Chapter 60: The Human God (PK Day, Please Check This Chapter!)

A thousand years ago in ancient times, a great war once erupted across the Central Plains.

During that war, the Huaijiang Witch led her tribe to migrate to these Hundred-Place Mountains.

At that time, the Hundred-Place Mountains were still the domain of spirits and wild beasts; even mountain folk rarely chose to settle in such a harsh place.

According to legend, the Hundred-Place Mountains were then merely a rainforest.

Towering trees and ferocious beasts were everywhere, and the warm, humid environment had created an extremely complex ecosystem.

In this world where all things possessed divinity, such a complex ecosystem naturally gave birth to a primal ancient god—the Woman-Ma.

The Woman-Ma was the Spring God, symbolizing "spring," a goddess of revival capable of bringing life to all things.

However, unlike the gentle Spring God in everyone's memory, the Woman-Ma was a truly brutal deity.

When the Huaijiang Witch led her tribe to migrate here, the Woman-Ma was the first Hundred-Place deity to emerge and clash with her.

From the most basic diversion of water sources to the cultivation of grain crops...

Whatever the Huaijiang Witch attempted to do, the Woman-Ma openly opposed and interfered with her actions.

Moreover, the Woman-Ma happened to excel precisely in these areas.

Thus, she once left the Huaijiang Witch in a state of utter distress, even making her consider migrating once more.

However, the Huaijiang Witch ultimately abandoned that idea.

For the Hundred-Place Mountains were already a wild, untamed land.

Within a hundred li, livestock had vanished; within a thousand li, not a single human soul was to be found.

If they continued migrating further south, they would truly be migrating into a forbidden zone for all living beings.

Not just a thousand years ago, but even today, a thousand years later, the south of the Hundred-Place Mountains was no place where humans could survive.

Swamps stretched everywhere, ferocious beasts roamed rampant, and there were those uncivilized living beings and gods...

Even gods of the level of the Five Directional Gods had never thought to expand their territories into such a place.

Thus, the resolute Huaijiang Witch chose to fight the Woman-Ma in a contest.

You divert the rivers, so I build dams and dikes...

You make the land barren, so I burn the wasteland to open fields...

You cause the crops to fail, so I gather and hunt...

In any case, the two sides went back and forth, battling with skills and magic, disturbing the peace of the entire Hundred-Place Mountains.

Until finally, the Huaijiang Witch devised a plan to force the Woman-Ma to possess a human woman, thereby restricting the opponent's power and authority, ending this endless magical duel.

"That legend is actually true!?"

After Deep and Heavy's reminder, Mu Zheng naturally recalled that mythological story he had previously dismissed as a joke.

A god originally free-spirited and carefree was imprisoned by a witch within a human body.

If one had not seen it with their own eyes, who would believe that such a legend was actually a fact that had truly occurred?

"I never thought so much time had passed, yet someone still remembers me."

By now, the old grandmother had no intention of continuing to hide; instead, she very calmly admitted her identity.

"Since you are that legendary 'Woman-Ma,' why do you still protect these mountain folk!"

"If the legend is true, should you not hate these people very much?"

Watching the lightning bolts strike down one after another, Mu Zheng did not this time question the authenticity of those legends and myths.

After all, if the Woman-Ma truly existed, then the Huaijiang Witch who imprisoned her within a human body was certainly real as well.

With a little further speculation, the mountain folk currently living in the Hundred-Place Mountains were most likely the descendants of the Huaijiang Witch's tribe.

From Mu Zheng's perspective, it was hard for him to imagine that the Woman-Ma of the past would choose to protect these descendants of the Huaijiang Witch.

"Hate?"

"I hate only that witch; what does it have to do with the people of the Hundred Places?"

Gazing coldly at the Ghost-Rong Clan who were gathering, the old grandmother's voice at this moment sounded exceptionally cold and arrogant.

"Although I do not value faith and sacrifices as much as your Five Directional Gods..."

"But since you covet my territory, you must bear my wrath!"

"Now let me see how your Ghost-Fang Kingdom compares to that witch from a thousand years ago!"

Before her words had even finished, the old grandmother suddenly stepped forward.

Massive plant roots instantly shot out of the ground through the cracks in the earth.

These massive plant roots were different from the lightning-drawing trees; instead, they resembled the vines that had previously blocked attacks for the old grandmother.

These plant roots, like pythons, launched an active assault, strangling the Ghost-Rong Clan in a manner that was efficient, concise, yet cruel.

"Ah!"

"Damn it!"

"Curse..."

Caught completely off guard, nearly a quarter of the Ghost-Rong Clan died in this surprise attack.

It could be said that in this short quarter-hour, the casualties of the Ghost-Rong Clan had already surpassed the total of the previous three years.

This was the gap between mortals and gods, and also the mainstream of this era.

"Woman-Ma! You have pushed your arrogance too far!"

His angry eyes seemed ready to burst with blood.

Mu Zheng's inner fury reached its peak at this moment.

These eight hundred Ghost-Rong were not merely the sacrificial army of the Ghost-Fang Kingdom; they were also the offspring of the Ghost-Fang nobility, and even Mu Zheng's own blood relatives.

Such massive losses, even within the Ghost-Fang Kingdom which worships violence and reproduction, were absolutely unacceptable.

"Mighty Heaven, mysterious Divine Realm. On the land of Gui Fang, grant us prosperity and flourishing."

Suddenly tearing open his own tunic, Mu Zheng revealed the beast-blood tattoo on his chest symbolizing the "Five Directional Gods."

Immediately, the sound of war drums beating out of thin air spread across a radius of several kilometers.

Every Gui Fang clansman within this range raised their heads and tore open their own tunics in almost identical fashion.

"Ancestral Spirits above, protect our land. The Gui Fang's ancestral grace flows deep and far."

"Grant us courage and strength, bestow upon us divine powers. Victory in every campaign, no ghost or spirit can stand against us."

This time, the sound was not Mu Zheng's alone, but the roar of all the remaining warriors of the Gui Rong clan.

The Gui Rong, who feared no death, were using their own blood to beg for blessings from the Five Directional Gods.

This was a sacrificial ritual, and at the same time, a method for the Gui Rong to empower themselves with divine power.

Whirl... whirl... whirl...

Violent storms swept in from all directions, rapidly dispersing the thunderclouds in the sky.

In a daze, a massive, invisible face emerged from the clouds, its eyes gleaming as it stared intently at the old granny below.

"Hou Tian Clan! This is my territory!"

Raising her head without fear to gaze at the sky, the old granny's roar for a moment even drowned out the surging sound of the storm.

Boom... boom... boom...

The storm transformed into thunder, lightning streaking across the long sky.

As one of the current Five Directional Gods, Hou Tian was a deity who had existed a thousand years ago, his birth predating even the Nu Man.

Therefore, facing the old granny's roar, Hou Tian chose to ignore it.

In an instant, the remaining three hundred-plus Gui Rong, swept up by the storm, once again fiercely charged toward the old granny's position.

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