Spring God · Nüman

Gao Village Town, Land God Temple.

Is Grandma not here today?

Watching Xiao'e interpreting fortune sticks for the villagers at the temple altar nearby, a young man asked her in a low voice with some curiosity.

Although the boy was dressed in rags, he had a handsome face.

You can tell at a glance that they are not ordinary Mountain Folk.

Especially his muscular physique, which, while not particularly rugged, exudes an aesthetic that transcends this era.

"Grandma has gone to do something. You can tell me what's wrong."

He recognized the boy at a glance.

Xiao'e hesitated for a moment, but ultimately took the initiative to gesture for the other person to sit down in front of her.

Xiao'e remembered this boy; he had visited this Land God Temple three years ago and they had met briefly.

Most importantly, the boy looked exactly the same three years ago as he did three years later; there wasn't the slightest change whatsoever.

Still a defeated man in tattered clothes...

He still wore that same attire that made him stand out from the ordinary Mountain Folk...

"If I remember correctly, your name is E?"

The young man calmly nodded, or rather, Deception Rabbit openly admitted his identity.

"Aren't you here?"

"That would be troublesome."

Scratching his head in frustration, Deception Rabbit hadn't expected the old woman to not be in the temple.

Deception Rabbit had known the old woman for decades, but this was the first time he had seen her leave the Land God Temple.

For some reason, Deception Rabbit had a vague sense of foreboding.

The last time he had this feeling was three years ago during that "chaos of Ghost God and spirits".

Do you know where Grandma went?

When asked by Deception Rabbit, Xiao'e shook her head blankly.

"The old lady didn't tell me where she went..."

Xiao'e opened her mouth as if to speak but hesitated, looking at the Deception Rabbit in front of her, when a bold idea suddenly popped into her mind.

"However, I can roughly guess where she went."

Seeing Xiao'e's cunning expression, Deception Rabbit instinctively blinked.

His intuition told him that the cunning young woman opposite him seemed to have dug a pit and was waiting for him to fall into it with ill intentions.

"You look exactly like Grandma when she tries to trick me."

After muttering something under his breath, Deception Rabbit finally couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Forget it, I'm used to being scammed anyway. Where is Grandma now?"

When Deception Rabbit said those words, a rare seriousness appeared on his face.

"The slave-catching team from the Guifang Kingdom!"

"Grandma had been keeping an eye on the movements of the Guifang Kingdom for a long time and discovered that they were capturing Mountain Folk on a large scale."

"I have no idea what the Guifang Kingdom is planning to do, and Grandma has never told me..."

"But I can see that Grandma is getting more and more worried every day, and recently she hasn't even been able to eat."

After a slight pause, Xiao'e continued.

"So I think she's most likely heading to that slave-catching team now..."

"That slave-catching team has been heading south all the way, and should now be near the Jingyang Mountain Path, about a hundred miles away."

Looking at Xiao'e, who was using words like "probably" and "should" but whose face was full of certainty, Deception Rabbit couldn't help but fall silent.

Having heard this far, Deception Rabbit was almost certain that Xiao'e was digging a hole for herself.

However, this concerned the old woman's whereabouts.

Even though she knew Xiao'e was digging a hole for herself, Deception Rabbit didn't hesitate to jump in.

"Jingyang Mountain Path?"

After a brief moment of hesitation, Deception Rabbit turned and left the Land God Temple.

Deception Rabbit planned to go to Jingyang Mountain Path himself, but he had to go to another place first.

Hundred Lands Mountain Range, the Jingyang Mountain Path.

The battle between the old woman and Guirong Clan was even more intense than expected.

The continuous small-scale earthquakes ravaged the surrounding terrain, and all sorts of bizarre and terrifying plants grew out of the earth.

Fortunately, the Guirong Clan was composed entirely of elite soldiers.

After sacrificing a third of their members, they quickly adapted to this method of fighting terrifying plants during earthquakes.

Leaping over ravines, slashing at carnivorous plants with a knife...

Guirong Clan formed groups of five and frantically tried to approach the old woman.

In this process, any slave who stood in their way became victims of their blades.

To be honest, the sight of five hundred people charging at one person is beyond description; the word "shocking" is insufficient to describe it.

Even on the modern battlefields of the 21st century.

Even soldiers equipped with drones and various advanced equipment cannot possibly defeat 500 enemies single-handedly.

Such incredible things could only happen in a world where supernatural powers truly exist.

Even so, the old woman's current behavior far exceeds the common sense of this era.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At the old woman's feet, on the trembling ground.

A large, black tree, its entire body charred black and seemingly consisting only of branches, slowly grew.

As this enormous, dark tree grew, terrifying thunderclouds gathered in the sky, and bolts of lightning, guided by it, fell upon the crowd.

"Lightning-Attracting Tree!?"

"Lightning-Attracting Tree actually exist in this world!?"

They stared in disbelief as the massive, dark tree transformed the surrounding hundred meters into a domain of lightning.

Having miraculously survived Muzheng didn't even bother to pull out the remaining fragments of the longsword from his body; he quickly retreated to a safe distance.

As a former priest candidate, Muzheng was aware of the common knowledge that metals can conduct electricity.

"Retreat! Get out of the lightning's range immediately!"

"Those who can't retreat, immediately drop the sacrificial artifacts you're holding; the lightning will follow the metal objects down!"

Although Muzheng had already raised the volume to remind him.

Yet nearly a dozen of the charging Guirong Clan still perished under the bombardment of lightning.

Those Guirong Clan who had raised their long swords high died particularly gruesome deaths.

They didn't even have time to scream before they turned into a charred, indescribable mass.

Who exactly are you?

"This is a power that a priest simply cannot control!"

Although priests are the agents of the gods on earth, the power they can bear is limited.

The power the old woman was displaying at this moment had far exceeded the limits of her identity as a "priestess".

Even those favored by the gods could never wield such terrifying power.

The old woman's behavior reminded Muzheng once again of the former high priest of the Guifang Kingdom —this was a power that no mortal could possess.

You're not human!

Just then, You Chong, who had also been struck by lightning, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

The scene before him reminded You Chong of a legend widely circulated among the Mountain Folk —a deity who should have disappeared a thousand years ago.

"You are the Spring God, the Nüman!"

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