56: I am the Lord of Mount Meng

After the Two-headed Serpent God had completely perished, Gu Wanquan opened his eyes, stood up unhurriedly, held his sword in his left hand, and raised his right.

A flash of sword light arrived from the distance in an instant, landing in Gu Wanquan's hand.

Gu Wanquan let out a long sigh and lowered his right hand. Turning around, he saw Su Yi and Yin Chaoge each holding a branch, squatting on either side of the diminutive Earth God, taking turns tapping the head of the helpless-looking deity.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The Master and disciple took turns striking the Earth God's head with the branches, the sound resembling the dull thud of hitting a ceramic pot.

Gu Wanquan walked over to Su Yi, who was tapping away enthusiastically on the ground, and bowed slightly, saying, "Master!"

Su Yi excitedly handed the branch in his hand to Gu Wanquan and said, "Wanquan, quick, quick, quick, you try. Is this thing made of ceramic or stone?"

The true forms of deities were mostly clay or wood carvings, but the hollow sound coming from the Earth God made it feel as if the deity before them was made of ceramic.

"Master, if it were ceramic, it would have broken just now. This thing is definitely polished stone!" Yin Chaoge glanced at Gu Wanquan and immediately spoke with full confidence.

He had used quite a bit of force when he was tapping just now; if it were ceramic, it would have shattered all over the ground long ago.

Su Yi glared and said, "I've eaten more grains of rice than you've eaten meals. How could I be wrong?"

"Huh? Isn't it 'I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice'? Is there a difference between rice and meals? Does Master have some deep meaning?" Yin Chaoge dithered for a moment, his simple mental circuitry nearly overheating from that sentence.

Gu Wanquan looked at the branch in his hand with a somewhat wry smile and gently tapped it against the Earth God's head.

The dull thud caused the Earth God to look at Gu Wanquan with a hint of resentment, while Gu Wanquan looked at the Earth God with curiosity. "Oh? Are you hollowed out from a single piece of Bluestone?"

The Earth God hurriedly replied, "The Immortal is wise. This small god indeed..."

Gu Wanquan stood up straight and said to Su Yi with a smile, "Master, it is indeed ceramic!"

"White Noodle! How can you lie through your teeth!" On the side, Yin Chaoge immediately snapped, glaring at Gu Wanquan and shouting.

Gu Wanquan looked at Yin Chaoge and said with an unchanging smile, "Black Steamed Bun, are you blind? I'm not lying through my teeth; I'm squinting!"

"Hahaha, Black Steamed Bun, White Noodle? You two really know how to give each other nicknames!" Su Yi laughed loudly upon hearing their conversation.

Gu Wanquan and Yin Chaoge were both startled; in their bickering, they had involuntarily blurted out each other's nicknames.

"Accept your loss! Chaoge, come here!" Su Yi didn't care at all about them giving each other nicknames—who hadn't had a nickname in school? Instead, he rubbed his hands together and spoke to Yin Chaoge with excitement.

Yin Chaoge gave Gu Wanquan a fierce glare with a bitter face, then walked reluctantly to Su Yi's side.

Su Yi curled his right index finger into a circle, blew a breath of air onto it, and then flicked it hard against Yin Chaoge's head.

"Dong!"

Normally, with Yin Chaoge's cultivation, a simple flick to the forehead wouldn't even count as an itch. But just as Yin Chaoge approached Su Yi, Su Yi had activated the 'Commoners Domain'!

Inside the Domain, Yin Chaoge's cultivation was instantly zeroed out. This charged flick even made Yin Chaoge, who prided himself on his physical toughness, feel a sense of dizziness.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Yin Chaoge crouched on the ground clutching his head, unable to stop himself from wailing, while Su Yi laughed heartily at Yin Chaoge's embarrassment.

Looking at the two of them acting with the IQ of kindergarteners, Gu Wanquan just stood to the side and watched quietly.

After the fun was over, Su Yi finally looked at Gu Wanquan and asked, "Well? Did you invite the god over?"

Gu Wanquan shook his head and said with some regret, "I invited three times, but that deity refused to show up!"

Su Yi coughed and said with feigned seriousness, "That means you still need to practice your Art of Inviting Gods. Look at Chaoge; he dragged this half-sized old man over with a single punch!"

Hearing Su Yi's praise, Yin Chaoge, still clutching his head, stood up straight and puffed out his chest slightly toward Gu Wanquan, looking like he had just received a little red flower.

Gu Wanquan nodded humbly and replied, "It's probably because my cultivation is insufficient and my virtue is not enough to move that deity! But when I invited it for the third time, it told me to bring something to the Master of Mount Meng, saying that since the Mountain Master is here, it is inconvenient for it to appear. As long as the item is given to the Mountain Master, he will naturally show us the way!"

Su Yi looked at the short, withered old Earth God beside him, feeling doubtful about this signpost's professional ability. Was this thing really the Master of Mount Meng?

Hundreds of years had passed, and it seemed the gods still hadn't made much progress. For a mountain as large as Mount Meng, they actually put forward such a clumsy fellow as the Mountain Master!

Gu Wanquan looked at the Earth God, his smile not fading in the slightest. He tossed a black, Magatama-shaped stone in his right hand, then handed it to the Earth God and said softly, "That deity told me to give this to the Master of Mount Meng!"

The Earth God, whose head had been tapped for a long time, blankly took the stone from Gu Wanquan's hand. As soon as the black stone was placed in his palm, its immense weight caused the Earth God to fall face-first onto the ground!

The finger-sized stone had been as light as a feather in Gu Wanquan's hand, but in the Earth God's hand, he felt as if a mountain were pressing down on his right hand!

"This... this..." The Earth God, fallen on the ground, looked in shock at the black stone pressing on his hand. Suddenly, his whole body began to tremble, and he couldn't even speak.

Su Yi looked at the Earth God on the ground and said with some dissatisfaction, "Hey? You god, why are you falling asleep right after taking the item!"

Are gods these days so shameless? Falling asleep the moment they get something?

The Earth God stared fixedly at the black stone before him. The rich incense power upon it was something he had never seen since becoming a god!

It was like a common laborer earning three thousand a month walking down the street when suddenly a hundred million fell from the sky; the first reaction wasn't ecstasy, but bewildered terror.

Gu Wanquan squatted on the ground, looking at the Earth God who was trembling with terror, and spoke in a soft, gentle voice, "What is the Mountain Master waiting for? Are you waiting for another chance?"

This light sentence caused the previously trembling Earth God to suddenly calm down.

He had been a deity for an unknown number of years, and his meager incense power was barely enough to keep him living in a daze. Now, a real opportunity was placed before him.

Whether to choose to continue living in a daze, or... when realizing this might be the only chance to turn his life around, anyone would become a gambler!

The Earth God stared intently at the black stone pressing on his hand and made his decision.

No one wants to be stepped on forever. When an opportunity appears, everyone wants to prove themselves!

The incense power frantically filled the Earth God's withered body, and the short Earth God was pulled up into a two-meter-tall giant of an old man.

With a head full of silver hair, a white beard, and a kind yet solemn face, the elder looked down at Su Yi and the other two with an immortal air and said:

"To tell you the truth! I am the Master of Mount Meng!"