In this world, gods held a very high status. They could be considered a relatively superior race, far above ordinary demons, fairies, and immortals.
Mountain ghosts, spirits that had always been called mountain gods among the common folk of Shenzhou, were likewise classified as gods.
For the people living by the mountains, they did not believe in your great Taoist deities or Buddhist bodhisattvas. What they believed in was the local mountain god. Thus, mountain gods would never lack faith.
Logically speaking, as a god... this was no longer the earliest Age of Gods. It should have properly cultivated its believers.
Yet this mountain ghost had never regarded itself as an orthodox god. Instead, it saw itself as an evil god, a wicked spirit.
After harming several locals, it still was not satisfied and even slipped into the densely populated Yangzhou City. This mountain ghost possessed a divine ability that allowed it to transform into a beautiful human woman.
Relying on that ability, it had claimed several lives in the city before, through remarkably terrible luck, ending up at a household next door to Fu Hua.
As Shenzhou's guardian, Fu Hua naturally could not stand by when she encountered something like this. Since it had come right under her nose to cause trouble, Fu Hua decided to properly "reason" with it.
At first, Fu Hua deliberately restrained her strength. But she had not expected the mountain ghost to be proficient in earthwalking—that was, the art of burrowing underground.
Fu Hua failed to notice in time and let it escape!
But after all, she was the ancient Immortal Fu Hua...
A monk might run, but the temple could not. Following the aura the mountain ghost had left behind, she quickly found it after it fled back to its home in the