68: Chapter 68: Mountain God

Yan Province, Dongan Commandery.

The rain was continuous, the mountains were desolate, and all things were silent, leaving only the sound of rain hitting the leaves.

Yu Xiu walked through the mountain rain, occasionally looking up at the rain, and occasionally looking at the plants in the mountains.

He saw weeds sprouting among the stone peaks, and also saw trees competing for the rain.

He also saw wild rabbits in the mountains hiding in their labyrinthine burrows, and even more so, saw the accumulated water in the mountains washing out shallow, narrow gullies in the mountain mud.

Once the sky cleared and the mountain mud dried, these shallow gullies washed out by the accumulated water would slowly disappear.

Yu Xiu watched very carefully, stopping from time to time to ponder.

"Water benefits all things, benefiting all things without contention!"

But, if water accumulates, it becomes a flood, an unstoppable force.

If it turns into a torrential downpour, it can cause the mountains to collapse, turning into flash floods and bringing disaster.

The Earth virtue is heavy and thick, capable of supporting all things, and can form mountains. When combined with water and combined with the sun, it can stimulate the vigorous growth of plants!

The Five Elements generate and overcome each other, but this is not found between the lines of text, but in the many subtleties of heaven and earth!

"This vast heaven and earth are truly wonderful!"

Yu Xiu had a deep realization, walking in the mountains just like this. Countless invisible spiritualities came from the mountain terrain under his feet, from between the trees, from the many beasts, birds, insects, and ants, and also from the continuous rain falling from the sky.

He seemed to have become the center of heaven and earth.

He took steps across, but his feet did not touch an inch of soil.

The rain covered the earth, but it did not wet Yu Xiu in the slightest.

It was not that the rain could not reach Yu Xiu, but that when it fell on him, it disappeared.

He seemed like a god in charge of the rain, or like a spirit of the mountains.

At that time, a bird flew through the rain and landed on Yu Xiu's shoulder.

Yu Xiu did not care, just reached out to pick a worm from a tree to tease the bird.

He seemed to be strolling casually, but his mind was constantly bursting with countless inspirations, countless flashes of insight, and his understanding of heaven and earth was getting deeper and deeper, his Dao cultivation was also getting higher, and his 'Origin' Dao was also growing.

[ Origin (232 / 99999999) ]

When he was in high spirits, he stepped on the wind and rain, landed on the treetop, sat down casually, and watched the rain follow the wind, sometimes sprinkling to the east, sometimes drifting to the west.

He also watched the dark clouds in the sky, surging and moving, but without a fixed shape, changing unpredictably, changing with the wind at all times.

Seeing the fog rising in the mountains, misty and hazy, he had even more realizations in his heart.

"Clouds are water, yet not water."

"Water has a hundred forms."

"It is everywhere."

He stretched out his hand, and the rain in the sky gathered toward his hand, instantly turning into a small cloud, and then dissipating into mist.

He beckoned to the ground, and Earth Qi drifted over, turning into mud blocks, combining with water to become a muddy marsh. As the water vapor receded, the mud turned into dry stone, changing without fixed form.

At this moment, he saw a very weak Yin Demon aura flashing in the distance, so he beckoned casually.

In an instant, the wind changed direction, the rain followed, and the plants in the mountains had spirit, the earth had spirit, all heading toward the place where the demon aura appeared. In an instant, it turned into a water Dragon, bringing an Yin Demon from the mountains.

The Yin Demon struggled in shock and anger, but could not break free from the mouth of the water Dragon. "I am the spirit born of this mountain, the master of this mountain, who dares to move me?"

Yu Xiu laughed upon hearing this: "You, an Yin Demon, dare to call yourself the Mountain Master?"

The water Dragon threw the Yin Demon in front of Yu Xiu, then dispersed back into rain, its spirituality returning to its respective places, as if obeying Yu Xiu's orders.

However, these Yin rain and spirituality that obeyed Yu Xiu's orders were part of heaven and earth.

"Yin Demon is just a bad name imposed on us by you Human Race creatures based on your own cognition." The Yin Demon looked like a stone man, with a huge body, frowning and glaring angrily, "In fact, we are born between heaven and earth, and should be Heaven-born sacred beings!"

The demon aura on its body surged, and the coldness caused the surrounding plants to wither.

Yu Xiu glanced at the plants withered by the demon aura and said in surprise: "I have seen Yin Demons gather together and call themselves a Holy Sect, but this is the first time I have seen one like you, comparing yourself to an Innate sacred being."

Truly ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.

"I was born from heaven and earth, naturally conceived, how can I not be an Innate sacred..." The Yin Demon wanted to argue further.

Yu Xiu was too lazy to listen and said "Noisy", and the Yin Demon could no longer make any sound.

It could only keep opening its mouth, becoming a mute.

Wanting to activate its demon aura and mobilize the power of the mountain, it could not move at all.

The heavy power of the mountain, which was originally as easy to use as its own arm, now seemed to have turned into an invisible big hand, pressing it firmly into the mud.

"Why was I born from this mountain, yet the power of this mountain is not used by me, but instead has become a help to this Human Race?"

"Could he be the true True God of this mountain?"

The Yin Demon could not speak and could not move, but horror had already surged in its heart.

Since its birth, everyone who entered this mountain had their Yang Qi eaten by it, buried deep in the belly of the mountain, turning into nutrients to nourish the earth.

It called itself the Mountain God, herding all beasts in the mountains. When it felt like it, it would pick a fat mountain beast to eat, then return the carcass to the mountain to make the plants lush.

Even if practitioners occasionally discovered it and came to subdue the demon, they were easily killed and had their Yang Qi eaten.

It did not look at practitioners, and Mortals respected it and feared it. Before being eaten of their Yang Qi, they would terrifiedly call it Mountain God, and it felt that it was indeed the Mountain God.

Besides, how many nutrients had it buried in this great mountain, how could it not be the Mountain God!

Why could this person take away the authority of the Mountain God from its hands and suppress the spirituality of this mountain onto it instead?

"Yin Demon!"

"Born from heaven and earth!"

Yu Xiu quietly looked at the Yin Demon in front of him, and inspirations and insights in his mind could not stop emerging.

His Comprehension Ability was too high.

Even an Yin Demon could bring him countless inspirations.

"Born from heaven and earth, but without divinity, instead having deep demonic nature, why?"

He asked and answered in his heart, "Because it is the Yin, evil, turbidity, and slaughter of heaven and earth, not the Yang side, so it likes to eat the Yang Qi of living beings."

"This heaven and earth has a problem!"

He suddenly looked up at the cloudy sky.

If there was no problem, the creatures born from heaven and earth, even if not sacred, should not be Yin Demons!

After thinking for a while, Yu Xiu suddenly beckoned and stripped a trace of original demon aura from this Yin Demon who called itself Mountain God.

It could be clearly seen that although this Yin Demon could not speak, its face already showed pain, and its mouth kept opening, probably cursing very dirtily, just unable to make a sound.

Yu Xiu ignored it and placed this original demon aura in front of his eyes, carefully sensing it.

"So, that's it!"

"A naturally born Yin Demon is a very good thing!"

He became interested and sat down on the ground.

As he sat down, the dark clouds in the sky above him dispersed into a hole, and sunlight shone down.

Under his feet, the original mud instantly dried up, and grass quickly grew, forming a meditation cushion.

Flowers grew on the side, quickly growing and blooming, surrounding Yu Xiu.

"Could he really be the god of this mountain?" The Yin Demon, who looked painful and angry but could not make a sound, was stunned.

From its perspective, the wilderness was gloomy, only where Yu Xiu was, the light was vast. Even this mountain was forming a meditation cushion for Yu Xiu, welcoming Yu Xiu to sit down, and flowers were blooming to dispel the turbid air under the rain for him.

This scene was like a god descending into the world, the world was evil and turbid, only where the god was, there was light!

"God!"