Chapter 26

There was no need to treat a god with a broken brain nicely. He just needed to be mercilessly rained on.

As he made it rain, Shui Wuyuan deliberately looked at He Qinglan. "You really called it—I was thinking about how to bully him properly. Got what it takes to hit me?"

He Qinglan: "..."

The two of them combined were five years old at most. No more than that.

Author's note: Shui Wuyuan: This outfit of mine adds up to eight figures! Who could possibly shine brighter than me?!

Shui Wuyuan: Back then, I planned to hit every last one of them back except my wife. But my wife slept with someone else. I was driven mad.

Shui Wuyuan: The first one to hit me was my pure and unpretentious wife. Everyone who hit me afterward was fucking enemies! Hit! Them! Back!

Other gods: You deserved the beating.

Chapter 26

In the end, the Rain God and Wushan's Mountain God, these two childish gods, did not start fighting in front of He Qinglan.

Perhaps both sides cared about saving face and feared that a fight would dredge up even more dark history, so they maintained a surface-level harmony.

Though that surface harmony was riddled with holes—

The little dark cloud above the Mountain God's head never dispersed, cheerfully switching between drizzles and pellets of ice, while small stones that hurt to step on occasionally sprang up beneath the Rain God's feet to announce their presence. Thus, although the two were smiling, their smiles carried an inexplicable hint of savagery.

Lord River God naturally sensed the little moves those two were making behind the scenes.

But what could a river do? He was merely a max-level useless account with no mana. Let those two childish gods fight among themselves, as long as they did not roll into a ball right in front of him.

"Enough. Let's not waste time reminiscing. Mountain Shaman, tell us about your situation. How did you awaken? You told me on Weibo before that this world's circumstances were not good. In what way were they bad?"

Once He Qinglan brought up this topic, Mountain Shaman no longer had the leisure to secretly compete with Shui Wuyuan. Ignoring the little dark cloud over his head, he sat up straight. "The world's current condition truly is bad. You should be able to feel it too, shouldn't you?"

"You have only just awakened and do not know what this world has gone through over the past several thousand years. I have to say, humans are far more capable of stirring up trouble than any of the prosperous lifeforms we have seen before."

Mountain Shaman's expression was exceedingly complicated as he spoke. "Humans are perhaps the most intelligent and spiritual lifeform to ever exist. From their perspective, over these thousands of years, they have created their own culture and history, nearly constantly breaking through their own limits."

"But they are also the most ambitious, crazed, cruel, and even sinister lifeforms I have ever seen."

"I did not personally witness their development, but merely from the books and videos they left behind, one could glimpse their acts of draining the pond to catch every fish, slaughtering everything to the last, and their selfish viciousness."

"They built and strengthened their own world upon the consumption of other lifeforms' worlds."

"Including the world of gods."

Mountain Shaman looked at He Qinglan as he spoke. "I suddenly woke two years ago because the Wushan Mountain Pillar I had planted before entering slumber was hollowed out."

"If you had not told me back then that gods could not be too honest and had to leave themselves a backup plan, and had not made me plant another Mountain Pillar in the back mountain, then the moment the main mountain's pillar was dug out, most of Wushan would have collapsed. I am afraid I would never have awakened again."

Mountain Shaman's gaze darkened. "The loss of the main mountain's pillar startled me awake. At the time, my consciousness was muddled and my divine body weak. And my instincts told me that remaining on the mountain would be dangerous, so I took the pillar from the back mountain and came down."

"After that, I mingled among humans for more than half a year before recovering some ability to protect myself."

As Mountain Shaman said this, his expression darkened again. Heaven knew how he had survived those six months. It was probably an even more humiliating piece of dark history than being defeated by Shui Wuyuan.

"Later, I gradually came to understand humans and this world. Only then did I discover that humans were now the masters of the world, and that they had nearly worn the world out with all their tossing about."

"If humans continue acting this way, heavenly disasters will descend upon this world within a hundred years. All things will be destroyed, and then, perhaps, a new cycle of life will begin again."

"But after several thousand years of gradually diminishing Spiritual Power, after the Age of Declining Dharma, this world's spiritual energy has now begun to slowly revive."

Mountain Shaman looked at He Qinglan. "The world is now at a delicate turning point."

"If good prevails, spiritual energy will revive, and all things will flourish anew."

"If evil prevails, heaven and earth will collapse, and all living beings will perish."

"And whether the final fruit will be good or evil..."

He Qinglan lightly tapped the Black Carp's little head with his long fingers and finished Mountain Shaman's sentence.

"It all depends on humanity."

Mountain Shaman sighed and nodded. After all, humanity was where the world's fortune now resided.

"Actually, whether the outcome is good or evil will not have much impact on us awakened gods. As long as we protect our origins when heaven and earth collapse, it will merely be another beginning."

Mountain Shaman paused here. "...But I have always felt uneasy."

Shui Wuyuan, who had not spoken all this time, opened his mouth with a mocking remark.

"Isn't it perfectly normal for you to feel uneasy?"

"Look at how greedy those humans are, like vicious wolves and swarming insects. Look at the Corrupting Miasma hanging outside—it is simply everywhere."

"Why wait for heavenly disaster? Man-made calamity has already arrived."

Mountain Shaman seemed startled by Shui Wuyuan's final words. He wanted to say something, but suddenly thought of the Wushan Mountain Pillar that had been hollowed out by more than half.

In truth, even if humans had treated his Mountain Pillar as top-grade jade and mined it away, it would not have completely awakened him, because ordinary humans could not excavate the core of his Mountain Pillar. Yet the truth was that his Mountain Pillar had been dug out completely. The pillar core that ordinary people could not obtain had ultimately still been taken away.

The core of his Mountain Pillar contained the power of his origin. If it fell into the hands of someone pure-hearted, it would be fine—perhaps it could bring that person some mutually reinforcing benefits. But if it were used by an evil person... it might truly cause great chaos.