiao Ai was always worried, no matter how many times she looked at it.
She knew that the huge spiral clouds and the lightning that struck from time to time must be related to Lord Mountain God. But Xiao Ai was not sure whether these lightning strikes were good or bad for Lord Mountain God.
So Xiao Ai had also sneaked into the mountain a few times, wanting to see what was happening in the Mountain God Temple.
However, although she went to the temple several times, she failed to see the giant divine white wolf. The Mountain God Temple was also empty. There were no abnormalities.
Only when she held the Mountain God sign hanging on her chest, could she vaguely feel that Lord Mountain God was still in this Cold Feather Mountain. This feeling would bring her a peace of mind.
"Lord Mountain God..."
Xiao Ai stood on the path into the village, staring blankly at the thunderclouds spinning over the mountain. She was spacing out and did not want to move at this moment.
At this time, there were footsteps approaching, waking up the dazed girl. She looked back and saw a black-robed person walking towards the road outside the village.
It was a middle-aged man with a serious face. He was in all black robes, but the beard on his jaw was a strange red color. And the most shocking thing was his earrings.
From the black-robed man's earlobes each hung a green and a white earring, but as he got closer, the girl could see clearly those were not earrings at all, but two slowly wriggling snakes!
These two wriggling snakes were hanging on the man's earlobe. If the tiny snakes had not been wriggling all the time, it would almost look like ordinary earrings.
Using live snakes as earrings? Was he not afraid of being bitten?
Xiao Ai was afraid and planned to turn and run. But she stopped when she heard the black-robed man take the initiative to speak.
"Little girl, I am Wuzhu from the Thousand Needles City, named Gong-Shu Jie. I've come here to chase a devil seed. I am not a bad person. May I ask if you've ever seen a strange wisp of black smoke anywhere?"
Although the black-robed man's face was serious, his words seemed to have some kind of power, making the girl subconsciously stop in her tracks.
After she heard what the man said, she was even more surprised and widened her eyes.
"Master Wuzhu?"
The girl was a bit shocked. The village elders said that a Master Wuzhu is a big man who serves the Fire God and would only stay in the city. But now there is a Master Wuzhu coming to Shuisheng Village? And he said that he was coming after a devil seed...
Xiao Ai was a little scared and looked at the Cold Feather Mountain at a distance.
Although the white wolf was known as the Mountain God worshiped in Shuisheng Village, people in the village secretly scolded it as a man-eating demon. They also said that if Shuisheng Village was not too remote to take care of, a Master Wuzhu in the city would catch the wolf demon.
Now, a Master Wuzhu appeared.
Xiao Ai was a little nervous, "No..."
She panicked and lowered her head, whispered, "I have not seen any devils before."
As these words were spoken, a huge thunderbolt exploded in the distant mountain.
"Boom- "
The loud thunder reverberated between heaven and earth, instantly attracting the attention of the Master Wuzhu.
He looked towards the dark forest in the distance that was surrounded by spiral clouds. He frowned and said, "Heavenly thunder? Could it be attracted by that devil seed?"
When he saw that thundercloud before, he had thought it was an ordinary weather, so he did not care about it. But now it seemed that the constantly rotating thundercloud actually contained a terrifying thunderbolt power. The lightning that fell just now was even a heavenly thunder that would only appear to kill demons and monsters.
Could it be that the devil seed escaped into this mountain, and finally attracted the heavenly thunder?
Thinking of this, Gong-Shu Jie directly went towards the distant Cold Feather Mountain. He took a step ten feet away and disappeared from the girl's view in a few seconds.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Ai widened her eyes, now she knew that this Master Wuzhu really had great magic power.
Her expression immediately became anxious. She was worried if Lord Mountain God might run into the Master Wuzhu.
She immediately ran in the direction of Cold Feather Mountain, trying to do something with her own efforts.
After all, she was familiar with the path. Maybe she would find Lord Mountain God before Master Wuzhu, so she could inform Lord Mountain God to leave ...
Gong-Shu Jie (the Master Wuzhu) did not know what Xiao Ai was thinking about. He used his magic to drift so fast in the forest, and soon left Shuisheng Village behind.
Whether it was a rugged road, a dense shrubs road, or even a road beside a cliff, Gong-Shu Jie crossed it with ease as if he were walking on smooth ground.
Although he had never been here before, he had a clear goal. The huge spiral cloud spinning in the sky and the center of the spiral cloud were the best road signs.
But the closer he got, the heavier Gong Shu Jie's mood became. Because as he kept getting closer, he also clearly felt the terrifying thunderbolt power that pervaded in the vortex clouds overhead.
Originally, he thought that it was the devil seed who had attracted the heavenly thunder, so he rushed towards this direction. But after entering Cold Feather Mountain, he understood that he was wrong.
The swirling vortex clouds in the sky were surging with fury, emitting a terrifying aura that made his heart skip a beat. Such a terrifying thunderstorm could not have been caused by that devil seed he chased, but a more terrifying demon!
Although he was still at the periphery of the mountain, he had not entered the center of the cloud yet, so the pressure he felt was limited. But just the slight aura emanating from the periphery already made him alarmed, and he could hardly imagine what kind of scene the thundercloud center would be.
And what kind of demon would attract such a terrifying thundercloud!
If it was released, it would probably be a terrifying demon that could destroy a city, even ruin a land and disrupt a country.
This Cold Feather Mountain was always remote and desolate, how could it produce such a terrifying demon? It was a huge disaster!
If he hadn't tracked the devil seed to this place today, he was afraid everyone in the outside world would be in the dark.
No! This matter must not happen! He would figure it out!
The demon in this mountain was so terrible, and if it was lucky enough to not die under the thunderstorm, it would definitely come down to the world and kill people in order to heal its wounds.
He must kill it here, no matter the cost.
Thinking of this, Gong-Shu Jie sped up a lot. Soon, he saw the center of the thunderstorm - it was over the peak of Cold Feather Mountain with the most dense ground spirit aura.
On top of the mountain, huge vortex clouds gushing and rotating, vast and majestic thunderbolt force condensed and did not disperse. From time to time there was a terrifying lightning in the clouds flickering, giving people a huge pressure.
Under the thundercloud, the forest was deadly silent, people could not hear any sound of birds and insects, and could not feel the slightest breath of life. It was like a land of the dead. When Gong-Shu Jie stepped into this land, he could not help feeling a shock.
There was no living thing in this place!
What kind of horrible demon was this? Even the insects disappeared in its habitat.
Among all creatures in the earth, the ubiquitous insects were the most powerful species, to some extent. They had no fear, and did not know living and death.
But now even the insects in the mountains were afraid of the demons in the forest...
Realizing of this, GongShu Jie now felt a great pressure.
Just how powerful is the demon in this mountain?
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Chapter 12: Ancient Divine Beast
With uneasiness in his heart, Gong-Shu Jie's footsteps slow down a lot.
Although it was clear that the demon in the forest must have sensed his presence, he still cautiously observed the forest in front of him.
However, the further he go, the more strange Gong-Shu Jie felt, because the forest did not have the slightest devil aura belonging to the demon. There seemed to be no demon at all. The air was only filled with the purest and most terrifying thunderbolt power.
Could it be that the demon had been struck dead by heavenly thunderbolt?
But even if the demon was killed, it was impossible for the devil aura to dissipate so quickly.
Gong-Shu Jie's heart was filled with confusion. At that moment, a white light flashed in his vision. Immediately after, a deafening rumble sounded, and a frighteningly thick thunderbolt descended from the sky and viciously struck down in the forest.
"Boom!"
The ground beneath Gong-Shu Jie's feet seemed to shake violently.
Having witnessed the terrifying power of this thunderbolt up close, Gong-Shu Jie's breathing almost stopped.
There was more heavenly thunderbolt striking down! The demon was not dead!
Gong-Shu Jie instantly disappeared from the original place, moving towards the direction of the heavenly thunderbolt. When he could not sense the presence of devil aura, he could not find the demon in the forest.
But now, this sudden heavenly thunderbolt guided the way to the demon for him.
In the forest, a dry and hot gale was raised. Gong-Shu Jie rose up in the wind and flew rapidly over the forest. In a few seconds, he arrived at the direction where the thunderbolt struck down and he saw the Mountain God Temple surrounded by trees.
The Mountain God Temple was ordinary, and there was nothing unusual. However, in front of the Mountain God Temple, there was a huge white wolf standing.
Under the gloomy sky, the white wolf was so big and frightening that its size was almost equal to the height of the Mountain God Temple behind it, and it was a completely vicious beast. But now the most terrifying thing was not the size of the white wolf, but the white wolf's thunderbolt power surrounding his body.
The one hit by thunder was clearly the giant wolf in front of him!
But the power of the thunderbolt that could make even a thousand-year-old demon get traumatized. Why was the white wolf unharmed?
And it was not only unharmed, but its body surface was surprisingly thunderous. Electric thunder flashed across the silver-white wolf fur. As the white wolf inhaled, all the thunderbolt power overflowing in the air was actually inhaled by it.
Its huge body shape was like a bottomless abyss crazily swallowing the surrounding thunder.
In just a few seconds, the thunderbolt power in front of the Mountain God Temple was almost completely absorbed into the white wolf's body.
At this point, the white wolf slowly opened his eyes and looked in Gong-Shu Jie's direction.
When a man and a wolf looked at each other, Gong-Shu Jie's mind was shaken to see a pair of pale eyes flashing with lightning.
Although the next second, the lightning light dispersed and the white wolf's eyes returned to be normal, the wolf brought a huge pressure to Gong-Shu Jie. His breath was slightly stagnant, and seemed to face a heavenly thunder tribulation.
This white wolf was definitely not ordinary mountain demon!
It was not struck by heavenly thunderbolt, instead, it was borrowing the heavenly thunderbolt to cultivate!
Realizing of this, Gong-Shu Jie was astonished. Regardless of human beings and demons, they were afraid of heavenly thunderbolt and kept far away from it. Now the beast in front of him could borrow heavenly thunderbolt to cultivate.
Dispelling the hot wind around him, Gong-Shu Jie was falling from the air, respectfully and politely saluted to the giant wolf.
"My name is Gong-Shu Jie, a Wuzhu from Thousand Needles City. It is an honor to meet you, Mountain God."
In the Mountain God Temple, the clay statue of the white wolf on the divine altar stood out. How could Gong-Shu Jie not know that the white wolf was the Mountain God of Cold Feather Mountain?
Although he guessed it right, there was still confusion in his heart that could not be resolved.
Most of the Mountain Gods were actually demons and monsters. When their cultivation had become successful, some mortals built temples and shrines dedicated to them. Day after day, the demon or monster had been turning into a Mountain God. But whether it was good or bad, these Mountain Gods could not get rid of their essence as a demon. The more profound the practice, the more dense devil aura it had.
But this Cold Feather Mountain God had not even the slightest devil aura. When Gong-Shu Jie opened his magic eyes to watch, he could only see a blindingly bright thunderbolt power, as if the white wolf was composed entirely of thunderbolts.
This weird phenomenon had overturned Gong-Shu Jie's previous perception. There were such living creatures in this world! The white wolf's body only had the thunderbolt power, no demon power.
Could it be a legendary Ancient Divine Beast?
Gong-Shu Jie was a little nervous. Those divine beasts were not human nor demons or monsters. They were born with divine powers, powerful beyond the perception of common sense. They were hidden deep in mountains and swamps, and they usually had eccentric temperament.
But if it was an Ancient Divine Beast, why was it willing to be a small Mountain God in this remote Cold Feather Mountain?
He did not understand.
What Gong-Shu Jie saw today had broken his past decades of perception.
Now he could only bow and salute, said, "I came here to pursue a devil seed. I was attracted by the movement of the heavenly thunderbolt, and I did not mean to disturb your practice. Please forgive me."
Gong-Shu Jie first illustrated the cause and effect, wanting to resolve possible misunderstandings. Demons and beasts felt offended when they were disturbed by outsiders during their practice.
In fact, with Gong-Shu Jie's identity as a Wuzhu, even in the face of those famous Mountain Gods, there was no need to be overly concerned.
But the white wolf in front of him was not an ordinary Mountain God, because the heavenly thunderbolt could not hurt him.
However, after hearing Gong-Shu Jie's respectful words, the huge white wolf only glanced at him coldly and nodded his head.
"I know."
After saying that, the white wolf jumped into the ground and disappeared from Gong-Shu Jie's view.
This ambiguous answer made Gong-Shu Jie feel dumbfounded.
Did the Mountain God forgive him?
After hesitating for half a second, Gong-Shu Jie finally remained in the place, not daring to leave without permission. He wanted to wait for the Ancient Divine Beast to return before apologizing.
This Ancient Divine Beast was so fierce, if it was evil, he was afraid that the whole Fire Pass Country was going to suffer. Gong-Shu Jie did not dare to take the risk.
However, Lu Heng, who had disappeared into the ground, had no time to pay attention to the uneasiness in Gong-Shu Jie's heart.
Now his body was filled with a huge amount of thunderbolt power that was ready to burst. He only wanted to quickly digest the thunderbolt power in his body to avoid exploding.
Last month when he absorbed the heavenly thunderbolt power, he did not control the amount, so he was overwhelmed by the surge of thunderbolt power to the point it cracked his skin and flesh. He took a long time to recover.
This time he didn't expect to absorb even more thunderbolt power.
This method of absorbing thunderbolt power cultivation was good, but it was so difficult to control its amount!
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Chapter 13: Mountain Fixing Talisman
Underground in the Mountain God Temple, Lu Heng once again entered into a state of deep cultivation, continuously digesting the thunderbolt power in his body.
The thunderbolt power surged in his body and slowly merged into his flesh and blood.
By now, the presence of demon power could no longer be found in Lu Heng's body.
Because during this half year's cultivation, with more and more thunderbolt power in his body, the original quantity of demon power was driven away and rejected by the surging thunderbolt power. The demon power finally shrunk completely into the Sea of Qi (where the power is stored) and solidified into a small ball.
Therefore, the power surging in Lu Heng's body has completely turned into the thunderbolt power. If he did not keep the appearance of a giant wolf, no one would have taken him as a demon if they sensed him by power alone.
As for the human Wuzhu who suddenly appeared outside, Lu Heng was actually a little worried.
In the wolf demon's remaining memory, Wuzhu was the most dignified person in a city. He was in charge of the incense, offerings and sacrifices of a city. Usually, a Wuzhu was many times more powerful than a demon like the white wolf in the remote mountains.
If a small demon encountered a Wuzhu, it would either turn around and run or kneel down and beg for mercy. A demon couldn't even have the thought of resistance, because the gap between the two sides was too great.
So Lu Heng chose to disappear into the ground quickly, he not only wanted to stabilize the collection of thunderbolt power, but was also afraid that the Wuzhu would subdue him.
However, in the process of cultivation, Lu Heng could feel that the Wuzhu outside did not leave.
Lu Heng was immediately shocked in his heart - could it be that this Wuzhu was determined to get rid of him? Otherwise why was he guarding him outside?
But after thinking about it carefully, Lu Heng felt that it was not quite right.
If the Wuzhu really wanted to subdue him, he would have done it already. Even if Lu Heng dived into the ground, the Wuzhu should have a way to force Lu Heng to come out.
On the contrary, the Wuzhu had a modest attitude, and his words could even be said to be respectful to the extent that he did not want to fight with Lu Heng. Considering his status as a city Wuzhu, it could not simply be to amuse Lu Heng.
Then, why?
The more Lu Heng thought about it, the more he thought something was wrong. Maybe the Wuzhu was scared by the scene of absorbing the heavenly thunder. Maybe he thought Lu Heng was some kind of terrifying demon. That's why he didn't dare to make a move rashly.
Such a conjecture emerged in his mind, but Lu Heng was not very sure.
He knew that absorbing heavenly thunder seemed scary, but in reality it only looked scary. Lu Heng absorbed the thunderbolt power and transformed it into his own power, although it would become more pure, the amount was much less. Lu Heng cultivated for half a year and absorbed one heavenly thunder after another, but not much of it was really transformed into his own power.
Not to mention fighting with a Wuzhu, the amount was far from the white wolf's original demon power.
Even if he had developed the heavenly thunder cultivation method, it was only potential and had not yet grown.
He suspected that if he really fought with the Wuzhu, he would be killed in one move.
But Lu Heng hid in the ground for a full hour, and the violent thunderbolt power in his body had stabilized. The Wuzhu named Gong-Shu Jie was still waiting outside and did not leave, seemingly determined to guard outside until Lu Heng came out.
Lu Heng had a headache.
Emotionally, he was not willing to have any contact with this Wuzhu.
He was a demon, and Gong-Shu Jie was a Wuzhu to subdue demons. If they were in conflict, his little life seemed to be doomed.
But if he did not go out soon, it was estimated to be bad luck.
Thinking of the scene that the Wuzhu was angry because he was hiding from him, and then killed him with one move, Lu Heng couldn't calm down.
"Forget it, just go out and ask him what the hell is going on."
Lu Heng sighed slightly, leaving the ground, the body was quickly floating up. Finally, once again appeared in front of the Mountain God Temple.
The light was dull around the forest in the afternoon. The huge swirling clouds in the sky enveloped the forest, blocking out the hot sunlight and making heaven and earth appear gloomy.
The black-robed Wuzhu was sitting cross-legged under a tree. His eyes slightly closed, seemingly in deep meditation. The small snake hanging on his earlobe was asleep and no longer wriggling.
The moment Lu Heng appeared, Gong-Shu Jie immediately opened his eyes and stood up.
"Greetings, Cold Feather Mountain God," Gong-Shu Jie took a fist-and-palm salute.
With Gong-Shu Jie's status, making such a gesture showed a great respect. Lu Heng was sure that he was really shocked by the sight of him absorbing the heavenly thunderbolt.
Though Gong-Shu Jie was humble, Lu Heng did not dare to play the big tail wolf.
He said politely, "Master Wuzhu, my name is Lu Heng, now I am considered as the Mountain God of this Cold Feather Mountain. What can I do for you?"
Because of his overly large size and beastly body, Lu Heng could not salute like the Wuzhu, and could only use words to express his goodwill.
Gong-Shu Jie did not dare to be arrogant and took a fist-and-palm salute again, "You don't have to say that. I just see that the Mountain God is protecting this location, so I feel respect in my heart and want to offer a talisman to make a good relationship."
Then, Gong-Shu Jie took out a bright yellow jade pendant, "This is a Mountain Fixing Talisman, and it can fix mountains and rivers. Although it is not very rare, it have some benefits if you wear it on your body. Please accept it."
The moment Gong-Shu Jie took out the jade pendant, the earth vein aura in this Cold Feather Mountain seemed to react. As the God of Cold Feather Mountain, Lu Heng was even more clear of the effectiveness of it.
This was not just SOME benefits. This Mountain Fixing Talisman was really a treasure for a Mountain God!
With this Mountain Fixing Talisman, Lu Heng's power and strength as well as his cultivation speed could be increased by several grades. If the original wolf demon had seen this Mountain Fixing Talisman, it would have been so greedy that he would have knelt down and taken it.
What did Gong-Shu Jie want to do when he gave such an expensive gift?
Lu Heng looked at the bright yellow jade pendant for a while. And he could feel the rich earth spirit power inside the pendant. He shook his head.
"Thank you for your kindness. But this talisman is of no use to me, and without merit, I cannot accept this treasure."
Lu Heng originally did not want to be a Mountain God, and with the heavenly thunder cultivation method he could not use this piece of jade. And if he really accepted such a valuable treasure, he would owe a big favor later. What's more, if Gong-Shu Jie found out that Lu Heng was not that strong, would he felt cheated and annoyed?
A wise man will not not stand under a dangerous wall. Lu Heng did not want to covet a treasure that could not be used, or add a possible future enemy.
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Chapter 14: Fear
The white wolf's refusal did not surprise Gong-Shu Jie.
He understood that the Ancient Divine Beast in front of him did not care about the Mountain God position.
In this world, there were indeed some demon cultivators who were willing to be a Mountain God or a Water God. They received some incense, and relied on the spiritual energy of the earth's veins to cultivate. But the Ancient Divine Beasts were not like them.
The heavenly thunder that demon cultivators feared was only the basis of Ancient Divine Beast's cultivation. It was just a passing cloud for these divine beasts that existed for a long time.
Gong-Shu Jie did not offer this piece of jade pendant for a potential reward, but simply because the only thing he could use to get close to the Ancient Divine Beast was this Mountain Fixing Talisman. Since the divine beast did not accept it, he had no other treasures.
After taking back the jade pendant, Gong-Shu Jie had no better words to say for a while.
He wanted to ask the beast why he wanted to take incense here, but he was afraid that he would break some taboo because of rashly asking.
So Gong-Shu Jie just stood in the same place, didn't say anything. The atmosphere suddenly fell into a strange deadlock.
It was a good thing that someone helped him out at that moment.
In the forest, there was a young girl panting sharply and running towards the Mountain God Temple.
Although the distance was still far away, both Lu Heng and Gong-Shu Jie sensed it.
A man and a wolf looked in that direction at the same time. Gong-Shu Jie was a little surprised - this Qi seemed to be somewhat familiar.
As the Mountain God, Lu Heng knew better who was coming. The Mountain God's sign, which carried some of his power, was still on the girl.
Lu Heng slightly sensed it, and the Mountain God's power was directly activated. The little girl who was running in the forest suddenly felt a huge change in the surrounding scenery - all the trees on both sides were falling backwards so fast that they even turned into a blur of shadows. Everything in her field of vision was spinning rapidly, and the colorful scenery completely messed up her eyes.
Xiao Ai stared at this magical scene with wide eyes, and before she could react, she found that all those blurry shadows had disappeared. She was standing in front of a huge white wolf, and behind the white wolf, it was the familiar Mountain God Temple.
She stared in shock, almost suspecting she was hallucinating, "Lord Mountain God?"
She was clearly a long way from the Mountain God Temple, how could she suddenly arrive at the place in an instant? Could it be the Lord Mountain God brought her here?
The giant wolf nodded calmly and said, "It's me."
He lowered his head, gazed at the little girl and asked, "You rushed into the forest, did some urgent matter happened in the village?"
Lu Heng's inquiry made the girl come back to her senses and remember the purpose of her trip.
Her expression was a little anxious, "Lord Mountain God, there is a Wuzhu outside the mountain, he said he came here to pursue demons!"
The girl's anxious expression showed that she was actually concerned about Lu Heng's safety. She was not even caring that her words would offend the Mountain God as a demon.
The girl's words did not make Lu Heng react, but Gong-Shu Jie on the side was so scared that his whole body was dripping sweat.
"There must be a misunderstanding in this matter!" Gong-Shu Jie was so anxious that he hurriedly opened his mouth and interrupted the girl's words, fearing that the girl would say something again.
"Lord Mountain God, I really came here in pursuit of a devil seed that escaped from the city, and I definitely did not come for you."
When he gave that talisman for the Mountain God, he thought he had managed to get closer to this Cold Feather Mountain God and make the atmosphere a little more cordial. If he did not explain clearly, he may have a conflict with this Mountain God and suffer an unwarranted disaster because of a misunderstanding.
And Gong-Shu Jie's defense caused the girl in front of the giant wolf to freeze for a moment.
Xiao Ai turned around, only to find Master Wuzhu not far behind her.
The girl was so scared as to scream on the spot. "I actually said those words in front of Master Wuzhu? Master Wuzhu had heard what I said! Master Wuzhu had actually found Lord Mountain God!"
The girl's face was pale and she backed up repeatedly. She was so dumbfounded that she didn't even hear what Gong-Shu Jie was saying.
Probably only Lu Heng was the most calm one among them.
He stretched out his huge paw and gently pulled the little girl to his side and said, "Don't be afraid, this Wuzhu doesn't mean any harm. He is not here to trouble me either, you don't have to worry."
Seeing that the little girl had calmed down a bit because of his reassurance, Lu Heng then looked at the Wuzhu not far away and said, "Sorry for the little girl's impoliteness."
Lu Heng's words made Gong-Shu Jie feel relief. He waved his hand and said, "Never mind. This girl's brave heart is praiseworthy. And it is indeed a good deed for sir Mountain God to have this believer."
After seeing Lu Heng's attitude toward the little girl, Gong-Shu Jie finally let go of the worry in his heart.
Although this divine beast was mysterious and powerful, it was so caring to an ordinary human child. Therefore, it was not the vicious and malicious type of divine beast.
This powerful divine beast, they must be close to nature and have good temper because they were willing to descend to this Cold Feather Mountain to take incense and shelter the villagers.
After all, among the divine beasts, the kind that was vicious was the mainstream.
Now that Gong-Shu Jie's speculation had been verified, the fear in Gong-Shu Jie's heart was put down.
The Divine Beast in front of him was so easy-going, so he shouldn't worry about it coming down into the world and bringing disaster.
But even so, it did not mean that Gong-Shu Jie dared to neglect the Ancient Divine Beast. He decided that after coming down from the mountain, he would immediately inform the Wuzhus of several large cities near the Cold Feather Mountain. They could share their experiences.
In any case, the Fire Pass Country can not offend the Ancient Divine Beast in the mountain and must treat it carefully.
What's more, this Ancient Divine Beast had the power of ruling the heavenly thunder. This divine power was so rare, even among the powerful Ancient Divine Beasts, this Lu Heng was the strongest one.
The expression on Gong-Shu Jie's face became more serious as he thought this, and he didn't dare to be the least bit disrespectful in his behavior. He was determined to leave a good impression in the mind of Lu Heng.
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Chapter 15: Xiao Ai's Determination
Gong-Shu Jie's attitude was humble and respectful, completely different from that of a mighty Master Wuzhu in the old people's stories.
The little girl who witnessed everything was a bit stunned by this. In the old people's stories, when demons encountered the city's Master Wuzhu, they could only run away with their tails between their legs.
If Shuisheng village was not remote and was blessed with a Master Wuzhu, the white wolf in the mountain would not dare to bully people at all... The old people occasionally discussed the white wolf like this.
Therefore, Xiao Ai always believed that compared to a Master Wuzhu, the Lord Mountain God was weak. This was the reason why she hurriedly headed here.
But now the girl found that the situation was not quite the same as the old people had said.
It was clear that the Lord Mountain God was more powerful than this Master Wuzhu facing the Lord Mountain God. Although she did not know the world too much, she could distinguish between the strong and the weak.
Now seeing the friendly conversation between the Lord Mountain God and this Master Wuzhu, the girl was completely sure of one thing. That is, the village elders were all talking nonsense! They didn't know the Lord Mountain God at all.
They said that the Lord Mountain God settled in the mountain to oppress mortals, forcing everyone to offer incense and sacrifices. And he was a man-eating demon.
However, after the village people sacrificed her to the Lord Mountain God, he did not want to eat her at all. He just let her go. And on her way back to the village, the Lord Mountain God ordered the monkeys to follow and take care of her.
On the contrary, the village adults, after seeing her return to the village, they tied her up and sent her back to the mountain, and scolded her for being greedy and afraid of death. In the end, it was the Lord Mountain God who did her justice.
And now, this Master Wuzhu also did not make a move to subdue the demon.
How could the Lord Mountain God be a vicious demon that eats people!
The real Lord Mountain God was definitely not like the village adults said.
And she decided that after returning to the village, she must find a way to eliminate everyone's prejudice of the Lord Mountain God, to let everyone understand that the Lord Mountain God was not as terrible as they thought.
She made this decision with firmness of will.
At this time, Lu Heng and Gong-Shu Jie's conversation also came to a conclusion. The black-robed Wuzhu bowed his head, "In that case, I will go back to pursue the devil seed."
The huge white wolf nodded calmly, "Please, Wuzhu Gong-Shu."
Seeing Gong-Shu Jie rising from the wind and disappearing from view, Lu Heng finally sighed with relief.
The conversation with Gong-Shu Jie did not involve anything important. Both sides were wary of each other, so what they talked about was basically related to the devil seed that Gong-Shu Jie was hunting.
The devil seed was in the vicinity of Thousand Needles City, and after it was defeated by Gong-Shu Jie, it fled to this direction. Now Gong-Shu Jie has lost it, he could only feel that the devil seed was hiding near the Cold Feather Mountain.
Gong-Shu Jie thought that the devil seed was scared by the spiral clouds over the Cold Feather Mountain and did not dare to appear. It may hide in the body of some living creature.
Next, he had to search around the Cold Feather Mountain for a long time, so he told Lu Heng in advance and wanted to get Lu Heng's permission. After Lu Heng allowed him to investigate the mountain, he left the Mountain God Temple.
The conversation between them was not long, but Lu Heng still had a general idea of this black-robed Wuzhu. He thought that Gong-Shu Jie's way of thinking seemed a bit different from normal people.
During the conversation, Gong-Shu Jie gave Lu Heng the feeling that he was somewhat similar to some kind of nerd who stayed at home all the time, almost insulated from socializing, and not very good at communicating with strangers. So Gong-Shu Jie wanted to ask but did not directly ask Lu Heng's origin. He was just like a topic terminator.
No wonder this guy behaved so cautiously, it seemed he was also clear about his weakness of not being good with words, and was afraid to accidentally offend Lu Heng.
Shaking his head, Lu Heng then lowered his head to look at the girl at his feet.
In the process of his conversation with Gong-Shu Jie, the little girl had been standing at his feet, not moving, very well behaved.
Now seeing Lu Heng look down, the girl kowtowed quickly to salute. But Lu Heng's front paw flicked and a breeze blew, and the girl could not kneel down.
"There is no need to kneel in front of me," Lu Heng said, "and no need to kneel in the future."
The girl froze for a moment, feeling the invisible breeze in the air that restricted her movement, and nodded her head.
Lu Heng then began to ask, "Wuzhu Gong-Shu said he met you outside the mountain about an hour ago...that is, after you met Wuzhu Gong-Shu, you immediately came into the mountain to inform me. Were you afraid that I would be killed by Wuzhu Gong-Shu?"
The girl subconsciously nodded, but then hastily shook her head.
"No, I know that Lord Mountain God is divinely powerful, surely ..."
"Okay, stop it," Lu Heng interrupted the girl and said, "Stop these fake words. Even if you really said something to make me angry, I will not eat you. Even if I want to eat people to cultivate, you are not enough to fill the gap between my teeth."
Lu Heng's words were the truth.
Since he used the heavenly thunder to cultivate in the past six months, his body size had become larger and larger. Originally he was only two meters high, but now he was taller than the Mountain God Temple. This little girl was small enough for him to swallow in one gulp.
Xiao Ai then timidly smiled and lowered her head.
Lu Heng looked at her, thought about it and said, "You are not afraid of me, it is a bit surprising. I thought all the people in your Shuisheng village were the same. Okay, take out the mountain god sign, I'll give you something."
Hearing Lu Heng's command, the girl hurriedly took off the mountain god sign and respectfully handed it to the Mountain God.
But Lu Heng did not take it, he just looked down at the small mountain god sign, slowly inhaled a breath and then exhaled. A ray of wish power along with the wind went into the mountain god sign.
Xiao Ai saw a flash of emerald green light, and then the mountain god sign no longer felt cold. The girl was a little surprised, though she did not know what happened.
Lu Heng also did not explain, "You can go back. With this mountain god sign, the mountain beasts will not attack you."
After saying that, Lu Heng dived into the ground again and continued to cultivate. He had not yet absorbed the thunderbolt power in his body. He just barely stabilized it, so he had no time to delay.
As for the wish power he gave the little girl, it would enable the little girl to be less sick. Lu Heng did not mind giving her some rewards because of her good intention.
Anyway, he would not use the wish power from now on.
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Chapter 16: Demon?
After moving away from the range of the Mountain God Temple, Gong-Shu Jie once again turned back to look at the cloud behind him.
The huge spiral cloud above the main peak of the Cold Feather Mountain was still slowly rotating, with terrifying flashes of lightning from time to time. But there was no heavenly thunder striking down.
For the extremely evil devil seed, the spiral clouds above the Cold Feather Mountain was a terrifying power.
The devil seed even in the daylight had a great probability of attracting heavenly thunder from the sky. Now it was so close to the vortex cloud, even a slight leak of its devil energy would certainly attract the lightning and get hit by the heavenly thunder.
In order to hide its devil energy, the devil seed must dive into a body of some living creature. It probably thought that the vortex cloud over the Cold Feather Mountain was attracted by some demon, so it could escape after the vortex cloud dispersed.
The devil seed definitely could not imagine that it was an Ancient Divine Beast controlling the heavenly thunder. These spiral clouds would not disperse simply because it was the foundation of the divine beast's cultivation.
The devil seed's only choice is cocooning itself. Because of this, now, the devil seed must always hide in a living creature it possessed. If it leaves unprepared, it would quickly attract the heavenly thunder and die.
This provided a great convenience for Gong-Shu Jie's pursuit.
Usually, a devil seed had a great probability of being inside a living person. And almost all people were living in the Shuisheng village, so his pursuit range was small.
Riding on the hot wind to fly out of the mountain, Gong-Shu Jie landed directly in the field of Shuisheng village. He scared the villagers who were working.
"Cripple Ai! Look! A black-robed ghost is flying from the sky!" Wang Laoliu shouted in a low voice with a frightened face, scaring Cripple Ai to cover his mouth.
"Do you want to live?" Cripple Ai shouted, body sweating, "Don't say such things"
The two people witnessed the scene of Gong-Shu Jie falling from the sky. Even if he was too far to hear them clearly, Cripple Ai was still frightened by the words of Wang Laoliu around him.
He decided that he would never ask this old bachelor to help him again. This guy had no gate on his mouth, sooner or later something terrible would happen!
After Gong-Shu Jie landed, he glanced at the far away Cripple Ai and Wang Lao Liu over there, and didn't say anything. He said to the villagers in front of him, "I am a Wuzhu of Thousand Needles City, where is the village chief? I have something to ask him."
When the villagers heard that it was a Master Wuzhu, they became excited and hurriedly took Gong-Shu Jie to the Shuisheng village to look for the village chief. When Gong-Shu Jie followed these villagers, a large group of people followed behind him.
Not only the villagers working in the fields in the village followed him, even the women washing clothes by the river also all gathered around. Everyone did not dare to get near the Master Wuzhu, but only stay far behind to see him. They were curious about why the Master Wuzhu ran to such a remote place.
After the old village chief received the news, he went ahead to meet Gong-Shu Jie at the village's entrance.
The moment he saw Gong-Shu Jie, the old village chief had already made a long bow, "I have come, Master Wuzhu."
Gong-Shu Jie nodded and said straight to the point, "I came here in pursuit of a devil seed and lost the whereabouts of that devil seed. I hope the village chief can cooperate with me to find it, otherwise if it is lurking, it will surely harm people."
The old village chief glanced at Gong-Shu Jie's earlobe and nodded his head, "Of course. We are all at the command of Master Wuzhu."
When he saw the two small snakes hanging on Gong-Shu Jie's earlobes, the old village chief confirmed the identity of the Wuzhu in front of him. He had twice seen Wuzhus in the city afar when he went into the city, and knew that a Wuzhu would always have two strange snakes hanging on his earlobes.
Even if he was not a real Wuzhu, he must listen to him because the village people said that this black-robed man came from the sky. Clearly they could not offend this powerful man.
With Gong-Shu Jie's request, the old village chief called for people to gather in the village.
Men and women, the young and the old gathered at the grain farm at the entrance of the village, even the newborn babies must be brought out. And all of them looked up at the Master Wuzhu on the clay stage. They were whispering and full of curiosity.
After the old village chief talked with his son, he hurriedly went to Gong-Shu Jie's side and bowed his hand, "All the villagers of Shuisheng Village are here, please give your order."
Sitting on the stage, Gong-Shu Jie then opened his eyes and looked down at the villagers.
He did not explain too much, directly opened his magic eyes to lock the villagers below the stage and spoke, "Let them come up to the stage one by one and pass in front of me, I will check whether the devil seed is possessing them."
The old village chief nodded his head in a hurry and passed this order down.
So the villagers of Shuisheng Village went up to the clay stage one by one, and apprehensively passed in front of the Master Wuzhu.
When being watched by Gong-Shu Jie's magic eyes, everyone was nervous and afraid that the next second they would be designated as the devil seed.
Fortunately, this did not happen even after the last villager walked by Gong-Shu Jie.
The villagers gathered below the stage whispered. The village chief and several clan elders looked at each other.
Gong-Shu Jie frowned his eyebrows, and his magic eyes was constantly sweeping in the crowd.
"Village chief, are you sure that all the villagers of Shuisheng Village are here?"
"Uh..." the old village chief talked difficultly, "Actually there is still one girl missing, but that girl..."
The village chief stopped here.
Gong Shu Jie's voice seemed calm but implied pressure, "Go ahead."
The village chief then seemed to have the courage to say in a low voice, "This matter is not really a secret. For Shuisheng village, it is a scourge. There is a Mountain God in the Cold Feather Mountain next to Shuisheng village.
"Eighty years ago, a rich merchant was saved by the white wolf in the mountain, and in order to repay the favor, the rich merchant financed the construction of the Mountain God Temple and opened incense for the white wolf. Since then, for eighty years, the white wolf has been located in the Cold Feather Mountain, forcing us villagers to offer tribute to it in the name of the Mountain God.
"Although we were reluctant, we had to meet its demands and offer three sacrificial offerings every New Year's Day. But half a year ago, the white wolf suddenly asked us for boys and girls, otherwise the village would be destroyed. We had no choice but to draw lots to decide a girl and offer her in exchange for a moment of peace.
"But after the girl was offered, she was not killed by the white wolf. Afterwards, the white wolf even led the girl back to the village to continue to live with us. We do not even know whether the girl is a demon now... We are all careful and we do not dare to offend her, more afraid to anger the white wolf into eating people, so...
The village chief said hesitantly and fearfully, "The girl is not coming here now, and we have not found her whereabouts in the village. It is possible that when you arrived, the girl feared your divine power and had already fled into the mountains to seek help from the white wolf."
The village chief's words carefully told a story about how a mountain demon terrorizes villages.
This kind of story, in fact, was not uncommon. If many monsters and demons in remote areas had no suppression, they would become a scourge. And there were even some who made living people as blood meals for their cultivation.
Gong-Shu Jie was ordained to the position of Wuzhu for nearly a hundred years, and he had also killed similar demons.
However, he did not trust the village chief now.
Gong-Shu Jie looked onto the Cold Feather Mountain, and his eyebrows frowned tighter. There, the swirling clouds was in the sky, and the terrifying thunderbolt aura surged through the mountains and wilderness, and even in a great distance he could clearly feel the mighty aura.
"Are you sure, that white wolf personally asked you for the blood of the girl?" Gong-Shu Jie asked seriously.
The village chief nodded his head, "Absolutely! That white wolf personally asked us for girls, otherwise there will be a disaster of exterminating the village, all the villagers know this. I would never dare to lie to you."
After saying that, the village chief looked at the Wuzhu with expectation in his eyes.
But at that moment, a little girl's voice came from outside the village.
"Nonsense! They are talking nonsense!"
This sudden shouting instantly attracted everyone's attention. The villagers looked back and saw a girl running towards the road of the village.
As she ran, Xiao Ai shouted, "Lord Mountain God doesn't eat people! What they say is a lie! They are liars!"
The girl's sudden appearance frightened the villagers and caused them to take several steps back - even before the girl entered the village.
Among the villagers, someone shouted, "She came out of the mountain! She came out from the wolf demon's temple! This demon girl has lured the wolf demon here!"
This terrified shout instantly spread fear among the crowd. The villagers all screamed in terror and retreated one after another.
"The wolf demon is coming! The wolf demon is coming!"
"The wolf demon is coming down the mountain!"
"Help me, Master Wuzhu!"
The villagers fled to the other side of the clay stage and all knelt down in fear, kowtowing to Gong-Shu Jie, crying out and begging.
Gong-Shu Jie watched the girl walk into the village and slowly waved his hand, "No need to panic."
His voice was not loud, but it seemed to have a calming power, and the villagers who were panicking gradually calmed down.
Finally, Xiao Ai slowly walked into the village when she could only hear the wind whistling at the entrance of the village. She faced up to those villagers who was staring at her, as well as the Master Wuzhu on the clay stage.
"You lie! Lord Mountain God does not eat people at all, and I am not a demon!"
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Chapter 17: The Truth
After the girl's voice came out, the people at the entrance of the village all looked at each other.
The strange silence lasted for several seconds. Gong-Shu Jie on the clay stage also did not say a word, just observed the reaction of the villagers.
It was only after several seconds that someone in the crowd shouted in anger.
"You are the minion of that wolf demon, of course you speak for it!"
"Master Wuzhu, this demon girl and the wolf demon are in cahoots, you can see that!"
The villagers shouted bitterly. And with the black-robed Wuzhu at their side, they had some sort of strength.
However, Gong-Shu Jie just watched all this happen and waited until the villagers were quiet before he asked the village chief.
"I ask you, village chief, after that white wolf opened incense in the mountain, besides forcing you to offer incense and sacrifice animals, has there been any other evil deeds? For example, hurting or eating people for no reason?"
"Uh... There are no such acts. " said the old village chief in a small voice, "We also do not dare to offend it. According to its requirements, we should worship its statue in our home, offer incense monthly, and offer three animals on New Year's Day. And even the village hunters did not dare to go near the location of the Mountain God Temple when they go into the forest, so indeed no villagers were eaten by it."
Gong-Shu Jie asked again, "Then when did the rumor about the white wolf eating people appear? It seems to me that everyone is certain that the white wolf will definitely come down and eat people... Did this rumor come about after he asked for the girl?"
"Uh... this..." the old village chief hesitated for a few seconds and seemed to be thinking about how to answer.
Xiao Ai then spoke directly to answer, "The village adults have been saying this for a long time!"
The girl glared at the old village chief on the stage and said loudly, "When I was very young, I already heard the village adults say so. They all said that if children disobeyed, they would be carried away and eaten by the wolf demon in the mountains! They said it a long time ago!"
Gong-Shu Jie looked at the old village chief, "Is that true?"
The old village chief was sweating, but he could only admit it, "Yes, but that is only to coax children. It cannot be taken seriously. Besides, although the wolf demon doesn't eat people, it has forced us to offer incense and satisfy its unreasonable demands. There is no Fire God statue in the whole village, all of them have been forced by the white wolf to be replaced by his own statues!"
One of the most important duties of a Wuzhu was to take charge of incense and offerings of the Fire God.
Now a mountain demon forced the villagers to abolish the worship of the Fire God, which was an intolerable crime for a Wuzhu.
When Gong-Shu Jie heard such a thing, his expression couldn't help but be serious.
However, he did not immediately become furious and then went into the mountain to get rid of the demon as the village chief thought. Instead, a look of inward illumination came into his eyes.
"So that's it?..."
Gong-Shu Jie thought about it and looked at the little girl who was cursed and ostracized by the whole village, and asked, "Little girl, let me ask you, is it true that there is no more statues of the Fire God in this village?"
Xiao Ai hesitated for a moment, and finally could only nod her head stiffly, "Yes, there is indeed no statues of the Lord Fire God in the village."
Only then did Gong-Shu Jie look at the old village chief and asked, "After that white wolf forced you to make offerings, in the past eighty years, has this Shuisheng village ever had a disaster, like a bad famine? Have the beasts in the mountains ever come down to eat the villagers? Is there other demons wreaking havoc and killing people?"
"Uh..." the old village chief thought about it and hesitantly shook his head, "No, since I can remember, the village has indeed not had a disaster. The beasts in the mountains have not come down to eat people, and no demons other than the white wolf have been seen ..."
When he continued saying, the old village chief's voice couldn't help but be lowered.
Gong-Shu Jie nodded, some kind of guess in his heart was verified, "In that case, then the truth is obvious."
"The fact that a small remote mountain village has not had any calamity for eighty years proves that although the white wolf has been taking your incense, it has also performed the duties of the Mountain God and given you shelter."
"As for the rumors of eating people, it was just your speculations, and no one has ever been really eaten by the white wolf. Even the girl it asked you to sacrifice was returned intact."
"If what I expect is correct, this is probably a warning."
Gong-Shu Jie said, "I have actually seen the white wolf in the Cold Feather Mountain. I can tell you all clearly that it is definitely not the mountain demon you perceive, but an incomparably noble beast."
"The wish power you offer is not even a piece of cake for him. And in my contact with him, I can see that he does not want to be the Mountain god, and does not care about the Mountain God position and your wish power."
"With His noble status, He has been guarding this mountain and has been bestowing blessings upon you for eighty years. Is this not noble enough for you? No! You just don't know how to be grateful! You have been slandering him for years and years, damaging his reputation! If he had a bad temper, I'm afraid this Shuisheng village would have been destroyed."
Gong-Shu Jie shook his head and said, "And looking at your attitude, I'm afraid that even your offerings were not heartfelt. Though these offerings can provide wish power for him, there's not enough for it to be useful for him. So with all this, I suspect that the Mountain God asked you to offer the girl for nothing but a warning."
"Otherwise, He has been in the mountain for eighty years and has not eaten anyone every year, why did He suddenly ask you to offer the girl this year? And after you offer the girl, he just let her go back to the village. How can you not see such a simple warning?"
"After the girl returned, not only did you not stop slandering the Mountain God, but intensified it and even tried to ask me to 'subdue the demon'? Do you know what will happen to you if this is known by the Mountain God?"
The more Gong-Shu Jie spoke, the harsher his tone became, making the old village chief to sweat and shiver.
And not only the old village chief was frightened, all the villagers who heard these words were all frightened.
They looked in the direction of Cold Feather Mountain in fear, watching the huge vortex clouds hovering in the sky. The words of Gong-Shu Jie was echoing.
"The white wolf in the Cold Feather Mountain is an incomparably noble beast..."
"If he had a bad temperament, the Shuisheng village would have been destroyed..."
The old village chief with a full head of white hair knelt down directly, and pleaded loudly, "Please Master Wuzhu save our Shuisheng Village!"
As the old village chief knelt down, the villagers responded.
In an instant, all the villagers near the entire clay platform all fell to their knees, loudly begging.
"Please Master Wuzhu save our Shuisheng Village!"
When everyone fell to their knees, the only one who did not kneel down was Xiao Ai standing in front of the clay platform.
Gong-Shu Jie looked at her and asked, "Why aren't you kneeling down and begging me?"
The little girl said in calm, "As you said, if Lord Mountain God really got angry with us, Shuisheng Village would have been destroyed long ago. What's more, if begging was useful, I wouldn't have been sent to the Mountain God Temple in the first place."
Gong-Shu Jie took a deep look and nodded, "No wonder the Mountain God regard you with special views... You are different from these villagers."
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Chapter 18: An Ugly Widow
What surprised Gong-Shu Jie was not that this girl could have the courage to speak so eloquently in front of him, but that when this girl said these words, there was not even the slightest emotion of resentment and hatred toward those villagers.
Generally speaking, being treated in this way, the girl should hate the village people. When she was chosen by the whole village to be sacrificed to the demon in the mountain, she was frightened. After escaping from the mountain, she was isolated and rejected by the whole village, and now everyone was accursing her as a demon girl.
But now, Gong -Shu Jie could not see such emotions on her face. What he saw, instead, was a kind of open-mindedness, as if no matter how the villagers misunderstand her, she did not care.
To be honest, if this kind of aloofness appeared in an old man who had experienced all kinds of things in life, or in a monk who had went through a calamity, Gong-Shu Jie would not be surprised.
But she was just an uneducated girl from the mountains! She couldn't even read or write, yet she could have such a state of mind.
Gong-Shu Jie felt that he understood the reason why the Mountain God cared for her, such an outstanding little girl did make people look at her differently.
If not for the fact that this girl and the Mountain God already had a relationship, Gong-Shu Jie would even consider bringing her back to the Thousand Needles City to teach and train.
Gong Shu Jie sighed in his heart, once again looked at the old village chief kneeling at his feet and said, "Well, you have heard the conversation between me and this girl. If the Mountain God would really bother with you, why would he wait for now? So you guys can get up, no need to kneel to me."
"What's more, with the power of the white wolf God, if he really gets angry and wants to come down from the mountain to punish you, I can't stop him at all. So there is no need to kneel, I can not help you."
Gong-Shu Jie said these words blandly and calmly, but the villagers were scared by his words.
The old village chief was even more frightened, looked once again in the direction of that Cold Feather Mountain, then asked uneasily, "Master WuZhu, is that Lord... Lord Mountain God really so powerful?"
In the villagers' simple view, a Wuzhu of a city was already the top of the world. As long as there was a Wuzhu, any mountain monsters and demons would have to flee in despair.
But now even Master Wuzhu claimed to be no match for the white wolf in the mountain? Could that white wolf really be so terrifying?
The old village chief could not imagine what kind of a demon would be more formidable than Master Wuzhu.
Gong-Shu Jie looked at the old man, and decided to tell the truth so that this group of villagers would not continue to do stupid things to offend the white wolf in the future.
So he nodded and said, "Yes, the white wolf in the mountain is so powerful. If you really provoke him, not to mention me, no one in the entire Fire Pass Country will be able to handle the wrath of the God..."
Speaking of which, Gong-Shu Jie couldn't help but sigh.
He thought carefully about what the villagers had done and began to admire that white wolf's good temper.
It was not surprising that ordinary demons tolerate villagers' slanderous rumors for the sake of collecting wish power, as long as the villagers can provide wish power anyway. But the white wolf clearly did not care about the small village's offerings, nor did it care about the wish power.
In this case, the villagers were allowed to maliciously slander the God behind his back, and it took a full eighty years before he decided to give the villagers a little warning. And after the warning, this group of villagers not only did not repent, they even intensified their slander.
But even so, the white wolf God was not angry.
This cultured temperament was rare even among humans, not to mention the divine beasts.
Now Gong-Shu Jie completely put his mind at ease.
As long as the Fire Pass Country treats him sincerely, this divine beast will not be a scourge.
With such thoughts in mind, Gong-Shu Jie asked the village chief once again, "You said that the reason why the Mountain God opened incense here is a rich merchant's deed 80 years ago? Do you know the name of that rich merchant? Where does his family live?"
This rich merchant may be the reason why the white wolf God was willing to stay here.
With the dignity of a divine beast, there must be a hidden reason about why he was willing to be the Mountain God and shelter a place for 80 years.
If Gong-Shu Jie could find the rich merchant, he may be able to know what really happened eighty years ago, and he could also understand more about this mysterious white wolf God.
But the villagers obviously could not answer this question.
Even the village elders on the stage looked at each other with blank stares, let alone the youngsters and kids.
After all, it was already eighty years ago that a temple was built and a shrine was established for the white wolf.
Now the oldest village elder in the village was only two years old at that time, so even the old village chief knew nothing about this matter.
"About this... we really do not know," said the old village chief awkwardly, "That was long time for me, and now the merchant had already gone to rest in peace. Master Wuzhu, I think it is difficult to find him."
The old village chief's answer was a little disappointing to Gong-Shu Jie. But he also understood that he could only sigh, "That's right, eighty years is too long."
But a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd at that moment.
"I know! I know the name of that rich merchant! Master Wuzhu, I know!"
This voice instantly attracted everyone's attention.
Gong-Shu Jie heard the voice and saw a strong man in the crowd holding up his hand and shouting loudly. The villagers around him, however, hurriedly reached out to pull him and said, "Wang Laoliu! You're talking nonsense again!"
"Yes! Don't you see what kind of occasion this is?"
The villagers were all frightened by this hunter with a big mouth, and tried to pull him and cover his mouth.
Gong-Shu Jie waved his hand and said, "Let go of him and let him talk. Even if he says the wrong thing, there is no harm."
Hearing the Wuzhu's command, the villagers subconsciously looked at the old village chief. And only after seeing the old village chief nod, they silently let go of the strong hunter.
And the hunter named Wang Laoliu said proudly, "a group of dog-eyed guys, when did I lie to you? The rich merchant who built the temple was named Wu Chong-Gu, and he was a native of Fushan. These messages are carved under the altar of the Mountain God, but unfortunately you all can't read and write, so you don't know!"
After Wang Laoliu finished his speech, he looked at the Wuzhu on the clay platform, "Master Wuzhu, what I said is all true. You can go to the Mountain God Temple to check it out, and you will know whether what I said is true or not."
Gong-Shu Jie nodded, looked at him curiously, "Can you read?"
The hunter in front of him was dark-skinned, sturdy and strong, and did not talk like he could read.
Wang Laoliu laughed and said, "I can't read a word. I'm just a rough guy. But there is an ugly widow in our village who can read and write, and I heard from her when she went into the mountain once for a sacrifice."
Gong-Shu Jie was suddenly surprised. In this remote village, it was almost impossible for someone to be literate, let alone a woman.
He asked, "Where is this woman now?"
"She died two years ago, but her daughter is still in the village, here she is," Wang Laoliu said, pointing to Xiao Ai who was not far away.
The Wuzhu was surprised to look at the little girl and saw the lost emotion on the girl's face.
Could This girl's mother read and write?
"Was that woman from your village?" Gong Shu Jie asked again.
This time, all the people shook their heads and spoke in a variety of ways.
"No, that woman is from outside."
"When she was picked up by Ai Changsheng, she later lived in the village ..."
"Two years ago she suffered from lung disease and died ..."
"At a young age..."
The villagers' various words allowed Gong-Shu Jie to roughly sketch the image of a woman in distress.
Since she had been educated, this woman's background would not be bad. Her face had a natural birthmark, and looked very ugly. She was somehow stranded in this remote mountain, nearly froze to death in the snow, and was picked up by a kind-hearted young man from the village, after which she married the young man who saved her and settled down here.
But she died two years ago due to illness, and the young man who saved her life suddenly disappeared three years ago. The couple left behind only a daughter named Xiao Ai, who now lived with her father's older brother and his family.
After understanding these things, Gong-Shu Jie stopped the conversation and asked the old village chief to disperse the villagers gathered at the entrance. In the end, only a few village elders and the village chief's son remained.
The old village chief looked at Master Wuzhu, and asked hesitatingly.
"Master Wuzhu, have you found the devil seed?"
The old village chief had not forgotten about this matter.
Although they were most afraid of the white wolf in the mountain, they were also afraid of the devil seed. The old village chief was really worried that Master Wuzhu had forgotten about the devil seed because of the white wolf God.
Gong-Shu Jie obviously did not forget about it. He looked at the cold feather mountain in the distance and said.
"That devil seed is either hidden very deep and has been integrated into the spirit of the person who is possessed by it. Or I have lost it and it is not here at all."
"In short, I will stay here for a while. I will not leave until I confirm that the devil seed is not here, so you do not need to worry."
"The most important thing you should remember is that you should not slander the Mountain God in the future. The wolf God is broad-minded and does not bother with you, but you cannot insult him."
Gong-Shu Jie's words were so severe that the elders nodded their heads, "We understand, we understand."
Only then did Gong-Shu Jie nodded in satisfaction and walked towards the outside of the village, "All right, you guys can disperse and do what you need to do."
After saying that, Gong-Shu Jie disappeared from the sight of the villagers, and did not give the villagers a chance to get close.
The remaining villagers looked at each other. Someone asked, "What should we do next ..."
The old village chief stomped the walking stick in his hand and had a serious expression, "Naturally, we should listen to the Master Wuzhu! Forbid the villagers from slandering Lord Mountain God again."
"In addition, the Double Ninth Festival is coming up, and we must prepare seriously for this harvest festival. We absolutely can't muddle through like before."
"Since Lord Mountain God is not a demon, we should make offerings sincerely. Go back and tell everyone that from today on, every family should offer incense to Lord Mountain God every day!"
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Chapter 19: Good News
In the days after that, Gong-Shu Jie stayed near Shuisheng Village to pursue the devil seed.
He did not stay in the village, nor did he contact the villagers.
During the day, he roamed outside the village and in the mountain, walking with his feet over every inch of land and looking for every place where there might be a residue of demonic energy. At night, he found a clean place to sit down and closed his eyes to rest. As a Wuzhu, he did not need to eat or drink.
As for the ugly widow who died two years ago, he was curious but couldn't find more information. The Fire Pass country believed in the Fire God, and people would be cremated after death and their ashes were scattered into the rivers.
In addition to knowing that the ugly widow's surname was Mu, it was impossible to ask for more useful information.
He also visited the Mountain God Temple twice, indeed, under the altar of the God he saw the inscription left behind when the temple was built.
However, he failed to see the white wolf again on both visits. The divine beast still seemed to be in cultivation, and only the huge vortex cloud above Cold Feather Mountain was slowly circling and seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.
The villagers were busy, as the Double Ninth Festival was approaching, a time of harvest.
They not only had to harvest the crops in the fields, but also needed to prepare offerings for the Mountain God. The village chief ordered that this year's sacrifice could not be as casual as previous years, but needed to be more sincere, so the villagers were much busier than previous years.
And Gong-Shu Jie's stay time in this place had almost reached the limit.
As the city Wuzhu, in charge of the Fire God sacrifice, he must rush back to Thousand Needles City to preside over this year's harvest sacrifice in such a major festival.
As for the devil seed, during these days, Gong-Shu Jie had confirmed that the devil seed was not here. The reason why he still stayed was because he wanted to see Lu Heng before he left.
However, the Cold Feather Mountain was always calm, and the wolf God did not come out, so Gong-Shu Jie could only sigh at this.
On the fifth day of September, a flock of birds suddenly took flight in the Cold Feather Mountain and a long wolf howl came from afar. In the sky, vortex clouds surged, although no heavenly thunder struck down. It seemed that even the clouds in the sky were rejoicing at Lu Heng's appearance.
"Hoo... Finally."
After emerging from the ground, Lu Heng once again returned to the surface. The feeling of having his feet on the ground made him feel happy.
However, after he stepped on the earth, Lu Heng suddenly noticed a strange thing.
"Hmm? Why has the wish power within this Mountain God Temple suddenly increased?"
Lu Heng who perceived this was surprised.
When he repaired the demon body before, the wish power that the original wolf demon had accumulated for eighty years was almost all consumed by him. The remaining wish power was all given to the girl named Xiao Ai.
In theory, there should be no more wish power in the Mountain God Temple.
The original wolf demon asked the villagers to offer incense to the clay statue of the wolf demon at home every twelve days. Now, it was not yet time for the next incense offering, there should be no incense in the Mountain God Temple.
But after Lu Heng sensed it a little, he found that the quantity of the incense accumulated in the Mountain God Temple was even quite a lot! It was almost as much as the amount collected by the wolf demon in the past six months.
Lu Heng was a bit confused, and after sensing carefully, he found that all these incense came from the Shuisheng Village under the mountain.
He was even more stunned.
What's wrong with this group of villagers? Why did they suddenly become so devoted?
Back then, the original wolf demon forced and enticed them with various means, and even used the power of the Mountain God to guarantee the harvest of Shuisheng Village, but he could only get a little incense.
Now he Lu Heng did not do anything, how did the villagers suddenly become devout? Could it be that the village had some kind of disaster so this group of villagers wanted to ask for Lu Heng's blessing?
Lu Heng checked these incense wishes, and found that these incense wishes did not contain that strong wish of pleading. That means the villagers were simply making offerings to him.
Lu Heng thought carefully and felt that this matter was probably related to the Wuzhu, Gong-Shu Jie.
When he was cultivating underground, Lu Heng also felt that Gong-Shu Jie entered the mountain twice. Lu Heng did not want to meet him again because he was not as powerful as Gong-Shu Jie thought, so he did not show up.
Now five days have passed by and the Double Ninth Festival was coming up, Lu Heng thought he would go back to his city. In this world, the Double Ninth Festival was a major festival and it was almost as important as the New Year's Spring Festival.
However, Lu Heng suddenly felt a burning aura coming from outside the mountain and was rapidly approaching the place.
Immediately after that, Gong-Shu Jie's clear voice echoed in the mountain.
"Greetings to you, Mountain God."
Not long after, a black-robed figure came from outside the mountain on the wind and landed in front of the Mountain God Temple. With a smile on his face, the Wuzhu bowed his head.
"..."
The huge white wolf looked at him speechlessly, and was silent for half a second before saying slowly, "Hasn't Wuzhu Gong-Shu returned to Thousand Needles City yet? The Double Ninth Festival is coming."
Gong-Shu Jie smiled and said, "In fact, I am going to go back today, but I didn't expect to meet Mountain God before I left. It seems that my destiny with Mountain God is not yet finished."
Lu Heng looked at him and asked, "How many days does it take to travel from this place to Thousand Needles City?"
"Six days," said Gong Shu Jie as he stood up straight, "But if you travel day and night on the wind, you can arrive in three days."
...Well, you are really persistent.
Lu Heng helplessly shook his head and said, "Did you find that devil seed?"
"The devil seed has not yet been found, but I have checked inside and outside the village and confirmed that the devil seed is not here," said Gong-Shu Jie, "But the devil seed is tricky and unpredictable, perhaps there is some kind of secret technique that I do not know of. If Mountain God has any time, you can also pay attention to it."
"OK, I will pay attention to it," Lu Heng looked at Gong-Shu Jie, "My temple is small and poor, and there is neither tea nor tables, chairs and benches... Oh, I have a group of monkeys that can make fruit wine. If you don't mind, I can ask them to bring the wine."
Gong-Shu Jie smiled, "I have also heard of the name of fruit wine, but have never tasted it. Now I'm lucky to have the chance."
"Good, then let's leave this place."
Lu Heng gently tapped the ground with his front paw and used the Mountain God's power to transmit the order to the monkeys in the mountain. Then he turned around and walked towards the main peak behind the Mountain God Temple.
Lu Heng took one step, shrinking the ground into an inch, and then he and Gong-Shu Jie appeared in the forest. With another step, the surrounding scenery changed again, and one man and one wolf were already standing at the top of the main peak of Cold Feather Mountain.
Lu Heng stood on top of the mountain, overlooking the mountains and rivers beneath his feet, and said, "Although there are no tables and chairs, the view is wide, so you can overlook the Cold Feather Mountain and see the village at a glance. Please wait for a moment, and the fruit wine will be offered."
Gong-Shu Jie stood at the top of the mountain. His feet stepped on the stones, and the mountain breeze blew on his face. He smiled, "Great."
He sat on the ground and looked at the huge white wolf in front of him, feeling that this divine beast was indeed divine and extraordinary, significantly different from those fierce and brutal beasts in the legends.
It might be a very good thing to have this divine beast in the Fire Pass Country.
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Chapter 20: Master of Heavenly Thunder
The huge vortex cloud was still suspended in the sky, slowly rotating.
Within the vortex cloud, there were flashes of lightning from time to time. But there was no real heavenly thunder falling, and it seemed to be just ordinary rain clouds.
Under this thunderstorm, even Gong-Shu Jie also felt a little pressure. If the white wolf was an ordinary demon, it would have been scared to the bone and unable to move.
Thinking of this, he could not help but sigh, once again looking at the forest and river beneath his feet.
The Cold Feather Mountain was remote and inaccessible, except for the Shuisheng villagers outside the mountain, there was no one around. The mountain range was also ordinary, and it was not a famous mountain.
But with the existence of the white wolf as a Mountain God, this small Cold Feather Mountain instantly became extraordinary.
This time, Gong-Shu Jie simply wanted to make friends with this ancient divine beast, so he was no longer under pressure and his mind was also much calmer.
He sat at the top of the mountain, talking with the white wolf beside him and chatting about some interesting things within the Fire Pass Country. He also talked about some calamities he had experienced in the past. The atmosphere between them was very cordial.
Soon, the monkeys brought in the fruit wine they had brewed.
It was only two bottle gourds, so Lu Heng and Gong-Shu Jie shared one each.
"The monkeys under you are smarter than ordinary monkeys," Gong-Shu Jie said, drinking a mouthful of fruit wine, "This wine is really delicious."
In front of him, the huge white wolf gently tapped the gourd with its front paw, and the stopper of the gourd opened automatically, then some wine flew out from the gourd and entered the white wolf's mouth.
Lu Heng nodded and said, "It does taste good."
Lu Heng was not good at drinking wine, but this wine brewed from a lot of fruits was different from ordinary liquor, and the fragrance of the fruit overpowered the spiciness of the alcohol. There was a slight sweetness after drinking, even Lu Heng, who did not like to drink, found it good.
And the scene of using the thunder power to control the wine made Gong-Shu Jie's eyes bright.
Using ordinary magic power to control things was not something to be surprised about. What surprised Gong-Shu Jie was that the power Lu Heng used was the thunder power.
This means that the foundation of cultivation within this white wolf was not magic power at all! He could not only control thunder and lightning, but was also controlling the power of heavenly thunder!
This ancient divine beast was really extraordinary.
Gong Shu Jie's heart was shocked, only feeling that he had opened his eyes today. In the past, he had only heard the stories about legendary beasts, but today he looked at it firsthand.
To control thunder and lightning was already very powerful, but filling it with the power of heavenly thunder means that the foundation of his Dao was thunder. In essence, compared to Lu Heng, those who refined earth aura into magic power like Gong-Shu Jie did were not at the same level at all.
Gong-Shu Jie sighed, "The power of heavenly thunder is really formidable! This Cold Feather Mountain is going to become a forbidden area for those that are evil. If these vortex clouds do not disperse, no demon would dare to approach without permission... The only pity is that the vortex clouds obscure the sunlight, making the mountain seem a bit gloomy."
Gong Shu Jie's words showed a subconscious emotion after he saw that.
However, he regretted saying it, realizing that his words were inappropriate.
Why can't he control his own mouth!
But Lu Heng was not angry, nor did he feel offended. He tilted his head to look at the huge vortex cloud spinning overhead, and looked at the mountain with dull sky light under the cloud, and nodded his head.
"Indeed, these clouds are obscuring the sky too much. With a guest here, it's impolite of me to let the black clouds overwhelm the view... Please wait for a moment, Wuzhu."
After saying that, Lu Heng slightly closed his eyes and sank his mind to sense. As the thunder power in Lu Heng's body surged, the huge vortex clouds spinning in the sky seemed to be affected as well. Immediately after, the pitch-black clouds rotated and surged continuously, and among the clouds, lightning flashed.
Finally, in the middle of the spiral clouds, the black clouds slowly dispersed, revealing a gap and showing the turquoise sky above the cloud. Along the center of this gap bright sunshine came in, falling just on the peak of the cold feather mountain, and then falling on Lu Heng and Gong-Shu Jie.
The main peak of Cold Feather Mountain, which was originally gloomy, instantly became bright and sunny.
Only then did Lu Heng open his eyes and said with a smile, "So, that's the way to treat a guest."
The golden sunlight at noon fell on the white wolf's body, as if every hair was shimmering and glowing.
This divine and incomparable image made Gong-Shu Jie dumbfounded, and his heart was shocked beyond words.
The "magic power" in the white wolf's body was already very terrifying, completely breaking his perception of cultivation. But now it seemed that this white wolf can even control the thunder cloud?
It means that as long as Lu Heng was willing, he could gather thunder clouds and send down heavenly thunder anytime and anywhere?
This is not just a mere wielder of thunder! This is a Lord of Thunder!
Gong-Shu Jie was inwardly shocked and felt a little frightened.
The thunder clouds had overawed people and demons since ancient times. Regardless of the righteous or evil, demons or monsters, even the birth of treasures may lead to the appearance of thunder clouds. The fear of the thunder clouds was deep in the heart of sentient beings under heaven and earth.
Not to mention the evil people or demons, even virtuous people also had a risk of being struck by the heavenly thunder.
So from ancient times to the present, countless knowledgeable people had tried to study the nature of the thunder clouds and heavenly thunder. But all the evidence pointed to the same truth, that is, there was no specific creature that can control it - this was common sense.
But today, this common sense was broken.
Gong-Shu Jie looked at the white wolf God in awe and shock, and had a terrifying guess in his mind.
In the past, he had never heard of anyone who could control lightning, let alone that the foundation of someone's body was the thunder power. And among those ancient divine beasts in the legends, it seemed that none of them were a white wolf in shape and can control thunder clouds...
This white wolf maybe...
Thinking of this possibility, Gong-Shu Jie could not help but sweat on his palms and feel frightened inside.
Maybe it is not just a divine beast...
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Chapter 21: A Saint Wolf
Gong-Shu Jie's heart was in awe because of his conjecture.
But now, he dared not to ask, for fear that he might say the wrong words again. He could only try hard to stay calm and talk about some inoffensive anecdotes.
At least, the white wolf God was easy-going. Even if he was really that kind of existence, there was no need to be too nervous.
Gong-Shu Jie gradually calmed down as he and Lu Heng had a cordial conversation.
However, during the conversation, Gong-Shu Jie found that the white wolf God really did not know much about the mortal world and could be said to have no common sense.
For example, Lu Heng asked a question that made Gong-Shu Jie unable to answer.
"Wuzhu Gong-Shu, I wonder if there are any immortal cultivation sects within this Fire Pass Country?" Lu Heng asked.
This was something Lu Heng had long wanted to know about. Since there were demons in this world, then there must be a variety of immortal cultivation sects as well. Lu Heng wanted to know what those immortal cultivation sects thought about demons like him, as well as the strength level and distribution of these immortal cultivation sects, so as to prevent accidentally offending a powerful sect when he went down to the world in the future.
After all, the wolf demon was only a small demon in the remote mountains and knew very little about the outside world, so it was almost impossible for Lu Heng to understand the world he was in. The specific details of this world would have to be explored by Lu Heng himself after all.
However, after he asked this question, Gong-Shu Jie was confused.
"Immortal cultivation sects?" Gong-Shu Jie hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "What is this?"
This answer from the black-robed Wuzhu made Lu Heng pause for a moment.
Could it be that there are no immortal cultivation sects in this world? Or no immortal cultivators? Or is it that the immortal cultivators in this world are not called that?
After thinking about it, he said, "Immortals are beyond death, and not involved in the mortal world. Neither do they receive incense, nor have the great calamity in their life. They are out of heaven and earth, and do not belong to the five elements. They are touring the world, free and carefree."
"And immortal cultivators are people who pursue to become Immortals for their whole life. Immortal cultivation sects are collective organizations that inherit the cultivation method and guide those people with natural talent to enter the cultivation path and pursue the state of real free and true immortality. They usually rely on the cave heaven, or rely on the famous mountains and rivers, to establish a sect. They also subdue the demons and maintain the order of the world ... This is the immortal cultivation sect."
Lu Heng explained as much as he could, but after listening to it, Gong-Shu Jie sighed repeatedly.
"So there were such sects that existed in the ancient times... Unfortunately, no such sects exist in this world today."
"Although in addition to the divine path, there are many schools of inheritance in the earthly world that cultivate the body and train the mind, but most of them have lost their original forms, and none of them can reach the level that can be described as Immortals."
"If such sects really exist in the world, and if they can subdue demons and help maintain order in the world, perhaps my righteous path will be able to flourish."
Gong-Shu Jie's emotion came from the bottom of his heart.
But Lu Heng was a little disappointed. In this world, is it true that there are no immortal cultivation sects? Not even immortal cultivators?
After continuing to talk with Gong-Shu Jie, Lu Heng learned that, even the concept of [Immortal] does not exist. Although cultivation can achieve long life, but not immortality. The soul would return to earth when the life was over.
As for the concept of heaven and hell and so on, it was completely absent.
If a person died, except for the resentful ghosts, all souls would return to earth and cease to exist.
There is no reincarnation, no concept of the immortal world. Even what kind of existence is the Fire God worshiped in the Fire Pass country, it was difficult for Gong-Shu Jie to explain. He only knew that it was an existence far above the mundane, sheltering the Fire Pass nation, a deity that will truly shelter one side.
The order of this world was more chaotic than he imagined.
The one in charge of maintaining order in the earthly world was the Wuzhu of each city. After Gong-Shu Jie knew that Lu Heng had the intention to go down the mountain and enter the world, he gave Lu Heng a fire talisman, saying that with this fire talisman, he could travel unhindered in the Fire Pass country.
The conversation between one man and one wolf lasted for more than two hours, and each of them felt that they had gained a lot.
Lu Heng did not talk too deeply about the way of cultivation. After all, he was only a small demon, so he would not make a fool of himself in front of a city Wuzhu like Gong-Shu Jie.
However, some topics that Lu Heng said casually shocked this Wuzhu completely.
After all, Lu Heng once lived in the era of information explosion. In his previous life, the amount of information he received in a day was more than some ancient people had experienced in their entire lives.
Although Gong-Shu Jie as a Wuzhu was also considered to have experienced a lot, he was still shocked.
He found that the white wolf God was like a moving treasure trove of knowledge!
Although he did not know much about common sense in this world, he talked about more profound issues. Whether it was astronomy or geography, or the human history, or the way of order, this white wolf God knew a lot.
His remarks were often thought-provoking and contained valuable philosophies. He usually talked concise and straight to the core of the problem at the same time.
If Gong-Shu Jie was once in awe and fear of Lu Heng, now he completely admired him.
He was even more convinced that this white wolf God was not an ancient divine beast.
Because the legendary divine beasts were simply powerful, they were not so bright.
This white wolf God in the cold feather mountain was completely different, not only could he control the heavenly thunder, his wisdom was also excellent. Just about the words he said today, if it was spread, it would shock the world. His heavy knowledge and profound speech could compare to a first-class saint in ancient times.
Before leaving, Gong-Shu Jie bowed deeply, no longer having any fear for the divine beast in his heart. This salute was his admiration for Lu Heng as well as his gratitude for the preaching of the God.
In just two hours of conversation, though they did not discuss much, Gong-Shu Jie had a lot of insights. To him, the opportunity to sit and discuss with such a saint was unattainable.
He was thoroughly convinced that the white wolf God in this Cold Feather Mountain would not be a calamity of the Fire Pass Kingdom.
A saint with such remarkable insight and knowledge was definitely not some evil creature who relied on his natural abilities to show off his viciousness. He could also probably understand why the villagers under the mountain were so disrespectful to the wolf God and the wolf God never reacted.
It was not that wolf God was mild, but for a saint like him, his eyes were focused on the world. And what he saw was the beings in the whole world, so he would not limit it to one city or one place.
The foolish villagers were probably only one of the thousand sentient beings to Him.
If all that he saw was heaven and earth, how could he be angry at the sound of small insects and birds?
The wolf's state of mind had transcended to a realm beyond Gong-Shu Jie's reach.
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Chapter 22: The Double Ninth Festival (Part 1)
"Lord Mountain God, I have gained a lot today. Please accept my gratitude."
Before leaving, Gong-Shu Jie made a deep bow towards the white wolf in front of him as a sign of respect.
Lu Heng stood at the top of the mountain, and watched Wuzhu departing with the wind. He was somewhat speechless.
The conversation between the man and a wolf could originally be considered as ordinary small talk, which was about some anecdotes and folklore. But when they inadvertently talked about the situation of Thousand Needles City, Gong-Shu Jie asked Lu Heng for advice.
For Lu Heng, he did not know the livelihood of this world, but when he listened to some clan problems and management disputes that Gong-Shu Jie casually complained about, he felt that the administrative way of this Fire Pass Country was too primitive and rough. Although Lu Heng had never managed a country or a city, he had at least seen the process of human beings moving from the ancient slave society to the modern society step by step in history books.
So, according to his memory, Lu Heng talked with Gong-Shu Jie about those historical stories.
At first, it was just a casual talk between two friends. Lu Heng also did not propose any detailed method of governance. After all, he was not good at management, so he was really just simply telling stories.
But unexpectedly, Gong-Shu Jie listened more and more seriously, and then asked similar questions.
At that time, Lu Heng felt that something was wrong. After telling several historical stories, Lu Heng intended to digress from such topics, but Gong-Shu Jie had to leave because it was already late.
Looking at Gong-Shu Jie's eager face before his leaving, Lu Heng's heart was a little apprehensive.
I just told you some historical stories, what are you planning to do?
Will this guy attract trouble when he returns to Thousand Needles City?
Lu Heng was a bit speechless, because he did not know what Gong-Shu Jie would do. Just intuition told him that after Gong-Shu Jie went back, someone was going to be in trouble.
Either Gong-Shu Jie himself, or those old clans that Gong-Shu Jie complained about...
...Never mind, this matter has nothing to do with me.
Lu Heng stood atop Cold Feather Mountain, watching as Gong-Shu Jie disappeared into the horizon, and heaved a long sigh.
Lu Heng looked at the vortex clouds in the sky. Since the guest left, then the gap in the center of the clouds was not necessary. With Lu Heng's mind, the power of heavenly thunder in his body surged, and then silently connected with the vortex clouds in the sky. The black clouds slowly rotated and surged, and soon returned to its original shape again.
The huge clouds shrouded the entire Cold Feather Mountain above and lightning flashed. Clearly outside the mountain was a sunny day, but the sky here was dark, depressing, and gloomy.
Lu Heng directly leaped down from the top of the mountain, and his huge wolf body fell hundreds of meters in height and landed on the land in front of the Mountain God Temple. Then he connected with the clouds, attracting lightning to strike down.
Deafening thunder booms rang out again in the mountain.
A series of heavenly thunderbolts fell on Lu Heng's body. In front of the Mountain God Temple, there was a flash of thunder and lightning.
In this flashing lightning light, it seemed that even the color of the ground has become darker.
This time, Lu Heng did not attract too much thunder, because in a short while it would be the Double Ninth Festival, and he did not want to miss this Festival.
In the memory of the original wolf demon, on the Double Ninth Festival, the villagers would offer three animal sacrifices. The three animal sacrifices were not only beneficial to cultivation, but also tasted delicious.
Lu Heng did not care about the benefits of cultivation, after all, now his cultivation is based on the thunder power and three animal sacrifices would not help him. But he wanted delicious foods.
In the last six months, his only food was the fresh fish in the river. And because there was no cooking conditions, he just swallowed them in one gulp.
Lu Heng had been looking forward to the delicious and unusual three animal sacrifices in the wolf demon's memory for a long time.
After receiving the lightning strike, Lu Heng didn't delay and dived into the ground to continue his cultivation. In order to be able to transform successfully as soon as possible, Lu Heng did not dare to be lazy.
In the past six months, he repeated the process of attracting thunder and absorbing it.
Although the cultivation time was not long, there were no bottlenecks in thunderbolt cultivation. Therefore, Lu Heng's cultivation speed could be said to be flying compared to other demon cultivators.
It would take a long time to surpass the original wolf demon's two hundred years of cultivation, but Lu Heng's future is bright and far-reaching.
The Shuisheng Villagers outside the mountain, on the other hand, were now bustling with activity.
At the time of harvest, every household was busy. Villagers, both men and women, gathered in the fields outside the village to harvest the ears of rice.
It was a busy and tiring process. The weather was still hot, so it was necessary to get up early and reap the ears of rice before the noon sun rose.
At noon, people can rest for a while because of the scorching sun. And after working all morning, they also needed to rest.
In the afternoon, when the sun was not so hot, the villagers, who had been refreshed, went to the fields again and continued harvesting.
Bundle after bundle of the ear of rice was threshed, and the white, clean ear of rice mixed with the fragments of rice was carried away, while the threshed rice stalks were piled up in bundles in the middle of the fields. Some of these stalks were taken by the villagers to their homes to start fires, while the rest were left in the fields to fertilize them.
This simple and mechanical process would take several days.
When the harvest was over, most of the young and strong people in the village were exhausted. But after seeing the white rice grains at home, their faces were full of smiles. For the villagers in the remote mountainous area, it was the happiest thing in life to harvest a full barn of rice after a busy year.
The only group in the village that did not participate in the harvest process were the village elders. Most of them were old, and it was difficult for them to catch up with the young people. On the other side, the preparation of the ritual was often the elders' responsibility.
The ritual work used to be quite easy in the past, but this year was stressful for the old people. Realizing the high status of the Mountain God, the villagers dared not take the ritual lightly.
The warning from the Master Wuzhu still seemed to be echoing in their ears, and coupled with the strict order from the old village chief, this year's harvest festival was the most solemn one in the whole Shuisheng village for decades.
And with such tight preparations, the Double Ninth Festival has finally come.
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Chapter 23: The Double Ninth Festival (Part 2)
The Double Ninth Festival was very important in this world.
In Lu Heng's previous life, due to the change of times, people were not so interested in traditional festivals.
However, in this world, no one dared to ignore the Double Ninth Festival.
This festival was related to harvest and sacrifice. Every year, the most solemn and grand rituals were held on the day of the Double Ninth Festival.
This world had the Spring Festival, too. Usually, the Spring Festival was a festival for people themselves, a festival of family reunion and celebration of the New Year.
On the other hand, the Double Ninth Festival was for the God they worshiped. People needed to pay sacrifices and praise to the God. The villagers could afford not celebrating the Spring Festival, but never dared to ignore celebrating the Double Ninth Festival.
Even so, after the busy preparation, people felt very happy about the festival.
Lu Heng just collected some sacrifices and took some incense. He did not contact those villagers.
He stood on the main peak of Cold Feather Mountain, looking out at the busy group of villagers, and did not show up.
Very early this morning, before the sun came out, the villagers of Shuisheng Village had already went into the Cold Feather Mountain and came to the river bank at the foot of the main peak.
Every year on the Double Ninth Festival, these villagers would carry all kinds of food, cooking tools, and ritual supplies to bring to the river bank.
This river flew through Shuisheng Village and Cold Feather Mountain and disappeared at the other end of the Cold Feather Mountain. It went around the mountain and formed a river bay at the foot of the main peak, where there are a lot of plants and fishes.
The villagers started the stoke and light the fire at the river bay. They had to start cooking all kinds of food they brought, including chickens, goats, vegetables and fruits. So to speak, they were very busy.
In addition to the three sacrificial offerings prepared for Lu Heng, the villagers had to prepare meals for themselves. On the Double Ninth Festival, they would stay at this river bay for a whole day until the sun sat in the west, and the stars and moon were high in the sky, and they would leave after nightfall.
In the tradition of the villagers, this was a ritual for the God. They were also singing and dancing at the foot of the mountain, praying to the God for good weather and rain in the coming year.
The original wolf demon found the villagers' program interesting and would hide in the mountain to watch.
However, Lu Heng thought that the sadness and happiness of humans and demons were not similar, so Lu Heng only felt that these villagers were so noisy.
And as a spectator, Lu Heng found that the number of villagers in Shuisheng Village were more than he thought.
In Lu Heng's world, ordinary villages usually only had a dozen or twenty families. However, the villagers here were roughly estimated to be four to five hundred people.
In the memory of the wolf demon, Lu Heng knew that this world was rampant with demons and fierce beasts. Most of the human settlements were large in number, because there were more people to fight against the fierce beasts.
When the young and strong people of Shuisheng Village went into the mountain before, there were dozens of them, so Lu Heng knew that the villagers were quite a few. But now after he saw the whole village, he realized that the number was much bigger.
If it was in Lu Heng's original world, a small remote village would definitely be unable to feed such a large population. But this world wasn't quite the same, with the blessing of a God, the crops in the land would always have a good harvest.
In addition to the abundance of fruits, vegetables and animals in the mountain, as long as the village hunters could hunt one or two fierce beasts, they could provide food for the whole village.
In such an environment where there was no shortage of food, a small Shuisheng village could support so many people. And as for the big cities and towns outside the mountain, there would be more humans and monsters.
Thinking of this, the desire to travel the world was becoming even bigger.
He was eager to see the customs that he was completely unfamiliar with, and how they differed from his original world.
But with his current cultivation progress, it would take several years... Lu Heng sighed.
At noon, the villagers finally had prepared the offerings. And under the leadership of the old village chief and a group of clan elders, the villagers sent the offerings to the Mountain God Temple.
However, the person who walked to the front and led the way was unexpected by Lu Heng. The leader was not the elderly village chief, but the girl called Xiao Ai.
Under Lu Heng's gaze, the little girl coldly walked in front of the team. Although she was not wearing the original big red wedding dress, the cloths she wore now was far better than the clothes of the villagers behind her. It was a dress that the villagers specially prepared for the ritual.
Leading the villagers to the Mountain God Temple, Xiao Ai took the place of the village chief and presided over the ritual. According to the tradition, this should be considered a big honor, but Lu Heng could not see the slightest elation on the girl's face.
So Lu Heng began to be curious about Xiao Ai.
But he did not appear in front of people. The villagers acted in accordance with the established process of sacrifice and worship, then they silently left.
When everyone had left, Lu Heng then came out of the Mountain God Temple.
He came to the offering table and looked at the sumptuous offerings. He could not help but sigh.
This year's offerings were much richer than previous years. However, in terms of the duties of the Mountain God, the original wolf demon was many times more attentive than Lu Heng. But they were treated differently.
Lu Heng even had some sympathy for that wolf demon.
From another perspective, it was no wonder that the wolf demon's mood was bad after guarding this place for eighty years and eventually set out on an evil path. This simple-minded demon was still too stupid, in addition to coercion, it did not think of using other means to induce the villagers to believe in it.
Finally, it became a tragedy.
...But all of this had nothing to do with Lu Heng.
Walking to the offering table, Lu Heng took a deep breath, only to see some white mist wafting out from the offerings and being inhaled by Lu Heng into his belly.
At this moment, Lu Heng finally felt the long-lost food delicious.
Lu Heng did not need to taste the offerings by eating them. This kind of offerings were poured in with the villagers' faith and sacrifice. He only needed to inhale the sacrificial beliefs in the offerings into his belly, and they tasted better than if you actually ate them.
After Lu Heng finished this, the tributes' inner essence on the table had completely disappeared although they looked intact.
After enjoying the offerings, Lu Heng went back to the ground. Although these offerings only took a breath, their fresh taste could last for a long time, and it was equivalent to eating a delicious meal all the time for several hours.
This was a delicious meal that only came once a year, and its taste was better than all the delicacies Lu Heng had eaten in his last life. Lu Heng had to enjoy it to the fullest.
It was not until after dark that Lu Heng, who had finished enjoying the feast, emerged from the ground.
At this time, the offering table in front of the Mountain God Temple had been removed. Once again the Mountain God Temple returned to the usual quiet.
But the bay at the foot of the mountain was bustling as the villagers gathered after harvesting the rice and getting a good year's harvest.
They were laughing, singing and dancing. The men clashed their porcelain bowls and drank the brewed rice wine. The women gathered at the side, laughing and discussing some jokes. The light of the bonfire shone brightly at the river bay, and the children were harmonious and lovely and played some games.
Looking at this scene, Lu Heng knew that these villagers were about to leave.
When the day's rituals were over, the dishes and tables were packed up. Now the villagers' laughter was the last remnant of this Double Ninth Festival.
Such playfulness continued for another half hour or so, with the village elders' order, all the people in the village would gather together and bow down together in the direction of the Mountain God Temple to pray for blessings in the coming year.
Lu Heng hid in the forests and looked at the smiles on the faces of the villagers by the bonfire from afar. A different feeling rose in his heart.
Although the villagers were ignorant and short-sighted, they were also simple, unpretentious and optimistic. Their happiness was so simple that Lu Heng was even a little envious of them.
Thinking of this, Lu Heng was bewildered for a long time before coming back to his senses at the sound of a child's cry.
"Oooooooh... My nose! My nose!"
Lu Heng followed the sound and saw a five or six-year-old boy. He was lying on the ground, covering his bleeding nose and howling. Probably he fell down while running in the dark.
The boy's mother soon came over and helped the boy to stop the bleeding. After that, she used a branch picked up by the river to whip the boy's buttocks.
"Let me see you run around! Let me see you run around!" The boy's mother scolded and beat him painfully.
The little boy, on the other hand, cried out while tilting his head to stop the bleeding.
"Oh... I will not do that again, mother! I won't..."
That bawling made the adults around the campfire all laugh.
In the night wind, Lu Heng who saw this scene also made a smile.
This joyful scene made him smile, but at the same time made him have some emotion.
Unknowingly, he had come to this world for half a year, and had gradually gotten used to this boring life of cultivation in the mountain. He did not know about his friends and family in his original world.
In this strange world, he could no longer contact his friends and family. The only thing he could do was hope they could find true happiness in his heart.
From a point of view, whether the villagers in this mountain, or his friends and family in his previous life, or Lu Heng himself, they were all just simple and ordinary dust in the whole world.
What people can do is to be themselves.
Thinking of this, Lu Heng let out a low laugh and turned around to walk into the mountain.
After coming to this world, he had been cultivating and had never experienced the feeling of sleep.
Perhaps this night, he could put aside his cultivation and have a good sleep, reminiscing about the feeling of being a mortal once.
Perhaps, he could have a good dream.
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Chapter 24: Under The Moonlight
Under the moonlight, the figure of the white wolf lost in the mountain.
Leaving the hustle and bustle of the river bay, Lu Heng planned to return to the quiet mountain and find a place to sleep and enjoy the pleasure of mortals - this was Lu Heng's original intention.
However, after walking a short distance towards the mountain, Lu Heng suddenly perceived a familiar aura, which made him stop.
Lu Heng was a little surprised.
At this time, why did this little girl not reunite with her relatives down by the river bay?
Lu Heng put aside his intention to enter the mountain and walked in that direction.
Not long after, Lu Heng came out of the forest.
What appeared in his view was a huge mountain rock that rose towards the sky. When standing here, he could overlook the scenes at the river bay. But on the river bay side, people were unable to see this place because of the dense trees below. It could be said to be a good place with an open view.
Now, the girl named Ai was sitting quietly with her hands on her knees, alone on the edge of a boulder, staring at the bustle of the river bay below.
This dark and silent forest and the distant noisy river bay was forming a stark contrast. Some kind of silent darkness in the little girl's heart seemed to show more loneliness.
Lu Heng came out of the darkness and asked, "Why are you hiding out here alone? Why not go down to reunite with your family?"
The voice that suddenly rang out scared the little girl.
But when she turned to stand up and saw the huge white wolf behind her, the fear disappeared.
Xiao Ai stood there rashly and kneaded the corners of her skirt.
"Lord Mountain God, you ... Why are you here?" In the girl's voice, there seemed to be some surprise.
Today, when facing Lu Heng, Xiao Ai was no longer afraid, but on the contrary, she was happy.
Lu Heng noticed this change in mood, he asked, "When you hide alone in the mountain, are you not afraid of being carried away by beasts? There are a lot of beasts in this mountain."
The little girl said, "With the Mountain God sign given by you, Lord Mountain God, the beasts in the mountain will not attack me."
Lu Heng laughed, "I forgot about that..."
Looking at the little girl, Lu Heng once again thought of the sacrifice at noon.
At that time Xiao Ai was pushed out by the villagers, wearing the ritual dress that did not match her age. She wrinkled her small face and arranged for the crowd to do things according to the steps of the ceremony. There was a kind of calm on her face, just like a small adult, but that was not cute.
On the contrary, now this little girl who was a bit rushed but in a cheerful mood, was more in line with Lu Heng's memory.
Lu Heng stood beside the girl, looking at the river bay with her and said, "At noon today, I saw that the sacrifice ceremony was conducted by you. Because of me, everyone in the village is very afraid of you now, right?"
Lu Heng's words made the little girl hesitate.
Lu Heng then spoke lightly, "Just say what you want to say, I don't like to hear false pretenses."
Xiao Ai nodded her head hastily and said, "I know, and I don't dare to hide anything. Ever since Lord Mountain God let me go back and said the words of care in front of the village chief, everyone in the village has rejected me a little."
"It's just that they are afraid in their hearts, so they don't even dare to show their rejection too obviously."
"But that was before, ever since Master Wuzhu made everyone understand the greatness and honor of Lord Mountain God, everyone in the village is no longer afraid of Lord Mountain God, nor of me. They all treat me very well and respect you, Lord Mountain God, that's why they let me conduct the ritual."
Xiao Ai's answer made Lu Heng turn his head and look at her quietly, and then asked, "Then why are you hiding here alone and not going out?"
The girl hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Because... because everyone is in awe of me although they are not afraid of me anymore. If I am down there, everyone will be nervous and unable to be happy and lively."
"And ... and ..."
The more the girl said, the smaller her voice became.
Lu Heng looked at her and asked, "And what?"
"And I ... I already don't like it when it's lively," Xiao Ai lowered her head and said softly, "I like to stay alone, so I don't have to take care of everyone's mood. Only when I am alone, I do not need to take anything into account. This is actually very good... I would rather be alone."
Xiao Ai's gentle narration made Lu Heng silent.
He looked at the girl in front of him and sighed in his heart.
After talking with Gong-Shu Jie, he knew the stories about Xiao Ai. This little girl lived without parents, just like a rootless duckweed in the village. Now she was given special treatment by Lu Heng, and even dared to stand up against the village adults when everyone thought Lu Heng was a demon.
After all these things happened, the little girl could no longer be integrated with the villagers.
Thinking of this, Lu Heng said, "Raise your head and look at me straight in my eyes. Then answer me a question."
Xiao Ai obediently raised her head, looked at the frighteningly huge white wolf in front of her and saw the deep eyes of the white wolf, and she heard a cold inquiry.
"If the chosen girl was not you, but someone else, would you be willing to do it all over again?"
The white wolf's eyes were deep and sharp, and the sharp sight was full of oppressive power and seemed to penetrate the girl's heart.
Xiao Ai was in a trance and had a feeling of being completely seen through under this gaze. She felt that in front of the Lord Mountain God there was no hint of secrecy to speak of.
Also, she actually did not want to hide any secrets.
Facing the sharp gaze of the white wolf, the girl shook her head and said, "I do not want to start over."
Without waiting for Lu Heng to ask the reason, the girl smiled bitterly and explained, "If I was not chosen, I would never have known the nature of the villagers, and I would never have known that the one who pushed me into the fire was my last relative."
"That way, I might still have held unrealistic fantasies and expected that one day they would be good to me. Then someday in the future, I would have suffered more terribly."
"That's why I don't want to start over."
Xiao Ai took a deep breath and said, "Lord Mountain God is the best to me in this world, except for my parents. I vowed to serve you for the rest of my life."
The girl's words were sincere. Her eyes shone with a light, a kind of emotion that could even be described as devotion.
Lu Heng was shocked and silent.
In the dark forest, the slightly cold night wind brushed through the trees, stirring up the rustling of grass and leaves, and brought the voice of people under the river bay.
Bang Bang Bang - Bang Bang Bang -
The sound of wooden boards pounding echoed in the mountain, and at the river bay below the mountain, the aged old village chief was shouting.
"The hour is up! The hour has come! Everyone kneel down facing the Mountain God Temple! Bow down to the Mountain God!"
The playful villagers now all gathered in one place and faced the direction of the Mountain God Temple.
But the village chief called out anxiously.
"Where is Xiao Ai? Go get her back quickly!"
Hearing this voice, Xiao Ai hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Lord Mountain God, I ... want to go back to..."
"No need," Lu Heng interrupted her in an indifferent tone and said, "They are just going to worship me anyway, it is the same if you are here."
With a move of Lu Heng's mind, and in the next second, the huge vortex clouds that covered the entire Cold Feather Mountain in the night sky slowly opened up.
Then the clouds slowly scattered a gap. The moonlight fell down along the gap and shone on the Cold Feather Mountain, exactly on the huge mountain rock where the girl and the wolf were.
The trees below the rock all swayed and lowered their branches. The rock that was originally blocked by the canopy of these trees now appeared clearly in the view of the villagers at the river bay as the blocking trees moved away.
When the villagers tilted their heads, they clearly saw the huge rock in the mountain and the huge white wolf on it. The cold moonlight fell on the white wolf's body, and every hair of the white wolf seemed to be emitting a silvery glow, divine and extraordinary.
All the villagers stared in awe.
And at the moment they saw the white wolf, they also saw the young girl beside him.
Compared with the huge size of the white wolf, the tiny girl was so small that she could be ignored, but at this time no one dared to ignore her. And everyone recognized who that little girl was.
That was clearly...
"Xiao Ai?"
The villagers were talking about her, but the old village chief scolded in a low voice, "Shut up! No discussion!"
Then the chief walked to the front of the crowd and took the lead in bowing towards the wolf and girl on the mountain rock.
"Lord Mountain God!"
Behind the old village chief, the villagers also all knelt down and heavily kowtowed.
"Lord Mountain God!"
The villagers' shouts echoed in the wind.
Xiao Ai on the mountain rock had a confused expression and became restless once again.
The cold moonlight formed a silver-white pillar that fell on her and Lu Heng. At this moment, they were the most attention-grabbing focus of the entire Cold Feather Mountain.
Lu Heng gave a low laugh and said, "Let them fear you a little more. After all, it is better to be feared than to be hated."
Feeling dazed and confused, Xiao Ai looked at Lu Heng, and she saw the Lord Mountain God smiling.
In a trance, this scene of the giant wolf smiling under the moon seemed to be engraved in the girl's memory forever.
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Chapter 25: An Uninvited Guest
After the Double Ninth Festival, the remote Shuisheng Village became quiet.
After the harvest in the fields, there was not much farm work for the villagers. Most of the villagers were at home, and the only thing they needed to care about was the food reserved for the winter.
In this year, the rice was abundant, so there was no need to worry about food for the winter. They just prepared some necessities before the snow closed the mountain.
It was even more quiet in the Cold Feather Mountain not far away.
The huge swirling vortex clouds in the sky still covered the sky of the entire Cold Feather Mountain, with lightning flashing from time to time. Every once in a while, there was some heavenly thunder striking down, and the deafening thunder was heard by people outside of the mountain.
But the villagers of Shuisheng Village had gotten used to this terrifying thunder and were no longer afraid.
The only thing they were curious about was what the Lord Mountain God was doing.
And as time went on day by day, it gradually entered late autumn. The grass and trees in the mountain began to wither and yellow, and the wind whistling between the forests gradually became cold.
Since the late autumn had arrived, the cold winter was not far away.
While the weather was not yet completely cold, the young adults were preparing to go to the nearest city. They all brought food and water and were going to purchase the necessities of life. Almost all of the village youths went to the city except those who stayed guarding the village.
The wilderness was difficult to travel through, with beasts and monsters rampant. Once people leave the range of the Cold Feather Mountain, they may encounter beast attacks at any time.
And the journey was long and would take a long time. The nearest city was said to be close, but with the villagers' walking speed, it would take five to six days to make the round trip.
During these five or six days, the villagers would eat and live in the wilderness. Walk during the day, rest at night. If there were just a few people, they would not be able to resist the monsters and beasts in the wilderness.
If they were unlucky to encounter beasts that were hungry, they would clash, leading to injury and even death.
But this year, nothing happened. The villagers followed the route of previous years, crossed the wilderness and arrived at Luoye City without any problems. Then they spent a day to purchase the necessary supplies for the winter.
On the way back, there were no accidents either.
They did not get attacked by any horrible demons. Although they encountered a few beasts at night, they were just ordinary beasts, and the villagers waved torches and weapons and shouted angrily, then the beasts were scared off.
After the young adults returned to the village, the villagers then conducted another celebration of sacrifice to the Mountain God under the leadership of the old village chief to thank for His blessing. Although this ritual was not on the level of the Double Ninth Festival, it also provided a large amount of incense and wish power.
That massive influx of wish power even woke up Lu Heng, who was in cultivation under the ground.
He was stunned to check, only to find that the villagers were making a sacrifice to him again.
Today was not a festival, why the villagers engaged in rituals again?
He did not understand the cause and effect, and could only make some guesses.
Time passed day by day...
Gradually, the leaves in the mountain all withered. It completely turned cold and had no remaining heat of the autumn. When the mountain wind blew on the face at night, there was some stinging sensation.
In the Shuisheng Village, the life of the villagers had returned to the usual calm. The winter supplies had been purchased and hoarded, and people only needed to stay inside the warmth of their homes to survive in the cold winter.
However, an uninvited guest had come to Shuisheng Village at this moment.
It was a frost day in late October. In the early morning, a thick white fog covered the Cold Feather Mountain. It obscured everything, and even the huge vortex clouds in the mountain could not be seen.
Wang Laoliu, who had put on his hunting bow early in the morning and was ready to call his companions to go hunting in the mountain, heard a strange sound in the mist outside the village after he stepped out of the house.
DONG - DONG - DONG -
A heavy and slow sound resounded outside the village. It was like a heavy beating drum, or some horrible beast walking.
Immediately after, the earth began to slowly shake. Although the magnitude of the trembling was not obvious, Wang Laoliu's face had changed.
He hurriedly ran to the direction of the village entrance, and indeed, it did not take long to hear someone was shouting.
"Monster! Monster!"
Dang dang dang - Dang dang dang -
The bronze bell hanging at the entrance of the village was struck with great force, emitting a sharp warning sound, and the originally quiet village instantly boiled up.
Hearing this warning bell, many villagers who were still asleep climbed out of bed in panic. The men all picked up their weapons and rushed towards the village entrance. Wang Laoliu arrived at the entrance with his hunting bow on his back, ahead of everyone else.
Standing beside the fence surrounded by logs, he saw the scene outside the mists.
What a monster it was!
Its huge figure was several meters tall and like a moving mountain. The huge head alone was as big as Wang Laoliu's small house! The village fences in front of this giant beast were like a fragile flower in the blowing wind.
Wang Laoliu stared in horror at this scene and almost lost the ability to speak.
But the villagers who were on guard on the fence, in turn, were much calmer because they had already been shocked by the huge size of the monster. And what made them put aside their fears for the moment were the figures beside the monster.
This giant tortoise-like behemoth was followed by many people.
Those people were all dressed differently from the people in the Fire Pass country, and most of them were carrying backpacks and things, as if they were migrating. When looking closely, even on the spacious turtle armor of the huge monsters, many bags were tied to the turtle armor.
It seemed that the huge giant turtle monsters were just pack horses for these people...
The villagers were all nervous and fearful. They had never seen such terrifying monsters before, and even the wolf God in the mountain was not as large as this giant turtle.
And the number of this group of monsters and foreigners seemed to be not a few ...
In the mist, looking at the villagers on the fence that were in fear and unease, a young girl wearing a grass wreath turned back, and found an old man sitting in the mist resting.
The young girl ran over happily and excitedly and said, "Grandpa Priest, there is a village ahead. It's amazing that such a remote place is inhabited, and it looks like there are many people."
"But they seem to have never seen a spinning turtle and fear it ... Do you want to go to talk to their village chief?"
Hearing the young girl's narrative, the old man sitting on the roadside resting raised his head. The old man with a head full of white hair was leaning on a pitch-black snake staff, and his cloths was painted with many pale patterns.
Although the muscles on the old man's body had slackened because of old age, this old man in his youth must have been a brave and strong Hercules.
The old man stood up with his snake staff and said, "Since there are townspeople living there, we should explain everything to them and not scare them."
He walked towards the mists ahead with the help of the girl.
And at the entrance of the village, the old village chief had arrived with the clan elders. But they all stood on the ten foot high fence, and they were nervous and awed while observing the giant beasts and figures outside.
When the old priest was helped out by a young girl, the villagers on the fence all noticed them.
And when the old priest came out of the crowd, these foreigners outside the village all saluted the old man.
The old priest arched his hand to those nervous and uneasy villagers on the fence and said, "We are the Li tribe. And we are migrating to this land. We did not expect to disturb you, so I hereby apologize for my tribe."
"We are not bandits, you do not need to be afraid. Next, my people will temporarily settle in the vicinity, next to you all."
"If you need help, you can seek help from our clan. Our people will help you within our ability."
Although the old priest was old, his voice carried throughout the entire Shuisheng village. Whether it was the young adults on the fence at the entrance, or the women and children in the village, the old priest's voice was clearly heard.
This extraordinary performance immediately made the villagers' eyes widen, knowing that they had met someone special.
The old village chief even gripped his walking stick tightly and muttered, "The Li tribe ..."
He suddenly remembered something and hastily asked, "Is it the Li tribe that migrates everywhere, lives by water, and are good at metallurgy?"
Before the old priest said anything, the young girl who was holding the old man and wearing a grass wreath laughed and said, "You are very knowledgeable... Yes, we are the Li tribe you are talking about."
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Chapter 26: Heavenly Thunder Tribulation
"The Li tribe?"
"What kind of tribe is it?"
"Village chief, what is the Li tribe?"
Unlike the old village chief's sudden realization, all the youths in the village had never heard of this Li tribe, so they all asked curiously. Looking at the old village chief's reaction, everyone knew that the group of foreigners were not bad people, so their nervousness eased a lot.
The old village chief bowed respectfully to the old priest outside the village and said, "You are the priest, right? Please come into the village to talk?"
The old priest shook his head and said, "No, thank you for your kindness. I feel sorry for disturbing you all in the fog, so I will not enter the village. But we are going to stay in the vicinity, we still need village chief to intercede, and our clan will be grateful."
"OK. If you have any requests, you can send someone to inform us." The old village chief stood on the fence and talked a lot with the priest below, seeing him off with his clan.
After the group of strangely dressed foreigners and the huge turtles all disappeared into the mist, the villagers gathered around and asked questions.
"Village chief, what tribe is this? They seem so powerful! Will that giant turtle eat people? It's so big!"
The villagers' curiousness continued, but the old village chief waved his hand and did not answer the questions.
He looked at the direction where the group of foreigners disappeared and said, "You will know later what the Li tribe is. Anyway, during this period, the village gate should not be opened at will. With Lord Mountain God here, even if these people are not really from the Li tribe, we don't have to be afraid."
The old village chief's words made the villagers who were originally nervous and anxious become calm.
"Yes, we have the blessing of Lord Mountain God!"
"Yes, yes, those giant monsters look scary, but it's just a big head, how can it compare to the divine power of Lord Mountain God... One thunderbolt from him will turn it into dust."
"That's right, with Lord Mountain God here, this group of people won't dare to mess around."
Once they thought of the existence of the wolf in the mountain, the villagers' mentality was suddenly different. The Mountain God who was respected by the Master Wuzhu was blessing them now, so they didn't need to be afraid of this group of foreigners outside.
The villagers put their hearts down and dispersed to their own places. The village chief summoned the village elders and the backbone of the young and strong to discuss the matter of this Li tribe with them.
This early morning, the quiet Shuisheng village was bustling after being disturbed. The women and children also came out of their homes, asking what was going on at the entrance of the village and who was speaking in the voice they had just heard.
After all, the voice carried throughout the village without sounding harsh, which was too powerful for the villagers. No one had seen such magic in the past.
On the other hand, after stepping through the mist and leaving the village, the Li tribe continued to walk in the original direction.
They stepped over the river outside the Shuisheng village and entered the outer edge of the Cold Feather Mountain.
The hills were still thickly fogged, and nothing could be seen in the distance. The old priest, supported by a young girl, stood by the river and asked his attendants to take out the bronze compass and other survey instruments.
After carefully and earnestly surveying the water and soil of this location, the old priest then asked the attendants to put away the survey artifacts and said, "Yes, this is the place."
"Although this mountain is located in the remote area, the geodesic trend is clear and it is the king mountain of this area. Our clan can reside here for a few years."
The old man patted the girl's palm and said, "Qian, you go find Han and ask him to lead people to explore along the river and find a place with open terrain to set up a fortress. We have rushed for so many days, it is time to take a good rest."
The young girl nodded and turned around to run towards a short distance.
But after a few steps, the girl came back.
She looked at the misty Cold Feather Mountain in front of her and said, "Grandpa Priest, didn't the village chief of Shuisheng Village say that there is a venerable wolf God existing in this Cold Feather Mountain? Since we are setting up our fortress under His rule, shouldn't we pay a visit in advance?"
The old priest then looked into the depths of the mist and shook his head, "Although this Cold Feather Mountain is the king mountain of the nearby mountains, but the mountain is barren and the earth spirit energy is not obvious. Even if there is a Mountain God, his Dao level will not be profound. Probably it is just some mountain spirit that got lucky to obtain the incense, not enough to worry about."
"When our clan settles down, it will come to us."
The old priest's tone was very calm, neither did he think highly of himself, nor was he scorning the Mountain God in this mountain, he was just imparting knowledge to the young girl.
However, just as the old priest finished his words, a terrifying thunderbolt suddenly rang out in the Cold Feather Mountain.
Boom-
The deafening sound of thunder blast instantly spread across the mountains, reverberating inside and outside of Cold Feather Mountain.
Likewise, it was also heard by the crowd of the Li tribe who stayed at the river for a short rest.
"Wow! It's thundering."
"Is it going to rain? But the mountain is so foggy, it doesn't look like it's going to rain. ..."
People in Li tribe were all surprised and curious, and some even began to prepare rain gear.
However, the moment the thunder exploded, the old priest in the crowd froze. He looked in the direction of the Cold Feather Mountain, astonished.
Because the mist covered the mountains, he could not see the mountain scene. But in the moment of the thunder blast, he vaguely sensed some creepy aura.
It seemed that in that Cold Feather Mountain, something horrible happened.
This kind of presence ...
The old priest's eyebrow instantly wrinkled, and it seemed that he has encountered something incomprehensible.
"Heavenly thunder tribulation? In a place like this?" The old priest frowned and thought about it, and then shook his head to deny his suspicions.
This Cold Feather Mountain's veins were barren and its spiritual energy was not obvious, so it seldom had a vicious devil rampaging or a foreign treasure coming out of the ground. How can it attract the heavenly thunder tribulation?
This was what the learned knowledge possessed by the old man reminded him.
However, with such a decision in his heart, the old man did not have the time to speak to the young girl beside him, when another terrifying thunderbolt came.
The ear-piercing thunder reverberated continuously among the mountains, and a certain grand and terrifying aura seemed to spread among the mountains along with the sound waves of this thunder blast.
This time, not only the old priest, many spiritually sensitive people of the Li tribe perceived the terrifying and horrifying aura.
Then it didn't take long ...
Boom -
Another terrifying thunderbolt exploded, and this time, the old priest who had prepared in advance finally sensed it clearly.
This aura ... It is the heavenly thunder tribulation!
The old priest's expression instantly turned concerned.
Could it be a demon has come here? Or maybe it's really some kind of treasure coming out of the earth?
But when ordinary foreign treasures come out of the earth, there was usually only a single heavenly thunderbolt. If three thunderbolts comes in a row, it can be considered a rare treasure.
Or, it was that some fierce demon attracted three thunderbolts.
Boom!!!
Another terrifying thunder blast.
Four ... four heavenly thunderbolts!
This demon in Cold Feather Mountain had actually attracted four heavenly thunderbolts!
The old priest had been completely stunned, but immediately after that ...
The terrifying blast of the fifth heavenly thunderbolt once again reverberated in the mountains. The old priest stood in a daze by the river, listening to the sound of the sixth heavenly thunder that resounded again after the mountains had been quiet for a while.
This time, it was finally the last thunderbolt.
After this terrifying thunder ended, the entire Cold Feather Mountain was completely quiet, and no more thunder came after the sound.
However, in the mist, the people of the Li tribe by the river were all quiet, and they looked at each other. The most honored and most profound old priest was now standing there bewildered and shocked, it was something the people had never seen.
Half a second later, the old priest came back to his senses. He turned his head in a panic, looking for the young girl.
"Qian... Qian! Quick!"
The old man grabbed the young girl's hand and said urgently and anxiously, "Hurry up and get everyone to exit Cold Feather Mountain! Go back ... to the Shuisheng Village side!"
"And then ..."
The old man looked in the direction of the Cold Feather Mountain with a gloomy expression.
"Prepare gifts, let's go to the village ... to talk with that old village chief."
"The situation in the Cold Feather Mountain is even more dangerous than we imagined!"
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Chapter 27: The danger of Extinction
The evacuation instructions issued by the old priest were quickly conveyed.
The people of the Li tribe who had just crossed the river immediately retreated back along the way they had come.
Unlike the younger members of the clan who were still in a dazed state, the old priest, although seemingly calm, could be said to have had a storm raging in his heart.
The young girl supporting him looked back at the Cold Feather Mountain in the mist and was a bit confused.
It was the first time that she had seen the old priest so distraught. Even when the Li tribe encountered the terrifying beast - Ba Snake, the old priest was always calm and never panicked. He was the backbone of everyone.
But today he was like a different person from his old image.
"Grandpa priest," the young girl asked, "Even if there is some kind of evil demon in this Cold Feather Mountain, there were six heavenly thunderbolts in a row! Why should we be so afraid of it?"
"What's more, only six heavenly thunderbolts, proving that the demon is powerful but not to the extent of invincible. With you and all the warriors of the Wind Raiders, we don't have to be afraid, right?"
The young girl's heart was full of questions, because she did not know the reason why the priest reacted so fiercely. Although the demon may be powerful, the force of Wind Raiders was strong. If there is a conflict, it is not yet determined who will die.
She was very confident in the strength of her tribe.
The old man glared at the young girl and said, "You little girl, you don't know what you're talking about! Have you ever thought if is not a demon or monster?"
"The Heavenly thunder is the world's most vicious and horrific force of tribulation. Whether he is a Wuzhu or a demon, it is difficult to resist the power of it."
"If someone is unfortunately hit by the heavenly thunder, he will die and his soul will be extinguish out of existence."
"And if you died because of getting hit by heavenly thunder, all your years of power cultivation will be broken down and scattered as the most primitive spiritual energy. So after the tribulation, the place where the heavenly thunder hit will have a huge outbreak of spiritual energy."
"The stronger the sufferer, the more massive the outbreak of its spiritual energy. If the fierce demon who could suffer six heavenly thunderbolts died, the raging outbreak of spiritual energy would have turned into a gale of aura and blown away all the mists between these mountains."
The old man's narrative still did not solve the girl's confusion. But the girl did not open her mouth to ask, because she knew that the priest would continue to explain.
As expected, after a few breaths of silence, the old man slowly spoke.
"Although the power of the heavenly thunder is terrifying, there are also various abilities in the world, and occasionally there are one or two people with special abilities who can survive."
"However, even if the heavenly thunder does not kill the target, the mighty heavenly power will also remain in the world for a long time."
"But when you carefully sense, can you sense the breath of the heavenly thunder remains? Now we are completely unable to sense the presence of that power."
"This situation, it is almost like some creature has swallowed the heavenly thunder... It is appalling."
The old man's explanation made the young girl finally understand.
Her eyes were wide with disbelief, "Swallowed the heavenly thunder? Who can do that in this world?"
The old man's expression was grave, "The creature in this Cold Feather Mountain may be an ancient divine beast that has never been seen before."
The young girl nodded in a daze. If it was the legendary ancient divine beast, then no wonder the priest was so nervous.
"In that case, we should indeed talk to the villagers of that Shuisheng village. They have lived here for a long time, and if there is really a divine beast in the mountain, we might be able to get their help so that the divine beast can allow us to live here temporarily."
When the girl said this, the old man smiled and patted her hand, but didn't say anything.
After he arranged for the young girl to check the gifts prepared by the clan, he sat down on the roadside to rest, without saying a word.
Among the mountains, the mist was still deep, and the old man still couldn't see through the scene in the mist.
However, some kind of uneasy emotion in his heart constantly spread.
He did not say the real reason for his worry. With the force of the Wind Raiders, plus the magic human-faced drum, even if they came across an ancient divine beasts, he did not need to be so worried.
He was now out of control because of the revelation received from the holy maiden when the nine branches of the Li tribe gathered at the Holy Mountain last time.
It was that the Li tribe was in danger of being exterminated by the Lord of Calamity.
And the aura of the Lord of Calamity seemed to be highly similar to the existence on this Cold Feather Mountain ...
Thinking of this, the old man's hands were unconsciously clenched.
If the existence in this mountain is really the prophesied Lord of Calamity, will their Wind Raiders going to be the first branch to be exterminated of the nine branches of the Li tribe?
Will the danger of extinction really come so quickly?
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Chapter 28: Water Ganoderma
The return of the Wind Raiders made the villagers of Shuisheng village nervous again.
Although the village chief said that the people of the Li tribe would not kill, the villagers feared that this group of foreigners was lying.
The villagers' nervousness was tinged with anxiety. Now most of adults are gathered at the entrance of the village, once the foreigners outside had any strange movement, they could timely resist.
But they stopped a short distance from the village.
The only ones who went to the entrance of the village were two figures, an old man and a young girl.
"I am Li Ju, the priest of the Wind Raiders of Li tribe, and I have an important request to see the chief of your village."
The old priest arching his hand to the villagers behind the fence said, "Please."
By the side of the old priest, only the young girl named Qian was accompanying him. The rest of the people all stayed in the distance and did not approach.
By now, the fog in the mountains had faded, and a slightly more distant scene could be seen. After the villagers confirmed it, they opened the door and welcomed them in.
The old village chief personally greeted them with a smile on his face, "Master priest, if you have any orders, just send someone to say so, you don't need to go by yourself."
The old village chief acted very warm.
There was a saying that the people in Li tribe lived in no fixed place and migrated from place to place. If they lived temporarily in a certain place, they would dig up and cultivate the wild fields, and smelt iron and golds. But they would not stay in one place for a long time. When they left, the reclaimed fields and smelting metals would often be given to the nearby villagers.
So they were welcomed by many people.
When the old village chief was young, he had heard the legend of this tribe in LuoYe City, but he had never seen them.
Now since they had migrated to this place, things they left would all belong to Shuisheng Village.
The village chief personally welcomed the old priest into his home and took out the best tea he had bought not long ago.
"I wonder if master priest has any orders?" After serving tea, the old village chief asked, "We will certainly assist you."
The old priest glanced at the young girl beside him, and she immediately understood it and handed over the gift box she carried.
"This is a two-hundred-year old water ganoderma, born in the cold abyss, gathering the essence of water. It was inadvertently obtained during the migration and is now given to you. The water ganoderma can prolong your life."
As the old priest spoke, the young girl Qian opened the gift box, revealing a pure blue water ganoderma inside. This water ganoderma was lean and elegant, and had a light blue aura flowing inside. When Qian opened it, the house was instantly full with fragrance.
Such a treasure made the old village chief instantly stare in disbelief, "This... such a treasure, how can I accept it? Please take it back quickly."
The old village chief gulped, forcing himself not to look at the water ganoderma that could prolong life, and tried to smile and express his sincerity in wanting to make friends, "There is no need to be so polite."
The old priest gestured for Qian to close the gift box, and then spoke, "To be frank, the people of my tribe are a wandering tribe and do not live in one place for a long time. Since ancient times, the Li tribe has followed the guidance of the sacred mountain and the blessing of our ancestors, and has moved from city to city."
"And now, following the revelation, Our Wind Raiders department will have to temporarily live near this Cold Feather Mountain for a few years."
"But we heard what village chief said before, there is a noble wolf God existing in this Cold Feather Mountain, which is the right God of this mountain."
"I think if my clans want to live here temporarily, we should not only get your consent, but also call on the wolf God and get his consent, so as not to be rude."
"But with the dignity of the wolf God, I am afraid that if we rashly visit him, we will not be able to enter the door. If we disturb the wolf God, the situation will be even worse."
"So ..." the old priest looked at the old village chief and said, "I wonder if village chief can help introduce us, and I would be grateful for all the Wind Raiders."
The old priest's request made the old village chief hesitate for a few seconds, "This ..."
The old man stole a glance at the gift box and looked at the statue of the wolf God on the shrine in the hall. In the end, the old village chief said with a bitter smile, "Please understand, I can not do anything for you."
"Even the Master Wuzhu of the Thousand Needles City has to be careful in front of the Mountain God, how dare we mortals disturb the Mountain God?"
The old village chief said with sincerity. He was really unwilling to offend the wolf God in the mountain - even when the water ganoderma was placed in front of him.
The priest asked with a serious expression, "The Wuzhu of Thousand Needles City? Can you explain this matter?"
This Shuisheng village was remote and was not within the blessing of the Wuzhu.
What's more, the Thousand Needles City was far away from here, even if there was a Wuzhu coming here, it should be a Wuzhu from LuoYe City.
Although the old priest had never met the Wuzhu of Thousand Needles City, he had also heard of his deeds. Gong-Shu Jie was a cynical and fearless person, even the most powerful demons can't insult his mind and break his pride.
So why was Gong-Shu Jie cautious of this mountain wolf God?
And after the old village chief's narration, the old priest know the cause and effect of this matter. He also had a clear understanding of the wolf God in the mountain.
This wolf God might not be the prophesied Lord of Calamity. But such an extraordinary existence was definitely not an ordinary ancient divine beast.
Its origins was perhaps even more terrifying.
After all, according to the village chief, thunder would strike down from time to time on that Cold Feather Mountain covered in huge black vortex clouds.
The villagers were so ignorant that they could not tell the difference between ordinary thunder and the heavenly thunder. But the old priest knew that it was the real heavenly thunder.
Moreover, the heavenly thunder was probably related to the cultivation of the wolf God in the mountain.
Previously outside the Cold Feather Mountain, the old priest sensed that after the heavenly thunder struck, there was not the slightest aura of destruction overflowing out, but instead gradually disappeared...
Thinking of this, the old priest couldn't help but stand up.
"I wonder where is the girl named Xiao Ai you mentioned?" The old priest said seriously, "Even if I can't see the wolf God, I would be grateful if you can introduce me to this girl."
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Chapter 29: The Oracle
The old priest's request made the village chief freeze for a moment.
"To see Xiao Ai?"
This request was not considered to be an imposition, after all, although the village chief did not dare to meet the Mountain God, he could meet that girl.
But...
After a few seconds of hesitation, the old village chief felt that he should explain it clearly in advance.
He said, "Although this girl is young, she is the one who is favored by the Mountain God. At the Double Ninth Festival, when all the villagers paid homage to the Mountain God, she alone stood next to the Mountain God and received the ceremony together."
"Even we, the village elders, are cautious in front of her and would never dare to take offense. So ..."
The latter words, the village chief did not say, but the old priest already understood the village chief's meaning.
"We know, you need not worry," said the old priest, "I also understand that this girl is special, so I will never offend her. You can put your mind at ease."
The old village chief then breathed a sigh of relief, "Then please come with me, Master Priest."
He was really afraid that the priest would think highly of himself and bring trouble to the village.
Since the initial selection, the village people felt they had offended the little girl. After that, this little girl was favored by the Mountain God, standing beside the Mountain God and receiving the villagers' salutation.
Now everyone knew that Xiao Ai could not be offended.
And Xiao Ai's character was colder and colder by the day. Neither did she play with the village children, nor talk with the elders. People often saw that she was sitting alone in front of the house, looking dazedly at the Cold Feather Mountain.
Even if someone took the initiative to talk to her, her attitude was also cold, making people inexplicably panic.
So the old village chief was a little nervous about taking the priest of the Li tribe to see Xiao Ai. The good thing was that when they left, the old priest and the young girl did not take away the gift box on the table. The two-hundred-years of water ganoderma was just "forgotten" in the old village chief's house.
This gave the village chief a little courage.
They walked through the village and came to Cripple Ai's house. From afar, the old village chief saw Xiao Ai sitting in front of the house, fanning the fire of the boiling stove.
The old village chief immediately revealed a smiling face and said in a gentle tone, "Xiao Ai, are you concocting the medicine?"
The girl turned around and saw the smiling old village chief, as well as the two foreigners behind him.
Without much reaction, she just nodded and explained, "My brother's illness is not yet healed, and Grandpa Bai said that this medicine has to be taken twice a day regularly, and for more than half a month before my brother will be cured."
The person named Bai that the girl spoke of was a clan elder in the village, who knew herbs and could cure diseases, and had been making medicine for generations. The villagers all sought medical treatment from this old man when they were sick.
After the girl finished, she looked at the two foreigners behind the old village chief and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
The old village chief's heart was timorous now, and the smile on his face grew wider and wider.
"There are two guests from the Li tribe that wants to meet you, I wonder if you are free now?"
Xiao Ai looked at the old priest behind the village chief.
Seeing the girl looking over, the old priest arched his hand, "I am Li Ju, the priest of the Wind Raiders of the Li tribe. Oracle, please, I want to meet the divine wolf God." Considering the old man's status, this was already a big salute.
Xiao Ai hesitated for a moment and also arched her head and said, "Master Priest, I am not the oracle of Lord Mountain God. If you have something to say, just say it directly."
The girl's response made the old priest somewhat surprised.
Although the girl was dressed in simple clothes, her speech and manner were modest and courteous. She was not an ordinary countryside villager, and she was special in this environment.
After thinking about it, the old priest said, "Then I will be straightforward... Since ancient times, we, the Li tribe, have been following the guidance of the Sacred Mountain and have been migrating from place to place. And this year, according to the guidance, I need to move to your land and live there temporarily for a few years."
"But I heard that there is a wolf God in the mountain, so if we want to live here, we must get his permission. But we have no one to introduce us. Therefore, I would like to ask Miss Ai for help."
The old priest said earnestly, "This matter is of great importance to my tribe, whether it succeeds or fails, my tribe will be grateful."
After the old priest finished speaking, everyone present looked at the girl in front of the house. The old village chief and a few nearby neighbors were secretly watching, and everyone was curious about how the girl would answer.
The old village chief was even more eager, and he could not wait to answer instead of Xiao Ai at this moment. He thought that the priest of the Li tribe was generous, and if he could make them owe a favor, it would be a great thing!
However, Xiao Ai shook her head and said, "Sorry, Master Priest, I can't help you."
She said with a serious expression, "Lord Mountain God is so kind to me, and I can't repay this kindness now. If I use the Mountain God's name to get benefits, I would be guilty. Therefore, I can't help you."
"But, Master Priest, you actually do not have to worry too much. Lord Mountain God is a good God. As long as you do not do evil things, I think the Lord Mountain God will not make things difficult for you."
The girl's answer made the old priest smile and gain a little more awareness of the little girl.
He did not continue to pester her, but smiled and arched his hand to thank her, "In that case, then I thank Miss Ai for your guidance, and I will bear it in mind."
After expressing his gratitude, the old priest and Qian left directly.
Although the village chief wanted to stay a little longer, he needed to personally send two people to the village entrance. Along the way, he was constantly assured that after returning he would find a way to convince Xiao Ai, so that the priest would not be discouraged.
But all the way, the old priest just smiled, and did not say anything more.
Only after the two people left the village far away, Qian asked curiously, "Grandpa Priest, why didn't you take out the gift you asked me to prepare? If the gift is brought out, perhaps the oracle will help us."
The old priest shook his head and said, "You little girl, you think things too simply. There are some people in this world who can be bought, such as the village chief. But there are also some people who cannot be bought, such as the oracle named Xiao Ai."
"Although she is young, she is not someone who can be bought with a few treasures. It would be worse to pester her, and it would be better to leave, so that we can make a good relationship and leave a good impression."
Qian pouted, a little unhappy, "But if we just leave, we won't be able to find anyone to help us ask to see the wolf God in the mountain. Do you think that old village chief can really convince the oracle?"
The old priest laughed and patted the little girl's head, saying, "Actually, the oracle has already given a hint, you just didn't notice it."
Qian immediately froze, "Ah? What hint?"
The old priest smiled and said, "The oracle said that as long as we are sincere, the Mountain God will not make things difficult. Since she potentially allowed us to visit the wolf God, we could enter the mountain directly without having to ask for any introduction."
The old priest's explanation made Qian suddenly understand, "Then I will go immediately to prepare the tribute to the wolf God!"
"Well, go, move faster," the old priest thought about it and added, "Just in case, bring the human face drum with you."
"Okay, Grandpa priest, wait for me, I'll be right back," the girl said happily, jumping away.
The old priest smiled, watched the young girl leave and then turned his head to look to the direction of Cold Feather Mountain.
By now it was noon, as the blazing sun rose, the mist in the mountain gradually dispersed, and the old priest was finally able to see the full picture of the Cold Feather Mountain.
Now there was some huge vortex clouds that covered the sky. The black vortex clouds slowly rotated, and from time to time there were flashes of lightning. This group of black vortex clouds were like a huge eyeball, and they were indifferently looking down on the world.
And if someone looked at these huge vortex clouds for a long time, he would have a creepy feeling. So people wanted to look away subconsciously.
The old priest's expression was slightly gloomy. Having personally witnessed these huge heavenly clouds, he confirmed more and more that the wolf God was definitely not an ordinary mountain God.
It was more terrifying than everyone imagined.
And they have to live under the rule of this wolf God for several years...
The old man shook his head bitterly. Nowadays, he could only hope that the Lord of Calamity mentioned in the Holy Maiden's prophecy was not the Mountain God.
Otherwise, they were pretty much doomed...
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Chapter 30: Beyond the Mundane
The preparation of the offerings was soon completed.
When Qian returned, she saw that many people had gathered around the old priest. The leaders of all the branches within the Wind Raiders were all here, and everyone was listening to the old priest's orders.
Seeing this scene, the young girl was a little curious, "Why is everyone gathered here?"
The old priest smiled and said, "This trip is dangerous, so I asked everyone to prepare early. If there is an accident, we will be able to respond in time."
After saying that, the old priest looked at the group of branch leaders around him and said, "That's it, you guys split up as I said and retreat to 20 miles away. If something bad happens in the mountain, and Qian and I fail to return, you will immediately flee this place and find a way to inform the Holy Maiden of what happened here."
"If nothing happens, wait for news from me in the same place, and do not act rashly... Do you understand?"
When the old priest spoke, he deliberately stared at the most robust man in the crowd and said, "Han, do you understand?"
The sturdy man who was called Han nodded vigorously, indicating that he understood.
Only then did the old priest wave his hand and say, "Okay, you guys can go. Once you are gone, Qian and I will enter the mountain."
"Yes!"
The branch chiefs got the orders and left. Outside Shuisheng Village, those people resting among the mountain fields soon moved.
According to the old priest's instructions, they evacuated in different directions to avoid being caught in a net.
And with the evacuation of those huge turtles, the earth trembled again.
The villagers were all startled and gathered at the entrance of the village to see what was happening, and then saw the departing of the foreigners.
The villagers were all a little confused.
"Why do these foreigners come and go, and now leave again ..."
"It's so strange ..."
The villagers did not understand at all what the movement of this group of foreigners outside meant. But the Wind Raiders did not need to explain to them, and they left directly.
Now only the old priest and the girl stayed.
The old priest sat on the ridge and watched the clan members gradually going away. His expression was kind and amiable, but he did not say a word.
Qian sat beside the old priest and took out the offering for the wolf God from the gift box, saying, "Grandpa Priest, do you really want to give this Thousand Days Drunk wine to the wolf God? If you give it to him, you really won't be able to drink it in the future."
The old priest slowly sighed, "I can't drink it anyway, so I might as well give it away..."
Qian smiled, "Why don't we try it first before giving it to the wolf God? This is the divine wine made by the Holy Maiden, it would be a pity to give it away without even tasting a little bit."
The old priest laughed, "You want to drink it, right? Don't even think about it."
They just sat in the ridge of the countryside and waited for the clans to finish retreating. Eventually, after all the clans had disappeared from their view, they stood up and walked towards the Cold Feather Mountain.
The midday sun fell on the two humans. But it was no longer hot in late autumn, and both of them were walking quickly.
Although the road in the mountain was rugged, it could not stop their steps. They did not go too fast, just like ordinary mortals.
As for the destination, both of them knew very well that it was the location right in the middle of the vortex clouds, the main peak of Cold Feather Mountain.
But after walking a little way into the mountain, Qian cooed in a low voice, "Grandpa Priest, there are groups of monkeys behind us all the time... Do you think these monkeys could be the eyes and ears of the wolf God?"
The old priest patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, it's just an ordinary group of monkeys, not demons."
The old man calmed the young girl's uneasiness, but in fact, the further he went into the mountain, the more uneasy the feelings in his heart became. The heavenly clouds that loomed over Cold Feather Mountain were too horrible, causing great psychological pressure on the old man.
With every step he took forward, the oppressive feeling in his heart became stronger.
On the contrary, because her cultivation was not so good, the pressure Qian felt was not yet so great. But even so, Qian was also much quieter.
In such apprehension, they walked for a full hour, and finally arrived at the main peak covered by the clouds.
Here, the pressure of the heavenly clouds was strong to the extreme. Even the old priest, who was used to seeing great storms, could not help but be nervous at this time.
When they passed through the woods and saw the Mountain God Temple surrounded by trees from afar, Qian even shrank her neck and was frightened.
"What a... terrifying aura!"
The young girl's face was a little pale, "this place is almost like the center of the heavenly tribulation!"
Standing in the forest, Qian even felt an illusion, as if she had provoked the wrath of heaven, she would be struck by the thunderbolt and her body and soul would be destroyed soon.
And the old priest beside the girl also had a similar feeling.
But he knew very well that this was only the place where there were thunderbolts falling all year round, resulting in the thunderbolts aura to be condensed and not scattered. It had been giving people the illusion, and it was not the real heavenly tribulation.
Thinking of this, the old priest took a deep breath and led Qian towards the Mountain God Temple. They stood in the open space in front of the Mountain God Temple, but did not dare to enter.
"I, Priest in charge of the Li tribe's Wind Raiders, pay respects to the wolf God!"
The old priest's old and serious voice slowly echoed away in the mountain. The voice wasn't big, but it had a wonderful penetrating power and traveled so far that even Lu Heng, who was diving underground, heard it.
Hearing this unfamiliar voice, Lu Heng froze for a moment.
What is this? Another guest from the mountain?
Sinking his heart into the senses, Lu Heng felt the respectful old man and young girl waiting outside the Mountain God Temple, and also saw the old priest's vigorous aura.
This old man, seems to be a bit strong...
Lu Heng thought about it and did not appear in his body, but moved his mind. In the next second, in the Mountain God Temple, the white wolf clay statue on top of the divine altar moved.
"I am Lu Heng, priest, what do you want from me?" The clay figure jumped down from the divine altar, walking outside into the sunlight, and asked the old man outside.
The old priest hurriedly bowed, "I dare not, just a small favor. I came here only to pay a visit to you and beg you to allow the people of my tribe to live here temporarily, we would never dare to offend Lord Mountain God, so I hope Lord Mountain God will understand."
The old man's words were earnest, but Lu Heng was a bit confused.
To ask me for permission to come and stay here? What kind of strange request is this? I'm just a Mountain God, not a Land God, of course you can live here if you want to...
Lu Heng looked at the old man with amazement, thought about it and said, "As long as you do not disturb the villagers of Shuisheng Village under the mountain and do not do evil things, you can live here."
Lu Heng's words made the old priest and the girl freeze at the same time.
This... this wolf God is so easy to talk to!
Qian just thought that this wolf God was not as intimidating as she imagined.
But the old priest thought more.
No wonder the little oracle was humble and courteous. Taught by this wolf God, it's hard to think of being a bad character.
And although this wolf God only descended in an avatar, the power was enough to make people's hearts palpitate. If his real body descends, the power will be even stronger.
But compared to the terrifying power of the wolf God, what the old priest was in awe of today was something else.
The divine beasts had most of the beastly nature, cruel and murderous, and they were often foolish and brutal. In the eyes of the old priest, the so-called ancient divine beast was just relying on the natural magic to commit the evil deeds. Even if they had a long life span, they were just a puddle of filth in the world, not worthy of respect.
But the wolf God in front of him was definitely not the so-called ancient divine beast.
It was friendly and good with people, without a trace of evil and fierce aura... If what he expected was correct, this wolf God was most like some existence.
An existence far beyond the mundane...
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Chapter 31: Heavenly Thunder Sand
With a guess in his heart, the old priest put his heart down and no longer worried about the safety of the tribe.
Although he was no longer afraid, he more marveled at the wolf God's potential identity.
Maybe, this white wolf god is a real deity...
The old priest did not dare to say it openly, not even dare to tell others about this. He buried this conjecture silently in his heart.
Usually, this type of existence is ethereal and rarely manifested in front of people.
But this wolf God was different, not only did he appear in front of people, but he even lived in the mountain. Even the ordinary villagers outside the mountain knew His existence and had seen His figure.
When he was visited by a migrant outsider, the wolf God had not the slightest hint of rowdiness.
There is only one explanation for such behavior, that is, the wolf God does not want the world to know His true identity, but only wants to walk in this world as a normal being.
Although the old priest didn't know the true intentions of the wolf God, that kind of existence was not something that ordinary people can fathom.
Thinking of this, the old priest bowed deeply and said respectfully, "I, on behalf of all the people of the Wind Raiders, thank you for your kindness in taking us in. We will definitely live here in peace and never cause trouble."
When the old priest bowed, the young girl Qian also hurriedly bowed and said, "Qian also thanks the wolf God for his great kindness."
The young girl was cheerful and playful as always, however, the moment she lowered her head, she saw the earth under her feet and froze.
Now she was standing on the earth in front of the Mountain God Temple.
This piece of open space was hit by the thunder power in a long time, and the soil's color had turned into a dark red. And faintly, this dark red was with a little black.
Qian looked carefully again, this time she saw more clearly. This dirt was no longer powder-like ordinary dirt, but gravel-like dirt. Each grain of sand was dark red with a little black, showing some condensed thunder aura.
The thunder aura around the Mountain God Temple actually derived from this changed sand!
This sand is clearly...
Qian looked at the priest beside her and was about to speak, but she saw the old priest glare at her fiercely and implied her to shut up.
The young girl immediately lowered her head, not daring to speak.
She knew that grandfather priest also recognized these heavenly thunder sand, but grandfather priest did not let her speak.
And these small movements were seen by Lu Heng.
But he did not care.
After politely declining the gift, and promising that they could live here, Lu Heng did not stay outside for too long. His mind once again returned to the body underground and continued to cultivate.
For Lu Heng, after all, cultivation was the most important. This wolf body was too inconvenient, he still liked the feeling of being born as a human and wanted to transform as soon as possible.
On the other hand, after Li Ju and Qian walked out of Cold Feather Mountain, the young girl who had been holding her mouth all the way could not help but speak.
"Grandpa Priest, that was heavenly thunder sand!" Qian said, "And large amounts of it! If Grandpa Li Po saw it, he would be overjoyed. This much heavenly thunder sand is definitely enough for him to forge the mountain splitting sword."
The young girl was in a happy mood, because Li Po was the priest of the Great Sea department and he was the most powerful sword smith of the nine departments of the Li tribe.
Because of various reasons, his wife was suppressed in the Underworld Sea of the Abyss, and she was never allowed to see the light of day. In order to save his wife, Li Po sought out all metals and tried to forge a divine sword that could cut through the Underworld Sea. But he was unable to find enough heavenly thunder sand, so he could not achieve his long-cherished wish.
Heavenly thunder sand was an extremely rare thing in the world, only left behind in places the heavenly tribulations occurred. But a heavenly tribulation was very rare, and even when it happened, usually it would have only a few heavenly thunderbolts, so the amount of heavenly thunder sand was extremely low.
Li Po was searching all over the world, but he could not find enough heavenly thunder sand. So he was forced to delay the rescue of his wife under the Abyss. This was a tragedy that the entire Li people was well aware of.
But now unexpectedly, there was so much heavenly thunder sand...
Qian smiled with joy.
But the old priest glared at her and said, "There is indeed a large amount of heavenly thunder sand, but does it have anything to do with you? If Lu Heng doesn't agree, who dares to covet the heavenly thunder sand under him?"
The old man questioned seriously, but the young girl remained happy, said, "This wolf God is so gracious, surely not an evil God. If we explain the situation to him and plead him, I don't think will be stingy. And Grandpa Li Po has collected so many good things, he can use them to exchange for the heavenly thunder sand."
Qian was very optimistic.
But the old priest was a bit speechless.
You silly girl, what stupid things are you thinking of. How can mundane things catch His eyes? Those treasures are just like dust!
But the old man could not say the identity of the wolf God to Qian, so he could only sigh in his heart.
He was speechlessly silent for half a second before he slowly said, "I will send someone to inform the Great Sea about the heavenly thunder sand. But this matter will be handled by Li Po himself, you are not allowed to interfere. And you are not allowed to spread any information about the heavenly thunder sand. Otherwise, I will personally send you to the Sacred Mountain and suppress you forever!"
The old priest's stern tone scared Qian.
It was the first time she had seen Grandpa Priest get so angry.
Surreptitiously, the young girl glanced at the direction of Cold Feather Mountain, and an enlightenment rose in her heart.
Even Grandpa Priest was so careful...
This was the most powerful mountain God she had ever seen.
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Chapter 32: Lu Heng's Sense of Crisis
After getting Lu Heng's permission, the Wind Raiders stayed outside the Cold Feather Mountain.
For a wandering tribe, it was not difficult to build a village and set up a fortress in a new environment.
After choosing an open and flat place, they took down the tents on the back of the tortoises and set up a camp on the spot. As for a wooden fence surrounding the settlement, the Wind Raiders did not need it.
They were not afraid of beasts and demons, and did not need to follow the ways of the ordinary villages to establish a defensive fence. If a beast mistakenly entered the camp, they would catch it.
The Li people were strong by nature. Even a three-year-old child left in the wilderness, as long as he did not meet any real demons, there was no danger. Ordinary beasts were not a threat to the Li people.
And after the camp was built, the Wind Raiders began to reclaim the nearby barren hills, and raise livestock, and build their new homes in an orderly manner.
However, their act of reclaiming the barren hills made the villagers of Shuisheng Village very puzzled. All the land in the plain area outside the Cold Feather Mountain that was suitable for reclamation into rice fields had been reclaimed by them already. But the Li people seemed to have no intention of reclaiming barren fields in the plains where water could be easily diverted for irrigation, instead they reclaimed fields in the overgrown hills.
This kind of field, except for growing some vegetables, simply can not grow crops.
But soon, their confusion was solved.
Because after the Li people finished reclaiming the land, they sent people to visit Shuisheng village, and sent many crops they discovered by themselves.
The two items of food that were used as staple food by the Li people were something new that the villagers had never seen before.
The first one, which looks like a small yellow mallet, was densely covered with yellow particles. The Li people call it yellow rice, and they strip it down, break it into pieces, and then steam and eat it, just like the people of Shuisheng Village eat rice.
The other one, the Li people called ground potato. It was said to be dug out from the ground, and it could be steamed and fried. According to the Li people, these two things were different from rice, so they did not need to divert water for irrigation, that is, they could be grown on the barren land of the wild mountains.
So the villagers knew why the Li people reclaimed the barren mountain - these Li people grew crops that were different from the rice they grew.
Some people in the village were interested in these two things, so they tentatively asked how to grow them. It was just a casual question, in case this was a secret of the Li people.
However, the Li people taught the villagers how to grow these two crops and what to look for, and even agreed to come to the village in the coming spring to teach the villagers who were willing to learn.
The villagers were shocked by the enthusiasm of the Li people. But when the villagers went to ask the village chief after the Li people left, they learned that this group of Li people had always been like this.
Every time they migrated to a new place, they would teach the locals how to grow yellow rice and ground potatoes, and would also enthusiastically offer their special seedlings.
However, the old village chief did not say anything about the fact that the land left behind by the Li people would be given to the local residents every time they migrated away.
He didn't want everyone to know about such an important matter.
When the Li people leave, they can continue to use those barren lands completely.
The village chief intended to turn around and pay a separate visit to the old priest of the Li tribe to talk about the future ownership of these lands...
The day after the Li people sent the crops, they set up a small bazaar in the wilderness outside Shuisheng Village, exchanging farming tools and kitchen utensils with the residents of Shuisheng Village.
These Li people exchanged their brand-new iron tools for the villagers' worn-out iron tools that had been used for many years.
And the iron they cast were all well-made.
The villagers did not know whether these foreigners were good or bad, but no one refused such a good deed, so they all swarmed to the bazaar to exchange for the new iron tools.
By the end of the bazaar, the image of the Li people had been totally changed. They were like a good man who did not ask for anything in return!
The original barriers had now disappeared. The villagers all warmly welcomed the Li people, and were eager for them to stay here for a few more years.
And just on the day the bazaar ended, Lu Heng also woke up from underground.
He vaguely felt the bustle in the mountains in recent days. But the Li people only moved around the periphery of the mountain range, and did not enter the mountain forest, so there was not much noise, and did not disturb Lu Heng. Lu Heng also concentrated on cultivation, ignoring external affairs.
Now out from underground, standing on the top of the Cold Feather Mountain overlooking the side, the scene outside the mountain immediately made Lu Heng freeze.
These... Wind Raiders were so many!
In his vision, the outer area of the Cold Feather Mountain had five living camps. The scale of each camp was not small, at least a thousand people or more.
Moreover, after careful observation, Lu Heng found that the Li people were all vigorous, strong and powerful. Not to mention the adults, even a five-year-old child's blood vitality and the body strength could equal that of the tigers in the mountain.
They could carry a hundred pounds of rock to play around, and could jump several meters high... Where did they come from? Compared to the villagers, they were not the same species at all!
Although when he saw that old priest, Lu Heng knew that there were many powerful people in these Wind Raiders of the Li tribe.
A tribe that could migrate around this savage world where monsters and demons were rampant was certainly not weak.
But no matter how, this was too powerful...
The more he observed the movement of the Li people, the more alarmed Lu Heng became.
Lu Heng had a sense of crisis after seeing such a powerful group of neighbors.
He looked up at the huge vortex clouds above his head and pondered. Until now he had been busy cultivating, because he wanted to transform into a human soon. So he did not research on the means of attack.
After all, this Cold Feather Mountain was remote, so he did not worry about the demons. Even if he encountered a demon, with the power of heavenly thunder in the body, Lu Heng was not very worried.
But now there comes so many terrifying Li people... He has to study something new.
Otherwise, if the Li people had bad intentions, like rush into the mountain and break the temple, he could not resist them.
Thinking of this, Lu Heng gazed at the direction of Li people.
He will have to study some powerful means of self-defense...
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