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"Hm?"

Yu Chen studied the goddess. The trailing fig vines and maidenhair vines draped over her were manifestations of natural authority, representing her immense control over plants.

Her brown skin was half born of her own aesthetic tastes and half influenced by the aura of the primordial earth, an instinctive transformation brought about by her ancient divinity. Judging from the traces of shamanic script upon her, she also seemed to possess a measure of mountain power.

And the authority of the hunt was the core of the incense and faith aura around her. It was the product of shamanic worship, signifying that within the tribe, she was regarded as a deity of hunting.

"So it is Your Highness the Mountain Ghost. This little shaman pays his respects."

As a shaman, Yu Chen bowed slightly, showing his respect for this shamanic deity.

The term Mountain Ghost did not refer to any one particular deity, but was a collective name for all mountain spirit deities.

By classification, any spirit or monster dwelling amid the mountains and forests that had received remnants of the Earth Mother's divine power and condensed divinity originating from the Earth Mother could be called a Mountain Ghost.

The worship of living beings was not important to Mountain Ghosts.

For them, all they needed was to live in the mountains and forests for a period of time. Under the influence of the ancient Earth Mother divinity, they would gain authority over the forests. Then, borrowing the power of the forests and earth, they would obtain the right to immortality.

That was why Yu Chen had not initially realized that the incense-wreathed red leopard before him was not merely a totem beast, but also a Mountain Ghost.

"You may call me Luo."

The Mountain Ghost first gave her name, then