Chapter 157 Mountain Lord

During this period, the villagers at the foot of the mountain relied on it, living quite comfortably.

Some time ago, disaster victims kept fleeing here, and some even turned into roving bandits along the way, wanting to rob the local villagers.

But at a critical moment, a heart-shaking tiger roar echoed throughout the village. Everyone who heard this roar was so shocked that their limbs stiffened and they could not move.

Subsequently, a large white tiger with a hanging forehead and golden eyes leaped out from the forest, directly crossing several houses, and slapped the leader of the roving bandits with one paw.

The bandit leader had never seen such a display; he immediately flew over ten zhang and passed out cold.

"Roar!"

The other roving bandits were also subjected to a targeted tiger roar, bleeding from their seven orifices, looking as if they had more breath going out than coming in.

This roar was specifically aimed at the roving bandits; the mountain villagers only felt it was mighty and domineering, without any discomfort.

However, seeing this large white tiger, nearly eight or nine feet tall, standing right before their eyes, many villagers still felt dizzy.

Yet, some hunters who went into the mountains were not afraid but happy, because they recognized that this large white tiger was the Mountain Lord who often roamed Nameless Mountain.

A Daoist had previously said that there was a Mountain Lord on the mountain who did not harm people; as long as they restrained their hunting and woodcutting, it could protect the hunters in critical moments.

Therefore, the villagers built a Mountain Lord Temple at the foot of the mountain for the Mountain Lord.

However, the vast majority of villagers, including many hunters, had actually never seen the figure of this Mountain Lord.

They had only heard fragments of information about this Mountain Lord from others, and the rumors were incredibly mysterious.

Unexpectedly, today, when the village was suffering from disaster, this Mountain Lord had actually descended like a Heavenly God to save them!

After being saved, these villagers knelt on the ground, shouting: "Mountain God," "Mountain Lord," "Immortal," and so on.

The Mountain Lord circled back and forth in front of the crowd twice, and after discovering that the person it wanted to see was not there, a clear look of disappointment appeared in its eyes.

The villagers noticed that this white tiger Mountain Lord kept pacing and showed no intention of leaving, so they dared not stand up.

Although the Mountain Lord had saved them, the fear of the great beast engraved in their bones could not be erased for a moment, so the two sides remained in a stalemate.

Finally, suddenly, the white tiger flicked its thick tail, turned around, and opened its bloody maw.

Some villagers were terrified, thinking the Mountain Lord had gone mad and was going to eat them.

But then they heard the Mountain Lord suddenly speak in human language, its voice rough yet with a hint of immaturity.

"My name is Jiang Bai, the Mountain Lord of this Baijun Mountain!"

After speaking, the Mountain Lord turned around, leaped up, vaulted over the rooftops, landed in the distant bushes, and then, in two bounds, disappeared into the dense forest.

The villagers still dared not get up for a long time, fearing the Mountain Lord might blame them.

After a while, a villager murmured: "The Mountain Lord said He is called Jiang Bai, and is the Mountain God of Baijun Mountain!"

"From now on, this Nameless Mountain shall be called Baijun Mountain, and our village shall be renamed Baijun Village, to worship the Mountain Lord, Jiang Bai, for generations!"

On Baijun Mountain, a Essence Spirit roe deer squeezed out of a narrow tree hollow, looking left and right, and found no threat.

It let out a sigh of relief and began to call its children to come out. Soon, two smaller roe deer fawns also crawled out of the tree hollow one after another.

But as soon as the two fawns crawled out of the tree hollow, they seemed to see a terrifying sight, their legs trembled, they almost collapsed to the ground, and they crawled back in, cowering.

The adult roe deer looked puzzled and turned to look back. As soon as it turned, it saw a large black-and-white wall standing before its eyes.

The adult roe deer's breath hitched; it dared not open its eyes, hoping it was an illusion.

"Hoo!"

Two snorts containing a breath that made it tremble in submission were blown heavily onto the adult roe deer, scaring it so much that it almost fainted on the spot.

But thinking of its two children in the tree hollow, it mustered the courage to stand up and bravely confronted the behemoth in front of it.

For a moment, it was like a needle against a whetstone, an egg hitting a rock.

The behemoth in front of it just glanced at it a few times, then turned around on its own and walked into the depths of the forest.

As it walked, it muttered to itself: "Must increase income and reduce expenditure; cannot overeat..."

The roe deer, having escaped death, collapsed to the ground. Fortunately, it did not understand what the behemoth was saying, otherwise, it would have had to move house overnight.

The Mountain Lord walked to its own Immortal Cave, a spacious, dry, and clean cave.

Inside the cave, there was a stone platform, and under the stone platform were a few azure plants. In this cave, the Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence was much richer than outside.

This Immortal Cave originally belonged to that previous monster, Zheng Dequan. After the monster died, the Mountain Lord took this Immortal Cave for itself.

It crawled over on all fours; its thick and robust body made the spacious cave seem a bit crowded.

Crawling onto the stone platform, the next moment, the Mountain Lord actually sat down with its legs crossed like a human!

Only its legs were really short and stout compared to its body, so it looked quite funny.

But the Mountain Lord did not mind at all. Instead, it mimicked the appearance of that person in its memory, closed its huge eyes, and began to Cultivate and breathe.

When Essence Spirit types Cultivate, it is even more intense than ordinary people, and it is more like plundering the Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence.

With each breath the Mountain Lord took, the Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence from the world was swept in, like a raging storm, causing this area to emit a wailing sound.

Some small animals outside, hearing this movement, all trembled and returned to their nests to hide.

After more than two hours, the movement from the cave became slightly smaller, but before the small animals could breathe a sigh of relief.

An even more violent movement struck, and an astonishing Aura suddenly erupted from the cave!

Winds raged, trees swayed, and demonic winds blew in gusts.

"Roar!"

The Mountain Lord inside the cave roared suddenly. This roar shook the heavens and the earth, and even the mountain villagers at the foot of the mountain could vaguely hear this giant roar and looked up one after another.

The small animals in the forest were even worse off; the small animals that heard this tiger roar were like they had been hit by a freezing spell, frozen in place and unable to move.

Even more so, small animals on the trees were stunned upon hearing it and fell headfirst from the trees.

After a while, the movement gradually subsided, and the astonishing Aura inside the cave began to gradually recede.

The Mountain Lord slowly opened its eyes and leaped down from the stone platform with ease.

If there were any practitioners here, they could tell at a glance that this great Essence Spirit Mountain Lord's cultivation had reached the Mystic Light stage!

Such Cultivation progress, even among monsters, was an anomaly.

But the Mountain Lord was different; it had learned an authentic Daoist Cultivation Technique, and although it was only a fragment, it was not comparable to ordinary monsters.

Secondly, it had extraordinary natural talent, coupled with diligence and progress, so naturally, its advancement was rapid.

Finally, the villagers at the foot of the mountain built a statue for it and worshipped it with incense day and night. Although this bit of incense was insignificant, its cultivation was not too high, so it subconsciously stepped into the divine path.

Because of this, its cultivation could be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds!

(Nothing happened tonight...)