Above the Great Dao
Chapter 187 - 104: The Return of the Mountain Lord

Chapter 187: Chapter 104: The Return of the Mountain Lord

"Granny, Uncle Green Sheep, Uncle Hu, the divine likeness of the Mountain Lord has not yet fully formed and is unsuited to be moved into the new temple."

Chen Shi activated the small temple to display the state of the Mountain Lord to everyone.

To tell the truth, he was somewhat reluctant to hand over the Mountain Lord.

Without a Divine Embryo of his own, the Mountain Lord served as his Divine Embryo. Activating the Divine Embryo brought immense benefits.

In battle, he could activate Huang Hu and even masters in the Nascent Soul Realm like Mr. Zeng could hardly withstand a single blow.

Should he activate the Mountain Lord, the force of the Mountain Lord might be even stronger!

As for cultivation, the benefits were even greater.

Chen Shi could sense that when he activated the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique, his True Qi was purified through Huang Hu’s empowerment, vastly increasing his cultivation speed.

As Zhu Xiucai had said, the Divine Embryo was akin to a cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, allowing a cultivator at a low realm to experience in advance the various benefits of the Primordial Spirit, assisting one’s cultivation and doubling the effectiveness. In battle, it was like commanding a Primordial Spirit at a low realm, greatly enhancing strength.

If he allowed the Mountain Lord to reside continuously in his small temple, he would inevitably be able to achieve the Golden Core Second Transition, Third Transition at a much faster speed!

Granny Sha observed the small temple closely and indeed saw that the divine likeness of the Mountain Lord was still congealing but was very close to fully taking shape. She said, "Relying on the Mountain Lord’s self-condensation of the divine likeness might need half a month, but keeping it with Little Ten here is not safe..."

She pondered for a moment and then said, "Little Ten, stay in Qianyang Mountain for the next few days and don’t run around aimlessly. Uncle Hu, Uncle Green Sheep, let’s discuss this."

The three of them walked away and huddled together in a secretive manner, whispering. Chen Shi cocked his ear to listen but could not hear what they were saying.

Chen Shi gestured for Black Pot to move closer to eavesdrop, but Black Pot quickly shook his head.

After a while, Granny Sha came forward and repeatedly warned, "These next few days, you must not leave Qianyang Mountain."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and asked, "Can I visit another village?"

"Visiting another village is fine, but you definitely cannot leave Qianyang Mountain."

Granny Sha seriously instructed, "Also, you must not use the Mountain Lord’s mount on a sunny day. You can only use it when it is overcast or raining, unable to see the moon or the sun. Understand?"

Chen Shi felt solemn inside and nodded in agreement.

He had long suspected that the Outer Heaven True God, eyes open in the day as the sun, vertical eyes open at night as the moon, was watching every move on the ground, taking all that happened in the human world into its sight.

Hence, when the dilapidated temple emitted sunlight, it was destroyed by a meteorite from outer heaven.

Hence, when the Mountain Lord Temple protruded with a massive tiger’s head, it too was destroyed by a meteorite from outer heaven.

It was this speculation that led him to activate Huang Hu only after it rained to smite Mr. Zeng.

It was also for this reason that although he had used the small temple to activate Huang Hu, he had not been struck by meteorites from outer heaven.

"Granny Sha, Uncle Green Sheep, they must know something!"

Chen Shi quietly said to Fu Leisheng and Black Pot, "They act so sneakily, and they ordered me not to use the Mountain Lord’s mount on sunny days; they must think that if the Mountain Lord’s mount appears during sunny weather, it will be discovered by the Outer Heaven True God, and strikes will follow in quick succession!"

Black Pot’s face grew serious, nodding vigorously and saying, "Woof, woof, woof!"

Fu Leisheng did not understand, but the information revealed by Chen Shi frightened him.

Chen Shi continued, "Black Pot is right, Granny has a close relationship with them, and most likely they, like Granny, have joined some peculiar group. They know more than me, much more! They might even know why the Outer Heaven True God, upon discovering the Ancestor God’s divine avatar on the ancestral land, destroys it the next moment."

Fu Leisheng was terribly shaken, the scares of his life paling in comparison to these few words from Chen Shi.

Chen Shi continued to ponder, "Over 6,000 years ago, when China lost contact with the West Bull New Continent, the True King died, and the downfall of the first batch of Chinese divine temples brought by the Three Treasures eunuch and others, could it be related to the Outer Heaven True God?"

Seizing the moment while his sanity still prevailed, Fu Leisheng mechanically said, "Chen Shi, Black Pot, thanks for your hospitality. I’m starting to miss my wife and child. I’ll go see my family!"

Chen Shi asked puzzledly, "Mr. Fu, don’t you want to know about the enmity between our Ancestor God and the Outer Heaven True God?"

"I don’t!"

Fu Leisheng fled in terror, his heart full of panic.

Only after he had put some distance between himself and Huangpo Village did he begin to feel something was off about Black Pot and the green sheep.

"That dog can stand up to cook and brew soup, it can even light a fire and cook medicine! It even managed to change my thoughts! That green sheep is definitely not normal, it must be an Evil Spirit!"

His thoughts were muddled, but recalling Chen Shi’s words only made the dog and the bipedal green sheep seem not so evil.

Chen Xiucai, now he is the true Evil Spirit!

He actually doubted the Outer Heaven True God!

He actually thought that the death of the True King, the severed connection between China and the New Continent, was related to the True God!

He was truly committing a grave offense!

Following him, even his thoughts were likely warped by him, and he might become an Evil Spirit too!

Chen Shi felt a twinge of regret for Fu Leisheng’s departure; the house was empty, only he and the dog left, feeling lonesome in every room.

Only during these days without Grandpa at home did he realize how important family was.

"I now have some money, I wonder if Hongying would be willing to marry me?"

Chen Shi thought of Jin Hongying; he had passed the county examination and was twelve years old, he could marry a wife now. —Of course, not counting the eight years he was "dead."

"But if I want to marry Hongying, Tianqing surely won’t be happy. Tianqing and I are good friends, and he is very impressive too, just not as rich as I am. Hongying must find it difficult to choose between us two outstanding young men, right?"

Despite being a teenager, Chen Shi soon put Hongying’s dilemma behind him, letting her worry about it herself, and took the dog out to the village outskirts to practice the accuracy of the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword.

This time he practiced, not just simply activating the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword, but also invoking the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique, while performing the Beidou Seven Stars Step and wielding Sword Qi.

When he activated the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique, allowing True Qi to circulate and pass through Huang Hu, circulating within the temple for one cycle and treating Huang Hu as his own Divine Embryo, indeed his cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds!

His Golden Core also rose up and entered the temple unknowingly, where it was tempered, and his power enhanced rapidly!

Chen Shi was both surprised and delighted, "No wonder the better the Divine Embryo, the faster the cultivation speed and the higher the abilities. The benefits of a good Divine Embryo are indeed great!"

He couldn’t help but think, what would an Innate Dao Embryo that surpassed a first-grade Divine Embryo look like? How strong would it actually be?

Could it have reached Huang Hu’s level?

"Without an Innate Dao Embryo, I am still far superior to before!"

Chen Shi calmed his mind and focused on cultivation.

His Meridian Evil Slayer Sword’s accuracy was already quite good, and the range was sufficiently long, but what Chen Shi wanted to see was whether the Sword Qi could change and flow according to his will.

He moved ceaselessly, his steps ghostly, now parallel to the ground, now reversing in the sky. Invisible Sword Qi continuously emitted sharp whistles, tearing through the air.

This time, he no longer demanded that the Sword Qi reach far, but rather that it be sufficiently near.

Chen Shi had sparred with countless cultivators who practiced the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword and knew its drawbacks well. If someone closed in on him, his movements would be constricted, and once the Sword Qi was released, it would be difficult to alter its course, making it easy to accidently harm one’s own people.

Therefore, he was attempting to make the Sword Qi agile and changeable.

After much experimentation, Chen Shi encountered a problem: the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword was too powerful, making it hard to control at close quarters. To direct it precisely, he found that he had to weaken the thrust of the Evil-Slaying Sword.

Rather than doing that, it would be better to learn a new spell.

Chen Shi practiced for a long time before he stopped. He could release the Sword Qi at various angles, and the Qi could even orbit a tree, but he still couldn’t truly turn the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword into something that could wrap around his finger.

"I still need to learn other spells. I wonder if the True King’s Tomb has such a spell?"

At that moment, he was slightly startled, sensing the sunshine and moonlight from his ancestral land.

Chen Shi hurried back home, took out a mirror, and looked into it. Sure enough, he saw a ray of sunlight falling from his temple!

He was extremely excited, inspecting it over and over again, and indeed, there was sunlight spilling down from the interior roof of the temple building!

That tiny Huang Hu was now lying in the sunlight, quite content.

"If I could enter the temple..."

Just as he thought this, darkness enveloped his vision, and when the light returned, he was indeed standing outside the small temple.

The temple looked much like he remembered, but the sandy texture felt finer, and the space around it seemed more stable, no longer as if a gust of wind could disperse it like blown sand.

It seemed his diligent practice had solidified the temple significantly.

Chen Shi didn’t bother to look closely, and in two or three steps, he was inside the temple.

Huang Hu looked very small from outside, but as Chen Shi approached, he was shocked by its size.

Huang Hu slowly rose, appearing somewhat gaunt with high, protruding shoulder blades stretching the tiger skin, its shoulders one or even two heads taller than Chen Shi!

Its head hung low, still able to look down on him from above. Uneasily, it let out a short roar, seemingly warning Chen Shi not to mess around.

But Chen Shi did not feel any malice or killing intent from it; on the contrary, it seemed to depend on him.

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback, Huang Hu was clearly the Mountain Lord’s mount, so why would it feel dependent on him?

"Could it be because it’s been solidifying its divine form in my temple that it’s developed a sense of dependency on me?"

With this in mind, he boldly reached out to touch Huang Hu’s head.

Huang Hu bared its teeth, showing fangs much longer than his palm, as if threatening him.

Chen Shi bravely moved closer, and after threatening him momentarily, since it couldn’t scare him away, Huang Hu ceased its threats and allowed his hand to touch its tiger head.

It found the touch comfortable and simply lay down again, continuing to snooze in the sunlight.

Chen Shi tried to stroke Huang Hu’s nape as one would pet a cat, but its head was too large to stroke properly.

He moved behind Huang Hu and saw its stout legs holding two fuzzy large bells, so he reached out to touch them.

Huang Hu showed some annoyance, but still patiently used its tail to push away the curious temple master.

—Living under someone else’s temple roof, one must make some concessions, but Hu Zier felt that it could not lose its last shred of dignity.

Left with no choice, Chen Shi turned his attention to the bull-horned, human-bodied Mountain Lord Divine Figure. Continuous streams of Incense Fire Qi were flowing in from outside the temple; the figure would likely take a few more days to solidify.

"I wonder if my temple will still connect to the ancestral land and receive its sunlight after the Mountain Lord leaves my temple?"

He was somewhat concerned as he considered this. Just then, the Incense Fire Qi flooding into the temple intensified dramatically; what had been a trickle now surged like floodwaters, torrents of green Qi entering the temple and swiftly transforming into an extraordinary force!

The solidification of the Mountain Lord Divine Figure accelerated tremendously!

Chen Shi was filled with astonishment and doubt; at this rate, it might not take days to solidify, perhaps it would be successful today!

"What exactly happened?"

At this moment, the midwives of the sixty-three villages and five towns of Qianyang Mountain each raised a stick of incense, silently reciting prayers.

Deep in the mountains, inside the hollow of a great tree, Granny Sha lit three sticks of incense, silently invoking the Mountain Lord’s true name.

In front of Great Snake Xuan Shan, incense burners floated, their aroma spiraling upwards.

In the woods, and in front of the spirits of Qianyang Mountain, and the tiger-headed children, too, flecks of Incense Fire Qi rose up, all heading in the same direction.

On the mountain’s edge, countless fox spirits stood upright, each offering three sticks of incense, bowing from afar!

Within the little temple behind Chen Shi’s head, the Incense Fire Qi reached its peak, and he felt a great Righteous Qi of benefit to all rise from the shrine, coursing through his body and bringing indescribable comfort.

Before him, the divine figure in the shrine slowly rose, stepped down, and walked out.

In the land of the gods of Huaxia Divine Continent, the Three Realms Medicine King Heavenly Doctor Great Saint, who governed the Nine Yang Thunder Fire, and Sun Simiao, the Sun Da Immortal who invented gunpowder, had descended to this continent once again after more than six thousand years. His incarnation, the Qianyang Mountain Lord, had finally arrived again at the West Bull New Continent!

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