The colossal mountain towered majestically.
It rose to meet the heavens.
Its entire mass was faintly crimson.
Countless phantoms wreathed it.
The phantoms were blue-black.
They encompassed myriad living creatures.
Pigs, sheep, cats, tigers, chickens, flood dragons...
Every vicious beast dwelling in the mountains.
Was represented among them.
They were the very image of an army of mountain ghosts.
Mountain ghosts.
Also called mountain demons.
Was the collective name for beasts that had gained intelligence.
And cultivated into spirits.
Above the colossal mountain.
Dark clouds pressed down upon its summit.
Manifestations circled it.
Its uncanny power shook the heavens.
Besides the wisps of terrifying pressure it exuded, an exceptionally dense, eerie green deathlight wreathed it, devoid of all vitality.
Upon closer inspection.
On the mountainside.
Five blood-red ancient characters were engraved.
They glimmered faintly.
Drawing in and breathing out the power of creation.
Had anyone recognized the strange script of the Mountain God's lineage.
They would surely have recognized.
That the inscription on the mountainside.
Rendered in the script of the present age.
Read: "Tomb of the Gloom Mountain King."
Such a magnificent mountain.
Had actually been transformed by someone wielding supreme divine power.
Into an unparalleled tomb!
It was truly horrifying.
"What an astonishing tomb! Could this Gloom Mountain King be a descendant of the legendary Mountain God?"
Xiao Chen gazed at the terrifying tomb before him, wreathed in uncanny smoke, towering into the heavens, its deathlight seething, and felt horror stir within him.
With the Hidden Lantern burning in his heart, though he did not recognize the Mountain God's strange script.
Xiao Chen had nevertheless gleaned from the many heavenly secrets gathered by the Hidden Lantern.
The meaning of the ancient, strange characters engraved upon the mountainside.
Learning that someone had made a tomb of such an extraordinary